Happy Valentine's Day everybody. We're going to get started with the show right away. Please know if any, hey, this happened after Monday show. If anybody posts in the comments about their work, competitors or whatever, please just ignore that. If anybody reaches out to you and tries to say they're me or compare themselves to me, they're right. Who would want to get, first of all, who would want to take on that burden? Second of all, please go to your own channel and play everybody else's. But don't get scammed. That's my whole point. Just don't get scammed.  They have not very good character clearly to behave like that. So please don't get scammed by these people. And never take an imitation. Always go with the original is what I say. Okay, I am going to be taking callers and I am also going to be answering questions on the chat in YouTube. First, I'm going to go to names. I'm right away going to do names and I'm being told I need to remind you guys, I do private sessions. If you would like a private session, you can go to my website, and if you would like to call in to the show tonight, the number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. Here we go. The names that I'm hearing, these are names from someone above. For you, they could be your name or the person above's name or somebody in your family's name. Jake is the first name. Bill is the second name. Tanya is the third name. I'm not going to number all of the names I never do. Selena, Serena. The next name is Jacqueline. The next name is Quatar. I'm sure I might not be pronouncing that correctly. The next name is Pancho or Panko. I'm not sure how to pronounce that either. The next name is Olivia. The next name is Rodrigo. Tiffany. The next name is Salem. The next name is Jason. I can do that Maria. I can do that one too. The pressure's off. The next name is Mitchell. And then Michael. I'm going to do two more names. The next name is Mikkel. And then the last name for right now is Doug or Douglas. Now I'm going to go to songs. These songs could be a song they loved, you loved, or a song that answers a question for something going on in your life that they're sending to you. The songs always crack me up, you guys, because I just never know what's coming out. And some of the songs are kind of like this one, the beer barrel polka. If this is your song or their song, you're just going to know that's your song. The next song is that song that goes, because you, I can't sing, just know that because you are my lady and I am your man. It's a bit of an older song, but not really old. And it's obviously, I can't, if you know that, if the song's for you, it's for you. The next song is Lady in Red. Please don't make me sing it. Man, they are, I'm just going to say this. They're pulling out songs that I can't even fake sing right now, like for real, for real. I cannot even fake sing these songs. Ario Speed Wagon. Anything Ario Speed Wagon, the next song is that song by, I think it's, it says, it goes on and on. It's about the song on the train and I think it's foreign. Oh, my goodness. It took a minute, train going anywhere. Okay, that song, but better than the way I sing it. Strangers dancing or doing whatever they're doing. Something, something. Okay, that song. I don't need to sing anymore. If you know, you know. Oh, my gosh. The next song is eight, six, seven, five, three, oh, nine, eight, six, Jenny, Jenny. Who can I turn to? Okay, that song. And then that's, that's all for songs. The Humpty Dance, they're going to, they were not, let me go and I was going to say that's it for songs. And then they went, no, the Humpty Dance. Sing, say the song, the Humpty Dance.  I don't need to sing any of the lyrics. Nobody needs to hear me sing lyrics to that song. I'm just saying. Okay, as usual, I'm going to go between callers on the call log questions in the chat. If I miss your question, please don't get upset. Just repost your question. I just, I don't know where I left off with the scroll of answering questions pre-show. And I'm, I don't want to spend a lot of time trying to find the last question that I answered. But I'm going to take a caller first and the first caller. And in case I haven't said it, happy Valentine's Day, everybody. Three, five, two, three, five, two. What's your name and where are you calling from? Let's tell me this is Joanna from Florida. Happy Valentine's Day. You look beautiful. Thank you so much. Happy Valentine's Day. How can I help you beautiful? A few months ago, I had asked you a question family related. My father had passed away and at the time my siblings weren't cooperating. The minor thing was there was no will and they hadn't opened probate. So I agreed with what you had said at the time. Well, nothing went that way. I found out they did everything on their own behind my back and even had his services be announced to me, which I was absolutely devastated. So, yes, my one, oh yeah, you have no idea. So my one sibling at the time said, you know, and by the way, this is everything we did. And then, and then she would tell me because he had a home and property and she was claiming his home was a total loss and which I knew wasn't true. So I kept checking on the internet because I'm like, I know they're going to put that home for sale. Sure, I know if they did a few days ago, but I check everything is still in his name and everybody's like, get an attorney, get an attorney, get an attorney. So I'm, I don't, I'm struggling with, you know, if I get an attorney is the, you know, everything I'm going to put myself through worth it or the amount of money. So can you see anything around that situation? Like is it better to just to not proceed or, you know, do you think I should proceed with that? Okay, just okay. A couple different things coming in and I'm just going to state them as I, as they come in, I'm just going to let them fly out of my mouth. So be prepared for whatever comes out. I apologize. I don't know what they're about to say. But the first thing is that you have to be prepared for the consequences either way. On the first hand, if you don't get an attorney, they're going to proceed and they're going to just take everything. On the second hand, if you do get an attorney, there will be a division of property, somewhat equal division of property. Now in, there is, I do believe there is paperwork. I do believe that there was paperwork. People can, can destroy paperwork, but there, there is or was paperwork. And I do believe that it's still, they still have, I don't think they destroyed the paperwork. I believe they still have the paperwork. So if they, like for example, if there was a will, they still have the last will. Okay. So once you get an attorney and get involved, the attorney will fight for your rights in a way that you can't. Will you lose money getting attorney? No. Will you break even? Not, not as much, yes, but a little more than even. On principle, you can reach out to whatever, if there's an attorney involved that they are using, that you know of, I would reach out to that attorney first. And, but here's one thing that watch the price and stay in connection with the listing because I believe what they're going to try to do is say, Oh, it was, it was just like you said, a wash. The expenses exceeded the sale of the property. That's not going to be true. There is going to be a division. They're just being greedy and they're being, they don't have very good character. So what I'm going to say to you is that it's, it's, I, if, should she just, should she get it? Yeah. Get an attorney. You can call one that will help you do it. Do think, tell you what to do.  Is that the right word? I'm just using it. Pro bono attorney that will, they won't charge you by the, like the, I just, you're going to find the right attorney and you're going to find an attorney that will help you with either A or B. A being, they can tell you all the exact steps to take to find all the legal documents or B, they're going to do it, but they, an attorney that won't charge you that much. Now you can just hire an attorney to pull any and all legal documents on anything regarding this. And once you have the legal documents, then you proceed that way. The attorney doesn't have to necessarily fight once you have the legal documents. Now this is what's coming in for me. This is what I'm hearing and giving up for you. So I would start there, find an attorney that can either show you how to get all the legal documents or can force them to give up their attorney and get the legal documents. Because once you have copies of the legal documents, then, then you, then that's how you say this, these are the legal documents and this is what's, what comes next. Okay, love. Yeah. You're so welcome. Happy Valentine's Day. And I, wish you the best in, in dealing with this. I know when it comes to these types of matters, it's not only the loss, but it's just people get so ridiculous during these times. And I'm so sorry that you're going through this. I'm so, so sorry. Thank you. You're welcome. You have an absolutely amazing rest of the day. And please call us back and let us know how everything goes. Okay. I sure will. I'm so good. I'm going to watch you on YouTube now. I love that. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay. You're, you're welcome, love. We're going to go to the first question I can find or the first question that I see. There's so, oh my gosh, you guys, there's so many people in the chat. I love y'all so much. You guys are amazing. Hey, Faun, Terry, Cavita, Maria. Thank you. I'm just going to call you A. J-A, J-A says, hi. I have a question from last time. What can I expect due to my current situation? J-A, I'm going to need just a bit more detail. Which situation is that? I don't, once I channel something, if I had to repeat what I just said to the last caller, I couldn't, because when it comes through me, I forget it right after I say it. So I apologize. J-A, I'm going to need just a bit more on that. Terry wants to go, wants to ask please any more info on that man coming to me and March from Spirit. Okay. Is Terry still going to meet a man in March? Yes. Is he going to be the right one? I do feel like he's Asian. I see him in a suit. I see him being a little bit proper. He's going to seem very intimidating at first, but he is not, he likes to giggle.  I'm just going to say some sort of sweets, some sort of sweets. So I was in Japan for three months and they have these food carts. And by the way, Japan, if you get the opportunity to go, oh my goodness, it was, it was flamazing. It was just so amazing. And I was there in business doing dinner theater, which is neither here nor there, but during the day I would walk the street vendors to find a street vendor who did these, these crepes. It was a crepe, but it had like, I told myself it was healthy because it had banana and strawberry, but then it also had ice cream and ice cream and whipped cream and chocolate.  And I ate it every day. I was in Japan every single day. I would find one of the, like street, it was a little vendor on the street. I would find one and have that every single day. It was so good. So back to you, Terry. I think there is some sweet that he is going to really like. This is coming in March and I feel between the eighth and the 15th. I see the 15th really big, but I see also the eighth kind of smaller, which tells me you might meet on the eighth or have your first, or start going out around the eighth, preparing yourself around the eighth and then around the 15th or on the 15th might be the first going out or I don't know, but just know during those dates to have yourself prepared and ready and to be out and about. Okay, love. I'm going to go to the very next caller who is 631, 631. What's your name and where are you calling from? Hi, Suzanne, Florida. Hey, Suzanne. And my question is I'm job hunting. Hello. Go ahead. I was taking my phone call on job hunting. Do you see me getting anything part-time, full-time, close to where I live, not close to where I live and when? Okay. Yeah. Give me a second here, Suzanne, and a job. Yes. When? When is she going to get this job? Suzanne, what I'm getting is there's something you could start right away you don't want to. It's not in your view like you're not looking at the thing you could start right away. Okay. Second, the more permanent thing that you would want. Suzanne, let me ask you what type of work are you looking for? I'm not really sure. I applied to like a bus monitor, but it's sort of far away. And then I did a food service working in a school or something. I applied stuff like that. Okay. I just moved from Long Island to Florida. It's hard. I wish I was back in Long Island, but I have to stay here. So I almost say everybody's married, retired, but I have to work. Okay. I'm hearing that the bus thing not so much, but the food thing or the school thing. Yes. That's a much bigger, more positive thing.  