Hi everyone, welcome to open source summit 2020 virtually this year. So today I will be sharing my thoughts and experience with you all on giving and getting technical help without being scared. I will begin this talk with a brief introduction about myself. So my name is Sonia Singla and I am on the release notes team as shadow for Kubernetes 1.20. Recently this summer I completed my CNC internship with Thanos project and I was the past outreach intern at Mozilla Firefox. So today my talk is on giving and getting technical help without being scared. Asking questions can be hard. I first discovered that asking can be really hard when I was 17 years old in the first year of my college and at the same time I was beginning with open source. So we had a class as well as a lab for straight 3 hours on the subject called oscillations and optics. During class whenever the teacher asks any question boys would blurt out without even thinking while the girls would raise their hands get shouted over then they don't say what they actually want to say. And I was actually in the third category you know just observing things around me. So you know in the same lab we were divided into groups of three and in my group I had two boys along with me. The teacher used to say club into groups of three as assigned open your lab manuals and here's all the required material for performing the practical. So yeah go for it and what I observed at a time is there was no curiosity among girls. But the boys you know used to run perform the practicals very quickly and the girls used to sit wait for them to finish so that they can write the recordings. Which came out while performing the practical and the other day I had this thought in mind in what type of culture I am living. It was emotionally weak for me and as I mentioned at the beginning of the talk I was also beginning with open source at that time. So yeah helping can be hard. Whenever I got stuck with something or asked someone or send them a DM most of the time nearly 95% I didn't hear back from the person. I developed this thing in mind that just because they are good at something doesn't mean they should be arrogant right. No they shouldn't and maybe they aren't and trust me the mentors in open source are among the kindest people in the world I ever know. Maybe the person was busy. I was not asking question in right method or there could be like billions of reason. But when I started restructuring my questions doing proper homework before asking many things were changed for me. You know it was like another side of the coin. But what I observed common in open source mentors and college teachers is that they are rushed to help girls more quickly than the help boys. They let the boys struggle a bit with the work they are doing and implicitly sending a signal that the boys are more capable and ultimately figure it out. So yeah helping is culture. And at that time I felt that the system is biased and privileged. It's totally understandable that the mentors want to help underrepresented people in tech to help them grow become better engineers have learned in making money in promotions so that you know there is a balance reduced gender gap more diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. Opportunity and visibility not advice so you know what members of underrepresented groups in tech often need is opportunity and visibility. Not the advice they have to work extremely hard and be extremely good at whatever they are doing to combat the systematic privilege and unconsciousness biasness at play in our work environment. They are consistently under promoted and under compensated for their work even though they are excellent at their work. So yeah these are the lines from Christie Tillman advice is just one thing a mentor give but there are residual benefits from visible proximity and tangential relationships to be gained. So yeah think upon it. Okay this summer when I did my community bridge in town trip with Thanos project of CNCF. But they can pull us they both were my primary mentors and I don't know if they are listening to me right now. And most of the time I spent working with them. I saw how they both let me struggle with the code I was writing how they helped me to Google myself how they helped me to grow and more importantly become self independent. So yeah helping is a culture or help culture of helping others creating the culture for our community culture of people in tech and for me it absolutely turned down the culture and I saw how big helping can be. It really make a huge difference in how the whole organization community or maybe class of bunch of student fields and it helps me in transitioning. So the culture of the organization plays a very important role and also focuses in terms of learning, helping and if you have this kind of culture in your organization or company. It means that you are doing absolutely great. You can hire amazing people more diversity among the organization. You can take Junior Fox grow them into amazing senior folks. So today we are going to talk about giving technical help and getting technical help. And I'm going to share some of the specific tools for making those two things easier because you know they can be really challenging. So without further ado let's talk about asking and first let's talk a little bit about the mindset of asking and then about specific tools that you can use to make it more useful. So as a developer it's exciting and challenging to stay up to speed with the latest trends in technology. Everyday new challenges, frameworks and devices capture our attention and spur conversations in meetups, forms and chat groups. However our developer community is made of people not the tools and it's really fascinating to explore its socio-political aspects. So software engineers they are never done learning as our field is always changing. We are always being at some things and expert at others. Along the way from beginner to expert we ask a lot of questions but it can be intimidating to ask for help and I totally agree here. So first of all the key rule is to remember that even if you are talking to a person who is super senior or a junior or a person who is starting with the programming they don't necessarily need to know everything. And the same is applicable on you. Being a senior doesn't mean that they know each and everything. It simply means you know some of the stuff, they know some of the stuff and you both know some of the common stuff. Even if your code is not running giving you errors or your application is not building or might be you are confused. It's a sign of progress. It means that you are about to learn something new and be sassy and brave enough to step in. It's scary and intimidating at the same time but anyway you have to push yourself through it. So yeah here are some of the tools that you can use for asking. So the first one is choose the right place to ask. I know it sounds kind of weird but I just want to put this up here and I believe that it's a base level importance. Because if you are working in a toxic culture no matter how good, how brave you become at asking you will definitely going to end up in a bad situation in a bad time. The people who are the founders, leaders are going to set the culture. So listen to them and even if you are interviewing with them ask them lots of questions whatever you have. So that you know that you are going to end up in good hands, good place. Also online firms, Slack channels, IRC are a much better place to ask. It just depends upon the organization to organization as every organization follow different norms, different communication channels. Once you find a place don't just barge in. Have a look around how a particular community works before you demand for help.  In some forms the same question gets asked over and over. So do your homework properly before asking. A simple Google search might give you your answer. It will also avoid antagonizing the regulars. A lot of my Google searches directly me to the sites like Quera, Stack Overflow, GitHub, Stack Exchange, which are the excellent sources for the programming help. And a few don'ts. Don't expect to be spoon feeded. Don't get annoyed if you don't get an answer in the first few hours. People ask you for more details. Someone tells you that you are doing it wrong. They will and you can almost count on it. Okay, so the second key thing is practice a 15 minute rule. 15 minutes to solve the problem any way you can. However, if you don't have an answer after 15 minutes, you must ask someone. Because if you keep escalating bugs without even trying to figure it out, you're never going to learn how to solve problems on your own for yourself. When you're going to ask for help, you are at least armed with the full context of the problem at hand. The third thing you can do is explain what you're trying to do. Your big picture will take some time to explain the things clearly, whatever you're experiencing. Because if you're secretive about what you're doing, people might assume that it's your work assignment or, you know, maybe you're working on some commercial or it could be anything. Don't say I tried to run XYZ and it didn't work. Please help. You won't get any responses or even if you do, they are likely to be sarcastic and unhelpful. If you are lucky, someone might say I can't help you unless you give me more details. There are a lot of very clever and helpful people on the internet. But if you don't give them enough information to be able to help you, they simply can't and it will frustrate them because they would like to be help you out. Okay, hence, you know, it will end up in a rude reply. Whenever you are explaining things, suggesting things, don't say I think, delete I think, say whatever you want to say without using the word I think. I might be using a lot in this talk. Yeah. So the fourth thing is so say what you have already tried. Maybe by sharing your code error messages, the exact commands that you're using, because sharing error messages are really helpful and maybe before sharing, try to Google them by yourself. Try those solutions and it's always good to ask questions. Sometimes you might not understand the error but someone else might will say I tried using this data structure instead of this one. I tried looking it up on stack overflow on GitHub. I have read the documentation, but I didn't really understand this particular section.  The fifth thing is say thanks and give feedback. Always come back and say thanks and share your feedback, whatever you have tried and what was helpful to get you out of the situation and let people know if their advice helped you. This isn't much of a payback for giving out free help, but if you can let people know their solution was helpful, this will be your reward. Also, it's an investment in goodwill. They are likely to be there for you next time. If you were one of those who say, you know, thank you for your help, it now works perfectly or maybe share the feedback with the person. So yeah, this, this is really amazing. So to sum up asking here are five tools. Choose the right place to ask. Practice a 15 minute rule.  Say what you have already tried. Say thanks and feedback. So yeah, this is all about asking. Now let's talk about helping. Before I start on helping, this is really hard thing to do and we are never taught how to give critical feedback effectively. We are never taught how to be good leaders, how to be mentors. We are not taught, you know, how to be experts. We are just figuring out the things as we go along. Another thing that's challenging is remembering all the things. Being an expert can actually make it very difficult to remember what it's likely to not understand. What a variable is a variable is a very challenging concept to people who have never programmed before. And you can focus on that very easily when you spend all the day in an IDE or at the command line or whatever knowing something super well. It makes it really hard to remember what it was like before and that it can make it very hard to hear them very frustrating. You have all probably helped people who are new to technology. So now I'm going to share some of the specific tools that you can use to help someone. The first one is encourage asking questions. So whenever people ask questions, be welcoming, be gentle, be compassionate and curious. Support people emotionally when people ask you questions like, hey, this is a great question. Be excited about the problem, the work.  And there could be other two scenarios. The first one is you're not getting enough questions at that time, reward question asking. The second thing is you are getting lots of questions. Teach them how to ship. If the people are in the first few months, deal with them. And it's not really like you want to proceed, maybe shave their behavior. For example, teach them how to debug effectively. We have to look for help whenever they are stuck. How to refactor code. Let them struggle a bit. Because that's how we learn and grow, right? The second point is create healthy environment. By a healthy environment, I mean you should treat the people asking questions like there are competitors or friends. You shouldn't underestimate them. For example, if they're asking what is X, Y, Z, you should never say you don't know even X, Y, Z. This makes the environment really ugly, toxic, as well as a lot of discouragement. Now, the third point is explain the process and reason. So after getting the question from the people, you should explain the complete process to learn. By process, I mean how the things are running behind the scenes. You should provide them enough data or maybe documentation links so that they can understand better. There might be things or concepts which you understand, but they don't. Tell them how you approach the solution for the certain complex problem. How are you making decisions? How are you choosing the particular data structure? You should also tell them the reasons why we made this thing or feature like this. In this step, you must have to make sure that you are just not spoon feeding them. But providing enough resources from which they can learn after which you gave them basic ideas. This goes into a really long way, but it will make a very big difference. The fourth point is help them to grow. Don't just grab their keyboards. Always ask first. I have seen this in many communities and this is really harmful. Grabbing someone's keyboard and solving problems for them. When the users or contributors are getting more ideas about your project, you need to make sure that the wheel is running continuously. There should be a healthy environment so that they can turn into maintainers one day. After a certain point of time and help others. Last but not the least, use inclusive language. By inclusive language, I mean don't use the words like easy, obviously just. Because if something is obvious to you, doesn't necessarily mean obvious to another person. And if it's not obvious, it clearly states you are insulting someone. So try to not use these types of words in Githapur request forums or discussions. There are many times when your tone is misinterrupted by the other person. So maybe add my emojis to that. Use some encouraging words or try to explain the things constructively as well as politely. So to sum up and courage asking questions, create healthy environment, explain the process and reason, help them to grow use inclusive language. Successful community. So building a successful and healthy community takes a long time. But after a certain point of time, the result will be so sweet. Contributors will become maintainers and this chain will keep increasing and growing over the time. But the main point here is to keep in mind that don't push your support too much. You should have a balance for the same. Because if you push them too hard too far, it can discourage them and backfire at the same time. And if you keep supporting and helping them at every point, they will not learn how to solve problems on their own. So keep a balance for that. Yeah, thank you. And if you have any questions regarding this talk, or if you need any kind of help, please feel free to ping me out. Here's my github and Twitter handle and I mentioned my website. Yeah, thank you so much everyone.


