to another episode of Journaling with Movement. This is episode four. If you've missed the first three, I will link them in the description below. Welcome, welcome, welcome. We're doing this in conjunction with Heart Journal magazine. It is a wonderful digital online art journaling magazine filled with artist interviews and how to inspiration free downloads. There's all sorts of things. It's a wonderful, wonderful magazine. I've done an interview for them and an article. This video here that you're watching is part of that. So if you would like to see the full article, I will again click that and I'll link that in the description below and you can click on that and go over there. I recommend that you subscribe if you can. It's again a great magazine. I am here working with yet another idea for Journaling with Movement and in this particular episode I wanted to review what we've already done briefly and then explore another idea for Journaling with Movement on our page and emphasizing our message or our artistic point of view with Movement on the page. Now here I have my moleskin daily planner thing that I picked up at Goodwill and I've already collaged a few vintage pieces of paper, some notes with my hand writing on them where I was testing a pen and a couple little pieces deli print onto the paper and I do think that although the pieces are laid out in a vertical pattern, I do think that despite that that it's going to work for what I want which I'll describe in just a minute. We're going to go back and review the other movements. First we did horizontal where we really emphasized across the page, speaking to our viewer and emphasizing our message with our elements moving in a horizontal motion across the page. This whole process is not about covering up the entire page you can if you want but it is about working with a negative space and putting elements on your page regardless of how you're doing them in a way that really make the main message pop out that they don't overshadow it or make things too confusing. I've done a lot of different work in this book and you can see some of the wax where I've waxed some of the pages it's made the paper a little bit transparent but I'm actually kind of liking that and I like the messy artistic goodness in the book that comes from doing that and so we started with horizontal movement and then we moved to vertical movement and I really really love this page. This is episode two where we worked with a vertical movement and moving the viewer's eye up the page to emphasize our message and our point of view on I love the way this one turned out and then we did diagonal movement which I found really interesting. I love the idea of diagonal movement and the little bubbles dancing across the page in a diagonal pattern really really appealed to me and it definitely inspired the page that we're gonna do now. I was doing this diagonal page thinking to myself as I'm doing it I really need to do a page where we have dancing movement on the page where we have movement on the page that's dancing around up and down across the page not at all in a straight line emphasizing highs and lows in life and in art and it really appealed to me so strongly I tried to do something else and it just wouldn't let me go the whole idea of it wouldn't let me go. So we are going to do a page with dancing movement and expressive movement across the page. We're going to start to combine the other three lessons into a new and unique movement. For this page I really decided that I wanted to honor the memory of my grandmother by coincidence I started making this page and got word from Heart Journal magazine to work on this article with them on February 1st which is my grandmother's birthday. She died in 2014 she was 99 years old and she was the wisest smartest most brilliant beautiful woman I've ever known and we all loved her very much and she still missed so I decided to honor her in this page I still have quite a number of her things that to most people they would just donate to Good Will or Throw Out but I have books stuffed with notes in her handwriting and grocery lists address books old pieces of paper all sorts of things like that so I decided for this page that having this old book text and the botanical print that's on here really would fit for what I wanted I really have lots of memories of my grandmother spending time in her garden she was always with her grandchildren and her great-grandchildren in the garden or in the kitchen always having big family dinners around her table and I thought that the happenstance of the papers that were already on here was going to lend itself very well to what was going to happen in the page so here are a few pictures of my grandparents at their wedding and the little baby is my dad he was a very fat little baby and my grandmother in her at her 90th birthday I believe if I'm not mistaken and here's her in her garden with some of her great-grandchildren and this is how I remember her this is the grandmother I remember so we're going to honor that as a child in their house I used to get in trouble constantly by both of my grandparents for playing with their fuchsia plants I used to be one of those children that loved to go over to the fuchsia plants and pop open all the flowers and I was constantly getting in trouble for popping open all the flowers and if we weren't doing that as a group that grandchildren especially the granddaughters were over shaking the plum tree so we can get all the plums off and then eat them before grandma could even wash them so but popping the fuchsia plants and the flowers and sometimes bees would come out and it was a lot of fun and that's what I remember and I remember her even when we were getting in trouble she was so sweet so I want to use that memory to create my page so I'm going to grab some paints that remind me of her and being in her garden and the fuchsia plants the colors of the fuchsia plants the colors of her garden I'm thinking of circular shapes that in an abstract sort of way remind me of fuchsia flowers so I grab a pink a blue I mean I sorry a pink a purple a couple of greens and a yellow I'll include the exact brands of paint and the colors in the description for you along with all the other materials that I've used if I forget something you guys asked me and let me know I will get right back to you so here we are going to create dancing movement across the page though the first thing I'm going to do is with my black ballpoint pen it's just a plain old big ballpoint pen I want to imagine that there's a horizontal line on the page and create dancing movement above and below the line as in art and life there are highs and lows and even in the lowest times my grandmother still was a very sweet woman and I want to honor and respect that and so we are going to create this dancing movement above and below that horizontal and imaginary line dancing its way across the page with these circles and marks at least that's how we're going to start and I don't remember now as I'm doing the voiceover if I did the paint first of the black pen first I might have done the paint first that's very possible and I do think I start out with a brush but it doesn't take me long to get my fingers involved because you know it's paint and who doesn't love paint I do as you say as you see have plastic boards in between my pages to protect the pages below they're cut from plastic cutting boards from the dollar store and they're cut to fit the journal so any thin plastic will work or a piece of deli paper I do find that very handy if you're new to art journaling you should have really have something like that to protect your other pages so I initially get out a couple of filbert's a little one and a slightly bigger one and I start with the pink and I just start painting circles on the page again it doesn't take me long to just start getting my fingers involved and want to smear the paint a little bit and get rid of some of the brush strokes so getting putting the paint on there with a brush but then getting my fingers involved helps me get a better circular shape but it also helps me get rid of some of those brush strokes I like uneven numbers and things I find it more interesting so I'm going to not stop before I'm going to add a fifth one and you'll notice again if we're imagining a horizontal line across the page the circular dots are above and below the horizontal line they're dancing across the page and kind of forcing your eye to dance across the page I'm going to add some purple if you've ever seen a fuchsia flower they're pink and purple little bits of yellow and then I'm going to take a small dotting tool and add the yellow and after I'm done adding the green in so and I couldn't decide on what color of green so I decided to add two colors of green one is an Americana paint one is a Dini Wigley paint I'm just being very random about it too I'm not being very very precise on purpose and so now we're going to add some yellow the yellow gives it a really nice bright pop which it kind of needs and this page takes on a life of its own and it really goes through