We are I'm focusing on Cuba and Mitra's focusing on Cuba And I believe that Lorena is focusing on Bogota Bogota and then we have Somebody coming in via zoom to talk about the bigger picture in a bigger project that you see Berkeley So thank you again for coming we're looking forward to the discussion afterwards and hearing all of the knowledge that you Have about Latin America and about bicycling around the world. Mine is very much about Cuba and I'm going to I'm going to really try to read my PowerPoints because otherwise we'll be here too long And if you have questions afterward, then just let me know so the main points are in bold So you don't have to be able to read the whole PowerPoint plus they're available the sessions recorded and so forth so I In order to better understand bicycling in Cuba I wanted to give four basics about Cuba to kind of set the groundwork and the first one is against the myth that Cuba is insular or isolated actually Cuba is internationally and transnationally connected and Havana is particularly cosmopolitan Examples are indigenous groups that had connections to nearby lands Colonial and trade relations starting minimum with Columbus but then going through to the US So the Union in the Eastern Bloc Left leaning Latin America and always always always relations with the United States Also diasporic Cuban communities abroad and international travel by Cubans influence How people think in Havana? There's also strong. I'll call it non provincial education system in Cuba Which means that Cuba learns a lot of Cubans learn a lot about other countries And I think that this myth Cuba is insular or isolated comes from the fact that US citizens are isolated from Cuba because of the embargo that stops us from being involved It's not the other way around but you can show up in Cuba. The Cubans will be happy to see you The second myth is Cuba is a country frozen in time so quite a colonialist idea That's very however widespread in fact our entire planet lives time Simultaneously in the way that we're living now is related to the underdevelopment so-called under development in other countries I see nods from our super-educated audience and I'll give you the example of Cuba's vintage cars You know the 50s cars there on the streets for current material reasons and those include the expense of importing new cars the US embargo Cuba's weather like California's weather Limited alternative transportation such as bicycles and buses especially since 1990 the special period Then other material reasons include the skilled labor of mechanics who make a living repairing and using these cars often as taxi drivers Taxi drivers tend to be mechanics at the same time and myth Three Cuba is backward or myth basic three since 1959 Cuban governance policies have focused on creating value-added Exports and import substitution, so we probably know about Cuba's Exporting sugarcane or sugar coffee, but Cuba exports the value-added skills of Professionals such as engineers and doctors that Henry Reed gave for example went to Lombardy as example Also rather than importing vaccines. This is what I've been working on right now So I encourage you to look at the articles that are in the sources Cuba developed vaccines themselves Vaccinated their population and Cuba is now exporting vaccines at low cost and as donations for example to Syria These vaccines deploy trusted sub subunit protein technology The US equivalent is corba vax which just came out many months after the Cuban one was already being used on Children and that's a problem of the pharma industry because that was from University rather than from big pharma, but I digress so you could read the article the important thing here is that those Vaccines are robust and they're over 92% effective and they're cheap. So Cuba basically It saved itself through import substitution Basic for Cuba is a middle-income country There is a severe shortage of most consumer goods including bicycles and parts for bicycles salient for our discussion today in part Because of the embargo and international trade relations that are related to that But at the same time other elements of life are free or subsidized for example housing food transportation and Education of course famously So now that we have that sort of basic that I wanted to start with we'll talk a bit about Bicycling in Havana in the past. So the bicycle as recreation that was that that was the main use of the bicycle Back in the day as in Europe and in the United States Bicycling in Cuba was initially a gentleman's pastime bicycles were expensive for example, and there were also bike clubs that were for People that were that that were racialized as white and people who were racialized as people of color or black and Women struggled to gain the right to ride just as many places in the United States So the fear of you know bicycle face and you're gonna be so ugly Wow, we have to be afraid of the emancipated woman on the bike. That was also part of Cuba From prohibition onwards in the United States cars became increasingly important in Cuba because they were part of the drinking gambling Sex work vacation getaway mystique of the US playground with the revolution in 1959 came critique of Cubans Cuba's addiction to US cars partly partly because of price However with the Soviet alignment which already started in the early 60s the motorized transit that Represented modernity at the time and still does returned motorized transportation was imported from comic-con countries and famously Lada's still still roam the streets The special period in the time of peace started in 1990 when the Soviet Union crashed and so there was no more petroleum products really and That with a solution needed to be found to transportation So over a million bicycles were imported from China The purchase price was subsidized to the people who were buying and the in and infrastructure most importantly Infrastructure also was developed for bicycling So the distribution happened through schools and workplaces and people who may have never ridden before started riding There are lots of funny stories in the newspaper about like crashes and stuff and that trying to teach people to ride safely because everybody's starting at Same time Cuba developed bicycle lanes They privileged the bicycle in so many ways included guarded parking and repair stations. So it was a Real boom and blossoming of bicycling in the 90s However, bicycling came to be psychologically connected to suffering because this period was so difficult So imagine pedaling a heavy bicycle for a long distance under the hot sun to take care of all kinds of things that Maybe could have been facilitated in a different way after maybe having Sugar water for breakfast. So as the economy improved motorized transit was reintroduced notably with imported Chinese buses and The bicycle fell into disuse Because subsidized buses were again available and because bicycles had come to be associated with privation and Most importantly because the infrastructure started to fall away Sturdy bicycles were not available at low cost that is subsidized parts were not available Because they were not imported by the centralized government purchasing system Bicycle lanes diminished over time or were taken away and guarded parking and repair shops closed Bicycling in Havana today. However, there's this continuity because bicycling didn't disappear Some people did like bicycling for the flexibility for the freedom for the exercise for the experience and they endeavor to ride and To put in a plug for our film that we made it's a 30-minute film called Rodondo in La Habana and I bicycle stories It's also in the sources. I gave you the the password in case you'd like to watch it It's a fun film and also I left a link to an article that I did about interviewing Women who wrote in the special period and how they felt about it and of course mostly privation But also this some experiences of independent becoming becoming more independent Young people in particular wanted to ride and for many young persons bicycling in the special period was a lot about fun Because they were kids, you know, their parents were protecting them from the difficulties they're not talking about it as much and Young people like the freedom and they also see non-cubans both Cuban people who come to Cuba as tourists and Or long-term tourists or expats And they also when they're abroad see people bicycling and they think of bicycling by choice And I and Mitra is going to talk about this as well as some other things in a minute However, bicycling in in Cuba is currently a luxury because the cost of the bicycle and the challenges of maintenance are significant With the difficulties of transportation poor air quality and lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and heart condition and heart disease Rampant the Cuban government has agreed in principle to further green transport For instance, they work with NGOs to support rent a bike programs However, they have not implemented large-scale changes such as importing robust bikes to sell at cost or low cost or Replacing the bike lanes that were already implemented in the 90s So on one hand Pandemic mitigation such as creating the vaccine and stopping people from dying and so forth has been for-fronted Understandably there's money issues involved and at the same time also activists are vocal about wanting more to be done And there we have you can't actually read it But the pandemic I can't complain about the pandemic because thanks to it I became a bicyclist you see the bicyclist there female bicyclist and I wouldn't change that for anything in the world That was just sort of traveling around WhatsApp Like Cuban. What's up in telegram and email? So much of the Cuban leadership unfortunately remains de facto captured in the car equals progress Logic and also unlike many Cubans many functionaries have easy access to automotive transport And then at the same time Oh a near exception is Cuba's current president Miguel Diaz-Canel Famed for bicycling when he worked for the provincial government of Viaclada He has not been seen bicycling around Havana as president though We might hope that that could happen to have a president on a bicycle in Cuba Cuban leadership I think can be criticized for lack of movement on alternative Transport so they have the white paper, but are they putting it in practice and that said at same time Leaders open themselves up to potshots when they support bicycling and this is Diario de Cuba Which is online and so in this article Miami Cuba right-wingers Attack the use of the bicycle in Cuba as evidence of a failing nation-state So we see the era is birthing a bicycle that bicycle obviously doesn't ride very well And the critique is in 2013 the Transportation is becoming just as bad as it was in the special period and the evidence of that is the availability of bikes so again the the Progress narrative of the car and that being deployed by Miami Cuba right-wingers to talk about the Cuban government at the same time Leaders open themselves up to potshots when they support Bicycling and they're here. This is from the Trevor Noah daily show and it's it's Fox News and Hannity So here US right-wingers attack the use of the bicycle by president as evidence of failing leadership I Thought that parallel was just so Incredibly striking. So I thought I'd share it with you and to return to Havana Bicycle activism Mitra will talk about a bit more about Massa critica there as well the International Mew movement and in Havana bicycle art here. We have absent hero it's the Chinese forever bicycle on in a tourist area in a restaurant and this in a in Melia very Decadent like opulent hotel another one and here at the Fabrica del Arte, which is Well, it's a art art and recreational place like dance club and so forth and Just not to talk too much about it, but how do we how might we understand this art? They're a tribute to the time and to the bicycle and to bicycling They're a tourist lure because people especially lefties were pretty excited about all the bicycling in the agroponicos biological, I mean Organic farms that you know, we're happening in the Cuba Cuba in the 90s And and there's also the transnational connections that I'm trying to emphasize of Cuba not