Welcome back to the YouTube channel. It's your favorite village boy Mr. Ghana baby and I'm back again with another video I've been telling every African that it's time to make Africa home again. Yes. I agree Have you made Africa home again? Yes since last year since last year. Yes, which part of Africa? Accra the famous Accra Ghana Nice to meet you. You know, I can't pronounce your name. Yeah, because all that I heard on YouTube is DJ Who is I'm I'm I mentioned it right? Is it deja like deja vu deja? Yes Whoa, and the move away from the food just the food, you know the same deja vu. You have a sense of deja vu It sounds like French. Yes, my mom asked her why she didn't me. Oh, okay Welcome back to Ghana. But um, that's your mom. Yes, my mom and my grandmother. Whoa three generations Good to meet you all And welcome to a beautiful country. Thank you. Thank you for having us How long have you been in Ghana? Me? I have been here since last year October. You came to Ghana alone. Yes Yes, hold on My name is Wada Maya from Ghana. Yeah. Yes. Where are you from? I'm from Brooklyn, New York Your born and raised in New York or your born and raised in Ghana born and raised in New York And then you decided to Leave America. Yes to come to Ghana. Yes Hold on.  Well Several times several times. Why do you think she's crazy? Well, she's just crazy, but I like you're going where to do what like That was a kind of a surprise to me And I was like, oh, she's gonna get past it because she's she likes to travel the world and go Different places. So she was born. She's young. She always wanted to go venture out different Yeah, different cultures and whatever because we always like My parents are still letting me Always learning different cultures different ways people do things since I was young on travel But we've never been to Africa. Nobody in my family never been to Africa. We've been to Australia. We've been to Europe We've been to Asia Never Africa Why? Well, let me explain my part We like like my mom said we travel all the time But Africa was never we never thought of it as being like a vacation Location So for me the first time I just had this thought in my mind that I want to go to Africa I want to see what Africa is about being that they show Nothing but negativity, but yet it's called the motherland So that put a question mark in my mind like why is this the motherland when you think of when you hear motherland You hear nurturing you think of something like Warm welcoming so I wanted to see for myself and then I came the first time December 2015 my friend Mimi invited me And from there on I fell in love with Ghana and I said that I'm going to bring my entire family to Ghana I'm going to bring my friends to Ghana and I'm going to show every black African-american in the states what Ghana is like what Africa is like And that is when you decided to move Yes You came alone or you came with mom and so I came I moved by myself But for the first week my mom came for the first check it out. Yes, because I'm like, oh my god I'm stressed out about it. Like is it safe for a person alone or whatever? Yes, and um, you know And I wanted to educate myself about it because you know We have the internet now. We have so many things, you know media shows certain things This is absolutely changing now because you can see beautiful things in Africa, but it's never been kind of Never been kind of on our radar because You know is And you know and we we were missing that too because we have to educate ourselves Yes, um, but um, sometimes you kind of have this idea That's drilled in you that you kind of have certain, you know, you see Europe you want to go there You see Asia you want to go there But you know never really after Because they don't show we don't see what we see here now Honestly, we see starving children We see poverty we see Just huts, but now that we're here. We're able to see the beautiful houses Um, we're able to see the resorts the beaches And people are actually enjoying life People are actually living their best life living their best life Yes, she's she works two jobs She's retired and she's like Yeah, no, I'm not trying to live that life Grandma, how many times have we been in Ghana? Three times grandma three times. Yes, you're not scared coming to Africa for the first time No Well, this part I didn't know what it was all about.  I want to know yeah are people in here welcoming Oh, yes I mean, welcome the people very very Yes, very welcome You know, I hear a lot of a lot of um, African Americans say like Africans are not welcoming. They don't like us But I've never really experienced that every Ghanaian that I've met was like welcome aquaba You're gonna make it. You'll love it. My sister even I met this lady the other day and she's like, oh, you're my daughter Oh, yes. Yeah, so everybody's loving and welcome Yeah You know just because of what you just told me. Yes Did you ever hear any African Americans saying that Africans don't like them? Yes I I've heard it a few times where black people in the states will say Africans don't like us Um, I'm not sure why I've never experienced that personally but They think that We're black, but we're not like we don't know What? Like our history here in Africa Um, and they think that we're not they're not welcoming here in Africa as well. So That I've heard it a lot a lot of times and my experience even in school and um, when I you know Some of my classmates even in college um It was always understood that um Africans We can we call ourselves african-americans, right? But we don't know true africa. So why are we african-americans? Like we don't have that relation Right, we don't have the knowledge and history and richness of africa. Yeah, except dr. Skinner's black and our ancestors came from here But that's why and it's always been like even when I was around some people I don't I don't know if it was from Ghana obviously because since we've been it's been absolutely welcoming And any canine I meet out in the in america It's always been welcoming. So I don't know if it's maybe it's particular countries in africa But um, you know, my mother used to tell us with her parents About you could tell your part and about slaves My grandparents used to tell me about the slavery in america, you know We don't they don't know nothing about the african here But it's just when they come over here everybody's slaves. They know that they come from africa. Yes.  I just wanted to know Yes, so the jamaican part is my grandfather. Yes, right? Yes, my grandfather's from jamaica and I decided to do jamaican food because gana reminded me so much of jamaica. Have you seen any similarities between gana and jamaica? Do you see the color of this flag? Definitely like a shanti the shanti flag. Yes Yes A lot of similarities We did an ancestry dot you like an ancestry dna thing and it showed that we have roots from i-posts and gana and the shanti tribe when we checked it out in in jamaica Queen nanny of the maroon nanny maroon. Yeah, she was she was the first like the first slaves to go to um jamaica And she led the first war and actually won against the british Yes, you know like I really want to take a trip to jamaica. I was supposed to be there last day july And because of covet I couldn't go to jamaica. Yeah, you will love it. I'm coming to jamaica. I know I have a lot of You have to come to jamaica Yes You came to gana and established a food truck business. Yes, so I actually got the truck built here in gana from the ground up literally um I have a friend ghani in from the states um that basically guided me to the people to Where I should get it built which was in north kanishi um, that was an experience within itself, but um I was supposed