All right, everybody welcome back to round two. We'll see how this one goes So this is our second stream because the first stream now we've lost electricity So it's kind of hard to do that if you don't have internet service. So let's just jump right in again to Same thing we're talking about this morning. So there was a question that was pretty well from trad 6166 Which asked look if there's a everything goes along with the four-year cycle How does everything get affected especially for this upcoming or pending recession? And again, we talked about this but it is worth to note that this is from actually a Valuetainment that did a great video on the prospects of a incoming recession And it's amazing to me because like everybody in the crypto space seems like we're all pretty much saying that yes It's gonna happen, but we take a look at some sources from the New York Fed and we take a look at the Fed staff They're like no, there's no recession that's going to happen the yield curve say yes 61% Economists are 50-50 consumers. That's us. We're pretty sure it's gonna happen about 69% The banks Goldman Sachs Bank of America like no, it's not gonna happen. Of course the CEOs are pretty high 84% and why probably because they have some insider information that we are not privy to Imagine that a CEO only what's going on with their company? And of course we take a look at the yield curve itself a yield curve is supposed to look like this These are treasuries. These are notes. These are bonds and depending on the length This is how it's usually been for forever. You've got a One-month treasury yield curve at zero point one five This is back in 2009 if you went three months you get a whopping zero point one eight zero point two eight And then on unless you go like for the high ones thirty years is four point three eight percent That's what usually would happen And this is how it's supposed to look as time goes as just along a time on a continuum But of course when we started getting to recession then people have insider information big people CEOs Institutions anybody who has an insider information starts to figure out like hey, there's a lot of things going on I'm gonna take my money out of the stock market out of the risky equities Put it into something safe And then when they start to do that then of course there's a big run and we get a Inversion because people are loading up on 30 years at three point eight four percent or whatever actually is today a Twenty year at five percent. That's crazy. That is essentially risk-free money from the US government That's what it's supposed to look like so again When they were talking about here what they said they have the yield curve at 61 percent every time we have we Invert the yield or the yield curve There's an inversion and then it un-inverts and then we get into a recession This has happened every single time except for once and this has happened in the 70s this happened in 79 the yield Inverts un-inverts we get in this little gray area.  We haven't really made up that point the only time this hasn't happened again Was back in the 60s. So congratulations people in the 60s You dodged a bullet for this one time But you couldn't do the second time back in 69 the 70 of course when the rates were a little bit crazy So that just gives us context into what's happening. So what I did was I took a look at well How would that look as far as like when we have a Dip or when we have a pause and a pivot to a recession and how long that takes and what would that look like if We actually have a recession which I believe we are gonna have a recession into the Bitcoin having I thought it was gonna be Q1 2024 looks like I am incorrect. So I Recorded I pre-recorded this video because when I try to do it's just live it's in like 30 minutes This one I've knocked down to under 13 minutes So let's just take a listen and then we'll come back and I'll do a Q&A because I'm sure We're going to have quite a bit of questions. So let's just take a listen Acro environment continues to deteriorate the question we have to ask ourselves is what does this mean for potentially a recession? Whether it be a hard landing or a soft landing and how does that correspond as we move into the four-year cycle and into the next Bitcoin having which should be in April 2024 and beyond that. So to help give us a little bit of a context about what's going on There was a great interview. This is Jeremy Siegel. He's a professor at Wharton School of Business And we're gonna talk about is the question was Bonds or stocks and assets for the long term because when we talk about this I would assume he'd be talking about bonds and how great they are But what he says was pretty surprising. Just take a listen a Becky stocks in the long run And I've done all that long run data our excellent long-term hedges You're planning a 10-year portfolio of 15 20-year retirement portfolio stocks do Beautifully against inflation bonds do not So, you know, yes, I think inflation is going down right now But when we look ahead at the deficits and all the rest could there be another inflationary episode and then What do I want to hold? Do I want to hold real assets or do I want to hold paper assets? Exactly. Do I want to hold paper assets or do I want to hold real assets when he's talking about equities? He's saying those are essentially real assets now here on the channel. I'm a little bit biased I would think that Bitcoin would be more of a real asset as far as crypto digital assets But of course, that's just me talking with my biases now the next piece It's only about a minute long the question gets asked. Well, what about this upcoming recession? How would you play this because wouldn't be safer to do a little bit or get out of equities and those assets because they're a riskier play and What he says makes a ton of sense for me maybe for you just take a listen If we have a recession, yeah, I think stock prices will go down But one thing has always been true.  You know how hard it is to play that game Professor Siegel is definitely speaking my language. You know how hard it is to time all those things now Some people think that they can they can do it and that's fine But you know moving forward, you know, what do you really want to hold on to you want to hold on to? The paper or you want to hold on to assets? And I think there's any there's a harder asset out there than bitcoins that leaves us to the next question Which would take a look at What trad 6166 asked and try to ask a very good question So it looks like we will be in a recession next year No way the four-year cycle will be of any significance and it might just discourage prevent people from investing in crypto next year Then we got away eight years for another bull market, which is anywhere close to last crypto would die if that happens And to answer this question and to do a real deep dive into things and we want to take a look at of course Not just the yield curve and of course the pivot but also the pauses and how long it takes from a pause of the Fed rate to a recession to the pivot To a recession and everything in between so we're gonna take a look at four different time periods from the Early 90s all the way into present and take a look at these things now before we get into that I want to thank today's sponsor, which would be masterworks and really just comes down to a portfolio balance Now if you don't know masterworks, it is investing in the fractional life shares of art pieces now Us as mere mortals we can't buy a brown painting for four point six million dollars But we can buy fractional life shares of this piece and of course it is registered with the SEC because they are Securities now me personally again about balancing a portfolio. 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I'm not a TA person, but it just looks like we just are performing lower highs and you can see all the way back into Almost to before 1980 in the Volcker days You know, we had a pretty high federal funds target rate and then of course in the 90s went down a little bit But it was quite a pump all the way into 2020 of course now we've reversed that and now we are on that train of Massive Fed funds rate hikes So the question then is for the very first one back in the 1990s How much time between the time that we paused as they were Increasing those federal funds rate when they pause or stop raising the rates To a recession not a pivot. This is time they paused It took one year and four months they paused on February to 89 and then the recession started in 30th of June 1990 so that was a pause to a recession next question is what about a pivot to a recession Pivot to recession for the 1990 or 89 when it started it was a year So you had roughly a year and four months and it took a year for the time It actually pivoted and from that time from the pivot to a recession was 30th of June 1990 And then the market this blue line right here Is the s&p 500 and from that time point in 1990 of June To 11th of october 1990 that was the bottom of the s&p 500 the stock market The recession still went on for another five months. So I need you to remember this It took roughly eight and a half nine months or so For the total recession of this time period and what it means is is that the market will recover Faster than the actual economy and that's an important factor when we start to take a look at the four-year cycles Next one in the second piece in the late 2000s the dot-com era We can see that from the time that we had a pause To recession again the federal funds rate. They paused it. They didn't raise anything. It took 10 months quite a bit of time and then when they pivoted To a recession it took only two months again Two months from the beginning of the recession The recession of the market bottom was six months And then the market recovered pretty well matter of fact and then the recession was over and two months later So again the market the stock market recovers first and then the actual economy recovers How about this one? This was uh back in the great recession Now this one took quite a long time the pause to recession was 18 months. That's a long time from when they stopped raising rates and they just paused To when the actual recession is so we had 18 months 10 months and a year and four months somewhere around there Between a pause to a recession for the last three Data pieces that we took a look at now from a pivot In this time frame to a recession It was very fast Uh, we were talking about two and a half months very quickly and the bottom dropped out And this was a brutal one the recession to the market bottom took 15 months But as bad as this was The economy still took three more months to recover even the market Recovered first. So you had 15 months Some months before and now here we are at three months And of course it went up and everything was looking pretty good for quite some time also during this time frame I want you to note that we had the time frame of low to no rates And we had an economic surplus and it was quite a great time And it was quite a boom for the economy and we're going to see that again in this point In the last one, of course was the uh, Surveys of sickness And of course from the time from the pause to a recession quite a long time one year and one month That's a big chunk of time And from there from a pivot to a recession didn't take too long six months So we had a year and a month. We had 10 months. We had 18 months It's quite a bit of time between a pause to a recession But if you average those out we can say about a year year and two months and some change somewhere around there But for this