Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and now lives between Calcutta and Brooklyn you will find out the relevance of this later. And the author of 10 novels he laid down the challenge facing storytellers in his 2016 polemic The Great Derangement Climate Change and the Unthinkable and went on to answer his own clarion call with 2019 gun island. In the two years since he has turned to parable and nonfiction, his most recent publication is Jungle Nama and an adaptation of a legend from the Sunderban. With artwork by Salmantur is new book that not makes curse parables for a planet in crisis, which is out imminently is a work of nonfiction which sets our current crisis in its historical context. Welcome, Amitav. Hello, thank you so much for having me. I want to get straight down to the Great Derangement. Just give us the what you what you said in that 2016 pamphlet really which was so important in this debate. So, you know, I feel a little bit sort of a discombobulated when I hear that it's sort of call to arms or, you know, or a polemic or anything because they're actually it's really more a kind of introspection. I was trying to sort of ask myself, why is it that I in my own practice have been have found it so hard to write about climate events and the climate crisis. And what is it about the form of the novel as such that really resists, you know, something like the climate crisis.  And as we know now, all these events that are sort of coming at us so fast and furious. But they're all extremely improbable.  And yet they're happening all around us all the time. I would say in the great derangement that I have come to recognize that the challenges that climate change poses for the contemporary writer, although specific in some respects also are also products of something broader and older that they derive ultimately from the grid of literary forms and conventions that came to shape the narrative imagination in precisely that period when the accumulation of carbon in the atmosphere was rewriting the destiny of the earth. That is a ringing, a ringing paragraph. Well, yes, because I think it's actually really since the, you might say the 1970s onwards, but most of all from the 1990s onwards, that really fiction has come to have a sort of exclusive focus on, you know, on people's emotions, their thoughts, their states of mind, their identities and so on. Because, you know, even in the 60s, Steinbeck was writing a book like The Grapes of Roth, you know, which was in many ways really a book about climate. I mean, the first chapter of The Grapes of Roth is very much about climate issues. And I think in many ways, you know, the book really deals, it's very contemporary. I mean, it deals with migration, it deals with this kind of people being displaced by this, this terrible change in climate. Two of the themes you mentioned is the ability of the novel to deal with the non-human, and also the ability of the novel to deal with the uncanny with coincidence, which seems the events which seem beyond our imagination. Can you just explain those two things? You know, the novel has a long tradition of dealing with the uncanny, you know, and the uncanny is very much the realm that we are in. I mean, so many of these events nowadays are profoundly uncanny, you know. They suddenly arrive in the middle of, you know, I was just, the day before yesterday in Houston, Texas, about to deliver a lecture on climate events and the uncanny and what should happen. But the hurricane exploded over us at just that time.  I mean, you know, there's a section in Don Island about a wildfire approaching a museum in Los Angeles. And that did happen. The Getty Museum had a wildfire coming right at it. But I wrote that part six months before it happened. You know, so I mean, one just constantly encounters these sort of weird and improbable events. And of course, our fiction has historically been able to deal with many uncanny events of this kind. You know, there's, I don't know if you, if you remember the work of Alganon Blackwood, a Canadian British writer who wrote wonderful stories of the uncanny and so on. But, you know, the problem is that, you know, that tradition of writing is really regarded as marginal as a genre as a kind of, you know, fantasy or horror or something. And we see now that it's not at all fantastical. It's not at all unlikely.  In a way what you're talking about is a problem for the literary novelist because you make the point in the great derangement that science fiction writers and fantasy writers and in medians other than the novel have been dealing with this and with also with the non-human for for decades, you know, we could talk about Terry Pratchett's Discworld. We could talk about the universe. Yes. Yes, that's absolutely true. You know, it is, I mean the problem really is not so much about what writers do but rather the literary ecosystem as a whole. You know, I mean the writer who writes about those things I mean like Alganon Blackwood if you like or Richard Adams and writing Watership Down and so on. They're regarded as, you know, fantastical books. They're regarded as something completely extraneous to serious literature. But you know, that's one of the strange things. If I think back on the books that were considered a serious literature, you know, 50, 60 years ago, you know, who are the very serious writers? I mean, Angus Wilson, maybe Iris Murdoch and so on. And, you know, nobody reads Angus Wilson today. I think I can say that with a fair degree of certainty. They just don't. Whereas the writers from that period who are really remembered and read all the time now are writers like Arthur C. Clarke. You know, there's a huge sort of Alganon Blackwood revival, for example, there's an HP Lovecraft revival. Ursula Le Guin, I mean you know her work. She was throughout a life sort of categorized and marginalized as a science fiction writer. But you know when she died a couple of years ago, there was just this huge outpouring of love for her, you know, and a sort of incredible excitement of discovery. Yeah, Butler is another person who comes to mind. So in terms of the what has changed in those in the establishment writers that you're talking about you, you have sort of noticed a change in 2018 just before gun island. What was it this change? That's an interesting. That's an interesting question. I think 2018 really was a pivotal year, you know, I think that was when these climate events became impossible to ignore. As indeed they are today I mean nobody, nobody really sort of tries to pretend that these weird things aren't happening. If that had a part to do with it, then there was a Greta Thunberg and many other young youth groups sort of springing up. And also in the literary world there was a real change I think Richard Powers's over story was published that year. And it, you know, far from being marginalized it was celebrated by the literary community was, you know, up for the booker and so on, quite rightly it's a completely wonderful book. The story of it's reinventing the novel from the point of view of the tree. That's right. Absolutely. Absolutely. So there you are I mean I think there was a real change and you know now I can't even tell you I mean I keep, I get like two or three manuscripts a day. I've been through my public website.  And so now you have to read, you have to read our manuscript. And of course, I would love to read all those manuscripts but it's not possible, you know, I couldn't possibly keep up. Since the gun island, which was now published two years ago, you have turned to fable or parable, I suppose I said parable but I think it's more fable in jungle now which is is retelling a traditional story of a sort of ecological fable really from the 19th century. And then, and now your next book is a history of colonialism and the very one of your points is that it's this this change is all tied up with our colonial history and our history of exploitation of people and resources. Yes, absolutely. I mean, a jungle now are followed really in a way from the Great Derangement because in the Great Derangement I make the argument that we have to look for other forms. You know, perhaps new collaborative forms and for me it was incredibly exciting to work with a Salman to whose, whose work is just absolutely fabulous. And, you know, an audio and a performed version is going to be out very very soon. And I hope you get to hear it is, I think it's just fantastic. This is performed by Ali Sethi, who's a very gifted young singer. And this is a fable which gives, which which puts the natural world in charge and has its its protagonists at a sort of tigers and explain a little bit about it. Yes, well, it's an adaptation of a legend from the Sundarban, which is the world's largest mangrove forest. And it's really a legend about how human beings are create a balance between their needs and the needs of other beings, you know, of all kinds of tigers and crocodiles and all sorts of other beings. I think it's a wonderful story simply because it speaks of, you know, finding a balance. And, you know, so it was a very exciting story to work with. Now, you know, I've got this book, The Nutmegs Curse coming out. By the way, have you received a copy yet? I haven't. I look forward to it, but I haven't yet. Well, that's terrible. I must get Jacasta to send your copy immediately. Yes. So, you know, I think in so many ways when we talk about the climate crisis, when we talk about, you know, the so-called Anthropocene and so on, we tend to see it as a problem oriented towards the future. Whereas to me, it seems perfectly evident that it's in fact a problem of history. It's completely rooted in history and especially in colonial history, in the expropriation of resources and the expropriation and indeed extermination of, you know, many groups of people by European colonists going back to the 17th century. I think in so many ways we are really reliving the 17th century, which was also a time of enormous climatic disruption. So I want to just finish by asking you to read from Gunn Island, a particular passage which brings together two of the themes. One of the themes is about how we blame the little guys in the boat, trying to get away from the places of maximum devastation. And the other is about this uncanny, these uncanny events that we are all seeing in our everyday life, as told in a fictional form. Please, please, would you read those two passages? Of course, it would be a great pleasure. I saw now why the angry young men on the boats around us were so afraid of that derelict refugee boat. That tiny vessel represented the upending of a centuries old project that had been essential to the shaping of Europe. Over the early days of chattel slavery, the European imperial powers had launched upon the greatest and most cruel experiment in planetary remaking that history has ever known. In the service of commerce, they had transported people between continents on an almost unimaginable scale, ultimately changing the demographic profile of the entire planet. Even as they were repopulating other continents, they have always tried to preserve the whiteness of their own metropolitan territories in Europe. This entire project had now been upended. The systems and technologies that had made those massive demographic interventions possible, ranging from armaments to the control of information had now achieved escape velocity. They were no longer under anyone's control. That was why those angry young men were so afraid of that little blue fishing boat. Through the prism of this vessel, they could glimpse the unraveling of a centuries old project that had conferred vast privilege on them in relation to the rest of their world. In their hearts they knew that their privileges could no longer be assured by the people and institutions they had once trusted to provide for them. They changed too much too fast. The systems that were in control now did not obey any human master. They followed their own imperatives, inscrutable as demons. Suddenly Lubna came rushing over her face flushed, her eyes shining in exhilaration. What's that over there, she said. I spun around to see a darkening smudge spreading across the southern horizon. It's a cloud, I said. No, that can't be it, said Chinta. There's something different about the way it's moving. It seems to be coming towards us. The smudge was growing quickly, spilling over the horizon like a stain, expanding rapidly in our direction. I could only gape uncomprehendingly. What on earth could it be? Then suddenly Pia was beside me, snatching her field classes out with my hands. She focused them on the horizon. Birds, she said. They're birds, hundreds of thousands of them, no millions. They must be migrating northwards. They're going to pass right over us. Suddenly two had appeared beside us now. Gazing at the sky, he said, it's just as it says in the story, the creatures of the sky and sea rising up. An awestruck silence descended on us as the dark mass came arrowing through the sky. It was as if some limb of the earth had risen into the heavens and were reaching out to touch us. It seemed to stand still, even the air. I felt that I had somehow ceased to breathe. Time itself is an ecstasy, said Chinta softly. I had never thought I would witness this joy with my own eyes pouring over the horizon. And then there they were, millions of birds circling above us, while below in the waters around the blue boat, schools of dolphins somersaulted, and whales slapped their tails on the waves. Un stormo, said Chinta, gazing upwards, using the Italian word for a flock of birds in flight. And it seemed to me that this was indeed the right word, the only word for the phenomenon that we were witnessing. A storm of living beings, butas. So Amtav, it's a pleasure, as always, to talk to you. You've become one of my benchmarks in a whole area of thinking that I have to say has opened up since we met. I mean, it was post the great derangement we met at Hay-on-Wye. Yes, that's right. I look forward to the next novel. I hope you're not going to forsake it entirely for nonfiction and fable. No, no, not at all. I love writing novels and, you know, thank you so much. Thank you so much for having me on. Thank you. Thank you. Goodbye.


