it's the most wonderful time of the year spooky season yes not christmas you thought yeah not spooky season is better than christmas it is and if you disagree there's something wrong with you halloween is just a different type of vibe it is like i just feel like it's a great way to express yourself or like be weird without anyone judging you for the girls it's one of the best days to be uh go ahead janice finish that oh that's right that's right all the playboy bunnies all of a sudden come out the little mouse ears and just lingerie yep so what are we doing today so first off we're going to have some tea i'm doing a digested tea because i just had steak so steak takes longer to digest guys can we take a moment to appreciate how nice she looks thanks babe i got some new chanclas for the house i'm jealous mine i ordered some from amazon they still haven't came brah adulting is getting chanclitas just to wear inside of the house yeah bless them bring no dirty nasty dirt from tarjan if you're wondering hair looks nice too thanks babe i think i want to straighten my hair like all the time whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa not all the time because the curls be curling sometimes sometimes we'll be looking a mess you just do a half and half switch it up every now and then you don't not not all the time though okay we love the curls all right so today we are going to be doing a ford decor video this is a long awaited because i've been trying to redo our bedroom low key um but october is almost over and so that means that we have a lot of spooky items that we want to set up and we literally only have like two weeks left of october so we need to do it now we're just trying to do fall colors at this point with a little bit of we're just a little bit of like spookiness in it we don't want to decorate like she said the whole house spooky season because halloween's almost here in like a week or so a week and a half but yeah we got a bunch of decor stuff you ready to get the corn yeah let's do it all right guys this is all of our like spooky look at baby what the he is not sneezing he just choked on water maybe okay went down the wrong pipe blue wrong pipe so yeah guys we got a bunch of like fall the quarter stuff here we actually get it together are you okay baby we actually vlogged getting all this stuff you guys haven't seen that vlog you guys can go ahead and watch that but baby scream is over here we got the pillows we got new comfort bed set whatever you can you figure it out he's like running all over the place geez all right so like I said we got a new bed comforter a throw blanket a bunch of like different stuff to go on shelves more pillows sock are you done oh my god he can't be for right now so yeah this is everything we have i'm ready to start we do it's good blue figure it out oh my god first up what are we doing babe we're putting the pillow throw pillows all right what's that one you got on your hand all right this one is trick or treat all right this one is if the broom fits right it is it true the broom fits right yeah yeah all right so we got how many pillows do we have uh three so i'm gonna put one here oh that looks so good already we're here the boom one this is my favorite boom we don't have anything like to hold it so i have to put a straighter now it looks good though and then a little little touch of halloween so far yes looking pretty good we're gonna turn these around good enough enough bro this video is not going to be you choking the whole video for real figure it out all right so we have this throw blanket from target super coming in look is this the same color as this or is this like a little i think this is lighter they're a little off this is not about not by much same concept though i don't know how i want to put this if i want to put it over there or just leave it right here i kind of like keep it here what do you guys think bloop no oh my god now he has the damn cardboard nene you're such a menace bloop you go go ahead and play with that but if you start eating it i'm taking it away for real all right i think this can go here are we putting anything on these chairs over here i was just thinking putting the blanket on it but i think it's best to keep it blue i'm gonna take it away guys watch i'm gonna like charge up at him and watch it nene seriously don't eat it all right that's not the definition of recycling what do you think there oh i like that yeah yeah that looks good i like that i'm not really good at like decorating this like the blanket still like making it look good you know i just kind of i literally just throw it because it's called a throw blanket so i'd just be like however it falls is how it falls yeah like period all right cool it looks good though i'm so all right this is how it's looking so far don't mind that you while we're eating cardboard is that for the kitchen yes i'm gonna put this oh yeah pick that up yeah that i'm picking up because that he's gonna swallow all right so i'm gonna put this over here are you supposed to put two or just one uh doesn't matter honestly halloween is such a vibe it is just makes me so happy what spooky movie are we watching later i don't know we gotta figure that out later guys we've been trying to watch like spooky movies every night i'm not gonna lie though i've been horrible at like staying awake oh thank you for admitting it i get through like maybe half of the movie if i'm lucky and then i just fall asleep and then i have to end up like finishing it the next day yeah and then i'm sitting there like watching the whole movie with him being asleep it's not my fault though i'd be so tired and i really be trying to stay up like she'll look at me sometimes and i'll be like kaka i'd be like yeah i'm trying i'm trying yeah but it's like i'm always telling him if you're falling asleep tell me so i could watch something else and he won't ever i can't even tell myself that i'm falling asleep it just happens like it's just bad i get really tired i can't really i literally stay up all night but not even that like we start watching these movies around maybe like midnight one in the morning i'm already done like i'm ready to go to sleep at that point so i'm like struggling to stay awake but i don't know it's been a vibe low-key it has low-key um all right so we're gonna move on i gotta show them this okay okay okay we got the little spooky colors going on nice all right what's next so now i have some of this part come on can we talk about this area right here can you pat me on the back and let them know what's up with this area all right well as they have built this that's right i built it from scratch i cut down the wood from a tree and everything it has lights so i don't know if they have orange though they should just red green yellow they can't really see it because it's like pretty bright right now but at night it looks dope yeah so when you have everything set up it's gonna look dope this is the only thing i got last year party time party time party time let's go so we're gonna leave that on for the video and then why you didn't tell them yes i'm getting to it okay and then azea set up these shelves so that i can put the car on it which is super exciting that's right this wall wasn't even here i put this wall up myself and then i put the shelf so you're so annoying so we're gonna go ahead and dress this up yeah i got what is this considered it's a gnome gnome sing is this like fall or yeah it's fall okay i was gonna say i don't know what holiday that's for but yeah thanksgiving fall you don't cut the little leaves how old is the gum in here a year so i'd be telling people not to eat that got a year old gum yeah people be like oh i want a piece of gum and be like i don't think you should do that that's gonna be like chewing on a rock but honestly gum lasts like forever maybe having those little things in the vending machine for like 10 years does gum get stale i don't think so i think it gets i don't know whatever so let's go ahead and set this up together you want to help me babe yeah this is some of the stuff that we got so we have a happy halloween pumpkin some books do they say anything what they do so we got bruise potions bats genesis favorite because look so cute is it a crow or raven we still don't know we still don't know we're trying to figure that out which is brew potions and spooky spells haunted house spooky boo boulevard my personal favorite still don't know if it's a crow or raven then we got the skulls and then another pumpkin that says trick or treat yeah so we're going to use some of those to set up over there and then the rest of it we're probably going to like scatter around the kitchen or something like that and then we have some things to do upstairs as well yeah so let's get to it all right update update update we did not know that this turns on all right so i literally looked at the bottom of it and there was a switch and i hit it and it changes colors look at that that's freaking fire that's so dope all right anyway where's this going um you can put it maybe down here that's so fire and then put it all right that's good there this one you want to put up there yeah we're at this what else are we going to put up here the trick or treat maybe put it in the middle maybe we should grab like a candle it smells so good it's like a manly scent fennel and pine crackling wood stick yes supposed to be it's supposed to look man where's the lighter i'm about to try but you can't put it all the way up there when it's on i still want to turn it on turn what on the the candle yeah man if you're saying crackling wood stick and i'm like i'll be the judge of that because a lot of y'all be lying oh my goodness but yeah we got that that's what it looks like and again it says crackling wood stick which i'm gonna test that um honestly it looks pretty plain right now but i forgot to get spider webs so i'm gonna tie all of this together by getting spider webs and then throwing like spiders on it like little fake spiders so i'm about to order it hopefully it's gonna eat them what are you doing to that pillow he's licking it so yeah hopefully by the time we're done with this video it'll be uh here and then you can see the final look Florida things so as we're looking for stuff to order more like decor there's a freaking turtle in our backyard right there they be biting though one of them hissed at me you're laughing i could have almost lost my life he said they be biting though they do hold on guys update you guys already know i gotta give you guys the update honey do it's got some flowers so fruit coming soon onions looking good i got some kula i'm throwing here has yet to sprout getting kind of sad avocado tree very big lemon i don't know if you guys have seen this before and it has a lemon on it it's still green but it is a lemon we got a big mango tree and my money trees as always and then a dog that's tanning new addition we have a little orange tree