piece from a pivot to a recession It took six months Recession of the market bottom only a month and then to actually recover because the money printer went on like crazy Uh took less than a month and then we were off the races and again We had rates extremely low for quite some time until we hit into our Latest period, which is of course right here. So now that we can see that We are at that point Where we have actually the last rate hike was in july 26 And in september when they came back there was a pause And we are paused all the way up until this is the middle of october when i'm recording this video of 2023 so that would mean We would get back to the original question from trapp looks like we'll be in a recession next year No way the fire for your cycle behind significance. It's going to take eight full years We'll just wait because let's take a look at that. Let's take a look at the data So we are right now in october. So we paused again We paused this time frame around 27 july. That was the first point. Of course, there was no, uh FOMC meeting on august. So sept september will be the pause So let's just take july for this time frame and say, okay So a pause to recession like we talked about could be year and four months could be 10 months Could be 18 months like we just took a look at let's just keep the round numbers Just say a year might be a little bit less might be a little bit more. Let's just say a year So from july 2023 to july 2024 That is a time when we are on our way To a recession and let's just say that july or august or so of 2024 the recession would start And i want you to notice one thing that in 2024 Before we hit a recession because i personally think we're going to hit a recession in q1 But the data says that we could be somewhere else If that's the case Then we won't have a recession and we'll have a bitcoin having an april sometime middle of april of 2024 And then we'll hit a recession. We've never had this before. Is this a bad thing? Is this awful? No, it's a natural cycle But let's just say That we get a recession in in a july early august How long does A recession usually last well, we've shown this quite some times Of statistic the average recession will last 10 months. That's going from 2020 Taking a look also the 80s the 90s 2001s the 50s the 40s And of course the long one the great recession 18 months But even recently 2001 it was eight months 1991 was eight months. Let's just say 10 months So that would take us from a july or august 2024 recession Where we go all the way through the recession would be potentially done again Just using numbers To may of 2025 and in 2025 that we take a look at the four-year cycles. What does that mean? Well, we're in the reset year right now in 2023 2024 is a halving and so far after every halving We've had a massive all-time high and then a monstrous dip and a reset Followed by another halving So that is what answer Trad 6166 question, but there is one more caveat, which is this I still think we'll have more time and why is that it's because just like we talked about Even though we're in recession The economy is not the market and the market is not the economy. There are two different entities So we take a look at the first one again the recession the market bottom It was three and a half months even though the even though the recession lasted totally for eight months Same thing in the second part in the early 2000s It was six months and then the market recovered Took some not some all times but did pretty well and it was two months till the recession ended Then again in the great recession and we see just how massive this was It took 15 months quite a long time But then it took three more months for the economy to recover I'm hoping we'll see what actually happens as I move into the next one. So That hopefully would answer the question. I personally believe That there is a recession coming. I don't know if it's a hard line. No one's soft landing, but Just like professor seagull talked about it's all about where you want to be and do you want to be in paper Do you want to be in hard assets or do you want to time everything? That's it for today.  So That would take care of the little piece that we just talked about so yeah I had to uh pre-record that one because there was so much data And I wanted to make sure that the editing was done right that uh, I didn't want to You know blow it and uh go over 30 minutes like when I was practicing So hopefully that took a lot less time But that's it for the video section if you like today's video thumbs up subscribe all the good stuff now


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Welcome to our podcast series, Women's Liberation and Marxist Position, brought to you by Marxist Voice, the podcast of Socialist Appeal. There will be a three-part series where we put forward the Marxist position on the women's question. We will cover the following main topics, how to fight for women's liberation, which we will be discussing today. For the next episode, we'll be republishing a talk on the origins of women's oppression, and another episode will be published on what are the lessons from historical struggles, such as the Russian Revolution. There are a lot of different outlooks and answers to these questions. However, what we will do is answer these from a Marxist position that is on a materialistic and class basis. This series will help in clarifying why Marxism provides the only true revolutionary answer to this important question. If you would like to read more on this question, I highly recommend visiting our education hub, socialist.net, where we'll have a range of resources on everything, from how to fight oppression, to philosophy and more. The website of our international Marxist tendency has also a wealth of material that we highly recommend, which is marxist.com. To introduce myself, I'm Lubna Badi, member of Socialist Appeal, and today we have a guest speaker with us, Fiona Lali. She is here to discuss the fundamentally important topic on how to fight against women's oppression and how to liberate women. And of course, what is the Marxist position on this? Hi, welcome, Fiona. Hi, thank you. Yeah, my name is Fiona. I'm the National Organiser of the Marxist Student Federation, and I've been an activist with Socialist Appeal for a number of years now. Thanks. Great. So, yeah, as we know, today is of course International Women's Day, or should I say International Working Women's Day, as we of course are claiming back, essentially, as Marxist. You know, the working aspect has of course been dropped over time, but it has been celebrated, you know, by the working class, essentially, and has really like truly revolutionary roots. So I guess like to go into like the first question here for Fiona is like what we're discussing today is obviously, you know, how to fight for women's liberation. But essentially, like, of course, this is something that the first question is, why are we talking about this? Because given, you know, in Britain, and I would say like in many, say, Western countries, women have gained the legal rights, essentially, like the legal equality to men. So, of course, on paper when women are equal and they're all should be treated equally. But yeah, what is it essentially that we still see, you know, cases of oppression and sexism and things in today's society? Yeah, thanks. Well, I'm glad that you mentioned that it's actually International Working Women's Day, because the first thing to know is that we are oppressed as women and as workers. So also an answer to your, you know, your introductory point about the legal equality that women have in certain countries, why that isn't a solution to the problems that women face is that because women are also oppressed as as workers. And, you know, women all over the world on average are paid less than men, typically about 20 to 30% less for similar kinds of work, lower pay usually means lower or no benefits, a smaller pension on retirement and so on. There was a recent report by Oxfam, which stated that there were 13 million fewer women in employment in 2021 compared to the previous year. 20 million girls on top of that are expected never to return to school due to the strain that coronavirus has put on poorer households. I think the COVID pandemic in general has exacerbated all forms of inequality in society and that applies to the oppression of women as well. Many like domestic abuse charities reported a huge surge in calls and contacts that they were getting from women just as the lockdowns were implemented. And this happened all over the world in many different places and that's just a real stark example of how women bear the brunt of the worst aspects of capitalism. I also wanted to say that I think we live in a particular period in which we're witnessing an onslaught or an attack on women's reproductive rights in particular. The question of abortion is one that's come up in a lot of countries in Poland, Argentina and recently also in America, in Texas. Texas passed an anti-abortion law, a real draconian anti-abortion law, which is so punitive that you can be punished, you can be sued if you help someone getting an abortion, let alone try to get one yourself. So if you drive someone to an abortion clinic, you can be sued by a private citizen. So this is the period that we're living in and women are angry because they're being attacked on all different fronts, right? On an economic front, but also in their own political, democratic rights such as the right to abortion, for example. Yeah, and I guess like indeed when women look of course at these say law makers and things like this, they're obviously often men who pass these laws. And you know, therefore, I would say like on the surface of things, like it seems to be that men are kind of like to blame for this, right? Like different conclusions can be drawn from that, that, you know, is it something biological to men?  And I guess like, yeah, like how do Marxists look at this question? Yeah, so I think this question of biology is an important one. And as Marxists, we have an understanding on where the oppression of women comes from. And I know this is something that's covered in a separate podcast. So I'm not going to go into all of that now. And I would encourage anyone listening to listen to what we have to say about that. It comes with the origins of class society. But this idea that there's something innate to men or that men just hate women or that men are physically more powerful and therefore try to dominate women is something that has been popular for a while. It was quite popular with radical feminists in the 60s and 70s. But as Marxists, we understand that there's an economic reason as to why these as to how this oppression happens and why it manifests itself in the way that it does. One of the fundamental parts of the oppression of women takes place in the form of the privatization of domestic labor. This is a really important thing for us to talk about. So when we talk about domestic labor, we're talking about housework, cooking, cleaning, childcare, the rearing of a child. The maintenance of the home, essentially everything that we need to do in order to live our lives, right? Cooking and cleaning so that we can go into work. Everything that that requires, the bourgeoisie, the capitalist class don't provide for, right? That's not just given to us in some capacity. And so because the oppression of women has existed for hundreds of years under capitalism, rather than reinvent the wheel and come up with a new and costly way to provide this maintenance of the home or the production of the home, if you will. The capitalist simply use the oppression of women. It's a tool to keep the domestic labor private and to keep them from having to pay for it or provide for it, right? And this hangover, if you will, of the oppression of women that predates capitalism actually is useful for them in order to promote certain roles in society, certain gender roles that make women feel that they have to take up these jobs, sorry.  