Thank you very much, Mark, for the introduction and thanks, Eric. It's really a huge pleasure to be here. Surviving is thriving in the genome business, and so I congratulate you on surviving for 10 years. We've had many collaborations with you too, Eric, and I want to thank all of your staff particularly for the warm and heartfelt and intellectual and productive interactions that we've had on these projects and others. I think, sorry if I misspelled Jim's name, but no, it's been great. You've just got a first-rate group to work with, and for that, I thank you deeply. You are one of the genome community, and like us, I think that you've been staring at these kind of pictures for this 10 years and saying what are the secrets that are locked within these data, and like us, you've responded to the mysteries of the challenges of wanting to understand what's there by generating more data to drive such endeavors as comparative genomics and understanding on their own how other species work, and that's been a shared endeavor with you and something we've all done ourselves. I'm not going to talk about that today. You have some others speaking on the same issues and I'm sure some great insights on the nature of what's going on in comparative genomics. I want to focus a little more on some issues closer to home in the area of human genetics and what is happening now with understanding of human disease mutations and to dwell on those issues because I really believe we are on the cusp of another opportunity such as we haven't seen for many years. If we look back over the last two decades and ask what have been some of the most exciting technical developments, and if you believe that technology drives the knowledge that we all feed from, the technical developments are important, then you remember, of course, polymerase chain reaction coming along and transforming the way we can do molecular biology. If you're a little older, like some of us are, you remember molecular cloning coming along and changing biology, and of course fluorescent DNA sequencing and some of the new generation of sequences have come along and given us a boost too, but there's another development now that they were all talking about and I'll show you some recent data from of how to enrich for DNA sequences to study them in particular. That was really exciting. I think the application of those methods is going to be transformative in the very near future and bring us somewhat closer to this lofty goal that we all think about, which is that one day you will walk into the doctor, maybe you won't even need such an invasive test as a blood draw, and that will lead to, through sequencing, to things that really do make a difference to your health care. Now, if we're going to get there, we've got to understand a lot more about our genetic variation and about how genes underlie disease work, and of course there are massive endeavors doing that right now. This is the most important curve we should think about, of course. It's the curve that reflects the frequency of variation in the population, that is the individual allele frequencies along the bottom axis there, and actually the fraction of SNPs up on the other axis there, what SNPs are present at what frequency in the population. We're all familiar with the HapMap project led by Francis, an international collaboration discerning now millions of markers genotyped across reference populations in search of the common disease, common variant alleles, through tagging, SNP tagging, and large genome-wide association studies, and of course we're celebrating those studies. Recently the genome-wide association studies from the Wellcome Trust gave us these beautiful papers that are showing multiple diseases with hits, and there are other studies here, very closely on the heels of those, showing us regions of the genome that clearly contain alleles somewhere that are causative of at least risk for genetic conditions. So we're all excited about those, but actually at this time there is a real paucity of actual causative alleles, and if you want to look at the funnest story in the genome right now, go look at chromosome 9, where there is one region that seems to be associated with everything, I mean really associated with everything, not spuriously. And among other things, it's only got two genes that are known so far, unless someone here in this room knows any others, we'd love to hear about them, and no causative alleles, but involvement in diabetes, heart disease, cancer. So we'd really like to find those alleles and be able to study them and can add those back into our equation that we're going to use for real medical healthcare from genetics. Now if we drift to the other side of this curve, to the rare mutations, then we can think about the Mendelian diseases, which classically we regard as sort of private mutation diseases, those things that affect small families and small groups of people. And I'm sure you're all here for me with Victim UQ6, wonderful contribution to all of science and medicine through building the Mendelian inheritance in man catalog. There are probably about 2,000 diseases now for which the alleles are known that actually link genotype to phenotype, and of the probably 8,000 that are ultimately tractable. Each one of these is a very valuable asset in this whole endeavour because of course we have linkage now between a change in the genome and a phenotype and engagement in that whole pathway and the ability to study more and to figure out what's going on. Now most react to this part of the story by saying well that's good, but of course those are only rare things and if you ever want to study them you've got to go and find a family with them because they hardly ever occur at all. In fact, if you compile the frequency of occurrence of many of these disorders, you find they are indeed rare, but because in this modern technical era now how to detect all these things we'd better rethink out what rare really means because if you look in enough random people you can often find mutations in these disorders. There's been historically a real bias of ascertainment and not because we only study those families where they present clinically, so our knowledge about what the real frequency of these things is actually quite limited. Now my colleague, that slide I just flashed was a plot showing that many of these things, although rare, do have multiple instances of the same mutation in different individuals. Now of course I'm forgetting to mention that amongst the rareness of course is mutational heterogeneity, that is those collections of mutations are all different, which is what makes them private. Now my colleague and friend John Belmont has done a nice experiment where he cataloged many of these mutations from no one causes of the disease, built molecular probes using the MIP technology now from api-metrics and made those custom probes to over a thousand individual mutations in about a hundred of those diseases and went and plotted those, tracked those in non-phenotypically derived populations in the HapMap samples. And what was quite striking is that most of these have mutational examples that can be found out there in these un-phenotype populations, which actually tells you if you'd studied those populations first then you came back to the disease, you would have at least a resource that you could use in that endeavor. Now, why am I telling you all this? Well it's because there is a great focus now appropriately on these rare mutations, perhaps the ones that aren't quite so rare as the Mendelian ones, but the ones that are in between those very, very private single-family mutations and what we know to be detectable by the HapMap type technology. And these mutations fall in this frequency range of about 0.05% all the way up to about 5%. Mutations that contribute to disease but aren't detectable either by the Mendelian methods or by HapMap. Now we know that these are physiologically important. We know this from many studies. Most recently and in most focused and elegant