So this is a charm, man? Yes. When I was growing up in Kent, Washington, I would have never guessed that it'd be ranked as one of the most diverse cities in the country. And it definitely didn't feel that way when I was younger. But things do change a lot over 10 years. And every time me and David come back to visit, there's a new restaurant serving food from a different culture. So we wanted to show you some of the spots around our hometown, Guatemalan, Samoan, Venezuelan, Himalayan, and Afghani. Just to name a few. Let's go. Andrew, we took a quick trip back to our hometown of Kent, Washington. Yep. And I'm super excited to do this video today. We're going to be trying so many different cuisines that we've never had before. And we can do this in our hometown of Kent because Kent currently is ranked top 10 in the nation for most diverse mid-sized cities and in the entire state of Washington. Andrew, today we're going to be trying Guatemalan, Samoan, Australian, Venezuelan, Himalayan, and Afghani. Woo! That is quite a mix. First up is Antigua Guatemala. All right, this is the Guatemalan restaurant. This is Antigua Guatemalan restaurant. The difference is more like we use a little bit less spicy. All our tamales are banana-based. Slightly different between the Guatemalan tamales and the Mexican. On Guatemala, it's kind of traditional, how like Chalmín, you know, colony of Japanese people or somehow. It's a kind of mix of culture, you know? Like with the Mayas and the Spanish. All right, in front of us, we have this amazing Guatemalan spread right here. Some of the dishes look familiar to something I've had before, but some of them look totally different. Guys, if you guys are excited about this video, make sure to smash that like button, hit subscribe, and turn on your notifications. Woo! David, do you know all the names here? No. I know Guanaches. It was a tamale, chinchito, chalmín, pupusa, and that is tortilla de harina. And this is pepean. All right, so this pepean dish is considered one of the most traditional, and it is the national dish of Guatemala right now. So we gotta start with this. This is a chicken soup right here. Yo, I'm Andrew. I'm a chicken stew guy.   That's on me. Look at this tortilla pocket that they've given me. These are handmade tortillas. Let me just pull this out for you. Oh, snap. While they're steaming. Wow, you know how thick these tortillas are? They're almost more like scallion pancakes. I did not know what you were busting out right there. No, this feels more like roti, or like a scallion pancake. Wow. Okay. Yo, please, Andrew, give me some pepean. Okay, man. Pepean. Okay, right off the back. It resembles somewhat of a borscht soup, but it's a more chicken base. It has a very deep flavor. Tomatoey, but not like tomato soup. Yo, pepean, what a way to start. Guys, we're gonna finish this food. Oh my gosh, there's so much. I'm excited already. Wow, well, so here, if you look at this plate, I have a sausage right here.  Andrew, while you are doing that, I have the Guatemalan horchata. It is different than the Mexican horchata. I'll tell you why in a second. Lighter, less cinnamon. Okay. Churrascos. Dip it in the sauce here. Chinchito entamale. Chinchito. Oh, you know what that was like? Heavy corn flavor. This is the Guatemalan tamale, and they're a little bit different because... It's got tomatoes in it. Yeah, they have tomatoes in it, and the corn is supposed to be a little bit fluffier, and then also it's wrapped in a banana leaf and not a corn husk. Oh, wow. That's a very soft and fluffy tamale right there. Guys, we have to start finishing up here at our Guatemalan spot because we have so many other locations to get to. Oh, but the food was really good, and I could eat every dish. I could eat more of every dish, but I'm gonna hold myself back. All right, so we got two Guatemalan desserts to finish off our meal here before we go on to the next spot. This one right here is moete, and let's go dig in, man. I've never seen anything like this before. This is beautiful looking. Their layout and their whole, the care that they put into food is just great, man. Moete.  That was like a warm, soaking pancake. Dude, that is a way better version of a bread pudding, but with cinnamon. That is decadent, man. Let me tell you that. Wow. It's almost like a sugar doughnut with filling inside. Wow. It's almost like a banana, coconut, fried in a doughnut hole. That was really good, too, but for me, I gotta go with that. Moete, moete takes the cake as far as the desserts, though, but man, both were delicious. And the next spot we are headed to is a food that I am sure that probably 99% of our followers have not had before. Yes, it is Samoan food. Now, if you guys don't know, there's actually a large Samoan population in the Seattle area, approximately 10,000 of them. Basically, this is the only kind of Samoan food you can buy at a restaurant in this area. It's called Lily's Bakery, and they're gonna have some Samoan food, hopefully, and also a lot of baked goods. That's our hot moon pies. There's also the filling inside the moon cups that I just gave you. The only difference is there's no whipped cream on top of it, like the moon cups, but it's almost the same. It's just some people just like it that way. Maybe we are outside of Lily's Bakery. We're here in Kent still over on the West Hill. By the way, guys, this is Samoa. We are popping up Samoa on a map. Polynesian Island, meaning it probably has a lot of different influences, but Polynesia being the overall broader term for a number of the islands in the Pacific, but this is particularly Samoan food. Outside of the history, guys, let's get into this food, but this is a coconut spinach, David, for you. This is a turkey tail, right? And this is lamb that's cooked in some soy sauce. This is a barbecue chicken, and this is a Polynesian sausage, essentially. And then we have desserts here. We have the lamb curry, okay?  Coconut spinach. Never had it before. Wow. It almost tastes like the cream spinach you would get at like Lawry's or San Francisco house of prime rib, but with more coconut. Yeah, instead of cream, it's coconut cream. All right, guys, this is the turkey butt, so they call it the turkey tail. Man, it is roasted to perfection.   All right, guys, this is the turkey tail. Turkey tail. I didn't know the butt of a turkey tastes so good. Very fatty.   It's sweet, it's caramelized. It's just falling apart in my mouth. So guys, we are here, moving on to the lamb. So she just gave me a slab of lamb, guys. Here, if you come to Lillies, you can get, actually, you can taste all the food and it's really, really cheap, man. Everything on this table only costed less than $30, so I gotta shout out to them. Yo, Andrew, I can't wait any longer. I want the Samoan moon pie, man. Try the moon pie. Break one open, though. Here, we gotta break it. Are you gonna break it? Oh, it's gonna crumble. Oh, man, these look good. This is the Samoan moon pie. Oh, it's good. Dude, that's really good. And you know what I think I really enjoyed about it? The filling was not overly sweet. I'm not gonna lie, I thought it might be when I first looked at it, but it was totally light. It got way more of a, like, a real fruit flavor to it. Yeah, this definitely makes me more curious and I'm glad we got a chance to do this because you can't find Samoan restaurants in every place in America. Yeah. Yo, so far, Andrew, I gotta say this food crawl has been two for two. Antigua Guatemala was delicious. Lily's Samoan bakery has been delicious. I'm excited for the next spot. Let's go. On Instagram, shout out to Joseph T.T.Alihi, David Takataka, and just be like, hey, man, I'm at Lily's Bakery. Mind what I loved about going to Antigua Guatemala and Lily's Samoan Bakery is that they were really hubs for the local community and it goes to show you how diverse Kent is because you're not gonna put a Samoan bakery somewhere where there's no Samoans, you're not gonna put a Guatemalan spot where there's no Guatemalans. Guess what, Andrew, we have next. We have another cuisine that I've had once before, but have not really got a chance to indulge in it. We are gonna be having some of the finest Venezuelan arepas. These are drinks that are very common in Venezuela, so before we start the meal, cheers. That doesn't just taste like Coke. That's a little bit fruitier, almost pure sugar cane. Just tastes like a beer. Does it taste like a beer? Like a delicious beer. This is really good. Actually, I kept drinking that. I did not expect to like it. You know what? Not an alcoholic. Tell me it doesn't taste like a beer. Bro, my taste buds are drunk. Andrew, this is the number one Venezuelan dish, the arepa. And here I have this curry sauce. David, you have the cilantro sauce. These are hot, steaming, fresh arepas. David, you have the pork one. I have the beef one. Venezuelan arepas. Yo, that, this, to me, was seriously, this was a five out of five. Wow, well, what's in it? I have a pork one, but it's really juicy pork, and it was not dry.  