Hey you guys, it just said that my skin looks great, yes, I don't know why I'm doing that. The day after Christmas we had a fabulous Christmas, right baby? You need to be a little bit more cheerful though, it's like whatever mama. We did, we had a fabulous Christmas. Thank you baby, that was better, you see how I taught him well girl. Yeah, we had a great Christmas, it was so great to see J.B. open up all his presents because at this age, those of you who don't know, J.B. is five and a half, gotta put that half in a girl, five and a half and it's so good to be able, it's a different skill level than he was when he was four opening up his presents. He was so, he was so grateful, he was like, you're the best mommy in the whole planet. I'm like, oh, he even, he made me a card he had, and then I gave you a present. He gave me a present, yes, so it is the day after and I'm about those sales girls, so we are going to go to Target because those little cute little plush ornaments I was showing you guys, I wanna be, J.B. is afraid of them but I'm gonna get a frill and I'm gonna put them on the other side of the Christmas tree so you won't see it. But my Christmas tree, I may have to get, you know what, but I think he may be air conditioning. I'm looking at this guy next door, it's a brother. No, no, you're not, no, you're not, you better hush up. So anyway, we're on our way there but real quick, I'm gonna tell you guys this, I am all for education but I am more so for developing a skill set, now that I'm a little bit older and I have a higher education. I have a master's degree in human dynamics, organizational change, not even using it because I thought at the time it would be a good idea. And I've heard you guys have heard me talk about this before, I think it's really important, especially for our younger people so that they're not getting a unridiculously amount of money in debt because I'm not signing for no type of loans, nor daddy or not, or not doing that.  The reason why I'm bringing this up is because I have a stepson, he's a little bit older, like a little bit girl, he's 18, yes my husband had him when we were in college and so he spoke to him because it was holiday, it was the holidays, it was Christmas yesterday and so he has a full scholarship to go to any college right now and he decided to get a degree in psychology and my husband and I are looking at each other like psychology.  So my husband said he said I'm not going to push it but he's like, I try to let him know he needs to develop a skill. All right y'all, so let me show y'all what I got, we went to Target and to Fry's because of course the day after they always have sales girls, sales, sales, sales, so they had these cute little ornaments that I saw at Target before Christmas and I was like, you know what, I'm going to wait, I'm going to wait till they go and sell so these were just a dollar fifty, aren't these adorable? Since someone was acting crazy, I couldn't really shop how I wanted to, so I just got three of them, this one, this one, and this one, isn't this cute? A dollar fifty. No it does not look cute, it looks so scary. Got some coffee on sale, $2.99 and these bag of 20 bowls for next year for a dollar. I still have holiday wrapping paper so we're good. Hey y'all, it is Friday, it's Friday and I'm ready to swing girl, I'll hold another pitch. Oh y'all, I'm gonna do a little bit of minting, I just, I thought y'all told me that this would get better, things will get better as far as my child goes. JB woke up at four o'clock this morning, he's been waking up at five a.m. all week and I know it's because he's not in school and when I tell you I am tired, baby I am tired, I am so sleepy. Normally I get up at four a.m, but he's literally been waking me up and I'm one of those type of sleepers and first of all, I have insomnia, I do go to bed early so I try to be in bed by nine o'clock and then, but I'm one of those type of people, I can wake up at one o'clock in the morning and watch a video or two and go back to sleep and my husband is the same way, quite as a cab, he'll wake up at five, look at a video or two or respond to his other girlfriend, but yeah, I meant fries, grocery store to pick up some a couple of more groceries, but yeah, I'm sorry, back to JB, it's just been y'all, I am ready for his ass, I'm so ready for him to go back to school. He will be off until January 7th though and what is Christine, Christine you are off, Christine don't be answering emails when you off girl, Christine is my co-worker and friend y'all. He's off to January 7th and it's just December, what's the date y'all, what's the date? December 28th, when I tell you I'm over this child, y'all know me or you know if you've been following me for a while, you know that I don't sit at home, we have activities, so typically on the weekend we're all doing something, well JB is anticipating it, that's what we're gonna be doing and I keep trying to tell him we are on vacation, we are on holiday, you know like the English shade, we're on holiday, we're on vacation, we're not doing anything and he throws a damn fit, 50 shades of crazy fit and I'm over it, so you know now he's gotten used to it since he's been home now for about six days straight, he's gotten used to it like okay I'm not going anywhere, but today I told him I'll take him over to Ms. Lori's house so he could play with Ms. Lori, y'all Ms. Lori, thanks for the cross, her mother-in-law is in town and when I tell you she is petty as hell towards her mother-in-law, and anyway I'm not gonna talk about people's business, but I think it's kind of funny, I think it's funny and sad at the same time because I like old people so anyway, I got some condiments and stuff for things that I'm gonna make for today, I'm gonna make some hot wings and what am I gonna make, hot wings, some roasted potatoes and collard greens, so I'll take collard greens with kale, but I picked up JB his green eggs and ham whenever we go out as a family, we in my husband's vehicle, he because he's has the CD player, I got him a new CD, I got some you know household stuff, got JB some soap, but I also picked up these cute little sleds because right now ornaments are 50% off, so this matches my theme and so I picked up three of these because they're only 50 cents at 50% off at the Dollar Street, everything else is household stuff, child she got some wine boxes, girl these people look, New Year's Eve, are y'all doing anything for New Year's Eve, I don't want to want to load this video, are y'all doing anything, my country paranoid but I can count on one hand how many times I've been out officially celebrating New Year's, I don't do that, I'm afraid, I don't do that, I'm gonna be home, now I will probably, girl I'm not gonna be with my husband counting down, I'm going to bed, you all really can't see me, this is what I was gonna tell you guys, I went ahead and ordered some more hair products and the first half of next year would definitely be you know the comparison series, but the next half will be about my healthy hair journey yet again I feel like, let me go to my orders, I ordered, I also ordered a happy planner y'all, so I got the old school girl, old school, which I know about that Giovanni, Giovanni Diric leave in, the best leave-in conditioner to date is Kimmy Tube's DIY recipe for the leave-in conditioner, that is the best for my hair especially if you low porosity, if you don't know what the Kimmy Tube leave in, look her up, I may do a video on it, I don't know, but what I use, I use a Giovanni direct leave in, I use jojoba oil and olive oil juice, let me tell you what else I ordered, I also ordered the TGIN buttercream, I like her buttercream more so than the um twist and define cream and of course I ordered jojoba oil, that's all I needed, I might have enough hair products but that's what I needed to you know get my hair to where it needs to be at, um tell me why, tell me why, so I look at whenever I want to look you know do a new uh a new makeup look, I look at makeup tutorials like I think a lot of us do, I was going through, I think her name is Nikki Swift, I don't know what country she's at, she's European, um one of her videos, they got a quite, she has a huge following, I mean she's a big time YouTuber, makeup gurus what they call them and she had Rihanna's makeup artist doing her hair, I mean doing her makeup, you know and I'm going through the comments because I'm looking at this woman's foundation, when I tell you it is damn near perfection and flawless, I'm like what type of sorcery, why did I go through a couple of comments and someone mentions that she used a blurring filter, what why didn't I know lead me to watching Wayne who I love, I love Wayne, he's a makeup artist, I forgot his last name and he has great tips on doing makeup because he's been in the game for a while, he ain't he ain't no spring chicken baby, he's been in the game for a while, so he literally shows you on cam before and after using a blurring filter and I'm like y'all so you now it's like who do you believe when it comes to a review because sometimes I will look up, I don't do it as much as now because I'm pretty much I'm okay on makeup part but when I want to try a new makeup or try you know to figure out how to use an actual product I will look up a tutorial, so you have these makeup or makeup youtubers or whatever using this particular filter and it's giving them an illusion of perfection, so when you go home and use the same product y'all ass looking like so Wayne look it up y'all, some of y'all probably already know it, Wayne shows you what the filter looks like, I mean it literally there's no skin discoloration, there's an even before he even put on any makeup everything's even, there's no redness, there's no under eye lines, so I'm like this is a bunch of damn foolery seriously but then I pointed and it was like oh well that worked for my hair good morning, good morning, good morning everyone, so it is the weekend after Christmas, this is gonna be a long vlog, so get ready girl, get your snacks, get your coffee, get your alcohol if you drinking alcohol, baby I'll show you in a minute, so we woke up, well at least I woke up super early, JB has been waking up at four between four and five o'clock every day because he's not in school, so he's going to bed early like seven o'clock, sometimes he's trying to go to bed at six thirty and I'm anyway so it's okay because I'm up, but today I got up super early because we got our new TV situated, let me show y'all what it looks like, this is a curved, you can see it curved like that, this is a 55 inch curved smart TV, right now JB's looking at YouTube but let me show you guys, that's enough, that's enough syrup, this shot was eaten pancakes, let me go to the home, so what I did, girl I was not playing, I'm not gonna do it, it's gonna come up, I'm not doing anything, it's coming up okay, so what I did baby, my husband put it together yesterday and this morning I got up early to reinstate my Netflix and sling, hey unique, I was gonna tell me to stop, reinstated my Netflix, got sling TV in YouTube, there's also Hulu Hulu, but no, yeah because our bill I told y'all, my bill last month was like 130, 140, the package was $88 before tax and they charge you for the equipment and everything, so Netflix is 10, my sling TV is 35, that's $45 and I got added packages on sling TV, if I wanted to I can get Hulu, but I'm okay, we'll sling Netflix on our YouTube, my sling, let me back out of this because JB's looking at YouTube, look at the picture, it's Morgan okay, I've been looking at Mr. Lightful girl and keeping up appearances, let me look me up y'all, yes, you know what JB's like no, I'm gonna look at Morgan, hold on, how do I pack this up, hey, twerk, twerk, look how good we look, oh wow, yes, y'all, I'm my business, I'm my biggest, what do you call it, I'm my biggest fan, tonight is date night, yes girl, so I'm gonna try to do, show y'all what I'm gonna be wearing, I'm gonna be wearing one of my sweater dresses, girl I only have four like four sweater dresses, that's a lot, I have about five or so sweater dresses, I have a lot of dresses, I would say out of all of the different type of clothes I have, I have a lot of dresses, there was a point in time where all our wore dresses and skirts into the office, I just like to be feminine, I have about well then throw it away, am I done, I don't know about 40 to 50 dresses, yes, so I'm gonna be wearing a cute eggplant, me I've seen this before sweater dress but it is cold here, we go out like once every two weeks and mama throw back, I know, I know pray for me, but I have these, what is my point, I like to have dessert