Hey, J.O.W. Hey, J.O.W. Hey, J.O.W. Hey, J.O.W. There's a little over the chair. It's the gallery. It's the gallery.  It's the trap ox. Hold on. Hey, man, put that cheese down. Put that cheese down. Put that cheese down. Put that drink of wine and cheese. Hey, man, first and foremost, I got my dog Clayton English in here. You're the zone. You're already in the zone, man. What in those days?  Hey, man, good to be back. You're doing big things in life. I can't even talk about it. I know it. But I know it. I can say it to you. You can say it to me. Say what you're mad. This text message. Bruh, we got some very dope guests in here with us today on the Black Excellence Spotlight. Bruh, please introduce yourselves to the 85%ers so they can make sure they got it right.  My name's Ol' Najay Henderson. See, when he said that, I was like, he said, what's your name? Hey, bring him to Mons Ju. Ol' Najay. That's dope, bruh. Appreciate it, bruh. I'm Omari Henderson. Yeah. And we're two-thirds of the owners of Zucca Art Gallery here in Atlanta. I'm Carlos.  Y'all fans, y'all watch the show? We do. So you already know, man, this is what we use our platform to highlight dope things that's going on in the community amongst us. And so, man, tell us more about the art business and how y'all got started and all of that, the good background story, you know? Yeah, so I'll start. We got started when we were in college. We grew up here in Atlanta. See, I was going to let you start, but you skipped so much. You ain't tell them that's your brother or nothing. All right, yeah, this is my brother. Right. Who's your older brother? I'm the oldest. Right. Who's your little brother? Little big brother. Everybody's big little brother. It's always like that, man.  It's because they have children. So the plans keep going. We just had to make it. Yeah, you had to make it. We need no vegetables. Bro, I'm a smaller person in my family because I'm the only one that was born on public assistance. My mama had a job with the rest of the kids. My baby brother, like, 6'5".  He was like, can you play a shag of the movie?  So we started... We grew up here in Atlanta. Grew up in Decatur, right off County Road. East Side, Charleston. Yeah. So we went to school. We went to Tuskegee. HBCU? Yeah, HBCU, man. So when we got to school, we both got scholarships to go to college. And when we got scholarships, engineering, we both majored in... I majored in chemical engineering. He majored in mechanical engineering.  We went to Magnet High School. And when we went to college, my dad, who's also an engineer, he's an electrical engineer. And who also went to Tuskegee. So did my mom's family legacy. And so... That's dope.  Your whole family didn't went to college. Yeah, they went there and graduated. My kid going to be like, my dad went here. My dad said he went to fail. This the school you quit? Hey, you were close, bruh. Bruh. I saw your transcript. You was doing it. So when we went to college, we got those scholarships. My dad, who was an artist, decided he was going to quit his full-time job and become an artist. He was going to quit his job. Shout out to your dad. So he jumped in. He was going to quit his job and be like, y'all good. That's exactly what he said. That's exactly what he did. Bruh, I want to paint some shoes with my feet. I did my job. I did my job. Y'all good. So you straight. That's pretty much how it happened. What we did was, he started a company then to sell his work. When we graduated, we took over the company to sell his work. Over time, we started working with other artists. I'll let you take it from there. Hold on, let me ask you all this. How important was it to go to have that HBCU experience? I don't think you can even put a dollar amount on it. To be at the HBCU to have the support that you have when you're at HBCU to have the friendship just all the people you meet while you're there, the people that I was roommates with when I started, I talk to them every day now. You don't meet people like that along the way. So that, the support, and one thing they do at HBCU, it ain't easy.  When I first got there, I thought you think you're smart and everybody, no calculators for the first two years. We're going to show you how much mad you don't know. Stuff like that.  They just happen to be in college. So you still got folks selling dope on campus. All the stuff happening. But it's just showing you how wide of a range of black folks we exist in all these spaces. But we all can still be smart. We all can still go to school. You don't have to be a certain way where this ex gang members, everything was in at school.   I think when we were growing up it was past what, 20. Then it became 25. We're in dangerous species, all that kind of stuff. You start seeing all this and they'll say people who may came in that way, they executive companies now. You know what I mean? Because HBCUs are spending time with you too. And they'll make sure you get right. So by the time you leave at the end of that four years, what you used to be is not what you are at the end.  Custodian the culture. Explain that a little bit. So one of the things we talk about in the gallery or just in the art business in general is that we all need to be and have a responsibility to be custodians of our culture. So when we talk about it from an art standpoint, we say that the art that you purchased today, we have a responsibility to collect our culture. We talk about collecting art and it's our responsibility to collect that, to pass it down, to create value in it. It's our responsibility to do that. And the art's going to outlive all of us. So what's going to happen is it's going to move from generation to generation. It creates generational wealth along the way. It has an intrinsic value because it's going to mean something to you. Okay, I have a question as an artist. What is your point of view? I mean, as an artist, we all see the world in different shapes and forms. What helped shape your point of view as an artist? The thing is, with being in this whole space, we want to take that stigma out of art that you have to think that you got to think about it like this. We want us to be just comfortable with it and make it a part of our daily life. It is. The way we kind of cultivate that is we all want to be these custodians of culture because while we're here on the planet, we have a responsibility to own our culture. If we don't, we don't pay somebody else to go and see it. Most of the stuff you think about when it comes down to people collecting work right now, African-American work is not being collected by us, but by somebody else. So what happens then is that what typically happens in our community in general, we create something that another community goes out monetizes it and then sells it back to us once they validate it. They'll tell us it's good when we create it to begin with. They sell it back to us when we buy it from them. It's the same thing that's happening in art. Let me tell you. Good stuff, Mike. Exactly. Oh, it is? I saw that a while ago, but I didn't know it was good. Let me ask you about this. What was that experience like being a black engineer?  In school it was very different than when we graduated. So we got out of school and went to work in corporate and now you're the only black person.  But being an engineer in the beginning and engineering like both of our careers while we were working corporate kind of moved away from engineering. You get into more business stuff and stuff later on, but doing that you still have to go out and you got to prove yourself because you went to an HBCU. I went to MIT or I went to Georgia Tech and then people start finding out you're just as good as they are. Even though you went to this school that they've never heard of. So it was one of those experiences where you were prepared like being an engineer from Tuskegee we were prepared for all this stuff. We were prepared for business we were prepared for that corporate world and so it made it easy to get through it but you still had those hurdles of trying to prove yourself to people along the way in that space. So would y'all say Artis considered the family business at this point? Yeah, definitely. Definitely. Y'all have kids? Yeah, I have three. The Artis too?   So tell me more about the gallery though the actual. So in like so our business partner Troy Taylor we met him along the way doing exhibitions and things like that we met Troy and then we did an exhibition with Troy. Troy already had the gallery and after the show it was a successful show and we specifically worked with African-American artists of African diaspora and so after the show we were talking back with Troy and Troy is also an engineer and he was like you know what life is important to do well I wanted to do good with y'all and we formed a company called H&T Art Partners so we took our business at the time which was premier art in this business Zucca Gallery created H&T Art Partners and then we all became business partners inside the gallery and now we're the largest African-American art gallery in the southeast Let me ask you this When you say it was a successful show what does that mean for the people who don't know what it means to have it?


