It's now time for Members' Statements. The Member for Brampton East. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Lynch mobbed, prowling the streets, thousands killed, and thousands more displaced, women subjected to unthinkable sexual violence, all under the direction of senior members of the Indian government. These are just some of the horrendous acts committed in India during the 1984 Sikh genocide. 34 years later, the Sikh community still awaits justice, while those involved in the genocide still walk free. But hope prevails. In 2017, in an amazing act of unity, all parties came together in this assembly to recognize the horrific acts of 1984 as a genocide carried out by the Indian state. But in India, the lack of justice for the Sikh people has continued to allow the government to act with impunity. Human Rights Watch has reported on the alarming increase of lynching mobs in India, this time targeting minorities throughout India, including Christians, Muslims, and Dalits, as well as journalists, human rights lawyers, and activists. A rise in lynching described by the Washington Post as a crisis. Human Rights Watch reports further that much like in 1984, members of the Indian government are accused of encouraging this violence, including Prime Minister Modi's governing party, the BJP. Speaker must end impunity in India, starting by bringing justice to the victims of the 1984 Sikh genocide, and continuing with the state violence that occurs today. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you. Member Statements. The member for Haldeman Norfolk. Speaker, during the Great War, M.A.T. Henry Louis Norwest was a famed Canadian sniper. In trench conflict, he needed excellent marksmanship with the ability to camouflage and stay still for long periods. Lance Corporal Norwest made 115 kills and earned two military medals. Norwest was killed by a German, also a sniper. A companion recalled, and I quote, our famous sniper, no doubt, understood better than most of the cost of life and the price of death. Henry Norwest carried out his terrible duty superbly because he believed a special skill gave him no choice but to fulfill his indispensable mission. The current world record was made by an unnamed Canadian sniper in 2017 in Iraq, surpassing a record set by British sniper, Craig Harrison, in 09s, to an edge Canadian corporal, Rob Furlong's 2002 shot in Afghanistan. Furlong, Unceded Canadian Master Corporal, Aaron Perry. During this time of remembrance, I think of Canadian Private George Lawrence Price of World War I's 28th Battalion. On November 11, 1918, he was shot at 10.57 a.m., three minutes before the signing of the armistice. He was the last soldier of the British Empire of the Canadian forces to fall. Again, killed by a sniper. Thank you. Member Statements, member for Davenport. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. After years of stagnant wages and gaps in the laws that protect workers, a broad based movement of Ontarians was finally able to convince the former liberal government to act on improving working conditions in this province. In Davenport, where many of my constituents work two or three part-time jobs to make ends meet and many more work contract to contract with no benefits or job security, these long overdue labor protections mean a real difference in their quality of life. Now, with Bill 47, the Conservative government is dragging Ontario backwards, rolling back the minimum wage, slashing paid sick and bereavement days and weakening laws meant to create stability and security for workers. That stability doesn't just help the worker, Mr. Speaker, it benefits their whole family. Melanie Wilson, a teacher at Bloor Collegiate Institute in my riding, was interviewed recently on the impact of fair labor laws on education outcomes for our kids, something this government professes to support. She said, when you have students coming to school, exhausted, stressed, hungry and anxious because of the realities of living below the poverty line, their ability to learn, to read, to write and to do math is really compromised. Mr. Speaker, when Ontario workers are paid fairly, have job security and access to a union, our communities benefit and so does our economy. On behalf of my community, I call on the Premier to halt this short-sighted attack on working people and start defending Ontarians whose hard work drives this province every single day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, the member for Niagara West. Thank you, Speaker. I was born in August of 1997 at the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital, one of the thousands of babies born there every year at the renowned obstetrics program that has been an integral part of the community's healthcare since the hospital was built in 1948. Earlier that year in January of 97, the community rallied to ensure the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital was not shut down. Since before I was born, Speaker, the new build of the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital has been a top priority of the communities of West Lincoln and Grimsby. When it was first built, the West Lincoln serviced 8,000 individuals and families. To date, that number is closer to 130,000. The community has endured deep hurt from the Liberal government's cancellation of the planned rebuild in 2012. The recent decision of Hamilton Health Sciences to potentially remove services from the hospital has caused deep concern and disappointment in my riding and across Niagara. I'm so proud of Premier Doug Ford for coming to Niagara, hearing from local leadership about the importance of these services and committing to work on a positive solution to the situation. I know our Minister of Health is doing everything she can through working with Hamilton Health Sciences to keep the services at West Lincoln my constituents deserve and expect. As I've said in this house before, I will not stop fighting for the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital until the doors open on a new build. Thank you to the thousands of community members who have come together to fight for our hospital. I hear you and our government is on your side. Member Stevens, Member for Parkfield High Park. Thank you. Speaker, we are heading into flu season. People are going to get sick. Everyone at some point gets sick and will need time off work to not only take care of themselves and recover, but also to ensure there aren't exposing the public to infectious diseases, especially those experiencing serious illness. Paid sick days is an important component of public health. But just as we're heading into flu season, this government is cutting the two paid sick days that workers fought hard for. There is overwhelming support from people across this province for paid sick days. By taking away the two paid sick days, people will now have to choose between getting paid and getting well. Parents won't be able to stay home to look after their sick child.  This government is also bringing back sick notes, which even doctors themselves have said is unnecessary and bureaucratic.  This is not how you end hallway medicine.  This government's decision is not based on evidence and is certainly not based on the best interest of the hardworking people of this province. By taking away the two paid sick days, this government is putting public health at risk. And for what? Just to increase the profits of their big business friends. Speaker, the Ford government is not making Ontario open for business, they're making Ontario open for sickness. Thank you. Thank you. Member's statements. The member for Guelph. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm honored to rise today to recognize one of the most vital organizations in my community. Since 1977, Guelph, Wellington Women in Crisis has played an essential role in helping vulnerable women and making Guelph a caring community. There are many programs, the shelter, the sexual assault center, the transition and housing support program, the rural women support program, the family court support program, and their newest program to combat trafficking deserve our support. Under the inspiring leadership of their executive director, Sly Castaldi, GWWIC provides a continuum of services like no other in Ontario. They provide vital services to approximately 1,500 women every year and respond to 3,000 calls a year. Mr. Speaker, their 28 shelter bed is full. The demand for their services grow and women deserve support now. So that's why I'm so concerned that some of the organization that provides services to address violence against women funded by the Ministry of the Attorney General have not received funding for 2018. So I'm eager to work with the government to make sure that vital organizations are properly funded because violence against women should be a non-partisan issue. I wanna thank GWWIC for the vital services you provide for women in our community. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member statements, the member for Durham. Thank you, Speaker. On October 20th, the municipality of Clarington celebrated the achievements of several local sports heroes. I rise today to highlight the newest inductees to the Clarington Sports Hall of Fame. Steve Brinkman is an accomplished volleyball player who competed in more than 300 international matches and has made a huge contribution to Teen Canada as an athlete and a mentor. Angela Fice holds the title of Kiyoshi 7 Dan Black Belt in Martial Arts. She has been a world champion multiple times and coach for Teen Canada. She's also started a martial arts program for children with special needs at Grandview Children's Center. Sam Norwood for 25 years has been a champion for community baseball in Clarington. His dedicated leadership has propelled the sport forward and greatly improved access for Clarington children. Nan Spencer's pioneering work for girls hockey in Clarington helped Bowmanville get selected to host the women's senior provincial championships for the first time. Many who played in those championships went on to represent Canada at the first women's world hockey tournament and first Olympic women's hockey team. Lastly, the Kendall Eagles of 1976, their senior baseball team, won the provincial championship and the entire team was inducted. Congratulations to all the new inductees into the Clarington Sports Hall of Fame. I am very proud as your Durham MPP. Thank you, Speaker. Member statements. The member for Tomiskaming Cochran. Thank you, Speaker. Today is Halloween. And close to remember, see, my puppy almost came off. But I'm here to talk about a new season that's soon to be starting and that is the start of something near and dear to many people in Northern Ontario, snowmobile season. We know when we start seeing, we start seeing the snowflakes and snowmobiling is a big deal in a lot of places. It's a huge deal in my part of the world and I'd like to thank some of the volunteers on the many snowmobile clubs in my area who maintain the trails that work hard. I hope I don't miss any. I've got the West Snippasing Snowmobile Club. I've got the Golden Corridor Snowdrifters Club Echo, the Jack Pine Snowmobile Club, the Tritown Snow Travelers and the Polar Bear Riders up in Cochran. And on behalf of those people and behalf of the restaurant owners, the hotel motel owners, I would like to welcome everyone from across Ontario to come to not only to Miss Minkochran but to come to beautiful Northern Ontario to experience our trails. You will see places that the only way to see them is on a snowmobile. The only way to see parts of this great province, they do a great job. The trails are very well kept. They're very environmentally conscious how they do it. I remember when I started snowmobiling, I had a 1976 skidua land. It was broke more often than it actually ran. It belched fuel and oil. My 600 renegade is perfect. And I ask you to come to Northern Ontario and enjoy a great province. Thank you. Member Stevens, the member for Glen Gary, Prescott, Brussels. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this weekend, I attended the Francophony of Ontario Conference. There are more than 350 representatives from all throughout the province. It was an excellent group of Franco-Ontarians in the areas of education, health, justice, community services, and youth. It was an innovative weekend. A new board of directors was elected and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the re-elected President, Carol Jellin, and the new members of the board, Clota Gleason, Eric Marcotte, Julien Jeremie, Marie-France Palquette, and Alex Precant. Ontario has the privilege of being able to count on a strong, active, and deeply rooted Francophone community. I would like to thank this organization and its members for all the work they've done over the last year and for the essential role that they play in the Francophone community. Thank you very much. Member statements? Member statements? The Member for Niagara West will need unanimous consent if he seeks to join their statements. The second statement. Member for Niagara West is seeking unanimous consent of the House to do a second statement. Agreed? Agreed. Agreed. Member for Niagara West. Thank you, Speaker. This is to be done to the tune of Monster Mash. In the corner office, we heard Kathleen say, we need more money. Let's make them pay. Glenn said there's no problem. There's a law we can pass. We'll drive up the price on a tank of gas. They did the tax. They did the carbon tax. They did the tax. They wanted all of your cash. They did the tax. We wouldn't have any stacks. They did the tax. They did the carbon tax. Then Doug and his team saw through Kathleen's scheme and said, no more money from the people you'll plead. The people agreed and they armed for the fight and sent the lips packing on election night. We stopped the tax. We stopped the carbon tax. We stopped the tax. We stopped the carbon tax. We stopped the tax. You'll keep more of your cash. We stopped the tax. We're open for business, so relax. The Liberals were having such great fun, the party with the taxpayer's money had begun. When Premier Ford and the Conservatives stopped the carbon tax. We stopped the tax. We stopped the carbon tax. We stopped the tax. They wanted to take from your stash. We stopped the tax. You'll keep more of your cash. We stopped the tax. We stopped the carbon tax. Quite committed.