Oh, this is the best arepa I've ever had. It's the easiest to eat. And David, form-wise, look-wise, it does look like the Chinese hamburger of the Rojamo. I gotta try the beef one, man, because I'm beef and cheddar. This is like an Arby special right here. Which one's better? Wow. Which one's better, bro? That one was surprising, but the pork one's better usually. Really? There's a reason the pork is number zero. Zero's not even a number. There's a reason the pork was number zero. I'm rolling with the beef, man. No! The beef had way more flavor. All right, flip the camera. Oh!  This guy got so excited. This is the happiest John has ever been. By the way, John doesn't smile this much, man. Oh, come on, man. Three, two, one, pork! Oh, pork! The pork hands down!  Bamboo!  The drinks, price-wise, it could be, you know, eight, maybe nine dollars, but it's worth it. Guys, this is the Vietnamese rice paper salad. You can do it. I think that this is fascinating. I don't think we have- Rice paper salad. We don't have anything like this in China. Rice paper salad. All right, I'm gonna try this rice paper. So right off the bat, I will tell you this. The texture of the rice paper gets a little getting used to because it's really chewy and feels undercooked. But as you start to chew it, actually it soaks up more of the sauce and your saliva in a way, and it gets softer and softer. It has some lime. It has citrus. It has the mango flavoring. It's a little bit spicy. So actually, overall, that's really refreshing. And I'm actually enjoying that a lot. That was the perfect thing to eat in the state that we were in. These leaves are super refreshing. I gotta see John try it. Dave, I feel a lot better right now. It's going down. Yeah, it's like kind of weird at first, right? But it's kind of good. Wait, wait five more seconds. I'm refreshed or something. Made it to our next spot, Himalayan Cafe. David, so this spot serves actually a variety of everything from Indian food to Nepalese food. But obviously it's called Himalayan Cafe because here we have Himalayan food. So the interesting thing about Nepalese food is that it's really in between China and India. You can get just Indian food or you can get more East Asian food. And then Nepal is like this really cool mix in between. This first dish, thank you, sir. We have the momos. Of course, this is one of the most famous dishes from this region. It's a steam dumpling often with vegetables. But the difference about this between Chinese dumplings is that there's really no soy sauce. You don't eat it with the black vinegar either. You kind of have this tomato base. Kind of, I want to say Tikka Masala sauce. It's similar to that. But pretty much you pour it and eat it with the momos. Nepalese momos. All right, I would say for me, momos are one of my favorite dumplings. And to be fair, they're pretty similar to the Chinese dumplings, to be honest. But some of the spices are different and some of the sauces are different. I think a lot of people go to Nepalese spots and just get momos, which is cool. But they go way deeper than that. And I know that on a cold New York day, Andrew, because there's a lot of Himalayan people in New York, I like to go get a good tukba.  And I had to power up with one dish, one noodle soup. Between pho, one ton and tukba. I'm taking the tukba. Woo! All right, so David, we just had Himalayan food and it started to rain outside. But now we're on our way to Naysis Seafood, which is actually an Australian spot. I did not expect to see an Australian spot in Ken Washington. See, when we talk about ethnic spots and immigrant spots, I guess we're also including Australian immigrants too. All right, to be fair, if you made me bet money, it is from a person from Australia that also came from another country originally. I mean, all right, let's go check it out, man. We're pulling up here. Where is this spot? Naysis Seafood. All right, hey, it's next to El Rancito. All right, man. Australian style, you pick big cookies. Where are you guys originally from? We're from the Fiji Islands.  What a journey. It's the best. It's the best in town, all right? Oh, yeah. Yo, we guys, we made it in the Naysis Seafood. I'm so excited, Andrew. We have authentic Australian fry platter. You have shrimp, you have calamari, you have the imitation crab, you have the Australian whitefish. Andrew, we've got every single fish they offer here. Oh, by the way, guys, there's all different types of sauces. They even got an Indian chili vinegar because they are daisies from Fiji. Oh my gosh, they have the garlic vinegar. Yo, first up, we gotta go with snapper, Andrew. Snapper, perfectly. Guys, the batter that they make is super light and crispy. It totally melts away, but it gives you that initial crisp. Halibut, which is gonna eat it by itself. That's one of the lighter, cleaner whitefishes. To me, that's kind of like eating the chicken breast of fish, halibut. I mean, I can tell from all the fish and chip spots, whether the person came from Britain or Australia, I can tell that they do care about it in a different level than in America. They prioritize them more. Definitely American fish and chips are at the bottom. British and Australian fish and chips are definitely at the top. So, guys, man, if you find a fish and chip spot that's owned by a British or Australian person, definitely try it out, especially if they're daisies. Last and final spot on this ultra-diverse, ultra-international Kent Washington food crawl. We're going to Dogwood Cafe and Lounge? Yeah, they have eggs Benedict here, French toast, very ethnic. Just kidding, guys. We're going right next door, and this spot is called Afghan Kabab House. Authentic Afghan experience here. As you can see, we're sitting down on the floor. We're taking our shoes off. They put the place map here for us. David, in my hand, I have the Bolani. Okay, which is a spinach bread. Spinach flatbread that's kind of folded over it. Honestly, it looks like a quesadilla. That's the closest thing that comes to mind. And, David, here you have the mantus. And, not to mention, we have this delicious mushroom soup here. Let me get one, too. Whoa, that's good, Andrew. It's got like chickpeas on it. Definitely a little bit different than the Momo, but if you guys know where Afghanistan is, it is situated next to Pakistan. Pakistan is next to India. I gotta be honest. It has like a 50-50 experience between like a ravioli and a dumpling. It's packed pretty loose, like a ravioli. It's flat. The inside is not kind of clumped into a ball, which is more like a dumpling. I would say the thing that gives it the ravioli vibe is the white sauce. Yeah. Kabooli pulao and lamb shank. Yo, Andrew, this is amazing. I love pulao. Pulao is actually one of my favorite things. Raisins and rice. I think I gotta take a fork with this piece. Break off the pieces. Lamb shank right here. Oh! Lamb shank. Lamb is good. Lamb is actually a lot lighter than I thought. You heard it from him. Afghan Kabob House in Ken Washington. Check it out. What was your favorite thing that you had on this trip, man? First of all, I think that there was something, there was pretty much a five out of five that every spot we went to. At least one thing. My mind keeps going back to the Cinco out of Cinco, five out of five, Moyete at the Guatemalan restaurant in Tijuana. That was definitely a banger. I would definitely say the tortilla de harina. Moving on to the Samoan spot. And there's no question why this is the number one selling item, the moon pies. The moon pie was overall the best thing there. Especially with some heavy whip on top. Moving on from Samoan to Venezuelan. Venezuelan spot. Dude, we had a debate about it and I think about it, Andrew. I have to concede. Yeah, it was the beef arepa. The beef arepa. The pork woman was really good too, but I thought the beef one just had way more flavor, more spices, more layers to it. Himalayan cafe, I would say the best thing there that I enjoyed was the momos and the chow chow. I thought those were the best things. The fried halibut was amazing. I actually really loved the chips there, the fries. And then, your favorite thing at Afghan kebab house. I think maybe Afghan kebab house was my favorite out of everywhere. I thought, like I said, everywhere had a five out of five item. Okay. In my opinion, Afghan kebab house might be number one. So I would say Afghan kebab house, the mantu were crazy. Personally, I got to go with that lamb shank, man. Just, it was so fresh. It was so tasty. I could eat it by itself. All right, you guys, thank you so much for watching. Hit like, subscribe, turn on your notifications. Please let us know what other cultural concepts you would like to see us check out. I think food, obviously, is not an entire culture, but it is the easiest way to get introduced to culture. You guys, thank you so much for watching. Until next time, we're live from Kent Washington with the Fun Bros. Going back to LA soon. We out. Peace. We're ending off our most diverse city in Washington food crawl, which is, you know, our Kent food crawl. And it's so cool because over the past several years, while we've kind of been moved out of Kent, Kent has just exploded with the amount of diversity.


