Thank you. Thank you. Welcome everybody. Yeah. So we're talking about hooks today. Before we even get started with that, I had a quick question for everybody. If I use the word WPQuery, who in this crowd has used the WPQuery before? Yes. Good. Okay. All right. It was a good preliminary question, because I gave not this talk, but I gave a talk in Pittsburgh about a similar topic to a community of developers and they had a slightly different answer. So yeah. But my name is Benji. I am a senior web developer at Top Hat. It's a company in Pittsburgh that does a lot of marketing and branding, including websites. With that, we do other kinds of websites. With that, we need to know a lot about development. We need to know a lot about WordPress. We really like to stretch WordPress and use it to its limits. So we have a lot of feats of strength that we like to put in our WordPress sites, including we'll do headless WordPress, plug-in development, we'll get Google Maps in there, and really, really integrate it into the site and do some fun stuff with that, and APIs, sync data, stuff like that. Then we've got a couple of clients that are, if you've known them, you know them, but that's good. Today, we're talking about hooks.  So I'm a contributor and a member of the Pittsburgh software community, at least a part of it. There are lots of different organizations out there. But I was attending an event for one with many developers, and I had the WP admin for this theme up, and there was a person sitting on my left, and I didn't know him at all, never met him before. He turned, he looked at my WP admin console, and he said, WordPress, that's WordPress.  So I was speechless. Besides being a very rude thing to say, he put into Word something that I occasionally experience when I'm talking to developers that don't really get outside of their zone. WordPress is so easy that sometimes ignorant folks think that it's simple, and sometimes even worse, they think that it's limited. So it's not capable of doing whatever they do in their fancy little corner.  It's a sleek beast of a framework. It's used by two-thirds of all CMS-backed websites, and 43.2% of all the websites on the internet in 2022. So you're going to get haters. We're number one, so people are going to hate. But it's so easy that sometimes understanding the magic behind WordPress is not so easy. So we can do anything that they can do, but you have to tap into a lot of resources. One of the big resources that we use for plug-in development and for theme development is an action or a filter. It's called a hook. So besides working on the open-source framework core, I'd say that there are two ways that you can be a developer in WordPress. One is building themes and one is building plug-ins. Both of them use these. So today, we're going to look into that. So first, what is a hook? So let me explain this in a simpler term as possible. When something happens on your site, you can put some code in there that triggers a function whenever that happens. It can be on another function. It can be on a user experience. It can be on a variety of things. But when that thing is called, you can add an action to that point where you can make a callback function do anything you want there. You can also pass arguments through that callback function so that the data that's happening at that time is the data that you're using in those functions. So an example here of actually hooking into something, you'll hook in with add action. This is the action side of things. If you use add action, you want the name of the action you're hooking into. And then you can set a string as a callback or you can put an anonymous function here. But you can set a callback function name. And then you pass these two numbers as additional arguments. You don't need them all the time. There are defaults. I think the defaults are 10 and 1. The first one here is the priority of your action that's being fired. So if there are many things that are happening at that action name point, 10 is going to allow you to sort of, you can put that number at 1 if you want your function to fire first or you put it down at 99 if you want it to be really, really lowly prioritized. So that's the first number there. And the second number there is the arguments that you want to pull in from that action at that time. So here's our example. We've got add action with action name and our callback, which we're defining right here. Our callback is going to take two arguments. And we've just prioritized it at 10 because that's default. I like to think of it like 10 and 2, like you're driving a car. 2 is a good number of arguments to have. Sometimes, like I said, the default's 1. But still, thinking about that, you're never going to get it confused and put 2 and 10.  It'll always be good. So in this case, I'm going to skip down to this one here first. So here we have the actual action that we're going to call on this page, which is do action. That's how WordPress core or the plug-ins or the themes that are in your site are going to tell WordPress that all your action functions need to be found and run. So while you're writing this code up here, you're hooking into whenever this function is called. As you can see, that's where the action name is. And then we have, wait a second, we have three. We have three arguments that are passed to any add actions of that action name. So there are three here, but I only wanted two. So I specified two. And that's what I output. So here we output that. The action's called right here, literally, in this theme, which you can get to on GitHub. It's Benji the Immortal. I'm not that pretentious, but Benji the Immortal slash WCUS hooks or get hooked or something like that. I can give it to you at the end of the talk. It's literally on this template for this page. There's a do action function there. And there are the outputs of argument one and argument two. So this is how we use actions. Really, really simple example of how we use actions. Why would I want to use actions? I got a real world example here. And last time that I was thinking about this, I thought about it in this order, but it's changed. The WP head action is called every single time WordPress templates out a page and builds a page in HTML. This is the header part of the HTML. And so you can hook into WP head, in this case, an anonymous function, and you can output some code. And it's going to appear in the header of your website on every page. Every time WP head action is fired, you've hooked in there and you've added your own code. So if this is not included in the core theme or the core plugins that you're using, you can add whatever you want there. Do anything that you need to do. So that's a pretty useful and simple real world example. Because what we're doing, really, is we're trying to make our clients life easy. I think that's the main way that I keep a job, is trying to do things for people and trying to be a nice guy about it. So one of the ways that we noticed that's really super helpful is, let's say your client only has access to the file structure on their site. And they're like, look, I haven't accessed the admin panel in 30 years. I don't know what's going on. This is terrible. The site's gone down. I need you to help right now. And so you're going into somebody else's theme, somebody else's structure and setup. And you need to access that, but you don't have anything. But the logins, like SFTP or FTP or SSH or something, you can still get anything you need out of that site. And you can even hack in and make your own account, because you can use actions. So in this case, we hook in with an init action. And the init action, we're going to use this function hack an account. And we're going to check and see if Benji doesn't exist as a user. And if my email address doesn't exist as an email in the system, then I can use all these. And even these two are very wonderful base WordPress core functions. I didn't define them. All of these wonderful WordPress core functions to set myself up as a user in the site and log in. And so running this action, running this add action, and then loading any page, really, because init runs everywhere, suddenly I'm in and I'm able to access the back end of the site. I've got my own credentials and everything there. So this should be incredibly useful for saving your clients some time. Say, I just need SFTP. I just need SSH. I can get you anything you need. That's all I need from you. So you might want to tell me what the problem is. But that's the other stuff that I need. So that's really great.  But it's also really great. The init and some other of these back end hooks are really great for helping the clients to see what they need to see out of the site. As you probably know already, the WP Admin panel can get pretty confusing very fast. It's got a lot of things going on. And it's got just so many. You've got plug-in settings. You can change the theme. You can do things. I don't really necessarily want my clients to do that all the time. So you can hook into the Admin menu and simplify what the client can see. And so that's what we're doing here. We're removing a lot of the menu page icons from the left-hand side of the toolbar. And we can limit that to whoever we want. So for example, if I'm accessing the site as your super admin, I can see the plug-in settings. I can change the HTML form templating or do those complicated things that are my job as a developer. But we're not going to have easy access to the parts that are not useful for the client. So I'm going to see if I can do this in real time. I did this wrong last time. Let's see if I can do this. Oh, that's small. Here we are in the code base. This is the theme that I developed for the talk. So like I said, it's all right here. You'll be able to get this in the GitHub repo there. So I'm just going to uncomment that hook and then do this. And it's all gone. It's only gone because my user that I'm logged in as is not the one that's specified there. So if I was logged in as your super admin, I'd be able to see everything. But your client gets exactly what they need to do their job and not worry about the rest. So that's a pretty powerful thing. And it's pretty helpful. One of our default functions that we use in our themes. So that's one way that you can help your clients out is to limit the things that they don't need and make WordPress do anything that you want. Another way that you can help your clients is if you're developing something special for them, sometimes you need to require something. You need to maybe require is a bad word. Who here uses advanced custom fields? Great, OK, many people do. Advanced custom fields, it's one of the top plugin downloads. It's a really powerful tool. It's a paid plugin. So that's kind of annoying sometimes. But it is absolutely worth every penny because of some of the functionality it brings. And in advanced custom fields, you can require that a field gets filled out. But that only happens in certain ways. What if I want a date field to fill in, even if the posts are being created dynamically by an API call or at every possible time, any time that the post is saved, I absolutely need wrong page. Absolutely need a field to be saved. And so here we see on this side, I've set an ACF that's called sort of mandatory field. And it's empty. Now, if it's empty, and now I'm trusting you, you said you used WP queries, so I'm just going to go with this. If it's empty in IWP query and do a meta query and that field, I'm going to order by that field and I'm going to meta query for posts to have that field. This one's empty. It's not going to come through because I've said posts with a date after the date and the date range. So if it doesn't have a date range, it's not going to come through. So I need that to work every time. It needs to fill in every time. So I