One of the biggest mistakes that we make with our birds. I'm guilty of this and I've had to rectify this many times, especially with Jersey and we're going to go into that. Hello, my fellow sniffers, flighters and newbies. My name is Marlene McCohen and this is Brando, my mustache parakeet and I want to welcome you guys all to my channel. If you guys are new here, please let me know in the comments so I can welcome you appropriately. All right, guys, today the title of this video is how to create an independent bird. Before we go on, I want to urge you guys to maybe listen to this like a podcast, go grab a cup of tea. This would be an appropriate video for you guys to listen to this morning while you're putting your makeup on or doing other things. There's a lot of great information in here and I felt like this video was particularly important because just analyzing myself as a parrot owner and living with certain hypersensitive birds. I realized that some of these are mistakes that I have previously made and I wanted to share them with you to help you create more of an independent bird. Now, I'm going to be going over four ways in which you can accidentally create a very dependent bird and what that can do to your bird. And after that, I'll go back to those and offer some solutions and ways that you can prevent or fix this from happening. Now, I urge you to listen to this entire video and share it with people because you can never really have enough parrot information, especially if you choose to live with our feathered friends. About 80% of parrots get rehomed because people can't deal with them. And if you think about it, that really translate as 80% of the people that think they're ready for a parrot and can understand and handle a parrot are in fact not. So let's talk about preventing that and making you a better parrot owner and a better parrot companion. So let me first give you an overview of what this video is really about. It's really about one of the biggest mistakes that we make with our birds. I'm guilty of this and I've had to rectify this many times, especially with Jersey, and we're going to go into that. So what is that? And I know it's going to sound so contradictory, but here it is. Loving your birds too much. Now, I don't mean in an obsessive way. I also don't mean in a stimulating sort of way. I really just mean giving your birds so much attention that they become completely dependent on you. Sometimes this happens because you got a bird that was a baby and you just want to love on it. And sometimes it happens because it's a rescue and it has dependent tendencies and you tend to cater to them or vice versa. It can happen with any bird anytime and really it's a very easy thing to do, especially if you love birds and animals in general and just have that kind of heart. So right now we're going to get into ways that you might be doing that, how to prevent it and how to rectify it. So number one, giving your bird too much attention. We're going to go into more detail on that right now. If you guys have been listening to my channel a lot, you realize that I do in fact give my birds a lot of attention. And this isn't the attention that I'm talking about. I'm talking about a specific kind of attention that I feel can be detrimental to your bird's development. And this is really easy to do with baby birds. So when you feel like your bird needs you or you feel like your bird wants you for us as human beings, it's a great feeling. We feel loved, we feel wanted, we love that from all of our animals. But with birds you have to be very, very careful. What can happen when your bird comes to rely on you like that for affection, love and attention is they begin to replace foraging, playing, certain kind of behaviors that are natural to them such as nesting, which we'll get into with your love. And essentially what happens is that you've now established yourself as a mate rather than a flock leader or part of the flock, which we'll also get into because that's really important as well. And I feel like I need to touch on this because you might have heard me talk about how my birds are so chill, calm and quiet because I always know what they need and I give it to them. That is very different from all the cuddling and babying, extreme cuddling that you may do with your bird. I'm not saying any of that is wrong. You guys know that I love on my birds. I squeeze them, I kiss them, I love them.  We all are. But I think the key here is that let's say you're doing that three hours a day with your bird because it's a baby or it's a new bird or it's a rescue, then the bird comes to expect that kind of attention that long every day. So you want to avoid creating patterns that the bird relies on that you logistically cannot give to them. So that's just the first thing to think about and then we're going to go into all of these in a little bit more detail of what you can do instead. Number two, of course we have to talk about this and that is accidentally stimulating your parrot. I have made a video on this before and some of you may have been shocked to learn that some petting that would seem so normal to us as parrot companions actually stimulates our birds. And the reason that's dangerous is because that turns you into a mate. And if you think about it, birds can't actually mate with their human partner. So it can be extremely frustrating and extremely confusing. And some birds with extremely high intelligence understand that this doesn't make sense and it makes them very uncomfortable, especially if you've had a bird since it was young and it kind of grew into that adolescence and started going through a hormonal period. And then you'll start noticing that those birds that you've had for a long time might even start acting weird towards you, ignoring you or just kind of advancing the relationship because they honestly, the feelings just don't make sense to them. And I'd like to make a video going into more depth on somewhat of this subject for you in a different manner. But right here I just want you guys to understand that this is one thing that can definitely create some confusion in your bird, create a lot of aggression, screaming and just overall stress. So it becomes very hard to create an independent bird when you have now established yourself as a mate. There's something else I kind of wanted to touch on that I feel like a lot of people don't know. Male parrots and female parrots, they get stimulated differently. So a lot of the times that's how I know whether one of my rescues is a male or a female. With Leo, we did a DNA test because I'd never seen him exhibit any kind of mating behavior towards me or anything like that. Besides for a little regurgitation here and there, which doesn't give it away, but in general, a female is going to get stimulated on her back and a male is going to stimulate himself by kind of like picking up your hands and fingers and stuff like that. So we obviously do our best to not stimulate our parrots accidentally. You want to love on them. You may see in videos, let's say George petting Rocky and then his hand goes a little down his back. Well, Rocky is a male, so he doesn't get stimulated that way. That's why it's important to know and it can be very useful for you to do a DNA test on your bird to find this out. You guys remember one video when we went into the parrot store and my sister loves monkey, you know the Jardine parrot that she always loves to play with. Yeah. I love you. Are you going to mate with me right now? What happened with you? Well, if you remember, as soon as the bird kind of fell for my sister, my sister knew it was a female and that's how we know because of the way the bird got stimulated. Of course, Felipe is like, yeah, how'd you know? And it's like, this is how we know and this kind of seems to be something people don't talk about. And then I see people go, oh my God, George Pet Rock is back. Yeah, you don't want to stimulate them in any which way. But of course, sometimes in a video, a hand going down a back looks like something when it's just really like, you know, like this. So I just wanted to touch on that real quick. Okay, the third way that you could create an extremely dependent bird, a lack of toys or activities for them to get themselves into. If you think about birds in the wild, they're continuously foraging, they're continuously nesting. They've got a lot to do. So birds need to keep busy. We honestly take away everything from our birds, which is why I'm doing my best to make these videos for you. Now on the subject of toys, I hear a lot of people say, my bird won't play with toys. And my response to that is, I totally get it. I have birds that haven't played with toys. But what I found is that there's such a variety of types of toys. And usually, you can get your bird to like one.  