Okay, we're recording sup everybody drew here that anxiety guy dot-com back with ooh back with Billy anxiety The king of anxiety 101 I like your scarf dude. Thanks, man. You're looking for you. It's a snood. It's a snood Is that yeah, is that what we call a scarf in the UK or is that like a brand? No, it's a it's like a loop. It's not a scarf where it's just open-ended. This is like a loop a big loop thing Okay, it's technical mate. It is very technical. It's very fashionable Next up skinny jeans and a man bun. Yes. Do you have man buns over there? Yeah Skinny jeans and the man bun. Oh, yes. Yes, when you come over here, we'll go to we'll hang out in Brooklyn And that's all you're gonna say that skinny jeans hipsters with skinny jeans and man It's a good deal. I've got I've got a pair of skinny jeans. All right, that's it too skinny I have a pair of skinny jeans, but they actually going to a woman. So If you're watching us when you're wearing skinny jeans, you have a man bun, sorry didn't mean to insult you Yeah, apologies for apologies Apologies to the skinny jeans crowd. So We didn't we didn't record last week So we why didn't we why didn't record? We're just fed up with this whole thing.  I woke up. It was what was it a week ago? It's a week today, isn't it? Yeah, it was a week today. Yeah. Yeah last Thursday. I got up Everything was fine came downstairs. Just felt normal no issues I was making a drink filling the kettle and all of a sudden my back just Something happened. I don't know froze. I could not move So I was just stood in the kitchen and I couldn't breathe properly It was making me panic because every time I breathed it was obviously stretching. Yeah, and it was just bad And like for a couple of hours It was bad. I was I was on the brink of panic for probably two three hours Yeah, and I just lay in bed and didn't move and then I came sat downstairs and sat on the sofa for like three four hours So it was like PS4 gamers dream. Yeah That was my excuse anyway. I have to try and find a comfortable position to sit in where it doesn't hurt Yeah, yeah, try not to move or move as little as possible But then by the end of the day it eased a bit and then the next evening it eaves and more even more Yeah, and now now it's just normal, but I couldn't sit in this chair. That was the whole reason Oh, we were talking about that man. Yeah, the podcast I didn't want to sit here and do a podcast and just be constantly thinking about yeah Yeah, yeah, no problem. You just sit there. I'll talk so you don't have to breathe. Yeah You just Anyway, so we're back and we skipped a week. Sorry about that We honestly, I think we're talking about social media today We are let's talk about social media because it's excuse me It's actually a pretty impactful thing for people in our situation I think and if you think about how like if you were dealing with this sort of stuff 25 years ago Yeah, yeah, what did you do, you know, how did you communicate with other people? Yeah, where'd you get your information good or bad, you know So it's social media and the internet and that sort of stuff had a it's had a huge huge huge impact I think on the way that these disorders have been approached I said to you just before we went live the internet has pretty much ruined my life You did says that is a strong statement young man. Why don't you explain that? Well, it's just you can get everything you can get you can order takeaways you can order taxis if you need to go anywhere You can watch movies. You can talk to your friends. You can talk to imaginary friends, but if you want You can watch videos.  They've just introduced that here in the UK pantry. Yeah, so You know, what's the point? I don't need to go out. You know, I'm just go for Christmas I'm getting the PlayStation VR and that is it And that's it.  Oh, yeah, there's no reason not to I can go bowling in my lounge We're dying to the fact I've been bowling what we had a couple years ago at the kids the we we bowling Yeah, bowling. I bought in my living room. Yeah, sure. I haven't done that in a long time, but It's true So I think there's there's a couple of different things that's happened in terms of not just social media But the internet in general like has it made if you're in a situation where you are voiding and I know we're kind of expressly Talking about like things like agoraphobia people have a hard time leaving the house or just being out out in Social situations and that sort of thing Has it been the internet not so necessary social media social media is a way to communicate with people, of course But like you said at this point you can have your food delivered You can have almost anything delivered You don't you know it the reasons to have to leave the house are Getting working from home Telecommuting yeah, you know many more positions where you can work from home because you're you know You could still you could be in the office. Somebody dials the office. You could be extension 17 on a beach You don't have to be sitting in the office anymore. So yeah Yeah, I said to you before we before we started like that like even with the exposure stuff and that I'm fine Then it really hard to find things that I want to go and do Right the only thing that I really want to go and do and that's been that I've not done for I know probably two Three years he's gone and watched my daughter dance Sure And and that's the only thing that I really want to do it makes me feel guilty when I don't I miss it out on You know the progress that she's making in that right, but the only opportunity I'm gonna get to do that Is like probably March next year now So I'm finding it difficult to it's not about the courage. It's not about it's just like I I Don't want to go bowling I don't want to walk up and down the high street at the moment I've been out a couple of times this week and this morning And we'll talk about that in a bit and my experience yesterday going for breakfast and that but it's It's just like I'm finding it difficult. I'm happy at the moment. I'm happy working. I'm working hard at home Yeah, I'm going out when I need to I take my son to college three times a week now You know, it's a 15 minute maybe 20 minute journey there 10 mile You know, and I'm not feeling any anxiety about any of the stuff. I'm getting the normal levels Like I don't mean normal as in high right. That's abnormal I'm just getting like that underlying the thoughts and that and that's all I'm Experienced at the moment regardless of what I'm doing. Although. I haven't pushed myself to walk around warm up, but I Don't want to at the moment. I don't know whether that's no. Well, if you don't have a reason to yeah, that's it When I can order it offline and it's more convenient I feel like you know, it's a real difficult balance to find You've got to find the time to do it You've got to need the motivation to do it plus You know that you're gonna feel freaky when you go and do it when you can just go on the fricking internet Press a few buttons and it shows up. Yeah. Yeah, I get it. I think Convenience matters in a lot of ways, right? So there are many things that I buy online that I could you know I'm out on the road. I could stop You know and sometimes for me sometimes it's that thing Well, I'd like to support a local shop if I could like the mom and pop shop But it's just so easy to just click a couple of power on my phone I was gonna I need to just click a couple of things on the phone and boom a day or two later It's not just shows up. So yeah, you know But you get you so many things fricking drive-thru now as well like we got drive-thru Starbucks, you know Yeah, I did not drive through to get this by the way Well only because that Starbucks does not have a drive-thru, but otherwise I probably would have I was gonna say would you have driven through I have driven through a Starbucks. I'm not I don't really do Starbucks that much, but if yeah, sure I'm a you know what? I'm impatient. I'm a convenience guy Every bit it's a high fast-paced world now, and I would totally anything anything. That's faster. I'll take in a way Yeah, yeah, so I get that so in some ways for folks like us the internet has been a boon, but the same Way it's been a little bit of an abler So we're talking about practical things like getting groceries delivered online and buying things and shopping online and working I mean the job that you do, you know being in the web design business I Anxiety or not many many many people I would venture a guess and say that at least 50% of the people who are in that business work from home I would say so why you there's no reason not to exactly so you don't need an office You don't need you don't need the overheads. No, no, you're looking at it. There's the office. You're sitting in it right now So I think in a way That job you could be doing that business anywhere and at home is just as likely as any other place So you can't even look at it as well And you know we get asked this all the time like well, what kind of job or what business can I be in where I'm not You know, I have to leave the house well a lot of them now and a lot of people do it Not because they don't want to leave the house. They just I was gonna I mean I thought Yeah, yeah me and my wife have spoke about it like I should get an office. It helped me I'd be getting out. Yeah, but then I'd be worrying that I'm spending like three four hundred freaking pound a month sure on an office That is just pointless It depends on what it is. I think sometimes, you know, we can talk about that for a second Like I could work for a long time. We were virtualized So we didn't have an actual office for a while we the data center, but that's not people-friendly So we wouldn't really be there unless you had to and like, you know when we had to get together We would get together at a Starbucks or a Panera bread or you know, whatever and then that worked okay for a little while But then it was yeah, you know We need a place to all be together. So But there are times Admittedly where like no one's around I got a guy away or you know, whatever. I know there's nothing happening in the office It's really easy to just kind of like hang out in my office at home. Just cuz it's And I can't tell you the number of people that interact with on social media that have nothing to do with anxiety Just their business is their writers. They're everybody's a coach these days. It appears Yeah, everybody's a mentor and a coach, but they're their coaches and writers and consultants and social media gurus And everybody's working from home and I see the post every day like yeah I managed to like take off my pajamas by two o'clock in the afternoon and everyone's like making fun of themselves You know, it's become a thing. It's good. It's a progress. It's a thing And my sister tells me all the time like she you know make sure you stop talking about how you're working so hard You're working in your PJs. She she tells me that all the time So anyway, I think they're practical is you can't always look at it as like well, I'm avoiding Whether you want to go out or not if you you know your business could just you could be working at home Anyway, it doesn't matter. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So they're good things and they're bad things Let's talk about like interacting with other people. I was gonna bring this up. Yeah. Yeah I've been a bit quiet in the group like the Facebook group. What's the link again? Just in case by the way Yes, the Facebook group look at the link in the description. I don't remember the yeah Yeah, I'm not gonna put it on the screen this time. It took me about three hours to render Just because Geez yeah, so I've been a bit quiet on there But I go through these phases and I've spoke to drew about it before where I just feel like my whole entire Existence is consumed by anxiety. So I'm in the groups. I'm looking at other people talking about it and watching Their videos and I know that we talked about That being a good thing last week But sometimes I just get to the point where it's just too much and I have to sort of step back and I'm not even Thinking about it like I'm not making my own videos and we didn't do the podcast last week And it's just it's being kind of refreshing to almost just do normal things Like me and my daughter made pancakes at the weekend like that kind of stuff doesn't happen in this house Yeah, I don't I don't do stuff like that normally like I've been sitting I've been having on the PlayStation whenever I've had a few new jobs come in at work and stuff And that's like I haven't had new jobs come in for months But it feels like the more attention that I've put into that Like I'm weeping the benefits. I don't know whether it's one. No the law of Yeah, yeah You know, but sometimes I have to step back and I think that can possibly be detrimental with the social media stuff when you just get so Consumed with it all maybe I don't know I don't know whether you've ever felt like that where you've actually felt good And then you've gone into it a bit too much and it's just made you start feeling maybe some of the feelings and stuff I know that My approach to social media might be a little bit different lately I've been a little bit more active in places like Facebook, but for business reasons more than anything else and I think what I hear people else here's how I'll answer this what I hear people say a lot and I don't it's not Restricted to people who are dealing with anxiety issues, but what I hear people talk about a whole lot is I Have to step away from Facebook or Instagram or Twitter because it makes me feel bad and just just regular normal people who don't have anxiety issues say this kind of thing all the time it makes me feel bad and I think it makes people feel bad a lot of times because you know in many ways like social media is like a highlight reel For people's lives obviously Yeah So one of the one of the creators of Facebook was talking about this sort of stuff the other day saying that that's what they They prey on the fact that people want to yes Reach the levels of all these other people that are showing this fantastic perfect life Yeah, and that's what Facebook's about and I think a lot of social media Instagram and everything if you really look Yeah, and I've heard people say this. I've never I've never experienced this myself And I think it just depends on the type of person you are But social media sometimes makes people bad because you see all this amazing life that other people Yeah, you're living and it makes people feel bad and I think people in our situation are not immune to that also I think if you if you were to watch somebody walk down a high street like with the group Maybe yeah, and you see that and you see them doing well sometimes there can be bitterness towards them because you can't do that Yeah, you know that can have an effect. I'm not like that's not something I've ever I've always thought it was brilliant to see Somebody do that, but if there's people that really, you know, they're struggling to open the front door And they see somebody walking down the street, you know, it can have a negative effect I guess exactly so I don't know what we created it's it's such a strange thing because you know On one side we can get a bunch of people who are dealing with this, you know together in one place and get in the group It's awesome. I'll say it again. Yeah, yeah You know and it's awesome because you get to root each other on and share stories and successes and give people give each Other tips and pointers and and all the good things, but the there are bad things I guess I can come along with that too And I think so it could make you feel kind of bad when you see other people and so all right We're talking about our little maybe Facebook group, which is fine But you know then when you're out of that group and you're on the rest of Facebook You're on Instagram you would ever like how many how many like heavily photoshopped and filtered selfies? Can you look at yeah?  And you know, I look like this with this horrible light on my face and the clouds and like, you know Like this is real life and yeah, if you're if you're so inclined that could make you feel really bad in a lot of ways, but The good thing is you can communicate But that's also that's a good thing But it's also a bad thing. So if you're having a hard time you have social anxiety or you have a hard time getting out and being around Well, you can maintain Relationships and I think maybe seven eight years ago. It said, you know sort of relationships But you know what I've come to the realization that these could be real relationships Yeah, yeah, you know, I mean you and I have never met but I genuinely consider that you are a friend of mine You know, I mean we was not set in the room together, but we do this and yeah, yeah, exactly.  I will say that now Yeah, but in the same vein, it's a negative because well, maybe I don't have to go out or I don't have to confront my I could just be friends online So what do you know what do you do with that? How do you deal with that? I think the problem is is that more and more people are doing that aren't they like my son on PlayStation He's got friends in America.  I'd love it to happen for him Yeah, it's just like let's be realistic. He hasn't got a job He can't be asked to frickin brush his teeth after the time. He ain't gonna be asked to get on Find accommodation get a job or whatever he needs to do it pay for the ticket, you know And I what I think that's so funny though because for him and my kids too, you know, I have great kids But you know, so I was my girls are 17 and 15 as of this video and they have grown up in a different situation So you and I grew up where we we had you know real friends But that seems like a derogatory term like I don't I don't mean to diminish the relationships people Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah, but we didn't have those I had actual friends I think I went out and played as a kid and we we hung out on the street and shot hoops and You know played football and did all the things that you did and and now you don't have to do that So my kids they socialize in school and they socialize, you know They run track and so they're friends with the kids on the track team and my other daughter is musical So she's has her friends in the orchestra and that sort of stuff But most of their interaction happens, you know here on these devices And you've got to wonder what the future of like social anxiety Because the numbers are increasing already.  It's pretty scary when you think about it like that I have a friend of mine who has spent a fair amount of time doing the VR thing like what's the name of the thing second life What was we talking about? Okay, we had to stop the recording things get bad on the Skype call So we're back. We were actually talking about Second life like what is what is the internet going to do for people who have social anxiety anyway my friend is was heavily involved in this thing called second life and I Mean it's literally like it's like people play Warcraft or the role-playing games where you're living in this actual world of this universe But it's not really that you're just kind of interacting with other people who are inhabiting that world It's it's fascinating to me, but I think that what is this going to do for people? It's a double-edged sword. So yeah, if you have social anxiety and you have a problem making relation or making connections with people In person it makes you anxious Well, the internet and social media is good because maybe you get to do that without having to confront your anxiety Which we can argue was a good or bad thing, but you may be able to expand your social circles, but on the flip side It's even more isolating in a way. I think you know, I agree Yeah, and even for people who don't have social anxiety I would bet that this will increase if I had to roll the dice. I would say for people like my kid's generation your son's generation Social anxiety may be on the rise because if all you ever do is is interact with your thumbs You know or through a phone screen or a computer or whatever the hell it is when you get into real social situations There's that awkwardness, you know, I think so you don't actually learn Yeah, my son my son's already like that like he won't go in places But we wanted a McDonald's the other night We'd already eaten and he was late home and he wanted a McDonald's So I took him but I said if like the queues crazy at the drive-thru then you'll have to go in and he was flapping about it And like he doesn't have anxiety. It wasn't an anxiety issue. It doesn't matter It was just like it was more of a social issue. Yeah, I didn't want to see somebody you knew. Well, why? Surely you'd want to you know, if you see someone, you know, you want to say hello I mean that's how I was before my own issues, right? I would rather go in there I would want to run it to one of my friends or yeah, yeah, yeah exactly and I think I don't know what that is. There's I Think when you communicate electronically, you're off the hook for a lot of things Yeah, you know the possible conflicts face-to-face could be uncomfortable and Feelings get taken out of the equation, but but then so on the other side then when you're face-to-face you're confronted with all those things and I know that For my kids, we had a couple instances when the kids were younger, especially where I had to Like I followed them on Instagram and all that stuff and especially when they were younger at first getting into it And they would they would have conflicts with their friends, which is bound to happen Yeah, and they would play them out online and I had to stop like you can't this is not where you do Yeah, my door is that yes, right? If you have a problem with this person, then you do not take it out on Instagram or Twitter or when everybody else gets involved You speak to them when you see them in school tomorrow And you work it out face-to-face and it might be uncomfortable for a couple of minutes But that is how you do this and really had to like drag them into that like you don't yeah Yeah, you don't do this you think it's perhaps like you can hide your emotion behind Instagram behind face Yes, if you're talking to people on headsets and stuff. Yeah, they can't they can't see your reactions Exactly, and so that's what it's about is and then when you go and face them in the real world and they see Yeah, and you can see them and the way they're reacting and it's just completely different perhaps to what you expected Maybe you know what that's why I don't we say all the time. I find the comments section is my favorite part of the internet And hang on So The comment section is my favorite part of the internet because people are I mean sometimes it is my favorite part This discussion could be good But you know people who don't have to see reactions who can be on phones and keyboards and behind screens Like you get people are your keyboard warriors You get really brave and I think that silliness that we see in like we people that we might call trolls and laugh about That's it does influence how you behave online like people will say stuff online that they would never say face-to-face I know you never say that to me, but you'll type it to me. So have you been trolled? Have I been trolled? I have to say I don't engage enough to probably be trolled I will admit I have in the past you've been trolled. Yeah, and it really pisses me off Probably shouldn't admit that because people probably do it, but yeah I have this thing it just really You know when I I've said to you like I've got two dislikes on a video Yeah, feel free to hit the dislike button if you want, but it's like that really gets my go to dislike. He's just cool Yeah, we had you don't like it.  