We could win this war. We could win this war. Okay, well joining us from Orlando, Florida is the man in that clip, Anthony Dream Johnson, who says he wants to abolish feminism and make women great again. No, but it also says with the trademark, make women great again. Always great. Always great. Always great. Make women great again. But they're going to do a three-day seminar for women led by all men. In man-splanning news, a three-day conference for women led by men hopes to make women great again. How the 22 convention will make you the greatest you ever. Raise your femininity by 500 percent. First of all, how is a man supposed to tell a woman how to be the ultimate woman? A woman needs to be taught how to be great again, not my words.  Well, it says the world's ultimate event for women. You know, Orlando, Florida, that's going to be the scene of the crime. It's man-splanning platoosa, and say no to the toxic, bullying, feminist dogma. Taught by men to make women great again. Joining the stage now is the founder of the 22 convention you're in for a treat, Mr. Anthony Dream Johnson. Anthony Dream Johnson. Anthony Dream Johnson. The first president of the man-o-sphere. It's run by all men, which promises to, quote, make women great again. This course is guaranteed to raise your femininity by 500 percent. Together, we will make women great again. Excuse me. I'm man-splanning her. She said there's nothing wrong. Welcome back to the 22 convention 2020 of Orlando, Florida, being held for the first time in history at 21 Summit. And, of course, in and of itself, 22 conventions are brand new. Make women great again. Our next speaker is a very good friend of mine. He's been speaking at our events for men and fathers for a couple of years now, starting last year at 2019 at the first ever patriarch edition. He's actually a father and patriarch of four based over in the west coast of Florida. He drove all the way over here to Orlando to speak to you, woman, today. His speech is titled, Make Women Wives Again. Well, it typically is known on YouTube for making men strong again. He actually has over two million followers. He's one of the biggest YouTubers in Florida and the United States around the world. An amazing man, a strong man, a strong father, and a radical father. It's like his dad. His dad's a badass, too. Anyway, without further ado, please let me welcome, for the first time ever, to the 22 convention stage, Elliot Hulse. Thanks, buddy. Thank you. Thank you for joining us for such a unique type of conversation. Men talking to women about women stuff, right? So the title of my talk here today is Make Women Wives Again. It seems to be a, people aren't getting married anymore. A big part of what I do is I teach men how to be strong. But as a result, we also have the other side where women don't necessarily need to be strong like men, but do the best that they can to be the best wives they could be if marriage is going to work. So that's where I get my title from. Before I continue, or before I go on, I just want to tell you a little bit about who I am. Elliot Hulse. I'm a strong man. I'm a strength coach. I have a gym called Strength Camp. I teach men how to be strong. That's what I do. That's what I am. I have over 2 million YouTube subscribers. That came about from a long process of starting at the bottom and working hard. I started training athletes out of the back of my van using trash, used tires, sandbags, barbells. I would train them in the parks. And it was a tough time. I had a family and we were deeply in debt and I just stuck with it and I was able to pull us up out of the gutter, training people with trash to that shiny golden button that they give you when you get a million subscribers. So I train men how to be stronger physically of course. I'm a strength coach, but I also mentor to their hearts and to their souls. And so a big part of the reason why I was successful on YouTube is because I have a lot to say in terms of how to be strong men in their lives. I've also married my high school sweetheart. This is myself and Colleen, my wife, when we were 14 years old. We started dating in 1994. We've been together for 27 years. We just celebrated our 18-year marriage anniversary. And that's us now. And that's our family. I've got three daughters and a son. So we're kind of good at this. We kind of know what we're doing and we're going to talk today about how we go about having such a wonderful, long-term relationship, marriage, family. And I'm going to offer you guys some insights as to what makes Colleen a unique wife, what makes Colleen a great wife, what makes it so that we can last so long. So I get a lot of questions from young men. That's what essentially I do on YouTube. I answer the questions, call me yo Elliot, yo Elliot, ask me a question, I would answer it. Well, every once in a while I'll get a question from a young lady. And so about a year ago, actually exactly a year ago, I got a great question from a young woman. She wanted to know, Elliot, what are the top four qualities you appreciate about your wife that young woman as myself can grow and develop. So I wrote a blog post. I thought it was a great question and I really wanted to do my best to deliver as much value as I could to answer her question. So I wrote a pretty long blog post called The Making of a Good Wife. And if you want to go read it later, you can do that, but my entire talk here is just basically reiterating what is in that, on that blog post. So the first thing, so what I did was before just giving those four points, I had to set a little bit of a background that makes our situation unique, Colleen and I's situation unique. Number one, because we started dating at age 14, so that means we skipped the whole promiscuity thing, where we weren't out there having sex with lots of other people throughout high school and college and in our 20s. And science has shown, you know, this is a study from the Teachman heritage study, you know, you can go look it up or whatnot, but essentially what you're seeing here is, all the way on the left, is what happens when you marry your first. When you marry your first sexual partner, the chances of staying married is all the way up there. That's about like 87%.  That percent, that chance of the marriage working out consistently goes down. You can see over there towards the bottom, when you start getting into like 16 plus sexual partners, the chances for marriage working out significantly drops. It goes down to 17%. So we go from 87% down to 17% by having a whole lot of sex. There is a, there's a lot of talk in terms of pair bonding in this intersexual dynamic understanding and it just so happens that the more women, the more men a woman has sex with, the lower her ability to pair bond, to really bond with one man. You might ask yourself, well, why isn't that not the case for men? Like, you know, feminism has it like such that men and women are supposed to be the same, but we're not. It's just not the same way. This is what happens with women. And so there's a really good funny saying that goes around in terms of this, that what do you call a key that opens many locks? A master key. What do you call a lock that's opened by many keys?  So the whole idea here is that for women, you had to protect yourselves. Before there was birth control pills and abortion, we wanted to protect ourselves from being un, being opened by anyone at any time, because ultimately that would make her very vulnerable to pregnancy today because you got birth control pills. We can bypass nature completely and we see the result of it. Women having lots of sex before marriage and marriage is not working out. So there's a big part of the reason why our marriage worked. We were kids. My daughters are about the age, which is a little scary, that they're the age that we were when we started dating. And as a good dad, I explained the very same things to them that was better to be chased. Number two, we play or take on traditional gender roles. Another thing that feminism has sort of twisted here is that there's something wrong with women being wives. There's something wrong with women being mothers. There's something wrong with women being in the home and it's somehow superior to go and work for some other man and make some other man your boss that you have to do everything he says but your husband is somehow your slave master and it's no good to be at home serving your husband and your children. It's better to be out there conquering the world where that totally is untrue. It's been untrue in our situation and a big part of the reason why our marriage works is because we take on and carry our traditional gender roles. We know our roles and we play our part. There have been studies where they would look at what they would call egalitarian societies and situations where they would give men and women an equal opportunity to go work wherever they wanted either in the field or in the home and just based on our natural predispositions as time went on even though everybody got the equal opportunity to do what they wanted women just began to gravitate towards the home. Men just gravitate towards the field. It's not a social construct. That's something that was made up to oppress anyone. It's just our nature. It's you know it's it's it works better this way. So anyway, traditional gender roles for us mean that she's a stay-at-home mom. It wasn't easy and I'm going to talk to you about that. Not easy in our day and age. It was definitely a scary thing to try to do not have two parents working. But it was the best decision that we ever made and we made that decision very early on. Also, I come from a traditional family. My parents are from Belize. Neither of my parents were bought up with the yesterday I called it ideological subversion. The brainwashing that's happened to our culture as a result of Marxism. My parents are from Belize. They grew up in the jungle. So they just they go about things naturally. So there were traditional gender roles in my home growing up. My mom was a mom. She did wifely motherly things like cooking clean and caretake. She's not an oppressed woman. That's the other thing I want to bring up also too. My wife is not an oppressed woman. She laughs all the time when she hears this notion that because she follows my lead and she works in the home. By the way, now that our children are a little bit older, she actually works for me. She's my assistant. She handles my customer service. But if she was out in the world doing that, she would be considered successful. You're doing it. You're working out in the corporate world. But because I'm her husband, somehow many people believe she's oppressed. And I get a lot of comments on Facebook because I put up stuff that triggers people in this way because this kind of thing triggers people. And they're constantly right. I feel sorry for his wife.  Why wouldn't I want that? And it's another thing I ask myself too. I'm like, why wouldn't you want a situation where you get to do what you've been designed to do? It's a luxury. It's a luxury. You get to care for your children. It's a necessity, in fact. So I'm the outside the home, bread winner, caretaker, provider, protector, and she's the home builder. So I just wanted to, before I move on to the next point in our relationship, I used this slide yesterday when I was talking about ideological subversion in terms of how we've grown so degenerate in our culture. And I had to point out that feminism has a big part to do with it. And so in terms of the conversation that we're having right now about traditional gender roles and this whole swap, because we really live in diabolical, disoriented times where things right is wrong, wrong is right, man or woman, women or men. Everything is completely backwards. It seems as if it may be some sort of progress. Like, women are progressing because of feminism.  If you really look at the numbers of what was, quote unquote, achieved by feminism, it's not a win for anyone. Of course, it's not a win for men. But since progress has come to this point, over 60 million abortions since 1973. Make of it what you will, it's baby killing. I really boiled down to it. You could use any fancy term you want. But killing your babies is not a good idea. It's not a good thing. It may seem like a win to some people. Like somehow that makes you powerful. But just think about what that even means. My sense of power, because I can murder my baby. I have the right to. It's not good. That's just, that's not just my opinion. I believe that's a fact.  