So today we're gonna talk about the best resources for medical school period. Let's get into it Alright guys, what's going on? Welcome back to the MD journey a channel completely dedicated to helping you succeed on your medical journey What last stress today? We're finally gonna do a video about the best medical school resources that are out there now I can't believe that we've been through 200 videos into the YouTube channel as well as like a hundred plus episodes on the podcast and still Haven't talked about all the best resources in one place So today we're gonna talk about the resources that I did use in medical school I really just made a big difference in my long-term knowledge as well as resources that kind of came out after the fact and I wish That I had to use more and if there's a resource that I don't mention make sure you comment down below So I can also give you my insight, but let's get into resource number one Which is the most commonly used resource in medical school and yes I'm talking about on key now most students in medical school We're about to go in a medical school are very familiar with on keys to make sure this video is not longer than it needs to be I'll link down below a full playlist as well as some of the advanced strategies that I use to make on key really Work for me But the beauty of on keys one it starts to merely get you into that review and testing phase as soon as you're down making Your flashcards and to it forces you to learn the weak topics more than it does your strengths and with a sheer amount of Information there is in medical school You really want to make sure that your weaknesses are where you focus a majority of your time and the other main benefit for Anki for medical students on a budget is that one it's free unless you're using the iOS app Which again? I think is totally worth it But again if you want to see my exact step-by-step method of how I used on key medical school as well as some of the Advanced techniques that I use that other medical students weren't I'll link down below that video as well as other videos in my playlist down below Resource number two is us Emily rx now I've mentioned this throughout the channel that I think it's really important the medical students have some source of practice exams given to them now Some institutions will give you access to either their own set of practice questions or give you access to some other cubing But I truly enjoy us only rx mainly for the fact that they come from the same creators who make first aid and because first aid is Such a commonly used resource for students who are studying for us Emily step one Having a question bank made by those same creators to learn those high-yield facts It's just such a win-win and if you're listening to this and asking about what about this question bank and this question bank again I think practice questions in itself are amazing But if you don't have one the us Emily rx would be the question bank I would recommend but mainly because the questions aren't super difficult instead They're mainly focused on making sure you understand the high-yield material inside of first aid and two There's still that very nice clinical vignette style that all of the us Emily test have and so if I was a brand new Medicals to one of the things I'd be sure to do would be find some time on the weekend or a day of the week day That wasn't as busy and spend maybe 20 to 30 minutes doing some practice questions and keeping a list of all the things I was missing because ideally it would line to the high-yield material That should be knowing my class topics and if you want to know all the resources that I loved using first step one Check out some of the videos as well as blog posts that we have for you here on the channel now resource number three is more About the style of the resource unless by the company making them and so I'm going to talk about Specifically both sketchy medical as well as pick money when you have as much information that medical school throws at you You want to make sure that you build long-term retention as quickly as possible and one of the best ways to apply long-term Retention to medical topics is to have very concrete images that then can be related to the topics and two companies that do this very very well Is both sketchy medical and pick Monic which can break down essentially any topic from a bacteria to Pharmaceuticals to an overall kind of disease process and give you very nice images Then it can help you learn those materials long-term and personally. I don't think one resource is necessarily better than others They both have their strengths and weaknesses And so I've made a few videos particularly on pick Monic that you guys can check out on this channel If you're learning how to do things like study for step one step two as well as learning during your preclinical classes But regardless of which resource or company you ultimately choose to go with I think it's more important Just like we talked about with the practice questions that you have time in your weekday in a weekend to do these videos And make sure that long-term retention is actually being built for the rest of this episode I want to transition from the resource that help you do well on kind of your board exams and like your initial medical Knowledge to and set resources that are truly designed to help you actually become a really good doctor Which is ultimately all of our goals so resource number four That absolutely love that I've now used more in residency is the curbside insider's podcast If you wish you could be that fly on the wall and understand exactly how these professionals and future Professionals will go about solving and treating these patients That's exactly where the curbside insider's podcast is perfect for you on most of my drives now into the hospitals Is exactly what I listen to because it's great for me to one be able to test my current medical knowledge and to also Be able to understand how people think about one small pit of somebody's history somebody's lab and being able to extrapolate What other possibilities and differentials may be included being a great doctor is truly founded on your ability to do critical thinking I one of the best ways to do this is to see how other great physicians are able to take some small piece of information Extrapolated to all the possibilities that a patient could have and so if you're in medical school or if you're a pre-med Or even if you're in residency already definitely recommend checking out this podcast and finally resource number five in case You're not a fan of podcast which is like come on Who are you one of the resources that absolutely love as a medical resident is actually inspires a lot of the cases that are talked about in the Curbside insider podcast is the human DX app so similar to the curbside is podcast We're getting a bits of information at a time ultimately to get your differential diagnosis The human DX app is basically community of doctors and healthcare professionals who are taking some of their most interesting cases and Putting it into a bit by bit piece of information and so here for example I have an 81 year old female with spontaneous bruising and I'm given just three bits of information and I have to then go Head and put in some basic Differentials of what I think she may have and then I can click for the next piece of information That's a nice way for you to essentially think and learn the same ways that we do when we have a new patient when I admit Somebody new I have some initial kind of pieces of information about them and who they are what medications They may take and then I take their labs or vitals and their other complaints and try to put it together Ultimately to the diagnosis that they have and so the very cool thing about the human DX app is that obviously people are going to be Sharing some very interesting cases things that are like zebras and medicine and so you'll be able to test yourself to see if you even remember Some of the things that you're learning in medical school today and personally for me It's not really about getting the case right or wrong like 80% of the time I'm wrong but the actual knowledge comes from the fact of one learning what the right answer was and two learning how Somebody was to think about this case in a step-by-step manner in case I was starting that patient ever in the future And so if you're on your medical journey and you're tired of just being in the books and you want to spend maybe just a few minutes every Single day doing this I simply do this as I'm going up and down the elevator in the hospital doing one or two cases You know every half day really helps me just build my critical thinking muscle, which is what all his career is all about But those guys are some of my top resources for medical school I know I know I know that there's resources didn't talk about if there are questions about a certain resource Go ahead and comment them down below. I'll obviously cover an individual resource in its own video or episode So if you're interested in a very specific one, go ahead and check out the channel But with that being said if you are on your medical journey and you're like well I want more step-by-step help. I want somebody to teach me how to study I want somebody to teach me how to be more productive how to manage your stress I just want somebody to walk me through what I need to know and then ignore the rest Then go ahead and consider joining the MD journey community by subscribing to the YouTube channel Subscribing to our podcast follow me on Instagram make sure you do that and also consider checking out some of the step-by-step programs That we have for you here at the MD journey but with that being said guys Thank you so much for making to the end if you're watching this on YouTube Go ahead and just small request if you enjoyed this video hit that like button Consider hitting that subscribe button to get two videos like this on a weekly basis You're listening to another podcast hit that follow and subscribe button to your favorite podcast platform If you really enjoyed this episode, you'll probably enjoy this episode as well How I used on key like a pro in Michael school but with that being said guys Thank you as always for being a part of my journey. Hopefully I was a little help to you on yours And I'll see you guys as always


