Thank you for joining me as I sit down with Pastor David and Marie Rosales from Calvary Chapel Chino Valley as we discuss marriage, raising children, and managing difficulties that arise in the family. We're ready to begin, so let's talk marriage. Pastor David, in your book, Blueprint for Family, you mentioned that God's Word tells us that marriage is meant to be one of the greatest joys that we ever will experience as a man and a woman. Why is it then so many people will view a marriage so negatively and it would refer to some marriages as the old ball and chain? That's an old joke. For the longest time, people have referred to their marriage with, it's usually a man calling the woman the ball and chain. But it's reflective, I think, of the fact that men in many ways don't have the same, well, this is probably going to sound outdated, but I think there's truth to it, the same domestic inclinations. And think about it for just a moment. I mean, when a little girl is born, it used to be and probably still is true that that baby at a very early age would be given a doll, a baby doll, usually another little girl, no, a baby girl. My granddaughters all have been domestic. They all have had little dolls. My Olivia right now runs around with little, she has a bear, but she mothers it. She cares for it. She carries it around. She takes care of it because that's, I believe, part of her creation, how God created her. When a woman, a young lady grows older, when they're playing with their girlfriends from very early age, they play house. They have the other little girls around them. They talk to one another and they are very much domesticated like that. That's, I believe, an instinct that God plays within them. At a certain age, they begin to get interested in boys in a way that has more of a sense of one day, I'm going to marry this Prince Charming type guy. And then when they're in their late teens, early 20s or so, maybe a little beyond that now, they begin to want to look at Bride magazine and they think in terms of what kind of gown they want and kind of wedding ceremony. This is all part of the way they are.  You know, you never did. No boys, most boys never do that. Most boys don't think of what am I going to wear on my wedding day? And who am I going to invite? We don't think at all. A woman will buy, you know, about those things. A woman will buy a wedding gown and then she'll put it in some kind of protector to keep it. So one day she may, on her 10th or 25th or whatever, try and fit into it again, things like that, you know. Whereas a man goes out and rents a suit very often, a tuxedo that another victim wore, you know, the week before, you know, we don't have those sentiments. There's no groom magazine. There's none of that. None of that is part of our makeup. And so we for the longest time have seen the differences between the way men, at least at one time, looked at or viewed marriage and relationship in contrast to how women do. And so look at men in general, too. I've said this before when I've taught on the subject in the past, I've said, every man I know, after they got married has gained some weight.  It's a strategy to keep you tubby so that you kind of waddle around, you know, and nobody finds you interesting. And so there's just a difference. And I think that, you know, humorists and comedians have noted those differences for a long time. And so, yeah, men like to get out of that nest every once in a while, they want to do something. And so when our wives say, oh, you can't do that, or you can't go there, or I really would be happy if you didn't, well, we eventually began to, as men, call that our ball and chain. And the ball and chain is in reference to being in prison, being in jail. It's what you put around a prisoner to keep them from escaping. And so that's all reflective of the male's tendency to want to step out and do other things. And so it became humorous. But the fact is, when you have a good marriage, and I'm speaking about a marriage where the husband and wife respect each other, their free time, who they are as people and the things that go into that, you know, there's not a, I'm not wearing any ball and chain at all. I'm totally free. I'm totally free to do what I want.  So Maria has never been my ball and chain. You know, if there's anything I have with her, it's freedom. It's a freedom to be who I am, a freedom to do what God called me to do. And so marriage was intended by God to be a fulfilling thing. It was intended to take a man who was in need of completion and to be made one, to be made complete through the bringing of this counterpart, you know, this one who was like him and yet different. And it was intended to be that which completed him so that in the two, they became the one flesh. And so I think that there are men who perhaps, and we'll speak from a male perspective, who perhaps haven't really realized that the woman that God gave to them, which Proverbs speaks about being a gift, you know, it's a prize. She's a prize. Maybe they haven't valued this prize as much as they should. Because without Marie, I'm not complete. I'm not complete. And that brings joy to me, because I have the one who has completed me. And my freedom is to just be with her. My freedom is to just enjoy life, because God knows, you know, as we're growing older, well, the day's going to come when one of us may very well be without the other.    And so we like to laugh and we like to use images like that and joke about that. I think males do that because, oh, because women are strong and because they can, they can tell us what they think and it's part of the game. It's part of the joy.  And without Marie, I wouldn't be who I am today. And there's just no doubt about that. I'd be a different man. Were I to have married a different woman, you'd have a different pastor of the church, an entirely different man. Because I responded to her, her needs, her wants, the things that make her happy. I learned to communicate to her to understand her words, you know, and to see the things that she valued, the things that make her happy have made me a different person.  And you look at her and you say, what kids? I mean, we're just different, right? Like, hey, are you talking about men? Free at last, free at last, you know, you know, I'm able to be somewhere without thinking of the ones that you carry in your heart constantly. Well, that kind of thing, Marie has that kind of thing is part of what made me appreciate my children and to see them with eyes like that, because as a man, I am more task oriented as a man, I am more doing things, getting things done without distraction. Whereas Marie, the children were not a distraction. The children were her life.  She, by her example, helped me to realize the gaps in my life that could be filled by those kinds of sentiments and those kinds of actions.  Right. And the selfishness that can come just from thinking that, you know, as you're mentioning that Marie feels gaps for you, you ever seen that there's a picture, it's usually with a father and a son, but it can be applied to a husband and a wife and it shows a piece missing from, it shows a man and they show like a piece of a puzzle missing and the wife given him that piece or that would fit that exact part. And, you know, I think when you're mentioning that, I think of that as well. It's not the selfishness of calling somebody a ball and chain. It's literally understanding that the design that God has made between man and woman, especially when it's the right woman or the right man, what a beautiful thing it can be. And you're mentioning, Pastor, it's interesting, you're mentioning you would be a different pastor, a different, just everything would be different. And we talked about this before in a matter of seconds. That's mind-blowing. Yeah. Just one second. Just one second. And things could have, the whole trajectory of your life would have been different. Absolutely. And more unlikely I probably wouldn't be sitting here. We wouldn't be here. This church wouldn't be here. And it was because the degrees of seconds or the measurement of seconds could have been different. One second. That's all it took. One second I didn't know Marie. And the next second, my brother is saying, David, this is Marie. One second. And I will always have, in my mind, I can tell you where I was when that happened. I can tell you she came walking from the right. The door opened up. She came walking in. I saw her. I didn't have this run in across the field in slow motion. Bird singing. My church is a fire. What I saw was just a young woman walking in a room three feet past me, because it's a small room. But I'll always remember that. And it was, hello, David. David, my brother said, David, this is Marie. And that was it. Seal deal. Thank God for that moment, honestly. I mean, I do. I thank God for that moment. And I even, in the church, even thanks God for that moment. Well, some night. You know, as we're looking at starting off right, and that was what the question was, the first question was based on. But you know, when we talk about any building project that may come about, we look at a good foundation as necessary for any project that needs to be done, a building project, it can be any type of project around the house. What would be some foundational essentials for building a good marriage? God's the first. You know, as we're seated here on the stage area, directly to my right is my pulpit. And there's a rug on top of a rug. And that rug is covering the concrete. And we had people come into our church facility, our sanctuary, before we laid the carpet. And this entire stage area, every, every square foot of it, this whole area has scripture that we had given some pens, marking pens, and people wrote their favorite verses. So I am always walking on and standing on Bible verses. I always am. Every time I preach, underneath me, I have my scripture. There is no other foundation laid, which has been laid other than Jesus Christ. That's my foundation. There can be no other foundation. There is a sure foundation. And that's why we call our radio ministry and other auxiliary ministries by the, with the word foundation, because that's my foundation, the scripture. So the foundation of my life is scriptural. It has to be. There has to be a fundamental way of thinking. There has to be something that has established your worldview, something that you cling to that has made you who you are. There has to be. And in my case, it's been wanting to do what I know God's word says to do. And so that's my personal thing. That's Marie's personal thing. Marie is a woman of the word. She loves her devotions. She takes her notes when I'm teaching, even though she could talk to me and say, honey, give me your notes, you know, and wouldn't have to.  