Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger. The coronavirus pandemic has made many of us very aware of the importance of maintaining and improving our health. Make that your silver lining, because the more positive change we can make to our diet and lifestyle, the better. Today on the podcast, part two of our Strokes and Diet series, in our first story, we start out with a study on vegetarians and stroke risk. The risks of heart disease and stroke, in mediators versus vegetarians, over 18 years of follow-up. Not surprisingly, vegetarian diets were associated with less heart disease, 10 fewer cases per 1,000 people per decade compared to mediators, but vegetarian diets were associated with three more cases of stroke. So eating vegetarian appears to lower the risk of cardiovascular disease by 7 overall. But why the extra stroke risk? Could it just be reverse causation? For example, when studies have shown higher mortality among those who quit smoking compared to continuing smokers, we suspect reverse causality. When we see a link between quitting smoking and dying, instead of quitting smoking leading to people dying, more likely dying led people to quit smoking. It's the same reason why non-drinkers can appear to have even more liver cirrhosis because it was their failing liver that led them to stop drinking. This is the so-called sick quitter effect. And you can see it when people quit meat, too. Why would some older person all of a sudden start eating vegetarian? Maybe it's because they've just been diagnosed with heart disease. So that may be why there appears to be higher rates at first, the sick quitter effect, to control for that. You can throw out the first five years of data to make sure the diet has a chance to start working, and indeed, when you do that, the true effect comes clear, significant drop in heart disease risk. So does that likely explain the apparent increased stroke risk? No, because they still found higher stroke risk even after the first five years. Huh, okay, then what's going on? Let's dive deeper into the data to look for clues. There are two main types of strokes, ischemic strokes and hemorrhagic strokes.  In the United States it's about 90-10. 9 out of 10 strokes or clotting 1 out of 10, the bleeding type. And that's what the vegetarians appeared to have significantly more of. The vegans didn't, in fact, statistically have significantly higher risk of any kind of stroke, but that's terrible news for vegans. Vegans have the same stroke risk as meat eaters? What's going on? What's so increasing their stroke risk that it's offsetting all their natural advantages? And the same could be asked of vegetarians. Even though this was the first study of vegetarian stroke incidents, there have been about a half dozen studies on stroke mortality. And the various meta-analyses have consistently found significant lower heart disease risk, but the lower stroke mortality was not statistically significant. Now with this new study, vegetarians can take comfort in the fact that at least they don't have a higher risk of dying from stroke, but that's terrible news for vegetarians. Statistically, vegetarians have the same stroke death rate as meat eaters? What's going on? What's so increasing their stroke rate that it's offsetting all their natural advantages? Okay, let's run through a couple possibilities. If you look at the vitamin D levels of vegetarians and vegans, they do tend to run consistently lower than meat eaters, and lower vitamin D status is associated with increased risk of stroke. But who has higher levels of the sunshine vitamin? Those who are outside running around and exercising, maybe that's why their stroke risk is better. What we need are randomized studies, and when you look at people who've been effectively randomized at birth to have lifelong lower vitamin D levels, just genetically, you do not see a clear indicator of increased stroke risk. So the link between vitamin D and stroke is probably not cause and effect. And so in terms of an answer to our question, vitamin D doesn't seem to fit, right? We'll explore some other possibilities next. In my last video, we started to explore what might explain the higher stroke risk in vegetarians found in the Epic Oxford study. Lower risk of heart disease and lower risk of cardiovascular disease overall, but higher risk of stroke. We looked into vitamin D levels as a potential mechanism, but that didn't seem to be the case. What about long-chain omega-3s? The fish fats like EPA and DHA found, not surprisingly, markedly lower levels in vegetarians and vegans. About 30% lower in vegetarians and more like half as low in vegans. But according to the most extensive systematic assessment of effects of omega-3 fats on cardiovascular health to date, there is no benefit for stroke. Combining 28 randomized controlled trials, and in fact there was evidence that taking fish well didn't help with heart disease or overall mortality either. This may be because on one hand the omega-3s may be helping, but the mercury in fish may be making things worse. That's the constant challenge among public health professionals, balancing the benefits with the contaminant risks. For example, dietary exposure to PCBs may be associated with increased risk of stroke. In this study, for instance, neither fish nor intake of PCBs was related to stroke risk. However, at the same fish intake, dietary PCBs were associated with an increased risk of stroke, so the PCB pollutants may be masking the fish benefit. So it doesn't seem to be the omega-3s either. Let's take a closer look at what the vegetarians were actually eating. When it comes to plant-based diets for cardiovascular disease prevention, all plant foods are not created equal. There are basically two types of vegetarians, those that do it for their health, and those who do it for ethical reasons, for like global warming or animals, and they tend to eat different diets. So for example, health vegans tend to eat more fruit and less sweets. You don't tend to see those doing it for health, chowing down on vegan donuts. In the United States, the primary motivations for meat reduction are health and cost. Middle-class American families four times more likely to reduce meat for health reasons compared to environmental or animal welfare concerns. But in the UK, where the stroke study was done, the number one reason given for becoming vegetarian or vegan is ethics. We know plant-based diets that emphasize higher intakes of plant foods and lower intakes of animal foods are associated with a lower risk of incident cardiovascular diseases, a lower risk of dying from all causes put together, but that's only for healthy plant foods. Eating lots of your wonder bread, soda, and apple pie isn't going to be doing you many favors. For all types of plant-based diets, it's crucial that the choice of plant foods is given careful consideration. We should be choosing whole grains over refined grains, whole fruits, avoiding trans fats and added sugars. Could it be that the veggie brits were just eating more chips? We'll find out next. Finally today, just because you're eating vegetarian or vegan doesn't mean you're eating healthy. Plant-based diets are associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, mortality, and dying from all causes put together. This study of a diverse sample of 12,000 Americans found that progressively increasing the intake of plant foods by reducing the intake of animal foods may be associated with benefits on cardiovascular health and mortality. But when it comes to plant-based diets for cardiovascular disease prevention, all plant foods are not created equal. Were the vegetarians in the British study that found the higher stroke risk just eating a lot of vegan junk food? Any diet devoid of certain animal food sources can be claimed to be a vegetarian or vegan diet, so it's important to see what they were actually eating. One of the first things I look at when I'm trying to see how serious a population is about healthy eating is look at something undeniably, uncontroversially bad, soda, liquid candy. Anyone drinking straight sugar water obviously doesn't have health top of mind. In the big study of plant-based eaters in America, where people tend to cut down on meat for health reasons, far more than ethics, flexitarians drink fewer sugary beverages than regular meat eaters, as do pescatarians, vegetarians, and vegans. In the UK study, though, where the increased stroke risk was found, where folks are more likely to go veg or vegan for ethical reasons, the pescatarians are drinking less soda, but the vegetarians and vegans are drinking more. I'm not saying that's why they had more strokes, it just might give us an idea of how healthy the people were eating. In the UK study, the vegetarians, vegan men and women, were eating about the same amount of desserts, cookies, and chocolate, and about the same total sugar. In the US study, the average non-vegetarian is nearly obese. Even the vegetarians are a little overweight, and the vegans were the only ideal weight group. In this analysis of the UK study, though, everyone was about the same weight. In fact, the meat eaters were skinnier than the vegans. The Epic Oxford study seems to have attracted a particularly health-conscious group of meat eaters, weighing substantially less than the general population. Dietary fiber appears beneficial for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, including stroke, and it appears the more, the better. Based on studies of nearly half a million men and women, there doesn't seem to be any upper threshold of benefit. So the more, the better. More than 25 grams of soluble fiber, 47 grams of insoluble dietary fiber, and you can really start seeing a significant drop in associated stroke risk. So one could consider these as the minimal recommendable daily intakes to prevent stroke at a population level. That's what you see in people eating diets centered around minimally processed plant foods, like Dean Ornish got up around there with his whole food plant-based diet. Maybe not as much as we were designed to eat, based on the analysis of fossilized feces, but that's the kind of neighborhood where we might expect significantly lower stroke risk. How much were the UK vegetarians getting? 