The next and final item of business is a member's business debate on motion 10702 in the name of Clare Adamson on the complex regional pain syndrome awareness month. The debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I would ask those members who would wish to speak in the debate to please press the request to speak buttons and I call on Clare Adamson to open the debate about seven minutes, Ms Adamson. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I'd like to thank my colleagues from across the chamber who will be speaking this evening and to all those who supported the motion. CRPS, complex regional pain syndrome, is a rare neurological condition that I presume many here will never have heard of. To the people told prizes, Presiding Officer, I wish that that were the case for me. However, my son, Aiden, has CRPS. He is 26 on his first steps of a professional career that he loves. I haven't ever spoken about him before. I felt that it would be an intrusion into his privacy when he was younger but I have his blessing this evening. Aiden loved rugby. He was a Dale Dragon from the age of five and dedicated, talented hooker. When he was in first year at high school, he broke his wrist on the rugby field. Traumatic enough for any child or their parents, especially since it involved an operation and a pin, but we thought that it was mechanical, fixable, not vetting, not life limiting. However, we were wrong. Aiden complained of pain following the injury, despite the fact that he continued to go on with rugby karate and continued to play clarinet at school. He is a talented musician and, at that time, hoped to study at the Conservatoire. Months after the stroke, he came off and wouldn't heal. He came home with a strange swelling on his knuckle. The school had had the foresight to draw a circle round it. It was like a grape on his knuckle, to which Aiden had added a smiley face. Our GP saw him and, within a few hours, he was in A&E with a suspected spider or insect bite or worst case, sepsis. That was the start of a medical pathway that involved multiple disciplines, X-rays, MRI scans, ups and downs, including a further visit to A&E, where he was, in my opinion, and his own, coerced into saying that possibly at some time in the school day someone may have bumped him in the corridor that would have led to the swelling that was on his hand at that time. It didn't happen. He hadn't had an accident. A further low point was when an orthopedic consultant suggested to him that he was having bad dreams at night and banging his wrist on the wall while asleep. Can you imagine? Can you imagine this teenage boy felt no one understood or believed him? We, of course, tried everything, physio, tense machines, acupuncture, wax baths and icing. Icing was frequently recommended by clinicians and physios, but it's one of the worst things that he can do for someone suffering with CRPS, as I'm sure you will hear from others this afternoon. Eventually, he saw a pain consultant after waiting two years from his ferro. He was diagnosed in his first visit and, while his pain and challenges remained the same, the sense of relief and validation that he felt was overwhelming. Mitterbox treatment with appropriate neurological treatment foliage helped a little, but there is no cure and no treatment for CRPS. We need more research and much, much more awareness into this condition. Ada isn't a relatively good place. He couldn't put into practice into achieving his goals in the clarinet and base clarinet, but he has become a professional musician. Nonetheless, he won the music prize in sixth here. I studied a music degree and is now on his future pathway. This was despite being told by a guidance teacher after his standard grade results that had been a disappointment and he should have done much, much better and got all ease. His dad and I were so very proud of him.  That may sound like a teenage drama until you understand that, for CRPS sufferers, elective amputation is a common route. The first time we saw it reported in the news was in 2019 when Helen Stone, a promising Welsh athlete, had her leg amputated at 22. It followed a kayaking accident when she was 16. CRPS is usually, but not exclusively triggered by an injury. CRPS has always been in the news recently through the Netflix documentary Taking Care of Maya. The title coming from Maya Lewakilowski's mother's beta suicide note after she was accused by clinicians of moonshines by proxy and her daughter was taken into care in the US. A tragedy in the true sense of the word with a family losing a loved one in horrific circumstances and a Florida court has just awarded damages against John Hopkins children's hospital in St Petersburg of £261 million to the family. This documentary has raised awareness and understanding of CRPS. There are a number of charities supporting CRPS, including CRPS UK and Burning Knights. Through Burning Knights, I have met fellow pupil of Aden's school, just a few years older than him, Keira McAdam, who is also on a professional educational role and is a champion fundraiser for them. Her own experiences resonate with Aden's as she grappled with CRPS as a teenager and adult. Burning Knights held their annual conference in Scotland in 2022 and I was delighted to attend with Aden and I know what was a profound and inspirational experience for him to meet and talk with other young people also coping with CRPS. I also met in person Victoria Abbott-Fleming. I had been working with Victoria for a number of years and I was on a task to open and speak at their conference. Victoria was a successful barrister until a fall at work in 2003 triggered CRPS. During this time, she has had the conditions, she has needed both her legs to be amputated above the knee, not through elective surgery, as I mentioned earlier, but due to life-threatening aggressive and extreme symptoms of CRPS. You can read Victoria's story on her Founders' page on the Burning Knights website. Throughout November, CRPS Awareness Month, the Burning Knights have had a daily tweet informing about CRPS. It is incredibly informative and I word to anyone who is interested in learning more about the condition to look at November's and indeed their tweets in general. Just about managed to get through this without having a cry, but I have cried about CRPS in this place. At an event here in the Parliament, I met a truly inspirational professor from Glasgow University, Dr Jennifer Corrins, who was here with a brain—not just an incredible one, she had herself, but a plastic brain—and I know that many people got the photograph taken in the garden lobby and may remember her. She is an expert in chronic pain, and when I mentioned Aiden's diagnosis, her first question to me was, did he have an accident? I knew she understood. No explanation, no having to have the same questions asked, just to see someone who understood what I had gone through. I am just a parent, I am not a sufferer. Today, Minister, it is about raising awareness that it is work to be done in GP surgeries in A&E, in our schools to foster understanding and empathy. There is also need for plain condition nurses and consultants, and access to them in the waiting times need to be improved, especially for young people. For Aiden, Kira and Victoria, and all those across the globe, living day and day out with this condition, you are all heroes in my eyes. I thank my friend and colleague Claire Adamson for bringing this important debate to the chamber tonight. For her personal interest in raising awareness of complex regional pain syndrome, her story was very moving, and I know that it must have been very difficult to tell, but I wish Aiden and her son very well. I have a confession to make. I have been a co-convener of the cross-party group on chronic pain since 2016. Until Claire Adamson brought this condition to my attention and to the group's attention, I was unaware of CRPS. Why debates like this and awareness raising are so important, because until there is a greater understanding of the condition, sufferers will not benefit from research and, indeed, medical knowledge that they deserve. As Claire Adamson's motion states, CRPS is a debilitating chronic disorder, mostly affecting the limbs, which is characterised by severe pain, pathological changes of bones, joints and skins, swelling temperature and colour changes, and motor dysfunction, which can cause people to experience persistent burning, severe and debilitating pain. The three clinical stages of type 1 complex regional pain syndrome are acute, sub-acute and chronic. The acute form lasts approximately three months pain. Often burning in nature is one of the first symptoms that initially limits function, and chronic pain is a lifelong and debilitating condition. As Claire outlined, the condition can develop after an injury, surgery, stroke or heart attack, and that pain is often very much at a proportion with the severity of the initial injury. It is truly an awful condition to be afflicted with. At her recent meeting of the cross-party group on chronic pain, the founder of the UK-wide charity, Claire referenced burning nights. Victoria Abbott Fleming gave a moving account of her condition. As Claire Adamson said, Victoria is a barrister. She was a healthy young woman until 2013, when she experienced an accident at work. She is now a double amputee due to the severity of her CRPS. Burning nights is a small, not-for-profit charity that does an amazing job raising awareness of the condition and is a great source of comfort and advice for sufferers. Shortly after being elected in 2016, I was a member of the Petitions Committee here in Parliament, and one memorable petition was to raise awareness of sepsis at that time. A potentially fatal condition still is, but at that time it was not universally understood or acknowledged. Following the petition, the Scottish Government mounted a successful awareness campaign, and much more is known about sepsis today. I sincerely hope that this can be the outcome for CRPS sufferers. As ever, hearing from someone with experience of any illness, such as Claire's account of what her son, Aidan, is going through, it is the most powerful way of understanding it. That goes for the many brave and literally long suffering members of the chronic pain cross-party group, many of whom have battled to get the treatment that they need. I hear about their suffering once every three months, but they have to endure their pain every day, and my heart goes out to them. Last month was CRPS awareness month, where the chronic pain community and their families and supporters around the world came together to help raise awareness of the condition. Slowly, with their determination, that is beginning to happen. As part of this initiative, the colour of the world orange day, as it was called, saw businesses, town halls and landmarks change their lights to orange in support of people living with CRPS. The volunteers and organisers of CRPS UK and the campaign group Burning Knights' CRPS support should be praised for their efforts, the great efforts to raise awareness of this little understood