G'day mate, g'day mate, 40 here. I've been listening to a New Yorker essay, Justice Samuel Alito's Crusade Against a Sexual America by Margaret Talbot. And one of her critiques of Justice Alito is that he quoted from James Taylor's song Fire and Rain without understanding that the meaning of the song was about James Taylor's fight with addiction. So she's an originalist. She believes that musical lyrics can only be understood in alignment with the original intention of the writer. They can't have any further or additional meanings. So in that area, she's quite conservative. She's quite the textual originalist. But when it comes to the Constitution, in fact, she's all for the most liberal change with the times, meaning it's possible. I keep my hat on here. So let's listen to some of the New Yorker article here. I'm trying to produce a high quality production of the original. An apprentice you of the New Yorker with the headline, The Last Word. Justice Samuel Alito's Crusade Against a Secular America was laid over, written by Margaret Talbot, narrated by Kirsten Potter. Some baby boomers were permanently shaped by their participation in the counter-cultural protests and the anti-war. So I don't get tired of hanging out to the Sydney Opera House. Don't get tired of Sydney night yet anyway. Don't get tired of Sydney Harbor. Don't get tired of Manly. I think I've been having a Manly four times in the last week. I started just sitting here by the dock of the bay and get tired of live streaming. Don't get tired of critiquing New Yorker articles. The vism of the 1960s and 70s. Others were shaped by their aversion to those movements. Justice Samuel Alito belongs to the latter category. For many years, he lacked the power to do much about that profound distaste. And in any case, he had a reputation for keeping his head down. When President George W. Bush nominated Alito to the Supreme Court in 2005, many journalists portrayed him as a conservative, but not an ideologue. The Times noted that legal scholars characterized his jurisprudence as cautious and respectful of presently sketched portraits. Okay, so we're all cautious. We're all respectful when we have to be, right? But when we feel powerful and confident and strong and safe, we all tend to be less cautious and less respectful. Now, you may be shocked that Samuel Alito was cautious and respectful when he had to be, but when the situation changed and conservatives now have six votes on the U.S. Supreme Court, right? Opera House, okay, the 40 bunker, right? This is where I'm gonna bunker down if there's a Nicola Holocaust that's gonna hide under the Sydney Opera House. But yeah, we're all cautious and respectful when we have to be. And we all tend to be more rambunctious and off the hook and unhinged when it's safe to be that. But when the situation changes, we change our bell in the house, bro. So excited to have you along for the ride. It is 6.08 p.m. Wednesday evening here in Sydney. Quiet, methodical, reasonable man. On the court, even as Alito's opinions aligned consistently with the goals of the Republican Party, in particular of social conservatives, admirers praised him as pragmatic and burkian. According to a 2018 C-SPAN PSB poll, he was the conservative justice the fewest Americans could name. And for years, he was overshadowed by his more flamboyant late colleague, Antonin Scalia, by Clarence Thomas, whose notorious confirmation hearings were followed by a rivetingly long silence on the bench, even by Neil Gorsuch with his Cussan Libertarian streak. Richard Lazarus, a professor at Harvard Law School who has studied the court, told me that in Alito's first years as a justice, he was known primarily as Chief Justice John Roberts, right-hand man. Someone the chief could assign to write an opinion that would not be too flashy or provocative. Okay, so when I'm in jobs where I'm not secure, I tend to stay in from being flashy and provocative as well. Time brag. I'm ahead of you guys. I am living in the future. You're probably wondering right now, what is Wednesday evening gonna be like? Is it gonna be safe? Is it gonna be cool? Is it gonna be fun? Well, I can tell you what Wednesday evening is gonna be like. I am living in your future, right? When 1999 turned into 2000, and we're afraid of Y2K, all right, Australia pretty much went first and it was awesome, right? Australia ushered in the new millennium and it was awesome and it was safe. And so I'm here to report back to you from the future. Everything's gonna be A-O-K. But I'm just a vessel, right? So come on, don't you identify that we all tend to be cautious and respectful when we need to be. And then when you're first trying to impress a woman, then when you have her under your thrall, you tend to be a little more rambunctious or more off the hook. I don't think I'm the only one who changes when the situation changes. And that would keep five votes together when he couldn't trust Scalia to do it because Scalia would swing for the fences and risk losing votes. Now though, Alito is the embodiment of a conservative majority that is ambitious and extreme. It's declined to be interviewed for this article. Oh no. With the recent additions of Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett to the court, the conservative bloc no longer needs Roberts to get results. And Alito has taken a zealous lead in reversing the progressive gains of the 60s and early 70s from overturning Roe v. Wade to stripping away voting rights. At a Yale Law School forum in 2014, he was asked to name a personality trait that had impeded his career. Alito responded that he'd held his tongue too often, that it probably would have been better if I said a bit more at various times. He's holding his tongue no longer. Indeed, Alito now seems to be saying whatever he wants in public, often with a snide pugnaciousness that suggests his past decorum was suppressing considerable resentment. Well, I think for most of us, our past decorum was as considerable resentment. I hardly made any videos between 2012 and 2015. I lacked confidence. I just didn't really want to be seen. And notice those people on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge just under the, under the, I don't think I can zoom in, but they're just under the flag. So you can, you can go up there on a walk, but too expensive. So I don't like to spend money. The only things I spend money on, gratuitously on this trip are ice creams and smoothies. So if I'm going to walk 10 miles, then 15 miles, then I deserve an ice cream. I deserve a smoothie. So I plunk down $10 for an ice cream or smoothie for Sunday, right? Just $7 American, no worries. I'll do that, but other than that, like taking the big Sydney bus, I have $50 for a day trip, for a guided tour of Sydney. No, I'm not gonna do it. But I'll take the ferry, right? You can take the ferry pretty much anywhere in the city hub or the round trip cost you less than $6 American. No worries, mate. Last term, Alito landed the reputation defining assignment of writing the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which eliminated the constitutional right to abortion enshrined by Roe nearly 50 years ago. In May, a draft of his opinion was leaked and from start to finish, it sounded cantankerous and dismissive. Roe was egregiously wrong from the start, Alito declared. Its reasoning was exceptionally weak and the decision has had damaging consequences. He likened Roe to Plessy v. Ferguson, the notorious decision upholding segregation, approvingly cited centuries old. So also people, as they get older, it's not unusual they become more forthright. Let's careful, they don't weigh their words as much. They start speaking out more. They usually tend to feel more confident. They tend to be more agreeable in many ways, but if it's important to them, they'll just speak out. So I don't think that Samuel Alito's journey is that unusual. Old common law categorizing a woman who received an abortion after quickening as a murderess and used the inflammatory word personhood. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Why is personhood so inflammatory when it is applied to the fetus? Why is that inflammatory? So here we get down to a fundamental difference between the left and the right and their understanding of the self. So for the left, the self is buffered. It is strategic, it is autonomous. And for the right, the self is porous. There isn't just a clinical state of fetus. The fetus is a human being in the process of becoming a human being, right? And so we're not just autonomous, right? It's not just a fetus. And that's all it is from a traditional perspective. The fetus is not just a separate state. The fetus is the human being in process to more full realization. And describing fetal life. It was hardly. Right, she regards it as inflammatory to ascribe personhood to the fetus, right? From a traditional perspective, or common sense perspective, we never talk about the fetus when it's going to be maintained. When we meet a pregnant woman, a friend, we don't say, how's the fetus? We say, how's the baby? We recognize that this is a human being in the process of becoming a human being, right? We don't go, how's your fetal life? Is your fetal life acting up today? Back to the New Yorker. Sam Alito's to say. Inevitable that Alito would be assigned the Dobs' opinion. Joan Biskupic, a CNN analyst and the author of a biography of Chief Justice Roberts, has reported that Roberts privately lobbied fellow conservatives to save the constitutional right to abortion down to the bitter end. Roberts wanted to validate the particular restriction at issue in Dobs, a Mississippi ban on virtually all abortions after 15 weeks, but he opposed a wholesale rejection of Roe, which, among other things, had strengthened the notion that a right to privacy was implicit in the constitution. If Roberts had successfully enlisted, say, the occasionally... Okay, so this right to privacy implicit in the constitution is absolutely bizarre. It's entirely, I said Jesus really, meaning into the text. It's not exegesis deducing a meaning from the text. There's no right to privacy in the US constitution. There's not much of a right to privacy in Torah law. There's no right to privacy in Roman Catholic law or Christian law or New Testament or church fathers or Martin Luther or John Calvin. Like, this right to privacy is a left wing consideration, right? Coming from a belief that the self is autonomous and buffered and therefore, you know, what the autonomous self does in private is none of the business of people around it, but everything we do affects us and affects other people. What you do in private affects other people. There were millennial wars in 1999. He bitterly mentioned Ford's coverage of his feelings. I think we're not likely close as to improve. Yeah, millennial war is like nice bloke, right? There's no nastiness, bitterness in millennial wars. He's not someone, you know, looking to feud, not looking to generally speaking score cheap points, but he is in a downward spiral and doesn't want to merge from his downward spiral. So he's very good at articulating his depression and he's very good at articulating his failures and at articulating his conspiratorial worldview. And there's a tremendous audience for what he has to paddle, right? So he tells young men, you know, every right to feel victimized, you know, you are victimized. It's not your fault that you're living in your parents' basement, don't have a job and your life isn't working.  