22.1. Now in the UK, they measured fiber a little differently, so that may actually be closer to 30 grams, but not the optimal level for stroke prevention. So little fiber, the vegetarians being only beat out the meat-eaters by about one or two bowel movements a week, suggesting they're eating lots of processed foods. The vegetarians were only eating about half serving more fruits and vegetables, thought to reduce stroke risk in part because of their potassium content. Yet the UK vegetarians at higher stroke risk were evidently eating so few greens and beans, they couldn't even match the meat-eaters, not even reaching the recommended minimum daily potassium intake of 4,700 milligrams a day. And what about sodium? The vast majority of the available evidence indicates that elevated salt intake is associated with higher stroke risk. There's like a straight line increase in the risk of dying from stroke, the more salt you eat. Even just lowering sodium intake by a tiny fraction every year could prevent tens of thousands of fatal strokes. Reducing sodium intake to prevent stroke, time for action, not hesitation. But the UK vegetarians and vegans appeared to be hesitating, as did the other dietary groups. All groups exceeded the advised less than 2,400 milligrams of daily sodium intake, and that doesn't even account for salt added at the table. And the American Heart Association recommends under just 1,500 a day. So they were all eating lots of processed foods. No wonder the vegetarian blood pressures were only one or two points lower. And high blood pressure is perhaps the single most important modifiable risk factor for stroke. What evidence do I have that if the vegetarians and vegans ate better, their stroke risk would go down? Well, in rural Africa, where they were able to nail the fiber intake that their bodies were designed to get by eating so many whole healthy plant foods, fruits, vegetables, grains, greens, and beans, their protein almost entirely from plant sources, not only was heart disease our number one killer almost non-existent, so apparently was stroke, surging up from out of nowhere with the introduction of salt and refined foods to their diet. Stroke also appears to be virtually absent in Katava, quasi-vegan island culture near Australia, where diet was very low in salt and very rich in potassium, because it was a vegetable-based diet. They ate fish a few times a week, but the other 95% or so of their diet was lots of vegetables, fruits, corn, and beans, and they had an apparent absence of stroke, even despite their ridiculous rates of smoking. After all, we evolved, eating as little as like less than an eighth of teaspoon a day of salt, and our daily potassium consumption start to have been as high as like 10,000 milligrams. We went from an unsalted, whole food diet to salty processed foods depleted of potassium, whether we eat meat or not, called Willusselston at the Cleveland Clinic, tried putting about 200 patients with established cardiovascular disease on a whole food plant-based diet. Of the 177 that stuck with the diet, only one went on to have a stroke in subsequent few years, compared to a hundredfold greater rate of adverse events, including multiple strokes and deaths in those that strayed from the diet. This is not vegetarianism, Willusselston explains. Vegetarians can eat a lot of less than ideal foods. This new paradigm is exclusively whole food plant-based nutrition. 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John Carlo, what did you think about the performance of Gleiber Torres, not just tonight, but this entire series? Unbelievable.  What does it say about this team? The way you came out in the first two games of the series, just swinging the bats extremely well and then finishing off things here in Minnesota on their home field? Just grinding out of bats, making it tough on their pitchers, staying in our zone was huge. We really made it tough on them in the show, you know, over the course of nine innings that, you know, we keep doing that, it's going to pay off. A little slow early on with the offense, but do you guys just have the mentality that eventually you're going to find a way to break through? Wear them down, wear them down. It might take a little longer than we want, but, you know, eventually we're going to get them. How do you learn about your pitching staff this series and the way Aaron Boone has been using the bullpen?  The first two games of the series, walking a couple of times, what is your first hit tonight? Is that the way you saw it playing out in your head, your first hit of the first season?  How curious are you to find out who you are playing, whether it be Tampa or Houston? Who do you want? Oh yeah, it doesn't matter. We're ready. You know, we got a few days off to prepare and we'll wait it out. Giancarlo, thanks for the time.


Oh, here we go. I'm here, I made it, I made it. Hey, everybody say hi to Miss Isabella. This is Isabella, she's two months old or just a little under two months old. Say hi. So hi everybody, hi world. So where are you from? Tell us in the world, where are you from? Where are you live and in? I know we have people all over the world here. So I'm very passionate about what I'm about to talk about. So if you're watching this live or the replay, let me know. But I'm super, super passionate about what I'm gonna talk about. A mentor of mine, he's one of the most prolific coaches in the world, human performance, health and wellness coaches in the world. He said something to me that I didn't think in right away and it has to pertain with New Year's resolutions. And so I'm gonna give you the number one secret. There's another little tip I wanna give. But he said this, he goes, if you want six pack abs, the desire, he doesn't believe in discipline, by the way, he believes in choices. He didn't believe in like, you have just discipline. You choose and you follow through on your path, right? That's how he looked at it. And I don't disagree with him now that I see what I see in the world. But either way, he goes, the six pack abs, what is up summer?  So the reward of the six pack abs has to be greater. Let me try to put you down. Let me try to put you down. All right, let's go. So the greater, then I'll see if I can do this. So I'm gonna do a live, I'm gonna rock her at the same time as my foot and see if we can keep her from crying. You ready, Isabella? Okay, let's see how it goes. All right, and here we go. She's smiling at me. So the, and I'm gonna give a couple of scenarios here, but so the six pack abs, the desire to get the six pack abs has to be greater than the desire or the reward of the cupcake or the donut or whatever food that is, right? I hope that makes sense. Happy New Year's everybody. I hope that makes sense. So basically people ask me all the time, like, how do you build certainty in people and how do you give people results? Getting results isn't that hard. Like it's not rock science, it's not coming your wrong. I had Hashimoto's, my immune system was out of control. Like it was complicated. It wasn't like as easy it would have been at 18 as it was at, 18 would have been easier than at 26.  And, but what are the secrets to getting there? And I'm gonna give you that, but the number one secret that you have to have to really conquer this year's New Year's resolution is that the reason why, the goal of what you're achieving has to have a higher reward. It has to have a higher reward than the reward of the things that are not getting you there. The alcohol, the, I'm using food as an example, but the TV show, right? Sitting and watching the TV, one of the best things I ever did is got rid of cable, right? Because it just, it took away that reason because my reason to provide financially for my family was really high. But when I was competing with TV, it's a competition, like get rid of the competition. So then I didn't have anything else to do. There's nothing to watch.  So that was a choice. So if you're financially trying to change your life, gotta get rid of the distractions. The things that are, but you gotta look at it from a biochemistry perspective. This is the part that most people don't understand. It's one of the reasons why drug addictions and alcoholisms and food addictions and all these things, why they keep failing for most people is because we don't, we have to replace the reward in our brain. And this comes from some pretty good research, but I'm not gonna go into that. So what is your goal for this year? I'm just curious if you wanna put in the chat, put it down in the chat, put down one goal, just put down one goal. And then ask yourself, what are the things that are stopping you from doing that? And don't be so mean at yourself.  Because sometimes you might not have control over that one thing, okay? Sometimes you do.   So you've lost some of that control. So we have to fix that so that you can ultimately get that reward. So there's more to it than just, I gotta be super committed or disciplined. There's more to it than just disciplined. I promise you that, I can just tell you that. And that's why I love doing what we do because we can really help a lot of people. So that's number one is what is it? So for me, I have a couple of pictures I'll show you here in my office. It's funny, I say that and I can't find one of the pictures that's right here. It's always in my desk right in front of me. I've got my bells on. I tell you that I have one more picture of my whole family, but I have a wall. So this is what I do. I'm 46 years old. I've gotten to see the world. I've traveled the world. I've done some cool, the first time we ever stepped foot in Australia from a parachute and a lightning storm jumped out of a helicopter. I mean, I've done some cool stuff. I stepped on the most denly fish in the sea. I've flown in private jets in multiple countries. I spoke in multiple countries. I've done a lot of cool stuff. But at the end of the day, what is it? Like, what is my why? Like, why do I work later? Why do I sometimes stay up till two o'clock in the morning? Why do I get up in the middle of the night to do a Zoom? Or why am I going to the gym to work out? Why am I having surgery and do an extra rehab? I didn't do rehab for six weeks or eight weeks. I did it for, I've been doing rehab for my left shoulder for two years. Why? Because of these guys. This, when I see this picture, you know, if you guys don't know me, you know, my father died at 48. In two years from now, I'll live my father. In two years, I'll live my father. And, you know, it's just my stepfather, I think made it to 55, I think. I think I don't even know. So I see this picture and it means a lot to me. So when I'm having a hard day or a bad day, I see this picture. I know why I'm doing what I'm doing. It's easy to say it, but you gotta feel that. And sometimes it's not easy. Sometimes I screw up and I make mistakes.  But when I see that picture of my family, it reminds me of what really I am motivated by.  Yes, there was a time I was motivated by a nicer house. I still am, to be honest, I have a real nice.  