All right, Mike, let's start right at the very beginning. Tell us a little bit about your family and your early life. Well, I was born in Nebraska, grew up in Wyoming and Idaho, so the Northwest, a part of the country that most Americans don't know how to articulate. They think I'm from the Midwest, which is a very different place. Oil can harries, it's great to be on this stage. It's the one place I've always felt comfortable in. It just reminds me of home. Except for here, we get to dance with the boys. And rodeos were a big part of my growing up. My first job was at a rodeo. It was the first time, I think, it's where some fetish was instilled. I was assigning horse stalls to cowboys. And they wore very tight pants and they were all very fit and it was, I didn't know what was going on and there's rope and animals, it was amazing.  So that was it, I grew up Mormon. My parents converted to being Mormon when I was like 10 years old. And that was very significant. I really loved the church. I loved the, I loved protocol. I liked a sense of community, all of those things.   I don't know if that's, is that where you were getting at? Like where I was born at or, you know. Well, tell us a little bit about some of the things you used to do when you were out in like the gullies or the, out on the, I don't know, in the tundra or whatever it is, I'm from Chicago. What do I know of this, you know? Yeah, you can just take public transportation and avoid the tundra in Chicago. It was, it was a great place to grow up. I say that a lot. It was a great place to be a kid. I could just go out into the woods and it was safe and I could build forts and I could alter streams and do all kinds of fun stuff that didn't get me landed in jail or anything like that. And it made me feel connected to the earth and to, and it made me feel secure as a person. Like I had my own, like I built a fort and it was my place and it was, you know, I felt like it was mine, you know, looking back as an adult, how ridiculous is that?  And that's reason two. I was also in Boy Scouts and loved that. The knots came in very handy. Everybody's now asks like, how did you learn all these knots? And I was like, Boy Scouts, most of them. Yeah, that double half hitch always, that's the best post one. But you said that growing up though in sort of relative isolation really affected your ideas about self-reliance. How do you mean? What does that mean to you? Well, self-reliance, I mean, in a practical manner is that we learned for fun. We would go camping in the winter. We would go to a place and we would build a structure and sleep in it. And so I always knew if a plane went down in a mountain, I'd be fine, you know, it'd be easy. We would actually have a fuselage and stuff and we'd like to make a thing with, we had to make it out of scratch. And we have to learn how to what to eat and what not to eat and that kind of thing. And we had to bring everything with us, although I think I still have this nagging.  You know, like you won't be there, you know, but I did learn to pack the right things and to be prepared and to think ahead and all that was all helps me get very organized, especially when it came to like having a lot of gear and all of that stuff. Then packing wasn't as, it felt even more important than life or death when you're packing for a leather event, right? You know, you have to make decisions, toys or clothes, you know, that all started in Boy Scouts as a kid in Wyoming, I guess. Let's take one step back. Depict for us, if you would, some of the tenants of Mormonism because I think that's a very misunderstood religious group. So what did it mean to you? Well, without going into like the dogma, the practicality of it is that you had something to do on every day, on Monday night, it's family home evening, on Tuesday night, it's scouts, on Wednesday night, mom's gone because it's the women's thing, it's Relief Society. And then there was always something to do and everything fit together and it was interchangeable. It was like Denny's, you know, just if you go to any Mormon church anywhere, it's exactly the same and you can fit in. And so, but it also, there's a lot about family and, you know, but for us, for my family, it was we were kind of, you know, I don't think living a lie, but we were pretending. I mean, my parents were divorced, but we never mentioned that I was born with a different mother and so we were all white, so we could like fake it, but it was, but my mom that I grew up with was 410 and my dad was only 5'9", and all the height came from my birth mom side, who I'm still close with, but we never mentioned Deline when we were with Patsy and when we were with Patsy, she was mom and Deline was Deline and when we were with Deline, mom was Patsy and mom was mom. And I figured that's the world I lived on, so that was all very confusing for an eight-year-old to navigate, so having, it's probably one of the reasons I still just really hold on to protocol. Protocol means a lot to me and the church had a lot of protocol and so, and I think that that is something that I liked. I loved men's only events and the Mormons have plenty of them.  I think that's why I still like wearing leather gloves and shaking hands. Does that answer your question or, okay. But I can't help but ask, doesn't Mormonism frown upon divorce? How did your family navigate that situation? Well, simple, we were converts, we were reborn. You could just, you know, all of that's gone.  So, kind of like a flogging. No, I'm just kidding. So, you told me that you came out very young and you discovered the gay scene in some places that, of course, most of us would never consider, excuse me, such as parks, gullies, the restroom of a library, a bowling alley. Tell us a little bit about all of that. And I did write this down in a memoir, it's called Drama Club, it's on Amazon if you wanna find it. And I sent it to my parents who have responded in a really odd way. They've just really opened up about their stuff. I just wanna put that in there before I start telling you at 14, I went to the library. I mean, I guess maybe that summer I was like working at the rodeo and then I was on this junior bowling league. And the bathroom was situated in just a way, it's one of those perfectly cruisey bathrooms where you go down a hall and then another hall and you go in and you open a door and it makes noise and then there's another door, there's all these warning systems that people are coming. And then there was this, my first ever glory hole that I saw and with literally all this writing on the walls meet here for this, it was all very specific.  And that's the first time I I don't think it's, I don't know, sex. When I was a kid with another boy my age, we did some stuff but we never, it's pre-pubescent stuff. This is probably the first time. I don't really remember the very, very first time.  And it's like, I mean, how could this be happening? And there's this hole here and I can see this guy. It's like, he has no idea I was on the other side. Until it came through and I freaked out and I ran out, came back, thought about it all week and then went back the next week. So it was bowling alleys and then, and this is what happens when there's shame and people marginalize people.   And so the park was another place, the tea rooms and the local community even had a tea room of the month t-shirt. They would give to the person who was seen the most often in the bathroom. And the library, another place, 14 year olds just naturally hang out. And at the end of the, in the history section, at the end of that, there was a bathroom and that's where I learned how to come standing up. And yeah, so that's where that was happening. And then I had friends on like sleepovers.  I tell other people these stories and nobody has these other stories. My boyfriend doesn't have any of these stories. But I don't know why, but we were, there was a bunch of, so that happened. When I was 15, I went to Hawaii to pick pineapples and while I was away from town, my parents moved to Pocotalo, Idaho. And I thought I came back and then they found this letter. I was writing to a gay guy and that's how I came out to them. And it was bad. And so my straight year in high school, I tried to not be gay. And it's the only time in my life I've ever been suicidal. And at the end of that summer, I met Bart Barney and we hooked up. Here's another boy my age. And I just said, I don't know what's going on with the church, but this is so right that I can't leave it behind me. And then after Bart, there was Kelly and Michael and Sean Overrocker and all these guys. We had like all this drama and that's the reason I called that book Drama Club because we had a lot of drama with each other. And so that was up to high school for me. Okay. Well, when you were very young though, I don't know what's with my voice today.  Please tell us about him. Okay. I'm so glad we did that conversation first. Yes, RL. It's Wyoming, so we have to have letter names, RL. And he was an older man. He was like 35.  But then he started insisting on talking to me about police, about STDs, about San Francisco, about this thing there's not a cure for in San Francisco right now. I don't even know if it was called grid then. And RL was a God's end. He taught me about sex. He taught me about the community. He taught me about bathhouses. He gave me this whole like rundown and like, you know what, if you don't want to hook up with somebody just tell them you're just resting and blah blah blah and like all these different things people might say to you. Although I've never heard Greek passive and Greek active, but that never came up. He told me that might be a way of talking about top, bottom, I don't know, anyway. And I just have a really, really fond memories of him and he just watched me flutter around and I ripped out his heart a little bit and I regret that. And he's dead now. He didn't die of AIDS. He died from a good old fashioned brain tumor back in 1985 when I had moved to San Diego. But thanks for asking about RL because without that, I don't know what I would have done. I didn't have internet. I didn't have other gay friends. I didn't have anything except for the writing on the bathroom walls, which was awesome, but it did nobody, I don't know. Well, since we're on the topic of mentoring a little bit there, let's jump to your thoughts on mentoring within the community. What do you think of that? I think it's one of the best things that can come out of the community. It's family. I've chosen my mentors and they're very important to me and I've dubbed one of them my father. My dad is awesome. He's a great guy. He's super, super great, but he can't tell me what it's like to date another man. He can't tell me what it's like to do a BDSM scene. But the mentors that I have chosen, especially one of them can help me with all those things. You know, can help me with all those things. So that's really, really important. I think it's important to let the mentee pick the mentor. Part of the chip on my shoulder now is like while I was running for titles, I had a lot of people picking me, telling me that they were going to tell me how it works, I had three or four of those and I wasn't interested and I was trying to figure it out and needing help and people were glomming on to me that I didn't actually even want their help or need their help, but they were going to mentor me whether I liked it or not. Disagree with that kind of mentoring. You mentioned that you moved to San Diego. You actually went there to dance ballet, please tell us about that. So I like to say I left the Mormon Cult to join the ballet cult and there was a lot of structure.  