Hi, everyone, and welcome to our visit with the Bay Area Hip-Hop Archives. This is San Francisco Public Library coming at you. I'm Michelle Jeffers, the Chief of Community Programs and Partnerships, and I'm delighted to introduce this conversation. But first, we'd like to begin at the library with a land acknowledgement. The San Francisco Public Library acknowledges that we occupy the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramitishaloni peoples. We benefit from living and working on their traditional land. As uninvited guests, we affirm their sovereign rights as first peoples, and we wish to pay our respects to the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramitish community. So welcome again to the Bay Area Hip-Hop Archive. You may not know this, but San Francisco Public Library is home to the San Francisco History Center, which contains the City of San Francisco's archives. That means we archive all the official papers related to the governing of San Francisco, and we host the city's archivist. But we're even more than that. We actually archive other significant historical, political, cultural, civic movements and issues in the city, everything from archiving what the city did during the recent COVID pandemic to archiving what the city did during the AIDS pandemic in the 80s. We have many records that go back to the earthquake, the 1906 earthquake, sorry, as well as the 1989 one. Our vast photo collection and our historic maps are true treasure troves beloved by researchers, but we also really prioritize our community, collect photos and stories of the people in the San Francisco and the greater Bay Area. We have some unique collections such as a punk archive from the punk movement in San Francisco, zine collection of self-made magazines. And that's why I'm so thrilled that we're here talking to the Bay Area Hip-Hop Archive and bringing to light this important 50-year-long history that spans the entire Bay Area. So I'll leave it here to take it away, Mr. Jotty. Thank you. Thank you very much, Michelle. And thank you to the San Francisco Public Library. We really, really appreciate having the opportunity to close out our year with you. I know you have been running all week. So again, my personal salutations and thank you as you've been very nimble with us. And I'm gonna get started for today. So thank you very much. What I wanna do is I'm gonna start by talking about what our agenda is gonna be. We had our welcome by the San Francisco Public Library, which we appreciate. We are gonna introduce the curator for 2024. We'll talk about the year one, our activity. Then we'll have a special guest by 2023, Bay Area Hip-Hop Archives inductee, Jennifer Johns, who will speak about her archives. And then we'll do a Bay Beats shout out. Bay Beats is a new program through the San Francisco Public Library, which is featuring artists from the Bay Area. And I'm happy to report I'm a part of that community and really happy about that. I'll share the mindfulness video that's connected to my Bay Beats album. And then we are out. I'm actually gonna shift the agenda a little bit as we wait for our new curator to join us. But I wanna talk about, first of all, year one. In 2022, I had the idea of what can we do to not just celebrate hip hop and celebrate us on the 50th anniversary, but what was a legacy project that we could do that would outlive all of us, celebrate us and also preserve us. I also would be remiss if I didn't shout out my elders like KRS-1 and Chuck D. In particular, who we're talking about, what can we do for hip hop culture? Because hip hop culture is done so much for us. So out of those brainstorms and ideas and sessions came the idea of the Bay Area Hip Hop Archives. And in 2023, we actually activated and started our mission. And what I'd like to do right now is just talk about a few things that we've been able to accomplish. In 2023, we were able to do two inductions. We were able to induct 55 Bay Area Hip Hop artists, activists and educators. We have acquired nine collections to start. We launched our first website, Phase One, in October. And we had one community celebration of hip hop's 50th birthday. Shout out to OMCA, the Oakland Museum of California, because that was our venue where we did it in collaboration with them for Hip Hop 50. And then we have a new curatorial announcement for 2024. We also have put forth what we call the Council, which will handle all future inductions. And right now, I'm happy to say that we have 55 new inductees confirmed for the first induction for 2024. What I'd also like to do right now is take the time to give out some compliments. We have recognized that our slogan for Bay Area Hip Hop Archives is this, it's not about me, it's not about you, it's about preserving us. And so I wanna take the time to actually give props to all 55 inductees and put this on community record because there is no archive without our community. There's been a lot of conversations around whether or not the Bay Area was celebrated or if we did our job in celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip hop. We salute all of the other great things that happened. E40 got a street named after him. Tupac got a street named after him. Empire did a 50th anniversary, with two short was there. Sobeat did an event. Conscious Daughters did their 30th anniversary. There were so many great events that happened in the 50th anniversary of hip hop and we salute all of them. And what I wanna do is salute our community that came together under the idea of preservation. So I'm actually gonna give props to all of the names that you see on the screen here. And I'm gonna start from the bottom and head to the top. Shout out to Zumbi Gaines, one half of the legendary group Zion Eye, Rest in Peace and Incredible MC that we have not forgotten you, brother, and we look forward to preserving you. Shout out to Zakiya Harris with her shapeshifter movement. We look forward to preserving her archives. A little known fact, Zakiya Harris was a part of Grind for the Green, the first solar powered hip hop concert in the Bay Area. Shout out to my brother Ren for True School for over 20 years. He's been providing hip hop information via his website and his one super dope DJ. Shout out to Tracy Bartlow. Tracy Bartlow is our queen of dance and photography and she's an entrepreneur. She is a true essence of Oakland and represents hip hop very well. R.I.P. to Tony Coleman. Tony Coleman is really important to me. I have to hit myself on the chest for that because he really was instrumental in me being in the Bay today and really is a OG of hip hop activism. I'm glad we were able to connect with his sons because we will be preserving his legacy. Shout out to Tim House. It's a name that you probably see but you don't see him often because he's normally behind the scenes, making great things happen in hip hop in the Bay. We salute you. Tim Bisa Emshaka. We're talking about one whole legend from the Gavin era to Mills College to being an executive in the music industry working with people like Ms. Lauren Hill and Nas. We are currently working on her collection right now and I can tell you that it's stunning. Shout out to Felilah Muhammad and Will Power of the Upper Room, the legendary sober free community space in the Bay area in the 90s that was really a safe haven for hip hop culture to thrive and political education as well. Shout out to Mahomi Dregs one, the history of the Bay podcast. He is a champion of preserving legendary stories from the Bay. Check him out on YouTube and all of his socials, some incredible conversations that he's had and we are happy to be able to add another layer of protection to make sure that these stories are available for the next generation. Shout out to OG and pioneer Terry T. Mr. Community Butler. His work is legendary in the community working with the community. He has over 25 million records sold and he's one of the original OGs of the 80s as well as a part of the council moving forward making sure that we include the original OGs in our archives. Shout out to the queen, my sister, West Coast champion, Sugar T. We honor you, we salute you. We know that your significance is important and we look forward to creating your archive, especially documenting all of your lyrics because I think you're on album number 24 or 25 which is truly, truly historical. Shout out to Spearworks. Shout out to Mama Mizan and Cisway who have not only been doing cultural work inside of schools but also making music and also making cultural movements for from deep East Oakland all over the Bay. We appreciate you. Shout out to the Fillmore champion, Sam Quinn. If you get a chance check out the history of the Bay podcast. He did a great interview. Really good brother has represented hip hop in the Bay is one of our champions. Shout out to my brother, Sake One. I always laugh and joke with him. I say all of my early events, flyers, posters, you always saw Sake One, an incredible DJ and also an incredible advocate and champion for hip hop culture overall. Shout out to graffiti artist, Rifa One. We see you in the community, represent the Black Panther Party very, very well on the streets of Oakland. We are honored that you are a part of our community that we can preserve you. Shout out to the legends, RBL Posse. Man, Black Sea. Man, represent 30 years of hip hop culture. Man, we salute you. We salute you. Shout out to the brother Ray Love. Ray Love, we look forward to preserving your history and legacy and telling your story because your story is very important. And we honor