Don't watch it. That's my opinion. Sorry You know, that's okay. I'm with you on that I think for me, let me think about this. How do I approach that the trolling thing? We're getting you know I'm getting trolled this week completely We're gonna be the place to be rife with trolls now. I Think I don't care enough. I maybe that's I hate to say that but it's true Yeah, you know with somebody that's gonna express an opinion you can express a different opinion to me That's fine And I might try to have a reason discussion with you and I've gotten into a few of those here and there on different topics But in terms of trolling, I don't think I maybe I just don't notice it because I don't care enough to notice or something But it was funny Remember when I have my old channel because I had Billy with that was my YouTube channel Yes, that's I deleted I deleted that because of a troll But it was it was actually a really positive thing Because he was trolling saying like stop making the videos just get out there and do this and I a Guess that I took his advice in the end Yeah, I stopped I stopped making videos and just got out there in the end And that was when I had my real growth sperm and that was when I was out doing stuff Yeah, so it's kind of it did help So it helps. Yeah, you helped you out. It's not a bad thing. We had I did one with a Video with Holly over the weekend and one person we got a bunch of nice comments Which we always do and one person commented that either me or how I guess it was Holly I'm not sure like it was very distracting because we kept using the word like and For that split second I want to say like this is this is what you bring to the discussion Like it disturbed you that she said the word like too much So but and what's so funny about that is that's a discussion along the topics of what we're talking about here Yeah, I didn't get I approve the comment fine. Let the comments sit there. Somebody can jump on them if they want I'm not gonna I don't care, but I'm not gonna disapprove the comment It could it could be there. It doesn't bother me But that's a discussion that would probably never happen in real life that person You never walk up to Holly and say, you know, you say like too much. It's very disturbing to me It's very distracting would never say that, you know, could you imagine what a ridiculous exchange that would be so I think there's so many different there's so many everything that we do online with social media and the internet for people like us Especially it's a pause and a minus it could be Enabling and it could make things worse for us or yeah, and it used correctly or correctly. There's no correctly But use judiciously it could be a real benefit So so how does it like you said that if you get too deep it just starts to become all-consuming? Yeah, yeah, yeah, so it gets hard for you to disengage or are you getting trolled right now? Nip him and pick his bag up so he's asking if we're doing a podcast because he doesn't want to knock the door Oh, that's right. I might have to pause you in a minute. That's fine. No worries.  This is just this is real life. Like I said is a reality TV right here This is it. I'm not being ignorant. I'm looking down. I'm just not it's all right You got to take care what you got to take care of my phone's ringing. You get your son coming home It is what it is People get to look in on all this So what becomes all-consuming about it? Why do you have to step away? Yeah, I feel like I'm thinking about it too much whether I'm thinking about what I can do to try and better myself or Maybe thinking of what advice I could give or you know, yeah, it just feels like I'm constantly thinking about Trying to resolve a situation perhaps You know, it's like with the exposure stuff I'm trying to think of what it is that I could do yeah, but I don't particularly want to do it So it almost becomes forced it be I force myself to think about Right a situation that I really don't want to think about that makes sense. That actually makes sense. I think All-consuming the only time I think that it ever really became all-consuming for me when I was going through the Situation where I had stopped taking the anti-depressants 10 years. Yeah 12 years ago And I got involved in a forum of people who were in the similar situation that became almost all-consuming and it became But it became a safe place. So I understand Like for me it became like a refuge I could go there and interact with other people who understood and and see who was doing what and listen to their successes or Just bitch and moan if I had to I guess yeah And I can remember many times like sitting at my computer whether it was in my office or at my house or wherever I was thinking what am I doing here? Like I would just keep going back over and over to the forum keep going back. So You know, and then you'd run out of new posts So like all right, there's been nothing new in the last eight minutes. So I guess I'm gonna have to figure out some other way to Occupy my mind So I guess it could be an escape for some way But but then if it becomes like if it's driving too much or it makes you think about your anxiety all the time Yeah, yeah, that's what that's where I find myself. Yeah Like when I first started my anxiety night it's tough I was actually you know I was in a really good place and the reason the reason I set the whole thing up was because I wanted to Like you give something back Sure Because of all the help that we'd given each other I wanted to try and offer that to someone else Yeah, yeah But all it really did was just brought it all back to my attention And then I started noticing when I was feeling weird again Yeah And obviously because I'm talking about anxiety all the time That's what I'm putting everything down to and then it just escalated and escalated So that was a bad thing for me. Yeah, it puts your focus right on it. Yeah. Yeah So I think the best advice we could probably offer people in this situation is like we keep telling people join the facebook group and get involved in discussion But don't spend too much time Yeah, you can't and I think that's true If you're going to move forward with this sort of stuff You cannot let it become the only thing that you're thinking about all the time Because it's part of the problem when you're constantly focused inward You know things go badly. That's the point. Isn't it? Yeah So in a way you got to focus outward and focusing outward on what other people are doing could be therapeutic and helping other people But you're still focused on the topic Yeah, yeah, so Even if you're you know Join the group and get in the discussion and share your exposure videos and do a lot of stuff and then Do something else join another group join another right if you can't get out exactly or something cooking or yes Yes, could stamp collecting. Wow. I haven't heard that in a long time. I used to I used to stamp collection when I was a kid Wow, yeah I used to smoke weed It's how different we are I mean when I was I tell you I was I was a kid I was like I was like sixth grade which you may have been smoking weed in sixth grade I can't say I don't know. It's a bit late. We don't judge here to judgment free zone. That's okay So I don't know I I think Try to keep us from just being this is turning quickly turning into like a like a shock jock radio show Um So I think the takeaway in the discussion here and I guess we're not going to go for an hour today, which is fine is Use the internet use social media for all the good that it can do for you But I think you got to be aware of of the potential negatives Which is enabling the disorder enabling avoidance Enabling socials, you know avoiding social situations. Don't let it be that so let it be support. Let it be information Oh, let's talk about information for a second because this is a huge pet peeve of mine I'm gonna wave my coffee stir at the camera. This is how strongly I feel about this my I don't even know what this is a snowman. I don't know. Anyway, um Yes, so let's talk about information. So it's not just interacting with people or ordering dinner and having it delivered There's also a huge it's anybody who can fog up a mirror. You got a pulse. You can publish something on the internet There's no test. There's no competency test, right? So you can't drive a car unless you like prove to some municipal employee here that you know how to drive a car But on the internet you could say anything you want. There's no license required, right? So When you're doing your your research and I'm going to put that in air quotes because it's it's a dubious Distinction sometimes when you are searching for information, especially especially when you're in symptom mode Like let me let me google racing heart You know, okay. I think we can agree that there's some probably some fairly reputable sources that we can all agree are decent So the mayo clinic or web md.  I ain't gonna lie Um, you have to consider I think one of the the most important things that you could do for anybody whether you're dealing with anxiety issues or Not is learn to become a critical consumer of information So let's be realistic here and because I have seen I have seen the gamut in in the 10 12 years That I've been dealing with the stuff online But people who go looking for things that will help them or make them feel better And some of the stuff that you come up with is completely and utterly insane With no basis in reality Look, I will tell you right off the top that I am Firmly rooted in science. I believe that the scientific method got us out of the dark ages And this is how we stand on the shoulders of the people who have come before us And so yes, I am biased. I believe in the scientific method. It's slow. It's painful It doesn't give us immediate results, but it works So when you find some website from some dude who I don't know he's got a you know an honorary degree from from Reiki University, you know, like which is also some guy's basement Like you have to dig a little bit and find out what's going on. Well, we got a certificate for that I got a certificate for that right and I think you have to understand Here's what kills me to the lot you understand the rules of logic and try and apply them So I know what a straw man argument is know what logical fallacies are Know what all these things because they matter when you're making decisions about your health and your recovery based on things that you read online The biggest problem that I see and feel free to chime in at any time here because now we're just ranting is Just if you have you have two you got two guys in an argument just because Guy a is wrong. Does it mean that guy b is right? They can both be wrong Yeah, they can both be wrong and it's the single biggest pitfall. I see everybody go into Well, I tried this medication my doctor gave me made me feel horrible. So therefore all natural things are good It must be good because it grows on a tree. You know like well That's wrong The tree could be just as wrong as the pill that comes out of a lab And who's the source not just western medicine has things to sell So to supplement companies herb companies food companies everybody has something to sell Books coaching services whatever it is So you got to really be a critical consumer of information when you're doing your research to try to find things that will help you I mentioned Sort of something along the same lines Is what we're talking about here in the video that I've just done today So like you'll have seen it already. Hopefully sure when this goes out But like the stuff that I've done in the past like tried exercising for a bit and Healthy in for a bit and getting more sleep and vitamin b here and there and doing a bit of yoga and stuff But what I find with that kind of stuff is that it works for a time But it there seems to be a point where I'll have a setback and then like I'm back to square one And then it's like what was the point in taking 50 million magnesium supplements for the last 300 years You know the only thing that seems to have And this could all change tomorrow if I have a bad day, but like the drop in the caffeine thing I'm a real advocate for that because it's actually made a change in me. It's made me feel different And since then like I have felt different. I'm not taking anything. I've just taken something away that was perhaps Adding to the way that I was feeling. Yeah And I think there's nothing wrong with that if you find something that that makes you healthier or makes your life better That's great. There's there's nothing wrong with that If you've got a food intolerance or something and you stop Eating that food, you're gonna feel better. You're gonna feel better. Right.  