need something where I can save this page. And even if I was a client moving super fast and I missed it, it's still updated. So there's a great function. There's a great, great action that I use a lot called Save Post. It's a really good one. But if I use Save Post and I hook into the action when the post is saved, and then I try to edit the post inside that callback function and save it again, then it's going to call the hook and then it's going to try to save it. And then it's going to call the hook and then it's going to try to save it. And it's going to keep on doing that infinitely and my page is going to break. I need the right action to make this work. And so luckily, ACFs are extremely helpful and they have wonderful documentation and you can see that they have their own hook called Save Post. Well, that's great. That one does not fire every time the post is updated. That one only fires when the ACFs are about to be saved inside of the page. So I could actually modify the ACFs with Update Field and it will not call this post. It won't update. It won't infinitely loop. So if I use the right action for this and I save it, it's going to populate anyway, at which point that date field is going to be there every time. Even if I don't fill it in, it's always going to be there. If I want to fill it in, sure, I can modify it and save it and it doesn't matter. It's already there so we don't have to worry about it because we checked to see if it's empty or not. But at the end of the day, you get the right action for the job and you can do anything to make your client's life a little bit easier. I'm going to show you one more and this is a little bit of a personal preference. There are a lot of different, I mean, there are actions everywhere and at the very end of the talk, I'll also give you a list of a couple hundred different actions that fire during normal page load, normal processes on the back end of WordPress. So you'll have a lot to choose from. It's a little overwhelming but the next one I want to talk to you about is more about when your site's talking to other sites and why would you want to do this? Well, I like Jamstack a little bit and I couldn't refrain from mentioning that, Mike, so sorry. But sometimes you'll want your site to communicate with a custom API or be a custom API or maybe you'll want your site to go off and run an AWS Lambda function or maybe your site will be sending web hooks to build static pages on a static site and that would be a headless WordPress build. If you're going to do that, you can do that with a hook. In this case, we are going to use SavePost but I only want to save the post with a certain kind of post, I only want to save the post and I name that post type data type. So I have a special post type called data type, maybe the client goes and adds a whole bunch of special post meta fields on that post type and saves that, maybe it's not even going to be shown on the WordPress side but every time that data type is saved, I can use a simple curl function, default PHP curl functions to take that custom post meta which is passed through as one of the, the post object is passed through as one of the arguments in SavePost, I can take that and I can send it to whatever other site I need to and I do any validation and stuff at the end. So this is a web hook, yes, WordPress, we can just make web hooks whenever we want, whatever we want, anybody starts talking to you about web hooks, we can do it. So no personal bias or anything, no personal experience of people doing that. At this point, it's a great point to stop and ask questions, does everybody feel comfortable with actions, are there any questions about actions or about what I've talked about so far? Sure, I'll repeat it because we have to hear it for the live stream, so can we go over the second number? We've got two numbers going on with a hook, the first one is a 10 and the second one is a two, in this case, you can fill in whatever you need there. This number is gonna be the priority of your function, your add action function here. So you're calling add action to action name and you're doing it at this point in the functions.php or any page template or whatever that you're working with but maybe somebody else has another add action function over here and they're trying to do something or a WP head is a great example because when do you want your code to be put in WP head? Sometimes that's important. There was a talk recently at a conference that somebody said, this is the fastest way that WP head gets downloaded by browsers, you've gotta put it in this order. So if you're gonna follow that, maybe you need to know when your custom injection is going to come into that. So you're gonna use this argument here, 10, you could change that to one, to put it at the top of WP head but to put it at the top of the HTML header where you could change it to 99, put it all the way at the bottom, even under Yoast I think, it'll get all the way down there. So that's what that number is. Was that the number you were talking about? The second one, that's the number of arguments that you're going to give to your function. So you can see that this action action name has three arguments provided but that doesn't mean that you need three arguments. You can use one, you can just say I want one argument and then in your callback you're just gonna list one. In this case I chose two and I only listed two and I don't get all these wonderful sports teams and Pittsburgh accents that I'm not going to say. So that's an excellent question that that number is extremely important. If you write the wrong number there, you're gonna get an error. I think it's even, yeah, I think it's a pretty big error. Was there any other questions? Yeah. Hello, okay. It's more of a philosophical or personal opinion question. I was working once, I'm working at this site and I couldn't hook early enough. I had this problem, I couldn't hook early enough and I couldn't use another hook to hook into before that hook so I was like really, really stuck and all of a sudden at the moment of desperation I used minus one as the priority and it started to work and then within my dev team there was this fierce debate about using a negative number and apparently, yeah, there you go. So apparently some people are in favor of it and some are against it and I wanted to know what your opinion about that was. I've developed for like 12 years and I've never had the use of a negative number but the thing is I didn't wanna go over the other hooks and change the order of it and the code base was too deep to do that so yeah, there it is. Now there, okay. If it worked for you, I'd say if it works and it's got no errors, we always walk away from those things and try not to look at them, right? That's our job. No, no, no, no. So the first thing that I would look at is the order that your code is called and so for example, in your site, in your functions.php, if that other file was working there then perhaps you could put your function above their function in the functions.php because priority is also affected by the order that the function is not initialized but defined. So if your ad action has the same priority number as somebody else's but yours is defined first in functions.php, great, awesome. Or if that plug in, it's more complicated with plugins and so I do, I am sorry. That's, I sympathize, that's absolutely terrible. Honestly, I don't like to use the number one. So very important developer discussion here. Try to stick with the middle as much as you can so that the next time somebody comes they don't want to kick you. Yeah, no, that's really, totally. You don't even need a plug in. There are multiple things and we can, wow. Oh yes, I'm so sorry. Yes, there are plugins.  It should show you all the plugins and all your hooks and how they load and if you need a negative one, that list of the order of the hooks at fire should help you solve that problem so you should figure out which hook is getting in the way of the hook you want to load. Yes, there are plugins out there for showing that. You can also, there are a couple of functions you can put in functions.php that can also do that. I'll put that on the page for you so you can see everything that's being called. It gets a little bit stressful because there are so many. There are so many actions and so many filters that are called on a page, but yes. So to that, and I work with front end as well, using negative one is kind of scary because somewhere, sometime. I would never use it. Yeah, but that's a feat of strength right there that you found a solution when. I was asking him a minute ago if he uses bang important in his CSS code too. Sometimes, sometimes. Any other questions? I'll try to talk really fast about, let's just make this harder, okay? But it's for a really good cause, okay? So there are actions and everybody's cool with that. Now there is this other thing that you can hook into that's called a filter. Filters are even better. Here's how filters are better. You can modify the data that's coming in. Now, our friend was talking about, I'm sorry, what was your name? Marco. Marco was talking about having an action fire in a certain sequence. This is even more important because you can modify the data that's coming through that filter because it's filtering that data. And so here's how you would do that. You would add a filter. In this case, I'm adding a filter to the filter that's applied that's called filter name. So I'm gonna make this call back. I'm gonna make it earlier. As you can see, I'm not using one. Don't use one. So I'm calling this filter and I'm giving it a priority of 10. And then I'm giving it two arguments. Now, the filter's gonna have as many arguments as it has. That's fine. It's going to have at least one argument because that's the editable value that the filter passes to every one of these that we can change. And so if the filter, for that one, if that filter, the first argument is WordPress like this, then I can take that argument and I can modify it. So once I modify it, I'm showing you here that it's still there, that it's output the way that I've saved it right here. And then I can return it back. So my callback function with a filter returns that first argument back to the filter and then it keeps on going. So that way, whenever your filter happens, you can modify that here and then pass it on to whatever's next. In this case, I've filtered it again. I've hooked it again with this one and it's got a priority of 11. So is this gonna fire before or after? After, yes. It's got 11. In this case, I'm gonna take all three arguments that are coming in. You notice that that can be any number, again, completely independent, any number of arguments that you have there just as long as you're matching them here. And when I output that editable value, because of our first filter, because of our first filter hook, that value is now WordPress capitalized like that. And I can still output anything else I want, even argument two, which we didn't see yet. There it is. That's great. Now, as I said before, you must absolutely return this every time. You must return this or else it's gonna disappear. So if you're using a filter, always return the filter, even if you're not modifying it. In which case, I would say to you, don't use a filter. But use an action on the filter. So first, yeah, it sounded like a gotcha, but no, for real, don't use a filter. Use an action on the filter. You can use an action on that filter just fine. And here, we're calling this after everything else is done, we're going to give three arguments. We're gonna output all three of those arguments here. Ah, yeah, so here's where the real filter is called right here. So now we see the first callback that we have here, the first, that first priority filter, then the second priority filter is