when I get back home, I don't know why, but I like to have something sweet to eat, so I have these sweet potatoes that are going a little bad, what I'm going to do is make a sweet potato pound cake, now I looked at some recipes but I'm gonna call my mama, I'm gonna call my mama because she's really good, this is one of her famous pound cakes, I'm gonna call her and ask her how she makes it and that's what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna show y'all how I'm gonna make that and then tomorrow I'm gonna make orange chicken, I'll show y'all how I make that too, I'm gonna put a little bit more going back to putting a little bit more cooking into my vlog, it's like I used to, remember how I used to, yeah, because I'm not going to be doing separate videos, I'm sorry, but I'll make sure to, dang, JV ate all those pound cakes, he loves the pound cakes at McDonald's, you ate them all, now baby what you would really like are whole cakes, y'all know what whole cakes are, those are you from Texas and Louisiana, you probably know what whole cakes are, whole cakes are basically a corn meal and it's like a mix between hot water cornbread and a pancake, it's basically a pancake with cornmeal and people in the country, child my parents would eat, my mama would make some whole cakes with fried fish, so these are the ingredients for the sweet potato pound cake, I'm using cooking with Carolyn's recipe, kind of tweaking it a little bit, she used one stick of butter, I'm gonna use one and a half six, Ray, Ray cooking, y'all know who he is, he comments every now and then on one of my videos, he uses two sticks of butter, two stick of butter y'all, Carolyn uses one cube or one block of cream cheese, I'm gonna use half a block, so I've been cooking for a while so I know how to, you know, adjust measurements, well you don't want to mess with the stuff that will help it to rise like your baking powder, baking sodas, I kept that the same in your flour, um so yeah three cups of flour, then I have my cinnamon nutmeg, vanilla, four eggs, still going to do four eggs, this is going to be for my icing, I want to do a cream cheese icing which is why I'm only going to use half a stick of that cream cheese, okay, I'm going to be linking her both of their videos below in the description box, this is not just anything, even the mother a lot when I bought some cookies over there, she was like you are a good baker, this is a wash and go, looks good, huh, taking down styles or it's very very easy now that my ends are shorter, um you can still see, see, you can see that unevenness, let me stop talking about it and just make it come out a little bit more, yeah, oh well, and I'm not gonna be looking at me, they're gonna be looking at my beet, yes, this purple, a little messy but what can you do, let me show you what I'm wearing, I have on this purple sweater dress, this is the dress, it's a real pretty purple, um can't even see that, these boots, my best friend bought me these boots a couple of years ago, these roasted potatoes, let me turn this down, these roasted potatoes are so good, let me tell you the trick to making them flavorful, one tablespoon of real butter to two tablespoons of a good quality olive oil, yeah I couldn't figure out what we were gonna eat today, so I literally have potatoes, rice, sorry, you guys had the vegetables earlier, earlier, we got collard greens, broccoli, carrots, gonna fry up the orange chicken in here, make the sauce, and yeah, oh my gosh, this is so good, I already packed my husband some food for him, first of all, one of the reasons why I don't look through puffs is because it's so heavy and my head's starting to hurt a little bit but after the first few minutes, I'll get used to it, I need to do a puff for at least two days before I wash my hair, it is Sunday, I have a bit of a hangover, um I don't know why I do tequila y'all, normally, I'm weird, I, first of all, I normally can't, I can't do tequila clearly anymore but I can mix my drinks, so last time I went to this place, I had tequila, a tequila drink, and a drink with vodka, and I was okay the next morning, this time I just had two drinks, two margaritas, and I'm done, like I woke up sick, not like vomiting or anything, just didn't feel good, and this morning I was like, yeah, so took me a magnesium, took some vitamins, drank a lot of water, ate half of a banana, fussed with potassium, and I'm feeling good, I want to invest in a printer, apparently last night we bought, I had a balloon, JB has a balloon, apparently last night we bought a sound box girl, I was lit, I don't even remember buying that, I remember going around, looking around at Best Buy, but that's it, I don't know how we got home, two, I'm a lightweight y'all, because you can tell, I mostly drink wine, so, and then yesterday we went to um kids park, and they got this balloon for kids, you got that kids park, see I didn't remember him getting this balloon, and I made slime, but the teacher didn't know we were making slime today, oh I didn't know that, we're not going to make slime today, we'll make it this week, JB's going to be home for another week, did I say that last night, you can't trust anything I said last night, don't trust anything I said last night, hey you guys, so I had a appointment with another dermatologist today, only because the dermatologist I went to, he was great, but it's a man, and I'm having some eczema type issues on my breast, however, the dermatologist told me that she thinks I'm reacting to the surgery suitors, that um okay baby, go sit down, she said it'll take, it typically takes from the time of surgery to now, time of surgery a year, almost a year for those suitors to completely dissolve, so she wrote me a prescription for like a tub of the stirrup cream, but she told me that you can only take it for a week, but I need to, I need to be on a daily antihistamine, so she's like are you on any type of afton medication, JB hold on, you see me doing this, um I told her I said what I was on singular, but I got off of that due to anxiety, so she said I can take like clarin or benadryl, which for some reason I checked my cabinet, I don't have any of that, JB has tons of stuff, so later on today when I, hold on baby, later on today when I go pick up my other medication, well the stirrup cream, I'm gonna go ahead and get me like some off brand benadryl, what really works for me is Zyrtec, but it's so expensive, they don't want to hear that, whatever you gotta do, why the hell do you have on a hat and a jacket with a hood up, okay tell me something, but go ahead, let me take put this camera down y'all, so I'm fixing my breakfast, go ahead baby, let me know, come over here so they can see you, you forgot, yeah, speaking of forgetting about stuff, y'all I was just watching a video, it is so sad what's happening with B-Smif, I wasn't gonna do a chit chat this week, but I really don't want to record this week, we literally have one more vacation, one more weekend till our vacation, so this is gonna be a long ass vlog, it may be an hour long because I'm not, I don't have time to chop up these, all of this footage and load it up into two videos, I don't have time, what's the point, oh I was gonna do a chit chat video, and I wanted to talk about B-Smif and her husband and his side piece, those of you who don't, of course you know now, what is it, what is it child? I put the mini iPhone in the floor, in the floor, let me check on my bread, I was just watching a video on B-Smif and apparently her husband is seeing another woman, those of you who don't know, B-Smif was basically like the black version of Martha Stewart, I loved her show, it will come on PBS, was it PBS or another channel, I will watch it as a teenager, B-Smif is absolutely beautiful in her prime, she was top notch chocolate, she has red undertones, overtones or something, her skin is like this red, huge beautiful brown skin, no I'm not hush, so what's the point girl, okay so let me back up, last week I was on Facebook and I'm, you know I liked their page a long time ago, like years ago right, her page, well he since has named it to like B-Smif and Dan or whatever, I noticed a couple of posts from him basically just talking about, because he's the main caregiver for her, excuse me, those of you who don't know, let me back up again, I'm so sorry, B-Smif was diagnosed with early onset all summers, like she was diagnosed with early onset, early all summers at like 63, 62, absolutely devastating, I remember there was a time where she was lost, was it New York you guys, she was lost for like 16, 18 hours in New York, first of all if they knew that she had early onset, why would they, anyway, I was looking at a couple of posts from him right and I hadn't seen posts in a while, so every now and then and I noticed a couple of women, one woman in particular was basically like I can't believe you Dan, you out here, you know with another woman in your house would be there and I'm like what the hell is going on, so I scrolled down, scrolled down, scrolled down and his posts are so inappropriate, he's cursing, he's talking about having to wipe her and I'm like this is what you sign up for, this is for better or for worse, do sixes and a half, what the hell, why are you, I don't understand, a part of him was vinten, if you can't do it, she was a millionaire, is a millionaire, hire help, put that woman somewhere to where she could get help around the clock which is what she means and he's not up for it, not only that but apparently he has a girlfriend, he made some posts y'all a while back talking about this, this is a bunch of foolery, almost curse, he made some posts talking about I can't hang on to the past, I gotta live my life, so you gotta be a man though, if you don't want can he even legally divorce her if she's not mentally there, that is just horrible, I'm sorry, that is sad, I have and I want to ask like where is her family, I know they didn't have any kids together, she doesn't have any children at all, where is her family in this, why haven't they said anything or maybe they have and we don't know, oh that's disgusting isn't it, y'all can look, y'all can look up the post yourself on Facebook, Dan, Dan and B Smith, I know I'm talking country Dan, D-A-N and B Smith and you can see his posts and this is not someone who's you know 30 years old, 20, 30 years old acting crazy, this man is in his 60s acting like this, a mess, just a mess, so I'm gonna show you guys how I make a frozen pizza butter now, my husband's at, so now I try not to eat frozen food just because of the sodium content but every now and then girl I don't feel like cooking, so tonight I'm having a real frozen pizza, I'll probably only have half of this pizza and yeah I'll save the other half for tomorrow, I don't know, sometimes I've been able to cut the frozen pizza but I don't feel like doing that, so the one of the first things you can do is flip the pizza over and brush olive oil on the back which I'm going to do in a second but I have had this pizza before, this is a signature collection so by Kroger's and Fry's out here and I got these Sicilian spicy Italian sausage and it's a pretty good pizza because of the crust, it's really good crust, so fresh ingredients, this already has tomatoes and cheese so I'm gonna stick with that motif or whatever, I do have other ingredients in there like spinach, peppers but I don't really don't like spinach on my pizza, I do have some jalapenos, I'm trying not to have spicy food right now, so what I do have is some mozzarella, some tomatoes and some fresh parsley and then I'm going to be adding also some fresh garlic, onion powder, garlic powder, Italian seasonings and some red pepper flakes, and that's my frozen pizza, I'm going to pop this in 400, I mean I'm just going to do according to the directions between 10 to 12 minutes, well like 12 to 14 minutes and this should be done, this is what the pizza looks like all done, crust, you hear that crunch, you guys it is the day after, well no it's new year's, we didn't do anything last night, let me tell you something, I'm freaking stressed out y'all, whoever came up with the idea of a winter break should have their head examined, I wish I could say that I've been having a good time with my time off, I have not, JB is stressing me the hell out and everything's closed every other day so it's not like you know and I honestly I wanted to sit home and chill and this child is so used, maybe I created a monster, he is so used to being out and about, he's driving me crazy wanting to know where we going, when are we going and then crying and having to fit because we're not going anywhere, mind you