a lot of changes before it's finished and that's okay journaling is always a process whether you're working out feelings about something or you're just playing and having fun it's always a process and it's okay to just enjoy the process and follow along with that process now here we're taking the black ballpoint pen just a plain old big pen and I am not really waiting for things to dry although I probably should I'm not and I am without lifting the pen up very much I'm circling each pink circle and then tracking down to the next circle and then going up to the next circle to start to create that visual dancing line that's traveling along the page it kind of reminds me of the lines on an EKG when you're getting your heart looked at and you see the EKG paper come out of the machine and it's got that up and down line I didn't think of that after had the page done and I thought oh wow that looks like an EKG reading so you can only really do so much of that until after the paint dries and then you can do more which I've done and I'm gonna do more even I want to make the lines darker I want them to stand out more from the background than they do and so we are going to we're gonna we're gonna do that so you'll see me go through again go through a process now I'm gonna take in each one of those little pink circles I'm gonna re journal about a memory of my grandmother something that I miss about her something that I loved about her and that I miss about her her sense of faith her sense of family the smell of her kitchen her smile so each one of the little pink circles has a different little message to myself about what I've missed about her and then while I'm doing that I'm also adding more black circular shapes or a circular marks around the painted shapes with my black pen and I I do end up doing this over and over and over again it's just it really does sort of remind me of a heartbeat anyway so here I am making those little notations of memory about her in each one of the pink circles you have to really make sure that the paint is dry before you do this and you write over it if you don't it's gonna frustrate you and clog up the pen so I do write little single word memories in some of the green dots too and when you're doing a piece like this it's really easy to think of the negative things about the person passing try to remember the good things and the things that you loved about them the things about them that brought light into your life and that's what I tried to do here in this case that last one was really hard to think of something to write we go so next I have a collection of my grandmother's books that nobody wanted again I said before address books little small Bibles all of them are stuffed with prayer cards and notes and little bits and pieces of paper flowers that she'd stuffed in the book and every single book I've gotten from her house has had that so I am showing you a few of them here it doesn't I did pull that particular card out because that needs to be on a future journaling page I did not even know that was in there until it was filming this anyway so these are just some of her old address books so I just pull a page out I think most of the writing is her some of it may be my aunt Sylvia's writing one of her daughters and that's fine but I pull some of the writing out and just pull a random page and I'm going to cut it up into circles and we are going to at some point put that on to our background right here I'm adding some white marks I just feel like we need to add some white it doesn't honestly quite do what I wanted to for the page now I could have cut a lot of this out I could have not explained any of this to you but that's not me I want you to see my whole process that I go through to come to the conclusion of the page that I made as I'm doing this I've got some of her favorite music playing in the background which happened to be Andrea Bocelli which we both live and Italian operatic music she loved Christmas church music and I've got some of that playing in the background and I am really just again going through a process to figure out how I can get this page to have the movement I want and have it say what I want whether it's with markers or pens or something I am here trying to find a different pens to add different marks to the page that I think will do what I want I'm thinking initially making the black darker and there's something on that one corner on the left side it just does not want me to write on it and I don't know if it's the map medium or what I don't know so I initially think just making it darker would work and it does kind of but it doesn't give me what I want but I I figure I'll try and I look at it and I think well that's close it's not exactly right I get that little piece of address book paper out I start cutting circles out of it and I think okay well I know I want to have this on here somewhere I know the background is getting a little busy I'm covering up more of the page than I normally do some pages are just happened to be like that and that's okay but I know I want this paper on there for me the background works because it's all very muted and monotone this is a picture of my grandmother when she was about 20 and I printed it out on my little small LG pocket photo printer and I'm going to get her down there at the same time that I glue these circles of old paper down kind of flip everything together because my protector keeps sliding out I am using a glue stick to stick the address book paper down I don't want to get wet glue out because honestly I don't want to wait for things to dry to continue on I'm layering some of the circles on top of each other and I'm using you who glue stick I do know I want to put some writing across the line connecting all of our pink circles across the dancing line and I initially thought I was going to use that green gel pen you see to the side I end up not using that pen because it's not dark enough I'm just using the glue stick and make sure that you really push hard and that you get that stuck down there really well the paper I used on the pocket photo printer was adhesive paper so I'm peeling the backing off of the paper and then sticking the image down making sure all my edges are stuck down well and here you see me trying to use that green pen and I'm just like it's really just not dark enough so then I start looking for another pen to do what I want one that is not too fat and is the right color I initially think maybe I should do black and then I'm thinking no I don't like the black so again it's a process and this is normal and if you're doing this when you're making journal pages and you're thinking I've done something wrong it's just taking me too long I'm too indecisive no you're not so here I found a green paint pen I do believe it's a Posca pen and I write something along a personal message for me to her along the black line the sort of heartbeat line of this dancing page and it's not about anybody ever reading it or anything it's about a message from her from me to her and again me working through those feelings I have of how much I miss her now I do decide that at some point I need to push the background into the back back a little bit so those pink circles in her photo stand out more I also know I want a quote on the page I'm always about quotes on pages and I have a box of quotes some of which are from her estate and I found boxes of quotes that she also kept I did not know she did that until after she passed so here I'm just cut cutting some plain white paper to protect the images I don't want to get the white paint on and this is a little plastic container of just random brands of white paint I mixed them together you know you have those mostly empty tubes that have got just a little bit of paint them yeah I put them all in this little bucket and I'm using a baby wipe to just spread a little bit of an around on the background and my head's gonna get in the way a little bit here and I'm sorry about that I'm trying really hard to not get my head in the way but I'm holding those circles down and then rubbing the white paint around on the background to just push some of that busyness back so that we see the pink circles and her photos stand out more and the quote eventually when I get it on there now if you get some of this paint on a part of the page that you didn't intend it to like I got a little bit of it here on her picture really quick to go in there with the baby wipe and just wipe it away wipe it back before it dries and you'll be fine and then I can just I'm going back in very gingerly sort of and putting some more white on there to just really push it back the whites gonna dry a bit more translucent that it's showing up here it doesn't actually come out as opaque and but it provides the effect that I want of pushing that busyness back you still see it you know it's there but the other things stand out more prominently I do want to bring back some of those black lines and make them a big darker again so I do that here with the big pen and then we're going to let that dry and I'm going to look for a quote from my page