There's an enormous audience for that, right? Much more of an audience for nonsense and for self-destruction than there is an audience for recovery. Oh, well, to be a pundit is to feed the client's needs just like a prostitute, right? That's how it becomes successful as a pundit. And to tell people what they wanna hear and people love to hear victimhood and I'm not against victimhood, right? Or in group identity as a substantial quantity of victimhood, we're just talking about how intense should your victimhood be. Generally speaking, people are not served by an intense sense of victimhood.  Now, occasionally going up to five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 in extreme circumstances. But for most people, walking around with a sense of victimhood above a two or a three is maladaptive, right? Makes you more suspicious of our groups or hostile to our groups, predisposes you to a conspiratorial frame of mind, takes away, reduces your sense of agency. Now, some sense of victimhood, like at a two out of 10, right? That gives you an in group identity. It gives you purpose and meaning in life. It bonds you to your in group, but it's not so intense that it maladjusts you for dealing with wider society. So when your woe is effectively argues for and embodies a sense of victimhood that's operating at a seven out of 10, eight out of 10, nine out of 10, 10 out of 10, right? And that's excellent for developing in group identity and aspre decor and bonding with people like yourself. But it's a terrible maladjustment for dealing with a multi-racial, multi-cultural society, isn't it?  So yeah, I noticed many people comment in my channel, oh, you know, how do we get rid of victimhood? Don't want to get rid of victimhood. It's just a matter of the intensity, right? Just operating at a one out of 10, two out of 10, occasionally dining up to three or four out of 10. There's nothing wrong with that. You can't have in group identity without a sense of victimhood. But how much do you want to stress it? How intense do you want it to be? Do you want it to be the driving force in people's lives? Nah, I think that's generally maladaptive. Audience just want more of it from him, not sure how active he is before he left his work a year ago, maybe two. Yeah, I haven't paid much attention to linear woes. It's just too easy. It's just like picking wings off a fly. So many of the people are just too easy to pick on. I just try to desist this. There's nothing new and important there. Let's get back to this New Yorker article on Samuel Alito's battle against a secular America. Pretty scary stuff, right? It's crusade and it's not over, guys. This is from the New Yorker. It was hardly inevitable that Alito would be assigned the Dobs' opinion. Joan Biskupic, a CNN analyst and the author of a biography of Chief Justice Roberts, has reported that Roberts privately lobbied fellow conservatives to save the constitutional right to abortion down to the bitter end. Roberts wanted to validate the particular restriction at issue in Dobs, a Mississippi ban on virtually all abortions after 15 weeks, but he... So I guess Ann Carter was right. Now, Justice John Roberts has been a real disappointment on the court. He changed his vote to ratify Obamacare, which was the $2 trillion transfer over the course of a decade from productive Americans to less productive Americans. Ann Carter was right, Justice John Roberts has been a great disappointment for conservatives. Luckily, we now have five authentic conservatives on the court, aside from John Roberts. Opposed a wholesale rejection of Roe, which, among other things, had strengthened the notion that a right to privacy was implicit in the Constitution. If Roberts had successfully enlisted, say, the occasionally more moderate Kavanaugh, he would have had the authority to assign the opinion, as the Chief Justice typically does when he is in the majority. Indeed, Roberts might well have written the opinion himself, producing a text that felt more conciliatory than Alito's, something less openly contemptuous of the Justices who had crafted Roe and its sequel, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, and more mindful of the fact that a majority of Americans support abortion rights. But left. So when left-wing courts overturned referendums passed by the majority of the population down here, left-wing publications like the New York or Los Angeles Times or New York Times saying, oh, it's important that the court that be respectful of the majority opinion of the population. No, you crush the majority. So when the lefts in power, they want to crush majority opinion. So when the majority of Californians voted for Roe v. Wade, and devoted for Proposition 187 to deny benefits to illegal aliens, important that that be crushed when majority of Californians voted against allowing same-sex marriage, and it's important that the court absolutely crush these bigoted, hateful and educated opinions. But when the right now has power on the Supreme Court, now suddenly the left wants the court to be respectful of the opinions of the majority of Americans. It wasn't important to the left that courts be respectful of the majority of opinions when the left was in power in the court and the right was winning the popular vote. So this is an article in the New Yorker, just to see if there's anything to say. It was quite clear coming into conference after the oral argument that Robert's rationale was going to be much narrower than what the other five conservative justices wanted to say. Given this gulf, Roberts couldn't insist on writing the main opinion himself. Traditionally, when the chief justice isn't in the majority or is nominally voting with it but making a substantially different argument, the most senior justice in the winning block assigns the opinion. In this case, that was Thomas, and he chose Alito. After the draft leaked, many court observers predicted that though the opinion's substance wasn't likely to change, its tone surely would. It might at least lose a chilling reference to an insufficient domestic supply of adoptable infants, a problem that would be fixed, presumably, by forcing more Americans to carry pregnancies to term. But the final verb. Okay, how about not forcing, right? So forcing majority of Americans, they can travel to another state. It's changing incentives, right? It's incentivizing more people to carry babies to term.   Overwhelmingly, abortions are carried out for black women, women of color. Those are the overwhelming number of abortions. So almost no Jewish children available for adoption anymore. It used to be fairly common. If a Jewish couple wanted to adopt a Jewish infant, like it could be arranged. But since Roe v. Wade, nope. You can't find them in America. Back to this New Yorker article. Version was virtually unchanged, save for the addition of a sharp rebuke to the dissent. An investigation into the leak is supposedly ongoing. According to Piscubic, clerks were asked to sign affidavits and provide cell phone records. We saw an emboldened Alito this term, Lazarus said. Unlike when he first joined the court, he no longer needs to curry favor from the chief. Robert's view of Dobbs was characteristic. He has long favored narrowly tailored. And Spencer's big time, he presses ahead with his schemes as a art belt and schemes and scams. I don't think it's a scam. I think actually, because Richard Spencer's gone much smaller time, he's become more humble. He's literally become sober, right? He's largely quit drinking. He has stopped talking about building the ethno-state and absurd plans. So I think it's the very opposite of what you're saying, Art Pell. He has become more sober. His plans are much smaller. He's living much more in reality. And a sober Spencer is a much more thoughtful Spencer, much less deluded Spencer. It's a humbler Spencer. He's been humbled by life. So I didn't see any scams in what Richard Spencer's doing. There's a sub-stack for $9 a month. There's a ton of content on there. He produces courses on Plato and Nietzsche. Not a scam, right? I think these are authentic courses. You get what you pay for. So my perspective is very opposite of yours there, Art Pell. I think Richard is doing their honest, realistic value for money courses because this is a humbled and sober Richard Spencer. The Richard Spencer we saw in 2015, 2016, 2017. There's a intoxicated Richard Spencer very well under the influence of illegal drugs, but eventually every live stream he was intoxicated. Now getting a newly sober Spencer who will go several days, apparently, without taking a drink. But this is a better and more pro-social, more humble, more down-to-earth Richard Spencer. Their opinions that foster consensus among the justices and perhaps avert political chaos. He once observed, if it's not necessary to decide more to dispose of a... Okay, so we all tend to try to craft compromises when that's in our best interest. When we don't need to craft compromises, right? We don't get through that arduous work. Crafting compromises is a lot of work. Then you just want to say what you believe. When we get to a place of safety and strength and we feel like we can say what we believe, we say what we believe. Like Richard Spencer's been humbled and he's no longer saying nearly as much about what he believes. He is circumcising and circumscribing what he says to that which is socially acceptable, right? Because he's gotten in the opposite trajectory of Samuel Alito. And Samuel Alito crafted painful compromises when he had to. Now he doesn't have to. Now he can be full-throated in what he believes, which is Spencer's had to go in the opposite direction. He's had to dial back what he believes and constrain himself to what's socially acceptable. In my view, it is necessary to decide more. Thomas and Alito have adopted a more combative approach, one that finds no great value in privileging precedent, especially... Paywall is going well, he's going in empire. I'm not sure he's going in empire, but he provides a ton of compelling content. You get bang for your buck $9 a month for a sub-stack and you probably get like 15 hours a week, 15 hours a month of original content. And if there's a stuff you're interested in, yeah, it's bang for your buck. So first he was very concerned he'd be thrown off of sub-stack, but Richard's very intelligent man. He's learning to play within the rules of the game. He's kept his place on Twitter and he's maintaining his sub-stack and he's not gratuitously making enemies. And it's interesting, Michael Edison