good morning everybody thank you so much for tuning in today if you are new here
hey what's up my name is Tiff so today is going to be the second video in my how
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the computer desk and put it either over there in that corner or put it right
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good morning everybody thank you so much for tuning in today if you are new here
hey what's up my name is Tiff so today is going to be the second video in my how
to get out of a rut mini-series and in this video I am a rearranging my bedroom
I want to take bed push it up against this wall over here then I'm gonna take
the dresser and put it up against this wall right here and then I want to take
the computer desk and put it either over there in that corner or put it right
here against this window so that is the plan
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MY YELLOW CRAZY ANTS & THEIR PET WATER BEAST! - Duration: 21:23.
Last week, we welcomed a new ant colony to the channel, some golden-gastered Polyrhachis
ants who moved in to El Dragon Island, but we were shocked to discover the ants were
gravely infected by a plague of mites.
Together we, the AC family, decided to keep the ants and go ahead with treating them with
lemon therapy.
A bold move for us, but a choice I think we were confident to make because just beside
this infected colony quarantined on El Dragon Island, stands a kingdom of ants who actually
managed to overcome and survive a mite plague in their past, reminding us every day of the
power of perseverance and never giving up.
Today, we visit the majestic Hacienda Del Dorado, and check up on how the Golden Empire,
our yellow crazy ant supercolony has been doing, along with their pet water beast/undertaker
living in their communal pool, and AC Family, you will be shocked to see what our water
beast looks like today!
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Welcome to the AC Family.
Enjoy!
The Hacienda Del Dorado stands tall and mighty at the heart of the Antiverse, towering high
above all other ant kingdoms in the ant room.
Admittedly, it is one of my top favourite ant farms ever created on my ant keeping journey.
The Hacienda Del Dorado is a paludarium, which means it is part terrarium and part aquarium.
Peeking into the terrarium portion, the ants of the Golden Empire are busy going about
their various usual tasks peacefully, constructing nest tunnels, cleaning and upkeeping the territories,
and hunting for food.
I could watch these ants all day, as they construct some of the most impressive ant
hills in the entire Antiverse.
One of the things I love about the Golden Empire is that they're stingless.
They don't have stingers and their formic acid sprays are too weak for me to feel, so
I can work around them without having to worry about pain.
Aside from that, I also love their gorgeous translucent golden colour which sparkles like
droplets of honey in the light.
It makes for a beautiful sight to behold as they move about in orchestra.
Here is their feeding pit, the location I place most of their food.
And speaking of which, AC Family, it's feeding time.
Placing in a roach, and the Golden Empire is happy to accept the day's feast offering.
Take a look at them swarming that roach.
That's some great protein, that will eventually make its way mouth to mouth to all members
of the colony through a process called trophallaxis, and end up nourishing the eight queens, as
well as the colony's larvae who need the valuable protein the most.
If you look carefully, you'll see the Golden Empire's symbiotic co-inhabitants, a colony
of springtails we call the Spring Cleaners, who live mutualistically with the ants.
They feed from the Golden Empire's leftovers and molds that grow from their bathroom areas
and food scraps.
Essentially, they need each other, a perfect example of symbiotic mutualism, a biological
pact of interdependence between members of the Hacienda Del Dorado.
Don't you just love when two organisms become allies?
It's also great the Spring Cleaners are around because I don't need to worry about spot cleaning
so much, except maybe for things like this huge mango pit.
Sorry, ladies.
Just cleaning up!
But perhaps one of my favourite things about the Hacienda Del Dorado is the communal pool,
you guys called the Golden Springs, a planted rock face from which a spring feeds a pool
of water, within which lives the great water beast of the Hacienda Del Dorado.
If you're new to the channel, we moved a crayfish into the Golden Springs to feed on dead ants
drowning in this pool.
This pool in fact was set in place as a form of population control for the Golden Empire,
because imagine having eight egg-laying queens and no predators.
The Golden Empire's population needed some curbing, so this spring pool was perfect as
some ants would fall in and drown, so we released a crayfish into the pool to eat these decaying
ant bodies.
And AC Family, it turns out this crayfish recently shed its skin, which means it had
grown in size, but when you see just how big the crayfish is now, you guys will completely
trip out!
But hmmmm it seems to be rather shy at the moment, hiding somewhere there in the shadows
of its back cave.
Let's add some fish pellets and try to coax the beast from its darkened aquatic den.
Alright, any moment now...
Or not...
Hmmm...
Still shy.
Alright maybe if I turn off the spot lights, it'll be much more at ease to emerge.
Let's try.
OK this water beast is still reluctant to come out.
I know it's in there staring at us from within the shadows.
Alright, while waiting, AC Family, the time has come to finally announce this crayfish's
official name!
In our last video featuring this water beast, we ran a poll on the top name suggestions
by you the AC Family, and the winning name was "Empress Sapphire".
Quite a beautiful name, actually, but it turns out some of you crayfish experts were able
to analyze the footage, and determine that this Empress was actually an Emperor!
It was male!
What a surprise that was!
I had purchased the crayfish as a youngster and the man who sold it to me had told me
that it was a female and that I could mate it with the white male crayfish you saw it
dueling with in that last video.
Well, that was my fault for trusting him, because the two crayfish were both male and
two different species!
I truly apologize for that video, by the way.
Thankfully both crayfish were unharmed in the end, but from now on, this water beast
living in the Golden Springs of the Hacienda Del Dorado shall be called "Emperor Sapphire".
Alright Emperor Sapphire, please come out so the AC Family can marvel at how beautiful,
I mean handsome and dashing you are.
No response.