hopefully this will get really really big because i'm trying to get some oranges thoughts on my garden beautiful i love it thank you so much all right this is like the best thing ever this i know this is the best thing ever this we're actually keeping i don't know if you guys know this but we have like a horror theme upstairs in our movie theater room yeah so this is going to be up 24 7 all year around so that makes me happy he's so happy i know just to like do like unholy things hey think about it don't talk about him like that oh you just you're just worse than him aren't you i love little screaming scream is my favorite if you don't know that all right let's get the decorating what we got going on so you have this book here so i figured well these books i figured it will be cute to like leave it like somewhere over here to make it seem like this is like my recipe books i don't know i think that'd be cool um and then this here haunted house spooky boulevard all of that feel like something has to go in the middle there's a gap um no because i'm going to put the spider webs here too okay so it's going to fill everything in all right guys the spider webs and everything we ordered it is going to come in time for the video so you guys will see everything when it comes in we'll put it all together baby scream i suggest it does it go right here because if we put white what is that but that's been here since we moved in baby are you serious yes what is it it's just a stain i've tried everything to get it out and that's what bothered me i think somebody burnt the um material shout out to the people who lived here before room for messing it off yeah i was so upset that's the first thing i noticed when we like toured this apartment or house i was like um i don't like that i've never noticed that yeah really that's freaking crazy because the coffee maker was over here so it was like covering it a little bit oh well all right so yeah i think baby scream should go there because if we put him in the movie theater room he's not going to be seen that much because we don't be going in there like that often yeah we don't so i figured it's a big space right here put baby scream there okay but then when it falls over we'll put him upstairs yeah he can't stay down here forever there's a little weird you can't tell me this song is not fire this oh my gosh first of all copyright second listen to what he's saying though this song reminds me my best friend at her aunt's house dancing you're saying that because she's mexican she is mexican but this is the shit that they listen to like when they're having parties and stuff like that because she's mexican does she be listening to that like i'm like bro shout out to pesso pluma pesso pluma is the like one of the top in my opinion like latin artists right now and the song is named lady gaga that's freaking hard shout out to lady gaga mama monster yeah sure she is mommy mommy monster pesso pluma lady gaga that little thing in this big space i know we need to find something else then i don't think anything should go here because like when we're prepping food like this is our area to prep food like the cutting board like all that type of stuff i just think like i don't think that's a good spot but it's not giving halloween it's giving food it's giving disappointment oh my god i told her to take the lightest things and she takes the heaviest look at everything she's holding and look at what i'm holding this is all the time though what do you mean all the time i tell you to give me the heavy stuff and you never want to what are you trying to prove nothing show me my painting it is though focus focus yeah i did it myself i did it myself no i was so painting thing and i did it don't go in the room though it's messy wait yo it's so hard can you not what all right before we start up here you gotta let me know how i made this from scratch from scratch i got this bamboo from the philippines what all right nice hear that maple oak solid you're terrible just like me solid maple oak babe it's not maple it's bamboo stop hitting it all right anyway we're redoing the whole bedroom so i got this i'll put links and stuff like that on instagram i'll offer you guys to see if you want some details on all of this stuff so i'm switching up the vibe in here interesting i think that like black and white simply is just boring like i'm just getting like tired of the modern super modern look i'm like really enjoying like bohemian and kind of like more peaceful vibe we're getting a new bed frame which i contemplated a lot but white just stains so bad and i'm just over it at this point um so we're going to get a new bed frame i already got new nightstands for isa and i and i love this shape fun fact i wanted to get this when we first moved in but honestly like i'm i love like getting stuff on budget and all the ones i was finding was like over 500 dollars and for me changing my mind so much on like decor i just felt like that was ridiculous so i found these for a really good deal and yeah i love them so i like that plant so much over there yeah it looks so good over here like the sunlight hitting it i know and i have such a vision for this room and for downstairs like once i'm done i'm going to post everything on ig with links and stuff like that so you guys can check it out but i'm getting like curtains it's going to look just so so nice the vibe is going to be immaculate but for right now what we have is our little warm fall like bed sheets and i'm so excited to change our bed sheets like you have no idea i feel like it's going to make the room look so much better all right let's get to it let's get to it guys this is one of the most annoying tasks in my personal opinion trying to put on bed sheets especially if you're trying to do it yourself like i don't know you try to put on one side then the other side lifts up and i swear it's like a sport this feels great babe this is a cool touch one all right i'm excited all right let's do it i'm gonna go to sleep what's not now i can't wait to go to sleep later just to feel them all right hold on look we gotta get up baby come on you're gonna be so mad come on let's go let's go let's go i'll put a pesto pluma for you you love pesto pluma nene yeah he would love pesto pluma you're speaking of mexican can we order like barrio tacos oh my gosh i can't eat birria can we order for real tacos all right but don't don't be saying it like a gringa like that yeah but that's how you said it birria birria birria yeah let's do this all right let's go oh my gosh all right let's take off the pillow sheets pillow sheets pillow covers shut up she over here bullying me guys you see this all right let's take off the pillow sheets and like now look now the dog wants to dig yo he always does that now he wants to dig if y'all drooling y'all sleep i don't want to say y'all nasty because it's normal but your pillow sheets gotta stink why are you coming at your sister yo my sister be yo she wakes up in like a freaking puddle bruh there's a video of her where let's not put on blast like that let's stop let's stop what are you digging for he just i don't know he's getting familiar with the food we need a food all right don't start that choking stuff again hey hey be nice be nice be nice all right bed sheets do they have a thing where like a tag that says like top bottom because i think that bed sheet did yo yeah see look top top or bottom all right oh so fun here grab that corner blue move this is come here come here come here he just wants to play i know you're mad and i don't care this is giving starbucks pumpkins by spar patino all right i want to know how you came to that conclusion it looks just like it the cream based one same color i don't get cream based yeah i know because you like wuffy i'm a man oh i'm not so i'm caring all right pull that side down ouch are you okay hit my nightstand is the nightstand okay oh what's more important the nightstand or me pillow sheets here let me get my pillow i feel like we're gonna be colder on the sleep sheets in general feel like cooler they are they're cool do we have king size pillows i don't know is there even such thing as a king size pillow i think so and in typical fashion he makes a bed out of anything he finds yeah his ears looks so much better yeah like why does it look like that mine looks all raggedy yeah i know fix mine you fix it here that looks horrible yeah that's it you gotta fold it like this fold you little hacky hack there we go very pretty why you karate jogging because it looks better like that has a fold in it don't question my stuff all right there he goes this looks like a burnt marshmallow this is just a comfort uh should be a comfort in pillow cases pillow sheets pillow cases sheets no these are them right there i'm not gonna unfold them though yeah we have more pillows in the guest room so we're gonna steal them oh my gosh my vision is like coming to life this is so cool so cute let's get a full view the tucking yeah are you struggling a little bit a little bit let's watch how to do that well i made the bed from scratch oh my gosh with the finest linens from overseas from overseas it's all myself everything i know from switzerland you got your stuff from switzerland um no i think it was actually from norway oh norway okay all right does look good doesn't shout out to you for the color coordination yay i'm hot is there a such thing as a king size i think there is i really do i zipped bam better okay babe be firm that was so ugly i just did what you did no you didn't oh my first of all move it over it's identical no it's not they're twins fold it back bless you what are you digging for what's next next we're gonna decorate this right here all i really have is this i don't know if we should put it on here just put it on here what do you think i say with the bowl with the bowl okay what do you think about this in here one what if we leave the pumpkin in the middle okay pumpkin in the middle and then that in there okay it's giving um i also have some like decor downstairs for the walls uh we're gonna put that up later but for now i think just a slight little halloween vibe in here is good i kind of want my um room to be a little bit more peaceful vibes so i think that's it all right so at this point we're just gonna go ahead start cleaning up a little bit because we got a lot of stuff thrown all over the place um while we do that we're actually still waiting for the stuff that we ordered like all the other decor stuff like the spider webs and stuff like that so as soon as we get that stuff we're gonna pick the camera back up finish up downstairs maybe throw some stuff up here as well we'll see what we get from there update time yeah what is it like two hours later i just about tell them what happened in the bedroom we all put up the curtains that we have and our order came in also so we're about to set that up but come in the room looks so different now all right so we