I'd like to play a clip of one of your famous exchanges with Anthony Fauci from July 2021, where you're asking him to correct the record after he denied the government ever funded gain of function research. Let's roll that. Dr. Fauci, knowing that it is a crime to lie to Congress, do you wish to retract your statement of May 11th where you claimed that the NIH never funded gain of function research in Wuhan? Senator Paul, I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement. This paper that you were referring to was judged by qualified staff up and down the chain as not being gain of function. Let me finish.  You're saying that's not gain of function? That is correct. Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about, quite frankly, and I want to say that officially. You do not know what you are talking about. What are your reflections on that knowing what you know now? Well, it's a great clip in the sense that his response is that his experts at the NIH have judged this up and down the chain have judged this not to be gain of function research. Well, this is very intriguing. What we have been requesting for two years is the discussion. If his scientists discussed and debated and concluded that this was not gain of function research, let us see the deliberations. One of two things are possible. Either he's overstating the case and deliberations never took place, or the deliberations took place and aren't quite as clear-cut as he's making it. So far, the NIH has refused to reveal any of these documents. So these are not classified documents, but still the NIH is more secretive at this point than the CIA. We can't get NIH documents or HHS documents. We get there are several different articles or descriptions of discussions that we want. We have the name of them. They send it to us and it'll be 250 pages long, all redacted. So it's making it impossible for us to assess the truth, to have oversight, but it's also impossible for us to fix the problem if they don't let us examine what happened this time around. There was a redacted email that really made me start to consider the level of deception that might be at play here. It was this February 2020 email that Fauci sent. You'll see it there on the left side of the screen. The redacted version in the House Committee was able to get it unredacted. And if you zoom in on this highlighted portion of the unredacted email, this was with his inner circle of scientists talking about this phone call where they all agreed they were concerned early on that this was a lab leak. And that concern was heightened by the fact they say that scientists in Wuhan University are known to have been working on gain of function experiments. And further research has found these papers like this one, this 2017 paper, Discovery of a Rich Pool of Bat Sars Related Coronaviruses. This was a collaboration between the Wuhan lab and Peter Deshaques EcoHealth Alliance and was funded by an NIH grant. And the highlights here just show that basically they created a bunch of artificial viruses by combining eight different Bat Sars coronaviruses with the WIV1 backbone. And then those viruses replicated efficiently in human cells. So I guess the question I have there is it's clear in your book that you believe there's likely a level of deception here. If that proves to be true, what sort of consequences should there be? You know, it's a crime. It's a felony to lie to Congress. It's punishable up to five years in prison. After we determined that Fauci did lie to Congress that indeed he had funded gain of function research, we submitted the evidence to the Attorney General to Merrick Garland. But unfortunately he's not done anything with it. A year later when more evidence accrued, we referred him again for criminal prosecution and yet nothing has done. But the thing is, is that everything that he's saying there in private, in that email, he's basically admitting it was gain of function. He knows that they funded it. He knows that the virus looks manipulated. And yet at the same time he was saying that, this is essentially February 1st of 2020. Four days later he commissions an article to be written in a journal by his cohorts. One of the main ones was Christian Anderson. In private, Christian Anderson is saying, this is not a conspiracy theory. This is not a fringe theory. In fact, it may be the most likely theory that the virus came from a lab. In the paper that they publish at Anthony Fauci's behest, they say explicitly that a lab constructed virus is not a plausible idea at all. Not even plausible, not really to them, virtually possible. They in fact conclude in the abstract of that paper that COVID is not a laboratory construct. Not that it probably isn't. It is not a laboratory construct. Meanwhile, saying privately, they think it's most likely. We have several of these scientists saying, I'm 80, 20, 80% lab, 20% nature. 50, 50 some of them are saying, meanwhile in public, they're acting with surety. They're acting with complete confidence. But really what they're doing is issuing a nothing to see here notice.  Basically, they don't want people to draw the linkage because they know they're responsible for funding this research and that ultimately culpability for the pandemic will attach to them. So it is a huge cover up, not just Anthony Fauci, but throughout government, eight different departments of government were funding this type of research, and that's just the non-classified. We think there's still more to be found. One of the research papers that was leaked by a whistleblower is from 2018, where Dr. Shee from Wuhan, Dr. Barrett from UNC, and Dr. Peter Dezak for EcoHealth were asking for money, and they wanted to take a coronavirus and insert a special cleavage site into it that makes it more infectious in humans. It's called a furan cleavage site. Well, that one didn't get funded, but that's exactly what COVID is. It's a coronavirus with a human cleavage site in it that's never been seen in nature. And yet when they saw COVID, you'd think if you were one of the people on that grant, you would have immediately called Anthony Fauci and said, holy cow, this new virus has the same sequence as the same grant they were looking for in 2018 that we were going to help them with. Beware, this is more evidence. And yet nobody told the public this. If they told Anthony Fauci, he suppressed it, and we only found out about it not from records releases, but from a whistleblower who actually came forward and gave us this information. This is the real problem. There's this enormous cover up within government, and we still have to have the information come out because Democrats still need to be convinced that there is a problem that we need to do something about gain of function research to try to prevent this kind of accident from happening again.


Hi guys, it's DJ V and in this video I wanted to announce some really exciting news. I'm very excited to announce that I have launched a monthly sticker club. This means for a low monthly fee, I will ship a one-of-a-kind sticker to your door. These stickers won't be available in my shop or anywhere else, they are exclusive to the club. Each month involves a unique one-of-a-kind design. I have picked the theme of H is for horse. That means that each sticker will be related to each month of the year. The first month in January, you will be receiving the Jutland horse, which is a wonderful cheeky looking draft horse. You can sign up at any time using the link in my description, it will take you to my website shop where you input your email to sign up. I will send you an invoice after you have signed up and you will be able to pay the invoice and save your credit card on files so that it is automatically charged each month. If you want to cancel your subscription, you certainly can by emailing me at djpstudios.com. For Canadians and people living in the United States, the subscription fee is $7 Canadian a month, which roughly translates to $5 American. For internationals or anyone living overseas, the cost for the club is $9 Canadian, which translates roughly to $7 American. I think that's super affordable considering everything is included in that price, so that means you will receive an envelope with one sticker every month. Stickers will ship within the first few weeks of the month and payments are due on December 15th. So that means that if you want to join my sticker club and receive the January sticker, this is the time to sign up. You only have until the 15th to pay and then receive the January sticker. I'm telling you guys this now because the only way to receive the entire set of stickers January to December 2021, you have to sign up now and pay your invoice before the 15th. If not, you will never see the sticker again. It will not be reproduced in any other ways. The stickers will be scratch proof and weather proof, so you can put these on your car, you can put them in your studio, you can put them wherever you feel and they will be long lasting and durable, but I'm so excited to bring this for you guys. There is additional information on my website, all of the links will be listed in the description below. If you have any other questions or concerns, you can always email me at djbstudios at gmail.com. Otherwise, you can message me on Instagram or Facebook. Thank you so much for watching and come join the club and be a part of the DJB revolution. I don't know. Come join the club and get some awesome DJB original artwork every month in your mailbox. You'll need a little pick me up in this time and this is the perfect way to celebrate the new year of you new.