here, and then the third priority filter is here. WordPress and Jamstack can live right next to each other. It's totally fine. So yes, so in this case, it's an action. I don't need to return anything, it's an action. It's not going to modify that editable value. Now, this is just like we had that add action, sorry, add action, and then thank you, thank you. You can finish the talk, I've just lost all privileges to talk about this anymore because I forgot that right here. Thank you very much. So yes, do action, just like do action, apply filters is what your plug-ins or WordPress core or you are going to do to start that filter to give it the data that you need here, here, here. There's editable value and then whatever other arguments you need to give it and then modify it and it outputs there. I can't believe this is on, somebody likes me. Okay, so why would we use a filter? Well, filters have a lot of really important things that they can do. One of the main ones is with any form plug-in that you use, filters can be extremely important. If you want to validate a field, if you have a field like on GitHub, you want to delete a repo and GitHub says, you have to type the name of this repo before you can delete it, how does it do that? Well, we can do that with WordPress. We can do it with a filter that calls in to that request as it returns. And if you add filters to validate that form, you can check the name of the repo versus the input value and if it doesn't match, you can send that filter along as invalid. So every single form plug-in that I've seen in WordPress, all the major ones have these form validation things. There are a lot of other ways to use filters, but I'm going to take a little bit of a different path because I'm supposed to finish talking in very few minutes. So I'm going to use Ajax load more. Has anybody used that? It's moderately interesting. A couple of people have used it. It's not like ACFs, but it is really powerful and it's a way that you can make these beautiful cards load. I haven't really done anything to the CSS to make these cards look special. This is just what Ajax load more does. And so we've got a whole bunch of posts and it loads a couple and it's just a short code. So I put it the short code on there and install the plug-in and it loads a couple posts and then it loads a couple more as you scroll down. So it does that Ajax that loads more and more and more and more. So if you have 3,000 posts, your page isn't going to break. So this is great, but what I'd really like is I'd really like the featured posts to be up on top. And the featured post is just a little ACF checkbox that I've made inside of that post. So it's post meta featured is one, featured equals one. So I know how to get to it and I know how to WP query, but I'm not doing that. Ajax load more is doing that. And Ajax load more uses short codes and they're very, very helpful, but they don't do this because I don't only want featured posts. They do have short code arguments that you can pass to give you a WP meta query, but I don't want that. I only want to order by that and I want to order by whatever else is currently being ordered. In this case, date. I want the most recent posts to always be first, but I want my featured posts to come above that. That's really super complicated. And so with our short code here, you can see that we've got a pretty basic short code that we are ordering by the default, which is the post published date in which way is that. Descending order. So the most recent first and that's all. That's all we have here, but Ajax load more, like tons of plugins and tons of resources out there has a lot of beautiful hooks that we can use. And in this case, they have this ALM query args where you can hook into the query and filter the query and return whatever you want the query to be. So we're going to add a filter for this ID right here, custom ALM.  So if you have other ones on the page, it's not gonna affect them. We're going to take two arguments, which is the arguments and then the ID. And you're going to give this callback here.  So here is that callback. Again, I'm trusting that you know WP query is usually accepting an array. And in this case, ALM sets a lot of defaults that we should not change in that array. For example, posts per page. If I change this value, the ALM is gonna break and it's gonna do something that's not expected. Same with offset. ALM is gonna modify this term. So if I tried to change that, then bad, bad things would happen. So there are some things I can't change. So instead, I'm gonna use this array key saving notation instead of creating a brand new array to pass to the WP query. This is another one that's a default, but it's an example of how we're telling the WP query array what to do. So in this case, we're gonna use the meta query first sort featured.  And we're going to look for the key featured. That's our ACF checkbox that we have that says whether the post is a featured post or not. And we are not going to put a value there. If we put the value there, it's only gonna return featured posts. We don't want that. So we're only gonna do it this way. So this is great. And this gives us the meta query that we need to do what we need. But now we have to order the post. We can't change the order that we're already ordering by. We have to modify it. So this is where it gets super complicated. The first one is if there is no order by in your query, you can just make it sort by featured. Unfortunately, there will always be an order by in your query. Sometimes it's going to be an array of many things that you're ordering. In which case, you're going to need to use array on shift and put your featured at the top of that. So it starts by featuring by what you said and then it features by the rest of the things. Otherwise, ALM likes to use a shortcut for order by where instead of making that an array, it just puts a string of the name of the thing that we're ordering by, in this case, post date. So it would just say args order by equals post date, that string. So if we try to array on shift on that, it's gonna say that's not an array. I don't know what's going on. It's gonna throw an error and it's not gonna work. So if it is an array, or if it's not an array, we have to make an array. We have to take the existing args order by and we have to put it after our first sort featured and then return args so that it runs. So if we do that here, now our featured post comes up on top and the rest come after that. Cool? Okay. So we have two kinds of, ah, sorry folks. We have two kinds of hooks. We have actions and filters and if we use them effectively, they're really good. The last thing that I would say is that there are a lot of folks out there who have tried to consolidate and give this in useful format. So if you take this talk and then you go any further in your own development, you might wanna start with Rachel Vasquez. Her site is an older one, but this is an extremely useful, an extremely useful resource for something that's a little bit more simplified. Then you've got Adam R. Brown and the WordPress.org documents, which is gonna be where you're gonna see that, like every post that is fired in or every action and hook that's fired in order on every page type and you get everything that you possibly need. So from that, are there any questions or last minute things there? Is that a live site? Yes, yeah, I can expose this for you on our stuff. It's also, there's a GitHub repo that I said I put up at the very end here and that is, come on. Benjiva Immortal Slash Get Hooked. So this here is the full theme that's very, very small. This is the full theme that I used for this presentation. So all the slides are basically in here. It has instructions on how to do that. It's got the links from the end of this talk here for you and everything else. So hope you enjoyed it and learned a little bit more about actions and hooks. So I hope I got you hooked.


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Hello everybody, welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2021 tutorial. In this one I took a request and one of my I guess followers has asked me to show them how to animate something across the screen and what that basically what we're doing is I'm going to show you how to have a logo in this case but it can be anything. Basically start off the screen, come onto the screen and then go out the other side and I'll show you a few tips and tricks while we're here. So let's just get started. The first step here is I've got some footage in the background. This is just stock footage and it's a lady inside a phone booth. Yeah, what the heck's a phone booth? Where's your cell phone? Oh well, anyways, the second step let's just keep rolling is I've got an image here. This is a Vancouver Canuck logo and I'm going to drag and drop it onto my timeline. The first thing I'm going to do besides resizing it is I'm going to increase the length of the image here so that it fits the exact length of the video beneath it. The second step is I'm going to select the logo or the image that I've placed in here and when I do that I'm going to go look at the effect controls panel. For me I'm just going to double click on it and then I'm going to grab one of these sides with a bounding box and I'm just going to reduce the size because it's a bit too big and I'm holding down the shift key so that it reduces in size proportionately. Now I'm going to just keep holding it down and I'm going to move this to the bottom left side and now this is traditionally how you would go ahead and place a logo and now I can show you to animate it. The tricky part here though is that it's very difficult to get it on and off the screen. What you need to do and it's going to be weird, but you actually want to go here to the zoom level and instead of having it set to fit which I believe is a default for everybody, we're going to drop it down to about 50 percent and there's a reason for that and here it is. I'm going to go ahead now and select double click on the logo and what you need to do is making sure you don't hold down here in the middle anywhere outside of it. I'm going to hold down the shift key and I'm going to move it, I'm going to try and move it, I'm going to move it to the left and you'll see here now that it has actually started outside so we are outside the screen and it is going to go and animate onto the screen. I'm going to let go and the next step here and this is a very important one is you need to go to your effect controls panel and left click on that toggle animation stopwatch. Left clicking, perfect. Now it's disappeared and that's very frustrating because I didn't want that to happen but it always happens. The way to go ahead and see it is you just left click again on motion and that is not usually clear and it's a little frustrating because it's not intuitive but if you left click back on the video under motion you'll get the bounding box on there. The next step here is we've set a keyframe for the beginning and you'll see here by that little triangle there. Now we're going to go to the let's say we're going to go to the middle of it somewhere around here four seconds and at the four second mark I want this image to this logo to have gone across the screen and out the other side so I'm going to hold that down I'm going to hold down the shift key and that way it goes the whole way and it goes straight line and then I'm going to just go ahead and pull it out to the other side and when I do that let's see what happens I'm going to move this back to the beginning and I'm going to hit spacebar and you'll see it go come on and there we go the image has gone on and off the screen inside Premiere Pro. That's how we solve that issue guys thanks for watching this tutorial I got a ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned.


