Welcome to Psychic Medium, Tony Green. We are going to have an amazing show here tonight. Unfortunately, blog talk is down again, so we're just going to be doing questions and answers from YouTube, the chat, YouTube chat. So if you do have a question, please join us on YouTube and post your question. I'll be happy to answer it. Hopefully by Monday, blog talk will be back up again and we'll be able to take callers then. To start the show off, I just want to say, listen, seriously, everybody please, please listen. Last Monday, Monday, I did a show and I went on live on Facebook, one of my Facebook pages, and it's my Facebook page, and people were commenting there. And of course somebody who was a scammer slid in and started telling one of the people commenting, oh, like me on my page, I can tell you what's going on. And of course, she has this person have the title of Psychic Medium. And within moments of that particular person liking the page, they found out this person was a scammer. I don't even know the name, I just blocked them. Please don't get scammed. Please don't fall for anybody who has to troll somebody else's page. That should tell you everything. That's like somebody, that's like Burger King walking into McDonald's and saying, hey, buy our burgers. Like, I don't know, that was a horrible analogy. I'm just saying, don't get scammed. If they're commenting where you're commenting on any of my social media, just report them, ignore them, but do not get scammed.  I can really, no, they can't. No, no, they're not going to. They're just starting to slowly get money out of you and pull more and more. I've had people come to my office and tell me that in a year, they have paid 50,000 to some psychic to help them get back to their partner. And another person told me they paid 80,000 to some psychic to help them get back to their partner. Neither person is back with their partner. And they were coming to me to see what I could do. And I'm like, I can tell you move on. You're not getting your money back. And you're not getting your partner back. So please, the moral of the story here is do not get scammed. Do not get sucked in by these people who are scamming so many people. Please don't do it. Please be very, don't be, this is the best way I can say it. When you're making a choice, don't make a choice out of desperation. Take your emotions out and look at, is this a very logical, good choice, and then make it? Okay, that's all I'm going to say about getting scammed today and trying to help you not get scammed. And it's not only me. It's any good reputable psychic, psychic, medium, anybody. I hear a lot of other people who are on social media just getting on, doing their thing, saying the same thing, because there's so many fakes and trolls out there doing this sort of thing. Okay, I'm going to go straight into the names. So this could be your name, your loved one's name, or somebody you know's name. And if I say a name, even if somebody says, oh, that's my uncle, that's my cousin, that's my brother, and you know somebody, it could be for both of you. Please don't think because somebody else claimed the name, it's not also your name or for you. So first, we're going to start with names. And the first name I'm hearing is John, Luigi, Lawrence, Mikhail, Mikhail, Mikhail, I keep checking to make sure that's it. That's the name it is. It's Mikhail. The next name is, okay, this guy is sometimes when I get names, it can be the name of a place or pet or whatever. Buena Vista is the next name or word, whatever we want to call it. The next one is Lorencia, Lorencia. If I repeat it, I'm just confirming it, I pronounced it correctly. Giuseppe Goldie, I knew a Goldie back in the day. I love that girl. Oh my gosh, I love that girl. I knew a Goldie back in the day. She was, I knew a Goldie back in the, okay, so Goldie, Mariana. If it takes me a moment, I'm trying to get the correct pronoun as close to the correct pronunciation as I can. Papina or Papina. I'm sorry if I'm not pronouncing some of these names correctly. I really am doing my best. Chelsea, thank you. I mean, is you Chelsea? Morgan, Zieta, Z-A-A-Z, anything that sounds like that is it. Robert, Jim, Locasta, or Locasta, whichever one that is. Olivia, wow. Nian Zieta, Nian Zieta is, Jesus. Okay, I just have to stop names because I don't want to say any names and because they're really, it's really, yeah, we're going to stop names there. We're going to go songs. I love the songs. I love the music. Okay, first and foremost, no, I cannot sing, but I'm going to do it anyway. If it hurts your ears, don't worry, you're not the only one. It hurts a lot of people's ears. Sometimes it even hurts my own ears, but Spirit wants me to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to come through with what Spirit wants for you. Okay, the songs can be a song your loved one loved or liked, you loved or liked, you listened to together or, and most importantly, the song can be an answer to a question that you have something you've been wondering what to do, how to do it, where to go, what to do. And the first thing I'm hearing is that song. Okay, that's a song. I know I missed a lot of words in there, but I did the best I could. That's all you can ask of anyone. Okay, the next song is Oh, let it be, let it be words of wisdom. Something let it be. And I'm sorry, I did miss a group of words in there also, but let it be if you know, you know, if it's your song, please own the song. Duchess is a name that's coming through and remember these can be pets, they can be loved ones, they can be nicknames. But I'm going to go back to songs. The next song is take it to the limit one more time. The next song is there's something that's saying make me an offer. Now, I'm not sure if this is a song, or if this is the answer to a question or what you're supposed to say to somebody make me an offer. Make me an offer and make it good. That's what I'm hearing for that message. Oh, let's do that. Let's just do messages from loved ones. What would they tell you to say and it can be for anybody if it fits if it's when I'm still doing songs, I'm still doing songs. We are still doing songs. The next song and or message is I can hear the words. I vaguely know the song. I'm waiting for the main verse. I might not get it. I'm sorry if it comes in stronger, it's like so it's coming from somebody who's not close. Can you do better? They're saying can you do better? No, apparently I can't. I would already be singing it if I could. It's because a couple of loved ones are trying to push songs through at the same time. So this is a song but then every time I start, another song interferes with it. Come on, come on, give it to me. Okay, one of the songs is Lady in Red and that's a song that's interfering with the first song. And the first song though is a really, it's a really good song. Wait, come on. Okay, I'm sorry, I just can't get that song but we're gonna, don't worry, don't worry. I'm gonna do two more songs and or messages and then I'm gonna go to questions and in between I will be getting songs and so on and so forth so it's not over when it's, when I'm done doing this part we'll still get more. The next song is, or the next message, here we go. Something about let it rain. Well, it's been raining a lot where I am. And then the next song is sitting on the duck of the bay. Oh, I love that's a man. That's a song. Isn't that just a song? That is such a song. Watch it. I like the original artist of that song also. I know that song's been redone but I love the the raspiness of the, not raspy but the the original artist. I love their voice in that song. I love it. And one more. I'm just gonna throw one more in for good measure. Drift away. Okay, that's it. That's it for songs. Okay, now I'm going to go to questions. As I'm as I'm answering questions I'm going to ask that when I start answering your question or put your question on the screen, please in the please have interaction with me so that we I can get confirmations while we're doing it. So the first one is Anton. Anton, please to meet you, please to meet you also Anton. I'm contemplating a job in Dover MA. I have a meet with the owner next week. Any thoughts about this position for me? Yeah, the first thing I hear is professionalism, professionalism, professionalism. Anton, I'm scrolling back down so I can see your replies. Where are you originally from? Where are you from right now? And that's the first thing I'm going to ask. The second thing I'm going to ask or say they're just saying professionalism, bring your most professional game. It's going to be a completely different environment for you. You're going to have a different type of environment once you're there. I feel like there's a complete like England living in Connecticut. Okay, I'm going to tell you it's going to be a good switch, a good trade or switch is the word they're using. Please let me know if that makes sense. I feel like the company is really going to like you but you can't when you are there be completely professional even if you feel like it's casual, it's not. Be professional no matter what from arrival to end. Even if you're going overnight, just prep for this. Anton, that's what I'm hearing. I hope that makes sense. I know you want to know are you going to get an offer from this company? I feel like you are. I feel like you're going to get an offer. Make sure it's enough for everything you're going to be doing and I hope that makes sense to you also Anton. Make sure it's enough for everything you're going to be doing. Meaning if you're relocating, meaning the cost of living, all of it. Make sure it's enough for all of that. Okay, excellent. I am going to take the questions in the order that they have been received. So please if you are on Facebook watching, please keep your questions there. Keep it nice on Facebook folks. I was really hesitant to post anything on Facebook this evening, just because just a lot of just a lot of not not the best stuff on Facebook. The past couple shows that I posted on Facebook. So let me rise. Hey, how are you, Michelle? For work, traveling for work, living in hotels right now. Oh, Michelle, that's my dream life. I love traveling. I love, I almost said escaping. It's so true. I do. I love like escaping to other places. I hope you're going to nice places, Michelle. A2715. I'm just going to call you A from now on. Hey, how are you, Stephanie? Let's take your, I think you have a question. I'm going to post it up here. Hey, Tony, I hope you are well. You too, Stephanie. Thank you so much. I recently met someone, I recently met someone that may evolve. Would you be able to tell me anything about this? Stephanie, I'm going to go to the bottom. Stephanie, please tell me just the first name of this person, if you don't mind, and their age, the person and their, if you know their age or their approximate age, and I'll tell you why in a second. Just only the first name though, I don't want anything other than that. And it's because I'm going to, I'll tell you as soon as I get that. 43, first name, Justin. Okay, Justin, 43, and Stephanie, tell me a little bit about them. It's good, so far so good. I'm going to ask, I'm going to do it a little bit differently. Tell me three things that are going to be good about this relationship, and three things that are not going to be good. We're going to do the three things that are going to be really good about this relationship first, and communication is going to be really good. Intimacy is going to be on point. That doesn't mean rush it. Take your time, do it right, baby. Why did that song just come out of my mouth? Oh my gosh. That does not mean rush it by no means. And the third thing that's going to be good is what's the third thing that's going to be good about this relationship, or these, Justin and Stephanie is good cooking. So if one of you can cook, or you two cook together, or maybe it's just the food that's good, okay. The three things that you are going to have to kind of, let's say work on, or watch out for. One of you may not be as honest as the other, okay. That's the first thing I heard was lies. So that's a deal breaker for me, even with friends. That's a frickin deal breaker with me. Because once somebody lies to you, then you never know if what they're saying about anything is true. And I just, I don't have time for that. Like at this point in our life, we're not on a playground anymore playing. This is real grown up stuff. And if you can't come to the table, honestly, don't come to the table. I don't care how good the intimacy is.  