My name is Maya from Ghana and I'm in South Sudan for the first time and I got to know about freedom farms and I think this is really a large-scale farm and I was trying to find the person who is behind this farm that led me to you so I'll be so happy if you tell me your name and who you are and where you're from. My name is Pyeng Deng. I'm a former freedom fighter and a former general in SPLA that was the Army of South Sudan. I was deputy chief of general staff of SPLA Army and then I became chief of police of South Sudan. That was my last formal position or government position that I held. But currently I'm the founder of freedom farm and I'm the one supervising this farm, freedom farm. I want to know why they name freedom farms. Definitely when I was young I was among the first people who decided to rebel against Sudan government to fight for the freedom of Sudanese people which later on resulted into South Sudan freedom. For me I thought that what we have got is political freedom and we still have other freedom that we have to do. I thought that it is important. The first idea came to my mind from the time that we were still fighting in earlier 20s when we were about to reach peace agreement. I thought that even if we get the power, the political power, what will happen to these freedom fighters? The freedom fighters need real to think about how they should be free. They have fought for freedom of the people but they should also be free and to have their freedom in terms of living conditions, in terms of economics and in terms also to see that why they were fighting. For sure we were fighting for the goodness of our people and also for our own self, freedom and livelihood that we should. So I thought that it is important to think about how do we really do our freedom or have our freedom as persons and as people and as a country. Because myself I am an economist, I am a military scientist, I am also a strategist because I studied, even before I rebelled I was in University of Khartoum but I left it and I rebelled. But during the struggle also I managed to study. Because of behaviors of the government of the day that Khartoum government was treating our people and was also having bad politics and whatever and all this. And we thought that Khartoum government never done anything to our people in South Sudan and all this and tried, you know, in 70s they used to say that the oil was discovered 400 miles from Khartoum. They did not want to mention that it was discovered in South Sudan. And when we were as university students we thought that this is too much, why not mentioning. And also they were talking about canal jungle to be dug, that the Nile has to be diverted and we thought that it was for the interest of Egypt and not for the interest of South Sudanese. Because in South area along the Nile our people are benefiting with their cattle, they were getting fish, they were also rearing their animals and whatever and all this. But when you divert without proper planning definitely that is going to affect them and that is going to disadvantage them. We have our wildlife almost benefiting from the area and when you divert the water definitely without study definitely was going to affect. That one had did mobilize as young students, as young intellectuals and we thought that this is too much, we have to challenge it. And in fact this was the major reason why we really thought of rebelling against the government. How long has freedom founds been resistance? In fact I started it with seed 2008. Before independent? Yes, yes for sure. But Piguri was earlier than this. I started it in a place called Rumbik and in fact I started it because I thought that this is the only animal that can really multiply quickly. And I thought of demobilization of our fighters, freedom fighters. So I thought that if I introduce this one would really encourage other fighters to really think about their own businesses instead of them clinging on the government positions. Because for sure I thought that maybe after we get independent that was earlier. That we need also to encourage our people to really develop their life outside the public sector. And the only thing I thought because one time I was also I was visiting during our war. I was visiting one of the country which in fact I managed to visit an area which was very poor. But one of their king decided to invite a certain company and told that company that I want these people to be rich. And the company just decided to say okay let us make a research. And that company made a research and told the king that the only thing is that let us introduce