Hello, my name's Jackie, welcome back to my channel and if you are new here I am an aspiring writer who is attempting NaNoWriMo for the first time so it is now the 23rd of November which means it is day two of week three. Week three? Week four. So it's day two of week four. As per usual I did no writing on Friday which means I've got a little bit of catching up to do so I had 36,144 words when I finished up on Thursday which was about a thousand words ahead of where I needed to be so today I should be only, I should only need about two thousand words or so to catch up. However I don't know if I'm going to get all that writing done today because something that's been working for me for the last couple of weeks is mapping out the scenes I want to write before I write them. So in October I did a whole month of prepping, I tried three different plotting methods to map out three different book ideas I was playing with for NaNoWriMo and even though I really tried and I really wanted to have a complete outline by the time November started the time did not stop being time days continued to pass and November started even though my plots weren't as developed as I hoped so what I've been doing since then is I had an idea of the main scenes in the story but I hadn't really thought about, I hadn't really mapped out the scenes specifically so I knew that main character was going to get kicked out of home but I didn't know how that was going to play out so one of the things I've been doing over the past couple of weeks is for the next two or three scenes I've been going okay well I want this to happen this tap and this tap and sometimes when I'm doing that I might think of some dialogue I want to put in there so I have a little screenplay going on and that's been really helpful for getting me through my words quite consistently and it's one of the reasons why last week I finished ahead of where I needed to be the problem is I've gotten to the stage in the book where other than maybe three scenes I can think of off the top of my head I'm not sure what else is going to happen so to give you a better sense of what I'm talking about this is the board I did as part of my Save the Cat plotting process and you can see so each of these post-it notes is a scene and you can see the first half of the book has a lot more in it than the second half now I'm currently sitting before the midpoint that I'm approaching it so what I want to do today is take a step back and spend a little bit more time plotting to see if I can get a better sense of the scenes I need to get from where I am now to the midpoint and then what I need to get from the midpoint to the if not the climax to the all is lost dark night of the soul moment and that will probably be at least let's say one two three four five let's say six to ten scenes so having that mapped out even though it's not the rest of the book that'll be plenty to get me to my fifty thousand words just based on what I have so far so given that I might not actually get that much writing done today having said that that doesn't worry me too much because my husband and I are off work for this week which is going to be amazing so we're going to Italy on Monday and even though like it's not a writing retreat we're going to be out and about and eating lots of pasta and pizza and so on but it does mean I'm not working a full-time job for the next week so even if today isn't a very high word count day I think that that's not a problem because I will have a lot more time and a lot more energy to devote to this in the coming week but for now I need to start plotting rather than starting with what needs to happen next in the book I thought I'd start with what I already had so I just scrolled through my word document to give every major plot point a one or two sentence summary and what's really interesting is that there's so much more in the book than what I thought about last month when I was doing all of this preparation work like there are you know some of the big events are the same they're things I thought of back then but how one leads to the other some of the different layers or elements that have been in that have been introduced that help tie everything together there's a lot that's brand new and I'm looking at it going obvious it's a first draft it needs a lot of work but I'm looking at it going oh my god like well done Jackie's brain you were you've done good work here so um yeah it's I don't even know what this snippet is for I just thought yeah I'm I'm a little bit pleased with myself it's like um if writer Jackie was a separate person I would be giving her a pat on the back right now because I think um I think what's there is working well and yeah now the next step is just to think about what happens next so we have a problem as you know my plan was to try and map out not the rest of the book but from where I am now to the midpoint and then from the midpoint around about to the climax slash dark night of the soul the problem is I'm only up to the next new scene and it just makes me want to write the next new scene rather than continuing with the plotting and I think I'm going to no I don't think I know I'm going to so I'm going to go ahead with mapping out just that scene and then writing it because this is a challenging part of the book because it's where Hannah the main character needs to basically switch her perspective she needs she needs to change sides so until now her goal has been to go back to her family and get accepted by her father and this is the time when she's really going to go over to the dark side if you like so she's going to go against her father and really side with the mob who are who are his main enemy and I'm not sure so I know action wise what's going to happen I know there's a conversation and they're going to prepare for this mission and they're going to try and steal the father's research but I'm not sure what happens emotionally to make that change occur and I feel like I can't go on to the next scene until I know that so I'm going to put a pause on plotting and write that scene after which I will decide whether there's still time left to plot today or whether I should finally finish the Christmas shopping and get back to plotting tomorrow so after I went and said that I was so excited about the next scene I had to write that I had to write it then I couldn't continue plotting it was a really hard writing session so I did 2177 words and I think the first 1500 words of that was crap like I just I know I just couldn't get into it I so I actually think that psychologically and emotionally the scene I'm in now is the midpoint because and I was thinking it would be a sequence of scenes and she wouldn't get the information for another couple of scenes but the way I planned it out was that she was so she's just basically being tattooed by the mafia against her will so isn't particularly happy with them and their planning a mission and want her help and she went to the meeting was all stroppy like oh well I'm not going to help you and then one of her main contacts said okay come with me and gave her this file and the file actually has all of the information that we've been hinting at until now and when I came up with the idea of just doing it in this one bam and she gets all the information and needs to put it together until it makes sense I thought oh that could work really well I I don't know if it can't or if I just haven't done it well but yeah describing someone going through documents isn't the most captivating read so the first 1500 words was really hard I really struggled to get into it I did consider not writing anything today and just putting it off until tomorrow but I pushed through and I think the last you know six to seven hundred words are good because that's the moment when she sees something goes oh that doesn't make sense and that creates the snowball effect that where um you know one thing piles on another it's like oh my god look at all of this stuff is done and my father is a really bad person and we should stop him so it gets to where it needed to get to in fact I haven't finished I'm like partway through the realisation sequence but I need to think of so I've basically got three kidnapped children at this stage I want I know the final secret that I want to reveal I'm not sure how it can be revealed though it would be nice if I could put a dead body in there though anyway so I wasn't sure how to do the last piece of information so I'm stopping partway through the scene and we'll get back to that tomorrow so the scene did or will end where it's supposed to I'm not sure how to fix the beginning part but it is a first draft so this is this is a future Jackie problem and I'm sure future Jackie is going to love me when she sees this video in a couple of months time so I'm calling it a day it is what is the time it's five o'clock I'm going to head out for some last-minute Christmas shopping hoping that I can get the last few gifts knocked off in time to send tomorrow because that's probably the last opportunity to get them back to Australia in time and tomorrow I will attempt to finish the scene and I will also get back to plotting and I was going to say and I'll actually finish plotting this time but who knows I might get to the next scene and decide I just have to write that so we'll see what happens it's always an adventure anyway I'll see you tomorrow so it is Sunday the 24th of November and my husband and I are going to Florence tomorrow which is going to be amazing so I thought I'd chat with you while I pack today because packing is of course the most exciting thing that you can watch me do so I just passed the 40,000 word mark on my NaNoWriMo novel which is really exciting and I finally got another badge so very happy to NaNoWriMo for giving me that badge because I haven't had one since I hit 10,000 words which was a couple of weeks ago now I the reason I didn't film while I was doing my usual writing and plotting today is because this wasn't folded very well is because yesterday I felt like having to report on how I was doing was actually getting in the way of the plotting exercise and I wanted to see how I went without the expectation that I would need