to be done by last year december. However, the truck wasn't completed until like february but We made the best of it and I believe that you know Everything happens for a reason it happened at the right time because I got a lot of like Acknowledgement from me building the truck here in gana So I would prefer to build it here in gana than to ship it from like china or something just so that it's more closer to me I feel like you're building in here because you want to give back to the society I want to give back to I want to give the jobs to my people. I would rather do that Wow Yes, I mean you're young. Yeah, and you move to africa. Yeah, especially gana You know, we have so many young africans in the diaspora who doesn't want to take that step Right. I mean, I know I have almost half of my subscribers are within 20 to 34. All right, if you have a new message, yes for such people What would that message be? So my message to you is that if you feel it in your soul If you feel it in your heart, you have that fiery desire that africa is calling you gana is calling you I advise you to to follow that that feeling because once you get here everything will fall into place um Everything will align because it has aligned for me And I'm just so thankful that I followed that voice in my mind to Make that move from 2015. So I would say just do it. Don't be fearful of it It's easier said than done, but just go for it. She's saying just do it But she's not telling us that she has a youtube channel that you need to follow Yes, support her. How many subscribers do you have? 4.4k Let's do this. You know what I always tell my subscribers when I meet people like you Because I'm on a journey to change the narratives of africa and I believe that Your story can change the narratives more than me all the time. Just because I like shouting a lot Shouting in front of the camera and all that. So, you know what we're gonna do. I'm gonna put your youtube channel there I mean, we have to get there to 10,000 subscribers by tomorrow. So, you know what we're gonna do 10,000 by tomorrow By tomorrow 4.4. Okay. You have 4.4k subscribers. So I'm gonna put a link in there You know this channel. We are here to support each other. We say by force I'm not gonna I don't beg them. They know it. Yeah It's by positive everybody's duty to go and subscribe to your channel and support you Because what you've done, I think your story is inspirational and can inspire so many people out Tell them to subscribe to your channel subscribe to my youtube channel Give me 10k by tomorrow guys. They should use I won't disappoint you guys to follow my journey living here in gana building a food truck in gana Hiring staff creating jobs and just enjoying life living my best life in gana Are you really living your best life in gana? I really am. I really am. I was miserable but miserable back home She came back home and forgot she was really a married I'm like I wouldn't be doing this if I was in gana Okay. Yes I'm sorry. What? No, let me know. Yeah. Is this the main reason why you left america? The main reason yes because the way of life, um, I used to work for the federal government back home and um I was so miserable like like I said, I love to travel. I love to explore. I love to be out And my job Consisted of me being in No, no and I like freedom as far as if I wanted to go travel somewhere I I don't want to go ask my boss if I can go And um take a week off vacation. No, that just didn't sit well with me. So now I'm here. I have my own business. I'm able to Do it on my own like it feels different having something of my own rather than working for someone Let's do this. We have to you have to help me change the loyalty. I will help you change an avatar You have to promise me because I don't want a situation where they will subscribe to the channel And then you will not be giving them content No, I will promise. I promise. Thank you. I promise To your subscribers to my new 10k subscribers. I will give you content. I will be out there more I am a little shy sometimes, but I won't be shy anymore. Um, if you have a message to your fellow african-americans out there Yes, or that message be I think it's important for every African-american every black person not just in america to Visit africa at least once in your life if you don't want to move you have to make that visit I feel like when you come here, you will know and feel it for yourself. You know what I mean like I believe in the states. We're lost. We don't know who we are. We don't know where we come from I think it's so important to know where you come from to know the struggles of your ancestors because that allows you to Have a confidence within yourself it allows you to Just do more and and and know that you are worthy of so much more. You deserve so much more. So come to africa Come to gana You will love it. Don't believe what others say about africa. Come experience it for yourself and um Come see me And there is this thing that you know, let me tell you something my experience with an african-american Um, the first time that I went to china I never knew that I was even black, you know, like I'm just gonna be honest to you because in africa You don't hear people saying I'm black. I'm black. I always say oh, I'm from gana Yes, I went to china and people were calling me a black man. Yes. I'm like, whoa. Yes. So am I a black man? Yes, you are So, let me tell you so I got to know I'm a black man and I went to class for the first time and I had a african And at the end of the day Like we saw it out. I started talking to him bro. I never knew that there's anyone called black american African american all I thought is okay. I'm from gana. I'm an african from gana So like there's so many africans out there African americans out there who don't want to hear They're african. It's so heartbreaking. Yes. It's so sad and a lot of them once again, we don't know We're so lost and we're so detached from Our history that we don't even think we're african To me, everybody's african.  Yeah Like do you know how to speak english? You know that i'm like What do you think? Yeah, so I want to know from you.  So before I came here one of my friends asked me was I gonna live in a hut Like she actually thought it was just huts here in gana in africa period So, um, that's the reason why we need to educate our people. This is why we need to do these videos and like my mom said Um, they were asking do they wear shoes? Do they speak english? Even when I was in school?  Yeah, and luckily like in my family we raised that everybody is you know, right? I was interested us in other cultures So we was not so much because I had some neighbors that were from africa and we used to be like Um, perfectly fine. And then that term came up african boogie scratcher Yeah, so they made us kind of look more into it and whatever and it's like what? Yeah, I'm sure they're not walking around with bows and arrows and Right It was a movie we saw and that's how we all thought that's what it was Yeah, walking around with the loincloth With bows and arrows and you know, it's like so we had to educate ourselves I mean anyone would have an intelligence understand that that's not Everywhere and everything No, but that's what that's what majority of People in america think of africa. It's just one way and so i'm an educated Uneducated because I think recently I saw a video of a guy Calling an african american the guy was an african american but he's saying you don't look like an african american Because of the shape of your head Where the person is from so many misconceptions.  