I have a box of quotes that I'm going to dig through on that I find one that's perfect and I've just cleaned up the page with a baby wipe and that's really looking the way I really want it to I've got the dancing movement I've got that heartbeat line so to speak across the page her picture is right there at the beginning of the line which is exactly what I wanted so here I found a quote by Abraham Lincoln actually that we're going to use on the page and I'm going to cut it apart so that it is in separate lines instead of a block I initially think I'm going to put it by her photo it's not what I end up doing again I excuse me again I am gluing it down with a glue stick because I don't want to be bothered to wait for anything to dry at all because yeah I just can't be bothered with that I use you who glue but Elmer's glue sticks work really well too Elmer's extreme glue especially you can glue it down with tacky glue or matte medium if you would prefer you could also staple it down or maybe you have a couple of you know if you're doing it with your from your grandmother maybe you have a couple of hair pins and you could use them to attach it to the page or sewing pins or you know don't be afraid to get any of those little bits of memorabilia involved in attaching these things to your page so here I was going out to the other room to dig out my little memory book of funeral cards I have of loved ones I know who have passed to get the her exact date of birth and death for the page because I wanted to make sure I had that on the page I wanted to put the quote in the upper right and to balance that out and to keep our movement balanced I wanted to put in memory of in the lower left so that's what we're going to do now you don't have to do this I could have left it just the way it was the movement across the page is prominent it shows up really well it's exactly what I wanted and I am doing the writing in a black ballpoint pen so that it's there but it's not as bright and is detracting from the movement in the page as it would be if I did it saying in pink like the circles so I hope that you experiment with movement in your journal and that you have fun with the process and you explore the process of creating movement in your journals and expression in your art and you know remembering those people places and things that are no longer with us in your art for me art is part of therapy my personal form of therapy and the way that I work out my feelings about things and I know it can be that for you too so I hope this gives you another idea of what you can do don't forget to go check out heart journal magazine and the most important thing go out and have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later bye guys


So guys I am back with another dying light 2 video today. I'm going to show you an amazing way to earn Well, what's basically? Unlimited loot has it going guys my name is dpg anything you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out And if you like quite see you want to see more be sure to subscribe Okay, so when you're playing dying light and you just get to the point in the game where you're free to roam Which is about two or three missions in I do believe you'll end up around this area right here Now around this area, which is a starting area and this is great for starting players There are these things here which appear on your map when you actually go near them they're called forsaken stores So there's one here. There's one there and there's one right there Now these forsaken stores are loot sources as you can see on the screen now Description is forsaken and ruined the street level shops have become dens or infected Those brave enough to enter preferably at night can still find rare craft parts there high density of The infected during the day now, that's not a lie during the day you come here There are tons of zombies inside these walls absolutely tons of zombies inside these walls The problem is Well, it's it's kind of a well, I say win-win or lose-lose if you come here in the day their streets Uh, we're not empty, but you're easy you can easily run around the streets and get away from any roaming zombies But when you get to these they're absolutely jam-packed with zombies Problem is if you come here at night, these are they're not empty just about I Don't know 15% of the daytime zombies within these forsaken stores, but the streets are so full of zombies I mean, it's hard to actually to get here without getting chased So what I did was and it's pretty smart people Because what happens is Nighttime comes at 7 30 on the dot clock is in the bottom corner of your screen right there So as soon as that hits 7 30 p.m. Not a m guys p.m It becomes nighttime So what I was doing was and as you can see on the screen now I just sat on a little stool outside of the shop waiting there crouched down just waiting there Make sure there's no aggro on me from other zombies and just I come here about 6 30 maybe seven o'clock and just sat here for 30 minutes in game, which is probably a couple of minutes and then I just simply went inside now like I said You'll see on the screen now. There's actually a few zombies within here But you can easily take them out just make sure you're loaded up with a couple of weapons and these are easy work They are absolutely easy work now You'll see that you see me just bashing the zombies up and then just grabbing a loot here back to the actual map Now like I said just really easy to say there's probably more I haven't actually located yet, but these three right here as you can see Exactly where they are You can rotate these three and the best thing is guys if you in a group as well It'd be a lot easier playing in a team. It'd be a lot easier, but the best thing is guys these reset These actually reset So this one right here you can see I went I did this one first. No, sorry my bad I did this one first, which was the footage you just saw and then I ran to this one same night time But my immunity was down so I had to run to a safe house here get my immunity back up then around back here Pretty easy. I took killed all the zombies. We're in here. I got there's a ton of loot in this one as well and Then what happened was I ran back to the safe house and I waited till morning time and then I ran back Yeah, and all the loot had respawned all the loot had respawned as you're seeing on screen now that the amount of zombies actually in here in The daytime is utterly ridiculous. We have all the loot to respawned So theoretically guys you can I don't know if there's gonna be more of these no doubt these forsaken stores I'm not sure like I said could be anywhere around here. I've gone I've come down to this About this area so far and I haven't come across anymore, but I haven't explored it anywhere here Not there nothing there, so there could be more. I'm not sure but like I said the starting area is three here So the three in the starting area you can farm every single day Every day now this one literally I farmed on a night around here next daytime morning I ran back and all the loot respawned and There's tons of tons a see me highlight it on screen now did the matter things that springs up So theoretically you could rotate these and farm Whatever you could get so much loot Then go trade it sell it Exchange, you know what you can do guys. It's utterly crazy. So yes, and like I said Come here about seven o'clock Just hide out close to the store Because obviously like I said you mean tears well This one right here. It's quite a distance away from a safe spot We need to get to that lighting so you get your your your immunity back, but this one right here guys It's simple that one right there easy I mean this one you can probably go here first and go there then go there But it's it's it's quite farm guys like I said if you're in a team it's gonna work absolute Wonders now show you the footage on screen now of me looting this one nighttime. There's not many zombies here But the amount of loot that's there is crazy. I did I was just overwhelmed by the amount of loot my muti I'm a went almost went down that's a run back here with seconds to go But yes guys a great great farm for early game players and that loot I mean this will help you in many many instances with crafting, but you know that you know I don't have to explain tears, but yes The simple guide if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out if you're new around here I'm gonna see more don't like to be sure to subscribe Yeah, you can see me just I've speeded this up guys just to show you how much that's your roots here That's why my muti almost went down. You'll see me in a quick second Running for my life trying to get to that you lights see me here running and Like I said earlier on in the video. I actually went to this light and I weighed here Purposely to see that loot would respawn So I'm into the light right here Actually didn't get chased which was Surprising because every other time I've done this I've got chased once you get to this purple UV light. You're fine So you can see here. I stand here for a while cut the video.