and salute all of the great work that you're doing preserving the story and legacy of Tupac Shakur. The street name and ceremony was legendary. Ross C. Lahn, shout out to that brother. He's probably in school right now. He's a headmaster of the Northern Lights School, but he's also been representing socially conscious hip hop since the early 90s. And working with Chairman Fred and just being all over the world, being a great ambassador for hip hop culture. Shout out to my brother Festo D. Representing 30 years of souls of mischief. Shout out to the whole Hyrule crew. I'm sure Festo is somewhere in the world representing hip hop, but I just wanna make sure that we publicly salute you and honor your legacy. Peace and respect to Pacoia Manago, hip hop activist champion. I'm sure right now she's probably advocating for some housing, for some support, for some community, for some young person right now in the Bay. Hip hop activism truly matters. Shout out to the big brother, my big bro, Paris, the Black Panthera hip hop. His contribution and support from day one for the Bay Area Hip Hop Archives has been a motivation and inspiration for me. His legacy, his ability to continue to speak truth to power. We are almost done with his collection and I can't wait for you all to see it. Today is Pam Nafunxtra's birthday. So RIP to Pam Nafunxtra's You Are Not Forgotten. We miss you and we look forward to making sure that the future generation knows your legacy and we inspire the next women DJs to get on the ones and tools and represent the way you did. Shout out to the Queens, Oak Towns 357, Sweet LD, Terrible T and Little P. Thank you for coming to our 50th anniversary of hip hop celebration. It was the talk of the town and we look forward in 2024 to get to your archives. Shout out to the Urban Peace Movement and Nicole Lee. Nicole Lee is one of my day ones. Another hip hop activist champion right now working behind the scenes to make sure that we shift the narrative around how we talk about Oakland and how we show love for Oakland. So really support your work. Shout out to the Goddess Mystic, MC Champion. She's probably somewhere working with first graders right now but we want to salute and respect you. We look forward to putting your legacy in special collections so people can see all of your greatness. Shout out to Media Circus. Media Circus, the first strutters, dance crew in the Bay Area hip hop, Faizo and all of the guys, really, really appreciate you all. You turned it out on the 50th anniversary of hip hop and we look forward to getting into those archives so people can know that Pop and Lock and Strut and Boogaloo are West Coast origins and be able to lift up your name and history. Shout out to Mark Bamuti Joseph. Oh, that brother, he just released his most recent work in New York City called The Watch. Vice President of the Kennedy Center. We had an opportunity to get his first Zoom call in for the archives and I can tell you that his story is legendary. It is going to inspire generations and generations and his Bay Area story is wonderful to hear. Shout out to Jennifer Johns. When I first mentioned this idea to her, her answer to me is I am hip hop. I look forward to her tapping in with us in about 10 or 15 minutes to talk a little bit about her archives. Salute to the brother, Jeff Chang. Can't Stop Won't Stop, the original version as well as the youth version. We look forward to preserving your words and works because we need future writers. Shout out to the brother, Hedari Davis with the edutainment for equity and also life is living. Just coming off a great life is living, bringing the community together, drums, B-boys, B-girls, graffiti writers. We look forward to continuing your legacy and I can't wait to show the community the early banners from life is living that I have. Peace and respect to Cable Conte. Not only is he representing Red Bay Coffee, to the fullest, he is also an incredible photojournalist and we have over a hundred slides to start of his archive from 1991 to 1994 and he has everybody. I can't wait for you all to see those photos. Peace and respect to the queen, Erica Huggins. The Black Panther Party matters.  I look forward to you all being able to see the 50th anniversary of the Oakland Community School by the Black Panther Party exhibit that opens in 2024, which is a part of Erica's legacy, which will 50 years ago when hip hop started, there also was a school that started right here in Oakland and I can't wait for you all to see that. Shout out to the great writer, Eric Arnold, KQED and beyond. He has been down by law since day one, one of the champions of the pen of writing about our historical significance in the Bay Area. I look forward to preserving your works and writings. Shout out to Dominique de Prima, Holm-Turf. Holm-Turf was before MTV, it was the place on Crown Four where hip hop lived from her kicking rhymes to interviewing so many Bay Area champions. We are happy to be able to get into those tapes and preserve those stories. Shout out to DJ True Justice, I'm sure he's out somewhere DJing or booking a great artist and activist. Thank you for your work. Salute to DJ Quest, the last DJ of the Jacka, who now works in Congresswoman Barbara Lee's office, we salute you. Man, shout out to Shortcut. Shortcut just got off of one incredible tour, the forced tour with LL Cool J. We look forward to preserving your legacy. And look, I need those photos in your phone from that entire tour. My man, DJ Kevvie Kev, a part of the longest running hip hop show in the world, the Stanford, the drum. And not only that was behind the scenes with the early part of the wake up show and just one incredible brother. Shout out to the homie, DJ D Sharp, the DJ for the Golden State Warriors. And not only that, he is Oakland through and through, his legacy matters. Shout out to MacArthur Mays, his latest group and latest movements in hip hop, continuing to push hip hop forward. Check them out to the legends, DJ Fuse, Mystic, Money B, R.I.P to Shaggy, digital underground. Thank you for coming to our 50th anniversary of hip hop celebration. We really, really look forward in 2024 to get into your archives to the big homie, Deuce Eclipse, Bang Data, part of Zion Eye, incredible MC. We look forward to preserving your lyrics. Your lyrics and lyricism, your socially conscious community stands for over 20 years is gonna be important to inspire future generations. Shout out to hip hop historian, legend Davey D. We have been able to digitize 500 cassettes and 50 reels in his collection. His collection will be one of the first nine unveiled in February, 2024. R.I.P to Dangerous Dane, OG legend from Oakland, contemporary of Too Short. Shout out to his wife and family. We support you and salute you. Thank you for coming out to underground. Thank you, brothers. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your archival work and interesting interviews around political education, blackness and our culture. Shout out to the homies, Crown City Rockers, from Cat to Hednatic to Ray Sean, to everybody over in Crown City Rockers, San Francisco legends, legends of live hip hop. It is important for us to preserve your legacy so people can see how to continue to use live instrumentation as we represent hip hop culture. Conscious daughters, man, salute, salute, salute the Carla. R.I.P to Special One, I mean, we know 30 years legacy. You all had a great event celebrating 30 years and we are looking forward to preserving that. So 300 years from now, people know that Conscious Daughters was here. Shout out to CJ Flash. I think he just got finished deejaying the Tony, Tony, Tony after party. Been deejaying for 40 years and salute to the world famous Rick and Russ show. Shout out to my man, Chuck Johnson, Sobe. You know, we cannot say enough about Sobe, how important it was, the legacy and we see you. Salute to Capital Tax Bay Area Legends. Shout out to Penn Darvish. Thank you for the recommendation. We represent the underseen and underserved and we know that people haven't talked about you enough so we wanna make sure that we have you in there. Oh man, congratulations to Brett Cook recently named the Legacy Artist via California Arts Council. Incredible, not only just a graffiti artist but B-Boy as well too and great human being. Blackalicious. Peace and respect to Chief XL. We had a great interview that's up on our YouTube page and on our Instagram page, talking about his legacy and R.I.P. to my brother, GiftedGab. You are not forgotten. We miss you and we will make sure that your legacy will live on. Look out for the new Blackalicious record. Boots Riley. Man, what can we say, man? From the cool to I'm a Virgo, such an incredible human being. We have already started conversations around his archive and when you see some of the sketches from some of his works, his transition from MCing into film, it will inspire future generations and future filmmakers and future videographers and MCs. Peace and respect to Ock Marketing. Camille, working behind the scenes right now, doing what he always does, which brings legendary concerts to the Bay Area on Friday. He is welcoming Miss Lauren Hill to the Chase Center. We have 20 years of posters. He's a part of our first nine collections that we will share on February 3rd, 2024. Shout out to Anita Johnson. KPFA, Hip Hop Activism on Radio. We salute you. Shout out to my sis, Aima the Dreamer, representing the females on the microphone, the films that she would say. We really respect you. And I ended this way because the last person on our list is Adisa