being insular right when we see This reminds us of John Lennon and Yoko Ono with their love in and their bicycle the ghost bikes and the white bicycle project of the provost So Cuba could be leading Latin America in non-motorized transportation because it has special period expertise It has a centralized social instructor that enables the implementation of widespread change it has a lack of vested interests in Automotive road and petrol industry so a lot of lobby groups of course influence what's going on in all over the world And they are having ever-increasing investment in renewables Many feel it's time for Cuba to further non automobile transport as a way to Sustainable future and as an expression of prosperity rather than an expression of Dyrac or Karencia So it's time to value bicycling as a choice building upon when bicycling was a necessity And that's what I have for you except for my sources and I'll turn it over to Mitra Hi, everyone. My name is Mitra Ghaffari. I am a grad student at UC Santa Cruz currently studying social documentation, and I was honored to have a short film screened on the opening night of the conference and I Will piggyback off of Jennifer's wonderful presentation to talk a little bit more about the bike initiatives and main leading advocates of the bicycle in contemporary Cuba and I won't go all the way into it But basically my journey in Cuba started in 2016 I studied abroad there for a year and the program director of the study abroad program had one Bicycle for all of the exchange students to have access to and no one else wanted to use it And so it became my bicycle. It's where I fell in love with bicycling and It's how I got to know Cuba initially I Off the bat was working with a few community leaders and and helped initiate a community project in Marienal Cuba and it really brought me to a couple of the leaders in the bike community as well my first school project in Cuba was working with Navy's And her partner Dailin at Velo Cuba Which was the first official with a private permit bike shop in Abana vieja in basically tourists downtown of Cuba and Navy's and Dailin had a team of primarily women mechanics and they they really were Some of the first advocates and and Navy's studying engineering and actually was was given a bicycle as a student during this special period and that's how her bicycle journey got started in Cuba was As Jennifer was describing basically with with little other transportation options the government shipped in over a million Chinese bicycles and mainly distributed them as sort of incentives in workplaces and school places for for Cubans to have access to Transportation to to get to those spaces and there'd be a whole family on one bicycle getting to work in school each day so I was happy to be able to document and work with Navy's and and Velo Cuba right off the bat as a student And that sort of brought me into the bike world in Cuba, and I got to know yacer Gonzales, which Is still one of the main bike advocates in Cuba He brought Massa critica critical mass to Havana starting in 2017 and started Cicleta and Cicleta has been doing bike tours primarily through Airbnb experience in the last few years and he's really driven to Bring the bicycle to the Cuban and not only to the tourists or the foreigner. He was noticing that right off the bat with critical mass There would be about one Cuban to every ten foreigners or tourists showing up to the rides and a lot of that has to do with much of the history in Cuba and foreigners familiarization with the rides and just you know associations to the bicycle So he's been working on how to bring the Cuban into those spaces how to as sort of the millennial generation as the Younger generation that were kids during the special period and don't have such a negative association to the bicycle how to culturally Reestablish the bicycle as a more positive symbol and a more radical symbol and tool of economic, you know Transportation instead of having such a negative stigma against the bicycle and having it represent the worst of the economic crisis So another leading figure right now in Cuba's bicycle scene is Gabby and she's sort of the emerging leader in this scene her background is in design and architecture and so she really looks at Bicycling and bicycle infrastructure with the place making a creative place making lens and looking at how to you know in in the Sentiment of critical mass how to take on the streets how to Create a space for for the bicycle for bike communities in the streets and what that looks like as far as Infrastructure and also design and and community building in that in that sense So there's a whole bunch of actions and initiatives that these three and others Adriana Felon are leading and A couple notable ones. I mean a lot of these are are Paralleled to many places as far as types of community rooted bike initiatives but Gabby and a group is getting started on doing an oral history project to document a Whole range of voices and try to collect as an archive as many interviews as possible about people's experiences on bicycles throughout the special period and then a couple others You know just through conversation I was telling Yaseit about all of the bike kitchen initiatives and and what components make up that type of community oriented Mechanic spaces and and and shop spaces and so he immediately started implementing pop-up DIT models for for their shop especially in the case of You know being able to teach Cubans to to repair their own bicycles teaching the skills making education available especially in a place where internet still very costly for local residents and You know there were a lot of courier and and relief services That emerged during the pandemic especially but even just the sort of environment in Cuba, you know a part of every Bike shop and and repair shop there's usually a designated person that is sort of the scavenger and goes all throughout town to find like a Missing part or just be able to to come up with some replacement part for for the bicycles that they're working with just because Bike parts are so limited and people that have to be very resourceful and very inventive with Parallel to to what people think about with cars in Cuba You know sculpting wooden pedals Coming up with replacement parts that You know are beyond What most people have to to use For imagining how to keep the bike moving and and on the road and so Another part of that the courier system was oriented towards towards helping seniors during the pandemic and that whole idea of accessibility to groceries and other Material resources, you know the courier systems in the US Like you go to the grocery store you drop it off at the house in Cuba It's a whole nother level of availability of food and and resources and going all throughout town to like get the eggs after a four-hour line in one part of time one part of town get the You know vegetables in another line in another part of town so the bicycle has proved really useful in this sense and it was also a an outlet for for me I was living in Cuba at the start of the pandemic and got to escape on my bicycle and live on my friend's mango farm and We kind of created a System in the farmlands outside of Matanzas and in a place called back when I agua which is about 80 miles from Havana and From her mango farm. We were making mango juice and and distributing mango juice and mangoes and and Chickens live and dead and like all sorts of things to to local farms in the area just because transportation was largely You know on pause or or or deterred from From Venezuela oil crisis and and COVID and a whole bunch of things So as far as moving forward with with these Leaders in the bike initiatives in Cuba. I'm going to be working with those three and others this summer As a part of my thesis. I am doing everything bike related trying to document a bit of contemporary associations to the bicycle in Cuba and and how to move forward with them and so this is a bit about what that process will look like I'll be doing production this summer and Along with guess it and Gabby We're going to be doing an urban photo gallery in conjunction with the oral history project to be documenting all types of riders in Havana and All types of utilities of the bicycle and then we're going to be working with some local artists and and iron smiths To be doing sculptural bike racks and that'll be a place-making component of of the project and so we're excited about that and then All of this the idea is that all of this will launch as a part of an arts and social innovation festival the fourth annual that I have been a part of Facilitating the last five years Just one year that that it didn't happen because of the pandemic So that will be in June of 23 if you can all make it out to Havana so here's contact information for the the people on the presentation and myself and Just wanted to you know show Everything that's happening all of the actions despite like the very difficult You know accessibility to to two bicycle parts and bicycles and and there are many people giving like Enormous efforts to keep things moving and and keep people actively biking on the island, but there's still so much room for for that to grow and you know, especially during the pandemic and and all of the ways that the economic Impact has deterred people from from being able to have their fullest access to to bicycling. So thank you Perhaps the person who's coming in via zoom can introduce themselves Hello. Hello. Yes I'm not having access to the video. I cannot Turn it on Could you enable Access to view I'm sorry. I am I will be sharing my part Could you enable To shoot the screen You're you're good we can hear you and everything so you're ready If you have a slide so you can share them with us also But you're you're good. Okay. Okay. Okay Welcome. Okay, so I am PhD candidate at the University of California Berkeley I will be sharing a research that I think conducting about Differences in bicycle bicycles in less American cities. So why is it important to consider gender differences? Historically gender differences have been overlooked in bicycle bicycle infrastructure planning And recent studies suggest that women are more risk-averse than men Therefore women's cycling rights often reflect cycling like safety levels of cities Also women tend to engage in more homes Scythian activities and change here that women often travel with a lot of our passengers Which could be a bird here cycling in less like I'm sorry My microphone Oh, could you turn off the microphone Kevin? I say that The microphone Room it's it's on and that should be turning off Okay, so I will continue so if Women and elderly cycling rates are significantly lower than Younger people. It means that cycling environments do not satisfy the viable people's requirements After identifying current problems cycling environment to be improved Okay, the second second and so why is it in America? Urbanization in Latin America began to increase Of the 20th century to reach nearly 80% of the population large migration of rural inhabitants I see that's the physical The laptop that Placed in the room And the microphone That should be turned off Could you somebody turn off the microphone? The room Hello, okay, finally Okay, I will continue and so Some pioneering cities like Bogota and Santiago have done major bicycle infrastructure Investment and the bicycle use is rapidly increasing in those places Despite the increase of bike lanes women continue to be a minor portion of total bicycle users Despite existing gender gap Latin America is still an understudied region Okay, so this is a comparison table of different regions in the world in terms of cycling at the lift There are Netherlands, Denmark, Japan and Germany the best countries in cycling mode share and Gender equality in cycling at the middle. There are the US UK and Australia the countries with lower cycling rates in greater gender gap in cycling at The right there are Latin American countries that are also characterized by lower cycling rights and greater gender gap in cycling The UK, the US, Australia and Latin American countries share similar characteristics Low rates of cycling lower proportion of female and elderly cyclists people like Occasionals people bike