Ladies and gentlemen, Stella Mike, Avi Pro Powerlifter Lou. Hello. We're gonna talk about, in response to, reaction, commentate, stitch, duet, real hashtag remix of y'all's comments on the new bench rule. Check out the video if you didn't check it. The IPF made a new rule that basically has a bench depth talking about elbows to your shoulder. And some of y'all came real sassy. Real sassy at us. And we were just giving our opinions. And I think Blank is Damon, I don't wanna speak for Avi. We were just saying that if you look at the top lifters across the sport of powerlifting, not IPF specific, I don't think this rule change is one good in application for the judges itself. We can look and talk about and address things that has to do with excessive arching, sure. But this rule, I don't think fixes that. And then also I think that it punishes larger people with small arms that don't arch at all when we're trying to address the arch. So that's basically the points we were getting to in the last video. But y'all came real hard at us, like we're some arching motherfuckers. Neither of us are affecting because we don't compete in the IPF. And neither of us are affecting because our bench don't look like that. I arch, but I think I still pass the shoulder elbow thing. I think most people do, which is our freaking point. Isn't that we disagree with excessive arching or agree with arching? I think we're both pretty neutral on it. Some people are very anti-arching and some people are pro-arching. The other one, the majority comments, we're gonna dig into the actual comments in a second, was about, oh, well, are we trying to test strength or skill and technique? Which is just the dumbest statement I've ever heard because in every sport, every test ever, there is skill and technique. Are we gonna test who runs the fastest or are we gonna wear cleats and actually pump our arms? Cheaters. Let's run with no cleats and no arms.  I was on a penguin's run.  Let's dive in the first one. Bruh, how sorry are these cheats that they have enjoyed the free ride so far? God forbid they bring some logical rules to make it more fair and make it more about strength and less about cheating techniques. That's okay. That's like the whole argument with sumo and conventional is what I think about. How it's like, well, some people are weaker when they pull sumo. So isn't that gonna say, are you gonna, can you make the argument that conventional is cheating? Right. Like that kind of thing.  Yeah. Then you're cheating. And it's like, who are you gonna say? So John Hacks cheating. Yeah. He pulled 900 conventional. Yeah. And like, or low bar is cheating because John Hacks go a tie bar. John Hacks the cheater overall. Yeah, why are we? It's mostly John's fault. Yeah, it's all John's fault. He's great. John Hacks the 600 cheater. Yeah. He's got big arms, big deltoids. But it's like, is low bar cheating because it's easier and most people can squat more when they do low bar. Look, dude, I'm a college dropout. And so I don't always play by the books. But last time I checked, cheating by definition means you're going against the rules and sumo's allowed. So then. But that's what I'm saying. Like, should it not be allowed anymore? Because it's like. Because these pussies. Now it's about, yeah. Because these YouTube pussies. Yeah, but that's what they're saying, right? It's like, it's cheating. And now we're making it more fair by adding these rules. It's like, well, should we add a rule so that people can't sumo and low bar anymore? Well, maybe, because that's what Wamp has to say here. Yeah, I don't get that. Ho, ho, ho, ho, cope harder. Sumo should be banned next. First you should say no one will be affected. Then you say big guys with normal form will have a change their form. Just pure coping. What does that mean? I don't know. I don't know. Coping normally means that you do something to deal with an issue, right? Like, I can't find a wife, so I cope and adopt 20 dogs. That's coping, right? But this Wamp here, my British friend, doesn't have a clue what coping means. Because it doesn't affect us. We're just commentating on the rule of change. Yeah, we are not in the IPF, we don't compete in it.  It affects 1% of people on less than 1% of the world that bench presses is affected by this rule change. We were just bringing it up for discussion. And then we're saying, like, if you're trying to get rid of arching, this rule does not necessarily affect those who are arched. That's the frickin' point. Because there are people who could still arch and get past this rule. And then there's people that don't arch at all and will be affected by the rule. Negatively, affected, so it's like, without work. So you got small biceps and small forearms and big boobies, male, female, anybody boobies, any kind of boobies. And you're not gonna reach that thing. Cause now I'm touching at the top of my teetop. If I touch at the top of my teetop and I'm on some double D's, now I get red lighted because I'm well endowed. That's fucked. Well, we're negatively affecting the people who are not meant to be targeted, right? Or addressed, you know, so.  Just not a great rule. Well, Julius Maddox lifts 795 pounds. No arch with an arch. You're not lifting if you're strong then the rules shouldn't affect you. How is it that you're not lifting if you're arching? What are you doing then? No, Julius Maddox lifts 795 pounds. No arch with an arch. You're not lift. This dude has no periods, no conflicts going anywhere. Just keep talking with no models. Julius Maddox is the current king of the bench. Yeah, he's very strong.  