Islam and politics, two sides of the same coin, or as the author puts it, Sayyid Sadaq Ash-Shirazi, two expressions for the same meaning. This phrase, as we concluded yesterday's episode, while we were touching upon some of the key points in the book, Politics, the Very Heart of Islam. This topic was discussed with my dear guest and esteemed guest, Dr. Zahir.  Now we did say that you cannot separate the two. They are inseparable. And if you want to separate one, just like one right now in the United States or somewhere else, they try to separate the church from the state or the state from the church. In our case, you cannot separate them because one completes the other. Without one, you cannot move forward with only one side. You need both sides. However, compared to the previous episode, I would like to focus on the idea of the prophet, the conduct of the prophet and Imam Ali Al-Talib, and compare it with modern-day politics. Of course, keeping in mind the circumstances that were present during that time. In this book, the author begins with highlighting a number of cases, instances, where it reveals the conduct of the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and Amir al-Mu'mineen, the commander of Saif al-Mam Ali, peace be upon him. How they behaved towards their opponents or those who threatened them or their would-be killers or those who conducted, behaved in a way and committed acts which deserved punishment in one way or another. We begin with one case, the case of Imam Ali, peace be upon him, towards his would-be killer, Abdul Rahman bin Munjim, al-Muradi. It is narrated that the Imam used to say it frequently through his knowledge of the unseen and the knowledge that has been passed on to him from the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, which in turn has been passed on from Aqa and Jojib Ra'il, that he used to tell Abdul Rahman bin Munjim that you would kill me, even though he used to express his affection for the Imam. He used to say he likes the Imam, but Imam used to tell him that eventually you will kill me. But keeping that one thing in mind that even if someone doesn't have the intention of killing you, you always tell them you are the one going to kill me, yet that individual has shown affection towards me.  So it does not form the murder mentality within bin Munjim that resulted in the murder of Ali Al-Qalib. No, basically at that time he didn't have any of that attitude towards the Imam. He knew who the Imam was. He knew Ali Al-Qalib, peace be upon him, and his virtue and his status. And he never thought that he would commit such an act against Imam Ali, peace be upon him. And it was only during the last short period of time before the conduct that he was led to do that. And he was enticed by various individuals to do this act. And in fact, up to the very last moments he found it very hard to do because he knew who Ali Al-Qalib was. It was, if you like, a last-minute decision that he decided to do, this treacherous act which is to kill Imam Ali. I don't know if it's last-minute because they planned it. The Khawarij, the people who were bound against the government of Ali Al-Qalib, they've planned it. They had that in their mind. Yeah, the Khawarij didn't plan this. He was one of the Khawarij, but the Khawarij didn't plan it. So they weren't responsible for the Khawarij? No, all the Khawarij. I don't want to go off-topic, but this is something related to the story. No, all the Khawarij. As I said, he was one of the Khawarij. And he and of course some of his students say that agents of Muawiyah were behind it to entice him to do that. So he wasn't, sorry, the Khawarij weren't involved. Not the entire body of the Khawarij were involved. He was alone, as I said, with agents, according to some of his students with agents of Muawiyah. But the point is that Imam Ali, the point of this argument is that Imam Ali did not embark on any conduct to prevent him doing that, or to preempt his behavior by, for example, killing him, or stopping him from doing that. Could he put some sort of supervision over it? I'll come to that.  He stopped them from doing that. I mean, not to that extent. He stopped them from doing that because he said he hasn't done anything to me yet. He hasn't done anything wrong yet. And therefore, we have no right to punish him in any way. And they insisted, and he said, do you expect me, that's the statement, and do you expect me to kill someone who hasn't done anything to me? The importance of this issue is that this leader, this Islamic leader, Imam Ali, although he knew that he would be killed, he would kill him eventually one day, he did not take preemptive strike and kill him. He left him to his own accord. Not to the extreme measures though. I'll come to that. I just want to make the point that in Islam, we don't have this notion of the end justifies the means. Contrary to that, we have an expression which says, Allah is not obeyed through any act of disobedience. If, for example, the act of establishing an Islamic system of government or preserving an Islamic system of government which is an obedience to Allah, we are not allowed to do that to preserve the Islamic system of government or to establish Islamic system of government through disobedience, through killing an innocent person. We don't have that in Islam which