Piguri programme to these people. And we'll make them rich. And in fact it was within three years and that was my time of visiting that country. I got that and I even met with those villages who were telling us who were telling me that you know before three years we were very poor. But now we are driving our cars because of Piguri. And they explained to me and even I went to that country to that company. They explained to me how they made them to be rich. So I thought that this is what our freedom fighters need. We want them to be rich but not through the public sector. I want them to be rich through private sector. The other thing I thought that you know our people they rare animals like cows and goats and whatever. But I said if I take cows or goats they will say that I looted their properties. I looted their animals and all this. So I thought of something that they were not raring. And I said let me I went to Uganda and I got there was this pig. Locals were raring them and I thought that let me have them. And I introduced it to our people because they don't know the pigs. They saw that these are bad animals they eat useless things and whatever. But it was good that you know the area that which I started raring them. People were not eating them. But now they did and they found it as one of the delicious meat. So now this is why I brought some of them. In fact I brought only 12. How many pigs do you have now? My young man there is somebody that I have not introduced Daniel. Daniel was one of my my child soldier whom I brought up. And I put him in the school and he finished university and he said Comrade there is nothing that I can do to you. I want to promote your vision the pigry farm. And he was the one who started this farm. This Daniel the young man after his graduation. Freedom farm as you have heard from Pyong is one of the most beneficial farm and interesting farm in South Sudan where each and every south Sudanese is given opportunity to be developed through the extension services that we are providing to the community. If you look around us here the more beneficiaries are the community. And this is one of the main objective of this company to provide food to supply the markets and then to build this the value change so that the community can develop themselves. We are now on a large scale commercial farming. As you have seen the field is big and we have a different type of crops. We have given the names to the tractors and each tractor is located to one driver. So every driver has the right to name whatever names he needs to be given. What are they doing here right now? Currently we are planting the early sorghum. This early sorghum plantation is initiated by Pyong, the role Pyong. So you want to do some research exactly to know whether by the end of June you are going to harvest this one. Because we don't want to leave the land without being planted because we will start planting in May or in June. So you want to use this period of time to put anything on the ground. Exactly. When it succeeds it is good. When it fails then we will see. Because the rains are not reliable we don't know whether it will continue raining. We are planning now to work on irrigation even though we have some areas that were irrigated previously but currently they are dry off. They don't have any water longer. So you know after pigs multiplied in Rumbeg and Yorul and then we have peace agreement. We came to Yuba in 2005. So in 2008 I brought only 12 animals from Rumbeg here.  We started with it. They were roaming here. It is all over the place here. Daniel managed to develop all these facilities. I would love to speak to Daniel but I want to know how many acres is this whole farm set on? Well the crop production is sitting on 1,470 hectares. That is crop farming. Is it the biggest in East Africa? I am not sure. But it is bigger in South Sudan. But not in East Africa. What kind of crops are you growing? We are growing rice, soya beans, surgub and maize. But this year we want to introduce what is called mung beans. Also mung beans we are going to introduce it this year. I want to understand. Do you think it is worth it to be a farmer? Yes and I enjoy it. Because now after I fought for this country I thought South Sudan the most important source or resource it has is land. You know South Sudan population is around 12 to 15 million. And you know the size is almost doubling. Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi. This is the size of South Sudan. And if you see the population of those countries it is too much for if you compare it with our population. So this is the bigger source this country has. And if we utilize it, then not the oil. Oil is nothing for us, not the gold. Gold is nothing for us. Because we have enough land, we have enough water. And we can do wonders if we develop this sector. How many people have you employed so far? Now here I have 47 people who are employed. But there are casual workers. That sometimes may reach to 100 to 150 and all this depends on the activities that is in the farm. If you had the chance to change one thing in Africa what would that can be? Dependency. Dependency. Dependency. That's why people should depend on others. Like in South Sudan now everything is relief, relief, relief, relief. Now the most active people now these are relief organizations in this country. And I'm not sure of other countries but for South Sudan there is a lot of dependency. We depend on other people. Even when we were colonized, colonized. People were taking resources from us to colonize us. But we should be the one doing this for ourselves. Why do you think we are not doing things for ourselves? Or why do you think we don't depend on ourselves? You know historically Africa was the boss. Historically. But in the middle something happened and we become the lowest people. And these need young people like you to research for that. How was it turned down? I think colonization played a major role. Why did we even be colonized and defeated? Why? Because we were our own enemies? No, I think you people, you will say more. No, I mean you have to tell me more. You will say more. I mean this is more like an assignment to us. You know sometimes it's because of our riches. We are too rich and we become more lazy. Even mentally we become more lazy. And this is why other people become more active because they were in desperate situation. They were looking for survival. Africans were enjoying their riches and they were enjoying, they become lazy. And I think that was the reason why we become like this. Do you have so many Africans watching us all over the world if you have a message to Africans? What would that message be? The only thing is that you know the most important thing is the trust to yourself. You trust yourself and you be confident in yourself. I'm sure you will make anything possible. But when you think that you depend on others and this is where freedom farm is I want to be free mentally, physically and solely in soul I have also to be free. And since I'm in freedom farm definitely I want to be free too. That's why I'm here. I mean this place is not called free town but when you come here you feel like you're in free town because we're free now. We have so many young South Sudanese who left the country and currently they are all living in the diaspora. I'm telling them to come back but do you think it's necessary for them to come back? If you have a message for them what would that message be? What I want to tell you that the man that is seated in front of you here maybe is one of the father of those children those young people who are in America Australia and Europe and Canada it happened that I was their caretaker it was the one taken care of them when they were so young and I was really the one who brought them up before they go for a settlement and maybe most of them if not all of them they know me and always I give them messages you know sometimes some of them they have acquired knowledge they have acquired PhD holders they are PhD holders they have masters they have whatever and they always say that if we go to the South what are we going to get? this is their question always if we go to the South are we not going to be victimized are we going not to be killed are we not going to be what and all this but what I can tell them that you know when some of us were young we sacrificed our life and we fought for this country we were not knowing that we were going to be alive up to this moment why are you fearing to be in your own country why do you ask what are you going to get what are you going to get is to save your people and I know when they were very small some of them were trying to go to the war they wanted to take arms and fight but I used to tell them that no no no your time have not yet come this is not your time this is our time let us fight physically but now for the development of this country and for the betterness of this country and these people it is your time that you are going now it become their time now this is their turn to struggle their struggle is different from our struggle and their struggle can be harder than ours and therefore they should not run away from this duty they should come back and