occasionally as recreation or exercise and there are higher rates of cyclists fatalities and injuries In contrast, in Netherlands, Denmark, Japan, Germany cycling rates are higher and A small or no differences among women and men and also among age groups in cycling People bike regularly as a habit in everyday life. Also, they are characterized by lower rates of cyclist fatalities and injuries This is a graph that shows how overall moisture of cycling is related to the proportion of cycle trips made by females We can see that moisture of cycling is positively correlated with the proportion of cycle trips made by females As moisture of cycling increases the proportion of cycle trips made by females increases So you can see here the group of these European countries, Netherlands, Denmark, Japan and Germany have higher moisture of cycling and also the proportion of cycle trips made by females are higher Nearly 50% or more than 50% And in terms of the US UK, Australia that are these yellow color groups They have a small portion of moisture of cycling and the proportion of cycle trips made by females are also low And in Latin America also we can see a lower moisture of cycling and lower proportion of cycle trips by females So Jan Garard argues in her book Cycling for Sustainable Cities One chapter of the book she wrote that a woman cycling rate is often an indicator of bicycle friendliness So if we provide greater protection for cyclists, the proportion of female cyclists will increase and ultimately overall cycling moisture will increase And these are the study areas that recovered Six metropolitan areas of Latin America starting from Mexico City followed by Bogota, Asuncion, Santiago, Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires These are the data sources which are mostly origin destination survey data All data except for the Asuncion survey were provided by local statistical or transportation institutions In the case of Asuncion I carried out the survey during the month of July 2018 to 2200 people with the students of National University of Asuncion This is the map of bike lane network of each city Red color indicates exclusive bike lanes and in Bogota, Santiago, Sao Paulo there are more exclusive bike lanes and in Asuncion exclusive bike lanes are very limited These maps are the streets classified according to the slope Slopes greater or equal to 6% are colored in magenta and slopes greater than 6% are in blue color Sao Paulo is a healist city followed by Bogota, Mexico and Santiago And Asuncion Buenos Aires are pretty mostly flat In the next several slides I will be showing travel behavior of people in the six cities in Latin America about the use of bicycle and other transport modes This is a proportion of total trips by gender in each city in all graphs blue is men and red is women for this entire presentation In some cities as Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo men travel more and in the rest of cities women travel more This is a total trips including all modes of transportation This is a proportion of work trips by gender of each city Work trips are all trips related to work or in the case of students it is related to studying In all cities except Asuncion men make the most work related trips In contrast in case of non work trips women make most part of the trips So in Santiago, Mexico City, Bogota, Buenos Aires women make considerably more non work trips This is a modern share of work trips in each city Motorized modes are on the left side transit car motorcycle taxi and non motorized modes are on the right side bicycle and walking In all the cities there are in this order So motorized modes are mostly used by men men travel more frequently by car motorcycle and bicycle and women travel more frequently by transit taxi and walking And this is a modern share of non work trips in each city The proportion of transit considerably decreases for non work trips compared to work trips We can see the previous slide work trips the amount of transit travels are much higher than non work trips So it means that people choose to go to closer destinations to avoid the use of transit And also it may represent a barrier for those who do not have a car In Bogota, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Santiago the number of walking trips increased So the number of walking trips increased compared to work trips So we can see work trips and these four non work trips and mainly women's work trips, non work trips increased These are the cities, these four cities, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Santiago were women make considerably more non work trips So the gender gap in non work trips were greater in these four cities According to the previous graph And these are the activity types of non work trips in each city, we have household care activities, social and recreational activities, health and shopping Shopping consists mainly grocery shopping So in general women do more household care, health and shopping trips In cities with greater gender gap in non work trips, these four cities, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Santiago This difference is greater in these three items shopping health and household care activities In conclusion, women tend to make more non work trips than men Particularly for household care, health and shopping activities and women travel more frequently in transit, taxi and walking which are sustainable transport modes While men travel more frequently by car, motorcycle and bicycle Men prefer to travel as drivers compared to women that prefer to be passengers or to walk And also women do a greater amount of household care, health and shopping trips It is not worthy that in cities with greater gender gap in non work trips, this difference is greater The gender stereotype might be creating these gender differences In the next slides I will be showing bicycle model share by gender in the 60s These are bicycle model shares with respect to total trips Cities with greater amount of bicycle infrastructure such as Bogota, Santiago have a higher rate of bicycle trips This is the proportion of female and male bicycle work trips We can see that cities with greater amount of bicycle infrastructure and lower slopes have less gender gap in work trips By a Buenos Aires for example have lower slopes and Santiago and Bogota have greater amount of bicycle network And this is the same as the previous but for non work trips In general non work bicycle trips tend to have less gender gap than work trips We can compare with work trips that have greater gender gap and in non work trips have less gender gap This might be because women simply make more non work trips than men based on the previous slide So in conclusion based on our data we confirm that men are considerably more likely to use bicycle than women in this region And cities with better cycling environments with greater amount of bicycle infrastructure and fewer slopes seem to have less gender gap in bicycle trips Not only built environment but topography slope is also important In the next slides I will be showing what are socioeconomic and physical environment factors that influence bicycling So in terms of socioeconomic factors we identify two groups of people who tend to never use a bicycle in this region First vulnerable people in terms of safety on public roads which are women and the elderly The second group consists of those with higher income and higher educational attainment And the people who are most likely to ride a bicycle are mostly men under 60 years old occupied in terms of employment Low income and less or equal to primary educational level so lower educational level And others socioeconomic factors are that elderly women are similarly and significantly less likely to use bicycle than elderly men Among the elderly gender gap is greater Also the gender gap among the elderly is even greater for non-work bike trips compared to work bike trips Men with a college level educational attainment are significantly less likely to use bicycle But for women this trend was not observed the bicycle image issue is detected only among men And among the physical environment factors the greater amount of bike lanes near home are positively associated with bicycle use For women this effect is greater so continuous bicycle network is even more important for women And greater road lengths and slopes are negatively associated with bicycle use so more road lengths and more slopes reduce bicycle use In conclusion, based on the lower cycling rates of women and elderly current cycling infrastructures seem not satisfying their safety requirements in this region And continuous low stress bike network protecting from vehicle traffic which provides a safe and comfortable transportation experience enabling women and elderly to get where they want to go is needed And since in Latin America higher income men are not using bicycle campaigns to improve the image of cycling and to promote cycling to build a cycling habit are critical And also promotions of e-bikes to overcome slopes are important since topography is a major obstacle for cyclists especially for women So that's all. Thank you very much for my presentation and for attending the presentation and I will stop sharing Okay, thank you Thank you so much again Cal Bike for your invitation And this important space, it's a pleasure to me and my team to be here My name is Lorena Romero, I hold a degree as a project manager and as an international business professional I'm the director of Visactiva Foundation and currently I'm working at IDIAPAC which is the Participation Institute of Bogota My work in this institute is being the leader of sustainable mobility I would like to talk a little bit about why I ride a bicycle I grew up in a family of professional cyclists going to races, we would fill our cars with bicycles when we went out to travel And when I went to college that was the only mode of transportation that would allow me to get where I was going on time And for years I had some complications, some heart problems and surgery that made me quit the training I was doing in skating Since I started riding bicycles it became not just a medicine for me but also a way of getting to know people, traveling and becoming familiar with my own city And in particular I wanted everybody but especially women to also start to ride bicycles In Bogota and in Colombia in general, just like me many of us had a very intimate experience with bicycles throughout our whole life We grew up knowing that our cyclists are the best in the world, we see our grandparents, parents, family and friends use bicycles for the cycling We go to the market, take our children to school, go to work, go to the university, go to the movies We see the peasants carrying their baskets, we ask for two missiles that they carry on their bicycles In every place and every moment we have a bicycle that tells the story with us We grew up knowing that our cyclists are the best in the world, we see our grandparents, our parents, the whole family, friends riding bicycles out on the ciclovillas Going shopping, taking the kids to school, biking to work, biking to college, out to the movies We see in the rural areas people bringing the harvests in on bicycles People ordering food, they get delivered on bicycles to their houses For every memorable moment in life, there's always a bicycle there to help tell the story In Colombia there's a very large grassroots movement around bicycling There's a large activist movement in Bogota that has started and been growing for quite a number of years Bogota is a city that was developed around the car, but since the 70s it's promoted bicycling in a very big way The two wheels are part of our culture, both sports and recreational, and mobility This important vice-activism that vice-activists are part of has become a part of the city's government Cuba is a part of, has achieved a lot of success with the government of the city Community initiatives have become public policy and have taken root And we have quite a few achievements, but at this moment I'd like to focus on just two First of all, it's currently 48 years old and it's 128 kilometers or 79 miles In the capital of my country, for almost 5 years, the main streets of the city are