I also loved the movement and doing something as a group where you feel like you're part of this whole synchronized organism and that was always very, very, very satisfying. And you know, it makes your body amazing and that was important too. But and I pursued that in San Diego. It got me out of Idaho. I was gonna leave and go to Pacific Northwest. There was this whole conversation with my ballet teachers in Idaho. I ended up going to San Diego and they were right. There were other things to do for me to do if I decided not to do ballet. But ballet was probably one of my first fetishes. There's gear, you wear the tights and the shoes and the whole deal, dance belts. I loved it all, loved the smell of the theater, making magic happen on stage and all of that. But then I auditioned for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and they said I could enter their school but I also found out that ERI is HIV positive. It was 1987.  So I, in retrospect, since I didn't die, part of that was a gift because I still had this like lingering thing with the Mormon church. What do I do with that? And now it was an academic.  And I just looked for, you know, I saw where the love was coming from and it wasn't coming from any organized religion at that time. In fact, organized religion is saying this is what you get for being a homosexual.  So I'm like, that's not my message. I need to hear from other people and then just, and it was all queer people. And I mean the whole gamut of queer people stepping up to help those of us who were suffering from AIDS. I kind of went all over the place with that. So I'll just hand it back to you. Okay. Well, you've brought up HIV and being diagnosed in 1987. That was a very tumultuous time, especially to receive that kind of a diagnosis. So how did you confront these things being said to you six months to two years to live? This had to be overwhelming. So how did you manage that and how did you get through it? To be honest, I think my memory is when I found out I was HIV positive, I was so overwhelmed that I was grateful that I had a ballet class to go to like right after picking up my results. Again, it was the, it was a structure. It was, all of that helped me just keep staying into that. But how did I handle it? I didn't. I was panicked. I didn't know what to do. My roommate didn't know what to do. My roommate was an older man. He was 40 because I was 20. We are still friends. Dominic, hi. And he's a lovely man. He's still alive and still around. How did I deal with it? That's an interesting question. I think I used a lot of denial. I'll do the, I'll go to the doctors. I'll do whatever, but I just, I'm just gonna live my life. Although I didn't accept the invitation to the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in Canada because it was Canada and I was going to have to work under the table. I wouldn't be a legal citizen and all these other things. And so healthcare and all that stuff came up for me. And so I really just thought I was gonna die. So I came back to San Diego and I just thought I'll just party until I die.  My best friend died. My boyfriend died. Soon after that, another mentor of mine died.  So I got sober. I stopped drinking and doing drugs all together. I mean, I didn't even do poppers for 25 years.  And so far the world hasn't stopped. But that's my story without getting into sobriety. But yeah, the way I dealt with it was to just, plan on dying. And part of planning on dying was like, why finish college? Still don't have a college degree. But because of those choices though, I have this experience that is other, that everybody in here can understand, maybe being the other. And I think it makes me a better older man. I'm 53 now and I'll be 54 next month. And I feel really centered having tasted so many experiences that life has to offer. Tell us how you came into the Leather King scene. Like I said, the Cowboys were amazing to me. That seemed great. But the Leather King scene, well, there was one party in particular. It was a Butt Boy party. It was a Thomas Finland party. It was what's now a Schrader Boulevardner where the Gay and Lesbian Center is. And I knew I wanted that. That was a really amazing party. We don't have very many like that. We walked in. I remember first you had to sign a release. That was amazing. Absolutely, I want to see what's happening in here.  There was a dance area. But then I went back and I saw everything. I just saw boot blacking. There was a guy on a table being completely shaved. They had gear for sale. And then when you think you've seen it all, you just kept going. And there was a smoking area. And then there was a room where I looked through. There was like these portals. And there was like this round bench.  It's like, awesome. Keep going. And then there was like art for sale. Oh, a silent auction. Of course, we're gay. It was all erotic art stuff. But then like this, then outdoors there was a play. Then I saw a piss scene happening. And that was really amazing. And that's when I had my really first, I was standing on like a platform. Maybe it was like almost a little bit lower than this. I had gotten some boots. I was like wearing a harness. I had bought myself a mirror cap. And this guy, beautiful guy, comes over and puts his just leans onto my calf. And I just instinctively like stroke his head. And he says, thank you, sir.  It's just like, this is where I belong. This is amazing. He's saying thank you to me. You know, that's, wow. And then it even went back farther. And there was all these people fucking. And that was awesome. So that was a party that got me into it. But I kept then going to these parties and not telling any of my regular friends I was doing it. And kink was happening in my bedroom and I didn't really realize it. It's like choking and spanking and dom sub stuff. That just sounded, I thought it was just sex. And some of my sober friends were telling me that I was like acting out, that my behavior was like off the rails. And so I just kind of stopped telling them about it. And I was basically closeted kinky person. And, but anyway, until I came to this place where I was two-stepping, and well Ken Harry's my country roots that I understood about that was really, really me was having a leather contest. And I thought, oh, maybe if I just get into that leather contest, I'll get more visibility and I can get some more guys who are interested in this sex that my other friends are telling me is bad sex. I can find more of those guys and have that kind of sex with them. That was my whole reason for entering that Ken Harry's leather contest. But why that party of all things in the whole city, why did you choose to go there? You know, I don't even know. I don't even know how I got there, to be honest. I don't know if I saw a poster at 665 on Santa Monica Boulevard, or if it was a flyer or what, you know? I went with my ex, with my boyfriend at the time who was about eight years older than me. So maybe he just, he knew about it. He had had a leather past, but just AIDS and all that stuff like really was tied into his, it was super, super painful for him. He was in a poly relationship and then when somebody died, it altered their stuff and then they wanted to stay together, but without the third, it didn't work. So he had a lot of grief around leather and it just didn't evolve, open up with him. But for me, then I just realized this is what I wanna do. This is it. And about the same time, produce inhibitors came out and at least I knew my numbers had been going down, down, down. I officially had AIDS, but then they had come up. Nobody knew what that meant, you know? And they were going up, up, up. And after a year, I'm like, maybe we're not gonna die. And if we're not gonna die, I'm not just gonna sit on the couch and watch Melrose Place for the rest of my life, which was seemed to me the option with that particular partner. Anyway, so I quit seeing him and I at least came out to myself that I was kinky. And it was probably another, it was a few more years before I entered the leather contest. You spoke earlier about the Mormon church and the structure that that afforded you. You were able to parlay that into the leather community. Tell us what you did with that.  Oh, yeah. Absolutely, a big huge, there's rituals, serious rituals. One of the rituals is the laying on of hands.   And I'm happy to say that something like that now happens after Leather Contest in Los Angeles. And we tried some other things. I wanted some ritual that like brought the new title holder in. We tried some other things that didn't work, like we passed this gift or we stood in a circle and we passed this gift around and gave him the gift and then he was like confused and walking around and nobody could hear us. And what I'm trying to say is you might not get it right the first time if you start trying to introduce ritual. So to keep trying. And we finally came up with this. I'm like, what if we all just the outgoing title holder looks into the new title holder's eyes, tells him whatever he needs to hear because it's about that house. It's about Oak and Harry's. It's about, you know, thanks for where it's whatever. They just like say, you know, blah, blah, you know, part of this. And then everybody makes a huge roaring sound and he is then part of it. And yeah, I think, yeah, then I got to learn practical skills on how to, you know, survive in the wild and tie knots and hold a meeting and those kinds of things. Why did you come to Los Angeles? Why here? Los Angeles was basically crash landing out of a relationship. I was in San Diego. I wasn't a ballet dancer anymore and the guy I was dating at the time went from being a law school student to an attorney. We got along when we were both, when he was a law school student. But that put us in Orange County. I would like to say I did nine months of time in Orange County in Dana Point with an attorney and I was just like scratching my eyes out. I just wasn't built to be a housewife in Orange County and we got into a huge argument. Oddly enough, this seems like a non sequitur and I still haven't got it figured out but it's when I got AZT pills. This is before, and introducing, showing that there was evidence, before that there wasn't a pill to take. So my HAV was just this existential thing and then when I had pills in the house we both got super agitated and we started arguing all the time and we figured, I think we both lied to ourselves and said the problem is that you're commuting to LA all the time so if we live in LA that'll solve all of our problems and of course it didn't and so when we broke up I was bartending, I was barbacking at Revolver in West Hollywood and so that's how I got to Revolver. I mean that's how I got to LA. I had a suitcase, one pair of tennis shoes and I only ate after the bartenders tipped me at the end of my shift. So that's how, that was my glamorous landing in Los Angeles. Well tell us about the LA Band of Brothers. How did that come about? Well the LA Band of Brothers, I mean this gets back to mentoring and I felt like a lot of people who quite frankly had never been in a contest were telling me how to be in a contest and they were telling me all kinds of things like don't have a drink in your hand, don't be seen having sex in a bar and all these things and I was really confused. I said I thought, I didn't think I was running for Ms. Mormon Utah, I thought I was running