is the end justifies the means. On the contrary, we have this, that we cannot do something wrong in order to achieve something which is right. We don't have that option in Islam. Now, coming back to your point which was not the extreme measures but we could be supervised. The regular measures? Yes. The necessary measures? Yes, but that means, that means he's acting on his inside knowledge. He's acting on his knowledge of the unseen. He already did act. He didn't act. If he's telling people that you know what, this person is the one that's going to kill me. He already revealed the knowledge. He revealed it, but he didn't act on it. He didn't act on it. For someone, he's jeopardizing the whole Islamic government of that time. Yes, but again, you cannot act on, the Imam or the Prophet does not act on their knowledge of the unseen, does not act on their inside knowledge in the sense that the Prophet knew that he's going to be poisoned by so and so but he didn't act on that. He didn't stop the killer, his assassins. In fact, if he had stopped it, it would have been good. The divine link would have been preserved. The Prophet would have stayed alive and he would continue to receive revelation from Allah Almighty but he didn't act on that nor did Allah act on the unseen knowledge and allowed the assassin to do his job, his or her job. Therefore, the Imam or the Prophet, who have the knowledge of the unseen, do not act according to their knowledge of the unseen. The proof of this is that he knew that Ibn-e-Muljim would kill him. He revealed that but he didn't stop him and eventually Ibn-e-Muljim killed him. Other than revealing that knowledge, he didn't act on it because they are not meant to do that. The whole point is, if you like the test, people to be tested. They are given the opportunity, they have the opportunity to do right or wrong and they have the opportunity to make sure, strive to be on one side or the other, to be on the right side or the wrong side. Ibn-e-Muljim, in this test, although he was amongst the reciters of the Qur'an or the memorizers of the Qur'an, they fought Imam Ali in the Battle of Nahrawan and he was extremely unfortunate, Ashqa al-Akhirin, to kill the commander of the faithful, who is the brother of Rasulullah. Let us keep one thing in mind. For example, if someone was threatening the head of state of any government right now, let alone Ali Nabi Talib, the commander of the faithful, someone you know, you have intel, that this person is about to commit murder or is about to assassinate the head of state, at least supervision. At least for the people that threaten Ali Nabi Talib, there are a couple of stories in the book about it. If you have intelligence through normal means, through human means, if you have intelligence that someone is going to kill this head of state, then yes, you take the necessary measures to prevent that. But this intelligence had come through the unseen and Imam Ali and the Prophet did not act on that. So the people around Imam Ali know about this? That Ibn-e-Muljim was about to kill? Yes, of course. When he revealed that, a lot of his companions wanted to kill Ibn-e-Muljim. I wouldn't kill him, but the responsibility of the guards, the companions of the head of state, the generals, they are responsible for the safety and the well-being of the... That's a very good point. They were given the knowledge, but they didn't seem to... So it's like a walk in a park for Ibn-e-Muljim? They didn't seem to act, at least think about it. Okay, the Imam has told us this, but we should sort of keep watch on Ibn-e-Muljim, so they didn't do that. I mean, this discussion is endless, because the knowledge, for me, I would end here, because the knowledge of Ibn-e-Muljim isn't compared to our knowledge. But what I understand is his companions and their role. But in this book, it is also mentioned that someone threatened Ali Ibn-e-Muljim. Yeah, I'll come to that in a minute. I mean, after this. Threatened? Yeah.  Yes. And both of them get away just like that? Yes, he... Well, I mean, as I said, we need... Okay, now that you're mentioning this, I wanted to talk more about the knowledge of the unseen and the fact that they should behave like a regular ordinary person as far as the unseen is concerned. They shouldn't use that knowledge of the unseen. But anyway, now that you mentioned that, yes, we have in the traditions that someone actually threatened to kill Imam Ali. And Imam Ali did not... Okay, he must have been repelled, but did not go on to kill that man. As soon as they managed to repel the danger of that individual, they didn't actually kill him. They didn't do anything to him. So, yes, the whole thing, this is the policy of this book and the point that the author is trying to make is to highlight these attitudes of these leaders of Islam, these true leaders of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and Amir-e-Mumineen, the commander of the faithful Imam Ali, peace be upon him. The whole point is that this guy comes along, he threatens to kill him. They repel his danger and that's it. They don't do any harm to him. The point of this work, which is to show the attitude and the conduct of these leaders, the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, and Amir-e-Mumineen, Imam Ali, peace be upon him, towards their enemies, the