They don't have necessarily like the same stability that men have at work, you know, just, you know, proper say permanent contracts. They are usually in jobs that are like quite precarious, for example, like healthcare and retail where they don't have the same security as men have, you know, lack of maternity leave and healthcare, you know, accessibility and things like this. And of course, I work in long hours and heavy jobs and stuff.  So we can see like clearly that this is not something like a cultural attitude as, you know, for example, like professors like Jordan Peterson answer on this question and say that women are just, you know, too nice to basically ask for more. This is of course not an actual answer to the systematic oppression and exploitation that we see that women have to deal with. And there are clearly like profit making reasons behind this, right? Like that the bosses would find women too much of a risky investment to provide them with maternity leave and, you know, all of these sort of questions. Yeah, I was wondering like, what are your thoughts on that front? Yeah, I mean, so fundamentally the capitalist system regards women a convenient source of cheap labor. That is how they are oppressed in the home. And one thing we can say about this is that sometimes it's described as having a double shift, right? As a woman, you go to work, you're probably in a precarious job, as you've just explained, you're probably not paid very much. And then you come home and there's the added burden of all this domestic work. But on the gender pay gap specifically, as you said, there's an economic reason as to why women are disenfranchised, if you will, in the workplace, a boss. And this could be a male boss or a female boss, because by the way, their interests are fundamentally the same. They don't change on the basis of their gender. They're less likely to pick a woman who could get pregnant and therefore they have to pay for all the things you've just described. When they could pick a man, it's more profitable for them to go down that route. So, yeah, when Jordan Peterson says that women are too agreeable, I think that's how he described it. And that's why they don't get these high positions. We can point out that that's complete nonsense. And actually, it's the economic necessity. It's the economic question that creates the cultural attitude, right? It's not the other way around. It's the profit desire that forces people to make these decisions. And then as a result, cultural attitudes come out of that, which might perceive women to be less able to be a boss or less able to have that manager role or whatever it is. So, yeah, it's important for us to understand where these cultural attitudes come from and it's economic fundamentally. Yeah, definitely. And I guess besides economic reasons why women are being exploited, we do see as well huge cases of direct violence against women, right? Because I guess you can say there's a sort of like, you know, almost like oppression that women have to endure on a daily basis that might go a bit unnoticed underneath the economic conditions. But this is like an actual attack of women. For example, like the Sarah Everard killing that has caused so much outrage in Britain, but also internationally.  So this sort of academic of violence against women is something that is, of course, like something that we as Marxists really interlink with capitalism. But yeah, could you explain like how that is? Yeah, I think this question of violence against women is really important. We have to start by saying that capitalism is a brutal violent system based on this kind of artificial scarcity and it pits people against each other in the most desperate manner possible, right? It's a violent system that reproduces violence. And that's what we have to understand. On top of that, I would say there's an ideological struggle that is waged on behalf of the ruling class across many different countries. The heavily limits or tries to limit the sexual freedom of women and tries to relegate them into a certain role that's based on child rearing and caring and this kind of maternal sort of sort of figure. And it does this in many different forms. Religion has always been used by the ruling class, particularly on this question. That's where a lot of anti-abortion kind of cultural norms come from in many cases. Certain governments, a lot of governments really draw on this idea of the traditional family and the way that it should look. And so I wanted to make this point that although capitalism economically is a violent system, the ruling class does have an ideology and it does promote that throughout society in many different ways. That ideology is disseminated through many different forms. And obviously working class men, working class in general are born and bred and educated in that society, the one that the ruling class promotes its ideas into. And so they're not immune from its pressures. The ruling class through the media and other forms, I think push this idea that men have an interest in maintaining capitalism and maintaining the system the way that it is. And crucially that they have something to lose if women do gain more independence in all these different forms, whether it's sexual freedom or whatever it is. All of that, and if you take on top of that just the violence of the situation, the desperation that capitalism forces people into, that is what produces violence. That is what produces unfortunately the violence that we see. The oppression of women historically is buried under the weight of culture and religion and different societal norms. But these norms are produced and reproduced in different forms of society in order to justify this extra, this double exploitation that women face as women and as workers. Therefore I'd say that the violence that we see is a reflection or even a regurgitation of class society itself. And that's why the only approach we can have to it to ending it is a revolutionary one that uproots the entire system itself. We cannot reform away this violence or educate it away. We have to smash the whole system and smash the class that is pushing those ideas into society. Yeah, and I guess this touches indeed well upon the point of, as a woman, when you are angry at the system and you are angry at what's happening to women internationally, then of course you're going to look for ideas on how to fight this and how to end this. Now I guess the mainstream way of how to liberate women essentially is of course given these ideas are given by the bourgeois as you were saying. So bourgeois feminism is of course like a very common, I guess, ideology amongst a lot of women who first like say start to radicalize in changing society and fighting against oppression. But yeah, obviously we as Marxists, we have of course a class point of view. So what is basically our main criticisms against like this bourgeois ideology? Yeah, so I think we should start by pointing out that the bourgeoisie has made a bit of extra room at the table for a few women together, as managing directors, as judges, as bankers and bureaucrats and various other things. There's a couple of women up there. 419 out of the Fortune 500 now have at least one woman on the board and a third of them have two or more. So some women are doing very nicely. And what we have to understand is these women will also claim to be in favor of the emancipation of women and they would even call themselves feminists. This is a thing even with this term feminism and feminists today. Justin Trudeau famously called himself a feminist. Theresa May called herself a feminist. We've got loads of feminists in society who are in favor of the emancipation of women one by one starting with themselves. That's how we can understand it. But that's not what we're interested in. We aren't interested in the freedom or the equality to exploit and for more women to sit at that table to exploit other working class women and men. That is what those bourgeois feminists are interested in. That's what the bourgeois are interested in. But that is not what we're interested in. And that's why we're firmly against any ideas around representation as some kind of tool or way in which we can overcome the oppression of women. It's very important to understand that oppressed groups and women in general who are an oppressed group are not oppressed because they're underrepresented. They're oppressed because of the systemic oppression in society that produces barriers that prevents them from taking part in life and politics in particular. Politics, you need a lot of time to be involved in politics. And because of this burden that is put on women, they're often unable to take up this role. But specifically on this issue of representation or maybe not even just representation, but this idea of just having more women at the top of a system or involved in the system in the capitalist system as a way to undo some of the problems that women face. If you look at Mexico, Mexico is a country that has a real horrific issue with femicides, right? Ten women a day are killed or murdered in Mexico. And yet in Mexico, women make up half of its Congress, right? So we can't look at the surface to find a solution to any of these problems. Surface changes don't undo the root. They don't undo the root of this issue, especially when it comes to the violence that we've just been talking about. Because that is a reflection of the economic system. And so if you're not talking about changing the economic system, you are not changing. You're not talking about liberating women. That's important for us to understand. Yeah, I guess like one of the other things that they mentioned, say bourgeois feminists and stuff is basically the idea of safe space, right? Like excluding basically men from these political discussions and from even political movements. Because they would be like, say, too dominating to, you know, to women, essentially, like to have our own safe space, essentially, to just talk about our issues and our problems that we're facing and things like this. But yeah, what is the Marxist position on this then, like on the idea of safe space and even excluding men from these political fights, essentially? Yeah, I think this raises a few different things. Obviously, because of the ideas that exist in society. And by the way, Marx makes the point that the dominant ideas in any society are that of the ruling class. So the cultural attitudes that exist that make men, you know, generally act in a certain way or women generally act in a certain way. Ultimately, our reflection of that we have to start off by saying that. Yeah. So when it comes to the question of safe spaces, I think the first thing to say is there's a difference between. And I think, you know, obviously women have the right to a safe space from violence and abuse. And, you know, anyone who's a victim of such things, they need shelters and adequate facilities to help them deal with that. But there's a difference between that and political organizing and the class struggle. The victory of the class struggle is dependent on the unity of the working class. And that means men and women and any oppressed group under capitalism coming together