Hayden, the Antifa activist, also serves as Southern Poverty Law Center journalist, says that he knows things that the rest of us don't and that Richard has repented for his sins and that Richard's abandoned the whole racial game. So Michael Edison Hayden made some interesting tweets saying that people should lay off Richard Spencer. So why should Michael Edison Hayden, an Antifa activist, right? It's the left-wing crusader. This Southern Poverty Law Center hitman. Why is Thomas Edison Hayden, this gay guy from the Upper West Side of Manhattan? Why is he going to bat for Richard Spencer? And that's curious, these are open tweets that Michael Edison Hayden made about a month ago saying, lay off Richard Spencer. He says, Michael Edison Hayden says, I know things that you don't know. So stop criticizing Richard Spencer, stop giving Richard Spencer a hard time. So why is Antifa going to bat for Richard Spencer? Why is the Southern Poverty Law Center going to bat for Richard Spencer? Why is there activist Michael Edison Hayden saying he knows things that the rest of us don't and that Richard Spencer should not be harassed anymore? Like, what things does Michael Edison Hayden know that the rest of us don't? Curious minds wanna know these things. If the precedent emanates from the 60s when Chief Justice Earl Warren was pushing the court leftward, some justices, attentive to the immediate human risks of revoking the right to abortion, might have at least put on a show of sober humility. Well, there are risks in many different directions. It's not like there are only risks if you overturn Roe v. Wade. If you don't overturn Roe v. Wade, you're consenting to the killing of tens of thousands of babies. Is that not a risk too? How is the risk here in the operating in one direction? No matter how convinced they were that they were correct and no matter how cognizant they were of having had the last word, they might in public appearances have tried not to antagonize the many Americans. Look, when tens of thousands of lives are at stake, why would you pussyfoot around? Why would you not issue a clarion call for life? At tens of thousands of lives are at stake. Why would you be so sensitive and cautious when thousands and thousands of lives are at stake? No comprendo. Americans who think differently at a minimum they might have resisted making a gloating joke. In July, Alito, who was 72, delivered a speech at the Palazzo Colonna in Rome for a gathering hosted by the University of Notre Dame Law School's Religious Liberty Initiative, a conservative group that has filed amicus briefs before the court. Faculty affiliated with the group also filed briefs in Dobs. Legal analysts at Slate noted that the spectacle of a justice chumming it up with the same conservative lawyers who were involved in cases before the court creates the unseemly impression of judicial indifference toward basic judicial ethics rules. Alito had donned stylish, worn-rimmed glasses that he doesn't usually wear in public and he had a new, graying beard. Though the speech focused...  Linda Greenhouse, NPR correspondent, had the journalistic beat of covering the US Supreme Court. His very good friends with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. So when the left chums it up, when left-wing justices chum it up with journalists, with fellow left-wing elites, that's not a problem. It's only a problem when a right-wing justice chums it up with some traditional group. Why isn't Linda Greenhouse's long friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg while she's covering the US Supreme Court? Why isn't that a problem? Okay, we've got an issue here. So we've got this boat going right in front of the ferry. Okay, let's see if we're gonna have a collision here. That's my sugar. Absolutely crazy. Like what on earth is that little boat thinking? That's crazy. He just caught right in front of the ferry. Here we've got the New South Wales police. They're gonna give him a ticket. No, they don't appear to be giving him a ticket. There's a little dinky speedboat cutting in front of massive, unrushing ferry, but New South Wales police not interested in giving this guy a ticket. I mean, that was pretty reckless. Come on, guys. Just on one of his favorite topics, the supposed vulnerability of religious freedom in increasingly secular societies. Where is the supposed vulnerability of religious freedom in secular societies? Of course, religious freedom is being impinged when you expand competing rights and give them precedence over religious freedom. Of course, religious freedom is being reduced when you diminish freedom of association to ever increase gay rights, transcend transsexual rights, rights of the individual to be who wants to be, say what he wants to say, saying what he wants to sing. You're reducing the rights of people to freely associate, to build their own communities. You can only have a safe space like Sydney Harbor, Sydney Opera House, by excluding people. When you reduce the ability of religious communities to exclude people, to not employ people, to not rent to people, that you are reducing religious rights. Religion isn't just something that takes place in a church, a synagogue. The primary basis for Judaism, for example, is not the synagogue, it's the home. So you reduce the rights of religious people and who they can live with, live around, associate with, employ. How they can practice in the public square. Yeah, you're reducing religious rights.  He couldn't resist crowing about dobs. I had the honor this term of writing, I think, the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders, Alito said. One of these was former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but he paid the price. Johnson resigned earlier this summer. The audience laughed heartily, but others are still in office. Alito continued, suppressing a smile. President Macron and Prime Minister Trudeau, I believe, are two. The laughter grew fainter, but Alito was on a roll. It was time for a dad joke about Voldemort. What really wounded me was when the Duke of Sussex addressed the United Nations and seemed to compare the decision whose name may not be spoken with the Russian attack on Ukraine. The Duke of Sussex, more commonly known as Prince Harry, had said, this has been a painful year in a painful decade, citing the pandemic, climate change, the war in Ukraine, the spread of disinformation, and the. Yeah, a reduction in civil liberties, well. Reduction of one liberty, which is the right to an abortion, that expands liberty to tens of thousands of other people, you know, they have the right to live. And so it's not like you could ever reduce rights for one group and not expand them for another, or expand them for one group and not reduce them for another. It is not like an infinite quantity of rights in the world where no one ever suffers when one group gets gets the advantage, gets an expansion, gets a sacred status. The rolling back of constitutional rights here in the United States. Alito's smile reappeared. On the bench, he's often serious, even scowling, especially when his liberal colleagues are speaking, but in Rome. All right, well, when I'm under pressure, I'm often serious. And when I'm doing hard work, sometimes I'm scowling. And when I'm dealing with things that I don't like, I get unpleasant looks on my face. Yeah, guess what, when we're happy, when we're comfortable, when we're like-minded people, we're much more likely to be positive. And when we're dealing with nasty stuff that we don't like, we're dealing with difficult things. Yeah, our face looks different. Taking shots at his critics for the amusement of a like-minded audience, he was living his best life. Alito's childhood and adolescence coincided with a social transformation for which the Warren Court provided the legal underpinnings. Warren, a Republican and an Eisenhower nominee, who turned out to be far more liberal than those affiliations implied, presided over the court from 1953 to 1969. Alito was born in 1950 in Trenton, New Jersey, in a mostly Italian-American enclave. Okay, let me just do a little fast-forwarding here. Let's get at least two, where he gets to Moscow. Then in 1968, the school didn't have a particularly rebellious student body. During the 1969 moratorium to end the war in Vietnam, the school's students for a democratic society contingent carried signs that said, even Princeton. Nevertheless, the university saw its share of sit-ins and marches during Alito's years there, and his already deeply held political allegiances put him at odds with the left-wing youth culture surrounding him. His cultural tastes made him an outlier, too. Alito once recalled spending New Year's Eve 1967 in front of the TV at home, watching a band that his parents liked, Guy Lombardo, and his Royal Canadians. One of Alito's college roommates, David Grace, told me, Sam was offended by the more extreme instances of anti-war protest. Alito has said that he could understand the opposition to the war, but felt it was very wrong to allow discontent with government leaders to be expressed as antipathy to the United States in Alito's software. So they portray Sam Alito as some square that he would watch a band on TV that his parents liked. God forbid that you carry on any cultural practices, traditional practices, religious practices, that your parents liked. God forbid. For a year, students staged an anti-war strike after President Richard Nixon ordered the invasion of Cambodia. 