Banjoko. And he wasn't able to join us this morning, but as I close out, I wanna say that part of our announcement for 2024 is that Adisa Banjoko will be our co-curator for the Bay Area Hip Hop Archives for 2024. Adisa is down by law. You know his history from curating events with hip hop and chess to respect at OMCA, to his work with combining mindfulness, jujitsu with hip hop culture. He was a perfect fit for us to be able to have our legacy move forward. It was never my idea to be the main curator for the Bay Area Hip Hop Archives. Every year we will announce new curators. So in 2024, it's Adisa. I can tell you that in 2025 and 2026, it will be a woman to make sure that we do balance. We've had two men, myself and Adisa, then we will have two women and we will continue to do that. Adisa cares about hip hop culture. He cares about legacy. He has done great work in the community. And I look forward to sharing a future conversation with me and Adisa around his work and what his plans are for 2024. So I wanted to make sure I got that out the way. Salute to one and all because we know that shout outs matter. What I wanna do now as we wait for Jennifer Johns to join us is I wanna talk about what's at stake. The reason why we're doing the Bay Area Hip Hop Archives is that if we don't preserve ourselves, our history, our narratives, our legacy, we will be erased from history. As we are watching states and school districts, ban books and determine what people can read and what they can't read, we know that our history is now even more important. So we are doing this to make sure that we are not erased. Hip hop culture is 50 years old. I've said to our community that at our best, even with our diet and exercise, we probably won't make it to the 100th anniversary of hip hop. But our legacy will be intact through our archives. Future generations need to know that we were here, what we did and why it's important so they can continue forward. We want a young person in the community, in Oakland, Richmond, Vallejo, San Francisco and all parts of the Bay to become the next great MCs, DJs, graffiti writers, breakers, popper lockers and strutters, fashion designers, beatboxers, linguistics, the next entrepreneurs and producers. We also want young people to be the next archivist and museum curators and librarians as well too, because we need all of that because that is the way that this culture continues forward. By creating our own physical collections, we safeguard ourselves from the future digital crash, physical items matter. So in 2024, we will not only have some things available online via our website, Bay Area Hip Hop Archives.org but we are building physical collections. You will have to come to Oakland, to the Dr. Huey P. Newton Center and sit down and research physical items because we wanna make sure that you not only hear about us but see these physical items, see these materials and have a chance to research us in a whole new way. The Bay is more than what commercial media shows and shares. We salute the commercial media and what we see but we also know that the underseen, underserved and underappreciated folks who are champions of hip hop culture matter, we matter. And with that, if I'm not mistaken, I think we have a special guest that is about to join us. She is my sister. She is hip hop through and through. You know, see, when she starts smiling, but I can change this whole conversation, it matters. I said it earlier, I say it again when I mentioned this idea about the Bay Area Hip Hop Archives tour, her answer was, I am hip hop. And we already know what that is. So ladies and gentlemen, 2023 Bay Area Hip Hop Archives inductee, Jennifer Johns. Good morning, what's up fam? What's up family? How you doing? How you? I'm so good, you know, I'm moving and shaking. I'm like, I gotta hop on this car because it's family and it's hip hop. So you know how we do. Well, you know what? I appreciate it. This is our last kind of community share out for the year. We talked about all of the successes we've had. And I just wanted to have you pop in number one because I just appreciate seeing you whenever I can. And then also, you know, just to let folks know that, you know, as we talked about earlier, preserving this legacy, preserving the way we make sure that we are, we won't be here for the 100th anniversary of hip hop, but the way that we preserve ourselves is to do these special collections.  Oh man, I think that my legacy in hip hop is unique because I'm a singer because I'm a writer. And I think a lot of times when we're thinking about hip hop artists, we're thinking about the MC, which we all know comes last, right? And I think that as a singer, though I'm a mic controller, right? I'm not your traditional, you see what I'm saying? I'm not your traditional MC. And so my experience I think lets other young women and other people know that hip hop is a culture. It's not really about the music. The music is the way that we communicate with each other. It's the way that we love up on each other, the way that we pass information and technology and so forth, but the culture is what matters. And I think that my career exemplifies that. No doubt about that. And yes, you a singer, but I didn't hear some bars from you before too. So like, don't think that Jen just stuck to it. You know what I mean. You know, but actually, you know, it's the culture that sustains us. And the music is our conduit, but it's the culture. It's the elements of the culture that preserves us. When you think about your collection, what's one thing you know for sure that you wanna make sure that's in your collection that people get a chance to see? Definitely stuff from that tour we did with God. Absolutely. And I was thinking this morning, like when I got up and I was like, oh wow, what do I wanna make sure is in the collection? And I'm like, I can't wait to tell the story when we were in Zurich. You remember that kid that scaled the fence to come and break dance for us? And what was so deep was that he scaled this fence, so he'd been in the crowd, he'd watched the show, was feeling it, and we had played everything from like small clubs to like stadiums. And this was like a smaller club. Remember they told us that we couldn't play the music over a certain decibel, and it wasn't because they didn't believe in live music, but they had like sound design. It's the first time I heard of like sound design like that in live space. But this young man was trying to say something to us, but we didn't speak none of the word languages that he spoke. And so he got a little frustrated for a second, and then he just started break dancing. And it was like eight of us, and there was a hum. You remember that? Oh, of course I do. And I remember he kind of put his hands up like, and we just validated him in that moment. And it was like hip hop is a universal line. We didn't need words at that point in time. And that's the beauty of bringing us together because we was halfway around the world, but he needed to let us know that he understood what he experienced. Yeah, and we did. And it was, it lets you know that hip hop is bigger than race, bigger than, it's just bigger. It's bigger. It's bigger. It's a culture. And so yeah, I'm grateful to be inducted. Especially along the bike. Yo, the people in this class are out of control. Like the women alone are like, yes. Exactly. You know, like my sister is, a lot of mercy. You know what, I will say, we have 55 inductees and 20 of them are women. See, because you know what it is. Because absolutely there's no way that we even have an archive without you all represented. And we can't, we look forward to representing more. I can tell you that there are three women on the list of the first five for 2024 as well too. So it's already there. And obviously you got me reminiscing. I was thinking about that tour also. How about Mary J. Blige coming into our dressing room after we opened up for one week with Mary J. Blige and Chaka Khan. Yo. With Blacklicious that moment. Yo. Yo. Yo. Yo. We're just seeing Chaka Khan every night. Like, and Chaka, you remember and it would be like certain nights where she'd be like, you could tell at this point now you've been around her enough that she's just phoning it in for a second for like the first three songs. And then she just hit that like sweet thing and you'd be like, well, what the? What? Oh my God. I hold the microphone this far away from her. Yo. I mean. But we're standing in the pit.  Sorry, San Francisco Library. One bleep. San Francisco Library. My bad. Hip hop. That was amazing. That tour was truly life changing for me. You know, to see what independent hip hop can do. You know what I mean? You see what independent creativity can do around the world and to be a part of a culture that's so global. You know, that was such a special time.  