Tyler the Great Warrior is going insane. What's up guys, we're back with another Tyler the Great Warrior update, which I said I'm probably not gonna do. But guess what guys, this card has gone so insane that I was unable to resist making another video about this. Last time we saw this card, it was like at 160,000, something like that. Last night, whatever, 160,000, it made it to 100,000 the first day. So went up another 60, which is a lot of money, but compared to the 100K, it hasn't gone up that much. Somewhat of an incremental raise, not that insane. But this morning, this card went up to $1.4 million. So I just went live on Twitch and we were checking this thing out. We're checking out the bid history and everything, but this card is officially at $1.4001 million. This is insane. This is by far the most expensive Yu-Gi-Oh card. Don't bring up that BLS again. I'm talking about TCG, BLS, probably not even a real thing. We don't know about it. It's all rumors.  It's OCG anyway. But TCG, this is by far the most expensive card ever if this holds up. So we're of course gonna take a look at the bids. We were doing this live. Let's just take a look. This was the top bidder as of last night around April 25th. This is 245 PDT, which is a specific time. So 445 my time. Until this morning at 750 AM, okay, 950 my time. So about two hours before I was recording this, someone decided to bid up against the highest bidder here. So they won, but it kept getting up bids.  We talked about this earlier. So what appears to have happened here is this person outbid this guy this morning, but then someone else had a bid available as well. So they're facing up against that person's max bid and they're not actually bidding themselves up, but they're being up bid by the other person's max bid. This is very confusing. Let me explain this in simple terms. There's an auction. Someone's winning it with nine bucks. I bid $10, but I also bid a max bid of $100. Someone else then comes by and bids 11. Well, my max bid is automatically gonna up bid them to 12. They're gonna bid it to 13. If they wanna go up to 13, maybe their max bid is up 13. Mine goes up to 14 automatically. I don't have to do this manually. It's automatically happening up until they get to $100, then they'll have to exceed $100 my max bid and then it'll stop. So if they go to $101, my max bid then stops. So what's happening here is this person apparently had a max bid of, if you take a look here, this is all going up in increments of seconds here. So we're at 750, it's a couple seconds later, couple seconds later it's going up. So it's the max bid increasing. So as you can see here, it's the same guy going up in increments of a few seconds every time. So it looks like their max bid is going up and up and up. So someone's bidding against them. They're like, okay, what are they at? What are they at? What are they at? And boom, boom, they bid up to 250, 300K. This is only 10 seconds later. Another 11 seconds, 400K. Another few seconds later, 600K, 700K, $1 million. That wasn't their max bid, $1.4 million. And boom, we have revealed this person was the person bidding up. So it looks like the four guy had a $1.4 million max bid and this person outbid that bid. Now, look, I know what you're thinking, zero feedback, what's up with that? So I don't know exactly how eBay is running this. I don't know if you have to verify that you can spend $1.4 million before you can bid that. But I do know that they're checking in on the authenticity of the bid right away because I see Mel hopped in my chat on Twitch and he said that eBay was checking in with this to make sure it is a legit bid. Because if it's not, obviously it can't stay up there. They don't want it to end on a shill bid. Obviously shill bidding is a big deal and we don't want that to happen on such a big auction. I would think that was something this big of a deal that they've collaborated with eBay with that eBay is not gonna allow shill bidders to stay alive on the bids. And as you can see here, there's been no retractions. So it looks like there hasn't many shill bidders yet or at least they haven't checked yet. This is gonna be quite the question. I want you guys to let me know in the comments. Do you think this is a real bid? There's some questions about it. It's zero feedback. Do you think it's gonna actually go for 1.4 million? I mean, if this is a legit bid, it's gonna go for probably more than that because we have three days and eight hours left. There is so much time until this thing ends. Wow, I cannot believe this has gotten up to this number. The thing about shill bidding though, normally you're shill bidding something that's a low number. I mean, it's not really a big deal for eBay but if someone was to shill bid a 1.4 million then try to retract it, I feel like eBay could come after you for that because I mean, a 1.4 million number is something big enough and like relevant enough for them to actually try.  I thought that was gonna be like, you know, that was my sweet spot for what I thought it would go for. If this is correct, I mean, we are not even close but we'll have to find out. I mean, in a couple of days we're gonna know or maybe probably tomorrow even we're gonna know if this is legit. If somebody up bids this and this stays live then this is probably, you know, it's probably legit bid. And the interesting thing is it's only these two guys. So what was that 160? It's almost 10 times since then. It's 10 X from just two different people, one guy. And I mentioned this, I said all it takes is two guys. So if these are two legit guys or two whales that want this, that's all it takes to go up to a 1.4 million.  It also came to my attention during our live stream that apparently people are selling Tyler the great warrior key chains. There is a guy selling them for 10. There's a guy auctioning one off. So apparently this guy is auctioning. I looks like he already bought one and then is now auctioning it off trying to get some of the hype, which is pretty wild. So this guy's auctioning one off. Twitch chat made me buy one. I know, yeah, I do not buy this by the way. I'm not recommending this but apparently this person is giving money to charity. They're donating to charity as they're profiting off Tyler the great warrior, which I mean, I respect the hustle. They're making it happen, but they have sold a lot of these. I think they've sold like 20 of them or something. They say apparently 25% is going to charities or make a wish foundation. So I guess that's not a bad thing if they actually follow through with it, but I don't think anybody's actually gonna follow up with them. So we'll see if they actually do it or will we? Probably not. We did notice hilariously that they say that in 2012 make a wish foundation arranged for Tyler to visit Konami, which we're pretty sure that it was 2002 when they talked to him. And then 2005 is when it actually happened. I don't know where 2002 came from. That was, I don't think when that happened. So pretty interesting because Tyler, if that was the case, Tyler would be, like he was 12 when they came to him. He would only be like 20 something, like 23. And I think he's a lot older than that. So this number is definitely wrong, which is interesting. But yeah, people are doing things like selling Tyler great warrior.  I'm gonna see if that auction's still up. Okay, so it looks like when you search Tyler the great warrior, that Tyler the great warrior fake auction, there was like a proxy being sold. It was up to like $1,000. Fortunately, eBay took that down because a lot of people were actually bidding on that. It was up over a thousand bucks, which obviously it's not 1.4 million, but that's still a lot of money for a lot of people. And if someone were to buy a proxy thing, it was the real one, that would really suck. So I'm glad that they took that down. I mean, you could see when a big event like this happens, everyone's trying to get in on it. You see me, I've made four videos about it. I know you guys wanna hear about it. People are into this subject.  They're making keychains. It's insane. Oh, no way. It happened live. There was not a legit bid. While I'm recording the video, oh no, it was a shill bid. That is insane. It was a shill bid. eBay officially, I said they were looking into it and it looks like that was not a legit bid. These have been retracted. They retracted that guy's bid. It's back down to 160,000. It is no longer 1.4 million, which is insane. So I'm still gonna post this video in the same way because this will be interesting to see. Like a huge plot twist in the Tyler, Tyler said Kyler. Tyler, the great warrior. I'm assuming that other guy that was getting the 1.4 max bid was also retracted. So that actually didn't show the max bid. So now we really don't know. It's back to the same price that it was before. Wow, this is a huge plot twist. I've only been recording for 11 minutes of like, I mean, it's been shorter than that. One more you guys have seen, but in 11 minutes of time, I was live for an hour and nothing happened. In 11 minutes of time, they retracted the bids and it's back to 160,000, which, hey, it makes sense. eBay, it looks like, so they are not making you confirm to bid, which is a problem. I think that they should restrict this so that you have to confirm your identity or at least confirm funds available to actually bid on this before you can actually put like a 1.4 million dollar bid up, because then you could reveal somebody's max bid and then that could really mess up their bid because like, you're not really supposed to know someone's max bid until you actually get to it.  Okay, that's pretty insane. So it went 600, it went 1.4 million and now it's been retracted.  And okay, cool. What a way to end this. This Tyler the Great Warrior auction had a huge plot twist. That is for sure. So we're still at 160, which is kind of what we thought we were at before I woke up today. And we're still at the same thing. So we're gonna have to see live on Saturday. What happens? I am gonna be live Saturday for the end of this auction. Hopefully there's no shill bidding or anything weird like that. What a weird plot twist. Pretty cool that this happened like not live because I'm recording it for you guys but live for me. I'm in the middle of recording this video. I'm really glad that this didn't happen after I made the video. That would have sucked. So if you enjoyed the video, you wanna see more updates about cool news like this. Let me know in the comments and make sure to subscribe for more epic content like this.