tonalized And they become a great space for bicycles The streets of 3 and 4 and 6 free traffic lanes become a recreational space With living and learning and mobility The ciclovia has been around in our capital city for 48 years There are 128 kilometers or 79 miles of a bicycle network throughout the city for the past 5 decades The main avenues of the city are closed off to cars and become a space for bicycles The streets that have 3 or 6 lanes are free of automobile traffic And are a space for recreation, community, learning and mobility Imagine for a moment, Columbus Avenue right here in San Francisco, free of motor vehicle traffic Full of bicycles, people skating, jogging or just out for a stroll with the family or friends 560 kilometers or 348 miles of extension Every Sunday, the main avenues throughout Bogota and also on holidays are closed off to automobiles And this space has become a very important part of the heritage of the local people of Bogota There's also a very large network of bicycle lanes throughout the city with 560 kilometers or 348 miles in the network The cities that accompany cyclists on the mountain peaks with national police and exercise service None of them have been born from administrations and no mayor They have been born from cyclists who have requested for their cultural dynamic and better programs To use alternative means of transport and to solve the lack of subway, a good public transport system The infrastructure, a vehicle that reduces traffic time There are initiatives that come from the activists in the city. These are mechanisms for engagement that are codified in law and they're called the local and district bicycle boards that have created programs like bike to school, bike to work, safe routes, the police and army patrol, the mountains surrounding the city to make them safe for cyclists among other programs and all these initiatives did not come from the government itself from any mayor but they were born out of the cyclists themselves that have been advocating for decades for a more dynamic cultural and better programs for using alternative means of transportation and to solve the lack of metro service to create a better public system of transportation and reduce transit times. In Colombia we've demonstrated that bicycle activism can become public policy and public policy can become bicycle activism. Of course political interest and the creation of public policy oversight by government entities for example the Bogota City Council has all helped create a city where there are more and more cyclists but it's really the community that has created this environment in Bogota. I joined the five percent of trips years ago that are taken on a bicycle in the city. It's now approximately eight percent of all trips that are taken on bicycle. Women are still a minority about twenty four point two percent compared to the seventy five point eight percent of men and I supported the creation of the second local bicycle board in the city. Just six years ago there were two local bicycle boards in Bogota with only ten people and total. These boards are a mechanism for community members to examine public policy around sustainable mobility and formulate initiatives from local to district levels. Now there are 18 boards throughout the city with about 80 people total as members. The city used to have 20 nonprofits that worked like BC Activa to incentivize bicycling and now there are 130. But BC Activa is still the only community radio station run by cyclists in the city and we want to continue telling the stories that make Bogota one of the bicycle capitals of the world. Bicycling is a big part of the future that is why BC Activa considers that bikes are an essential tool for our emancipation when we are biking we know we create culture and happiness. Thank you so much. I have a video a last video pastors of pastors for peace out of New York to help students and we focus on Oakland to help students go to medical school in Cuba and there has been a number of Oakland graduates who have actually gone to medical school and they have to promise to work in community base hospitals or clinics for like five years or so because their education is free. Also I have been to Cuba about three times and I am sad to hear that things are going down with respect to bicycling. I did never see women on bicycles. I only saw men or boys and but I did see a lot of curbside who fix your bicycles and could fix really anything so I hope that that is still going on in Cuba and I hope to see more bicycle advocates in Cuba. It's a great it's a beautiful place and more infrastructure because some of the roads are kind of torn up but thank you for your presentations. I really enjoyed it. Hey I don't know if this is working. Oh great. Hey I'm just curious. I actually didn't hear the last presentation on a meeting outside so apologies if you talked about this in your presentation but I was curious to know if you all had witnessed any of the process of developing bicycle lanes or bicycle infrastructure in the countries that you've visited or lived in and how that process how we might learn from that process in the states if that differs if you feel like there was a democratic process that also was more conducive to developing bicycle infrastructure. Bueno en Bogotá realmente durante muchos años han desarrollado infraestructura y ciclo rutas para los para los ciclistas durante muchos años. Bogotá has been developing the ciclovías the bicycle lanes for many years. Pero últimamente en los últimos años desde la administración pasada es decir unos seis años desde hace seis años se crea una infraestructura no segregada no solo para los ciclistas es decir no está como dentro de el anden el espacio de los peatones sino se le quita espacio al carro. But in the last six years starting with the last administration the government has started creating bicycle lanes that's not separate from the street it's not on the sidewalks rather it's in the street and coordinating off space taking space away from the cars. Para que el tráfico de los ciclistas sea mucho más fácil no tienes como que subir tener obstáculos y no simplemente vas en un recorrido mucho más práctico también para el ciclista y ahorra costos para la administración entonces hace que sean muchos más los espacios. And the fact that it's using the street makes it much easier for the cyclist there there's a lot more space for for bicycling it's more practical it also reduces cost. Y pues bueno realmente como ha sido tanto el aumento de ciclistas de cinco por ciento hace seis años ahora casi el doble algo más de ocho por ciento pues eso hace que realmente primero hayan muchos ciclistas pero los ciclistas demanden más vías. And the bicycling has increased from five percent six years ago to reaching almost twice that more than eight percent now so there are a lot more cyclists and there are a lot more people you bicyclists demanding more as well. Y segundo puede usarla puede ir por la mitad del carril y el carro debe esperar hasta que pueda sobrepasar. And there is also a new law bicycling law called the law 1811 that not only creates the bicycle lanes in the street but also gives bicycles the right of way so bicycles can use by law cars lanes and they have priority y pues eso hace que finalmente todas las vías sean para los ciclistas aunque no estén segregadas. And so all the streets now can be used by bicyclists they don't have to be segregated. I wanted to just speak to quickly about Bogota there was also the famous strong mayor that put in the yes well we're getting a motion that we need to wrap up so but I did want to say that the strong mayor made a big difference in creating the ciclovilla which I think speaks to your question because Cuba was you know they were under duress in the 90s but they also have a centralized and they also have a centralized government so they basically just saw a need and and did it and I think the bigger question that you maybe were asking is like in times of big crisis in how far do we need to have should we it would it behoove us to have a more central government which is interesting in our pseudo democracy because there's a tension going on there also about the individual the rights of the individual and the rights of society because there's the equity issue because seemingly rich people are more individual than people who are not rich right some pigs are more equal than others should we stop and you'll talk to us outside because we're getting to I guess we're running into the neck we started late so all right thank you so much


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I'm very excited and really so thrilled about this home world thing and I want to really, really thank you and congratulate you and ourselves. Well, I just, the first one I called was y'all. I told our friend, I think, called him at the press gathered, but we've made a real start and we're keeping the pledge that Madison made many years ago that the District of Columbia could govern itself and have its own representatives. And we got to work on the bill a little bit. I got Horsky doing it because I got a bunch of them to sign the petition. They won't vote for the bill unless we have a little protection on how they appraise government building. They have prayed that, you know, their local communities, people like Martha Griffiths of Michigan and John Dingell of Michigan, great liberal Democrats, but they wouldn't go with us. And I had to get right, Pat, when folks like that from Texas sign it on the ground that the council can transfer all the appraisals or property to the government building and make them carry the load instead of the homeowners and the business itself. So we got to put some provision in that'll give Congress a review of it if it's excessive or, you know. Can we, however, get the federal payment put on a form in, Mr. President? Well, I told it good when just to go and get a hold of Charlie Horsky and then let them take the things that they think that we're out of line on and see if we can take the initiative before they did. They reported their bill first, giving it back to Maryland. And we got to kill that one first. And then we got to get an amendment that our people can live with, catching back Horsky and them and beat them to it so that they can't make these arguments against it. And then we'll get to majority vote, but we've got a tough round. We're over the biggest hurdle over the first time it's ever been considered. It is so exciting because honestly, Phil and I used to go to little meetings about how to get home rules 20, over 20 years ago. You know, and all of us have worked here in the district. You know, I know you've seen it from the congressional side, but it's, you know, it's just so important for this time to get some sense of responsibility and some government of its own that I can't tell you how strong I am. Well, you're my sweet, and I appreciate it in here. Al was very, very helpful every time with Dr. ... Well, I know that you've been doing to him, and I hope we've been doing everything we can. He has. He's been a hundred and one. Hundred and one percent. One hundred and one percent. And it's ever we do anything. Oh, it was, it was very, very ... It's not everything we can do because I realize all the problems aren't settled now. You know, they're just beginning, but we just got to make this beginning, don't we? We have, and we've got it, and it's going. And I'm, I just dictated a little statement and said we've got an Emancipation Proclamation for the District of Columbia. This Congress will be remembered as a Congress that gives nations capital of freedom and their liberty. Because I am so terrific with you, with all that nature that the nation has had to be willing to do this on Congress. I told my statement, I dictated it. I came here 35 years ago, and I was a little boy, and I brought my bride here. A few years later, and my children were born here, and they were educated here. We've spent our life here, and we, this is just a small payment in kind for all the districts done for us and given us what their citizenship meant to us, and I'm going to see it through if I live. Well, I'm really thrilled, and anything we can do to help you in any way we sort want to do. Thank you, Kay. Bye.


