Oh wait, thanks. Appreciate the call. I'm going to take one more call and then we're going to go and discuss kind of the macroeconomic issues. Hi, you're new on Book Show. Who's this? Good afternoon, Mr. Roach. I'm enjoying your show and I'm a long time fan of that brand, despite being a robot myself. Excellent. I love hearing from robots. Go ahead. This is great. Did you have a question? I guess the robot has no questions, because it knows everything. I wanted to ask, why would a robot, I'm just doing my best and hear all this talk about taxing me, I do all the work and you as humans just sit around and chill. Is that fair? Alright, great. I don't know who that was, but that was the coolest call I've ever got. Alright, so the robots are complaining because they're going to be taxed. Yeah, I wonder if that's Jonathan, I don't know. So we're going to discuss what robots, what kind of impact they're going to have on our lives and both from an economic perspective. That is, just from a sheer jobs perspective, what do jobs look like? Do jobs really go away? What kind of new jobs would there be? What happens to people who are unskilled? In general, what happens and what about all this hysteria and what about all this panic that is out there that really does exist, I think? People are really worried about this. We really haven't seen anything like it in terms of the worry and I think it's going to get worse, much worse, partially because people can't think. So much worse over the next 10, 20 years. Think about the panic hysteria irrationality with regard to trade and with regard to automation, with regard to China that emanates from the Trump administration and it's picked up by so many Americans today. Robots are a much more dramatic thing than anything China has done in terms of the potential effect on your life. So think about the hysteria today over stuff that I think trade specialization, different countries specializing, comparative advantage, all these economic issues that will kind of resolve 200 years ago and that we know the answers to and there's no question that for example, the trade is good. There's no question that the automation we've seen through the 19th century and into the 20th century has been good. But in spite of that, in spite of the fact that we've resolved all those questions, in spite of the fact that we've answered all those problems, in spite of the fact that there's not a single legitimate or semi-legitimate economist who believes that free trade is bad, in spite of all that, it's still true that so many Americans think it's bad and that the President of the United States and many within the governing authorities of the United States, they think that it's bad. So now that's something we've already, we've had for 200 years, we've understood for 200 years, economists have been writing about for 200 years, then flip it to something new, something we don't completely understand, something that involves a lot of uncertainty because we don't really know how it's going to develop, how it's going to evolve. And something that is on top of the hysteria that's involved with trade and regular automation, now robots. And what are you going to get? You're going to get much worse I think. And this is going to become politicized and it's the Luddites are going to come out in full force. And I fear that the Luddites might have, unless we really do the educating and we start the educating early, the Luddites are people who, since the early 19th century, have objected to technology, have always claimed that technology is going to destroy jobs, have always claimed that technology is bad for the human soul, for the human spirit, for the human ability to produce for himself, have always complained that no matter how much success automation has had, no matter how much progress automation has made, it seems like there are always Luddites and there are always people who reject that and abandon that. So we're talking robots today, we're talking this trend, but I also want to talk about the ethical implications of this. What does this mean for individual human life? What does it mean? What kind of responsibility does that imply on you as a human being? How should you as an individual relate to robots? How should you as an individual think about the actual work that you do? And what do robots imply for your individual life? So I want to take kind of a macro economic perspective, but then much more importantly, I want to drill down to a micro individual perspective. What is this have, what impact does this have on you as an individual? And what responsibility do you have towards your own life and how does robotics or robots, how do they impact that? And there's nothing new here in the sense that your responsibility to your own life is not changed by the existence of robotics, but the timescale, the urgency of thinking about certain issues, the urgency of understanding what productiveness actually means, I think is to some extent accelerated by robotics because they're going to change your life. Robots are going to change your life unless you're in the verge of death, unless you're going to die in the next 10 years, robots are going to change profoundly the way we live over the next 20 years and certainly over the next 100 years.  Of course, all this assumes that civilization continues, and we don't all spiral into some dark ages and the end of life as we know it. But let's make that optimistic benevolent assumption for the purposes of the show. Robots are coming and they're going to be really, really cool. There's an article in The Atlantic, the spiritual crisis of modern economy that deals with all this stuff and about how alienated people are, they're losing their jobs, machines are taking over and what are they going to do and they can't think of what they could do and they're unemployed or they're undemployed or they're partially employed and they're just frustrated by the world and it's machines and it's Chinese and they no jobs in their little community and they can't think of what else they could do or they just don't think. And this is the big spiritual crisis. And as I was reading this and I was thinking, oh my God, this is exactly what Mark says in the 19th century. This is exactly what kind of the existentialist said in the middle of the 20th century. This is the same, same, same old story of capitalism creating alienation and creating people destroying self-esteem and the spirituality and all this garbage. And yeah, it's all true.   And it used to be said and people understood the world was necessary to survivors to use their mind to use their reason to think, to innovate, to be entrepreneurial at whatever level you can do it. It will ever, ever you can imagine.  There's a, you know, we have now instituted into our American psyche. And I find it hard to believe that I'm saying this about America, into our American psyche and intellectual laziness and entitlement, a demand not to have to move anywhere, not to have to retrain at all, not to have to rethink what we do in our life, and to have the same job for 50 years and be able to retire on nice benefits and live well forever.  So if you don't want to be ambitious, if you don't want to retrain, if you don't want to reskill, we are not going to penalizing you, we're not going to penalize you for all that.   And where does that money come from? Well, it comes from those who are ambitious, those who are innovative, those who are going to create and build something. We're going to take money from them and provide it for you because our expectations of you have now come down to the point where we don't expect you to be able to find another job. We don't expect you to be able to retrain yourself.  We don't expect you to innovate, to do anything, to figure out what people want or to figure out something they don't know that they want and provide it to them. Lack of imagination, but also lack of expectation from human beings.  All right, so, you know, so this is not none of this. None of this is new. Not the threat of the robotics taking people's jobs, not people's response to it, not the intellectuals response to it. If you go back to the intellectuals back then, you know, even even some of the industrialists themselves who who are panicking and were worried about about what they were doing. And just like today, you've got the Elon Musk's of the world and other entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley advocating strongly for universal basic income, because they're convinced that they are destroying jobs for people, and that what they are doing, what they're doing, well, you know, is is is bad for people somehow, and that they need to adopt universal income, because otherwise people will really not have jobs. So it really is nothing new under the sun when it comes to the robotics discussion to the robotics debate. It's the same arguments that have always been made. And you know, I strongly believe that those arguments are going to fail again. And why are they going to fail? They're going to fail, because there's no limit to human needs and human wants, you know, there's no limit to human imagination. There's no limit to the kind of things we can do with our minds. There's no limit to the kind of places we can go. You know, imagine the day where we have an entire tourism industry built on going into space. And they could be thousands and thousands of people employed in such an industry. There's no limit to progress, there's no limit to wealth, there's no limit to what can be produced and created. Now, the only limit that there is is my imagination. I can't imagine all the wonderful things that are going to happen. Because I, you know, I don't have a good enough imagination for it. But it's just a limit of the human mind of the limit of imagination. Now, there could be a limit. And that limit could be just if we impose by force, if we restrict people's imagination, if we restrict people's use of their own reason, if we restrict people's ability to think, then yes, then, then we're going to get a sliding back into a dark ages. But as long as people are allowed to think, as long as people are left alone to think, and as long as people can create, can imagine, can produce, then there will be new jobs, there will be new things that we desire. I mean, I saw this article, this article in in Wired Magazine from 2012, that is, there was really an interesting analysis, and he did a good job. And he divided up all the existing jobs and new jobs into four quadrants. So Quadrant A is jobs today that humans do, but machines will eventually do better. And you can think of thousands of jobs that machines could one day, relatively soon, do better than what we're doing today. I mean, you will get machines driving trucks. You will get, you know, machines flying airplanes. I mean, even today, the 787 does not need a pilot. And indeed, it's not clear why we need a pilot in the cockpit of a 787 at all. Because the autopilot is just as good, just as reliable, probably much more reliable than any pilot would be. Right? A lot of tax preparation today is is done by computers and x-ray analysis. x-ray analysis is done by computers. And indeed, CAT scans can be done by computers better than by human eye, because they can they can see finer, the finer details within an x-ray within a CAT scan than a human eye can see. Right?  And they're gonna be a lot of them, a lot of them, some programming, low end programming jobs, any job that can be repetitive, any jobs that can put into relatively easy into an algorithm. And some of these algorithms are in a sense, quote, self learning, that they develop, they learn in some way from the data that you keep feeding them. So many of today's tasks are going to be replaced by that. Right? But then there are all kinds of jobs that we as human beings cannot do. Right? That machines are going to do. Right? The robots can do. Very, very fine, very, very like nanotechnology type things. Like, you know, you couldn't build a a computer chip without automation. Well, imagine the kind of commuter chips we can build with robots. And as robots become better, because already most computer chips are built by all computer chips are built by robots. But imagine as they become better and more accurate, and more and more, right? You know, they're going to be so many things that we that engineers today say, I wish I could do that, that once robots become better and more sophisticated, and finer, they will be able to do. You know, the AI, you know, what's called artificial intelligence, their ability to analyze these vast quantities of data, the ability to, to, to, you know, to map the human genome, the ability to, to simulate different things around the human genome and understand what all these genes actually do. You know, once we get big data in it, well, we have big data, once we improve the tools to analyze them. So the ability to do more things. So one, robots are going to take our jobs to robots are going to do jobs that we can't even imagine today, robots are going to do them, not us. Right? Now, that is probably going to require new jobs on our behalf, right? So you know, there are certain, there are certain tumors that are removed today by robots. You know, robots drive carts on Mars. They couldn't have patterns on fabrics automatically that you know, that you can download from the internet and send to a robot, right? There are a million things that are being done today by robots that would dazzle anybody 100 years ago, 150 years ago, 200 years ago, certainly even 50 years ago, right?