If you have stress and anxiety, realize that it is normal today. We're going to talk about how to overcome stress and anxiety. I'm actually going to give you my four step process for how to remove yourself from stress and anxiety. And with all of the stuff that's happening in the world right now, I don't think I need to tell you how important this knowledge is to be able to have a process to help you. If you happen to feel anxious or happen to have anxious thoughts or anxious feelings, but also if you happen to get extremely stressed out, this will help you as well. So I saw a statistic today that said that in 2020 alone, overdoses were up by 30%. And overdoses are people taking some form of a drug usually to numb a feeling. And a lot of times that feeling is stress, sadness, anxiety. And so if you can have these tools in your tool belt and you can remember this, it can help you as you're working through these.  That's not necessarily normal, but to have some form of stress and anxiety is not necessarily showing you that you're broken. You're not broken. If you have anxious thoughts, you're not broken. If you have fearful thoughts, you're not broken. If you have worry that tends to creep into your mind too often. One of the things that I find with people before we dive in and actually talk about how to overcome the stress and anxiety is for you to realize that if you feel them, don't judge yourself. Don't think that you're broken. Don't think that the system that you have in your body, there's something wrong with it is what it is. It will happen and you have to understand that there's ways to get out of stress and anxiety. Now, I do want to be very clear when I talk about stress and anxiety, I'm talking about stress and anxiety. I'm not talking about depression. Depression, if it's a clinical depression, is a chemical imbalance inside of somebody's brain. I'm not talking about a chemical balance inside of your brain.  Very rarely do doctors actually say, well, let's actually test what's going on in your brain. It's usually they're like, OK, what are your symptoms? Here's some pills to get rid of it. A lot of times, and actually to be honest with you, to give you statistics, 61% of the time, they found that people are misdiagnosed with depression when they actually don't have depression. They have stress and anxiety. So I'm talking about specifically stress and anxiety. I'm not talking about depression. The first thing to do, though, is to realize that it's normal. Everybody's going to have stress and anxiety at some point in time in their lives. It's just about something that you can work through. Don't judge yourself. Don't think that you're broken. None of that stuff. What is happening is your body is identifying some form of a threat in its environment. That's really what stress and anxiety is. There is a threat. We need to become aware of it. We need to work through it. The problem is nowadays, is that threat is actually not something that's in your immediate environment. If it was 100,000 years ago, and we're talking about our ancestors, when they felt stress and anxiety, it was probably when there was a predator that was around them. Or, you know, they're walking by a lake and one of their tribal members gets attacked by an alligator and now they all have to figure out what to do. So in that case, that's where stress and anxiety actually come from and that's where they're useful. But when you look at it today, usually our stress and anxiety comes from our thoughts about the future or some future event that we're not necessarily in control of right now. So your body is doing what it needs to do. What it's actually doing is your body is sending your brain messages and you can either listen to the messages or you can ignore them. It's up to you. Or you can listen to the messages and you can work through them. So if you know that the feeling of stress and anxiety is the body asking itself or being aware that there is a threat, the first thing you can ask yourself if you're feeling stress and anxiety, is there a threat around me? And a lot of times you look around and you're like, actually, no, I'm just sitting inside of my house, you know, looking at Instagram in the air conditioning.  The threat, more than anything else, is actually coming from your mind. That's what it is. And so as we go through and we talk about this, your body's doing what it needs to do. You need to listen to it. You need to become aware of the stress, of the anxiety, of the worry, of the fear, all of those things. And realize that right now, where you currently are, or that moment where you are in stress and anxiety and fear, all of those 99.9% of the time, you're safe. And that's an important thing for your brain and your body to physically, emotionally, and intellectually understand and feel is the feeling of safety. Okay, I'm stressed, but am I safe? I am. Okay, beautiful. Well, now we can work through that. We can start to figure out what's going on. So ask yourself the question, am I safe?  If you are safe, I want you to intellectually, emotionally and physically feel the feeling of safety inside of your body. Most of the time, if you can literally just feel the feeling of safety and emotionally, intellectually, and every single aspect of you to sink into safety, a lot of times your anxiety and your stress will go away and it's just, okay, I am safe. I am okay right now. There might be something in the future that I'm thinking about. Okay, I can work through that. I can get to it when that future comes, but I'm not in that future moment. What moment am I in? I'm in this present moment. That's what moment I'm in. Okay, so if I'm in a present moment, then can I just work through this present moment right now? Absolutely I can. And so we're focusing on a threat. That's what we're focusing on. But I've identified that I am some form of safe. Okay, good. Now what I can do is I can go on to step two. I've identified that I'm safe. I've identified that I'm okay. Step two is to stop identifying yourself with your feelings. So a lot of people say I'm stressed. I'm anxious. If you've been listening to the podcast long and if you've heard me say it, do not ever identify yourself with a feeling that is not you. Don't identify yourself with something that is not empowering. Don't ever say the phrase, I am if the words that are gonna follow it are not the most empowering things that you can say to yourself. So to say that I am stressed, I am anxious, is that empowering? It isn't. Stress and anxiety is a feeling and it's an emotion. It's like a cloud that's passing. You'll never look at a cloud that's passing and say I am that cloud. Or if it's the weather, if it's raining, you don't say I am rain. You're not. It's just, okay, the weather is passing. I know that eventually the rain will stop. I know that eventually that cloud will pass. So there's no reason for me to identify myself with it. So step number two after you've identified step number one, which is that you're safe, step number two is to go, okay, I am not stressed. I happen to currently be feeling the feelings of stress or I happen to be working through my stress. I am not anxious. I am just currently feeling a little anxious. And for some of you might be like, this doesn't seem like it matters much. It matters a lot because you're not identifying yourself with this feeling, with this emotion, which is just like a passing cloud. You're not that. You are the human behind that. And if you want to get even deeper, you're the soul that's inside of the human behind that. You're not anxious. You're not stressed. You're just happening to feel those feelings right now. And we all know feelings, they're fleeting. You can be happy one moment. You can be stressed one moment. You can be sad one moment. You can be anxious another moment. Do not identify yourself with any form of a feeling unless it's the most empowering thing that you can identify yourself with. So step number one is to identify that you are safe. Step number two is to stop identifying with the emotion or with the feeling because you're not broken. There's nothing wrong with you. That is not who you are. Step number three is that you need to breathe. And if you've been listening to me for long enough, you've heard me talk about the importance of breath. If you've been looking at any scientific research recently, it seems like the breath is like this amazing thing that people are just starting to finally uncover and identify as this thing that just changes human states remarkably. And so you've probably heard me talk about six deep breaths can absolutely change your state immediately. And it's very simple. It's just in through the nose, out through the mouth. The key of it though is to literally make your inhale, come in and make your exhale longer than your inhale. The exhale is the more important part. And the reason why is because the longer the exhale, the more it actually slows your heart rate down when you're feeling stressed and when you're feeling anxious, your heart rate will go up. Absolutely. I'll give you a perfect example. I wear a heart rate monitor on myself at all points in time. It's called a whoop. And literally, I was watching the very last game of the NHL Finals, Stanley Cup Finals. And I'm a Tampa Bay Lightning fan because I come from Tampa Bay. The last two minutes, I literally turned my heart rate monitor on. My heart rate, resting heart rate went from 1.7, I'm sorry, went from 75 all the way up to 120 in the last three minutes because I was feeling stressed and anxious like we got to win this game, we got to win this game. It's only the last two minutes. We're only up by one. So just the feeling raised my heart rate. So if I want to lower my heart rate, I got to breathe in through my nose. And then when I exhale, here's the key, is to act as if you're breathing through a straw. That's how you want to do it. So the inhale can be, and then exhale can be, that alone lowers your heart rate. Do that six times. And there was a Japanese study that found that six deep breaths, exactly like I just showed you, can completely change the state of somebody and help them get rid of their anxiety and their stress. So the exhale has to be longer, act like you're breathing out of a straw, get your lips to be like if they're wrapped around of a straw. And the exhale is what lowers your heart rate. Okay, so now we've identified, first off, number one, there is no threat. I'm okay, I'm safe right now. Number two, I am not this anxiety. I am not this stress. Number three, now I'm starting to work through it and I'm actually starting to breathe. I'm trying to bring myself back to a centered state. The last one is now to become self-aware. When emotion is high, logic is low. The worst thing to try to do is to try to think your way out of a panic attack or think your way out of stress or think your way out of anxiety. No, first you've gotta bring your body back to a stable state before you do anything else. That's the most important thing. So step number four is to become self-aware. Don't worry about trying to figure out why you're feeling the way that you're feeling when you're feeling it. Let the feelings pass, let the cloud pass and do what it's going to do. Now, once it has passed and I feel back like I'm onto a level of calm and equanimity and peace and joy and I feel a little bit better at least, now I can become self-aware. I can take out my journal, I can start my pen and paper, figure out what made me feel that way. Why? Because I want to avoid it.  