Foraging toys are extremely important too. I love planet pleasures because if you look at toys from planet pleasures, there's a lot for them to do, just pulling out all the materials and such. But some birds need to play with wood. That's why I love jungle toys because I know where it comes from here in the United States. I've seen them being made. I know it's all natural how they get the colors on the toys. So knowing all that is really important because you may be missing out on an opportunity for your bird to play with a toy that you never previously introduced to your bird. And on that subject, when I come back to how to apply methods to each of these, I'm going to tell you what you can do to help your birds play with toys and some of my personal beliefs on toys, cardboard boxes, nesting and things like that. The fourth way to end up with a very dependent bird is through lack of socialization. Now, I know a lot of you live alone and you can't exactly socialize your bird, but definitely when you have visitors come over, if your bird isn't particularly aggressive, you definitely want to take every opportunity you can. And especially if you got a baby bird of some sorts, now's your chance to socialize that bird. This right here can prevent attacks, jealousy, aggression and a lot of negative behaviors because you're introducing others into the flock. So if you have a flock of two, you and your bird, then anyone outside of the flock is a complete interference to your parrot. So if you want to have a harmonious house, you want to make sure that you introduce these people as flock members. Obviously you'll have visitors and such and we'll go into how to handle that in a little bit when we come back to socialization. What do we do instead of all these things that we probably thought we were doing to make our bird happy, cuddling them, hugging them, paying more attention to them than giving them other things to do. If you really look at it, even not socializing them because you want to give them all the attention or you give them all the attention that they require, if you really look at it, it all comes out of the goodness of our heart. So I totally understand. But now we're going to go into what to do to prevent that dependency and how to make it better if you've already created that dependency. And overall, the main way you do that is by establishing yourself as a flock leader, somebody within their flock, particularly a leader, instead of a mate, which is so easy to do accidentally. How I like to do this is by practicing inclusion. I like to include my birds with me and other people and me and other birds. If you guys remember the video I did on how to get two parrots to get along, that video will correlate really well with what I'm talking about here. Even if you only have one bird, I think it's really important information. So go back and listen to that. I'll put the link above. Let's talk about the first subject we were talking about with giving your bird way too much attention. Now, whether you have a baby or a rescue, this is absolutely so easy to do. So let me start with the big mistake that I think that I made with Jersey because I think an example will lay it out easier for you guys to understand. So you guys know, I told you guys this before when I got Jersey, I sensed that she plucked, she had some broken feathers. I thought that, you know, I was going to be great for Jersey and I believe that I am, but I think we made mistakes with Jersey and the big mistake was loving on her too much. When we first got her, George would literally take her to work. He would take her everywhere. Eventually she started getting car sick and we realized, okay, we can't do that. So there was a change for her it was a certain amount of attention that she was getting that went away. I also had a roommate at the time. We all lived in this two bedroom apartment and she slept in the room with my roommate and he played with her all the time which is an amazing thing. And he played with her in a very engaging way. All those games like hide and seek and all those things that you see Jersey do in other videos, if you haven't seen them, go check them out. It's very entertaining. He played all those games with her and she just loved it. So those are great games to play as far as giving your bird attention because it's really giving your bird an activity and something to do and something to work on and use their intelligence and also exercise, especially if your bird's not flighted. Playing games that create exercise is really healthy for your bird. But when he moved out, that also caused a lot of stress for Jersey. There was just general too many changes. On top of that, we're just loving on her so much because even though Jersey wasn't my first cockatoo, our family cockatoo tie was also a plucker when we got him and he completely recovered under our house. So I thought it would be easy and this is why sometimes when I see people attacking people with birds without feathers going, you must have abused them. You must have done something wrong. The bird is under complete stress. Part of that is true, but it's not always because of a bad situation. Sometimes it's because the bird got so much love and so much attention that they never really learned how to become independent and entertain themselves. The human being became the entertainer and that can be dangerous. So my advice to you if you've already made this mistake and by the way, Brando himself, he's a baby. I want to love on him. He tugs at my heart because he reminds me of Picasso and it's very therapeutic for me. But already I can see that sometimes he gets very attached or a little bit dependent. He goes to other people. He's socialized really well. He's one of my best socialized birds. However, he doesn't really like to be alone.  But if he's out on a tree, it's only going to be a matter of time before he jumps off and tries to get to me. So in this case, it's important that whenever he is standing on a tree or on a play stand that it's one comfortable for him. Sometimes it can be that in Brando's case, sometimes he likes one tree more than the other because he's got small feet. So sometimes the smaller tree is more comfortable for him. And I can see that. So sometimes you have to analyze those things and see why. But what I'm doing with Brando is I'm making sure that he has time with toys and new toys. He's young, so he's still kind of interested in one toy, can keep his interest every time I take it away and bring it back. But you also want to introduce them to new things and different things. Now is the chance to show them lots of different things. If you guys remember when I got Brando, Felipe explained why as a baby it's important that they spend time with you but then every half an hour they have to go back and spend a few hours in the cage. This was very interesting information for me because my birds were rescues but it makes complete sense because the baby will start relying on you so much that they might not eat, they might not sleep, they might just crave all of your attention because that's what they think they're supposed to get. And that would create a very dependent bird which later when they go through hormones can be very stressful for us because the bird is going to scream when you're not there, get stressed when you're not there that can cause plucking that can cause other behavioral issues so it's just something to consider. Jersey literally just walked into the room. Hi baby! Another thing you might want to practice is not having your bird on your shoulder as I do right now. Personally, I don't really like birds on my shoulder it's just a personal thing that's why I kind of always liked George my African gray and I've always been like really into African grays because the grays that I've had just kind of love to like chill. Don't get me wrong Cody's completely rambunctious and she will sit on my shoulder but they're okay not being there they're okay being around me and I like to create that in all of my birds but generally especially with big birds you really don't want to create that dependency where they feel like they have to travel on your shoulder instead I prefer to have stands that can roll around or to create spaces for my birds wherever I am and that's also very important and Jersey is literally climbing up the light. Do you want to come into the video? You can come. Come. Okay so now she got I guess I gotta wait until she comes up herself. The moral of that is if you have a baby you want to give them time to play you want to set aside different times for them to do different things just to create that sense of hey we have me and you time but we also have you and you time and make sure to give them activities during those times because it's very important for your bird to not rely on so much attention and I just want to reiterate I mean attention I don't really mean like being attentive to your bird you should always be in tune and attentive to your bird so that's just something a little bit different and real quick about having your bird on your shoulder especially if you have big birds I want you guys to be careful with that don't take chances with birds because you may not know your bird well enough to know that your bird is gonna bite your face like you really have to be prepared so just really don't take chances I just wanted to throw that in so let's go back to the stimulation factor I know it's kind of an uncomfortable subject we all love our birds one of the most amazing and beautiful thing about birds is like whoa I can't believe a cockatoo wants to sit in my lamp and get pet and so on right it's kind of unbelievable but it's kind of unfortunate that as much as you know your bird enjoys it and you enjoy it things will get weird later on so you want to make sure not to do it I'm not gonna lie sometimes it may feel a little unavoidable you know you're petting your bird's head and your finger touches their back you may have seen that sometimes in videos but I think this is a really good reason to DNA test your bird as I mentioned before one thing I think you should keep in mind is that if your bird is seemingly getting stimulated by you even just regurgitating in your presence you might want to replace that with an activity I want to take this time to tell you guys that yeah it really is hard for our birds right we take them into our house sometimes we take away their flight they don't have a mate we take away nesting behaviors because god forbid they should lay an egg which is totally understandable