80% of the student body took part. The administration announced that students could waive their exams. By several accounts, Alito was frustrated that the strikes might disrupt his education. Oh, wow. So who wouldn't be frustrated if the administration says, you can just waive your exams? We're just gonna give up on providing you an education. You kids know better. I think you're our conscience. Go ahead with your protests against the war. We'll just cave over. We're just abandoning our responsibilities to provide you with an education. It sounds like Sam Alito, in some respects, was quite the mature young man. This is the New Yorker article, Sam Alito's Crusade Against the Secondary America. He wasn't alone. His classmate, George Carponello, was liberal and opposed to the war. But like Alito, he came from a more humble background than many Princetonians. Carponello, who was now a litigator in Albany, said, we felt so lucky to be there, and the strike seemed to us to attack what was, in our mind, such a great institution. I suspect Sam is still carrying some of that. As conservative as Alito was, he was not a campus firebrand. A Princeton classmate who has kept in touch with him told me, firebrand would be the last way you would have described Sam, more like quiet, and you barely knew he was there. Alito joined the Princeton debate team, however, as did Grace. Okay, that's why these notions that people have just haven't any here at personality, that some people are quiet, others are extroverted, some people are careful, other people are careless, some people are really into new experiences, other people are very closed off, some people are highly conscientious, other people are highly neurotic, right? This is all situation dependent. A lot of people are quiet and cautious, just quiet and cautious in some situations. I bet the situation's frequently the boss. It's not the individual's personality. So Sam Alito is a classic example, quiet and cautious in some situations when he feels confident and safe and powerful. His personality changes. Just as all of our personalities change when we're under fire, when we're under pressure, when we're struggling to form some sort of compromise, we're gonna be careful and even quiet. When we feel safe and strong and comfortable and confident, right, we become much more outgoing. So back to New Yorker article here. I hope, come on, man, trying to run a high quality production. I don't hear the article. What the heck? They drove the team's old Chevrolet to various tournaments, sometimes stopping to visit Alito's sister Rosemary at Smith College or to have dinner in Hamilton Township. So he was more into going to debate tournaments and listening to rock and roll and smoking dope and participating in free law. Alito's parents. Alito and Grace enjoyed themselves, but not exactly in the counter-cultural spirit of the era. After a debate in Ontario, a Canadian customs agent reportedly stopped the team and found bottles of port in the trunk. Princeton went co-ed in Alito's sophomore year. Alice Calichia, who became a friend of his, remembered hanging out with him around a microwave oven that had just been installed on campus, warming up chocolate chip cookies while talking about Italy and the philosopher John Rolls. Calichia, who dated one of Alito's friends, noted that Alito was always very respectful of me, adding, a lot of male classmates were not. Still, feminism was in the air. Young women were talking about new possibilities for independent and fulfilling lives, about ways they might explore sexuality without committing to marriage and family right off, about their determination to create a less misogynistic society. In 1973, the year after Alito graduated, the Supreme Court issued its Roe decision. Calichia, now a history professor at Brandeis University, told me, Sam was Trenton Italian and I was Chicago Armenian. Alito felt to her like some sort of commonality, but they had different attitudes toward the tight-knit, convention-bound, immigrant communities from which they'd emerged. She felt that she was breaking away from hers. He remained tethered to his. Alito later told an interviewer for the National... Okay, so belonging to a community always comes with a price, right? Just doing your own thing without regard to how that might affect other people and that's going to limit your ability to live in community. Some people just have an allergy to living in community because it's a challenge, it's difficult. You just can't do your own thing and not pay a price. Living in community requires self-discipline, self-admigration, self-sacrifice. No, the emotional energy and the strength, the benefits, the connection, I think are all worth it. Some people just put a much higher value on living in community than others. I can't imagine life without living in community. Italian American foundation that he couldn't relate to his peer's view that their elders had become affluent by taking advantage of other people. They had bad values, they were very materialistic. Alito went on, I thought that whole view of my parents, of the generation to which my parents belonged, was false. Perhaps it was true of some people in that generation, but certainly it wasn't true of the people that I knew. At his Supreme Court confirmation hearings, he described his New Jersey suburb as a stronghold of traditional values that felt safe. At Princeton, he said, he saw some very privileged people behaving irresponsibly. And I couldn't help making a contrast between some of the worst of what I saw on the campus and the good sense and the decency of some of the people back in my own community. Alito's grandfather came to America from Italy in 1913. An unskilled laborer for the Pennsylvania Railroad, he was employed irregularly during the Depression. Okay, so if you have a more traditional sense of self, you believe that we're porous and therefore we're affected by our parents, by our grandparents, by our nieces, by our neighbors, right? That you can't understand the self outside of its community, outside of its tribe. So the liberal modern conception of the self is that we're autonomous, strategic, buffet individuals that can make their own way in life by using our reason and that we're born with certain inalienable rights. That's the liberal conception of the self. The traditional conception of the self is that we're born into a family and in tribe and a community and a nation and this sense of identity, this sense of connection, this sense of family and extended family is the most important thing about us. That we're Jewish or Christian or Armenian, that, you know, Seventh-day Adventist, that we're born in a particular community and whatever rights we're afforded, those rights come from the community, the tribe, the nation. They're going to vary depending on the situation, depending on time and place and that, you know, our rights are less important than our membership in a particular family, tribe, community, nation.  Alito's father grew up poor, but he excelled in school and became a teacher who set exacting academic standards for his own two children At night, Alito told the interviewer for the National Italian American Foundation his father sat with him and his sister, Rosemary, at the kitchen table, going over every single word of their school papers. Alito went on to start up. I don't remember when I was growing up. Other kids would, you know, have parents who would check the homework. You know, my parents never checked my homework. They had nothing to do with my homework, so did your parents work with you on your homework? Did they check off your homework every night? No, my parents were much more detached. Like my brother, I think when he was like 14 or 15, he would just hitchhike to Bathurst, which is like two hours' drive away to watch races all day and then come home at night with Nari a question or concern from my parents. From about age five, I would wander off into the bush all day, chopping down trees with a tomahawk. They checked your homework, bro? Yeah, my parents never did that. I would just wander off all day from about age five into the bush with poisonous snakes around, chopping down trees, pleasing trails, come home at lunch, get a bit of Tucker in me, then head back out into the bush. It was very painful, but I think that's how you have to learn writing. Rosemary now practices employment law in New Jersey. Their mother, Rose Fredusco Alito, whom Alito has called a very intelligent, very determined, very strong-willed person, was an elementary school teacher and a principal. In 2006, she told the Washington Post that when the first baby came, I said, Sam, our children are going to be the smartest children in Hamilton Township. Alito had big plans for himself, too. His senior year yearbook entry at Princeton shows a young man with neatly trimmed hair and a serious gaze behind bulky eyeglasses. The entry reads, Sam intends to go to law school and eventually to warm a seat on the Supreme Court. Years later, when he sat in the court, he described the line as a joke. If it was, it was a subtle one. While at Princeton, Alito was enrolled in ROTC, and he was upset when the Board of Trustees voted in 1970 to terminate the program over the course of the next two years. At his court confirmation hearings, he said the prevailing attitude on campus had been that Princeton would somehow be sullied if people in uniform were walking around. Yeah, that is kind of absurd. So all these elite primary universities that wanted nothing to do with ROTC, which is a military program, they want nothing to do with the military, which secures them, keeps them safe, protects them. And Princeton somehow would be sullied. Yeah, I think I share Samuel Alito's attitudes to how flatuous that is. The program was reinstated as an extracurricular activity in 1972, but the situation continued to irk Alito. During his confirmation hearings, Democratic senators, Joe Biden among them, pressed him to answer why on his 1985 application for the Office of Legal Counsel job, he had listed membership in an organization called the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, CAP. The group was made up of disgruntled former Princetonians who criticized various changes on campus, including coeducation and the university's efforts to recruit minorities and public school graduates. Princeton, the group's founder declared, should consist of a body of men relatively homogenous in interests and backgrounds. Right, so the more you have in common with people, the better you're going to get along, the less crime you're going to have, the more social cohesion, the more social trust, everything's going to work more smoothly. You're going to need less litigation, fewer laws, less regulation. Right, once you have a strong corporate identity, you don't have to litigate every little thing, you don't have to negotiate every little thing, you know, it's wonderful when you can be with like-minded people, people like yourself, like a normal person just feels less tension, they feel more at ease in the world, and things work better. So their advantages to diversity as well comes with tremendous prices. You get more litigation, more regulation, people feel less safe, that you have to negotiate more little things. So it's not like one approach is just inherently better than the other. So when Princeton became co-ed, there was a loss of social trust, social cohesion, a loss of bonding between people. The campus became more fragmented. When women enter the picture, when men feel less at ease, they start having to regulate their own speech and behavior much more. So it's not like, oh, we're just going to increase rights for one group, but that's not going to come at a price to anyone else. Of course it comes at a price.  With America in extreme diversity, everybody feels ill at ease, mixing with people completely unlike themselves. Senator Patrick Leahy told Alito he was puzzled that someone with his background would want to join such an ultra-wasp club. Alito said that he didn't recall joining the group, but had likely been prompted by his objection to the downgrading of the ROTC program, which Cap also cared about, though not as much as it cared about preserving Princeton for elite white males. Another classmate of Alito's, so often when you form coalitions, when there's an issue that's oppressing importance to you, you make alliances with people who you otherwise would not feel that much in common with. So it's not terribly surprising that Senator Alito wouldn't do that. It's the Holland-America line.


