I've been teaching entrepreneurs how to get clients for 10 years and in the last five years I've been really focusing on authentic methods of getting new clients. And I have updated my online course on how to get new clients authentically using enrollment methods that feel more aligned with higher values. And in this video I want to tell you about this upcoming course in case you're interested in it. So this course is for any of you who say you know I would love to have a structure and a system for taking consistent action that leads to getting new clients but usually when I learn these systems they don't feel aligned with me, I don't feel really excited about using these strategies that feel salesy and so therefore you don't take consistent action. It's really the main problem that people have with not being able to fill their client roster. So that's what I developed this course to really try to solve for all of you. And so let me kind of walk you through the structure of the course so you can kind of understand what you're going to be learning. The first part of the course that we're going to do is really to liberate your mindset about how do we authentically sell? Because here's the thing, no matter how clear your message of your business is, this course that I'm going to be teaching is not a course about clarifying your message. I have another course about clarifying your marketing message and your offerings and things like that. So that's there. But whether or not you have a clear marketing message, the thing is clients won't magically find you. Have you noticed that? Just because you have a website, you might even have a really nice looking website that's really well written and really well designed. But do you have any clients? No. Clients don't just find you because you have a great website or just because you have a Facebook page or just because you're on Instagram doesn't mean that clients will automatically say, Hey, I want to work with you. You're amazing. Or just because you upload YouTube videos, sometimes you get lucky and one of these methods will happen. But really to get clients means that you need to do some consistent outreach. Otherwise, you don't get clients. Even I have to do consistent outreach. Well, so let me tell you how I do consistent outreach. Okay. Here are the five methods. So actually, I was going to say the first part of the course is about liberating your mindset about how to consistently sell because selling is not pleasant for anybody to do. But if we change our frame of mind from, I'm trying to get you to do something. If I'm trying to get you to do something that you don't want to do, it's not pleasant for you and it's not pleasant for me. But if I get into the mind so that I'm here to try to help you, whether or not you're buying from me. See, that's where most people trip up. They're like, well, I have to persuade you to buy from me. Well, that's not a pleasant experience for anybody. And it's not how we need to do it. But if I say, I'm just going to help you, whether you buy from me or buy from somebody else, that's a better fit for you, or whether you don't buy anything and you just try to figure out on your own, I'm here to try to help you. And when you have that kind of mindset, everything changes and you start to be service-oriented and people start to really like you because you're just relaxed and trying to be helpful to people. So that's really the mindset for all of this. Now having that mindset also doesn't mean you're going to automatically get clients because a lot of you watching this are givers and you're just out there all day giving the people and you don't have any money, you don't have any clients. So it's not just about the mindset, it's also about the mindset plus the actions that lead to clients. So here are the five things I'm going to teach you in the course. I'll just kind of run through them briefly. If you're interested, then you can take the course, you'll get the resource document, you'll have the in-depth explanations and the teachings and the Q&A and the camaraderie and the support from your mutual students that you're going to work with to take actions. Okay, so here are the five things. One is niche-mate referrals. So let me explain what this means. Right now, the people who would be perfect clients for you are already using the services of multiple other businesses. Of course, everybody to live in the society, we buy things.  Now some of those other businesses are ideal for working with you as a partnership, as a collaboration. So if you were to do the work of figuring out, okay, my ideal clients, what other businesses are they already using? And how do I connect with those businesses in a really genuine value-based way if you can figure that out, you'll have referral partners and unlimited referral partners. So we're going to talk about that in the course. That's the first thing we're going to talk about in terms of the methods. The second thing we'll talk about is consistent content. Now I talk about this often in my videos already, but I'm going to talk about that in the context of getting clients. Just because you create consistent content doesn't mean that you'll have clients come to you.  Well it's because you're not really connecting your content to your offerings, right? And either you're not consistent with it, right? Or you're not connecting your offering, your content to your offering. So we'll talk about that as the second strategy. The third strategy that we'll talk about and I have to review my notes because I don't have to memorize my course, it's all written down. The third strategy we're going to talk about are mini launches, mini, M-I-N-I, gentle launches. Usually, so what is a launch? A launch is a concerted effort over a period of weeks or months to let people know what about your services, okay? Now one of the challenges of one of the problems that a lot of you are facing is that you don't do any launches at all.  And what God is saying is yes, be a good person and you've got to do outreach. The right kind of outreach to get clients, right? So God says, trust me but tie your camel, right? That's the famous line. So that's what we need to do. So mini launches are, so a launch is a concerted effort to let people know about your services. But usually launches are filled with stress and risk and embarrassment and pushiness and selfiness and none of us like to do launches, okay? But what if instead you thought of a launch as you're creating this party that you really enjoy and inviting the people that you would really enjoy being with at this party? That's it. It's no big deal. I mean, yes, the party is fun and you do some planning around it. But it's not like, oh my God, if the party doesn't work, my life is over or I'm not going to have money for the rest of my life. No, it's just, so mini launches are really gentle ways to invite your audience to play with you. That's what a mini launch is and that's what we're going to talk about. And I'm going to give you several structures of the mini launches you can choose which ones you want. And that's really the kind of the way I've framed the course is that you're going to find some way inside the course that feels right for you. And you'll also figure out how to structure that method so that it really matches your energy and your personality. And that's really the point of the course is to learn these different methods, to learn how to choose among them and learn how to customize it for yourself. That's what I'm really looking for. So the fourth strategy is the tapering strategy. So what is the tapering strategy? This is basically, here's the thing. If you were to do more work with clients, you would get better and better at doing the thing that you're here in the world to do, your skill. You would get more skillful at it. But the problem is you're not doing enough client work. And you say, well, George, of course, I'm not doing enough client work because I'm not getting enough paying clients. Well, let's reframe this a little bit here. You are keeping yourself from doing client work because you probably have people who would love to do your work, right? Who would love to work with you. Maybe they don't want to pay you the money that you want to charge them. Why don't they want to pay you the money? Oh, because they don't have enough money. Let me give you a secret. It's almost always not the case that the person doesn't have enough money. They will tell you they can't afford it, but that's a code word. Did anyone teach us to you yet? When they say they can't afford it, it's a code word. And the code word, let me tell you the actual meaning that they have in their mind. It's like, oh, I don't really understand and value your service enough to pay you the money that I actually do have, OK? Because I have the money.  