Five years ago, a Labour MP was attacked and murdered by a neo-Nazi. However, while liberal and left-wing politicians and journalists continue to receive death threats, few would argue that our political class has come to terms with the dangers posed by the far right in Britain. This week we had a reminder of the far right's modus operando when they harassed a BBC journalist. The incident took place on Monday as Boris Johnson announced that England's planned escape from coronavirus restrictions would be delayed until July the 19th. At the time of that announcement, a group of anti-lockdown protesters appeared outside Downing Street, Newsnight's political editor Nick Watt was walking through the area, and this is what happened. That was really, really unpleasant to watch, like really, really frightening behaviour, getting right in his face. I mean, they were putting their hands on him.  I mean, a really horrible thing to see done to a journalist. Whatever you think about someone's journalism, that's a terrible thing to do to them in the street. Now that footage was from an anti-lockdown YouTube channel called ResistanceGB. They branded Nick Watt as BBC's stew, so they were obviously sharing that in a sort of supportive manner. They're journalists who endorse attacking journalists essentially. The most striking thing from that video, other than the pure aggression from those protesters, I think, was the inaction of the police. They didn't seem to do anything at all about what was going on. Now we're going to discuss that more in one moment. First of all, let's go to a couple of reactions. The BBC director general Tim Davy put out this statement. The safety of journalists is fundamental to any democracy. They must be able to report unhindered, free from abuse. There is absolutely no justification for any journalist to be treated in this way. The Prime Minister, for his part, described the incident as disgraceful. The Home Secretary, Priti Patel, said it was appalling and Labour's Shadow Culture Secretary Joe Stevens said it was absolutely unacceptable. Now that's all to be expected. The reaction from the Metropolitan Police was a little bit more worrying though, as I say, as you saw from that clip. They seem to stand by while Nick Watt was being harassed. This is in a context where we know that protesters like that, the far right, can be very, very frightening. The police should be worried about what was going on there. They didn't appear to do anything at all. Now the Guardian has a write-up of their response. The Met drew further criticism after initially saying officers were not in the immediate vicinity of the incident, a statement which it later said had been drafted after viewing a 45-second clip which had circulated online. On the basis of a longer clip, the force that it was clear the incident began on Whitehall where officers were present. The behaviour shown in the video is unacceptable. Members of the public of any profession have the right to go about their day without being subjected to verbal harassment or actions that put them in fear for their safety, said the force. The Met went on to say they had identified and were interviewing individuals from the video and finished by saying, we acknowledge the concerns that have been raised about the police response during this incident. We take those concerns seriously and we'll be reviewing our actions with a view to improving the policing of events for all Londoners. These statements were made on the day that Daniel Morgan Murder Inquiry found the Met to be institutionally corrupt and their big reason for finding that is they're saying the police were fairly willing to lie or to not investigate things properly if it would embarrass them. Now seeing that video where you've got the police standing by while someone's being harassed and then immediately after the police say, oh the police went in the vicinity, not much has changed. Let's say those criticisms which were made of the police still stand. 57 year old Martin Hochridge from Hartfordshire, he's been charged with a public order offence on Facebook. He posted, I stand by my actions. It is unacceptable that the BBC lies and spreads fear among the nation. The propaganda pushed out by this man and the insidious organisation he works for. Nicholas Watt is a traitor cast from the same mould as Lord Haw-Haw. Lord Haw-Haw was the last person in the UK to ever be executed for treason. His real name was William Joyce. He broadcast Nazi propaganda to the UK from Germany during the Second World War. So I mean, you can see the grim significance of making that particular comparison, someone who was executed for treason. This is someone who's been charged for public order offences. Hochridge also says he thinks Nick Watt was hoping to be harassed. So he said, never expect the truth from the BBC and did the weasel engineer that incident by milling around in a BBC lanyard in a crowd bearing the media is the virus placards, a movement that has and is currently protesting at the BBC. I think he was hoping for that reaction. I mean, it goes about saying, I don't need to say that's a ridiculous thing to say a journalist hanging out in Westminster walking between Whitehall and BBC offices. That's not someone milling around waiting to be harassed. I doubt any journalist mill around waiting to be harassed in such a manner. But I find I think the the confidence this person feels expressing these kinds of attitudes publicly to be pretty chilling in a way, I suppose. There is obviously an incredibly worrying trend here of deeply embedded conspiracy theories and their conspiracy theories that seem to sort of spread very quickly, but very quietly, very underground. They trot along underground until suddenly they kind of burst onto our screens in these kind of coordinated, what often looks like coordinated or planned acts of violence.  What I do know is that this is somewhat bolstered, you know, we can kind of blame fringe kind of, you know, oh, like there's a lot of, I think there's a lot of reductivism that happens where it's like, oh, it's just because of social media. And it's like, well, you know, that probably changes the temporality in the way in which, you know, the particular iteration of the far right and the particular way that the far right is gaining power now, you know, the far right predates the internet, like the far the far right predates social media. So we can't just kind of blame it on that.   The only thing that he actually said, and when he was asked what his name was, was he said that he his name was death to traitors, freedom for Britain or something, something along those lines. And, you know, Joe Cox's traitorness was seen was perceived through the lens that, you know, she was unreasonably sympathetic towards refugees. And I think that so I think, you know, yes, it is this kind of like, in many ways feels like a fringe thing, and that is happening in the dark. But we also have to wonder, you know, about where the kind of like, where a lot of money is being invested in, you know, really irresponsible news media coverage in quite a, you know, in the middle of the day, you know, it's not happening underground, it's happening, you know, with a big weight of capital and, well, kind of low budget production, to be honest. But, you know, this is the scary thing is that it kind of creates this sort of on this sort of power base, this sort of silent power base, which then lays the groundwork for a very dangerous figure, you know, like, like a Trump or an Orban, to kind of rise to power as the sort of alleged truth teller in that context when, you know, they are obviously anything but really horrible seeing people shout traitors at people in the street on the five year anniversary of the killing of Joe Cox, really horrible to see.