because they might lay an egg and get egg bound or they might become territorial or they might become aggressive and we're just really not equipped to deal with it so my approach to things is really just to be better equipped to adjust to their life as birds so that's why we're gonna get into now toys and what you can do because this is gonna include some of the territorial things that can be kind of a touchy subject but to each zone and I just want to give you guys the information you choose what you do with it because every bird is so different and behaves so different for me with all my birds I do everything on a case by case basis okay so we talked about toys hey you can come in so we talked about the importance of toys because that gives your bird an activity especially foraging toys that doesn't necessarily have to be a store-bought expensive foraging toy that could literally be you hiding food or treats within different things for your bird to discover or play with which is very interesting that gives your bird an activity to do when your bird has other activities to do then it's like oh yeah I can't have cuddle time right now because this is what I'm doing right now I am foraging I am playing I am destroying and by the way when you give your birds toys they're less likely to destroy things in your house be loud or aggressive because they have an activity so a lot of times we think it's okay to just throw a toy into the cage and you know oh the bird doesn't like it they're not interested in toys no it doesn't work that way you have to change the toy change it around if they did destroy it it's a good sign more of that that's very important for your birds on the subject of toys as I already went over there's lots of different toys that you can try with your birds one specific thing that I always found works with almost every bird and I swear to you guys Leo never played with a toy I can't get him to play with toys he's not interested in toys and also because we gave Jersey too much love which I talked about before a little bit she also wasn't as interested in toys as she should have been especially for a cockatoo yes you hear her whining over there but I'm happy to report that today she is very interested in toys and I absolutely love that I'm going to tell you how we did it I'm also going to tell you what I got Leo into so the first thing is quite often if your bird isn't interested in toys they're going to be interested in a box because box is essentially nesting now boxes can be very controversial because boxes can make your bird territorial and boxes can make your bird in that nesting mode which if your bird doesn't have enough calcium or doesn't have enough she just climbs up the light so if your bird doesn't have enough calcium or your bird doesn't have strong enough muscles because it's not flighted to push out an egg that can be very dangerous so it's something that you need to think about however if you don't want to give your bird a box I find that a lot of birds like cardboard so you could give them like half of a box or a piece of cardboard and see how they react to that now I'm going to tell you guys see Vinnie with his boxes and you guys know that he likes his boxes and you guys know that I give him his boxes and I'm going to tell you why first of all he's a male he's not in danger of laying any eggs second of all he does get territorial over the boxes he more so likes to be outside them than inside them you guys know I'm a filmmaker we play up all that drama with the boxes but yeah he is territorial over the boxes but that keeps him busy I honestly don't believe in taking away everything that birds need to feel like birds if you do feel like you have a bird and it becomes very aggressive near a box don't give your bird a box if it's not something that you can handle if your bird is laying eggs and it's detrimental to your bird absolutely do not give your bird boxes but if your bird is interested in boxes in a safe way it will give you so much quiet time while that bird is busy with that box not only will they be busy in a very foraging sort of way but it also creates vigilance so what is vigilance right out in the wild when birds or other animals are protecting their territory they're also being vigilant not territorial vigilant it means that they're looking around noticing everything that's new and they're very busy thinking, analyzing and checking out all potential dangers that keeps their mind very busy versus a bird sitting in a cage with nothing to do because as you already learned that he's caged there's not many threats you may have some issues some of you I've seen you guys say this and if you guys watch my channel you know that there's some of this going on with my African Grace you may find that your bird has taken over a certain territory maybe just a corner of the kitchen like my African Grace for some reason they're both just alike and they both like two spots in my kitchen and they're territorial over those spots but they're also very vigilant which keeps them very busy they stay there they don't really move and it's a really easy way for me to keep them out and keep them busy I put toys there I let them play with the toys they love that because it's in their spot and they haven't been dangerous to anyone I let them do that because it makes them happy and it's one of the techniques I use to be able to have 10 birds in my house and have them be all out because they essentially have a little spot that they feel is theirs and I by no means mean that you should ever let your birds do whatever they want I don't have necessarily like chewed couches and things like that because that's not acceptable to me but I do mean that if we are accepting a bird into our homes we have to learn to adjust a tiny bit to their environment and create ways for us to live harmoniously so when I give my birds activities like these they're keeping busy they're happy and they're healthy that also results in less screaming less plucking and less behavioral problems as far as them feeling stressed because they're jealous or not getting enough attention from you because they have their own thing to do and I think that's a beautiful thing and honestly every rescue that I've ever went to you end up seeing a bird or macaws and they brought the birds cardboard box for them to play with because I feel like people who've been in it so long and they're just not repeating and repeating what other people say they really understand the importance of giving the birds that kind of activity still on the subject of toys let's talk about Leo Leo never plays with any toys so I found this thing which I got for Vinny it is I don't exactly know what it is but it's four cats and it has no catnip in it or anything like that it's a cardboard that they scratch on and around Christmas time I found some really nice ones in home goods which is basically a discount store and they're not like a box but they're kind of like shaped like just different shapes that is more than just a plain straight one and I started putting that in Leo's cage because I was like my god like I don't want this bird to just stand there and not have anything to do so I was like what the heck let me just try putting it in his cage and do you know he started playing with it he kept so busy chewing it up and if you guys remember Leo plucks a little bit and Lou told me that before I got in they didn't even see that he had the yellow because he plucked so much and maybe he was stressed because his owner died but basically that kept him really really busy here is a bird that I thought would play with nothing and then I gave him somewhat of a box slash cardboard it wasn't a box that he could like literally go in but he got to step on top of it and chew and he really enjoyed that so I was pretty happy with that so don't give up you can always find something it just may take time and that that took me a long time to find you have to do your due diligence with birds as well I think that's an important part of having a bird is not giving up you know the bird doesn't want anything the bird doesn't want to come out of the cage the bird doesn't want to play with toys the bird doesn't like me the bird bit me that's where the problem lies people don't have patience so they don't quite frankly they don't have the empathy if you're not willing to become a parrot psychologist and really analyze each and every one's behavior and cater a little bit to it then birds are not for you so let's talk about socialization and what you can do you guys remember the story of me getting Merlin you saw me getting Merlin if you didn't go back and watch the series not now you can listen to this but later it's very interesting Merlin was an African gray that I met at a rescue and he seemingly wasn't understood by anyone Rose at Parrots first is phenomenal with birds I was just so impressed with how she had all the birds out and playing and full toys and she really has a gift with managing birds Merlin wasn't particularly bonded to anyone there and he really didn't go to anyone there within about 20 minutes I was able to talk to Merlin and pick up Merlin so I thought that I was going to be Merlin's person I thought oh my god Merlin is going to be a problem if I bring him home because I just assumed that he was going to love me and not George like which is very easy to do and happens very frequently here George is very busy he works a lot this guy can work 18 hours in one go it's kind of unbelievable so I just thought naturally he's just not going to have the time to socialize George felt connected to Merlin just from watching the story the first time I met Merlin as a lot of you did when I