I'm able to buy food. I'm probably buying organic food, OK? And I'm probably buying coffee and probably buying this and I'm probably buying that other thing because I value those things. They're not necessary. If I if I really were only living in a shack and have rice and beans to eat, and that's all I have left, that's almost nobody is like that. Who is who is thinking of working with you? Anybody who is thinking of working with you has more than rice and beans, has more than a shack over their head, and they're probably buying organic food. They're probably buying Netflix. They're probably buying coffee. They're probably buying whatever it is they're buying. Because they value those things more than your service. That's the truth. So not that you have to explain why your thing is better than Netflix or better than the coffee they're buying every day or the buying better than the shopping that they do to buy that extra, you know, an extra dress or whatever that whatever it is they're already spending money on or some therapy they're using or some of the treats they're going to or whatever you're spending. People are spending money on lots of things that they value more than the work with you. If only they knew that the work with you would change their life more than than whatever else they were spending money on. OK, so here's how you help them to understand that. You use the tapering strategy, which is basically you open up. What I want you to have is I want you to have a full slate of clients, right, full slate of clients, whether or not they're paying you.  But George, I've already worked for so much for free all my life. No, no, no, you haven't worked for free all your life doing this exact service that you're doing that you're offering us for payment. And you're also not doing this. You're also not if you were working for free using your service, you're not getting feedback and you're not getting testimonials. Right. Am I right on this? So if you have a full slate of clients, even if they're all free, now that's not going to be the case. But let's just be extreme here and say you had a full slate of clients and none of them is paying you any money. But they're all saying, yes, I agree to provide you thoughtful feedback. Or if I like it, I'll provide you testimonials. Then guess what's going to happen? You're going to have a full slate of either feedback or ambassadors for your service. People say, my God, now I finally get why it's useful to work with you. I never, I never, I was a friend, OK, and I was always being polite with you and I was always saying, oh, yeah, that sounds really good. I think what you do sounds great, but I never really believed it until I did your work, the work with you. Does that make sense? So the tapering strategy is basically tapering so that you at first have more free or low fee clients. Who give you feedback and testimonials and then eventually, gradually, gradually, as you get more and more ambassadors and people raving about what you do, you get more and more full fee clients, people, people paying you your full fee and then you have less and less of the free or low fee clients. So the tapering strategy, all describe it more and the nuances of it inside the courts and a structure for how you actually go out, go about doing this. So I look forward to seeing what you think of that. And then finally, authentic webinars. We'll talk about that in the course as well. Authentic webinars is the opposite of most free webinars. Most free webinars are basically carefully designed sales pitches that don't tell you their sales pitches. So at the very least, when I started this video, I told you, this is going to be a sales pitch.  If it's a right fit for you, obviously, that's why I'm going to tell you about the course and see if it's the right fit for you. Most webinars are like, in this webinar, you're going to learn this amazing, wonderful thing.  And then you've gone to the webinar and it's a bait and switch. And the bait and switch is what loses the reputation of so many people, so many businesses, so many marketers lose their reputation because of the bait and switch they're doing all day long. You're doing bait and switch. You think you're going to get this free, wonderful thing, but it's really a carefully designed sales pitch. So an authentic webinar is where you are actually charging for the webinar, except that it is free for the people who attend live. So what happens, therefore, is that you get people attending live who are going to get value from you and they're actually consuming your webinar and getting value from you. And then you do a very gentle mention of your services at the end. Five percent of the webinar is talking about your services. So I'm going to teach you the structure of the authentic webinar inside the course. And anyway, so you could see these five strategies could be could be five different courses, but I'm going to I'm going to just put them into one course and then you can decide which of these five or maybe you'll decide to use all five, but at least you'll experiment with probably several of these strategies as a result of learning these things. And then you'll have students to kind of find mutual support with and to trade notes and to find collaborations and to find some accountability as you as you implement the course. So anyway, I don't know if this sounds interesting to you. If it does, if you need new clients, you don't want to you're tired of learning from marketers who are always bait and switch with you and are always teaching you things that you really don't want to do. And you'd rather learn it from me than this is the course that you want to learn from how to get clients, basically, how to finally have enough money to in your business. So I hope this is helpful. I hope this is interesting for you. If you have any questions about the course, please let me know in the comments below. And I look forward to to seeing what questions and comments you have. And thank you, Santa, for your comments here. So Santa says, you know, I've almost 2,000 personal Facebook friends, but I asked when I asked for their input about a possible business page, what would interest them? Only a few people have responded. We'll send to inside the course. We're going to look at how you're asking, because maybe there's a different way that you could ask that would get even more responsiveness. So we'll talk about that inside the course, because I'm not able to, you know, we don't have time right now to actually look at it. So you don't need a website. OK, and that's that's thank you for mentioning that. You don't need to have a website to get a full client load. And that's one of the secrets of, you know, authentic marketing is that you don't need a Facebook page. You don't need a Facebook business page. You don't need a website. All you need is you and your your willingness to connect with other people and you can connect with other people through email, through a Facebook private message, through a LinkedIn message, through Instagram direct message, through lots of different ways. You don't need a website. You don't. I have clients who are filling courses by posting something on their Facebook personal profile without any single link to a website. So even if you don't have a website, I really look forward to seeing you fill your client roster without a website. If you have a website, that's nice. But the problem about a website is that it's often not well designed and sometimes a website actually turns people off rather than turn people on. So it's like you would rather have a well designed website or no website at all. That's actually, I think, better. So, you know, unless you are a marketing, if you do marketing, if you do social media, it's weird not to have a website. Like it would be weird for me not to have a website because I teach marketing, people expect a marketer should have a website. But if you don't teach marketing, if you don't teach business, you might not need a website at all to have a full client load. So I look forward to seeing if that helps. You don't need a business name. You just need your name sent to sent to Teresa. So that's the other thing. You don't need a business name. You don't need a website. You don't need a logo. You don't need a tagline. You don't need anything other than what you already do for people, which is what you already do. So this is one of the things that I think trips so many people up and makes them delay for so long before they have a business, before they have full-time income is like, oh, I need this first. And then need that. No, you don't need any of that. What you need is a strategy that you believe in for reaching out to people who need what you have, because the truth is there are people out there who are suffering without your services. If that's true now, maybe you don't believe that's true. And then then we need to work on that. But if you do actually understand and believe that there are people out there who are suffering without your, without your services, then you can have a full-time business. That's, that's the bottom line. You don't need a website for that. They just need to know, do they need to know that you are a great website designer? And that's not what they need to know. They need to know that you can help them, right? They need to believe that. If they believe that, then they'll go, okay, well, how much do I need to pay you? How do I get started? That's what you need. Okay. So I hope this helps. And I look forward to seeing any of you who are interested in this journey with me and I look forward to seeing how it benefits you. All right. Okay. I'll see you inside the course or I'll see you in the next video. Take care.


