Ever wondered how to go about writing a letter? Not to worry, I've created this video to explain to you exactly what to include if you are writing a letter as part of your exams and this is for the questions relating to question 5 of paper 2 of the GCSE English Language Paper 2 question.  Write a letter to a member of parliament for example on whether you agree or disagree with this issue. Now behind me as you can see here I've created a mind map with essentially different steps and a detailed breakdown of the different components that go into a letter. So using that example let's go into how you would compose a good letter for your exam answer. Now what I did first off is draw a little bit of the layout. Now when it comes to a letter firstly always remember in the top right hand corner is always the name and the address of your recipient. So for instance if you're writing a letter to your local MP regarding climate change and let's say for argument's sake you've decided that you live in Greenwich area. So you'd write for example MP John Smith you can make up his name you don't have to know your local MP. So the first one would be MP John Smith one Greenwich Road Greenwich Council RBZ4KB so that's just a made up postcode always remember of course in terms of the postcode conventions it's letter letter two numbers then number letter letter. So for example SW1 5BK or SW10 2JB or whatever okay so that's the convention so that would be where you put the letter of your recipient so the person that's receiving it and then you skip a line and then just down here would be your name and address you can make up an alias again you're writing to MP John Smith and you are Miss Sarah Dockarty for instance right so it would be Miss Sarah Dockarty and you can make up your address it could be one London way London NW10 4BJ right so for example that would be your address so your recipient hair your address hair then the date so you can make up a date make sure that the date is not too fictitious so for example it can't be 21 December 2032 it would be roughly in the same year that you're writing it but it doesn't necessarily have to be the date but I would just suggest write the same day and the date that you're writing it in and then of course you start off with dear and then this is the body of your letter and then you end off with kind regards so that's essentially the layout of a letter now when it comes to the actual content so going back to the example of climate change and the statement is climate change is not a big deal do you agree or disagree now for example you begin your first paragraph with of course dear for example in this case MP John Smith and then you introduce the issue and I would suggest for example saying the issue of climate change is a perennial issue I believe XYZ for instance now when you've introduced this issue you then introduce your perspective so when it comes to your perspective I would suggest make it really really clear and sound one side of the argument so I would suggest to make a really really powerful and compelling argument stand on one side of the argument and I would suggest for instance so in my case I would argue that climate change is a big deal so I disagree with that statement so I would say I disagree that climate change is actually a big deal and then you can use the rule of three in this paragraph rule of three meaning you list three words are somehow related men women children ladies gentlemen and honorable sirs whatever and then you refer back to the keywords of course the keywords being climate change is a big deal now after first paragraph you then move on to your second paragraph now in your second paragraph you go into your first argument in depth you talk about why you believe this is an issue and you develop that argument in detail now I would suggest using repetition as a persuasive device and then I would also suggest giving an anecdote anecdote meaning giving a really relatable example talking about an individual who has been impacted by the issue you're talking about to make it really really relatable and then also when you're writing the letter always remember of course you are using direct address you're talking directly to the MP or you're talking directly to the recipient then in your third paragraph I would suggest you would then include your second argument and then you then add a fake statistic again the reason why the statistic is fake is because you don't know what question to anticipate however the examiners don't expect you to be an expert on any of the questions that come up it's how compelling an argument you can create and statistics of course are really important in strengthening your argument so of course make sure your statistic is not too crazy so for example you can't see a thousand percent of people think this or alternatively however you can make a more believable statistic so for example 75% of people in England who were questioned on whether they think climate change should be an important issue agreed that it was an important issue that's a statistic that's more believable then you then of course develop your argument so this is your second point of view and then afterwards in your paragraph for this is your third argument your third reason as to why you support your viewpoint and then you can use a rhetorical question to round this off however given this is an argument you will be tested on whether you can also be able to balance and consider counter arguments so other people who may or may not agree with you now when you're thinking about this I would suggest to allocating a paragraph 5 to considering