Being here, I thought we would just start with a spitball, whatever comes to mind, low sex drive. Nothing. Exactly. Hi there, lovers and friends. So I kept that bit of silence in the video because I felt like it was perfectly telling of what it's like to go through low sex drive since people don't talk about it in fear of being judged. And hopefully with that video, we can help to change the culture. Now one in 10 women in the U.S. has hypoactive sexual desire disorder. That's millions of women, some in their 20s, who need solutions, need advice, but above all else, need to be heard. And with that in mind, I invited five very brave, incredible individuals to the table to discuss low sex drive, including HSDD, which is low sex drive that a woman finds frustrating. And I want to introduce you to Sam, Lulu, Skye, Brooke, and Alana. And in the spirit of sharing their truth for some of these women for the very first time, I decided to ask that question again. So tell us candidly, what is it like to go through low sex drive? Low energy. Low energy. A lot of self-confidence. Yeah, that's a good one. Disappointing. Pressure. Pressure comes to mind. Less ways to connect.  Oh, wow. Yeah. There's a word, satya, and it means the truth. The reality of what we are and what we're feeling. And it's insane how valuable it is to not only understand yourself, but to be able to express that. But when I do try to talk about it, it's always misunderstood or mis-express. Like, I couldn't find the words to express what was happening to me. What Lulu said about not having the words describe her low libido is an extremely common thread. So with this video, language was really important to me to ensure that I gave you the tools to express yourself as accurately and as clearly as possible. And in order to do that, I needed some help. So I reached out to Unblush to partner with them.   Plus, they have a ton of resources on their site, including real stories, FAQs, and articles, so that women who are struggling with HSDD can turn their distress into a strike. They are experts in this space and unblush.com has been a massive resource for me when it comes to my own research into HSDD. And if you're sitting there thinking, well, what exactly is HSDD? Don't worry, you are right on schedule. Hit the lights.  It has been recognized by the medical community for decades. HSDD is the most common sexual dysfunction in women and affects about one in 10 in the US, some as young as 20.  It is also associated with negative emotional states, including frustration, hopelessness, anger, poor self-esteem, and loss of femininity. Myself and unblush want us all to live in a world where HSDD and frustrating low sex drive is not taboo or embarrassing, but instead, widely understood and above all else discussed with empathy and action, especially since HSDD can be treated. Welcome back now that you know the basics. Let's dive back into the women's stories. I asked each of them to describe their personal experience with low sex drive. I was like 20 to 22. I was living with my now ex-fiance and just feeling that I just didn't like I didn't want him to like touch me. I didn't want to like him to lay in the bed with me.  My experience with low sex drive really began after this really long relationship I had with one of my best friends and him and I. Really struggled with the sex part. And after that relationship, I kind of went on the other end of the spectrum and I was just like having fun and just doing what I wanted. And I was really enjoying it. And then all of a sudden like I wasn't and I was like, OK, I don't know. It's so complicated. The whole you just haven't met the right person yet is the most invalidating thing ever. And it's so frustrating. So I'm still figuring it out. Got a therapy session on Tuesday. Thank you. Love therapy. I've kind of tumbled through the last five years through phases of a very high sexual drive and very low sexual drive. So it's been a lot of reflection and a lot of kind of trying to figure out what it correlates with in regards to the relationships that I fell in and out of and how it correlated with my physical activity moving so much at times. It was very hard, it was very hard. Heavy on relationships, but more so heavy on myself, on my energy and on my confidence and on my my desire to kind of follow my dreams and to fulfill myself. I experienced that when I did have this low sexual drive and I wasn't attracted to people, my creativity and my desire to create in general was just very low. So that was very hard. I was in a committed relationship with a girl with a woman and she I fell into a depression and ended up taking an anti-depressant that really just, you know, so my sex drive is already limited. But even with her, I didn't want her to do anything to me at that point. Like I would be totally fine pleasing her. But like, yeah, didn't want her to touch me. And so that was a weird point of tension in the relationship, even just as a kid, maybe 12, 13 years old when all my friends in school were like, oh, my God, this guy's so hot or like crushing on this guy and whatnot. Like, what does that even mean? Like it took several years till I found the the label asexual and was able to kind of find other people who were like me. It's important to note that there's a difference between HSDD and low sex drive or asexuality. The main one being that HSDD is characterized by a frustration with the lack of sex drive and a desire to see an increase. Whereas in Sam, for example, who identifies as asexual is not looking for a solution. Instead, she accepts her lack of drive as a part of her intimate truth or a sky would call it her satia. However, for people who are frustrated by the lack of drive, one of the more frustrating things on top of that is those who believe that the solution is as easy as just changing your mindset. I had an experience where because you kind of brought this up into my head where I was like, OK, just do it.  Like I was it was very dry down there. Like things started making sounds, things started hurting. And it was just like, I can't think myself into it because I had a moment where I was like, OK, I could just, you know, think about it and it's just going to happen. And it was like that that moment was like the worst experience I ever had with my partner at the time. Now, you may have noticed that Lulu mentioned dryness or other malfunctions when she tried to initiate sex.  So when you talk to your doctor, make sure you mention everything that you're experiencing so that your doctor has all of the information they need to properly help you to me.  That's dishonoring my art in a way. That's dishonoring my emotions and my feelings.  But I think communication is just so insanely important to be able to talk with your partner with a loved one and explain to them how you're feeling and maybe how to go about it. Even if you don't know and communication is so wonderful, but it's not the answer to everything. It's just a tool to find the answer.  I think that's another reason why I don't connect with people like that is because I did try to communicate. And every time I would try to communicate with him, it was like, well, you just needed this. And then it was just a quick shutdown. Yeah. So I was just like, aren't we in this together? Just like Lulu did, a lot of people do try to go to their partners for support, but because there is a lack of public awareness of this dysfunction, when partners hear, hey, I just don't have the desire I used to, they can interpret that as I don't have the desire for you that I used to. And for many, that couldn't be any further from the truth. HSDD impacts more than someone's drive with just their partner. It also extends into other areas like not having sporadic, sexual thoughts or desires at all, not responding to erotic materials. And finally, not having a drive to masturbate. I would say when my sexual drive was normal, I would do that fairly regularly, like a few times a week. It would help me go to sleep sometimes because, you know, climaxing makes you tired. So and experiencing low sex, low sex drive, I don't really have the, the, I don't, yeah, I don't have the urge to do that. It's really like a last resort thing. If I can't sleep, that maybe happens like once a month. So, yeah, it's just not there. The desire is just not there. So across the board. Across the board, yeah, even with myself. So in that way, that's why I was like, oh, I should see a doctor about this. Because in that way, I'm like, that's not normal for me. It was the same way I was like going through the mechanisms in my head. And it just felt so disconnected that I was like, I'm not doing this. Like, I mean, I got like rivers and everything was flowing, but it was just like I don't feel anything. If you want to masturbate and you do, that's a form of self love and self care. But if you intend to masturbate with the intention of heightening your sex drive, it's never worked out that direction for me. HSDD is not a choice.  As a matter of fact, a lot of HSDD treatments are referred to as the female Viagra and on one hand, that's helpful because it helps people understand that HSDD often requires medical treatment. On the other hand, it causes a lot of confusion about what the difference actually is. Someone break it down for you.  While HSDD is when someone does not have a drive to have sex and they find that lack of drive extremely frustrating. Think about it like this. A rectile dysfunction is like wanting to go out, get it in your car.  