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Hello, everybody, and welcome to Messages from Above with Tony G. I am Tony Green. I am going to be hosting the next 30 minutes here of kind of channeling messages, taking calls, answering questions, and just trying to give guidance the best that I can. I noticed Genevieve is on, hey, Genevieve. I always love when I see that you're on. So I am doing this show for WSCS, the TV show, Psychic Medium, Tony Green. I'm doing it live stream via YouTube. Yeah, my words are not working this morning. I was up extremely early to do an interview. And as soon as the interview is edited and aired, I will share it with you. It was really fun. I laughed a lot during this interview. It was a great interview. I think you'll enjoy it. I think I reveal things in this interview. I've never revealed about myself in the past. Not sure that's good, but hey, it's out there now, right? So anyway, anyway, back to here. So live streaming via YouTube, taking calls, live calls, answering questions, and just getting it done today. I'd like to start with a clearing. And the clearing I'm being most driven, for lack of a better term to do, is self-love. Now, I know I do this a lot. I do self-love a lot. And there's a reason for it. I think we misunderstand what self-love really is. I think we misunderstand what love is in general. At our core, we are love. That's it. We're just love. We are beings of love. We come from love. We return to love. And while we're here, we're supposed to stay in that place of being love. And that all starts with self. And I want to say this, and it's so important because it kind of hits the nail on the head, my imaginary hammer here, hitting the imaginary nail on the head. If there are things that you don't like about yourself, like you say, ah, I really don't like my hair. I really don't like my body. I really don't like the way I do this or that. That's a lack of self-love, believe it or not. Because if you don't like yourself, there's a chance you don't love yourself unconditionally. An unconditional love is different than egoic love. Egoic love is a comparison or thinking too much of self in that egoic way. Where self-love, healthy, unconditional self-love is acceptance of self as is, loving self as is. Not in comparison to other people. Not in comparison to other things. Or I'm at this point, so I'm doing well. I have, I don't know why this, really? I have this many followers on social media, so I like myself. But that is so random spirit, oh my goodness. That's crazy random. And or walking into a room and sizing yourself up against everybody, the only person you should want to be better than is the person you were five minutes ago, five days ago, an hour ago. The challenge, and not in a, I have more money today than yesterday. If you do, yay, keep going. There's nothing wrong with that. But in a way of I'm a better person today, I'm evolving, my energy is higher. Because when we're in those higher states of energy, those higher places of energy, right? Those higher vibrations or frequency. And I compare it to being really depressed or is super ecstatic. We don't stay in those really sad, low places for a very long time. And we don't stay in those ecstatic places for a long time. But we might hit them every once, you know, if a loved one passes a couple weeks ago, a month ago, or so my mom passed and I hit a new low, right? Ooh, let's not talk about that. We don't want to go into that emotional state right now. Pull it together, girl. So then, of course, I'm not at my normal frequency. And then, let's say on the day your baby's born, or your wedding day, if some people like weddings, or they want to get married, that, I don't know, that kind of thing makes you happy. On that day, you might be at your highest high, right? You might be, or when somebody proposes to you, if you want to be proposed to, if that makes you happy, you might be ecstatic in that moment. But that ecstasy, that ecstatic moment is not going to last. That momentary euphoria isn't going to last. It's about being in balance most of the time, but working yourself up to this higher level or higher frequency with each and every day, right? Being in that space where you are better today than you were yesterday. But not in a way where you're looking at yourself as if yesterday you were not good. You're accepting the person you were yesterday, and improving up on that today, okay? So, I'm going to do the first clearing of self-love, and we all have self-love, unconditional self-love, healthy love, and I get a no on that, so we start clearing that. And it always hits me, because no matter, even me, there are layers and layers and layers, right? And we just want to work through those layers, and we want to clear as much as we can, so we can show up as the person we were intended to be here. And who were you intended to be here? That goes to many different things. I mean, there are so many different variables in that statement. The person that you're intended to be here is the person that makes your heart happy. It's the most basic statement I can say for that. It's the person that makes your get-go, they're trying to please everybody else. They're trying to be the person that other people want them to be. We turn into little chameleons.  And it's really important that we stay true to being the person that we're meant to be. Being authentic to ourself first, because if we're not authentic to ourself first, we cannot be authentic to anybody else. We can't. It just doesn't happen. We can fake it, but we'll fake it until we break it. So we really have to show up as the person that we're meant to be and walk that walk. And that person is not gonna look the way maybe your family thinks it should look or your friends think it should look or your coworkers think it should look. How that person looks should be based on how it feels, because what we feel in our heart, what we feel genuinely in our heart that is good and loving is what we are supposed to do, where we are supposed to be, who we are supposed to be, how we are supposed to show up. So I woke up at 1.30 in the morning this morning, and I'm just gonna tell this quick story and then be on the way to taking callers. And thank you so much for calling in. I'm so grateful for all of the callers. But yeah, I woke up at 1.30 in the morning and I was up until four in the morning and all these thoughts were coming through to me. Now this is known as the divine hour to me. This is when divinity comes in and says, hey, let's go, let's get where we need to be with this. Let me show you what I have for you, right? So at 1 in the morning, divinity is there and it's saying to me all these things. But one of the best things divinity said this morning is that people think we're here playing out kermic patterns. Got kermic, paying off kermic debts. Maybe we are, maybe it's from past lives, maybe it's from current lives, maybe it's from future lives, who knows? Okay, maybe if that's the way you wanna look at it, maybe we are paying off kermic debt. But something divinity said to me this morning while I was trying to fall back asleep because I knew I had to be up early to give this interview was that what if it's just an unhealthy, unresolved program or pattern that you're running from your childhood? So for example, some people will say, I always get used in a relationship or people are always using me. Okay, is that a kermic pattern or a kermic, paying off kermic debt? Or is that an unhealthy program from childhood or and the program could not be, get used. The program could be, I'm not worthy. So I feel like I have to give and give and give and give and give whether it be money, love, wanka, wanka, whatever, seriously wanka, wanka.  I hope y'all are laughing at this because I have tears coming out of my eyes right now on this one. It's really the pattern or the program of, I don't feel loved or I don't feel like I'm enough. So I'm gonna give until they love me or I'm gonna give until the point where they are now giving me what I'm lacking. Whatever that scenario is for you or for the person with that program. So we think in relationships, and this is really huge, people put titles like soulmate, soul partner, twin flame, kermic partner on relationships. You know what?  Could you have known this person in a past life? Sure. Could it be a soulmate every single person you meet in some way is a soulmate?  