to give an update when it comes to how I did I didn't actually do that much better unfortunately and I'm not sure I'm not sure if it's a problem because so we're at this point in the book where Hannah has just realised that her father's an asshole he's done a whole lot of really bad things and she's decided to side with the mafia to help steal some of his research and so we've got this scene now where they're sort of planning the heist and then they're going to break into his home to perform the heist and then they're going to discover it was a trap and he's going to trap them in there and basically demand that they give her back which which is kind of cool so one of the things that's fun about working on the book is seeing how things evolve in a way you didn't expect so a few weeks ago I had this idea where he was going to have infiltrated one of their bases and his face would appear on all of the computer screens and start talking to them and basically say I've put all these bombs throughout the network and I'm going to blow it up if you don't give my daughter back and now um that's actually leading on from this scene which is cool but that means we've got this sort of midpoint sequence with plan for the heist the heist it's all a trap oh no what do we do and then I know that I want Hannah to get recaptured by her father at some point and logically that should flow right on from here I'm worried if it flows but that's supposed to be the dark night of the soul moment so I'm worried that if it flows right on from here there's not going to be enough in this third part of the book and there's not going to be so generally you go straight from the dark night of the soul to the big climax which is going to be an epic battle and um that means that I'm almost there I'm only a couple of scenes away from the climax which was not what I'd expected I put a copy of my board on the screen now this is one of the save the cat exercises that I did back when I was reading save the cat so the board comes after you've done your beat sheet which is the 15 different beats that Blake Snyder recommends on the board you're supposed to divide your story into four parts so first row is act one the second two are part one of act two part two of act two and the final row is act four now what you'll see in my storyboard is that there are different colored post-it notes now you're supposed to use different colored post-it notes for different points of view however because this story is just taking place in one point of view I decided not to do that and just had everything in yellow so since I had all these colors available what I did yesterday was when I went through what I've written so far was I added the new things I'd added in in blue so what you can see here is yellow is from the original board I did and I removed some of those sticky notes that didn't work blue is what's already in the book that I've added and orange is what I plan today and what I'm planning to write and as you'll see there are only three orange post-it notes plus the remaining yellow ones so there's actually not a lot left of the book I'm not sure I think this is a problem I'm not sure how big a problem it is because so if you look at story engineering which was my favorite plotting approach because Larry Brooks divides your book into percentages there are keen milestone events that happen at certain percentages through the book so the event that sets the plot in motion happens at 25 percent the midpoint happens at 50 percent which is when the protagonist gets more information that moves them from being in a purely defensive reactive position to being in an offensive attacking position and then there's the 75 percent mark which is the climax so that's when all of the information that's going to get introduced has been introduced and there's the big battle that will lead to the resolution now I have these moments the problem is that I've got so much between the 25 and the 50 percent mark that if I wrap everything up so quickly that means all of those percentages are going to be in the wrong place and the book structurally won't work as well as it should so at this stage I'm actually not sure what to do I'm not sure whether I should just keep writing what I have and focus on those few scenes that I know I have or I'm not sure if I should you know try and fix this now so try and think of what bits are missing first rather than having to fix it up later having said that though I need socks but so the problem with doing your washing in Estonia or at least in Talinn in our building is that the water is very hard here and all of my socks which were beautiful and soft in Australia have gone all like crusty and yuck so I have a handful of socks that I like to wear because they're the ones that are still softish and they're out drying because we did the washing this morning so I don't want to pack any of the socks I've got left in my drawer so socks will happen later oh that pair's okay so what was I saying yeah so I'm not sure how to approach the rest of my book I think unless I'm inspired to do something else I think I'll just get through the next few scenes outlined on the orange poster notes just because that's what's in my head that's what I'm inspired to do and they might end up being long scenes so there are some like some of these post-it notes are actually like sequences of scenes rather than just being one scene per post-it so it could end up being something like that where even though it is only three post-its that ends up being 15 000 words and it brings this part of the book up to the same length as the first two parts which are currently 40 000 words so we'll see but all in all I'm yeah really happy to still be on track I would love to finish in the next week just because that means I can tie up the week four vlog with um with hitting my 50 000 words and being able to give a recap of how nano went I'll also have a better idea of how much longer I need to finish my book because I already know it is going to be more than another 10 000 words but let's see how the next week goes in any case I'm going to Italy tomorrow so good things are coming so hello from Munich airport Drew and I are on our way to Florence and one of the really annoying things about living in Estonia is that it's very difficult to get direct flights anywhere so we had our two hour flight here and now we have four hours until we can get to Florence tonight the good thing is though that I found this cool little area in the airport where I can do some riding so on the flight I was basically mapping up heist and that's going to take place in the book now because now this is a heist book and so I mapped out the heist and now I know enough about how it's all going to play out that I could take a step back and start doing the planning scene I've also come up with an extra scene that's going to go in between the planning and the execution of the heist which is going to be a chance for the main character to really bond with some of her new mafia mates and that means that when everything goes wrong in the heist and her father shows up and basically demands they need to hand her over in order to live with their lives it's going to be a much bigger sacrifice to have to hand her over than it would have been if she was just hanging out with them they hadn't bonded so now all that's mapped out I have four hours I'm going to see how much more I can get ridden today from Florence so my husband and I got in at about 9 30 last night and a very very bad night of sleep now we're in an amazing location we're right next to the central market problem is we're also right next to a square where on a Monday night people are out and talking until 2 a.m because no one works in Florence I guess so the heating in this apartment was really high there was no way to turn it off so that meant sleeping with the windows open which meant hearing all of the noise from outside around about 2 a.m things got quiet so had a lovely sleep until 5 30 when the garbage trucks started coming out so um a little bit tired but the good news is that that meant there was time for riding this morning before my husband gets up and before we go out and explore so I did 2368 words today which brings me to 44805 words I just had this great Russian drinking scene which was lots of fun and everyone's bonded so that'll make the stakes feel higher in the next scene the good news is that I've already planned out the next scene because so if you've ever like watched any heist type films um you'll notice that there's always you know they have to go through all of the obstacles in advance so you know how hard it's going to be and um what a big achievement it will be if they actually successfully pull off the heist so in order to do the preparation scene I already needed to know how the heist would go so I actually already mapped out the next scene which is really good so we're in Florence until about 3 p.m this afternoon then we're getting a train down to Siena which is where we're spending most of the week that train is I think an hour an hour and 20 minutes so I'm hoping I can get into this next scene then having said that I did think I'd get a lot more done yesterday at the airport and after my initial writing session I was just dead so we'll see how it goes in any case um I am actually ahead of where I need to be again which is exciting so I have no idea what's going to happen after I finish the next scene but how many words hmm I'm just looking at my word count I've got an anorimo open on the table in front of me so I've got six no I've got 5200 words left and I'm just thinking is the next scene going to be 5200 words and it could be in which case I don't need to worry about what comes next to finish an anorimo but at this stage I'm optimistic about getting the next scene done I'm not 100 percent sure what's going to happen next but this next thing will be at least 3000 words I think it might be 5 in which case there won't actually be that much left for me to get to my 50 000 words which is kind of surreal anyway that's my day 26 update and hopefully I can get some nice footage of Florence today and happy Wednesday it is the final Wednesday of Nana Rimo