struggle to let their people live better life and enjoy the happiness of their people and not just to think about that no we are not going because there we will not be allowed to do this for us nobody allowed us to struggle for these people we just decided to struggle for them and we are happy now we are not of the happiest person that I am seeing my people politically are free but if they come back are there opportunities for them in this country you know sometime I don't agree with anybody saying that let us see the opportunity first why do you ask for opportunity you take that opportunity upon yourself now who told me to come and establish this farm nobody told me it was my own initiative and I am happy that some people are enjoying it why not them to come and do their own initiative and let them do something that is going to benefit this country these people that is the most important thing don't ask anybody to do it for you you do it for yourself and do it for your people this is a personal question do you believe Africa is the future was the past and it is the future I want to say thank you so much for taking it to me


What's going on everyone? Sam here with late sports cards rip in 22-23, Pnini Recon basketball hobby six box break number 32 random team style. Airzay look again at your random results as always you can find those on the website under the results tab as well as the link in chat. So good luck guys. Going to drop you a link to mega dual case, mega dual case, flawless and eminence. Nine to go on that. Nine to go. Pnini's in the chat. Ooh, hollow dots, Quentin Grimes nice one there on the super short print. Basically a case hit. Grats on that. Nicola Jovic 2299, Dorian Finney-Smith and base on the back and a lot of golf today man. This is nice. Yeah. Paolo Vector Rooki, Malik Monk to 199, Kennedy Chandler, Kate Cunningham, Future Legends, Kelly Ubre, dude the thunder outside my house today. Oh yeah. The loudest I've ever heard. Like it legitimately woke me and Heather up. Yeah, I think I woke up to, woke up to a two. AJ Griffin, it was god dude, Caleb Houston. Rookie Rookie, Malachi Brandham, Andrew Nemhardt, Jabari Walker Rookie, nice one there. Base, base, base and more base. Rookie, Rookie, Dyson Daniels, Ayers Dallin Terry to 199. Yes, Will Keather and me up. Fair. Thank you. Rock the rim, Jabari Smith, Denny Abdiats, 299, Otto Dennis Scott, 25 of 49, nice one there, claimed to fame for the magic Dennis Scott. Should have an acetate, Otto in here too, would be my guess. Maybe an RPA as well. Aaron Nessmith to 199, that's what they usually, sometimes it's two, but sometimes I'm assuming it's probably none as well. So maybe it's here. Now it's going to be an RPA, Spencer Dinway to 299, that is going to be it, Nicola Yovitch, nice one there, three colored RPA, 54 of 99 for the heat, congrats Miami, nice one there, very cool.  Shay Gildress Alexander, World Travelers, BI, Vase, I'm pretty plump dude, Heather and I are trying this, it's not new, but this brewery that I didn't even know existed. What's up Kenny? It's in like downtown Papua too. Really?  Like if you're heading toward Ultimont, like the left side you have like CVS and Walgreens and the McDonald's are going to be on your left side if you're heading that way. It's on the right, but it's like behind the main buildings. It's like right back there.  Oh, it's like behind like where Popeyes is and like that thing? Yeah, it's a little before that, a little before that, like a little bit toward us, like where we are now, a little bit back behind that. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Nice, Maxi. Josh Hart 2199. Three odd guys brewing. For basketball right now, the cheapest break is our flawless and eminence dual case. It's the only one we have available tonight. Jake LaRavia. So it's 1450 a spot. Yeah, we only have one basket. Everything else is sold out for basketball tonight. Tomorrow we probably got some optic and stuff, Kenny. Jaylin Durin. How are you, Durin? Tomorrow. I'm Durin, great. Great, Donnie. Is that a root point? Not really. Tomorrow, Smith Junior, Future Legends, Rookie, Trey Murphy. Yeah, no, everything, I mean it's been sold out for a minute now, Keegan Murray, Rookie, Rookie. Tomorrow to Rosen 2199. Harry Eason or Terry Eason. Edward E with a mega dual case spot. Thank you, Edward. We're down to eight guys. Eight to go. Nice. Mega dual case. Thank you, Edward. Edward and I are now friends on Facebook just so you know. Rock the rim, Joel, and V. Nice. Nice. Thank you, Edward. Edward and I are now friends on Facebook just so you know. Rock the rim, Joel, and V. James