way, Helen Hobbs and her colleagues, Jonathan Cohen and others, have shown that in some of the lipidemias that if you use statistical methods to, well, if you type your patient population according to biochemical criteria and categorize them according to this kind of distribution you see here and look at individuals on either end of that distribution, then you can find among candidate genes individual loci that have clusters of mutations that occur more frequently than you can at the other end of the locus. We've seen similar kind of thing in idiopathic epilepsy. It's been a focus of our study at Baylor where we've been looking in ion channels by DNA sequence to find mutations and similarly we find clusters of mutations in certain genes but we haven't got the same ability by our phenotyping now to categorize the population to derive causes of epilepsy. But what we have found and able to say is that there are many, many of these non-synonymous mutations and their occurrence is occurring in interesting patterns but we don't have a complete data set. We wish we knew more about the complete spectrum mutation in the ion channels. One thing I can tell you is that if you look at the frequency of the mutations in the samples that we have analyzed and you extrapolate back to the whole population size and the degree of completeness of the study, that tells us by this guesstimate, there is probably more than 3,000 non-synonymous mutations in an individual. Now, that logic and that history has led us and others to say, well, wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to guess about these non-synonymous mutations in populations, outside of phenotype populations if we had a really robust catalog of all the potential coding mutations in a defined population. And in recent discussions and refining the idea, it seems like a good idea if we could take, say, 1,000 to 2,000 people from just the right populations and find all those mutations and use them in these studies and in many other uses that you can imagine to have for that kind of data set. And, of course, enjoying all the time that if we have mutations in genes, we do have at least some chance of knowing what they do functionally as opposed to mutations that happen out in the introns that are such a big struggle. Well, if we wanted to build such a catalog, how would we do it? Well, clearly the good old fashioned ABI Sanger technology that is very robust and effective is too expensive to use. Right now, it probably cost about $400,000 for each sample that we tackled. So if you can multiply that by 2,000, it's a big number. So we're looking to the new technologies to help us here. And, of course, 454 and Selexa are the two that are most out there. Applied Biosystems has machines out there, but not too much data on the shock floor yet. And I'm not going to talk about the Selexa. I know others will this morning, except to say that the methods, of course, have great potential and are really filling some niches very actively. We're finding that the Selexa data is very complementary to the other 454 data. But we think not the appropriate technology to tackle this problem. We think that for the 454 technology is actually entirely appropriate for this problem, perhaps better than for many other things that could be used for. I want to take some pains to point out that although I've had a past association with 454 on their scientific advisory board, very much enjoyed. I'm no longer, oh, this is an old slide. I'm no longer a member of their board. It's been some months. So you can absolutely believe everything I say. OK. Now, here's in the detail level, what is so good about that? Of course, the reads are longer. That's good. And there are many complaints about how you get accurate base reads, particularly in these positions of homopolymeric runs where you have to get a good estimate of what the height of that peak is to know how many bases in a row there are. These are extremely robust chromatograms. That is, for the same sequence repetitively, you get the same pattern. And that's a real asset in this endeavor of resequencing. And there are some other subtleties about the method. Of course, you separate molecules, which is common to all the new technologies. You don't have to guess positions of heterozygosity. And there are a few other subtleties, too. We can come back to that. Now, we spent about a year trying to use large-scale PCR, putting hundreds of individual PCR primer sets together in order to get a front-end feed into the 454 technology. And we're frustrated. Well, first, we were pleased by some of the success, but we were frustrated by how practically difficult it was to get really good balance representation of individual elements that are put into the mix. So we're extremely pleased to be able to work more recently with the Nimblegen group, who, as I'm sure you will know, make custom-made DNA chips through light synthesis not using hard mask, but make custom chips they can make overnight very quickly. We work with them to produce a series of arrays that could be used to capture part of the genome and enrich for that part of the genome away from the non-contaminating material. We were really, really impressed with the very first experiment where it's been shrunk down a bit here, but this is the capture region. And these are where the individual reads are mapping from a series of exons in the very first series of experiments. And this experiment we used 6,500 exons, about 660 genes. So it's about five megabases of data. And we went on then to show, and actually the papers just come out today if you want to see it in nature methods, describing the use of this across the region. The method works fabulously. We get near theoretical maximum enrichment. Now we've started on phase two of this study to produce a whole exon chip set. Now it's not possible yet to squeeze all the exons onto one chip, but colleagues at Nimblegen have built a series of seven microarrays containing a one set of the human exome. We can talk about what the exome is, of course, there are multiple definitions, but it's got most of the genes on it. And with a slightly different design rules from the initial set. And those have been put now through one 454 run of each and we're building a series more to get more coverage. But right now we have about 900 million bases of data from these exons, these arrays representing about 200,000 exons. There we are, 200,000 exons. And the data seem to come off these machines with a high degree of efficiency, I think because you get rid of all the DNA repeats along the way. And the mapping is just as good as it was in the first experiment. So the bottom line there is that we have some, have representation of a version of the full exome. Here's some of the regions are showing that the overall coverage is pretty good, although of course some regions unrepresented. And another example, here's a close up of one region showing that although the design dictates that most of the action should be right next to the exons or the targeted region, that there is some spillover because I guess the molecules, some are a bit longer or some have little networks around the molecule. So there's many issues to optimize here. Here's a nice close up of a mutation that's found in a biologically important gene. It's an in frame change nicely shown as a heterozygous position right there. So it's all working really well. And this is what I mean by this being on the cusp of this new technology. These are some more details. I'll rush through this slide because I've not got a lot of time, but basically there's some coverage issues. We'd like to see this curve showing that there was more even coverage, maybe about 10 fold of every exon. And that's what the battle is. But for such an early stage of the development of this technology, it's looking really pretty good. And there are many, many, many avenues for improvement. I don't know how many of you remember the first few years of polymerase chain reaction and spending those nights in the laboratory with