and we are in Sienna Italy which looks absolutely gorgeous though we only got in last night so haven't really seen that much yet I did sleep for 11 hours though which was a big achievement and I'm feeling I'm still feeling really tired though I don't know if that's just like a Nana Rimo hangover type of thing that it's not even hangover because I'm still in the middle of it but I don't know if I'm worn out because of Nana Rimo or if I'm just worn out in general or if maybe I just need two nights of 11 hours of sleep and then I'll feel better who knows but yesterday morning as you know I had a pretty good session I did plan to write when we got on the train to head down here yesterday afternoon I was so worn out though that I just used that time for reading because I'm also running behind in my Goodreads reading challenge for the years I think I've still got 12 books to do by the end of the year which should be interesting but today so today I only had like an hour to write before my husband got up we're probably heading out in the next 20 minutes because we've got a cooking class today which should be fun which means there isn't a lot of time for writing so I did about 1400 words this morning which means I'm still on track but I would really like to do more especially because now I'm in a scene that's already mapped out and because I slept well last night I do think I'll have some energy this afternoon to continue writing I don't love what I wrote today again I it's really interesting the scenes that seem like they should be the most interesting so the shooting scene the first part of the vodka drinking scene this is the high scene they're the ones that seem like they should be the most interesting but when I write them it just feels like it feels like I'm just listing my new show like all of these little things need to happen to make the scene happen but they're not interesting little things I'm not sure what to do about that but because this is an anorama I'm just focusing on moving forward so hoping that um don't know if I'll get to my 50,000 words today I think tomorrow might be a possibility those depending on how this afternoon goes in any case I will keep you informed I think I did it so according to the nanorama website as of yesterday I had 46,239 words which means I needed 3,761 words to hit 50,000 and according to for the words today I've written 4,339 so assuming that everything's working properly at the nanorama end I should have one nanorama I should have 50,000 words so let's enter my numbers into the site 50,578 words 50,000 word badge now let's claim my winner goodies first 50,000 word this November you wrote a novel not quite in my case but getting there this is no small feat 50,000 words in 30 days requires you to develop a mastery of time collecting seconds minutes and hours every day to create something brand new out of that shining raw material what an incredible way to shape your time your space thank you for writing thank you for doing it with us congratulations again and again many times into the future I'm done I'm also dead I you know I've been up for four hours and haven't had breakfast yet so I think um I'm going to have breakfast and enjoy my day and touch base later once I've replenished my words for the day because my brain needs a break but I'm done I I mean this week I knew I would finish because the end of week three I had enough words that I knew like I'd make myself get to 50,000 there was only 14,000 words left I think which is you know it was more than a week left so I think it was pretty much spot on with the nanorimo target of 16167 words a day so I knew with that amount of words left I would get to the end but thinking of where I was in October and where I was at the beginning of the month it's still a little bit shocking but yeah I'm going to go off enjoy my day and I will come back when my brain's working a bit better it is the end of the day I have had very good pizza and reasonably good gelato and I am feeling somewhat revived however I was going through the footage that I did this morning and I don't actually think there's that much more to say I won nanorimo still sort of pinching myself and still feeling a bit worn out but really really happy with how this month has gone the only other thing I wanted to bring up was that obviously my book isn't done I think I'm about 60 to 70% of the way through which means I've probably got about another 30,000 words to go so let me know would you like me to keep doing weekly vlogs while I'm working on this project at this stage I'm hoping I'll get it done by the end of the year just based on what my schedule's looking like in December so that would be basically weekly vlogs for the next month so if that's something you'd like to see let me know and I'll do them and if not I will stop spamming you with these vlogs in any case I hope your nano's going really well please let me know in the comments below and if you like this video please remember to like and subscribe until next time bye


far away? I'm saying you can't look through the air forever. So, Mount Everest is forever away? No, it doesn't have to be. Okay, so then we would only be seeing a finite distance to Mount Everest. Yeah. Why can't we? Whenever it's really humid in Florida, you can't see three miles away, bud. Yeah, but what if there is no humidity? What if there is no humidity? Yeah, what if there wasn't enough humidity to obstruct your vision? It's still a compilation of a dense medium and it's denser and lower to the surface. So you can't see through a compilation of denser and lower to the surface. Yeah. Why? Because I already told you about the voltage potential and you still don't get it. It has nothing to do with it. Really? So there's not a downward current on the earth in the electric field? I have no idea what that even is supposed to mean. Okay, so again, a year ignorant, so we'll move on. Well, it's not that I'm ignorant. It's that the terms you're using are just not terms that anybody that actually understands these things would recognize. Given that I've actually watched lectures taught by people like Alan Gooth in electromagnetism through MIT OpenCourseWare, the terms you're using are not terms I've heard, examining academic literature. That's what I keep saying, I don't know what you mean because of the way you're using these terms. I just quoted Richard Feynman. I just quoted Richard Feynman. Quotes aren't arguments. No, you just said that no one says that Richard Feynman, the guy you brought up earlier as your hero, he just now, I just explained to you what he explained. The look of Richard Feynman's lecture on the equipotential electric field on the earth, 100 volts per meter, the how there's a downward current on the earth. So, okay. You've got this one coming in from, do appreciate your question. Let me just be sure I'm in order. Oh, singer of doom says, flat earthers are hard to find.  Yeah. No one thinks you can fall off. Can you fall off of a lake? No, you reach a shore. That's called a strawman. Juicy, this one coming in from, King Conquest says, Austin's character depends on his strong attitude.  I think this is a personal attack on you, Austin. Is that what it is? No, they love me, man. This guy secretly loves me, James, and watches all my YouTube streams. I'm not even kidding. He probably does, bro. But yeah, cool story, man. We falsified the radius. The whole model has been falsified. That radius value is wrong. The earth is flat. Don't make this weird. You got it. And Warren Evans says, do we read this? I think we did. According to thermodynamics, contained pressurized systems should have equal pressure everywhere. Why doesn't the earth have equal pressure if it's contained? Once again, it's a closed dynamic system with transfer of heat constantly going on, production of gases in the gas cycle at the surface. We also have greater density at the surface based on an electric field that's equal potential 100 volts per meter all the way up. So one, earth is an open system, unless, I mean, Austin is trying to argue that the earth doesn't get energy from the sun. Also, just because I was curious, I looked up this electric potential of the earth thing, and I found out that, because that's what I do, I look things up when I don't know what they are to find out what they are, and then when I find out the person is wrong, I correct them. The earth actually has a very, very low electric potential. That's why we ground things by touching the wire to the earth. Okay, yeah. So the earth typically has a neutral or negative charge on the surface, positive building up 100 volts per meter. So thanks. This is what I'm coming in from. Do you appreciate your question? Mike Vincent. I've never heard anyone say, quote, I don't know what that means, unquote, so many times in one debate. Maybe after Leo gets done playing Fortnite later, he can go learn more about gas pressure. So I don't play Fortnite. I PK on Runescape. That's what I do in my spare time if we're talking about video games. So if you think you're tough, let's meet in the willty, buddy. Let's go. Anyway, if you get it, you get it. Anyway, I've said I don't know what that means so much because I have never in my life so much heard a drastic butchering of the terminology that scientists would use. Look, if somebody says a thing and I have no clue what they just said, I'm going to say, yeah, I don't know what that means. That's not a testament to how little I know. It's a testament to how little I can understand of whatever the person I'm saying it to is saying. If I don't understand what you're saying, I'm not going to know what you mean. You got it, Ann. Thank you very much for your question. This one coming in from nuclear creations. Appreciate it. I didn't see a question attached. Let me know if you had one. But it is about 9.30. What we have to do is I've got to tell you one. Folks, our guests are linked in the description. If you've been listening and that includes via podcast, we put our guest links in the description box at the very top every time because we really do appreciate our guests. Seriously, they're the lifeblood of the channel and so you can find their links as well as mango tea. Thanks for your questions. This flat earth is true. Whitsit is correct. Glovers want to continue to brainwash others. I mean, I guess we're also brainwashing them by teaching them that to calculate the area of a circle is pi r squared. That's propaganda too. You got it, Ann. Thank you very much for your question, Mr. Monster. Does the flat earth go on forever or does it end somewhere at a wall, Austin? That's a great question. Some claim that it could be infinite. I don't know. I just know that it's illegal to privately explore past the 60th South latitude. I mean, obviously this isn't scientific at all, but the scriptures say that it'll never be measured. But either way, I mean, it's literally illegal to go there. So you can't privately go there. So I don't know, man. I wish that maybe more people would wake up and stop letting everyone think for themselves. So maybe bigger questions like that out. Yeah, I agree. Governments don't have the right to limit this planet. With that. That is round. We have got to wrap up. It's already been two and a half hours, and so I want to say thank you to the debaters for staying this long with us. We do appreciate you guys, as mentioned. They're linked below, folks. You'd be crazy not to check out those links if you want to hear more. If you're like, yeah, sure. Go ahead and click them right now. I'm going to be back in just a moment with a post-credits scene, just like at the end of the Marvel movies. 