Sounds gnarly got boosted motorsports in the house in the hill Coda I didn't know he's gonna do a burnout contest with it. I can't raise it There you go, man. What's the plan bunch of cats asses or I don't know whatever whatever happens happen All right, Mopar fam look what I found We have the one and only hill Coda Up here at beach bin at holly moe party.  It looks like This way it's pretty close back here on the firewall, but all in all it fits. I mean it is close Really really close Look at that not much room with that bolt right there on the top of the blower cover That is really close, but it fits. Yeah motor looks good sitting in there got the hill Coda He's got the car booth seats And there's the dash right there And I believe that's the actual the hell cat dash steering wheel He's got the trans shifter the whole thing in there basically all swapped over to the Dakota, which is pretty awesome And it looks really really really good I mean you wouldn't really think that truck Didn't come With that dash in it.  That's that's pretty jam up right there with the hood.   I can't raise this There you go, man.  So tell us a little bit about what's in it the dash is clearly straight out of the hell cat like all of it, right?  That is a beefed up nine and a quarter So still all mopar. Yeah, of course, of course. I love it. All right Do you think you can blow the tires off of this thing? That's the plan We got the crappy ones on so let's go. All right. Go see Adam and get ready. Let's hear it for the hell Coda If you haven't seen this thing in person you need to go check it out Because the the dash the center console the seats they're all From a hell cat in fact the door panels. I mean they look straight out of the hell cat I mean obviously those aren't gonna just mount up in a Dakota So there are a lot of work done there, but this thing's pretty cool looking I got to tell you I'm not a fan of like new car dashes and older cars. This one works It does not gonna lie. I Might have to take back what I said about round Dakotas Or maybe not We want tires smoke Let's make it snappier there Adam.   Let me hear you


Since the first stellar expeditions, humanity has learned one inviolate truth, that we must fight for our place in this wretched galaxy with every shot, every shell, and every blade. For the base and the heinous aliens that squat amongst the destined realms of man mean us nothing but torment, destruction, and death. Many races were crushed into the dust of history during the magnificent great crusade. Some, like the hated green skin, are akin to a fungal infection, a seemingly inescapable part of the pan-galactic biosphere infesting our imperium. Some are younger than our own species, desperately trying to carve out their own stellar volume, despite the obvious doom such an endeavor will bring onto them. Yet more undoubtedly lurk undiscovered in the depths of the void, waiting only for their moment to bring ruin upon the heads of man. Finally, they linger the remnants, the echoes of a once great interstellar empire laid low by its own titanic arrogance and stupidity, yet one that refuses to pass into memory, where it belongs. Know then that this is a record of the most perfidious of Xenoforms, the Aeldari. Known by their own tongue as the Aeldari, and to the common many who whisper tales of them by the low gothic rendering of Eldar, this Xenobreed is ancient beyond human reckoning, being by imperial estimation one of the oldest surviving sentient species in the galaxy. Upon the tales of their exact origin, one cannot speak much of, as this humble chronicler is in the process of obtaining access to certain sequestered data stacks in the possession of the Adeptus Mechanicus and one's own Logos Histarica Vertia. In order to investigate more in depth, what is described in the Aeldari's own mythic cycles as the War in Heaven, to apply the crudest of gothic translations. Suffice it to say, the species's origin appears to have its roots in some vague mythic progenitor race, records of which I yearn to uncover. It is, biologically speaking, uncertain from which fauna form the Aeldari have evolved. Given their biology, a wide array of ancestor beasts are possible, from broad reptilian amphibian or avian strains, or, given that records speak of evolutionary interference, perhaps a combination of said. Certainly the Aeldari are known to display a notable disdain and disgust for humanity's own origins, degrading us as mammals or apes, hinting at a separate ancestor species. And oft they are known to reference our noble race with the slur Monkai, often framed for much greater insulting impact in their language's accusative grammar tense. The nature of their uncertain origin plays well with the Aeldar character, as in their limitless arrogance they take pride in having to outsiders no obvious means of genus classification, appealing to their own sense of racial superiority. Physically, an individual Aeldar is roughly speaking humanoid, but there the similarities are simply superficial. They are inhumanly tall, thin and lithe, with pale, almost anemic skin. One need only observe one move with their fluid and hideous grace to feel their appulsion common when observing xenoforms. Their ears, like their facial features, are sharpened, and their slanted eyes brim with sinister cunning. One must, however, never underestimate what this body is capable of. Despite their almost absurdly fragile appearance, the average Aeldar is markedly stronger than baseline Homo sapiens sapiens, and almost impossibly faster, with lightning reflexes and reaction times. Their hearts beat at twice the rate of a humans, powering their incredible mental abilities. All members of the race display the ability to utilize psychic powers in some fashion, with the more adept beings included in the echelons of the most fearsome psychers in the galaxy.  They, as a species, experience emotions to a far greater degree than a human could possibly comprehend, allowing them to achieve greater heights in our species, but also fall into deeper depths. Their inherently long-lived nature can afford an individual Aeldar a lifetime of the most fulfilling study, the loftiest thrills of battle, the most joyful works of artistry and expression, but also the dangers of becoming swallowed by the dread temptations of sensation. While they have the capacity to feel transcendent pleasure, they also harbor within themselves the capacity for the most unbridled rage, for one to yield to the cloying desires the latter represents is for that being to damn themselves utterly. For such was the doom of the species millennia ago. Dissection of an adult specimen corroborates much of what can be discerned of the species from the many encounter reports that can be gleaned from millennia of contact history humanity has had with these species. Their bodies are replete with disturbingly pleasing aesthetics, both externally and internally. Their facial aspects would be considered beautiful, were it not for the intrinsic disgust all Xenos engender within humanity, while internally, by a logist magi have noted with some concern, the visual symmetry the layout of their internal organs present, with one magios with one magios using the word tidy before being reprimanded by his superiors. Organ functions can be difficult to discern, and Eildari's humanoid form would naturally incline any disector to infer a function based upon location, but in practical terms this line of pursuit has never yielded results. The rib cage for example appears akin to a fused pair of wings, and is remarkably pliant compared to human bone, while losing none of its strength. It contains lung analogs, but the remainder of the organs serve functions that can only be guessed at due to their complexity. The flexibility of the rib cage is mirrored by the rest of the skeletal frame, which displays a remarkable elasticity, indicating a structure intended for and specifically evolved for the rapid maneuverability the species is known for. The Eildari body contains no body fat, nor indeed any analogous substance, and their bone analogs contain no marrow, merely a fibrous structure that biologists magi theorize may serve as disseminated lymphatic glands. They are known to consume food in but small quantities, as their bodies appear incredibly efficient in the processing of nutrients from organic material, despite the lack of any digestive or degenerative fluids within their systems, or indeed any obvious methods of digestion whatsoever. Structurally, their reproductive organs mirror human ones, but the process of gamete induction appears successive, with the introduction of genetic materials seemingly occurring at preordained stages during conception, potentially allowing for an incredible amount of genealogical selectiveness within the species itself. Upon the subject of genetics, the overall arrangement is human analogous, with an Eildari's body being composed of a cellular structure, but examination of the Eildar genome itself reveals a perhaps, at this stage, predictable level of complexity. The helical structure of their DNA is quintopular, compared to humanity's double helix, with twenty chemical bases, as opposed to our own four. Not only does this inherently allow for an unbelievable amount of genetic information storage, biologist magi have noted a distortion upon examination of test cells, as if the cells themselves are responding to the scrutiny of a sentient being. The more radical within the Mechanicus have posited that this quantum resonance effect, ingrained into the very DNA of the xenobreed itself, is the core of their incredible psychic potential and skill. The Eildari remain a force of note within our galaxy, although in severely reduced presence since the Catatlysm that doomed them, the subject of which shall be examined in a later record. Additional losses inflicted upon them during the Emperor's most righteous great crusade, no doubt diminish their numbers further, but in spite of all this, they cling to existence with a stubbornness that would be admired if it were not repellent. The vast majority of the remaining population exists on titanic, space-faring artificial world ships known as craft worlds, but others do cling to life on far-flung, isolated and partially terraformed worlds, known colloquially to their species as the exodites. While in the depths of the Labyrinthine tunnel dimension known as the Webway, there is dark evidence of whole cities where vicious and degenerate offshoots of the Eildari race lurk. These various strains, however, must wait for further exploration in later records. Much of the above is material obtained by this humble chronicler from radical or sequestered archives, noted here for imperial posterity in this darkening age. Despite one's modest position, I dare not notate some of what I have uncovered for fear of inquisitorial scrutiny, but I remain firm in the opinion that, while the study of these xenophorms is by its nature utterly abhorrent, undertaking said, is necessary if we are to cleanse the stars of their grotesque and insulting presence. And to this record stand as a testament to that, and to the continuing resolve of this Most Holy Imperium to scour the galaxy of the pestilence that is alien life. Ave Imperator, Gloria in Excelsis Terra. This video and this channel are made possible through the incredibly kind contributions of my Patreon subscribers. If you would like to help support the channel, head on over to patreon.com forward slash Oculus imperia. And if you're looking to keep in touch with the channel, get regular updates, you can follow me on Twitter, at buttstuffkaiju, or check us out on Discord, a link will be in the description and on the channel page.