non-thermal stable enzymes and no picture on a gel because you couldn't see the enrichment. We're kind of at that stage. Now, of course, even with that step, we have just a stop-gap measure until we can get complete genomes on a routine basis. And again, with our colleagues at 454, with them paying the bill for all the data, we have a single whole genome sequence. And I'm not going to talk much about it. Of course, the secret's out who it is. And I should point out that, you know, given the debate over the last few years about de-identification and then the thorny question of what would you do if your data were put out on the web and what would others do to you if all your sequences were put out on the web, we took some pains to create this diagram and what you'll see over on this side is the Baylor Human Genome Centre and there's the individual and there's the public data release. So there is some distance between us and, of course, full knowledge of the individual about what he's doing when he's putting his data out there. That data, in our latest analysis of it, is about 7.4x coverage and I won't give you hardly any of the details. Here's one of the two things I'll show you. This is a read map showing you how nicely the copy number variants all come out just from read mapping. Some of these events here are due to the nature of the underlying reference sequence but others are genuinely copy number variants and we've actually recovered sequence junctions with copy number, you know, the actual sequence of the copy number mutation in it. And back to the genes and the exon issue, though, what's astounded us is that we're found right now. We have, we think we've got nearly 9,000 non-synonymous SNPs and some of this, of course, depends on your gene definition and which genes you include and don't include in the mix. There's another genome paper out there describing another single individual sequence with 6,500 non-synonymous SNPs. This is a lot of potentially functional variation to exist within each of us and the point is if you go back to that curve and ask how steep is that curve on the left, we really don't know and this is the kind of data that will bring us to that answer. And here's a chart of what you see. If you take some of the, those mutations that are in disease genes, disease genes because they're known to be mutated in the Mendelian catalog and you go to your genetic counselor and say I want you to help us with a genetic counseling problem and then you give them a spreadsheet with 300 genes and you say we've actually got a couple of thousand more, we really don't know what they are but can you tell the patient, in this case Jim Watson, what these mutations mean to them and immediately reveal how, I think how far short we are at the knowledge base that we really need to be offering meaningful data for the meaningful counseling and information that means that will be relevant to patients for this kind of deep and rich data. So that's all I'm gonna say in the science. To conclude, I would say I really do think it's true that we're entering another era of this new technology and we'll be able to produce quite copious amounts of these focused data in a way that we've really all been dreaming of for quite some time. I wanna thank colleagues at 454, particularly Michael Eggholm, who's a very dynamic and very bright individual and similarly Tom Albert at Nimbledgen. And I hope you all have some chance to interact with them and all my colleagues, George Weinstock and Donna Musny and others at Baylor College of Medicine, John Belmont, of course for the Mendelian experiment and I believe I have a picture of the group here. Thank you, Eric. Once again, I'll encourage questions. This is, here we go. Do I have to turn this on? No, I think it's on. Thank you, Richard, that was a great talk. And as you know, I worked with one of the individuals with their genome sequenced and it was a very touchy subject about what to tell the individual about what we were finding in the genome and the individual wasn't Jim Watson. I was at a conference last week where George Church gave a talk on the personal genome project that he's leading and he did a survey of the audience asking how many people would be willing to have their genome read. And I was shocked by how few people raised their hands and I was wondering if you've gotten a similar response, done a similar survey, if maybe we could do one here today. So, I didn't catch, was the question for the audience at the other conference, would they not? Would you like to have your genome sequenced? And put on the web publicly? No, George didn't mention it that way. It was just, how many of you would like to have your individual genome sequenced? Yeah, so I guess, okay, hands up. Who would like to have their genome sequenced? And who's willing to put it on the internet? Okay, we had about a one-third retention rate there. I think it's a much more enlightened audience than last week probably. And I know that we have several studies underway right now. Really tackling the question is what are people's patience attitudes to participation in these studies given these new awarenesses for me? Right. Richard, the 2,000-person sequencing, are you gonna collect phenotypes?  No, the proposal I would favor is to build a robust catalog that tells us about the population frequency of these events. And that will really tackle the question of what about the phenotype samples? In two ways, one, it will provide this kind of universal control set and in fact, it will provide the knowledge base to build a set of C-SNP probes that should be informative in at least a subset of those kinds of problems where you can do low-cost genotyping across those phenotype populations. And then I believe the technology will advance through this period, which is our tradition, right? And that will drive the application of these methods straight into the phenotype sets. There's no question ultimately you've gotta look at phenotype samples, but I think we've been a little blinded by that fact and extrapolated back to say there's no point to build these catalogs. Okay, I think we'll move on.


I'm gonna ask you about ranking and what's the problem with ranking women um? I think I do agree that we rank everything in life Women I wouldn't say that we rank. I would use a different word. I think we categorize men Which may be a type of ranking, but I mean So when you say ranking are you referring to you're comparing them? Yes To each other or just to your standard No, see you're 32. Mm-hmm. You've been married.  Do you care for manners of only five six when you date in? Um, that's a ranking the pause is a ranking Y'all got no problems with ranking men if a man was working and making 15 dollars an hour Would you marry him if you were there for the rest of your life? But that's all he was gonna make 15 dollars 37,000 is what the median income for a man in this country was you'd be happily married to him and submit to him for a lifetime Um, if he's married to me he's proud that's gonna change so no no no no no no I said he's just an average and the average man see y'all off that had the power No, no, no see y'all all think you have the power of Thanos to make sure he not what it is I said if a man was just an average earning man See the fact that you can't even I can't you're right I can't live off that because I'm sure you can if anything were to happen um To to me and if he would have to take care of everything I wouldn't be able to sustain like I would have to What do you mean you couldn't sustain I mean they're half the country's doing that I mean like I would I would have to um Change some things if if if we were living just off his income I would have to to change like did you go to college?  Um, she didn't your father go to college. Did your father go to college? He had to trade So your mother and father didn't go to college. They made you And it's funny that the very people who come from nothing Got so high of a standard for the next group of men What does a traditional housewife entail?  