condition. If this debate helps to open the gateway to more understanding and research into CRPS, then time spent in this chamber tonight will have been well worth it. I thank Clare Adamson again for bringing it to the chamber, and I wish her son, Aiden Well. I thank you, Ms Mackay. I now call Annie Wells to be followed by Carol Mawkin. I thank you, Presiding Officer, and I just need to start off by saying thank you very much, Clare, for bringing this to the chamber. I did not know much about this until I looked into it a wee bit more, but it was a truly emotional, personal and brave contribution that you made. I wish yourself, your family and your son, Aiden Well. CRPS is an uncommon neurological disorder, one that plagues those who have it with chronic pain that, while possible to affect the whole body, it has felt mostly in the limbs, as we have heard so far. It is believed that 16,000 people across the UK are suffering from this poorly understood condition, despite being medically recognised in some form for more than 150 years. The condition can notably affect anyone regardless of age and can, as we have heard, be brought on by an accident or an injury. While, according to NHS Scotland, CRPS often improves incrementally over time in some people in others' pain last years, that pain can often be extremely intense and debilitating, affecting everything from motor functions to the overall quality of someone's life. Because of a limited understanding and complexity surrounding CRPS, treating it requires a multidisciplinary plan. According to NHS Scotland, there are four main types of treatment options, typically involving multiple physicians due to CRPS's complexity. Those are psychological support, pain relief, physical rehabilitation and self-education and management. While not a complete solution, treatments that are available today offer some relief as understanding and research surrounding CRPS continues to improve. Raising awareness of CRPS is key to better understanding the disorder and improving the quality of life for people that it plagues. As set out by burning nights, individuals living with CRPS should follow the Royal College of Physicians guidelines. As we have also heard, each year November is CRPS Awareness Month, something that has been celebrated in this Parliament for years. Likewise, there is no better place to help shed light on this disorder than here at the Scottish Parliament. Apart from helping today's awareness, let me also take the opportunity to highlight the wonderful work performed by volunteers and people working across Scotland. This also extends to groups such as we have heard Burning Nights and CRPS UK in their entirety for the invaluable work that they do to offer community-orientated support. Groups such as those provide education, empathetic spaces and put patients at the heart of everything that they do. Not only are patients behind their work, but they are also actively led by them along with caregivers. That approach allows for those who suffer from CRPS to improve their own lives and others from first-hand experience. To close, CRPS is poorly understood and many people are not even aware of the disorder that exists. Despite that, treatment and support have been able to make a positive difference for some sufferers of CRPS. Keeping individuals with this disorder at the heart of treatment is crucial to any conversation that has been had on the topic. Patient-led consultations and community spaces are central to treatment approaches and increasing CRP awareness among the public. Once again, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Claire Adamson for bringing this to the chamber. I also thank Claire Adamson for bringing this to the chamber. For a heartfelt and honest contribution about the reality for patients and their families, it was well received. I appreciate that. On behalf of Scottish Labour, I mark complex regional pain syndrome awareness month, which, as we have noted, was marked in November, and I pay tribute to all those who work to raise awareness of CRPS and the impacts that it can have on individuals and their families. As the motion states, CRPS is debilitating chronic disorder, mostly affecting the limbs, which is characterised by severe pain with changes of bones, joints and skin, swelling, temperature, colour changes and motor dysfunction. Like other members, I was totally unaware of those effects and how the presentation was for individuals with CRPS. Those characteristics, as we have heard, are debilitating and are often not recognised as what I am picking up from the contribution from Claire Adamson and others. We know approximately about 15,000 people living with the condition across the United Kingdom. As Claire Adamson and others have done, I pay tribute to CRPS UK and Burning Knights, who are both registered charities in the UK and do tremendous work not only to increase awareness of CRPS but also to support those who are living with it and to help them to improve their lives through advice, information, briefings and to develop research in that really important area, which is what I took from a lot of the briefings that we so kindly got. We need to make sure that we are resourcing and looking at how we can research this for people suffering. We have heard that Burning Knights hold an annual conference to bring together those impacted in a more formal forum to discuss matters pertaining to the condition and CRPS hold regular events. As we have said in the chamber tonight, raising awareness and introducing the idea to people to think about this condition and look for the research is so important. What is really important and has come out tonight is that CRPS through the charities is helped by families and loved ones and often volunteers who are keen to promote the impacts of the disorder on individuals. The latter house is a key point that CRPS is so poorly understood that we need to have engagement from our clinicians to make sure that it is seen as an important area to research. I am keen to hear from the minister if the Scottish Government understands that and if it can see the need to progress research in this area for individuals and with the work of the charities and the families. I am sure that we can do that. I want to make one last point in my research. I often mention that allied health professionals as I worked in that area before. I know that they have been looking to come forward with ideas for research, because that multidisciplinary approach can be really helpful. They recognise that there was not enough research in the work that they did. They have put a lot of effort into doing that. Anytime I get an opportunity to speak with them, as I do often, I will see how that is going and what they have done. To close, I want to thank the NHS and the charities, but mostly I want to thank the patients and their families for being so committed to moving forward with this really poorly understood condition, but it is obviously a condition that causes such a lot of pain and distress to the families that are involved. I thank you again to Clare for bringing this to the chamber. I thank Clare Adamson for securing this really vital debate on complex regional pain syndrome, which he referred to as CRPS throughout the night. It is essential to recognise that CRPS can happen to any of us, yet it remains a silent struggle for so many people. I am grateful to be part of the debate to really help break the silence that surrounds CRPS and shine a light and the immense challenges faced by those who are living with the condition. I only learned this week, it seems like others were the same, that CRPS is one of the most painful conditions that we know of, that it is often triggered by a seemingly minor injury, such as a sprain, or when there is a bone fracture, or that it can even appear spontaneously with no known cause. I have heard the enduring chronic pain associated with CRPS, described as being much more painful than any initial injury, and that it is a pain so severe that it can be described as being burnt alive from head to toe. That is a quote and a really scary thought, like being burned alive from head to toe. In addition, CRPS causes pathological changes to the bones, along with intense swelling, heat and skin discoloration, as we have heard already, so it is no surprise to learn that those symptoms can disrupt daily life and affect overall well-being. One example that captured me a story was Ruby's story, a resilient individual diagnosed with CRPS in childhood, who faced a challenge in shifting symptoms during her time at university. Ruby's first couple of years at uni went really well, but then her pain escalated, and it reached the point where sitting upright for more than a few minutes actually became unbearable. Ruby's exciting university life put her out, and she had to leave her work placement and rely on essential support back at her parents' home. That is devastating, especially for someone who described themselves as a determined individual, and the impact on her mental health was really quite profound, not only due to the high level of pain that she was living with, but from losing the ability to do the everyday tasks that we so often take for granted. Presiding Officer, I also want to raise a point around the need to increase awareness about the condition. When hearing Ruby's experience, I was a bit taken aback by the misconceptions that were voiced by her peers. How lucky you are to rest at home. These are really unhelpful and undermined the intense agony that Ruby was enduring, so we do need to make sure that we have that compassion in mind as well. I also want to stress the significance of increasing awareness from a medical perspective. CRPS is a condition that is challenging to diagnose and treat. There is no specific clinical test for a definitive positive result, and patient symptoms can vary. The NHS UK website states that CRPS is, and I quote, poorly understood, with patient symptoms sometimes being dismissed, as we have heard already too. So it would be helpful, Presiding Officer, if the minister is able to reflect in any steps that the Scottish Government might take to help to raise awareness. I have been a registered nurse for 30 years. I have never heard of complex regional pain syndrome. Do you think that it would be worth exploring what the nursing universities do to raise awareness when they are teaching our future nurses? Yes, absolutely. I hope that we can hear something more than that tonight. In closing, Presiding Officer, I am also keen to put on record my thanks to Burning Knights and CRPS UK and others for raising awareness, but also for providing invaluable support in education and spearheading much-needed research into CRPS. Again, I want to thank Claire Adamson for a second time, for bravely sharing her own family experience of CRPS, and for bringing CRPS to my attention. I hope that tonight's debate brings CRPS to many, many other people's attention too. I thank Claire Adamson for not just bringing the debate tonight, but for sharing her personal story. Like Claire, I have probably never heard of CRPS before, but before 2010. My daughter was nine years old at that time, and, like Claire, I had never spoken about this before in public. She had a sports day. Nothing obviously happened. We didn't think that she got injured at all. Maybe she took a little bit of a tumble, but she was always kids of nine years old. They were always taking a tumble.  