for Mr. Leather Kinky Sex Guy so and all of our bar titles are like, 80% of them are like bar titles so why can't we have a drink in our hands? I didn't even drink at the time and it still bothered me and they were, so and it was really my, David Scanick gets credit for this, I was lamenting this like, and then I saw it too when I, after I had won IML and I'd gone all over the place and I'd seen all these different communities, I really, I did see one, I stayed in a house that was a duplex, we were on the top and underneath there was a guy with a place and he had dungeon and I saw him meet up with this guy in the bar and this guy was very, very fresh and young and he ended up, anyway, I don't know what happened, I really don't know, but my take the next day was this guy ended up doing things that he didn't wanna do, he went farther because he was running for a title and he wanted experience, he wanted to talk to somebody, a real person that's actually doing the stuff that we're talking about and I thought, and who else is this guy gonna turn to? So that's what I thought, David says, well, you guys should unionize. What do you mean? He's like, well, title holders should have a title holder community and so that's why we started the LA Band of Brothers and because I come from that Mormon background or whatever, it needs to be very specific, I wasn't okay with like, oh, it's gray, whoever wants to join can join. It's like, no, anybody who's competed for the Mr. Los Angeles Leather title is a LA Band of Brothers member. I don't get to decide, nobody in the LA Band of Brothers gets to decide, it's you get to decide, if you decide to join this, be in this contest and you decide, you just need to be in it, you don't have to place or anything, you just have to compete and that makes you eligible to be in the LA Band of Brothers. And so it's really helped turn things from the title holders being the fresh group of lemmings. I was just watching this documentary before I came here. Lemmings are basically the hamburgers of the Northwest, just all the other predators eat them and that's what the new title holders were and that stopped happening. Now they could turn to somebody, they could turn to people who've run for a contest and that made me feel awesome and we had a ritual and different things and that's how it came to be and I'm still really happy that that occurred. Well is the Band of Brothers still a very active organization, still very successfully operating? I think that it's very active. One thing you should know, I've been basically unplugged from the title system for about a year and a half now. I went to IML, well two years ago, I decided not to go to IML just to give it a break. It was my 10 year anniversary and everybody's like, well you gotta go, it's your anniversary. I go, yeah, but somebody else is gonna win. It's not about me and it was a very special weekend for me because I met somebody at an A-Gay pool party who turned out to be a perfect fit for me, turned out to like protocol, turned out to be willing to do some of these other things that we do and I was like wow and I've been to IML nine times and that has not happened. Nine times, well except for the first year I gotta surf for a year and a half out of the first one. After that, and all of these contests, I wasn't getting laid and I wasn't finding sex. That's one of the reasons and then finding it, it's easy for me to find kinky sex away from those places so I'm finding all my kinky sex other places and then the way that the contest system has evolved it just doesn't feel like a place for me right now. It's a little too broad and it's non-specific. I've been talking about that I guess I'll do this whole interview. That's a problem and I don't wanna diminish the joy that people are getting from the contest system. I had it. It feels great to win something. It feels great to go through a crucible with a whole bunch of other people. It's a scene all to itself but it's very little actual kink happening in the leather scene. So, in the leather title holder scene. But speaking of the title holder circuit, the title holder scene, what drew you to that? What made you compete?  I can't hear you. I don't beg for it. I don't believe you. I'm not gonna give it to you until you beg for it. I wanted to meet people like that. Country people are very nice. You know, you don't want to do that.  So, the reason I competed, well, was that and after I won this contest and I saw this community, it was something attractive to me. And so then I started reading all the books. The Letterman's Handbook, Guy Baldwin's books, like all these books and I'm like, wow, that's amazing. I want some of that. I want a club that you need to petition to be in and not everybody makes it. What I understand now is a fantasy or not. I don't know. Guy Baldwin's the only person I've talked to and Guy and Race and Ray Spannon and a couple other guys who are actually old enough to be there. And, you know, we've created this fantasy, kind of like a Santa Claus idea of what's actually happening and for whatever reason, these clubs, the way that they're described in our, I would call it our scriptures, occur about as often as the stories in the Bible happen in modern times. And I slowly, year after year after year after year, saw that. I'm like, there's not a club of hot guys that are doing their own thing in private that I can just like find one of them and say, look, I want to petition you guys. What do I have to do? And then they tell me what I have to do and like I would meet them and then they allow me to like come to a group and then meet them and then maybe after that I can then finally start to play with them. That is what I was looking for and I never found it. That sounds really horribly depressing, doesn't it? But it's the truth for me and I can find it in little pieces. You know, I had an amazing party but you know what? I put it together. It was a very, very private party in a dungeon space in Long Beach but I've... Anyway, it seems to me now all this stuff that I want to attend is under the radar. All the public stuff is fun but it's like a rodeo.  You know, I don't leave events in the United States feeling the same way as I do leaving events like in Berlin. What do you think was your key to success with the local contests and then winning IML? Well, I think I had something to say. I... Oddly enough, it was like my speeches both at LAL and IML were about... were about inclusivity about recognizing gentlemen, it is unlikely we'll ever win the war of tolerance until we're able to tolerate those who are different among our own kind. That was the opening. That was a Guy Baldwin quote. And I meant it. But I thought that we came together like at the rodeo where it's like I have my brand, you have your brand, you have your brand, you know, you have your cattle, you have your house, you have your farm. And instead of what it seems like we are now, it's like one big thing and if you don't agree to everything that's happening, you're on the outside. And I believe that diversity means that we're different. That we have men's only spaces, we have women's only spaces, we have all these things that we argue about all the time. But we continually argue about them all the time. And to the point now, I want to be woke, I want to be what I want to say is social justice and fairness is very, very, very important to me. But so is diversity. And which means there should be different places for different places. That's not the question you asked. The question is like why did you, how did I do well is I had something to say. And yeah, I could stir the pot like that. I'm very much like, you know, let's face it, why do you have guy Baldwin come and speak at your event? Do you think he's going to come and tell you how everything's perfect? No. He's going to say this is where we need work, this is where we need work, this is where we need work. And that's, I kind of did similar things. I was also compared to the other contestants. Classically, what do I want to say? I was like, I was built, you know, I was 10 pounds more than I am now of muscle and I was actually a little worried about that. I didn't look like the other contestants and it wasn't Harry, I wasn't big. But, you know, the current media makes a body like the one I had then like the body to have. So I think that affected the judges. And then I could articulate things and I also had a job in local government and I think that impressed people that I was working for the leader of a city. And, you know, and I could put thoughts together and organize and, anyway, write essays about leather carpet baggers and things like that. I think that's why I did well. It's a contest, it's a beauty contest, just like any pageant. It's the exact same thing. And I prepared myself to be on stage. I got tons and tons and tons of help and about half of it I asked for, the other half just came and that's where I have to give Los Angeles a lot of credit.  So that's what it's like to be a contestant here in Los Angeles, going to IML as opposed to these other places who went to bar contests and then they go, those poor guys, I feel so bad for them, you know, it's hard. So I think I did well because I wasn't afraid to say what I felt and I picked a topic, inclusivity as opposed to something that you could sum up in 90 seconds as opposed to a topic like domestic abuse in the leather community, which is you can't do that in 90 seconds. Don't pick that as your speech topic. It's a really important one, but you can't do it in 90 seconds. I'm going to stop talking about that. Have you any regrets about your year as IML?  I have those regrets of spending way too much time in interviews and less time having sex. And I really do regret that. My last IML, not this year, but the year Chuck died, I just had to go. And I went and I literally missed two interviews and it's funny, people are just like, not two, people are just like, well, I guess we're not going to have time and people didn't say, oh, because I'm going to this dungeon to play tonight so I don't have time tonight. Instead of them saying, oh, I see, they're like, well, you need to make time if you want this to happen. Misunderstanding with this event is about to me. But now I do know what this event is about and it's about title holders and it's about the whole machine around title holders and it's a theme. Fetish is a theme, but it's not the main event. You alluded a little bit ago to extensive travels when you were IML. You mentioned Berlin. Tell us a little bit about the leather kink scene. Sorry, my voice is not holding up today for some reason. But tell us a little bit about the leather kink scene that you experienced in Europe because it's completely different from what we know. Yeah, it's very different in the sense that people are allowed to have sex in bars. I don't know. I can't get this out of my mind. I was in the middle of having sex with someone and there was a dungeon in this place I was staying so we were doing some things and he got a text and his friend had texted him.  