on the basis of class in order to uproot our main enemy, which is the ruling class, which is the capitalists and the capitalist system itself. And this is really important because what we have to think about is what does it mean in practice this idea of excluding men from the struggle? What does that look like? And what would it do to a movement? If we understand that capitalism is the source, is reproducing the oppression of women, then we need a class struggle. We need a revolution fundamentally to overthrow that. And that involves the advancement of the class struggle. So just to give an example, in Spain, there was a powerful women's movement that had been developing for some time. And it had managed to win over certain unions to make the unions call for a general strike. And this was to take place on International Women's Day or International Working Women's Day, as we should call it. And this is a huge thing, a general strike, because a general strike poses the question of power concretely. It shuts down the entire economy and it shows people who has the real control and the real power in society. It's about consciousness at the end of the day. So this had the potential to be quite an instrumental, you could say, in the advancement of the women's movement and women's liberation, but also the working class in general. But the point is some of the leaders of that movement, some of the feminist leaders, declared that men shouldn't be a part of it and it should only be for women. Only women should take part in that strike. So effectively, what that meant is, well, how can you have a general strike if half of your population or half of the workers aren't invited to take part in it? Not only are they not invited to take part in it, but essentially made to be strike breakers, right? Made to be scabs, to go back into work and actually to leave the women out on the streets. It's a completely reactionary idea actually then. If you follow this idea that men shouldn't be a part of the struggle to its conclusion, you end up going down a kind of rabbit hole of constantly separating out the movement into smaller and smaller, smaller and smaller parts. And I think that that's the wrong way. The other thing is the best way to combat the prejudices or backward ideas that might exist and that do exist amongst different working class men or male colleagues. The best way to combat those prejudices is to actually bring them into the struggle of women, incorporate them into it and make them aware of the problems, right? And it's through that process that we start to see the undoing of some of those ideas. It's through struggle that workers learn and that applies not just to the immediate economic or political struggle that's in front of them, but also how are we going to win this, right? It's through strength. It's through unity. And so any idea or policy or suggestion that is raised in the labour movement that is about making it smaller or dividing it or segregating it is one that I think must be really firmly and sharply opposed because the conclusions of it are a weakening of the struggle overall. Yeah, yeah. No, thank you. I think like indeed like it's these, what you were saying about how, how, of course in revolutionary times that a lot can be changed in the consciousness of the working class in, you know, in our, I guess, in our attitude towards the women's question and things like this, because this is of course the reason why we're going to devote like an entire episode on the Russian Revolution and the lessons of historic examples to go further into this question of how much can actually be achieved for women, you know, in revolutionary times essentially, and by of course overthrowing the system, how much have how much women have gained through that. But I guess like now that we have sort of laid out our criticism of, of course, bourgeois liberalism, you know, I guess like the next point is, well, what is the Marxist position then on how to fight for women's liberation? We say that the best way to fight sexism is to bring in male workers into the fight, right, to make them a part of the class struggle itself. And this is for two reasons. One thing is that if we want to fight the oppression of women, we have to fight capitalism. The way that you're going to do that is through the unity of the working class, which can then have the power and the consciousness to overthrow it. But also in terms of our day to day lives in terms of the violence that some women face, intimidation, male chauvinism, all of these issues. It is still through the class struggle and huge mass movements that we're able to undo this because that is a question of consciousness at the end of the day, which moves and advances on the basis of huge events and the class struggle is an important aspect of that. There's also concrete things in history that we can look to as evidence of this that I think are worth mentioning. One famously is the minor strike in this country, which was a huge battle that took place and through it, through the development of that battle and that class struggle, there was a transformation in terms of the way the men viewed women and viewed their wives. And there's a lot of personal accounts of this that you can look at because of the role that women played in that struggle and how needed they were in order to help support the strike. Men's consciousness and their understanding of the role of women, especially those male workers in particular, was completely transformed on the basis of a concrete struggle. And after that fight, there's a lot of accounts of how the role that men played in their families in terms of looking after children and so on and so forth was completely different. There's another example that I want to highlight, which was a couple of years ago in Pakistan. There was a huge movement, the Pashtun movement, which was surrounding really vicious state repression that was being waged against a specific group in Pakistan. And there were huge rallies and protests in defiance of this situation, people coming out to talk about the state repression, the kidnapping, and women were a really huge part of this. They were at the rallies, they were speaking, holding up images of their family members that had been kidnapped and tortured by the state. And many of the women who took part in that said that they felt safer and more empowered in those rallies at those protests than they did in their day-to-day lives, just walking down the street. And that's because the attitude that many of the men in those protests had towards them was completely transformed because they're looking at them, not just as women who are supposed to have a certain role in society that the ruling class consciously promotes, but actually looking at them as comrades and realizing that if we're going to win against the state, if we're going to win this struggle, we need everyone, we need comrades, and we need to unite. And we're seeing that these people are strong and that there are comrades in struggle. And that's a really brilliant example, I would say, of the importance of actually bringing people together, men and women in this case, in order to undo these backward ideas and undo that kind of social interaction that does dominate women's lives in that way. And it's a model for how to overcome sexism, also in our day-to-day lives, not by pushing men out or not by pushing anyone out, but actually bringing people together on the basis of events. That's what's going to transform things.  And of course, yeah, in the fight against capitalism, obviously, is what we need to fight for, as women are, of course, fighting for all of these class questions, like housing, healthcare, jobs, all of these security, essentially, in life. Which is very much like, yeah, this scarcity that is, of course, created by capitalism is something that they are fighting for, you know, united as the working class, essentially. Yeah, and it's a false scarcity, right, at the end of the day, because we actually have the resources to provide adequate housing and healthcare. And all of these things would be the solution to many of the problems that women face in terms of if you're trapped in an abusive relationship that you can't leave and you're in a lockdown and all of these questions. If we lived in a society in which women could just live in and they didn't have to worry about their rent on their housing and their financial situation, then they would be free from those constraints. But also going back to the question of domestic labor and housework, all of that can should be socialized. We could have mass laundrets, mass canteens. There's no reason why that has to remain a private issue, the burden of which put on women or any single individual. But capitalism is the barrier to all of those things. Capitalism will not invest in those issues, in those sectors. Especially capitalism today, which is in crisis and unable to provide any kind of reforms, let alone what we were just talking about. But the money exists, right? I just said that the resources do exist. So what I mean by that is that the resources exist, but they're privately held. And that's why fundamentally the fight for women's liberation is the fight for socialism, because what we're talking about is expropriating that money and putting it into what is needed in order to build the infrastructure that would allow women to live freely, that would allow women free from men, both free from capital. Look, I've spoken a lot about the importance of the class struggle here today and the advancement of the class struggle, but that's not going to happen on its own. The overthrow of capitalism is not going to happen on its own. And ultimately, that's what we're trying to build here. We're trying to build a revolutionary organization that is able to see it through to the end, right? To see through the overthrow of capitalism, but not just that, but the construction of a socialist society where we do plan the economy and we can invest in what we need to in order to liberate women and to liberate the whole of the working class. We need people to join us in that fight. We need people to join our organization to fight for Marxist ideas to make this a reality. And so I'd say if you agree with our analysis and our understanding of women's oppression and where it comes from, then I'd ask you to join us, join this organization and fight for what we're trying to build. Well, thank you so much Fiona for these brilliant explanations and answers to these very important questions. And thank you to our listeners of this episode of Women's Liberation and Marxist Position. Before we go, please make sure to check out our website, socialist.net and the wealth of material that we have on the women's question. Also make sure to follow us on social media for regular updates on what we are up to. And if you like the ideas that we've spoken about, then you should join us. The question of women's oppression is on the agenda to a degree that we've not seen in decades. Sexism and the oppression of women is an integral part of capitalism and they are only to be removed once we deal away with the material conditions that allow this to exist. And that's why we fight against capitalism and that's why you should join our struggle. And thank you again and stay tuned for next week where we'll be discussing the historic examples of the women's struggle with the main focus on the origins of women's oppression and the Russian Revolution and what the Bolshevik attitude was to the women's question. So thank you again for listening to the Marxist Voice, the podcast of Socialist Appeal.