Not 60 million. And they're not, it's about 0.0001% is rape. And that's what they want to come, uses their point for why abortions should be allowed. It's for entertainment. That's really basically what it is.  Anyway, so of course I'm passionate about that. But I'll move on. 52% of single or women are single. We're better together. And you'll see that we're better together as we move on. Being strong and independent and having over half women not being able to pair bond and marry and live a life with a man is not a good thing. We're having a lot of problems in our society as a result of the breakdown of the family. This is a direct reflection of the breakdown of the family. No more families. What do we do? How does society grow? How does society worth anything if there's no more families? 25%, well, now check this out. 25% are taking mental health medication, right? It's screwing people's heads up. 45% of American children are born to unwed mothers. I showed a chart yesterday about how damaging that is to children. Most children that come from a single mother home, just their mother, they have so many more problems. They're more obese. They have more attention deficit disorders. They do worse in school. Their incarceration is higher. Every single case of mass school shootings that have happened in the past several years, the boys are from homes with no fathers. That's because it's better that they have fathers. So anyway, go figure. 67% of marriages end in divorce, right? But 80% of them are initiated by women. Do you think divorce is this, you know, sort of this equaling the playing field thing for men and women, but it's not. It's mostly women leaving their men. Leaving their husbands, destroying their families. Strong and dependent. Now, 93% of alimony is paid for men to women. So you can leave your man, but you can take all his money. It doesn't go the other way around. So if women are so strong and independent, why do they have to, why is that the case? Why doesn't it go the other way around? Well, 83% of women receive primary custody of their children. Those may seem like wins, but number nine says 72% of inmates in state prisons were raised by single mothers. So having babies, taking the money, taking the baby is only putting your children in jail. It's not helping anyone. So feminism, congratulations. The other thing that we have also is shared vision. From the time we were kids, we kind of have a, God has graced us in so many different ways. And I can't, you know, I'm trying to pinpoint the various things that make us different, but a lot of it has just been complete grace. We're blessed. From the time we were kids, we were always dreaming together, she and I. Very rare that somebody gets together with their lifelong partner from the time they were teenagers. But I remember her, like I would, we would do homework together and she'd be signing her name Colleen Hulse. Just over and over and over again, Colleen Hulse. Colleen Hulse, I mean, her name was Martin. That was her main name. But we were children and dreaming about, I remember our yearbook, our high school yearbook. I laid it out, as strange as it is, but I laid it out that I'd be marrying Colleen. We're gonna have eight kids and we're gonna, and I'm gonna be a strength coach. Well, we have four kids, so I got halfway there. I was a strength coach, but it was just this matter. I think, of course, like I said, the grace of God, there are a lot of things going on here in terms of just our personalities and the weird way things unfold in our lives, but we've always been on the same page. It's never been a matter of competing with one another. We never let our individual ambitions, I'm not out there trying to be ambitious so that I can be better than my wife. Everything that I do is because we're a team, right? I played football my whole life. We're a team, I'm taking one for the team, and the same thing with her. It's never meant for her a matter of my own path. She doesn't have her own path, right? That may sound scary or misogynistic or something, but why would she want her own path when she's got a teammate like me? Everything that she does is a matter of the shared vision that we have for one another. That's the same for me. So here are the points that I made to the young lady in the blog post. Colleen follows my lead. She loves to follow my lead. She wants to follow my lead. If I ever waver or lukewarm in terms of what needs to be done, she immediately checks in with me like it's everything all right because you're not making the strong decisions. Now, it's not only about making the strong decisions, it's about making decisions that need to be made, but she's afraid to make. Generally, women are more interested in safety and security. Men are more courageous. We're more in terms of taking risks or risk takers. It's what makes a good man a good man that he's willing to take risks. An alpha male takes risks. That's what you understand. But in our world where women rule the roost, essentially feminism reigns, a lot of times the woman's fear rules the relationship. So I see so many instances where a guy wants to start his own business or he wants to quit his job and start his own business or he wants to do something great for his family but it's huge, it's scary, it's hard and he doesn't do it, why? My wife won't let me. Your wife's fear, which is normal and natural, women should have a healthier, more stronger, bigger form of fear than men. It's just evolutionary biology. You were more vulnerable than men and you gotta take care of these children.  You gotta be a little bit more cautious. But you can't let, as a man, you can't let that run the relationship. There are a lot of really difficult decisions that I've had to make and scary things that I knew that she was just shaking in her boots and didn't wanna do but she was still willing to do it. This is just one example of it recently. We started firearms training and she was scared shitless of touching a gun. Even many years ago when I brought one into the house she just, I don't like it, I don't like it but I trust you, that's her whole thing. I don't like it, she'll do that, I don't like it but I know when she says I don't like it it's because she's afraid. Doesn't mean she doesn't trust me.  Well it's taken a few years but we got to the point where now she could, actually this weekend she's out with her friends now, she's showing them how to shoot. This is just Colleen's way. She will, I take her on the adventure. This is one of the things I said to her when we were in high school.   It's gonna be a roller coaster. Sometimes it's gonna be hard. And if you're willing and you're down, let's go. She's been down for the cause. And I come up with some of the craziest things sometimes. I'm not always right, but she's 99% down for the cause. And then afterwards, wow I'm so happy that we did that. I have a good track record. So following my lead also helped us create the type of life that we have. We both graduated from college. She was making more money than me. She was a school teacher. And I was a personal trainer. And she had health insurance. And I was an independent contractor. And when we discovered that she was pregnant with our first child, I was really getting into natural. I started discovering, the internet just came out basically, that's how old I am. And I started reading up and learning about natural parenting, natural childbirth, natural child rearing, and it actually brought me back to retraditionalizing my mindset and the type of family I wanted to have. I wanted to homeschool and all that. And as a result, we decided, and she followed my lead. She quit her job as a school teacher with all of its benefits and its higher salary and trusted me to carry the weight. Like I told you, things are going great now. But in the beginning, I was training people with trash in the parks. It was not easy, but she was willing to follow my lead. And there were some tough times that she was willing to struggle as a result. But she wins. When you trust your husband, especially if he's got a good track record, if you're with him, you're with him for a reason. You must trust him.  Don't marry a man that you don't trust. Why are you there if you don't trust him? And it's been our experience that when she yields to my leadership, it turns out greater than either of us could ever imagined. Another one was in terms of debt. We had a lot of college debt. We had a lot of, at one point, we were buying our groceries on credit cards. We didn't have enough money to buy food. So we racked up a ton of credit card debt. We were underwater in terms of our mortgage. It was way over our heads.  And I wasn't making enough money to get out of it. We were $90,000 in debt at the time. And I made a plan to pay more per month than I possibly could ever. I was more than I was even making, but I had a big vision here to get us out of debt. And she followed my lead. It took us about four years and we got completely out of debt. And then, oh, her short hair. I know the women are attached to their hair. Men love women with long hair. She had long, pin straight hair. Beautiful, amazing hair. But I just love her neck so much. And I always imagined that she would look amazing with short hair. And as scary as that was, even for her. And I didn't force her. I don't force my wife to do anything. She, like I said, she loves to follow my lead. She wants to make me happy. She decides to cut her hair. And I think she looks amazing. Displays gratitude. My wife never takes me for granted. And I'm simping for my wife here right now. I get that. And maybe one day this all turns around and bites me in my butt. I have no idea. It's God's will. Whatever happens, happens. But I'm kind of breaking some rules here. But the woman never, ever takes me for granted. It's been 27 years. The most said word in our home between she and I and between our children is thank you. Thank you. Thank you. He said at least 100 times in my house every single day. Well, this is a picture of my children doing some artwork. I remember very early on, this is an older picture, but this one I had one daughter, very early on when I was working hard, trying to get us out of debt, trying to build our business. And she was at home, one in the oven and nursing the other one.  And it said, Daddy, thank you for working so hard to give us a great life. And of course my daughter didn't write it. Colleen wrote it. And my daughter drew some like flowers and grass and trees and whatnot, kids do around that. And I always remember that. And I think, I have this picture here of my kids doing crafts because she always reminds them to thank dad. And that's even another, that's a weird thing too. Like it's really weird for couples to be grateful for each other and to verbalize it. We don't see that. I don't know. Our friends don't do it. Her friends don't do it. And all her friends are divorced now. So go figure. But then also children can be ingratious. They lack gratitude. You don't have children because you want them to thank you. That I figured out. There's no, it's a thankless job. But my wife will kind of eat both ways. You know, I always whenever Colleen cooks, she cooks every night after saying grace, thank you wife and each of the kids. Thank you mom. And so we remind our children to be grateful to, she reminds them to be grateful to me. And I remember reminding them to be grateful to her. So we're grateful for each other. And we don't take each other for granted. Meaning anything could happen. And I don't take her submission and her willingness to follow my lead and the work that she does in the home, the laundry and the cooking and the cleaning and caring for the kids. Take none of it for granted. I totally recognize what she's sacrificing to be in that place. And the same is for me and her. I mean, we have a nice life now and she spends my money, but she doesn't take it for granted. She recognizes and she knows, she remembers when we were on food stamps. So she's grateful to me and she thanks God we don't take it for granted. And one of the things she likes to say, she'll like, it's weird. We've been together since we were 14 years old. We're 41 now. She still blushes. She still blushes around me. She'll blush and say, I'm a lucky girl. You know, sometimes when we were having a great dinner or something wonderful has happened in her life, she was just like, she has this look of awe on her face or she's like, I must have been a good girl. I'm a lucky girl. She recognizes she's a lucky girl. And I'm not trying to put myself on a pedestal, but when a woman displays that kind of gratitude and is gracious in that way to her husband, a husband can't help but to simp on her. Can't help but to like, wow. Men want to be respected. Women want to be loved. Show your husband respect. Thank him. You're lucky to have him. Think in those terms. A lot of times, because we live in diabolical, disoriented times and everything's backwards, it's usually the other way around. We put the woman on the pedestal and it's like, you know, I hear guys say things, I love this one. And I throw people all the time when I walk in somewhere and my wife is usually with me, she's not with me, and they go, where's your better half? I'm like, you mean my left arm or my right? She's not my better half. Or they would say your various, I can't remember, I can't think of all the colloquial terms that are associated with why I'm lucky to be with my wife. That lopsidedness is deteriorating to the sense of self and ego to the man. And it makes a woman think she's more important than she is. We're both equally important. Content with little, Colleen. Like I said, we had some really hard times. And she never, and to this day, even though things are so much better, she never is needy for luxury. She never looks at other families or other people and wonders why we don't have that, why I don't have that.  