Her foot was a little bit red. It was a pain that was almost indescribable. You couldn't even touch her slightly, and she would scream in pain. We were in hospital for tests, MRIs and x-rays, but most of the doctors came back and were telling us that there was nothing obvious wrong. For our parents, we obviously knew that there was something wrong. So, we spent days in hospital. Doctors were in touch with colleagues at other hospitals, and then it was suggested that she had CRPS. This was 13 years ago. Not much was known about the condition then. Actually, it sounds like it hasn't really progressed that much today. There was no support at all. We did a lot of investigation on the internet, as most parents do. We reached out to a family in the states whose daughter we felt had a similar story in going through the same as what we were going through, because at that time we were really desperate. We even bought a DVD that came from the states on possible treatments. For my daughter, it was almost like a nervous condition that was tricking the brain into thinking that there was something really seriously wrong. Physically, there may not have been anything wrong at all. When I say that, I am not trying to say that it is all in the head. It is certainly not all in the head. It is real pain that people feel, but it is almost like out of control, in comparison to what the original injury might have been. For my daughter, I was two things—medicine, gabapentin, that always sticks in my mind—and a course of intense physiotherapy. That intense physiotherapy was something that I will never forget as well. It was almost like we were torturing her. We knew that we had to break the cycle somehow, so it was trying to get her to walk again, screaming in pain—almost the physiotherapist forcing her to put her foot on the ground, even though that must have been hellish for her, but we felt that we had to do something. It seems like there is a little bit more help available nowadays. I applaud all the charities that have been mentioned and are helping in this area. My daughter went through what was horrendous, but it seems that her outcome was a lot better than most people with the condition that she went through. I hope that, with more awareness and diagnosis, it can be quicker and easier. As awareness grows, I hope that there are better treatments. I thank Clare once again for bringing our story. I hope that we can improve that for many people for years to come. I would like to thank Clare Adamson for her speech. Annie Wells wrote down the same word as I did—brave and emotional and also added personal. I thank Douglas Lumsden for sharing your story as well. I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge, as others have, that November 2023 was the 25th complex regional pain syndrome awareness month, an incredibly important event across the world to mark this serious, and, as we have heard tonight, poorly but very poorly understood condition. I would also like to take this opportunity to commend all of the volunteers, organisations and communities for their hard work in awareness raising of CRPS, and, in particular, CRPS UK and Burning Knights, CRPS support for all the important work that they do for the CRPS community and beyond. Today, in the Parliament, this has provided us with the chance to highlight the impact of CRPS and to reflect on the challenges faced by people living with this condition. The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that people with CRPS can access the right care in the right place and at the right time. As Rona Mackay said, it is hearing the stories that we have heard tonight that make such a difference. I would also like to commend the work of the chronic pain CPG, which also helps us to establish and understand the impact. As has been illustrated tonight, when we talk about CRPS, we must remember that everyone's experience of pain and this condition is unique. People need support, which addresses their individual needs. I understand, and as has been illustrated tonight, how distressing this condition can be, but also how, with the right information and support, people can regain control of their lives and improve their lives' quality. However, I know that many do not feel that they have access to the support that they need. That is why, in November this year, we published the updated framework for pain management service delivery implementation plan. That plan sets out priorities for improvement of care and services, which have been informed by people with chronic pain, including those with CRPS, and the actions that we will take to support people with pain to live well. The framework was developed through extensive engagement with people with chronic pain, our services, clinicians and third sector, including public consultation on the draft of the framework. We understand that the majority of people with CRPS access support in community settings and we recognise that there are opportunities for improvement. Given the varying impact that CRPS has on general health and wellbeing, different people require different levels of support tailored to their own unique circumstances. We need to promote new approaches to delivery, so specialist services are more accessible and sustainable for the future. We will continue to work with service managers, our clinical networks and the Centre for Sustainable Delivery, to include and introduce new ways of delivering care to create additional capacity and redesign pathways into specialist pain services. We have heard tonight about the variation in management and treatment options across Scotland, and my officials have taken note of some of the points and suggestions that have been made, and we will look into those, specifically around perhaps meeting with CRPS UK and also burning knights. I want to be clear that it is our expectation that every person with CRPS has access to high quality evidence-based effective support to help them to manage the impact of their condition no matter where they live. Together, those actions in our framework will provide a better experience of services for people, improved co-ordination of care between community-based and specialist services, and better outcomes for their care and treatment. Both Clare Adamson and Carol Mockin raised research. We have the NHS research Scottish pain network, which is funded by the Scottish Government through the Chief Scientist Office, which brings together around 200 researchers across multiple disciplines to promote collaboration and to share pain research activity and findings. The Chief Scientist Office directly funds research projects, so any projects on underlying causes, treatment or management of pain are very welcome. I think that tonight's debate has informed us of the many people living with complex regional pain syndrome feel the impact of their condition is often overlooked or ignored by society. We know that people with CRPS also need services that recognise pain and offer effective support for the challenges they face in their daily life. That is why we are taking action to embed awareness and skills in management of chronic pain and associated conditions through our NHS workforce at all levels through a pain-informed approach, but I note what some of the other points that have been made and we will look at other options around that too. I would like to recognise, as I have already, the work that the third sector organisations are doing in this area. We have heard how challenging it can be to find clear and consistent information. In response, we have established a pain management national expert working group dedicated to oversee the improvement and co-ordination of information and resources at a national and local level. That is to ensure that we deliver more useful and appropriate national advice about chronic pain and associated conditions. Better information on the steps that people can take to manage its impact and how they can access further support and services when needed. I am pleased to say that this year, as a result of this work, the chronic pain pages on NHS inform were updated. People with CRPS are already experts on their condition, but we know many benefits from additional supported self-management offered by our partners in the third sector. We have established a dedicated third sector network to improve partnership working and our public services so that people can access a greater range of options for support. The network includes stakeholders such as versus arthritis and pain concern, who provide support for people with CRPS. I am grateful for their contribution and for the important work that they continue to do. We also understand that people living with CEPRS face challenges accessing local services when they need them. The impact that this has on their wellbeing and missed opportunities for earlier, more effective intervention. Our framework includes an aim on accessible care with specific actions to improve how local and national services are delivered to provide a more co-ordinated and consistent experience. We will do that by sharing best practice, promoting innovative and new approaches to service delivery and improving how services understand the needs of their local populations. That supports the approach that we have taken to date to improve how specialist pain services work in partnership and share expertise with primary care colleagues. I want to thank everyone in the chamber for their contributions and, as I said earlier, my officials and I have noted their suggestions and we are very happy to meet them and the charities. I want to finish up by saying that we have been improving referrals and access to the Scottish national residential pain management programme, which provides the highest level of care for people with chronic pain and is funded by the Scottish Government to the value of approximately £630,000 per year. In closing, I would like to reiterate the commitment of the Scottish Government to increasing awareness of complex regional pain syndrome and its impact or, as Rona Mackay has said, open the gate to improve everyone's understanding. We will continue to listen, learn and act to make sure that people living with CRPS are able to access safe, effective and person-centred support to help them to manage their condition and live well.


