This is why you will never learn the Arabic language. Assalamu alaikum. Good morning. How are you doing? How did you sleep? Yeah, I don't feel too well, man. Well, you slept like seven, seven, eight hours. You shouldn't feel like that. I think it's that you sleep so late so your body doesn't rest well instead of sleeping right after H.I., you know? Actually, I had a lot of stuff to do, but yeah, I don't feel, I don't feel like doing it today because I feel a little... Bro, you said that yesterday, bro. Come on. Yeah, but what can I do if I don't feel well? It's difficult to work like this. Yeah, maybe if you start being on your phone before going to sleep and stop eating like a pig and actually focus on getting better. What did you say? Huh? What did you say? I said, no, I was just talking to myself. But yeah, man, I think, I think you should get your life together, you know? Yeah. So, if Allah is not helping me, how He's helping you. Oh, how is that my fault? In my 10 years of experience learning the Arabic language, I have realized that it's never about what everybody focuses. It's always about these three things that I will share with you that, Wallahi, I assure you and guarantee you that if you apply them in your life, not only it will help you learn the Arabic language, but as well, it will help you in other realms of your life. This is why you will never learn the Arabic language. It is not because your parents never taught you. It's not because of where you live, is the wrong place, I can't find no programs. It's not because of the lack of courses out there. It's not because you can travel. It's simply you, my friend, my brother, my sister is in within you. The problem and the reason why you struggle is because you don't know how to plan. You don't know how to set your days. You don't know how to execute. You don't know how to regulate your life to become a more productive human being. Now, let's forget for a moment everything that has to do with methods, books, teachers, programs, and let's focus on the elements that are really discussed not too often. And I will show you why the students at Andrews Institute, they are more efficient. These three things that I want to talk about today is your habits, your health, and lastly, your mindset. Now, first of all, let's talk about your habits. And we are just going to focus on this because if you fix this, well, if you fix this, everything else, you realize like, oh, wow, I'm becoming better at everything else just because I have fixed this thing. Now, this thing, my friends, is the phone, social media. But let's focus on the phone as a general aspect because some people are not on social media and they just get distracted with other things, whether it's with conversations, with friends, whether it's with long three-hour calls. Like, I've seen people talking on the phone for 18 hours literally just stopping to pray and they've been talking for 18 hours. This happens. It's real. So let's talk about this phenomenon, the phone, and how to get rid of these bad habits that are created around it. Now, your phone and constantly checking it, endless social media scrolling, you know, the fear of missing out on news, events, what is this saying? What is that saying? Who's saying what? Who's finding who? It will not allow you to focus. It will distract you. It will cause anxiety. It will cause your thoughts to be scattered and you have so much information, you know, that your eyes are consuming, let alone the images, let alone, you know, all the fahshah and all the dislikeable things that you see on social media.  All of this, it affects your mind without you realizing it and you can only realize it once you get rid of your phone for a serious period of time. I'm talking about at least 72 hours. Try it out. So amongst the best advice that I can give you, and it's a good example because my phone at the moment is locked and it says that it will be unlocked in three hours and 29 minutes. And this box, it literally has helped me immensely just because of the fact of not having the phone, but you won't know how beneficial this is until you try it. And then I have this one that has a hole here where I can pick up calls. And of course, I have set this system in a way where only certain people have this phone number. So when people call me, I can pick up the call and talk to them, but I cannot get distracted by picking up the phone.  If you go to sleep at 9pm, which you should after Asia, lock it two hours before and have it logged for as many hours as you need to get work done. So for example, if you go to sleep at 9pm and you wake up at 7, 8, you start your day at 7, 8, and you have things to do in the morning, calculate the amount of time that it will take you to finish those tasks and set the phone to be unlocked once you would be done with those tasks. And you will see that you will all of a sudden get things done, you won't waste your time in the morning and you will go straight into your work. This is my first golden advice that has helped me tremendously in my life, that I assure you and I guarantee you that inshallah, if you apply it, it will change a lot of things for you as well. Ibn Qadam Al-Makdisi said, It is necessary for the seeker of knowledge to get rid of all distractions. For when thoughts are scattered, they fall short of grasping truths. The predecessors used to prefer knowledge above all else. Meaning if something is in your life and you don't really need it to leave, you should prefer knowledge, you should prefer alertness of your brain above all of these other things. Okay, you will maybe miss a message on Instagram for a few hours, oh so bad. So you can lock your phone. If you already feel like scared of doing that, of course you are not learning Arabic. So lock your phone, get rid of people and cut people out. Cut things that distract you out. It could be people, it could be apps, it could be suffers, anything that is distracted, you cut it out and set the system.   Stop responding to messages on WhatsApp so quickly so people get used to you not being always available. And you will see all of a sudden, nobody cares about you. So when Ibn Qadama, he said that having scattered thoughts because of massive information consumption, having all of these thoughts scattered, it doesn't allow you to grasp truth in an easy way. Somebody tells you something so simple and you just can't grasp it. Yeah, but like what? Like, all right, but wait, like, okay, repeat it.  You are slow because of everything you consume, of everything that's going on in your phone, scrolling, explore page, messages, all of these notifications that are un-purposely made to trigger a part in your brain that when they come up, when you hear the sound, it triggers something in your body that pushes you to want to see what is it. What was that? The sound was so appealing to your brain. All of these things, it's people that sits down in a room and talk about how we can keep these people on these apps the most amount of time possible.  Don't fall for this. Don't fall for this. Fight your nefs. Don't give your nefs what he's asking you for of massive scrolling through social media. Get rid of all of these habits and you will see that everything else will come in a very easy way. The next thing is your health, your diet. Your diet directly impacts your mood and your cognitive function as well.  So when your sleep is disrupt, you have mood disorders. So you wake up sluggish, you feel tired, your body is heavy. Now you don't feel like working out, of course. Now you don't feel like doing and getting things done. You don't feel like sitting down for one hour, listening to a lesson, reading, doing homework, taking notes. So your diet and your gut is so important that sometimes doctors call it your second brain.  How you treat your gut, it directly impacts on how you function on a daily basis, how active you are. Ibrahim Ibn Adham, Rahimahullah, he said, Whoever is able to control his stomach will be able to control his religion, meaning how he behaves towards his religion.  And whoever is able to control his hunger will acquire good manners, the manners that are righteous. So all of these things comes from your gut. And of course your gut, as we said, is your second brain.  All of these things comes from what you put in your body. We tend to know about 101 things that are bad for me. Yeah, I know this is bad for me. I eat it every day. But you know, what can I do? This is just having a weak nerves, a weak soul, you know, it's bad for you. So why would you do that to yourself? Allah says in the Quran. And don't throw yourself to destruction. Why would you do that to yourself?  Your soul has a right upon you, which is for you to take care of it. So take care of it and fix your health. And the last thing is your mindset. And there is no doubt that all of these things are linked. And to put it simply, if you are eating unhealthy food, it can affect your self-esteem. And of course, it can affect your sleep. When you are tired and not feeling good about yourself, it's harder to get things done. You know, this can lead to feelings of loneliness, sadness, depression, anxiety, and the list goes on just because of these small things. Remember, everything is in the details. How you do the small things is how you do everything. And how you do the small things will directly affect how you do the big things. But the good thing is you can break this cycle and make sure you have a good mindset. Make sure you think good of Allah and you have good thoughts of Allah. There is a hadith or an ather of Ibn Mas'ud, radiallahu anhu. He said, Meaning, if you have good thoughts of Allah, for example, you want to learn the Arabic language and you think good of Allah, you think, why would Allah not help me to learn the Arabic language? Why would Allah not make this path easier on me? Allah Azza wa Jal, he is the most ideal. Allah is the most fair. So, he wants you to worship him. And you need to understand the Quran and the sunnah to worship him. So, of course, Allah says in the Quran, And we have indeed made the Quran easy to remember. So, is there anyone that wants to remember it? And there is anyone that wants to learn it? Apply it. Allah has made all of this easy. The Deen is easy to understand. It's easy to apply. If it wasn't, Allah wouldn't be fair. So, if you have good thoughts of Allah, you won't have a bad mindset. You are going to be positive. Why would Allah not allow me to learn the Arabic language? Why would this be difficult? So, as a result of that, you will stop having a negative self-talk. You will stop saying things like, man, this is so difficult. I don't know if I can do this. Man, I'm not made for this. I don't think I'm capable of this, you know? All of these are vocabulary words and sentences that comes from somebody that have a bad mindset. And this bad mindset comes from a nax and a deficiency in how you should believe about Allah Azza wa Jal, how you should think and behave towards Allah Azza wa Jal. You should have good thoughts of Allah Azza wa Jal. And if you don't have good thoughts of Allah Azza wa Jal, your mindset will be messed up as a result of that. And if your mindset is messed up, you will have bad habits. And if you have bad habits, you will have a bad health. And if you have a bad health, guess what? You will lose in every realm in this life. So, apply this in your life and you will see everything change. See you in the next one.