some of the footage y'all have been seeing, we've been going out every two days and at this point I just want to stay home and be quiet and chill out and he just doesn't want to, I'm sorry to have been, these are the times where I wish I lived close to my family or friends and again there is no one, we have no one here, there's no one that I could call up or um yeah and for some reason we have an extreme, I feel like we have an extremely long vacation, I mean he's been out since the 20th, the 21st, he's been out since the 21st and it's just not January 1st and he won't go back to the 8th of January, I am so over it, um a lot of the things I was supposed to have done, so one of the major things was cleaning my blinds, I haven't even had a chance to do, I'm hoping I could do it Friday when he's at the camp, he's gonna go to camp tomorrow, thank god and I'll be able to wash my hair, I want to show you something, I'll be able to wash my hair and do a wash day, um I'm just y'all, it came out of a dark web, so this is the thing too, I'm a little stressed, not necessarily stressed out about but we were planning on having a little getaway, you know to go to Sedona and Sedona is getting um some bad weather and to the point to where I think I looked at the temperature, the high is a 50 which is okay but it's gonna be raining and who wants to go to a place where primarily you're outdoors and it's gonna be cold and rainy, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna have to speak to my husband about it again and be like we may want to consider, we're gonna spend all this money going up there just to be inside, I mean Sedona is beautiful and normally this time of the year it's hit or miss but looking at the weather, personally I don't want to go up there when it's raining and I don't think we should, I don't think we should um and I think I mentioned perhaps I didn't, the Jeep tours we were doing, they won't be available because it's snowing on top of the mountains so yeah, whoo girl, y'all it is cold, it is 35 degrees here in Phoenix Arizona, um I just dropped JB off at his school, he was so worried that there would be, first of all this is still their winter break, it's January 2nd girl, it's still their winter break and so I signed him up for two days this week, Wednesday which is today and then Friday so that he can you know be around some kids and we can have some time to do what we need to do because I've been working, I've only had one day off this week, I haven't been working, I've been checking in on my emails but my point is that I've only had one day off this week and typically this time for us, those of us who work in the system, we're actually busy, it's steady busy, we're going, migrating towards a new system and a new release so I need to be working so he's here and he was a little concerned, he's like mommy I don't know if there's gonna be any kids my age there any any little kids but JB is so, it's part of his personality but I've also has, I have built my child up to where he doesn't need to be around little kids to have fun, he has enough um what do you call it y'all sorry, he has enough, he has good self-esteem to where he would be able to play with bigger kids if he needed be and sure enough I dropped him off and most of the kids there are smaller kids so that makes me feel better but I told him I would pick him up a little early um drop him off at eight and they actually offered care from six a.m to six p.m same price so you don't pay you know any difference for after-school care you know because technically it's not after-school care it's just care um I'm not going to do that I would pick him up at two o'clock I told him so eight to two what is that six hours yeah I'll pick him up at two o'clock six hours is good um and then Friday I think we'll do even less um so right now I'm gonna go to the store y'all my breasts are on fire I don't know y'all don't want to hear that but now it's getting to the point to where my my skin is chafing oh is that how you say it some of the skin is getting flaky because I have literally had eczema since and I'm inching now I'm sorry I've had eczema since August and now we're in January let me move up some there's a person behind me um I'm just gonna come around here it is so itchy y'all um and the medication I'm getting they got me a tub of it and uh let me just come right here y'all there's no one here so they ordered me a tub of it because it only comes in the little small tubs of 30 milligrams well they ordered me a huge tub and it wasn't there yesterday at the pharmacy so they said they have we have to wait on it so I need to go get me some at least your medicine um what's the point so I got six hours to make do go here go to fries to pick up my stuff go home straighten up a little bit I thought I would maybe do maybe be able to do a workout that's not going to happen um I have gained some weight some holiday pounds maybe like three pounds but when you're short I'm five three and a half when you're short three pounds can make make a make a do you anyway I can't work out just watch what I eat instead um so yeah go run these errands real quick go home straighten up and start doing some work I'm gonna pre-pool my hair first because it's in the wash you got a lot of you said that you normally want where washing goes you don't like washing goes because it gets tangled a lot that's true but what I found works for me is to pre-pool my hair and let it sit for like an hour or so with some you know um under a plastic bag and then I I do detail on my hair in the shower at that point because I have stuff in my hair and boom it just those those knots will come out and I still use nappy headed jojoba's recipe it is the bomb.com and I really think it's the coconut milk and the ampicidal vinegar which helps to break down those knots I really do think so and of course whatever type of rinse out conditioner that you're using with that recipe I do have a video on them all right you guys hey how are y'all doing it is Friday I know this vlog is literally going to spend over two weeks it is the first week of January and I'm feeling a certain type of way because look I have ordered so much stuff in the past two weeks like it is ridiculous um let me back up it's first week of January it's Friday it's Friday and I'm ready to swing speaking of Aliyah yeah I know what I want to say apparently R. Skelly or R. Kelly lifetime did a they're in the middle of a documentary regarding what is it called y'all living with R. Kelly or surviving R. Kelly excuse me lifetime pick up the show and it's six part series and apparently they did two last night I wasn't aware that lifetime was going to be doing this but I saw so many people already reviewing it I saw a little bit of Ashley Miller she's a fellow youtuber I saw a little bit of her video oh my god I feel like my lips let me get some chapstick hold on y'all this video and I don't think I'm going to be able to watch it I really do not think I'm going to be able to watch this it just sickens me and there's a couple of people on my friend's list that I've had to um either block or ignore okay this is how I feel these are my feelings and we're going to move on I do feel like that there are certain people in the industry who are targeted and um some false accusations or put against one who I really do think to this day was always innocent was Michael Jackson only because there was some evidence they had came out afterwards they showed that he didn't touch any of those kids um and I don't know if any of you guys realize it but the first father that accused Michael Jackson of touching his child ended up committing suicide and I believe the child whose name is now an adult named Jordan he came out and said that his father his father had uh made him lie and so Michael Jackson is one of the people who I always thought was innocent I also feel like Michael Jackson was used by a lot of people in the industry um he was pimped not sexually but pimped musically for his talents by a lot of people in the industry the fact that there are so many people I know you guys have heard this already there are so many grown ass people I've seen comments like they know what they were doing referring to the young girls who were molested they know what they were doing and I saw some I've seen some comments by me and saying well these girls didn't look their age they didn't look like they were 14 and 15 so just because they didn't look like it and more nine times out of 10 the men grown ass men finally realized that they're only 14 and 15 and they still pursue these young women when you're 14 15 years old you cannot consent to sex because you're not an adult okay it is just disgusting you guys especially in the black community how we still protect known pedophiles we do it in the music industry we do it in the church we do it in our families and it's just something that we do not speak about this man is a pedophile or Kelly is a pedophile it is known that he married or he married aliyah at a young age not only that when the aliyah story story came out I was I was on some of the facebook groups I'm in a lot of groups and so I was reading people who were reading comments from people who were in Chicago stating that they knew he was a pedophile all this time and apparently before our Kelly got really really big when he was doing local concerts and I believe he was even singing in a subway or something like that he would purposely go to high schools and let you know people know about what he was doing he would target young girls at high schools and he's singing grown ass songs made for adults I stopped listening to our Kelly way back I think I was in college when those accusations came out he was peeing on those young girls absolutely disgusting do y'all remember there was a story that had ran on BET and the interview was basically like do you have and this is not word for word but the guy interviewing or Kelly was basically like do you have a thing for young girls or teenagers and you know and so our Kelly was like defined teenagers what age are we talking about why do you need to be that why do you need to be that specific or Kelly that was that is weird he gives me weird vibes he creeps me the hell out okay creepy as hell anyway y'all back I went on a tangent on that I don't think I'm gonna be able to watch it I'm not gonna watch it I'll look at the reviews but I'm not I don't think I'll be able to watch it um anyway so yes girl I got heated I have been shopping y'all I when I tell you I have so many things coming in first of all is JB's birthday next week so I gotta get things in order we're not doing anything I know I would definitely be going crazy um planning planning a party for him so we're not doing a party girl two introverts having an uh extrovert child is not fun he wants to have a party he wants to do all that hold on y'all drive and then park um but we canceled the trip to Sedona because it's very cold like right now here in Phoenix is 37 and it's cooler up in Sedona because it's going up north um and so what we decided to do to do like I mentioned earlier is we got a hotel room and a nice part of Scottsdale but we always go to this restaurant there's literally like like I said walking distance so we'll go there um the morning of we're gonna go to the Legoland shit I'm I know my husband wants to do things as a family I'm this close to Canton Legoland and I'm fighting two or three of his little friends out to Chucky Jesus because Legoland it's gonna cost 55 dollars and that's that's a deal 50 it's 20 dollars almost 60 dollars it's 20 dollars a person and then 14 12 dollars for a child Chucky Jesus is 10 tell I'll buy them all I'll get them all coins for 20 dollars y'all I'm cheap like that I don't think I want to spend 55 dollars on two hours of fullery but it's my baby's birthday he's not necessarily getting a birthday present um because we're doing all this for him I mean it's going to be like a weekend long event yeah we spoil him um another thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to redo his room y'all I'm going to redecorate it Pacman style so I've already started getting some stuff I'm going to surprise it for him that Friday I'm going to bring donuts for his friends on Friday for his birthday getting him balloons I'm going to be busy as hell on Friday but I took that day off and I will more than likely start preparing things uh like now a lot of it's going to be DIY um but I did order some new bedding for him there's things you could do around if you want to redo your room there's things you could do um DIY to where you're not spending a lot of money spending a lot of money I think