Welcome back to the school of calisthenics. Before we get into the lesson today, just click on subscribe there so you don't miss out on any of those videos before Tim tells us what we're doing today. It's definitely worth it, because this is gonna be amazing. So, we're gonna talk about today why you can't do a muscle up. And it's not like pointing fingers, we put up on a board, it's about this. It's about speed. Now, not many people talk about this, so we're gonna get into some science, this is a lesson after all. So, follow along, take some notes, and if you've got questions, stick them in the comments below. Let's get into it. So, why can't you muscle up? There's a few reasons why you might not be able to do a muscle if it might be that you're struggling to get shoulder extension for that transition, you might find that you're pulling up just straight and you're hitting the bar, or maybe you can't actually pull up high enough or you can't create really good internal rotation of the shoulder to help with that transition.  So, the muscle is effectively a power-based movement and we're gonna talk about a force velocity curve to put a little bit of background as to why it might be a particular challenge or something we need to train a little bit differently. And it's different to the rest of calisthenics because in the rest of most of things like handstands, human flags, levers, they're static isometric holds and we're not actually moving, we're trying to stay still, whereas in the muscle, we're trying to be able to move faster. Yeah, absolutely. So, let's take this, the graph we've got here. So, we've got force at the one axis and velocity across the bottom. If we take the curve here, we've got this relationship between force application or the amount of force that we can apply and velocity, the speed at which we can apply it. So, up here we've got max strength. So, this might be like a heavy, let's go like normal weightlifting turns of a heavy bench press. So, we might put our one rep max or up to a three max rep max on a bench press. We can't move that weight particularly quickly, but we can put quite a lot of force down. At the opposite end of the spectrum, we might take a medicine ball chest pass. So, we've got a 5K med ball. We're just going to launch it as hard as we can. We haven't got a lot of force. We've got a huge amount of speed that we can put that movement down with. In the middle we have our power phase. So, we've got this relationship here in the middle of force and velocity. So, moderate amount of force with some speed. So, this is where our muscle ups sits. If we're struggling to get above the bar and we're just kind of like the strength that the amount of force that we can put down means that we can only really get one pull up, we're going to be kind of sitting into this area of our max strength. The speeds are kind of things of being like exclusively speed based. Well, you might have speed, but when your body weight is hanging off the bar, you're not strong enough to shift that, whatever, I weigh 75 kilos. You're not going to be strong to shift that weight. So, it doesn't really apply that much apart from when we sit in with this relationship here. So, a muscle up, we need some level of force to be able to get our body weight moving. So, we've got to be strong enough to do that, but we need to be able to put it down at velocity. And it's this component which we're going to work on today because people generally don't train calisthenics fast. And that's why we have people who can do 10 pull ups, but can't do a muscle up because they've got no twitch and they can't move quickly. Yeah, and we might be doing our pull ups and ending on being able to do pull ups to our chin, but actually what we're trying to do is create momentum with this velocity to be able to get yourself nice and high. So, once your chest is above the bar, then we've got the right to be able to rotate and transition over the top of it. But until you're able to produce enough force with that speed to create momentum, then you can get over and around the bar, so that's got to be getting to this high pull position and that's what we're going to look at today. Let's go to the practical side. Okay, so our first exercise, guys, we're going to have a look at is about, I'm just going to show you a basic pull up movement where you might be struggling. So, you see if you can relate to this. And then I'm going to get a jacko to put a band on and we're going to show you an assisted movement which is going to help us train the central nervous system is effectively what we're trying to work on with this movement to get more velocity and how that looks like to try and get high above the bar. So, we see people doing pull ups like this all the time and then there's a massive reason they can't do the muscle up is because it's just enough struggle to get up there. Even if Jacko could rep 10 like that, he can get his chin over the bar 10 times. If he's not getting out of that bottom position with any speed, then that's where we're going to have an issue. So, to train that, we're going to get him to grab the band and we're just going to use an assisted movement, super effective. And again, the purpose of this movement is not about getting necessarily strong, it's about being able to apply that strength that you have got at more speed or at a higher velocity. If you haven't got a band, there's a link in the description below for these rubber band, it's a special kind of strength band. Okay, so Jacko's going to put his feet into the band. He's just going to get into a normal pull position. We're not too worried at this stage about the line that he's putting on and some of the intricate of the muscle up. But what he's going to do is going to go dead hang and his job is to try and pull as high as he can and he's going to try and get the bars low down his chest as he can. So, he's kind of going waistline there but you can see I want him to go dead hang still and on that mark of when he gives that trigger to go is literally trying to catapult himself up as quickly as he can. Obviously, we can then progress that and make it more difficult by using a low attention band so you're doing more of the work. But the real reps of this, you're going to go five to eight reps, focusing on that speed. As soon as you feel like you're losing that height above the bar, take a rest and then come back at it. We're also going to talk about rest guys. We're also going to go quite longer rest periods in these. So, we might be working sort of three minutes between sets to really maximize your training opportunity. The system we're using is explosive. It needs time to recover. So, don't try to rep 10 of these off 30 second rest because you're really not going to get that much appetite off the back of