It was then that I noticed there seemed to be something odd about the rocky spring climb.
It looked a bit stagnant.
I moved aside the vegetation and roots growing around the spring, and yup, just as I suspected.
Water wasn't flowing from it.
There was a bit of water movement so I knew there was still a connection to the filter
below but the tube from it was definitely clogged.
Moving down to inspect the filter, it looked like water was reversing out through some
holes which were supposed to suck in water.
Not good!
I needed to locate the clog and remove it, because currently, without this spring functioning
properly, this water was not being filtered.
Water entering and leaving the filter, failing to cascade down past the plants, moss, and
algae was not being purified, and dirty, poisonous waters are bad news for the Golden Empire
who drink from the Golden Springs and Emperor Sapphire who lives in it.
So, it was time to put on my gloves and assume the role of royal plumber!
I went in to inspect the filter, and unplugging it from the Spring tube, I saw that the water
was still flowing properly from it, which only meant the spring tube was clogged up.
So, I gathered my highly sophisticated tool, a piece of wire...
and I tried my best to stick it into the hole from the top of the spring,
but no matter how much I tried, I couldn't seem to get in through the top.
Golden Empire ants were crawling all over my arms at this point, tickling me, but still
quite the disruption.
My next attempt was to try to stick the wire in through the bottom!
I pushed the wire as far into the tube as I could, and surprisingly it went in pretty
far, and when I felt I had gone far enough, I pulled the wire out and with it came all
the gunk that had clogged the Golden Springs.
Take a look at how much gunk I managed to pull out.
Pretty gross.
And after reconnecting the tube to the filter, voila, the spring was restored.
This was awesome!
Water once again cascaded down and around the rocks and moss, and past the roots of
the plants, biologically purifying in the process.
The waters could once again be clean enough for the Golden Empire to drink, and Emperor
Sapphire to live comfortably in.
And since I was successful as a plumber just now, I might as well take on the title as
Royal Gardener, too.
I rearranged some of the vegetation back into place, and cut back some of the leaves of
the philodendron and bird's nest fern.
Now I bet all this work around the Golden Springs really spooked out Emperor Sapphire.
Let's leave the Hacienda Del Dorado alone for the night, and revisit in the morning.
Man, I just love this kingdom so much.
Lights off...
By morning, the Hacienda Del Dorado is alive with the onset of morning sun.
The Golden Empire relishes their day's cockroach meal in the feeding pit.
Still no sign of Emperor Sapphire emerging for us.
He's quite the recluse isn't he?
We'll see him eventually!
I love how alive the Hacienda Del Dorado is all the time, workers of the Golden Empire
always on the move, constantly changing the shape and look of the Hacienda Del Dorado.
Can you believe these lands once looked like this?
These territories have evolved massively to become the paludarium extravaganza it is today.
If you haven't followed the Hacienda Del Dorado story and the epic history of the Golden Empire,
it's truly one of my favourite story lines on this channel.
Feel free to watch the Golden Empire's entire journey here after watching this video.
It's full of ant wars, creatures coming and going, carnivorous plants, mites, and of course,
ant pets like Emperor Sapphire.
I say Emperor Sapphire is the Golden Empire's pet because I do feel the ants keep their
crustacean co-Del Doradan somewhat contained in the Spring Pool.
Surprisingly, Emperor Sapphire has made no attempts to escape or crawl out of the Golden
Springs ever, although he techincally could at any time.
I do believe Emperor Sapphire genuinely loves the Golden Springs, but I am also confident,
the Golden Empire has made sure to let their Emperor Sapphire pet know that he is not to
leave his aquatic palace.
It looks like over night the waters have improved due to the plumbing fix, and have trickled
down a neat new path along the leaves, creating surface water disturbance, which was excellent
because it increased oxygen in the waters, a great thing for Emperor Sapphire.
Speaking of which, AC Family, no sudden movements.
Emperor Sapphire is in our presence.
Do you see his antennae?
Look at how wide they stretch, from one end all the way to the other!
Isn't that amazing?
Alright, let's try again to coax him out of hiding.
Adding some fish pellets, and oh, here he comes!
AC Family, look at him.
Oh, he didn't come all the way out, and I don't think we could appreciate his size from
what we just saw, but let's hope comes out a bit more later.
It really amazes me observing Emperor Sapphire living within the Golden Springs, as he will
randomly decide to show himself, or body parts.
I know he has great vision and waits for me to leave the Ant Room before emerging to do
his thing, and the few times he did emerge in my presence, my camera was not on or nearby,
or I was too slow to capture his brief appearances.
I even tried different tactics to get him to come out entirely for the camera, like
bribing with lettuce.
It worked, sorta.
Emperor Sapphire is no dummy.
He grabbed the goods and retreated into the darkness of his cave.
I even tried placing in a superworm treat, but that seemingly disappeared when I blinked.
Emperor Sapphire is smart, fast, and elusive.
I actually don't mind this and I want him to know that I respect his need for space
and privacy at all times.
I do feel he trusts me, and so I would never go in and force him out of hiding.
If there's one thing I've learned about all this nature videography, it just takes a little
patience.
While waiting, I was often distracted by the Golden Empire traveling through their various
established trails and pathways around the Golden Springs.
AC Family, have a look.
I loved how proficient these ants were around water.
They had regularly traveled wooden bridges, plant roads, and Great Wall Highways all around
and through the Golden Springs, and despite all this slippery terrain and fast-flowing
water all around, most ants generally did not slip in.
And AC Family, take a look at this!
I also loved watching the ants drink from the Golden Springs.