because I did get him new bedding and um I ordered something else today this morning from Wafer I ordered a bean bag so I think overall I've spent almost 200 not really almost 200 but that includes new bedding okay and a piece of furniture I think that's damn good yeah 200 around 180 between 180 to 200 is how much I've spent so far and that's it I'm not spending any more money um but yeah I've been spending besides that I bought some glasses through Furmo they had to sell on to where frames were free um but I was smart I got the glasses on December 31st so I'm gonna use my insurance I'm gonna once that invoice comes in I'm gonna download that send it to my insurance so I can get that paid for for free yeah y'all I've been spending a lot of money getting some stuff um I ordered him some stuff through children's place and I put in an Amazon order what did I order that stuff from Amazon I feel like Amazon is slacking on on um orders you guys I think that Amazon when they first started out for like the first four or five years they were real good at sending stuff out pretty fast is that mean I feel like maybe they spoiled us I think that's what it is you know how they would say well you would get it with them five to seven business days it used to be you would get it sometimes before five days now I'm seeing that they're not even shipping stuff out till damn near the fifth business day so I'm gonna give you guys an update on my hair it feels good this is the first time with me seeing it without stretch out and really so hold on sorry without um because immediately afterwards when she cut my hair miss earlite cut my hair she blew it out so that stretched then I did a wash and go with just ultimate shrinkage but then I stretched it out with banding this is it two days after washing and when I tell you this is really I'm like wow my hair yeah you could you could see it's noticeably shorter let me take it all down and this is the look at my twist compared to what they used to look like so this is with me this is with me stretching it before I could stretch it down to here so I am going to go ahead we won't keep it pushing all right um it's going to grow back like we already said I just want to give y'all an update what it looks like I'm gonna show you guys what um what I'm gonna be doing hold on yes girl yes miss Jackson is jumping on the on the rice waterband wagging so I am going to be documenting this but I have rarely seen people who do more than a month or so I have I haven't seen any of any of those type of videos if you know of anyone please share it and let me know so I can research those women too I have watched the green beauty channel um her video and I've seen several videos and I've been watching these for a while nampy food has one too on how she does and there's so many ways to do it I even saw how the women the y'all old y-a-o I hope I'm pronouncing that right probably not how they actually ferment they take they ferment for like a week to two weeks some of the youtubers only do it for 24 hours I'm gonna do mine for three days three to four days um the reason why it's orange is I have orange peel in here I also added orange citrus drops um essential oil and yeah this is gonna be sitting here um for three days yeah you won't see the rice water results until what is that six months later that's like july july mid july okay and so what I'm gonna have to do so I could just focus on my regimen is do all of these um the last four videos like within the next two or three weeks which I can do I can do that I have some sitting out here to review for next week and then I'll just schedule everything out accordingly so yes you guys and I hear that it smells like it smells horrible let me go know any any of you who've done it I think this will be very doable for me because I won't be having any extra things I need to do as far as um videos for y'all I'll just be working on my hair and that's it so anyway you guys I think that'll be it for this vlog it's getting long I know it's getting long and I got stuff to do today and the next time you guys see me or see us it will be for JB's birthday week yes and I think I will start that I'll be gathering some stuff for his room read the redesign or redecoration and we'll start from there all right you guys I'll see you next week bye


Hi, I'm J. Joachim and welcome to Philosophy at What Matters, where we discuss things that matter from a philosophical point of view. Our topic for today is ethics and law. Now ethics tells us what's good and what we morally want to do. On the other hand, law tells us what's legal and what we legally want to do. But what's the relationship between the two? Now, here's to discuss this question is Professor Garrett Coletti, Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. So welcome, Professor Garrett. Thank you very much. It's great to be on your show. Thank you. Okay, so before we get into answering the question, let's get into your philosophical background first. So how did you get into philosophy? Are they getting started in philosophy? Yeah, so I was an undergraduate at the University of Western Australia. And I was one of these people who couldn't really make up his mind what I wanted to specialize in. So in my first year of university, I did philosophy, French, English, and maths. And then as I went through, I narrowed things down and I ended up doing a joint honours degree in philosophy and English literature. I think I progressively just discovered that the questions I was most interested in were the philosophical ones. And then went on from there to do some postgraduate study at Oxford in the UK, where I did a thesis on an ethics topic and discovered that that's really what makes me tick and what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Yeah, so why did you end up specializing in ethics and political philosophy? I suppose it was because the questions that it asks seemed to me really important ones. I mean, they're ones that engage most of us in some way. And philosophy just offered a way of thinking about these with rigor and clarity and depth as well. It's a subject where you keep asking the questions until you get to a point where you think you've really reached a foundation from which you can answer them. Okay, so who influenced you to pursue a career in academic philosophy? You know, I think that probably the most influential people were my PhD supervisors. So I had three of those. One was Jonathan Glover, there was James Griffin as well, and Derek Parfit. And these three people all really impressed me, both with their intellect, the intellectual seriousness, the quality of their own work, and just the way in which they were able to convey this sense of the importance of philosophy and the possibility of progress as well. And I suppose the support they gave me was really quite influential in convincing me that I could go on with this as a professional philosopher. Yeah, it's interesting. So your supervisor was Derek Parfit, one of your supervisors. How was he as a supervisor? Yeah, so he was one of my supervisors. Well, he was a very impressive man. So you kind of got the impression with him that there wasn't really a limit to the amount of philosophy that he could absorb. And I suppose the way in which you would engage with your work as well was always looking for where it was headed, and he was able to really offer an overview of the structure of your work and the directions in which you might take it. So, yeah, it was a great privilege really to work with someone who's so intellectually gifted. And I suppose I had a fair amount of interaction with him after I'd finished my study as well, reading and commenting on his own work. Yeah, so Derek Parfit was one of the best, one of the best moral philosophers that we have. But let's get into that. So how do we define moral philosophy or ethics? Yeah, so I think words like morality and ethics get used with slightly different meanings. And I tend to think of there being four different sorts of ideas that get attached to ethics and morality. So one of these is just this very general question, how should I live? A second somewhat narrow question is, what's the right way to interact with others? What are the appropriate forms of regard for others? A third kind of topic, which some would say is a topic which is part of our culture, but not part of all ethical cultures is the topic of accountability to others. So responsibility being held to standards for which you can be blamed if you don't don't meet them. And which give rise to attitudes such as guilt, resentment, indignation, also their positive counterparts and attributions of obligation. And some people see this as quite a culturally specific phenomenon, which they reserve the term morality for. And then the fourth thing is connected to the standards of behavior that we should publicly advocate and abide by. And when you hear people talking about professional ethics, they're typically talking about the fourth thing. And I think one way of thinking of moral philosophy is it's the topic that deals with all of those things. I myself like to keep things simple. So I tend to think of morality in the second of those ways. So morality concerns the other regarding how we should treat others and the constraints on our own behavior that are properly regard for others places on us. And then it's the business of moral philosophy to say what they are and why. Okay, so what are the dominant ethical theories in this regard? Yeah, so I think you can see them as belonging to four main families. And the first of them is probably the most familiar. So what moral theories typically try to do is to find one foundation for ethics or morality. And perhaps the most popular one is a foundation in welfare in concern for the welfare of interests of others. And the most famous philosophical theory of morality utilitarianism is a theory of that kind that says your welfare is your happiness. And the right thing to do is to take into account not just your happiness, but everyone's happiness or the happiness of every person or non human animal that has happiness or welfare. And to maximize that impartially. So that's one kind of view. The second kind of moral theory focuses on respect for autonomy. And the Kantian tradition tends to emphasize that so that's less about me providing others with things that benefit them, but me providing the space for others to lead their own lives to make their own decisions about themselves. And I think restrictions on paternalism on forcing people to do things for their own good appeal to that second kind of source. So that's that's two ideas. A third one is connected to cooperating together towards the common good. And so called contractualist theories of morality tend to emphasize that third idea. And I suppose in the descriptive sciences look at trying to explain where morality comes from and how it has evolved its way into us and emphasis on dispositions to cooperate in groups tend to be prominent. And then the fourth idea which is very ancient one connects ethics or morality to achieving perfect excellence as a human being. So this sort of relies on the idea that there are capacities that we have as humans and then goodness in a human being involves developing those capacities to the highest extent. I think it's useful to see certainly moral philosophy in the Western tradition as developing those four ideas in often in competition with each other and then there are some theories to try to combine them in some way. So interesting. So these are the four government theories you have utilitarianism, the Kantian, Judy based. You have the social authoritarian stuff like law clubs. And of course, that's right. Yeah, your virtue ethics as well. I wonder. Yeah. Yeah, because in your work you're emphasizing these things as well. But what do you think is, I am right. Yeah. Right. Good. So, so I think a view of any of those four kinds so the welfare is the respect based the contractualist or the perfectionist kind of view are typically developed as what I would call a monistic kind of theory so they ultimately aim to identify one master principle for the whole of morality which is based around one of those four ideas. And in my view so I'm a pluralist. And I think it's helpful to think of morality that's to say the other regarding part of how we ought to live as fundamentally based around the first three of those ideas. So I think of concern for others welfare, respect for their autonomy, and then a willingness to join in with worthwhile collective activities as three independently important parts of treating other people well and relating to other people well so