We're taught that women should be like men. And I used to wonder sometimes, this is just her nature. And I used to wonder sometimes, why isn't she ambitious? Like I'm so ambitious, like I want that stuff. I want to go get it. And she never, she was like, oh, okay. And I knew other women who were ambitious because, you know, they bit the apple. And Colleen just never compared herself to them. She never wanted what they wanted. She never forced me or denigrated me for she knew I was working hard, but it was never about getting more stuff from Elliot. This is a picture of Colleen's dream car. So our first car, when we moved to Florida, was hand me down.  And then it just stopped working. And where our family was growing, I think at the time, we had two kids already, a third one on the way. And we knew we needed a minivan. And she like, there are not too many things that Colleen wants. Like I said, she's content with little. That's probably why it works. One of the reasons why it works. But she saw this Kia Sedona. And we laugh now. And I'll show you why we laugh now in a minute. We laugh now, but this was Colleen's dream car. I paid $5,000 for it and it was a lot of money coming out of my pocket at the time. It was one of those situations where by the car or do we keep the lights on, we need the freaking car. So content with little, another story I like to tell is it doesn't take much to make us happy with one another. Now we do date nights like every weekend. And when I started making money, I used to like, I used to worry that she would take me for granted. It's never happened up until this point. But now that I'm making money and we spend lavishly, we go on date night every Friday and dinner is not cheap. We don't go to cheap restaurants. But backtrack 15 years ago when we never went anywhere because we couldn't afford it, we had a couple from our church that recognized, you know, this is a young struggling couple. They decided, why don't we come over and watch the kids for you one week at one night? And they did that and it was nice, but we were like, where are we gonna go? We don't have any money, we're not gonna do anything. And so Colleen surprised me by buying a six pack of beer and she made some meatball heroes and we went to the beach. Doesn't take much. She doesn't require much. Doesn't argue with me. Colleen does not argue with me. She does not fight with me. She never gets hysterical. You never see her get upset about anything. And a lot of times I'm wrong. And that's the crazy thing. She's willing to allow me to be wrong. Especially, you know, there are times that as a man, this is just our nature, it's my nature, I don't know. But we gotta assert our dominance. And you know, things were going good in our lives and there was a point. I look back now and I realize what I did, but I was giving so much to my family. And I was like, I don't give anything to myself. I was feeling selfish. I was like, I don't do anything for myself. Everything I get and I, it's really what I wanna do. But I got sidetracked for a moment that really what I wanna do is give everything. I wanna give everything to my wife. I wanna give everything to my children. It's just, I think it's in most men's nature. If we're playing our traditional gender roles and being our strongest selves, most men will honestly say, I just wanna give you everything. And of course, the women are designed to receive. Just don't steal it and run away. Right, that's what the divorce court's all about. Well anyway, we saw our dream car there before. Well, a couple years ago I decided, I want my own dream car. I bought this Tesla. I colored it my favorite color and it was very, very expensive. And Colleen Will voiced her opinion. She never, she doesn't not voice her opinion. She just won't fight with me. She won't argue with me and she won't force me. Even if I'm wrong, she'll wait for me to figure it out. And it's happened time and time again. And there are times where it's happening and I'll even say, I'm probably wrong and I'm probably gonna figure it out but I have to do this anyway. And she'll say, what? So she thought it was a bad idea to go buy a $100,000 car. And I was like, I'm getting it. So she bit her lip and she let me do it. Well, the car was a beautiful car. Had all kinds of fricking problems right from the get go. I'm spending all this money for this car and it's glitching all over the place. We had just moved into this house. So you know, I think that was a part of my like, almost like my jealousy. Like I bought this house for you and the family. And like I didn't even have an office in it. I was like, wait a second, what am I gonna do? So I went and bought this fricking car. Problems with it since the beginning.  I'm doing gardening, I got landscaping, I'm doing repairs.  I'm paying a lot of money for this and it's completely unfunctional. So, and here's the thing. So then I sold it and I got to pick up a truck. Of course, cause that makes more fricking sense. Colleen never said I told you so. Never rubbed it in my face. Never said anything about it. When I sold it, she just said, that's a good idea. She never even said that was my idea. But it was hers.  She's a good wife. Loves God for my sake. Colleen's not as religious as I am. And I don't think she needs to be. She recognizes that I receive my authority from above. I'm a Christian and I seek Christ as my perfect example for how to be a husband. They call Christ the husband of the church and men are to live their lives in the same way. The same example of Christ. And I've always been a seeker and a preacher for God. It's not in her nature. But from the beginning, she followed my lead. We had a beautiful religious wedding. We took the children to church. Again, it wasn't because it was natural to her. It was because she knew that I received my authority and she respected my authority and she recognized that it is better for me to pray along this side of this man for our sake. And so she loves me.  And that's the way I see it. When we pray together, I recognize that she's received the same grace and will continue to receive the same grace that God has poured out on us since day one. So one of the things that we do a lot of in our house is thank God. Like I told you, thank you is one of the most used terms in our home. And when Colleen thanks me, especially in the beginning when it was tough, it's easier to be grateful when you have nothing. And so I was a lot more grateful in the early days when there was not much and she would say thank you to me and I would just remind her, thank God. And so today when we're paying the bills or we're doing something great for the kids, she and I and she will say to me, thank you and thank God. So those are the, I gave five. The girl asked for four, I gave five things. I gave five things that are unique about Colleen. I'm not here to tell any women how to be what they wanna be, but the proof is in the pudding. The women who see this and reject it and are triggered by the things that I'm saying here about my wife and our traditional values and her submission to my leadership, we've got a great life. She's got an amazing life.  Most of the women that are triggered by it don't love their life. They've been through multiple divorces. We have family members through multiple divorces, can't keep a man. They usually end up dying old cat women. They're miserable in their lives. They're usually angry. They're usually angry at their fathers. They're usually angry at men. They're usually the means with the women that are screaming because of Donald Trump. Because they hate authority. They're just rebellious women and that's what feminism has done, has made women hate fathers, men, families, destroying the families through abortion, through divorce. I'm not pointing any fingers when you guys are doing it. What I do is I help men become worthy. I help men become stronger so that they're worth marrying. You know why? Because I got three daughters. I want them to have strong alpha male leaders in their homes. I want them to marry men like me. So I do my best to get out there and train a generation of men. That's the best that I can do but at the same time, women, we need your help. Not your help in terms of being strong and independent and contributing with money but contribute with your femininity. Contribute the way that God designed it for you to contribute by being a helper. What's wrong with that? What's wrong with being the helper to your husband? What's wrong with allowing your husband to be your boss? Because guess what?  It's either some strange man out there and I'm not a fan of women in the workforce. That sounds horrible these days but I don't think it's a good idea because guess what? That's ever since women have gone as the workforce, this is where all of the adultery really skyrocketed. Two things that started that created the massive amount of adultery and promiscuity. The advent of the car because now you can sneak off and do whatever you want, wherever you want, nobody has to know and women in the workforce. So you're in the workforce working for other men and having sex out of your marriage. Why? So anyway, these are the things that have allowed our relationship from the time we were children and I'm a fan of marrying early but only under these circumstances, only with these understandings, only with a husband or a man and a woman that have these values. It's not gonna work any other way and our culture, yesterday I gave a great talk on the ideological subversion that has brought cultural Marxism which is the father of feminism into our culture. We've been completely brainwashed and denigrated and we live in a degenerate culture and it's hard not to be a degenerate. I totally get that. We gotta go back to traditional values. The values that built this country and the values that built our families that built this country. And those values, our political structure is Greek and Roman but our morality and our values are Christian. You don't have to be Christian but understand that when we all have the same moral law, when we all understand what's good and what's bad and what's right and what's wrong, when not everything is arbitrary, when we seek the truth of authority rather than having a rebellious attitude about everything, shit seems to work out real well. Being a rebel, there's no value in it. So to sort of wrap things up here, I bought this book because I really like the author, Lori Alexander. She gets a lot of hate because she says a lot of things about feminism and she puts up a lot of memes and advice to women about how to be real women, pre-feminist women, and ultimately what will be the post-feminist movement because as there's a cycle in civilization and at the peak of a cycle when a society becomes what's called decadent, that's usually when women are at their most flagrant. That's when Eve totally swallows the apple and Adam is just doing what his wife tells him and we're there, that's where we're at and not making any judgment about it because this is just what happens in societies over and over and over and over again. The next step in our, in this cycle, this predictable pattern is hard times. And when times get hard, women don't have to be put in their place.  