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We're absolutely thrilled about that and want to say thank you for making that happen. You guys, honestly, I enjoy this so much.  I want to say you really do, just by being here, asking questions in the live chat, as that helps us put on a good Q&A, just hanging out with us seriously makes it fun. And you really do help the channel just by being here.  We really are. We really are thankful for you. So seriously, I appreciate you. It's always fun with you. And I've got to tell you what else. My dear friends, we have got some based stuff coming up. For example, I had already mentioned this conference is going to be huge. It's January 15th and 16th and tickets are on sale. This is the last night for the early bird pricing. I have continually said like, let's just get a little longer because I really do want everybody to get a shot at the early bird pricing. So for real folks, do click onto this link that I'm about to throw into the old live chat right now as you do not want to miss this conference. It is going to be monstrous and if you're like, I can't commit to two days, is there a one day ticket? There is actually. Yeah. You can actually get a one day ticket because we have religion debates on Saturday the 15th of January and then Sunday the 16th. That's actually going to be political debates. And it's going to be at the imminent trademark hotel near Dallas Love Field, the airport. You guys, I've got to tell you several things. One, for example, I've got to also say thank you so much to the person who contributed to the crowdfund as we not only have in person tickets, but if you want to watch all the debates live, you can from home if you throw into the crowdfund. Now, some of the debates will be live no matter what. In other words, even if you don't throw into the crowdfund, but some of the debates are going to be set up such that you'd either have to one, throw into the crowdfund or two, be a part of the Patreon for modern day debate or three, be a channel member. So that's really big folks is I got to tell you either of those will work and I want to encourage you throw into the old crowdfund because believe me, it is going to be gigantic. You don't want to miss any of these debates and once they're live, we're going to take them down so they won't be up immediately after we're going to try to edit some of them and then some of them we're just going to kind of like cut out the music and things like that and re upload them later. And so you don't want to wait be able to watch every single debate that weekend. And I've got to tell you this too, we're absolutely pumped. If you look at the thermometer on the far right of your screen, we have hit the 1000 mark and you might be like James but out of 5000, that looks scary. There's only 14 days left. Believe me, the last two weeks and especially the last week and especially the last few days are when most of the donations come in. So we're actually on track. We're doing well with this crowdfund. And like I said, throwing into the crowdfund, which I will link in the description as well, we'll get you all of the debates to watch live. And I've got to tell you, there are also other perks in there. So let me give you a review because you might be like, I don't know about like, what is this crowdfund stuff? That's weird, James. Well, let me tell you about it. Don't worry. Don't worry. I'm not a ghost. I'm still here. So as you can see, my dear friends, on the screen, DebateCon is the name of our conference. It is going to be two days with approximately, it's going to be 10 debates. It's up to 14 debates now. So some of them, if you attend in person, you would actually watch one of two particular debates live. And so that's something to keep in mind. But I've got to tell you, we are using Indiegogo for this crowdfund. They are trustworthy. They take, it's only about 5%, which isn't bad realistically. And so that way, we can put more funds to the actual conference. And that's absolutely essential for us. But I want to show you, you might be like, James, I like, how do I like sign in though? Well, take a look at this. You can actually, without even creating an Indiegogo account, sign in with Facebook. It's so easy. Piece of cake. And that way, you can throw into the crowdfund. And it might be you want one of the perks. You can throw into the crowdfund, whether it be to watch it live or for one of the perks. For example, even though we'll have an in-person audience, if a person throws in 50 bucks into the crowdfund, they'll actually be able to ask a question in live time to the debaters where I'll basically, either through text messaging or through Gmail, I will get their questions during the debate and then we'll actually read them during the Q&A. So that's one perk example. And I've got to tell you, we're absolutely determined and we are absolutely encouraged. We are going to make our goal. It is going to be gigantic. And I've got to tell you, you might be like, tell me more about this change. Like, how does it work? Well, this is, as an example, what you would see in the Indiegogo website. So let's say you logged in through Facebook and then you'd see these perk options where you can click on whatever it is you want. And so, for example, you can watch all the debates live as some of them are going to be live. But like I said, you have to be either a patron for Patreon or a member or throw into the crowdfund. The other stuff, let me show you this because you're like, tell me more. We've successfully done this before. My dear friends, this is not our first rodeo. We have made this work before and we are confident that we can do it again. So for example, if you look at the screen right now, you will see Mike Jones and Michael Shermer. And the reason is because we did a crowdfund for that debate about a year ago. And it was a successful crowdfund where we met our goal and it was a phenomenal debate. And I've got to tell you, you may be like, James, are you sure you know what you're doing? I mean, that's only one. Good for you. No, no, no, no. We've done it twice. So you remember this one in this summer? We did a crowdfund that was successful and we met our goal for that one. So believe me, we absolutely believe it's going to work. And you might be wondering, you're like, James, I don't know. What's with the crowdfund stuff?  No, no, no, no, no. 100% of the funds that come in through the crowdfund as well as through the ticket sales are being reinvested back into DebateCon part two as we plan on having a conference in May. Now, Toby, thanks for your super chat says, James, considering your background, what's your true personal opinion about Flat Earth? Don't hide behind your overly neutral PC moderator persona. Be honest, please. That's funny. I don't know if it was ever about being PC. I really am not super PC, actually. But Drimlock says, oh, by the way, yeah, I mean, I think you guys already knew that. I'm actually a Glober. So I welcome Flat Earthers and I welcome people who are Glober Earthers in the same way that, you know, I can't agree with everybody. You guys know where I stand on a lot of these things. But Grimlock says, James is secretly a Cube Earther. I mean, yeah, that might be true too. But I want to say, in terms of our budget, you might be wondering like, James, I don't know, why is there even a crowdfund? Why not just have all of the debates streamed live for the public? And that's just it. It's like, well, you know what? This actually helps us raise funds to cover the cost because you might be thinking like, oh, James, is everything free? Not quite. And here's why. For example, and I'm not complaining. I mean, we took on this goal and this challenge and we're taking a big leap, but we know it's going to pay off. In other words, we think that we'll be able to cover with ticket sales and the crowdfund together. I think we'll be okay. And it'll allow us to do this again in the future because we do plan on doing another in May. But let me show you one on the far right side of the blue pie graph. That blue chunk is the venue itself. The venue is actually quite expensive. So it's about on average in Dallas. It's about 4500 per day for a venue. It is quite pricey. Second, that's the average. Speaker hotel rooms is the orange chunk on the bottom as that obviously costs money as we are flying in the speakers. And so for them, basically to be not like having to jam in both of their flights on the same day and then try to debate between those flights, that would just be exhausting. We are putting the speakers up in hotel room and not only that, but if you look at the far right side, or I'm sorry, what I meant to say is the speaker per diem for food is the orange chunk. So we are covering their food while they're there because we appreciate them being there. None of them are actually being paid on rariums. And that might be surprising to you.  