All right, it's streaming. All right, let's make sure that's working over there. So I started using Discord instead of Skype for my recording needs, and it also does video. So it doesn't have the live streaming feature that Hangout has, obviously, but it's surprisingly good quality and it's very practical and works well. Yeah, we used it for, well, I used it on TMS a couple of times. I feel like we used it on CurrentGeek too. The Discord is a great Skype replacement. The issue is that I'm hung up on the Hangout auto-switching. Oh, Discord doesn't auto-switch? Well, it does it. Oh, does it? I'm not sure. I'm capturing it and using OBS, whereas Hangout does the direct. Hangout just makes a lot of things easy. It's not necessarily better. It just makes things simpler.  Oh, that's cool. So people can send you money as whatever you're doing is streaming? No, not exactly. What it does is that it lets you define certain roles on the Discord server and then depend the people on different contribution levels get different. Oh, nice. But that would be, yeah. So there are some things that can be done there. It's kind of a more of a Slack replacement type thing. And also Discord is much more focused on gamers. So it has those features, almost all of the features that Slack has, but not all of them. And it's a little bit less, it's a little bit more messy graphically. We activated the Discord for DTNS patrons. Oh, you did? Yeah. It's sort of informal. I'm just wanted to test it. I'm testing it out.  But we have so many people in Slack because we started that so long before that exactly I'm not gonna like rip everything up. It's not that good. Yeah. No, anyway, it's there though. So who was excited about Emily Chang's book, Brotopia? Oh yeah, I saw that on TechMeme. I'm not. Particularly excited. But I'm not. I'm not sure. I'm not sure I could read a book called Brotopia. Well, I think it's the point is to. Right. Yes. Oh, sure. I think it's gonna be interesting. If nothing else, I don't think I'm gonna read it, but I think I'm gonna be very interested to hear about the best parts. And a little bit apprehensive about the reactions to the book. And I am very sorry in advance for her, but I think the fact that she's still doing it is a testament to her courage. Yeah. I think that's fair. I look at it and I'm like this, I don't know that this is gonna help, but it won't hurt. And maybe it will get a few more people all thinking about it, which isn't bad. So yeah, I'm trying to temper. You know, I don't want to be dismissive and like, this is just sensationalist or anything like that. But I also am like, I'm not sure, it was more necessary in the past than it is now, but that doesn't make it unnecessary. Maybe I could put it that way. Yeah. Because a lot of these kinds of stories have been. I mean, yeah, I heard that Vanity Fair published and I don't know. I mean, it's a, you can think of it two different ways. Like, ooh, bad behavior on the part of rich people and also like, well, what does it have to do with tech? I kind of feel both ways. Yeah. I think it's part of a larger, I think it can be useful in the context of a larger effort to clean up our act as an industry and it's already happening and this is not the catalyst. But yeah, as you said, Tom, I think it doesn't hurt, but yeah, it's difficult. The shining a light on the bro behavior of this industry I think is a positive thing, even though it's gonna be mixed with- I mean, and maybe I'm out of touch because I've been in my basement for four years, but I don't think the bro behavior is the norm, but the fact that it's there isn't good. I think it gets a lot more attention because it is associated, you know, whether rightly or wrongly with kind of the energy that the vibe that is- The power that's fueling a lot of where things are going, of course. That's a good backlash, you're right. All right. Well. On that note. Not happening. So what is Fuchsia? Like, what does it do? I forgot. I know it was, sorry. It's an OS. I mean, pretty much everything is in there in that statement, that we don't know that much more about it. It's really hard to get right. We don't really know what Google intends to do with it, but. Okay. So there's nothing in the mail. So I'll just delete that whole thing. Yeah, sure. Yeah, I don't see anything that likes- I just wanna make sure so. All right. All right, we are go for launch. Oh God. Here we go. Daily Tech News Show is four years old today and that's thanks to you. To find out more, head to dailytechnewshow.com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018. From D18S headquarters in Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt, happy new year. Happy new year, Tom from Studio Feline. I'm Sarah Lane. And from the Finnish offices in Helsinki and with about 10 hours of advance new year time, I'm Patrick Beja. I knew you were gonna brag on that. I don't know if it's really bragging. It's more like noticing something. Patrick, tell us it gets better in 10 hours. Yeah. Yeah. You always have more 2018 than we do. Producer Roger Chang has all the 2018 he can handle. Yes. And I have what, 11 months and four weeks or three and a half weeks left. Yeah. Well, so far so good on 2018, but let's start with a few tech things you should know. Google's experimental OS called Fuchsia will now run on the Google Pixelbook. Fuchsia uses a Google developed kernel and has been built from the ground up for phones and PCs. Fuchsia? Fuchsia. In French, it's Fuchsia. Hmm. I don't know. Well, I just pronounced it as Fuchsia, like the color. But what I do know is that the Wall Street Journal reports that according to data from stat counter, Alibaba's UC browser is more popular than Chrome for mobile users in India and Indonesia. Google still has 98% of the search market in India and 82% of the smartphone market through Android. Yeah. India is the battleground right now. That's where the cultures are meeting. Intel, India's overclocking webpage, as a matter of fact, posted detail on Intel's first CPU to feature the AMD Radeon GPU core. This is the all on one die thing. According to the page, the Core i7-8809G features a 3.1 gigahertz base frequency, 8 megabytes of L3 cache, a TDP target of 100 watts, support for two channels of DDR2400 RAM and an Intel HD graphics 630 plus Radeon RX Vega MGH graphics. Remember, it's all on one little package. Very exciting. I think the more exciting version of those will be the mobile one. 100 watts is not quite mobile yet. Yeah, not mobile. Not so mobile. Now, here are some more top stories. Patrick. I meant to say that YouTube creator Logan Paul has apologized and removed a video that showed an apparent suicide victim with the face obscured near Mount Fuji in Japan. Paul said he didn't do it for the views but intended to raise awareness for suicide and suicide prevention. YouTube said the video violated its policies but it does not intend to suspend Paul. So it sounds like from what I understand of the story and I wasn't familiar with him beforehand is that the video did not come across as anything but sort of promotional for him and it's obviously a sensitive subject. Well, there were some jokes being made and I have a feeling the jokes were made out of nervousness with what they were experiencing. But that said, they chose to preserve those jokes in the footage and publish it that way. Now, Logan says he didn't do it for views because he gets plenty of views but I can't imagine he didn't think it would take off and it got a million views before it was deleted. It is an impossible thing to square because we're not in his mind. I went on social media and I think possibly made the mistake of suggesting that he's not a serial killer and that maybe he's not the worst person in the world even though he certainly did something really, really misguided and probably dumb maybe even intentionally exploitative. And I didn't know that person before it seems he has a history of provocative behavior so it's not his first brush with controversy. It is a really difficult way to react to because I really feel like as very often the internet reacts with outrage at 11 and certainly what he did is not okay and upsetting but the piling on and the, you know, condemning and the lapidating and the kind of declaring him almost the worst person on the internet also doesn't sit right with me. So I think there's a happy medium here but it's very easy to go one way or the other completely on social media and I think that's even a bigger problem possibly than the issue itself. Well, I think, you know, somebody like Logan Paul there are people on YouTube that are for better or for worse whether you follow them or not pretty big stars. So doing something like this even if the intentions were good, you know, maybe it was executed poorly is almost like saying like, well, you know, movie studio did something that, you know, seemed like a good idea at the time but ended up, you know, not only falling flat but upsetting people. So it's kind of this brave new world of influencers that have to deal with this. I think it's even, there's no question that he was actually doing it out of good intentions. I don't think, I mean, I haven't seen the video but from everything I'm hearing there's no way that was actually intended to raise awareness for the suicide and suicide prevention. He went to a famous forest where people actually go to commit suicide in Japan and they sort of looked for a body, ended up finding one. And so that part I think no one is disputing. It's just, he did something really dumb. It might not be the first time. There might be also things that are even more worthy of outrage I think in the world. It's kind of a difficult thing to say, yes, this is also worthy of outrage but there might be some things even worse. So what do you do when you see those things? I don't know, it's hard to say. Every offense is unforgivable, right? And that doesn't mean you should easily forgive but you can't say that everything everybody does should ruin their everything. So the question, the discussion should be what is the appropriate penitence for this sort of thing? City analysts Jim Suva and Asiya Merchant say there is a 40% chance that Apple will acquire Netflix this year. The idea is that Apple will take advantage of the new US tax laws to bring a bunch of cash back into the US and then use it for something. Suva and Merchant ranked Disney at 25% likely although they did their calculations before Disney agreed to acquire Fox. So that's not gonna happen. I don't think Apple's gonna try to buy Disney this year. They're gonna, if they were gonna buy it they'd wait until the Fox deal was finished and that complicates matters. Rest of the companies mentioned were Take-Two, Electronic Arts and Activision Game Companies as well as Tesla and all of those were less than 10% and then Hulu was listed but it was like right below, right above zero. So it was a non-zero percentage chance that they might buy Hulu.  