Okay, what's the second thing they have to worry about? Or the second thing that they could, that Stephanie needs to look for that may not be so great in this relationship is trepidation. And I think that's on your part. I get a yes on that trepidation, like, you know, being really what we know what trepidation is. So trepidation on your part. But if somebody's lying, and it's not you, Stephanie, then yeah, have some trepidation. Um, and I think I just, I just think someone might have, if not now in the future, someone might have a meddling family member that might get in the way.  In some families, it is. It really is. So yeah. So be if if now I'm gonna, I'm just gonna jump back to the lie part. If it's something to just, just a, no, I can't justify lying. I just can't. I'm sorry. If you can, it's okay if you can live with that. It's okay for you, for me. I just can't. I can't even say, well, if it's a lie about, no, I can't. I'm sorry. I can't. You guys comment, how do you feel about if somebody tells a lie, even just one lie? Is it a, is it a deal breaker? Because I just think if somebody lies once, they're gonna do it again. Um, I just feel that way. I do. But that's me personally. Don't go on mine. Now I am gonna tell you, Stephanie, the chances of this working out are good. They're not saying great. Is it gonna, I would say go slow. I was gonna say, is this gonna work out? And I got the answer. I feel like you have a six month, a good six month run with this. I do feel like, again, I'm hearing lies. I do feel like you're gonna find out that some of the things that you might be, you might find out some of the things aren't as accurate as you thought they might be. It's up to you what to do with that. I feel like you're gonna walk. And then I hear this on one of these days, these boots are gonna walk all over you. Ready boots? Yeah, they are. Now this, I will say this, okay? Sometimes people try to hide something. It could be a habit or an addiction. Maybe that's it. I don't know. You're gonna have to do the the deep dive on it. Okay. I'm gonna go to the next question again. If you, okay, so something I didn't say at the beginning of the show. This show airs live on WSCS and all of their channels and streaming and everything WSCS and all of the channels they're associated with. It also airs on Rude Rangers TV and all of their streaming channels, their radio stations, and everything Rude Rangers. It's on almost every podcast and I can't, my mind is blank. And I go live every Monday at noon and every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Both of those times said, girl, I always say I'm gonna do a pop-up show. Just come on and say, Hey, I don't always have time because I'll have clients. But if you're subscribed on whatever you're watching, you'll know when I'm gonna do a pop-up show. I've been starting conversations in my TikToks. So if you are following me on TikToks, I started this thing today. I do healings and clearings there, but today I started this thing called Let's Talk About It. It's pretty good. It's very good. So go over there and let's talk about it. Okay. Next, I have Lynn. Is it Lynn? Yes, Lynn. Okay. Hi, Tony. You answered a question for me on Monday from my husband, Mark. The first thing you said was the name Edgar, wondering if that is a guy I will meet. Thank you very much, Lynn. Hey, Lynn. Is Edgar someone she's gonna meet? Nope. Is Edgar somebody? Okay, I'm gonna say this. I hear family member and I asked two different ways and I'm gonna tell you, I don't know if it's your family member or somebody in Mark's lineage that was a family member or friend to him. I do feel like the person you're going to meet you'll know. I'm just hearing you'll know. You're just gonna know. Okay, that's what I'm hearing. I hope that's helpful. But is Edgar the name of the person? No, you know, no matter how I ask it, I'm getting a solid no on that. Okay, sweetie. I hope that was helpful. Okay. I'm gonna go to the next question. Sorry about that, folks. Hi, Tony. I turned down the initial insurance negotiation offer for the hurricane to my property last year. Now I regret it and I wanted to know if I can get the insurance company to give me the offer again. You know what I'm gonna say to you? 2715, I feel like a better offer is gonna come in just because you turned it down. It doesn't mean that they are not responsible and they don't have to pay you. If you can, this is what I'm hearing and I am channeling. If you can prove cause and expense, they will have to take care of it. I understand the process may be long and daunting, but if you can stick to it, it'll be worth it on your end. Okay, it's a game that some insurance companies pay that they know if they wait you out, you will become desperate and take whatever they offer. Don't, don't, don't, don't. Okay, that's the answer I'm getting for you. And if need be, get new, if you can't get new estimates, get Google or AI. That's something I didn't know I'd be saying in a show. So that makes me giggle. Laws for insurance companies with their quote and how to word it, especially AI, how to word it to the insurance company. AI will write that whole thing out for you using legal jargon.  If you, what I'm hearing is that if you use AI and ask them to quote the laws and yada yada, go for it and see what happens. Okay, love. I hope that's helpful. Okay, Michelle, hey, I am going to go down to the, hey, word, then applause. How are you today? Happy to have you here. If you have a question, pop it in, I'll get to it. Word, then applause does. I don't understand that question. Ward, wonder what happens to me standing one year later. Can you please explain that a little bit for me? Even though Spirit answers it, I still need to understand it in my head as I go through it. Michelle wants to know, does Casey have any message for me, my late husband? Yes, it's a song. Keep it coming, love. Keep it coming, love. Don't stop it now, don't stop it now. Love yourself, don't let it go. Okay, those are not the words, but that's the way it came through.  The other message is, don't give up. Everything's about to blossom or open up. Don't discount or get rid of people before you know. So like if somebody comes into your life, don't right away start to push them away or make justifications or reasons of why it's not going to, why they're not the best person or what shouldn't be in your life, whatever that is. And Michelle, that's what Casey would say for you. Okay, I am going to go to the next one. Anton, thank you. Anton says, I think you were spot on. Thank you, Anton. I appreciate that. Okay. I am going to go to Jasmine. If I see your name and you've already asked a question, I'm assuming that you're responding and I'm not going to go through the whole message on air. So for example, so yes, so I'm going to go to, I'm going to go to this one next. And this is Jasmine. Jasmine wants to know hello, please. My name is Yasmine. Yasmine. Sorry, I mispronounced any message about workplace. Yasmine, can you make that a little bit more defined for me? So I don't have to, so I can just have that a little bit. Okay, Yasmine, if I were to just say, tell me something about Yasmine for work, the message I get is it's coming soon. Whatever you want is going to be, it's going to be there soon. Don't get frustrated, but keep what they're showing me and the feeling I get from it. And please let me know, Yasmine, if this makes sense, that you get up every day with a new attitude, a good attitude, and like hit the ground running. And don't get frustrated over what doesn't work. Just stay focused on what does work. And remember, I need to say this, Yasmine, I hope it makes sense for you. What I need to say for you is if you have been asking for specific things, remember, they are going to bring you what you're asking for. So anything less than what you're asking for will not work out for you, because it's not what you want. So hold true to what you want, what you truly, truly want. Will I stay in my actual work or change to another enterprise? Will I change soon? My supervisor name is La La La. And my actual project manager name is La La La. Okay. Again, Yasmine, what I'm going to say is, do you, I feel like you want to change. I feel like you get frustrated about things where you are. I feel like you feel like they're not giving you enough. And you want to change. So if you are looking for a change, if you want to change to a different enterprise, it will be there. You just have to hold true to what you want.  But if you're at a place where you are getting frustrated, and you are not feeling worthy, for lack of a better word, or like, it's just frustrating, right? Then the reason that is, is because you're supposed to be looking for something new. Yasmine, I hope that's helpful for you. I can't tell you, okay, here's the way I'm going to say this for you and everybody else. What I can say to you is, I don't tell people, oh, you're, you're going to get something new, or you're going to meet this guy at this time. What I say is, if you are looking, you will get what you're looking for. If you are not looking, it's not going to come.  If you are frustrated, and you want to know about a position, if you're not applying for other positions, they're not going to come knock on your door and ask you about it. I will also tell you that if you do truly want something new, it will be right there when you're very serious about it. And that's the best way I can say that. There is a position that will be coming that you could fill in June, but you have to be sure you want to change companies and or is this a promotion? No, it's not a promotion. You have to be sure that you are ready to completely change everything. And then there is another position in July, but you might have to relocate for that position. So again, could you get the position in July that you in July? Absolutely. Are you willing to relocate? I don't know. You might say no, it's not worth it to relocate. I like it where I am. I can tell you what's probable and possible. I cannot tell you what you personally are going to do because you could even change your mind at the very last minute. And that's for anybody in any reading at all, private or on my show. Everybody has free will. And even if you accept a position or partner, you can decline it because you do have free will. You don't have to do anything that you don't feel or you change your mind about or that is not in your heart. This whole universe, this whole world is about doing what you love and loving what you do and feeling it and making those moves when it's right for you and you feel it. And I hope that's helpful. Okay. I really do hope that's helpful for you and you understand. Lisa, Lisa, let's go to you. Hi, Tony. I'm pregnant. Congratulations. And having having a boy. Sorry. I cannot decide on a name for a boy. Can you tell me what the name will be? Okay. I cannot name your baby for you. I do feel like one thing I am hearing, Lisa, I hear grandfather, grandfather, grandfather. So it's possible a grandfather's name, maybe either the first name or the middle name for the child, whichever way that goes. The one thing I will always say to everybody is watch out when you're using names that have never been used before or are very rare because names have meanings for the behaviors of the person. And you want to pick a name that suits a strong, you know, good person, not a name that's, oh, let's use this name because nobody's ever used this name before. So that is what I will tell you. The first thing I am hearing is a grandfather's surname. I don't know what that means, a surname. But whatever that means for you, I hope that works for you. And I'm going to go to the next question. Yes, congratulations. Hey, Amy May. Hey, let me rise. Elizabeth, what do you see in my financial future? Money coming in. Yes, I immediately hear, yes, I hear some. It's not going to be as much as you would like it to be, but it is some. I do feel like whatever money you get, make it work for you is what I'm hearing. So if you get some money in, use it to either start or do something that will bring you more money. Now be careful if you're thinking, I'm going to take this money and I am going to use it for to invest in this multi-level or pyramid type of thing. No, that is not your answer. However, if you like, you already know what you can do to have a comeback, like to put it into something and bring it back. And that's very good. Now, if you don't, we can talk about that in a private thing, but use it, whatever this money is that's coming in, use it like as an investment. That's the word I'm getting. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, Brandy, any messages for me? Please and thank you. Brandy, usually I tell people to ask a more specific question, but you're already up on the screen. I'm going to just tap in and ask.  Please remember it's coming from spirit. What does Brandy, what does Brandy, what do you want to tell Brandy now? Brandy, the one thing I'm hearing is don't, don't, I don't know if you have been emotional lately, but I heard two songs, don't let the sun catch you crying and don't cry for me.  Okay, so Brandy, whatever's going on for you in this time, it's, and then, oh, Brandy, I need this girl down, tell me girl, tell me, does this make sense for you? I need that response. And then I'm hearing this from Annie, the sun will come out tomorrow. Please tell me, have you been having, even if you haven't been crying, have you been having a difficult time emotionally lately? Most of us have, I one million percent, get it. Brandy, what I'm going to tell you is you're about to go around a corner and things are about to, it's like you are going from one reality to a different reality that is flipped.  And when it flips back upside right, you are going to be so happy.  And it's going to be a really, really good situation for you. So please know you're about to go around a corner and it is about to be amazing for you. Brandy, I hope you did get that message and I hope it makes sense to you, sweetie. Okay. You are welcome, 2715. I'm going to put this up. Rachel asks, what's going on with my job? What should I do with it? Thank you so much. What should Rachel do with her job? I instantly here find another one. I mean, don't quit until you have something new. I will say that all day long every day, but it's time to start looking. I feel like whatever is going on there doesn't have, even if you're involved, it doesn't have as much to do with you as it does with politics or something else. But it doesn't, like they're saying that doesn't even matter. Just like it might be time to start looking for something that where you can go in and be in a better place. And then I'm hearing this. I don't know if this is the company you work for or I hope this message is still pertaining to you. I hear foreclosure, bankrupt. So your company, or unless this is for somebody else that I'm getting, because sometimes that happens, there's something with your company, they may have to do a buy a sell out or a buy off. And if they do, there will be a lot of changes. I feel like your company, wherever you're working behind the scenes, there is just a lot going on. So please start looking for something else. See if you can find something where you feel like there's not where you don't have to ask this question and see where that goes. Okay. I hope that's helpful for you. Okay. Yasmin, I think I already answered a question for Yasmin. So I'm going to go to the next person. Yasmin, if I have time, I'll come back. And so there are people who have asked two and three questions on here. I'm trying to get to at least answer one question from everybody asking questions. If I have time, I will go back and answer them. Okay. So here's one that is a scammer. So please don't listen to this scammer. We are going to do this. And we are going to do that. And there's that. So please you guys be very careful. See, this just tells me right here, I'm not going to continue to be able to go live on Facebook if these scammers come in and these little trolls come in and are doing that sort of thing on there. Very inappropriate and very troll and very icky. Just very icky. Okay. Hey Jennifer, how are you today? Okay. We're going to answer this one because this is actually a really good question. What should I do to balance my female and masculine, my feminine and masculine energy? So I'm going to do a clearing right now. Our feminine and masculine energy is balanced. I get a no. We're going to start to do that. One of the things just be you. Like this is the and I'm going to channel this and I'm going to say it in the best way I can. The authentic you knows exactly how to be in balance. It's when we start doing things or not doing things for or to please or to not upset other people or to cover for other people that we get out of balance. And I'm just going to give a couple of examples. If we are in a relationship or our partner needs us to put in put in if we're feminine and we're all of a sudden having to worry about the relationship, that's going to put us in our masculine and put so much stress on us. And don't ever be in that situation. Just jump out, let things repair. And if they can repair, you can get back in. But nine times out of 10, they can't. If you're in a work situation, and I know work situations, we can't always just walk away from them. But if you are in a work situation where you are stressed or walking on eggshells, that will take you out of your balance or your feminine masculine. And you will then have to when you get home, just go back into recalibration and start from your toes all the way up and do the white light and gold light all the way up and out to help you. The other thing you can come back to this show about the 48 minute mark and listen to the clearing again and again every day so that you can be balanced in your energy. I will say we naturally know how to be in our balanced energy and a lot of feminine people are worried about masculine and we shouldn't have to worry about being balanced in the masculine. We should be able to be feminine at all times.  If that's comfortable for you, don't come at me. Or do spa type things for yourself, do self-care. If you're a masculine that's getting a little too in the feminine, get to the gym box, lift weights, all of that produces more testosterone within you if you don't have a physically active position. And get off of processed food because processed foods, I have to be very, very careful what I say here. I'll get kicked off of another social media thing. Do the research on the ingredients or look up the companies themselves and find out because some companies literally create foods like there's a certain, I have to rhyme it, torn, clakes by Kellogg's was designed to deplete testosterone. Why? Why? So really research that, make sure you're eating the right foods, healthy foods, natural foods and those are some of the ways you can get back into your divine feminine or strong masculine, whichever way you want to be. Okay, Dennis, I'm curious if you have a message for me. Dennis, yes, there's, okay, Dennis, instantly I see an older man and woman, the man is wearing glasses. He's with a woman who's a little bit more slender. Dennis, I'm going to scroll down so you can reply, please let me know if these two people, I know I did not give the greatest description of them. Now these two people could be parents, grandparents, aunt and uncle, I'm not getting names, please don't have huge expectations when I have hundreds of energies around me and their message for you, their message from the other side is they're singing a song, working in a coal mine and I really don't know the song so that's all I can sing for you. I hope that that makes perfect sense for you and that you understand that song and it makes sense but the actual, that's the song and then the actual message is you're doing much better than you think. Don't, I hear that song, don't give up on us baby, we can still come through and I can't, I don't have that tone and then the next message I'm getting is take time to do things correctly or take the time to do things the way you want to do them or take the times to do things, okay so if they're talking about a relationship take time and do the things you need to do there but if they're talking about work take time to do it so you don't have to redo it. Whatever they're talking about it's take time to do it the right way, don't give up and keep like give it a, like give it a whirl. I really hope that makes sense to you. I don't know where I was but I think I was past that. Dennis there you are, okay. Okay Jennifer I have to do it this way so I know where I was and time is running out so I'm going to answer these next questions as quickly as possible so I can get to as many people as possible. Do you see me relocating back to New Jersey? No not anytime soon, if you do it'll be a year to a year and a half but I really don't see that happening now of course you have free will and you can do this. You can try to make it happen it's not in your best interest it will not turn out the way you would like it to. I hope that's helpful for you. I'm going to go to the next person please remember I'm trying to go to get one answer for everybody so I'm going to this one. Hello I'm about to take a test on April 11th I'm trying to study for a couple of hours a day. My job has kept me doing a lot of overtime this test will allow me to move up in my career and then the next the next thing is will I pass it same person will I pass it? Is he going to pass this test? Yes is he going to pass it? I'm able yes you're being very diligent and your studies are proving to be good you do have really good retention I'm going to do a clearing for you and anybody listening anything stopping or blocking you from passing the test has been healed cleared released I get a yes let's strengthen that I feel like you're going to do good very well on the test he gets nervous let's clear any nervousness let's just clear any nervousness oh holy guacamole um yeah that's a lot oh okay I think I've answered um almost all the questions oh wait Erin uh here we go there's one more person asking a question this is perfect timing because we're getting to the end should I sell products online and build a brand what business venture do you see being successful for me okay I know that's two questions I really don't have time to answer both of them so I am going to answer one of them should I sell products online and build a brand yes I am going to say go with a proven what I'm hearing what I'm hearing go with a proven method go go with something that's already working and if I had to give an example I would say go to somebody who's really successful on one of the social media things and see what they're doing and how they're doing it and um emulate it not word for word put your own sauce on it girl put your own sauce on it or guy sorry uh Erin put your own sauce on it if you're going to do it uh do it with your own you know spice whatever you want to call it you can look at what they're doing and see how it works and then follow your own intuitive thing and jump on it okay everybody thank you so much for being here