And it's like, well, if they're taking time from their work, they rarely do. Most people will want an honorarium. There were people that asked for an honorarium. And I was like, oh, maybe we can work something out. And I was like, no, I was like, you're asking for too much, to be honest. I was like, no, it's just not going to work. And we let them go. And there's a big name person in particular. But the reason is we were like, hey, listen, we are willing to cover travel costs if the speakers are willing to come in and debate without an honorarium. And we're thankful. These speakers are awesome because for them to only, like for them to only have their travel costs covered, I would say is a generous move on their part. We appreciate them. And so that's why we are covering their food, their hotel, their flights. And I've got to tell you, look at the chunk on the left side. That gray chunk is their flights. And so some people, we are thankful. It's some people are local. So we can actually just, that reminds me, I've got to book somebody's last minute flight. Two seconds, writing this out. Book Daniels flight. Is that, here's how this works. It is a big venture. And we really believe it's going to pay off in particular, for example, we really believe modern day debate is going to have some crazy growth. Like I think we'll probably have a new couple of thousands subscribers within the three day span of the debate, like the first day, second day and the day after, I think we'll probably grow by about 2000 subscribers. It's that's a, which for three days is a massive jump for us. That's like our usual per month. So this is going to be big time. And we think that it's definitely going to help us keep growing at a faster rate in the following several months. And so we are not ashamed to say, we want to grow. We don't think there's anything wrong with it. We think it's a good thing because we actually believe in our vision. Namely, we are absolutely determined to provide a level playing field so that everybody can make their case on a neutral platform like modern day debate. We are absolutely determined to do that and to get people from different walks of life communicating. That's our goal at modern day debate and to do it in the most fairway possible. So our Twitter, our YouTube as tempted as I am, I'm not really tempted with YouTube, but Twitter sometimes I'm tempted to put a little juicy, spicy tweet out there that shows my own personal views. But I won't do it. The reason is modern day debate, regardless of it being our Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Twitch is going to be neutral. That's something we've already decided and that's the way it's always going to be. This channel is never going to turn into like, oh, like James is going to turn this into his pushing his own views on this or that. No, no, no, no. This is always going to be a debate channel and it's always going to be a platform for everybody to make their case on a level playing field in the fairest way possible as we try to get people from different walks of life talking. And Jerry Ray Sissom. Thank you so much for being a subscriber with Prime. I see you there in the old Twitch chat. We appreciate you subscribing with us seriously. Thanks for using your Amazon Prime sub on us. For real, I'm dead serious. Like, that really means a lot. And in the old YouTube chat, pumped to say hi to you though. My dear friends, I've been going on and on and I do want to say thank you so much for all of your support of the channel. I am pumped for real. I really believe we've got a couple of people. I mean, I'm just, I'm excited about this conference. It is going to be huge. Let me show you the poster because you might be like, huh, James like, there's a poster? What are you talking about? Oh, there is. Topazal did a fantastic job with this poster and I've got to show it to you.  This is big time folks. This is not like me debating with like my uncle Remus. Like we're getting big time speakers. Believe me, you won't want to miss it. Let me just show you some of the debates because you might be thinking like, huh, like, I don't know what's all going to be there, but tell me more James. Well, I will. So for example, here's a panel that we are planning. Destiny, Amy Newman, a surprise guest in Zander Hall. If you look at the main page of our YouTube channel, it'll show you debates like these. We've got them all up now. And so like I said, some of them will say you got to be there in person to watch it. That's a small percent. There's only like, oh man, I think there's only like three or four debates out of the 14 that you'd have to watch in person if you wanted to see them live. And then we're going to release those eventually on modern day debate, but it's just good for you to know that. And I would encourage you though, check out our main page. So if you just click on our little icon there under the video, it'll show you all of those debates, which is just nuts. Seriously, we are absolutely pumped for this and we're excited to fulfill this vision and we're thankful for the speakers and helping us do that. Now, a little too high says, this is honestly fun to watch and participate in. Thank you, everybody, LOL. Thank you a little too high for your support. Seriously, we appreciate you. And is it Desian Wilkes or is it Deshawn? Deshawn Wilkes, I think it is. We're glad you're here. Let me know if I pronounced it right. He chilled. Good to see you. Thanks for being with us. And thanks for being with us. David, pumped. You made it as well as TJB pumped. You came by Master Optics. Glad to see you back.  I don't know. I honestly don't. Cranky Beast, 2259. One of James, one by James, a new Spider-Man for his man. I don't know what that means. But ExtraJ pumped to have you here as well as Nano pumped. You are with us. And Canabare, am I saying it right? Canabeer? Oh, that must be it. We're bumped. You are with us. Chad Nuts, glad you are with us. Nathan, thanks for dropping in. Sage Ohio, good to see you there. And ZX, CV, BNM, pumped you're with us. Flattered Viking, thanks for coming by as well as Crow, Magnum and GG Cash. Glad to see you. St. May, pumped you're with us. Let Tornado, good to see you again. And Rook Chavez, good to see you. He says, please hit that like button before you leave. And I do appreciate that. We appreciate that. Thank you for your support of the channel. Seriously, those are ways that you help the channel. They say it helps boost us in the algorithm. I think there's truth to that. And we do get a lot of recommended video views. In other words, YouTube does show our videos to a lot of people. Like they recommend them in people's because they can see our stats. Like they're phenomenal. We are like, YouTube has helped us grow. That's like why we've gotten to 60,000 almost in three years, a little over three years. But it has been a fun ride. And we're excited about the future. Join us now while we're small folks. Believe me, we are still small. We've got big things that we are planning. And the Mrs. Vader pumped that you made it. Thanks for being with us. And Alpha 100, glad you are here. Extra J and Prof Phil Bell, glad you came by. Thanks for being with us. Let's see here. Toby, glad you're here. Rock E. Shepard and Quantum DeGreaser. Thanks for being with us. Pear D. Bear. Glad you're with us. And Georgie. Georgie of thanks for being with us. Jerry system. Glad you're with us. And let's see here. Oliver Katwell says, I feel like you could justifiably steal the conference money stating quote, I told you it's debate con. I was up front the whole time. That's funny. We're excited. Just like Twitch con or VidCon. Debate con is going to be monstrous. I am pumped for that. It is going to be the biggest debate conference in so long for real. It is going to shake the foundations of the online debate world. We are absolutely serious about that. You guys, it's just going to be great. Heat Shield says, you might want to tell new viewers what you're even talking about. Why should I be interested in what's going on? You should be interested. And that's a great question. You should be interested in this in person debate conference that we have January 15th and 16th in Dallas, Texas. And you should show up live if you're anywhere near. The tickets for that are actually... Oh, that's right. Let me put that in the chat again. As early bird tickets are still available, we wanted to give everybody a chance so that they weren't kind of like, Oh, James, I hadn't even heard about it. Yes, we have early bird tickets. And so these are honestly dirt cheap. Like we've looked at other debate type conferences or panel conferences and we're like, Hey, like we're competitive here, especially because in my opinion, my bias opinion, we're offering a bigger lineup of better debates. And I've got to show you some of these. So I've already showed you on the bottom right. You can see that one. You know, James, what else though? I mean, that's, that's just one. Is there other stuff? Here's another one. This one's going to be only in person. Grudge match between Dylan Burns and infrared on whether or not Taiwan is a part of China. You don't want to miss that as well as let me pull this last one up and show you this Joe Biden on trial. Whether or not Joe Biden has delivered well since he's become the president, that is going to be there as well. You guys, that's going to be an epic one. We're going to, that's the starter for the political day. So I am pretty pumped about that. It's going to be a lot of fun. You can watch them from home, as I had mentioned. And you guys, it's going to be absolutely based and or red-pilled as my friend Saisho Knapp would say. Nano pumped you were with us as well as Alpha 100 and free thinker glad you were with us. Grimlock says, what about the budget for the wicked after parties where everybody gets hammered? Yeah, I actually don't have that built into the budget. So if, if anybody wanted to get alcohol and get crazy afterwards, we don't actually like offer that in terms