brought Merlin home I said listen George we really need to team up here on socialization it's extremely important especially with African grays because they can be one person birds you can't win a gray over by scratching his head and hypnotizing him with a beautiful head rub it's just uh not that common this was my chance to really go over socialization with George and would you believe it it worked Merlin is obsessed with George and he's fine with me and basically what I did in a nutshell was I had George take him out of the cage first I had George offer him food first I had George spend a long time with him I didn't hog the bird when you hog the bird as tempting as it may be you're really creating dependency issues and that will not make for an independent bird at all and if you can socialize your bird with other people definitely 100% you have to do it with everyone in the house and if they're not on board then maybe a bird is not for you because the bird can create a ridge between you and whoever else that they've decided is not part of the flock or a threat to the flock this is very important to understand most people this is the main thing that they don't understand before getting a bird and they go out and get a cockatoo cockatoo lunges at the five-year-old's face and they realize cockatoos are not for them that's not fair on the bird that's why this information is very important for you guys all right so along with socialization with the other person or other visitors I want you to know I completely understand that some of you may not have anyone else living in the house so I don't feel like socialization is 100% has to be the person holding the bird or anything like that you may have an aggressive bird but I do think that including the bird in the activity you have someone over for tea you guys go to a different room the bird's cage is let's say somewhere else and you guys are in the kitchen bring the bird stand roll it over no one has to interact with the bird in terms of the guest they should say hi how are you? let them know that the bird is acknowledged that's a very big thing in the parrot world you've got to acknowledge the bird that doesn't mean your guest has to touch the bird your guest doesn't have to make the bird uncomfortable never force anything on your bird or you'll lose trust it just means that you included the bird the bird's like okay I understand this person's not a threat I'm not being taken away this is all good that's something that you can do if you have a particularly aggressive bird just continue to remember include, include, include, include also if you have more than one bird you want to include the bird with other birds in the flock right away so that doesn't mean put them in the same cage and by the way this is after the quarantine period this just literally means having the bird be included you don't want to take the baby bird and give the baby bird so much attention that the adult bird gets jealous you want to show them that you eat together and that you can shower together and such things and I want you guys to go back if you're curious about that watch my video that I made on how to get two birds to get along very important because there's a lot of great information in that video even if you only have one bird you want to go potty? let's go potty go potty show everyone how you go potty yep let's see did you guys see any cues that Brando wanted to go potty? probably not I'm just really in tune with my birds you see just gotta really feel it and be on it what he did right there and probably I'd have to go back and watch the video because it's not something I saw it's something I felt just like he moved in a different way he probably stretched I wasn't looking at him I was really focused on what we're talking about and that also is how you potty train your bird but I have other videos on that alright so as far as integration with the rest of the flock I want you guys to go back and watch that video but I will say you know when birds choose a mate or a partner it's not always of the opposite sex especially if they're in certain surroundings where they don't have the opportunity to find a bird of their own sex and that by the way does not mean that they're mating it just means that they're kind of the chosen bond that they're feeling it may not be of the same bird if you guys look at the history of Picasso my mustache parakeet with Jersey my umbrella cockatoo I wouldn't necessarily say they were extremely bonded in terms of how Jersey felt about Picasso but she was fine with him and Picasso loved Jersey and if you look at the budding relationship between my Amazon Leo and blue the ring neck you'll see that now blue is regurgitating for Leo and Leo's accepting it again I don't feel like Leo feels like he's the mate of blue but it's just something to be aware of and on that note if you really analyze the situation ringnecks and mustache parakeets mustache parakeets which are a subspecies of ringnecks they seem to really be open to relationships of other species isn't that interesting so if you are looking for a friend or someone to keep one of your birds busy now I'm thinking that it might be very interesting to consider a ring neck because they seem to be open to those kinds of relationships especially if you don't want them to mate or lose your relationship with them I just think that's something interesting to consider okay so those are the four things and I want you guys to realize that all of this information is going to help with negative behavior in your bird whether it's screaming whether it's hormones because obviously enabling a bird to have this kind of dependency on you is going to be that much more harder when they get hormonal so that's during the hormonal years and also the hormonal periods of the year and with all this being said I just want to make you guys understand something if you're a little bit more literal if you guys heard me before I am in the belief that my birds are really quiet except when I'm leaving the door because they are getting what they need so that doesn't mean that I'm picking them up and cuddling then it means that I'm really investigating what it is that they need and what kind of thing I can give them to entertain them or satisfy them at the time so I'm by no means suggesting that you ever ignore any of that you have to keep your bird satisfied because you have to remember that the voice they have is the voice they have if your bird is screaming there is a reason whether they need something that they really do need or they need something that you created in which case you want to replace that with another activity and I never want you guys to be the kind of bird owner that lets your bird do whatever he wants you want to establish that flock leader mentality but at the same time I don't ever want you guys to be such a trainer that your bird's personality doesn't come out and that your bird doesn't make his own decisions because that's how you get his intelligence going by really just analyzing your bird and seeing what his natural tendencies are as well so you want to be somewhere in the middle there where you do have some kind of control you completely understand your bird you don't allow them to destroy your house it is going to happen because you can't have an eye everywhere but in general you kind of want to look at ways to make their lives more comfortable by a way of you understanding them more but you don't want to have a bird that just goes from A to B does whatever trick you really want them to just have a personality and really find out what it is that they love to do I can get Vinny to dance anytime I want treat or not because I know he loves doing it because it's his personality so I encourage you guys to discover those things about your birds while keeping control over your birds in a flock leader sort of way and one thing I want to leave you guys with today is that parrots are only two generations removed from the wild right you 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يطيب لونه أن فيه طغليه إذا باقي أحل فاك يبولين بالخاطر أريد بخدم تاك ظلين ربا أسرع بكم في التواصل الثلاثة مع أحمد علي و before we begin any episode I would like to attend my condolences صاحب العصر والزمان may Allah hasten his reappearance to you my dear viewers and to everyone across the world on the tragic nights of محرم I know a few nights ago my dear guest said عباس فنجو and I began the month of محرم with شيخ عباس فنجو we kicked off the month of محرم with the banner exchange ceremony and we mentioned a lot of things you can check out on YouTube but as we move closer to the tenth of محرم the sorrows within our hearts increase if you find yourself depressed in these nights don't wonder why because the hearts of the daughters of the Prophet محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم were also depressed these nights the hearts of the brave warriors of إمام الحسين عليه السلام عباس فضل عباس فنجو I have a beautiful view behind me right now I'm sitting right between the two minarets and the dome is on my left so it's beautiful to see how after 1400 years has grown and محمد حسين right there on my right beautiful shots we do give a warm shout out to our crew members cameramen and people inside the studio and inside the control room but tonight inshallah is the third night and what's really heartbreaking and sad at the same time for the third night of محرم it's interesting because wherever you go across the globe you'll find Shi'as in different countries commemorating or remembering someone different although they have one thing in common if you go to Iran the Persian countries you'll find them commemorating رقية if you go to India, Pakistan