If you guys are anything like me, at all, then you probably enjoy analyzing movies and shows and whatnot for any sort of deeper themes and meanings that they may have. Sci-Fi is a very good genre in which to do this, meaning that as much as you're to look at a sci-fi film or show and try to extrapolate whatever meaning the showrunners or filmmakers want there to be.   So I'm not saying that you have to, like, and enjoy movies to understand deeper meanings every time, but it is a lot of fun to go into, at least for me. So with that all in mind, today, let's take a look at the movie Minority Report. Minority Report was released in 2002, I think? If I'm wrong, that's gonna appear somewhere on the screen, but it's based off the short story by the same name. The movie follows John, something or other, played by Tom Cruise. The basic plot of the film is that John gets blamed or basically framed somehow for a crime that he hasn't yet committed, and he is basically trying to prove that he's not going to commit the crime or find out what the hell's going on with that. And the reason I say that he has been convicted or assumed that he's going to do a crime that he hasn't committed is because in this world, there are the Precogs, a group of three psychic children, basically, who are able to predict crime before it occurs. So an entire crime unit has existed for six years by the start of this film, known as the Pre-Crime Unit. Their entire job is to stop crime before it occurs. The only problem with this is that if you are stopping a crime before it happens, it doesn't happen. You have changed the course of history and you have changed the future. So what do you do because you have now altered that? This movie does take an interesting look into the idea of are we destined for some grand fate that we can't stop without the intervention of others, or are we able to change our future just based on information that we know is going to happen? And the movie actually takes a few interesting looks at this, more towards the beginning and end and how that changes over the course of this film. Earlier on in the film, we are introduced to a character played by Colin Farrell. He works for the FBI and is personally trying to figure out whether or not Pre-Crime is a good or bad thing for the rest of the United States, as they want to implement this across the country to eliminate murder. The thing is, the Precogs can only detect murder. The Precogs are unable to detect rape, theft, anything along those lines. The explanation for that being that murder is the most harmful act that one human can do to another. Though with that explanation, you would really think that something like rape would show up. But, I dug the rest, but Colin Farrell's character makes an argument. He says that if you stop a crime before it happens, does it actually happen? They counter the argument with, but it was going to and it always was. We know this for a fact because they saw it, but you are still changing the course of events. To try and further his point, John picks up a ball and rolls it across the table. Colin Farrell catches it before it hits the ground and he says, why did you catch it? When he responds with, because it was going to hit the ground, he says, hmm, but how do you know? You stopped it from happening, which is his basic argument. You know the trajectory for what is going to occur, so stopping it from happening doesn't mean that it wouldn't have occurred if you didn't interfere. The argument here being something along the lines of a predestination type of deal, where your event is always going to occur unless something somehow interacts to directly stop it from occurring. Now, the other side of this is, are you able to stop events by yourself if you know that they are going to occur? And that is actually what the rest of the movie, after the preceding incident, basically tries to answer. Like I said, the preceding incident with the film is that John gets seen by the precogs doing a crime that he would never do to someone he doesn't know. Then John runs away from pre-crime because he would never commit a crime like this. He doesn't even know the guy, why would he murder him? Which is interesting to me because at the beginning of the film, he seems to have such a conviction that the precogs are never wrong and have never made a wrong prediction in their entire lives. Yet his immediate reaction upon being accused is, goes out of his way to find the person that basically helped invent, kind of found basically, the precogs to find out if the system is in fact fallible.  I'm sorry, just the levels of almost hypocrisy from John at this moment kind of blew my mind. Like his first response was an, oh, guess I'm gonna go quietly because I literally have witnessed myself doing the murder and this is a system that I wholeheartedly and infallibly have trusted up to this point. No, his first response is, find the person that helped make the precogs and helped prove my innocence. Yeah, but after that moment, after he does the whole, I will prove it, I'm innocent thing and goes on the run, but he eventually ends up kidnapping one of the precogs to help him, the most powerful of the three, Agatha. From here, the movie takes a different turn. Agatha is constantly telling John that he can change his future. He can change the way things are going to play out. He can change the course of all everything. She pleads with him not to do the crime that she thinks he's going to do, that he believes he's destined to perform. She begs him not to shoot this guy. And in the end, he doesn't.  He changes his own history and changes the course of his future through his own will because he doesn't want to be that person.  The end of the movie also helps reinforce this idea. The guy who basically framed John, who started the whole pre-crime thing, he is found out to have murdered someone using the system to his advantage. And in the end, John basically tells him, you have to shoot me and prove that your system works 100% infallibly every time, or don't shoot me and prove that it's not so infallible and it can't totally be trusted. And the guy takes the route of killing himself as opposed to John. It was a powerful moment, but it also kind of takes my account and you can change how your destiny, how your future is supposed to play out if you know what is going to occur. I personally view this film as saying that you can take and do with your future what you want. Don't let others tell you what you can and cannot do. Your future is what you want to do with it. No one else can tell you how you are supposed to live your life or how you are supposed to act. It is a powerful message for me as someone who, for the longest time, I had this idea that I had to act a certain way. I had to basically go down this route of following my father's footsteps, join the Coast Guard, become a lawyer, something along those lines, or get a normal job, do what society typically expects of me. I grew up in a time before content creation and YouTube was a possibility or even an avenue. I never even considered making movies or films prior to this. But when I was about 16, I found a love of filmmaking, of prop building, filming videos, editing things. And I can just follow that for the past year and a half of just doing videos.  No one else has to control it or take it from you and force you down a certain path that you don't want to go on is extremely reassuring and I love that message oh so very much. And if you take anything away from this, it's that my personal opinion on the film is that the message is you can do whatever you want with it and that's how I've always viewed the film. You can do whatever you want with your life.  Do what you want. Okay, that got a little more philosophical towards the end that I meant it to. But back to the themes. Basically, the themes that I've always taken away from this are be who you want to be. Don't let others control what you want to do with your life. No matter how your life seems to be going, you have a chance to make it better, make yourself better. Put yourself on a path that is different from what society or anyone else expects of you.  Don't let anyone force you to be someone you're not because that is not living to your true self or being who you want to be. And that is not a fun way for anyone to live and I don't think anyone should be forced to live that way. Well, that video was different and a little more philosophical than I initially intended it to be. Yep. Anyway, guys, I hope that you enjoyed that video. If you did watch all the way to the end, thank you very much. I know this is a little bit different content than I've put on my channel, but I like analytical breakdowns of things and so I wanted to do an analytical breakdown of a movie that I greatly, greatly enjoy. If you do watch all the way to the end, hi, thank you very much. I hope that you enjoyed the entirety of this video. If you want to follow me on social media, links to both my Twitter and Instagram will be in the links down below. 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Another big aspect of this backgrounding decision and execution is trying to figure out how to keep these calves healthy and minimize the risks that we're going to have from some disease or some death loss or some illness in our weaning pens. And so joining me also on tonight's program is Dr. Carl Dahlin. He's our state beef specialist at North Dakota State University. He's located in Fargo and he's going to talk to us a little bit about what we can do at this stressful time of weaning to maybe prepare our calves and to get them adjusted so we have less problems and less risk. So Carl, I just ask you, we've got some social and we've got nutritional and we've got environmental stressors that all come at weaning. What are we going to do to kind of minimize those that might at least minimize some of our risk of illness or sickness in these calves? Yeah, and that's a great question, John. And with all those stresses combined at weaning, the first question that we need to ask is what are our capabilities and this varies from operation to operation, but what are our capabilities to actually spread that stress out? And so we look at things like if weaning is associated with going out to a remote pasture and taking these calves away from their moms and putting them on a truck and putting them in a new pen and everything at the same time, is it possible that your pairs actually need to come closer to home? That's a viable option. You know, the other thing in terms of the stress with weaning, so we remove a calf from its dam, so that's an immediate social bond that's kind of broken there, and then we also have a change of diet, change of environment. So is there a way that we can block those out a little more? So there's strategies of fence line weaning where these calves would have access to the social aspect of their dams on an opposite side of the fence and obviously we limit the milk access at that point in time, but it does spread that stress out. Another option along those lines is to look at little plastic nose clips, the kind of anti-suckling devices, and again, so that calf can be there, can have that social bond with its mother the entire time, it just can't drink that milk. Another thing that comes back to all these stresses