went with these beige curtains so i wanted to keep it that color just so that whenever we change our bedsheets it stays neutral we don't have to like switch them out so i did that and then i did like a white one in the middle just so it shows like some sunlight in between and then yeah i think we did a really good i think the bedroom looks amazing now right like it feels so much better like so much more elevated it's just dark yeah it's like i mean it's like cozy though yeah i would say so too like i want my bedroom to be cozy not like feeling like freaking insane asylum all we had all white before like i would just wake up and be like bro it feels like i'm like in a psych ward or something like i need some color it's so dope in here now though yeah and we got that like i don't know all the colors just tie together really well they do and then we have like this little cute setup like i said i'm putting like pictures up here um i have to go get them it's like hidden somewhere um and then this little setup right here i think it's cute to keep it like simple and not too much but i think that this is a 10 out of 10 once we get that bed frame i think it's really gonna look crazy yeah the bed frame is gonna tie it all together so it's gonna be like a canopy guys and it's gonna be like a black frame one just to go like little black accessories that we already have you know like kind of keeping all the colors together really yeah we want to definitely add some more like black in here because like all of our like our mirror is black we have some black accents here we have like that there so we definitely want to add more i think like the white looks great but wait can i turn on or you have to plug it in oh there we go oh it's so dope yeah and we got this little candle over here that Trisha and Cam got us and Kyla so cute shout out to y'all but yeah i'm excited i'm excited just to see like everything together well such is that our bed frame comes tomorrow so maybe in the next video we'll just show like a sneak peek like a final look looks good though good job babe thanks now downstairs because the order came in so let's finish up decorating and yeah let's do it so yeah guys quick update before we get decorating down here we did the same thing the white shear in the middle with the curtains on the side looks really good it ties everything together really well again we just have to get the clips for like the sides so then we could like pull the curtains to the side whenever we want more like daylight coming in yeah looks a little bit more classy too yeah we got to get the clips though so we ordered that on amazon hopefully they're coming soon the only thing that i'm like oh should i pull the trigger on it is i think i want to get a new tv stand like i don't like it i just i didn't like it when it came in i was like this is like not my vibe this is not what i expected it to be bro do you know how hard it was to put that on the wall i know that's why that's the only thing that's like keeping me from like doing it you know but i don't know it just doesn't fit the vibe that i'm going for anymore all right let's go for some more halloween type stuff let's get the skeleton spider webs spiders all that type stuff going spider webs going we got a skeleton right here a little skull and then some spiders yeah i don't know how to do this guys i'm not gonna lie i don't know just have fun with it i'm just pulling it apart guys hold on let's put all this together and then we'll get back to you as soon as we figure all this out you're ready for the big reveal so i'm ready it came off fire we're gonna start here so we just got this in it says every day is halloween that's as soon as you come in through the garage uh-huh and then let's move on all the big reveal all right so this is what we were able to do the spider webs guys i think we did a pretty good job i think so too we got the spiders too we got this little skull little figure and then this cool little is this a jackalina that's what you call it that's jack is jack who's jack who's jack from a nightmare before christmas so then we have obviously you saw this part right they saw the living room looks very dope isaac did this think it was really good put the little skeletons in there yeah we got little skeletons in there we got some spiders going on came off very cool and then you want to show them what you did there yeah i started wrapping this around the light i was very scared i thought it was gonna fall but i don't know it looks pretty cool to me it's giving a haunted mansion yeah and then my favorite the coffee bar so we have obviously all of this the spider webs for um isaac wanted to do this i don't know bruh this looks so cool okay that's dope um we stopped we're already on jars so we're gonna put like jars in here we're gonna put like tea and coffee and stuff like that so that's why it looks a little empty but now we have this up here um we have the spider webs on here and here and i love the little green light and everything oh this is like changing color and so is this one you're at night it's gonna look crazy when all this stuff is like lit up oh it's gonna look so fire and then we have the potion books and the haunted house little sign uh all of this and then we have baby scream your favorite and that is pretty much it time to clean up because now we got a bunch of boxes all over the place extra curtains i gotta put all this stuff together we're not gonna tell you what that is but yeah we got a lot of stuff over here to put together there's a whole bunch of shit over there nobody wants to see all of that mess yeah so this is uh this is pretty dope this is what our house now looks like for spooky season i think we did a really good job i think so too we did that it's really dope i'm not over the spider webs spider webs look so freaking cool right it ties everything in yeah i just want to see it at night at night it's gonna be crazy we should watch a movie here tonight you know we have a movie theater downstairs we should all right guys so that is it for our spooky season decor for the house let us know what you guys think in the comments below um this was originally supposed to be a fall decor but we get carried away with halloween i don't know it's dope though everything came out really good um we still have like she said a few more things coming in so you know we're gonna be adding stuff here and there but anything else you want to say no that's it i'm like tired i'm ready to just take it down eat some nice food all right i want to shower eat some nice food and watch a movie that'd be dope yes sounds like a good night to me so with all that being said guys again we hope you guys enjoyed today's video let us know what you guys think in the comments below make sure you guys give this video a big thumbs up and with all that being said we will see you guys in the next video


So when somebody says that, you know, we want to be in a child company or we want to be in a child team, it's historically that's been attached with like practising scrum or like how do you do planning and execution. But really in the more complex business environment today, it's not just that, it's a host of other things that actually help you become a child. And the child industry brings all of those aspects of being a child together and that's what makes the line-up of dogs really interesting as well.


You have not an awful lot of time left, you're running out of time and you need to challenge.  Well it's true, the first stage today we've had some transmission issues which we've had to change now, we're having to learn to drive scratching my stomach and rubbing my head at the same time because I have to shift up with my, I mean down with my paddle and up with my lever which is not where it's meant to be so it's a little bit of excitement but the tight stage, the one right over above the needy, where I thought we'd really struggle with against the four-wheel drive, we were only a second behind Glenn so that was quite good. The last second, last stage I still think we were the last time to him although we think we came through there quite a bit quicker than we had, we made up, we nearly caught Martin through there so you know that was 30 kilometers we'd nearly caught him so you know we're doing okay you know as long as we don't do anything stupid and long as we can keep the gearbox to hold up to the end that's going to be the next challenge. Well you know right now we're just trying to stay consistent and not overly push too hard because we're not going to catch Glenn unless he makes a mistake and we've got a big gap over the rest of the field so you know the goal now is just to hold the car together and stay to the end and you know maybe you know fortune will fall our way and Glenn will have a little bit of a problem get a flat or something don't want to crash just want to have me to flat tyre it'd be nice just to let us catch up.  No but I'm not beyond trying to bribe him I guess I could go over and offer him a bit of cash if he'd just want to slow down for a little while. What's it going to cost Gavin do you think in terms of bribes? I'll get a good co-driver so it cost him a hell of a lot I can tell you that much. The moment the pressure is just making sure we do everything right so that we keep car reliable we have some margin to play with which means that at a time if the stage is not going well sometimes you can't it's undescribable it's about the flow of the stage and if it's not working for you we have an advantage so that we can back off when it's working for us we push on and we did in the last stage and it was a blast. Don't know you buddy don't want the back to pass the front. Okay here we go be nice. When you get that bit of margin and a bit of comfort that's generally when you make the errors isn't it? Yeah although between stages I'm thinking of Gilly last year at seven minutes and broke down you know like countless motorsport stories where the guys way out in the front should be easy and it's not you know Richard Mason broke a gearbox on the power stage of NZRC rally when he had a ginormously so you can't get complacent because complacency will cost us this event and we're not going to be complacent. So what do you do to keep yourself on task?  Well hey it's a five-day event so we've decided to try and go for the reliability out of it it's not the fastest car but we're doing a good job wasn't expected to be third by now you know we just thought we'd hang in there until Saturday and see we were but I'm pretty happy. We're just going to keep on pushing like we are we can't catch these guys I've got some pretty some rockets in front of us but we'll keep pushing keep them on us because you can't back out of it you've got to you've got to still push along so reliability is going to be a big thing and we think we have a package to get to you know it's like Bethes you know those guys who won that it was certainly in the back.