So we're all soulmates. People at work that teach you what you like and what you don't like, they're soulmates. People in your family that teach you what you like and what you don't like, they're soulmates. Partners that come in and out of your life or partners that you have, friends and relationship, Wonka Wonka partners, I don't know, they are soulmates and they're teaching us something. So anytime somebody has taught you something that you like or you don't like, it's a soul partner. Don't use titles on a partner because it gives it so much importance and makes it so much, I don't want to use the word devastating, but it makes it so much more difficult. Like if it's not healthy and it's not working out and you're like, I have to jump ship here. Oh, but this is my soulmate, but what if it's not? What if it's just another person that has come here to be with you, right? What if that's just the case? So don't give people more responsibility in your life than is a, fair to them and b, is appropriate. Don't put big titles on things and don't have expectations of people. That, those three things right there will save you so much, so much, so much. Now I know a lot of people love the term soulmate, twin flame, permit partner. It explains a lot for them in their life, but again, if you're going to use those terms, please use them with a realistic view of all possible outcomes. Okay, having said all of that, I'm going to go to the first caller and the first caller is 415. Hey 415, how are you today? Great. Excellent, how can I help you? Yeah. Yeah, I would just, it's a pretty simple question. This weekend, I know it's the new moon and I don't know if you were hearing it, but I was just kind of sad all weekend. And I don't know if that's, everyone's going through a sense of this whole month. I'm going to tell you this whole month since the full moon to this new moon, which is approximately, I think two weeks, it has been quite a ride. Now I will tell you, if you didn't catch the new moon right away, there's still time. This is a great time to put intentions out of what you want, like to really put some manifestation prayers out there during this new moon and really work with it. This is some heavy, heavy energy we're dealing with and there's, and you know what? The other thing that a lot of people aren't thinking about is we're at the one year anniversary of being in that town, right? So we never expected this. We didn't really prepare for it. So I think that's kind of getting to people also. For those of us in states that have winter, we're just coming out of winter and have been in lockdown and kind of in the house and we're just stuck and we're sick of it, we're done with it. We like want to be free again. We want to be like the kids that are about to go out for recess and run and play, right? We really do. We want our lives back. So I think a lot of what's going on right now it is pretty heavy energy right now, but also we're just restless. We are restless and we want to play again. We want to be free again. I think honestly, if I were to ask people, they would say that like, yeah, I just want to be free again. I want to be able to go to a concert. I want to be able to get on a plane and travel. I want to be able to go see a show. And for a lot of us, that's just really not a possibility right now. So what I'm going to say is, please take advantage of the new moon, write some manifestations out, some prayers that you would like answered and use it to the best of your ability and go from there. And by the way, sweetie, I do want to say you have a loved one on the other side that's coming in and saying hi. Somebody who is a little bit older and a little bit fuller. I feel like this was a grandmother or an aunt, somebody who could have been a grandmother age. And she is, I don't think it's a mom. I think it's a grand mom. And she's coming in and I want to say, I hear grand mom, mom.  So I leave it open a little bit. But she just wants to say, you're about to fly.  You're going to soar. And so when this opportunity comes, don't settle back and look at it. Look at like the opportunity, so to say. I don't like always saying this, but she's saying kind of act without thinking. Don't sit back and ponder the possibility of it. Just jump on the opportunity when it arises. You can always change your mind later. So some things coming in for you that's really going to give you that beautiful jump off if you will. And she's saying, go for it. Don't hesitate, go for it. And oftentimes when we go through like a slumpish period, it's because we're getting ready for that big, they're calling it the big reveal for whatever that's written. Okay. Excellent. Excellent. I thank you for calling in. I'm really happy to hear from you and I hope you call back again. Thank you. Yeah. Always sorry plus heavily. Excellent. Thank you. So I'm going to go straight to the next caller who is, I want to say the number is nine, four, nine, five. Yep, nine, five, one. Hi, how are you? Hey, it's the family, how are you doing Tony? Good Nathaniel. How are you today? Oh, is it? Yeah. What's going on out there? Right? Who's trying to talk to us? That's all I can say. Oh, you're really frustrated. Exactly, exactly. I, fortunately at like, the last time I looked at the clock, it was four. So I did fall back asleep, but yeah, it is kind of, it is kind of difficult. So Nathaniel, have you started your book yet? Nathaniel, the main thing? I want to tell you the main thing that I'm getting for you is that the way they're saying it is set up shop and get on it. Don't procrastinate. Make you a priority. Here's what we're going to do. I think you're really stuck. I think you're just stuck and you've had some very, very difficult setbacks and a lot of people have. I mean, this has been a very difficult year for a lot of people. So the first thing I'm going to do is a clearing on being stuck because it's not good to be stuck because we just, when we're stuck, we just don't even know. We can't see the next move even if it's in front of us. We can't see it. And then when we're stuck, we tend to repeat patterns. We tend to take the same circle or the same loop. And so that's the next clearing I'm going to do is that we are repeating unhealthy patterns and I get a yes on that. So we're going to clear that too. And I feel that come all the way up from like my feet all the way up. And I'm going to tell you, Nathaniel, it's really time. And I know it's difficult to sometimes see it the way it is being explained to you, but it is really, really time to embrace taking a new path or a new pattern. Right now, I understand you're in a place where you're not really seeing those possibilities. They will present yourself. And when you get woken up at 1.30 in the morning, whatever, or two in the morning or three in the morning, whatever time in the middle of the night, that's when spirit can speak to you. That's when divinity can come in and really talk to you and really give you those messages or those little statements, those little knowings or epiphanies and write them down because no matter how much you think you're going to remember them in the morning or the next day, you will not remember them the next day, the next morning, none of it. So what I wanna say is really take the time to write it down. And if they have you awake and not let you fall back to sleep, then you need to really take note of what they're trying to say to you, really listen. And whatever pops in, whatever thought pops in as you're trying to fall back asleep, that's the thought that's the most important thought for you, okay? Thank you, Nathaniel for calling and I'm so grateful that you are listened to all of my shows and I get to connect with you.  Hello, two, zero, three, how are you? Hello? Well, I think two, zero, three is maybe there's a, maybe there's a whatever connection there. Okay, so here's what I'm gonna say. I'm gonna pop back over to this screen for a moment because Nathaniel, you really inspired me to really to say, we all connect with spirit, we all hear spirit, we all can talk with spirit and get those intuitive hits from spirit. So it's really important when those thoughts pop in our head, write them down and ask for more. Say, what else, what else? Thank you, what else? Thank you, what's next? Listen to that because that is guidance from heaven. And so if you get woken up, and I know it's tough when you have to be up the next morning or the next day, but if you do get woken up at whatever time, use that as the opportunity to connect with a loved one on the other side, with your angels, with what I call divinity. They're all there and they're all wanting to connect and to talk to you and to have that be able to give you those messages that they wouldn't be able to give you during your busy day. So please embrace that. I'm gonna do one more clearing for everybody, listening, re-listening, watching, re-watching. And this clearing is going to be on abundance, but in a different way. Now I do a lot of clearings on abundance. So if you go back and you listen to my other shows, there's a lot of clearings on wealth, like bringing wealth in, but here's something I realized, we're not all ready to receive. We're not all receiving, right? So it could be on its way to us, but stopped right here because if we got it, we would give it away, we would waste it, or we might take it, but we wouldn't keep it, right? And for some of us, we just don't receive. Like if somebody tries to give us something, even a compliment, we're like, oh, oh, thank you, no, thank you, oh, that's so kind of you, but no. Like we don't receive, we just don't take. And this is a universe of equal give and take.  Think of the infinity symbol, where it is always going, never ending, giving and taking. So I'm going to just do the we receive and I get a no. And that one, that one out of all the clearings today, that one hit me the hardest. Oh, if you do feel the clearings, please make a note, jot it down, send me a thing saying, yeah, I felt that, no, I didn't. And I want you to know that if you re-listen to these, it will keep clearing things until they're completely cleared. I'm here every Monday at noon for 30 minutes to take your calls, answer your questions, do clearings and to help you connect with loved ones on the other side, if you do so, choose to. I want to thank you for joining me here today. Remember, your job here is to create miracles. So go be a creator. I'll see you guys next time. Bye. I'll see you guys next time. Bye.