So this is the day at the beginning of the year when everybody tries to look smart by predicting who's gonna buy who. I still maintain Apple's not gonna buy Netflix because Netflix won't wanna sell. I mean, sure, Apple might wanna buy Netflix. I don't think Netflix is interested in getting acquired by anybody. I also don't think they would be interested in buying a gaming company. That would sound weird. If they were to buy Hulu, just wait for the Disney Fox deal to happen and then Disney has a 66% share of Hulu and they buy Disney. I could absolutely see them buying a content production company that is proven. That I would see the logic in that move. But I think you're right, Netflix doesn't sound like someone that a company that would want to be acquired. It's a lot of money though. They could put a lot of money on the table. You know, I don't think Netflix has any intention of selling itself to Apple or any other company. But I did kind of go through all of these, the companies that were listed. And I was like, Tesla, the heck? And I thought, what a world this would be if somehow like Netflix content was only accessible like via the Tesla, you know, got an iPad, like in Dash, I don't know. I mean, I guess- What if they acquire Netflix, Tesla and Disney? Oh, wow. And then we start entering the world of megacorporations that own everything we enjoy. All right, Mark, that nine minutes and six seconds into the first episode of 2018 for when that happens. So you can pull that back out for Patrick. Excellent. Researchers at Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy say that built-in browser password managers might be tracking users with scripts that inject invisible login forms into the background of the webpage. And then work as a persistent ID from page to page as you browse. The researchers examine two different tracking scripts. One's called onaudience, and one is called addthink. Addthink also sends information to Axiom, which is a very big, big consumer data broker. So it seems like something that is not good and could be reversed, but- From the Verge article, from the Verge article, it looks like they're targeting the built-in browser stuff. Like what Google has, what Safari has. Because those just show up, if you turn them on, they show up immediately. I never allow those to do anything. They could still work with LastPass or Dashlane or anything like that if you have it set up to auto-populate. So if you're worried about this, one thing you might want to do is not have it auto-populate, not have it automatically fill in. Because it is true that, you know, if someone were able to fool your password manager into thinking it's the correct site and the password manager automatically fills in your password, then whoever did that has your password. Yeah, that's also a problem. And it seems like it would be difficult for those password managers to prevent this from happening.  If we recognize that network or that technique, we don't supply the username and password. But then they could change. I mean, it's kind of a messy behavior that I never really thought about and I'm not sure is easily preventable. Now, the scripts to work this way have to be approved by the site so that they can appear to be coming from the site. Right. I'm sure there's cross-site scripting vulnerabilities that could take advantage of this somehow as well by spoofing or whatever, but that's harder to do. Well, it sounds like that's what the researchers really had the most issue with is like, hey, sites need to know what's going on and not be able to allow third-party services to be collecting user information just because users are like, yeah, save my password. That's convenient. Yeah, no, exactly. So don't think this is worse than it is, but remember when there's a third party involved and that third party's collecting things, now there's one other entity involved that you have to keep an eye on and be sure like, okay, do I trust them not to try to take my password? And the easier way to do it is just turn off auto-fill. So that you're only putting it in when you've decided and said, yes, I want to put my password in now. I'm going to predict something. Google is going to get on this and de-rank or somehow punish the sites that use these kinds of networks. LG Cranktop DCS Hype Machine, woot, woot! Announcing it will show off an 88-inch 8K OLED display. It's the largest and highest resolution OLED panel to date. Meanwhile, Samsung says three C-Lab incubators projects will be introduced at CES. Go breath for helping patients with lung problems, recover from surgery, Relumino smart glasses to help people with visual impairments, and Estre a portable directional speaker. We're already starting to bask. We've got a week to bask in the pre-CES hype until CES and Veiled starts on Sunday, in which we'll have three days to actually have the hype before the show actually opens on Wednesday when we all leave. You know, I've said this for the last few years, and so, and I know it, I won't be saying anything that we haven't already heard, but I don't care how great of a resolution your television has, 88 inches, too big for my living room, gotta get back far enough. But you'll need eight K, if you have 88 inches, so you can get up really close and not see the pixels. It's not about that though. I mean, sure, even if it's crisp, it's like looking at a book that's too close to your face, like it just isn't like viable for most people unless they have huge rooms. So we bought our first flat screen TV in 2014 with my wife. We didn't have a TV at all before that. We used our computer monitor in a small room. And we were really hesitating between 55 and 60 inches. And in the end, we ended up getting a 60 inch TV and we thought, oh my God, this is gonna be so large. It's gonna be even maybe too large. And should we, we're completely used to it now. And I wouldn't mind going up a few sizes. So I think it's all a matter of getting used to it. We're all old enough to remember CRTs. And those, when they were 40 inches, we thought they were gigantic. Well, cause they were cubes too, right? They were flat screens. Yeah, but in the screen size. Yeah, yeah. Well, if you must know, I mean, this is LG display showing off that it can make high quality, big OLED panels for other manufacturers. It's not yet meant for the consumer. And that's why Samsung is touting its lab stuff as well. Finally, a team at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has developed a meatless, I'm sorry. I thought you were gonna fix this for me. Oh no, on the lens. Technology that can be used in VR and AR. I'm sure it's a- Also not made of meat. So that was- Yeah. That's actually meatless too. MetaLens can be used in VR and AR. Different colors of light travel at different speeds, all right? So that requires lenses to be thick in order to focus all the light back at the same time. That's one of the reasons that your VR lenses are so thick. A MetaLens uses tiny structures made of titanium dioxide to bend different wavelengths into focus without the bulk. And so you could have them in a pair of regular glasses and still do VR. Typically a MetaLens can only do a couple of wavelengths, but what the Harvard team did was able to do it for almost the whole spectrum. They go from 470 nanometers, which is bold blue to 680, which is a deep red. The normal range of human vision is 380 to 700. So on the blue end, they're a little short. They almost make it all the way to the red end. None of the MetaLenses are as sharp as regular glass either. So they need to work on that. But the paper was published in Nature Nanotechnology. And this definitely is something that folks who make VR lenses are gonna wanna look at because even AR, even magically, and it's prototype looking thing, those are bulky because you need to handle that focus problem. So thinner headsets coming 2019? 