Get one thing here. Oh yeah, we're gonna use that. Perfect. Little yard work on Mother's Day. Good morning. Happy Mother's Day once again working on the yard for mama. Take it all the way down cover this whole fence and there's one way down there. I see it, I see it. There's one right here which isn't as big and that one's not as big. Dang. This one is crushing it. Oh it is going to go crazy. Nothing like a good soaker hose, you know what I mean? Trying to figure out this yard. One summer at a time. All right Chulo's got to go save the baby so she's gotta set the camera down. Look at all that. I said extra everything stuff is free. Do you want me to go get Marathon to race or not to race? That is the question keyword. Hamlet. You better believe it keyword is Hamlet down in the comments. Thanks for hitting it up. Oh and yes again Happy Mother's Day. We had a beautiful day just hanging out at the house, going to the pool as a family, eating a delicious dinner. It was a great day. I didn't do too much filming was focused on just being present to the family so it was beautiful and now I am in the studio quoting Hamlet to and trying to wrestle with figuring out to race or not to race. That is the question. But before we answer that question I want to reflect again.  I'm telling you and actually I'm going to throw in the question of the day right now as well. It has been a fun training block. I must say it's been a crazy transition to go from ultra running to marathon running and racing I should say and I must like they're different. There's no other way to say it other than they are really two different disciplines. Now there are trail marathon races but I'm telling you like once you go above 30 miles in a race there's something different about the whole experience with making sure your legs are strong enough to go that far at a high pace and one of the biggest differences is nutrition like in ultra running you're eating a lot more during the actual race you're fueling a little differently and of course the pace is much faster on the roads in a marathon. So question of the day I'm going to actually lead off a little bit with this. Do you and this is a little bit of a tough one but do you think you enjoy training more or racing more and as I you know try to figure out this injury and why it happened I think I land more on the side of I enjoy training more. I just gotta be I call it I gotta call a spade a spade. I've been injured so much in my life I think because I love running I love running I love doing high volume I love big miles I love vertical gain I love challenging myself and listen I like racing as well I love racing but there's nothing like a good 20 mile long run on a Sunday or frankly if getting ready for an ultra race nothing like a good 25 to 30 mile long run so anyway that's the question of the day wrestle with it think about it and listen you might be like you might love them both equally and that's a good that's a fine answer as well but if I'm being real frank and honest with myself I think I enjoy training just as much if not more than racing and now as many of you know I I wavered I struggled to find the Cleveland Marathon I was looking at grandmas in mid-June um I was I was looking at a bunch of them LA uh what else was I looking at a New Jersey marathon I believe but I landed on Cleveland and in retrospect yes I do believe this training block was a little too long lesson learned on my part but I've never been through this process of trying to find a flat sea level competitive road marathon and lesson learned like you really have to basically start planning a year in advance like I started planning seven yeah six to seven months in advance for Cleveland I think a tip of the day start planning your road marathon races now why because they fill up uh it's hard to qualify if you need a qualifying time it's not as easy as you might think so anyway lesson learned on my part and I've made a decision I've made a decision May 19th May 19th first marathon what's it gonna be the Cleveland Marathon oh baby okay it was really hard really difficult to figure out it was it was it was way it was a lot harder than I expected basically yes I'm hoping to run under 219 I'm just gonna say it I'm just gonna say it and I know that's really fast can I do it I don't know but if you don't try you'll never know you'll never know if you can qualify for the Olympic trials if you don't try if you know what I mean now I did promise yesterday to tell you how my foot is feeling what is the trend line and I must say it's trending well it's trending I would say very well now I haven't tested it too much at the pool today with the family I just put a teeny tiny bit of weight bearing my weight on my foot as I was floating in the pool and it was feeling pretty good I must say now I can still feel a little something uh and we are six days out from Cleveland okay so Cleveland is on this upcoming Sunday so it's six days away and so I was just testing the foot a little bit seeing how my weight in the pool not on dry land but in the pool felt and it is feeling pretty darn good I have to say that much um but I it's not the the pain is not gone completely um and my next doctor's appointment is on Wednesday so what is today Monday so two days from now therefore to race or not to race that is the question because of this trend line because of this training block because of how I think this foot is going to feel on Sunday I'm telling you how this foot's gonna feel on Sunday I'm excited I think it's gonna be feeling much much better in six days from now and therefore I'm not going to race the Cleveland marathon sorry for the cliffhanger I apologize I this is not my first rodeo with stress fractures and stress reactions I know that was a big build up guys come on I cannot I want to so bad and I really do believe on Sunday I wouldn't be surprised if the podiatrist on Wednesday tells me get off the crutches and then get out of the boot in a week from now a meaning like 10 days from when you're watching this but guys if okay I will say this much I will say this much if this was January 2020 and I was getting ready for the Houston marathon for my last chance to qualify for the Olympic trials you bet I would I would be racing I would be I would that would be the risk I'd be willing to take meaning I would fly to Houston I would get on the starting line I would do a warm-up see how it feels if things are okay I would go I really would but listen I have more opportunities to get this Olympic trials qualifying time of 219 I'm going to be patient right patient grass hopper so that is my final decision sorry if you live in Cleveland and we were gonna have a good old hangout time after the race but I'm not going to race the Cleveland marathon and you better believe you better believe I have been plotting over the last 7 to 10 days oh and there goes a light hold on better believe I've been plotting over the last 7 to 10 days for my next marathon like you know I just as a backup plan I have been thinking about it researching I've learned a lot through Cleveland so stay tuned I will of course keep you all posted on when I make the decision for the next marathon I'm not going to tell you any leads that I have yet but I am researching right now and it might be sooner rather than later we shall see how the foot continues to trend in the right direction I love you guys Hamlet is the keyword I already asked the question of the of the day happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there and we're just going to keep fighting together sound good sound good you probably thought the green hat was a sign that I was going for it but it's just that I have a bad hair day so I was like I better put I better put a hat on for the YouTube family seek beauty work hard and love each other ah I love you Cleveland I love you Cleveland I'll be there someday I'll be there someday see you tomorrow


as a doctor, as a surgeon, we are involved with major surgical interventions. Unfortunately, in our business, this is the only business in the world where a customer can die. You know, taxi drivers. It's however much you try, Sadhguru, to dissociate ourselves. When you are operating, you need to concentrate and do the job, but what comes to your mind is the young wife, young children waiting outside. The margin of error is very small, few millimeters here and there. Then you think what are the consequences on them. Then you start thinking about when you are a kid, if something happens to your father, where you would have been. We are after all human beings. We are always torn between what we do to somebody and what could have happened to our own life. It's a constant tension. How do we overcome it? I've been in this profession for more than thirty years. Still, I haven't yet mastered the art of dissociating myself from the patient's life. Yes, when you are given a certain responsibility which could determine the shape and scope of people's lives, it's a big thing to carry on one's shoulders. But the important thing is that somebody has chosen to place such a responsibility in our hands. It's a tremendous privilege if we execute it. Can we do the best? We can never do the best, but we can do the best that we can do always with life. Is it the best? No, we are doing our best. If we lack in that, then we have a serious problem. But if we are doing our best in everything that we do, we know it is not the best. But it's our best. We have not spared anything. That's good. And above all, when you refer to yourself as a human being, after all we are human beings, this is a big problem. This will reduce our best. That is, people are always using the word human being as a limitation, as a compulsiveness, as a small thing. We are not referring to the word or term human being as a possibility. Instead of saying we are just human beings, why don't we say we are human beings? Great, we are doing so many things, we can replace a damn heart. Now, replacing a part of a machine is not a big thing. It's like this.  It's okay. It just came to when I saw you. So a cardiac surgeon took his Aston Martin, which was giving him a little bit of trouble, engine trouble, to the mechanic. So he said by evening he'll have it ready. After this hospital job, he went there to pick up his car. It was not ready. The mechanic was swaggering around a little bit and I said, Doc, why is it I do the course engines? You do people's engines. After all a pumping thing, you know. Why is it that you earn in millions? I just make a few bucks. Come tomorrow, Doc. We'll fix it. So the doctor looked at him and said, try to fix the engine when it's running. That's the important thing. You got to keep it running and fix it. Sadhguru, the… But the great work done by all the senior cardiac surgeons, cardiologists and all the good doctors of this country, the heart care has attained a lot of… it has got a lot of confidence from the people. It's very interesting, Sadhguru. When I started my career twenty-five years ago, I left England twenty-five years ago, I started in Calcutta. If I told a patient then… Lot of heartbreak there. If I told a patient then that he needed an operation, it required more than an hour of convincing him for an operation. But today I face a different problem. He's turning in a line. Today, Sadhguru, when I tell a patient after seeing all the reports that you do not need an operation, I have to spend one hour to convince him why he doesn't need operation. Everyone wants heart operations, Sadhguru. Is it for romantic reasons or… How do we… how do we convince people that fixing the heart is not like, you know, something wrong with your house, you get a plumber, he will fix it or, you know, something wrong with the car, you change the parts, it is something different. There are… we are not the magicians or we are not the gods and the nature is the best healer. And cardiac surgery is only a fifty-year-old phenomenon. People have lived for… I think they have also realized it's a dumb part. It's a big dilemma for all of us, Sadhguru. Today people want something to be done on their body all the time. Yes. If not heart, many other parts of the body. Yes, as I said, probably in another fifty years, fifty percent of the population will be going through these surgeries, which is not health, which is medical industry but not health. If health has to happen, a culture of health has to come in. Not healthcare systems, not hospitals, not more doctors, not more surgeries, but a culture of health has to evolve. Right now, world is in a way of imitating everything that America does.  