Hello everyone. Good morning, good evening wherever you may be. Welcome to looking to the east. My name is Steve Zercher. I'm a professor at Kansai Gaida University professor of management and a Dean there. This is a show that I host twice a month, where we look at issues trends. Interesting phenomenon in the east, primarily Japan, which is where I'm located you can see here I am in Kobe, Japan. Oh, you're welcome to send us questions during the show if you like about the topic the topic today is mental health in Japan. And I decided to put together this show for a couple of reasons. I think that the coverage of mental health issues in Japan. It's not not well, well analyzed or well distributed and also I think that those of you in the United States and Hawaii in particular may not understand some of the challenges that Japan has in the mental health area. So that's the purpose of the show and I have a very, very special guest with me on this show she graciously has agreed to wake up early on our Tuesday morning here and discuss with us this particular topic. My name is Vicky Scorgi Vicky. Thank you so much for participating and being with us this morning on this very important topic. Thank you Steve for the invite. Yeah, absolutely and Vicky is associated with an organization that will discuss for the course of the show as well called tell Japan. And that that is a call in service, specifically focused on mental health issues and suicide prevention, for example. I think Vicky, what we should do is not assume that our viewers or listeners understand about some of the challenges that Japan faces from a mental health issue. I think the general perception of Japan is a very positive industrious type of organization country, great accomplishments and so forth. I don't think the discussion of some of the challenges that this country faces in the mental health area. So, from your perspective, from your organization which is directly in touch with all of these issues, could you give us an overview of mental health conditions in Japan some of the challenges and so forth that you guys have observed over the years. So mental health exists everywhere. Right. So we all have physical health and we all have mental health and the Japanese have mental health issues just like everybody else has. However, how we talk about mental health can be different from country to country and how we treat mental health can be different from country to country. If you like stigma or acceptance of the topic also varies. So in more developed countries or Western countries or European countries where they've had a long history of study around the topic of psychology and mental health issues. It's more acceptable and the treatment options are more well accepted if you like or developed than maybe many of the Asian countries. So when you're looking at the issue in Japan, I think it's quite not uncommon across many Asian countries or developed countries or developing countries sorry that that understanding or that social acceptance of mental health issues is a little bit different. And in Japan. Often, it'll get a lot of attention about the high suicide rates. Right. So it looks like on when you look at the number of people who have or are registered as having mental health issues is low per capita. But the suicide rate is really high. And that is that gap between the people feeling like well I can get some treatment or support for my mental health condition or even understanding that I have a mental health condition. And ending up at that end point where you think I can't cope anymore and this is my only option out. So that high suicide rate is an indicator that things aren't so great here in Japan. The other thing I was going to say the other thing that happens in Japan is they have very high hospitalization rates for mental health conditions and long hospital stays. So the treatment options here are more likely to be if you do get treatment that you're going to be hospitalized and you're going to be hospitalized for a greater length of time. Or on your health national health insurance, you can't see a counselor. It's not covered, but you can see a psychiatrist. So people will end up seeing a psychiatrist who hasn't they are so overwhelmed with and don't have enough time to do the if you like the psychological treatment options with them. So they're more likely to be medicated. So here in Japan, if you do have a mental health condition, you're more likely to be medicated heavily or hospitalized if it's really serious. And that doesn't give those who are dealing with mental health problems or or caring for someone with a mental health problem. A lot of confidence that I can continue doing my work or, you know, I can still function. So it's sort of like catching it at the end stage rather than doing some of that preventative work. Yeah, a couple, couple comments based on your description. I, I'm going to give away my age here but I came to Japan as an exchange student actually to the university where I'm a dean and instructor now. And I lived in a homestay and close to where this this home was was a session beyond mental health. So I guess you could call it a hospital but it actually looked more like a prison frankly, and it was built so that you could not really see into it. And the only reason I knew it was a mental health institution was that my parents told my Japanese parents told me about it. But there was a very strong sense that the people that were in there needed to be excluded or hidden. Things have changed dramatically since I was a student I think but that's just an example of how aberrations in people's behavior or both a mental aspect or physical aspect have historically been hidden. Like for example, disabled people now you see them, and there's elevators for them and pathways for them and Japan's kind of responded to the fact that there are disabled people in this country but many years ago it was it was this pretending that they, they didn't exist so that's that's one thing so that's my observation of Japan over the years is an alignment with what you're talking about. Similarly, when it comes to counselors, our exchange program at Kansai guide I brings in 300 to 400 foreign students. And many of them actually a remarkably high number, especially Americans are on some kind of mental health medication or on some kind of program. And that prompted me to set up counseling at Kansai guide I specifically for the foreign students. The school also has that for Japanese students. It was really difficult finding someone to, to help in this area so you're right this kind of mid area where, as an American, my family and others and my friends have access to just general counseling which is a great service in Japan that's just underdeveloped. Can you explain why that is, is it, is it reflective of the general perception of mental health in Japan that people tend not to be interested in becoming counselors or some kinds of, you know, psychotrists are an option for people in the mid range rather than, you know, just a psychiatrist as a final choice. So you have a lot in Japan. There's more recognition of that psychiatrist or going down that medical model. There are psychologists here at the, if you are looking at their ranking or even their licensing bodies. It's really not as sophisticated or developed as it is in, say, the United States or where I'm from from Australia. Right. It's, it's in the infancy and it's just beginning to think about licensing. So there's no real body that's really saying well this is what you need to do to offer to be a clinical psychologist right so my background is in psychology and neuropsychology. Right. So, and our bodies are very clear about what I can and can't do with a particular qualification and I must keep my license up to date. All of those sorts of things. It's not so regulated here. So it's really difficult to sort of find someone even if you did find someone and say, are they actually qualified to do to treat me do they know best practice are they keeping up to date with these things. And that's part of the reason that telexists, because when our crisis line was dealing with people who are suicidal or they were dealing with a whole lot of mental health issues, we needed people to refer them to, and we couldn't find any real qualified even though this is your, your primary right. Wow. Correct. So in the 90s we set up a clinic where everybody that we have that's working for us is fully licensed and qualified and we can trust those qualifications and marriage. We make sure that they're keeping them up to date so we know okay well this is somewhere we can refer those people that are struggling, but you're right it's, it's a, it's a gap, but they're trying to address. So, I do want to talk about tell in more detail and the services, I did find your referral service when I was looking myself. And that was the really the only resource that I found to help me set up a counselor at the consign guide I, but before we start talking about telling more detail. I, there's many articles that I read in preparing for the show and also statistics now that indicate that COVID has had an effect on the mental health condition in Japan, which again as you point out is probably a worldwide phenomenon. But the suicide rate in Japan which had peaked at over 30,000 a number of years ago, had been going down year by year and this is in part because of a government effort to try and create suicide prevention policies procedures. But unfortunately in 2020 reversed, and the number actually increased for the first time in many years as I think you mentioned it was around 21,000. What is your observation through tell about what's happened in the last couple of years in terms of mental health issues in Japan. So maybe I'll start with that broader picture right so one of the things that tell knows about disasters is that in when the earthquake happened in 2011. We became involved with an organization Mary care that helped us set up psychological first aid for Japan so it helped us train first responders and those that are dealing with people in disasters. How to support them so they're going to have less damage right and be more resilient recover quicker. And with that there's a whole body of research that tells us how people are going to respond in disasters, and they also tell us about the percentage of individuals that might develop if you like, ongoing mental health issues following a disaster, and how to support those during a disaster. Right from the beginning of covert we were out there at the front sort of telling organizations whether it was schools businesses community anybody that will listen to us. This is what's coming and this is what you need to do to look after your mental health. And we're still in it where we're not at that post phase yet, but also it tells us to look at vulnerable populations. And when you look at the suicide rates here in Japan, Japan actually puts out suicide rates every year. So yes, Japan suicide rates have gone up and I'll talk a little bit about those particular populations that have been where did go up, and the impact that covert's had on them. But it's probably gone up in many other countries as well. You just not haven't seen that you just haven't seen the data yet. So we know that mental health went up everywhere. We know that everybody was experiencing a lot of stress and a lot of anxiety. And also on our line, which coincided when the suicide rates went up in Japan around September, October, the mood changed from anxiety initially and stresses to more of a heavy tone and more depression. And we started getting a whole lot of calls about suicide and it wasn't that time September, October, this year, just recently, last year, last year, last year, sorry, last year. So around that time, last year, the mood really changed. And since then, it's been heavy. And at that time, that's when the suicide rates actually peaked around that September, October, November of last