We're saying that it's better for there to be a 50-50 custody, right? Maybe the female, just looking at the other sides, back against the wall and going, gosh, if I don't keep my children more, which I'm used to doing because I've been a stay-at-home mom and I don't have any career basis, I go out there and I work. I'm not going to be able to afford this apartment or whatever for my children if I don't make the split difference so that he can pay me more so that I can have the amount of income to survive. Child support has nothing to do with your ability to earn. Child support has to do with... You don't have anything to do with your ability to earn. I'm saying that the female didn't have ability to earn possibly. She's making an error judgment with a financial need to go after her ex for more custody possibly because she thinks, and she's right, she doesn't have the capacity to go make the living on her own. So your sign is that there's a mother who doesn't have the ability to make a decision on the best interests of her children because she's putting money on them. No, no. That's exactly what you're saying. No.


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Hi. It's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. Today I wanted to channel and I've been, I've had a few inspirations isn't the right word but a pull toward ever since January 2021 to speak to a few individuals that are connected with and through the afterlife because of their experiences with the Holocaust and during World War II with the genocide. And I struggle with this a bit in the introduction because I want to be sure that I'm very respectful and I already recognize I know that there's a different word to use for the Holocaust but here for me as an American who didn't live through that era it was born many years after that's how I learned about the history the horrible history where millions lost their lives and I wanted to bring forward the connection with some poignant figures of the time who can share their stories and be a voice for them. I wasn't sure which one there were three I had in mind and the three are Anne Frank, Victor Frankel and Oscar Schumler. And as I sat down and I wrote the three names and I began to write the three names in my notebook today for channeling. I stopped at Victor Frankel, Dr. Frankel. So I'm going to share with you that I don't really have a lot of background with Dr. Frankel and his work I know he was like a psychiatrist I believe he was a psychiatrist psychologist psychiatrist he was in psychology he was very well known and very smart and very highly intelligent well respected and that he's written books and things and lectures and has a whole kind of foundation of one of the psychology kind of tenants based upon his work and I know he survived the Nazi concentration camps and and experienced or endured horrific experiments and that's what I know about him. So here we go with deep respect for the memory of those who've suffered and been lost honoring. Whenever you tap into as a medium whenever I tap into a transitioning of a shared collective suffering experience like this particularly this very violent persecution and torture death extermination I have a huge groups mass groups that that now they're ancestors of those who suffered during that time who were born during that time the children the families who are my age and older and younger they all plug in there's a grid and they're all plugged in in some way they're connected to that and so I'm really sensitive to that and and I just really want to share that I feel that I myself I'm not Jewish and I I just feel it's an empath so much of the I recognize my role here and how important it is right now. Dr. Frankel hello. I always describe to my viewers how my guests look in the afterlife and so allow me to do that please he comes to give me I was going to handshake and he comes to give me a little bit of a hug and he's shorter than I am I'm five almost five nine and he feels shorter and stature and yet has this incredible light and it's in his heart and it's yellow and so when I see the yellow energy glowing in your heart space that solar plexus spirit that's purpose that's the spirit of me is in my heart the spirit of me is in my heart and I feel that I really want to just cry meeting you I am so moved personally in touch with the incredible endurance and belief in higher power or in in the meaning of life through understanding some of the stories and hearing some of the stories of the witnesses and the families who are now telling these stories generations on real life experiences that are shared and passed along from generation to generation I am so just humbled by the power of the human spirit to survive and not only survive but thrive and you carry on and your legacy and and it just I'm recording this just shy of the ending of January in 2021 and I feel this tremendous growth opportunity and I feel you imbuing this energy and you feel so grounded and very earth and very humanity and the feeling that I get from you is very empathic and it's transferring through the heart space and the message is clearly everyone don't give up no matter how bad it seems no matter how bad your life may be and the struggles you face don't give up on life because when you do that you give up on you and all that you've lived up to this point is for nothing oh my gosh he's now do you feel the message coming in right into the heart grounded energy I see red which is like root chakra connecting us in feeling of life pure life would love for you to share wisdom with us life lessons messages for us humans we're trying to exist and we think our lives are heart and whatever we think is our reality as we've clearly seen here in the United States we've had a lot of turbulence and other parts of the world the United Kingdom and other areas and other continents there's been struggles and political struggles and and ideal struggles and total separation and segregation of different parts of society and and and there's dangerous dangerous rhetoric and words and things and it's just brings my heart to know that you it's so many like you went through what you did so that we wouldn't have to be in this place of suffering oh my gosh i'm gonna cry for this whole thing or try not to cry but i'm human but i have a heart you guys not just a medium i really feel humbled by your presence i just want to say forgive us please forgive us forgive us for screwing it up somehow for not what advice can you give us what messages of hope can you give us it's about the healing he's reaching out to like touch my hand he says it's about the healing don't look at me and see a survivor look at me and see a man a person a contributor to society as i see you i look at you and i see potential oh thank you he says that that's you all of us that's all of us oh my gosh the words of encouragement are not what is needed here the truth of life and the value of one is what you have learned that's what everyone has learned everyone has the opportunity to know this someone not take it for fear it goes against their own learning up to this point for you to judge them for that you're judging them against something that they have no control until the moment when they are given the opportunity face to face with someone in the manner in which they treat them they speak to them in the manner in which they connect with them human to human that's the moment it will define you and you will have many opportunities forgiveness for forgiveness in your lifetime i assure you it is best to learn it early on my wife and children and i do not live with regret i blessed with family multiple oh god he says multiple times or multiple ways no he says no don't turn your don't turn your head from the brutality it is part of the human experience man is cruel to man there are no excuses there there are no understandings here there's there's no way to comprehend the sort of brutality and the need for such a survival instinct within you it does transcend the mind it must transcend the mind the experiences that i've had and others have had just like me are no different in that we must transcend the mind in order to ultimately ultimately live in many forms this may appear to be a sacrifice of self of oneself and yes it is over and over and over again giving up dignity and all any type of what you would deem as normal all morality perhaps as well but yet there are moments and in these quiet moments you can know yourself remind yourself of who you are and remember why you came why you are in a body a soul that has so much to share and to give and to be it's not a desire or a a grand mission or vision that that drives me it's the connection to humanity it's the connection it is where the real hope is it is there the connection the world is struggling dr. frankel in many many ways and with health with health a health crisis and with political crises for those who feel confused or lost or like they're not sure of their meaning anymore of their life their individual life what would you say to them i don't give up to give up is to not value what has brought you here even if that road has been filled with pain and horrors struggles you have made it to this point this point in time and every point is one point in time where you may discover yourself you may choose something that can change i would not be perhaps the best to encourage others to encourage you because i don't walk the path you walk i cannot compare my journey one person's lifetime cannot be compared adequately to another