Today's episode of the Anthony Anderson show is brought to you by us gold coins dot com. That's 1 800 hot coin and Mezzy grill mezzy grill dot com and also trade hill dot com Greetings everyone. This is Anthony Anderson coming at you from New York City episode number two I'm here today with Mia Andres of organic Avenue, and we're here today to talk about organic Avenue Talk about cleansing your story I really want to get into organic cosmetics I want to talk a lot about your experience with Feng Shui So let's start off with your history. Tell me a little bit about yourself How you came to be in New York City how you came to be into conscious eating especially that would be really cool Sure, so I've now been here in New York City for just about 10 years Okay, I'm originally from California, Southern Cal, San Diego, and I came here on vacation 2000 and decided this was the place where I wanted to call home my new zip code So moved into New York two months after my first vacation here Okay, and it fell in love with the city and been working here with major cosmetic company back then right quite some time and I decided 2008 it was time for me to move on and find truth in my life and Really just go out there and do what I really want to do Yeah, it was time for me to go back home Okay, San Diego and kind of get still and get grounded and decided to pack up again Temporarily just to stay there and see where life was going to take me sure so It transformed. Yeah, and then getting into the way like what year did the food start coming into play? Well, it started coming into play that year in 2008. Okay. Yeah, so the summer I left on June and was back in California Within literally About less than 30 days. I went attended a workshop Okay, and it was a Qigong workshop to learn how to breathe Sure really get still again and really find my breath because living in the rat race here in New York City My breath is stuck here for the longest time. So I Attended this workshop for four hour actually a 40 workshop eight hours a day and from there On my first day. It was just expelling toxins and sweat and perspiration And I thought it was not normal to experience it and I had no idea I was gonna feel that way But it was such a great transformation And you felt that on the first day on the first day of just breathing so well how to breathe all the way down to your Dantian and What's the Dantian? Well, it's it's down here where you focus your breath and really sort of just expanding your your lungs and breathing in all the way down to your spine and Just allowing all the energy to move from the bottom of your feet all the way up to your crown chakra Yeah, and we did just did several different exercises circle of breath exercise Where you're in a circle of we there must have been 300 over 300 people at that particular event just learning how to breathe and It was amazing on the second day It was a nutritional class on an hour of nutritional healing and I had no idea that that was even going to be discussed right so the founder took a blend tech blender and Took a whole avocado the seed intact with the avocado added some blueberries Spinach and some other produce and created this really delicious Purple smoothie well in love with it and for the first time in my life the light bulb hit like literally lit up and and I went vegan, okay, I went raw, okay, and Alcohol-free and also caffeine-free everything was pretty much coffee was out coffee was out Okay, I was drinking three cups of coffee a day when I was living here in New York and Just my dream was a shot. Yes. So what happens when you drink too much coffee? Oh It's your greenals, right? Yes. Yeah, your dream old so It was a good thing. I really enjoyed it and I ended up Deciding okay. It was time for me to literally just You know change my life. So I learned how to make some raw food And a friend of mine had recommended for me to go to a retreat and I decided, you know, I'll save my money. I'm really Creative I know how to make and create really beautiful tasting recipes. So I went on the website Came across your website and watch your videos I saw an APO's videos and just started to make my own food Okay, and I would sit there on the dining table by myself because nobody wanted to eat the food And just be really Gracious and have gratitude of what I was eating and I was eating organic and luckily, you know in California The food's really delicious, especially in the the local farmers market. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, so that's how it Transformed and I just let every single day pass, you know by one day at a time wasn't thinking about the future just living presently learn how to Meditate through falling still my friend Dremel our friend Dremel Perot Created a video call falling still so I found myself in front of a computer Falling still for one minute and it was my way to learn how to meditate because it was difficult for me in the past To have no thoughts coming through. I mean, especially living in New York There's thoughts that are always passing through day by day minute by minute, so yeah, it was good for me to just literally learn how to do that and It worked and I evolved into a longer meditation. So now I'm able to meditate up to 20 minutes I don't do anything longer than that I usually like to do a five-minute meditation before work nice when I get up in the morning and when I go to bed Okay, just to really release all the The thoughts out of the head and any negative energies and allow the chakras to just flow through show absolutely Yeah, a really cool idea with this falling still is that there's a mentality out there That some people might hold that the longer you meditate the more hardcore you are and the better the more enlightened you are and the more you're gonna get from it and Really, I don't feel like it's like that. I feel like if we are Conscious about just kind of breaking through throughout the day whenever we can breaking through that veil of you know Endless thinking and the and the mindless chatter in our brains if we can just stop for a minute or two and just calmly like Sit in a chair close our eyes and just clear our thoughts for two minutes Or me if you don't want to clear your thoughts just think about Gratitude and rate your life really is and how lucky you are doing things like that make a big difference And you can just do it throughout the day, you know one minute here two minutes there Let's do one right now sure And really it's only a minute. It's not like we're gonna sit here for 30 minutes and it's not a big It's not a pissing contest of what people call it. It's not about quantity. It's really about the quality So we just kind of sit for a little while Take a few deep breaths a lot of people like to put their hands on their knees You can sit on the ground if you'd like to if you can directly sit like on the grass or on a rock That's even better because you'll be grounded to the earth's electrical current But if you can just sit in the chair and just take a few deep breaths into the nose out of the mouth and just think about some good stuff or clear your thoughts about living on a paradise planet and Hanging out with my grandkids as they pick fruit and nuts from our food forest when I'm 70 years old and thinking about You know forests Covering cities, but people still living in these cities and skyscrapers coming up for these jungles and everything is sustainable And everyone's eating fresh fruit By putting those kinds of thoughts into my mind I feel like I push out that vibration into the world and it's just a nice little reset kind of like a reboot of my hard drive when throughout the day, you know, there's so much going on It's just nice to kind of sit for like a couple minutes and hopefully in silence without me chatting about But you get the idea and it's actually like a really nice way to just kind of chill out for a bit and reset your clock And really again, it's not about the time and the length of time and the the endurance of the meditation It's more just about thinking that you want to just have a Kind of just a little reset and even if it's only a minute That's really what counts and you can do it throughout the day I like to do my exercises like that too where I feel like I don't have to do it all in one big chunk I can just break it up throughout the day and do a little five-minute stints and ten-minute stints And it ends up allowing me to be more consistent And then I'm able to make that connection more often throughout the day because maybe it's better to do it Five times a day for one minute. Of course instead of once a day for 60 Yeah, and then the rest of the day you're busy and you know, it's almost best to kind of It's always good to reset reset. Yeah. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, so how long have you been with organic Avenue? It's now two and a half years. Okay. Yes I decided to move back to New York City after seven months of living in California and I came here in December for my second trip right 2009 and Walked into organic Avenue. I was looking for a tri-best blender that Annie recommended from her videos any PO any PO and I saw these juices in the refrigerator and I was already drinking beet juice and And I decided to just grab one of their juices and it was amazing to feel The vibration just coming through my body I know it not everyone might not feel that but it just felt really good I was already at a really high level of raw at the time. Yes, it wasn't a hundred percent yet But working towards that and it just felt great. It was really detoxing and I Met Denise and Doug on my very last day I was literally eating lunch and drinking juice every single day when I was there And one of the reasons why I came back to that New York trip was to celebrate my birthday and also to meet community. I had I had been friends with Dremel on Facebook through falling still and he had let me know that there was a party that Vanessa barge from noses chocolate Was hosting I was also her birthday party. So I decided to go to the birthday party By myself to meet community and people and I didn't have that community where I was living in San Diego So I wanted to meet other people and to learn more about the life and it was such an amazing story So that evening on the way to the party. I stopped by organic Avenue I'm sitting there on the table by myself and Doug Evans who's the CEO comes and approaches me and Talks to me and we ended up just sharing stories and I said, you know, this I'd love to work for a company like yours and He said, you know, if you want to just send me your resume and the next day I was flying home. So I went back home on my computer typed up my cover letter resume sent it off to him We talked and literally two months later I came back to New York City to do fashion week. They I'm also a professional makeup artist and came here with a One-way ticket. Okay. Yes, right and one way not round trip one way I knew that it's something big was gonna happen and something was gonna shift in my life So, you know, if I needed to go