You don't hear anything different until you hear the lyric hit and you're like, that wait, what? Vax, people were blown away by that. It's too late at that point. You already sucked it. You're already dancing. Like you're already in it. I'm Asinir Davis. I am founding partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Majority. I'm Omid Farang, founder and CEO at Majority. My name's Sebastian Urea. I am a director, producer and I own a company called Motion Family in Somacon. My name's Ibrahim Ham-Yula. I'm a first AD slash director and I work with Motion Family. I'm Jonathan Kirkland, head of marketing and brand for BLK Dating Act. Government name Byron Thomas, which all most of y'all know me by Manny Fresh, Elvis Freshly, Manny Glover, Manny Savas Jr. and Nary Third. Can you first tell me about the aha moment that led to Vax that thing up? It actually was part of a project that we were working on with BLK, a Black Dating Act that's owned by a match group. We were doing a brand campaign refresh for them and in that process, we were working on what that campaign idea was. We were already working around the vaccination with the White House. We released the Vaxify badge and the app. So we just said to them, you know, if you have any ideas on how we can amplify our messaging around helping the community get vaccinated. One thing that we knew is that the Black community overall were reluctant to adopt the vaccine for obvious reasons, right? Historical issues that have made them reluctant to take on any sort of medical advice from a government in particular that doesn't have a good track record for doing the Black community any justice. I feel like we have a deeper responsibility than a Gen Pop Dating Act to the community that we serve. Last year, with the resurgence of Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, Brown and Taylor, countless others, Amad Aubrey, all the other companies who saw standing in solidarity with the Black community but know we are the ones who've been standing. With that being said, we thought, well, we're a dating app still. And in that, we really needed to find the right role to talk about vaccines in the community. Literally, it was a deck over a hundred pages and there was one slide about Vaxify on like the second to last page of the deck. And we thought this idea of like, what if we remade this cult classic, an important song in the Black community that everyone knows within the first few beats of the song and we made it into Vax that thing up? And we were like, hmm, that could be interesting. So we sat on it, let the executive team see it and like literally three days later, we were like, let's pull the trigger on this. Before I license any of my music out, I'm kind of cautious about something that I believe in. And I kind of felt like with the Black community, like we're not getting the message. So why not music? Why not something like that? I knew first thought offhand, it was going to be some backlash for it as well. It was going to be good and bad. Especially with a topic like this, there's who do we offend, who do we not offend? So there were a couple of like elements that we had to really think about and even pursuing the final creative. For us, the original vision probably was a little bit more in the vein of a Saturday Night Live sketch. I think as we went down the path of taking it from a mock press release on a single slide into an actual piece of content, one rule that we try to follow is when you're parodying something, parody it as close to the original as possible so that people know and get the full effect of the source material. What was the pre-production process like? What was this kind of several week Rubik's Cube of figuring out multiple contracts and figuring out rights to the song, recreating the lyrics and all of the legal implications of that?  What we learned from Juvenile and from Manny Fresh, which we didn't know going in, New Orleans was hit particularly hard by COVID. And so this was a issue that was very close to both artists' heart as we started to approach the actual record date in New Orleans at Trombone Shorty Studios. The third artist was still missing. We know we wanted a female artist. I started throwing out a few names and I threw out Mia X and Manny kind of just almost across the room was like, oh, Mia, hold on. He gets on the phone, calls Mia. Without second guessing, Mia was like, I'm in. And within five minutes, Mia was at the studio. The way the lyrics came together, the first verse, it kind of flowed naturally. And then Juvenile essentially kind of came in and took it from an 8.5 to a 10. The second verse was incredibly collaborative with Manny Fresh and there were several versions of it. Now the third verse, for us, this became a perfect kind of opportunity to create the rallying cry, to go and get the shot and be incredibly overt with that message. Okay, what rhymes were shot? I actually kind of threw out like, man, what if I was just about hooking up with some dude named Scott? Like, I think that's actually it. When we saw it start to come together with the lyrics, I was like, let's do what we can do here. Let's make it, let's do our job, which is to make an authentic rap video and bring that, their vision to life. So now here it is, we get to work with the artists that we grew up watching that motivated us to be in this industry. It was definitely nostalgic. I love that they did the shots iconic to the way it was. Like making it rain with the Vax cards. It's a classic visual of hip-hop in that time period. We wanted to make sure that we hit on those points of touching on the original video. So just scouting parks, we were like, oh, West End Park, this is perfect. It has that overhang over the basketball courts, which is what they had in the original video. Even on set, you know, when you and I was like, this is gonna be funny, man. People are gonna love this. You will be turned to me and say, you think we should just like maybe shoot the old one again. This really feel like the, you know, the video, like the first way we did it. We definitely made sure that, you know, whatever we did, we had the elements in it, you know, so far as like the girls on the cage, the twerking, the fog, even the angles, the way we introduced them, the way we framed them up was making sure that they were larger than life, because that's how we saw them anyway. These are legends and icons. Looking at the whole thing, like B.L.K. being an app of connection, this is the first time in history, music history, that no limit record artists have officially collaborated with cash money record artists ever. And all together in that one master shot where we're circling them, and that was like what we ended on, and it ended on such a high note. In that moment, I realized, I was like, it represents no limit. Like, wow, like, so yeah, this is iconic. By the time we finished, it looked like the original video.  It ended up almost being a block party. That was definitely a party. And then, you know, from the post-production and then the release of it, it just like blew up. Overall, between social media, broadcast, we saw over 6.8 billion media impressions. It was on TV, the stage shows, CNN, it was everywhere. I think we knew that industry-wide this was gonna be something that was going to be of conversation and also in culture, because that was the intention. So we hope for that. But I was shocked by some of the tweets by celebrities, for John Legend to say that it's the song of the summer. That was amazing. Medical professionals, health professionals, they were retweeting it and supporting it. We even saw people commenting saying that because of this video and the song, they are gonna get vaccinated. So we did change some lines, so that's always good.