We played Bercy Stadium. You remember Hip Hop Don't Stop? Talk about it. Hip Hop Don't Stop. With two stages going at the same time. Yo! And the bird landed on the stage while we were performing. Come on now. You know what I think about is, remember we were in Germany and we got the Rock'n'Ring Festival and we went out and I think we both had CDs trying to, and we was like, it was like gone in five seconds. We both looked at each other like, what is going on right now? Because for both of us, that was our first trip outside of the United States to see how global hip hop was. So, yeah. See, you know, I could spend all day with Jen. I'm only supposed to spend five minutes with you because we got a short period of time, but this is a great example of why we are doing the archives and these are the type of stories and legacies that we wanna preserve. Last question before I let you go. There's a 12 year old girl with her family checking out your archives. What message is in there for her? Anything is possible. You make your life. You do it and you do it your way. And I don't mean it's gonna be easy, not gonna be easy, but it's gonna be worth it. Man, man, I say, I say, Jen, I know you're running. I really appreciate you being able to tap in. Again, this will live on the San Francisco public library site. They'll post it shortly and we'll tap in soon. Sounds good, love you. I'll see you later. Love you too, love you too. All right. And with that, we are about to be out. One thing that I wanted to say as we close, again, we really thank the San Francisco Public Library. This is phase one of us beginning a long relationship together. A quote that I have is, revolution and preservation is a process and it takes some time. And I'm really proud of what we've been able to do as a community year one. We really look forward to doing more things like this in a physical space with the San Francisco Public Library. And one of the things that I also wanted to shout the San Francisco Public Library out about is about Bay Beats. Bay Beats is an opportunity for folks from the Bay Area to be able to have their music streamed via the San Francisco Public Library. So if you get a chance, look up Bay Beats, San Francisco Public Library and check out some of the great artists in there. I had a chance to spend a day and I listened to blues music. I listened to bluegrass music. I heard some hip hop I hadn't heard before. And I'm humble and happy to report that I was one of the inaugural artists for Bay Beats. I put out an album in 2020 called Forward Future. And I really am happy and proud that it's a part of this new community. And I look forward to seeing more music joining this community moving forward. So I thought what I'd do is to close out that I would share a music video from that album. And I think it's probably really appropriate right now as we are hoping for world peace. The name of the song is called Mindfulness. So this is how we will close. This has been Jahi Bay Area Hip Hop Archives. Please visit us at Bay Area Hip Hop Archives.org. Follow us on Instagram at Bay Area Hip Hop Archives. Follow San Francisco Public Library. Same thing, Instagram at SF Public Library.  Take your family, libraries are saving grace. The more we read, the more we grow. And with that, I'm gonna leave you with Mindfulness. FIGGA, FIGGA, FIGGA, FIGGA, FIGGA. Mindfulness. But the sun rises hot, tea candlelight, no electronic devices, it's quiet now. While the world sleeps, I'm awake. Take time to contemplate and give thanks and pump the base. Self-aware self-care, taking care of self.  Silence outside, opinions about you. And do the inner work is in the truth, that's the real you. The night time is the right time for me to kick a rhyme. 20 years later, still reaching my prime. Without the Amazon or the cameras on, don't want to be a dime.  This might be the best thing for your protection as you go and bop to this. Water meditation, exercise, breathe, life stand for your rights, this is mindfulness. For your spirit and your soul. Medicine is a gift that don't go under dead trees. We talking 360 degrees, not a cold, dependent, independent and prolific. Be yourself, even when your world of your attitude. And OG told me that control your altitude. Emotional well being, importantness being seen and being clean. High characteristics of a human being. Dice and make mistakes and take wrong routes and deal with the breaks. But if you find a quiet place, you can reroute your direction. Mindfulness, kick out, fear and depression. Mindfulness. Now and D is for do it. F is for freedom, use it or useless. L is for love. E is for excellence in building mindsets. S is for self and the other S to see. Mindfulness is a jewel of key to be free. We talking mindfulness. For your spirit and your soul.


Statistics and Excel, Standard Deviation and Variance for a Population, Calories Data. Get ready, taking a deep breath, holding it in for 10 seconds, looking forward to a smooth, soothing Excel. First, a word from our sponsor. Yeah, actually, we're sponsoring ourselves on this one, because apparently the merchandisers, they don't want to be seen with us.  Like our, trust me, I'm an accountant product line. Yeah, it's paramount that you let people know that you're an accountant, because apparently we're among the only ones equipped with the number crunching skills to answer society's current deep, complex and nuanced questions. If you would like a commercial free experience, consider subscribing to our website at accountinginstruction.com or accountinginstruction.thinkific.com. Here we are in Excel. If you don't have access to this workbook, that's okay, because we'll basically build this from a blank worksheet. But if you do have access, three tabs down below, Example, Practice, Blank, Example, In Essence, Answer, Key, Practice tab, having pre-formatted cells, so you could get right to the heart of the practice problem. Blank tab, blank worksheet, but with just our data in it, so we can practice formatting the cells within Excel as we work through the practice problem. If you don't have access to this data, it's a pretty long data set, so it would be difficult to simply type it in there. You can look at online resources for sample data sets, such as Kaggle.com, K-A-G-G-L-E.com. Let's go to our example tab to get an idea of what we are doing. We're going to be looking at calories data, doing a similar kind of process that we have done in prior presentations, just working with different data sets now, and that we'll be doing our statistical calculations using mainly Excel functions. Then we'll do our histogram of the data, and then we'll break out in more detail, focusing in on the standard deviation and the variance of this data set. So let's go to the Blank tab to the right. I'm going to remove the Kaggle. I'm going to format the entire sheet like we do pretty much every time, putting my cursor on the triangle, right-clicking on those selected cells and formatting the cells. So let's go to the currency, then negative numbers. We're going to make them red and bracketed. I don't want any dollar sign. We don't need any decimals. Let's remove those as well and okay. So let's embold the whole thing, home tab, or I will. You don't have to. Fonts group, bold it. I think that might make it easier for the screencast. Holding Control, scrolling in a bit so we can see a little bit more detail. I'm currently at the 265 on the zoom-in. Let's put a table. Now note, by the way, that when I formatted the entire worksheet, it messed up the date field. So the date field is still there, but now I'm just going to reformat the date field to be a date. So I'm going to select column A and then go to the home tab, numbers group, dropping it down on the numbers. We want the short date and that should convert it back. Hold on. That's normal date.  There it is. So let's hold Control and scroll down just a bit. So now I'm currently at 220 on the zoom-in. Now I'm going to put my cursor in the data and we're going to go to the insert tab up top, the tables, and then put a table around this data, the dancing ants doing their magic dance around the table, creating a table from it, allowing us then to sort the data by date, which is what it's currently sorted in or if we wanted to by the calorie count, which we can go from lowest to highest. So we have the lowest calories here on these dates where we didn't have any calories. We were like starved to death or just we didn't want to get out of bed those days or something. I don't know. And then we have the highest calorie counts from Z to A. Taking that data, let's make a skinny C column. That's what happens when you don't eat the calories. You get skinny and C. So you see what happens? You get skinny. So in any case, then let's do our normal calculations here. So we're going to have the mean or average calculation and that's going to give us the truth about the calorie count for us, even if it's mean, even if it's mean to do it, it's the facts, just the facts here. So then we're going to take the, let's take the minimum. Let's take the Q1. Let's take the median, median, which you could be called Q2. Let's take Q3. Let's take the max and then we'll do the standard deviation, which is going to be for the population, we're going to say, and that's represented by a sigma. I won't put the sigma in here, but then we've got the variance for the pop population, not your dad, but for a population versus a sample because we're working with population stats for the most part at this time. All right, let's do it. Let's do our calculations. I'm going to do this quickly because we've seen it in the past. We're just doing it with this data set, which is a fairly long data set here. We'll do a little bit longer data set next time, but you can see we have a pretty large sample and we can do our same calculations and the functions obviously quite helpful to get to the calculations quickly, but it still can be useful to break out in like a table format what is actually happening because that's another way to sort the data, another viewpoint at the data that could give us more insight. So let's say this is going to be equal to the average and I'm just going to say tab now to pick up the formula. So there it is and then I'm just going to put my dropdown arrow on the data, the dancing ants around the data and enter, so there's our average. I'm going to do these fairly quick equals the min, the smallest number, tab to get the function. My cursor is already in the section for the arrow dropdown and there it is. By the way, if I want to look at the min, I can sort from lowest to highest and there's those zero days, those zero days when we had no calories at all. I was starving, but whatever. And then it's all for the cause, man. Core tile, let's do the core tiles and we'll say this one is going to be the core tile. This one needs another argument, a comma, and we'll put a one next to it. Core tile one and then this is the median, which could be core tile two formula or the median for function tab, selecting the data. There's the median and then equals core tile number three, selecting the data. This meeting another argument there for a comma and core tile number three, the three next to it. And then the max when we maxed out on the calories. So the max selecting the, oh, hold on a sec, something happened. This is the max and I got to hit shift nine. I could do that to get my function ready to roll and then selecting my data. So that's when we ate a whole bunch of calories apparently. I don't know.  