So, you may hear some common themes across certain talks here. We all hear the same pain and feel the same pain. So my perspective on this comes from running a clinical lab for the last about 10 years. When we do genetic testing for various diseases, rare and somatic cancer, various things, and most of our testing is in Sanger sequencing and now in next-gen sequencing. So we discover lots of novel variants through that testing and so we have a fairly robust process to evaluate variants that we have to write into clinical reports. Before we got into full swing of next-gen sequencing, we were doing about 300 novel variant assessments a month and to date have curated 25,000 variants that have been put into clinical reports. So we do a lot of this and I have to hire a lot of staff to do it. In fact, if you come within a three-foot radius of my lab, you sort of get sucked into the vortex of novel variant assessment in my lab and all the rotating residents and fellows and everybody does this. And we even time, you know, how long it takes them to evaluate a variant because we have to staff for this in a very robust way and hit our turnaround times for clinical testing. So we time them and it takes about 22 minutes to evaluate a variant that's never been reported or seen before and it's just a matter of searching every database we do and doing a silico assessment and then if there's population data, it takes 25 and if there's publications on the variant, it takes on average two hours depending obviously on how many papers. And that's the first line process that the mainly our PhD molecular fellows go through. And then our genetic counselors draft a report with the variant information in it and put it into a clinical context for the patient. Our geneticists review the data, sign out the case and for somatic cancer pathologists add annotations as well. So that's our process and so every variant that goes through the clinical process, you know, first gets annotated with respect to all the data that we can find on that variant. We then bring in patient clinical information, custom knowledge that we house in terms of our own experience with the genes. And then we classify every single variant we report into one of five categories and clinical labs are sort of settling on these five categories with some sort of similar terminologies and writing those into clinical reports. We then often try and get family members back in for segregation analyses to bring back to the variant classification process because a lot of these are VUSs or they're likely this or likely that but not definitive. And so we try and solidify that with linkage analysis on an ongoing basis. So that's our process and we use a lot of tools to do that. We have developed, you know, just a lot of over the last five years been iterating on a tool to try and just capture all of that knowledge that we bring in, you know, use it in the context of the variant spectrum we already know about each gene. So we always have that automated, automatically drafted from our system in terms of what we've seen to date and seeing the technical data. We keep track of data on every gene so we know what spectrum of mutations have been seen in that gene. There are certain genes where loss of function mutations are a known mechanism of disease like in MIBPC3 and LAMP2, almost entirely loss of function. But then most of the other sarcomere genes for this case, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, don't cause disease. And when we find them, we actually don't say they're pathogenic because this particular disease, the variants are gain of function dominant negative. And so you can't just say that because it's loss of function it's causing disease. So maintaining gene level specific knowledge is obviously very important and you develop that over time. For some genes you can develop domain specific knowledge where, you know, pathogenic variants are in very specific domains and that can help guide interpretation but you have to maintain that in some data source to know that and retain that knowledge on a gene specific level. We have a huge grid and you can only see the very top corner of this grid but, you know, hundreds of genes, thousands now go down one side and hundreds of databases go across the top and every gene has a different set of databases that we have to search and the fellows track that they've searched each of those sources for every variant that they find and there's a hyperlink to each database and so we check thousands of databases every day and then we don't trust any of those sources of data but we collect the raw data, the numbers of cases and controls and we fill out tables of probands and controls of cases and segregation and Donovo occurrence and presence with other variants for recessive or differently interpreted for dominant and track all this data to compare case and control. We do all the in silico analysis, albeit often not that useful. Homology is probably in my mind one of the more useful things and capturing that visually which is important and in silico assessment of splicing and the story goes on and now that we've gotten into whole genome and exome sequencing and we're finding genes we've never even heard of, we have to do a novel gene assessment and where is it expressed, what pathways it exists in, what's known about the disease associations, model organisms found and any other literature on that gene that puts it into some biological and clinical context for us as we evaluate potential variant. And then, you know, at the end for each variant, we actually write up a descriptive evidence-based summary of that data. In this case, our fellows first pick a category and then write their evidence of that and then the geneticist comes in, says why they disagree and rewrites it but that enhances the learning process so they do it better the second time and then there's a hyperlink, we send the feedback to the fellow and they do it better the next time and it's actually a very robust learning process and ongoing process in the lab. And then these variant interpretations, one of the residents was so enamored with the amount of data he had to take a picture of his desk with four different computer screens to track all this data, you know, it's just, that's what we do all day every day. Despite the fact, you know, and you have to do it well each time because, you know, and here's data from testing 3,000 cases for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy where two-thirds of the variants we see, we only ever see once. And so you can't just wait around for data to be published and someone to figure this out. This is often your only shot, we have to figure it out, we have to recommend the right segregation or other analyses to figure these things out. For here, in loss, which is a recessive disease, of course worse, 81% of the variants that we see are unique to date. So, you know, this is just the day in the life of the clinical lab to try and put these into some context, even though most variants, as we all probably recognize, don't have enough data to be definitive about it. You know, one of the single most common variants for hearing loss in children, M34T, is in the human gene mutation database erroneously as a dominant variant because the first publication was wrong. And now there's been subsequently over 500 publications on this variant. It's still wrong, you know, and that issue has been pointed out. So, you know, this is a challenge, the literature doesn't change, we've just heard that conversation, and we need to figure out ways to really update it. And, you know, this is now going through genomes, and every time we all run these genomes through and align it against the HDMD, our first case was 42 pathogenic variants. Of course, when we evaluated them through our clinical lab process, none met criteria. And that's, you know, that's the standard thing we're doing now. In most cases, most of those variants don't meet the criteria for pathogenicity. This is going to be a common theme that we all see. So we really need to all, as a community and a group here, come up with what those standards are. And I think it's not always, and I think Mark actually sort of pointed this out, sometimes the paper doesn't necessarily specifically say it's pathogenic, but there's this implication when you list it in your table of, here are the variants I found in these disease patients, and then HDMD enters them as pathogenic, you know, because that's what the paper said. And it's not that the author really said that, but there's this implication, and I think it's incumbent upon us all to very specifically state and list our interpretations individually to say these are variants of unknown significance without just sticking them in a table and saying, well, I'll let somebody else make that judgment. Because that's, I think that's been one of the problems in our field, is that we haven't taken a stance on a variant and really individually evaluated and written our thoughts about that variant.  Some of you may have seen the news on Monday from the, you know, breast cancer patients who are either not having prophylactic mastectomies when they should because of errors or having them when they shouldn't, you know. So this is happening in real time. This is the very common story in my lab where we have, you know, domely inherited cardiomyopathy, we test a pro-band, we find a variant, and then they're using that information to make decisions on who's going to get monitored in the family and who's going to get an intracardiac device. You know, this family right here, this child died at age seven due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. They put a device in this child because they tested positive for a variant. Of course, that's assuming that we knew what that variant meant. And then this side of the family is not being monitored because they're negative. And so we have to get it right or people are dying because of the decisions that we're making. And, you know, here's a variant in a very well-respected locus-specific database, L26 valine. This is published in four different papers as pathogenic. It's been seen in 10 pro-bands, absent from an 832 race-match control chromosome. So most of us would say, well, it's not enough evidence, but it's pretty reasonable evidence in a clinical setting. Most physicians would actually, you know, assume this is pathogenic. But then, you know, over the last few years, we've accumulated a lot more data. And this long, text-y thing is not meant to make you read this right here, but it's really meant to illustrate the point that there's actually not a single item of data in this long story that on its own is sufficient to say something definitive. But if you really were to go through reading all these arguments, we make an argument that each about ten different reasons and we actually think this is wrong, and that this