I think if I tell someone, say I tell a young child, not to be selfish. If they're a little philosopher in the making they might come back to me and say well what exactly do you mean by selfishness what selfishness and what's unselfishness. And I think actually that it's three different things so one way of being selfish is not to take other people's welfare into account and other is to be domineering and push them around, make them do things, even for their own good. And a third one is just not to be prepared to join in when you see something worthwhile that's been done or something that's been done to produce some public benefit, and you take the benefit you're not not prepared to pitch in towards paying the cost. And then the way I think the fourth tradition works is that one form of excellence in a in a human life or one way of being good is to respond to those first three sorts of moral reasons so to be unselfish in those those three different ways. So that's the way I want to kind of put together the insights from those different traditions. Perhaps another way of putting it so we want to be excellent individuals we want to be good individuals and because of that we need to look out for the welfare waters, respect your economy and cooperate with them in some cases. Yeah, I think so. And I think one of the ideas that the ancient philosophers had was that some that's actually a way of benefiting yourself. So it's a way of achieving what's good for you is to be excellent in various ways. And I think while perhaps it's overly optimistic to think that that's always true. So sometimes being morally good can can be self sacrificing. I think for most of us in most circumstances it actually is true that it's actually a way of flourishing yourself and achieving what's good for you is to relate to other people. Well, and there are different ways of doing that. And those those three ways I think of as the three basic forms of moral goodness in relation to others. That's a good way of doing it.  But I wonder how it reflects your other focus of your work with which are issues in political philosophy issues concerning rights, equality and citizenship, but you tell us something about what you're doing in this area of philosophy. Yeah, so I think a first point to make, which again seems to be illuminating about this this way of thinking about the foundational ethical ideas is I think you can find different political cultures, which emphasize one of those three ideas more strongly so you've got the, what I suppose I would think of maybe this is a bit of a caricature the Scandinavian welfareist kind of political ideology where you have high taxation and you think of the central political value as being looking after people's welfare. A more American idea emphasizes the second of these sorts of thoughts that's personal liberty, creating a state and regulating a state in a way that maximizes individual freedom and autonomy. And then the third kind of idea, which I suppose I think is most strongly emphasized in some of the Asian political cultures is the idea of contribution towards a collective enterprise or activity so so the the central political caricature is seen as contributing towards the activities of the group. Now, that's that's a bit of an exaggeration, and I think many of us would think that a really good political community is organized in some way around each of those values. I suppose that the other thing that is prominent in my approach towards political philosophy is to think of the kinds of foundations that might be found for thinking of democracy as an important way of organizing a political community is via principally the application of this third sort of source that's to say there are things the group, a group can ask of from me just by way of participating in a worthwhile collective activity and one application of this is to decision making itself in a group. So if there's a group of us who are given a task to decide on, and we have to decide on it together. Then, one worthwhile activity I can be asked to play my part in will do my share towards is conducting reasonable collective decision making together, and that involves being bound by the decisions that we've reached and abiding by them even if I didn't agree with what the majority is decided on. And I think accepting the umpire's decision as it were, is actually an important part of being a reasonable participant in what a group does together. This is like a coordination and cooperation game. Yeah, so that there are elements of that. But I think one one way in which we resolve problems we would otherwise have with coordination problems or problems of cooperation is that we recognize that one basic form of decency is to pitch in and contribute towards what we're doing together. And I think empirical work shows that there is quite a natural and widespread disposition that most of us have towards at least conditionally cooperating with others, saying, Look, I'll play fair with you as long as you play fair with me. And that comes quite naturally to most of us. Yeah, so this brings us to our main question. So moral philosophers, political philosophers are talking about things that we ought to do. Not considerations we must have in well treating each other. But how does that idea connect with law or legal matters. Yeah, so I suppose it principally does so. And I see it in the following way. So one question we face together is, how are we going to formally regulate ourselves as a community. And the laws we come up with our answer to that. It seems to me that there are then connections between ethics and law that go in two directions. So one is the direction of laws dependence on ethics. And one way in which there is a dependence is when we ask, how does law get its authority over us, where by authority, we mean more than just that it may be wise for me or prudent not to break the law because if I get caught and punished that's going to be bad for me. But this thought that there's a demand that the law can rightly make of me and that the rest of the community can make of me to comply with the law. And I think there are really two ways in which the law gets its authority and both of them appeal to a moral underpinning. One is just if we appeal to the idea that we're sustaining the good of public order, law is important because it secures for us social order, which would be terrible for each of us to be without. Then one basic form of contributing to the common good is to be abiding by laws that secure this good for us the good of public order. So that again seems to me to appeal to the third of these forms of unselfishness that's to say a willingness to play my part or do my share towards our all together sustaining some public good. And then the second way in which I think law gets its authority is through this thing I was mentioning just a short while ago, respect for democratic decision making. So if there are fair and impartial procedures for deciding what we're going to do together and this includes regulating ourselves by agreeing on laws. Then respect for the process of democratic decision making, which itself is better than for each of us than a complete free for all does require that I accept the decisions that the group as a whole has reached through some fair procedure. So I think in those two ways law gets its authority from morality. And then sometimes the point of the law is to enforce morality where there are really important parts of interpersonal standards of behavior, such as not assaulting people and fundamentally violating their own. If they don't follow me and their own rights, then it's reasonable for us as a community to say, we're going to provide strong incentives people not to do that, we're going to protect them against being mistreated. And we as a community are going to insist that these standards are abided by. And that's, that's where legislation comes in. About authority and the legal force, sorry, affirmative force of laws. I wonder how you would react to a legal positivist would say that well loss and morality are separate things. So you can't ground one to the other. Yeah, so I think in practice. We do. When we're giving reasons for instituting a law. We do appeal to moral reasons and it's hard to see how there's anything problematic without doing so. I suppose where I would part company from positivist most fundamentally is over the question what it takes for something, not just to be a standard that's going to disincentivize behavior. But a standard that really can claim to have authority over us. And I think there has to be. We have to resort to background moral principles in order to answer that question. So a positivist picture of law where where you say, look, if you're giving an account of what law is. That is just completely exhausted by facts about legislative processes, the instant institution of certain regulations and then the existence of certain consequences for breaking them. That's that's what it is for something to be a law that for short of there being a standard which has authority over us. So someone could come along and threaten to impose a penalty on me. And it might be wise or sensible for me to try to avoid it. It's a separate matter for someone to come along say here's a standard that actually is not just to an incentive that's been provided to you to act differently than you otherwise would. I think that is an expression of the community's authority to require you to do something. And I think that does require a moral background and can't be accounted for in a purely positivistic way. Yeah, so we're the picture that you're giving us is that well here's the law is grounded on morality or some principle and actually it enforces reinforces our views of morality as well. I wonder though how that picture affects how we think about real life issues like climate change, rights of strangers that you have worked on and international aid as well. Yeah, so I think it does so in a few ways so one is, we need to ask what laws should there be. And when we're confronted with these issues, either of significant international injustice in connection with the disparities between material well being around the world, or these serious problems of coordination that arise surrounding climate change, which I would think also involves a fair element of the first kind of issue of injustice as well, given that the people who are going to suffer the most from climate change are typically the people who have contributed least to producing it. Then there are questions for us in deciding what law should be which are moral questions. But I think there's also a couple of other issues that come up which are less straightforward to deal with so one would be how far do we think we can resolve global issues like this through legislation. And then in the background there's a really big picture question about the extent to which it's actually desirable to have institutions at a global level that actually do have the authority of being able to legislate for the entire global population. And I think at right now, particularly with the issues surrounding climate change, we're sort of looking for ways of finding international institutions that fall short of actually legislating for the world, but can provide us with forums in which we can form agreements with incentives to comply with them and penalties for not complying with them, which might have the function of coordinating our actions towards something that works to the benefit of everyone. And I suppose what's going on now is really a huge and very important global experiment in how far we can get in doing that. I'll just add one other thing. So I think with several of these questions in fact all of the ones that you mentioned the question concerning climate change rights of strangers international aid. There's a question for each of us that arises, given that we don't have legislation that has yet solved these problems, what any of us individually morally ought to be doing. And I suppose many of us would think at a minimum, we shouldn't ourselves be contributing to making things worse. And more than that, where we've got the capacity to kind of help with one small corner of the problem ourselves and could do so without significant cost to ourselves. We face the question of why we're not prepared to do that. And that's a moral question that applies to us independently of how we think large scale regulation should should be conducted. Okay, so on a more personal though, what's your advice for those who want to get into professional philosophy. Okay, so I think this is a lot tougher now than when I was a graduate student