It's positively brilliant. The brilliant. It's positive. It's positive. What's your husband's friend on a man's list? What's your rent like? Um, it just depends.  Well, what's the most you've spent on a woman? I mean, my wife? Yeah. I mean, it's endless. I don't know what that feels like. My husband and his wife walked in the room looking rich at Tiffany Haddish Park. Like, you guys look great together. So you either take care of each other. I don't know what's going on, but she looked great. She is. She's, yeah. Is there a certain amount of money that you should spend on your partner? A certain amount of money. Like, when you're dating. Like, when you're dating. Not like a wife or whatever. I think everybody should act their wage. Um, and I think that you should do things that you want to do for that person. I don't think that you should spend on that person because you're trying to make them like you anymore. I'll make you make them like you more or anything like that. You know what I'm saying? Like, I think if you got it, what you mean?   What did I say? You don't want them to like you more. I mean, for that, you're not doing it just because you think that's going to make them like you more. You're doing it because you really want to do it for them. It's happened to me other day. I got to a story. I ain't going to put the name person name on blast. Because I mean, I put my friend Rob Smith on blast on another show. Who's a hoe? But this one, I'm not. Okay. We are all the Dominicans out here know that I'm weak for Dominicans. Like, it's literally my weakness. And I always tell my team, like, there's going to be two ways people are going to rob.  What do you mean? Love the Dominicans.  You caught me. I didn't know where we was going. What?  What? Like, low key, I'm supposed to say. No. So the other day when I left your show, I went on a date. Right? So we on a date, we chilling and they're like, yo, I just want to come back to the house. I'm like, all right. I'm trying to get to know you. Like, I don't want to ruin it because we go back to the house. I already know what I'm going to do. I don't want to do that. So I'm trying to be a gentleman for the first time in my life. Right? Finally, we get back to the house. So my team is at the house. So my team is kind of walking around. So they're like, let's go in the room. Like, I don't want to go in the room because going in the room is personal.  But so we go in the room. As soon as we get in the room, they go, yo, I'm going to Thailand for my birthday. There's this hotel I really want to stay at. You know, it's like $780 and blah, blah, blah. I'm thinking we just started hanging out like the other day. So yeah, I do believe in tricking, but if you like, you just trying to get with me to get some money.  You got to know the difference though. That's most relationships though. Yeah. Yeah, it's a trick done, right? Lululala. Of course. Yeah. I was a person again. Y'all get tricked on, right? Yeah. Hey, look at them. Of course, they're great. You guys look great. Thank you. You would be a fool not to get tricked on. I'm good. Actually, like I've never taken it. I know that sounds like. Oh my God. But I've been offered trips to like Europe, like through baseball players and football players. And I'm just like, nah. Because something is expected. And I'm not going to, I'm not that type of person. I'm not going to go on a trip with a baseball player that I just met, which is, we're cool, but it's still that, there's that awkwardness. I'm going to put myself in this situation. We need to hang out.  I think that, and I'm not saying that y'all are wrong. I'm just saying that when you're dealing with somebody like a baseball player, he's a multimillionaire, right? Yeah. That's just the way he moves. That's just like saying, let's go to the movies. Right. So saying like, let's go to the Caribbean or wherever. Let's go to Europe. Yeah, but sometimes they're involved in so much drama with other women. I don't want to be involved in that. I don't need drama.  Don't go with that baseball. That's why. Like there's been lots of offers. And I'm tempted, but I'm like nah. I'm not going to do that. You got to tell them.  I hope that's not why you're asking me to go. That happened. I said that to one of them. And it was like unfollow, blah, blah. It wasn't. Yeah. So I'm like, see? See, every man wants to believe there's a chance they can get it. So you got to finesse in a way where he believes he's going to get it. But you ain't saying he's going to get it. But his mind, let him believe he's going to get it. My friend right here, Sarah, I'm going to throw under the bus. She got out of a seven-year relationship or something like that. And I said, you have to have a whole phase. Like you have to be a whole for one year.  Did you do that? No. She's approved. Like I'm like, what? I guess I'm approved too. Because I'm in that same boat. I'm in that same boat. Let me tell you something. Y'all can finesse so major right now. Like I'm going to teach y'all how to finesse. Please, please.  High works. You know what I mean? Why? Why do you guys think like that? I don't think like that. She said, I don't know. Boom. I'm sleeping with her tonight. Yes. Every guy thinks like that. Don't even say tucks back in the DMs. Don't say thank you. Nothing. If I put nice or hard eyes or whatever, if you say thank you, oh, she want to give me some. Why do you think like that? I don't understand. What? Wax you, John. Well, not now because you're in a relationship. So you don't do that anymore, right? I don't ever do that now.  Right. Black man, don't cheat. I forgot where I'm at. Black man, don't cheat. Some women show me some of Wax's DMs. Wax's got some corny-ass DMs he be sending, yo. What did he say? He's the, he's the... It's probably the exact same thing. I don't know how to talk to a girl. I don't know how to talk to a girl. You can't tell nobody you in town. He's that guy. What? But that's... Probation officer vibes. But that's not like... In places, he not even that. What's going on? You know what I'm saying? He not even there. But that's not just like that. Tell me something real. Like tell me something funnier than that. Nothing? Listen, if you not in Canada, but you sending a girl in can... Sending her a message talking about, you can't tell nobody you in town. You don't even live there. So I have a question. All right. So let's say a girl answers back your DM, right? What is it that she has to say that, oh, this one's going to fall. I know I got her in the bag already. Like, are there key things like, oh, she replied to this. That's my in. What is it? That makes you guys think that, okay, I got her. Or she's going to... Anything back to anything at all. I think she won't give me some. That is crazy. Call yourself to her. DM's is just another thing like Tinder. It's just like... No, it's not. It kind of is though. Instagram is kind of like a Tinder. One of those... Sits. Yes. No, we're in 2020. That's the way people communicate. Oh, okay. I have a question. Do you think that if you give your Instagram, it's like giving out your number? No. It's the safer way of... Absolutely. It is. Yeah. It's different for Charlamagne. You know Charlamagne's Instagram, but if you're not Charlamagne, and you be like, yo, I can't give you my number, but hit me up on Instagram. You just did the same thing. Exactly. 1,000%. Give your email then. Give your email to me like, hi, danger. Hit my manager. Well, that's the context of I can't give you my number. Let you know that maybe this person isn't interested. He's kind of just throwing you to Graham just to give it to you. No way. I don't think so. I got a man, but I'll smash you. I'm not a man, but I'll smash you. I got a man, but I'll smash you. That's what girl's telling you. I can give you my Instagram. I got a man, but I'll smash you. But if I give you my number, it's like I want to be in relationship with you. Listen, I don't speak singles. Well, I just came out of singles, so I still know it a little bit. You just came out of singles? Just came out of singles. Wax and love. Matter of fact, you don't get wax. Wax loves Dominican women. Really? Yes. I told him that when I did my show, I said, bro, you was me back in the day. Right, but I was confused with what that means. He's like, how far back? You don't even read my book because there's been different phases.  What's happening? None of what's happening.


All right, in this video, I'm gonna go through my stock photography revenue report for June, walk you through all the sales I had in June, all the interesting things that happened with those sales, and then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go back and take a look at all my sales so far this year. So, June marks the end of half a year, so I can go through and take a look at how all the different sites have played out over the year to date. We'll take a look at my revenue for the first year. Now, I do these reports every month, and I've actually managed to do one every month this year, all this information's already on the channel, but I think it's good to look at what the totals are, right? So you can kind of see every month is a little different, but what is the best site or the best couple of sites so far in 2021? So, let's get into it. So, my best site, again, this past month was Fine Art America, and again, it also came from one sale. Now, I always get comments down in the, about which photos am I selling on Fine Art America, what type of thing sells on Fine Art America? So, I'll go through and show you that right now. Okay, I'm gonna zoom in here. So, this was the photo that sold this past month. It was a photo I took a long time ago, I probably took that about eight years ago now, nine years ago, and it was in Banff, it's of some people biking, and you can kind of see here, we'll go and zoom in a bit. You know, not a great photo, but I think it's a pretty good photo. I suspect somebody bought this photo because they've biked Banff, and they wanted this to kind of remember Banff or remember that road by it. So, that was the one sale that I got in June on Fine Art America. Now, next on the list was Shutterstock. Shutterstock was my second best site, not as good a month as I had last month on Shutterstock, but I didn't get like a large sale. So, that's kind of an average month for me on Shutterstock, maybe a bit above average, but not bad for June. Next is Pexels. Pexels, again, a pretty average month, but not bad considering it's a free site. I always do get a lot of comments about, you know, how can you make money on Pexels? Well, it's all from donations. So, if you look at that, basically I made $30, and that was from four donations on Pexels, okay? I think it worked out to there's like a $15 donation and then the rest of them, the other $15 came from the other three donations. My next site was Deposit Photos, again, pretty average month for them. And then this past month, I made a sale on Smugmug. So, Smugmug is where I host my personal website, souvenirpixels.com. And, you know, because it's my personal site, Smugmug takes a very small cut compared to some of the other sites like Shutterstock. So, I get to keep the majority of that. So, one sale was $24. Next was Adobe Stock. I'm not a great month for Adobe Stock. However, one of the things that did happen, although it happened in July, so you're not gonna see it in this revenue report, but I'll talk about it here, is that if you watched last week's report, I had submitted some of my photos to the free section of Adobe Stock. And I got a notification actually on July 1st that two of those photos got accepted. So, that was $10. So, I'll get $10 in my July revenue came from, you know, putting photos in the free section. That being said, the email they sent us, they're still adding photos to that free collection. So, I do have other photos that are under consideration. And, you know, so there may be more by the time we do the next revenue report. So, make sure you, you know, subscribe to the channel and you can see what happens with that. What I'll do is, at the end of July, I'll go through and look at all the photos that have been accepted to the free section and I'll actually share them on next month video. So, I'm gonna show you the types of things that they've decided to accept. I'm gonna kind of talk about, look at the sales those had before versus the $5 they gave me and kind of get some idea about, you know, how much more revenue I'm getting by putting them in the free section on Adobe Stock. All right, next is one, two, three off. Again, a fairly normal month there. Can stock photo. Bit higher for can stock photo. That was only two sales. I think one of those was a $10 sale and the other one was a $0.40 sale. So, can stock photo is another