Hey guys welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food and I am here today to share one of my favorite recipes that I love to make and eat around the holidays which is sweet potato casserole and my version has a yummy praline topping. So let me show you what you're going to need for this recipe and as always I'll make sure to link the recipe in the description box. So for the sweet potato portion you're going to need a 29 ounce can of sweet potatoes. You're going to need some vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg, some sugar, milk, butter and a couple of eggs. For the yummy praline topping you're going to need some flour, brown sugar, butter and pecans. So if you want to see how this delicious side dish comes together stay tuned. So in my bowl I have my sweet potatoes that I drained very well and placed them in the bowl. I'm just going to mix them just for a minute or so just to kind of break them up a little bit and next I'm just going to add all the other ingredients. So I'm going to add in my sugar, I'm going to add in my eggs that I've already beaten, going to add in my milk, I'm going to add in some cinnamon and nutmeg to taste and I've got my oven preheated to 350 degrees and then I'm going to add in my melted butter and I'm just going to mix this until it is well blended. All right so I have my casserole dish here this is a two quart casserole dish and I'm just going going to pour the sweet potato mixture in. Here it is and I'm going to set it aside while I make the praline topping. So now it is time to make the praline topping. So in a bowl I'm going to add my flour, my brown sugar and my chopped pecans and I'm just going to kind of incorporate this a little bit. To me the best part of this casserole is that praline topping, that crunchy buttery yummy topping and I'm just going to add in my melted butter. So I have my praline topping pretty well incorporated and all I'm going to do is just sprinkle some all over the sweet potato mixture. So just giving it a quick little squeeze here to make sure I got all the flour incorporated and you're just going to drop it over your sweet potatoes. You can leave some of it clumpy if you like I actually kind of do like it when it's a little clumpy and if you don't like a lot of praline topping of course you could have the recipe for the praline topping but I actually love it.  I'm going to pop it in my oven for about 40 to 45 minutes and of course I'll bring you guys back and show you what it looks like. So here is the sweet potato casserole. I ended up baking it for an extra 10 minutes so I baked it for about an hour and 10 minutes and let it cool and here it is I took a little piece out so you guys could see the inside of it you can see that nice crispy praline topping and here it is on the plate I just scooped a little bit out so you guys could see it and it is so good. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did please make sure to give us a thumbs up. If you have not subscribed to our channel I certainly hope you'll do so. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time.


What's going on everybody welcome back to another video and with Wimbledon just around the corner It's a perfect time to go through some of the players We should all be watching out for during the men's event at Wimbledon 2021 There are some names that we haven't heard from for a while and then there's some obvious ones Of course with the goats being playing as well Let's go straight to the list of who we should be watching this year So the first player that everybody should be watching out for for Wimbledon in 2021 is Felix O'Jalliaseem He's the world number 21 currently and he's a very very good grass-core player We've seen that over the last couple of weeks actually made the final in Stuttgart a couple of weeks ago And then backed it up the week later getting to the semi-finals of the hella open and during that tournament He actually beat ten-time hella open champion and of course grass-court legend Roger Federer along the way and back in 2019 He actually made the third round of Wimbledon eventually going down to Umbair in that third round So definitely an accomplished grass-court player and definitely want to watch his game style being six foot four He's got some big serves and he's got some big groundstrokes definitely want to watch at Wimbledon in 2021 Second player on my list is another kind of an obvious one over the last couple of weeks based on their form Matteo Baratini he's been in great form over the last couple of weeks and not only that but in 2019 He also had a great grass-court season in 2021 He won the Queens Club Championship, which is an ATP 500 event one of the biggest grass-court events of the season And also as I mentioned in 2019 He had a really good grass-court season He actually made the fourth round of Wimbledon eventually losing to Roger Federer, which is not a bad thing Baratini has had a great 2021 not just on the grass-courts, but also on the clay-courts We saw him during the clay-court season play very very well And of course making this quarter-finals of the French open pushing Djokovic to four sets So that will be a very big confidence boost for him going into Wimbledon The third player on this list is a player that we haven't seen for a couple of months We haven't seen him for a long long time and he's always a dangerous player in the draw It's Nick Kirios. He is the current world number 61 Which means he will be unseated going into Wimbledon, which means he could play against anybody in the draw He could play Novak Djokovic in the first round. That's how crazy this could be Of course made the quarter-finals back at Wimbledon 2014 having that dream run that breakout run and during that run He actually beat Rafa Nadal the famous Rafa Nadal wins So we know that he loves playing on these courts Don't forget in 2019 actually played Rafa Nadal and pushed him to four sets there as well So Rafa's not playing this event, but Kirios is still gonna be dangerous And as I said a play that we haven't seen for a long long time We haven't seen Kirios since the Australian Open all the way back in February So it's been a long time. He hasn't played since losing to Dominic team in five sets at the Australian Open So how will he look? He hasn't played any lead-up tournaments. He's just getting to London right now So we'll find out what he has to do But this might be the best thing for Kirios with no pressure no preparation and he can just go out there and swing for the fences All right going to the next player on the list and it is Riley O'Pelkup the number 32 in the world He will be seated at this year's Wimbledon and a lot of you might not know that he actually won junior Wimbledon back in 2015 So he is a former junior Wimbledon champion from only six years ago So he does have happy memories at this venue also made the third round back in 2019 Which was his first main draw appearance so his debut at Wimbledon in the main draw made the third round Lossamilosh Rayonich, which is not a bad person to lose to because we know Rayonich loves playing at these courts too And of course he's being compared to John Isner and John Isner has had some of his greatest results at Wimbledon he's had some of his best results on Grand Slam's at Wimbledon And of course with the big serve and the big ground strokes Riley O'Pelker is gonna get a lot of aces a lot of free points Probably a lot of tie breaks as well But Riley O'Pelker definitely a dangerous play to watch out for in the draw going to the next player that I'm watching out for at Wimbledon in 2021 it's the goat Roger Federer the grass court goat of course he's number eight in the world currently So he's gonna be coming in maybe in Djokovic's court of the draw We'll find out that in a couple of days when the draw comes out the Roger Federer of course absolute Wimbledon legend He's won eight times at this event 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2009 2012 2017 of course made the final year two years ago almost won that one as well had championship points lost the Djokovic But to go with these eight titles He's also amassed the most wins at Wimbledon in the open era 101 wins No one has ever done that before so he loves playing on this court one more matches at this court than anybody else And since winning the tournament back in 2003 his first ever Grand Slam title He has made the quarterfinals or better at Wimbledon 16 out of 17 times He's only had the one major upset loss which was in the second round a few years back So Federer he wins at this tournament he plays and he wins and he makes the second week every single time So expect him to do well again at this event The next player to watch out for is the current world number 10 Roberto Batista