Yeah, por vida con safos, you know. She writes these things, right? It says Ike. Yeah, yeah. And you?  You know, stuff like that. Those are her notes. All this time I thought they'd been spiritual. Thank you, John, for revealing the carnality of Marie. She kicks me. And so our foundation is scripture.  And if you built your life on the word, at least your best, the best attempts on your part with the power of the Holy Spirit in his illumination to understand these things, well, then obviously there's your foundation. So what is the foundation for a good marriage? If it isn't faith in God, if it isn't a relationship with Jesus, who taught me that I'm a sinner in need of grace, who taught me that. So a sinner married another sinner. And this sinner needed grace, which helps me to understand that that other sinner needs grace too, which helps these two sinners in the grace of God to be able to become that one flesh. And so your home marriage has to be built on your faith in God in his word. It has to be. And everything else will blossom from that, which is what our secret, it's no secret, it's biblical. That's what our secret is though. I actually, and I needed more work on this than Maria did. And I just say that quite honestly, you know, because I'm a man of the flesh. I'm a man who can live in the flesh. I'm a man who, once my mind is said, I've got to do this, then I pursue that to the hurt sometimes of others, because I'm going to accomplish this, right? Because that's how a lot of men are. I need to do this, got to get this done. Now, Marie, on the other hand, entered into our marriage, I would say, with this idea that, you know, my life is being completed in my relationship with this man. This man is going to be the father of my children. This man is going to be the one who protects me and leads me. Marie had a very biblical mindset when we got married. I had to learn what that means from a male perspective.  He had to teach us, because during the time of the writing of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Peter and all, in that day, women were chattel. The Greek woman, you know, was regarded as the one who produced the legitimate children, and that the man would have a woman on the side for his pleasure.  The father had the right of life and death in the Roman society, and that was then vested in the husband. So she was looked at as kind of like an adult child, and that's how it worked. The Hebrews, the Jewish woman was more regarded, but really not as regarded as the man, you know, so for a Jewish woman to change her religious faith from being a Jew to actually converting to faith in Christ would have been an incredibly brave thing for her to do, and the Roman woman and the Greek woman, for them it was unheard of. Also when Paul is writing to, we'll say the Ephesians again, he's having to speak to men who have been in a society that did not value women, did not value them in the way that they were intended by God to be valued. Christianity brought a revolution, people have a tendency of wanting to say that Christianity has dominated and subjugated women.  They're ignorant of that because they have been spoiled in what has taken place here and people right now may be saying, I don't believe that at all. Do your reading, do some homework, and look how women were treated, look at the way they were looked at by others, and that's why Paul had to take these carnal pagan Ephesians, and he had to say, you've got to love your wife because it wasn't mandatory at that time for me to have a love for my wife. She's just my wife, she produces my legitimate children, she takes care of the home. That's why Peter would say that the women shouldn't be worried about their embroidering, their braiding of the hair and jewelry, it's not because women aren't supposed to be beautiful, it's because women of his day had nothing to do, so they played a house, and he was basically saying, you need to redeem the time, you need to be a woman of God, a woman of character. These are the things that women ought to be, why? You are made in the image of God, and that's the context of those kinds of comments that people sometimes don't understand, so you get some church guy saying, well that means that women shouldn't wear makeup and that means that women shouldn't have jewelry, and they take it into an odd place. Why would Peter have said that? It's because you need to redeem the moments that you have, and use those moments like Titus too speaks about, as an older woman, teach the younger women how to build a home, teach them how to love, how to love their husbands and their children. This is something you got in Christianity that was not part of the society at that time. It was a revolution that came through faith in Christ and the transformation of relationships, and so Christianity has really had a tremendous impact that I think sometimes people fail to understand. They don't take the time to really find that out, as you mentioned, and so that will affect the foundations of what a marriage looks like, because they don't take that time. Marie, I'd like to ask you this question. What would be some of the specific things that you were looking for in a husband, and how does that differ from maybe what women are looking for today? Well, what I was looking for is somebody who would love me, and I wanted somebody who had some spiritual background. And at the time, I didn't know, I mean, I wasn't a believer, but when I became a believer, I was looking for this man here. And I wanted somebody like him, I wanted somebody who was loved the Lord, loved the Lord, who was had integrity, who was responsible, who I know would love me, because if he loved the Lord, I knew that he would love me. He was kind and he was respectful and encouraging to me. I wanted a man who was thoughtful and a man who would provide for me, and as we would share and marriage together and bring children into the world as well. And I saw all that in David, which has been a real blessing in our marriage. I saw all that, and I think so many women settle for less. They just want to get married, and they don't even know who they're marrying. That's the whole thing. They don't even know who they're marrying, and you need to know who you're marrying, and you need to study that man. I know that he studied me, and I studied him, and that was it.  That's part of life, and it's a good thing to share your differences, and you know, you grow through all that. We've gone through some challenges, and that's great. Challenges with the children, too. But God has been faithful. He's been faithful, and the foundation was a good foundation, and I would tell the ladies, don't settle for less. Do you think that settling for less is because they feel like there's this time clock ticking that you know more, and I need to get married, and maybe compare themselves to other people, and see them maybe not where they would think is successful by not being married yet, and often times settle for less. It can be dangerous, because it can be a very toxic relationship. If you didn't take the time to get to know pastor as you did, it maybe would not line up with what the things you were looking for. I think a lot of times we can see that when people do get together really quick, it's not till after they're married, they find out, oh man, who did I marry, or I didn't know this about you, or you know, because we see people settling for less. It can be dangerous. Yeah, and some people just date one month, and they're married. I mean, that has happened quite a bit, and they don't even know who they're married to. Just get them mad first, and they'll find out. That's true. Get them upset. Do you think the things that you were looking for then, and it's just reiterating this question again, the things that you were looking for in pastor, there's a significant difference between what you were looking for and what some people are, some of the women may be looking for today? Oh yeah. Oh, absolutely. Would you say that have to do with the foundation that as you mentioned? Yes. You know, my mom and dad were married for several years until he went home to be with the Lord. So yes, of course, yes, yes, my parents were together, thank God. That really helped lay that foundation. I didn't believe in divorce, and I still don't.  And as you're thinking that, that almost sounds from the fruit of a spirit, those qualities that you see. So you're basing, sounds like you're basing your qualities on biblical qualities by having the foundation in God. And that's what I saw in him, because remember when I went to that study, I wasn't a believer. So those are the things that came out. And he was funny too. And funny to me, for sweet with me. He was, he was. I'm looking today pastor. Yeah, I've always teased Marie. Teased me a lot. My love language, everybody's, they can't talk about love languages. You know, my love language is teasing. When I, when I am comfortable with somebody, I play with them. And, and Marie, she's just easy to tease, you know, and, and I, I loved watching her. I still do after all these years, I still love watching her laugh. I will make her laugh. I say absurd things. I'll say things that she'll just kind of blink at me like, where'd that come from?  And I've been doing that since the day basically we met. Yes, definitely. Yeah, definitely. He made me laugh. Yeah, I still do. Yeah, you do. Yeah, that's a, and I've noticed that you'd, I, and you've said this pastor that you do with the people that you love, you tease. And it's a lot of it. I was my dad. My dad was that way. That's how my dad was. And I, I, some things you pick up, you know, and so for him knowing that he didn't say the words I love you, which my dad didn't, I think in my entire life, he may have said that to me, maybe three times in, in all the years I was alive with him. And he died when I was 51 years old, 50, 51 years old. So when you think about that, that, and we were, we were very close, my father and I, and we spent time together.  My dad went to this church. So my dad went to the church for a long time. And I saw him every Sunday and then on other occasions. And I would make him laugh.  And so his silliness kind of rubbed off on me.  And then she'd kind of laugh. And I, I just learned that love language. And so when I met Marie, you know, I, that's just how I was. And she actually accepted it. She saw that as, as fun. And it makes her laugh. And so I, to this day, will do that, you know, and she just thinks it's funny. And when she laughs, I, I feel good. There's a picture that you have of Marie. You showed her something funny. It's a cool picture.  It just really captured some of the responses that I've seen you have when Pastor has said something to you. You show he had shown it to me. It's a cool picture.