So go to, there's a company. I don't know this. I'm channeling this. If the food, if the schools use contractors for the food thing, find out what contractor and apply there. If not, go to the school, bore, not school, bore website, website. The one that's about 35 minutes, 35 minutes away, they never, they were supposed to call me to sub and they never did. Then I really don't want to contract the schools out here. I live to make $12 an hour. And the other one I applied to, I think the job's taken, but somebody was going to put my name in to do after school or somebody quit the food service. Okay. So what I'm getting, I can't, you know, I can tell you what you can get. I can't tell you you have to take it and I can't tell you it's the, so if I say you're gonna, you can get something for school, but it's the $12 job, then obviously you don't want to take that you don't have to. But what I can tell you right now, as far as what I'm seeing, that that would, that's the position that will come through first is a position with the school. Another position and depending on what you want to do and how many hours you want to work, one thing I'm getting here, they're called like quick trips. They're gas stations that have a whole area that makes. Oh no, I can't live on that. I can't live on that. Let me, I'm gonna, I'm just gonna, I'm gonna mute you so I can talk love and you can listen. I love the fact that you're jumping in there and saying that, but let me finish before you tell me what you can and can't do because you might be surprised to know. It's so difficult for people to find workers right now that even gas stations, especially bigger gas stations that like have the full food and little grocery area are paying 18 to $21 an hour even in Florida and especially in Florida. I have a lot of friends in Florida and they're amazed at the fact that when they go and they, they're getting their gas and they're walking into the gas station and this might be the cashier that checks people out, but also the area where they prep food and put it out, those people are making a minimum, minimum of $18 an hour, whether they work full-time or part-time. So that is, that I'm just going to leave that there for you. One of the things I am going to do, I'll do a clearing that anything stopping or blocking anyone looking for work, let's clear that and pull it out and the next thing I'm going to say is attitude is everything.  I went out to eat last night with a friend and the manager was saying no matter how much they're offering and you know to be part of the serving staff, nobody's even applying and we were discussing like what are these people doing? How are they living? How are they paying their bills? Because nope, it seems like all the places that were very busy, pre-whatever and I can't say the word on air, all the people who were working, they're just not now. Where did they go? What are they doing? To chime in, where are you people? What are you doing? What, how are you making money? Let us know so we can, we can get in on that. Let us know. So what I'm going to say, sweetie is again, go look, open your purview of what you're, what you're willing to do and where you're willing to work. You might be surprised at that. Okay, love. So yeah, so that's, that's what I'm just going to leave that there for all the reasons that I kind of want to. Okay, J.A. Hi, it's okay. My legal situation or will it ever or will I have J.A.? She switched questions right in the middle, like my legal situation. My question is, what can I expect in terms of my legal situation? Sorry about that. I also would like private reading. I love you. I love you too, J.A., a private reading. Thank you. Okay, J.A., I'm going to say this. Let's save, what can you expect? Let's save the legal situation for the private reading and let's talk about, I think you had a question about, will I ever meet anyone? It's Valentine's Day. Let's go there. Let's do that. Yes, you are going to meet someone. I keep kicking my thing that my that my camera's on. I'm so sorry, everybody. You are going to meet somebody end of June, beginning of July. There's a two, actually they're saying there's a two-month period. So I'm going to say June and July.   And I'm sorry, I'm not being sarcastic. This is the way it's coming through. It's true. You're going to have this huge, like you're just going to be very, it's almost like Venus is reaching down and going, boom, J.A., boom. You're going to, you're going to look good, smell good, walk good, all the goods.  And what I am hearing is go for sincerity. The one who's not charming, not charismatic, not flamboyant, or, hey girl, you know, hey girl, what's up girl, not the one with the lines, not the smooth Rico suave type, but the one who is very sincere, but persistent. The one who puts, like they're saying, the proof is in the pudding. The one who, okay, thank you. The one who's the best, like, solid provider without the bravado, bravado. If I'm saying that wrong, please, guys, tell me how to say it. I think it's bravado, not provado.  There's no games being played. You don't question their intention, and you feel like this person is very integrous. That's the person that out of all the boys, this is going to be the man, okay? That's really what they're saying to me. So, and that's why they wanted the message to come across because that's a really good and important thing for you to know right now. Okay, I'm going to go to the next call. You guys today, it's like going deep. They're like, we're going to go deep, deep, deep. I love you too, J.A. If anybody wants a private session, I do 30 and 60 minute sessions. It's just we get a lot done in 30 minutes. People want to book an hour. Sometimes I tell them, let's just wait and see what we get done in 30 minutes because so much, I mean, so much can come out in 30 minutes. If they want the extra 30, of course, I do it if they have more, but so much can come out in 30 because it's just like this and spirit will come through with things that you haven't even asked yet. But okay, t-o-n-i-g dot i-n-f-o is where you book your private session and then you call me on the number on my website. What I am going to say also is if you'd like to call in and ask a question, it's<PHONE_NUMBER> or you can watch us live. I'm here every Monday at noon, every Wednesday at 7 p.m. central. You can get in the chat and ask questions if you're watching live. This whole thing unfold live or you can call in and ask your question there. 215, what's your name and where are you calling from? Hi, my name is Susan. Susan, how can I help you? My question is how my, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. No, no, it's okay. Go ahead, Lon. I wanted to know where my relationship was going. Okay, Susan. Um, well, the first thing I hear is, um, that song, I don't want to know. Um, so that, that's never the best song to hear when I'm gonna, and then I am good and I don't want to, you know what? I've never been so square me to answer a question in my life, but I am hearing you already kind of know the answer to this question because this person has not been as good to you as they possibly could. There, there's a lot of things that if you could change about this person, you would change about this person. And the next thing that I'm hearing is that you are, um, you're on the fence.  Um, you're kind of past the whole stage. I hope they change. I, I feel like they could, you kind of feel like, oh, it's set in. You finally hit, you hit that point. We all hit that point in a relationship where we go, this is it. They're not, oh my God, they're not, they're not going to change. This is it. Um, and then we go shoot. That's not the word we use people. That is not, we go, what do I do now? Because you're so deep into it. Um, you can do whatever you want, my dear one. You can, you can decide whatever you want. Um, I feel like with this particular relationship, you're going to stay in it for anywhere from, okay, thank you for three to four months. It's going to kind of go on like it is right now. And then from month four to six, maybe seven, you're going to really like bring the hammer down, not literally don't bring a hammer down and say, oh, the psychic told me, no, this, no, the verbal, the verbal like, listen, this is this and that's that or cut it. Uh, don't, don't bring any tools, literal tools into the game. No. Um, but you're going to kind of be like, like, shape up or ship it out because I'm done with the dumb. Like by the, especially by month number six, you're going to be so done with dumb. You're going to be like, you need to get it together or you need to get it out by month eight and nine.  Um, and I hear, um, they're so funny. They're singing that song. So fresh and so clean. So fresh and so clean. I don't even know that song really, but, um, ain't nobody, that's on whatever that is. Um, which by that beat, nobody knows that song, but, um, what I'm hearing is you're going to have a fresh start if you choose to, I can't tell you it's going to be over because all of this is up to you. You're going to be the one who gets to decide if and or when you want to pull the plug on the life support system that you're currently in. I'm getting ready to. Now, is there going to be another woman? I mean, like last year it was a woman, but not, he wasn't seeing her. I mean, but he was getting emotionally involved with her to where if he kept it up and I didn't put my foot down, it wouldn't let in something else. Um, I'm going to go back to the first song that they gave you. I don't want to know if you're creeping. Keep it on the low. Yes. Uh, I'm going to say this. Um, you're going to find out something right around that three to four month mark that's going to really have you in your head and you are going to buy the, buy the, I want you to go back and listen to the timelines. I'm going to tell you he is probably, okay, he is not a very honest person and he is not being completely honest with you. And I feel like this time you could put your foot down again and take a chance, but he keeps going back to the same thing again and again and again. And I feel like you're just going to be done playing games with, you know, with this situation. Again, it's going to be up to you when you do this, but I feel like, like you said, you're already there, you know, but I feel like right around that eight or nine month mark, you're just going to pull the plug on the life support and say it's, we're going to call time. We're calling time on this, it's over. Because again, right around the three in between the third and four month mark, you're going to find something, you're going to find out something you already know, you, you already have the feeling of it. But you don't have the evidence of it. I feel like you're going to get like that little piece of something that you need to say, I'm not crazy. And isn't that it with us? Isn't that it? We just want to know, because the first thing they say is, you're crazy. You're crazy. You're crazy. Dude, no, we're not crazy. Your friend is too much. Yes. And you're just going to say enough is enough. And you're going to make your choices. You're going to start getting everything together so that you can handle things in the way you need to, regardless of this person being in your situation or not. Okay, sweetie. I wish you luck with this. I can tell you he is not meant, you know, I'm going to say this. I, when I need to know the truth about a situation, I will, as I'm falling asleep, I'll just say, God, show me the truth. And within 48 hours, boom, it is there. I don't like it. And I caution anybody who wants to do that, because there's a reason ignorance is bliss. There is definitely a reason ignorance is bliss. So if you want to know, you can do that and you'll start getting pieces of the puzzle to start putting together. I think he you're going to find out something and that that you're going to start making your moves behind the scene to plan the ending and the exit strategy and to make sure everything financially falls into your favor. Okay, love. Okay. Now one quick question. You made phones up as you were starting the show and you said you are my lady. Yeah. And I don't know, like, if it meant for the callers, I called him, but my ex-husband passed away. That was our phone at our wedding. Thank you so much for that confirmation. See, everybody. See, now that song doesn't only have to be for her. It could be for other people too, but that is definitely, they know when you're calling in and they know when you're listening and or watching and they will get that, they will get that message to you to let you know you are there. And as a matter of fact, he is saying, you can ask him, show me. You can ask your ex, show me and he will do his best to get you what you need to make a good decision about your situation. Okay, love. Okay. Thank you very much. It was good talking to you. Happy Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day, love. We will chat again soon. Thank you. Bye-bye. Okay. Bye-bye. Okay. I'm going to go to the next caller on the shot. I hope I can find the next caller. I mean, the next the next question on the chat.  