But I'm motivated by travel. I was motivated and those were things that got me excited. So it was easy for me to go, hey, I get to go to Paris or I get to go to Italy. You know what, I can get rid of cable so I can make some extra money so that I can take my wife to Italy. Like that was a motivator for me. And so why we do think that is the number one thing. People think it's about the plan. It's never what it is or how it works. That's not the plan. That builds confidence and confidence is really important. But why you do what you do is the most important thing. Simon Sinek said it best. And so from there, once you understand why you're doing it and people sabotage themselves because they don't know and I use this as a last example. I know I'm beating a dead horse a little bit here but if you're a boat in the ocean right now and you're going down, if you're in the ocean and you're not, you don't have a destination, right? You're just floating around. How well are you gonna do in that boat? Like you have all the supplies you need. You have everything you need in the boat but if you don't have a destination you're just wandering around. Are you at some point gonna be very uncertain, very uncomfortable, not sure what to do and where to go? Like there's no destination, right? Knowing why you're doing it and where you wanna go is gonna create clarity. And most people don't have a clear picture of what they want and where they wanna go. Okay, I'm not, this is my best Tony Robbins yell. I got very blessed to work with a lot of his team so I'm pretty stoked by that. But it's just short, it's a simple thing. But if you have a destination even if you land in the wrong spot, at least you have clarity that that's not where you wanna be. Christopher Columbus landed in the wrong spot. Like he didn't go where he wanted to go initially but ultimately it led him to a place that he wanted to go. And he created, I mean he changed our world, not my world at least, significantly, all of our worlds really, which is pretty, pretty cool. So I just wanted to share that well with you. A couple of little tips that I would give you for New Year's resolutions for a better new year is if you don't know your plan, that's okay too. Surround yourself with people, this is a secret. Surround yourself with people that have a plan. Borrow theirs for a while. I call that right in the back of my bus. People go, why are you so excited, Dustin? I go, if you're going where I'm going, you'd be excited too, right?  Like we're going awesome places. You gotta be excited. Does it mean every day is this way? No, not at all, some days I'm pissed, some days I'm irritated, some days I'm tired. But at the end of the day overall, I know where I'm going, but you might just have to jump on the back of the bus. When Probit launched, I didn't know, I didn't have a lot of clarity of what I wanted at the time. But I knew that Brian and Michael did, so I got on their bus. I didn't let them drive my bus forever though, by the way. I got on my bus, so I got some clarity. Once I got clarity and some confidence up, I jumped up and I started driving my own bus. And for some of you out here, you need to start driving your own bus. You need to kind of take the reins. And guess what? It's not always easy, it's not always gonna be comfortable.  So if you're right now, don't know where to go, get on the bus with somebody else. Borrow theirs for a while. Know that you're borrowing theirs for a while until you identify yours. Here's another little tip. Surround yourself with good people. You know what? My sister, I use my sister, I love her to death. And I'll tell her, if she's watching this, Deb, if she's watching this, I love you. But my sister was a drug addict in and out of prison and she was messed up for a long time. She's not somebody, if I wanted to get healthy, I would spend a lot of time with. Back then, she's changed dramatically now, right? So be aware of who you're spending time with. If it's financial goals, if it's health goals, but if you're spending time with people that drink a lot and you wanna cut back on drinking, it's gonna be a tough road. You gotta go find a tribe of people that don't drink as much. And if you do that, you are more likely to be successful. So that's called your environment. Your environment has to be suitable to that. And so sometimes, if you're in a small town and you don't have anybody, yes, Deb is, I mean, my cousin's on here. She's like, Deb's amazing. Now I know she's just a whole different person and she's grown so much. I'm so proud of her. And I look after her in so many ways now because of what she's accomplished and be able to overcome. It's truly remarkable, my sister. My mom too. I mean, there's so many people. Lori, you also. Jennifer, you also. I mean, it's pretty amazing. But people get caught up in the plan and what do I do? How do I do it? What do I do? And that is not the most important thing. Now, what that does give, the plan gives you clarity. The plan gives you a path. It gives you confidence that you have something to move forward towards with uncertainty or if your confused mind does nothing. So a plan is good, but not as good as the right environment and a direction of know where you wanna go. When you know where you wanna go and you have the right environment, you can come up with the plan. You can create the plan. You can adjust the plan. The perfect plan with the wrong environment and no intention to the right direction will ultimately fail every single time. I've seen it all the time. This is what eating plans, why eating plans never work is because they're missing the most important thing. I was supposed to do a talk for one of the leading cardiologists in the country and maybe in the world. And he thought, he goes, what do you wanna talk about? He thought I was trying to talk about ketones or coffee. I'm drinking coffee right now. Non-caffeine with keto cream. And so he thought he was gonna talk about that. And I go, no, I go, we gotta talk about the two first things. Why are you doing this and who are you spending time with? I go, you have the perfect plan. They all know what to do. These are all educated people. It's not rocket science. What to do? They all know what it is. Yeah, we can fine tune it for each individual person. But ultimately, if you wanna have success in 2023, a better me in 23, just for fun, I love here. And that went for them in the chat. Better me in 23. And what's your better you look like, right? What's your it? What's your prove it? What are you gonna prove in 2023? And so I'm just gonna tell you, no, get clarity on what it is and then get around people that either have it or are going after the same thing or going in that direction with you, right? If you get on a bus, if you wanna make a million dollars and the other person says, hey, listen, I wanna retire and I don't wanna make any money. I just wanna like relax. You don't wanna get on their bus. That's not gonna work. You're going to two different directions. Does that make sense? Right? If you have somebody that's really comfortable in their life and they're not looking for a financial win, don't get on their bus. Admire them for having the success that they've had because maybe they were financially early stable and they're like, they're on their way like to relaxing mode in autopilot. That's cool. Admire them, but don't follow them because that's not the path for your success if you're not where they're, you're not starting at the same spot. So these are a couple of little tips I wanna give you lastly about the plan, the how. If you haven't already joined us, you have to join us in our beta test. It won't be beta very long and there's a limited supply. It's just pretty awesome. It's really awesome, by the way, but it's a new fasting component with ketones. You drink ketones daily and then you fast regularly. But we have this new iFast that we're, and I'm doing it right now again. I did it last week, I did it this week. I am operating at a whole nother stratosphere and it just doesn't seem that, like the 60 R key to reboot, sometimes I'm like, I have to fight, which is a good thing, right? You wanna be able to actually feel uncomfortable sometimes where this I'm not that uncomfortable, but I feel amazing, which is what I really, really want, right? Most of the time. So you want that most of the time or once in a while you gotta get uncomfortable. So we're doing this new thing.  That's the plan. That's the start. Remember, your transformation isn't 10 days, it isn't 20 days, it isn't 30 days. Everybody's transformation is forever. You know, it might take you a year to lose 100 pounds. It might take you a year to lose 60 pounds, right? But it might take you two years to learn how to live there. So it's a transformation that's ongoing. Too many people start to these things. Too many people start things with this weird expectation like it's like, I don't understand. Like I just don't get it. When I start with proof of truth story, I wanted to make five grand a month. That's what my goal was. And he goes, how long do you want to take to make five grand a month? I go, two years. He goes, really? And I'm like, what's your goal? And he goes, 50 grand a month. And I'm like, what? I go, how long? He goes, a few months. I'm like, holy cow. My point of that is, is that I thought it was gonna take a long time. It didn't take as long as that for me to accomplish that. We worked our butts off. But the reality was the, I was committed to the journey to change the future of my life. And I just knew that it took time, right? To become anything's gonna take time and effort in the learning grow, right? I just hope that makes sense. If you're in a transformation, come to it. So if you want the plan, come join us in this new transformation plan we have. Fasting with ketones. I fast with ketones. Come do this. Whoever invited you to follow me, get back to them. If you want to, if you follow me to follow me, hit me back.  There's the plan. It'll give you the plan and the how. The plan and the how, which are the two least important thing in here. I'm telling you right now, the two least important thing. Are ketones important? Yes, because ketones are gonna help you live better, right? They're important. They're gonna help you think clear. Maybe if you can't think as clear about what you want, you drink ketones, you get clarity, right? Keto clarity, you might get clarity. So therefore you can decide what you want to accomplish. But last thing I want to end you with is when you find the tribe that you're in, you know, I've been improving for eight years and anybody that's committed to this company will always tell you it's one of the best things they've ever done. It's changed your life, even if they're not with us anymore. Maybe they've transitioned into something else or whatever. They'll tell you that they've learned more here. And good, we want to leave people better than what we found them. And that's what really our goal is.  Come, you best in yourself to change your life forever. If you want to build a business with us, come build a business with us. If you don't want to build a business, come anyway and learn. If you don't learn now, you're never going to learn. I have people that come to me that financial goals for the year and I'm like, do you have any skill sets? You know what? No, no, no. I'm like, well, are you going to try something to start learning something? I don't know. Well, that's the start, right? At least come and get information. At least come and learn. Otherwise you're never going to change. You're going to look for another J-O-B and I don't want a J-O-B. I want a career. I want freedom.  