But what both dysfunctions have in common is stigma and the stigma in HSDD is so strong that it prevents majority of women from going to the doctors to discuss medical treatment options. So I asked the group has stigma prevented you from going to a doctor and asking if there's something that can help. I was just I was always scared and kind of a shame to even ask that because we're like humans and it's like it's supposed to be in our nature. So I didn't want to feel defective or like just weird in any way. So no, that's funny that you say that because that's the exact reason I did talk to my doctor was like, we're humans. I'm lacking this. I should talk about it. And then the reaction she gave me just was just dismissive. So I'm like, OK, well, find someone else. You know, even though I love her like I love my doctor, but she just didn't get it. So I guess for me, the only reason I did end up talking to my doctor was because I went in to talk about my depression and all of that. And so like it came up as well, possible side effects might be this. And so like I kind of knew it was coming, you know, in terms of yeah, taking the medication and like that might follow up. It's important to note that antidepressants, particularly selective serotonin, reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs have been shown to impact one sex drive. As Alana did, please be sure to talk to your doctor if you're on antidepressants and experiencing low sex drive. I'm so interested to know how we would go about dealing with low sex drive if we were fearless, like caution and safety considered. But if we weren't afraid to talk to our friends about it, we weren't afraid to talk to our partners. If we weren't afraid to ask our doctor or to try new things. I really am curious, like what that would look like. All right, so as we just saw, going to the doctors to discuss HSDD is not everyone's ideal entry point. In fact, a study of over 3,000 found that people suffering from low sex drive that was frustrating did not want to talk to their doctor because one, they were embarrassed or two, they feared that it wouldn't be taken seriously. And that is why over 80 percent of people who have frustrating low sex drive do not seek out medical help and find a solution that's right for them. And I think that has to change, but we got to meet people where they are. So if you do go to a doctor, for example, you will probably be given what is known as a decreased sexual desire screener test, which finds out if you are a candidate for an HSDD diagnosis. Well, unblushed.com has something similar called an HSDD symptom checker quiz. So I had everyone in the group do this quiz together to see if it brought up any topics that we hadn't yet addressed. And it's asking how the sex drive relates to poor body image. And I would say that it does. But I'm not quite sure which direction that flows. It may be both. Definitely when I have I'm having problems with body image, I definitely feel lower sexual drive. I'm not so sure low sex drive makes me feel any discomfort with my body, though. Like I said, I feel like generally when I've been experiencing low sex drive, I feel very low in my energy and passion in general. So I'm sure that makes sense as to why I didn't feel as though I had as much excitement to share with my partner. I have to open up. I have to get deep and am I ready to get deep? Yeah, part of that your responsibility is being open and recognizing that you're afraid of it or it's scary and uncomfortable and then doing it anyway, assuming it's a safe place to do so or safe relationship to do so. But the practice really makes such a difference because the more you do it, the more you have that conversation with different people, the easier it gets and the more you start to learn again, your own inner language of how to express. I have one that says we're not we're not connecting as much. And I think this is a really interesting question because personally throughout the two relationships that I did experience low sex drive, I definitely experienced a lack of wanting to connect in ways other than just through sex, I found like myself within a lack of passion. I'm comfortable opening up and talking. I just think it's just after receiving someone's reaction to what I'm saying, it makes me discouraged. And it's not always going to go great, but I think that you'll find something valuable out of it. I love to ask, I know even Sam, this is for you being here is you putting yourself in a situation that was very uncomfortable. I would like to check with you guys, how did today go for you? How do you feel today was like a big step because I know my family is going to see this and they're very like preservative and like punch my prayers and you're not talking about sex. You can just do it one time permits it. So I felt very nervous, but then I'm just like, I have to be my own person and be my like create this life for me, not just this narrative that was given to me. So I got comfortable as I started talking. Yeah, just being able to actually talk to people about these kinds of things and not have it be so internal. That's been cool because I haven't really talked to anybody about a lot of these things. And I want to be a part of this. Like I want to be a part of a revolution of people that feel much more comfortable talking about these kind of taboo things because I think it's so beneficial. And I do I feel a lot better after talking and hearing about everybody's experiences and I just I really, I really wish this kind of safe space upon people who needed it and also not just for people for women. Women were we were taught to be ladies. Like we can't talk about sex or we can't like explore that part of ourselves openly. And I feel like I've known that I was different from my aunts and my cousins for a while, but I just couldn't like pinpoint like what what was really different about me. And now I know that there's a lot of things different about me.  I always say to myself, it's OK not to know everything, what you know, you know, and what you don't, you will learn. I would say there's just there's nothing wrong with you, per se. You are valid. You are valid. Yeah. Like there is no normal in terms of sex and sexuality. And like I'm still struggling with feeling abnormal sometimes. But like I would just say like just know there's nothing wrong. Yeah, don't be ashamed. There's so much more pleasure that I can receive in my body that isn't inherently sexual and so it doesn't have to be like intercourse. It doesn't have to be masturbation. Like there's so many other ways that my body can feel pleasure that could be sexual, could be just sensual. And so like my journey with exploring that has been really fun lately because I'm like, whoa, there's like a whole playground and I was only told about the slide. But there's like swings and a seesaw and a merry-go-round. There's so much more. I love that. Yeah, thank you. I feel like I'm like that's where I'm heading, like the exploration. Because I know I'm very sensual, like I like touches, I like smells, I like this. I know that about myself. Create space for yourself and honor that space regardless of whether people can or will most definitely and be honest, even at the expense of feeling scared. Thank you so much to the group for such an incredibly candid and powerful conversation. In addition, I want to say a massive thank you to the sponsor of this video, Unblush. Thank you for the work that you do. Thank you for providing a space to hold a discussion that has been kept in the dark for far too long. If you or someone that you know is struggling with HSDD or low sex drive, that is frustrating, I urge you to go over to unblush.com to find more resources. You can also find the symptom checker quiz that we did in this video on that site. And so in the info box below, you can find the links to that. And if you scroll down a little further after you hit some links, leave a comment, do you have an experience with low sex drive that you want to share? And if so, let's keep the discussion going.


out of place message from from uh... think back saying forces are ready in weather forecast favorable for strikes against targets forty eight nine that's high-flying and i don't know if you're well wednesday after uh... eleven hundred hours which means eleven hundred eight hours which means eleven p.m. tonight and i'd like to go ahead and issue the authority of acceptable view all right uh... i've talked to buzzy agrees we got to anybody else that comes quicker than i thought i was hoping we could do it friday here you're quite right i told you know we've got we've got to we've got three things happening we've got ball testifying before full right thursday that's bad we've got to go leaving thursday come back to moscow wrapping up thursday leaving friday morning we got my going into the midwest on thursday those three events are pretty pretty important i'm going to talk to you about it this morning on in connection with thursday that's why i'm just thinking out loud now just to review this i don't think that we much position say anything to these they ask you this bob what do you think uh... you familiar with the historical battleship main what happens to our tanker there if we get the same proposition what's going to be their response i'm not let me say i'm not absolutely sure that there is any tanker there right at the moment and the first one didn't finish unloading within it's a lot of time of seven days that's what we can tell and it was to leave uh... early in order to let the second one in the first one leaving without finishing unloading the second one doing uh... today or last night their time i'm not absolutely positive there's one there today but if one is there now the chances of hitting it are small if we do hit it i think it's really serious i think it's serious where you're sitting there uh... let's put you in the line and their position i think it's serious mr president but i think that that we have told the russians that there clearly is that we put it in writing that we have done everything possible to avoid antagonizing them military conflict and i think while it would be serious and while we would have a very strong protest i myself doubt that uh... it would lead to any military action as a matter of fact the appraisals are that if we put a if we mind the harbor and stop Soviet ships from coming in there won't lead to military action so if we get the tanker uh... i doubt that it would lead to military action i i nonetheless recognize it as a serious action and i think that we must do everything possible to avoid it i think it extremely unlikely that we could plan the operation so that weather and no tanker would coincide as best we can tell they're having difficulties moving p o l out of my phone with the result that it takes longer to unload these vessels than it formally did and since they're sending three tankers a month in there since under best of circumstances takes about seven days per tanker you can see that the month's pretty full and uh... this third tanker doing this month apparently has been diverted to Shanghai because they didn't have enough time to unload at night so the possibility of getting a coincidence of good weather and no tanker is damn small uh... but you do feel there's a possibility today well that's what the message says no i i know i shouldn't say there's a part i just don't know for sure that at the minute there's a tanker there i could find out a few hours probably if there isn't a tanker there today it's just your coincidence it's the fact that the first one's moving out the second one moving in so i don't want to give you the wrong impression the probabilities are there's a tanker there now all right now that that is eleven hour time tonight it's eleven p.m. tonight our time do you think of any other things we ought to do no i don't think so i think we want to do what was your what significance you give rest of our yesterday i didn't put any particular significance on it i thought he was uh... more or less uh... trying to firm things up a little bit well i think i'd like to say something to us to go ahead well i thought so too but i didn't he didn't have any real doubts in his mind when he left as best i could tell he sort of wished we could put the problem behind us but he didn't know how to do that and under the circumstances though we should go ahead and i thought that was essentially the way i think now what we've got to analyze very very carefully and we have like before we before we execute i think we've got to say do we get enough out of this the price would pay the hard kids are all they're starting their campaign tomorrow on the senate floor well let me have got an article this morning on exactly that point and i think the answer is that this is just a minor incident in