variant is actually likely benign. But, you know, through a structured set of data that might get dumped someplace, you'd never actually come to this conclusion independently with any of these pieces of evidence. And my argument here is we really need to document, unless I've talked about this, document your logic and why you came to a conclusion so that the next person who comes along who has to evaluate the same amount of body of evidence and say, yeah, I agree with that argument, or no, I don't agree with that particular argument, or now I have some additional data that was never mentioned in the story and now I can add or refute the story from it. But if you don't see somebody's argument, it's never really put into a paper as to why you made a conclusion. It's really hard for the next researcher or person to come along and add their own flavor to that. So we document all this in text as much as it's not computer-friendly, but those are helpful stories to really document why we think what we think. And I've been tracking how often we change categories over the years. So for a five-year period, I looked back at our HCM data and we had made 300 category changes based on new evidence evolving on different variants. Over half of those we would consider changing clinical care management based on those changes. So this stuff is changing all of the time, more evidence to either support or in many cases refute what was published before. And we need ways to get that data out there because it's often not sufficient to get a publication from that. We have developed a clinical system to deliver that information to physicians and that works quite effectively. As soon as I make a change in my database, it's perpetuated electronically to the physician. They get an email, et cetera. But that's only happening within my closed clinical environment. It's not yet getting out into the public domain and we need a place to put this data in the public so researchers and anyone can get access to it. In this case, the physician can go in and see the text-based description of what that evidence was and they get an email alert alerting them that they have a patient with that variant change. So we get that, no problem. Now, as I said, these store each change and the main argument, one of many arguments I was making for why this variant is likely benign isn't in 1.5% of the Chinese population. But as we all know, the control samples in the population studies do have disease and we just can't document it. This is a variant we reported as benign for many years. It's in 4% to 8% of South Asians. But when a case control study was done, there was an odds ratio of seven showing that this conferred risk for heart failure and in a homozygous state, it's actually quite severe. And then we got a case with this variant. We then changed it. We amended all the reports across many patients to say that this was a pathogenic, albeit mild variant. And then we had this case where a proban was homozygous, very similar to what was then published later. We assumed that this disease and this child who died of cardiomyopathy had it due to this variant. Parents were unaffected, but they were heterozygotes and it's mildly, you know, penetrant in adults. They did prenatal testing. That was negative, not even a carrier. And they gave birth to a severely affected patient child with cardiomyopathy. So clearly that wasn't the only variant and certainly wasn't the primary one. And we still don't know the story that's going on here. You know, I hope to figure this out at some point. And I'll stop there. You know, it's just the sort of some clinical anecdotes in terms of how we do this stuff. Thank you very much. So comments, questions for Heidi? Is it possible to imagine in any clinical setting doing some biology on variants you haven't seen before? Because, I mean, things like predicting splicing potential, you know, that's well known to be a pretty poor guide to what happens when you actually put the mutation into a cell and ask what it does. And so in areas where you're going to keep seeing variants you haven't seen before, obviously that's a really important source of information. Can you imagine that being part of the clinical program? Yeah, I mean, it's a great question. And at some point there was actually a company that had developed a service to assess splice variants. Or maybe they contacted me about would you use this if we had this as a service? And I said, yeah, I actually probably would. You know, we tried to do this on a few variants through a collaboration with, you know, our research colleagues. And I actually did it on one particular family where we had a variant that I was highly suspicious of and managed to get, you know, you can't do it on the sample. You've got to get a new sample because you've made DNA out of your sample into RNA. So, you know, we tried to do that once and we actually succeeded, but it was an incredible amount of work and just not something that was easy to put into a clinical workflow. So I think you really need, you know, a close collaborating research lab that can kind of do that stuff. I wanted to make a quick statistical argument because frequently reading papers about known disease genes, you see that this variant has not been observed in 500, 600, 700,000 controls. And I think the mindset is very different from research project. If you have a very good candidate gene, you have a single individual absent in several thousand controls. That's one story. But in these genes like BRC1, BRC2, possibly cardiomyopathy genes, number of sequenced cases vastly exceeds number of controls available in databases. So for BRC1, BRC2, I believe maybe 60,000 to 70,000 people have been sequenced. So it is very likely that neutral variation would be seen in large amounts never observed in controlled databases. So this argument is not valid in the clinical setting even though it's maybe somewhat supportive in the research setting. And I think that's why we have to do segregation studies when we see these variants because that's our only shot really in many cases of getting anything useful. But even when you see segregation, that could just be an LD with another variant. So you have to be careful. It's not, you know, 100% proof. And also some of these variants that are in these databases, they did come from large families, but they weren't the actual causal variant. They were obviously an LD with a causal variant. Yeah, that's absolutely true. Although in that individual family, whether it's the real variant or not, you often can at least use it as a marker, right, if you believe the phenotype and the locus. But you're right, you don't, you can't really say that that variant is the causal one. No, I think it's going to amplify, I assume you'll make a great point and I think the only way we get past that is, you know, in single families, they're never going to be large enough where this, or they're often not going to be large enough where the segregation is going to be conclusive, as Suzanne points out.  I'm struck by something that both Mark said and Suzanne just said and I think if I remember correctly, Mark, you said we can't make mistakes when you're talking about these problems and Suzanne, you just said it's not 100% proof and I just want to sort of, I think we need to do a little bit of a reality test here with respect to especially the, what Heidi's talking about is if we are anywhere thinking that that's the standard that needs to be operative for clinical decision making, we need to shut down most to all of clinical medicine that's being practiced today. Right, because almost all of the evidence that we work with clinically is less than 100% solid and clinicians use imperfect data every day to make decisions and we don't want to block their access to data just because it's imperfect or it might lead to a mistake. So I'm not talking about saying we're going to just lower the standards because everything's okay. I'm totally in agreement with your presentation but we do have to remember that good data are better than weak data. Weak data are better than no data so long as the person using the data understands the limitations of the data and can put it into context that they do know about the patient and have access to the full picture that Heidi was just talking about. So the last point you made is a very important one what you do know about the patient and I think there's very different standards that need to be... I mean, first of all, I expect you didn't actually take my statement, some linguistic license with my statement saying we can't make mistakes, we can't afford to make mistakes as suggesting we should shut down all clinical activities until that point in time where we will absolutely make no mistakes. That would be a particularly foolish statement. I think there is a very different standard in two instances which are of clinical relevance and I think one of them we feel like in the last case it's much more problematic about drawing inferences which is in making decisions for children or reproductive decisions in the case of evidence where we do not have any clinical presentation whatsoever and it's a very, very different situation I think in the interpretation of patients who do present with significant, you know, aberrant phenotypes in how we interpret that data and I think it's right that we interpret those very differently and I think we probably need to have different standards for those without question. So last comment. Well, I agree with Les' comment. I think the genetic data is the public gets the idea that has the idea rightly or wrongly that genetic data is more precise than other clinical data and I think that I would underscore the person who transmits the information understands the reliability of the information that they are transmitting and there are not very many people out there who understand that and lastly having gone through this with a family that you might have judged were fairly unsophisticated last week after I spent an hour talking to the family and explaining the uncertainties, the father said to me, Doc, can't you do better than this? Indeed. Last, last short comment. Just a comment on Les' so while I agree with the sentiment I actually think the real problem is that in genetics there's a lot of claims out there that don't even distinguish the variant from a randomly selected variant and that's what we need to worry about. You can see that really clearly if you just take the totality of the schizophrenia associations which Mark took one before the GWAS era and then you take all of those and put them into the GWAS studies I think they all evaporated. So that entire body of literature didn't distinguish those variants from random selected ones. I think it would be fair to say if we translate Mark's linguistic license and say we cannot afford to have that kind of nonsense in the literature that's a fair statement.