2020, let's just say 2020. Everything's coming in 2020. Excellent, that works. Yeah, they've still got some stuff to work out in the lab here, but... Is it titanium dioxide, the same stuff that's in sunscreen? Yeah, yeah, it is. And they could make them out of something different. They made them out of titanium dioxide for their lab experiment. So if I understand this correctly, if I matter some sunscreen on my Oculus VR headset, it will get thinner, right? Try it and let us know. Also, I do wanna say, Tom, I would never presume to actually go in and change your text myself. I noticed it and I... Feel free in the future in a case like this to change the text. To get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, folks, be sure to subscribe to Daily Tech Headlines. You can get it on the Amazon Echo, you can get it on Google Home and on the Anchor App, as well as this regular old podcast at DailyTechHeadlines.com. All right, you may have been wondering, well, why didn't you talk about Apple's battery thing? Well, we're gonna do that right now. Over the break, Apple apologized for the misunderstanding about how it handles CPU load in phones with older batteries. Now, we did talk about, two weeks ago, why Apple is doing it. Apple did explain why they're doing it. And the short version is in older phones as the battery capacity gets smaller, which is just a normal thing that happens to lithium ion batteries, certain CPU loads will cause the phone to crash because the CPU is asking for more power than the battery can deliver. So what Apple did was slowed down the CPU when it detected that load was happening so that the phone would not crash. Of course, a lot of people were upset that Apple was slowing down their phones without telling them why or even telling them that they were doing it. So Apple apologized in their statement. They said, we have never and would never do anything to intentionally shorten the life of any Apple product or degrade the user experience to drive customer upgrades and putting their money where their mouth is, they are now replacing out-of-warranty batteries for any iPhone 6 or newer. That includes the iPhone 10, which is gonna be in warranty for almost everybody right now. But if you're out of warranty, you can get your battery replaced for $29. It used to cost you $79 for an out-of-warranty replacement and they'll continue that $29 price through December, 2018. Also, iGeneration reporting today that an Apple Store memo tells employees, don't turn anybody down. Up till now, if you came in for any battery replacement, they would test it. And if it had about 80% capacity, they'd say you don't need your battery replaced and they wouldn't replace it for you. Now Apple's saying, don't even turn them down. Even if you do the diagnostic and it says 80%, if they still want the battery replaced, replace it for $29. Well, this is where Apple having all the money in the world comes in really handy. Where the company kind of, somebody in a conference room was like, you know what, there's some sort of goodwill thing that we gotta do. Do not turn anyone down, we're fine. We don't need that extra $59 that we were trying to get originally. So do you guys think, I mean, there's been a torn, you know how I was talking about the reactions being polarized on the issue earlier. I talked about the battery thing as well and there's been a torrent of reactions, especially in France with many people convinced that this is, I mean, planned obsolescence is a big issue here, as I'm sure it is everywhere. And some people are using this as a proof that planned obsolescence is really, especially in this market and vilifying me for trying to pretend that it might not be the exact reason. I guess the question comes down to, what do you guys think? Is Apple doing proper penance here? Should they be doing more? Should they still be condemned for having done what they did? What seems we're reaching the end of that specific controversy is gonna slow down, I think. What's your conclusion? My conclusion is the same that it's always been. I am of the belief, having been in corporate situations and seen how a lot of people think and committee, that no one is planning obsolescence because they know if they get busted doing that, that it's awful and it's just not a good policy. You wanna make high quality stuff and if you try to plan obsolescence, it makes it more complicated. However, certain things that happen and are sort of unavoidable and would take a lot of money and time to fix that cause people to want to buy new stuff are sometimes looked at as a benefit. Like, oh, well, the batteries are dying. I mean, we really can't do anything about that so that means people wanna buy new phones. I don't think companies mind. I don't think they do it on purpose. I don't think they engineer it in. I think what they do is they want to make a product that is better, that's new, that makes you wanna upgrade, not disable the old one. In this particular case, I think what Apple really was trying to do is extend the life of your phone and say, you know what, if it's crashing all the time, you'll wanna buy a new phone, but you might not buy an Apple phone because it's crashing all the time. So let's extend the life of that phone so that you're really satisfied with it. They should have told people though. Anytime you're slowing down or changing the behavior of the phone, you need to alert people to it and have them opt in. Anytime people don't get to opt in or don't know something's happening, they get upset. I agree with you except for the opt-in thing because no one would have opted in or at least no one who actually needs it. The people who understand it might have opted in, but the people who don't or who don't. My phone crashes a couple of times and then a dialogue pops up the next time I start it, saying, hey, to prevent further crashes, opt into this plan, which may reduce your performance a little, but we'll stop the crashes. I'm opting in. This is so not Apple.  Your battery is making it crash all the time. Our phone is a mess. Yeah, this is, I mean, no one wants that. I understand the ideal situation being that, but when you're talking about it realistically, and this is what annoys me a little bit in those conversations, it's people posing as the obvious solution would be this. And I agree they should have been more clear in what that update was doing because they announced the update, but they were very cryptic about exactly what it was doing. They should have had this level of detail that they later published from the get-go, but do it in a technical presentation for developers at the minimum so that they could point to it later and say, hey, we told you, it's not a secret. And that would have been the right thing to do. Doing a pop-up poll. You're both right in the sense that, yes, Tom, I also would have opted in, who wants a crash? And then Patrick, I think you're right as well, that Apple just doesn't wanna be associated with that kind of behavior. And I think what we're seeing now, especially with this price drop and the company saying like, whatever, no questions asked, get your new battery, we're good, is all about Apple not really wanting to be associated with some, if you have a phone that's a year or two old, we've deserted you. Or we're somehow intentionally trying to get you to buy a new phone. Even if that was true, that's not the perception that Apple wants. And all I was saying is, when you don't have people opt in, people get upset. But even if you opted them in with a notification, you would have fewer people upset than just doing it behind the scenes. In both cases, though, Patrick, I do have to agree with you, Apple's way is to just do it for you, right? That's, yeah, that's the exact, in this case, it turns out that it didn't work out. It is definitely a misstep. Maybe the implementation, definitely in the communication about it. But the entire promise of Apple and Apple's products is we know better, don't worry about it. You don't have to bother with all of that technical mumbo jumbo thing. We'll take care of it, we know what you need, right? So I think it's very misguided to say, oh, why would they think they know better? They've built their entire success. And everyone, I think, that success is a proof that people respond to the design philosophy that they do know better, and we don't have to worry about it. So pointing to this. They could say you could replace the battery, too. Well, you can replace the battery. And that's where it was a bit expensive? Well, that enters a whole other issue of general design of phones, which other phones are also not, you know, maybe guilty of, but some other phones. But that's, I think, a different conversation. But I can't remember what I was gonna say, but I'm sure it was very clever. Sorry, I didn't mean to throw you out there. No, but I mean, yeah, the people in general enjoy the choices being made for them. So in this case, saying it didn't work out, yes, in this case, but if they had to apply that philosophy here, we have to tell you about everything. Apple products wouldn't be Apple products anymore. So to me- I believe this is an example of an anti-bubble. Maybe. Where you have more people complaining about it than actually care. I think most people are fine with Apple just doing this. Yeah, and I think I will say this. I think the reaction they're having is appropriate. They made a mistake. They're correcting it and they're making it go away as quickly as possible. They acknowledged it immediately and are going through very reasonable steps to make it go away. Starting to feel familiar. Apple's been apologizing and taking care of stuff immediately for a couple of months now. Is this a problem? Hey, thanks to everybody who participates in our subreddit. 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It's our new stinger for 2018. Right, yeah. Hope you like it. All right. Apple Bot BuddyBuild. An app development service. Oh, it's a rule into Xcode. I had not heard of BuddyBuild before. Oh, it's like a development product. Yeah. All right. All right. So there's that. Cool. Titles. Mayhaps. Titles. We're just assuming you're going to start. Oh, okay. Give us the best ones. What are the best ones? VR and AR. Like their phones, Apple is a little slow on the uptake. Happy birthday, DTNS. Disney predicted to buy everything. 