Hey everyone, welcome to alchemy star. So we have here now a skill preview of Alternate Carlene. So as I guess right Her element is good. It's going to be fire class is the same which is a converter Decent attack for converter. I'm not asking for much. It's three two two seven HP is one one three two. Sorry. This is defense one one three two and HP is nine six nine five six six Okay, so as expected, I think she's going to be a good addition to fire to check out her skills So for her active skills, so cooldown is not applicable to Carlene Smoldering soul as her active skill depends on the number of smoldering souls. Okay, this Is good news because you don't need copies of her. So probably getting one is Enough and test her around see if she's really good As an addition to your fire teams consumes two smoldering souls to teleport to any tile within 16 tiles in a cross shape So this is a limited range Similar to mid guard in terms of limitations Then converts the two tiles in front and behind the unit to red tiles to teleport convert and deals 150 damage to tiles along the way And Along the way and one tile in front gains one smoldering time or one smoldering soul If an enemy is hit so triggers up to two times Each round so the key here is hitting someone hitting couple of units or one then having to get smoldering soul then the next turn as you can see here smoldering soul is When entering battle gains two points you get two points so you could use it Right away and it gains one point at the start of every round up to six points So if you hit one if you used to hit one you gain one then your next round You gain another one you can again teleport so although the teleportation is Is limited in terms of range you can do this almost every other turn provided that you hit Somebody or some unit while you are teleporting or once you arrive upon teleporting So this is actually a very useful skill because this keeps you mobile. This keeps you keeps you mobile keeps you dodging and Probably delaying your opponents and waiting for your other skill cooldowns to To what they call this to act to be active or to know waiting to be activated so this is a nice addition to fire element because In my experience they lack teleportation in terms of units available and now this is one good ability definitely going to be summoning for Alternate Carline once she comes out this week chain combo is no mercy for 9 and 13 So it's a 160 165 170 not bad so damage to 12 tiles in a diamond shape So this is diamond Rachel and Radle shape in a maximum range Not that bad I'm all for it. I'm all for it Nothing too special just decent, but again the damage is good at 160 165 and 170 and the last is her equipment scale serene radiance Carline smoldering soul normal attacks deal defense ignoring damage equal to 30% of attack to enemies on red tiles So this is nice. This is a good addition in terms of her equipment She gets to deal defense ignoring damage as long as it's Smoldering souls normal attack. So again, very good kit. It gives you more flexibility in terms of Fire elements and she is going to be a good addition. I would you know recommend you guys to pull for her Red definitely needs more teleportation and although it's not the whole board But definitely a limited teleportation is always welcome So that is it guys for my skill review and I'll see you on the day that we can pull for her Take care stay safe. This is a warden and I'm out of here


The point is that doing nothing cannot and will not be an option. Too many people, if we don't do anything, will continue to die from this disease. So we need to act sensibly and we need to act decisively.  In 2015, over 10,000 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer just in Pennsylvania. Almost 1,300 died in Pennsylvania that year. Prostate cancer is the most common form, in fact, of cancer affecting men. It's therefore important that we beat this disease and we can beat it. This bill will help us figure out how to work together to do just this. And I'm really very proud to sign it. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah, I appreciate what you're saying. I truly do.


Remember this guy? Well, I still can't get it open, but I got another bottle on the same trip and today I'm cracking that one. B&B is essentially a bottled cocktail. Benedictine developed it in the 1930s, and it's their product mixed with French brandy then rested and used cognac barrels. This does have a barcode, so while it may look old, it probably isn't. My best guess is from the 90s.  The problem is I don't have a baseline for what this tastes like as I've never had it before. I've had Benedictine, so if I taste old Benedictine, I at least know kind of what I'm getting into. I've never had B&B before, so Mystery B&B from the 90s. That's not bad. It's a little on the sweet side. The Benedictine notes are there. You get the honey, you get the herbs. Part of the problem is that Benedictine used to be 43% ABV, and now it's 40. The Benedictine that I had in the other video was the 43, and this is 40. This is a newer formula of Benedictine. Of course, you could make this yourself by mixing Benedictine with cognac, and depending on the cognac you use, who knows, it might turn out better. At the end of the day, this tastes way better than it smells, and it's a solid after-dinner drink.  That's it for today. Stay safe, all the advice professionals, and if you'll excuse me, I have to go pawn this off on my wife.