Deserted by their safari, lost in the jungle, Major Burton Ashley, Jeanette Burton, Karence O'Rourke and Dr. Wong Tai are camped in a clearing near a waterhole. O'Rourke is rescued from the double attack of a lion and a leopard by Tarzan, who with Darno is passing nearby. On learning of the predicament of Major Burton Ashley and his friends, the ape man agrees to lead them to a native village. The little group is seated around the campfire discussing plans, when from the corners of his eyes, Dr. Wong catches a flash of movement at the edge of the clearing. Tarzan, behind you at the edge of the clearing. Uncle Jim, what an awful creature! Look! Leaping to their feet, the men turn to the spot indicated by Wong and Jeanette. Into the circle of firelight, advancing slowly, cautiously, is a monstrous, yellow-skinned, half-human figure. Its huge, heavily muscled body, hairless and naked except for a hide loincloth, sways from side to side as it moves forward. Its feet, terminating in two talon-like claws, make no sound as they grip the ground. Its wicked red eyes, glaring evil-y, are fixed on Jeanette. The creature's right hand grasps a heavy, copper-bladed spear. It's left a great, twisted cudgel. I eat a ghost of Saint Patrick. It's the devil himself. At the sound of O'Rourke's soft exclamation, the repulsive yellow-skinned creature pauses. It glares savagely at Tarzan as the ape man moves quickly toward it. Your gun, Terry. No, no, no. Do not shoot. Leave this to Tarzan. Bring it down, Tarzan. The spear... Before the Frenchman can complete his warning, the half-human thing bounds forward with a blood-curdling shriek and hurls the heavy spear straight at the ape man. Simultaneously with his answering challenge, Tarzan drops to the ground as though struck down by an invisible titanic fist. The deadly spear flashes harmlessly over his shoulder.  Swift as thought, Tarzan rolls aside. His hand darts out to grasp the monster's talon foot. With a howl of savage rage, the half-human brute crashes to its knees. Before it has time to regain its feet, Tarzan leaps upon its back. A bronze muscular arm encircles the yellow neck. The great hairless head is pulled backward. The ape man's knife flashes, buries itself deep in the heavy throat. With a strangled scream, the yellow monstrosity falls forward. Sags to the ground, dead. Good gem study, old girl. It's all over the cushion. Incredible. The creature twice the size of Tarzan. But you are hurt, Munami. There is blood on your shoulder. Not mine.  Big gory. That's the way he killed the lion that had me marked for its supper. There was blood. Your friend, Lieutenant. He was hurt. The rest they trunquee him and was held. Tarzan was not even scratched. He will return presently. Gad, what a sight. I thought that spear had passed completely through him when he fell. And the frightful shriek he gave when he killed that thing. It was the same cry he gave when he killed the lion that had me treed. What does it mean, Lieutenant? It is the victory cry of the great apes. The great apes? What do you mean? Just that, Monsieur le docteur. You see, and possible as it sounds, Tarzan was taken by the apes when he was an infant. Raised by a she-ape who had lost her own baby. Through living his entire life in the jungle, he has learned by experience how to cope with it and its inhabitants. You mean, he was brought up by the apes? He lived with them? Oui, m'amuselle, juste mon ça. He has learned to live and protect himself as do the wild beasts of the jungle. Unbelievable. They won an utterly amazing example of the influence of the environment. And yet, one of the handsomest men I've ever seen. Oui, m'amuselle. He is a perfect type of the strongly masculine actually. A creature unmarred by dissipation or brutal or degrading passion. But Lieutenant, he speaks rather good English. How did he learn it? It was not until he had grown to young manhood that he saw his first white man or woman. He found a little party of whites, shipwrecked on a desolate part of the African coast. I joined the party later. It was from them that he first learned to speak English. And he's never been out of the jungle, knows nothing of our civilization. Oh, contraire, Monsieur Major. Yes, in Paris, London, New York, many places. But it does not appreciate our so-called synthesis of civilization. He much prefer his jungle and its savage denizens. His ancestors, his father and mother, does he not know who they were? Oui, his parents were Lord and Lady Grey Stokes. What's that? The Grey Stokes? A Grey Stoke manor. They were British. Oui, monsieur, c'est ça? Tarzan is Lord Grey Stokes. However, he refuses to be known by any other name than Tarzan. That's the most amazing thing I've ever heard. The Grey Stokes dropped out of sight years ago. If I remember rightly, Grey Stokes had been commissioned by the Foreign Office to investigate slave trading in a British West Coast African colony. They disappeared. Here he comes. May I suggest that the discretion be dropped, at least in his presence? He does not care to speak of it, nor of his past life in the jungle. And bien Tarzan, where have you been? Circling the clearing. There's nothing more to fear from those fellows. He is the only one who was near the waterhole. Jeanette, my dear, does this creature look anything like the one you saw this afternoon? Yes, although I only caught a glimpse of its face watching me through the fringe of underbrush. I'm sure it's the same. Ashley, did you happen to notice the feet of this? I suppose it might be called a man, the heel and instep of a human being. The toes? Well, of an animal. The garrison claw feet would fit the footprints I followed. You saw them, Tarzan. What do you make of them? I'd say you were right. The prints you showed Darno and me were probably made by this man or another like him. In your jungle experience, Tarzan, have you ever come across other beings such as this? No. Have you ever seen a leopard man? Yes, once or twice. You're backing up the wrong tree, doctor, if you're trying to put this fella among the leopard men. Yet those talon-like claws. Them leopard fellows are blacks, cannibals, but they're human beings. The leopard is neither human nor animal. He has the body of a man, the toes of a vulture. Look at them talons. He never saw a fur-bearing animal with toes like that. Well, whatever it is, you're not going to leave it here in camp for us to look at. If it's anything but a pretty sight, I'll be burying it. That's not necessary, O'Rourke. Leave it to me. I'll return it to the jungle. My morning dango will have taken care of it. Dango? Who's that? Listen. Yes. Dango. He and his brothers are already gathering for the feast. Ah, yes. I can't play hand. You don't mean they'll eat it? Yes. Oh. I'll give you a hand, Tarzan. Oh, stay here. I'll take care of it. Yes, and did you see how easy he picked the thing up? And he'd weigh in again as much as his own self. Oh, big guy, that fella has the strength of ten good men. May I suggest, Memois-Hilbertin, that if we are to get an early start in the morning, you get what sleep you can. Oh, I can sleep, Lieutenant. Not after all that's happened. Come, come, my dear. Lieutenant Dango is right. You've had a rather eventful day of it. You need rest. Terry and Wong and I will stand guard with Tarzan. There will be no need for that, Major. Tarzan and I shall relieve you of that duty tonight. It is easy to see that you are all exhausted and in need of sleep. Tarzan sleeps like an animal machine, Dr. Wong, with one eye open, so to speak. And more, I am not fatigued. We are traveled by easy stances. We have not tired ourselves by cutting our way through the forest. He'll be sleeping like a baby, no time, of course, sir. Here, I'll fix your blanket. Oh, very well, then. But for those lions and things roaring and shrieking out there, I certainly don't expect to get much sleep. So long as Tarzan is watching over the camp, Memoiselle, you need not worry about the animals. None will disturb you. Well, good night, then. Good night, Lieutenant. When Tarzan said that we might reach a native village in three days, Lieutenant, did he have any particular one in mind? The mayota of an acquaintance of ours, Dr. Wong Ashmed, a trader in, shall I say, ivory? He will find you with guides. Then Tarzan must be familiar with this section. Strange he's never heard of the city of Thor. Memoiselle, Africa is filled with legends of lost and ancient cities. Tarzan and I have seen several. Ashmed's village is beyond this section of the country, and Tarzan is not familiar with this particular district. Then how in heaven's name does he know where he is any more than we do? How did he find his way? He calls it his animal instinct. He has an uncanny sense of direction, and I have never seen him hesitate for a single instant in going directly to the place he wishes to reach. I wonder what's keeping him out there. He's been gone a long time. He will return when it... Ah, voyer, there he is, up there, in the tree. Big hurry, will he look at that? He swings down through them branches like a young eep. Well, Tarzan, you had us worried. We were just about to... Is she asleep? Yes. Why? Listen, drums by Joe. Wake, Miss Burton. Nebouk, what does that? No time to explain now. Wake her up. What? Shannet. Shannet. Wake up. What? What is it?  We're breaking camp, I believe. Is that it, Tarzan? Yes. We're taking to the trees. I fixed a place. That's what kept me so long.  Put out that fire, Darno, and come, all of you. Here, Miss Burton, with me. Now, stay close together. Followed by the others, Tarzan strides off into the impenetrable gloom of the jungle. Five hundred paces from the tiering, he pauses beneath the giant podocartless tree. Here, these vines are twisted together. Easy to climb. I'll go first with Miss Burton.  Come on. Slowly, easily, carrying Jannet and his left arm, Tarzan mounts the twisted vines. Awkwardly, but steadily, the four men follow. Fifty feet above the ground, the ape man breaks through a mass of dense foliage and steps onto a platform constructed of interwoven limbs and branches. He puts Jannet down and turns to help the others. Presently all are gathered together. About them, a thick wall of tangled leaves and matted vegetation. Above the jungle chorus of the night and beneath the crystal stars comes the distant thudding of dr...