What's good YouTube this is what you were back child again with another video today? I will be teaching you guys how to make ice top grills So without further ado, let's jump right into this video That first let's go ahead and make a quick quick drawing At ease teeth you feel me? so Don't set my brush I'm using a walk home centique Y'all was wondering like How you get the best settings gotta have a digital art tablet to get this all a pressure setting Okay, now I'm gonna do Let's just draw these teeth really quick man. I'll be trying to do is show you guys Quit tutorial That can help you learn a new skill We just that's how we need we didn't need the top teeth top row of teeth. That's uh, it's brain Pasadena back Okay That's uh Select the teeth we made and I've the teeth is on their own layer So just keep that in mind go to expand the pins go to merge Uh Duplicate the teeth by dragging it to this blank sheet Okay, now we're gonna drag a color make a color like gray Whatever color you want it to be I'm gonna make mine gray so Drag that color over the picture You want to right-click the color go to arrange and Send to back because you want the color to be behind the line work You'll know if you did that right if you look over here And you'll see your line sitting on top For the gray highlight everything and hit merge So the line work can become one with the color.  What can I move it like this? I sure can Got a teeth right where I want it You can make it a little brighter Boom now you got a little diamond. You got a little diamond effect. You feel me Now you got to do create another layer if you want to just add some some shadows on the teeth Okay, I'm gonna keep that grace to let it go to my pencil tool Make sure your pencil tool settings look like this.  It's like that. We still got it selected. Let's change that to the color white. Now. Let's go to our Ellipse tool basically the circle tool Then why you got a circle to select it go to blur gaussian blur You want to bring this up this make this little blur thing smaller that we're gonna put it in the center this Just like that if you then look go to Symbols pull out your symbols and drag this over And hit okay, and now that we drag it inside of symbols. It just made it become one So now we can just Create stars Make sure when you do when you do the stars though Make sure you bring that layer create a new layer at the very top That's pretty much how I do the grill effect man Y'all ever wanted to know what there you go Tutorial on how to make the grills now y'all can take it to the next level You know I'm saying do more get more advanced with it But that's just a quick little simple tutorial for you guys to follow along Thank you guys for watching make sure you stay tuned more heat coming soon, and I'm out


Hello everybody, welcome back to another mid-journey, version 5 tutorial on this one. I'm going to show you how to create your own stock images. Stock images that have exactly what you want in them, including lighting, where it's taking place, the type of people or actors or objects, everything.  They're weird, they're creepy, let's make it stop. Okay, two things we're going to do in this, we're going to use mid-journey version 5 and we're also going to use chat GPT, which is the free chatbot that OpenAI created. So with that out of the way, let's start nice and quick. The first step here is I have written a prompt that I'm going to put in the description below that you can use, just copy and paste it, I will explain it to you now. Here we go. The first step then, once I've got my prompt here is I'm going to go to chat.openai.com. This is where you can use chat GPT, it's the free chatbot. So I'm going to create a new chat like this. I'm going to put in the prompt and then I'm going to copy and paste that prompt I created. Again, it's the link in the description below so you can use it verbatim, you don't have to copy this down. And here's what it is. It says, here is a prompt formula for creating stock images for mid-journey version 5, colon, a photograph of a subject engaged in an action with background context during time of day with type of lighting and shot with a type of lens, shot with a type of camera, and even using the name of the lens. So basically all the photography stuff that goes into making really high-end photos, we've basically put those in brackets so that we're creating a formula so that chat GPT can then go ahead and make suggestions for what's in those brackets. At the end of this, I write write, I understand if you understand this formula. So I'm going to go ahead and hit enter. What I did is I basically said, hey chat GPT, do you understand what I just did up here? It says yes, beautiful. Okay, now that we've got the I understand response, now we're going to go ahead and think of what we want in our stock image. So write a prompt, write five prompts. We're going to get five different examples, for example, write five prompts, five separate prompts. Now I'll do this quickly here of a woman working in an office, sitting in an office chair, in an office chair, reading a tablet, whatever, something like that, something, whatever a stock image, for example, would be something like that, right? And again, this could be whatever you want your stock image to be, write it in there be as precise as possible. It is now I hit enter and it's now given me exactly what I asked for it. I wanted five separate prompts that of this. So I want to take five different cracks at it. And you'll see here when I copy and paste them, it says woman in business attire sitting in an office chair reading a tablet with modern office background during daytime shot with a wide angle lens Canon EOS R6 camera EF 20 to 70 millimeter f 2.8 to usm lens like real high end photography stuff, stuff that you know, a photographer would understand but a person just looking for an image may not. Okay, good. So it's great. And you could see it also filled in all of the stuff that was in those brackets for us. So we didn't have to do any work there. Now head over to mid journey. And I'm just going to go forward slash imagine. And then I just copy and paste exactly what it said there. Keep in mind, you can do a few things one, you can adjust it before. So if you decide, hey, I love that prompt, but instead of a woman in business attire, I want her in a black dress or something like that, you can always just go ahead and override it. Alternatively, you can make variations upon the final image. So when it when it gives you the examples, you can click create variations, but we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. So let's go ahead and do another one here. I'm just going to go ahead and command C or cop control C to copy in this prompt forward slash imagine hit command V will run that one too. Now it's going to run them both. I'm going to let them finish. And when it comes back, I'll show you the final step. All right, welcome back. So I ran two of the prompts. And let's take a look at what we got here. The top one, this this is fantastic. This is unbelievably good. These are ultra realistic looking. If I wanted to create if I wanted to use them as is all I got to do is click on you one, you two, you three, you four, whichever one I like, and it's going to go ahead and process them below here. So I mean, this one here, this is just absolutely outstanding. If I clicked on you wanted it upscaled the image, and then I just right click on it. And I save the image wherever I'm going to save it to my downloads. And that's it. That's your stock image. You're locked and loaded this one here. Let's take a look outstanding. It does look a little bit wooden.  This one here is excellent. Let's say though, I created them. Actually, I'll show you the other ones first and then we'll and then I'll show you the final step. Here's another version. But this is at night time. The bottom right one here is very good. The top right one is very good. Let's go ahead and you for the bottom one here. And then say, let's go ahead and let that one run and then watch this. I click on this. I love it. But maybe I don't quite like it. I want it to be during the daytime. So I would just go ahead and if I want to make changes to this image or variations, you can just click on the variations and then go through the prompt here. And she's reading a tablet cityscape background during sunset. Why not say during let's do sunrise. All I had to do was just click on that and then just rewrite over top of what I wanted it to say. And that's it. If I want to change the lens to a 2.8 lens, instead of a 1.8 lens done, it will re-roll it and we'll get an entirely new shot. This is how you create stock photos the exact way you want them using mid-journey. Don't pay for them anymore. Those days are gone. Thanks for watching.