Let me stop you right here. Let me stop you right here. Mm-hmm Where are your people from? Um, my mom's from Trinidad and my dad's from Jamaica So I see that's not hold on hold on hold on why we don't need white we don't need white supremacy racism Well, now we got is this that you think that the women who came before you were slaves It's not it's not that necessarily but just what I'm seeing in in the media And just all around me. I see women Trying to be this housewife From a traditional housewife for men And they're just getting like you talking about when women A woman who's let's do it. Let's do it traditional housewife. What media are you talking about? Uh So let's uh, I mean, I don't know like I said, I want you to define what traditional house No, no, no, no, no You can't over talk me. That's how we don't we don't do that. Okay. What media are you talking about? social media What do you see traditional housewives and social media? Everywhere do you I mean that I know of just women getting taken care of and not working. No So that's what a traditional housewife is taking care of and not working to me. Yes. Oh, okay. So, uh, and that's getting the stick From what I've seen so far. Yes So who's supposed to teach you how to be a wife? How to be a wife?  Yes, but I was raised by my father Now my mother is in my life right now But I could say that my father taught me how to be a wife Or a woman to a man I could say that And how to be one exactly because the way women teach us how to be a wife and the way men teach us how to be a wife Are completely tuned. Are you married? No, I'm not. I was engaged, but I'm not married The men teach men customized women for them See, but that's the thing my father didn't come I'm 31 What do you want to talk to me about? Um, you know, I'm a boss woman I just was out at my booth, you know doing my pop-up shop today and I went to college and I believe that I can have a family one day I believe that. How many kids you got? No kids Okay, we believe you're gonna have a family Yeah, I believe I can meet my match Hold on hold on hold on hold on, hold on hold on, hold on hold on, hold on. Roll it back now, no Don't do I'm sorry We don't know but talk, you know, that's one thing we don't know I'm sorry. I'm getting people go to my page my website because I'm talking to you. So it's like wow Talk that. Well, turn off the comments and have the conversation. Let's talk. Help me out, Kevin. I don't know why. I don't know why. I mean, if you already have it, I'll figure it out why you need my help. I mean, I want to help your viewers, too, see my point of view and talk to you and have a conversation. I don't think my viewers want to hear a woman tell them anything. I don't want to tell them or to answer your questions. You said you want to talk to me. Go ahead. I just want to talk about your conversation about how I can meet my match. How can I make my match? I don't know what your match is. I don't know what your match is. What do you want?  I want someone that can meet my match. How's that working out for you? This was working out great. But honestly, I don't think guys at this point in my career are what I need to focus on. I just want to focus on myself. And then when I get to a level where I'm comfortable, I want to settle down. And that's what's in my vicinity. What percentage of men earn $650,000 or more? Well, from the conversation I heard you speak about earlier, it sounded like it was less than 10%. 10% of men earn $100,000. OK. Top 5% around a quarter of a million. 300,000, you start dropping around 3%. You get over 500,000, you're talking about 1%. And you're talking more than that. So you're talking about a fraction of a percent. So if you can meet, so if a man, they can meet that. And you said, y'all talk five what? Say that again? How tall are you? Can you say that five what? I'm 5558 with heels. OK. So how tall does he need to be? Anywhere like 58 and taller. I'm flexible. OK. If this man can meet your socioeconomic standard, which is rather on the higher side, I think it's fair to say he can meet most women. What do you think a man who makes that kind of income? What are some of the things they would want from a woman? I definitely feel they want a baddie, for sure. A what? A baddie. Like they want somebody who is like a 10 and 10 for sure. Somebody who is well kept, well put in a dress as well, speaks well, articulate, great conversation and be in a crowd with anybody and be able to be put together. You just described a man. I described a man. You're describing the prototypical Tyler Perry sex in the city of metro female fantasy. You said you had a nine year marriage that you divorced from and you had a relationship that you left because he was cheating. Yeah. And you never cheated? I have. Exactly. And how long ago did that end? About maybe seven years ago. And what have you been doing since then? Well, that's when I started working on myself. But see, that's what I don't understand. Seven years, man. That's 37 or 44. Jesus Christ, how long ago I was supposed to French toast word? What do you need from a man financially? For him to hold it down. What does that mean? So what that means is, you know, as a woman and I. Put a dollar value on it. Don't give me the yearbook answer. At least at least a minimum of six figures. My problem is, is that I tend to attract narcissists. And I'm the complete opposite of a narcissist, like a board. Oh, OK. And I know I'm literally saying, like, I'm serious. Board is a reason a lot of women leave. But see, so honestly, what what men here is there's no reason to be a good guy because, you know, when I was a good guy, women left me when I became a player. Yeah, it's not many options. That's another thing. Oh, there are plenty of options. Fifty one percent of black men are single and child is sixty four percent in another class. See what they're not a lot of ugly. Oh, no, no, no. First off, check that.  I'm going to get real raw with you. Check that because I have not made any presumptions about looking at you. So I'm not just so mean. You can't. I look a mess now, but I don't think I have to settle with a man that I don't find. OK, let's do it. Well, what would you rate yourself on the scale from one to ten? Just your face. You cannot accept a ten. Poor baby. Now, let's try this again. So I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. Cosmopolitan ain't trying to get you to be on the cover. People they deemed you one of the most beautiful women in the world.  My face is not a 10. I don't have no makeup on and my hair is not done. And this is all real hair. Mm hmm. So I think I'm definitely a 10. Cool. I bet you do. So when was the last time you did any runway model like a print model? I've never been involved in that. Why not? 10s, that's what 10s do. Not all 10s. Oh, yeah. Not all 10s, but you know what? You live in New York, right? Mm hmm. Right. See, when you're a 10, people discover you at the bank, at the bodega, at the gym. That happened when I was younger. Yeah, OK. We don't keep on moving. You're not a 10. You're living in and a lot of you ladies just say this because you're not. You're not a 10. What would you rate me as, my favorite? America, no, no, you're not a 10. Because you're rating yourself up there with Rihanna and Halle Berry when she was young. That's what you're rating yourself. What would you give yourself on a scale from one to 10? Fresh face, out of the shower, your natural hair, you cannot use seven. On a regular Schmeckler-Degler Day, I'd say maybe a six. OK. I would give you a six. And a six is cute. A five is average. So if you're a cute woman, that's one step above average. OK. Average means average.  