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More and more of us are growing our own food, which is really great, but we also need to think about where is the water coming from that we're using to irrigate our plants. Of course the best kind of water is rain that comes from the sky and that we store perhaps in tanks for the times when we most need it. So this little video is about what I've learned about the water tanks that I've used, how to connect them together and also how to look after them. So this is the standard setup that we find in most gardens. It's a water butt, which is sat on a stand so we can get a watering can underneath, obviously. And this is connected to a downpipe, usually using a diverter. So the diverter acts as both the way that the tank is filled, but also where the excess overflows back to. So a tank always needs to have an overflow. What you don't want is to be filling this perhaps directly from the pipe. The water fills the tank and then when it goes overflows onto the yard where it could be an icy hazard or if you've got soil around it could be a mud bath. So the water, once the tank is full, has to go somewhere and a diverter gives you both of those things in one, which is great. Now, diverters come in different shapes and sizes. This one is a very cheap, basic one. The water comes down the pipe, which sits around this piece here. So it falls into here and then runs through the pipe into the tank like that. And then when the tank is full, the water runs back out the pipe, overflows here and goes back down the pipe. So it does the job, but it doesn't do any filtration. And so that means that anything that's coming down the pipe ends up in the tank, which isn't necessarily what you want. This one here, this diverter is a bit fancier. It's got a filter in it, like this here. In fact, I've added an extra layer of filter you can buy with these, which is a finer mesh, which collects more stuff. So the finer your filter, the less crud you're going to end up in the tank. And that might be important in terms of just not clogging the tap. But also, if you've got things growing in here, you don't perhaps want so many bits in. And it's very easy to clean. You just take it out, empty it out. You can see the kind of things that are in there. At the moment, just a few leaves in the autumn. Obviously, these get a little more clogged up here. We've got an extra filter in the form of a sort of hedgehog thing, which is in the gutter here to stop twigs and bits and pieces going down. But just take that out, empty that out, pop it back in again. And that does a very nice job. These are about four times the price of these, I think. The one thing I don't like about this system, which this one does get right, is the opaque pipe, this pipe here. The light can't get through that, whereas this one comes with a clear pipe. And as you can see, the pipe is clear, but what's inside is not so much. So now what we have here is that this is growing algae.  I came out one morning after the tank had been emptied after a few days of dry. So we've been watering around the garden, used up the water in the tank. We had lots of rain overnight, and I thought, great, we're going to have lots of water in the tank, so I turned the tap, nothing happened. Because the water just went down the pipe, it didn't come through here at all, it was completely clogged up, so I had to take it off, poke it through with a bamboo cane, and then put it back on again. So I would have a black pipe at all times, rather than a clear one. Another thing to think about is your lid. It's very important to have a lid on a water butt. Partly because light getting onto the water will grow things, and creatures like mosquitoes also like to lay their eggs on water. And if you've got a buck close to your house, then you don't really want lots of mosquitoes hatching next to you, next to your house. This isn't the official lid, this is just something that I fudged, because this water butt was actually salvaged from somewhere, it didn't have a base at the time, or a lid. So this is just part of an old fountain thing, which we're making use for this. It plucks that on there, that's why it looks a little bit unconventional. And also, this stops any animals jumping up, expecting there to be a platform there and falling in, because once an animal's in there, I don't see how it would get out. So there's a danger there to be thinking about too. The other thing to be aware of with stands, is that because when we attach a diverter to the downpipe, we have to cut the pipe at a particular height, and you see on the diverter here there's a line on this one here that shows you that's the level at which the water will be in the tank. So you fit this in line with the level of where you want the water to be, so high up. If it's too high, the tank's going to overflow. If it's too low, then it won't fill up so much, depending on where your pipe is attached. So this pipe is attached down here, rolling up here. It doesn't need to be attached at height, where the water is going to be going in. What you're actually looking for is a fairly flat part. Obviously, water butts are round. So this up here, you've got curvature this way and this way. So to try and get a flat fitting to sit flush on that is more difficult than down here. So the fitting has been put on down here in order to give you a better seal, so we're not leaking, and that's fine, as long as this is at the right height compared to this. So this isn't going to move. What you don't want is to have a base that's unstable, which will move. So at one point before we had a base for this one, we just had a log, which we got from somewhere, which was the right height, and over a number of years the log started to rot and fall apart, and so we came up one day and the whole water butt had gone like this, and it wasn't filling properly because of the difference in height and so on. So just to be aware of a good solid stand is also very important. So this is the other tank that we have in the main courtyard, and it's a bigger tank, you'll notice, it's got a wider base, and this made it more difficult to find a stand. One thing to be aware of is not all water butts fit other water butt stands, and the one for this one, the proprietary one, was really quite expensive, about £20 or something like that, and we thought, it seems silly, we don't really want to encourage plastic anyway, we don't want to be spending £20 on a plastic thing. So we looked at the landscape around the courtyard, and we thought, well there's a downpipe here next to some steps, we can use the steps, so we've got a very firm base that's not going to move, so we can set up the diverty at the right height, and we can easily, as you can see, get a watering can underneath the tap. The other thing we've done with this one, I'm still waiting for the other one to empty before I change it, is to replace the pipe, so here you can see there's now a black pipe, because this also had the same problem of clogging up, clear pipe clogged up, didn't fill up. The other thing you're probably familiar with is this idea, you turn the tap, and then you have to wait for a long time, because it takes quite a long time for these tanks to fill up a watering can, and it can be, well maybe I'll go off and do something else while I'm waiting, and then you come back and it's overflowing, and particularly here that's not great, you're going to run down and get into the footings of the house and so on. So we could add a faster flow tap, and you can buy faster flow taps for these, but then the other thing to remember is that if your tap is flowing faster, also your tank is emptying faster as well. I think if these tanks had faster flow taps, we'd also discover quite how quickly they do empty, and we'd realise that they're not big enough. So for many of us, if we're expanding and growing, we might realise that actually we need more storage, and also it might not be the best place to put your storage right next to a drain pipe. Now up here at the top of the site, we've got a lot more space for water storage, and we wanted a bigger tank partly because we can store more water, but also because we've got to irrigate the conservatory here, which is quite busy in the summer months, and also we've got the beginnings of a forest garden, fruit trees and so on. So there's quite a lot of water use up here. We started off by buying a sort of medium-sized tank. So this is called an intermediate bulk container. They're used for transporting liquids internationally, and one of the reasons that they're popular is that they're second-hand usually. They're used to transport liquids, and then often they're drained off, and then you've got an empty tank, and people buy them for water storage. Now, there's a couple of things to think about with IBCs. One of them of course is what was in it before, and there's different levels of hazards. So there's extreme hazard, which you want to be avoiding those really, moderate hazards, and what are called low hazards. So low hazards would be things like food, stuff, might be orange juice concentrate or something like that. Now, we bought these pre-clean, so we paid a bit extra for our two tanks because they'd already been cleaned out. But often if you buy them second-hand, they'll have a label on, and there's a letter or a number. It's called package group, and it's either x, y, z, so x is extreme hazard, so that's an easy one to remember. So z, z is the safer one, or three is the safer group as well. So if you have a choice and you're looking at tanks and you see what the code is, I'll give you some clues to what was in it before. Now, we've chosen an opaque tank that the light can't penetrate into because, as you've seen before, what can happen with light getting through plastic into water, algae grows, all kinds of bits and pieces will be coming down through the system into here, find material, and if this is a clear tank, which most of these tanks are, do seem to be clear tanks, the light gets in, the algae grows inside, and eventually things start to clog up and we didn't really want that. So we bought an opaque tank. It's a little bit more expensive, but it protects the water from the light. The other thing to bear in mind is the height off the ground. Obviously, this is a bigger tank than a water butt. This is maybe five times the size, volume, weight of a large water butt that we've got down there. This is about one cubic meter, or a thousand litres approximately, which weighs about a metric tonne. So there's a lot of water. You certainly wouldn't