time we have our first interview of the day and our guest for today is well I'm trying to look for the right words for this one because Yanyi he is a serial entrepreneur he's an entertainment enthusiast he's a fashion designer he is international he's not just Kenyan he's literally international and he goes by the name Dennis Dennis how you doing this morning very good good to see you thank you so much for coming through glad that you could make time to be with us today all right so without wasting any more time I'll just I would kindly let you introduce yourself I didn't think I did justice to you right there so kindly please introduce yourself one one more time okay my name is Dennis Osadebe I'm from Nigeria but based in Dubai I'm a fashion designer and also I make movies right yes I've seen that and your company didi they and they and they all did it all right and they all right tell us about that how did that come into place how did when did you found it what was the inspiration behind it just give us a little background yeah the endic Colton was given bad in 2016 in in the UAE before then we were into movies back in Nigeria and you know when you're making movie there's a lot of costumes and there's a lot of things that you have to do so but seeing that most of the things that we do everything comes from Western world yeah and that is what prompt me to say no that I don't want to do this anymore and I want to go into fashion and that is why we give better our brand in Dubai all right and I would imagine when you're in Nigeria you're you're working with this company that produces movies I guess you are always the one who's working on costumes like you would see maybe the cast members you look at the style of the movie and you're like no no no I don't think this is going to work with her I don't I think we should do this you should do that did you ever find yourself doing that like customizing their clothes right before they start shooting did you ever do that maybe that's where you realize that you know what maybe should concentrate more on fashion actually it's my company yeah I give back to the company it's called DCS entertainment right and I started that company 2008 in Nigeria and then with effects that were using Z7 you know we have very nice and then we're using Protoss 003 and we find out that even when we're making movies that because when we're doing that there was nothing like YouTube there was nothing like so you need to print CDs you need to do something when you're looking for so certain kind of costumes you know you watch an American movie you see that the costume designer will create it from scratch but then we can do that so those are the things that we look at we said no we cannot continue this way the Africa has to change and we have to change the mindset of the people and we start creating our own custom locally then and from there the inspiration came for fashion designer right and you create African prints but in Western style tell us about that how does that work yeah we started with Ankara Ketengi like Masai but you see most time when people hear about African brands so the perspective is okay just look at this kind of local fabric so we we decide to change their mindset so most of the things that we do we now modernize our normal African Ankara to Western so presently now we are printing our own fabric and we are taking it to the next level right and your company D&D is the only legally registered African prints company in the UAE how did you know about that yeah because when we came in then there is no most of the Africans are bringing fabric just from Africa to showcase in Dubai and then we went around there is no any African brand then so we're the first to register it then in UAE and we're the also first to launch it there yeah you have African shows you have different kind of shows from Africa but it's not like a brand right that is by African register but now we have few tanker we have like I think last year we have like two different African brand are coming which is very good and we're proud to see that as well right at least the industry is growing you're getting some competition and that keeps you on your toes it keeps you walking so that's great and also being a fashion designer you have to be fashionable yourself right so maybe you can tell us about your style how would you describe your style as Deniz how what comes to your mind when you think fashion what comes to your mind as Deniz you see where I'm coming from like Nigeria you know most of Nigeria's are very fashionista but me as a person why we decide to create our own our own sizes right now because you know most African men have Tommy so what we do is that yeah yeah so what we do we decide to create our own a little bit longer than normal usual shares so we create our own style that is very interesting that if you see even our shares our take shares is a little bit like one two inch longer than normal sizes so it's something that anybody can rock it and it's amazing right now everybody thinks they know fashion everybody have their own style in fashion and I don't know if you told me to describe fashion I would have my own definition but today is not about me so to you what does fashion mean to you when someone thinks fashion when someone talks fashion what does that mean to you personally fashion is food you know if really you're into it because the way you eat food that is how you want to look good and you know looking good is a good business yeah so for us fashion is something that we want to take to the next level you know fashion is something that Africa still believe in this kind of farm you know yes people are not encouraging you that much because an african brand when you see it oh it's not original it's not days but we're changing that mindset that is why we decide as well as industry we