So the US Embassy in India recently conducted their Facebook live event and in this event they covered a lot of important updates about the fall 22 season and this is applicable to all categories of student visas that is F and J and some updates were also covered about the tourist visas B1 and B2. So I'm going to be sharing all of these news updates as well as my analysis and take on the same so keep on watching. Hi guys my name is Shachi and I'm a travel and visa coach. On this channel you will find lots of useful videos on the US visa process. There is an entire playlist which is ongoing for the fall 22 intake and this will really help in your preparation so make sure that you subscribe, press the bell icon and don't miss out on any of these videos. Now the fall 22 season is just starting up and every day or rather every week there is something new which is coming up. So we are going to track all these updates really closely and bring them to you right here on this YouTube channel but also on the Telegram group. So if you want immediate updates and immediate access to the latest information and content on the fall 22 series make sure to join the Telegram group the link for that is in the description box below. Coming to today's video so this video is going to be about all the latest updates and information which are in place for the fall 22 intake and I'm going to divide this video into three different parts. The first part I'm going to cover the major updates which were discussed in the Facebook line. The second part of this video is going to be about interview tips which were shared by Don Heflin himself in the Facebook live and there was also a visa officer who is still a visa officer he's still taking interviews and he also shared some inputs. So the second part of the video I'm going to summarize all the tips and hacks that they shared for the interview and the third part of the video is going to be all the important information which came out in the Q&A section. So let's get started. So starting with the major updates which were released in the Facebook live event. The first one of course is about the availability of slots. So I know that a lot of you have been just waiting and trying and waiting some more to get an interview slot and we finally have some concrete evidence and concrete update from them. So the crux of the issue is that a lot of new slots are going to open up next week. It's going to be sometime mid of next week. The exact date, time has not been disclosed and this is for the reason that last year they did give out a pretty accurate day and time of when the slots would be released and their entire system crashed because there were just too many people trying to log in at that particular time. So to avoid and I think it did take them a couple of days to fix that. So to avoid all of this happening again they have just given a tentative timeline and that's going to be about mid of next week. So hopefully by end of next week a lot of you will be able to get your interview slots and this entire anxiety about not being able to give or rather not being able to get an interview slot will come to an end. There were also some more updates which were shared with respect to how they are planning out the entire slot availability. So this time what they have in mind is to have a two phase system to release these bulk slots. So essentially bulk slots will get released twice and this is different from what happened last year when the bulk slots were released in one go. So this year we will have two sets of bulk slots which will come out. The first one will be mid of next week and these slots will essentially be for interviews which will be conducted in June and July and after this there will be another release of bulk slots which will cover visa slots for the month of August and September. Now the logic they gave for doing this in a two phase manner is that this year the first slots they want to focus on people who have been going for the visa interview who are going for the visa interview for the first time and who already have their I-20s in place and the second set of bulk slots will be for people who are going to get their I-20 a little late. I know that some of you still haven't got your I-20 you are waiting for it. So for people like you there is another bulk slots which are going to be released which will cater to your visa appointments and also the second phase is for people who have a previous rejection. So the timelines that they put out I think are pretty clear and it gives a very clear picture of what we can expect in the coming few weeks or months. However, my take on this is that even if you have a previous refusal you need not necessarily wait till August or September to get an interview date. Many students working with us with a previous refusal have been able to give an interview in the month of May. Some of them have the interview scheduled in June. So do keep checking the system to keep tracking the availability of slots and as soon as you're able to find it whether it is now or couple of months down the line do book it and go for your interview. So if you're still here still watching the video do give this video a thumbs up and from the updates if there's something important that I have missed do comment below in the comment section and let everyone know so it will just help everyone else. The second update which Don Heflin shared in the Facebook Live event is about how they're viewing previous candidates with previous visa refusal versus fresh candidates. So though he stated that more priority will be given to people who are appearing for the visa interview for the first time, however if you still if you have a visa refusal you still have a good chance of clearing your US visa interview. But what you need to do is to fix the reason for rejection. You will have to reanalyze your profile, figure out what is the change you can make, what is the different story, a different style that you can present to the visa officer so that they can give a fresh perspective to your case and approve your visa. So and he also gave an important update about gap year. So a lot of people with gap year have concerns as to how this will impact their visa interview and this they reiterated I think almost twice in the Facebook Live event that if you have a gap year it is not a reason for refusal, however justifying the gap year is important. You need to be able to justify what exactly you did in the gap year and also why you have the gap year. So in this note I just like to share with you a resource that we have for your FN visa preparation. So we have a 7 day prep course and this is a 7 session series which is going to do an in-depth prep for your entire FN visa journey. It starts with filling your DS on 64 and includes multiple marks. So many students for fall 2020 are already enrolled for this and I am happy to report that many of them have already got the visas some of them with a prior refusal. So if you two are looking for an end to end prep do check the link in the description box for the 7 day course. And the third important update in the interview that was shared is about tourist visas. So again for tourist visas he clearly stated two tentative timelines. One tentative timeline will be somewhere around end of May to June where they are expecting slots to get released and the second timeline will be sometime in September. So if you two have been waiting to appear for a tourist visa interview and get your BNV to visas for US then you are in luck because sometime around end of May-June there are going to be bulk slots released for tourist visas and if you missed that then again you have another chance of getting a tourist visa slot sometime in mid-August to