From the vault out of the vault. All right. So tough secret. I'm just gonna a long weekend. Yeah I'm just gonna go through these pretty fast The video speaks for themselves first one is the UV stemma and then we're gonna Show a couple other things including upcoming cobbler accessory for the pie 400 then some Yeah, then some samples of some LED stuff and then we'll do coral and then we'll end with this coral thing For you this USB like dongle thing. Yeah, here we go. All right, lady. What is this? This is a sensor that I've been meaning to do for a bit. It's the LTR 390 UV sensor and I squared C UV sensor is highly desirable, but they keep getting discontinued This is the only one I've been able to find and I got some samples So put together a stem and QT board hooked up to my Metro mini and we've got this cool like UV Like safety like what's it called sanitizer sanitizer? Thank you I can do a try if they can't do words and then I'm gonna put this under here So there you go. That's now sensing and then on my computer. You can see the data is Really high because it's sensing UV data. The sensor could also do Ambient light, but what I really like is a stability to your box music go go down to zero put it back in the box Goes back up to a thousand. All right, you be sensing Hi, lady. What is this? Hey, it's a stem a Sunday. I'm putting together an HTU 31 D Stem a QT breakout. I just got these from Digikey some samples and It's kind of a standard package. So I actually got this on to an existing stem a QT design And just like just to get it up and running It does have a couple extra different pins that like a reset pin that isn't used here So I'm going to have to redesign this break out a little bit But just to get it up and running and have an Arduino library, which is what I did. So this is the TE H2 21 D so that can upgrade of the very popular HTU 21 D and You see here you can pick them up. They're about two bucks a piece from Digikey And if you'd like to check out our library, it's on github under Adafruit H2 31 D It's a nice little humidity temperature sensor over I squared C The cobbler 400 plays animated gifts at the Raspberry Pi 400. Yeah, I'm just testing out my little hat extender This is the cobbler 400 which lets you plug in any of our hats very easily into the pi 400 I just tested out the bonnet version of this. It's just kind of cute. It's a little Slim extendo thingy and that worked and so now I was like, well, let's try a high-speed gift playback You know, this is a lot of data moving really quickly So it's a good test to make sure that power and signals all coming through and then you sent me some fun gifts So this is Blinka. These are from the the pi portal. I'm a gift player and then you know cat gifts Classic people love cat gives He's a pretty cat Thank you data Hey, I'm working on our first accessory for the Raspberry Pi 400 This is called the cobbler 400 and it's a little thing that lets you use all of our bonnets Or if you want we also have a hat version and this is a hat for example We're gonna test out and it plugs into the back of the Raspberry Pi 400 and then just kind of like it brings It all up so you can plug in like your favorite bonnets and they just work So this is actually a circuit Python demo showing like your IP address It's just really handy honestly because I like to use the stuff headless and then here's how it plugs in and Since you know a lot of the PCB fabs are closed this week. I just had this milled on our other mill But so far it's working really great. I'm gonna try the hat next and maybe play some animated gifts Lots of lines Hey, I'm trying out some samples. It's a sample Saturday. These are chip on board LED strips So they're 12 volt LED strips with 320 LEDs per meter. You can see there They're all bonded onto this flexible strip. So they kind of look like a single pure LED strip and we put white LED versions of this with 480 or I think LEDs per meter. This is 320, but it comes in like green And it comes in like red and I got pink and blue and yellow So I'm gonna ask if they have the higher density version because I do like the higher density because the LEDs are less visible But from like a couple feet away. It looks pretty good Hey, I got some of these cool coral TPU chips like a Machining accelerator and a little like package. So I made a breakout and I thought I would use my hot air gun To maybe make a couple samples here The first thing you got to do is stencil paste onto the boards of a board underneath here And it's lined up perfectly and then you have to use your IEEE card. It's a requirement to Spread the paste on Let's see how it came out Nice, not too bad So I might do like two or three of these and then hot air them and then I'm gonna just try plugging them into my computer They should show up as a USB device And all of that leads to This yeah, well, I'm still playing around with this this chip.  This could be really great because What the pie for because both are You know, you can connect hardware and displays and cameras, but it doesn't have an AI Core processors this would be like a USB connected core processor and I like the idea of having it on a USB stick that you just like plug Into your pi 400 or your pi zero and like now it's you know It can do machine learning as fast as you know in an optimized NVIDIA device So we'll see I'm gonna send out these prototypes and the power supply is the kind of the tricky part here The chip itself is very simple. It's like again only like 10 pins are connected But the power supply can draw three amps That's a lot for for a little thing that connects to USB So hopefully the power supply can be nice stable do some measurements That's not a secret. Okay going back in the vault All right


brutal for you. And if you've heard this one before, don't give it away in the chat. If you figure it out, don't say it just yet. Here it is. Three doctors said Pete is their brother. Pete said he has no brothers. Who's lying? Just a few more seconds to think about it. And then we'll come back to the answers later. I want to tell you more about myself. I live in Sterling Heights. When I'm not in Michigan, it's easier to say I'm from Detroit. I previously went to a predominantly white institution in a small town in Indiana of just 5,000 students surrounded by a white community. That was culture shock for me. Sterling Heights is closer to the city. There are more people who look like me and my high school had a larger population of minority students than my undergrad college did. I soon realized my peers weren't experiencing culture shock in the same way as me. Many of them were from the surrounding area or similar environments. In the same way I was experiencing this new community, my classmates were experiencing what it meant to have a black classmate and some of them for the very first time. Maybe you can imagine my peers reaction when I introduced myself as Kirsten from Detroit. I'm going to assume that most of you are from Detroit, from a short drive away from Detroit. And so as a Michigander, you're more familiar with the city than people who live in Indiana. So you know that Detroit is more than just the national headlines or the corrupt, dangerous place it's often portrayed to be in movies. But my classmates did not. I was spending a lot of time with my new friends and they were getting to know my passions, my hobbies, my interests. And when I eventually told them I was from Detroit, for a split second, their face would show me the conflict and confusion happening in their head. Like the Kirsten they were getting to know had disappeared right in that moment. A few of my peers would say things like, you don't seem like you're from Detroit, you don't sound like you're from Detroit, or I wouldn't have guessed that. I was telling my mom about these conversations and she told me, you know, you're not from there, don't tell them that. Simply because she understood any information I shared about myself was open for judgment. She knew how harshly people judge Detroit, and that some of my relationships may change because of my impromptu statement. For some, before they got to know me or understand a new culture, they decided they didn't need to. I was quickly put into a box left to be unknown and not hurt and hurt even more when I realized I do that too. Let's take a moment and return to our riddle. Have any of you figured it out yet? The answer is no one. The doctors are Pete's sisters. Now maybe you got it right away, or maybe you were like me. This riddle had me stopped. I cannot get past the idea that these doctors were his brothers. This riddle invites you to make a judgment using information you already know about doctors. Unconsciously, I thought doctors are men. I'm sure some of you did too. It's one of the reasons why this riddle works. It took no effort for me to jump to this conclusion. We make judgments and decisions with less information often without even realizing it. This is implicit bias. The current Institute at Ohio State University defines implicit bias as the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner. Now when I first discovered this term, I thought this sounds like a setup.  And scientists would say that means my brain is working correctly. Our brain process is billions of stimuli a day. And that is too much information to analyze one piece at a time to make decisions. And so the answer is, allow the subconscious mind to make quick calls on things all of the time. So it doesn't take too long to do that.  It uses information from music, TV, experiences, and even stereotypes to create what I'm going to call a box. When it's needed, information is retrieved from that box and decisions are able to be made in a matter of seconds. I imagine if this process was illustrated, it would look like this. This is me. And a list of things you know about me. Let's say this is your brain, in it are boxes that help you understand my identity and characteristics. What do you know about women? What do you know about people who live in Sterling Heights? What about people who wear glasses? When enough of us have boxes that look like this, we understand why 40% of people with perfect vision consider wearing glasses to an interview. Those who wear glasses are perceived as more professional and honest than those who don't. And employers implicit bias may benefit me and the situation. But what if our boxes looked more like this? These are common stereotypes of black women. They're harmful. Where you're not a part of this community, you use what's available to understand.  You subconsciously accept them and allow them to fuel your attitudes, understandings, actions and decisions. Such opinions encourage you to limit your interaction with those outside of your own communities. And all of this happens without an intentional thought. If we don't become aware of the implicit bias in our lives, we risk perpetrating toxic opinions about people and ignoring the impact bias has in our country. Implicit bias is in every area of our lives, including our technology. In 2019, hotel guests discovered a discriminatory soap dispenser that would not recognize dark skin. In 2017, a woman working in China realized that her colleague could unlock her iPhone using the face recognition feature. And in 2015, Google photos mistook a photo of two African American friends as gorillas. Now how can this happen? Trissy Panche says there will probably always be some amount of bias because the inequities that underpin bias are in society already and influence who gets the chance to build algorithms and for what purpose. In other words, we can trace the problem through our technology to their human developers. We can trace any product or outcome to the people who created it. And along that line, we can find bias being transferred from one source to the next. We can't blame our technology. This is a human issue and it requires a human solution. How can we ensure that our bias isn't impacting the people in our lives? Well, it's everywhere. It's in our education, our policy, our health care, implicit bias is built into every thread of America. And it makes it difficult for some people to be successful and live comfortably here. We can stop we can start to stop this by recognizing that we all live with implicit bias. And you shouldn't feel horrible.  But that doesn't mean it can't be corrected.  Be intentional and reflecting on your own thoughts. When you catch bias in your thoughts, admit it and proceed with an appropriate statement. When you catch yourself vocalizing those thoughts, correct yourself out loud. It would take just a few seconds to tell someone, actually, I shouldn't have said that. Or I have no reason to believe that. So that your bias impressions don't end up in someone else's box. Realize when you're counting on bias to draw conclusions. Let people show you who they are instead of deciding for them. In one day, when you empty a box of bias, I encourage you to live a life with an open mind led by generous assumptions, until you fill it with your own experiences shared with people who identify with that box. Each of us can take responsibility in cultivating a country we can be proud of. This process may not be life changing for people who wear glasses, but for a black woman who was in a white town, told what she couldn't be because she didn't fit into a box, it can be life changing. One box at a time, we can begin to rid America of its bias structures and attitudes. I challenge you to do the work. Thank you.