decide to go with the best we decide to go with the best fabrics from Europe from Italy we decide to go with fabric from London so we are working with different vendors that supply same company that supply for example Gucci a fabric is the same company that we buy fabric from right hold a feed yeah and I would imagine like it's a struggle and coming up with a design being a fashion designer you know being a stylist is different we'll just go pick someone else's clothes and then you see do they fit and stuff right now being a designer means you create something from scratch yes tell us about that how do you have to be in the how does that happen the creative process behind that what's the inspiration how do you get inspired I would want to be my for me is imbued is something that fakes you the first needs to have a passion in what you're doing because if you don't have passion in what you're doing you cannot be able to reach anywhere so what we do is that when we wake up sometimes we decide to check which are the biggest brand we have in this world then we pick ten biggest brand and what motivate them to be a big a big brand so we go back to our draw blood and then we decide to scale in something in African way because apart from you being a fashion designer you need to tell the story of Africa so that is why you see even our print also has something that comes from Africa we're not just printing so we have different kind of historical story that we embed into the system of our fabric before we bring it to reality right and you talked about bigger brands being motivated and doing great and the reason why they are staying at the top so what motivates you what motivated as D&D what keeps you motivated what keeps you going despite all the challenges I can imagine there are many what keeps you motivated and going what keeps me is you see in now and in the world we live in today Africa is left behind you understand so when you see brand like Gucci like I can even use Zara as an example you see every African where Zara every African where Louis Vuitton they wear different kind of bramble where is this African brand that the world is wearing that is my question every day where is this brand that I can say okay this brand is originated from Africa that the whole world is wearing yes you understand in my own understanding I didn't find one and these are our motivation these are our push and today by the grace of God already our brand is selling all over the world that is amazing that's great inspiration even to the people who are watching at home maybe they want to get into the same industry I think that you that could really drive them and right just that what we're talking about people watching at home and someone wanting to become a designer what do you think someone needs to have because and you don't I don't think you would just wake up one day and you're like you know what I'm becoming a designer we're not going to school without even having any background in that you just wake up and you're like I'll be a designer I think it's a field that has money and I want to have some of this money to you what do you think someone should have in order to become a designer courage boldness believes right because without believing in yourself nobody will believe in you face you need to believe in yourself you need to believe in your ability and what you can be able to do and see yourself beyond just Kenya if you're from Kenya see yourself beyond East Africa see yourself beyond Africa see yourself beyond for example even Africa and what Middle East you understand because when you wake up one day and look at yourself and ask yourself question where do you want to see yourself in the next three years where do you want to see yourself in the next six years so those are the aim that fix you need to absorb inside you then you can create your drawing board the road is not easy it's never easy but if you believe in yourself I think the sky just the beginning right yeah I only told you we've talked about Zara you talked about Gucci and one thing these big brands have the main problem they have is the knockoffs they fly the end of the market we've seen people wear adidas you see the main companies adidas but then they lose a lot because people will rather wear the cheap knockoffs is that a challenge you're facing currently do you ever have someone it's a design this came from you you made this from scratch and you have a price that this brand is going for but then you find someone with the same design by selling cheaper do you ever face such yeah we we from the beginning yes we do that because they're wasting just no man car and you know no man car anybody can buy it in the market when you create something that is amazing and you take a lot of time to do that before you know it's already in the market same design so that is why we decided now to start creating our own print so that is why we're doing our own whatever we produce today must have one a logo so these are the things that now yes you can copy it but before you come to a change again before you come to a change again so those are the things that we are pushing now yeah for instance let's say you come up with a design that you really like and someone produces it and then hits the market he's making more money than you do you have anything legally like do you have anything like that can protect you in if you know this is the company that's doing the same thing that I'm doing and they're selling it for cheaper legally are you able to sue them or once they in the market there's nothing you can do yeah for sure if you notice that they are using your name you can sue them right but if they are creating their own design with whatever whatever you don't have your design yes you don't have any right to do that but if somebody use your name and you find out definitely