I'm not saying. Yeah, I just Know what we're talking about taking or rubbing something on your skin or sniffing a lavender flower Right or or or anything and and and some of those things and I'm gonna say they're harmful It doesn't hurt to try them I guess but sometimes I feel like it does hurt to try things when When you are in a desperate mode and you keep trying different things based on what you read on the internet And you're not you're not critically consuming that information. What's the source? Where did it come from? What's that person's agenda? What are they trying to sell? What apps do they have to grind? You know and so if you're gonna keep jumping from remedy to remedy to remedy to remedy you will That level of disheartening mint will start to rise and you start to feel like you're in this endless pit that you can Never get out of nothing works. I've heard people say I've tried everything. Yeah, nothing works And so you just have to be careful because just because it's on the internet doesn't make it true I think you said you said a wall back like say if it's cbd or cbd oil or something like that and like You're relying on it and when you haven't got it or you can't get hold of it And then it becomes an issue that that has then become a safety behavior, isn't it's become a crutch It has and that's not the idea or you can be masking your symptoms. So just the same way that Anti-depressants well, we'll we'll talk about this one day or I'll do a video on this But you know I spent nine years taking anti-depressant and have panic attacks But it didn't fix anything So it had a lot of side effects and there's always side effects with anything you put in your body Whether it's natural or otherwise natural doesn't guarantee safe or or awesome Yeah, and it didn't do anything. It just masked my symptoms So you can mask your symptoms all day long with cbd oil or magnesium or whatever, you know it can happen But in the end lasting improvement doesn't come from just masking your symptoms It comes from learning to not care about them and I will I will believe that whole heartedly That's why I'm here on video. Otherwise, I wouldn't be talking But I think more than anything else I just have a problem with and I hate to see people get suckered into bad information spend money on things they don't need to spend money on things and Just just be discouraged more and more and more because I tried this it didn't work I tried this it doesn't work. I tried this it didn't work.  I'll see if I can link it And I think the title of the talk was common sense isn't always common Or does it common sense doesn't always make sense what we think is common sense is often wrong Like our common sense is not a good argument for like what is valid. Well, that's common sense Common sense isn't always right because we common sense oversimplifies in many ways There's tremendous amount of bias experience bias that goes into common sense And the other thing that we wind up doing is we take overly simplistic approaches to things like anthropomorphizing bodily functions My adrenal glands are tired like glands don't get tired. They don't understand what tired is Or the toxins are retreating deeper into my cells. Well, toxins don't know how to retreat. They're not afraid They're either in your cell or not in your cell and is there even a toxin?   I just hate to see people go down No, it's interesting what you said though like you to learn to drive you have to Prove yourself to a qualified instructor. I can bang anybody can yeah I can write 2,000 words we get done. I'm gonna write 2,000 words in about 18 minutes because i'm a really fast writer And we'll sell it to 69 99 Ridiculous thing ever I I am going to come up with something And it'll sound good. I'll make it sound like it's really good too And you know what?  So so there you go. So have we exhausted This is so off the cuff. This is the most off the cuff one we've ever yeah Yeah, we've been random here easily we had to stop in the middle. It's it's all good I'm happy i'm enjoying it.  It's just a little a little chat That's all that's what we're doing and we're recording it. It was about the internet, weren't it? It was about if you asked me what did you podcast on today? I'm not sure I'd be able to tell somebody The internet ruined my life, but you can watch this video on the internet Oh The irony All right, well, we'll we'll have a better one next I'm sure we'll come up with a better topic next week than just watching us Well, I've done my first like vlog in ages this week. So I'll watch it. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know whether I'll start doing it again I don't know I said before we started that I'm just trying to Enjoy my life at the minute and trying not to make it all about recovery I'm trying to not make it all about anxiety. It's It's I'm trying to do things that I'm enjoying that make me smile and that's Hopefully gonna have a crossover effect. It seemed like it is because I've Done more things like last time we did a podcast. I was doing the hospital run with my dad Yeah, I remember because we haven't spoke since then have we And that went absolutely fine There was nothing there was loads of traffic at the hospital and I parked in a different car park Like I parked on a retail park But I was only there like 20 minutes and I started filming and I was sitting there talking and then like my dad rang and it was like It's over already. There ain't no point in filming this. Nothing has happened. Nothing has happened. Yeah. Yeah That's good. We want nothing to happen. It is. It's good. It didn't make good viewing But I'd rather not have to make videos right if I'm honest. I'd rather just get on with it You know, that's probably fair I think in the end, you know, it's all great to go out and film your exposure and sharing everything But the ultimate goal is to not ever have to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah And I will say as somebody who'd spent a lot of time doing that back in the day when we first met I'm kind of happy that I don't have to do that anymore. Yeah.  Oh, I like that you choose. Yeah, I know, but it's good Yeah, because there's not not many people out there that they, you know, many people don't go back on forums when they're recovered That's true. That's true. We share that say that all the time when they entered a press inform We used to say that all the time nobody come only people only come on when they're in trouble. Yeah. Yeah.  That's true. So I think yeah for me I don't know. It's just there's a lot of crappy stuff because when I'm better You won't see me. You're out I will be gone of nothing but dust left behind Tumbleweeds will be me talking to your to an empty chair Turn the camera a bit. I'll be outside drizzling though Vape in just yes, I'll be Skyping with your empty chair and you'll be standing outside my window vaping very nice All right guys, thanks for tuning in as always Next week with hopefully something a little bit more cogent and coherent But once in a while, we're going to do one of these where we just chat for a while. So yeah, yes It's breath a breath of fresh air and and after all the the griping about the internet that we did I'll remind you to join the facebook group because it's a good group But we'll put the link in the video descriptions and I guess we're supposed to say like the video subscribe share Well, you can dislike it if you want I'm not going to let it bother me. Let's do a test. Nice. Let's go for 20 dislikes All right guys, we'll see you next week. Thanks for tuning in. Ta-da. See you


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Hello people! I'm Ginny Metherill and I am a fourth generation witch. I wish to look today at the correlation and the mystical connection between the lunar phases, the moon and your witchcraft. So I'm going to delve in depth into how the lunar phases would affect your witchcraft and what spells and rituals you will do throughout the phases of the moon and how with that said we need to know what those phases of the moon are. So let's look at them. There are eight primary phases and they all start with the wonderful new moon which is when the moon starts for three days. We then move on to the waxing crescent. We have the first quarter, the waxing gibbous, the full moon, the waning gibbous, the last quarter and the final waning crescent. So each of these phases has their own unique energy associated with it and each lunar phase has its own specific types of magic such as release, manifestation and growth. So we'll then just look at these in more detail. So we'll start of course with the new moon. There are several different ways that you can work with the new moon. Traditional magical witchcraft associates the new moon energy with new beginnings. So this is a time for planning and preparation for the year ahead and each new moon astrologers believe has some of the elements of the sign, the zodiac sign that it is associated with. So the new moon in June 2023 is associated with the zodiac sign Gemini. This new moon's energy is for communication issues. So should you want to develop a relationship better but you're finding it difficult to you know really get to know that person, this is the time to set your rituals and spells using that new moon growth in order to advance that particular project. The new moon is one of my favorite times of the lunar phase because it's quiet and contemplative and is looking forward to the future. It is very much part of that forward planning and I do love a bit of planning. It appeals to my Capricornian nature. Rituals that you would use during a waxing phase of the moon would be those for attraction and growth. So if you want to do money spells for example or attract love to yourself or grow in your business or things such as that nature you would cast your rituals and spells during this phase of the moon. Of course the waxing moon creates a full moon and this is when the moon is at its height of energy. Full moons are a brilliant time with which to do divination spells, charging your tools, using the moon's powerful energy to charge moon water and to help you with your heightened awareness of your third eye. The full moon has all the attractions of its zodiacal sign involved in it and so therefore you can use those energies as well in associating the rituals of magic that you're going to do. And finally we come to the waning phase of the moon and this is the perfect time to do release spells. So if you wish to cord cut this is the time to use that phase of the moon to really push that energy into your rituals. So how might you consider working with lunar energy? Well one of the best ways to do this is to make moon water. Now you can make moon water at any stage throughout the lunar phase and each part of that lunar phase will imbibe its individual energy into that moon water. So if you're looking for an attraction and growth spell in relationships, work, money, whatever you can use moon water made under a waxing moon or a full moon is good for everything. Moon water made underneath a waxing moon will have increasing growth energy and moon water made under a waning moon will have releasing energy. So it's very good to use moon water that's been made at different times of the lunar cycle in each of your spells. You can also use the moon to charge your crafts and tools. Now I always charge my crystal ball underneath the light of a full moon because it really helps imbue it with its energy and divination. Actually this is a brand new crystal ball and I'm going to do a video on it about what I found out when I got it and when it's not brand new it's actually second hand crystal ball but I want to tell you how I've got on with this so I'll make a video of that in a couple of weeks time. It is utterly fascinating. Additionally you can incorporate lunar symbols into your spells and rituals or onto an altar for example. Now