88-inch 8K, there's 3-8. You know, in Chinese, it's just a popular culture. That's triple good. That's a little insider-y. I like it. Except Samsung's Korean. Apple Battery Gate Apology, Assaults and Battery. Hey. Hey. Everything's coming in 2020. Intel and AMD sitting on the cherry, P-R-O-C-E-S-S-I-N-G. I like that one. Do you? Yeah. But you have to say you have to read it singing. Yeah. That is a requirement. Meetless VR and AR. Might work. Yeah, man. Don't feel afraid of fixing mistakes. Listen, Tom. This is your copyrighted material. Team effort here, okay? No, the backstory of this is that I got auto-corrected from metal ends to meetless, and I didn't notice it, but Patrick noticed it and in Slack wrote, like, hey, as cool as meetless technology sounds, I believe that it's supposed to be metal ends. I'm like, oh, yeah, ha, right, absolutely. Patrick, of course, assuming that I was about to fix it, not knowing that I was actually in my car at the time where I'm like, oh, I guess Patrick will fix it. Right. Three of the covens. Um, what do you like? Meetless VR. I like meetless VR and AR. Just meetless VR, it rolls up the tongue. It's like, oh, yeah, we could just shorten it. But I'm fine with that. Also, I disagree. Apple is slow on the uptake. I think they reacted very quickly, but that's my Apple fan boys and talking according to... I mean, you could argue that they shouldn't have done it at all. Oh, that's different. It was pretty unusual for them to apologize at all. So, yeah, I don't think the speed of their reaction is the big thing to criticize here. Right. That is my not Apple fan boy reaction. Fan boy. Fan boy. That's the fan boy theme song. Is it still a pejorative? Yeah, I think you're a pejorative. It's like, I think it's like... That is the meanest thing you've ever said to me, Tom. I don't even know what it means. Is it a pejorative means? Well, no, I know what pejorative means, but if you call someone a pejorative, that just... I mean, it could be a compliment. It just means you're bad news. No, you're a label of... You can't walk it back.  And everyone's like, ooh. That's totally what it was. Wow. It's a thing. It sounds bad. No, no, no. It's like saying all this... If you say you're something is... No, no, no. You're right. You're right. It's bad. Let's try it. Tom, you have lovely glasses. You're lovely glasses. No, it's like... Tom, why would you say that? Come on. What? But you know what the proper... Geronica Belmont taught me the proper response to these.  Right. Which also has levels of complexity. Oh, totally. Yeah. Got to worry. Mom's a pejorative? I mean, I don't know if I'd be feel comfortable saying that about Roger's mom to be honest. Well, it's like saying, like, you know, dinner's a disaster.  Yeah, well, that was definitely mean. Or like, you know, you could just be back. And Veronica's like, oh, it's a mother. Your mom's a disaster. She has a mother, though. So it wouldn't work. No, the next level of escalation, as I am aware, is I, whatever the thing is, your mom last night. Oh, yeah. No, that is not okay. No. Tom Merritt. I'm not saying... I'm just saying this is the template I mean, you're right. You're not wrong. You're not wrong. It brings out the worst in Utah.  It's a template of insults, Sarah. I didn't make it up. It's a template. Oh, no. Well, it looks like a very bad winter storm is going to hit the East Coast this week. Oh, no. That's not good. Yeah. They've already been, you know, Patrick is like, come to Finland sometime, but... Well, actually, we're having a fairly mild weather this year for the summer, for the winter in Finland. Yeah. The thing that is unescapable is the darkness, though. Ah, the darkness. That's just your longitude. Yeah. Take it away from that. We cannot get away from longitude. Or if we did, I think it would mean very bad things for the physics of the solar system. Is it your days, like six hours long? Yeah. Pretty much this time of the year. We're past the hump, though. We're on our way to lengthening. Well, we are in the lengthening. You're late. The time of sun is lengthening now. Right, we're past the solstice, I believe. Right, exactly. Are the vampires packing up, ready to move out? Not really. The Finns are still everywhere in Helsinki. They are, you know, their pasty complexion is very vampire-like. Do they have pointy canines? No, they don't. This may be the last live show with Patrick for a while. Yeah. It might be, yeah. Especially since next week it's CES, so... Yeah, I need to get on the Scorn People for... For Tuesdays? Yeah, for Tuesdays. Ah, just put it. Who's your worst enemy? I'm not trying to pry, Patrick. Do you have names yet? Or is that something you're still... I mean, you could tell us without telling us the names. Yeah, no, no, I'm not wanting you to say the names. I was curious if you guys have settled or if you're still discussing or... Yeah, I was waiting for Tom to finish his sentence. Yes. Yes is a great name. I love that. Yes, we do have names and we're not saying the names. Yeah, yeah, no, of course. Yeah, yeah, we have names, yes. Smart. I have definitely been guilty of someone being like, well, we really love name. And then I go, ah, hated that girl in high school. And I'm like, I'm so sorry. Like, I'm so sorry, you know. Just... All right, now I'm definitely not telling you. No, don't. Don't. I'll just ruin it somehow. Patrick... Silently across as Sarah, off the list. Yeah, exactly. There are enough Sarah's in the world. Don't do that to her. But if you do, I will think it's a lovely name. With an H. That's right. What about Tom? For a girl. Yes. Okay. Tomasina. I was going to be Amy if I had been a girl. Oh, that's a lovely name. Although I hated that girl. Let's imagine you was a girl. What's that? Just put a wig on and you can pretend that you're Amy. Sure. Or you can pretend even without a wig. Do whatever you want, Tom. Yeah, exactly. Thank you for not boxing me, Patrick. I did even... My mom was a fan of little women, the book. And so... It's good that you added the book in your second. Yeah. Because I'm not sure what we would have gotten.  Who's the one who got scarlet fever? That wasn't Amy. Joe Haydson? What? Amy was the younger one, I think. Yeah. I'm trying to remember all the sisters. My older sister's name is Meg. There's Meg, Joe, Amy, and... Laura? Another one. So, yeah. And Laura was... You know, she was... It was about her, I think. Well, because... But my mom had two children that didn't live. My sister, Meg, did. And they were Laura, Meg, Joe, and then I was going to be Amy.  What about that? Oh, I'm sorry. Well, I know, it was kind of a... I mean, it was one time ago, but... Right, right, right. My parents were going to name me Matthew. That was a boy. That's a lovely name as well. That's a great name. But I'm like, Matt Lane. Well, you know... Oh, Matt Lane. That's like... Yeah. Yeah. Or I was going to say a superhero. That is an awesome... Right. I mean, Sarah Lane is great. A podcaster by day. That way. I think we just uncovered something. Sarah is a superhero.  You're just catching on. All right. Also, okay. Can I just say, since we're talking about superheroes, and I don't watch a lot of superhero movies, or not all of the ones that come out, a lot of people had problems with Justice League, I thought it was really good. Oh, look at you. All right. Good for you. I enjoyed it. Had a good time. I went into the theater fully ready to despise it, like to hate it with every fiber of my being, because I did for Matt of Steel and Batman V Superman. I think they are terrible, terrible movies in ways that I can hardly describe. But I didn't hate Justice League. I thought it was entertaining. Dumb. I like two of the five movies in Justice League. I mean, there were certainly things about the plot where I'm like, huh, okay, suspend a little disbelief on this one. But I feel that way about the good ones, too. That's like 80% of the movies out there. Yeah. It's not just a suspension of disbelief. It's like an active... Like, oh, I just got to keep believing. I got to keep believing this is going to end up somewhere. Yeah. I think the DC movies miss the point on many of the superhero. They, for some reason, under Zack Snyder, decided to go with this kind of dystopian, darker, more like gritty. Right. Snyder doesn't understand what a superhero is supposed to be. He just makes action movies where people punch other things. And that is not... Justice League was, you know, was a lot more... His... Well, Zack Snyder's whole thing is deconstruction. Deconstruction, right? Yeah, I bet you know. You can't deconstruct something that hasn't been... I'm not saying it's good. I'm just saying that somebody looks at things through. And that's why Watchmen was such a great adaptation because it was a comic book that deconstructed the whole idea of what superheroes in the real world would look like. Well, Watchmen was already... The comic was already that. Well, that's what I'm saying. That's why the adaptation with him doing it worked, because that's what the source material was. Material. But yeah, Justice League, I thought, was pretty fun. I was very surprised that I enjoyed the company of those characters, even Cyborg, who should not work. He's just a very, very dumb character in the DC Universe. No, he is not. I think that... In the movie universe, he's given like 15 minutes to build up the entire character and it works. And I think in that context, it's very difficult to make work. Cyborg is a lot... Can be a lot more complex. It's just that for the longest time he was our token black guy. Right?  And that's how they wrote him. Yeah, but I was talking about the movie, not giving him a lot of space.  And that being what I knew of that character, that movie going in, was ready to think it wasn't... It wouldn't work in the context of that film. And I was surprised that it ended up being an okay character. I wasn't talking about the comic. And we've lost Sarah. Oh. What were you talking about? We can move on to another thing, honest. Alright. Bitcoin. How about that Bitcoin, huh? I think it was back below 15,000 by the time the predictions episode posted. So my prediction then became worthwhile again. Alright. Any last words before I turn off the broadcast? More light. More light. Four lights? There are four lights. More light in 2018. Give me my egg. Have a lovely CES. Happy baby. Yeah, happy baby. Not yet. Not yet. Happy incoming baby. We're not... I know. We're trying to give you good wishes. Incoming. Happy baby is set to drop any minute now. Give it all your sleep in good times now. Right. Yeah. Go to sleep. He'll work out. He'll work out. It will. Alright. Happy new year, everybody. Bye. Bye.


