Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of miniature painting myth busting with trove and vince and today we're gonna talk about brushes or brushes or brushes or well, I guess Brushes just brushes. We're gonna we're gonna talk about brushes Today's topic because today's topic is something I think we are going to disagree on That's always good Today's topic is To paint miniatures. You must have an expensive sable hair Brush or you must use an expensive sable hair brush for your miniatures. I actually think we do disagree on that Well, why don't you start tell me what you think and the brushes you use I Am using since forever Raphael 8404 size 1 I Get the question of what brushes do you use like? 200 times a day no exaggeration It's always in the description well alert, but yeah, I like those brushes because I Learned to to paint with really crappy brushes, and I think that actually was a good thing But once I I got a really good brush. I Just felt like all of a sudden. I'm not running the I don't know 100 meter sprint with a ball chain to my leg anymore And that was just a really good feeling if you have the right tool and a really precise tool Then you're always going to be better off then With a tool that is not as good or degrading too fast Okay, all right. I understand what you're saying Now let me ask you a question Do you own a dry brush? I know where you're getting it, but I haven't owned a proper dry brush in ages But more because I'm too lazy to get one um, I do have Makeup brushes that I use for dry brushing that are okay So I am all about the this is my point I think even you who is one of the most sable brush purists that are out there, okay I'm gonna ask you two questions after that. The first one was the dry brush I use makeup brushes well like this is what I have up on screen right now as an example Of the type of brush I use for my dry brushing. I have lots of different sizes of them Uh, various little things. They're all just things you get in cheap makeup brush packs from You know the dollar store from amazon or something like that and This is the right tool for the right purpose right when I've got a bunch of grit or sand or a base or something like that This is what I'm using, okay Now travarian, here's my next question for you because I'm gonna I'm going to prove to you that you don't really You're not really using expensive sable brushes all the time. Okay Do you have any old Sable brushes around that have lost their tip and yet you still keep them for various purposes Oh Wrong one. Um, yeah, I do have a couple of those For yeah painting putting stuff on base is Yeah, definitely like this one right right now I will openly say you and I are simpatico For detail work to me the raft 8404. It's the same thing I use I love these brushes. I just got a couple new ones for christmas recently I stand behind having Sable brushes in your arsenal I think they are an essential tool for doing fine work especially For really careful precise glazing For fine detail work lines Edges eyes Whatever small detail. I mean there's lots of small detail on minis But for those examples I think you do need a couple of quality brushes but Would you like to see what I base coat with trove because you mentioned you have these old worn down sables you're using This is what I base coat most of my miniatures with this right here This is a size 8 Uh artist brush you it says artist art, so it must be good The airbrush is also a good option This brush right here the This big fat junky brush is what I end up doing a lot of work with when I'm working on uh Just base coats laying down a huge amount of paint. Let's say you got a big giant cloak You want to work fifth, you know five different colors of paint do it real fast You're going to do a quick wet blending thing. Boom. This is the brush This is what we're getting out and my supposition to you travarian is you could do the exact same thing All right, like if you were doing that kind of work, you would have like this brush would be functionally identical To your old non no longer having a sharp tip Wrath brush right because at that point it's a junk brush. It's what we call a junk brush, right? That's what this is.  So this is a size 8 I'm using here in this video. You can see it's a very junky brush much like what I was just having on display And I'm working rough. I'm wiping the brush aggressively to get paint out. I'm not, you know, adding a lot of new water I'm working wet on wet. This is very much a wet blending type exercise And you can see here what I'm describing in that this would be Actually less efficient For me if I was using a really nice soft sable brush Because I couldn't be as rough with it. I couldn't be as aggressive with mixing the paint around I couldn't get in as well as I wanted. I couldn't wipe and work and really push the paint how I want These are the types of tasks where this brush excels It is just my my preference of When I paint I kind of want to be in control So I want to control where the paint goes and You mentioned wet blending. I don't always have control over where the Paint goes with wet blending Sometimes it does what it wants, right? So I'm trying to minimize the factors that Don't allow me to control paint. So if I have a brush that is splayed And I do wet blend with it There is a few hairs that I cannot control and they just go off to the side and that's I guess that's why I also like to do Um more basic techniques with a good brush I think you hit upon something that's really important here That is worth mentioning Which is your techniques that you tend to employ In our last episode we talked a lot about there is no one perfect way to paint a miniature that people use lots of different techniques Absolutely. So check that out And I think what's important there is that Certain techniques require a more precise a nicer a higher quality brush than others Because they're it's a technique better suited to a certain tool For example, I mentioned that your fine sable brush is good for things like very controlled glazes Very controlled precise layer finishing work is what I would ultimately wrap a lot of this up to or detail work, right? You could we could use any of these generic terms we like But if you're somebody who uses a lot of wet blending or Maybe you're somebody who uses a lot of value sketching right Banshee style or roman lapot style where they use a lot of value sketching as early steps in their miniature painting I mean roman famously will often has set value sketches with his fingers He will finger paint a value sketch on there. That's definitely a long way off of a fine sable brush That's about as far in the opposite direction as we can go right But not everybody uses those techniques And so to me it's about finding the way that the tools match with the techniques that you're going to employ Yeah, that's interesting. Um, so one of the last videos I did was where I was um showing my process a tiny bit You know start to finish on a figure and I tried to think back to to this process and There's definitely also Parts and and yeah where I just Really slap that paint on and I have not changed my brush Doing that so I don't know what would you say how does A cheaper maybe larger brush Um compare to a rafael brush As far as reservoir goes So do you think they have the same Properties when it comes to how well they hold paint and how much you can work on the miniature without having to constantly dip your brush into paint and Compare that to how much control you have when it comes to maybe tip size and sharpness of the tip and being able to use the same tool for a variety of techniques an important thing to note about the difference between sables and synthetics is that Sable brushes not only will often hold a finer tip But the belly will be a little more expansive as it will it will hold a little more paint All else being equal like length of the bristles and you know Size of the brush and so on and so forth It will generally hold the paint a little a little more Liquidity a little more water and it will generally keep it a little more wet Okay, so to get an equivalent You have to actually in a synthetic of a sable you actually have to go bigger That's why i'm using a size six or a size eight synthetic brush when i'm using these crappy brushes Because then i've expanded the belly of the brush so much Right like it's so large that this will hold a ton of paint and the other advantage here with this Is and i mean you can see it because you can see this has like the ferrule burn Of ink that's gotten down into the ferrule right something you you never want to see on your sable brushes because this means you're getting Paint clogged down in the ferrule Here i don't care if this thing goes bad. I have 10 more of these i'll just throw this one in the trash right I think that's a good point. Um, I Do not really care about that with my expensive brushes um, so I try to Get in there and slap paint. Um, and i'm not too worried About paint going up there and when people watch me paint. It's like, what are you doing? You're ruining your brush But um, yeah, so that's an expense that I gladly take because I just absolutely love the properties of the brush But I also understand if people are saying They want to do a rougher They want to treat the brushes rougher, but they also don't want to constantly buy new brushes So I just try to clean them afterwards and I completely disregard their health While painting just to very quickly address a fear here with these nice sable brushes. I see people all the time Say I got a new Sable brush insert brand here that they got. I'm afraid to use it because I don't want to ruin it It's going to get ruined entropy is a thing all eventually becomes dust except this. Okay But that shouldn't stop you from using a really nice tool that you will get a lot of mileage out of And if you treat it nicely If you don't do it you're very interested you can't get quite a lot of use out of it But eventually you'll lose the tip eventually it will go bad and you'll have to get another one. That's okay. That's just life The reason I like working with these big toothbrushes not just because I can ruin them and not waste money Because you buy these things and packs of 10 for four dollars or something, you know Uh, but also is because it does have a lot of properties I really like the fact that it's so big means that when I'm using it Sideways right when I'm sweeping with it or something I'm pulling a lot of paint and liquid out but also having this really flat actually fairly stiff surface because it's a synthetic And so it actually works as a really nice blending tool for for wet blending Which is something I tend to use a lot to set initial Initial sort of value scales before I then come back in and glaze and pop things and so on and so forth And so working fast and sideways with the brush. I get this really big Working surface if that makes sense right the the actual surface area of the brush Is just larger because when it presses down it sort of flattens out and you get this really nice way to work So it has those properties that because of the technique I'm using it's really good At that particular technique unfortunately, um, it boils down again to Try finding the tool um that helps you the most in a given situation And I say unfortunately because we get to that point a lot, right, but I guess this applies here too and No, neither of us is right or wrong. Um It's just preference and what has worked for us And yeah, I guess Everyone just has to find that Way and unfortunately it's a bit of experimenting again and having to try a few brushes To me there are sort of five brushes brush types that I tend to Think should be in Your arsenal that these can be kind of swapped and I think you're They're in your arsenal too, but you're kind of using different things for it So one is the thing we talked about at the beginning a good dry brush a good makeup brush By good, I mean something you bought in a pack of five for a dollar at the dollar store, right?  There you go The Second thing is uh, some kind of large base coating synthetic brush like I've got here. I think that's highly valuable I think it's um I think it's something you can use for techniques like wet blending Stippling like you don't want to really if you're if you're doing some hardcore Nature stippling like on dirt where you're stabbing you're literally stabbing as opposed to touching very careful dots Boy, oh boy. Do you not want to use a nice Sable brush for that that you will destroy the tip so fast Three is you do want some kind of solid sable brush because that will that is your proper brush for doing detail and finishing Four is something that is literal and complete junk Like this thing that I found in the yard somewhere. I think once buried under a rock Like bugs crawled away from it and then I grabbed this brush Uh, I use this for for getting in with washes on bases or things that need to be or terrain Or stuff like that like things that are are going to be really really rough garbage work Where I'm just trying to like dip the whole thing in a wash or in an oil wash or something like that and just slather Liquid around right and I just I don't I'm going to ruin this thing over and over and over again And then five is just the previous form Of your nice brushes. So your your your sables once they lose their tip. They're still very useful because they they still have that Quality and I use them for a lot of mid-level layering work where I'm not trying to get precise yet I don't need the sharp tip because I'm not doing detail But I want the control and those have that nice tension that I can do that work with without Burning the tip those are kind of the five brushes that I I tend to think of The way I use those brushes they become more like a universal tool almost like a swiss army knife Where I feel like they can do all of these things except those That work or the work Where they would get destroyed, you know using paint in a rough way And stippling and and just complete disregard for a brush try To keep an open mind if even if you even if you prefer one or the other Don't close yourself off Towards trying brushes that are you know, maybe more ruined or maybe stiffer Or are brushes for a different purpose and just try to experiment with it Even if you have that one style and If you're like me and you're saying no, I just use that for everything Even then it's good to to try out brushes In a completely different way and who knows what you might find. Maybe you find the perfect technique So there you go Do you need a sable brush?  