Good afternoon and welcome to Trump Week. I'm your guest host Carl Kempanya. Today we're going to talk about media. Today we're going to talk about news and fake news in particular in this era of Trump. So that's really where we're going to go. We're going to discuss a number of different issues with regards to I guess truth and fact, maybe not truth as much as fact, and how we take in the information and some of the challenges that we have before us within this, I guess, era of Trump that we have. Problematic in many ways. And to really help me understand this, actually I'm thrilled to welcome to the show Mr. Brett Obegard, who is, well I'll let him explain everything that he is, but I'm quite thrilled. Coming from the University of Hawaii Department of Communications to talk with us about journalism and what that means with regards to media in this time of Trump. So welcome to the show, Brett. I know you've been on other shows before here with Jay. First time we're meeting and talking, but I greatly appreciate the opportunity to learn what I can. Well, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Excellent. So okay, media in the era of Trump, what we've got is a lot of disparate information all over the place. We've got a lot of facts and non-facts, issues that people are having a hard time really understanding, or really knowing where to turn and what to believe. And I think that's the biggest problem we have. I personally think that that's by design. I think that's being done intentionally to confuse us, so therefore we can't get in the way. That's my opinion. If you would, first of all, start by telling us and this audience about yourself, about what you do, and then we'll jump in to what it really means with regards to media today and maybe as we think forward. So tell us a bit about yourself. Okay, well, I'm an associate professor at the University of Hawaii, and I teach journalism classes, including the capstone journalism class. And my research expertise is in media technologies, so I'm really interested in the medium and how different messages get changed by the medium. Okay, excellent. Okay, so I would imagine then you spend time working on social media. Social media is not my expertise, but I work mostly with mobile media. Mobile media. Yeah, and social media is a whole different thing. But I am familiar with it and I do understand the basics of it. Alright, so as far as mobile media, help me understand what you mean there. Well, in 2007 we had this miraculous device that came into our consciousness, the iPhone, that basically changed the way people communicate in dramatic ways. It's the fastest-diffusing technology, communication technology in human history, the smartphone is. The smartphone along with all of the various applications out there that provide the opportunity to do real-time, this is what's happening with my camera phone. Right, but I mean just the hardware. Okay, yeah. People have, like you have a phone in your pocket. Yeah. One in mine. Probably everybody watching has one in theirs. That's right. And it's really changed a lot about humanity. Okay, I think it has. And it's affected the way even we understand politics too, in the sense that things are crunched down into these 140-character messages or Facebook posts or whatever that really aren't vetted in the way they were before. And before the smartphone there wasn't easy access to social media. Like think if you had to go to your desktop computer and log into Facebook and do it and most people wouldn't do that. So if you had a thought that you can condense into 140 characters but had to run across town to get to your desktop in order to type a thought in, you're not going to do that very often. And the people didn't. Yeah. And what changed it was the smartphone. Yeah, and all of a sudden everything is okay and I'm going to comment on this. Here's my food picture, here's my rant, here's whatever, whatever my selfie. I tend to do more rants than food pictures myself. But I have some food pictures and family. Yeah. All right, so excellent. So okay, let's get a different context in here. Before the show you and I were talking about a range of things but one of the things that came up was the idea of journalistic ideology and specifically as the overarching thought with integrity as well. That's one of the biggest challenges that I think we have right now is what we've got is a president and an entire party that seems to be talking about, not to always make everything about this party versus that party but it seems to be one party and one president in particular who is pushing this idea of what's fake news versus not fake news. And that's only muddying up what was already a confusion landscape of what's going on in the world. So with that in mind, what are some thoughts that you have or let's discuss this idea of journalistic integrity and ideology. What can you tell us from a university perspective anyway with regards to this? Well, I'll step back just a bit and say that the Republican Party for the most part has not chanted fake news at people but they have not stood up to Trump either. So I think it's a little bit unfair to put them in the same ballpark. Now they're complicit in a lot of ways but I would say that they're not doing the same kind of bullying tactics for the most part. There are some people like in Montana, you had the legislator who body slammed a reporter and these kinds of things have happened and they're definitely concerning but I would say for the most part the Republican Party is more guilty of being complicit. And it's been a growing thing. What I hear echoed in the back of my mind is mainstream media being like an evil thing. And most of them don't say that out loud. They may think it or they may support it. But Trump is a completely different character. He has continually surprised me. I've never seen anything like him in American history. You see characters like him all the time in Banana Republics and dictatorships around the world. But before he was elected I truly thought America would never allow something like this to happen and now here he is. So we have to deal with him. Exactly. Well in many ways, in many interpretations of it, that was the purpose of the Electoral College. The purpose of the Electoral College was to prevent someone quite like this from getting through. But clearly going back to the idea of ideology there was a specific ideology that was willing to allow it. Yeah, I mean Electoral College should be abolished immediately. It has no purpose anymore. I agree. And it's a complete fraud. I agree. So I mean that to me is just an obvious step that we should take in the evolution of our democracy is to get rid of this farcical Electoral College. You can understand at the time that it was created and that's where we have to look at things from the perspective of historical place and time. It had its time. It had its place. It had its time and its place. But it doesn't need it anymore because we have such a media access everywhere through our phones. At any given minute of any day, every given second of every day, I can access something. So the purpose of the Electoral College was to make sure that there were opportunities and that we were representing a number of people that may not have access to all of the news in a certain way. And that was part of the original formation of that. Well, we're not there anymore because we have not just the technologies but all of the abilities through our constitution to be able to make sure that we've got this there. Now, one of the really disappointing to imagine that your vote is like 3,000 times less valuable than somebody's vote in Iowa or something. And that's actually the debate, isn't it? That's the debate. So the reason we have the Electoral College is so that someone in Hawaii where we have very few people comparative to others, our vote is supposed to mean more because of the Electoral College. We have three whole electoral votes as opposed to 57 that another state may have or more. But in effect, what that does is it's almost the reverse effect. We're giving more power to a smaller grouping of people in some cases than others. And it's a smaller group in areas of less importance in our country's overall scheme. I'm not saying that North Dakota or South Dakota, those people don't have important lives. What I'm saying is if the economy of North Dakota collapsed, it would not destroy the country like if the economy of California collapsed. There's probably truth in that, but I think the people in Dakotas will take issue with that. Luckily, there's not very many of them. Well, that's one of the keys to the whole principle and the argument against making any changes to it is we want to make sure that we are giving the smaller states, smaller popular states as much power in some ways. Maybe more power is what it feels like in some instances. But that's a very important debate that we need to have. But going back to journalism and going back to the idea of media right now, there's so many different facets going on. Earlier we were talking about, okay, there are bubbles. There are media bubbles, what do you call it, a bubble in an echo chamber. You've got some media outlets that seem to cater to one thought process or ideology versus another. What are your thoughts on some of those concerns or maybe how that has come about? Well, people have abdicated their responsibility in many ways to the media organizations of the past like Cronkite or whatever where he said it was true, Walter Cronkite. And what they really should have been doing is build their own media literacy to be able to understand the way journalism works and the validity of pieces of journalism and not trust a particular person but trust their own process and understanding media and the content in it. And I think that a lot of politicians in particular rely on people not fully understanding or having the time. That's the political platform of Trump is rely on me. Anything I say is true. Anything anybody else is false. And you don't have to do any thinking. And he's come out blatantly to say that. I'm the one person who can solve this problem. No one else can solve this the way that I can, he says. And then labeling everybody as fake media.  Therefore you're irrelevant. So how can we, what is some advice you may have for us to think about this media literacy idea and how we can better assess what is fake news and what isn't fake news? Well it starts with taking personal responsibility that you don't just bring in everything that's given to you and accept it as gospel. You have to examine everything that crosses your path especially in social media and think carefully about where did this come from? Why is this story written this way? What are its biases? How does this affect my understanding of the story? And most importantly where can I find independent sources that would potentially contradict this? If you think of it in terms of a dialectical process where if you put all the ideas together and the truth comes out of the mix then that's what every individual should strive for. Now realistically people don't spend eight hours a day analyzing their media. And that's why they rely so much on their friends to do that kind of betting. But friends and family aren't doing that. So it's really on you to make sure that you understand what's going on before you fervently believe it. And that's why tweets are popular because it's 140 characters of information that you kind of absorb, consume and move on. Well the tweets are a perfect propaganda tool. And I would say the ideal way to use Twitter would be a headline and a link to more information. If you don't have the link then it's propaganda because it's just like skimming the headlines. You don't have any understanding of what the sentiment is. So Mexico is going to build the wall and you're not getting the link to explain well what does that mean? What does that mean? Then you're falling into propaganda. Absolutely. And that's actually a huge concern that we have these days. Now part of that is, and we're going to go to a break in a second, but part of that is also the difference between investigative journalism and opinion pieces. So we're going to go to a break and when we come back I'll