It's sinking the country, okay? It's sinking the whole nation, healthcare. We want to follow the same things. We want to dress like them, we want to eat like them, we want to live like them and we want to get unhealthy like them. But our country cannot spend three million… three trillion dollars on you for sure.  We're not going to reach out to everybody and do surgery for 1.25 billion people. That's not going to happen in near future. And if it doesn't happen, it's a disaster. If it happens, it's a bigger disaster. That people do not know how to live well. It's a disastrous way that I would say 70% of the ailments on this planet can be just handled with better sense of living, eating, atmosphere. If you manage, 70% will be gone. You can achieve this in twelve to fifteen years of time on the planet. But determined effort is made by the people, by the policy and by everybody concerned, particularly the hospitals, they can do a lot. Because when they're sick, they'll listen, you know? Otherwise they don't. When they're well, they don't listen. When they're sick, they will listen. They have years, more years than two when they're sick. That's the time to talk to them as to how to live better. These things are not new to us. These are very strongly rooted in our cultural value, but we're throwing it away for something which will bring us a lot of trouble. For immediate attention, for immediate intervention, of course medical intervention is primary and it's most vital. There's no question about that. But long-term health will not happen because of medical sciences as we know it. Long-term health of a society or a nation or the planet will not happen that way. We have to bring a culture of health. What is the way to live? What is the way to eat? How to keep our body? How to keep our mind? How to keep our breath? How to keep the atmosphere around us? If this culture is not brought into us from our childhood, I would say it must be brought into the school curriculum itself. It must be brought in healthful ways of living because if you do not build healthy people, you're going to have educated and sick people and you're going to build a nation or a world out of it.  And that is happening across the world. The major nations are suffering enormous amount of illnesses. The most affluent countries who have no nutritional problems, okay, India's half the problem are nutritional problems, right from their childhood they've not eaten properly. Affluent nations who have a choice of nourishment, look at the level of health issues they have. That should not exist at all. When they have choice of nourishment, they should not have, I would say 80% of the people should not have any health issues till they die. When 20%, 25% will get something, infections will come because of close proximity, those are different. But these are all on self-help. People are on self-help to create ailments for themselves. This can be 100% taken away if we establish a culture of health for which I think not just medical professionals, people from various other areas have to work together to make this happen. I don't see any major synergy like that right now. Small efforts are happening here and there but that's not enough. It's good but it's not enough. Sadguru, majority of the people who fall sick, it's primarily because they led a life which would definitely land them in trouble. But thousands of children are born in this country like any other part of the world with cardiac problem, with cancer, all kinds of problems. It is not their fault. Why it happens? It shouldn't have happened. You know, six million Toyota cars were withdrawn last year for defective whatever and about nine million general motors withdrawn for ignition problems. Only problem is you can't withdraw them. Actually nature is trying to withdraw them. We are not allowing it. There was a time we would allow the nature to withdraw. Yes? All the manufacturing defects that came a hundred, two hundred years ago, we would allow the nature to withdraw. By the time children are four, only the fittest would survive, rest would go. Now we don't allow them to withdraw so we need a whole lot of things to run the defective course. I know I'm putting it so blatantly but you need to understand physical, the physical existence is mechanical.  Complex, sophisticated but still mechanical, isn't it? Yes. There are other aspects to it but fundamentally mechanical. Anything mechanical, anything physical there is never something called as perfection to it. It is a constant work in progress. You can improve it and improve it and improve it. What we call as evolutionary thing is just that. Now the parents, the two machines which produce this small machine, what condition are they in? This is also an issue which we have not taken care of. There is a lot to be said which is controversial about this but essentially this idea that everybody must have children has to go. I know I'm getting into trouble. But we are not seeing humanity as a future possibility. We are just seeing it as a regressive way of something that we can extend into a future of our own, a footprint. Right now that's a problem. Our identification with the body is so strong. The physical body is so strong that we are unable to think beyond our biological identity. Once you are not able to think beyond your biological identity the very nature of being human, the immensity of being human is constrained and constipated into a very small process. In this process there are problems. In the ancient past they handled this in many different ways which are absolutely utterly controversial today and can never be brought back into this society but they did handle things in a completely different way. They bred carefully which is very important. We are thinking about when it comes to animal husbandry we are thinking of breeding right. As human beings why are we not thinking of breeding right?  Sadhguru, scriptures tell us that everything happening in this world including what happens in our life is preordained. Which scripture said that? At least that's what I thought that we are destined to do something irrespective of what happens. If that is the case we are destined to die someday then what's the role of people like us in this world? Oh, we are definitely destined to die. People come and tell me, Sadhguru this man my enemy I can't bear him I want to do something.  You don't have to do anything just wait just be patient that's all. So destined to die yes but I don't think ever any scripture has mentioned that your life is predetermined or preordained. This is an import from outside. You must understand the fundamental nature of what this culture is is it's rooted in this. This is a godless culture you must understand this. There has never been an idea of God in this country. It's an important value let me put this into perspective because it upsets lots of people. We have many divine entities many we count some 33 million something like that. How did all these gods come up? So the idea the monotheistic idea is there's a god sitting out there and doing things to you so they believe in dictatorship that there is somebody who determines everything. Not so in this culture here there is no idea of God but there are many divine entities. What are these entities? Generally if you look back the language that was used for all the deities that you have is you're a Devi is a Yantra always a Yantra the word Yantra literally means a machine or a device or a tool. When I refer to our own yogic temples as tools people get offended. Sadguru don't say that it means more than our life. I said if you are offended by this you come to the ashram. I am going to give you a plumbing job to do in the ashram without tools you must use your nails and your teeth and do plumbing in the ashram for three days. After three days I'll give you a chain winch or a spanner will you worship or no? Will you worship the tool or no after having lost all your teeth? So the power of the tool the power of the tool is something that we always understood. We as human beings we are who we are on this planet only because of the tools that we have created. If we did not have any tools a dog would dominate us isn't it? Yes or no? It's only because of the tools human beings have become who they are. So there are… a screwdriver is a tool too but there are subtler tools, energy tools, subjective tools which can open up different dimensions of life. So for this for every dimension we create a different tool a different possibility because we clearly know without this tool we would never access this possibility we bow down to it and we worship it because without being worshipful it will not yield to you. This is… we clearly know gods are our making it is just that others have forgotten.  Where is the question of preordained? Such a thing never arises in this culture. Thank you, Sadhguru. But it's dangerous for a doctor to think it's preordained. Today the medical science has reached a level Sadhguru we really do not have to touch the patient when I see a patient in my office he would have undergone all kinds of tests everything is done, all the images are displayed history is written, everything is planned technically I can see the reports and tell the patient okay you need a bypass or you need valve replacement but I always make it a point to take my setesco put it on the chest, listen to the heart look at the patient's eyes put my hand around on his shoulders touch the patient and then explain to them what is going on and talk to the family I personally feel that touch has the most healing power than anything else what we have invented do you believe in that Swamiji? So what is not understood is yes one part of us is mechanical but there are other dimensions most of the time the mechanical part has gone wrong because we have not tended to the other dimensions what is lacking in their life is their life is not touched not necessarily a physical touch is just a manifestation essentially their life is not touched by anything when I say touched by anything it need not necessarily be a relationship you can be touched by so many things I don't know how many of you when is the last how many decades ago did you watch a sunrise or a sunset or a moon rise I'm saying not touched by anything when was it the last time you waited for a flower to bloom no such thing when is the last time you paid an attention to a butterfly or a leaf or a flower or another human being you're of course you don't like faces you like the face book I'm saying contact with life whether it's human animal plant life or just elements around you just that how many people even take a moment to even look at the food that they're going to consume with a little bit of involvement or are they touched by it no so at last either a doctor has to touch it or in the end undertaker will touch you somebody will touch you things gone bad somebody has to touch you so does touch have a relevance tremendous relevance touch need not always be physical it can be in so many different ways if you are not touched by life you are a dying life you're not a living life it may happen to you after some time but it's happening you're in progression because what you call as life even in the physical level it's a it's medical knowledge for everybody now the number of cells you have is more than the number of stars in the Milky Way okay every day over 600 million billion cells are dying and new cells are being born that means every second 10 million cells are dying and 10 million new cells are born in your body if you just take to leave the old old guys if you just take charge of this new 10 million cells every second that's coming up in your body if you structure them properly create them properly if you have some say in how they will happen if you have some influence as to how these fresh cells are born your heart should be