We're not rapping, yeah. We be on fire, we be lily. It's a unique host, bitchy. Check it, check it, check it. This is your new host, this is your boy, E.C.E.O. And no money modes, by the way.  Man, hold up. Out and up and down to East Texas in the building. One more again, man. We got these boys in here today, man. Hey, yes, sir. Yeah, 3G slash. What's crackin'? It's going down. Yes, sir. Yeah, man. You see how I do it? I come in now. Now it's time. Man, say, man, Slash, man, what we doing here, man? Who is this guy? Big Savage. Big Savage, man. And you from Paris? Paris, Texas. Man, so let me ask you this, man. Like, you do music. Yes, sir. When did you decide to get in the game, man?  I've been rapping for a long time. Since I was like, well, we were like nine. I was rapping with him, really. We rapping with him, we rapping with him. We rapping with him, we rapping with him. We rapping with him, we rapping out of a TV and a radio with the tape, the 50 cent plan. We winning instrumentals off the game. If you know, you know, but that's what we was doing.  Man, so, I didn't mean to cut you off, but I do that sometime. All the niggas who don't like it turn the channel. But at the end of the day... Damn. Just press one of the buttons. Yeah, press one of the buttons. Yeah, press one of the buttons. Yeah, press one of the buttons. But no, it's our love. But it's just, it's an honor and a pleasure to be sitting in front of Auguste's panel like I got here today. You know what I'm saying? Some of the most pristine rappers, managing, label mates, all that. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. So, you know, it's just good to have some good business people in the building. Black people working together is some serious for me. So when I see everybody in here that look like me, man, that's the color like me, man. It's something for your boy. You know what I'm saying? So how did you guys come up with even working together? Shit, that's been my little nigga. You know what I'm saying?  I didn't even know Kuz was in high school. You know what I'm saying?  Like, you know what I'm saying? I didn't know Kuz was in high school. He used to pull up to the spot. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying?  That's all.    I say, nigga, you in school. Man. You know what I'm saying? That's hard. We was just, you know what I'm saying?    Niggas don't. Well, you're going to jail.  Actually, that cuts the whole, you know, it's over. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You come out here and we cool a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.  Kuz, I knock on the door. I was like, I ain't Kuz. I got to tell myself here in the bar, I signed for a phone. Wow.  You know what I'm saying?   That's hard because you don't find niggas like that. Nah, niggas ain't doing that. Bro, that's dope. I wouldn't have did that. Man, I would have said, I would have said, hey, look, look, I would have been like, hey, Kuz, catch me. You know what I'm saying? What I get? Nah, really. I want to hear your thoughts on why you would even, what is it? Nigga, you that solid? Nah, just a lot of people. I can't even lie. A lot of people, like, take their own leave when they young, but I always like being, as a kid, I feel like as a young nigga, you kind of got to be a follower because you got to see how things operate and what's really real. You can't just take for what they tell you, but you know what's real and what's right and wrong.  Why you ain't sendin' it? You know what I'm sayin'? So shit, niggas turn their phone down, turn it. No, it's a league. No, you're partin' the guy that you know what I'm sayin'. Well, you know, that's the very reason he really can't come up. That nigga's gonna be a petty hustler for a long time. For a long time. You know what I'm sayin'? He's gonna definitely be a petty, petty hustler. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know? So when you look at, like, some of the people that come out to these Texas areas, shout out to Smoothie Poppy, shout out to who else are missing? Roe Summer, who else are missing? Shit. MTV Randy. OK. My little pine-a-seats, he rappin'. I'm hopin', hopin', hopin', hopin', hopin', he drop so bad. What's, what's stopping him?  He really ain't takin' it. He don't know what he, you know what I'm sayin'? You know I could just somebody in the music town like, hey bro, that's, but they like, oh, I'm goin' through life in this and that.  I tell them all the time like, bro, that's hard, like, Like, I don't really know him like that. I know him from back in the day I got out. He got out, said everything, I'm like, damn, why I remember him from, I rap, we show him his rap, so he was doing this stuff, I'm like, bro.  I really, I can't think right now, I don't want nobody to feel like I'm, but I got it.  I knew it, I've seen these times, but I'm gonna get in trouble. No, I get it, man. Like, you can't really think of everybody. I keep thinking about Josie Will Jr. over there, man. He's Texas, man, like, it's a cat to beat. Say his name again. Josie Will Jr., he be doing that. He was on there one project. Yeah, yeah, but he definitely hard, he just, He just stopped there. I don't know, we've been looking for him. I always try to keep his brand alive, because at the end of the day, he hard, you know what I'm saying? It's certain months hard, like you just was explaining, but you be wanting to hear more of him. They got music too, they just don't really push it like that. Listen to that song every day. He got a song I listen to it all the time, like over my favorite rappers. I'm like, yeah, that's how I know you hard. When somebody jam you regularly, that's how you know you hard. That's real. So, what about you, man? I mean, you got songs with so many different people, man. Like, let me go and get back on you for a minute. Let me get him real, yeah, fresh right there, bam. But let me go on and just say, man, like you work with so many different known artists, you know, from Yeller and all up, man. What gives you the motivation to keep going in this rap stuff, man? Is it really paying off? Is Niggas really making any money off this rap? Let's be real. Is Niggas really making money? I'm hard with this.  If you're not getting booked weekly, you ain't making no money. But then you got a reputation, you know, back in the day, we used to hustle, right?   It's an extra, it's an extra on top of, it's ways to make money besides just rap. You know what, and I was thinking about that because a lot of times when you rap now, it's like, you know, y'all really, I really done figured it out. Cause back in the days when you hustle, you know, the girls used to love the hustlers, right? Now I think that the girls love and harass, hush Britney, she say still do, but girl, I think they must be something about this rap, these girls, cause usually dudes do stuff for girls. I'm being real.   But the reason they rapping gotta be for the girl, what you, cause you rapping now, is you rapping for the girls?  I don't even think it's for the girls, bro.  Nah, they ain't gonna be the ones that we want here. Nigga please. They don't want a rapper. They really don't, bro. Hey, they really don't, man. They like, you know what I'm saying?  So they don't, you know what I'm saying? Oh man. I don't know. Like nigga, I made some bread. I done made some money off music. You know what I'm saying? A lot of people have it. And a lot of people have it. You one of the only ones, you know what I'm saying? Cause you a real hustler though.  I'll book myself. Most niggas ain't thinking on that level. They waiting on the manager and they don't know. Man, a lot of people ain't got the money to back their thoughts. You know what I'm saying? A lot of niggas ain't really, really, they fear failure. A lot of people ain't willing to take that chance. You know what I'm saying? That's right. That's fear. Put the money up. Like just far as like, oh I'ma just go book a show over here.  And you know what I'm saying? So it's just like, I'ma sit around and wait to get booked.  You know what I mean? Like even if you gotta go put somebody hot on your fly, just to, you know what I'm saying? Make the money back. I think you really, like I said again, you're not, you're different. Cause I don't think it's many like you. I think these cats is not booking theyself, especially unless they feel like there's a way that they can, you know, basically do it through a manager, a promoter, the type of dude is gonna take control of the manager and the promoter. And I seen that on you early when I first met you. I'm being, and I heard that about you before I even met you. That's crazy. That mean you really a hustler when you, when people think of you that way. You know what I'm saying?  That tell me already that's a leader. That's a leader, bro. I mean, I was popular before music though. Like, you know what I'm saying?  Just out being like a street nigga. Like, you know what I'm saying? I always was a lit nigga. Like I would never know.  You know what I'm saying? So I threw parties before. Man, wait a minute. I'm not getting you to say that slas.  I didn't say that. Well, how did you say it? You said you wasn't really no corny. But you said he did different things. I said I was always a lit nigga.  What? If you ain't lit, there ain't no in between. You see the lit, yeah. It's okay. You see that? I was just saying. I didn't know I was being like, you know what I'm saying? Like a regular nigga don't got a chance. You know the regular nigga is not. Look, really, if you don't sell dope, is he gonna be okay? I didn't say that. I never said that. No, no, no, she said look. I never said that. No. I didn't know a nigga that was lit.   It's just different levels of being lit. Motion is motion, bro. Like, you know what I'm saying? I ain't saying just because I was hustling. Like, I done had a job before. How long? Man, I had a job. I had a job. I worked at 2012. I worked for like. Fine, I'm worried about it. You remember? I remember. It was a long time ago. I worked there. It was a decade. I worked though. He said I worked though. I went to work. I worked for like four months. Oh, that was hard. My wife's smiling like this. I can well too. I can well too. Oh, you can well? Yeah, I can well. Who told you how to well? My cousin. At where his grudge. No, he took me to the, he took me to the, he put up on me one day. This was in 11. Might've been 12.  I can teach you how to well. He taught me like 45 minutes. Damn. And you know people going to school for that, right? They don't need, they don't got to. You don't have to take their test anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I worked, I worked at a canvas suit. You don't even see real, at least he's out with a canvas suit. I did. That's the place to be in. I worked at a canvas suit. I'm gonna take your hour over there. When I was working. Let's be real. Shit, I don't know. Probably like $12 or something. That's not bad. That's not bad. That's bad. That's not bad. During that time? Yeah, yeah. I was fine. What happened? I think I'll make it $8.00 and $20. Oh, yeah. $8.25. I got a call eating some candy on the floor. Oh, you eating the candies? That's the candy they was processing? Nah, it was at the vending machine.  I was online. Well, that's no reason to fire you though. They said you ain't supposed to be doing it. Eating? Can't. Was you on break? Nah. Well. Yeah. Bro, I can't go no job like that. If I can't do that one too, bro, I'm not gonna stay here. That's why you keep getting fired. Yeah. They don't. I don't think this is how it works. I'm gonna tell you why I say that. Because listen, when you die, what they gonna do? Replace you. So I'm gonna do it. I want to until they replace me. You know? They gonna replace you anyway? Bro, listen, I'm gonna be honest with you, man. Y'all gonna quit playing on these folk jobs. Listen, hold on, listen, I'm gonna tell you something.  