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All right, so 20 bucks. Let's go to round two here. By the way, my team, if you're watching, I'm going to do some of these also only can win on Speak Easy. So, I'm going to encourage some of you to switch over to the app that I own. So, give me a second here. Let me just bring up some guests on Speak Easy. I'm just inviting some people. Speak Easy is an app that I own. By the way, the final giveaway will only be on Speak Easy, where I'm giving away like three, four, 500 bucks. So, go to getspeakeasy.com right now. So, you get maximum chance to win. Okay, getspeakeasy.com. Let me pin this. So, you can see it. I'll pin it on. It's a free app to download too. So, get, it's in both app stores. It's a free speech app. It's got live streaming. It's got a lot of stuff that you can do on any other app. So, all right, I'm going to pin this on Facebook. Can I not pin stuff on Facebook? Geez. My, you know why I like my app better? It's like anything I think of, I can build into it. The apps are missing so many things. It's insane. Okay, let's go to round two. Who wants to win some more money? Okay, let's go. Round two, let's get a little bit harder. So, this is just, this is the early round. This is still round one, sorry. 15 bucks or 30 bucks on Speakeasy, if you're on GetSpeakeasy. YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. I'm just picking one winner. Okay, I'll go teeny bit harder, but not too hard. That is a funny question. Let's switch to, I'm going to switch categories here. We did general trivia. Let's pick a specific type trivia here. So, I'm going to do science trivia now. We're still in round one. The prizes are low, but I'll keep increasing them up. Okay, question number two. Okay. To what is the process of vulcanization applied? This is still just round one, 10 bucks. And if you're on my platform, we double it, it's 20. Some of you are saying metal and it's not correct. To what is the process? Let me pick on Speakeasy first, where you get double the prize. Okay, Ome Patel, congratulations. I'm not going to say what it is, but I pinned it here. Ome Patel, you all can see. Now I'm going to pick Instagram. Let's pick over, let's check over here on Facebook. Instagram, YouTube, Tik Tok. To what is the process of vulcanization applied? No one has it here. Facebook comments are so slow. Somebody said volcanoes. Nope. Vulcanization is not vulcanization. Vulcanization is not vulcanization. Vulcanization is not vulcanization. Vulcanization, there we go. All right, I'm picking a Tik Tok winner. So I'm going to, the winner is, let me see here, if I can even freaking, these apps make it so hard. Okay, so you're the winner of 10 bucks. At Callen C1738, pick two winners. I'll screenshot it. So no, you're not lost. All DMU, my team will DM you from my account and get your Venmo. Okay, let's up it. Let's do one more round one, and then we're going to get into round two. I'm probably going to do like four rounds. The final rounds will be much larger amount of money. I'm going to give away at least a thousand bucks. Last time I said a thousand, I ended up giving away $4,000. So, okay, let's switch the categories. That was a science one. The process of vulcanization has to do with rubber. You vulcanize rubber, like tires, things like that. Okay, let's do a movie trivia, movie trivia. Okay, here's a good one. I like this one already. This is one of my favorite movies for 10 bucks. Send it in crypto or Venmo. And if you're on my Speak Easy app at GetSpeakEasy.com, you win double the prize. If you win it. So you should go over to GetSpeakEasy.com. You can download it on Android or iPhone. It's an app that I'm the founder, co-founder on. Okay. Round one, easy question from movie category. What is Forrest Gump's IQ? What was in the movie Forrest Gump, what was his IQ? Who knows what his IQ was? Who knows what his IQ was? I'll be right back. Okay, Forrest Gump's IQ, Speak Easy. I'm gonna pick first, you get double the prize. There we go, Abby Gurus. You're getting double the prize, so 20 bucks. Congratulations, you're in round. Let's pick it somewhere else. Let's pick an Instagram person. Okay, Jeremy Mathal. There you go. 75 was Forrest Gump's IQ. So you win 10 bucks, Jeremy Mathal. I'm gonna screenshot it so I don't forget.  Somebody on my team needs to do it. Oh, I can add a moderator? How do I add a moderator? I need to add a moderator. Okay. All right, let's go here. I'm gonna bring, I need someone from, Itzel, are you here? Can you come up and be a host for me in Speak Easy? I need someone to be able to post more. Okay, let's go to round two. So for 25, for 20 bucks or 40 bucks, if you're on Speak Easy, you get 40 bucks. If you're on another app and I pick you, it's 20 bucks. Okay, let's go here. Let's get a little bit harder. Round two, probably gonna go four rounds here, maybe five. Okay, let's do animal trivia. I feel like a lot of people know a lot of stuff about animals. All right, here's an easy one, or moderately easy. This is for 20 bucks on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, or TikTok. If you switch over to my app that I own called Speak Easy, you just go to getspeakeasy.com, you'll get double the prize if you win. So it's 40 bucks. In round two, what mammal was known to have the most powerful bite in the world? What animal has the most powerful bite in the world? Who knows? All right, let's go here on Speak Easy. Somebody said a turtle. Molly water, you got it. So I'm just putting you down here.  Molly, make sure screenshot that. We'll DM you on Speak Easy. Okay, yeah, actually what I need, Jeremy, on Instagram. Can you help me out? Can you join Speak Easy because you won for last round? Can you join Speak Easy? And then you can DM my verified Blue Checkmark program and then, because it's easier. Dude, all these apps like YouTube has the worst inbox. Facebook does not have a good inbox. YouTube, TikTok, it's like all complicated. You have to follow each other. So if you're a winner on any of the platforms, can you please download Speak Easy? I don't make any money when you download. It's literally free. Okay, and then you can DM me proof that you're the owner of the Instagram account, please. It's just better. My team can monitor the account and you'll know it's me because it's a verified account because I'm co-founder of the app. Okay, let's do another round two for 40 bucks on Speak Easy or 20 bucks on the other platforms. I'm gonna do a technology question. We're still in round two. I may go up to round five. You definitely wanna switch over to Get Speak Easy. My app, getspeakeasy.com because for round five, it might be like 500 bucks to the winner on Speak Easy. So it's only half that on the other apps. So switch over. Okay. Yeah, and if for some reason on Get Speak Easy, you didn't get paid, you can DM the verified account called app marketing. That's my team. They have a blue check mark on Speak Easy. It's just app marketing. It will make sure. Okay. All right, let's go. We're doing, what did I just say? Let's actually do geography. Who's good at geography? All right, here's the tougher one. All right, we're still in round two. So it's 20 bucks on the other apps, 40 bucks on Speak Easy if you get this. Can we pay through Bitcoin? Yeah, we can pay you. I'd rather play you in crypto. It's just easier. There's no bank fees. That's the cool thing about crypto. Yeah, there's, let me add at marketing. So you all know, if you're a winner, please DM at marketing because she works with me. She's awesome. Her name's Itzel and she'll make sure you get paid. Okay, so here's the tougher one. For 20 bucks, if you're on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, or TikTok for 40 bucks, if you're on, we're just still in round two. If you're on my app, Speak Easy. How many countries border Kyrgyzstan? How many countries border Kyrgyzstan?  Have a little drink of my coffee. I got my books in the background. Everybody knows I like books. Got an Amish rocking chair outside for some reason here. An extra one I had, they got left out. How many countries, somebody said eight? No, go look on a map where Kyrgyzstan is. Geography trivia question. Okay, let me pick on Speak Easy here. Aldo, Aldo Albeck is correct. So since you're on Speak Easy, you make double the money, you're the winner. Make sure you, Aldo Beck, make sure you DM at marketing.  She'll check through. Okay, let's keep going. Let me pick a winner off Speak Easy here. Well actually, let's go, let's keep going. Let's just go, let's do more. All right, you win double if I pick you on Speak Easy. If you're not on Speak Easy on another app, you get half the prize. So there's another geography one. Let's just go rapid fire. Where in England was William Shakespeare born? Where in England was William Shakespeare born? Who knows this? Who knows this? Who knows this? I'm gonna pick someone on YouTube because somebody's complaining that I'm only picking people. I'm gonna pick someone on, I'll pick at least one person on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, let's go. In what, where in England was William Shakespeare born? It's not London, I'm gonna give you a hint. It's not London. All right, first person I see is on TikTok here. Okay, so dark predictions. I'm gonna, you are the winner. So dark predictions, you need to, you win 20 bucks. You gotta DM me on my Speak Easy app to win. It's too hard for me to DM you on TikTok. So go to get Speak Easy. I screensaw to do, so my team will know that you're, all you gotta do is just, my team will just ask you to send a screenshot of you logged into the account with that name. Okay, good, let's keep going. I'm wrapping fire here. Let's go, switch over to get Speak Easy please. Cause by the time we get to round three, four and five, the prizes are going up. Right now we're 40 bucks on Speak Easy and 20 bucks. Okay, yeah, dark predictions. Yeah, you won. Let me just screenshot the amount you won so we don't forget. Head over to Speak Easy, get please so that, yeah. Okay, let's do another one. Switching categories. I'm gonna switch from history. Let's get in some pop culture cause some of people don't know history. That world don't like history. So let's get people a chance to like music. Music, who knows a lot about music? Okay, music history here. All right, this one's so easy. I can't even do that one, that one's too dumb. Some of these are way too easy. Okay, I got one, that's tough. All right, for 40 bucks on Speak Easy, switch on over to Speak Easy if you wanna win double or 20 bucks, we're still in round two. We're about to go to round three and four. Which male Hawaiian musician was well known for his cover of Somewhere Over the Rainbow? Music, which male Hawaiian musician, big guy, was well known for his cover of Somewhere Over the Rainbow? Who knows the answer to this? Big guy, amazing, Jimmy Buffett? No, there we go, we got the winner. There you go, this winner was on Speak Easy so they went double. Rodel Castillo, congratulations man. For 40 bucks, DM at marketing from your Speak Easy account. Don't worry, we'll pick you if you're on another platform. Let's go, let's go here. I'm gonna get, I want a little bit harder trivia. Let's bump up here, let's keep in round two but I'm gonna go a little bit harder. Round three we're gonna bump up to more like 50 bucks a question. Here we go. All right, this is a tougher one, let's go. It's good to know trivia in life, good to know stuff around about the world. Okay, here's the question. Man, this one, I'm gonna be impressed if somebody knows this. Okay, I