Hello everybody, Andrea Trosky here with Dental Little Tutoring. Somebody had asked me a question last week about how to prepare for the interview process when you are being accepted into either the dental hygiene program or the dental assisting program. I had to go through this as well but I went to a private college. So back when I applied, if you had gone to a community college or a university, you didn't have to have the in-person interview, but now things are changing. But I went to a private college so things were a little bit different. Honestly, if you had the money to attend, your marks in high school didn't really matter and I'm saying that because my marks were horrible. I remember for dental hygiene going for my in-person interview, you have to obviously show them your marks from high school but then you also had to take a test based on math and sciences and some English too. And that's not something that you can study for. At least I didn't really know how to study for at the time so I didn't do a very good job. And I remember going in for my interview and I'm surprised that I even had one because apparently I did not do well on the test at all. But they had said to me, you know, we do not have a lot of applicants at the moment. I think I was just lucky. So I did get in for that personal interview and obviously I was accepted so I must have done something right. So depending on where you live, marks may make a big difference. But where I live, if you go to a private college and you do not have the best marks in high school, it's okay. Like I had maybe a 60% at the most for my math, sciences, and English. I just was not a very good high school student. You know, I was a good student but I didn't get very high marks. But it was because I wasn't interested in what I was learning. For the application test, I didn't do well on that either because it was math and sciences. But for the interviews, I just kind of know how to talk to people I think so that helps a lot. I'm just going to move my webcam for a second here. There. How does that look? So what you have to remember is just honestly be yourself. Okay? Try not to be, try not to look obviously nervous because there's nothing to be nervous about. Honestly, there's nothing to be nervous about.  I'm talking to your aunt. You know, I had two people in the room each time when I had my interviews but sometimes there's one person, sometimes there's more. But just talk to them like they're actual people and they will appreciate that. Like I remember being in for my interview and I said, you know, hey guys, like, oh my gosh, it's pouring outside. I almost got lost coming here. I aimed to be a half an hour early but I'm only 15 minutes early. But I guess that was okay. You know, just come up with something light to talk about initially because it kind of helps make the room less nerve-wracking if that makes sense because that will make them laugh. That will make them start another conversation about the weather or whatever. But that's just something that I like to do is I just sort of add in like, oh my gosh, I just moved here. Sorry, it took me a while to get here. But I'm early at least, thank goodness, because I didn't want to be late. Or I'm sorry. Or talk about the weather. Honestly, just talk about something else. Some of the common questions that they like to ask you is always, why do you feel that we should accept you into the program? That's an honest question that they do ask all the time. And you might be thinking, well, because I want to take the program, you know, how am I supposed to answer that, right? Come up with something original. So I will give you guys a couple things, you know, say something like, well, actually, I've been wanting to be a dental assistant since I was 10, even before I knew what a dental assistant was. I had such an amazing experience when I was a kid, probably because I didn't have any cavities. I had no, no issues. So I think I was just lucky, you know. But I always remember seeing those, you know, happy people at the dental office all the time. And I thought, well, if I have to work all day every day, I want to be happy like them too.  I've always taken very good care of my teeth. I like talking about teeth. I don't understand why some people don't brush twice a day.  Add a little bit of humor into it, you know, say something also like, yes, I know that my high school marks were not very good. I worked hard. I can't honestly say why they were so poor because I did work very, very hard. It could be because I just didn't find it all that interesting, but I am so excited to take the dental assisting program. In fact, I've even already purchased a textbook from Amazon just to look through it. So then that way, I do have a head start. I've been asking people questions.  I'm not saying lie, but, you know, come up with things that just make you sound more appealing.  Simply saying, well, I really would love to be a dental assistant. I've always wanted to be one. I want to make some good money. And yeah, that's it. You know, that is not the same as having a little bit of energy. I understand that you may be nervous. I think I was just always lucky because I'm just not nervous about things like that. But have energy, try to add humor and do not sound like monotone. You know, do not answer things like, mm-hmm. Yeah. I want to be a dental assistant. I like this school. It looks really nice. You know, don't answer like that. Answer as if you have personality. Even heck, ask them questions, but not until the end I find. Like, it's okay to ask them questions, but if you start off with asking them questions like, so do like your job, you know, they might be like, pardon me. Like, no, don't ask questions like that. If you have questions about the appropriate questions to ask, then feel free to comment. But I think it's also kind of common sense too, right? But that is the most common question. They always like to ask about you too. And I think it's just because they don't know what else to ask. And they're trying to pick apart the right students for their program. So they might ask you something like, so tell me about yourself. And that's always been a hard one even for me, because I don't know what they want to hear. You know, I'm also pretty boring, like I'm not that exciting. And that's what I will say to them. Like, I will say something like, well, I'm not really that exciting.  I stayed in a lot of nights because I would prefer to stay at home. I always knew that I want to be a dental assistant. So I did try very, very hard in high school. So I was always studying for something. I have a very close group of friends that like, we don't really go out too much like, like our idea of a fun time is sitting at home eating pizza and watching movies. So I'm not really that exciting.  There's no right or wrong answers for talking about yourself.  Try to be professional at all times and think of professional things that kind of they would want to hear if that makes sense. Again, I'm not saying lie, but if you like to go out every night, maybe not mention that because they're not going to want a student who wants to go out every single night and then doesn't show up for classes and then they have issues there, right? I'm trying to think what other questions would they add? They like to say things like, Okay, this is a very tough program just so you know, how would you handle if you had three tests, two exams and one project all in the same week?  Don't say that. Say something like, you know what, that's a good question. Well, I would first look at when my tests are due, you know, projects do assignments do and then I would try to prioritize my tests that way. I would want to get things done first that were due first and then study for things that I needed to afterwards. For a test, I like to study at least a week in advance because I'm not the type of person who can study for two hours the night before and get an amazing mark. So that will not be me, you know, again, try to add humor. You know, something like that. They have asked that question before. And if you have taken the interview, please let me know the types of questions that they are asking so that I can sort of help everybody else and how to answer them. What else I'm just trying to think guys. Yeah, you know, I can't think of any other questions. Those are honestly the main ones just always try to add a little bit of humor. Try not to sound too nervous and always, you know, thank them for their time afterwards. If they ask you if you have any questions, think of something like, well, how many students do you normally take in? You know, even if you know the answer, it does help to just kind of ask the questions so that they know that you're not afraid to ask that you're paying attention even. Or if you just just honestly have any questions, you know, ask. So when will I find out if I'm if I'm accepted? Because if I am, I want to get a head start with everything. You know, like even say to them that I I'm already looking into a tutor to help me with my program so I can make sure that I am amazing. Okay, even say that because I can help you guys, right? I can help you guys online. Even if you don't sign up for a course, I can just help you guys through through here. So that tells them that you are serious about doing a good job. So whether it's for dental hygiene, for dental assisting, that will show them that you are serious. So I hope this helped. If you guys have questions, let me know. And I will see you guys in the next video.