happening at the same time, if there is castration or dehorning that still needs to be done, let's spread that out away from our weaning, so we're not putting that stress on top of the diet changes and those type of activities. Another thing from a social side, when we're dealing with commingling of calves, and this has a little bit to do with starting calves on feed, commingling of calves creates a new dynamic in the social hierarchy, so we've got calves who didn't know each other before, all of a sudden we're putting those groups together, all of those animals have to go through and figure out who's dominant and who's submissive, that type of thing. So if we can avoid commingling at that point in time, that is best. Now, if we do get into situations where we have to commingle, then we can get into some preconditioning strategies that are almost necessitated at that point in time when we do have new calves. When we think about it, if a calf has got an immune challenge or a challenge of some sort and every group of animals has those challenges, putting this calf with a new calf that's got his other set of challenges, now all of a sudden the whole group is exposed to those type of challenges. And from an environmental standpoint, if we've got all of these calves in a very tight area, that can create, again, just more exposure, so can we spread those calves out, can we get them very comfortable, talk about bedding, talk about clean water and palatable feed? You know, you bring out some real good points and of course the one of them is, you know, with calves losing his main nutritional source, should we be giving them a little supplemental feed? Does creep feeding ahead? Those have just got to be a little bit beneficial if they fit our system of doing things, right? Yeah, absolutely. You know, creep feeding, again, what we're doing when we're weaning, especially if you can put the same type of feed that you're putting in a creep feeder, we can have that for that calf in a bunker or maybe a creep feeder in the pan or a little pasture that he's in after weaning. Anything that we can do to have some type of similarity from his pasture conditions when he was with his mother to now being weaned, I recognize this feed, you don't have that delay in intake as a result. Weaning is usually kind of by calendar for most of us, you know, we like to get our calves weaned the third week in October, right before deer season or whatever date that is that fits when we calf. We don't control the weather. What we do have a little control over age of calf. Give us a little thoughts on weather and when we maybe need to just say the weather's not going to be fit and if age of calf has any real impact, should we let them get a little older? Young weaning, okay. We'll start with the weather. You know, if a beautiful day like today, it might be 60 degrees outside and we don't start to think about the fact that we can have cold stress. The biggest enemies of cattle in terms of weather, cold, wind and moisture and any combination of those three can add up to be really, really dangerous, especially when you have a calf that's already stressed because of the weaning process. And so when we think about when to do things, we can look at our forecast. I know that we've weaned on Thanksgiving every year as far as I can remember because the kids are home on that Friday. We got more help. So if we've got a big weather front that's coming in and we know that we're going to have wet sloppy conditions, that's not the best time to wean. So if we can go ahead and then if we know weather is coming and we still have to wean, we can take some active steps to do that. The biggest thing we need to do is we need to keep the wind off our calves. So if we're in an area where we don't have some type of shelter belt or barn for those cattle to get into, certainly put up windbreaks to block that wind, provide good clean bedding for those calves to get in and get dry. So that's kind of the weather thing. In addition, if we start to have stress and we start to have weather, and our cattle are in confinement or close quarters, that's that much more exposure to any pathogens that those calves have. So kind of reiterating your answer or the answer to the first question, spread those calves out, get them some space, and that can certainly help in incremental weather. The other side of that question, you are asking about the age of calf. Now as a whole, age of calf in terms of an immune response or that type of aspect doesn't have a really big impact in terms of their susceptibility to diseases at that point. What is more of a concern is that the younger calves are typically relying on a higher proportion of their nutrients coming from milk from their mother. And so for a younger calf who's relying more on milk from its mother compared with an older calf who may not be getting as much milk, the dietary change in that young calf is much greater, more of a concern compared with the dietary change of that old calf. He was only drinking a little milk. He's just got to go on to that diet. So it's not quite the same concept of those two ages of calves. There's undoubtedly going to be some stress and we'll do the things we can to minimize it in handling in an environment and nutrition and stuff. But we've got to have our calves prepared to have strong immune systems. And I think the immune system gets built up by good nutrition and a good vaccination program. You've got a few things that we should probably think about in those regards. So we've got these calves with good functioning immune systems when the stress hits. Yeah, and so again, it has to do with a preemptive approach. There's scenarios where calves get weaned, they haven't had any shots and they get weaned and we run them through or maybe they get weaned and they haven't had any vaccinations and we give the vaccine sometime after that. What we want to do is preemptively prepare our cattle to deal with that stress and to deal with these challenges. So the best way to go about doing that is to go off the label, go in before we wean these calves, give these vaccinations, read the label recommendations two to three weeks before that weaning event that gives the immune system time to prepare for that next shot, which is a booster shot. We can go ahead and give that shot at weaning or slightly thereafter and we have a much better immune response. When we have all of the stresses combined at the same time, giving a vaccine at that same time quite frankly is ineffective in some cases. Back to these palatable rations, we've got to be able to get feed that these calves recognize. It really helps if they've seen it before. What that means typically, these cattle have been out on grass, some of the best grass haze that you have to get those cattle up and eating on those rations, putting in new feedstuffs. Many of these calves have never seen fermented feedstuffs before. Put those components in gradually, allow their function to transition to new types of diets, will certainly pay dividends. One of the biggest things that people can overlook is our water sources. Water is an essential nutrient for our cattle. It needs to be a clean water source. If you've got fountains out there and these pens that we're backgrounding in, sometimes calves have never seen a water fountain. How do we get a calf who's never seen a water fountain to drink from it? If we've been used to drinking from streams or those type of things, sometimes we have to make slight adjustments so that we can hear the water trickle into the fountain or something that reminds that calf or lets him know that this is water source, I need to go here to have a drink. The other thing, you know, if illness does happen, we need to be prepared to take corrective action and take corrective action right away. We know that the sooner we can treat sick calves, the better their response is, the better their recovery is, so the earlier we can catch those calves, the better off we'll be. Well, hopefully those producers are going to go into the backgrounding and handle their cattle well. Do these steps like you've suggested to, you know, take some of the stress levels down and prepare the calves a little better. We thank you for joining us on our backgrounding program. If you've got any last thoughts, you're welcome to share them with us as we wrap up this section.  How can we go ahead, spread that stress out, do everything we can to get a maximum immune readiness in these cattle and then treat them right, and they'll pay big dividends in the future. Thanks, Carl.


Hello everyone. I'm Dr. Shantin Banerjee. I'm a third year radiology resident of Neelratam-Sarkar Medical College in Hospital Kolkata. Today, I'm going to talk about Moyamoya syndrome, secondary to sickle cell anemia, a case report. Introduction. Sickle cell disease may be complicated by Moyamoya syndrome and intracranial angiopathy, defined by stenoclusion of terminal portion of internal carotid arteries and development of collateral vessels called Moyamoya vessels. Ischemic stroke is the most frequent cerebrovascular consequence of this angiopathy, but haemorrhagic event can also occur. Moyamoya syndrome can even be found in sickle cell trait patients, but has a rare neurological complication, but it is found more in sickle cell disease patients. Conventional angiography can perform to diagnose and evaluate the Moyamoya angiopathy, but brain magnetic resonance angiography or MRA appears as a non-invasive alternate method. Now, we come to the clinical history of our patient, a 20-year-old male patient presented to the Neuromedicine OPD of our hospital with complaints of multiple episodes of GTCS. He was a known case of seizure disorder for the last four years with recent poor compliance with his prescribed antiepileptic medications. There was no associated fever, vomiting, photophobia, neck stiffness or vision problems. There was no significant family history other than hypertension. He had no history of any previous surgical intervention. The laboratory findings were as follows. The hemoglobin was 7.2 gram per dl, hematocrit, 24%. Total ecocide count was 9,200 per cubic millimeter. Britlite count, 2,16,000 per cubic millimeter. Mean corpuscular volume was 105 fL. Ceramel-DH was 478 iU per liter. The peripheral smear showed findings suggestive of sickle cell anemia, and hence hemoglobin electrophoresis was suggested. The hemoglobin electrophoresis showed 92% HBS, 6% HBF and 2% HBA2. Now we come to the imaging findings for patients. The AP and lateral radiograph of the skull shows diffusely thickened calvaria with expanded diploid spaces. The periventricular and deep white matter hyper-intensities are noted on the T2 flare sequences. Multiple flow voids were noted in bilateral thalamine and lentiform nuclei. Thin linear serpentine flow voids were noted in the basal systems. On MR angiographic sequence, multiple thalamostriate and leptomanangeal collaterals are noted. Bilateral distal ICA shows stenosis. The posterior cerebral arteries appear prominent. The MIP MR angiography images shows multiple tortuous Moyamoya-like collaterals between anterior and posterior circulations. Bilateral distal ICA shows stenosis. The imaging picture gives us a diagnosis of Moyamoya disease and the blood picture gives us sickle cell disease. Thus we come to the