You have to prepare food in a way that you love to eat it. Now, rice can be a part of any diet. And the way that I've done it, you know, as a type 2 diabetic, I have to follow a low carb diet five days a week. Now, on the weekends, I have figured out that I can have my potatoes, I can have my brownies, I can have my rice, and I can eat those foods, and I indulge myself, and I don't miss it when I go back to a delicious set of meals on the weekdays.


A good day again, viewers, and welcome to the program, Agriculture on the Move. My name, Philip Sidney, your host for the next half an hour. Today, we have a very interesting conversation. We are talking about feral pigs. That is wild pigs in the wild. So I'm going to go show my own. And of course, it's a very good. Wild is a good delicacy for consumption, but it's causing some serious damage to the farming community. And of course, to discuss this further, is Mr. Aloysius Charles, who is the forest officer responsible for a program that looking at the control of the feral pigs. Welcome to the program, sir. Thank you, sir. OK, tell us about the problems that the feral pigs cause in the wild. OK, so first in 2018, that's when the problem first started. We really started getting lots of reports about this problem with feral pigs. So we had reports from lots of farmers, and even some of our experienced forestry officers would go out in the forest, would have reports about a lot of wild wing, which is what you typically call labui. Yes, so it find quite a lot of evidence of such. And we had lots of reports from farmers stating that they had been actually losing some of the crops. So that led us back in 2018 to start out the investigation as to the issues associated with the presence of feral pigs. And we also wanted to find out whether we had to get evidence that this was what was actually happening, was actually being done by feral pigs. OK. So where do you find that problem more focused on? What areas? So the areas where feral pigs were most prevalent, what we found was in the central forest reserve between the areas of Mellet, Dennery, and Soufres. So these were the three areas that were most affected by the feral pigs according to the information that we picked up. Yeah, and in fact, I know January for sure because the Minister of Agriculture, Alfred Prosfe, had a meeting, a farmer's meeting, some things last year in Dennery. And coming from that meeting, what was highlighted was farmers were complaining that feral pigs were interfering a lot with their crops and causing some serious economic damage to their crops and livelihoods. I know some years ago, maybe before your time involved, they had given some of the older farmers fire arms to actually control. That helped well. But of course, a lot of those farmers have passed on. So you have a new breed of farmers now.  Yes, well, feral pigs can be pretty much aggressive. But when it comes to handing out of fire arms, that is beyond the Department of Forestry. So what we are concerned with is to actually use some of the latest technological advancements to be able to help so that there be more detectability. And we are working alongside the police, but we are not the ones responsible for issuing fire arms. So in this project, we are going to have the police as one of the stakeholders where they are going to accompany us in dispatching some of the wild pigs that are detected under this project. So you are still having farmers coming to us as we speak with having a serious problem with wild pigs? Yes. Well, from back in 2018, we actually did a survey, island-wide survey, where we actually interviewed more than 100 farmers. And out of that, about 25% of these farmers actually reported that they had so much damage from feral pigs that at one point they had to totally abandon the farms. Leave the farms? Yes. Wow. And there's another problem I was told that is caused is the excrete and water intakes a lot. And they tend to, especially in the dry season, wallow at those points. Have you all been given that type of information? Well, yes. We have heard reports about this, but under this project as well, we are hoping to ascertain some of these claims because water quality testing is one of the activities that we are going to undertake under the project. So we are going to be collecting samples because we have at least 16 major rivers that actually start out from the Central Forest Reserve. And that is within the same study area. So there is the potential that these feral pigs might be polluting these water sources. They desiccate. Yes. When they defecate in the water, it might cause pollution of these water sources. So we are hoping to investigate that question and try to get a concrete answer to that question under the project after we have done all of the water quality testing. OK. So let's go back to the project. So the project started off when? As of February 1st, 2023. Tell us about the project. What are the objectives of the project? All right. So the name of the project is feral pig management for nature conservation and sustaining rural livelihoods. So under this, we have these two main objectives. So we actually want to start off a hunting scheme along with some other hunters. Where these hunters, they are going to be licensed so they can operate within the Forest Reserve hunting the feral pigs. So that would help in decreasing the numbers of the feral pigs. And the other component is for nature conservation. So we are hoping that this as well would lessen the impact on the forest as well. So do they, apart from doing damage economically to the farmers, are they damaging the forest trees, et cetera? Yes, they do cause damage as well. Because in all of the previous studies in other countries as well, we know that they do have the ability to change the forest composition by sometimes feeding too much on one particular species and probably causing even the extinction in some cases of these species. So how do they damage those three species? Well, they cause damage sometimes by overfeeding on the seeds or the young plants of a particular species. So that would not leave much space for natural regeneration for future trees to grow. And what about the actual damage to the tree bark and the trunks and stuff? Do they do that too, no? Yes, they do cause damage to the tree barks as well, and tree trunks and tree barks and quite a bit of wallowing as well. So that would destroy quite a few seeds from some of the more endangered plant species as well. And even the introduction of all the species that will never be like invasive species. Oh, OK. What's the intention? The intention is to eradicate them completely or to have some measure of control, at least to know, OK, in terms of conservation and to add to the wildlife. Is there a combination of the two, or is it complete eradication? Well, we know from studies from other countries all over the world that eradication is very difficult. But we aim in at control and maybe hopefully, depending on the success of the program, maybe eventually eradication. But for now, we are more concerned with control of the population. The control of it? Yes. So further studies as we go along and we pick up more data, it might equip us better to be able to deal with the situation at hand and maybe eventually we might get to eradication. But as of now, we're looking at control. OK. So OK, then to get data from the field, what measures are in place to do that? So, presently, we are going to be using some collars to be able to track these pigs around. So we'd be able to know where they spend the time, where they are till we get the exact locations and we're able to track them around. And we also hoping to use some real-time cameras as well. So we are able to estimate the size of the groups and the eventual population of the wild pigs. How are you going to get the collar on those pigs? We are going to, we're working along with the vet unit as well, so we are hoping to tranquilize a few of the adults, especially the adult females, allow them to be able to join back with the groups and be able to follow them around and to be able to dispatch members of the group as we encounter them. OK, so if one of the pigs is able to put a collar around it, can you identify that pig by going there and having a tracker on it, having some sort of system that will pinpoint exactly where that pig is? Yes, well, the telemetric collar is actually outfitted with a device that you're able to use a GPS and go to the location. OK, OK, OK.  