Hardin 299, in case you were curious. Good job. I wasn't, but thanks. Tori Craig for the Suns, the 125. Same as over here, bragging about all his Facebook friends. All like 40 of them. Yeah. Jaylin Brown, rookie review. Max Struths, hollow. What am I, I have a Honda Civic. I have a 2021 Honda Civic hatchback. Vector or jaw? I think it's a Civic. Yeah. All right. Hatchback. I don't know what a hatchback is, but I guess it's a hatchback. Yeah. That is a top of the charts of Hakeem Elijah one. Russell Westbrook to 99. Jaylin Williams, Jay Will. Yeah, I love my Civic. It's so nice, dude. Jaylin Green, Isaac Acoro to 299. That is Paolo, 21 of 49. Rookie Auto for the Magic. Oh gee. Congrats, buddy. I just won there. Charles. Pretty sweet hit for you, man. We'll take a Paolo. Yeah. I love, I love Hondas, man. I will never go away from a Honda. Like I want my next car. I want it to be in Type R. What's Type R? It's just like the higher end, like more sportier version of the Civic. It's a Civic Type R. Oh. Okay, guys. Again, down to eight to go on mega dual case. Here is a link. No, I have the sport touring. So it's like the highest of like the base models. Yeah. Like it's under, it's above like the sport and it's under the SI. I love my, I love my Civic. Mark Williams, Jabari Walker to 299. Like best case scenario, I'd love my next car to be a Supra, but I don't think that's going to happen. Supra. Supra. Supra. Sounds like a lot of Supra. Benedict Matheran. Joe Harris, Hollow. Jaden Hardy, Rookie. I know the Civic hatchback looks so nice. Like when I was going shopping for new cars, I was like, that's like my, that's the one that I wanted. Sonic Gray colored too. Sonic Gray. There's Laurie Markinon. Jalen Durian to 199. Keegan Murray, Rookie. Sonic Blue would have made more sense. Just a point on that. For mine? No, just Sonic Blue. That would have been. Oh yeah, I guess. Technically, yes. Three more cents. Jaden Ivey. Nerd. Nerd. Or you could have got blue because it's called your car, the blueberry. True. Jalen Brown. Dorian Finney Smith to 299. Vector of Luca. Gary Trent, Jr. to 199. Similar car. What do you drive? You drive a Lexus, right? Top of the charts. Damian Millard. That was a Cycra reference. There's Vector Chet Holmgren. Desmond Bain to 299. Another Dennis Scott to 49. Nice one there. I didn't think anyone was going to understand that. Nice one there for the magic. Glad someone did though. That one landed. Lexus RC 350 F Sport. Nice. Look at this. This thing was gentlemen. It's driving a Lexus. Scotty Barnes, future legends. Jalen Suggs to 99. Second auto. Andrew Nemhardt, 8 of 10 on the gold. There you go, Pacers. Nice one there. Blake Wesley and Santy Aldama. Shade on Sharp, future legends. Excuse America to 199. More spots coming in. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Again, here's Megadool case. Again, 8 to go on that one. Let's get that field on. I bet illegals weren't as top hat and monocled. Oh, absolutely. Yes. Yes. I haven't either illegal, but... I came out of the movie. I never watched it, but I told myself I wouldn't have a deal.  What are you doing? I'm going to bot move right there. Are you on that show? I feel like I've caught a couple episodes of it. Joel and Bean rocked the rim. Reggie Jackson, 199. It was pretty good. Yeah. Because like that, the Pluto thing is... Yeah. I've heard that before. That was a couple episodes of reference. Kelvin Johnson, Jake Laravia. Fleet feet. Jalen Suggs. I would assume it was 299. Christian Brown, Rookie. The NBA champion, Christian Brown. Sure. Jason Tatum, Vector. Royce O'Neill. Rolls Royce O'Neill, 299. I'm surprised you didn't ever use the noise Royce. Eventually. Vince Williams, Jr. Hollow, Rookie. Future legends, Lamelle. Jordan Poole to 199. All systems, go. Steph Curry. Go, Scott Curry. You just lost our YouTube channel. Yep. Jalen, how are you doing? All right, Smith, 299. There's an auto max. Strux, 146 of 149, called the excellence. That's on that. He actually doing pretty well this break. Add that to the Yovitch. We lost our monetization because Sam was too tired to come up with something. He monetized. Rookie, Rookie, Chet, Holmgren. Bryce McGowan, still on that end. Tell you what I'm saying, though. I'll leave that one to you. Very high-pitched. I'll leave that one to you. Zion, too.  Yeah, why would you want that? Kennedy Chandler, Rope Otto, to 99. I just went there, Grizzlies. Ochaic Bodgy. Jordan Clarkson, Jared Vanderbilt.  