Anyway, that communication I thought was very nice of his friend to give him that intel like in the middle of our time together. But the difference is, I love the Germans not just because I have a German last name but their attitude towards sex is everybody has sex. Let's just regulate it and make sure that it's as safe as possible. And so forget all of that. What I love about Berlin is they're very, very specific. I went to a sports biker fisting club and everybody was in there, was in sport biker gear and they were into fisting and it was huge. They had a big top room and then two other rooms and so I was in there. I'm actually not a really big fister but I loved bike gear and all that stuff and it was amazing so I was like way in the back and they were giving me, taking me all over places. I was IML at that time and a big difference so that's the way they're having sex. They're having sex very specifically like that and if you go to a sneaker night it's going to be all about sneakers.  It's just your sneakers that's all we care about and if you're wearing boots, nope, it's sneakers tonight.  And I love that. Something crossed my mind while I was thinking that I wanted to talk about but I can't remember. Something about them being specific, I don't remember. I guess they did have a problem for a while with the dark rooms in Berlin but being very German they figured out they just weren't regulated and once they said you have to be able to clean the wall from two meters down and there needs to be a drain and there needs to be things to clean your hands with now we're okay with it. That's the difference.  Yeah it's like otherwise it's just bye I don't know they were very cool too this one guy I was over there for ten days and on the fourth third day I met this guy right off the bat he was actually in the military he was like six four he was constantly in gear always wanted to fuck me it was awesome but after four days of that I'm like there's a lot of other Germans here and I said you know I got all I kind of him hot around and I'm like you know I'd like to just kind of like hang out with other people he's like oh that's totally cool see you later he just took off it's like no scene that's very different than my experience in LA so I don't know Well when we were preparing for this interview you passionately spoke about tremendous changes that are happening within the realm of radical sex what are your thoughts on that a lot of the things going underground things are very PC tell us your thoughts on that well this is where I'm going to try to be honest and not be an asshole to me again to this gets back to like I like my little boxes I like the men's contest to be about men I like the women's contest to be about women I you know and we've we're not there now there were two corsets and high heels on stage was it last year or the year before the last contest that I went to and great but that's now we're not in my fetish area I'm very you know the only women I've ever been attracted to look like men surely Christie McNichol she doesn't count there's this woman who dance here she's an amazing lead I get really weirdly attracted to her but she's like she's got great arms and she's you know I don't know why I'm bringing all that up except for I'm allowed to be a gay man I'm just saying that because I don't think a lot of people in the community understand that at Imzel I was constantly being told we'll have sex it's not the same you know it's like yes I get it but for me fetish is sexual for me and if I'm being whipped by you or flogged by you or any of these things I still it's still a sexual thing for me and I'm fully gay I mean I'm a gold star gay never had sex with a woman and I know I don't need to have it to like figure it out I'm just saying there's that kind of attitude that I should my girly you should feel different you should be more open to other things and I am open to other things I want to celebrate um puppy play you know but maybe I'm gonna like you know say at my event my private event for sure no puppies because it's a non consensual scene that's the whole other thing but um consent is really really important to me um and I'm dancing around what I really want to say is um Mr. and Leather are two words that are in the Mr. Los Angeles Leather title contest name and I just I'm just I'm exhausted from conversations about whether that should include um non male people um just for the record I'm just like anybody who identifies as male is male to me but I want you to identify as male in the men's contest I don't care what your gender origins are when you're in this contest you are identifying as a man into um Leather fetish sex and the contests now are more about um how much money did you raise um an organization who would um doesn't care about us like kids and things like that when um you know I'm glad to see that we're starting to raise more money for the Leather Archives or the Woodhill Foundation and are these other things that actually serve us um rather than apologizing for who we are by raising money for kids um and um other things that matter is how um PC you are you know and I I've you know I I want to speak directly to the trans community and it's like if I've said anything that that that um makes you feel disrespected I feel really really really bad about that um because I have a really um soft I have I have a lot of empathy um for the trans community I just and that is too it's like fiercely trans men like I teach yoga now and I teach gay men's yoga and I don't trans men is just it's just another man and and I'm going to treat you just like another man if you're competing for a contest you need to be hot you need to be interesting you need to be fun you just can't show up and be oh well I'm a little bit different in this way so you know I need to get extra points um that's um that's it well okay great um anyway okay my last question for you is what's the biggest misconception about you I knew yeah I knew this was coming and I um I don't know I try to be really really honest I don't know if there is um I really said that thing about um trans men in particular because I think there was some misconception there um which really bums me out um um my biggest misconception about me I don't know I think I used to uh when I was trying to fit in rather than now I just feel like I belong where I belong I belong in this bar I belong in the leather community um and I'm not trying to fit in anymore um but when I was trying to fit in I um was uh you know I think I something crossed my mind um you know I would try to pretend like I know more than I do and then you know and the fact is I only know what I know um I tried to uh pretend I had more experience than I did and um now I have more experience and that's the only way you get it is by having experience um I don't know I don't know maybe um people can bring things at me but most of the things that people have said about me are true and I'm okay with that if if yeah if you're saying something about me that's true then I need to either change that or um or uh be okay with it well Mike Gurley I'd like to thank you for an amazing interview thank you


When people first try my Plant Paradox diet, they always say the same thing. Why can't I eat my favorite food? Some of the most common ones, peanut butter, diet soda, rice and pasta, yogurt and beans. If you're a fan of any of these, I've got some good news. They're easy to swap out, and I've got some substitutions that are absolutely delicious. First, peanut butter. You may as well call it lectin butter, because it's made with one of the worst ingredients for your health. But these days, there are plenty of healthy, lectin-free alternatives on grocery store shelves. Things like almond butter, walnut butter, hazelnut butter, tahini, which is basically sesame seed butter, and my favorite, pistachio butter. Just make sure to avoid cashew or sunflower seed butter. They're both pretty common. And if you want almond or walnut butter to taste a little peanuttier, I've got a trick. Whisk in a couple of drops of coconut aminos to boost the savory flavor. Now, let's talk about diet soda. At first, this was a hard one for me. I was a huge Diet Coke addict. Now, I'm not going to tell you how terrible diet soda is for your health. At this point, you better already know.  Maybe you saw the one where I share my favorite soda hack, my balsamic vinegar soda. Just in case, I put a link to it on the description below. It's a great alternative, but it's not the only one. If you're dying for something fruity, make an infused water or an infused sparkling water if you find yourself craving bubbles. I use lemon and orange slices and even some fresh berries. And for a really special treat, you can look for sodas that are sweetened only with stevia.  Next up, rice and pasta. Good news, Carb Levers, there are about a million substitutes for both rice and pasta. And some of the swaps are more flavorful than the originals. I love Capello's pasta made from almond flour and tapioca flour. You can find it in the gluten-free frozen food section of Whole Foods and other stores. Now, you already know about one of my other favorites, miracle noodles. And good news, they make miracle rice, too. And if you're looking for ways to use them, check out the recipes section in the Plant Paradox or the recipe videos here on my YouTube page. Of course, not everyone loves miracle noodles as much as I do, but they're not your only option. You can use millet or sorghum in place of rice or even cauliflower rice, which is hugely popular right now. You can find it fresh or frozen in most major supermarkets, even Costco. And you can also make noodles out of any vegetables by spiralizing them or cutting them into thin strips. Maybe you've heard of zucchini noodles, but of course they don't fit in the Plant Paradox plan. Still, the same idea works with beets, carrots, sweet potatoes, even daikon radish. And you can even find some noodle produce at health food stores these days. Here's some beet noodles. These are actually fantastic. Fourth, yogurt. Even Greek yogurt is off the plan. That's because the cow's milk yogurt sold in this country has KCNA1, a protein that seriously damages your gut. And for a lot of people, that's a problem because it's their go-to healthy breakfast item. If you're one of those people who needs to have a yogurt for breakfast, what can you do? Go to the regular old yogurt section in your grocery store and look for goat's milk yogurt or sheep's milk yogurt. Or if you're in the mood for a vegan option, almond or coconut yogurt. They're pretty widely available. Work just like regular yogurt and are delicious too. Okay, finally, beans. I know we've discussed this one before, but it's worth a reminder especially for you vegetarians and vegans who are used to getting your protein from beans. Beans are lectin heavy, but it's possible to reduce the lectins by pressure cooking. So if you've got a pressure cooker, put it to use. If not, look for Eden brand canned beans. They come in non-BPA line cans and they're pressure cooked ahead of time. And if you're looking for a completely non-bean alternative, look no further than pine nuts. If you soak them in liquid, like water or even chicken stock, they get a texture similar to beans. In fact, pine nuts cooked into a traditional chili have almost the exact same texture as beans. And there you have it, five of my favorite plant paradox-friendly substitutions. But I want to know what you're struggling with. So do me a favor and leave a comment below and let me know if you're having trouble finding a swap out for your favorite food. It could make it into my next video. I'm Dr. Stephen Gundry and I'm always looking out for you. Thanks for watching. Click the circular channel icon to subscribe and make sure you don't miss a single video. Click on the left to watch another great video and don't forget to visit my website for more of my best tips because I'm Dr. Gundry and I'm always looking out for you.