counter points why people may disagree with you there's some people so I would say for example how to introduce these counter arguments is to say there's some who would say or there's some who disagree with me and they would say blah blah blah and then you give your first reason and the second counter argument and then of course here in your counter arguments you can also have a balanced statistic so you can give another counter statistic that show that you know researchers from the University of Cambridge found that people who were polled in Oxfordshire actually didn't believe that climate change was an issue that could be a counter argument and then of course you can also give an anecdote then after you've written this paragraph I would suggest finishing off and ending in your final paragraph by still refuting these counter arguments saying for example with all these points considered I still believe climate change is an issue or whatever keywords you're answering and then you reiterate your view so you reiterate why and then you reiterate in summary your first second and third argument as to why that issue is important and why you stand on that side of the argument and then you end off by either if it's a formal letter so for example going back to my example of you writing to the MP you would end off with kind regards in your name and last name so your name and the surname and of course remember that the name has to be exactly the same as the name that you've used to introduce yourself as the sender of the letter or if it's less formal so the more formal endings are kind regards and yours sincerely the less formal endings so for example if you're writing a letter to your parents for instance or to your friends you could end with much love yours faithfully that kind of thing so that's it when it comes to putting together a letter hopefully this has shown that it shouldn't be a very complicated and a very difficult task however if you are good in terms of planning and in terms of considering all of these components there's no reason why you should not be getting top marks so thank you so much for listening


The insane benefits of turmeric.  It's the classic spice that gives curry its yellowish orange color and it's been around for thousands of years. Not only does turmeric taste great but it's also a nutritional powerhouse. Scientists still uncover benefit of turmeric every year and it's pretty impressive considering how long it's been around. It's a relative of ginger and turmeric has been used in both Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine for centuries. For those of you who don't know Ayurvedic medicine is one of the world's oldest holistic medical systems that originated in India. Now turmeric's main ingredient is curcumin. Now the benefits of curcumin it's a potent polyphenol and you've heard me talk time and time again about the benefits of polyphenols but we're uncovering more about how polyphenols work and in particular the polyphenol that curcumin is. First of all you could take a big hunk of turmeric that you bought at the grocery store and throw it in your smoothie and quite frankly it's not going to do much of anything for you because like most polyphenols turmeric is horribly absorbed from our gastrointestinal tract so please don't waste your money on turmeric root unless you're just looking for the flavor that turmeric root imparts that's okay but turmeric by itself curcumin by itself isn't going to give you the benefits you want from that polyphenol unless you take certain additional steps. Now once you make the polyphenol curcumin available by having your gut bacteria work on it or by taking a compound that's present in black pepper called bioparen it's much more readily absorbed. Now it's an amazing neuro regenerative compound in fact a study done in Singapore a few years ago showed that people who ate curry once per week had a 90% reduction in dimension compared to people who didn't eat curry so turmeric's in curry but guess what another ingredient in curry is if you guess black pepper you're right so how did the ancients know that they had to combine these ingredients they knew how did apocrates know 2,500 years ago that all disease begins in the gut he knew it's taken us 2,500 years to catch up with him but it's fascinating to me that black pepper and turmeric are two of the main components in curry and curry is great for your brain turmeric probably inhibits lipid peroxidation and if you listen to me talk about cholesterol in general cholesterol is not bad for you cholesterol is not interested in clogging up your blood vessels and sticking to your blood vessels unless it's oxidized unless it's rusty or rancid and if it's rusty or rancid then it has the potential to stick to your blood vessels and turmeric curcumin is one of those polyphenols that limits peroxidation of cholesterol there's some interesting studies about joint pain being lessened by turmeric and as I mentioned preventing neurodegeneration is a wonderful thing also curcumin has some very interesting anti-cancer properties this has been studied actually extensively at the University of South Florida Tampa at Tampa General Hospital in people undergoing resection for pancreatic cancer some groups were given large dose turmeric before the operation other groups were given a placebo placebo the turmeric group had reduced amount of cancer at the time of resection turmeric actually inhibits cancer growth in multiple studies so have your turmeric have your curry now a word of warning particularly to my female listeners several of my female patients notice bowel issues changes in