one of the sites for most of the time I get a $0.40 sale, but sometimes these $10 sales come in and so it pushes us up to mid and the last. Pixabay, got a couple donations there. Dreamstime, again, not much. And some of the other sites. Now, my total for all of June was $221 and that's been pretty good for me this year. I think that's my second highest site. Why don't we actually go in and I'll take a look at all my stats for the year and then we can take a look at what the best sites were. If you take a look here, here's that $221. So, if we compare it to the other months of the year, it was my second highest site. So, May was my second highest month, I mean. May was my highest month and June was my second highest month. And again, I mentioned this on the channel before, but that's really typical for me. A lot of my photos I take on summer vacation and because I take them on summer vacation, they're good for summer advertisements for companies or a summer blog post or a summer social media post. So, a lot of times people are planning out their summer campaigns in May, June, July and that's when a lot of my sales happen. So, that was quite good. If you take a look here, so far year to date I've made about $1,100 off my photos. So, I'm kind of trending towards $2,000 for the year. And if you want to take a look at some of the top sites. So, Shutterstock overall has been my top site this year with $230, followed very closely by Fine Art America. So, you look like Fine Art America is less consistent than Shutterstock. You kind of take a look here. Every month I make a bit of money on Shutterstock and that's pretty consistent. Now it could be anywhere from $12 to $80, but it's never zero. However, with Fine Art America, you do see some zeros in there. Again, it's a lot smaller sales, but you'll get three months. I made no sales at all, but the other three months made much higher sales and that made it my second highest site for the year. That's pretty typical of the art of demand sites. You know what I mean? I make a few sales, you make more money on them. Whereas the stock sites, the popular stock sites at least, like Shutterstock, Deposit Photos, Adobe Stock, you get a pretty consistent amount of sales. And you see that here with Deposit Photos as well, you know, really ranging between $15 and $32, right? Another thing to note here is that Pexels has become fairly consistent too as far as the donations go, right? It was definitely not this way a year and a half ago. Do you know what I mean?  But if you take a look here, my Pexels donations marches my lowest month at about $10 and then it tops at about $30. So, you know, it's the consistency of like a stock site, right? Pexels has beaten out Adobe Stock, right? Which ranges from $12 to $23, right? So that is one thing to note about Pexels in particular is that it is fairly consistent for me if you get to, you know, those higher ranks. You know, I have a lot of photos on there that are in collections. I get a lot of views and that's how I get the Pexels. It's actually better than Adobe Stock. Interestingly enough, Pixabay is, you know, I do get some zeros. I don't get a lot of donations on Pixabay, but I get larger donations for some reason. And even though we have those zeros, it's still fairly high on the list, right? It's even above Adobe Stock, which, you know, is somewhat surprising for me. I thought Adobe Stock, or actually, no, maybe it's not. They're in the wrong order there. So, but it's about the same as Adobe Stock. So that's just one thing to know and you can kind of scroll down here about what I get on the other sites. So anyways, hopefully you found that useful short video this week. I, you know, have been quite busy out taking more photos, which is nice. I haven't got around to uploading a lot of them yet, but I do plan to upload a lot more photos recently, which will hopefully affect my sales better for the rest of the summer. Anyways, as always, you know, best of luck selling your photos online and make sure you subscribe to the channel. Thanks.


We are going to be a very interesting lifestyle Wednesday as we have modules in the studio for you tonight and we are talking about modeling in Africa. We have Jamal Onange who is a trainer and the African models international. We also have Fahith Kinyaka who is a supervisor of the modules that we are going to be showcasing tonight. So what we seek to understand today is why do we have, why should we put modeling as something that people are supposed to pursue? What are the challenges that are there? Some of the young models are high school students. You also seek to know how they get to balance the modeling work and also their school work. So to start off today Jamal, can you tell us who are you? Yes, from the details I have a trainer and African international models but can you tell us more about African international? African international actually is a modeling agency. Actually we focus on actually enhancing talent among the youth and now the majorly we focus on all round talent but now today we have to talk about the models because we actually see them grow to that big industry from local to the international level. So Fahith, I can see you are also Miss Kenya United Nations. Can you first tell us what's your title, what's your title, what's the meaning of your title? Okay, United Nation Pageant is a pageant that focuses on charity. Two weeks ago it happened in India Jalanda and I won the title United Nation Ambassador 2019 but I take no pride in carrying this Kenya title. Okay, so we know that behind every title, every work, every talent and all that there are certain characteristics that you look out for. What makes a good model? As you pick models under the Africa African international models what are the characteristics that you look out for? Actually every talent the first thing that goes with any talent is discipline. Once you have discipline then you go places. Second good training. Good training is actually something very very important because if you get good training then who beat you you have to be good. Another thing is that okay be outstanding. You have to sound outstanding so you have to be the best. So when we are selecting our models we look at your etiquette, your behaviour, your discipline that is what you focus on.  What would you say are some of the challenges that the model in industry in Kenya go through and how do you get to to deal with them because I can see from the models that we have we have even very young girls. You're a person who has been there before. What are some of the guidelines that you get to give to these young girls so that they get to the point that you are at right now? First of all the hardest challenges that models face in Kenya right now is the low payments. If you get models to work for long hours and they get very little payments and this is because some models in Kenya have passed themselves like they can work for free. Now the companies cannot get this serious model where they can pay baby like we can get models to work for free while paying to get this. Okay so what would you say now how do we solve that challenge? Every model should not be here. Okay for you Jamal, being the trainer and these are some of the things that you have that you've talked about discipline. Faith talking about the challenge of not being paid well. How do you make sure that your models in Africa international don't feel wasted, are appreciated because appreciating someone gives them the motivation to want to move forward? Actually you know let me talk about Africa.  You see it depends with you as a model what do you want. Do you want to be paid low? Do you want to be an international model? Then you yourself here to classify yourself. You see yes models go through a lot through a lot but now at some point I will see that it's actually the models themselves who actually put themselves into this. Okay you see like an example somebody would want to like you are going for a pageant to compete and then you feel like now I know the judge one of the judges there so you try bribing the judges. Okay.  So even judges also have a problem you receive bribes. Okay. You see but now when it comes in afric models we train you to an extent that okay you have that class. You see you wouldn't even think of even bribing a judge because you believe in yourself, you trust in yourself because the training that you got from the afric is better than any other place. Okay. There's a challenge of most some parents don't believe in talents. They believe that the only way for us to make it in life is go to class, get a good grade and maybe become a doctor, become an engineer and all that. How do you try, how do you make sure that you bring in the parents on the table and convince them that investing in your child's talent is also something that is going to yield into beautiful things in the future. This is going to put your child in a certain platform and they can also become independent just on the talent path. How do you get to do that? Um majorly I will talk about all around talent not all parents support talented students but let me tell you one thing when it comes to modeling some parents think like ah you're just going to waste your time on that but now the fashion industry needs models and this is just like any other job you see and actually when you focus the government now CBC is actually encouraging talent right now we have parents who are not really into talent they believe it's books books books but at some point you might find like this kid um won't even make it because okay maybe her understanding is very low oh the kid is a slow learner so once we engage them into that because even you in school you knew some students were good in theory some were good in practical so it's it applies in any other thing that those kids who are good in books right but that those who can do good when it comes to talent so as a parent and just help that kid to grow because now who are the celebrities they've gone through the same yeah yeah okay so uh fidd when did you start modeling i started in 2016 uh while in college nips college uh there was audition for mr and miss nips college pageant and i went i was i never got the chance so i was taken as a curtain raiser again 2017 i tried and i got the chance to be a contestant i appeared as top six later on i joined afric models through jamal has been my trainer throughout from 2018 i got the title miss essence kenya and now miss united nation ambassador 2019 okay did you have any challenges at any point convincing your parents to support your modeling career yeah of course because in the community they come from they don't believe in this modeling thing most of them think like it's not prostitution uh something like that which is a very sad thing yeah sure so how did you now get to bring your parents on board i had to talk with my brothers who explained later on to my dad and uh after they started seeing results which are good they started supporting me okay uh so jamal with uh the the models we have today participated uh in a model pageant in india what is the experience when you get to take them out of the country and take them on an international platform what would you say are some of the things that they get to learn from there that they we don't so far have in this country actually uh when it comes to kenya they always focus on the runway cut walk and all that but now when it comes on international level we have interview you train them how to speak in public you train them on how to cut walk and actually have that confidence we train them on how to win a pageant because now in kenya he is like okay you hit the runway you've been trained on how to walk then that's your own right but now we try to make them feel like international once they come back here you can see the transformation in them they actually changed totally you could see like the way they were carrying out themselves from before and now it's totally different okay uh so we these are these are some of the models are high school students uh how do you make sure that even as they go through their modeling training uh probably which i believe happens during the holidays they don't forget their books they don't forget that they have assignments that they have to do and time is gonna come they'll have to go back to school they have to be perfect in them in their talents and also perfect in their books because i believe the two needs need each other to work well afric models work closely with their parents you see and we actually keep them up and out if you don't perform well then you don't come to africa you have to perform better you have to work hard and be good so that once we see your results because they always send us their results before they come to afric