Hi everybody, my name is Piper and I've been making tooling and things like that in the Python ecosystem since about, well since the Frontier Network launched. And today we're going to do a really fast run-through of the entire Python tool set that I've been working on and talk sort of about the road map there and then at the end I'm going to talk to you about PyEVM which is the project I'm most excited about right now. Cool. So Python Ethereum. Let's first let's talk about why Python. Python is slow, people have complaints about Python, there's the global interpreter lock, things like that. But the big thing here is that diversity matters. Ethereum is not a language specific tool and if developers can pick up tooling in languages that they are familiar with then it will speed up adoption and that's a big deal. So we need more tooling in more languages. And Python's a big deal. Python is used for all kinds of stuff. It is an extremely accessible language. It's used heavily in data science and in web development and all these things. And so we need good tools in Python because lots of people use it. And this is my favorite. Python is the second best language for everything. This rings so true to me. Python's got its words and its problems but it's also a wonderful language. Also we have tons of cute animal pictures in our GitHub. Cool. So the Python Ethereum tool chain. First we'll start with Web3py. Thank you Web3js team. We literally copied your code base, converted it to Python and then took it from there. So Web3py is your sort of way to access the blockchain. It handles all of your RPC communications when you want to talk to a node. It does things like converting the responses to Python objects so that they're nice and friendly for you. Things that you don't want to be working on when you're building your product. It has tons of built-in utilities for doing conversions, converting things to Hex and from Hex and between bytes and text formats as well as currency conversions. Again, things you don't want to be implementing. You can focus on your product.  You can interact with your contract. This does deployment. All of the ABI encodings of arguments and things like that. Again, things you don't want to be building. We also have an accounts API. This is currently in sort of a alpha stage. If you're familiar with the Web3JS new accounts API, again, we generally kind of copied this. You can do generation of accounts, management of private keys from right there within your Python code base, loading key files, signing messages, sending signed transactions, things like that. And we have this great middleware API. And this is a much lower level API, but it enables a lot of really powerful things, caching, interception of requests and signing them in flight, things like that, that you can build using this middleware API. All right, let's talk about Populous. Populous is a development framework written in Python, and it should be pretty familiar for Python developers. The biggest thing that it focuses on is testing. But Populous will handle all of your compilation and deployment for you, which means finding all of your contracts, scraping them all up, feeding them into the Solidity Compiler and giving you the results. Same with deployment, deploying those and then recording those deployments so that for future deployments, you can still reference old deployments, things like that. It handles library linking. So when you use libraries, you end up with something like this in your byte code. You see that thing at the bottom there. That's a place holder. And what needs to go there is the actual address of the deployed version of that Greeter library. And this stuff is, you need to get it right. And Populous just automates and does all of this sort of stuff for you. And package management. We have this sort of unmerged branch that has all of the ERC 190 package management stuff in it. It is a high priority for us to get this stuff in real soon. And well, package management's a big deal. All right, there's also a bunch of other tools. There's a ethereum utils library that has a bunch of low level stuff that's just functional functions that you can use that do all kinds of nice convenient useful things that prop up commonly when you're doing ethereum development. We have an ABI utils library that does all the ABI encoding and decoding. So if you need to do low level stuff, pulling old transactions, seeing what data they sent, stuff like that, you can do that. We have a keys library that handles the elliptical curve cryptography stuff for you. So if you want to do low level message signing, things like that. It has a native Python implementation. It'll also detect that coin curve is installed and use coin curve, which is much faster. And it has a back end system. So if you have some other implementation of ECC that you want to use, you can plug it right in. Ethereum key file, loading key files off disk, generating key files from private keys, key stretching. That's the sort of thing it's all handled for you. We have this library called PySolC, which is a wrapper around the Solidity compiler, which is nice because you can do compilation from your Python code, you know, feed in just the sources text or reference some files and do compilation. But the thing that's really great here is that we have automation built into it for installing specific versions of Solidity from source. So if you have a CI environment and you want to run your stuff in Travis and you want to run it against a specific Solidity version, this library will let you do that right off the bat. We used almost all of our other repos that need Solidity and it lets us test against specific versions of Solidity. Ethereum tester is a library that we've been working on. It's a sort of wrapper around using test blockchains. So right now it supports the PyEtherium blockchain, but sort of an older version of it. We're working on more back ends for more options for testing. Specifically PyEVM is the one that we're focusing on and it has really nice Web3 integration.  And we've got a bunch of more things. There's this PyGef library that has some nice wrappers around the Ethereum command line and implementation of the Patricia tree and implementation of the Bloom filter. Lots of tools, a wide array of them. They're all supported, they're all actively developed and you should give them a try. But what I really want to talk about is PyEVM. PyEVM is a new implementation of the Ethereum virtual machine Python and it came about sort of in this roundabout way. Originally there's PyEtherium and PyEtherium and PyEVM are not the same thing. PyEtherium is a library that's been around since the, since for, well, as long as I can remember. It was written by Vitalik. It's a library dependency and a ton of our code bases. And it is used heavily right now by the CASPER research team. Python is a great research tool because it's so mutable. You can just reach in, do whatever you want. And PyEtherium has been key for so much of the research and things that have been done for the Ethereum network. However, it has not been a very good library for us to build on top of and I'll go into some reasons there. And then there's PyEthap and PyEthap is the Python Ethereum node. So if you want to run, connect to the network, then PyEthap is, is the thing that in theory could do that. However, for a very long time it has not been able to sync with the main net network. So we had these two existing libraries and they facilitated a ton of research, but, but over the last two and a half or three years or however long it's been, these libraries have also been a huge thorn in my side because there's no definition of what is a public and private API and they're, and they're big and they're, and they're monoliths and, and things changed out from under us and, and they're just not the foundation that we needed them to be. So about a year ago, I started tinkering with, okay, well, what if I write my own? So anyway, so I started this experimental project called PyEvm, and it sort of festered and, and kept going and kept going and let me tell you some of the origins. So one of the big things was don't bother Vitalik. That was one of the main motivations here. I didn't think that I could fix PyEthereum without interrupting his work. There was so much that needed to be changed that I felt that the scope of the changes was so large that I, that I assumed that it would be impossible for me to fix PyEthereum without disrupting Vitalik's work. I wanted to better understand the EVM and it's that thing that I need. I needed a foundational library that I could build on top of. We are shooting for something that is the easiest to install client. It'll be primarily focused on being a light client, although we will support being a full node. And we're hoping that it's going to facilitate research really well, but we have every intention of this being a full node or a light client node that you can run and use in production. This is our status right now. We've got most of the four rules done. Byzantium is still in progress and we've got the LES protocol in progress. Right now we have, we're probably a month or two from a very alpha stage version of this that can sync up with the mainnet and run as a light client. So we're very close on this. And it's a, this project is intended to be sort of a foundational piece to the Python ecosystem. I'm very proud of this library and I think it's going to be one of the cornerstone pieces that helps bring the Python ecosystem up to par with some of the other ethereum tooling out there. And that's really sort of part of a broader goal of mine, which is I set out earlier this year with the sort of abstract goal of maturing all of the Python tooling because we needed better tooling and it, and, and so many people were flocking to the JavaScript stack, which is fine because the JavaScript stack has been the superior stack for a long time and it's a great stack, but people need choices. And so I wanted to set out to actually give them those choices. All right, one last note. Python three, starting in 2018, we will begin dropping support for Python two. So if you're using these tools and you're using Python two, you need to upgrade because they are going to break on you. It's time. You need to upgrade your code base. Python three is great. Upgrading to it is very easy. There are a ton of resources out there. We are dropping support for this. If this is a problem for you, please come talk to me. But the answer is likely to be that you need to upgrade your code base. Thank you all for your time.


