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Hello everyone, welcome to Mind Pump. This is a second installment of our masterclass series. How to build your shoulders. We talk about sets, we talk about reps, we talk about exercise, we talk about everything you need to know to build impressive shoulders that you could be proud of. All right, enjoy the show. One of the most aesthetic and functional muscles of the body. One of the muscles that are probably one of the most important muscles of the body, especially the upper body, is the shoulders. Today's episode we're going to go all about or talk all about the shoulders, where they are, what they do, what they're the best exercises, reps, sets, all that stuff. So this is the shoulders masterclass. The shoulder boulders. This was my first ever specific muscle that I attempted to program to develop. Meaning like, obviously when I was working out, I was trying to build my entire physique. Is it because the girl shamed your shoulders? Yeah, it was because of the trainer. It was the female trainer that worked for me. So I was already in management by this time and her name was Sabine, I'll never forget her. She was this German girl that was a competitor and she obviously had a great physique. She was about 10 or 15 years older than I was. And I thought, well, she would be a great person because she's in the competitive world that has a great physique to ask to critique my physique and tell me what I need to work on. Now, in my head, I'm going like, is she going to say the calves or legs or something and I'm saying like, that's for sure what I'm going to get. So for some like prepared for that, like, yeah.  Yeah, no, not like that. What about this? And she tells me that I have weak shoulders. She's the words we have. She said, wow. Yeah, she said your shoulders are really weak. I was so insulted, but at the same time, not aware. I honestly, if you would have asked me, I would have said, oh, she's going to say my calves or my legs or something like that, that are out of balance. That's what I was ready to hear from her. But when she told me that my shoulders were weak, I was like, I felt so insulted, but also very motivated. You know, the delts are interesting because they're, it's one of the most, I guess, versatile parts of the body. You know, humans evolved to have these really versatile shoulders to be able to throw with accuracy, right? We're apex hunters. It's a complex system of joints and movement and muscle. And then from an aesthetic standpoint, here's where evolution plays a role, right? When you look at a body and you look at the upper body, the shoulders put the body together, put the upper body together. Like really, like if you have well-developed everything, but not good shoulders, makes a huge difference. If you have well-developed shoulders and your arms aren't that great, your chest isn't that great, you're back up. It's like the hub for your upper body. You still kind of look good. And I think it's because it sends the message. This is what I didn't understand. I didn't, I did not understand that before she had communicated that to me. And up until that point, shoulders were kind of an afterthought in my programming. My thought as a trainer even, was every time I do bench press, I'm getting the front of my shoulders. Every time I do rows, I'm getting the back of my shoulders. So every once in a while, I threw some lateral raises in the mix, but never really addressed my shoulders because I didn't think it made that big of a difference until she pointed that out. And then it wasn't until I actually went after it and developed them that I went, oh my God, what a huge difference that makes. So they're called the deltoids. And I believe it's named after the Greek letter that looks like a triangle because if you look at the shoulders from an anatomy standpoint, it's this big round muscle and it attaches, there's lots of attachments, right? The clavicle, the acromion, the scapula. So it kind of goes all the way around and it's got like lots of different functions. Now from a, I guess from a muscle building perspective, when we think of the shoulders, we think of the front shoulder, the side shoulder and the rear shoulder. That's usually what we're talking about. Front delts, side delts, real delts, but it's a little more complex than that. As far as actions are concerned, you're looking at adduction, either to the front, to the sides, or even to the rear, you're looking at kind of this rear fly motion. You're looking at stabilization. And what's interesting about the shoulder, it's one of those areas that it comes along with another moving joint or part, the scapula.  Try doing a lateral raise or a front raise without the scapula being involved. It's like the hips. Same thing. It's very similar, right? Very similar. It's a femur in the pelvis, I thought. Yeah, very, very similar. So it's got like all these different functions. It's really important in almost every lift that you do. And as a result, we just think they look good. Aesthetically speaking, they're a very important muscle and aesthetics typically follow importance, right? So we like well-developed hips because that means you can run fast, you're pretty stable, nice strong back, because it means you can probably carry a lot shoulders because you can probably throw far and defend yourself. So it's like one of those muscles were important. And I used to tell this to female clients too who want really nice looking arms. They almost always, what they really mean is they want nice looking shoulders. Yeah, yeah. They say arms are really what it is is they want those delts because the delts is what gives you arms. Isn't that weird though? Because that's how I thought too.  And then later on, completely like laid off of doing buys and tries and I'd hit them so hard for so many years and started to focus on my shoulders. My arms actually shrank, but then I would get these compliments about how crazy my arms looked when my shoulder shoulders. And that's just because it separates from the buy and the try. Well, just from like a functional performance perspective, like that was always the limit, limiter for me was I would get into these big lifts and start really advancing and then my shoulder would have, you know, some kind of impingement or some kind of problem that I had to work through and then I would have to regress and kind of build myself back up again. And so there was just constant stress from like every movement to upper body wise that I was placing my shoulders. Yeah, well, I mean, what strength is its weakness, right? The shoulder is so versatile, right? I could lift it out, move it to the front, press it overhead. I could rotate my arm internally, externally. I could combine all these different movements into like one big wide movement, but along with that versatility comes potential for instability, right? Because when I'm lifting a weight in a linear way, right? Straight up and down, right? Or straight out to the sides. My body has to, my shoulder has to stabilize so it doesn't do all the other stuff that it could possibly do. And so shoulder injuries are some of the most common injuries in the upper body with people who do strength training. It's gotta be one of the most common injuries. And it's mainly because they train the shoulders without really regard for stabilization, without really regard for function. Well, either that or they neglect shoulders and they get a really strong chest or back. It's over-dominant. That, I mean, that was, I think that was what was common with me too, was that it was my limiting factor was the strength and stability of my shoulders, but I was developing the chest and the back so much that it was that that was, I was leaking strength and power because of the lack of stability in there. And I think it more than it is just not training stability in the shoulder. It's like just neglecting the shoulders altogether. And so then they don't catch up to the chest and back. Yeah. Now, now form and technique wise with exercise, this is true for all muscle groups, a good, long range of motion, so long as it's appropriate, right? So long as you can control what you're doing with good stability is superior to a shorter range of motion. But it's so much more important for the shoulders because the tendency to shorten a range of motion with the shoulders, it seems to be so high. It's one of the areas, like when you look at shoulder presses and raises and upright rows and flies and all these different shoulder movements, I could almost always see a shortened range of motion, almost always, either at the full extension or all the way at the bottom. You almost always see rotation being neglected. It's one of those muscles where I would say, I would have to say, it's one of the more common muscle groups that people don't train through its fullest capacity. And that's, I think, what leads to a lot of these issues. Well, because there's so much movement potential from that joint. Totally. It's embarrassing to a lot of other joints, especially in the upper body. But yeah, to neglect any one of those movements is then to not present it as a priority in terms of the body maintaining that kind of strength and stability and control. And so you do lose access and it does diminish the way that it responds over time. How often would you guys say when clients would come to you and complain of shoulder pain that there isn't like a major injury or anything going on? It's more often just a weakness in their shoulder stability that you have to do. And then you can address that. And then all of a sudden- Nine out of 10 times? Yeah. Nine out of 10 times. In fact- Use your weakness. In fact, out of the 90, out of nine out of 10 times where it's a weakness, out of that I'd say good 70% like a majority I could alleviate the pain, not fix it completely, but show them significant reductions of pain in one session. Like it was actually, in fact, I used to actually like hearing when someone came to me and said, hey, I'm thinking about hiring you, but I have this kind of shoulder pain. I almost used to like hearing that because it was something I knew that I oftentimes could like right away make them feel better. And they said, well, I can't do a pushup because it hurts my shoulders. And I'll say, well, where does it hurt? And they'd show me and I'd say, oh, okay, let's do a couple of these movements here. Let's do some priming. Now try doing a pushup. Like, oh my God, the pain's gone. And it was such an easy way to convince somebody of my value. So it was almost always that. It was almost always some kind of a weakness or instability type issue. And think of it this way, the shoulders have tremendous capacity for strength, but if the ability of the shoulder supportive musculature doesn't match with the stabilization, then you actually raise your risk of injury quite high.  Well, there's all these other muscles that have to prevent my upper arm here from twisting and rotating and moving out to the side and forward because of that joint is so versatile. And if those stabilizing muscles can't match the power, the raw power of what I'm trying to do, if I'm outside of form by a half a degree, boom, I'm gonna hurt my shoulder. It takes barely anything then to kind of set it off. That's right. This is why like full range of motion and different types of movements is like so much more important, I would say for the shoulders and almost any other muscle group. Yeah, and one thing I found like to the point I'm not using it's full range was not using my rotation enough. And so I was like very dominant and just chest back movements like Adam was talking about and just trying to build strength and stability there. However, it was just limiting the way that my shoulders were responding when there was any kind of a shift in the weight laterally or I wasn't able to then kind of adjust and control how it should because I wasn't going through those movements and it wasn't responding to help be that supporting cast. So once I started to figure that out and go through a lot more rotational movement in my shoulders, it was an immediate performance increase which I thought was interesting. 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So wide ranges of motion, excuse me, wide ranges of rep ranges works best for pretty much the whole body. So you'll build muscle in low rep ranges, as low as one rep and you'll build muscle with high rep ranges, let's say as high as 20 reps, okay? So they all build muscle and your body will adapt to one if you train too long on it and you gotta move out of it. But I found the shoulders, they seem to respond really well to higher reps. Like it's one of those muscles where, oh, that's interesting you say that because I was gonna make the case that when I think of, then this is obviously my own personal experience, my shoulders I think are the one thing on my body that actually responds really well to all rep ranges equally. Like I've seen in tremendous gains by moving into the high rep range superset way of training. I saw tremendous gains when I went down to like doing single push presses and things like that and like doing cleans like, so I have seen in comparing, if I looked at my buys and tries, high reps for sure doesn't respond as well, low reps. My chest don't really respond my back and my legs really respond low rep range. Oh my God, they grew the most when I was doing loading really, really heavy and still also high but not as much. My shoulders, my experience, I have seen that all rep ranges, they really responded well. Well here, let me rephrase it Adam cause like what muscle group do you, responds best to things like drop sets, script sets, run the rack? I feel like it's my, for me it's been shoulders. Like if I'm gonna utilize some kind of a technique where I'm doing lots of supersets, lots of reps get a crazy pump, I feel like my shoulders seem to respond better and I've seen this with clients. Now I'm not saying that all the rep ranges are valuable, but I just seem to see, I think it has to do with the stabilization involved with the high reps and the stamina that's required of the stabilizers. I don't know, I don't know if just me. Yeah, I mean I would make that case in my buys and tries got really good results from stuff like that. Maybe cause it's a smaller muscle group. To your point I guess too, like I mean they're involved with so many movements so I would think that like their stamina capacity would be greater than some of the other single joint muscles.  Exactly. So when you have a shoulder day, that's not the only day you're hitting your shoulders, you're hitting them quite a bit. It's almost like forearms. That would also make the case though why they would be more likely to be adapted to higher volume than to. Maybe they just take more punishment. Maybe that's right. Well, maybe that's right.  Cause I've had clients that have said that they have stubborn shoulders, but when I went from that being a weak point on my physique to being actually a strength of mine in a relatively short period of my life, like not like it was like overnight, but I mean a year or two of really putting energy and effort towards that, it went from being something that was pointed out by a physique competitor that, okay, that's your weakness to this is something that when I got into competing that judges would highlight as, oh, you have great shoulders and like it pulled my back and everything else together. So I responded really well where I haven't had that experience with a lot of muscles.  My back resulted pretty decent. I think I saw some pretty good growth there. Legs were stubborn, calves have been stubborn, arms were even stubborn, even though that was a strength of mine.  So shoulders were probably one of the muscles I felt like when I put effort in all the rep ranges, I seemed to get good growth.  Now, I don't think they're appropriate for every exercise. We'll get into exercises, but in other words, some rep ranges are better for some exercises than others, but like all body parts, you're gonna wanna train in all the different rep ranges and ideally what you'll wanna do is stay in a particular rep range for at least a few weeks, at least three to four weeks, get yourself in the groove, get yourself in the feeling of like lifting heavy or in the feeling of lifting light with higher reps so that by the second or third week, you're really doing it the right way. And then before your body adapts to the point where it really stops responding, you switch to a new rep range. Yeah, the point of me sharing that more than anything else was actually, don't shy away from utilizing all the rep, even down to singles. I found the push press was a really cool exercise and hang cleans were like a really cool exercise for me to incorporate me with or incorporate with like one to two to three reps, which I would, there's not a lot of exercises like that for a muscle that is as small as the shoulders. And I saw my shoulders blow up from some of that. So if you don't do low reps, I would encourage somebody to actually utilize it. And then obviously if you don't do super setting, run the racks, the drop sets, the high volume type of training for your shoulders, you absolutely have to do that because I think they respond to both really well. Well, let's talk about some exercises. Cause what's interesting too about the shoulders is, I don't know, maybe you see this with legs with some stuff, but with the shoulders, there's like a lot of exercises you're not supposed to do. Like the dangerous ones. Don't do that, that's bad for you. Your neck press. Yeah, don't do that, that's bad for your shoulders or that could possibly hurt you. So I think we should talk about those too. But let's talk about, I guess to start with our first, like our favorite exercises. My favorite shoulder exercise is the basic standing overhead barbell press. It's my number one, but a close second would be a kettlebell press. The kettlebell press, I really didn't do a lot until I became an adult in my 30s. And that's just, I never really practiced them. But when I did do them, the range of motion with a kettlebell was so wide because you come all the way down. And because it involves rotation with the arm that I got good, like this good wide range of motion, strength training from the kettlebell. So it's, I think it's more complete than the barbell, but the barbell did build the most muscle mass. Yeah, I mean, I would say kettlebell press for me, mainly with the spiraling rotation involved, just because it feels very natural in the way that I would assume to raise my arm up over my head. I wouldn't just do it robotically like this. Yeah. You know, if I was to grab something overhead, you get that immediate rotation right away to reach. Because I felt like it mapped and patterned what your body's natural physicality was there. For strength, it would be the most optimal. For keeping a load close and centered to your body. You're always going to be able to load more. So it makes sense. Man, I have a lot of very favorite moves with my shoulders, like so. If you had to pick one, like one of your time. Come on, don't do that to me. That's not even fair to you. I know. I mean, obviously the barbell, and a full range of barbell press. Right, upper chest. Not a military 90 degree shoulder press. Yeah, but let's say I credit you a lot for more awareness on rear delt work. Oh, we'll get there for sure. I just want to point that out, because that was something that I neglected a lot and felt a massive difference. Well, since you brought that up, when it comes to developing aesthetic shoulders, nobody realizes it, or a lot of people don't realize it. The rear delts plays a huge role. Huge.  Everybody thinks the side delt, it's the rear delt. The rear delt gives you that square, round looking shoulder. This for sure was the single biggest difference that I made in the aesthetics of my shoulder was putting so much emphasis on my rear delts. And I have lots of favorite exercises. Let me address all my favorite moves and why, right? So Justin, you introduced me to the barbell push press. And that also is what, and hanging out with you and training with you is also what inspired the hang cleans. Those are movements that I wouldn't have done in the past, especially since I was so bodybuilder focused, but lifting that much weight explosively like that was just something that my body, and it really grew from that. I love a single arm Arnold dumbbell press. It's one of my favorite moves that I ever did. It's very similar to why you like the kettlebell press. It was my bodybuilder version of that. I used to train in a gym that didn't have kettlebells. So had I had access to kettlebells, probably I would probably, because it does feel comfortable to rest the kettlebell on the forearm. But if you don't, then a single arm Arnold dumbbell press was like one of my favorite moves to do. And then of course, the barbell. So the barbell overhead press, the hang clean, and I love to do a hang clean to a press where I put it all together or a push press. I got huge results from that. That's all front work. And then the rear, of course rear dumbbell flies, but I absolutely love the free motion rear delt fly for this because of the consistent tension through the entire range of motion on the rear delt. You will not find anything else. The closest thing to that would be like a reverse pec deck is the closest feeling that I have to that. But when I, and I've done a video on YouTube where I hinge over and I pull the cable all the way through. So I'm in this complete, you're in the, as stretched as you can stretch that rear delt when you're here in this. And that's where, like when you're sitting here on the pec deck, you're at rest. And you're not in a full stretch position on that. When you're pulled all the way through. You have to start right there. You're in a fully stretch position on the rear delt. And then you pull it all the way out to its fullest range of motion. And there's constant tension on that. That machine, free motion, hinged over, rear delt fly. I attribute that to some of the best rear delt gains that I ever had. All right, so there's a couple of exercises that you'll hear are dangerous and you shouldn't do them. And I want to be very clear, any exercise can be dangerous if you can't do it right. And you lack the mobility and stability to do it. And all, and any exercises can be safe if you could do it properly. You have the right mobility and right stability. Any exercise, okay? So this is true for both. Now, some exercises require more skill, more mobility, more stability than others. So the potential risk is higher with more complex exercises. But that doesn't inherently make it dangerous. So when people say, don't do this exercise is dangerous or do this one, these are safe, that's a super over generalization. So I'll talk about two shoulder exercises that had profound effects on my shoulder development. Mainly because when I first did them, I sucked at them because it didn't have the right mobility and stability. So I had to go real light and build myself up. And then when I did what followed along with that was really good muscle development. The first one is an upright row. And you'll find upright rows in a lot of maps programs. And every once in a while we'll get someone who'll be like, oh my God, why you put upright rows in there? That's so bad for the shoulder. It's like you're abducting with internal rotation while you're pulling the bar up. And that's so bad for, it's not bad for your shoulder if you could do it and you have the right stability and the right strength. But doing this upright row position here, this exercise right here blew my shoulders up. It developed such round delts. It also was a completely different movement from almost any other shoulder movement. There's almost no other exercise that's similar to it. And it also ties the biceps in with the shoulders, which is quite rare. As I'm pulling up, I'm using a little bit of biceps along my shoulders so it's a different combination of muscles, whereas with the shoulders, it's typically triceps that are assisting the shoulder. Since you're talking about form, this is a good time to address this that I find very common with developing shoulders. One of the most, like when I have somebody who tells me they have stubborn shoulders and they can't develop their shoulders, many times it's because of their form. What makes shoulders even more challenging to develop is how easily other muscles can take over the movement. Totally. You talk about the rear delts being one of the biggest part of the shoulders. Really easy to do a rear delt exercise that turns into a back exercise. Turns into a row. And to the untrained eye, you will look at somebody who is doing a, let's say reverse peck deck, right? Where they're doing like a reverse fly. And you will have a hard time telling the difference between the guy who is using almost all back versus the guy who is using almost all shoulders. Hard to see the difference if you don't really understand the mechanics of how that shoulder activates and moves. And so it's very easy for someone to do a movement. Same thing goes for when you're doing a lateral raise and allowing the traps to take over a big portion of the movement and not leave it on the lateral head of the shoulder. So you cannot stress enough the form and technique on not only the safety part, but also on the part of developing the shoulder is if you quickly go right to like the heaviest load you can do, but your mechanics are off slightly, it's very easy for other muscles to overcompensate and then not develop the shoulders that you want. Here's a cue I like to use with flies and laterals when you're doing a lateral you're not lifting the dumbbell up you're lifting it out and away from your body. And you have to go light to do this properly but when you're lifting it out and away from your body you tend to disengage or not use the traps and upper back as much as when you're just trying to lift it. So it's out, same thing with the rear fly. I'm separating and bringing them out rather than bringing them back and up. That cue right there I've noticed with clients made a pretty big difference. Besides the upright row, here's another one that there's a lot of controversy around which is funny because in the 90s, everybody did this exercise and for some reason it became unpopular is the behind the neck press. The behind the neck shoulder, you know what's funny about that? Olympic weight lifters do this all the time. This is like a staple exercise.  It was, and even, well, I guess before squat racks like how did you get the weight on your back? That was a whole process that you have to clean it, having to bring it up and press it up and then decelerate it, raise it down to your back and then to disengage too.  So the ability was there as long as you developed the strength adequately just like any other muscle. So if you don't have the range of motion to get that external rotation, you got to put the work in to make it possible. So that's the first. Keep your elbows under your hands when you press. That's a good cue for people to remember. So I had to, I couldn't do this. When, and I actually remember when I made it a goal during, when I was competing and I wanted to get to the place because I couldn't, right? I couldn't do a behind the neck press comfortably without like having to push my head way forward. It was just, I just didn't have the ability to retract very well. And I started with just the bar, right? Yeah, this is at the time when I could probably show military press comfortably 225 and I would put the bar, just the 45 pound bar and I'd put it resting like as if I was squatting, sitting in the middle. And I would just practice moving the bar. I bet you got a pump doing that. Oh, a massive pump and a massive workout from just that really like, wait, eventually then I added 10 pounds and 10 pounds and 10 pounds. And then got to the point where I could press almost as much weight behind the neck as I could in front of me like that and felt my shoulders felt some of the best they ever felt by working towards that.  When I'm at the bottom versus with a press to the front, my shoulder blades a little bit more spread, right? So it's a different position for the shoulder blade plus behind the neck really actually requires me to contract my delts just to hold them there. So I'm getting like this contraction the entire time I'm pressing, but I always go lighter with it because it does require more mobility and stability. What's silly to me about that being sort of taboo is the same person would have them doing back squats. How are you even gonna get in that position appropriately without that serious external rotation and then adding tension? Are you just resting on your spine without any support in muscular tension to work through? So it's to me that's just kind of a funny thing. I think that was, of course it's a safety red tape kind of a thing that was just like promoted. Yeah, well, it was the certifications would tell us don't do these exercises because they required a higher level of skill from the trainer. And we were all new trainers. A lot of the stuff they told us in the first certifications we got were don't do this, don't do that, don't do this because they didn't have confidence in our skill to be able to teach and train these exercises which was actually to the detriment because it took me a long time to realize that these are not dangerous exercises. They're valuable. You just have to know how to do them properly, perform them properly. And you have to know why it hurts and how to address the reason why it hurts. But when you can do them and you do them right and you get stronger at them, you develop delts that are just phenomenal. You know, this wasn't on our list to talk about this but you just reminded me of a point that I think it's important to make if you're listening to, obviously you're listening to this, it's a masterclass on shoulders and so you're probably trying to work and develop your shoulders. If you follow one of our main maps programs which mostly are full body routines, you typically see shoulders third, fourth or fifth exercise in many programs, right?   They prioritize it. They, a lot of time, this was actually one of the big first shifts that I made when I told you I used to always just go, oh, I'm doing chest, I'm doing back, I'm getting little shoulders and then I'd afterthought be these lateral raises never once did I ever start a workout with like a press like that and see how strong I could be when I'm fresh going into one of these big lifts. That makes a big difference than it after chest, after back and after legs, not a lot of gas left to do a heavy push press or a heavy shoulder press when you've done those movements first. So prioritizing it early in the workout I think is important.  That's kind of like covers the bases with your general shoulder exercise.  You could do external rotation exercises with cables or bands to work on the stabilizers. But those three categories that I said earlier those are the major, the main major categories of exercise that you want to pick from. And you want to make sure you have at least one of those components in one of your workouts, especially if you're training your shoulders as frequently as you should be which is at least two or three days a week. The shoulders respond really well like most of the body with a good two or three days a week of training. Meaning take your total volume of workout and don't do it all in one workout divide it up over two or three workouts and you'll typically get the best results. I do want to caution the listener to making sure that if they don't incorporate all the movements that we have already listed today that they have to think because we didn't really talk about the rotator cuff and the importance of that. And obviously if you do behind the neck presses you do the kettlebell presses that Justin's talking about our Arnold presses you're getting a nice rotational component in there or if you're doing something like the pull through like I said where there's a full range of motion stability component in there you get a lot of good rotator cuff in there but if you're somebody who just does the traditional shoulder press lateral raise rear fly type of deal and you don't do a lot of rotational movement incorporate in there you got to find a way to put that in there whether you isolate it by itself and do rotator cuff or you introduce some of these movements that we're talking about. Yeah I like wall circles as a primer I like shoulder dislocates as a good primer and then band external rotation. If you load it do some haloes you know it doesn't have to be that heavy obviously it's not a major muscle group but to be able to kind of add that stimulus and start strengthening their response a bit more adding loads an option. Yeah now generally speaking when you design you put together your shoulder workout you want to start with a press just a big heavy gross motor movement you can also start with the row if you're really good at them and you can get pretty strong but usually it's a press and then from there you move to the different raises and you typically want to work on hitting the side of the shoulder and the rear of the shoulder. Now if you're more advanced and you've identified some imbalances in your shoulder like your rear delts start your workout with the rear delts I did that for years to bring up my rear delts I actually love that as general advice because it's rare I meet somebody that trains their shoulders that wants to develop their shoulders more that doesn't have a more developed front shoulder than their rear shoulder. Almost always when I meet somebody who wants to develop their shoulders who's already pressing and doing some of the movements and they're neglecting their rear and so getting that person to start with a rear delt exercise I think is super beneficial although the general advice for the average person I think would always be to do like a regular shoulder press first but I think there's tremendous value in a lot of people who are trying to develop the go rear delts. Now we talked about rep ranges earlier I'll say this the low rep ranges work really well for the presses everything else I would say is moderate to higher reps I don't really see tons of value in low rep raises lateral raises or front raises it becomes more of a back exercise it's really hard to make it a shoulder like a straight shoulder exercise and the leverage is just so far out there it is I mean I would caution people with with loading shoulder stuff because back to my original point about how easily the rest of the body can cheat the rep it is one of those exercises where it can be deceiving you're like oh I can do more weight than that because you can because all of a sudden all the secondary muscles yeah and momentum kick in and they help you out and so you you get this ego boost of oh you're doing double the weight of what you maybe you thought you should do or whatever but it's really because all those other muscles are overcompensating and helping that load out whereas if you're staying really strict and trying to isolate the shoulder as much as possible it doesn't take very much load to get a really good workout and so I would want you to have really really good mechanics and control of all those movements we've talked about first before I really allowed you to start to really load that that muscle because it's one of the ones I think is very easy to to cheat and to not to not feel it but you know along those lines like really trying to get strong on your overhead press you're going to get good shoulder development really trying to get strong on your lateral raise you're going to get like a bunch of trap development right really trying to get strong with your rear fly you're going to get a lot of rhomboid presses are going to give you the most pain you know what we did we didn't even bring up which is one of my favorite exercises can we bring up is the z-press oh that's a great that's a great press variation and I love that as a starting press for a lot of people right so if it's a good form check yeah if you're taking the advice right now where I'm telling you don't go crazy load it until you think you have good form you're like okay well how do I know I'm getting really good form get good at the z-press you get good at the z-press with the stabilization at the top of that right there that's going to teach you to have good mechanics you're going to get good stability from that and good form you can't cheat it like Justin's saying you'll fall over if you cheat that rep so you get good at a z-press you'll see tremendous carry over and all the other exercises there's also good value in overhead holds so when you do a press you can even get a weight that you press up and then just hold above your head and try to be as straight as possible don't try to you know try to prevent yourself from overarching your back try to keep your head in between your arms really extend the shoulders push like you're trying to push the weight up as high as you can and hold that for 10 to 15 seconds I mean isometrics in that position is such a good way to develop stabilization and muscle in the shoulders look if you want a shoulder workout that's written all out for you because you listened to the episode and you said look what does this look like what are the reps sets exercises what does the programming look like we have a shoulder mod so this is a maps workout program just for shoulders in other words take your total workout take out the shoulder part of your workout plug the mod in that we've written and now you have an amazing shoulder workout so our shoulder mod right now because of this episode is 50% off you can find it at maps fitnessproducts.com and the code for the 50% off is shoulders shoulders will give you 50% off and there you go you got your full shoulder workout look you can also find us all on social media Justin is on instagram at mine pump Justin Adam is on instagram on mine pump adam and you can find me on twitter at mine pump sal this one's really important and that is to phase your training if somebody trains for a full year doing a bench press and they're always aiming for five reps if you compared that person to a person who did bench press where they did three or four weeks of five reps but then they did three or four weeks of 12 reps and then three or four weeks of let's say 15 to 20 reps and then they'll throw in some supersets at the end of that year you're gonna see more consistent progress from the person who's moving in and out and less injury that's another thing you'll see less injury as well


Family Theater presents Anne Blythe and MacDonald Kerry. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents transcribed, Mother of All, a special Mother's Day program starring Anne Blythe and MacDonald Kerry.  She was gentle, tender, forgiving, a woman who put the interest of her family above all other worldly consideration. And yet, because of something that happened to her only son, this woman suffered the greatest sorrow that a mother can know. Our story begins long, long ago in a small, conquered country on the shores of the Mediterranean. It was the season of the winter rains. They blew down from the mountains in great icy sheets and clogged the narrow roads leading south to the capital. It was a poor time for traveling, but this was a conquered country. And an order had gone out from the conquerors that attacks. Another tax was to be levied against each household in its city of family origin. So the conquered people took to the muddy roads, some alone, some in caravans, all who were required to make the journey, even if among them there happened to be an expectant mother. How do you feel? A little tired, I'm afraid. We can stop and rest if you like. We can't be far now. Perhaps we shouldn't. I have a feeling it will be soon. Don't be afraid. I'll find us a place. As soon as we reach town, I'll find one. I know you will. I'm not afraid. Isn't much, I know, but at least it's dry and out of the wind. Oh, it's just fine. You mustn't worry. Tomorrow before the registration begins, I'll go back into town and find a better place. You needn't do that. It seems so wrong for you to be here, especially now. You mustn't blame yourself for that. If he is to be born here, it is God's will. But not like this.  Oh, we will find something. Isn't that a feeding trough there by the entrance? Part of one. The slats are broken. I suppose I could patch it up to serve temporarily. Of course you can. And the straw. That could be a pillow for him. All right, Joseph. Yes, of course. These rickety things all warp to pieces. Will you be able to fix it? Yes, but you'd think the carpenter who built this would know you can't use green wood to make a manger. And thus he was born for only begotten son. Born into a world of tension and sorrow. A world that had turned its back on love and peace and kindness. Every mother upon first seeing her newborn son envisions him for a moment, grown to manhood. She looks into his round, tiny eyes and sees his whole future. The triumphs, the failures, the joy, the heartbreak. For an instant it is all there. But on that night long ago could the young mother in the stable for all her pride and happiness feel a sword pierce her heart as she gazed at her infant son. As he gurgled with delight and nestled in her arms his eyes shining with love for her could she see his face as she would see it years later twisted in agony and sorrow. Every feature disturbed by pain. All but the eyes which would never cease to shine with love even at the last hour when the earth grew dark and the angry mob jeered him.  He can't last much longer. He's been hanging there for three hours. Look how dark it's getting. Yes. Ten minutes ago there wasn't a sign of rain. I don't think this means rain. What do you mean? Say, you aren't beginning to believe all those stories about him. I don't know what to believe. Woman, be sensible. He's a blasphemer. Everything he's done is blasphemy. Is it? He healed a sick. He fed the poor. He told people to love each other. That's not the point. He claims to be God. I think he just said something to that young man, the one with his mother. What's she doing here? Most mothers couldn't stand it. She just keeps looking at him. I don't know. I tell you there's something wrong with this. He could have run away, but he didn't. He could have gotten off with just a flogging, but he didn't.  Look at his face. Is that the face of a fanatic? He looks almost content to hang there as if... as if it were the only reason he'd been born. Look, he's lifting his eyes to the heavens, and his lips are moving. No. He's lowering his head. It's... it's all over. I've never seen the sky so dark. Look at the faces of the mob. Look at them. They're frightened. Every one of them frightened but her. All but her. Who? Who do you mean? His mother. Can you see her? She's stopped crying.  That's strange. It's usually after death that the crying starts. Maybe that's the reason his mother stopped crying after he died. What do you mean? Maybe she knows that from now on, he'll live forever. Until the last, the mother had stayed with her son. All through the happy years of his childhood, during which he grew strong and full of wisdom, the grace of God within him. And later in manhood, when he went forth to be about his father's business in spirit, if not always at his side, his devoted mother was with him. And now, at the third hour, as they take him down from the cross and lay him in her arms, she looks again, as years before she had, at his closed eyes and sees this time neither suffering nor sorrow, only his eternal glory in heaven and pain stabs her heart no longer for she remembers his words from the cross. Mother, behold thy son. Son, behold thy mother. Her son had left her. Whereas before she had been his mother, she is now mother to all his followers for all generations to come. She is our mother Mary. The years went by swiftly after that. Her advice and counsel were sought and freely given. But at length, the time comes when she must join her son in the kingdom he has prepared for her. So at the last, surrounded by the apostles and knowing that her hour of death and triumph is at hand, Mary makes a solemn promise. John. Yes, Mother Mary? Ask Simon Peter and the others to draw closer. I want to tell them something. We are all here, Mary. What is it? He, my beloved son, can refuse me nothing. I have only to ask. Remember then, whatever help is needed, whatever special strength who prays for it in my name will not go unaided. He has promised. We will remember Mary. John. Mother Mary. John. My time has come. I will find him whom my soul loveth. I will hold him. And I will not let him go. In the words of the angel Gabriel, all the world salutes the mother of all. The mother who could not be separated from the son had at last risen to heaven to the throne of glory that he had prepared for her. But what of Mary's promise? For she is our mother as well. Has our mother been true to her word? Has she forgotten her children here on earth? In December 1531, a persistent Indian convert, Juan Juan Diego, returns to the palace of the Bishop of Mexico and repeats a fantastic story to his excellency. But excellency is true. I swear it. You were on your way to church. And the hill that is called the Payak, it was just a dawn. And it was then the lady first appeared to you? No, no, no, no. Beautiful music, excellency. Beautiful music. And then I heard her voice. Juan Diego, she called. Juan Diego. It was then I turned and I saw it, just like I told you yesterday. The lady appeared again today and said she wanted a temple built on Tampaya and that I should tell you. And this lady repeated that she was the mother of God? Those were her words. And then I told her that you did not believe me some proof, some sign. And she gave you proof? But she did, excellency. She said I should go to the top of the Payak and gather the roses growing there. Roses? Growing in December? But they were there, excellency. And when I picked them and returned to the lady, she arranged them neatly in my Dilma, this sack here. Look for yourself. In heaven's name. Are they not beautiful? Juan, what is that picture painted on the inside of your Dilma? Picture? But I have no... It is an image of the lady herself, exactly as I saw her. As our mother remembered her promise to us, her children. It is July 18th, 1830. In a Paris convent, during a time of convulsive political unrest that rocks all Europe, a young novice, Catherine Laboure, kneels in prayer. And to her, the merciful mother of God appears. My child, it is through you that I will bestow graces on those who will have them. Strife will soon occur. The world will be drenched with sorrow. But I will be with you. Have courage. These graces will be given to all who ask. But people must pray. Has our mother forgotten us? Even though the world did not heed her words, and revolution and bloodshed followed after, did our mother forsake her promise? February 11th, 1858. The rosary draped over her wrists. Our blessed mother first appears to the peasant girl, Bernadette Subiru of Lourdes. And 18 times thereafter, she reappears on the spot where a miraculous hidden spring now gushes forth, healing waters by the grotto. And what is our mother's message to Bernadette? Pray. Pray for sinners.  It is we who have forgotten her. Despite her warnings, the world plunges farther and farther along the road to self-destruction. In August 1914, world war breaks out.  But does our mother forsake us? It is May 13th, 1917. Fatima, Portugal. And once more, this time to three innocent children, the Blessed Virgin manifests herself. I have come to warn the faithful to amend their lives and to ask pardon for their sins. They must not offend our Lord anymore. He is already too grievously offended. They must say the rosary daily. This war will end. But another, a worse one, will begin if people do not stop offending. To prevent this, I ask the consecration of the world to my immaculate heart. If my requests are heard, Russia will be converted and there will be peace. If not, great error will spread throughout the world, giving rise to war and persecution. That was her warning to us, her children. And as she had before at Lourdes and Guadalupe, at Fatima, she gave us an unmistakable sign. Here, take this just as I give it to you. Dateline, Fatima, Portugal, October 13th, 1917. Today, over 60,000 people witnessed a solar phenomenon here that no law of natural science seems able to explain. At high noon, the sun grew suddenly dim and appeared to spin like a gigantic wheel. This occurred three times within a period of 10 minutes. An ecclesiastical commission has been appointed to investigate this phenomenon and will report its findings as soon as possible. Okay, you can send that. Oh, and listen, I want to add a personal note to the editor in the London office. Just say, Henry, I saw this with my own eyes. It's the goods. Thus, the message is from our mother in fulfillment of her promise. The solar phenomenon at Fatima was later confirmed by outstanding physicists and astronomers as an occurrence utterly unexplainable by ordinary laws of nature. The miracles at Lourdes, the sources of medically certified cures that have taken place there over the years and which are still occurring show that for all our weaknesses, our mother has not forgotten us. Let us then, her children, rededicate ourselves to the principles for which her divine son suffered and died. We live in a war-torn world that needs more than ever before to be brought back through atonement, through prayer, to the Prince of Peace. Remember whatever help is needed, whatever special stream who prays for it in my name will not go unaided. He has promised. But Family Theatre has presented a special Mother's Day program, Mother of All, starring Anne Blythe and MacDonald Kerry. Others in our cast were Mae Clark, John Stevenson, Howard Culver, Jane Ovella, Pat McGeehan, Norman Field and David Young. Ms. Blythe was our soloist. The song Mother of All was composed by Jean Lockhart and Miracle of Fatima was composed by Michael Grace and Helmi Cressa. The script was written by John T. Kelly with music composed and conducted by Harry Zimmerman and was directed and transcribed for Family Theatre by Joseph F. Mansfield. This is Larry Chatterton expressing the wish of Family Theatre that the blessing of God may be upon you and your home. And inviting you to be with us again next week when Family Theatre will present To the Victor, starring James Cagney Mr. Thomas O'Neill will be your host. Join us, won't you?


In 1994, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was released and became a New York Times bestseller. In 1993, one year before the book's release, Random House hired a Savannah-based photographer named Jack Lee to take a photograph to be the book cover. John Barrett, the author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, suggested that Mr. Jack Lee go scout out Bonaventure Cemetery for a nice spooky and eerie shot. At this point, Bonaventure Cemetery was a rural cemetery right east of Savannah that had been long forgotten. And after two days of scouring the cemetery for the perfect shot, right at the last minute just as the sun was setting, Jack Lee spotted a statue known as the bird girl. He took a shot of this statue and took some time adjusting it with the light. This shot ended up being one of the most iconic book covers of all time. But before we go any further, please hit that subscribe button and give us a like. Welcome to Esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce, and today we're going to talk about Gracie Watson, Bonaventure Cemetery's most famous little ghost. As I said in the first video, which you can go back and watch if you want to, that I had planned on just doing an episode on Bonaventure Cemetery. However, it occurred to me that most people don't know the story of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and for those who are familiar with it, might assume that Bonaventure Cemetery has a bigger role to play in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil than it actually does. I knew if I just did a video on Bonaventure Cemetery without even mentioning Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, I would probably get a ton of emails and messages asking me why I never mentioned the book. So here it goes. Now in part one, we talked about why cemeteries are so important to our story. If you remember the root doctor that helped Jen Williams with his trial called cemeteries gardens. She also talked about the witching hour of good and bad spells. If you remember from 11.30 p.m. to 12.00 a.m. midnight is the time to do good magic in the Garden or Cemetery. And then from 12 a.m. to 12.30 a.m. is the time for the bad magic in the Garden or Cemetery. This is why we get the title Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Again, if you refer back to the part one in the link, I do have another video I did on Gola culture in the past. I'm not going to go again too much into that because it's redundant at this point. And if you haven't seen that video, you're more than welcome to go watch it. Now again, as I said in the intro, Bonaventure Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in Savannah. It was also forgotten about for a very long time until the book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. The book in the movie gave the cemetery a bit of a kick and has upped tourism. Now with that being said, the statue of the bird girl doesn't have anything to do with the story. It was just a really good shot. The family that had the bird girl statue in their plot had absolutely nothing to do with any of the families involved in our story. In fact, none of the people who died in our story are even buried in Bonaventure Cemetery. The closest person we have that's buried there is Johnny Mercer, who was the great grandson of General Mercer who originally built the house. Johnny Mercer was also a very famous songwriter from Savannah. And if you remember, no Mercer ever lived in the Mercer house. However, if you have seen the movie Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, there is an opening shot of Johnny Mercer's grave site in Bonaventure Cemetery. But if you're not familiar with that specific cemetery, you probably would have no idea that it was Bonaventure Cemetery. Now Danny Hansford, the 21 year old murder victim is buried in Greenwich Cemetery, which is pretty close to Bonaventure. But Jim Williams himself is buried in Gordon, Georgia near Macon in his family plot, so his grave isn't anywhere near Savannah. Now our Ruth Doctor Valerie, she passed away a few years ago and she is also buried in the area. However, for Ruth Doctors, their graves stay pretty hidden. In fact, if you try to find her grave online, the grave they give you and find a grave is not actually her grave. You see, if you can remember from our Gala video, I said that a lot of times these Ruth Doctors upon death will have their graves vandalized, not vandalized negatively, but a lot of people believe that if you take the dirt from a Ruth Doctors grave, you will carry the essence and the power of that Ruth Doctor with you. So a lot of times these famous Ruth Doctors are hidden in burials so that people will not take from their grave. In 1997, three years after the book was released, they decided to make a movie. Clint Eastwood was going to direct it. At this point, the story of the Mercer House, of this murder in Savannah blew up even more. And of course, it drove up tourism, which was great for the city. However, all of a sudden, Bonaventure Cemetery was seeing way more foot traffic than it usually had. And unfortunately, because of that, the bird girl statue had to be moved. The city felt like the leaving this iconic statue, what turned into an iconic statue, on this public land would result in some vandalization. You see, Bonaventure Cemetery is open to the public, no admissions from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Of course, there are tours, but anybody is welcomed just to stroll on into the cemetery. I've just walked into Bonaventure Cemetery myself before just to walk the grounds. And so soon after the movie was released in the late 90s, the bird girl was moved. She's been moved around to multiple museums, and in 2014, she was moved to the Jepsen Center for the Arts in Savannah. She's available for anyone to see her at this particular location. So now that we've gotten out of the way, let's get into the real superstar of the Bonaventure Cemetery. Now a lot of people are buried there. It's 160 acres. It's huge. I could probably do a three-hour episode on every single famous person or famous ghost that lives in this cemetery. However, none are as famous or as loved than Gracie Watson. Gracie Watson was only six years old when she died. And before anybody asks, no, I'm not related to Gracie Watson. Yes, we have the same last name, but our families come, my Watson line comes from a totally different area of the United States. Gracie Watson died in 1889 of pneumonia. Gracie was the only child of W.J. Watson and his wife, Margaret Francis Watson. The couple managed and owned a hotel called the Polansky Hotel. This hotel is no longer in Savannah, Georgia. Margaret Francis Watson, Gracie's mother, really, really wanted her family to be a part of the Upper Class Society of Savannah. The couple had moved down to Savannah from New England and really wanted to rise their ranks from middle class to the High Society. And so Margaret Francis decided that she was going to use her hotel for this purpose. On evenings, she would have these beautiful lavish parties and would invite all of the High Society into the hotel. She would serve them free drinks, free food, and they would socialize. And her plan worked. They became respected members of Savannah Society. But the most popular of this family was Little Gracie.  When the night got too late and Gracie grew bored, she would see her way off to the stairs and she would play behind the stairs by herself. It became a running joke that when the guests couldn't find Gracie anymore, they knew it was time to go because it had gotten too late. However, sadly, a few days before Easter in 1889, Little Gracie succumbed to pneumonia. Not only did this devastate her parents, but her death devastated the whole town. Everybody loved Little Gracie. She was Savannah's daughter. Little Gracie Watson was buried at Bonaventure Cemetery. Her father handed a photograph over to a man named John Walls to construct a statue of his daughter. The statue that still sits at Bonaventure Cemetery is one of the most life-like statues one will ever see. And according to people of the time, the statue looked so much like Gracie. As Gracie's parents started to mourn from her death and pick their lives back up again, her mother had the propensity to see Gracie running around and hiding behind the stairs. Was this a hallucination or was it her ghost? I don't know. But regardless, it became too painful for the Watsons to stay in Savannah. So they packed up, they left town, and went back up to New England, leaving the body of their daughter behind in Bonaventure Cemetery. To this day, Gracie Watson's gravesite is one of the most visited graves in Savannah, Georgia. In fact, according to the AJC or the Atlanta Journal Constitution, her gravesite is one of the most visited gravesites in the whole state of Georgia. Now there is a wrought iron fence that goes around her gravesite because so many people go to Bonaventure Cemetery to pay their respects to little Gracie. Many people who go to visit Bonaventure Cemetery will see a little girl around the age of 6 in a long white dress slip in and out of the wrought iron fence that goes around Gracie's burial site. Now as they get closer and run after the child, she simply disappears. It is also common for people to leave flowers and toys at Gracie's gravesite and if those flowers and those toys are removed, her statue cries tears of blood. Other people say that they see the ghost of little Gracie playing around the area where her parents' hotel would have been. The building has since been torn down, but that doesn't stop this little girl from coming back to her place to see if she can find her family. So next time you're in Savannah, go to Bonaventure Cemetery, but don't go there because of midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. As you see, the stories that already existed in Bonaventure Cemetery are way more fascinating than the ones people think are connected to it from a movie.  After all, she is Savannah's daughter. Thank you guys again for sitting through another story. Thank you to Josh McKay for doing our music, and Todd Roderick for being our editor, and I will see you guys tomorrow. Bye!


Well, a very good evening to you and welcome to a news right here on YT54 TV, your favorite youth channel. My name is Philiin. You can find me at Philiin Jun across all social media pages. And if you're joining us right now, we are just on time for some tea. We are about to tell you what's been happening in Kenya and beyond. I'm talking about all the trending topics. You are just at the right place. But first things first, let's meet my co-hosts right here. Yeah, I'm going to start with our Italian queen herself, Junil Bietara. What's up? How you doing? I'm good. Thank you. Thank you so much for joining us, guys. It's another week. Tea is hot. It's smoking. So don't touch that dial. Right. And we have the star CJC. What's up? Oh, hi, everyone. Kamakawaida. Udaku iku kawingi. Udaku rilade. Yeah, Banna. Tukonamob. Just don't touch the dial. That's what's up. We have Spencer. What's up? Happy New Year. Oh, you are here on first. What's up? Yeah. Hi, guys. I'm Spencer Kenyua. We are ladies who chat Udaku's. No. Mm-hmm. Daira. You guys are not even ready. Are you ready? Yeah. I'm CK, our very own superstar. I don't even know what's going on. Me neither. Yeah. Daira. Daira. Daira. Daira. Daira. Daira. Daira. Daira. Daira. Yes. I know I'm not going to draw the money. I'm not going to draw the money. I want you to tell me. Today You were dressed in aSiru. You were leathery. You were Kh诸 proceso. You were甚麼. I realized I realized this past week I realized I have so many Muslim fans I never knew. So today and this whole month, I'm going to celebrate Muslim's. All Muslims are tuned in. Welcome to the show guys. I've not been here for the last two weeks. It's gonna be fine. All right. It's good to have you.  Yes sir. Yes sir. Yes sir. All right. Let's get started with our first story. Now, Buckingham Palace announced on Saturday that as part of a new agreement, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will no longer use their hatred titles and completely step back from royal duties. Now, Robert Jobson, the royal for the evening standard, said their move should not damage the monarch because the Duke and Duchess are not direct heirs to the throne. Now, after months of reflection and internal discussions, we have chosen to make a transition this year in starting to carve out a progressive new role within these institutions. We intend to step back as senior members of the royal family and work to become financially independent while continuing to support Her Majesty the Queen, said Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Now, guys, my question is after Black people celebrated so much. Yay, we have a princess. She's Black. Our own princess. What is happening? Italian Queen. What is going on? I'm so happy that they've decided to put themselves first. I think if you ever saw the headlines on the UK newspapers bashing her, including the tabloids, I think she's a strong lady. To take all that and people live and tarnishing the prince's name because she chose to marry a Black girl, it's not fair. I wish them all the best. If the queen says they should not use their titles, so be it.  Yes, you're welcome to Kenya. I'll be your friend. Right. Now they say they're moving to Northern America. They're going to be staying in England and Northern America. So, when I think they're in Canada, Jesse, someone, one thing, I think it's okay for them to go independent. It's okay. But on the other hand, I still think one has to choose the character. No, in fact, they were told that while they were living in the palace in New Gaul, they used 2.4 if I'm not wrong, approximately 2.4 million dollars to renovate. So, they're going to be paying the palace 2.4 million dollars just for those renovations. And they said they don't want any of the tax payers money. What? Yeah. It's never about the money in the title. I think for them to earn their freedom, they had to go an extra mile. It didn't matter if they used extra money. I'm a what I go broke. The fact that they're even moving to North America, and they will still be supporting her highness. Yeah.  Before even saying like we're going to quit, you know. But I think it's good, they're breaking the dynasty. Yeah. I think it's okay. Like in Africa point, you can't do anything like a normal human being. Yeah. And whenever to know names, you can't sit in position, you can't sit in parka, how you're chewing, it's too much. I have a scare opinion here, boy child. What is happening? What is up with you, it is out of court. Hey, I can't make you do anything. Okay, it's hard, but maybe based on them, me by the piano support, like what my buddy Yeah. So, actually, we're good. Yeah. So, all the borders. So, Harry is the black sheep of the family.   And actually it's alleged that before Harry's mom, the princess Diana, you know, she had an accident with your paparazzi and stuff. And she said, So, MCK doesn't fall far from my tree. I think this is what we call these people problems. When you've never tested poverty, you can make such a decision. These are rich people problems, by the way. I'm telling you, they're going to pay back the 2.5 million. Is it 2.5 million dollars? So, you're leaving all that when they're going to rent?  Do you know people in Nairobi who work for rent? Yeah, then they say they're going to work for their money.  Now them, they're going to be behind this thing. What do you mean? Bro, this is something I cannot do. Bro, if you're watching, I can never denounce my family's name. You'll go wherever you want to go. I cannot. Personally, I disagree. Most people have a problem working. First of all, Miga, this is on her first marriage. She was married before and she's divorced. I love she's mine. I'm talking. My last comment on this. Women are the first downfall of men. You have seen it straight on Y254. That is the downfall of that man. I think this is the beginning of better times. Now if you're watching. It's not all about money. The hashtag is white. One meeting. The hashtag is white. If you're for updates, keep talking to us. And if time allows it, we're going to be softling some of your comments. And before we even go into the next story, Abishara to our very own DJ Nix. The Spain doctor he is watching the show. Abishara to you, DJ Nix. Now that brings us to our next story. Now a man by the name Thaldo decided to treat himself to a special celebration. The anniversary of being single. He took to social media to share pictures from his solo date to commemorate rather the occasion. Social media users had mixed reactions to his post. Others took the opportunity to try to get his attention. His post went viral with over 9,000 likes. He got different mixed responses from social media users. Many were amused when others celebrated with him. Now, who is going on a special date to celebrate? I'm going to be single for a whole year. I'm going to be single for a whole year. I take photos. I tell people how it's amazing being single. How long have you been single? How long have you been single? How long have you been single? Me, me, me, me. He's a problem for him. But I think he's a problem of being single for too long. You get some sudden kind of disorder. He's been single for a year. Disorder?  How long have you been single? I'm going to be single for a whole year. I'm going to be single for a whole year. I do treat myself. But not as an anniversary. I've been single for too long. What do you mean? I'm going to celebrate. I've been through a lot this month. I'm going to be single for a whole year. I'm going to be single for a whole year. I'm going to be single. I'm going to be single for a whole year. Listening to you go over slowly. That's the end of the video. How're you doing? I just got into a situation. How are you doing? You're good. Oh, I haven't done anything to myself. I've been single. How did you like my life? I'm from a different population My name is Queyza, like one year, how? One year, that's crazy I'm in a commodity Clearly, she's in a commodity, you are no longer human being I'm going to talk about that Thank you I think going on a solitude is okay It's okay. You know the thing is, this man, whoever he is, he might be looking for something. Don't put words in my mouth. Don't put words in my mouth. This is what I'm saying. Oh, I'm saying. He doesn't relate. He doesn't relate. He can't relate. When he posted that, what we're going to come back, my name, hey, bro. My name too. For desperate. Exactly my point. I'm not going to say it's okay. When I saw him, I thought he was a man. But for a man, I love to post it on social media. What are you trying to tell us? Attention. I mean, It's like, it's a little. Let me talk to you. Exactly. Exactly. I'm not going to say it's okay. But it's okay. I'm not going to say it's okay. I'm not going to say it's okay. I'm not going to say it's okay. I'm not going to say it's okay. So White Paper Updates is the hashtag. Keep talking to us. Feel free to tag us at White Paper channel as well. Now, Point of view, singer Willie Paul may have made it clearer than ever before that he has stand in circular. He posted a picture of his first 2020 project. And he seems to be the now brand ambassador for an alcoholic drink. William Lawson. Right. So, Willie Paul. He's not a frequent employee, but is he secular? Is he conservative? I hope he gets on the club without any problems. He's a brand ambassador at MCK. Do you endorse that? Yes. Yes. I don't endorse that. I don't endorse that. As human beings, we have to pay bills. All I can just say, the man is doing as his heart is telling. I don't want to judge him. God is going to do that for all of us and for him. So, you know, at the end of the day, sometimes you have to be reasonable. As long as it's not shaking your faith, do whatever your heart tells you. It is up to me to decide if I'm going to follow this person or whatever he's doing. I mean, there are so many gospel artists who are doing very well. Why are we concentrating on this one guy? If you feel he has lost it, God will do his own judgment on him. We have so many other people that are doing gospel. Any person or not? Yes. Some of us are still doing very good music. Exactly. If you feel he has lost it and you have to put it there, there's Bahati Bukuku, there's Arobo, there's MCK. Come listen to us. You feel Bahati is doing too much reality. There's Kinamistasi, there's Kinahu. Go to the other side. There are so many people that are doing all this variety. Exactly. I told you, only Bahati. I didn't do it. I didn't do it. Thank you, brother. I'm a fan of the music. I'm a fan of the music.  I think it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea. I always have the opportunity to listen to my good friend. I'm happy to be here today and welcome the fans. All right, Jesse. Some fans don't know who Bete is. He's Thika. I told you before, I'm Pozy. Bete we are sorry. We are over there. Bete is Pryomy. I think it's okay. He's come out. You're not going to be looked at or called. It's okay. It's high time. What where working? Where we're just going to shock. No, not at the coast. Am I talking about process? We all see differently and don't judge. We are not perfect either. Oh well, not really.  Be hot or cold. He needs to come out and say, for the sake of the people who follow him. People who think that he is stealing to Christianity, maybe I'm a Telezanga Kidoga Jew. Be willing to say manga, the writers of the Telezanga Batwana Amka and the Ifo John. So he needs to come out clear and be a marathon straight. Yes, that officially I'm not being secular, so that we know. But also pray that God may reveal himself and to him the same way he did to Bamboo. Bamboo is the only person who can do it. There are reasons behind it. So for Pose, all I can do is pray for you personally. I can't judge him, but trust me, may God do his will. I do another story. Just a school opened a few weeks ago. A girl from South Africa trained her for all the wrong reasons. Now her oversized uniforms are the reasons she trained her. And because of her first day at school. Now many said parents, many people thought her said parents should have been more thoughtful when they picked her dress. And on Tuesday, Gavin Karima revealed that he had found the little girl in Limpapo, a province in South Africa. And had restored her dignity. Now he uploaded pictures of the girl in her new attire as she was very happy in her new found school uniforms. Now why are we training kids? Like seriously. I'm relating to that. I think one of the parents was a Gukawana. I think he's home to us. I'm friendly. I'm not going to break a girl. Your time is about to come. You're shouting that I'm from home for? But at least he's home to us. We're breaking. Keep your power. I just don't know what the parent was thinking. Mother! I just don't know what the child was thinking. I don't want to My extent! You are not a good person. you are very good like bottom seat. What are you wearing? I'm wearing jeans I'm not wearing jeans I'm wearing jeans I'm wearing jeans Ok, let's move on Let's move on What is your best friend's name? Masi So, Masi You know the scar that she gave me on Christmas Day in 2005, she was my friend when I was a child My mom She was like Why are our parents doing this to us? You know what I mean? My mom told me The parents No, they didn't They didn't The parents used to reason This uniform No, they didn't So, our reasons were because of the scar Some of us didn't use to wear it The reason is the economy I was wearing it I was wearing it I was wearing it I was wearing it I was wearing this same uniform You're sure? I was wearing it I wore it she was like her mom I was wearing it My mother, yes, anticipating Nendas to open up to a new test, but they wouldn't want to open up. But a bro. Me didn't want to shed. I was in Guazinwa, I was a prep scout. Shout out to high school men. But I think God only provides. So, Mrs. Itafathal, you know, I'm a total... Maybe I'm budgeting like a year and a half plus. Do you? After a year and a half, I'm a total bad-wit. But that, it makes sense. I don't want to use a picture. Believe Lenny's got one. If you don't want to use it, you can use it. If you don't want to use it, you can use it. Anyway, shout out to the good Samaritan. I want to... I want to say thank you now. Let's go and check up on my time. The friends who can never trust you. This one. I don't know if you want to go and have a check up on me or Paul. So, we're going to move on. The hashtag is white stuff. Up next, let's move on to another story. Now, girls for singer Bahati has been trading again for all the wrong reasons. Last week, Bahati used cops to arrest a 20-year-old singer, Peter Blazing. After he heard that the young boy was about to leave his EMB record label. Now, when Russia reached out to a comment from Bahati, he said in a quote, Now, let's move on to the next story. Let's move on to the next story. Let's go and check up on my time. Let's go and check up on my time. Let's go and check up on my time. Now, let's go and check up on my time.  If God decides to take me away, if God decides to take me away, what will your countered be? It's time you people wrote me a check because I'm your source of content year in, year out. It seems my stories help you put food on the table, then continue. If it helps you put food on the table, then continue doing them. Have a blessed day. He told partial. Now, that's what Bahati had to say. Now, you guys remember. I signed this guy. Blessing. Blessing. Yeah, to his EMB studio. He's only 20 years old. Now, because of a few issues here and here, now he allegedly paid him 3K. I don't know how much he paid for it. He knew how much it was. So he apparently paid him 3K. That was just based on social media. Yeah. I cannot actually confirm that. Allegedly. Allegedly that's what he did. He paid him 3K. I can't believe it. Now he's just been frustrated. Like every time you perform, you can't do anything. So you don't end up with anything. And apparently, allegedly again, Bahati got him to sign a 20 year contract. That's true. So I'm just... 20 years. What? 20 years. What comes to me? I say 20 years. What are you talking about? What are you talking about? I think... What are you talking about? I think this is where we go back to basics. Before you sign a contract as an artist or as anybody, make sure you go through it. Make sure you have somebody who... A legal advisor. Exactly. You have a legal advisor to help you know like... Personally, I have advice for you. Come on and sign a place who's signed more than 5 years.  I'm Zeke. 20 years. Because like the guy was saying in less than 6 months, apparently he had me accumulated more than 2.3 million. For me personally, the way he was explaining it was a nice move because even in 6 months he's going to be near 2 million and he'll just hit. Like let's be serious. The guy has no... He doesn't have a song. You're not fair. Let's be serious. Yeah.  But he's going to be near 2 million. You have like 3, 4 national songs. You have booked the whole year. You get. So if it goes for 5 years, he's going to be here for the next 20 years. So 20 years. I don't know if he's going to become a slavery for the guy. So from what the boy explained, I think he made a nice decision and the person knew exactly. So I'm going to say what do you want to do? What do you want to do? Now people know you now. Work hard. Just work hard. Go work hard. People will support you. The people that we know will support you. Who don't do this to... Just do music. Do music. Do your right. But what happened to him is very unfortunate. Artist to an artist. It's very unfortunate. If that is what happened. Because he's still alleged. Maybe I'm not the whole story. If that is what happened, I'm so sorry my young brother. Things are going to get better. Keep singing for God.  All right. Spencer. Was it right the fact that he was arrested? Okay for me on this story, we have to look on both sides. No, no. Like one has to excuse if it's a blessing and I say it's a bad thing. First, three people say I'm saying Nairobi. No matter who you are. So like three people say to me, it doesn't make sense. On the other hand, if it's a blessing and I say Nairobi, it's 20 years. 20 years. And I say I guess it's okay. It's 20 years. That's right. Come on. So like for you. So like. This someone he will tortured me. I say, we have to struggle to make the consequences.  So that the case. I find it very smart to convince Waqy totalmente and just... I have to say it's an effort. to inquire. All right. Me, my peta blessing, Bohati, as a gospel artist, like knowing at the impartial and our but one apatanga and a sub food on their table yes do you want to cut stories that way wow wow to the next story allegedly my blessing I'm a pig you have to come back to see me allegedly yeah tea so just tea is always served so it's very bad you know just see to Lee to Lee joy on the market and I will say to you a kava in a blessing a leaf on it like he's so talented blessing is so talented and one thing I think instead of sissy kujengana what we pull each other no name set at a fan at a EMB and a ballist and on a job yeah but yeah he's very very talented yeah boy you can see yeah but no see we see why stop at anything just go do your thing do your thing was what can you I wish I could go back to town but one thing one thing I think and I had a guy dance I took it over and I and I took her yeah he's still young he's still got a lot of time and you know that grow in between now and 30 yeah in the next decade So yeah, but it's very bad but allegedly come it's happened It's very bad, but blessing just do your thing. Do your thing Yes now Oh That's pride and Unfortunately to say most likely that will be the beginning of his downfall if you continue that path You know you don't talk like that Penyo Mephika Niwatu plus God God using people so you also don't You don't become proud to the people who are actually putting you in the limelight because after all come and see media Nothing him Again, that's pride. That's pride because They also got him and the wife allegedly God to Mr. Sid's wife arrested last year And that event and that is pride and again that will lead to his downfall because you might be doing it for attention I'm a clinician by the me Killer work at man's young and a banger fighting against is a helpless person and God does not sleep Yeah, he'll gather people to come against you So but it's a fatherly recognition and for the guy is young. I agree. Most likely sign bill up. Joe. What's going on? So for artists out there whether in singing entertainment Whichever always have a lawyer there to get you through before signing the contracts He's a little buyer. I was reading George's story the other day when your limba too little too late here Signed on a team five year contract. Yeah, and she only got out of which three years ago He was signed to And the bad man was the men test you have Now because of time let's move on to the next story now the parents of a bridegroom in India Renov and they locked ahead of their kids February wedding prompting the families to call the whole thing off According to the times of India now the bride's father and the groom's mother Reported he went missing about 11 days ago. The father described an a textile business man reportedly went missing from his home in a cat a gum area of Surat city while the mother was last seen leaving her house in But families have reported their parents missing. However, it is suspected they may have rekindled our childhood Romance and they locked according to the times of India Just issues Any time love dies move on to the next it doesn't work like that marriage is a covenant Please respect is the moment exchange buzz at the altar will be accountable to eat So before you make any rush decision Then so be it but a lucky What to append on it who we are wrapping up All right, so What do you know what to append on it like in India you guys gotta stop this drama man We know we have fans when any Indians will love you so much when you are co-hopper when you want to watch Like any I can't I can only I can achieve with the drama It's too much. We got so much. Oh, so I just say yeah, okay guys.  Merci. Thank you so much. He's one and he takes must get blessing. We never break. Yeah, thank you Shout out to you guys And I'm just in the world of Facebook just into my girl Instagram and Mugura Mauritia Twitter guys. Thank you so much All right, so you can sign up before you go to spend Thank you so much for the support man. Say what one at one. I do me. I'm Zima Love you all have a blessed weekend. All right, Spencer. What's your comment about what does it give me and I need to know for more Maybe maybe maybe that As in that major lesson, maybe only summer before we in you get into some I See you next time same place All right Reason you guys we just not Marius Have much to say Anyway, it's been real. I've had fun. It's been so long since I was here. My Muslim brothers, I'm representing you. So, MCK official everywhere. Let's do this again next week. Alright. It's been so much fun hanging out with you. It's been so long since I uploaded a video. It's been so long since I uploaded a video. So, this channel is called the Haril Highness in my bar. You can see the title here. It's been so long since I uploaded a video, right? I'm not sure. I don't know. Thank you so much for watching. It's always fun having you. Thank you so much everyone of you for texting and tweeting. Unfortunately, we don't have time for that but we're going to make sure we shout you out next week. We shout out to the technical crew, the metal shoppers, we shout out to you, Hillary, there is Timor, we shout out to Timor, there is Roars on Sound, Kunarroz, DC, there is Maurice right here. It takes a village, yeah? But we shout out to each and every one of you. We're gonna see you again next week with an even better show, but for now I have a lovely weekend ahead.