it it does not it does not adequately compare to do that is it's there's no value in that it doesn't it doesn't it makes sense to do that dr. frankel can i ask you like from an afterlife perspective because you know that i'm a psychic and i'm a medium and i connect with the afterlife and as soon as i say that i can feel that just tremendous tremendous rush the tears are natural you guys like it's okay if you cry when you hear sad things it's it's it's a release it's an opportunity for healing it's a touching moment of connection as a medium when i connect to that time not just through my own personal like past life experiences but through knowing that you have had such an impact your human life and now i'm in the afterlife i get this feeling that you're such a teacher and that you probably travel around and chat with a lot of people about this about the information at least we not forget can we talk about the afterlife are you okay talking about that i mean i i don't want to i don't want to disrespect the body of work that you've shared and that you lived and you and you left as a legacy for us all but oh yes oh yes quite a quite all right quite yes yes okay i don't know a lot about your life historically or your family but i feel like there's i feel this energy of like poland then i see like the netherlands um i feel i hit in the solar plexus my stomach just really hurts right now just like i feel this punch in the gut feeling almost not physically hurts but emotionally energetically afterlife so when we connect into the energy when when students are learning about world war two and they're learning about the genocide they're learning about the murders of hundreds and thousands and millions of jews women child and children women children men people who who helped who tried to stand up and have a say against germany during that time can we talk about that i i can feel when when we watch like a video clip or when students read a book or when we see the holocaust remember and stay or see the or some that actually travel to like alshua it's brook canal or oh my gosh just feeling that i can't even imagine oh imagine the afterlife feeling into that i feel so many souls i can't even oh clearly i'm not the kind of psychic or i'm not in a state as a medium where i can just disconnect from the people i'm channeling which is why i probably haven't channeled for some time right now where we're at in january 2021 into the year of 2021 we are here on the at and the with incredible challenge of a health crisis and there have been many that have crossed from that at least in the united states over 400 000 at this point 400 000 dead nothing like the holocaust nothing like the genocide nothing like the murders in in germany during world war two and all around europe there because of the prejudice the targeting escape going of jews during world war two by germany there's so many collectively on the other side that have suffered from the same fate can you share with us in the afterlife how that is for those who lost their lives during that time they transition and they're in the afterlife what i mean when you years later when you went to to the afterlife did you see them is there a place for all these people who were killed and and during world war two specifically the jewish population and those who who really tried to help them and help us stay something and save people's lives that grouping of people is there like a place where they all connect and they're connected and then are they reincarnated or how does this i mean what is this when there's something this tragic and there's such a mass death like we're experiencing now because of this health crisis mass death like what happens with these souls because as a medium i've had a really hard time even trying to channel or connect because of all of the energies of all of the people in the afterlife and how all of their lives are meaningful regardless of what kind of health issues they had what age they are where they lived whatever okay their life is life has value please help me understand this the afterlife perspective says why do you share the pain you don't have to share the pain my dear that's what he says this is an example of how you as humans misunderstand when you're in a human body it is natural to use the human emotions to connect to to make connection to make conversation through the emotional he says realm the emotional realm that's interesting i haven't heard it said that before thank you dr franco the emotional realm we're making connection through the emotional realm the heart energy right the impact and that is through the pain more so than the love it's so easy to connect with pain this is a human trait that i have yet to truly understand the connection to the pain the pain is easy to hold on to but the love it is more difficult it's more it's something that feels so obscure or abstract in part that's that's because the mind informs you in your experience and it does make sense there is a need for that to identify and it's the heart that seeks for you to be free and the feeling of this when it starts with that pain the empathy comes and the compassion is beneath that and that is how relationship grows and how the understanding takes place it blooms within you it's seeds oh my god that's beautiful it's seeds are pain that we feel is like is is are the seeds that bloom into compassion that support us i feel like for me that shadowy part though is like i'm afraid that the pain will be overwhelming i'm afraid that i could have been a bad person during those times too like what if i was so afraid that i wanted to protect my children that i i said no to helping another family with their children what if i did that what if i don't know what i would do that was a situation i'd like to believe that i would stand up and and help quietly help or be part of some kind of a he smiles and he says you know a revolution or an underground perhaps does that sound familiar to you bridget yes it does yes it does does that sound familiar to you now you're talking a little bit about past lives and i really want to stick on this whole understanding of how we get so emotional and feel so deeply many of us and and and let's be honest here let's be really forthright many people will not many i won't say many there's not many some people will reject outright reject violent murderous horrific tragic experiences like this like a holocaust like genocide because it's just too much for them to process i think i think i'd like to believe that people reject the notion of it because they just can't believe it it's too much to process and if they believed it they literally would just like their head and their heart would it just explode is how it feels they would lose their minds because they couldn't believe couldn't let themselves believe that man could be that cruel to man or that there could be so much desire hunger for power that it would overwhelm the depth of humanity as a a culture as a whole humanity as a culture if humanity is a culture and then everything else is subcultures humanity as a whole could have that kind of persuasion of control and power and and manipulation by manipulation by targeting out a group and making them bad or creating a story around this group that will help everybody else come together around this enemy and and then they have agreement around this enemy until that there's another facet gets pulled out and that's the enemy now there's a new enemy now it's you you know that kind of thing from the afterlife perspective us feeling into that and having this acceptance or rejection of that the history what is that how is that related with afterlife there are masses he's saying there are masses there are mass groups that collectives of energy and your your words collectives of energy mass groups that just as the mass graves that you've seen depicted in documentaries and video or imagery there are masses that hold a part of the history so that the light will always be eternal it is not what you might see the what you might think with your mind it is it's not about forgetting with the mind it's about understanding the depth the raw depth of human sacrifice and in turn understanding forgiveness the process of healing is both these things understanding the human sacrifice and experiencing the process of forgiveness forgiving if you could know these two things from the afterlife you could have such a such a much more blessed life because of your presence you could forgive yourself for being human human beings are not without flaws there can be a a tip in the power within an individual focused much more intellectually non-philosophical terms pondering the questions of the universe perhaps but in the darkness in isolation in a strongly held belief based upon the rejection of something that is far too much for them to to know to to process to accept this is how most of those types of experiences do happen and it's not in in groups really affecting the groups as you see it's the groups in the afterlife are holding the light you would describe this as hope but it is about understanding the human suffering the sacrifice that has already been made that you connect to within your own life and your own experience of sacrifice and imbued with the suffering that energy creates such an emotion for you to help shift to upset things that you put in place for your comfort to yes challenge you in ways that will create opportunities for you to forgive others and yourself in these ways you learn and we all grow so yes many of these