fixed, your brain should be fixed, everything should be fixed because that is the level of opportunity you have to rejuvenate your life second to second but because you're totally oblivious to life when I say oblivious to life I want you to look at this right now you cannot even call yourself as a living being because most of the time what is happening with you is just thought and emotion thought and emotion is just psychological drama it is no existential relevance here a thousand people can sit here and live in thousand different worlds right now that means nobody's in reality nobody is living everybody's thinking about life psychological space what happens has unfortunately overtaken the existential process of life you do not experience life you're only thinking and reacting to situations around you thought and emotion is dominating everything so right now today morning sun came up on time you don't think much about that okay so what now you need to understand if sun does not come up tomorrow morning within eighteen hours all life on this planet will largely cease as we know it so I'm telling you sun came up on time today morning I want to hear appropriate noises yeah none of the planets in this solar system collided today in the whole universe no accidents in this endless cosmos no accidents everything going right but you have one nasty little thought crawling in your head and it's a bad day I'm saying you completely lost perspective with life you lost perspective as to who you are it's a kind of madness so once you lose perspective as to who you are and what is your space and status in this existence you are a sickness by nature it's not the doctor has to diagnose you it's already on one day it will manifest to your point where his instruments or his touch will tell him but it's already on the process is on when it goes beyond a point he'll give a prescription or a surgery but the process is on you're working hard towards it there are large number of Indian or western techniques of healing which may not have scientific data but they work and I have a personal experience many years ago my wife developed lower backache it was intense pain excruciating pain as usual I took her to a neurologist they did MRI and everything is fine there is no problem but poor thing she was really I'm glad you were not a spinal surgeon I'm glad you were not done it then my brother in law suggested that I should take her to CA acupuncture specialist as a doctor it was a bit embarrassing for me to go to somebody and he didn't have a fancy clinic I went to his house and he talked to my wife for few minutes he made a sleep flat on the floor and Sadhguru he took you know from the the the heel he started pressing on a lower back for ten minutes as I was watching I'm not exaggerating she never had the lower back pain ever since and so you're thousands and thousands like that not even with any needles simply I was so fascinated because he cured my wife and he did something which I couldn't do it for 32 years she was fine there are many ways of treating people and as professionals we have to respect all the ways of treating definitely I would say allopathic system is at its best when there's an emergency when there is time definitely other systems are way better if you ask me in many ways particularly this is something hardly known to people in southern most part of India largely in Tamil Nadu we have what is called a Siddha Siddha Vaidya it's a most incredible medical system so comprehensive there are over 300,000 formulations I don't think even modern pharmacopoeia has that over 300,000 formulations elaborately written down and the fundamental difference between Ayurveda and Siddha is Ayurveda is herb based Siddha is elemental the only thing is the skill level that it demands from the doctor is a challenge in modern world this is something that you have to live then only it works the person who administers it is as important at what is administered who administers it you're talking about touch so who administers it is important not just what is administered but the nature of modern medicine is you write a prescription some chemist who knows nothing about it gives it and they take it it's only purely chemical and it works but when there are chronic ailments if there is infection killing it with whatever you know chemical bombing it is the way to do it but when you're generating an illness from within correcting it from within is most important if there's an emergency you have to intervene more aggressively that's different but these systems have such a comprehensive knowledge about health and well-being but the problem is it needs a lifelong involvement and dedication to become something good with this kind of system it is not something that you can acquire as a profession and do it always it was seen as a sacred duty that you can actually see I want everybody to think about it and I'm sure many times you're facing this within yourself it's not it is not a prescription it is not a surgery it is not something it's a person's life whether he lives or dies I mean your existence it's not a it is not a case it is not a statistic for that person it is the only life that he has this needs far more deeper attention than just being handled as a profession I think that sense of dedication and involvement individual doctors might have grown into it but still that's not there as a culture that is not there it should not be seen as a profession that's what I'm saying yes of course monetary requirements are there that will happen that's a different thing but first of all it must be seen as a certain commitment and a certain privilege that you are able to either end or extend somebody's life is not a small privilege Satguru many years ago when my son was a little kid he gave me a book written by Swami Vivekananda he was describing how ancient gurus could communicate with each other thousands of miles away just by thought it's essentially it's like a modern internet how one computer can communicate with another computer in US or Europe anywhere do you believe that human mind can be trained to influence another human mind or people's mind who are far away just by tuning our mind to the right frequency can it be trained can we learn that art you're trying to beat the cell phone companies it's not just about the mind see when we say mind the English word mind is only generally referring to only the thought process thought process is the most surface element of your mind I think because of European thought we have given too much significance to the thought in the yogic science we do not attach any importance to what you're thinking about or feeling right now because what can you think only the data that you have collected you're recycling it it's of no great consequence whatever is in the surface of your mind keeps rolling that is not of any consequence what you're thinking and feeling right now is very surface of mind there are deeper dimensions of the mind in Sanskrit language there are many many words to describe the different states of mind but now there is one aspect of the mind for lack of time and stuff I'll leave those things there is one aspect of the mind which we refer to as chitta chitta is the innermost core of the mind which is your connection with what we are referring to as consciousness if your chitta becomes conscious if your chitta acquires a certain level of conscious control if you acquire now you have access to your consciousness what we are referring to as consciousness is that dimension which is neither physical nor is it electrical nor is it electromagnetic it is a quantum leap from physical to non-physical dimension a non-physical dimension being the lap of the existence it is the non-physical in whose lap the physical is happening physical is a small happening in this cosmos not even 2% or not even 1% is physical the rest is non-physical this non-physical dimension in the yogic terminology we use a specific sound which is connected with that dimension today it's all very highly distorted we call this shiva that means that which is not when we say shiva we are not referring to some man sitting up there we are talking about a dimension which is not but it is in the lap of this dimension everything that is happens so if your chitta becomes even mildly conscious your ability to not only communicate an idea or a thought even to deliver something is possible physically deliver something is possible so is it a possibility definitely it is right now can we teach it to all these people in theory yes but are they willing to work towards it that's a question mark one big problem is our education systems are such we have glorified our thought to such a place first to bring that down itself will take time to make them understand the stupidity of their thought it will take a whole lot of time because everybody thinks they are smart but actually the smartest thing about most people is their phone because your thought process is just an outcome of the limited data that you have gathered it doesn't matter if I have read the libraries of the world still it is too limited compared to what it is what the creation is with all the scientific development we still do not know how a leaf really works we do not know how a single atom in its entirety we do not know with all the scientific exploration so that should be humbling enough for everybody to know that we hardly we know how to use things but we do not know what it is it will take lifetime of attention to even grasp the fundamentals of what it is so if people are willing to first of all understand like the whims of their heart you just dismissed as dumb if they also understand the so called smartness of their thought process and emotion is quite dumb now it becomes easy it becomes easy to train people that communication need it's not like now I want to generate this thought and give it to you not like that things will happen to you before you think what is best for you will simply happen to you even before you articulate in your mind you don't have to ever think what you want to become how you want to be life will just arrange itself beyond what you can contain in this bone box starts working for you and it will work you heard of Ramanujam and others just opened a window with their Devi and he becomes that kind of a mathematician which is you know even today after one century they are still trying to figure out what he said and the the mathematical calculations that he gave is the backbone for describing the black holes in the universe when he was there there was no word called black hole nobody knew there is such a thing when we say black hole what we are talking about is the curve of time and gravity which is something modern science is battling with he made mathematical background for that as the curve increases what is in existence physical existence becomes non-existence so this is what it is when we say yoga you reduce the curve in such a way that what is largely physical becomes non-physical once it is non-physical time and space is not an issue once time and space is not an issue communication is simply there about twenty years ago Sadhguru I received a check for one lakh rupees from a retired major from Indian army he just gave his name he refused to he didn't give his address and he wrote a small note stating that the money I am giving you is too small for the path you have chosen but God has his own mysterious ways of giving you the rest it had a tremendous impact in what I thought what I wanted to do is it because there are cosmic forces which are constantly trying to help society and doing or it's something else which is influencing people to do something which is beyond their means see the ideas of something wants to help something reaches out to you I happened to be in about four weeks ago I was in Los Angeles and I was and the bedroom was full of books so I just picked up one of these books and so on the author is saying the core of the universe is love why would the core of the universe be love because this thing has been always told to people from heaven God loves you all these people see if you are having a roaring love affair right now with somebody next to you here will you look up and ask