September. So next part of the video is going to be about interview tips that was shared by Don Heflin and a visa officer and I think this is a visa officer with many of you have already given me a visa interview. So they share three important tips when it comes to clearing a visa interview. The first one is about how you explain your profile, how you explain why this university and everything else. So here they clearly stated that they are not looking for facts, they are not looking for factual information. So do not reiterate or do not say things which can be read from a website, which can be read from any information booklet because they are not looking for factual information. They are looking for details which are unique to you which are specific to your profile. And if you have been around and if you have been in this channel for some time you would know that this is exactly what we recommend in each and every video. In fact just two weeks back we released a video on how to answer the question for why this university and this clearly explained how to avoid stating factual information and find specific and unique points which are relevant to your profile. So I cover lot more such tips and useful information in the F1 workshops. So these workshops are planned almost every week. So if you are just starting out with your F1 visa preparation journey this is a great place to start so do check the link in the description box for the next workshop date. The second interview tip which was shared by the visa officers is about how to explain everything. Why this course, why this university, why do you want to go to the US. And the bottom line which they shared is that all these three things should tie together and it should fit in and make sense for your profile and your future plan. Essentially when you explain all this you should come across as a good student. So this essentially means that your background that you have, the work experience that you have, the program that you're going for and the future plan that you show to the visa officer should all be connected together and it should all be in the same line of thought. And the third interview tip that was shared is about confidence and presenting yourself in the visa interview. So they said that the way you speak, the confidence level that you show, the clarity of thought that you show in the visa interview is extremely important and this is something which they look for in every candidate. In fact they prefer people who can speak naturally, who can speak confidently and the answers that you give shouldn't come across as something that you just learned and you're coming here and repeating it, it should be more of a conversation style. And this of course is possible through practice. So this is something which again I recommend repeatedly that get enough practice, take mock sessions, stand in front of a mirror or record yourself, but practice such that when you appear for the interview on the final day, you feel extremely at ease, you feel confident and you're able to have a one-to-one conversation with the visa officer. And the third part of the video I'm going to cover some takeaways from the Q&A session. So the Facebook Live event had a pretty long Q&A session in which a lot of questions were covered. So in this video now I'm just going to pick the important updates from the Q&A session so that if you have missed that, then you're still aware of it. So the first one is that how many times to check the website and when to check it. So since they're not giving any specific date or time for when these bulk slots are being released, Don Hufflin recommended that you check the website every day two to three times. So this is the recommended amount of time because if you exceed this, then the system blocks you. So if you want more detailed information on the exact techniques of when to log into the system and how to track it, do check out this video because this gives a detailed explanation of the same. The second update from the Q&A session is about the one-twenty-day rule. So I'm repeatedly asked whether it is okay to book a visa interview date more than one-twenty days before your program starting. And this was clearly explained in the Q&A session that this is not recommended at all. Your visa interview date should be within one-twenty days of your program start date, else it can lead to administrative processing and it can just lead to additional time being taken in your profile. The third update from the Q&A session is about when the things start to look normal. So for this, they had an answer that they are ramping up the capacity of U.S. embassies across India and more and more slots are continued to be released throughout 22 and somewhere around end of 23 is when they expect the situation to be completely normal. Of course, this is taken into account that no new COVID variant comes out and no new COVID wave comes into the picture. The next update is about the financial documents. So when you are going for the visa interview, they did say that the financials that you present is important and again, it should be in line with what you have shown to the university. And another important detail that he added here is that it's not necessary that only a parent has to sponsor you. Any immediate relative like an uncle or an aunt can also sponsor you for the visa interview and they're completely fine with it. However, the person sponsoring you should be an immediate relative. It shouldn't be a second cousin or a really distant relative. The next update from the Q&A session was about GRE. So there were two things that they mentioned here. First one is that if the university does not require you to mandatory take the GRE, you don't really need it for the visa interview. However, having said that, taking a GRE, having a good score in the GRE is a value add to your profile, which will help you in the visa interview in your university and later in your job placements as well. So if you have plans of taking the GRE and you're in preparing for it and you do have the time and other requirements in place, then go ahead, take the GRE because having a GRE score is again something which adds to your profile of being a good student. And this is something which they are looking for in the visa interviews. And the last big update from the Q&A session is about double masters. So a lot of you appearing for F1 visas already have a master and you're looking for a double master. And here again, they're reiterated that they don't really have a problem with people doing double masters. But again, the story should make sense. It should fit in with your profile, with your background and your future plan. So guys, this was everything which was covered in the Facebook Live event held yesterday. So I really hope that you have got the complete information and a very clip which of how things look right now. So if you have any more questions, like always feel free to leave it in the comment section. You can also DM me on Instagram. My Instagram handle is at chachi.well and do join the telegram group for all the latest updates.  You can book a one-to-one session for answers, structuring, clearing your doubts. You can take more interviews. This is a great way to practice, to build confidence and be really clear about the answers that you're presenting to the video. And for the F1 22 intake, we also have a unique program. This is the 70 program which I mentioned earlier as well. And many students have already enrolled with us for this and we are seeing quite good results. So the details of all of this is right below in the description box. Do take a look. And yes, like always, more useful content coming up your way. So stay tuned, signing off for now. Bye.