you can sue that company right yeah okay and I understand right now it's been tough for everybody in all sectors all businesses were affected because of COVID we can imagine so not so many shows like people do virtual shows we don't attend as many events as before has it affected you as D&D has it affected you personally yes it does because we we came into Kenya and also we made this pandemic right because we came last year by January was putting tests in order by March April the 10th came and it affect us even from now we have not even launched officially like because we plan to do runway for example we are two or two fifty models right so up till now we're still looking at the enabling environment I can give us a chance to to exhibit and also show East Africa our product right so I never think is that fashion keeps evolving every single day we have new styles new designs coming up in the market so how do you keep yourself updated with the current trends yeah we we are even we're even running faster than because you see normally brands create to collection in a year but what we do now we're trying to see how we create for collection in a year because Africa still need to know exactly what is going on and embrace you know their story which is a breeze you're buying also made in Africa so those are the things that we are as well pushing you know for people to also encourage us because you know when you buy made in Africa you're encouraging the fashion designers to do more so you're boosting your morale to create something that is amazing yeah presently now in Kenya what we're doing mostly is wedding we're doing a lot of wedding because also we have different kind of team that is amazing here right now you've lived in Nigeria in Dubai you're now in Kenya I can imagine you've met all sorts of people with different backgrounds even artists big international artists so who can you see you've dressed that is so big everybody knows them you could even believe that they wanted you to dress them do you have that one person in mind I did in Nigeria I've dressed different artists I've dressed different big artists I've been different movie actors and in Kenya also I've dressed one of your big stars as well Jeff Konanke I've dressed Eugene Imalue I've dressed through love magazine I've dressed a lot of people here as well you know I've dressed Eric he has come to my place I've dressed yeah so many and as you wind up because of time I would love to know what has been the highlight like the highest moment you like you've got that you're like you know what this is the reason why did this just give us that one moment yeah that one moment was when we involve in a world fashion award right and we came out number three yes yes it was Italy came out face would be in America would be different kind of people because our designs was something that nobody believed you know coming from an African inspiration and this kind of thing is moving so those are the things that also give us this big as it so that means if this can happen so we start seeing ourself beyond just Dubai or Africa so now we're having representative in US in Singapore Singaporeans are wearing our address so this also gives you yeah so this also gives you the zeal that no matter what it takes hard work pays you know with time you always report you so right exactly alright so um before you go we want to know what are you guys planning do you have anything coming out that is big that people can check it out what is the future what people should people expect where what's the future of D&D well for now D&D has the best suits in the world right I can say so our suit is something that is amazing and it's also fast-selling we're selling more than 200 pieces in a week our suit is selling in America like crazy and I imagine it's cheaper than the Italian suit yeah it is and also have the same Italian standard right because also in Kenya here we also brought S-patriots you know so we train our local people here and they are doing amazing job yeah so you check out in our suit and check out our bomber jacket is first-office kind by the way amazing yes we love that alright so thank you so much for coming through and I know there are people who are like okay now Dennis you've talked about suits you've talked about all these things now where do we find them so you do you have a website do you have social media what do people find that we do D&D clothing you know our website also is D&D clothing so it's D then and D or just DD any which way you find us other D&D slash D you can see fine clothing yes across all social media across all social media oh that's amazing we love that thank you so much for coming through do you have any shoutouts I can see you brought up friends maybe shout outs and to the guys maybe who are watching the show before you go yeah shattered my biggest inspiration is my woman who is around me she also motivated me to do more right you understand she made me see beyond my ability understand because before I was looking I just look at content or whatever to see just in a way but when she came into my life she opened your eyes I see myself now beyond even imagination yeah imagine that Nash unless you're like Nash is okay you can see him but we're gonna be talking about it you see what they say behind every successful mind there is a woman so shout out to her for making you a shout out to you for recognizing her now we're still here the hashtag is it's our cute alright thank you so much for staying tuned we're gonna take a very short break but we are coming right back we have a lot more show for you ahead thank you so much Danny's for coming through we appreciate so much