Wouldn't I want to at least avoid that next time? Of course. So if I've noticed that I've mentally or physically through anxious thoughts and feelings fallen into a hole inside of the sidewalk, maybe I should figure out how I can avoid that hole in the sidewalk next time I go by it. And so I get a pen and paper and I start to figure out what's going on. Now that I've brought my levels back down to somewhat normal, I'm gonna ask myself, what was I focusing on that made that happen? So when I felt that rush of anxious thoughts, that rush of stress, what was I focusing on? What was I thinking about? What was I ruminating on? What were the majority of my thoughts being consumed by? And here's almost every single time what it is. You're being consumed by thoughts of a possible future, something that might happen later on down the road, but hasn't even happened yet. And what's actually causing you the stress and the anxiety is the fact that in this present moment, you can't control the possible future moment. And so the anxious thoughts is actually a control problem, wanting to control the future when in reality there's no way that you can ever control the future. You can't and you know you can't. And so you actually start to ask yourself, what was I thinking about? What was I identifying? What was I ruminating on the entire time that made me feel the way that I felt? Because I don't like feeling that way. And I don't wanna feel that way again. So I'm gonna journal through it. And next time I notice myself start to go down the rabbit hole of worrying about that thing that's coming up in the future. Maybe it's a deadline that you have at work. Maybe it's a bill. I can take myself out of it. And this is a key that one of my mentors gave me. Just say this phrase, not right now. And it sounds ridiculously simple. It sounds like it wouldn't work. But if you just tell yourself, not right now. And let your brain know that that's what's going on, that we're not gonna focus on it. Interestingly enough, your brain will start to release these things when you train yourself to just release it. Since one of my mentors taught me this, if I start, there's a lot of times that I'll wake up in the middle of the night, three o'clock and I'll go to the bathroom and I'll come back and thoughts of business and things that have to be done in my to-do list will come into my head. And I don't know about you, but that'll keep me up for an hour, two hours sometimes.  When I learn the strategy from a mentor, it literally just allows me to get rid of it. The thought is, not right now. So when I wake up, I go to the bathroom, I come back in a bed and I think about, oh, there's this thing that I have to do. I have to be up at seven, I have to do this, this, this, this, this. Oh, I've also got this in my to-do list. I just go, hey, brain, not right now.  That's fine. It sounds so ridiculously simple. It sounds like it wouldn't work. And when my mentor told me about it, I was like, it's definitely not gonna work. It freakin' works. My brain's like, oh, okay, cool.  And I was like, oh, all right, cool. I guess that's what I gotta do. It's just the way that it works. So now that you've realized what you have stressed out about, you can figure out what got you there. And now when it comes up again in the future, you have a way to work through it so you know how to release yourself from it. The question that you want to think about is what can I control right now? So what can I control right now? I can't control that future. What can I control right now? I control how I feel right now. I can control how I think right now. So let me go ahead and try to pick those things up. I want to work through those two things. How can I make myself feel better right now? Not later, not thinking about the future. How can I make myself feel better right now? Stop taking yourself out of the present moment. If you can bring yourself back into the present moment and you can remind your brain and your body that you're safe, next time you start to feel a lot of stress and anxiety and you can breathe through it.  And at that point, you're in power to take your life back. Hey, thanks so much for watching this video. If you want to learn even more about Master Your Mind, click right here and watch this video as well. Simply changing the way. I want you to be aware of this right now. How are you sitting?


I'm currently proud to be the head teacher of one of the fastest improving schools in Wales, serving one of the most challenged communities, and certainly our collaboration has been fundamental towards that. Cardiff High enables us to be a better school, and they even say we're helping them be a better school because we're offering them something special as well. I think it's that relationships you have to get right very early on in order to be able to then form the right strategies for improvement across the school. I definitely made a lot of new friends from Cardiff High, and we sometimes still talk on Facebook and stuff like that. I didn't think there would be, like, how they were. It was different, but it was a good different, not a bad different. I think Cardiff High School and Willows bonded really well, and actually I made some friends and one of them's in my rugby club now. I felt that I was already me deep and snowed under. We're trying to raise standards in the school from a very low starting point, but at the same time wanting to develop more strategy to be able to then, in the more long term, take the school even further forward. I knew I couldn't do that on my own, so the prospect of being able to work with one of the highest performing schools in the country was very attractive to me. Cardiff High's worked in partnership with many schools for a number of years. This has certainly been the most complex in terms of the organisation and planning, but actually the most productive as well in terms of the outcomes we've got. When the heritage changed, everything changed, how we teach, how we check our progress, everything literally is a new score. Also, when our partners with Cardiff High come, there's more opportunities and more doors open for other pupils because they know there's another school there waiting for them to take them on. From a personal perspective, it's certainly been challenging to my staff. I've been able to put staff into perhaps roles that they were not accustomed to in environments that they were not used to, and I think that has enhanced Cardiff High School and it's enhanced the ability of the staff that are within the schools. Much of the work that we've been undertaking outside of the more strategic stuff to do with teaching and learning, middle leadership development has been around pupils. A series of our pupils from Year 9 recently went on a residential with some Cardiff High School pupils to sort of de-familiarise the differences that they see between each other. It was just a completely new experience because we were able to do things which we normally wouldn't be able to jump in off a pier. It wasn't exactly a jump, we just walked off. The best bit was the Gorge War because it was challenging and teamwork. My favourite part of the trip was meeting new people and making new friends. We all got a bit scared at first because we were a bit wary of the Cardiff High, of all the rumours and stuff, but they turned out nicer than what we heard about them. Pupils actually have been very successful working at Llesongside. Pupils that traditionally in the past haven't been. Likewise, Cardiff High School also came in to talk to our pupils and some of our pupils have gone there about six form opportunities for them. I'm applying for Cardiff High because I think it's a great achievement and it's a great chance for me and other pupils in Willows. I also see it as a good thing because as Willows we are not popular as being a good school but that's being stereotypical because we are.  I want to go there, do good stuff and be a good name for the school so that other people can go there and do the same thing. The outcomes in terms of performance certainly would be raising attainment within both schools and importantly actually raising attainment faster than we might have done if we had been working and left to our own devices. I think it's a good thing that we've had the opportunity to apply for Cardiff High because it's definitely opened the longer doors for us, for our futures and it's given us a lot more opportunities and more choice. I think it's a good idea partner in Cardiff High because they're a really good school and they can push us to do more. I think it's good because they're bonding and when they do that you could get some good ideas flowing between schools, not just one to the other. Both of them are really good schools and if you put them together you could become one of the best schools in the UK or something like that. I don't know in the world or something. I think this partnership is brilliant and a lot of our teachers talk about Cardiff High and a lot of them know it's a brilliant school and Willow's is trying to reach its feet. Willow's are improving massively and working together they'll hopefully help us be a much better school because I've been to Cardiff High, their result is magnificent and Willow's results two years ago were completely awful. It's definitely bad to say but it's improved massively so for us to work together and we can hopefully combine their results and hopefully reach where they've reached. I feel as if I've developed a trust relationship with Cardiff High School that will be long lasting, in fact lasting beyond my time as a head teacher of this school. We have now a special relationship and a bond which will go beyond the actual remit of this particular project and the timeframe so where next is very much a close relationship between us and Willow's for the foreseeable future which will continue to have benefits for pupils and staff in both schools.


