Mae'r prynhau'n arddangos yng Nghaerffordd Llywodraethau a'r Fyglwyr a'r Llywodraethau, yng Nghaerffordd Llywodraethau. Fyglwyr a'r Llywodraethau. Mae'r prynhau'n arddangos yng nghaerffordd Llywodraethau. Mae'n rhaid i'n dechrau'r cyffredinol, ac mae'n rhaid i'r cyffredinol. The slide shows how the firebreak, shown on the slide as the grey shaded area, helped successfully to bring down the rates of coronavirus, turning back the clock on its spread. But it also shows how quickly the virus has regained its foothold in communities across Wales over the last few weeks. The virus is spreading faster than our models have predicted, and it is now firmly entrenched in so many parts of Wales, and as you can see from the slide, in some parts of Wales, such as Neath Port Talbot, Blaenau Gwent and Rhondda Cynon Tav, the rates are now incredibly high. These very high levels of coronavirus are translating inevitably into significant and sustained pressure on our NHS. This week the number of coronavirus-related patients in hospital passed 1,900 for the very first time and continues to rise. If this increase continues at this rate, we could see 2,500 people with coronavirus in hospital by Christmas Day. A very large number of people who catch coronavirus go on to have a serious illness afterwards. They need the careful and expert care of our health service because many will be in hospital for weeks. Our NHS staff are doing an incredible job under very difficult circumstances, and I thank them all for everything they have done throughout the pandemic and continue to do so. But there is only so much we can ask of them. There is only so much we can ask of our national health service. Point quite simply, the NHS will not be able to cope as it is today if we continue to see this level of coronavirus-related admissions in the coming weeks on top of normal winter pressures. Yesterday the Health Minister agreed that health boards can postpone some appointments and procedures where that has become necessary. Yesterday the Education Minister announced all secondary schools and colleges will move to online learning from Monday as part of the national effort to bring coronavirus under control. We will require all local authorities, which have had to close primary schools next week because, for example, they have a shortage of teaching staff, to open hub provision for vulnerable children and the children of essential workers until the end of term. And I know that this clarity will be welcomed by local authority leaders. And today the local government minister will announce the closure of outdoor attractions across Wales. The seriousness of the crisis we face demands no less. Now I know that there have been rumours and fake news circulating about action that could be taken here in Wales. Let me confirm today, there will not be a night time curfew and there is no ban on all alcohol sales. You will always hear about the changes to the measures we are putting in place in Wales directly from myself or from my ministerial colleagues. We will always explain to you why we need to make any changes. And the authoritative news you need comes to you directly from the Welsh government. And to help with that, next week we will publish an updated coronavirus control plan to help you, businesses and public services plan in these rapidly changing circumstances. We originally published our traffic lights plan in May in the first wave of the pandemic as we were moving out of lockdown. Before we had test, trace and protect, before the new generation of rapid result tests became available and before we had a vaccine. That traffic light plan focused on a cautious and gradual unlocking of restrictions as cases were falling. Today, the situation is very different. We have revised the plan using what we have learned over the course of the pandemic about how the virus is rapidly spreading and the latest information from our scientific and medical advisers. And we have drawn on experience elsewhere across the United Kingdom. The revised plan sets out four alert levels. Today in Wales we are at alert level three. The traffic light is red. The level of risk is very high. Now I must be clear with everybody this afternoon. If the strengthened measures of last week and the extra actions of this week, together with the efforts each and every one of us need to make. If those measures do not succeed in turning the tide of the virus, then it is inevitable that we will have to consider a move to alert level four immediately after Christmas. Now that move is not a foregone conclusion. The future remains in our hands. If we act together and all reduce the people we see and mix with, we can change the course of this terrible virus. We've done it before when we worked together to protect the NHS and save lives, and we need to do the same thing again now. In the last seven days there have been more than 12,000 new cases of coronavirus. That's the size of a town like Camarthen here in Wales. The virus is here. It is widespread throughout the UK and Wales. The best present any one of us can give our families this year is to have a coronavirus free Christmas. And for that to happen we all need to reduce the number of people we see and mix with. The chief medical officer's message to people in Wales this week has been simple. Don't mix with people outside your own household. If we all do that we can keep our families safe and keep Wales safe too. Diolch yn fawr i chi gyd. As usual now I will take some questions and all the answers will be broadcast live on the Welsh Government's social media channels. And today I'm going first to James Williams at BBC Wales. Can I just start with some practical questions really? When are you going to announce the new plan? Is it Monday next week? Could you just give us that detail? Also with regards to the level three level we're at at the moment. Does that mean this kind of restrictions that we have at the moment? And to clarify does level four look like the sort of fire break lockdown restrictions we had a few weeks ago? Can you just give us some detail on that? Will the plans be implemented on an all Wales basis and will there be any time limits on them? Well James we plan to publish the document on Monday and hope to have it debated on the floor of the senate on Tuesday. We are indeed at level three so you're right that the sort of restrictions we have in place now are consistent with a level three, a red traffic light level. When we move to level four it is inevitable that there will be a greater level of restriction. We will set out that in the document next week. We will also set out how, if it were to be the case that some parts of Wales established themselves in a reliable and predictable and sustainable way as having a different level of the virus to other parts of Wales it would be possible to have more than one level in Wales. That is not the position we are in in Wales today. The virus is rising everywhere in Wales. But the plan will set out the criteria we would use, the judgments that will be needed if that pattern were to change in the future. So just to confirm, we are looking at another lockdown if we get to level four. Also can I just ask you about schools. At the start of the week you said that you were sticking by the joint statement by the Welsh Government and the Welsh Local Government Association that schools would stay open until the end of term. You changed course yesterday, why? So level four restrictions are a step above what we have now and we are pretty restricted now. So I think it will be self-evident to people that at level four there will be even more restrictions on the freedoms we are able to offer people if the numbers cannot be brought to a position where they are falling away from where they are today. The position on schools altered because of the way the numbers are rising. They have been rising even faster this week than they were over the last two weeks. By yesterday the advice of the chief medical officer to myself and to the education minister was unequivocal. It was his advice that secondary school students should be taught at home next week. This is not bringing the holidays forward by a week. Those young people will remain in school. They will be receiving their education online and at home but they will still be receiving an education and it was the chief medical officer's advice that in the face of the rising numbers we are seeing and the impact that is having on our health service we had to take even further measures than the ones we announced last week and that's why we made the decision that we did. James Diolch over to James Triton-Smith at ITV Wales. First Minister thank you. Could you just explain what constitutes an outdoor attraction? Does that include Christmas markets? James doesn't include Christmas markets because they are a form of non-essential retail but it will include things like winter wonderland attractions and funfares and other things that are simply there for entertainment. Thank you. Is waiting till after Christmas to do anything more significant bring in a lockdown? Isn't that waiting too late when the public health logic based on your own grasp would seem to indicate that a lockdown should be brought in right now? That's what many doctors in Wales are calling for and yet you're saying that's not going to happen. Well James I took this press conference twice last week and in both press conferences I was asked repeatedly whether or not we were doing too much, whether the restrictions we were introducing in relation to hospitality and indoor attractions, that this was going too far, that we were in advance of the fact, where was the evidence. This week the question is whether we are going far enough and I think that just demonstrates that this is constantly a balancing act. It is constantly trying to find the right set of measures to address the issues that we are facing. I believe that with the restrictions that we announced last week, with the changes we are making this week in the health service, in education, in relation to outdoor attractions, that we have a package of measures provided, and this is the most important part, provided in our own lives. We all do those things that have the biggest effect of all, that we have to allow that package to have an impact. If it doesn't have it, if we don't manage to do that, then I'm signalling clearly to people today that more will have to follow. James, thank you. Drow i Tomos Evans at Esperorech. Brif Weinidog, rhan o'r dda chi, cwestiwn i gynzangl un ar y system hynau newydd, mae'n ffo i gyr aral pan i soes wedi bod yn system debu, gyr ystraeth mosaeth. Gofyn ydw i rili pan bod wedi'i cymryd mor hir i gyflwyno system yr fath yma yng Nghymru? Wel, dydyn ni'n mynd i cymryd amser hir i wneud e, ac os ni wedi cael y system, erys mis mai.  