back and I could always buy a ticket, but Three weeks into February He contact me and offer me the job and had to go back home because I had a pack so I went back home for four days and I was back in New York and Basically found a place here and really just enjoyed community and helping people because I was living the lifestyle already and Just started to really embrace what organic Avenue offered for The products the juices the community Bringing people to learn more about the life and it's been it's been great So they're very well known for their cleanses and their juices Yeah, what's the cleansing program structured like are there different cleanses that a person can choose? Yeah, there's different There's five different cleanses. Okay, and Janice Murray is the founder and created all of these cleanses So that there are any one that you choose will be Pretty much based on where you are in your current lifestyle. I see you definitely if you're a beginner I want to start with the first cleanse, which is love easy love easy love easy is super easy you incorporate juices elixirs and food, so you're still eating and You feel like it's part of a normal life. Yeah, you feel great because You know, obviously the the food is organic. It's raw. It's made fresh daily You can pick it up. It's hasn't been sitting on a shelf for days or weeks or months or whatever huge difference So we have love easy. We have fast. We have deep which is all liquids Not necessarily. There's no soup. There's no Smoothie. It's just fruit juice Green juice veggie juices master tonic just to really sort of help, you know soften Relax the body allow it to digest and that's a fiberless cleanse Fiberless cleanse deep love deep. So the other ones will probably have they're more blended soups and smoothies and foods And we have love more that has this the soups Okay. Yeah, and love fast has a smoothie Yeah, and we have love young which is dr. Young's Dr. Robert. Oh young's particle. Okay, so it's alkaline diet just to reduce the essence in the body What do we have here that we have some Enough to bring in some organic avid products and we've got some juices and some smoothies here Yeah, and actually we were drinking some before and then we had to refilm a little bits So there were five beautiful juices right here, and we drank a lot of it. So now we have This is the watermelon juice and what's great about this is you take a whole watermelon or actually we do it organic Avenue we's a cold press machine and Hydraulic cold pressed so you've done that before right not the cold press. No, not the cold press Yeah, just like a centrifugal. Yeah. Yeah, so isn't as good. Yeah, this this is going to have More of your enzymes in here fresher and as you can see there's no fiber in it Yeah, you can see the color Had a lot. We've had a lot to drink nothing's floating. So we put the whole rind and the seed Okay, so the seed the rind the juice is all in here. Yeah, and it tastes amazing People love it men love it because it's sweet and women love it as well, but it's great has It's a really good hydration, especially in the summer. Yeah in the summertime for sure Right here. We have what looks to be chocolate based. Yes, and what's this? Oh my gosh, although I've been drinking it for an hour How you feeling? I'm feeling pretty good. Yeah, so chocolate is amazing. This is called chocolate love smoothie and This movie has hemp seeds. It has alkaline water a little bit a lot of cacao obviously Vanilla and dates, okay, and it's like a liquid dessert. Yeah liquid dessert. It's like a milkshake Yeah, milkshake in a bottle. Yeah, really nice. It's really delicious a lot of men like it as They're very first juicer smoothie, you know because it's just easy to drink They it's it's nice. It's good. I don't know if I can drink the whole thing. It's a lot Yeah, I know I think Really cool thing about the chocolate products is that when you do chocolate You're actually supporting people that are growing a product in an intact rainforest because chocolate likes shade Which means you can't just plant it in a field you have to plant it underneath trees that are already there So as you buy chocolate as you buy chocolate products as you support chocolate companies You're actually supporting the intact rainforest So really remember that you're supporting the villagers that harvest these things and ferment the beans and and the whole process is really involved And it's very labor-intensive So by supporting these companies I like noses chocolate of my our friend our mutual friend Vanessa barge and you know noses is awesome and then right here we have antidote chocolate Which is from our good friend red who's in Long Island City and she does the packaging and she has actually a blend of half Raw half roasted and this is her lemon salt variety. Yes. You want to try it? Oh my gosh. Yes. It's delicious It's one of my favorites. I love salt. Yeah, salt and salt and sweet and chocolate are really One of the best ones. Thank you. In this. Let's see what we got here Cacao beans, Kate. It's all organic cane sugar lemon salt vanilla beans and then Meringa leaves which are really high in antioxidants and Amino acids. Yes, so it's kind of nice to put that herbal stuff Into the chocolate as a delivery system. Yeah, this is antidote chocolate You know, that's the funny thing I'd like to bring a lot of gifts to my agency and and when you bring them stuff like this You know because I know that my book or will for instance is a chocolate chocolate And I can bring him a chunk of Hershey's or whatever, you know But I want to bring him conscious stuff like this handmade by people who really care and People that are supporting organic fair trade and I brought some stuff like this into the into the agency and then the next day I see a big honking bar of Hershey's on his desk and you can just feel the vibration. It's just so different There's no like I feel like there's so much love and stuff like this and noses and I mean There's so many good companies out there and then you know with red this company that she created The beans come from Peru. So it's bean to cacao We're super important except a huge difference Super fresh. It's really good, right? Yeah, it's really good. This is just one of the many bars that she has. Yeah, and you carry this at organic Avenue We have it organic Avenue. Okay. Yeah, we have it at all of our locations, right? Also on our website So if you want to purchase that you can go on our website or our web store and you ship and we ship we ship globally Oh, nice. Oh, and that's organic Avenue comm everyone. Yeah, just in case you're wondering It's right on the bottom of the screen and they'll totally set you up another thing that organic Avenue is known for is their events and They're they've really become a hub for the community for the conscious eating community and There's an event on August 3rd August 3rd with Jason Rebelle. Jason Rebelle the celebrity raw vegan chef. Yes And the event will be from it's a three-hour event. It's a three-hour event. Okay. He's he has a DVD It's called simple classics and he's gonna be demonstrating and sampling his herbal tonics and as well as the His super sugar-free desserts, so it's supposed to be amazing amazing And then the date that you're seeing underneath me right now is Thursday August 11th, and that's the event that I'm gonna have an organic Avenue. Yes following Jason's events So Jason is on August 3rd. Yes, and then I'm gonna be on Thursday August 11 11th. Yeah, and we're super excited to have you back This is your third visit. Yeah, my third visit now. This is my third talk and it's actually I'm trying to read what that says on the screen And it says one is it 115 suffix. It's on 116 116 Suffolk Street And that's in the Lower East side of New York City, and that's that's the space of love That's like the main hub of organic Avenue. Yes, give or take. That's like the spell That's the spot and pretty soon they're gonna have their tonic bar there as far as my event it's called a model for living and it's kind of a culmination of the past eight or nine years of everything that I've really come across and What I've weeded through and formulated to be a really good blueprint for living my life and how I've been able to stay thin All the ups and downs that I've had through my dietary journey and what I've kind of pulled out from it Lifestyle stuff like stuff like water, you know my water my water strategy my my shower filters Using glass using glass that is my wrong glass like dark bottles wild food I'm gonna talk a lot about exercising and multitasking when I exercise so I can listen to like a French lesson or I can listen to a podcast I like to really listen to the one radio network comm podcast. Those are really great So I'm gonna be giving tons of tips. It's a two and a half hour event We're gonna be doing a lot of samples from Amazon herb company It's a company that we teamed up with recently they got a lot of cool products that support the Amazon rainforest You want to try a little sure? This is the camo gold It's a camo camo berry extract Which is really high in vitamin C? Hmm. Mmm. Yummy. So there's gonna be a lot of these samples There's gonna be some smoothies that I'm making we're gonna make one called the ninja turtle Which has a lot of pumpkin seed oil and some more your vanilla protein a lot of really cool stuff It sounds yummy. So yeah really come if you're even I mean I feel like this is an event that we could really change people's lives Because I've been through a lot of stuff and I really had to stay competitive in New York City To be able to be a working model and the stuff that I've figured out I feel like it's really clicking for me now and I just want to share that information as a fellow student as well as a Fellow student on the path that is continuously learning and that come from my heart And I just want people to know what I've gone through and the tips that have really helped me I'm gonna talk a lot about food for us and how to set up your own food for us Whether you live in the country or the city and I really kind of want to wrap it up with an idea of why we're here on the planet And what our mission is and really like the deep-down connections that we truly have and sometimes we forget and how we can actually form a nice synergistic community and Go get away from all the BS clutter and the small differences that can really divide people I really want people to be unified and just focus on the positive You know this this talk is really gonna be about positive solutions Instead of fighting the negative with negative because if you're if you're bummed out about negative stuff And you come at it with that negative energy It's just gonna feed that negative monster So really you just have to shine your light and just be a positive person Just be an angel on the planet whether or not you believe in angels or not Just be an angel yourself look in the mirror and realize that you chose to come to this planet for a reason and You're here to bring paradise to the planet and that's how I feel and I think that's how a lot of us feel nowadays So I'm gonna wrap it up with that. We're gonna do some guided meditations. We're gonna do a little cheek on Yeah, stimulating the meridians and getting things going It's tough. It's tough I'm in New York for a reason, you know, we're here That would be a good time to actually go to our sponsors and give them a little love With us gold coins calm Andy goss is the man check out his book called Uncle Sam cooks the books. He has inspired me beyond belief I've been listening to him for about three years and he's totally changed my paradigm about money and After that we have Mezzie grill. Mezzie grill is the first restaurant in New York City to support Bitcoin Which is the new digital currency and it's a really really big deal So show your support to them They have awesome Mediterranean food and they recently made the clean plates NYC list Which means they have really clean food and they're really awake about their menu. 