Hey friends today is our second stop on our epic Disney World Resort hopping staycation We left the world in this lodge and now we are checked in at our next resort and I think you're gonna like it So let's go do this Normally I would start outside, but it's a little rainy out, but can you take a guess where we're staying tonight? Oh? Yeah, Bay Lake Tower theme park view. I am so excited Look at that castle and I just realized I don't need to be wearing my mask I'm on my own balcony, but like I said normally I would start on the outside, but it's been a very rainy day So I decided what better place to start than probably the best balcony I have been on yet There are three different things that make this the best balcony number one those chairs are comfortable Number two. I like how they have this closed off and number three That view. Oh, yeah, look at we get a space mountain Cinderella's Castle the monorail and even the contemporary I am so excited to watch the sunset here The only issue with that being we need to get all this gloomy weather to kind of scoot away It's starting to peak over there And I'm seeing light at the end of the tunnel, but I need it over here I needed at the Magic Kingdom If you can just look yonder over the contemporary there, you can see it's starting to actually clear up a little bit So hopefully by the time it reaches over here It'll be sunset time and we're going to have an amazing view In the meantime, I decided to take a step back out of the room and give you the grand tour because I Absolutely love this room First thing to point out that I think is amazing is the hallway rug Look at all those hidden mickeys and then look at the entrance to your room This is some classy stuff here So let's get inside Thank you Can we just point out that as soon as you walk in this door your straight shot view is cinderella's castle like seriously door Castle that is Amazing And that's not all because there are also some other things in this room that make it a lot different than the other resorts I've stayed at Number one being instead of having kind of like this area as a little kitchen area with your sink and stuff It's kind of like you have your own kitchen like an apartment would this is pretty amazing stuff right here Look at this.  Look at this thing Oh I see me And then to the left of your kitchen We have one of those fancy doors that slides and this leads into the bathroom Oh take a look at that And it's a nice little cozy bathroom. Oh, I like these lightings very bright Hello And then in the sleeping area Take a look at the art on the walls Oh, man I want this And I want those This is amazing stuff right here And i'm listening to the resort tv and it's playing go the distance one of my all-time favorite disney songs I will find my way I can go the distance The actual tv entertainment center is doubled as a dresser and it's got some fancy doors Look at this I really like it Can you can you tell that i'm a little excited like I I am I'm very very excited The table is nice. I like the mirror and also the couch area itself I mean, it's a little leather couch, but no, it's not leather. I don't know what that is I like it though But honestly, I'm probably just going to be enjoying the patio this whole entire time. I mean, this is just phenomenal I am so excited to be here. I know I've said that probably two or three times But you know, sometimes you just ramble on and you need things to say so you express how excited you are So my plan is to sit out here watch the sunset And actually enjoy the views of the magic kingdom and then explore around the resort a little bit But because bay lake tower is facing bay lake and this is a theme park view It's facing the magic kingdom We're not going to be able to do a sunrise video tomorrow because there is no sunrise over here The sunrise actually rises behind us. So like when it gets above to the highest point It's going to be directly above us. So we're going to focus on a sunset But don't you worry because I feel a sunrise at bay lake tower is in the works And like I said, there may be hope that this is going to clear up and it's going to be a beautiful sunset Maybe even a rainbow. I got high expectations. I always want the best But that would be amazing a sunset rainbow that I could do Not even sure if a sunset rainbow is a thing or if it's actually possible But regardless, I'm excited. Oh, and I'm also wearing my contemporary monorail shirt. I put this on just for this day I love this shirt. Probably my new favorite shirt We're gonna be staring at monorails all night This is so awesome That was absolutely amazing The skies didn't clear up, but it didn't matter because it literally was beautiful Me just sitting out there for two hours was probably the highlight of my day or week. Actually I just thoroughly enjoy capturing The moment on camera and like also Kind of experiencing it. Well, of course experiencing it myself, but this was fantastic I absolutely love this balcony. I love this view I'm like a little sweaty because it was a little hot out there, but oh man Now we're gonna actually just go about the resort and explore a little bit of it. I'm excited to show you Also, it's important to point out that the Polynesian is still king of the pillows king of the pillows But they definitely won king of the art. I'm sorry. I'm saying everything kind of backwards But that rainstorm really threw me off. Anywho's we're staying at Bay Lake. This is the contemporary I did request the highest floor possible and the highest they can go for me was the ninth and there is I think 16 floors Yeah 16 floors at bay lake tower. So you can go pretty high up I really liked my view though because I was right in line with the monorail track And I still got a clear view of magic kingdom. So the ninth floor is actually a very good floor If you're familiar with bay lake, they actually have a top of the world lounge here That's not open at the moment. Look at all these beautiful pictures though. Wait till we get down to the lobby I'm gonna show you some good stuff. I think every single floor has a different art piece This is the first floor and that's just magical if these end up coming for sale anywhere I definitely got to get one Because bay lake tower is a part of the contemporary All of the food and merchandise locations is actually over there and you have Connection bridge that I'll probably show you later But since we're here in the tower, I wanted to show you some of the offerings they have right here This is the main lobby area and you're greeted with these amazing castle pictures on both sides too Let me point that out and then the lobby itself Is just like a regular lobby.  You would see an animal kingdom lodge But it's very cool The furniture I don't know about this solid wood Outside they have a pretty fancy pool fountain and bar area and you're gonna check out all that But actually the fountain here is one of my favorites I'm not even sure why it just stands out to me as a nifty little fountain We're gonna see if the pool lounge is open I know the pool's open because I can see people swimming in it, but I don't know about the lounge A look at the water slide without showing people swimming in the pool It's very awesome and it's got that awesome Mickey right there, too Unfortunately the cold bar isn't open at the moment and that's because of the rain But they do have something going that I haven't seen at any other resort yet They got the fire going and this is a beautiful fire pit Very awesome to just hang out here. These chairs look very comfortable No other resort has had fire going that I've been to so far This is the first time I've seen one and I always love coming here because they always do s'mores I'm sure they're not doing that right now. Take a look at the resort from the fire pit area Isn't it massive? This is such a huge resort And since the pool area or the pool bar is closed We're gonna head back up to the fourth floor I believe and take the bridge over to the contemporary Maybe check out the Contempo cafe. They got a sandwich there that I really really enjoy Oh, my apologies. This gallery bridge is on the fifth floor Thank you Oh, look at that picture I need it Oh, man, I really want that I feel like they're missing an opportunity not having like a little art shop where you can buy all these amazing prints I would buy them all And here's the walkway that I was talking about Fancy doors. Holy moly. I wonder if these ones are gonna do it too Very fancy I absolutely love the contemporary one of these days. I'm actually gonna stay in this resort I love Bay Lake too, but one day the contemporary is definitely gonna be on my list And like I said, we're gonna eat at the Contempo cafe I've eaten at the wave in the california grill recently So I figured this is a good spot, but take a look at these desserts Holy moly a peanut butter pie tart They have some really good stuff here cookies and cream. Is that like a monorail? Oh, man, I might have to get a dessert and a sandwich And just like most of the actual restaurants everything is mobile order But I have some very sad news right now Because they don't have my sandwich that I like to get here They usually have this beef steak sandwich that is phenomenal, but it's not available If you guys plan on coming down here, make sure you know that some of your favorite stuff isn't actually going to be there So I guess maybe I'll go with the meat lover's flatbread That sounds pretty good fresh world pizza dough. Ooh So we're gonna order that I'll take it. Thank you. And here is my flatbread Oh, it's looking really good. Isn't it? Actually, I'm excited to try this But also I did get The peanut butter tart I had to absolutely had to I'm kind of shocked because this is like a fresh dough pizza Yeah, it really is so we're gonna go Actually really really good. The only thing is is it's not very saucy. It's not very saucy or not saucy So what I actually did is I went up and I got a side of pizza sauce and we gave it to me and I just put it on top and Now I can't complain. It's a great flatbread. This is really good but Enough of that flatbread. Let's get down to business And when I mean business, I mean peanut butter business The thing though with the tarts is they're very hard to cut So we're gonna try to get it so that it comes apart very easily up There we go and a little bit of tart perfect Peanut butter first though, definitely I was a little shocked because if you see right here in the middle They actually have like a little vanilla custard So this is the peanut butter part and then this is the tart in the crust part But I wasn't expecting that and that is amazing altogether That was absolutely Amazing. I'm so