of like, we're not covering that. It's something that we, you know, this is our first conference. Maybe we'll offer a free drink in the future or something, but frankly, right now it's just not in the cards. And frankly, I just feel like in the future, even though I don't want to be closed-minded, I don't really feel inclined toward doing that just because you guys, as the viewers, I think would rather see your funds like your contributions of the crowd fund or buying tickets be used for getting more speakers into the next conference because this isn't going to be our only conference. We are actually going to be doing, if this goes well, which we think it will, probably twice a year and bigger than you can imagine. Seriously, it is going to be a lot of fun. I'm pumped about it. And you guys, seriously, you will be absolutely pumped about it as well. It's going to be great. So, but yeah, I hadn't even got to tell you guys, how are you guys doing? Tell me how you are, because I am curious and I want to know. And I do like to get to hear like how you're actually doing rather than just me talking up here. I want to say, how are you? Nano, good to see you. Since I want to see another T-jump in R and raw debate, those are my faves. That's a based idea. I like it. Aran's actually traveling at that time. So, we didn't get him for this conference, but we do plan on getting him for the May conference. And thank you for your kind words. Georgie, Georgie, thanks for your kind words. And thank you, cranky beast, for your kind words. I'm pretty sure you're still Sarah, but that's appreciate it. And Alpha 100, thanks for being here. Soyboy, and that's right. Thank you for all of you who are channel members. I don't say thank you enough. Seriously, Oliver Katwell, for example, thank you so much, as well as Brooke Chavis, Sideshow Nav, thanks for your support of the channel. Seriously, there's a lot of you out there. Jared A, thank you so much for your support. You guys, I really do appreciate it. We all do. I've got to tell you, happy holidays. Like seriously, I'm pumped for you. We're probably not going to have a debate for the next two nights. Gonna take a little rest time, and I've got to recover. I'm actually a little bit sick. I'm getting better, but I am glad to get to recover the next couple of nights. We'll probably be back Sunday, and then we will... The plan is to have pretty much a debate every day leading up to the conference for the last like 10 days. And I've got to tell you though, you guys, I love you guys.  You guys rock. It's just a blast with you guys. So happy holidays. Happy New Year, you guys. I hope you have big plans for tomorrow night. I think I may go to sleep early because I actually have just so wiped out. This week, I've been wiped out from travel, and I've been wiped out from being sick. So I actually probably need to go to bed early just so I can get up the next day and hammer away at modern day debate con. As I'm telling you guys, these debates are going to be unreal. It is going to be so fun. I am seriously just pumped. So I love you guys. Thanks for all of your support. Thanks for making this channel fun because you guys really do. You guys make this channel awesome. And again, you don't want to miss this conference. Like it is going to be some top notch, like super high quality stuff. So hit that subscribe button if you haven't already. And that notification bell. And that way, you'll always know when new debates are coming out from that conference as well as the debates before and after that conference because we've also got some big ones lined up for before and after for real. We are trying to like have a good synthesized schedule where it's like, wow, you've got some awesome stuff. Cranky Beast 2259. Says I'm cranky. Good for you. And a guy 4573 says beta. Thanks for coming by a guy. And the Zook. Thanks for coming by KLW EIN. Thanks for dropping in. We're glad you were with us. And I've got to rest my voice and rest tonight. So thanks guys. I love you guys seriously. It's always so hard to say goodbye because I just enjoy this. So thanks everybody. Looking forward to seeing you on the next debate and have a great rest of your night.


Hello everyone, I'm EKBTV chief meteorologist Slayton Hopkins with a look at your forecast, a forecast that holds yet more snow, a winter weather advisory in effect for most of eastern Kentucky, pretty much all of western West Virginia and southwest Virginia. This stretches from Pike, Floyd, McGuffin, Johnson, Martin, Nott and Letcher counties, Wise Dickinson and Buchanan counties, and Mingo and Logan County in West Virginia. This goes all the way through seven o'clock Thursday morning. We're talking winter weather advisories or winter storm warnings stretching from Texas all the way to the east coast, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia. These folks not used to picking up a lot of snow, but that will be the case. That's going to be the forecast for those regions from northern parts of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, even into North Carolina and South Carolina where they're expecting five to eight inches of snow and even three to six along the coastal regions of Virginia. Here at home, we're talking a dusting to one inch of snow from West Liberty, even over toward Paintsville and Inez, the farther south you go from Prestonsburg, Pikeville, down toward Jenkins and Weizberg, one to two inches of snow, and then the farther south you go into southwest Virginia, wouldn't surprise me to see a three, maybe even four inch snowfall total by the time we wake up Thursday morning. As far as how the storm plays out, it moves right up the east coast as it does so tonight. Snow showers will have the best chance of picking up that accumulating snow. The system will continue to move very quickly to the north and to the east during the overnight hours tonight and during the day tomorrow, but another system will be moving in for Thursday night. This will keep a chance of snow showers in the forecast all the way through the first part of the day on Friday.


Well, when I first went on the floor, and all these really aggressive guys in these trading jackets, sleeves rolled up, shouting, waving hands over, wow, I've done never do this.   You know, they're out to make money, not friends. So it really is incredibly intimidating. What you've just described is what everyone assumes trading looks like from the movies. Was it exactly like that? Wolf of Wall Street, screaming at each other, yelling across the room. Yeah, it absolutely was like that. There was a lot of camaraderie, you know, and these guys are razor sharp people, you know, at the top of their game. Well, the markets are open, you're at each other's throats. Yeah. Once they're closed, let's find. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we were down there, but you could drink at lunchtime in those days and some of the banter would not be allowed these days. It was highly inappropriate, shall we say.


Still waiting on Democratic Congresswoman Omar Tlaib in their news conference on travel restricts as to Israel, we will bring it to you live. But first, this. I disagree with President Trump that the economy is strong for everyone and that the fake news of America today is somehow misleading the American people. It's nice to see the media finally cover the Trump economy. You seem to cover it only when you can use the Sesame Street word of the day recession. And so you're using a tweet here or report there or an economist's words here and there. The fact is the fundamentals of our economy are very strong and you know it. Well, let's just say they agree to disagree. Democrats warning of a recession, the White House telling them to cool it and according to a new survey of top economists, about one third do see a recession in 2021. But get this, the number of economists who think a recession is coming this year or during the 2020 election year actually going down. So what do we make of all this? Let's ask our money and market watchers, Jonathan Honig, Jonas Max Ferris and Melissa Armel. Melissa, let me start with you. What do you make of all of it? Well, as far as recession of the market, because it's two different things. You can have a strong economy and you can have a weak market. You can also have a weak economy and a strong market. So they're not necessarily the same. Well right now I do think that we have a strong economy and we actually have a strong market. So we're the best of both worlds right now, even though the market has been very volatile lately, the market is still in an uptrend and it's still holding. But expect that this volatility will continue. You'll have days that will rally like today and then we may sell off another day. And you may have to remember, the market is about perception. So people buy and sell stocks and the market based on perception. Are we going to go into recession? Could create the fear that people sell even if we don't? Just the same thing with China. People think we might have a deal with China in the next month. We could rally on that, but we don't. Jonathan? I just agree with that, Charles. The market isn't like a spouse. You can't talk it into something. It is what it is. And look, the fact is, people are talking about recessions for very legitimate reasons. Everything from a multi-week decline in a stock market, still a majority of stocks are below their 200-day moving average, to that inverted yield curve. And I'll tell you what, the market is the best indicator, Charles. Think back to 2001, that recession. The market started falling in March of 2000. We didn't call it a recession until a year later. Same thing in 2007 and 2008. So watch the stock market. If its decline continues, a recession is almost baked in. Although about 450, the S&P 500 companies are up this year. And by the way, in February, 52% of the world, the country's top economists said, yeah, recession between now and in the next year. That's numbers down to 40% since February. So it's interesting, Jonathan. Also, this brings us to the President Trump's favorite topic. And that's the Federal Reserve. He just tweeted earlier, this is part of it. Our economy varies.