All right, I think we can start. So welcome everyone to the second batch and HPC day. Thanks for coming. We'll have a packed day. So I'll just do a quick introduction and then we go directly into the talks. The first thing is to thank our diamond sponsor, the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, so thanks a lot. Then just a quick, quick reminder. So this is the second time we organize this HPC and batch day. The goal of the first one was to have an event that would kind of bridge the traditional HPC world that has its own conferences and its own communities and then the cloud native worlds. And to have any, there was an event missing that would kind of bridge the two worlds. So we had the first one back in Valencia, CokeCon earlier this year. It was quite successful. So we had in person, we had over 40 people and almost 200 on the live stream. And I just put here some stats that we got from the event that are also quite interesting to have an idea of what we are facing. So if you look at the job function, you can see that half of the people are either developers or kind of dev ops, is that mean people. But there's then the rest kind of splits on different roles in the organizations. So I guess people are feeling what's possible in using cloud native for HPC and batch. And the event was very successful. So we decided to continue. And this time instead of a half day that we had in Valencia, we have a full day here in Detroit. So welcome, you're in the right place. We start now, we go until five. I remind everyone that we have the networking reception at five PM as well. So don't miss that. And then for the agenda, we have one keynote. Then we'll have eight full sessions and we'll have four lightning talks. This was some of the feedback we got from the first event as well that people wanted more of lightning talks as well. And thanks everyone for sending the submissions. It was interesting to go through them and do the selection. So very briefly, who are we? So there might be exceptions, but I think we all have kind of common interests that we all run some sort of high performance or high throughput workloads, running batch workloads as well and doing some sort of AI ML kind of workloads as well. And the specificity of this event is that we basically all are interested or already running a cloud native based infrastructure, meeting Kubernetes and all the tools around it. And we are all looking for the best way to build on the tooling coming from the cloud native community to kind of simplify the deployments we have for HPC and Batch. There are a couple of groups that we meet. So if you're new to this community, there's a couple of places that you can look at. The first one I would highlight is the kind of less newly but still newly formed batch working group in Kubernetes. And that's where basically the focus is on expanding the support in Kubernetes to Batch and HPC. And this is things like Job API and the scheduler. There's also the CNCF Batch System Initiative proposal. It's not a proposal anymore. So if you go to the link there in the QR code, you will actually see that it's a newly formed batch working group inside the CNCF. And this is kind of complementary to the Kubernetes Batch working group in the sense that it aggregates the efforts from different projects in the CNCF that are not necessarily the core Kubernetes but that have been developed over the last few years extending the functionality to support HPC and Batch. And then the final one I would highlight is the research user group. This is a group that is focused on research workloads that was formed as an idea back in Kupkan, Barcelona, and it has been running for a few years. And there you will see Batch as a topic, HPC as well, but you will see other things like how do I run notebooks properly using Kubernetes or how do I run engineering applications and optimizations? So there's kind of more broad scope but still in context with the topic today. So the challenges that we all face, the Kubernetes Batch API, the initial design was focusing on particular workloads. There are ideas on how to enhance and extend this functionality to support the things we need. The primitives for advanced queuing and fair share. So this is not something that exists necessarily in the Kubernetes scheduler. Tools have been extending that to support this functionality, code scheduling and similar. But there's an interest to have this built in to the core scheduler as well. Then a topic that is maybe not in any of the groups before but it's very close to this kind of problem as well which is support for multicluster deployments and hybrid deployment. So you might have a large on-premises infrastructure but you want to burst out to public cloud in some cases or access to accelerators, things like this. Rootless containers, if you run an HPC center this is kind of a big thing. So this is also on topic. And then all sorts of optimizations of the workload submission but also of the workload execution on the nodes. And then I mentioned before specialized hardware and then the overall idea is that to try to reduce or avoid somehow fragmentation of this functionality across multiple tools and where it makes sense to kind of consolidate in a single place. So these are all the challenges that we focused on the last few years and we are now have a kind of a place to discuss and push it forward. So for today, again, if you look at the agenda you will see quite a lot of focus on batch workloads for this kind of activities I mentioned. The other main goal is to bring together community experts and this is the people working on the tools but also the end users that have feedback on what they actually need. So this is one of the main things. So please, please make the best of this event. And then the overall goal is to somehow make sure that we do the best we can to turn Kubernetes and cloud native deployments as the best tool for batch and HPC. The topics on the talks will have programming paradigms in batch and HPC, covering scheduling and optimization, hybrid deployments I mentioned earlier and then user reports and a lot of discussion. So we'll be packed and hopefully a lot of discussion as well. So thank you again for sponsoring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and that's all I have. And we can go straight to our first talk from Oracle.


give it a shot. Have anything pumpkin and I love coffee. Well let me tell you one of my favorite things is pumpkin lattes and tonight we're going to test out six different pumpkin creamers. So let's just start with the first one. It is the California farms almond milk creamer. I'm just gonna tell you what's in it real quick. I'm just gonna tell you the first three ingredients. Almond milk, cane, sugar, coconut cream, pumpkin puree. I told you more than the first three. So it actually has pumpkin puree in it. I'm going to taste it okay. I'm only going to put a little bit on my tongue which each one of these when I taste that What do I think of the most pumpkin pie? Absolutely. 100% it's sweet. It tastes delicious to tell you the truth. I think it's really really good but it's very strong. Tastes like a good strong pumpkin pie. Next in line Starbucks. Yes Starbucks has a creamer. It is called pumpkin spice latte. What are their first few ingredients? Non-fat milk, sugar, heavy cream, butter, milk and it does have heavy cream. This is not a non-dairy. This is not lactose-free. So keep that in mind if you buy this one. It's the real thing. Oh my goodness that reminded me of something when I took a drink. You know what it reminds me of more than anything? Like a creamy vanilla candy. Like a creamy vanilla taffy candy. That's what it tastes like and I shook it y'all. I shook it. I shook it up real good. I'll try to take a drink of water anyway. This one is Wal-Mart's. Water, sugar, sunflower oil, natural and artificial flavors. Does it look like it's got a lot of spice in it? So there's this going to be flavor. Not like real cinnamon or anything. But let's give it a shot. It's definitely tastes like artificial flavoring. Does it taste like pumpkin pie? Not even close. It tastes like candy. Not anything like a fall cinnamon or nutmeg or allspice or cloves or anything like that. Nothing. That tastes like pumpkin pie. Can you identify the spice though? Yeah. Yeah, it definitely, this one definitely has a different spice in it than any other. You taste it so far. Yeah, by far. I mean you can tell it. What's in this one? Ingredients, water, cane sugar, palm oil. Nothing but artificial flavor. So it looks like it's got a good bit of vanilla in it to me because it is like a vanilla color. We're going to taste it. I have to say that out of these three that are flavored, this one tastes more like pumpkin pie. And what about it tastes like a pumpkin pie? It has some cloves in it. It's good. It's not real strong. It's better than these two. I would say International Delight is better than the Walmart and it's better than Starbucks. If you don't know what cloves taste like, it's a tiny, tiny, tiny little bit like licorice but not a whole lot. Alright, coffee mate pumpkin spice has water, sugar, vegetable oil, milk derivative, artificial flavor. This one's very white and thin. Tastes exactly like one of these. I think it's the