Anyway, then we have the standard deviation on this one equals the standard and we're looking at the population data at this point. Let's take the standard deviation for the population P and select that. And then this will be equal to the stand the variance for the population. And we'll pick up that. Let's just do the same thing for the sample. So just to pick those up. If it were a sample standard deviation, Sam and variance, variance for the Sam. And this is going to be equal to the standard deviation for a sample. And this will be equal to the standard deviation for a I'm sorry, this will be equal to the variance. Variants for a sample VAR dot s. Okay, so there's all the stats that I get them right this time. These are the population population. This is for a sample versus a sample. If I look at this one, by the way, home tab number group and I add some decimals just to see some a little bit of a differentiation between the two calculations. All right, let's put some blue borders around this. I'm going to select our data and we'll go to the insert tab font group hit the bucket drop down. If you don't have that blue, it's in the more color in the wheel standard side and hitting that wheel and okay. And then we'll go to the font drop down, put some borders around this whole thing. Let's let's put a histogram in it now. So let's take our data, the calorie data, insert tab up top charts and hit the drop down, but not too hard. Don't break it and then go to the histogram. So there we have it. So there's our data.  And so now let's do our standard deviation calculation using and our variance using like a table format. So we get an idea of what's actually happening with those because they're a bit more complex calculations. So we've got the variance there. Oh, hold on a sec. Variant. Now I hit the cap lock variance and I'm going to copy my formula over here. So there's the formula. I'll bring it down to like 12 on the font to 12 font. Now you can type in that formula. Remember with the insert tab, hit an equation and then I would use the ink thing so that you can actually kind of type it in here or hand write it in here, not type it in here. That's the point. And it'll start to do your formula up top. So I'm going to make this one orange as well.  Okay, and then we're going to say this is going to be the standard deviation form you lie and we'll put that in place making that 12 on the font as well. Orange in it, making it orange. That is that's what we do. That's what orange in it means when we orange it. And so there it is. Okay, so we can see that these two are related, of course, because this this whole bit here for the variance sigma squared is the same thing as what's under here on the standard deviation. And then we're going to take the square root of it to get the standard deviation. So let's do that calculation on more of a manual method, which although there's a whole lot of data points here is still pretty easy to do. So let's just copy this whole thing. I'm going to copy from column A to column B, select in those two columns, right clicking and copy. And let's put them on over here in column R, R and S are so we're going to say control V or just paste it. Let's make a skinny queue column, skinny queue. And then we'll just do our standard kind of thing here. So here's all of our individual points represented by X, X, I. So we're going to go from one all the way up to however many of them there are end of them that is. So we're going to say this is going to be the mean. So we're going to compare all of them to the mean. And if you're if you're over the mean, we're going to be mean about it and say that you're getting fat because you're over because you have you have more calories than the mean point which. Okay, that's not nice. So this is going to be equal to the average. Let's take the average of this. And then so there's the middle point, the mean of our data set. And then we're going to take the difference differ difference. And this is going to be equal to the calories that day versus the middle point the average and we're over on these days. But of course we're under on the days way down here because that is by definition the middle point and you would assume that we would be hovering somewhere around the middle point. Otherwise we would get amazingly large or amazingly skinny. You would think if we were on one side of the other for an extended period of time. So anyways, then we're going to take that squared. We're going to square that. So now we've done this bit and we're going to square them and then we will sum them up getting the numerator. So this equals the data points squared is a shift six the carrot to the power of two to the power of two. And there we have it. It's not quite as powerful as grayscale to the power of grayscale, whatever that means but still it's pretty effective.  I'm in my table. So I've got my table design up top in the table style options. Let's give ourselves a total column and then over here on the calories. Let's go ahead and just take the average. I'm going to recalculate the average just because we can. And then here let's do a count so I can count them meaning one, two, three, four, five on the line items 457 line items, which is a pretty fair amount of data but so easy to do and work with in Excel because of the functionality that Excel provides us. If we sum it up, it should still add up to zero because we're taking the difference of every data point from the mean, the mean being in essence that middle point. And then let's make this column a little bit wider so I can see what the number is. It's a huge number because we squared everything which got rid of the negative numbers but still is now it's all squared. So let's take that and complete our variance calculation and the standard deviation. So the squared difference from the mean is basically what we have here or the numerator in essence of our formula for the variance formula. Again if we if we divide that this thing so I can put a divide by the count which is n in our formula, which we calculated here the number of line items 457 equals the 457. Let's put an underline under that font group underline and then let's take the variance variance.  And so then we have I'm just I have it in my favorites down here but it's right there too. And then insert and then okay and then I like to hit enter and then go back into it then put a two then hold down shift and select the two or you could just select just the two right click and then format the cell and make it a subscript so I can get that squared notation looking nice like that. Then we'll do the division problem. This equals this number divided by this number the square difference of the mean divided by the number the count gives us the variance. Then we want the standard deviation standard deviation of the population population population of data. And we're going to say that this is going to be then the letter then would be sigma. Let's go to the insert tab symbols and add a sigma because that's the cool thing to do if you add those little symbols. People really think you know what you're talking about tell you what it's all you need to do and people are people will will say that your stuff is good man. So this is going to be the square root square root of that. And so there's the 815 if we add a couple of decimals home tab number decimal lies in it with a couple of decimals. There we have it. That's not really a word. Some people get mad that I use it. But I like to I think it should be a word and it will be at some point due to our use of it. So font group if I hit the drop down here let's make this blue and bordered. So there we have it. So this just another kind of example of us getting our calculation with a fairly long and different data set that than the salaries. And remember that which a lot of times what you would be doing with different data sets is basically be able to compare you know the variance and the standard deviation of this data set possibly to related data sets. You know if this was one population versus another population and those will give you some ideas about the spread some concepts that we'll get into in more detail in future presentations. But that's the 814.59 which we calculated over here as well the 815.59 the 814.59 and this was the for the sample for the sample data.