Well, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming. What I'm going to do is give an overview of the situation in central and southeast Queensland. I'll then ask the BOM to provide an update and fill in any sort of gaps in what I say, and then we're more than happy, of course, to take questions. Ladies and gentlemen, we now have a very significant rain event for central and southeast Queensland. Yesterday I asked Queenslanders in that part of our state to be alert and certainly not alarmed. I must say today, though, that the situation has deteriorated, and again I urge everybody in the affected areas in central and southeast Queensland to do whatever they can to ensure that they take into account the messages that I'll be giving today, and I particularly urge people to listen to radio stations, which will be broadcasting emergency messages and advice about what people should do, and that is probably their best way of continuing to get a feed as things develop. Ladies and gentlemen, I'll start by going to the Rockhampton area. We have seen the weather system move south from Rockhampton, and late yesterday it parked itself over Gladstone, and it then continued to rain very heavily overnight. We've seen falls of 400 to 500 millimetres in that area, and we are then seeing it continue to then move south, affecting the Bundaberg region and the Burnett River catchment, then progressively to the Merrie River and Merrie Bar, and then, of course, the southeast Queensland area, the very important creek catchments, and also the Somerset Wyvern Ho system. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a situation now at Gladstone with a disaster declaration. The issue there is that we have had significant inflows to a longer dam, and that dam has at least five and a half metres going across the spillway. Immediately downstream, there are four to five hundred properties that could be impacted, and there has been an evacuation taking place downstream. Of great concern, though, right now is there is another dam, a saddle dam, which blocks off a particular gully, which leads back down towards the Boyn Island region, as I understand it, which has another five hundred homes there. The concern is this. If it continues to rain, we are concerned, and I stress it's a concern only at this stage, that we could see water overtopping that saddle dam, which could ultimately lead to significant amounts of water coming down that creek. So that is something that the QPS are particularly taking very seriously right now, and I urge people who are contacted by the QPS downstream of the saddle dam to absolutely immediately heed any warnings or directions from the Queensland Police Service. If I now move further south of Correction, before I do that, I need to talk about the Kaleid Valley. Overnight, we had issues with the Kaleid Dam and discharge of flood waters into Kaleid Creek, and that has created a flooding situation for two small communities, Jambon and Gavidjan, and there have been evacuations there, and we will see the waters progressively going down that creek system. But at the moment, as I understand it, the situation is well under control. Moving south now to Bundaberg, we have had around one o'clock today what appears to be a mini tornado. There are reports of significant damage, unroofing of various buildings around that town, power lines down, and potentially an incident where a tree has gone down on a motor vehicle with, I believe, two occupants. The Police Commissioner probably can provide more detail in a moment. We have declared a disaster in that area as well, and the Police Minister has spoken recently, or just in the last few minutes, to malformant the Bundaberg mayor. I express that I do have concerns. The government has concerns about potential flooding along the Burnett River, impacting ultimately on various communities and Bundaberg. I also stress that we have concerns about flooding along the Mary River and flooding downstream, particularly, of course, in Meribara, but at this stage I do not have any figures, but I can assure you that we're working up projections for that. And I will also be having the local government minister talk to respective mayors as soon as we have extra information we can give them, and we, of course, will provide more advice to the communities as soon as we have it. I turn now to South East Queensland. We are seeing projections from the BOM of potentially 300 millimetres in up to 300 millimetres across the Wyvernhose Somerset catchments and diminishing falls as you go towards the Great Dividing Range, but I stress also impacts, obviously, on Lockheed Creek and also the Bremmer catchments. As I said yesterday, we have conducted a discharge, a controlled discharge of both North Pine Dam and Somerset, sorry, the Somerset Wyvernhoe system. So we haven't let water out of Somerset, but water has been let out of Wyvernhoe Dam. The discharge from Wyvernhoe is continuing as we speak at just under 500 cubic metres a second. We have ceased the discharge from North Pine Dam because we've reached the new designated full supply level at what is about 88% of that dam. Right now, we're trying to get a handle on what the potential impact of those rainfall figures across the catchments would be. I want to stress to people that there is a very large flood compartment available for Somerset and Wyvernhoe Dam. And as I said yesterday, this event is different from the previous event in that we are now at a situation where the dams are lower than they were back in 2011. To give people a feel, we have a combined Wyvernhoe Somerset flood storage compartment of around 1.9 million megalitres. That's 1.9 million million litres that is there. And the rainfall figures that I've told you about just then will be able to be accommodated within the flood storage compartment. So if the BOM figures come to pass, we can absorb that flood. They would, of course, however, need to be discharges from the dams, and that is being evaluated at the moment. I need to stress that there is this ongoing issue of localised flooding across South East Queensland. The rain event has only just started. There will be more intense rain over the next two days. I urge people to be mindful that the biggest threat continues to be not from the Brisbane River system, but from local suburban creeks, right across the Gold, Sunshine case and the Greater Brisbane area. If there are areas that you're aware of that have regular flooding problems, those are the places that, once again, you might see at this time. And we need people to be careful about that. I urge people, again, please, do not drive into flooded crossings. Stay away. If it's flooded, forget it. And sadly, we continue to see people do that and risk their lives and the lives of rescuers. Again, I stress to parents, please, stop your kids going into flooded watercourses. Keep them out of stormwater drains. We don't want to see a tragedy. And sadly, in Rockhampton yesterday, a QFRS officer almost lost their lives saving someone else who shouldn't have gone into that watercourse. It's not just about the person who puts their lives at risk, their life at risk. It's the rescuers. I'm going to say today that I am totally supportive of QPS officers who choose to charge people who go into floodwaters recklessly endangering the lives of those who would rescue them. So people who want to drive into floodwaters, people who want to go and swim in flooded creeks and stormwater drains, if the QPS sort of ping you and charge you, well, bad luck, that's what you deserve for putting others at risk. Ladies and gentlemen, there is also a situation with our beaches. From Tannam Sands, in Gladstone area, right to the Coulomb Gatta end of the Queensland coast on the border, the beaches are closed. High winds, very high tides, very dangerous conditions, and we again urge people not to go into the water. It's not the time to go off and do some sort of way out there, adventure sports. It might be attractive, but again, we don't want to go and have to rescue people, and I stress that is the word from Surf Life Saving Association. They are urging people not to actually require their members to have to go and risk their lives. So just to wrap this up, I understand people are anxious, okay? But I assure all residents that the team here in the Queensland government, both political leaders and officials, and also, I might add, hardworking political and bureaucratic leaders in local government are all working together as a team. I have been here all morning. There have been various hookups across the state and meetings, and we are working together as a team to do everything we can to protect our communities. I also want to thank the Prime Minister, who rang me about three hours ago. She has, of course, quite appropriately, and I thank her for offering the support of the Commonwealth at this time. We don't believe we need any other support other than what we're already getting from federal agencies such as the Bureau of Meteorology, but you can be assured, ladies and gentlemen, that should we see the need for resources and assistance, we will be going to the Commonwealth and taking the Prime Minister up on her offer. So I might just pull it up there and ask the BOM, Mr Webb, just to say a few words if I've missed anything there. Over to you. Thanks, Premier. The Premier covered things fairly nicely with the very heavy rainfall that has been falling across the central parts of the Queensland coast over the last three or four days. Nearly a metre of rain has fallen in some spots. To put that in perspective, the average annual rainfall for Brisbane is around 1.2 metres. So nearly 1,000 millimetres of rain has fallen in the Gladstone area over the last few days. Very significant rainfall amounts. The low-pressure system, X-Tropical Cyclone Oswald that caused these particular heavy rains did stall last night and is sitting in that area. It will become mobile again later today or this evening and begin to track southwards seeing the rain increase over the southeast of the state. As the Premier mentioned, rainfall figures of around two to 300 millimetres over a broad area and the way rainfall falls but local areas will get more than that. We will see areas particularly near the coast of upwards of 400 or 500 millimetres from this particular system. So we do expect the rivers as we move south to develop floodwaters and I urge people to keep it up-to-date with the very latest warnings and forecasts from the Bureau of Meteorology. Thanks, Rob. Okay, well, ladies and gentlemen, more than happy to take questions here. Are you closely involved in 2011? Does this feel in any way similar? I'm determined that it won't be similar because we're doing everything we can to look as a government at exactly what is going on in the catchments and this is a tight rope because I want to make sure that people have all the information but I don't want to allow them unnecessarily. But I say to them that we are monitoring this very, very closely. You have a leadership team, both political and bureaucratic, who are right on the case at the moment and the moment we make a call on things and have important information to convey, we will and we will give clear direct advice to people about the risk. So that's where we are at the moment. Talking about the releases from Wyvernhoe, they're ongoing, right? They're ongoing, yes. Do you ever stop that? What would stop you letting that water out? Well, at the moment we're seeing less than 500 cubic metres a second which are relatively low flows just in context, you know, for a brief period in 2011, 7,000 cubic metres a second was let out of the dams. At this stage, what we're saying is we're asking them constantly to evaluate their strategies in relation to any projections from the BRM. I don't see it stopping. I don't see potentially higher discharge rates just again because we're all about trying to make sure that we have the very best position when the rain really does start to come down. I'm stressing that. But right now, again, we have at least 1.9 million mega litres of storage and the projections at 300 millimetres of rain say that we can absorb all of that. Can you tell us any more about the garae? I might ask the commissioner to comment on that one. He's got a bit more detail. Thank you, Premier. Ladies and gentlemen, it appears that just around about one o'clock today a mini-tornado has gone through that Bundaberg garae area. It's cut a swathe of damage. Housing, shopping centres, a bowling club have all been damaged. We know at least one car was crushed by a tree and there have been injuries and we're waiting an update on the injuries to the people. We know that