their bowels following turmeric consumption so if you notice adding turmeric in the form of a capsule or in powders is changing your bowels first of all give it a little while turmeric actually changes the microbiome and those changes sometimes appear as changes in bowel movements but if you are still bothered by it's not essential for your health now there's a very interesting study speaking of women of looking at the effect of curcumin on bdnf brain-derived neurotrophic factor with women with pms so the participants were randomly assigned to a placebo or the curcumin groups each group received two capsules daily for seven days before menstruation and for three days after menstruation for three successive menstrual cycles the curcumin group the first second and third cycles after the interventions bdnf went up significantly compared to the placebo group and the mean scores of pms symptoms were significantly less in the curcumin group than the placebo group so if you've got pms if you want to help your brain during that premenstrual period where you notice a difference in your brain function give curcumin a try and it's powerful stuff now the good news is it's readily available and easy to incorporate into any diet so you'll find it in powder form you'll find it in capsule form you'll find it in fluid extracts but word to the wise and less proven otherwise make sure that you see a bioavailability profile of the capsule you're going to buy or at the very least look at bioparin as one of the ingredients in the label there are other ways to absorb curcumin using nanoencapsulation that i like a lot but in general look for the word bioparin or look for an actual curve of bioavailability of the supplement you're going to buy the last thing is you can add turmeric to any dish make it much more interesting in flavor it adds a wonderful color you can put it into a stir fry you can put it in a coconut milk turmeric latte but do me a favor sprinkle in a little black pepper wherever you put it and you'll boost the uptake of curcumin turmeric is big right now everybody wants turmeric lattes turmeric smoothies turmeric everything why well the active ingredient in turmeric that root that looks a lot like ginger except it's orange colored curcumin can actually help in the management of oxidative and inflammatory conditions in fact strangely enough these compounds these antioxidant compounds that we eat and we think about them as anti-inflammatory compounds unfortunately most of these don't cross the blood brain barrier turmeric is actually one of the few exceptions we know that turmeric does cross the blood brain barrier why is that important well if you like the concept that brain health dementia parkinson's Alzheimer's is directly related to neuro inflammation inflammation of our neurons then turmeric with its ability to cross the blood brain barrier may be a winner in a winning spice now turmeric has also been shown to boost energy levels it does that by actually boosting mitochondrial function and in fact can repair mitochondria by uncoupling mitochondria how about another one that most people really only think of about once a year and that's at Easter and that happens to be clothes clothes interestingly enough are the have the highest polyphenol content of any spice now I've written and spoken about polyphenols throughout my career real briefly polyphenols are produced by plants in both their leaves and their fruit and their seeds to protect the leaves fruit and seeds from hostile environments from sunlight from predation and these polyphenols we now know protect the plant by uncoupling their mitochondria simplistically saying tell the mitochondria don't work so hard don't damage your cells don't get affected by oxidative stress and it's called mitochondrial uncoupling when we eat the polyphenols that are very very high in spices two things happen number one recent research shows that polyphenols are one of the preferred prebiotic fibers of our gut microbiome our gut bacteria that means the more polyphenols we eat in this case in spices the more our gut buddies the good guys improve their diversity improve their lives the second thing we now know is that polyphenols like I mentioned curcumin are very poorly absorbed but our gut microbiome can actually eat them and then turn those polyphenols into absorbable compounds and when those polyphenols reach our mitochondria they have the same effect on our mitochondria that they were used for by the plant to protect its mitochondria and that is they uncouple our mitochondria now uncoupling mitochondria if nothing else actually helps you lose weight and it's no surprise that people with diets high in polyphenols are actually in general much thinner than people who have diets that are very low in polyphenols and we'll talk about that a little bit further now in terms of spices clothes are the highest it turns out that in the middle ages during spice trade clothes were the second most popular spice and the highest price spice behind saffron the number one spice was black pepper and among other reasons black pepper contains that compound bioparen that actually helps you absorb the polyphenols in spices so it was a win-win proposition I think you're gonna love this one two and a half eggs meet your entire protein needs every single day