Okay, very good morning to everyone. Hope you're doing well. It's Wednesday 19th of May Still nursing bit of a cough at the moment So I'm going to try and whip through this briefing as efficiently as I can A couple of things to get you up to speed on firstly starting off with the clothes on Wall Street Fairly uniform closes down around point seven to point eight percent across the major three indices Nine of the main eleven S&P 500 Sectors finished lower and the mega cap tech stocks saw a bit of a turn We saw some late selling pressure on Wall Street and that Essentially has translated through to generally negative trade in Asia and US index futures team lower this morning We'll have a quick chat about those charts in a moment One of the underperforming sectors was that of oil We did see some fluctuation in oil prices yesterday from a technical perspective when we're looking on the daily chart Obviously, we're a really big significant multi-year area of resistance So a bit of a pullback on the initial run-up and test at those levels But that's still to be watched quite closely But as you can see here on the slightly more zoomed-in fashion Barely range bound in that respect with that upside resistance in play But you can see some quite extreme downside pressure that came late in the afternoon yesterday And we're still a little bit heavy this morning down 69 cents for the time being One of the main things that people are looking at is some kind of flip-flop comments to a certain degree from Russia Russian envoy dials back talk of a major breakthrough on Iran deal So there was some kind of semi cryptic and tweets that were made that kind of felt like there was an imminent restoration of the 2015 nuclear Accord and deal with Iran and a breakthrough was forthcoming There's some talk about an imminent announcement I happening today in Vienna And that was what was causing some of the volatility But just to be clear some of those comments have been walked back But did at the time trigger a bit of a slump in in prices and that did weigh consequently on some of the related energy names Just having a look here. Sorry at the chart on on oil This is what I was talking about so on the daily chart that was that area of of resistance We've been looking at for Monday this week and then that was that volatility here on the right-hand side as you can see on the extension on those weeks But looking at equity markets as I said lower clothes on Wall Street been a late-selling pressure I'm just going to look at the NASDAQ 100 here and That area still in play that we've been looking at and despite kind of rough Resistance, it's still been an aerial zone if you like with that double bottom from early May There's restricted any price gains despite the kind of seesaw price movement and we're at at the moment essentially is just a fib drawn from this March early March low Up to the to the recent highs that we've printed in the NASDAQ going back to Around late April We're about essentially a 50% retracement of that move as we trade at the moment So a bit of near-term response to that for the time being in a NASDAQ However going lower down next points here of support. I hang at 13,000 70 the 13,000 level And then the eventual low that was seen Towards the the back end of last week, which was down at 12 9 15 if we continue to trade Somewhat heavy again the major kind of themes here that are weighing on equities is mainly predominantly down to inflation There was the Bank of America kind of fund manager serve out yesterday and unsurprisingly inflation is the main concern that people have at the moment S&P wise Not too interesting right now. I'd say again We've responded quite nicely yesterday to the level we're looking at at the R1 and the previous high and we've just kind of drifted south since that point in time on a daily chart Just wait for it to load up here Again, we're just bit of a reversal of the the initial bounce and firm bounce that we saw during the really second half of last week So these US equity indices I think they feel susceptible again to a little bit of further downside the market is kind of wrestling at the moment this idea about Kind of on the rotational side the balancing of the Fed And what they're going to be Judging upon their decision-making on the on their view on inflation. So I don't really see Very bearish developments. However Potentiality force for some further way to come in kind of be my base case for you In the FX market the dollar continued to remain weak. It dropped for a four straight session yesterday. So from a currency perspective And we continue to see that support then other dollar based pairs So you're a dollar continues to move higher at the moment and you can see in the Asia-Pacific session Coming to late hours into European Open. We've just managed to break higher once again Looking on the slightly longer time frame. This is on a daily chart as you can see here going back to the Feb 25th high is what we're testing at the moment and so Initial key technical test here at these levels on the upside any breach above that I'd be looking at the 123 handle If I just mark that up, you've got those highs that we're seeing back on the 8th of jam And then also mid-deck and then that was CS also Insight of the year-to-date high in the euro up at 123 68 so quite an incredible turnaround really for the euro since the doldrums of price We were trading literally not that long ago at the end of March when we were close to a 117 handle You know, we're now having conversations about trading back up at 124 handle So, you know irrespective of equity fears about how to handle this inflation situation The rest of the market seems fairly assured at this point that the Fed are going to remain accommodative And that's what's leading to that dollar weakness despite any Increased inflation concerns and largely that is reflected in the yield movement as well because t-notes down here in the bottom right I've been very quiet as well, which would fit in step With that and so hence the reason why although there could be some further material downside the US equities I still think we we eventually encounter some some decent support lower down if that were the case gold Consolidation really after the breakout that we had at the beginning of the week I don't think that's again too much of a surprise because we're up at that key 75 level on the test Definitely worth watching that today. I mean yesterday You can see the range was respected but very early in the European open here at 7 a.m. Right now as I'm filming this We're right up testing any break of that You got the R1 and the previous days high sat at 76 But on the daily chart obviously this opens up the prospects of really next stop would be psychological more than anything up 1900 hand on and certainly the way it's been shaping up. That wouldn't be too surprising. I think to materialize on on the day session Okay, quick look at some of the other headlines Something I'm sure that you've you've already seen is Bitcoin Bitcoin chartists see the route worsening with 40,000 in focus Well, you can forget 40,000 because we're already through it. I mean, that's how quickly this asset moves The world changes in the blink of an eye and and here we are. I know this is a little bit I'll try and drag the annotations into shot But if you just go through the year-to-date journey, it's been incredibly interesting one actually for Bitcoin price action We initially hit first thing first week pretty much of the year all-time highs The breakthrough really confirmation of the run through 20 we went to 40,000 very rapid fire People just bailing on that on the quite aggressive pullback once we hit that target He broke through that on confirmation of almost a validity of of Bitcoin in a more mainstream sense after best Tesla said it would buy Bitcoin and accept it as payment We kind of went then all the way up until we had some issues around The Bitcoin kind of mining blackout that happened when we hit the peak at around 65,000 and then You know Musk has been on a bit of a death wish since that point and he and his increased frequency of tweeting from Tesla stop stopping Bitcoin payments To denying rumors of selling any Bitcoin and then we've had that latest 13-f filing from the kind of infamous short positioned Investor Michael Burry who's who has disclosed a fairly sizable half a billion position that he's been accumulating over Q1 in In a Tesla short and and so we're through 40k at least for the moment Which running just under there at the moment we've printed in the futures at 38,600 and 10 And so from a technical perspective Certainly today's clothes is going to be interesting. Do we do we not finish above or below 40k? If we start to go below 40k, I think it starts to get quite quite Heavy in trade or the potential for that you've got those previous highs on 29th of Jan and fourth of Feb That's down at 36 and 40. You've got 35k 30k which was also that low on the 29th of June and then that eventual kind of area of double bottom from late Jan this year at 27,000 seems like Fantastically large moves I'm talking about here from going from 40 to 27k But we are talking about a product that can move in that type of range And I did tweet earlier a backward-looking study of data of on pullbacks In terms of what the average is over the lifetime of Bitcoin and one of the Findings of that analysis is basically Bitcoin tends to retrace to a certain margin of around basically from highs of 30 to 40 percent and generally finds a flaw and recovers and if it doesn't it generally falls more like to the 75 plus type region which Obviously would put us way back lower back towards the 20k mark in that respect from the all-time highs We were trading just literally just over a month ago So yeah quite interesting overnight a little bit of extra weight coming in a lot of people talking about The People's Bank of China conveyed a statement reiterating that digital tokens Cannot be used as a form of payment as a trigger point for some of the selling pressure that came into BTC in the overnight session Final piece of news as well to be aware of is we did have the well a couple of other pieces three more I should have quickly get up speed on and we did have the API all inventories last night They came in at a 620,000 headline slightly less than anticipated 1.7 million cushing 53,000 draw gasoline draw 2.837 million Too much in a way of any real reaction to that to be quite honest Elsewhere on the infrastructure build side in America has gone a little bit quiet on that stimulus side Just really an update of where we're at at the moment because US Republican lawmakers met yesterday And they were kind of trying to find some sort of common ground because if you if you remember the counter proposal from the Republicans stood at 568 billion back in April and obviously Biden's been trying to gun for 2.3 trillion and So they're polls apart at the moment a bipartisan group of senators have discussed the package for around 1 trillion The point being is the meeting yesterday. There was no new force coming plan or figure being tabled So we're still a bit of a status quo at the moment on that side of things And then on there the vaccine virus side It's positive news and this coming out of a study that's found that Oxford Astros COVID-19 vaccine works well as a third booster shot despite concerns the immune system might fight off the Adnovirus used as a delivery Mechanism and this obviously is really important as we go through in time because of the general Mutation evolution of COVID as what we're seeing with the Indian variant You know do these booster shots are they effective in counteracting that and actually according to one unnamed disclosed source here I think it was Here they talked about it another person with the familiar with the trial results Described the antibody reactions to the booster shots unbelievable and strong enough to blow through almost any variant Now that sounds obviously you go to wait for the data to back that type of bold commentary But if it could blow through any variant as a booster shot, this would be hugely positive going forward not so much for Markets right now, but from a COVID humanitarian crisis point of view absolutely Because this this COVID or coronavirus will remain apparent or present for a long period of time and Controlling variant outbreaks will