Good morning! Whoa, my hair looks crazy. I had no idea. Check it out. Beachfront property. There's the moon. Still out. Good morning ducks. Alright, I am all geared up, ready to go, and today I'm really excited. I have a special guest coming with me. It's Mira! What's up, buddy? Yeah, let's do it, guys. So where are we off to today, do you know? I think we're trying to, well we're going to the Pacific Coast today, hoping to get to Eldatio, which is a long day on the Baja, but we'll see where we get. Yeah, supposedly we're going to be in an ancient lake bed, it'll be wide open, the wind's going to be at our tail, it's going to blow us all the way there. No crashes, no whammies, no flaties! I've kind of a knowing to travel with, but you'll get used to it. This is putting a really big smile on my face. I've ridden bikes with a lot of people, but I have never ridden with a dog. This is going to be fun. Those dogs aren't as friendly as Mira.  I'm so glad we're traveling together today. You are so sweet. So the Baja Divide doesn't travel on paved roads very often, but I gotta say I'm really enjoying this one because there's no traffic at all. I think about one or two cars have passed us. I feel like I'm back in Cuba. So nice, nice tranquil Sunday morning with John and Mira and a couple cows over here. We are really in the middle of nowhere. There's not much going on, but I want to take you inside this tienda and show you around. It's pretty impressive the stock they have for being so far out here. They have a whole freezer full of drinks. They've got your forks and knives, which is awesome. The whole rack of flip flops and off-road crux here. They got the Wadachi style here. They even have dog food. So that's good for Mira. All the cleaning equipment. We'll go over here. Look at all these cookies and all this good stuff. They got the cereal, heresy kisses, and I would say most tiendas are like this. They're really well stocked and they take pride in keeping them nice. Look at them even have toys. Last minute birthday presents. They got you covered. Got your double-decker airplane. Of course, there's beans and stuff like that. They also have some local fare here is a bag of dates. That'll keep you regular. I love Mexican candies. Look at these, the paletas. Oh, they have sneakers too. Look at that hill. All right, Mira, we're going up. Time to do your part. Made it to the top. Yay, look at that. You are my new favorite. Watching John and Mira kind of makes me want to be a dog packer. I think it looks pretty fun. Nice to have a little companion with you. Love cycles part two with a doggie. What do you think? There she goes, passing me. And that's when it turns to dirt. Today's been a really nice surprise so far, like 25 miles on a fast paved road. That all ends right here. There's the line right there. It turns into dirt. It looks hard packed though, so it doesn't look too bad. We're heading toward the coast Laguna San Ignacio, famous for whale watching. We're not going to do that, but that's where we're headed. Hi, Mira, did you find some water to play in? This is like salt foam. That's super salty. Mira decided that this is a good place to eat lunch, right Mira? Under these trees. You're such a good dog. Every tree in Baja, every plant is dangerous. There's a spine, so you have to watch out where you sit or where you ride, because you might get one of these in your booty, which is never a good thing. Let's do a little Baja bean cheers. Cheers, buddy. Hey, do you want burritos?   Stick. You want the stick. Oh, you want the stick, don't you? Nice catch. We've ridden like 35 miles already. We're cruising. The terrain has been very easy compared to most Baja terrain, but still we're moving. This little fishing village is way out here, man. I can't imagine living this far away from the world, but I imagine it has its pluses and minuses, right? You don't have to deal with the nonsense of the world. We are now on a really, really flat surface out here on these old lake beds, and the wind is at our back. We are cruising.  We're doing Mira. The goal out here is to really avoid the wet spots.  So it's kind of like a game. You just zigzag all over the place, making sure you avoid that right there. Oh, boy, we're going to hit it.  Sorry. Hey, buddy. Although she goes straight for a stick. What you didn't see is I'm riding along here, and I hit this like quicksand, so slippery, and I just hit the deck. Came out of nowhere. Wow, it is so slippery. Look at that. Ba-ha, one, Ryan, zero. Here's my bite. Cating ice, skating ice, skating ice. Hey, bud, I'm okay. Don't you worry about me. I'm okay. Appreciate it. I appreciate you taking good care of me, bud. Yeah. She's a cattle dog. Buddy, good job. You did a good job hurting those little cows. In the area now, these poles, and from far away, we had no idea what they were. Big nest for birds, and John thinks they're ospreys. We have gone 65 miles. How many kilometers is that?  Sounds better than 65. Anyway, we're going another five miles to a little town called El Batil, and it's going to be good to be done. This has been a long day. This might be some of the dreamiest bike riding I've had in a long time. The surface is just super smooth. The tires are singing. They're so happy. The sun is low on the horizon. It's nice and cool. It's beautiful. You can smell the ocean, a little bit of salt in the air. We started asking around if there's a restaurant, and this woman's like, yeah, you can come over. I'll make you dinner. So here we are. Pretty exciting. John, we just rode 71 miles. Nice. Good job, my man. How was your day on the trail? You're so cute. You did such a good job chasing those cows. You did such a good job. This is kind of a fun way to end the day in a nice little fishing village. This dog right here scares me. Little Pippo with scars all over its face. You're troubled, but I know you're troubled. Look at that service. That was so fast. This is so good. It is so good. I am very happy. All right, now we're going to go find a spot to camp because the sun is going down and I'm cold. Yeah, I like your stick, bud. That's a good one. Lead the way. Go, Mira, go. We are being treated to a beautiful sunset. I don't know if you can see it, but it is very, very nice. It is a Sunday evening.


All right, it is officially the start of the midterms grind. We wrapped up all our work for a class and now we're just getting ready for the exams That's the face I'm making right now. We're gonna grab some late meal though and back to the grind I think it's the best thing on this firestone library, which is kind of our main library then right here is a chapel This is East Pine All right, we're gonna go get some dinner and get back to the grind All right tonight. We were heading out to Buffalo Wild Wings. We're gonna get off campus a little bit And just enjoy the weather enjoy being out. We just called the uber. Hi, it's us. Hey, it's us Then let's see if I can make this walk on the dog Okay, the worst part about midterms week is that it comes out of nowhere and we still have to go to classes on top of that So I have an econ midterm at 7 30 to yeah, yeah, p-sets to so I have an econ midterm at 7 30 tonight But I still have class until 4 30 meaning that practically all my study time is just out the window Feeling about the Texas brisket, bro. All right kiddos. It's time for some real talk Me and Zach we're just talking over lunch About how we're pretty much screwed for midterms and it's super stressful and it's super hard And it's just hectic and busy and basically the question was like are we enjoying my time at Princeton? It's just really worth it. Oh, and yes, it's no one. Yes times like this make it really stressful and really Make me not want to be here and wish I had gone somewhere else about the same time like every other Week and every time there's a cool event or cool opportunity. I'm like, thank God. I go to the school.  Take a deep breath. It'll be okay Alright, so every time there's a big holiday the dining hall likes to put on decorations and prepare special meals So since it's Halloween This year also any corn thief It's time for exam number two of four. This one is math I've been studying all day. It's 730. So the test is from 730 fingers crossed All right, so it is the final stretch. I have my last midterm today, which is Korean So I'm doing some final studying for that last night math went. Okay. It was a little brutal I got a little beat by that But hopefully we can bounce back and after this I'm finally done. So this week has been super stressful It's been super busy, but Let's get this bread Alright tonight is Prince Dwayne, which is Prince in Halloween. We're all dressed up Zack light light Zack is the moth meme It was not my choice. Okay. He has to do it for his frat Clearly, I am Migos minus my other You need the two other high. I'm well without squads guys. Where'd they go?