Because of the Golden Empire's semi-translucency, you could see which ants were carrying water
in their social stomachs to deliver to the rest of the colony underground.
These workers were like living water servants, collecting water from their communal pool
and distributing it throughout the kingdom.
Isn't it amazing how ants are essentially like a real human kingdom?
And AC Family, here we go finally!
Have a look at the face of the kingdom's giant pet water beast.
Emperor Sapphire has finally agreed to come out and say hello!
Look how big he is!
And look at that gorgeous blue colour!
His claws were adorned with ruby-coloured hair and he was emerging to pick at stuff
from the filter.
Isn't he just so adorable?...
I mean, ok manly, and emperor-ish!
Awww...
I think I offended him.
Having the Hacienda Del Dorado and all its inhabitants has truly been an incredible journey.
The Golden Empire, though perhaps not the most popular colony on this channel, perhaps
because they get overshadowed by some of their more aggressive counterparts, has still stood
the test of time.
They've persevered and problem-solved and have learned to establish a great balance
with the inhabitants sharing their territories.
It's a feeling that most ant keepers who've had ant colonies that have survived with them
for many years can attest to, but perhaps can't quite explain.
In ant keeping, I do feel like I grow with my ant colonies that have been with me the
longest.
I wonder if you guys who have been following this channel for awhile feel it, too?
Don't you guys feel the Golden Empire has become family, much like we were accepted
by them into their fold, to walk among them in their territories, to watch and be part
of their every day lives and challenges, and even care for their village pet.
Well, that's how I feel, and don't at all feel like I am their master.
I feel more like they let us in, and I am grateful to have been able to experience the
Hacienda Del Dorado with you guys again today, and hopefully for more Golden days to come.
Long live the Golden Empire and the Hacienda Del Dorado.
It's ant love forever.
Shhh... here he comes...
Oh, Emperor Sapphire...
I am not worthy of your might and strength!
I cowar before your powerful crayfishlyness!
I think I offended him.
Alright, AC Family, did you enjoy today's walk through the Hacienda Del Dorado?
The Golden Empire is truly one of my favourite ant colonies ever and the Hacienda Del Dorado,
simply a joy to watch and care for.
But there is so much more news coming up with my other ant colonies and even non-ants, wink-wink,
so be sure to hit that SUBSCRIBE button and BELL ICON so you don't miss out on our weekly
ant videos, which are always full of discovery and ant goodness!
And hit the LIKE button every single time, including now.
AC Inner Colony, I have left a hidden cookie for you here, if you would just like to watch
some extended play footage of the Golden Empire in the Hacienda Del Dorado.
Before we continue with AC Question of the Week, I would like to plug my new daily vlogging
channel, daily vlogs of my travels around the world, which often includes a lot of nature
stuff.
Please feel free to subscribe when you're there!
And now it's time for the AC Question of the Week!
Last week we asked:
Why do we hope these mites are phoretic mites?
Congratulations to Keri White who correctly answered:
Because phoretic mites do not suck insect blood.
Congratulations Keri, you just won a free ebook handbook from our shop.
In this week's AC Question of the Week, we ask:
Why was unclogging the spring pool in the Golden Springs
an important thing to do?
Leave your answer in the comments section and you could also win a free ebook handbook
from our shop!
Hope you can subscribe to the channel as we upload every Saturday at 8AM EST.
Please remember to LIKE, COMMENT, SHARE, and SUBSCRIBE if you enjoyed this video to help
us keep making more.
It's ant love forever.
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Love him or loathe him, Dr. Phil has certainly made a name for himself in the day-time talk
show realm by bringing in guests with basically every psychiatric malady known to man
and at least attempting to help them get better.
There have been instances where the exposure a guest has gotten on Dr. Phil's show has
lead to bigger and better things.
So, we break down the Top 10 Dr. Phil guests across the entire spectrum, from the entertaining
to the scary, the infamous to the viral.
So, strap in!
Mother/Daughter Sugar Babies
One of the more viral episodes of Dr. Phil was the mother/daughter sugar baby team of
26-year-old Rylee and her much much older mom.
If you're not familiar, sugar babies are the counterpart of Sugar Daddies, who basically
take care of their sugar babies by paying their bills and giving them lavish gifts like
cars, cash or even homes.
This relationship, most of the time, involves sex on some level and that's why some people
claim that it's basically the same as prostitution, although from a strictly legal standpoint
if it was illegal to have sex after the exchange of gifts or while paying someone's bills then
most dating would be monitored by a cop.
So, especially if sex isn't a pre-condition it sounds like great work if you can get it,
something that Rylee clearly believed as she was the one to convince her mother to also
start doing the same.
Rylee said that she charged $2,000 a DAY for her "companionship", something that she would
discount to $5,000 a week for her more valued customers.
What made Rylee's appearance on the show so viral, outside of the fact that her mother
was part of her sugar team, is that she so eloquently explained why married men who have
everything to lose end up spending that kind of money to talk to someone who is often a
third of their age.
While she claims that they simply want companionship or someone who listens, something that she
says their wives somehow stopped doing, she also admits that she has clients who have
her mother and her strip down to their underwear and whip them.
Worth every penny I'm sure!
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Hot for Teacher
More and more it seems that female teachers are being arrested for sleeping with their
teenaged students and that was the case when it came to 29-year-old Tanya Ramirez a former
teacher and coach from Corpus Christi, Texas.
What makes this case different is that Ramirez was on national television adamantly defending
her sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student.
Their relationship began when the male student came into her classroom to ask her for her
phone number, something that she agreed to.
After regularly texting for a week or two, they ended up flirting.