for rays of love to come towards you I'm asking you no you made yourself in such a way nobody can love you now only God can love you if you say God loves me you must know you are such a pathetic despicable case if you made yourself in such a way nobody can help loving you you are a wonderful human being isn't it so when it we need to understand there is something called human thought and emotion human needs of emotional needs of love care touch this the cosmos or what you are referring to as the source of creation or divine or if you want to use the word God because God personifies thing we will refuse to use that word let us say whatever is the source of creation which we are referring to as God generally by religious this thing essentially an intelligence which is simply exploding into everything possible if you are in rhythm with it you will rise if you are not in rhythm with it it will crush you it has no love it has no compassion it has no intention of helping you it has no intention of harming you it has no nothing if you understand the forces and write it if you do not understand it will crush you you have seen people doing surf boarding on the waves in the ocean it is such a magical thing just riding the waves but if you don't do it right if you go into the waves it is like being in a concrete mixer it will just do that and it will kill you so one rides the wave another gets crushed by the wave that is all that is happening the rest is all human interpretations we have to stop that we do not extend our thought and emotion to the existence this is relevant between you and me this is relevant between you and your family you love them, I love you, you love me all this fine, don't look up at the sky and say I love you it will not say I love you back because it has no such need it's pure existence this is what you have to become if you sit here you are a complete existence by yourself this is a full fledged life it does not need anything from anybody it has everything it is connected with everything in the universe it does not need anything but we want to play our games, okay we can do all this stuff but you need to understand right now we are trying to extend our compulsions to the whole creation it doesn't work like that existence is not trying to help you you may be in tune with it bingo, you are whether you got in tune with it consciously or unconsciously somehow you got in tune, that's why Shankara said, that means somehow you do it, I don't care your Shankara, Adi Shankara went to the extent of somehow you do it you get it man, that's important how you get it, who cares Sadguru I am constantly torn between my senior colleagues who are extremely skilled surgeons Sadguru, on the heart there are some procedures which are done by very few people on this planet I'll give an example I do an operation called pulmonary endarterectomy that's the blood clots from the leg goes through the lung arteries and it clogs up all the arteries so 20, 25 years ago there was no cure for this and once you are diagnosed you are destined to die within a year today people who are on home oxygen for 2 years 3 years, you do the operation they can go back to skydiving or they can go to scuba diving that's the transformative effect but there are only 50 surgeons less than 50 surgeons in this world who can operate and like this we have some of my colleagues who are extremely gifted surgeons they are in their 50s now and some of them are constantly talking about retirement especially one surgeon who is extremely gifted surgeon who can fix any damaged wire he is single he has no other commitments every other day he talks about going to Banaras or somewhere and retire I keep telling him that God didn't create him to retire and meditate, he has to be fixing all these problems so he gives me extension every 6 months Guruji so at the end of 6 months the usual rigmarole starts he talks about retirement and everybody is depressed in the hospital so how do you deal with this kind of people you must give them one year sabbatical with me yes because the need or the idea of retirement enters anybody's mind because of the monotony of what they're doing whatever it may be somebody else may think it's a great thing but in your experience somewhere it's becoming monotonous or stagnant stagnation is one thing that human intelligence and human system cannot take and most of the ailments are because of stagnation stagnation of life they may be getting once in 3 years promotion they may be making little more money all these things may be happening but somewhere experientially there is a stagnation which could be a major cause for many of the complex ailments that people manufacture within their systems the more complex they get you try to create more talented surgeons I'm saying we are manufacturing the problems we are trying to manufacture a solution I think as we offer solutions people who have already gotten into problems they need solution but it's very important that we teach people how not to create these problems so that instead of 50 you have to produce 5000 expert surgeons to attend to all these people and self-help to illness so I would say a surgeon who has a certain competence and who has worked through his life if he wants to explore something of his own nature that would be the greatest thing to do because he is not a man without commitment not competence when competence and commitment is there you should not run him through the rig ram role and destroy the possibility it's important that he explores something of his own nature which will make him... we don't know what he will come up with you cannot even estimate what he may come up with I think a sabbatical is good he may come up with something that you have not thought possible I will I will convey your message to Satguru I'm sure he is watching this program Satguru I believe that talent is something which is grossly exaggerated in success it's when I was in medical school I used to teach martial art that was my passion and every time a Bruce Lee's movie was released all these school kids would come and join in hoards to martial art schools we used to call as Bruce Lee's phenomena yes and I used to see some kids whose physics is meant for martial art who have the natural flair and I used to think oh this kid is going to get a black belt and interestingly swamiji after six months they are never there the guys who go up to the black belt and you know do something very good in martial art are the ones who joined the school without any skills without any talent who worked very very hard for everything they had to sweat it out but in the end they are the ones who succeed how do you explain this phenomena say for variety of reasons let me not go beyond this for variety of reasons, a certain individual could be born with a certain flair physical flair, mental flair, emotional flair style you know five-year-old child one has style, other is clumsy okay so the one with the style is not going to become necessarily a fashion thing somebody else who seems to be clumsy may grow into something else like you don't know whether she is pregnant the child within that womb whether it's a sage or a sorcerer not the woman now the mother does not know whether she is producing a sage or a sorcerer or what this is because I use the word coherence because of modern science is using that word who you are here right now as you sit here this is physics every subatomic particle is in constant contact with everything what you call as cosmos is living life and it's a live mind you have captured only one small part of it if you work with only that one small part of what you have captured both as life and as intelligence you will function at a certain level if you apply yourself to break the barriers of your limitations for yourself then there is an intelligence beyond anybody's understanding beyond anybody's estimate which is available to you once this is available to you people think you are superhuman no this is not about being superhuman this is about realizing that being human is super the immensity of being human has not been realized so we are always making a kind of a mathematical calculation okay if this person has this much IQ maybe this is what he will become this is what Newton's law that everything that moves on this planet works to your mathematical precision or a geometric precision that is if you take a pendulum the length of the pendulum will decide how it will swing if you take a projectile it will go to a certain place that is not how the cosmos is working because what you think is physical and not physical is all mixed up within this within this human being the physical self the psychological self the emotional self and who you call as myself the life within you, the fundamental life process these are all different dimensions and the innermost core of who you are which all the other words are corrupted I will use the word life or just you what you call as me this if you allow it if you do not identify it with any form with your physical form or with other different identities what you take on it has a way of being cohesive or collaborative with everything around when we say somebody worked hard all he is trying to do is stretch his boundary of identity isn't it he is trying to stretch his boundary if he succeeds to stretch his boundary something that was he never thought possible or imagined that is within his competence or capability becomes his miraculously I can show you hundreds of people who come to me we prepare them for a certain period and then we initiate them in 24 hours you will see the shape of their face will change genetics are altered in 24 hours time you can see the photographic images dramatically over night simply because of a certain extension of their identity so in the Indian spiritual values when you say spiritual we must understand this this is not about looking up or looking down when we say spiritual we are talking about transcending the limitations of physical so right now the physical is here as if it's a solid entity in people's experience but modern physics is telling you and medical science is beginning to tell you or if people don't understand if they just hold their nose for two minutes they understand that they are not an independent existence it is in transaction not just in terms of breath even on the level of subatomic particles it's in constant transaction if this transaction becomes even minutely conscious suddenly you have immense capabilities that you never thought were possible biological identity is the most limiting identity that you have because it limits to the area of your body now when you strive you break this it doesn't matter in what way you strive most people strive in unconscious unscientific simply out of striving they do things but there are ways to strive scientifically in a proper way there are tools to strive with specific direction to break the limitations of who we are if you break this boundary the subatomic particles are transacting the intelligence is transacting only you are missing the whole game if you don't miss the game if you are in the game of life not in the game of thoughts and emotions you are in the game of life suddenly just about anything you want you can do not this or that I'm saying anything a human being can do simply if he breaks his barriers and these barriers are many levels but the most fundamental thing is the identity


How do we get to Manhattan? Yeah! Simple beginnings. Yeah, where you don't really know who the killer is. You always see the hands, right? And then there's a big twist at the end. You get to part two, which we're finally introduced to Jason.  Not wearing the hockey mask yet. But even that movie still kind of starts off as a bit of a mystery. Then it gets to the third one. He gets his mask. Finally he gets his, his look. We get to part four and this begins the Tommy Jarvis trilogy. It's supposed to be the final movie. You know?  Then we get to the fifth one. And it turns out that it's a copycat killer. It's not even Jason at all. Part six, Jason lives. And this is where we get introduced to Zombie Jason, an unkillable zombie slasher. Part seven takes all that even further. Psycho-kinetic powers or whatever.