You need the provisions of a man. We don't, you don't need us right now because things are good. There's a saying that goes when times are good, everybody wants mommy in charge. Times are good, mom's tough. Look at her, walking around, a strong independent mommy because everything's so easy. Life is easy, but when times are hard, everyone turns to dad to fix the problems. You'll know that in your own family but it's gonna happen in our society. So get your mind right now for what's coming. It might be in our lifetimes but it'll definitely be in your children's lifetime. Things are gonna get tough and everything that I'm saying right here, right now, if it triggers you, you're gonna say, maybe that stuff will work because it will work because it's a natural order. And when you have the pressures of nature bearing down on you, you go back to what's right. We don't have the decadence that allows you to be so degenerate. So anyway, I thought this was a cool book. I bought it for my daughters and so I wanna do it here with the next few minutes. Is she has 12 chapters in there. I just picked out a few that have little quippets from scriptures that tell women how to be great women. Be sober-minded. Sober-minded essentially is not allowing your emotions to get the best of you. Don't be, there was a great quote that I said yesterday.   Colleen does not get drunk. I don't remember the last time I seen my wife drunk.  I know there are times when Colleen doesn't agree with me or she's upset with me, but she keeps her cool. You don't wanna fight with a man. Well, of course you do now because you can just take him to divorce court. But if you want a marriage to work, don't fight with your husband.  And things will work out. I've studied various forms of martial arts. My brother's into it. There is a tremendous power to yielding. If you know anything about Tai Chi or various forms of martial arts, the power isn't the one that takes the force from the other person and redirects it. Colleen totally redirects my force. I am a forceful man. I'm a strong man. And she, in her covert feminine way, which is the power that women have, she knows how to not receive my force, but redirect it. She's really, really good at doing that. But the only reason why she can do that is because she's sober-minded. Love is patient. Love is not emotional. One of the worst things that I hear, it's horrible when the women do it, but it's even worse when the guys do it. But it starts with a woman's mindset. And a lot of the guys today have women's mindsets. They're raised by their mothers, they worship women, so it's really bad for them. But it's generally going to be the way a woman thinks. And it needs to be checked, which is I need to feel in love with you. In this passage, and I don't memorize it, but it's love is patient, love is kind, love is love, and he goes, you know, St. Paul goes through a series of about 10 different things, what love is. Nowhere in there is love feels good. Love is passionate. Our, now, Colleen and I, we've got a tremendous emotional bond between the two of us. But that's not why we're together. We're together because it's logical, it makes sense. Our love is logical love. And I know a lot of people never, they don't really understand that when I say that. But we have a heart love, of course, but what keeps the marriage going is a logical love. I'm going to love you with my mind. I love to say that you think with your heart, but love with your mind. When loving with your mind means loving on purpose, not because I feel it. You don't need to feel love at all. Love is a choice. It's a sober choice. Be discreet.  I don't go on Facebook it very often. Colleen does, but she'll point it out to me. She'll be like, look at her putting all the laundry out on Facebook, right? They're having problems in their marriage or their husband does something and they're out there blasting it to the world.  I would never want to marry or be with a woman that is constantly advertising her sexuality through sexy posts on Instagram. I get it, that's what women are doing. Women's currency is attention, I understand that, but it does not make for a good wife, right? I see guys and their wives or I see a lot of young men, they're dating this girl and I'll go to their page and the page is just full of pictures of them in their bathing suit, looking sexy, like come and have sex with me. Don't you have a boyfriend, what is that? Be discreet, be chased. We already showed you what happens when you have all that sex.  I don't believe promiscuity is a good idea for men or women, but it's worse for y'all, shitty luck.  It is the best place for a woman, why not? From our get-go, from the beginnings of the advent of civilizations, men dealt with the periphery. We went out to the periphery to protect what? What's inside? Nothing has changed, we go to the periphery, we go out there so that we can protect, provide, work on the outside, men are outside oriented. Women are inside oriented. When we both know our roles and play our parts, life is great, but when those roles are inverted, we become perverted and it's what we got today. Obedient to your husband. Oh, that's a tough one. First of all, nobody likes obedience to anybody or anything in our degenerate culture. Everybody's a frickin' rebel against everything. This is why there's no longer any God. Atheism is the way of the day, why? Well, I don't need no big daddy telling me what to do. Men and women behave this way. It's totally effeminate and it destroys the life of the individual and the family.  It means you married a man worth trusting. Do it, just trust him, why not? Don't marry somebody, look, I will blame you. Don't follow the lead of a weak man. Don't marry a weak man, don't have sex with a weak man. Don't let a weak man lead you. But if you married him, that means you must've been prudent in your decision, follow his lead, trust him. This is not only because it's good for both. It's good for men and it's good for women. Men want to lead. When you don't let us do what we need to do, you know what happens? 47% of men, the suicide rate has gone up 47% in the past 10 years for men. We're killing ourselves, literally, because we have no place. Men are valued for what they can do.   You're born with what men want.  Men, we're valued for what we can do, but if you take away what we do, we have no sense of self. And the world has given you opportunities to take away what men are supposed to do and men are now useless.  Feminism, thank you. Meek and quiet spirit. And this kind of goes back to what I was saying before in terms of how Colleen will silently bear my foolishness at times. She doesn't try to control me or force me or denigrate me even if I'm wrong and I'm admitting I'm wrong and I always go back when I admit that I was wrong. I even know that I'm wrong sometimes before I'm doing it but I gotta do it because as a man we have to assert our dominance, right? It's better for us to play that role. Better for us to take that fall. Sit back, trust us. You gotta trust us because if you don't, you lose and we lose. And then finally, my last slide. Look, if you wanna see it, play it out in action, follow my wife on Instagram. See our life. See if she's oppressed, right? See what feminine luxury looks like when you sit back and allow your man to lead. So you can follow her on at Colleen Hulse and of course I put mine up there at Elliot Hulse.  But if you wanna see it played out in action, go follow my wife. We got a great family, we got a great life and I love it. Done. I got five minutes if you guys wanna chat. About me, did you mean me, spiritual me? Humble. About me, in the scriptures, me, when Jesus said he was me or it was referred to Jesus as me, it meant that he was like a bridal horse. Very powerful, but choosing to be me. I love that you say that because meek don't mean weak. My wife is not weak. My wife is strong, she deadlifts 200 pounds too. But she's not weak. It's not about weakness, it's about humility. It's about like the bridal horse. It's like, hey look, I could, look, here's the thing. Y'all don't have to be meek because all you gotta do is go to divorce court and take everything we got. We have no defense.  Y'all have more power than us. The type of meekness, and when I'm talking in terms of my wife, she can do that at any moment. That's the way the power structure has been set up now. It's fair, supposedly. But the meekness means even though I have this power, like you say, I have this power like a horse.  You don't lured that over someone. You don't keep reminding them, hey, I can do this.  When it really boils down to it, when it's really the nuts and bolts, we can do whatever we want. Now of course you got the state as your daddy now. The state's the daddy, so the state rules the rules.  There's not a single thing that you have that men haven't used our inherent strength and said, we're gonna let you have this. We're gonna let you have this. We're gonna let you do this. We're gonna let you have this. Don't forget that. There's meekness both ways. Thank you. So as you're talking about the characteristics that your wife has, and you've been with her since you guys were 14, what did you do to facilitate those things within her and what would she do to facilitate those things within herself? Where did she learn that and how did she learn it and how did you help or not? One thing I point out is that we were basically married at age 14. And the way that happened, grace of God and kind of some weird stuff, but her parents weren't really there and she ended up spending 90% of her time at my house. So here I was, my parents let me have this girl in my bedroom all day long. And so she not only laid in my bed with me from the time I was a child, weird. I would never let my daughter do that. I think back and I'm like, that's crazy. I wouldn't even let my son do it. But my mom then became her mentor. She was in my house helping my mom cook. She was watching the way my mom was with my dad. She was watching how my mom cared for the children, how she was a home taker. So in a lot of ways, this woman was mentored by one of the greatest mothers. I got a great mother. I don't think that could have happened any other. She wouldn't probably have turned out this way had she not been basically raised with my parents. She saw the way my father was and she, I guess, expected that of me. My dad's a strong alpha male leader. My mother is a great caretaker and wife. And my wife wanted something more for her because her parents weren't there. And so she took that role. Mm-hmm, yep. She was mentored. She was mentored by a biblical woman. So that's all. Thank you. We can win this war. We can win this war? Okay, well, joining us from Orlando, Florida is the man in that clip, Anthony Dream Johnson, who says he wants to abolish feminism and make women great again. No, but it also says with a trademark, make women great again. We are always great. We make women great again. But they're going to do a three-day seminar for women led by all men. Ha ha ha ha ha! In man-splaining news, a three-day conference for women led by men hopes to make women great again. How the 22 convention will make you the greatest you ever. Raise your femininity by 500%. First of all, how is a man supposed to tell a woman how to be the ultimate woman? Well, women need to be taught how to be great again. Oh, yes, we do.  Why do men think they need to fix the problems of women? Well, it says the world's ultimate event for women. Yeah, Orlando, Florida, that's going to be the scene of the crime. It's man-splaining platoosa. And say no to the toxic, bullying, feminist dogma. Taught by men to make women great again. Taking the stage now is the founder of the 22 convention you're in for a treat, Mr. Anthony Dream Johnson. Anthony Dream Johnson. The first president of the man-o-sphere. It's run by all men, which promises to, quote, make women great again. This course is guaranteed to raise your femininity by 500%. Together, we will make women great again. Excuse me, I'm man-splaining here.