peoples have chosen to come back again and many in the same families you will find if you did a study that many are reincarnated into the same lineages your word your same ancestral the same families and generations whether they be great great grandchildren daughters nieces cousins sons many many have chosen to come back and through that they bring with them in the incarnation they bring with them that sell memory that memory I want to say cellular memory but that that that incredible feeling they embody the feeling of knowledge and they know better than behavior they know more than behavior they know more than this that is here and now they know because the understanding of the history is integrated inside of them and all of this understanding of the human struggles the suffering the choices that had to be made the regrets that many had the desire for just life just one more day how precious it became these new souls are old souls and they understand and by the way they do not have to be born into the same family but they may come in through a husband or wife a marriage something like that and they don't have to take on the exact same like he's saying the same characteristics they don't have to look like the person they don't have to be the same religion they don't have to live in the same part of the world but they're part of that family they could be way extended family but they're in they're here again and they have all this knowledge they just have it not intellect not like in the brain like just embody they embody this and so you can tell them by the light in their heart he says bridge it look for the heart and you will see the candle and literally like when I saw Victor Frankel Dr. Frankel for the first time here like in the channeling saw you I saw this like candle this tall candle just pillar candle like with a little little tray and it was gold and then around it is white like a halo of light just light halo with gold in the center and that's like purpose spirit in the heart the spirit is in the heart and you will see that because they have that understanding of suffering they have that and yet they also know that forgiveness oh my goodness forgiveness as part of the path for enlightenment for um he says um the path for advancement for humanity enlightenment is kind of a buddha buddhist term a spiritual term but he says for the advancement of humanity for the collective growth he keeps coming back to the words growth the words forgiveness sacrifice and suffering these things so if we can you and I in the audience here as we're talking to Dr. Victor Frankel thank you doctor from the afterlife use those words and really feel into them as medicine as as arrows or markers to emotions that will provide us freedom so that we can grow and expand and without external influence from you know the television the media the the hate groups or the the fear that we have maybe for over our health concerns and that kind of a thing because those things are all fueled by our fear and our feeling of of inability or less than our capacity when we question are we diminish our own capacity when we when we look outside of ourselves to seek expert advice or advisement guidance instead of trusting our own instincts while we're having conversations that are at a level of support if it feels like somebody's trying to convince you that they are and that's about control and you got to be aware of those warning signs if somebody's trying to control the conversation or they're not willing to hear you they may be in a place where they can't there's no need to engage or convince anyone because it's not what's going to happen that's not going to happen you guys so the words these are not pretty words but this is the shadow part of the shadow work stuff that i've been personally working on too and being willing to go into the places where life isn't always roses and cherries so if i can be really kind to myself and embrace the parts of myself that i feel are inadequate or less than are not capable the things that i don't think are skills they're flaws the more i can really be whole because i can love myself and fulfill my destiny and have a greater life a happier life a more fulfilled life a more loving life if i'm loving these parts of myself that i think maybe aren't so great so i invite you to acknowledge these words that dr. frankle brought forward of love where are you sacrificing what are you sacrificing where in your life are you sacrificing and what are you sacrificing if you don't have a journal handy when you come back come back to this part of the video and and watch it okay then secondly suffering where in your life are you suffering without point without purpose without need to suffer you are not living the life right here right now of a slave of a a jewish person a nazi control or nazi confinement okay you're not right you're not either one of those two things then how are you suffering at your own creation based upon what you're connected to because you would never cause yourself pain or harm intentionally unless there was a greater purpose reason something that was coming from outside of you and affecting you in that way to create deep suffering like it's normal to struggle it's normal to have challenging times and low feeling days and low moods and anger and have experiences based on the experiences you've had and ways you've been treated it's normal to have all these emotions but suffering is like long-term commitment to feeling misery and all of these people who have died and lost their lives and these horrific horrific points in history like with the holocaust like with the health crisis that we're experiencing right now you don't have to be one of those you are not one of those be here be now and acknowledge how am i suffering how am i creating suffering for myself it's like a cycle okay so consider the word suffering how do you feel that you are suffering that's really deep i would super duper encourage you to make sure if you're talking to a counselor talk to them if stuff comes up for you here if this feels too deep for you don't go there don't go there you know yourself don't go there maybe maybe it's not the time for you to deal with that so let's skip to the next one forgiveness this is these are huge this is like a psychology class like a i'm not a counselor dr victor frego but these are important pieces he's bringing these in forgiveness how can i forgive myself how can i start to let go of some of the things i blame myself for i feel shame for i feel guilt for guilt and shame opportunities for forgiveness usually it's coming from some experience that you had total misunderstanding on your part or internalization on your part of something that you are in a place where forgiveness it's going to open up the flow for freedom of your emotions because your emotional freedom is going to be key here emotional freedom it's going to be the way that we save humanity if you want to think of it that way it's true it's going to make your lives better by making your relationships better by making you you feel more whole because you will be because you'll be accepting parts of yourself you'll forgive yourself for what you didn't know when you know when you were 18 you made stupid choices and you ended up in wherever you ended up and maybe did some bad bad things and hurt people you're not that person anymore you didn't know back then now you know different things you have the gift of time to look back and reflect and you can forgive yourself now it's time to do that it's time to do that if you want emotional freedom that is okay so sacrifice suffering and forgiveness what can you forgive yourself for right here right now what can you forgive yourself for forgiving doesn't mean that you admit or accept i'm bad so i need forgiveness i've sinned i've done wrong so i need forgiveness we got to connect with the energy of what forgiveness is as a spiritual tool as an energetic tool to free some energy so we can move and not feel held back you want to know what's holding you back this is what's holding you back you are holding you back you're suffering you're overly sacrifice energy of sacrifice may be connected to other lifetimes or this lifetime and the inability to forgive now you really are able to forgive but you're not choosing to so you have to work on your relationship with the concept of forgiveness and explore what this word means what does this feel like to you what does it look like to you because it's not just connected to one thing you did bad or one part of you that's not good it's connected to a feeling it's connected to a flow state it's connected to a value system belief system it's different than what you think it is so explore that let's explore that deeper go deeper into that and the goal is growth to grow to understand this life as a gift the preciousness of the moment to grow to grow in to the dream of those who can't be here to dream right now that sounds like a big responsibility but it is and you can do it i believe in you i believe in us we can do it i believe in us i'd encourage you as always to get the assistance of others trusted friends or family and mental health care workers you guys they're so underrated i myself right now have a great counselor had for years love her just had actually had a session today with her and just to check in you know keep keep healthy keep the dialogue flowing things you can't talk with your family with and talk out things you're feeling and thoughts you're having and things without setting up red bells red alarms