At the podium talking to the media and getting their first chance at the NFL combined, let's hear a mash-up of the linebackers in Indianapolis.  And like I said, you know, you make that move from outside to inside. There's a lot more to look at, a lot more keys and he did a great job, you know, just keeping it pretty simple and just allowing me to play fast. I feel like I'm a great leader in the locker room. I'm one of those guys you can depend on. I'm very disciplined and about my business. Gonna give it all I got and I'm a team player for sure. Yes, sir, I feel like every team likes it. I'm very versatile because it brings a lot of value. I could play at all three levels of the ball, defense to end, all three linebackers and summon at safety and free safety. So I feel like every team likes that, that versatility brings value to me a lot. Definitely my instincts, how smart I am and how physical I am at times. I think that being able to be who I am and how smart and how quick I can diagnose things. I think I'm second to none. So there's a lot of great linebackers here and a lot of great guys that's gonna go in this draft and make a huge impact on teams. But I think I have a lot of things that that guys don't don't have. You're gonna chill guys, smart chill guy, but somebody who loves football. You know, I'm not a big go out standing out kind of guy, but I know my football and I'm instinctive with throughout the film that you watch. So definitely one of those guys that they're like, damn, that guy knows how to know how to watch some ball and talk some ball. My decision came down to just my dream. I mean, I'm one step closer to my dream. I just thought it was my time. Just talking to my brothers, talking to my brothers, Panay, Nephi, I mean, they're at the league right now and just talking to them. They just helped me a real share of my decision. My work ethic, no matter what, I'll always work for you day in, day out, maybe put in over time hours. Just know that you're getting a hard worker.  I mean, you've never heard really two brothers on the same team at once. But yeah, it would be a blessing. For sure. Yeah. No, it all starts with film study at the linebacker position. Everything you do is going to be mental. And for me, I love having been that green down on the back of my head. I feel like I'm going to be the for like I'm off the field. I'm going to be a little bit introverted. But when I get on the field, like nothing's more important than me than being able to perform at the highest level and put my teammates in the best positions possible to go make plays.  And I'm just truly, truly grateful to be on that green dot and be able to kind of control some stuff. And also when something something's wrong, usually be the one to get blamed for that. So thank you. Thank you. Most definitely, you know, all these guys are great, very athletic, can pass rush on. I'm super excited. All the work has been good. But you know, I feel like when I bring to the table, just consistency, being humble, you know, whatever culture I'm in, I'm going to do things the right way. And I think that's what sets me apart. Yeah, that means a lot.  It's super exciting. It's a blessing. Being in Alabama made me very versatile, dropping in coverage, you know, playing a four, five techniques, six techniques, seven, all that type of stuff, helping me, you know, learn how to pass rush moves, run. So when I dissect myself, I see myself as a very versatile player that can do just about anything. But that's thanks to Coach Saban, you know, he trusted me a lot. He's seen a lot in me. He's seen the potential and it helped me mold the player I am today. So when I look back at myself, I was just like, Alabama made me a very versatile player.


This episode of the podcast is supported by Audible. You can download and listen to the world's best storytelling. I use it all the time to and from work. You can listen to audiobooks, original series and more on their free app. To get your free 30 day subscription, which includes a free book, click on the link in our show notes and enjoy. Hey, folks, welcome to the podcast. Today I had an amazing lady called Rosie Ferguson come in and have a chat. She is the CEO of the House in Barnabas. If you don't know, it's an amazing charity that seeks to break the cycle of homelessness and they have a members club in Soho Square and they have an amazing employment academy where they get people in who need help to find a job, training, interview practice, you know, all of that cool stuff. We hear a lot about the House in Barnabas. We discuss the main topics and issues around homelessness at the moment in the UK and what we can do to help have an impact. Yeah, hope you enjoy the podcast. Hey, it's Lewis. Welcome to the podcast. Enjoy our conversations anytime, anywhere. We're booming, we're live. Rosie, thank you for coming in. Thank you for having me. So you've been the CEO for the House in Barnabas for what? Coming up for three months, so I'm very new. Okay, yeah. Still learning about getting two groups of things. Nice, nice. And what were you doing before? So I was previously Chief Executive of Gingerbread, the National Charity of Single Parents and before that I was Chief Executive of London Youth, the network of youth clubs across London. So I've kind of always been in the charity sector and seen some of the same problems that people face in society, like from different perspectives if you like from the kind of young people from the family and now from the perspective of homelessness. So it's really interesting. Very interesting. Yeah. Did you always wanna be working in the charity sector? How did it all start? It was kind of, as with most people's careers, it's not so much a definite choice as like you kind of, you do the next thing that seems interesting and then before you know it, your networks and the opportunities that come are in the thing that you started in. I think I always had a sense of passion that inequality was wrong and that it was important to give people who didn't have opportunities to enjoy their life and be the best they can be. So I think that was probably quite instinctive and then I kind of followed that and initially I started out in youth work so supporting young people to... Did you go into university? I did, yeah, I went to Goldsmiths and then I started volunteering when I was at Goldsmiths, supporting kind of youth volunteering and giving young people the chance to volunteer overseas and do things that are fun and I did a bit of kind of campaigning and then, yeah, started doing that as a job and then my kind of career progressed from then. So what's the route then from volunteering to running a charity? I mean, I think volunteering is something that I carry on doing so I think volunteering is a starting point but it's also a kind of lifestyle so I'm now on a number of boards and carry on volunteering with different things that's kind of ingrained if you like and I think for me, the opportunity to, you know, get into my first role in youth work and then I was lucky to get promoted. I mean, a lot of it is luck, isn't it, in life? Yeah, well, do it yourself in the scenario, don't you? Yeah, I mean... You're still going to make the right choices and work hard and... Yeah, I did do... So I did a Master's in Volunteer Sector Management at Kears Business School which was really good in terms of getting the rigor and discipline of how to run a charity to couple with kind of passion and enthusiasm. Was that straight after uni or kind of during your career? No, it was a few years later, yeah, yeah, as I was... Yeah, well, I was working full-time, yeah. Did you find that useful? It was great, yeah, it was really good. I think careers in the charity sector... I mean, I was lucky to have investment of great people. There isn't as much resources to spend on people development, so you have to be a little bit more entrepreneurial in the way that you access it. Yeah, yeah. And if, you know, I spent time going out and shadowing Chief Execs, who I admired, kind of reaching out and building yourself a network and taking, essentially, grabbing any opportunity that you can to do more and to kind of take on more responsibility. That's true, we actually did... We spoke about it in the office yesterday about taking responsibility for your own learning. Yeah, interesting. Because a lot of the time, people rely on their companies and they send them on training courses and those things. There's so many cool, like, e-learning platforms, Coursera, and I think you've got to take charge like you've done. And most of my learning hasn't come from training courses. It's come from getting myself in a situation where I'm out of my comfort zone or meeting people who stretch and challenge you. And I think, yeah, that for me is exciting. And from just jumping in the deep end and doing something, you know, 100% sure you can do it. It's the best way. Being uncomfortable, being comfortable, being uncomfortable... Yeah, yeah. ...is when you really start to learn. Yeah. I really agree with that. How did you get involved with the House of Saint Barnabas? So I was looking for my next kind of challenge. And I'd just been to the House a number of times over the years and just thought it was, I think the combination of the social enterprise and the kind of unique way of working, you know, in partnership in a kind of corporate environment, but for good, but also coupled with, you know, a really important mission around breaking the cycle of homelessness and the need, you know, absolutely critical need and the services that it offers being, you know, really high quality. I think the third thing is I just thought it'd be quite good fun. Yeah, it's a great spot. That's turned out to be true. It's a really good spot. So what's the history? So it became a members club, was it five, six years ago? Yeah, absolutely. So the House was built back in the 17th century. So for those that don't know, this is number one Greek street on Soho Square. In 1846, it was gifted to set up as a charity and interestingly to do two things. One, to help the kind of poor and destitute of London, but secondly, to help wealthy people with disciplined philanthropy. So help wealthy people spend their money well to support the poor. And then for kind of well over a century, it's then been various guys of homestarity and hostel and many folks supporting women. It closed about 10 years, slightly more ago when the kind of standards expected around hostels quite rightly raised and it no longer met those standards. So actually housed people in... It housed people. Yeah, so for a long time, it was a kind of hostel for destitute women, essentially. And there's all sorts of stories in that, as you can imagine. And then I think, so it reopened as a private members club six years ago. And for me, it kind of returns full circle to that thing of how do you combine supporting people who've experienced