Yeah. I saw this guy who was benching like crazy amount and his feet are just moving everywhere, right? He's like moving the entire time. And like this kind of goes against what we learn in powerlifting to like build tension, drive with your leg. You shouldn't have that much movement, right? Yeah. I'm like, how is this guy benching 7800 pounds for triple? And he's like doing all these things that we were taught not to do. Or like that we learned that weren't efficient, you know, and it's like, oh yeah, I'm not him. I can't bench. You're not him. You're not that guy, pal. It's like, I'm not blessed with that kind of strength so that my form can be like his and then I can still lift a heavy amount. People are trying to take like the individuality out of sport, but that's like saying like, oh, LeBron James doesn't go in the NBA because he's 6'8, 6'6 and under only. Like what's the point? The point is that we want to watch the best do the best they can, right? We don't watch the Olympics to watch some people who are slow. We want us to fast as motherfuckers on the planet race each other, right? Like what's the point here? Here's another one, Mr. Lubbers. I'm done with accents. Sorry guys, I'm not saying anything today. To counter the no pause in the squat argument, let's add a pause in the squat. Because there is a pause in the bench, judges literally have no more time to judge depth. Add a pause to the squat. I think that's so dumb because the difference is, yeah, there's some benefit from a rebound in the squat. Some people get it in and out of the hole really quick and lift more weight, but there's tons of world record holders, people at the top that control the squat both ways and just reverse out of the hole and don't really hit the hole that hard, both in wraps and knees. The difference is in the bench press, you get a large advantage from bouncing it off of your sternum. That's why there's been a pause some day one because they want you to control the bar rather than bounce it half the way and then just have your triceps lock it out. They're just totally two different movements with two different leverage points. I don't think people, and who knows because these are YouTube comments, right? Everyone's anonymous.  Like, again, Jamal pulling 1,100 pounds in the gym. Yeah, it's in the gym, yeah, it's grip, yeah, it's sumo.  I think it was Furman, my dude. He's like lightweight, world's strongest man and he comes out saying basically, and in strongman it is illegal to do sumo, right? And the biggest pulls ever have been done by strongman. Eddie Hall and Thor, right? Over 1,100 pounds. And now Jamal's doing it, sumo. He comes out and says, who cares? Like, you're not gonna be impressed? Like, that's so strong. I don't care where his feet are.  So it's kind of like, let's pay attention to what matters here. And I think what's more important in the sport of powerlifting is that we're pushing the limits and handling the most amount of weight possible. That's why it's powerlifting. If you want the pure skill, maybe Olympic weightlifting or something, right? Where there's more speed, more agility, more technique. There's still a technique over here, but we are moving the most amount of weight within reason. So let's like, let's soak that up and kind of play to our strengths. That's the strength of the sport. So why do we want people to lift less weight? Right. That's not fun. Let's make it tempo and deadlift, pause deadlift.   Strap the lifter to the bench like they do with the Paralympics. Judging is easy and there's not a lot of wiggle room. Yes, pun intended to cheat. Now, honestly, of all the comments, that's the least ridiculous to me. We really want to do that. As long as it's standardized, I don't care.  It's not gonna help the range of motion. Someone else came at me today and said, why don't we measure the range of motion you have to move in a lift? And I'm like, one, how do you physically measure that?  Let's add more semantics to it. And then again, you're taking away the individuality of the sport. You want to see the best do it.    That's what makes this fun. Or if it's a certain amount, I mean, is it like once you get past a certain point, you don't have to log out all the way because you're already like, you know, completed the range of motion qualification. Yeah. Yeah, to my chest to hear six inches, that's all I gotta do. And like six inches, all that matters, I was told. What's so funny? Nothing. Bench press too, like if it's all about strength and like how strong you are in your chest then let's just have our feet off the ground. Yeah, let's just do dumbbells. Do a larson press. Oh yeah, and don't wear dumbbells. And hammer strength. Larson press or something. It's like, why do you need your legs? You technically don't, like you don't need your legs. It's cheating. There's no sport that like measures that. Cause like even as strong man, right? We're doing a bunch of different stones for time. Why don't we just move one stone? And why isn't the stone the size of the pyramids or so? And why is it, is it usually a ball, like sphere? Yeah. Yeah, why isn't it a cube? Yeah. Why can't we move a triangle ball? Yeah. Or a triangle stone. Or a triangular or triangle pyramid shape. Nothing. A cylinder. Yeah, or honestly if you want to measure like pure power and stuff, yeah, we do a med ball toss, which is like a toss for height and strong man stuff. Like the point is like these are sports, they're established for a reason. The squat bench and deadlift have been around for centuries for a reason. Cause they are the three lifts you can move them the most amount of weight with. So why don't we allow a little bit of technicality to do it? And yeah, I'm not saying to have no rules, but until I see every single local national and international powerlifting meet won by someone who arches at obnoxious level, I don't personally find it an issue. Like that guy's example, the best bencher in the entire planet right now in the history of humankind is Julius Maddox by pound. And he doesn't arch at all. So you're telling me arch is a problem? Right, yeah. So why is it a problem? Why is it a problem? I'm a problem. Where can I find you, dude? Instagram at obi.loop. And Twitch. And Twitch at obi.loop, A-V-I-L-I-E. New videos every Monday and Thursday. Appreciate you all.  If you got a smart opinion on my care and I'll comment back, I'm gonna go lift right now and full day of eating on the way next week. I'm gonna film it tomorrow. And thank you guys so much. We'll catch you in the next one.