But if you take an average, if you take a cute woman who's overweight that adjusts her SMB up or down. Thank you. So that makes her average isn't that makes as those two numbers, they kind of average out. You would be an average woman. And as an average about an average woman in this country, an average black woman, the average black man in this country earns $41,500. For a lifetime. No more, no less. No Herculean methods, no lottery, no businesses. That's what he's going to make. That's your husband. Lord, I have degrees. Thank you. See. See, I want you guys to understand she just asked me and I told her, what is a woman SMV. Now these women actually think because they can make themselves higher SMV because of a degree. That does not work. Men have never picked women based upon your degree. That is why you could be on fries at McDonald's, but if you look like Kelly Rowland, you can marry a millionaire. But you could graduate from Harvard, but if you look like Precious, you ain't got none coming. But a lot of my Jewish friends were married during college. Exactly. And so when I ask you, why don't you marry? You look like I asked you something difficult. Why don't you marry yet? No, I don't think it's difficult. Don't want to get married this young? I'm, I love my boyfriend. I'm happy being really.  He wants to get married. OK, so he's broke. No, he's not broke. So he's, so he's, so what's wrong with him? Nothing's wrong with him. Let me get this right. He's not broke and he wants to marry you, but you don't want to get married. What's wrong with you? I never said I don't want to get married. Well, I asked you, why don't you marry? We're just not married yet. How long have you been together? We've been together. We're going on two years. Why don't you marry? I'll take the six months. So let me get this right. He wants to get married.  And you told him to go buy a ring and he has it. Oh, I have a ring, yeah. He's dropped on one knee and proposed to you. Yes. And you said you had. Of course I said yes. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Whoa, whoa. Of course you said yes. That would make a fiance not a boyfriend. I mean. No, no, no, no, no, no. I was very clear. He dropped on one knee, ring, proposed. You said yes. That makes a fiance not a boyfriend. Yes. So why are you calling your fiance your boyfriend? Because it's very new. That's bullsh**t. Most women who are ha- That's not bullsh**t. It's not no. That is bullsh**t. That is bullsh**t. That is bullsh**t. That is bullsh**t. When women get engaged into a man they like and they got a ring, they can't wait. No. That's why I think about the threshold, OK? So there are several things I'm thinking about and then I know strategy. So I could take a plumber and have him have an entire business because that's the way that my mind works. And so I would make that work for us.  It's somebody laughing. You see what you just did? I just... You see what you just did?  That ain't going to work, boo. It's not.  Because it's going to be like, well, now I'm trying.  Now she got me trying to have a truck and this and that going over here and that. Why? Well, cause she's used to working bags and, you know, she thinks we can become a credit investors. And what's that going to be like sitting up in the bed on Sunday when Thomas wants to sleep in? Hey, you know, you should get up and start their website. We can do this, we can do that. Now you see why I say somebody got to be on the same frequency as me. Somebody that enjoys preparing and creating the negative. But you're on a masculine frequency. Oh, okay. You're not on the right view on a masculine frequency. Okay. So if you want somebody on that, okay. Are you all right being one of five? Oh, I already had this scenario and I didn't like that. Well, then are you all right with letting Thomas just be, are you not going to accept Thomas?  So they don't know about your mamas. I can't. They're 40 years old. The bottom line is you don't want it to be 50-50. But here's the thing. Okay. So listen, this is important. Ready? That means this career you're talking about, you're going to give it up anyway because the real career is your husband. He's going to be bringing in all the money. If you get the man you want, he's going to be the major breadwinner. You are not going to be responsible. So this extra degree, extra thing, is all actually not going to an outcome.  You think so? Man, if you have a husband paying 75% of everything and you're paying 25%, you are not in a career. You got a job. He's carrying the lion's share. So why do you need a master's or anything else like that to cover 25%? No. No? Why not listen? I was going to give him a five. Because this is what so many sisters don't do. They just go, talk about jobs and careers and this, but when it gets right down to it, I really don't want to have to be the one responsible for their financial load. I hope God blesses me with a man that I can be, and that's fine. So start with the end in mind. Okay, I have, I need some, I haven't need some advice. I'm a 37 year old woman. Two children. I do not have a problem getting a man. It's just I attract weak men. Okay. I am celibate. I've been celibate for two years. What? I've been celibate for two years. Where do, where did that come from? Is I'm going to know, is that the reason why? Hmm. Two people that came out of you, what you talking about? I'm sorry, I'm trying to understand. What's the, what's the philosophy here?  You got two people came out of you. What's going on? Oh, that's, oh no, you did not. Oh no, you did not have the nerve to bring vagina out of here and close it up at 37 years old with two kids out of here. And I'm going to tell you the reason behind that is because when I do open my legs, they, the men, they get crazy. P-whipped? Yes. So the resolution is, so let me get this right. So let me get this right. So you meet a man that's a high value man, a good guy. You think you're going to be celibate for what? What, do you marry? Yes.  I wish, I wish I would meet a 37 year old with two kids and think you're going to shi- separate checks, separate checks, check please. No, no, listen, listen, listen, man. I'm making light of it because it is crazy. You're almost 40 years old with two kids talking about celibate. You need to be trying to get that shi- way to secure a man. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Listen, listen, listen, no, no, no, no. You're talking about, okay, what you said if you attract lower value men? Not really. Okay, not the right men, crazy men, whatever, not good guys. Weak. Okay, lower value is weak. Okay, okay. So when I said if you attracted a higher value man, you think you're going to make him wait until marriage? How do you think that's a- It's sweetheart, I'm gonna tell you like this. My cookies is worth the wait. Well, first off, check that sweet. No, your cookies ain't worth the wait because you ain't made nobody wait. You got two kids without a marriage. I was married. Name me the product that gains value with age and use. I wanna say your mind, but I may be different. I said a product, where can you go buy a mind? A product. A product, a product. I don't know, but I'm pretty sure you're gonna tell me. Yeah, nothing. Oh, I am. Nothing. And let's just talk about your cookies. They're getting older and they've been used. That don't mean nothing. You're right, they don't.  No, I'm honest, I'm honest, ma'am. What can you, an individual do about an industry that's dying? Positives? Excuse me? Positives in your own. Stay positive. There are people who, there were, okay ma'am, there were people who sold horses and buggies. But when the automobile came along, you could have made the best of it. But when the automobile came along, you could have made the best horse and buggy and the best horse whip. You could be as positive as you want. When the market died, you were out of business. Or are you just downsized? There's downsize for no demand. You can't downsize. Okay, how can you downsize if you were a small, that person had a nine to five job? How could she downsize being one year in business?  This woman is young enough to be my daughter. She ain't completed nothing in life.  And that's the point. And this is the problem.  