Probably not Travian says that's the brush he uses most of the time and it's true and he uses it as a multi-purpose tool But even he has older brushes or junky brushes. He'll use for me. It's about the right tool for the right job I don't get out of hammer when I need to screw something into the wall And in the same way, I'm not using a really fine sharp expensive brush when I need to slap around a base coat So there you go I hope that helps you find the brushes you need and you that suit your style But as always, I thank you very much for watching Don't forget this series alternates between my channel and Travarian's channel So if you're not already subbed to him, his channel is linked below and you can find the alternating episodes Over there on his channel or you can see the playlist which has all of the videos on both of our channels Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time


I am shouting. But anyway, I hope things are well for you. We have a great show lineup for you on Matters of Health and entrepreneurship. And I'm so excited on what SAKWA has for us in this, you know, banner that we're about to have. My name is Stephanie, and yes, I can get me on that particular name also on my social media handles. And just a reminder, at Y244 channel is where you interact with us. And we're going to ask you the question of the day in not too long. So make sure you open, yes, SAKWA. All right, back to me. Salsa, but before we get too far, like Stephanie said, we have an amazing lineup for programming. Today we also have Tuesday Health, including entrepreneurship as well. So stick around for amazing programming in just a bit. But before we get to, before we talk about who else is making headlines for good and bad reasons, I'd just like us to talk a little bit on Matters' mental health. And today being Tuesday, Tuesday mental health are also being Tuesday entrepreneurship.  But then you have to stay afloat when it comes to, you know, having a mental balance. And we understand mental wellbeing is a state of, like, being emotionally well, mentally okay, not just even personally, socially as well, including with other people.  I like how self-righteous, like, can I slide it back to you as a regroup? Wow. Okay. Okay, I'll take the first one. So how do I stay mentally afloat? I've never really thought about it, but this is what I do or I try to do. I take in what I can handle, you know, because there are many situations where you get overwhelmed. So when I get to that point, I don't know what to put it, but I'm very keen to know, when I'm being disturbed, you know, you just know that there's something wrong, you have a bad mood. So I pin it down to what could have made me feel that way. They said, oh, it's the money. That's a good thing. Yeah, so I get to the root of that thing. And then now, when I get to that, I know a solution and I know what not to do next time.  It helps me somehow, one way or the other. And then if things are overwhelming, I only take out, I write them down. I need to do this, I need to do this. So I've not been able to do that, but let me start with this too, so that I can finish up with those and I take them off and it gives me a fulfillment and no other, I'll get to the others at some point in time. As long as I have some sort of organization, I'm able to manage things, and the things that are out of my control, maybe something that has happened, I leave it to God, honestly. For me, when I go with the word, if you worry what will happen, so don't worry, let's go and let God, that's just how I get to have a fulfillment. Can I add on what she said? I really, really like Stephanie's train of thought. I was talking to her, and the way she handled it, I was like, you're an adult. I like it. I really do, you have such a very interesting way of looking at life, and I really appreciate it. Thank you, thank you for that. And you want me to answer your question? Look, I talk while putting me on the spot again. Okay, that's fine. Okay, for me, it's a bit heavier because for a long time I've been pretending that I am okay, and I have been an entertainment host for a very long time, so my job description, literally, I have to be happy all the time, whether I want to or not, whether I want to or not. So I've been kind of winging it with this mental health thing, but just recently, last year, I got a mentor. So what that has done to me is, she asked me very specific questions that make me reach into myself. I'm like, why do I behave like this? And as a result, follow me on YouTube at Kalamiva. So I've been able to now make videos on the same. So, yeah, I still do see my mentor, but these videos is a very big form of release. I find that even when I talk about things that have disturbed me in my childhood, they solve a lot of issues in my present. Wow. Simply just talking about something that happened X years ago. Yes, yes. And it's funny how people don't know this, but your childhood traumas can really affect your future self, unless you come and deal with them, then you carry the burdens that you had from that point in time, and I'm so proud of you, Va. I watch that channel and it's just amazing. You know, it takes courage and you're inspiring people out there. Someone going through the same, they're learning from you and yeah. Thank you. So keep on doing that.  