Mark Gagnon

They marked the borders with flags and banners that anyone could see from the air, and they sent letters to Japanese commanders just begging them to treat the zone as neutral ground.

They opened the doors to anyone who showed up, families, wounded soldiers, kids wandering the streets alone, and they knew the crowds would be endless and that their protection was fragile, but they did it anyway.

They had already heard warnings and stories from Shanghai, from earlier bombings, from the people pouring into the city, and they knew exactly what kind of army was on the way.

And still, they stayed.

Not soldiers or politicians, just ordinary people that refused to abandon their students, their employees, or just the citizens that they lived with in their town.

Just basically trying to hold on to one small patch of humanity in the middle of what was about to become hell on earth.

What's up, guys?

We're going to take a break really quick because I got to tell you something.

The holidays wrecked me.

Yeah, travel.

I mean, it was eating whatever I wanted.

I wasn't working out.

And I just hit January and I felt like I was 100 years old.

What I didn't realize that I now know is that your body, my body, starts losing collagen way earlier than you think, like mid-20s.

And that's why recovery sucks.

I mean, your joints will feel stiff and your hair will get thin and your skin will look tired, all that.

And that's why I started taking Bubz Natural Collagen

Yes, everyone's tossed around that P word, and I'm telling you, Bubz is the best one.

I toss it in my coffee in the morning, and you don't even taste it.

It dissolves instantly.