I often incorporate this particular wonderful lunar globe witch's ball which works very well when I want to use full moon energy in a ritual or a spell. You can use signs or symbols of a waning moon a waxing moon a new moon whatever energy that you're trying to attract into that ritual and it's a great way to easily bring in lunar energy to your craft. How else might you incorporate moon magic into your rituals? Well you would do a moon altar is always good. You can set your altar for whatever intention that you have. Say it's to bring health benefits to your life. You would put on your altar objects that would bring in better health to you and release the negative health that you have and so I would tend to do a health altar under a waning moon to release the bad health from your system. Full moon rituals tend to be all about gratitude and it's a chance to look back isn't it and just see how marvellous the world is and so that is what I like to do which is often in their covenants would perform their rituals on full moon nights that's because the moon's power is at its height and if you want quick results I would use a full moon magical night for those rituals because it will help. I love incorporating moon magic into my practice on a regular basis for example I do use moon magic when I'm planting my seeds it is well known that you should plant your seedlings under a waxing moon because this is a period of growth I will plant my flowers and seeds under a waxing moon actually that's not completely true for me because I tend to have a plant habit and so I buy lots of plants and then I just plant them when I can so it could be any time of the month because I can kill plants with just a glance let's not you know there's no two ways about it I've got black fingers love gardening rubbish at it what do you think about moon phases do you use the moon in your practice will you let me know in the comments below because I really enjoy reading them the patreon coven meeting is coming up it is an absolute blast I think I can pretty much guarantee that everybody recommends it and so do go to patreon.com forward slash a ginny methanol and have a look otherwise please don't forget to like and subscribe because it really helps my channel and keeps me going means I can make these videos for you I will see you in the next few days


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Thanks, Carlos. Hello again, everybody. So my name is Sebastien Gozian. I'm the co-founder of TriggerMesh, been involved with KNATIV for quite a while. And I got five minutes to talk to you about this. Modernizing IBM MQ application with KNATIV and KONG. Don't add Kubernetes because it makes for a very bad acronym. So we'll stick with KNATIV and KONG. It's a very interesting use case. At the same time, it's a bit of a Frankenstein. So actually, once I'm done talking, I would love to hear from you what you think. So what I mean by modernizing applications, what we're seeing when talking to customers, prospects, and so on, they want to move to open source. It seems rather simple, but it's actually a big desire. It's about removing proprietary software as much as possible, and the reason is pretty simple, is to cut costs. So adopting open source as much as they can, and while they do this, they need to integrate with existing systems that they cannot get rid of. So big proprietary systems like Oracle DB, IBM MQ, you name it. So it's this desire that they have to become less dependent on very expensive systems, adopt open source, but at the same time, they still need to keep on using the infrastructure that they have. So move to open source, still integrate with existing system, make them relevant as they move to the cloud, as they adapt cloud-native technologies, cloud-native techniques, and so on. And then the third big thing about modernizing application is really to rejuvenate the overall application and operational landscape. And it's more of a culture thing. And we've been talking about it in DevOps for a long time. It's changing the culture of the enterprise. How do you deploy apps? How do you maintain them? How do you monitor them? And so on. So it seems simple maybe here where we have very much cutting edge, but there are lots of enterprises out there for whom adopting GitOps is quite challenging, and it is a big change because that's not how they deploy application. Monitoring with new things like Prometheus, it's a big change, right? But nonetheless, they all wish that they would go to prod much faster, right? So that's the thing, right? It's changing the culture, changing a little bit of the landscape so that they go much faster and they reduce cost. It's as simple as this. That's the benefit of modernizing. I don't know why it's flickering, but okay. So big boring use case, right? So lots of apps that we're seeing in enterprise that we're talking to. It's lots of Java applications. And a lot of them look like this. So it's HTTP server returning Java, exposing a REST API. And behind it, you're actually fronting mainframe applications with whom you're communicating with using IBM MQ, right? It cannot be more legacy or enterprise than this, right? And you can have thousands of those apps, right? So if you use something like MuleSoft, for example, you've written REST API with MuleSoft and then you're doing some data transformation in Java. And then to communicate with your mainframe, you're going in and out of MQ, IBM MQ, right? And in and out of MQ, it's, as I said, to talk to a very old system of records running on mainframe. So that's where we start from, right? And how do you modernize this? Which path do you take and so on? So what we're seeing is that it's a little bit why I mentioned the API gateway earlier in the panel. So we're seeing adoption to newer API gateways like Kong, right? So we're seeing lots of enterprise moving to Kong. And then if you start putting Kong in the picture and you imagine that they're trying to rejuvenate or modernize the platform on which workloads are running, which means Kubernetes. Suddenly you end up with Kong as a gateway wanting to deploy in Kubernetes, but still you have to deal with your old system of record and your MQ, right? So how do you get out of this? How do you strangle this and get moving, right? So that's where I'm actually very happy about this, but it's also a little bit of a Frankenstein from a technical standpoint. So I would love to see what you're thinking about. So we cannot get rid of the system of record is still in place. You're still going to talk to it through MQ, right? And then suddenly you have Kong that's exposing your REST API, right? So in the middle, we're now putting TriggerMesh here. And with our APIs, what we provide is data transformation. So all the transformation that you could do in plain Java, you can do it declaratively with KnativeObjects, for example. You can do filtering, you know, processing with functions, you know, whether you use our functions or KN, doesn't matter. And then to talk to MQ, you use, well, an MQ source to read from a queue. And then we have an MQ target so that you can put into a queue, right? So a source and a sink into MQ, right? So if you start, you know, you start from this and suddenly you move to something like this that moves, that deploys in Kubernetes is defined by API objects. So it's fully declarative, right? And you can drive it with CICD, right? So it's great. It's very modern. That's where you want to go. But, you know, what we're finding is that the path to go from the old to the new that would look like, you know, something like this, it can be a bit challenging because it's a big step. So the step is that, you know, suddenly your Kong as an API gateway, that's your entry point. And what's behind, you know, I showed you an example, but it could be much more asynchronous. And it could be an event-based flow. So your Kong REST API suddenly now needs to bridge to an event-driven flow, right? So you're bridging two worlds here. And Kong needs to emit cloud events, right? If you want to, you know, deal with Knative and eventing constructs and so on. The flows can be asynchronous, but if you want to reply to the client with a reply, at some point you need to synchronize, right? So we've built a synchronizer using, you know, a correlation ID in the events so that we can wait for a particular event back, right? And then the final step is that we need source and target to MQ. That's actually the easy part. But we've done it, you know, as Knative objects. So everything here is available on GitHub, TriggerMesh, Kong CE demo, CE for cloud events, right? And you'll get the full flow. So the first thing is a Kong plugin that transform a REST request into a cloud event, right? So you curl to Kong, you give it some payload, and suddenly you have a cloud event, you know? Thanks, Sokai. Thanks, Scott. So you got your cloud events here, you know, emitted by Kong. Which means that suddenly you go REST and now your event into a Kubernetes cluster, right? So you've made that path. This has the advantage that depending on the route that you hit on your API gateway, you could have different cloud event types, and you could now do routing based on event types, right?  Yeah, YAML. So MQ connectors, you know, as I said, that's the easy part, right? So we have brand new API kinds, MQ source, MQ target. You specify your credentials.  Here on the target, you know, that's something that's interesting with MQ is that if you put a message into a specific queue, you can say, hey, the reply is going to be in another queue, right?  So here you have a reply to parameter that says, hey, the mainframe system of record is going to put its reply into this other queue. So read from that other queue to get the reply, right? So that's your connectors to MQ. Now open source, fully declarative, you're good. And certainly the flow looks like this. You end up with talking to Kong, open source, or getting, you know, the enterprise product from them, right? But you could go fully open source with the Kong API gateway. You use our cloud event plugin. You get an event into a Knative router. You can do routing based on the event types. Different transformation, function-based, you name it, how you want to do the transformation. You put into MQ, your mainframe could do its job. Put the result back into the output queue, which we read with our source. And then the magic, which is a little bit Frankenstein-ish, is the synchronizer, right? So we're going to wait for an event with a particular ID to make a synchronous reply, right?  So that's one way of modernizing, you know, such a flow here. And just to, you know, just to go a little bit, you know, yeah, I'm the guy who's not using dark mode. So I'm just going to, so I don't know if you can see this, but so a trigger match with, you know, to make things a little bit easier, we've written this integration language, which is based on HCL. So here you see that entire flow that I described with our language, with our router. So based on the event type, so route attributes, you see the different type go to, you know, a specific transformation. Transformation could be function. Here that's our, you know, function example. And then at the end, I mean, you see that a function can say, hey, once you've executed this function, go to MQ. So it says, you know, to target MQ, and you have the definition of the MQ target, right? Of course, this is not, you know, Kubernetes object, but we can generate, you know, from this, we can generate the YAML. That's where the developer experience, I think, you know, to me gets complicated because if you ask a new user to start writing a flow like this with pure YAML, you know, it becomes very complicated. But here you see the full YAML that gets generated with, you know, the source to MQ, the synchronizer, you know, the different triggers, the different functions, right, the broker. So you get all these objects, and the compilation of all those declarative objects makes your entire, you know, flow. All right? So, thank you so much, modernizing your MQ applications with Kong and KNative. Thank you.