This would be far easier if I knew what I was doing. Come again, Doctor? I said, gosh, this, uh, sight of man head is truly meticulous. And, you know, it could take decades to truly understand. Well, we have eternity in the road, so you've got plenty of time to decode it. Thanks for the reminder, Brigadier. Now, what can I do you for? I came to follow up on that time anomaly you discovered. Doctor, look at this! What is it, Joe? There seems to be some sort of, some sort of time anomaly somewhere in the road. Really? How strong? You don't know, but the reading is a clear as day on the screen. Well, of course I know. I just want to see if you're improving. I do so care about you all. Oh, Doctor, you do so care about my well-being. Well, of course I do. Why else would I keep you around? Well, the reading showed that it's extremely powerful, and the anomaly could be so big that it could be entered through. That does sound pretty bad. Perhaps we should tell the Brigadier. Yeah, um, could you do it? He scares me. No, not to worry, Joe. I'll take credit. I'm in care of it. Yes, yes, I did indeed discover it. Well, we must find out its location and stage a large-scale attack. Well, I don't think that's wise. In fact, I think it's utterly ridiculous, because my sources tell me that time anomalies are not technically how you say, alive.  I'll have you know that a large-scale attack is never a waste of time. The troops get practising, I get to watch like a giddy schoolgirl, and you never know what could be on the other side of it. What must that be, no one? Doesn't matter. The point is, find it. Those are your orders. Understand? I'll get right onto it. Excellent. Carry on. Well, what was the noise? Oh, the noise you heard was just an email from Tenon asking if I was free tonight. I am. Oh, but I'm glad you called me in, because you're not going to believe this. There's two time anomalies! Double the trouble, eh? That's both an accurate tagline for the three doctors, and also not very good. Wouldn't the tagline for the three doctors be triple the trouble? Oh, hush, you just tell me more. Well, look for yourself. Counter-offer, you tell me. Is this another test I smell? Oh, Joe, you read me like a blind man reads a billboard. Well, as we can both very clearly see, this time anomaly is not only bigger, but it's a lot closer. How much closer? Hello, Pune HQ. I need cellotape quite urgently. Why? Oh, no reason. Here. Thank you, Josephine. That's not my name. It is to me. You know, I don't think that's related. Okay, I'm done with tests for the day, doctor. How could you think that's not related? Do you want to talk to Tom about that? Yeah, completely unrelated.


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You're welcome back to the breakfast on Plus TV Africa. It's now time for Off the Press. Our being joined this morning live by public affairs analyst Ezekiel Eitok. Good morning. Good to have you in the studio. Yes. So we can actually do that in person. Fantastic. So good to be here. Thank you. It feels good. I love the studio. I hope I'll be able to concentrate and talk really loud. There's a lot. All right, let's begin with a punch in this paper this morning. The headline reads, El Rufai attacks governors over strike. NGF moves 318 naira per litre fuel price. The writers read, certain political interests bankrolled NLC to destabilize Kaduna, alleged governor. We're dealing with a tyrant. Industrial action may be escalated, says Waba. NLC suspends strike as FG summons El Rufai and labor thugs attack secretariat. Above the headlines on the punch newspaper, National Carrier. Ministry prepares memo plans 2022 takeoff date. Also $189 million clinical trial. Others ground local COVID-19 vaccine production. Senate considers Beale, criminalizing ransom, proposes 15 year jail term. Attacks on INEC facilities orchestrated aggression. That's according to Yakubu. Below the headline on the punch newspaper, all gunthreatens clamped down on the states, alleges illegal development. Alleged IPOB planned attack on Lagos propaganda, cheek, ex-minister. NECO shifts unity school's exams over low registration, picks June 5. Dangote truck caught with 600 smuggled rice in Ugun, three arrested. Police invited us on Dohkoppel keel, two-week-old baby during brawl. Salton advocates dialogue, can President LeMence killings fears famine? And also on the punch newspaper, Reps probe Max air, aeroplanes bird strikes. Emir escapes death. And lastly on the punch newspaper, 127 south-south, southeast cops killed. 25 stations raised, and that's according to a report. All right, now on the Nigerian Tribune. There will be no war in Nigeria, says the Saltan. Disintegration, not solutions, as can. On the United States, the federal government punish those behind recurring cases of schoolchildren kidnapping, ones Africa over a relationship with China. About a meeting, PDP governors blast APC over criticism. Also on the Nigerian Tribune this morning, Senate considers bills seeking 15 years jail term for those who pay ransom to kidnappers. Two more offices burnt, 2023 poll in danger, Einig Boss says. Voter registration, by elections threatened, he also says. So this morning, fourth mainland bridge to cost $2.5 billion, that's from the Lagos government. And National Carrier to now take off in 2022, says the federal government. Bandits Q8, burnt church in Kaduna. And the LEA intercepts 4.9 million Naira Traumador, 4.9 million Traumador capsules in rivers. And also, labor suspend strike, federal government invites LRFI and NLC to meeting. Thugs invade NLC secretariat. We can't be intimidated, says Ayuba Waba. Those are the big ones on the Nigerian Tribune. All right, moving on now to the Guardian newspaper. It says, why foreign direct investment in property sector dries out? Also, Horewa writes Biden, others on genocide in southeast. Labor suspends a five-day warning strike in Kaduna. FRC alleges 32 agencies failed to present audited accounts. These are stories on the Guardian newspaper. And lastly, Nigeria, others to receive fresh $150 billion from World Bank. And now on the nation news papers. Sultan says Nigeria's problems won't lead to war. Bandits Q8, burnt church in Kaduna. We can also find this morning, $700 million looted cash returned in four years, says Malami. Or your APC kicks as Makin Day pushes on with council polls. And governors okay debt reduction, judicial and legislative autonomy. NGF silent on a sub declaration. Removal of petrol subsidy in order. Also, burning our assets threatens 2023 polls, says INAG chairman. We can also see here, federal government brings LRFI and NLC to negotiation table. 4.9 million tram-a-doll capsules seized at airports. And also a national car to take off in 2022. Pretty much the same stories both on the nation and the tribune this morning. I think we can quickly, Joe, go to our guest. Thank you for joining us once again. Thanks for having me in this awesome studio, I say that again. Yes. Alright, so let's start with the, first of all, the suspension of the strike in Kaduna state. The federal government, of course, reported yesterday has decided to wade in and bring the two parties together. Yuba Waba says this is done to allow place for dialogue. How do you think this will go? Two things. First, I want to thank the minister of labor for wading in or weighing in whichever one. And secondly, as much as there are certain things about LRFI that I find troubling. But I actually do have a lot of respect for him. Maybe his methods or his approach may not be too good. And a lot of times I mean he's haunted by probably not thinking through processes. And I think it's something that a lot of people need to learn, people in office. You don't, you don't, you don't, you don't react to your present circumstance. They hear and now. They say disconnect in his personality. One, he has capacity for long-term planning where it concerns him. On the other hand, if he needs to get something, he also acts in a way that is almost irrational. For instance, when he needed to get into power, he was extremely vicious in attacking, you know, then-president Jonathan. And when he was with PDP, he, he, he said that President Buhari was perpetually unelectable, you know.  