I have a wall right there. It's wealth, happiness, health and financial abundance. That's what I want. And I want to be with the people I love the most with. I love you all, but I love them way more. I'm just telling you, I'm willing to do more for them. More for them than I am you. Sometimes my wife wonders.  So y'all have an amazing 2023. I hope this touched somebody somewhere, but the reality is it's not what we say right now. It's what we say in next month and next month and next month. I mean, I wish, if I could hold it accountable to myself to every month, have a, I did it last year. I did like a half of the year check in because I know it, I get it.  There's gonna be curve balls. There's a quote, the person has the greatest success. The person that overcomes the most obstacles. The person that has the greatest success overcomes the most obstacles. So yes, you're, somebody's gonna get sick.  We just had a baby. Guess what? It's been complicated for two months. I've taken on a lot more responsibilities on one side. April hasn't slept as much. We're figuring it out. New schedule, four kids, all of these moving parts are happening, business is going, things are, countries are trying to open up. It's constantly, like that's, there's obstacles along the way, but there's, you could say the positive. Yes, the kid, the positive, but there's gonna be deaths. There's gonna be weddings. There's gonna be vacations. There's gonna be travel schedules. Expect that. That's normal. It's never gonna be perfect, but it's when you get to the other side of that and you grow from it and learn from it, is when you start to become the best version of yourself. So that's really what I wanna inspire everybody to do. It's remember, the number one secret for this New Year's resolution is that the desire for your success, the desire for the six pack abs, the desire for the 30 pound weight loss, the desire for the financial change in your life, the desire to have a dream house, the desire to travel the world, the desire to have an RV, the desire to have a boat, the desire to pay for your kid's college, the desire for your doll shoes, I don't know. The desire for your new car, your desire for whatever it is has to be greater than the reward of the things that prevent you. The reward of watching the TV show, if that's greater, you get more reward out of, I got rid of NFL ticket 12 years ago now. 12 years ago. I did it in the middle of the season, two story. In the history of Direct TV, they'd never had anybody canceled the NFL ticket in the middle of the season. I did that. Why?  They weren't paying my bills. They weren't doing it. They were stressing me out. I was losing money playing fantasy football. Actually, I don't lose. I win, I win, let's be honest. But not enough to feed my family, that's for sure. So the desire for my family to live a better life was greater. The dream, the idea of what I wanted to accomplish was greater than watching frickin' the Minnesota Vikings win or lose. And man, that was a shitty game. Thank God, I'm rooting for the Niners also, and they played pretty well. So that was a fun game, actually. So, but that's the secret. It's not about what? It's not about the how. And then lastly, remember, find a community of people, borrow somebody else's certainty and direction, and then find the plan and the how. And we have the plan or how.  And I'm not a guy, I'm not gonna put a lot of things down, but I'm just gonna flat out tell you, 99.9% of programs out there, I would never ever do or recommend to anybody in my family. I'm just gonna tell you right now.  This is the only thing I've found that anybody can do in completely transforming change their life as long as they go into it. And it's just special. But the science is there, the research is there, the practitioners are there, the coaching's there.  And so you're not getting that anywhere else.  Come on, where else are you gonna find that? You're not. My cousin hit me and he's like, dude, I spent $30 at the gas station. 30 bucks at the gas station. 30 bucks, that's three, almost four days of our program at one time at the gas station. That's just one day at the gas station. I mean, just think about that. And guess what?  Like, what are we talking about? Let's commit to something. But you know why he did that? It's because his desire to get healthy isn't as great as his desire to eat the ho ho ding dong, Twinkies, the hot dog, I don't know what he ate, the pizza, whatever he ate. I'm not saying you can't have those things. Laurie, I didn't say that, Laurie, you did. But with that said, y'all, peace out. TikTok, come follow me over on Instagram, Facebook. Cheers, LinkedIn, I got LinkedIn hooked up now. We got YouTube, I'm excited. We're gonna have a fun 2023. I probably haven't been this clear, clear. My words of the year are confidence and clarity. And what my goal is, is I don't like much confidence. I probably like in some areas, some things, bobsledding, I'm not very confident in. So I'm not confident in everything, but what I am good at, I am confident in. And I wanna create more clarity and confidence in people. So I want people to be more confident in themselves. You know, I've been chatting with Jennifer Mann recently and her confidence is wavering, even though I see how badass she is. She doesn't necessarily realize what she's given to many other people because she's in this transition, she's crossing the street. What I mean by that, when you cross the street from one side to the other, you're in this no man's land or no person's land. And you're in that kind of like wandering to find the path to where you need to go. That's like you're at this crossroad. Yeah, crossroad isn't a bad thing. It's gonna give you wisdom and perspective to keep growing. So I can build that confidence up. I texted her a few minutes ago. It's gonna help build her confidence up. That's the idea. So we're gonna have lots of fun.  Dana, let's go. Let's go, let's go, let's go. You guys have a good night. Christy, honest, I'm thinking about you. You're amazing. I love your energy. All your posting is just special. Keep it up girl.  And step into your greatness. Jamie, you also, Linda, hi, Linda. Alicia, appreciate your contribution to everything, Cathy. Truly amazing. Isabella's doing really well here.  But 22 minutes in, happy new year, happy Monday.  So I challenge everybody to do 10 minutes, at least 10 minutes of plank today. Tomorrow I gotta pulse out what we're gonna do tomorrow. Any ideas, what should I have the dudes do tomorrow for an exercise, for an activity? I was thinking 30,000 steps. I was thinking that. But then again, it's like a torrential down course here. So that means I'd have to walk outside. So I was thinking like maybe I shouldn't do that. Or a hundred burpees, 30,000 steps for a hundred burpees. What should I give the guys to do? Jeff, what do you think? What should we do? What should we do for the guys? Burpees, okay, a hundred burpees? Or you know what I should do? So in the United States Marine Corps, we did the same called eight count body builders. Holy schnikeys. I think I'm gonna have them do 50. We used to have to do a hundred.  So one, so basically an eight count body builder is two burpees. So it's like 200 burpees. But maybe we do 50 eight count body builders. Or we'll just do a hundred burpees with a pushup. That'll be the challenge. A hundred burpees with a pushup. So I've got to do a pushup burpee up. Pushup burpee up, a hundred. So that's 10 set to 10 throughout the day. Tomorrow, I may have to modify it for everybody. I may have to go in and have my shoulder surgery again. So if I tear something, my wife will kill me, but I will modify it. I'll figure out my modifications. How about a hundred squats, Jeff? Jeff, you and I will have to do maybe some modifications. But I think for everybody else, it's good to go. Jeff, I would tell you to do the pushups. And if you have to do them on your knees, you do them on your knees. Because squats, you can do, maybe you do a hundred pushups and a hundred squats. That's a good little combo. I think that's a good combo. That's a compromise. Cause you're doing the pushup and the squat kind of together.  But Jeff, you can also do it off like a couch where you don't have to go all the way to the floor. That's what I do because it kind of jacks my back up. So I have like a, not a couch, but I have like a step, like eight inch step. And so I do it off of there and it doesn't, I feel pretty free. So 100 burpees tomorrow is what we're going to do. Something light on the lower back. Yeah. Mike, do you think that would work 100 burpees but modify them? I'll shoot a video and show you guys what I do. I think that'd work. I'm doing wall squats now at PT. That's good. We could do, so what you could do is we could do, what I'll do is I'll put it out there if somebody needs a modification again. I'm talking to like three guys on here. So if you're watching this still, I appreciate you. Y'all, let's have a good year and feel free. Share my stuff out to the world. I'm going to go bonkers. My biggest thing I'm going bonkers on is like is in the health and fitness industry. When I was younger, I didn't have kids and I didn't have a big business and I had very simple life to be honest. And I'm telling my clients to do all this stuff.  It wasn't sustainable. And I just realized that that's not a good system for the world. So I'll do squats and pushups. Perfect. That's a good, that'll be the alternative. So you can do squats and pushups. You can vary your pushups. So I think I don't want to go. I don't want to go. Isabella, I just want to stay here. I just want to keep talking. So we will be doing a few things we're doing this year. I will be doing a schedule Zoom at a scheduled time for Facebook's Instagram, LinkedIn, Instagram. You might not get it. Sorry. YouTube will get it. I'm going to do a schedule Zoom where it'll be like kind of like a coaching Zoom. And I'll probably do a lot more Q and A to help people guide them in their journey. Because I deal with people like Mike and Jeff have physical injuries. Well, I'm actually really good at teaching people how to modify and get fit under physical injuries. If you didn't know, I have multiple joint replacements and a lot of things going on, but I'm able to do a lot of things because I've gained wisdom and I worked with that audience for a long time. So if anybody wants to go hardcore, I literally have a program I built for the United States Marine Corps. How to go from zero to 10 pull-ups in 16 weeks. Now, there's one caveat to that, meaning that you have to be within the weight requirements of the United States Marine Corps, meaning their height, weight requirements. So if you're at 200 pounds of weight, we may have to make some modifications to that program. So our Army Body Twist, I'm not sure what an Army Body Twist is. Is that this here? Like the, anyway. Y'all have an amazing day. Happy New Year to everybody. I just don't want to go. I just, I just don't want to go. I don't want to go, Isabella. Love you. Bye, y'all. Cheers. Bye, tic-tac.