year. And it was women in particular, because they were impacted globally and here in Japan, more so by the pandemic. And here in Japan, I think women have less choices and options to support them. So they're more likely to be in jobs where they were part-time, caring positions, hospitality, you know, tourism. Those positions that were really impacted either lost their income or incredible stresses placed upon them. Also when the schools closed initially and people were working from home and the schools were at home, it was the women that had to pick up that load even if they were working. So that shared responsibility of tasks is less developed, if you like. Here in Japan, the roles are stricter. So on many levels, the women were experiencing the stresses and they felt that they had nowhere to go. And I'll also talk to you about a survey by a group called She-Stan. And they did a survey of 4,000 people and the women in that group that they were talking to, this is in 2020, said that they felt 90% of them said that they felt envious of men. They felt that men in Japan had a lot more options for work, for life, for choices than they did. So that's quite telling of what was going on. The other group that were under enormous pressures were university students. A lot of them were depending on income. Again, they were in those groups that lost their income or they were thinking that they were going to go to university and have this wonderful experience and it didn't happen. So you had a lot of youth that were struggling and if you don't get that support and you're not seeking treatment, the depression takes over and you start to feel like, well, I have no options, I am a failure. People would be better off without me. That's what happened. Wow. Interesting analysis. Regarding the students, that's my world since I'm a Kansai Gaidae and that's the last two years basically we've either been in full online mode or in hybrid mode. And anecdotally from the professors, we see the stress that the students are under. And also interesting, something we've observed just recently, Vicki, which maybe fits in with the analysis that you just discussed. When the pandemic started early spring last year and we switched over to online education, there were many, many complaints from the students that they hated it. They were just like taking their courses through a screen, they missed their friends and so forth. We're in hybrid mode now, a year and a half later, a year and a half plus later. So the students have the option of coming to campus or taking the courses at home. And what professors are telling me now is that the students are electing to stay at home. We'll be back on campus again, which we have felt initially when we switched over to online in spring 2020. Now is coming to the point where the students really don't want to come to school, it seems like. So if you go to a classroom there might be five students there and then 25 or so that the proportions, you know, 10% or 50% are in class, and many are choosing not to come to class so they're, you know, maybe the students have accommodated this kind of isolation or screen based education and maybe the desire to be with their friends and to be in a social environment. I'm just speculating this is just very narrow data, maybe that's changed over the last year and a half or two years now that we've endured this pandemic. We've got a lot of things going on there. So initially you're right, we all sort of, when we were all told to work from home or do our classes from home, there was a lot of stress and anxiety about that change, right. And there was no choice, right, and it impacted all aspects of our lives. So that was really stressful. Over time, just like you were saying, people have adapted. It's the same in the workplace. Initially people were complaining, we don't want to be at home. We really miss the workplace. But now they're sort of saying, well, now I've adjusted to it and there are some good things about it. And there are some things that I don't like about it. Right. So now they're wanting to have some choice and some options. But when you look at your students, I think you might also have different populations. You may also have those that have mental health conditions and don't want to come back and be seen on campus.  So there are, you know, there's a combination of why you might be seeing that in your students. The other thing I'll say to you is that even before the pandemic, there was a lot of research in Japan saying that university students were already experiencing an increase in anxiety and depression, not just even in Japan, but around the world. And that's kind of one of those really high periods of stress in a young person's life. And maybe the other thing I'll throw in here that 75% of all mental health conditions have their onset before the age of 24. Okay. So here you are, and you're making that transition, and it's a very challenging period, never mind COVID. Right. So I think you've got, this is already a stressful period. You've got the challenges of COVID. And now you've got this, what's the state that we're in now, right? So I would be, I would think you've got some that are making a healthy choice, some that are hiding mental health issues, if you've got a combination of things happening. I agree with you. The mental stresses and challenges and students certainly predates COVID. So the incidents of mental health withdrawals from classes going up prior to COVID with Japanese students. Again, the perception, the general perception is, at least I think it is, is that the student life is an enjoyable period, you don't have to work, you know, and so forth, but I agree with you, students are working. They're in a position and so forth. So they were showing signs of that. And as I mentioned, the foreign students and Americans in particular seem to be the highest. Many of them are on medication of some sort. So it's a high percentage. We see it on the applications that are coming in. So just to sum up what you were saying before, so through COVID, the stresses on mental health seem to be growing faster within women, as opposed to men. I think traditionally, when I think of suicide in Japan, it's usually middle-aged men or older men, you know, for example, people who lose their jobs because of retirement seem to be particularly high. And then also university students, as we discussed, those two demographics seem to be the ones that are the most affected by the pandemic over the last two years. So men have been impacted by the pandemic. That's something that was happening around the 2000s. But the highest suicide group is typically elderly. What's my point here? You've got a lot of elderly in Japan that are all around the country and feeling like they're a burden. So that was the highest suicide group for a long time. But the pandemic, you're seeing particular groups at the moment, and it may change in the post-COVID phase or the endemic COVID phase. Whatever this next phase looks like, it may be different populations that are impacted. But through this current phase, it's been the women primarily in those occupations. They're more likely to be in those caring roles, caring for someone in the hospital, caring for someone in an aged care facility, caring for an elderly parent at home, caring for young children. They've been under an awful lot of stress and the young students going into university because that was already a key period. And you mentioned that the American students were already on their applications. Here in Japan, because of that stigma, it's unlikely to have been recognized. So they're probably dealing with it just the same. It's just not noted or getting support. Okay, this has been so interesting. We're coming to the close of the show and I wanted you to talk about your organization. So can you give briefly, we have about five minutes or so, the history of Tell Japan and some of the services you offer, and also how the viewers of this show can get involved and volunteer potentially. Yeah, sure. Thank you. We've been around since 1973. We are one of the founding members of Inochino-Denwa, which is the Japanese lifeline. They have a call centre in every prefecture around the country. And we look after the English language population. We were started by a group of churches and missionaries to provide that support and we've grown a lot over the years. As I was saying to you, initially, we didn't know where to refer. We were catching all of these people that were struggling, but we didn't know where to refer them. And in 1990, we established a clinic so that we could refer people to get that counselling support right after we caught them. They were no longer feeling suicidal, but they still needed treatment and support. So that's our clinic and our clinic has grown. Then we have a clinic in Kansai. We have them in Okinawa and we have them in various places around the country. And then more recently, we have established an outreach facility where we go out and we give talks to the community. We try to raise awareness about the signs of mental health issues, the signs of supporting someone who may be feeling suicidal, talking about at-risk populations, educating schools or anybody that will listen to us about mental health and trying to raise awareness about this topic and get people the support that they need. Because the thing is, with treatment, people do get better. We don't have to have suicides. We spend a lot of this time talking about suicide, but suicide is an outcome of a mental health issue that's not treated. So let's talk about it. So how can our view is that they are interested in assisting? I guess I can just Google, tell Japan, you have websites and so forth. And I know that you have programs too for those people who are viewing this in Japan to become volunteers for the teleline of what you manage. Correct. I've often thought about doing it myself. It's just a matter of time for me. But can you please describe that? We have just a minute or so left, unfortunately. We've been inundated with the amount of calls that we couldn't get to, and we would love to have our Lifeline Go 24-7. To do that, we need more volunteers. So if people are willing to help us, if they can go to our website, we're going to do three training sessions next year. So we're going to increase it. We have phone and we have chat support that we assist people with. So visit our website, telljp.com. If you are able to help, we'd love to hear from you. Thank you so much for two things. One for being on my humble show here and talking about this very, very important issue. I'm sure viewers have learned a great deal about what's really going on here in Japan, some of the trends and the explanation as to why Japan's suicide rate per capita tends to be on the high side. And also to promote your organization and for the wonderful service that you guys provide to the foreign community here in Japan. And also, I think you provide services in Japanese as well. Yeah, in our clinic and in the workshops we deliver, we offer the counselling support in a variety of languages, about seven, I think. Right, so those of you that are in Hawaii that are viewing this and your niece or son say, and you have cousins and family tell us helping your people your family as well through this outreach. Vicki, thank you so much. This went by so quickly. Really appreciate you spending time and explaining your program to our viewers. I really appreciate your being with me today. And for those of you viewers will be on in a couple of weeks or so I'm planning to do a show on nutrition in Japan, which is also kind of an emerging area, even though the perception that Japan diet is good. There are trends in the Japan diet that are not so positive that we'll take a look at as well. So Vicki again thank you so much really appreciate you being a part of my show today. Thank you for having me here. Thank you and if anybody needs support please reach out and get that support.