Alright, so what happened is, I made a video before called The 5 Worst Things To Do In A Looser Dream. It went really well. A lot of people watched it, but I was thinking about this the other day. There are actually a lot more things that you shouldn't do in a looser dream. There's a lot more things that you should never do in a looser dream. And there are a number of reasons for that. So let's just get right into it. In this video, we're going to be talking about the 10 things, right? Let me just get that thumbnail. 10 things that you should never do in a looser dream. And there's a good reason for each one. So if a couple of these are the same as the other video, just ignore it. I'm going to give some new insights and everything. Most of them will be brand new. Number one, you should never looser dream about real events or conversations you could have with a person in real life. The reason for that is, dream memories can get very easily mixed up with looser dream memories. So if you have a looser dream and in that dream you talk to your partner and you maybe have an argument with them or you tell them how you truly feel, what can happen is you can wake up and then remember that conversation as if it had actually happened, right? Because it's so similar to waking life. You can remember it as if it had actually happened and then in that way you get confused.  And they'll say, you know, what do you mean? We've never spoken about this. And you can get confused and it can get a bit awkward and annoying. Never dream or looser dream about real conversations with real people because you'll have a really hard time of distinguishing between what happened, what actually happened and what was a looser dream memory. Number two, I'm just going to get straight into it and say this, sex. Looser dreaming sex I would completely advise against simply because you're in a looser dream, right? You can literally do anything that you can possibly imagine. So why would you choose sex? You can have sex in waking life, right? Obviously it's not as guaranteed because in a looser dream you can do whatever you want and dream characters will often just go along with whatever you suggest. But that being said, you could literally do anything. You do not mean like you could fly circles around Pluto if you wanted to. You could do anything you can imagine. So looser dreaming sex is just not really on the top of my priority list, especially as now I can do many more things in a looser dream.  So I wouldn't advise to do that in a looser dream at all. Unless you're a beginner, in which case it's fine, right? I mean a lot of people, one of the main things they learn looser dreaming for is to have sex. So that's fine but if you're more experienced than if you have more looser dreams I would advise against it simply because you could do anything else. So number three, don't think about your dreaming body. So obviously when you're looser dreaming your actual real body is laying there in bed but don't let that thought into your mind and if it does try and ignore that thought as much as you can because if you think about your body laying there asleep it's going to be very hard to get lucid again.  Number four, don't close your eyes. This sort of goes without saying but if you close your eyes what's normally going to happen is you're going to end your looser dream and wake up. Five, and this might surprise you a bit, don't do things that are too exciting and that is simply because the same principle as a looser dreaming sex the more exciting the thing that you're doing in a looser dream the more likely you're going to wake up and just end the looser dream. So try and do things that you want to do obviously things that are exciting and interesting but not so exciting that they wake you up. Okay so number six, don't spin around too fast. Okay so one of the best ways of stabilizing a looser dream and making the dream last longer is to spin around on the spot. You can also do things like rubbing your palms together and telling yourself I will become more lucid or I'll stay here whatever the case is but if you spin around too fast okay if you start doing you know little parets and you start drilling yourself into the into the floor you're going to wake up very quickly because you're going to feel dizzy you're going to normally what happens is if you spin too fast your vision actually fades to blackness and then you wake up. So if you do need to stabilize the dream try and do it in a way that won't wake you up. Try and do things like rubbing your hands together. The best way I found is just to ask the dream itself you know can you help me stay here longer or can you help me become more lucid. Now I'm going to get on to dream commands in a second because they are some of the worst things you can do. If you say the wrong thing, if you ask the dream the wrong thing, bad idea. What number are we on now? Okay so number seven, don't look into a mirror. If you want to look into a dream mirror obviously make that your goal and then set aside an entire looser dream to exploring dream mirrors I should say because the mirror experiment is one which is really interesting but then once you've done it you don't really need to look into mirrors because when you look into a dream mirror you're not going to see an accurate representation of yourself anyway. It's going to be like a distorted mangled image based on what you how you feel about yourself or based on your feelings at the time your feelings the previous day. So it's just it's going to be a confusing and awkward and even scary experience for a lot of people. So it's just not really worth doing more than one or two times. Okay so number eight is actually a dream command. Now let's just recap before I get into this a dream command is when you tell the lucid dream something directly.  So that's that dream commands are that what you should never do in a lucid dream is tell the dream to show you something scary because well you know spoiler alert the dream will show you something scary but because it's your subconscious because it's actually you that will be showing yourself something scary your subconscious mind knows your deepest fears your subconscious mind knows exactly what will terrify you so much so that you'll wake up you know like shaking. So don't ask the subconscious dream to show you something scary because it will show you something scary and it won't be good. Obviously if you want to experience something really terrifying then go ahead and see what it can show you but just bear in mind that it is your subconscious mind it knows what you're scared of and it will show you that very vividly. Number nine is kind of one building on a myth but it's sort of a half-truth as well so there is a myth that you can get stuck in a lucid dream. Obviously you cannot get stuck in a lucid dream but number nine is something I would suggest to never do in a lucid dream and that is to ask the subconscious mind or ask the dream itself trap me in this dream. You should never tell the dream to trap you in the dream because as I said before it's your subconscious mind it is very powerful and it can make you feel like you're trapped in the dream. It can turn the experience into a lucid nightmare so when you say something like that when you're sort of testing the boundaries and you want to experience something a bit scary just bear in mind that it will be scary. If you tell the lucid dream to trap you it will give you the experience of being trapped and it will go then instantly in one moment it will go from being a lucid dream to being a lucid nightmare and that is terrifying. Number 10 You should never try and fly too soon in the lucid dream itself. If you try if you become lucid say if you do a reality check and you instantly become lucid you know you're dreaming. A lot of people will then immediately try and jump up in the air and fly around and while that is good and you can most of the time you can fly it's not going to be as easy as if you just wait a bit and stabilize your lucid dream and become lucid properly.  You know you fall back to the ground or you lose lucidity or things start fading to black and what that is is you're trying to push yourself too far it's like you're trying to climb a hill in too high a gear. You're not really ready for it yet you need to change down and build up slowly. So when if you try and fly too soon what's going to happen is you're going to overload yourself and just wake up or just stop yourself and it's very frustrating. One of the most annoying things ever is when you're in a lucid dream you know you're dreaming and you try and do something and you find that you can't do it and more often than not that's because you're not properly lucid you need to stabilize the dream with stabilization techniques you need to do more reality checks you need to either meditate in the dream or out of the dream or both and then build up to it slowly and that is it guys that is the 10 things I would say never to do in a lucid dream. If you enjoyed this video please share it subscribe leave a comment and I'll see you next time.


Hey beauties, I'm Bianca Renee, and you're watching Bianca Renee Today, and today is going to be a different type of foundation Friday, because I'm trying a very popular makeup pack for the first time, which is using a translucent powder before your foundation. I know. Sounds kind of weird. That means we're going to be putting a liquid foundation on top of powder, where powder is usually supposed to set your foundation. So I would be nervous for this little experiment, but because I follow people like Jackie Aina and It's My Rae Rae, if you don't follow them on YouTube, you need to. They have the best makeup tips ever. They both have tried this, both with oily skin, and have had amazing results. So even if this doesn't work for me, I can't even say it doesn't work because I've seen it work. Okay, it just might mean I have the oiliest skin in the world. But hey, I'm going to think positive, positive vibes that this is going to work out. What you currently see is half of my face with the powder first with liquid on top, okay, exhibit A. And the other side, I did not put the powder first. This is just primer and foundation. I am using the Fenty Beauty, what do you call it again, Pro Filter Foundation. I've used this in the past. It was pretty good, meaning it did not keep me extremely matte, but once I blotted, I liked how it looked. And I really want to love this foundation. I mean, obviously, because it's Rihanna, but I want to, I feel like I need to get to know you better, you know? So I'm giving it another go today, and hopefully this little matte trick will fix the problem. So without further ado, let me show you exactly how I applied the powder before my foundation. Let's do this.  This is their Mattifying Primer with Anti-Acne Treatment. So I have the Laura Mercier Translucent Powder. This is like the OG I've been using for a long time, but never before my foundation. Getting a damp beauty blender, I'm just going to grab some on here, and we're going to actually set our primer basically, especially in the areas where you really get oily. I can already tell that this side is more matte than this side. For today's foundation, I decided to use the Fenty Beauty Foundation. This is the Color 370, the Pro Filter Soft Matte Foundation. The little more orangey, this was my summer color, but I really want to make this work. Good coverage though, I kind of forgot. And now let's do the powder side. This impression, I do think that this side looks a lot softer and smoother than this side. It kind of fills in those pores a little bit more before you put on your foundation. I like it. Now let me finish the rest of my face. Now we're talking. Side note, this really pretty red lipstick color, which I'm really feeling right now, is the CoverGirl Queen Collection Major Shade in the color Wedding Crasher. Well that's fun as a wedding planner myself. I mean not if they're crashing the wedding I'm doing, but you know. First of all, I'm really feeling this Fenty Foundation. This is why you gotta, you know, keep some makeup and try it again later. You never know what's going on. I'm glad I'm giving this another try. So it is currently 5 p.m. I know I got a really late start today, but I will come back later in the day and show you how oily and or matte I am. And I'm back. It is now midnight, so I've had on this foundation with my powder first for a total of 7 hours. Here are the results. I still am a little shiny, you know, of course, but I do think that I am slightly more matte on this side than I am this side. I don't know if you could tell with this lighting. I have a little bit more shininess here and I have some right here. My whole cheek part's still pretty matte. So, I mean, it didn't, you know, stop all oil production completely, which I didn't expect it to, but I'm not that mad at it. So maybe I'm gonna do a little oil absorbing sheet test like I do in all my Foundation Friday videos. And maybe I'll do two and we'll do one on each side. How about it? All right, one last look before I blot. Side with no powder before, side with powder before. What do we think? Here's the oil from the side with no powder before. Okay, now we have a good side-by-side comparison. So this is the side with no setting powder before the foundation and this is the side width. So, as you can see clearly now, the right side does have a lot more oil production than the left. Would you look at the buttons? I honestly think I could even apply more setting powder next time.  I didn't go that extreme, but I'm probably gonna experiment this week and do so. And I did this with the foundation that I knew doesn't keep me that matte in general, but it did a very good job for being a soft matte foundation. But overall, I do think this was a very good experiment.  So I will continue to do this and give you guys some more feedback on Instagram and Snapchat. Make sure you follow me. I'm Ms. Bianca Renee. That way, you can always be updated on what my full face looks like when I use a setting powder before my foundation. But if you have tried this before, please leave a comment. Let me know how well it worked for you and if you do this on a daily basis now. And what are your favorite translucent powders to do this with? If you enjoyed this video, I hope you give me a thumbs up and subscribe. I post two new videos every week, foundation Fridays on Friday and curly hair videos on Sunday. And since I just hit over 200,000 subscribers, I have giveaways going on all week long. So make sure you follow me on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat at Ms. Bianca Renee so you don't miss any of these giveaways. I'll see you guys in my next video. Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today.