final diagnosis of Moyamoya syndrome secondary to sickle cell disease in our patient. Now coming to the discussion, Moyamoya syndrome also termed as the Moyamoya pattern or phenomenon is due to numerous conditions that can cause arterial occlusion of the circle of willis with resulting collaterals and appearances reminiscent of Moyamoya disease. The Moyamoya-like vascular collaterals can be seen in the following conditions. The idiopathic Moyamoya disease, vessel wall abnormalities such as atherosclerosis, radiation induced vasculopathy, fibromuscular dysplasia, Marfan syndrome, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, fecomatosis like neurofibromatosis 1 and tuberosclerosis, connective tissue disorders like SLE and APLA, blood discretions like sickle cell disease, polycythemia rubravera and others such as Trisomy 21 and Graves disease. Sickle cell disease is an autosomal recessive hemoglobin disorder. It's a qualitative hemoglobinopathy resulting from a structural change in the sequence of amino acids on the beta-globin chain of hemoglobin molecule due to a point mutation. It is characterized by hemoglobin polymerization, erythrocyte stiffening and subsequent vaso-occlusion. Children with sickle cell disease present with a wide variety of neurological syndromes including ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke, transient ischemic attacks, soft neurological signs, seizures, headache, coma, visual loss, altered mental status, cognitive difficulties and covert or silent infarction. Sickle cell disease is the most common worldwide cause of childhood stroke. Damage to the endothelium of small vessels with progressive fibrosis, narrowing and eventually occlusion at the end result of SCD vasolopathy. A Moyamoya-like pattern with supra-clinoid ICS stenosis may develop, especially with severe sickle cell disease. The phenomena subsequently referred to as the Moyamoya disease was first described in 1957 by Takiyuchi and Shimizu. The name is Japanese and is descriptive of the angiographic appearance of the collateral vessels being reminiscent of a puff of cigarette smoke and was coined by Suzuki and Takaku in 1969. Moyamoya disease is an idiopathic progressive arteriopathy characterized by stenosis of the distal supra-clinoid ICS and formation of an abnormal vascular network at the base of the brain. Multiple enlarged telangiectatic, lenticulostriate, thalamocorporating, leptomaninjil, doodle and pylartaries develop as compensatory circulation. Moyamoya disease is most prevalent in Japan and Korea where its estimated incidence is 0.35 to 0.54 per 100,000 people. Moyamoya disease has two peak ages of presentation, two-third of all cases occur in children. Between one-fourth and one-third of all cases are seen in adults with a peak age of 50 years. Moyamoya-like collateral vessels, however, can also develop with any slowly progressive arteriopathy which affects the major intracranial arteries. In Moyamoya syndrome, stenoclosive changes in the main cerebral arteries and decrease in cerebral perfusion pressure results in neurovascularization and formation of fine network of collaterals. The collaterals show evidence of stress related to increased flow, including combination of fragmented elastic lamina, thinned media in the vessel wall and the presence of micronurizums. These findings help to explain why some patients present with hemorrhage. The vessels also often collapse due to lumen thrombosis causing ischemic symptoms. Cerebral angiography is a gold standard of diagnosing Moyamoya disease and its progression. When combined with catheter angiography, MR angiography was still found to be robust and when combined with MRI, the sensitivity and specificity were found to be 92% and 100% respectively. MRA being non-invasive and without the use of IV contrast agents, which persons with sickle cell disease are more susceptible have subsequently become a first-line diagnostic tool for diagnosis of Moyamoya. Now we come to the treatment. Drugs such as antiplatelet agents including aspirin are usually given to prevent clots but surgery is usually recommended. The surgical approaches to treatment include direct anestomosis, indirect procedures and combined therapies. In adults, external chided artery to middle cerebral artery anestomosis, that is ECAMC anestomosis can be performed as vessels are larger. One of the surgical options is the superficial temporal artery to middle cerebral artery bypass or the STAMC bypass. Indirect procedures include synangiosis involving placement of a vascularized tissue in the brain cortex in order to promote neo-angiogenesis. This type of procedure uses duramatter such as in edas, muscle tissue such as in edams or cranial periosteum. An alternative is to create multiple burrows to allow formation of local collateral.  While symptoms may seem to improve almost immediately after the indirect edas, edams and multiple burrhole surgeries it will take probably 6 to 12 months before new vessels can develop to give a sufficient blood supply. With the direct STAMC surgery increased blood supply is immediate. Coming to the conclusion of our paper children and young adults with sickle cell disease who develop Moyamoya syndrome are at a significant risk of recurrent strokes, seizures and poor neurologic outcomes. In our setting, screening for Moyamoya is not done regularly in patients diagnosed with sickle cell disease. Indeed, there are no protocols established worldwide for screening for this entity. Therefore, it stands to reason that the prevalence of Moyamoya syndrome in populations of sickle cell patients is not known. It is thus possible that a significant proportion of sickle cell disease patients have Moyamoya syndrome at the time of their first stroke or seizure. This case also serves to remind us of the utility of the combined MRI and MRA in the diagnosis of Moyamoya syndrome. These are the references which I have used in this paper of mine. Thank you.


Hi guys. Oh, I thought I had someone watching but I guess not I'm just gonna wait for like a couple minutes Just to see who pops on here hi Jal J Jalil Jaleel Jaleel. Oh my gosh. Hi guys. Thanks for jumping on here with me I actually made a list so I won't like run out of topics to talk about I don't know why it says zero viewers. Oh, no, there's actually four people watching um and now five people so Um, if you guys have questions feel free to like ask and stuff Pop because I'm no professional streamer whatsoever. So we're just gonna like chat here Um, oh now it's five. Yes Thank you so much for Jumping on and joining me. So I guess the first thing I want to talk about um Is about asian lives and The craziness that happened in atlanta. Hi, i'm from france. Hi. Thanks for joining. Um, Welcome to my channel if you're new but right now The times for like asian people in general is just like really crazy So I just kind of wanted to bring awareness to that especially me being asian and stuff You guys didn't know i'm chinese. I do look korean a lot of people say but um, I just thought that I should talk about um This subject real quick and it's really weird being live and knowing that I can't edit this It's like really I don't know it kind of gives me some anxiety But it's fine because I wanted to also be able to talk to you guys and since I never go live really um, I thought it would be cool to do this. Okay, so um If you guys didn't know I believe it was six women in an asian massage parlor Um got brutally murdered by some guy because I guess officials said that he um didn't I mean he was um a little I guess Like he was battling with a um Like addiction And he was trying to get I don't know. I don't know the cop said from what I've heard he was just having a bad day Well, I think we all have bad days, but we don't go around shooting people um, so clearly Do I think it was a race thing? Yes. Oh, hi, Christina. Thanks for joining. Do I think it was a race thing? Yes, but I don't Not all there, um, maybe he needs some help and stuff. Um But this goes into the race Conversation that we need to start having and I'm not trying to um Like make any light of it because it's very serious And I actually wanted to share a post with you guys And I know this might be a little bit longer, but this post just sums up everything that I personally um just think Really sums this up in a really good way. So, um, I'm just gonna read it and then I guess we'll change just I guess we'll change the subject, but um I want to also say that Yeah, like being asian like when I go out of the house like my parents are like, oh be careful and now I really have to be careful because Like I don't know who is going to have a certain viewpoint and it does make me nervous because I am Asian and it's obvious obviously um, so I am a little concerned about Like what might happen to me if I will or might get attacked Um, fortunately, I'm asian um, very not About asian town. I haven't experienced any recent covid related harassment. Yes Um, that's good. Oh my gosh and same here. I'm I'm happy that about that as well. I have been told to go Eat a bat though. Oh my gosh. That is horrible. Oh my gosh So, yeah, um, I know I'm just jumping all around here. But again, this is live. So, um Yeah, the whole you know virus, um That eat go eat bats and all of that that is horrendous and I think that um with previous leadership that we've had in our country If that is who is saying those things it is it was it's telling the american people that it's okay to say insensitive racial things like that that is completely Not okay in our society. Um Yeah, because that is just like blatant. That's crazy. I am so sorry. I believe your name's kate um that that happened to you. Luckily nothing's really happened to me and um for some of my work events I do have to go out and everything and there's um, a quite a bit of people there and I am nervous sometimes But I try to not Um make eye contact with people like if I get a vibe or something I don't know like if I'm in a certain area. I just like look I just don't make eye contact and then they I mean, I like put my head down and just like walk But that's just me in general. But especially now I don't want to talk to anyone necessarily. So, um I hope we see it change soon. Yes me too. Hello, Alex. So pleased to join you in my stream. Yes I'm so happy to have you here. Thank you for jumping on and saying hey Um, but right now I'm just going to share this post. I shared this on Insta no, yeah, I shared it on instagram. I shared it on my facebook page. Um I just think it's really important and um, I know this livestream I plan on staying here like an hour maybe and I am going to save this live stream So people can watch it back in the replay. So if you have to jump off of here, that's completely okay Um, I appreciate you for jumping on and supporting me. Um, but this is a post by yvonne scott um shackle 10 and um, here is her, um What is this? Uh, this is her facebook. I just want to give her credit where credit's due um, so anyway, um So she says picture this you're the only little asian kindergartener in a class of white kids sitting on the rug for story time and granted I went to a predominantly Caucasian school when I Was in elementary grade school all of that. Um, and So I kind of relate to this in a way um for The second part of my middle school into high school. I went to an art school. So, um, hey pretty lady. Hi Thanks for joining.  