point is to try to forgive as much as possible. As soon as they managed to repel the danger of that individual who was trying to kill Imam Ali, that's it, all forgiven. These are the, that's why they say Imam Ali and the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, are the embodiment of the teachings of Islam. And we have in the Quran on various occasions when Allah, peace be upon him, instructs the Prophet and of course the faithful to forgive as soon as they are out of danger or by the grace of Allah to forgive. Even in instances where they see harm, Allah recommends that if possible, not seek retribution and forgive. Even though Allah, now we're going into different territories, Allah mentions that we have this principle of basas, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. And then He says, if you forgive, it's even better. It's even better. Yes. And Imam Ali, peace be upon him, in these instances, two instances, at least in the second one, the person was actually trying to kill Imam Ali, but the danger was repelled and he forgave them and they did nothing to him. He forgave them. But that individual goes on to creating the khawaraj. That person goes on to create a group that repelled against the government, caused bloodshed and wars. Yes. Yet, Al-Ibn Talib just forgave. No. You see, it doesn't mean that if he hadn't forgiven that, none of the khawaraj would have happened. Of course they would have happened. They would have happened, but not in this manner. In any other manner, they would have still come back and fought at Naharawan. The khawaraj were... I don't know if they wouldn't came back, but... Well, no, the khawaraj were 9000. This is one individual. So if Imam Ali had killed that individual, he would have had still the 9000 or 8999. Okay? There were about 9000.  Imam Ali was saved. The danger of that assailant was repelled. So he actually, eventually he did not kill. So that doesn't justify Imam Ali to kill him. But anyway, not only that, he forgave him. Even the last assume for the sake of argument that he killed him, we still have 9000 khawaraj. They still come back with even more vengeance to fight Imam Ali at Naharawan. Even though they fought Imam Ali who was so kind and compassionate to them, if he had killed them, they would have come back with more vengeance. Okay? So yes, there would have been no benefit in killing that individual. In fact, there is far greater benefit in forgiving him because this is in accordance with the teachings of Islam, the teachings of the Holy Quran. And with them being the embodiment of those teachings, they acted on that in this case and in the previous case. And of course we've got more cases to come. Insha'Allah. But that's after the short break. Okay. If you insha'Allah detour. Respect the viewers. Do stay tuned for the short break and we'll be back shortly. So stay tuned. A brief biography of the eminent Islamic authority brand Ayatullah Sayyid Sadaq Al-Shiairazi. He was born on the 20th of Al-Hijjah in the 1360 of the Hijrah in the holy city of Karbalaq, Iraq. He was raised and cultured in a family that was renowned for its history of learning, striving, sacrifice and morals. He received his specialist education of Islamic sciences at the hands of eminent scholars of the Hausa until he acquired a distinguished degree of HDH. Through his relentless endeavors, he developed himself the quality of continually seeking knowledge along with unremitting observance of paiti. Tiredly promoting the teachings of the Anubaid peace and blessings be upon them, disseminating their culture and defending their sacred laws and sharia. He has written numerous works in various fields on different levels, ranging from politics, economics, history and ethics. To specialist works of Hausa students on such topics as Feeqah and Osul, which is also known as Jurisprudence, that total more than 80. Sayyid Sadaq Al-Shiairazi has been teaching at the Hausa for more than 40 years. He is distinguished for being accessible to the people, directly dealing and meeting with various sectors of members of society. Listening to diverse views from different spectrum of the community. Equally, he is distinguished for his humility respecting the young and old and also for his tolerance in regard to insult or evil with kindness and consciousness. He is renowned for his independence and for his policy of boycotting despotic governments. Over-observes hundreds, organizations and institutions throughout the globe, for example those that address social issues such as marriage services and social reforms. Those that address humanitarian matters such as clinics, orphanages, financial organizations giving interest-free loans. Intellectual institutions such as centers for research and studies, seminaries, houses, libraries as well as religious centers such as mosques and Hussainiyas. Respected viewers, brothers and sisters in Islam, one second. As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh. Welcome to the second part of today's episode as we discuss some of the key points mentioned in the first chapter of politics, the very heart of Islam written by Sayyid Sadab Al-Shiairazi and these topics will be discussed and are discussed with my dear and esteemed guest, Dr. Zuhair. Welcome back, dear doctor. Thank you. Before the break, we mentioned a