You need to understand what a man that you would want, what he would want in a girlfriend, wife, or significant other. Like a good, like a good mother, a good wife. That changes from every man. That changes from man to man. Where's your father? Oh, I don't have, I didn't grow up with a mother or a father. All right, so, due respect, you don't seem to get that men judge the way we judge. And yes, like I said, you have no problem getting men to pay you attention. You've got no problem attracting men, but getting a man to take you seriously. And would you like to be married? I would. Okay, and that's a problem because you're asking a man to become a stepfather.  A man's two children. I didn't create those. It's all downside. I've been a stepfather.  What about the men that have children of their own? They want a stepmother. Well, again, you still act as though you're the most man at this age. Okay, listen, I'll answer. See, you're still speaking as if you have leverage in this thing and I'm trying to level set you. Even if I have children, I got more options than you. I can go find a woman with no kids because I can afford both of you. If I can afford to take care of you and your kids, I can afford to take care of her and no kids. Why would I pick you and your kids? When I know your kids are not going to, I'm not their father. They'll never look at me as their father. I got all the responsibility in none of the upside of being a biological father. Can I discipline those children like they were my own? They don't need discipline. I see that's your problem. There you go, right there. I'm not saying we should have a special victim status, but our circumstance is different. We are women. Is your circumstance 24 years old? Is your circumstance harder or easier than your grandmother and your great-grandmother? Exponentially easier. We have access to information we didn't have. Exponentially easier, but you're handling it worse. Your grandmother and your great-grandmother actually could work with a black man with more trauma.  Now that we are all free and independent and we could do whatever we want to, why would we seek to be one with the black man? We even think that being- Thank you, thank you, thank you. Clip it, slice it, put it on WorldStar. She said it, not me. Now that you're independent, you don't need to be with- We don't have trust. There you go. We don't have trust with the black man. And there you go. And there you go. There you go, black man. There it is. She's finally got one to say it. Build businesses with us. Your grandmothers and your great-grandmothers had more trauma and more stress and did it better. Okay. If you went to work for a company and you gave them five years, and in that five years, they benefited from your creativity, from your ingenuity. They increased their profits. All these things happened. You gave them your blood, sweat, and tears and the employment terminated for any reason. You could not continue to expect to be paid for six months. You would cut off at the last day of your employment. You could not go back to that office. You could not use a computer. The company, listen, I need you to listen. I need you to listen.  You couldn't use the company car, the company credit card. It would end. And you couldn't say, well, you guys owe me this because you've made so much money. That's not how it works. It's over. Do you accept that? Do you accept that in the work world? First off, do you accept that in the work world? That's how it happens. The reason I don't accept what you're saying is because in the work world, unemployment, so unemployment is not paid by the unemployment is not played. First off, unemployment is not your full salary. And it's paid through the state and you have to qualify. If you get terminated for cause, you don't get unemployment. The point is you're still asking. You're still getting the same benefit as if you were in an active relationship when it's over.  If it would be no more ridiculous than someone expecting to get full benefit of a company when they've been terminated or when they quit. I was no longer getting full benefit. It was just partial, the home and the car. I was not getting my hair, my nails, my trips, my shopping, my whole entire life anymore. It was just whatever left of it that I had because that was what I was stuck with. Okay. How much money would you want your husband to really earn annually? To live the life you want, to eat, travel, hair, makeup, shopping, caring for family. Come on, give it to me. Don't hide it. 500,000. All right. What percentage of men earn that? Very little. What percent? I mean, if you're talking all races, I would think... I just said, what percentage of men earn that? Oh, maybe like, what, seven percent or something? Not one percent. One percent. Three percent earn around 300,000 more. 500,000 is the top one percent of all men. And guess what? Men don't go and do what they have to do to become those kind of men. And what age do you think those men are when they're earning that kind of money? 40s. Right. And what do men want who have fought in corporate America or fought in the work world for 20-plus years? They want kids and a legacy. True. But I do want kids now. That was my past. But that's recent. What you said earlier was what I believe to be the truth. I want to focus on my husband. Great. That will make you a good first wife or a starter wife but what typically men want, legacy, they want a woman who's going to give them three or four kids for that half a million dollars they're earning because they got to pass it on somewhere. They don't want to leave it to their dog. So the kind of men you're dating, probably are these guys who want a woman that can do the power couple thing.  Oh no. Oh no. Some of the misperceptions and misconceptions about some of the things I said in that video that I want to go through real quick. First and foremost, okay, I don't think all men are trash.   A very valuable lesson. What is that? You cannot just drag men and get away with it. The point I made is notice Tommy's demeanor. Notice how she's coming in to fix this. She said all men are trash. That's what she said. All men are trash. She didn't edit anything. She doubled and tripled down.  Because what is why? Because this playbook had worked in the black community for 50 years. But see the white community, other communities where they have family system, patriarchy family values, if nothing else they have seen what is happening in our community. What happens? You let this gender war take root. Men are pushing back.  Tommy Lauren's got something to teach you. Think about it. This was going on in our community for 50 years. This didn't even get a week. She made a video on Monday, and on Thursday, she was back, she was moon walking backwards like a mug. What would you rank yourself on a scale from one to 10? You cannot use seven. Would I rate myself? Mm-hmm, just your face. My face when I wake up, five, but when I put myself together, six. Okay. And how tall are you? Five, five. Dress size. I'm sorry? Your dress size. I'm three. Okay, so that makes you, if you give yourself a five, that's average. Yes. So average-looking women tend not to get high-earning men. They tend to get average men. So, um. Did you, I mean, stop right there. Stop right there. Stop right there, breathe and digest.  You don't tend to see higher-earning men with average-looking women off-rip. If you do see them, they got them, they got their average-looking woman when they were both really young and he built his way up. But a man earning the kind of money you're talking about does not go for an average-looking woman.