That's what your dad looks like Followed by a mean followed by mean laughing Cue the pulling of the outer corners of their eyes so they can pretend to be asian That's just horrible and um apparently that has happened to me I don't remember it, but it hurt my feelings and my parents told me that that had happened to me when I was in elementary school And in the meantime, you just sit there knowing that you're not chinese and wondering why they're calling you chinese as if it's a bad thing And also picturing your handsome caucasian dad wishing the other kids weren't making fun of him thinking he looks like some goofy character caricature so, um Yeah, I was I was kind of moved by this as well because even though I am At least we think I am full chinese. Um, I Definitely associate myself more american chinese like i'm a chinese american because I was raised by caucasian people And I don't know a lot about the culture and stuff Um, so I definitely kind of resonate with that um just for the fact that um Like my parents are white and everything if you can't imagine what it's like I can tell you firsthand your face gets red and hot and you're embarrassed because everyone is laughing at you And you're trying not to cry, but you're the only one who is different So then you think maybe there is something wrong and laughable about being different And no one listens and no one listens to you try to explain Where you're actually from and what your dad actually looks like and the tears slip out And the kids don't care that you're sad now.  I think we don't really reflect because I don't even remember doing that to my mom's I mean when I was in grade school and stuff But I guess it really did affect me as a child and I didn't even realize that so it's very important that we at least like take a bit of time to To really like Reflect on little things like books and everything like that This is why it matters that there are pictures in books that depict different races in negative or stereotypical ways Kids of all races deserve to be depicted in ways that they admit that make them feel proud of who they are Not in ways that mock their differences pulling The pulling of the seuss books isn't cancel culture. It's evolution It's making our brains think a little bit more about how those things in those books might affect the way we Are or the way we are thinking currently The sad little Asian girl inside me Is really grateful for those who understand and that's where the post ends and I think that is just a great way To kind of just sum all this up I know i'm not really necessarily talking about books, but that's just a really good Post about like, you know stereotypes and the race thing so Um Yeah, right now. I'm lucky that I haven't experienced any of that hate in Um our society, but right now, but um, I know there's a possibility My refrigerator just turned on so I'm sorry. Um, but yeah, that's kind of where Everything is um with my thoughts and feelings about that. Um, I think it's horrible and I think it's good that all of the stuff is bring being brought up into conversation Because for so long it hasn't been and there's so many people with different viewpoints and I don't idea a lot idea a lot idea Okay, that's making me sound like stupid, but I'm sorry ideologies. That's the word. Um Hi, the asm race racism is unfortunately true I'm In my country too.  Um, there's a lot of dundam Ignorance going around it's horrible because even though words aren't physically violent It promotes hate which leads to violence. Yeah, and unfortunately that's true and people can have their own opinion Okay, like you and I can disagree on things. That's fine but I mean when it comes to like hating and like violence, it's just not cool, you know um Oh, I've heard china lady in first grade With that iphone japanese.  Yes, that's a very real experience. Yes, that's so true Um, have or will you ever want to go back? Where they got you from if I may ask. Yes, I would love to just to see what it looks like and stuff I don't have a dreaming desire nor could really afford that right now in my life But if I got presented with the opportunity, of course, I would take it I think that'd be really cool and some of the girls that I got adopted with actually got to go back and um And see the orphanage and everything but the orphanage is like torn down now. So um Yeah Okay, so let's move on to the next topic which allow me to get my little list out here Um, let's talk about Let's talk about my injury because My arms are doing much better. It's still like really sore right here. It's just like sore. It's not like pain This one's almost like completely healed. It has been so nice taking the week off and um, I just I've been so happy with like everything um Just relaxing and stuff. Um, I think your body can get burned out and maybe that's just like what I was experiencing but Yeah, I've been taking it really easy. Haven't worked out one bit and I've been loving every minute of it. Just Just not having to do that. Um But it does feel weird because it's gotten into my routine It's just like my lifestyle now that it does feel weird not working out And it's almost like oh, I have to I don't know. It's weird to like cross it off my list of things to do But that leads me into what I'm planning on doing once Um after this week I am going to start running walking in my neighborhood. Obviously I will be carrying pepper spray because I don't I mean like, you know, there might be creepy creeper people And like if I don't feel safe then like I won't want to do it But I want to start running walking Um, I will not be getting up at you know, like 5 a.m. Or 6 a.m. To run because Even though it's going to be hot like I am not a morning person whatsoever Um, so that is what I plan on doing a plan running and that doesn't really like use my arms that much It's not like push-ups or like lifting weights or anything So that is kind of like where I'm at with like working out and what I want to do The next topic I wanted to kind of talk about While I still have some of you guys on here Okay, so if you guys watch or know of the dad challenge podcast Um, I don't know if you guys watch him but all on my list of like I don't know most watched channels That also watch your channel like watch him. So I was part of the like cancel family vloggers Group or whatever just to like see. I mean, I'm just like a nosy person like that um, so pretty much I just you know, looked at what people were saying and everything and I get kicked out of the group like I don't know. I think it's because like I follow like A handful of like family vloggers and like I guess that's one of the rules now So I'm like, okay, that's like a little weird. But I mean, it's not that big of a deal but I thought I would mention it here because I just think it's like really funny that I got kicked out of the dad challenge podcast group and then like I requested to join again and then It was like answer these questions and it wasn't like the questions that normally you answer like I don't know about him. I'm not about him, but about like the videos he does It was like do you promise not to follow any family vloggers and this that and the other I'm like, well, no I can't say that because like I watch some of them still and I enjoy some of their content so like I'm not um, I'm not like someone to like Be like a complete hater on someone But it's kind of sad that I got kicked out of the group because like I just I was just interested I kind of just like went there to like scroll and like look at what people were saying because there's some people that are just a little like A little too passionate about that. I mean like come on, you know Who isn't a nosy personality? Yeah, I'm I'm like really nosy and stuff like but I mean, I think I just got kicked out and I'm not gonna like request to join again because I'm just I mean, I'm not gonna promise to not follow any family vloggers like some of them I'm not gonna say we're friends, but we're like Good like acquaintances that I've followed them for a long time and they actually like live in Orlando and stuff So and I I mean I will support them just because I really and even in my other video I said that like I genuinely enjoy watching family vloggers So I mean whatever so I thought that was kind of funny My next little topic I wanted to talk about I'm wondering if you guys really like Like youtube memberships and patreon Like what are your thoughts on that? What's the issue with family vloggers? I love them. Yeah, I mean I I won't be educated. That's the biggest thing I can say about that That what their argument is is that kids are being exploited for money abuse, etc And yes, there's a lot that I will say yes, like that is true. Like there's nothing that goes against that but also like On like there's another side of it where I think that there's also a lot of child exploitation in other ways Um That you know other people like more people should be more aware of too I mean raising awareness about something is is good, but um when you like, I don't know Anyway, I just like watch them for like entertainment purposes. You know what I'm saying like Think that they're becoming exploited. You shouldn't be making money off of children Um that sort of thing. So that's their argument and to a degree and everything it is true um But I I mean I've even said in my video as well that I really I mean, I do want to put my kids online.  I mean, I don't think it's going anywhere anytime soon just because that's just how it goes um But thank you for that asking that because that is a good question um the next thing. Oh, yeah, so about YouTube um Memberships and patreon like what do you guys think about that? Would you like pay a couple bucks a month each month to support me as a creator and then like Get something for that like I just I don't know what you guys like or want I feel like I really need to be more in tune with what my audience wants And I know you guys really really like adoption content and everything um but Yeah, I don't know my channel is like a mess and I just do what I want and I think that reflects in my audience and everything because some of you guys come for different purposes And I think that's fine, but um Like what do you think about? um Those types of things like memberships patreon that sort of thing Also, what else do we want to talk about? Oh, I wanted to talk about music So no and not the movie by sia music I think I would I would but I need to get a new job first because I'm broke. Oh, thank you You're so sweet. Like no, I completely understand because like even when I want to do stuff and everything like I'm a little like I don't know and it would probably like the most I would make it would be three dollars because I mean You guys don't need to be spending like that much. Like some people like have tears of like this that and the other I'm like, okay. Just relax with that. I mean It's kind of just like buying your friends like a drink every month or something like that I would never make it like more than like three dollars because I don't know. I just That's just weird, but thank you for your feedback with that Okay, so this is not about the music movie by sia. Okay, this is just music in general like But we we can't talk about music Um the movie if we want but I don't have a lot of substantial like ground on that because I'm not Like on the autism spectrum and I haven't even seen the movie So, um, I don't have that many opinions about the movie But I just kind of realized that I don't listen to music a lot. I only listen to music in the car Um, I can't listen to music while driving. I will know. I always listen to music while I drive. So like When I'm working I cannot listen to music But when I'm driving I need music. Isn't that weird? I don't know but um, yeah, I don't really enjoy music on In like, okay, so when I'm getting ready and stuff maybe But like music on just like in general to have music on I can't do it Like I just really can't like if I'm cleaning Like my closet clean out Maybe I want to put music on a little bit, but I love podcasts and um, what's the other uh in youtube videos Like I love that sort of thing My parents always have the news on so that's also kind of like annoying and stuff, but um Yeah, I cannot listen to music like a lot Is that weird? I don't know. There's some people that always have music on and I just can't do it like I feel like it's just Something like you're either a music person or you're not a music person And I guess I'm not a music person because I just don't really Enjoy having music on so um I don't Even really listen to English music mostly Korean or Japanese. Oh, that's cool. I mean, there's a lot of people that love Korean Oh, that's another thing too People always ask me do you like kpop just because I'm like asian probably and I'm like no But so I think that's a little funny and it's a little like I don't know Also, too.  