Before we started with today's vlog do your media is running a flash sales You guys gonna get any of the brebony housewife pieces they are on sale right now only through the rest of today I think so I'll have it linked below go check it out Good morning guys welcome to another week of my life vlog This is going to be kind of a reset week getting back into my routine. I got back from LA on Friday I had a really nice Phone is always going off by the way guys. I ordered a new light so it will be getting replaced soon I know that everyone's gonna be really excited. Anyways today is Monday. I have my favorite mug out I'm about to head off to Pilates sharing my weekly goals. Okay. I want to wake up at 7 a.m. Every day. I'm really runs out from last week. I'm really exhausted So I'm gonna have a very great week at home. I'm hosting book club. It's cold It's a lot of editing and just like whatever I'm gonna work out every single day. I've already booked Pilates classes for every day I do want to go to boxing. We've been talking about that so you might do that I'm gonna wake up at 7 a.m. Every day, which is not crazy early for me But instead of going from like West Coast time to like going and waking up at 6 6 30 I'm just gonna give myself time. I want to wake up at 7 a.m. Work out every day I'm gonna get lunch or like see you two people. I'm getting lunch with Priya today And then I'm gonna text in Nassia I just want to make sure I'm like seeing other people that I'm friends with in Dallas Other than like my friends that I'm with on the weekends 24-7. I want to read two books And I already finished one last night. I finished Monica.  I Love it. It really makes you think and I it gets the gets the thing It gets my mind going that also gets things out of my head that I didn't even know we're there that need to go But that needs to be gone.  I know we're shocked. I dress like my softener of high school All right guys, I'm back from Pilates. I just showered and got ready. I'm wearing this an active set I changed into more athleisure easy socks My coat I'm going to get lunch with Bria You guys probably have seen her all over tiktok Instagram everything They're going to Los Palmas, which is exciting today's actually MLK day. So most people are off So I'm just kind of getting my life together I need to do some work But I'm more so need to like get my nails done good grocery shopping workout things like that. So anyways I'm heading off there. I'm working on a lot more like Dallas content for Instagram and tiktok So be sure to go follow me on there. My workout was great. I'm feeling so good. Awesome. Keep thinking. Here we go She's like every vlog has to have like some deep talk That's honestly just kind of how I am in life, but I was just thinking today on my drive to Pilates How I am so grateful like every single day first off I love my gratitude journal like I really tried to live a life of gratitude because I just it's good for you And every single way something I've just been thinking about a lot lately is that I'm so lucky that the place I want to be at the most not out of comfort but by choice is home because I've not always felt that way regardless of Where I live and I would always rather be in Dallas than anywhere else I love going to New York But other than that like I would rather be here at all times and I'm just so grateful Like it's like wake up and that is how much I love my life and like I get to wake up here every night Comment below something that you guys are grateful for I've been trying to get back into journaling a lot lately The psychic not to be controversial I know every other person whether it's like a prophetic word or like some sort of like prophecy psychic Whatever it is every single person has brought up a book to me and it's not just a vague book Like I know what they're talking about so spot-on to the point where I'm like this is actually weird Anyways, she's telling me like right more which I've actually been wanting to do last time right that was a goal of mine That I just didn't hit I don't know guys this morning in Pilates. I'm not getting I was like really not wanting to work out and then I was thinking like okay I'm gonna act like I'm at cheer on Navarro and I'm at practice with Monica like that was actually What got me through my workouts with you guys are ever working out and you were you know feeling down Not really wanting to do it not wanting to go the extra mile think if if Monica were in the room What would you be doing? I also need back to 12 through 30 to because I want to get my 12 my 10,000 come down I'm not 12,000 steps in but unfortunately it is so cold here So the reality is that happening every day slim very slim or off less hummus. Anyways making new friends I'm also just that I talked this morning and we're gonna just account and we're gonna go Bring back early morning coffee dates because in college we used to do this all the time We go coffee like seven and I just love being out and about early in the morning and having accountability helps me so much I also am putting off unboxing all my packages. So that'll happen at some point. Okay. I'm making my grocery list right now This is what I do. It's nothing crazy I'm showing this because it helps me throughout the week So I know like exactly what I'm making. I'll normally put the links to the recipes But these are all recipes that I just know now All right guys, it's got lunch with Brea. It was incredible. I'm so bad about vlogging with friends Especially like new friends. She's great a great fall has an incredible tick tock But I'm going to Sprouts now, which as we know is my favorite time of the week. So I'm a grocery list Okay, I clearly need a tripod I'm back from Sprouts. I'm gonna do a little grocery haul I got a lot of stuff because I'm hosting book club on Wednesday So I needed everything to host obviously. I met one of y'all at Sprouts I meet you guys at the bars Appalotties and at Sprouts So we have a wide range of things that we like to do around here Divert's talk and you're like what am I saying grocery haul Bananas. All right. We have some Rows rails. How do you say it? I don't know. I got two. I'm making bolognese tomorrow All right from a club on Wednesday. I didn't have these like separate. So I had to get them in the packaging heavy cream a lot of dates for Two things one of my day appetizer bacon wrapped days with goat cheese so good We're gonna get showed it to me years ago, and then I also like to do Like little as you like peanut butter and dates are really good. It's just like a sniper's bar Um fog I got spinach for the soup. I'm making I'm making the chicken soup again chicken rice soup It was so good like one of my favorite things I've ever made I tried kale at the last time some more kale girl, but I'm gonna do spinach because that is what the recipe calls for lots of celery lots of onions Lots of meat. So I have chicken. I have Got a beef they didn't have ground pork. I have lots of salmon I got a lot of food. I'm clearly planning on cooking a lot this week You guys I just one of those people who I pretty much always overbuy at the grocery store Like I can't relate to who go in and spend like $40 there like how do you do that? Even when I very first moved out. I feel like the lowest I would spend would be like 60 They got a trader Joe's it's like 80 normally, but like how do those people do that? I don't understand goat cheese And then bacon again for my bacon rock dates moving on they spread the best bread in the world Baroque leaves for bullen eggs chicken stock. I was gonna do bone broth, but um, it was already getting up there You know More celery and then a huge thing of carrots and that is my grocery haul I'm gonna put all that away. I'm supposed to get my house done today I don't know if I will we've seen it lunch a little longer than I was planning on so I still need to work and I want to like cook and have a night at home, but my nails are tragic Like so bad, so that's gonna have to get done at some point It's like to the point where I'm like embarrassed, you know, I just unboxed so much stuff I'll give you guys a little bit of a haul if you will got this set Sign of my Brittany on Instagram told me to get it and it's the best thing I've seen Hopping pants and then a hot pink blazer. I love this. I was so I love that I also got some table top where hello everyone. Oh, I was saying though Do you ever buy outfits that you just love so much and then you don't want to waste it on like an occasion You don't care that much about so then you keep waiting for the perfect occasion perfect occasion ever comes never wear the outfit You know, yeah, anyways, um, I got some stuff from furbush. They were having a sale Table top, which I thought would just be so cute and fun for the summer I just love it. The thing with this stuff is I feel like you're tired of it really easily Oh, we have not kids. I don't have not can holder. These are the placemats though Cute and then we have these cute, but I have more than six people coming to book clubs So I'll table mat. How cute this one is a lot more simple Maybe I'll use this. I'm not sure and you need to get flowers, you know I've got some things to do on Wednesday. Hi that stuff. I got refills on stuff Okay, if you ever wonder who fell for tiktok ads, it's me I'm the one who falls in the tiktok ads. It's a little camcorder. Okay. I love camcorders and this looked fun Oh speaking of tiktok ads another one this one apparently Your phone will just stick to the wall with it an anti gravity phone case. We'll see if that actually works We got some polo everything else is a replacement replacement Dyson had this one's the weight center that I thought it would be Destroyed my life like these for a gallery wall here. No, I'm not married to have a family. It's gonna be photos of my friends I know it's kind of weird, but it's gonna be too small for this area.  