there was a male and female in that car but that's the latest we have. Don't have that information right now but that's something that has come out of the meetings we've had in the last hour and a half. That is one of the things that I've asked for further information. So the BOM and the staff here at emergency services and also I expect relevant councils will be working together so that we can give people the information they need. Again, I stress there is a difficulty here because we are dealing with a projection of rainfall. So we're talking about rain, for example, and the Wyvernhoe catchment hasn't happened yet. But my credo, the way I focus on these things is let us plan for, you know, a bad or worse case scenario and then we're not going to be unpleasantly surprised. Now in planning for that, I need to make sure that I tell people the real issue and the things they have to do at the right time. So at the moment it's all about projections. I stress that. It's all about projections. But I want people to know that we are working to make sure that if we get that rain that we are going to be able to manage the dams and deal with that. And the same goes for whatever we say about Maryborough and Bundaberg. You know, I think people need to psychologically in those catchments, Maryborough and Bundaberg, prepare for flooding. People in South East Queensland need to prepare for local creek flooding inundation of low-lying areas because of the high tides as well. Those usual suspects I've said. So that's what I'm asking people to do right now and we will get the information out as soon as we have it. With Gladstone evacuations, where are you taking those people? There is an evacuation centre, as I understand, it's been set up at Boine Island, down at Boine Island, Tannum Sands, part of the southern part of Gladstone. We'll get you that information about the location. There's sort of about 2,000 people, we believe impacted on that. Typically we see about 10% of a total evacuation number need that support. Usually people go to friends and family and that's the advice I've got. Now I should stress that for people who do need assistance from the Department of Communities, there is a number. The number is 1-800-173-349. I hesitate to give you that because I'm not going to give out inaccurate information. My understanding is that the whole area has been door-knocked. At this stage in that area we're asking people to leave. What is concerning me, I want to stress this, is this other flow path, this other creek which has this saddle dam on it. That's something the QPS are working on right now and it's their call at the end of the day. They have the statutory responsibilities here. If it's going the way it is looking at the moment it will be a mandatory evacuation. I can't stress enough. If people downstream of this saddle dam as opposed to the main dam get a knock on the door and they're told to get out, please. It's been done for very good reasons. There have been no evacuations I'm aware of. We are simply highlighting at the moment that as the system moves south we'll see hundreds of millimetres of rain, potentially. That's the projection. I stress again that's the projection in that Burnett River catchment. We don't know how far inland it will extend and that it has a big bearing on what actually happens downstream at Bundaberg. But we're just warning people as we get this information, as we get these projections about where these things could go. And again, I say, if people just continue to listen to the radio, for example, if they watch the TV, tune into the websites and things like that, as things happen we'll let them know. And really it's about the rain, where the rain depression goes. Well, the big lesson for me is to, I suppose, try and, A, look at the situation at the dams and make sure that those people running the dams know that the government has got certain priorities and right now, for example, water supply is not an issue for us. And I say today, keeping downstream road crossings is certainly not something they have to worry about. They obviously have to release water and not cause damage to people's assets, people's property, but we've made it very clear to them. So that's one of the learnings for me from 2011, watching from the sidelines. The other thing is the importance of trying to really get the right scenarios being modelled and then be in a position to advise people as soon as possible if that's where it starts to go. So, you know, if we are getting, if we do start to look like we're getting that 300 millimetres of rain, we will be in a position to actually say to people, with the projections and modelling that's been done right now what that means and try and let people know far more clearly and with more lead time than 2011 what they have to do. So those are the big ones for me right now. By sort of 4pm today it should be at least 41,000 megalitres. That's correct, isn't it, Mark? It should be at least 41,000 megalitres and that's a bit dependent on sort of how they've gone operationally. But we'll get you a figure. If you go to the BRM website and go to River Conditions or the river data section you can actually see pretty much real time within half an hour now you can actually see the impact that we've created over the last 24 hours which is to pull the dam down. It is now down to about the level of 66 metres which is one metre below the normal water supply, full supply level of 67. Well, I believe that there is a likelihood of more water being released and that is the guidance that I was alluding to before that we have given SCQ water. We have said to the management team in the middle of the day today after hearing their briefing on what's been going on and hearing the BRM forecast we've provided these guidance which is that the government is not concerned about water supply issues at the moment. We think that's clearly not the case. We are not concerned about keeping downstream crossings, road crossings open and so we're saying that we would like them to evaluate the level of water that they can let out up to the point that it would cause flooding for people's properties. That's the way, does that make sense? Yeah, how much are you weighing? Well, there are different figures around. That's a bit of a moving feast. This is only my recollection but we're talking about 3500 cubic metres a second as I recall according to the Brisbane City Council is where you start to see impacts downstream from the lowest line properties. We're well and truly away from that territory at this time so call it 3500 to 4000 cubic metres a second from the dam is about the threshold where you do have what people would see as a flood downstream but I stress it's nothing like what we saw in January 2011. We went well beyond that, well beyond that. I think there could be. I've talked about this and I'm not aware of specific locations on the Golden Sunshine Coast but I'm sure they're there and I would ask both Mayor Jamison and Mayor Tom Tate and their teams to be out there talking about this right now because there will be a very high tide tomorrow morning well above highest astronomical tide but if you talk about the bit Brisbane local government area which I'm obviously somewhat familiar with I mean places like Sandgate down and Brighton they could see those issues and people down there know about that and I know that they would be prepared for that. You said you wanted to keep us informed as you have something to say do you have an idea of an hour at which time you might like to see this again? Look at this stage we will just be having another briefing probably tomorrow but should there be a need to put more information out of them as self or the police emergency services minister will hold a presser? I don't have that figure I think there's been, there were six there were six... Five people actually overnight 21 yesterday Okay, so 5.09, 21... 21 in total Okay Well, the QPS are working on that right now that is something that the police commissioner and his team have been working on since the meetings I was referring to earlier on so I don't have the information about when that will happen but I can assure you that we're working on that right now in relation to this whole thing again just to clarify you have a dam you have a main rock fill dam with a spillway which by the way it doesn't have spillway gates it doesn't have the ability to be controlled like Wyvernhoe hence there's no potential to draw a longer dam down prior to this it just is what it is so downstream of the dam directly there are four to five hundred homes 2,000 people impacted that I mentioned before there is this other flow path which is blocked by a saddle dam and downstream of that we believe there are about 500 properties that's my main concern right now that's our main concern because, you know, that is lower than the overall dam so there's a lower level and that dam is quite high and when we last heard a figure 1.9 metres there's about 1.9 metres of free board left if I recall correctly at the saddle dam so the problem is that if the water does go up 2 metres we're going to have water going off it and it will start to erode it and we could have large quantities of water going down that other pathway and that's why there is a greater hazard for people below the saddle dam it is indeed, I hope people have had a good Australia day notwithstanding the cancellation of many great community events certainly it was great to see a number of new citizens out of my own electorate at the Gap State High School this morning it's always a very positive and, you know, I think quite rewarding experience for those concerned but I think also the audience and I really enjoyed it this morning anything else, ladies and gentlemen? Thank you very much indeed


Welcome into the original gangsters podcast another quick hitter edition. I am your host Scott Bernstein and we're going to talk Jimmy Hoffa another in a never ending line of Jimmy Hoffa theories has surfaced an independent nonprofit investigative body known as the case breakers. This past week put out a theory that Jimmy Hoffa's remains are buried underneath the old County Stadium in Milwaukee County Stadium from I believe the 50s to the early 2000s was the home of the Milwaukee Brewers. The Green Bay Packers would come down to Milwaukee and play a game or two a year down there. It was demolished in 2001 and right next door or across the street is American Family Field which was Miller Park. This theory is based on a deathbed confession made by a retired or former dirty police officer crooked cop in Chicago named Harold Walters and Walters was kicked off the Chicago PD and then kicked off the Oak Brook Illinois Police Department for his connections to the Chicago Mafia. He got caught in some jewelry robberies and it is known according to these according to the case breakers that Walters lived on Joey Iupa's property between 1967 and 1969. Joey Doves Iupa was the mob boss of the Chicago outfit from the early 70s until he went to prison in 1986. He passed away in 1997. Walters on his deathbed only a couple months after Iupa had passed. Iupa passed in February. Walters died in April and on his deathbed he took an ace of spades playing card and wrote the name Jimmy Hoffa, Joey Iupa and a map that when it got into the hands of investigators would take investigators to the former site of County Stadium underneath the third baseline. According to the case breakers they've gone to the location and that they have had some hits in their GPR equipment that showed that there had been a excavation and backfill done quote unquote hurriedly and that they had three independent sources in three different states that were backing this claim up and that the body did not originally go to Milwaukee but the body was transported to Milwaukee from its original resting place in September of 1995. I don't believe any of this just you know my my op-ed in this quick hitter is that there is not a lot of credence to this theory. The case breakers have a very good reputation so I will give it a sliver of oxygen and keep updating you on what this