We would like to welcome everyone to join us on this virtual tour of Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval station and home to the United States Navy's Atlantic fleet. The Naval Station covers 6,200 acres and is home to 13 piers and an 8,000-foot runway supporting 61 ships, 187 aircraft, and 18 squadrons, all of which you will catch a glimpse of today. There are currently 56,000 active-duty Navy personnel and 17,000 civilians employed on the Naval Station, putting the annual payroll at $7.4 billion. We will first look at escort row. When a strike group is deployed, the nucleus of the strike group or battle group is the aircraft carrier. It is escorted by several other smaller ships that are equipped to defend her for any circumstance or harm. These ships include anti-air, anti-surface, and even anti-submarine warfare. These ships are not limited to just escorting and defending aircraft carriers. Civil warships execute many missions to include counter-drug ops, search and rescue, anti-piracy, anti-terrorism, and humanitarian missions globally. If something goes wrong anywhere, we are there. A fun fact about our piers, the last two piers are number 12 and 14 because the Navy does not use the number 13 because it is considered unlucky. Piers 12 and 14 are primarily used for aircraft carriers. And we couldn't finish talking about our waterfront assets without talking about our aircraft carriers. These nuclear-powered ships, which are three and a half football fields long and a half football field wide, and the flight deck covers four and a half acres. While deployed, it carries 75 to 90 aircraft, has a crew of 6,000 sailors, and has eight galleys that serve 21,000 miles a day. Aircraft carriers can operate for a period of 14 years without refueling, however, it takes three years to refuel. To put United States naval power into perspective, we have more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world combined. We have 10 aircraft carriers in the entire United States Navy, and here in Norfolk alone we have six. We are now going to the historical portion of the tour, which is the site of the Jamestown exposition. In 1907, 10 years before the naval station was built, the World Fair was held here. Expo planners asked every state to construct a house that would represent their state. 21 states participated, but only 13 of these homes still stand today. These homes now serve as homes to our senior military officers of one star and above, and are located on Dillingham Boulevard, which is more commonly known as Admiral's Row. We will now touch on some very important memorials that we have here on base. First is the Iowa Point Memorial. In 1989, the USS Iowa's gun turret exploded, killing 47 sailors. The Navy planted 47 trucks in the shape of an anchor to honor the sailors that lost their lives. The ammunition you see is the same size of the ammunition that exploded, and is painted blue and gold to signify that it was a training accident. Next is the USS Cole Memorial. In 2000, while in the Port Yemen, a small boat detonated a bomb alongside the coal, killing 17 sailors. The memorial consists of three sections. The main plaza of the memorial contains three 10-foot monoliths that represent the colors of the American flag. In circling the monoliths are 17 low-level markers that represent the victims of the bombing. Three plaques are placed by the monument. The two outside pillars contain the names of the sailors killed during the bombing. In the center pillar contains the USS Cole emblem and an inscription that reads, and lasting tribute to their honor, courage, and commitment. Along the path to the memorial are 28 pine trees that represent the 17 victims and the 11 children who lost their parent during the bombing. As mentioned about the beginning Naval Station Norfolk has a fully operating airfield, Chambers Field. Chambers Field was previously known as Naval Air Station Norfolk and had a separate standard command. In 1999, both the Naval Station and Naval Air Station combined to simply become Naval Air Station Norfolk. Chambers Field is home to approximately 188 aircraft from multiple squadrons to include the Marine, Medium-Tilt Road Squadron, three MH-53 Echo Sea Dragon Squadrons, five E2C Hawkeye Squadrons, eight MH-60 Sierra Nighthawk Squadrons, and one C2 Greyhound Squadron. Behind the buildings on your right you will see the E2C Hawkeyes. The E2C is a twin-engine five-crew member, high-wing turboprop aircraft with a 24-foot diameter radar, Rotodome, attached to the upper fuselage. The Hawkeye provides all weather airborne early warning, airborne battle management and command and control functions for the carrier striker and joint force commander. They are made up of over 70% electronics making them one of the Navy's most expensive aircraft. If you look far past the E2C's you will see the Navy Operated Air Mobility Command, often referred to as the AMC Terminal. This command provides airlift support for four deployed units and 20 warfighter exercises as well as a multitude of overseas bases with mail, provisions and supplies to include movement of military, civilians and family members. On average the AMC Terminal executes over 3,000 airlifts to include 640 USN, USAF Expedition Air Force and special assignment airlift missions transporting 70,000 service members, 19,000 tons of high priority combat cargo and 8,000 space A passengers. To your right is the Aviation Survival Training Command where 1,900 sailors come each year. The Naval Aviation Training Program consists of two major elements, Aviation Physiology Training and Aviation Water Survival Training Program. The purpose of Aviation Physiology Training is to familiarize designated and prospective flight crews with the physiological hazards associated with flight. We are now approaching Eli Memorial Park which is named after the father of Naval Aviation who made the first successful ship to shore flight. The first on the pedestal is the E2 Charlie Hawkeye which we discussed earlier. The helicopter with the 601 on it is a MH-53 Super Stallion which is used for airborne mine countermeasures. The one at the far back that looks like it's smiling is the CH-46C Knight which is a medium-lift assault helicopter that can carry up to 22 people. The smaller helicopter in the back is a SH-2C Sprite which is a ship-based helicopter with anti-submarine and anti-surface threat capability. The one with the E and Trident written on it is the SH-3C Knight which is used to detect, classify, track and destroy enemy submarines. The small green helicopter in the front is the Uwitch-1 Iroquois also known as the Huey was used for search and rescue missions. The plane with the skull and crossbones is the F-14 Tomcat which was a carrier-based plane that can track up to 24 targets at a time and has been decommissioned and replaced by the F-18 Hornet. Last but not least is the A6 Intruder which is also carrier-based and is a medium attack bomber that requires refueling shortly after taking off because it uses 50% of its fuel during takeoff. It has been replaced by the F-18 Hornet. The white building with maroon stripes on your right hand side is the Flatley Center which is where pilots go to receive flight training with flight simulators. These simulators can replicate anything from landing in aircraft on a carrier at night to flying during high winds and rain. The large body of water on your right is the Hampton Roads Harbor which is the world's largest ice-free harbor due to its high salt content and shaped incurrence. During the Civil War this was the site of the Battle of the Iron Clads in 1862 between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia. The hangars you see on your left are the newer style hanger bays which we're building to withstand a Category 3 hurricane. When Hurricane Isabel came in 2003 it did a great deal of damage to buildings on the base. We are about to go through buildings U-20 and U-16. These are our newly renovated World War II style barracks. In 1945 women were brought on the Navy as Yeomans which is our secretaries and HMs which is our Cormans. Females were on one side and males were on the other side. To your left is the Navy Exchange Complex. It is the world's largest naval exchange and consists of a Chili's, movie theater, tax-free commissary and mall. On your left is our dental clinic and Sewels Point Medical which handles the majority of medical needs. This includes our tour of Naval Station Norfolk. On behalf of Naval Station Norfolk's commanding officer Captain David Dees thank you for touring the world's biggest and best naval installation.