did not know this. How many countries still have the shilling as currency? You gotta name the countries. What countries still have the shilling as currency? What countries still have shilling? Let's go. I've picked somebody on almost every platform now and not just Speak Easy. I've picked someone on almost every platform. I need to pick Facebook and YouTube still. Let's go. How many countries still have the shilling as the currency or what are the name of the country? Sorry, what are the names? Come on, I haven't seen any. Here we go. Let me just double check. There you go. We got somebody on YouTube. I'm gonna reply. So the answer is, oops, Nichelle Maycock is the winner on YouTube. I need to screenshot it. So Nichelle Maycock, you got the answer on YouTube. You need to switch over to Speak Easy to DM. Your account is Nichelle Maycock. Its answer is Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Somalia. Make sure you join Speak Easy to claim the prize. You gotta DM me there because YouTube doesn't even have an inbox that works. Nobody, anybody ever sent somebody a DM on YouTube? I don't know why they wouldn't have a YouTube, I mean have a DM system. Sometimes I don't understand companies that have billions of dollars. Okay, we're still in round two. Let's go again. So that was 20 bucks, 20 bucks for you on YouTube. Okay, back to some entertainment question. Huh, I did not know this, but here's a good one. Who thinks they know music? Who thinks they know music? What is the best selling music single of all time? For 20 bucks on other platforms or 40 bucks on Speak Easy. What is the best selling music single of all time? Not thriller, not thriller. Who knows this one? Who knows this one? Come on Facebook, Speak Easy, let's go. Who knows? I'm gonna give it 10 seconds. What's the best selling music single of all time? I did not know this. I would have thought it was like thriller or something. It's not white Christmas. I don't understand why Facebook comments are so far behind like it's insane. I don't understand why they're so far behind. That's why I like owning my own app, Speak Easy, like we can build our own features in here. Rock around the clock is incorrect. Hot for teacher Van Halen, nope. Rich Flex, nope, Ed Sheeran, nope. At least not according to this source that I have. Why do people keep saying white Christmas? Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Man, I'm trying to give Facebook a chance to win. Silent Night? It's definitely not Silent Night is an ancient song. It's not really a single that came out that people made money on. It's not Eminem without me. Okay Facebook, I'm trying to give you a chance to win. Letting me down here. Okay, I'm gonna give three more seconds to Facebook. I guess Google has different opinions. It's not white Christmas according to this trivia app. The answer is, there we go. Christy Trees Waters, congratulations Christy. See, I let somebody win on Facebook. You won 20 bucks. It's candle in the wind, 20 bucks to you. Of course on Facebook, it's really hard to you. It doesn't give me a chance. I can't reply to you. It's crazy, I can't pin you. Facebook's prehistoric. All right, let's keep going. Let's go to round three. Let's go to round three. So we're gonna go up here. So, and then when we get to round four and five, the money's gonna get big, so stay tuned. The answer was candle in the wind, Elton John, 1997. Okay, all right, let's go here, speak easy. It's 40 bucks. Now we're at round three. 40 bucks on the other platforms, but 80 bucks. I'm actually gonna, I want everything. I'm gonna switch everything. It's a little bit, these other platforms are way too slow to give me comments. I'm having to wait 30 to 60 seconds. So I'm gonna switch this all over to speak easy now. I'm gonna give more money away. It's easy to join, okay? This is an app that I own, okay? Francisco23 said, I'm very impressed with this platform. Thank you, it's a good, I just like platforms where I can like fix stuff. I don't understand, like, it's like Instagram, I can reply, I can't reply to, but I can pin a comment. TikTok, you can only reply, but you can't pin.  I've had this problem in the past where people get all mad and I'm like, I can't reach you. Like, I don't know how to reach you. Okay, a lot of people don't have like a channel that they check. Facebook is on some kind of eight minute lag. It's insane. People right now are answering. So just switch over to speak easy. Yes, I own it, so I'm obviously biased, but I'm telling you, I'm disclosing it. I'm disclosing it, it's full disclosure. I'm one of the co-founders of Speak Easy. I built it because it's a free speech app that's not gonna censor you. I'm turning it into, we're still in beta, but it's coming out of beta, hopefully ASAP, and start bringing over a lot of people. So head over to getspeakeasy.com. Now, let's go. This is now 80 bucks, round three. 80 bucks, round three, who wants to potentially win some money, and we'll probably get up into two, three, four, five hundred, I'm not exactly sure. I only promised a thousand, but I'm probably gonna be. So switch over off the other apps, getspeakeasy.com. Okay. Like I said, I don't even know how to pin my own thing on Facebook. For 80 bucks on Speak Easy, we're gonna do Science Trivia. What is the nearest planet to the sun? What's the nearest planet to the sun? Let's go. Somebody quick, Speak Easy's instant comments that I can reply. Boom, I see it. Act sheet meta. There you go, 80 bucks, buddy. Mercury is the correct answer. Okay, I'm gonna go down and I'm gonna give out more prizes and just like lower the amount though. So let's do 50 bucks on Speak Easy. We're going to do, let's do Christmas trivia. We got Christmas coming up. Everybody likes Christmas. What's the app? You just go to getspeakeasy.com and you'll get the link. It's Speak Easy Live in the app stores, Android or iPhone. Okay, Christmas for 40 bucks. Let's go. Let's do a Christmas Carol trivia. Here's an easy one for 40 bucks. In the song 12 Days of Christmas, what is given on the seventh day? What's the seventh day on the song of the 12 Days of Christmas? It's not true love. You gotta say the full phrase. Some of you are closing me like Jeopardy. Oh, in the song Last Christmas, I'm sorry, in the song 12 Days of Christmas, what is given on the seventh day? Atencio, you're correct. Swans is swimming, 40 bucks, buddy. Switch over to GetSpeakEasy so you can win if you're watching this somewhere else. GetSpeakEasy.com will give you the download links. Totally free app. I'm a co-founder. It's way better than Instagram. I can't even get you the money on YouTube. In fact, I've tried this 50 times. It's so complicated. Disney trivia, let's go for 40 bucks on Speak Easy. Let's go quick. Let's go quick here. Let's start giving out. Lot's of prizes, fast. Sent. All you gotta do is send your Venmo. You'll get a DM or you can DM at marketing on my Speak Easy app. It's a verify blue check mark. Make sure it has the blue check mark. And you can do crypto too. You can do crypto or you can do like Venmo. No PayPal, PayPal is tough. Okay, in a Disney movie, what prince is the only one who doesn't kiss their princesses, or their princess in the first movie? What prince, this is a tough one, I have no idea. Okay, in a Disney movie, what prince is the only one? How did somebody know this? I see an answer right away. Man, Jordan Michael, you must know this. 40 bucks, man, good job. The answer is Lee Shang from the Mulan movie, Disney. Good grief. How did you know that, man? I'm a pretty, let's do Bible trivia. We can do different religions trivia, but I don't know, a lot of people know Bible trivia. So let's just go here for 40 bucks on Speak Easy. And we'll do the Old Testament. So this is for, if you're Jewish, Muslim, Christian, a lot of them share the Old Testament as it's called in the, okay, difficult Old Testament trivia. How many chapters are there in the Old Testament of the Bible for 40 bucks? You should be right now on SpeakEasy.com. GetSpeakEasy.com to download. It's called SpeakEasy Live. Oh, you got it. H.M. Coy, 912. There's 929 chapters, 40 bucks to you. Let's keep going.   If you're watching on another platform, go to GetSpeakEasy.com and download this app. My app called Speak Easy. It's a free speech app. That's why we call it Speak Easy if you know what Speak Easy's are. We got business talks on their podcasts. It's live streaming. You can start your own show. I do these trivia shows a lot. I've given away, I've given away like $6,000, $7,000 in the last three days. It's a free app you don't have to pay to be on. Okay, let's go away. I need to have some business trivia questions. I got a lot of business people. Business trivia questions, let's go. Ah, ah, ah, ah. Who's good at business trivia? So this is business and technology. Oh man, should I do, this'll be for 50 bucks on Speak Easy. A lot of these. Okay, this is a great one. For 50 bucks on Speak Easy. Which online business was named for a word from Gulliver's Travels that meant rude, unsophisticated and uncouth? There's an online business that still exists. It's a big brand. Which online business was named for a word from Gulliver's Travel that meant rude, unsophisticated and uncouth? The first one I see, there you go. Data marketer, 50 bucks. The correct answer is yahoo. I did not know that. We're learning stuff every day here. Congratulations to you. Somebody said Elon Musk before I even asked the question. Well, let's keep going. More business trivia for 50 bucks. Switch over to Speak Easy. Just look for Speak Easy Live. It's a purple app in the app store. Speak Easy Live. And then when you download it, it's free. You'll see right away this show, this trivia. I've been doing these trivia shows so. And there's a lot of good content on here. It's a free speech app that I co-founded. Okay, business question. Which company produced the world's first front wheel drive motor vehicle? This is a tough one. Business question. What kind of, nope. I don't see it yet. Chevy, nope. Ford, nope. What country produced the first world's, which company produced the first all front wheel drive? I don't see any, but which not, sorry. It's not country. It's company, company, company, company. Not Honda. This is a tough one. This is way back almost a hundred years ago. Ooh, this is the first one I've stumped people on. I gotta do more business ones. I love it. Jeep is wrong. No. Peugeot, no. Volkswagen, Rolls Royce, no. Come on. Aston Martin, no. Man, nobody's got Datsun, nope. It's a car company, not a very well-known one. There you go. Gabriel B, congrats. You deserve that one. Nobody got, that's 50 bucks. It's Citrone. Citrone was a company, Gabriel B. DM at marketing on the platform. She's a co-host. Hold down her on Speak Easy and then just give her your Venmo or Bitcoin. We send it out within 24 to 48 hours, okay? Or send out, we've just sent out a couple, I sent like $4,000 in the last 24 hours to people. So you can take it in Bitcoin if you like crypto or you can take it in Venmo.  