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So a couple of days ago, I made a video about Wayland and in that video I've told you that I finally got hyperland up and running and I split the these two videos in Parts simply because I wanted to be more positive in this one That one was very ranty very rambly and I wanted to talk a little bit more positively about hyperland And I figured I probably couldn't do that if I spent the entire time bitching about Wayland So today I'm gonna be talking about my time with hyperland now I've been using it now for a little while and I have some thoughts and some of them are really good some of them are Not so good. So let's go ahead and jump in hyperland is Overall a very good window manager, and I'm gonna call this a window manager even though I know it's a Wayland composer. You don't have to get in the comments and tell me that I'm calling it something wrong I'm gonna call these things window managers whether you like them or whether you like it or not So we're just gonna bypass that let me call it what I wanted to call it and we'll move on hyperland is a very good window manager it is a Very customizable window manager the syntax of the configuration file is very easy to understand very easy to use and even if you were going to get into customizing the animations and Customizing how the window manager pops up windows and all the stuff that hyperland can do Doing so in a configuration in the configuration file is very easy to do and the documentation is also very good in that aspect it does a very good job of guiding you through all the stuff that hyperland can do so Those two aspects are very very positive And I'm very impressed with the fact that it is as full-featured as it is Considering the fact that it is a very new window manager. It's only been around for a little while Yes, it is based on something that was before But even the thing that it's based off from hasn't been around that long when you compare it to other window managers that have been around for 20 years you have to be somewhat impressed that hyperland has come as far as it has in the small amount of time that they've been Given so I'm very impressed with the features that it has and if you see my hyperland right here You'll see That it does a lot of really cool things that I really like so the animations I could probably take or leave to be honest with you they're a little frivolous and I don't know if I were to use as long term if I'd keep them and The thing about all that is is that if you turn the animations off You have to consider what does hyperland give you that you know some other window manager doesn't because the animations are a big deal Are a big part of hyperland so I haven't turned them off because it does feel like if I turn them off I'd be Taking something away from what hyperland is supposed to be to be honest with you I'd probably at least speed them up because they do kind of it it does feel like it's slow It makes things a little sluggish They're not slow by any means like if you if you use genome back in the early genome three days You know what slow animations really look like this is not that even at the default settings Which I have them right now, you know, the animations are fine But you can slow them down the configuration file So I actually show you the hyperland configuration file. It looks like this And as you can see it's just a matter of Some regular syntax. There's nothing horrible here. There's no JSON. There's no yaml It's not in a programming language of any sort. It just works It looks very very easy And it comes across that way. It's very well documented as well, too So it gives you it gives you links to the wiki so you can see More detail about what you're supposed to do in each of these sections, which is really nice You can source files if you wanted to have a multi file configuration file So that's taken care of that's something that i3 didn't get until like version 4.20 So the fact that they have that built-in is really quite awesome So there are a lot of positives here when it comes to the actual usage So that I wanted to start off with the positive stuff because there are a lot of things about this that I do really really like And I like the rounded corners. I think that's fantastic I like the fact that you can set two or even three colors for the border And and if you set up set it up properly You can have it so that the border is kind of animated so that the gradient kind of goes round and round in circles That's really cool Like I said, the rounded corners are really nice. It has built-in blur. So you don't have to have You know because it's wayland You don't have to have a compositor like you would an x organ in order to get blur All that stuff works well and because it's a wayland compositor and you don't have to have pycom setting on top of it The resource usage is actually really nice when you compare it to something that has pycom running because All the blur affects the rounded corners all the animations and stuff like that is taken care of at a lower level Meaning that there's not as much resource usage. It's really quite good I do like that they have a couple built-in layouts. I think they have three Maybe only two but they do have some built-in layouts And the the default one is a dwindle layout kind of like a fibonacci layout And I switched to the master stack layout Which is the one that I prefer and these layouts do have some options that you can choose between so you can Change the way the dwindle works. You can change some of the master stuff And there's more documentation on each of these layouts in the wiki So you can make some changes to how the actual layout works, which is also really nice And if you do have a mouse or a trackpad that allows you to do gestures Hyperland also has support for gestures. I haven't tried these because I don't have A hyperland on a laptop or anything like that. I'm using it at my desktop So I don't know how well those work But the fact that it has those built-in is kind of Amazing considering the fact that this is a window manager not a desktop environment So having gestures of any kind is not something that you normally see in a window manager So those are the positive things that I have to say about it Now I'm sure there are a few other things like there's nothing like it's been very very stable over the course of me actually using this And it's just been a nice experience Outside of the problem me having to find new tools to replace all the tools that I used to use That's not a hyperland problem. That's a wayland problems So if I ignore that part, it's been a very good experience to use once I got it set up and everything Again, most of that's just a wayland problem not a hyperland problem And it's it's been it's just been a good experience So let me talk about a few of the things that I'm going to consider bad. I'm going to quote a quote bad And most of these aren't bad. They're just Signs of a immature window manager. I've put that it put it that way I have a feeling that as the window manager Progresses a little bit these things will get a little bit better And also as wayland becomes more popular in the window manager space this stuff will get better So the first one and the biggest one that I'm going to say is scratch pads now.  