couple of stories that somewhat are controversial but inshallah we'll get to a point where we bring the answer that satisfies the question. Now, we talked about how Aleemna Bita'aleb A.S. had the unseen knowledge of certain individuals who will either rage war against him or eventually kill him, Ibn-Muljam. This is crazy intel. This is precise intel that Aleem Bita'aleb got but yet they weren't allowed to act upon that knowledge. Prophet Muhammad, did he receive the same knowledge because in this book also it does touch upon how some individuals who went to confrontation with Prophet Muhammad ended up fighting Prophet Muhammad and fighting Imam Ali and so on and so forth. So why not prevent? Satisfy the question. Yes. You call it controversial. I call it these conducts show the magnanimity of people like Imam Ali and Prophet Muhammad. This question is for the same meaning. And forgiveness. The whole point of this is to show that Imam Ali and Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, they forgive or forgave their would-be killers and forgave people who were of danger to their individuals, to their persons. And this forgiveness is really based on the teachings of the Qur'an. They were the embodiment of the teachings of the Qur'an. And the Qur'an, Allah SWT states in the Qur'an on numerous occasions that they should forgive. Allah SWT instructs the Prophet on various occasions to forgive wasfah or w'afu turn blind eye and forgive them.  And as I said, in the case of Imam Ali with Ibn-e-Muljim or the other person who actually threatened him the point is forgiveness. And that shows the magnanimity of Imam Ali and Prophet Muhammad who are the true leaders of Islam and the true embodiment of the teachings of Islam and the teachings of the Qur'an. Coming back to the case that we want to consider in this part of the show is that the Prophet, through the knowledge of the unseen he used to reveal to his people to his companions or the people around him companions doesn't carry any special status the companions just happen to be in his company and they could have been his assassins or his enemies. Anyway, he used to reveal to the people around him that an individual, a certain individual would cause commotion between the Muslims or he would bring an invent a new religion make an innovation and not only that, having said that he would not take any step to eliminate him and not only that, he does not allow the Muslims to do anything like that to eliminate him, to kill him given the fact that he had the full knowledge that he would cause a lot of hardship a lot of commotion and in fact that individual turned out to be the leader of the Khawarj who waged war against Imam Ali, which is known as Battle of Nahrawan an area in southern Iraq known as Nahrawan so the point is, even though the Prophet knew full well that this individual would cause so much damage but of course, because he hadn't done anything yet they couldn't do anything to him this is just as according to Islam even though he would be the cause of the death of thousands of people thousands of people this is the Khawai Surah but because he hadn't done anything at that time, at the time of the Prophet the Prophet did not issue any instruction nowadays, you see people who just speak Arabic on an airplane being kicked off of that airplane and it goes from that to someone who people know that he is going to wage war he will create an army to fight the state no one takes any measures but now, people haven't even done anything they get arrested, they get kicked off an airplane they are being discriminated against in various ways yes, in here we are trying to show the justice that we have in Islam in the sense that in the case of this individual he hadn't done anything even though the Prophet was sure given the divine knowledge that he had that he would do this and that he would be the cause of a lot of commotion a lot of battles and a lot of loss of life but because he hadn't done anything yet he didn't do anything to him and not only that, he didn't allow the Muslims to do anything to him at that time yeah, so this and not only that, this individual he goes on to insult the Prophet accuse the Prophet of injustice it's a narration in Kitab al-Irshad that when the Prophet was dividing the spoils between the people and he came along this individual and said to him you haven't done it justly, be just in dividing the spoils and the Prophet said that I am just if I don't do justice, who will then? and what I'm doing is correct the people around him at least the faithful around the Prophet were very angered by his accusation and they attempted to murder him by the Prophet even though he had insulted the Prophet and he had accused the Prophet of an act of injustice which is a grave accusation still the Prophet did not forgive him and prevented the Muslims from doing anything wrong to him fully understandable so when someone insults me I have the chance of forgiving when someone calls me names it's up to me either I forgive or I punish but for someone I know you have another story but for someone to take it to the next level where I know that this individual is going to harm me and the people that are surrounding me I let him go there is a verse in the Quran that I want to mention but after you continue the answer says at that moment