it. Yeah, so it's a different way of training. Training the nervous system as I suppose you're just trying to build muscle. Think about that force loss you could have Tim was talking about, we're training the speed but here, even if you're good at pull-ups get really fast at them. And like you say, if you can see me I'm out of breath but in a few reps you need to let yourself have that good amount of rest so that you can fire maximum. It's not about working hard. It's about being smart and being for that speed you need to be fresh and it needs to be max. Max means, ah, max. Not. So, progression number two guys is just take the band away and we're now going to go back into our normal pull-up movements but we're going to emphasize the acceleration phase. So, this is not about putting a load of reps together. It's about going from a dead hang position preferably and then can you snap out of that? Now, we talk a lot about dead hangs on workshops and it's a real foundation for a lot of our pulling movements but being able to hang into that slack position and then get into active tension quickly is a real skill and something you need to train. So, I'm going to get Jaco to work into a dead hang and then his movement from this exercise is going to go quickly into an active hang as he then transitions into that pull-up and he's doing the same thing. How high above the bar can he get? Okay, so we're getting ribcage there which is great easy high enough for a muscle-up. You can see he's just going to get that hang position and it's a quick switch on the power. Put that force down. Think that relationship moderate force, high speed. Get those two things working together and the brain likes an outcome, right? So, the central nervous system is going to operate well. All you really got to think about is get your chest as high above the bar as possible. The mechanics of how you go about doing that will fit into place but just get high. Just think about pull-ups. You think about getting your chin above the bar. You got to take that away. You're not training pull-ups now. We're training for a muscle-up and the stakes have changed. It's now getting chest as high and high as high. You can get to your hips, then you've been laughing. Rep stay low, rest periods are still high. Link those two things together and we're doing all right. Okay, so once we're started working well on those high pulls and another way to progress that and accelerate our learning in that is doing clap pull-ups which are great because we're giving the brain, it likes, the brain way it works, it likes to have an outcome. So when you're saying try and pull yourself as high as you can, great. But if you've got to give the outcomeers kind of clap above the bar then all of a sudden you're giving the brain that cue to go to it. It's like if I ask you to jump as high as you can compared to jump on a really high box or touch the ceiling, when you've got that outcome to go for, the brain starts with the way it likes to work and having that thing to aim for. So Tim's going to jump on the bar, he's going to show us a couple. We're just going to pick up a couple of key points. Firstly, like we said right from the beginning we must be strong through the rain. So we must be get to this bottom position. There's no point in doing these all repping together all high at that top position with the elbow always bent. He's going to come down each time and do these as individual reps. So you're going to start low at the bottom, snap out of that bottom position until he can clap and then catch the bar.  Then he goes active, creates tension, bang, clap, back down onto the bar. They are hard doing them like that compared to just show us a couple Tim where he doesn't come back down when he tries to stay. If he stays high and see that bend in the elbow he's never accessing that deep position which for your muscle up that's one of those key areas where we're just not strong out of that bottom deep position. And if you don't spend any time creating tension out of that deep position there then you're not going to get strong there. It's as simple as that, we get what we're trained for. So train the full range that you're trying to work through. Give the brain an outcome it wants to work towards like the clap and then you're starting to get explosive as well as high above the bar you've worked. The force, the velocity on that force velocity curve and as you start to get higher and higher and higher above the bar and you get pulling to here that transition becomes easy. So that's it guys, we've talked a lot today about speed and the relationship with force and that may be one of the reasons why you can't get your first muscle up because you're just not fast enough. And a lot of training is a common thing that people just don't move, they don't train for speed. It's a very specific motor ability. So you need to some specific exercises in your training program that are gonna really start to enhance your ability to move with speed, with power and be able to kind of nail some of these more advanced movements. Everything else in calisthenics, levers, handstands, it's a lot around just kind of isometric strength. This is power, so you need to train for it specifically. And leave the ego at the door guys, something that I am girls, something that I've been doing a lot of to clean my muscle ups up is using the band working on that explosive pull with the band where it's just flying me up there but I'm training that speed and it's helped me absolutely no end. Yes, there are other elements to the muscle up in terms of you dip out that bottom position, the transition, we're gonna give you some more stuff on that but this is one of the key things we've highlighted when we see people who push ups, we're not fast out of that position. We've also got a ring of muscle up people coming out soon that's gonna cover absolutely everything in there. One last knowledge bomb from me, we talk about a lot of sprint training but if you wanna be fast, you've got to train fast. Yeah, exactly, yes. It's simple. Yeah, we get what we train for. So plenty of that stuff going and coming to you will bring you some more tips and that for your muscle up as well. But in the meantime, if you haven't yet, so you don't miss any of these new bits coming out, make sure you click subscribe.  There's video tutorials of every exercise you need to get started. That is down there, Tim, you're right. And then for other how-to videos, click up in that corner. Guys, that is it for today, I think we've done good today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for watching. If you have any questions, comment below whether it's about muscle ups or it's about for Q&As or anything, comment below. We wanna hear from you and we wanna help you out. Class dismissed.