the war it's almost an incident you can't avoid taking i don't see how you can go on fighting out there without doing this gradually frankly i don't think you keep them rally your troops up i don't think you keep them around the people in the country support you up without doing this we're at about that point now in addition to that i myself believe it has military value although i don't for the minute put the weight on it but i don't put the cost on it that some in state do i don't put the cost on it that george ball does for example i don't believe any soviet experts including tommy thompson put the cost on it that george ball does what do you think we ought to do now with state assuming you wanted to do this uh... i'd be inclined to send out the execute order i don't like to do these on a half-assed basis and they do need some time to be absolutely sure that they have authority to do it take all the necessary precautions preparation i'd send out the execute order now if you want to do it later in the day you want to cancel we can't always cancel but it's much easier to then execute now and cancel later than it is defer a decision and then late today send out an execute so i'd send out the execute now and then maybe it at noontime or even later in the afternoon talk to george ball that the only thing that needs to be done i think that hasn't really been done thoroughly is to go over our plans for announcing this after it's done i i think that needs further work i'd like to get george and walton myself personally going to that late in the day yes i thought about that yesterday and thought we ought to spend some of the time today at lunch and i think in the light of the editorial this morning you probably ought to try to see two or three members of that board here at the post maybe bradley and yeah and wiggie and wiggie those three people because it's pretty good editorial this morning yes bob i would go ahead with this suggestion you make then we'll talk then you feel free to cancel later in the day and we can always do that what i want you to carefully weigh is uh... you gave just now when you talk about your troops i wish you'd just build two columns for us to let us just look at and think carefully because we might we might have a lot of problems in the morning we don't have to nap you're right we might have to nap early in we might have lots of places now what is going to flow from this we know that we'll we'll get some temporary approval but if things go bad that won't last very long what do we get out of it really things are going reasonably well in the south yes i think so what are these six thousand men doing they're trying to locate the enemy i see and they run them in the cave yeah i think about that but it's a small it's just so typical mr president they're relatively small enemy force we think we're we're uh... taking a heavy toll on them but it just scares me to see what we're doing there with taking six thousand u.s. soldiers god knows how many airplanes and helicopters and firepower and going after a bunch of half-starved beggars at two thousand at most and probably less than that and this is what's going on in the south and the great danger not a certainty but it's that danger we need to look at it is that that they can keep that up almost indefinitely well i'd say was there manpower resources they have they can't yeah that's the point the only thing that will prevent it president is their morale breaking and if we we've hurt them enough it isn't so much that they don't have more men as it is that they can't get the men to fight because the men know that once they get assigned to that task their chances of living are small i i myself believe that the only chance we have a winning and that's one reason i in favor of this pll because there's no question but what the troops in the south of the bc in north east of the troops in the south ultimately become aware of what's going on in the north we see this through the interrogation of the prisoner reports i've been trying to watch those carefully to see what comes through those and they know that we're bombing in the north now they know we haven't uh... destroyed the place so that uh... in a sense our bombing is fully effective but they also know that nobody is protecting our bit and we just have a free reign and we bomb this pll ultimately that will become known for the north vietnamese soldiers the vietnam in the south and it's just one more foundation brick knocked away from their support when they see they're getting killed in such high rates in the south and they see that the supplies are are less likely to come down to the north i think you'll just hurt their morale a little bit more and to me that's the only way to win because we're we're not killing enough of them make it impossible for the north to continue to fight but we are killing enough to destroy the morale of those people down there they think it's going to go on forever all right, go ahead Bob, thanks


Hello Marlene's fellow sniffers today. I have hacked Marlene's YouTube So you're gonna only see me yours truly Jenna McCullen and today I want to talk to you about my relationship with each bird now before I get into that I want to just say that the reason I hack Marlene's YouTube is because as you all know She's in Ireland and my very very smart sister decided to take all the footage that I could edit for her Her going to Ireland. It was also kind of like a vacation. Why not let her relax? She probably will post some videos maybe of Ireland her everyday posts that she does, but I have no videos to edit So I'm making my own so in case I need to do another one which I would love to do I was thinking of the next one would be why don't you guys leave comment or I mean In the comment section leave questions that you'd like to ask me and maybe I answer them that could be a really fun video I'd like to do that video I know you guys have a lot of questions because Marlene also told me that you guys ask to have me on this show Which I really really love and I really appreciate and I'm truly humbled by it So if you guys do have questions for me leave them below and hopefully I can make a different video Of me answering them so even if it's not next Sunday or this coming Tuesday I definitely will do it another time even when Marlene's back So since this is my point of view, let's start from the beginning I have lived with the birds my entire life when I was born we had Dooley and Marlene probably has talked to you about Dooley But if you don't know about Dooley Dooley was a little yellow cockatiel that my dad got my sister my relationship with Dooley was Not really developed now. I know not all birds are scared of kids, but in our experience We've definitely come across birds that absolutely are like what is this little human? I cannot handle it get it away for me It's too hyper birds don't like that I've noticed personally growing up with birds is that they like persistence Patience and calmness if you're allowed, they'll be loud if you're nervous, they're nervous So as I got older, I definitely Observed Dooley. We also had other birds. There was this other cockatiel that we had and I'm pretty sure his name was Bruce I'm not sure. I don't know if I named him or I couldn't pronounce he ate his name I had a very difficult with speech and I remember continuously observing them I probably was a little creepy to them, but I remember looking in the cage and being like Whoa, look at them eat or look at them make their little noises And although I couldn't hold them like Marlene does and created the bond like they do I really respected them. It was cool to just see this other type of creature I don't know if Marlene has mentioned this before but she definitely says that maybe I'm the dog person And this is just because birds made a big impact in Marlene's life like she loved these pets She knew right away. She's a bird whisperer. She knew right away like how to handle them I don't know how old she was when she first got a bird But I'm pretty sure she was 10 and at 10 years old I was like not calm enough for birds even at 10 like Dooley was not having it with me Not having it. No bird was having it with me at 10. I was just all over the place So the pet that made an impact on my life was definitely a dog So I'm known as the dog person, but I love all animals So the first interaction I had with a bird and truly focused and took my time and like saw us get the bird And everything was tied and this was when we lived in America And so with Ty, I think I was about 14 and I was just able to observe and then react So I definitely had bad moments with Ty. Ty definitely loves At first what we thought loves males more, but now he's obsessed with my brother's girlfriend CEO Don't know how she got his love But she did because Ty used to love Danny my brother like obsessed. They were inseparable Ty definitely was adjusting a little bit to moving with us because he had a previous owner who unfortunately couldn't take care of him And it it was it was a progress to get Ty to trust us at that time Ty Allowed me to learn how to get birds to trust you and that's truly patience persistence and Giving them their space and letting them come to you now with that information When marlene gets a new bird or when I don't want to say marlene's bird But when we get a new bird or I I like to use what I learned from ty Or even george george the african gray was a big big part of like that Really allowed me to dig further because he's a very intelligent bird And he even needs his own little space and he and he you can tell like when he gives you a look At like no don't pick me up now or I don't trust you quite yet or what are you doing? Or if he does want a head scratch african grays are great in that so but we'll get to george in a second so when I moved to california and Marlene had george picasso and jersey I was definitely a little hesitant. In fact, I was scared of jersey believe it or not I was I literally was scared. She was gonna bite me or or she was going to randomly like cuddle me and then Be scared and run away and I somehow by accident drop her or she saw something and she jumped I was so hesitant because ty was a very difficult bird And although ty is a lesser sulfured crested cockatoo and jerseys an umbrella cockatoo I still Didn't understand how drastic of a personality each bird could have as you all know jersey And I have a great relationship jerseys obsessed with me And I think it's because when I first moved in with her I have no bird. They're all chilling They like literally I mean, they're not really chilling code. He's slightly freaking out I don't know why he's on like a whole different level than the other two you want to come here I need a bird in my video And everyone keeps asking about you Yeah, so when I first moved in with them Jersey was the one of the easiest bonds to make for me because she was very interested in me She is not a biter probably has never even bitten me at all She does play hard to get sometimes with me meaning like in the mornings when I wake up and then she wakes up She doesn't want to necessarily come to me right away But you can tell she wants to