I think but I definitely want to I think it definitely is he's my biggest. I don't know. Hi, Mr. Handsome. Everyone's been asking where Fitz is in the vlogs He's always right next to me All right, I'm drinking my resauce. I'm doing the dishes immediately. Does anyone else do that? I always do the dishes like right after I even before I eat or else I just like can't eat in peace You know any meme I made my favorite new soup with this chicken rice soup the details will be on my Instagram It looks kind of gross, but it's just the best thing ever. It's so good I don't even know how to describe it so much left over for the week, which is gonna be perfect I've been sitting here at working and making my to-do list things that I need to finish this week today was MLK day, so I didn't like work that much which is kind of giving me anxiety, but it's okay I'm probably gonna take another hour or two of work I think it's like six something six thirty and then I'm gonna go to bed I want to read Monica from cheer to supply to my story and I feel like very cool But anyways, I want to make sure I'm getting a lot of reading done There are three books coming out in January that I'm very excited for and I'm looking forward to but I want to read One in the meantime. I have like 48 hours until calling Hooper's new read. So I am going to start tonight I normally read a book every like two or three Good morning guys. It's 7 30 going to get coffee with Jess. She just pulled up Queen of health, but give me go Got a smoothie. I'm leaving Pilates now. This is the Tropical one from clean bar so good. I've showered. I've changed Here's my outfit off to the med spa. I'm getting love injections today and my second time ever getting them It's gonna look very natural like before they're very natural this time. I don't want much at all like literally at all I'm supposed to get laser today, but I'm hoping I Can move it to a different day this week. We'll see. All right. I have my cold brew I'm off to Ove may which is where I get my facials my lip injections everything Actually, I just realized I haven't got my love injections here. I've only gotten them once and I got them somewhere else I've gotten hydro facials and Botox here, and I really like this place you guys can use I think code like Kenzie Kenzie 15 for 15% off something like that. It's on my Instagram. All right guys. Don't be alarmed at my lips yet They're very swollen and they won't go down. I got kiss so they're like a little bit more like I guess Pouty for lack of a better word. I Feel so weird right now. Wow Anyways, they'll obviously go down in the next two days I wasn't even thinking and I can't even work out the next two days now that I got filler Because I work out in like a heated workout place. You can't just on us for 48 hours, so I can't do like a hobba-lotties class, but Anyways, it will obviously go down. Here we are Wow Okay guys, I feel a little bit silly. I actually think they look really good especially because they're swollen and they're gonna go down but I sent photos to Dom and Dom's really jealous. She's actually going to get her lip sun on like Thursday Anyways, I'm making some lunch.  I need to get work done I have my 2022 cleaning meeting with my management team today. I decided to get cozy and getting laser done I was supposed to get it last week But I sell a tanner on and then I forgot and I put some on Let's be completely off of the area that you're like tanning. I'm doing a Brazilian like laser We're just really close on this channel Anyways, I am worried even though I have like done everything I can possibly do to make sure it's off I'm slightly worried. They're gonna turn me away, but honestly, it's too late to cancel So it's okay either try or I pay like half of what I would pay And I can't work out for the next two days So it would actually be perfect to get it done tonight doing this stuff is just like the planning around it It's too much like it makes me want to be all natural Laser actually sells at the best thing that will ever happen to me, especially living in Texas and just being outside all the time Like thinking about not having to do Thinking about not having to deal with that stuff just makes me so happy. Anyways, I'm heating up some soup for lunch We're gonna get to working drinking some coffee and just focusing in and then at five I have laser So I'd like five hours to work and I have so much to do so I'll talk to you guys later Guys look what I'm doing It's had a truly incredible meeting My lips right now. I plan to become a tiktok star. I plan to have a boot collaboration Cowboy boot collaboration comment below who I should collab with I'm gonna host more Dallas events I maybe want to do something with like a ranch water like alcohol in general, you know Um what else thanks lots of planning lots of strategy. I can't do myself. Seriously. Anyways, it's guys It was so angry. I have thought I'm gonna buy like two or three of this can you come into ice rollers having nothing to do with the ice roller itself? I leave them in hotels so they bring it with me everywhere I leave it on my parents house, and I don't want to drive an hour back And then I get my third one right because I'm obsessed with it. It's like the best ice roller ever This is nothing comparison at all And I got home and fixed shoot it up. He doesn't really chew any things up at all. He likes remote That's his own one thing you choose up. No, the skinny girl. I'm gonna show ice or that was too far fits too far Now that I've remembered that I'm actually very mad. Anyways, I'm getting laser day if they let me I don't know I'm afraid I've been told it feels like it's a rubber band. This is kind of like a 2022 research getting ready for the day Look at this guys. Don't I look like Trendy and productive by that setup You know, I know update on the new furniture for this place. I have ordered most of it besides the chairs for here I should order that soon like bar schools come in like two weeks couch will probably come and you know November of next year So love that I can't take myself seriously right now. Do you think everyone's gonna make fun of me? At least I can take a joke, you know, like I hope they're okay Up there on this bag by the way best bag I've ever purchased. I have it in pink, too I got both of them. It fits everything in here. I have like my card my vlog camera my keys headphones What products? I mean like literally everything is in here I got stuff you put on to like not bruise, which I forgot to put on all day cuz Just forgot in general. So anyways, I'm going to my nail son. I'm getting laser You got a book these things on top of each other a life hack You just have to have a day where you do everything at once because if not you're never gonna work out or like Just be a normal human in society or like self tan and those are two like pillars of my life I would say working out and self tanning. So I have to make sure that they Come inside together in my calendar.  I cannot take myself seriously right now. I think my sister honestly Can't wait for them to go Guys wait, let's see if I I feel like the BBL challenge. Let's try. It's just embarrassing Someone DMs me Okay, it's got laser. I Got in at 501. I was out of that room by 508 I literally when she said she was done keep mine That's like from me undressing and getting on the table and her talking to me and whatever. It's just no time I'm like convinced that like nothing even happened I mean I felt it a little bit like my friends that hurt her worse than waxing that didn't even compare to waxing for me I have a high pain tolerance. I will say Getting a wax is not the worst thing in the world to me, but that was nothing I would take that for an hour over a 10 minute wax like it was literally nothing Probably my best idea yet. I mean like cannot say enough good things. I went to serve laser I just am like wow. I wouldn't get everything laser now Like I mean that was the easiest thing in my life literally easy so fast I mean, oh my god The only thing is like around it you have to make sure like there's no tanner or no products like no sun exposure things like that So I'm trying to do in the winter It's gonna be like at least six sessions probably from what they what I've heard So obviously it's gonna go into the summer. So that's gonna be interesting But yeah incredible just got my nails done. I just wanted a really simple like neutral kind of paint color I've been doing the same thing over and over again. It's feeling very cozy at home Fits got another remote.  Happy Wednesday already. That's actually crazy. It's book club day. Very exciting. I'm filming some brand content I'm filming Q&A. I'm currently making toast. I have meetings this afternoon, and then it is full on hosting mode I'm really hot in the sweater. I'm kind of regretting putting it on.  I love the song It gives me very like Nashville soundtrack vibes with all of my music It is so hot and it's literally like 30 degrees outside Also, I actually gave myself kind of like a blowout this morning I at least dried my hair which I never do and it's just crazy My confidence goes through the roof when I actually do my hair You would think I would just do it more, but no, of course not Anyways, I posted my story and so many of you guys are like, oh my god, I went to high school with her She's great And then I went to her profile and she followed me and she literally had messaged me in March I'm like that is so crazy. The world just gets smaller Love my country music world. I really doubt my entire life waiting for your toast to toast. Thanks forever I it is a 10 a.m. by 8 a.m. I think I posted seven tech talks today. So Love that for me update on my lips Here they are They still feel weird like obviously the like lumpiness and they're still swollen and stuff like won't go down for a second I've already started laundry.  I get so much more done. I'm so much more present I like actually I'm not just like a robot getting through the day. I just It is the best thing ever. I want to film a video I love Danny's video on like her in-depth morning routine. So her mind like has been changing every day depending on my workout So I probably will film one maybe next week Because I just thought it was such a good video. I'm like such a good idea Finish all my meetings once you like a growth thing about with Instagram Did all that I just made it some salmon and salmon I mean, I should have made more sides But gonna heat up soup because that sounds better. I already ate salmon and it's like I barely anything, you know We have some unboxing in a haul also guys I don't know if I really showed this much in a vlog, but my sister got it for me for Christmas It's a furbish and needlepoint pillow my dream for like December for our later launches her bromeney housewife this year is to do a bromeney housewife needlepoint pillow like These are our higher price points like a hundred dollars because they're like really nice pillows But what do you die for that and like let's say it's like brown and black. I mean come on amazing Love this so cute. Let's start best down below Like when do you think my couch is eventually gonna come in? You know, I'm gonna say like I actually don't know I want it to be good. Okay. Anyways, I got a replacement pair finally I don't know why do we want to pick these up because I literally wear them or I wore them every day this summer They're my favorite boots from idol and the Miranda Lambert line Such a good brand for boots guys like these are my favorite of all the boots that I have I've worn them the most I trashed mine in Delaware for a music festival and I know that obviously I know that cowboy boots are like meant to be durable Whatever it wasn't dumb. It was like me honestly Also keep in mind I wear my cowboy boots like out all the time So I just needed a new nicer pair of the exact same ones I'm pretty positive. These are the same ones I had before I mean they look very similar They are the Wild Wheel Western boots wide square toe and these are $1.99 Which is a really good deal for a cowboy boot if you know like they get very pricey like they can literally be $1,000 they can also be 300 500 whatever anyways 200 dollars a pair of cowboy boots is a very good deal If you're starting if you're getting into the world, these are the ones I'd recommend I wear them the most and they're my favorite most comfortable Going to a little ASOS little outerwear hub I got this brown jacket I was laying at my boys house this weekend watching football online shopping and I wanted And I was trying to get this coat that my friend was wearing but I couldn't find it online So then I ended up getting other stuff, but I will like a legit live in this coat I don't know how I have a chocolate brown coat outerwear is like my thing and then I have this