Hi, my name is Belchika and I'm an actress and this is Cynthia de Haller and today we are going to announce the winner of the monologue competition that we hosted. We saw lots of submissions, right? We enjoyed a lot of them. So first I do want to thank everybody for taking the time. I know you took some time to modify the monologue or memorize the monologue, film, really appreciate everybody. There were a lot of really great submissions and we are going to be announcing the winner at the end of the video. Today we wanted to talk about just some things that we weren't taught in college because we both went to college. Was your major acting specifically or what was your major in college? Yeah, I majored in theater and I minored in mass communications and I almost finished dance but then I did it. Yeah, I feel like you told me this during the first video. Yeah, I went into college to study acting specifically and then I also ended up doing a bunch of dance so I ended up with an option in acting and an option in dance by the end of it. They were like you have enough credit so you just need to do this and I was okay. We were both saying how in college they teach you a lot of acting but they don't really teach you about the business and that's such a huge part because you can be the most talented person in the world and still not make any money or really get anywhere because you don't know how to do it. So what did you do when you first got out of college? Well, when I first got out of college, I moved straight to LA. I spent like a month home and I was like oh I'm over this, I'm going to LA. So I came out to LA, hit the ground running. A lot of actors may or may not go through this background work, signing up for that but I wanted to get my vouchers and validate getting my SAG card as quickly as possible so I hit the ground running doing that. I got my part-time jobs. When I moved out, I was working as a summer camp counselor then I moved on to like a personal trainer. You know really flexible jobs that Google basically told me like I would be able to like survive and like do acting with. So it was really really cool. Very eye-opening first year. I mean I had my first agent within my first year being here. I had my first manager within my first year being here. I was sent out on some really cool auditions within my first year being here. I booked you know shorts. I got involved in a whole bunch of classes, ECB, scene work. So it was it was it was an interesting first first year in LA and like pursuing the acting. Going back to the business of acting, what is something that you think in college they didn't teach you that you would want people to know as far as the business side? How to be a business person? Yeah and I'd say that with like a little bit of salt because like our jobs our job is not to be the business person right? That's why we have like agents and managers and things like that. But we do have to have some skill skill set in it. We we have to be able to know how to market ourselves, how to maintain business relationships, how to you know network with these people. And I don't that's definitely something that wasn't taught in college right? Like we were taught how to break down a scene. We learned all the great playwrights. Which is really important. Which is very important. Yeah. Which is very important.  Like how do you do that stuff? It's not forming business relationships is not as simple as like we are all like at a mutual friends party and we like talk to each other. Like you actually have to put yourself in those situations. You have to put more effort into it. So yeah I feel like that was definitely not taught and it was something that like kind of in my face. Yeah and I'm still learning how to do it today. What that made me think of was that acting is a career so you should come into it treating it like so. Sure you can get an agent without any experience but that agent's gonna probably be a really small agency for commercials, non-speaking roles. You were saying that you did some background work. I definitely have done a lot of background work because sometimes I'm not booked on anything and they asked to book me for a background work and it's you know $350 a day or something plus overtime so I'm gonna say yes to it especially if it's gonna be like a week of that. I'm like okay don't put it on your resume, don't put it on your real professionals don't want to see that and I just want to you know make that aware or people aware of that. I definitely have done a lot of background work. I definitely have done things for free. I've definitely negotiated more money into a project like a commercial. There's just a lot of things that you almost have to learn while doing them because we can tell that we can we can tell you you know treat it like a business and you're like no no no my talent will get me there but then you will see eventually that you need to put in the work. You need to audition so so many times. Something that we have in common is that we started in theater and I think that's so important. You know so funny I was actually having like a little conversation with this with like some director friends of mine. People like think they can prove you wrong but I'm one of the one of the people that come with the facts like I study the trends I see what's happening and like there's no negating it. Theater has such a good foundational work for actors right and it's like rigorous training right. Rigorous training, learning how to to work with ensembles sometimes not majority of times but the formula way back when used to be like if they're like the top theater actress like they can translate really well on camera some of our favorites like Viola Davis like she came from theater. Actors who kind of start off on tv they don't necessarily translate very well to film. There hasn't been many examples of like that that actually happening but people who start out in film always can go back and forth and my favorite example again is Viola Davis. She's such a good actress. Such a good oh my gosh her last movie Ma Rainey's Black I don't know just like yes girl it just gave me life for everything but she transitions very well back and forth into film and there's a trend right now with that happening right like Taraji P. Henson same thing with Angela Bassett you know there she was a very very strong film actress and now she's probably not on tv. As long as you have that good foundation I feel like especially with theater all these actresses that I mentioned graduated with theater degrees from prestigious colleges they do really really well. And not to say that that's the only way that you can become like a talented actor is by going to school in theater but it's just such a great in my experience it was such a great way to start. Having a background in theater I would suggest it to anybody interested in acting because I often get messages or comments where they're like oh what advice do you have for me I want to get started in acting and my advice is always to get training and right now with COVID it's still hard because there's not very many theaters that are open but if you have the opportunity to go be in some theater productions or go take some like some course in a community college university high school that's theater oriented I definitely suggest it because it's a great way to discover your acting. Maybe we should move on to announcing the winner and um yeah so Cynthia yeah who's monologue competition or monologue submission did you enjoy the most? Well because I want to do a whole story about it we got a lot of submissions from all over the place we had someone from England people from South America, India um so it was really really cool thank you for all your submissions I watched all of them. We had a handful both me and Bill he kind of agreed that there was like a handful of good people everyone did an amazing job um but we both surprisingly agreed on the same person. We both had the same top two people. We both had the same top two first people and then we picked one and that person is can I get a little drum roll please? Look out!   I don't collect my hair so out of the entire year of us living here I clog a drain all by myself out of the two times a month that I wash my natural hair in the one time a month that I wash my wigs compared to your every other day necessity to wash that black mop on top of your head you cannot possibly assume that I clogged the drain all by myself but did you not want to be responsible for me and my wigs so I paid the full $40 to have the plumber plumber drain my therapist said that it was the grown-up thing to do in that situation but I don't want to be grown and that shit literally killed me not only did she overpower me in the comfortability of my hair but now she was intruding on my finances roommates are supposed to go half bitch so go half that's half of your needle thin hair down the drain and half of my bouncy curls that's half if you're in shower pee and half of my daily tears half of your dead white sails and half of my life spent tending to my hair much like a drain a home is supposed to be a safe place in the pocket hole that collects all the anxiety and frustrations and joy for the day titanium fortress that carries most of your inner thoughts and as I decompress I feel safe and welcome I can't do that the bitch don't like my hair and so Teresita you are the winner of $200 plus a copy of a sit-down with sin my lots of black girls you'll get that honey $100 will be in a form of a visa debit card to use towards purchases of anything you would like and then a hundred dollar gift card to your choosing um either if you want to participate in some actors play classes or yeah with uh Jackie Dallas who does acting consulting and I think of course will be in the description but Teresita I'm so excited thank you guys so much for submitting so many great talented amazing people and if you didn't win this time especially if this was your first time ever auditioning for anything please do not be discouraged acting is a numbers game I can't tell you how many times I've auditioned I've auditioned hundreds of times um so I mean even in this youtube channel you're gonna have more opportunities because I'm definitely going to do this again in the future thank you Cynthia so so much I'm so excited that you reached out so excited about your monologue book and I hope that um you know we become friends in real life hopefully I get to meet you soon and um of course all of the links to Cynthia's stuff will be on the screen and in the description do you want to plug anything else while we're still here um I hope you guys have a beautiful day thank you for participating on this journey with us um and keep fighting the fight yes uh and at the end of every video I feature another channel this is today's feature if you would like to be featured on my next video make sure you're subscribed like this video and leave me a comment thank you Cynthia