be particularly key as what we're seeing with the Indian variant at the moment Okay quick look at the calendar for today. We've already had the UK CPI come out And you know you guys have probably glimpsed the chart of the pound absolutely no reaction here in sterling and Sterling's just really holding pattern around 142 at the moment after that big run-up that we've discussed Throughout the week. So still just short of the year-to-date high seemed just about 50 pips or so above the current price Otherwise terms of the UK CPI numbers just for clarity's sake 1.5% Reverse expected 1.4% year-on-year that's against the previous of 0.7 So quite a meaningful pickup for UK inflation, but absolutely as you would expect Don't forget these are April readings So we're now comparing prices from the lows of the pandemic from last year in addition to a 9% rise in household energy bills in April and so an uptick of that magnitude is not Untoward I would say so no no great cause for concern at this point Otherwise back to the calendar. What else have we got today? You've got your own CPI, but these are final readings So not expected too much from that the US session is particularly quiet No major economic data for CAD though. You do get inflation numbers for April and you've got the DOE infantry numbers to follow the API's last night. Then you get the FMC minutes Again, not expecting a great deal from the minutes to be quite honest. We already had the the press conference with the meeting and so forth so Yeah, the comments out of the Fed. I mean we had the vice chair Speak last night and told lawmakers that a strong economic recovery is underway, but it's not yet complete So they just continue to follow that party line for the moment I don't think we're gonna get too much in the way of any new information about what Constitutes transitry and things like that beyond what we really already know at this point speaker wise And feds or ECBs penetta speaking throughout the morning, but more on payments systems You've then got feds bullard and Bostick the latter 435 Bostick is a voter on the FMC So one just be mindful of after the European cash close Fixed income auctions coming out the UK bund auction Germany $27,000,000 is 20 year bond auction out of the US and some more US retailers to follow the really stellar performance We saw from Walmart Home Depot Macy's yesterday loads target seeing pre-market today and Happy birthday Buddha And on that note, I'll let you guys get on with your your day and I will see you in the Amphi live chat room All right. 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Use the code Mando that is Mando m o n d o and they're going to hook you up with that discount now I've been walking around this lake right here. This is a lake. I used to fish all the time when I was Going to texas a&m university fishing on that fishing team It's where I started learning about fishing clear water And learning those techniques more finesse techniques and how fish are act differently in clear water This lake is called lake belton and actually ford hood one of our major army bases in the country is stationed here So if you hang around the lake long enough, you're bound to see an apache helicopter fly over It is not known for its amazing bass fishing But it is a cool lake because it's clear water and it's kind of wraps around it It fishes more like a highland reservoir like table rock or any of those Lakes that have really deep clear water and have long rocky points So we're going to do a little camping do a little fishing But what's really cool about this lake is that it has all three species I don't know if I can switch a bunch of fish out here y'all Okay, y'all this is what I'm going to start out with the top water. I'm just going to keep handy This is our hound walking baits a three treble hook walking bait. I've got it on 30 pound braid Uh, I've got a ned rig rigged up and then I've got just a recon So that's just the standard size recon 8 to 12 foot The first fish that I've marked out here are in 28 feet of water. So I don't think the recon is going to get all the way down there I'm hoping that maybe right before dark. We'll get some top water activity I drove through the storms and then it's sunny here, but it might be coming in. It looks like there's some some haze But it was like in the 70s on my drive and then I got here. It was 95. So I drove straight into the sun basically the last time I fished this lake a ned rig wasn't even a thing So the rattle in that out here. I think is going to perform There he is I mean, it's just a boulder.   That is just a clean cut. That is fresh line right there. There we go Come on, baby be a smally Boy that one was just up there. This is either a smallmouth or a spotted bass. It looks like it's got a darker back Oh smallmouth. Oh my gosh.  Yeah, baby. Oh, that is so cool. No Y'all watching from other states where you actually have fat smallmouth This is what you call a texas summer smallmouth That is a bullet right there. Just long and skinny and look at that mouth If you guys watch My my series where I went up north Unthawed the great northern dangle a fish that had this size mouth up there Would be like three and a half pounds. So Uh, they're just you know different down here But what a great fight. What an awesome fish even though it's summer fish are a little bit more lethargic Smallmouth always have a good fight Wah-bah Complete 180 So I've moved up into a pocket that has a quite a few trees in it. I'm about all over them I don't know a couple miles from where I was but that's what's so cool about this lake because it's just got You know a big difference in deep rocky Boulder type water and then you can fish some more pebbly sand with uh with trees Oh, just saw a shad flip over there better get a line out there son.  You can see the outline of it Wah-bam Right there in 20 feet. That is a bass if I've ever seen one Whoo, look up there in the shallows too. My goodness. I might have to rig up a little jig more shallow presentation Get our top water moving Oh, yeah, it's starting to look Bombastic in here Bass exploding out here. I'm gonna get this hound slide one in this face.  Okay fishing freaks. It is starting to happen. We just had our first top water, uh, I think it was a I don't know it could have been a largemouth, but they were pushing some shad up here on this bank and um throwing a jig right now, but I just had two bites on the hound And I can see them got kind of pushing these little schools. So I'm gonna fire that out there. I'm gonna fire the recon And see if we can connect, you know the problem I got just lost that fish, but the problem with fishing braid The treble hooks is you're gonna get a hole In their mouth in the summertime.  I could just work the bait a lot better with the braid. So that's where the old rod comes in Get you a soft rod This rod right here ladies and gentlemen You'll find out soon about all of our our rods that we've been developing, but um It's pretty much tailor made for for this right here. So Oh my gosh. Oh, I came off Holy moly that guy just Unloaded his inertia. I was You guys couldn't see my head, but I wasn't looking. I wasn't paying attention Oh, oh my gosh, I got him that time. Geez That's got to be a smallmouth just angry at it Yeah, that is that is a smallmouth What a ballistic missile Ladies and gentlemen, top water Boy small mouth and top water better We're gonna go ahead and reach for them pliers Don't normally like to do it this way, but I am by myself Okay, we're all good. We're all good, baby. We're all good, sweetheart You get that little torpedo body of yours back in action. See you Oh, man, I don't know if that was the same fish Just multiple attempts on that thing. Oh my gosh That's just so crazy. Okay, bring on the top water strikes Ready I think it's a good time to throw top water Anytime you see surface activity So regardless of time of day, we're entering into You know evening, but Middle of the day I've caught smallmouth in a hundred degrees Over, you know deep 30 40 feet of water It's got to be clear usually but If you see any kind of surface activity shad Popping especially if you see a bass swirl or pop one Don't be afraid to get the top water out. Oh my gosh. I want to just pop right in there right in those stick ups Sometimes it's not You know the predominant thing that they want they might want a swim bait or crankbait But sometimes it is the actual top water that they really want That should be just cam Bowed There he is right there goodness Oh my gosh, what a strike Yeah That's about the same size always got another one with oh my god. He's got three with it I think I just got I just hooked another one. Oh my gosh. No another one bigger one grabbed it a bigger one Freakin grabbed it out of that fish's mouth. Holy cow.  I've never had that happen before I had a 12 incher And then this bass comes up behind there's two more bass and then this like three pound bass comes up And grabs it out of the other fish's mouth. I thought I had both of them on but I exchange for an upgrade Oh Holy cow, I don't know if I can sling this fish It might be hooked pretty good. Let's see Oh, yeah, you're hooked pretty good Come here. Oh my gosh, that is a good smallmouth too Holy moly. Come here, baby You grabbed it good Oh my gosh guys, that's like that's top 10 bites of the year Top 10 bites of the year and he was just pinned in the schnoz too. It sucks that you guys didn't get to see the the grab from this fish, but The first one that you saw jump was just a you know 13 14 incher like I just caught a second ago And then this one and another smaller fish come up behind it like a two pounder and then this this one Snatches it out of its mouth and then spits up another shad A big shad. There's that little cracked up sexy shad color in the hound. It's really good That is phenomenal. I gotta get a picture for that one. That's a cool memory So angry So angry. Give me your face, please. Oh, there you are. There you are. Beautiful sugar booger Oh my gosh, seriously one of the coolest bites of this year Maybe of my last five years to do it in texas on top water. That was just I don't know amazing See baby go back in that clear water and munch them sheds. Yeah Y'all got to smash the like button for that because every time that happens and it's never happened with smallmouth Of me, but when it happens with largemouth or spotted bass, I always get the smaller one Like the smaller one comes up and grab it grabs it. You never get the bigger one Like when you see that bigger one chasing you like, oh my gosh, I want that fish That just happened. Just go ahead and give it a little tickle a little thumb tickle on that thumbs up, please I'm gonna move spots y'all I don't know if I just got lucky and came across a wolf pack or the wind blowing in kind of disturbed that whatever was going on there, but Gosh, I want to find that again. I'm actually gonna Zoom across the lake here. I think What I'm looking at across the lake is a spot that I it was like one of my go-tos I used to Uh catch fish there. Well, they're on some boulders I think my memory's serving me correctly, which it often doesn't we don't have much time left of the day We still got to set up camp. We got to cook But it would be nice to take a trip down memory lane and see some big boulders catch fish off of it And they go in Oh gosh That one came up and snoozled it Got it good got him Dude, he came off that rock largemouth That's cool That's cool Gosh, I had that there was a deep bite I felt the fish bite it as I was I was stuck in a rock I pulled it out and boom and then I reeled it up and boom hit it again And finally I just let it sink. It was probably only like 10 feet down and smashed it All right largemouth Pretty sweet big Chinook helicopter flying over catching green fish evening I think I might try me one more and then I'm I'm I'm gonna go in and start cooking. It's just I'm feeling the good vibes out here. There might be more than one That's just kind of weird how that happened This little spot, so I'm gonna try to Get another one real quick.  Oh Just decent There's definitely more than one on this thing though. Oh There we go just hooked right on top of the schnoz Just a little largemouth probably 12 inch here, but It's deep in the heart of texas.   Oh, they're down there.  