Shannon, Shannon, welcome to the show, Shannon. Hello, do my spirit guides have any messages for me, please? Yes. Typically, I would ask for a more specific question, but Shannon, Shannon Lee, I believe that's what it says. The first, they said, yes, right away. So I'm just going to give you whatever comes out. People don't always love it when their guides just give them messages, but this is the message for you. You need to be well, okay, this is a show for people 18 and above. So there's that. I'm just going to, apparently I'm not just going to say it because, because Shannon, you need to be really careful when you're having relations, adult relations. I don't know why. Just please keep yourself safe and protected, whether that means for the, you know, possibility of possibly a baby or something else. Just really be very careful about all. I'm just going to say it like I'm hearing it. Be very, Shannon, be very, very, very careful about all matters with adult relations, adult. There are certain words that we can't say because we live in a free country. There are certain words I can't use, and one of them is actual. All of those activities, adult activities or possibility of adult activities, please be very careful with them in those situations for whatever reason. That is the message that you're getting and that they were bringing through right away. I hope that makes sense to you. And yep, that's what I have there. I'm going to go to the next caller, 720720. What's your name and where are you calling from? Hi, my name is Randy. I'm calling from Colorado. Hey, Randy, how can I help you today? I'm wondering if you could do it with me. And, you know, my brother or I had some friends that passed over. Let's, let's do this. I have a lot of people passed over. Okay, Randy. Pick what I ask everybody to do is to, or anybody who wants to connect with a loved one on the other side. The first thing that I ask is for the name and the relationship to you. I am going to tell you I'm seeing somebody right now who is standing next to you. I see them off in the distance and I'm assuming they're there with you because they're showing me they're standing next to somebody. I believe this could be your brother. He has brownish hair and I see him holding, holding a child. It doesn't mean it's his child. It just means that at some point he held the child and the, the, the child he's holding is in a blue blanket sleeper. I don't know if that makes sense to you. I don't know, but that's what I'm getting. I mean, I could, I mean, I'm thinking I know who it is, but like, I don't know for sure about the blue blanket. Okay, so is that a grandchild? I'm sorry. Maybe a grandchild. It could be a grandchild because when he died, he had a grandson was born after he died. That was named after him. Okay, so the blue. Okay. Thank you. The blue is symbolic of a boy and holding is symbolic of a baby. So we're just going to go with that. Okay. Can you please tell me his first name? Oh, Jerry. Okay. Excellent. Okay. Did you have a specific question for Jerry or just? I don't know. I don't know. I feel sad that he died the way he died. He says, I feel like I could have maybe done something. No. No. Okay. So first, I'm so sorry for your loss. My love. I'm really, really sorry for your loss. The first thing he's saying is no one could have done nothing. And then he's, he's like, there's, I think it's a song, it's coming through as a song. No one can say like, like, it was kind of maybe like a more of a rock song, but I don't have the beat of it. But it's kind of like, no one can save me now. But don't, but, but not like that. But, you know, it was meant. There's nothing anyone could have done or said that would have changed the, the dynamics of this and that it is, that it's okay.  Don't be sad because it is as it is supposed to be. And he's in a, God, I'm gonna, he's in a, he's in a very, very, very good place now. And there's no more suffering. Okay, love. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. And if I could just add one, one more thing, I want you to know, like, he is most people when they come through to give, when they come through to, for, for, for the show to give you a message, um, what they do is they're here with me, but he's not even leaving your side to be here to give the message for you. He's, he's staying with you to like give you, to give you that message. I hope that that's, that's huge. I want you to know how huge that is.  He's steady staying with you is what he's saying.  He's good. He's in a, he's saying he's in a much better place now. Okay. Is he taking care of dad, his life? Yeah. Is he like walking over her? Did he have, yes, I, I'm hearing yes. And I, I need to ask you because I keep hearing depression, depression, depression. Was he suffering, um, depression? Or is that somebody else? I think they both are. I'm sure she is now because she just heard her, she's very sad from his loss and she just hurt her foot. Like she can't, she's like isolated. So I'm sure she's depressed too. I'm sure he was depressed. So they both are. And then COVID, they didn't go out at all. Yeah. They didn't even go outside at all. I'm so sorry. They were so scared. So I'm going to tell you that, that I just want you to know that if it's her, that's his confirmation that he's with her. He's letting you know he's watching her and he is aware. And then, and, and I want you to know that he is saying, please find, find joy. Just find joy in your life and you're going to be, it's, it's going to help you have, I don't, like, I know what this means, but it sounds so simplistic when I say it. Like when we, when we find joy, when we have joy or happiness, like everything in life gets better and, but I do know it can be difficult to get to that place sometimes also. Okay, sweetie. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much. You really appreciate it. Oh, absolutely. I'm going to, I'm going to put you on mute and then I'm going to do a clearing for depression, sadness and loss. So hang out just until, at least until the end of that and, and we will get that done. So right now I'm going to clear for anyone and everyone listening, watching, re listening, re watching all depression, sadness, morning, grief, let's pull all of that out. If you're in the chat and you're feeling it, let me know that you're feeling it so that I know that it's, it's working for you. Okay. The next Serena wants to know, will I receive my large sum of money this month? No, Serena. It's not going to be this month, but I do hear next month is looking really good for you. And then I hear March confirming it's not going to be in February. It will probably be in March. And if I'm being honest, I'm seeing March like the 28th, but I'm hearing the 29th. So near the end of March. Now, as everything sits right now, Serena, this is what I'm hearing. Sometimes things can change a little bit and that might push it back a little bit to April. But as of right now, this is what I'm hearing for you. So please be, be aware of that and know that it is, it is on its way. Okay. I'm going to go to the next caller who is 585. What's your name and where are you calling from? Happy Valentine's Day. Excuse me. Happy Valentine's Day. My name is Jeannie and I'm calling from New York. Hey, Jeannie. Happy Valentine's Day. And thank you for calling. How can I help you today? I'd like to take a look at my finance. Okay. You see things getting better. Not right away, Jeannie. And I don't like saying that. I'm so sorry. You know, I'm so sorry about that. I feel like the way your finance is getting better is by you. They're using the term doubling down and doing something to bring extra in. Obviously, if you're just keep bringing in or doing what you're doing now, it can't, you need to supplement. That's all. They're using the word supplement. You need to find a way to supplement, but you need to supplement with something that's fun. So again, whatever that is for you, that is the best thing. Okay. And whatever is fun for you, like, I'm going to say this again. And I've been say, I've said this on my show a couple of times, and I'm not saying this is the best thing for you, Jeannie. But there's this thing called friend finder.  And there are a lot of lonely people out there right now, people who don't want to go out who have lost a lot of people, and they're willing, like they might not want to talk to a therapist, but they might not want to burden their friends. And they just want someone to talk to you. And on this site, you can sign up and they'll pay you put in the amount that you want. And then if people choose to talk to you, but they also have on that site, I'm going to laugh because they also have a cyber girlfriend if you want to be a cyber girlfriend or a gaming friend or what if there's a there's a variety of different things you could do. But if you can just listen to somebody, I mean, and sit at home and make whatever an hour, that might be an option for some people listening. Now for other people, that's not going to be a good option. And I understand that. But what I'm saying is find something that fits your personality.  So that's what I would that's what I'm saying to you. That's that's the answer that they're giving for you. Okay, love. Okay, great. Thank you. You are so so welcome. I hope you have an amazing rest of the day. I'm going to do a clearing for finances. I'm going to do a money, a money clearing for everybody. Anything that's stopping blocking us from bringing in more money, whether it be for work or whatever, let's clear and heal that all that caused and kept it. Let's clear and heal it. Anything stopping or blocking us from getting ahead, staying ahead and keeping money. Release that. Okay. Come the more you listen to this, these clearings, the more stuff it will clear out for you and the better your experience is going to be. So yes, please know that everybody. I'm going to find Kavita. Hey, Tony. I would love any new info on this man you see me meeting. Okay, you're welcome, Kavita. You know, Kavita, it's so weird. It doesn't happen often, but sometimes I'll, I'll, I'll think about like the other day I was doing something and I started thinking about you and your trip to Greece. You're going to Greece, right? I have the right person. Pretty sure I do. And, and the guy and I feel like you're going to have a lot of fun in Greece and you're going to meet a lot of people in Greece. You may meet a man there, but that's not a practical situation that person can't or won't relocate and neither will you. But meet friends safely, of course. But I feel like once you come back from Greece, you're going to have a new perspective and it's going to be no holds barred. You're going to be 90 seconds. Oh my gosh, are we already done? Did that fly everybody that just flew, right? That flew? I can't be over already. You're going to have a much more open perspective on like everything from how you dress to how it's okay. Thank you. You're going to have 60 seconds. Like you're going to have a redo of yourself once you come back from Greece. Like something about seeing the way the women there just talk behave, how they're a little bit more whatever they are for you, you're going to come back and be very in alignment with that. And then you're going to be saying, let's go. No more playing it small. I love that. Never play it small. No more playing it small. I'm ready. Something about this experience is going to have you saying, that's it. I'm ready. And Kavita, I did a TikTok today about love and relationship. So please go listen to that TikTok a couple of times and see what comes from it. Okay, see if you feel things going. Okay, everybody, thank you so much for being here. I'm so grateful for each and every one of you. I will be back Monday at noon central answering questions, doing clearings, the whole thing I've been doing through this whole hour. And I'll be back next Wednesday at 7pm. Both of those times are central. And we will we will just do this all over again on Monday and on Wednesday. I give two hours a week to do this for you guys. The sooner that you get into the call log and the sooner that you get into the chat, the better chance you have of me answering a question for you. I'm so sorry if I wasn't able to get to you today. Please do come back. I really do try to get to everybody that I can. Thank you again, Kim. Oh my gosh, Joy. Oh my gosh, you guys. I'm so I didn't even get to see everybody who's here. Hi. Okay, you guys, I love you so much. I have an amazing weekend. If I don't pop in, I might pop in. So thank you. Please don't forget to like and I'll see you on the next show. Thank you so much.