theory if this theory plays out. As of earlier this week the FBI was not taking this theory very seriously. According to the press release the case breakers put out the FBI was not moving but within a couple hours of the press release coming out in the on November 1st the FBI reached out to the case breakers leveraged by that publicity because it's getting headlines around the globe. It seems that anything with Jimmy Hoffa mystery angle on it can go viral and the FBI is now told the case breakers that they will look into it that doesn't mean they're going to dig but that they will look into it. I just all these theories that take the body outside of Detroit or involve people that weren't uh Detroit mafia members very trusted Detroit mafia members or members of the Genovese crime families New Jersey wing and Tony prose guys. If it doesn't involve those guys I have a very difficult time believing and then this is another example of Walters was implicated in this theory as being part of the kidnapping in 75 and then helping bury the body in Milwaukee in 95 20 years later when they moved it allegedly. Including anybody that wasn't a made member of the mafia that wasn't trusted explicitly by the mafia someone that hadn't worked with the Detroit mafia before would never be included in this. This was done by a very small group of people that all trusted each other and that all took the knowledge to the grave. Hoffa's body under you know the way that I view it was most likely incinerated within a half hour of his murder and that there is no body to find we've been running around for 50 years on a crazy wild goose chase but I wanted to update everybody on what's going on in the Hoffa investigation according to casebreakers Hoffa's body right now resides on the old site of Milwaukee County Stadium underneath the third baseline. Last thing I'll say is according to this theory a fellow inmate of Joey Ayupa's saw Ayupa a couple months before this alleged second burial he was in a prison hospital in Rochester Minnesota and according according to a fellow inmate he watched a meeting take place between Ayupa and other Chicago mob guys a couple months or months six months to a year before the body was moved. It doesn't mean anything to me it'd be mobsters in prison congregate together every day they play cards they eat their lunches and dinners they watch television together the the fact that Ayupa was meeting with or sitting with members of the Chicago mafia in prison whether it was a week a day a month a year before this alleged body moving took place I was expecting when I was reading through the press release that they were going to tell us that this inmate had been told by Ayupa that Ayupa had told him that they but no it's just that this inmate had seen a meeting I don't feel like that's very strong foundation to base this theory on or at least I should say give added validity to this theory from from Walther's confession so I'll keep you updated here at OG pod as well as a gangster report on what's going on related to this theory it should be interesting but I see it being dismissed pretty quickly I'm Scott Bernstein og pod out


7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, go! On today's vlog, I got that bow and eyes. Yep. We're doing Q&A and I have more questions than I've ever answered on one show before. So many. Here we go. Alright guys, so welcome to the Matt Beck show. This is the Q&A portion of our week. Sorry, it's been a couple of weeks since we've done this, but... We're not like a hiatus, but not really because you're just editing a lot of videos. There's just a lot of stuff going on, but I really enjoy the Q&A portion. So thank you guys to everyone that submits questions to the show, using hashtag the Matt Beck show on Instagram or Twitter. That's how you can get the question out there so that we see it. Today, I'm really excited because all of the questions come from one beauty school in a town called Olien, New York. Cool. I want to say Olien, Illinois for some reason. I have no idea why. I was actually waiting for that. I grew up near Olien, Illinois. Okay, so Olien, New York, Jaina is the teacher there. She ended up... She got our students hooked on the vlog and the videos and everything, so she asked the students to submit questions, so we have a ton of them. So I'm just going to get started right away, so I don't want to waste any time and I want to try to get through every single one of them. I'm just excited about this. These are questions coming from new minds in the industry. We have a lot of questions that resurface, but I'm really excited to see where these questions go. What they're asking? Exactly. Yeah, because that has no idea. So here we go. All right, Becky Peck says or asks, do you use Donald Scott Prepare on all your cuts or just razor cuts? So this is Donald Scott Prepare. It's something that I definitely use on every razor cut. But the cool thing about Prepare is that it's basically a liquid tool glide. So it's great for cutting any type of situation. It's going to help you with your sectioning. It's going to help comb through the hair. It's got a ton of proteins in it, different things. Everything about this is beneficial to the hair and it does not have a hold. So you can use as much as you want of it and it's not going to weigh the hair down or anything like that. So it's really good for razor cutting because it gives a nice slip to the hair but also great for sectioning and cutting hair in general. So definitely a cool product. This is available on Freestyle On Education. So if you want to check it out, get more information. Go to freestyleoneducation.com and you can get that info there. I concur with everything you just said. Okay, cool. So here's a carving comb question. Is there any certain carving comb you find works better than another or are the blades better? So that can quickly be answered. The only difference in the carving combs is there's two different types of carving comb. There's carving comb fine and carving comb wide. This is actually a question that's come up quite often. It has 100% carve side, a 50% carve side. Both of these tools are identical when it comes to the cutting portion of it. The only difference is the comb. So if you're looking for finer teeth with more tension, you would go with the carving comb fine. If you're looking for a wider teeth, a little bit more coarse thick hair. I like to use this, bigger sections. As far as the one that would have the sharper blade, I would imagine that would be the side that you use less. Right. Yes, exactly. Otherwise, they're the same blade. You can change them in and out. So a lot of people ask about the carving comb. A lot of people order the carving comb, so I appreciate all those orders. Now, here's the deal with this. The carving comb, I've talked about it before, but back about 10 years ago was when I was first introduced to the carving comb. It was made by Donald Scott, but through Paul Mitchell. But it was made of full-on plastic. It was completely different material, a different feel. You couldn't heat it up. It didn't have the metal top to it. The T-top that holds the blades in would break, or there was at one point this would open up. What were you doing with yours? What's that? So what were you doing with yours? I know. Every day life. So the carving comb has definitely stepped up its game. That's why I'm really excited to have it on the shop on freesoneducation.com. Now, here's the deal with this, though. A lot of people ask, can you get the wide teeth in black? You can't. But I would get both of them, to be honest, because they're about $35 a piece. So $70 is how much you'd pay for one razor. And this way you get two, you get both teeth, and you're good to go on that. Now, I would like to just expand on that question, just in case if it wasn't necessarily the thought that the carving comb came with two different types of blades. But what about the different razors in the line? Do you find that the chopstick blade is sharper than the carving comb's blade or the DSX4? Okay, so that's a good call for that. So here's the chopstick pro. I compare the chopstick pro to a feather razor. So this one, the thing I like most about it is you can see how thick the head is on a carving comb. So the reason I have all three of these ready to go in my kit is because this is for more my precision cutting. If I'm trying to get in nice and close to the head or nice and close to my fingers, I use the chopstick pro. You can also section with it and section it away. So if you had a couple of them, it's kind of cool because you can section it and cut each section. Not necessary, but it's cool if you have it. And then with the carving comb, you can get in close to your fingers, but there is a certain point when the carving comb just isn't quite close enough. That's when I go to the chopstick pro. The other thing is I'll do different texturizing techniques, running the carving comb back and forth in my fingers. There's a lot of different cool techniques that you can do with the carving comb that you can't do with the typical razor. So the same reason why we have three or four different types of scissors in here. Exactly, yeah. I'm a tool geek. I love anything that has to do with technology. This to me is care technology. You just bought a new overlay for your keyboard. Right, exactly. So every day I'm trying to get something new that makes my life easier and makes my work cooler. So whether it's a computer or scissors or combs, everything that you get makes your job easier. So hopefully that answers your question. We're only two questions in. What is your worst hair mistake and what did you do to overcome it? I'm going to send this to you for one second. Worst hair mistake you've ever made. Worst hair mistake I've ever made. Yeah. I mean I've made several. Okay. I'm trying to think of which one I would classify as. Well let's just say you've made several hair mistakes. How did you overcome all of them? I think just like you would, I want to answer this very philosophically. Okay.  You got to look at other options. You got to look at the outcomes. Like be like okay well this is kind of like a potential dead end. Let's see some other solutions as far as what we can do. Yeah. Like for instance, I foresaw a potential mistake with my client who came in who had been boxed color in her hair and she's like I want to go blonde.  