Good morning, good afternoon. I am replacing Chris Adam. He looks very similar to me. Chris and I have worked together for a long, long time, so I'm happy to do that. But it is his presentation. So I'm going to talk about the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, so not South Africa, and I'll tilt towards monetary policy very heavily. And therefore, we're talking about independent currencies, countries with independent national currencies. So I don't mean the random monetary area or the CFA countries, but all the other countries. And so just quickly, Chris starts out with a kind of tour starting in the mid-1980s of really epical changes in how monetary policy is done in Sub-Saharan Africa. He then goes on to talk about a period now starting, let's say, in the early to mid-1990s, a longish period now, of reforms, favorable tailwinds. I'll say what he means by that. And then emergence of what a new consensus assignment, talking now about the relative responsibilities of monetary and fiscal policy, essentially. And then he looks forward to some contemporary challenges. So just passing through here, wider is 1985, I guess. That's Tanzania in the red GDP as a proportion of the US GDP per capita. And Sub-Saharan Africa on average, Sub-Saharan Africa, I guess it must be, in the blue. So Chris's story starts at the end of a period already, a very slow growth. And then the story we're going to tell about internal reforms really starting in the late 1980s and I think in spirit, more or less concluded by about the mid-1990s, so that the direction of travel was absolutely clear in most of Africa by the mid-90s. And then you see the period, the longish period since then, of relative to the US economy, really much more favorable performance. I think the macro side has something to do with that for sure, but I very much subscribe to the view of necessary but not sufficient condition, but clearly necessary. It was part of the syndrome of decline, I think, continent-wide through the 70s and 80s. So let me go first to the 1980s and just remind you of what macroeconomic policy looked like, a combination of exchange control regimes, so fixed exchange rate regimes dating from independence in the 60s, that had induced by the time of the oil shocks in the 70s and the tropical beverage shocks of the 70s had induced really tight rationing. In other words, the exchange rates were overvalued and you had increasing black markets and foreign exchange. Directed credit and interest rate controls, really classic financial repression throughout most of the continent. And oligopolistic banking, that's what I say here, really mainly nationally owned dominant banks with a few other players in most cases. And then at the bottom, really, fiscal dominance looming large. And as Chris puts it, no effective nominal anchors in the system. So let me back up. I'm going to put a little of my own framing on here just for a moment and think for a minute about monetary policy and what its responsibilities are and think from a kind of conventional advanced country perspective. Nominal anchor of some sort would be job number one. Regulate the financial sector would be job number two. And no central bank can duck those two jobs in some form. Job number three might be macroeconomic stabilization. You might have an activist central bank with an actual monetary policy. And that's where you would end there in describing a typical industrial country central bank. Now put that central bank into a development context. What would you add? Well, the very first thing you would add is some role in financing the government. At least that would be your temptation. That would be your first thought. And so much of the story in sub-Saharan Africa from the point of establishment of the central banks out through the late 1980s was the dominance of that role of these central banks being played through the system, compromising their other functions in various ways. So that's why he says no effective nominal or fiscal anchors. The central banks being thrust into the position of financing the government. But just Ramon, what else would you then add on your short list if you were taking a development view of the central bank? Financial development, developing the financial system as a key growth contribution of this institution would be on your short list. That also got compromised by giving these central banks heavy, heavy fiscal roles, both direct roles in financing the government and then indirect what are really quasi-fiscal roles. That as soon as you start to ration foreign exchange, you have become a fiscal authority because you're handing out subsidies across the economy.  You are handing out subsidies across the system. Joe Stiglitz added the last development role, which is really on the short list of central banks in Sub-Saharan Africa as a question mark, which is promoting exports. And I'll stop there. Those are the three things I would say that when you take a central bank and situate them in a low-income country, you'd like to add, you'd like to, couldn't you just use this institution to help finance the government? Couldn't you use them to help advance financial development and couldn't you use them to help promote exports? I'm gonna come back to the exports question. Okay, so let's go to a period that began in about the mid-80s and was fully integrated with structural adjustment reforms in the real economy were a set of reforms right in the domains of central banks and then towards the end of the structural adjustment era, which I'm thinking of as being concluded in practical terms around the mid-90s in much of Sub-Saharan Africa. Towards the end of that period, it involved a definitive attack on the relative roles of the fiscal and monetary authorities. So I'm not gonna maybe, well, I'll just dash through the reforms that were really key were first a dismantling of financial repression, so a liberalization of the banking