Okay welcome back to the channel everybody and let's start today's video with a very simple and straightforward question. Can you put in a comment section down below what brand of irons are you currently playing? Because my guess is the brands that you see on screen right now probably account for 99% of what most of you are actually using and have in the bag. And in my opinion what that means is you're possibly missing out on the best set of irons to be released in 2023. And clearly the club in my hand doesn't come from any of those brands that we've just mentioned and it does in fact include not one but two sets of irons that you're potentially missing out on. Which incidentally when you pair the two sets of irons together could make the perfect set up for most average golfers. So the irons are in fact from Strix and they are the ZX4 and the ZX5 both mark two. They've come a long long way and I've already reviewed both of these irons on my channel so the question you must be asking is why an earth are they featuring again in today's video. Well because quite simply I have not yet tried a better iron in 2023 that is possibly more suited to the mass of average golfers that follow this channel. So very briefly as a recap that's the ZX4 and I've also got a mix bag of ZX5. We've got hollow bodied forged face in the ZX4s, bit more bulk, bit more mass and then in the ZX5 we've got a forged face, cavity back, smaller profile but the same principles adopted. V-Soul on the bottom of the club face itself, better turf interaction, some stunning feel throughout the sets. The shots you see me hit so far are a five iron and a couple of wedges. Now five irons are with this ZX4 which I would certainly recommend for players that want a bit more forgiveness in that top end of the bag and the wedges you see me hit were from the ZX5. So there's a real opportunity to mix up a set here that feels like no other and there's also one other option of maybe even slipping some ZX7s in that lower end of the bag. But for now it's back to the five iron and I need a bit of help so the choice is going to be the ZX4. I just leaked that one out to the right hand side a bit but what really impresses me is just how good the feel is out of the whole set. The ZX7 is predominantly the kind of pure forged iron but what they did this year in terms of the Mark II was make ZX4 the improvements in the sound and feel unreal and much more in parallel with the ZX5 and those ZX7. Super fast ball speeds off the ZX4s and again from a loft situation very much easy to streamline into that full mixed bag of set. And like I said so far in 2023 I've not really seen a set that offers this kind of finesse throughout the bag, good looks and that sound and feel. It just isn't out there as far as I'm concerned. Now before I go any further into this video I just want to make sure you are aware of the new channel that we've recently opened and that is testing the tips. Please go on over there if you're interested in purely golf tips don't forget it's me as an average golfer just like you testing out the tips from the leading golf YouTubers out there. I would really appreciate your support so hop on over and give that a subscribe right back to these Frixin Irons. So back down the bottom end of the bag now for a pitching wedge and it would be the ZX5 for me I wouldn't feel the need to go to ZX7s still a compact iron. I would like in it very much in profile to sort of a maybe a P790 again look superb in terms of shelf appeal. But the question is if 99% you're not using them that means there's a very small percent that actually is and what I really don't understand is what is the reason and the logic behind that and why are Frixin not selling more of these irons. Right let's see if we can learn anything from our tips videos and at this wedge on the right direction. Well it's actually got through that just a little bit too much which is something I was struggling with we're just left of green I'll take that. Today's video is brought to you in partnership with HotGolf the online golf mega store bringing you the hottest deals in golf and of course the clubs featured in today's video. Find the link to the HotGolf website in the description below and check out some incredible giveaways and offers. Now it's also worth noting that these come in at a slightly lower price point than most of their competitors as well. So still something else that throws the question is why aren't these being played by more and more average golfers. I'm going to hit another five iron off this tee from the ZX4 range which for me were probably the real star of the show while the ZX7s and ZX5s are super irons. They didn't progress massively in my opinion from the previous iterations whereas the ZX4 was a real leap forward in quality and just really does streamline this whole setup. Right can we finish off with a nice long iron which it's never anyone's favourite club or not normally. Let's see if we can do this one justice. Ah solid. Real nice finish. Again super feel not sure how they've done it. One of the best feeling hollow body dyons that we've looked at on the channel like I said. With the hollow body dyons in general there can be a bit of a clicky sound to some of them I think that doesn't happen with ZX4s they've managed to eliminate it. Hats off to Strix and done a great job it's a great line up of irons and like I said I reckon 99% here just ain't even trying these things. Never mind putting them in the bag and this channel is all about highlighting. What is the best options out there for average golfers and I think these are certainly in amongst it and one of the ones that you should be trying right now. So if you are considering new irons if Strix and are available to you because I know that's another issue then make sure you give them a go because I think you might be quietly surprised. Right as ever thanks for watching and done on another sunny day in the UK it's just the gift that keeps on giving right now we'll carry on filming some more videos and I'll see you tomorrow night.


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Hello everybody, HCC here, and this is a viewer participation opportunity. I want you to be in one of my videos, and I'm going to tell you how. Now I've done this before, we did it with the Grunt version 3 review, I had folks send in some clips for that, we're going to do something similar this time. But this time it's going to be a little bit different, there's going to be a little more work involved on your part, but I want to have more people involved. So please consider participating in this, it won't be difficult, anybody can do it. If you want to be in one of my videos, you can do it. So please watch all of this video to get instructions on how to do it. The subject of the review will be the fridge. William the refrigerator Perry the action figure that was a mail away offer, I'm going to be reviewing that figure. This time instead of looking at military history and equipment, we will be looking at sport history, and that'll be fun, that'll be refreshing, we don't do that very often. So that'll be kind of cool, but in this case, we are not talking about a character, we're talking about a real person. And not in the sense that Sergeant Slaughter is a real person, Sergeant Slaughter is a real person, but he's also a character. But the fridge is not a character, he's a real guy. And I think that deserves a little special attention. Not only will we be talking about a real person, but it's a real person who has fallen on hard times and is in poor health. It is possible that he or somebody that knows him will see this video. In fact, I'm hoping that that's the case. So what I'd like to do is include in the closing credits some clips of fans talking about the fridge. Here's what I need you to do. Send me a short video clip, about 30 seconds maximum, of you sharing some thoughts and memories about the fridge. Could it be about the action figure? Could it be about the real guy, the player, the team? Whatever you think that you want to share about the fridge, share it. Keeping in mind, of course, that we're talking about a real person, not just a character. And it's possible that that real person will see what you do. Or somebody that knows him may see it. So keep that in mind. It does not need to be edited in any way. If you need to shoot it with your phone, that is fine. As long as we can hear you, the audio at least needs to be good enough so that we can hear it. Email your video clip to me at hoodedcobra.commander788 at gmail.com. I'll put the email address right here so you can copy that down. Don't forget that dot in there. If you don't include that, it won't go to me. Get your video clip to me no later than September 10th. That will give me time to edit the whole thing together and put it in the video. And that's it. If you want to be in the video, that's all I need you to do. Just record yourself saying something, sharing some kind of thought or memory about the fridge. Keep it under 30 seconds, send it to that email address before September 10th. And that's it. You can be in one of my videos. I would really like to have a lot of people participate. I'd like to have more people participate in this than we had in the grunt review. And we had a good number of people participate in the grunt review. And thank you everyone who participated in that. Let's have even more participate in this one. Let's do something good for a real guy. And let's represent the Joe community well. Let's put our best foot forward on this. That's all for now. As soon as you see this video, just start recording and send me some clips. I want to hear from you and hopefully I will hear from you soon.