Ramirez told Dr. Phil that she felt that she wasn't doing anything wrong at that point
because it was "not on school grounds" and because the student was beyond the age of
consent in the state of Texas.
While that is technically true, teachers are barred from having sexual relationships with
their students because, you know, gross, so it was illegal for her to set up a date with
her student which she did, at her home at 3 in the morning where obviously they ended
up having sex.
Unbeknownst to her, the student took a video of them doing the nasty and shared it with
his friends which ended up giving the officials at the school the heads up as to what happened.
Ramirez was called into the Principal's office and fired and also ended up pleading guilty
to having an "improper relationship with a student", a second-degree felony in the State
of Texas.
She received seven-years probation and had her teacher's license revoked, which seems
like a slap on the wrist especially considering that she, again, went on national television
to defend the practice.
Aileen, Sandie and Chris - The CRAZY Love Triangle
Chris and Sandie were married for years and had a child together, but ended up getting
divorced eventually.
After that, Chris moved out and needed to find a roommate, enter Aileen who responded
to the ad that he placed and ended up hooking up with Chris after they had lived together
for awhile.
This is where it gets interesting as Aileen basically started harassing Sandie, which
isn't unheard of on Dr. Phil but it was the lengths that she went to do just that that
makes her infamous to fans of the show.
While both Chris and Sandie have stated that they're over one another and only interact
because they share a child together, Aileen seems to know better and has created numerous
fake Facebook accounts to follow Sandie's every move while constantly berating her with
personal name calling and the like.
Beyond that, she's even called Child Protective Services multiple times, making up false allegations
in the hopes that Sandie would lose custody of the child she shares with Chris so that
Chris would no longer have to talk to her.
It turned out that Aileen had a history of this behavior and thus, spoiler alert, basically
created this love triangle in her head out of insane jealously and presumably a mental
health issue like borderline personality disorder, albeit a very extreme case of it.
This is the sort of situation that can end really negatively, with people hiring hitmen
or murdering their "rivals" themselves, which means that this is the best case scenario
in this situation.
When Dr. Phil is your happy ending you know you have issues.
Riley the Talent Behind Taylor Swift
This video has quite a few delusional people on it and what makes Riley's situation so
different is that he's a mix of delusional and narcissistic really unlike most in this
video or elsewhere.
You see, Riley claims to be the brains behind countless popular songs, like Taylor Swift's
'Shake it Off'.
Now, you'd think that it'd be easy for anyone in Riley's life to prove to him that he didn't
in fact have anything to do with something like that as you'd really just have to ask
him to prove it, to share one email or text message from Taylor Swift or her people.
But clearly for delusions like this to exist it isn't that simple and that's what brought
Riley's parents to bring him on Dr. Phil in the first place.
Now, because Dr. Phil is rich and famous, he actually knows Taylor Swift (through her
mother, who is a close personal friend of his) and despite that fact Riley kept right
on with his story, which was important as Dr. Phil was attempting to figure out whether
he was delusional or just a pathological liar.
After being pushed further he admitted that he was using drugs and that it may have interfered
with his thoughts.
You Think?
Despite that, though, he did say that he still thought that he and Swift were "Soulmates",
something that I'm sure lead to a doubling of Swift's personal security.
Shake it off, indeed.
The 'Sexy Vegan'
There are narcissists and then there's the 'Sexy Vegan'.
Originally Vegan Hans, the then 33-year-old was jobless and thus relied on his mother
for his financial well-being, something that his sister took issue with which is why he
was on the show in the first place.
It was obvious from the jump that Vegan Hans, who legally changed his name to Sexy Vegan
was a textbook narcissist as he was known to wander the streets of Hollywood wearing
nothing but a speedo or really really short shorts while also carrying a full-length mirror
so he could constantly check how great he looked.
Beyond that he had his new name, again being Sexy Vegan, tattooed on his forehead and also
claimed to be the best looking person in existence.
That's narcissism for you as his beliefs about himself are completely delusional and also
are impeding his ability to live a normal life (unless you consider a 33-year-old man
in a speedo with his name tattooed across his forehead normal).
He did admit that it was taking a toll on his life as he said that he had been arrested
about 15-times for "various offenses", something that his mother had to both literally and
figuratively bail him out of as you know a 33-year-old man in a speedo wouldn't last
too long in a holding cell even in a California jail.
Hopefully after reading the comments on his appearance on Youtube he'll snap out of it,
otherwise he'll be free to commit crimes against fashion and taste for years to come.
Romina Garcia the Anti-Feminist
Unlike most entries in this video, then 19-year-old Romina Garcia was a viral star before her
apperance on the Dr. Phil program.
You see, Garcia went viral for defending one of the more abhorrent things possible in that
she was openly defending domestic assault and abuse, and it wasn't the female-on-male
variety that you might think but rather she was defending both the right for men to hit
women as well as that it meant love and not hate or cowardice.
Garcia clearly knew a lot about the issue as she was sporting a black-eye in the video,
one that she said she received from her boyfriend and that meant that he really loved her because
if he was risking jail-time by assaulting her that must mean he cares.
Beyond her appearance on the show it was rumored that she died from a drug overdose before
her 20th birthday, something that hasn't been confirmed, although she did receive thousands
of Tweets from people sending their condolences to her family from both regular people and
celebrities like Kylie Jenner.
If she didn't pass away this would just be another weird chapter in her life.
Here's hoping that's the truth and she's gotten some help.
Patricia and the Cancer Scam
Like many entries in this video, the story of Jessica and Patricia is packaged as a mother/daughter
situation.
Jessica is the daughter of Patricia and they came on the show as she was desperate to find
out why her mother was lying to everyone in their lives about having cancer.