Coastal Carolina versus North Carolina. It's two to two with a two-two count. There's two outs and two men on and this one is brought to you by the Warehouse Games. Tournament going on, the winning team gets $10,000 and if you subscribe, you are entered to win $1,000 at the end of the tournament. They're gonna go with an outside fastball it looks like but the catcher fakes inside, goes outside, puts it in play, runner's gonna round third, left fielder, bullets at home and he is out. Punched out, ball gets tossed in the air, they're celebrating, they threw the go ahead run out. Wait, the umpires are chatting, they're talking, they're going over each other's thoughts with each other, seeing how they're doing, they're saying like we're gonna replay this, we're gonna review it. Now I don't, if they, if the other team didn't ask and they're just doing this on their own it's kind of weird and then we're reviewing if the catcher obstructed from the runner. If he blocked his path to the plate and it's a bit of a nuanced rule and I have the rules so everyone that loves rules is going to enjoy this one. Now here we go, the runner is about to score, the ball comes into play and the rules state. To rule on a play at the plate, the umpire needs to take a mental snapshot to record the relative positions of the runner, the catcher and the throw. Lucky for us, we don't have a mental snapshot, we have a literal snapshot. Is the runner attempting to score? Is he inside the dirt circle around the plate or within the last few steps in his approach to the plate? Yes, he's in the dirt circle, he's attempting to score. Let's move on. If yes, look at the position of the catcher and the throw, okay? Is the catcher in the pathway of the runner? If the answer is yes and a runner is attempting to score he needs to have possession of the ball, he does not have possession of the ball or be in the act of fielding the throw. What does that mean, you ask? Well, according to rule 255, notes one and six, act of fielding the throw is further defined by if the fielder is about to receive a thrown ball and the ball is in flight directly toward and near enough to the fielder, so he must occupy his position to receive the throw. Yeah, we got that, man. The ball's there, it's coming right towards him. That's where he would be standing to field that throw so that it's a perfect throw, says to summarize, to be in the act of fielding, the fielder must be in a position where a legitimate attempt will allow him to receive a nearby throw that is coming directly toward him. As stated in rule 255, note six, it is entirely up to the judgment of the umpires to whether the fielder is in the act of fielding a ball or not.  I have him out, but it's up to these guys. They say he's safe, they say he blocked the plate, and he says, come here, I'll tell you about it, don't even worry, the coach comes out, believe his name is Scott Forbes, the coach, and look at that, that umpire just ran into a buzzsaw of a man, one, two, three, ha, ha, ha, you're about to hear it, sure are, and they're talking and he's like, let me tell you what I saw, let me tell you what I saw, no, no, no, I saw it too.  Yeah, he got ejected, bummer, time for him, and then at the end here, he's gonna let him know, kind of the crux of his argument, says it's a bang, bang call, and it has to be inconclusive, so that's what he's really upset about, and you can see his quotes here, he says, I thought the play was inconclusive, I did not feel it was conclusive, it's redundant, dude, even if they don't call it obstruction right away, I would've felt the same way, so I would've said you cannot change it where it is non-obstruction, I thought it was too close to tell, I don't agree with that call, and I'm entitled to my opinion, just like the umpires are entitled to just make whatever call they want, I watched it on replay just like they did, I know the rule, I have highlighted in my rule book, I'd call bullspit on that, I think he highlighted it after the game, just to be able to say that, we studied the rules, I didn't agree with it, I didn't think there was enough to show to have it overturned, they are just saying he was set up too early in the way of the play, I guess it doesn't matter, we won, which is true, they came back, look they get out of that inning, the first pitch of the bottom of the eighth, this dude goes deep to tie the game, and nothing matters, it's all washed away, and then later in the game, North Carolina in the bottom of the 10th with the bases loaded, they put one in the left field and no one's thrown anyone out now, they win, so it doesn't matter, that guy's doing a funky run, look at the arms on 22 here, what is that?


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and welcome back to yet another FNAF news video. It's been a very long past couple of days rearranging the office as you can see, I'm not done just yet, but it's coming along very well. So maybe once I'm done I can give an updated room tour, but because I've been so busy rearranging the office and cleaning, I have missed out on some FNAF news. So let's not waste any more time, let's get right to it actually. And if you're brand new, don't forget to scroll down quick, give that sub button a little tickle, and now let's kick this video off by talking about some book news. First and foremost, we've got the next Tales from the Pizza Plex book number 6, Nexie, releasing very soon. It's coming out on May the 2nd though, if you go to your Barnes & Noble, there is a chance you'll be able to find it early, just like me and a couple other FNAF fans. The book features the story Nexie, Drowning, and the highly talked about, The Mimic. I'm thinking about doing a video talking about the Mimic, because you've probably heard a whole bunch of stuff about him, but you're not entirely sure what he is, so let me know if you'd be interested in that. And lastly, for book news, there's not a whole bunch, but we do have an update on the 8th Tales from the Pizza Plex book, which has officially been confirmed to be that previously reported B7-2 book, which was that cover we talked about that has that absolutely terrifying robot mixed with human character on the cover, oh yeah, and also the creepy foot. We've got a brand new terrifying robot front and center on this cover, and apparently the only thing people want to focus on is those grippers. But anyways, let's move on to a very, very exciting merchandise segment in the video, because we've got some major news from Funko, Hex, and U2s. Starting off with U2s, their Popgos Pinset is now available for only two weeks. If you're watching this video the day it comes out, there's still 10 days left to pick up this Pinset. It features Popgos, Blake, Sarah, Saffron Stone, and Minora. Kane's been posting a few pictures of the pins, and they look absolutely fantastic. And for new upcoming U2s products, U2s showed off a better angle of their upcoming Helpy Plushie, as well as releasing an official teaser on their Twitter showing off the plushie. It looks absolutely adorable, I really hope we get more FNAF 6 characters, because they have a lot of characters to work with in that game. And U2s also showed off what appears to be an upcoming print featuring the FNAF 2 withered animatronics, as well as the puppet. It was revealed not too long ago, U2s was going to be making a print for each of the main FNAF games, and I'm curious to know if this is what this is. No matter what it is, it does give us our first official look at U2s' designs for the FNAF 2 withers. Personally, I think they look absolutely terrifying, a whole bunch of details on them, I really hope we can see their figures pretty soon. Because last we heard, U2s does want to release their withered figures sometime during the summer, so, I mean, clocks a tick and we better get a teaser soon. But tell me what are your thoughts on the Helpy Plushie, the reveals of the withered animatronics, as well as the Popgos pins? And now let's move over to Daco's hex brand, because they announced something very interesting the other day. They put out a tweet saying the magnetless sitting hex plushies are almost ready, stay tuned. And then a few days after that, releasing an official teaser promo image for the sitting FNAF 1 plushies of Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Freddy. These new variants of the FNAF hex plushies will come in a cheaper price, about $35. They're going to feature no magnets, but they will also have beans in their butts. That's such a weird sentence to say, but they will, so they can sit up properly. We're still waiting on an official reveal