That's me. You can't have it So I like scratch pads a lot on q-tile. I have 12 different scratch pads for different things I use them all and it's fantastic I have key bindings for all those things like I can hit super v and bring up pulse mixer I can bring up super c to bring up ranger. I can use super shift b to bring up news boat You know, I have super n and super shift n both for separate terminals. I have super m for mpd You get the point, right? I have a ton of scratch pads scratch pads aren't well supported in hyperland yet now they do have The functionality to get there, but it's not quite there yet Now they do a very half-ass job of kind of copying the way i3 does Scratch pads now on i3 the base functionality of scratch pads is that you have a window that's here Right, you have a window that you've you've launched you press a key binding is send it to the scratch pad Workspace, which is hidden and then you can press another key binding that brings it back up, right? That's the way by default scratch pads work in i3. That's the same way they work in hyperland and if you are not a Big scratch pad type person and you just want to have that Minimized space for your Windows or whatever and you want to kind of treating it treat it as minimizing a window That can work for some people, but it's not the way that I use scratch pads I like to launch my applications on startup have them launch inside of the scratch pad workspace And then bring them up with a key binding and then send them back to the workspace when i'm done with them Whatever's in those windows continues to run inside of the invisible workspace. That's the way that I like doing that now hyperland Can do that, but it's hacky You have to use a lot of window rules in order to get those things to work And it's just not as Good as you'd want it to be it's very You know to be honest with you It's very very close in that aspect to i3 Because in i3 you also have to have a lot of rules in order to set up Scratch pads is the way you want them to work It's definitely not as good as the scratch pad functionality on q-tile Which is built in and works really well just with a couple lines of of syntax So scratch pads are a space where hyperland really needs to Get better And the thing is is that even if you were to use the built-in functionality for scratch pads on a hyperland You can still only have one scratch pad now. I am very odd I don't i'm one of the few people probably that require Massive amounts of scratch pads. So the developers probably aren't going to try to Do the thing that I want them to do and have multiple scratch pads But I would really like them to have more than one the ability to have as many as you want would be really cool So scratch pads definitely do need to be something that works right now I have this set up right here. And this is tile x and tile x is fine It doesn't always do The thing that you want it to do So if you don't if I don't have the cursor in the middle of the screen like just saved over here You can see that the focus is actually on the window behind it And if I go to start typing i'm technically typing over there in that other one and sometimes they don't notice, right? Well, I don't notice until I you know See that i'm not getting the text in the right place So I then have to you know move the cursor or I have to do the key binding to move focus And then I can start using this the tile x also tile x is not native to Wayland You have to have a Environment variable in order to get it to run especially well, that's not 100% true. You can use it in regular mode just fine But it does not like the quake mode, which is what i'm using here in order to get you know without doing the environment variable thing so Uh scratch pads is probably the number one thing that i'm Missing when it comes to hyperland the second thing that's not so good And this is less of a hyperland thing is the bar now you guys can see up here at the top I have a bar. This is way bar and uh, I will be making a separate video on way bar I don't have many many positive things to say about it. So I don't even know if that Video will ever come to be honest with you. I don't like to do videos where completely negative Even though I just did one on Wayland, which is mostly completely negative But even then I was positive about some things, right? I changed my mind over being ready for regular people So I was somewhat positive there. I don't have a lot of positive things to say about way bar Hyperland by itself does not come with a bar and that's not unusual There's a lot of window managers out there on both sides of the xorg Wayland divide that don't come with bars and that's fine But the thing is that on xorg when you have a window manager that doesn't come with a bar You have a lot of options, right? You have a lot of different bars that you can use you can use poly bar tint To you can use e w w you can use Bumblebee bar you can use lemon bar you can use any number of different bars out there And you know just you're spoiled for choice on the Wayland side. That's not the case, right? There are a few bars That you can use way bar is the by far the most popular by far the most polished Experience that you're going to have in terms of bars And that's saying something considering that it's not that polished. It's okay It feels like they were trying to do The poly bar thing, but they didn't quite have the They didn't quite want to rip it off completely So they decided to do their configuration like if I go if I show you this this is the way bar configuration file and the It's like I said, it's kind of got the whole Poly bar syntax, but they've put it instead of a json folder or They've put it instead of a json, you know syntax and it's not great because you have to have quotation marks and you have to have the The commas in the right place and stuff like that. So it's it's not the greatest Reimplementation of poly bar ever. I don't hate json as much as I hate yaml, but it's pretty close It just makes it it makes a lot more messy, right? Because the whole thing has to be inside of a bracket You have to have all these quotation marks all over the place if they could figure out a way to have their Configuration file without all of that stuff They'd have a very good implementation of poly bar honestly because it's kind of the same But it's also like I said, it's just a little bit more messy than I'd prefer Also, the documentation is hit or miss when it comes to the modules and stuff. So way bar not fantastic The problem is is that it's the best choice EWW is it's confusing af. It really is I've tried it before I did the live stream on it And I've never got it all the way running I got close But I didn't get all the way there and that was tinkering with it for two hours Maybe I'll probably look at it again, but we'll see There are a few other smaller bars out there, but they're not as well developed They're mostly brand new and they're just not full feature yet So when it comes to bars on a Wayland compositor specifically on hyperland this time You just don't have a lot of choice and that's Not great It's just it's not a great experience right now yet Whereas like I have you're on xorg you have a ton of choice on Wayland compositors and things like hyperland You just don't have as much choice as I'd like now I think like I said earlier As Wayland and hyperland get more mature this problem is probably going to go away because we'll see more bars We'll see more bars that work across Wayland uh compositors and it will just get better over time. We're just not there yet Oh, there was one other thing that I want to talk about before we One more negative thing that I need to talk about and this is uh See the thing about this is that it's not even a Wayland specific problem like for whatever reason monitors Timing out and going blank and then turning off and going to sleep is a problem on xorg. It's a problem on Wayland It doesn't work out. Well, it's just not great on hyperland specifically. They don't have a tool as far as I'm aware For making your screens go blank. They do have a command that will do it Uh d dpms or whatever off and dpms on will work But then you'd have to write a script in order to get that work and it didn't work that well for me It actually ended up turning this monitor off completely and then it would not turn back on which is An interesting thing and then I was able to use sway lock No, no, excuse me I was able to use sway idle in order to get my screens to go blank But it would only