good morning guys I just got up it's about seven o'clock after seven o'clock and I thought what I'd do today is um show you my morning routine I have quite an extensive morning routine and because I'm self-employed and I'm into health and all that sort of fun stuff what I'm gonna do today is I'm gonna walk you through everything I do from literally the moment I got up to when I get into my normal work day so first thing I do obviously is take off all the sleep accessories and as soon as I wake up is this Jeretham the moment and I take my temperature every morning if you don't know why I do that I'll put a link to my article on why it's important to take your temperature every month so that's very first thing I do since I get up so I hope you enjoy following me around while I show you my morning routine all right so next thing I do in the morning is take my o-ring off and sit on the charger and then sync it up so my o-rings are always in airplane mode so I kind of access the data until I charge it and while I'm in the R-button I also put on some theater use the primal prepare stuff been using this for about five six years it's good all right so while that's charging I now take my morning herbs so I take two things Mike Mailer's aggressive strength to Sasha and booster and step one of quality all right so next I do my morning light therapy session which is using the juice behind me and also my human charger which is the little device that shoots white light into your ears I've written about the importance of morning sunlight and morning light exposure I'll link to the article if you haven't read that article before and I'll usually just sort of duck out side for a few moments in the morning but it is a bit cloudy and gray this morning so that's when I rely on technology but as you'll see soon I do go for a morning walk and I figured while I've got this device I'm also using and I just let do a full cycle on there I think it's 12 minutes all right so let's sit up now we get into the red light time I've got the juice red light panel and then I've also got this handheld one so I do a next protocol where I do I do about five six minutes on each target area that I want to hit sometimes I'll do a bit longer but up to 10 minutes but I've explained all this in other videos and reviews and whatnot so I'll link to that below this will take me about 20 minutes all right so the red light and the white light therapy all done now what I'm gonna do is my morning stretches so I do few little mobility drills and then I'm some Turkish get up and I do this every day all right so that's my red light therapy stretches all done now what I do is I'm about to go for a walk but before I do that I mix up a little cocktail with protein baking soda a little bit of ketone for stigmatic mushrooms so I'll make that up now now walk time but before I go I take my ordering off the charger and also check my data on my phone ring is complete charging is complete I'm gonna take this off I'm gonna quickly check my score and then also to my ring back into airplane mode so what do we got here 92% deep sleep score 90% readiness score sleeps trending up so I'll just have a quick look at this readiness is really good hrv 95 nice sleep 92% well the greatest numbers 13% deep sleep only 4% awake though that's good nearly nine hours of sleep so that's that's good that's good dad and then what I'll do is I'll turn this back into airplane mode so then the rings not transmitting drought throughout the day you'll also notice that are my phones in airplane mode I'll just turn Bluetooth off now it's an airplane mode so I live in an airplane mode all morning I don't turn it out of I don't turn airplane mode off until I've done all my routine and I'm ready to start the day and I do that because I know the moment I turn it off airplane mode the text message will come through our phone call come through if I'm in airplane mode I can't do anything I'm disconnected from the world it's just my time alright it's my time to do my routine my stretches my walk and all these things without interference so anyway I'm gonna go off and do my walk now I do listen to a podcast some mornings on the wall and so I've actually just downloaded a bunch of podcasts on my phone so even though here I am saying it's an airplane mode if you're wondering oh he's listening to a podcast he's a bit of a hypocrite it's not true I am download the podcast to my phone so I can walk and listen without having to be online so anyway let's go back from the walk nearly all done but what I do now is I go water the plants both outside and inside as it's raining I'm not gonna spend too much time watering the plants outside we'll just go out there for for a quick barefoot grounding session and a quick check up on the garden then we will water the plants inside and then I'll sit down to make my breakfast alright so it's smoothie and supplement time supplement I'm not gonna go into too much detail but got my daily supplement intake here I've got a cookie tan vitamin C thyroid probiotics think yeah I've done videos and articles on supplements in the bar so just check that out on YouTube or at alexfigus.com you can read my articles and sometimes I might have coffee sometimes smoothies yeah just mix it up check out some of the earlier thing to galax vlogs I think I've even done a dedicated videos to smoothies plus I have a pretty detailed article at alexfigus.com which is something like a coach approved healthy breakfast options and I list off quick and easy breakfast options so pretty much I just cycle through those so you know I'll use raw milk, great lakes collagen, egg yolks, I've been using this lately, Bilberry organic Bilberry powder, sometimes I put chocolate in there cinnamon, ginger, salt, all sorts I just mix it up so check out those articles and videos for more of my smoothies. I've got two last things before I switch my phone off aeroplane mode and get started into my work. A bit of a morning journal, morning gratitude journal followed by my day plan so when it comes to my morning journal again I do this routine every week there sometimes on a Saturday and sometimes on a Sunday at least five days out of seven I'll do this morning journal so I'll put a link to this in the notes below as well as all these supplements and you know tools and accessories I use make sure you hit to alexfigus.com because I'm gonna do a big write-up of this morning routine. This five-minute journal is really simple, you have a nice little quote at the top then you write down three things you're grateful for you know so I could say I'm grateful for having a roof over my head as it's raining today I'm grateful to have this smoothie organic smoothie you know I'm grateful for a sleep in this morning what would make today great and these are things that you can control so you know I need to do some video in today so I'll get the video in done before my dad I want to train today so I'll have a solid train decision you know things like that daily for affirmations you know I am like I don't know you come up with something that that means a lot to you and then in the evening before bed you come back and review it three amazing things that happened today you know I got all my work done I had time to relax and then how could I make today a bit of I actually don't like this I feel like it ends the day on a bit of a negative so sometimes I'll skip anyway that's a five-minute journal but what I've been doing lately since I got a bit more time is I've been doing a more detailed journal and this which is just a blank paper but what I'm doing is I'm following the protocol in this book 59 seconds so the idea is every morning there's a theme so Monday Thanksgiving you know you'll write some things you've been grateful for similar what you're doing in the five-minute journal but with a lot more detail Tuesday terrific time so you think back to a memory experience and relive it you know share how you felt Wednesday Wednesday future fantastic so this is like you know you put yourself here in ten years five years whatever a week I head into the future and you write about you know all the things you've achieved and how you feeling Thursday dear someone this is where you write a letter a short letter describing how much you care for them and then they've had on your health on your life story and then Friday reviewing reviewing the situation think back over the week make a note of things three things that went really well so that's what I've been doing lately and I like that I mean it's the five minute journal can get a bit repetitive whereas this really differentiates it but you take a deeper dive into each topic and it's similar the things are similar because I both they're both put together based on like solid science you know that being grateful reviewing reliving past experiences on thanking people that have helped you in your life you know doing all that stuff has a powerful impact on you know happiness and wellness so I alternate between the two five-minute journal when I'm short on time the 59 seconds protocol when I've got a bit more time so right what's today Thursday so it's dear someone write a letter to someone and this is all private stuff you know no one needs to read this so I'm gonna go do that now I might sit down and read for a while like if I haven't been reading much lately I'll jump into my reading room and reading chapters so it's more so just so I can progress through a book the last thing I do is my day plan I use a product productivity planner you don't actually have to buy this I mean it's the same like the five-minute journal it's the same thing over and over again this is made by the same people as the five-minute journal we have the date another quote and then you list tasks so the most important task of the day if there's only one thing you do during the day um you know write it here okay so maybe for me today it's like I don't write an article there so that would be the first task and then if you're using the Pomodoro technique which is what I do and I like you know you'll say alright I think it's gonna take me five Pomodoro's and then you use the Pomodoro technique and take it off but anyway I'm looking into that today because I've done other videos on it so that's what I do I do my day planning and then I have a list which I'll then action throughout my day when I'm doing that planning if there is really one important task that I need to get done sometimes I'll do that before I switch on my phone or like my computer because I know what will happen the minute I turn on my phone I'll check my emails or I'll check my notifications and there'll be a fire to put out or there'll be something you know like that will just be on my mind right and I won't be able to get into work so I'd recommend focusing on that one important task and trying to do it before you do connect to the world yeah so that's my morning routine I know it's quite long and lengthy but we know it for so long now like I get quite efficient at it you know it's just step-by-step but yeah hopefully you enjoyed it if you did learn something from this let me know leave a comment saying that was great or you know thumbs up or share it on Facebook or something if you have your own routine please share it below like I'd love to have a bunch of comments below wherever unless they're routine and hopefully we can learn from each other if you have any questions about why I do things or like recipes or you know the exact protocols just shoot me a comment in the comment section happy to share that again head over to elixpergus.com I'll leave all the notes all the supplements I use all the devices and I'll do a full breakdown you know minute by minute breakdown of what I do if you're this is on YouTube please subscribe hit the subscribe button so I hope you enjoyed it I'm gonna go and start doing some work now


Recorded books and one-click digital present Flood by Hilary Mantell, narrated by Gordon Griffin One-click digital provides free audiobook downloads in partnership with thousands of public libraries. To see if one-click digital's extensive catalogue is available to you, visit your library's website. And now, Flood. Feather Houghton is a dreary town in 1950s northern England. Father Angwin has lost his faith. Sister Philomena strains against convent life. The inhabitants of the town go about their lives in a haze. Then a stranger appears, bringing with him the hint of something new. But who is Flood? An angel come to shake the dwellers from their stupor? Or is he the devil himself? A wanderer of the darkest places in the human heart? The author begins with the following notes. The church in this story bears some but not much resemblance to the Roman Catholic Church in the real world, circa 1956. The village of Feather Houghton is not to be found on a map. The real Flood, 1574 to 1637, was a physician, scholar and alchemist. In alchemy, everything has a literal and factual description, and in addition, a description that is symbolic and fantastical. You are familiar, no doubt, with Sebastiano del Piambo's huge painting The Raising of Lazarus, which hangs in the National Gallery in London, having been purchased in the last century from the Angerstein collection. Against a background of water, arched bridges and a hot blue sky, a crowd of people, presumably the neighbours, cluster about the risen man. Lazarus has turned rather yellow in death, but he is a muscular, well-set-up type. His grave clothes are draped like a towel over his head, and people lean towards him solicitously and seem to confer. What he most resembles is a boxer in his corner. The expressions of those around are puzzled, mildly sensorious. Here, in the very act of extricating his right leg from a knot of the shroud, one feels his troubles are about to begin again. A woman, Mary or maybe Martha, is whispering behind her hand. Christ points to the Revenant, and holds up his other hand, fingers outstretched. So many rounds down, five to go. And now, Flood. Chapter 1, On Web... Sample complete. Ready to continue?