for training so we get to know their results how good are you how did you improve so once you you've improved now we see okay now you can come and i'll get trainings but if you don't perform well then you won't come yeah uh what are some of your achievements faith so far since you joined modeling what would you say is something that you've been able to achieve that makes you feel proud of yourself and not ever regret joining that industry number one i've been able to visit so many countries east africa and outside africa for modeling career and also i hate the running for so here in fashion week yeah okay so this is something that uh you would advise a fellow young girl a fellow young man to venture in so two young girls and young boys watching us tonight what is the message that you tell them and uh send them a message on how they can pursue their talents not only model we have people who want who can sing if people can draw we have people who can act and all that in this entertainment industry it's very competitive and uh they they should always be in mind that they are they are safe to succeed is what set them separate is what separates them from the rest they should always keep god first and uh they should not get worried when they don't get recognized instead they should work hard to be worthy of that recognition okay well thank you very much i'm going to uh i would like us to introduce the modules that we have with us on studio tonight because i like them to say their names tell us what their titles are because i have noticed that the titles of uh modules under the afric international are very unique something that i think uh we don't we're not only talking about beauty we can see there's beauty and the breadth so our dear models please come this way and walk for us tonight just victoria just come this way yes okay go that way and just stand next to fame yes this is our smallest and most beautiful mm-hmm well come then the next one we have natalie and then we have laurel thank you very much guys as you can see our viewers back at home these are the models under the afric international models and i want to start with you victoria victoria how are you i'm fine uh can you tell us what is your title my title is let me start 2019 and how old are you i'm nine this is really a challenge to parent jamal that we don't need to wait for our children to get to 18 years to to give them such platforms why did you choose modeling because uh one of the six is i love to watch people who model people who wear long dresses and wear them so my mom knew that i love modeling so she took me to african society oh that is so nice joy how are you can you tell us what is your title victoria adds at the microphone to joy your title is misting grand prix what is what is the meaning of that for someone watching us why modeling why not acting and how do you find the modeling industry so far to me modeling is just like it's my i like it since childhood mm-hmm okay and then we have natali lillan how are you natali your title is misting goodwill international 2019 why did you get that title because first of all i want you to have this chance okay uh is that the only reason that is it because you only worked for because i can see it's goodwill which means there must be something unique about it uh bring jamal to tell us more about the uh the crowns and then we have uh loren hi how are you your title is misting charity international when did you start modeling and so far how would how do you find the modeling industry it's good i can add the things out there what i think really helps like love travel to some country i mean to randa and randa and i'm from india okay so jamal i want to bring you in on these uh the titles that i can see here we used to see in miss kenya miss world kenya and hothos but these titles are very unique what is the reason behind all of them first of all uh you have to know that actually they are not competing um with just a few countries actually the whole world you see and actually they might the best as you can see them because of the trainings that they got um like if we talk about um goodwill international it's about the way you relate with people the way you interact with people at the bootcamp so it gives you that title and actually getting that is very hard because they monitor you and whatever you do it and now when it comes to the grand prix grand prix actually it's a it's a title of a chief in in france so once they see the leadership in europe so they crown you that leadership you see now when charity it's it explains itself yes yeah it's all about charity you see so these models actually are competed with so many models out there you see now they might the best and that's why they're here they represented the whole kenya okay faith uh you supervise these girls you walk with you walk them through different stages in their modeling uh career so far what would you say makes these models unique to other models that we have because model agencies are very many uh we have um very many models but what do you think makes these ones good models uh they are a solution to succeed and also their parents have been so supportive first we must get these models from their school like i've gone to their schools we take them from their school when they know nothing about modeling when they come to their own outro our national audition we select the best not actually the best but if we see you have the potential we give you that opportunity to remain at our academy where jamal trains them to be the best and of course their parents have been so supportive in terms of finances and everything that is required they are first to help okay so jamal yes these uh they went to India they have these titles what next for them each and every model must have a project and they can even tell you their projects they do have projects in which they have to focus on that because modeling is not just walking on the runway it's beauty with brains and then you have to help give back to the society when you talk about projects maybe what are some of the activities that you get to uh give them like um we have uh different projects that they have and now we support them like if it's uh helping the um lucky the uh vulnerable we go with them uh give them that encourage encouragement we talk to those uh kids and all that yeah so we help them in so many ways like actually uh preparing them to the society okay uh so i would like to take these to our models now um let me kind of give the microphone to victoria victoria you're nine years old and i can say that i'm very proud of you uh to be little miss uh charity is not just easy but why how do you manage to balance uh school to help your mom with the house chores and to make sure that you're also doing well in your modeling career first i'm focused mostly on school and the trip starts while the school is up that's how i balance it okay uh so um natali how do you balance school and modeling because the message you like us to pass today is that all things are possible uh that parents should not feel like if they give their children the platform or the opportunity to focus on their talents that they're not going to achieve uh anything in their curriculum in their curricula activities so how do you manage to balance school and modeling okay um during the morning days and i make like a time table or a schedule so that i can balance my studies my curricula activities so that i don't forget the school up and i will also focus on my modeling perfectives okay uh so fave we love these girls i'm sure now most of them maybe they someone who wants to do modeling fully they someone who wants to balance between the two besides modeling what else uh do you have other activities that you do personally yes yes yeah i work with africana sa production which is a film production company that focuses on this young talent and for us to get this talent we go to their schools when they they are in school we get to audition the students and when the school closes we invite them for the national audition okay come showcase their talents okay uh for people watching us at home today for parents for young girls for young boys who would like to venture into them into modeling but they don't know they don't have a uh they don't have a mentor because you see i might have a dream but i don't have someone to hold my head and tell me this is how you're supposed to go about it what would you like to say uh to them today jamal um i'll tell you just believe in yourself then um once you believe in yourself and that that passion then go for it because um afric models is here for you we're ready to receive you love and all that okay uh lauren i'd like you to talk to young girls like you what advice would you give them someone a young girl somewhere in whether in a town or anywhere in these in these um county to talk about modeling at young girls during the holidays maybe associate with something that will give you positive things to do not don't like don't do drugs and maybe promote your sex which will end up having other pregnancies um and maybe if you have that talent they have helped me really okay so i'll just add the young girls out there to work for their talents maybe you have the talent so jamal as we as we wind up before i get more remarks from the from the models if someone wants to join africa nasa productions someone wants to maybe they can act they can see because understand that you don't only focus on modeling maybe you can share your social media platforms and how they can reach you uh on facebook they can actually visit africa nasa production for modeling uh you can visit afric models international that is a double f r i k and also i would actually request them to actually come uh we have our national auditions on 7th of december which will happen uh currents and Elizabeth calls so you can come there and then you can you you'll meet us there then we'll give you that platform to showcase your talent okay i'll phase your final remarks in these your closing remarks what would you want to say to parents to students to young people in campuses who want to pursue talents but they don't think they have the support system that is very very very uh backing them up uh to the parents i'll urge them to support these kids talents because right now in kenya if you see a lot of people there uh they're depending on their talents like maybe you're working and then these uh you have your talent is your side hustle so for this parent to support their kids yeah okay um i'd like joy get the microphone please um what message would you like to pass to parents who don't believe in talents talent is a gift that got granted to everybody we should we should not take we should not delay our our children everybody has a chance and we have to encourage our parents that we take us for yeah okay okay uh so jamal besides these uh ladies holding these titles how do they now get to use them because i believe uh lorona is not is not just going to get them a sting charity international crown and just put on the crown what does she get to do now for the society because i believe you're also training these people to come and now use their titles to come and use their talents to help others in the society you know once you have the crown and you have the sach you become an ambassador of that crown so you stand out uh to actually talk to the youth and give them whatever that you have that is very positive okay and then with them focusing on their their projects actually you yourself working like that even in state house they won't even allow you but if she comes in with a sach she's a royal and people just acknowledge her in the midst of the crowd now the the sach itself and the uh and the crown it makes them stand out you see and it gives them that platform they can knock any doom and they'll be accepted okay uh it was really nice having you uh young ladies in studio tonight and my hope for them is that they go and pass all that to other young ladies and young boys back at home make sure that that crown your time or your time does not just end with you just putting the crown and having to shine do something for the for the society and i would like to say to jamal and fey thank you very much for really guiding them if every person in this country i believe would have a mentor or would have someone to guide them it's easier to navigate than when you just have to do it over yourself and to parents and young people watching us tonight you've had talent it's something that can also pay way for your studio for your children these are people who have not only visited africa but they've gone way beyond africa so it opens doors for your for your children so let us not feel like investing their talents is taking away maybe their education and all that let us fight ways as parents as siblings to be very supportive of every talent that our children have thank you very much for having uh for joining us tonight on why to fight for news my name is patricia moriuki do of yourselves a very good night