Walmart. Yep. It does, y'all. I'm not kidding. This coffee mate pumpkin spice tastes exactly like this Walmart pumpkin pie. This one tastes more like candy. This one does too. Alright, here we go. Natural bliss. Will it taste like candy, like the coffee mate in the Walmart? Let's see. It has nonfat milk, heavy cream, sugar. Natural. It has natural flavors. Now artificial. Let's see if we can tell the difference. Oh yeah. Much better. Oh yeah. Much better. That is so much better, y'all. This has natural flavors. You can taste the cinnamon in here. Absolutely. And then that mate too. It tastes good. This is good. That might wind up being my winter. Winter chicken dinner. Alright, we're gonna add our cream to each cup. We're gonna hurry. I wanted you to be able to see how they look in the glass so I got clear glasses or cups, that is. I don't know. I always say the wrong words for things. I'm gonna put some fresh nutmeg in this one and I'm actually gonna put fresh cinnamon in this one. I'm gonna put fresh cinnamon on the top of all of them just like if they would if you went to Starbucks or somewhere like that. Just a shot of half and half in each one to make a latte. I'm going to put some cool whip on it. I'm trying to put it the same amount by listening. Pumpkin lattes. Now we get to tromb. It's good but it needs a little more sugar. That's some good coffee, y'all. Gotta tell y'all about my coffee. Next up, natural bliss. That one gets a natural bliss. Next up, pumpkin pie. Coffee made. I do not like it. It tastes like artificial flavors. Yuck. Sorry, coffee mate. I like your natural bliss though. Thank God for natural bliss. International Deli. International Deli is actually doable. I would prefer it over coffee mate if you don't have access to the natural bliss or your lactose intolerant and you don't have a choice and you don't have access. Well, let me just say this. If you don't, if your lactose intolerant and all you have is a choice between these two, pick this one. Okay. Wal-Mart. It's just like the coffee mate. It's actually better than the coffee mate. Starbucks is good. It tastes like a vanilla latte. It doesn't taste like pumpkin. So if you're only wanting a pumpkin latte, don't buy the Starbucks. Get the natural bliss so far unless your lactose intolerant. That's a vanilla latte. But remember now Starbucks is real milk. And we're down to the almond milk for the lactose intolerant people. This one is like drinking a cinnamon stick. It is so strong. It's so strong it's not good. So what you need to do is like use one tablespoon and then use extra sugar. Tell them how much you put in like the measurements. All of these have two tablespoons of the creamer in them. Hands down the best on the table without having to doctor up anything or do anything. And of course we're not using my homemade one as part of the thing. Something you can go to the store and buy. Coffee mate natural bliss is my favorite. It's natural. It's not too strong. It's good. It's sweet. It's not too sweet. You can taste the cinnamon. You can taste the nutmeg. And it's naturally flavored. It doesn't taste like yuck candy. Okay? Okay it's Chris's turn. He's a little nervous. He's not a pumpkin man. I think you're probably gonna have to stand up to reach them all. He's gonna reach them. Okay first one a half and half. And that's less sugar. With less sugar. I think it's got plenty of sugar. I'm sure you did. It tastes good to me. Half and half. Okay and this one is the natural bliss. The one that you like. Mm-hmm. I like the flavor. It's not too sweet to me. Right. Even though it has you know the sugar in it. And even though usually I have in a cup in a cup of coffee that size I would have like a half a teaspoon of sugar and maybe a teaspoon of creamer. Mm-hmm. Not flavored. But I like to taste it out. All right. This one is the coffee mate. What does it taste like to you? It's not. It doesn't taste like sugar. Does it taste like pumpkin pie? Like that and that. They taste like sugar and they have a little bit of a cinnamon. You know a nutmeg. That one just tastes like like you said artificial flavor. Right. It doesn't taste like pumpkin pie does it? No. No. All right. The international delight. That tastes like pumpkin pie. Can you identify the spice though? The clove that's in it. Yeah. Yeah. It definitely this one definitely has a different spice in it than any other. You taste it so far. Yeah. By far. I mean you can. Yeah. You can tell it you know.  That's your coffee. This one tastes like that one. But not quite as strong. I don't think it's quite as strong. It's we taste them both. Both of them taste weak. The flavor like there's no flavor that stands out. It's like it's just muddled up.  You don't taste anything. I thought this was really strong with the artificial. I mean I can't taste up as good as you can. To me that's just some flavor. Yeah. This one you can tell. These two you can tell it's cinnamon and the natural ones. Taste them. This one you can taste. It tastes like cloves. These two just taste like they got some kind of flavor in them. Yeah. To me. That's me. All right. This is a Starbucks one. Yes. It's like you said it's vanilla. There's a little cinnamon because you put the cinnamon in there. But it does taste like the cream and stuff. Tastes like the cream in that one. Yeah. It's good. Yeah. But it's vanilla. Yes. Yeah. It's not a pumpkin pie. No. But it has the cinnamon that you put in it. Right. And they do sprinkle cinnamon on theirs. But if you're buying that to make a pumpkin latte at home. You need to put it cinnamon in that thing. Exactly. And cloves. A few more cloves. Well you think of that one. It needs sugar like you said. Yes. Because there's so much spice in it. It needs sugar. So yeah. If you put just like you said. If you just put more sugar in it. Right. The good thing about this is you wouldn't have to use as much. Exactly. That would last you through the holidays. All the way through the holidays. This would last you a long time because you would be using your own sugar and you would use less of it than these other ones. If you like that. And it's good. I mean it's just cinnamon. Yeah. It's got a. Yeah. And you can kind of taste the pumpkin puree in it. You really can. Well pumpkin's a real mild flavor anyway. Yeah. So you're not hardly gonna taste pumpkin. But that one. You know as far as spices. Yeah. I think that one's the second runner up for sure. Oh yeah. Well not to me. To me. That one. These two. You like those two. Well and I like that one. But like we said we really shouldn't count that one because it really doesn't have pumpkin pie spices in it. So if you're going by the pumpkin pie taste. I say this one. The natural bliss one. And this one. If you like cloves. Okay. All right.


Our second speaker this afternoon is Vinitha Ganesan. Our title is A New Method to Help the Discovery of Diagnostic Biomarkers for Autoimmune Diseases. Our immune system protects us from infections by producing proteins called antibodies. Antibodies flag viruses and bacteria in order to attack them. In some people, the immune system gets confused due to a variety of factors and starts producing these antibodies that attack the individual's own body parts. This is called an autoimmune disease. Rheumatoid arthritis is one of the most common autoimmune disease affecting 2% of the US population. The disease starts with the inflammation of the joints all over the body and then slowly starts progressing to attack the vital organs such as the heart or the lungs. The lung disease alone causes the death of 13% of RA patients. At this time, there are no predictive tests to predict the course of the disease. We set out to discover the set of proteins that are being flagged by these autoantibodies in the disease. A human cell produces over 2 million different protein types. So we rely on this technology to resolve these proteins based on their physical properties. This is like finding a needle in a haystack. So what we do here is color code the proteins based on the sample using fluorescent dyes. And just like you would use a magnet to pull out the needles from a haystack, we use the patient's antibodies itself to pull out the proteins that they're flagging. And then run them on this platform. And as you can see in the two images, the each round object represents a protein type. And the green, for example, comes from the patient with the lung disease and the red without the lung disease and you can see the differences. The yellow is supposed to be the proteins that are similar between the two patients. But what is going on here is actually a problem in the method. It's an artifact. Like I told you, the antibodies are also proteins. So they're messing up and these big yellow blobs are actually the antibodies. And so to solve this problem, I developed a novel approach with which I capture these proteins and then wash away the antibodies and remove them and then run these proteins on this beautiful platform which can resolve these proteins. And now this enables us to discover the proteins that are different between the patient with and without the lung disease. And this helps us to provide information which can be used to make predictive tests in the future to predict the course of the rheumatoid arthritis disease. Thank you.


This paper discusses the challenges associated with using multivariate statistics to estimate design events in hydrology and hydraulics. It reviews the current state of the art in multivariate frequency analysis and compares different approaches. The paper also presents a synthetic case study to illustrate how different modeling choices can affect the resulting design event. Finally, it proposes an ensemble-based approach to estimate multivariate design events. This article was authored by B. Grayler, M. J. Vandenberg, S. Vandenberg, and others.