That's the problem with the banking system, right? The banking system's kind of broken. It basically hurts the little guy because small wires, yeah, if you wire $100,000 and your bank fee is 40 bucks or 20 bucks, it's not a big deal. But if you're trying to send people 30 bucks and the bank fee's 20 bucks, it's just outrageous. Okay, let's keep going. I like these business ones because I'm stumping people. Trivia, business trivia, okay, that one's... Okay, here we go. I did not know this business trivia. Another 50 bucks. Go to GetSpeakEasy.com, download the app. Okay, here we go. In the 2009 list of cities with Fortune 500 companies, in the 2009 list of cities with Fortune Global 500 companies, which city topped the list with 51 companies? Which city has the most Fortune Global 500 companies? This is as of 09. It is not Silicon Valley. Oh man, they're pouring, it's not Austin. There you go, SKRAPP, 50 bucks, it's Tokyo. I had no idea that Tokyo had, you know. Somebody just invited me. Yo, did you mean to invite me to your TikTok? Is it whatever Warway battle do you wanna do, one? Oh, I was doing a trivia giveaway and I just accidentally clicked on this. I don't know, I wanna mess up your show though. It's okay. All right, this is what I'm doing. I'm doing a giveaway. Okay, so for 50 bucks, this is a, let me do a trivia question. Let's do, let's switch categories to general trivia here. Oh, Ellen. Okay, I don't even know. Let's go, here's the question. For 50 bucks, I'm streaming on five platforms here. So here is a pop culture question. So like movies and stuff. What was Superman's birth name? What was Superman's birth name? Anybody know? Who knows what it is? Does anybody know? What was Superman's birth name? Okay. It was, some people spelling it wrong. All right, here's, I'm gonna, Zay go crazy. Okay, you win. 50 bucks. It's Cal, it's Cal-L, Cal-EL. You got close enough. So what I need you to do, Zway made, Zay, we made it. I need you to go to the Speak Easy app that I own and just DM me, or DM app marketing to claim the 50 bucks. To claim the money. All right, good. Well, thanks for adding me. I don't even know, I don't wanna mess up your show, but I'm not even sure how to, how do I leave this? Or am I, but thanks for adding me. I appreciate it. Of course. I don't know, like TikTok needs a simpler interface. It's like, geez, there we go. Okay, it says I won the match with her. Who does TikTok live? TikTok. Have you seen that? Anyway, there's a funny video with this old grandma. She's like, don't be putting me on TikTok. Okay, yes, Superman, Cal-L. Let's do a, let's do a harder questions. Let's do a celebrity one. Questions about star celebrities and influencers. Who did Forbes name the youngest self-made billionaire in 2019 for 50 bucks? Who did, there we go. Dull Fox on Speak Easy. You should be moving over to getspeakeasy.com. The answer was Kylie Jenner. Beyond Speak Easy. By the way, to claim your prize, I need you on Speak Easy because that's the only one that's easy to DM you. Okay, let's go to round four. Round four, increasing the prizes now, 75 bucks per trivia question. 75 bucks. Let's do a little art. Art is important in the world. And I feel like it doesn't get its due in this world, you know what I mean? Doesn't get its due in the world. So somebody said Banksy. I haven't even asked the question yet, man. Go to getspeakeasy.com. Let me just pin this here. To win, go to getspeakeasy.com and download the free app. Okay, I did it at the beginning, I was giving it on all platforms, but it's just too much of a pain in the butt, man. So I'm pinning this. Okay. Performing arts in, what's the longest running Broadway show for 75 bucks on Speak Easy? What's the longest running Broadway show? I've seen this one, it's really good. Not Mary Poppins, nope. Not Hamilton, that's the new one, not Jersey Boys. Let me pick. All right, here we go. I am Marilyn Jimenez, 75 bucks, congratulations. The answer is Phantom of the Opera. Phantom of the Opera, I am, I am Marilyn Jimenez, congratulations, 75 bucks. Let's do a $50 one. Who's credited with creating the world's first car? It's not Elon Musk, business trivia. Who's credited with creating the world's first car for 50 bucks? It's not Ford, sorry. It's not Ford, I'm gonna give y'all a hint, help make it easier to win. Make it easier to win. Okay, from Titus, congratulations, 50 bucks. How much have I given away so far? It's, well, can you add this up a little bit? I feel like I'm getting past $1,000. I promised $1,000. Good, I'm glad. Who switched over from another app and is on Speak Easy now? Can you just say switched? Just put the word switched. I'm gonna give 50 bucks to someone who's switched. Okay, Nicky Poo 89, I'm giving you 50 bucks for switching over to the app that I co-founded. I'm gonna give, right now, yeah. So switch over, I'm gonna give some prizes to people who switch over from TikTok, YouTube, Instagram. My app, we built it better for this kind of stuff. Just go to GetSpeakEasy.com. All right, let's do another trivia one. Sports trivia, which country won the very first FIFA World Cup? Who knows for 50 bucks? Who won? Nope, not Brazil, not Spain, nope, not Germany. There we go, Dextase, you got it, 50 bucks. It's Uruguay, Uruguay. Okay, I've given away 900. Woo, we're gonna go a little higher. So let's go to round four. So I'm gonna do round four is gonna be for 200 bucks. Round four, and I'm gonna let people have a second to switch over, because now the prizes are getting more serious, and then I'm gonna do round five, which will be probably 300 bucks. Okay, I'm gonna have to do a harder one. I'm gonna think of one you can't instantly Google. So this one is for 200 bucks now. So if you're on another platform, I'm gonna give you a second to switch over to SpeakEasy. It's a free app, you just go to GetSpeakEasy.com and it's in the app stores, all the app stores. Almost every country can download it. Who's having, if you're on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, you got any issues downloading the app? I've got, it's in beta, we have tens of thousands of people on it, so I know it worked for me. Somebody said that they couldn't get on it from Pakistan. So I don't know what happened. The Pakistan, does Pakistan, does anybody know, does Pakistan have the app? Does it have it blocked? The app store, Android and iPhone? Okay, while we wait, I'm gonna give everybody a minute to move over. We're going to round four, and we'll do round five. Round four is 200 bucks. I've already given away $900 to, I don't know, 10, 20 people. So they're gonna be Venmode or they can get it in crypto. If you use Trustwallet or Coinbase or Binance or whatever will send you. I like crypto from the, I love crypto. Of course, there's a lot of complicated stuff happening in crypto world right now, but my personal opinion, crypto's here to stay. Why? Because it just makes sense. So that's simple. It just makes sense. Does it make sense that PayPal controls money? Like if you make, a lot of people, my grandma, both sides of my family were immigrants to America. My grandma and grandpa on both sides. My grandpa's from Spain. My grandma's from Puerto Rico. So they were both immigrants, came to New York City. On my mom's side, my grandfather's from America. He's English, but he's from Louisiana. But my grandmother moved from Berlin, Germany when she was a very brave woman I look up to. She's like my number one person I look up to. She came to America in 1939. The war broke out while she was on the boat. I asked my grandma what's the greatest memory of her life. She died, sadly, at 102. Grandma's all the best, by the way. Little life advice, make whatever you do. Go spend time with your grandparents, man. I'm just telling you. It's like, grandma and grandpa, like if you're the busiest person in the world, make less money. If you're the busiest person in the world, make less money. Go at least once a month. Now, if they live super far away, you should go at least three times a year to go see them. I'm telling you, it's the best use of money, man. You never can get your grandma and grandpa back. They remember stuff about you. You're genetic. You can learn about yourself through your grandparents.  And so it's just like, I always, at this point in my life, I've experienced different things and tried different things and I've had failures and I've had successes. But the one thing I've learned is the most important thing in this world is loyal friends and family. Like you're not gonna, I've been broke. I've lived in a mobile home when I was a teenager. I had no money. I've had a little bit of money. I've had a lot of money. I've had it all. And if I had to boil life down, and it sounds cheesy to say this, but love, and I don't just mean romantic love, okay? To me, love, there's, if you study the word love in like the Greek and the Latin, there's three types of love. There's Eros, Faleo, and Agape. And like Agape is like your family love, like unconditional love. If you have a kid or a brother or your grandma, you have unconditional love. Even if they screw you over, I mean, if they screw over too much, obviously you have to move away from them. But my point is it's not conditioned on anything. Then you have Faleo, which is like friendship love. And you can have just as much love for someone who's a friend than you can have. Like there's friends who are more valuable or more loyal than family. And so you need that in your life.  And so like really, you know, the purpose of life. Like I say there's four pillars of the good life. Like if I could start all over, man, you know, I could be 12 years old instead of the school system. I wish just because, yes, reading, writing, math, those are important skills, but they're just a small subset of life. Like what's actually important is health, your physical health, wealth. You have to make some money because we don't grow our own food and make our own clothes. So you have to have exchange units, you could call it. Then love, and then you need happiness. And so I always say like health is the necessity. Like it's not even optional. You gotta eat right. You have to work out. You need to make time to sleep enough because without health, it's the underpinning. Everything crumbles. Even love is subservient to health, you know? And then you have wealth, which is not the purpose. And that's where people get wrong. Wealth is not the purpose of life. Okay, wealth I call the necessity, right? Or sorry, not the necessity. Health is the necessity. Wealth is, I've said this before and people take it wrong, but wealth is the fuel, right? Like you have to have a little money to go to the gym. You have to have a little bit of money to buy good food and not just eat the junkiest food, right? So you have health is the necessity. It's the underpinning of all things. Then wealth is like that fuel that allows you to reach the other thing. And then love is the purpose of life. That's the purpose, you know? You should try to have kids, you know? Elon Musk has a lot of kids, but like it's the purpose of life. And if you don't want to contribute, some people ethically feel like you shouldn't have more kids because you're overpopulated in the world. Adopt some kids. There's a lot of kids globally or in your region that are, you know, in foster homes. One of the families that I grew up with in church, this is a nice family. They took in foster kids every single year. And it's tough, man. You're taking foster kids that are 14, 15 come from dysfunctional, but these people, they were not rich.  