Like I was looking at it and I'm like, how many people would have the courage to like sit down and like take a look at their past life with the flaws, the mistakes they made. And you know, this also comes with a lot of fears. It comes with a lot of uncertainty and a place of shame and guilt, which I feel like almost everyone of us has passed through a place where you feel that you're doubting yourself, you don't believe in yourself, or maybe there's people who don't believe in yourself. So it's like you're caught up between yourself and yourself. So you have either to like support yourself to believe in yourself, or just like fall down, but it's so amazing how you did it. Something else that has attributed to it is, I took a course on self-awareness. It was a crash course. It took me a couple of weeks, but again, it was, it was very intense and intentional. Yes. Knowledge is power, by the way. No one can take it away from you. Yeah. True. And it has reminded me, yesterday I had a friend of mine, I think I had mentioned this, like we usually have, like, I'll say, most of us who are in radio or in TV, we usually like have a meetup sometimes where, especially online, maybe on a Google Hangout or Zoom, or WhatsApp group call, where we vent, like today it's Sakuya venting about how he was disappointed, how he felt like he was fairly treated, I'm aware how some things are not going on the way he has envisioned to. Am I your failures? You know, sometimes you feel like you have failed, but then you're feeling like that, but there's a lot of people who are looking at you from a point like, you have everything that I want. Like wow, yes. Why are you feeling like this? Come on.  So I feel like it's an amazing thing to have a community of young people who just meet and share their mistakes, share where you feel inadequate, you'll be like, but you're okay, why are you feeling like this? A lot of people admire to do what you're doing, but they will never even get there. So don't, they say sometimes you don't know what you have until it's gone. Like realizing even your self-worth and how you mean to yourself and other people, it's a very powerful thing. Is that how you coincide with mental health? That's how you stay? Yeah, I think that's how I cope. We usually have that venting session on WhatsApp. Like today it's another friend, the next day someone, the next day is another friend, and they see him or boys to pick him, it's open to, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we vent, like when I see a perspective of them, when I see a perspective of Charlie, and if it's like, how long does that go for? It goes for as long as your anger stays. Oh, so you stay there the whole night. Right, your anger stays. There's a term we even talked up to around four a.m. Wow. Yeah. My goodness. So that's how we vent. Okay. And it's working, we need to have also one. I feel like journalists need to have that mental health portal. Why, when you feel depressed, angry, disappointed, go there, seek services, and you'll be just okay. Hey, I honestly think this, it's like a support group. It's really better to have people that you can go to and talk, you know, even, as Sakwa said, for on-air personalities or celebrities, you know, because there's a standard where society has placed you. Now, yeah, and you can't, you always want a sheet there, what do you mean? So you get people to understand you where you can talk and you can share your frustrations and share your failures because no one is perfect. And, you know, when you feel that you need to be perfect, I think that's the point where things don't really work out and you feel imperfect, but people still think you're perfect because we all have our flaws and we all go through bad times. But, you know, when the set expects you to be okay every time you're human, you can. So, I mean, it's very important to have those support groups. For me, even apart from media and everything, even in sessions where youth groups in church, you know, where we meet, how is your week? So, how can you share your failures? We might not get into details, but at least you've shared, and really sharing is, a problem shared is health-solve. One or the other. Yeah, exactly. I agree. I'm not going to talk about venting or thinking that way. We've said it, it's half way gone. But I also suggest you do it in a safe way. With the right people. Make sure, because not everyone will understand you. Sure. Everyone will be very receptive. Do you want to say something? He might be talking about his frustrations, but there's someone thinking, why are you complaining? You have everything. So, that might feel like a slap in the face to them. Like, you're perfect. Why are you... You will keep all that suffering. That's what I'm talking about. Yeah. So, make sure you do it in a safe environment. A mature and safe environment. And sometimes you might be turning up to, let's say to work, or doing projects out there, and you come by your operating in NAMB mode. That's a friend who was saying, that sometimes you've blocked out everything, like, it's like you have a filter.  So, it's called a trigger. So, you're operating in NAMB mode, where you're not expressing how sad, happy, or, let's say, how broken you are. So, you're just holding on. But when you meet an incident that just pokes, just a little bit, it's a whole past. Yeah. So, it's okay to, like, find an outlet of expressing ourselves. Even men, you know, men rarely talk. Especially men. Especially men. And it's interesting that my next guest, the next guest, the first guest that we're going to have on health, I'll be talking about his journey with depression and he's a man, and his recovery journey. How did he come about? How did he speak up?  And I want to, I'm really curious to find that out. So, it's got to be a good composition. Right. Does this, does this New York best-selling author, Ian Lavazant, she was an opera's best friend. I think she's still opera's best friend. She had a show called Fix My Life, where they used to invite black Americans who come from broken homes. Especially where the dad was absent or the dad was abusive or the mom died a little bit early. So the kids had to resort to some other things. The show's called Fix My Life. I think it ended in the early 2000s.   You're not supposed to show that you're feeling vulnerable, like maintain that strength. Cluck on my manome. Exactly like Kyve.  Whatever will happen, let it happen. So, I think we live in a world where we need to tell. Like if you're feeling bad, say I'm feeling bad. I'm feeling not okay, please understand.  And then you shoot. I know. Oh my God, that's quite sad. All right. So, please, please let's find a way of expressing ourselves. Yes, Steph. Okay, no, it's how you've said it. That the next time you're pulling up with a gun and shooting people without telling them why. Shoot them. So you don't get to shoot them. If you shot them. But this is why. You know, they say, what led you to beat this person out? Like I beat them up because they killed somebody. But you don't just beat people up.  