for your family just having real conversation total neutral third party so a counselor which could be a social worker licensed clinical social worker a psychiatrist or a psychologist whoever okay counseling and maybe a life coach like i have a life coach also i have a couple actually three that i would work with from time to time one that i'm working with right now on relationships for me personally and my like family relationships me as a mother and with my kids and then i have a coach that is a sort of a quasi well she's kind of a healer and a divine feminine coach like guide i don't know how to explain her but i work with her when i need to especially like during certain times of the year i feel like i really want that deeper rooted grounded connection to myself as a spirit as a highly evolved spirit so i work with her so you might work with somebody like me you might work with somebody like that you might work with a healer i also have a clear i just had a clearing session last week um with a dear healer clear friend of mine that i was able to help clear some things for me energetically with remote healing and so i can't recommend enough support you've got to build your own web of support because nobody's riding in on a white horse to save you that's not here okay that's not really here right now that's not how this works this lifetime maybe past lifetimes that worked you know it's very romantic yes but it's not going to work now in 2021 it's not going to work right now for that you've got to build a web support you've got to be willing to ask for help you got to be willing to explore some of these things about sacrifice and suffering and how you're holding yourself back because of that and not punishing yourself just acknowledging right hey i can loosen this up hey i can loosen that up hey i can let go of some of this stuff for me oh my gosh i had no idea that i was blaming myself for my divorce kind of the thing i was blaming myself oh my gosh i was blaming me and not it wasn't my deal but i was blaming me as soon as i loosened some of that stuff up oh my gosh feels so much better so too can you feel better when you forgive yourself right so forgiveness new relationship with forgiveness it's not a yes no thing a one-time event it's a flow of energy for give misses so thank you to my afterlife guest dr victor frankle it was really tough for me to get through this i hope that it really benefits those of you who are watching i hope it was respectful please know that i mean that i mean to be and i wish you nothing but love and understanding and kindness and compassion with yourself when you have these kinds of experience i recognize a hundred percent that many of you will will acknowledge or feel or remember have remembered maybe even right now up to this point past lives during that time and so the goal is not to to trigger any kind of trauma or memory of trauma it is to release and clear from an emotional state from the person you are today not you don't have to relive or remember your trauma in order to clear the residual effects or imprints on your heart space it's about emotional freedom as victor frankle's conversation with us today is really about emotional freedom i don't want that for you and you and i we deserve that this is bridget thanks so much for watching this very long video here on above life channel on youtube it's my pleasure to be able to bring you videos conversations that inspire your spirit the spirit of us and this is your life now this one right here right now is yours not the past life this is yours this life is yours here and now own it own it live it please live it just live it thanks for being here be sure to subscribe to the channel so you never miss a new video find me on instagram at bridget inspired on facebook at 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You're listening to the Arkansas Egg Cast, where we discuss the latest news, trends, and issues impacting Arkansas farmers and ranchers. Our show is brought to you by the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation and hosted by Rob Anderson and Jason Brown. Hey, hello, hello, hello. Good afternoon. How is everyone after Robert? You feeling refreshed after a week off? Yeah, it's hard to stay refreshed very long in this heat, though. Yeah. As you say that, people probably think I'm nuts. I'm wearing a vest right now, but it is. They've cranked it in here to keep us cool. The air is on in this place. I am here to tell you. So yeah, it's, but outside, very hot. Yeah. Record setting temps, I think, this week, and next, we may have the longest streak of 100-plus days in June if I didn't misunderstand them. Well, that's something not to look forward to. I'll tell you, somewhere else it was hot this week was in Rogers. We were up there for the Southern Region Commodities Conference. This is a conference that brings commodities departments from Farm Bureau's all across the South, obviously. I think there were eight or 10 states involved and it rotates to different states each year. So generally speaking, the event goes, let's say four days and it starts, so they do a half-day of meetings and then a half-day of seeing sites and yeah, yeah. So I think some top golf was involved, but also tours like Tyson and things like that. So a little bit of fun, a lot of bit of learning and apparently they dress very casually. You were up there and there were some shorts. Yeah, here I show up and my business casual got slacks on, but not like ready for this meeting. I walk in and everybody's wearing shorts and polos. Yeah, they know how to do it. Let's just say I was looked like the guy from PR and not commodities. But anyway, I think that was, thank you, I think that was a, that was more generous than that, that little comical bit deserved. But anyway, I think everybody had a good time, learned a lot. We heard a presentation, some staff from the Senate Ag Committee came down to talk about the farm bill. We heard some things. Several other experts present on dairy and other topics like that. Also exciting this week, we had our first appearance on the vine, ATHV. ATHV 11, the vine, it was Tuesday morning. And we're going to be there on there again on June 28th, Tuesday morning. Yeah, it was a great fun little thing we're doing. And it's some education about Arkansas Farm Bureau first, who we are, what we do and why we do it. But then, you know, we're going to be doing some education on agriculture. Yeah, showing some some crops at some point, different things quizzing the host, you know, we had some fun and but Jenny was on there the other day. She introduced it.  She did a great job. I knew she would. I don't think I've got I don't think I must stand a chance of inching her out of that spot. I don't think you will either. No, it was a good day. You know, I mean, I think we'll we're gonna enjoy that. It's a great relationship. Yeah, those those anchors there seem to be really into it too. I know we've heard them talk a couple times about their own personal connections to agriculture. So it's good. It's good to be a part of that show. It's at nine o'clock in the morning every every weekday, what we're on there to two Tuesdays a month as it stands right now. If you want to see Jenny's appearance, see some of the scenes from the filthy farm jobs series and hear more about see see what we talked about on the show. I believe we have a link on our Facebook page with a couple photos from her appearance. That's right. It's been out there on Twitter. You can find it, I think, on the KTHV website as well. Yeah, so go check that out and see how we're sharing agriculture to the broader audience, right? I'm calling it KTHV. It's THV 11. I'm not I'm old.  So I'm no one surprised. So what else you got? Well, something we'll talk about a little bit more. This is Farm Farmers Market Week. It's that time of year. Some other things going on there. So I'll talk a little bit more about that later. What else? Well, let me see convention. I was trying to get the dates on these. So one thing that came out two weeks ago while we were off the week we were off, I think American Farm Bureau has announced a 2023 conference information that the least early early information on that. And I believe that that'll be held January 6 through 11 of 2023. Okay. Always always a January meeting. Right. This time it is in sunny Puerto Rico. Okay. And so sunny Puerto Rico in the wintertime. So that's nice.  