and the Indo-Pac communities you'll find them commemorating سكينة and if you come to Iraq you'll find them commemorating فاطم العليلة now what's all in common is these three individuals are the daughters of yet two were present on the day of عشرة and one was left alone in Medina due to her illness فاطم العليلة and I will get to talk about why did يام حشان عليسلام leave his daughter and honestly it's one of the most heartbreaking stories to ever think about to ever read and to ever touch upon in general because a four-year-old who cannot bear to leave her father and you know she's so attached to her father that every night she gets him the prayer rug and she spreads it for him to come and pray we'll get to talk about more what she did and how عشرة حشان's heart was broken one this beautiful small child of عشرة عليسلام was left behind now a lot of people wonder wherever you go this question was always read to عشرة as to why did عشرة عليسلام take his sisters his wives and his daughters to fight now the intention of عشرة عليسلام leaving Medina was not to fight you can go look through history I mean I remember a couple years back when I had the honor of sitting with a few scholars and this question was also raised as to why did عشرة عليسلام leave from Medina with his family members he didn't want to pledge allegiance the tyrant was corrupt but why did he take his children and left them and 100% acceptable why go and sacrifice your daughters your wives your small sons basically your whole family why would you do that now the intention and the scholar gave a very beautiful answer to that he says was his intention to fight and the person said I don't know the intention of عشرة عليسلام was not to fight did not leave Medina to fight he said it explicit إنما خردت لطلب الإسلاح لأمتي جدي I did not leave while I left seeking reformation for the religion of my grandfather Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم what was happening at that time that Imam Hussein wanted to seek reformation and by taking his wife his wives his daughters his sisters his nephews everyone is in his family and his companions came with him seeking reformation you know with the movement of the finger they can change this world but Imam Hussein wanted to give that image of when you look at a certain person you'll know what tragedies they've been through and to learn from them so who did he take he took Zaynab who else did he take he took Sakina Layla رباب all the individuals who if we study today and unfortunately we haven't studied today the only season we actually look at the lives of the family of Imam Hussein أهل البيت in general but specifically the family of Imam Hussein is Aashura is محرم and it's unfortunate why because honestly if we were to study those lives we would find so many lessons so many lessons one of the lessons that Zaynab عليه السلام teaches us through her stand before even Aashura Imam Hussein عليه السلام جاد war with all of his companions and he narrated what will happen he says Zaynab already knows because فاةمت الزهرة عليه السلام there are some lessons so be upon her gave her a shirt a ripped shirt an old shirt to gift to her brother so if they have Aashura they wouldn't have to they would leave the body of Imam Hussein عليه السلام you know un clothed لذا لن يأخذ الشرط. ونحن نفس الشرط أن أمام صادق عليه سلام يفعله عندما يقول إذا هلا محرم إذا مون المحرم أو محرم المحرم يشون أن أمام الحسين عليه السلام يدفع الشرط على العالم ونحن there is no stone that doesn't cry and there is no sky that doesn't weep over أمام الحسين عليه السلام. لذلك لن يكون among the skies weeping أمام الحسين عليه السلام and lamenting on our say so one of the stands of Zaynab Peace and Blessings be upon her. when our say said everything Zaynab already knew but there was a stand she had to make. there was something that she had to say in front of everyone to make them realize that the action that you're doing right now is a hundred percent beautiful Allah سبحانه وتعالى. now as I mentioned he was not leaving for war. he mentioned this later on when his troops were in thousands and Subhan Allah on the day of Aisha Rawi get 72 however so Maul Hussain عليه السلام gathers everyone his companions and he says to them oh fulan oh fulan oh Zaynab oh Rabab you know everyone we're going to a journey or on a journey that will end in a couple of days you know I will be beheaded my family will be taken as captives now Zaynab عليه السلام says to Imam Hussain she says to him oh brother if this will happen to you who will be there to narrate your story and spread Islam so she insisted on coming with Imam Hussain عليه السلام and the rest of the women and children insisted as well you know if we were to look at a similar situation we would look at the story of Mubahala because honestly one of the most impressive stories that someone would look at through the history of Islam is the story of Mubahala and when Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم brought his close family members in a social war if you will you know because he said whoever is lying الله's damnation will come upon him so he brought his family members to show how pure these individuals were the same as Imam Hussain عليه السلام Prophet Muhammad could have taken anyone because Islam at that time was pretty big he had a few thousand followers he could have taken them tens of companions he could have taken them but no he chose his family this is why Imam Hussain عليه السلام chose the really close ones thousands left with him but the chosen ones 72 or so given take by the narrations stayed with Imam Hussain عليه السلام so Imam Hussain عليه السلام says peace and blessings be upon him who will be there to spread your message and honestly one of the most beautiful stories that ever you know narrated in Islam is the story of Ashura you know after we hear scholars recent scholars or past scholars saying the narration or saying the quote yes the mission of Imam Hussain عليه السلام was to actually sacrifice himself for Islam but the legacy of Imam Hussain continued through Zainab because right now when we hear the Maqatil mentioning you know incidents happening from the enemies of Ahl al-Bait but the most tragic ones are what happened after Ashura to the family of Imam Hussain عليه السلام to Zainab to Umkulthum and to the others this is what really strikes the heart of you know of our hearts and the hearts of millions across the world that every year we come, we sit, we gather every night for 30 nights some people go all the way to Arba'een every night commemorating each night what happened where did they go and it's actually beautiful to sit every night and talk about this because the journey from Karbala to Sham and back to Karbala is one that's beautiful tragic at the same time and heartbreaking because you get to realize the far distances that Ahl al-Bait traveled just for me and you for me to sit in front of the camera and say this and for you to sit at home and watch on your TVs they gave so much for Islam they gave so much for the religion of Allah SWT to spread to continue yet we sit at the comfort of our homes and I'm talking about myself first I'm not talking about people that I know we sit at the comfort of our homes so fortunate and not even thinking about the rest of the year what Ahl al-Bait had to go through because according to narrations Arba'een was the Arba'een after like the next year Arba'een that's one narration but even for 40 days going from one city to the other and then to the other humiliated why? because Zaynab A.S. made that stand before even محرم approached she said oh brother if this is going to happen to you if your companions are going to die they're going to be butchered if you're going to be killed who's going to be there to tell your story because Zaynab A.S. did perfectly in Kufa did perfectly on the way to Sham in Sham but if we want to go just a few days back before Zaynab said this what happened on those nights as I began today's episode we talked about every night is dedicated to someone different from the Ahl al-Bait A.S. when you reach up until the 10th you have a Muslim earlier you have different individuals according to different cultures but when you go from the 5th or the 6th of محرم up until the 10th almost everybody commemorates the same individuals we have on the 5th we have the Ansar on the 6th sorry on the 5th we have a Muslim on the 6th we have the Ansar on the 7th we have the beautiful warrior the brave warrior behind me right now is Shrine you have on the 8th on the 9th on the 10th the night of the 10th on the 6th month the 6th month old baby and then on the 10th all of them died on the 10th except for Muslim you died earlier but all of them died on the 10th but for the first 10 days you have different people or dedicate for different days or different days dedicate for different people now on the 3rd it's very special on the 3rd it's dedicated to the daughter of whether you're living in the east or you're living in the west you're commemorating the daughter of whether it's whether it's whether it's what makes them all in common is that all of them were the beautiful daughters of Imam Hussain A.S and if you go look at رقية she had a miserable life after عشرة she had a life that any child could not bear figured to go back and look at فاطمة العليلة when Imam Hussain A.S before he left he said tonight whoever name I call out you'll be joining me in my journey now he gathered everyone and started calling out names almost everybody that was present in that room from the family Imam Hussain A.S left with him except for أمو البنين and فاطمة العليلة so Imam Hussain A.S leaves goes to his room everyone's getting ready to leave in the morning Imam Hussain