homelessness and who really need a leg up, but at the same time with the private members club, we're also supporting people who are reasonably wealthy and want to spend their money well and want to kind of enjoy themselves, but also make a difference while they're doing it. And so I feel like we've come full circle in terms of what the charity was originally set up. So how does that work then? People can join the members club, spend their money, restaurant, bar, all of those things. And then I know you have an employment academy. So the people who've gone through the employment academy then get a job at the house? Not quite, but kind of. So the employment academy, I'll start with there. The employment academy supports people who've experienced homelessness and we support them to secure good work that will give them kind of lasting security, a good home somewhere where they feel comfortable and they're safe and they can stay and a good network. So a network of people that will support them if things go wrong. They're the things that we need. We believe people need to genuinely break the cycle of homelessness rather than to just get into a short, kind of be on the roller coaster where you're kind of okay for a bit and then as soon as something goes wrong, you fall back into rough sleeping or whatever. So that's our mission. We work with people initially for 12 weeks supporting them to, I think, regain a bit of dignity is one of the main things that we do. So we support people with employment. So we give them, they do training in the members club for 10 weeks of work experience but we also support them with their kind of housing, with their kind of mental health, with support them by taking them to galleries, giving them access to concerts. They get a mentor from the membership and then after their 12 weeks finished, we have graduation and then we support them on going for a year to make sure that they progress into work, progress into home. But then beyond that, progress into a career and a home that are gonna provide them the kind of security and lifestyle that they want to live. So it's a very holistic program. The way that the club plays in that is it's a training ground for those participants. So they do their 10 week work experience both in the bar and kitchen but also in the office in our events team, in our art team, in our PR team. They also become mentors and for the participants. So the members of the club, the club of mentors for participants, we also hope, and I think this is a kind of aspiration for me in the future that the house can also be a kind of convening space in terms of conversations about how we break the cycle of homelessness and how we bring different people together because we have a membership of people across government, creatives, tech people, charity sector. How do we bring our community together with different disciplines to think about how we can all together tackle some of the challenges that cause homelessness? I think it's awesome because I speak to a lot of companies and all companies, you know, we wanna help and they often help by donating money. When it comes to giving them a job, however, people are very cautious about hiring someone who might have had a drug problem, might have been alcoholic, might have been sleeping rough on the street. So, you know, everyone talks about we love to help people but when it comes down to like actually giving them a job, you find there's a little bit of a disconnect which I find quite interesting. Yeah, and it is, I mean, I think one thing that has really struck me since starting this role is that you kind of have, when someone says homeless person or a person who's experienced homeless, you have an image in your head of who that person is. And the first day that I walked into the Employment Academy and met all of the participants, it kind of struck me like, oh, these are just ordinary people. These are not, you know, these are people who've had bad luck and who've had a range of different butch but by the time they come to us then they're no longer rough sleeping so they've had some support to get them. If they have been rough sleeping, they've had support to get them into. And they are clean, commonly, so now that doesn't mean that they don't have all sorts of vulnerabilities and backgrounds, but actually they're not necessarily young people so they're of all ages and they are, as a group, they're a kind of confident, articulate, characterful bunch and certainly you can see standing in that room how much employability skills there are. Definitely. We actually ran, this was a few years ago, one of a session for the Employment Academy before you were CEO. How was that? Well, so it was great. So five of us went and we were running a course on CV writing. Oh, great. Helping to write cover sheets and then methods for applying for a job. Yeah, great. And so I had in my mind before I went, for some reason I thought everyone would be, I don't know, young. And then I got there and I think the average, there must have been 15 to 20 people and I think the average age must have been like mid to late 40s and you were like, wow. And then you realize when people decide they want to share their story with you and you're chatting and you're helping with CV and stuff that like no one's very far away from homelessness. I mean, you could lose your job, you've got a mortgage, you can't pay, you've got all of these other expenses. And suddenly, you know. And people have had whole lives and careers and then for whatever reason, whether it's relationship breakdown or I mean illness, mental illness is a huge cause of homelessness or people being a carer for a family member and then, you know, for whatever reason, your kind of circumstances change and then if you don't have that financial and kind of supportive network, you just can fall through the cracks very easily. 100% and then it's like, you know, this kind of downward spiral, mentally. And then the other big thing I find is stigma attached to someone who's been homeless or been an alcoholic and stuff. And also the stigma they attach to themselves which then stops them and getting the job they might want. And it's a tough one. What do you do for like clothing and stuff? So if they want to go for like an interview and they don't, is there like a there? So we have a couple of partners actually who donate clothing. So there's a, I mean, I've just completed my first program. So I've just been there. Being there, so the graduation is next week. So I've just seen one program through and there's a day about kind of a few weeks in when a clothes, there's a kind of loads of women's clothes donated and men's kind of suits and waistcoats and the like. And you suddenly, there's a kind of scramble in one of the rooms while everyone's trying to find the clothes that they like and then suddenly all of the people who've been in the first few weeks of the program are really glamorous and in really good clothes. And that's fantastic to see. And you actually see that. I mean, obviously clothes are superficial but they can also, they can also lift people's dignity a bit. And it's fantastic to see that, you know, to see that transition of people from when they first walk in the door and the clothes is just one example but how they feel. And also, I think like House of Malibus is an amazing building. They're working in an environment which is, you know, Dickens wrote a tale of two cities there. You know, Gladstone's been there, Basil Jets' been there, you know, it's an amazing, we have celebrities coming through. It's an amazing environment to be in and you can't be in there and not feel proud. And so we really try to make sure they feel part of that community and that that, hopefully, that pride I think is part of the magic of what we do. Definitely. How impactful is your first employment academy being? Do you measure, you know, how long they, how many get jobs and how long they stay and these kind of things? So it's my first one that I've been through. I think it's the 16th program that the house has run. Yeah, so I think it's about two thirds of people getting to work as a following the program, which compared to other, I need to check my stats on that. I think it's about, but compared to other comparative programs, that's a really strong outcome. So I think it is successful. What we've noticed is the challenges with the program to date. They've been really good at supporting people into their first job. But what happens is they're still in entry level, kind of early stage roles, often zeros, contracts, often below the living wage. So how do we then, so now our new strategy focuses on good work, good home and good network. So how do we really get people work that they're going to enjoy? That is going to pay them enough to live a decent and basic standard of living or more that has a kind of decent commute where there's progression opportunities. So I think we're focusing less on, let's just get people into work and actually how do we support them to really progress and achieve security? And is at the moment mostly like hospitality type roles? It's a lot in hospitality because that's our kind of base. And so on the program, 50% do their work placement hospitality and 50% don't do others. We have quite a few hospitality partners, which is great. We are really keen to have partners. What we really need is role administrative roles, more businesses, parks, administration. You know, there's what we'd like to do is support people to progress into roles that they're passionate about. Yeah, administrative roles are really businesses around the city here. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. There's both as you know, the way as employers, but actually if that feels like too big a first step, then just becoming a corporate member of House St. Barnabas or an individual member and you kind of become part of the community and then there's loads of ways to help. Awesome. What other avenues are there available for them for help? There's a kind of complex landscape of support for people who are experienced in homelessness. When somebody is first homeless or first off sleeping, the first thing they should do is go to their local authority. And the local authority does have a duty to support them. How do they support them? So the local authority should try to get them into a hostel. First of all, there are hostel facilities. There's also the street. And they're free? Are they in a hostel? So the local authority pay for a hostel. Yeah, so it's free for the person. But they might be a waiting list. It might take them time to get.  