Started so it says reconcile like a pro get your books and your bank statement to agree So you open the bank statement match your books to the statement success. All right, let's get it done So this was where we would choose the account. We're going to be choosing the checking account now Here's the problem the beginning balance here doesn't even have anything in it. It's at zero at this point in time Whereas over here We have a beginning balance of the 30,000 that's going to cause us a problem We can kind of work around that though. So let's continue with that and say, okay I'm just going to deal with that hold on a second the ending balance is 6124 185 so 6124 1.85 and by the way 6128 1 if you mess this up you can still change it Afterwards Once you're in there if I go into this this is going to be as of the cutoff date, which is on the bank statement 131 so as of the ending date of the bank statement Here and then we're going to say down here enter the service charges or interest earned This is kind of a remnant of the old bank reconciliation before bank feeds Because oftentimes what would happen is if we did a full service accounting system We would be entering oftentimes checks Right and we would be writing the checks and entering the checks as we go And there would be certain things that we know that we would not have picked up that would be on the bank statement And those things would include things like the service charges the banks going to just take money out of our account For their fees we wouldn't know about that until we got the bank statement So we could do the journal entry automatically right here and it'll do a journal entry for us to record the fees The same might be with interest earned if we earned interest on our account Then we wouldn't know about that until they told us that on the bank statement. So we could record that as we go However, these days we actually have bank feeds So so those are things that might come through with the bank feeds So we would catch them as they come through our system Just like any other transaction and probably record them with the bank feeds making this whole little thing down here obsolete I never liked to use it in the first place because I would rather You know reconcile what I have I think it gets a little confusing When we were adding these so basically I would disregard For those two reasons this bottom bit here usually start reconciling All right, then we have our little worksheet up top So we've got the statement Indian balance the statement Indian balance is what we typed in here That was the 61 to 41 85 We just we just told quick books of that and then we have the cleared balance The cleared balance is zero at this point in time because it didn't give us any beginning balance and because we haven't checked anything off Down below Therefore we have a difference of 61 to 41 85 Our goal of the bank reconciliation is to get this difference down to zero when the difference is at zero Then we can reconcile the fact that this difference is that zero or when it gets to zero does not mean That our books will then match the bank books It does not mean that our books here this 88 810 will then be 61 to 41 85 what's on the bank statement because The cleared balance only represents those items that we checked off down here And if we didn't check it off Then it might still be a good a fair thing that we don't check off right because it might be an outstanding check or deposit Which would be the reconciling item? So this is just the cleared balance the beginning balance Plus the things that we checked off the things that we don't check off are the reconciling items the difference between the bank and The book things that were most likely be outstanding checks outstanding deposits Now how do we get to this cleared balance? Well, it's got your little arrows down here It's the beginning balance which that's going to be a problem because I don't have anything and it has 30,000 so we're that's a problem and then we have the the payments and The deposits which are the things that we're going to check off, right? So the deposits would increase this number the payments are gonna are gonna increase this number and so on so if I check all of these These boxes off and I tick and tie each of these items out perfectly Then my ending balance has to work meaning my additions and my subtractions that are the cleared balances We'll tie out to this and this exactly and and so it has to work, right? If there's something that are in the bank statement That's not on our books and we're gonna have to add it to our books unless the bank is wrong, right? But we can't do it in the first month because this 30,000 isn't in the beginning balances So even if I get this number and this number to be correct It's still gonna be a problem because I don't have the beginning balance. Well, what do I do about that? Well? This 25,000 you will recall is the 25,000 that we put into opening balances That's the beginning balance that we put into the system So that is really truly our beginning balance which should be over here in the beginning balance section But the fact that it's not isn't a big deal as long as we noted on the first bank reconciliation We could just check it off and there it is right there So so now basically by doing that I can say, okay, I have this one I have the top bit, but it doesn't tie out right if it matched I wouldn't have a problem if this was 25,000 then I would have the 25,000 right here Even though it's not in the beginning balance. It's in the wrong category It's still gonna be an increase either way and I could still reconcile