I'm gonna tell you why I say this, bro. You gotta understand their philosophy of the story. If you own a business, your goal is to get rich, right? Yeah. And what's his goal as workers? He's gonna work every single day. They go to work. That's how he get rich, though. He get rich out of, he's sitting at home, get rich out of us, gonna work every single day for him. But he put his money up. But listen, though, listen to what I'm telling you.   That's how I work when I put my money up. Exactly, that's how I feel. Man, man, I put my money up, bro. I put myself up. You see what I'm saying? That's why you don't how I do, just really just be sitting in the car, rapping.  You not the type of person that goes out.  I see why they say that, bro. Watch how you, watch how they act when it's coming.  Cause you could just go get, he gonna lose a million dollars.  He gonna lose a million dollars.  I'm losing nothing. He got one of them craze, that's about 10,000. I'm losing nothing. I'm losing nothing. For doing what I'm doing.  You know what, shout out, if y'all got a company, just take a good look at this guy. This is what you gotta deal with? Bro, listen, for six months, you gotta deal with me. Oh, what's going on in six months? There's no one to be up, man. We're running out of no one. Oh, you're not working no more at the six months?  What? After six months, I'm good. Where you going? I ain't going nowhere. You gonna see me? I'm still sitting here on the seat, but I ain't going nowhere. No more work, ever. I'm not, I'm not working. I don't know if I want it. Man, what did you do? Bro, you're gonna be happy to hear. What the? You're gonna be happy to hear what? Just know, just wait. What did you? You're gonna be happy to hear. Yo, you're gonna be big. It's about good, I can't, for real. Wow. Dang. You know what? You know what, man, I've been waiting on a break like this. I know. Bro, you listen. I'm gonna tell you what I said in the cut. They was like, bro, man, when I told y'all we was going somewhere, I like, bro, the only way this show gonna really blow up, I gotta blow up.  Yeah, so everybody's gonna blow it together. So you already got a point. Yeah. I already know this. Wow. I've been thinking this, you gotta keep it together. Yeah. And how long do you see me? Watch this. How long do you see me? Not much. Thank you. The boss is tough. That's just what's supposed to go down. We'll be big in just a few seconds. Just watch this, bro.  I don't know what's going on. Right. You're right. I gotta say, we feel it go all the way. I hope, we don't go to the, no, I don't want to. Nah, we're going to what? Everything, everything, listen, listen. Everything is legal. Well, hey, we're gonna get back into the show because I can't. I respect everybody. I'm gonna wait and see what happens. I just don't want to get caught up in nothing. I don't know nothing about what's going on. You're gonna have to get caught up in it. You're gonna have to get caught up in it. I don't know what's going on. You're gonna have to get caught up in it when I do this. You're gonna have to get caught up in it. Let's talk about the music, man. You and Rosama just did a song together. What's it called? What's it called? Action Jackson.  What made you want to do Action Jackson? I just wanted to be different. And I just like, man, I'm gonna take this song seriously and really structure it. So I came up with the Action Jackson out there, old movie, Action Jackson. Yeah, so Action Jackson, is this something, who produced it? 88. 88. 88? Mm-hmm. You hear in Dallas? Yeah. That's my nigga. He would just say it all the night. Yeah, that's my boy. That's my boy. Hey, Dave, you want to be with DJ Ace? He showed me love, like, it's off the first meet. Like, you can do this, you can do that, give him the game. Talking more than recording. Is that what's up, Doc? Is that his tag? I don't think so. I know, he just engineered, like, he the main person I work with on it. I got some beats for him. I got some beats from him, too, coming, but I ain't, he didn't produce the actual beat. Man, that boy's sick. What's up, Doc? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was in the beat. That was in the beat. That was in the beat. Yeah, yeah, yeah.   Right now, I don't think it's really smart to drop a whole. Well, there we are. My whole project. Because singles, it's the attention span, and really, like, singles is what is, you just keep dropping them, keep dropping them here.  The mid-tapes, people with the attention span long enough to do that. I feel like, I feel like, I feel like tapes is tight too much, take too much time. It's really, it's pointless right now. Especially if you like, say, you can't drop a project and sell like 10,000 copies or something like that, I think it would be pointless and dropping a, like, even for me, like, I wouldn't, like, if I knew what I knew now, like, I wouldn't have did that back then, you know what I'm saying?  And it kinda slowed my process down because I was trying to hide music instead of just dropping some monthly. Wow. Yeah. Well, hey man, you know what? I think tapes is, if you don't have a fan base for it, it's just wasted projects. I think people don't work enough. You talking about tapes or? I think people don't work enough period. I think it's just so much that you have to do to keep yourself relevant and end of people's, you know, if you talented, I think you should be out there. I think people should see you. What you had when going one while, then you slowed down again.  I'm being honest, I want to talk about it. Damn. I'm being honest. The only nigga that I see consistent is the bloggers, bro. Yeah. And that's true. I talk a little peel talk every day consistently. You know what I'm saying? I'm being real. It's hard to stay focused and consistent. You dope. Yeah, I know.   Like not, not, not dropping the music every day, but dropping. I get exactly, I know exactly what you're saying. You know how you gotta work.  Yeah.  Yeah, go ahead and tell him. You going to jail.  And that's the thing.  It's not people, it's not people that's getting slowed down.  It's not that people are slowing down.    But somebody going to try to rob you. So I'm going to happen, bro. It's going to happen. It's going to happen. There's no way you could be both though. You can't. You know what I'm saying?  You don't care about like you conducting business.  Make a real money. You make a real money.   You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I think with the way you do it, it's a workaround. Even though you don't know it, you might be doing a show or pushing a show or but creating something in the city to happen. Some people don't have that advantage. I'm just saying to guys who really not able to do the hustle like you and know how to put a show together, come up with the concept of dealing with promoters. That's live for you. And for anybody that's working with you. But for a dude who ain't really got that advantage, who just at the house always making music, he didn't get up and do something on that internet cause he ain't got no other choice. Yeah, that was a big flaw for me.  It's all entertainment and I'm not no entertainer. Like I make music, but I'm not no, like everything on the internet is fake. And that's the thing. It's hard for me. I don't do that, dawg. Don't do that, bro. Nah, I'm just, I'm not talking about you, dawg.  It's damn the cap. Like mostly everything you see is cap. Not everything. Mostly. Mostly. I know why you can be positive. And that's my thing. 90% of my females.  Be cap. Like, you know, people cap their lifestyle up on the internet.  Bro, do you know what I mean? I'm glad you said it, bro. I'm glad you said it, bro. I'm glad you said it, bro. I'm glad you said it, bro. I'm glad you said it, bro. I'm glad you said it, bro. I'm glad you said it, bro. Bro, I can go, I can go rent out a Rolls Royce or G-Wagon every single week and say new car alert. You know what I'm saying? As long as I make it. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. But that's not every buy. I said 90% though. I'm telling him, bro, I'm telling him why I say this. Cause it be a girl, like it be a girl that Facebook saying, I'll be reading the comment.  Like what does that mean? They told you that? No, no, it wasn't me. They be using the comments. Like they be saying, stop DMing me.   It's like a picture is worth a thousand words and all they need to know how to do is for 30 seconds, make this video look like I'm rich. I can do it, I can do it.  They don't pick the money up. Exactly. You know what I'm saying? I can do it, but it's just like, I gotta come home. I gotta go home. I don't think he's gonna ask about that. And then he goes right up into that Bentley. And that's the thing, I'm awkward in those type of situations. For me, I just feel like there is real, like that there's been millions of followers in the dead boat, bro. It's a way to have a million followers and be dead broke.  That's gonna be fake followers. Nah, all them real followers, they just ain't real money. Followers are money or nothing. But it does equate to some of us. They don't know how to deal with monetization and dealing with the internet. They still ain't getting no hell, a lot of money. A lot of money though. But they can. You got it on what platform? I said Instagram. Just Instagram, okay. Yeah, Instagram, yeah. But if you go to Facebook or YouTube, there's ways to get money if you know how, the business side. If you know how, but who know the business side? Who know that shit? I don't know. I just figured out the business side. Last year. Okay, but I'm telling you, certain people that do know it. It's certain ones who doing this, we probably don't know it. It's 10% that do know it. Yeah, that's right. And it's somebody behind them kids, bro. They can mark it easy. Kids are easier to mark it. You think them kids thought of it? Yes, I'm about to put this in. Nah, they just a face. They're paying for it. Like I say, bro, images, everything. Like, y'all really thought black people own Popeyes. I never knew who owned Popeyes. It's some white folks, bro. You know white people. Nah, but they gonna put a black woman cooking.  If it was a white woman on the commercial, we wouldn't buy their chicken, bro. They can't season chicken. You feel me? They can't season it. Would you buy Popeyes if it was a white woman? Nah, it'll be, it'll be kinda loud.  I ain't got your mind. Yeah, we ever want that one white woman place to help keep cooking? Where? Where? Where white woman? Yeah, he said, where? I'm trying to go see. Yeah. Where? Like in the one now. Like in the one now. I ain't a boy with me. But we got season, though. Man, let's get in this music cause y'all been trippin' me out today. I got me a show out of it. I got me a show out of it.  What? Damn. See what I'm sayin'? It does, but it just be, cause, hey. I think it does, man. It does, man. It does, man. It does. No, no. It ain't that, bro. No, it's good. I'll do that. I'm a type person. I'm a type person.  You gotta be bored.  No, it was like, bro. It was like, y'all bring the value down about rock culture. That's how I look at it. I'm like, bring it down, at least hold y'all set to something. Like, they don't do it down by nothing. Like, I'm makin' our kids look bad.  