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Yeah, and the reason why I wanted to learn from her was because she herself Obviously she lives it and I just felt that she was the right teacher for me so especially here in New York City where traffic flows all the time and The energy is flowing. It's important to have a good balance in your life so I learned how to use these concepts and Have not been fully going into diving into the whole business because I work full-time at organic Avenue But I definitely do do that and I'm currently working on a place right now To help bring balance into the client's life. I've seen it. It looks really good. Yeah recent project. Yes Yeah, are you seeing people go more towards modern decorating or are they keeping some of their older antiques? Does feng shui apply to both? Oh, I mean it applies to both. Yeah, right. Okay. Yeah applies to both It's not necessarily it's not even about the type of furniture that you have. It's it's really it's it's really taking the the year of the building that it was built and Literally just calculating all the numbers interesting that each quadrant has Specifically the remedy that you need to create the balance in that particular life and it could be for Whatever it is that you want so if it's career if it's romance Bringing a baby into your life bringing more money and abundance. Those are all important It doesn't just start with a home.  Yeah makes it you can feel the shift when it happens and most people are not, you know, aware of it They feel something is good.  For instance, that's you know part of feng shui as well It's cozy. It's cozy. Yeah, it's protection. So Makes a big difference when all these little small elements are put together and you know when the energy is bad And you you feel that yeah, yeah, can you feel a difference? Living in because you live in Manhattan, right? I do. Yeah, can you feel a difference with the energy living here compared to Southern California? Oh, of course, like even walking around and stuff. Yeah, okay, of course I mean, it's the whole you can feel you can feel the You know the subway and the frequency of that which is apparently really really bad. Yeah for us. So I I'm really fortunate. I walk to work Have an eight-minute walk. So I'm never in the subway other than you know, if I have to come up here Yeah, or we took the subway we took I know Or to Central Park, you know uptown. Yeah, I prefer to be Above ground on the on the bus, but you know, it's you got to have balance. Yeah Yeah, I remember when I had a bicycle I Wrote my bike probably for nine months straight. I think and then it was actually I was helping Bruce and Ed move Strangely enough and I was meeting a friend from Manitoba harvest the hemp seed company Right and I locked my bike up at Union Square. Mm-hmm. We went for a little walk through the farmers market Yeah, I came back and my bike was gone and so I walked downstairs into the subway right in Union Square And I was just like woof. I could just feel that energy down there again. It drains you in a bad way Yeah in a bad way, and I I avoided the subway for about nine months. I don't believe it I didn't go in there once even in the rain. I don't know somehow I managed to stay away or I would walk and then just going back down in there Yeah, it's like I ride the subway a lot and I kind of try and block it out with some music or good stuff But you definitely can feel it. It's kind of It's like a vampire in a way. It is yeah I've been really fortunate the past couple years when I've lived here in New York City a Prior to moving back to California. I was living in West New York, which is in New Jersey. Oh, sure so I would take the ferry to work and That was a beautiful ride just coming through there and then taking the bus to work So it really was hardly ever in the subway for a good number of years Yeah, except for my first maybe first two years of living in New York. Okay, so It's it's nice. Yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's definitely nice. Yeah on that topic a little bit I kind of wanted to ask about like the cosmetics because it's not even really on that topic But I'm curious about cosmetics because you coming from the cosmetic industry I think you would be a good insightful person to see whether or not the trend You know, we know we know about the food now We know like what we put inside our bodies in our set in our temples It's a big deal and also now what I think a lot of people are tuning into is that what we put on our bodies on our Temples like the paint that we put on now the makeup the shampoo the the toothpaste that are the deodorant You know all these things really play in to the overall health of our life Are you seeing a trend going more towards conscious beauty products? There's a huge trend. I'm it's It's being written in the magazines already and on the internet So there's a lot of organic companies that are making really good products right now Especially at organic Avenue. We carry a couple of really great beauty lines such as Tata Harper She carries skincare and body Okay, and we started carrying her about a year ago and we did a major event called inside outside beauty We geared it towards women obviously because that's her product line, but men can use it as well and we did we did have a couple men that attended and What you know, she she herself likes to use products that are just natural paraben free That are safe cosmetics. She was part of a Group of people that created the safe cosmetics campaign. Okay. Do you remember that one? No, the video. Oh, yes She helped create that. Yeah, it's so good. Yeah, so We have her we have seagull healing spa. Okay. We carry What's the other lines? Dr. Alcatis? Simply divine Right, we have a hair care line that we started carrying two years a year ago called intelligent nutrients They are based in I want to say in Minnesota Interesting, I'm really sure but Horst who is the hmm. What are they thinking? I know Horst, I believe it's in Minnesota. We have to check that out, but Horst who is the founder Came from a Veda. Okay. He created this brand. Oh, yeah, Minnesota. Yeah, Minnesota. Yes. Yes, so What I like about it is there's the shampoos are sulfate free They're great for any type of hair. We carry the harmonic shampoo and conditioner Okay, men and women love it and the brand is for you know, anybody all ages Which is really nice, but the shift is definitely there between men and women And more so with men, too. It's you know, they're they're seeing They want to use really good things for their body Women especially because as they're drinking the juices, they're feeling great They're starting to think at early or now. Yes, and me myself I'm not a hundred percent all organic in the makeup that I use but you know, I am searching So if there are companies out there, you know, I really do encourage you to create some really great wonderful Products that are for the map for the mass because it's expensive. I have a friend who created a brand but in order to You know really make it mass market. You've got to put a lot of Money into it. So yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, it's always about the startup money But I think you know consumers have such if they can demand All these great things and that's gonna shift all the major companies to start creating some really good Chemical-free products. Yeah, it's because we have the power. Yeah, really We do you know really if anybody if you if you have a Brand or a company that you like and they're not offering the products that you that you want Email them and get a few friends to email them to and they pay people to listen to this kind of response Yeah, yeah, and they really I mean they feel like if one person writes them Probably thousands feel that way and they're just you know too busy to write them themselves So if you can get you know, maybe a dozen friends to just ask for organic cosmetics and shampoo without Metal parabens and all this funky stuff on the back. It's just like eating food You know just turn the bottle around and look at the label and see what's on there And if there's a lot of wacky stuff that you might not be able to pronounce you might want to think twice about it Yeah, I went to Lush actually. Oh you did for me. Yeah, and they're kind of they're about that in a way You know, but their stuff has parabens. Yeah, but they said it's derived from blueberries. Hmm Haven't heard that. Yeah after research that Google Google parabens and blueberries And I guess they're naturally occurring in blueberries, but I don't know like that stuff scared me so much Yeah, but they were really kind of good about explaining it all so It's just a conscious person Yeah, and you have to be careful too because companies can claim certain yeah Yeah, you have to really do your research on all of these brands, you know just don't trust it because it says organic or yeah You really look at the ingredients if you if you can't understand what the ingredient is Yeah, that usually means that it's probably not good for you Yeah, absolutely or if you can't even pronounce it if you can't even pronounce it Yeah, just that kemi stuff and don't confuse the Latin names with chemicals of course, but Yeah, there's really like a lot out there that is really being developed right now And it's really kind of exciting to be a part of that You know that movement.  