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S20 Ultra versus the iPhone 11 Pro Max. Let's go. So the rumors are true, the S20 Ultra packs a ton of features. This device is the behemoth, but how does it stack up against the iPhone 11 Pro Max? We do know the 11 Pro Max comes with a 6.5-inch display. That resolution, of course, is kind of funky. Galaxy, of course, comes with one of the best displays in the market, and the S20 Ultra is no slouch. It adds 6.9 inches. It is a lovely display, 2K resolution. You've also got 120 Hertz refresh rates, but that's at 1080p. Plus, this device itself has touch sampling of 240 Hertz, so which means when you're gaming, like I will be, and you see that in our next video, this thing is truly smooth and amazing. Now, in terms of internals, this is powered by the Snapdragon 865 processor. We've seen that this processor can shoot in 8K, and yes, this device can, we'll get to that in a second, but the A65 processor promises a lot of fun features, especially for gaming. Now, the iPhone, of course, has a bionic processors, which are really good, so I'm not gonna compare those two because we know how they both stack up, and we're still yet to see how well the A65 performs. But in terms of internals, you're looking at 12 gigabytes of RAM starting, and the Ultra goes up to 16 gigabytes of RAM. But in terms of storage, though, this is where it beats the iPhone, iPhone size is 64. This starts at 128, we'll go next level up to 512, and you can expand it with a one terabyte SD card because it still has an SD card slot in here, so that part is really cool. Now, when we flip devices to the back, this is where you guys are waiting for. Now, the iPhone has a triple camera setup, we know that, it looks pretty nice, it's 12 megapixels, and of course, now you can shoot with multiple cameras at the same time with that, of course, third-party app. But the iPhone is well-known for its camera taking great low-light photos, as well as also video. Now, the S20 Ultra comes in with a triple camera setup. First, it has a 108 megapixel main sensor. This is a massive sensor in here, and this sensor gives you a ton of features. So the S20 Ultra gives you three times more low light capability than the S10 because, of course, of the nano-binding of all the pixels, you've got multi-ISO composition, so there's a ton of things that it actually does. We'll have to see that when we do the camera test. This also has, of course, lossless zoom, 10x lossless zoom, and 100x zoom as well. So that is also there. You've also got an ultra-wide camera, telephoto, all those things packed in together to make it truly insane. Again, we have to see that. Of course, this time there is also support for, of course, steady shot, but steady shot has been improved to support both axises, not just y-axis, but x-axis as well, and this device also shoots at 8K, 8K 24 frames per second, and it shoots all cameras, all cameras on the Galaxy S20, just like the iPhone 11 Pro Max, shoots at 4K 60 frames per second. So you still have that ability of 4K 60, but you can bump up to 8K 24 if you need to on the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Now, another cool feature is something called Single Take. Single Take allows you to take one photo or one shot and capture photo in either ultra-wide, telephoto, wide, video, basically taking shots in every single camera or possibility you need. So you snap one shot, you can get a little video, and an ultra-wide at the same time. I decide what you want to share on social media. I think that aspect is really cool. Now, you've also got a 5,000 milliamp battery in here, compared to the 3,900 milliamp. Now, the iPhone battery life is pretty good, but this should really boost the Galaxy S20 Ultra up there. This of course supports 25-volt charging that Samsung has, or the 45-volt charger as well. Now, Samsung also has reverse wireless charging on those brand new Samsung Galaxy Buds Plus, so you can use it with that. The iPhone doesn't have any form of reverse wireless charging. Both devices do have wireless charging, and of course, both of them are IP rated as well. Now, when it comes to gaming, as you'd expect, the iPhone is a good gaming device, does heat up pretty well, so that's just something to take note. The Galaxy has, of course, special cooling as they usually do every year, but again, going back to that display, 120 hertz, and of course, 240 hertz touch sampling with this device and a lot of RAM, 12 gigs of RAM starting, 16 gigabytes of RAM on the Ultra. It's the only device that goes up to 16 gigabytes of RAM, so that is truly insane. So we were playing all our games, but the cool thing about it is that now you can lock in five applications that will constantly start whenever you switch out. So basically, you can lock in all your games, and while you're gaming, you can go and do other things and come right back and continue the spot where you stop without, because you've got so much RAM to use. Now, they're actually tying it in there to actually do a lot of stuff with this device. And here's the big kicker compared, of course, to the iPhone 11 Pro Max. The Galaxy S20 Ultra is a fully 5G capable device. This is not a 5G variant or anything like that. It supports both millimeter wave and sub six. So you can pick this up from Samsung.com and use it on any carrier's 5G service or any carrier's 4G LTE service as well. So you don't have to buy a special version of the Galaxy S20 Ultra. You just have to buy the Galaxy S20 Ultra, and it does. Well, of course, the iPhone 11 Pro Max doesn't have 5G or there is no 5G variant for this device yet. So there you have it, guys. That is the battle between these two joggernauts.  Well, the Galaxy S20 Ultra starts at $13.99 and I'm not sure how it moves up in price, but that's what it is. But it does come with a ton of features in there and it is a 5G device. Let me know what you think and also what kind of videos you'd like to see. I'll be doing my gaming video. I'm also gonna be doing some more videos on the camera itself. We'll do a camera walkthrough for you guys. But if there's anything you wanna see, leave your thoughts down below. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe and always enjoy your entertainment.