feels someone coming to the room going back 3 times coming to the room standing there he was praying but he can feel someone coming to the room going back coming to the room and going back and all of a sudden he turns back and sees a small girl leaving now he calls over زينب he says زينب let's go to my daughter فاطمة I think she wants to speak to me she has something to say so she Imam Hussain A.S go to فاطمة العليلة and they tell her do you have something to say to your father she says oh father I feel like I'm not a part of this house I'm not a member of this house Imam Hussain began to tear she says oh my daughter what are you talking about she says you called everyone tonight that will leave with you but he did not call my name now earlier Imam Hussain told زينب if anything happens فاطمة should stay back because if she sees what will happen to me she loves me so much that she will die instantly so Imam Hussain A.S told زينب so they're talking to فاطمة and Imam Hussain says oh my beloved daughter it's nothing of what you say you're much part of the family as anyone else so the most sad the most sad story is the narration that فاطمة Ali says to her father she says oh dad I can mount the saddle if the night comes I can get you ready to sleep if it's time for prayer I can get your stuff ready for prayer I'll be like your servant just take me with you she was begging her dad her father Imam Hussain to take her with him but yet he says oh Fatima you have to stay back you're ill you know and what breaks the heart is after they come back and you know when the tragedy has all happened and أمو البنين is you know it's a crazy story but we'll keep you tuned in every night of what happened on these certain nights and who these nights are commemorated to or affiliated to and insha'Allah we'll be back after this short break with a very special guest from the UK a poet and dear friend of mine so to the break and we'll be back shortly so do stay tuned Ladies and gentlemen welcome back you know it's the beautiful scenes as the CG says or as the caption says street walk in paradise and really it is paradise when you see these processions when you see everyone just coming out on the nights of Muharram every single night and you know I encourage everyone to actually come and look at what happens in Karbala document you know in your journeys in your journal sorry or in your diaries and you know just every day what you see in Karbala because every night you'll see something different because a different procession has something bigger than the other procession it's like a competition you know whoever has the biggest lights and stuff because they try to show that these nights are so sad for the أهل بيت عليم السلام that the only way to light up these nights you know and to remember أهل بيت عليم السلام is through the lights and you know through the stuff that goes around you know I seen a beautiful you know I think it's a flower crown that goes around between Haramain inside the shrines it's been there it's been there for ages that people are commemorating this in you know and the beautiful culture of different you know races and everyone just comes to Karbala to commemorate one occasion and not the occasion of أهل بيت عليم السلام and we do have our brother from the UK سجاد السلام عليكم علينا السلام عليكم سجاد عليكم السلام أهل بيت عليم الحمد للهوية الله يسلمكم now we did have you as our guest in the market in the Ramadan and we do have you once again in our show late night talk it's a beautiful view behind me right now we have you know people from across the world coming to Karbala to commemorate these nights so before we get into poetry and before we get into the sad occasions or the sad that you have prepared for us how are you guys commemorating Ashura in the UK yeah as always as every year we have a lot of centers here that have Majalis and have remembers and say yeah you know it's quite it's quite quite intense atmosphere at the moment you know there's an atmosphere of sorrow and sadness of the as always and Alhamdulillah we are able to commemorate a tragedy when we celebrate as we do every year yeah I mean when Ashura arrives do you feel the sense of depression the sense of sadness going into you because it does fall into a random in the half of a random month so you get that feeling of sadness do you also get that feeling or is that just just a random feeling that anyone feels yeah absolutely unfortunately the line is not very clear so I can't have everything you are saying so I think I get the gist of it and you know the sense of sadness and sorrow is always going to be in the air and I think the majority of us commemorating Ashura yeah in a country other than the Holy Land of Karbala I wish we could be there in Karbala so Insha'Allah next year everyone who wants to to be there Insha'Allah will be able to have a little fit to be in Karbala Insha'Allah because honestly I know you've made it to Karbala and you know it's honestly it's a beautiful vibe I mean how many times have you been to Karbala can you tell us yeah I've been maybe three times to Karbala but you know I've been to and you know other other dates such as that but never for Ashura the first ten days of Muharram so Insha'Allah next year hopefully Insha'Allah you can come during Muharram because honestly being here in Karbala is a blessing you see everyone just you know just energetic to serve Al-Hussain I can hear the مواكب behind me the you know the cups for teas you know hitting each other you can hear them from right here it's beautiful but what have you prepared for us tonight sorry what have you prepared for us tonight and I have a I have a poem on the Sun Zoom Al-Hussain it's entitled how many sons die on Ashura so it's you know it's about the son of Imam Hussein and the you know the nephews of Imam Hussein before on the day of Ashura beautiful beautiful thoughts I mean can you share that with us Insha'Allah with the Salawat Muhammad O Allah Abbas and Hussein watch their sister the children of Zainab thirsty with their dry tongues destroy that army a proud Zainab Hussein broken Abbas's hands embrace all three and in armor of their grandfather they ride into the battlefield young boys against the strongest men men reminded of Ali then and Zainab's calls are not for her sons but for her mother's son Hussein how many sons die on Ashura a parched tongue seen in a dry mouth in checking his own Hussein weeps with no ears and no voice he weeps as blood from the heart of Akbar seeps and this land of and this desert land of heartache becomes a land of mountains steep how is Hussein return back carrying his son on a spear the mother of one Ali falls as the mother of Hussein calls someone take from him this body and protects my son Hussein how many sons die on Ashura a baby wrapped in Hussein's arms no army left and left unfed how did Hussein carry him out and walk along the path he'd bled cries ringing in his voice he cried oh father and his son he lifted Ali Al-Asgar was exposed listened the sunlight on his forehead he saw the arrow and said a prayer flooded his hands in the dry air was there another moment as painful for the son Hussein how many sons die on Ashura the sweetness of Qasim's words ring and the heart of Hussein they sting I can offer you no water but the reply I want nothing I can hear death surrounding me and I see my father calling I see your mother and her tears and awaiting Abbas his wings death for me sweeter than honey to meet my father and to meet Ali and collect the trampled pieces of Qasim the son Hussein how many sons die on Ashura resting on a bed of roses resting on a bed of roses no one comes here no one comes near or opposes anyone who dares to approach Hussein a winner discloses a knife one man wants to brandish to murder to murder the son he poses a raised hand how many hearts break whales heard from Noah and Moses the father of Yusuf his torn he searches for his sons shirt torn as the thorns begin to cut the body of the son Hussein how many sons die on Ashura اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم اللهم صلى الله عليه وسلم it's beautiful how you mentioned how many sons die on Ashura basically to answer that question the sons of Ahl al-Bayt are butchered on Ashura but what's also tragic is what happens after Ashura to the daughters of Ahl al-Bayt yes the sons were killed on Ashura but the daughters of Ahl al-Bayt it's just tragic what happens to them so absolutely right that's another tragedy in itself which requires another separate poem it does insha'Allah and come back insha'Allah on another day insha'Allah and very beautifully we thank you very much and we hope Allah SWT give you the ability and the strength and the courage to continue serving Ahl al-Bayt عليهم السلام and another you know tonight is something very beautiful I was talking about it earlier according to different cultures this night is dedicated to someone different for us the Arabic culture it's for for the Indo-Pak communities it's for and the Persians for now how do you connect with these individuals and Fatima العليلة good question I think that for a lot of us maybe similar to me you know men older men younger men youth who or even older women we find it sometimes to connect to certain personalities yes who we remember tragedy of Karbala but I think something like a young girl who was born who left behind or someone like who was brought with who was brought with we can always relate to them in the sense that we all know we all have our knees or even someone that we know our friends daughters a young girl that we've known and we can by thinking about them I remember their tragedy when they went through yes insha'Allah and honestly for the ones who