try to explore that a little bit if we can. Okay. So thank you for joining us. This is Trump Week. And I'm your guest host today, Carl Campania. We'll see you in one minute. Thank you again to our guest today. Mr. Brett Opegard and we will see you in one minute. This is Think Tech Hawaii, raising public awareness. Elevate your match day experience. If you drink, never drive. Welcome back to Trump Week. I'm your guest host Carl Campania and welcome once again to the show. Professor Brett Opegard from the University of Hawaii Department of Communication. Is that correct? Right. Excellent. All right. Welcome again and thank you. Thank you. So we were just talking about the idea of opinion pieces versus investigative journalism. And one of the things that you said earlier, well, it starts with taking personal responsibility. That all kind of comes together a little bit when you think about it as I don't have enough time in my day to take the personal responsibility to vet out something that somebody has said or written. But you know what? I believe, I agree with almost everything that that person that keeps tweeting these things says. So I'm just going to keep following them and I'm just going to get all of my information from them. And then I'll just repeat what they say and I'll sound smart. That's where we are right now. That's where we live right now. So how do we address that? Or what can we do? What possibly can we do? I don't think you have an answer to this. I don't think anybody has an answer. I'll try. I'll start with the idea that if you don't have time to figure it out, then you're making time to be confused and misinformed. So I think that's a false reasoning. Okay. Also, we've always had thought leaders in our communities, you know, presidents, senators, whatever, business leaders, you know, philanthropists. But we haven't had the power that social media creates before where your message can literally be circulated among every human on the globe and instantaneously. So that is, to me, really a threat, a propaganda threat that we have to face with action, not passively sitting around waiting for somebody to figure it out for us. And if you go by the 80-20 rule, which a lot of people do, 80% of the people will just go along with what you say and 20% will investigate. Well, 80% of the people are just listening to what someone, some thought leader is saying because they have particular idealism that they agree with. They're just going to go with that. And that's how we have such a division in the country at the moment. And that is represented, I think that's echoed in these bubbles or these echo chambers that we have as far as Info Wars, Breitbart, and all of the conservative right media versus MSNBC and all of the, you know, maybe you include CNN and all these other, what is considered more leftist opinions. So again, going back to this idea of what is an opinion, what is an op-ed versus a real piece of journalism. And that goes back to one of the earlier thoughts was what's journalistic ideology. What should a journalist be doing? Well, the ideology includes opinion and includes all sorts of things. It includes reviews, it includes investigative pieces, it includes service journalism, like when the festival is and how do you get there and how much you pay. So I want to make sure to not make a binary that's investigative or nothing. But what I will say is that in the history of journalism, you have, you know, an arc basically that started with individual printers for political news of whatever they wanted. There was no code of ethics or validity or accountability for what they printed. And eventually that transformed into the objectivity that we now think of as modern journalism, but that wasn't until, you know, the early 1900s. And then we went through a period where journalists started to think of themselves in more literary terms and we had a literary journalism movement where we started to see more storytelling journalism. And in the last few decades we've had a real battle between objectivity and what's called advocacy journalism when you argue for a particular position. And the advocacy journalists have, you know, basically contested objective truth and said there's no such thing as objective truth, which you can make an argument for that. But if we don't have common ground truths, which we apparently don't have in this particular presidential administration, then we have nowhere we can stand and actually talk to each other. And that is the biggest problem that we have is we do have a lack of trust. And I think this was manufactured is what it appears to be, manufactured over a period of time, not just Trump, but going back in time, manufactured to this disbelief. And at this point there's been a discrediting of the media, a discrediting of the intelligence communities, a discrediting of science to the point where all of those people that you're used to having answers are in going to for answers, we don't trust them anymore. Well, this started with deregulation in the mid 90s, and that led to the rise of right wing radio, Rush Limbaugh and those types of characters, which then led to the television version, Fox News. And that's their whole shtick was we're going to counter the mainstream media and tell you how they're lying or fake or wrong, and that's how they made all their money. It's actually cynicism, not skepticism. Skepticism is very healthy, cynicism very unhealthy. And I think we've passed this very terrible threshold where most people are cynical now about everything. And then we can't come back together to get common problem solved. Yeah, and that's because the division, the gap between the sides, and unfortunately there are two, there's more than two, there really are more than two sides. Within the Republican Party, there are many different factions. There are more extreme conservatives and there are more moderates and there's everyone in between. Same thing on the Democratic side. Up until the last, well, decade, we'll say, really or so, that division hasn't been as much of a problem because everyone has understood, okay, you know what it's that middle ground, it's those moderates. We need the people on the extremes to help the conversation along a little bit, but the compromise is what people lead to. As compromises was going to actually be the most beneficial where we'll all come to an final agreement. Well, those compromises aren't happening anymore because the extremes, because of this media direction, because of this advocacy media that has been driving one direction or the other, the division has just widened and the mistrust and the cynicism has increased. What do we do? Well, we rebuild what's the metaphor that Buber uses as the narrow ridge between us. If you think of a path, and on each side is a chasm where people are down in cynicism land, and there's a narrow ridge between us where you can come and coexist. That's what we need to be rebuilt. We need to find that ground where we can stand face to face and agree on certain things, disagree philosophically, but make some compromise for everyone to have a better life. Won't that require some of those thought leaders to open the doors to those paths with? I think it could require that or it could require a revolt of the followers. Thought leaders only as powerful as the followers, which is part of the issue with Trump is that he's in a position that we can't really ignore him. If he was in any other position like the charlatan real estate developer position or whatever he was, you could ignore him and know who cares. But when the president of the United States with nothing between him and a nuclear war, nothing, then we can't ignore him. And this was a conversation we were having earlier before we got on air, and I think it was an important conversation. You were suggesting that, well, if we ignore him it could get worse. And I'm going to say, well, how much worse can we get? And you came up with some really good points. How much worse can we get? Yes, nuclear war, but not just nuclear war. There are many levels. There's going to martial law. And once we do that, what you suggested was once we go to martial law, then that means we abandon the whole electoral process and election cycles. Well, as part of the fascist playbook is to discredit elections. Which has also been done. Then you get appointments, and then the appointments are your appointments. Yeah, this is not something that Trump invented. This is the fascist playbook. So that's what we have to be wary of.  You're opening the door to allowing that type of fascism for this whole playbook, which can be shown. It is directly out of Hitler's playbook. Everything that has happened, the whole discrediting of everything we just mentioned. Not just Hitler's stalling. Not just Hitler's stalling. I mean, I would say it's a playbook. It's not, it's not, you can't just trace it to Germany. Not just one. Right, exactly. This is a standard operating procedure for people who want to claim power. So the only way, so those, the people, the followers have to be let down in order for them to pull away. Well, they have to open their eyes. Well, if they, they have to want to open their eyes. And the only way they want to open their eyes is because, wait a minute, that didn't happen the way I thought it was going to happen. Some of that might be happening now. Some people, there are reports that some of his support has been dwindling because he hasn't done this or is doing that. And they weren't expecting that because he promised one thing or another. So maybe some of that is going to happen. So perhaps the opportunity for 2018 and 2020 to make the changes that are important for the health of the country. Not about the health of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or parties. The health of the country is what it seems to be. And in my opinion, we really need journalists. We really need the media to be one of the beacons that they're saying, pointing the way saying, here's this and here's that. And here's some different thoughts and here's different ways of thinking about this. And yes, it's true, this is a playbook. And this is how this playbook has been played out in the past. And by these, and here's some comparisons. Not saying that's what he's doing, but you know what? Let's be mindful of it. And we need more of that to try to cross that gap, right? Well, it's no coincidence, I think, that Trump has risen in a time when the newspaper business model collapsed. Newspapers were the foundation of, I would say, intellectual activity in the country before the, basically, the business model collapsed. We still have, of course, television news, but often that's just based on what's on the screen, not really listening to the content. So that's interesting. We're about 20 seconds out of the show here, but it comes back to what you're saying is the technology of our media these days. The technology and the opportunities that we have have actually created. Have created a void, right? Have created a void. Have broken down the belief structures and the, I guess, the common person, the everyday person, just believing what is in the media. It's one of the pieces. It's so disparate in so many different places.  So that's a huge discussion. Yeah, you got commoditized, essentially, what happened. And when it became a commodity, then it didn't have any value anymore. Which is a problem. So in my opinion, the corporatization of everything is the destruction of everything in many ways. Thank you so much. Thank you. Sorry, there's so much more we can get to, but thank you so much. That was a good start. I have to come back and we can dig in more another time. So thank you for joining us. This is Trump week. I'm your guest host, Carl Campania. J. Fidel will be back next week. He actually may be back shortly. And with another show coming up probably in about 10, 15 minutes, we will see you next week. Really trying to tackle the issues that are going on these days with this administration. So thank you for joining us. Thank you for joining us. And thank you to our guest today, Professor Brett Opagard. Yes, I'm saying it correctly. That was a good pause. From the University of Hawaii Department of Communication. Thank you. See you next week.