turn off one One monitor it turned off this monitor I was able to then move the mouse in order to get the monitor to come back on but it switched positions Right. So uh instead of having this monitor here the big monitor being the the primary monitor is switched to this one It wasn't great, right? So Monitor management income when it comes to hyperland definitely needs to be better Uh in order for me to actually use it full time because as as it is right now I hate to have my monitors on all the time and yes, I can reach around and press the button I'm not that lazy, but it's I much rather have them go to sleep themselves because the computer is on all day And it just be easier if it was automated, right? So that's another negative thing that I really really needs to get fixed So my overall thoughts, like I said pretty positive now that I've been able to use it Now that I've been able to get obs to actually up and running And outside of the whole having to rebuild all of my tools that I use all the time because they all work on x work And not on wayland the actual experience of hyperland has been pretty good And the question then becomes am I going to continue to use it? Yeah, I probably will For a little while I'm going to try to get pie wall up and running and see if that will actually work because that could be fun to have Up and running because I don't have a lot of like on q-tile. I have a whole bunch of themes ready to go I don't have that on on hyperland yet So I'm going to set up pie wall and see if that's fun to play around with if I can get the monitors to go to Sleep I'm much more likely to stay on hyperland Then not if I can't get the monitors to go to sleep I'll probably hightail it back to q-tile Just because I know everything works over there and that means taking off all the wayland specific stuff that I've been Forced to set up in order to get you know obs to work in order to get crusaded to work and all this stuff So that'll be a process So I won't be switching back and forth if I have to leave hyperland to go back to quite q-tile It's probably be the end of my hyperland experience So that's it for this video if you have thoughts on hyperland you can leave those in the comment section below I'd love to hear from you. 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good morning from Turkey! I need to run because everyone else is at breakfast and I'm running late it's so pretty here um that means that they haven't even looked outside yet the balcony is not these rooms are actually huge like it literally goes all the way around whoa I joined Sun last night she was having some drinks but I was so tired from my flight and everything um ended up staying with sign at all three in the morning so I'm just tired um it's like 9.45 and apparently breakfast here ends at 10 my parents have been calling me so I need to dash this is my OOTD come show yours I'm trying to find somewhere that I want to sunbathe yeah let's do some water sports today okay you don't want us to go? no that's like sharks in Turkey isn't there? no she said she doesn't think there's nothing this water reminds me of Monaco I think wherever there's clouds there's mountains SWAT all I've done for the past few hours is sunbathe and it's been like two hours and I had breakfast two hours ago and my dad is like let's go for lunch I physically cannot I'm stuffed and also like sundown a bit even though it's been cloudy sunny cloudy sunny um yeah I'm just being a lazy little fish lazy little Pisces I just realized I was probably so sweaty in that clip enjoy anyone who knows me and watches my vlogs knows these two are like my two favorite drinks in the world Militial Crypturine for anyone wondering what this is it's spicy tannin juice so good the hotel has a photographer who was just chatting to us and he was like guys go inside because it is gonna rain heavy for the next two hours so we were sunbathing and fortunately the weather's been really good today I feel like I've caught a bit of a tan um and I literally fell asleep in the sun like passed out so hopefully I've caught some color we'll see um and I'm gonna go back to the room shower just get changed get ready everything seems to happen earlier in this resort like I think my sister said dinner serves so early so yeah we're gonna prepare for our children we do the unflattering angles okay I'm dressed for dinner even though it's like 5 p.m what is going on guys this hotel is there because it actually has a starbox and the starbox is part of the all-inclusive you look cute in your matching set so we're just gonna go have dinner now sign's taking a selfie pretty views um I was just excited about a book that I read called Attach which was actually recommended by Pippa so shout out to Pippa thanks for recommending it was very interesting I've only read like 80 pages on the flight yeah I said he was telling me about it you read 80 pages good on yeah I fell asleep on that fly I mean I fell asleep for like half an hour but then I woke up and I couldn't fall asleep so I continued reading I have it on my phone I download books on my phone and I think that's so much better to download but yeah it's better you know what I think get audiobooks as well I've got audiobooks but I fall asleep or I zone out the only audiobook that's worked for me so far is Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki I've really listened to that very well this view is so pretty that's so pretty Turkish tea and Turkish I'm physically sick that is a carb load after she's had three of them I'm gone what while she's been here while she's been here Me and my name in love twelve thousand eleven fifty two I don't know wait your friend is broken because every time she is you're seeking this is last time yeah that baby how many I did eleven thousand eight hundred ninety six he was on the bed and he closed his eyes and he woke I don't know, but I think it's your money, your money is in Fridays Who's buying this, guys? Friday was less, because it was raining 8,000 to 3,000 I don't know when he's walking Guys, I think he's attached some pedometer to a dog or something Or maybe the birds, the goat in the zoo The most is Tuesday, it was the uppers, 15,000 to 113,000 Wow You can't use it It's very sunny today I'm going to go get a Starbucks As if there is an all-you-can-drink Starbucks in this hotel Jeez, look at these If there was such a thing as a Starbucks subscription Like Pratt has We would like to have them and they did I know they can't introduce them I feel like we should make it mandatory There are no hotels to have a Starbucks, guys It's a thing So much better for the customer experience Take my advice If you have a little Starbucks Pretty lady She wanted me to check out her outfit of the day, guys Half as much Half as much as my glasses Do you like my glasses? That's very beautiful His French is coming So I'm not sure I properly explained this in the video My parents were already here in Turkey With our relatives from Iran It's like a midpoint to meet And have a vacation With our relatives And then Simon and I decided to come over On the weekend after work So I flew out Friday evening After work And came to join them just for the weekend Just see my relatives, see my parents And just have a bit of a chill time together Especially because Next week I'm going away To Mallorca One of my best friends' weddings So I won't be able to see my parents And Yeah, it was just like a nice spontaneous Trip to come and see them I actually booked it last weekend When I was in Monaco So it's been really really nice And I actually had another story that I wanted to tell you guys Which actually made me cry a laughter My dad booked me my taxi From the airport to the resort First of all the guy was like to me He was a young guy, he was like Do you mind if I smoke? I was like no that's fine You know I actually hate people smoking