The benefits to the landscape, to people, to the country is quite significant and far more than I ever appreciated. My name's Phil Hawkey. I'm the CFA Vegetation Management Officer in the North East region. Initially I had an interest in learning about traditional burning practices to see how it would apply to CFA. It's been a journey of discovery for the last five or six years and continues to be. The benefits include, apart from fuel reduction, which is an obvious benefit, but the social benefits is economic benefits. There's mental health and other health benefits that can be attributed to having traditional owners and Aboriginal communities returning to undertake traditional practices. I was thrilled to be nominated for this award. I was very pleased to see that CFA went down this path where they're recognising a lot of the good work that's being done by people right across the state. Fire is only a small part of our business in this modern world and the work that people are doing in communities for communities is fantastic right across the state.


Hello everybody so it's been a while since I filmed a vlog and I thought I would do one because it's not everyone's cup of tea but I enjoy making them. I'm sorry about the noises outside. Anyway today I am at work, that's my work, but it's lunchtime so I was just hand-painting some of these Patreon rewards. So last month we were, if it wants to focus, we read Mexican Gothic. You guys have probably seen this image on my Instagram maybe, but I thought it'd be fun to like send a mini print out to all my all my book reader patrons and I'm gonna put them in this little antique envelope which I find really cool because I bought some antique envelopes and they're all really old and interesting so I thought that would be really fun to do with these prints because this is kind of a dated, it's not dated but it's set in like the 1950s I think, the book so I thought it'd be cool to send them with these antique envelopes and then I'm using these shimmery dot shift cards that maybe you saw on my YouTube channel, I don't know, to hand-paint like some of the glitter onto some of these so they're all gonna look different and I think they're really cool. I'm really having fun making these and yeah I think they're nice and I'm gonna hand, I'm gonna write a message on the back of them I think, either the back or I'm gonna put a message in these envelopes so I'm gonna put them in the antique envelope and then in a proper envelope to send. Oh my god, also I don't know if you guys have seen this, come on, focus camera. This kind of washi tape before, this one is like movements and basically each little bit is like a fake kind of stamp and they're all different so I want to use those as well on on top of the envelopes because I think those would look really cute and they're really pretty and I didn't know this was like a fake roll of stamps kind of thing. I thought it was just normal washi tape so it really surprised me and I'm really happy with these. I got this in Japan so I wish that I had picked up more of them but I've got a little thank you stamp. Here's all my little, I keep the washi tapes and stuff here for when I want to pack little things. Oh my lunch break. Yeah so that's that's my Monday. I'm drinking coffee and yeah that's basically it. A little update on Pesto if anyone's interested? A little update with Gigi if anyone's interested. Yes, yes a good stretch. It's a good stretch. This is currently like mostly my 2bred pile. Lots of these books I have read but most of them I haven't so I really want to read that 6-4 book next. It's supposed to be like quite a big hit in Japan and it got translated to English and I need to read it because it's interesting but this month we're reading a different book on the Patreon so I'm a really slow reader so maybe I can manage two books a month maybe if I actually read. Sometimes I just put off reading a lot so I'll just watch YouTube at night and then I'm like oh I should read something and then I'm like no I'm gonna watch YouTube and I'll watch another like silly video. I'm just reading. This is a really cool book because a lot of House 5. I really enjoyed that. I said I haven't read most of these but actually I've read this. I don't know if this is interesting to you guys by the way. Read this. This is a cool graphic novel. It's LGBTQ LGBTQ and yeah it's really nice. It's cool style and I also have this one. You guys have probably heard of these because they're quite famous or the gene keeps breaking up with me and I really love the artist of this one. I think it's I don't know how to say her name. Mariko. I don't know why that was so hard for me to figure out. It's relatively simple. Mariko Tamaki yeah is the artist and I just I love this style. It's really cool. And yeah I've read Neil Gaiman's Trigger Warning. I got it and I was like sounds interesting and they never picked it up. But yeah oh this book is really good. Hostage. This is a big graphic novel by Guy D. Leslie I think his name is and I've got a few of his books because he kind of does like autobiographical stuff because his wife works for Doctors Without Borders and so he writes about all the different places that they go to. But this one is somebody else's story about this guy who got kidnapped and his story and so it's it's a true story but not about Guy. Guy is just the artist and it's really good. I like that book a lot. And yeah I've got this Jerusalem one by him too. Yeah so there's some books of mine. I hope that was interesting. A little talk for you. Pesto found them interesting because she woke up from her nap and came over. Alright signing off. I'm also gonna put in some of these stickers that I sent to my patrons before but these are like different ones I think so everyone should kind of get different ones this time. They're just based on patrons favorite books so we have Spinning Silver, The Name of the Wind, The Last Unicorn and Mistborn. So they're kind of just book stickers so you can put them in maybe or like book diaries or just put them on top of your computer or bookmarks or like they're just fun. I think they're really cool to put on stuff. I put one here on my computer which I quite like and yeah I'm gonna pop them in. I realized that these do not fit inside these envelopes so I'm gonna have to use a bigger envelope but that's fine I think it makes it more exciting like opening it I guess so I'm gonna use these envelopes boom and then put some stickers in and then play around with putting stamps and stuff on top of the envelopes and that's it. Two minutes left on my lunch break so I'm gonna have to do this after finish work. I might see you then I might see you tomorrow. Good morning everyone I've had a really fun morning of trying to unblock my card again because they apparently found some fraud on it or found some fraud that sounds bad that sounds like I'm committed fraud um now they blocked the card because the payment didn't go through or something so they thought it was fraud or something I don't know so they had to unblock it it was really annoying because I called yesterday yeah it was the same same thing because they didn't actually unblock it which was really fun thank you thanks Nat West cool okay I'm gonna go downstairs and grab a coffee. In my country the infections are down to just 22 people um so it's not too bad at the moment whoa but um everyone's still being cautious so you have to wear masks in public places and but you don't need to wear them out in the open air but I tend to just wear them like all the time if I go out so and uh some people don't agree with masks which is so stupid but hey I can't control everyone's minds can we? So yeah I'm just working today um I'm off tomorrow though on Friday because it's my birthday on Friday and I took those two days off and then the week after off and I'm really excited because then I can work on some projects and I'm hoping that I can work on my horror comic during that time finally because I'll have some downtime and I'm feeling a bit inspired and yeah watching Dina or listening rather as I work that was a weird sentence sorry good morning folks it is now folks that was weird um it's Thursday and I'm off work so I'm moving from that desk to this desk this is the desk that I usually film on um Chris has put his uh Street Fighter thingy that I hate so I just held my desk so I'm gonna move that and yeah I'm gonna do some drawing and stuff this is a little behind the scenes for you guys so I use this to film super janky because it's broken um I need I need to get a new one basically and uh yeah I found these old poster color paints that I have I think they're Chris's old paints but he didn't mind like letting me use them so those are pretty cool except there's there's just yellow blue and brown and black which is I wish I had a red so then I could mix colors but I don't ignore this this is a cat brush lovely um yeah so I'll see you guys in a bit film for my vlog a little bit say hi guys well that's like delayed now so yeah we're just filming um just doing a live stream for the for my birthday stream even though my birthday's tomorrow yeah we're just gonna do some doodling now for sunborn which is um like this nice restaurant my birthday this is my birthday great and uh I'll show you guys my food I guess I don't know if this is interesting but this is what you're getting quality content how do I turn it down it's action but Chris okay I'm opening the hyalica stuff you're going to be in it okay let's see what we have I've got a package from hyalica um I don't know if you guys know her she's really cool artist and she does like subscription boxes um I can't get it out I'm trying to save the day I don't want to hit pesto pesto stop it stop it she thinks it's for her yeah she's like thank you for my plastic gift it's very cool so I bought like different inks from her so I bought this blue pink set she's really cool and and I also got these other sets which is I think these are like greens these are the colors like a complimentary set so I've