Are you tired of watching boring old press releases? Then you've come to the right place, the right channel, the number one channel for CEO interviews and company overviews. Welcome to Rich TV Live, subscribe to our channel and make sure to hit the like button on our videos to help with the YouTube algorithm for more information and in-depth discussions and analysis, join our trading club at richpigsdaily.com and don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell for notifications to get alerted when our next CEO interview is released so you can discover the next 10-bagger. Hi, how's everybody doing today? I'm your host, Rich, here we have Rich TV Live with our very special guest, Nader Vitenshi, the CEO of Spate Resources Corp. How are you doing today, Nader? Rich, a real honor, sir, and I really appreciate you having me on your show. Pleasure to have you on the show, very excited to learn more about your company. Maybe you can tell us a little bit about yourself and how you got involved with Spate Resources Corp. Well, yeah, I was actually an advisor for several years. I had worked for Edward Jones and IG Wealth Management. So I'd helped many families with their financial planning and helping them with their retirement. And but eventually, I kind of realized that I wanted a, I guess, a bigger challenge. I wanted to do more. So I ended up selling that book of business and I'm thankfully in a very privileged position here at Spate Resources. And yeah, I enjoy their responsibilities and very excited for what we're doing here. Fantastic. Can you tell us what your main goals are for Spate Resources Corp for the last six months of 2021? Well, ultimately, it's very clear what we want to do. We want to be in a situation where we can develop a pilot plan and we need to have financing in place so that we can put ultimately our projects in Argentina into production. That is our main goal for the last six months of the year. Very good. Now it's very vital to have a strong management team. We here at Ridge TV Live, we love to look at the fundamentals of a company, share structure, management team, debt to equity ratios. We really like to break companies down. Can you talk a little bit about your management team and what all the key members' roles are and how you plan to attract more investment? For sure. Yeah, well, you know, we got myself, which I explained a little bit earlier about my background. We have Abby Abdea, who's our CFO. He's obviously well versed and very educated and had many years of experience, especially in this sector in the mining industry. So I'm very confident in his abilities. And then we have Ian Graham, actually, who's has over 28 years of experience in mining. And he's, to be honest, he's worked for Anglo-American and Rio Tinto. So yes, he's highly respected. And the best part, I guess, about our company too, is that for our projects in Argentina, we actually have a management team. And we have, for example, Philip Thomas, he's the head of AIS Resources, which is managing our Argentinian project. And he's essentially dedicated his life to lithium brine extraction. And his partner is Dr. Carlos Sorrentino. And he's actually helped develop a plant built for admiral resources in Rincón. So these two individuals are, you know, working a lot with lithium brines. And it's kind of fitting that they're actually the ones who helped develop what's called the EcoSol process, which is what we're using. That's the technology we're using at our Argentinian lithium projects. So it's quite intriguing to say the least. Absolutely. I love lithium. I've been talking to our community about lithium. I keep saying to them that the world wants to go electric. Everyone wants to go electric. There's a mandate by 2030, 2040. Seems like the whole world wants to go electric vehicle. And lithium is the key ingredient. And there's a shortage of lithium. So this is a great sector to be in. Now, Nader, we know that lithium mining is a major focus for the world right now because of electric vehicles space growing so rapidly. And Tessa just recently filed a new patent in regards to mining lithium using sodium chloride. How does Spain resources look to efficiently and environmentally mine lithium in order to capture market share? Well, the process that I alluded to earlier, which is called the EcoSol process, it is also a unique way as well that they have developed. So it's got its own specific ways of extracting lithium. And it is also, it actually it's quite intriguing because it will reduce capital expenditures dramatically. And again, the best part is that it is environmentally friendly. And it's going to be important in my opinion that these types of technologies are developed because as you alluded to again earlier with Tesla, a lot of these car manufacturers are essentially taking that approach as well where they just want to, they want to be the ones who extract the lithium and they're the ones who want to develop the final product. That way they don't have to deal with this headache on the side. So they can just focus on developing these vehicles for the world. So. Very good. Now, if Spain Resources Corp were to compare itself to its competitors in this sector, what would you say sets you guys apart from your competition? Well, you know, just to be frank, we're a highly motivated and active team. And again, we have this, we were I guess grateful that we have this opportunity to work with a management team that's actually well known in this space. So we've been blessed that actually our visibility has been quite high. Like we have been in talks, like people just thankfully know us thanks to our management team over in Argentina. So we do get approached a lot I guess and get involved with many different type of discussions with the individuals in the space. So it's a great thing. Very good. Now here at risk to be live, I touched on it. We love fundamentals. We love understanding your share structure. Can you break down your share structure and how you attract, how you intend to attract institutional and retail investors? Yeah, for sure. Well, right now we currently have 62 million shares issued and outstanding. And once options, if you factor in options and warrants and our property payments will be at 88 million. And in terms of like how we're gonna attract more investors to be honest with you Rich, we're already getting approached a lot. The problem that we have now is just trying to figure out who we wanna work with. Cause we're looking for good quality institutions to work with that understand what we're trying to do here. And we'll really assist us for the long term. So we're very excited actually with what we have. So yeah. So thankfully they're already interested. Perfect. So you guys are doing great. Matter, if there was one thing you would want shareholders to know about Spay Resources Corp today, what would it be? Well, just know that we're working very hard. It's all we can really control. We wanna put our heads down and do everything we can to make sure that, well that we ultimately win because if we win our shareholders win and quite frankly, Rich, I didn't come in here to lose. I'm a young man and I'm putting everything, I really wanna do good. So hopefully the shareholders benefit at the end. We've got a community here that is literally all over the world and they're going to be learning about Spay Resources today. What's the best way for them to get in contact with the company if they have a question or they're interested in investing? What's the best way for them to reach you guys? Oh, well, my contact information's on our website and my phone number is there. I actually do get quite a few calls actually every day. It's getting a little out of hand, but I'm always here and always willing to do my best to accommodate if they have any questions, so. Fantastic. Well, thank you so much for your time today. Nader Vitenchi, the CEO of Spay Resources Corp. Rich, it was a real pleasure, my friend. Thank you so much for having me. Always a pleasure. Love to have you back on the show if you ever have any big breaking news or anything you wanna discuss. We'd love to invite you back. Like I said, we love Lithium and early stage Lithium miners. And just in saying that, I believe that your company is very undervalued, underappreciated, underexposed. We love companies with under 100 million shares. You fall in that category so we feel like you're doing all the right things. Now in saying that, if you like the video guys, please smash the like button, comment down below, share the video everywhere and subscribe, hit the bell for notifications. So every time we have breaking news, a CEO interview or anything trending, you'll know first. If you're interested in investing in the stock, always remember that Rich TV Live is strictly for information and education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research, consult a financial advisor before you invest in anything that we talk about here on the show. In saying that, we love to bring you winners and we love to bring them to you first. Invest in the best, the best is blessed. That's the rich method. Thank you guys for watching. If you're not winning, you're not watching, bring you the winners and we bring them to you first. Put Spay Resources Corp on your watch, let's put it on your radar and thanks for watching everybody. 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Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and welcome to the first video of 2022. I hope you all had a fantastic new year and that you will continue to have a fantastic rest of the year. And of course you will because this is the year that PSVR2 was coming out. A couple of quick things. Ignore that bed lying up against the wall in the background. I just don't have the energy to do anything about that right now. Normally I twist the camera so you can't see it but I don't want to do that anymore. Alright you're just going to have to put up with the fact that I have a vertical bed. There's no place else to put it, it just has to be there. Okay I know it's ugly, I know it's a low class and you deserve better. But it is what it is. The first video of 2022 is going to start off on the right for us I think because we're going to be talking about PSVR2 which is kind of the only thing I want to talk about you know other than firewall and stuff like that of course and great games in general but you know PSVR2 is the future, it's what we've all been waiting for with basic breadth, learned that in school. We were hoping to have already seen this in December. Apparently it was supposed to be shown in December and then plans fell through. So early 2022 is now the estimated time of reveal when we see this thing and then to be launched at the end of 2022. So what news do we have about it today? We've got some information that it might be entering into actual mass production very soon. This comes from Push Square. From Sammy Baker. This went up today. Manufacturing Tittle Tatl. Tips PSVR2 to enter production soon. The word on the social media street is that the next generation PSVR headset will go into production soon. Speculation stems from a Chinese supply chain source who claims a company called Gore-Tec. I think I might be saying that right. Maybe. Has landed the contract. So the firm previously partnered with PlayStation on its original VR headsets. So there is precedent. It makes a lot of sense that they would do it again. And it also supplies components for the PS5. So it all adds up, you know. So if I sound like I'm a little bit out of breath or something. Well, number one, I'm fast. Number two, I've got the COVID. So let me just, I should put that at the beginning. So currently under the effects of COVID right now. So please forgive me if I'm breathing heavily into the microphone. While the source is somewhat wishy-washy, we've been unable to independently verify the information for ourselves. Hence why it's possibly wishy-washing. Why we should all take it with a pinch of salt. Gore-Tec is enjoying record share prices partly due to its collaboration with Metta on the Quest 2 headset.  