want to be trying to lift one of these things even with partly full. So it wants to be again, you're attaching it with a diverter, you want to get it exactly at the right height and then you want it to stay there. So you want a solid base. Now, we thought that in order to get a watering can underneath, we could prop it up on something. Pallets often, you see people propping these on pallets, but of course over time pallets degrade. They start to break. The tank starts to sag a bit. And then suddenly your alignment, it goes out of alignment. So it was either keep it on the ground on this patio, which was already here, or to put it up on some blocks. But we realised that we'd need quite a lot of blocks to take the weight. And in the end we realised that maybe it was just the easiest to leave it on the ground and use this little arrangement here with the pipes in order to get water from here because as long as the water is above the level of the top of this pipe here, and this is just bent over using one of those washing machine pipe bender things that goes off the back of one of those, water will, all the time we've got water above here, it's going to fill this watering can. And it also acts as a kind of safety element at the same time because when this won't fill anymore we know that our water level is down to about 400. So that's about 40% full. We could still drain off more of this by just dropping this hose a little bit lower or to run a longer hose downhill from here. We've got a tap fitting here which we've deliberately fitted which has two outlets. So there's the one here for the hose which we're using. The other outlet is not in use yet because the thing we're going to attach it to is not here yet. Now, one thing to notice is that around the side here we have two pipes coming into this tank. We started off with a single diverter off the back of the garage and that was filling it fine most of the year but there was a point in the summer where we were basically emptying the tank and we realised that either we needed more storage or which would be another tank which we didn't really want to add another tank here or we just needed to fill it more quickly so we added a second diverter and these diverters you'll notice are at the same height. Again, we've fitted them a little bit further down off the top, not on the curved part but on the flatter part in order to get a good seal there. Now, one thing to mention when we're talking about fitting pipes to tanks is with these tanks you have to drill your own holes with water butts, they usually come with a pre-drilled hole and you get the fittings when you buy the diverter you get the fittings.  With a large tank you're going to have to cope with a much smaller opening and a longer distance to where you attach the pipe so you need to think about quite where you're going to put the pipe into the tank for convenience purposes but also your ability to reach it. So, look here this is the size of your hole like that and you're going to have to put your arm in there which does involve clambering all over the tank and being able to reach through to thread your fitting through the hole. It's also worth saying that there's different kinds of, there's two basic types of fitting here this is the one that comes with the diverter it's got a nut and it's got two washers so one of them comes off, the other one stays on so that goes on the outside of the tank so you drill your hole, you put that through the tank and then on the inside you need to put the second washer and then put the nut on I was to say that's quite easy to do and you've got easy access in a water butt because it's a small thing but that's much more difficult inside a tank like this and you run the risk of dropping the nut or the washer into the tank and then getting it back is getting it back is a nightmare at that point so I came up with a system where I use some wire so having drilled the hole in the side of the tank you just then you put your fitting, your outer part of the fitting on so there's your tank and then your wire goes through that inside the tank and then up through the hole in the middle at which point you can thread on your washer and your nut like that and I would also make sure that this is attached to something on the outside of the tank just so it doesn't drop and everything falls off so now you've got whatever happens with your washer and your nut at least you can't lose it in the tank so essentially the wire is guiding it to where it needs to be screwed on do that and then the only problem you have is tightening that up which believe me is not an easy thing to do these are quite big nuts and obviously you have to get a spanner on the side of that and adjust it, it's tricky a much easier system is if you buy a fitting that is threaded the other way round so that the part that you put through the hole goes through from the inside and again I would use the wire just to make sure you thread it through and it doesn't fall into the tank and then so you have your inside part but that has the thread on it so you push that through and then you attach your nut part so the nut part has the fitting on it from the outside and you can get them because I've seen them but the ones that come with the diverters are this type which is the other way round and they're a bit annoying so look out for that the other thing to say about these tanks is that after a while the UV of the sun breaks down the plastic and they start to crack like this tank that we got from Freecycle locally they're not designed to be out for long periods in the sun they do over time start to break down so this had an interesting sort of plastic cover on it which is just degraded and come away and so what we've been doing is just putting a little plastic pot over the top to protect those year round because they're the most vulnerable bit and then the rest of the tank well we've been protecting it initially using scaffold boards in the summer I wouldn't worry too much in the winter months because it doesn't really get that hot and the tanks tend to be full anyway at that time of year I would imagine that the plastic degrades more quickly when it's warmer so if you work your way down the tank so obviously with an opaque tank you can't see the water level like you can if you can see through them but you can feel the temperature of the water inside which will always be on a warm day it will be the cool part and you could of course always use a thermal camera for this but you can just use your hand and feel the difference so that's quite cool compared to that which is considerably warmer so there's no water here but there is here so I can just by feeling get a sense of where the water is also you can push so there's much more resistance here than there is up here for instance so again that shows me where the water is and as long as I get an approximate idea of how much water there is that's all I need to know really so the other thing that we do have with these tanks of course is they've got effectively a trellis on them so we can grow plants up them and use those to protect them and of course when there's more sun you get more plant growth the leaves come out and so on and so we get protection that way so to begin with we just use these old scaffold boards which we buy cheaply especially if they're slightly long and they can overhang on the south side because then it will give a bit of shade over the pipes and this side which gets more of the sun and we'll go and have a look now at an example down there where we're using plants really well so here we have two tanks this is the original tank on this side and subsequently we added this one and the reason for that was that when we started to grow more food in the courtyard we didn't need more water here but this did provide us with a really good place to put tanks and then run the water through a pipe around the side of the building which actually is really narrow at the far end and connect a tap so most of this water is used in the courtyard but we've chosen this location partly because it's a flat level area and we're quite a sloping site the previous people have put in a couple of gabions here to stop people driving off the side of the slope and when we arrived there was just this flat area quite a large flat area covered in shillet and it looked very uninteresting and boring there was a bit of a climatis at the bottom down here growing and so one of the obvious things was to put the tank there and grow the climatis over the top which has been quite successful we could have just gone with the metal cage but we do have a neighbour that looks directly from their land straight across here and we wanted it to look a little bit nicer so we just put the wooden trellis around the outside to help train the climatis around and the centre of this is also amazing obviously it's going to take another year or so before it fully covers the top but I reckon that this is a really good climatis grows really quickly and it's going to seek the sun anyway it wants to come this way because this is where the light is it's going to do a really good job on this side down here we've actually planted a grapevine and hopefully that's also going to grow at the top and give us some grapes one thing to say about water tanks of course is they have good thermal mass so they'll store heat during the day and release it at night so plants love that they'll do much better around a thermal mass like a big rock or a water tank so we added the second tank in order to make sure that we didn't run out in fact we've just switched over from one tank to the other because one tank has just emptied so it's a perfect example of why we needed a second the other thing to say about this is how the tanks are connected together now you can connect them at the top near the top or you can connect them near the bottom and that determines how the tanks behave so if you connect at the bottom close to the bottom obviously you need a good seal on your connections then both tanks will fill at the same time even if water is only going into one of them and these are being fed by the diverter at the back here so I don't think you can see that just below the window near the top of the drain pipe there that does add some problems because in order to clear that filter out we need to go up that ladder so we've added an extra layer of filtering to this system by putting one of those hedgehog things in the gutter so the twigs and leaves can't go any further than that and the end of the hedgehog hedgehog as they're called is outside the window so we