So um I'm kind of the same But my boyfriend has music on all the time. Yes. Yes. I know people like that and I just can't do it But I listen to podcasts. Yes. Okay, so you seem like me because I cannot listen to music like a lot like that But there's some people that just always have music on and that's the reason why I don't have Spotify Because I'm not going to pay like every month For like a subscription that like I don't use fully and now since like we're still kind of in quarantine I don't know like I still work from home and stuff I'm not even on the road a lot So like just but I do pay for my music on one of those people because I do agree about supporting the artist and everything um Yeah, so I totally agree with you. Um, I love listening to podcasts when I drive Yes, that's also a great thing that I love to listen to when I drive because when I was in the office Um, I would always like coming home. I would always throw a podcast on when I drive home Of my boyfriend My boyfriend is a music major. Oh, that's really cool and he's going to graduate school soon. Oh, that's cool That's probably why he loves like having the music on. I think you were the one that said that comment If I go back up. I don't know. I'm sorry. I'm not good at this Um, I'm vegan and asian food has a lot of options. Oh, that's good. That's good that it has a lot of options There's a lot of like vegetables and stuff. Um, it's five dollars a month with all three hulu Showtime and Spotify. Oh for students. Okay, that's probably why a lot of people have Spotify But yeah, I'm just Again, I'm just not really like a music person um And I don't really like listening to I don't really like having like tv on either So So, how are you guys? I'm glad I'm gonna start going live more. I hope um, because I think it just like Help, I mean it helps like get to know you guys more on a more like Personal level I think and I love watching live streams, but I don't want to be like too boring So I think what I'm gonna do is like make lists and stuff. So I don't run out of topics to talk about Ooh, heavyweight is a good podcast very heartfelt. Okay. I'll have to check that out and I do have the live chat on um Like replay like it'll show up on the replay. So Um, I will make sure to check that out That's cool So, how's your guys's day going? Oh, so this weekend is I'm gonna be fun because it's sherry's birthday is on sunday. So I think I'm a little burnt out from politics and stuff. Oh, I'm gonna sneeze Bless me. Um Did I watch wandavision with my moms? No, well, I did but I like had my headphones on and I was watching youtube videos instead I'm not really like big into that sort of stuff. Um, sorry. Oh, thank you guys But no, I didn't I'm sorry. Um, oh, I also want to say instagram was down today I know that that's like first world problems, but It always has issues and I'm like why? No, I did not watch, um Wanda vision Also, I wanted to talk about My love. Oh, I don't have instagram. Oh, that's okay um I love like jessica kent's content If you don't know who she is she went to prison and she makes like all these videos about Prison and like her experiences and like addiction and stuff. It's so great. Um I love like That oh my gosh. Okay. Talk about oh james charles is grounded. Oh my goodness The dad challenge podcast just like set a thing. Oh and my um youtube friend annie She almost has a hundred thousand subscribers. It's like good for her man. Like that's great You know, oh my gosh, I was saying if like if I could just get to 50 000 Well, I would love a hundred thousand subscribers. Like that would be so cool But if I got to 50 000, I'd still be like really really grateful. Um, but you know youtube's weird, so If you don't have like a niche then like it's a little bit more challenging to grow um So but yeah, the dad challenge podcast he has a video about james charles I wonder what it's going to be about. I honestly watch him because like he's just so entertaining and funny um And I like the like conversations he like brings up and everything but I also like like I just said I like watching family vlogger.  Do you what do you watch on youtube? I mean, clearly you're watching my face right now. So like that's really cool and everything but like who else do you like Like watch and follow and everything maybe your niche could be not having a niche. I think that's oh, yep Yeah, that's my niche and I'm so happy that my video about not having a niche like um Did well and I it's well received because I feel like you should just post videos that you want to post And if your audience genuinely likes you then They might they will watch your videos, you know Chefs oh chefs, you know, I really need to get into cooking like I am not Into cooking horror gamers. Wow. That sounds a little dark But I watch a lot of like Kendall ray and stuff about like, you know Murders and stuff and I've always said Um, if I get like murdered which knock on wood like I hope knock on things if that ever happened If that ever happened to me though knock on everything here head, whatever I would love Kendall ray to make a video about me because I don't know. She's just an awesome youtuber. You don't know who Kendall ray is She has like two million subscribers. So I'm sure you know who she is Um, no judgments. Um chef's skincare for skincare. That's also good Yeah, my skin is like horrendous because of mask wearing and when I was at the orange theory class and stuff I did not take that mask off. I took it off like three times to get water But like it did my face like I do like bad, you know I found your channel through manda 314. Oh my gosh. I love manda so much and she does lives on instagram So, yes, um, that's so nice um That's so nice I love manda and I still watch her Christina. Do you still watch manda? Let me know Because like even though she hasn't posted a youtube video in a while like I still follow her on instagram I'm in her like instagram lives. Um, like a lot of the time because um I just like enjoy watching her like crystal stuff and just like when she sells like Random stuff. I don't know. There's something about her that just is like so personable even though she Hasn't really gotten personal. Yes. I watch manda and her crystals. I see you in her lives. Oh, yeah That makes that's like so cool. All right. Where are you from Christina? I know that's That's awesome. Like I don't know. I followed manda for so long that like I'm like always send her stuff. But um, yeah, I just Um I wish she would post more on youtube to be honest, but I guess like with you know, her new crystal stuff It's just like, you know, it kind of takes a lot of her time, but I've been following her since 2014. I think Um Dude hi rim kassandra judy's kitchen. Okay, that's really cool. Um, I like your disney content. Yay Thank you so much. I love that too Um, dude judy's kitchen is a great start He's a japanese chef. So it's relaxing. Oh cool.  And I just hit the comment because no one like That's just not relevant right now. Like I don't hate anyone. Um, actually i'm attracted to white people like Not gonna lie. So I don't know where you got that from So skincare lgbtq plus stuff progressive content. Okay, that that makes sense. Um Very cool. Very cool. Um, your skin looks great Kassandra, um banks and James walsh and dr. Dre to name a few that's cool For skincare. Um, I love your I love her crystal lies. My favorite is it's judy's life. I've heard of it's judy's life I need to like Watch her more and stuff. Oh, you're from connecticut. That's really cool I love I follow many from the youtube disney verse Especially since I haven't been able to travel since rona showed up last year.  I plan on staying live for like maybe an hour Uh, just for people that want to pop in and this is going to be recorded. So you can always watch it back. Um Love from south africa. That's a really cool. It's really cool that like there's so many people around that like Watch alex get the trader joe's neutral facial cleansing pads with tea tree oil for your face. It's magic Okay, that sounds cool Uh, I don't even know like where's a trader joe's around me.  