first coming into the profession. It's just a lot harder to establish yourself as an academic philosopher than it used to be. And I don't say this in order to put anyone off. But I think one tip that I have for someone who's considering academic philosophy and making a career in the profession is, as you set out, you do need to have a plan B. So, you know, give it a real red hot go but have some idea of what direction you might go in if it doesn't come off. But having said that, my main bit of advice would be to think of your path into the profession as having two streams to it. So one is just really to follow your intellectual interests work as deeply and rigorously on the questions that interest you the most as you can. So that that's a that's a kind of advice to in a way be be narrow develop your your own writing and your own research as deeply and rigorously as as you can. So but that's that's only one track and the other the other track is, I think, to just get involved in as many aspects of the profession as you're given an opportunity to do so. Go to lots of conferences, do lots of teaching, get involved in professional organizations. Do outreach activities just do all the all the philosophy you can and get a feel for all of the aspects of the profession and establishing yourself as a professional philosopher requires being able to juggle those two things at the same time. And I think finding finding a balance between them is something we all need to do and the earlier you start doing it, the better. So this career is worth it, or is your career worth it. Absolutely. Yeah, so I feel extremely lucky and privileged to be able to spend a lifetime thinking about important difficult questions, you know, having the ability to do that having having the opportunity to share ideas with other people and to teach. So it's, yeah, I wouldn't try it for anything else. Okay, so on that note. Thanks again Professor Garrett quality for this interview. And for you guys join me again for another episode of philosophy and what matters where we discussed things that matter from a philosophical point of. Cheers.


take a look here 37 of 72 games have been announced 19 home 18 on the road in this first half of this NBA schedule for the next three series consecutive games versus an opponent in the same arena two games in a row in Brooklyn against the Hawks two games in Cleveland against the Cavaliers and two games in Brooklyn with the heat and a five game 10-day West Coast trip February 13th to the 21st Warriors Kings Sons Lakers Clippers on that West Coast journey coos as we put the finishing touches on that's hot stove what are some things some games you may be looking forward to some matchups you look at these series and playing a team you know in the course of two days the same team how that kind of stacks up with often when you're asking coaches you know thinking about the last meeting the quickness of that turnaround the adjustments that are made in just in general there's a lot of new faces and new places and just some of these matchups how we'll be able to see what about you G I want to what are you most looking for right you know it this is the kind of team where it doesn't matter the opponent yeah you know it right out of the gate against Golden State is a fantastic matchup but that will be our up it's around no one at the preseason but in terms of regular season Kevin Durand the black and white yeah one of the best scores in NBA history playing for the Brooklyn that's stepping out there on the court and competing in a in a meaningful NBA game so right out of the gate the matchup with the Lakers will be fantastic too a lot of story lines and we hit on one in the opening segment to a lot of story lines around that one but the first matchup with the Lakers would be great the story within a story I also think it's important you know for us the net's playing on opening night the net's playing on Christmas day what a privilege and what an honor in how players really take and teams really take pride in that so for all those reasons I think your spot on it too I just think you know the newness and the uniqueness of the season and just how it's different I know the players experience the bubble without fans but just how being in different arenas and how that will settle in and translate to the performance on the floor


Hello. Okay, I've got my work gear on. You're here to work. I've got you for 20 minutes. I'm going to try to deliver some value. My name is Stuart Corcoran. I'm a principal engineering improvement manager at Red Hat, which is just a fancy way of saying I help teams with their agile and lean improvements. I started my career as a developer back when waterfall was state of the art before agile even been invented. And I'm one of the rare breeds that gave up a promising development career to go into QA. Not even QA, but QA management. And then I spent 15 years building tests and QA organizations as well as technical support orgs. Been executive management, been in consulting. In the last 10 years I've spent in lean and agile because having grown up in that waterfall world, I see all the benefits of lean and agile and I want to apply them throughout the world. So, let's talk about breaking down the silos. And starting with a definition. So, silo or silo mentality means teams or groups within an organization that won't, can't, or are hindered from working together in an optimal way. I'm going to talk about why that's bad. Going to give you some ideas about how to break down the silos and we're probably even going to try to do a demo. Bet you've never seen that. So, here are the takeaways. We'll start with the end in mind as Stephen Covey would say. Here's what I want you to get out of it as my customers for this talk. I want to give you the ideas about how to break down silos. I want to give you encouragement to persist in this effort because it is hard work. And I want you to know that it's all about profit. So, you may be thinking, great, that's the name of the talk. Break down silos. I get it. Encouragement. You may be thinking, that's a good thing. I'll go for that. And you may be thinking, it's all about profit. What?  But I digress. So, let's talk about profit. The reason I want to talk about it is because this is hard work to break down silos. Why do you want to do it? You want to do it because there's a profit motive and you want to avoid riots. I'll get to that. So, I think all of you know this, but let's go through it anyway. Most of us are, I assume, paid by companies to do good work and keep you off the streets. Companies need profit to stay in business. Cost, by definition, reduce profit and delay increases cost. Delay in delivering products and services increases your company's cost. And, silo mentality causes delay. So, you got all that logic, so let's run it the other way. Silo's cause delay. Delay raises cost. Cost reduces profits. Profits puts a company out of business and you're out on the streets rioting and nobody wants that. So, let's get back to the other takeaways. Persistence. I want to encourage you to persist in these efforts. You've heard just the last talk and other talks in this track today about teams that have gone through this either this or other improvement efforts and none of them happen overnight. It doesn't happen like this. You flip a switch, the silos are blown up and everything's hunky-dory. No. It happens more like this. Hard incremental work chipping away at the silos and making incremental improvements. And that's what we want to do.  Tools on how to start. Tools on how to address the challenges you might face. And then ultimately tools to succeed. And so if you can see down here, I'm this little guy with my vest and my hard hat on trying to help you chip away at the big silos. And just by the way backing up, I've been looking at this slide for about four weeks now and just this morning, I noticed that guy's there too. It's odd. Alright, so that's enough of the best joke. And I wore orange because I didn't want to get confused with the yellow vesters. Not one of those, sorry. Alright, so our next why, we discussed why we want to break down the silos because of the profit. Because you don't want to be on the street writing. But why do they cause delay? Well, it's because they lengthen the feedback loop. A silo lengthens the feedback loop. Alright, let's start the demo here.  Excuse me. Ah, have a cold. But have they ever tried to do a live demo? They thought up in the middle of the night before being jet lagged and awake and using volunteers that they've never even talked to before. That takes guts. But we're going to do it. So, I need two volunteers. One for an easy task, and one for an easier task. Okay, I got one volunteer here, volunteer there. You want easier or easier? Easy. Easy. Easier task is you're going to time this test loop. Okay, so when I start, just look at the clock, see where we're going. And just when we get done with the passing of the test, that's when we'll stop. The easy task is you're the tester. I'm the developer. You're up there near silo. I'm down here in my silo. So, I've been working on my product here. Here are the requirements. I'm putting them in my container. Look, containerized. And I would toss this, but my box got broken. It would all fly out. So, this all goes up here to that silo. And you start testing while I go on to the next thing on my to-do list. Alright, Dev and Test feedback loops.  The feedback loop for Dev and Testers is important because that's how you get the best product, the best quality product, is to have good feedback. Now, the only reason there are silos between Dev and Test is because there are testers. And the only reason there are testers is because the developer can't get the best feedback themselves. It's just human nature that if you've created something, that you are not going to be the best one to objectively look at it. That's why you need the tester for that unbiased perspective. So, that's why we want those guys. That's why we need to have that information go back and forth. Now, when you have a silo, it takes a long time to get that feedback, to get that information and it causes delay. And why does it cause delay? Well, because of context switching and context loss. So, when you're in a different organization, as Dev and Test often are, they're often not sharing the same goals. They don't have the same tools. They don't have the same priorities and they are therefore usually going to have miscommunication, misunderstanding, and all of this is going to cause delay. Really. Okay, well, excuse me while I switch context, my product is back. Sorry. Sorry, I'm being delayed in delivering value to you. Test failed. Four sheets, not three. Page zero and four have too few line segments. Hmm. Okay.  But he's in another silo. I don't know who he is and I don't care. But, I can't move on with a failed so I'm going to call him up and I'm going to say, and he kept my pen too. Well, I will just have to I will just have to IRC. Not enough information.  Sweet tea. Good to know you sweet tea. I got the bug report. Seemed to be misunderstanding here. Could you tell me the requirements? Three sheets of paper. Got it. Each sheet must have symbols on it. Got it. Each sheet must have fine line segment symbols. Straight line. Got it. And no, isn't there another one? I've got four. A circle symbol counts as two line segments. What version of the requirements are you looking at? Well, weren't you at the meeting? This is V2. Thank you. You get the point. So, context switching. Where was I? I was on context switching just when I had to switch context. You all know this. You're doing work. You get a bug report. You have to drop what you're doing. Figure out what the code was that you're working on. Fix it. Send it back. Go back to what you're doing. Very time-consuming causes delay. And, of course, open source world because you have the extra benefit of another silo, if you will, upstream. You've got to send it all up there, get the patches reviewed, comes down, then it goes to test, and you see the point. It just gets longer and longer. And so what we want to do is shorten that feedback loop as much as possible. So, sweet tea. You know, I think we should break silos. Come on down. I've got version three now of the requirements. Why don't we talk about it, work together? So, here they are. Should be three sheets, right? Should have symbol on it, right? Each sheet must have seven lines. They're up in the ante. There should be no zeros. And a plus symbol counts as three. Okay? So, let's code again. I'm going to start coding here. You take that and you start testing. So, what was our goal? Seven? Seven. Alright. I'm going to code one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Why don't you test that? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Why don't you test that one? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Good. How about that one? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Uh-oh. Ah, there should be no zeros. Really? No zeros. So, we have to do, alright. But we're right here, so I can just fix that. How many is that? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Three sheets. I'll have seven. And we're done. How long did that one take? Four minutes versus half a minute. Alright. Excellent. Eight to one. Thank you. So, there. A demo. A demo of breaking silos and how it improves. So, shorten the feedback loop is the key of why it caused delay. Or, that's what you want to do because it caused delay. Alright. On to the tools. So, how do you get started? Everything is about communication, understanding each other. So, one way to do that to get started is to set a common high level goal. So, you want to set a goal that is customer centric. One such as deliver high quality software to the customer. Or deliver value continuously to the customer. Or complete all the elements of definition done on this feature. Notice they are not goals like land all the patches upstream. A developer goal. Or deliver this feature to test. That's a developer goal. Or test all the code. A tester code. Or find as many bugs as possible. A tester code. Now those are fine sub-goals but you have to have this overall higher customer centric goal that you both work toward. You both agree we're not going to be done until we hit that goal. The second tool in your toolbox is walking their shoes. That means understand each other's processes, their tools, their environments, their priorities that they're getting from their management. And talk about those. And then the key is just don't discover them as you're making this happen. Actually plan to educate each other on it. Set down and say here's all of our stuff. Here's all of your stuff. Let's look at them. See what is common. See where we're going to have issues. And fix those up front. Or at least try to mitigate them up front. And of course if you can merge those together as best you can. Especially at the goal level again. And then always retrospect on a regular basis. So that you know that your work in understanding those goals is having effect. That you are actually understanding each other and not having miscommunication. And finally I guess I highlight this one is of course it's all about people. So we are not teams of automatons. Everyone's an individual. And again if communication is a key then you have to understand how individuals communicate. You have to understand their communication styles, their learning styles, their communication methods and tools, their preferences. And ideally understand their motivation. And again this gets to if you have a separate organization there might be motivated from above in a different way. But again be transparent. Get those out in the open to say hey this is how I'm being motivated. How are you being motivated? And then do your best to mold those into a common motivation that you can both share. And so the key is just to intentionally be a team. Not just hey we want to be a team. But you have to do things. You have to take actual actions up front to become that team. And this is some of the ways to do that. So next challenges that you may face. There are many but here are just three. First distributed teams. So teams in silos are often organizationally distributed. And usually especially in open source geographically distributed. I mean that is the definition of open source. They are distributed teams. So some of the ways you can address that are in person as much as possible. Now it's often a challenge but do the best you can. At least think about trying to meet in person on some sort of cadence if it's even annually but if more it would be better. And that's because of the nonverbal communication that happens in communication. To the degree that you can't do that then use video conferencing and turn the video on. I don't know how many video calls I've been on and there's no video on. If you turn it on it's not as good as face to face but you still can get some nuances of the nonverbal communication out of that. So I encourage you to do that. Finally time zone overlap is another issue. So try to discuss with your team up front how you're going to address that. You can do regional meetings with teams that are time zone compatible and then have a communication in between less frequently. My colleagues Neil Smith and Chuck Coppola did a whole presentation on just this topic. So if you're a Red Hat employee you can find that link online. If you're not Neil's right there so hit him up for it. Alright another challenge. Management support. So in my experience there's several kinds of management support. Full full semi full and semi semi. So what I mean by that is full full you have top to bottom management support of your effort to break silos and the team sees the need for it and is fully supportive of well. This is the best case scenario. I've only seen it once in my career. And despite that it still took two years to fully break down the silos and realize the positive results from that. Semi full. This is management is not supporting this but they're not prohibiting it either but the team sees the need and they're on board and trying to do it and that's fine as long as you have two teams that are going to do this they can take those tools on how to start and start working on it and then start communicating that up to their management to tell them see how much better this is. If you do have management that prohibits this effort well it's a different talk. But it's a much shorter one. Get a different job. And then there's semi so this one is there's management support sort of there's team support sort of this just means there's going to be managers that are very enthusiastic want this to happen. There are teams very enthusiastic and want this to happen and others that are like I'll participate but I'm not really into it. That's fine too. I mean those teams that are enthusiastic again can just demonstrate to the others how well this is going to work. And then the final challenge is all teams are different and that's not I mean that's not really a challenge it's just a fact. It's all about people all people are different so the teams are going to be different their characteristics or interactions are all going to be different. The challenge is don't force uniformity don't make all the teams do something the same way don't make them all break down their silos exactly the same way let them find their way what is the best way that fits their team. So those are the challenges how do you succeed back to persistence you just need to persist in these efforts because they do take time I heard Rashid yesterday Rashid Khan talk about their efforts he told it said it took them four years. You heard earlier an effort that is ongoing at 16 months none of these improvement efforts happen overnight but one way to persist to help you persist is use an improvement cycle and there are lots of different improvement cycle names there's plan to check act plan to study act they're all the same I cut mine down to just three experiment learn and adapt and I like experiment better than plan because a plan usually if a plan fails that has much more negative connotation than if an experiment fails an experiment by definition is you don't know what's going to happen but you're going to try something you're going to try it short term and you're going to try it and learn from it see what you learn and then adapt excuse me adapting can be hey that experiment worked great let's expand it to other teams or let's make it part of our SOP it can be well it didn't work exactly right but it didn't completely fail and we see where we can tweak it so let's adapt it run another experiment or of course there is there can be a this totally failed but like we heard in the last talk you know there's no experiment as long as you learn from it you learned a way not to do it okay so that's how you succeed just persist so I mean sum up first can somebody tell me the name of that formula that famous formula no I don't know what it is I just googled the sum that is I don't think it's a famous formula at all summing up breaking silos reduces delay which increases profit which keeps you from rioting reduce delay by shortening the feedback loops between dev and test or any silo groups and it's all about people increasing the communication reducing misunderstanding reducing misconceptions that all cause delay do that by understanding each other's goals your processes their tools and try to make those common as much as possible don't force all teams to do it the same way and in the end persist just keep trying stuff use an improvement cycle to get you there you don't have to get it all in one big bang you take it in little incremental steps so that's why I have I'm not going to have time for questions but I will be around if you have any and if you didn't get anything out of this or didn't take away any ideas then at least we can go out beer now thank you


For this video, I'm using JShell, which is a utility that comes with the JDK from version 9 onwards. It's very handy for letting you test out Java constructs without having to write an entire program. For example, I can create an integer variable n and assign it the value 3 plus 4 times 5, and I'll get the result of 23. Let's see what happens if I take n and assign it the value 23 divided by 4. That's interesting. I get 5 instead of 5.75. That's because integers divided by integers always produce integer results. Let's try something different. Let's assign the result to a double variable. That should fix it. We'll set double D to become 23 divided by 4. Alas, no, that doesn't work either. Why? Because the right-hand side of the equal sign is evaluated before we even look at the left-hand side, and the right-hand side is an integer division, which gets a 5 as a result, which is then converted to a double 5.0. One solution is to make either of the operands a double by adding a decimal point. For example, D becomes 23.0 divided by 4, or D becomes 23 divided by 4.0. When you do arithmetic operations with a double and an integer, the integer is promoted to a double, and the result is a double. What happens if you try to go the other direction?  Okay, great, but what happens if you really, really want to convert a double to an integer, or if you have a program like this? Here, we ask for a number of items sold and the number of customers we had. Both of them are integers.  But here in line 19, we have our problem of dividing integers by integers. Let's run the program and say that we sold 43 items to 4 people, and we get 10.0 instead of the result that we really want, which is 10.75. We can't add a decimal point to the variable name, such as total items 0.0. That just won't work at all. So what can we do? The answer is something called a cast. Think of it in the same sense as casting a metal into a mold to change its shape. To do a cast in Java, you precede the variable name with the data type that you want it to have. We want to promote total items to be a double, and then put that data type name in parentheses. We also want to promote the number of customers to be a double. Now we have a double divided by a double, which will give us a double result. Let's compile and let's run it. When we have 43 items with 4 customers, now we get an average with a decimal in it. This also gives us the solution to forcing conversion to a lesser data type. When we tried int n becomes 23.0 divided by 4.0, Java didn't let us do it. But we can say cast the result on the right hand side to be an integer. You need the parentheses around the division because you want the entire result converted to an integer, not just the 23.0. With this cast, Java is happy and we get the result we want. Why would you ever want to cast downwards, taking something with more precision to something with less precision? As the book says, this is what you can do in order to round a number down to a specific number of decimal places. For example, in this code, we're taking the tax which has 11.3845, multiplying it by 100 and converting it to an integer and then dividing by 100 again. Here's how it works. 11.3845 times 100 gives us 1138.45. Converting that to an integer gives us 1138. And dividing by 100 gives us 11.38. And that's how you use casts to convert data types.