This is despite ongoing semiconductor shortages around the world. So the results are impressive. Firm expects to post similar results in 2022 with one major Japanese hint-hint-wink-wink partner expected to ship around 1 to 2 million next-gen viewer headsets laser this year. Now who could we possibly think of? Major Japanese partner that will be launching a next-gen headset in 2022. Who could that possibly be? Perhaps Sony? Perhaps PSVR2? Absolutely, that's what it is. This is almost certainly referring to the PlayStation and gives us a rough indication of how many units the platform holder plans to prepare for launch. So that's important. One to two million they plan for launch. It makes sense that the new PSVR headset will be getting ready for mass production if it is still targeting a release this year. So there isn't really much substance to this story beyond things perhaps progressing as planned. So while that does kind of seem like no news is good news, it's still nice to know that it's progressing as planned, you know, because we didn't get that reveal in December that we're hoping maybe things could have been knocked back. Maybe the headset could be pushed back to 2023, which would be really depressing for us. We previously heard from development sources that a full reveal is scheduled for the start of this year, and that's still the case as far as we're aware. So they've got some sources themselves, developers, then they've been told they'll be revealed at the start of this year. Now, what's the start of this year? January, February, March. I think all those could be considered the start of this year. So sometime in the next three months is when I'm expecting to see this, hopefully sooner rather than later of course. But yeah, that's it for this update video. Nothing earth shazwer or whatever, of course. But it's nice to be getting these little crumbs, these little nuggets to kind of reassure us that everything's on the right path, just one front and front of the other and we get to PSV or two before we know us. So with all that said, let me end this video. Thank you very much for watching. This is the point where I usually chill my Patreon, but I have put my Patreon on ice at least temporarily until my output is more consistent on the channel. But I just do want to say that if you are someone who had been supporting me on Patreon or who at any point supported me on Patreon or on the channel in any way whatsoever, I'm very grateful for that. Thank you very much. You can still help me out the old fashioned way with the likes, the comments, the shares and all that usual shit if you want. And finally, let me thank Decepticon for letting me use his music in all of my videos. You can check him out Decepticon.com, link to him in the description. With that said, please stay nice and moist and hopefully this bit of information has helped you produce a bit of moisture, you know, for the new year. And once again, happy new year. I'll see you in the next one. Bye for now.


.. with wild swimming and especially this time of year, safety is paramount and I'm not just being a safety nerd, I am. Instead of just inspiring you to get in the water I want you to do it safely because there might be humans watching and I'd hate to think that I inspired people to go in and then they didn't come back out. So I just want to run through a few little safety things and all that boring jazz until I'm I'm going to submerge myself not knocking because we don't do knocking's now where hats these days and get me selling off it if I can for a little minute or two and then build a fire and cook up some grub and get warm so do it that way around which makes sense. Yes, so just a few little things on. I'll take my bag off shall I? Let's get should we get comfy? Should we sit down? If a cold water while swimming is something you want to be pursuing and I know it's quite popular these days with the Wim Hof Method and stuff. I just thought I'd run through a few of my safety tips and whatnot, but a lot of it's just common sense.  Occasionally I think it's important just to do a video like this just so you don't get too confident because people can get over confident watching other people. You can watch me jumping in cold water and free diving and doing all this and you might go out and try it and that'll be it because you have to respect it. You have to respect the cold mate as well. I know I go while swimming on my own lot but try and go with other people if you can.  I'm only speaking to you now if you are a beginner or if you've never tried it before. Go with some friends so that they can raise the alarm if anything happens or help you out. And go somewhere, there's no reeds and it's easy in and out. It's easy access in and out of the water. And don't jump in. That is critical. Do not jump.  I grew up jumping off the ice house in Whitby and off the beacons at the end of the harbour and I've done a lot of cliff jumping and stuff. But even that one there I hit the water on an angle like that and my eyes hit. And just for the rest of the holiday I just had like a black and blue purple yellow.  It's no joke. Also if you're jumping in the cold can take your breath away. So you'll hit the water, the cold will take your breath away and you'll take in that first breath and it'll be water and then that's it. It's game over. As soon as you hit the cold the shock you can't hold your breath and you get an increased heart rate as well. And you want to acclimatise to the cold. It's something that you do get used to. So at first find a good entry point. You don't want to be going over slippy rocks or anything like that. It's really easy to get in and out and don't go out of your depth because at least you can walk back out if it's too cold for you. Easy access, easy in and out. When you do get out, if you're submerged in the cold, if you get out then you want to warm up slowly. Hat on, hot drink, fire, whatever it is. Don't get a hot shower because that can cool your core temperature more and be dangerous for you. So there's something that people refer to as the one ten one principle. You've got a minute to prepare so hold your breath, hold your nose, calm yourself, control your breathing. Prepare yourself for meaningful movement and to rescue yourself. You've got about ten minutes of meaningful movement to instigate your rescue. Otherwise you're going to start shutting down in the cold. This is all dependent on the temperatures. It varies. The final one is you may have one hour before becoming hypothermic and losing consciousness. A victim who knows they're going into the water should enter the water as slowly as possible. Attempt to always be insulated.  I'm not particularly good at reading out loud. It's like when I read to my daughter and I can't read quick enough to go in to pre-empt stuff. I'm reading Harry Potter and I'm like, Right Harry, you must go find the blue crystal. Whispered Hermione, just ruins it.  Come on Harry, come on Harry, we must go and find the Nimbus 2000.  So from me, just know your own body as well and please just take it slowly. Don't just gun hoe it. Just go up to your waist to get a feeling for it. Splash some water on yourself and then get out. Live to fight another day and slowly but surely build yourself up to it. Even take a coach. I was at home to get your body used to it because it is something that you can train yourself to get used to. But more importantly, just stay safe while you're in the cold water. Right, that being said, I am now going to don me trunks. I don't have them on under here because I was in a bit of a rush just grabbing everything and getting out. So I'm going to don me trunks and I'm going to go and dunk the trunks.  And as always, before I go in, there's a feeling of like, it's a mixture of excitement and of like, oh I really don't want to do it. Because all you think about, well you try and I try not to but you think about the actual action of going in there and being cold and like that doesn't seem appealing. But after you do it so much, you start to think about the feeling that you get after which is just a feeling of elation, your body feels like tuned up, it's really like you feel invigorated. So you look forward to it. So cold water swimming, it can help combat depression, it can boost your immune system and it can help with circulation and apparently it's good for libido. But who knows, is it all just BS? All I know is it just feels good when I get out and it helps me to really just connect with nature like nothing else. Just being in a body of water.  It's nice. Anyway, let's get the baps out and get in there. And have your clothes ready to go when you get out. Top tips. You have to excuse me. I'm packing a bit of Christmas. I'm packing a bit of Christmas pudding around midriffdant boobs. But we're working on it. Let's get you down here. I mean, I can't lie and say it hurts a bit me. You know what I mean? It's pretty beautiful though. Look at it. You've just got to get in, man. You've just got to do it. Yeah, you can really feel that, man. I hope that swan's coming. I'm not swan-vindol. Right, it's freezing, man. It starts to burn. It's pretty cold, but do you try not to make a meal of it in 2020? We're just accepting it as what it is. It's cold, it hurts your feet. And your extremities. And it makes your skin burn and that, but it's nice, mate. Right, let's go in there.  We're doing it right this time. We're getting a fire going after we've been in.  