for what the sitting plushies look like, though I did get a DM from Daco. He showed me a few pictures of the plushies, and let me just say, I think they translate fantastically to sitting variants. He also gave me some extra details on this mysterious Golden Spring Bonnie plushie, which, let me just say, you're going to want to keep an eye on that guy. And now let's move right along to Funko, because we got a whole bunch of crazy announcements from Funko over the past couple of days. First off, for a couple smaller announcements, it got revealed that a security breach edition of Funko's something wild card game is in the works. This is what the card game looks like physically. Of course, this is the original version of the FNAF something wild card game. I'll be honest, I have no clue how to play it, but it does come with cards featuring the pop versions of the FNAF characters, as well as a tiny miniature pop figure that comes inside the box. Now, because this is a security breach variant, I'm hoping that we at least get a tiny figurine of maybe Glamrock Freddy, because he does show up in the title. Maybe if we're lucky, the brand new cards will feature pop variants of the security breach characters, and hopefully, if that's the case, we can get those pop figures. Because I know a lot of people, me included, have been begging Funko nonstop to make pops of the security breach characters, so hopefully, maybe it's going to happen with this new card game coming out. And it was also revealed that a security breach edition of Funko's survived till 6AM game is also in the works. This is just another board game I believe that's exclusive to the FNAF franchise from Funko. Again, I don't know how to play it, but it looks pretty interesting. Looks like it involves playing as the animatronics, and you have to make your way to the security office, so it's going to be interesting to see how that plays out with a security breach edition. It was also a listing discovered for FNAF Fightline Battle Booster Pack from Funko. I have no clue what this line of products is, I guess we're just going to have to wait and see. And finally, just for miscellaneous news, here's a brand new FASCADE pin found at Hot Topic. Has nothing to do with Funko, but it was in my list, so I'm putting it in right here. Alright, now moving on to some of the larger announcements we got from Funko. They revealed their brand new upcoming security breach snap set. As you can see from the pics, the wave includes a single pack of Glamrock Freddy. A two-pack featuring Glamrock Chica, with their shattered version, as well as Monty with his shattered face. A single-pack for Vanny, who you can unmask and actually reveal the person underneath the mysterious bunny suit. As for sets, we got three, one featuring Freddy and his greenerum. The second wave features Monty and his greenerum, and the third one features Vanessa outside a hallway. I have no clue what those variants of Glamrock Freddy and Monty are, they're definitely not black like, because we got those in a previous Funko merchandise. So I don't know what's going on there, it's also weird they skipped out on Roxanne. I don't know why they would reuse Freddy and Monty twice, but wouldn't include Roxanne. And we did also finally get the reveal of the carrying case we saw when snaps were first announced. And it looks like that is finally being released with this brand new wave. So I'd love to know what are your thoughts on the brand new wave of snap figures? Are you a fan of the snaps? I personally can't wait to get my hands on these, I think they look fantastic. Are there any characters you're upset they didn't include? Like I said, Roxanne, maybe Burntrap would have been nice. Even DJ Music Man, I mean, he probably would have been difficult because he's massive, but still. The staff bots have a lot of variants, they could have done something with him, Gregory as well. I don't know, it's an interesting wave. Lastly for Funko News, we got the major announcement that everyone's been waiting for, the official reveal of the Sun and Moon Daycare attendant Plushies. It was leaked a while back that we would be getting plushies and action figures from Funko based on the Sun and Moon characters, and now we finally got the plushies coming out soon. In my opinion, I think they absolutely nailed these plushies. I'm not usually a fan of the humanoid bodies with Baby and Ballora and Ennard, but they actually pulled it off fantastically with these guys. They look identical to what the characters look like in-game. Absolutely fantastic detail. Like I said, I just cannot believe these guys look as good as they do. I'm hoping once the action figures get revealed, there are as high quality as these plushies, just to complete the set, you know? But I don't know, man, looks like Funko's making a comeback with their security breach merchandise. The snaps look fantastic, the daycare attendant plushies look amazing. And very quickly, let's hop into some fanverse news, because we actually got two devlogs from Emil Mako, the creator of the Five Nights at Candy series. The first devlog was just a very sincere and in-depth explanation for why Fnac 4 is taking as long as it has been. It's very heartfelt, very sincere. Like I said, I'm not going to have the time to explain all of it in this video, but I will leave it linked down below if you want to go have a look for yourself. And the second devlog is actually for the spin-off game, Fnac 4. And in it, Emil shows off some of the enemies we're going to be encountering in this brand new adventure. Welcoming back, the dog and the big dog, also showing off the brand new Corgi crew, showing off a very adorable, but also dastardly addition of the Chihuahua enemy. Moving on from canines, Emil showed off the fly, henway, and the flyfish. And rounding out the devlog with the one, the only, big, butch. Butch appears to be the first boss we're going to encounter in Fnac 4, and my god, does he look menacing? To quote the devlog, standing at a height 3 times that of Candine Cindy, they might be able to jump over him with precision to get a better attack angle before he gets wise. And believe me, once you're trapped in a room with this boss, you'll really want to get good at jumping over him. So that was just a very quick update on Fnac 4, Fnac 4, and also the Fnac series. There's quite a tongue twister there, I'd love to know what your thoughts on the updates. And also the news that I don't think anyone was expecting, Security Breach released on the Nintendo Switch. I did do a livestream going over the entirety of the game, actually peating the burn trap ending, it was a very long stream. But it does give you an idea of what the overall Security Breach experience is like, playing on the Nintendo Switch. So I'll leave that link down below if you're curious, and honestly, it ran so much better than I was expecting, I was genuinely shocked. Like I said, I don't think anyone was expecting this port, especially to come out as polished as it did. Then again, I do get pretty lucky with my Security Breach playthroughs, and I did see Backseat stream it, and looks like he got a few crashes, so I might have just gotten off lucky, I don't know. But Maximum Games did announce that pre-orders for the standard and collector's edition of the physical copies for Security Breach on Switch are going up pretty soon. So if you're looking into getting Security Breach on the Switch, and you want to wait for it to release physically, seems like that's going to be happening very, very soon. And lastly, just around out this FNAF news video, it can be a FNAF news video without talking about Blumhouse's FNAF movie. Officially releasing later this year on October 27th, we've talked about this movie in-depth, a bot 10, so I'm not going to spend too much time on it in this video. But we did get a brand new casting for Wyatt Parker as Young Mike, which was very surprising. In the past, we did get a casting for Young Vanessa, so maybe this shouldn't come as too much of a shock, but just the thought of getting a Young Mike in this movie, does get us that much closer to seeing the Bite of 83 in the film. A lot of people have been pointing out maybe that Pizzeria set leak we got in a previous video could be for Fred Barrows instead of Freddy's. I'd love to know your theories in the comments down below. That's going to do it for this FNAF news video once again, a whole bunch of very exciting topics from Funko to U2s to Security Breach on Switch. So tell me what are your thoughts in the comments down below, and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye.