If they're a resident in that local authority and they kind of comply with the requirements, but obviously a lot of people who find themselves homeless are having problems with alcohol or substance abuse, have mental health issues. So often there's some very acute support that people need. That means they need additional support just to access the basic services. So yes, in theory, there should be help for everybody who's experienced in homelessness. The reality is that there aren't enough resources. The support is targeted often the way that services work is they're targeted at one thing. So this is going to see this person about your housing and go and see this person about your mental health. Go and see this person about your substance abuse. But actually, and this is a similar thing. There's no like holistic kind of. And that's what we try to do, really, Bill. And that's similar from my experience of working with young people. You know, if a young person's having difficulty, they'll be put on a gangs programme or on a social behaviour programme or a dyslexia. Whereas actually what young people need is exactly the same as any human beings. We need confidence. We need love. We need a network of people who are going to back us. We need kindness and we need opportunity to be given responsibility and show that we can and have people around us believe in us. So that's often our services aren't designed to give people that kind of opportunity. And that's what we give to our own friends and family that we love to enable them to succeed. But that doesn't always that doesn't always kind of that's not always reflected into way that the state understandably delivers services. So there's not like a kind of like one point of contact style. So there is street links. So if you see somebody sleeping rough who you think might be vulnerable or who need support you can report that to street link and they will kind of identify and provide support to anybody sleeping rough. So that's something that any member of the public can do. I think it's a coordinated network across local authorities and I think it's coordinated between a number of agencies. So there's also a huge number of charities providing support for people who are kind of first of all rough sleeping and then there's like new horizons in Houston that provides support for young people who are sleeping rough in London. We've got Connections and Martins. So like where people who are sleeping rough have places to go where they can get immediate support. We tend to take referrals from those organizations so at the point that they go to them and they'll support them with that kind of very basic needs getting somewhere to sleep getting clean, getting and then hopefully getting them into a hostel helping them interact with their local authority. And then they'll be passed on to us at the point that they're a little bit more stable and I'm ready to kind of rebuild some of the other aspects of their life. And then they'll have somewhere to be to be living to be living as well. So about a third of our participants are in hostels. By the time that they reach us about a third are in hostels but a third have secured local authority housing but that might be short term or so they've kind of got themselves a tendency and about a third are living in kind of sofa surfing or an overcrowded accommodation. So they're not rough sleeping but their housing continues to be vulnerable but they've kind of made a bit of that journey in terms of moving themselves. So they've got somewhere to sleep and somewhere to shower. How long can you stay in a hostel for? Interesting. So I've been around to visit some hostels as part of my induction. I think most of them they have a kind of one year, two year maximum but then some people will come in and out within a few weeks because actually they need a bit of support to reconnect with their family or to move other people will stay for longer if it's difficult to move them on. I think we don't have good enough mental health services so often people with high mental health support needs can be in a hostel for a long time because actually what they really need is intensive mental health support but that is very difficult to come by. So that's when people often, they're not really able to live alone and yet they don't reach the threshold to be kind of hospitalised or have intensive mental health support. So that's often when people can end up staying in hostels for a very long time. Has there been an increase in homelessness the last five or so years or has it been fairly kind of consistent? I think certainly the, I mean as, I mean poverty is increasing in the UK and the kind of vulnerability that I think most people who live in London can see that over the last few years rough sleeping has increased significantly certainly where I live. Yeah, it's much more visible than it was 10 years ago. I think the other challenge is that kind of the nature of poverty is changing and now in what way? I think poverty used to be the kind of historic kind of poverty as people who were unemployed and who weren't working. I think now most people who are living in the poverty of the UK are actually working and it's people who might be kind of working three jobs, zero contracts, minimum wage, single parents, people who are careers, anyone with a kind of vulnerability who is working, could be working three different jobs and still not able to, and the cost of housing, the cost of living means that they're still not able to feed their kids or feed themselves at the end of the month. The increasing access of food banks is a result of that. So actually the people who are vulnerable are kind of shifting and quite different people finding themselves in situations that they might not. I tend to see a lot more men on the streets but I have seen, I don't know if it's true or not, but I've seen a few more women over the years. Interesting. Often women don't choose to be, so if women are homeless, they are more vulnerable on the streets than men are. Obviously men are also, anybody who's sleeping on the streets is vulnerable, but if women find themselves homeless they're more likely to prioritise getting into a hostel or to find somewhere to sleep on a sofa or to where men are less vulnerable on the streets. So it is a lower number of women. I think it doesn't mean that often when women are homeless it's because they're, they might be leaving an abusive relationship or they might be, so the kind of circumstances within which people become homeless are slightly different. There's some kind of gender impacts there and also the kind of choice around where you choose to, where you choose to sleep for the night depending on where you feel the safest. Yeah, yeah. Interesting. So overall it's kind of maybe a similar amount that are in the similar vulnerable position and maybe the avenues they can choose to. Yeah, absolutely. And often if there's children involved then it's women who end up having the children. So you often see a lot of single men in hostels because it's more likely that a woman with children will get housed quicker than someone without, yeah, if you've got children you get housed quicker. So there's kind of, you know, there's vulnerabilities on both sides really. But our programme, we work with the gender split, so we... It's on the Employment Academy you have... Yeah, so it's about 50-50, male-female, yeah. And the age range is older? As you say, it's kind of, I mean I think on the current programme the youngest is kind of mid-20s and the oldest is in their 50s so it's a real span and that also creates a real family. And are you facilitating the kind of network of, you know, they're meeting these people on the Employment Academy and they can start to kind of foster some friendships? Yeah, so there's, I mean, the team who deliver the Employment Academy are great and they're very much focused on how do you really build a strong supportive network for each other. So there's a lot of work done on kind of, a lot of group work around their aspirations and how they develop their confidence and that involves them kind of being vulnerable with each other and developing that kind of trust and support network that I imagine having seen the kind of intensity of the experience that will, you know, there'll be some friendships there that last forever. And then we also hope that the community of the club is built into that as well, that so they have a mentor who will also support them and they become kind of part of the Houses and Barnabas family if you like. That's great. So as a member, you can fill out a form and hopefully mentor someone. Yeah, absolutely. I need to do that. Oh yes, please do. I know, definitely. Well, I've been planning on doing it for ages and I actually need to. It's on my goals list in January. Fill out the form and then go for it. Excellent. I mean, it's a really powerful way to give support to someone. 100%. Yeah. And you learn too. I think, in the moment, I met with a mentor this week. She's now not working and her mentee is. I just saw that. So the mentee, the participants now progressed into work and the mentor is between jobs. And he's obviously still supporting the mentee. But actually, there's some, you know, the relationship is... You'll find a job soon. Exactly. The relationship is two way and, you know, we can all learn things from each other, can't we? Yeah, you know, being a mentor and the mentorship relationship is really interesting. A lot of, there's been a big increase in that. And even in the world of work and I think it's useful for everyone to have a mentor, whatever level you are in your career. It's always nice to just chat to someone who's maybe not as connected with your job. Absolutely. Situation is normal. What can people do to get involved if they're not a member and they're keen to support in some way? So become a member. We ask that you have a commitment to social impact and you pay the membership. So yeah, if you apply, it's £700 for a membership. So it's actually for the fabulous place that it is, really. Yes, yeah. Good value and corporate membership as well. So you can join as a company. Awesome. Mentoring is open to non-members as well. So if you want to be a member, then you can access that. You can also, we have loads of art, which is for sale. The art is awesome. People can donate and fundraise for us if they want to.  So we do have a number of events that are open to the public. So Friday nights we have kind of Fonica. We have a number of a DJ nights in there. Yeah, we have concerts in the church. So there's a number of events that non-members can buy tickets for. Yeah, so if you want to come and have a look around the place before you commit, then you can come a lot to the event. We'll put the various links on the show notes so people can click through to the website and get involved. And then you're on Twitter, Instagram, one of that stuff. We are, absolutely. Hasasent Barnabas, yeah. Awesome. Cool, well thank you so much. We really love you to speak to you. Thank you. And I will see you around the club and keep up all the good work. Brilliant, thanks a lot. Thank you. Cheers. Hey, folks, thanks for listening. Don't forget to subscribe in all the usual places.