happy that I decided to come over here even though I want to get my beef steak sandwich This was a very pleasurable experience But also look at the sleeping monorail inside the contemporary Just sleeping doing its thing. I love it But for now, let's head back up to our room and check on the castle. Make sure it's doing okay, you know Look at the beautiful view of bay lake as we walk back over to bay lake tower I love it. Oh, you can see the Orlando eye from here Look out fancy doors coming in I might be intrigued to stop and see all the nifty art on each level So we got the seventh floor art Oh, it looks like cinderella. I like it Daisy very nice Oh, we're on the ninth floor We've already seen the ninth floor. So we're gonna go to the tenth floor Snow white Now let's do the 11th and the 12th. Oh won't let us go any higher Looks like the 11 12 14 15th and 16th is closed off. So back down to the ninth And there she is looks like everything's under control And with that, I think I'm done for the night. I'm sorry. I'm not going to be doing a sunrise video tomorrow Like I said, uh spoiler alert We will be back at bay lake tower and we're going to be staying lakeside. So we're going to be able to capture that sunrise Pretty amazingly. I'm very excited for that. Tonight was more about the sunset and I absolutely love that Even though the weather was a little gloomy, it doesn't matter Honestly, I loved every single minute of it. You have to make the best of every situation that you're in That's just what life's all about any hoes Thank you so much to the coal family. You guys made it possible for me to stay here tonight and I am forever grateful like absolutely It is unbelievable and I feel just so honored that people think of me when it comes to their dvc points and Them going to waste and just for them to be able to say, hey, would you like to stay? Like I feel like honored I really do so That's it. I hope you guys enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it We'll see you uh next time or at the next resort. Good night


Freedom got a community guideline strike, and I will show you how, so it doesn't happen on your channel. Introduced by Abby Enda's shadow. Hello, Freedom Family. So, Freedom got a community guideline strike because they were showing you guys how to download a video. Thank you, Abby Enda's shadow. Yes, we were showing you how to download videos in bulk using ways against YouTube policy. We were doing it to show you how to back up your channel. It was for a good reason in case your channel gets terminated or you get hacked. But YouTube gave us a strike because there's only two ways that are officially supported for downloading YouTube videos. One is by going to each video in your video manager and clicking download. I'll show you how right now. So if I wanna download this video, I will just go download here. The other way is by using Google Takeout. You probably have never heard of this because it's not a very popular tool, but just Google, Google Takeout, it goes to takeout.google.com and this allows you to export your entire YouTube channel among all the other things that Google supports. I have to search for YouTube, there's too many. So here you can download all of your YouTube data in multiple formats and that's a way to export all the videos on your channel in a few clicks. So when you are creating videos, make sure that you are not breaking any of YouTube's policies because you do get one free community guideline strike which means it doesn't count as a strike, your first one, but that's lifetime and after that, you will get a community guideline strike that'll take 90 days to expire and of course if you get three of them, then your channel will get shut down but after 90 days, the strike goes away as if it never happened. Have you ever gotten a community guideline strike freedom family? Tell us down there in the comments below. We'd love to know how you solved it or what lessons you've learned so we can all help each other grow together as a family and avoid strikes on our channels and now I wanna give one of you a shout out. Do you have my time in the description? Not now, later. Because I wanna get more than a tailpipe for my needs. The shout out is from a comment, one of you left beneath this video behind me, the $2.2 million that we paid you. Click that I to see this video and the comment is from TTBogTV who wrote, can I have a shout out? I've been following your tips, thanks for all of it. Well, since you asked so nicely, sure, let's have a look at your channel and one of your videos. Your channel is all about bikes, where to buy them, how to fix them, how to maintain them and I was really impressed at your green screen right here. Roll it. Now one fun fact, how did I remove these thumbnails from this video? To make the video more clean. These thumbnails, you can just right click on one of them and then choose inspect in Google Chrome and then you just find the element that says secondary inner and then you just set display to none. That's it and now all the comments are gone. So the video is more clean and easy to read. If you would like a shout out about your channel, feel free to ask nicely in the comments and I will pick deserving channels, especially if I see you helping other people. The goal of freedom is to help each other grow together and the more I see you helping others, the more likely I will give you a shout out when you ask nicely as well. Hope this helps. Oh, and we have Avienda hiding behind me. Well, since you asked so nicely, Avienda, sure. Avienda's channel is youtube.com slash aviendavenus and in case you didn't know, Avienda is a character in the Wheel of Time books. That's where we got her name from. She's a warrior princess in Robert Jordan's epic fantasy, The Wheel of Time, which I highly recommend for everyone to read. So Avienda is exactly at 250 subscribers, a quarter of the way to a thousand, which is what you need to get monetized. Actually, Avi's already monetized because she created her channel before the 4K1K rule and joined Freedom so that even though she's smaller than 4K1K, she's still making money. How much money did you make, Avienda, in the last 30 days? She got 42 cents and she's very proud of that. So looking at Avienda's latest video, she talked about the roadblocks. She said, trading for rare pets. Let's have a look. So in this video, Avienda trades her rare pets with other people in the game roadblocks adopt me and she's using the exact same on deceit that I am. In fact, it's the exact same setup that I have for making videos that she's using for her channel. So the link to Avienda's channel is down there in the description below if you'd like to check her out. So who am I, Freedom Family? I am your Papa George and I'm Avvy's Papa as well. I am the CEO and founder of Freedom for Freedom and the Freedom Family. And actually my kids are part of the Freedom Family, babies and business growing together. Today I went on a five kilometer jog. I jogged around what they call the Golden Mile twice, which is a total of five K. What have you guys done for exercise? I wanna know what you did today and yesterday. Tell me down there in the comments below because I want you to be healthy and fit and strong. And the best way to do that is to get your heart racing, your sweat, sweating and get healthy. I encourage my daughters to skip, skip rope, jump 500 times a day. Today, my daughter Eve, wanna come in, Eve? Did 100 skips, which is impressive. My daughter Avvy did not do 100 skips. She did, I think, 20 in a row on one leg, which is a different type of skipping, more challenging. And my other daughter Kira did none, so she needs a little more encouragement. Do you guys skip? I'd love for you to see, I'd love to see videos of you skipping. I can do doubles, which means I can jump and the rope spins twice before I land, and I can do maybe 20 of those in a row. I'll make a video proving it, and I'd love to see videos of you doing your exercises, especially if there's something cool, like double skipping for 20 or more times. Speaking of exercise, I have done 28 pushups in a row. Click that I to see the video proving that I did 28 pushups, and it wasn't edited. It was actually really 28, and you can see the pain I went through to do it. I'd love to see videos of you guys. Let's stay healthy, let's keep growing together as a family, and I'll see you on the next video. 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One of the things that I am able to do is something called instance of. Instance of, now since we're able to put any kind of object in its hierarchy, what we can do is we can double check to make sure that something, some object, some data, some variable I made, is of a particular object. It is, say, a student. It is, say, a circle, or just to kind of change things up. It is a fruit. Say for example, we were to make a fruit class, a fruit hierarchy of, you know, fruit, very generic term, apples and oranges. We're comparing apples and oranges here, ladies and gentlemen, and apple, apple actually kind of has its own two classes that inherit from it, Golden Delicious and the Granny Smith. So what we can look at is, again, if we have some code, I've made a fruit and I've made an orange, all right, well, fruit. Notice again, we're using polymorphism. I can say this is a fruit, but because Golden Delicious apples inherit, inherit from fruit, I can make the generic version and create sort of that explicit version. The first one, is fruit an instance of fruit, and that should be capital F, so I'll fix that in a second. Is fruit an instance of fruit? Well, yes it is. Obviously, I got a little check mark there, but obviously it is. It is a fruit. Now, is fruit, is this guy an orange? No, Golden Delicious follow this food chain. They follow the fact that I'm an apple and a fruit. They don't ever touch the orange, so that one is incorrect. Again, if it's not following an orange, it's following this food chain. Look what I just crossed out. So obviously it is, it is a Granny Smith, because that's what we created it as, is a Golden Delicious. It's not a Granny Smith, because again, never touches that one. Same kind of thing. This orange object I created, is it an orange? Well, yes. The orange hierarchy goes up to fruit. So yes it is. Is it an apple? No.  If I did fruit F equals new Granny Smith apple, is F instance of object? Pause the video, maybe find out. You can actually take some of this code. You can take this, for example, and check. So is it yes or no? Yes it is. Because again, if we follow the full spectrum of the inheritance chain, fruit isn't the end all be all. Object is everything in Java is an object. So guess what? Fruit is an object.