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We got yadir melina to 249 match haveman to to 60 micah stremsky to 76 giants Matt brash to 99 seattle carlos korea to 125 Kyle tucker to 149 Juan soto to 249 Tyler mcgill red to 60 You dargish for the pod race to 99 Maybe not super bowl in both conferences my fault Yeah, I don't know Has that ever happened has it when it Has any head coach even made a super bowl appearance with a team from two different conferences It's trevor rogers to 25 nice low number there Miami that goes to greg I mean not too many coaches who Who just switch in the first place, right? Parcells me andy reid right He went to a super bowl with the eagles nfc and then went and won a super bowl With the chiefs Don't think he won one with the eagles though Think mccarthy the cowboys coach They don't go to the super thing gets fired He loses weak and tambi definitely gets fired. So it's super bowl or bust For mike mccarthy And who then who does dalis go for shon payton? I think that's been the sort of holy grails for uh For jerry jones, right getting uh shon payton back Stan quinn get another shot Maybe as a coordinator All right last box. We're on the home stretch ladies and gentlemen. All right final one. Good luck everybody We got jackson koar Rated rookie orange for the royals jimmy 58 out of 125 What teams did parcels go to a super bowl with? giants and Don helzer put it to 99 pats. Did you go to do you do a super bowl appearance of the pats? Giants and patriots two different conferences That's pretty impressive. You think about it. There's yachty to 125 All right final auto is camilo devol Rated rookie autograph for the san francisco baseball giants dante rafferd with san francisco And there you go gang 24 boxes of donner's optic baseball Finally in the books. Let's do a Autograph and low numbered card recap. Here's the first case first Got a nice torkelson. Julio rodriguez silver some out of tens some out of 25s Some nice stuff that was out of five a little train whistle action here Some nice color in all this some wander franco silver some more out of 10 autographs more wander francos more wander francos O'Neill cruises sheets newt bar bets to 25 ellie delacruz to open things up most recent case we did From the 12th box of the first in case two A lot of nice stuff in here a lot of nice color in the autographs The julio rodriguez hollow blue sign your cards julio. Thanks I'll smack the send The connell brothers after you Chad da too I made it. Hey, listen. Thanks everybody for keeping me company throughout a two-hour break that definitely That certainly makes things a little bit easier for me as well. Thanks everybody for getting into the break. Really appreciate it I'm joe for jasmine's case breaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye Whoo, we made it All right Yo, I know you're a big star wars guy. I am star wars galaxy chrome And the last box we did how about this sketch card? Whoa That's nice, right? Who did this? Uh, shyly I mean that is It's a beauty Long time Long time long time same box. There's an old benkin. Oh, yeah, I'm 52. So Little bend ball old bend old bend. Now that is a name. I've not heard in a long time long time Long time It's so it's not like hey go break some star wars with chris jasmine if you want Obi-Wan Kenobi Now that is the name. I've not heard in a long time. Oh, no, thanks, greg. I'm good I'm good vet comm and some chip in this one in this doubleheader. It's also in the promo, right? Oh, I got everyone's names All right, joe, you need anything? No, I'm good. I'm good. Have a good night. You too. I'll see you Tomorrow tomorrow. Nice. Get home safe. Thanks. Yeah, you too. Drive safe out there All right, we did get a flurry of orders later at night, but Looks like I haven't seen I've only seen one order in the last hour. So looks like uh, looks like we're kind of kind of in a no man's land because We're gonna start wrapping things up at the top of the hour, but nothing's really selling out. So Um, let's take a quick look before we say good night What we have to accomplish by tomorrow night in order to fill that promo Oh, you know what I was gonna do this I was gonna add 10 spots to this Because I'll bet some of the east coasters will wake up and start buying spots in this Let's put our final 10 spots in here And then we can make that the last filler People always like seeing we always like seeing last filler in the title That means that's the last thing we got to do To unlock the break. So we got to do the division break So I just want to just want to talk this out loud to myself as well Just so I know what I have to try to help push tomorrow So the division break We still have to do We have to do two fillers and two full spots two fillers All right two four six Six divisions baseball, excuse me So two full divisions And two fillers excuse me we can do All three of them could be fillers, but we want to leave full spots available for those who want to take it Three spots in that basketball mixer also two fillers. We've got to do a random division break donner's optic UFC Then the multis jazzy's multi sport plus the last filler and we got to do the team random for the bowman draft And that xr football filler as well We got to get that knocked out It's gonna be a little I don't think it's gonna be that close. I think we can do it. Those are pretty quick These two are longer breaks xr. I know it's got to fill pretty quickly Hit parade. I know it's got to happen And we just got to work on bowman draft I know it's gonna be pretty easy, but then that still leaves us with a few other breaks We have to work on that chrome update that might be a little bit of a challenge but Remember we may not stream 24 hours a day, but we do break 20 or the website's open 24 hours a day So overnight buy a couple spots because by the by the morning when the east coasters wake up You know, which would be like 3 a.m. My time east coaster will be waking up at 6 a.m. Right They're checking the website. They're checking the emails. They're checking all this sort of stuff They pop onto the website. They see the hey, they're like well last night It was at that. I know it's closer to being full now I'm going to grab a spot that kind of momentum is what we need So we really at all stages of the evening end of the day We just need we just need people to keep buying especially when we're off air Because I think that'll help us hit the ground running when we go on air So that's just a just a pro tip A helpful hint to think about I know people tend to want to wait until I'm live or When they see a break getting closer or something like that But if you can help when we're off air Believe it or not that that helps us out a lot in terms of just momentum And that helps us get to breaksville a lot faster, especially when we're talking about When when we're talking about a a deadline You know, that's where we really need that kind of momentum that kind of help when we're off air So give it a shot All right, I'm going to tidy up a little bit. I'll stay on air for a little bit But I'm going to tidy up a little bit start putting some stuff away Um, let me know if you have any questions about the promo All the details here's the link right there all the details on jaspyscasebreaks.com But if you have any questions about The promo or any of the breaks on the site now's a good time to ask while we have these moments together spare moments together No, nothing did the doubleheader put everyone to bed Seems like it All right, well we're about five minutes away from the top of the hour. I think we're going to call it Hey, thanks everybody good to be back in the saddle with jaspys this week. I appreciate everybody watching We had a pretty strong day today where we were breaking relatively non-stop pretty pretty consistently throughout the evening So I appreciate all the orders I appreciate all the viewers all the watchers all the listeners all the lurkers all the chatters Everybody I appreciate you all thanks for hanging with me. I'll be back tomorrow three o'clock pacific six o'clock eastern We'll do this craziness all over again. Hopefully don't leave money on the table ladies gentlemen start buying some spots overnight Let's hit the ground running tomorrow. Let's get that promo knocked out by the end of probably about 24 hours Hopefully we can get all that done. I think we can get all these breaks done in 24 hours This is not insurmountable. I think we should be able to do this So let's make it happen. Thanks for watching everybody. Have a great night sleep tight. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye