What's up everyone, Takedown here. Welcome back to another video. Today is actually another PlayStation 4 requested video and that is what to do if your PlayStation 4 is not turning on. Let's get right into this. So if your PlayStation 4 is not turning on, sometimes it is an easy fix and that's what we're going to be checking out today to see if for you if it is an easy fix or if it is a bigger issue. Now it isn't as scary as it sounds with your PlayStation 4 not turning on. Sometimes it is something real easy that is causing it to not turn on so let's get right into this and get started. The first thing you're going to want to do is unplug the power cable.  This is considered a soft resets and for a lot of people that does work. Now if it didn't work for you don't worry that just means to go and try the next thing which is to power cycle your PS4 and trust me it's not as scary as it sounds and it's super easy to do. So what you're going to want to do to power cycle your PlayStation 4 if the first step didn't work is to unplug the power cable. This time you're going to wait 20 minutes before plugging it back in. With your PlayStation 4 still unplugged after the 20 minutes you're going to press and hold the power button for five seconds then you're going to connect the power cable and try to turn it on again. Usually by power cycling it that is the most common issue for why it is not turning on. So by waiting the 20 minutes after unplugging it then pressing and holding the power button for five seconds and then plugging it back in and trying to turn it on for a lot of people that does work. Now if that didn't work for you the next thing to do would be to try a different power cable. For me for all of my consoles I always have spare power cords and also extra HDMI cables just in case an issue were to arise I do have the stuff home so I can try different cables so definitely try a different power cable and see if that does work for you. If that didn't work I would try plugging your PlayStation 4 into a different power strip or an outlet. Sometimes you might not even know it maybe that outlet blew a fuse maybe that power strip the breaker is not working and the surge protector broke so now the power strip is not working at all. So I recommend checking trying to plug into different power outlets to see if it will turn on also testing the one that you are using and seeing if other devices work in it and it's not just your PlayStation 4 that is not working. If that's not the issue then you might have to open up your PlayStation 4 and clean out all the dust. Now sometimes if it is severely overheated and clogged up with dust sometimes it just won't even turn on so definitely make sure that your PlayStation 4 is clean and there's no dust. Open up your PlayStation 4 clean it all out take out your PlayStation the fan then you're going to want to clean out the heat sink sometimes that can really clog up over time you're going to want to clean out the fan possibly replace the thermal paste while you have it open and see if it will turn on after doing all of that. If that still hasn't worked and your PlayStation 4 still is not turning on there still is a few other things that you can try and one of those is to try inserting a disc so for the PlayStation 4 if you try to insert a disc usually if it is working properly it will grab that disc it will pull it in and turn it on all in the same motion so if it's not turning on by the power button then you may try putting in a disc and seeing if it will pull the disc in and turn on as it should. If it doesn't do that then you might have to open up your PlayStation 4 and test it at the power button making sure it is connected or also checking out the power supply and seeing if you do need to replace the power supply I know one of the issues with the PS3 was the power supply all of a sudden would stop working the PlayStation 4 is very similar sometimes the power supply in the PlayStation 4 will not work and sometimes that will need to be replaced as well. Ultimately if none of that did work that means it could also be a hard drive issue so if your PlayStation 4 is not turning on and you tried all the previous steps simply take out the hard drive of the PlayStation 4 and with the hard drive out now try turning on the PlayStation 4 if there is an issue with your hard drive and your PlayStation 4 by removing it and you plug it back in and it turns on then you know it is an issue with the hard drive and not the whole PlayStation 4 itself. If it does turn on and the hard drive is not in it you will need to replace the hard drive before you can play and use the PlayStation 4 if it still doesn't work there could be a bigger issue either something with the motherboard or something just not connected rates and I do recommend taking it somewhere to be repaired that is very unfortunate if you did try everything and it still doesn't work but that is the only other solution is try to take it somewhere to see if they can repair it and get it to work hopefully one of the previous things that I did mention did work for you and hopefully your PlayStation 4 is working now unfortunately for some people if they even if they try all the easy stuff sometimes it just still will not work but hopefully one of these did work for you I'm going to leave this video here please take care peace


Good morning, YouTube! I hope you have a great day, buddy. Oh man, I'm so tired. Now you know how it is like Monday. I'm ready to rock and roll by Friday. It's like put a fork in me. I am done. Summer is in the air. People are turning on their sprinklers. Man, they are going for it. Alright, thank you mom for the coffee. Always delicious. Always fun to hang out with you. And to partake in some goodness. Some beauty at Steam. Love that place. Alright, now off to Nixon's. Another amazing coffee shop to have some coffee with Stevo. Irish Steve. Got some green on. Good to have you, sir. Got a coffee shop behind me. Alright, Irish Steve. Okay, let's go. Give us a life update. Life is good. Got coffee with this guy. You remember Steve? Poor guy. Hasn't been in the vlog in a while. Need to hang out more. No, it's all good. Busy, but summer is coming. Actually still wanting it to snow a little bit. So if you can say a prayer for that. Right. You're running now. Boom, we're going to go for some runs. Man, here we are. Tear it up. Oh, it's good to see you, Steve. Alright, man. And we'll talk soon. Boom. That was weak. Actually, we'll see you tomorrow night. Yeah. At an event that I can't say on camera because it's... This will come out tomorrow. So you probably shouldn't say it. Exactly. So... Tomorrow night. Tomorrow night. Stay tuned. Something's going down. Come back tomorrow. Alright, man. You working today? Oh, yeah. Got it. Alrighty. Thanks for meeting me. Documents printed. It's time to let the transition happen. Oh, man. So exciting. Did you see that? Did you see that? The bushes are turning green. It's springtime, guys. It's almost summer. It's coming. You guys can taste it wherever you live. Well, except if you're on the east coast where you just got hammered with two feet of snow. But it is coming. Hope springs anew. New life springs anew. Stay as positive as you can. Which I know is not easy. A lot of days of the week. There's a lot of crazy stuff. Maybe you're struggling with bills. Maybe you're struggling with exercise. Maybe you're struggling with house chores. Maybe you're struggling with relationships at work. Whatever it might be. We got to remember that hope springs anew. New life springs anew. So these bushes, I know it's a little bit of a stretch, but it's a little testament to the fact that this world still has new life every spring. And I think that's a lot of hope. And maybe I'm being a little hokey by sharing these thoughts with you. But let's just stay positive. All right. All right. Especially on YouTube. Especially on YouTube. Time to go home. Well, first I'm going for a run. Then I'm going home for the weekend. It just feels good. There's some water here in the office for about two months, but things are starting to take action. Take action. All right. Roll out it. Roll out. That means you. That means you. Thank you, Harrison. Box number two. Going to the children. Crushing it. Good job. I'm going to just drop it. You're amazing. You guys have a good day? Can I see your Irish shirt? Good job. Crushing it. Perfect. Cleaner today. A little cool. How about that? Something just happened to the camera. We're good though. We're good now. Motorcycle just stopped at the car outside and read the sign. So there. Seek beauty. Work hard. Love each other. All right. So who should I subscribe to on YouTube? Comment below with one, maybe two recommendations for daily bloggers in the YouTube universe. Anybody. I'm looking for new people to subscribe to. Crazy, amazing, beautiful weekend. Lots of activities. So I'm calling it. It's Friday night. And oh yeah. Don't forget if you have a daily blog, shout it out below. Don't be afraid to do that if you want to promote. I'm not afraid of a little hustle in the comment section. Don't be afraid to hustle your own channel. I know I'm doing that all the time. So anyway, see you tomorrow.


And frankly, I do not know how single moms do what they do. I do not know how they go out to work. I do not know how they then take care of their kids. You know, anybody who's a parent knows how difficult that is under the best of circumstances. But to do it alone and without adequate income, wow, that is tough stuff. And many of these women are struggling desperately to raise their kids decently with dignity. And if we can raise the minimum wage to a living wage, and if we can have pay equity in this country, we will give a real shot in the arm to millions of women so that they can be the kinds of mothers they want to be.


We might be ready to roll. I think so, yeah. Let me introduce you. So hello, everyone. Welcome to Brothers from Time to Time with David Landau. A history of the Cuban Revolution with notes on its writing and publication and I hope a wonderful conversation. My name's Taryn Edwards and I am one of the librarians here at the Mechanics Institute of San Francisco. And I work closely with the San Francisco Writers Conference to provide programs for writers. And so that's what this event is all about. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Mechanics Institute, we are an independent membership organization that houses a wonderful library. We're the oldest in fact designed to serve the public here in California. We're also a cultural event center and a world renowned chess club. That is the oldest in the nation. So right now, due to the shelter in place, all of our activities are virtual, but I encourage you to consider becoming a member with us. It's only $120 a year. And with that, you help support our contribution to the literary and cultural world of the San Francisco Bay Area. So David Landau is our speaker today. He is a Mechanics member. I've personally known him for some 10 years. Just out of college, just out of Harvard, he wrote a path breaking book on Henry Kissinger. This was in the early, I won't say, but. 1972. Let's not be shy about it. And then in the early nineties, he wrote the first edition of the book that we're going to talk about today. Brothers from time to time. And a quarter century later, he decided to slim it down and make it leaner, make it tougher. And that's what we're going to talk about today. And publish it myself. Publish it with a partner, a real partner in Central America, who was quite crazy about the book. And I guess the choice for me was to, was to try again with the New York literary world. And I finally decided could be done better by us with all of our knowledge and all of our contacts and our interest. So. That's, that's, and by the way, the self publication is the thing curiously enough that allows me to share the, the PDF, the interior of the book, the text of the book with all of you. If I were publishing with one of the combines in New York, I'd be told no, no, you, you can't, you can't do that. But, or I might be told, I don't know, but, but in any case, this, this gives me a lot of a lot of latitude with the book. So. Really, since. Taryn. Oh, go ahead. I was just going to say. The way we should probably handle the questions is, since we do want this to be a conversation, but there's so many of you. Why don't you alert me in the chat space that you have a question and then when it is, when there's a break in David's talk, then we'll, we'll, we'll ask that question. You can ask him directly, but just let me know in the chat space. Yeah, actually, I think that thanks, Taryn. I think, I think the questions are the primary thing. That's, that's one of the, the nice. Features of, of having everybody. Or at least having given everybody a chance to look at the book. So there might be questions out there and I, I tend to think that your questions and my answers are a better way to do this than for me to talk and tell you what I think is important in the book, which I might not have anything at all to do with your, with your reading. So I am, I am prepared also to do that. So, so I want to be responsive to the interests and the concerns in this group. So let's, let's just say that, that we are open for questions at, at any time. And I can, I can fill the space in between the questions with what I say. So this, this book is really the culmination of a, a 30 year effort, more than 30 years in, it was in 1989 in, in Washington DC. That I first, that I met the, the characters in this book. And that, that was a gentleman by the name of Emilio Adolfo Rivera. In the book he is called Amy. And his younger brother is Adolfo. And I think what, what we immediately discovered in common was that we were ferocious nonconformists. And from very different backgrounds and very different parts of the, of the universe. In, in 1989, Amy Rivera had been living in Washington for 10 years. He was known in the circle I inhabited as quote unquote the ex political prisoner that, that was his moniker. And I thought that he was that really he had stepped from, from the pages of a Dostoevsky novel. He was, he was completely out of his native time and place. He was immediately distinct from others in the room. I was attending a kind of. Washington soiree sort of, you know, on the Bohemian side. And what, what Amy and the host had in common was that they had both been selected by some independent entity as two of the most intelligent people in the United States. They're, you know, there are these groupings and my, my friend, Andy Schmuckler, who is a philosopher and a writer introduced me to, to Emilio, or Amy. And I was immediately taken with him. And fortunately there was, there was chemistry there. He was, he was actually looking for a place to live at the time. And I was living by myself in a nine room house. It was, it was the house I had from, from a divorce. And anyway, he moved in, he moved in. And when he did the entire, his, his massive and compelling history moved in, into the house with him. A few months, no, not a few months, a few weeks, maybe a few days later, his brother, younger brother Adolfo, who had been, who had just left Cuba in 1989, 1988, I'm sorry, and had been accepted as, as an exile in France. He had been granted asylum by the French government, had been living in Paris for a year and came to, and came to Washington DC. And he took a, he took a room really very close to where, to where Amy and I were living. So I, I was, I was suddenly deeply immersed in, in their world, which was a fascinating world in a world. I had, I had no inkling of, I, I, I come from a very specific educational and social, designation. I, I am an Ivy League educated classical liberal who believes deeply, among other things, in the New York Times. And, and what, and the, the world view that the Times presents, the first thing, the first thing one reads in the morning is the New York Times. And I, in the, in the good old days or dolly old days of print newspapers, I used to have it two, two or three foot high. Tower of unread New York Times. Newspapers and I expected at some point I'd get through them. But anyway, the view of Cuba. And that history, which, which came to me live by virtue of these, of these two gentlemen was completely at variance with what I had learned at Harvard. And what I've read in the New York Times, this would be my, my entire, I think I was really changing politically anyway. In the late 80s, I was, I was a veteran of the student left and I was, I was then kind of more interested in what was called the New Age, human potential. And I really still consider myself a child of the, of the New Age. That's my, that would be my designation. If somebody says to me, well, what are your politics? I would, you know, the best, the best summary would be to say New Age. But this was a, this, this, this view of, it's not view of Cuba. I mean, these were, these were participants as well as observers in, in a very crucial history, which Americans did not understand at all the way they understood it. And I, they, they, their vision of the thing really supplanted quickly what I, what I knew or what I thought and, and what was all around me, Washington, 1989. So, so the book really grew out of my proximity, my closeness and my, my acquaintance with these, with these two gentlemen who then introduced me to a whole group of Cuban Americans or, or Cubans living, living in the United States. And I, I, I suddenly was, was, was in that and I was seeing, I was seeing my society from near a viewpoint rather than being somebody in this society and seeing, seeing these guys from, from that viewpoint. And the book, the book came out of that. And it was, it was really more than, than a sort of superficial exploration of historical and even personal issues. We really went quite deep. And I wanted, I wanted to make sure that I, that I, that I was getting what I felt was, was the real story. And that is not easy because these, these gentlemen had, had both been involved in, in really quite strenuous historical experience. They had both been in political prison. They had, they had been extensively interrogated by security officials of the Castro regime. And that's not a picnic, as you can imagine. At the same time, they, they really had their, they were above and beyond their experiences. And I was fascinated by how that had, that could happen. That was not, that was not a view of, of, of people in humanity that I, that I had been accustomed to having the view is we are, we are shaped by our experiences. We are marked by our experiences in, we are humbled by our experiences. We can be hindered or crippled by our experiences. These guys were just not like that at all. They stood on top of what they had lived. And that too was a, was a very fascinating thing for me. I would say crucial in a way in my own personal development. When I met them, I was in my late thirties. That's still an impressionable age. And I, I, I felt I was being mentored by the tremendous experiences that they had had and the, the way in which they had adapted to their realities and, and really finally stood above what had, what had been done to them. Cuba after, let's say 1952 is, it's one of the, it's one of the societies, one of the global societies. This has been tremendously shaken by revolution and political conflict. And their lives and their families lives took them straight through the center of that. So the book, I wrote, I wrote my book. I think I called it a case of two brothers. I don't even remember the title. And it didn't get published. Let's just say it that way. And I went on to do other things. I was, I was really caught after that by Cuba. I became shortly after that a publisher of books about Cuba and written one or in one case by me. And then that was not the, that was not the brother story that was a novel, which I decided to self publish. Again, having, having not, not really attracted the interest of New York publishers. And then, and then I published a load of, of, of other really wonderful books by Cuban American writers. Actually the only, the only writer in that group who was not Cuban American is, is one author who is, who is still in Cuba or at least still as last I knew he was, he was still living in Cuba. So it's a book, it's a book for Cuban, Cuban writers who are distant from their, from their homeland and still dealing with it. So I did that. The publisher was, the publishing enterprise was, was a critical success. I'm still working on making it financially successful. Anyway, that imprint is called pure play press. So pure play press is, is the publisher of record for this book. And I'm, I'm glad I have it in pure play press. So I think let, let me encourage the listeners here to, to ask any questions they, they might have about this book or what they're wondering about it or what they've encountered in it or what they would like to hear from me about it. Yeah, Barbara Massey has a question. Barbara, do you want to mute yourself and ask directly? I was, I read the book and enjoyed it very much, but I was wondering about the dialogues that seem very vivid in your book. And they're very compelling, but I was curious as I was reading it, are these like quotes of the conversations that you got from the brothers themselves or are these reimagined conversations? Well, the basis, the basis for almost everything in the book is what I heard or heard from the brothers or read of the brothers. The brothers actually wrote pieces of memoirs. They would, they would take a specific episode in their lives and write about them and much, much dialogue was included. And it's just, it's a, it's a subsidiary issue, but a lot of it in Spanish. So this is, this is also a linguistic translation on my part. I've, I've made, I've made the dialogue, I think maybe a little, a little, I don't know, I just, I wanted it to read well. I wanted to represent them as best I could. And they are tremendously talented writers, both of them, really strikingly good and with, with very clear memories. So the goal in this book was history and as, as close to the thing itself that I could possibly make it. But I do think that in imagination and truth are not, are not opposites. They are. I think in order, in order to see something accurately, you have to imagine it first. And so I was, I was fortunate to be able to imagine what, what, how these guys had lived and how their, their, their fellow Cubans had, had lived. What it was like in their society. And I, I had a fairly good idea about it. By the way, I'm, I'm one of the things about which I'm proudest is that the, we do, we do have people who, who lived very close to these characters. For example, in this, in this very meeting, we have, we have Irma Alicia Price, who is, who has become a great friend of mine. She is the daughter of Amy Rivera. She was born, she was born in, in, you're born in Cuba, weren't you? 1958. And, and then she moved to the United States in 1961. It was actually, I don't want to get emotional about this. But at a certain point, when I was deciding to write the book and they, the brothers were deciding whether they really wanted me to write this book. Irma said to me, you are certainly the one to write this book. And that, that made a tremendous difference. So I, I'm, I'm pleased to have her companionship and support in this, in this project. There are a couple of other people who are, who are very, very close. Adolfo's son Alejandro, he might be here or might not. He told me he was, he was going to try to just stop in. So, hi Alejandro. Nice to see you. How are you? I'm great. I'm great. So, I'm not sure, I'm not sure how to request to say something here. I don't assume often. So I'm going to raise my hand just to just talk, please. From what Barbara had said as far as the dialogue in the book. And I also will get emotional reading the book and the translations. It's as if I can hear my father and my uncle speak.  The truth is my uncle and my father repeated these stories all the time, shared stories all the time. He'd see us and say, did I ever tell you when, and he'd repeat the stories. And yes, they did their memoir. So I'm reading this book. And I think it's so accurate in the translation and in the words, so accurate. And I think Alejandro would agree with me. It's as if we can hear them speak. Thank you. I have a question. But first I want to say that I haven't read all of it yet, but I went to the back. I wanted to see the thing as a whole. So I love the index and I particularly love the ending of the epilogue. And that helped me when you talk about a life well lived and it's sort of this final gesture to the characters in this book. And I know it's a work of history, but I was thinking again about like, say, Frank Bedard, the poet who talks about the compassionate imagination. And I felt like this is a work of a scholarship, but also of a compassionate scholarship. And I don't mean that in a sentimental way, but you know, you speak earlier about how it changed you when you saw how they stood upon and above the circumstances of their lives. And I think that I'm about a third of the way through the book, but I think that that's evident from, you know, from the very, very beginning. I just think it's, it's a, I just love that about the book. That's what occurred to me this morning when I was thinking about it. That's what I really, really love is that operation of a compassionate intellect and a compassionate imagination and a compassionate memory and a compassionate rigor. I think that's a wonderful combination. My question is a little different. It's about form because I know that you have our playwright and I know that you really are very knowledgeable about music, particularly I know of your love and interest in classical music. So I was wondering, even though the primary characters were very verbal and wrote and, and, and you, and all of that, and you have your literary skills, was there ever a time when you, when you decided this is going, what I'm going to do is going to be a book? Did you ever consider before that, or since then, it might also be, you know, a play.  So I was thinking about you as a playwright, as I was reading this also, partly because it's very dialogue heavy and wonderful that way and partly because I know you have a passion for theater and, you know, and, and you could go both ways or, or, you know, so I just wondered, was it always a literary form that you envisioned from the beginning that when you would do something and did that stay true for 30 years? Or did you kind of wonder, oh, maybe it would be interesting as a libretto, you know, for an opera or maybe it would be... Not everybody, not everybody can ask those questions, you know, I can't, but you can. Well, you can ask a lot. Mary, Mary Raco is a great friend and a wonderful novelist and superb at what she does. So I'm thrilled and awed to have her interest. Yeah, the answer, the short answer is yes. I mean, when I, when I started working on this book, you know, in my tender, you know, 19... tender 30s in 1989, I, I didn't have the, I didn't have the scope that I, that I'm, that you're attributing to me now or crediting to me now. I'd never written to play. Actually, it was my experience as a publisher. This was, this was really fascinating and this is a side note, but if you ever want to, you know, develop yourself and deepen yourself as a writer, work with other writers and help those people do what they want to do. It doesn't take you away from your own craft or it does, you know, in terms of the hours and the dedication, but working with other people on their stuff gave me incredible scope. And one of the things that, that really was formative was, was translating a, a, a cycle of sonnets by Nestor Diaz de Villegas, a really wonderful Cuban writer and poet. And I, I, I translated his, a cycle of sonnets about the Marquis de Saade. And it was, it was, it was really, that was a wild experience.  It's a, it's a kind of question that comes up in literary things. So how, what qualifies you to do, to undertake? And my answer to that, my answer to that was to say, well, I don't really know what, what qualifies me to do this.  But anyway, that was, that was a great, that was a great experience because after translating Nestor's poems, I realized I could, I could translate anything from Spanish to, to, to English. And actually another, another participant in this meeting is a, is a wonderful Spanish language writer. Actually she writes in two languages, Teresa Dova Page. I'm, I'm delighted to see Teresa here today. And Teresa's, Teresa's, I published, I think Teresa's first Spanish language book. The first of her Spanish language books to be presented to an American audience. I, I published that, that book in pure Pledge Press. The book is called Posesas de la Havana, which, which I translate as haunted ladies of Havana. And I, I, I mean to translate that book into, into English. I, I am, I'm, that might be one of my next projects. But, but anyway, as far as brothers is concerned, I'm now looking at it in with, with many different possibilities. And one of them is the graphic novel, which takes me actually very close to, to, to screenwriting or playwriting. And it changes the whole, it changes the whole thing. When you, when you, when you write in different forms, you don't simply try to replicate what you know, what one form has. The whole thing, it's, it's another way of looking at this story. My, my great friend, Amy Divero, told me one time, David, you don't need, once you have Cuba, you don't need anything else. That was, that was a very optimistic statement. What he meant to say was, and he was, the thing about Amy Divero is that he, he, having spent 18 and a half years in prison, he became one of the world's great readers and connoisseurs of literature. He read everything that he could, that he could get his hands on. And when he, when he commented about, about my work, I knew I was, I was, I was hearing from a master reader. And when he, when he said, when he made the comment about, about you know, with Cuba, you have, you have everything. I, I really like that. Speaking of reading, David, Emily was wondering if you would read a few passages that especially resonate with you. Okay, let me, let me look for something short. Hi, Emily. I have one that, that, that might be very interesting in terms of the political. Well, let me, let me do this. This is, this is better. I think one of the, one of the things that I really want to see people paying attention to in this, in this book is the story of the first Cuban human rights movement, which was in a way co-invented by Adolfo Rivera, Amy's brother. And Adolfo developed a relationship with a gentleman called Ricardo Bofil. And the experience that they had in common was that they were members of the Communist Party who had become, who had had differences with, with Fidel Castro. And they felt because they were loyal members of the regime, they, they should be allowed to say what they thought. It was only natural for them. They were, they were, they were, they saw themselves as free men. The, the, the commandante, the, the Fidel Castro didn't see it, didn't see it that way. No. That was not his idea. So Adolfo and Ricardo Bofil were in prison in 1980. And this is a, this is a dialogue between Adolfo and Ricardo. Ricardo says, I have something that can turn the entire situation around in Cuba. And Adolfo had his, you know, he was, he was ready to, to, to absorb this. And he was looking at it, you know, still as a, as a traditional communist intellectual and ideologue. And so this, this, this conversation takes place in prison in 1980. Country is going through a very strenuous period. There's a lot of emigration to the United States. This is the time of the so-called Marielle boat lift where 130,000 Cubans over the course of a few months just ran from the, ran from the island. And Adolfo, Adolfo was basically arrested because Fidel did not want him, Adolfo to leave, did not want him to go out with the other, with the other people. And there were lots and lots of people leaving at the time. So Adolfo was arrested to keep him in Cuba because Fidel did not want his political enemies to go outside of Cuba and talk about what happened, what was happening in Cuba and both of you, the same thing. There are political prisoners in this enormous prison called Combinado del Este and all around them, common criminals, everything from juvenile delinquents to thieves, to rapists and killers are being taken out of their prison cells by the regime and put on boats to go to the United States. But Adolfo and Ricardo have to sit in prison and watch this happen. So Combinado. Adolfo started to visit Bofil in the other man's prison quarters. Bofil happened to live in a cell more private than a Galera, a room with about 50 prisoners living in it. His fellow activist Elizondo Sanchez and Enrique Hernandez also lived close by so Bofils was an ideal meeting place. Tell me about your group, Adolfo asked Bofil. You say you have everything organized. What's your program? What's your ideology? What's your strategy? Bofil, we have none of that. Everything is above board. Nothing is hidden. We don't conspire. Adolfo, but that's fatal. How do you manage without those things? Bofil, the question is, how would I manage with those things? Fidel has defeated every program, every ideology, every strategy, every conspiracy that goes against him.  Adolfo, and how do you do that? Look, this government can do anything it wants. You know it and I know it, but the government can't say it does anything at once. It has to pretend people have some rights. They have to obey the Constitution.  Everybody knows it's crap, but the Constitution is important because it gives you a space in which to work. It's a tiny space, a tiny, tiny space, a minimum space, but you can work with it. Adolfo, no, Bofil continues. So when the government is screwing over some guys, we just tell the government, look, you can't screw over those guys. The law doesn't allow you and guess what? It's true.  The government never admits to taking away your right to speak. The most they ever do is intimidate you from using your right.  Okay, they can throw you in jail, but sooner or later they have to let you out. Their best tactic is to ignore you.  Pretty soon you are writing to the national bosses, then to the bosses of international communism. Finally, when nothing else works, you write to the international human rights organizations.  Adolfo. You mean that's all there is to it? Telling them they can't screw over so-and-so? That's the big idea they're so afraid of? Bofiou. That's it. Adolfo. But you've got to have a program. How else do you expect to win people to your ideas? Ricardo.  It might not sound like a big idea, but actually it is. Everyone has this idea deep inside, so we're going to demonstrate it and hold open the door for other people to join. Adolfo. How many are you? Ricardo. Let's see. Edisardo Enrique myself. Right now it's the three of us. Adolfo. You are three? That's what you mean by having things organized? Ricardo. How many people did Fidel have when he started out in the Sierra? 20? 10? Five? Adolfo. On that point, you are absolutely correct, Ricardo. The point is not how many you have, but how many you might have. It begins from one. From one you get three or four. Three or four people who put their minds to it can change the country. Adolfo. What about your strategy? Ricardo, our strategy is to have no strategy. That way no one can figure out our next move. Many times I don't even know what I'm going to do before I do it. Of course that means security doesn't know either. And they can't use their methods against me. How curious Adolfo thought dismissively. But then as he reflected on the beating of the boat kids, Adolfo's idea took hold of him. Adolfo became a regular visitor to both feel, fell for the first time in years. He had a new excitement for what he loved best. Instead of wearing widows black for the socialist idea, Adolfo could take the part of actual people whom the system had mistreated. Both feel with lines of information everywhere, had bags of stories about guys who had been beaten up. Adolfo, those stories were the limit. After his personal downfall, Adolfo had insisted in letters to his parents. Yes, but we'll go to prison here because they have acted against the state. The authorities mistreat no one. Beatings are unheard of. And now every day. Both feel had stories of new beatings. That's, that's, that's what I like. So. More, more questions. Well, sure. Nobody else. Yeah. Right ahead. So that's Mike Larson, who was the, the, the, the head of the inventor and the head of the San Francisco writers conference for a long time. But so. David, what perspective would you like to have the people here to have. What would you like to know about Cuba, about Fidel and about his role in the world?  What would you want? What do you want people to think about it? And there's a follow up question if you get through that, but that's not a small one. Cuba, Fidel and, and its role in the world. What I, what I really would like, thank you. What I really would. I'm, I'm just. Fiddling with this, this. Headphone. What I really would like actually is, is for people to pay more attention. To Cuba and to what, and also to the, to countries in Central America and which I, which I've done a lot of things. I, I, I kind of take, Ricardo Bofield's idea about this after a long. Period of, you know, having political viewpoints and. Arguing and discussing with people, I think I, I want people, I just want people to, to, to be interested and to draw the conclusions that they can, that they can draw. But, but it's, that's not a small thing because we have, you know, in, in, in this country, it's a kind of, there is a kind of, how shall I say, maybe it's a myopia, a short-sightedness in difference to the countries with whom we share the, the, the hemisphere. And I want, I want Americans to know more about these societies. The more I hear about immigration crisis and, you know, all of the, all of the, all of the short phrases that are, you know, the violence, the poverty, the corruption. I, I want people involved. I want, I want them interested. I've, I've been very richly rewarded by my own involvement in these countries, Cuba and Guatemala, especially. And by the way, I was led, led to Guatemala by, by Amy Rivera, who, who, who got me involved in, in some political process there. And it's, it's, it's fantastic. I mean, to know what, what I know, I feel I've been, you know, I've been richly, richly rewarded for the, for the, you know, the time and, and difficulty that I've had in, in acquiring this knowledge. This is, these are great countries and these are great people. And it's, it's, they should, they should be closer to us. They should be better known. How could the new administration make things better between the United States and Cuba? 50 words or less, please. By looking, by looking at the thing a little more carefully than, than they already have. I think that, I think that whatever administration comes to power. In the United States is, is, looks at, looks at this, looks at these issues in a kind of careless way, or in a way that is politically expedient. And I, I, I am hoping against hope that, that they will, will be thoughtful. David, we have a question by Sheila. Okay. Sheila, do you want to turn your mic on? Hi there. I have several questions actually. I was taken by the idea also, which was brought up earlier that this could be theater. Because. You know, five minutes into reading it, there was a large amount of dialogue, which went back and forth and back and forth. And I visualized it on a stage. David, we have a question by Sheila. And I visualized it on a stage. Not necessarily in reality, but on a stage. That's just a comment, but I was wondering if you're familiar with a movie called Uli. Why you li. No, tell me about it. It's a. It's about his last name is a costa. I think it's Carlos. He's actually a ballet dancer from Cuba. He ended up in Britain. But the part of that movie that grabbed me mostly was talking about how. After Castro came to power, that there was. An attempt to build an art center. But they had no money. And I believe to this day that. Because the Soviets wouldn't fund that. They would fund other things, but they wouldn't fund the art center. And so. The Golden's are still there as hollow shells. I don't know if they're being put to any use now or not, but. I kind of saw that as a. Maybe a metaphor for the revolution. But it's a movie that I would recommend to everybody. It may be available at the moment on Netflix. Rather recent.  And the third thing I was going to go off on about was. The need for us to not have linguistic blinders on all the time. And I think that. We need to in this country, we need to really. Address issues in our educational system, which. Still thinks primarily. In English and only thinks as. By a lingual education as kind of an add on. Whereas in reality, it's a way to open up the way you think about the world. So. That's enough for now. That would be a, that would be great. A great thing. You know, to, to. To communicate in languages there. Yeah, there, I, I think. I think that. That we don't, we don't do enough in foreign languages. Americans do not. Given given that English is a kind of lingua franca and has been for a long time. We've been spoiled. Many other people around the world speak to us in our language. And we should be, we should be doing a little more speaking to them in theirs. I agree. David, would you like to discuss the, the photographs? Let's, let's look at. Let's look, let's look at the photographs of. Okay. Now we've got, now we've got, we've got all of them here. Right. Well, this is, this is, this is, this is. I start this way. Let me start with this. This is, this is the back cover of the forthcoming Spanish edition. And I'm just, I'm, I'm, I just love that. I love the collage. It just, it was created by a book, a really good book designer who was, who was working with me. And the, the portrait in the center is. It's obviously a drawing of Amy. And I think that as a prisoner, this, this, and this was done by a fellow prisoner. And I don't have any idea who actually did it. And Amy and I also are, are gone. They, they can't speak for themselves anymore. I'm hoping that whoever, whoever did that drawing will come forward and identify. Himself or herself. Probably himself. And it seems to have been a work created in, in prison or during prison, maybe after, but with the memory very strong. And this, this really captures for me the essence of the, of the man and, and what he lives. Going from the, the lower left. These are mom and dad. They're in Miami.  Adore the, the, the portrait. Right above them is, is a photo of Adolfo in. I would say 1962. He's wearing the, the fashionable. All of green. Yeah. Outfit. This is a heyday of Adolfo's communist period. Right above Adolfo is a, a, a single column with a headline from the New York times. This is a, this is a notable headline from, from the date of, the date of the article is January 3rd, 1999. At the time, the New York times was, was really the, you know, a strong proponent of the Castro regime and remain so. For many decades and, and in a way still is. But every 10 years, the times celebrated the, the birth of the Castro regime with some kind of commemorative article or articles in 1999, there were two of them. And this one.  And profit. Okay. So this is how the times is seen. A 40 year old. Absolutist regime. And, you know, the question, question in my mind. You know, can he be a profit? Sure. But can he be a rebel after, after being head of the Cuban state for 40 years? This is very typical of the New York times. Anyway. I wanted, I wanted that to be on that. On the cover. Going. Going clockwise. This, this is a, this is a. A Polaroid. Taken of the two brothers. Adolfo on the left. Amy on the right. May 1960. This is the height of their, of their conflict. And they are. They have met at the insistence of their parents who were already in the United States and called Amy and said, would you please. Locate your brother. We don't even know where he is. And have a meeting with him just to see that he's all right. So the two brothers. Meet in May 1960. They're, they're on their way to lunch in a Chinese restaurant. And just, you know, the occasional portrait. This is a, this is a great, a great portrait. Underneath that is my Koi way of. Demonstrating. What, what some very generous critic has said about this book. This is a review in the Washington times. And the headline is, is from September of this year. And rather than having, rather than having the quotes played across the back cover. I've just, I just take the headline and, and. You know, I asked the illustrator to include it in the collage. The, the last photo, which is beneath. Is a photo that I took in Havana in 2002. And I've also had given that the city of Havana. 22 years earlier. The title city on crutches. Because of the, because of the. The deteriorating state of Havana. And really the, the. The, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the deteriorating state of Havana. And really the, the, the. The very superficial. Measures which had been taken to keep buildings propped up. So these are. These are, are wood, wooden supports. And this is the, the model icon of Havana. So this is not a side street. This is the main. Avenue and one of Havana's most famous streets. And it's, it would be like, it would be like, well, what would be the equivalent in. I always like to compare to New York, being a New Yorker. This, the model icon is, is as famous as fifth avenue or Madison Avenue. This is one of the great streets of the city. And to have that there is, is a, it illustrates something. So anyway, that's the back cover. And this is from the last edition of the Spanish, of the fourth, forthcoming Spanish edition. This is a portrait of Amy. In 1961. And the occasion is. 3rd birthday. Three years old. On the, on the left. And her brother, Ruben. in early 1961. Let's see the next one. This is great. This is Irma Alicia, a 20-year-old young lady, meeting her dad at Miami International Airport when he arrives. This is the first time she's seeing him since the occasion in the earlier photograph. You see she's pointing with her right forefinger, and whom she's pointing to is her brother Ruben, who's taking the picture. This is sheer joy captured in the camera's lens. Now this is Alejandro with his dad Adolfo. Alejandro might be seven, eight years old, playing chess obviously, Adolfo. This would be in the late 1970s in Havana. I see that newspaper Le Monde, this is from the days of print newspapers. There were two things that just swept Adolfo up in his life. The first, his love of politics and the whole game of politics, and the second was the tremendous love that he had for his son. Okay, let's go to the next. Now this reflects Adolfo's love of politics. The person on the left with the hand raised and the beer bottle in the other hand. This is Ricardo Bofil, the creator of the Cuban human rights movement. I took this photo in Adolfo's apartment in Miami, 1990s, maybe 1992. And Adolfo is just, I don't know how thoroughly you can see him, but he's absolutely, this is another expression of sheer joy. The joy of plotting, of conspiring, of brainstorming, whatever you want to call it. This is the way I'll always see these two gentlemen. Okay, let's go to the next one. My favorite headline from the New York Times, January 2, 1999. In City of Castro's Triumph, Most Still Back Him. Okay, well, you know, there's a lot that you can say about this. I won't say it, but anyway, I'll let it speak for itself. Okay, and then this is this, this is the image that you've already seen on the back cover of the book. I just, I just like to know how our great journalistic brains are covering these important historical phenomena.  All right, we have a question from Zara, and then that should probably be one of our last questions. She asks, what is the impact of the brothers on your liberalism? And do you still read the New York Times the same way that you did when you met them? No, well, probably not. I would like to say for the record, and if anybody asks, I subscribe to the New York Times. I mean, commercially I subscribe to it, intellectually I really don't, but I get the New York Times every day. And, you know, you can take the times away from the boy, but you can't, I don't know. I blew that one, but I think you knew where I was going. The Times is in my bloodstream, but I also get it, really it's opportunistic. I'd like to know, it's, it is, it has been for a long time, for 450 years, the paper of record. And for most of that time, it was fairly faithful to that mission. So the Times and its reporters have been witnesses to history, whether they've been flawed witnesses or good witnesses, it doesn't matter, but they've, you know, it's a viewpoint. Same with the Post, Washington Post. But no, everything comes to me. I look at what's presented on, when it's presented and, you know, nothing really else to say. I appreciate the wit behind the question. Does anyone have any other questions that they'd like to pose directly to David? I looked at the website of the press last night, and to see what else you guys have been publishing and stuff like that. And there was a sense that the possibility of expanding, and I didn't know, just writers that I know that are working on manuscripts, I wondered how it was going to go. And after this conversation, I hope that by expanding, you mean maybe looking at Cuba from other angles, like just from the arts, like about this dancer or something like that. I mean, it's because you talk so passionately about us in the United States being more informed about Cuba, Guatemala, you know, the other people with whom we share this hemisphere.  It's a weird time in publishing, but I think it's probably always a weird time in publishing. So, you know, I wouldn't expect that would stop you and kind of just curious what you might be dreaming about, you know, for the press. I'd love to be able to be a general publisher some time. I mean, my first focus was Cuba because that was what really impassioned me, shall we say. But I'm really open to anything having to do with culture, literature, history. It really all depends on what I can do and the economics and all of that. And I would love for pure play press at some point to be able to succeed commercially.  But really anything that I want to read, I'll assume other people will want to read it as well. So you're very open then. I mean, because there are others that are not going to measure their dreams in terms of commercial success. They want to be published by a publisher whose work they like and will help them get reviews and stuff like that. So it wouldn't have to be someone who is working in Cuba related material. No, not at all. Okay, I will keep that in mind for time. Yeah, and you know, Mike has something to say on this. I think it's going to be germane. Oh, well, no, I was just going to ask about what sources of news information, David, do you rely on do you recommend to people to get for reliable information about what's going on in the world? Are there? I think the best I think the best we can do any of us is to is to read everything we can and apply the best critical filters that we have to what we read.  Let me say that. I think we all know that. But but I find I mean, I have I have I have a weakness for Wikipedia, for example. Now that it's that that might seem kind of odd. But I think that that when you when you when you take your education, your critical faculties, and you apply them as best you can to whatever you see, that that's the best, the best nurse, best source of news is you yourself, really. And and and what you can find and how you can, how you can use it. Great answer. Well, are there any other questions? Because otherwise, I'd like to thank David for coming and really sort of rocking our world with this discussion about brothers from time to time. I would I would say, look, any anybody in please stay in touch with me, all of you. If you have a book project you want to discuss, I'm, you know, I can help with that. But but anyway, I, you know, I love you all and please stay in touch. And thank you for coming. Do you mind if I put your email address in the chat space?  But just to remind people. Please do. Yeah, if you don't, if you'd like a copy of the book, you can email David directly, I'm going to put that in the chat space right now and he'll send you the PDF. But it's pure played at live.com. That's it. Yeah, I suspect everybody has the PDF already. But but if you don't, let me know and I'll send it in, you know, 10 seconds. All right, well, I want to thank you all for coming. Stay warm and stay healthy this holiday season. And thank you, David, for your your candid talk today. Well, thanks to all of you. And I really, really appreciate it. You know, we are, we are only as good as the people with whom we're communicating. So I feel, I feel very blessed in having you all. Thank you. Likewise. Have a great weekend everyone and thanks for turning out today. Bye bye. Bye bye.


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They took their cue from the it cosmetics line You guys this is the powder that I use almost daily. I really love this powder It is such a good powder for blurring out my mature skin my pores my texture all of that It just makes my skin my skin look finished and my makeup set down so nicely And it's not drying as drying as the one that is the HD powder So if you have oily skin, you're gonna probably really love this one But if you have dry skin like I do this is a great one now as far as their loose powders I'm not crazy about those I have found that they just dry me out so bad and even some of my Oilier skin gals that I've talked to have said that that powder doesn't work that well for them either Either really like it or you really don't but these two powders right here The sheer tint finishing powder and the HD powder are so good And it got it has both of us covered whether we're dry skin or whether we're oily So somewhere in between just pick your whether you want a little bit of extra finish or whether you just want that Translucence that the HD finishing powder would have just as a regular powder I want to mention two of my workhorse brushes These are brushes that I use every single day no matter what I'm doing no matter what makeup I'm using these two brushes come out and it's the elf small stipple brush I love this brush because it is small enough that I can do all of my precision work And that is usually to carve out my cheekbone So I stipple across my contour right here along where I'm getting a saggy gel and you know on the chin Right here, and I just stipple it out and the stippling motion seems to be so much better for me Then the brushing because wherever I brush it has a tendency to write the first place I laid it to be a ton of color and then I have a hard time blending I don't have a problem with that with this and I was turned on to this by Emily Noel Probably six seven years ago, and I love this thing. It's such a good little brush I think it's like three or four dollars. So can't go wrong with that and then this brush I discovered last year. This is my favorite powder brush that I have This is just a large. Let's see if I can read this on here Just says powder brush elf powder brush, but I love this It is a dupe for one that I have that I got from it cosmetics that costs a ton more Probably triple more or more this one I think it's $12 and the one that I have from it cosmetics I believe is in the 30 to $35 range so this one is so soft and so nice and I could not have and my elf favorites or my the best of the best in elf without having this brush in there because It's in my hand every single day to do my makeup. I just love this thing There's a couple of new things that I picked up from elf that I'm really impressed with And I want to tell you about them right now and I'm not going to spend a lot of time on them But I really do like them and think they're beautiful. This is the lip plumping gloss I just think this is so pretty. This is all I have on today along with a lip liner And it's a sheer gloss with a little bit of iridescence in it And I just think it's so pretty and it does the same effect on my lips that the buxom do It's not quite as intense as the buxom, but it still has that, you know that little bit of that Menthol or eucalyptus or whatever it is in there camp for whatever it is in there That gives you that cooling effect that you get and I really do like those and the colors are really pretty on that This one I really like from elf too. This is a multitasking stick So you can use this on your cheeks. You can use this on your lips Whatever your eyes, whatever you want to use it on this is such a creamy blush And that's what I have on today you guys. I just have really fallen in love with this It's got a great texture. It clings to my cheeks all day long So I don't have a bunch of fading during the day and when I use a stipple brush I don't ever use my cream products without using a stipple brush It just goes on just gorgeous and I don't feel like it's hard to blend out And I love the texture of it. It doesn't show up any of my mature skins texture Which I like about it too and this color is sparkling rose and when it says it's sparkling rose You would think that it has some sort of shimmer in it. It doesn't really I think it just Has a beautiful satin effect on my skin. So really really enjoying that one And then everybody went nuts. So over the original elf concealer and this one that is the hydrating one I am now over the moon in love with this. This is what I'm wearing almost every day right now And I just really like it. I like the way that it sets down I'm going to just put a tiny bit on this little beauty blender that I'm using right here and And kind of just do that a little bit But I like the color of it the color of it is really good And I like how well it blends out and I'm just going to just kind of show that to you really quickly Right here and you can see you'll see the difference between my two eyes because this is just kind of a touch-up After having it on I've been in front of these lights filming for a while So after that happens, I feel like my makeup starts to melt But isn't that pretty on the difference in those two eyes just really really pretty So I'm just going to put a little bit more over here from the same Amount that I took originally. I just feel like it's a really good concealer for somebody that has dry mature crepey under eyes And you do have to set this though I do anyway because when I get a Hot flash I'm finding that I really have to do something in order to be able to keep this from not increasing Or anything like that But I love it because it's super hydrating and my under eyes are such a dry area on my face And I struggle with them all the time So I like this one so much better than the original because the original just made me look like a dried out Cakey mess and I couldn't do that. So my last three products are products that came out fairly recently I would say they probably came out last year maybe in 2018 But it is the primer infused bronzer the primer infused blush And then their new highlight that they have I have shown this in my favorite blushes from the drug store before because you guys This is so creamy. I every time I stick my finger in there. I'm like, whoa This is such a nice blush and because it has the primer It just really hugs your cheeks and it's going to stay there all day and on elf's website Not like on ulta. I think they only have four colors at walmart I think they only have two colors But on the elf website, they do have like eight colors and then they just came out with some shimmering ones too So i'm going to actually try those shimmering ones out for you guys and see what I think about them You guys might have more where you're at But as far as where I'm at there really isn't that many this one is in sun kissed. It's the bronzer It's the lighter one. I really do appreciate this one again because of the primer infused and it doesn't like go Bam, it's a bronzer You know sometimes when I get a bronzer and my fair fair skin and I go ahead and try to put it on It's just not going to blend in well enough and it's gonna all of a sudden just make me look super orange And that's not what this does. It's just really pretty you can blend it out Buff it out. It's really soft and again, it's that primer infused formula so that you can You know have it on all day It just doesn't mess with any of the other makeup Actually, if you have that blush and the bronzer on during the day and you have a really crappy foundation on You're going to find that your blush and bronzer look great, but your foundation is melted away So I really do love both of those and by the way This one is always rosy on the actual blush and I wanted to make sure I told you guys that The last product is the highlighter and I have been absolutely in love with these new highlighters. They're so pretty you guys I think they only have a couple of colors right now. Maybe online. They have more Um, I will look into that, but I really do love this I think it's so pretty and so beaming and for me It doesn't show up a lot of texture because when I use highlighter I only use it right there and I don't really use it anywhere else I don't buff it all over my face if I'm going to use some sort of a highlighter all over my face It's going to be the essence pure nude. That's really a very soft one Because on my mature skin if I get crazy with the highlighter, I'm going to be in trouble So I really have loved using this one. I think that it's one that is just Gorgeous on the cheeks. It can be built up and I just think that it's one of those ones that Everybody can wear and everybody can love so that highlighter is our standout product So those are my favorites from elf the ones that have stood out to me and a lot of them have stood the test of time And a few of them are brand new, but I can tell you right now that they are awesome products So I hope that you did enjoy this video. Please give it a thumbs up. I hope you all are hanging in there I know that it's tough right now. Please take care of yourselves. Thank you so much for spending a bit of your day with me I love you so much and I'll see you in my next video. Bye guys


Chance, what was last year like for you at Ole Miss? Why did you choose to go there? And what did that do for you in your aspiring pro career, do you think? Yeah, last year at Ole Miss was kind of a dream. I think it was super, super helpful for me in this path. But I just, I had a ton of fun. I was only there for six months, kind of wish it was longer. But met a lot of really good, really good dudes. I think got better and then won a lot of football games. So it's just a really fun thing to be a part of. What do you know about this team and maybe how you think it fit in? Yeah, I'm learning quickly. I know that from being an Oxford for a short time, Titans are the closest team to Oxford. So I kind of started paying attention. I know that there are a couple guys from there, from Ole Miss. So I kind of always try to peek at it a little bit. But know that it's a great defense and have great culture around. Just something I'm excited to be a part of and try to help in any way I can. Did you know, Chig, that he's going to be your new teammate from your time at Maryland with him? Yeah, I actually, he called me. I just talked to him real quick. And we're going to catch up here soon for a little bit longer. But he's a great dude. I can't believe I get a shot to go play with him again. It's kind of crazy. But how did it kind of play out? Who called you? Would they tell you when they called you today that you were being picked? Yeah, so it kind of, it was, it was kind of wild. My head's a little spacey, too, because it's just, you know, it's a crazy thing. I ended up talking to Coach Vrable. He was on the phone. They were kind of having me on hold there for a little bit. And I got to talk to Coach King and I got to talk to a lot of guys throughout the building. But yeah, it just kind of happened as a group thing. What'd Vrable say? I'll just say he was excited for me to get there. And I told him I was excited to be a part of it.  So it's having a hard time getting words out, you know, smiling too big. But I just, he just told me he was excited to have me. And I told him I was super excited to be a part of this thing. What do you need to do, a chance to be successful and, you know, stick for a long time on an NFL roster? Yeah, I just kind of, I think the, the deal there is just, you know, carving out a niche, you know, and providing value. And I think that I'm just going to try to work hard for the team first. You know, and I think when you do those things, kind of keep your head down and just do whatever's asked you to do the best of your ability. Thanks for working out the way that they're supposed to.


After receiving a mixed bag of backlash as well as support from the YouTube community, Jacqueline Glenn released a new video about why she exposed previously unknown details about the Eugenia Cooney intervention. In the video, Jacqueline discusses her motives, intentions, and concerns, but was this the right thing to do? Many of us can relate to the experience of having a friend who is suffering, so let's see what we can all learn from this. What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And if you're new to my channel, what I try to do is take different topics going on in the YouTube community and try to see what lessons we can pull from them to improve our own mental and emotional well-being.  So if you're into any of that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. Real quick, if you didn't get the memo yet, my brand new book, Cancelled Inside YouTube Cancel Culture, is now out and it is free. It's at my website, www.therewiredsoul.com, link down in the description and in the pinned comment. We examine cancel culture. And there's some stuff going on with this Jacqueline Glenn and Eugenia Cooney situation where we kind of see mob mentality, we kind of see people taking sides and things like that. But anyways, go check out the book, Cancelled Culture is a major problem, it's really toxic here on YouTube. The book's free. And thank you for like the hundreds of people who have already downloaded it. You're all amazing. Love you. So before we get started, and I jump into this, I just want to introduce myself for those of you who don't know me. Hi, my name's Chris. I'm a drug addict and alcoholic. I just celebrated seven years clean and sober about a month ago. Yesterday was a month away from my birthday. So yeah, I celebrated seven years sober on June 23rd. So throughout my addiction, I had many relapses. My family had many interventions for me, all right? Not only that, but I worked at a drug and alcohol treatment center for a little over three years and part of my job was having interventions for people and I have helped hundreds of people get into treatment, okay? So I'm very experienced when it comes to interventions. So that's kind of the angle that I'm taking when I discuss this topic about Jacqueline Glenn and Eugenia Cooney. And for any of you out there who have a loved one who is struggling with either mental health issues or even an addiction, I have a book that I wrote a couple of years ago called Caught in the Crossfire. I'll link it down below. It's only $3, but in that book, I write different strategies of how to help a loved one, how to have an intervention, but the goal of that book is to help you stay kind of sane throughout that whole process. So like I said, it's only three bucks. So if you need help figuring out how to do an intervention, check out the description down below. Jacqueline Glenn just released her video, Why I Spoke Out About Eugenia Cooney, where she goes more in depth about why she released her previous two videos. In this video, we're going to discuss the various angles of this situation from both Jacqueline's perspective as well as the perspective of Eugenia Cooney. By the way, if you haven't yet, I highly suggest you watch my previous video. It'll be linked up in the info card. In that video, we discuss how family members can either hurt or help your recovery. There's some topics from that video that we'll revisit in this one. But if you want some more in depth information about what's going on with Eugenia Cooney's mother and how that plays a role in her recovery, make sure you go check that video out first. Come back, check this video out. So the first thing is, although I'm going to be critical of Jacqueline in this video, just know that I agree somewhat with Jacqueline. Like any of you who know me, you know that I am no stranger to talking about the dangers of enabling. I've seen many people die because of enabling. And it's one reason why I'm so vocal about it. I just don't get it. Some people say, yeah, maybe she's enabling. But that's not that bad. I don't really even see it as enabling. You know, enabling is, let's say you have a kid that has a drug problem and you don't cut them off financially because you're worried about them for whatever reason. Then they use your money for the wrong reasons. Then maybe, yeah, you're enabling them. But are you really enabling someone when you say, you know what? You don't have a problem. You're fine. You don't need to worry about it. You don't need to work on anything. You're fine. And not only are you fine, if anybody tries to step in and help you, I'm going to fight them. I'm going to tell them to back off. I'm going to tell them they're bad friends. I'm going to try to tell you to leave that situation where they're trying to get you help. So in this clip, the other examples that Jacqueline explains are other examples of enabling. That is enabling. What we need to realize is that enabling and codependency often go hand in hand. A psych central in this article explains codependency as this. Codependency is characterized by a person belonging to a dysfunctional one-sided relationship where one person relies on the other for meeting nearly all of their emotional and self-esteem needs. It also describes a relationship that enables another person to maintain their irresponsible, addictive, or underachieving behavior. So in order for codependency to be overcome, one or both people are typically going to need therapy. Codependency can lead to both people staying sick. But when it comes to Eugenia and her mother, we don't know how much therapy both of them have received. And that's something I discussed in my last video. But it's for her best interests. And I will not for one second regret doing that intervention ever. And for the same reason going public with this information that I feel could potentially help her, because she's still in a very dangerous place, is something that I just can't. I couldn't live with myself if something happened and I had said nothing. I wanted to show that clip because we all need to ask, and Jacqueline needs to ask herself, how can she possibly know with absolute certainty that Eugenia isn't safe? At this point, Jacqueline Glenn knows as much about Eugenia Cooney as the rest of us. Jacqueline has stated that she has not spoken to Eugenia since Eugenia went to treatment. All Jacqueline knows is that Eugenia went to treatment, looks happy and healthy, shares motivational mental health messages on Twitter, and that her mom was across the country at the time of the Shane Dawson video. Nobody except Jacqueline knows her true motives and intentions, but I choose to believe that she was worried. It seems as though Jacqueline believes that the critics are mainly upset that she had an intervention for Eugenia. But I don't think that's the primary issue. The issue is that she released details of the story that Eugenia may not have been comfortable with going public. So to give you a primary example, seven years ago, right before I got cleaned and sober this last time, my family had an intervention and I was a crazy person, okay? It was my mom, my dad, and two of my cousins, right? Having an intervention, begging me to stop what I was doing, begging me to get help, and in that intervention, I said terrible things.  I called her every name that you should never call a woman, let alone a mother, all right?  She was seven years sober when she helped me get sober, all right? So I was losing it on her. But here's the thing from Eugenia Cooney's perspective. I share that story. Right now I'm sharing that story with you. I'm telling you how crazy I was during that situation. But it's a much different scenario if my mother were to go out and share that story and talk about the way I acted. It'd be a lot different, you know what I mean? Because it's my story. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm at a place in my recovery where I don't mind my mom sharing that story, but I have to imagine in Eugenia's position right now, like especially that early on in recovery, I don't know if I'd be comfortable with someone sharing that much information. And listen, listen. Despite not agreeing with how Jacqueline Glenn went about this, like I choose to see the glasses half full. Like I am so happy that the internet right now is talking about interventions. Like something that you see from Jacqueline Glenn's video is the brutal truth. Like interventions are messy, all right? Like Jacqueline Glenn talks about how like she had a taser and she was like afraid. And like, well, that's not what happens in all interventions. Like that's the reality of this situation. And that's why I appreciate being able to work in the mental health field. Like there are anybody out there, like thank your therapist, thank your psychologist, whoever out there, like this is something that we deal with on a regular basis. And this is something that you can potentially walk into when you're having an intervention. Like a great example, if you've ever washed intervention on A&E, you've seen some stuff go down.  We want you to go to treatment. Okay, or go to treatment. That's not always how it goes down. In fact, that's very rarely how it goes down. Because with diseases like addiction or even eating disorders, it's a mental illness that tells you that you don't have a problem. You know what I mean? In the video, Jacqueline shares a story about a friend she had who unfortunately took her own life. Her friend was in an abusive household and Jacqueline holds onto the guilt that she could have done more to help her friend just by speaking up. Jacqueline then explains how she doesn't want to live with that guilt again. And that's why she spoke up about Eugenia Cooney. So listen, like I said, I can empathize so much with Jacqueline Glenn. Like this is something that happened with me as well. Like when my ex-girlfriend who was also one of my best friends died at the age of 24, I live with that guilt forever. I still have some guilt about it. Like what could I have done? I could have done more. What I should have done this. I should have done that. Replaying the scenario a million times. And I can also empathize with Jacqueline Glenn because I had to help my friend's family have an intervention for my best friend four years ago. Okay, I knew he was gonna be mad. I knew he was gonna be angry. I knew he might hate me forever. But today, he's four years clean. I'm very fortunate that he's back in my life and he thanks me to this day. But I went into that situation knowing that at the end of the day, if he no longer wants to be friends with me, at least if he gets help, mission accomplished. Something that I just think that Jacqueline as well as all of us need to ask is, what is the end goal here? Does Jacqueline want Eugenia to never speak to her mom again? Because we know that's most likely not going to happen because even Jacqueline acknowledges that she knows how much Eugenia loves and cares for her mom. Another question is like, does Jacqueline Glenn want Eugenia's mom to go to jail? From the information we have, Eugenia's mom hasn't done anything illegal and Eugenia is an adult. Something that I mentioned in my last video is we have to ask ourselves, is it possible that Eugenia's mom did try to get Eugenia help at some point, but Eugenia was resistant. Jacqueline Glenn states that she wants Eugenia to move out of that house. But again, at this point, we know that her and her mom aren't together all of the time because her mom was in another state at the time of the filming for the Shane Dawson video. Although many of us can empathize with Jacqueline's concern, we also need to remember that eating disorders are not the same as other mental illnesses like addiction. We're not discussing a case where Eugenia is a recovering drug addict with her mom offering her drugs. Eugenia is recovering from an eating disorder. So unless her mom was actively depriving Eugenia of food, this is a much different situation. So listen, to end this video, I just wanna make it very clear. Jacqueline might be right. She might be 1,000% right about Eugenia's mom, but the reality is, is that we do not have the evidence to prove that at this point. You know what I mean? So in my personal opinion, I would love to know your thoughts on this down below, I don't think that this was the right time. So I guess the last thing I'll say, if I was in Jacqueline's shoes, okay, worst case scenario, I would have made a video, a very vague video, like if I couldn't reach Eugenia and say, hey Eugenia, I'm glad you're back, right? I'm glad that you went to treatment, hey, but I still have some concerns. And if you ever need a place to say, come stay with me, it could have been a 30 second video. You know what I mean? But without the evidence, without all those things, right? I personally would wait, okay? I would wait. We know Eugenia got help. We know Eugenia went through therapy, whether it was involuntary or not, no matter what it was, we know it was involuntary. But the thing is, like Jacqueline has only seen Eugenia in the Shane Dawson video after treatment and Eugenia seems to be happy. Like, trust me, I will make a follow-up video. Like I said, like I showed you the video I did about Taylor and Nicole Dean that got me in a lot of trouble. I will be the first one to make a video if we get evidence that Eugenia Cooney's mother is enabling her or helping Eugenia to potentially relapse. But like I said, like, we don't have enough evidence. And if you want some more information, watch my last video about it. Like, in that video I discussed like in treatment, like family therapy is a thing. So it's very possible that Eugenia's mother is also healing and they're working on maybe their codependent relationship. You know what I mean? But anyways, like I said, check down in the description below. My brand new book, canceled is out, it's free. If you'd like to check that out. And if you're somebody who needs to have an intervention at some time, my other book called In The Crossfires Out, it's only three bucks, check down in the description below. All right, but anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos. And a huge, huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You are all amazing. And a huge thank you to everybody, all of you who have downloaded the book already and all of you who have donated to the cause. I love you all so, so, so much. All right, thanks for watching. I'll see you next time.