sector, introduction of competition, removal of interest rate controls, late 80s, early 90s, and then, so that's exchange rate unification, so dismantling of exchange controls and then by the early 1990s, this attack on inflation, which fundamentally was a closing of fiscal deficits under IMF conditionality. So this was a period where I think there was actually quite a favorable fit between the IMF's sort of instinctive mindset at that period and the problem as it existed in much of Sub-Saharan Africa in terms of macro management, you needed to get the public sector deficit down to a level that could be financed at some reasonable rate of inflation without creating distortions all throughout the system and that got done, there's only a couple ways you can do that when you've got high-ish inflation and since fixed exchange rates were part of the problem, the solution was gonna be money-based stabilizations that shut down financing of the government and let the exchange rate go. So we are now in the working out of that era. In many, many countries, there was a serious and very searing period of fiscal consolidation and then a movement on to floating exchange rates within the background of this financial liberalization going on. The, Chris talks about the emergence in the background of these events in Sub-Saharan Africa of a new intellectual consensus about how macro policy ought to be done and the role of central banks. And I think I'm gonna probably not have time maybe to go through all these things. Let me just show you a few pictures to establish these points. So there's 1995, right in the middle there and you see the movement away in Sub-Saharan Africa away from exchange rate anchors, fixed exchange rates toward money-based regimes and then the emergence starting in with South Africa's adoption of inflation targeting of a few cases of formal inflation targeting or very close to it regimes. I talked about fiscal dominance and the end of fiscal dominance as being really the driving reality and the purple there is Nigeria's which tells the story the most dramatically but if you look at the other bars, you see fiscal deficits as a percentage of GDP really going down definitively starting in the second half of the 90s. Okay, and that period is still with us and right now is coming under tremendous pressure because of the fall of global commodity prices in many of these countries. Let's see. Okay, and then I won't show you the picture but in Sub-Saharan Africa significant liberalization of the capital account very kind of Washington Consensus kind of movement which I think also probably pushed these countries more towards the floating exchange rates that had happened during the 1990s so not complete liberalization except in some cases but substantial. Let me show you a picture that I like I've added to this one in this weird looking picture but the bottom line is there was a massive convergence in actual conduct of monetary policy throughout Sub-Saharan Africa and this is illustrated for the East African community here. What I've done is I've taken this price level of each country and just divided it by the Kenyan price level and index that thing, the log of that to zero and then just seen what those ratios did over three decades, the 1980s and then I rebased it again, the 1990s and I rebased them again and starting in 2000. And so you just see Uganda going off into the stratosphere during the 1980s and Rwanda Burundi actually having their prices rise less rapidly than Kenya's this massive spread and you see things converging already in the 1990s and now why are we talking about East African Monetary Union? Well, the bottom line is that the divergences in how in the conduct of monetary policy are really tiny now in the community. So this is really a major back story that you see throughout the continent. So what is this new consensus key to it? A clear assignment of responsibility between fiscal and monetary policies decline in fiscal dominance. A greater commitment to exchange rate flexibility to avoiding severe real exchange rate misalignments rather than exchange controls. And then more recently I talked about money-based stabilizations more recently a move away from the IMF Reserve Money Programming Framework towards really conventional operation of monetary policy through a short-term policy interest rate. So that move is underway in Uganda, Kenya, other places. And allied to it is an increase in the transparency of central banks in communicating their frameworks to the public. Let me show you that picture to give you a sense of it. So in the red here, African cases, this is looking at the index of transparency in 1998, so going to the right higher levels of transparency. You have the industrial countries up there towards the right corner. And then the index in 2010, the blue line is a 45 degree line. So there has been general movement in increased transparency reflecting the intellectual consensus in the literature and in practice and the African cases are very much on that overall trend. So major, major changes, really. Let's go to looking at contemporary challenges. So we're going through a period now starting in about 2009 of falling commodity prices affecting many of these countries and having a first order fiscal impact and an impact on the balance of payments, therefore pressures on the exchange rate. The key issue here, I think it was articulated by the earlier speaker. You've got a flexible exchange rate, the classic efficient macroeconomic response to a negative terms of trade shock is to allow the exchange rate to depreciate. And that is happening, no question, big