I just like to go fast. There, dude. I used to, I had a 2007 Acura TL that my dad gave me, like when I turned 16. And he, that, I pushed that card with limits, dude. I really pushed that card with limits. Why would you do that? Because I was 16 and just got my license and thought it was fun. Oh, yeah. Sounds like a regular 16-year-old seal. Yup. Bob Huggins, really, resigning from West Virginia. Geez, 299 Darius Garland. Well, it makes sense. It's got a DUI. It's like it's multiple DUIs for Bob Huggins. Donovan Mitchell, 2199. Yovitch. Gertie and Cody. Benedict Matheran. Rory, what are you doing? Boo. Hiss. Hiss. Top of the charts. Rudy Gobert for the Jazz still. Evan Mobley, Future Legends. Dallon Terry, 299. We've got Jayden Ivy Rookie. That's unbelievable. Three state championships, one college championship, and one FBA championship. It's the last six seasons of organized basketball. Jabari Smith. That's insane. Oh, yeah, exactly. I mean, the only reason he didn't get fired after that is because he had a really good recruiting class. That's what everybody was saying. Osmain Jain. Anthony Simons, 299. Santi Aldama, 3 of 5. Nice one for Memphis. Grats on that, Grizzlies. Wait, Bronza Rookie this last year, right? Yeah. That's crazy. Heels. To go from all that success in college to just... I know. It's a winning championship in your rookie years. That's insane. It's nuts, dude. Rookie review, Yanis. Tramon Green to 299. Otto is Alfred Schengun, 67 of 125. Nice one there. Where was he in college? Do we have person draft up tonight? I mean, that would solve it. That would make it a lot easier. Kansas, yeah, Kansas. I was going to say Kansas. I was going to guess Kansas or Duke. Jalen Williams. Bronz, Kansas. That was going to be my first guess, but I don't know why I couldn't think of it for a second there. Too busy thinking of all systems. Pretty much. All systems were going there. All systems were stopped. Yeah. All systems were stopped. All systems were stopped. They were halted. Going to drop you guys a link to Mega Dual Case. 8 to go on that one, everybody. 8 to go for Wallace and Eminence. 8 to go. The little duck tail one. Duck tail what? Spoiler. Don't get it. So good. This is a duck tail spoiler. Just so you know. Like this. Oh. Yeah. It's like the stock one that most cars come with. Yeah, of course. Of course. I knew that. Yeah. I was just testing you. I was going to make sure you knew what it was. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Rookie rookie is Oshai Bajie. Rookie rookie. Rudy Gobert of 199. I see why you guys hate me so much. Exactly. I really do. See? It's not fun, is it? Nah. I'm not going to stop. Blake Wesley. Rookie rookie. Don't worry. I'm already tired of it so much. I'm already tired of it myself. Chat doesn't seem to be enjoying it, so I'm not going to do it. Fleepee. John Morant. John and Kaminga of the 49. That is Josh Green. Or that Blake one left. Probably. Blake would have enjoyed that. Or Forrest. Oh yeah, or Forrest. Those two. Devin Vasell to 299. Jaden Hardy Rookie. The Mavericks. The Star Wars guys. Oh yeah. Ryan Rollins, Rookie Hollow. All systems go Ant-Man. Dude, we have had more of those than like most fall cases. Usually you only get like one or two of those cases. You've gotten like seven. Yeah, and you have it not once knocked on it. Right. Tyler Hero to 299. That's part of my, my thing. Ron Harper Jr. Rookie Hollow to 149 for the Raptors. True potential. Keegan Murray Rookie. Our acetate coming up here. That is going to be Josh Richardson to 99. Scotty Barnes. Nice one there. Second year. 46 and 48 for the Raptors. Grats to Ron. So Ron was sweeping the hits in this box. Grats on that. Raptors. Jeremy Sohan. Future Legends. Santee Aldama. And base. Do a quick recap here. Don't worry about it. Oh man. Don't worry about it, Sam. Go home, Donnie. Got Ron Harper Jr. Rookie. Audit. Alfred Shengun. Santee Aldama to five. Kennedy Chandler. Max Streuths. Andrew Nemhardt. Dennis Scott. Tori Craig. Nicola Jovic. Dennis Scott again. Scotty Barnes. Scotty Barnes. And Paolo Bancaro. 21 of 49. Red Auto for the Magic. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the film. Up next is Crown.


Check out how I made these cheesy hash browns. First thing I did is I got me one of these spiralizers y'all from Amazon. So it spiralizes your potato. So we simply take those potatoes. We added a stick of butter, parsley, some Dano's original, and then also some cheese in you guys. This is a new product I've been working on, and it's about to drop really soon. We added some garlic, mixed that all up, and then we throw this in our little baking dishes. We're going to cook it covered at 375 for about 20 minutes, and then back in with the cheese, and that's the yum yum get you some.