What's the word y'all? Chris Dasparasigas is a Boston Celtic. Which means that Malcolm Brogdon is a clipper, and Marcus Morris is a wizard. There's gonna be some draft compensation. As of according to this video, I don't know exactly what that draft compensation is, Wizards fans, so I cannot tell you whether or not you won or lost a straight. But I think any move that you do at this point where you're shedding salary or getting rid of the current core is gonna be a dud. I know the Bradley Beale went tough because you didn't get any draft capital back for the second lead to score your franchise history. But still, wash your hands. You're gonna forget about all of this. You know what I'm saying? Chris Dasparasigas is a Boston Celtic. And I don't know, I don't know. The clippers are expected to trade pick number 30 to the Wizards. So that... Hey, you got more in this trade than you did for the Bradley Beale trade Wizards fans. 30th overall pick. Jimmy Bully was drafted 30th overall years back. So, you know, just gotta find the guy. I can't lie, man. I really, really do like the idea of Chris Dasparasigas being on the Boston Celtics. Obviously, the biggest question mark regarding Chris Dasparasigas has always been the health. Last year, he had the healthiest season of his young career. Young career? He's been around for a minute. The healthiest season of his career playing like 65 is games. And I think the last seven of those games, the Washington Wizards themselves decided to shut him down because they were going for higher draft lottery odds. So he could have potentially played a 70 game season. We knew that the Boston Celtics could not just run it back for the 100th year in a row. They needed to make some changes. Some people thought it might have been Jaylen Brown because he's up for that $300 million extension. They think it was really realistic to trade Jaylen Brown away and still think that you could tend. It's not a lot of things out there that you could potentially get that will upgrade that. So instead, they make some changes around the outside and that is trading the sixth manity of Malcolm Brogdon and getting back Chris Dasparasigas. Malcolm Brogdon and Chris Dasparasigas have the same question marks attached to them, right? When they are playing, they're pretty good. I mean, we just saw the sixth manity of Malcolm Brogdon. But it's still when they are playing. So I see this as a kind of shuffling of the deck for the Boston Celtics. The cost is not really, really high. Both of these players are going to the last year of their contract because Chris Dasparasigas opted into it. And where we got to the playoffs this season and we did see the injured version of Malcolm Brogdon. And already they have this log gem as far as primary ball handlers or people that you trust with the ball in their hands whether it be Derrick White, whether it be Marcus Smart or the Jays. That's four guys right there. And then though Malcolm Brogdon is one of the steady forces with him winning sixth man of the year, there still is a log gem at the position. And one of the positions they could have used some help at was the big position. Because again, you have the injury history. Robin Williams has been struggling to stay healthy over the last couple of seasons. So I just think that if you can convince yourself that Chris Dasparasigas can stay relatively healthy, this feels like a real dub to me. And though he doesn't have the defensive versatility of Al Horford obviously, I mean, Al Horford is 30, 37 years old. Like how long could we expect Al Horford to be at least a decent NBA player?  I don't know.  Again, it's a one year rent too, but it could turn it to something longer term, depending on how the connection really works. Joe Missoula is going to have to really figure out how to work this rotation. And I'm assuming that he will be able to do it with the full off season ahead of him. But I'm like, I feel like when the Boston Celts were at their best last season, it's when they made the adjustment, he made Yudoka make the adjustments to let Robert Williams be like the Rome where instead of saying like, hey, that's a center, you're a center. Guard him 24 seven. And allow Robert Williams to really showcase how good of a defensive player he can be. And this also allows that to be the case. I think that poor Zingas and Robert Williams can play, Robert Williams can play real minutes together, mostly because poor Zingas has been a lights out, three point shooter off the side of the ball. And he's one of the premier rim deterrents and rim protection players in the league. And if you look at it right here, he's in a 97th percentile and rim defense. We're talking about Chris Daps for Zingas. And when it comes to rim frequency, he's at the 92 percentile. And this just says that, hey, when he is on the court and there's a shot at the rim, he's the one contestant at 46 percent of the time. And then he allows this percentage less when he's on the court at the rim than any other player on the team. So he's been really, really good defensively. Of course we had seasons where you average two plus blocks. This was not a super block heavy season for him, but we know he can do that. I mean, he shot 38 percent from three last year. And for the most part that has been relatively normal. The season before that was 31 percent, but the years before that was 37 and 36. So if you just nicks out the one year where he was traded and also going through a lot of injuries, he's been a floor spacer. And we're not just talking about foot on the line, three point shooting. Poor Zingas be shooting it from the half court line if you allow him to. And he's been able to knock it down. Yeah, I think he is, I think he's gone from a guy that everybody, I was personally excited for him when he got traded to the Dallas Mavericks. Obviously that flamed out and didn't work the way they wanted it to. They traded him for a Spencer Den when he had dove his bird's hands like a really, really small package. And I think he re-upped that trade value and showcased it to the world. Hey, I know it was an all-star when I was earlier. I still got that. I mean, he was a borderline all-star this season. So again, I see this for the Celtics as an opportunity to move some things around and to really change things up at the end of the day. Flipping it to the clipper side of things, they've been looking for a point guard for as long as this Kawhi Leonard Paul George thing has been something. And Malcolm Brogdon had the one year, of course, where he was the sixth man of the year. But before that, he's been a high quality starting point guard for pretty much every year of his career going back to his rookie season. And Malcolm Brogdon isn't the type of point guard that I think a lot of people think about when they think about what the clippers need. I always think about a guy that could just get people in their spots. Oh, oh, like Chris Paul is available. And I guess this trade means that Chris Paul is not gonna be a clipper. Or maybe it can still be a clipper. And Malcolm Brogdon just resumed the rose as a sixth man. But I'm assuming as of right now, this is them saying like, hey, Malcolm, you're gonna be our starting point guard. It's been a couple years since we see Malcolm Brogdon end up being that floor general type dude. And that was the years where he was overtaxed in Indiana. And last year they allowed him to just feel it out. Sometimes he was the offensive threat. Sometimes he was here or there with the Boston Celtics and he was great there. But if you just look at the previous point guards that have been on his clippers roster doing the Kawhi and Nepal George thing, Malcolm Brogdon is undoubtedly gonna be the best guy there. Again, similar to Porzingis, the big question, Marcus, hey, how healthy can he be for a full season plus the post season? And a team that already has two players on the roster, two stars in the roster that struggle to stay healthy. Maybe it's not the best fit, but this is an attempt worth taking because this is one of the most expensive teams in basketball, right? Like undoubtedly, I think they're number two or number three or something like that. With Malcolm Brogdon to be on the last year of his deal, if this experiment doesn't work out, you could just wipe your hands of it and save a little bit of money right before that second apron comes in. And given what you gave up, I've talked to Clippers fans, none of them are Marcus Morris fans. I tell you that, a lot of them have been trying to get Marcus Morris off the team for a minute. So you trade Marcus Morris in the 30th overall pick to upgrade to a guy that was six minute of the year, upgrade to a guy we see be a 50, 40, 90 guy early in his career and upgrade a position that was a real need for you. I see this as an absolute dove. The questions of course, of course, of course, is can they keep our Zingas healthy? And can they keep Malcolm Brogdon healthy? It's yet to be seen, but both of them are coming off relatively healthy seasons. Oh, Mirkoff is also in this trade. And Mirkoff is cool. I like a Mirkoff's game. You know what I'm saying? Wizards fans, there you go. You gave up Isaiah Todd and you gave up Jordan Goodwin. And now you got Amir Coffee in the 30th overall pick. Oh man. Well, Wizards fans, this is what the start of a rebuild is like when you wait a little bit too long to make it happen. Like a lot of teams that have been able to hit that reset button at the right time end up trading Paul Jords for 17 first round picks and Shay Gilles Alexander trading Russell Westbrook for this and that. And then you end up with a million first round as you draft the whale. This, what you see in between Bradley Beal and Port Zingas, your two best players being traded away for practically just the 30th overall pick. Just showcase that you waited too long. I know there's a new regime and you have to just give them a benefit of the doubt. You take what you could get. And what you could have gotten this scenario was a 30th overall pick and Amir Coffee. 30th overall pick and Amir Coffee. That is crazy. I don't know, man. I just, I really like the Port Zingas fit defensively, bro. I just can't stop thinking about it because you can play alongside Al Horford if you need him to. He can play alongside Robert Williams if you needed to. And he's, throughout the last couple of seasons, he's been a relatively low maintenance guy. And that's what you want.  I think a lot of people are gonna realize how good Port Zingas really is because he's no longer in the market of Washington that was like no man's land when it comes to NBA talent. And now he's on a premier team that is trying to compete for a championship. I think a lot of the questions you might see on TV over the next couple of days does this trade make the Boston Celtics the favorite out east? I'm not going that far because that's not even a question worth answering before free agency and all of the other dominoes fall in this off season. But boy, I really like this trade for two out of the three teams. I wonder if this is gonna be the, these are gonna be the biggest trades of the next couple of days. I've seen there's a lot of rumors with the draft being tomorrow and stuff. But these are two really, really big trades between Port Zingas and Bradley Biel. Those are big, big names. And I don't wanna be disappointed going into this draft thinking that we gonna see a Z or we gonna see a little or see something like that. If this is all we got, I think I'll be cool with it. This how you subvert the expectations. So if not to happen, you're not sad, but if something do have you, you know what I'm saying? You're super excited. Also a little known thing about this trade means that the Celtics will not be able to retain Greg Williams, which is interesting. I think that Missoula didn't really love Greg Williams for whatever reason. Last year when he was with Ema Yadoka, Grant played a lot of big minutes. He had some really big shots in that one series. And then when it came to this year's playoffs, he didn't really get a lot of burn. And now he's gonna be out there for the take it for some other team. And he's a quality NBA player. And I wonder what type of market we're gonna see for Grant Williams. Wait a minute, hold on, what last thing? I know I've been trying to get these videos out real fast. These are always my initial reactions. Of course, I'm not married to the initial reactions, but I wanna go back. What did he, so the Pacers traded away Malcolm Brogdon for Daniel Tice and a first round pick that was what, 27th, right? 27th overall pick. So basically, Brad Stevens turned Daniel Tice in the 27th overall pick to poor Zingus in one year's time. That's insane. That's what I mean in the video. Brad Stevens is a good NBA coach. He might be a better front office dude. That's crazy.