be next to me because she'll be antsy and want to try to see where I am All the time also when I come to give her my hand. She's like no, no, no, no I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this and she'll back up as if like I told her her sweatshirt today doesn't look good And that takes about probably an hour or hour and a half even two hours in the morning for her to like I don't know. I don't even know what this means. I don't know why I think this is what's happening with her But I swear it's like she wants to see me. She wants to know I'm here She wants to be in the same room with me, but she won't necessarily step up to me Now this is kind of recent. This is definitely her personality coming out You know what since I'm talking about jersey, why don't we bring jersey? You want to do come on? She's doing that thing now because I'm here with a lot of birds. That's another thing if she sees me interact with other birds She gets very upset. She'll restart that whole I'm mad at you and I'm playing hard to get thing So she's definitely a jealous bird and she's specifically jealous if I I feed another bird Now I definitely can cuddle jersey if anything were to happen like meaning something scares her or you know She's on a person and a person is like a little bit nervous. She'll come to me right away I'd have to say jersey is one of the birds that trusts me the most Unless she's in her state of jealousy, then she she'll be like, um, excuse me. Who are you? What's your name? Oh, no, no, no, no. You can't pick me up. You paid attention to vinny today You know, I'd play I chase her around the house to the little hopping videos I hide and she has to come find me. She's definitely a very fun bird to have You know, she's a good bird to watch tv with especially like after you feed her and she's comfortable and had some playtime She's a good good bird to study with and she's just overall not too scary She's a very predictable bird and you can tell when something upsets her Or something bothers her and how she's going to react towards you That is a very good bond that I feel that I have with jersey And I think it's a very unique bond and I think that you know, anyone to have a bond like jersey and I is lucky You definitely though need to have the patience patience is key to get from no bond or connection with your bird To a bond or a connection with your bird and persistence now that i'm talking about persistence and patience This brings me into george again to not fight like me george. We're definitely not step up at all He was not a bird that was too interested in anyone But marlene and that's not a bad thing african grays bond with their mate or their owner Better than they do with anyone else. They're kind of really monogamous In that way So I had to take cody downstairs and put him in the aviary because he's so antsy He's flying everywhere in the aviary. He can fly. He can chew. He can explore and it's just so much better for him I thought I really wanted him to be in the video with me because one you guys have been asking for him all the time And second because while I'm talking about my bonds with him, I'd like to have him in the video So my relationship with george Definitely progressed. It progressed at first. He wouldn't let me pick him up and he was just like, who are you human? Why are you even trying to talk to me and slowly slowly? I started giving him his favorite treats not to him But like I'd put him in his bowl and then once that happened and and something made him fly or maybe let's say jersey Scared him and they were just kind of like not in good terms for that play time and he flies I'd be like, it's okay. It's okay. Like I'll help you I'm here for you and he wouldn't step up at first but you can tell he wanted to come to me because He's kind of a fatty so flying for him was very exhausting even one flight So this is a technique. I have used I show I take a cloth and I put it around my hand And what usually george used to do and cody does this too. I actually do this with cody too I'm in the process of like getting rid of this already So you would go to bite it and then the reaction of you not Hesitating or not being scared. They're like, oh, they're not scared of me. Okay So I'm just gonna step up and so it shows that you have confidence because if you approach the situation confidently They will be confident and feel more calm. So me of coming like this I'm not hesitating because if they do try to bite me it doesn't hurt and I'm confident And then they see me as a confident person and a person that wants to pick him up So then after all I didn't even need this and I don't know why I need this with african graze But I do and I think it's a really good trick because again confidence is everything with birds and If you don't have confidence they will sense that and be nervous So after we got over that I could say step up george come on And he would step up no matter what I never got nervous about it. I was totally confident about it Maybe he'd like, you know, pinch my thumb while you hold his little feet and he'd bite it and it wouldn't hurt But like it was just kind of like he's trying to like game bus like I want marlene I want marlene and then after a while george could hang out next to me Like if I were doing this video, he'd probably be right here or on my shoulder and I wouldn't even bother He wouldn't he would trust me. There's a trust. It wasn't I couldn't pick him up and kiss them Or missa I massage his head just a little but I couldn't like, you know, like love on him Like marlene does now because I'm talking about african graze. Let's go to cody cody is similar to that Um, cody is though more hyper and more outgoing than george Like definitely having him fly all over the place and even gonna put him in the aviary That's not how george was george had maybe bursts of like five to ten minutes of like here's the highlighter And he'd like chew chew chew chew or or like he'd want he'd see a piece of wood or a piece of paper and like he just You know want to play but then we last five or ten minutes cody on the other hand a little bit of a handful He definitely is interested in everything flies to everything. He's like, what's this chew chew chew? What's that? There's a drawer. Let's open the drawer. What's in the drawer? Oh my god This is amazing and then like you're like, okay. He likes the drawer Let me like put toys in it.  Where can I fly to now where what who he's just hyper And so my bond with cody is definitely much slower because he really doesn't trust me And it's also because I around the time we got him. I was always with joey So it's as if I was basically living out at the house And so I didn't get that time like I did with george where like every morning I'd wake up You know really give him juice and you know talk to george and be like george Do you want some juice and he'd be like juice and he'd know cody's a little bit more skittish than george George was just like, I'm sorry. Everyone's flying and freaking out the world could end in george or just be like Where's my carrot? Where's my cheese? I want beans. So he was definitely more put together cody's very like Who made that noise? Oh my god, there's a toy over there.   What are you making? What's over there? What's on the stove? How does the stove work? How does this work?  Who's here?  I'm gonna cook right here. He's like, what are you cooking?  I mean, it's just cody's a handful He is actually you wouldn't think so because marlene's just so used to it marlene's again is a bird whisperer So like to her his behavior is just like just adorable and she can handle it and it's no big deal And the only reason it's hard for me is because again I need to build that bond with him and I need to make make him trust me Because even if he doesn't necessarily love me or want to hang out with me or want me to scratch his head In a situation when now i'm babysitting I need to know if there was like, you know Any sort of natural disaster or maybe he's not feeling well and I need to take him to the vet god forbid or We randomly need to move. I don't know I need the bird to know and I need to feel confident myself that like I can at least pick him up safely and put him in a travel Cage or I can pick him up and take him to a location that he needs to be Especially if like little things like maybe he right now is flying around and he was flew on a Flew on something and make sure he's not going to ruin anything That kind of stuff is very important for me with all the birds that you know that we have because I just want to make sure I can be the best bird parent or babysitter that I can be definitely codie I'm still working on this four or five days alone without george halali It's good because now like I said, I use this technique on codie. I need it sometimes when he knows he did something bad He's like, no, I don't oh, what did I do? Oh, I chewed the box that's on the counter and like, you know, he gets all weird I'll have to use this But then if I'm like codie, do you want to come upstairs? Do you want to go outside? Do you want to hang out? Do you want food? He'll step up to me in that way. So that's pretty awesome I'm definitely glad and I got that only like from yesterday and today and that's to me That's a success and I'm very excited to see where my relationship goes with co with codie because marlene Does this thing where she'll grab them and twist them and like I'm dying to do that Oh, actually I did jersey and I didn't do Picasso. How crazy Picasso's awake now. Can you step up? You want to step up? Let's talk about Picasso. Now you guys know that Picasso Is one Good bird and he definitely is one of my favorite bonds that I have now. He's just an angel He's good with kids and even if he's not necessarily happy with being around them Or something bothers him His little beak he'll just kind of warn you he'll give you like a little limber like no no no I don't want to step up no no no I don't want to do this and I respect that because that's his way of saying like no and then at the same time It's not harming another person and he's so gentle and he's so playful I love watching him play with his toys and how he's so interested in like my homework I'm not joking. So let's pretend he starts getting interested in my homework or my laptop keys And then I'm like no no we can't do that and I give him a different toy to play with He'll play with that other toy and I it maybe takes a little enticing a little bit Or I need to find a different toy for him to play other than my homework or my laptop But I can get there with him He is a sniffer like you could watch tv with him and then just look over and sniff him I could do homework and look over and sniff him And he relaxes and he feels your energy right now. I think the reason he's playing a lot He was sleeping two minutes ago and I think the reason he's playing is because he sees me like trying to make this video Or cody was flying around and I had to go up and down So I think he he got my energy and now he's like, okay. I need I need to eat. I need to play I need to chew I need to shred and I love that about him. I love kissing him. I love how he flies I love how he tells you what he wants and he'll scream at you He'll be like, hey, I'm over here or oh my god. I see a carrot. Bring me over here a carrot You guys also know that I love conures. He's kind of like conure size.  