Hello and welcome to Monet Café. Subscribers, newcomers, friends, I'm artist Susan Jenkins and today I'll be bringing you an awesome beginner tutorial using only 12 pastels. Oh, and if you haven't subscribed already, please do so. I would love that. Now here they are, only 12 pastels. Often we think we have to have such a great supply, but this will be great for beginners to realize really with the right colors and values we don't need all that much to create a pleasing painting. You guys should thank my patrons for this video because this was part of their lesson oh months ago, but I'm in a situation right now where I'm caring for a loved one in our family who has a terminal illness. So you guys enjoy, if you hear me talking to my patrons in this video, it's because that's who it was originally addressed to. Also I'm happy to say this is all real time and also my house happened to be quiet while I was filming, so you get to hear those wonderful scratchy sounds on the pastel paper.  I sketched in very loosely the general composition with a charcoal pencil and now I'm using a darker pastel to lay in the darkest values. But first of all, let me tell you about the surface. It's a piece of UART paper, it's just a little five by seven or six by eight piece and I talk about this a lot. The edges of UART where I am in Florida seem to curl up all the time, so I'm constantly, you'll see me a lot of times pressing on the side of the paper just to get it the pastel application and this pastel that I'm using is the new pastel, in new pastel. I believe it's spruce blue or blue spruce and I think it's number 305. I'm just speeding up these little sections where I'm putting down little samples of the colors for you guys to see. Other than that, it's gonna be real time. So what I'm doing, this is the blocking in stage and I'll put the little reference photo up in a minute. I just wanted to leave the blank on the side so you could see those colors for a moment and I'll also provide the reference photo in the post that I put on Patreon. But this I'm just blocking in the big shapes. It's a really simple composition. This is a good painting for beginners. As a matter of fact, it's a it's the same reference photo I used in one of my YouTube videos that's actually pretty popular. I catered it totally to beginners. Maybe I can put that in the throwback Thursday video this coming week. So and I'm gonna be having a schedule coming out real soon of kind of what you guys can expect each week. Now that's a piece of pipe foam insulation. The first one I used was dirty. You see the little red showing through there and I'm gonna blend the rest of it in with pipe foam insulation. But I wanted to get that value of the purple in first. Now it seems kind of weird when you're first watching this. If you've never, if somebody's never done pastel painting or doesn't know anything about value. But because I'm working with such a limited palette, you really just ignore color. You don't have to totally ignore color because a lot of times these purples do make sense where I put them in the shadows. But sometimes you have to choose the color just based on the value. But I knew I wanted the ground even though it has kind of some bright green on the grasses. You got to have something for it to lay upon. And there's the photo again. And it was kind of an overcast hazy day. But because now I'm blending again. But because my pastel selection was so limited, I knew my choices for the sky were going to probably result in it not being such a cloudy looking sky. So anyway, again, I'm just getting down these these just big blocks of shapes really I have so far I first put in the trees kind of mask them in. I'm going to blend them in a second put in the sky and put in the land. So that's really kind of a simple approach to begin the painting instead of getting bogged down in any detail to begin with. Now I will reestablish these darks a little later. But at first right now you're seeing how I've got the general biggest shapes if you had to break this composition down or this reference photo down into the biggest shapes that that would be it land sky trees. And this is what we will the foundation that we will build upon. Okay, now I am reinforcing the darks. If you squint your eyes and look at those trees in the reference photo, they are dark. I mean, they're really dark, but I don't want them to appear as black. So I will later go in and add some green highlights to those. And also, I talk a lot about how that's where I'm pushing the you are down. I literally curls up on the edges for me and I can't even get the pastel to go down smoothly on it. But I talk a lot about how reference photos lie, or they're mistaken sometimes, or it's just not a good representation of what you want your painting to be in that things in the distance really logically and scientifically, they reduce in value, they're not as dark, and they get cooler in color. So while I'm going to block these far away trees, that one that I just did on the right there, that one's closer, obviously, but as they recede, they get lighter, I am reducing my pressure a little bit as I'm doing this. But I'm going to be by the end of the painting, I will give the visual illusion of them being further away by a lighter pastel, I think it's that a blue pastel I'll be using in a minute. It's kind of a medium blue. And it pushes the trees back. Now, if you look at the reference photo and typically, foregrounds are darker.  There I'm pushing the side of the paper down again. And I will bring the reference there it is, I moved the reference photo over just a bit so you could see both the color selections and the reference photo. And I'm keeping a real light touch here. I saw how some people responded in the last premiere video I did talking about being heavy handed, I've had a tendency to be heavy handed. I've had a tendency to paint too fast sometimes.  And so and also to even though I know my sky is going to be a little lighter, I did like some of those clouds. And I've had a tendency at the very beginning of my painting to think I have to get the clouds in to look so much like clouds and don't worry about it. If it doesn't, you're getting in the shapes right now. It looks kind of scraggly. But don't worry by the end of the painting that resolves itself. So don't over fuss on your sky, get in your, your values. This purple looks dark right now, I admit. But by the time I add the lighter values, it's going to blend right in, especially since I already rub that blue in the turquoisey color with the pipe foam insulation. By the time I start adding other pastels, they kind of blend themselves. Okay, so yeah, here we go. I'm going to add some of this lighter color. Later I do add some of the there's a peachy color. These are the same pastels that I used in the premiere video. And for you guys who are on there with me, thank you. It's really nice. I like I like just being able to chat while we watch the painting together. And I could tell there were a lot of people watching and paying attention because I know already one for example, shared in the Monet cafe, cafe art group on Facebook, that she painted a paint along she painted with me while I painted and it was so cute. She said her, her daughter had the reference photo pulled up and was reading what was going on in the chat while she was painting. So I thought that was really sweet. But anyway, so thanks for those of you who joined in. And I would like to do more paint along type of things. I, I never like to complain. And I certainly don't ever want to sound like I'm whining or anything. But my life is a bit unusual sometimes. I don't even want to bring up all the things that me and my husband are having to do right now, you know, just to keep life going the way we want it to. So I am always so grateful for those of you who hang in there with me. And but I still want to provide good content for you. I want you to keep learning. I want to have something of value for you guys. And if I ever don't, I want you to get out of here because I don't want you paying $5 a month for nothing. But I do so appreciate your support. All right, now this darker purple. purples are really good kind of shadowy color. And this is a nice rich dark purple. Oh, you might hear the thunder in my voiceover right now. Oh, it's really rumbling. I love the rain. Now I'm getting a little bit more using that purple to kind of give a little sort of a visual path that's going along just kind of pulls the eye into the painting a little bit. It's going to get covered up with some grass colors. But see, I'm kind of getting that purple more at the basis of those trees on the shadow side. So it's still at that stage that looks, you know, kind of like a mess.  I'm adding a little bit of that to the trees. But I think I changed my mind there because I wasn't quite ready for that value there yet. I wanted to establish some of the other values first. But I do know that you see how in the reference photo, it's like the foreground, like there's a little hill and the bottom part is kind of in shadow. And I still know that I want to create that curving of the field. So I'm kind of using that pastel to curve it a little bit. And definitely the left side kind of behind the trees is a bit in shadow, but it still has some of those brighter grasses growing. But I'm going to be reserved with that. Oh, lightning just literally sort of cut my power out right here. Yikes. Oh, okay. So that was some serious lightning. It did shut my power out for a bit, but I'm back up now. Is there anybody else in Florida? I mean, we get some serious thunderstorms here in Florida. They can be downright scary sometimes, but I think I'm good for now. Okay. So see how those pastels are just kind of starting to blend. They don't at first. They feel your painting just looks kind of splotchy. Does that make sense at first? And then just as you work, be patient. I've had to learn this over the years. When I first started painting, I would paint for a little while, and then I would come in and my husband could tell I was a little frustrated. And he'd be like, what's wrong? Or I might say something. I was like, oh, my painting. I'm just like, it's not good. And he'd be like, you say that every time. And then it turns out, okay, so it really does go through that phase to begin with. Now, I know there's kind of that warm color on the top of the field there. So I'm establishing some of that, but I'm keeping a very light touch. That's a note to myself all