So how are they similar and how are they different? That's what we are going to explore in this video. The great white shark belongs to the class Chondrichthys and the goldfish belongs to the class Ostichthys, both of which are fish. All the members of Chondrichthys including the great white shark, they are marine. That means they live in the seas and in the ocean. Whereas in Ostichthys you find both marine and freshwater varieties. Both the types of fish have a streamlined body. A streamlined body has this type of a shape which provides minimum resistance when something is moving through water and in air. And it's a similar shape that can be found in airplanes and in cars as well. If you look at their skeletons, the Chondrichthys have a cartilaginous skeleton. So their skeleton is made of cartilage. Chondro means cartilage and Osto means bone. So the skeleton in Ostichthys is made of bone. The fish in Chondrichthys have a mouth at the bottom. If you consider this as a top of the body and this bottom, the underside of the body, the mouth is present on the underside and that's the ventral side. So Chondrichthys have a ventral mouth. This is a ventral side while that is the dorsal side. So the mouth is on the ventral side and the Ostichthys, their mouth is neither dorsal nor ventral. It is at the end, at the very tip of their head. So they are said to have a terminal mouth. As far as gills are concerned, both are fish and hence both have gills. But in Chondrichthys, they have these things. These are slits in their skin and they are called gill slits. And if you go inside the slits, that's where the gills are present. Whereas in Ostichthys, these right here are the gills. So these are the gills. Whereas on top of the gills, there is this covering which is the operculum. So gill slits and operculum. Next we come to the scales. So the two fish have different types of scales which look different. The Chondrichthys, they have these scales which have a projection kind of like a tooth. These scales are called placoid scales. Ostichthys have several different types of scales. The commonest forms are the one on the left here is a cycloid scale. So it's circular, hence the name is cycloid. And this other scale kind of looks like the cycloid scale but they have these teeth like a comb and are called tenoid scales. Teen stands for a comb. Hence they are called tenoid scales. In Chondrichthys, the placoid scales also form teeth. So the scary teeth that you see in the mouths of sharks, those are actually nothing but modified placoid scales. Now we come to the question of how they stay afloat. Ostichthys have a swim bladder or an air bladder. So you see how the size of the swim bladder is decreasing. So the fish can control that. It can control the amount of air that is contained inside the bladder. If the amount of air is less, the fish goes towards the bottom and if there is more air, the fish floats towards the top. So how about the Chondrichthys? The Chondrichthys don't have any swim bladders or air bladders. So if they want to stay afloat or if they want to maintain their depth, then they have to keep swimming. So they have to keep swimming in order to maintain their depth. That doesn't mean that if they stop swimming, they'll die. It's just that if they don't swim, they tend to go towards the bottom of the sea. A big similarity between these two classes of fish is the presence of a two-chambered heart. So this chamber here is an atrium and this is a ventricle. So we have atria and ventricles too, but in us, there are two atria and two ventricles. Whereas in fish, there is only one of each type. Both the types of fish are poikillothermic. That means cold blooded. So neither Chondrichthys nor Ostechthys can regulate their body temperature. So we human beings, we can keep our body temperature at around 37 degrees Celsius, no matter what season or what part of the earth we are in. But the fish, they cannot do that depending on what environment they are in, their body temperature fluctuates. Hence, they're called poikillothermic or cold blooded. Coming to reproduction, their sexes are separate. That means male and female individuals are separate. And that's true for both Chondrichthys and Ostechthys. In Chondrichthys, fertilization is internal. That means the egg is there in the female body and the sperm comes in and fertilizes the egg. And these fish, the Chondrichthys, they give birth to young ones. So these are young ones. Since they give birth to young ones, they are called viviparous. And the fertilization is internal. What about Ostechthys? In Ostechthys, before fertilization itself, they lay eggs. So they lay eggs in the water. Hence, they are called oviparous. Oviparous is animals which lay eggs whereas viviparous are animals which give birth to young ones. So since the eggs are laid outside, the fertilization has to happen outside. The sperms come in and fuse with the eggs in the water itself. And hence, the fertilization is external.


Welcome to a very special interview to launch Fund Mandarin. Fund Mandarin is a Mandarin learning program, a collaboration between the Taiwan Embassy, Taiwan Technical Mission and the GIS. Today, we're coming to you from the Taiwan Embassy where we get an opportunity to speak with His Excellency Peter Chen as well as Mandarin tutor Ting Ting. So first we speak to His Excellency Peter Chen. Good morning. Thank you for having me. Good morning. Thanks for hosting us today. Thank you. Okay, so we said we have this program, Fund Mandarin, which is a Mandarin learning program. So it gives Saint Louisians an opportunity to learn Mandarin from the comfort of their home. But could you tell us what is it possible also to learn Mandarin in Taiwan and what would be the benefit of that? Yes, I say Taiwan promotes Mandarin teaching for a long time, so not only for the local people and also for foreign friends. And also Taiwan is the best friend of Saint Lucia, so why not choose Taiwan? So through all these years' development, there are about 60 government-approved Mandarin teaching institutes and provide all kinds of programs. So all the people can find whatever program that is suitable for them. And Taiwan also preserves the best traditional Mandarin characters and also the best philosophy and culture of the Mandarin-speaking world. So I think Taiwan is the perfect place to learn Mandarin. Okay, nice. So if someone chooses to go to Taiwan to learn Mandarin, the course could be prohibitive. Are there scholarships available? Yeah, we provide some scholarships, like Taiwan scholarship that we provide to senior students every year. And also some of the Mandarin teaching institutes also provide some scholarships. And the living cost is considerably low compared to other countries. So I think that's a really good environment for learning language and also enjoy the culture. Okay, so tell me, is it safe and secure to go to Taiwan? Taiwan, we have a free and democratic society just like people enjoy in Sanusha. And Taiwan is the number one safe place selected by S. Patriot in the world. So it will be quite safe in Taiwan. Okay, so how easy is it to travel to Taiwan? Like if I'm coming from Sanusha, how easy is it to get across to Taiwan? There's all kinds of airlines that connect Sanusha to different places in other countries and then to Taiwan. So it's very easy. And also the transportation in Taiwan is very convenient. We have metro in the city, we have high speed rail, connect North and South and all the public bus and all kinds of transportation. So it's easy to access everywhere. Okay, so coming back to Mandarin and Mandarin teaching in Sanusha, we know that we have Ting Ting. Will it be a regular thing to have teachers sent to St. Lucia, Mandarin teachers, sent to St. Lucia? We are really great that we have Ting Ting come into Sanusha to promote Mandarin course. And now we are working with the Ministry of Education to try to figure out a Mandarin curriculum for school. And I really admire the leadership and vision of Prime Minister Fiji JPA and Education Minister Sean Edwards to enhance or promote Mandarin or foreign language in education. And so that's why I think very soon we will send a new Mandarin teacher coming over to try to promote or enhance Mandarin education. So you're saying like in secondary schools we could have Mandarin? Yes. Okay. So hopefully in the near future we will start teaching Mandarin in secondary school. Okay. So well thank you Ambassador. Is there anything else you want to tell us about like the future plans? Because promoting Mandarin or promoting cultural exchange is also one of the goals of my embassy. And this year we are glad that we implement the first ever test of Chinese as foreign language in Caribbean region. And hopefully in the future we will have more that kind of test and encourage more people to try to learn Mandarin or to emerge in different culture. Okay, great. Thank you so much Ambassador. So now we're going to take a look at the first episode of Fund Mandarin. And then when we get back we'll have a chapter of Ting Ting. Thank you. Thank you so much Ambassador. And later on you're going to be presenting to the Ministry of Education the program. So guys just stay tuned. A lot more to come up. Welcome to Found Mandarin. Hua Yu Hao Hao Wan. I'm Ting Ting from Taiwan Technical Mission. What do you know about Mandarin? Well first one, I would like to talk about characters. It seems complicated. Actually it is. Characters are very different from the alphabet system. For beginners, we use pinging to assist. Pinging is a tool to help with pronunciation, listening and speaking. To be honest, there is no pinging in real life. So it's better if learners can recognize and remember characters. It takes time to learn characters. So we just put it behind right now. Let's talk about tones. Mandarin is also a tonal language like many ancient languages. Different tones means different things. Even the word is composed by the same initial and final. For example, yi, yi, yi. There are different things. Let's try it together. YI is a high flat tone. Try to keep saying words in this tone. Sounds like a robot, right? And YI is rising tone. It's rising, so you need to be pronounced from low to high. YI, yi. It's a low tone. The original tone is like a check. The high, low and high. YI, yi. However, we only pronounce the first part. Short, low one. YI, yi. And last, yi is a falling tone. It's a bit difficult. You need to think you are excited.  