Ha ha ha, yes, I'm excited to show you something awesome, guys. Bam, that is the brand new Snapdragon 8 chipset. And you know what's next? We're going to game. Let's check it out. Hey guys, Thunder E here. I'm on Kona, a big island in Hawaii, at Tech Summit. And I partnered with Qualcomm to give you your first gaming look at the Snapdragon 8 chipset. Honestly, it's going to be a fun ride for us gamers, right? So we know this chipset is a 490mm chip. We know it's got some great camera capabilities, but we care about gaming. So let's take a look at some of the things that actually is going to impress us as gamers. Now, the Adreno GPU has some great performance increases this year, with a 30% performance boost and a 25% power saving, which means as you game you're going to get better graphical capabilities and you're going to be using a less power, which is all we want. Now, the Adreno GPU has actually had a ton of new improvements this year. We have the Adreno Frame Engine, which has more frame to stabilize your games, as well as also improve on that power saving we mentioned. So again, as gamers, you are going to take advantage of some great stuff. Now, I got to play Diablo Immortal. The game looks great. It plays well. It's not out yet, so it's something you can actually see right now. And some of the things that games like this would take advantage of, of course, are things like VRS Pro. We saw VRS last year, and VRS Pro is going to add so much more to your gaming experience, making it for better fidelity. We're going to have, of course, things like smooth gaming with support for 144 hertz, which we know we love.  We know, of course, there's support for HDR gaming. There's also for the Mechatric rendering, which means there's so much you can do. Now, the Adreno panel, control panel, something that's been added this year to give you just better functionality for the GPU and better customization altogether. Now, when it comes to the gameplay experience, like I got my hands on a reference design, which means this is a phone that's built with a brand new chipset and playing on it felt really smooth and really good. You can see how well Diablo Immortal looks. Now, when it comes to audio, we've got Snapdragon sound built into it, which means you've got lossless audio in there.  It's built into the chipset itself, so you're going to get all that, as well as also better connectivity with Wi-Fi 6C. So when you're gaming, if you're using a cloud service like Xbox Game Pass, you're going to get the best connection to that server, which means games like Minecraft will play well. You don't lose any kind of connection at all. You can get that smooth gameplay, and it's going to feel like you're gaming directly on the device. Now, there's a ton of performance and power in this chipset, and I can't wait to see what OEMs actually do with this. So your favorite devices and your favorite gaming smartphones, you're going to see a lot of performance increases this year with the Snapdragon 8 chipset. And let's not forget, if you have a game that utilizes Vulcan, you're going to see a 65% performance increase. Honestly, that is amazing. Which means, look, the games are going to be playing with this chipset. We're going to see just better graphics, better performance on it. We're going to see better efficiency overall, and we're going to get something that, as gamers, we will enjoy. So I am really excited to see what kind of games we get to play with a Snapdragon 8, what kind of devices we're going to get with this. And honestly, this is going to be totally awesome. Okay, guys, let me know what games you want to see on the Snapdragon 8 chipset. Of course, once devices hit, I'm going to be playing those games for you so we can check it out. But honestly, I am truly excited to see what this chip has to offer and what developers and gamers will use to take advantage of it in the best ways. So if you have any questions or any comments, let me know. Otherwise, don't forget to like, share, subscribe, and always enjoy your entertainment.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel and I appreciate you being here today I bring you another destiny 2 video and today I have tips on the best way to level up past a 340 power level as it isn't now as simple as it once was but now before we go any further guys if you would hit that Like button on this video. It truly does help me and my channel out and I do appreciate that support Thank you very very much. Okay, so I'm guessing you are around that 340 power level 340 is where most places start progressing higher with rewards places like vendors such as savalas vanguard engrams Shaxx's crucible engrams gunsmith engrams and so forth even Hawthorne engrams you get for clans I believe are locked out at 340 which is crazy These as well as legendaries that drop in the big world all max out at that 340 level Obviously apply mud to 340 gear though will take them up to 345, but we all know that but what happens after this What can you do to progress? Well, there are a few things which you can do mostly end game activities But there are other ways too So firstly you have the weekly milestones the three hook strikes for savala which this week is bugged Only none DLC strikes seem to count towards this milestone which is weird But I'm sure that will be fixed pretty soon the engram here offers here Will a game be higher than your current level don't forget or don't take muds into account These engrams also can drop more than one piece of gear to which is great We then have Shaxx's weekly milestone cool to arms again like savalas Once this has been done by winning a certain amount games Shaxx will have an angry I'm waiting for you Also cage weekly milestone flashpoint which this week consists of public events are necessary But these will change most weeks this again offers gear rewards higher than 340 And we then have exotic engrams guys mostly fan by farming public events I will say that these for me feel much rarer than they once were as I ain't having many drop even using three coins Which I believe truly do not work. I still ain't seen many engrams, but farming public events is indeed the fastest way I know of getting exotic engrams So get grinding these people we then have the weekly nightfall this as you well know does indeed drop that higher level gear Not the easiest of activities to complete though But definitely not the hardest and it is well well worth it You then have the escalation protocol which you can farm. This is by far the hardest thing you can do at the moment I will warn you it has been put in a game to be challenging and that is exactly what this is But if you do complete it expect that high level gear, we then have the raids now tomorrow There will be three raids you can do the Leviathan raid the each of worlds raid layer and the spider stars raid layer These indeed do drop plenty of that higher level gear and farming these each week I do believe is no doubt the fastest way of getting that top level the escalation protocol the nightfall the raids are all end game activities I would suggest you doing after the initial milestones each week if I were you you want to be as high level as possible Entering such activities to take off a little strain of the difficulty and guys That is how you reach a higher level than 345 and eventually that top level It's pretty straightforward to be honest. I'm guessing most of you guys already knew about this But I know there are a fair few people who don't and that's what this guide is for We're now going to open a few of the n-grams. I have had to save nothing great though Just n-grams. I've had drop from around the world. See if we're getting in that new gear. Okay guys, so Let's open some n-grams. Okay, so what do I actually have on me right now? No, I've got a fair few I have a lot of legendaries or whatever that my postmaster Alright got no exotics because exotics like I said, just do not drop from him So I've got a couple of legendaries in there too. Let's go and open My prototype incomes.  No people don't do that no more. Thank you. People don't do that no more Okay, so let's go and grab these That and I'm gonna dismantle these though because I Get that that gunsmith materials You know we can use You can use all this we can use all this come on dismantle. Thank you so long Okay, so Let's go now. Do you think I will get an exotic from any of these? I actually don't think I will I just do not get exotics on this game from legendaries It just does not happen for me Told ya told ya Told ya game hates people this game hates me. Oh What's that there though the energy weapon a grown up here for it's not before So it's got a warm mind symbol right next to it and let's quickly check that out Let's quickly check that out escape for luck The world is changing a guardian What is this? Position kills create an elemental damage explosion. I push you raffle I'm gonna keep you.  Oh, oh there we go now. We're cooking. Let's put you on May apply you and I'm just lucky because Speak to me, you know never seen that before so I'm keeping it and then I got a couple of fusions That's chess pieces which is all materials nothing great here. I don't need any of these to be honest It's all that same level as I've already got and Absolutely useless to me at the minute Just take the shards, please. Thank you. Let's take a shot I mean I could infuse them into these but it would be a complete waste the gear I'm keeping because when I get them raids done when I get night fools done and so forth I'm gonna be having spare gear drop So there's no point in infusing all your level gear or gear up here because it's just gonna be wasting your shards Just gonna be wasting your shards. You may as well wait and see if you got your favorite gear So my favorite gear is my new monarchy gear, which I am actually currently using but say for instance my iron banner gear I'm keeping aside until I reach that top level therefore then when I get other spare armor drop I will infuse when I'm top level simple as that people. There's no point in wasting. There's no point in wasting None of your shizz because you might need them sooner or later Don't need you either got you my vote a hundred times over Don't need you either got you my vote a hundred times over Skate for that. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Now. No, I have one more Angry man right here. And do you think this will open up into a beautiful exotic people? Do you think it will? Do you think it will? I'm I seriously want the sushi regime. I want that. That's what I want That's what I need. Oh My life Rubbish rubbish. How many materials have I got? 112 I'm gonna get a couple with that. I can get a couple with that people I think a cop can get caught. I'm not sure how much you actually Oh Spend these out. I don't even know how many it takes to actually open them. I Got a new actual Fusion that looks like that. Oh Scape look come on game. What do I do? I don't want weapons in my head Finish the last one.  Okay, so Scape luck good bad I think they've got two power weapons about this one which I haven't used before so I'm gonna keep that get rid of you You know, I never dismantle Ones I don't have it useful. I mean, there's plenty of trials of sauce trials of sauce Curse of sauce Rapids I haven't used yet. So I'll keep the ones I like the ones I haven't used if I use them and I rubbish I dismantle them simple as that I believe that was it wasn't it. I didn't get nothing else today Not just a few mods here there and everywhere and that is basically it people How you doing mates, but yeah guys that that is it for another video. I don't believe I have anything else I can open right here right now. No, I don't indeed. Oh Oh, we got Vanguard tokens Plenty of these I've stacked these because I've just I don't even know why like I got can open Vanguard package that I do that do got one Vanguard package people do I cannot get the sushi team Or anything else for that matter any other new exotic what I knew the hooker baby, so you also kind of remember them Don't be honest. I can't remember them at all Okay, let's go. Oh Dragon shadow got one and I got masterwork nice Well, that's gonna get our positive outlook which is an incredible weapon guys as you well now as you well now Okay, so let's have a look 345 Well, I will already have a mother plaid. Yes, it will and I've already got you Well, I'll keep you so anyway what we got here get rid of this don't need you don't need you And I believe that well, I got a weapon positive outlook which I got there But that's a high level one, so if I infuse you into you don't make sense because you've already got a mud on you Which doesn't really matter. I'm going against what I'm country to myself Yeah, don't need to do that. I don't need to do that people It's not a weapon. I'm gonna use don't need you but even with this dad rather The Matter-work cause stacking these as well But yet guys that is it that is all I have to open today No exotics as per usual you guys know if you watch my videos my luck is pretty bad I do definitely do not get none that content create luck Obviously because I'm black this is by bunch of because they hate you but oh well It is what it is but guys I hope you enjoyed the video if you didn't leave in a like truly does help me out Thanks as always for stopping by hope the tips I explained earlier on a level not faster help you out and again people I hope to catch you on my next one