he hasn't done anything he will be the cause of the killing of thousands of people but at the moment he has done anything I know for sure he will be doing it but he hasn't done it now so the Prophet could not do anything to him so we understand through this act the level of justice that government has had I mean for some it takes patience it takes a lot of patience for someone to know such information and perseverance as well and that's one of the key principles strength of the Prophet that I mentioned in this book but as I mentioned for someone to know such information and yet still at the individual walk if such things happened in our world today we would move forward we would develop in every means I don't think there will ever be crimes anymore there will be crimes but not to that extent no there will be crimes there will be even more crimes through forgiveness not the act of forgiveness through forgiveness you listen the impact of crime because when you the more retribution and killing there is it will generate even more so in fact why is forgiveness considered to be an act of a virtuous act a good act because it has benefits because the long term consequences and impact of forgiveness far outweighs short term measures or the consequences of the measures that if you weren't going to forgive and as I said it's a major fundamental issue in Islam and in the Quran the act of forgiveness and the Prophet is the first one or should be of course he is the first one to act to behave accordingly and forgive people who commit do wrong to him the Prophet even though he knew what he is going to do for sure he couldn't do anything and he wanted to stick to justice and justice is absolutely essential it's one of the most important aspects in the teachings of Islam and there is no way they could deviate from justice by one ayat and they are the embodiment of justice and there is no way they could have done otherwise now we do have a couple of more minutes before we conclude the episode so if you do have anything any extra points that you would like to add to this discussion feel free yes another one another one incident that took place at the time of the Prophet which is very important and it reveals it shows the stance of the Prophet and and also fortunately one of his companions it is narrated that the Prophet was dispatched Khalid bin Walid with the group of Muslims to go and call for Islam and teach Islam to the tribe of Bani Judayme and they had become Muslim beforehand so they were going to them as Muslims and specifically the Prophet obviously ordered them not to engage in any fighting and in fact the reference is given in here in the book which is volume 2 page 173 but when Khalid bin Walid got there to the tribe of Bani Judayme he used the sword against them and he killed a number of them and because of some dispute or argument that they had in pre-Islamic time and it was an act out of vengeance that news reached the Prophet and the Prophet was very distressed and he actually wept because of those killings and he got up and he went up to the pulpit, the member and he raised his hand to the sky and three times he said O Allah, I disassociate myself from the conduct of Khalid bin Walid and he repeated it again O Allah, I disassociate myself from the conduct of Khalid bin Walid and for the third time I disassociate myself from the conduct of Khalid bin Walid because obviously he did something which was totally wrong absolutely unacceptable it's not enough, let me just finish the Prophet then called Khalid and he gave him a box which had gold coins in it and he said to him go to Ben Judayma and pay them expiation or deal compensation for all the damage and the killing that had taken place by Khalid so Imam Ali alaihi salam came to them and he gave first of all he gave compensation for those who have been killed for those who have been killed by Khalid bin Walid he gave the compensation to their heirs for each one who was murdered by Khalid Ibn Walid Imam Ali paid them 1000 gold dinar and 1000 gold dinar is about in the footnote is about a quarter kilograms of pure gold three kilograms and a quarter kilograms of pure gold this was for every individual who was murdered by Khalid bin Walid and then he paid compensation for every slave that they had who was murdered and then he also paid compensation for everything that they had lost including the pots from which the dogs drank water the pots which were broken the dogs which dogs drank water from which were broken in the course of this fighting and in the course of this assault even the pots and even the ropes which were cut Imam Ali paid compensation for every minute thing every damage which was caused to them physical damage they re-encompassed it to the people what happened to Khalid bin Walid let me finish the list of the thing he also paid compensation for things which he asked them what have you lost they said these are the things which we have lost and he also paid them extra for cases for the things which they have lost or things which have been damaged which they may not be aware of so on top of the compensation which he paid for all the damages caused he paid compensation for the things which they may not at that time they may not be aware of probably they would have discovered later on and then he also paid compensation for the