Four, six into the eight. If you don't like my rhymes, that's just straight play that fade. Ubuntu, Mint, Arch, MX, and Fedora, I can never stop hopping, I'm like Dora the Explorer. I prefer to use the fish shell rather than bash, so take your POSIX standards and throw them in the trash. I was browsing the web doing a little extra-curricular with my Linux laptop pros for no reason in particular. Linux is like a bad wine in that it turns into vinegar, but that won't hold me down because my fortitude is test-dicular.  There's a turf war going on in the Linux community, it's free software against proprietary lunacy. I choose freedom every time, not because I'm cheap, but because from that you sewed that you will reap.  I'm looking for a distro that won't disappoint, but they all got problems, makes me want a snooka joint. $100 bills, yo. We need a Linux rap battle, we need a rap battle within the Linux community. Where ya at, lundu? Come at me, brody. Middle Outlaw, where ya at?


Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW Personal Points Plan. Happy Friday, happy Friday friends. It is a Friday, it is Christmas Eve. I decided to pop on a red lip and a red top to bring in all the holiday vibes for today's weigh in video. We are going to talk about my week. We'll set some goals moving into the final week of December, the final week of 2021. Wow, can you even believe it? We're also going to talk about this week's WW Workshop topic and of course, as always, I'm going to be sharing this week's weigh in. So if you're excited, give this video a thumbs up. And if you're new to my channel or you're not yet subscribed, I would love to have you join our community. It's a pretty fun place to be. All you have to do is hit the subscribe button and click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. I do a weigh in every single Friday. Check out that description box down below for nutrition coaching. I offer personalized 2U macros and calories as well as one-on-one coaching. Both of these are great as we move into the new year. You'll also find links and discounts to all of my favorite things and my Facebook group. We would love to have you over there as we move into 2022. We have lots of fun and exciting things planned. So head on over, join us on Facebook. Let's jump in to this week's Christmas Eve weigh in. Again, Merry Christmas Eve. I am pretty excited that it's Christmas Eve. This is really when my family does the bulk of it's celebrating. Generally Christmas Eve is myself and my husband, my mom and her boyfriend and my cousin, his wife and their two grown children. Their daughter is 21 and their son is 17. Everybody comes over to our house and we play games. We have lots of good food, cocktails, and we just enjoy each other's company. It's really the one-time year that I get to see my cousin and his family, which is extra special on Christmas Eve for us. Of course, today's going to look a little different than past years. I'm not able to indulge in all the sweet treats that I normally would, but I made some really good food that works with the way that I'm eating and I'm excited to have a Christmas Eve healthy dinner. I'm not tracking. I'm not worrying so much about calories or points. I'm just going to enjoy the holidays. It's a holiday, not a holiday week, not a holiday month. After Christmas Day is over, right back to tracking and being 100% on track. I'm going to still drink my gallon of water over the holidays in hopes to kind of flesh out all the goodies that I'm eating, but I'm really excited for Christmas. It's one of my favorite holidays during the year. I have a huge non-scale victory that I would like to share with you guys. I made my famous sugar cookies on Wednesday. Two days ago, and guess who didn't have a single bite, lick, or taste. I'm shocked because my cookies are one of my favorite, favorite things. I told myself that I could have one cookie on Christmas Eve and that is it, so I didn't even taste anything. So hopefully they're good. They should be good, but I didn't taste anything and I'm saving up for Christmas Eve. So that's a huge win for me. Normally I'm tasting the batter. I'm putting my finger in the frosting. I'm getting a little extra sugar on the day that I make the cookies and this year, zip zilch nada. I'm super, super proud of that little non-scale victory. The rest of my week went really, really well and I'm really excited to move into January. You will be seeing on this Sunday, my goals video where I'm going to share with you my new vision board. I purchased the most amazing vision board off of Amazon. We're going to talk about my goals for 2022 and we'll recap my goals for 2021 and I'll let you know whether or not I reach those. So everything is going really well. I'm feeling a lot better. I'm feeling much more satisfied eating a real whole food diet. It's made a huge, huge difference in sensitivity for me. I will be doing an update a little bit later on how things are going and what changes that I've noticed besides the scale when it comes to this kind of new way of following the program. But before we jump into this week's weigh-in, I want to share with you this week's WW workshop topic. This one speaks directly to me and that is how to hit the brakes on speedy eating. I will tell you right now that I am a super fast eater. I have always been a super fast eater. I will have my dinner finished and the kitchen cleaned up before my husband has even finished his dinner. So like I said, this week's topic is perfect for me. WW wants to share some tips on how to stop eating so quickly and really enjoy your meals. What's important about this is it takes time for your stomach to send your brain the signal that you've consumed a meal and that you're satisfied and full. So if you're eating really quickly, it doesn't give your body enough time to signal that you've had that meal. So we generally overeat or overindulge. If we slow down and really savor our food, it gives our body time to understand that we've eaten and chances are we're going to eat less and even better yet, we're going to enjoy what we're eating a lot more. So some tips from WW. Number one is to pause. Take a look at your plate and enjoy what you're seeing. Look at all those beautiful colors on your plate from the fruits and the vegetables and the protein that you've chosen. Really take a good look and admire and appreciate the beautiful colors on your plate. Number two is an interesting tip and this is to use your non-dominant which would be my left hand to consume your meal rather than your dominant hand. This is automatically physically going to slow you down. And here's another one that I can do and that is to match your pace of eating to the slowest eater at your table. And in that case, in my case, that's my husband. Like I said, he's a slower eater. He generally doesn't finish his plate where I always finish my plate. Again, because I'm eating so quickly, he's eating so slower, his body is registering his meal. So match the pace of the slowest eater at your table and see if that helps automatically slow down your eating. And number four is to go back and forth between talking and eating. So take a bite, have a conversation. Set your fork down. Take another bite, have a conversation.  That way you're engaging in conversation. You're present in the moment. You're not eating while being distracted. And again, you're slowing down just naturally by talking in between those bites. Now, reflect on how that worked for you. Did you notice that by following some of these tips did it slow down your eating? Did you feel like you didn't have to necessarily finish your plate before being satisfied? Really reflect back and see what tips worked for you and what didn't and maybe what tips you can implement in the future.  You're going to feel more satiated because your body has time to register your meal. And overall, it's just a really good habit to get into to slow down your eating. I know for me that I am taking this 100% to heart and at tonight's dinner on Christmas Eve, I'm going to match the pace of the other people at my table. I'm not going to scarf all my food down.  Definitely let me know down in the comments if you suffer from fast eating like I do. And if you have any other tips and tricks on how you've slowed down your eating, definitely let us know down in the comments. So now let's go ahead and jump in to this week's weigh-in. Like I said, I've had a really good week. I'm proud of myself for not eating cookies or frosting or dough or any of the things when I made my sugar cookie. I'm enjoying my whole food diet. It's definitely playing a huge part in how satiated I feel and really how many calories I need every day to feel that satiated, which is quite an interesting concept. And better yet, when I stepped on the scale, I am down another 1.2 pounds. 1.2, I have lost over a pound for the last two weeks. I know, I'm as shocked as you are, but I am so, so happy. And I really feel that the foods that I'm choosing is playing a huge, huge, huge pile. We say our body digest whole real food, much easier and more efficiently than processed food. And I think that's what's made the difference in how satiated I'm feeling, as well as my weight loss on the scale. I can't wait for next week's weigh-in. It is the final Friday in the month of December. So I'll be sharing with you, of course, my overall weight loss for December. And in my goals video, we'll go over my overall weight loss for the year, but I couldn't be happier. I'm feeling really good. I'm feeling a lot better. I can't wait to get on my thyroid medication to really amp up my weight loss a little bit more and just get my body more regulated so that I'm not as fatigued and tired. I am still suffering from a lot of fatigue. So I'm hoping not my thyroid medication will help with that as well, but I'm really happy with this week's weigh-in. And it's a great way to go into Christmas. Now I wanna hear from you guys. Let me know how your week leading up to Christmas was. Did you gain, did you lose? And of course, don't forget to leave the tips that you have for slowing down your eating down in the comments. And as always, if you enjoyed today's video, give it a huge thumbs up. And if you're not subscribed, I'd love to have you here. 