The player is going to shoot. What will you say? Like go, go. Yeah, so pronounce yi like that. YI. Okay, so more practice. Let's see the other group. MA, MA, high flat. MA, and MA, rising. MA, and short, low one. MA, MA, and falling. MA, MA. Okay, after tones, let's talk about personal pronouns. MI, it means you. MI, and WO, WO, means I, WO, and TA, means he. Can you distinguish the tones of the personal pronouns? MI, WO, TA. Let's learn how to say hello in Mandarin. Mí hǎo. One more time. Mí hǎo means good or nice. Mí hǎo means you good. And actually the meaning is hello. Mí hǎo. All right, let's learn a word. Shì is a falling tone. Shì is verb to be. In Mandarin, there is no tense, no verbal conjugation. So we say shì, mǐ shì, you are. Wǒ shì, I am. Tā shì, he is. Shì. So we can use the word and put the name after. Wǒ shì, tíng tíng. I am tíng tíng. Wǒ shì, tíng tíng, like that. Except name, we can also put nationalities. So let's learn some countries. Sen lù xià, shèng lù xiì yà. Shèng lù xiì yà. So if you want to say, I am Sen lù xià. Wǒ shì, shèng lù xiì yà. Rén. We put rén means human or people in the end. Shèng lù xiì yà rén. Sen lù xià, people from Sen lù xià. Okay, again. Wǒ shì, shèng lù xiì yà rén. So let's learn how to make questions. We just need to put ma in the end of sentence. It will become a question. So are you a solution? Nǐ shì, shèng lù xiì yà rén ma. One more time. Nǐ shì, shèng lù xiì yà rén ma. Put ma in the end. So what's your answer? Wǒ shì, shèng lù xiì yà rén. I am a solution, right? Wǒ shì, shèng lù xiì yà rén. And let's learn the other question particle called nǐ. It's like to ask bonds questions. Nǐ nǐ means end you. How about you? Or what about you? Nǐ nǐ. So the sentence. Wǒ shì, shèng lù xiì yà rén ma. Nǐ nǐ. But actually I'm a solution. I'm Taiwanese. So I would say wǒ shì, tǎi wán rén ma. Nǐ nǐ. Wǒ shì, tǎi wán rén ma. So after we have learned the personal pronouns, nǐ nǐ means end you. And how about nǐ? How to say nǐ? Tǎ nǐ. Tǎ nǐ. And the sentence. Wǒ shì, tǎi wán rén ma. Tǎ nǐ. Nǐ. Tǎ yě shì, tǎi wán rén ma. Nǐ means also or to or either. Tǎ yě shì, tǎi wán rén ma. Let's practice the tones. The high flat tone. Ma. Ma. Ma. Ma. High flat. Ma. Ma. Okay, good. And the rising one. Ma. Ma. Ma. From low to high. Ma. Yes, perfect. And the short low one. Ma. Ma. Ma. Ma. Yeah, one more time. Ma. Yes, ma. Ma. Ma. Yes, good. And the following one. Ma. Ma. Mm-hmm. Try one more time. Ma. Ma. Mm-hmm. I think you are excited. Ma. Ma. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Okay. Let's try the other group. Our first one. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. High and flat. Nǐ. Okay. And the rising one. Nǐ. No. Good try. Okay, let's try again. So you do it. It's nǐ. Nǐ. Mm-hmm. Nǐ. Nǐ. Okay. Nǐ. Yes, it's rising. So it's rising. Nǐ. Mm-hmm. Nǐ. Nǐ. Yes, good. And the short low one. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Mm-hmm. Nǐ. Well, uh, Nǐ. Mm-hmm. And the falling one. Nǐ. FALLING. Excited. Nǐ. Yes. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Hello, I'm Ting Ting. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. Nǐ. No problem. I'm also a Taiwanese. Wǎ yù. Wǎ yù. Hǎo hǎo wán! I hope you have fun learning Mandarin with me today. Wǎ shì Ting Ting. See you next time. Welcome back everyone. That was the very first episode of Fun Mandarin. And right now I am here with the stocks of our teacher Ting Ting so Ting Ting. So Ting Ting. What was that like, fun Mandarin? So there are eight episodes of this show and the content is all about the common life topics such as personal information, greeting, family, ask for a prize, and ordering a restaurant. It's basically the conversations that happen in our daily life every day. We want to bring the most practical conversations to our audience. Very nice. So how did you feel when you were told you would be the host of Fundmandering? Oh wow. Honestly, I didn't think I can do that. When I heard that the first word came out was impossible because I mean I have no experience and I have no idea how to do and what to do. I'm very grateful to the professional team. They have given me a lot of useful advice. Then we did it. Nice. So the show is called Fundmandering. I mean, what is Fundmandering? Because to me, it's supposed to be very difficult. So why is it called Fundmandering? Yeah, someone says Mandarin is one of the most difficult languages in the world for learners. Have you ever heard that? I've heard that. Yeah, but in my point of view, Mandarin is not as difficult as people think. I would say it's different, not difficult. Okay. Yeah, because I think each language has its own uniqueness. So be positive. No need to be afraid. Learning can be fun and just believe we can do that. So what are the benefits of learning a new language like Mandarin? Oh, the benefits of learning a new language are too many to mention. I have personally learned many languages, although I don't use most of them very well. I think it's important to be curious about new things. They will make people more positive and optimistic. And without a doubt, learning a language will help people in a future career because you will be more aware of the world and more accepting of new things. That's what I think. Right. So people say it's not easy to learn Mandarin. Do you think that's true? Well, as I said, its language is unique. Learning any new language can be challenging. I don't think Mandarin is any different. Of course, for countries that use a Roman alphabet, learning Mandarin can be more challenging. But for some Asian countries, Mandarin is easier than English. For me personally, English is not easy to learn either. Yes, I've heard that. Yeah. I spend a lot of time learning English at school. So I think it's because of region, not so much about the language itself. Right. So what do you think? Do you think there are similarities between Mandarin and English? Are there any similarities in the language? Yes. We use the same sentence structure like subject verb object. But I don't want to mention too much about linguistics. Okay. So what has your teaching experience been like in Saint Lucia? Because you reminded me to hear what has that experience been like? Saint Lucia is a beautiful island and the people here are friendly and welcoming. I met a lot of nice people here. And I think it will be an unforgettable memory in my life to be here. Okay. So what are your students like, the students that you've had in Saint Lucia? Most of the students I have met are bright and enjoy learning. And they are quick learners. I think it's because most of the students have experience in learning other languages. So they can get language features more quickly. And I have experience of teaching in other countries. And I find that Saint Lucia students are more energetic and motivated than in other countries. Oh, nice. Okay, Ting Ting, thank you so much. Thank you. And we're going to keep watching all episodes of Mandarin, the eight episodes. So right now, we have a handover from Ambassador Chen to Dr. Pauline Antoine Prosper, the parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Education. Today, I'm really honored and a pleasure to hand over the USB of found Mandarin material. And this material is a hard work and masterpiece of our Mandarin teacher, Ting Ting. And also Mr. Damila Lee and all the staffs from NTN. And I really glad that we have strong support from Ministry of Education. And today we are honored to have honorable parliamentary secretary Pauline Antoine Prosper with us today. And I'm going to hand over this USB to her. And hopefully this material will benefit all the people that are eager to learn new language, to learn new culture and to expand their horizon and especially for all the students in the secondary school. It is a great honor to attend this handing over ceremony of the fund Mandarin program on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training. I am very pleased with this new initiative that will benefit the children of St. Lucia. We are no longer confined to our corner of the world, but we are part of a global village and therefore acquiring a new language will be an asset to every citizen. Learning Mandarin provides opportunities to communicate with countless people and connect on a deeper level across the world, whether interacting virtually during travels or studying. I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation for the strong leadership of his Excellency Ambassador Chen and for the continued support he has provided. I am confident that the citizenry schools and students will embrace this opportunity and it will be a great success. Once again, on behalf of the Ministry of Education and Minister Edward, I wish to once again thank the Embassy of Taiwan for this great initiative. Thank you very much.


I think pain shouts so loud in our lives that it drowns out the quiet presence of hidden gifts and progress and opportunity and flourishing that is hidden within the pain. And because pain shouts so loud, we don't hear the quiet whisper of the growth opportunities. I want us to try to turn down the volume for a moment of pain and turn up the volume of the growth and progressiveness and opportunity that is perhaps in your pain today or in someone's pain today that you know that you can help them tune into.