Remember a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best Tonight from Hollywood the makers of hallmark greeting cards bring you Joan Fontaine in James Hilton's random harvest on the hallmark playhouse Each week hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars in outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors They distinguish novelist mr. James Hilton Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is James Hilton tonight on our hallmark playhouse We present a dramatization of my own novel random harvest starring that brilliant young actress Joan Fontaine You know for years. I've been queried by both friends and strangers How'd you get an idea for a story? Well, there are many ways but in the case of random harvest I'd like to put myself in the position of one of the characters and go back to a moment when I met a man on a Train whom I shall call Charles Rainier But that's our story and before we begin Frank us. How about a few words from you about hallmark? There are hallmark cards for every memorable occasion on your calendar for birthdays Anniversaries holidays Yes, for every occasion that calls for remembrance for a friendly greeting a word of good cheer an expression of sympathy There is a hallmark card that says just what you want to say the way you want to say it and that identifying Hallmark on the back that says you cared enough to send the very best And now hallmark playhouse presenting James Hilton's random harvest and starring Joan Fontaine First attracted me to Charles Rainier was an air of mystery about his eyes which intrigued He seemed always to look beyond you as if in the dark recesses of his memory. He was groping for something He couldn't find Shortly afterwards I met his wife Her face had a beauty that poured into it from within a secret and serene ratings On casual observance the marriage of mr. And mrs. Rainier seemed ideal But as I came to know them better I sensed a dramatic undercurrent between them as if these two people were hiding something from each other During the ensuing two years Charles and I became very close friends and I discovered why he always looked beyond you It was very exciting, but I was unable to start writing about it The story had a beginning a middle but lacked an ending Until one afternoon when I dropped in for a visit at the Rainier estate and mrs. Rainier called me into her library I'm so happy you dropped in mr. Hilton as matter of fact. I was going to telephone you well This is an opportune visit. Where's Charles off somewhere and as usual. I never know just when you'll return Well, it's pleasure enough. Just see you What were you going to fool me about forgive me for prying but Why did you and Charles drive out to Melbury the other night? What you're asking will hurt you deeply tell me, please Charles is a man in search of a memory for a long time now He is desperately sought to remember the events of the year 1919 when he was an amnesia victim and he's found them not quite all But he now knows that during that last year He fell madly in love with a girl and married her and it all began where while he was at a hospital in Melbury Does he remember her clearly what she looked like her name? I'm not sure But I do know that he'd give up everything if he could find her He'd give up everything Well, mr. Hilton, thank you for telling me all this. I'm so sorry You know when I try to imagine your feelings. I don't feel anything yet at least not much Would you excuse me? I believe I'll go for a drive. Do you mind if I come along if you like Would you be good enough to our shelter to bring the car? Of course? One thing mrs. Rainier people are remembered as they were last seen and 20 years is a long time It would be a miracle. I wish there were such a miracle Mr. Stay I remember He's from the army on Looney ones. I think oh come on soldier. Let's go come on. Oh boy It's all right if you don't like it here. We'll go for a walk. Oh, it's quiet walk or not, whichever you like. Come on. Let's go I'm not really loony like the man said said it clearly didn't I But we don't know what a job I have as a rule I've Had to learn to talk all over again.  Where do you want to go? I don't know Well, this street doesn't need anywhere. It doesn't matter Now that does my life you did escape from the hospital. Didn't you know not exactly? I just came out because Well, because there were no guards at the gate. It's like a prison, isn't it? Hello, but well, then you ought to be in it surely was nowhere else until I I get all right again Well, how can you get all right when you're not happy there? Perhaps I shouldn't be very happy anywhere Go back to your family. I was chill shocked. I Lost my memory of the person Oh, don't worry. I'll talk to say I'll regain it, but it's no telling when What's your name Paula Paula Ridgeway? It's not my real name though. I'm I'm an actress with a traveling true What's yours Smith? But that's not real either well Smith good enough Hello, Smithy Hello Paula listen Smithy Smithy. I've got a crazy idea.  I Have to go back come along with the troop Let us be your family until you can remember your own the hospital will find me wherever I go No, they won't I won't let you don't know who I am for all you know I might be really loony or dangerous then again You might just be an earl or a lord or something. I've always wanted to be Quite a girl Would be wonderful. It's all set. You're coming with us, but I but Smithy you won't have a care Smithy There's nothing if I could sit down for a moment. I'm sure I'll be all right. Sure you will oh boy Smithy was very ill. I took him to my lodgings and for weeks We both fought to make him well and as the days wore on and Smithy's strength slowly returned I Began to really know and understand him. He was fine and decent and I fell in love with him and though he never told me I Knew he was in love with me too Then when Smithy was much better. It was time for the troop to leave Melbury Smithy Smithy there are two men from the hospital downstairs hurry up and get your things together We're leaving no Paula come up here and take it back with him. Is that what you want perhaps? You see Paula, I can't continue being a burden to you taking everything and giving nothing You need me I'd only be in the way. Oh, no Smithy.  I Was asleep in one room and two people were killed in the next I Wasn't going to tell you that but it might upset you but Now maybe it'll cheer you up to know her both alike. We're both living on borrowed time. We've nothing to lose Are you coming? Smithy became one of a scene painter copywriter general manager and whatnot He had a flair for writing and even wrote some new material for the troop With a little understanding his shyness towards strangers was soon one over We saw a great deal of each other during these busy days Suddenly he seemed to change But once he'd pinned it on me now went out of his way to avoid me and then one day without so much as a good bar He was gone I Searched for him and found him the following day at a place called beachings over Unhaven and haggard-looking. He was asleep on top of a hill Wake up Smithy. Oh Oh Paula why did you follow me here? Smithy why did you run out on me yesterday because I can do without you? I know I can I must fiddle sticks don't boast. Oh boy. I can do without you too for that matter Oh, let's be independent is all it will get out Let's each fly in different directions and wonder why for the rest of our lives. Oh Smithy, what have you got against? Oh, how could I have anything against you? Except for the same reason I couldn't Too subtle darling unless you tell me what the reason is I love you Do you do really? I loved you ever since I first set eyes on you soon as I saw you the very first moment Darling darling, I'm so happy Paula when I'm fully recovered and I find a job that can support both of us Will you marry me darling? I think it really takes two weeks that they make your way I'm not right yet besides Besides wouldn't they ask me a lot of questions at the marriage license bureau you mean Questions about yourself that you couldn't answer. Yes They might ask you one question. I never have and That is if you've been married before well, of course I haven't How can you be certain? Oh boy? That awful memory of yours We were married at St. Clemence Vale Street London and we moved into a rickety old attic and our fondest dream was to build a house at Topper Hill that meant so much to us at Beachings over We never returned to the truth. Smithy began to write. Oh, we were blissfully happy and to add to it a few weeks later A letter came from a very important publisher Asking that Smithy appear in person.  It doesn't matter if we can't afford it. You know something. Hmm. I'm not lost only my memory I lost my heart to you. Oh Hurry darling. I'm only half alive while you're away. We belong to the same world Oh, I know that too. There's something right about it. I adore you Smith You know, I don't want to remember anything now anything. I've ever forgotten. It would be so unimportant My life began with you when my future goes on with you Nothing else Thing to tell me darling. I love you. I love you too Get inside goodbye Paula. Goodbye. Oh darling come back soon. I will But Smithy didn't come back in a week or the next week or the week after that In a moment, we will present the second act of James Hilton's famous novel random harvest starring Joan Fontaine Of all the English poets few have rivaled Samuel Taylor Coleridge in power of imagination and Ability to use words to make imagine things seem real Perhaps his words are so effective because what he imagined seemed so real to him For as he once remarked to a group of younger men What comes from the heart goes to the heart We see how true this is when we look at hallmark greeting cards and read the messages they bear There is such a sincerity about them You know the one you select will carry your thought truly whether it's a message of sympathy a Remembrance for some holiday or anniversary or just a cheerful greeting to let a friend or loved one know you care and What is true of the words of a hallmark greeting card is just as true of everything else about it the way It's designed the materials. It's made of the way. It's put together That is why you always find a hallmark card that says just what you want to say the way you want to say it Look for the hallmark on the back when you choose greeting cards that tells your friends you cared enough to send the very best Now we return to the second act of James Hilton's random harvest starring Joan Fontaine Frantic search for Smith he began in Liverpool at the office of the publisher with whom he had the appointment I'm sorry, Mrs. Smith. Your husband never kept his engagement. I never saw him Please doctor did he return to the hospital here in Melbury? No, we've never had word of him since the day he escaped Please can't you please help me? I'm desperate. We tried everything. I'm sorry, Mrs. Smith But he just couldn't disappear. We printed his description on the front page. There's been no response Sorry My advice to you is to save your money when your investigators fail better give up Yes, I merely existed But I never stopped searching then one day June 10th 1929 I Picked up a newspaper and on the front page was a picture of Smithy. I cried with joy And I didn't care who was watching. I read the caption below the picture Charles reindeer Industrialist member of the House of Commons will speak there today He had discovered his former identity. He was alive Rushed over to the House of Commons, but I was too late to get in so I went to the private entrance reserve for members and waited for him Did you call me miss? I say when will he be out? Oh, lady. Smithy lady. There's no Smithy in the House of Commons Oh, yes, I am sorry. I mean Charles reindeer sessions over. He'll be out soon. Are you sure? He'll come out this door. You were friend of his more than a friend. Don't worry. Charles reindeer will come out of this door No, mr. Rainier, but there's a lady waiting here who says she's a friend of yours. I don't believe we've ever met young lady I suppose not. I'm sorry. I bothered you, Mr. Rainier. That's quite all right I wanted to follow him throw my arms around him and try by sheer force to bring back the memory of the year that We'd spent so happily together and then the realization came to me. He'd recovered his memory once before Perhaps if I could be near him it would happen again. I secured employment as a typist in reindeer enterprises I became Helen Hansen and There I learned how he regained his memory and live up all he was struck by an automobile and the shark restored his identity of Charles After working there for six months, I learned that his personal secretary was leaving. I Knew I had to get that position But then I'd be close to him be able to talk to him Awakened some spark in his memory of the past Yes, what is it? Oh, mr. Rainier.  