The other day it said gunny and women are one of the top five most beautiful women. So yeah, yeah Let me know like you're in Ghana. Yeah, if you don't speak out do people know that you're an african american um If you don't speak up Not sometimes sometimes so I don't know if it's like how I dress they automatically know But a lot of people here was just like you look gunny and like you have to be done Anyone tried to speak tree with you and oh, yes all the time when I went to go get my hair braided The for like the first week I came back. Um They were speaking to me and tree. I'm like, oh, I'm sorry.  I'm like, oh gosh, I need to learn I know like few words I know And guns are really respectful. So like when it comes to like Yeah, please how are you? It's like people I think my girlfriend is Kenyan and then she came to Ghana and she started saying Hey, how are you? And I'm yeah, no, that's wrong yesterday. Yeah, I was telling my mom yesterday. You can't say you have to say That's too that's too casual Watch out, how are you good afternoon? I know the three things that I said about Ghana. You must know when you come they're very polite Everyone looks nicely dressed and everything because in america pants hanging down And that's the whole thing. But number two is the traffic the traffic I'm like, oh my god, I can't You just gotta know when to go out. Okay, which is never 10 o'clock at night I think it's because of where you staying There's a traffic here. Yeah The junction. Yeah, they're all here. Yeah, that's because of where you staying right? Yeah And um, let me know like apart from your mom and grandma. Have you ever brought anyone back to Ghana? Yes my entire family basically, um My youngest cousin seven years old My to 16 they all came here in february. They loved Ghana they said it's different from any other place that they went Um that they visited before so they want to come back help me with my truck. My dad should be coming in february um Yeah, my brother is coming so and then I had friends they were planning to come in april But because of cold but I had like seven friends coming. So I told you I'm bringing people here I'm bringing my people here. So I'm living up to my word. They're all coming because You took the step. Yes. Yeah, and and I'm telling them they need to experience africa for themselves So I'm aiming for my birthday next year for them to come. Let's see how kovid Treats us.  He says he's gonna come I want to say thank you so much for sharing your experience with me and Mommy, thank you so much.  Thank you grandma. It's it's a pleasure meeting you for the first time All right, um, don't forget to like the video share and subscribe and make sure you go to your channel Like I said, it's by force to go support hands. My name is still mr. Ghana, baby The one and only village boy from Ghana. I'll see you in the next one. Peace out


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Did you learn a bit of French in the plane? How was it? How was the plane, the whole experience coming to France now? You know, they do a pretty good job of taking a lot of the stress that, you know, commonly comes with travel. So that is one thing that I do give the organizations and the NBA a lot of credit on is that they make it easy on us. So from that perspective, it's been pretty smooth. Like a kind of crazy schedule for you? Yes, the schedule is crazy. The schedule is crazy, you know, we have a lot of stuff to do, you know, a lot of show and face and being in rooms and, you know, talking to you guys and all that. But that's part of it and it's an honor to play in this game. Is there a bit of free time still to enjoy? I don't know if you'll bring someone with you? No, I'm just trying to catch up on sleep. I have my older brother and his wife here and I haven't even seen them yet. But I'll get to see them soon. And the free time right now has just been trying to catch up on some sleep. When did you learn that you were going to be playing in Paris? Was it June last year? Yeah, exactly. What was your first reaction? Is it something you wanted to do, an opportunity you wanted to get? It's definitely a cool opportunity and you have to feel honored to be able to play in an environment like this. And I think the cool thing about it is the globalization of the game. You know, I played Team USA this summer and you see that the game is taken very seriously across the globe. So to be a contributing piece in that continued effort is something I don't really take for granted. Did you already know the team was among the candidates to be playing in Paris next year? Like last season, did you know that there was a chance? No, I just found out about it this summer. And about the nets, you're kind of reloading after the whole the trades last year. Is there more stability, of course, this season? Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I'll tell you what, man, it's always a process. It's always a process. It's really hard to just scrap teams together and expect great results off the rip. I think a lot of the success in the NBA comes from, all the success in all the sports comes from growing together as a unit and kind of meshing and figuring out everybody's roles and how the system is going to operate. So I think you have to learn to appreciate that process and not take it for granted and continue to build throughout it. Do you know the arena you'll be playing in? We're not playing in here? No, you're not playing here. There will be a bit of riot if only 3,000 people could get seats. It'll be an intimate experience. This is where Wemby played last year, I don't know if she knew. I did not, I did not. But I like this gym, I like it. I would like playing here. But you're playing in Bersi, which is... Yeah, it's 16,000 people. Iconic arena in France because I think Jordan played there 30 years ago with Chicago and the Olympics final will be there too, so... I'm excited then. That might be a better atmosphere than the... I'm sure if we played here, though, I'm sure this place would be rocky. Yeah. And I don't know if you should know, but Will Weaver, your assistant coach, he was here, he was in Paris last year, did he... Yes, I didn't know that. Did he talk about it? Did he give you some tips? We talked about it a little bit because one of my good friends, childhood friends, played out here for Paris basketball for a little bit. The name is Dustin Sleva, played out here for a couple of years. So we did talk about it a little bit. And Will, what's his role in the coaching stuff? What does he bring? He's a smart guy. He's a smart guy. He's also kind of funny. He brings that element of that. But yeah, just somebody that knows the game well and is able to communicate it well. We talked a little bit about his offensive mind in France last year because Paris was the leading offense of the championship. Do you see that also with the nets? Definitely. I don't know. I mean, it's hard to put it in. It's hard to describe right now, but you can tell he has a mind for the game. And I'll tell you what, the coaching staff, amongst themselves, they work so much. The amount of hours they put into everything that we do is a lot. And it can become hard to talk about them individually because they do function as a unit. But I think that's for the better, the fact that they are on one page. I love the game to finish. Is it due to your attitude as a normal regular season game or is there extra motivation maybe to win in Paris?  But we need them. We need all that we can get. So the urgency is high for any game right now for us. Three days to prepare, that's also something to... There's the travel, but there's a bit of preparation. Yeah, you don't get that often. You don't get that too often. So looking forward to it. Thank you very much, Cam. Thank you. Enjoy the week. Thank you.


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Please welcome the Pamela Means Band. Now the president embarrassment in blue establishment bowing to big money influence complicit in the highest sense you Bible thubbing hypocrites cashing in on the environment rolling back rights that we died together corporate tax breaks permanent I don't think that's what Jesus meant the president is incompetent and embarrassment impeachment now the president is incompetent and embarrassment impeachment now the president is incompetent and embarrassment impeachment now the president is incompetent and embarrassment impeachment So this is a live recording here in the studio, I want to thank Northfire recording and everyone on the team and also Amherst Media for the camera situation. Just try to get shots from above. I want to introduce everybody, I have Cinnamon Blair on the bass over here. I'm just going to say I could have put that towel as one of the tip rewards. We could have that one toward the end, so just make an eBay, like have a bidding. So this is a tune called James Madison and the chorus are the actual words of James Madison, the fourth president of the United States. So, you know, we wrote a song together. Respiratemen, some grew hemp on their plantations. All had slaves, they didn't free them, all had slaves. Jimmy James Madison didn't give two flips about anyone. Pokes manifest destiny, didn't work out for the Cherokee. Jimmy James, he said the purpose of the government is to protect the minority. Two party systems seem like one gold at the top and the rest on a rickety-rackety run. Guns we got greed and idiocy, an embarrassment to everyone. These populations, prisons populate, predictions of politicians salivate. Ellsberg, Manny, Snowden, Davis, heroes in dissidents. We all are civil disobedience, we all could use a daily dose. Some more profanity to get to. You're witnessing the recording of an album. Definitely we have some promotional video footage and audio to help get some more performances.  Thank you. Thank you for being here. Sometimes I say I wrote this song in ten minutes plus a lifetime. I wrote it the day that, four years ago now, the day that the grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri decided not to prosecute the cop that shot Michael Brown. So through fetal position, tears of rage, this was born. Otherwise known as a Tuesday. My father grew up in Jim Crow, Tennessee, a share crop of sun far from luxury. Moved up north in 1952, and a damn thing changed from his point. I've been pulled over on a shorewood shoulder, asked with your mother, mother business. Don't I look like an owner thing? What you want now? Don't you? I didn't know the side of the road was a courtroom. We keep marching on, but our souls are tired. Cause here we are again, here we are again.  Roomed in the great lakes midwest where politeness covers up years of repressed. Tight lips, tight asses, too slow to grow, hyper segregated masses, and I had to go, had to go. Rodney King of Riots in 1992, a black president. I've seen that too, but ain't a damn thing changed from my point of view. In a damn thing changed from my point of view. Roles are tired, cause here we are again. Everything dark comes out in the light. We keep marching on, cause here we are again. I wrote a song called Cinnamon and Chocolate before I knew Cinnamon Blair, so I spelled it wrong. Because I make sure you hold the nose at home. This song began on Route 116, where it's all scary and curvy between Conway and the stretch of road over there. It's pretty, unless you're driving. Yeah, look if you're driving. Oh, I do. Also, if you're driving fast on these roads and you come up on someone really slow, it's probably me. So just, you know, just chill for a second.  Curves tight, guilty, and small. I do mostly originals. Occasionally we play songs by other people. They choose songs by artists of color. Talk to me, as if you think I'm dumb. Well actually, it's even older than that, cause it samples nicely, brother. By Christopher Wallace. Bam. Cut. That's why we got Garrett. Garrett. Garrett, that's not too fast. No need to be greedy. I got mad friends with benches seen up by the layers.  Jump in the rover and come over to your friends. Jump in the GS3. I got the chronicle.  I love it when you're coming. Money's getting money. Making money on up in your waist.  They should be having my baby. Baby. Packing what they love. What's your name? What's your size? As soon as you buy that wine. I just creep up from behind. And ask you what your interests are. Who you be with. They send me on the way to the technical steak, cheese, eggs. And what's the scrape? Conversate for a few. Cause in a few, we gon' do what we came to do. Ain't that right, boo? I forget the telly. We just go to the crib and watch a movie. And the jacuzzi. Smoke deals while you do me. I love it when you come a big pop. Throw your hands in the air. If you're such a true player. I love it when you're coming. Money's getting money. Making money on up in your waist.  They should be having my baby. Baby. Even biggie smiles and mansions and bends Is giving ends to my friends. And I feel stupendous. Tremendous cream. Stala and a dream. Still took gas with infrared beans. Chapa nose. Foolish pleasure. Whatever. I had to find the very treasure. Sometimes I'm the man. Keep friends. We can chill every weekend. You know, alright, alright, alright. Is that alright with you? Come on. Yeah, yeah. Keep being. My hands in the air. If you're such a true player. Money's getting money. Making money on up in your waist. Please don't shoot up the place. Why? Cause I see some ladies tonight. They should be having my baby. Not the gun. Hey.


Hi freedom family. This is Debbie. Oh dealer four five one nine and guess who I found not gonna believe it It's the famous George Vanu's and I want to say To all you guys who say he's never making videos He was about to make a video of his own But I showed up and he just said let's make a video here. It is now. I want to say something George is about well About a month away from having a brand new baby girl number four And I know that we're probably gonna go without a video for a while from George after that So sometime in April when you say, where's George? I'm gonna say please refer to this video You know all if you had to have a baby you would take a break from videos, too Also in addition to that George, do you know what your name and are yet? Okay, and and I I didn't decide necessarily ahead of time either So I understand.  To fitness everyone I've taken on a little extra weight. I'd like to take off Easiest taking off a shirt Working is climbing the stairs Promise a ritual. I've promised myself to not take the elevator at least twice a week Wow, I find the stairs from G to 40 at which I currently am getting about eight minutes That's really good for 40 flights of stairs. Is there 12 stairs in each flight? I Don't let's see two four six eight about nine nine, okay so it's Maybe not as high as you're thinking but the kids my kids can do it in 11 minutes and nine seconds That's their best time without any help and wait a minute You are challenging your children up the stairs. It's just a benchmark. So of course I have to be able to do it Less than oh, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. I do it in eight as a good time Sometimes a little more sometimes a little bit less, but I challenge everyone to tell us What your time is and whatever choice of exercise whether it's number of push-ups number of sit-ups length of time on the treadmill How long you run? Let's set a benchmark and let's see if we can beat that benchmark over the next month on Just steady at least once a week exercise and then let's celebrate our new selves At the end of that month and that's really a good idea because all of you know that I obsessed about losing weight and I'm obsessed now because I'm losing it faster and faster because Everybody walks in Eastwood you I walk here to see George. I walk to the donuts Of course you have to walk for donuts, but who walks to the grocery store. We walk everywhere. Yeah I mean we don't you know, there's if you got a if you rent a cab you're going five six eight miles But if you're only going two or three you just walk I've done some beautiful videos of outside here and they are beautiful and I'll do more before I go and you guys will see why walking isn't that bad. It's not horrible here.  I'm not saying go out now and do it But March and April we're right around the corner and it's going to be pretty and that's a good time to start But most of us are in no, okay, some of us are healthy And in great physical shape as George appears to be I need to know George.  Well, my plan is definitely to come I was there last year and the year before and VidCon every year is a little different. I never know quite what to expect So I'm looking forward to the surprise this year. Oh good. That's great Of course, you know, my family's coming and everybody knows the Anthony's part of my family So Anthony's going my husband's even coming because he works for the Hilton so we get deep discounted rooms From 800 to 50 that's a deeply discount. That's like a free Basically and nothing that never happens. So we're very You're very happy about that, but he's already lived in LA and He moved out of LA for a reason. So that five days is all he needs. He's like, that's traffic's bad And you know, um, is there any other? Breaking news that you have other than you're trying to lose weight. You're gonna have a baby and No, I don't know into the breaking news. I go Jeff for lunch Breaking news. Well, we're working on music composition. That's our next focus people who can make music for the freedom family and we're Bringing over one particular Composer by the name of Ben messonette Making a video shortly about that. All right, music for age our game He's composed music for the George show, which I've been testing out. Have you noticed any new? Oh, I have seen some things. Yeah heard some things some things. So that's all Ben's work He is planning to come next month here to the Philippines To work and live Wow on music composition. He said that's been his passion. I've known him since TGN days back then Oh, my word music. He was playing World of Warcraft Making videos about it.  I've realized what I want to focus on now is just music composition He hasn't made a video in years and A lot of music on his MIDI keyboard So when Ben comes here, it'll be a big deal We're going to use his skills to spice up your videos and we'll have a whole submission process We're currently thinking we'll have every class of youtuber every size of channel Have a chance to get custom music not just composed by Ben. We're not going to run him ragged We're gonna build a team of composers and Ben will be at the hub of all that And we'll build Perhaps we're hoping ten at least Composers that we can then use to service custom requests like I'd love to have music appropriate for the central I'd love to have music appropriate for vlogging for Minecraft. I'm thinking of music like that cross with that Can you do it? So those are the kinds of requests we hope to have Service for you for your family Well, I wouldn't be a very good community team member for freedom if I didn't mention that my dear friend Bill Miller Bill Miller is the music composer in fact last year. I bought a song off Bill Miller and I I don't use it for an intro because I think it bothers you and I don't use it for an outro Because if I remember correctly, you don't like that either So I do listen to your videos George if one thing you'll you'll see I do pay attention So I had a video that I could fast forward because it was a long video But a lot of crazy stuff went on so I went ahead and I put that with it and it went her Perfectly and I think Bill for that and I will probably see him again when I need more music for my channel He sees he's smart. He's good. He's a lot of fun Everyone on the community team is that way we're smart. We're a lot of fun. Oh wait. No, no Sorry wrong video. Okay, but back to you. I want to I want to say that, you know music is important and In it represents times in your life because there are there's a song that you're Your graduation what song comes to mind when you got your first car what song comes to mind your first girlfriend What song comes to mind? You see how we really do put songs with our lives and If you put songs with your videos, it'll mean something too I mean, you know, somebody may be watching that video and hear that tune and go Wow, I like that and they're gonna remember it What else is up your sleeve you got all kinds of stuff up your sleeves. Oh those are freckles never mind Freckles I do want to say that George and I have talked for I don't know it seems like an hour today But it's been the best hour. I mean we just laughed he's so fun And for all of you people who tell me where's George I'm gonna go ahead now and film a 30 second clips of George making faces So when you ask on those go down those comments, where's George? I haven't seen George in weeks I can just slap that down and you can see George No, that's cheating because George is not gonna be filming that live but guys be patient because remember that he's got so much going on with that new baby coming and And we just don't press him. I mean he loves you. He put out three videos in two days.  I'm not here because George said no flew me here I'm here because I wanted to make sure that all of you saw how much fun this trip was and the sights and the sounds and The walks I really want you to be a part of my life and I want you to keep following me But we're probably gonna run this on freedom central. So George, what do you want to close with because it's for freedom central closing Well freedom central guys, I promise there's a lot of surprises We have in store for 2017 a lot of new year's resolutions that you will learn about soon You already know the latest update from Alex at Zoonix who's interested in making the Pirates game survival open-world Rating in the Pirates era and I'm sure you can expect more of those types of projects coming your way about Game ideas from other indie game development teams that we will put in front of you and say hey Would you guys want to be part of this game play it develop it? so we we are creating a push around indie game development and now you know as well we're creating a push around music composition and Monetization and creating a whole culture for musicians to flourish as we've created For youtubers and gamers to flourish In the future, we're gonna focus on beauty the hair and makeup people and Other verticals like blogging just general blogging general blogging Maybe some travel Travel blogging Wow imagine that maybe some sports sports. We love sports and other verticals If you feel passionate about any particular vertical be a gardening or DIY Just tell us down there comments below We read every single comment and we have a motto no comment left behind So you can be sure your comment will get read and replied to because we care That's the spirit of freedom. We all help each other grow together as a family Boy, I think he's got that down. Don't you I I want to say one more thing From the freedom community team to everybody who watches this we are there for you We will help you it may you may have to ask us twice because sometimes we do not catch it the first time But we go over those videos over and over to make sure that you get your answers if you don't get answered We are already sorry, but we will in the next video when you ask the same question. We will answer you and Your George does approve our comments if we tell you something. It's not like we're just picking this out of thin air Well, if I were you I'd go to the 13th floor, right? So yeah, these are these are freedom approved comments and we were gonna help you and we're gonna get you where you Need to be because we love you and we love our volunteering for freedom And I hope George that you have a wonderful. Thank you five and four months, and I'll see you again in June We're not getting sick this time by the way.  So we're gonna stay healthy This is exactly why George is taking his vitamins now so we can all be healthy for VidCon. Bye guys


tilted up a bit. Is that coming through okay, everyone? All right, how's everyone doing today? I expected like five people here, so that was about the reply I expected, but since we got a bunch, you know, hopefully get a little better day going for you guys. I work remotely all the time. I always have a computer screen in front of me between folks, so you can never get my attention, wave your arms, throw something at me, do it. I never get this opportunity, so let me know if any questions come up or we're chatting and we'll dive right in. My name is Todd Matthews, Director of Implementations at Ethink Education. I work with our clients from the second they work through the sales process all the way until the site itself is live. One of the big things that comes up for me on a day-to-day basis is customizing mobile themes and just making the look and feel of Moodle work for these clients on an individual basis. So what we'll go into today a little bit is some Moodle themes of the past and see where we've gone from 1.9 to 2.0 to 2.x to 3.1 all the way through the spectrum here. Some of you that remember even before 1.9 will be, I'm sure, cringing at some of these slides. Unfortunately, this website here is not a Moodle theme, but I am just very nostalgic for the days of GeoCities and this is where we've started at. I've still got my HTML and CSS files hidden away somewhere very, very wanting to put this up somewhere and get this out there, like a Moodle site out of it. But with Moodle 1.9, we saw a very block-centric build. Everything was over on the left and the right. Everything kind of took away from that center real estate screen where we wanted the students to focus. The blocks were really supposed to be a helper to that course content and so we saw that a lot of the attention was being taken away from that center column. It was a little bit tougher to incorporate some custom designs that you wanted to get in there and it wasn't very responsive. It wasn't built off the new bootstrap standards. What we saw is, back in 2009, that worked out very well. Everyone was on the mobile, or no one was on the mobile device, rather. In a 10-year span, we've already overtaken on mobile in the last year. I believe this is up to about 60% now. We hadn't changed the way the themes were working. With that came the advent of Moodle 2.0 through 3.0. The clean and more themes really started adding a lot of functionality to the Moodle site itself. Fully responsive design, built off of bootstrap 3. Incredibly nice themes. I actually really kind of miss these. I'm still very 2.0-centric and love having my site admin column, but started regaining some of the center columns, some of the real estate back in that middle section there, as well as still allowing for that focus on the left-hand side. As you see, though, sites leave a little bit to be desired. They're a little bland. You could get some great customizations in place, but it really took a lot of work. A few things we did to kind of get around some of the more design and the clean design was incorporate some of the third-party themes that are out there. We used Lambda through the theme forest crew. Really a great theme had been very responsive to get back to us, as well as Fortson. A big shout-out to Chris Kenneberg, a great Moodle community provider.  Really a great, great person to work with. The big downside though is you are working with a third-party theme. You're not able to get the core customizations updated. You're not able to get those bug fixes, and you're kind of left on your own. A few quick examples here. I did want to show off how Lambda looks in there. Amy from EDSI is actually here today. Not sure where. Back around the corner. But it really offered some new design functionality that we didn't see in more and clean. Offering up the slideshow functionality, the carousel functionality, to help point the students where they needed to go from the second they get into the site. Same thing we saw with Fortson as we jump ahead a little bit here. As it is a boost child theme, and we'll be getting into boost a little bit further, but just offers a little bit more breakdown, a little more granular setup on the front page itself. And we found some really nice work with that. Again, Chris has done great work with that theme, and we really loved it. But we still point all our clients to the Moodle Boost theme. It is the standard. It is constantly updated by the team. It allows for that more screen real estate built on Bootstrap 4 standards, and really just a nice theme all the way around. The biggest thing here, and something I'm going to harp on quite a bit, as we're with the community today, is that helping the community is really amazing. There are, if anyone is a Rest of Development fan, there are dozens of us out there that are big CSS fans and really dig into this quite a bit. So we'll look a little bit further to see what the community has actually contributed back here. With the boost customizations, though, what we see is that even though it is much easier to get these in on the front end and work with some of the preset CSS packages, is that you still need to have a pretty good understanding of CSS and HTML to be able to really get your site looking and feeling how you'd like it. So we see that we can start incorporating some nice background designs, bringing in the RGBA so we can have some transparency on our left-hand column, and even really making the site look completely different through the footer. As you can see, I don't know if there's any CSS nerds out there like myself, but this is just a small step of what we do on every single site we work with. Working with the additional HTML, the footer information as well as the CSS itself, all directly through the front end, allowing for a quick turnaround and working with the clients back and forth. As we can see, boost can be anything. It really looks incredible. This is even mimicking a little bit on the force inside, built up a slider within the boost theme itself, and we're able to help incorporate some of those background images as we see in the third-party designs. And as I said, the boost preset CSS is incredible. One click of a button and you're able to change up the entire theme based on what the community has provided out there. I don't know if I'm able to escape out of the slide or not, but I'll have some examples show you guys here after, make sure we can get through this. And from there, just wanted to give a few CSS tips and tricks. We're going to jump in and do a little bit of a live demo here, show you guys a few things, how that kind of works, but wanted just to go over the basics that I tried to drill into all our clients and all our employees. First being percentages, not pixels. We are working with responsive designs. We want to make sure that it's not going to, you know, have the image three feet wide on a mobile device where everyone's scrolling over and trying to view the logo just to find out if you have ink at the end of your name. So percentages are very important to help maintain that responsive design. Cut twice, measure once. That's a little bit backwards and a little counter intuitive. But what's that to say is to actually use the front end web developer tools to be able to get in there, make some changes on the fly without actually affecting anything on your live site, get that in place, make sure it's set, and then bring in those those design elements. I will say W three schools is going to be your best friend. I still use that on a day to day basis. I'll still end up Googling something wait, what was the CSS rule? And it really is a huge huge boon to those people that are new to SCSS, CSS, HTML, anything like that. And again, use the community. We got a great group here. A lot of people love contributing back and being able to help each other. So if you have questions that are coming up, post them on the forums, while Mary jumping in everyone right away and a very, very great community here, utilize it as best you can. And so we'll go ahead and actually, since I don't have my computer, we'll go ahead and look at some of the theme building tools first and then take a jump back into the CSS itself. More often than not, as I said, measure, measure twice, cut once or measure, cut twice, measure once. We work with the inspect element tool built into every web browser out there and really gives you the functionality to make those changes without seeing a quick, you know, take down of your site across the board. In addition, I use things like the color pick eyedropper to make sure I'm matching up those colors perfectly. My vision is not the best. I'll be the first to admit it.  So by making sure that you're working exactly with that hex code that you need, you're able to grab that directly from a current website. And the last but not least is the 3D page tilter here. This is something I love. I don't know if anybody remembers the, there was a 2, I believe 2, 2, 2, 3 bug where the grades emission button would sometimes disappear off the site. And so this became a great tool where you could pop the screen out into three dimensional, be able to look at that turn, manipulate the page itself and see where that hidden div was at, being able to then make those changes and get the updates so it's visible again. And a few just fun sites that I use on a day to day basis will show you here as well. Hexed RGB tools for those that don't like the hex codes. Looking at complimentary color schemes, making sure that you're having a nice flowing site, looking at actually some CSS animations that could be included in there, talking about the Favicon creation for those of you that don't have a Favicon created. And last but not least, the accessibility validator, a very cool tool that allows you to essentially make sure your site is looking great across the board for all users, making sure it's 508 compliant. So with that, bring this over here. I want to make sure I'm still coming through, maybe not. All right. So I did kind of build out some of our clients here and just showing a progression of how this comes across from that more theme, you know, a little less snazzy into that lambda theme, offering up some of the functionality that we saw with the slider images, working into force in itself, where we start bringing some of those bigger background images and really helping brand that page and top to bottom. In addition, Boost itself offers up some great functionality, as I said, we see these sites across here. Perhaps one of my favorites actually worked with the client specifically on this to get these in place. Very cool design they came up with it and really helps make that footer pop out for you a little bit.  So this is where we generally start and work our way back towards something like rehab essentials is here to see. As I said, there are dozens of us that will go ahead and actually contribute some of the stuff back here. So we have some pre CSS packages. As I said, can be added instantly to your website, making the Moodle theme look and feel great. As I said, as well, W three schools is going to be your go to for any questions you might have. This is bookmark top my page. I don't even bookmark anymore. Just type W and it comes up. It beats out all WWWs. But as I said, the hex to RGB is going to be a great friend for you. Say you're working with, you know, you know, this is your hex code here. Hey, coming across the RGB. Let's go ahead and see how that would look possible or possibly with a complimentary code here. We bring it into our color hexa. It starts building out some complimentary color scales for us. Obviously, as we have picked a very boring color, you can tell I'm not a not the most creative. But that's why we have our random web page. Sorry, closes down. Close down. Oh, it disappeared on me. Hey, we're back. So now I get my creativity back. I'm able to see them grab some of these codes. Yeah, like that one. I know what's going on this computer. Not a real big fan. But with that, then we can take those hex codes back, put in something a little more vibrant here. And this will give us a little bit more of a breakdown here. Copy that, right? Nope, I did not. Well, at that, I know we're short on time. So you guys get the idea there does build out that great complimentary color set for you, as well as working with things like enemies to some really cool designs in here that are all free for you're able to help bring these into your site automatically, give you that code information right here and you can help get this included in very, very easily. Things like the FabiCon generator being able to draw your own FabiCon online or upload any file to help shrink that down and make sure it's going to show up here at the top of the page like this a for animista. And most importantly, as I said, the ability to check for those online 508 compliance standards. We'll see here that some of the, you know, the older theme with more here really did have less things to worry about as it was more web 2.0 facing. We see in web 3.0 with the new themes that there are a lot more things that it needs to check into. And this will give you a full breakdown, letting you know exactly what is wrong or what is correct with your site. So this is an awesome thing to use as kind of a final step, use it throughout the iteration process, but always run it back through at the end just to make sure everything is looking good for all users. And with that, I think I've taken up enough everyone's time today. I know we're running behind, so I will close it there. If there are any questions, by all means, I'll be around. We've got the nice stripes on, easy to spot. So just give me a shout and love to chat. Thanks, guys.


Russia plans to launch mass production of drones. Russia intends to start mass production of aerial drones. The government has issued a state order for them until 2030. The parameters of the state program will be determined before April, and the president is to approve it in May. The source, familiar with the document's preparation, told Isvesha that the demand for drones for the needs of various departments, services and companies is already estimated at 100,000 units. According to the market analysis, we estimate the demand for UAVs, which will be the basis of the state order at least at 8,000 units of UAVs of various classes and types for civil aviation in the next three years. Their total cost is estimated at more than 50 billion rubles. A representative of the state transport leasing company, which will participate in the project, told the newspaper. The Ministry of Industry and Trade told that the exact parameters of the state order would be determined by April, and the preliminary demand for heavy drones alone was more than 1,000 units. Many companies in Russia make civilian drones, but most are prototypes or experimental models, founder of the RunAvia Flight Safety Service, Andrey Patrykov told. Such models are unsuitable for widespread commercial use. Meanwhile, the use of drones in commerce is currently restricted by regulations, he added.


and welcome back to the studio alright today's blog it's just the full review of the Nike wild horse 5 a lot of times I'll do some outside filming but today it's Saturday just keeping it simple you know spending time with the family just trying to relax you know what I mean it's like it's good on the weekends to just disconnect a little bit so that is what I'm doing today but before we dive in just got to clear the air a little bit well first of all it's amazing we're doing the first full review and I think three months of a shoe I've done a lot of first impressions of the lot over the last two weeks let's say but because of my foot injury I haven't been able to take a running shoe past 50 miles until yesterday in the Nike Wild Horse 5 but there's a lot of new subscribers welcome and so there's a little confusion yesterday on I noticed in the comments under the Salming Trail 5 first impression that was five days ago I believe basically what I do just so you know if you're new I do two videos for every single running shoe that I test a first impression video and that's just after my first run okay just out of the box taking it out on the first steps like I did with the Nike next percent gosh three days ago now and then after 50 miles and just putting it out there if you're watching other youtubers review running shoes I'd recommend to make sure that the people that are doing running shoe reviews for you that they tell you how many miles or kilometers they're putting into the shoe because if they're just taking it out for one run of six miles or two runs of 13 miles in my opinion that's just not quite enough for a full review okay now I do first impressions and then I wait for that 50 mile mark for the full review and then if I really love the shoe like the Speedcross 5 I'm looking at most likely the Hoka Rincon what else there's a lot of shoes that I can tell I'm gonna like a lot and therefore if I take it to 100 miles or 200 miles then I start doing testing like time trial testing and speed test and eventually running shoe battles okay so just wanted to clear the air there because there was a little confusion yesterday in the comments all right I love you guys here we are let's rock and roll Nike Wild Horse 5 full review after 50 miles first of all let's jump into those specs the drop on the shoe unbelievable 8 millimeters that's what I'm talking about that is the sweet spot for me we're looking at a 28 millimeter stack height in the heel and 20 millimeter in the forefoot all right so that's a nice perfect slope inside a shoe at least for a trainer for racing that's a different story for me but for our trainer I love that six to eight millimeter range for weight we're looking at just under nine ounces in my size or 254 grams for size nine in men's we're looking at 10.1 ounces or 286 grams so pretty I would say actually well it's pretty par for the course for trail running shoes maybe slightly on the light side which is a good thing but most trail shoes in my size fall in that I would say 10 and a half to 11 and a half ounce range for weight and so the upper on this Wild Horse 5 has this multi-layer fabric with quite a bit of overlay action going on especially through this toe box that's the blue anywhere there's blue on this upper that is a synthetic really really thin rubber to help with with water resistance but everybody I didn't have a lot of great success yesterday keeping my feet dry so I'm thinking like compared to okay I'm just going to say it compared to the Salming Trail 5 which is right here this Salming Trail 5 kept my feet much much more dry much drier compared to the Wild Horse 5 which is which is fine because I'm going to tell you how I'm going to use this shoe moving forward here in a minute so I'm not expecting my feet to be completely dry after running up a snowy 14,000 foot mountain but just putting it out there it wasn't as water resistant as I might have expected given how much overlay is happening through the toe box and even even toward the back here through the midfoot and let's talk real quick about the midsole okay it's this Phylon EVA midsole foam here that's white here on the shoe and then yes there's a rock plate inside this forefoot okay so that is good nice work Nike I didn't have any sharp rocks poke the bottom of my foot yesterday and I was going over some pretty intense terrain like it was not a buffed out trail by any means so nice work on the rock plate I'd love to see what the rock plate actually looks like inside the shoe and then a zoom air unit in the heel okay and I'm going to come back to that in a minute but a nice zoom air unit here in the heel for a little more cushion through your gate cycle and for the outsole the bottom of the shoe really critical for trail running shoes of course I love what Nike is doing here with the lug pattern so you know lug depth is important so how how deep are the lugs on the bottom of the shoe how much do they protrude out of the bottom but I also now I need to do a little more thinking and testing but I also think how the lugs are actually laid out on the shoe is also critically important and I just like what Nike is doing here with this lug pattern and in fact I like how they the lugs kind of flare out here on the back near the heel because if you're traversing a trail that has a gradient to it a slope to it this is going to help it's hard to show you but it's basically these lugs kind of wrap around the edge of the I guess I should say okay the beveled edge of which is not really beveled at all it's rounded off and it allows those lugs to kind of wrap around which I like I like it a lot so good work there Nike once again on the outsole and as far as the positive and the negative or the drawback for the wild horse five how the padding inside the shoe it's not too much but not too little it kind of it ties into the tongue what I just mentioned I'm not sure what they did exactly as far as how they sewed the upper together and the amount of padding they chose to put into it but it's just spot on as far as the comfort of the upper it just it hugs the foot so well and okay I won't mention the terra cagra five quite yet I'll bring that up in a minute but anyway it is spot on and the drawback okay I'm getting reports from the field that some folks are going to be running a hundred miles hundred mile trail races in the wild horse five that's amazing nice work I'm not sure I would I don't think I would wear the wild horse five for a hundred mile race but if your feet and your legs can handle that kudos to you like that is good work for me after 15 miles and yesterday 17 miles my legs were starting to feel it a little bit I was yearning for a little more cushion through that midsole specifically in the heel even though it has the zoom air unit in there instead of 28 millimeter stack height I'm wondering Nike if we could bump that up to 30 or 31 or 30 maybe not 32 30 to 31 just to provide a little more push through the gate cycle all right so anyway that's my only drawback really of the entire shoe is that I was desiring a little more cushion in the heel specifically the forefoot was good but in the heel specifically and how will I use the Nike wild horse five moving forward you ready for this not on steep mountains that is for sure it didn't do great okay here's the deal if you live near Balboa park in San Diego Van Cortland park in New York City the two forest parks in St. Louis and Portland so I've been able to run in all four of those parks across the United States sorry for everyone outside the US but those are parks that are very tame but they have hills but they're tame parks nice buffed out trails this shoe is going to be perfect for running in parks that okay here we go commuter commuter is the keyword because this shoe would be perfect to commute to the trails so here in Denver we have a lot of trails that are close to the city and to the foot so we live right next to the foothills and if you need to travel from your house or your apartment if you need to travel let's say two miles or three miles on pavement and concrete in order to get to the trails this will be perfect so you can commute to the trails so let's say it's 20 to the trails 80 trail run and then 20 back oh no that's over and let's say it's 10 to the trails guys 80 on the trails and then 10 back so that's a hundred percent of your run this shoe is going to be perfect for commuting to the dirt on pavement or concrete it's just uh I'm really feeling that way and not so much strictly on the dirt all right and for that score for the Nike Wild Horse 5 I was struggling a little bit with this but we're going to go with seven out of ten all right seven out of ten and the price point a hundred and ten dollars I like it I like it a lot and yes it's available down below from running warehouse if it was 120 I wouldn't be nearly as excited but 110 I think is spot-on for the Nike Wild Horse 5 all right question of the day here we go one second we got the peg 36 trail we got the terra ciger 5 and we got the wild horse 5 all right what are you did I say peg 36 trail yeah the peg 36 trail here which of these three are you most likely to pick up if you're going to pick up any of them and I know there's folks out there that are not Nike fans and that is just fine but if you are which of these three would you most likely be interested in picking up and that's part one part two would you like me to compare all three of these shoes next week all right how does that sound because I'm feeling close I need one more run in both of these before I feel confident enough to give you the right information to compare these three all right thanks for being here everybody I love you thanks for watching thanks for tuning in and yeah it's just a it's just a beautiful weekend I hope your long run a lot of people do their long runs on on the weekend I hope your long run was great wherever you're at around the world running and watching all right thanks guys oh what a great crazy world we live in oh man it's I just can't believe what's happening here on the YouTube all right seek beauty work hard and love each other let's see you tomorrow whoo actually look there's a good dude's guy