Many coconut shell candles available in store or online contain paraffin wax, which is a petroleum-based wax that, when burned, can release toxins and chemicals like soot, toluene, or benzene into the air, which have been found to be harmful to our health when inhaled. These candles are also often scented with artificial fragrances containing chemicals like phthalates, which help to prolong the life of the scent. Researchers, however, have found that the long-term health implications of phthalates alone include asthma, ADHD, breast cancer, obesity and type 2 diabetes, low IQ, neurodevelopmental issues, behavioural issues, autism, cancer and male fertility issues. By making your own candles at home, you can ensure the wax you're using is clean, fragrance-free and non-GMO. Please note that while soy wax is a step up from paraffin wax, it too can be a problem if not sourced mindfully. This is because vendors may add a little paraffin wax to the soy wax blend to help with burning, and the vast majority of anything made with soy is made using genetically modified soybeans that have been treated with pesticides, herbicides and so on. This means that it will take some research on your part to ensure that the wax you're buying is completely clean and made from organic, non-GMO soybeans that were not treated with any chemicals. I share a list of criteria to keep in mind when sourcing soy wax for candle making on my website, which I've linked in the description below. Beeswax is a much easier wax to source clean from trusted suppliers and can also help to purify the air inside your home as it burns. So this can be another alternative if you can outsource a clean coconut wax or soy wax to use for your candles. Because coconut wax has a low melting point, it is recommended to blend this wax with one with a higher melting point, which is why coconut wax is often mixed with soy wax. Coconut wax is a colourless, odourless wax made from cold pressed coconut meat or coconut oil mixed with either soy wax, paraffin wax, palm wax or beeswax. In high temperatures, the coconut oil and coconut wax will often melt, which creates an issue when being shipped. So to help prevent this from occurring, the coconut wax is blended with another natural wax to prevent it from melting before it's ready. When sourcing your coconut wax, ensure you buy it from a trusted supplier and opt for a blend of either beeswax or soy wax. I like to add in a blend of coconut wax and either beeswax or soy wax when making my own coconut wax candles, as the low melting point of coconut wax means the candle burns at a much faster rate. So by adding a mix of both coconut wax and soy wax, this helps to slow down the burn rate of the candle, allowing it to last a little longer. When it comes to incorporating scents into the candle wax, I use around 100-200 drops of essential oil for every half a cup of wax to achieve a noticeable scent. I like to keep to this ratio when making wax melts or candles of any size or shape, but you can feel free to adjust the ratio of essential oils you'll be using as you see fit, depending on how strong you want the scent of your candles to be. To make this coconut shell candle, begin by measuring out the exact amount of wax needed to fill each coconut shell you'll be using to make these coconut candles with. Take your coconut shell half and fill it up with wax to around the ¾ mark, then from there, double that amount of wax and that is how much candle wax you'll need for each coconut shell you'll be using. I used about 1 cup of shredded coconut wax and 2 cups of soy wax flakes for the shell I was using. Once you have the correct amount of candle wax measured out, pour the coconut wax and soy wax into a middle picture or large glass jar and place the container in a large pot of water, filled just enough to cover the outside of the container without spilling over, then bring the water to a boil. Turn the heat down to medium heat and stir the wax occasionally until completely melted, making sure no water spills into the container. Once melted, remove the wax from heat and allow it to cool slightly before adding in about 100-200 drops of the essential oil you'll be using. Then stir to combine. Next, dip the metallic end of your candle wick into the melted wax and using the hot wax to stick the wick in place, stick the wooden wick to the center of your coconut shell. After 5 minutes or so, the wax will have hardened and the wick should stay relatively steady without you needing to hold it. Before you pour your wax, let it cool down slightly. Use a thermometer to test the temperature of the wax and once it reaches 62 degrees Celsius or 145 degrees Fahrenheit, it's ready to start pouring. Pour around 75% of the candle wax into the coconut shell, making sure to hold the candle wick in place as you pour the wax to keep it steady and prevent it from falling over. As the wax begins to harden, the top of your coconut shell candle may have a few cracks or marks on the waxy top. To help fix this, pour the remaining wax over the top and allow it to set. To avoid any blemishes from appearing in future, pour the wax slowly to avoid creating any air bubbles, which can make the surface of the finished candle look uneven. The wax will begin hardening right away, so do not move or adjust your candle until it has completely set. Let the candle cool at room temperature for at least 24 hours before burning. Soy candles will harden to room temperature in about 4 hours and completely cure in 3-4 days. I find it best to trim the wick 5-6 hours after making to avoid the wick disturbing the top of the candle. Trim the wick using sharp scissors to about 1-1.5 cm above the level of the wax. It's recommended to leave homemade candles to cure for a minimum of 3 days to develop a stronger scent when burning. You can leave it for longer if you like, with a cure time of up to 1-2 weeks, which will give your candle an incredibly strong scent. And that is how you make a coconut shell candle at home. I hope you enjoyed the video. Please let me know if you make this recipe yourself and how it goes for you. I'd love to know. I wish you a wonderful day and I'll see you soon again.