From New York, it's theCUBE, covering Blockchain Week. Now, here's John Furrier. Hello and welcome back. This is theCUBE's coverage here in New York City in Manhattan at the Hilton Midtown for Consensus 2018. Part of Blockchain Week New York. Our next guest here is Greg Landegger who's with Parsons and Whitmore, also known for Bit Digest, investor in the space since the beginning. Welcome to theCUBE. Thank you very much. So I got to ask you, you've been an investor in a lot of coins and equity deals. Space is now busting out. I mean, first of all, are you amazed by the amount of people here? I'm more than amazed. I mean, surreal. And you now have an interesting culture of new investors in the space coming in. What's it like for you working with the new investors? So, we're a single family office that started originally in 2014 and the way I describe it is for the past few years, I was a loser at the lunchroom. Everyone was making fun of me and then last year all the cool jocks wanted me to sit at their table. A lot of our bankers, all the traditional firms started calling up saying, what are you doing? What is this Bitcoin thing that you've been spending your time on?  That's exactly right. Last year was too good a year. All right, so talk about some of the dynamics that you're seeing here at Blockchain Week. What are you seeing? What's the top story? What's the big news that you think is most important? I think the news right now is that there's real development going on. I mean, we're all waiting. The Holy Grail to me is coming up with an institutional custodial project, ledger, while it's announced something today so we're very excited about that. And there's more and more effort being done in that area and that's really what'll bring in more people into the market. Big controversy yesterday on the panel about blockchain washing or saying blockchain, pretty heated argument there. Your thoughts, I mean obviously it's early. Embryonic is growing really fast. I've heard the same arguments when the web came along. Too slow, it's not fully functional but it was still early. Same here, what's your take on all this? As an investor, we'd like it to be much faster but realistically everything's surpassing any expectations. I mean, nobody, if you talk to people early last year, we would laugh about people predicting Bitcoin at 2,500. So what, where the coins, talk about the investment you're making in coins. So we invest- Because that's different than the equity. It is, but we had a learning experience where one of our companies, ICOed, we chose not to participate in it and it was the wrong decision. It really told us we need to be on the equity side as well as the coin side. When was that, early on or last year? Last year, okay. So what kind of coin deals are you doing? What's that profile? So we do a little bit of everything.  It's Ripple, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, EO, some litecoin, we like those. Then we invest in a total of about 20 coins. And the blockchain doesn't bother you in the performance and all that good stuff? No, because we're making a bet on the future of different things. It's a long game for us. What's your criteria for investment? Obviously, you get kind of a rebel in yourself but your returns are there. I've seen this movie before on the web but everything happened on the web. And the returns were made really before the dot-com bubble popped around 2000, one time frame. But there's still great returns but the decisions were interesting then. How do you make your choices? How do you know what a good deal is? It's, I'd say 80% the team. Do they have the experience? Do they have an understanding of what they're doing? I mean, I have a lot of great ideas on things I know nothing about and know I'll never succeed in them. So if we find a team that has experience in an area, understands it, has a real go-to-market story. Interesting. That's exciting us. Okay, so it's a classic criteria with a twist. How about running hard? You really got to run hard in this game. It's a fast moving, unlike the dot-com bubble. This thing is highly accelerated.  No, you agreed. You've got to be very aggressive in the area but I think with the ICOs, there's more money up front than people typically had and that's really what's changed the market a lot for us is it's not a deal where the venture capitalists go out and give a million dollars to five companies wait to see what happens. Now those five companies are able to raise a lot more money but it doesn't guarantee they'll succeed. Greg, you've become kind of a great known investor. Certainly the Bit Digest is well known for trade following there. I got to ask you the double coin question upon intended, is the good and the bad? Name something that's really good about this industry right now that people should know about that might not be familiar and what are some of the things that you're concerned with that you want to see kind of stopped or bad behavior eradicated? Share your perspective on the double coin side of the life of your in the crypto world. Starting with the bad, I think it's education. People don't understand what's going on. We keep on hearing about Mt. Gox, Silk Road. That's in the past. Bitcoin and I use Bitcoin as a general term at times but it is not a, it's a transparent currency. It's safer than a lot of other things out there. People don't understand that and I blame the media a lot for just repeating the story. Maybe it sells papers but just people aren't explaining what's really going on. That's the ad model for you. If it bleeds, it leads and that's a story. But I think people see the ICO thing too happening, right, they go, okay, there's been some scams on the ICO side so I've heard that story and worried about that. I spent some time in the microcap space. I dealt with a lot of more questionable people in microcaps than I deal in crypto. You mean in the traditional, traditional, yeah, pink sheets area. So I think what's different now, I'd love to get your perspective on that. I see at least observation-wise is you have an open-source ethos kind of community model where there's a lot of self-governing going on. Are you seeing the same thing as there are people talking? It's a tight-knit community, still small, growing. Is there like a special self-governing thing going on in the finance world? There's been talk of people kind of organizing, syndicating pooling deals together, which is natural. But how about the self-governing aspect of it? I mean people, the funds or the actual token offerings themselves, that's not something that needs to be addressed. People haven't done it in the same way a typical equity raise would be done. And a lot of the different fund managers, let me back up, I say this is the most open market I've ever seen where everybody's willing to talk to each other to try and share ideas and make this grow. And a lot of the fund managers are now looking at it, saying we need some more governance. There are things going on today, such as in the ICO mark, if you invest in equity, you never thought that a ICO offering may occur originally and is it a liquidity event and what happens? So we're trying to come up with some governance that hasn't existed, but probably needs to be. But to be fair, the companies that we've been lucky enough to invest with are supporting the ideas. Yeah, so there's liquidity going on. It's a new kind of liquidity. What is that liquidity? Where is the liquidity? It's not just a Kickstarter campaign, there's actually liquidity going on. There is liquidity going on and I think we're trying to figure out how to now take equity that is established in the traditional sense. We talked about security tokens, but the companies that are actually have issued ICOs are trying to determine how to give a dividend or some form of equity to the shareholders and that's a new market. Greg, there's the domicile matter to you where they are located. I mean, I've heard things like special purpose vehicles have always been kind of an analogy. I mean, traditionally I would say no, our attorneys would say yes, but if it's a Cayman, we've invested some Cayman companies, Europe, Asian companies, so that really doesn't bother us that much. Again, it's the team and it's not a deal killer. It's definitely not a deal killer. You prefer obviously security choking in the US, Delaware based would make us the happiest. But if they have a real team behind it, if they have real attorneys, real auditors, we'll look past that. And global reach, that's a big factor. Absolutely. How much is global impacting this world? I mean, we're in the US, we're kind of turning into, incredibly, but I think the one area where we need to do a better job is in expanding it. I mean, there are a lot of foreigners at this market today and this event, but it's, we know the US market really well. We don't know what's going on in Asia. We read the trade magazines and that's how we know what's going on. There's efforts now and even consensus announced today, they're having an event next year, or this year in Singapore. We need to have greater reach to share what's going on around the world versus what a few people- You see that as a big issue. I do. We don't see what's going on in China today. We don't see what's going on in Singapore, the Philippines. And that's where a lot of the effort is going on. Well, I think you're right. I think one of the things, and that's where fake news on Facebook, you know, with the whole election here in the US and now outside influence, whether it's terrorist groups or propaganda-based systems, quality of the data is really important with real time. And the data's limited today. I agree. I mean, we totally agree with the same thing. Okay, final thought. Walk away this week from Big Data NY, not Big Data, Blockchain Week NYC.  What's your takeaway? What do you take home? We went in the right direction. I mean that this is still developing. We're not there yet. There's still a lot of work to be done. But long-term, whether you believe in digital currencies or not today, this is something that central governments are looking at and supporting. Enterprise is getting into it. And this is the future. So we made the right choice. And is it only going to get better, you think? Absolutely. Yeah, I think stability-wise, technically, and the business models are starting to shake out. Just quickly, before I know you've got to go, thank you for your time. Quickly, token economics. Big part of the business model side of it. Your thoughts and reactions to how that's going and how people should start thinking about that if they can meet their criteria for some sort of decentralized business opportunity. So I think it's looking at network usage. I mean, that's really the way we look at it today. The fundamental model doesn't work, or we haven't been able to determine how to do that. But adoption, it's growth. And that's how we focus things and see where it is. Well, congratulations for all the work and all the work you're doing and that continue to do. Thanks for coming on theCUBE, appreciate it. Thank you very much. Big-time investor on theCUBE here. Big-time investors with entrepreneurs. We had folks from Europe, Lithuania, all over the world here on theCUBE. We're out in the open. This is theCUBE covering Lock Chain Week, New York City. Consensus 2018, I'm John Furrier. Thanks for watching. Stay with us for more after this break.