But today, starting it, it's gonna be a piece of advice from none other than DDG. Hold on, let me do the quick little refresh.   Social media is a girl that you want attention from, right? Okay. If you don't give her attention, she gonna start looking at other people. You know what I'm saying? So if you treat social media like that, like I gotta stand in their face, it's like how could they forget you?    Right. There we go. Wise words, wise words. Wise words? Wise words. That's what we going with wise words? Yeah, I get what he's going with that analogy. Okay. I think the point behind it is a good point too. Well, I say, I noticed when he said, if you don't give her attention, she gonna start paying attention to someone else. You kind of gave him a little preach. It's a little bit extreme.  I'll be out here, you know what I'm saying? He said, preach brother man. Okay. Hit a little personal. Well, yeah, I want to hear your breakdown, how you feel about that analogy. And then I'll give you my thoughts. So I, all right, all right, stay with me here. You know what I'm saying? Like I said, I get what he's saying, because we've talked a lot about how, how fickle music consumers are, right? They have a lot of choice. The choices are thrown at them very fast. And quite frankly, there are at least a hundred other things that could arguably be more important than whatever your thing is, that they could be paying attention to. So yeah, you have to stay in that phase, right? Like you're literally competing, and this is why I think a lot of artists started kind of get it fucked up when it comes to social media stuff. It's like, you're no longer competing with just other music artists, right?  IG model photos, bro. Vicious marketplace out there, right? Yeah. So the artist, the person, the creator that can't consistently stay in people's face to keep some attention, when they finally have that big moment that comes around, you know what I'm saying? Like you're saying that there's not gonna be anybody paying attention because you didn't babysit them to that, to the point of the big moment. And I agree with that, because the biggest thing that he said, I liked out of that whole point where he was like, even if you're failing along the way, just the fact that you're in their face is still enough because you're keeping their attention, right? That makes me think about artists and their content, right? How many artists have we talked to? Like, I don't wanna put this video out because I don't think it's perfect or it doesn't show me in a certain light or I don't think it's creative enough, right? What he's really saying is like, yo bro, like if it's good or bad, as long as it holds their attention, it has the potential to snowball and pile up to whatever that big moment or piece of thing is that you do want people to pay attention to and you have to guide them to that. And I agree with that, like I 100% agree with that. Okay, so, one, I love how he did, how he ended it. He ended it like a rapper, right? Well, a writer, you know, but he's a rapper. Did you notice how he ended it? No, well- Bringing in the analogy full circle? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, bro. That smash- Do you feel like that, bro? Yeah, I appreciate the smash hit single, you know what I mean? The smash, you know what I mean? Smash, smash. I like how you pulled that together. That was very clever of you, DDG. The analogy itself. So, have you ever approached a girl that you wanted to, you know, entertain or have entertained you and you didn't land on your feet at first? Yeah, 100%. Yeah, bro. It wasn't as smooth as you usually are. Yeah, bro, you know what I'm saying? I ain't no shame in my game, bro. I'm took some L's, you know what I'm saying? I got some battle wounds. Do you have any L's, right, that became a W? Yeah, I understand. Okay, okay. So, I think in that way, I've probably experienced that where, you know, girl wasn't feeling me for whatever reason at first, but because of the proximity, I'm not even saying that I was like trying to be in their face intentionally like music and all that stuff, but the proximity you got to realize your initial perception of me was a lie. You know what I mean? Yeah, okay, I'll see what it is. You're projecting your old stuff on me, man. I'm not that other dude. I'm actually some kind of special, you know what I mean? I'm not worth the shot. So that proximity that I've personally experienced in the past, right? Whether it's like because of school or like working a job, we still have to see each other all that time, right? It creates that space to even evolve your opinion, right? Which I think really plays into his analogy because one, you have those people that you win right off the bat.  But then you give them more time and space to fall deeper in love with you. Now, of course you could say the other way, people mess with you and they have time to start hating you, but that's a little bit rare, I find, especially like online experience, like you have to really like turn to Todd or do something else.  Yeah, it has to be, it has to really go somewhere. So, I can get with that analogy. I wasn't quite sure. I liked it on a surface level. And then I said, but I wasn't sure when I started to think about it if I would like truly say, all right, I'll stand by it. Let me take a quick second to say, if you're an artist trying to blow your music up or if you're a manager, a music professional in general, trying to help an artist blow their music up, I have something that's a game changer for you and it's completely free. As you may know, we've helped multiple artists go from zero to hundreds of thousands of streams. We've helped multiple artists go from hundreds of thousands to millions of streams, chart on Billboard, GoViral, all of that stuff. And we've now made the way we've branded multiple artists and helped them go viral completely free step-by-step in Brandman Network. All you have to do is check out brandmannetwork.com. You apply, it's completely free, but the thing is, we're not gonna let everybody in forever. So, the faster you apply, the better your chance of getting accepted. Brandmannetwork.com, check it out, back to the video. Now, I also am aware that there's probably some young women out there that feel like, hey, it's not like that, like that's y'all talking wrong about how the relationship is and maybe how, you know, his wording might've been a little bit off. That, I'm not here to say. All I'm saying is the elements of it, you know, have added up in my personal experience at times. And I think that definitely applies online. Yeah, but the audience that it's gonna hit with is gonna hit with the audience.   Like, it just brought it all together. I had these words in my head, but I couldn't figure out how to express them. Thank you, DDG, you know what I'm saying? Right, right. So, yeah, bro, but that's what our whole artist took out of it was like, amen. We said all the time the name of the game is attention. Easy to get attention is hard to maintain it and keep people interested. You can't win the game without being seen, without being known. Yeah, bro. I don't even know it exists, the whole like, you know, tree falling in the forest. You can make the most amazing shit ever, but if I don't know about it, or if I didn't care enough about you to even, I guess, care to be aware that this thing is coming, which is, I think one of the points he was making, like, bro, you gotta kind of put enough out there that people just, like, slightly care long enough that by the time you do hit them with the big thing, it just hits for them, right? Like you said, it's like micro wins, right? Like, I come into it. I'm not, I don't 100% love you. Maybe I'm 3%, but in every, you know, VL you drop or something else, even you add like 1% to it. 1% to it, you know what I'm saying? And then the day you drop this thing, I'm at 80% and I go check it out. And you got an extra however many people on here. And I mean, I think he's the right messenger for that message, because I've said a lot, I personally think he's one of the better content creators turned music artists. And you can see a lot of the way that he maintains his audience is by doing a lot of the same shit he was doing when he was a YouTuber. He's still dropping vlogs.  Funny personality content on the different socials. And he's working the music artist angle into it. So I feel like it's a good messenger to put that message out there. Yeah, I could get with that. And I'll say this, right? Those steps again, I might go even say who, but I remember somebody I know being sleep on the floor. When I walked into the room and I had just been in that room five minutes later, tell him they need to get up and they were on the bed.  And I walked back in the room, they on the floor, sleep and I was like, yo, I thought you were getting up. And he was like, the first step is getting out of bed. And he was like mumbling, he was like sleep talking. So all that to say is same with the fan base. There's those steps that exist that you have to take people through. You can either like hop straight off the roof and expect people to know you and love you immediately or you can go the more sure route of just saying, hey, I need to be, have people aware of me and I need to stay there. And eventually they'll rock with me. It's very few times and moments where someone just like sees you and then they rock with you like on that next level. Yeah, it's gotta be amazing. Gotta be amazing. The life changing for whatever reason. The song has to hit crazy or the video has to hit crazy or in real life, right? You might meet that person and there's that spark like immediately like, oh, this is something different, right? Whether it's just a friend, a homie, a girl, whatever it is. But we know that's not most people that you meet. It usually has to develop a little bit more even if you kind of like their vibe. So I can see how it works in that way as well. I just say, I think the, I think, let's, how do you term it? So that analogy of getting in people's face is and staying in their face and to make them like you reminds me of the idea of indifference, right? It's like, at least being seen means they're on top, they're top of mind. But if I'm indifferent to you, then I'm probably not even thinking about you. I'm not bothered by you. I don't care.  I'm like, all right, at least you're feeling some. We can work on that other, flipping that next time, but you're feeling something. Toxic.  That indifference, but that's a hard, you don't know what to do with that. How do I manipulate, like just actually not caring? Kanye polarizing, I can use the people that hate me cause they making comments or they bringing it up. And then they're creating something for the people who love me to attack and respond to. People who aren't commenting, they're just not reading the stories. What do I do with that? Yeah, bro, you have no control in that situation, no power in that situation. No power, no power. So I think we gon' give that a, we gon' give that a W on that one. Give that one a W. W, a metaphor. Yeah, on a metaphor. Let's see what we got next though. Advice number two.