Goldie Roger, the pirate king who sparked the great age of pirates. His famous last words, which called pirates out to sea, etched into the hearts and minds of not just pirates, but effectively everyone in One Piece. But are his words his, or are they inspired by someone else? Hello my Nakamitachi, this is Joygirl and today we're going to be starting a new series of videos where we examine the gallery of One Piece characters and discuss the various real life influences which may have inspired Oda in his creation and development process. And if you'd like to see more videos like this then I do encourage you to subscribe if you haven't done so already. One of the reasons why One Piece is the widely enjoyed and celebrated series that it is, is due to Oda's exceptional development of his wide range of diverse characters. Oda dedicates a lot of time into his story and the characters who occupy the world he created. One way in which he achieves bringing his story to life is by drawing from real life inspirations to incorporate into his work. We have seen the mangaka do this with real life events, locations and of course the characters are widely known to have been influenced by real life people. And even more surprisingly Oda may have not only drawn inspiration from just one real life person, but several which does explain how characters become the interesting multifaceted and deeply developed characters that they are. So in this series we will go through different characters and the various influences Oda has drawn from to bring about the character of topic. And what better way to start our video series than by examining the first character we were introduced to in One Piece, the man responsible for kicking off the entire story, the pirate king himself, Gol D. Roger. The man hailed as the pirate king with his dying words heralded the great age of pirates. Well you may be surprised to know that these last words actually seem to have been inspired by the dying words of a real life pirate. Which brings us to the first real person that seems to have influenced Oda's creation of Gol D. Roger, Olivier Levasseur. Olivier Levasseur was a French pirate who operated during the late 17th to early 18th century. After joining the French Navy as an officer, Levasseur became the privateer for the French crown during the War of Spanish Succession. Once the war ended, rather than returning home to France, Levasseur founded hard to leave behind his adventurous life at sea and became a pirate instead. Having been born into a wealthy family, unlike many others, Levasseur's motivations for becoming a pirate doesn't seem to have stemmed from a desire for wealth. He is rather known to have loved his adventures as a privateer and developed a passion for piracy after joining the crew of an English pirate. Levasseur soon sailed off under his own name through which he built a solid reputation as a pirate. Known to be a formidable predator, he became known as Laboussé or the buzzard for his swiftness and ruthlessness. He was also known as Laboussé or the mouth due to his proficiency in verbally attacking his opponents.  Right down to his appearance, with the pirate having worn an eye patch to cover one eye which had gone blind by the time his life of piracy came to an end. Levasseur's greatest exploit as a pirate which is also considered to be one of the greatest exploits in the history of piracy is his capture of the great Portuguese galleon Nossa Senhora do Cabo, or Our Lady of the Cape in English, also referred to as the Virgin of the Cape. In April 1721, the Portuguese flagship was moored in the harbor of St. Denis for repair works and thus unfortunately became a helpless target for Levasseur and Captain Taylor, another pirate whom Levasseur had joined forces with. This ship is known to have held a vast amount of treasures which had been accumulated over 10 years. It consisted of gold, diamonds, jewelry, spices, cloth, fine wood, amongst many others. And according to some, the pirates obtained so much treasure that they didn't even bother to rob any of the extremely wealthy passengers who were on board the captured vessel. Levasseur then claimed the ship as his own, giving it a new name, The Victorious. For the next few years, Levasseur would continue to engage in his exploits before requesting clemency in 1724. Amnesty had been offered to all pirates in the Indian Ocean who would be willing to give up piracy. However, one of the conditions of this deal was that the pirates would also have to turn over a large portion of their treasures. Levasseur rejected this condition and instead went into hiding with his treasures, settling down in the Seychelles. However, he was eventually discovered in Madagascar from where he was taken to the island of Reunion in 1730, where Levasseur was sentenced to hang for his crimes of piracy. This isn't the end of Levasseur's tale, however. As infamous of a pirate that he was for his exploits, Levasseur is most well known for his last moments. On the day he was to be hanged, Levasseur stood on the scaffold with the rope tied around his neck and moments before his execution, the proud pirate through a cryptogram consisting of 17 lines into the crowds, exclaiming, find my treasure, the one who may understand it. Sparking a great treasure hunt that has lasted through the ages. To this day, no one is said to have been able to decipher Levasseur's code and thus his treasure remains hidden. Levasseur's last moments seem to be a clear inspiration for Goldie Rogers. The similar call to find his treasure and the clues left behind in the form of polyglyphs was likely drawn from Levasseur's final words and the cryptogram he left behind. Aside from this, it seems Oda has taken some other elements of Levasseur's character, the real life pirate's keen sense of adventure, as well as his notoriety as a strong and fierce pirate. And adding a personal interpretation, Levasseur's epithet, Labouche, reminds me of Bush, as in Rogers' Bushino's hair or mustache, which may have very well been another one of Oda's homage to the notorious pirate. But moving on to another pirate Oda may have drawn inspiration from, Henry Avery. Henry Avery was an infamous English pirate who operated in the late 17th century and despite having only led his crew as captain for around one year, led a very successful expedition which would earn him the epithet, Pirate King. Not much is known about Avery prior to his life as a pirate, though it is thought he served in the Royal Navy. In 1694, he orchestrated a mutiny where he was elected the captain of the new pirate ship, Fancy. The expedition which catapulted his infamy was the capture of the Gunch Isawaii, which is a ship that was part of the grand mogul of India's convoy of ships known to be the greatest of the fleet. The Gunch Isawaii was forced to surrender when a cannon exploded on board, heavily damaging its deck. The loot aboard the Gunch Isawaii included 500,000 combined pieces of gold and silver and was valued at an estimated amount up to 600,000 pounds, which if converted into modern currency would be worth a whopping 400 million US dollars. This ship may have been the richest ship ever taken by pirates and made every the richest pirate in history, but along with the wealth came risk and danger, great enough to match his riches. Because as a result of Avery angering the grand mogul, it understandably resulted in the pirate gaining the highest bounty placed on his head, an amount which in today's age would be worth around 700,000 dollars. It is known that many on board suffered at the hands of the pirate, but despite his brutality, Avery was considered a good captain by his crew and is dubbed to be one of the noble pirates in history. For their troubles, the crew each received 1000 pounds, more money than what most sailors made in their lifetime. On top of this, each man received an additional share of gemstones. Avery then disbanded the fleet and disappeared with his remaining treasure in the Caribbean, notably the Caribbean was then known to be the New World. Whilst many of his crew and contemporaries were captured and forced to face their crimes, Avery changed his name and avoided capture, both the pirate and his treasure never found. Avery's success as a pirate inspired many to follow his footsteps and influence the next generation of pirates, which came to be known as the Golden Age of Piracy, dating from the late 17th to early 18th centuries. Some notable pirates who were part of this next generation include Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, Calico Jack, Samuel Bellamy and Edward Low amongst others, many of whom were children at the time of Avery's reign of piracy. Names which sound very familiar for us One Piece fans and ones we will explore in future videos. Going back to the character in focus of this discussion, it seems that Goldie Roger was also partly inspired by Henry Avery. For one, the notion of Avery as a noble pirate despite his brutal actions is similar to the mixed perspectives towards Roger in the series. On one hand, Oda depicts him as a likeable and good pirate and yet we have witnessed many who despise the late pirate king. Furthermore, the titles of King of Pirates and the richest pirate parallel Roger's own epitome as well as his treasure the One Piece being considered the world's greatest treasure. And much like his real life counterpart, Roger inspired many to venture out to sea, sparking the great age of pirates which sounds awfully similar to the real life Golden Age of Piracy. Another real life individual who may have formed part of Goldie Roger's character is Roger North. Roger North, though not a pirate, was a sailor who accompanied explorer Sir Walter Rayleigh in the search for El Dorado, the so-called City of Gold. It seems that Oda reversed the roles between Roger North and Walter Rayleigh in that in One Piece, Roger is the captain whilst Rayleigh accompanied Roger as his first mate. Nonetheless, despite this difference, the endeavor to search for El Dorado, the paradise of riches, seems to match Roger and his crew's discovery of both Chandra, the City of Gold, as well as Laftel, the final island on which the One Piece can be found. So there you have it, the inspirations behind the character Goldie Roger. And that brings us to the end of today's discussion. If you'd like to know more about One Piece characters and their real life inspirations, please subscribe and click that notification bell so that you can be notified when we have a new video just like this one. This is Joygirl and I'll see you again soon.


...but we were here to talk about men's conference. On that train here conference. Men's conference. Ule na men's conference. I went there, I was among the officials. Ule kuwa opening prayers. Uende na kakulido bendi prayers. Ya. How was it? It was fun.  Escaped? Ya. Kwa ni cinema zombie? Is this the apocalypse you're running away? No, you disturbed us so much that money. Ya, we were escaping that spending. Oh my gosh. Because that was my first question. It was my first question. What made the gentlemen go to this? Who convened this conference first of all? Nani alitana, alituma e-maila mamu liyamua tu? Itu liyambiana. Then itu liyamua to endemens conference so that we discuss issues affecting us generally. Oh my gosh. There are so many actually. Grievances. Ya. We come back itu favorite. They tell me there was also supposed to be a female conference but kila dema pua li tisha fea ya kuhenda. So akunam tu alia. We postponed the female conference til nona zile time zene yesu atakari bia kuza liwa. We'll go. We are going by the 8th show. We're going. We're still planning to have a baby mama suitcase and everything. You know women need a lot. Oh my gosh. Ya, suitcases. We're going for like two weeks. Where? Two and a half weeks. Actually. I don't know what's going on. But how did this men's conference affect you? Did it affect you? It affected me a lot. You know. It affected me a lot. But how did this men's conference affect you? Did it affect you? It affected me a lot. You know men. Ok, our men went there. Ok, not all of them went. A kina kevona bria wali baki by the way. A kina kevona bria wali baki by the way. So our men went and then waka tuwacha on valentine. Seriously on valentine. Every girl wants to be cheated out on valentine. And then waka ti you call them and tell them. Ume puteya. A chani ambia kevani chukwe out. And they're like you're cheating. Really, who was the mistake there? It's them. I will talk to us. Because kevo kwansa wa movi. Akini ambia na takati nikuje kwa ke. At least nisi lipe movi ni wachi e kwa ke. Kwefri. Ndakata aji na omej pelika conference. Kevo wa movi metusumbwa sana. He is a ben in this society and that is why we convened to discuss these issues. That's why I don't know why you're actually sad because for 364 days you have us around. It was just this one day. Just one day that we went around and we had to discuss matters of national importance. National importance val. Get that right. This is a matter of national security. So national security is avoiding to spend on us? No, no, no. No, actually. Just take it. Actually, women have been infringing on our rights ever since. Gosh. Yes. Because ever since inuwa Dada Foundation, now we also have this Mendeleo ya wanaume initiative. We also have it to air out our views, the issues that are affecting us as men. Naisu issues ime osumbwa. Sana. Ya. Kido gom kuna feedain usasa? Ya, they really hearted our feelings and to leakage sana.  Nimeo na one of the agenda apu evo kwa meeting, kwa yo confranci li kwa ni, how to say no when women ask you for money. Ya. What have you learnt, sir? So I've learnt that women, they have this feeling, they have this car, say that when they want to ask you money, they start... Ya, that's which name. Chorachorapokun. Ya ni, feeling tu ni ngini na kwingi usiatua pesaiote. Atakablai tisha. Atakablai tisha. So we learnt that. We learnt how to avoid those issues actually. Kusiawa na tu ame, ame anza kuchorachora siji, vei, love evo, unadjua tu ini pesa and then you know how to avoid it. Kayu suali ni ame, the whole of January, kisali miwa na mstana li kwa tu nasema. Sina. Sina. Ya. Na kumbe ma de ma li kwan eleo, de just moved on, okay. So will you blame us when we go to Kewan, bryo for ok, and ask them for money? I'll be offended. I'll be deeply offended. You don't even love Kevo? Then why did you go to the conference to discuss such matters? Kevo, kevo sii story. It was just a matter of spontaneously, We were actually, it wasn't like it was pre-planned, it was just on the 14th, like we all decided theirs to congregate, and then we discussed about issues affecting the man child. Ok, so muka fika uko, muka mua tu, eh, wacha tuong elele, vile tu tahepa kupatiawa mademuze tu do. Seriously, and then Kevwa and Ryle didn't go by the way, so because how I work with them, they'll not know whatever you talked about. So we'll go ask them for money and they'll give us, so will you be offended really? You don't want to give me money, I'll go for Kevwa, who will give me money, so yeah. So actually Kevwa and Ryle, we discussed that after this they had to be tortured. They have to be tortured. Yeah, the reason as to why they did not attend the men's conference. Where were they? And what were they doing? With who? And with who's permission. So they had to take this into account that we are coming for them after this. We are going to arrest them and torture them in a darker room. For the first time I'm supporting Kevwa and Ryle. Kevwa and Ryle are with few by the way. These men who are going to the conference to avoid spending on us now.  You'll be single for the rest of your lives by the way. Let me just speak. I'm asking and I'm appealing to the directorate of criminal investigations. Just as the men who are paraded on the newspapers for bank fraud. Kevin and Brian are mavoke, whoever your name is. You're supposed to be found and plastered on the newspapers for all the men to see you taking us down. Tukwara de enyu. So we have the first question which we have already gone through. Why was the conference convened? Are men fed up? And why are the ladies so curious? Why so curious? Before Nick starts the conversation from that side. I want to know what they talked about cause. I want na takaku jipanga nijue. They say they're not going to give us money. So I say, I'll go for them. But Kevin and Brian are going to give us money. So na takaku jipanga nijue. How many people? At least they're there. I mean, how come the conference is there with us? They give us money, they give us attention. All those things. They'll do the opposite of whatever the men discussed in the conference. So say how in your land, the conference, they'll not do what we want. You see, that's what I want to know what they talked about. So that nijue, what I'll be expecting from them. Nick, please, let me tell you. There was a Kevin that we had heard from. He said, ma nimkenda conference, Valentensili kwa bufe. He li kwa kula kushi bamba kata kupakunenda na yohom. Sindio. Na kumbe ya bade manze tuliji bamba. Sindio, ma nim nasimaji. Manze, yo conference li shika furin. Wow, atatuna glow bade. Manze, una chengkwambe. Amma dewa me kwa kutube bawa jinga bade. All this time. Una spend kwa dem, maybe let's say unampeleka out. Anza kumbe ya saini niniwani leta. Ajinumempeleka pizza na se ma hii inikituki dogos. Yo anta kainde zwi. Mombasas, yo endewapi. Wana ume na fadu kaji jali araziwanya. Una jwa boi chalda me kwa neglected. Unas kiyangatu imen empowerment. Zwi girl chart zwi development. So manze, yo agenda manze li kwa manze. Wana ume tuwaji nituwaji janga araziwanya. So manze, tuli jibamba. It was a nice experience. The final report of the immense conference. Nimanapu, I think it was number 10. Please correct me if I'm wrong. In particular, akitisha pizza. Akuna kununua. If you must buy, wendo buy mchanga, amma simiti uzi eke apokandu kwanza, alafum by pizza. Manze, achen kwanze, masleikunu jifanya sana. Kusabu na jwa sasawantaka ho, ati pizzas jwa peliki kfcs jwa peliki api. Wato bebojinga. Kusabu at long last, akuna petro pelikana nao. Kama hantaka pizza bide, hata bide ume peliki akule wga li wasi. Amma bide, yo story, mchanga na nina cement. Kwanza, jijenge ukweli. Zindi ho. Kabalam jenge hao hini. Yo story, amchanga ni manze wu make sure me baki apok. Kusabu na jwa unan pelika pizza, alafu ana kuhepa. Manze, lazi mumu planta apos. Aya. Just before that, we're asking the agenda, what was the main issue on the table? Alafutu koliza boy child, where does it hurt? Now over the weekend there was this documentary about, I think, people in the Nandi region. Like wana ume hataki kwa. It's now become so serious news. Anakilizu wana semao, awas chana, atuna pesa, wacha kwanza mini jisot. Wana jasizi ka bed-seater, tena nikule, tena nile temdresh, tena tranzuku sumo wana wu nyele, nyele, nyele. And the flip side of that was sasa masponyo sandio. Wana cha-cha. Wana nga tukuchiku wa tuka mayembe na taka iina. Taka iina, taka iina. So have these issues been addressed at the men's conference? Well, of course they were addressed. But before I go on, I'd just like to thank Mr. Speaker for your comments. Thank you very much. I concur with everything that you said. May that bill be passed immediately. But on that issue, of course, you cannot keep these ladies down. It's like trying to trap lightning in a bottle. It's impossible. Like they've become creatures into their own cells. How is it Shikika? Nasa sixtafanya ni, we can't get married. How can you get married to a person who doesn't want to get married? But you can't get married to a woman because an African man says you keep telling me it's polygamus. What do you say to Shikirada? No, no, no, you see in the context man is polygamus, not woman. See now, what is this now? It's true, say you can conquer. Favourite, can you conquer? She's skeptical, very skeptical. At WhiteFive on Facebook, at WhiteFive channel on Twitter. Hashtag is why in the morning. That's according to men. But the moment Mulenda conference miyamu amtafanya vitumnataka we'll move. We'll go to the kevos and bryos who I still stand with. We'll not be polygamus. We'll still be monogamous with the kevos and bryos. Okay guys, I see memes flying here. Let them arrange them and then we shall give them to you know. So the moment she is saying that Favourite is saying that kevos and bryos So let's say kevos and bryos they are around 10 only in the country. So are you going to flock on kevos and bryos they'll be cheating on you? No, no, listen, listen. Nika makusema, for example and I'm not taking sides here lady and gentleman. But no, na sasuki ya. Nisha eka disclaimer. So for example kukiwa na shida nani peto station 2, maybe 1, 2, 3 atwezi se ma 20 apoji watua meja. Nisha waa, we must get the service that we are going to pay for so that we can continue with our lives. Nisha waa, it's okay. But mafuta na iiko, that one I can confirm. Ya, there are just three strategic peto stations. So satchita sama 22 kwaizinitwa support na wana. I can recall the issue of petrol just the other day. It was very hectic because the price at Ilepanda so if you want jam mikuwe basi madem and then I kwa kevo na mabraio Miju e mwa upiawa na do nido sisi wengine tu kona. Sasa wengem kuna do mna jificha Asya titu me jificha but asya titu me jificha Pesa asya titu me eka titu me ficha atu takiku toa.  Applause, applause, applause. The crowd has gone wild. Men who say manga they are next to God after God they come next. Ya, they are the head of the family. The head of the family kichuwa na control miliako isa mind the heart in a pump to blood. Kichuwa na control mili silneo. So, wakati you are the head of the family it means unafaku support every other thing below you including Migu the control by the kichuwa silneo. Niki has a problem. Problem after problem. If you are the head of the family unafaku to control sisi women who are not the head so I expect men sit up at the door to say manga Udo, kuchu seme, yaa and search. Yo story, ani ku sema tisi dibi, Dema kiki kongbiye mwede pizza, Piza kukula pizza wuna kato nma mchuku kugali, Oni expectaju dema bambike na katiyuna uuna mchuku kugali na na taka pizza, really. Fave right. M budget, ini ni, e story, e story ya kwanza man kuku wa the head of the family. E niha yo 1 wukueli. Mongw alguna tunka kuwa head of the family. Sindi yo. And then nini wa say, nini wa gumu kuwa kontrol, Oshi I try controller women. Hectic stress. Udo jwkti yo kwanza. Ndini kabitaizdia w crear men je wimeni w scheduled mawa luka htus ali masutufu najukibu htome na mjpewo gisupama upliftisi mirade kab dic Video kusuhu Hana kwa amelik sabu nte katu iqul, basi siwa te katu iqul kwa niku toa dote toa dose siwa te Kamani kupelekana pizza katu pelekana pizza siwa te ama aze wazi kamele zaafo jukupele, ugarli dek, tunena ugarli dek Nona yo story Sfivaresh nekaja lewa yo story Anlasi ugali inread It's a thought that matters But kamani ugali dek, napia pizza Pizza is not a staple diet of Kenya It's ugali, wana jwa U'ana jwa you cannot start deviating all of a sudden You can't. You just can't. Of course. You have to make sure that you're living healthy.  We want you to live till 80. And then on. I can't see. I can't see. I can't see. I can't see. I can't see. I can't see. I can't see. I think niza kula nivile tuha baya. Napa sayako. Niza kula. Kubae sasapondu kidoho. Kibae sasapondu kidoho. We have feedback and then we'll get the memes and then we'll have a Nick play for us. And then we'll get back to the topic. There's a lot happening today. Johnny here. Nimefika tuha. Kindly talk to her. Mamu sika sirike. We know even a long time ago when we were hunters and gatherers. The man had to go hunt. Akasi rike. I suggest Akasi rike vibaya. Akasi rike vibaya. She should be very mad at him. And niza jenda. It's almost a week now. Kwanzaa ended before Valentine's Day. Before Valentine's Day. Kasi rike ma mi. Hi there. This is Winnie. Kijama changu kijama. Wow. Ie ni kwa mizze. But sayini kijama changu kijaru de. Stika mando yule manki man. Ahh.  Amani ni ni mbaia. Wow. OK.  OK. I don't understand that stuff. Hi there. I have a single neighbor called Kevo. Eh, single neighbor's called Kevo and Rayo. I'm interested. On either side of my house. Islamishama. Apu minahami ya tu apu kwa, dema mamu wajani, apu. Nisawa. Kezi na apa one side, then Brayo one side. Okay. Aya ni me kam, ni kapatawa me fight na siyambi, siyambi rizon. Niyanzi aje? Niyanzi vita pa kwangu piya without rizon ama. Wey na wey wey, bo watu katu vita? Majumeski ya kevo na Braya li kwa na shkili ya 40. Atwaid for Facebook, hashtag is why in the morning let's show you the meme. Now we laugh together. Every problem has a solution. Sasakuni kulemen's conference. I also saw on the agenda that there was a weight loss program. Wey, I hope ali kwa, eh? Contenda.  Mli kuatum na wamiya. Sasa apu wu de. Uta se li waji. Apu enewe. Meji ani katu, kinyama tu. Apu enewe. Sorry. We are sorry but ili hat lakini we'll get back to battles. We are coming back. My friend saw you walking in the Brayo. What happened? Are your friends should have also been in the conference? My friend is a lady. What are you doing having lady friends? That I don't know about. Breaking news. Angry South African women have burnt down the men's conference venue two days before it starts. I should have been there with him. I should have been there with him. Ya, I should have been there with him. Ya, I should have been there with him. Ya, I should have been there with him. Ya, I should have been there with him. I should have been there with him. I'm here to be in the conference. I don't need to be there but I will. I'm here to give you a chat. I'm here to meet. We shall meet under 3 if we need to. We shall meet under 3 if we need to. If we need to. Whether you like it or not it shall happen. Whether they science or reign race they will know the global men only conference they don't know. wata juwa wata juwa opening prayers at the men's conference manapakwa na wamebasu tikilamta wa kwayodunga wa na shkanami kono leiris ok and next remember at WhiteFour on Facebook and at whitetwififour channel on Twitter weh weh weh weh weh weh e confrinsini uirishi kajo this was the place If you look keenly, you can see me somewhere there, you can see me somewhere. Ya, the one over there with the black hair. So, it's also the Chikunya South Africa woman who is working with the Chikunya, but she says, check it up lately, go down. Tuli kwa wengi in plain. Sold out. Sindio, kebuna bryo tundi wa limistu tawawa wua. Nandioawa Kenyan, kebuna bryo have been caught trying to sneak out of the men's conference. Awa manzei, awa manzei. Tuli wapii, ei, wa. Na kwa niwa ni kwa metuangu wa nambere. Wendet tuka meda, manzei ni. Tuli wa toa kila kitu, tuli wa piga by the way. Kebum kendeleivi, ei, ei, kubai. I like this one. We do not have Wi-Fi, talk to each other pretend it's 1995. Of course, of course. Now I say, Wi-Fi comes internet. Internet mi kuja nabitu mobsana. Ya, in fact, it wasn't for the internet. I don't think the men's conference would be this successful. No, in the near future it will be what's happening. Oh, oh, oh guys, let us have a moment of silence. This delegate has just discovered that he left his phone and locked at home. The men's conference continues. Aka pachana na... Manza mei, ei. Kevin na Brian on the same very sweet messages. Unfortunately. Ati, the women's conference could not start on time because everyone was applying makeup and decided on what to wear. That is very true. The men have agreed. They are there. We conquer. Okay. All right. So, haa. Me na have a good time. Ah, my favorite. We saved the best for last. Women trying to Google what might be going down at the men's conference. Nona vijesho, sua mei chungu liye stuff. Mulikuwa mesaha wa tukuwa na Wi-Fi. Tulikuwa 1995. Yo, yo sorry, atungi broad gas kenye tuna discuss. Can you rest on that one? Sindio, kuna? Na baka tese mungi scale, yembe wa zime. Kuna pise mungi ovi. Tuli skila kitu na kumia. Yo day tulikuwa flight mode. Tulikuwa flight mode manze. Dubai. All right, gentlemen, who went for the men's conference, man. Thank you. I know some of you started coming back last Sunday. Satu, Sunday evi, satu kikami vimande. Thank you so very much for taking time out of your busy schedule. To go to the hills, maaliata kuna Wi-Fi haifiki to better yourselves. We appreciate you. In fact, we have a special surprise now that you're coming home. Kwanzo kujena swag dojue, unendok pewakakiru at WhiteFive on Facebook, at WhiteFive for China on Twitter, and the hashtag is white in the morning. We are also at WhiteFive for China on YouTube. In case you just want to see this interview or this discussion rather again, my name is Atkala Miva.  Thank you. So this is a song called Nihwe. Nimei andika after me took a men's conference. Kunawu dem li kwa na katia ako two years older than me. Na kuna venye, ali kwa na ringa na ona. Sigmidi. Sindiwa na se masjue age and all that stuff. So nimi man di keingoma. Ah, baby. This is product of men's conference. Nihwe sasa. Mama. Oh, baby. Na shindwa vipini takavi oku eleza. You see, age is just a number girl. It doesn't define our love. Be more on a promise girl. Together we'll sail the stars. Nihwe. Moyo angu me kupena mama. Nihwe. I wanna laugh for the rest of my days. Na pendo na viwoku na viwona look so fine. We'll be all talking the fame and love it while you talk. Baby, unani changanya got my heart going in spain. Got me going ooh ooh ooh ooh. Got me all confused. You ooh ooh ooh ooh. My heart is in pain. Going ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh. Got me all confused. You ooh ooh ooh ooh. My heart beats for you. Nihwe. Moyo angu me kupena mama. Nihwe. I wanna laugh for the rest of my days. Nihwe. Ume kupena mama. Nihwe. I wanna laugh for the rest of my days. Nihwe.


So I met Alicia when she was, well actually she's still the founder of LearnAbby, but that was for the last three years, until very recently. Yeah, and she'll share more of that story, but now she's working for Attack on Asia as you know, which is a huge thing here. And it shares stories of everything entrepreneurship related, technology related here in Asia, not just in Singapore. If there's someone who you need to get your stories shared too, Alicia might be one of those people to talk to. Alicia, ecosystem builder, Attack on Asia, let us know the soft spot in your heart. Thank you.  Okay, so my name is Alicia, and when I graduated from university in 2010, I knew I wanted to start a startup. So I went and wrote into the Singapore chapter of Founder Institute, which is an accelerated program in Singapore, and incorporated the LearnAbby as part of the graduation criteria. So I have zero programming background, so when I started, I did what everybody did, look for a technical founder, and like what, everybody went through, you can't find a technical founder. So I have like, because I'm really so technically challenged, the only thing I can do was this picture. Really proud of myself, and so just like that. So when I couldn't find a technical founder, what I decided to do is I would pick up programming, and in 2012, I launched a platform. So this is why I brag. So on the other side, I was like killing it. The launch was covered by all of these logos you see there. The instructors on my platform, they were national athletes represented Singapore and Malaysia. Community leaders who run local user groups. My coach was one of them. Well-known VCs and entrepreneurs in Singapore. In fact, like my journey was covered by business times, and even today, today actually covered me as part of their national day special. Yeah, and I was actually invited to mentor and start a business stuff, so you know, awesome, awesome, so on and so forth. But I think on the inside, I was struggling the whole time. The whole time. This is the traffic for two years, as you can see, there's no up and to the right. It's always been this up and stable line. Yeah, I had a distribution, I had a retention problem. So when students meet each other after the first lesson they do, they don't need my platform anymore. And I have a distribution problem in terms of getting more students to take classes and stuff. So for the longest time, I tried a lot of stuff and I had no idea what to do with it.  Oh, by the way, I'm really bounder, so, alright. So basically at Silicon Valley, what I needed to do was to decide whether I should pivot or persevere. So I talked to a lot of people and at Silicon Valley, people who are experienced are really accessible to anyone, so that was awesome. And what I noticed is that, sorry, I talked to a lot of people and Erica and I asked, oh, so here's the situation, should I pivot or persevere? And what I noticed is that the more experienced a person is, the more likely the answer is, it's a personal decision. So I did not take it well the first time. Of course, on the outside, I would be like poker face and nice, but inside, intense and tonal screaming.    That kind of story is all within you.  That was really terrible. But after talking to a lot of people and really thinking about it, what I realized is that when it comes to making my decision, I have two criteria. So the first thing is, do I have the resources to continue running it? And do I have the ideas to continue running it? So at the point of time, although I'm hosting and pay cuts free for me, I decided that I'm really out of ideas and I'm just like burnt out mentally and emotionally exhausted. So I decided to, okay, call it quits. And, oh, this is the fun part.  And this is the exact text that I said in my back straight. And the point where I decided that I should just end it on me. I'm a bigger creator because I cannot remember. So, yeah, everybody tells you that killing a start-up is painful. But I think the word pain cannot really fully encapsulate what it means to kill a start-up.  So, at that point of time, I realized that, you know, when your creation is so tightly intertwined with your self-identity, I can really understand why farmers choose to kill themselves when the start-up don't go well. That's not really the end of the story. So, I decided to pick myself up and look for a job. And when I was doing that, I worry a lot because at the start-up, I am a generator with this. I know a bit of everything. So, I was worried about, am I employable for a specific skill? Am I good enough? And all this finally came when I got job offers from all of these guys. I like. No, these are all the companies that actually rejected me.   And what I realized is that there's a lot of beta stories that you read online.  So, what's the moral of my story? The timing is so perfect, right? Because can you just talk about it just now?  And there's just like too many ways that you can mess it up.  And I used to be part of that, until I think that this is my completely bullshit. Because of how much emotionally and mentally stuff takes from you, I wouldn't suggest people to just jump into it. I wouldn't suggest that, you know, they find answers to these questions like, what problem are you solving? Are you passionate about this problem? Can this be a side project instead of like a company from day one?  Because there is like at the end of the tunnel, and for me, like after being rejected, like like right-stander, I got a job, yay! And it's a pretty sweet job. I get to do, my job is kind of like a start-up analyst, so I don't write stuff. Yeah, so I guess when you win, you tie so much of yourself both to your start-up, it's very easy, the thing that will get you to the end, I'm useless, I should just die, just don't. Start-up depression, start-up, founder depression in suicide is a very real problem, and you know, just don't do it. Yeah, so, yeah, so for this part of the presentation, I'm supposed to give advice on what you should do or what should I have done differently. But the thing is that, first of all, I think this is like a debt of 5,000 paper cuts, I can't really tell you this major problem in debt or things in the workout. So it's really hard for me to tell you what would I have done differently, because I might have done something differently and solved this micro-fucked up, but then further down, I'm going to have a major fucked up.   So here's an advice, like, keep calm and carry on. I think it's like enjoying it, it's kind of funny. So, yeah, the last thing, the last advice that I'll give is know your priorities. Start off take a lot of time, and you always hear about people working 16 hours a day, you know, it's almost like a factory shop, like overworking and over-exhaust.  Because when I needed help, they were there. Like, when I needed to pick me up, they were there. So, yeah, I know your priorities. Okay, so, yeah, we need to get started on that, over the point. So from my experience, it has never paid off when I work over those I care about, never.  So early on, you were getting a lot of positive press, and then you saw it was flat-line. Did you ever consider exiting, basically, when you were getting all this press, were you getting offers for companies to buy up here on the website? I don't have offers for companies buying my startup. I have offers for hiring me, even being like a CEO of their own desktop. But it's just kind of interesting, so why did I see you traffic like that, but because of the press, I still couldn't do more going on. I think maybe it's because when I get press, I see it as a false positive, then okay, because the press thought it was interesting, so maybe someone else thought it was interesting, but I just haven't really gone on like one of my time in agency. You had a measure with telling you something, right? Yeah.  What's the difference between advice for people you look up to in Singapore compared to the US and other places? What's the difference in the advice they gave you? Oh, so my friend put it really succinctly about Silicon Valley. In Silicon Valley, nobody forced you for thinking big. You're just a random guy walking down the street and saying, I'm going to start a new unicorn. Is this perfectly fine? In Singapore, you're like, I want to start a new unicorn, but we have not seen a unicorn in Southeast Asia. What makes you think that you're right? So that is the first, the most obvious difference in mentality between Singapore and Silicon Valley. The next thing is that people are so accessible. Like I can just, I have access to, yeah, in fact, I could have like a one-to-one session. I could ask question to Ben Horowitz, an early investor in Skype, who thinks that investing in Airbnb is too small for him when he's like 300 years. Wow, talking to me, thanks. So that's really like an amazing accessibility in England. The one and the like. Three years, right? Aside from time, what else do you think you've lost in the previous? My youth. Like underneath the youth part, because I really, when I'm young and energetic, there's a lot of other opportunities and it's not that I don't have them, but I just keep saying no because I want to focus on this, like making this big thing work. So yeah, youth and other opportunities. Last one. I saw things that you've tried but didn't work out. Too many, next. I'm honest, too many in this stuff now. How do I choose? How do I choose? Gut, gut feel. If you go back to the time when you first graduated and you could give advice to yourself when you go back, what would the sound like? Work and start up first. Get some experience at some time. Work, maybe smarter than just freshman. Okay. Was it really short? You mentioned that things start up after work, but do you consider doing it at all as part of work? Oh yes. I understand now. You're in second age. Yeah, in the future. But I'm trying to find out what is the problem that I'm very, very passionate about. This time now I'll be more focused on problem-ridden solution, being in love with the thing that I feel good about, but then the thing I'm trying to solve. Thank you. Thank you.


live action there on Sportsmax 2 from the corporate area track and field championship at the Ashenheim Stadium at Jamaica College. Live coverage there with Ricardo Chambers and we're going to start off the zone today with some track and field because the Grenadier and the Catholic Linden Victor won his first global medal at last year's World Championship in Budapest, Hungary. He caught the bronze medal totaling 8,756 points, a national record that in the 10 event competition. The Grenadier needed a championship best 54.97 meters in the disgust row to secure the bronze medal. He will now look to take his success to the Olympic Games later this year. Linden Victor now joins us to discuss his Olympic preparations and plans for the season. We'll talk to him in just a moment but when we look at his career Linden we have to be very proud of this Grenadier and how hard he has battled in the past six or seven years to get where he is at at the moment. Absolutely, I mean the Catholic is one of the toughest events actually it's called the toughest event in track and field and he's excelled at it twice Commonwealth champion he's won medals at the Pan American Games and of course his first global medal last year which took some doing because it took a lifetime best for him just to get onto the podium that's how tough it is you know so it's been a it's been a good journey for him and I hope that going into the Olympics in Paris this summer that he'll be able to at least replicate that performance and end up on the podium again. Yeah all right Linden is joining us now via zoom to talk about his plans for this year but can I start by asking you about the officer of the order of British Empire that you've been named to Victor in the 2024 New Year's Honours list that that's that's a great honor isn't it how did that grab you? Yeah definitely it was unexpected I just got an email and they said that I was awarded that and I actually had to look it up to understand exactly what it meant and then I was like wow it's definitely an honor anytime you're sporting abilities is recognized in any way and for me you know just whatever recognition I get for my athletic ability is humbling but to be an OBE is up there in my accomplishments I will say that. Well you have to say that because you have joined a big list of an elite list of global performance who are OBE's accorded so by Britain's royalty. Let me start here though from a from a Linden Victor perspective and get from you the kind of season you had last year and how it sets you up for the Paris Olympic Games because the cycle for the Olympics are a little different because the 2020 Olympics because of the pandemic was actually staged in 2021 so the cycle now is a three-year cycle and not the regular four years how well prepared are you do you think Linden for the Paris assignment. Well I'm getting there after after after Tokyo I was I finished seventh and I'm a pretty much clean house I got a new coach and new agent and new medical staff and you know so far it's been going good I've been there two years now and I'm being I'm being coached by America's Chris Huffins who wants who won the bronze medal in the Olympics you know and so far it's been going good I'm not going to say he hasn't been challenging because it's been really challenging especially last year where I only had four basically four months to train because I was hurt all year and the last four months we just we just put in a lot of training so I'm just trying to build off what the last two years has been and see how I get how I can get better each each and every year. Yeah Linden can you talk to us about your decision to clean house as you put it was it a case of you being dissatisfied with your your training setup and so on talk to us about your decision to as you put it clean house. No I wouldn't like I just feel like I had more in the tank and I just wanted the right help and God put the right people in my life at the right time that will help me that that's been helping me to to get to that point I feel like everything that I've been through in my life prior to that is just like a stepping stone to get me to the right people and so far it's been it's been good you know I just felt like I had more in me that I wanted to get out and I had some disappointments in in the past in major competitions so I just feel like I needed a new start. Linden you mentioned of course a new medical team I mean the new medical staff which is crucial because you pulled out of the Pan Am games last year with what has been described as chronic issues in terms of your adducta and of course the sore muscles that required rest and third before minimum of six weeks I think they said it was where are you now in terms of those injuries as you prepare for you know the ultimate the Olympic games. Well that that's that's an injury that's been plaguing me all through it last year and um like I said for the first six months of the season I was hurt and then we got we got four months of training in and we really dialed in in that in that four months but it's still there it's still it's still lingering but I think I think that my team we're dealing with it a little better than we did last year because we we know what it is last year we were we we went to every doctor trying to figure out what it was and we thought it was a sports hernia we thought it was a torn muscle we like we just didn't know until we went to another person and they told us it was something called osteitis pubis which is just information in the pelvic bone so um I don't think it's going to go away anytime soon I thought we thought we had to do surgery and stuff but luckily there's no surgery involved it's just just a matter of treating it and being cautious with some of the events like the hurdles and a pole walk and the the the events that requires a lot of takeoff and aggressiveness in the in the in the pubic area. So so does that impact the way in which you prepare and how intense I mean give me a sense of how you mine is training though because your training is different from everybody else's it's it's more intense it's 10 events and of course they mentioned hurdles and other things that require you to put extra stress on those particular areas of your body. How do you balance that now in terms of managing the injury and of course being at the optimal level in terms of your training? Well you know it's just a testament to my team around me you know we we it one it takes a lot more treatment I think we my coaches have learned to protect me for myself because I always want to do more and more and more and more and as I've gotten older I've learned to trust trust a little bit more because I always feel like I'm not doing enough or I should do more and you know so we we we kind of figure out a system where there are days when I still can't even walk because they hurt so much and then that we just back off for a couple days and it is back to to where it has to be. Well I'm wishing you all the best with that. I want more questions before I throw you back to Lance but yeah give me a sense of you know you're you took a big a big personal best for the discourse for you to qualify well to get onto the podium last year you know where are your not I wanted to expose it to the world but certainly where are the weaknesses that you think that you need to strengthen to enhance your chances of ending up on the podium in Paris? Well I mean the obvious events like pole vault we don't pole vault in Grenada yep I had to learn pole vault when I came to America so I actually got some new poles this year I've never jumped on them but we we've gotten new poles so I'm trying to see how these poles will work for the Olympics and you know my hurdles my hurdles is a big one I think I think once I once I get my hurdles going that's a good pole vault video right there um yeah once I get these two events clicking and my 1500 you know I've never been I never loved the 1500 but I think the 1500 at the world championships I had to really dig deeper and run a personal best so I'm hoping to have that weapon in if I ever needed to to run well I need to run to get on the podium. Yeah Lyndon um how is your javelin coming along we know that from a from a national track and field culture Grenada is pretty strong with with javelin um Paul Philip one of the leading coaches there has prepared a lot of your outstanding javelin throwers including the current well the top rated and two-time world champion Anderson Peters um how much how much how much is your javelin satisfying you at the moment as part of your 10 event program um it's it's actually so my javelin has always been my weapon and um three years ago I told my oblique during the javelin and I've never I've never really been um I've never really gotten back to this I'm obviously I'm over a 70 meters but my coaches think I should I should be throwing further but um after tearing my oblique in the javelin um it's something that I've I've never really found the form that I used to have in the javelin um it's something that we're working on a lot um I'm getting my confidence in in the javelin and I'm hoping that for some reason when I need a big one it comes you know so I'm hoping that if I need a big one at the olympics uh it's going to come yeah the captain doesn't have a long history um linden of of the cathletes um claston bernard and morris smith um two jamaicans your brother curt felix also fairly prominent globally as as the cathletes in the past two decades or so where did this inspiration come from to become a decathlete because as as latin just just referenced it is a grueling event and if i'm a teenager having an interest in track and field i'm i'm not sure i'm not sure the cathlin would be my choice it sounds sounds too much um i think i think it's a testament to the culture that's that's in granada right now where every you know how you want to represent your house and get points for your house so everybody would do a little bit of all the events like kirani would throw the javelin like um kirani would long jump and he would still dominate all the the running events and i um i was fortunate enough because i always wanted the biggest trophy and the person with the biggest trophy person with the most points i always got the biggest trophy so i would i would dabble in all in all of the events and then um watching my brother excel in the decathlon i was just like it was a easy transition because i was a good throw up but i also had the basic sprinting skills because i would i would win all the throws and finish like second or third in in the hundred and 200 so it was it was a smooth transition and then as a younger athlete see my brother gets more scholarship and seeing other athletes excel i was like you know i think that's something that i can i can i can explore i would say this though i never thought that doing the decathlon would get me this far i only did it because i wanted a sports scholarship because it was easy to get the sports scholarship being like a multi talented athlete and um you know i always say god has put the right people in my life to just help me get to the point that i'm at right now i want to ask you something because you mentioned you you mentioned of course your strength in the sprints one and four sounds like me in high school but the 1500 sprinters and long middle and long distances don't work very well give me a sense of what goes into your 1500 preparation because it cannot be easy and it probably is one of the more frustrating parts of your preparation give me a sense of how that works for you definitely especially for me since since i'm a door i need i have a lot of muscle mass yeah so i can't be i can't be like a lean skinny guy to run the 1500 so like like my coach now he hated the 1500 too so he understands like he has the worst 1500 i've ever seen so he understands he understands the the nature that goes into the into the decathlon 1500 and how to there's a difference in the way that you train for the decathlon 1500 and for the 1500 you know like the the tempo the miles and stuff obviously i can't put a bunch of miles if i want to run 10 400 and um so i i think i think we're figuring out what works for linden victor we do a lot of my my 1500 has a lot to do with my warm-up now so i would my warm-up will consist like a 10-minute jog just to keep building the endurance every single day so like if i run 10 minutes every single day for 200 days and that's a lot of miles that's just accumulating over over the time and then obviously we'll do a tempo work but i think that's one of the ways that we've learned to like trick meet my body into running 10 minutes so when i ask it to run four minutes hard it's a little bit easier yeah i understand that it makes sense linden in jamaica the the culture here for the high school championship is is is tremendous and i'm sure i'm sure you've heard you've heard about it but i've i've always heard that the intercal school's championship in granada is really really big and popular and and can you talk to us about can you talk to us about it and your memories of competing in the granadia intercal schools competition man let me tell you i i've seen i've seen the boys and girls champs and i might be biasing this but intercal is better i wasn't sure you're going to say that but i knew you had some good things to say about it so so continue man like just just watching the way that schools competed against each against each other and the rivalry and the competition like you you're talking about guys that are like 50 years old and 60 years old like when intercal comes around they still wear their their school uniform and so much pride i i think like the whole island is almost like it's coming together in a division if that if that makes any sense you know yeah it's you know and and it's one of those things where like the competition and the athletes the the way that the athletes compete for their school pride it's it's almost like the mini olympics because you don't get paid you don't get anything it's just literally for pride yes you know and it is to me is the purest form of competition and it's when it's a joy of being an athlete like no as a professional athlete you got to worry about performing you got to worry about doing all of this but like when you're in the intercal and boys and girls champ it's like it's the purest form of competition because it's just joy you know it's like it's just pure joy it's pure competing for your school and for and for the tie and for you know for the legacy of the people that passed on before you because because the guys that passed on before you they left a winning culture you want to continue with that winning culture so it's it's amazing well i i think i will i will try to make a pledge that at some point sports max will try to do some coverage of the granada intercal because i've heard about it for decades and i've heard about how big and popular it is and how among the entire country that you know it is it is something that that's really big so i just wanted you to um give an outline to our viewers just how big the granada intercal schools competition is can can you tell me having said that about what the building of the national stadium meant for for this meet because i think your national stadium was probably built in the late 1990s and and you hosted carifter games shortly after that probably 2000 but um compared to the venue that you would have used prior to your national stadium how much did having a brand new national stadium with the mondo track boost the kind of atmosphere and appetite for the event well um first of all i must give um coolest to the government to see in the the need to have a stadium that will help excel not just track and field but football yes um because i don't know if you guys know this i haven't destroyed our our stadium completely yes so um yeah so for a long time in granada there was no stadium um so we all of most of our sports meets was was done in grass and stuff like that and then you know government found the need to really like invest back into having us have a track that that's usable and accessible for for things like the intercal and now we're hosting carifter this year yes you know and and whatever comes in hosting carifter we're gonna we're gonna benefit from that tremendously i think the athletes in granada are excited the coaches are excited the people are excited i think granada is going to be a great host for for for the for the carifter games i i know for a fact that the whole country is excited for for for the carifter and to be able to have the honor to to be able to host the carifter games yeah well it's as usual got to be the Easter weekend linda um sports match will be there with live coverage maybe you could make a a trip to i know you're busy and training hard and so on but uh it would be great to have linda and victor at home for the carifter games coming up this Easter weekend and uh you can be a be a part of our our coverage and you know just um bring the kind of international flair that you represent to our viewers to our viewers at the carifter games but we are as you are looking forward to it and we know granada having hosted the carifter games before will be great hosts as usual and we're looking forward to that but linda and thanks for talking to us we hope your training continues to go well and uh we hope that things work well for you in paris this year thanks man yeah thank you for being cast so let's see okay yeah that's that's great i i wish you would and you will be thanks we'll be back with more on the sports match soon after this