As you might assume it was mostly about money and also about the attention and pity she
received.
When it came to the money she was setting up fake fundraisers for herself and the worst
part about that (yes, worse than lying about cancer for charity) is that she wasn't using
any of the money to improve the lives of her children.
See, Jessica also had a younger brother and the home that he lived in with his mother
was filthy and disgusting.
Even their dog was suffering from an eye infection that was so bad that his eyes were swollen
shut.
In terms of attention, though, Patricia ended up on local television, stating that she had
stage three cancer and that she had survived almost 20 strokes.
While she did have brain surgery at one point it wasn't for brain cancer as she stated.
The Girl "Pregnant with Baby Jesus"
Whenever there's a show that focuses heavily on people with mental illnesses there's going
to be people that claim that the show is taking advantage of those folks and that's exactly
what happened in the case of Haley, the delusional girl who has been on the show more than once.
Her first appearance is perhaps her most infamous as she was convinced that she was pregnant,
as a virgin, with the son of God.
After Dr. Phil both gave and showed her the results of an ultrasound it did nothing to
dissuade Haley's belief that she was still pregnant and that that faux-fetus was Jesus
reincarnated?
Other delusional thoughts that she's presented on the show is that she is the daughter of
rapper Eminem, basically because she found a picture in which a young, thin blonde man
is holding her as a baby and because Eminem's daughter shares the same name (albeit a differently
spelled version).
What could be funny really just comes off as sad as you can tell from her family how
much her and their lives have been impacted by her delusions and you can tell that she
really believes what she's saying which is only going to get more and more difficult
as she ages and without proper medication or therapy.
Marianne, The Would-Be Mother of a Stripper
The story of Marianne is a strange and sad one, perhaps the strangest and saddest the
Dr. Phil show has ever seen (and that's saying a lot).
Everything seemed to be going okay in the life of this family, as the mother and father
were still married and their 17-year-old daughter was doing well in school.
However, once Marianne learned that her husband went to a strip club or two FIFTEEN YEARS
in the past something in her brain just kind of snapped.
She became obsessed by the idea of it, obsessing over not only the way she looked but also
the way that her daughter, then 16 or 17, looked and acted as well.
Convinced that her daughter had to look like a stripper to get a man, she decided to pay
for her daughter to receive breast implants, a lower back tattoo, all sorts of expensive
make up and haircuts while also basically telling her daughter, verbatim, that she needs
to "Be a whore" in order to keep a guy.
Her reasoning is that if her daughter isn't completely sexually available that any man
she is with will end up going elsewhere, which is the complete opposite of what you should
teach a young, impressionable girl about her values and worth.
While some say that the daughter is and was old enough to refuse the multiple breast implants
her mother paid for, everyone is insecure in their teens and if they have a parent putting
things like that in their head it's a recipe for disaster especially when they're forgoing
an education in the process.
Danielle Bregoli
There may be no better example of someone spinning 15-minutes of fame into a career
(or that our society is definitely hit rock bottom) than Danielle "Cash Me Outside" Bregoli,
a teenager who originally appeared on Dr. Phil's show thanks to her terrible treatment
of her mother.
The troubled teen, who also goes by the name Bhad Bhabie, originally appeared on Dr. Phil
in September of 2016 for a segment titled "I want to give up my car-stealing, knife-wielding,
twerking 13-year-old daughter who tried to frame me for a crime", boy, talk about a mouthful.
After the audience started laughing at her responded with her now legendary catch phrase
"Cash me outside, how 'bout dah?".
The episode and the catchphrase took off online and Bregoli reappeared on the show in February
of 2017 to discuss her life since her first appearance (and without the studio audience).
The phrase was used in the chorus of a rap song by DJ Suede the Remix God, which was
her first entrance into the Billboard Hot 100.
That showed her that she may have a future as a rapper and after some initial reticence
she recorded a few songs and released her first single; titled "These Heaux" in August
of 2017.
The track reached number 77 on the Hot 100 charts, making Bregoli the youngest female
rapper to ever chart on the Billboard.
While she has attempted to move beyond her appearance on the show, she will forever be
tied to her appearance on Dr. Phil as his biggest and "best" guest ever.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH DEFIES OBAMA – STUNS GLOBE WITH MAJOR TRUMP ANNOUNCEMENT - Duration: 15:15.
QUEEN ELIZABETH DEFIES OBAMA – STUNS GLOBE WITH MAJOR TRUMP ANNOUNCEMENT
Liberals have spent the past 18 months demanding that Queen Elizabeth refuse to meet with President
Donald Trump.
That's why the left is livid right now after the Queen confirmed that she will be doing
just that next month!
Daily Mail reported that the US Ambassador just announced that Trump will meet with the
Queen when he visits the United Kingdom on July 13.
Ambassador Robert Wood Johnson said that while the plans have not yet been finalized, they
will definitely involve Trump having an audience with the Queen.
Had the Queen refused to meet Trump, he would be just the second president since 1945 that
she has not met with.
She has met with every president since that year except for Lyndon B. Johnson.
Insiders say that the Queen will be meeting Trump at Windsor Castle, as Prime Minister
Theresa May does not want him heading to London out of fears of mass protests.
The Queen is also defying her own family members to have this meeting with Trump.
Prince Harry is believed to be a shameless liberal due to his close friendship with Barack
and Michelle Obama, and his wife Meghan Markle was an outspoken critic of Trump during the
2016 election.
When asked how Trump's momentum in the election could be slowed down, Meghan held nothing
back with her response.