the time now, because I have been heavy-handed. So I'm keeping a light touch. I'm holding the paper down so I can get the pastel to just lay down flat for me. And just glazing at this point. There it is, the paper curling up again. So I'm just kind of establishing some of the colors that are going to be in this field as I work before I add the greens. Okay, a little bit more of this color. And then I'm going to get the darker of the greens. So this is the, it's just kind of a earthy foresty kind of color green. And it's what I'm going to use to get some of the highlights. The main tree there, the one that's the biggest, it's kind of like an evergreen tree. And it's pretty dark. But because I know my sky's going to be lightened up with some of the lighter values that I have, I know the highlights can be represented to be just a little bit lighter. That tree back there in the back is a little bit of an enigma. It's sort of a little bit back, but I don't want it to look like it's in line with that tree. And it almost looks like it is in the photo. So I'm trying to obviously make it a little shorter just to give some variety and also make the the base of the tree higher up in the composition so it looks further away. But I just decided to go ahead and blend a little bit of that in because I didn't have that that tree tall enough. And now I'll kind of re-establish that. All right, I'll just be quiet for a bit because I use this this particular green for a while. Am I still using the green? No, actually I'm adding a little bit more of the dark at the base of the tree. But then I use that green a little bit. So just watch and then I'll come back in when I choose the next lighter, a little bit lighter value green. Okay, so this is a medium to light somewhat warmer value green. It's not super warm, but it makes for representing the colors of a lot of the grasses that are not super highlighted. And again, I'm just glazing. I'm just trying to represent that rolling feel of the field. And it's always a good idea to move your pastel in the direction of how that object would be. Like if you could reach out and just take your hand over that field horizontally, it would kind of be a rolling hill rather than just flat horizontal lines. So now just keep watching this and I will come back in when I get to the sky part. Most of this is just going to be me using this green that I eventually get to the lighter green. The lightest in that I have is the Jack Richardson green. Again, the same pastels I used in that premiere video I just posted. If you want to go back and look at that when I do describe what the pastels are a little better. That's actually a Terry Ludwig I'm working with right there. It's just an older one that's gotten worn down quite a bit and broken. But I continue to use the greens and then I'll use the yellow that I used in this. I was actually surprised it worked as well as it did in the video I posted and in this painting. I normally don't go for yellows like that, especially in roads like the other painting and in grasses. I usually go with the greens but the yellow worked because it was the right value. It was a bright yellow. So anyway, so and I'm adding some purples down there. See how that really makes that shadow and makes it feel like there's depth back there. But then keep watching and I'll pop back in when I get to the sky part. If you do follow along with this and paint from this video I'd love for you to share your results in our Patreon Facebook page or either I'm starting an album for the Google shared photos and I have to remember to give you guys the link for that because I know not all of you guys are on Facebook. So all right enjoy I'll be back when I get to the sky. I thought I'd mention when you hear that sound that sounds kind of like rumbling you're going to hear it in a minute because I fast forward this. You hear that? Those that's not thunder those are the phosphate trucks that ride by my house even though we live out in the country now on a little bit of land. We have this road looks like just a quite country road but it happens to be right where these phosphate mine is like you know 10 miles or so down the road and these trucks are huge and they're so loud and often when I'm trying to create a video here I go sound like I'm whining again it's just it's just too loud you hear the trucks all the time they they haven't been as active because of all the closings and everything I guess with the whole coronavirus thing so there's a positive out of it but um that's why my husband and I I'll talk while I paint here where our goal is to move out to the six acres that we have it's just got this little really if our house was teeny here the other house is really teeny it's only a little 500 square foot house that we hope to add on to and build me an extension on it that's my new Monet cafe so that's a dream but you know for now we just deal with what we have I know that's what you guys are doing a lot some of you guys are doing like I did for so long you're working out off your kitchen table with kids all in the house and or you know help this use or you know we've all got our stuff so we just praise the Lord and work with what we have and do the best we can and we have each other which is awesome okay I'm getting close to that 12th color not yet there but just so you know it's kind of a peachy color I know I've got that color that's number seven that is more of a not quite a rich terracotta color but it's kind of a terracotta color but the next one that will be number 12 is one that I actually use in the sky right now if you look at the sky it kind of looks all disjointed and when I add the lighter peach and I then add also that number four you see how it's kind of a little yellowy lighter value color the peach that I will add and that lighter value in the sky really give it some definition for the clouds especially with that blue and that purple that I've already put down all right there's that color see that's a little bit brighter than number seven and I think I first start putting it in the sky let's see I check it on the land and sometimes you've just got to you guys are probably familiar with this you got to check your pastel you can make just a little mark I did that ever so lightly just to kind of create a little sense of distance back there but it was a little too light to put in the foreground grasses it wouldn't have looked right it would have looked really light if I try to use that say as grasses in the foreground so I just kind of used it to create that little bit of an edge it was kind of like a little highlight kind of going along the field right in front of those trees just a tad just enough to give it a little definition and distance going in there all right now I think it's where I'm going to start yeah I'm going to start adding some of this let me zoom in here and see if you can see it better okay yeah that's better all right now you'll be able to see how because there's enough pastel down now they they sort of blend themselves and I wanted to add a little more warmth typically skies get lighter at the horizon and they also not always but often get warmer at the horizon rather than up we think about how our earth is as things go up higher into the heavens they get darker that's why the upper portion of the sky is usually darker than it is down during the day time down at the horizon line so using those warmer colors help me see how I just kind of suggested some clouds up there in a minute you'll see me go in I'm darkening that up there a little bit I thought with that a little too light but in a minute you'll see me use that number four to go in and establish the highlights that are kind of on top of the clouds now I know in the reference photo the clouds were different they were more of that overcast cloudy day but with the choices that I had again I just used these pastels from the previous painting I knew that the sky colors that I had were better if it was kind of a brighter day so that's why I decided not to give it that overcast look and have some more of that beautiful turquoise color showing through now I'm just kind of hinting and suggesting at some sky holes I had a few more later and just kind of working along here so I'll paint a while and then I'll be back when I get back to the sky now I did miss a little bit of footage there where I added some of those taller grasses to the foreground with some of the the greens and now I'm just adding a little bit more of that kind of rich color the pastels have gotten now to a point where I can feel they're they're getting a decent amount of layering on there so I'm like better put on the brakes here so just about to finish this up but now I'm going to add those sky colors or the highlights in the clouds alrighty you can see it's getting a sense of light in that grass and to make that make sense I'm adding some brightness to the sky I wanted to add a little bit of that gorgeous kind of buttery yellow color it does look like butter that's really a good description for that um coming kind of up from behind those trees and then also again to the kind of the top you see where the highlights on the trees are they're kind of to the top upper right and so I know that that's kind of where the sun is coming from so the highlights on top of the kind of the pink part the purple's kind of underneath the pink is the middle section and then that color is kind of a little bit of highlights to the cloud nothing too distinct I'm keeping it just super soft like these are just little wispy cat clouds floating in that beautiful turquoise sky and um all I'm really doing is softening things here um my strokes are very uh easy and light right now I do have a couple of little stragglers or whatever with some of those purple marks that I tone down like that um with the turquoise pastel or either with the one of the other colors just to kind of make a little bit more sense to the sky but I don't want to lose that freshness that's something that's another one of my goals just and I think what helps this goal is to keep freshness is to have a light touch so keeping my painting fresh um another goal of mine is a term that I call efficiency of stroke where every stroke counts you know I I still sometimes are like I'm like let me change that and um I really admire the artist where it looks like every stroke was purposeful and perfect and uh I just admire artists who have gotten so good at that so um so that's a goal I know we all have our goals and that's some of