Our next caller is Pierre from Canada. Hey Pierre, how can we help you? Hi guys. So, I've been training full body for the last few months and I've seen some growth in my calves for the first time. And I've been doing full body two, three times a week and I've been doing kind of trigger sessions on the off days where I would always do calf raises. But now, since for the last few months I've also had pain in my left foot and the ball of my foot, I'm guessing possibly metatarsalgia if I'm pronouncing that correctly, which kind of aggravates my foot. Usually I've been able to do calf raises anyways and just kind of push through the pain. But I've never been able to properly recover and it still kind of hurts every so often. So I don't want to have chicken legs and I do want my calves to keep growing. So is there something I can do an alternate to calf raises to train my calves? Yeah, first we need to solve this issue because if you just keep pushing through it's going to get worse and worse. So there's a couple of things you can look at. One is to look and see if you can work on the fascia on the bottom of your foot. Cross ball. Like a lacrosse ball or a baseball, like a hard small ball of some sort and you kind of roll it under your foot, especially in the arch of the foot and loosen up kind of the muscles and the fascia there. So that's one thing you could do. We sell those at mindpumpstore.com. We have them there. Okay, perfect. So focus on that. The second thing I would do is I would work on the articulation of your toes. Do you have Maps Prime Pro by any chance? I do not. Okay, so we have some movements in there. We'll send that over to you. But like there's toe piano would be a good one. Just to get the articulation of the toes. And then I would work on the tibialis muscle, which is the muscle on the shin.  So the calf is on the back. The tibialis is on the front. And oftentimes, not always, but oftentimes pain in the foot or in the shin tends to be an imbalance between the calf and the tibialis. So I'll start strengthening the tibialis to see if that makes a difference. And then I would lay off calf raises just for a little while or at least not do trigger sessions for the calves to allow that to heal a little bit because it sounds like it's already a bit of an issue. Pierre, have you played with BFR training at all? BFR training, sorry. Yeah, blood flow restriction. Sorry to say again. So BFR training, blood flow restriction. That's what that is. Oh, okay, sorry. No, I've never tried that before. So this would be a great supplemental thing that I would add into what you're doing. So maybe it is to Sal's point that you've just got to overdoing it a little bit. And one of the ways you can back off is by backing off with BFR. So BFR, and we actually have a guide on this. So when we send over the Prime Pro, Doug can send over the BFR guide for you also. And it teaches you how to do that.  So there's not a lot of, there's not going to be a lot of stress on the feet while you do it. And it's going to give your calves a massive pump and it will stimulate some growth. So it's a great way to compliment my calf training, especially if I'm noticing that I'm getting like stuff and shins or my feet are bothering me because I'm probably hitting them so hard too often. One of the ways that I can back off and still train them is to introduce BFR training once or twice a week instead of regular loaded training. Okay, sounds great. Yeah, I'd add that. But I definitely think that the number one place is that lacrosse ball first. I've had similar, I've felt this like what I think you're describing. And one of the ways that I would prime before I start my workout is doing the stuff from Prime Pro that Sal's talking about and then doing the lacrosse ball and rolling your foot over there. I believe we have a YouTube video on that. I think I've done the YouTube video on that one on our MindPumpTV. Yeah, so you want to basically work on the muscles of the foot, right? And just on getting them connected and getting them a little stronger. So like there's toe piano as one movement in Prime Pro, short foot is another movement. Short foot, two squats, yeah. You just want to kind of strengthen the foot a little bit because you're working your calf. So, you know, you think of the foot and you think of it as just an extension of the calf, but the foot is covered in muscles on the bottom and you start strengthening the calf muscle, but if you have an imbalance with the muscles of the foot, then you're going to start to run into some problems. Most people get pain in the arch of their foot, but sometimes you see it in the ball of the foot as well.  Okay. All right. That's great. Thanks for calling in. Thank you guys. Thanks for having me. Yeah, we appreciate it. Nobody ever thinks of that, right? They never think of the foot or even the hands having tons of muscles, right? We think of the calves, maybe the forearms, but you know, I mean, if you look at an anatomy picture of the bottom of a foot, it is covered in muscle. It's completely covered in muscle. Well, you know, have you ever seen those sandals too that have the little prongs on them? And so it's just, that's just another way that like it shows you how much more you can stimulate the bottom of your feet and get them to respond. But then to take that to the next level, what we have in Prime Pro, we have so many different movements specifically for the foot and ankle, you know, that just need some attention. And really to devote time to that is going to help a lot. Yeah, this screams to me like underdeveloped muscles in your feet and then overdoing your calf raises. Mm-hmm. So waking them up with a little cross ball. I mean, I would love to see the, let's see him do some like barefoot training or incorporating that. Like I don't know what level he's at. So I wouldn't go from maybe nothing to all of a sudden. Might be too much now. Yeah, it might be too much. So maybe start this like he should start with some barefoot walking around and stuff doing, starting to incorporate with barefoot training, I think would help him out. But I think it's how you hit it on the head with the lacrosse ball and then Prime Pro stuff.  So that's his limiting factors. His feet are weak. He has a poor connection there. Address that, get stronger feet, and then the calves will come up. In the meantime, the BFR training is a nice segue as he backs off the heavy loading all the time. He could still keep up the frequency with the BFR while he also addresses his weak feet.


Greetings, Retro Friends! In the last video, I put together the four-digit hex displays so that I could see what the CPU was doing with the address and data lines, especially when the CPU is held. Now, according to the datasheet, when the hold line is activated and the CPU acknowledges hold, all of the CPU's outputs go high impedance. And since we have no pull-ups for the display's inputs, the display will show whatever it wants to display. This means that I have to capture the address lines at some point, and that means using a transparent latch. A transparent latch, like the 74373, allows the data through transparently until disabled, at which point the data is latched. So, we need a CPU signal we can use to indicate that the address lines should be latched. This memory-enable line looks useful. When it's low, the CPU is accessing memory, so the address lines have to contain something meaningful. So, all we need to do is invert this signal and use that as the latch-enable signal. That lets us display effectively the last address the CPU accessed. When the CPU is held, this is the last address the CPU accessed before being held. Okay, I've hooked up the CPU address lines to the display. This button is the reset signal, and here's the clock generator chip from before. Interestingly, even though I have no latches here, it looks like the display is showing something when I assert reset on the CPU. Alright, so here I've added the latches and a switch for the hold signal. Turning on the power with the processor held seems to put the address lines at 7FFF. Actually, it's FFFE, since I forgot to shift the address lines one. Addresses in the TMS-9900 CPU are always even, which is a bit silly, considering that the CPU accesses memory always 16 bits at a time. It's as if they couldn't get past the thought of memory being 8 bits wide. Anyway, I can now hold and un-hold the processor, and it seems to be doing something. Great. Now, this isn't perfect. If we look at the timing diagram in the datasheet, we see that the Phase 2 clock causes most outputs to change, and that includes the address, data, and the memory enable lines. This means that the memory enable line unasserting may or may not be synchronized with the address and data lines. However, Phase 2 is a good synchronization point, so we need to gate all our signals with Phase 2 low. That's what I've done here. I have a 7408 AND gate here. The memory enable line goes through an inverter and to the AND gate. The timing chip generates an inverted Phase 2 signal, and that goes to the AND gate as well. The output of the AND gate latches the 373s, which feed the display. That seems to work. Again, this last digit should always be 0 because I forgot to shift the address lines by 1. Now, it's a little hard to see here, but I noticed that touching one of the wires would cause one of the digits to change. I found that one of the pins on a latch had bent, so I straightened it out and everything worked fine after that. Okay, the final test is to use the single step state machine. I wrote a program very similar to the hex display one. I used a bigger chip, an AT-Tiny 2313, which can act as a 256 by 7 ROM, since it has 8 available lines on one port and 7 on another. The code for the ROM is written in assembly. Here I'm using port B as the address lines and port D as the data lines.  First, we check the output enable line and change the direction of port D accordingly. To disable the output, this means setting port D as inputs, which puts it in high impedance mode. Then we just read the address lines at port B, pull the data from that address plus hex 100, and put the data on the data lines at port D. It's pretty slow. It's about 13 cycles per loop, which is about 1.6 microseconds, but that's okay. In this case, I don't need anything faster. The code, by the way, is available on GitHub, linked down below. The state machine only needs a 64 by 4 ROM. I wrote a Python program to generate the ROM, compiled the whole thing, programmed the chip, and put it on the breadboard. As before, it uses a 74-175 quad flip-flop to store the current state. And I'm using these 3 LEDs to show the current state. It seems to work okay. I can let the processor run, and stop it, and then single-step it a few times, and then let it run again. Great. So, right now, what is being latched is the last address in memory that the CPU accessed. If I latched the data lines in the same way, it would be the last data that the CPU read or wrote. With just a little modification, I can change this to latching the address of the last instruction retrieved by the CPU by including the IAQ, or Instruction Acquire signal. Similarly, latching the data lines on this signal would show the last opcode executed by the CPU. I could add even more displays, showing any location and data the CPU read or wrote during an instruction by keeping track of the number of memory accesses during that instruction. However, according to this table, including the opcode fetch, there is a maximum of 8 memory accesses per instruction, so I'd need 16 of these 4-digit hex displays. I'm crazy, but this would be a really crazy front panel. Or I could just use 2 displays, one for address and one for data, and store the 8 accesses in a RAM, and have lights to indicate which arguments were captured. Then a push-button interface could navigate through the arguments. Since we're speaking about front panels, I need a way to manually write and examine memory. Since that requires putting the CPU on hold, the address and data displays as I've built them aren't of any use. I could have a few more displays and buttons that let me do this while the processor is on hold. Also, I still need a system RAM, because right now the processor isn't hooked up to anything and is essentially executing random instructions. There's lots of stuff still to do, and that means lots more work and more videos to make. So thanks for watching and subscribe so you don't miss out on the rest of this project. Thank you.