"It's really the moment that I go, we film Suits in Toronto and I might just stay
in Canada," Markle replied.
"I mean come on, if that's reality we are talking about, come on, that is a game
changer in terms of how we move in the world here."
"Yes of course Trump is divisive.
Think about just female voters alone," she continued.
"I think it was in 2012, the Republican Party lost the female vote by 12 points.
That's a huge number and with as misogynistic as Trump is and so vocal about it, that's
a huge chunk of it.
You're not just voting for a woman if it's Hillary because she's a woman, but certainly
because Trump has made it easy to see that you don't really want that kind of world
that he's painting."
We're glad to see that the Queen is rising above this leftwing nonsense to meet Trump!
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Arsenal transfer news: Jack Wilshere slammed over imminent Fenerbahce move - Duration: 2:13.
Wilshere announced last week that he would be leaving Arsenal in search of regular first-team football and reports suggest he has opted to take his career to Turkey and play for Fenerbahce
Wilshere is in line for a bumper financial package as a result of being a free agent and former Arsenal midfielder Adrian Clarke believes the midfielder is making the wrong move
"I'm a little bit angry about this, a little bit upset," he told talkSPORT 2. "If Jack chooses to go to Turkish football, it's not the right decision for his career
"The one thing he needs to sweep aside when he chooses his next destination is money – he needs to forget about it
He's got enough money and he will be well paid wherever he goes. "He has to choose carefully for the sake of his career, but if you go to Turkey you are choosing money
"I believe he should be targeting a mid-ranking Premier League club that plays the kind of football that suits him – Wolves and Fulham spring to mind, two teams tailor-made for him
I think he would be fantastic at a club like Newcastle as well. "I'm not against him going aboard, but if you're going to do that, then choose a proper league! Choose Spain, Italy or France – the Turkish league is not strong
"Ok, maybe Jack hasn't had the offers he expected from other clubs and maybe this is the best on the table, but I doubt it
"This would be a backward step in his career. He won't get an England recall playing for Fenerbahce
Choosing money over your career at this point for Jack Wilshere is daft."
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【影片】我就看你怎麼了？社會瓜祭死亡凝視，Mirotic瞬間嚇跑反吃T！ - Duration: 0:53.
NBA例行賽已經來到了收官階段，而今天雷霆與鵜鶘一戰也 為引人關注，因為雙方賽前僅相差一個勝場，雷霆位居西區第五，鵜 位居第六。所以，在這樣一場關鍵的卡位戰中，場上的激烈對抗肯定 避免不了的，果不其然，本場比賽中，Carmelo Antho y與Mirotic就發生了一些小摩擦
不過，有趣的是，今天社會我瓜哥，為了雷霆全隊的勝利，Anth ny面對Mirotic的挑釁僅乾瞪眼，甚至一句回擊的話都沒說 比賽進行到第三節的時候出現有趣的一幕，威少進行罰球， 底下的Nikola Mirotic和甜瓜Carmelo An hony想要卡位搶籃板時發生肢體衝突，Mirotic上前對著 nthony噴垃圾話被裁判勸阻， 原本預想著甜瓜會反擊 但社會瓜用直勾勾的眼神盯著喋喋不休的Mirotic，這讓後者 到有點尷尬，無奈之下返回了替補席，最後還吃了裁判一個T
然而裁判似乎為了找回平衡，在隨後的比賽中裁判給在替補 上的甜瓜吹了一個T，一臉委屈的Anthony讓人瞬間想起當年 裁判Crawford吹罰的石佛Duncan，當時Duncan 在替補席上的一記微笑被裁判吹了技術犯規也是至今聯盟產生出來的 個笑話
充滿著社會氣息的甜瓜，一個眼神真的就可以嚇死人了！
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Congress Makes Move on Barack Obama – It's Finally Happening! - Duration: 12:08.
Congress Makes Move on Barack Obama – It's Finally Happening!
Barack Obama got some bad news on Tuesday when a fed-up senator finally confronted Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the former president's campaign using the social media site to steal
users' data.
The Daily Caller reported that though most lawmakers asked Zuckerberg about Facebook
allowing Cambridge Analytica, a data company that worked for Donald Trump's campaign
in 2016, to harvest user data from his platform, little was made of the fact that Obama did
the same thing.
It was Republican North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis who chose to bring this up directly
to Zuckerberg.
"I think that we need to fully examine what Cambridge Analytica did," Tillis said, going
on to note a number of articles cataloging the Obama campaign for doing the same.
"Somebody asked you earlier if it made you mad about what Cambridge Analytica did,"
Tillis said, adding that Zuckerberg should be "equally mad" about the Obama campaign.
"When you do your research on Cambridge Analytica, I would appreciate it if you would
start back from the first high-profile national campaign that exploited Facebook data,"
the senator said.
Facebook has yet to comment on the Obama campaign harvesting data, and Tillis called on Zuckerberg
to fire the staffers who allowed the former president to do this.
"I also believe that that person who may have looked the other way when the whole social
graph was extracted for the Obama campaign, if they are still working for you, they probably
should not.
At least there should be a business code of conduct that says that you do not play favorites.
You are trying to create a fair place for people to share ideas," Tillis said.
It has since been confirmed that numerous former campaign staffers for Obama and Hillary
Clinton hold high-up positions at Facebook, which is likely why the company has not commented
on what Obama did yet.
What do you think about this?
Let us know your thoughts in the comments section.
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It's the first tiny home built by the Capable Carpenter out of Farmville, North Carolina - Duration: 3:25.
It's the first tiny home built by the Capable Carpenter out of Farmville, North Carolina.