A dwi ddim yn meddwl gwybod ni wedi bod yn hyr yn neud, hynny ac os wrth cynllun Dany yn barod. So, I was just being asked why we had waited until now to publish a plan next week, and I was simply explaining that this was because we already had a plan that we had published back in May, and what we are doing is updating it and drawing on the evidence that we have assembled in the meantime and the experience elsewhere in the United Kingdom. Diolch yn fawr, a ni ac ar ysgolion hefyd, pa fath o gyfnogaeth fydd ar gael i ythrawon cyflenwy sydd efallai yn cael ei cyflogi ar gytynda tŵm o'r berfel beth sy'n dwyron o'r bosib a fydd yn rhyw gyfnogaeth gan y llwodraeth iddyn nhw? Wel, wrth gwrs, ni'n siarad gyda'r ndebau, ni'n siarad gyda'r awdurdodau a lleol, a ni'n triol i cynllunio Dany i wneb i ysaflfa diweddara sydd Dany. So, cwrdwais i ddwy, gyda'r nifer o bobl anumais a ddysg a'r cwrs o'r gwneudog Cwrs di Wiliom i'n cwrdd gyda bobl anusecto trwy'r prynhawn. Ar ôl, beth dwi wedi ddweud heddi ac ar ôl beth o'r ni'n mynd i cyhoedd i ardi flin bydd mwy o cyfleo'n i ni gwythio ar y manilyon a weld beth atlwn i wneud i helpu bobl sy'n gwythio yn y sector. So, just being asked what more we can do to support people who are working in the sector and I simply explained that we'd spend a lot of time yesterday myself and the Education Minister meeting local education authorities, the unions and so forth. After today's announcement and Monday's publication of the plan, there will be more opportunities to meet, to work on some of the details and to see what further we can do to support this very important sector. And maybe I should, where I see them and come back to it, I'll just dweud now, I'll just dweud pa mor y bwrdd o adini a'n popeth mae'r athrawon o bobl eraill sy'n gwythio yn ein ysgolion wedi'i wneud dros y hedref i gyd. I'm just wanting to pay tribute to the work of our teachers and all those other staff in our schools who have worked so hard to provide an education to our children throughout this difficult and demanding autumn term. Tomas ydych yn fawr, over to Hannah Thomas at LBC. Good afternoon, First Minister. Can you confirm that the tier system in Wales would be Wales-wide? Do you accept that the minimum length of a firebreak would need to be longer this time round? And will you give hospitality more notice this time? Well, the first question, Hannah, is that the plan will allow differential levels in Wales if the circumstances allow that to happen. It will set out before that to happen areas of Wales that are differentiated from other parts of Wales will need to be in that position for a reliable period of time. And we're not at that position today. So if we were going today into level four, then I would confidently expect that to be a Wales-wide set of arrangements. But the pattern can change over time. And one of the reasons for publishing a document on Monday is to explain to people in different parts of our country how, if there were to be a clear separation between the circumstances in some parts of Wales and others, it would be possible to reflect that in the alert levels. If we go into a higher alert level, then that will not be a firebreak period of the sort we had back in October and November, where it was a fixed period of time. We will explain that it will be reviewed on a regular cycle. And if it needed to be renewed, it would have to be renewed. And part of the reason for saying what I'm saying today in publishing the document on Monday is to give hospitality and adversities of the economy as long a period of notice as we can because they will be able to see for themselves the way in which those decisions will be made in future. Thank you. And moving on to Brexit. As things stand, it's looking like there won't be a post-Brexit trade deal agreed. So a new report suggests that MPs suggest that Wales would feel the effects a lot worse than other parts of the UK. Does your assessment have things gone wrong with the negotiations? And do you think it would always play out this way and are you resigned to Wales now facing the implications of a no deal? Well, I'd use this opportunity, Hannah, to say once more to the UK government that they must discharge their responsibility to strike a deal. A no deal exit from the European Union is disastrous from a Welsh perspective. I've lost count of a number of times. I will have said that over recent years. We are more exposed as the report published today demonstrates to a no deal exit than almost any other part of the United Kingdom. A higher percentage of our exports goes to Europe than the United Kingdom as a whole. We have a higher proportion of our economy in manufacturing than any other part of the United Kingdom. We rely on being able to export our agricultural products safe and fresh to other parts of Europe. If there are tariff and non-tariff barriers in the path of that trade, that will inevitably make the difficult job of gaining markets and building up business even more difficult. The answer is for this United Kingdom government to deliver on what it said. A year ago today, the Prime Minister was stomping around the country claiming that he had an oven ready deal. What's happened to the oven and what's happened to the deal? It's their responsibility to make sure that we are not left in that position. Anna, thank you very much. Over to Will Hayward at Wales Online. Thank you, First Minister. We all want the restrictions on hospitality to work. But if they don't, we're going to be in real trouble. There must be contingency plans in place for what happens if they don't reduce a number of cases. Given that if it wasn't for Christmas, we'd likely be going into some form of lockdown now. Can you tell me what contingency plans the Welsh Government are now working on that could be bought in before Christmas? Or are there no plans? Well, I've announced three things that we've done in the past two days. So there clearly is a plan and we are implementing the plan. We are allowing health boards where they have to do everything that they have been doing because they simply don't have the staff available to do everything that they have been doing to postpone some activity in order to concentrate on the things that are even more urgent. There are 1,500 fewer staff available in the NHS today than they were in September. And those 1,500 staff are self-isolating at the levels that it is here in Wales. And if you've got that number of staff not in work, then your ability to carry on doing everything is obviously more difficult. So we've allowed permission there. We made changes to schools yesterday. I'm announcing this morning that we are changing the rules in relation to outdoor attractions. This is on top of everything that we announced last week. And that is a package of measures together, as I repeatedly say, with everything we do in our own lives, that we have to give a chance to make the difference. If it doesn't, then it's inevitable that more restrictions will follow. Thank you. So I suppose what I was trying to get out really was if the cases continue to accelerate, not just grow, but the rate that they're growing continues to accelerate, would you consider a lockdown for Christmas? And if I could ask you more details on schools, if I may, when did you receive the advice from the CMO regarding schools? Was this new advice and was there pressure from the unions a factor in that decision-making? Well, taking your second question first then, the advice from the Chief Medical Officer was confirmed overnight on Wednesday and into yesterday morning. The Chief Medical Officer, of course, draws on all the advice that he has from SAGE and from our technical advisory group. While I have heard the case that unions have made, our decision was predicated on the public health case that the Chief Medical Officer put to us and not on any other grounds. In relation to further action before Christmas, I don't expect to need to do that. The measures we have taken together what each one of us can do should be allowed a chance to work and should be enough to begin to turn the tide on the accelerating rise in the virus. And we have to be willing to give those things a chance. Thank you. Well, thank you. Over to Rupert Evelyn at ITN. Thank you, First Minister. Apologies I have a dodgy connection, so if it slips away that's why. Can I just ask you, you know full well that the real issue here is people mixing within their own households and you're not even delicately putting that in your preamble at the top of the press conference. You're making it very clear that you don't want households mixing, you're not willing to legislate it for it again right now, which is what you need to be doing, isn't it? Well, we have legislation on household mixing. Two households are allowed to form an extended household and that is it. So it's not that we don't have legislation. I did a session yesterday with a group of primary school children in Wales and they said to me it is the small acts of selfishness that are getting us into the trouble that we are in. And I just want to put that to people who are listening or watching. That it is when people believe that they themselves do not have to follow the rules, that they act in those small but selfish ways that we end up in the trouble that we are in. And I think just passing another law is not guaranteed in any way to alter people's behaviours. So we have most people in Wales who continue to do everything they can to follow the advice to think very carefully. The problem is it turns out that with this virus you don't need that many small acts of selfishness before they add up to us out of circumstances in which you see the virus accelerating away as we are seeing in Wales. How surprised are you that it is accelerating away? And I suppose I asked that question in the context of Wales was the head in terms of the firebreak and taking that particular action. The rest of the other nations were some way behind. They look like they are in a better place now but many people just see this as a kind of Wales, as a warning to other nations of what happens as soon as you ease restrictions. Well I think if you look what has happened in the rest of the United Kingdom you can see similar things happening there too. At one time Leicester was being held up as a warning of what could go wrong. Northern Ireland which had the lowest rates and not just in the United Kingdom but at some points the lowest rates in Europe in the summer have had rates far higher than we have seen in Wales in the last month or so and we've seen similar things in the central belt of Scotland. In other words, the fact that we have gone more quickly than we had hoped from the relatively benign position immediately after the firebreak to the very difficult position we are in today is not that different to where many other parts of the United Kingdom have seen themselves already. So in that sense while this acceleration is faster than our modelling would have predicted so in that sense it is more than we had expected I don't think Wales is in any sense unique in facing this rapidly changing pattern just means we've got to be prepared to act and to act together. Robert, thank you very much indeed. Drowy Adam Hale at PA. Well, please need a hug. If Mellick Ops has said on Wednesday that he's cancelling his Christmas plans due to the current state of the crisis in Wales and won't be visiting family in England and Ireland you've previously said that you would be meeting up with people outside your own household if your plans changed. Well, I won't be leaving Cardiff over Christmas. I won't be travelling anywhere else. So in that sense I will be doing the same thing as the Chief Medical Officer. But to clarify that you will be meeting people from outside your own household, will you? Well I have an extended household like everybody else. I will follow the rules like everybody else at Christmas and as the Chief Medical Officer said his plans have changed he's not planning to travel and he's not planning to see people who he was previously planning to see. So my plans remain. I will be staying in Cardiff. I will be cutting down on people that I see. I will be trying to create some headroom in advance for Christmas and then I will operate entirely within the rules that are the same for every one of us. Thank you. I mean any discussions between the UK board nations about re-examining the plan for five days of relaxed measures over Christmas. I met with Michael Gove as the Minister in charge of the Cabinet Office with the First Minister of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland on Wednesday of this week. I'm very pleased. We've now got a regular pattern of meeting together every week. We did indeed, the question was raised, should we revisit the decision we had made in relation to Christmas. The decision was that we shouldn't do so. Many people will have made plans on the basis of what was announced but we would reinforce the message, each one of us would reinforce the message that that extra freedom for those five days must be used responsibly, that people must think ahead, plan ahead, reduce the risk, don't do anything that could result in those people who are the most important people to you, the people you have chosen to meet over those five days. Please don't do anything