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Um, but we gotta talk about Chris Brown flexing as he's done many times before, um, with another mistaken moment of success because the internet makes those right because the internet makes those and ladies just wake up and shit working. God loves them. You know what I mean? Well, y'all don't forgive, but God does. Chris Stam Brown is winning out here in these three. Uh, all right, let's let's let's go. This headline right here, but Chris Brown drops the official music video for under the influence. Now under the influence, I don't want to play this for too long. Y'all have to like, you know, copyright, right? So you're just going to Google it back. I'm not going to even play this thing. Let's say that. And under the influence came out when like three years ago, like three years ago. Yeah. All right. Let's let's see. Chris Brown under the influence, who put myself on the spot with the type speed and typos bad enough 2019. So yeah, three years ago, it's 2022. Yeah. Almost three years. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. So there right there. It's crazy. And you said it popped on Tiktok. On Tiktok. Tiktok again, bro. Tiktok for another W. But I don't know the exact moment that made it pop off because it did. It did feel like I don't know where it was everywhere. So I don't think I don't know what happened. Yeah. I started catching the viral moment on Tiktok. Chris called word of it. I was like, oh, I need to cap on this video. Yo, this is no, it's beautiful in like 50, 50, 11 ways, man, because I'm gonna stop with this one, right? Because you just said this. The music video. You know how our advice basically these days when artists like, oh, I want to create a music video. Don't create a music video until the song starts taking off. Yeah. Right. See if people like it first. See if they like it first, right? Especially for a new artist, videos are an investment. Time, money, good money, especially if you want to do a good video. So just put in the music, put it in the marketing as a song moves. The video can be released. And now you have attention to that video naturally because it's already interesting. Otherwise you have to market it in a video individually. It's a whole thing, right? So great. That's that advice. Don't drop a music video until the song itself starts to show some level of popping, all right?  You know what I mean? Yeah. I think people are thinking like, yo, well, what about overnight or whatever? What if it takes three weeks? Which one of these are going to be working three months? But just like with Ableheart, you know, and it's funny when it when that song started popping that we were working with him. I didn't realize that he had been dropped a year before. Yeah. So the song did maybe 30,000 streams over a year. And then in the next 30 days, 2 million, 3 million streams, right? Because of TikTok, by the way, because of TikTok, by the way, because of TikTok, by the way, Ray, y'all be sleeping on TikTok, even though everybody has us also aware. So like my thing, when we first started getting on TikTok, it was 2019. Ironically, when we started going hard on it, one of the things I saw early on was Harry Belafonte jump on the line went viral. All right. You know that song? No. So you jump on that line? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know that was Harry Belafonte at that time. But one thing I didn't know, I was like, Harry, oh, bro. That was like, bro, this thing has the power to take this song. Gotta be 50 plus years old or something. I know Harry Belafonte, bro. Like City Portier, you know what I mean? Sicily Tyson. That's the same camp, right? Yeah. Age wise. That's like my grandma's grandma's, you know what I'm saying? So like to pop off a song from somebody, that's, oh, like, anybody's catalog can get it these days. All right? If somebody finds it and they put it in the right video.  Anybody's catalog can get these TikTok moments. So a question, man, do you think the inverse could happen? Do you think an artist could drop a video for an old song and then that sparked the viral moment for it today? And I'll tell you what makes me ask this. I remember there was once while I was sitting in this clubhouse room with J. Cole's marketing team from Dreamville. And that was having this exact argument. Like the marketer, I wish I could remember this guy's name because I was on his side, but their marketer was like, bro, we got 100% could drop old videos for old songs and just respark attention into it. Because if the fans still like it, the old fans are going to still support it because they love it.  You know what I'm saying? Let me tap into it. And then it was like, you know, J. Cole's more executive people on his team were fighting against it. And now we're not putting out a video for an old song. And the marketer's like, bro, you don't have to be crazy. We could just go take 10 old songs, find some little homie that's amazing at the videos, that's charging $2,000, $3,000 for videos.  And we respark it and make it pop off. And I was like, the whole time I listened to him, I'm like, bro, he's right.  That's some songs I wish he had made some videos for that would definitely have me going back to it. So that's why I asked. It's different. But I'm saying, do you think like, yeah. Yes, 100%. That is, bro, that's beautiful right there. Yeah. And you said that was one of the, something like who's on the marketing team. Yeah, it was like, I wish I could remember. I wish I could remember the guy's name, bro. Yeah. That is a hard idea. Yeah. 100%. Because to me, that is the entire point of RP. Yeah. We have this IP to continue to use this image, you know, name image and like, listen, different forms and facets over the years and bring new attention to it. Right. I could drop a mini series of a TV show and put all my music in it. That brings clout back to it. Yeah. So I'm going to tell the entire story of, not come, the warm-up, right? Visually in a way that it wasn't told before. Yeah. So it might not just be, oh, a music video one off, but it's more in a package fashion where you consume on a high level. Or it is just a one-off music video. But like Buddy said, basically, the risk is so low at that point because the artist is already who they are. Fans are 100% going to watch it. So there's no L that you can really take outside of, like you said, the cost and like capital-wise, time-wise to create the video. Yeah. You can forget that. Exactly. Actually, no, I think I think they did do that. I just remember J. Cole, either earlier this year or last year, did drop like three or four videos for old songs. I'm assuming that marketer eventually got his point across. See, now, yeah, we got a week. I remember it was either, I would love to know what those are. We might not have time to dig deep into that for the sake of keep moving, but we're going to have to come back with that one. Alright, on this YouTube page, hold up. Oh, yeah, here, uh... Damn, where was it? Okay, these are all new stuff. Man, I think it might have been last year. Oh, yeah, Fire Squad, Lost Ones, and then... He just redrawed old videos, never mind. I think the only one that might have been a new video for an older song was Fire Squad. Okay. You see, I got a... I don't know, I feel like all others know in the comments. I feel like there was others, but he did it. I feel like that marketer eventually won it. And they could probably, like I said, just continue to cap and go deeper into that if you push it in the right way. Yeah. You want to just do it light. Because I'm so confused when it comes to J-Cole music videos specifically, because there were one or multiple people that were creating really legit J-Cole videos that weren't real videos all period of time. I'd be watching them and they were like, dang, this should be the video. There was a lot of J-Cole videos that were created like that.   Yes, that's beautiful. And it's like, even if it's just an artist, I didn't have the funds to artistically... You had a story to it. I couldn't artistically express it in the way I wanted to. So you actually could have already had a video for it, too, by the way. But I wanted to show y'all in the way I really wanted to do it. And this is what the vision was. This is me with money. This is the vision for me with money. This is me with money, right? This is me with money. Nah, that's a great idea. We can dig in with that. There's so much that comes from your early work and value to that because, you know, the artist that we were working with, her first album never came out. She was already a super established artist. Oh, okay. Bro, if Jay-Z turned out to have a first album that nobody heard, whoever, or anybody who has a name for themselves right now, and they're popping, considered like top tier, if they came out with a first album, it was like, hey, this album didn't come out for whatever reason, the story alone would give it the views. Now, hey, maybe that music wasn't that good and you came too far, so that might... But the idea of it, we know for a marketing value, is going to get trained. At least be a good moment, maybe a good collectible. At least be a good collectible. NFT, ironic, because that's what you know what I mean. But, you know, it is... It is what it is, it is what it is. So, with that same vein, though, right, we kind of got off to Chris Brown and that thing blowing up, want to give a quick shout out to Kid's Takeover because they also have a post that is perfect for this topic. Bam, pull this thing up. Songs it took forever to blow up. These hit songs, yup, took forever to blow up. So, just to add to it, right, Trap Queen says it took 18 months.  I didn't realize it was two years for that. No, yeah, yeah. Murder on my mind, two years. I didn't realize it was two years for that. Rose of Dreams, 17 months, out of that. Yeah. Yeah, and then, Rose, it's four years. Nah, definitely. That was the one I didn't know. I was like, hmm. Whatever, hey. Hey, it is what... I think, I mean, we know Ella May's Boot Up because that was one of those things where I actually knew the song and I was confused because it came up and I was like, I thought I knew this song. You know what I mean? But, yeah, it happens so often, especially these days. It's like, as long as that song is out there, it always got shot. Always got shot. Always got shot. Like I said, great content never dies, right? Especially if it's never had its moment yet. Yeah. So, hey, man, like, y'all got hope. Y'all got hope. And maybe y'all will be dropping music videos. That's an even better way.  