And then I stopped myself and I was like wait a minute. If we take you blonde today, I can get you blonde. It might take us a while. I also can't guarantee how much hair you're going to have left. You might be a platinum blonde pixie. Right. Outside of that, well that's not a mistake. My mistake. It's happening. I'm taking my own advice. I'm stepping outside the box to look at it. I was overly cautious. Like getting to where I am right now may have taken me a little bit longer because I didn't take the risk that some stylists have made in getting there, trying to break their comfort zone. So I would say that. Overcoming it. I've gone to classes with you. I've learned. I've gone down that path. Pretty much anywhere I go you'll see that and that's how we met. You were at hair shows and anytime you were at a hair show you were right there. I got to know you. We started creating videos together. My biggest hair mistake was I think you were dead on in the fact that you could pinpoint specific things and how did you overcome them. My big thing has always been that it's just hair. No matter what you can really mess somebody's hair up but it is hair and it does grow back. If I was a tattoo artist I would be really nervous about my job. I would never get into tattoo industry. But the fact that the hair does grow back you don't have to experiment, practice, and learn and understand the whys behind whatever you can and you're going to make mistakes and as you make those mistakes every day I make a mistake in something that I'm doing and it's how you twist that mistake and come out of it that makes you the best. It makes you better. Keep working through your mistakes because it's going to happen that's how you grow. If you're not making mistakes you're being too comfortable and if you're being too comfortable you're not growing. You just got to be keep pushing yourself make mistakes it's the best thing you can do because it's the only way you're going to learn. Alright. What do you recommend for students getting ready to graduate when they make a mistake? Okay. There we go. Same question. There we go. We're doing better at this. That was easy. Do you prefer one product line over others? This is from Jesse. So here's what I can tell you is pretty much the honest truth. We use Paul Mitchell here. I use Bercato because I've really gotten into that product and I'm working very closely with that company. What I've found is that most product lines have similar products. So you don't really it's not necessarily do I love this line more than that line. I think you look at what is the hair product line doing for your business or for you personally. Does it make your work better than go with that product line? I think everybody has different smells that they like. Everybody has different holds that they like and different styles of products. So I'm currently experimenting a lot with Bercato because I really am enjoying the time I've spent working and consulting with that company. And that's pretty much it. I mean, I don't know I don't think you should get stuck thinking I should only use one product line. I would say that's a big mistake that I made. Not a mistake that I made but I was very focused on Paul Mitchell for 10 years and didn't pay attention to any other parts of the industry. So I get a little bit bummed out about that because people mention different hairstylists and different things and I was so sucked into the Paul Mitchell world that I didn't learn about the other parts of the industry until I left Paul Mitchell. That would be my big thing is you can love one product line but definitely keep your research keep an open mind so that you're not getting stuck in that one learning that one style in that one way. Going off of what you said I grew up in a Paul Mitchell school like the Paul Mitchell products inside and out but every product line has similar things but I've always favored Paul Mitchell and I've always wondered if the fact that I favored it is because of my knowledge of it I know exactly what to use on which hair type for that particular we have a ton of cream gels I wouldn't interchangeably use each of them on the same person I mean I can but I'm going to be getting a slightly different result so if I'm going I might throw up something that's kind of controversial no I'm just kidding but Paul Mitchell and Aveda might have exactly the same products they might do exactly the same things but I might favor Paul Mitchell only because I know which ones I'm going to favor in that line for a particular hair whereas somebody who's more familiar with Aveda is going to have the same experience because they know that product line so knowledge go out and learn and the more you learn about it the more you'll like it maybe we shouldn't plug the phone what do you think should we do that alright this question I'm not quite sure what it means but it says what's the best way to a new color line I mean the best way so I think your question is probably like how to learn a new color line the best way to a new color line is definitely go get it but to learn a new color line this is another thing most color lines are very similar they just speak different languages it's a big challenge in this industry because everybody's trying to one up and out do everyone but I think it confuses everyone with the terminology and the knowledge so you have like the European based number system of color you have then you have some people that just talk about their own so but they all are based on the color wheel the color map so just if you know that if you understand how to neutralize, how to cancel, how to intensify you'll be fine look at the bases match them up to a color wheel and you'll be fine learn the color wheel learn how to do all that stuff you can add in any color line you want and that will then once you have that color line then as you start using it you're going to find well this one has a little bit more ammonia than the last one I had so it does a little bit more lifting so there's going to be different ways that you'll tweak it but for the most part the color wheel is pretty standard how do you get paid for the videos you make so it's a good question I think it's a great question actually a lot of people have been asking this lately it was one thing when I was doing one video a week now that I'm doing a video pretty much every day they seem to be very concerned with like why would you do it well I'm sure that they probably think that it's along the lines of that if you get paid $10 to put out one video in a week and now you're putting out 20 videos in a week that you're now getting $10 for each one of those videos and like duh I'm going to do more videos but that's not how it works so and that would probably be like an older mentality of how so the way that social media works nowadays and I talked about this in my class in Philadelphia a couple days ago the way that so my goal was always to provide free education for hairstylists that was when the company started I mean before the company started me and you made a video on how to cut a bob you filmed it we put it out on YouTube it got a lot of attention and then the idea kind of grew from that of alright well maybe I could just put out free videos for stylists that's what I was doing I was educating for 10 years but I wanted to reach bigger audiences and I wanted to kind of do it on my terms I wanted to have my own business so how does free salon education become a business based on awesome companies that support free salon education like Minerva Beauty was a company that I met with right at the beginning and they've been supporting free salon education for a long time so they do it in a sponsor format but they do it in like ways where they send me cool stuff and I get to talk about it like that's the kind of relationships I'm building with companies because I find companies that I really like their stuff it's easy to talk about and then there's another type of company like Donald Scott and Mizzatani and all these great companies PivotPoint that have reached out and I've reached out to them and I sell their products on freestyleneducation.com so if you like the videos and you like the technique that I'm doing then you go buy a carving comb or whatever and that's how money happens in freestyleneducation.com so it's not something that comes quick. I mean this has been about three years now of a lot of work and our YouTube channel gets a million views a month but YouTube doesn't pay very much at all like YouTube just pays enough to at the beginning just it made it worth it and then we were doing the podcast and so we were all taking a cut of money so YouTube doesn't really pay very much. YouTube is the worst at paying which is fine because it's a cool platform and it allows for other business opportunities so if you're a young person and you're thinking about how do I get into that kind of thing you just have to build the audience. Everyone's looking for the person that has the following but it needs to be a quality following and this is something I would spend a little extra time talking about and probably make a separate video sometime but a lot of people try to get a big following the big following doesn't really matter and hair companies do look and see if you have a big following but that there's two different things. There's a big following with not much return and then there's this smaller following that you've grown organically that you didn't pay for that people just follow you because they like your stuff that's the most powerful thing you can have. So you could have 100,000 Instagram followers but who cares if you paid for all of them because you're going to put up a picture of a product or you're going to make a post about a video and no one cares about it because none of them are even hairdressers anyways like the way that you grow a successful business is aiming for like putting out good stuff like putting out a video every day that's why I started putting out a video every day it wasn't because I get paid more to do that it's because if I put out a video every day then I get to kind of keep teaching you guys keep building my relationship with you guys because that's the strongest thing I can have is helping you guys if I help you guys do a haircut and you buy a $35 carving comb our relationship is great you know like that's the whole purpose of this whole thing if you don't buy a carving comb that's great too if you just watch the video it's awesome I don't buy a pair of scissors that's really great I have a list of those people but that's what it's all about guys so when you start making videos it's not about tagging like hashtagging celebrities it's not about doing all that stuff because you're building the wrong audience you're building people that I don't want people that are researching Kim Kardashian I've done a couple videos that I put celebrity names in and obviously you get a big return on the viewership the quality of that viewership is not there and that's why I don't do it very often because why would I want 100,000 300,000 a million followers because I was putting Kim Kardashian's name in my videos like that's not the quality people that you're looking for so if you want to make videos and you want to make it a business it's all about the quality it's about the content it's about consistency and constantly putting out content and connecting with your audience doing things like this how would you start working and building a relationship with a product company you ask I mean it's as simple as that the easiest relationship you'll ever work together they're always looking for people as product companies and that's what's cool if you think about like I'm talking to thousands of hairdressers a day through social media and so I've been able to build relationships with many product companies and that was always my goal product companies have money I'm not there to take money from hairdressers so it was always in my business model how do I build an audience and then ask the product companies to support it and when you want to work for a product company all you have to do is reach out to a rep or find a product company that you really love and just show up at a hair show and see what you can do to help when you're volunteering when you first start out you gotta get your foot in the door product companies are run very corporately which isn't a bad thing it just means that you gotta work your way up that ladder and the way you do that is by dedicating a lot of time to that company alright Kyle says which products do you actually use I actually use a lot of products like I actually use quite a few different ones you're seeing using a product in the video you're using that product behind the chain of salon too and I even said in Philly because I didn't have my brocado cream wax but I did a bob and I was like oh my gosh I really wish I had cream wax and then Josh gave me a rojo cream wax worked great all these products are similar it's what does the company stand for and that's kind of goes back to what I said before I am currently working with brocado a company that has been really supportive of what I'm doing and that's that's the deal and like that said the more knowledge you have now I'm helping brocado kind of come up with different products because I saw things lacking with what they had so I said to them I really wish we had this this and this they're listening to that and it's a small company so it's fun to grow companies I've never been a person that wants to go work for the people that are already there what's the fun in going to work for a company that's already made it you're just going to be this little person in a company that's already made it but if you start with a company that hasn't made it and you help build that company you look a lot better in the end it's