Ragu now a lot of you probably thinking why are we picking a Goo he's such a strange player to pick for Wimbledon. He's not a big server It doesn't hit very big ground strokes, but he did make the semi-finals hit back in 2019 He had a great run there and he almost got a couple of sets of Djokovic as well pushed him to four sets in that Semi-final so Batista Ragu definitely want to watch and in three of his last four Wimbledon appearances He's made the fourth round or better So he does love playing on this court and has proven that over the last few years and RBA He doesn't have the big server He is a bit more of a baseline grinder But he does have an aggressive game style and he can hit winners off both sides Which is someone like David Albandian used to do back in the day So Batista Ragu can definitely trouble some players as he's proven over the last couple of years on the grass courts with his Aggressive game next player on the list is the number 37 seed Marin Chilich. Definitely got to watch out for him He once took guard actually a couple of weeks ago Which really shows that he is still around on the grass courts and he's still a threat on the grass also during his career He actually made four straight Wimbledon quarter-finals between 2014 and 2017 Which is a great run for the Croat and of course in 2017 He made the final of Wimbledon He's made in Grand Slam final at Wimbledon and he lost to Roger Federer in that one He was injured in that final which was a little bit of a shame to see but again made the final of Wimbledon Loves playing on this court and has some really really good memories from playing here And also doesn't mind playing on the grass courts big serve big ground strokes Marin Chilich always dangerous to watch And he'll be unseeded in this event the next player on my list that you have to watch out for in the 2021 Wimbledon event is Andre Rublev. He's the current world number seven and has had some good results on the grass Courts in the last couple of weeks funny enough. He's actually never made a quarter-final of Wimbledon He's made the quarter-finals of every other slam Australian open French open US open But Wimbledon is missing and he has an all-court game So I expect that he will make a quarter-final of Wimbledon at some point Maybe even this year and as I said he has had some great results over the last couple of weeks on the grass courts He made the hella final only a couple of weeks ago, which is a big big event He lost to Umbair in that final and also don't forget overall in 2021 He has had a good season beating the likes of Nadal and Sitsipas in 2021 So he has some really good quality wins over fellow top 10 guys and with his game style with the big serve and the aggressive ground strokes The grass court could be what Rublev needs to maybe get to his first semi-final of the major if he gets the good draw All right going to the next player on the list and it's the obvious one. It's no back. Djokovic It's the defending champion the world number one He's actually won the last two Wimbledon titles back in 2018 and 2019 But overall he's won five titles at Wimbledon 2011 2014 2015 2018 and 19 like I said before and of course he is playing for history speaking of 19 He has 19 majors He just won the French Open and he'll be looking for number 20 to join Federer and Nadal on 20 majors So by the end of this tournament we could have three players on 20 majors and on the grass courts He's actually had some great wins over fellow Grand Slam champions Of course, he's beaten Nadal He's beaten Federer at this court, but he's also beaten Chillich and while Martin Del Potro So he has some great wins over Grand Slam champions on the grass courts So of course we're going to be watching him over the next two weeks and the final player on the list to watch out for is Ugo Mbair, the number 31 in the world He will be seated for this event So he will avoid having to play against the big guns until at least the third round and he's had a great season on the grass He actually won the Hallow Open a few weeks ago Which is a massive ATP 500 event and one of the biggest events on grass for 2021 and in that event He actually had a really good run beating some quality players including Query, Zverev, Ozealia Seem and Rubelev in the final So they are four great grass court players We know Query's had some great grass court form Zverev's got a good grass court game FAA and Rubelev have proven this year that they can play on the grass too So that's some very big wins on the grass in 2021 and in his first main draw appearance back in 2019 he actually made the fourth round So he had a big run to the fourth round eventually losing to Djokovic in straight sets Which is not a bad thing because Djokovic went on to win the whole thing anyway Umbair seems to have a game with his left-handed style that can play well on the grass and who knows if he gets a good draw He might be able to run deep into the second week. So there you have it There are the ten players I'm watching out for for Wimbledon 2021 Maybe some names that you might not have thought of maybe some names you forgot like Nick Curios Maybe you're a bit of a strange one for you. Let me know down in the comments below though Do you think that this is a right list that we should be watching out for these players? Or do you think I've missed someone who are you most looking out for because I know Zverev A lot of you want to watch Varev this week or over the next few weeks Sidney Pass What's he gonna be able to do in the grass Medvedev playing this week He might actually be someone we have to watch during Wimbledon because if he wins the title this week Of course, we're gonna be watching him. So let me know down in the comments below Is there anyone that I missed or is there anybody that you are watching out for during Wimbledon? So there the ten players that I'll be watching during Wimbledon for 2021 which starts in a couple of days


I wanted to step back, though, from most of these topics.  We talked about Big Tech and BLM and intersectionality and cancer culture and riots and entitlements and all this stuff, right? And I want to step back and take a big picture, look at it kind of more philosophically and more fundamentally. What is driving all this insanity in the world? And Ayn Rand once said a long time ago, and I can't remember what essay it was, she says the world is dying of an orgy of altruism. I should have made that the title of the show. Orgy, I think, would have attracted a lot of people to the show if I'd used orgy in the title. But the world is dying from an orgy of altruism. And I think right now it's so evident. It's so evident that this is what's going on.  And this is why I titled it the war on individual values. It could have been the war on individual happiness. It could have been an orgy of altruism is killing the world. Altruism is everywhere. Self-sacrifice, the demand for self-sacrifice is everywhere. And importantly, the attack on the individual, his mind and his values is everywhere. And it's a good time to kind of, Linda reminds me that Gail Weynand in the fontanet actually said it. Wow, yeah, I think they're right. I don't remember that because I think I mentioned it later as well, but it's in the fontanet under Gail. That's interesting, but I think it's absolutely true. So I thought we would take some of the issues of the day, issues we've been talking about, issues that we're now not gonna get into the details of should we wear a mask and is big tech all good. But just look at the approach that people take to COVID, to big tech, to trade, to stimulus, to all these things. Look at a firmness perspective from the perspective of altruism, from the perspective of self-sacrifice, from the perspective of a demand that you give up your values, or a different perspective on that is that these issues approach from the perspectives of we in power, we who are smart, who are smart, we who, the philosopher Kingsel would like to be, we don't care about your values. We don't care about your life as an individual. We don't care about your happiness. So I wanna, I wanna, before we get into that, I wanna, so I wanna go through a list of topics and just show how that applies, right? And I'm happy for you to ask questions and see if it applies to other issues and other places and how they all get connected would be amazing if we could do a show around that. But I wanna remind you first of what we mean by altruism and how devastating altruism is and how subtle its effects usually are. Altruism is the moral doctrine that says that your life, the purpose of your life to be other people's wellbeing. That morality entails you sacrificing your values for the sake of others. And importantly, it entails not being selfish. Now what they mean by not being selfish is not thinking of self, not taking your own interests into account, not thinking about your own values, not pursuing your own values, not living for you. Altruism demands that you not think about your values, your happiness, your life, your success. It demands that you focus on others. And when you do think about yourself, when you do act or think selfishly, it demands and expects that you feel guilty and that that results in some kind of competition, some kind of action that will redeem you. So altruism more than a positive ideology, and this is a really important point I think. Altruism more than a positive ideology is a negative one in the sense that what it's really interested in is not you helping others. What it's really interested in is not the wellbeing of other people. What it's really interested in is you not thinking of yourself. I mean, Comte, the guy who founded the name gave it the name altruism, although the ideas have been around forever, says that if you think of yourself, you think you're helping somebody else and you're enjoying it, and you think, oh, I'll help this person and I'll have a good time, I'll enjoy it, I'll get some satisfaction out of it. It's not a moral action anymore, because you dare to think of yourself. Contemplize, you know, contemplize the same thing. Christianity is suspicious if you're too happy, too successful. Spend too much time thinking about your own values or get too much pleasure and do things for the pleasure of helping others and not just helping others for the sake of helping others. So altruism is primarily dedicated to suppressing your own values, suppressing your own life, suppressing your own thinking because at the heart of being selfish is thinking, at the heart of pursuing and choosing values is thinking. And therefore what they're trying to do is to cause you to think, to cause you not to think. And indeed, thinking about the wellbeing of other people is always a dead end. And of course they have to think about the wellbeing of others. It's just a rational dead end. So the best is not to think, the best is to do your duty, the best is to act based on what people tell you what's conventional, what's perceived as good and right, what's good supposedly for the group. How do we know what's good for the group? The group doesn't tell us, but it's leaders do. It's those people who would like to be a philosopher king who tell us what we should sacrifice to, how we should sacrifice and how we should go about. Somebody says, age of altruism, age of nihilism. Well, ultimately the one leads to the other. Altruism is not practical. Particularly when you get rid of Christianity, when you get rid of God, when you get rid of God, then altruism is just not practical. God and religion give altruism a sudden practicality in that they say, yeah, you're gonna suffer in this life but you'll get an afterlife. But once you take religion out, and this is in a sense Nietzsche and some of the other moderns who claimed we were heading towards nihilism were right, once you take religion out, the altruism becomes untenable. Why am I sacrificing? For who am I sacrificing? What's the point if life is just about suffering and there's no afterlife and there's no God, then what's the point of the suffering? And that's the path to nihilism. There's no point in the suffering. But happiness is impossible and happiness would be selfish and that's impossible. That's wrong, we know that's wrong. So what's good, what's moral, what's just causes pain, what's evil might lead to happiness but who wants the happiness if you have to pursue evil to do it?  And that's how you get the nihilism. The nihilism is, for the most part, a rejection of altruism with no, but without rejecting altruism, without really rejecting it, rejecting the outcome of altruism and therefore rejecting life, qua life, rejecting it all. I will get to questions that are unrelated at the end. So I will answer all these, I promise. Remember, if you wanna get a question answered with high priority, 20 bucks or more, 20 bucks or more.  So let's see how this plays out in the different things, in the different issues, political issues that we have today. Altruism also, you know, so let's take COVID. Let's take the response to COVID. The response to COVID has been first to treat everybody the same, not to discriminate. And indeed, to make sure we sacrifice the able, the healthy, to the vulnerable. Instead of, for example, locking down the vulnerable and allowing the rest of humanity to live their lives, you know, under the assumption that they are adults and can figure out their own risk, we don't treat them as individuals. We don't let them choose their own values. We don't differentiate between them and vulnerable people. For example, since February, we have known that most of people who die from this disease are old, that the majority of people who die from COVID are over 65. The data from China was clear about that, and it's been consistent in Italy and England and the US, everywhere. It's been consistent. Old people are the ones most vulnerable to this disease.  But among people under 65, it's not that big of a deal. Yes, there are other comorbidities, overweight, diabetes, heart disease, which are usually related to obesity. So it's not clear if it's a heart disease, if it's a diabetes, or if it's obesity. We've known who is vulnerable. Has any political leader come out and said, all right, you know, here's who's vulnerable, here's who's likely to die. We need to protect these people. Here are specific measures that you can take to protect them in order to not overload the hospitals. In particular, we're asking these people not to leave their home. Here's a way we can facilitate the delivery of food for them or whatever. If you have a multi-generational in the house, isolate them, make sure they don't interact, lock them in the room. No, nobody has done that. None of our political leaders, none of our intellectual leaders have done that. They don't differentiate. We all have to suffer. We all have to have now values thrown out the windows. Nobody has treated us as individuals with minds. Nobody's come out and said, here are the risk factors. Here's the danger. Here are the people most vulnerable. Here's how you would act if you were responsible and if you cared about your fellow man and you didn't want to inflict this damage on them. And then we would get to choose, based on our value hierarchy. What activities we want to engage in and what activities we didn't want to engage in and how we were going to protect the people that we cared about who were vulnerable, how we as individuals were going to protect ourselves and our families and how we were gonna live our lives given this new environment, this disease that's out there, how we were gonna live our lives on a day-to-day basis in pursuit of our values, in pursuit of our happiness. We, as individuals, could have made those decisions. But no, we were treated as mindless mobs as a collective that cannot think for itself. We weren't treated as individuals. We were treated as mindless nobodies. That's altruism. Don't pursue your own values. Don't think for yourself. Don't make the risk calculation for yourself.  They will behave in irresponsible ways and people will be dying in the streets and there'll be millions of people in the hospitals will be overloaded. So we can't treat them as adults. We can't rely on their values. We can't rely on their thinking. We can't rely on their selfishness. Therefore, we need to dictate to them what they can and cannot do. The whole response to COVID from beginning to end has been an orgy of altruism. An expectation of an orgy of self-sacrifice.  You know, lockdowns. Lockdowns that have no connection to science. Lockdowns that are not related to the cases in a particular area. Lockdowns that, again, don't treat us as adults but treat us as sheep, as a blob, as a mindless collective. And at every stage, at every point, it hasn't been about hear the facts, hear the information. You, as an individual, for the purpose of your own life, for the purpose of the pursuit of your own values, you make the appropriate decisions relative to your life. I mean, it's interesting that of all the governments in the world, the one that actually behaved in this way is Sweden, a country not known for its respect for individualism or focus on selfishness of the individual mind. But they treated individuals like that. They gave everybody the facts, and they told them, you should socially distance. If you can walk in a home, you should walk from home. But we're not gonna ban that.  Now, they screwed up, they didn't protect their elderly well enough. And they didn't do the other things that government's supposed to do, which is test, trace, and isolate. And they managed. New Zealand did well if you consider locking people down well. I don't consider lockdowns well. Lockdowns are an abuse of individual liberty, individual freedom. And a virus doesn't justify locking people down. Now, Sweden was not ideal. Again, Sweden was not ideal because of the lack of testing, tracing and isolating. And because of the lack of support for the elderly. But Sweden treated their citizens like adults as individuals. And indeed, there's something in the Scandinavian spirit that's much more individualistic than I think most of us expect or most of us assume because we've been so drilled into us that Sweden is socialist. And there is a strong element of collectivism, Sweden. But there's also strong elements of individualism there. It's a very entrepreneurial culture. And particularly when they leave Sweden and come to the United States. So altruism is all over the COVID response in every aspect of it. You know, even masking now, it's the same thing. Now, I'm generally full masks. I think Cura gave a good argument yesterday. It reduces the probability you get it, reduces the probability you give it to other people.  If you're outdoors and there are other people around you, but there's a distance between you, it's silly to mask. If you're outdoors and there's a nice breeze and there's plenty of distance, it's silly to mask. If you're indoors in a crowded place where everybody's shoulder to shoulder, it's pretty important to mask. But no, everybody has to treat this the same and tell with facts, tell with evidence, tell with science, tell with research. Tell with just common sense. We have to either impose a mask on everybody all the time. So Biden wants to have a mask mandate whenever you're outside your home. I guess they would want us to wear them in the house and sleep with them. And then of course, these right wing groups, I guess, I don't know what they are, who believe we shouldn't mask ever. Both attitudes, unscientific. Both attitudes do not take into account individual human values. Both attitudes don't take into account thinking, facts, reality. That's what's common. We got a couple of related questions, so I'll take them quickly. Isn't morally acceptable for government to force people entering their countries and border staff to get COVID tests so that the country can keep the virus away? Yes, I think absolutely. So I think that part of what the border is for is to screen people. You screen people that might possess risk. And during a pandemic, there is complete reasonable cause to screen everybody, to actually force everybody to take a test. You want to come in, you've got to take a test. Because if you are carrying the virus, you pose a threat to the individual rights of the people there. And since the test is easy, quick, if you, why would you refuse? Why would you willingly want to go into a country and pose a risk to its population? So, yes, I think it's completely appropriate for them to do so. As it would be for them, for example, for the government to say if you want to enter government property. I mean, this is the beauty of the kind of test Kiro was talking about yesterday, where you could, you know, these paper tests where you get almost immediate results is before you enter anything, a stadium, government property, anything, you could test people.  I think you can sit on your couch, shut down your business for an infinite period of time. Yes, I mean, that is such a denigration of individual values, of individual choices. By the way, I don't think there should have been a draft. So people shouldn't have gone to war because they were forced to go to war. People should have gone to war only, only if they volunteered. And that means only if it was inconsistent with their values. So just like a draft was wrong, even in World War II, certainly for Vietnam and Korea, so is a mandated staying at home wrong. If I would have chosen to go to war, then it means it's part of my values. And I could have chosen to stay home. But it has to be a choice. It has to be consistent with my values. It's also an unbelievable denigration and putting down the whole attitude of the economy versus health, as if you can have health without an economy. Is such a denigration of work, the importance of work to a selfish individual, to a value pursuing individual, to a healthy individual, to a thinking individual. Work is essential. Productive activity is essential for human flourishing, essential for human values, and therefore essential for human happiness. And now there is a context in which I want to say I'm not gonna go to work, I'm gonna go to war, or I'm gonna stay at home because the danger is such that this is consistent with my values, the most important thing I can do. Only, only I can make that choice for myself, not you, not an epidemiologist, not the government. What the epidemiologists can do, and what our government could facilitate, is to provide us with knowledge, to provide us with information, to give us a sense of what the real risks are, and what my real options are, and who's really a danger. And that of course is not being done at any level by anybody or we get a conflicting politically motivated statements of so-called facts. But note the complete and the disregard of individual values, of individual choices, of the individual mind making his own decisions. That is driven, not explicitly, but implicitly by altruism. Altruism is what drives us to disregard the individual, to disregard his mind, to disregard his values. Why should we care? His job is to sacrifice for the collective. His job is to be a cog in the collective machine and if we need him to stay home today or if we need him to go to war today, he must obey. That mentality, that idea is untenable, particularly in America, without the dominance of an altruistic morelly. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual, would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. Any man or woman who values his life and who does not want to give in to today's cult of the stare, cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist. Broads. All right, before we go on, reminder, please like the show. We've got 163 live listeners right now, 30 likes, that should be at least 100. I figure at least 100 of you actually like the show. Maybe they're like 60 of the Matthews out there who hate it, but at least the people who are liking it, I wanna see a thumbs up, there you go. Start liking it, I wanna see that go to 100. All it takes is a click of a thing, whether you're looking at this. And you know the likes matter. It's not an issue of my ego. It's an issue of the algorithm. The more you like something, the more the algorithm likes it. 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Everyone shiver 1,000 here monkey 1,000 We're doing unboxing today. Let's see what's in this box. I will tell you it's a lot cars, but I'm not gonna tell you what That's not gonna be in the title as you saw But they're really cool. So let's get you pointed down here. Let's open these cars up See what we got. Okay guys, so We've got a couple new cars Monkey wanted a couple new cars didn't you want? Check out my knife. Yeah, cool. That's a cool knife blades are in here You can adjust and do different things. Where'd you get that? That's with your dad's Yeah, pretty neat, huh? Yeah someday. Maybe we'll just do a video on this Pretty cool Was it your dad's I Did it come in some of that free stuff I got Free tools at one time. Yeah, I don't know. I might have been a knack as there was a lot of antique tools in there, too Yeah, yeah, I Still think this came from your dad. I guess was in the toolbox Here we go, and we got our pump pressure washer and We got the one In the tips, okay, so first Monkey wanted this car Didn't you month? So this is monkey's car Okay, I think Richard Petty car. Yep. Now. These are supposed to run flawlessly but the guy Both these cars came from the same seller, but he charged me And as you can see they're in one box, but he charged me for two shipping Don't like that Coming from the same place same, you know going to the same area, which is here now this is the 440 X2 Get the two extra magnets right there right there's one right there's one Stay on the track. So tires look good It's gonna need to pick up Shoes cleaned maybe adjusted There's monkey's car Mine's mine's super badass. It's better than that Well, see what do you guys think? Okay, so you got the Richard Petty car here a Legend without a doubt. That's right, but I can't be intimidated. You know why? Do you know why I can't be intimidated? I have no idea because I am the intimidator Yeah, look at that Delaware art That's right Yeah, I got the plan words. I do like what they have in package and again it is the 440 X2 See the two magnets there and so these things So it's supposed to work flawlessly. It's in it's in real good shape. I mean there's some wear on the sides there You know picking your cars up and stuff. I think this one's in a little better shape, of course I don't think this is the original waxle in it. No, no Oh the tires coming off. Oh, no There we go Still might not be the original axel someone's made a week. I don't know and Axel looks really really wide Here to this axle, but it's okay. It's still going around fine. You really don't need these Okay, so there's monkeys and there's mine We think I think they'll be cool Fun racing, so I'm gonna be you Okay, the intimidate me because I'm the intimidator That's Jeff Gordon one time he said he was pretty comfortable behind the wheel until he looked in his mirror and seen that bow tie Right on his ass Yeah, because remember Rubin's racing guys He would he get right up on you and he'd push it Yeah, he was he was out to have fun and it did yeah, but these guys are legends Yeah, they are and it kind of looked similar, you know the big porno mustache and The glasses and cowboy hats. Yeah, but they made racing. They'll never they'll never be Too gracious like that again. I mean they race one especially the Richard Petty, you know Racing them 5,000 pound cars a real car not just a souped-up go-kart because that's all they are Yeah, same engines same transmissions same area ends same frames When you're looking at a Chevy, you're not looking at a Chevy car. You're just looking at a fiberglass body Has Chevy It's not the same.  Yeah Really, I mean a Chevy's not a Chevy forwards and out of four dodges not dodge When are we going to do racing? When you want to race You're strong enough to Well, if you feel like looking at my tail lights, I don't care. We'll race whenever We'll race We can set up a figure eight track Yeah, your dad's figure eight track just to check the cars out. Yeah, we can do that. Let's do that How well they run that'll be in the next video because this is an unboxing video. Okay, so you have stay tuned But we're gonna do that tonight we're gonna film it tonight, so yeah so as soon as We do our out trip. I wonder if that'll fit on the table track We can try we put the leaf in it. Yeah, we have might have to do that We put the leaf in it to figure just to try the cars out and then we'll Set up the big track because I need to us don't need to clean it up a little bit more stuff So don't run good. It's fine. Yeah, I got some parts coming for The other car that came with that other track that Corvette Just the brushes and the pickups, right I mean it's got pickups, but it just came as a kit I got a tune up kit for it We got some stuff coming up. Don't we do it? Do it. Oh, yeah, what? We got stuff I Don't know what you're talking about. You can't say why not as a surprise. Oh, that's gonna be that'd be fun Where are we going? Oh camping Yeah, yeah, that's gonna be cool. So Kenny This will be our first adventure of the year It'll be Well the first week of February. We are going to go to the to the Yeah, don't ask me dang it I'm tipping my tongue Fort Cooper that we're gonna we're going to Fort Cooper and then once we leave Fort Cooper Won't go in a camping adventure and we've got some adventures lined up for that She's really excited. I'm boxing we're gonna do. Yeah and I'm boxing in review. Yeah, so she'll have videos, too so That camp and triple will be actually like three videos and yeah, and one The one review I might do on its own. I don't know what you want to do the thing Oh, that'll be fine My thing The thing for the truck. Oh Yeah, I'll do it with you. I'll just set up my thing. Yeah, but I mean we'll do it together. Anyway, that'll be Yeah, I'll make that a separate video. So I'll have several videos Because with one adventure the other thing that I'm really excited about will be another video. Yeah I've created a monster, but we can't tell you that cuz it's kind of a surprise because it's gonna be our first adventure of The year. I mean, I know we went fishing, but that really wasn't an adventure. We just went fishing. This is our first adventure of the year So that's some things coming for that. Yeah and I got parts coming for the truck I got everything coming for the Toyota Finally and I just went ahead I had just went ahead and yes The head I just went and bought a brand new one It was six hundred four dollars But you get the cams too, which that thing needed cams So I was gonna have to buy the exhaust cam because that's the door over the cam 16 valve I was gonna have to lap all the valves in and hope that pinning on them seats came out you know and everything And so I was like, you know what because I have all the valves and everything But I was like I was still had to buy the cams So we just bought a new head and I figured while I'm in there I'm just gonna pull the front of the motor off. We got the water pump the oil pump Timing chain timing gears rod bearings main bearings gaskets oil pump So she's you know, I got plastic age Gear heads don't know what that is But for those of you who don't know when we get underneath that truck at the pan off I'll tell you what the plastic age is for but We figure you know because if it's got a half a million miles everything else does because that truck's never been a part So I'm just going to rebuild it because you know you go putting all that compression on the top end On them weak bearings You know you up the compression because anytime you put new head on something You know, you're not losing compression anymore because one cylinder wasn't all compression. So you're putting all that pressure Down on bearings that have over half a million miles on it So it got new pistons rings the whole thing the whole nine yards So it's going to be hopefully I don't have to pull that engine out. Hopefully I've got room to maybe if I have to just Unbolt the engine Jack it up a little bit as long as I can get the pan off that I'm doing it In the vehicle rebuild so the timing chains never been replaced Well, nothing on that engine's ever been replaced and then like cool packs and yeah an alternator But as far as engine wise and nothing's been done That's a true half a million mile truck You know like a lot goes. Oh, yeah, I got a half. I got a million miles on my toilet Yeah, but you change the engine you change the transmission you've done rare and work on it, you know This is the only thing that's not original is the alternator the fuel pump and radiator I'm not talking about belts. That's maintenance, honey.  That's that's maintenance. You can't count that like brakes Of course not there. That's maintenance tires. That's maintenance. I'm talking about that engine Until now 100% a half a million mile engine. Yep I am going to save the bearings and stuff like that because I just think it's cool I can't wait to take them bearings out and see see what they look like I might well, I know I got two brackets But I don't know if there's a left and right or if I got two grades or two lefts. I got two brackets, but We're gonna get her back on the road anyways. Hopefully. Yeah, and then we just got minor stuff We'll have to do it's gonna need two new tires on the back Right as they're dry rotted. I haven't checked the front ones real good, but they were brand new when we parked they had a few miles on it and It's gonna need alignment. It is out of line because the tires that we took off the front you could tell was wearing This little stuff like that, but the main thing get that engine running and get it broke in so yep I'm excited and then we should get another, you know, but that's original transmission everything all the running gears is all original Yeah, so That's great.  This car's gonna be on the side of the road Yeah, waiting on you to catch up because I feel bad for you because I'll ram it off the road No, I'll bring a meal off the road because remember guys Robbins races Robbins racing Okay guys, so we're gonna set up a track over here on the table just to her dad's just figure eight track and See how well they work you want to do the figure eight. Whatever you want to do. I don't care We'll do the figure eight track. We just want to try the cars out, but while she's setting up the track I'll clean these pick up. Yeah, okay. All right. All right. Well, I'm setting up the track. She can clean up the pickup shoot.  You're like buddin buddin So the next video is gonna be these cars hopefully they run these he said they run so Yeah, but I don't understand. They put them both in the same box and they charged you to Shipping I know I already said that Would you pay attention cuz that's nuts already told him. Yeah, but I'm just kind of I thought maybe they were coming in two separate And I ordered some neomagnets neodym magnets Denium man going upside down. Yeah for our other corvette. So they'll they'll just clip on So well It won't go around the track with the body on it's a little too heavy It'll go around the track until it gets upside down and it falls off. All right, so That'll be better performance plus even just on its own track They're gonna be running. Oh, we have another track coming too. When's it coming? It says tomorrow, but I haven't seen any updates. So that would be cool We can do the night thing tomorrow. That's night. Well, hopefully it's all there, but if not we've got Tyco track we can We can add to it if we have to but you can set it up four different things Right, but with the other track we got your dad's track. I'm not gonna take her dad's track is meant It's perfect. I'm not going to use any of that track on any other sets but the other two Tyco sets The daredevil and the night glow they'll all win her change and we can build One big ashy manga set if we want, right? Yeah It's cool So thanks for watching guys appreciate it monk Monk says she's out. Hi y'all make sure to go check her channel. I'll give her big thumbs down and we'll see All in the next one Okay, all right. Okay. Let me let me make it fair to you Okay, go to my channel pick a video and hit the thumbs down button twice. Yeah, right Because it'll cancel it Really? Yeah, you hit the thumbs down button.  Give me a big thumbs down twice Yeah So that's about it for now. We're going to yeah, we're going to set this up. I'll get this cleaned up And uh, but they're not bad, aren't they? They're pretty dirty. I mean they should be gold like a brand new penny. Oh, yeah the copper. Yeah So they've been used Yeah, they never said they were new these these are vintage these are I'm not sure what year I'd have checked but Um, yeah, see if you like the the dark spots and stuff Yeah from the sparks and stuff. So I'll get that all cleaned off and Okay, I'm gone Tires are in excellent shape. So the guy was right. They are pretty good They're very very good condition. I got wider tires on mine than yours Yeah, that one's just slowing down more No, I need wide tires because I'm gonna be stomping ever This gets a little something going on there. Whoa Whoa, how do you know turbo on that thing? Yeah, I didn't say let's turbo. Well, no, you can't turbo. There's no turbo on electric No, let's see see that axle What is that? That doesn't mean anything, you know, it means the one who holds the gun and goes the fastest And how many times did I beat you there or not? Yeah, but did you watch the video that was after? Who actually won the drag races on the video? I did You need to go watch it again. I did I won They were mine. I won not on the video Not all of them. I didn't mind all of them, but on the video. I won two out of three I won't say ready set going on go. We're gonna hit it. Okay Ready set go Come on, get up Ready set go That was way ahead Ready set go That was a good race Because I was running the police car and somehow she changed See the axle on that one See the axle on this one See the difference there. This one's got a hop-up kit in it Cool, can you change that one make it better? Yeah, I can put a hop. Yes. I can put a hop-up kit in it To make it fair or you got to take that one out You can't take this. No because I'm not no No, I'm not doing that That's exactly what that is. All right. We got things to do. We have to go. I'm admiring You can admire them when they're going around in that figure eight and I'm beating your but later on We'll get I can get a whole bunch of these Like 50 of these things to have on hand. Yeah. Yeah, these pick up shoes and brushes and stuff. You can get like 50 of them for like $15 And then just change them out wherever they start getting more and yeah, you just change them out. They're always easy to change All right guys. Thanks for watching. Appreciate it. Shea Bear the myth man legend. I'm gone for now Pretty cool knife. I like it and we'll see in the next one. Bye. Bye guys. Take care Make sure she out. Bye y'all. Bye guys


Basically, what we're seeing is a profound split in the Tory party about when and how to lift the lockdown. You've got Rishi Sunak wanting to lift it sooner than others. You've got Matt Hancock wanting it to stay in place. This should be from the times. Taxpayers will pay the wage of a million people that cost them more than $1 billion after 144,000 companies hit by coronavirus applied for government support in a single day. Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, said that employers receive grants in six days to pay staff who have been furloughed as the government opened its coronavirus job retention scheme. Experts believe the unprecedented intervention will eventually cost the government more than £40 billion that 8.3 million people could apply. Basically, on one day yesterday, the number of people on the government payroll increased by 20%. As a result of this furlough scheme, by the end of it, many, many more people will be on the furlough scheme than probably are on government payrolls. We'll see how many adopt it, but that's how it's looking right now. They said $40 billion, but then Rishi Sunak said last week it was going to be extended by a month, so now we're probably looking at about $50 billion. Then you look at weird stuff like the global downturn in regards to oil prices. Do you think, Michael, that the Tories are looking at... Then you look at the data around a global... a UK downturn of 35% economic contraction. Do you think the Tories look at the deficit they're going to run? They look at the state of the economy, the other side of this. They look at global variables and they think, actually, you know what? Okay, 100,000 people might die, 200,000 people might die, but hey, the health system might collapse, but we'll take that of the alternative of a 20% deficit, you know, debt to GDP going to 140, 150%, China taking great swathes of the global market. Do you think there's a calculation going on there right now inside the Conservative cabinet? Because that's how it seems. Well, I doubt there's anyone in the Conservative cabinet who is willing to allow for a situation where the NHS collapses. I think the big turning point for the government when they decided to move from their herd immunity, let's let it run through the population and kill 100,000 people, which seemed like that was their original estimate, was one, there was a bit of pushback from the public, but also they realised that actually, you know, older people and vulnerable people dying earlier is one thing, seeing RICU capacities overflowing, you know, seeing hospitals in absolute crisis and our health system on the brink of collapse, I think they decided actually that would not be, that would not be politically... Isn't that a short-term thing though? I mean, so you could basically say, okay, we're going to have 200,000 people die, but you can massively increase RICU capacity by the ventilators, by the system. I'm not suggesting they're going to give up on that. I'm not suggesting they're going to just adopt herd immunity wholesale. What they could be thinking is, okay, because this furlough scheme goes through to June, which is several months, we build multiple more NHS nightingales, we get all the testing kits, you know, we do a bit of track and trace or quite a bit of track and trace, but ultimately, given the scale of the potential economic kit, actually we're going to prioritise the economy over minimising human casualties. Do you not think that calculation is being made? That's being made. Yeah, that's being made. I don't think any of them would want to let it run right to the degree that the NHS is overwhelmed and collapses. That's all I'm saying. So I think the debate is between the people who want to flatten the curve and the people who want to, which has always been the government's official policy, but they've never been quite clear about what they mean by that and people who want to stop transmission altogether so that we can introduce some sort of test and trace system. And the differences between these two are, you know, the big policy debate, which is going on throughout the world at the moment, and the technical way I'm talking about is whether you want R, which is the reproduction rate of COVID-19 to be very close to zero, or whether you're happy so long as it's below one. And for the transmission rate of it to be below one, you need social distancing measures until there's a vaccine, but you don't need to completely destroy the disease. So a lockdown that we've got now is probably having the transmission rate, a fair bit below one, but not really close to zero. And so what Rishi Sunak and people will be arguing is that we can open up much bigger sections of the economy than we currently are, so long as to keep the transmission rate below one, which means that we'll see basically a steady amount of infections and a steady amount of deaths. So we could be seeing 200 deaths a day for a year even. That's quite possible on the sort of, let's keep the transmission rate steady. The other argument, and this is what's, the hammer and the dance strategy, is you say we have a really serious lockdown to try and get transmission almost at zero. So barely any transmission in the community whatsoever. And after that, we introduce a very sort of aggressive test and trace system, which means that wherever COVID-19 pops up, we try and surround it and contain it. And I think that's the debate going on in government, whereby, and the argument for the second one is that you could actually have more economic growth in that one because you don't need much of a lockdown at all if you've got an aggressive test and trace system. But the argument that Rishi Sunak and people, I presume we'll be putting forward, is to say, yes, that's lovely in theory, but for us as a state to be able to develop a system of test and trace, which is effective will take us a few more months and we can't handle a few more months trying to keep the transmission rate close to zero. I also think, I mean, James's point was incredibly prescient, which is, I think this probably isn't about what's gonna be the ultimate bill, but it is about international competitiveness.  And obviously that is something you have to push back against because austerity is always gonna be a political choice. And I think, James's point that this is actually about who gets to come out of lockdown first because then they get a competitive edge against other countries or their competitors. That's the real beef that they're having in cabinet at the moment. But of course that's wrong because you come out too quickly and you don't deal with it effectively and you have a second wave where it could potentially be far worse than the first. So I suppose there's a calculation then. From what it sounds like to me, they're not really airing on the side of caution though. Like you see with China, you had the lockdown, you then had this traffic light system, which is being touted here as well. And basically everybody on their phone, hundreds of millions of people within the Alipay mobile payment system was given a QR code based upon their age, who they've been in contact with, where they were situated and so on, and whether they could use trains, buses, go to work and so on. If you had red, you couldn't really move. If you're orange, you're sort of similar-ish, but you can do necessary things and if you're green, you can kind of go where you like. But it sounds to me, there's a few things here. So firstly, I think Britain doesn't have the technological infrastructure to do a lot of this stuff as quickly as the Chinese. That's the first thing. I mean, I was saying about a month ago, we probably need a universal online payment system to sort of back end a lot of this stuff. It was, oh, we haven't got the time to do that. We could have started to build that with the furlough scheme, for instance, and had the kind of the big data sets that you're gonna need to deal with tens of millions of people and so on. But anyway, so we haven't got the capacity to do that. But secondly, it just seems like, it just seems like there's not a political leadership to be that, to take a decision of that scale and against public sentiment, which as you've highlighted so many times, is this is like the most, I don't know the word popular because nobody actively wants it, but people are actively consenting to it more than, pretty much more than anybody could have ever expected in terms of it prohibiting their sort of their lives. What do you think quickly before we got to questions? What do you think the Labour Party should do? I mean, this is a very popular policy. People really like it. It's clearly gonna minimise loss of life. But at the same time, there is gonna be a major economic downturn. Many people are gonna lose their jobs. Many businesses will go out of business, frankly. If the state and place still say, September, October, there's lots of businesses that go to the wall. What does big ones, small ones do? So what do you think Labour should do? I mean, the emphasis has been on the exit plan. I've disagreed with that. I think it's a bit vacuous personally. Other than the health stuff, which obviously there's loads of easy wins, track and trace, PPE, ventilators, what else do you think Labour could be sort of going big on? Well, I think the Labour Party should be going big on test and trace, right? And saying an aggressive enough test and trace policy that we are able to essentially suppress this disease until a vaccine comes about. And so to not go for slow, hard immunity. The other thing is to push the government on precisely what their plan is. And this is where I think Labour have been kind of weak because they're basically just saying, can you tell us what your exit strategy is instead of pointedly asking, is this your exit strategy? And so one exit strategy, which isn't insane, and it's sort of what Sweden are doing, is you say, look, if we have moderate social distancing measures, which are currently in place in Sweden, we can keep the transmission rate at around one, which means that it will move through the population steadily, but not in an exponential way, which means that we can remain within the capacity of our health service. But quite a lot of people will die. So a lot of people will die, but the system won't collapse. That might well be the Conservatives policy. And if it is, they should be forced to lay it out. The other option is that their policy is to say, we're going to suppress this virus and have aggressive tests and trace. If I was the Labour Party, I'd be saying, look, the aggressive test and trace one is the right policy. And we should then, we should therefore remain in lockdown until we have the capacity to do an aggressive test and trace system, which means that we don't have thousands more people or hundreds dying a day until a vaccine is found. We're going to get a question very shortly. I just want to say, I was talking about this before that we started the show. Do you know how long it took to develop the most rapidly developed vaccine in human history, Michael? Four years, because I heard you say it, yeah. Four years for months. And every single 18 months, as if it's already happened, which is quite a concern. And then another really interesting story is the fact that, okay, it's one thing to create the vaccine, but given obviously the global demand for it, 8 billion, 7 billion people, we don't want 7 billion doses. Britain doesn't actually have domestic manufacturing capacity to generate 40, 50, 60 million doses of vaccine. Even the US, which has domestic pharmaceutical companies that could do it, is going to really struggle. And people might say, well, you've got GlaxoSmithKline. Apparently GlaxoSmithKline doesn't manufacture its vaccines in the UK.  Well, even if there is a vaccine developed in two years, there's absolutely no way of diffusing it quickly enough to the population at large. How are we going to do that? Nobody's talking about it. And that's precisely why the Conservatives, you know, favored policy and people still, many people still think it is their policy, is herd immunity, which is to say, let's let it move through the population, but much slower than they were led to get moved through the population before. And I suppose the argument that you could make, you know, as Rishi Sunak as well for that is to say that unless we go for a herd immunity strategy, everything we do is going to fundamentally undermine our world view. So the longer we stay in lockdown, the more people are receiving and relying on government support. I think one of the reasons the lockdown is popular is because, you know, everyone wanted to live through the Blitz, you know, when people always talk about this Blitz spirit, everyone wanted to live in a society with some purpose where they got to sort of like think, I'm in the same struggle as my neighbors. And that's kind of happening and it's dependent on a lot of state support, which is a threat to the kind of, you know, economic policy that Rishi Sunak might want to implement. And the same thing with the test and trace system, it requires a level of government intervention, which a country like China and a country like South Korea and even Germany are comfortable doing. But I think there are people at the top of the conservative party who think that, you know, it's not worth saving 100,000 lives if it means undermining our whole economic world view.