Hi Andreas, thank you so much for the talk, it's been a pleasure. I'm from Venezuela and right now we're living in a very special moment. We're trying to transit out of the dictatorship. And I wonder, what's your opinion if it's still a good idea of a state-sponsored cryptocurrency, like a real one, not petrol, a real one, or is it better to reveal a country and the economy just to live with the duality of the fear and all the cryptos around? That's a great question. I don't think state-sponsored cryptocurrencies really change anything. A state-sponsored cryptocurrency, by definition, will be centralized, controlled, surveilled, closed. It will require identity verification, and it will only be available to the select few. What we don't realize is that one of the reasons why we're going to see more and more states promoted cryptocurrencies or other forms of digital currency is because we are entering the last era of cash. Cash will be eradicated. It will be eradicated within our lifelines. In many cases our children will never see cash unless they visit a museum because cash will be eradicated. The reason cash will be eradicated is because it creates an unfortunate opening for freedom in places where freedom isn't allowed. Cash allows some flexibility in the system. When ridiculous things are made illegal, cash is the way you do them. Generally speaking, the big crimes don't use cash because you can't move that much cash. For the big crimes, what you need to do is buy yourself a banking license and use a bank to do it like the people. If you want to sell bananas by the street side without a license, if you want to sell CDs with South Korean movies in North Korea, if you want to contribute to the opposition political party, and that's illegal, then cash is what you use, and cash is going away. One of the ways they're going to try to eradicate cash is through digital state-sponsored currencies. What they're trying to create is a currency panopticon, a virtual digital prison of money in which everything you do is controlled, everything you do can be seen, can be monitored, and at that point your freedom is one binary switch. Free, not free. Free, not free. And one day someone's going to go through that virtual control room and go, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. I won the election! Of course you did. Hi, thank you. It's so hard to just pick one question, but in Argentina we have a great history of co-operativeism that was destroyed by financial regulations protecting monopolies. My friend that was president of one, those cooperatives for work or credit were networks of trust, small regional networks with a common language of value. I like to call them plans of value. They couldn't scale. They couldn't connect in a strong national network even as a global. I want to ask you, do you see a place for co-operativeism and networks of trust in the crypto space next to the trustless network? No, absolutely. The trustless network exists there for the edge cases because you need something to manage the edge cases. But the vast majority of human transactions happen on a basis of trust. They don't happen on a trustless basis. You need trustless in order to do those transactions where you have no idea who the other person is and you have no basis to know them. But that's not the majority of commerce. We've only evolved into that space because of certain market failures. For example, the more you go into credit cards and the more you go into digital money, the less you can interact with a local person.  You either accept Visa or you're going to have to do some kind of weird barter. Cash is not going to work in many places. Increasingly, cash is failing. People don't have cash or they don't want to use cash. It's difficult. I've been to Argentina four times now. I know that if there's a long weekend coming up, you start lining up at the bank on Tuesday because Monday is when they fill the machines. And then if you're lucky, you get some 500s. Otherwise, you get stacks of 100 basins. Right? And cash is difficult here. This is very difficult to explain to Americans who have never had that. I have that in Greece as well. I remember times when there weren't any ATMs and people lined up at the bank and then we had runs on the bank and you're trying to pull out cash. So part of the problem, part of the reason you don't have a wallet or tip is because the local mechanisms of payment are failing. Right? Crypto brings that back. You don't need a trustless blockchain to accept a transaction from someone you know. Right? So at that point, how does that express itself? Well, perhaps I'm going to accept a zero confirmation transaction. Maybe from some of the people I know in here in this room I'd accept a zero confirmation transaction of some significant value because trust is more important than the trustless network. It's the remote case where you can't do that. So trustless does not mean we don't need trust. We don't use trust. We don't want trust. It means we also have the possibility of operating without it. I really love the idea of local law for this credit. I participate in some. They're mediated at the moment because they're old style. These are from before my time of Bitcoin. And there are some in the United States where what you can do is micro lending to other people. So they post a profile on the website and they say, I'm a plumber and I need to equip my new fan with two new ladders and I need a loan for $250. And they get, you know, 10 loans of $25 for 10 different people.   But the good news is we can do this more broadly now and we can do it globally. And the other news, which isn't good, is that bank loans and that mechanism itself is failing all over the world anyway. So something has to come in and replace it. Let's hope it's a more human approach.


Pause for a minute Do you know what your first impression is a lot of us don't a lot of us now and I know for me When I started to get that feedback on it. I was flabbergasted. I was frustrated Like what do you mean? This is not me. This is not how I want to present to the world And then I fell into well, how do I figure this out? Right? What do I do? How do I mimic the right people? What are the signals and it's it's easy to get caught in this this trap of Okay, well, I got to change everything right usually it's a lot simpler than that It's just subtracting a few things that you're doing to protect yourself to feel more secure in an environment That's uncomfortable that can actually lead you astray well think about what your world view looks like if you hadn't chose Chosen your first impression and let's just save you've given a bad first impression for let's say a few years now And you're wondering why everyone just seems put off or not giving you any time and How quickly then do you now start seeing everyone in that same manner or that the world is very tough and Then have to come the terms with for years It's been on your plate is the reason why everyone has been viewing you in that manner So as you mentioned, it's hard to get out of especially knowing that For years now the reason you've had such a small amount of opportunity is you've been yourself And it could have been easily corrected if you just Thought about it. Yeah, and a lot of us get hung up on the words, right? I want to say the right thing I want to appear funny But if you put a little emphasis and energy and work into that first impression that window that momentum Can carry the day so you don't have to be as funny. You don't have to dig out yourself out of a hole and if you think about this our first impression of the people around us Stays with us. So that first impression you had of your friend Typically was a good one which allowed you to feel comfortable pursuing that relationship So how many people in your life have you written off based on as dr. Todorov would said Your fallacies right your own beliefs about people and what what's so interesting about his research is that Our judgments of first impressions relate to our environment meaning the facial expressions You're exposed to become your baseline and when people deviate from your baseline, then you make judgments negatively So for example, if your father growing up Had a furrowed brow when he was deep in thought Then you Would by the absorbing that environment and picking up that first impression of people You would view people with furrowed brows more positively than someone who had a sunny disposition in his parents And didn't see that anger come through So what alex is saying here is don't focus on writing people off based on your first impression It's a snapshot. That's usually wrong And that's the myth that we're trying to bust here of Focusing on reading other people's body language and trying to understand their first impressions That's not where we should be putting our focus. Yes, we need to look at ourselves and make sure that we're projecting the right things


Hi guys, today's video is going to be a fun review video of the Chloe Ting Resistance Bands. I've gotten a few questions on what are they like? Are they good quality? So I'm going to talk about them today. I don't have anything to compare them to. I don't have any other equipment really to compare them to. I have used resistance therabands like the Rubberkind, but they're not attached like in the loop. Hopefully you guys enjoy this video. If you do, make sure to give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe. So I ordered these resistance bands not too long ago. I paid for them with my own money. I am not getting paid to talk about them. I genuinely love Chloe Ting and her exercises. You guys know that if you follow my workout journey, I've been doing her workouts for a while now. And I learned not too long ago that she had resistance bands. So I wanted to give them a try and they're just awesome. So if you guys want to just get to the chase, I say they're totally worth it. But if you want to stick around and hear some juicy details, then stick around. I'm not really going to spill any like juicy stuff. I don't know why I said that. They come in this bag, which is really cute.  I don't really even know a thrust exercise. I have no idea what it's really called. It's a little drawing of her and then it's this tan bag. It looks kind of like a beach bag sort of material. It's like a canvas material, so it's really good quality. Honestly, when you feel the bag itself, it's really good quality. Like it's not super thin. They are around 67 US dollars, I do believe. I will link them down below if you want to purchase them. But you get three resistance bands in a pack. It comes with this pink one and this is one of my favorite colors. I love the light pink. Then it comes with this teal blue color and I love this color too. Kind of reminds me of my high school I went to because our colors were like teal and purple. And then last but not least, we have a purple one. So this is more of a lilac-y purple color and honestly, they're so well made. I don't know what they're made out of really and their colors all complement each other, which I really like. I don't know if Chloe Ting did that on purpose probably, but they all look great. Also, because I mentioned this in almost all my videos because I have a sensitive nose, they smell kind of good. I don't know what they smell like. I can't really describe it, but they smell like new. I don't know, but they don't smell weird at all. Honestly, I kind of like the smell. It doesn't smell rubbery either.   That's what I can describe it as. It's kind of like a clean smell. One of the other products I reviewed kind of had this certain smell. It kind of smelled like vinegar, so they don't have any strong smell. So if you're concerned about that, these are really good. If you have a sensitive nose because they don't smell weird or anything. So the first thing I wanted to show you guys, all of them say keep thrusting on little black band here. They say keep thrusting. And this pink one is the lightest level of resistance. So it's like really easy to just do this with. At first I started off with this one, obviously. At first it was really hard. If you've never worked with any like resistance bands or anything, these are challenging. But then I got used to it and then I moved up a level, which I shared with you guys in my Chloe Ting Update Challenge video last week. Yeah, last Friday. And yeah, so if you've never worked with anything like this, definitely start off with the easier one because you don't want to be like struggling. So the next level, I believe I could be wrong, but they feel kind of similar. But anyway, so the next level of resistance that I chose to do. I don't know if this is the most advanced one, but I think it's the middle one. It's this blue color. It's definitely a lot harder than the pink version. So again, it just has the keep thrusting little black tab here. Moving on to the purple. I honestly think the purple one is the middle level of resistance. And I think I just got them mixed up. That's embarrassing, but I guess I'm now on the blue version because I've been using this one for the past two like booty slash butt workouts. So this must be the middle level of resistance and this must be the hardest. I'm no professional when it comes to this stuff, but this is the middle level of resistance. I can actually feel it. I should start using this one, but it is just the lilac color and I'm just repeating myself. So I'm going to get into kind of the cons with these. The first con, I haven't really experienced myself, but apparently there was a quality control issue or something. But I remember posting these on my story and then Chloe Ting herself because I tagged her sent me this message and she was like, Oh, if you find any like defects with it or anything is wrong with it, let me know and then we'll like replace them or something. Because in the past, I believe they had some quality issues. So that was really nice of her to share with me. If you guys, I guess have any issues, just message her and she'll get you to the right person. They're probably like customer service or anything to get your resistance bands replaced. So I guess they did have quality control issues in the past, but I think they're fixed because I don't see anything wrong with mine. I've used these two so far and I've not experienced anything like no threads are coming undone. They didn't like break at all. So overall, I'm happy with my purchase and there's nothing wrong with them. The next thing I wanted to address is their price. They are a bit pricey. They're about like $67, but you get all three of them, right?  If you buy these, hopefully she does. I don't know that for a fact. You get three of them so technically they're not that expensive, but I didn't really realize that when I was on the website. So I thought I was over here buying like one resistance band for like $67 and I was like, okay, I'll see how it is. But then I was like, oh, you get three and I do think they are worth the price because they aren't rubber. I mean, there's clearly like rubber in them to give them like elasticity. Yeah, there's definitely like rubber in them, but they're covered by this fabric, which is really nice. So it doesn't like rub against your skin if you're working out in shorts or anything. It won't be hard on your skin or clothes or anything like that. They're just really good quality. Like they're thick.  Just like these, they are very well made. I don't feel like they're just gonna poop out on me when I'm working out. So I definitely think they're worth the price, but that could be a con if you don't want to spend a lot of money. And then the third thing is when I work out, I got this question a few times when I was working out with them, but someone asked, do they move while you're doing the exercises? Kind of, but kind of not. Does that make sense? So I will put some b-roll on the screen. When I do the workout, you can see when I raise my leg, it shifts a little bit up my thigh and that is kind of normal. But when I keep on doing the exercise and like raising my leg to that level or whatever, the resistance band stays there. So it's not moving all over the place. It's really moving when I first move my leg, but once it knows where on my thigh it wants to move to, it stays there. That is pretty much the only like cons about these things. Again, I don't have a lot to compare them to because these are the only ones I have. They seem to be fine for me and I'm supporting a creator that I genuinely really like and I want to support. So do I think they're worth it? Yes, I do to answer the question. You know, it just took a few minutes to get to the verdict. Highly recommend the Chloe Ting workout bands if you're looking for that. That is pretty much it for this video. If there's anything else you want me to review or recommend that you really, really like, let me know in the comments down below. Give this video a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye.


It makes more sense to spend your time fretting about shark attacks or being struck by lightning If you're reading this odds are you live in an English-speaking nation If you live in an English-speaking nation your government is so very very very far from espousing Communism that it would make more sense for you to spend your time worrying about being eaten by lions Even if you believe everything the TV tells you about communism The simple economic realities of your nation and the mountains of violent force keeping it in place Mean that of all the many many existential threats you can worry about Communism should rank near dead last Reverse Batman a working-class ninja spends his nights beating up kleptocratic billionaires whose thievery has created the socioeconomic injustice that's destroying his city Balanced commentary in the West does not mean criticizing all governments Balanced commentary in the West would be correcting the wild imbalance in our current media environment by focusing on criticizing the most powerful and deadly Governments who barely receive any criticism The powerful are able to manipulate humanity collectively to such an extent that our compliance now has us staring down the barrel of extinction on multiple fronts No individual can stop them They won't be stopped until the people begin thinking and organizing collectively to Which is of course why all collectivist movement is stomped out with whatever degree of violence is necessary Our rulers are not even the slightest bit worried about us as individuals But they are absolutely terrified of the idea of having to face us as a collective If individualism ever had an argument to begin with it certainly hasn't got one anymore Humanity's collective behavior is now so powerful that it can literally end our world The only thing we can control now is whether that behavior is toward health or destruction Oh, you just want the government to leave you alone and let you go about your business as an individual, do you? Well, guess what blossom Even if you went off grid and lived a truly independent life The ways the powerful are organizing the collective will still get you killed Even if you support a radically individualist status quo like voluntarism or monarchism You're never going to get a chance at creating the status quo without mass scale collective organization against the current status quo An anarchist who dismisses mass collective organization is just a larper The need to begin thinking and organizing collectively has shown up at your doorstep The luxury of thinking of yourself as an individual is no longer yours Unhealthy mass scale human behavior will destroy us all if we cannot make the changes necessary to turn it toward health We will either rise as a collective or perish as individuals All other options have been taken off the table Humans are not rational animals That's clearly evident in our behavior at mass scale and as individuals We are driven by our conditioning If any kind of free will can be said to exist at all It's only to the extent that we choose to bring consciousness to that condition The only obstacle to the creation of paradise on earth is the limits of human perception Our inability to see what's happening behind the veils of government secrecy behind the distortions of propaganda Behind the illusory nature of the ego We just need to find a way to see Seeing is all that's required If enough people could clearly see what's going on in their world In their government and in themselves The shift into healthy and harmonious functioning would immediately change From seemingly impossible to self-evidently inevitable


I'm Chef Majid Abdul Rahim. I'm from Syria. June 22, 2016, coming in America, city of Seoul, in Arizona. My name is Nubsa Philip Bang, and I'm the founder and CEO of FooDeen. FooDeen is an online restaurant, and what we do is we hire human-grown refugee chefs and give them the space to prepare and sell their home recipes. I was thinking about my mom's story as a refugee coming here, not having very much access to good jobs, you know, lacking, not having very proficient English skills and lower education. But yes, she still had this amazing talent, which is cooking food. And so really, that was that moment where FooDeen kind of really took flight, was that we were creating space for people like my mom to create jobs for themselves but also introduce, you know, really amazing, authentic food to the city. I am happy for Majid Cook, food cereal for people in America. This food, my country. I am happy for this.


50 years ago, a generation cried out, saying that they want a revolution. Well, you know, we all want to change the world. And yes, some things have changed. Women are sitting on the Supreme Court, running for president, any two people can get married in any of the 50s dates in America, and while far too many people of color still experience systemic racism and injustice, we have at least begun to talk about the fact that black lives matter. But we are not finished. In fact, we have only just begun. It is not enough to say that you want a revolution. We must become the revolutionaries. So stop saying you want a revolution, and start being the revolutionary love that our world needs in order to truly change.