Hey, y'all, it's Tammy with Collard Valley Cooks. We are in Cedartown, Georgia, where I grew up in the house that I spent my 10 years and 20 years in. This house was also our office. And in the back is where Mama lived most of the time. And they have remodeled it and made a little kitchen back here for an apartment. And me and Chris will be using this side when we come home to see everybody. So I'm gonna show you around really quick, but then I'm gonna show you my grocery haul that's going to be my basic stocking for my cabinets, okay? These are the things I just can't live without. We're gonna start our grocery haul. I have decided in this little kitchen that I am going to keep because my dishwasher is here. I tell people if I'm gonna unload the dishwasher, I don't wanna stretch too far to put my dishes up or be awkwardly reaching over to put them up. So I've got most of my plates and stuff on this side so that I can empty the dishwasher, reach around and put them up. And then I'm gonna use this for pantry here. And then I'm gonna use this side for pantry. And this side's gonna be glasses. All right, so we're gonna get started. I'm gonna show you things I cannot live without, things that's my basic stocking. And there's hardly anything that I forgot that I might have forgot just a couple of things, but nothing major. So of course we've got spaghetti. Me and Chris are trying to eat a little healthier so I got whole wheat, whole grain spaghetti. Of course you don't have to, but that's what we used to do. I got the scotty that I like to have for breakfast in the mornings with my coffee. A taco dinner kit because everybody needs one for a night. They don't feel good. And spaghetti sauce was on sale. I got pre-cut parchment sheets because the only other parchment paper they had was that really wide stuff and we don't even have a pan that big here. Elbow macaroni for macaroni and cheese and soup. Slow cooker liners, everybody needs some, right? Tetley tea. Everybody knows I like Tetley tea. Now of course I got freezer bags and storage bags and you can tell some things I like name brands on and some things that don't matter to me. Like Saltine crackers, my storage bags. Those kind of things I don't mind. So you'll see off brands and then you'll see some name brands and some things I gotta have a name brand for. This is my favorite bullion and it's chicken and I got a chicken and I got a beef. And I'm gonna show you the spices that I got on Amazon this week for Amazon Prime. They had a set of spices y'all for 60 something dollars. And I mean, there's a lot of spices in it. Anything you could possibly think of. They even have special things like rosemary, sea salt and all the stuff. Well anyway, I just chose to order that instead of going in the grocery store and picking up a spice of everything I need it. And that makes it easier. But of course they have this on sale today. Pink salmon, pork and beans. Everybody needs pork and beans. Dice free the baggots because Chris don't like them and that way I can eat them when I want to. Let's see what else we got. We got salmon, lime and beans because I wanna make some succotash. I still ain't know that for y'all. Green beans, mixed vegetables. Diced tomatoes, refried beans for top of night. Vena sausages, I love them. Cream of mushroom and cream of chicken. We've got Van Catten's chili. That's what we were raised on. Of course some tuna fish. Evaporated milk, baking powder. All my basics for baking I got. Slice peaches for a quick peach pie or peach cobbler. I think I got cream of mushroom, cream of chicken and I also got some fruit cocktail. Those are pretty much basic things that you gotta have. Baking wise, baker's flake coconut. I don't get cheaper bread than flake coconut. It's worth paying the extra if this is available. I don't get off bread for chocolate chips because Chris don't like them. So I got Nestle totals. This is powdered sugar, brown sugar. I got dark and light and Kroger Breed is fine. Crisco, of course I got rice, pentose, great northerns. I forgot black eyed peas, lime and beans. No idea, and here they are, black eyed peas. You gotta have your dried beans in the rice no matter where you're at. I got dale seasoning, cocoa sauce, red chili sauce. That's a sweet chili sauce. It's not a chili sauce like the Heinz hot chili sauce. This is different, it's more oriental. Pesto is really good in pasta salads. Chris likes Heinz 57 on his steaks.  