like Really long copper. I envision this over my like Pilates stuff in the morning and I just think it's so cute So love this for me and then Bella and canvas, which is alo's new sister line I didn't think more sustainable they sent me some pics. So I got this which I just thought was so cute Love a good little cream quarter-zip. We might have some quarter zips coming your way soon for something Get excited. I got again an espresso one with these espresso joggers Hello, so cute and then I got these or this black coats That I just feel like I need it as well. So anyways, thank you to Bella and canvas I will try to link what I can below But if you guys are getting cowboy boots, I'm telling you these these are the way to go. They're the best I love them. I know that's us here because I can hear John Mayer playing in the cars I'm so tired It crashed Did you get my text? So sorry everyone this is a Vintage out of the way dude formerly owned by none other than Ayrton Senna This jacket. Um, if you don't know Ayrton Senna is I'm really sorry for you But yeah, this is when he was racing with McLaren and yeah Yeah, also the old F1 logo actually kills me doing this for any stuff that I got today So I just have already but I'll give it to this week, but I got like a big puffer to wear us to plot We're gonna get this you um, he says that these two because it's jacket It's not the most mean jacket you ever see me and because of the brown I didn't know what to be Teddy like I wish was material, but I'm hot today because I need a lot of other ones Miss God our ace of stuff really good ones because Connor told me to get this one She was wearing what I couldn't find on the side that I got there so it just like with my new pants that I've been Yeah Yeah, you know me, it's all I wear I know I need to find people and live for them. Have a good day You know what I mean Alright guys, we're at Trader Joe's if you are in Dallas. Well, they restocked everything clearly today. Oh my god It's like packed but the one on lower Greenville is the best one for flowers in my opinion We're getting some hot pink roses.  I'm gonna move it. Okay over here and get some This hand the month could be cute the white ones. I don't know. There's lots of options. Oh, these are really cute, too Yeah guys who remembers when I used to be a Trader Joe's girl through and through Me it was really good. I actually love Trader Joe's the glaze. There's nothing like it What is wrong with this one? We go perfect Okay, we got some candles and things I target just for more of a display if you will I think we're gonna go with this one. Here's the thing I also have a tablecloth and that's a lot, but that's how they did it on the site Until it's busy. It's a lot Let's see though because your table also is white So if we don't put the tablecloth and still use everything that's still cute. I agree So we'll just say this is so summery It definitely could be too much, but I actually kind of like it on here Coming tonight, I think and this is six person six people. Okay, so Look, we can just have whatever It ends up looking really cute But the only issue is my napkin so we could we do have the option of just doing like Hydrangeas here and the candles around are like this here the candles around this over there Need like a we could also just fold them Like differently like we could I actually like all that being super busy in the same pattern I thought I wasn't gonna like that at all This is my best one yet. Wow. Okay, so this one's obviously gonna go over here. Oh Yeah, it looks so good. And then should I do this one to see a little smaller? Yeah, another sign I think do you think it's gonna look weird the balance. I think we can just like add some other things because it looks like Maybe you should not put the big one on there Maybe you need to do two smaller ones like you need to do the hydrangea. That's sure because it'll be in the middle Yeah, people talking, you know I was discussing the book that most of them haven't read Which everyone should read them. Yeah, I'm like guys. Yeah, that was better. Yeah, that was better Okay, yeah Yeah, all right. Well, we're gonna keep going. I got these from Target just now Candles going I'm not gonna start cooking for another hour. So what is she the hardwood? Yeah, she's scratching I don't understand it and we're gonna like set up a little like drink station, so I'll talk to you guys When this is done, it's just looking Fabulous. It looks good. Like I just said it's gonna be chill and nothing crazy. No, I like I didn't mean anything that I said Guys we have started on some food so we have my bolognese Which is I mean starting obviously not cooking the bacon wrapped dates with goat cheese so good We have our wine set up. People are bringing a lot more wine One of them is bringing three bottles alone. So we've got a lot of that Jessica is making the salad once I'm out of her way my Beautiful bouquet bouquet. Why am I? You know when your brain is stopped working like mine stops working at about 4 p.m. Today and then this little area I mean, it's just it really is so cute And look at this, I know it's just love it. I think we can go ahead and like the I'm gonna like them. Yeah Hello everyone, I just realized I have a vlog today Last night book club was so fun, and then we literally did up a scaler fair bar, which is whatever I got home Then I was on FaceTime until literally 2 a.m. I never stay up on weekends at all but you know what it's important to also be spontaneous and This is like one of the only mornings that I was gonna wake up and I'll have a workout So I was like it's fine. Anyways, I've just been sitting here. I made some breakfast I was listening to the podcast with Kim Kardashian and I can't take myself seriously still look at the flowers I cleaned up the entire house everything is ready, and I've just been doing work. I have therapy in two hours I'm recording for paints podcast later today, and honestly, I just want like a really good night in love work from home Like solely laptop days where I'm not like filming or doing anything else like that is truly just what makes me the happiest All right guys. I just got coffee. I'm about to go to paintings to record. Maybe we can add some light Something I'm sharing this because I feel like I tend to share things when I'm on like the healthier side of something or In a better place and not like in the moment when I'm sad but Someone said something really really really mean and hurtful about me that like is not even true Like there's literally no basis of truth And I know people say like oh if you're offended by something or whatever There's always like a hint of truth behind it, and I don't really agree with that I think sometimes it's like when it goes to their character And it's just not true and send it certain people like it's still can hurt you and I will say like 95% of the time things don't bother me I am used to people saying things about me like just being on the internet It's really actually bothered me and I was really sad about it And this is so rare because I would say I have really thick skin now that I'm like so Far into this like internet stuff, but it wasn't even like an internet thing So I just been in a really weird mood, and I don't know why it's affected me so much Maybe I'm starting my period soon because normally things like this can just like roll off my back But sometimes it doesn't and sometimes someone says something mean about you and it actually really hurts your feelings And it's okay to be upset about it But that's okay because I know it's not true, and I know myself and I'm proud of myself So today I worked from home. I had therapy. It's not like three something I just got some coffee and I'm going to Peyton's I couldn't work out today again because of my lips Remember when that was a goal I stayed up until 2 a.m. On FaceTime with Lauren another thing that I normally never do first off I wouldn't I never go out on week nights and maybe a Thursday pushing it but not on week nights And I wouldn't go out go out and switch to a bar Second I never stay up until 2 a.m.  I have so much book talk No, I switch book club book content or whatever on tiktok and Instagram bring my coffee because every time I drink coffee I cough after What's going on? I've also been feeling a little bit burnt out with reading lately like I don't know what's going on I've only read three books so far this year and that's like very good character for me I can read three books in a week But once I finish this one then calling over as new book is out, which by the way is our book club book pick So if you guys haven't be sure to join our Geneva chat we're gonna do a monthly book club will meet mid February to recap reminders of him by calling over which is her latest read and It's gonna take place in the Geneva app which on there I have my home So it'll be the description below and then the home was Kenzilla Smith and there's different rooms for like different cities and Places, so just join the book club room that you guys can add the event to your calendar to be reminded I mean, it's gonna be such a good time guys I'm really excited and you're the only one that I know who would like set up something so beautiful So beautiful report recording a podcast guys That lens it's like a addiction where you kind of get lost in it And yes as a crutch fucking speed bumps communication sucks usually like everything is slow and waiting for you Yeah, I'm home. I just got this package in the mail and I think I know what it is By the way, Jim media is running a sale on merch right now. So everything is There is time Everything is on sale until I think Monday. So you have a day once you're watching this wait guys. Oh my god. It's here. Oh My It's fabulous. I am literally gonna use it every single day I just love it like look Good morning, it's Friday. I'm so excited for the weekend. I'm heading to Pilates right now. It's freezing. This is my work set up I'm home. I've showered. I'm getting to work today on the agenda for today. I need to edit a vlog I need to edit some reels I need to do some outreach for Podcasts for a national recording in March. Also, we booked a big girl's trip to Cabo in March And I'm really excited after that then I'm gonna go to Nashville Lauren is texting me about coming here in April. I feel like she's probably gonna come next week, too So I'm just like getting some things together not leaving the state of Texas Unless I leave with Texas friends until March 10th So I have six weeks at home and that just gives me like so much peace of mind So anyways, I'm gonna get a bunch of work done tonight We have girls center tonight as always and then we're going out after so nothing really crazy But we just been expanding and like making new friends and adding new people and it's just been really fun Okay, guys. I'm actually gonna end the vlog here I decided I'm just gonna be on tiktok all weekend and I have vlogs afternoon So there's like literally nothing to film. Hope you guys enjoyed this week in my life vlog Let me know what you guys want to see in the videos. Love you guys so much and I'll talk to you soon. Bye It was like we're like are each other's Accountability partners in like a career setting so like a personal development. Yes career type of way like what can we Start doing that other successful people do