a much more gratifying thing than any other thing you become Instagram famous you have to hashtag insta fame a lot right now here's the deal so Instagram famous we talked about it it's two different things so you could either pay for an audience which spend a thousand bucks two thousand bucks you can get a lot of followers or you can work really hard the problem is Instagram has kind of shifted its people that are Instagram famous are the ones that are pretty much going to be Instagram famous very hard at this point to start posting photos and gaining a huge like million follower followings right the way that you do it is I've made a shift because I missed the boat I was so focused on YouTube missed the Instagram boat so I didn't have a lot of followers on Instagram but no no wait but then I made a shift right so I didn't have a lot of followers on Instagram made a shift video I great at video that's what I do so I started making 15 second how to do a haircut in 15 second videos and started posting those almost every single day and I've grown Instagram I think I had 5000 followers when I started I'm about to hit 30,000 in the last two months so you have to find what the new thing is and then go for it so you gotta be on the lookout for what is happening in the industry what's new and start posting about it and that's how you do it and it's been working so I woke up this morning and I I think I had 800 new followers since last night I don't know how it happened people start sharing what you're doing and share your work and that's how you get the followers but what's most important is that you focus on getting great at what you do first so because a lot of these people that are becoming Instagram famous they're getting now thrown up on stages and having to teach they don't know how to teach and there's nothing wrong with it they have great content they have great verbiage when it's able to be ran out back back back back back back but when you're on stage you don't have that opportunity to go hold on that's not what I meant to say back space back space back space which is me a million times when I'm trying to write something but that's why I love that I work for Paul Mitchell for 10 years because I taught 75 classes a year and learn to teach and that's why I can have a YouTube channel and most people don't have YouTube channels because they have to be in front of a camera most people are a lot better at you can hide things very easily I'm not saying Instagram people hide things I'm just saying because you can hide things in video as well but what I'm saying is then you get thrown up on a stage and it's very difficult there's very few people that can get up in front of a bunch of people and teach what they do so definitely get good at what you're doing learn your craft first then start posting as you start to get more comfortable or start a page and just post um and ask for critiques ask for people to look at your stuff and send it direct message it to somebody that you trust or something like that alright what's the best advice you have for a future barber I mean barbering I think you're jumping in if you're a future barber and you're in school I think you're getting into it at a pretty good time barbering two years ago was gigantic and I think it's been growing I think we're I'm not sure in my opinion I think we're starting to hit that kind of like I can feel that we're hitting that peak of what barbering is it for the salon industry not for barbering industry but like from a salon standpoint because I'm starting to feel the clients coming in and saying you know what it's a little bit longer I'm not looking for that type fade anymore so I think that the style is shifting a little bit it's a little more grown in I think if you're in cosmetology school and you're looking to barber the best advice would probably be to get into like a barber shop yeah I think whatever your passion is definitely go for it if you love doing men's hair men's hair is going to be around forever when I say we've hit a peak of success with men's hair do exactly what we've always said research the barber shops just like we would like research the salons find the one that you want to work in because not every barber shop is the same as the other just like every salon isn't the same as the other so find a barber shop that first you like how they run then find out if you like the owner find out if you like the employees go from there what is the easier way to long hair be patient oh no that's not, patience isn't easy forget about it and just pay attention to other things and before you know it the hair is going to be really long so easy I'm not sure if they're talking about how they get long hair or doing long hair either way we don't really know me and that are probably the worst people to ask that there are other people to ask I have a really easy up deal it's called a ponytail it's technically up do you own your own salon yes I do I own it with my beautiful wife Christina who helps me run it these guys have been here for you've been here for 5 years yeah this summer will be 5 years 5 years the other guys have been here for over 3 years so a lot of fun I have a small space that I love I love having a small salon I would never want a huge salon I love having the freedom to make the videos hang with you guys on video hang with these guys and do what we do and teach that was always the goal when you say you like the freedom of having a small salon and like making the videos if you had a larger salon would your employees tell you that you couldn't make the videos no but I would have to pay attention to them a lot more that's fair so are you still an active stylist yes I'm active I do hair one and a half days a week behind the chair but I'm in the salon cutting hair for videos pretty much every single day and I don't think you're inactive in anything to do no except for waking up I'm really bad at waking up I've decided that like I want to be one of those people that's because you're so active that you're really bad at going to sleep so by the time you get to sleep it's time to wake up again I want to be one of those people that gets up at 6 a.m. and has their successful start to the day that's really hard to do when you go to bed at 4 after editing videos well it's true I do go to bed really late and I work really late so really I'm working probably 16 hours a day not really working 16 hours a day but my brain is on work 16 hours a day but also I'm hanging out with Hayden and Christina and doing different things alright what is your worst experience in the hair industry we talked about that alright cool what made you decide to do FSE I think we answered that right pretty much how long have you been in the industry 12 years I guess 6 years now I don't know I started in the end of 2009 we'll go with that do you prefer men's cuts or women's cuts I like both same, different reasons how long should it take to do a skin fade as long as it takes to make sure that it's all blended same as any other haircut as long as it takes to make it look like a good haircut if it doesn't look good you're not done yet it definitely takes me longer because it's not something I really do and every hair type is going to be different it's going to blend out easier than others how do you become famous in our industry was it a struggle I still don't that means you're famous man you got that question I'm like one of those people if I'm walking through a hair show and people don't see me and say hello then I feel like I'm still not there I still have to work really hard I'm going to keep making videos every day so you guys come up and give me a high five at every single hair show that's the goal so I don't know how you become famous I'll take a picture with Matt but you can make lots of videos and pretend what motivates you honestly when I say this the comments in every video motivate is dead on true it's attention because it lets you know I don't want to say that sarcastically but thumbs up, comments, shares just knowing that what you're doing not like in an egotistical but just knowing that what you're doing is what people are looking for that's what motivates you when I do a video and it gets a lot of likes it's like you know that you were reaching the people the way you were hoping for me it's caffeine caffeine is definitely a good one too my family all of that the people you surround yourself you know if you surround yourself with negativity if you're like hanging out with people they're just like complaining you're not going to go anywhere because you're going to be in that mindset of complaining and being like brought down this question so who are your mentors this is like the big thing for me that I've said a lot I used to look up to a lot of people and then I realized that all of those people I look up to are just normal people that have either normal problems or even more extreme problems than normal problems I think you should have milestone mentors have your mentors during school have your mentors as you're starting in the industry then have your mentor as you reach your goals get new mentors because you're going to absorb different things from different people and you're going to grow from that and watch everything that's happening and you'll totally come out more successful when you learn from multiple even watch the people that aren't doing it right because then you know why they're not doing it right yeah you'll learn from everybody and surround yourself with people that push you so that's always been like if the staff here did not want to learn didn't want to grow then it would be a really weird environment and if I wasn't as motivated and crazy about doing things to push the levels then I think these guys I don't know what these guys would do would be doing so I think you just got to keep going and keep pushing forward I think that's pretty much it that's all folks what's your weakness? food yep but not during the day only at night I don't eat at all all day long and then at night I eat and I have to stop doing that that's my weakness I love food that's it how long did it take to build what you have now it's going to take forever because I haven't built it yet I think that's a lifetime because it didn't start when you bought the salon from Sam I don't think it started when you worked with Sam it started from how you grew up and I had every job you could possibly think of which taught me different little skills for what kind of became what I'm doing now but I'm nowhere near what I want so keep going and I can't even tell you what that is it's going to be really exciting though it's like that movie with George Clooney what's your goal? I don't know but I haven't hit it yet I have a number in mind but I'm not there yet I hope you guys like this Q&A I think it was intense so shout out to the Continental School of Beauty in Olien, New York thank you guys for submitting the questions this was cool please somebody else do this this was awesome if you want to get your staff together and come up with questions this is way cool I'll dedicate an entire episode to you because this was fun and I like going through an answer we should figure out how to make this like a game we tore this up it was a lot these answers were good for you guys but it was really fun I think what we should do is we should go through and read the questions first write down answers and kind of do it kind of like games of humanity and like make some match them and then be like you guys have to figure it out which answers were with which questions whoa alright thank you guys so much for watching I hope you guys enjoyed it give us love in the comments let us know what you thought if you have a list of questions you can send those to matt at freesaloneducation.com or direct message on instagram you can tag us on instagram tag me on twitter follow us on instagram at freesaloneducation you can follow thad dray is back there what's up dray what is it, hair by hair by dray day she thinks she's a rapper she's unwrapping right now alright guys thank you so much for watching I'll see you on the next video thanks