Good afternoon! Aspie Legion, welcome back to another video with Mr Thomas Henley from the Asperger Scruff Channel. Today we're going to be talking about mental health and autism. What do you get when you combine it? A big mess. Big goddamn mess. That's the truth. I'm going to break down the videos into five key points. Five reasons why autistic people struggle with mental health conditions. All in the video, stay tuned. There is no doubt at all that autistic people struggle with mental health more than your average person. With extremely high rates of suicide, a high likelihood to have a severe mental health condition, one in three, mind you, and a tendency to be bullied more and socially isolated, it's hard to not see the reasons why autistic people struggle with mental health conditions more, more. I'm sure there are going to be some people out there getting triggered by this. It's like, I'm not autistic. My mental health is bad. I know, I know, I understand. I'm just giving you some reasons why we struggle with it more, in general, more than people. Okay, I'm not putting this very well. I'm not saying your mental health condition is not as bad as autistic people's. I'm just saying this could be the reason why we struggle more. And it's been scientifically proven, statistically proven that we struggle a lot more with mental health conditions, considering how severe it can be for a large proportion of those autistic people. So, number one, number one reason, number one, autistic people tend to feel alone, tend to be isolated, and tend not to feel like anyone understands them from a young age, meaning that around the ages of teenage hood going up into early adulthood, maybe even further than that, we feel like outcasts. We feel like no one understands us and that we don't particularly understand anyone else. Because of this, a lot of autistic people can develop hate towards other people. This is very apparent in some of the communities that I have browsed through in my time on Facebook. There is a tendency for autistic people to develop some jaded view on the world and the people that inhabit it. Now, you can understand that.  Because of this, a lot of autistic people can develop a mental barrier, a mental wall to protect themselves from other people, other people's opinions and thoughts, and hurtful speech, hurtful bullying.  Those are some of the more common things that mental health professionals use to deal with those conditions. With this sort of ingrown and core belief that nobody really understands them, CBT and therapy and counselling can be significantly less effective for autistic people. Especially if these counsellors or mental health professionals are not trained in autism, they're not. They don't have a good awareness of what autism is, how it's different. Mental health and autistic people is different and it should be treated as a separate thing, but it's often not because there's not a lot of autism specialists that offer mental health treatment for autistics. Number two, Mind blindness. Mind blindness is a concept at its basic level of not being able to put yourself in someone else's shoes. If you want to learn more about mind blindness, go check over my video, I'll probably put a link up there if you want to check it out before, but if not, it's a difficulty in understanding someone else's perspective. It's sort of an ingrained thing. It can be learned, obviously, but naturally a lot of autistic people cannot do this. You may call this being more single-minded, but to an autistic person it is more of a natural ingrained thing. It's not like something that they want to shove out purposefully, it's just something that happens. Combining this inability to see life from any other angle, but your own, with a negative depressing view on life. It's not hard to see why having this mentality and being negative and having these conditions could take its toll more considerably, meaning that people are not going to be able to help, people are not going to be able to get into their brain and tell them that it's going to be okay, tell them that this is going to work. If an autistic person doesn't think something will work, you're not going to convince them unless you lay out mass amounts of facts and you try and convince them. And a lot of therapists, a lot of people, people in their friendship groups, their parents, people who they're in a relationship with, it's not going to be easy to help them see a different side to their life, a different side to the negative view that they have of themselves and the world around them. Number three, one of the biggest things for me when I was a child, little 14 year old Tom walking about, I don't know why I'm saying little, I was quite tall, it's probably around the same height as this, I don't know, I was quite tall. One of the biggest things for me was emotions, plain and simple, through analysis of my own life, my own internal workings and the research that I've done and the people that I've talked to on the spectrum, emotions seem to be something that autistic people struggle with. I believe that we need a lot higher of a threshold of emotion in order for us to notice that we are feeling something, meaning that we can experience and perceive very strong emotions, but when those emotions are lower, when they're sort of background, we really struggle to get a grasp at them and understand what they are. It took me an absurd amount of time to try and understand what emotions were, I had to like logically dissect why that happened, I had to like look into the different neurotransmitters and how they feel and try and figure out what they were and because of this I believe autistic people really struggle noticing their emotions and you can understand why not being able to understand what emotion you're feeling is going to affect you, it's going to affect your ability to explain the state that you're in to other people, but it's going to be hard to explain to your friends, to your parents, to your family, the same thing, that you are struggling with this type of emotion, you are struggling with anxiety or you're struggling with depression or you are happy or you're sad at certain points in your day, you know, psychiatrists and psychologists try to get you to do a mood journal, it's going to be quite difficult if you don't know what mood you're in, let alone the scale of how much you feel that emotion, this can also mean that psychologists and psychiatrists and the people who are trying to treat these mental health conditions don't really understand the extent to which the person is suffering with them, combining this with our low ability to express how we feel through our body language, you know, we have to learn them for our tone of voice, everything to do with that is a very important aspect of expressing emotion and if we can't do that and if we can't get across how much we are suffering we are not going to receive the treatment that we need or the level of treatment that we need, when I was younger I had very, very, very severe depression and anxiety, mild depression and anxiety I was given until I started doing something stupid, you can sort of fill in the blanks there but that's quite an important thing and it's one thing that needs to be taken into account. Number four, low self-confidence, now not every autistic person have low self-esteem, have low self-confidence but I'd say a quite large majority of autistic people who have mental health conditions like anxiety and depression will have low self-confidence and to be honest that is just an integral part of having a mental health condition, whether you're autistic or not but because autistic people struggle picking up social cues, struggle understanding the environment around us, the social situation that's occurring around us, we don't, we're not always sure about what people's intentions are, what people think, why people are doing something, there can be a lot of mystery to us, it can be very stressful to try and dissect exactly what's happened in an interaction, more so when it's something so important like telling someone that you are struggling with a mental health condition, it's really hard for us to know who are our friends, who actually care about us, because of this combination with depression and our tendency to feel unsure about situations, communicating and trying to get help from our parents or family, our friends or relationship person, the person that we're in a relationship with can be really difficult, many autistic people will isolate themselves, cut themselves off from other people just because they feel like nobody cares about them, I know this is a thing that happens with anybody with a mental health condition but when you are autistic and when there's so much uncertainty about social situations this is sort of, this is very much amplified, this feeling, and the tendency to self-isolate is quite high in autistic people as well, even if there are some people around us that seem like they want to help, seem like they want to meet up with us, seem like they want to talk to us, it may not be so apparent for us to a larger extent and that may be the reason why, one of the reasons why we struggle so much with mental health conditions. Number five, the last one, we're nearly at the finish line, keep going, keep going, keep climbing, keep running, whatever, keep speeding along in your racecar, it's a strange metaphor. There is a concept called masking in the autistic community, if you don't know what masking is, masking is the act of acting like you're not autistic, it's the act of copying other people, researching about how other people work, and implementing that into your daily life so that people don't realize that you're different. Autistic people have a very strong understanding of how to mask what we're feeling, mask that social anxiety in order to better interact with people, mask our unique quirky attributes that