Hi, this is Rob from Jack's Abbey, here are my friends from 1620 Workwear, and this is another episode of Shipping Out. Super excited to be here at 1620. We are thrilled to tell this story, but let's hear it in your words. Who are you all and what do you do? Josh Walker, co-founder of 1620. Ted Deena Centis, co-founder. We've been building apparel here in Massachusetts since the beginning of 2017. Well Ted and I grew up, you know, working manual labor jobs and around guys that were in skilled labor in the trades and we really wanted to build something to kind of champion these guys. There was just nothing being made that spoke to these guys or spoke to their value. It's just, you know, most workwear out there is really devalued, really cheaply made, bottom of the barrel, no performance capabilities in the fabric. And we just saw a real opportunity to create something premium for this guy, best in class in terms of performance, durability, and also something to align with their values. What is the secret sauce of this workwear company? What makes you stand apart? It starts with the best fabric and the best ingredients, right? We're using what we think are the best fabrics in the world. And so we really, you know, focus on fabrics that are specifically fit the needs of our customer and what these guys are looking for in there, you know, solving that problem. Whether it's, you know, drying two times quicker than cotton or being significantly more abrasion resistant or has, you know, durable water power treatment. And it's obviously made in the USA, which is another important factor of it. You know, we really want stuff to still look good. We have very subtle branding. The lines are all really clean. Our fits are really clean.  People have to see you wear. It matters, you know. What is it like to operate a manufacturing facility in Massachusetts in 2023? You're affecting and basically supporting a lot of people's lives and all people's livelihoods. You want to do good. You want to make stuff here in the US. You can't do it with a smaller footprint and greener than what we're doing making in here in our home state. That's a good feeling. That's why we love to tell these stories. What are you most excited about the future? It's a really cool space to work in. It's a super loyal customer.  I'm just excited about continuing to make stuff better and reach new customers throughout the country. I'm super proud to know that like this stuff that my partner I've worked super hard on is going there. It's helping a guy have a better day on the job. And he spent a lot on it too. People want better stuff whether they're wearing it, they're drinking it.  So I want to thank you for this conversation. It's been a pleasure. It's been a pleasure. Cheers. Good beer. Great beer.


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channel let's check out your channel Haribo and see how you're doing and this is a message for everyone even if you're not on the community team of freedom answer questions get let people get to know you they will check you out and you too may grow 400 subscribers on your channel Haribo here is your channel you currently have 858 subscribers and I will hide myself so we can see what you are doing right and what you can be doing better so looking at your videos you have excellent thumbnails I wanted to give away I would click this I want to learn how Sony Vegas works I will click this notice how he's put the description very clearly into the video title so you don't have to read this little description down here which sometimes is hard to see I recommend anyone who's deciding how to do your thumbnails to look at Haribo as a great example of thumbnails so let's take a look at one of your videos Haribo Sony Vegas tonight that intro not too long that's good so hey guys what's going on my name is Harry now today in this video guys I am going to be giving you a beginner's guide on how you can edit your videos within Sony Vegas now hope you guys going to enjoy this video that's a great intro because you made it very clear what this video is going to be about I don't have to skip around to hope I find the point of the video everyone should take a lesson from this from Harry start your videos by explaining exactly what's going to be in that video so people know what they're going to get and they may choose to watch if they're looking for that content so let's see what you can do better Haribo looking at your intro video it's only nine seconds long so how is that going to help me decide whether I want to subscribe to your channel or not you didn't tell me anything about your channel you didn't describe what's great about your channel what I can expect if I subscribe so sadly Haribo I cannot click this subscribe button until you improve your video the default one here so other people would choose more more likely choose to subscribe if you tell us about your channel in that video let's move on to another comment this one is by Ashley silver dust who is also part of the community team she has 135 subscribers she responded saying if the freedom family wants an OBS tips series frosted fricks from the community team would be a great person to provide it for them I would love to see some of frosted fricks videos about OBS please send us links to them down there in the disc in the comments beneath this video Ashley silver dust and let's have a quick peek at Ashley's channel who is one of the female members of the community and thank you for checking in it's me Ashley silver dust your friendly gaming next door neighbor here on YouTube thank you for checking out my channel feel free to look around all my content is in convenient playlist talk to me in the comments and be sure to hit that big shiny subscribe button hang out let's be friends and have fun I'm looking forward to talking to you I'll see you again real soon so what is good about Ashley's default video it's good because it tells me who she is that she wants to meet people to talk to she's looking for conversation what's bad about it is I don't really know what to expect on your channel beyond talking to you Ashley I would love if your intro video would tell me what content is on your channel what games you like to play I understand you're a gamer but you didn't tell us what kind of games you enjoy so looking at your playlists I see you got a pirate 101 swashbuckler series and a wizard 101 series which is great and a few save playlists but that's only two I'm sure you play many other games so let's take a look at your videos and I'll hide myself are your video thumbnails shall we they're a little hard to read you can see the text it says free to play extravaganza but if you compare that to Haribo's thumbnails which are right here which do you think are easier to read clearly Haribo's so I would encourage you to improve the contrast of the letters to the background of your video thumbnails Ashley so at a glance they're more easy to discover and let's take a look at one of your videos maybe since you have a playlist for the swashbuckler pirate 101 I'll pick that one at random hey everyone Ashley here and I'm anxious to get to questions so I'm not going to talk much and I'm going to get right into it one note I wanted to make is that I have turned on fast combat and so the tips I would suggest for this video are get right into the point of the video at the very beginning say this is part two of 20 or I am back again click the eye up there if you missed the first episode of this series these types of introduction text for a new person to your channel helps greatly to know if I want to get involved and watch your series so try to give more introductions to new people at the very beginnings of your videos so that they're more excited to watch them is my suggestion speaking of obs tips which is what we started this comment with just below Haribo's comment there is one by eposs box which says hey guys I already have over 30 plus tutorials on obs and obs studio check them out okay let's do that so eposs box has 32 videos on his playlist let's pick the first one and take a look oh look there's an eye hello everyone and welcome to my tutorial on using the obs open broadcaster software if you don't know what obs is an open source alternative to other streaming programs like wirecast or xsplit it is free it is open source and it's currently in beta and it is extremely easy to use in well it's not extremely easy to use it's easy to use in my opinion so if you want to learn more the link to this video will be down there in the description below because look it has almost one million views it is a little old now from May 2013 so there may be an updated video is there eposs box please let us know in the comments below but that's amazing I am very impressed with the number of likes and views and over 3000 comments in your obs tutorial pc streaming video let's move on to our last featured comment which is by eccentric so as eccentric wrote that from what I can see freedom is a great network although I haven't been them with them for too long I can see their constant support and care for the smaller channels out there I'm a poet and didn't know it well written well written eccentric and he shared a tip of the day make videos because you love to don't make video because you want the money or the fame you should be making your content because it is something you are passionate for I can't stress this enough how important passion is in your video making because your audience will get behind you if you have emotion in your voice if your passion just seeps through you that's how you're going to build and grow faster on YouTube by talking about things you love don't just pick hey this video should get lots of views so I'm going to cover a news story about something that is very fun come on that's boring guys unless you have a passion for that subject don't make a video about it it needs to have something true and near and dear to your heart for you to be covering it excellent tip eccentric so here's to a bright future for my partnership with freedom as well as everybody else's we all help each other grow together just like eccentric did by sharing his tip of the day so share your tip down there in the comments beneath this video because that is the spirit of freedom we help each other grow together as a family and I am passionate about that message I hope you can feel that passion in these videos of the George show so who am I I am George CEO and founder of this beautiful family called uh-oh not called geek it is called freedom but I'm wearing my geek shirt because my freedom shirt is in the wash I am George and you've been watching and we will grow together as a family because this is the freedom family you are part of it we are all part of it and we're all growing together so grow with us and partner with freedom that play now button right there on the video bar is all you need to click to get started