Okay folks, Billy Ray Valentine aka Larry Pesavento for TFNN today and we're going to go down memory lane a little bit today. Here we have the 12th of December. Let's try that again, Larry. It is 12th of December, son of a gun. I had the right date. Want to talk a little bit about cycles in just a little bit. The other thing I wanted to mention, if you notice something new here at the trading room, you see these new headsets. This is just purchased this morning, just made it back in time for the show, but these are supposed to be state-of-the-art headphones. So we'll see if they work as well as the guy said they were going to, but we'll cover that. Yesterday on the show with Norm Winske, we talked about some cycles that were happening in some history. And one of the things that Norm talked about was back on May 15th of 2019, the starting in Larry 2015, May the 15th of 2015, there was a certain aspect that he was looking at and it was a double top in the stock market and it went from 215 all the way down to 180 in a big ABCD format. Well, that got me thinking a little bit because I liked that cycle that he was talking about. That's the one that's going on today. And I'd mean something, I believe, but how much I don't really know. But what I did get last night around 8 o'clock, I got a phone call from somebody in New Hampshire and he said to me, he didn't say who he was or anything, oh, shuck, something's wrong here. We got to, oh boy, that's not going to work here. That's not going to work after calling back. Anyway, that conversation is insignificant. But any one of the things on my bucket list, folks, is someday I hope that these cycles that we look at that are nothing more than days of the week and calendar days, also known as astrodays, because that's where the calendar comes from, will be a segment on TFNN. It's already a segment on TFNN. I'm just tired today, folks. I've been running around trying to get this thing fixed and it's been, I had to take the computer to the computer shop, go pick up a headset, hopefully get this thing working. But anyway, we're going to have a show here with Jeff Huge as our guest here at the break. And then tomorrow we're going to have Stan Harley on Friday. We have Bill Meridian. We'll be right back,<PHONE_NUMBER>.


Hiya, I'm Charlotte. Yna, I'm Scotty Techno T. And this is our best ever's. Best ever? Ever, ever, ever. Best ever night out probably will be when you and Big Brother will enjoy your show. We won a buzz that night, we won a big buzz. That was good. And then the next day, like I arrived in a box. She from Big Brother went to a box.  That was me, Ricky put the lamp in my eye and I was going to deck it up. My favourite joy show holiday, of everything, I, Yos. On the boat? Yeah. I was just going to say that. That was the best. We lived on a boat for so long and it was amazing and we used to get days off and would all just be doing, would be out on the sea, would all just be on different ends of the boat doing activities, like jumping off snorkelling. Yeah man, I was climbing them cliffs and it must have been about 20 odd metres high and I was jumping off them. That was good, that was good. And obviously all the crew were like, no, and I was like, yeah, I was jumping off and I was like, nah. That was good. We were going round the rocks around the Greek islands on this big boat, which by the way is f***ing now. The healthiest, like cos you know how sometimes when you're in your home office, when you shake, you need a very, very healthy meal and a freezing cold shower. Cold showers are human natural shower. Have one of them, have one of it, do you mean? I know you're obsessed with anything cold. It's not just like it, like just don't think about it, just have a nice conversation, just, if it's connected, you connect. Prog. Prog. Oh my god, jigs. Our best ever moment together is we're in Prague, where these funny hats on. They just said we're going to go out and go out and literally they were like, okay, we're taking an absence bar. Anyway, so I took up this absence bar and literally the poor, the absence of the flaming absence of the spoon you drank, it was like drinking fire. It was horrible. It blew my f***ing off. Literally I was, I was, had one shot. It was so funny though Scott, we had a fun day out then. That's one of my best moments together, definitely. That's one of my best. It's been many a time when you've carried me out of the club, Scott. Every moment with me is the best time when you walk.


The Holy Spirit has given each believer a spiritual gift. In 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 7, the Bible says, a spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other. Each one of us has been given a spiritual gift. That's the biblical truth.  Now, I know sometimes you might doubt that and one of the reasons a believer will doubt that they have a spiritual gift is because they haven't yet discovered which gift the Holy Spirit has deposited in them. So let's settle the matter now. The Bible makes it clear that God has given you a spiritual gift, period. No matter what you feel, no matter what you see or don't see, you have a spiritual gift.  So how do you know which spiritual gift God has given to you? First of all, number one, desire. 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 1 says, let love be your highest goal, but you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives. There is nothing wrong with desiring a spiritual gift. Paul the Apostle encouraged believers to desire the spiritual gifts. Your desire for a particular gift could be a sign that God has given you that gift. If you desire a spiritual gift, who was it do you think that put that desire there? The enemy? Why would he give you a desire to become helpful to the church? Was it your flesh? Since when does your flesh want to do anything for God? Sure, the flesh might give you impure motives for operating in the gifts, but the desire itself, that pure longing to help a believer in a certain area, could it possibly be from your flesh? Number two, recognition. Proverbs chapter 18 verse 16 says, A man's gift maketh room for him and bringeth him before great men. If you truly have a spiritual gift, you don't have to go around announcing it. It just shows. It makes room for you. It creates ministry opportunities naturally. A sign that you have a spiritual gift is that others notice the gift on your life. Now, this of course does not mean that others need to acknowledge a gift on you in order for you to have it. That what believers see on you can help you discover your spiritual gift. Now, try this in a group of believers. Take turns encouraging each other. Go around the group encouraging each believer by speaking out loud what gifts you potentially see in each other. Now, this of course isn't the only means of discovering your gift, but you might be surprised at how harmoniously everyone discerns gifts in each other. Finally, number three, function. 1 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 4 says there are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same spirit is the source of them all. This might be the most obvious, but it's also the clearest sign that you have a gift. You know you have a gift if you sense or see that gift in operation. Again, this might seem very obvious, but you'd be amazed at how many people take for granted the gifts operating in their lives. Where they might just think they're really good at reading people, there could be a gift of prophecy. Where they might imagine that they just have favor, there could be a gift of miracles. Where they see only a positive attitude, there could be a gift of faith. Pay close attention to how God might be working in your life already, and you may see a spiritual gift, a gift that's been hidden all along. I'm David Diger Hernandez, and that is your Moment of Truth. For more free content like this, sign up to my emailing list at DavidHernandezMinisteries.com slash email. I'll send you free content every single week that I know you will love, and it will bless your spiritual life. Again, DavidHernandezMinisteries.com slash email. Thank you for watching EncounterTV. Don't forget to subscribe and click the notification bell. Also, help us spread the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Make a one-time donation or become a monthly supporter by clicking on the donate link now.