I got honey mustard, sweet baguette, makes a good one. The light and dark Kroger syrup, I got, they said this was a closeout item so a lot of people don't buy this but I don't really like grape jelly, I like grape G and I like welch's and I like it in this because I can squeeze it on the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This is olive oil, my corn oil, each of my quick grits. It's our favorite grits. I got a little thing of parm because I knew I wouldn't need a big one here because we're not here that often. Chris likes Dice Jalapenos, sweet baguette's barbecue. Now me and Chris make our own barbecue sauce at home but I'm not gonna go buy all the materials to make it here. Cider vinegar, corn starch for baking, vanilla for baking, all my extracts for baking that I like. I got those today. Some of them are imitation and I didn't have to pay as much. Then I got puddings and I got the cheaper pudding because it was just 50 cents so I got chocolate and vanilla, one strawberry, jello in case I wanna make a strawberry pie while we're here. I did get some golden raisins. Um, when we eat cereal, we try to eat a cereal that's at least five grams of fiber per serving and this one is, let's see, how come I can't see it? I don't know. Protein sodium? It's got enough, let's take our word for it. Six grams. Let's go to the next thing. Six grams, I wanna support it. I know, yes. No way first, but I got the cheaper bread, trisks for salads. This is my favorite white cake mix because you get more in the box. The Betty Cropper is about the only one that still gives you 16.25 ounces instead of 15 point something ounces. So I got two of those. When I buy salt, I buy iodized sea salt. Well actually, I picked up the wrong one. I usually get iodized sea salt and I picked up the wrong one. I got cocoa, bacon soda, not only by Jeff Peanut Butter, pecans. I buy salted butter, I'll get the cheap bread, I don't care. I just got some block cheese, cream cheese, our sausage of course, blue plate mayonnaise, a graham cracker crust. I got the old fashioned oats and I got the quick minute oats, all right? And then over here, of course I got eggs, chips, sugar. I like to get Domino if I can, if I'm gonna be baking because it's finer and it's easier to make candies and stuff out of. Now if you're not making candies or anything like that, there's nothing wrong with getting off bread. Of course, we only use white lily, buttermilk, cornmeal mix, that's a bigot. That's the only thing we use. And then we have light white lily, self-rising flour. And I guess that's pretty much it. That is my grocery haul, my basics. You can't forget your beans, your rice, all the basics, your pasta, and the extra things that help you get by on a night you don't feel good or you want something quick, you gotta get taco stuff and spaghetti stuff and salmon in a can and tuna in a can and things like that. And then today they had 10 ears of corn for $3. And so I got 10 ears of corn and I'm gonna shuck it and cream it. My knives are supposed to come in from rated today. I'm waiting on them. And you can see this is a really pretty, variegated corn. I gotta get the croaker today. Yeah, we don't have croaker down in St. Mary's but there's croakers up here. Yeah, and I saw a couple of viewers when I was out shopping and got to speak to them and it was nice today being at home. And the good thing about this apartment too is like if we have something like corn or like those Brussels sprouts or something and we're going back home, then Melissa can just get them because she's right next door. She's in the... And if she's out of something, she comes in here to borrow it. And if I'm out of something, I can go in there and borrow it. She's right. But I still want to decide. Right through that door. Yeah, right through that door right there. That's where Melissa and Tillman is in the office and we have all of our cookbooks that we mail out to everybody, whether you order them on Amazon or you order them through PayPal. And even when you send in a check, Melissa does all the cookbooks and sends them out. So here in Polk County is where all the mail goes out of. And anyway, we're excited. We're excited. I'm super excited to have my own kitchen here, have it stocked and have it ready. And I'm hoping that you guys will be able to see the food good. And I look forward to seeing you this evening, cutting off the corn and making some cream corn to go with our delicious chuck roast. It'll be delicious. It smells so good already. And me and Chris haven't had lunch, so we're really hungry. So we just thank you so much for watching Colored Valley Cooks. And we will see you tonight. Bye. Love ya.