are married and have kids that first child or forget about the first child but any child that comes into their life it's so precious to them yet we find even that most precious thing was taken away from them it was taken away from him and I would like thank you very much for joining us tonight and hopefully we can have you in the upcoming nights insha'Allah you know we have come to the end thank you very much thank you very much once again respect the viewers thank you very much for joining us tonight hopefully insha'Allah tomorrow we can touch upon a different idea and a different perspective a different perspective of Muharram and how this month can revolutionize our mentalities and change our perspective on life and perspective on humanity in general once again thank you very much والسلام عليكم ورحمة الله 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I think it'll be an illness reported on the on the injury report. COVID illness? Illness. What's your concern level for obviously a hugely significant player for the game? No designation. First of all, it's been good to see him back. You know, that was a player that had improved, that had gone in, gotten better each and every week and was really starting to play well, building some confidence, you know, and then had to, you know, suffered an injury, required a few weeks and so this was the return to play and we'll see kind of how he responded to the last couple days of practice and then to try to make a decision on him obviously before the game. When you're deciding like who's going to wear the green dot headset, like how much, what factors into that and just like with the way modern offenses are, because a lot of times it's a linebacker and you know, you've got to shuffle them off the field in certain packages. Yeah, well you'd like to try to have somebody that doesn't come off the field, right?  So, you know, there's a lot of things that go into that, but most importantly is probably you'd like to find the one that is out there that is communicating in the middle part of the defense so that you can get it on both ends and I know that, you know, some teams have a safety, you know, a lot of people do it differently, but predominantly it's been a linebacker. How many men and the authentic woman do pass protection last week and Adrian just talked about that you guys do things a little differently in what you require running backs to pass growth and so forth. Yeah, I'm sure that's going to be the case everywhere we go.  And so, you know, I would say that the majority of those guys, what they did last week was on first and second down. You know, a role for Jeremy's on third down and Jeremy does a great job with that and so, you know, I think when the pressure came or when they brought people on first and second down, I thought they were, you know, they were efficient in what they do.  What's my job and so special for them? And if he doesn't play, do you see maybe the same things, just Ingram, just a bigger, heavier guy? Well, they put a lot on his plate.   You know, I mean, it breaks a lot of tackles. I've always had a lot of respect for him. I think he catches the ball well. He's a good route runner. He'll protect. You know, I watched Seattle. He comes back and, you know, protects Adam. You know, when he blitzes, he's not afraid to run in between the tackles. You know, it's not like this is just toss sweeps and he runs the entire offense. He gets downhill when he has to get downhill and he's a really good player. Are you in a position where maybe you have to consider putting Julio on the IR to get past the hamstring issue? I don't know if we're in a position to do really anything. We're just trying to find 48 guys that are available, that can help the team win. And, you know, that's a decision that we end up making, we'll make, but I don't think we're in that position at all. You think a second week of practice and one game under Adrian Peterson's belt will, you know, help him going into this weekend? I mean, I think, I think blocking better and running better will help anybody that's back there, you know. I think that, you know, he's practiced well. Him and Deontay have practiced well and, you know, the verbiage and understanding and, you know, where things may be on certain runs that we have and where the cut may be, not that you could anticipate anything like that, but I think the more that he sees it, the more that he's back there in the backfield for us, hopefully that helps. What about maybe sometimes being two quick first blockers, maybe being a little bit too overeager? Is that something that you've done? I've done a lot of things in this league and take a handoff and run with it has been one that I haven't done. So I'm just going to let the run, you know, there are running backs for a reason.  Like, hey, run over here. I'm blocking over here. Like just turn and block and we give the guy the ball and they know what to do with it. Do you have hamstrings this week? Any in-house considerations as to why that's been such a popular injury on this thing? I think that they're popular, you know, soft tissue injuries are something that the entire competitive athletic world deals with. You know, we'll continue to moderate, you know, whether they're high or not.  So everybody has a part in trying to take care of the health and safety of the player. You know, we're not panicking. We're not changing the way that we structure practice. You know, we walk through on Wednesday and we stretch, we ran striders. I would say that that's not something that would load the player. And so we just have to make sure that as we work our way through the games and we see how guys feel and, you know, that we're staying on top of this stuff. You think the schedule of the year maybe leads to more soft tissue injuries? It's been like this, you know, forever. And again, I don't think anybody has a definite answer. I know that I listened to the information that's provided from the NFL. I listened to the information that's provided from the NFLPA, the coaches talk, you know, I mean, how we structure practice or conscious of our days off or conscious of regeneration days. I mean, 10 years ago there was, I didn't know what regeneration day is when we were in middle of 10, two days in training camp. Like nobody knew what any of this stuff was. But we're trying to focus on those things.  So it's just, it's a process. You know, we understand that our game, our business, our fans, this is all because of the players and the athletes. And the more that you can have the athlete out there and available, the better the team can be and the better the product is.  You know, what's that like? I'm not going to get into those discussions. But I would say that we use three things that I've referenced here before that I've tried to explain to you whether you wrote it down or whether you kept the recording, but it's, can they make it worse? Can they do their job up to the standard that we expect it? And can they take care of themselves in battle?  As you guys witness each and every week, you know, watching these games. So those are what I have to ask. And those are the questions that I ask and I try to get feedback from a lot of different people. Then I make a decision. If that helps. If I could get one more green dot question. You, yeah, I believe when you played, they didn't have that. No, they did. I didn't play that long ago, Teron. No, they did. They did, Teron. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. How much of a difference does it make? Because I'm sure you've been on the field where the green dot wasn't able to be used. So how much does it difference does that make just communication-wise on the field? You know, I think it, one thing it's done is it's forced, I liked it when you're signaled, right? Because then everybody had, it forced everybody to look over there. You know, and so again, when we're in two minute, you know, we don't have time and the offense is going fast. You don't have time to like rely on one guy to try to get 10 other guys the call. So a part of me likes everybody looking over there and getting the signal so that they can understand what's going on and they're engaged early on in the play as opposed to just sitting there and waiting for it to come through and having somebody tell you what the call is. And so it does help though that you're not signaling, you know, and then the DBs can get the call and the safety can echo it to the corners and the linebacker can communicate it to the front end. But there is a certain part of me that thinks that the guys, you know, put it on them to engage and actively look over and get the call, you know, and we've done okay with that.  We've had our quarterbacks, you know, they go out and we have a system set up for our quarterbacks to be able to get into a play based on the personnel and give them a menu of things to do when the headsets go out. What do you have to be able to do really just try to make the game better, you know, that's, it's a great honor. Try to focus on the areas improvement, you know, just trying to make the game better, you know, make it a better product and try to make it obviously safer and the best that we can. Pollution service, I guess, Veterans Day weekend, that extra unique maybe across the NFL maybe even day back of your day as a player. Yeah, I think that that's important. I think that this is a phenomenal opportunity to recognize the 19 or so million living veterans in our country that are family members, that are friends, and I had an opportunity to explain to the team about Veterans Day and, you know, Armistice Day and how it started on the 11th hour, you know, November 11th and Congress changing it to Veterans Day and I had an opportunity when I was in Kansas City to go visit the VA hospital and spend some time with those men. There was a VA hospital near Arrowhead and, you know, those men and women, they don't come back. Sometimes they don't come back the same as when they left and I think we need to be conscious of that just like in our game, you know, they suffer from headaches, body aches, concussions, anxiety, much like pro football players do when they're done, except the pensions and the 401K and the annuities probably aren't, I guarantee, aren't the same. So I think it's a great thing for that, you know, we do and I hope our players are mindful of that and respectful of that.