This 2002 Chevy Corvette Z06 is stock number 11850Z. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and use sports car headquarters. This 2002 Chevy Corvette Z06 has the 5.7 liter V8 motor, which pumps out 405 horsepower. This car has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this car is 100% ready to go. Torch red is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p, 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, turn them on right now because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the car before seeing it in person. If you like the video, and want to subscribe to our YouTube channel, the lower right hand part of the screen is a subscribe button. Click that, and then click the bell notifications to get updates every day we do videos here at Summit Auto. This one comes with the painted alloy rims. It has Goodyear Eagle F1 tires. These are 26540ZR17s in the front, and these tires have right around half the tread left on them. Front fender is in excellent condition. I didn't see any scuffs or stripes on there. The front bumper is in nice condition as well. The hood is in very nice shape too. For being an O2, really, really nice. Passengers side front fender looks really good. And the passenger side rim, no major scuffs or scrapes. As you go down the rest of the side of the vehicle, take note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. We take these HD videos, so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the car, you can see the car, hear the car, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at, before you even get here, so that when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from the comfort of your own home. Very nice down that side. This back rim is in nice shape as well. And the back tires have just about as much tread as the front tires. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper is in nice shape. You do get the quad-tipped dual rear exhaust, and those look to be in pretty nice condition. We'll take a look inside the trunk in just a second here, and the trunk lid looks really nice and clean. Going down on the driver's side, just as clean as that passenger's side, rear quarter looks really good. And for full disclosure, this back rim is in excellent shape. Driver's side door looks good. Didn't see any scuffs or scrapes. Even along the door edge looks really good.  You get these Z06 stitched into the backrest. No rips or tears. Power driver's seat, factory floor mats, power windows, power locks, power mirrors, and memory driver's seat. Does have the Bose sound system. We'll take a look inside the trunk real quick here. You do get a car cover that comes with this vehicle, and it is very nice and clean back here. And you can see the shocks are doing a nice job holding that trunk lid up, and it's very nice and clean. We'll hop inside the car, turn the ignition on so you can check out the miles and the radio, and all the options inside the vehicle. Get that Z06 instrument cluster, 23,502 miles on this car. Very nice and clean. Look at the leather-wrapped steering wheel. This one also has the heads-up display, which shows you the speedometer and the windshield there. No scuffs or scrapes or rips or tears on the steering wheel. That's in really nice condition.  This one does have the stability active handling control. The passenger side, floor mat, and seat are in excellent condition. No rips or tears on there. And the headliner is in really nice condition too. I believe that's an auto-dimming mirror. We'll start it up and then take a look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. I'm also going to turn the lights on so you can see the headlamps go up. One second here. You can see they flip up nicely. And go down. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video, you'll have been able to tell just how clean this car is all the way around. Inside and out. Shocks are working very nice on that hood. 5.7 liter V8 motor. Engine bay is very clean, runs very smooth. Once again, this car has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop. Has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. And this car is 100% ready to go. Very nice ride. I would highly recommend this car from a quality and condition standpoint. And to see more pictures of this Corvette or one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, sports cars, Corvettes, Camaros, Challengers, Chargers, Mustangs, GT500s, you name it, we got to go to that website right there. www.summitauto.com Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations. All at summitauto.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Remember to like, subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. In fact, in a second you will see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel and the upper left to link to more Corvette videos like this one in the upper right. 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Only a fifth of the tanks promised by the West have been delivered to Ukraine. Ukraine received by early April 57 Western tanks out of 293 ones promised by Western nations at the moment, according to Russian TASS, counts based on official statements of countries supplying combat vehicles. Therefore, 19% of promised Western tanks have been delivered to Kiev so far. Germany announced on January 25 that it would send 14 Leopard 2A6 tanks and promised to allocate four more tanks of this type on February 24. Ukraine already received these tanks German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on March 27. Berlin has approved the supply of 178 Leopard 1A5 tanks from stocks of the defence industry. Old tanks will be supplied in particular together with Denmark and the Netherlands. In total, Germany plans to send more than 100 tanks by the first or the second quarter of 2024. Norway transferred eight tanks and Portugal sent three tanks to Ukraine. Poland announced the transfer of 14 Leopard 2A4 tanks. Four of them were delivered in late February and the other ones in early March 2023. The United Kingdom announced the intention to transfer 14 Challenger 2 tanks. France allocated AMX 10RC wheeled tanks to Kiev. Tanks are also planned to be supplied by the US, Canada, Spain, Sweden and Finland.


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Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen, I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach. I follow weight watchers and I count calories and macros. Happy Friday, it's Friday, it's the weekend. We're gonna chat about my week, my weigh-in and the WW workshop topic.  It really helps out my channel and make sure you're subscribed and your bells on because we do a weigh-in every Friday and I do upload five videos every single week. Down in the description box, I will link nutrition coaching where I offer personalized two U macros and calories. This is how I lost 90 pounds in 2022 and almost 140 pounds total. I also offer one-on-one coaching for extra accountability and if you would like to chat with me directly. Links and discounts to my favorite things and of course my Facebook group, come on over join us. We'd love to have you are all down in that description box. So let's jump into my week, my weigh-in and the WW workshop topic. I hope you had an amazing, amazing week. I had a pretty good week. I just got home from my final boot camp for the week. We had a rough workout. Fridays are circuit days for us and it is usually my highest caloric burn day which is interesting to me because it's, I feel like it's less intense than Mondays and Wednesdays but I seem to burn more calories probably because it is very much a hit workout between circuits, running, walking, burpees, things like that. So I just finished boot camp and when I got home I had a package in the mail from Cupshe. If you didn't know, I'm actually heading to San Diego next week to visit my best friend and we are doing a hot chocolate, chocolate inspired 5K together which I'm so excited about.  I also have some of you flying in for the meetup which I'm really excited about. So it's going to be a fantastic week but I needed to pick up a couple of new swimsuits for San Diego. We are going to be doing some swimming, spending a little bit of time at the pool and then I wanted to get a fun new outfit to wear while I'm there as well. So I went ahead and placed an order with Cupshe. I've actually shared Cupshe here on my channel with you before. We've done a couple of hauls. I love their bathing suits and they have really stepped up their game with clothing as well. So I decided to pick up two bathing suits, a cover up, a super cute top that I can wear not only to the 5K if I want, to the workouts that I'll be doing in San Diego and then a super fun outfit to either wear to the meetup or dinner or some other event that we do while I'm visiting. So first let's talk bathing suits. Now disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer. I'm going to put myself out here on the internet in a bathing suit. I've lost almost 140 pounds. I have loose skin. My problem areas, my back, the girls and my thighs. I have a lot of loose skin in all of these areas. So please be kind, keep any inappropriate comments to yourself because I'm putting myself out here for you to show you that even after massive weight loss or on a weight loss journey, you can wear whatever bathing suit you want to wear and be confident. And Cupshe suits definitely help me feel confident. I also needed to order a couple of new suits because my previous bathing suits from Cupshe were a size extra large. They are now too big for me which we're not mad about. So I wanted to order a couple of new suits in a size large just so that they fit me a little bit better. And I felt a little bit more confident in them. I did pick up a one piece and a tankini. So let's start with the tankini. How fun is this color? It is like this red, orange color, perfect for summer. The tankini that I picked up is the Joyful Retro Solid Ruffled Tankini and Classic Hipster Set. This suit is only $26.99. It actually comes in three different colors and sizes extra small through extra large. It's a halter style tankini that features wide supportive straps with a fun flirty V neckline with ruffles. It comes with the matching hipster bottom that has a standard rise and quite a bit of booty coverage. The other thing I loved about this bathing suit is the full coverage back because like I mentioned, my back is a problem area for me and this covers and conceals everything. This is so adorable. I love the color. One thing I also wanna show you is that the bottoms, they have this fun ruching design which is really flattering on the booty area. Again, I picked mine up in a size large. It fit me perfectly. I love this. I'm so excited to wear this. And then like I mentioned, I picked up a one piece. I thought this was so cute with the black bottom and then this fun kind of tropical floral design and I love that it has the ring accent. It just gives it a really fun vibe. This is the Maya floral O-ring crisscross tummy control one piece swimsuit. It is $29.99. It actually comes in two different colors and patterns and sizes extra small through extra, extra large. It has the two fun O-rings on the straps and then it comes to this really pretty floral V neckline with crisscross thin straps in the back. What I also loved about this is its tummy control.  