Cook up some warm food and warm our toes by the flames. It's such a lovely, cosy feeling, man. And the only thing that hurts, I mean, tips on my fingers and tips on my toes, but that isn't because... As I've said before, I got blasted with chemotherapy when I was in the early 20s, so it killed all my nerve endings off in my fingers and my toes. That's just... I accept that. That's just pain that can't be helped. So I just live with that, but the warmth coming back to the rest of the body is just lovely. Oh, mate. That feels good. And this is what you remember about while swimming in the winter for me this bit. They're getting all the feeling coming back in the warmth. Absolutely. Whoa, brand new, mate. And it's another one in wind column for duds. It's another W for... I picked up quite a lot there. Well done, duds. Where should we put them? I think we'll smash them on outside at pack, I think. When we get away from the water's edge and get up into the woods, find somewhere and we'll get a fire going. Let's go. What is that? What is that? Look at it. What's it doing, man? It looks like it's so white. It's like... It might even be... Oh, my God. It might be like a ghost or something, like a ghost of a chicken. I've just seen the ghost of a chicken or like some sort of angelic duck, like an overgrown angel duck. I don't know what it is. But it's quite beautiful, isn't it? Look at it in the air, look. Synchronised swimming on it. Oh, yes, mate. That's mint, that. That's the beauty of nature. You never know what you're going to see. I've got... Ah, what the f... I've got a long neck in that. Look at the size of its neck. Put in comments if you know what that is, because that's just... That's blown my mind, that. Everything's flooded, look. Oh, syncing. Look at this. This isn't even a... That's just floodwater, that. Oh, everybody's absolutely saturated. I'm going to go up there, try and get onto a bit higher ground where it's not so... so soggy. I'm going to lose light pretty soon, so... I think we'll just go here. I've got a nice view over this. But it's clearing now, because all the bracken's died by. On the top of the hill, so... it's a little bit dry everywhere. In the... in the valleys and stuff, it's just... saturated, so... This'll do.  I've only got a tiny bit of food to cook up and just warm my fingers and toes. So, I'll start. I've got some thicker... thicker bits on the outside, gradually get thinner, and then... if you nice got a 90 degree on the back of it, you can just push the last bit with 90 degree and create some really fine, dusty bits, plenty of them. There you go. And that's a... that's a one and done... fire, all in one stick there. There you go. One and done. The idea is that the... the little fine bits of dust will catch pretty easy and it'll gradually make its way to the thick ones on the outside and hopefully that'll... that should maintain. But yeah, we're only keeping it small today. I just want to be in and out. Yeah, that's your fire, look. One stick fire. Goodness, I am looking forward to this. Shout out, dusting for spork. Look at this, mate. It's just a ramekin of three different cheeses, herbs, white wine, garlic, organic grass-fed sirloin, and some... just some leaves and some chive to give it a little bit of an onion-y... onion-y vibe. Mmm. Wow. Oh, my word. My word, especially after being in... after being in the soup, look at that. Just dripping in the cheese, mate. One of the best. One of the best meals that I've had outdoors. Or in... or in... or anywhere. I have me bonts, look at that. Might not be to your liking. It's cooked perfect for me. It's my first meal of the day and it's almost three o'clock. I've warmed me... I've warmed me extremities by the fire. And just prepping stuff. It's that old adage of who preps the fire warms himself twice. Who dunks the junk needs to warm himself up. Last bit, mate. If you were here, hand on heart, I'd let you have it. I appreciate that. Tremendous. Now to wash it down with a cup of tea. Brought my little tea strainer cos I didn't want to have any coffee because it's getting late in the day. A bit late in the day and I don't want to not be able to sleep, so... I brought some fresh tea. Lovely. I picked this up for next to nothing. It's like a little metal egg. A little holes in it. And... I'll just leave it in my kit now. I'll just have it as my little tea maker. Cos I like the ritual of brewing up fresh tea leaves and different blends over the fire. A lot healthier than coffee. And also I thought that when I come in to the woods, you know, you can... get pine needles and put them in there, chargar, goose... gos... I'll call it goose grass.  But you know, put whatever... there's all sorts of things that you can make tea from in the wild and you can pop it in there. Even mix it with a bit of tea or whatever flavours, Camomile, anything you want. Rose hips orange peel. Knock up your own concoctions and brew it up. It's a nice little thing to do around the fire. Right, thanks for joining me on this wild swimming cooking sort of a video. But I've enjoyed myself. And that's it. I know a few people didn't like it when I did a no talking video recently. As everyone does a no talking video. But from my point of view it's nice to... If you capture some... capture nice footage and you like editing as I do it's... Every now and again it's nice to tell a little story without words. I know you don't like it because you perceive it as jumping on the bandwagon of people who've done it before. Or you just like to aim in all the accent. But... It ain't going to deter me because it'll deter me. I've got one planned. I want to do one with Joey D whittling a spoon from start to finish. And just do it real cinematic. Get his hair just in the moonlight. All that sort of stuff. And if it's not your thing don't watch it mate. Free content in it. You just go and watch somewhere else. Just go and watch a cat fighting or something like that. I don't know. Whatever you're into. Whatever's on YouTube go watch it. Play safe around open water. Especially at winter. We've talked about that so I'm not going to repeat myself. Look after yourselves. I know it is winter and it's January, February which can be tough times but if you just...  Everyone else might not be. So this is a good time for you to January and February can be trying times especially I work outside so it can be real trying especially February no man's land. So it's good to use it as a time I find to work on self-improvement work on little bits about yourself that you want to improve like your fitness or your mental health or learning your skill sharpen up skills you've already got read a book All these little things that you can do are best to do in winter when you're hibernating and then in spring you can come out fighting fit because you've read Harry Potter you've done 18 sit ups you've had a bit of broccoli and you've had a Diet Coke where you're McDonald's I'm not very good at giving sensible advice a lot of the time because I've never really took it when I was younger myself but it's a circle of life isn't it I feel like now I've learnt a lot and I just want to pass it on to if anyone's watching and they're into wild swimming and this sort of stuff then I feel it's my duty just to give you both sides of the coin and I want everyone to be safe in nature so we can enjoy it without perishing so look after yourself take care namaste get blood flowing stop messing about I'll see you later love you bye I'll be walking I'll let backones be backones


But you have to put your hand high up. If you do this, I don't see it. But you saw it. Yes, because it was right here in front. Namaskar, please tell me your name. My name is Ben, and I guess my question is general, to hear your opinion about truth and proof, because I feel very spiritual person, but I'm not practicing any religion, and I hear a lot about different religions, and I see how people are very sure about their belief, especially the high priests or rabbis or everything. But for me, it was always like, so he's sure he's right. He's sure he's right, and it's contradicting. I'm searching for like, what is the proof? What is the truth? What is this stuff? So I'm not believing anybody. So maybe you have something to share about this. The thing is that, you know, religion, religion, what religion does? It takes the master, the antar-guru, the soul, let's say. It takes the soul out of you, puts it somewhere, says that is God, and mediates between you and God. And it does that mediation by issuing doctrines, codes of conduct, systems of belief. So religion is about belief, and therefore you will always have contradictions between one religion and another, because there are sets of beliefs that are contradicting each other. But when it comes to spirituality, what spirituality basically does is it takes that God out there and puts it back inside and says, the divine is within. Each human being actually has the drop of the divine within. Now you connect with that. That is what spirituality does. So spirituality is not based on belief. It is based on experience. If I say something, if I say, bent, you have a soul and now connect with it. As you did when you were a little child, you were in touch with it. Now try to pierce beyond the barriers of fear and anger and shame and guilt and all of that, and try to connect with your master. You can take up that practice and figure out for yourself if you feel that or you don't. You don't have to believe what I'm saying. You have to take up the practice to know if there is something to what I'm saying or not. It's not about an opinion. It's about an experience. And that's the fundamental difference. So one of the reasons why increasing numbers of people around the world are actually refusing the established religions is because the principles themselves or the codes of conduct or the ethics or the mores and the doctrines that are imposed are not experienced. People want experience more and more, which is why they turn from religion to spirituality and then looking for spiritual inspiration that will give them an experience that gives them the assurance of the truth here and now. And the truth, as I said over here, is to be experienced within as the soul in the process of discerning between the ego and its loud, clamoring, demanding, insisting, pushing voice and the very subtle, almost imperceptible impulse of the truth, the soul, the master of the being. If you are ready to bend in surrender and actually look for it and try to feel it above that noise of the ego, perceive the signal above the noise, you know? So in a spiritual experience, it's your experience. There's nothing to believe or not to believe. And if you turn away from religion, then you are turning towards spirituality. Religion is a stepping stone to spirituality. And when you take that step, then you turn inward and see if you can tune in to the master. If you have the experience, then you've experienced the truth. It's your truth, your master, your antar guru, the inner guru. In fact, the guru outside, the only work the guru actually has to do is to somehow ensure that you can get in touch with self, with the soul, which is what self-realization is. And that's when the processes of self-realization begin to deepen and grow and increasingly make the system an instrument of that truth. So it's about your experience, not about believing what anyone says. And that's the freedom and the beauty of being in a spiritual journey, you know?