And to me, it is the importance of, it has the importance of spirituality. It is something which is beyond, something that I can explain that is bigger than me. And again, what I was talking about is we see sex as like this porn or this shame, and we live life by our highs and our lows. And we want to get in shape for what other people think of us. And we want to be sexy, we want to get attention, and we want to exchange with people. We want to have a sexual experience to define ourselves as a man. And if we're going to do that, we need to get the hottest chick. We need to get her in the craziest positions. We need to get her to say that, I was the best I ever had. We need to go look at sex methods so that we can have better sex. But when it comes down to it, sex is never here or here. Success is never here or here. Socializing is never here or here. It's the most natural things that we have. Any ambitions or goals that you have, and this is what the sexual life is about, is it's a balance. It's a balance. In this room, you guys have heard speakers and been moved by them or been inspired or whatever. You know? And that's been happening this whole time. We've been simply breathing in and out. We've been simply experiencing. We've been simply making friends with people. We've been going out to lunch. We've broken bread with people. We've done all those simple actions. And what we don't realize is those are more important than anything, than any of this. Those are more important than anything that's going to happen after this as a result. It's the simple things.  This is what, when I'm with a woman, I will not. I will not, man. This happened recently. I laid in a bed with a girl. I mean, that's obvious. I've known her for a while and very attractive, and I'm attracted to her. I laid in a bed with a girl, but I knew that both of us are so sex-crazed. It would not be good. I can't be responsible for that. We'd build this huge sexual dynamic, and all these emotions would happen, and it would not be a good thing. So I need to be responsible with those things, because my sexuality needs to be more calm. It's low energy. It's slow. It's paced. It defines us. It's not a tidal wave. It's nothing like that. It's something which is calm and controlled in the essence of masculinity and femininity.  It is something where you can live in balance, and I was talking to some of the fitness guys yesterday, and I'm like, man, socializing sexuality. People always look for these big deals and these big breakthroughs, but when it comes down to it, what it's really about is that every day, you may lift weights, kick ass, run a certain amount. I'm not really into that, but I am. But you may get an SNL. You may make a big sale, but it's never as good as it is, and it's never as bad as it is, because you need to do those things every day. So whatever results that you have, it needs to be in the simple actions. Open up your mouth, put your hand out, meet somebody, exchange with them, live the best possible life you can live, and I've seen it, man.  That is what I want to share with you guys, and if you guys want to do that, then we can definitely do that. You can live whatever your best possible self is, and, man, that is what I stand for, and if you haven't heard what my definition by all of this is and what it is not, then talk to me afterwards, but there, that's what I'm passionate about, and that's what I love to do. So hopefully you got a lot out of that. If you want to continue the conversation, I want to continue it with you. Steve Meiter, thank you very much.


Moving on to stories outside Africa, Samoa has its first female prime minister after a three-month electoral deadlock was broken by the courts. The Pacific nation went to the polls on April 9th with the FASD party claiming victory over the Human Rights Protection Party. On Friday, the country's Court of Appeal ruled that the swearing-in of the FASD party was legally valid. The party held its own swearing-in ceremony on the parliament's lawns after members were locked out of the building. The wince is the change of the first change of government since 1982 and installs Fiamme Naomi Matafa as Premier.