time. At the same time, the central banks have chosen an inflation anchor rather than an exchange rate anchor but this exchange rate depreciation, if this adjustment is gonna occur through nominal depreciation, it is gonna feed right into your headline inflation and gonna face the central bank with a real question, do I push back against inflation? Do I allow the depreciation to take place but do I tighten policy so that it takes place through dampening domestic wages and prices rather than through letting the exchange rate go through the roof? And central banks are facing that issue right now and they're responding in a whole variety of ways, including reaching for some of the old instruments, capital controls and a lot of foreign exchange intervention and the question of whether these strategies are gonna be sustainable, whether in a context of having opened the capital account as you defend the exchange rate for a while and spend some reserves down in Nigeria, for example, whether you get into a very dangerous spot where capital movements are now gonna leverage up what's happening in the commodity markets so we are coming into a very, very much tougher and new environment. Mounting fiscal pressures I've talked about but let's talk for just a minute about the debt dynamics because part of the favorable tailwinds during the 90s were debt relief that really cleared the decks in terms of public sectors finances well in time for the global financial crisis which had a knock on effect in these countries, not so much through financial markets but directly on their exports and revenues and so countries were in a position to take a fairly activist fiscal response during the financial crisis and the IMF accommodated that largely. At the same time they had developed their domestic bond markets starting in the early 90s and they exploited those so countries and at the same time remember during the huge run up in oil prices following the Gulf War in 2003 there was tremendous prospecting in the energy sector throughout the continent and a lot of countries found major exploitable deposits and started to get the foreign direct inflows to exploit those. All this stuff is happening during the 2000s and very favorably essentially putting these countries into the position where they can rebuild some debt with some long run objectives in mind of developing the energy sector with some short run objectives in mind of propping up the economy during the global financial crisis but now that nice starting point that they had going into the financial crisis has been eroded by this buildup of debts and now the external, the sort of exogenous dynamics of debt have turned decisively against commodity exporters. Okay, so real interest rates are starting to rise, the sovereign spreads are rising they're around 7, 8, 9, 10 even maybe for Ghana's issue coming up. Big interest rates on sovereign borrowing and domestic bond rates are also rising and at the same time the growth rates because of the commodity shock are declining so that we really are in a classic test phase of this package. Exchange rate concerns, previous speaker talked about Helen Ray and the capital account, the problems of monetary policy under an open capital account. I think there's still enough lack of integration in especially among the lower income countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that even with an open capital account there's scope for the central bank to pursue domestic targets like the inflation rate at the same time as keeping an eye on the exchange rate but that is always a matter of degree and we are now coming into a situation I think where the limits on that maybe start to become apparent. I think I'll not talk so much about macro models. Let me finish by going back to the Stiglitz point because I think this is a really, really important issue. So Joe sort of suggested that central banks ought to be like China. They ought to have a mercantilist role. That is to say they ought to peg a weak exchange rate as a way of subsidizing, exporting activity and import substituting activity when you either lack the fiscal instruments to do it or you're under WTO rules and you have the instruments but you can't use them. So let's run a weak exchange rate and I think that you can't just say let's have a weak exchange rate and get that done. So somehow you have got to be like China. China's saving rate was 60%, okay? So they could run a weak real exchange rate by not spending anything and just piling up every year a balance of payments surplus that was the counterpart to this weak exchange rate. That's why I say mercantilist. And Joe's not in the audience but I would have asked him the question, what form of austerity do you suggest? That would be a little impish. What form of austerity do you suggest that we impose on the African consumer in order to run a weak exchange rate over more than the next six months? We can do it for six months if it's a temporary shock, no problem. Do that all the time. But a secular weak currency strategy, look, one of the key things we learned from the whole fight, okay, was that central banks have limited capability to do fiscal things. And so there's a real danger here of slipping the central bank back into a role that is a fiscal role. If you wanna subsidize exports, get rid of the constraints on exporting, work on that business environment, find ways to get around the WTO subsidies, don't allow a transitional real appreciation when you can avoid it. But running a chronically weak exchange rate, boy, that's a tough one. Maybe some of the audience can figure out how. Thanks very much.