that places them at greater and additional risk and that is a message that we will be reinforcing here in Wales, the United Kingdom. Government will be reinforcing and will certainly be the message being deployed by my colleagues in Scotland and Northern Ireland as well. Adam Diolch yn fawr, over to Andrew Forgrave at the Daily Post. Good afternoon, First Minister. As you'll be aware, there has been considerable disquire in those Wales about the oil Wales approach to implementing the oil Wales approach to restrictions. Are you able to give more detail now on how a regional system will work, the criteria that you might apply and whether any travel restrictions may be implemented? Yes, Andrew, I will, but let me just say to colleagues who are in North Wales that as I explained last week, numbers are rising everywhere in Wales. Today in North Wales, Conwy is just under 100 per 100,000. Denbyshire is over 100. Flintshire is over 200. Wrexham is over 230 cases per 100,000 of the population and all but one of the six North Wales authorities saw rises again yesterday. The reason for acting on an oil Wales basis is to protect people in North Wales. If we had introduced a lower series of restrictions, all that would have meant was was that people in North Wales were even less defended against this virus. I am absolutely convinced that we did the right thing and that we did it in the interests of people in those parts of Wales where the virus isn't as high as it is in the south-east Wales corner, but where it would be heading that way even faster if we hadn't taken the action that we have. What we will set out on Monday, though, is a set-off criteria that we will use to determine which of the alert levels will apply in Wales. As I said, if we got into a place where there was a reliable difference between some local authorities clearly at a lower level of infection than other parts of Wales and where that lower level was stable, it wasn't going up and down where it was stable and reliably below what other people are facing, then we would be able to have a different alert level in different parts of Wales. But those will be the preconditions, that there is a clear separation and that those areas that have a lower circulation of the virus, that that is being sustained not over a matter of days, but over weeks so we can be confident that we can lower the alert level without putting those people at risk. Minister, sorry to labour the point, but are you able to set more life on the criteria that might be used in terms of the figures that might be applied to differentiate between the various areas? Sure, I can do. Andrew, you will see them set out more fully on Monday. What we're not going to do is rely on one indicator. We're going to rely on a balanced judgement of the position in different parts of Wales. But amongst the indicators we will use are the rates per 100,000 and not just the global rates but the rates at under 25s and over 60s as well. We will look at positivity rates. We will look at hospital admission rates. We will look at the number of people who require intensive care to deal with coronavirus and you will see there are a number of other indicators that are set out in the document we will publish and we will look at those indicators in the round coming to a balanced judgement as to whether or not an area genuinely finds itself in a different and less serious level of alert and where, as I say, it will be safe and in the interests of that local population to put them into a category where the defences, because that's what the restrictions are, aren't they? They are a defence against coronavirus where those defences could be safely lowered. Andrew, thank you very much and rapidly rising up the batting order this afternoon, Alan Evans of Llanelli Online. Diolch, First Minister. It's my Christmas gift. Thank you very much. I think sight is a wonderful thing but having tried so many options, some have alluded to today too soft, too short, too confusing, has the time come to concede that the carrot and stick approach has not worked with the people of Wales and that perhaps the Welsh Government now accept that the virus cannot realistically be contained by rules, restrictions and behavioural modifiers alone and that your efforts, however valiant, will have been merely to put off the inevitable phrase that one's children's actions lead to something going horribly wrong. I did try to warn you but you simply would not listen. Well, that is a very sobering assessment of things. Alan Evans is probably bleaker, well or is bleaker than my own because I still see in the bulk of people in Wales a wish to do the right thing, a wish to follow the rules. We've tried to respond to some of the points you've made by simplifying the rules by having a national set of rules so that it is easier for people to follow them. It's part of why we will publish the plan next week so that people can see in advance how we will make decisions in future where I agree with you and have agreed with you over a number of weeks that government rules by themselves will not get us through this pandemic. There are so many things that government can do and we've done more of that this week but in the end this only works if we can convince enough of our fellow citizens that they have a part that they can and need to play. You have signalled the dangers week after week and you've urged the people of Wales to take responsibility for preventing or slowing down the spread of coronavirus. You've relied on the advice of the medical establishment and behavioural scientists. You've been accused of losing your grip recently on COVID-19. What options are there left for you? I know you're going to repeat some of what you've said now but are you prepared to put sentimentality aside and get tougher? Well, you're right because I'm bound to explain that whereas when I was answering questions possibly even one from you, Alan, last week it was all about whether I'd gone too far and what was the evidence for closing hospitality and we couldn't carry people with us on it. This week we are having to do even more and I am absolutely sure we did the right thing last week in the light of the figures we've seen this week so what we're doing in the health service in schools, in outdoor entertainment, all of those are new measures this week. I don't think that allowing people a brief and modest opportunity to celebrate Christmas together is just sentimentality. It is recognising that for many people this year has been an incredibly tough time where they have not been able to see people who matter the most to them for weeks and months on end. It's an incredibly difficult balancing act between being realistic with people and serious with people and not pulling back from the difficulties of the situation we're in while still offering people some hope for the future because if you can't offer people some hope then I think it's very difficult indeed for people to feel that they can play the part we want them to play. There is a small period over Christmas with some modest relaxations that offer people some hope there and as we rehearsed more last week than today the vaccination programme which has started this week in Wales and has gone very well indeed in Wales together with the new mass testing regimes we have there is hope on the horizon. We've just got to get through this really tough and difficult patch together so that we are ready to take advantage of those glimmers of hope that we can see in the new year. Alan, thank you very much to you, Convald. Over to Rob Taylor at rexham.com. Good afternoon. The TAC documents regularly stress the importance of simplistic messaging and it's been mentioned again this week. Why the reluctance to call this alert level system a tier system and if they're not the same thing what's the difference? I don't know that I think that there is a particularly significant point really. We call it a traffic light system early in the year. It is still a traffic light system but now with one additional alert level which is beyond even the red level that we are in at the moment. I'm not sure Rob that I think that the titles will make a great deal of difference to our ability to get people to understand them. Thanks, the point was more about consistency of messaging that comes across. If I understand correctly it appears local authority areas could find themselves in different alert levels in the future and if that involves some moving to level 4 isn't that effectively local lockdowns again and if so what's different this time with the local lockdown policy to tier 4? The document we will publish on Monday does indeed set out the possibility of different alert levels in different parts of Wales. I just want to be absolutely clear again that today the whole of Wales is at level 3 and unless things were to change dramatically I still think that for the foreseeable future and all Wales approach is the most likely but things can change. We've seen how rapidly coronavirus can change and if we were to see as I've said a stable and reliable differentiation then it would be sensible to recognise that in the levels that we would deploy. How is that different to the system we had previously? Well it will be more stable than the system we had previously because as I've said an area would need to be reliably in a different position for a sustained period of time and the criteria around which different levels might be instituted will be a rounded set. We won't be relying on a single trigger going above 50, going above 100, whatever that would be. It will be a balanced set of indicators that allow us to take a view of the position in an area in the round and I think that will mean that the system in practice will be significantly different to the pattern of local lockdowns that we tried with some success to begin with earlier in the autumn. Rob, thank you and finally today to Tom Magner of Carersworld. Thank you First Minister. I'd like to explore the short notice announcement by your colleague the education minister essentially moving education online. I heard earlier to hubs. Young carers and young adult carers in particular rely on up-to-date technology to learn or study online. How do you make sure that each and every pupil has immediate access to sufficient quality technology, Wi-Fi and or mobile signals? Well we've done a great deal of this already during the year over 10,000 devices provided by the Welsh Government and thousands and thousands of licences by the Welsh Government to enable young people to be able to study online and remotely. But because we recognise that there are young people in all parts of Wales who are vulnerable in different ways we will, as I've said today, require local education authorities to keep hubs open where those vulnerable young people can leave their education, able then to draw on the wider resources that that particular school building will have. Of course they will have staff available to them but they will also have equipment that those young people who need access to it will be able to get hold of in that way. Learning also requires discipline and obviously in a school environment the framework is there. But in moving online how will you make sure that each and every pupil applies themselves sufficiently for their education to be uninterrupted and not in some cases give into the temptation of thinking terms finished early? Well, Tom, I'd rather our young people were in school. I think that is the best place for them to receive their education and for their wider wellbeing needs to be attended to. We have faced a situation in the last few days where that is in many practical senses no longer deliverable because of the extent of coronavirus here in Wales. Now over this year our teaching staff I think have developed fantastic new ways of teaching remotely of being in communication with those young people so they are not on holiday. It's absolutely essential to keep saying this. The school term continues for another week. Those young people will be learning at home. They will be in direct contact with teachers at home and so any temptation to think that this is just a chance to pack up early and go and enjoy yourself. I hope we will have the conditions in which that will not be the case and it is significantly one of the reasons why we have moved to close outdoor attractions today. I don't think that it is consistent to say to young people that they can't be in school because things are so difficult but that winter wonderland can still be open attracting them potentially away from what they should be doing to something that will be even more risky to them than we would wish. That's why we've taken that action today and it's partly indeed as a direct response to the point that you've made. Diolch yn fawr. Thank you all very much indeed.