I mean, everything? Well, yes. That's totally eradication. Well, like I said, we are hoping for control because eradication, like I said, it's very, very difficult to achieve because lessons learned from all of the other projects that have taken place worldwide, we know that eradication is next to impossible because these feral pigs, they are pretty smart. Sometimes when you start to track them, then they change the ways. So that's why we're hoping to use more than one method to actually take out these feral pigs. So how many comrades are you going to be installing in the forest? We are going to start off with 10 cameras. OK. And then the comrades should be able to tell, well, you're getting images back to base. Yes, it's a real-time camera, so it has the potential to act as a motion sensor so it can actually determine whenever there's motion in the area, it can take the footage, sends the photos directly back to us, and then we can tell based on the location of this camera, we can tell in what area these pigs are and what numbers are in the groups of the feral pigs. OK, so how long is it going to take you now to get all that information? Can't believe that sort of that information. And then what action is taken next? All right, so based on the location of these pigs, then we have most of the hunters, we have them from different ranges in some of these affected communities as well, the communities that have been affected because one of the things that the farmers were doing with a little success was that they were contacting the hunters within the areas and then they would go out in the forest and then try to hunt down some of these wild pigs and that's how they were able to chase some of them away because when they come under pressure, they move to other locations. So we're hoping to use some of that success and plus put it together with the new technology that we have, so we should be able to pinpoint these pigs a lot easier and therefore we should be able to have a lot more control of the situation. OK, so when they are shot in the interior, how do you get the cacos back to base because of the terrain that you're dealing with and depending on the size of the pig, so you're going to actually get them cleaned up and cut into various parts and take them back down to the base? Yes. So you're not carrying the whole pig back, no?  So because of course the hunters are going, this is one of the components of the livelihoods component, so the hunters are going to be using this meat and it's going to be certified by environmental health and these hunters will be able to sell them back and to make some money. OK, so it's more or less a form of likelihood for the hunters themselves? Yes, it is.  Well, Ministry of Agriculture, we have the police as well. All right, and the hunters? Yes, the hunters. OK, all right. So after you've collected that data, then you'll move in to various areas knowing where they are, so now it is slaughter time? Yes. Those pigs basically, they were domesticated and they just escaped to the wild, right? And that's why it is? Yes, over time. Over time? Yes. OK, and because of the environment, they're able to change the whole body structure and the whole thing that's changed. Well, pigs are able to adapt very easily to any environment that they introduce to. And they multiply very quickly too, right? Very quickly. Because I think based on my zoology and my animal husband's three days, it takes three months, three weeks, three days for a gestation period. So once they get service, then in three months, three days, you have a young one. Yes. And they multiply a lot very, very, very quickly, OK? So you can have multiple liters just within one year? Yes, within a year. Coming from so many various sows, yes. All right, OK, well, we'll do for our food break. You're watching Agriculture on the Move. Stay tuned, we'll be back very soon. The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development continues placing heavy emphasis on the concept of food security. It's our prosperity, our future. Livestock production is a support program offered by the ministry. It guarantees 28.65% and 40% market share for poultry and swine production, respectively. There is ongoing disease surveillance and treatment, improved bloodline support, laboratory support, training, and technical support. You can learn more on livestock production, contact the chief veterinary officer at 468-5620 for further. Welcome back to the program, Agriculture on the Move, of course, I am Philip Sidney. And with me from the Forestry Department, Mr. Loisius Charles, who is a forest officer. And we were just talking about the feral pigs and the sort of damage they do to the farmers' crops and affect their livelihoods. And the aim here is to destroy the whole completely, eradication, OK? Mr. Charles, are there, apart from the being, I call them vegetarians, because they eat a lot of berries and seeds and, of course, the dashing and the young farmers, are they threatened by any other wild animals in the wild, no? No, well, feral pigs wouldn't belong to this environment naturally, so they don't have any predators. Within this environment. But you call them vegetarians, and I wouldn't quite call them vegetarians, because we know that they also eat meat items as well. So they would get young animals on the forest floor as well. Like what? They would eat them. Like what? So we might have lizards, young birds, some of them fledglings, because some of the fledglings tend to spend a few days on the forest floor before they can actually find their wings and take off. And if a feral pig would come across one, then we know definitely. And they can get eggs and suffer on the place also. Eggs from all the species as well. OK, OK, OK. So they would tend to consume literally anything that they can come across. So they would be a multi in that way. OK, have you all, I don't know if you know, but will the survey capture, for example, the movement of the animals, see from the forest areas to the farmers' holdings? Is it done just arbitrarily? Or is there some time of the year when they will migrate from the forest, deep forest, and come to the location where farmers are farming? Well, once we've outfitted these pigs with telemetry collars, then these telemetry collars will be able to give us 24 hours of information as to what exactly the pig does, when it does. And like I said, the location. So it can tell us everything about that. Presently, we don't have all of that information available. So we're hoping that this would actually shed some light on the subject area. So by the time that the project is done, we're hoping to have a lot more information as to where about the pig, what time of the year, where exactly they spend their time, and doing what. Have you all had any meetings with the farmers in the race location, uprising them as to the program that you've started implementing? Well, we are in contact with a few of the farmers and hunters. And we're hoping to have our first take-all the meeting very early next month. So then we should have the discussion on that. And we have the discussion on the project outcomes and objectives all the same within our first take-all the meeting. OK, and so you're moving from millets, you're going to January to have meetings with the farmers? Well, we're hoping to have our first meeting at our base location in Union. So we're bringing the farmers to this location and then we'll have the discussion based on what we're expecting from the project. And well, we have met, like I said, we had discussions with farmers all over the island when we had that first survey back in 2018.  So it was hoping to capture information about the feral pigs and how much damage that they were causing to some of the crops. And we found, well, a lot of the root crops, farmers that were planting root crops, like tannia, dashing, sweet potatoes, those were a lot of the those that were being damaged, even yams. So that's where we had a lot of the damage. But it was mainly from farmers that had the farms in close proximity to the forest reserve. OK. But you all, as part of the program, the question of consumption. I know it's a delicacy for a lot of persons now. When you hear about the kosher mawa and the texture of the cacas, we know it has a very thin layer of fat, as opposed to the domestic one. I'm all encouraging people in the communities to actually prepare dishes. And so at least that may encourage the hunters to go out more and hunt. Well, yes, we hope in under the program, once we've gotten the ball rolling, that we hope in that one of the things that we can actually get a bit more of. Hunters. How many hunters you would see, for example, that are in Saint-Russia and they are actually going out there to hunt wild pigs? Is this something that is, I mean, prevalent? It's not as prevalent as it used to be, because we had a lot of the older folks who used to be hunters. And like you said, most of them have had their licensed firearms. And of course, the tradition has kind of fallen over time. But at present, we have at least about 10 hunters that we open to work with under this project. OK. All right. So maybe in time as we go along, maybe we might get other persons who have a bit of interest. And maybe we can get a few more hunters coming in. Great. Have you ever had a problem see, for example, we have tourists who are going through the tracks and to actually go bird watching, to see the beauty of the forest, the flora, and the fauna. You have had any experience where they were attacked by the feral pigs? We haven't had any cases of attacks. But I can tell you for sure that, yes, sometimes being out on these excursions, we have encountered wild pigs in the past. But there was no attack on the part of the wild pigs, so, thankfully. They run away? Yes.  