Rainier I understand your secretary has left and I'd like it You know that without a doubt if you were to look all over you wouldn't find anyone more qualified to fill the vacancy I I can type at the rate of 80 words a minute and I take dictation as fast as you can talk I have my book right one moment miss I Handle people intelligently on the phone and I I'm well-versed in politics. I'm a conservative by choice my punctuation is perfect And oh, I I make rather Presentable appearance. It's important to the job. You know what's more? I'll answer that You don't mind.  Rainier. Oh, no, you hired yourself. Well, that makes two of us for the best of you Charles Miss Hansel you chose to be a secretary. I chose to be his wife We'll be married in two weeks and what you believe it. I had to propose to him In fact, he dodged me so long. I accused him of being in love with another woman. I trapped you didn't I darling completely and Overwhelmingly miss hands it will you take care of the wedding list and advise the press? Yes, of course my Congratulations to you both This was the end of a dream that it kept me alive all these years I wanted to run someplace any place But out all the memories that kept crowding into my mind But in the same moment I knew my destiny was to remain here beside him even if only as a secretary I Could never turn back for the for the next 10 years. I tried not to think I was useless Then the latter was delivered to me by a special messenger marked Charles Rainier personal A letter mark personal mr. Rainier read it to me, please. I believe it's from your fiancee read it Won't you please you're my secretary. You'll know the content sooner or later. I have My dear Charles, I'm writing this in a hurry, but after thinking things out is slowly and carefully as even you could I decided that I can't Because I'm Something to go on being proud and here's something else that may sound utterly absurd But let me say it Sometimes Especially when we've been closest I've had a curious feeling that I remind you of someone else Someone you may have met Or may yet meet How could kitty know How could she tell it's true there is someone else if I only knew if only I could remember oh I beg your pardon miss Hanslitt. I how could I possibly make you understand when I can't even explain it to myself? For the next two years I felt Charles drawing close to me as if the veil across his memory were about to lift But as quickly as these moments came they would be gone and our relationship would continue in the same polite yet I became more than just a secretary. He sought my advice Relyed on me to fulfill social obligations and then one day while he and I were lunching I'm all for the marriage on this handslet. I agree only make them come to you Did it ever occur to you how indispensable you are to me? I'd like to think I am miss Hanslitt Helen I'd like to submit a plan to you. You sound as if you're about to make a political speech Well, it would be less difficult Helen Will you marry me? No, don't misunderstand. I don't expect that you're in love with me. You're in love with me I have great respect and admiration for you. I see in fact is I I Feel that you're necessary to me in countless ways.  I've watched you handle people Yes, I'm very adept at that sort of thing and you'll accept my plan Yes, Mr. Rainier Charles splendid, of course you needn't worry about I know we'll just call it a marriage of convenience Yes of our marriage. I wanted to go to him tell him who I really was I knew if you ever to know and love me again You would have to find the way back Are you ready for the drive mrs. Rainier? Yes, mr. Hilton. Oh, yes, where would you like to go? To a lovely place. I know called beachings over this hill looks as if it had never changed I don't suppose it has much in a thousand years. That makes 20 seem only yesterday 20 Mrs. Rainier. What do you mean? Do you mind if I go the rest of the way myself? I? Can see the summit from here, but Charles has told me about this hill. What does this place mean to you? my life and my dreams I Was just resting and Hell in what nurse are you doing here? I might ask you the same question I was out driving and I passed this hill Somehow I had The honest feeling that I'd been here before had you Heron, I think Smithie Saw them embrace and I knew then that the gap was closed that the random years were at an end That the past and the future would join I had the ending to my story and now I could begin to write it For James Hilton and Joan Fontaine return. What do you say? We play a little quiz game ready for the question Here it is what friends of yours or members of your family are having birthday soon Think hard now they're sure to be two or three Perhaps several if you look ahead to March and April now just think how much pleasure It will give each of these friends and loved ones to receive a birthday greeting from you this year Of course you'd want to send a cheery message to one friend perhaps a humorous greeting to another a reminder of your affection to anyone Who is especially dear to you no matter you always find a hallmark card that says just what you want to say the way you want to Say it now. I said we were going to play a quiz game. So of course there must be a prize Well the prize you'll win by sending hallmark birthday cards is the gratitude and affection of all you send them to you'll even Win a special measure of appreciation as friends notice the hallmark on the back of the cards They receive from you for that tells them you cared enough to send the very best Here again is James Hilton before we close the hallmark playhouse for the night There are some things I'd like to say about the wonderful performance. We've heard here this evening You see I knew the heroine of our play tonight longer than anyone I want to say right here that you miss Joan Fontaine made her the character I wanted her to be thank you for such a splendid portrayal Thank you, Mr. Hilton Paula was a wonderful girl who had the courage to try to weave the past and the present together Their thoughtfulness her tenderness and understanding helped create a happy life for someone she loved But now I'm talking in terms your hallmark people seem to understand so well We are greeting cards deal with thoughtfulness and understanding between friends and loved ones And I want to thank you for asking me to be here tonight and for giving me the opportunity to play in one of your own Fine works. We're happy to have you here anytime Miss Fontaine Next Thursday, we'll have Edna Ferber's fine story so big starring Virginia Bruce and the following week Barclay Square starring David Niven And the week after that a new American bestseller Meredith Wilson's book with the delightful title and there I stood with my piccolo starring Meredith Wilson himself Our hallmark playhouse is every Thursday our director producer is D Engelbach Our music is composed and conducted by Lynn Murray and tonight's script was adapted by Jack Rubin So until next Thursday, then this is James Hilton saying good night Look for hallmark cards that are so lonely in stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service Remember hallmark cards when you carry enough to send the very best Joan Fontaine is currently appearing throughout the country in the Rampart picture you've got to stay happy. This is Frank Gauss saying good night to you from the hallmark playhouse This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System


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I'll be honest. I'm 30 years old and I really want to be married. You know what I'm saying? And so I would have to agree to you agree with you. I think some of the things that some of the ways I've been going about dating Maybe that's why I'm still single. Okay So I just I just really came up here to thank you for your advice. I really am listening to you What state are you in? What's it? Oh, yeah I'm from um, Raleigh Durham, North Carolina Okay, how far is that away from Duke? Oh, um, Duke is in Durham. So it's the city of medicine Okay. Well, so because you have a isn't it in the college triangle down there? I have nc state unc Duke So are you involved in any of those school associations? Is that a problem? Yes I mean, what should I be doing? Because I'm an entrepreneur. I sell cars. I don't know like why why it would be over there You know what I'm saying? Well, uh, this is what I say book essentially, but here's the thing Seriously, if you sell cars Do you not network? I do like I sell cars like a contract. Well, listen, I mean if you you can apply them selling cars You need to apply it and selling you See you're in Raleigh and you got a Coming from sales. I don't understand how salespeople understand this you got a you got a prospect to get leads to get appointments To to present to pitch to clothes How many leads are you getting sitting in your house? And you got the college triangle the college triangle duke University of North Carolina nc state all that has alumni associations Football programs basketball programs lots of money flows through there You need to become I don't care how you get there but get around those places of academics and money because that's what band boosters alumnus and things like that chamber of commerce um, american heart association charities things like that. You just cannot sit and I'll just be cute You've got to do something. This is what back.  I really do appreciate it. I mean, you're right. You know what I'm saying because You're right.  I do Am I because I'm a and I'm a very Because I'm in sales. I have a strong personality very sharp and I I like to go with after I want I normally just don't like to lose am I wrong for like Is it too controlling for me to kind of Pick the guy not be aggressive But in my brain, you know, I'm saying like I want to go after him Is it wrong to go after a guy or should I just let him come to me? Wrong is wrong is not the right is not the word to use That's subjective. But you say you want to high value man Yeah, why Because I'm a high value girl. I feel like you know, why does that make why does that make sense to y'all? What do you mean? Why does it make sense to you because you look in your bank account and you say I'm a high value girl So I should get a high value man. Why does it make sense to y'all when y'all know that's not how we pick Well, I don't know when I say hi, I guess everybody have your different definitions of high value I have my definition One, I don't believe in 50 50 anything and it's like a lot of guys who Let me help you out high value Is feminine Okay High value is feminine. No, I'm talking about how about you man What is the high value?  I I believe I am Then that means your femininity would be number one right That goes opposite to regression Opposite of aggression. Yes Aggression is masculine So maybe I should turn off my sales when I'm dating I'm just telling you what high value man want Is not aggressive females. They want feminine women Okay, okay And you ladies mind Stop looking at the comment section Okay I'm not looking at the comment section. Why do I do that too? No because I said I saw somebody say I was a four Focus here focus here focus here. I'm focused. I'm focused unless you because if you're down there book a session because Pretend and see and this is and I'm used this as an example. This is a teaching lesson You know, I have a platform and people do something so fun You got me online and you're too worried about what people are saying in the comment section versus paying attention There's a little bit of time I have that's a break in rapport with the high value man You just showed high value men.  That's not how we roll So You may be successful in your career But your education your income does not increase your value to men Okay I did a broadcast on that two three days ago Men value your femininity your beauty your fitness Your submissiveness your cooperation your win And high value men We'd rather go get the girl who works on fries and McDonald's than a six-figure top sales person Well, I hear what you say saying Kevin But a lot of guys that I date they do at like they care about that, you know, they at like Are they high value men? They're they're not high value men if they ask them like they care about that. I'm asking No, no, no, no. Are they do they make six do they make ten thousand dollars a month?  Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on They make ten thousand dollars a month Yeah For five years Oh, I don't know. I don't know. Okay. Well, I define high value It's ten thousand dollars a month in Atlanta dollars Houston Charlotte dollars For at least five years Other high value men recognize them as a peer They have a network of high value men and other people They're Visible Meaning what they do is linked in level meaning they're not entrepreneurs Means they have a title that most people understand and their money is above board And last they're useful to others and the group Many of you ladies think high value just means because somebody's making More money two or three to double the money what where you're at and that's high values far more than that I do and I don't believe a man's value just equates with money. I don't I don't I'm 30 Was far too many of you ladies are too concerned too much on what you want. You have no idea what men want Well, that's all I'm up here because I need to know Well, that's why that's why well, but unfortunately here's the reality. Unfortunately My show is to kind of start to start the conversation But if you want to really know you're gonna have to actually pay for the learning curve. You went to college, right? Yes All right, so when you went into debt for a degree that you didn't need to sell cars. Actually, I didn't finish I didn't finish. I wanted to see you. That's not the point. That's not not the point It's not the point the point is The kind of men you're talking about are rare and you're competing against the best of black women and the best of other women for them And they're going to get exactly what they want Okay, I am too Normally get what I I'm gonna get that's why I'm even up here because I like to get what I want Obviously what I've been doing ain't been really working out But I'm just a type of person Uh, you cannot out for your way through this I'm just gonna get what I want you can't do that You can't you can't determine what we do is men All anything you can control access to is your body.  Yeah, you're not gonna get in high value. It does not do this Okay You're not demure You're not refined reserved quiet. Hey, I'm out here. What's going on? Hey, what's up? Let's turn up. That ain't what we do. That's not what how about you do Who's gonna take you to a country club with the mayor's ball with all that? Well, I'm I'm first of all, it's different levels to two different sides to me. You see on one side Well, but I'm seeing what you show me and you don't know me and you're in front of thousands of people And so we tend to be who we are. I'm an image because ma'am. We are who we are And my point is Where's where's your daddy? He ain't home getting over covid What do you do for a living? He owns his own company I mean, he owns a moving company. Okay moving company respectable. Yeah middle class income though He makes good money I said middle class. I didn't say broke.  I mean be honest Would you date a man for the moving company? Yes, my dad makes good Would you date a man who's starting a moving company? Uh, yes, I would get potential I would if I can Say what now? It's not how about you did What would you not have my value is already there? Okay, high value was already there. He had to be doing what he's doing for five years. He's already there. He's already a superbowl champ Yeah, my dad had his company for 20 years But but you came in saying I want a high value man. I remember Exactly. You want him already to be there? No, I never said that. That's what you said I never said that's what high value means Oh, okay. So I'm confused now. I do got a question for you Are you saying that women should not desire a high value man is already there and we should be open to men Or and we shouldn't be open to men who's building No, I'm no, I'm saying you need to be in your lane and Most women don't want to build well with a man who's building like how was your mother when she married your father She was 23 22. I believe right eight years younger than you There's you saw the pattern and you chose not to do it Because I'm gonna get what I want. So you already want somebody who's where your daddy is now But you got to marry him while he's 22 That's why high value men look at y'all like y'all crazy because you want to come after we already won You don't want to build You want us after we already got the six figures and this and that and something so forth and we're like, okay I'm gonna get the premium because well that was different. My dad and my mom were younger They were younger. So that's different 22. You could have did that too I could have but that's not the way I went. No, no, that's not what you chose You had suitable men Who approached you in your teens and twenties that you'd overlook them for something else possibly No, no, no, we do no cuz see I did a video on you likely met your your match and you just blew it I don't remember him if he can Okay, what's the longest relationship you've ever had Maybe about six months Six months your entire life, right? Even when you were in high school in college I didn't really date in high school in college. I mean in high school How long was your last relationship? I don't even want to really count that but it was this summer. I don't even count it But ma'am if you only have 60 if your launch relationship has been six months. I got worse news for you. What?  You're not ready for it Okay, I'm ready. No, you know, you don't have the skills for it You the longest job you ever held that's a man the six months and you want uh, You want an executive level Position man and you only got six months of work history. If your relationship history was a resume It would be trash How maybe because you've only held a job for six months. You don't know that maybe I wasn't dating all those years man See, this is what this is when this is when the ego comes out I don't have to know I know one thing when I'm reading right now What you're saying you want and what the kind of men That fit into that category what I do know unequivocally Is what the hundreds and thousands of men who are like that where I'm in that category The women they want and who they pick And they don't have this energy They don't have these talking points. They don't have this relationship history. See Were you raised to be a housewife? No You're raised to be independent And that's not what a high value man is. I mean, I wouldn't say that my mom was a housewife for You were raised to be a housewife. You was no way you'd have no only have a six month relationship in 30 years That maybe but kevin. Maybe god have a man in front of me.  That's nice about a man See how the audience see how this works.  That's the that's a broad answer. Well, which one is it? Some way 50 50 50 Really? Well, you should have did the 50 50 that she did got married at 22 I could have if god presented him to me. God ain't got nothing to do with this.  I mean, I believe in god I don't know. I believe in god too, and I was raising the church baptized the fight. We'll get you my bible from 1974 I've been over three singles ministry. So I get tired of you women putting this stuff on god man, there's a natural choice and this is why I'm you laughing but this is why so many black women by themselves because Y'all just talk and talk and talk and then your ego and yourness and that and it just goes in one end round to other Ma'am, you've had six months relationship history in 30 years If I presented a man who's the kind of man you said you want you don't fit what he would need Because you have no experience being with the man of cooperating with him. You don't believe on the job training.  I'm not old. You're old for marriage I don't think so Okay Okay, and and understand something this is what I mean folks They don't you can't say anything. I'm not old for marriage If you went to a matchmaker, they would tell you you're old for marriage And at what age does high risk pregnancy start at 35 right? So if you met a man today, how who was ready to be married, what's the soonest you be made to this man? I honestly have a rule for myself. I wouldn't date anybody over a year So he's got he's got to be ready within a year if you don't know within a year. My dad told me I turned 31 November 5th Okay, so if you met you today, you'd be married within a year. How long would you want to be married before you started out with kids? right away So you're gonna pray on your honeymoon night. I would love to right but see here's the thing What are the chances of meeting somebody and being ready to marry that being married In a year when you only have six months of relationship history over your lifetime Well, that's look we're talking about we're talking about what it comes to Ultimately what this is what it comes down to this is not disney. This is not fancy. This is really practical right You have little to no relationship history meaning cooperation with the man A man would be a fool To move that quick on somebody who has no demonstrated relationship history I mean that's how men look at this Especially when you come from a mother who was married at 22 and your friends and man for years You saw the path, but what most people look back and say You saw your mom and like well, I love my mom, but she she got married too early I want to get out here and do what I want to do That's usually more the story and that's the way it's presenting man And it's not a judgment But what I'm saying is ultimately the men you're talking about they don't look for women like that They're looking for women who are feminine help me Different energy about working with the men serving their family They're wanting to do it early. They're not looking for this independent SAS kind of thing Well, everything you just described is me other than the fact that I didn't do it early I'm very submissive I'm very caring very giving what you can say that but what is that show? Show what is that show in relationships? What is that show in relationships?  I mean, maybe he has maybe he hasn't you know what I'm saying Not to me. No, not suitable. I would say not I mean to me Immaturity immaturity, you know what I'm saying? Like Yeah, I would say immaturity They don't believe one of my my major deal breaker is if you don't have the same spiritual beliefs as me A lot of them don't they say they do But they're not acting like actions are not lining up with that You know I'm saying or I just don't see a lot of men who display leadership values You know I'm saying you want me to submit But you got to give me something to submit too. It's no way Hold on. Hold on. Hold on.  I'm just reading you and you think you're involving informing me and I'm like Man, I talk to you every night And I've talked to you for 30 years And I'm trying to tell you You're just like the other snowflakes out here and think you're special and you're not Because here's the question in this sense. We're all god's creatures, but if you didn't have the same spiritual beliefs, right? Then your pastor should be helping you lead this husband search not you Actually, you don't really believe in a single ministry. Well, then you're under the wrong shepherd I don't know about that No, sorry every time I give an answer that lines up with something.  How about that? Hey, I'm I'm all for it.  Like I said, yeah, that isn't that doesn't right That doesn't right. You don't know why so many women Who comes from middle-class background from middle-class families want these exceptionally high earning men Now you just said that men money does not equate the value. I never you just said high earning. That's what you said That's no, no, no, no, no, no. I said a woman's money does not equate the value A man's money is definitely part of this value Okay And what I want some I don't know why so many Middle-class your middle-class raised woman your mother married at 22 your father owns a moving company Middle-class successful You should be getting with another middle-class average successful person Not be looking for any elite top 10% earner I mean, I will start there. But you know, once you get with me, we gonna we we we shouldn't to the stars Well, we gotta stay there while we gotta stay middle-class So again, this is one of the remember so if you're listening the lady who was in houston the 43 year old I didn't hear no. I'm talking to her. She's listening. This is what I was saying about you with the plumber You're taking a man who was perfectly fine doing what he was doing And you still gonna make him be more than he needs to be so you can keep over the Joneses No, it's not pushing people. No, no, no, it's called. It's called. I'm not talking to you out I'm talking because I spoke to a woman Saturday night who said the same thing She's 43 The same thing matter of fact, where is it? matter of fact Thomas the plumber is what I call it I could get with him and we're gonna be the credit and investors and this and that and I'm like I always gotta push a man to be something and he's happy with what he is It's like it's like all of a sudden black folks have become Black women Start thinking because you make a certain amount of money only men who make what you may qualify So even if you meet a man who is in the top 15% of men that still ain't good enough because he has to make six figures and you talk about christian None of what you're talking about do respect man. Nothing what you talked about is is is Is christian I think men make money more of a big deal than women do for what you've talked about the entire time you've been here is The the income Okay, I just said I don't I said that's a part of me I don't believe that value to me when i'm talking about a man for one his spirituality is number one That's how you would be okay with a man making uh 42 000. Yeah, if he's a devout christian Don't play with me.