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I'm James Dusset, I'm from Boudloudeck First Nation and our program is called Reclaiming Our Roads, Land-Based Learning for Urban Indigenous Youth. And I'm Shanice Hache and I'm from Halifax and our program sort of starts, I guess about two, well, three years ago when we got together, number one, number two, two years James moved to Halifax and at the time I was working as a MiGMA Aboriginal Student Support Worker in a junior high and elementary and high school and that was a really important job for me. I love working with youth, it's my whole purpose and reason for existence and I love working with ill new youth especially, right? Like it's just so meaningful. In James's transition to the city, he took a program through Native Council. You want to talk about that? Well, I just think it was a time when you met other people, right? Yeah, I met a lot of disconnected, disconnected ill new people from the city who really looked up to me and seen value and a lot of knowledge that I had that they never had access to growing up. From that, that's really where this program took root. James, like where this stuff was really just like a part of your normal growing up, right? These were your chores and this had been what we were doing together all the time too. I would say James is my mentor too, right? We just do land-based staff, hunting, fishing, just getting out there and I guess you started to see, oh well, this is something valuable that I can offer, right? So we partnered together, we brought James in for a workshop in my elementary school and we did a workshop on eels. Do you want to share about that, how that went? Yeah, it went better than I thought it would go. We showed a group of kids how to skin eels the Mi'gma away with our teeth. We cooked a meal. It was really empowered for a lot of them. They were scared, but as soon as they got past that, you could really see that sense of pride growing in them. Yeah, and it was really cool. So it was like this really awesome experience where we saw a real gap, right? You really saw the gap in the knowledge, right?  It really felt like they had been praying for that knowledge, right? And it was also really great to work together. That was also nice. We hadn't really had that opportunity much to work together. So after that we were like, okay, I think we have something here and we connected with one of the youth with their parents and we asked if we could take them out hunting with us one morning. And they agreed and he was 12 and we decided we're going to go duck hunting.  He was ready to get in the car and ready and eager. Yeah, just let's do it. And we're like, wow, that's amazing. You know, like 12 years old, ready to do it. And that day he put in a 10 hour day. We went out, we duck hunted in the morning, we went hunting, like on a trail, we did medicines, we did the whole thing and he was just so patient and so grateful. I'm like, what a good attitude about it too. And we really, in that one, it started like, oh man, this is it. Like really, how do we take youth out like this? Like, you know, how can we do this in a bigger way? And so we kind of sat on it and thought about, someday we should try that out or we have, we have something special here, kind of this connection of this knowledge and this youth work and this experience. We're like, well, what should we do with that? So we started applying for grants and kind of telling people about the idea. And it kind of developed from there. So we were, we have been fortunate and grateful to have received support from a couple of grants from in spirit and from the province. And then we sort of launched our official official program in September of 2019. Nope, that's now in September of 2018. We kind of took it official. So our official work and our official goal and practice is, like he said, reclaiming our roots, land based learning for urban indigenous youth. And it happens in kind of two ways. So we do offer workshops to the public really, we'll collaborate with anybody. But mostly it's been youth groups. We've worked with Levote violence and different youth serving organizations universities even. So we'll offer workshops, sort of a spectrum of land based knowledge and learning. And then we do the mentorship with a smaller group of youth. And that's really where our heart is in the mentorship, right? So we found we were meeting all these young people or kind of having these experiences with young people where they were having these really great workshops or camps or kind of one off experiences, right? And they do it and everything kind of makes sense. And they have this great experience. And then after that, there was kind of a gap in how they were able to access that knowledge, right? So it's kind of just waiting around for the next camp or the next opportunity, right? We really want it to create an opportunity for youth to access knowledge in between those great experiences, right? And to really like delve deep, right? There's only so much you can do in an hour, two hour, three hour, even two or three day camp. And it really takes time and that generous and genuine mentorship to really learn the skills. And I know you would say that's a big part of your learning too, right? It's like how you know these things. Yeah, just putting in time. Putting in time and having, you know, people really show you, right? And really like allow you to learn. So we really wanted to be able to support the mentorship with the workshop opportunities too, right? They kind of both help each other and they help us have a full a full program. So that's what we've been doing. That's what we've been doing for about, I guess we're on our six month now. Yeah. Our target audience as of right now, it is urban Indigenous youth and our age range is 12 to 25. But like I said, we're, we will work with groups of mixed individuals from mixed backgrounds. We also say that any group with one Indigenous person and it is an Indigenous group to us, right? It's just as important, you know, for one to learn as it is for 15 or 20. Our program is rooted in Mi'gma values because we're Mi'gma. But, you know, we also say any young person that's living on our territory here is our responsibility too. So any Indigenous youth can join. And we try to do things that are seasonally relevant. Obviously, we want things to be as authentic as possible and, you know, just create good spaces and good opportunities for folks to learn. If you can get a kid, if you can get a 14 year old kid out of bed at five in the morning on more than one occasion, it's gotta be working. Yeah, I think and often like how we talk about it or what our goal is or how we know what's working is when we see these kind of things that and they don't feel like risks anymore, right? Like they don't, you see, you know, they're not scared anymore to try something or, or they remember something, right? Like that's the coolest is when they, when you take more than one youth out and you see one of them taking the lead and showing the other things that he's learned. Yeah. And you just see them open up and you and the feedback from their families too is really impactful. The thing about this is like this work is, it's really, it's meaningful to the individual to the youth, but it's so meaningful to their families. Like their families are praying for this, you know, so hard. And so that just that feedback from parents and moms who are working really hard who, you know, maybe don't have time or access to this knowledge themselves and can't pass that down. Like that's, you know, it's really working is like it impacts the whole family and the whole community, right? That's what it's meant to do. So just that they, they keep doing it, they keep, you know, retaining little bits and gaining that confidence and, and just keep trying it out, right? And they're just willing to do it. So that's how, you know, it's working. But we always say it's about when, when we change, they, you know, it changes from a risk to like integral to their, to their sense of self and identity, right? They're probably not describing it that way. But that's how we see it. Yeah. It's hard. It's hard to talk about, right? And it's the thing we think about too, of course, as we're trying to support this with grants. How do you measure success? Well, and we actually, we really, we try to share this kind of idea with groups and people that we do this with too. Like success isn't measured on like how much we harvest, right?  It's really, it is, it's measured through like relationships and confidence and, you know, just the willingness to try it over time. So it is, it's definitely more of a qualitative approach. You know, I think we'll, we'll measure success, particularly when we start seeing those, like being able to create those opportunities for the young people that we mentor to mentor others too. And then they're kind of passing it down and they're able to share it too. Like even yesterday, we were able to bring one of the youth that we work with out with us to host a workshop. And, you know, I just think that he, you know, showed up and was willing to participate. Like that was a huge measure of success for us, right? And yeah, I don't know how we measure success really, except seeing young people really be able to kind of start independently navigating the skills, right? I don't think that we ever want to be the gatekeeper of this knowledge. I think, I think we'll measure success someday if we like look on Instagram and like a young person went out fishing without us. I don't think it's successful when they just don't like, they don't, they're so good at it, they don't, they don't need us. Well, they stopped calling us successful. But you know, it's a success is really just about building up the genuine capacity, right? It's not that they, you know, that they'll need us forever, right? We're not under any illusion that that's the truth. So confidence and like, I think it's really good for their health too, right? Like a lot of the feedback we get is like they're really happy to get out of the city for a day or, or they just, you know, they recognize too, that it's a gap in their life, right? And they're really grateful for the opportunity. And it's, you know, and it's, I think it's really easy for young people to be ashamed that they don't have this knowledge. And I think we have a lot of conversations and we put a lot of work into never making them feel ashamed not to have it, but really like just letting them know how proud we are that they're willing to try it, right? So that, I guess that's the impact is like seeing them move past, you know, maybe feeling embarrassed or ashamed or shy about it and seeing them just step up to the plate and try it out and feel good about it, you know? And yeah, and to build that confidence and just be themselves, right? Use are so funny and just, they bring such a light energy and so just to see them start to be themselves and try the skills and find their own things that they're strong at, like that's, you know, that's one of how we've seen young people grow, right? I do identify myself as an urban indigenous person and also work with mainly urban indigenous youth like in my professional practice. So I think, you know, one of the reasons we think it's so important is because there's a real, there can be a real lack of access for many reasons, right? So geographically, right? Like not having access to natural spaces, whether that's, you know, you're just not able to kind of navigate the bus system to get out somewhere or you don't have access to a vehicle, not, you know, being in an urban area, right? You might feel that disconnect from the land as well. I think there's often a disconnect, you know, sometimes from access to traditional knowledge or elders, right? So it's not like you could just