Now, Roma Wines present, Suspense! Tonight, the merry widower, starring Reginald Gardner. Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. That's R-O-M-A, Roma Wines. Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live. To your happiness and entertaining guests. To your enjoyment of everyday meals. Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant as Roma Wines bring you... Suspense! This is the man in black here for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California. Who tonight from Hollywood brings you as star Mr. Reginald Gardner and a suspense play in grim three-quarter time. And so with the merry widower and with the performance of Mr. Gardner we again hope to keep you in... Suspense! Your... George Muncie, if you don't listen to me... My good woman, pray, what is the meaning of this intrusion? What? Oh, hello, Ethel. I say, who do you think you're calling my good woman? Well, for a moment I didn't know who it was, that's all. You didn't know who it was? Well, who did you think it was, the servant? Please, Ethel. Not that it wouldn't be nice if we did have a servant. We shall, my dear. We shall. Of course, that's what you say. That's what you always say about everything. Sometimes I wonder why I ever married you, George Muncie. It hasn't changed my life much. When I met you I was waiting on people all day long in Hoffman's restaurant and now all day long I wait on you. You don't think by any chance do you that I'm unworthy to be waited on? That would be amusing. Oh, George, it isn't that I'm no snob and you know it. And I'm not afraid of a little hard work either. But you're always making such great plans and such big promises. Yes, well, I have big plans. Someday you'll realize, my dear, that you've married a rather remarkable man. Well, remarkable man. If you don't hurry up and get down to work, you'll be fired. I'm not going to work this morning. George what? I said I'm not going to work this morning. George Muncie, are you crazy? What? What did you say? What's come over you lately anyway? Ah, then you've noticed something. I should say I have. Wearing wing collars in the daytime all of a sudden and buying yourself a fancy hat and a cane. Really, Ethel, it's quite appropriate that I should wear a Hamburg hat and carry a walking stick. After all, I... Appropriate? Well, I haven't had a new hat since I can remember and you know how we have to scrape along here and now you're not going to work. But where are you going? I'm going up to London. London? Yes, there are certain very important affairs that I must take care of in London, my dear. Just what are these very important affairs, your royal highness? Hmm. Why did you call me that? Because you act so high and mighty sometimes. Oh, George, why can't you be a little more practical? My dear, has it ever occurred to you that I might be different from other men? Oh, George, you are. I know you are. In most ways, you're the most wonderful husband a girl could ever have. But really... Yes, perhaps it's time. Yeah, I think it is. Time that I took you into my confidence. Well, perhaps it's time I took you into mine. They're just tensioning sixpence in the house to buy groceries for the rest of the month. Please, Ethel, don't be sordid. Sordid? Well, if you think three meals a day is so sordid all of a sudden...  George! You're not fit to share my confidence. You're not fit to share my confidence or my station. George! George! George! George! Encore! Encore!  I've seen it now for the twelfth time within as many weeks. And again, as on each previous occasion, I'm all but overcome by the one astounding, incredible, and yet quite simple fact. The story being played upon the stage is my story. From the hero of that story, the dashing Prince Danilo of Massovia is myself. The time is not yet right for me to return and take my rightful station in my country. All this must for a little longer yet remain my secret. Ethel has no suspicion yet, that's obvious, but there is one who knows and I'm sure of it. Although she's far too tactful to say so, my lady of the veil. And she'll be waiting for me again tonight. That I'm sure of too, in the lobby of the theatre after the performance. Ah, fair lady. It's you again. My, this is the coincidence. No, no, I'd set my heart on meeting you again. May I walk a little way with you, fair lady? If you like. Shall we go through the park? If you like? Then we meet again. You must be almost as fond of the play as I am. Fond of it? Well, that's hardly the word for it now, is it? But I suppose you have some special reason. Ah, then you do suspect me. Oh, now one doesn't have to be a mind reader for that. Every young man in town is halfway in love with the merry widow as it is. Not every young man, fair lady. Remember the prince himself does not return her love until the very last. Well, that's so. That's as it must be, fair lady. If you don't stop calling me fair lady, I shall have to start calling you Prince Charming. Shall we sit here? You know something. What? You've never told me your name. Haven't I? No. What is your name? My name? Why? As a matter of fact, it's Prince. Prince? What's your first name? My first name? Yes. Daniel. Daniel Prince. Well, that's rather like the name in the play. Daniel Prince, Prince Danilo. It is rather like, isn't it? Yes, it is. Well, don't you want to know my name? Oh, I know it. It's Sonya. No, it's Hilda. Hilda Calamere. Oh. Well, I must say you're not very curious. Don't you want to know anything more about me? Whether I'm married or... Why?  Why, so I am. However, did you know?  Well, since my bereavement, I may seem a little older than you. Even a few years older. It's not one's age that matters, but who one is. Oh, that is so true. Daniel, are you married? Married? No. Well, I don't see why you act so skittish about it, but I suppose you're like all the rest of the guilty conscience. No, I have not. Some liaison with the pretty barmaid, like the prince in the play. That's it, isn't it, Mr. Prince? Yes, there, well, there is a little liaison, yes. And now you're tired of her, and you're wondering how to break it off. Is that it? Yes. My poor prince charming. Miss Callamere, if you could help me, I... No, no, Daniel. That's something you must do for yourself. But I can tell you this. It's best to be strong about it. Break it straight off, open and aboveboard, like a true gentleman. Isn't it now? Yes, yes, of course. And things like that are always so unsatisfactory for a young man of your station in life, aren't they? Yes. Well, what's that? Why, at 12 o'clock, I expect. I'll have to hurry. Daniel, wait! Where are you going? Home. Is that you, George? Yes, my dear. Oh, I must have fallen asleep waiting for you. What time is it? A little after one, I think. After one? Where in the world have you been all this time? I told you this morning that I had certain very important matters may I ask that keep you out until one o'clock in the morning. Ethel. Tell me, do you believe in morganetic marriages? In what? Morganetic marriages. Whatever's that? When a person of royal blood marries someone beneath his station. Well, I never thought about it. I don't see what's wrong with it if they're both in love. Why in the world do you ask me a question like that? I just wanted to know what you thought.  I still doubt it. Please, Ethel. I'm very tired. I think we should get to bed. All right. I don't want to quarrel with you tonight of all nights. George. Yes? I did an awfully foolish thing today. What? I spent all our money, most of it. Yeah, look what I got. What's that? A little box. It's for cigarettes or hairpins or whatever you like. But when you open it, it plays that tune you like so much. See? Well, that was very thoughtful of you, Ethel. It's really quite appropriate. Yeah, now I didn't get it for you. Look, look what else I got. Well, what are those?  Well, why did you get them? Oh, I know it's silly and all, but... George, if we were to have a baby... A baby? Yes, mind you, I didn't say we will. It's impossible. Well, it's not impossible. I tell you it is. It's not the way the thing should happen at all. The way what should happen? It's all wrong. It's not fitting to my station. It can't happen. Oh, it can't?  Ethel! George, I thought you'd be happy if you thought that... Of course, my dear, of course. Yes, the idea just came with something of a surprise, that's all. But then you mean... Well, let's talk about it in the morning, my dear. I think now I shall take a bath. A bath at this time of night? Good for the nerves, you know. Relaxing. Well, do hardly then. Chant along. George! I can't hear you. Oh, it's no great matter. What is it? Why don't you come in here and talk to me? Well, all right. George, don't you think a baby would like this music box? It is rather sweet. Oh, I thought you were going to take a bath. I've changed my mind. George, what are you doing? Look out! I'm falling out! The thing kept playing as she lay there in the water. I looked at her very closely. It wasn't necessary now to do anything more. There was a deep bruise on our forehead just above the temple. She was no longer breathing. I got my hat and my walking stick. Tonight for Suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you The Merry Widower by Robert L. Richards. Based on Roy Vickers short story, The Rubber Trumpet. Reginald Gardner is the star of tonight's study in Suspense. In many foreign lands, wine connoisseurs could propose this toast. California has given us this superb wine, so delicate, so excellent in taste and bouquet, that we import it. It is famous Roma California wine. Yes, that is true. 