Like they're just this cute little thing and I love how Picasso like He's so little and you can have him on your shoulder and you'll even forget He's there and he makes himself comfortable and if he needs to go to the restaurant He'll fly to a stand or his cage and you know poop in his cage. He's just a very well rounded bird You went to a good school. He had good parents that loved each other and you traveled a lot You can't like not love Picasso He's definitely the type of bird that I would recommend other people to have Especially as a first bird type of bird that like, you know, I want a low-key steal and take home with me Jersey and Picasso are definitely one of the top bonds that I have with the birds. We have Leo you want to talk about Leo? Come here. New step up is one of the newest bonds I have Because he's you know, the newest bird Leo is just an amazing bird Picasso is like this as well too, but if you didn't know anything about birds and then you met Leo or Picasso You'd be like, oh my god. I want a bird too Now Jersey wants to come to me because I'm holding Leo He would want this type of personality because he just relaxes. He feels your energy. He's to himself He likes playing but then also he loves eating. Oh, I don't know why I love birds that play and eat I love those two things. Actually, he's not very much into toys. He'll be a little bit But Picasso definitely loves toys and it's just so entertaining watching him play with toys And he may not be big on toys, but he's definitely big on relaxing and getting love from you That's another thing Picasso does not like being pet. You can't pet Picasso like you can with Leo You can just smell Picasso and this is back kind of situation But as far as Leo like you can pet him. He's very gentle with his beak He's good with children and that's definitely a good sign because if I were to have kids and I had Leo It would definitely be the type of bird that I can teach my kids about how to handle birds What different types of personalities and how birds can be in a positive light because sometimes birds are not in the Best light for kids like I mentioned before they're they're very nervous around children or they can be not every bird is Like obviously Leo's not scared of babies.  You know, I swear birds are like that's where jersey's going through that right now So I think as she gets older, she'll relax and I think he's a little bit older because like he already knows what he wants I'm so glad he came into our life because when we first thought about it, I was like, are you crazy? A sixth bird? I was like, oh my god. I don't know how this is gonna go I'm glad it's going so well because he's definitely the type of bird like as marlene said that there was any sixth bird This is the perfect sixth bird. I feel like I'm in I say I'm in love with every bird So I have my last two birds is rocky and vinny. So let's start with vinny Now vinny, we did get a while back. Vinny has a love-hate relationship with me again I got it to the point where he'll step up to me in case of any sort of thing like he's in an area He's not supposed to be or we're moving and I need to help out or god forbid There's a no a natural disaster and I need to kind of help out. I have that trust with him He'll definitely come to me. But vinny gets jealous. So like if marlene's next to vinny's box Marlene's probably fine. If george and I are next to his box, we need to run So it's not that I have a bad relationship with vinny He just again trusts marlene more like codie and george did and that's normal because marlene really takes her time with each bird And uh, just to add codie and george have a good relationship as well He also steps up to him they can cuddle and they can do all that kind of stuff So I'm sure if I like lived here and really took my time with codie. I'll end up I'll be able to cuddle him as well even marlene put him on me while he's sleeping and I've cuddled him before I just I'm not always here and again persistence is key persistence persistence persistence with vinny He sees me in a good light and I see him in a good light. We dance together We I give him a lot of boxes. I make sure he has his own little area of treats I make sure he plays a lot and I don't know if I mentioned dancing But dancing is very important because he loves loves loves loves dancing and I love dancing with vinny I love the arguments. Oh that he can talk. It's so cute. You literally feel like you're having a conversation with a bird I like doing that with him and like I call him like hi tweet tweet and he'll do who go tweet tweet tweet Oh, it's so cute. It's in the morning I'm getting carried away. I love that he loves boxes. I don't know why I love that.  We acknowledge that like you don't want to step up, but he doesn't really like it He's like, what are you doing? So I definitely have a positive relationship with vinny. It's very fun Now that I'm babysitting something where to scare him and he's flying around like the dog If the dog starts scaring him and he flies and he lands on me I'll be his trust person and I wish I could kiss him But I know he's gonna trick me if I try to kiss him. He's gonna bite these lips He has an obsession with these lips. They've been bitten before another reason I think he doesn't trust me as much is because I have the dogs follow me consistently and vinny's very nervous around dogs And so that makes him be like, I don't want to be next to Jenna like she has too many dogs around her That's my relationship with vinny and because I'm talking about the dog thing that brings me to rocky We first got rocky. He actually was attached to me. My energy was like I was so in love with him I thought he was beautiful. He smelled like a god like macaw smell It's just a whole other level like I love vinny's and I love macawsos But like rocky's is just that's an addiction. I am I swear. It's not just the breath. It's the feathers It's just amazing. So like you could be next to him like by the cave and he'll just Oh good. I swear So when we first got him I was determined to make this bird love me at the beginning It was working and he would take my hand. He would go like this to it He would puke on me and I was in love and he let me give him head scratches. Oh my god guys I was in love. I was like, that's it. This bird is mine. He's like only a year younger than me We'll live together forever. He's gonna be my bird. That's it. I'm stealing him. I'm so glad we rescued him I'm so glad he loves me and all that jazz But then he realized That the dogs sleep with me and he realized that I will go outside while he's outside And I'll play fetch with the dogs or I'll take him for a walk or you know, I'll play with him on the ground Rocky didn't like it. He felt that I love the dogs more than him Which I don't it's just completely two different loves as we know birds are so unique. They're not a regular pet It's a different bond. I broke his trust and he just didn't like that I like dogs, I guess and he just slowly slowly started getting away from me And he would start nipping me and biting me and another thing is I did have a doggie crate for harry outside And when we would take rocky outside, um, this crate was kind of next to his cage And so when harry was in trouble, I put harry in it But when harry wasn't in it and rocky was outside or next to it He would go inside it. So I think rocky also made the connection of like she loves the dogs more She's giving him the crate that I love and like it just didn't work between us.  I'm so jealous of george and rocky's bond. I am so jealous I don't know when exactly like rocky and george created their bond, but till this day I'm jealous he could be here and rocky lifts up his beak and george will like kiss it and like he'll just keep asking for kisses guys It's adorable. I wish I had that with rocky I want to squeeze in love and massage and smell rocky so bad I don't think you guys are aware of how much it kills me But if we were in a certain situation where he wasn't in a location he wanted to be or if he You know, we need to move and I need to handle him rocky trusts me in that way He one time flew away. I was freaking out.   You don't need to do this I'm gonna pick him up and they were like, what are you talking about? And I was like I'm gonna go pick him up and they didn't understand that concept to them was like We try to pick him up and he bites and I was like, I know he usually bites me But believe me, he's so nervous right now that like I'm a familiar face He's going to step up and I put my hand in he was like And he like stepped up to me and they were in shock They were a little bit nervous that like I may have like tried to steal him and say He's my bird like they even were like, what are his coloring? What distinct mark is on his face that would make us believe that he's your bird and like I was like Oh, he has a tear drop mark on his beak and it's a light black color Then they were like, oh, okay. Yeah, he's your bird. It was so funny So then me picking him up and going right in the cage and picking him up That was even more of a confirmation because he truly trusts me So I had him in the car and Rocky was just like so happy to be next to me and recognize me and like feel safe That I could pet him wherever she wanted and I was in heaven for those 10 minutes And I was like Joey, listen to me. You may not be necessarily a big bird person But to touch and pet this bird right now, it would be one in a million I need you to pet him and he did he pet him and he got that good head scrap You could tell Joey was so amazed with like what he felt like what he smelled like how he's doing this How rocky is enjoying it at the end of the day Rocky truly does trust me So I guess I'd have to say my top birds that I have trust with is Jersey Picasso and Leo and three out of six is not bad. Um, and then probably Cody comes after that Vinny and Rocky. Yeah, so that's recap of my relationship So if you did like this video, let me know and if you are new to this channel I'm usually not the face of this channel. Usually it's my sister Marlene McCohen Oh, and we're gonna pretend this m stands for McCohen and not Marlene because I'm here today.  I don't use snapchat as much anymore I think the best way for me to communicate with you guys is instagram and my instagram is at Jenna Sarah. Thank you for watching I hope you like this edition of Jenna hacking Marlene's youtube and hashtag my point of view I hope you guys like this video subscribe to my sister because she is amazing And if you want a bird or thinking of getting a bird any sort of anything with birds, please like below and subscribe Love you guys. Bye So I'd like to add that now that I'm done with the video. She wants to cuddle with me See, I told you she plays hard to get. I don't know if she's jealous that I was holding Leo before and Picasso or like videoing myself But now here she is cuddling with me Playing hard to get Oh, one of the best kisses ever