And they've wildly mistreated Monique.  She's so talented. And because she tells the truth, they scared, they hate it. What do they hate? Voices, black people.  What'd they tell LeBron?  Shoot. Play, shoot.   Don't boss talk one on one. One on one. Yeah, we gonna talk. Hold on, hold on. I know y'all were talking about it. Cat Williams with, We going back to that? But no, did you get to see Monique? Yeah, we just talked about it. I was about to bring that back up though, because Monique said something about, what's that, Monique, the one that she did, what's the her job? Parkers. What do you want mama to join? Well, I want to join that one. That's a fraternity, they're only interested in men. Good, so am I. Parkers, she said, and I thought it was good, she said she made $55,000 right there in episode. And she was mad about it. Is that good, so I'm asking you, is that bad? That was bad, because schedule, well at that time, I schedule left. Schedule left when I was doing scandal. And I got arrested? You came and sat with me in a holding cell for hours. I owe you. I think I was making $75,000 a week. But that's a way after, Parkers. But $75,000 a week is scheduled left, that's the lowest they can pay you as a lead. Oh, we didn't know. As a lead, that's the lowest you can get paid for the first three seasons. I'm not sure how many seasons the Parkers had. They did a lot, they did a lot. After the third season, you can renegotiate based on the success of the show. That's where people go from $75,000 a week to $750,000 a week. You gotta help me a little bit, bro. So whatever happened after the third season, I mean, if they kept her at that number, that's ridiculous. But you gotta help me on this because I know people, when you sign these contracts, when you deal with these deals, is it something you can't negotiate? Not negotiable where $75,000 when you renegotiate. It's just like the NBA. First three, you signed them for three seasons. Correct. Boom, on your rookie contract. When the third season is, that was another thing that was happening too. When on the scandal, my third season, that next fourth season, I was about to be on some friends' cash, like friends looking like Matthew Perry out here. You know what I'm saying? I was about to be looking like Charlie Sheen out here. Okay. Or minus the tire's blood. So I was about to be making some heavy money. Right. And I think that scared some people, but nonetheless, whatever, that was wrong. And they've wildly mistreated Monique. I hate it.  She's so talented. And because she tells the truth, they scared, they hated it. What do they hate? Voiced just black people.  What'd they tell LeBron?  Shoot.   Excuse me? So, you know what I mean? I think now it's the cat said this right, 2024 is a year of the truth. Well, tell the truth.     But then reinvent yourself. That's real. You know, reinvent yourself.  And educate yourself. And stay educated. Have to, could be a consummate student. Kobe taught me that. You know, we're never too old to study. We have to be learning every day. In this generation, do you see more and more people talking about, talking out, could even with Taraji. Taraji spoke out about it as well. Yeah, because they're feeling safer. But there, some people, there's two sides of this. There's people just clout chasing. All right? I just want to say something just to, you know, Cassidy got that 30 million out of me. Now, everybody telling on story. Girl, that happened in 1972. You just now, you talking about what? Big daddy came, they do, you know, and it now drives through in Los Angeles 1978. You know what I'm saying? Like, okay, like we, we, come on, man. But you know what I'm saying? But there's no statute on certain things.   But the stuff that is relevant is you got to, we don't know what kind of recovery that happened.  Are your kids, are your family members because of some damages that's been happening to you? You know, sometimes the only freedom is to speak. Wow. But bullying come apart too, because then yes, you, you have that freedom now with your family, but then if you're a person that look on social media and read these comments and stuff like that, then. That's where you got to be thick skinned.  Right? So, you know, that's why I don't read, sometimes I read the comments, sometimes I don't want one. Yeah, cause you respond. Yo, I come, I clap, I clap back. I'm like, Katie, clap back. I clap back. He giving something, mommy. He giving it, he giving it. You know, if I'm feeling froggy, I might leap out there, you know what I'm saying?  And like, what the reviews are, what's Ebert going to see? You say, you know what I mean? What's the back when Siskel was a little, I was like, what's Siskel and Ebert going to say? And they say, if you're going to read the positive ones, you got to read the bad ones too. Or not, don't read them at all. So people got comments, you know, with comments people, I advise everybody, whether you're famous, whether you're not, be easy on the comments. And people be easy on people that are in the public eye, that post, be easy on what you say in the comments because a lot of people out here wouldn't be able to stand out here for two seconds without being broke down to their first molecule. No, that's so true, man.  I appreciate that. I see you on 2B, to be honest with you, it pushes that platform up because your acting ability is so real, bro. And I don't care, that's a great point. Bro, you a beast, man. That's a good point. I told, you know, whether I'm on 2B, whether I'm on... No matter where you at. I have to do, once they say action, I have to do my job. You a beast, bro? I have to do my job. I'm telling you. Yeah, man, I just... If it wasn't, I'd be real with you. You really bring it.  Is he underrated? Yeah. Yes. Well, whether underrated, at least maybe I'm rated, could be rated, I'm gonna continue to do good work. You killed it. And, you know, that's the blessing of it all. You know, growing up in this business, I am a master of my craft in filmmaking, television. And so now, it's like, I'm making it. I'm not calling nobody, you know, waiting on, sitting in my house, waiting for somebody to call me with my phone or send me a script. I've been due diligence. My due diligence has been on point. I mean, I've been writing. I've been, I have a full slate of film, television, partnering with strategic, strategic partnering with financiers and big money backers that I'm making my own movies and putting other talent, putting other talented artists in position to be successful and giving them shots because, you know, damn the gatekeepers that they don't... We on boss talk one on one. One on one.


Hi, my friends call me Lyme and do you notice anything different? I'm not sure if you do, but I've been moving house. So, this is what you had to say about mastering your genuineness part 2. Richard Santiago says, Well, keep up the great work seems like almost, almost. Everything you have done so far turns to gold to keep up the great content. Hashtag Lyme Army. I do actually have the mission to provide my army with arguments as opposed to preaching to the choir on my channel. So, I actually like the hashtag Lyme Army thing. Gaiman Ryan says, Wow, that script was unnoticeable. Thanks for the genuineness tip line. That was exactly what I was going for, so thank you very much. And then Helix Brightstar says, You can usually tell when a host has not ever even read the script in practice before shooting. Reading aloud the script in rehearsal gives a host a good sense of how to present the subjects most effectively, similar to thinking before speaking to accurately choose one's words for maximum impact and to convey a clear message. I could not have said it better myself. The panderous says, Once upon a time I used to have some trouble appearing genuinen while reading off a script. However, I got better at it and now I'm okay, I think. Practice, practice, practice. Agreed, agreed, agreed. Heal please heal says, When it comes to being genuinen, I always go off the idea that a script will never portray that. I feel a genuinen personality is what attracts others and is what sets you apart. And then later he types that Sorry Lime, I don't want to go against the idea of reading a script, but for me, reading or memorizing or remembering lines doesn't display my personality as that has to come from me alone. That's my tips. Now I see where you're coming from and I certainly agree that genuinen personalities attract. I do however want to add that there are a lot of people who every day communicate their genuineness well while reading scripts. I think I did a good job with it for example. And I would actually argue that sometimes you might be less genuine while reading from a script. But I, for example, struggle to phrase myself when I don't have a script and I tend to start to stutter and I tend to not get the idea. I tend to not find the words that I'm looking for. I'm actually trying it right now, not reading from a script. And it takes away the flow and I'm forcing myself to like focus every time, all the time on how to phrase myself and how and struggle to find the words and stuff like that. And that takes away from the genuineness and that takes away from the personality. So my point is that I sometimes have trouble conveying my thoughts that are in here and therefore I need to give myself time to phrase myself and that's when I write a script. So the point is that we're all different. Some people need a script to give personality and give genuineness while others work better when they just let the words come naturally. Now, straightforward action says, okay, let's say that you master your lines and it sure takes a while. Then you just tired to say the same thing. Subscribers might get tired of it. Then you decide to write a new script to practice again. The process gonna repeat over and over again, making it feel so tiresome and annoying trying to master all of that. Do you feel the same? So I think that is a common misconception that working with a script takes a lot more effort than improvising. I've led an improvisation acting group and sometimes people come there thinking that an improvised show takes a lot less preparation and a lot less training compared to a scripted show and that could not be further from the truth. It takes equal amount of preparation and work. It's just that it's different. For example, if you write a script, then you can choose your words carefully and plan your performance. But then of course you'll have to work on remembering those lines and work on being genuine. However, if you improvise, then you'll have to make up quality content and delivery on the spot within seconds. You have no opportunity to rehearse this, which means that it might not be as well phrased or well delivered as it could have been. And so to do this well, then you have to put a lot of work into gaining and sustaining a certain set of skills and you have to put a lot of concentration in front of the camera. So now to answer your question, if I feel like I get tired of the lines, I actually feel like every time that I remember my lines a little bit more and the more I read my lines, the more I get to play around with them and have fun with them. It's like I get better at them, so I kind of level up. I have though experienced getting tired of lines, but that was after like a month of rehearsal and after like the 10th show and after such a time, I think the delivery is kind of in your muscle memory. So I'm not sure how noticeable it is. And if it is noticeable, then you just have to go back and remember why you cared in the first place. So I hope that this gave you some answers. Thank you for watching. I'll see you in the next video. Bye.