go to your neighbor necessarily and ask them to teach you how to prepare, you know, a traditional meal. And so they might just have that sense of disconnection. And I think, you know, it can happen, right? It happens in a different way. You can incorporate land-based, you know, lifestyles in a different way in the city, but it can happen. We do it for sure, you know, we're out every weekend, like lots and lots of evenings. We'll go over and make sure that we're trying to incorporate that into our life, into our meals, into our just like practice and way of being together. So I think it's important in the city, I mean, I think it's important everywhere, right? And I think it happens everywhere, maybe some somewhat informally, right? Like people might have access to kind of, oh, okay, well, maybe my family doesn't do this, but maybe, you know, I know this person on the reserve does it and I can ask them, you know, in the city that might not be an option, right? You might not even know who to ask. So, you know, it's really quite an empowering skill and an important part of your health too, just to get out of the city for a minute, you know, and try to like reconnect and remember, oh yeah, like this is it, like this is where I'm from, you know, and that you can have those skills in the city too. It's really, really important. And for lots of reasons, they may not have access to it, you know, even something as simple as like having a yard and like fixing things or like building something, you know, like young people in the city might not do that. They have a lot of other like very wild skills, right? Like they can navigate like bus systems and like know how to get everywhere they need to get. So, there's certainly a lot of skills and they're ready to apply them in different contexts. So, we're officially partnered out of Heartwood, which is an awesome youth serving organization that I've worked with for a number of years. So, they've been so gracious to us in helping us supply for grants, giving us tips and skills and space and a lot of freedom as well. So, that's our official partner right now. We've also done a lot of kind of work with Lebo violence or love. So, they're another great organization that has invited us in for workshops that have been really special for us and really helped us build what a workshop could look like. We also are in conversations with the Megwan Native Friendship Center as well. They're a great partner for us too, just in helping us too. Helping us to like really build our capacity and know our worth too. I think that's been a really great aspect of that partnership too is just having Pam really look at us and say like, you know, listen, you guys are worth something. So, they're a real partnership for us too as individuals trying out something new. Those are our three big partnerships right now. I guess and then our grants who have supported us. So, In Spirit Foundation and Community and Heritage as well. We have a grant from and yeah. So, to do this full time, we really need to be able to devote our time, our daytime hours, you know, together to work on this. Right now, we do this with two full-time jobs. So, we really need that kind of budget and allowance to really to be able to pay ourselves to really devote, you know, time and capacity to building this up. We would love a workshop space in the city. I think that would just be amazing to be able to kind of create and build and process a game there in a big way. That would be amazing. And to cook there too, that would be great. To do this in a full-time way, I mean, we're just talking to it today to continue building partnerships across different areas, right? Like, we're happy to partner with, you know, any organization that wants to work with us and that we can have a mutually beneficial relationship with. But really, I think we're good to go whenever. If you want to start after this interview, we will start full-time work on this. But really being able to have the privilege of dedicating our full-time hours to this, we'd really see it grow in a really meaningful way. And then, you know, the whole goal is not that it sort of exists with just us, right? We really want to be able to bring other people on to share their expertise and to create jobs and opportunities for the youth too, right? Like, I think it would be amazing to be able to pay young people to harvest food for families and for elders in the city, right? So really, like having that support to pay for people's real time and real expertise, right? That's what we need. Someone with the knowledge, the land-based knowledge, you know, or access to elders that have it, yeah. Yeah, I kind of think James could do this without me. I don't know what my role is. I do think, you know, I think we have a real unique partnership where I do have experience in, like, youth work and, like, developing programs and that kind of thing. But really, like, I mean, I think we both say we probably couldn't make this exist without the other. I think he might be able to. But I think it needs to be, to do it in this way, to do it in a formal way, it needs to be a mix of having the knowledge, having, you know, that real authentic connection to share, and then having, you know, someone that can help kind of frame it into a grantable context, right? Or help kind of create, you know, formalize those partnerships or do kind of the back-end administrative piece, right? So I think that part is much easier to learn than this part. But it helps to have the partnership, right? To have both of the skills. It helps to have two people kind of, even just someone to go back and forth on. But yeah, I think to start anything like this, there needs to be, there really needs to be the genuine knowledge and the connection. And then there needs to be some understanding of, like, you know, general programming or writing or even youth work. But, you know, I think you could do it, I don't know, in different ways. And once you have those kind of, those two pieces, then you need a lot of generosity from community to help you, right? So, you know, Hartwood has been so generous to us and our grants funders have been so generous to us. So then, you know, having those two kind of raw talents or connections, then you need your community to kind of come around you and support, you know, the work. So, you know, it starts with just having the ability to kind of create something, but then you need to, you know, have others believe in your ability to create it. So if someone wanted to start this, I think they would need access to one or more individuals with something to share and access to one or more individuals to help frame it and to help create, you know, opportunities to do it, right? And then they would need to tell everyone they know and then they would need to, you know, really be supported, right? We couldn't do this without, you know, so many people, even people informally in our lives, we're like, yeah, that's really important and keep doing it. And, you know, it takes, you know, one or more people kind of to start it and then a lot of people to kind of help them. It's really, there's a lot of opportunities for success. The program has been a great teaching experience in this first year, but even just knowing like where to dedicate the money that we have to come in, right? Like it's, you know, clothing for youth. The young people in the city don't have rubber boots. Why would they? You know what I mean? Like they don't have warm clothing usually. Why would they? They don't own mittens. They don't own mittens. They don't own waterproof things. Nobody owns cleats, you know, to walk on the ice.  Know how much you eat. Oh my gosh. We must have known that, but really like, if we could just get some Tim Horton's gift cards and some Subway gift cards, feeding them, right? Like even going out for an hour or two. It's really, it's tiring work, right?  Gas and food and boots. That's where all the money's going to in the future. But also, you know, a big thing that we do try to talk about whenever we get a chance is access to natural spaces, right? Yeah, that's really difficult in an urban setting. A lot of the natural spaces are parks, you know, and it's really difficult to practice traditional things, hunting, fishing, gathering medicines when it's either not allowed or there's people walking their dogs. And it's really difficult. Yeah, and it just takes so much time to build that relationship to an area. And so, you know, something we talk about a lot, and there's even been spaces that we've built a relationship with, like as a couple, where zoning has changed, right? And now we're no longer able to use that space in the same way. And so we talk about that and what that will be like if we build a relationship with an area with a piece of land, and something changes with a youth specifically. And a youth builds up that relationship. And if it's taken away from us, it's going to be a hard loss, a really deep loss, right? So, you know, the program challenges aside, like that's a bigger challenge that we're kind of dealing with. The challenge isn't the young people wanting to do it, they want to do it. The challenge, you know, the challenge isn't the money, it isn't any of those things. At the bottom, at the end of the day, the challenge is going to be accessing the land, right? And if something should change with that, you know, we're going to have a real problem. We're going to have a real heartbreak. It's hard enough, you know, just to create all the opportunity for them to actually access it.  But otherwise, you know, I would just reiterate that the challenge isn't the young people wanting to do it, they want to do it. It's sort of all the other pieces. And it's a great, but it's been a great learning experience, figuring out what works people have been really patient with us parents have been really patient with us, our partnering organizations and people that ask us to come to workshops have all been so patient. So people are patient with us on the amount of time it takes us to reply back to their emails. You know, and in everything else, we're just learning. So, yeah, no, we've had a lot of, you know, a lot of support. So, yeah, you know, I really think we're going to build this vision with the young people who are involved with it and who continue to be involved with it. And we're going to build it up together what it looks like for them. But I think what like what we hope to have someday is a little bit of a home base and a space where we can create kind of workshop opportunities for for use and for the public. And we can keep, you know, workshopping and partnering and and really like what I would love is to create opportunities for young people to be employed with these skills or to access these skills and for like young people to do the workshops, right, like people contact us and we say, okay, yeah, we're going to send so and so out or you know, like really like for them to know the skills well enough and have that confidence to then be able to share it however they want to right like who knows what ideas that they how they want to share it, you know, and and also creating opportunities for young people to care for community. So to be able to, you know, give food to families and to elders to just be able to have like a space for them to do that and an opportunity and an option for them to do that. What would you say what's your goal and your vision? Yeah, that's my goals. Just to have these young people that were taken out, take other youth out. Yeah, that's it, right? James's real goal is for young people to bring him some eels for supper. That's why I mean it. Yeah, that's it. That's his only his his only hope is tired of getting to myself. The understory to this is really just James just trying to get some breakfast. But no, you know, it's yeah, like you said, it's