Now to know where I found this little grey ball of clay. Now being the type of person I am, I decided to keep it as a reference to Dream, who if you live under a rock is named Clay. Chat and I thought it would bring me luck, but Clay had other plans. This is the story of how Ball of Clay ruined my speedrun. Also, if you do enjoy this video, please consider subscribing. Only a small percentage of people actually are subscribed and I put a ton of work into these videos. Enjoy! But there's two villages, let's go! It's Clay. Wait, it's Clay. You know, I'm taking it. I'm taking it. For luck. This is, that's Dream's real life name. I'm taking the clay for luck. Dream? I know I'm trying to beat you. However, I don't want to. I want to get like, at least a record on the, on the thingy, on the site. So I'm taking the clay for luck. Clay is Dream. I'm taking it for luck. Dream, give me your power.  Despite what you guys may think. I'm not doing this to spite Dream. I look up to Dream, okay? Dream is a huge inspiration to me and every other small Minecraft YouTuber, okay? I look up to him. I genuinely do.  I want to beat your record because I'm proud of your accomplishments and I, I'm genuinely excited to see where you go on YouTube, all right? This is a good run. This is a good run. I like this a lot. We just need a good Nether spawn, which I'm playing on 1.15. So it should be easier in the Nether to get Nether stuff. The one thing I'm worried about is pearls, because I've always been coddled. Whenever I speed ran, I speed ran 1.16. It will, it always coddled me with pearls when it, whenever it came to pearls, it always coddled me. I always got coddled whenever I played. It would always be easy to get pearls. Now it's going to be a bit more difficult to get pearls, which is the one thing I'm not looking forward to. I'm going to go back to that village, get the furnaces, and we're off. As much as it may seem, I'm actually going to try on this run. This is a good run. Thank you to all 54 people watching this stream right now. I genuinely do appreciate it. And guys, again, we have the clay in our inventory for luck from dream, because I respect dream with every fiber of my being dream is someone whom I respect. And honestly, I am looking to him for guidance. So yeah, we have a bit of clay in our inventory as a tribute to dream. Oh no. Oh no. This is, oh, oh no. This is very scary. I need blocks first of all. I am scared. I feel like this is a very scary place. I feel like this nether, this nether is going to be very unrewarding and what it gives me. But we can, we can see. All right, we'll see. Because this is a good seed. This was a good seed, but I want to get this run. You're going to regret that move. What mood? I don't think I could even get the world record. So it's not like being slow is really that big of a deal for me. I just want to get a run in the book.  Yes, guys, this is actually more pog than I thought it would be. This is actually way more pog than I thought it would be. There's a fortress right here. Let's go. All right, I just need some blocks. Okay. Okay, let's go. Let's go. We can do this. We can do this, boys. I have, I have, I have never gotten a good run. I have never gotten a good run. So if I manage to get a run that I can submit, that is my goal. If I get a personal best today, that is my goal. The luck is unorthodox.  The clay is working. I know the clay is working. Wait, how many do I have? Okay, listen, I'm keeping the clay in my, okay, three. I'm going to get, I'm going to get seven. Seven's the lucky number for that. Yeah, the clay's working, boys. Silence equals he's actually focusing for once. Yeah, I am. I really don't want to screw this up. Kyra's still best boy. Thank you. I appreciate that. I can't screw this up. Boys, this is such, if I lose, yeah, e-pearl trades. That's probably my best bet is trading. And there's a village right there with, oh wait, there's a village with a church. There's a village with a church. Wait, that means that there's already, there's already one of those people. Oh, yes. The village has a church. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God, guys. Yes. Yes. Oh Jesus. Oh, this is such a good scene. But guys, the clay is working. Literally, the clay is actually, I was saying that as a joke, but the clay is actually working. Like no joke. This is my best run I've ever gotten. I've never been to the nether and got him back and survived. Every single time I've always died in the nether. This is my best run ever, I think. Yeah, there was a church. Let's go. Please, please stay in the stream. That's what I'm going to ask you guys, okay? Please stay in the stream. I would really appreciate it. Also, subscribe. Subscribe. Do it. It's free. You can always unsubscribe. You can always change your mind later. But please subscribe. That would actually really help me get support and stuff. Okay. But yeah, please stay in the stream because it's support. I do really appreciate all of the support that you guys get and that you guys give me. All the support genuinely means a lot. So please try and stay in the stream if you can. If you need to leave, that's completely fine. Why are there so many farmers? Are you unemployed? Okay. You're unemployed. You'll be that. You'll be that. Come on. I need a fletcher. You... Come on. Be a fletcher. Come on. Turn into a fletcher. Okay. Maybe that guy's just not meant to be. You. Yes. Yes. Stick, stick, stick, stick, stick. Here. We've been listening to this for a while. I'm going to change it to earthbound. Earthbound is cool. You got over a stack? Chill? No. I need a lot. Do you know how many? I need a lot of emeralds. Okay. Do you trade for it? No. You don't.  I need a lot of sticks. Don't say chill to over a stack. Each stack of... Each stack of sticks is only... Is only two... Is only two... Where do you go? No. That trade's expired. No. Okay. At least I can level you up a little bit. Oh no. Your thing's expensive. Your thing's very expensive. I'm not... Okay. Farmers. Please. Farmers. Farmers. Farmers. I need farmers. The clay's expired? No. Oh my god. Breaking the... Breaking the hay was just in time with it for a second. Do you trade? No. I need... Who trades for wheat? Please. Somebody trade for wheat. You. You will give me a wheat trade. Where'd they go? Oh no. Where'd they go? Where'd they go? Okay. Accidentally just stopped my time on my end so I don't know how fast I'm being. But as long as I beat it. As long as I... Ooh. Yes. You. You're my best friend now. I will trade with you until your trade's expired. You are my best friend. No. You, Mere. I want all of your... All of your stuff. Okay. I've... I've milked my man dry. I've milked my man dry. Uh, brewing stand guy. I don't know where you are but you need to come back immediately. You got the unlucky trade. I think this guy does not have the ender pearl trade. Wait. You're joking. That's not the pro guy. You're joking. Are you kidding me? Like this is some sort of sick cruel prank, right? He is not the pro guy. Take every...    There's a duel right now. We know. Oh, we dropped like 30 viewers. We lost like half of our viewers because of Dream V Techno. Oh, goodness. So brewing stand guy cannot give it. Well, no. I'm not doing set seed so I can't have done the seed 666 because... Yeah. I'm not doing set seed. Um, guy has bad trades. So do I need to reset? That's all I'm asking. Do I need to reset his trades? That's literally the only thing I'm asking. I need to know if I need to reset. His trades. Clay actually screwed me. How could you do this, Clay? How could you do this to me? Oh, okay. It's going down. I thought it was still going up. I was like, what the heck? Oh, that's so true. Ray F, that is so true. Clay gave me false hope and then he stole all my viewers. Clay gave me false hope and then his premiere of Dream V Techno Blade stole all my viewers. Trades lock after you trade with him, bruh. Hashtag throw clay in lava. Maybe that's my best bet. Maybe genuinely that is... Oh, what the heck? That happened. Oh, I hear creeper suffocating. That's music to my ears. Clay is really bad luck. I don't know if I want to keep it. Clay helped me get a fortress, but Clay was really bad luck when it came to trading. Do you think eat clay? I can't eat clay. Clay is uneatable. This is a bad run. This is where we see... Oh, no, no, no! Why did I do that? You are awake. Come here, buddy. Why can't I...  You screwed me over real bad. You think this is funny, don't you? You think this is funny, don't you? Hey, buddy. Listen here. Oh, this was the guy that I was trying... Why is this Marked as X, too? Both guys that I need are Marked as X. You. Become it. Become it. Do it. Do it. Sick is your best bet right now. Yeah, but it's not... It's... He's not... Why isn't he restocked yet? Why hasn't he restocked? I don't get it. You're wasting your time to wait for the villager? Yeah. I mean, it's not like I'm getting a world record, but if I did, I would have turned on my webcam. That's the thing. If I got the world record, I absolutely 100% would have turned on my webcam.   I could have gotten what was in these chests myself. The only good thing was a golden apple. Oh, Clay. Clay screwed the pooch. Clay is evil. Guys, we know it. We know it. Clay is evil. It's now confirmed. I was hesitant to call him evil before. We know Clay is evil. Clay is giving us bad luck. Clay is the most evil, evil item to ever be in my inventory.  I don't think I can be with Clay anymore. No, I feel like a cactus would be more humiliating than lava. I feel like it could be funnier to kill Clay in a cactus than in lava. I still don't know how I got so unlucky with that villager trade. That was just the worst. There's another enderman up there. For right now, I'll just get enderman. You have no job.  You'll be a cleric. You will give me ender pearls. I'm going to give up on this run. I am. I'm not feeling it. This was a good run until that villager screwed me. You'll be a cleric. Yes. Yes. He's a cleric. Okay. Okay. He turned into a cleric. That is good. I have five pearls. So I don't need that many. I don't need that many pearls. I need more emeralds. Sure. But I don't need that many pearls. That's a good thing. Maybe I can clutch this. If that cleric screws me too, I'm leaving. I'm abandoning this run. If that cleric screws me too. There's only so much a man can take. And if that cleric screws it me over then. But I need another fletcher actually. I might need some more sticks. He's cool, LOL. I'm not imitating Tommy in it. Tommy in it is a muffin head. That's what Tommy is. I call him that because he's actually kind of, he's actually kind of a, wait, why is he dying? Why is he dying? It's all Clay's fault. It's all Clay's fault. Clay did this to us. Clay did this to us. It's all Clay's fault.    It's all your fault. It's all your fault. Clay. It's all your fault. We knew he was evil from the start. You guys tried to warn me. You guys tried to warn me but I didn't listen. You. You.  I should have known. I should have known. First he makes that other cleric screw me with his trades and then he suffocated that other villager. How could you do that? How did he even suffocate? He was fine earlier.  I'll murder you. I will murder you. Clay. Listen, okay, Clay. Listen, Clay.  I will make sure of it.  Clay, listen.  Just one too many times. And now Clay's going to the moon where he belongs. He's going all the way up. He's getting launched into orbit. Bye-bye, Clay. It's been a good run but I think your time on this earth has expired. I'm done. I'm done with Clay telling me what I can and cannot do. I'm done with Clay telling me what to do with Clay screw me over this run.  Clay, you're going to go for the skies. You're going to go for the skies, Clay. I'm sorry but it just needs to be done, Clay. There's nothing I could do after you've done this to me.   You did. This is the only thing that you deserve. Bye-bye, Clay. Yeah, the little maggot.  I think this is not heavy enough but we'll see. Bye-bye, Clay. It's been a good run, Clay. So at this point, I thought we had done it. You know, Clay blew up in the explosion. There's no way he could be alive or could he? I think we're safe from Clay. I think we blew him up. We blew him up. Clay! We blew Clay up and he's still alive. There's no way. It's just fate. It's just fate. Clay is the one that was destined to defeat me and it's happening. It's happening. Clay is defeating me. How? I don't know how it's happening but I might have to delete Minecraft. There's no way that Clay survived all of that. I don't understand. I don't understand. Please, Clay. Just leave me alone, Clay. You were the only one that could ever defeat me. Just, just, just, just leave me alone, Clay. We need to remove Clay from the game. That's the only way this will work. You're right. The next update. Clay needs to be destroyed. That is the only way that we'll ever defeat Clay and actually get him out of the game completely. Clay is back. He's here to haunt me but I'm having none of that. We need to find a special way to destroy him.    Well, Clay? It's been a wild ride. I don't even know if I'll be able to destroy you but I have to try. We need to destroy Clay the only way I know how. He defeated me again! Wait! He went into the lava! Yes!