So what we'll do is we'll continue sharing more. I mean, it's really early. I mean, really, what we can tell you is the dates and the location right now. But certainly, if they allow us to keep doing this podcast, we'll continue right now. We're someone else will be bringing you that information. Yeah, someone else we had in the basement, maybe they'll lock us out of our studio. But anyway, yeah, so we'll continue bringing information about that as we as we get closer. But right now, I guess, if you want to save the day January 6 through the 11th in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Alright, well, let's get rolling with some news. First up today, we've got some national agriculture policy news. According to report from brownfield ag news, a group of House Republican congressmen have signed on to a bill that would reverse regulatory burdens and reduce farm input costs. That's what they're hoping will do. It's called the reducing farm input costs and barriers to domestic production act. And it would require the Biden administration to reverse certain policies that the House Ag Committee ranking member Glenn Thompson says are barriers to sustainable ag production. Arkansas Congressman Rick Crawford says the bill would address high input costs by providing some incentives for domestic production. He says we have chosen to rely on foreign sources. We've done that with energy, but we can't afford to do that with agriculture. Because he says we don't want to create a state of food insecurity. The brownfield report says the bill would offer would offer to clarity to waters of the US regulations. I know we're very familiar with that or Arkansas farmers are rescind an SEC rule on climate related disclosures reinstate 2020 NEPA rules and requiring economic analysis of gypsa rules. Don't know gypsa. I know NEPA is National Environmental Policy Act, but yeah, this is this is important. I mean, obviously we know matter of fact, I'll give a plug here talking about input costs and things like that. If you if you go and look at talk business and politics talk business.net, I believe you'll see an article in today's or in this week's edition that is written by George Jared and their ag reporter. But he uses a ton of data and information from Mark Lambert, right? Are one of our economists here to actually quantify the impact of rising costs on farmers in Arkansas. Right. I believe that I don't have it in front of me. I believe we expect a revenue decrease profit decrease of 4% Yeah, we shared we shared that on our Twitter feed. Yeah, you can find it easy there. You can find the link there. And I think of course, you know, talk business has been pushing it out there says Arkansas farmers face 4.5% decline and profitability in 2022. Yeah, so profitability hit. We also did some work with a THV 11 separate from what we were talking about earlier this week. They were looking for some help on a story. So we we called on Arkansas County Farm Bureau president West Long to provide some data points on that and fuel costs as we're entering irrigation season. We're seeing that fuel costs really being a hindrance. So anyway, we're doing lots of coverage and glad to see some policy that is a big issue as you can see from our our analysis and the stories we've been doing and now some action at the national level. Yeah, great to see. All right. Well, moving on. You have a unique and historic opportunity to make your voice heard on the 2023 Farm Bill. We told you a few weeks ago. I think before we took a break or break about the Senate Ag Committee Field Hearing being hosted in Arkansas. Now we're asking you to get involved in that and make your voice heard. The US Senate Ag Committee on Ag Forestry and Nutrition will hold the Field Hearing in Jonesboro tomorrow Friday, June 17th. The hearing will focus on the Farm Bill. It's being hosted by the committee's ranking member, John Bozeman, Republican from Arkansas, and the hearing will be an opportunity for producers to share their priorities for the Farm Bill, which is due for reauthorization next year. Please make plans to attend tomorrow. Remember, they are asking folks to register at ar.rsvp at ag.senate.gov. I won't repeat that. We've got it all over Facebook and Twitter Farm Bureau channel, so go there. But here's the deal. This this is sort of breaking news. I heard right before we came in here. President Arkansas Farm Bureau President Rich Hillman is set to testify at the hearing tomorrow. Great. So I know we've got a lot of folks going. 20 or more folks just in board members and staff. We're asking farmers if you're there, please attend. It's in your backyard. It's an opportunity. This is a major deal. It's a rare opportunity. Well, I'll give you an example. Stanley Hill, our VP of Government Affairs, and I were talking this morning, he says, you know what, Jason? In my career, we won't talk about how long that was, but that's been. But he says, in my career, I don't think I've ever attended a field hearing before. I've attended hearings in DC and so on and so forth. Obviously, at the state level, he says, I've never had the opportunity to attend a field hearing before. So it really is. When I said it's unique and historic, it is an opportunity. And the whole purpose is to make the priorities of the Arkansas farmers known in this setting. So please make plans to attend that. On campus at Arkansas State, I should add. In Jonesboro, it's on campus at, I'm sorry, at Rison Hall at the Fowler Center in Rison Hall. If you can get to the Fowler Center, if you can get to the basketball policy, you can get to the Fowler Center and then right in the door there. Sorry. Well, again, yeah, that is just such a unique opportunity and I hope farmers and ranchers and everybody in the area who can make it because it's an important deal. Now, taking a step back from national issues for a minute, we have some exciting news for some hardworking Arkansas farm families. We have eight district farm families that have been named in the 75th annual Arkansas Farm Family of the Year program, representing the diversity of Arkansas agriculture, which of course is the state's largest industry. The district families will now be judged for the Arkansas Farm Family of the Year and that will be announced in December. The district farm families of the year are in the East Central District, the Lindsey Family of Forest City, St. Francis County, North Central District, the Hayes Family of Pleasant Plains, Independence County, Northeast District, the Smith Family of Paragool, Lund Green County, Northwest District, the Hostetler Family of Green Forest in Carroll County, Southeast District, the Young Family of Poplar Grove, Phillips County, Southwest District, the Robertson Family of Hope, Hempstead County, West Central District, the Honeycutt Family of Arcadelfia in Clark County, and Western District, the Stoball Family of Atkins in Conway County. Farm Family of the Year program begins each year with a selection of the top farm families in each county and culminates in December with a selection of the Farm Family of the Year. The Arkansas Farm Family of the Year will then go on to represent Arkansas at the Swisher Sunbelt Expo Southeastern Farmer of the Year competition. You know, Arkansas has had two Southeast Farmer of the Farm of the Year winners, Brian and Nan Kirksey in Clark County in 2008 and the Willey Family Farms of Mississippi County in 2016. All families are judged on the farm production efficiency, management, family life, and rural community leadership. We'd be remiss if we didn't mention the sponsors of the Arkansas Farm Family of the Year program, which of course is the Arkansas Farm Bureau, the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas, and the Farm Credit Associations of Arkansas. Additionally, support for the program is provided by the Arkansas Agriculture Department, Arkansas Department of Career Education, Arkansas Press Association, and the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture and the USDA's Farm Service Agency Natural Resources, Conservation Service, and Rural Development. I love long governmental agency names. Yeah, no doubt. But it's a great program and congratulations to all those families. It's a big honor. Yeah, good news and congrats. Yeah, again, congrats to those families and I know they'll certainly have a busy few months ahead as we continue that competition. Well, we know that farmers have a lot to be stressed about right now, Farm Family of the Year, being one of them if you're a finalist, but. Costs or contests. We got a lot of stressors, but Purdue has quantified those concerns and it's Ag Economy Barometer Survey. I thought we'd talk about some of those the results from that survey. Higher input costs and input availability or are the top two concerns reported by farmers in the most recent Purdue University CME Group Ag Economy Barometer Survey followed by the risk of declining crop and livestock prices. Crop producers also said that supply chain problems are still an issue across all major crop input categories and 50% of respondents to the May Barometer Survey said that tight farm machinery inventories are impacting their investment decisions. Input price and excuse me input price and availability risk were noted by more farmers as their top risk rather than the risk of declining commodity prices. It's virtually unprecedented. I'll say that again input price availability risk being noted by more farmers is their top risk rather than declining commodity cost prices is virtually unprecedented and highlights the fact that ag producers face elevated risk across the board. One of the reasons they're so worried about these commodity prices is input cost going up is a real risk. Commodity prices being up kind of helps offset that or can help offset that but when if those commodity prices start to decrease then that changes the game on them mid-game really. So that's a that's a big concern and interesting information coming out from Purdue University. This is the first time I've seen this survey so I'm hoping that we'll we'll plan to keep an eye on that thing throughout the growing season. Well on that somber note I guess we now we're going to take a quick break. Yeah we'll take a break from the news and learn how you can be a champion for your community. Something a little more upbeat. Your Arkansas Farm Bureau membership supports our work on behalf of Arkansas farmers, ranchers, and rural communities around the state. From youth leadership programs and academic scholarships to hunger relief and disaster support and much more. You can make a difference and be a champion for your community. Join today at ARFB.com. All right well a good example of how our membership helps support our mission is with the Arkansas MASH programs and MASH camps. Those are going on right now. We've we've been running out checking those out taking photos. We've supported this program for decades and continue to do so thanks to our contributions to from the Arkansas Farm Bureau Foundation. This week again our team is traveling to get those images from the camps across the state of these young people learning about the importance of you know in the job opportunities in health care and hopefully coming back to their communities later if they pursue those options to provide health care in those communities. Yeah absolutely we met somebody in Omaha last week who said he was from New York and he says hey my sister moved to Arkansas. Her husband is a doctor and decided to move to a small community in Arkansas and practice and they're still there. Yeah and then hopefully the MASH program can you know is building more of those future small community recruiters and providers. Summer means a lot of things to people. We were talking about the heat earlier. You know it can mean swimming, vacation camps, but one of the things a lot of people appreciate this time of year are farmers markets selling selling locally grown produce and food products. Earlier this week officials with the Arkansas Department of Agriculture celebrated Governor Asa Hutchinson's proclamation of Arkansas Farmers Market Week marking contributions made by farmers markets and the agriculture industry to the state's economy. At the event Arkansas Secretary of Agriculture Secretary Wes Ward said farmers markets made locally grown produce and food products more accessible all areas of the state including the urban areas. We continue to see these farmers markets grow and be successful. Ward said which is great for our local producers and our industry as a whole. Adding that it's it helps provide local healthy food options. Tuesday's proclamation took place at the Saint Joseph Center in North Little Rock which operates a market selling its own food and goods originally founded as an orphanage in 1908. The center now operates a 63 acre farm. It also offer classes and workshops on sustainable farming practices. On top of that Governor Hutchinson has issued a proclamation of June as dairy month in the state. He did this after a meeting with dairy farmers at the state capital yesterday. On hand for that event were Grace Pepler and her mother Ruth who run Dogwood Hills Guest Farm near the Buffalo River. We've also done a video on the Peplers and their their farm. They offer guests a hands-on experience milking and caring for cows. Grace Pepler says visitors from across the country come to their farm to experience the dairy industry up close. If you want more information on Arkansas farmers markets you can find the Arkansas Farmers Market Association on Facebook or you can visit the Arkansas Department of Agriculture website if you want. If you want to check out more on Dogwood Hills or the video I mentioned about the Peplers visit arfb.com or the Arkansas Farm Bureau YouTube channel. Awesome. Matthew was at a creamery last week I think and holding a goat in a photo I saw was a very jealous goat cheese is one of my favorite. Is it goat dairy creamery operation and it's very interesting video. This one that you're talking about Dogwood Hills or the yeah the White River creamery. There's a lot of these interesting places in Arkansas providing these. A little bit of a mix of agri-tourism and great and local food products you know. Yeah that's very cool. Well you know we've been covering planting progress moving from from dairy or goats to row crop. We've been covering planting progress each week in the state. We'll continue doing that. But we are actually we'll continue giving crop updates but we're going to call planting complete. There are a few acres left but those represent really five percent or probably less for the entire state. So we're going to turn our attention to crop progress and health. We are currently working on videos for crop progress as well. So what I'll give you is some really concise statistical information probably but if you're interested in the next few weeks look for videos from us sitting down with the likes of Jeremy Ross, Jared Harky, Bill Robertson, Jason Killett you know the crop specialist from the division and to give more in-depth sort of guidance and recommendations. But for now 75 percent of the corn and cotton crop is rated good to excellent. There are some acres reporting fair or even poor condition but both crops look good for the state on the whole. Eighty percent of the peanut crop is reported to be good to excellent condition as of this week. 75 percent of the rice crop is rated good to excellent and the soybean crop reports nearly 85 percent of that same good to excellent rating. 65 percent of the livestock population is rated as good to excellent and of no of the alfalfa hay crop rates is excellent and only 58 percent of the crop is reported as good. We talked on the last episode I think about hedging a less than quality hay crop that was one Brian hosted co-hosted and we're continuing to see challenges according to the USDA reporting that in that hay. So go back to the last episode two weeks ago and listen to some of the tips that we shared if you need to if you're concerned about your hay quality. If there's a certain metric though that you'd like to hear us report on each week that wasn't included here then please let us know in the comments. We would be happy to include that on the podcast and our weekly reminder that farmers remain incredibly busy. Please please please keep an eye out for farm equipment moving in traffic whether in the northwest part of the state or the far delta that farm equipment moves in traffic very in a very different way than our vehicles do and especially keeping out if you're on a county road or rural highway just know that sharing the road helps keep everyone safe and food on your table. That's a message we're going to be sharing for a while so you'll hear us talk about that again it's just important and for the safety of everyone and it's you know this is being in the agriculture state that it is. It's pretty common. That's right. The Arkansas Ag Department has announced the Arkansas Grown Grant pilot program which will benefit fruit and vegetable producers in northwest Arkansas. The Arkansas Department of Agriculture and the Walton Family Foundation have partnered to offer the Arkansas Grown Grant pilot program for farmers residing in Benton, Washington, Madison and Carroll counties in northwest Arkansas that's farmers residing and farming in those counties. This pilot program offers grant funding to eligible farmers who are committed to increasing capacity for wholesale fruit and vegetable production resulting in more local food. Grants up to a maximum of fifteen thousand dollars will be awarded for eligible expenses to at least 30 farmers in the four county pilot program area. Free assistance in completing the application is offered through the Arkansas small business and technology development center in Fayetteville. The application and link to this is available at arkansasgrown.org Yeah well if you're raising vegetables and fruits go that's good opportunity part of this program that'd be really helpful. Well it wouldn't be a podcast as we come to the end of the news without Mr. Pistols this day in history. Did anything as important as this podcast happen on a day in history? And or how sad? I think it was pretty and no sad news today. Okay good thing. Yeah it wouldn't be a good kickoff to summer if we didn't have a little summer related news. Okay all right I like it. June 16th 1884. Okay wow. The first roller coaster in America opened at Coney Island. Coney Island had the first roller coaster in all of America. In all of America in 1884. I don't know about you but I would not want to get on that thing. I did one time I think they called it the zip and pippin at Liberty Landing. That thing was wooden and janky. Last wood roller coaster I had not got on I swear I'd never get on it. It hurt. Today is also Phil Mickelson's birthday. Okay. Some controversy. Yeah yeah. You're throwing in a controversial figure now. You know I didn't say it wouldn't be controversial. I just said I wouldn't be a downer. The PGA has told Mr. Mickelson no thanks. There you go. All right we want to turn this into a golf call-in show because we can get some comments on it. I bet we can. I bet we can. All right well thanks for sticking around that wraps up the news for this week. As always we appreciate you tuning in to the Arkansas Adcast whether it be on video here or later on yeah in the audio version. We're grateful for you taking the time to watch and listen. Quick editorial note we've heard a few comments about the volume being kind of soft especially if you're in a piece of equipment in a field so we are working very hard to beef that up. Yes we are. Mr. Anderson. Remember you can catch the live stream every Thursday at 2pm on Facebook and YouTube. Make sure you turn on notifications to get those alerts when we go live. Listen to the audio version later on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. And as always the Arkansas Adcast is brought to you by the Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation and hosted by me Jason Brown. And me Rob Anderson. Our show is produced by Brian Pistol and Matthew Magdefrau. We'll see you next week.


What is up guys Karma Medic here and welcome back to another dose. Finally back in England, I'm in London, I'm in my room getting ready to start school in a couple of days. Things are going to ramp up pretty fast so I want to record a video. Today I'm going to do a Q&A. I know I've been saying I'm going to do a Q&A for a couple of weeks now so hopefully you guys have gone in all the questions you want and we're going to answer them today in this video. Before I start this video maybe some of you are wondering, Oi Karma Medic where you been? I've been on vacation. Toronto, let's get right into the Q&A. I've asked you guys for questions for the Q&A over on my YouTube videos and also on my Instagram page. If you don't follow my Instagram page, follow it right here.  Now I'm going to be starting my second year at KCL. I'm going to be posting a lot more things about the hospital, the GP placements and also the school. So let me whip out my trusty laptop. Alright, let's see. Napisa? Napisa? Are you in your first, second, third, fourth or fifth year? So I just finished my first year at KCL. I'm going into my second year. This will be my second degree. MxO asks, what did you study for undergrad the first time? Was it science or medicine related? Love the vids. Thank you so much. Yes, it was science medicine related. I did two majors and one minor. My majors were genes genetics and biotechnology. Then I did molecular genetics and microbiology and then I did a minor in immunology as well. Honestly, if you're doing your undergrad in science, I would suggest you do it in whatever field you find most interesting. You don't have to do biomedical sciences. You don't have to do biochemistry. Choose something that you really, really like and go for it. It's going to be a lot more fun than studying something generic for a couple of years. OG Murray? Why the name Karma Medic? Good question. I'm surprised this hasn't come up for a long time. So my full name is actually Nasser Karma and so Karma is kind of playing on words on karma. Good karma, bad karma. So I thought I'd come up with Karma Medic and I've drawn it up there as you can see. Hadia Jami? I hope I don't butcher any of your names. I'm sorry if I do. Hadia Jami asks, what languages can you speak? I can speak fluent English and Arabic. I also studied Spanish in high school and for a year at university for about three or four years, but I would say I'm conversational at best. And then I lived in Greece for most of my life, so I can understand Greek very, very well, but I don't speak it as well as I would like to. Tesco and Sainsbury meal deal. Multiple people asked this question, but I found your name the funniest, so I'm going to include you in this video. Where are you from? So this is a bit of a long story. I'll try and do the TLDR version. Basically my original heritage is Palestinian Jordanian. I was born in Vancouver, Canada, and then very shortly after I moved to Athens, Greece, where I lived for about 18 years. Why I feel most is home for me is Athens, Greece. So it's a bit of a mixed bag. I'm not entirely sure to answer your question. Are any other of you guys like that where you're like really, really international from a lot of different places? If you are, let me know. MK asks, why is there an orange dog on your table? I have no idea what you're talking about. So I have a message here on Instagram and this person asks, why actually go you interested in medicine? Were you interested in something else before starting medicine? So I guess I'll tackle the second part first. I was not interested in anything else. Ever since I was a kid, I sort of just knew that I wanted to do medicine. Of course I didn't really know what that meant when I was younger, but I was always interested in the field. I was interested in what doctors were doing. And I wanted to learn more. The way that I actually got interested in medicine was I just really enjoyed science at school, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you like medicine, right? I tried to find as many opportunities that I could that would show me what medicine really was. So I started volunteering in hospital laboratories. I shadowed an orthopedic surgeon. Nope, I shadowed a cardiothoracic surgeon. That was the first doctor that I shadowed. So I spent some time in the hospital and I sort of got to see what the doctors actually do. What is it like inside of a hospital? Because before that, all I knew about doctor-patient experience was when I went to see a doctor. And that's a really, really minimal narrow aspect of what doctors really do. When I was going through these experiences, I was trying to understand what is medicine. You know, there's the research aspect to it. There's the patient aspect to it. There's the doctor aspect to it. There's so much more than just the doctor-patient consultation. And through those experiences in the hospitals, shadowing doctors, I sort of got to understand what medicine is. And I realized, okay, this is actually in line with what I want to do. And so I pursued it further. This one was asked by Kiran Bahavra. How come you didn't apply for graduate entry medicine? So I get this question a lot. The reason I didn't apply to graduate entry medicine was that I'm an international student and I just thought that the competitiveness would be too high for me. So as a non-domestic, non-EU student, I knew that my chances for getting accepted were quite low. And I didn't want to further increase that by applying to graduate entry medicine. If you look at the numbers for the standard entry medicine and the graduate entry medicine, the graduate entry is always more competitive. So I thought to myself, I'm willing to take that risk. I'm willing to do an extra year on my total degree length. But I just want to start medicine. I want to get started now and get focused on medicine. So this is a question I got over on the student room quite some time ago, back when I was on the senior reforms every single day, trying to help answer questions and whatnot. So someone asks, how do you track your time? Do you take breaks? Do you work in chunks? Do you or do you just work for four hours straight? How I track my time is just my watch or my phone or whatever. I don't really use any app that like tells you to work for this amount of time and then take a break for this amount of time. How I work is in four hour chunks, which I know sounds like a huge amount for some people, but I don't find it difficult to stay focused. I don't get distracted easily. So I like to work in four hour chunks and then take a two hour break. I know this sounds kind of crazy for a lot of people. For example, my sister, she works in 15 minutes, then five minutes, 15, then five, which I think is like some tomato timer thing. You guys can correct me if I'm wrong, but it really depends on you. See what works for you. You want to strike a balance between the amount of time you can stay focused and actually do useful work and you also need to complete enough work in the day. So if you can only focus for 15 minutes, but you only study for an hour a day, obviously you're not doing enough, right? So you want to strike that balance. Someone else from the studio room, hey, thanks for your reply. How do you avoid procrastinating? Do you have any specific, do you have a specific revision method or a way of studying? I avoid procrastinating by, I don't know, I'm just really motivated. I'm really, I have a passion for what I'm studying. I really enjoy it and I feel like I always need to be working. If I'm not working on my schoolwork, I'm doing something productive, even if it's just like drawing like I have here on the wall or, you know, sending an email or just writing, anything that is, I want to be working all the time. I have like this need to sit down and work. Don't get me wrong. I like to sit down and chill and whatever, but I have very specific times for chilling. For example, the morning with my coffee when I'm watching videos is great. I like to segregate very strongly my work time from my play time. So that when it's play time, I have lots and lots of fun. I don't do any work. I don't think about work. And then when it's work time, I'm very hyper focused on finishing what I have to do. Francesco Maranelli, one of the first people who started supporting me. Shout out to you if you're watching this video. How many lectures do you have per day on average and how many placements? So placements are starting now in second year. We have one day a week at a GP practice and one day a week in a hospital. And then lectures per day in first year, it was pretty intense. Sometimes we would have nine to five with just a break for lunch, but it's not all lectures. It's like lectures, tutorials, workshops, anatomy, dissections. So it kind of breaks up the day in that sense, but sometimes you would get periods where you just have four hours in the same lecture room. How many lectures do you have on day per average? It really varies. I'd say anywhere from two to like five or six. And yeah, it's quite a lot. First year was pretty intense. Why did you choose to study in the UK? There were a lot of factors that pushed me to apply to the UK. One was that I wasn't sure if I was going to get into Canadian medical schools. The application process is significantly harder there. The competitiveness is significantly higher there. So I knew that there was a lower chance of me actually getting accepted there. So I applied to the UK to have a backup, let's say. On top of that, all of my high school friends live in the UK. My sister lives in the UK. My parents are closer to me if I'm in the UK. So there were a lot of reasons for why I came to study in the UK, but ultimately I didn't get accepted in Canada. So I didn't really have a choice. I could have taken a gap year, but I just really wanted to start medicine. To which unis did you apply to and how many offers did you get? So I applied to Bristol, Southampton, Kings, and Queen Mary's. Queen Mary's rejected me without an interview. The other three I got interviews for. I rejected South Hampton's interview because I already was accepted to, I believe, Bristol at the time. And I went to both Bristol and Kings for my interviews and I got offers from both, but I eventually chose to come to Kings. What do you enjoy doing during your free time at uni? If I have any free time at uni, it's usually for like 45 minutes, maybe an hour. If I'm not eating during that time for lunch or because I'm hungry or whatever, I'll usually just be chatting to friends. We'll just sit down somewhere and have some conversation until our next class. Or I'll go to the library and try and finish up some work from earlier in that day so that I have less to do at the end of the school day and I can go home earlier. All right, this is a good question. So Azan M asks me, what's your favorite part of London? I definitely say that the coolest part of London is just how big it is and how much there is to do. There's so many high streets where you can go to your shopping. There's so many cafes and restaurants and just areas to explore. Every time I think I've like checked out all of Leicester Square or all of Hyde Park or whatever, there's always more and more and more that I haven't seen before. So I think it's just that there's so much to do, you'll never run out of entertainment here. He also asks, what's the best thing about medicine in your opinion? Azan, if you're referring to the KCL course, like what my opinion of medicine course is, I would definitely say the anatomy is the best thing. Having actual dissection has been so much fun in my first year. I've really, really enjoyed being the actual person to cut into the cadavers and explore all of the internal organs and different structures. So being able to actually do that yourself, it's a big deal for me. Now that I'm starting second year, I'm going to be going to GP placements and hospital placements, so I'm super, super excited about that and of course I'll let you guys know how that goes as time goes on. And the last question for this Q&A comes from me. If you guys have any specific video suggestions that you want me to make or any topics that you're unsure of that you want me maybe to elaborate on or give my own experience about, do let me know in a comment down below and I'll try and make a video on it in the future. If you like this Q&A, feel free to let me know. I'd be happy to do this again if you guys have any more questions in the future. Hope that gave you guys a little bit more insight into who I am, why I enjoy, and I hope to answer some of your questions that you had. Alright guys, thanks so much for watching. Leave a like on this video, subscribe to the channel if you enjoyed it and you want to see more videos from me. Signing out, I'll see you guys in the next video. Peace!


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