I feel like my stomach was looking nice and flat in this bathing suit. I will say that for me I wish the back had a little bit more coverage. However, once I have my plastic surgery in May the back won't be as big of a problem area for me but I thought this was beautiful and flattering. It does have adjustable straps and removable padding. I like pattern bathing suits but I like when they're solid on the bottom and pattern on the top. I feel like it's a little bit more flattering to the figure and you can't beat the price for how amazing the quality actually of both of these suits are. And of course I picked up a cover up because I always, always have a cover up with me. I am not going to waltz around hotels or gyms or lobbies in a bathing suit. I definitely like to wear a cover up down to the pool then I have no problem removing the cover up and waltzing around the pool in my bathing suit. So I went ahead and grabbed this super cute black cover this is a one size fits all. This is the Beverly Tassel v-neck cover up dress. It is only 22.99. It definitely elevates your reach style with this breezy knit cover up dress.  This definitely runs big. This is huge on me. So I'm going to wash and dry this. It is like I said, a one size fits all. So if you struggle with one size fits all items fitting you, you may love this because it's definitely, definitely oversized. I do love all the crochet along the bottom hem which is super fun. And then you gotta love the little tassels. That's what drew me to this cover up. So I will definitely be wearing that over the two bathing suits. And then for an outfit, I wanted something casual but I could elevate it up with some cute pair of, with a cute pair of shoes or some jewelry. So I picked up a romper. I love rompers. I love rompers. I think they are very, very flattering on the figure. They conceal and hide all the lumps and bumps and they look just seamless on the body. I loved this olive green color. This is the Rivka Drawstring Tank Romper. Now it does only come in this olive green color but it does come in sizes small through extra large. It's an ultra comfy Jersey knit romper with a flattering scoop neck, adjustable drawstring waist, cute shoulder straps and a handy slanted pocket. I have to say I love the Thirst Pockets and I did pick mine up in a large. I definitely, definitely should have sized down to a medium but because it has the adjustable strap around the waist I was able to cinch it in and I love that feature. I think the cinching in around the waist gave my figure a really nice flattering look rather than it just being like a paper bag and I love that it's a tank top so you can even wear a cute little denim jacket over this black denim or even a shacket and really elevate the look but I love that it was a tank top. I love the length of it.  Then I picked up a tank top, something I thought I could wear working out both in San Diego and home. This is probably the cutest thing I've ever seen in my entire life. This is the Catherine mesh wrap top. It's only $17.99. It comes in black only in sizes small through extra large.  I love halter tops. I think halter tops are so flattering on literally everybody and I love that this has that wrap design. Again, it camouflages the tummy area. It's so buttery soft. It's so thick. It's so comfortable. I'm actually going to pick up a second one because I can see myself wearing this not only to the gym but how cute would this be with a pair of denim shorts for summer? I honestly wish it came in more colors. Cupshe, if you're listening, bring out more colors because this is one of the favorite tank tops in my wardrobe and it's such an affordable price. That's my little Cupshe haul for my trip to San Diego. And then of course just adding these really fun bathing suits, this cover up and these two clothing pieces to my wardrobe. I will go ahead and link everything I shared with you down below along with the Cupshe website and a 15% off discount code with any order, $65 or more site-wide. So now let's go ahead and jump in to my week. Well, my week overall was pretty good. I am on my cycle. That's fun. And as I get closer to premenopause, maybe I'm even in premenopause or closer to menopause, my cycle is more and more irregular. Now it's coming in like 20 to 25 days instead of 25 to 30 days. So that is something that I don't love but I'm actually considering everything that felt pretty good on my cycle this week. I've had bouts of feeling a little bit bloated and blech but I've still been able to get in my workouts. I am a little bit extra tired this week which probably has to do with my cycle and just some of the stress in my life overall with Lola and going to chemo. In fact, this week chemo was a pretty intense session for her. She does get to take next week off. So for chemo for dogs, it's four weeks on one week off and then you repeat that for four cycles. So basically it's a five month process and it's just stressful for me as her mom.  I hate that she has to go there.  It's just something that we never want to deal with but of course she's my best friend so whatever we have to do to make her feel better, we will do it and so far chemo's working very well for her. Her lymph node swelling has went down and she honestly is back to, she's her normal self.  We don't have any weird side effects so I'm super grateful for that. So it's just been a week of a little bit of added stress, maybe not feeling my best but I'm proud of myself for sticking with my food, drinking my water and getting in my exercise. I feel like for me exercise is just something I do. It's just something that's built into my life and not even something that I have to plan or worry about. I have to focus more on my food and drinking my water. So I'm discovering every single day where I am in my journey and I have to say that overall I feel like my week was a 10 out of 10. But before we talk about my weigh-in I wanna talk about this week's topic for this week's WW workshop topic. You guys, this is my favorite topic ever. I just talked about this in a video and that is is my weight loss goal right for me? I talk all about the BMI chart and how it's archaic and out of date and we should not under any circumstances weight watchers included have our goal weight based on the BMI chart. It should be based on our individual bodies not on some archaic chart. So this week we're gonna talk a little bit about choosing a goal weight for you. There are three things you should ask yourself when you're thinking about your goal weight. Number one, is it achievable? Number two, is it meaningful? And most importantly, number three, is it sustainable? Sure, I could get down to a low weight on the BMI chart but it's absolutely not sustainable for me. So that shouldn't be my goal weight that shouldn't be my focus. Start off with a healthy weight loss target. Half of a pound to about two pounds per week is considered healthy. And then there's a few other things that you can try and think about when establishing a healthy goal weight for you. So number one, do you have a timeframe in mind for your weight loss? If the answer is yes, so maybe by it's a birthday or another milestone, then do the math. If your date is 10 weeks away, your goal might be about 15 pounds. Go ahead and jot down the number of pounds that you're looking to lose and to get a reasonable timeframe, divide that by one or two. Because remember, half of a pound to two pounds is healthy amount of weight loss per week. If the answer to do you have a timeframe in mind for weight losses, no, then your next step would be you're not really sure what the minimum amount of weight that you have to lose is. That's okay, aim for about six pounds per month which is healthy, sustainable weight loss. And then write your goal down. I would like to lose this amount of pounds over the next blank weeks. It's absolutely normal to have dream digits that you'll probably never see on the scale. Or if you do see it on the scale, you're not going to be able to maintain that. And that can really wreak havoc on our mental health. Thinking that we have to get to this number and knowing that once we get there, we only stay there for a week or two, that's not a number we should be focused on. And you're also not going to get to that dream digit by next Tuesday. You didn't gain all your weight overnight, you're certainly not going to lose it overnight. And remember, fast weight loss doesn't stay off, slow and steady sustainable weight loss does. And you don't even have to have a big goal. You can have the little mini goals. Like I always mentioned for me on my weight loss journey, it was to get into the next weight decade. 200 pounds, 190 pounds, 180 pounds. And that was a big goal in milestone for me. Every time I would hit a new weight decade, I would celebrate. The right goal for you and the goal that you're likely to not only achieve but maintain is the one that you can break down into smaller steps. These steps will feel attainable, they're healthy and they equate to slow and steady weight loss, not fast fixes or fast weight loss. Focus on your mini wins. And remember that every goal is attainable for you and you want to make sure that whatever goal or goals you set for yourself, they're healthy, they're realistic and number one, numero uno, they're sustainable forever. And remember, the journey is in a straight line and it's okay to adjust and reevaluate and course correct throughout our weight loss journey. So as always, I want to share three fast facts with you. Number one, a healthy rate of weight loss is an average of one to two pounds per week. Number two, everyone experiences weight gains and plateaus along their weight loss journey. And number three, research shows that when we set a more realistic weight loss goal, we're more likely to be successful. So remember, look at your goals, make sure they're sustainable forever. That's the key takeaway from today's topic and I'm so happy, beyond happy that WW is addressing this and not once did they mention the BMI chart. They're talking about a weight loss goal that's doable, sustainable, achievable, meaningful for you and we're all different. So all of our goals are going to be different as well. So speaking of weight loss goals and speaking of weight loss, let's go ahead and jump in to my weigh in. Like I mentioned, this is the week of my cycle. Typically the week leading up to my cycle, I'm at my leanest and then during my cycle, my weight can really fluctuate. Sometimes I'll stay pretty lean, sometimes my weight will drastically go up, sometimes it'll stay about the same. So when I stepped on the scale today, I'm actually up 0.4, that's nothing. I'm not concerned at all and I actually take that as a win considering that I am on my cycle and pretty sore from all my workouts this week. I've really upped my weights at the gym for my strength training days and I've really, really been pushing myself at boot camp which leads to being a little bit more sore and when we break down our muscles, they retain water and they become inflamed in order to rebuild and grow which can lead to a weight gain on the scale. So I take 0.4 basically as a maintain for me and I know for me and my body, 0.4 is nothing and I can lose that in a matter of hours. So I don't let the scale define my week or define my success or affect my day whatsoever. I still take that 0.4 gain as a huge win. I'm continuing to push through, continuing on my journey and continuing to see if this is where my body wants to stay weight-wise. So now I wanna hear from you guys. How was your week? Did you gain? Did you lose? Was it what you expected? What do you think about having a weight loss goal specific to you and that has nothing to do with the BMI chart or any other chart or calculator out there because none of those are specific to you and every body is different and every weight loss goal is going to be different. So let me know your thoughts and of course definitely check out Cupshe. Like I said, everything will be linked down below for you. I'm super excited to take all of these pieces with me to San Diego. I know that I'll be wearing these all the time and like I said, super impressed with the quality. So everything will be in the description box along with nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things. And of course, don't forget to come on over and join our Facebook group. We'd love to have you. Thank you so much for watching friends. Happy Friday and I'll see you in tomorrow's grocery haul. Bye.