got the B set and then I got this this is like the main set does she make them primary no she doesn't make them but these are like the ink she used so she sets them up that's cool sells them and then you've got the masking fluid that she uses which always looks really like like it works well because she uses a lot of masking fluid so and then I got these paint brushes because I need new paint brushes and I was like oh she says they're cool then they must and they have these like acrylic ends which I really like oh that's cool they're cool right do I see what's at the back it's got like a little yeah I don't know why oh that's for like scraping the masking fluid I think oh that's mad good I have one no cool so there we go it's my little pineapple package I will do a video we'll do a video about them maybe so or I'll just use them I don't know okay see you in a bit okay so it's like 2am ish we just got back from my parents where I celebrated my birthday but Chris got me the Kreeka woohoo really excited I'm gonna do some like stickers and stuff which is um I'm a bit intimidated but it's gonna be awesome I'm gonna do some make some stickers I'm very excited it's a pretty like mint green one too love it it's awesome I'm very excited to get to work tomorrow and I will use this stuff and then maybe make some stickers I don't know the possibilities are endless hey guys so this might be a bit of a weird one but my mum made this for me for my birthday like one of my presents and they're basically reusable face wash cloths and she like stitched all of them so they're like cotton on this side so which is supposed to be like really good for reusable things and then um they're all like different patterns on the back and then inside there's like a you basically throw them all in inside this bag and then you put it in the laundry and it all cleans it it's so clever isn't it she just made this so cool so I'm just gonna wash my face with one of these now and she made this little box like stitch this box so when you want to get one you just have it right here and you can just grab one I didn't show that at all she made this little box so when you want to get one you can just grab one when you need one and I just use my face wash with it and I think that's really cool so I thought I'd share that it's not very artsy but it's kind of artsy for people who like stitching sewing and stuff like that I thought it was really cool nice huh okay also Pastu likes to drink Chris and I are kind of addicted to slunky at the moment so we're gonna play some of that and then head to bed and then tomorrow is Saturday and that's probably when I'll post this video but I might do some drawing tomorrow so I'll let you know if I say goodbye then hey morning guys so it is now Saturday and I'm very tired because we got home super late last night and then we stayed up for a little bit longer for some reason I don't know this is going to be the last day of the vlog so you're probably watching this later that doesn't make any sense you're watching this on Saturday and I thought I'd just unbox the Heila Kerr stuff as like the final kind of entry of the vlog and just check out all the ink sets and stuff I thought that would be fun so let's do it I'm very excited to check them out so I think usually I would make this into like a separate video but I think I'm just too excited to open them so I want to just look at the inks now I think I'm just gonna do like swatches and stuff and talk about the quality of stuff so it's not going to be like an in-depth painting or anything but we're gonna check out everything so I've never used these type of inks before like watercolor inks so it'll be quite exciting to see how they they work so I'm gonna open the primer set first and just check out oh they're so cool with these little pipette things so we've got magenta yellow and cyan blue which is gonna be awesome okay um let's see clean my palette here I don't know how much to use as well because I just want to get used to them too look that's super yellow it's kind of cool I really like how pigmented they look already resistant to erasing and waterproof sweet deal okay I'm gonna use my big new brush oh I think we should use a masking fluid as well how do I what does this work okay let's just do a little oh okay it comes out really fast let that in mind if you get this it's like a loose hair that which has bothering me let's see whoa this is like super super pigmented I guess like instantly absorbed into the paper which is kind of different to watercolors see how it reacts with wet on wet okay that's pretty cool it dries so quickly though like it all absorbs into the paper anyway so super quick I took a picture of my drive yesterday so I think I might like sketch that out with this see if it works I do really like the textures you can get with it because as it absorbs it quickly I was kind of going for the paper so I think what I'll do is finish it here I think I need maybe if I add more water it won't dry as quickly I will look up like um tutorials and how to use these inks I think later and maybe how I look at even has like something on her because I think she has a youtube channel actually now so good to know isn't it guys she's like one of my art heroes I think you know I'm a bit obsessed if you water it down it doesn't absorb quite as quickly so I think that's probably the way to go a bit I also think this paper is a bit too absorbent for watercolor paper like this is the what did I say it was mossary sketchbook that's it and uh yeah I'm not like a huge fan so I want to get like a good watercolor paint good watercolor sketchbook so if anybody knows anything that would be really handy yeah definitely not sure about the way that it looks on this paper kind of nice like I kind of like the grainy textures of it so let's do a green it is really nice to use like I'm saying that so I'm really excited to keep using them with these ones as well I just have to get used to it a bit I think it's a bit of a learning curve maybe if I wait for it to dry a bit let's see how it reacts reacts let's see how it acts then so you can use it straight like this like I'm doing or you can add water to it so it's kind of like watercolor and then it will be watercolor waterproof which is really cool so you can use inks on top as well or underneath and they won't get smudged obviously I did color to this so this is not the actual color I love them I really I don't know there's something about them like obviously I'm not doing them justice but I think they're really fun to work with and I'm really enjoying them so let's see what I can create with them hopefully I think the paper is not very nice but I'm gonna look up different ways to different things to use for it I think that's gonna be the end of the vlog for now but thanks for watching guys if you made it this far let me know if you enjoy this type of vlog I'm not sure that everybody does so I'm just trying to figure out what what works best for my channel basically because I want to do stuff that people want to watch obviously so at the moment I'm a bit like burnt out but just ensure what direction to go that would help me because I think I've just been like losing subscribers and I don't know it's not it's not like the end of the world but it's a bit demoralizing so you know anyway to end that or to end the vlog on such a happy note I've had a really good week and a really good birthday yesterday and I've obviously got the creek up and these inks and everything to like check out so hopefully that will be on my channel soon and I hope to see you guys there okay thanks for watching guys bye I would just like to give a shout out to my patrons before I go thanks so much guys really appreciate it it's been really awesome time and yeah so they are Devin, Acetubulum, Acetubulum I'm always wondering if I'm mispronouncing that let me know Jacqueline, Steph, Eva, Lucille, Erica, Miguel, Tim and Charlotte and Alex thank you so much guys it really means a lot and I'm really enjoying chatting to you and doing different stuff on Patreon with you thanks bye


Thank you for checking out this episode of brutal battle beer break today. I'll be doing something by funk works And they are out of Fort Collins, Colorado haven't had any other stuff, but about to rectify that This is their saison ale As you know, I do enjoy when it comes to lighter styles and a nice saison from time to time So I'm hoping this will be one of those nice saisons 6.8% alcohol by volume on this one and a nice carbonated kick when I opened it there a lot of CO2 escaping as You can see massive had very carbonated a lot of small bubbles coming up from the bottom kind of champagne Esk very yellow ish with a yellow with a little bit of orange tinge to it.  You can definitely smell the saison yeast It's a nice citrusy. This is very biscuity bready and on the nose as well Smells good a little bit of a rind aspect to on citrus. Oh Very effervescent lots of small bubbles just playing on your tongue. I get that breadiness. I get a little bit of a Slight sweet banana no kind of like a banana chip I get that tangerine aspect with a little bit of the actual rind to it and Be a little bit of like a coriander type note in there Very clean very crisp very nice and refreshing This is a good one the bitterness that it finishes with is nice and kind of light As far as saisons go this is kind of like not a whole lot of frills I mean it's pretty much a straight-up saison, but it's done. Well, and it's nice and it's refreshing and It's kind of hitting the spot right now. So funk works. Good job and six point eight percent probably taste about that Hmm Clean nice. I'm gonna enjoy this beer. So funk works. That's the first thing I've had by you and Thank you very much like to try and get a hold of more of your stuff But we'll see this came through a beer club So if anyone's out there and you want to send in some beers for this go ahead and do that You can contact us at brutal battle podcast at gmail.com But until next time, thank you so much for checking this out.