really the goal is really to give the skills out and then like like however they want to use it right that we can help them like that we're helping them. I would love to even just teach young people like how to be self contractors and to and to write grants themselves. Like I think that would be that'll be the measure of success is when I'm like sitting down with a young person to like build this branch of the program like that they want to do, right? So yeah, you know, creating a space to share skills and to let them build the skills up in ways that feel relevant to them. They don't all have to do the same things and they don't all want to do the same things. They don't all hunt. They don't all fish. You know, they don't all want to pick medicines. Some of them do. But we really want to be able to find, you know, one or more land based skills that a young person, a young indigenous person can integrate into their life, whether it's we don't have a lot of artists. We have a lot of artists too who want to be able to create with this stuff too. So it's really like finding the path that works for each individual and you know, whatever we can do to help them get there and see and see where they take it. I think it's important work for schools to get involved with. I don't think it's something I'd want to partner with schools with other than workshops. But yeah, I really think schools should be integrating this traditional knowledge into their curriculum. I think schools should be community driven. I think schools should be community driven, right? Like I think that's the goal. That's the model, right? I feel strongly that this work needs to have a level of flexibility. It needs to have a level of fluidity and it needs to be rooted in community because it always has been. It can only exist that way, right?  Or sometimes you go out and it rains and it's cold and it's, you know, it's not always this like romantic idea, right? But that all counts, right? So there needs to be a layer of flexibility and a layer of, you know, it needs to live on its own in a way that I think many schools aren't ready to live in yet, right? Like there's a way that schools exist. That is driven by outcomes and curriculum and a lot of people doing really good work to try to change that and to try to create great space within that. But this needs to have a certain level of community for sure. But I think, yeah, schools can get on board with that if they'd like. I'm ready for schools to join us. But we need to maintain that level of, you know, I don't know, level of freedom. Yeah, it's taught through relationship, Indigenous education exists through relationships and through doing and through, you know, practicing and being and humor and connection, right? Like I do a certain piece of me dies when I think about Indigenous education living in a textbook or living only in a classroom. Like I think it really has to be more relational than that. It really has to exist, you know, a little bit more naturally. And I think Indigenous education exists through mentorship and through community, right? You know, and it's broad and it's anything, you know, I think, I think math is Indigenous education. I think, you know, fishing is Indigenous education. I think it's all Indigenous education. You know, language, of course, is Indigenous education. But I think, yeah, I think it has to be relational. It has to be based on the individual, right? And it has to be based on, you know, what each person needs to succeed and that every person has a role in community. And every person has a role and something to give back, right? And that there's not one kind of way to be successful. So I think it's broad. Anything exciting coming out of that for you? No, no, there is not. Yeah, that's a hard one. Realizing the things that I grew up doing, the knowledge that I hold has value, you know. Recognizing that role as a knowledge keeper and passing these things on, it feels good. What is impacted me? I mean, yeah, I like, I think supporting young people and seeing young people grow is my only reason to exist, really. So, and also just like very much loving this human and knowing and, you know, and seeing your value and your worth and everything that you shared with me has been such a blessing. So like creating a space for you to share your gifts to and to see the impact and to see the impact that you have on young people and, you know, and how they're, you know, especially, I'll say, especially young Indigenous men. I'll say it's a real, there's real work to be done, right, for young Indigenous men. And so to see the relationship that you have with them and how they look to you and how you're able to create that relationship without judgment has been really important and valuable. So, you know, seeing you kind of step into your leadership as well and challenge yourself and get through what I know are big challenges for you has been, has been great. And for me too, like what it's been a real learning opportunity on the grant end, like writing grants and finding money for good work. I feel like a wizard every time I like find a dollar to do something good. So that's kind of the role that I see myself taking in the future too is I try to think about myself like a bumblebee, like I want to like work in a team and like be, you know, be, stay humble.  I don't want to be in the forefront. I want to really help good things happen, right. So, you know, having a great relationship with youth, being able to support really great knowledge being passed down and myself working on my knowledge too. Like I cut a hole in the ice with a chainsaw yesterday. I'm feeling pretty good about it. So pushing my boundaries too and things that I can do too. So I'm still getting confidence with my skills for sure. But I definitely, I know that I've gotten better. I know that I've learned too. So but for me, it's really about supporting the bigger picture and just helping good things happen, right. Getting out of the way for good things to happen. Buying the subs, I don't know. But the impact's been huge. I'm really awesome to work together and really awesome to just see good things happen. Many tears shed. I'd like to see, like I said, programs like this in schools, opportunities for young students to get out out of classrooms and on the land. I think that's just as important. Yeah, and I really would like to really like reduce the barriers for good people sharing good things to access support to do that. Right. So like, we're the first ones to say that what we're doing is not unique. It's happening on most reserves right now in informal ways. We know of people doing great work and we're just saying like someday I just want to have enough money that I'll just like wire somebody five grand because I know they're doing great things. Right. And they're doing it out of pocket, out of their own time. They're doing it because it's what we do. But it has a real value. Right. So I think, you know, to go back to a previous point is like, I think if you have the knowledge, you should be able to be supported with that without a partnering organization necessarily, right? Like without barriers, right? If people are doing good work, there should be ways for them to access support and funding to do great work. So I would just like to decolonize the work and decolonize the practice of supporting the work. Right. Like if people are doing good things, just give them the money, you know, like and really just like trust that Indigenous people have been doing this for a long time, teaching children for a long time and know how to do this and that they can validate it in their own ways. Right. And maybe that doesn't look like a formal report afterwards. Maybe it looks a little different, but that, you know, people in community know how to do this. And just to remove the barriers for knowledge keepers to share this and for young people to develop what they want to do too. Right. So I think just my vision for 10 years is like just Indigenous people incorporating, you know, whatever it is that they want to in their work. Right. And that they have options to do that and to build their own programming and have support to do it.  That's like another big passion of ours is like really reclaiming traditional food and like reframing narratives about it, you know, reframing what people think of it. But really it's just to like empower Indigenous people to, you know, to be able to do whatever they want to do in whatever way they want to and have support to do it.


As we mark Caricom Africa Day 2023, this initiative called Musings features thought leaders from a range of backgrounds as they reflect on the aspects of the Caricom Africa relationship over time and articulate their vision for its future development. From my own perspective, the recognition of Caricom Africa Day annually is an ideal occasion on which to reflect on the relationship between our two regions, to reimagine the possibilities and to take action that will engender the kind of transformation that our people want and need. So it's about imagination, action and transformation. It goes without saying that those who initiated the exploitative economic activity of the transatlantic slave trade could not have planned for or envisaged the evolution of a Caribbean civilization. Nor could they have foreseen that people would have reached out across the waters to establish new bonds and rekindle familial ties each in his own way. And I'm thinking here of Marcus Garvey, Sir Arthur Lewis, Walter Rodney, Bob Marley and others who stirred things up and in so doing helped stimulate ideas and build bridges. From 2019, we have seen significant impetus at the highest political and institutional levels in Caricom Africa relations manifested in the establishment of a joint diplomatic office in Nairobi, Kenya. The convening of the Caricom Africa Summit of Heads of State and Government, the African Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum, the conclusion of agreements with the African Export-Import Bank and collaboration in the COVID-19 response when Caricom countries were given access to the African medical supplies platform on the same terms as its African country members. More recently, the governments of Kenya and Rwanda signal their support of Caricom efforts towards a solution for Haiti and committed to continue deepening of the alliance that exists between the two regions. By their actions, our leaders are demonstrating vision, boldness and a determination to confront concretely and collectively such common challenges as climate change, high indebtedness, high unemployment, limited access to concessionary financing, healthcare, food security and citizen security. And meanwhile, Reema, Ayrusta, Yemi Alade, Bujubantan and Mashel Montano are drawing crowds to music festivals. Priests and nuns from the continent are serving here in the Caribbean. African doctors have established medical practices and teach at medical schools. Our entrepreneurs, intellectuals, academics, researchers and workers are traveling Mequina regions. They're building the deep and enduring people-to-people bonds that no government can contrive. So taking these into account, I cannot help but consider whether we're witnessing a new wave of Pan-Africanism, one that is devoid of grand pronouncements and writings, but is imbued with the kind of messaging that engenders an appreciation of our common history and significantly a sense that we share a common destiny. I believe that it is really at this level that the future of Caricom-Africa relations has its springboard. Governments must continue to create the political and institutional environment within which the Caricom-Africa relationship can grow, but it is really the citizens who will be the force behind that growth and who ultimately will determine its trajectory and its sustainability.