I'm pleased to introduce Claire Oster. Claire is one of the leading voices on the intersections of Mormonism, feminism, and transhumanism. She currently serves as the director of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, having been our CEO. Claire holds a BFA in design from the International Academy of Design and Technology Seattle. She's pursuing a second bachelor's degree in philosophy with an emphasis in gender studies.  And she's a fine artist. She and her has been through residing in Utah with our three children. Please welcome Claire. Just a second. Oh, wait. I think it's worth the wait. There is much feminism can learn from transhumanism and much transhumanism can learn from feminism. Today I have the lofty goal of converting all feminists to transhumanism and all transhumanists into feminists. And I have 15 minutes to do it. I'll start by walking you through a brief history of U.S. feminism that engages that when engaged in constructively should lead to transhumanism. This will include a critique, a post-feminist critique of feminism. Dispensing my critique of feminism could be seen by the most orthodox and dogmatic of feminists as the sort of apostasy that condemns me to the fires of feminist hell. But I will also be giving a mild critique of the transhumanist movement. Essentially this means I run the risk of offending everyone in the room. So the most important thing to do is to listen, keep an open mind, and reach the conclusion that I am right. Before I go further, I offer a brief disclaimer. Post-feminism is not anti-feminism. I value women's liberation and the purpose of this criticism is not a public flogging of feminist thought, but to point out room for improvement, specifically in relation to science, technology, and philosophy. Though I offer my heretical critique of my feminist community, I will still defend anything in feminism that is virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy. My intentions are genuine gender liberation and transhumanism offers bodily liberation beyond even the queerest of most contemporary gender theorists and philosophers. When I say gender liberators, I am suggesting a view of feminism or perhaps post-feminism that moves beyond gender equality. Gender liberators seek to create an existence where gender does not mandate unnecessary expectations or limitations of what a person is capable of. First wave feminism. First wave feminism roughly occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries, though its origins have roots in the 18th century, particularly during the Enlightenment. Political philosophy encountered controversy over gender differences. The critical discourse at hand was one of women's participation in state government. This is known as women's suffrage. In the Utah territory, Mormon feminists were at the forefront of the women's suffrage movement. Utah women were among the first to vote in the U.S. Emeline B. Wells, Liza R. Snow, and Zyna D. H. Young, all of whom served as general relief society presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, are among the most notable women's rights advocates participating in the women's suffrage movement representing Utah territory as polygamous women. Y'all know I was going to bring them up. Liberal feminism was born during the first wave feminism. Liberal feminism is concerned with ending sexism within the existing form of governance and abolishes laws prohibiting female participation. Liberal feminist philosophers Harriet Taylor Mill and John Stuart Mill would argue in the subjection of women and the enfranchisement of women for one, the legal rights between the sexes, two, for the independence of women, and three, against social theories of biological determinism. Biological determinism suggests that human behavior is determined by one's genetics and often at the expense of recognizing social and environmental factors. Liberal feminist views did not specifically seek to challenge other systems of oppression that were intimately connected to economics, race, and sexuality. The narrow scope of liberal feminism, though useful, did not accomplish genuine gender liberation. Even though the feminist movement in some regards was correlated with the abolitionist movement, wealthy white women were often the face of the movement. One of the most egregious sins of contemporary liberal feminism is women adopting the role of patriarch and calling it their own. And no, that's not a compliment. Many liberal feminists today have demonstrated that women can be just as good as patriarchs as men. This makes patriarchy a multi-gendered oppressor that is no longer limited to men, but also the women who choose to adopt the role of oppressor. Second-wave feminism.  Second-wave feminism made positive contributions to deconstructing myths about women's roles in society. Radical feminism, birthed during the second-wave feminism, is concerned with eliminating male supremacy in social and economic contexts beyond the legalities and political process. However, radical feminist views also assert that men are the oppressors of women. This men versus women battle of the sexes approach does not pitted one gender against the other in a symbiotic game of identity politics, arguably doing more harm than good, and does not liberate genders. Many second-wave feminists, ignorantly or not, reinforced gender-essentialist views, reinforced gender-essentialist views, and approaches to feminism that would result in trans-exclusionary radical feminism. This gender-critical view of what it meant to be woman further supported the idea that gender stereotypes, roles and expressions and oppressions that radical feminists claim to be dismantling were in fact being enforced. Under this view, trans women were seen as the total appropriation of women's bodies. If that is the case, first-wave feminists who sought for the right to vote and wear pants were once accused of appropriating men's roles. Yet, according to liberal feminist spaces, this practice was not only acceptable but encouraged. Why then is it permissible for a woman to adopt roles, performances, and expressions of man? Yet, man is unable to adopt the roles, performances, and expressions, even biological expressions of woman. The entirety of the question alone assumes that there were essentialist roles even to begin with. The view of radical feminism continued to enforce gender-essentialist views that prescribe performances against genuine gender liberation. Meanwhile, non-feminist women during the second-wave feminist movement were othered by second-wave feminists. Feminism failed to acknowledge that not all women share liberal or radical feminist goals, such as capitalistic gains or marginalization of caregiving and child rearing. Though child rearing is not generally monetized occupation in a capitalistic economy, it is a vital and essential base to what communities depend on. Feminists who devalue child rearing as a lesser occupation because it's not paid play into the oppression of capitalism that puts a human contribution in dollar signs. For example, the feminist asked the stay-at-home mother, why are you a stay-at-home mother? The mother replied, because that's what I want. The feminist condescendingly sneered, sure you do, because that's what capitalist patriarchy told you wanted. The feminist, the feminist reply, or the the mother asked, why do you work? The feminist replied, because that's what I want.  Each was convinced that the other was a brainwashed victim, either by patriarchy or feminism, both unwittingly broke the most cardinal of feminist rules, the disrespect and disremoval of women's autonomy and volition. Instead of the feminist and the non-feminist being willing to participate in the mutual acceptance of each other's desires, they patronizingly framed one another as the enemy of women's liberation. Women effectively divided each other by asserting that women's desires, unlike men's desires, were the product of coercion. Men's volition was not in dispute, but women still insisted on disputing each other's volition in a game of girl-on-girl misogyny. Thus, in this context, it was woman who stripped woman of her autonomy by painting her desires as the product of the oppressor's brainwashing ability on an unwitting victim. Woman will never be free until she is respected and treated as Antonis being by her peers. In this regard, it is woman who must liberate woman. Third-way feminism. Third-way feminism emerged around the 1990s and is commonly recognized for its concerns with intersectionality. Intersectionality is recognizing that systems of oppression are layered and discrimination takes place in various forms in social categories, such as race, class, ability, gender, religion, orientation, mobility, and marital status. Feminist discourse began to more fully acknowledge that social categories played a significant role in how people experience oppression. While previous feminist views claimed to liberate us, there was much dispute over who is us. What is woman? Under what political context can a person call themselves woman? Is she white? Is she rich? Is she trans? Is she brown? Is she biologically ambiguous?  