But I was kind of like in one of those awkward positions So I was like sure So he put the window down And started smoking Whilst going like 100 miles an hour And then after like 10 minutes He proceeded to FaceTime His girlfriend Right in my line of view So I could see like his girlfriend was like the background Of this phone and then it was like the same girl on FaceTime And I don't understand Turkish But I understand like certain words like Asgum, which means like my love or whatever So anyway I was just like watching YouTube vids on my phone Like in the back seat whilst he was doing this And then he hung up and I could feel like The car was swaying So I was like What's going on? And I look in his mirror and I could see Oh crap like I need to wake this guy up Because we still had like half an hour to go So I said to him like oh you look sleepy And he was like no I'm not tired And I was like you can pull over if you want And he was like no no no I'm good And then I could see him still like drowsy So I'm bear my he didn't speak any English So we were saying all of this in Google Translate So then I could see again he's like getting drowsy After like I'd asked him little questions Like how far as well as all So I was like let me make some more conversation with him Sorry if this lighting is awful by the way But I was like yeah let me make some more conversation with him So I Asked him if the girl in the background of his Phone was His girlfriend To which he said He replied back and said Oh I asked if it was his wife and he said No I'm not married And then he asked me are you married Or do you have a boyfriend And I said no I'm not married And then he said that's good He was like talking into his phone And then Google was translating it And he replied back and handed me the phone And I literally burst out laughing He was like I'm glad you're not married Because I'm really like into you Like I like you a lot And I literally burst out laughing And as he handed me this phone I could see his girlfriend texting him At the top of the phone with a heart emoji And I was like oh I think your girlfriend slashed the girl On facetime In the background of your phone Would be very upset if she heard you say that And then he Took the phone reply back to me and said I think you've got this all wrong The girl in the background of my phone Sorry How awful of a liar is this The girl in the background of my phone Is a friend, a very close friend of mine Who died That's why I made her my phone screensaver I do not have a girlfriend This man Was Fucking joking right She was literally on facetime to him as well And I could see it like I don't know what planet He was on but it was such a Bait bad lie that I just didn't even Like have anything to respond to that Then I just replied to him like sorry I've got a boyfriend anyway But thanks for your interest And then we reached the resort Thank God that was good timing And then my dad just told me he's booked the same guy To drive us back to the airport Amazing That was A joke though So random, so bizarre Okay I'm gonna take off my dress And fill up something Sina's gone red as a lobster Cleaned on a fan of this churros The lobster I didn't realise it had a caramel between it I thought it was just empty So Listen I have to stop I'm going to like South France Just stop Look at this I'm going to sleep on my long baby The sun and I'm going to look like a bloody dog It will go down in a week I hope the chicken feet will be there Outfit of the night Me and my dad are going down For our last dinner What's my last dinner My mum and dad are staying here for another week And James is coming with me We're just going down for a last dinner Outfit of the night It's been so nice to like have some relaxing time on the weekend I actually relaxed so much this weekend And I'm so tanned, I'm shocked That I've got such a tanned In two days of Antalya We're not even in Antalya Where are we? Kemer I realised today That Antalya we're in Kemer But anyway I've caught more of a tanned in two days here Versus a week in Dubai Which is interesting, that's interesting I think it's because I can lay out for longer In Dubai after like an hour Maybe because in the way It was hot Exactly whereas here Like I laid out the whole day today And the whole of yesterday So I feel very golden girl Just put some Parmesan I've not forgotten my SPF all day today Saina went a little bit lobster What was that about, huh? She was Red as a Red as a cherry But my dad goes red before he turns Did you put SPF on though? Yes Yeah, I'm just going to enjoy my last dinner So hot Kanafe Look, it's exactly where my glasses are not But did you not cream Kanafe guys So did I My skin's so sensitive Saina and I are flying back In about 20 minutes She wouldn't do passport control And they fully told Saina That there is a Shisha plane On the other side So And then she was like What is it? It's Gucci Oh, my noise can't sing It's just come on by itself Long story short Saina just believed me She thought there was a Shisha plane Inside the airport The chai cup You have to show it She's saying It does It does Our flight leaves in two hours We got here like pretty Actually leaves in an hour and a half We got here way early because We don't actually have any bags to check in Because we've literally come for the weekend I mean, I was literally I don't even use the stuff there I didn't even use the stuff that I had got Like, I must use I bought a few extra outfits But I knew I was going to sell them So I put something in my hair so I could buy a bit But I thought I'd just bring a few extra outfits Just in case like I don't like one I'm not feeling to wear it But no, I think my bag My bag was enough for I definitely, I don't even think I like Overpacked, I think I packed Pretty perfect, I had two extra Fingers But that was just because I wanted Choice because sometimes like I'll be in the mood for something less dressy When I'm packing and then when I'm at the location I'll be like I wish I bought something More dressy And vice versa So yeah, I think I've Packed very well to be honest I literally just packed two swimwear All both of them, two cover-ups One of them borrowed one from my mum Anyway, I'm going to My Monte Carlo vlog and Signing your phone It's connected to my AirPod It's also tricky to do too Guys, so funny Anyways, I'm going to edit my I want to go vlog and then I'll probably Tomorrow the day after edit this vlog as well So I love you guys so much And I'll see you next time Don't forget to like and subscribe


Hey Tony Gastons here I'm shooting this video to go live on live just to get this video up so that I don't have to shoot it and then upload it so if you're seeing that you're just seeing a live recording and it's probably it's almost four o'clock where I am and so if y'all happen to pop on here it's just a live recording it's not really a live it's not really a it's not a Q&A or anything but it's something I want to speak on because I'm getting ready to head to speak to a team and I'm going to speak to a college sports team and this team only this team is almost all black I think they have one white player the team is almost all black and when I spoke to them I could tell that nobody had ever said the things to them that I said to them and I told them I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna talk to you again and I went back and I talked to them again and I think they were shocked that I came back and I talked to them again and some of them reached out to me and sent me messages and it's another team I worked with that they almost all black males as well and I think that's what is triggering a lot of people it's too it's it's two sides of the aisle when I talk to people who they are on a trajectory about money they focus on their money they try to get their money up they understand totally what Dion Sanders is doing by