Alright guys, so we're going to change things up on this vlog a little bit today. Last night I was watching the Oscars and I was looking for some sort of inspiration, some kind of women's cut that I could do. I didn't find anything, but what I did like was Leonardo DiCaprio had kind of a round layered haircut. It was very classic looking, so that really inspired me to do this vlog today. So I want to show you guys my end result. First, let's show you what he looked like. Now this is what we did today. So very similar look, nice deep part, round layers throughout the back, a little bit of round graduation on the top. Then we over-direct the front to pop a little bit of extra disconnection in the front. And there you go, you got the haircut. So I hope you guys enjoy this step-by-step that we're about to do. Make sure you post in the comments below. Let me know if you want to see more men's cutting like this as we move forward with this vlog, and remember I'm looking for ideas, so post them. Whatever you guys are looking to see, I'd love to know. Here we go with the step-by-step. Thank you guys for watching. All right guys, so the most important part of this haircut is the parting. So making sure that you place that part exactly where you want it. We're going to go just above Pridell Ridge on the left-hand side. We're going to use our Mizetani DB20 scissor for the haircut. It's a 5.7 inch scissor. This is pretty much my workhorse scissor. It's got the ball-bearing screw, works really smooth. So if you guys don't have a scissor, definitely check it out on Freestyle On Education. I'm going to go through, we're going to start by creating our round layers. So I'm following, I just cut my guideline right in the sideburn area. And now I'm going to go through, I'm going to follow that guide. It's definitely going to be a traveling guide throughout the haircut because we're creating those layers. And we're working diagonal back on the head. I'm using the wide teeth of my comb because I want a little bit of freedom in the tension. But you don't want to work with too wide of teeth because you might lose your lines throughout the haircut. So this is a 334 comb from YS Park. I really dig that comb for this cut. So working diagonal back, taking small sections, small partings, making sure that as I'm working through I can always see my guide. And if you can see right there, I scoop up a little bit of the old and I bring in the new. So I don't want to take all of the hair that I cut below it. When you start doing that, what happens is you drop your elevation too far and then you build up way too much weight. The great thing about this haircut, the thing I love most about it is how soft it falls and how it kind of blends itself into the back. So you don't want to take too much, you don't want to create too much graduation in this cut. So that's why we call it a round layered cut. So keep that elevation nice and high. Hardest thing about cutting round a round shape is just staying consistent as you work your way around the head. Because if you think about when you're cutting triangular or you're cutting square, most of the time your body is staying in one position as you make your cuts. When you're cutting round, you're constantly moving around the head, so it's a lot harder to stay consistent with your body position and all of that. So really, key things to focus on is your elevation throughout this cut. Make sure that every time you pull that hair out from the head, it's exactly how high you wanted it to be. I tend to, when I get inconsistent with this type of cut, it's because you're constantly keeping your elbow in the air and your elbow wants to drop the entire time. So as long as you keep focused on where that arm is that's holding the hair, you're going to be good to go. So we wrap the round part of the shape. We follow the head shape all the way down into the nape. But my key focus right now is pretty much from the crown down to the occipital bone. What's happening in the nape I don't really care about yet because I'm going to go back through. And we're going to kind of crisscross when I hit the other side of the head. So the key things I'm focusing on are definitely the crown all the way down to occipital. So you can see my elevation is a little bit lower at this point. The reason it's lower and what that's going to do for me is it's building up the weight in the crown area. So it gives a nicer shape to your head shape. If you take the layers way too far up there, then you're going to lose that shape in the haircut. So from a side profile view, the haircut's not going to look as good. So working into the nape. But again, like I said, that's not really my worry because I'm already going to go through and recut that again when I hit the other side. Bringing everything straight out to me. I really didn't want to skimp on this haircut at all. I wanted to show you guys pretty much every single section that I cut because I think it's useful and because our elevation does shift and change throughout the haircut. What I was trying to show you guys right there was the key part of this, because you start to work in, a lot of people want to over direct it towards the opposite side, which is going to grow too much length and weight to the right side. So I want to make sure I keep my elevation nice and high when I hit that corner. Now we're going to work our way back exactly the same way. I guarantee I'll get this question about how do I make sure that both lengths are the same? I started off with pretty much finger length hair so I know that both sides are going to be similar. I'm also going to go through at the very end and do some scissor over comb. So that will help blend it as well. So it's just making sure that the lengths are very similar.  So you can see my elevation. It is nice and high, but if you were really technically looking at this you would say that there is a slight buildup of weight throughout this cut. So it could be a graduated haircut as well. You'll see that weight line now definitely because as the head is peeling away and I keep bringing down this hair towards myself I'm building up that weight and kind of showing off the head shape with this haircut. During this cut when I was filming it it's definitely difficult to get that angle so I'm glad it kind of turned out. Hope you guys saw it well enough. So we're going through. This is where we're blending both sides. So I did talk about at the beginning on the left hand side of the head that we would end up crisscrossing. So what happened there was we crisscross, we connect the two corners and now I'm going through and I'm just cross checking real quick. So I went diagonal forward or diagonal back with all the haircuts. So now I'm going diagonal forward to cross check. Now we're going to work into the crown. This is going to be on top of my fingers just connecting from the guide from below and working those pie shape sections around the crown of the head. You can see my finger angle kind of works its way up. So when we get to the actual parting where the parting is on the head that's going to be the longest point. So shortest point is where we're connecting it. Longest point is at the part. You'll be able to see that angle a little bit better here. Sorry that was right on the edge of the camera. And that is the wet part of the cut. When I blow it dry I like to use a comb. Pretty much any short hair I like to use a comb. This is a 332 comb from YS Park. I'm going to use that for all my scissor over comb along with my Mizutani solids which is a seven inch scissor just to go through and get the nice scissor over comb feel and taper in the sides just a little bit.  Same thing on the opposite side keeping that steady blade against the bone of the comb and working my way up the head and then detailing around the ear. All right, we're going to use Rusal. This is the blue Rusal. It's a really nice firm hold pomade. So it's going to give that kind of wet look to the hair but it also has a nice hold so you don't have to worry about some pomades are really wet. This one's not wet whatsoever. So we'll work that through the hair, get that parting right and then this is our end result of the haircut and there you go. There's our men's round layer haircut inspired by Leonardo DiCaprio. All right guys, thank you so much for watching. Let me know what you thought of the new men's cut in the comments below. Also hit that share button, hit the like button and I'll see you guys on the next video. Thanks.