I don't really I don't wear foundation Okay, I don't I just have a little bit of powder on my skin mineral powder Okay, and you know if you want to pinch your cheeks you get that natural red glow Oh, yeah, something that touch a heart for daughter said of her facial event is just pinching your cheeks for that natural Glow and interesting as yeah without the blush without the blush. Yeah, so Or you could get a sunburn like me I thought the sun too much yesterday. Yeah, cool. Cool And you know another thing too that I've really come across is the looking for good deodorant and being cautious about the Aluminum and the aluminum in deodorant You know to flip that flip that thing of old spice around and see what's in that thing because there might be aluminum in it And if you're rubbing it in your armpits, it's getting into your body, right for sure So be cautious about that flip the thing around and then you know, right old spice or right? Gillette and tell them guys makes make an organic product because a lot of people want to buy it and these companies have the resources to make an organic product And you want to support the small companies, of course But it's really good to see big companies taking on an organic product and I even like looks for example Walmart You know like Walmart supports a lot of organic farmers actually Mm-hmm, and when I go to if you know like when or if I go to Walmart I'd really like to buy organic products because they seed in their computer. They see the oh, yeah The the salads are selling. Okay. Oh, this whatever you know Right organic apples are selling and then it's gonna encourage them to buy some more and that means more support for organic farming So no matter where you shop big company small company, whatever Get them into the organic lines whether it's cosmetics clothes You know clothes or a big will cover clothes. Maybe another episode of course GMO cotton Pesticide sprays you really want to go for organic clothes and hemp and bamboo. You're wearing a bamboo shirt right now Yeah, this this is the organic Avenue love shirt Yes Which stands for the live organic vegan experience and it's just I just love this shirt. I feel so nice. It's good, right? Yeah, it's almost like all bamboo. There's some hemp. Yeah, there's some hemp in there Yeah, gosh, it feels great and you have some more colors available pretty soon. Yeah pretty soon more colors cool We're asking for them. So yeah, people like the pinks and it's great the blues and all that. Yeah. Yeah, I'm very cool I'm very cool. Oh, let's check the chat rooms. Sure and see what's going on People were asking about There's some time on geography. Hmm. Where did you happen to get those shoes that you're wearing? Oh gosh, it's always about fashion New York City. Oh These particular I shop everywhere, but these particular shoes. I was in Southampton last weekend and You know when you're in this when you're outside of New York City, you like to shop wherever you can Right. So these are from a store called TJ Maxx. Everyone knows that store, right? Yeah, so they have a new commercial called the mask Max Maxinista the Maxinista Maxinista But you know, I'm so amazed they have some really great shoes for women there. I'm sure for men as well Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah, it's always worth a look and the prices are great and that's cool Started shopping there and kind of like it. Are they sponsoring this show yet? No This is brought to you by TJ Maxx Yeah, it's cool. Yeah, definitely. I'm trying to well my shoes if anyone cares about my shoes Yeah, your shoes look pretty hot there. These are Vibrams and I've been a fan of Vibrams for about four months now five months.  I think we should contact them so that you can start sure Yeah, I think we should I think you need to do a campaign for them Yeah, that would be really cool. Yeah, I think they would be down for that and they're really growing a lot, too So I will make it happen. We'll make it happen. Yes. Yes Very cool, so we covered the events we talked about all the juices and stuff. Yeah, we'll talk about your shoes we talked about chocolate and What's in the future? What do you got planned? What's what's coming up? What's coming down the pike? Oh, let's see at Organic Avenue Any any more big news coming down any more Expansions, I know you really expanded a lot. Oh my gosh. Organic Avenue is huge. Yeah, we're huge. We now have over a hundred employees Wow company-wide in our kitchen and also in our stores in our office Starting from starting well when I started there were only seven of us in the retail store including Yeah, including Doug and Denise That was just two and a half years ago and the kitchen was probably I don't know maybe 20 people. Okay, I think so We moved out of our kitchen which was 300 square feet to now 1500 square feet which includes a warehouse plus the facility to wash the produce and Make the juices make the food do production line Well, I was just there a couple days ago. Just taking a look at it and you know helping with organization. Yeah on that end and We're opening up two more stores This what month are we in? July mid-July mid-July so August 1st We're opening up our next location midtown east. Okay on Lexington and 54th Street Okay, and then two weeks after that fall goes. Well, we'll open up Greenwich Village another store and then in Long Island We'll have Roslyn Heights, which will be a really unique store within it's our organic Avenue store within this Humongous beautiful store and we're super excited about that We'll let everyone know when that happens But we're shooting for September for that opening If someone isn't living in the tri-state area or can they have juices shipped to them? Oh, of course Yeah, we ship we ship nationally anywhere in the US. Okay, and we ship them in Plant bottles. They're a little bit longer. They're not the 16 ounce. We do a 12 ounce bottle Only the love deep because it's juices and easier ship We don't do food yet because we haven't quite mastered shipping food Yeah, and making it look pretty. Yeah, so we just do the juices and we have clients from California to Florida to Oregon we've even shipped to Canada before You know, we've we've had celebrities that want our juice and definitely, you know, if they want it We'll make it happen. So we do do that, but we're expanding and in November. We're launching on 11-11-11 we're launching our elixir lounge. Oh, we might open it earlier Possibly we're looking at that, but we're going to be doing the very first alcohol-free Light club nice. So instead of a night club, it'll be a light club Oh, cool And what's great about our space at 116 Suffolk Street is not only it's a boutique, but it's our event space It was previously a night club. Wow, and they shut it down a couple years ago so we kept the bar and We renovated the back area Yeah, and we're now going to liven it up with the light a light bar conscious connections We have a disco ball still so we'll be able to dance and have our drinks and be high on Tonics, I wonder if you need a cabaret license to do the dance to do the dancing Even if they don't sell alcohol. Yeah, I think you're different. Yeah, really? I think if you don't sell alcohol Exactly. Yeah, well, yeah, I think probably in New York. There's a funny thing It's called like a cabaret license where they try and you have to have this thing to be able to have dancing If you sell alcohol because like I don't know. There's it's New York City I know you have to dance like right in place and Can you believe that? You know it's kind of a loose thing but it's not like they're gonna come and like bust you for dancing or something But right I think they try and discourage it So it's something with like the night clubs and everything like that. Yeah, are the hours gonna be later if you're doing yeah Well, we won't be open past probably 11 30. Oh, I would say usually it's eight We close at eight which it closes at eight But once the licks of our opens up, we'll definitely have it open afterwards. That'd be fun Yeah, there's a lot of exciting things that are gonna be happening at the space with I can't reveal them now, but you know if you're interested just go on our website organic Avenue Com send up for newsletter and you'll see all of the events that are happening plus We're gonna have some major parties coming up. So yes Yes, we will and another really important thing about the events is that you've got a pre-register for the events Of course It's really important it's really important that Organic Avenue knows if you're coming because they need to plan with the seating and they need there's only 75 seats available for these events And usually they sell out pretty fast So you really need to kind of get on top of it register get your name on the list and then we know how much smoothies We need to make we know about the samples that we're going to give away and we know about the seats So definitely pre-register on the event page at organic Avenue comm if you're interested and this is going to be some life-changing events and even if you're Considering going even if you live outside of the of the New York area fly in and it's August in New York City It's a beautiful time to be here. It's not as hot as people say, you know, it's pretty I'm so happy here right now. It's such a great summer. Yeah, the weather is beautiful. It's not really that humid Yeah, you walk around like at 8 p.m. And it's like magical. Yeah, you know, it's like that magical evening light and Come to an event. Yeah, and if you need a place To stay let me know I can definitely recommend some really great Hotels in the neighborhood or whatever neighborhood you want to stay in. Yeah Unfortunately, I don't have a big house to house everybody but fair enough Definitely recommend some really cool places. We have a couple of hotels in the Lower East side Once the revington hotel. Oh, yeah, that's which is just a few blocks from us Yeah, and then the Lower East side Thompson hotel, which I've stayed at a few times 60 Thompson that that one's in Soho, but the Lower East side is right on Allen in Houston. Oh, okay, so it's a nice tall one Yes, yeah, it's beautiful. It's really really nice. Yeah, I love it. And the staff is really great there It's a bit of a smaller boutique hotel. Yeah But it's it's close and it's not, you know, it's literally what 10 minutes from Soho You just walk straight across from your square. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good location. Yeah, so come definitely come So you have to register for Anthony's event. Yes, and Jason's. Oh, you can come for Jason's and stay the week and finish with mine Oh, yes. Yes. And if you want to stay the whole July there's a huge party that we're throwing. Yes, you and I drew Mel, Vanessa, Philip, and Nerov were hosting. Yes. Yes, they were hosting a potluck and ping-pong event. Yes, and that's going to be July 30th, working out the venue still. We'll see where it's gonna be fun no matter what. We're gonna go play ping-pong at a nightclub afterwards So it'll be a good time and everybody brings really awesome food and we just love the potlucks and that's how we met I think we met at a potluck. We met at a potluck at Vanessa's place. At Vanessa's place. Yeah, it's all about See what's so cool about this? People do the potlucks and you make friends and three years later you're hanging out doing a show together And it all is because of the internet. We're just so lucky with the internet. Oh my gosh. Well, what will we do without the internet? I don't know and Facebook. I don't know. Just hang out and have normal lives. I guess I want to pull up speaking of Facebook. I always get some good questions on Facebook And there was a really good one that came up recently and it's kind of about the dichotomy of my life and the modeling stuff and I'll read it off really fast and then we'll We'll talk about that a little bit Hi, and I'll leave it anonymous because she didn't want to be known for this and whatever Hi, Anthony, and she's a great person with all due respect I find the Madison Avenue Times Square stuff to be an extreme contradiction Slash paradox to what you're trying to promote You would not probably have the freedom that you do without the money and fame That has come from the civilized world that you denounce with your replanting paradise message I'll keep reading don't get me wrong I totally dig what a dig that you want to actively and inspiration we recreate a more natural world But the other modeling stuff mixed in your message is just a turnoff to me Sorry, it just snacks of all that is overcommercialization in this world a very artificial Super ego lifestyle that I don't have the energy or the heart to keep up with in love and peace Anon this and so um, I replied I can just kind of Whatever I can paraphrase what I said I just asked her to really kind of step back and look at the bigger photo. Look at the bigger picture of the photo And see like how many people may have been exposed to organic gardening green living permaculture replanting paradise because They were attracted to my modeling photos. You know if I was in the model I don't know how many people would be following me right now and following the show and on facebook I think there's a big following because of my time square stuff and my modeling photos and people Want to know what I do for for food and for and healthy living and what I put on my body and And these things really are about the bigger picture. I don't necessarily I wouldn't say like I'm so proud to be a model or um, you know, whatever It's not an ego thing It was something that I kind of fell into and and I realized that I was able to be more influential Like I might be able to be more influential in someone's life than a doctor because I might have the results Someone wants instead of a doctor just this and that and they might have a degree But they're not the living example of what someone wants and on the other hand Maybe I am and I can get people into organic gardening and conscious living and maybe a hundred years from now They're a great great grandchildren are going to be eating pine nuts because They were inspired to plan a pine nut tree because they saw a talk of mine So I just kind of asked like step back a little bit and look at the bigger picture Um, it's it's influential when I can get some good jobs And people pay more attention and people get more conscious and and I'm just trying to come from love I'm trying to come from my heart I know some people don't appreciate the dichotomy But I really think the dichotomy is part of the flavor of all that is The show and raw model and And it's um, I just asked for people to kind of embrace it a little bit and not take it so seriously And just focus on what you like. I mean life is a buffet You don't have to take everything that I say or everything that I do is Gospel or whatever, you know, it's just like take what you like and see if you're like the gardening stuff go with it And some people just like to look at my photos and they like to look at my abs and stuff like whatever, you know It's all kind of a big part of the of the Overall picture and I just want people to get into the green living and the conscious living Before it's too late, you know, because as sooner you can do this stuff the sooner you can liberate yourself from sickness feeling lethargic negative thoughts Replanting paradise. That's the key. Don't let the modeling stuff get you down. I know it's Very commercial. I know it's got all that kind of stuff going on the ego stuff And I would love to work for a lot of conscious companies But I can't turn a lot of work down because if I did my agency would kill me And they would let me go and I wouldn't be a model anymore. So you kind of have to take the good with the bad I'll never do a job for monsanto. I'll never do a job for public If I do a job for mcdonald's or pizza hut or something, I will give the money away. I promise So um Just kind of step back and again look at the bigger picture because it's all from love and it's all good You know and looking back on this in 10 years. It's all going to be mouse farts I mean, we're all just going to think it's funny and not a big deal But you know the one thing about that is that when you're out there doing your modeling You're influencing all of the people that are part of that good point and the company as well Yeah, that's that's true too. Yeah, you you're making shifts Yeah, you never know because I might come in with these shoes And then I might bring in some green juice from organic avenue and you know I might be wearing this shirt to a job and people start asking questions and You know, you might heal maybe the photographer has a mom that has cancer And all of a sudden she starts drinking green juice and she starts seeing some results, you know And just for me wearing a t-shirt to a job or our world is funny like that Yeah, or the vice president or the president or CEO of the company. Yes. Yes. Yeah, like they might see a You know me hanging out and they might come to the job And then they see me and they talk to me and see me eating a salad or eating some kind of, you know Whatever I brought and and it just kind of it's we're all stones in the pond and we can make big ripples And we make little ripples and hopefully we'll choose to decide to make some big ripples because now's the time for that for sure Yeah Very cool. It's happening. Yeah, it definitely was happening I know with all this stuff I feel like organic avenue has such a clean brand name and And their look is the logo is just so good and it's just it has the potential to be a worldwide brand I mean, it's so recognizable It is I see those orange bags like floating around through the city and the orange canvas bag I know with the oa sign and yeah, you definitely see it a lot more now and you see people just walking around with the juice Oh, it's amazing. I mean right currently right now. We have a special going on on group on Okay, I don't know kitty. Yeah, it's a two more days. Okay, and It's 125 for three-day love deep Nice the normal price. It's a lot of juice. It's a lot of juice. Yeah, normal price is 280. Wow, okay So it's such a hefty discount. Yes, and for first timers, you know, especially with our group the group on Members a lot of them have not known about organic avenue. There's I don't know if you know about group on a little bit They have over two million subscribers in New York City. Whoa Yes, so when we did the first First special with them. They were only at a million. So they've already Gone up to two million. So we're reaching the masses and it's amazing that New York City is cleansing our first Ever group on that we did we sold almost 1800 love deep What product cleanses? So can you imagine the city is just drinking and nourishing with Really good organic fresh fresh juices. Yeah, and you have a good celebrity following as well Yeah, huge celebrity following. So that's huge. I mean once celebrities start drinking this stuff and it I feel like it Really just opens opens up the heart. It opens up the mind Gets the clutter out of their bodies and then they have the resources to make some real change You know because when I was You know really getting into the raw food. I had such huge revelations about life and and being a part of the solution And not of the problem So it makes me very hopeful to know that people with real influence are using these products and waking up and You know once they start supporting it and putting their money towards it I think we're really gonna like see some really fast change. Oh, of course Definitely, it's happening because that's the thing. It's like we can we can kind of get stuck in this mode where We're thinking okay conscious eating is for for hippies or for you know more Back to the land salt of the earth kind of people But the real people that can make the change are the executives and the celebrities and the the fast moving Movers and shakers of new york city, right? And once they start tuning in and they are their heart opens and and they have a million dollars to plant a food for us Like whoa, that's crazy. Yeah much more than you know Are you some young kid coming out of college? So I think that's like the coolest part about organic avenues.  I want to say thanks to Mia of organic avenue And how can I get a hold of you? Through facebook facebook. Okay. Mia santos andres, or you can reach me At Mia at organic avenue calm cool. Cool. And my name is anthony anderson. This is the anthony anderson show episode two Coming back at you early next week with episode three and thanks so much guys So thanks for all the good support and all the all the love and the comments. We love it And this is just the beginning so much love. Thank you so much. Thanks to organic avenue and lots of love. Peace everyone. Thanks


All right, man, I have a feeling that it's finally time to see what this is all about because when you in a hairly like up Practically kill off the MC in the second episode and then give him a sort of second chance. It looks like I'm gonna need some answers About you know, what what's going on here? Will we find out all the answers today? Probably not I'll probably be even more confused by the end of this one But you know, that's how anime goes. Oh, my name is Jack the bus working off into it soul leveling It's like a game double like on this one. It does help me out quite a bit and now let's get started They're still surrounding him. I feel like these statues will be like the final villains Okay Is this like a hot? Yeah, I was gonna say a hospital his arms back. Oh, is that for she good?  