leaving Jackson State University and going to Colorado but then on that other side is the people that you hear who I think they're thinking about the abandonment of young black men which they are adult men so people like hey these adults you know he didn't did this he didn't did that he didn't did this like okay he didn't did enough and it's two sides to it and I'm sitting and I'm just looking at it and reading people comments and seeing how people processing it because it helped me because just understanding people and this the thing I'm going back to work with this school and this is another school I work with it's another school I work with it's like four different schools that I don't work with this year and the teams are made up of black men young black men from high school through college and what I notice is when you talk to them you're saying stuff they've never heard but you'll be coming somebody and you're saying that you care and so if you don't show up if you don't answer the phone if you're not there then they lose hope they lose trust because for a lot of them that's what their father did the ones where the father they really don't care they really don't they appreciate you and don't appreciate you because they have a father and I noticed that with my sons because I'm in the home they don't really need the affirmation of another man like they're really not chasing after another man they're really not going to seek the council of another man because I'm in the home but it's a lot of young men who their father knocked there and us showing up it means something and this one thing that a lot of people don't admit to but when it comes to emotional intelligence women handle it very well men handle it but just because a man is solemn and just because a man is quiet and just because a man sucks it up doesn't mean just because he doesn't show you doesn't mean he's handling it well but then when you look at a lot of women who go through there's some who handle it bad but for the majority it's like you see them as single mothers and they're pressing through they're not perfect by far and then the same thing with men men are pressed through going to work still making money but you will see the men may act out in their relationship and this is what's happening today is we're seeing the adult version of abandoned boys we're seeing boys who become men and did not have a father and and and they had men who sold them a dream or told them i'm gonna be there for you i'm here i'm by your side and then those men move on with the next young man who is presenting a better opportunity or they move on with that next opportunity and so a lot of people don't know this and i won't tell a lot of people but the majority of the work i do as a speaker i'm doing it on a high level with championship programs and i'm doing it just as good as any other speaker in the industry i guarantee you that because one thing that head coaches don't like to do head coaches don't like motivational speakers especially at the division one level they vet they speak very hard and and a coach don't like to take away time from the game to talk about the mental coaches don't like that and so that's why most guys only get speak to a team one time because the coach don't like giving away all that time but then also it costs a lot of guys charging thousands and thousands of dollars but because i care about the heart of the young men that i'm impacting i don't charge i don't charge if they pay me that's because they want to pay me but i don't charge if they give me something it's because they want to give it to me but i don't charge because i don't want the money to get in the way of me reaching this young man's life because i know that i have reached tens of millions of people as a black man without a college degree without a team without a mentor so i believe when i'm sitting in front of these young men who are athletes and they have the edge that athletes have that when the game is over and they go into the real world if i was a college athlete who was lazy and i'm doing what i'm doing it lets me know what these young men can do if they have any amount of work and that's why i go talk to them but if i charge what i'm worth if i charge the school even a thousand dollars they're not going to be able to bring me back many times if i charge them even a thousand now if i charge them what i'm worth 10 thousand 15 20 25 thousand what some of us speakers get i haven't been paid $50,000 by a company to speak for five minutes so speakers get paid well and so somebody may say oh i got paid 125,000 but you spoke an hour so when i got paid 50,000 to speak five minutes you look at how many times five minutes go into 60 minutes and then you see that really was a 300,000 dollar check essentially for an hour speech and i don't charge the schools because i'm more concerned about reaching the young men and i prayed to god and god gave me another way to make a living so that my purpose my passion don't have to be just about the check and that's why i try to help other speakers to like create other streams of income so that your heart is really in what you're doing and you are there to impact the lives and i put it on my twitter but this is how men are this is how men are and women and women always ask these questions about men why aren't men growing i put it on my twitter if you are a coach of young men college it's college coaches division one coaches that follow me high school coaches that follow me i say if you are a coach and you have a team and y'all don't have a team mentor reach out to me and i'll do a zoom with y'all or i'll fly in and speak to your team i got over 300,000 followers on twitter i think it's been one coach that roping think it's been one coach that wrote me that just reminded me i need to reach back out to him because he had a hbcu been one coach that reached out to me and a lot of people liked it a lot of people retweeted but here you got a successful black man but see the men so many men that this are a problem they think that oh if you didn't play in the nfl if you didn't play in the nba what you're gonna tell my players uh i'm gonna tell them how to be a man because the game of life is way more important than a sport i played sports my whole life i played football in college that does not equate to life life will destroy you life will life will mess you up life don't ask you for permission to do nothing to you life will give you what it want to give you and the problem what you see you hear this term arrested development i don't even know what it means but it sounds like what it means but it's so many men especially black men because when we come up we are only affirmed as athletes and that's why you notice so many music artists are smaller and comedians a lot of them are smaller you see kevin heart is five four because it's not a lot of options as black men so if you're too small to play a sport then they say well you need to make music or you need to tell jokes but we're not taught how to start a business we're not taught how to get into the service industry regularly enough or we have too much pride and ego for that's why you a lot of rappers are smaller because the sports weren't working out so they had to go to music but what's happening with the athletes is they're going in there playing a sport and they're being praised and they're being utilized for their body but then as soon as that sport is over they're being discarded and they're being treated like trash and imagine the psychological warfare and imagine what happens in the mind when you've been used for your body and now that you are done for you get thrown to the wayside but along this time these college coaches have been taking your time for 40 hours a week or the pro coaches been taking your time well pro different because you're getting paid but in college and high school you're