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Today is actually the day it's gonna happen. A million subscribers. Incoming, just absolutely mad. What is up guys? Karma Medicare, and welcome back to another dose. Today is my last ever day as a medical student. The next day that I put this stethoscope around my neck, I'm going to be introducing myself as Dr. Nasser Karma. Which is absolutely wild, absolutely crazy to say out loud. I don't think I've ever said that out loud before. I don't even know. Anyways, obviously a lot of emotions and feelings going through me right now. The last day as a medical student, you know, it's been a long time coming. I've actually got placement in a little bit over an hour, currently on geriatrics at one of my local hospitals that I've spent a lot of my time in medical school in. So let's just get moving, hop into the car and I'll catch up with you in a second. Hey Mercedes. How may I help you? Navigate me to. Root guidance is starting. Welcome to my car. I'm going to be making a full video about the car. Fairly soon I think it's like one of the most exciting purchases that I've had in a very, very long time and I'm really, really happy with it. So video soon come. But anyways, heading to the hospital for my last day of placement as a medical student. It just feels absolutely surreal. I was trying this morning to try and remember, you know, what was I doing in my fourth year of medical school, like how did I feel? How confident was I? What kind of skills was I doing? And I just like, I feel like I couldn't remember it properly. It kind of has just felt like a bit of a blur from fourth year till the end of fifth year because things have been so busy and hectic. And now here we are with one day left. Oh my goodness. Absolutely mad. I've come a long way, you know, from being a little first year medical student scared to do pretty much anything. That's where I am now. So I'm really proud of that. You know, these last couple of weeks that we've had as final year medical students on placement, they have been very relaxed in the sense that they're very self-driven. So there's no sign-in sheet for us to sign. No one's really checking up on us if we're there or not. I'm rarely because the people who we're shadowing are F1s and F2 doctors. So people who were in our position just a couple of months ago or a year ago. And so, you know, they all say to us the same thing like, hey, if you want to go home at lunch, go home at lunch. If you want to come in early, come in early. If you want to leave early, leave early. It's up to you basically. So it's been quite relaxing from that point of view. And you know, you can really decide your own schedule and kind of get as much as you want and need out of the day. And I think now at this point, with one day of placement left, I have reached the point where I've learned as much as I possibly can as a medical student in the hospital. I feel like the next steps for me to evolve and to progress and, you know, become more competent are going to involve me actually having the responsibility actually doing the job and, you know, getting more involved hands-on as the primary person taking care of the patients. So I think it's just, it's time. It's, I mean, coincidentally, I spent the last day of placement. There's no time left. I'm going to start working in about a month or so. But it's time for me to take that leap of faith. It's time for me to take that jump and, you know, start working as a doctor, which is absolutely mad to think of a hand to say. And when I introduce myself as Dr. Nasser Karma to a patient for the first time, that is going to be absolutely mind-boggling. Currently on my geriatric rotation, this means care of the elderly and the vast majority of patients that come to this ward have had a fall for one reason or another. And I know one of the great things that this transition to F1 rotation has allowed me to do is really take on the role of an F1 doctor, which is what I'm going to be in a couple of months. For example, the people that I've been shadowing have been really, really proactive in getting the patients all this possible, doing things like requesting drugs, changing drug doses, making referrals, answering bleeds, vetting CT scans, x-rays, et cetera, et cetera. Which is great because that's practice for literally what I'm about to start doing next month. Those students here in the hospital, I think only final years are still here. And because it's our final year in our last couple of weeks or last week, a lot of us are taking holidays here and there, going abroad, trying to enjoy the last couple weeks we have as a student before we become a full-time working professional. So there's pretty much no one here. I don't really want to. So yeah, guys, that's pretty much it. This is my final day on placement. The last time I'll be coming up to these lockers, storing my stuff here in the morning as a medical student. I don't even know where the lockers and stuff are for doctors, I'll have to figure that out in the near future. But yeah, last day of geriatrics placement, I'm gonna go in and yesterday the F1 told me that today, I'm gonna have my own patients, which I'm gonna be responsible for coming up with their management plan, treatment plan, reporting back to the consultant on the ward round and then also presenting the patients on the board round. So that should be fun. I'm gonna go get started and I'll catch you guys here again at about lunchtime. Peace. Good morning. So quite a lot of patients did quite a few things. So time for a much needed lunch break as a medical student. It's the last time I'm gonna take these scrubs and put them in the linen bin as a medical student. Last time I'll be up here for a while. Back in my car after my last day of placement, my last day as a medical student. I don't know how to feel about it, to be honest. I'm like happy, but sad, but anxious, but confident. I don't know how to feel. It's just, you know, this is something I've been working so long towards. I have been a medical student for so long for five years now. My identity has revolved around being a medical student. Every time I introduce myself to anyone new I meet. Hi, yeah, blah, blah, blah. I'm a medical student. So at some point comes up in the conversation, you know. It's just been such a core part of my identity and who I am. And now I'm about to become a doctor, which is something I've wanted and worked towards and strived towards my entire life. And now it's here and I have it. I don't need any more exams. I don't need to prove myself anymore to anyone. Like, I am a doctor. My name is Dr. Anastro Karma, which is absolutely wild to say out loud. I actually asked you guys on Instagram if you have any questions for me on my last day on placement as a medical student in medical school. So if you don't follow me on Instagram, make sure you do that somewhere up over here. And I think when I get home, I'm gonna answer some of those questions so I can better reflect and think about how I feel and sort of understand what it means to be here. So yeah, gonna drive home, listen to some music and I'll see you later. Bye. All right. Hello, everyone. I'm back from the hospital. It is currently 6.38. I didn't just get back, but had a pretty good long day on placement. And yeah, now I'm excited to look through all of the questions that you guys sent me on Instagram. All right, we've got lifeofdens.15, who says, what do you expect to change in your day-to-day life once you become a doctor? I think this is a good question because I'm expecting quite a bit to change. I think two of the biggest things are going to be changing my schedule and then also responsibility. So with regards to my schedule, right now, I don't really do anything from nine to five. Most days, most of the time. I spend some time in the hospital, sometimes studying, sometimes working on YouTube, sometimes socializing, going out, playing sports, whatever. And very soon I'm going to have to spend at least nine to five in the same environment in the same place and maybe even longer, depending on my shift. And also that nine to five might be on the weekends or might be overnight from 8 p.m. till 8 a.m. or whatever the case is. So the fact that my schedule is going to change in that way is a little bit scary because that's out of my control. It's something that I have to do that I can't change if I want, but I guess that's part of working life and I'm ready to take it on. The second thing I think is responsibility, the sense of responsibility. All of this time, all of my life as a student, the responsibility was always for myself and to myself. All the studying and the hard work that I did and everything that I've done largely in my life has been for me, hasn't been for my parents, hasn't been for anyone else. So now doing things in my day-to-day job that has direct and serious effects on patients, on other people, not necessarily just for myself, means that I'm gonna have a lot of responsibility. And I think with that responsibility comes stress. And I have faith that as time passes and things that once were brand new become more routine and I get more used to them that I won't be as stressed. But surely the first couple of times and probably forever that there's an acubi deteriorating patient in front of me or medical emergency or something like that, there's going to be stress because my actions and what I'm doing and thinking about is going to have an impact on someone else and another human. Whereas some of the bigger stressors of a university student or exams and upcoming assignments and coursework and things like that and all the decisions that you make around that, all the actions that you do ultimately are only gonna affect your grades, how you do and whatever impact that's gonna have. So those are the two biggest