Well, go see her. Yeah, that would traumatize anyone The white tiger guild. Oh, it's like a rescue squad. Oh, he was just laying there. Oh He got the second life and they tossed them out I don't know what that is, but it kind of sounds like what just happened Oh wait awakening of like powers A man a meter this is like say his power level 10 E ranks are higher than 70 he waking another time and he's like the same power level They just laugh they're like, oh never mind Oh, what Yeah, bro for her to lose him just have her mom I Was he supposed to open a message box if it's not even a touchscreen daily quest strength training Songy I feel like they just name dropped her for a reason a Penalty the rewards have been delivered There's so many screens. Wish I'm sit up squats. Oh, they he just got frigging sights of us regiment Wait, so what's the penalty if he runs out of time? Like I should be worried Can they re-enter the same dungeon they like go and investigate it or no I guess once the rift is closed it's closed and they can't leave it open because then they the monsters can come to this world Five largest guilds wait, there's multiple guilds What time and how does he ahead of the game? Oh what? Random rift. There's a lot like building in the background. So rich just pop up and then just quarantine it Oh wait, he didn't finish Who would be in control of this What do you got since the hell? Survive four hours. I don't like five minutes. Yeah, that's too long. Oh son can't catch a break He is never going to miss a mission quest after this ever again. He's going to scar him But how has he ran for two hours from it actually? Oh my god. He actually ran for four hours, bro I think this is genuinely just to scare him Hi penalty quest. Oh, we get a reward for the penalty quest. I thought it was straight up just like a punishment It's so what package are like what a reward arrived earlier? All right, it's got the tracksuit on and everything Well, I thought she was leaving being like a hunter or she's quitting they need a healer He was king. I'm surprised. He is like son hasn't called her. Let's go. We can have that date, baby Yeah, oh, he's like true. Oh, that's why I put a tracksuit on he's just training I know he's doing his his 10 kilometers. Nice Three types. Oh, he picked for recovery. Oh, it says level one you can level up ability points, bro Just mitt max put it all in the strength So other hunters don't have this right like what is this?  He's like, this is just how it is now I Random loot box Can you put it in his inventory? Oh key. What in the inventory it'll come up in like season four What was that?  Have they said Oh, well, there it is What every several 10,000 so she's just very unlucky You're basically just like a perma coma He was always just there for his mom. He's gotta get stronger.  Hey, man, I'm here for it. I don't I don't blame him This is the dungeon the extra dungeon. Okay. No, it's not a season four key. It's a now key Find the chair like chairmen go has to have some knowledge of what's happening here like with him with this whole menu system and everything Oh, dude, I've been there some juicy loot who is trapped No, you came in you gotta come in what all we could still see people He's committed cannot exit his defeat or use a teleportation stone. He brought no escape robes man So he either beats it or dies in here Come on song you have strength points now, man Oh Goblins oh, those are just like the ones from like the lower dungeons I feel like he's gonna be a lot stronger now already just with a couple points of strength They look exactly like regular dungeon goblins This song is actually able to like level up over and over and over. He's gonna grind every day and get insanely strong There you go, baby. That's one gets easier and easier in kink fights I mean it kind of seems like you put some points into agility, too. I'm not gonna lie He's bobbing and weaving There you go, he's getting confidence to was he doing by this backpack strap that for I see toes is that from the other one What the I thought that's the dungeon but it's broken how did his blade just break This is what happened in general I feel like another hunter is gonna show up and they're gonna be like different just like him I don't know if he is still I guess he's a hunter. Yeah, he's doing dungeons Dude the episode just like blow by man I think it's because it's so much information and such a short amount of time But my gosh it moves fast Okay, so we kind of have an understanding like to an extent of song's role here But not really his role more his new life, but yeah, man. We've already seen a power spike He's already able to take on these goblinos and not just one but like three at the same time at that It's pretty impressive I feel like this cliffhanger is gonna sort of transition into him meeting someone else like him That's able to see these menus and stuff and maybe see these different dungeons and they're gonna sort I don't know mentor him is the word But they're gonna kind of learn and bounce off of each other about like what this is or why they were like this I get this is a very bold prediction and I'm like I'm going like really hard on it But I feel like this wolf like jumping at him is kind of setting up for someone to come swing it And or who knows maybe this is a moment for song to prove himself And he just obliterates this wolf with his bare hands. What's more likely here? He could also grab like one of the goblin's blades, but I like how he's very interesting It's like this like like he said a video game in real life that nobody else knows about But it's not just that because it has connections to these already established sort of functions and Architecture of this world like in connection with gates and stuff and the mystery of those statues Why was he given this chance the second chance and who gave this second chance to him?  This is gonna age so poorly. Isn't it? What else could be in this dungeon, man? A weapon with magic. No, you're not on that skill tree yet. Oh wait Did he have something in his end up? What? Is it a sword? How did you forget about this? I want to come into this dungeon with that bad boy equipped Three million Why did he just carry that around through the dungeon?  How is that possible? King Arthur?  Or can I'm song bark be the alpha Level up this really was a solo leveling Andrew is healing from before What? Oh that's busted. What are we gonna be at by the end of season one, man? He really is mid maxing strength. I still don't know like is somebody in control of this like game the system Then it has to be right That lute them Too low level of buy Wait, what have you needed that tooth man see in games like this I would hoard man I hang on to everything. I'm like, maybe I'll need this one day And then I never use it and I quit the game So there's a boss of every dungeon for sure. Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's how he gets out Then why did you come in here? Just grind to the entrance room he like runs back up the stairs they respawn he runs back down It's still here Oh, oh are they all wolves? That's very true Oh my bro, wait, he's gonna spike if he's able to take down all of them the difference one sword makes man Okay, oh, okay bump the brakes, you know, this is like tutorial island. I'm pretty sure That was a single animation Oh my wait, he's spiking and level he's leveling up like every single one wolf assassin He got a title. Where does that even go man? A dampo all into strength 40 percent to animal types Dang bro Oh, he can leave from the wolves. I mean, let's go see what the boss is man Never to get the chance to get stronger this easily ever again The temptation was what they got them in it the very first episode in that horrible dungeon He could just go look and then teleport out. I think I kind of just guessing at how all this works He really hasn't questioned much about what's happening to him Forward But oh, so he put it in his inventory. He's going let's go. Oh boy. Oh, yeah, they're still trying to recruit Juhi Wait a dungeon break wait like they got out Oh for the one that they were trying to recruit her to how often does a dungeon break happen? He's he's collecting like badges man. He's defeating all of them I wanted to meet like an NPC in this game like a merchant or something that only exists for him White means a week orange. Oh, okay. Okay. I played a couple games some more. Yeah That's kind of like uh, that was like how god of war is That's kind of cool You can tell how much stronger something is just by the color of their text or their title Oh my gosh, I mean you can feel it's an ominous staircase, of course, man 15 Dang man get in there. There's loot to loot. Hell. Yeah, my boy is brave. I like me. I'd be I'd be out of there Okay, this is what he questions. He's like was there always water in the subway No way is it a sea monster boss? Oh, I mean that'd be way worse if it's in the water We just got here. Oh, he's boned. He's got TP out Ah, his name is still like dark red probably Thank goodness. He said orange. I'm some wildly colorblind Oh, yeah, wait, what is this bro?  Is he crazy? You Or just TP out man He's getting tossed The train This is where he gets saved either.  What They finally go weakness just go for its face. Maybe he goes inside the snake hunt from within Oh soundtracks kicking up. What is happening? What is he unlock? This is gonna like He's got the Levi blood.  This loot's gonna go crazy. So Oh my gosh, how many level ups give it to me. We were like 15 or something A bit a bit stronger that seems like at the end of season one type boss Dang Tiger made from venom fang.    Wait, how bad did this break get? He's gonna see Juhi if she actually went Oh, uh mouth fight He was taking pictures. Why are the civilians so close go home?  No, not her. Oh shoot. She's like scared. But once she sees him Yeah, dude, she she can't be a hunter anymore not for a while I don't think she's still really bothered by it a week is not that long in between seeing like a lot of people just slaughtered He's getting in Yeah, dude, but this is also like in the real world. Does it make a difference or she's gonna see him diving in Wait, is he gonna chuck it? Wait, what? That broke a shield. That's all it took. Wait, he's so appeal ready Does he even get xp share and juhi's still not gonna see him. He's gonna dip, isn't he? Oh How has he already become like this rumored man?  Why doesn't he want to see her? It's so weird Okay, at least my prediction didn't come right about there being a fat cliff I honestly thought as he was like gonna throw the blade it was gonna cut So solo leveling I appreciate you for whatever it's worth But dude our boy is is already stupidly strong much stronger than I would have anticipated And I expected him to get a lot stronger through this system this leveling system But I don't think that quickly like he leveled up 15 times just from the wolves in the random dungeon stuff and then beat the boss with his bare hands Like it wasn't like he pulled out some random weapon or found some random blue Like it was straight up just his grip strength that tore it up Which I'm kind of torn on whether or not I like how quickly he's developed But in the grand scheme of things I don't know how much that means in the you know big picture of this world Because he could still be a frog in the well for all I know because we're only four deep I mean it's still introducing mechanics and stuff to the game and like I said I think my biggest curiosity still is whoever may be in charge of running this or whoever could be behind it Like how was he even offered this chance in the first place Does it have something to do with the fact that they were the statues that he was about to die to Like was he deemed worthy? I don't know the statues just seemed like pure incarnate evil just from the smile It didn't seem like some deity that had just been like bothered like out of rest or something But I still don't get why he won't see her. I uh, maybe he feels bad. I don't know I thought we were cool, man. But guys that's been it for for so leveling I'm still trying to figure out this this entire world and everything but I am enjoying it Let me know what you thought down in the comments below and I'll catch you next time Peace