terror and the fear felt by the women and children because you can imagine people come assault them riding their horses wielding their swords and hitting the men in the camp women and children would be terrified Imam Ali alaihi salam paid compensation for the terror caused to the women and children and it says that he paid compensation for any property which may have been damaged in the course of this assault and then he paid compensation in order to be contented with the Prophet salallahu alaihi wali in order to be pleased with the Prophet so after all the physical damage after all the mental and psychological damage which he paid compensation for he wanted to seek their pleasure and their contentment with the Prophet salallahu alaihi wali towards the Prophet salallahu alaihi wali so he paid the money for that and then he paid it says he paid the money in order to be happy given the sadness they sustained so these were the eight categories of money or compensation that Imam Ali alaihi salam gave to the people of ben juday that's all great people whatever they lost Prophet Muhammad compensated and they gave them money instead and of course before Muhammad disrespected himself from the conduct of Khalid ibn Wali but Allah states in the Holy Qur'an if someone murders one individual or causes corruption in earth as if he has killed all of mankind now Khalid ibn Wali did not discuss corruption both of them together the only thing he can do was to disassociate himself from Khalid ibn Wali and he paid the people and he paid the people such things when they go unpunished other people they just learn the same way if he didn't get punished and Prophet Muhammad bought the pleasure of them I will do the same thing and Prophet Muhammad will pay instead of me well no that is an argument which is a vectitious argument but the point is what you are saying is that why didn't he he committed murder according to Islam and life for life so he committed murder he should have been killed and that has been raised as to why the Prophet did not go on to kill execute Khalid ibn Wali for murdering innocent people for murdering people who are absolutely innocent they had nothing to do with it they didn't deserve to die and he killed them first of all the reason stated in here is that first of all the guardian of the deceased or many of them themselves they did not seek the death penalty for Khalid so that is the first thing and and therefore the sentence commutes to compensation first of all the sentence for that for the conduct for Khalid who committed murder of the innocent is death penalty according to Islam without any hesitance but because they didn't seek the death penalty the necks of kin if you like the bani judaima didn't seek death penalty for Khalid it commutes to compensation and of course these compensation should be paid by Khalid ibn Wali but because he was a murderous individual and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ala he resulted to paying the compensation because he is the prophet of mercy and we sent you the mercy of the world the world secondly we are running short on time okay the number of points the last point which I can make is basically is the issue of competing priorities if the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ala were to execute Khalid for the murders which he deserved for the murders he committed the execution or the killing he deserved this may have caused uncertainty among the new muslims on those grounds the prophet sallallahu alaihi wa ala competing priorities so it is more prudent to exercise this right of execution but commuted to a less compensated which is compensation for the dead I would like to thank you very much for joining us last point made today is that through the actions of prophet muhammad and imam Ali we don't have any pre-attempted islam that's what I understood through the actions of such individuals forgiveness is one of the key points which islam is based on I would like to thank you very much for joining us tonight may Allah accept your needs respected viewers thank you very much for tuning in today hopefully we can understand what islam has to offer for its nation and what islam has to offer in the advancement of the entire world thank you very much peace be upon you peace be upon you


Can't seem to break these little cold snaps every week. I look forward to the week and I think This is gonna be it after today Where pretty much every night is in the 50s. That is when fishing gets incredible until then though It's kind of spotty Going to meet up with Lunkers TV right now So I hope you like guns because we're about to go shoot some If you don't just stick around for a minute and maybe we'll learn something One mile of greatness Wow, so we can just go full bore out here, huh? Full freedom and gun smoke there's a sunrise by the way sun rises gun smoke Can't beat it can it be revealed Yeah, just a little closer just right out. Yeah, just right there. Okay now point at it That right there is a mystery. It's a mystery thing. You can go check out his channel for for that It was a little blurred out. That's a bass wagon is what that is I know, okay, okay y'all waiting on Brandon Sounds like it works Yeah, I need that that's the most important part The major weaponry has arrived that's what I'm talking about these fine