You say the other person is, I mean, there isn't that consistency that is the character of a leader that you need. You can just follow him blindly because it's like, is it serving his interest? So it's like his interest seems to be much bigger than larger interest. And when you are a public servant, larger interest must overtake your personal interest. That's a problem I have with him. But you see, this issue of ghost workers and right sizing, there is no, there's no alternative to it. So in, in principles, his decision is right. But when you want to take such a decision, it's only proper that you communicate to your people. This is what we are having. 90% of our resources is being spent on this level of people. Yes, they are a critical sector, but can't we have an understanding and have a midway approach to this? By so doing, the first thing is that you get a public buy-in. That means like, if we're able to save this, we'll be able to do one, two, three. Don't be, don't act like a dictator. No matter how noble your intention is. So basically it's El Rufi's approach. Approach, approach is really, really not it at all. But in terms of what should be, we must look at the civil service. We can't continue this way. So I think that labor also, they need to think of those who paid their bills. It's not only about them. You need to think about those who paid it. Are they aware that we are those that paid their bills? And that we need to be alive to be able to pay their bills. The society need to be vibrant, need to be working well, and their bills come from either oil or internally generated revenue. Those revenue will come from the society being okay so that people have jobs to do and they're able to pay their taxes, the companies are vibrant, they're able to pay their taxes. So they have to think both ways. And we don't have this capacity to balance our thought pattern, you know, the long-term and the short-term. We're always on here and now. So I pray that the minister of labor will be wise enough to let people see reason for a compromise. Once a compromise is struck, if you are letting off people and labor says take care of them is just, come on, sensical is right. Labor is right within a context. But labor to say you can't do it is not going to work. We can do it and to be done, but done right. We'll see how the meeting goes. Okay, still on the punch in the newspaper, we saw a report basically about just how much attacks have been orchestrated against security of formations in the country. The report said 127 policemen attacked, about 25 police stations attacked as well, raised in several states in the south, south and the southeast. Looking at this vis-a-vis the 2023 elections, vis-a-vis insecurity, how are we supposed to check this as a nation? I think the time has come when, you know, I was talking with somebody, I don't want to be location-specific. And I said, when will this project be completed?  And I also have working relationships with a lot of the government. And I said, when will this project be completed? And the driver said, sir, please, we know what made the complete project. We just say, when will this administration be completed? May they leave all the projects, may they go fast forward, may they finish the administration. You understand me? And I found it very instructive. People have come to a point where they are so unhappy with the system that they are asking, when will this leave the project? Just don't do anything again. Can we just fast forward and let the administration just go? And that is one of the states of this country. Like I said, I don't want to be location-specific because it actually applies to so many other states. Coming down to why I said that is that we have not really sat down. I did a video and I run a radio program that is very popular in Akwaibon. And I asked my people, are you aware of the implication of what you are doing? I even talked to the ESN and the iPop people. I said, look, let me tell you something. If you don't cool down and do things properly, you may be smiting your nose to spite your face. You may inadvertently give reason. By the time you attack INEC, you attack the police and everything. And then the police are off the road and the insecurity escalates. The people will no longer be behind you. But it's still not been established if it's the ESN. I know where we're coming from. Distance yourself very well from it. And then let people interrogate and see who is behind it. Because let me tell you something. We must make the South so peaceful that the military have no reason to intervene. I'm from the South. In our own larger interest. Because if we give inadvertently, in any way, the police, the military, the right to intervene, these people will dislodge from the South. All the elements that you could use to protect yourself and will become extremely vulnerable. There are lots of conspiracy theories in Nigeria. One is maybe the annexing of the South by the North. It's one of the conspiracy theories. This is a conspiracy theory. You cannot dismiss with the wave of the hand. So the question is if in the North there's so much insecurity and we don't have that power is might and really boom. And then in the Southeast there is level of insecurity. And the federal government says, boom, let's get in there. And then, you know, I heard a story. I'm trying to verify that the attorney general once compared, you know, banning open grazing to, you know, banning spare parts cells or something like that. And I want to say that spare parts is everybody knows the work of the ebos. Okay? And if the South bans open grazing, don't zero into spare parts because the Yoruba, you know, we're just discussing. Don't, they are not into spare parts. I'm from Akaibong. We are not into spare parts. So it's like a certain profiling. There's a certain mindset. There is a certain agenda. And these things don't help our conversation. Yeah.  