This is so interesting because normally this is like A smallmouth area, you know, we've got 25 feet of water on a boulder And they're just a bunch of little Largemouth gotta be a good one Gosh, I see some I see four more sitting on top of this rock Got snagged on it That's where I should get bit though. Yep. He ate it ate it ate it eating it Got it That's crazy. There's a little better one All right, they're right on that spot If you're not fishing braid on your spinning reels by the way Do it Just go ahead and do it Because you can feel stuff like that. That's inhaled. You can feel little changes like that that make the difference I mean, obviously pan optics is really cool, but Before there was that Just having the feel and your rod And using that braid And I've got just a 10 pound fluorocarbon leader on here. It's a decent largemouth. There's like 14 Oh, he bit it bit it Bit it on the rock getting stuck on the rock every time it's a bite. Oh my gosh Boy Guys are healthy down there. I know I said I was going to go in The memory bank has been refreshed. This is literally the boulder the water's low enough I can I can tell it's it's the biggest most dominant boulder on this bank This is where uh, I used to come and catch a key fish I was fishing a tournament or I used to night fish out here He's got it. He was on the rock a little guy Well, you want to talk about absolutely cleaning up And there we go the old black Hawk coming in to give us a sweep Gotta love it Gotta love it Just a big old American dominating machine flying through the air here giving it a one last sin over the water Before he heads in maybe they're doing night operations out here. I don't know y'all You just got to respect what we got going on in the good old us of a one time. I was fishing out here. No joke I was running up. I got close Up into where the military base is they were just running some some operations with the black Hawk or the The Apache helicopters and the pilots were looking around and wherever they were looking The gun turrets were rotating and looking and they you know, he just looked over me and waved and that gun went Oh my goodness I said bud, I'm gonna let you have this fishing hole right here hit on that note Ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna send it in back to camp Fishing for weeks. It is time to take a bite of the gory Wow That trailer needs some grease. This is a good way to end the camp day I wish I could get a nice cold shower Before I hop in whatever I'm hopping in here Sleep because I'm so sweaty and I'm eating hot food and I'm sitting by a fire But that's just camping in Texas in the summertime. The cool thing is We had an absolutely amazing Topwater eat today by a smallmouth in the middle of Texas. I don't know if I'll ever have another bite like that It was so cool. Then we go over to a boulder. I hadn't fished in years And hardly even recognized it when I got up on it.  That was fun Then we got dad gum helicopters flying over the military base. It's just a cool spot Just as awesome as I remember it. There's a ton of deer walking around here right now too That y'all can't even see but tomorrow.  I'm gonna go explore this lake even more try to tap my memory bank and see what other kind of fishing We can get into once again I want to give a shout out to mtb for sponsoring all my adventurous type videos and being with me for so many years And all of you guys for watching my channel Some of you might even remember me fishing this lake many many moons ago So if you've been here for that long, I salute you. That is good. Y'all go ahead and subscribe to the channel Don't forget to smash the like button for all some fish catching greatness And I wish you the best in all of your outdoor adventures. God bless you. See you soon


Today, we're going to be talking about the pain of hard work versus the pain of regret. And if you like this episode, I have episodes that come out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So if you like it, please hit the like button. If you want to subscribe, hit the subscribe button. If you have any questions or comments, please put them down below. Okay, so when we're talking about the pain of hard work versus the pain of regret, we all know that hard work sucks. And that's why it's called hard work because it's hard, obviously. But the only thing worse than the pain of hard work is the pain of regret. Now, these are two separate things. The pain of hard work is something that happens right now. The pain of regret is something that happens later on.  We want everything right now. Everything's instantaneous. When I was younger, it used to be really hard to find the answer to something because you'd have to go into the actual library, find the encyclopedia and look something up. Now, if you have any question about anything, you can find the answer within an instant because all you have to do is Google it. We're used to instant gratification. Hard work and the pain of regret is the complete opposite. The pain of regret comes from being lazy, from not being motivated, from deciding that you don't want to do something you really should, some sort of procrastination. Later on, the instant gratification is not doing something when you should do it.  The pain of hard work is going past the instant gratification, knowing that you will get delayed gratification later on, whether that be with money or whether that be with the success that you want or looking back in your life and actually being proud. Sometimes hard work is really hard. You're going to lose sleep sometimes. You're going to lose friends when you work really hard. You're going to miss important events sometimes as well. You're going to miss your friend's birthdays. You're going to miss different things. Sometimes you'll have to travel and you won't be able to be there for certain moments. But you have to know in the long run that this hard work is going to pay off. The only thing worse than the pain of hard work is the pain of regret. Think from right now in this very moment that you're in. Where do you want to be 20 years from now? What do you want to be doing 20 years from now? What's your profession? What's your family look like? Who are you surrounded by? How much money do you have in the bank? What does your business look like? 20 years from now, if you're looking back, if you put yourself in 20 years from now, when you're looking back, do you want to think about the time when you worked really hard and you actually got to where you are to set your family up, to set your life up, to look back and be proud of what you did because of the hard work? Or 20 years from now, do you want to be looking back with regret thinking, man, I could have done something better with my life. I could have brought the greatness out inside of me. I could have done what I knew that I was capable of doing, but I was just so afraid. I was so lazy. Why didn't I make myself do that? I could have set up my children and my family and my spouse's life so much better had I just made that decision that I was going to go for what I wanted to go for. Because here's the thing, as best as you and I know it, we only have one life. We have one life to live that we know of. Do you want to get to the end of it and wish that you could have done more? That pain of regret. If you want to become motivated, if you want to get your tail up and actually do something, be motivated by not wanting to regret what your life has become in 20 years. Because here's the thing, your life can either be exactly the same in 20 years or it could be amazing. It's probably not going to go backwards because you've already built yourself to the person that you are and who you are right now is able to attain the level of success that you currently have. So you're probably not going to go backwards. But if you don't do anything different, if you don't make any changes, if you don't push yourself out of your comfort zone, nothing's going to change. You're going to be in the exact same position.  Are you going to wish that you had a better story to tell your children? Or are you going to go, yeah, there was a lot of sleepless nights. There was times that I had to say no to go out and partying. There was times when I missed a couple birthday parties. But look at what I have done. Look at what I've done for myself, for my family, for my friends, for everyone around. And the best part about success is this. A lot of people think in this day and age that in order to be successful, you have to screw people over. You have to do things you don't really want to do and push people out of the way. And for some reason, there's this thought of in order to be successful, I have to screw a lot of people over. And a lot of people think in their head, well, I don't want to be successful just because of that one reason. There's an article that I was reading talking about the new billionaire. And what they say is that the new billionaire from now on is going to be the person that figures out ways to help a billion people. Because they say if you can help a billion people and make one dollar off of those billion, guess what? You're now a billionaire. The new billionaire, the new currency, the new billionaire, what you're going to in order to be that person, you have to give so much value to the world in order to receive it. Now, you might be listening to this and saying, I don't want to be a billionaire. I just want to bring out what I know what is inside of me. Well, then you have to plant the seeds now. You have to plant the seeds right now and do the things that need to be done in order to be sitting under that tree in 20 years that you're proud of. You know, there's a phrase and the reason why I'm saying this is that the phrase says the best time to plant a tree, excuse me, the best time to plant a seed for a tree is 20 years ago. The next best time is right now. So what are you doing with your current present moment that you're in? Are you holding yourself back because you're so afraid of the greatness that's inside of you? You know, our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we're powerful beyond measure, as a quote says by Maya Angelou.  And so we think that we need to play small for people because we don't want to make other people uncomfortable by us playing all out.  There's a phrase that I used to live by and still love and says, if you set yourself on fire, people will come to watch you burn. And what that means is that when you literally light yourself on fire from the inside out and you're so motivated and so driven towards something, people look at you and say, hey, that's really inspiring. Maybe I could do that as well. See, we're fearful that if we go out and we play all out that for some reason, people are going to look at us and feel bad about themselves or they're going to look at us and judge us, but they look at people who are on fire and they say, maybe I could do that too, right? I'm just an average person. He's just an average person. Maybe I could do that as well. So there's only two things that you have, either the pain of regret or the pain of hard work, right? The pain of regret or the pain of hard work. Where you are now is a reflection of your past decisions. 20 years from now, it will be a reflection of your decisions now over the next 20 years. What are you going to do to make the next 20 years of your life as great as possible? Are you going to make the decision? Because it all starts with decision. Are you going to make the decision that you will no longer hold back the greatness that's inside of you? The best time to plant a seed was 20 years ago. The next best time is right now. Work hard for what you believe in that will help other people that will bring value to the world and you will not get to the end of your life in which that you had done more. You will get to the end of your life and realize that you did everything that you possibly could. Don't get to the end of your life and regret that you could have done more. So if you liked this episode, once again I have new episodes that come out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. So if you want to see more of them, hit that subscribe button. If you liked this episode, please click the like button. And once again, any questions or comments, concerns, please put them down below. I'll try to answer you whenever I get a chance. But I appreciate you watching this and I'll see you guys soon.