may be considered to be strange or weird, and because of this, because of our immense skill in hiding how we truly feel, hiding mental illness, whether it be severe or moderate or mild, can be a lot easier for us, it makes sense because if you're already good at masking all of those things for your entire life around everybody that you meet, what is masking how you feel inside to that? It's going to be extremely easy, and that is not a good thing, it's not, especially if you do have severe mental health conditions, and because of this, that's one of the biggest reasons why I think autistic struggle with mental health conditions. Plain and simple, we don't talk about it, we don't feel like anybody wants to talk about it with us or help us. All of those things, all of those five key points interact with each other, and for that reason, those reasons that I've gone through, I think autistic people struggle with mental health to a great extent, and it is a terrible thing, and I'm definitely not trying to minimise just how much mental health is affecting you if you're not autistic, I'm just saying that there are some shocking statistics, and you can look them up, just type in mental health, aspergis, mental health, autism, there are lists and lists of facts and statistics, there are lists and lists and lists of stories, books, blogs, youtube videos about mental health in the autistic community, so if you are struggling with mental health problems and you are autistic, consider these things, consider the things that I've gone through, are you doing any of these, do you think any of these apply to you? If they do, work on them, work on these things, I'm being completely honest when I say that all of those things applied to me four or five years ago, it took me an extreme amount of time and effort to try and break down these barriers that I've put up, that I put up over my life trying to cope with the bullying and difficulties that I had in school, feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, feeling like I didn't understand myself and my emotions, and all of those things are very difficult for us on the spectrum, work on those things yourself, try and figure out how you can better treat yourself, how you can better open up yourself to treatment opportunities, open yourself up to conversations, to discussions with other people, despite how you may feel like they don't understand, just be open minded, although not everybody is autistic and they don't particularly understand what life is like for us, everybody can empathise to some extent, and if someone is willing to talk to you and willing to help, you must take that, you must take it and you must hold it dear to you, you must try and take people for what they say, if they want to help and they're offering you advice, try and take it on, do your own research, best thing that you can do, do your own research, honestly, it really helps, thank you very much for watching everybody, I know it's been a long video this time, I know it's clocking on to about 30 minutes but I'm gonna cut it down as much as I can but if you enjoy the video make sure to like it, you find it just a little bit helpful, a little bit relatable, there's gonna be a burp in two of these videos now, make sure to like it and if you want to see some more videos from me on a regular basis, make sure to click that subscribe button so that you get updates when my new videos come out, make sure to ask you, I forgot about it, make sure to click that little notification bell as well because then you will get notifications and you won't just be, my videos won't just be lost in the void of YouTube, make sure to check out my social media accounts, add our spur just grow for all of them, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, go check them out if you want to of course, you can dislike the video if you want to, I don't even need to say it, you've probably done it already, you've probably clicked off, why? I don't know, life is cruel, life is tough, being on the spectrum has its downsides but it also has its upsides, we can get over this mental health condition, we can push through it, it'll take some time, it'll take some effort but you can do it, you can do it, I believe in you, thank you very much for watching everybody and I'll see you in the next video, see you later


So Fruits basket, I got to take you back to when I ran the RIT anime club from around 2001 or around 2005 because when we were at the RIT anime club an anime came out There was an adaptation of a manga and that anime was called fruits basket So I knew fruits basket at the time was a a shoujo manga. Yep B was ridiculously popular like like Actually from what I heard it was like one of the best-selling mongas Maybe the best selling manga at least at some point. Maybe still that in the US ever You can look that up. I guess and the anime adaptation of it I knew at the time was somehow flawed or something now I have learned a little bit more information about it and that is yes The fruits basket manga is still you know what it was It was like a late 90s to early 2000s manga, right and the what exactly people were mad about with the original anime Which I never watched even one episode of either I watched the anime any art of the anime or read any of the manga all I knew about the story was it involves some girl and some Zodiac stuff and it was so popular. Oh, well also I knew that there's non-threatening boys who turn into animals if they get hugged I didn't know that I knew that till just now and I had to often until just now when I watch it I know enough about it because rowing RIT anime. I had like Bisset like if the punchline to a joke was fruits basket something something The anime club would lose their shit because it was so popular anyway So it was wrong with the original anime from what I've heard from people is that it ended too soon And did not cover the full like it was faithful to the manga up to a point Yep, and then I guess they got ahead of things or something, you know, and they had to end it too soon But be not only good Scott the manga ran from 98 to 2006 and that anime ran from 2001 to 2001 Right the not only anime end too soon and not cover everything But also because the anime itself had to have an ending when they wrapped it up or whatever They changed something in the story that was significant involving certain characters Such that even if they did pick up with more seasons It would have been literally impossible for them to continue with the manga's plot because they diverted They basically took like a 90 degree turn at some point, right? So that was that that's something I didn't know because that's what I have been told so Fruits basket got a new anime that this season literally just now they made a new fruits basket anime I assume for some anniversary of fruits basket. It is a remastering HD remake of the old anime only it is supposedly going to stick to the manga and Possibly go through the entire plot of the manga all the way to the end maybe yep, which they could cancel at any time Right, but who knows yeah, but that's interesting because having not known about that swerve and having not realized how long fruits basket was The what I'd heard so far is that the new anime is just the old anime like Exactly well because the old anime up to the point that we've seen I've seen I think three or four episodes Maybe four because that was all that was on when I watched that was all that was out when I watched it is Basically the we didn't hit the swerve point yet Yep So the new anime is the old anime because the old anime was the manga the new anime is also the manga and The old and we're not at the point where the old anime swerves so at this only few episodes in All of them are identical. The new one is just obviously 16 by 9 and better drawn So what I don't understand based on what I've watched so far. I mean there's only one like so popular no What I don't understand is why is it called fruits basket? Fruit at what point is there a basket? I as the same thing because I like fruits and I'm okay with baskets Especially if they're cornucopia's I love cornucopia's but I don't have that counts as a basket really It doesn't have a handle doesn't need a handle to be a basket Yeah, there's no fruits or baskets whatsoever anywhere fruit I don't even know if it's like an analogy or a metaphor for something I don't think it is.  I think it was just cool sounding English name That's what I think it is. What's it about? So it is about a Girl and I thought so before I watched this all I knew is it's about a girl who is homeless and going to school I didn't know that till I watched it living in a tent Accidentally meets a bunch of non-threatening boys who turn into zodiac animals if she hugs them if anyone if any girl I know them that kind of is the plot. Yes, that literally is the plot Yep, so this girl basically like family circumstances because her mom died and right She's living with grandpa and grandpa because basically her family died in some it was an accident car accident or something So dad died of like an illness and then mom raised her on her own get the impression mom Meant well and was a good person, but was not educated and might have been a delinquent baby I don't know but anyway mom dies has to live with grandpa grandpa at the funeral. They decide who's gonna take her I was something that happens in bunny drop.  