Let us play the game to one leo nani nandoo machine We see So we are eating today as well Ok, not eating We are playing with food So first of all What you mean you are playing with food? We sanitize our hands So we have some candy here We have candy here And then we have our Tamblas So this candy is in different colors You know there is green, there is blue There is orange, there is pink There is brown, there is yellow So the thing is We want to see After 30 seconds If you are putting Blue in this So you can pick any color Whichever you want So long as So long as And then you have to distribute them I think it should be one minute Not 30 seconds So that you can do all three So how many We have several So red, pink, blue, brown, orange, yellow and white So where do you decide So you decide Where do you decide But if you compare to different colors So let's do one minute So we sanitize So we sanitize So we sanitize So we sanitize So we have sanitized our hands So So lady first No no we doing together So what is the problem I don't know We have to do it together We have to do it together So we have to do it together I have set the timer In 3, 2, 1, go You ready 2. 28. So... Kwa na gafi? O ma sa hao? Ya. I have... I have blue. I have green. Can ya green? I have green. I have blue. And I have yellow. I have brown. I have red. And... Green. Then I have green. So zamguza green ni. Six. Ni six. One, two, three. So, is it? Ya, so achatu on ya total. Si uli ko si uli sa oma si una steli kwa na. Please, leave me alone. Six plus. This is also six. Six. Plus, he's in a mob. There is one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Yes, I have to confirm. No, one, two ladies lie a lot. One, two, three, four, five, six. Seven. Kada wu wanya sabu zi. Yes. Eh, it's 20. Waba, you really need to do the same. Ya, na juni ni mefanya ni wuna danganya wame hesitit. Wulkwant kakuni ni bie. Likwana ni bie. Wulkwant kakuni ni bie. Ya, count za. Lakin ni za kon ni mingi. Ya, pa na actually ni less. No, za kon ni mingi. But I want it brown ni. So, my total ni 20. So brown ni one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, it's nine. Ya, nine. Nakuwa mi mi ya? Nine plus. No. Red ni one, two, three, four, five, six, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Oh, you already have more than one. Ya, ni lefa ya sabu ni kitchaguwa. Green, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, ya. Lefa ya sabu ni kitchaguwa. 23. Nata, 22. Yes, that's a lot. Juni ni yungi sa kikengi ni yungi. Four. So, turudi say we do it again. But now don't pick the same colors that you picked. But I feel like it will be biased. Ita kuwa biased. Do you mean to tell what you use, Juni? Ya. No, akuna kuchaguwa iso. I mean to tell what you use. Ya, usi kuchaguwa iso ni yungi kwa na. So, do not pick the same colors that you had. You need to pick different colors. But now you see the problem is, on top of my head, me, now I know every every. That is all I'm saying. Ita kuwa biased because we know that green, brown, and, is it yellow? Ya, yellow. Ita do mobe. Ya, zas. Aya. Ha, Funga macho sasa. Sawa basi, trufanya kama tumufuna macho. Funga macho. Tutazi. Tcha trufanya kama. Hezeri. Ya, aya, aya. Usi. Si ni ni? Ume ka tema, Uje ka tema. Aa okay. Ten seconds. Yes, let's do ten seconds. So, one kapo, three kapps or whichever. So long as trufuna me ta kuna mingi. Kala zi ni ni mobe? Ah. Ati kana mingi ndach kuwa kikimkono, Kia Lini isdu mok이다 Baja mata mata 10s Herib ni makucha za �ko Mata ma joining Angel Nga ingii ni. Haaumish mata mo calling two Kwe k polit Treat I have three. I have three. This is Shiko Esabu. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. That is ten. This one is the main one. Excluding one. Excluding one. So I have two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen. Sixteen plus ten. So I have two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve. Twelve plus. Twelve. Thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty. Twenty-two. Twenty-four. Twenty-six, eight. Thirty. No, no, many, many more. This one is for you. Is it for me? Yes, it is for me. They can't, they can't even hurt a client. They can't even hurt a client. So yes, that's the game. You can make it as interesting as you want it to be. So we want to sample a few comments that we have on our social media handles. Yes. So we have a few comments on Instagram. We have a Twitter. Yes. So we have both John and Samma, watching from Umbasa. Please play for me, brother. We buy Masaoti na kanyi palen na kucheki na kumuranga town. We have who else? Karol, Pia and Kupale na Tcheki J. Potmore na Samma. To Tezeo Walaihi. Kanambo Dede. Uko LD wa Kondakas Mbaya. Racha Joseph Pia na kucheki na Samma. Nisa 45% hit. 45% hit? So okay. We have Fella na Samma. Tuning live from Tassim. Mi misiku buy anything, but I used to my 1k to bet with her. Not come often to 4k. Guess what? Kalinyoom. I want to only talk on the 1k. Fella pado na Samma. This one is a club bangana kacheka. So I think he's using Sakazin. Na J-rock na Samma. Kulit na J-rock. Nili buy earphones 500 bob. Bana asaran. But I think they should cost 500. Good. Like in the next 2 months I'm going to fail working. 500 bob. 500 bob. Okay, I don't know. Jukubu ataka bitu zila sana. I think zina kostegia from around. 1000. It's supposed to be from 3k kupanda. Okay. Tundin. Tundin kiyomwingi alafu deshkencheze. Wuma ni haki utile. Na harmonize. If you keleze haki wakituwi. Kiyomwingi simpata na tumaramoza. Kotwa apokarebo. Kwa question mi tiki tulunuwa. Ikawest dozango ni 4k. Na, ikapwatea. We pin 1k. Ya sorry. Ogani. Tundin from kericho. Xtrip. This song is kind of dope. But it has no moral lesson at fault. Thank you. Same to Eve. Na comrade pro max. Na say ma morning farm kofaimimi nili. Bayi vest na si tawaii ibadati. Kwa ni? Kwa tangu lastia? Kwa ni vestil kwa psangapi? Vestil ni so tati kianda sana. Dokta. Mg. Mg. Na say ma na opata. Viya ma ni kiyomwani kolanya. Atapara teso ni teso. Nozal sub county. Then we have someone on Instagram. Na ona. YBOB. Na say ma mdura. Wei mdure. Hai fili on that part. Racha Joseph. Na kuona Santos Joseph. Wei nili. Atawiki moja. Ikuisha. Uduka break up. Uduku memnulia. Miambili si lingeria. It's cities. Kwanzaia camera. Mutush. How can you buy mutu inaweia? Ni cheka. Karibu ni chelewe. Ulu kuona chelewa kwa ni ni. Tuna kuona sana. Welcome. Mi misikununua. Nili chorata. Nili chakaku futa after now. Sorry. Sorry about that. That iyo ita huma for the rest of your life. But you can choose to. Tundin from Tassia. Mi misikuana anything. We had read that one. Then we have a few on our Facebook page. Tuna una. Anto Jeff. Ita nini. Ita nda iwo iba kikuwa family. Okay. It is what it is. It is what it is. Iw. Leo nesh kei amekusinda ume band. Thank you. Kwa gama kwa tiktok. Kwa gama tuna juwa. Kwa tiktok piya na kwa game piya. I'm doing it today. Alright, so that's about it. I think you have some more. Yes, kuna moza ito. Enrica atakan gama ya Professor Amo. Heo mpiya, yes nimi. Chikena Lincoln. Nasa ma Eve, okay. Bena kei na kucheki piya na chiki jiwi li. Moremi. Nasa ma shu ikumotosa na Eve looking lovely. Thank you. Salute to Dzenesh. Bikshata yu. Nasa ma Lockton County Zero Twenty. Chiza mimi unconditional love by Aro Boy if he came a rib. Nahu yosiyo hako ukosyo ajama. Mm hmm. Yeah. Alright, so we do a few songs. A few songs and then tukafungi. Tukafungi. Our time is almost out. Let's do this.