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Playmobil Farm Tractor Playset plus Horse Pony Stables Fun Toys For Kids - Duration: 9:18.
Welcome to Racetoytime!
Hi Guys! It's Racetoytime!
Today I'm going to show you this fun Playmobil Country red tractor play set
And also I'm going to build stables for the animals
Okay, now let's get started
First, we're going to put the stickers on the tractor
Then let's put the parts together
Now let's assemble the wheels
Here's the tractor!
Now we're going to make the attachments
So this tractor comes with interchangeable attachments
That is a cool feature
Now I'm going to make the round bales
Here's the figure, then let's put him in the tractor
Next, I'm going to build the stable for the ponies
Here are the stables for the animals
Here's the tractor...
Here's the trailer. Let's attach it to the tractor
Now the tractor is going to get some accessories for the stables
Then let's put these in the stable
Here's the tractor bringing the hay
Now let's put horses in the stable
Here are the ponies!
And finally let's put cattle in the stable
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UNSOLVED Mysteries Of The Amazon! - Duration: 12:27.
From spiders the size of a dog, to ancient mythical cities, here are the top 10 mysteries
of the Amazon….
10.
Giant Spiders The Amazon is known for its incredible ecological
diversity, but there are stories of mysterious animals and gathering evidence has proved
to be somewhat elusive.
One of the scariest of these stories are the numerous accounts of giant spiders.
I'm not simply talking about the size of your hand, or the size of a cat, but much,
much bigger.
Stories of arachnids the size of dogs, with 6 foot leg spans and potent venom are common
in the amazon.
The local communities believe they exist in vast subterranean networks, and use trap doors
to access the forest floor.
A number of expeditions have searched the region for evidence of such beasts, and despite
villagers telling of how children have been taken by them in the dead of night, no proof
has ever been found.
There sure have been some massive spiders found, though, like the South American Goliath
Tarantula which is about the size of a puppy!
Its legs can reach up to one foot long (30 centimeters) and it can weight up to 6 oz.
(170 grams).
People report hearing the thud of their legs as they approach!!
With new creatures being found every day, especially in the rainforest, it's quite
possible that a truly giant spider is lurking, waiting to be found.
9.
The Boiling River There are things within the Amazon that hardly
seem believable- one of which is the boiling river.
Rather than simply being a flow of warm water that's been given a creative name, this
one really is boiling!
It's in the central Peruvian Amazon, and it's quite the hike to get to it.
There's two different shamanic tribes that live along this particular stretch- where
3.8 miles of the river reach temperatures of up to 94 degrees Celsius- that's just
over 200 degrees Fahrenheit!
The particularly creepy thing about this river is what happens to the animals that fall into
the water.
As you might imagine, they suffer quite a painful death, and petrified remains are often
found washed up on the shores.
For a long time the boiling river was merely something of legend, and with so much of the
jungle still unexplored, it makes you wonder what other strange things it might be hiding.
And now for number 8, but first if you are new here welcome and be sure to subscribe!
Do you know what the largest snake of the Amazon is?
Let us know in the comments below!
The answer is coming up!!
8.
Mysterious Tribes Covering such a large area, the Amazon is
home to countless tribes- many of which have had no contact with the outside world at all.
This means that we don't know how many people are actually living in the forest, and raises
questions about the cultures, beliefs, and types of people they are.
One legend, for example, is that there's a tribe of tall, fair skinned, blonde, blue-eyed,
European looking people that live deep within the inaccessible parts of the region- very
different to the appearance of most other inhabitants.
These stories have been told since as far back as the 16th century, when the Spanish
Dominican missionary, Gaspar de Carvajal wrote about them.
In 1925, the American explorer Alexander Hamilton Rice, Jr also encountered them- and as recently
as 1977 when a British and Brazilian expedition were approached by them.
Who they are, where they live, or how many of them there are- remains a mystery that
one day may finally be solved.
7.
Methane Emissions Scientists measuring methane levels around
the world were surprised to find huge amounts of the gas being released in the Amazon.
It's usually linked with the effects of global warming, and with farmed cows.
But why is a forest, releasing methane?
Usually people think of green areas as improving the health of the atmosphere.
Methane is produced from a number of sources, with about 18 million tons being released
from the ocean each year, for example.
The levels being released along the Amazon river, though, were found to be at least 15
million tons, and as much as 22 million tons.
Each year, large regions are flooded by the river, and this creates the ideal conditions
for methane production.
Still, estimates for the amount that would be released by these natural processes were
nowhere near as high as the true levels that were being measured by satellite monitoring,
so where's all the extra methane coming from?
Recent studies have suggested that it could be the trees along the floodplain, which act
as chimneys that release the methane from the ground into the atmosphere.
Still, this doesn't fully explain the huge releases of the gas, and there's possibly
still another source that has yet to be discovered.
6.
How did it develop in the first place?
We often think of the Amazon rainforest as one of the last mainly un-touched regions
of the world, but what if it was only there in the first place because of human activity?
It may seem like a stretch, but there's increasing evidence to suggest this is the
case.
It could be a sign that we still have hope with being able to save forests around the
world.
More than just being a result of human activity, some believe it shows signs of being structured
in a specific way.
The Ancient civilisations that lived in the region didn't simply build their communities
in the jungle, but planted the trees around their towns and cities.
They preferred trees like the Brazil nut tree, and the palm tree, and far more of these are
found near where evidence of ancient settlements has been found.
In fact, across the Amazon basin, the proximity to archaeological remains is directly correlated
with the prevalence of domesticated species that grow there today.
This means that the structure of the forest is still heavily influenced by how humans
arranged their plantations thousands of years ago, and potentially even grew out from there
to become the massive forest that it is today.
