 Hi everyone, this is Chichu. Welcome to my channel and welcome to a little morning harvesting of some of the fruits and herbs and stuff that were grown in our backyard in our patio really. And what I want to do right now is it's like six o'clock in the morning and we've got a live stream coming up in about four hours or so regarding just the politics economics. So I thought I'd take the time right now to harvest some, let me show you this, some black currants that we've got growing, right? And these have been ripening slowly, so we've been munching on them. It was a lot fuller than this, but right now basically all of it is ripened and I'm gonna, it's sort of a bush shrub down here. So I'm gonna harvest this stuff and I thought I'd show it to you. And the taste of the black currant, let me bring this closer, is sort of pungent, right? It's, it tastes very unique. It's different than the red currants. The red currants are very sharp and tangy. They make amazing jam, red currants. But the black currants, I don't know what type of jam that would make. I've never tried them. We have done with red currants and red currants are, wow, wow, wow. This is the first time growing black currants. We got this, this bush, this shrub from a friend that brought it over a couple of months ago. He was moving and he had a couple of shrubs that he needed to, he needed to find homes for. And we volunteered, right? Take a look at this one. Nice, eh? Harvesting your own little berries in the morning. That was good. Fun. And this stuff is, is amazing for you, right? So good for you. And I'll rotate this so you see the rest of it. Before a live stream, harvest some berries. And there's lots, lots of stuff going on in terms of politics and economics and stuff, right? So it should be an interesting live stream that we're going to do on Twitch. Got a little bit of geopolitics and economics and censorship. Because what happened yesterday was Twitter, oh, Big Brother Twitter. They suspended a major Julian Assange account that was fighting for freedom of speech and freedom of journalism. And they suspended Unity for Assange. Those are some of the live streams I've been, until like last month, they were doing a live stream every Friday, talking about what's going on with Julian Assange, right? So they suspended that account. Just imagine. Just imagine. Take a look at that. This one's a big one. Wouldn't munch it on this one. They had a lot more. I'm gonna bring the bowl. I'm gonna bend this over. Okay, sorry if you can't see it. I don't want any of them. I don't want to lose too many during the picking process. So I got my bowl under me. Or under this. Not under me. And just in case they fall, they'll fall in the bowl. I'll show you how much we got so far. After I finish this little, this bunch here, initially, initially a lot of the black currents were when they were ripening, they were falling off. So there was a bunch that were ripening crazy fast. So we're trying to munch away at them as fast as we could. And it gives a red color. You squish it. There's the inside. You can see it. Nice, delicious. There's some little guys too. Why not? They got nutrients. Antioxidants. Let me put this over here as how much we got so far. That's a nice black current off a couple of branches. Oh, we got some here. You get bunches like this and they're fuller as well. This poor guy was in transit about a month and a half ago. So they got a little shocked. Big ones. Powerful taste. My squished one. Take a look. When you squish it, you get like red color. I'll wipe this off. Here it is. Here's a squished guy. The birds have already stopped chirping this morning. They start early. It's very quiet actually in terms of bird activity. It's funny in the spring. Last month the birds were going crazy. There's so much stuff going on. Springtime, I guess, right? A friend of mine showed me a little quote about birds chirping. About how human beings like the sound of we laugh and relax to the sound of birds trying to mate. Right? That branch. These two branches are harvested. Let's rotate this. See what else we got. There's a little bug. A little beetle. Show them to you guys. Is he a beetle? Yeah, some kind of beetle. See if he'll focus. Well, he's not dangerous. Off you go, little guy. This would be amazing in cereal, eh? There's one that's a little dried up. So it's time to harvest. There's some that are drying up. That was no juice at all. Oh, there's a wasp. Are you a wasp or a bee? You're a little wasp. You're not a yellow jacket, though. The yellow jackets are a hard car. Delicious. How much we got so far? A nice haul so far. I'll power up before the politics. Live stream, we're going to be doing. The Q&A session, I guess. That's what we're calling and we're loading them on. A bit shoot on YouTube. If they're a little too sensitive, we're not loading on the videos on YouTube just because the wasp is going crazy. So what are you doing with my black currents, man? We'll definitely need some powering up before the live stream today. The censorship is playing hard, right? In our society, the suppression of information. Roger Waters put a little video yesterday talking about what's going on on Twitter with a big brother with the police state. In mentioning, I sort of wrote down his comments and shared it around. What did he say? His quote was, well, you can go to my either gap or mine or Twitter feed to get the exact quote, but going by memory, he went. He had a little two minute rant, two minute video he put out