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So, I am admittedly enjoying the mainstream media and Democratic Party elites come to terms with the prospect that Bernie Sanders may very well become the Democratic Party's nominee. But someone else who a lot of us hadn't thought about and what he's going through, you know, in this coming to terms process is Donald Trump. Because like it or not, he may have to face Bernie Sanders and we all know Trump is the most afraid of Bernie Sanders. This became clear back in 2016 when after he basically had the Republican Party nomination on lock, he floated the idea I think on a late night show of debating Bernie Sanders, a Trump versus Bernie debate. It was trending on Twitter, there was a lot of hype for it and then Bernie Sanders agreed, sure I'm down, we'll debate. But then all of a sudden Trump backed away from it. He is afraid of Bernie Sanders and unlike all the other Democratic Party presidential contenders, he attacks Bernie Sanders the least and it almost seems like he goes out of his way to avoid attacking Bernie Sanders at times. Like when Bernie Sanders first announced that he was running again in 2020, Donald Trump said nothing negative about Bernie Sanders. So I mean, it's evident to me that Trump doesn't know how to respond to Bernie Sanders because any appeal that Trump has, it's undercut by Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders is the true anti-establishment real populist candidate. So what is Trump going to say about Bernie Sanders?  Like crooked Hillary landed because there was truth to that, right? Now it was hypocritical because Donald Trump is also very crooked, but nonetheless, crazy Bernie doesn't really mean anything when Donald Trump is the one making that argument when he struggles to string together a coherent sentence. So it's not going to land and I don't think he knows how to deal with Bernie Sanders nonetheless, like it or not, he may have to. So he's afraid and as a result, he has sent out emails about Bernie Sanders two days in a row attacking him. And I love this because it offers us a glimpse into the types of attacks that we might see during the general if we actually do get a Trump versus Bernie situation. And I'll just say this, I feel a lot more confident about Bernie's chances after seeing what Trump is using to attack him on. It's just, it's really, really bad. So in the first email he sent out, it reads, dangerous. Bernie Sanders can't be trusted to defend American lives. Sanders opposed taking top terrorist Salamani off the battlefield while repeating Iranian and Russian propaganda. So this is a horrible strategy for a number of reasons. First of all, he's literally invoking anti Russian hysteria to attack Bernie Sanders. Now on top of that, he's citing something that he did, which only has a plurality of support from Americans 43 to 47%. I believe a proof of the killing of Salamani, which is way too high, mind you. But Bernie Sanders can easily take him on here because he can show videos of Donald Trump saying he was anti interventionist in 2016 and contrast that with what he's doing now. Like if you truly want to go about this by being the stronger candidate, the defense candidate, when you won because you got a lot of people to believe that you were less hawkish than Hillary Clinton. Like Bernie's going to mop the floor with you, but that's not the only attack. So for the second email, he says, fact, Bernie Sanders is a wealthy fossil fuel guzzling millionaire. Just like the wealthy Hollywood elite, Bernie Sanders lectures Americans how to live their lives while doing the exact opposite.  I don't think this is going to play as well as Trump believes it will in a general election. If you put Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders up side by side, I mean, that juxtaposition and you had to ask people, who do you believe is truly anti-elitist nine times out of 10? They're going to say it's Bernie Sanders. So this is not going to land, but I want to go a little bit further into this email and just read like a paragraph to see the route that he's taking when it comes to his Bernie is an elitist argument, quote, Bernie Sanders is lecturing the American people that they need to pay more in taxes, surrender their private health insurance plans and accept job losses in order to implement his extreme left wing agenda.  So when it comes to Bernie Sanders facilitating job losses, he's supporting a policy that is literally titled federal jobs guarantee, federal jobs guarantee, you're not going to be able to easily argue against that. And Donald Trump is effectively taking a pro private insurance stance here. Like Trump doesn't realize that if he wants to win, then he has to come up with an argument that appeals to independence and young Republican voters, young voters who aren't voting, because there's going to be a lot of young people that come out to vote for Bernie Sanders. And if that truly is the case, if he can galvanize the youth, it's over for Donald Trump. So Donald Trump, he needs to work on some type of argument that actually appeals to young voters and arguing in defense of the status quo is not going to do the trick. These are policies like a federal jobs guarantee, Medicare for all that appeal to young people. So Trump doesn't know what to do against Bernie Sanders. And we can see that what he's trying to do is still appeal to populist individuals, claim that he is anti-establishment, but he doesn't realize that he's making a critical mistake and he reveals how out of touch he is when you look at his new catchphrase, keep America great. Now, if he kept the make America great again slogan, I think that that would have been fine, you could have argued, look, America is getting greater, but we're not fully there yet. We have more work to do. I need I need another four years. But he's saying, keep America great. This is painfully out of touch. And this is literally the Democrat slogan back in 2016. Does anyone remember Debbie Wasserman Schultz wearing hats that said America is already great? I mean, do you understand what you're communicating to voters here? It assumes that all their problems have been solved and make America great again. It simply meant that Americans needed to elect you and you are the greatness. But the reason why that slogan worked so well for Trump in 2016 was because it was a blank slate, like people could attribute meaning to it and think through what they believed would make America great again. But with keep America great, you're just telling them that it's already great. And in a sense, you're erasing all of the issues that normal working Americans face. And the reason why Donald Trump won over voters in the rust belt was because he was speaking to the issues that impact them. But if you're telling Americans that America is already great when most of the country is living paycheck to paycheck, I mean, you're literally making the same mistake that Democrats made back in 2016. So this is great. I'm not complaining. Keep it up. Use this strategy, Trump, because I want you to make this case in a general against Bernie because it's not going to work very well for you. Now, Bernie responded saying Donald Trump is attacking us because he knows we will beat him in the general election. Absolutely. This attack is really, really bad. Like, I honestly expected Donald Trump to come up with something better. Like, I wasn't expecting him to, you know, have some type of compelling case against Bernie Sanders, but I actually had higher expectations than this at least. So I mean, at this rate, if he releases another email by tomorrow, he will call Bernie Sanders a communist. And really, he's just flailing at this point. Nothing he can say about Bernie will convince Americans that he's the true anti-establishment candidate. Everyone knows it's Bernie Sanders. So this is great. Like, in the events, Bernie Sanders is the nominee and he's going up against Donald Trump, my confidence, after seeing a preview of the attacks that Trump would use against him, it just increased. Like, it's not a foregone conclusion. We still have to work towards that goal of winning the presidency. But seeing what Trump comes up with here, I feel a lot more confident now. This is not a good attack. It's not going to land. Trump is, uh, yeah, he's not going to do too well against Bernie Sanders. This tells you everything you need to know if you want to win both for Bernie, because Trump does not know how to attack him. But the Democrats are taking their cues from socialist Bernie Sanders in that group. Omar AOC. Tlaib isn't she a nice woman? Tlaib. Tlaib. Why? What a group, but they're the leaders of the party. They're really, in my opinion of the least, that's what happened. That's how they got into this impeachment hoax. The leaders of the party are this AOC, Tlaib and Omar. And Pelosi meets him and she shakes and quivers. And she's very. You could support the humanist report at patreon.com slash humanist report. But trust me, I'd have way more supporters at patreon if that was my podcast said.