Hello. My name is Derek Taylor. I'm the creator of the DistroTube channel on YouTube and Odyssey. And I try to promote myself on both YouTube and Odyssey as equally as possible because I know many people don't want to be on YouTube. They don't want to view my content on YouTube.  So if you have a message that you're trying to get out there like I am, I'm trying to spread the message of free and open source software. And I want as many people to hear that message as possible. I need to be on the biggest platform. So I have to be on YouTube. So I put my videos on YouTube. But here's the thing. Once people start hearing that message of free and open source software and they get more concerned about their freedoms and privacy and things like that, all of a sudden some of those people that were watching my videos on YouTube no longer want to be on YouTube. Well, where do they go then?  So what is Odyssey? Odyssey.com is very similar to YouTube as far as it's a video platform. Anybody can post their video content to it. You can watch my videos on Odyssey.com. You can comment on the videos. And for the most part, if you're used to how YouTube works, you're going to be just fine on Odyssey. What Odyssey is, it's actually a front end, a website to the library protocol. So the library protocol, it's a blockchain based protocol where you can share content. Really video content, but you can also share articles and text files, things like that. And library is heavily focused on freedom of speech, anti-censorship. And they can be that way because it's just a protocol that it's not like a corporation that's being monetized by an ad network the way YouTube is. YouTube makes billions and billions of dollars on those ads that play on videos, right? They don't pay the creators that much, right? We get just pennies on the dollar for what YouTube actually makes on all those ads that get served on those videos. And when you have these billions of dollars worth of ads playing on these videos on YouTube, obviously some of these companies that make these gigantic ad buys, sometimes they come to YouTube and say, hey, I don't like the kind of content that's on your network. Some of these videos, this topic, this particular creator, hey, I don't want my ads to be served on those videos, this kind of content. If you don't correct this problem, I'm just going to not buy any more ads from you.   Well, then you start censoring people, right? You start adjusting the rules, this kind of content's no longer allowed.  Well, I'm going to shut them down. I'm going to delete their channel. And you can kind of understand why YouTube does that, right? Because it affects their wallet, it affects their pocketbook. Library doesn't have these kinds of problems. So whatever you post a library, they don't care as far as political content, whether it's left or right, whether it's some topic that they don't agree with. If you're one of these conspiracy theory nuts, you know, I don't care for conspiracy theory kind of content.  But if you wanted to post that kind of ridiculous content, they'll let you, right? More YouTube often has problems with some of this kind of content, right? YouTube doesn't like the flat earthers and things like that. Library, library really wouldn't care. So Odyssey is a web front end to library. Now Odyssey is actually not the library protocol. Odyssey is a company. It's a website and it's US based. They have to abide by US law. So even though it's free speech, anti-censorship, if you do anything that breaks US law, they're going to take you down. Legally, they have to take you down. So you could actually get a DMCA notice on Odyssey. Again, you break US law, they got to take you down, right? They have no choice. And honestly, freedom of speech doesn't really mean you're allowed to break the law.  No, no, no, that's not exactly what free speech means. It means you can do things to a certain limit. Many people don't understand. Yes, freedom of speech, the freedom to do anything.  So anything you post that breaks US law on Odyssey.com is going to get you in trouble. So why do I post all of my videos, both to YouTube and Odyssey? I already mentioned, well, mainly because some people don't want to be on YouTube. They would prefer to watch me on Odyssey. So it's nice to be on both platforms for that reason. But the other reason I'm on both platforms is kind of a safety net. It's kind of like a hedge, right? If YouTube ever goes away for whatever reason, then I'm on Odyssey, right? If I you don't want to have all of your eggs in one basket. Let me switch back over to my desktop. And one of the things about YouTube is YouTube. I won't say YouTube is just going to disappear one day, but it could. But the real thing with YouTube that is a very real threat to every creator on the platform is sometimes YouTube fans, people, they just delete entire channels. And oftentimes they delete channels for absolutely no reason. For example, anybody that's watched any of my content, I am about as family friendly as you can get.  What you see on video is really me. I don't like to swear in real life. I don't swear on video.  Right. This really benign stuff that really should never violate any kind of code of conduct or anything like that. That being said, many times over the years, I have actually had videos of mine demonetized by YouTube. For no reason. I've never had a video of mine demonetized that actually was demonetized for a legit reason, because typically they'll demonetize a video for violating their terms of service. So usually you're doing something scandalous in the video, something they disagree with certain kinds of topics they don't want you to discuss. Maybe you're cursing a lot. Maybe it's violent content or racy kind of content. Yeah, stuff I have never done on any of my videos, right? But I often some of the videos that I get demonetized for are really like boring stuff. I had a video a couple of years back that was demonetized. It was a Qtile video where I was talking about the Qtile window manager and I was showing you how to config it, right? The config is written in Python. I'm just showing you a little Python, nothing out of the ordinary with that video at all. It was demonetized and it stayed demonetized for like well over years, like two years. And this video had a ton of views on it. I never got paid anything for that video because all the ads there was it was still playing ads on that video. I never received a dime for it because I had been demonetized because apparently I did something really bad on that video. There was nothing wrong with this video. The problem with YouTube is they have AI, machine learning. They have these bots that go out there and scan these videos. Humans can't possibly review all the content on YouTube. I get that. So sometimes the algorithms, they have these false flags. I would say nine times out of 10, probably the videos that get flagged on YouTube haven't done anything. It's just the fact that they're using these bots to do all of this to demonetize people, to ban people. You're going to have a whole lot of false positives. And there is a system where when you get demonetized or you get a strike or you get man, you should have at least one appeal. And I I appealed this video that was demonetized for absolutely no reason. The appeal states that a human will actually go and review that video. Well, when I appealed, I got an almost immediate response way too quick for anybody to watch that video. And typically, you know how big YouTube is. You know, I would think it would take at least 24 to 48 hours, maybe before anybody would ever even get a chance to read my email. But I get an immediate response saying that they took a look at my video and it still broke the terms of service and they won't tell me what I broke.  They just say, hey, we reviewed it and yes, you violated the terms of service. Your video is still demonetized. There's no way, no way a human being ever looked at that video. And after that, I have no other way to contact YouTube. No one's ever going to take a look at that again. That's done. That video is demonetized for no reason. And there's absolutely nothing I can do about it. Another interesting thing that YouTube sometimes does is they age restrict videos and I've had this happen to two or three of my videos where they receive an age restriction where minors can't watch my video. Have I ever made a video that was something that a minor should not take a look at? No, there's never been a video I've ever posted that should be age restricted.  They're age restricted for no reason, again, because I bought for whatever reason, falsely flagged it for some reason. You appeal it. The appeal never works. It comes back. They say a human reviewed it.  One of the real concerns with YouTube is sometimes they country restrict your videos because certain countries in the world, they have censorship, like major censorship. They don't want certain YouTube videos to be shown to their people, to their citizens, right? Because they're trying to limit the truth and Google and YouTube. Unfortunately, they actually acquiesce to some of these totalitarian regimes that are trying to censor their own people. So depending on what part of the world you're in, you're going to have access to some YouTube videos and not others. When the war in the Ukraine started and they banned a couple of large Russian YouTube channels, YouTube did because obviously they're Russian channels. They're coming at it from a Russian perspective where Russia is the good guy, you know, and you can't have that. You have to come at it from the Ukrainian point of view or from the rest of the world point of view, especially the West, right? Because the West is anti Russia in this case, as far as that conflict. And we're just going to ban these channels because they're putting a different spin on things. And I'm not saying I don't want to get into the Russia Ukraine situation as far as, you know, taking sides or is one side right and wrong. That's not the case. But here's the thing. If you start when you start just banning certain channels or certain groups of channels, because they have a different take on things, then maybe what you agree with, that's dangerous. And when I say that any channel can be deleted at any time for no reason, it happens all the time. We had a situation not too long ago was three or four months back. The Linux experiment, a very big Linux channel, not controversial at all. You know, he typically doesn't stray in it into any weird spaces, right? Mainly just talking about tech, very benign content, right? And his channel was deleted permanently deleted because he supposedly broke some kind of YouTube terms of service. And he eventually got his channel back. He appealed a lot of people in the community were in an uproar because he has a big channel. He can actually create a little bit more of an uproar on social media and actually get somebody out like a real person at YouTube to actually take a look at his case where smaller channels have absolutely no chance of that happening. So really, that's kind of why I am on odyssey.com. Again, if you want to watch my videos on YouTube, I love my YouTube audience. Obviously, I make money from YouTube. I have ads that run on YouTube and it is what I use to earn a living. Those of you that watch my content on Odyssey, those of you that want to support me by donating LBC library credits to me, that's fine. Right now, the prices of crypto are very depressed, right? The crypto is almost worthless. But if you want to donate some LBC to me, that's fine. Those of you that want to support me through other ways on Odyssey, for example, since I really don't get paid for you guys watching anything on Odyssey. If you wanted to support me by making a donation through PayPal or subscribing through Patreon, I would love that as well. One of the things about Odyssey, if you haven't checked it out in the last few months, Odyssey has gotten so much better. Odyssey, again, if you're comfortable using YouTube, you'll be comfortable with Odyssey. For example, if I click on my latest video, I'm going to pause it though, so it doesn't play it. But playback is great. The buffering, you know, we used to have some buffering issues in the early days about three years ago when library was first getting started in the early days of Odyssey. Sometimes playback was stuttery. Sometimes videos would buffer. It doesn't happen.  