They were very rich in spirit, richer than some rich people I know. So love is the purpose of life, right? And then happiness, the last one is the culmination of life. Meaning when you get the other three things humming, it culminates in you feeling happy and fulfilled. So that's how I think about life, you know? I'm doing a giveaway because maybe that will help you have a little more fuel to make it to the next day. Who here is feeling like super depressed and down? Anybody? Who here is like, who here literally feels like you're at the end of your rope?  Look, I'm gonna tell you this. If you're at the lowest of your life or close to it, here's the thing. Nothing I say can just fix it, right?  That old cliche is true. And the only answer when you're at your lowest, you gotta go out to your social circle, those people, you call a family member, call an old friend that you haven't talked to. I just found an old, I found the guy who was my big brother. My mom was a single mom. And there was a guy, nicest guy looking back. He used to, he was, you know what the big brother program is? He was like my big brother. He would come pick me up like once or twice a week and I lived in San Diego and he would take me, I remember as a little kid, he'd take me to the ice skating rink in San Diego and he would tell me stories and let me play some video games and stuff.  He lived in a mobile home. He was a Marine. He graduated and I mean, he went through some war and stuff. He was a veteran, but just the nicest guy. And I reached, I lost touch. I tried to find them, but like when you're at your lowest, try to use it to reconnect to love. I'm not talking about just romantic love, you know what I'm saying? It's like, try to reconnect to an old friend, an old fan, a cousin you haven't talked to. It's not the remedy, but it's like, it helps man. Because if you isolate yourself, it's a tough thing. Okay, somebody said, nobody cares Ty. Well, maybe you're a person that's not on down and out, but there are other people there. So you should have empathy for other people. You might be having your best day, but just remember on your best day, somebody's having, somebody's at the end of their rope, man. So sometimes it's hard to, you know, when you're doing well, it's hard to you lose the touch of the common person's experience. Never be that, whatever you do, I hope each of you are really rich at one point financially and materialistically, but when you're having a good day, man, don't think, I'll leave you with this, then we'll go back to this number four. I forget who said this, but fortune is a fickle mistress. You know what that means? You may think you're the smartest, the best, I was watching the video of kids 24, he's making $300,000 a month.  Fortune is fickle, can turn on you. And so you may become the common man. My dad told me, my dad went to prison when I was little, when I was born, basically. And he told me, he said, Ty, there was a time in my life I was very wealthy. My dad was from Harlem, made a lot of money selling drugs. And he's like, I was on top of the world, man. I had money. He's like, I used to go anywhere I went. Ty said, I used to tip, because I had a lot of cash. He's like, I would tip people. He said I would tip a valet a thousand bucks. And this is like, whatever, 30 years ago. That was a lot of money. He's like, everywhere I went in New York City, people would be like, how are you? You know, Mr. Lopez, his name was Ernesto Lopez. And he's like, and then, you know, my dad, the FBI kicked the door down and my mom was pregnant with me. And she's like, I lost, my dad's like, I lost it all, man. And my dad never, he lost it all because he went to prison. Nobody really hires you after you're in prison. Prison system's pretty messed up in America. And my dad was like, I became, like my dad's like, I used to give money to homeless people. And he's like, I became the homeless person. And he's like, never looked down on that homeless person. Cause he's like, fortune's fickle. Could be you. Hopefully not. But that's what my dad told me. My dad didn't give me much advice. I didn't know him that well. But that's one of the few things I remember him telling me that we were in Long Beach, where I was born. And there was a homeless guy and my dad's like, never look down on people. He's like, because anybody can be there, man. Anybody, if you read the Bible, there's great kings and they lost their mind. And they were not only homeless, but they were eating grass.  You can lose your sanity. That you can get Alzheimer's.  One of my best friends now has a, his doctor, the doctor told him two months ago, you will be dead in January.  So anyway, to the person who was like, nobody cares. There might be somebody who cares on this stream. There's a thousand people across all these. So I know it maybe wasted some people's time, but you can always just leave if it's not helping you. But I like to, I got to remind myself about that. It's like, never get so high up that you forget. You can be right back there at the bottom. You can be at the bottom. So anyway, let's do this. Round four. Round four, what did I say? 200 bucks on Speakeasy. Let's do 101 best trivia questions. I'm just gonna do, I like this fitness trivia. I was talking about health being the underlying, the underpinning of the good life. So here's a question about health. Health, health, health. For $300 on Speakeasy, give me a second. Scrolling to the health questions. And then we'll go to round four for 300 bucks. I've given away more than I promised. I said a thousand, but I was told I'm already almost at 900, so it's okay. Okay, I like this one. I like this one because massage is a good thing, man. If you work out, scientists used to look down on massage, but now there's all kinds of science that massage helps you. So make sure you're over on Speakeasy. What do the letters A, R, T stand for in massage? What, for 200 bucks? Somebody said clavicle? GG123, 200 bucks, congratulations. It stands for Active Release Technique. I think it's when they, like they push really hard until the muscle releases. It's, if you don't, one of the best things you can do is make a little money, have a massage once a week.  Okay, let's switch over, everybody. Let's go here. Go to GetSpeakEasy.com, download the app because I'm about to pick round five. This is the final winner for 300 bucks. We've probably given away about $1,500. So I'm gonna find a very hard question. So while I search for this, I'm literally gonna do one that is gonna take a second, hopefully. Very hard, very hard. Here we go. For 300 bucks, go over to download the Speakeasy app. Who today downloaded Speakeasy for the first time? Who's brand new to Speakeasy? Every time I do a show, we get hundreds and hundreds of new people switching over from other apps. By the way, when you download Speakeasy, like yesterday, I just popped in and I did like a 300-hour giveaway in 10 minutes. Turn your notifications on when you download that. Cause like yesterday I had like seven minutes. I don't even know if it was 10 minutes and I just popped in and I gave like three people 100 bucks each or something. What is Speakeasy? It's an app that I co-founded. Just go to Speakeasy live in the app store or getspeakeasy.com. Okay, congratulations, Dermot. You said today's your 30th birthday. You made it, man. A lot of people don't make it to 30. And I read in the 1500s, the average person lived when you counted child mortality in there cause babies died a lot. The average person in London lived to age 17. It's pretty sad. This world, your ancestors were survivors, man. It's pretty insane. Your ancestors survived. So I hope each of you don't give up. You can survive. You come from a long line of unbroken success stories. Isn't that insane? 10,000 generations, always your great-grandparents somehow made it. They maybe didn't live to age 100 but they made it enough to give birth to your great-great-great-grandparents. That's another thing that'll keep you going. For those who feel like you're at the end of your rope, nothing's working. You have 10,000 generations whispering in your ear, subconsciously through your genes. This is the subconscious of the mind, ways that you can survive. Try to survive. I was a billionaire guy once told me his advice is very interesting. He said, try to kick the can for another month. Meaning like if today financially or something, you feel like you're thinking of one year ahead and you're like, I'm not gonna make it. He said, shrink the problem. Shrink it. He's worth many billions. He's a super anonymous guy. So I'm not gonna say his name. Not sure if he's on the Forbes list, but he's worth, I think about $3 billion. And he's just an anonymous guy. He hates the spotlight. Every time I've ever tried to do social, he's like, ah, and he's like, no man. He's like, Ty, you don't wanna be rich and well-known. He's like, you don't wanna be rich and well-known, Ty. That's what he told me. He's like, the second I got rich, I disappeared from the earth. I mean, for most, he has his family office and stuff. But he said, try to kick the can down one week. You see what I'm saying? So like, let's say you can't pay your rent and Christmas is coming. Try to call the landlord and be like, can you just give me a week? You don't promise you'll pay him if you don't know, but just say, I need another week and try to fight and live for another day, for another week. Because what happens is sometimes miracles happen and you just need to give yourself time. Kick the can down. Like my friend that I told you was diagnosed with terminal cancer was insane. In July, I was on my farm and he was with me and he's just like, I gotta talk to you. And his family drove in from Texas. He's like, my doctor, the first doctor, luckily got a second opinion, but the first doctor was like, you will be dead by January 1st. It's insane. But it was like, he's smart. He kicked the can, like what? Instead of giving up right then, because some people give up right then, he goes, I am going to like talk to another doctor. And he talked to another doctor and doctor was like, you know what? There is this clinic in Houston, Texas. Go there. Can't guarantee you live past January, but like they can do some stuff. They have experimental therapies that might give you an extra six months. And in that six months, scientists might discover a new thing. So it's like kick the can down, not ignoring your problems, okay? Part of why I like doing giveaways is like, look, I'm giving away 300 bucks right now. It does, it's not gonna change somebody's life, but maybe it helps you kick the can with one more bill coming up, you know? So Jessica said it's half of her rent. Yeah, okay. Let's, somebody said, Tau is acting normal. How weird. Do I not act normal? That may be right, man. Okay. I wish I, you know, I wish I was the richest man in the world. I would try to do a call like this and I would give everybody like $10,000. We kind of cool, right? Sometimes I wonder, it's like the richest people in the world. It's funny. Rich people, if you look at the news, they like to give to like huge charities, which is great. I got nothing, I'm not, no hate, but I feel like I heard somebody say like, on Instagram, I saw a meme and it said, if I became a billionaire, I'd become Batman. I always thought that was true. It's like, wouldn't you want to become Batman?  