Also very hard Yep, that was a rough hit What's up, everybody? Welcome back. We are here on dirt rally 2.0 It's definitely been a minute since we've been on dirt rally and I missed the update for Germany But we're gonna do some Germany runs here today because I believe we have two daily challenges I believe in Germany and Germany used to be my favorite track. It looks like we have a weekly challenge of eight stages and a daily challenge of one So we're gonna try and run a little bit a couple of those here for today But Germany was my favorite rally stage in the original dirt rally So we're gonna, you know get into that today and we're gonna do the daily challenge It looks like I gotta buy a vehicle. Oh boy. What are we gonna buy? So we got Subaru's and Evo's This vehicle needs some repairs It's really not much cheaper than a new one I'm not sure if I want to get a Subaru Evo I think we're gonna go with the Evo So we're gonna buy the Lancer and use that for today and it looks like we can go straight into there Yep, start event. Let's go. We're just gonna go with a stock car and Hopefully we can do some good here in Germany Well, of course we run in Don't remember if I know this course, but We're definitely gonna give it a shot. Like I said, Germany was my favorite track in the original dirt rally and Definitely cool to see it here in dirt rally 2.0. So we're gonna get The wheel cam turned on. We do have our full fan tech Handbrake. We do have the shifter set into sequential mode since we are, you know, doing a rally game and We're just gonna go full send didn't practice this track. Let's run a quick shake down Five four three two one Go 200 See how this handles It's getting a little scatty Don't cut 80 I should have went down to first 60 Definitely get the feels back here Into rally 2.0. Definitely like whoa, like I said, it's been a minute. Don't want to wreck our car And for a first shakedown not too bad So first shakedown not too bad. We're gonna do one more quick shakedown Five four just to see we can improve one I think we should switch our tires to softened tires Go I'm good Oh we did better on the first one oh Oh, that's a rock We're gonna have to repair our car and That's gonna put us into actually doing the main stage. We're on medium. So we're gonna go soft And we're gonna repair the vehicle And we're gonna go straight into it Good thing. It was only lights and body work So we are gonna be on softs and Hopefully we chose the right decision. It looks like we're all smooth asphalt and concrete and cobblestone. So we should be good on the softs Daily challenge their rally 2.0 Germany Let's see where we place. Hopefully we can make a full stage without wrecking ourselves Two minutes and 37 seconds. All right See where we place five four three two one Go Make sure we didn't screw up on our start to get a penalty It's a ball left opens We're trying to stay a little bit Smoother than last time and try not to go super crazy Into the grass Don't cut 80 Unseen square left with a handbrake pole 60 There we go So I feel like I'm much comfortable on tarmac rally than I am certain stuff like that, but that's kind of a Road racing and drifting and all that help when we are still behind But I don't know if that's over the main time or not. So I said, I don't expect to be the fastest driver here That was bad The world's fastest driver in this game or for the state of the challenges what kind of just this just want to beat them Into it there we go to rally 2.0 definitely something else on a wheel Keep it going It's just practice the stage before That was a nice turn that was actually probably the best turn I've done so far today All the way down the first love having the sequential Gearbox option on my rig That turn was a little bit deceptive It's also very hard. Oh Yep, that was a rough hit. Oh Man Do we all we have blown entire employee in I was gonna say it's hard for me to hear What my co-driver is saying What I'm trying to talk as well Oh, yeah We got out square a puncture tire. It's gonna limp it through run rim That's not good. This did not turn Out at all see how I planned Trying to limp a damaged car to the finish Cheese so we did finish the stage, but uh with a very damaged car And at three minutes and 30 seconds That felt good, but let's check the times that didn't feel good at all So if you guys have done this challenge, what have you gotten? I know it was a little late with this day of the challenge here Oh boy 3210 All right, well That is uh, that is where we sit in this challenge, so Unfortunately not the Result I was looking for but unfortunately we misjudged that turn and hit pretty freaking hard So now we're gonna repair our Evo got some money in the bank So we should be good think we're gonna go into the other Germany stages maybe for the weekly challenge We got where we got here daily challenge here daily challenge But we want to do the bonus ones So we may start One stage here in the daily challenge and I feel like we're gonna drive the Citroen And we may do one stage here in the weekly challenge in Germany So if you guys like this and you want to see more of their rally don't forget to tap like button I do appreciate all the support and don't forget to subscribe for now subscriber as always Comments down below. I try and be very active in the comment section. Follow me on facebook Twitter and instagram all of your fun description box below So our back rally They do this one stage and then Probably in this episode off on this stage, so we're just what's up with the tires It looks like both dry and wet conditions. Oh Hmm may influence So what do we got dry and wet? Hmm It's gonna run what's recommended gonna run a quick shakedown five four three 56 left of a crest 80 five right of a crest into deceptive four left two right of a crest long To fly middle of a jump. Oh my Six left of a dip. That's not a I guess when he says deceptive he means deceptive It left try to switch it up a view maybe opens 120 nope Don't switch views when you're trying to rally six right of a crest long 250 to open head in white. We definitely need to Play this game some more I think we're just gonna try running hood view this time And see how we do Hopefully we don't wreck like we just did Hardcore in our shakedown So we're gonna repair the vehicle standard fix standard fix firm And well here we go first stage Love this week of challenge In the citron starts 50 six left of a crest 80 five right of a crest Good luck. I don't think we're gonna get five minutes That's what the uh fastest time is all right second stage Up today the first stage of this new challenge Did we use this time? 50 50 that's we weren't gonna totally kill ourselves there Because we did in shakedown We saved that I don't know how Somehow saved that hairpin from crashing it again Definitely slower, but you know what? I'm no pro rally driver I'm just trying to zoom up and definitely need to play this game more to be super smooth on it How are we gonna overshoot that? But 60 of a crest six left 50 Kind of getting 120 of a crest flow of this again I'm gonna take that a little bit quicker Onto it Whoa We held on to it We're good Went into the crowd of people and we're not even in a Mustang This is probably some of the hardest Runs I've done in a very long time and I am not sure If it's the car or if it's a lack of playing the game, but uh not doing the best That I've ever done before The rally games especially the rally two going out are very very difficult on a wheel And it's an extreme workout I wasn't building myself with that car rail Chicanes He said don't cut I almost cut I almost broke the front end of the car I'm trying to finish this stage without wrecking because we have another stage to do I'm just trying to save the car There's a lot of ones Now I'm getting flow And now we're getting the flow now we're getting the feels Took almost half the stage to get there though, but we're good Square right yeah, I can see that square and it's got a grill going on over there. I want some food But I don't want to go find it because I'll get another 52nd penalty Oh, he said don't cut just that good Not straight does not feel comfortable I don't know something does not feel right in the right front of the car I'm hitting that uh rock We're gonna try to finish this. Oh, I thought I was gonna skate over there Sooner They keep saying don't cut and I cut now I dash both corners of my car I'm hoping we didn't puncture a tire or damage anything worth Damaging too bad You don't have any check engine lines check controls or anything Oh my Don't do that because you would have went flying off track and I probably could have saved that for the game reset me So definitely not how I expected it to go here today to make sure you guys follow me on instagram and twitter And uh you guys want to keep seeing more dirt rallies, but no let me know down at the college as well There's always like thank you guys for watching. I'm even rabbit and I will see you guys next time. That's not too bad