mine um all right so I'm finishing up here and I hope you guys enjoyed this all I'm going to do really here is just to kind of push those trees back like I mentioned before with that uh medium value blue I'm just gently gently glazing over these trees just to to knock off the value a little bit to where it's not quite as dark and that in turn does make the trees appear like they're further away doesn't it I hope you guys 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Hi, everybody. Happy Tuesday. I'm Joe for jaskiescasebrakes.com, and we've got some prospect hunting going on here. 2022 Bowman Chrome Baseball, HTA Choice Edition, 12 box. Pick your team number 8. A lot of great stuff here. Just autos. There's the case right there. Big thanks to everyone here for making it happen. On a Tuesday the 29th, appreciate the people who bought their spot straight up. Thanks to the people who, if you have a little rooftop next to your name, thanks to the people who bought spots in the filler. We've got some teams. Everyone on this list will be part of the break credit promo. I'm Sean Maddock with that last spot mojo before we pulled the teams for that filler. All right, let's see what we got here. Now in regards to the filler or the promo that the break credit promo, it's a type of promo where we got to fill X amount of breaks and then we randomize all those names and give away some money. A lot of money being given away. All the details are on jaskiescasebrakes.com so be sure to check that out. Empty box. Now as it stands we got to do maybe five more breaks to unlock the promo. If we do a couple more today and we have until Wednesday night, tomorrow night. So if we do a couple today, this is one of them. If we do a couple more today and do a few tomorrow, I mean we'd be in really great shape. Or we can do all of those tonight and run the break credit promo a night earlier if you want to. That's up to you. But my thinking is if we do at least a couple more today, that'll put us in great position of getting the promo knocked out tomorrow without cutting it too close I think. All right, good luck everyone. Here we go. See some color leading us off. Nice. Nathan Hickey. 213 out of 250. Purple chrome autograph for David and the red socks. Middle one is Daniel Vasquez for the Royals. That's gonna be for Wade. And the last one here is gold shimmer Jake Fox. A Fox in the box. 18 out of 50 gold shimmer autograph for Adam L. The Guardians. Cleveland. This is for you. Third round picks. Got a little speed in him. Box one in the books. Next one. Next three. It's gonna be Simon Musiotti. 156 out of 299 speckle autograph for the Fightin' Fills. Suyong with the Phillies. Number 11 Phillies prospect in that organization. Nice. Middle auto is Braxton Fulfer. 140 out of 150. I really like that pattern there. Rockies. David got the Rockies in the filler. Played in the 2016 Connie Mackworld series. Attended to college in his hometown. All right. And we got Jake Rucker. Twins. Jin Lee with the with the Twinkies with the twins. That's that. We'll do a quick little, I know it's a short break, but we'll still do an autograph-free cap as well. All right. We got Jason Curio. Nice. 112 out of 499. Nice refractor autograph for Adam and the Guardians. And you go, yeah, Jackson Curio. The Curio brothers are the guys to chase in this. Nice. His brother Jackson is with the Brewers organization. We got Michael Hernandez. Orioles. Adam Kay with the O's. Won that spot in the filler. Number 11 Orioles prospect. And last one here is Dylan Dodd. That's another one for Adam. Two for three in the box. Number 19 prospect in the Brave System, according to MLB.com. Next box. We got a thick card right here. See that sponge kind of hanging around right there. So we got Louise Chevalier. 33 out of 499 refractor autograph for the Mariners. It's gonna be for Sean Maddock. Part of a nine-member international password Seattle. Up the middle infielder. Could be an outfielder too. There's Edison Polinho. Going to David in the Red Sox. Number 28 prospect in the Red Sox system. All right. Now we got a relic and autograph. Arizona Fall League. Ezekiel Tovar for the Rockies. Nice. 33 out of 50. Piece of a cleat. Piece of a glove maybe. Either way, it's still really cool for David W. And the Rockies. All right. Next box. Now we got another HTA case in the store right now. Also part of the promo. We also have a hobby version of this. If you want to get into that, jaspyscasebrakes.com. That's not part of the promo. The hobby edition is not, but still a great break to do to go prospect hunting and parallel hunting. There's Cooper Bowman. 92 out of 150. It's appropriate that he's in this product. That goes to the Yankees. That will be for Jose. Won that team in the filler. Number 29 prospect in the Yankee system. I see some orange coming up here. In the middle, we got Junior Perez for the Oakland A's. That'll be for EA and the A's. Number 8, 28 prospect in that organization. Wait, find a second here. Sorry. Let me show you this one really quick. I think there was a mistake here. There's Quincy Hamilton. 13 out of 25. Orange shimmer autograph. 9 for 11 on steals. That'll be for Houston. That'll be for Tim. The A's was in the team random. That actually went to, actually goes to Jose. What does EA have in this break here? EA has the Yankees. Fix that. Alright, so Junior Perez goes to Jose and the A's. And then Cooper Bowman goes to Eric. Goes to EA and the Yankees. Onwards. We're on top purple chrome autograph. Cal Conley. 71 out of 250. That'll be for Adam Kay and the Atlanta Braves. Number 24 Braves prospect. According to Baseball America. Next is Willie Vasquez for the Tampa Bay Rays. David with the Rays. Number 10 prospect in the Rays system according to Baseball America. And the last one here is Jojo Blackman. 83 out of 99. Green atomic for Texas. Ed with the Rangers. Four more to sport athlete plus speed. Alright. Next box. Alright, we got Charlie Welch. 187 out of 499. Refractor autograph for the M's. That will be for Sean Matic. Next up is Michael Garcia. Kansas City Royals. That'll go to Wade. Casey. Number 28 prospect in that Royals system. And we got Mason Hour. Old Mason Jar Hour going to David W. and the Tampa Bay Rays. Fifth round pick here. Alright, another box. Next three. Got a speckle parallel. Another Mariner. Andy Thomas. 277 out of 290. I like that hustle right there. That's a good shot of him. Sean Matic and the Mariners. From San Diego. Fifth round pick. And the next one here, we got Leonardo Balcazar. Mark and the Reds. Number 27 prospect in the Reds organization. And the one down here is Benjamin Cowes. EA with the Yankees. Grew up idolizing Derek Jeter. From Rochester. Next box. Four more to go. Thanks everyone for getting in. We got more of this Bowman Chrome in the store. HTA versions and hobby versions. Jaspy's casebreaks.com. Purple Chrome autograph. That's Daniel Vasquez. 92 out of 250. Wade with the Royals. With the spot that he won. Number 19 prospect in the Royals organization. We got Danny De Andrade. Minnesota. Jin Lee. Jin with the twins. Number 24 prospect. QuarantineMobie.com. And the last one here, Gavin Stone. 17 out of 99. Green atomic refractor for the Dodgers. Ramon with the Dodgers. I was just reading about how he's kind of working his way pretty quickly up the system. Maybe he'll see some time. With the Big Club. Flirts with triple digit Velo. Has mid 80s slider with late hard tilt. Promising hook, fading change up. Challenges hitters inside the zone. Athletic delivery. Spun a 13 whiff no hitter in his final college start. That's pretty awesome. So I don't know. Instead of going with three agents, I'd like to see the Dodgers kind of see what they have in their youngsters. All right. Three more to go. So Ramon, that might be one to hold on to. See how he does. See how he looks in spring training. From Lake City, Arkansas. Fifth round pick. So I guess it used to be a closer for Central Arkansas. And then moved into the rotation in 2020. All right. We got Jorge Barossa. 22 out of 150 for the Snakes. Zachary with the Diamondbacks. Number 29 prospect. Not organization according to fan graphs. We got CJ Rodriguez. For Jose Rodriguez. Oakland A's. It's from Whittier, California. Number 29 prospect in the A's. We're gonna say Whittier about an hour east of us here. We got Willie Funnes. Metz. Robert. Got the Metz straight up. Simon the Metz at 17. Two boxes left. Six more autos. Now, if you're getting the feeling you've not done well in this break, do not worry. You are part of the break credit promo. As long as all those breaks sell out by Wednesday night, we're gonna randomize all these names and you may end up with some break credit from your hit list spot. There's Mike Bowman, rookie autograph. Outta Bowman. Going to Adam. Adam K. And the Be More Orioles. Number 10 Orioles prospect. Got more Orioles. Colin Burns. Burnsey. Probably the good baseball nickname for him. Oh, Burnsey. Went six for 14 in 2021 Florida Complex League. Posted six multi-hit games after his promotion. Yeah, looks pretty good. Aggressive hitter. Jumps on fast falls early. Proven run producer. Plus wheels. Last one here is Jack Herman. Pirates. Russell. With the buckos. Now remember with all the rule changes coming up in 2023, no shift, limited amount of times you can throw to a base with a base runner. Slightly larger bases, which makes a difference, you know. Bang bang, stolen base plays. I think second base is actually moving in a little bit as well. I think all those factors can lead to maybe the return of a lot of teams focusing on speed. Could be the return of the stolen base. All right. We've got an Oriole on top here. Speculatograph. Michael Hernandez. 72 out of 299. Going to AK and the Orioles. Number 11 Orioles prospect. We got Yasser Mercedes. That's a nice one for the twins. That's going to be for Jin and the twins. Number 17 prospect in the 2022 international class. And the final one here is going to be for the Mets. That's JT Schwartz. That's going to go to Robert and the Metropolitan's. Fourth round pick, number 18 on the Mets prospect list. And there you go, boys and girls. Thanks for getting into it. That was 2022 Bowman Chrome Baseball HCHOICE edition. Pick your team number 8. A lot of nice autographs. A lot of nice prospects. A lot of nice color. Here as well. A lot of different parallels. I like seeing that. I like the relic autograph as well. A lot of great stuff. Thanks for watching everybody. I'm Joe. I'll see you next time in the next video. Bye bye.