Hello friends, welcome to SSUnited. My name is Susheel Singh and this is continuation of SQL Server interview questions and answers. So today I gonna discuss one more question. How we can switch any column values from bottom to top by using SQL Server joins? So what it means let's move to another slide where we will discuss about the question. This is our slide as you can see we have an input table and it contains two columns. First is ID and second column is name. In ID column we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 data in a sequence and incremented by 1. So here we can see in our output we have ID and we have the reverse name. Like if ID is 1 then go to the bottom in this table and we can see the name this is F. So it would come first then our second then the second last value is E. So we want to get the values in name from bottom to top. So how we can achieve this biogic SQL Server query? So let's move to SQL Server Management Studio where we will discuss how we can get the output. So here we can see I have already typed the query so it would save time. So I wanna create the tables. I am going to execute this create statement. The table has been created successfully. Now I wanna insert some recall on it. So here 6 was affected and now we can check by using select start from table. So here we can see we have the same metadata as I have displayed in our slide. So first of all we need to copy this output and go to Excel to understand the logic how we can apply logic and get the output. I wanna apply self join so I have to paste two times. So here we can see if we have one more additional column over here which is reverse ID and this ID is started from the bottom. It's 6 so it's 6 and then 5 then 4 3 2 and 1. Let's assume this is our A table and this is our B table. So when we apply inner join between these two tables on the behalf of ID and reverse ID and when the ID and reverse ID value will be matched then we want to get the name from B table. So our first is ID 1. When ID value will be matched then we want to get name from B table which is F. So it will written F. For next time we can see ID is 2 and when we are going to match with our ID then we can see it's going to written E. So it's going to written E then D then C then B and then A. And we can see in our slide here we want FED CBA and here we can get the output by using this method. So let's move to SQL Server Management Studio where we will write the query. So first of all we need to create a reverse ID. So we have to use row number function. So this is our row number and we have to specify over clause and then order by this ID and we are going to get from bottom. So we have to use decreasing and I am going to provide an alias name which are ID. So reverse ID and now I want to execute and here we can see this is our ID and this is our reverse ID and I am going to put order by 1 on the behalf of ID. Now I want to execute and here we can see ID and we are getting reverse ID is 6. It's going to start from bottom 654321. So now our B table has been created successfully. So now put this B table in a derived table and provide an alias name is B. And then we want to apply join from this over which table column values listed here and provide an alias name is A. Then specify inner join and then on the behalf of ID from table 1 and reverse ID from table B. So it's our reverse ID. When these values will be matched then we want to get ID from table 1 and name from table B. So this is our table B and now I want to execute this query. So here we can see we are getting same output as I have displayed in our slide. So this output and this output is same. So I hope you have understand how we can get this output by using SQL Server query. If you like this video please subscribe our channel for many more videos and press bell icon to get all the notifications for new videos. If you need this script it will be available on my Facebook page you can compile from there. Thank you so much for watching.


We got more to come subscribe right now.  We got a brother on here today. Kevin Gates, man It's going down man new album coming out just in great spirit out here doing some good stuff, man. How you feeling brother? I feel good What's been going on? How you been how you been living man? Um, I just had a listening party. Okay. I'm still kind of speechless from the listening party because they surprised me Okay, and um I guess when you come from not being celebrated When somebody do try to celebrate you you shun it So this is my first time allowing myself to be celebrated And it was it was beautiful like I was surrounded by the people that really love me for real And that that appreciate my growth and that support my growth and Just they salute my transition. It was it was beautiful It got emotional for me because I ain't never had experience that kind of love and then Like the gifts that I have received like I had somebody give me something that was That words can't describe. So it was It was beautiful Did you think you was going to be here today meaning? Not not on the interview not on that, you know coming out of Louisiana Coming up in the struggle the streets the ups and downs of everything that we go through in the hood Did you think you'll be here today? No, sir Okay No, I had accepted it. I was just gonna run the money up and I kind of took a gladiator approach Which in our lives we kind of look at it as heroic in nature Because y'all just live off the money of it and I'm gonna sacrifice myself Either I'm gonna die do a life sentence Because it's not really that many options coming from where we come from And I ain't just speaking of louisa.  I'm done all eating off these trees. I'm done sleeping in the cell This hard-ass bunk.    I don't have to be accountability for my lack of or my lack of discipline or my lack of hustle Or you know or my lack of accountability. See that accountability It's deep It's extremely deep, you know, so it'll be just that and it's in the sad man You know, it's real sad because sometimes we gotta let go of people that we really love and we thought loved us You know, that's what's so deep about it. You know Yeah, when'd you become the workout junkie man? You be going in I worked out before I came here You be going you just showed me some or I gotta start learning how to breathe That's my drug of choice because It made me feel good it made me cognitive before I go do anything and It it allowed me to raise my frequency Like I got a frequency chart on my phone and it showed like the different levels of frequency that you operate not of Like on on my frequency chart desire is a lower frequency than anger Like we was just talking about wanting what somebody else have desire That's a vibrating at a lower frequency than even anger even getting mad And every day I get up and I raise my frequency because it makes me feel good Because I used to do drugs. I used to drink lean. I used to smoke. We used to do those things But I don't believe in rehab rehab is for quarters. I don't do rehab. I just replace those habits with healthier habits And how was it? How was it hard? Was it hard for you to kick that or was No, you just you know, who made me? Um Who made me really stop drinking sir? Oh, I ain't never told nobody this It's my first time saying is Gucci man. Shout out to Gucci He told me Kevin if you think about it, there ain't nothing but cough, sir That's what he told me. He looked Gucci man made me stop drinking sir. And I say you right You said I'm addicted to knife will That's that's who that's who made me stop drinking sir, which I was in the studio just No, I used to call him every morning. I used to be like a morning CEO here. Be like a morning CEO and And I used to we used to like share like health tips with each other But he was already together, you know, I'm saying he had already been on his fitness journey before me So he was like, I don't drink sir. I don't do none of that. No more. I was like, all right He said if you think about it, it ain't nothing but cough, sir. Damn.  Did the weightlifting journey add any confidence to your I'm through the roof now, but I'm still kind of shy when I get on stage Like the first two three songs I'll be kind of shy and I think it's beautiful because if I look at them I look at myself. I'll be like He vulnerable and other people see it too And I get on like before I sing my first song I'll be like, y'all give me a minute. Let me gather myself I'm so nervous because I'll be nervous And it's not nervous how to feel it's just nervous because I care. I don't want to make a mistake I want whatever I deliver you to be perfect. Right. So I'll be kind of nervous a little bit Now I ask that because you know from a person From the outside looking in there.  I ain't do nothing for your confidence. It just just got you in shape But they all know that you're human too. You got you you got all ripped up on them and now you're coming I'm gonna be honest I see when I walk in the room, it's a different type of confidence. Yeah, it's a different type of level of self-respect because I know I did what other people didn't do before I walked in the room You know, I honor the commitments that I made to myself And discipline and self-restraint equal self-respect and self-respect equal self-confidence So if I don't work out and I walk in the room, I'ma feel a little off Because I didn't honor the commitments I made to myself But when I honor the commitments I made to myself, I'm confident I'm through the roof because I did what I was supposed to do How long it took you before you got addicted to it?    Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah I was like I can't secretly laugh. No, but see this the twist though. This the thing I needed that though. Yeah, but you know in our culture, it's a monster.  