But anyway, we're still on the beating up before we get into a little again, just shortly. There's this singer-songwriter, and it's Brandy Minor, who put out a tweet yesterday. She said that unless it's Nya Shinsky, Kinoti, and what, Tendawili, or Femiwan, or Fathamo, she's not going to do any collabo's this year. And she also said, leave me out of interviews as well. I'm not doing any for any station. And then one of the punters responded, that's a misleading attitude familiar to most of us. And now this is how once needs proper supervision. And that is your downfall. I'm like, wow. That's extreme. That's downfall, gosh. Wow. I'm missing a coffee. What? But I did see the media part. She does not want to do any media. Any interviews. Come on. Who had her lead? Some people say, Brandy Minor, this doesn't, is it? What kind of choice? What, what? What led? What happened that led to this particular choice? I can only imagine. I don't know, because even with the collabo, maybe for media interviews, Tendawili, but collabo's, what happened? Who now, what are my disappointments with the collabo's? She says, she says she only has specific people, Njalsinski, and the Wattendawili. Femiwan. Yeah. Any gods who are industry peke? What? Well. Crazy. We can't read PSCC's career level where we say we can't attend events that don't have Beyoncé and Kanye West. We can't read, we can't read as well. That was speaking for himself. By the way, I can only imagine how my red card would be. Like, I only attend events where there's Asher Aymond, Beyoncé, there's Mbappe, there's Cristiano, there's. The big guys. Like, only the leads of that industry. Well. You'll be on a million dollar paycheck. As we finish up, let me just juggle your mind a little bit. I want you guys to spell this for me. So I'll try it with Val and then Steph, you can pick it up. I must tell you, Steph, you'll pick it up. Oh, you're good saying like we're in a cup. Val, stop running away. Stop running away. The first word is kochua. Kochua, I think it's Princess Kochua. Why, you want to embarrass me on TV? No way. You guys have brought us here. You guys are journalists. You are meant for this. You're meant for this. Kochua. Kochua, kochua or kochua? Let me try. What do you mean? Are you sure you don't? No, I usually just spell it like that with me. So I probably won't get it, but let me see. OK, just try to picture it in any other. Kochua, OK, C-O-U-T-U-R-E. Ah, you got it. You got it. You got it. Oh, my partner A. Oh, my partner A. Let me try. The next two are very hard. Let me give Val an easy one. Bureau. Bureau. Like a company or a restaurant institution. That's not fair. Or Kenya Bureau of Standards. No, because it has many vowels. It's a short word. In fact, it's shorter than kochua. It has many vowels. Next. I'm not going to get it. The next ones are very hard. You will cry. They are extremely difficult. Tell me one more. I'm sitting in the US, Mississippi. M-I-S-S-I-P-P-P-I. Nope. M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I. Ah, you got it. Thank you. M-I-S-I-N-I-N-I-N-I-N-I-S-I. OK, and another word is to stay from them. And the next one is to Val. Nonchalance. Why are you giving her easy ones? Easy. Nonchalance. Easy. Let's do nonchalance. Nonchalance is an adjective that means being calm, having a calm personality, calm and collected. Nonchalance. Nonchalance. I'm hearing that for the first time. If I wrote that, I'll spell bureau. Nonchalant. N-O-N-C-H-I-L-A-N-T. Wrong? Nope. I prefer it. Again, try again. Nonchalance. Ah, no, sorry. Nonchalance. Try again, try again. You almost got it. Nonchalance. Nonchalance. No, I'm... OK, with an E, have a... Nope. OK. Again, try again, try again. Nonchalance. I can't embarrass myself past that. Got it, didn't you? You almost got it, Steph. Imagine it's such an easy one. Try it one more time. Yeah, please, retake it. With a E. Everything else was fine. Try again, try again. Without the E. Yeah, removal E, nonchalance. N-O-N-C-H-L-A-N-T. No, you skipped like a letter in between. Again, nonchalance. Nonchalance. Yeah, nonchalance. Oh, OK. N-O-N-C-H-A-L-A-N-T. Ah, nice. I know I wronged it. I had nonchalance, not nonchalance. It's accent. So it's the accent. Yeah, guys, I am smart. It's just so-called accent. Yeah, nonchalance. I am proud of that. The last one is for Baal. Arsenein. Chloe Kardashian uses this word a lot. And those journalists from a certain folk station who criticized Kenya last year and she used this word. I know it. Arsenein. You just had it laughing at me even before it started. Arsenein. No, you're not being fair.  Arsenein thing. This is the most arsenein thing I've had. Arsenein. Yeah, arsenein. I don't think I'm going to get it. Arsenein. It's just the way it is. A-R. A? R. Mm-hmm. S. Mm-hmm. Endela, endela, endela, endela. N. Arsenein. I-N-E. No, if you only removed the R. Oh, A-S, arsenein. Arsenein. A-S-E-N-I-N-E. No, it's I. Where is I? Then nine, the third nine. Oh, arsenein. Arsenein.  Oh, my goodness. Wow. Two new words. We're making supper, spare something. Oh, my goodness. You guys are great. We have to learn the toughest word in the dictionary. Two not being able to do anything. We're just giving ourselves, you can't spell it.  So the word is bureau, nonchalant, arsenein, mesisyp, you guys got it. Apart from the arsenein, but you guys did well. Congratulations. Oh, no, I'm shouting. That's why you guys are journalists. And thank you. And thank you so much. But say your social media handles and talk about your segments before we take a break. We'll start with Steph. All right, so next coming on will be health. And we're going to talk about overcoming depression from a personal experience with the guest. He's going to tell us about his journey through depression and how he was able to get past it. It's going to be a very interesting discussion having that he is a man and how the society treats men in regards to how they handle depression. So stay tuned for that. Well, for me, it will be highlighting on identifying talent and inspiring passion. Two things I really like, yes, it's a small, small secret. When I was an instainment host at a particular show, I'd make sure my weekends I go scout for talent. I'd go look for guests and the dogs, not the ones who are known. Yes, yes, these are my favorite kind. So I can't wait for this particular interview. I can't wait as well to meet your guests as well. On my segment during the tail end of the broadcast, we'll be talking about comedy, how to incorporate food and bring it out in a very comical way. There used to be this program that featured Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart, where they are on a set, they are cooking by cracking crazy jokes. So the next guest it will be having towards the tail end of the broadcast will actually be telling us how she uses food to make other people happy in a comical and just hilarious way. So you guys be ready for a fantastic segment towards that. Ooh, have a good food. Ah! Would be interesting. I can't wait, I'm excited. Same here. So to color me well, I'm Stephanie Ayerta and Brian Socorno one at Y2 for 4 channel and the hashtag is still on the morning. We take a break to come back with much more. Stick around.


Alright, Liv, you've never played this game before. Absolutely not. You've never seen this game before. No, I'm seeing it right now with my eyeballs. This game is called Bloody Trapland. And does you farting on me and making me bleed have to do with the game in any way? Um, no, I'm just killing you. Do you see the arrow that's pointing to the right all the way over there? I do. Like I said, eyes are fully working. So, ow. So we have to get all the way over there. Uh-huh. And not do that, I think. And not do that. Okay, this is going to take a lot more swab than I currently have the ability. Yeah, no, you do need a little bit of finesse. Why would you get me doing this game? I have no finesse whatsoever. You said, hey, Ethan, want to record a thing? My idea is that you teach me how to play a game that I've never played before. And I said, yeah, sure.  And if you don't know it, it'll be kind of fun and funny. You do realize that the longer it goes on without me being able to do it, the least content you get. No, no, no, no, no, no, that's where the witty banter comes in. That's where the comedy comes in. You know, I'm ready for the comedy. So how do I go about jumping? Because right now I'm really I've mastered dying, but I haven't quite mastered jumping yet. How are you asking me how to jump? Yes. Space. So what are the controls that I'm using? Because right now all I know is arrows and space bombs. OK, so you're using you're using the arrows and the space bar. I don't understand your question.  These controls are pretty intuitive. The level that I do them. Have you seen to the level of which I do them? OK, it's in your name. You have to live up to it right now. I think I am living up. What are you?  I never promised anything. You just have to jump over the gap, live. What do you mean? I'm ready. OK, then do it. What do you mean? Uh-huh. Wait, don't go to this thing. So now there's this thing and you also have to look out for the saw that's over here. OK, all right. So the thing. Oh, there you go. Watch out for that big fist. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, yeah.   Please don't drown. Oh, it wasn't even a far gap. This is the first level. Yep. Now how did I the last time? Did I just do it with a run? I'm just running.  I've never experienced anything like this before. I've got this. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Uh-huh. Watch out for the fist. I'm waiting for this boy. Yeah, no, you have to get closer to it so it engages. I'm scared. I'm I'm scared of getting fisted. Just I think everyone is. You told me to get closer to. Yeah, but you have to back out of the way. What do you mean?  Do you want this? I want this. I want this. All right. All right. I'm ready. OK, I'm ready. I'm ready. Oh, this requires a lot more finesse than I have. Oh, it doesn't. OK, now go. Oh, you missed. I'm just going to wing it. Yeah. Yeah. Now watch out for the saw. Just jump over it. What are you doing? OK, it's going to come back around. Jump. Oh, my God. And then come over here. There you go. We did it. Oh, my God. This is all the time that we this is all the time we died. There's a lot of red on this screen. There sure is. Sure is. All right. So here's here's a fun thing about this level. If is that, you know, we've got whoops. We've got the are you going to try to do things you see that that's really subjective. Have you played a platformer before? No. Look at me. Go. I take it back. I've played a platformer. I'm great. And now I jump again over these big boys. Oh, how are you? At least you have like a good title. You can be like, you know, teaching the biggest dipshit. How to play not really that hard of a game until the later levels. I forgot how I did that first bit. Oh, genius. You know, I'm just letting you know that this is all flukes. If I ever do it right, it was an absolute fluke. And now I run, right?  Do I press the space bar before or after I run? You pray at the edge? Yeah, yeah. Am I space bar and then moving or? Yeah, just run. I got scared. I got scared. You're jumping off of it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK, ready? Oh, there you go. There you go. Now you got to time this out because you see the piranhas. I'll show you how the piranha part works, at least for the the timing of it. Thank you. That makes it a lot easier whenever you're ready. Uh-huh. Watch out for the spikes. I'm not hitting the spike. Not to. I'm just having a moment of silence. OK, OK, you're back to the thing. Just time it right. Be careful of the spikes. Yeah, good. Careful. Boom. There you go. Another spike. And then you have to jump again. Once you there you go. Now you're just you just have to get up here. You can do it. You can do this and walk. Walks through the thing. You you get this one. Sashay away. Oh, God. Oh, my God. We've been recording for 20 minutes and it feels like four hours. Thank you. I have that effect on people. Third level ready? So, wait, what what you're telling me is we're going to make it through this whole map. No, no, no, no, no, no. At this rate, that would take a year to do. All right. It doesn't look that bad. So there's these things happening. Oh, a little bit tricky. Demonstrating how not to do it. All right, we can do this. All right, this is where it's getting a little harder. There you go. Did you see that? Yeah. Oh, there you go. OK, this next part's a little tricky. These spikes, because you got to jump high and then go over them. And do I just swim? Can you swim? Swim? Oh, no, no, no, no. I'm just talking about jumping over this first part. Just jump over that thing of spikes. No, no, no, not all in one motion. Oh, no. Bummer. See, like, what am I doing right now? Because, like, if I press forward one more time, then I'm going to go into the spikes. Not if you just give it a tiny little tap. There you go. Now jump over this thing. You've got it. Just a basic jump. There you go. Now this one. Uh-huh, just jump up and over. But how big does the space bar have to be? Because this is a big chunk. This is a big spike. Just hold it down. Just hold it down and then... Stop! No! Oh, no. So you just... You just do it. Oh. Yeah, but how are you doing that little double jump? I'm not double jumping. I'm just jumping and holding the...  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, back and forth. Maybe we should just get taken to the next one. You know what? No. Actually, I've managed... No, okay, yeah, but maybe we should. All right. All right, level four. Here we go. You ready? This one's a little tricky, all right? So you got to wait. Oh. Very tricky. Oh, there's a spike on the corner. Yeah. Little bit funky. You did it. Oh, I made it. There you go. Look at you. You're the leader of the pack, dude. Oh, I always knew I could be. There you go, there you go. Just get a little running start and jump across the whole thing. Fun spike. How am I going to do the big plump of them? Just believe in yourself. Hold down that space bar. Space, space, space, space. There you go. Oh, my God. What is this thing? Oh, I have to... This looks like a little dildo. It's not dildos.  I have to press a button.  Oh, my number one fear in life.  Oh, that's tough. Hey, that was good. Maybe you have to go from that tippy top one. Well, that has spikes on it. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to. I'm so sorry. You have just made this so much harder for the both of us. I did it. I did it. Yeah, but now I'm going to get back. Get a little running start and then at the very edge, do that jump. There you go. There you go. OK, wait, wait, wait. Don't do anything. Back to the plugs, back to the plugs. Go ahead. Go quick. I just want to escape this cruel world. See, actually, this whole time I've just been really enjoying watching cats drown. You've got this. Oh, my God. OK. Yes. OK, now just time this right.  There you go. Now cross the thing. We've done it, my. Oh, we did it. We've done it, my. All right. Do you want to do one last level? Oh, my God. Look at them. That was a lot of deaths. See, this one is aesthetic. It's on brand. It's raining. It's gloomy. There's a moon. If anything, this just makes me stronger. Whether my talent is playing the game, though, or my strength is losing is really the real question. You know? Oh, wait. So there's an Indiana Jones kind of big bow coming for me. How does one avoid such a thing? Well, you know what? I'm just going to wing it. Wing it. See, oh, my God. That works. Say, oh, I said, I'm going. Nice. You have to touch the wall. Excuse you, really? It works! This is so painful. Are you ready? So painful. Yeah, see, see, okay, okay. See, your issue is that you're not learning. You're making the same mistakes. What?! You're making the same mistakes every time. You know what I mean? You know how if you do something and it doesn't have the turn out that you want, then you try something different. And you don't do the same thing that you were doing before because it didn't have the correct turn out? No. You know what? I think you should just walk. You're second character there before I get my first. I killed myself. You skirt down the wall and then you get to the spike. And then once you get to the spike, you press the spacebar. But then at the same time that you press the spacebar, do you also press the one that makes you go that way? Yeah. So skirt, it's impossible. Just go. Just leave me behind. I think that that might be a good place to stop. Are you seriously trying to tell me that you don't think I could go any further than that? Yes.


So when it comes to the moratorium on evictions, it feels like we're just kicking the can down the road again and again and again and This is it just feels like we're delaying a crisis But we're not actually adequately addressing what is going to be a crisis if The moratorium eviction ever does Expire and it doesn't get renewed So this is from Brett Wilkins of common dreams who writes progressive say 30-day eviction moratorium extension Not enough this only puts more pressure on our country to find a permanent solution to the housing crisis said representative Rokana, we can't keep kicking the can down the road and he's exactly correct about this So let's read a little bit of this article We're not gonna get to the entire thing But I want to at least get the you know the gist of it Progressive lawmakers and tenant advocates on Thursday said that while the Biden administration's 30-day extension of the COVID-19 eviction moratorium Would provide brief but welcome relief for millions of people facing imminent eviction US leaders must work to find a permanent solution to the nation's housing crisis absolutely US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director dr. Rochelle will inskey said Thursday that the eviction moratorium will be extended from June 30th To the to July 31st and that the move is intended to be the final extension. So that's a little bit frightening to hear 30 days will we have a solution by then? I mean When it comes to American government getting anything accomplished in 30 days is a bit Worrisome because it seems unlikely Well, some housing advocates applauded the temporary reprieve others argued that much more must be done to address the crisis It's not enough activist and podcast host Thomas spite said of the extension California alone has 158,000 people behind on rent collectively owing $4,700 each a single month will not fix lack of a money problem Yeah delaying a crisis. I mean the delay is welcome. I'm not going to Poo-poo that I think that that's good and progressives are right to applaud the 30-day extension having said that though it's still a crisis and We we have to do something about this and yeah as James from the internet says 12 million evictions is probably not going to go too well Yeah, I mean if you thought that you know the civil disobedience that we saw in 2020 was bad If that many people lose their homes and they have nowhere to go. I mean things are gonna get a lot a lot worse so this is just like there's an iceberg dead ahead and we're sailing straight towards it and Every so often we'll just like You know push the iceberg back or I guess we should say like slam on the brakes So we're not moving as fast, but we're still headed in that direction and we have to take meaningful action So let me read this tweet here So this is from Tara raghoover who says the CDC has officially extended the federal eviction moratorium by 30 days To the end of July. This is a relief But it won't last long even if states and cities hustle to distribute rental assistance this month Millions of tenants will still be stuck with massive debts So think about this you you lost your job during COVID-19 and perhaps, you know You finally are maybe getting back on your feet, but all of a sudden months of back rent is due What do you do What do you do so these folks are facing eviction and this is a really serious issue I mean, this is a crisis that I don't see getting one talked about enough and And and to more importantly addressed in any concrete way by Congress at all We can run around in circles every month talking about an eviction cliff or tsunami or whatever We want to call it if we don't make policy to solve for root causes the violence of Commodifying basic needs an eviction disaster is inevitable millions will never recover and this is just it like I really like this tweet because it truly Tries to put things into perspective. I don't think people fully comprehend what's coming How bad this is gonna be if this isn't addressed and by the way evictions are happening right now Great point even while the federal order remains in effect I live and organize in Missouri where judges have exploited shortcomings of the federal eviction moratorium Judges in Kansas City have been evicting tenants since last May. I mean just like for a second I don't want to just like read over that Let's just think about that like they've been evicting tenants during a pandemic the evictions never stopped So I mean like even when I talk about this eviction crisis that's coming That might even be an oversimplification because there already is a housing crisis in the United States and evictions have been happening But we're not just talking about like, you know a consistent stream of evictions we're talking about a massive amount of evictions all at once and It seems like there's just there's no plan There's no plan and it's horrifying and I don't understand how there's zero sense of urgency from lawmakers let's say you get evicted and You know, you can't come up with months of back pay or back rent you get evicted and then five years later down the road You know, you're finally back on your feet after getting evicted. Well now you want to rent again. Guess what?  It's gonna be that much more difficult for you to Find a landlord that's gonna want to rent to you if you have this blemish on your history So it's like all of these issues It compounds it affects you in a really long-term concrete way And it's it's gonna be devastating So I do want to get to the lawmakers who are trying to address this on Tuesday ahead of the extension announcement A group of 44 Democratic House lawmakers led by representatives Ayanna Presley, Jimmy Gomez and Cory Bush Sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Wolensky urging them to strengthen and extend the moratorium The impact of the federal moratorium cannot be overstated They wrote and the need to strengthen and extend it is an urgent matter of wealth racial and economic justice Newsome wants to pay all-back rent owed by low-income Californians using pandemic relief funds so From the perspective of a state, I think that this makes sense because this would fall under Pandemic relief funds. I mean people lost their jobs and their livelihoods because of the pandemic So it makes sense to use the funds available to you So California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsome facing a Republican-led recall is pushing the state legislature To approve his plan to use 5.2 billion in federal pandemic relief money to pay 100% of unpaid rent owed by low-income residents Limakers are also considering several other pandemic aid measures proposed by the governor as they finalized the state's annual budget including sending $600 stimulus checks to low-income Californians providing universal pre-k and investing in new housing For those at risk of homelessness the state has the cash to meet the need It got more than 27 billion dollars from the American Rescue Plan Which passed Congress in March and is enjoying an unexpected budget surplus boosted in part by capital gains tax revenues from wealthy Californian residents California also received a combined 4.7 billion in federal funds allocated specifically for rental assistance from the American Rescue Plan and the economic relief package Congress passed in December so this Makes sense right You make it so that way if People for months missed their rent payments. They aren't expected To come up with like five six months of rent That's that's not feasible for so many people and this is why it will lead to millions of people getting evicted So to have something like this to where you know, their rental payments will resume You know come August 1st, but they don't have to pay months that they missed that that's a different story Right, that's much more reasonable and it's not going to solve the issue Right because we have to decommodify housing entirely But will it be better than forcing millions of people to pay like months and months of background? Yeah, obviously I will say that you know since he's facing a recall effort And he isn't necessarily too popular with progressives who he's gonna need to survive this recall effort He's doing this to be populist, but here's the thing.  He could be motivated by for altruistic reasons He could be motivated by this recall effort. What he's doing here This is what's needed to make sure that Californians don't have to pay months and months of back rent that they owe because they lost their jobs I think it's it's common sense. So he gets credit here. I mean that doesn't mean that he's a good governor In other areas, he's basically a corporate democratic extraordinaire But that doesn't mean that this isn't a good plan And you know if he's able to stop a housing crisis and an eviction crisis come August 1st in his state That's good. That's really great news


My fellow Americans, this week something happened here in Washington that makes me proud and I expect you'll feel the same way. It had to do with a report that our Secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Otis Bowen, released on Wednesday. Now, most of the time, government reports with all their statistics and dry language are not particularly interesting. But this one is different because it has to do with something of deep concern to every American family, attitudes about drug use among America's young people. For each of the last 13 years, the government has surveyed America's graduating high school seniors. Every year, thousands of seniors in hundreds of schools across America have been asked about the drugs they've used and about what they think of drug use. For many years, what we found out proved pretty discouraging. In the 70s, students told of ever more frequent drug use. Many of them said that some drug use, even drugs like cocaine, was okay, nothing to be afraid about. We had a drug epidemic and too often our national leaders in government and the media didn't seem to care. Drug use, some said, was a victimless crime. No one got hurt, no one suffered, so what was the big deal? And I've often thought that this message, that drugs weren't all that bad, was part of a larger message. The same people who winked at us about drugs also told us that America's future was bleak. Too often they said that the traditional values of family and community were old fashioned and out of date. It was as if they had lost faith in the future and wanted the rest of us to lose it too. But in communities around America, families, teachers and young people themselves were finding out that those who said drug use was no big deal.  Just how dangerous we all saw two years ago when a promising athlete, the young man whose future could have been written in headlines and in gold, died of a cocaine overdose. Len Bias never got to play professional basketball. But today his mother says that his death may have been a message from God to America's young people.  Well, as you know, others have carried that message too. For six years now, Nancy has been traveling around the country spreading the word. On one trip out west, a student asked her how to turn away from drugs when they were offered. She replied, just say no. Since then, thousands of just say no clubs have been started in schools around the nation. Students got the message, in many cases, long before adults. That brings me back to the report I was telling you about. Maybe you've heard the best news in it already. Last year, for the first time since the surveying began, a substantially smaller proportion of high school seniors, one third smaller, acknowledged current use of cocaine than acknowledged at the year before. But that's not all. Students are no longer buying the old line that experimenting with cocaine and other illegal drugs is safe. For many years, only about a third of them said that using cocaine once or twice was dangerous. Last year, almost half did. And nearly 90% said regular use was dangerous. And cocaine use is no longer the in thing. In fact, almost all the seniors surveyed, 97% disapproved of regular cocaine use. And whether they thought one or two experiments dangerous or not, 87% disapproved of even trying cocaine. Use of marijuana and amphetamines is also dropping. More than 10% of the members of the class of 1978 said they used marijuana daily. In the class of 1987, it was only about 3%, still too many, but much better than it was. And more than 70%, more than ever, have before say that regular marijuana use is harmful. So the message is out, and America's young people have heard it. Drugs hurt, drugs kill, drug use is nothing to brag about. Stay away from drugs. A few minutes ago, I said, all this makes me proud. Well, the one thing I found you can always count on is that when we Americans get a message and decide to do something, watch out. There's nothing that can stop us. I'm proud as I know you are, Nancy and the many adults who've worked against this plague, but most of all, and I know also you join me in this, I'm proud who one by one or together with their friends just say no to drugs. Until next week, thanks for listening and God bless you.