Well, yes, sure. Because these wild pigs, they can get pretty huge. And I mean, they can cause quite a bit of damage if they are to attack. So the best thing is if you encounter wild pigs, the best thing is to run away if you have to. OK, OK. Because it's going to be a difficult fight. If you're not under to take on a wild pig, it's best that you move away.  Or do they need a license to go and hunt the pigs? Well, it has always been, according to law, that it is prohibited to just enter the forest reserve without first seeking permission from the Department of Forestry. So one can just go in the forest and hunt wild pigs? Knowing that, I mean, the problem exists, I mean, at least, because going to get a license, I don't know. You can guide me in that regard. How long does it take you to get a license? It wouldn't take long to get a license, because the Chief Forestry Officer can actually issue a license to someone who wishes to get a license, yes. But like I said, it is strictly prohibited to just enter the forest reserve without first contacting the Department of Forestry.  What will you do? Well, I guess we're from wild pigs. But if it were anything apart from wild pigs, then, yeah, I mean, you could carry some fines. There can be a maximum of $5,000 that you can be charged for an offense. No, I said if it were wild pigs, then, of course, we can look past that, because we're trying to get rid of the wild pigs. Yes, but anything apart from the wild pigs, because all of these other species in there are actually indigenous species. So we wouldn't encourage anybody to kill any of the other indigenous species that are protected by law. OK. What other species of wild animals in the forest that one can go in and shoot and hunt? Well, according to law, the only unprotected species of wildlife here are the furry lands, rats, mice, and the mongos. OK. Unprotected? Unprotected. All other species of wildlife in St. Lucia are protected by law. OK. But you are aware of persons eating the boar and if caught, right? Well, we have heard some reports about that, but as long as we can get any information that points in that direction and we can get any evidence of such, then it would be a chargeable offense. It is OK, OK, OK, OK. Because I know people love the delicacies and they try all sorts of stuff. Apart from hunting, man hunting the wild pig, do you have any, like I said earlier on, can the snake kill the wild pig? It is a possibility, yes.  Well, if we...  So we're looking at a few methods of trying to tackle the feral pig population. So for one, we'd also use some rope traps and there had been some measure of success with that in the past, at one point, that we use rope traps that are actually attached to a tree. And then they would have... We would bit these traps. So you'd put, like, bananas or fruits, mangoes, different things that are edible that they can feed on. And as they actually walk through feeding, then they would be caught by some of these specialty ropes that would be very difficult to miss. But we would definitely have to try more than one method. So we also have pitfall traps that we intend to use as well. What do you call that? Pitfall traps. Oh, yeah. So you would dig in these pits and cover them with leaf litter. Yes. And they follow in the hole. Yes. I mean, I notice, again, that's in the states where you have ropes, as you mentioned, but instead of having them trapped in the rope, but the ropes will actually capture them and lift them off the ground. Yes. So I think that's another method. So we'll look at these different methods because, like I said, maybe if you use one method too much, then these pigs, they are pretty smart and they can adapt pretty easily.  And then they would just go around it. They would use other methods. So you'd have to use more than one method to actually get rid of them. And you'll not, of course, encourage bit with poisonous bit and stuff like that, no. No, because poisonous bit can actually affect all the other species of animals within the reserve. I know that you'll have to watch. But then I believe that you all need to come up with, apart from getting the hunters to go out there, like you mentioned, and other innovative ways, can you also go and, apart from using the guns, can you use your tranquilizers to actually bring them down and after-sort them? No, I don't know. Well, to tranquilize it, you would need to be there as well. So it's just like taking them out with a gunshot. Gunshot, the best thing to do is to take them out with a gunshot. Yeah. Would you think it's more expensive, I mean, using tranquilizer or using bullets? Well, you're trying to kill them. So using a bullet, they would dispatch the animal, would get rid of them if it's properly hit. But the tranquilizers, we're only hoping to use them for the individuals that we're hoping to put the telemetry color on, because we would need to detain them that we can put the telemetry color on safely and then allow them to go and rejoin the group so that we can find them through the telemetry color. The project is expected to last over 15 months. 15 months, yes. OK, and it is funded by whom? The St. Lucia National Conservation Fund. OK, all right. Well, any final words from you? Well, we are looking to undertake the Feral Peak Project, and we're hoping that we can get a lot of public interest in it, so we're hoping that persons would, well, we are trying to work with the St. Lucia Tourism Authority as well, hoping that we can actually get some persons to develop some delicacies, some recipes for the wild pig meat. We know that it is a lot more lean than what we actually have domesticated, so we're hoping that persons will get used to the idea and that, well, we can develop the Feral Peak industry and hopefully make better livelihoods for some of these hunters out there. Definitely. So a lot of people like Byron and them, who is going to be hunting, and that's why I go by Byron and get mine, you know. Yes, well, he's one of those persons that we have one day as well. Oh, definitely. Well, Charles, thank you for coming on the program. I wish you success with the project, and I wish you all well, OK? Thank you, sir. You've been watching Agriculture on the Move. Thank you for being in the program.  Conchamon, Ibon, it's mangé. That's mangé. If they saw mangé, well, they would kill all those who are in the forest there. They will have to go to mangé plantation, Fama. I'm Philippe Sinise, and goodbye, and see you again.


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I always whenever I think of Martian Lynch First thing that always comes to my mind is Seahawks because that's where he made his biggest impact on it in that fail I'm the first thing that always comes to my mind is a Seahawks, but then Reality sets in and then I'm like, oh, well, he's a raider But the Beals never crossed my mind when I think of Martian Lynch, and that's where it all started That's where it all started So his career is coming to a close Martian Lynch one of the the better running backs Um, he was very very consistent throughout his career only Only went for under a thousand yards What he's been playing since 2007. He only went for under a thousand Three times well four times actually Coming out of the gates 2007 ran for eleven hundred yards seven TDs The following year 1036 yards the following year That's where oh 450 yards and after that. That's some Buffalo. They made that trade. They made a trade in 2010 But anyway, he once he got to Seattle his first year mid trade He scored six touchdowns the next year He went off for 1200 yards and 12 touchdowns the next year. He went off of 1500 yards and 11 touchdowns but I mean, just we don't even need to look at the numbers because We could talk about the numbers all day and that'd be cool, but That's not what Martian Lynch was about With Martian Lynch He I loved his persona. I know a lot of people didn't like it a lot of people did not like his vibe Especially media people especially media people. They did not like how Martian Lynch carried himself Personally me I loved it. I Loved it. He didn't sell out. He stayed true to himself and He wasn't it just all that the flashy stuff All the old with the camera on me put the spotlight on me All that. Oh, I need some attention. That wasn't him That wasn't him That really was not him He played the game. He was rough. He was rugged. He was he was a beast man and he got called beast mode Martian Lynch Some of the most famous Martian Lynch moments, of course, I'm just here. So I don't get fine. A lot of people remember that one A lot of people remember his his big huge crazy Madden run against the Saints Where he broke like he broke like 15 plus people and it's only 11 defenders on the field He some people remember what when he should have gotten the ball Of course in the Seahawks Patriots game that that Super