Could the Amazon actually be a farming experiment that got out of control?
Some think so, but a lot of people don't.
One thing's for sure, there's still a lot to learn about how the forest came to
develop in the first place.
5.
The Missing Colonel The Amazon is one of the last remaining wilderness
for explorers, and attracts lots of people looking to make the next big discovery.
It doesn't come without risk, though, and in 1925 one of the greatest explorers of the
time mysteriously vanished.
Colonel Percy Fawcett was once as famous as Scott of the Antarctic, and is thought to
have been the inspiration behind the character of Indiana Jones.
Obsessed with the idea of finding the city of "Z", he led a team, along with his
21 year-old-son, to brave their way through the jungle.
The story of these adventurers was headline news, but he disappeared.
A number of follow up missions were sent to try and find him and his lost city, but no
trace was ever found.
Furthermore, at least 200 people lost their lives trying to find him, having succumbed
to disease, the dangerous wildlife, or simply getting lost in the dense undergrowth.
Fawcett, once highly regarded as an adventurer, went down in history as a total crackpot.
Someone who, full of wild ideas, went to his death in search of a dream.
Or did he?
There are some that believe that he was successful in finding his target, and having found such
an idyllic existence, decided to remain there for the rest of his life.
We may never know the truth, but one day perhaps his remains will be found.
Although the mystery seems to have been swallowed by the jungle.
4.
Circles in the Ground It's a well known fact that deforestation
is a major problem across the Amazon, but the removal of the vegetation has uncovered
some strange human made structures- hundreds of giant circles in the ground.
Known as geoglyphs, they are geometrically shaped ditches, and more than 450 have been
found in the Acre state of Brazil.
The thing is, no-one has any idea what they were for, or why ancient civilisations would
have made them.
Archaeologists have dug around the ditches, and not found any of the artefacts you would
expect from the remains of a settlement.
They aren't built in a way that would have been useful for defensive purposes.
The best guess is that they were ritualistic gathering spaces, similar to Stonehenge but,
for now, the mystery continues.
3.
Giant Snakes There are more than 70 different species of
snake found in the Amazon, ranging from tiny ones to much larger ones, but stories of much,
much larger specimens are common throughout the region, and it's possible that there
are some monsters out there that are yet to be found.
During an expedition in 1906, Percy Fawcett detailed the discovery of a massive snake
that had been shot on the banks of the Rio Abuna- one that measured at least 62 feet
long.
He also recounted stories of a snake that was 70 feet long, but these are just at the
lower end of what's suspected to be within the jungle.
Native tribes have long spoken of species that grow up to 160 feet long, with a head
that's 6 feet wide.
And for those of you who guessed, that's much larger than the biggest known species
of snake in the area, the green anaconda.
It is the largest snake in the world by mass and they can grow up to 15 feet long.
If true, this would be quite the formidable predator.
This giant snake is known as the Yacumama but, for such a large creature, evidence of
its existence is still scarce.
Apparently it's pretty discreet.
There have been plenty of accounts of encounters, though, such as a 115 foot long snake that
attacked a tugboat in 1948, and a photo from 2009 that supposedly shows a snake that's
131 feet long.
While the Yacumama appears to be more myth than fact right now, fossils of large snakes
of up to 42 feet long have been found, so there's definitely the possibility that
they can grow much bigger than any that have so far been discovered.
It might just be the next major discovery made from such an unexplored place.
2.
Ancient Civilizations Ancient civilisations have been documented
across South America, but the Amazon is one region where it's thought people were wary
of treading.
Evidence is increasingly emerging that it could actually have been the site of one of
the largest civilisations ever!
Back in those times there was hardly a forest there at all.
What was once thought to be a two acre hill, called Montegrande, has lent weight to this
notion.
Locals who dug there found artefacts that were more than 1,000 years old, and a full
excavation of the site found a massive pyramid, built by a long forgotten civilisation, that
was more than 3,000 years old.
This wasn't just a rare occurrence.
The civilisation that built it around 1,000 BC is thought to have continually reworked
and re-built it as many as 8 times.
At its peak, it's thought as many as 5 million people lived in the Amazon basin, all within
large settlements surrounding giant pyramid structures to worship.
Virtually all evidence has since been covered by the jungle, apart from the occasional human
remains that are discovered.
Maybe one of them was the lost city of Z!!
Was this actually the site of one of the first advanced human civilisations?
Could be, but it's very difficult to find out!
1.
El Dorado The biggest mystery of the Amazon is probably…
El Dorado.
The mythical city of gold has been spoken about since the 16th century when Europeans
first voyaged to the new world.
Their searches for the city cost unbelievable amounts of money and sacrificed hundreds of
lives, but to no avail.
The phrase "El Dorado" actually means "The Gilded One", and was a nickname given
by the Spaniards to the chieftain of a tribe in the Andes in what is now Colombia.
He was always seen covered in gold dust, gold earrings, gold nose rings, and gold plates
on his chest.
Ceremonies would involve throwing gold and jewels into a lake to appease their god.
The tribe was ultimately overthrown by another, but the Spaniards found the lake and drained
it enough so that they were able to retrieve hundred of gold objects, still believing there
was far more to be found in the deepest parts.
They became convinced that there must have been a place where all this wealth and gold
had come from, and so began the legend.
And the search for the mythical city.
Perhaps it's just that, the dream of explorers who wanted to find untold riches, or maybe
there really is such a place.
With such thick vegetation, it's quite possible that the city of gold is completely buried,
and just waiting for a lucky person to stumble across the greatest treasure of all time.
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