Miki Glory by Immediately Life from KE hashtag Due Music BRANDFind I Make Sense Artists have no been proves Wasa clearance Ya, shinanu Thatינ reza Asa kat Cole Theklike Kupil vraiment Soo chant pure Yit on beef You make it do ye Thatinton They're very important It has crossed our passions To lazi You know the drill. Reach out to us at Kariuki Live, White Fefo on Facebook and Twitter and of course at White Fefo channel at Filingin and not forgetting at Half Lou Imboko as well. But before I talk more, it's time we introduce our artists of the week. I'm talking about unscripted. Before we introduce the artists of the week, Nye Filingin. Ya. We introduce the artists of the week. We introduce the artists of the week. Nye Filingin. Ya. Nye Filingin. Nye Filingin. Nye Filingin. Utafika tu maali usahu elzako. No. Ukule kia tu. Bart. Upetenji elzako. I'm saying you do your part. Aki skama liakusahao, that's them. No, no, you play your part. Aki skama liakusaha ni piyako. Una jwe ni poha? No, but I'm saying. Tu kiskeme sa utu wa tu wa ni she. Beti, Beti, the one we just played. Ameshikom koluna Mr. Izzy. Mr. Izzy is not even from Kenya. No, he is. He is from West Africa. Ya, Micah. And he has decided to help other African artists. Right? So that is a good initiative. Ume sema after Asha Mtoleangoma knows us as the media. We do our part by playing her music. That's why we just played her song. Ume sema. Ya, Micah. Una sema nga pehne mañoa. Ya, kime change wa. Ata Filingin nga me sema. Una nga nga nga nga yubo kwanza tikwe nge mañoa. Kime change. Who says that? So. Nya, ya almost jayskia. Nga nga sufi nga jita unscripted. Right. So today when I'm scripted we have a Kenyan artist. He is a hip-hop artist. He's been in this scene for a long time. Ya. And he is behind the hashtag play ke music. He started that hashtag officially a few years ago. Dr. Sae me kuza kukwa official this year. But he started the initiative back in the day and finally it's here. Everybody is talking about play ke music. And he's also producer. He has a record label. He's worked with various artists. MSID also a new engisana kua game. And currently he's working on his album. It's called the Statement. And he'll be telling us more about the album. Nga pehne sa bongakino ukusu wa toa hip-hopia. Kusagizin god ina kwangana ni. He'll be telling us that. Ya, thank you. Yes. Right. Una po doa po doa. Maski meja rol mzimo na zainu. Please utwambien. Right. So I'm talking about Kevo Kefos. Come on. He deserves a big shout out. A big shout out to Kevo Kefos. Ya. He's been in the game. He's doing his thing. So yes. Let's have a sit down with him and see what he has to tell us. Thank you so much for coming. I know it's your first time on the show. But ya, we'll be singing for us. I want Kevo to sing for us.  But we'll see. Right? If I could sing. Right. Right. Wao. Nime kuskewki yimba doo. Not like atona. National Lantern. National Lantern. Okay. Yoki lamdua na yimba. Kariyoki. Kariyoki everybody can sing. Ina ga rules by the way. So, and the show is kariyoki. So, very good. But ya, welcome. So how long has it been again in the game? I mean like, I don't know because maybe you can tell us. For those guys who are just watching. You know every show has its own following. So for the guys who've never, they've been living under a rock. They don't know you. How long has it been? This year. This year it's been 10 years since 2009. It's been that long? That's quite a while. We've been here for a while. We've been here. We've been here a while. Right. So, I want to know who are some of your influences when you got to the game. Who are you listening to and what actually just motivated you to get to the game and start doing this? I have a lot of influences. Some of them are hip-hop artists. Some of them are not. But generally my influences kwaiseka wukoflani, maumau. Right, maumau. And they have their bug. I don't know. I thought it was their bug, don't we? They're actually restructuring polipole. That's a great thing. I met some of them over the weekend at Kanta Is Funeral. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so I met them back in the lab trying to get things in order. So, that kind of hip-hop I met them. Right. I met them at home. I know. So, I got my influences kwaiseka kwaiseka wukoflani, maumau. I got my influences. I used to listen to some masimaira kidogo. So, I have a lot of influences kwaiseka wukoflani. I don't know what to say because they bring something different from kenyemimu nye kwaiseka wukoflani. I've been a fan of you for the longest time, I think. I've been listening to you back in the day when hip-hop was still hip-hop. Thanks. But then, right now, we have people changing the way they used to do things. Okay, I'm not putting you in the spotlight but we have other artists even trying to do that. Do you think it's really hard to just make it as a hip-hop artist basically doing hip-hop alone? Because most hip-hop artists, they are really great but they are underground. So, do you have to change your style for you to make it in this scene? You have to evolve and adapt to make it in anything. Not just in music. So, just like in any other endeavor or in any other industry as time goes, the norm evolves. So, in hip-hop, you don't have to change your core values but you can maybe just change your approach because when you do different age groups and you get into the market eventually because right now, me, I'm 29. So, by the time I'm 35, there's someone who's 15 there who will be already 20. So, in the spirit of just including everyone in your fan base or in your listener base, you just try and reach out.  You can just speak their language. And still press the message. And how about the... Okay, as much as that's true, we still have some of the funds not just in the hip-hop scene. In other genres of music, you find that people, you have the funds that are loyal to you and they follow your style the way it was but the moment you change just a little bit. Let me speak about rock.  And now your followers, it's like you betrayed them. They're like, no, we don't know the new Kevokafors. We don't know what he's doing. What would you tell someone like that? Someone who's used to the Kevokafors of 2009 and we have mumble rappers and we have other... So what would you tell someone like that? Like if you try not to change who you are the way you've said, maybe just find a new way of passing the message across and they still don't get that. What would you tell someone like that? First of all, if you're an artist, you're supposed to find balance. Because you have your core fans when you say ma. So come on in insani, to find balance in maintaining your identity which is like the one that made gages discover you Ant keeping up with the current trends and all that. So nīvi tu, bato pannaize zamgam ziki? Astronements don't listen to K-Force. Like they listen to K-Force music, not to K-Force. So tuna do. Just make sure that you're still doing what you used to do for your core fans to Mituu kianda online ama wherever it is that you go purchase your music from these online retailers or wherever una taftanga ile na kubamba So just make sure wale mafanzuako wa ko kuna zile zenye baduz na bamba designenye kenda tafte If you like me doing Bumba npenda agali apatia pade kuna album ya Bumba I buy So like personally me just try and create Different styles for the different kind of fans that have grown to acquire with time We knew you've been at Compact Records but now we know you have a new record label So someone might be confused like this number nine and this compact So maybe you just tell us more about that What's happening? Are you still at Compact and what's happening at number nine? Actually compact music is my boys label He's called Steven Ogachia I know he's even watching right now Yeah, we should add to Steven So that's my big bro And he brought me on point on Compact Records nm Sayedikfanya Creative Direction So I am still creative director at Compact Records So I want you to Okay this is karaoke so obviously we have to Okay I'm not gonna let you sing but I want you have to run for us I have a challenge whereby when you come to the show you have to sing a song It doesn't have to be yours and I did my own selection I don't know if you know the lyrics or not But it's a challenge and that's why I like it Because I'm gonna have to put you on the spot But it's a song you know So I don't know if you know it by heart But I'll have the lyrics over here just now So let's do that Let's have the lyrics and then you get to sing for us Yeah, you are appreciated When I was young me and my mama had beef Seventeen years old kicked out on the streets Though back at the time I never thought I'd see a face Ain't no woman alive that could take my mama's place Suspended from school, I'm scared to go home I was a fool with the big boys breaking all the rules She shed tears with my baby sister over the years We was poorer than the other little kids And even though we had different daddies The same drama when things went wrong We would always blame mama I reminisced on the stress I caused It was hell hugging on my mama from a jail cell And who thinking elementary Hey, I see the penitentiary One day running from the police, that's right Mama catch me put up in on my backside And even though she was a crack fee mama You always was the black queen mama I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy Trying to raise a man You always was committed to a poor Ay Ay yo, let's stop it there Kariyogi ni matz man That is amazing You did great, you did great, you did great You did great That was awesome, we love it You can have a seat now Right Nkwo, I understand you have a song About your mom as well Maybe you sing for us just that But now as we wind up because of time So just remind us the social media handles Where can people find you and if you have Any last words for your guys back at home First of all before where they can find me First of all you guys can find my music All of it you can find it on boom play Just download the boom play app If you want physical copies of my music Of course you can always help me up on social media I won't tell you the price on telly of course Second hit up when you're committed to buy You know the price but it's affordable Don't even worry You guys can also check me out on Social media at Kvo Kfos That's K-A-Y-V-O-K-F-O-R-C-E That's on Instagram and Twitter And on Facebook you can also find my page At Kvo Kfos the same Yeah that's pretty much it manze And also check out the new videos On YouTube man Ochan you are freestyle dog manze It's only right manze Yeah manze you have to Kamakawa ni K-Fos Kamakawa talanta akuna kufos Kamakawa na kwangabes Kamakawa ni Rat-Race Kamakawa na ibiwa baduna wase Wenya wana vitambina wenya wana Kamakawa metafokibao Mini-strikea Kamakawa na tingamabao Kamakawa tu chekinawao Nima stranger itabidi wa merudi makwao Kamakawa na daimatao Jumadabado anadaiki bimana hao So kamakawa na roga kamawakao Kamakawa posisyon na daifao Kamakawa ni na watuadi yunguaro DJ Chesa loko achana na makaro K-Fos man Namunani already know That was straight fire That's what I like about you Like anything goes Like I'll just wake up Someone will probably wake you up And just do your thing That's talent right there And we appreciate it And thank you so much for coming through It's been so much fun having you You should come often As soon as you drop a new song You have to drop it here Ya, you know Make sure many pigya I call you You know that You're watching karaoke live On Y254 TV See you later man Watcha tunde break Pay the bills and all that Right We'll be back