things. Pretty long answer for the question, but that's it. This might be a nice answer. Cyber Goku 8 asks, when you look back, what's your best and worst moment? I'll start with my worst moment because that's the one that's at the forefront of my mind. I think the worst moment for me was after I finished the USMLE Step 1 exam and I started going back to medical school for my fourth year of medical school. And I just had this feeling and this sense of not enjoying my experiences as much as I thought that I should or as much as I used to in the past. And it was something that I'd never felt before I'd never experienced. And looking back, I think it's easy for me to see that I was just really, really burned out with studying, with working hard, with being so disciplined over a long period of time. But at the time, I didn't really understand it. I didn't know what was going on. And by some stroke of luck that I've talked about a couple of times, most recently in Ali Abdel's podcast, I started doing therapy with BetterHelp, who was a sponsor previously on this channel. And kind of by total luck, I started doing that. And that therapy is what helped me kind of understand and realize what was going on in my life and what was changing about my thinking and my happiness ultimately. Yeah, I think that period of time where I just couldn't understand why I wasn't waking up super happy and energized like I always had been for my whole life. And trying to figure that out and go through that, I think it was pretty tough. Honestly, my best memories for my time in medical school are just being with my core friends from medical school. The likes of Kenji, Georgina, Shaheer, Aaron. I don't know who else. There's a lot of them I've probably forgotten a lot of you. And just going to Guy's Bar, drinking, chatting, having fun, sitting outside on the grass or just like late night in the library, laughing and not studying together. Those were some really good times and things that I don't think I'm gonna forget for a while. All right, next question. It's from x.zahid. And they say, what will you miss for med student life and what will you not miss? I think the thing I'm gonna miss most about life as a medical student is how much ability you have to do things in the hospital and with patients with ultimately close to no responsibility and no final, yeah, I guess responsibility for that thing. As a medical student, you are able to go talk to people, you're able to do procedures on them, examine them, ask so many questions about their personal life, their history, their medical history, everything like that. In surgery, you get to take part in surgery sometimes. These are amazing, amazing things that no one else gets to do besides people in the healthcare profession. And to be able to do all those things as a medical student purely with the intention of learning and obviously trying to help the patient, but you don't have ultimate responsibility for taking care of that patient. You're gaining knowledge and you're doing this for learning, I think is incredible. And I think a few other professions give you an opportunity like that to do something so amazing and profound whilst being so heavily supervised. And I don't know, I don't know. I'll never get to do that again. Every action I take in the future is gonna have to be me, my responsibility and my name assigned to it and signed off on it. The other thing is the schedule. As a student, you know, if you wake up and you're feeling tired, you just call in sick.  And of course, you have a lot of time off in the summers and in Christmas for holidays and visiting family and stuff like that. I'm gonna miss that for sure. What I'm not gonna miss, one single bit is another exam. I've always said my whole life, I don't care about exams, I love studying, I, you know, exams are whatever I just study for them, I write them, it's fine. Nine years into university education, I've had enough. I don't want to see a single exam again. I know of course I have plenty of exams ahead of me, but I'm happy that I'm gonna have like a year's break with no exams for sure. Samadhi.underscore04 says, you've come a long way to be a doctor. What will your next step be? That's very true. I have come a long way to be a doctor. I've done a lot and I've sacrificed a lot to become a doctor. And I think that such a huge reason for why I decided to study medicine and I'm gonna expand on this in a future video about. Such a huge reason is that I just wanted to leave a positive impact somehow. And I couldn't think of a way in which I could possibly leave a stronger impact than being a doctor and helping patients. I wasn't gonna do that as an engineer, as an accountant, as a lawyer, as a professional snowboarder, as an athlete, whatever. There was no other career that I thought would be able to give me such a strong impact on as many people as possible. And I feel like throughout my time in medical school through this YouTube channel, I've managed to have such a strong impact and make serious positive change in a lot, a lot of people. And to feel that I've done that before I've started working as a doctor is amazing. Why am I getting so emotional? I'm really, really proud. I'm so, so happy with what this YouTube channel has been able to achieve. I wouldn't change it for anything, any of the sacrifice and hard work that went into it. I think I now realize after having reached million subscribers how much impact these videos have had. And I'm so happy with what they've managed to achieve. And I'm so happy with what you guys tell me about that this channel has helped you with. And so what's next is, you know, I'm about to start fulfilling the dream that I originally had as a kid, the goal that I originally had as a kid, which was to leave a positive impact through being a doctor. And I'm so excited. I'm so excited to do that, you know? This YouTube channel has a positive impact in its own way and being a doctor has a positive impact in its own way as well. And I'm just really, really excited to get that process started and start doing those things and seeing where it takes me. So yeah, good things, good things ahead. From the bottom of my heart, I just want to thank you all for watching these videos, for supporting me, for commenting really nice things and just kind of being here along with me on this journey. So for the last time, I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for watching. This has been Nassar Karma and I'll see you in the next one. Peace. What is up, guys? Karma Medic here and welcome back to... What is up, guys? Karma Medic here and welcome back to... Back, back, back. Back, back, back.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Today is a very special day. We have with us Harun Dati Roy, the author of two luminous novels, The God of Small Things and the Ministry of Atmost Happiness. Last year she published her collection of non-fiction with a very great title, My Sadicious Heart, a title that I think is not only very clever but very opposite. Recently, during the midst of the COVID-19 great lockdown, she's written two pieces in the Financial Times. First, the pandemic is a portal and now after the lockdown we need a reckoning. Harun Dati Roy, welcome to NewsClick. Thank you. Well, let's start with the first article, The Pandemic is a Portal, which the Financial Times ran and I know this article circulated enormously. Could you tell us a little bit, firstly it's written in your phenomenal style, it's really lovely, but could you tell us just a little bit about this idea of the pandemic as a portal? I think when I was writing it, I had just come back from actually walking to the border of UP and speaking to the people who were the great reverse migration, the great exodus from India cities and I realized that something was tectonically shifting. The power of the entire world now over people, I don't think there's been a time in history where the whole world could be locked down. For good or for bad, it was a very frightening idea for me that people, governments, states, authoritarian, democratic, communist, whoever could exercise such power. And then when you exercise that power, the chemical experiment of people who were outside the purview, outside the imagination, outside the calculations of these states were these millions of people who started to walk. And then as the lockdown even went on for a few days, you saw in a city like Delhi the sky is clear, the peacocks come, the birds sing, the snow disappears. And I thought, is this, are we dying or are we being born? Because as individuals we don't have a choice about when we are being born and when we are dying, but perhaps as a species we do. Some control we could exercise on this. And so I thought we are in a portal between worlds. I used to think of this world as a graveyard full of people who are alive but the light has faded, the stars have died and we're just pretending to be alive and we know we've destroyed this planet. But then suddenly when you saw the potential of healing, the show that the Earth put on, we thought okay, maybe there is a moment of hope in the midst of this despair or maybe it's just greater despair. But certainly it's a moment of rupture, a moment of choosing. So that's why I thought of it as a portal. There's a very powerful protection here where you talk about the Prime Minister and you say in that his methods, because after all he announced the lockdown and said you have four hours to shelter in place essentially. And you write the Prime Minister's methods definitely give the impression that he thinks of citizens as a hostile force that needs to be ambushed, taken by surprise, but never trusted. When I read this, I thought also of the way demonetization was rolled out. It's demonetization, it's the great lockdown, it's the Prime Minister who thinks of citizens as