I got distracted from job searching. Oh my gosh. I hate job searching That's like the worst but I do suggest going on linkedin I've had well, I actually haven't had luck from that but Some people have it does work for some people. Oh, if you guys are on here, make sure to give this video a thumbs up for me It really helps. I guess with the algorithm um What happened to Yeah, um, we uh, just like grew apart and stuff, but we're still friends Um, oh, that's so nice So Yes He actually moved to so Um, I'm at the point where I'm looking for jobs on Craigslist. Oh be careful Um, I like some tj products um But sometimes cleansing pads contain dying ingredients. It sounds like a okay for the first. Okay Hi Um, I'm just gonna say your last name blocks um, yeah Social anxiety is a pain. Yes, it is Um, I'm like outgoing In I'm like an extra. I'm an introvert extrovert. I don't know. I'm like both Um, there's one on san lake road. Oh, okay Well, I have to check it out. Oh and season. Oh, yeah, you got you like Then yeah, you know like My area Have you been back to that pandex press? That's so funny Billy boo Um, you're so funny. No, we haven't actually the saga. Oh, that's so nice I think your name's Giovanni I hope I said that right. I was gonna get a hundred k this year. Oh my gosh. That would be like a dream come true like Oh my god, like when I hit a hundred thousand like I don't know and I'm the type of person I've been doing youtube for like what six years now. Yeah, I I love youtube so Yeah, like I hope I like I don't know it'll come with time There's so many people there's so many people that I know personally That used to be youtubers that I was actually like youtube friends with and they have stopped creating Actually, and I'm like super sad because like I genuinely enjoyed their videos But they just oh my gosh. My chat is like actually a chat. You guys are like so awesome. Oh my gosh Okay Let me back it up because like I um Like lost track of where I was Um, so no, we have not been back to pandex for us Um, I always like to look at the comments because I feel like I'm always ignored when like I'm in chat sometimes So I'm an introvert if I'm passionate about a certain subject, but otherwise I'm an introvert Okay, that makes sense. Hi from san francisco. Hey, Stephanie. Thanks for jumping on um, if you say Sir Low, I will give you 12 dollars Surrey low curry low I don't know I tried Oh my gosh. Yeah. Oh, I will tell you the story too. Hold on Let me just catch up. Hi Kate the tea tree oriel is The same Ingredient that's in proactive products. Oh proactive. It's kind of strong. Like I just I would be a little scared to use that Um, best of luck. I love you. Thank you alpaca That's cute name like the animal Drop some motivation Alex I Missed it. Alex. Did you say you're an extrovert or an introvert? I'm like both Like I can make friends easily, but like I don't know. I'm not the type that I would want to like go downtown or like I don't like going out like that sounds terrible Um, I spent a lot of time at Walt Disney World exploring Orlando season 32 is one of my favorite restaurants all property Yes, me too. I love it I love the filet like let me know what you like um from season 32 Alex gives me motivation. Thank you so much you too Low-key depressing me now. I'm sorry Um, did you ever try 23 and me that would be cool video idea? Um, no I'm kind of skeptical. Like I don't want someone having my dna. That's just personal thing Um, maybe later in life. I don't know. I just don't really want to do it If they sponsored a video. Yes, I would love to That sounds terrible as well. Um what Like what money to do it for six years? Um, because Just knowing that I could like Potentially make a living off of it Awesome. I love video creating. I love keeping memories and I know people are gonna say, oh, you're just saying that No, I'm really not I've been again. I've been doing this for six years And I've been I there was one point that I was stuck at 4 000 subscribers for good I don't know year so I mean No, I've clearly not just done this for the money because It has taken a long time to get to where I'm at now and it's just It is difficult. Like I'm not gonna lie But you have to be passionate about it.  Oh my gosh. Someone gave me a super chat.  Oh that makes me um That makes me want to tell you about the subscriber of mine. Like it's a dude, right? And he always pay pals me Like always and it makes me feel like a little uncomfortable even though it's like Maybe he wants to support me, but it's like a little it makes me a little uncomfortable But it's very nice. Like I'm very appreciative but yeah, um anyway um I'm not sure if It's just me but all of the stuff that's been going on the past year has made me A much better person. Oh, well, that's really great. Um, it's it has been a good time for like self-reflection and like just Making people think about things. I think is the best thing Unfortunately horrible things have had to happen to have that happen like but There's always good that comes out of bad and there's always bad that comes out of good Yeah, um, there's always it's life's a balance.  It's the way you look at things How tall are you in some videos you look really tall and others you look short I'm like five foot five five foot. Yeah, five foot or like five one Depending on the day. I don't know. I'm pretty short Why did you leave uf? I never went to uf Um, I've been watching your vids for a while. I went to ucf. Maybe you meant to say ucf. That's fine Um, because I had a passion for creating videos and I wanted to be a youtuber actually and my parents and I found this awesome um program at valencia and I did digital media and um, I Started making videos and never looked back. Um, so that's the reason why But I did make deans list my last semester. So I was really proud of that um As a fellow asian we got to support each other right now support Uh, your aapi creators stop asian hate. Yes. Thank you so much. That really means a lot to me Um, thanks for the advice. Thanks for the advice. Alex. I'll implement it. I hope to get I hope I get one k by the end of the year you can do it also like I just recommend like um, not like self promoting yourself in comments, but just like be positive in people's comment sections like Watch their video support them because people I mean That's how I met most of my youtube friends, but a lot of my youtube friends don't do youtube anymore So, oh my gosh 15 people are watching. Hey guys. Um, That's so nice Thanks for taking the time to even like click on this. It just means a lot to me. Um, thanks for the advice Alex. I'll implement it. Um gotta respect the hustle. Oh, thank you Um for season 2 the flatbread pizzas as a starter.  Oh my gosh. Yes. The dessert plate is amazing. My favorite is the peanut butter and chocolate Um, and then I also really enjoyed the cookies and cream because we just I don't know if you follow me on instagram But um, we went there for Valerie's birthday for lunch Tommy hi. Hi Tommy We'll do are you looking for a man now? uh Well, no not not currently because like with covet and stuff like you don't know where those are in um, so not right now I guess um kind of but like Not online like that is definitely not like I am very I am very traditional when it comes to that so like If I was looking for someone like I would go out or just like be Receptive to like people in my surroundings if I were to go out to eat or to a bar or something like that so Yes, and no at the same time So I don't know. I just want to meet like someone naturally Like in life, you know, um, but yeah Are you going to grow your hair out long? Yes I well not so that I could wipe my butt because that's just a little too long But yeah, I want it like, you know, like mermaid hair ask like that so Yes, but this guy like one time he sent me like 35 dollars um And I don't know he like gave me his number and stuff. I don't know if he'll see this but no I'm not I'm not saying anything like Bad is about that, but like I don't know. It just like makes you feel like a little uncomfortable I will be honest, but it's still very nice of him and I think him Um, how much was your balayage? It was over 300 dollars But um sounds like a sugar daddy. No, he's like I don't even know Um, but it's it's not like regular. You know what I mean? Like it's like random. Um But again, like it's it's really nice and stuff But it's not sugar like I would consider like a sugar daddy giving you at least a thousand dollars Not that I'm asking for that because I do not want I mean like I mean, yeah, it's like nice, but like also it's just like it makes you feel like uncomfortable Um I don't know. Is it billy boo? I don't know if it is you. Hey bro. Like thanks. I mean like that's that's nice Um dating in the middle of a pandemic. No, thank you. Yeah, I mean right now. It's just like Nah, a lot of people have their cash app on their bio For stuff like this, excuse me Why have my paypal? um, and that's like Kind of if people wanted to create wanted to create Wanted to support me as a creator kind of like the super chat thing But like I don't expect anyone to like use it or whatever um, a lot of people okay about the same when I get done in SF But oh san francisco, but balayage so worth it. Yes, it is and um, even though it was a little bit expensive um If you go to any like reputable place that's like really good and everything Um, it's gonna be it's gonna cost you a little bit more money because of the products they use their time Everything like that So yeah, it was worth it I think I've been watching your videos for over four years now. Thank you so much. That's so nice Um, creepy. Yeah, I know it's a little weird. Maybe Oh, that's kind of funny, but thanks Okay, um Again, like I just want to reiterate like I'm not looking to date anyone from like online. Let's just say that um I'm a star god. Okay. Good. Make sure you're subscribed Um, I'm just kidding not me just a fan. Uh, thanks Okay, um, I'm dead. Yeah Billy boo. Oh my gosh. You're so funny. All right What if I like know Billy boo, but they're just like, I don't know.  I mean never say never I think her hair is pretty cool to be honest If I could do like youtube full-time I would do like some not not too crazy of things with my hair, but I would do like a pastel pink I think that would be so cool Um, but like I want to be taken seriously like when I'm at work like I don't want to be like, oh my god This is a joke, you know, so that's why I want to try and keep my hair like normal ish um Do you have a box? Yeah, it's in my Uh description box so just like click out of the chat thing real quick. My name speaks. Okay Okay $35 I'll at least start with a Louis Vuitton bag. I know right? Oh man people I am alien. I am god All right.  Where's the mother sherry's working? So that's why I'm actually in my room right now And Valerie's at lunch with one of her friends or at this grocery store Either one. I don't know um stay Um We get to do youtube full-time just be determined. I'm determined to have youtube be my full-time job Yeah, I'm very determined. Don't worry. I've been doing this for like six years. So Yeah, I'm pretty determined um Okay, this person's like Having some weird comments. Okay but um Yeah Okay, if you haven't liked the video, this is just your friendly reminder to like the video if you haven't already It would mean the world to me Your yo you say your con dry name. What is this person like? Um, can you like type it into like google grammar or whatever before you comment? It's so silly. Have you done community polls that helps with the algorithm supposedly? Oh really? I have done some community polls on here, but I don't know. I feel like whenever I see Like people use their community tab a lot and stuff like it makes me want to unsubscribe. So I don't want them to like unsubscribe So, okay, your last name is sherma or whatever, but just like type it in out in one comment Because I don't really understand what you're what you're talking about Hi, cocoa, thank you You know speak to me. I don't understand what you're saying Like I can't I can not read minds Um, are you still on lockdown where you live? No or not like we're florida We've been open like the entire time because no one really takes You're still live. Oh you're live. Yay. Yes. I am Jim is my temple. I am hi. Thanks for joining um Do you like boba? No, I'm not really actually well, I've never tried it so I can't really say I don't like it But I I'm not really big into that Um Oh, I get a call from tanning salon place. I applied an hour ago. Oh, that's exciting I saw a tick tock of this one girl.  