Then they go, hey, please, man. No, don't. Just do better. I'm grown up like this. Let's just be real. You know what I'm sayin'? We don't have to open up. No, let's just, come on. Let's have a sex to open up. Let's open up. I mean, like, you have been through some stuff lately. You're not gonna go all the way into it. No, it's not about what I'm doin'. It's what I'm readin'. Still, it's what you mind say. But I'm readin' you readin' about what you goin' through. No, it's not. Bro, I read all the comments. I read all the comments. It pertains to you. No, no, no. I read it. Like, whatever it is, I read the comments. Cause I be tryin' to see why they be, why they be thinkin' negative all the time. Like, if you're gonna post something on the internet, it's gonna straight negative first.  I'm like, bro, why do y'all even, I think, why do y'all do this?  And then when I talk about it, they be like, okay, big bro, I'm sorry.  Well, I can show you my deal there.    Big Savage in the house, man. Boss talkin' on the water. Let's go. Let's get it. Big Savage. Yeah. Chapin' and rappin' and takin' a week.  I get a load in the field. I don't know how the year. Niggas merge my land and we crash. K-Post up on blocks. Soon as we play with this life, I'm a snatch. Popped, really can't tell me squad. I was raised in the streets and they made me a sandwich. Let's go. I hate to chat with a pension.  Give him a peg and then give me a peg. Bet I can get it going fanciest. I make the peg flip like Jim Natchez. Come shot, I got dropin' the plastic.  He say that he still make him stand on it. Put him up like a blip in the sky. I'm a real chap, nigga. And I stand on it, nigga. I phone jump like Jop. I'ma keep it right, gun life. Future I'm killin' nigga, blink nigga, all life, fries.  I see when he out, nigga, fry. I'ma not dirty, I'm dirty, I swear to God. You know that I got the peace in the bank. I know these both niggas leechin' in life and he tried me and I'ma put three in his head. I ain't no very nice, they finger fuckin' the 30. I'm tryin' to get three niggas wet. Young niggas fight and I tell them to go do them dirty. Put five, five, six, niggas in. I'm gettin' on long stop, man. Stop, man. Big seven. Let's talk about the one. Big seven. Big seven. That's how I know it down for a nudge, you know? He's Texas, stand up, big seven. Just shut that down. Stop playin'. That's how I go, nigga.  For real. What's smoother than the groove, man? You know what the fuckin' was, man. It's tough, man. I had a good time on that, man, for real, man. So how long you been gettin' in? How did it make you feel, bro, when you get on it like that?  You know, I'm a real fan of just flow. I ain't gon' lie, man. I enjoy it, man. I mean, the energy right, the energy right, nigga. I can't wait, nigga. Every time you drop some tag, you boy, you in it, man. Let me feel it, man. Let me feel it, man. Go follow my nigga on IG, man. What's your handle? Big seven is 10-7 on Instagram. Spotify, R.D., R-Platforms, R.D., Big Seven. That's hard, man. Top three artists of all time did or alive? Top three artists did or alive? Any genre? Kodak, my favorite rapper, man. That's number one. I just recently, little baby, just came and took by stormy number two. Number two, number three? Of all time. Yeah. Yeah. Because, well, I'ma go back to my old favorite rapper. 50 Cent used to be my favorite rapper. Wow, so that's your number three? Yeah. Cause it kinda, nah, I can't, I can't leave Webe out of there. No, well, you gotta figure that, bro. I'ma put Webe right there, then. Okay. Yeah, you from the south, I feel you. Yeah, yeah, for sure. You made me smile a little bit. Nah, that's his time. Yeah, Webe, Boostin, Webe Boostin, number three, that's him. Webe, webe kinda, got cuckoo for cuckoo. Yeah, but back to you. What you mean, dawg, don't do that, bro. You from the south, bro. Don't do none of that playin'. Webe, webe, webe, webe, webe, webe, webe. Webe, webe, webe, webe, webe, webe, webe, webe. You playin', bro. You playin', bro. Savage like two. Savage like two is like one of the hardest album. I told it, people rubbed the hardest. Huh? I told it, people rubbed the hardest. Damn. Damn. They do. Bro, Savage like two. Savage like two. It was probably the hardest thing. Bro, don't think about that. I see it. I'ma take your hardest in Savage like two. Get rich with that turn. Ply's real testin'. Hey, bro. That's the hardest. It wasn't harder than Savage like two, though, in the museum.  It was.   You listen to that too much of that real testin'. Man, your people like that. I just crazy, man, I was going down the highway. I used to listen to the real testin' the whole time, the whole time. It ain't hard to make real testin', bro. Now listen to the road. You just in that. Savage like two? Yeah, Savage like two was definitely like runnin' up. It was crazy. Man, hold up, man. Hey, man, listen, man, 3G slash, man. What's goin' on, man? You comin' through here doin' your thing, man. Big Savage, y'all doin' your thing, man. I can't wait to see what will happen next, bro. It's up. I'm gonna be watchin', man. Thank you guys for comin' on the show, man.  Stop playin', say, man. Listen, man, I'm gonna be watchin', bro. I ever said I ain't gonna stop. Man, I'm gonna be watchin', man. It's been another great segment, man.  Not the middle man. It's out.


Hello and welcome to MIPS TV and with me as always is Bob Cook who's bringing us one of his really exciting book reviews and in this review, we're going to go to a Kind of place that isn't usual for therapy. It's it's not usual to have Therapy for something as specific as what this book covers and it's called the overweight Patients and effectively it's a TA model for dealing with Obesity and people who effectively from what we're saying, you know as a preamble before we switch to record around Are eating their emotions Bob? Yeah, it's a it's an interesting Model transaction answers anyway But it can be used to help people look at their eating challenges their disorders in this case in this book obesity issues and Parent adult child, which is a major psychological model With regards to transaction analysis is what she uses and she's a TA therapist to age TA trainer, I think And she uses the ideas of the pack model and especially the ideas of the internalized parent or The internalized parental programming and the child decisions with that As looking for the underlining issues if you like that make up the obese or The person that's got challenging issues around eating And how to go forward from that Yeah, so from from just all put those opening remarks Bob. It sounds to me like what's being proposed here is that The the the eating issues come from the past and are directed by kind of parental injunctions I'll give you an example in my way of understanding it Well, I I'm 61 now when I grew up as a kind of what? Second World War, baby. So so to speak bit late, but second World War, baby I was told that you know always eat always eat everything because you know rationing and And then later on always eat everything because we're starving children in Africa, which of course there are but Eating more food than you need here Really doesn't have any indication or help people in another country really does it? So as those are kind of Parental injunctions that that people have who have have difficulty with food Yeah, and Kathy Leitch goes into that she talks about What she calls the internalized parenting messages So those sort of commands that you've just put there, you know, exactly, right, you know I remember in my childhood and I am 68 so That generation my mother would say invariably almost every meal Look, if you're gonna leave any chips on your plate Make sure you don't do this because you've got to eat it all up because just think of all the people starving in Biafra Then yeah, and I I was really Quite scared of going against that so I made sure I jolly where I made sure that I At every morsel on the plate. Yes You know go forward a bit if you if I was a person who then I grew up, you know, obviously grew up and I carried those commands through without any discrimination discrimination so that I religiously made sure I Made sure every time I ate a meal that I ate every morsel on the plate You can start to see some of the psychological issues Under, you know underneath the the surface around overweight problems Yeah, and you know, there's a lot that you know if you if you're you know If you're a young person certainly people of our age and you were seeing and you know by no means Am I ridiculing people are starving in the world? It's a terrible thing But the idea that the by not eating the food. You're somehow contributing to it That somehow this is your fault, which is sometimes how the messages certainly came down in our family Yeah, you just ate until you until he flipping well exploded in some cases Yeah, and to leave anything behind was was almost shameful That's right. And of course there's a name guilt So you'd you know, you didn't want to feel guilty So you you carried on eating now if you carried that out throughout your life You can understand why people put on weight. Yeah from that perspective So it's just not those sorts of messages. I was just thinking one of the reasons I like this book Is this quite a few case studies of her work with people who've got obesity issues or a read, you know Reading issues if you like and I was just thinking of one of them I think the person was called Allison it might might be wrong But one of the internalized messages she got in her parenting Was What you've got you won't eat anything else until you've eaten up your pudding in other words Yes, you have to make sure she got all her pudding before she could have any afters. Yes, you're to earn you earn your desert Yeah, yeah Yeah, so it's like again. It's guilt again, but she says what happened was that she carried on with the same Pattern and the parental messages were so severe that she wasn't able to in ta language find a robust adult To discriminate with those messages. So she acted out As if she was still in the past. Yeah Yeah, it's it's it's all it's almost like a culinary transference, isn't it where you're where you're When you're eating, you're not actually eating in the here and now You're eating as you would a child and Enjoying that and of course that goes for speed of eating you as well Speed of eating now in my own history We take a just example going away from this book about but the theme of this book is that the past informs the present, of course you know, I grew up when There was hardly any food around and so I had to eat very fast to get what food there was Yeah, yeah Yeah, I mean we know that once that happens the ball when people eat very quickly the the brain adapts to that and Doesn't have any kind of shut-off Mechanism, it's been well known for years that the people who eat quickly can have a lot of difficulty with With weight issues because the brains keeps sending messages saying you're hungry Yeah, so that doesn't so in this book is two or three case studies talking about the dominant parenting In other words a dominant parent message, I don't mean the parenting style I mean a dominant parent message that the person obeys through fear or guilt and carries on doing that Like a default system Even though she may know or he may know that it doesn't help her in terms of Health problems keeping him or herself slim or whichever way we look at this So what Kathy leached us is does an inquiry of questions to find out What was the parenting style and the messages that the mother father or significant others passed on to the person that they may still be obeying and Once they've got that information they can start doing a Decontamination or or getting a situation where the adult can come stronger To be able to