If you're Jeff Bezos, if you're Bill Gates, if you're Elon, like that 500 grand is like your daily interest from one bank account. But honestly, I think part of why people get super rich is they're stingier than normal and I'm not even making fun of people. It's like, think about it. How do you accumulate crazy amount of wealth? You got to hold on to it. So it's a catch 22. The most generous people in the world generally are not the richest. So maybe it'd be a better world if like the richest people in the world were always the wealthiest, but then how would they become the wealthiest? Maybe if you inherit your money, that'd be a cool thing. Like you didn't have to work for it.  You can give away half. You have a 500 million bucks, no problem.  You know, I kind of grew up. I've seen both sides of the railroad tracks a little bit. I've been middle class. I've been in the project side kind of thing. Like when I was born, like my dad's at Terminal Island, you know, in prison with a single mom. My mom was 24. It was like, thank God my mom had her mom who had enough money to take us in or else we would have been like, we would have been the full project. But I've seen that. My best friend in high school was like full. He was from projects in Raleigh, North Carolina. But I think it'd be cool to just like walk up two people. Got a billion dollars, take 500 million. You'll still have 500. You'll never, you'll never notice that you don't have the extra 500 and just walk around and like hand out like, cause like my friend Leon, seems like Leon champion, like if you gave his mom like 50 grand, it would have changed her life. He didn't even have food on the weekends. It was insane. I didn't know that till I knew him for about two years. He just ate, he ate Monday through Friday at the free meals. Imagine giving it, and maybe you don't want to give the mom 50 grand cause she might be taken advantage of or something, but you could put 50 grand into like an annuity or a trust that would just pay out. You could set the trust to pay out three grand a month or two grand a month or something for as long as the trust could invest the money and have it. It'd be kind of cool. You know, and you could just do that. I don't know. I don't know, maybe some people, but you could also set up what a private and better. And I've thought of doing this charity. Maybe you all have an opinion on where I should do this. You could do, so you basically, I'm thinking a lot about like single moms because single moms are at a huge disadvantage in the sense that you have to take care of another living being.  You know what I'm saying? So like moms get set back a lot. And not all single moms also did anything.   Like my mom thought she was marrying.  So you take the moms, you get instead of giving them the 50 grand because it could be lost to be stolen. They could be conned out of it. You say, I'm gonna pay your rent for six months or 12 months, okay? Then I'm gonna give you enough money, not a ton, but just enough. So let's say rent is whatever, 1,000 bucks a month. Then I'm gonna give you another $3,000 a month, okay? For food, you don't have to work, but you do have to show up four days a week, nine to five while your kids in school. Let's say the kids are eight years old and you get vocational training. I'm gonna teach you how to become a computer programmer. I'm gonna teach you how to become a designer.  Like becoming a programmer is the simplest thing that you're almost not all guaranteed to have a job. But if you're a decent programmer, you'd be pretty good. You'll be kind of, and just like, so basically the single mom would have one year to not stress out and kind of learn. So that was an idea for a charity that I thought of starting at, I don't know, I don't know. If that's, does anybody like that idea? What's a better idea? I don't know, it's just, I was trying to build something around my life's story since my mom was a single mom and, but if the moms, and it could be a single dad too, that happens, I've had a friend who was, who just had his dad, his mom wasn't around. Okay, all right, I'm gonna do the final $300 giveaway. It's only on Speakeasy, so switch over real quick to getspeakeasy.com, download the app, it's in both app stores, okay? So I'm picking a hard question for the 300 bucks. This is not a hard question, some of these are not hard. I'm Googling around for like the world's hardest. Let me just do the world's hardest. I want something you can't just instantly Google or it's hard to Google. Okay, here we go, the 30 hardest quiz. Let's see, that's not hard. Okay, I've found a different website. Okay, these are hard for 300 bucks. Okay, I'm trying to find a very hard question. Oh, that's relevant now, but you'll still get that one. These are, man. I need to buy a trivia game just to look at the very hard, hardest questions here. Like this question, how is this question hard? Name the well-known island known for its three R's, reggae, romance, and running? That's not a hard question. Everybody knows Jamaica has like the fastest runners and that's where reggae come from. That's not a good one. Wow, this is not the question, but crying after sex is a normal response clinically termed as post-coital dysphoria. There's a name for everything, isn't there? I'm getting here, give me, I'll have the question in like a minute. I'm literally trying to find super hard for the brown five. Like how could, what are baby owls? How is that hard? Okay, here we go. Might have to give up. This one was like, what colors are green made out of? How is that a hard question? How is this hard? All right, I'm gonna switch back. I'm not even gonna Google hard trivia questions because that's the one thing. Be careful of thinking you can learn everything from Google. Sometimes my mentor draws out and said, you can't Google wisdom. Yeah, that's kind of true because I feel like people think everything's on YouTube and stuff. I wish, maybe it is, but it's all mixed in with all kinds of incorrect things. So, okay, here we go. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna make this like double. You gotta answer two parts to win the 300 bucks. So that'll make it a harder thing. So you gotta answer two things correctly. So you can't just answer the first part of it. This is gonna be a two-part question that I think might be hard enough to warrant round five by someone. Who ever played Trivial Pursuit? Maybe I should do a math problem. Okay, here we go. I got one. This is math for 300 bucks. Not the first person, but the first one I see. Okay, people are begging me not to do a math one. All right, name the number that is three more than one-fifth of one-tenth of one-half of 500. It's not that hard. Name the number that is three more than one-fifth of one-tenth of one-half of 5,000. I'm just gonna give it a second here. One more time. Name a number, the number that is three more than one-fifth of one-tenth of one-half of 5,000. It's not super hard. Okay. Yep, Lasse Nador is the first one I saw on Speak Easy. $300, please send in. And I'm gonna give you what the answer is. Name the number that is three more than one-fifth, one-tenth of one-half of 5,000. The answer was 53. So congratulations. Lassane Taylor made it to round five, won $300. I believe we gave away 1,400 bucks. So 400 more than we thought. Download Speak Easy turned the notifications on because there's a great chance that I will just pop in here. I did it yesterday. I literally just popped in. Okay. Congratulations, everybody on Speak Easy. If you're not on Speak Easy, please join and turn the notifications on. I'm gonna start doing flash shows. So a flash show just means I pop in for under 10 minutes or so. And I just pick like three winners real fast. So turn your notifications on on Speak Easy. GetSpeakEasy.com, we'll take you to the app store. It's called Speak Easy Live. It's a purple app. By the way, if you're on any, what are you all thinking? How do you rank this app? What would you change for those of you in Speak Easy? I'm trying to build a free speech app that literally competes with Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok. Because I feel like these other apps are like, and I hope I don't get kicked off these apps. I really feel like they're censoring stuff. And more important than censoring, they're creating an echo chamber. So if you're like super right-wing or super left-wing or super conservative or, you know, like you only see ideas that reinforce, so that's gonna make the world the worst place. I promise you. The worst thing, the worst mistakes I've ever made is going into an echo chamber where everybody agrees with me. Like it's deadly, ladies and gentlemen.  So for example, Speak Easy, I'm gonna try it without an algorithm. So you show in the feed, okay, we're launching the feed on Monday, but it'll have no algorithm. So that also means if you have a million followers on Speak Easy and you post every single one of your followers, we'll see it in the feed, but we're gonna put a limitation so you can't flood the feed. So it'll probably give you like one to two posts per day that will show in the feed. And it could be your best performing ones. So that way people don't flood it, but it's a real problem like Twitter and stuff, Facebook, I'm telling you, they're manipulating the feed. Same with TikTok, it's manipulating the feed. So it's brainwashing the whole generation, not even a generation, all generations, older people, younger people are on TikTok now and Twitter.  He's maybe the greatest entrepreneur of modern times. I don't know if he's the greatest of all time, but he's one of the great ones, but like Twitter is rough on your brain. It's like bad news city. I was like, I go on, I have a weird relationship with Twitter. It's like, do I go on Twitter?  I do not believe the human brain is meant to see that much bad news. Like I don't think you're meant to know all the bad news in the world. How could we be built as human beings? Okay, I actually have to go. I gotta go.


I am absolutely amazed at his progress, so much so that I can confer, and I can now confidently, yeah, there it is, thank you, confidently clear him for full return to play without reservation. Wow. So Dr. Steven Austin also did Drew Brees in 2019 as well.  You see Drew Brees pushing those sleds and parking lots, you see him working hard, you see him taking those same mental reps that Russell Wilson was taking, it's me, I am the guy, Dr. Steve Shin.  Hell yeah. Russell Wilson's back this weekend.