We're living in Can you like go find a friend to live with you know, I have to go live in a tiny place I can't afford a big place Right, but I own the house. So once the renovations are done. We can move back So she doesn't find a friend to go live with she just lives in a tent in the woods Yep, and somehow makes it work kind of well She's only been living in the tent a little while. Yeah, then a landslide immediately destroys the tent Yep, cuz she's just like she doesn't know what she's doing. No, so she ends up accidentally moving That's pretty good considering the landslide, but I mean we got fancy tents like I could live out of that tent I know where she showers though at school. I assume I guess so She accidentally moves in with all these boys and Discovery's in me. I do Unbeknownst to her the land she put the tent on belongs to this family and So she encounters them in the woods and they're like, what is that person doing in our woods? She's like I live nearby One of them like we own all these woods and there's no houses in it, right?  And then that's the setup and then not too much happens after that in the episodes I've seen yep So the one thing I will say I'll say the things that I like about the show before we get into how I don't really think I need to watch any more of it is that one The trick the secret she figures it out instantly.  I guess she knows we're all magical Will you keep our secret cool like all the magic stuff just starts happening immediately, right? Well, this is host this is it's a lot like Utana has the story of like, you know the prince and What's it called?   No, true. Yeah, that's the that's the long-term mystery, right? And there's the one character who transforms into a cat. They're really angry dude. Yeah, right Who's sort of like he's in the family, but he's not he's like, you know He's like not part of the zodiac, but he still transforms into a cat if he's hugged and it's the conflict between him And the rest of the family well him and the rest of the family mostly the rat guy mostly the rat main guy Right who is right and then the girls you have this triangle situation going on, right? Because the girl I likes the main guy more not the super annoying cat guy Yeah, but she wants to be friends with a cat but fairy tale wise She's all about the cat Right and she has some sort of connection to the cat in the terms of the fairy tale But these two people who are somehow cursed You know, it seems like the their backwards which animal is which so I guess there's some tension of which one is she gonna end up with If any are they gay here? They're gonna get with each other, right? There's a lot to chew on for the fanfic writers. Yep. So The other thing I appreciate is that once it once you learn as the character knows many ships will sail If y'all hug what if a gift a member of the quote opposite sex hugs any of these boys They instantly turn into there are girls in the family and if they get hugged by boy by men presumably They would turn into the animal that they are from yeah, and we've only we're only a few episodes in we've only met Few characters like the dog the rat the cat So we know there's a whole zodiac which has how many animals 12. Yeah, there's gonna be way more characters in this family Dragon to accommodate all the you know, I think that the mysterious one who is behind you don't see them Yeah, it was like behind a sheet or something behind a door They're like oh we have to go consult the person for fit for rulings, right? And there's like a head member of the family. Yeah, and they talk to them like through a door You hear the voice but you don't see the character And then you know, they're like giving out the orders I presume that that's the dragon head of family person and they can't disobey them Yep, but what I appreciate is that once she learns she can do this they get transformed constantly Yeah, she'd like she even does it on purpose to stop a fight Like I like it when a character discovers a magic thing and just uses it all the time whenever it's practical Yeah, there's a little bit of the Superman thing going on because they're trying to hide it at school and The boy got a bad reputation at school because girls asked him out and then he wouldn't let them hug him He would like run away and it's not because he is a jerk It's just because he couldn't be hugged because they find out they did try to hide it right like Superman Try to hide with a secret identity and sometimes you know there's that tension of is it gonna get leaked and there's a few times when they had to transform at school because they got hugged and By some luck sometimes unbelievable luck. Nobody saw or whatever, right? So so here's the problems with the see if that gets that gets out The problem with the show is that it is not the year 2001 and it is in fact the year 2019 because if this was if fruit plastic had never existed before and this anime just came out What I would say about it is this is the most generic like basic ass Trope show Joe with non-threatening boys the world has ever seen it is just take Generic show Joe tropes like the mysterious like everything stick them all together into a show and just follow the formula So far at least yeah, so far at least I heard from people that later in the show it gets dark Yeah, it's it's definitely hinting at dark secrets in the family because The show is not like it's not one of those cases where like it's bad wait till it's good gets good Yeah, it's sort of like it's I and it supposedly gets real good It's like maybe if I you know like it's not off the queue now. I would watch more I enjoy watching I'm not gonna run out to watch it But I'm also not gonna run away from it because I'm not as curious as I am about fancy lala's dinosaurs Yeah, it's like right under that in terms of curiosity about what the darkness is That's a good place to put it like I do want to know more about the deal and I do like the characters But it is just such a character are definitely more interesting than the characters and a lot of other anime I don't care about them at all. Yep, and I imagine as I do care about like the drama of the cat guy Yeah, getting living and not being in the family, but I also I like the two delinquent girls She's friends with and I also do Those are the best characters. Yeah, right side characters always the best the like dark knife wielding one Yes, I like no question the best like you could watch the show just for them. She has two friends at school And we're like these super powered awesome like outcast I guess they would be if it was an American show that would be like two goth girls or something Yeah, but they're in Japanese school. So they're all wearing uniforms. But yeah, they're they're like dark serious powerful They get picked on but then they get revenge and the mean popular girls run away Yeah, the mean popular girls are literally just an anatomy squad like straight up. Yes, they are clearly you could just put an anatomy Right in there But yeah, like I think I might watch some more episodes not kind of might just like watch it at some point Like it's a good show. I might watch as a secondary show like whenever I'm bored Yeah, I think what it comes down to really is is how far is it gonna go if it's gonna cover? 23 volumes of manga that ran from 1998 to 2006 right that makes me a more likely to watch because I know I'll get the whole deal But also I know it ends but also less likely to watch because there's so many episodes It depends on how fast it was if it cuts short then I'm more likely to watch because less episodes But less likely to watch because so as you got this sort of thing going on I don't know. Yeah, it's tricky there because I've generally been not watching things like Game of Thrones I probably won't even watch anymore of until it's done done I never watch any Game of Thrones, and I probably never will I really like the first season like it was really good Really good, and then the end of the first season killed the only character one of the only characters I liked and then season two was one. It's kind of surprising who dies actually, okay? The main guy basically. Yeah, it's like up man. Not just coming up episode four spikes dead and then episode five Yeah, but it's just more characters though, but then episode five is just like the rest of the crew It's basically a really good way to run a TV show because then you can just like, you know Get rid of actors get new ones.  Yeah, you like a soap opera situation, right? So I mean that's a great story for TV But not for a movie where you have to pay the fancy actor a zillion dollars and they're in the movie for ten minutes Yep, but I get like especially like I would not have even read the first book of the Wheel of Time if it hadn't been done For a long time. That's true. So I wouldn't have picked it if it hadn't been done Yeah So the fact that the manga is done gives me hope that this might be a show I watch it depends on how Many episodes it will take to tell that story and is that story thick and media enough to where all those episodes will be worth watching Yeah, it also depends I'm gonna try to find out how many episodes it takes to get to the dark stuff if it's a long number of episodes Then I might not go if it's fine But if it starts getting dark and like episode 15 or less I might be like ooh Yep, but if it's gonna be 20 more episodes of just the school drama and the house drama No, maybe there's a way to like summarize that and skip. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah so yeah, it's a serviceable show and Now that we know the story of like why the old anime needed to be remade and they couldn't just like continue it It does make sense that the show is being remade and it is definitely like a very direct look at Late 90s early 2000s show Joe fandom Yeah, if you are a fruits basket fan, you're probably gonna say we're wrong about a bunch of stuff But also, yeah probably excited about fruits basket And I imagine you haven't read it or watched it in quite a while now you can go back into it good This is great for you. Yeah, and if you're not a fruits basket fan, you never read it or watch it It was a significant thing. This is your chance to see what the deal was You can watch some number of episodes even if you don't watch all the episodes. Yep This has been geek nights with rim and scots special Thanks to DJ pretzel for the opening music cat Lee for web design and brand okay