Bowl not even a game, but the Super Bowl I Remember being a rape me being a Ravens fan This guy He and y'all got to look up the clip this dude literally shook Ray Lewis and Jerry Johnson at the same time and he made them collide He made them collide and I think That was he shook Ray Lewis so bad that he gave him turf toe. I Believe that was the that was the play where Ray Lewis got turf toe Ray Lewis got injured from getting shook from watch on Lynch But anyway He was somebody that was always doing positive stuff in his community He always gave you back and I think that's that's really big when Especially if somebody has a certain like platform or whatever Sort of certain notoriety or whatnot just to give back Just to give back and just to um just so you can really let people know how much you appreciate them and he did that That's March on Lynch all day I loved how What was that? I think it was the Walter Payton Award When they were showing the the Walter Payton finalists from like every team at the Super Bowl this year And you see all these guys they in their fancy suits They got they like nice button-ups the ties the bow ties the long ties whatever they all dressed up all fancy and stuff And Marshawn Ledger's there too, and he was chilling. I think he had on like sweatpants and a hoodie or something like that He was comfortable That's what I would want to be if I was there. I mean, I probably would be in a suit though But if I could be in some sweat pant man, that would that would be ideal right there But he again stayed true to himself He stayed true to herself. He let his play on the field do the talking Let his play do on the field do the talking and he didn't he didn't really say much outside of that He was somebody that this dude would have a lot of fun He would have a lot of fun And even I remember it was a game. What was it last year the year before last? Well, they were playing in Oakland and I was happy for him that um, I didn't really think that he was gonna do too much for the Raiders when he came out of retirement and Decided are you know what? I'm still playing the Seahawks traded them. I didn't ever have high hopes for him with the Raiders I didn't think he was gonna do anything special with them And he really didn't but I was happy for him that he got to play at home He got to finish his career playing at home So that's always a beautiful thing. He gets to go out on his own terms It's not like what the Raiders might have been moving on anyway, but he gets to go out of football on his own terms It's not like he got a career-ending injury or something like that It's not like he's being forced out of the game. Oh, he's he say, you know, okay. I'm done. That's it and That's that's the best way to go out That's the best way to go out really of anything You don't get forced out. You don't get kicked out. You don't get the boot You get to pick and choose like hey, okay. I'm done. So That's it March on Lynch is Somebody always got to have to have respect for him Definitely respect for the game, but his personality even more super low-key dude So you're super chill super chill Oh, but what I was talking about earlier when you could tell that he has fun is when There was the game leader this year last year I mean this past season of the season before that where they were playing in Oakland and they were playing music And he was just on the sideline dancing and stuff Like I'm on Sean and you could you just look at his face and tell this dude was really having fun Even when when you watch him play in Seattle You we saw the like how NFL Network does the um the mic'd up and all that Whenever it's on Marshawn Lynch, you know, you know, it's gonna be a great one. You knew it was gonna be a great episode This Marshawn Lynch is just that dude Marshawn Lynch is that dude. So so he He did his thing is he gonna go into the Hall of Fame Is Marshawn Lynch gonna go into the Hall of Fame, I do not I don't think he's gonna go Looking at the numbers Does he have Hall of Fame numbers? Well, he ran for over 10,000 yards. I believe let me just double check Yeah, he ran for 10,379 yards 84 touchdowns But with my thing with the numbers are nice But I do not think that Based off of how he was with the media because the NFL it It's more it's more than numbers when it comes to Hall of Fame And I mean, let's be real about it. It's it's it's about a lot more than numbers If your personality was not one that the media was too fond of Then it's gonna take you a little extra time And letting a lot of extra work like look at Tio Tio should have been in there. He should have been in there This dude was somebody who he got the numbers to back it up He got the numbers to back it up and this dude never never got in trouble off the field either Never got in trouble off the field But they say he was a locker room cancer and That you know, that's that's what that's what held him out. That's what held him out For a little extra time. He should have been in there Moss Moss should have been first ballot man. I do not think he was He should have been there right away. But anyway, um With more Sean Lynch, I think with his numbers, maybe he can get in but based off of his personality Since it wasn't very media friendly. I don't think he gets in at least not right away But we'll see we'll see when we get there. So he's retiring 2019. So in five more years, we'll see That's when he'll be eligible for a first ballot. No, that's not gonna happen It's definitely not gonna happen. So Good career though, man. He got a Super Bowl and Like I said earlier, he got to finish at home. He got to finish playing at the crib So with him hanging it up, it ain't like, oh man, now I gotta go buy a house down here Miami He could do that but Wouldn't mind playing some matter with Marshawn Lynch chilling with him but um He can he can retire with the Raiders and boom He can wake up the next morning and not have to move because he's right at home So that worked out man That worked out. Marshawn Lynch was also a very small businessman too Because I remember there was one point in time where they saw Marshawn Lynch just like Grunkowski too Uh where he was saying that he he did not spend um any of his deal money It was I what did he didn't spend any of the money on his deal and only spent the endorsement money or he Didn't spend any of the endorsement money and only spent the deal money. I think he only spent the Whatever it was He didn't spend both I don't know if he was still operating like that recently, but he Financial wise he's fine. He's doing just fine But that was smart. I remember when that came out. That's a while back now when he was still at the seahawks But I had loved that. I'm like wow this dude really um He kept it separate And that's so small man He's a smart dude smart dude So shout out to Marshawn Lynch shout out to his career Um shout out to you guys too Got a lot of love for y'all appreciate y'all man uh right now It's 7 34 in the morning it's 7 34 a.m and We're working for y'all So Worked on never stop Just want y'all to know that's how much I appreciate y'all up early and We're getting this thing in I'll see y'all later. Love y'all draft is to draft the starts tomorrow Uh, we got a few more questions from subscribers to put out today, but Appreciate it. I look forward to seeing you in the videos And like Marshawn Lynch We out


What a lovely, lovely day. Absolutely glorious weather here, as we welcome you to a football match of considerable significance. Great consequence in this part of the world. They've been talking about this one for a while, and they have rolled up to it in fantastic numbers. You should have seen the roads outside the ground in the arrow two leading up to it. It has been bumper-to-bumper. The traffic has been extraordinary, but the level of expectation is also very, very high. And these supporters who were queuing round the block for their tickets as soon as we knew the date of the fixture, well, now they can't wait for it to begin. And begin it will any second now. So what a stage for the players to take to here ahead of such an important game. Two high-profile, high-caliber teams. This is a welcome event for all these supporters. Well, on the face of it, Peter, we would appear to have a high-caliber meet. Has a hit! Granite check-up. Arsenal have pushed both fullbacks into quite advanced positions here. Yeah, that's interesting. So what are they attempting to do? Well, it's a bold attempt. What a lovely, lovely day. Absolutely glorious weather here, as we... To keep his nightmare, Peter, he just couldn't pick up on it until it was way too late, having so many bodies in front of him. Well, that has certainly made things interesting. Oh, good interception. Hector Baer-Een. Arsenal have pushed both fullbacks into quite advanced positions here. Yeah, that's interesting. So what are they attempting to do? Well, it's a real chance! Oh, that is rather wayward. Well, it was hit with great power, Peter, but, sadly, not great precision. Schafer plays it out to the wing. Kebios. And here's Willian.


Oftentimes, I hear women asking whether it's me out in the social media world, where do I meet quality men? Where are all the quality men? I think before we dive into that question, I think it's important to identify what is quality? Now, I think a lot of people associate quality as being financially, for women towards men, is this man financially successful? And he provides resources in our relationship. And does he have the status to be in relationship with me? By the way, I'm saying this as a generalization, I'm not stating this as a fact. And with respect to men, I think men view quality based on a woman's attractiveness. In fact, quite frankly, I think women do the same thing too. The more attractive the person, the better quality they are as a person. So we associate financial success and physical beauty or physical attractiveness associated with quality. This is one of the reasons why it's frustrating because the reality is, especially for those of us in midlife, the reality is as we age, we don't look as good as we did in our 20s or in our 30s, number one. And the reality is that we're dealing with today is here in the United States, roughly 80% of the population makes less than $100,000 a year of income. So this idea of looking for that high status man, that high quality man that makes over a quarter million dollars a year, well, that represents probably 2% of the population overall. OK. So coming back to what is quality? I don't believe quality is based on someone's attractiveness, nor do I believe quality is based on someone's ability to generate resources. Now those are good things to have, certainly, but the reality is is most people are rather average looking and average isn't bad. And for the most part, people can take care of themselves financially and just remember from a financial perspective, two incomes are better than one. So when I think of quality, I think of does this person's actions match their words consistently? That's the representation of a quality person and a quality, all quality men have this in common. In addition, quality men tend to have a victor mentality and not a victim mentality. People that are operating from victim mentality, operating from blame, whether this is a man or a woman, isn't really establishing themselves within their self-confidence within themselves because they blame others, OK? Now one of the most common qualities or common traits or things that quality men have in common is they have good communication skills. The reality is these days in relationships, there's going to be conflict. So what I say is quality men have that ability to do what's called fighting fair is what I say. And that is they can listen to their partner's point of view on something, acknowledge their partner's point of view on it. And while they might disagree, they still validate their partner's point of view instead of operating from a place of I'm right and you're wrong. I repeat that they're not operating from a place of I'm right and you're wrong. And by the way, this goes for both, you know, both people in the relationship is having good skills to resolve conflicts in a relationship. That's probably one of the most important things every relationship needs is good conflict resolution skills. Listen, I'm not suggesting all brawl, you know, who drag down fights, you know, in a relationship because the most good relationships tend to get along well. But there's going to be differences in having good communication skills, being able to articulate your point of view that where you can be seen, heard and understood, quality men and women can both do that. And ladies, I know you think that you are good communicators. And just because you have a capacity to maybe vomit information as if that's genuine communication, that is the furthest thing from the truth. I've shared this once before in a video, actually several times, I had a client come to me and say, Jonathan, I need more commitment out of the man I'm in relationship with. I'm like, great, what does that look like for you? But Jonathan, I need more commitment from this man I'm in relationship with you. I'm like, great, what does that look like for you? But Jonathan, I need more commitment from this man I'm in relationship with as if because she was saying it louder, I'm somehow to defer what she really meant by that. So again, women can be equally bad at communication as men. Now another factor that quality men have in common is they have a level of empathy. Now, empathy isn't just I can feel your feelings. Empathy is also I care about your feelings as well as I care about my own feelings. In other words, I put your feelings at an equal level of my own feelings because I genuinely care about you in my relationship. And by doing so, this demonstrates a level of trust within this relationship when you can actually say my partner's best interests are in my best interest. Their feelings matter to me. And quality men have this in common. Now, I'm going to say I don't like the term quality, but it's just I'm going to say, you know, I know sometimes it's called high value men and such. Again, I'm just talking about human beings who have a capacity to lean into a healthier, happier relationship have this in common. And another thing they have in common is a level of transparency, transparency. What I mean to say, if something is material to the relationship, they bring it up. In other words, if there's a concern about the relationship, they bring it up.  Transparency, if it's material to the relationship. Listen, we don't have to say everything to our partner. You know, sometimes sharing every little detail in your life can be overwhelming. If it's going to affect the relationship, a quality man is going to bring this up. He's going to want to talk to you about it, not from a place of ending the relationship, but finding that place of mutual agreement. You know, a successful relationship is probably going to have 20% of the time they're going to have frustrations and 80% of the time it's going to be probably running on smooth, smooth what? It's going to run smoothly. Part of that is because they come up with agreements when there's a difference in the way of looking at something in relationship. They come in with agreements. But more importantly, they come at it with an attitude of how can we mutually win together? You know, another thing I think quality men and women have a like is they have a temperament that is mostly agreeable. You know, I know agreeableness is associated with women because that's feminine energy to be agreeable and masculine energy is doing and conquering and being in charge all the time. Now, doing and conquering and being in charge all the time can actually lead a human being to have bad behavior in relationship. And a man, quality man recognizes a relationship as a two-lane street is a give and take. And you know what? It's also not just being agreeable but at the same time not sweating the small stuff. Do you know how many couples make a mountain out of a molehill? Because the deeper issue that lies underneath is there's probably a lack of compatibility. This is why in my private coaching I always stress the importance of vetting the person, do a better job of screening, filtering out. Do you share the same values with one another? Are your lifestyles blendable with each other? And as I just discussed, everything I've talked about right now is all centered around emotional maturity. Now, the reality is we are swimming in a sea of dysfunctionality. There are human beings hurting out there because they have unresolved childhood wounds and traumas or adult traumas that have gone unhealed. And what happens when people are out in the dating realm, they're seeking that companionship, they're seeking that connection, they're seeking that sex, but they have unhealed wounds.  And one of the fears men have is making the wrong choice. So they'll accept someone temporarily. And this is sad. This will happen. Men will accept someone temporarily as a placeholder while they heal. In fact, dating today has quite frankly just become a string of what I say. It's just a long out version of friends with benefits with some minor therapy along the way.  You have this nurturing sign. You'll listen to us that are in pain. But at the same time, it's not your job to heal men in pain. And what happens when a man is with a woman that's in a temporary capacity, he'll take advantage of her healing him. And the minute he feels healed, he wants to be a bright, shiny penny to someone new. I shot a video recently about men using women. You're going to want to check that out. Because sadly, I don't believe it's an intentional using of a woman. It's a byproduct of unhealed wounds and traumas. And this isn't making excuses for men. Women do the same thing. They enter into a relationship. They're unhealed. And maybe they don't have a good communication skills. And so they're seeking that temporary validation, that connection, and they're equally not in the capacity to be in a relationship. So how do we resolve all this? How do we move past all this? I'm a big proponent. Let me pull out. Where's my book?  A journey of personal development, self-help, and spiritual work. Do inner work first so you can be really better prepared to be in a relationship. Read the books I talk about, Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg. I Hear You by Michael Sorenson. Do the Hoffman process. All the books I recommend are listed in the description below. Do all this work. And then your real goal going forward is learning how to screen for compatibility. And while we all believe attraction, physical attraction, chemistry, equals relationship success, I can tell you real relationship success comes when you share the same values. Your lifestyles are blendable with one another. And those of us in midlife, this is way more complicated than someone that's in their 20s and 30s who isn't raising children. And they're just getting started in their life. You know, it's more complicated for us in midlife is to blend lives together. One of the primary relationships the reason why relationships don't succeed is because their lifestyles are not blendable. Many of you are approaching men or not approaching men. You're engaging in long distance relationships, having a cyber relationship with someone.  Meaning, and by the way, long distance could be an hour away or a plane ride away, but you're engaging in cyber relationships where all you're doing is communicating with one another via the phone. A lot of that is just pseudo therapy in my opinion where they're feeding off of your energy and that's not going to go anywhere. A real relationship requires doing social activities, doing hobbies, doing mutual interest, spending time with family and friends, traveling together to see how you operate together. You know, the reality is is we really don't know anyone until we actually live with them and traveling is kind of at least a peek in the window of whether or not you can get along with one another. So blending lives together is critically important. Asking better questions before you engage in a cyber relationship will behoove you and last and most important is this person an emotional grownup to be in relationship with me. That's a hard thing to decipher. By the way, if you're not familiar with the work of the Gottmans, John and Julie Gottman, read the book Eight Dates to give you a blueprint to determine, you know, it gives you a blueprint of what a quality relationship looks like. So don't assume quality men know this. Again, quality men, what they have in common, they have good communication skills. They genuinely care about you. They have an agreeable personality and also they have a level of generosity and kindness associated with them because they have Victor consciousness and not victim consciousness and don't feel like they're being blamed. They don't have to blame everyone. And then as I said earlier, their actions consistently match their words. Is this sinking in? Is this resonating with you? Please let me know. If it does post a comment below, I'd like to hear your thoughts. All right, I'm going to wrap up this video as I always do.  I'm going to reach into the camera and give you a hug of love if that's okay. I'm actually to turn to someone, a pet, a teddy bear pillow. There's a teddy bear. Give inner them a hug of love because hugs are a great source of love. Let's face it. We could all use more love in our lives. Thanks a bunch. Bye bye now.