can literally just lean out of the window scoop out what's in the gutter throw it to the ground so there's a pre-filter to make sure that the actual filter on the diverter doesn't fill up quite so often but yes we have to go up a ladder but it does mean that we can keep the water high so you don't have to put your diverter at ground level as long as it's at the level of the tank so here we have the tanks are quite close to the roof line the eaves and we're storing the water high which allows us to irrigate anything that way down into this garden but also to irrigate with some pressure through to the front which is good so yeah so if you connect at the bottom then both tanks fill together if you connect at the top then the first tank fills that has the inflow and when that's full that overflows into the second tank that's actually what we've done here but you could have either system you could connect at the top and have one fill before the other or you could connect at the bottom or you could have a connection at the bottom which has a tap on it so you can either have that closed door open that gives you the option to have them either fill together or fill one after the other the reason you might do that is that when you're not using very much water you might want to treat one tank it's a little bit like having carrots in the fridge you know and if you have too many carrots in the fridge then if you're always taking the soggiest carrots you never get the fresh carrots and so you need less carrots in your fridge so you need a smaller stock and it's the same water gradually spoils in a tank so if you're not taking much water out then it's good to have a smaller tank and so by having the option to have one fill first and then the other one become a backup then that will give you fresher water out of the tank that you're using most of the time than if you're using both tanks simultaneously the other important benefit of having separate tanks the one fills first and then the other fills is that if you leave one tap on you could only lose the contents of that tank if both tanks are connected to the bottom then if you leave either tap on you're going to lose all of your water and that's not great so ours are connected to the top for that primary reason you also need to think about an overflow so diverter gives you an overflow but when we have a lot of rain we don't really want water going back and adding more to the load on that down pipe because this is a north facing wall and water on the wall is not necessarily a great thing so we have an extra overflow which we fitted here I think you'd see the bottle there it's just got a few holes in it for the air attached to a pipe which is here which means that at the moment we've got it set up so that the water always goes back to the diverter because that's higher than the top of this pipe but should we want to and the plan is to make a pond down here we can set it up so that once the second tank is full it then overflows down into another system and that's the plan is to do that in the longer term so that's why we fitted that as well it's also worth saying that your tanks don't need to be at the same height we can have a lower tank down there and as long as there's a float valve in there to control the water going in so essentially like a toilet system where water is only able to enter the tank when the level in the tank goes down so then that would stop all the water from here draining through to there of course you would be relying upon a good valve and again if you connect it to one of these tanks rather than both of them together then you've got less risk of a problem down there emptying your tank up here so this is the business end of the tanks where they're connected together I do want to say quickly though to bear in mind that when you have a long run of pipe that goes down and along and up again like we have here is there's always the risk of sediment accumulating in the pipe so you need to have some way of either draining that off or flushing it through when that occurs of course one of the best ways to avoid sediment in the pipe is to have a good filter in the first place that stops it going down but from time to time you might need to blast it through with a hose there's actually a tap, a mains pressure tap right there which hasn't happened yet we haven't needed to do it yet to this pipe touch wood but should we need to at some point then we can always blast it through with some mains pressure if you're out in the middle of a field then it's worth bearing this in mind and you might want to put some kind of drain valve in the bottom of the pipe but don't use it as a tap because then there's a risk again of emptying all of your water for your tank so here you can see how we've attached the two tanks together and again we've fitted double outlets on each one so we have the option to take water directly into a watering can for instance here or run it somewhere else in this case both of these are connected to alkaline so we've got a tee-piece here and then this runs along a pipe that goes around the back of the building and to a tap in the courtyard and what that allows us to do is to switch on or off which tank that we're draining from so this is our primary tank water comes into this tank it runs across from the top into the second tank and then this one fills up so we've pretty much emptied this one you can see that very easily moves there when I press it because this one is completely full and we've just switched over obviously they sound quite different when you tap them so yes I can just switch this on or off just as simply as that switch one over to the other and now we're running water out of here and what this does mean is that when we run out of water at the tap we've still got a tank left and to be aware of that and to be more careful about how we're using it and hopefully we have rain coming tomorrow according to the forecast that we'll start filling this tank up again as well one last thing to say is that when you get an IBC the climatist doing a very good job here is that you'll get a certain size fitting on the base of the tank here and I've discovered that the fittings for the larger larger outputs are cheaper than the ones this one came with a much smaller fitting and I needed to buy an extension bit as well so this cost about £20 and had to come from the other side of the world whereas this was a lot cheaper I'll get them off eBay a lot cheaper and was from the UK so again different size it's the same style of IBC exactly the same make and yet they had different fittings on them when I got them so just look out for that as well so this is the tap that's fed by the tanks around the other side as you can see we've got good pressure here I prefer to use personally prefer to use a watering can than a hose because it's a measurable thing I know that this takes about 10 litres of water and a 1000 litre tank is about 100 watering cans so if I'm using 20 a day it gives me some sense of where we're at in terms of the water use hoses are very convenient but you don't carry them and they don't put you in touch with the amount of water that's flowing so hoses are a very quick way of emptying a water tank if you don't have any kind of gauge on it to see what you're doing and also for me walking around the garden and interacting with the land seeing the plants is a way of me getting information about how things are doing as well the final thing to say is that rather than adding more tanks if you can it's much better to reduce your water use and so in the garden that includes things like mulching where relevant doesn't work necessarily with a lot of annuals although you can mulch with finished compost that Slug's not attracted to and also increasing the organic matter content in your soil which will hold water in the soil where the plants can access it rather than it being stuck in a tank where the plants are dying of thirst and they can't turn the tap themselves so go forth and grow some more food


Hello and welcome to the session. My name is Mansi and I am going to help you with the following question. The question says which of the following statements are true and which are false. In each case give a valid reason for saying so. The first statement is P that is each radius of a circle is a chord of the circle. A answer to the first part would be this statement is false because by definition of the chord it should intercept the circle in two points. So our answer to the first part is this. Now second part is Q that is the center of a circle bisects each chord of the circle. Our answer to the second part would be this is a false statement. Now this can be shown by giving a counter example a chord which is let us just write down that this can be shown by giving a counter example because a chord which is not a diameter gives the counter example. So we see that the center of a circle does not bisect each chord of the circle. Now the third part is the statement R that says that circle is a particular case of an ellipse. The answer would be that this statement is true. We know that the standard equation of an ellipse having center at the origin and major and minor axis of lens 2a and 2b along the coordinate axis is x square by a square plus y square by b square equals to 1. Now if a is equal to b then this reduces to x square by a square plus y square by a square equals to 1 or we can say x square plus y square equals to a square which is the equation of a circle. So we can say that in the equation of an ellipse if we put a equal to b then it is a circle. Now let us see the solution to fourth part. The fourth statement is s that is if x and y are integers such that x is greater than y then minus x is less than minus y. Our answer would be that this is a true statement and this we can get directly by rule of inequality. So if we have the statement x is greater than y now according to a rule of inequality both sides of an inequality is multiplied or divided by same negative in number then the inequality is changed. So when we multiply by minus 1 we get x minus x is less than minus y therefore the statement is true. Now the fifth statement is statement t that is square root of 11 is a rational number our answer is false since 11 is a prime number therefore root 11 is irrational because square root of a number is rational only when the number is a perfect square and 11 is not a perfect square so it is prime so square root 11 is irrational. So this is our answer to the question. I hope that you understood the question and enjoyed the session. Have a good day.