where he was like, you are big brother. We guessed it before, but now we know for sure, you are the police state. You are for the forces. Those were Roger Waters' comments. So most likely that'll come up today. It should because as we've talked about before, what's going on with Julian Assange is one of the most important things in our societies. Take this more over here. There's another one I missed. Do we mention another one? It feels stronger already. Take this, take this, take this, take this. Birds are starting out now. They're late today. Colder, so maybe that's why. I heat spell for a couple of weeks and then it got cold. There's like little bugs on the thing. Here's another beetle. There's a lot of these little beetles. There's a lot of little beetles on this shrub. I guess they like the black currants. This is the last bunch of them. Oh, there's a couple more down there. Let's grab these guys too. They're bear naked. Oh, this one it wasn't as ready. It's more reddish than blackish when it's not ready. But all of these are black now. Almost anyway. There's a little beetle on the edge of the glass trough now. I don't know if it's a beetle or not, but look like the other guy. There's another little guy. Oh, squished it. He's like, where is our shrub? This is where we ended up harvesting. And we probably ate about this much already off this little shrub, little bush. Fantastic. Thank you very much, Mr. or Mrs. Blackberry or black currant bush. And if you take a look, oh, here's another guy. I don't want to miss this guy. And behind me, let me move this over. Behind me, these guys are grapes. We got sort of a wall of grapes here. It's got a lot of these grapes. And what we're going to do is here, I'll show you. I'll pick this guy. Now take a look at this. Now, usually people, you wait until the grapes are ripe and then you eat them. But one thing we do with grapes is when they get this size, I'm going to wait until they get a little bit bigger, probably a day or two. And I'm going to harvest the ones that are this size off the grape vines. Because what we end up doing is I end up washing these, picking them, washing them, and then putting them in the freezer. And I have a bunch in the freezer right now. And this is called Ore in Farsi. And other, like Armenian, we use it as well and stuff. But I believe it's Iran and Persians that sort of started using this originally. But we use this, we pick this, and we use it for cooking egg plants. There's an eggplant dish that we make. So we end up spraying this around and it gives it a seriously tangy, tart taste. Yeah, it needs about a day or two more. Okay. Some of them, some of them will take another week. Because they're not all ripening at the same time, right? Because plants, what they like to do, they don't want to ripen all their fruits at the same time. Because if they ripen all their fruits at the same time, there's less probability of propagation in general, right? Some, I think, plants are symbiotic with animals when they come around and they're all ripen, they eat them and they propagate their seeds and stuff. But in general, plants don't want to ripen it all at the same time. They ripen slowly over a few weeks. That gives them more probability of animals eating them and the seeds propagating, going to different places and getting root in next year, next season, or a couple of seasons down the road, they grow, right? Yeah, but some of these I'm going to harvest. Some of them, like if you take a look at this one, you know, they're still little. This one, there's still little. This one will take another couple of weeks for it to reach this state, right? But these two I think we can harvest in a day or two. Day two, three, four days, two days. Okay, I'm going to come out here and harvest a little bit of these. And for sure, we're going to let some of the grapes ripen to eat some of the grapes because they're really sweet grapes, these ones. Like when they're ripen and if the animals haven't eaten them, because one year we came out here, I think it was last year, there's a whole bunch of ripened grapes and we harvest a little and we let some of them ripen a little bit longer. For a couple more days, we came out and they were all gone. The squirrels got to them and ate them all up. So we've got to get them before the squirrels and the birds get them, right? So that's about it. I just want to show you guys just harvesting our black currants. And what we're going to do is I'm going to go set up for our live stream, Politics, Economics, Q&A live stream that we're going to do and we're going to talk about some of the events that are taking place recently on Twitch. And you're definitely welcome to join us on Twitch whenever we do those live streams. And hopefully, well, I don't say hopefully, if it's not too sensitive where the algorithms on YouTube and the thought police on YouTube and the censorship on YouTube will not ding our channel by uploading the video. I will also upload it on YouTube as well as always on Bitchu because the thought police are not active on Bitchu. That's a freedom of speech platform. And that's where you'll find almost everything that we produce on Bitchu and almost everything, most of a lot of things that we're producing are appearing on YouTube as well. Okay? I hope you're having a fantastic today's Saturday, Saturday morning. And by the time you watch this video, maybe Saturday, maybe Sunday. And I guess I'll see you guys in the next video or the next live stream. Bye for now.