Is she bisexual? Let's not dilute ourselves into believing that there is any single type of woman struggling to define the elusive us. If us is everyone, instead of seeking unity through homogenization, third-way feminists should consider seeking unity through diversification. Trans feminism gained popularity during the third wave of feminism and has generally been defined as approach to feminism that is informed by trans politic. Trans feminism is essential to the feminist movement in that it called for a new freedom of identity and performance, which also called for a new episteme of actualization. Not only has trans feminism challenged sociopolitical norms of gender, but also biological adaptations. Science and technology have advanced to a point where a person may perform their identity in unprecedented ways. Hormonal treatments and gender confirmation surgery are only the beginning. CIS women are already receiving uterus transplants, which allow them to gestate and deliver children. It will likely only be a matter of time until trans women are allowed access to these experiences as well. With enough science and technology, there would likely be a point where there is literally nothing a man can do that a woman can't do or nothing a woman could do that a man couldn't do. Trans feminism armed with new technologies are hacking gender social codes with their own biology. Third-way feminism at large has exploded with the introduction of advanced technologies. Technofeminism arrived to directions of technology and gender, particularly woman and machine and giving rise to feminist techno science. Feminist techno science focuses less on interpersonal relationships of man and woman, but instead on broader issues concerning the production of knowledge, how bodies manifest realities, and how these realities are actualized in societies. Feminist techno science is integrating intersectionality with technology and giving birth to fourth-wave feminism. Fourth-wave feminism, though still in its infancy, is defined by technology. The internet most notably has connected feminists across the world in ways that first-wave feminists likely couldn't fathom. Fourth-wave feminist goals are mostly characterized by cyber feminism, which is most commonly expressed in social media channels such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Tumblr, or Blogger. Some notable examples of fourth-wave feminism include the Me Too campaign, Everyday Feminism, the mattress performance, and the 2017 Women's March. Unfortunately, seeping into fourth-wave feminism is some of the same flaws and shortcomings that were in the previous waves. Some argue that by the feminist movement being led by technology, feminism will benefit wealthy white able-bodied women with access to expensive technologies. Some also argue that cyber feminism has created a mean girl effect, where feminists can participate in public floggings. It can sometimes feel that cyber feminists are lined up ready to take a digital whip to the back of the next person who steps out of line in our calling-out culture. Though she is in pain, rightfully so, this is not an effective way to promote gender liberation. Instead of calling out, let's start calling in. Fourth-wave feminism doesn't need to be characterized by its faults or limited to social media. A rising out of fourth-wave feminism is a phenomenon called xenofeminism. Xenofeminists debate over how existing technologies could be repurposed to be more useful in society and overall not be used as a tool of gender discrimination. Xenofeminists affirm that biology is not destiny and advocate for post-capitalist forms of government, similar to Marxist feminists. Also notable is that xenofeminists advocate for the proliferation of gender difference. Taken from the Xenofeminist manifesto is the version of a future that is which is the realization of gender justice and feminist emancipation contribute to a universal politics assembled by the needs of every human being, cutting across race, ability, economic standing, and geographical position. With this universal form of feminism, why is feminism still feminism? It's feminism, even the word, any when oppressive, when it no longer concerns itself with just the plights of women. Post-feminism is a term used to describe reactions against and contradictions and absences in feminism. Like xenofeminism, various forms of fourth-wave feminism, post-feminism strives towards deconstructing expectations of gender liberate of limitations of gender. Genuine gender liberators move beyond feminist goals into interpersonal and transformations of the human body that transcends contemporary sociopolitical and biological limitations. Those who seek genuine gender liberation might find what they're looking for in transhumanism. Likewise, transhumanism can learn from both the progress and pitfalls of the feminist movement. Transhumanism. Transhumanism is an intellectual, social, and philosophical movement aimed at transforming the human condition through the development of sophisticated technologies. I don't have to tell you that, I'm speaking to transhumanists, but I am giving this to feminists in two weeks and they will have no idea what I'm talking about. One important aspect of human enhancement is making technologies widely available to improve intellect and physiology. This includes overcoming sociopolitical limitations. Transhumanism considers the ricks and benefits of emerging technologies as well as the ethics. The prevailing transhumanist thesis is that humanity with the use of science and technology can overcome human limitations by directing their own evolutionary biology to becoming post-human. Post-humans are those so far evolved from humans that they would warrant a new label. Pre-humans are to humans that humans are to post-humans. Transhumanist theory has strong feminist and post-feminist undercurrents. After all, feminism has been around a lot longer than transhumanism. If one is to unmask transhumanist and feminist doctrine, at its core you would find the desires, hopes, and aspirations of liberation, which was to create an existence where we transcend unnecessary expectations and limitations of what we are capable of, even the oppression of death. Whether this is liberation from sexism or liberation from death, both seek liberation. For feminists, this includes the expansion and access of advanced medical technologies, which have the ability to move procreation beyond heterosexual reproduction into diverse forms of multi-parent, multi-gendered reproduction. This also includes technology which would enable people to experience a diversity of genders. These technologies would allow for an autonomy, flexibility, and fluidity. Technological advancements provide worldviews that no longer mandate heteronormative or cisnormative ideas as the only means of human reproduction.  Technology is changing the landscape of sex bodies in unprecedented ways.  According to Nick Boestrom's essay in defense of post-human dignity, we can work to create social structures that accord appropriate moral recognition and legal rights to all who need them, be they male, female, black, white, flesh, or silicon. Transhumanist goals of morphology, morphological liberty, include gender, but extend beyond gender. Transhumanists have diverse visions of the future and the most prophetic and inspiring visions include diversity, not simply of gender, but embodiment. Moving beyond gender liberation, transhumanist aims are concerned with influencing and directing human evolution. This means embracing human agency beyond both biological determinism and technological determinism. I do not intend my remarks with any irreverence towards my feminist comrades, but the feminist movement needs transformation which inspire discourse towards a more constructive gender liberation. Just as first wave feminism led to second wave and second to third and third to fourth, each wave gets closer to the shores of transhumanism. The intersections of technology and feminism act as an invitation to adopt a new doctrine predicated on the reincarnated spirit of human liberation. Feminists and post-feminist alike are part of a collective movement that embody the hopes and desires for an improved human species. In this regard, transhumanism not only encompasses the spirit of feminism, but surpasses it. Thank you. We have two minutes. Yes. Yeah, okay, so I know, but what are you talking about? We're in here! Yeah, so there's definitely some differences and things we need to overcome in order to change the demographics of that. In a lot of ways, it's hard because a lot of the things that are surrounded by the idea of transhumanism, such as STEM fields, are still neglectful of women. I think sometimes we forget, you know, women couldn't attain a master's degree at Harvard less than 50 years ago, so we're still overcoming these barriers that were put in place. It's not all the sudden, you know, women can attend Harvard now. Hey, where are all the women? Well, for the last hundred years you just told them women didn't know how to do math. So we're still coming over the overcoming this, and we can do better as transhumanists to create environments which are more gender diverse-friendly. Yes. Everybody, in front of people who need actors who need philosophers and scientists, it's all as we open that up, you want them to just extend applications for the people that work for their groups, for their people, and an intersectionality within study fields as well. I really like that, so I think it's really important to understand that it involves action. And that's the thing that, like, feminists and transhumanists have a lot of comments, it's like you're actually doing something about that. I think sometimes people will say, oh, we're talking about the humanists, right?  But where was the humanists, and they're in the marches, where was the humanists when women were getting the right to vote? Where was the humanists doing anything? Go do something about it. And a human that does something? Well, that's a transhumanist, so you're not a humanist. A humanist is just like, the concept of humanist is just, okay, I'll just stop.