He begging me laugh You know how you be in the class and he making me laugh. I ain't trying to laugh. He begging me laugh No So what's crazy is that One of in the ghetto We're taught not to feel we we we taught the you know, we dehumanize ourselves by not feeling not being trans not being vulnerable When did you get to the stage? We you know to the point of I'ma just be me I'm express how I'm feeling wherever I'm hurt wherever I'm sad because you you you put that out there You know and we see you always doing that. When did you become comfortable with? 2020 I think it was 2022 Like right before I had did uh, when we was in Puerto Rico 2021 2021 That's when I made the song fairytale and I talked about what I had been through And I think I cried after I did the song my my manager who is not my manager was my engineer After I made that song I cried for like Maybe two weeks straight just uncontrollably in front of everybody and Then I went on the Mike Tyson interview and I talked about what I had been through and kind of fine And I love my shout out to Mike Tyson. I love that bro And then kind of find out he had been through the same thing I had been through when he was like this will turn me into a monster and then I noticed when I started going to gyms after that interview People just walk up to me and hug me and tell me thank you for your transparency Like I've been like so many men walk up and say I've been through the same thing. This was this would turn me into a monster and I was like It really do take more courage to be vulnerable than it do to walk around being a tough guy because we can all see Through the tougher side that you're really hurting on the inside. Yeah, you're really hurting Really need to stop pretending like we all can see you And I noticed that once I let the world really see me like People had a greater level of love and respect and admiration for me And I say that's one of the only things I ever really wanted as an artist To be appreciated in my entirety and not just you rap good. You sing good. You make good songs, but Like people love me more than my music now and that's a beautiful thing and is I'm helping other people here by helping myself here That's what the album was really about the ceremony It was about reconnecting with myself because nothing external adds value And I did learn to love again the stranger that was once myself Because it started I could I had to go back to when I was in my childhood Like if I wanted the girl I had to get the money in the car You know, why did you want to money? I told everybody how long I ever wanted was money A car a girlfriend and a gun Because that's what the dude that had the pretty girl had I never saw his house I don't even know if he got a house. I just want the money the car a girlfriend and a gun And that's what we see when we're younger And it's always something external once I get this I'm gonna go to I'm gonna attract this Once I do this to myself. I'm gonna go to this level and once I do this I'm gonna go to that level as I was external things But those things don't have value It's what's internal.  We want to be aggressive when the deer, you know, you was able to transform and say, you know what it ain't that deep Like I got to see above this situation I had to realize what what what was I operating from I'm operating out of fear I come in jail. We fight till the police come break it up Because you ain't gonna let this man recover for fear of him recovering and getting the upper hand How come in the streets if When when when fighting was out to wonder how come I'm up when I put it on him. I'm gonna make sure I dog him. I'm gonna do him dirty Why because you have a fear of him shaking shaking back and getting his leg back. All that's fear We operate out of fear Like that's just That's how I was operating out of fear. I wasn't operating out of love now when I look at somebody I could see myself in that person. I could see different versions of myself. So I'm not threatened by Nobody really to be honest with you because I look at them with love It's it's just It's just different. It's the level that we operate out of like I know this we can go stand in the trenches right now As soon as we see some people we don't know our face gonna get straight stiff Because we just trying to be that way We trying to be that way and it's kind of it's kind of like with us You know where we go everywhere, you know what I mean? I was just at the mgm in detroit and all all the niggas in the casino saying me killing in here He ain't got no security with him and respect respect respect. I mean I mean with respect You don't never have no security with you. I leave with respect So if I'm leaving with respect then what we talking about And then I only fear god So if something I gotta go down then it gotta go down, but I don't leave with disrespect. I leave with respect. I'm a respectful So so most of the times when you're not scary And you're respectful Motherfucker, I'm gonna show you the same respect that you're giving out Welcome to another episode of million dollars worth of games in this spotlight.  I'm talking to the person right here.  I'm talking about what blessings gonna do here today She's gonna give you a free ebook from the rip You ain't never got to talk to again.   You ain't got to spend no money with it. You ain't got to say nothing to it You understand you would take the information give it to somebody else do whatever you want to do with it Listen, I'm talking about some real life blessings the day is your day to get some blessings If you want some blessing from blessing, that's the game. You know, I mean we talking about today Wait hold on. Don't say that's something that sounds a little different.  And what you need to do first I'm telling you first is all you need to do is text middleman at<PHONE_NUMBER>-833-232-9941 And she's going to give you the free how to make 10k in 30 days with accident referrals What you're doing all you're doing is like for instance like Every day I deal with him. He's just an accident waiting to happen I could make money off him every day referring him to a loyal weapon Just referring him to the people that need to be referred to so he gets him because he's just an accident He had trip and fall. He might be going to the bathroom pee on this. I don't know He's just always doing some stuff that's accident worthy.  Tell me how do we do this? How do we do this blessing? So this is can I introduce myself do your thing jump in jump in okay? So I just want to say hey billionaires i'm blessing your accident blessing What I do is help out car accident victims when they are in a car accident I do connect them to attorneys. I do connect them to Medical providers and I love what I do because I am the middleman and I've did my research And I actually do make more money than most attorneys do now I just wanted to put that out there because I have been kind of Timid about teaching what it is that I do I've been doing this now for 15 years and on my own for five And I've made millions of dollars by doing so So I just want to show other people that is simple and that they can also do it too So that's why we're here today. I just want to give a brief introduction to myself And how I do this is number one by telling everybody what it is that I do I live in Georgia. So in Georgia, we have 20 more accidents than the whole united states. Why? Because we're distracted niggas on niggas is niggas on niggas and we're distracted And we're not paying attention and we're texting while we're driving and accidents are just happening all of the time And I speak to accident victims that were never going to call anybody They were going they were going to never pursue their personal injury settlement If a accident blessing did not call them and let them know what their rights and options were Those people would have just stayed hurt and got no money for that And so we've spent thousands of dollars on car insurance. Like I'm 36 years old I've been paying for car insurance since I was 19 years old And they're just keeping my money. So whenever I'm in an accident It's my due diligence to file that claim and get my money back. That's what I pay my insurance for So I'm just showing people get your money back. That's what you pay your insurance for So so the whole thing is like at the end of the day You're saying All these accidents happen they happen now an accident happened today You're going to find this person that might walk away that don't even look at it. Like they could be getting some money from Yeah, this is really a blessing. I didn't cause the accident But since you were in it you need to be blessed by this and you and you're going to help people find the people That was in it even though they like they don't even know what's going on But you could help them find them Yeah, so even so what I do is I pay people for referrals, right?  Let me provide them with the quality care that they actually deserve They're going to get their settlement and i'm going to pay you for referring that to me So everybody wins damn everybody So being so he's accident waiting to happen I got about like 10 accidents from last so that's that's three thousand hours. Yeah, let's go And i'm doing something special for everyone that's coming to me through your platform million dollars worth of gain Off the rip. We're going to start them off at five hundred dollars a referral So anybody referral anybody to you five hundred dollars five hundred dollars I just got to get the e-book and everything they need to be in there about how to receive five hundred dollars Let me make sure you get this e-book because you ain't get this 500 sockets in your pocket because you got a lot of You know, middle room warriors is going to turn into middlemen. We got a lot of basement warriors You know what i'm saying? I know the basement warrior game I'm going to do a study on that because I used to be one But listen at the end of the day you want to get your blessings What you need to do is to get this free e-book right now So you get all the information in this e-book of how to do what you need to do how to make 10 k In 30 days with accident referral. I need you to text middleman to 833 232 99 41 833 232 99 41 right now get this so you get that 500 You know she's giving them five hundred dollars referrals. You come from here. I mean type that middleman now Let me ask you a question because see a lot of people in the hood, right?  My back be all right Get a little massage or something give my little tender massage my lower back work it out for me They really should have just called you and they could have just I'm so glad you asked that question So that's what most of us do when we're in a car accident Our number one thing that we won't resolve is our car being repaired recalling the at fault insurance company We're setting that claim up. They're paying us. That's black and white That's why you don't hire an attorney for property damage because that's a black and white situation You hire an attorney for bodily injury because that's not black and white But once that property damage claim is opened you might as well maximize the claim You're not doing any more damage to the person or their insurance policy by going after the bodily injury portion of that claim So you're literally leaving money on the table. You have the wrong mindset about how this even works in the first place So and the insurance company wants you to do that because that leaves more money in their pockets when they don't do that But when you open that claim Against the person that hits you their policy is going up. So if you are for the property damage So if we now go after the bodily injury The policy the policy was going up regardless the same amount No matter what we might as well maximize this Yeah, because we do that in the community like his guilt said that man We always just like man, I could just pay a little hundred dollars get that new bump That five you go right there everybody whole thing be mad. I don't mind sure it should go up But if they cause the accident The other person's going to call your insurance company your insurance is going up If you didn't cause the accident your insurance is not involved. No, see how I'm just saying how I'm working the hood to be like You got my bumper you Yeah, we're here to educate the hood that stops today Y'all need to get your money. I'm looking at you right in the camera hood Let's get this money because even if you're in the hood, you can't ride around with no insurance You are paying for your car insurance.   Oh, this is saucy wait. Hold on dog You know, you ain't got calling What's that what they're called about They be like, yeah, that's well honey And they go Okay We got you before the ones who are calling to get their property damage taken care of yes That's not running into you who's going to pay them directly and doing it the right way Because you know what also when you're in an accident a lot of times you don't feel any pain right away So now you've paid me 1200 to get my car fixed next week. My back is really hurting It took a couple of minutes for a couple of days for it to like work I can't do anything further I could but realistically you like I paid you off already now you're untrustworthy So if my back starts hurting I can't even call your insurance company to do anything different because you don't pay me that way So that's dumb and we ain't gonna do that No, we ain't gonna do that not no more not no more I mean when I did that that was back in the day that was back in the day But you know what else so say for instance if you did hit somebody right Is that a good example?  Oh, yeah He snapped on me. He flipped out. I said come on.   Boom.  He tapped right. I'm sorry, dude. I'm I apologize. It's my fault Yo, they went up, but I listen. What car was I driving? Yeah, you're being niggas.   I ain't even want to turn around See what he hit him. He ain't no palmies. He peeps his car You know, because everybody they don't think about the physical part. Yeah, nobody because a lot of time a lot of accidents It don't even be no damage for everybody. Like we cool. Nobody be like damn. Did it snap my back? This this happening my lady, you know, I mean, that's why I'm here to educate the people I've been there at 19 years old. I was in my own car accident I've been watching I tell people my fondant night my fondest my earliest memory of any kind of marketing Is a personal injury attorney. I'm like four years old I'm watching the prices right with my grandmother and every other commercial is this personal injury like personal injury attorneys go hard No, they do is a lot of marketing, right? And for me to be 19 years old and it's still not dawn on me I should have called this attorney. I've been seeing since I was four years old is crazy So when I got into the industry at 23 I was like, it's really my job to tell folks like what they're entitled to like we're We're in the accident. You should get your money like and it doesn't have to be any major injury It doesn't have to be a broken bone. It doesn't have to be a hospital stay Any type of minor discomfort any type of soreness any type of stiffness any headache anything you feel now that you never felt before that accident Is worth thousands of dollars So I offer a free class every thursday where I go over things like this and that's also included with the free book that they can tap in But they really don't understand the process of our personal injury even work So that's why I'm your personal injury lesson This ebook once they text middleman at 833 they get their ebook for free And they can tap it with and with me on thursdays for my free class So so all you got to do is text middleman at 833-232 99 41 833-232 99 41 and they're going to give you the free how to make 10k in 30 days will ask the referral So you telling me that These people is going to be able to read this ebook and become you yeah They well, that's $10,000. I'll make a little bit more than that. No, I'm just saying but still But what I'm saying is But they can become me. So this is the introduction Yes, once you get a little taste because that's how I started it was just a little taste And I was like, hmm This is paying me way more than my jobs are paying me jobs. You got multiple jobs. What were you working at? I was working at the mat counter. Um, I did makeup I was literally driving back and forth from savannah georgia to atlanta until they transferred me And then how I got started in this I was working for a marketing firm that printed club flyers, literally I was passing out flyers that promoted If you're in the car accident, let me know for $11 an hour is how I even found out this was a possibility And then one of the chiropractors that we were passing these flyers out for had a referral process for his patients So whenever his patients referred him to someone he would pay them $200 for those referrals So I was like, can I refer them to you even though I'm not a patient? And he was like sure and it's been it's 15 years later. This is all I do She's been she like a tow truck.  Get you in. Yes. So I've been Right Pull up out of nowhere Shoot the hit card And you know what I really learned they sense my yes, you were talking about crela bitter credibility So this is my first million dollar year I could have been teaching this but I wanted to be secure in my messaging and that I could really help the people I consider myself. I'm a Sagittarius if I know anything about zodiacs. We're one of the realest and bluntest of them all I'm like a jz on the low like my mindset and how he moves. I feel like we like the same people So I said all of that to say like I ain't got to sell you like I ain't got to fluff you I ain't got a lot of you like I'm I'm good But I'm confident now and what I've done over the last five years when I quit my job at six months pregnant So I got to figure this out That I can help you do the same thing now when you say when you say your first million year I want to clarify that for them as you say a million after taxes Are reaching a million mark. I reached the million mark. So it's gross. Yes Okay, it doesn't mean because you from just talking to people letting them know what I do use in my social media So that that couch potato that you refer to it's perfect couch warrior Couch warrior This is a perfect opportunity for you to get off of the couch Get a little taste all I wanted was five referrals a week when I first got it started That was a thousand dollars from me back then and that was a lot for what I needed to do in my life And so a little bit goes a long way with accident referrals So we even for you guys going to do the 500 but we have other tiers So once they referred me seven at 500 then it goes to 750 per referral Then after you hit that 750 mark it goes to $1,000 per referral forever Let's get this money. So blessings is giving you all these blessings. Then she feel like I'm trying to give to y'all Right And she giving you blessings at the blessings and people didn't even know this was a thing because I didn't that's why I didn't teach If I'm like I made this up But it's if anybody can make a million dollars from what they're doing is shareable Now what you need to do right now I just want to say this and blessings is she's giving you all these blessings and like she said she feel like jay-z hold She feel like Beyonce All right, listen, but listen what y'all need to do right now. So y'all get these blessings y'all need to text Y'all need to text middleman at 8 3 3 2 3 2 99 41 and you're going to get the free e-book how to make 10k in 30 days We're asking to referral check out also on instagram that acts i'm talking about right I'm talking about this right now on instagram You got to check out if you don't do nothing follow instagram But if me i'm following instagram and i'm getting a free e-book at the blessings attitude on ig man Go check out man blessings McCoy thompson. Listen, we respect you. We love what you're doing. Keep doing your thing And this is another episode of million dollars river game business spotlight and it's just like that, right? Mm-hmm. Everybody love me I don't have no problems when you say everybody love you. What do you mean by that? Everybody love me. Mm-hmm. I don't have no problems They look at my growth. They can see the difference now Mm-hmm. They proud of me.  I don't know nothing. It's just like oh no He just do him. He won't be associated with the rappers.  I see you on stage Your fans is in tune with what you got going on. They they they channeled in The slow you go the further you get Mm-hmm. The slow you go the further you get Anything fast don't last. I like going slow I love it. It's crazy because every time I see as soon as I see that uh That tour schedule come out Sold out sold out. So yeah, but that might be heavy. It'd be a long list city Be heavy and you just and you got diehard. I'm talking about since you came home. It's just been Bwa it was just like you got diehard people that come that was one of the toughest transitions For me once I came home In 2018 I had to find myself again. Mm-hmm. I had to find what really did it for me Because before it was it was strong feeling any motion attached to the hurt and the pain I had been through But I noticed that Even my children proud of me now And that's really what led me to my healing journey was I wanted to I didn't want to pass on any past traumatic Like traumas on to my children I didn't want to do that. I wanted to be a greater father for my children And that's really what speared me in the self healing. It was very very difficult and I'm still healing It's Not even done yet. We just scratching the surface Back the layers day by day. You're still doing seeming retention manners.  I'm done Yeah Because I ain't gonna please my partner. That's it. That's all and the reason I had stopped even having sexual conversations Especially with women because they was using like what I was talking about like the wow factor of it and Using it for clickbait then when you go look at the whole interview like man, dude really makes sense But it makes a man more cognitive in his life Yo, yo, yo life force is sacred. I tell me and everybody laughed at me when I first talked about it on y'all On y'all podcast not everybody's talking about they do it now. So I've been seeing that Man, y'all know what y'all got it from y'all know, I'm dead that y'all know what y'all got it from I've been seeing a lot of people talk about you had never heard of that You look at me and that release a lot. They skin don't glow They don't have no glow. They be they they they skin almost look great But it's your life My dark gray It's your life force now now great I'm gonna say this um Last time you was here you said You got people that you want to work with that you like but you're afraid to ask me like man I don't want to get denied. I don't want nobody to reject me. I said I had a fear of rejection But I'm rejected out of that.  Let's get it Yeah, I got an everybody DM and what happened all the response was good nothing Oh, no, nobody responded.  It's not a bad thing It's just see we look at it like a negative thing not not saying that it just wasn't the right Time we wasn't in alignment or we wasn't in alignment at that time We may be in alignment in the future. We may never be in alignment. It doesn't matter But I tried and I could live with myself knowing that I tried I did all I could do and then I've been uh going to concerts lately What concerts you went to I want the trade concert. Yeah, I want the usher concert Okay, like I just been going like watch the greats And it's been cool because I got to be like a fan again We asked you questions. Did you learn anything at them concerts? I learned all kind of what you learn all kind of I just be steady.   It was crazy. It was cool I went twice. I went two nights in a row. I seen drake straight up. It was crazy 21 He was there.  Yeah, I like I like their presentation I like their presentation and everything and then I seen um usher concert And his stage performance. It was I liked it. So you learned some things that you want to take an ad to your ad to your approach I gotta put it with our program Ain't nothing wrong with bar on some gang, baby Who do you listen to outside? I've been listening to like a lot of african music lately. Okay Like afro beats and all that. Okay. I've been listening to a lot of that. It made me feel good in the morning Just playing at the energy. Yeah. Yeah. I like I like that energy like on my way to the gym I listen to that It's like uplifting. He'd be doing 800 push-off. It's done stop. Don't stop everybody comes out I love I love That veto to the veto. Yeah veto both and uh tims. Yep. Tim. Yeah. Yeah, I like all of them Yeah But uh, like who do you like? Who do you want to work with if you could do a song with somebody who you want to do a song with? Anybody who want to do a song with me? I swear to god. I know that somebody when you say anybody the greats The greats. Yeah, the greats all the greats. Okay. I want to work with all the greats Mm-hmm. Why not? That's that's your dream as an artist to work with the greats that you one of them Oh, yeah, I work with Kevin Gays all the time I love him. He's a great guy Now approaching this album. What was on your mind when you was creating a new album? Nothing I just put everything on the table all the hurt all the pain And even the celebration like celebrate myself like one of my lines when I say um Purpose driven. I'm developing riches. Pleasure driven.  I would not be distracted by women.  I know this I notice if you ever had a nine or five or you ever was hustling as soon as you made some money That's when your phone started ringing It's an energy money. Not really real. It's an energy Soon as you make some money people from out the woodworks go to calling you And I noticed I was like whenever I'm doing something I'm supposed to do. That's when all the distractions come You ain't never got time for me When I've got free time, but when I'm doing what I'm supposed to do The universal law which got universal law governs all events. It tests me Man, I'm gonna stay on my pivot That's when all the distractions come whenever I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing Now y'all got all the time in the world That money pile in there Making things happen. I'm uh, hey, I'm uh, I'm gonna chase me That's why I'm here with it. I made a vow like I never miss a workout For nobody or anything I'm always put raising my frequency first and I notice the days that I don't want to work out Be the days I get my best workout and the best things happen I say oh, it's raining ain't nobody's gonna be another day And that's when I get the best like results the days. I don't want to do it. So And shout out to my mama She didn't like got me to start being comfortable in uncomfortable situations. So that's just when I'm it with it right now If adversity is what bill's character Mm-hmm If it ain't rough it ain't us Talk of it. That's why I'm here right now Yeah, now I need to get in the gym man. You inspire me Man, you already be in the gym. You be playing basketball and boxing and man, but I need to I need to really Get my breathing and northern because that's what you did with the behind your back You saw you got better results when you breathe. Yeah, but I can't do it. I got to get that right You could do it You could do it Because my little back be hurting and I realized they every way I go they say because Your hamstrings and so tight yoga and it's all it might be your hips I used to have a little back pain until I started Strengthening and stretching my hip flexors. So yoga really helped you like that. That's what a god I use one of the first presented it to them.  That's pussy I don't know yoga Yeah But then once I once I and that's really what started my journey Like I got I got off it though, but I got back on it out here in the free world and I was like, yeah This was up. I do it every morning. I don't feel right if I don't do yoga But light is the truth too because it's resistance and it's stretching It's the truth. Yeah What was it like, you know, I a lot I run into a lot of brothers coming home from the joint What was your mindset when you first came home because no matter how much money you got in the bank Okay, break that down I'll have a resentment because out of sight really mean out of mind And the people I felt like they were supposed to be there Wasn't there how I felt like they should have been there and I do a lot for everybody So I'll have a resentment. I came home with a vengeance. I was mad. I was upset I'll have a resentment.  How long do you how long did it take for you to get about it at mine? I still ain't out of that mind said to be honest, beloved I just make it look good. And and let me just say this and I reinforce positivity in my life. I still be like I still be like, yeah It was meant to happen because if that wouldn't happen all of this wouldn't happen But no, I was nominated for the Grammys.  Y'all know where y'all got this from. Y'all know I'm young Who the first person to ever say his imperial majesty? I am h. I am his imperial majesty being driver big time a breadwinner anatomy So, yeah, I love when he talked that I'll have a resentment.  I see you I see that you build your own we're in the dictionary. Yeah, okay All right I see you got one who earns money one who earns income to support a household So I seen you build that and I see you didn't deal with a lot of people Like you was just like i'ma just build my house.   I'm kind of antisocial in a sense because I don't watch tv I badly get on the phone.  Yeah I got six phone But you only say two like you broke it down for me in the video that time He said two and I seen him when I seen him. I'm like, hold up. Okay. You got more than two Like this is like he broke down when he's in two phones. He broke down how many it was misinterpreted And why was that misinterpreted because I said I need I got two phones one for the plug one for the load I got two phones one for the bitches one for the dope. I got need two more Okay, that's six phones. All right, but That was crazy He didn't say that he said I don't even talk to him. I don't even it's just handling business Handle business with different people different. Is it a different phone for different people for different crap? Different things ain't that wrong with that different strokes for different folks Yeah, different numbers. You got the phone that you don't answer like that because they just be blowing it up my um My primary phone is this little bit of smartphone right here. I don't have no social media apps nothing on the Just my music and my immediate family could get in touch with me This is my gym phone. It's the phone that I always have with me all of that other stuff. I don't want to ever be um I like to stay mentally cognitive I put them phones on the charger and in the other room on airplane mode because Like I told you when you sleep with the phone in the room and disrupt your melatonin cycles And Like that's what we need to heal. I buy to produce serotonin in the daytime melatonin at night, especially women Don't need to have no electromagnetic devices in the room with them when they sleep Because do you know they are governed by the moon They spiritual because they know all this I'll be reading a lot. They spiritual they could turn something liquid into something physical Especially when they got your child and they stomach turn transforming liquid into something physical You know, I'm saying they don't need to have no phones or nothing in the room Would you around the og's when you was in prison? All my partners like in they 70s. Mm-hmm And what wisdom what was the most wisdom? That you know, who gave you the most wisdom when you was in the penitentiary Who gave me the most wisdom in life my grandfather your grandfather All right now when you was in the penitentiary, was there some og's there? Yeah, they had a couple og's and that I kicked the whip But but but what is it about your grandfather? What did he instill in you?  He'll put me to the side.  Absolutely Absolutely, I think the most the most beautiful thing I ever heard though Um g wrong told me he said uh Suspect evil of no one until see it want to see it forget it not for once the enemy could never be a friend And a lot of times we have a overly forgiving heart It's cool to forgive, but I'm not going to forget what you did me ever I forgive you because I'm releasing it.  No Yeah I can't I can't forget that Me going for that. No at all See, I didn't even know that freeze, but I know that I know Now I'm going to give everybody a chance because I'm not going to operate out of fear So I suspect evil of no one until see it Go on see it forget it not for once the enemy could never be a friend You showing me you're not a friend. You showed me Now it's my whole thing. We're going to make mistakes and I'm big enough to admit if I'm I'm a man. I'm wrong I hey forgive me. I'm wrong I I tell you if I'm wrong and you know, but my heart genuine though I'm not going to steal from you.  I'm just not that type of nigga.  Remember, I had a cameraman Had altercation with him Several years later, he tried to come back. Oh, man. I'm sorry. I can't I could never have you back, man All right, I just had a similar situation. That's had to put hands on you man. I could I So once your enemy I can never We can never be friends again I ain't mad at you. I'll forgive you, but we ain't gonna be friends. We can't do this. Can't do that no more man I can never trust you man That's wrong. So the album You don't even know who featured on there. It's not dead. It's um Do you have any features? I think I got do I have a feature? To who oh 60 red on the yonsei 60 red and bg on the yonsei freestyle. That's it. Okay, and that's it But I ain't even know that song was going to be on the album to be honest I hate to shout out to bg.  Yeah, shout out to 60 don't shoot, please Didn't even know it wasn't intentional I'm so used to dropping albums without features to where it just It didn't even register that I had a feature. Yeah, how many tracks on it? I don't even know You don't even know how many oh He's still adding tracks I don't know Don't don't shoot. I just want to see man. It's a lot of it's a lot of rappers out here. I made a I done it made over 60 songs Well, what is your formula because you be you I went in that one day to a guitar beat and I was like That was confused all the trust again with all my horse been through been miss you was the not the one you choose I fall back from you and it just it's like I'm watching myself become something different in the in the studio There's a lot of niggas out here rappers man. I look at you like a brand. Yeah, it was it was a guitar beat playing and I was like damn And that's what happened And then and then it had went somewhere and then I was like Then I did another song where I was like, uh mistakes make us great. I'm proud of you I think you doing amazing, but I was talking to myself Because I was like I need to celebrate myself. I said, I think you doing amazing Hmm Step inside this vocal booth releasing all my pain the things I did with on the daily driving normal person insane I could relate I gave my love and then exchanged. I got shitted on that happens on the daily Hmm And I just it just it just it just how it was mistakes make us great. I'm proud of you I think you're doing amazing And it just did you uh go somewhere in a different location to record? No, sir You just but you got I went to a different state of mind. Okay. I was in a different state of mind because I was like, um I was this time I was celebrating myself more Because I make music that I could work out to and when I be playing my music on live people be like Man, why you don't release that? I say, you know what?  Yeah, is it ever a time where it's though? Um, I said I said some one time and the artists wind up calling us And I wrote like a letter to rappers like artists and I was like I basically told them somebody best it is already on the hard drive Right, and they're afraid to put it out. I said stay over tiktoks They're looking at abye and put your stuff out because you'll be chasing something and what you're chasing You already got on your engineer got on that hard drives. You did a year and a half ago. That's a banker your authentic self Yeah, but you look at no one else.  Yeah young blues. You know what he was like He was like shout out the young blue. He was like, man, what the I've been needing here That ain't nobody telling me that and I got all these bangers. He I'm looking at the The song me and him deal was a classic though that ice on my big remix. Yeah, that was a classic now Now have you ever had a time Where's though social media had you messed up and your approach or anything or like No, sir, but I had a time where I was chasing fame Break that down like in 20 When I came home and like 2019 I was like, man, why they not salute me how they supposed to And I was just chasing fame like chasing it chasing it chasing it and I wasn't getting over Like why they not like why they not salute me I'm putting out mixtape at the mixtape at the mixtape. They not salute me how they supposed who you want to To salute you the world. Mm-hmm Y'all y'all do everything I do y'all emulate everything I do Like from when I was in jail like every rapper that came I was kevin gay's jr To be honest Y'all y'all ran off with y'all ran off with the material, but y'all ain't salute where y'all got it from I came I often first one came in a game with that penitentiary sway gold mouth dog. I came in a game with it I came in a game talking rigors Yes, he did moving around solo by myself paying second two pair draws on Yeah, in case I got to go back in the game gotta go back in I came in a game with this way Any day nigga I'm saying though, but we got we got We got a color spade of spade though I came in the game with that because I was really thugging. I was in and out of jail my whole career I came in the game with that sway Like people and I watched it get emulated and taken and I watched it get commercialized and I watched nobody saluted where it came from.  Yes, sir Yes, sir.  They know where you got this from You'd be a lot of that too. Yeah Self-made stand up if you ain't got two heads under your belt and pick your pants up You know, I'm the one who started it that sway that luke abrasion I mean it's crazy that I'm even speaking about this right now because I usually be trying to keep it positive Which I am I'm being very positive, but you did start it But yeah, I harbor resentment toward that still and that's that's that's what gave me my competitive drive to keep going in the gym I take that energy and that anger and I put it all in the gym and make me better How many songs you got on hard drives right now? millions And what you gonna do with them and what you gonna do with them and what you gonna do with them I'm about to start releasing everything when you say releasing this is my last album When you say the last album break that down. This is my last album with my label Oh, so you doing totally independent. No, I'm gonna do on distribution a distribution deal Yeah, because I love I love how everything's going right now But I'm gonna do distribution after this in Charlotte. I love Shella because you know nothing's promised. Yeah, but you won't do distribution And you say when you say you're releasing everything as you packaging it up for albums or I don't know um I make so many different genres of music like I make reggaetong. I make african music. I make all of that So I might just do I might just do like different groups. It's gonna all be me But it's just gonna be different titles of groups. I don't know. I'm gonna do something I haven't figured it out yet because I'm still on my journey. I'm just scratching the surface But I even do soft rock rock and roll country a lot of the country music that you hear now that Like rappers be doing, you know, kevin started it That ain't come from y'all. I've been doing it To be honest though, let's if we just being honest, like I'm not hating on nobody. I'm not shooting no shots at nobody You know what I'm saying?  Yeah, I ain't saying I invented it, but I started it They told me I was crazy my Spanish wasn't even that good then You just like I feel this I'm doing it.  He was in the studio with me How do you feel? Seeing how powerful and how legendary Louisiana has become for the rap industry It's a beautiful thing. It's it's bittersweet It's bittersweet. It's beautiful It's something I really really want to say so bad, but I'm just leave it alone. But it's very beautiful But like I've been trying to Unite you know I'm saying I'm gonna leave it alone though Yeah, I feel like it could be I could Louisiana could be united a little bit more You know what I mean? I've been had that that been my vision.  I thought y'all was going, you know what I mean? We still we still communicate. Yeah, I love him. Yeah, but my wish for him is the wish of a law.   She was People people that don't know you get they they've put these opinions don't bother me I ain't worry about the internet. Yeah, see because I don't base life and my results of that I know that's just bullshit. You you just talking behind a keyboard. I catch you on the street, man Come on, you know what's down with me, but on that black top That's how I gauge it. Like when I'm in new york, new york love me to death Love me. Mm-hmm. These people love me here. I'm talking about in the streets on the black top walking around, right He talking about the people sitting by and this is getting on phone It could be a little kid 10 years old in the middle of America I don't judge my results in life based on what I see on social media because The like I'm seeing real life the killer of our joy is making comparisons People make it look good You comparing your real life to somebody else highlight for real That's that's you're gonna kill yourself making comparisons But when you step out in the streets on that black top, that's how I know when I'm moving Like that song birds calling. I know that song moving because they it's in the streets They pulling up blue cool birds calling.   It ain't got nothing what you tell I'm nothing You gotta find yourself with this And I had to find myself a lot of times with this But I found myself and one thing I am in the conversation led to this I said, uh, I said one thing about it v's. I said what makes you hot is that Them ticket sales don't lie You know how long I've been doing this big brother talk to me 20 years Okay, I've been doing this 20 years and where do you feel that you at right now? I love it You know when I like when all the artists was going to clubs I was doing hard ticketed venues only making a thousand two thousand dollars I built my touring fan base How important is that? It's the most important in the world hard tickets You know who the first people that showed me love and put me on the front of that tool Who who people try to who people they they say whatever they want about them, but that's my brother Wiz Khalifa He the truth He put you he put you on the on the front of he put me on the front of his tour It was me him snoop janea eco Shout out the wiz shout out the way before I went to prison And that took you that put you in a ticketing game when that when that when it's when the satellites came I had already built a core fan base, but just him exposing me to that Sun me up through the roof. What was different for you to say? Them clubs that's that's cool But I'm going this way. I'm gonna take this lesson money Touring yeah, we'll made you just say man that that 30 look good right now that 20 look good I didn't wonder like that and on one off. I still do one off But when it came time to tour I made sure I dedicated my hustle to the touring because that's really where is that hard ticket It's hard ticketed venues and I stayed small even though I could have sold out I stayed small to make sure when I got to a bigger venue.  Yeah, then b-markets I wanted the first orders doing b-markets. I got that game from tech name for them That don't know what a b-market is break a b-market and shout out to tech nine Candice city our family tech nine the truth What is the real truth? Yeah, he the real you say his name and people act like they don't know who he is He got more money in all these n****s. He he wanted to age He the riches in the game homie real talk. They got my f***ing factories down in kansas. See that I've been him and travis Him and travis you walking they got shot out to them. They got harley davisons hanging from the muff Sealings for decorations. They they really that's who really had speared me into really touring and merch and Things of that nature like and what I love about tech nine. He gave me that he gave you the knowledge if you want He give it to you do Tech what's going on?   Hold on. Hold on the only superbowl. They won hold up. Hold on You remember when they let me come work out with the team? Yeah, and I said, hey I'm gonna leave my energy here because y'all bless me and let me work out.  I can't wait. All right. Let's get let's get it done You always on tour when you not on tour I know man. That's my dude Hey big brother this gates. Oh, oh, let me fake. Oh, he ain't got no face now. You got the android, man Listen, I'm all right. I got I got an iphone too. Just gates. Listen. I'm all equal All day like my son, but I want to go out like What's that a big brother? I was just in here talking about when y'all here let us come by the um By the factory and I was telling my us show me about the touring game They asked me like what was it that speared me to just focus on touring. I was like Take nine in travis Like they gave me the game Hold on. Did you say this is the father? This kevin Oh, what's up, brother? I ain't gonna sit down Yes, sir, we just did the show together. I didn't get to see you because I had to get out of there after a while I know. I know. I know But they they was they was just talking about like what what made me focus on touring. I was like take nine in travis That's big bro, bro. That's big man Love and respect to you. I love you more. You know that papa Yes, sir, man. I'll see you soon, man. I can't wait. I'm about to get a phone back Yes, sir. Tell him we coming down. All right, travis. I mean, all right, uh tech we coming down there, man With your brother All right, but now his brother's like him with so much knowledge and they're really doing on a big scale that merch I think I think a lot of a lot of people don't know how important the merch is Is that merch real important that merch money series? Yeah, I have a uh I do I do well for myself Yeah I do well for myself but But the bottom line was Kev got the game early about hard ticket sales over club because I really come from hustling Yeah, when you really come from hustling Like I got the flip a dollar I got the flip a dollar man like Another thing, you know, what I'll do respect gill, you know who came in the game and said I'ma jug it out and just Nike tech suits Who started that Without due respect Every day every day. I had on nike tech suits every day I had like three gray and three black because I read this book with his dude saying I don't wake up in the morning and think about I ain't got to worry about that and see my time. I'm either gonna wear gray or black and mark uh I did like a did a billion dollars in ticks.  Yeah Yes, yes, sir Because it was about like just getting focused man about hustling. That's it. We hustling and I want to make I want to make the money. I don't want the money that just come right now I want to bill it. I want to make the money that's going to come, you know, forever I want to be able to hand my legacy down to my children like that's like I never sold my catalog I never did none of those things. You know why?  They often they come at you don't of course.   It's like real estate But I didn't I didn't make those type of decisions because I never had to I don't live beyond my means I live below my means because I'm not the more depressed or the more psychologically unfit you are The more you spend money on entertainment and the more you spend money on vices I don't spend money on vices and things of that nature. I can go work out and feel good and put on some sweats and feel like You know a billion dollars I got land I grow my own food. I got I heard goats. I heard camels. I heard cattle got a meat processing plant I'm a country boy.  I watched it. I admired it and I said, uh He him Yes, that's him right there. I always told you that that's my only that's my only thing No, I never thought I would speak on it. But I don't know. Thank you. Thank you like I needed to I needed to release that that's something that I held on for a long time That I never spoke on I needed that this was healing. This was therapy for me Today, so thank y'all.  I need I needed today though because I feel Like clear now. I feel lighter now that I got that off my chest. Yeah. It's real with the album I'll make sure you're on it. Huh? Ceremony make sure y'all Download it stream it purchase it tick tock it. Please Instagram. I need all the support I could get everything Watching on youtube by stick all the cover videos everything. I needed get everything everything kev, man We appreciate you always just for being you brother him When the album him coming Down it came out 2019. Oh it did. Yeah I've been him I've been saying this since 2000 and uh 2008 Yeah, I am h. I am his imperial majesty Bench drive a big time a breadwinner anatomy. Like Not everybody's him now Timothy It's a cover trend. That's him. He butler. It's just like that You