a hostile force. Can you reflect some more on this? Well, I too was thinking of demonetization and I was thinking of how in India, the minute it is announced that the Prime Minister will address the nation, there are these memes that go around with people's hair standing on end and it's always terrified because it's in people's minds associated with some catastrophic event, whatever is going to come. So the idea of appearing on TV at eight o'clock at night and giving people until midnight a nation of 1.38 billion people to lockdown and to me that sentence connects to another sentence in this piece where I was talking with some of the small group of people as I walked to them and he said, he might not know about us. The idea that here you have an administration, very cunning, very good at willing elections with understanding of caste and religion and boost by boost data of how to win an election but an ignorance of history, of economics, of how people work, where they work, where they come from, where they go. So to just ambush a nation of this complexity with that announcement is why I said that. Yeah, because this entire thing, the way it took place, I mean you mentioned in the next article about the 16 people run over by the train and so on, this entire policy seems like a crime against humanity. It doesn't just seem like a failed policy. I'm glad that you're the first person that said it because that's what I was thinking too. But if you look at how the whole thing is being covered, I remember in 2011, I wrote an introduction to a collection of essays in a book called Broken Republic and I was talking about how people like Chigambaram who was the finance minister and the home minister, they had an overt policy of changing the population patterns of India. They wanted people to move out from the villages into cities and it was something that they planned and did which is why you had this massive displacement. Of course there's the fragmentation of land and the kind of unsustainability of the Indian village that was being encouraged more or less and you have this huge population moving into cities. In the cities, there was no place for them. So what I've been saying for so many years is that in fact, in the imagination of the state, these people don't have a place and if you notice they don't have a place anymore in literature. They don't have a place in poetry. They don't have a place in cinema. You know the cinema, even up to the 70s, there was a great dignified presence of the poor. There was the anger of the poor. But when cinemas became multiplexes, Bollywood also pushed the poor away from it. So the only place where they'd figure perhaps are NGO brochures to raise funds or something. And it is this erasure from the imagination that has created the situation today where you just pack them into the crevices of cities. You pretend they don't exist and the situations in which they live, we know. I mean, the outlying farmlands turn into tenements where ten people share a room, where the landlords force them to buy groceries and rations at rates much higher than the market. There's a kind of the breakup of the factory floor, the breakup of unions, the dismantling of labour laws. And now the disaster is upon us and the solution is the further dissolution, the further dissolving of protection labour laws and so on. It is really a failure of the imagination, a failure to understand that this is a very unique country in a unique time with a unique population. You cannot cut and paste what is done in Italy or in the US or in Spain onto India. And what was done was a cut and paste and the result is a disaster. And as you said, I would say yes, it's a crime against humanity. I mean, what's really powerful about the most recent piece in the financial times, it's called after the lockdown, we need a reckoning.  But Arundhati Roy is going to spend her time organising the COVID trials, as you call them. You said at the end, we need COVID trials in an international court at the very least. That's my post-lockdown reverie. Could you talk a little about the COVID trials? So actually the financial times, really what they did was they asked me, can you write 150 words for us about what you're most looking forward to doing when the lockdown ends, like meeting your friend or going to a place in the city that you missed. So I said, listen, sorry, I don't have these 150 happy words, so just ask someone else. And the editor said, no, come on, just write whatever you want. So I wrote this little piece. And I mean, I was talking about the fact that you have a situation where there were 545 COVID trials and 545 COVID positive cases, the 10 deaths when they announced the sudden lockdown, after Delhi Dali for two months, and then this punitive lockdown at the end of which, even by the own fake government figures, now you have more than 125,000 cases and it's spread all over because of the exodus and so on. And then you have this stigmatization that took place. You had the stigmatization of Muslims as the spreaders of disease. You had killings. And then now you have a situation where you created this exodus, people jammed into sort of labour camps which were known as quarantine camps and people jammed in bus stops, people jammed on highways, no social distancing, that audible term that people use who don't understand caste. But then you've created a situation where this labour force has now gone home in these traumatic conditions and is spreading the virus in the countryside. Meanwhile, you have the elite and we have TV shows about how planes are being sanitized and airports are being sanitized for them. And I said, so what are we thinking now? Are we going to hermit in the age of COVID? Doing this means you have plans to hermetically seal the flying classes off from the walking classes. So I said, so apart from caste, apartheid, you're going to have religious apartheid with your new citizenship law and the lynchings and the detention camps. And you're going to have a kind of class apartheid where one class, their bodies are a biohazard to the other class. So in this context, I said that this kind of havoc that has been created, we need an accounting. And when I say COVID trials, obviously, I would have liked to say revolution, you know, but the point is when I say COVID trials, it comes from me as a person who has lived so many years in this country where you stop expecting any result from a trial, but you know that the documentation that it creates is in itself an act, a revolutionary act.   Everyone has been terrorized. Everyone is stigmatized. Nobody knows what to believe. You really led us into a horror show. So somehow to unravel this, you need some kind of systematic information. That's what I meant, you know.  It's been harrowing, you know, for those who are walking, it's been harrowing, for those who are thinking it's been harrowing for everybody. I think this is a very good idea, and I look forward to the international tribunal. It's like the Russell Tribunal for COVID trials and I think starting in India and Brazil may be a good idea. Like the Iraq War tribunal, you know, I was on the jury there and I saw how much work happened because unless we can unpack this thing, it will be done to us again. And this moment of panic, it's a panic-demic. It is being used to control us more and more.  And we've got to break out. I just want to ask one little question. In the middle of all this, there was a poll release. I'm sure you saw it because the media made a lot of it, which showed the prime minister's popularity has risen. What are we to make of these kind of polls? The strike media is more propaganda than actual evidence of anything. And yet, here it is, it's a poll. Well, you know, first of all, I don't know, like in this situation, who could they have pulled, you know, those people who have phone numbers or on the internet or something. So this particular poll, I wouldn't pay much mind to. However, I think that we have to be prepared to understand. And I think quite often the left in its rationality doesn't understand.  Like one of the things that's going around is, you know, saying that Modi is Abhimanyu. He's alone. He's caught in the Chakra view. People are ghrowing him. So the Hindus, you must come to his rescue. So the man who effed up like a million people is now the victim of, you know, everybody else, including those people. But then one cannot minimize the appeal or something like this, you know. So I think people are psychologically fragile, frightened. So I actually don't, I don't know what's going to come out of this. All I know for sure is that if there's a breakdown, you know, now you can see the seams coming apart at the edges. You can see rioting. You can see people fighting for food. It's not political, it's sporadic right now. But if there were some kind of massive unrest, it will be immediately sought to be managed with more Hindutva, more Communalism, more trying to blame a particular community or particular, you know, kind of politics or particular people, you know. So we can expect more of the same in a heightened situation of fear and control. I mean, as you know, while everyone's locked down, these people are moving their chessmen very fast. People are being arrested. Muslim students, young people being arrested under draconian under the UAPA. Even today, two young students again were arrested. Everything is being put into place in the hope that when things reopen, the old protests against CAA and all don't rise up again. So while we are locked up, they are doing everything to consolidate their positions. Including the arrests, including our friend, a news click friend, Gautam Navlaka, and a leftward author Anand Teltum, they picked up in the middle of this lock up. Arun Dati Roy, thank you so much for joining us at NewsClick. You're welcome. Thank you.