giving all this time and the coaches 99% of coaches don't take 30 minutes a week to teach these young men about life about a credit score about a LLC about savings about relationships about how to handle tough times they only talk X's and O's for the game and they're not being respected or seen as humans they're being seen as a product by most programs and that's why I go and work with the programs I work with because the coaches they want to give more and they want to treat their players like people and not just athletes and that's what the issue is so a lot of people don't understand why there's people who are mad a lot of people don't understand why some people mad with Deon Sanders for leaving Jackson state the reason why the people that's mad I get it because it's business you got to elevate I get it and and one thing I've learned as I started to climb I learned never judge a person until you walking in their shoes a lot of people have a comment about what to say or what to do but until you in that person shoes you cannot see from their vantage point that you have no idea so that's why I do my best not to judge and but a lot of people are mad with Deon because of the abandonment trigger it's triggering that abandonment response that we have from being given a promise and we take that that promise is forever we take that that promise is for a long time but that promise like in that situation for Deon I think was three years so it's it's gonna be guys in there who they're about a bag and they're about building a brand and they're about elevation they're gonna get it but then that the whole room of guys who they're not going pro but yet they could have went and played for another division one school but they came to Jackson state for Deon Sanders and now there's no room for them at Colorado because they're not that good but they was good enough to play at UCF or USF or Georgia Tech but they went to Jackson state for Deon Sanders trying to give to the HBCU and now he going to a predominantly white institution those group of young men they're gonna they crush I already know it because I work with them I work with them they crush and so they're looking at it like they just they took a look at it like you know hey this you told this was my promise like I see you as a father figure so the what they looking at it they're looking at it like their father is saying hey I met a woman who got a bigger booty and made more money and prettier than your mama and if I don't elevate eventually your mama gonna leave me so I got to go get this other woman that's how I guarantee you half of those young men looking at and it's gonna be something to come out vocal and say no I ain't tripping it's cool I get it no it ain't no issue all of that and but again that's another thing black men not gonna tell the truth black men not gonna get online and show hurt and show pain and show vulnerability they're gonna get out and say okay I get it and another thing that black men don't do especially black men with influence is black men don't hold black men accountable so no black men that have a following is saying it's talking about that other side they basically saying hey elevate a going to the next level a going to the next best thing and a lot of those men that saying that are the same type of men that will leave a wife over something petty for a woman who prettier or for a woman who make more money or for a woman who got more connections and that's the thing and and the thing about it is I see both sides I ain't mad at Dion I'm just empathizing with the young men who I know don't understand it and I know what they feeling because I'm dealing with these young men and they a lot of time they came wrap their head around you've done enough a lot of time they came wrap their head around oh you came and you did this and you did this and this and this because they want you they want they want that male figure in their life forever and people could say oh well the men could still be there for the for the young men people could say that but you only got so much time in the day like right now I had to go out of town with my son with my son I got a tv show that I'm filming they said Tony we want you to film on Monday I say I can't be there on Monday because my son is going to be in California playing soccer my son actually broke his arm on Sunday I had nowhere to know that was going to happen so now I don't push the tv show back they pushed it back to Thursday today is Wednesday a black man reached out to me and say hey we need you my team need you I'm serving the team for free but he reached out to me because I gave him my word so I got off a red out flight this morning at six o'clock I went home and I slept for a few hours got to bed at 10 10 a.m woke up 1 a.m had to go to the barbershop to get a half cut at three had to have the the mobile covid test come to me to test me at the barbershop and I had to pay my driver all day just so I could do this right here instead of driving and shooting the video and because I'm tired so I got my driver driving me today and I'm getting ready I'm pulling up to the school right now to speak to the team because I gave him my word and I told him that I come back and I'm doing it for free but guess what I'll keep going straight right over yep it's straight in um it's straight and it's this parking lot to the left and and you you'll see that name uh yeah go go up to uh can you turn in at that next yeah yeah right here where this orange thing yeah um to the left right here I think this is and because I gave him my word I gave him a word and then but guess what it was a black man that reached out to me to come talk to his black players these young black men and then we go straight ahead and park up at the end and then but while I'm coming here another young black man that I met who wants to do what I do reached out to me and say hey do you have yeah straight ahead right here in this parking lot where we at so see what this black SUV and yeah we'll go right over there who he want to do what I do and he said hey do you have time to talk to me I said hey I'm getting ready to speak to a team right now but after I finish speaking to that team I should have time so here I am in in one day and 99.9% of this not shown this not this not talked about that is black man trying to help black men but what people don't understand is when a black man is given a word and then that word changes it's a lot of black men that can't recover from that because that's what their father did to him and that's why my father was in the home and because he was in in the home it taught me stand on what you stand on be there and so my mama she's an adult but he had to raise his kids and he stayed with her all the way to my sister was 18 their relationship was done after year two but not only did he stay he was healthy in the home and my mama she knew that the relationship had done went you know sour and that they weren't on the same page but he was there for me and whether that was right or wrong because some people said oh you should stay for the kids if you can't you shouldn't stay if you're going to be fussing fighting arguing and all that he stayed and was healthy he won't fight he won't argue he was a good example and so that said something to me so I said to my mom one time I said mama if I get a prostitute pregnant I am going to marry her and I'm gonna be there for my kids because if I made a choice to lay down with a woman and bring a child in this world I'm gonna stand up as a man and I'm gonna be there for my child and I'm gonna be healthy for my child and I'm gonna be an example for my child I'm not finna get a nut and run off I'm not finna get what I want and then let that child suffer and see that's what we have to realize is black men and that's what we're not doing we're running off on our sons we running off on the young