selections It lunkers just picked up a really sweet gun From them that is a this is a m24 is that what you said? That is an actual sniper rifle like military army issue real deal Holyfield I'm just chilling over here with my 1976 30 odd six All right, we got to do a little sighting in on the the new scope Brandon's gonna help you out here And locus is gonna side in his new sniper rifle as well So I'll give you a little tip your guns need to be accurate sighted in before you can accurately That's already happened to me once this year So try to get this right the one on the left or the right right square. Oh, yeah Everyone ready? Well, hopefully you weren't trying to hit the steel just to the right just right a little bit hot Didn't even have to target it's always bad sign Brandon's Adjust me we're good to go now All right going again, right? Yep. I just saw hey you're up and down was great Oh Give her a full crank. Hey, I heard steel bottom left. I could see it one more time swinging What you guys are about to witness it. Oh my gosh, look at that smudge. I would have thought I was holding Perik's camera These juice the other day That might look a little bit better. You guys are about to watch the dial in this of Rackley on the 1976 30 36 yeah, Remington. I think it's a 742. Yeah 742 from night military from 1976 the Deer Slayer Deer Slayer coming at you live or from the day before. No, this is taking a long time Hey, did you just give it a full send on the wrong target? Hey, no It must have been the camera It didn't go down it went down to the left see jerk the trigger Think it was just it was me. It was me.  Yeah, I don't know if that's the case But should I send one more? You gotta send it give it a Touching red. Yeah, red beans dead No buck will survive this hunting season. Alrighty then Big thanks to Brandon for helping me get that one sided in a quickly. That was that was quick Reunited my excited no no no big deal reunited Does it remember we made adjustments here? Yeah, that was down to the adjustments and we finalized and we're pretty Pretty confident on that. That's that's good. That barrel one though. It'll be good. I feel like it's like You know high school scores and then we're hearing like preschool finger-painting That's there's where I'm at Yeah, this is a different gun I guess Brandon's gonna shoot shoot by God and make sure it's still still a proper functionality That's really awesome Hold that right edge of that center target at the top of it my flinch like crazy This is pretty accurate look at It's time for all their dragons dragons to go back in their cage till the next time All right. Well, just getting back from the range. This isn't a gun channel I don't go over second amendment and all that stuff really ever at all I just kind of take it take it for granted and being out there with Rob Who's was an army sniper and Brandon had modern outfitters who was a Marine Marine Corps recon sniper. It's nothing to shoot guns and talk guns and everything like that with him But I was thinking I was like for the average viewer that maybe you've never even been to this channel or maybe you're not even from The United States pretty much something we take advantage of we don't really think about too much So hopefully everyone knows this I'm just gonna reiterate it just for people that don't know the reason it is so important It's not for hunting. There's nothing to do with with hunting. That's as outdoorsmen We all enjoy our right to own hunting rifles like this the real reason the second amendment exists is to protect Yourself and protect your fellow man protect your fellow citizen a couple hundred years ago We fought for our independence from a tyrannical government using firearms using these things right here So that's why our forefathers thought that was so important and we put that in there in case we ever had to come to that again Everyone would be armed. So I think it's important I just want to reiterate that second amendment's not there for hunters. It's there for us citizens protect your fellow man protect yourself protect your country and God bless America. I hope you get a firearm. Hope you use it responsibly and always respect your guns Don't point them at nobody. It's all I got to say today getting off my soapbox about them begins We're gonna take a hard right turn right now to OSG Because I just got back in you went to see the the baby people today I went to go see the baby people. What did the baby people say about our little baby? I went to go see the baby doctor actually the baby love doctor. She said everything looks great I got to see a little peanuts heartbeat Actually, I got to hear it and didn't get to see it and they sent me back home with like books to read on What did they give you giving birth?  What was that? Just a female pad. What's a female pad? Do you want to open it? Do you want to know? No, I feel like we're getting into some weird stuff that I don't really know You might know like you're too far. What's going on there? It's kind of like reaching into a woman's purse. You're like, hmm I don't know what's in here. I'm kind of scared. I'm gonna get out of here. Hey, you guys want to see a turtle. I got Stephanie. I Got that from for Mexico From the common Darrow trip. It's pretty sweet. It's pretty sweet turtle Just saying actually when you came off the Mexico I was like, what did you bring me a turtle and you said actually? Yes, I did because she she loved turtles FYI I guarantee you're gonna get turtles in the P. O. Box now once we have a P. O. Box again. I get like turtle onesies. Oh I mean that's gender neutral. What are we gonna do for our gender reveal video when we find find out? I think the fishing freaks want to see a reveal.  