We have Leo and we have Merlin, who I'm going to Shirland. That's what I was gonna say. Since blue is in quarantine, and obviously sleeping upstairs in my room, but I don't want them to not get any interactions, so blue is chilling right here. Right, blue? I'm stealing sniffs and hot breath. So good. Who's in the house? Do you hear someone in the hallway? Vinny. It's not like there's a rat in the house. Vinny, what are you doing? What? Guys, I haven't even turned Rocky's TV on yet, because I don't know how to do it, because the home is too much of a smart home that it's too smart for me right now. Hi Merlin, cute Merlin. Do you want a Finchie update? Finchie and Fiona sitting in a tree. And Jersey. Jersey, Jersey, my baby. He sniffs so too. Whoa, whoa, whoa, this fly. Very good babies. He flies like a big chunker that isn't so aerodynamic yet. Look at how special his feathers are. Very special. Okay, so now I'm gonna sit down and do this thing that I'm doing with Naora. First of all, Naora, do you want to explain this mess right here? This mess that I'm going to clean up before I leave, yeah. What kind of auntie? Let the birds have access to pocket knives. That is not mine. I was innocently eating a Laura bar when two birds came along.  I got a piece, they got three. Randall, do you love Naora? I'm afraid we have visitors. No, no, no, no, no. Don't do my camera back. No, no, no. Vinny, what are you doing? Don't tell me you found a way to get through to the box. Vinny, why don't you come sit next to me instead of all this nonsense? I'm here, Naora. I can totally do that thing you wanted me to do on my computer. Didn't I say bring a parrot? I can totally bring your own parrot. Yeah. Is that your uh... It's my blueberry chamomile non-caffeinated tea because you can't share caffeinated drinks with birds. You know what? I don't know why you're not drinking the new Vinny tea. He's from on a romantic spicy evening.  What did you do? You put that down. You put that down. You want head scratch? That's fine. You are coming to see what's going on. You're destroying stuff. You're just like the boss out.  Here comes another one. Auntie, that one's yours. I think she's coming for the food on the table, which is fine. You know what? I'm gonna drink you. I'm gonna drink you, Randall. Do you want me to drink you? Oh, I'm thirsty. Let me drink a brando. It sounds like Vinny's having fun. That's what it sounds like to me. You know what Auntie Nora said? She said you're naughty. It's no cow versus Lara bar who will win. All right.  How did that happen? Air was touching it. Good news, guys. I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish. Let's see where they all are now and what damage they've done. Our next contender for president against Leo. What this means is he has submitted some campaign materials and he has entered himself on the ballot to campaign against Leo. Now, Leo's a little more refined. I think he's the one for maybe like green piece or something. You know, he lives in his tent and stuff. He's got his cart, rings his bell, hangs out in the trash. I don't know what kind of campaign political person that would be, but that's Merlin. Finchi and Fiona are getting ready for bed. Let's see the status. Finchi's there. Fiona is right here right now. She doesn't like the camera. I understand her not liking the camera. Actually, I don't understand. Finchi's been talking to her about the camera, telling her like it's okay. He like he just remains calm and doesn't care about the camera. That's what happens when you grow up in our house. And Leo's crying. That's his little cry. Did you hear that? That's it. Like that's what I need to pick up on to detect that he needs something. Just that. That's it. If you hear Leo do that, he needs something. What he needs is to come down here and get love. I love him. You running for president? Where's Nellie? Actually put herself to bed. Look, watch. Did you put yourself to bed? She's very good at her bedtime. She's very good at her bedtime. Mainly this part of my evening routine. I mean, it starts anywhere from like 4 or 5 p.m. to when I decide that they're going to bed. I basically do some evening things, but I let them hang out wherever they want. There's a little bit of chasing. Them involved. Are you doing bad things? You ate the whole toy already. This was a really cute tiki toy. Spoiler alert. Might be in the next shuttered fun box. I heard Merlin campaigning. Leo gives his speeches. But Merlin does his campaign riling up the crowd. He says, so he kind of just goes and crashes the official campaigns and does that. My name is Jersey and you want my vote. So he's a voted. My name is Jersey. I'm a parent station resident. He's got her. Yeah. Uh-huh. Waiting for president. Right now the entries are Leo and Merlin. Yeah. What about Jersey? She doesn't deserve to be a president. She hasn't entered. They have to enter. Merlin has entered. How did he enter? He, uh, he cheered for me. So he crashed Leo's campaign and cheered for himself and got himself on the ballot. What's, what's he doing right now? He's screaming because you're giving me attention and not him. Bye bye Leo. You're voting for Merlin? I'm voting for Merlin. No! Who are you voting for? Who's, who's Monty voting for? Oh my god. Brando, did you guys hear that? If you guys know Mustache Barricades, that would be like an Ah, something hurt me. But no, that's just your feature. You're dramatic. You know that, right? You're dramatic too.  Are you pretty?  These, these are mine. My angels, but I got more. I got more. I think this was Monty five minutes ago. Okay, you can win. You can be president for another term. I'm okay with it. All right? You can be president. You're probably more experienced and you're better at speeches. Right Merlin? And who wants to be a politician? Politician. A politician, a parotician. A parotician. You know, this is something that I always wanted to be able to do. I wanted to be a parrot, but like, never thought I would be able to do it with a bat. Congrats. He loves. George likes to play dead. I remember that. Yeah, but this is different. You can teach him that. Like, I can like do anything for this little guy. Right, buddy? We show cutie. We show cute. We show cute. Baby. Okay, ready? He kissed me. No, he's never made the noise though. He actually made the noise. What are the birds? What birds? They're all here. Oh my God. They're inside the... They're in there together. What do you mean? They're in... Look at them. Stop. She's also very protective of them. Look at them. Oh my God. Look at her. She's so cute. Did we call her Fiona? We did, right? That was Fiona, right? Yeah. She's such a Fiona. Why is she such a Fiona? I just realized that because I wanted to call her Fiona. I thought you wanted to call her Zora. No, but now I feel like she acts like a Fiona. She just took over. I have no idea. Zora sounds more powerful. That's right. What are you doing in Jersey's house? Hey there. How's it going? Okay, Jersey's trying to go to bed. Go ahead. Go to bed. You want to go to bed, Vinnie? It's time for bed. Why are you throwing everything, Vinnie?  It's like the insane asylum. You know what I mean? Like they have like the medications for all the birds that are being passed around. Like you're walking around and giving out all the medications. That's the picture we want to paint. But this is my cart that is easy for me to go around and give the bird what they're waiting in there. They're excited. But Monty's head of distribution. Jersey's sitting in her cage waiting. She's waiting for her hot water. She loves her hot water. We need to stop calling cages cages because they're not our cages. It's their rooms. It's their bedrooms. Right, I know that. I wonder if we can actually make the cages look like a bedroom. I tried that when I was a kid. I made a backdrop for my bird's cage out of paper.  And it was just like I took all this construction paper and cut out shapes and did all this stuff. And I was like, this is great. Dooley's going to experience the background. Vinnie, you want to live in a doll house? You can make you the Barbie. Head of distribution has given up on his job. Wouldn't it be great? I mean, I don't know if we have the space, but it would be so good if Rocky got a new cage. And then that cage went to Jersey. And then the Jersey would get the bigger cage. And then Vinnie gets Jersey's cage because Vinnie loves Jersey's cage. And she needs a bigger cage because she doesn't like it in there. She likes the upstairs cage though. There's some little tiny thing. I don't know why she likes it. She likes that cage.  We get it. Okay, it's time for me to go to bed. It's time for me to go to bed. I get to go to bed first. No, take the camera. No, I'm going to bed. I'm going to bed. No, I'm going to bed. Bye. I'm going to bed myself first. Bye, bye. No, you need to... No, no, no, no. I hope you put the food away. I did. What? You want this? Okay, so. I thought we had a moment. Bye. I'm not going anywhere.