Go back. Go back. Now, next, Taylor Swift going indie. So I don't even have anything to read her story to really show on this. But we had no Taylor Swift going indie. Like she was rerecording her albums and they were like, yo, we got to rewrite the whole like Bible and music because we can have new people doing this.    And I've seen other artists do it too around that same time.  So her rerecording her stuff, did that write out before we get into the indie, any stuff like that? Do you know of her rerecording her stuff completely like write out to other owners? Like, hey, this is completely different music because she was just literally rerecording the same song for y'all who don't know. Right. And when she she rerecord that same song, do I now have no ownership of the new version? Yeah, like at the level. Yeah. Like she owns it. I get like credit for the artistic purposes. Yeah. But like, yeah, like no ownership of it because it's technically a new body of work. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. It's crazy, bro.  Cause I don't know who came up with that idea.   And so she really, really released a couple. And I guess after she got those out, right? And then she started giving her stuff more support. And now her latest project, you go to Spotify. You look at the name where you usually see the labels, the companies that are behind this thing. It just says Taylor Swift. T-dot. Hey. Taylor owns her own thing and not, I don't think you understand how ridiculous this is, but it's not just Taylor, right? So we talked about Bad Bunny. Sam, like put me on the central C. I didn't know Central C was independent. Yeah, me either. That was, that was random. That one, that one's pretty random, but actually the love of artists he is right now, but I maybe just, he's popping. He popped fags before it happened. I don't know. I still gotta look more at the central C story. Man, he was popping. He was, he was doing really well actually before he had his TikTok moment. Right. I knew he was doing well for sure, because I already knew who he was. But I just don't, I mean, I didn't really realize how well, how much better he started doing though from that moment.  He was one of those artists where I just didn't look at the numbers for a while. And I looked at his numbers.  So if you take him, Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift and them being Indie, that's going to change the game. Like it's, or it's symbolically, right? You look here and then you look five years from now. The game is going to look very, very different. Yeah. I think Taylor Swift is going to be more impactful though. Of course. Yeah. Because I think it's the, the thing I think we see with the Indie game is everybody's waiting on, or was waiting on like the big, massive, used to be major label artists to come along and prove that it could be possible. And none of them were willing to do it. Bad Bunny's cool because Bad Bunny's been, you know, Indie from ground up. But, you know, well, he didn't just become massive, but he's not, he hasn't been around as long as Taylor Swift. But Taylor Swift is a person that was once a product of the machine, once had, you know, the help of the machine. And she took that leap and, but the arc I was showing you all before this, but her numbers are bigger than they were when she was a part of the machine. Right. She, she's only come, it's a real me versus me situation with, with Taylor Swift. And it's like, What was that article? It was like, it was a, Taylor Swift is the first person to do a million albums in a week since Taylor Swift in 2017. That's a wild headline, bro. That was such a crazy headline. It's like a real, like it's a real me versus me situation. So I'm thinking that there has to be other major artists looking at her and going like, damn, she didn't skip a beat, you know, you know what I'm saying? She's any like, she, she did better. You know what I'm saying? Actually like, nah, she didn't even fall off. And she hit so many of the court things we talk about. It's like, you know, she has a really strong narrative. She's come out of that school to burn situation. She got her negative viral moment right now. You know what I'm saying? There's been crazy on Twitter for the last couple of days. People talking about this video.  So she got a negative moment around her. She has a narrative around her. Yeah, no, that's it.  You good, right? So she's proving you can keep the same level of relationships or somebody around you at least can keep the same level of relationships. And so I'm hoping it makes other artists go like, oh, okay, cool.  Yeah, let's do it. I wonder if Drake's looking like, nah, I don't think so. Maybe I should. It's contract poppy. Drake gonna stay in the contract, bro. That's not his part of the game. I want to monetize in a different space. You know, I can see that because Drake has so many aspirations beyond music. Yeah. He doesn't, he doesn't have to look at music for his value as much. He doesn't have to exploit it as much. All right. He can share more of that pot. When you look at baby, right? Like music is, that's where we're getting it. Yeah. I'm sure they got some real estate and all that other stuff, but, you know, it's not the same as like Jay-Z who I'm playing all these other brand deal games and partnerships and, you know, playing that level. We are going to exploit and keep going. That's probably why there have been the ones who have lasted and lasted and lasted and been hot. Like A&R, like how many people, like Thug, they were on Thug and Rich homie early on. Yeah. Right. Who else? I mean, they were, I know they were connected with Blueface through, Blueface the rapper. Yeah, really? Yeah. I know that. There's a, there's a through line there. There, they are on it, bro. Yeah. Baby, their system is tight. Always. Because he was sounding to like Cash Money West or something. Something like that. Something like that. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Nah man. I mean, and we know the Drake and Lil Wayne, Nicky. Nicky, all that stuff. Tiger.  Tiger. We're going to get Abra. Got to keep that respect on Tiger name because that man be hitting and Cali. Yeah, man. When he won a hit, bro, he won one, man. If y'all don't feel that way, there's someone in Cali who doesn't feel that way. All I can say is my personal experience when I went to Cali one year Tiger.  This music really playing, playing out here. I don't, I don't hear him. You know, where I'm from. But out here, like, and but in California, California, Texas, right? Two states where you can just stay in that state and you can do crazy. Yeah. Right. Cause it's so, so big. But you know, shout out to Tiger. You know, we're back to the point. Cash Money, they make their money real for real. Drake. Of course, he's made money in music, but I think the path that he wants to go, I can see, I can see him staying contract-packed. Papa, you right. Yeah, bro. What about ego? Just saying, man, I could be doing it that way. I could have a bigger piece of the pie. I could just, you know, I'm still Drake. I got the name. People are connected. Yeah. You have high-level execs that are highly skilled pushing for me. I feel like it's different when you know that there are other people who are working that name as big as it is. And it's like, that's a hard machine to put together by yourself. You know what I'm saying? It's like, you already have this building of people that are like, bro, you Drake. You know what I'm saying?  So I can understand not wanting to step away from that situation unless it's like, you feel like it's really, really lucrative or I really feel like Taylor did it because there's probably a message behind it.  You know what I'm saying? It's not really Drake's narrative. Drake's narrative, or at least it hasn't been for a long time. Drake's narrative hasn't been looking me overcome probably since the first album. Now it's looking me dominate.  And I feel like he probably feels like in order to keep that narrative going, he got to stay in the major label system. That's interesting. Can Drake afford to take a real L? I think so. In his brand? Oh, in the brand? Yeah, in his brand because like you said, Taylor has had I'm overcoming, right? Yeah. We've seen Drake overcome. We had the one moment where him and Meek, right? And he won that. Yeah. So there was never and the battle didn't end up, it felt so one-sided in that moment. It didn't look like, you know, Drake could take any Ls, period. So we haven't seen Drake take a legit L since he's been Drake. And then come back from it. Yeah. I mean, what that was, which album was it? It was the views of Scorpion that didn't do that, I can remember which one it was. It didn't do that great. That was a little chink in the armor. You know what I'm saying?  It's weird to say this in music, but I don't feel like a bad album is. The L. If your catalog is good enough. If your catalog is already there. Yeah. Yeah. For Drake to talk about, right? Okay, yeah.  We still hear all your great songs and you're still coming out with other new songs that we're still hearing. We forget that there's other songs that you came out with that we don't respect like that or, you know, mess with like that. I don't know. I think he could, he could take a L. I think it'd be interesting to see Drake take a L because like, I don't know. He, I mean, he doesn't really have the like, I guess he still has like the biggest rapper narrative going on, which yeah, he does, but he's not the biggest. Well, we don't know why he thinks Drake is the biggest artist in the world, but he could be with title switches in a million in a week, bro. There's no way he could think that bad baby out here dropping multiple albums, breaking records. There's no way he thinks right. Yeah. Not bad baby. Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny. Yeah. Bad Baby. I was on the Google. I actually search bad baby. I was looking for bad way. I'm like, what the hell's going on? Yeah.  Literally, like, I remember the charts. It almost looked like it was double Drake streams a day. Yeah. And you're talking about Bad Bunny being indie. Now he's indie where he owns the label he signed to. I don't know what his percentage is, but he owns something significant. And then they are with Republic, I believe they're in business with Republic. Yeah, I think so. Like, so that's something that y'all could look. Hey, if there's more artists, that was a nipsey approach where he wanted to do. That's what Russ has done. Right.  It's just at the scale that Bad Bunny is doing. It's like, global. She. I mean, like, bro, it doesn't even seem possible that he could be like in that type of situation. But he's a very unique. I don't think we're going to see another case like him for another three to five, at least at least.


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