Excuse me? Yes? What are you doing? Oh, I'm sorry. I was just upright leisure in Yeah, you were just like standing up you say standing I say upright leisure in as you can see I have added a coat to my leisure suit. I think it's subtle. It is pretty subtle.  We've made two of these videos in the past one where Julian cooked me my favorite meal And I cooked to Julian's favorite meal, but I wanted to do this with desserts So we are both vegan, but Julian also has something called celiac disease. Oh Which means he can't eat wheat so vegan and gluten-free is a little bit of a challenge sometimes And even though we live in the second largest city in the United States Sometimes we just can't find delicious things that are both of us can enjoy, right? Right? Why are you wearing that helmet? Are you gonna wear that the whole time? But one thing that we have not been able to find is a gluten-free and vegan cupcake Specifically red velvet because I would say it's up there with my favorite desserts along with cheesecake Which a vegan cheesecake is super easy to make you just take some nuts you blend them around you put them in the fridge It's whatever it's very easy, but I want to not make but to leisure and enjoy watching Julian make me a batch of Red velvet. Wait, so I'm cooking all of the cupcakes. Yeah, that's what this is Julian look at my outfit. Do I look like someone that's gonna bake today? No, in fact, you look like big bird went to Coachella Walk out and I will come back with these cupcakes already if you make fun of me one more time I pinned it on my Pinterest Probably just mowing it.  I'm gonna what we're making deep throughout my cupcake Do we have a squeezy bag for the icing are we gonna have to use the block Thanks, we're gonna use the block the last couple cooking videos that we did I was obviously surprised that people like watching us cook but also that people are interested in what we eat because a lot of people seem to think that if you are a vegan that I wake up every day just with a craving for some carrots. And do I look like a rabbit to you?  All right, trust me We haven't had cupcakes. We both can eat in years I took a bite of this shortening just to make sure it was good before You look like you have a person that stands outside the DMV offering fake licenses for cheap The reason I asked for cupcakes and not like a whole cake is because they feel like there's some finality to a cupcake Whereas if you just make a red velvet cake a piece of cake is really like open to interpretation Yeah, this is a pre-determined portion. And so if you have five that's on you We got pastel liners Pretty we used to go to sprinkles and get cupcakes together Julie In the middle of the night at the vending machine I just want to go enjoy cupcakes with my boyfriend in the middle of the night Then we should open a cupcake shop that stays open 24 hours a day What are we gonna call it cup late come get y'all cakes? Oh, um, how about I cut a drop to my cake Salt every cupcake flavor is a different vine. Yes country boy. I love you one's called I was just called up. What's just called? Are you Javier? Why is no one done this? Can I get one?  I'll have two Adam I'll have three. Hi.  What does it mean sift that means?  What's the point of this by the way? It just makes it like light and fluffy. So then when you bake your cupcakes, they're like light and fluffy. I think You're doing amazing sweetie. Please stop.   You can do it. Just throwing that in there. Just mush this down all the flour You just set that no to put down the dish rack. Now.  Oh, yeah This gets set aside aside Do you have to mix them or not? You're not doing anything. No micro managing In a large mixing bowl.  Oh, you can use either war or I'm from okay Where are you from? I'm in Virginia. We take this very seriously Oh Why like why me a spot? Okay?  I'm being lucky This is what Jen about today now come on over here. This is what happens when People don't consult each other. We already have it What's that my baby? Wait, no, this is it. No, nevermind. We don't have any your brain. I was just trying to drag you But we don't try and drag for everything that's in the house and where it is. Is white vinegar different than white wine vinegar Yes, allow for one minute to curdle add sugar oil and gel food coloring.  To lick it It's to deal with brown sugar. All right, ladies. Honestly, this really looks like Rosanna Pansino's channel Look at this setup this lighting. Yeah, but this my production value is just a little bit better. Sorry, Rosanna You'll so I believe you're up. This one's for my Roseanna. It's out there Some script follow. That looks like blood. How much of that? I don't know. You just have all it It's probably fine. Was that bowl gonna be big enough? No, you did this backwards Can you not like stress mid noise in my ear Imagine if I drop this right now, and it just shattered glass everywhere and all it was all for nothing Let's add a little bit.  Yes, it is. I don't feel it That actually looks really nice though Okay, what I'm just tasting it for that Is on my face suddenly pour batter in the prepared cupcake pan. So I'm gonna just take this and just Drop them from real high up the camera didn't record in the right time. Oh really?  No, it was it press record. No, it was a technical difficulty I think the dogs did it, but this is what not planning out portions look like they start nice and even and then These ones are covered in your finger like you jammed his finger in there and then scooped it They're gonna taste like finger. I just want you to stop jamming You know, it's cool about eating off this pass a lot of calories don't count Are you relaxed yet, I honestly feel So stressful to not like fix all the things I Guarantee you like tomorrow. I'm gonna wake up and find some batter on the wall somewhere Can you just like maybe relax? No, I don't want to get rejected Um, so we got a bank these at 350 Celsius. It's not true. Translates to about 800 degrees Oh, we got a beat together The whisk oh a standing mixer. We don't have one of those.   It's not good to me. It's so long Jenny normally does like helps me clean up. So this is a mess. I apologize There's literally a wet paper towel under the mixer. Yeah, this I'll just put it over there by the ball. No So we need a fourth a cup of shortening So we need a softened a half a cup of butter Everywhere like the top isn't even on the almond milk. How does it need to be someone? Why is there another? Like the top's not even on the food calling that's gonna spill and make a mess It could or it couldn't we're trusting that it won't okay two to three tablespoons of almond milk Hey You threw that under the does that look like the trash to you? Lemon juice and vanilla so I like to throw the lemon in the air and just cut it Well, I lost the teaspoon. Do you know where it is? It's probably clean.  Yeah, it's really not good One a bag of sugar Two shots of vodka. Oh my god, three and a half cups of powdered sugar Honestly, it's not me worth it. All right, so I'm gently shoveling. There's nothing gentle about this alarm. Just went off Oh, look at those babies cooler. They are the better. Oh, those look so good What are you doing? I'm gonna shot of these unpiped Honestly Christina toesie is waking Pansino is cool. Wait, Christina toes is definitely quaking So now we're gonna wait for our cupcakes to get cool enough It's the only thing that Julian's gonna allow me to step in and say don't pipe them while they're piping hot Yo, so I'm a mask and I don't get my belt. Yeah, cool. It's a girl baseball. Yo, I'm $2,000 Are you ready to pipe it up?  You know what it looks nice, I would win cupcake wars probably what's going on there. Is that a J? Yeah, that's cute. That was for you. I want more icing than that. Yeah Why you really gave up on that one. I like avant-garde cupcakes Julian it's very creative, but like I don't want to eat that. Okay here. Let's try this one Julian what that one's a different stuff.  I just made a heart. It looks really good. Okay, I want you to try it. So far the presentation is very pretty I like that extra food coloring makes it look nice Stop. Is it good?  Oh my god That's good. How do you already have it on your face? I don't Happy leisure day. Mmm. I got some paper in that bite. I feel like I need to hire you a babysitter Well, let me step right. I feel like we could play around with the recipe to get the cake like a little lighter And the frosting a little lighter, but like the flavor is really good What we're not gonna do is Sit at the table like a people and purr for cupcakes. Well turn the camera This was really nice of you Maybe you're like 30 like me where the exciting things in life are like Baking yourself a sweet that you didn't usually have or forcing someone to bake a sweet for you Chef's table on Netflix. I Know this isn't the most exciting thing in the world But I feel like a lot of you guys ask us all the time to cook stuff because you want to see what we eat And honestly, the answer is the same thing that you eat just the version that we eat We have a really busy month coming up and it's nice to just spend some time together and cook some food that we like Now we can make cupcakes and bring them to people.  Let's do that. Let's be those people. Let's be those people post cooking kitchen tour. Okay, we got a plate of Gorgeous cupcakes lighter to light the candle for my date. No dishes. Everything's put away counters clean and good to go So we also learned a little Spanish. So kind of why is that? Processed stress me out the kitchen is now stressing me out It's great Did you do something new some walls new paint or guys? You can't have any cupcakes. Oh You know what to use me like a ladder to get to the frosting. All right Make sure you subscribe to my channel. I put out new videos every Wednesday slash Thursday.  All right, I'll see you next week. Bye