Now, the playback on Odyssey is actually very smooth, scrolling through the video, scrubbing through the video. I actually get a little preview, right? I much like you do on YouTube. So as far as somebody that just consumes content, you're going to be right at home.  The comment system works exactly the same. Now, for those of you that are creators, you could actually sync your content from YouTube to Odyssey. I think you have to have at least 300 subscribers. You sign up and automatically, Odyssey will pull down your YouTube content to Odyssey. And every time you post to YouTube, they will sync your new videos automatically. You don't have to do anything. There's absolutely no work involved. If you want to sync your YouTube channel to Odyssey and in the early days of Odyssey, when I first joined, it was it was a little clunky being a creator because back then you really didn't have comments. And when they first introduced comments, you couldn't moderate the comments. Now I have total control on all the comments on all of my videos, meaning if somebody posts something ridiculous, something racist or hateful or somebody threatens somebody, you know, the kinds of comments that are completely inappropriate and should never be tolerated. I now have the ability to delete those. In the early days, we didn't have that ability, but they've now added that functionality. We do have some analytics over on Odyssey. We also have a light mode and a dark mode. We also have a notification system. And the notification system is actually pretty good. Odyssey has a mobile app. The mobile app I've got on my Android phone. It works just fine. I also use the library app, the LBRY app. The library has a desktop app that runs on Linux. I use that. One interesting thing is that your browsers, there's Odyssey plugins for your browsers. I'm in the Brave browser today. And one of the cool things I can enable in the Brave browser, I can go to the Chrome store and I can look for a plugin called Watch It on Odyssey. And if you install that plugin on Chrome or Firefox or any Chrome or Firefox based browser, the Watch on Odyssey plugin, any time I click on a video, for example, this last video I posted, I click on it on YouTube. Right now I'm on YouTube. I'm going to click on this video, watch what happens. It actually redirects it to Odyssey.com, right? If my video, it checks if my video is available on Odyssey and if it is, it redirects me to Watch It on Odyssey. So that is a great plugin because many people, you're probably not going to go to YouTube specifically for that, but many people, I often post my YouTube video links on social media, on Mastodon, Reddit, things like that. And I always post the YouTube link because typically I post on YouTube first and then it syncs to Odyssey. So I never have an Odyssey link to post to social media right away. It takes sometimes 30 minutes to an hour before I have the Odyssey video up. And people naturally complain, hey, why do you only post the YouTube link? Why don't you post the Odyssey link? Guys, get this plugin, Watch on Odyssey. And now any time I post a YouTube link on my Mastodon or on Reddit, if you click on the YouTube link, it'll just redirect you to Odyssey to the video on Odyssey if it's available. And of course, if it's not available, then you just get the YouTube link. Recently, Odyssey has added the ability to live stream from Odyssey. And now I have never tried this out mainly because I don't live stream much. Even on YouTube, I don't do much live streaming because of internet issues. Typically, I do one live stream a month with my patrons and half of the time, those things are kind of train wreck. So I really don't like live streaming. But for those of you that needed that functionality, Odyssey now has it. And what I'm told is it's pretty good. And in the early days, it was a beta where live streaming was only available to some of the biggest creators on Odyssey, like me. I'm actually one of the bigger channels over on the platform. But now they've recently opened up live streaming to anybody on the platform. Now, one of the reasons I'm making today's video to spotlight Odyssey and to tell you guys how great Odyssey is, is because I've been worried here in the past few months because Odyssey, its popularity seems to be waning a little bit, which is kind of weird because when Odyssey and library first exploded on the scene, everybody started moving to Odyssey. A lot of creators, all your tech creators, Linux creators, all the crypto channels of course had no choice because YouTube was banning them. But you saw a lot of creators moving to Odyssey very quickly in the early days. And I would say after about two years, you really started seeing all the big creators and some of the biggest names on YouTube, some of the biggest creators, a lot of you guys watch, have Odyssey channels. And many of those channels were actually promoting their Odyssey channels, even posting on YouTube. They would say, hey, I'm also on Odyssey. Check me out on Odyssey. Donate some LBCs to me because you could get paid on Odyssey by people watching your content and donating those library credits, those LBCs, which were worth something back when crypto was worth something. As a matter of fact, the first year when I first signed up to Odyssey.com was the year that I started doing YouTube full time because the lockdown, the pandemic, this just became my full time job and I was posting both YouTube and to Odyssey. And that that first year, 2020, I want to say I probably made $7,000 worth of LBCs that year through Odyssey.com. As far as people donating, not life changing amount of money, $7,000 US definitely couldn't live on it because it would pay a few bills. I'm just talking about for an entire year. But it was something, right? It was certainly worth it as far as an extra few thousand dollars a year. And it certainly made the difference, especially that first year, the pandemic year, where, you know, I would have struggled a little bit getting by had it not been for Odyssey. But obviously crypto prices have started to crash, right? And especially here in the last six months, crypto is practically worthless, right? Bitcoin and ether and all of this stuff is just not worth anything. And of course, library credits. Last time I checked what an LBC was worth. It was like worth, I don't know, a penny. I haven't checked it recently. Y'all got LBC was worth one cent. Where back in the heyday when the crypto prices were sky high, I remember library credits at one time were worth nearly 40 cents a credit, right? So a major difference. And that's part of probably why a lot of creators have just forgot about Odyssey because it's no longer worth their time, right? Because I can't get paid anything. I'm going to get all of these LBC credits, but they're practically worthless now, right? It would take a bajillion of them for me to even make enough to where, you know, I could like pay my car note or something. And I think that's unfortunate because markets go up and down. The crypto prices will eventually return. Of course, when they return, a lot of these creators that kind of swore off Odyssey, they'll return to. And I think that's unfortunate. I think you got to take these things with the punches. You just got to roll with the punches, right? And, you know, I'm not worried about the price of LBC on Odyssey. And many people, you should probably monetize your content in multiple ways. That's why I tell people about Patreon and PayPal and things like that. If you want to actually donate real money to me, right? US dollars, you know, I'd appreciate that as well. I think another reason why a lot of creators have kind of shied away from Odyssey here recently is because a few months back, the SEC, which is the Security and Exchange Commission here in the US actually sued Library, the Library Company behind the Library Protocol. It's not Odyssey, Odyssey is a different thing, but they sued Library, the Library team. And they sued them for selling unregistered digital asset currencies. So, you know, selling money, right? The money that you didn't register with the SEC first, which is illegal. And the Library Corporation, they're fighting the lawsuit. It'll eventually go to court. It may get settled at some point. I don't know. Are they going to actually win? Probably not. The SEC is a very powerful government organization. Typically, when they go after somebody, they always win. And of course, that has a lot of people concerned. It doesn't have me concerned because I don't think libraries going away, no matter what happens with that lawsuit. And Odyssey.com is not library. Odyssey, again, is a front-end to the Library Protocol. The website, Odyssey.com, has absolutely nothing to do with that lawsuit. So really, I just wanted to remind people that Odyssey.com is a great platform. And I still think it is by far the best alternative to YouTube out there. I'm not saying it's as good as YouTube, feature-rich as YouTube, but there's not really any good YouTube alternatives out there. There's a whole bunch of alternative video platforms. Most of them are straight garbage. Odyssey.com is the exception. And if you enjoy watching my videos on YouTube, keep watching them on YouTube. If you're looking for a different platform to consume my content, check out Odyssey.com. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this episode. Dustin Gabe James Matt, Maxim Mimit, Michael Mitchell, Paul West. Why are you ballin' homey? Ellen Armor Dragon, Chuck Commander, Rainier Redi, Yo-Kai Dillon, Greg Marsh from Erion, Alexander Paul, Peace, Archon, Fedora, Polytech, Realitech, Realitech, Forlustrade, Private Steven, Touls Devler, and Willie. These guys. They're my highest-tiered patrons over on Patreon. Without these guys, this episode would not have been possible. The show's also brought to you by each and everyone of these fine ladies and gentlemen. All these names you're seeing on the screen. These are all my supporters over on Patreon because I don't have any corporate sponsors and LBC credits are practically worthless right now if you want to support my work. You want to see more videos about Linux and Freed Open Source software, subscribe to DistroTube over on Patreon. Peace, guys. And yes, they have funny cat videos on Odyssey.


It's been very interesting to see what has happened with Sonny Gray Bob when Brian Cashman had his end of the season press conference and Came right out and bluntly said it didn't work out for Sonny in New York We're gonna try and find another home for him I never took that to mean that he was just trying to give this guy away And now we have seen that there's been a lot of interest in Sonny Gray And that's why I think Sonny Gray is still a Yankee because the Yankees are telling teams listen We're not just gonna give him away. Yes, his numbers at Yankee Stadium were brutal But if you look at his numbers on the road, he actually pitched to an under three eRA So I think there are teams that are saying well We can we can swoop in and grab this guy and we can reclaim him And he'll be the guy that once finished third in the Cy Young Award for the A's I think the Yankees are saying wait a second. We need something back of value for this guy That's why I think he's still here I think there's such a market for Sonny Gray that Brian Cashman can kind of sit back and make a decision Does he want to trade him for prospects if he doesn't have a need at the Major League level Or does he have a need at the Major League level and say I'm gonna wait for Sonny Gray to get me that need And that's the type of market that's out there for this guy Which I guess shouldn't surprise me, but it does a little bit because of his failures in New York