And what I'm saying is, even prior to, you know, the attacks on security outfits and, you know, anarch offices, there have been military operations in the Southeast. The crocodile smiles one and two have been in the Southeast. Even before some of all those things happened. So it hasn't really been because of the, you know, these attacks that, you know, the federal government has decided that we need to go into the Southeast. You see, there are two things. The first is that when they talk of the concept of giving a dog a bad name to hang it, when you are perceived as the dog, the first thing you do is strategy. That's the very first thing you do. There are some times where you may need to be silent. There are some times where you need to have strategic relationships and buy-ins and don't get isolated. If I was to advise the Southeast, I would say, look, do everything humanly possible to buy, to get the buy-in of your neighbors. Form a strategic alliance. So how can iPop do that now in the East? No, not iPop. I'm talking of the leadership of the Southeast. Well, form a strategic alliance. Even if it's trade, what does it take for the traders in Nnewi and Onitsha to network with Cross River to ensure that the Kalaba port is made active while at the same time letting Legos know that they are not going to be disenfranchised because Legos are not going to join you if they feel they are going to be removed. Now, the deep sea port is coming up in Ibaqa, in Aqwaibom state, which is going to be probably one of the biggest, largest, most interesting, to what extent is the South bringing their muscle to bear in all these things? And if on account of self-preservation, when Aqwaibom people see that, these guys are coming to a network with us and once they are there, they are the major traders, there's going to be boom and everything, because of our interest, we'll be compelled to say, leave Southeast alone. I need us to also chip in our thoughts on the 15-year sentence. But once again, it still sounds like Southeasterners need to go the extra mile, more than any other part of the country. Yeah, it's unfair. It's unfair on them. Absolutely unfair. It's absolutely unfair. They don't necessarily have to go. They have equal rights with every other person across the country, so they don't need to call themselves or look for these relationships that you're mentioning. No, they need to. See, this sentiment does not solve a problem. We want solution. People want to kill me. What do I do? First is that I can defend myself. Second is that I can network with my neighbors. You've got to put all the cards on the table. That means we are accepting that there is some propaganda against you. Yes, yes, that is. Let's quickly speak on the 15-year jail term proposed for paying a ransom. Let me say this. We need to come to a time when we understand what governance is. We don't seem to have people who understand governance in government. When there is a situation, question number one is how do we take the wind off the sail? What is the wind? Where there's light and you know that oxygen, I think it's oxygen. Yes, I'm trying to remember my chemistry long way back. Helps the light to glow. How do we cover that light so that we starve it of the oxygen and the light will just naturally go off? Okay? Kidnapping is a major enterprise. The returns on the investment is unimaginable. It's like Amrobri. In fact, it is the softest part of Amrobri. Okay?  You have a KV that is high. Kidnapped value that is high. And I wait. And I just pick you. Okay? And I ask ransom. And before I know, I have 10 million. Which if I was walking, I will not see that in decades. Because it's so enterprising. You're not just going to say, oh, stop it. Oh, don't do it. You know, it's not nice. No.  That's number one. And number two, you've got to know, get Nigerians behind you to know that if we are going to eat the omelette, we must break the egg. There are going to be consequences. We must understand the three C's. The chances that come your way. The choices that you make. And the consequences of those actions. When we have leaders that lead from the front and Mr. President comes and tells us enough. As from today, there will be no more. There will be no more. Kidnapping. Kidnapping thrives when there's ransom. What we want to do is take the wind off the sail. Take the oxygen off the fire. And we know that in the process, some people are going to lose their lives. Exactly what I was going to ask you. How many Nigerians? Because looking at the situation of school children, because we know that during the whole process of the last children that were released from the Federal College of Ferrisian Mechanisation, there were lots of talk about paying ransom, not paying ransom. Some people say the contributed as much as 60 million to give the bandits. So it's just been a lot of conversation even with this Greenfield situation. So are you saying that parents should full their arms and watch? I am saying that when this set of parents pay to get their children, all Nigerian parents should start keeping a lot of money to be paying because it becomes so easy. So some children would die in the process. There must be collateral damage unfortunately. No, no, no, we need to get this very clear. We need to get this very clear. Is there an alternative? The alternative is for you to have this government that is so good that the snipers are there, wherever you are, they'll come after you. We don't have that government. But isn't it the lazy way out instead of fixing security infrastructure and architecture? This is what I'm saying. So isn't it the lazy way out to instead of deciding okay, we're going to do what we possibly can to invest in our security architecture, to invest in every single detail that would make it difficult to carry out the kidnapping. Instead of doing that, we'll simply just ban paying of ransom. Two things, the very first thing is that you know we discussed before now, America banned it. They know how to forecast tomorrow and snip in the bud. You see, leadership is about taking very hard decisions because before you go to war, in war people are going to be killed. But there are some times you need to go to war just for you to have peace on the long run. This is where there's a difference. In the US, if an American is kidnapped, we all know what the Americans need to rescue their citizens. So the Americans have faith and if the American government says no payment of ransom, it means that they're taking so responsibility of rescuing that American citizen. Does the Nigerian government do the same thing? For where we are today, let's keep paying ransom. And I'll tell you that ten years down the line, you come back and play this record and say, I'm coming, I'm coming. I wish we had unfortunately taken that hard decision. So my thoughts aren't in support of paying ransom. My thoughts are to wake up the Nigerian government to realize that it is still their responsibility to rescue the Nigerian government. That Nigerian government is not going to wake up. It's going to be beating a dead horse. The responsibility is on us now to interrogate the people that we give our powers to. We need to come to that. You see, right now I've stopped blaming leaders and leadership. Because it's like expecting a dog to meow or a cat to bark. These people are entrepreneurs. They came to us, offered us so much humongous money. A man pays 10,000 Naira per vote.  You're not thinking. It's like playing draft. You play draft. He gives you one each up. He gives you another one each up. He gives you the third one each up. When is a game? And the next thing you had is pamp, pamp, pamp, pamp king.  Why are you doing it when you're taking and taking and taking? Didn't you know it was a game?  And start to look for people with competence, capacity and character to put in office to manage. These are people that will take decisions that will take us where we need to go. We appreciate your time and your thoughts. As always, good to have you in Lagos. You guys are actually more handsome and more pretty than I've been noticing. Thank you. You get that? He's actually a very nice, all looking guy. He's the one that you're always like turning to look at him. We need to go. Thank you very much once again. All right, stay with us today in history. 20th of May.  And I'm going to tell you something very twisted in just a minute.