What's going on people I haven't done like a little vlog style video in a minute I'm just gonna like update you guys on you know, what I've been doing. I You know this past week if you guys haven't watched my video I believe I'm Coming back something like that motivational a little video. I'll start doing a lot of motivational videos But I told myself that you know, I'm gonna start grinding. I'm gonna start getting work done. You know this this first week True first week has been absolutely amazing.  I was like, you know, I'm going to the gym I'm gonna do it every day and you know, it's happening. So So proud of where you know every day I went to the gym. That's one goal of mine I feel so much better. I feel healthy, you know staying motivated doing my own stuff and Just all the bad stuff just blocking out, you know, it don't matter None of that stuff matters, you know, too many too many people in this world let let the negative take over You don't let the negative take over think of the positive Keep grinding. You know this past week's been phenomenal. I've got a I've got Some videos that came out recently. You know, I've been uploading a lot when y'all videos You know, I'm experimenting with them. Everyone's like, oh, it's kind of deep You know kind of dark these two. I see more dark. This one more like hype Go check that one out.  Go check that one out. It's a fan response.  I want you guys to watch that video Video is talking about this video. This video is coming out soon Sponsors, I know you guys want to see that what else is coming out chatter bait fishing that it is that one about a week You go two weeks ago. 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If you could just like leave comments below I want to type of like topics you want me to go over and you know, I'd love to do that and You know, it's just an amazing feeling just you know to get a lot of work done Know you're being productive every minute of every day, you know grinding it out You know just conquering everything and just know that you're gonna beat everyone, you know There's no one out there. If you're hungrier than them.  There's patience You put in the time you can do it It's just amazing, you know, this is this is crazy.  I love to see the sport grow I love to see people grow mentally in general and it's just amazing. It's a great feeling and I mean you guys are Awesome. It's great. I love it.  I got in the gym I got a lot of work done Videos post on social media trying to keep you guys updated on everything trying to grow back my social media Get back to my fan base, which I have a plenty plenty of amazing fans right now They're still watching but some of the ones that you know thought I was off of YouTube You know a lot of them haven't came back and hoping you know everyone to just come back and everything But just sitting here, you know browsing brainstorming. I have so many ideas. I want to start, you know, new businesses I want to make new t-shirt designs. I have a lot of cool stuff coming I've wrote down a lot of stuff taking a lot of notes. I'm trying to design some other other things I've had a lot of cool stuff coming out so many things on my mind. I'm just ready. I'm just ready to grind stuff out I actually got to meet with her crew yesterday That uh was um that plans on coming to scatch. She's only a junior, you know, that was cool. That was cool meeting her You know, I was I was there for my coach and everything we're talking about and she does kind of the same thing I do we're talking about social media stuff like that. She's wondering like tips I could give her and stuff like that. I was like, you know stuff like this is not going to grow It's all about patience, you know the times when it comes keep doing what's right keep posting keep uploading Uploading content do what's right keep grinding keep working 24-7 You'll achieve it. It's just what it is I talked for an hour and 30 minutes almost like a speech-like talk like I would talk in these videos and you know It really helped her out and I'm sure it's really helping a lot of you guys out But I want to end this video off leave some comments below on what topics you want me to talk about So I really want to talk about these topics. I love motivating you guys. I love seeing you guys grow. I love it It's just amazing It's Outstanding but thank you guys so much for watching you guys mean the world to me Please the like button and if you guys want to see some like vlogs daily vlogs and stuff like that Go ahead. Just let me know below feel free to talk to me I'm gonna try to reply to every single comment because I want to keep in contact with you guys I want to you know express everything with you guys I just want to stay in touch with you guys because I believe that's the most important part But thank you guys so much for watching and I'll catch you guys at the next video