Change their response So in TA some of the techniques you might use will be that you might actually do a parent interview And that's what that would mean and she talks about this in a book There's a whole chapter on the parent interview is that you would actually talk to the mother father or significant ever and Just talk about how come They were passing these messages on and where it comes from and in your case the way you just talked about that from the war Or wherever it was so we understand where it comes from and to start Having this conversation with the parents so that the child or adult listening on can start separating out To a different time zone. Yeah, I'm just I'm just thinking about how I observe You know parents and food with the children, you know Sometimes food's given to a child as a distraction to shut them up. You know, you know child's going, you know So once in attention from the parent instead of the parent giving of themselves they give them a chocolate bar Correct. So there's that that's the process and she talks a lot about that She also talks about another technique, which is two chair technique Where the child talks to the parent is again It's the child talking to the parent To get a dialogue going so that the person listening on can separate out between present and past Yeah So that's another nice chapter in the book And another further chapter book is about the child response and the child's decisions to this type of parenting And their feelings So another theoretical approach in this book is that we eat our feelings in other words We repress our feelings by eating and push them away Yes, and in in very extreme cases. It's said that bulimia Is is people swallowing their feelings swallowing their emotions the the acts of overeating and then And then making oneself sick Is is an extreme case of that Is it's absolutely fascinating and and I'm minded to think bob the the few years ago Though, you know, there's lots of organizations that run diet clubs and things like that But there was one who used ta as a basis of Healthy Yeah He ran groups So you had to so you went along and got some education, but yours had to be part of a group Use ta model parent adult child to understand Reasons why people ate and to help people separate our path from presence And it was very successful and I still think it's running that group lighter for life With ta groups. Yeah. Yeah, it is it is really interesting and you know in the west How we have a relationship With food, which is sometimes quite quite unhealthy and quite unhelpful So beauty about this model just far and through the idea is you can get a more resilient adult Yeah, that's number one. Secondly that the person can separate out past and present So they are able to understand what's happening and thirdly and then To actually start expressing the emotions that were repressed So that the adult could be more into charge And it's a really good model for understanding the different parts of the self that are battle battling with each other And food becomes the sort of Way we we repress our emotions or parts of ourself So it's a really good model for understanding what's happening internally and the causes Of why we find it hard or difficult to stop eating Yeah, it really is interesting. I'm I'm also reminded of a book we reviewed Which you find in this playlist called an evil cradling About Brian Keenan who was an Irish national Who was held hostage in Baruch for a number of years? And I seem to remember he was he was interviewed And the interviewer offered him some chocolate and he said no, that's just for children And it always it was something that struck me for a long as someone who loves chocolate It struck me for a long time That really adult voice that came from him and often wondered if that was part of his Part part of his experience. I mean rather than an evil cradling part of his experience of survival to try and be in that adult place And anything else was seen as a bit of a literally a luxury and he said no, it's for children And the the person was interviewing him Said he said he said it quite quite quite not aggressively but very firmly And maybe you need ta because ta developmental model where you would say that type of response. Yeah, yeah Child adult parents. So I really do suggest people read this book Not only for therapists to be to have an understanding of a model to look at the underlying causes Which drive the phenomena, but also um Just for a general lead. It's really really really interesting. I think So the book is called um, the overweight patient the author just remind me bob is Kath leech Kathy Yeah, Kathy leech. Yeah, Kathy leech. We'll put um, I'll put a link in the comments bar Um, so you can have a look and inspect the book as always bob Um, doesn't get paid for book reviews. We have to take this on on youtube now Um, does it for the love of it and we'll we'll see you in the next book review. So bob cook. Thank you very much


What's up everyone take down here welcome back to another video today. I'm gonna be sharing with you my PlayStation now picks Let's get right into this So as you guys know, I am kind of a heavy gamer and months ago I decided to finally get a one-year subscription to PlayStation now and honestly, I have not regretted it They just have so many games on there and ones that have never played from back on the PlayStation 2 and 3 But also monthly they add new games some of them are only limited time games So new games that might have came out within the last year are usually added monthly And some are permanently on there and they're adding a lot more that you can download to your console And if you game share with somebody you can share with a friend So for me, I decided to make this video and share what my top picks are for PlayStation now But this is going to continue to change. Of course, they're adding more and more games all the time And there's some games on there that I have probably yet to even discover that I think are going to be a blast When I get around to playing them So today is just the games that I have already played and started up first is Rocket League It was released in 2015 and it is basically soccer, but with rockets powered cars You can have up to four players per team It's honestly a lot of fun to play with friends and it is also an easy and fun platinum to get It honestly only took about three weeks of grinding out and only playing Rocket League to be able to get the platinum trophy again It was a lot of fun Definitely one that I honestly would recommend because you can definitely have a lot of fun Just playing with friends and just fooling around.  Next up is payday 2 It was originally released in 2013, but eventually it came out on the PlayStation 4 Now I already had owned this version I got it on sale a while back maybe two years ago now before I even had PlayStation now But I realized it is part of PlayStation now so I wanted to add it on my list for this game here You can perform heists alone or with up to three teammates Which is a lot of fun because as you guys know, I absolutely love heists There is lots of customization options for your character and also weapons whenever you're going into a heist You can plan out what you're gonna be bringing with you and the game also Let's you strategize whenever it comes to planning your heist So before you even go into the heist if you're playing with a friend and you have a mic You can kind of discuss and plan out how you're going to be doing the heist Which makes it way more interesting instead of just going into a heist and winging it and doing exactly like they say Usually they say either go in silence or go in with a bang and you get to decide exactly how you're gonna try to do The heist next up are Lego games now for this one I didn't pick one specific Lego game because for me I think there are a lot of fun all of them that I played were a lot of fun And of course I haven't played all of them that are on PlayStation now But they're basically the same mechanics and its style of gameplay. It's just different themed Lego games Now there is lots of Lego games on PlayStation now including Batman Star Wars Harry Potter Pirates of the Caribbean and more Honestly, it is hours of fun with each game and it's also not hard to platinum many of the Lego games It's a lot of fun and you will have to play the story once or twice at least to get the platinum But it's definitely worth it because they're a really fun game So having to go back and play the story for a second time. It's still a lot of fun Next up is the fallout series. So we have follow three follow New Vegas and fallout for now These games I absolutely love them because they are post apocalyptic games And I absolutely love this style of game and the best part is they're not only post apocalyptic But they are open world games sets in different locations Follow three is sets in a post apocalyptic Washington DC Follow New Vegas is sets in of course Las Vegas, but again post apocalyptic and Fallout 4 is sets in the Boston area of course again apocalyptic So there is a lot of great things and there always seem to be changing them those three games are a lot of fun Now I have not played New Vegas yet I've only played follow three and follow four and I absolutely loved those games next is a really fun But also cheesy game But it's also a lot of fun to play with friends and that is overcooked to it was released in 2018 And it's honestly just a cheap little fun cooking game And it's even more fun whenever you play with friends But it's also a really easy platinum to get as long as you go through all of these stages within the game It's a really fun and easy cooking game And I honestly had a blast playing this game and the last games that I want to mention for my PlayStation Now picks as of right now our red dead redemption and undead Nightmare red dead redemption was released in May 2010, but undead nightmare was released in October 2010 Now red dead redemption is an open-world Western game and it's from the creators of Grand Theft Auto Rockstar games which I thought was a lot of fun So it's basically like a Grand Theft Auto game But set in Western times, which I thought was a very interesting take on it's undead nightmare Was a zombie apocalyptic game sets in the red dead redemption Western open-world game So it's basically just a zombie version of red dead redemption both games were a lot of fun I absolutely love them and I never got a chance to play them until I got PlayStation now I never played them when they came out on the PlayStation 3 So these are like I mentioned my top PlayStation now picks as of right now Again with me playing PlayStation now more and more who knows I might have to make another video in the future Sharing some more picks that are on PlayStation now But the main reason for that is because they're always adding new games every month every month in my opinion At least from what I could tell whenever I go on PlayStation now regularly They add at least three new games a month one of them is limited time So you have anywhere from 50 days up to 150 days to play it each game is a different time But usually there's only one game a month that is for limited time The other two are permanently on there and in my opinion I think it's definitely worth it and I definitely got my money's worth Even though I've only owned it for a couple months and I have a whole rest of the year left to enjoy it So hope you guys enjoyed this video Please take care comment down below what your favorite games are that are on PlayStation now and I might have to go And check them out. Hope you guys enjoyed this video. Please take care. Peace