your financial news network news update. Good morning folks. This is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of very sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year nine a.m. update and curly of U. S. equity futures trading to the downside. Dow futures are off 381 points while the Nasdaq futures off 209. That's about one in seven tenths percent for the Nasdaq one three tenths for the S and P. S. many trading down 51 points and rustles off 25. That's one in three tenths percent to the downside over an age last night a mixed bag out there. It was a Nikkei closing higher by one and a quarter percent three hundred forty nine points the upside twenty seven four fifty three as a print over in Europe right now you've got the Dax and the footsie trading lower down by one percent for the Dax the footsie off three tenths percent. Gold is off four bucks. Silver's down twenty three cents. You got lights we accrued trading out at seventy five sixty six. Twenty seven pennies natural gases off is basically flat as we speak. So what's all that mean Stevie. Well let's go take a look at that nine panel. Market update chart we begin by take a look at the ES many in the case the ES many. There's a new profile that is attempting to form out there. That bottom of that box at thirty nine ninety five that profile will go away if price remains below that level or at least it should go away if remains below that level out there now the only other price target area or support area should say from a profile standpoint would be down at thirty eight forty four. The case the spot fix index still above its fifty day exponential moving average. That number is twenty eighty three as long as price remains above that. That gives sellers the advantage. Now sellers have the advantage however price in the end queue it's going to be all about the end queue today prices pulled back it's already tested and so far rejected the bottom of that daily profile eleven nine seventy five is that number it's been down to eleven nine seventy four and a quarter out here a price close below eleven nine seventy five that's going to suggest a further move lower now from an A to B equal CD standpoint that's price target would be down at eleven eight ninety four that US dollar index she's got a A to B equal CD pattern the upside but it is in the process of forming a TD nine count top just like gold is in the process of forming a TD nine count bottom. But just because it's forming that pattern those patterns can get negated the A to B equal CD for US dollar index gives you a one to one price projection of one oh five fifty six again gold is going to complete a TD nine count bottom today that says we should see a bouncer bottom begin to unfold Sunday Monday of next week folks stay tuned Tommy O'Brien is up next with the morning market kickoff have a fantastic Friday a fantastic weekend I'll see you at eleven o'clock on Monday take care be safe out there.


It's finally that time. I am excited y'all and stick through to the end of the video to see how you can win a free hoodie from the brand. So yeah, I've been on YouTube for some time now and I've learned a lot about clothing. I've garnered a massive appreciation for premium and uniquely designed garments. And I just think the time is right for me to pursue it. So welcome to my clothing brand. Now I know what you're thinking, another YouTuber creating another clothing brand. Well the thing is y'all only see the fashion side of me. There's another part of me that y'all don't see at all and that's my obsession with architecture and interior design. And yeah, to be honest, that's what I mainly consume on social media nowadays. And so this brand is not only going to be a clothing brand, of course we're going to focus on items that you can wear, but we're also going to place a focus on items that your place can wear. And I know the suspense is killing you, so the brand name is A Choice Made. It's going to be a clothing brand and an interior design brand.  I've always believed that you are who you are because of the choices that you made in the past. You know when I was in college in Albuquerque, New Mexico, suffering through my engineering classes, I had a few choices to make. Either stick to engineering like my parents and family wanted me to, or drop out, move to New York City to pursue YouTube. Pretty risky I know. And obviously you guys know what I chose, even though it was a life of no friends, no partying, no fun, not knowing I was going to have enough money to get groceries for the week. It was rough when I first got started. I'm not going to lie. But still, it was the best decision I had ever made and my life would look completely different without said choice. And you wouldn't even have known that I existed. So that mindset became part of the brand name. You could choose who you want to be, your decision, nobody else. And you know it's the same if you're struggling a little bit. You have that choice to get yourself out of it. You take accountability, give yourself that permission to get yourself out of it instead of blaming you on a third party. And that's how I go about my life. I feel like a lot of us can resonate with that. And just like my choice to move to New York City that opens so many doors for me, I am making the choice to start this brand. And I want you to be a part of that experience. Now, as far as what we're dropping, again, this isn't just a clothing brand. Interior design and fashion goes hand in hand.  We didn't just only want to make clothes. So for this first drop, we're keeping it very simple with the choice made embroidered hoodie. And for your place, we got the decorative tray. We aren't reinventing the wheel over here, okay? But we do got big plans for the future with more unique pieces if you guys support. Now, this hoodie is a nice heavyweight hoodie with the embroidered details on the chest and the lower hem. I am wearing a size large for that true oversized look. And for sizing reference, I am 5'7", 160 pounds. If you do want something a little bit more slimmer, I would suggest sizing down. And my true to size is medium for a standard fit, large for an oversized fit. And the decorative tray, man, I have these all over my place. No matter how messy it gets, if you place that mess on a tray, it just solves all your problems. Skin care, your everyday carry, or even for seasonings in your kitchen. And check out that clean and graving underneath.  We are launching on Friday, February 24th at 3pm Eastern Standard Time as a pre-order. But if you click that link in the description and sign up for our newsletter, you will get one hour of early access. And we're going to close the store on Monday, February 27th. So that gives you three days to place an order. And I want to stress, this is a pre-order and it's going to take about three to four weeks for you to receive your hoodie. We are a very small team of three, but the decorative trays are not a pre-order and we actually don't have that much of these. They're definitely going to sell out real quick. Again, just look at how it cleans up an area. I like to keep my go-to jewelry on there. So if y'all want to support, just click that link in the description and sign up for our newsletter and show the brand some love. Now to thank y'all for the support over the years, I'm giving away three free hoodies.  Follow me and a choice made on Instagram. There's the handle. And on this specific photo, I want you to like it and comment a choice made as well and then subscribe to our newsletter. If you're already signed up, you don't got to worry about this. And guess what y'all, the giveaway starts right now and it's going to close on Friday, February 24th at noon Eastern Standard Time. The winner is going to be decided one hour later at 1pm. And if you don't win the giveaway, don't worry about it. You still have one hour early access to place in order before the store opens live to the public. And that's all you got to do. My team and I are going to be cross-checking to make sure you guys qualify properly and there will only be one entry per person. So commenting multiple times is not going to count. Commenting earlier or later is not going to benefit you. Everyone has an equal chance. So yeah, fellas, remember the store opens on Friday, February 24th at 3pm Eastern Standard Time. And if you sign up for our newsletter, you'll get one hour of early access at 2pm Eastern Standard Time. And one last time, fellas, this is a pre-order and the store is going to close on Monday, February 27th. The store is only open for three days, so mark your calendars. And I just want to thank you guys. I'm blessed to have you guys as my supporters. Seriously, man, y'all are the real ones. So until then, stay fly, deuces.


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