Hey everybody, today's recipe, we are making lamb stew in the instant pot, all right? That means our dinner will be cooked in about 30-35 minutes. Now let's say you don't have an instant pot pressure cooker, well you can cook it on the stove in a stock pot if that's what you have, and that will cook for about two and a half hours so that lamb can get nice and tender. Now another option is you could also use a slow cooker. Put it in the morning, put all the ingredients together, let it cook for six to eight hours, and when you get home at night you've got dinner ready. So I'm Rockin' Robin and I'm going to show you how to make it right after this. All right, let's go over our ingredients. First up is our lamb. I went to the butcher shop and picked up some lamb stew meat already cut up for me, makes it convenient, but I did have to cut the pieces a little bit smaller because some of them were in really good sized chunks. We'll need some chicken broth, I have a finely diced yellow onion here, some tomatoes which are out of the garden fresh, they are so nice and sweet, and if you have them you want to use them. We're going to use a little bit of red wine, some tomato paste, fresh garlic, I've minced that, we'll need for spices a couple of bay leaves, and in this container over here I have a combination of ground coriander, there's some paprika, and some ground thyme. We'll need a little bit of salt, and here's an optional item I put in date paste. I love date paste as you know, and just a little bit to kind of just sweet it ever so lightly, you'll notice it just very gently, and we'll need some olive oil. We've also got some potatoes, I'm using some gold potatoes here that we're going to cut up and put in the instant pot in the last five minutes along with some carrots. So we're going to start off our recipe by adding some olive oil to the pan. I've put my instant pot on saute for five minutes, and we're going to toss in our onions. So when you're sauteing these you want to stir them pretty frequently so they don't burn, just keep tossing. Alright it's been five minutes, now we're going to add the lamb, and we're going to saute that for five minutes, we just kind of want to brown it up a little bit. Alright here's the lamb after five minutes of sauteing. Now we're going to add everything except for the potatoes and carrots because they only take five minutes to cook. Here's our garlic, those fresh tomatoes out of the garden, red wine, tomato paste, here's the date paste, a couple of bay leaves, here's the coriander and the thyme and the paprika, the salt, and the chicken broth, give it a nice stir, and it's time to pressure cook it. Now we're going to pressure cook this on high for about 20 minutes and we'll check it. I haven't forgotten our chef joke, so here we go. What do you call a Tom Cruise movie about cooking? A few good menus. 20 minutes have passed so I'm going to go ahead and release the pressure here, you can see the sauce here looks delicious. Now we're going to dump in the potatoes and the carrots and cook them, just like I said five minutes is all it's going to take. There's a stir, the lamb stew is done, man that lamb is so tender you can't believe it and delicious, the sauce is great. I've got another recipe for you that will complement our lamb stew today, you've got to try it with this, it's my garlic bread recipe, I'll leave a link for you right here, click that it'll take you to it and you can try it out, it's a very popular recipe and very delicious. Thank you so much for watching today, I do appreciate it, don't forget to share the recipes that way more people can get exposed to my delicious and nutritious and make you ambitious recipes and leave me a comment, I always love to hear from you, let me know what you're thinking and maybe even a recipe request, alright we'll see you next week, take care.


My dad's 100% Italian, so we grew up in a somewhat, obviously, Italian household. My family, obviously, being from New York. My mom makes fantastic meatballs. Yeah, it's definitely an Italian household, and I think, you know, my dad loves to see the Italian flags and when me and Rizzo are playing in the stands, I think it probably brings a little tear to his eye, honestly, you know. So it's awesome to be playing in New York as an Italian.


I mean, could you imagine if an employee walked up to a boss or a manager and said, hey, I just need you to know something, you micromanage everything that we do as a team. Happy Tuesday. Nobody's going to say that. Like employees just, they don't say that. There's no incentive to say that. So instead, what do they do? They just leave three months later. They leave the organization. And then it leaves the manager scratching their heads going, oh, we never saw it coming. Nobody wants to work these days. And the question is, maybe they just don't want to work for you. But again, that was the hope that this book would close the gap, that would help maybe a manager and an employee to go, OK, you know what, maybe there's some things I'm not seeing. Maybe my perspective is a little different than the reality of what my people experience.