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And now it is with pleasure that we bring back to our sound stage Mr. Reginald Gardner in the Merry Widower, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. Shall I tell you more? Yes, I believe I shall. You've been very attentive, and it pleases us to have you share our confidence. Very well then, at the performance that evening, the lovely widow and I sealed our proposal. Miss Callamere! Why, it's my French charm. Miss Callamere, may we have our walk again, please? Why, of course. Really, I hardly take it to see you at all this evening. You know you were rather a naughty boy to leave me so suddenly last night without a word or anything? Yes, I suppose I was, but... You were going home, you said? Yes, to my lodgings. Oh, of course. Tell me, did you enjoy the performance tonight? I didn't see it. I don't want ever to see it or hear it again. Oh, Daniel, do you have something to tell me? Yes. Is it about your... about her? Yes. Did you do as I told you? Yes. It's finished. My poor dear boy. And that's why you don't want to hear the music anymore. Because it reminds you of things you'd rather forget. Yes. That was very good of you, Daniel. And very brave. I hope it wasn't necessary to hurt her too much. No, it didn't hurt her very much. And what are your plans?  I come to you. Daniel, you mean...  Oh, my prince charming. It's like a dream, like the play that brought us together. We are the play now. Until death do us part. Yes. Until death do us part. It has come off precisely as it should have. I've married the lovely widow and we shall live happily ever after. I find home and her own income and it's very fine and she's very good to me and very tactful too. She never refers to my true identity or to the imposter who continues nightly to play out my life upon the stage. But her suggestion, I've taken a position in a London chemist shop for my self-respect, she says. But of course she means the better to disguise my true name and station until the time comes. Now each morning she walks down with me as I go to work. We shouldn't start with the headers on your way home and pick up your new handbook. I've ordered it especially for you. Yes, my dear. I'm sure it will be very becoming. And now let me see. Oh yes, this is the day you're paid, isn't it? Yes, so it is. You know, I've been thinking you should have your own bank account. What would you say to that? Whatever you think best, my dear. Very well. But bring the money home as usual and I'll arrange it all for you tomorrow. Yes, my dear. Well, here we are. Mind you come right home after work and don't be late. We're having something very special for dinner this evening. I shall, my dear. Good-bye. Good-bye, Daniel. So there you are. Good morning, Mr. Aerosmith. No, late again, Prince. I'm sorry, Mr. Aerosmith. Well, being sorry isn't enough. This is the second time this summer. See, it don't happen again. Yes, Mr. Aerosmith.  Yes, sir. Here's something new. I want you to pay attention to the phone. It's a novelty. I want you to try out, see? I'm putting it in your counter. Oh, very good, Mr. Aerosmith. You have to demonstrate it so. Look sharp here. Yes, sir. It's a cigarette box. When you opens it, it plays a tune like this. You see? Stop it. Stop it. Stop it, I say. What? I'm sorry, sir. But you see, I'm quite allergic to music.  Well, mind you don't talk to me in that tone of voice so you'll be able to find that I'm allergic to keeping you on here.  Yes, sir. And here's your pay. The six of them docked for that glass you broke Saturday. Thank you, sir. And mind you'll give some attention to trying to sell that music box. Allergic or not allergic? Yes, sir. Oh, hello, Prince. I was all around the old man. Oh, nothing at all. Just a minor difference of opinion and a matter of policy, that's all. A matter of policy, eh? Oh, here. What's this thing? Don't touch it. What's wrong? Has it got a snake in it or what?  Well, let's see. Oh, I say. Well, you are edgy. Well, you look as though you'd seen a ghost. A ghost? At the lunch hour, I took the wretched thing out to the back of the store. I smashed it to bits and threw it into the rubbish bin. It had been priced at seven and six. And I rang it up on the cash register. I say, Prince. Yes, sir? Where's that music box? I sold it, sir. You did, eh? Well, that's jolly good. Nice to have you show a bit of initiative for a change. Thank you, sir. Here, here you are. Here's another one. What? Salesman taught me into buying three dozen of them. Thought for a while I'd be stuck with them, but I guess that's going to be you who's stuck with them, eh, Prince? That's it. Now it's you that's stuck with them. Three dozen. Yes, sir. I'll get rid of them, I'm sure. Well, come on, Prince. Let's go have a spot of lunch together, eh? No, no. I'm going home to lunch today. I must get something very important. Well, good night, Birdie. Good night, Prince. Good night, Mr. Aversmith. Good night. Oh, Prince. Yes, sir? Eh, how did you do all of those musical cigarette boxes, hm? They're all sold, sir. What? All three dozen? Yes, sir. You see, a gentleman came in and said he wanted them for an orphanage, sir. Three dozen musical... Well, that's a nice traveling bag you have there. Genuine alligator. Pretty expensive, eh? Yes, sir, it is. It's, uh, it's my wife's. Three dozen musical cigarette boxes for an orphanage. My fellow must have been insane. No, he was quite sane, sir. As sane as you or me. Well, good night, Prince. Good night, sir. Can you spare a poor man a copper gardener? Yes, here. Here's a shilling. Oh, bless you, Governor. But there's something you must do. I want to give you something else. Oh, what? Here, take this suitcase. It's yours. You can do anything you like with it. Yeah. What's that, Governor? There's no game. I'm just tired of it, that's all. It's a good bag. You can probably pawn it for a nice price. What's in it? Do you want it or don't you? Well, I don't take it. But I hope you don't have your wife tapping it or something.  Yes, my dear. Well, it's about time. I've been looking for my alligator bag.  I borrowed it. Borrowed it? What for? Where is it? It was stolen. Stolen? Well, how? You see, I was riding on the underground and some chap grabbed it and dashed out of the door with it before I could stop him. My beautiful bag. Oh, Daniel, how could you have been so careless? Well, it can't be helped now, my dear. I'll save up and buy you another one. Stolen. Well, at least we can phone the police. Police? Well, why not? That's what one usually does about stolen belongings, isn't it? It's not the slightest use, my dear. Well, there's no harm in it. Oh, I'll answer it, Daniel. Yes? Why, yes, my husband and I were just... Yes. Yes, that would be if... Oh. Well, that is odd. Well, yes, come right up. Yes, we'll both be here. That was the police, Daniel. They found my bag. No, no, they couldn't have. They saw a bigger carrying it. They thought it looked odd, such a nice bag, and they found my name on it inside. Oh. Daniel, it was full of music boxes. 36 of them. All right, then. They were down at the store. They got on my nerves. And, Daniel, they all played the same piece of music, the tune from our play that you used to like so much. That's right. And you hadn't ever wanted to hear again. Hilda. Well, Daniel. I'm very tired, Hilda. I'm going to take a bath. Daniel, I want to talk to you. Very well. You may talk to me while I run my bath. Daniel, something's happened. You're different. I'm no different. Well, why do you hate that piece of music so much?  What? Well, it's because of... It's because of her, isn't it? Yes. No. What did you do that night? You killed her. Oh, who are you? I am his royal highness, Prince Danilo of Massovia. What I have done, I have done in the interest of my royal house and of my kingdom. And what I am about to do... Oh, that is the police. I'll go send them away. Daniel, open that door. What do you want? I'm Inspector David. Scotland Yard. That's him. Oh, George. Yeah. Oh, George, why did you leave me? I'd fallen in the bathroom and cracked my head. And when I woke up, you were gone. You'd have fallen? We've been trying to find you for this, lady, for quite a while, Mr. Muncie. All we had to go on was your taste in music. Oh, George. And when this bag showed up with the music boxes in it, by the way, is this your other wife's bag? Oh, George. There was someone else. So you don't want to answer, eh? Well, you'd better call the other lady down here, Mr. Muncie. It looks as though you'd have to answer to a charge of bigonies, my lad. Bigonies. Bigonies. Bigonies. Bigonies! I've been returned at last to my rightful place and have taken up residence at my castle in Massovia. There are heavy bars upon the window for the protection of my royal person, and I am most courteously treated by all my court attendants. Even now, I hear the approach of my prime minister, whose quaint conceit it is to call himself my doctor. He has been on a personal errand at my request. Did you get it? Did you bring us what we asked? Yes. I managed to find one. Here it is. Ah, yes, yes. That is it. We thank you. Doubtless it seems a trivial thing, a mere trinket, but it reminds us of so many things that we cannot quite remember, like some dream of another life. And it will serve to take our mind from cares of state, which is most necessary, since we know that now we shall be here all the rest of our life. And so closes the merry widower, starring Mr. Reginald Gardner, tonight's study in Suspense. Suspense is produced and directed by William Spear. Yes, Roma wine makes any meal taste better. Simply place a cool bottle of your favorite Roma wine on the table with the meal. 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