It's a pretty chill cool job Can you do another mukbang? I mean maybe I I mean when I eat like I literally just like play on my phone Um, and it's hard to like come up with topics to be honest. That's why for this live like I had a list and stuff Um Can you do another mukbang you must do a video trying it? Oh, that would be fun I need to find a place. I think there is one around here It's good to see you here. Oh, thank you for joining. Um, do videos Do you have their own videos cpm rpm? Do videos have their own yeah, I think so I would ask Annie uh, Annie dube She knows a lot more than I do when it comes to that Um It's for a marketing position now. I'm super worried about what to say. Oh, that's fun. That like congratulations In, uh, mr. Sherma. Hi Do you like starbucks? Yes, I do. Do you have a favorite drink? Yes, I get a Um chai tea latte with two pumps of pumpkin spice or vanilla like two pumps of pump two pumps of vanilla That would be like my favorite Um, oh, and this is just water. It's not actually a starbucks drink As you guys know like I love these like tumbler things. They're like super tall Um, they're the straw is like a normal straw. It's not like curved and stuff. So Um, I'm from South Carolina Some people here care, but most was my cousins from South Carolina and my aunt was there as well Did your moms ever bring you to Provincetown during august for family week It's organized by no, I don't think so Um, do you play animal crossing? No, I do that's another thing. Maybe I'll talk about this in another live or whatever But then again, it's not like that big of a topic I ate Video games like no offense to anyone who plays them. Um, like I think it's great I mean, I love taking random selfies and like photos and some people don't see a point in that So I completely it's okay that you love video games. It's just for me I'm not about video games because I don't see a point in them Really, um, and it's just not pleasing for me This job wasn't from Craigslist by the way Good, that's good. Um I love disney several summers. Yes, they are really good. Um Yeah, so, um, but I have played animal crossing before But I don't really, um, see myself playing those games now, um, just because I don't like video games I don't like a lot of things. I guess. I don't know I'm like creative but like not creative. I don't know. I'm just super weird Um A game here. I'm sorry. No hate. No hate I'm sure there's things that I do that that you guys would totally be like, oh, I don't know Do you have a favorite parent? No, I do not. Um For different things. Yes, obviously, but like not Um Not like on ongoing basis Like I don't have a favorite. Um, I am sorry I'm sorry that you're sorry. Um, I bet you would Enjoy ring fit adventure Oh, was that a video game? Um, come to england when we can travel again. Yes, we really want to go to europe soon Um, do you prefer water over? Oh, excuse me other drinks. Yes, I do I used to be the huge the biggest diet coke fan like I love diet coke so much But I'm just I gave that up a while ago just to like be more healthy Um, oh my gosh, sherry seems the type of parent that you would see in the club You'd be surprised. Valerie was the more like, I don't know club one But yeah, sherry sherry's fun That's funny. Um So, yeah, do you guys have any other questions? I've been here I've been on here for like an hour now and I just don't want it to like go too long because I am going to put this in the Valerie seems like the bingo gal. No, she proud. Well, I don't know. She likes playing bingo, but I don't know. That's funny. Um Yeah I think that's all the topics I had for this live stream Thank you guys so much for like coming on and like talking the only thing I drink is water. I love The taste but my family doesn't yeah, my family doesn't really well Valerie doesn't sherry does drink it a lot um Yeah, I talked about Pretty much everything On my little list here Yay, so did you guys like this live stream and stuff? Because I would do more lives. I think maybe next week. I'll do a live as well Um, the only thing I drink is water. I love the taste but my family doesn't Alex you should film more tick tocks. I know they're so hard to film though I don't know why and go live more. I love it. Yeah, I should do you guys follow me on instagram. Let me know because Going live on youtube is super fun, but I also love to go live on instagram Because literally no one joins my lives on instagram like the people that I know in real life don't even join So I'm like, okay, so that's why I'm like, let's do this youtube thing, you know me as Yeah, and I'm glad you guys like got to come on and stuff because the last time I went live on here. It was like tragic all right, so um Thank you for coming on. I needed this live. It was peaceful Oh, I'm so happy and I'm glad that I didn't run out of like topics to talk about Um Thank you for coming on. Uh, this was a fun live stream. Yeah, it really was. Yes I wish I joined earlier to hear the whole chat. No, this is gonna be saved in the There's gonna be a replay like I'm gonna save it to my channel. That's why I wanted to cap it off at like an hour um So I can post it as a video um This is so much fun. Thank you. Yes. What time will be your next live girl? I will post it like I did this one like I'll I'll I'll do a schedule one so you'll know Um, like a good three four hours before I actually go live and when I go live I plan on staying on like an hour like this one because I don't want it to get too long, you know Um, even though I love long live streams like I genuinely love Long live streams. Um, they're my favorite Um The only social me to have is youtube. Okay Um, that's good to know. Yes. I follow you on instagram. Okay. Thanks There's another person. Yes, I follow you on insta but I'm not active on there. Okay. Okay. That's good to know I follow you on instagram. I don't use instagram. That's okay Um, this one. I'm sorry. I don't understand those characters. I'm so sorry Yes, I follow on instagram. Thank you so much. This is fun Alex I put a community post for your next live. Okay, that would be like Put a community but I did okay So I have done that in the past but like no one ever like does anything So that's why I did the schedule thing this time and it seemed to work out a little bit better. Um Oh and my name on insta is fit freak. Okay. That's cool and then And save the chat too. Yes, it's gonna be saved. Um, it should be saved Um, just in case you don't know who this is. Oh, okay. Okay Um, I love long live streams. Keep you going. Okay. I'll stay on here for like five more minutes because uh Someone requested it. No, I genuinely love long live streams as well Like when manda deals live, I love it only I wish hers were like a little shorter Like she goes live for like four hours and I think three hours would be good, but Anyway, it was super this is like so fun and like actually having people watch is like Even better because um yay bring the mothers in. I don't know. Let me see I'm gonna go see if sherry is Okay, maybe she's like on a break Um, no, she's still on the phone I got some words for sherry. She's the best. Oh, she's still on the phone. So I don't think I'm going to Oh, yeah, bring your mom's in. Valerie's not home right now actually So We'll see. I'm actually on my laptop and I'm surprised this battery has lasted this long Hold on one second Sherry, okay, let me just Hold on Wait, sherry Here we go Yes, so she's working right now. So There you got our little lady there um So Yes, as you can see she was working Um, I don't think I would like but there's this defense attorney youtuber who reacts to cases and do you guys and stuff? Oh, that sounds like a cool youtuber Very cool Um, yeah, let's wait till Valerie comes up. No, I can't because like it's going to be like a really long live stream I don't know when she gets home because she was asking because I said that I was going to go live at four But I looked on my youtube analytics and it said people were more active between three and four And now like look there's like 18 to 16 people watching. So maybe I should just go live at four next time This isn't going to be my like last live stream. So um People are saying hi to sherry. Thanks guys. Um So I think I'm going to end this here because it is pretty long and stuff But thank you so much for joining and supporting me and everything um, I hope you guys have a great rest of your day and um I'll see you guys in my next video Bye


This video will cover the following objective from the lymphatic and immune system. List the major functions of the lymphatic and immune system. Describe how lymph is formed and transported through lymphatic vessels, lymph nodes, and lymphatic ducts. Compare and contrast the origins, maturation process, and general function of B and T lymphocytes. The major functions of the lymphatic system include maintaining the blood volume by transporting liquid that leaks out of blood capillaries in the process of filtration. That liquid that leaks out becomes interstitial fluid and then interstitial fluid is transported by the lymphatic system back to the blood. Interstitial fluid, as it accumulates, will drain into lymphatic capillaries that have endothelial flaps that function as one-way valves in order to prevent backward flow of the lymph to keep the lymph moving into larger and larger lymphatic vessels, eventually into the lymphatic ducts that will drain lymph into the blood at the subclavian veins. The organs of the lymphatic and immune system include the lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes that filter lymph as it's flowing through. There are lymph nodes clustered on the lymphatic vessels that contain lots of leukocytes, especially lymphocytes, that are involved in the filtering of the lymph to filter out any debris or any pathogens and to recognize any infection, any pathogens and mount an immune response to help protect against infection. The leukocytes defend against infection. They can migrate out of the blood and are attracted by chemical signals that are produced at the site of an infection. In the process of emigration, leukocytes migrate through the endothelium of the capillary and migrate into a tissue to help defend against infection. The leukocytes can release cytotoxic granules that kill the invading pathogenic cells. Another function that leukocytes could use to defend against infection is phagocytosis. Phagocytosis, a leukocyte engulfs a pathogen and then that pathogen will be broken down inside as the pathogen is brought in. It forms a vacuole and the vacuole will merge with a lysosome containing digestive enzymes that will kill the pathogen and break down the pathogen. The defense function of the immune system includes both an innate and an adaptive immunity. An innate immunity refers to defenses that you are born with including the surface defenses such as your skin, hair and mucus that help to create a physical barrier to prevent infection. It also includes internal defenses such as the leukocytes, the mass cells and basophils release inflammatory signals like histamine that will help to increase blood flow to the tissue and increase the permeability of capillaries and attract other leukocytes to the scene of an infection. Natural killer cells are a special type of lymphocyte that's part of the innate immunity that can release cytotoxic granules that will kill cells that have become infected with a virus.  Then the complement system refers to defense proteins that can punch holes in the cell walls of bacteria to kill those cells. Then the phagocytic cells, the monocytes, neutrophils and macrophages. Macrophages are a leukocyte that forms from a monocyte so it's basically a type of monocyte after the monocyte exits the blood, travels into its tissue and differentiates into a macrophage. What monocytes, neutrophils and macrophages are all phagocytic cells that can engulf pathogens and then degrade those pathogens. And so while these are all part of the innate immunity that you're born with these defenses, the adaptive immunity recognizes specific pathogens and forms a memory to those specific infections. The lymphocytes are the primary cells of the adaptive immunity and there are two major branches of the adaptive immunity. The T lymphocytes are responsible for the cell mediated branch of the adaptive immunity whereas the B lymphocytes are responsible for the antibody mediated branch of the adaptive immunity. Both T cells and B cells have receptors that bind to antigens. So an antigen is a specific molecular pattern and that molecular pattern is on the surface of a pathogen like a bacterial cell or on the surface of a virus is how the adaptive immunity will recognize that specific pathogen. And so the body forms an enormous variety of different T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes with distinct shapes of receptors that can bind an enormous variety of antigens. And when our body encounters an antigen from an infection, we'll make more B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes that can defend against that specific pathogen by binding to the antigens that are on the surface of that pathogen. The cell mediated immunity will involve cytotoxic T cells as the effector cells that will release cytotoxic granules to kill our own cells if our own cells become infected with intracellular pathogens such as a virus. The cytotoxic T cells will recognize antigens from the virus and then become activated and release cytotoxic granules that kill our own viral infected cells. And so the cytotoxic T cell functions similar to the natural killer cell. They're both lymphocytes, but the natural killer cell is part of the innate immunity and does not recognize specific viruses, whereas the cytotoxic T cells will defend against specific viruses by recognizing the antigens from that virus. B lymphocytes produce the antibodies as part of antibody mediated immunity or the humoral immunity, and the antibodies are secreted by a type of B lymphocyte known as a plasma cell or a plasma site. These antibodies then travel in the blood and lymph and can bind to antigens on the surface of pathogens. Then the antibody functions to help defend against that infection by neutralizing the pathogen and sensitizing the other defense mechanisms that can come and destroy that pathogen. So the antibodies will effectively target the pathogen to stimulate other leukocytes to come and destroy that pathogen. Another function of the lymphatic system is to transport lipid soluble nutrients like fat and cholesterol and the fat soluble vitamins, vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, and vitamin K from the small intestine where these nutrients are absorbed. When lipid soluble nutrients are absorbed in the small intestine, they're absorbed as large droplets, lipid droplets that are coated with proteins, which are known as lipoprotein particles, the specific lipoprotein particles that are produced in the small intestine during lipid nutrient absorption are called chylomicrons. These chylomicron lipoprotein particles are too large to enter into the blood capillaries in the small intestine, and so they'll enter into lacteals, which are larger vessels. They're lymphatic vessels. Lacteals are essentially a specialized lymphatic capillary that is responsible for absorbing the chylomicron lipoprotein particles, enabling the absorption of dietary lipids like fats, cholesterol, and fat soluble vitamins. Lymph flows from lymph capillaries to larger lymph vessels, then it flows through lymph nodes along the lymph vessels where it is filtered, and then lymph flows from larger lymph vessels into lymphatic ducts, which are the largest lymphatic vessels. The largest lymphatic vessels called lymphatic ducts are the right lymphatic duct and the thoracic duct. The right lymphatic duct drains lymph coming from the upper right half of the body superior to the diaphragm, whereas the thoracic duct drains lymph from the majority of the body, the entire region shown in yellow on the illustration, which is the left half of the body, as well as the right half of the body inferior to the diaphragm. Lymph from this entire region then flows through the thoracic duct into the left subclavian vein to return the fluid to the blood, whereas the right lymphatic duct drains into the right subclavian vein. Lymphocytes are the major cells of the adaptive immunity, although there is one type of lymphocyte that's not involved in the adaptive immunity, and instead is part of the innate immunity called the natural killer cell. The T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes are the two major cell types that are important for the adaptive immunity. While T lymphocytes are involved in the cell mediated immunity, the B lymphocytes are involved in antibody mediated immunity. However, there is some crosstalk so that T lymphocytes can stimulate the B lymphocytes to promote the antibody mediated immunity. There are a type of T lymphocyte known as a helper T cell that will stimulate the B lymphocytes. The T lymphocytes have the effector cells known as cytotoxic T cells that carry out the cell mediated immunity to protect against viral infections and other intracellular pathogens. The T lymphocytes mature in the thymus, which is a lymphoid organ located in the superior mediastinum just anterior to the base of the heart. While all of the lymphocytes originally are formed in the process of hematopoiesis in red bone marrow, immature T lymphocytes migrate from the red bone marrow to the thymus where they become fully matured to become what we call immunocompetent. An immunocompetent lymphocyte is a lymphocyte that is prepared to bind antigens and become activated to help defend against infections. The B lymphocytes, they finish becoming immunocompetent, they fully mature within the red bone marrow before they leave the red bone marrow. The T lymphocytes become immunocompetent in the thymus and B lymphocytes become immunocompetent in the bone marrow. So here we see the two major branches of the adaptive immunity. The cell mediated immunity involves the T lymphocytes. When the receptors of T lymphocytes bind an antigen, the T lymphocyte becomes activated and will divide making more T lymphocytes that produce the same receptor and can recognize the same antigen. Some of these cells will be long-lived memory T cells whereas other cells will be the effector T cells, the cytotoxic T cells that respond to release cytotoxic granules destroying our own cells that have become infected with a pathogen. In the antibody mediated immunity, the B lymphocytes are the major lymphocyte that's activated. The receptors of B lymphocytes are called antibodies, so there's an antibody in the plasma membrane on the surface of the B lymphocyte. When that receptor binds an antigen, the B lymphocyte becomes activated and divides to produce both some long-lasting memory B cells as well as the effector B cells. The effector B cells are called plasma cells or plasma sites. They secrete antibody into the lymph and blood plasma and the antibodies then can travel in the fluids of the body and bind to pathogens, neutralizing those pathogens and marking the pathogens to sensitize other defense mechanisms that will come and destroy the pathogen. Clonal selection refers to the proliferation of lymphocytes to produce more daughter cells that all have the exact same receptor that can be activated by the same antigen. Clonal selection of T cells occurs when a naive T cell that has not encountered an antigen yet first encounters an antigen. The antigen binds to the T cell receptor and the T cell receptor then stimulates activation of the T cell. So this naive T cell has become activated and then it will divide to make more T cells and all of the cells that are produced when this cell divides will have the same T cell receptor. And some of these daughter cells will immediately function as the effector cytotoxic T cells that can destroy infected cells in the body. And some of the T lymphocytes that are produced from the division of this activated T cell will be the memory T cells that are long lived and can help to defend against the same infection if it's encountered again in the future. The B cell receptors are antibodies. The antibodies are embedded in the plasma membrane of B cells to function as the B cell receptor. However, antibodies are also secreted by the effector B lymphocytes, the plasma cells. Clonal selection of B cells occurs when antigen binds to the receptor of the B lymphocyte. If a naive B lymphocyte has not been activated yet, once the antigen binds to its receptor, the B lymphocyte becomes activated and is no longer a naive B lymphocyte. An activated B lymphocyte then will divide. It will proliferate to make many more B lymphocytes that all can produce the same shaped antibody to recognize the same antigen. Some of these cells that are produced from division of the activated B cell are the plasma cells, the effector cells that secrete antibodies. And some of them are memory B cells that are long lived in order to help defend against exposure to the same pathogen in the future. The presence of memory B cells will enable a secondary exposure to the pathogen to stimulate a much faster and larger production of antibodies as there are many memory B cells that are prepared and ready to be activated if the antigen is encountered. That antigen will then stimulate the memory B cells to divide and produce plasma cells, producing a strong response to that secondary exposure. Here we see the basic time course of the adaptive immunity with a primary immune response following the initial exposure to a pathogen. The first time the immune system has encountered that antigen, the concentration of antibody in the blood rises slowly from a very low level over time. It will take a couple weeks for the antibody level to rise to a maximum and then gradually fall after the infection is cleared from the body. However, the memory cells will be produced and have a long lasting effect if the same antigen is encountered again on a secondary exposure. The secondary immune response will be much more rapid and will have a much stronger effect leading to a much higher concentration of antibody in the blood to produce a strong protective adaptive immunity. Ideally, the adaptive immunity is so effective to a secondary exposure that you don't develop any symptoms because you're immune to that infection. This is how vaccinations work. In a vaccination, you're given an initial exposure to the antigen using an inactivated form of a virus, usually. It could be an inactivated form of an antigen from a bacterial cell as well, but mostly for viruses we use vaccination. This will stimulate the primary immune response and then if you are exposed to that virus in the future, the secondary immune response should be able to prevent you from developing any symptoms of infection. Thank you for watching.