It's hard to find fulfillment in a civilization that revolves around corporate profits. It's so hard to live as an authentic human being in a civilization whose every molecule is wrapped around something as vapid and soulless as corporate profits. It's what most of us pour most of our life force into. Most people work all day generating corporate profits to pay bills that go toward corporate profits and pay off loans from giant banks for their corporate profits, or rent from real estate giants for their corporate profits. Then they come home, eat some products from giant mega corporations that they purchased at a supermarket chain, and unwind by watching entertainment created by corporations to draw as many eyeballs as possible, or scrolling through social media platforms designed by corporations to be as addictive as possible. We do this while being surrounded all day by advertising designed to pull us into generating more corporate profits. Corporate profits are our life. Corporate profits are our religion. Most of us pour more of our energy into generating corporate profits throughout our lives than the most pious monk pours into worshiping any deity. Not because we want to, but because we have to. We were born into this bizarre civilization where everything revolves around corporate profits instead of love, relationships, connection, thriving, purpose, or personal depth. Is it any wonder then that so many of us are suffering from addictions and depression and anxiety? I mean, how could we not be? Take a normal healthy human animal and throw it into the mess of this dystopian corporate nightmare and tell me how it's meant to live a happy and satisfying life. It's like expecting dolphins and orcas to live happy and satisfying lives in concrete pools at theme parks, or factory farmed pigs living in cages barely bigger than their bodies. It's just not the kind of living we're built for. The blink of an eye ago our ancestors were hunter-gatherers living off the land, spending most of their waking lives under the open sky. Now all of a sudden we're expected to sit eight hours a day in a cubicle staring at screens for no other reason than to help the corporation that employs us increase its profits. Then commute home under a barrage of advertising in a vehicle made by a corporation using fuels extracted by a corporation and spend all our free time feeding into the profits of other corporations. Everything in us is screaming that this is insane and unacceptable. That's why some people try to spend time in nature.  Nature just used to be the world. There was no other separate thing from nature that we spent all our time in, pouring all our life force into, dedicating all our thoughts and feelings to, from whence we could escape for a few hours on the weekend as a luxury. Now we live in civilization and sneak out every now and then into this other thing, nature, where screens aren't blaring at us and the trees don't speak the language of the babbling narratives in our heads. Though, if we're honest with ourselves, our minds are still mostly preoccupied with the pushing and pulling demands that civilization makes of us the entire time. The only way to live in this civilization without its madness warping you and twisting you in on yourself is to change your relationship with mental narrative to such an extent that you can recognize that civilization is nature, that the human animal and its products are not separate from anything else in this biosphere we arose from. With a fair amount of dedicated inner work, one can come to recognize that this sea of language we exist in is just narrative that we don't need to invest any of our life force in believing and that all the words and thoughts are just energy like the rest of nature. From that point of view, a busy office full of chattering humans is not experientially much different from a busy forest full of chattering birds and insects. It's just two different expressions of nature. An advertisement is not experientially much different from crashing waves. It's just the sights and sounds of nature taking different energetic shapes. If you're not imbuing any of the narratives inside or outside of your head with the power of belief, it's all just a beautiful expression of nature. That's the only way to live as a happy and healthy human organism in this civilization from my point of view. Everything else is just varying degrees of insanity. Adjusting from an unwholesome relationship with mental narrative to a wholesome one lets you live a happy and fulfilling life among the humans who are actually a staggeringly beautiful and thrilling animal when you can see them with fresh eyes. And, as an added benefit, changing your relationship with narrative will greatly aid you in seeing through the consent manufacturing propaganda that's used by the powerful to keep the dysfunctionality of this civilization going. If enough people snap out of their unhealthy relationship with narrative, a healthy world will suddenly become possible.