black men that we done made a promise to we running off on them after we done sold them a dream and that's what's hurting and that who do you think pays a price for that their want their wife pay a price for that then they kids pay a price for that when I walk in this school and I talk to these division one athletes where some of them could go to the NBA when I talk to these young men they're gonna be shocked that it's the third time I'm coming to talk to them within two months but guess what since I don't start talking to them to them they done change their life they didn't start to work on their life they starting to work on not smoking as much not drinking as much not sleeping around as much because they're hearing something they had not heard and as men black men we gotta stop abandoning each other we gotta stop abandoning our son it's so many black men that get a woman pregnant have a son have a daughter and they just bought the sons but I'm talking about how the pain that men are causing in the world due to their pain and it's because of their daddy caused that pain and their daddy caused the pain because their daddy caused the pain and at some point the book has to stop and we gotta say I'm gonna make a change I'm no longer gonna cause pain because the pain was caused to me and this is what is happening and so we have these men who get a woman pregnant and have kids with a woman and doing the next big booty on a smile or the next big check they go and get with that woman and start treating their biological kids like they are less than treating them worse than Cinderella was treating treat them like they they step kids because they got a new booty in their life and and women always talk about how can a man do that how can a man do that because he chasing that behind he chasing that behind and let me tell you why he chasing behind he chasing behind because he is hurting and he is lost ain't making excuse for I'm explaining to you he dealing with his trauma through sex instead of through therapy when he in that woman he getting a release and that release that dopamine that oxytocin for that moment is making him forget about his daddy leaving him his daddy abusing him his mama abusing him and that's and then he will forget about his kids and forget about the fact that he's causing the same trauma if not worse to his children that was caused to him and it's a cycle and so that is why so for all the people who calling everybody a hater who is against what Dion Sanders is doing I'm here to say I get what Dion Sanders doing I understand he didn't did a lot for the school I understand is larger territory it's more influence is more money he can he can have a enough money to donate to Jackson State but the thing about it is child support the donations that's going to build a facility is not going to replace his presence in the young man life he could send enough money Colorado could build Jackson State a whole new arena could build Jackson State a whole new school and it's not going to replace the father figure that those young black men salt in him and they not going to be able to call him with a problems because he's going to have a team of a hundred new young men so you can't be there for the hundred on your team and the hundred that you left as one person you can't do it and so the people who are triggered it's not that they hating it's that they are hurting it's that their trauma response their abandonment response has been triggered and they are feeling the pain for the young men who father walked out on them and now they feel like another man is walking out on them these young men are still boys they still kids they adults by age but not by maturity and we know that most men don't even start to think about becoming a real man before the age of 25 it's men in their 60s that are still children that's still grown boys in their 60s so these young men not going to understand larger territory more resources more money generational wealth giving your son a larger platform they don't care nothing about that they can't fathom that because they've seen a father figure speaking into their life every day and i'm gonna tell you something i found out that a lot of people this is secret that a lot of coaches don't know teams do not win because of x's and o's teams win because of motivation when i stepped on a scene with a team that was a good team but had not won on a real level when i started working with that team every month that team became national champions that team set a win record that team set a ranked in the top 10 for the longest consecutive weeks ever that team set winning records because the culture changed because there was accountability because there was inspiration motivation and there was elevation so what people don't understand and this is what i'm telling black women the reason why i'm not giving up on black men even though millions of black women saying they don't like me and the reason why i'm not giving up because i understand that most men have not heard the one thing that'll change their life forever i understand that most men have not heard the one thing that'll get them to step it up that'll take them to the next level i understand that so listen to me they don't know they don't prove my life hold on one second they have proved my life so that's why i can't give up because when you hear something that you heard when you hear something that you ain't heard when you see something that you haven't seen the one thing is the it's different for every person it's different for every man but in the course of a speech it's 60 things that said and one thing speak to each person and each person may be different and that's what i have found oliver window holmes has a quote that says once the mind is stretched to a new dimension it never returns to its original form so when you become a living representation when you become a black man who can work for yourself who can earn millions of dollars or hundreds of thousands who can be married and faithful who can be a father and devoted who can travel the world and yet still be at their son's practice who can live a life that is comfortable but yet purposeful see when a black man sees that that is possible when any man sees that is possible let me tell you one thing that i found that happens after i meet men i meet so many men and after they talk to me let me tell you the next thing that happens they quit their job because they saw a possibility they say i just met a man who was black in america who does not have a mentor who does not have a team who does not have a college degree but he works for himself and what i make in a year he makes in a month they see a possibility and then they say if he can do it i can do it so i don't care if there's a million black men that are no good because they're living in a trauma in a pain and they're not getting healing i'm still going to be a representation in every aspect in every arena that i can because i know the ones who see it gonna say it's possible it's possible to be married and happy it's possible to be married and faithful it's possible to be a christian and to be happy it's possible to be a christian and to be successful it's possible to be a christian and not be delusional it's possible to be a christian and yet still relatable to a degree see when they see the possibilities it change everything hey this is Tony gasses i supposed to be here by 430 it's 420 they about to get out of practice at 430 so i need to go and wrap this on up and go and get on in there hey god bless you thank you for your time if you missed any of this watch it back drag the little button back watch it back and get the senior spirit and understand this understand this about your son understand this about your brother about your uncle about your cousin about your daddy about your granddad understand this hey god bless you we'll talk soon