I'm like It's gonna be up You know ask them if they think it's a boy boy or girl. That's a good question. I want to know Okay, we're gonna go ahead and get that started. All right I want to know guys. Is it a boy or do you think it's a girl? Which one do you see us with? What is growing inside of OSG?  I Want to touch it? Freakin weird Okay, never going through your stuff again. Bye Right now. I'm going through a lot of tackle Which y'all sent in to me Really good stuff But I think I'm gonna save all that for next video guys a lot of great stuff a lot of art sent in Just a lot of cool items. You guys are amazing. Thank you for being here. Thank you for giving me encouragement support every day I'm ready for tumor battles babies houses. Whatever's coming at me because you guys Had my faith in Jesus. God bless America. I don't think also on the next video. We're also going to reveal The person that is going to come out and come fishing with me So everyone that went to into the Instagram for me and OSG tagged us with the make ever cast count posts You guys pay attention tomorrow There's more preparations to make there's lying to be tied. There's lures to be adjusted There's reels to be clean from all the east Texas scum and grass Pollen that all comes around with the spawn one. Thanks for sure. There are more outdoor action here at this channel Coming at you soon hunting fishing Family life we do it all right here. Go ahead and hit that subscribe button And I'll see you guys on the next video. Have a very blessed day evening wherever you are whatever time of day It is I love you, and I'll see you on the next one


I've said it before I'm gonna say it again I am a sucker for a dock but I am at the line dock booth with Quentin Melgo and this is a dock unlike anything I've ever seen before. Hi Quentin how you doing? Hi Allison I'm doing fine thank you we're incredibly excited to be here tonight to introduce the 16 inch line dock but perhaps I should first explain you what is the line dock. Yes yes and by the way we love Belgians. Thank you thank you so yeah Nancy and I were two co-founder were born and raised in Belgium and we had this incredible idea to tap into USB-C and use it as an opportunity to finally smash together all those accessories that we carry on every day all those adapters and charges and dongles and external hard drives and everything well we wanted to make it beautiful because they're just usually 50 bucks plastic potatoes well we decided to do it to go for something different so we made this 9 millimeter piece of aluminum that you slide underneath your MacBook that packs one extra charge for your MacBook so hang on let me describe this sure it looks like he's holding a MacBook that has no logo on it in his hand it's very thin but it's the same space gray but it looks like a MacBook it's a flat 13 inch yes very very thin device so now what does it what does it have yeah so it has one extra charge for your MacBook so it's a built-in battery insanely powerful up to 60 watt power output so it's charging just as fast as a wall charger right you can actually fast charge the MacBook Air with it because the MacBook Air comes with a 30 watts power adapter this one is 60 watts you get it charged up to 50% twice as fast so this is power delivery right yes power delivery is 60 watts our delivery is my favorite thing invented yeah yeah it's not it's not so apart from that we got up to one terabyte SSD so it's available in three storages option first option is zero gigs no storage second is 256 and for the really heavy users we have a one terabyte option all right so this flat piece of aluminum yes it's not just a dock but it's also an SSD if that's what you need but you don't have to pay for it if you don't need it exactly precisely that's that's our strategy right let's talk ports though we got to talk for it yeah so for the ports you connected with yes you connected using a USB-C cable and then you get access to one two USB three ports an SD card slot this is the battery indicator oh the button we all miss on the MacBook Pro it's gone it's been gone but yeah a little button and it showed a bunch of little blue LEDs oh I love that yes with a nice fade in fade out you know it's not like one two three we wanted to make it beautiful pretty yeah yeah yeah on the back we have a charging USB-C port you know these vent air vents this is passive cooling no fans no noise no noise good and on the other side we got an extra USB-C port a third USB 3 port a mini display port and an HDMI port wow that is beautiful so you but your MacBook Pro is just going to cover all this up it's just going to sit on top of it right exactly it's sitting flush you're losing zero square inches of workspace there you go I like that yeah thanks and the way it works is you have this tiny USB-C cable that is called a U cable because it's an U shape it's holding this in my hand yeah it looks like a little tiny horseshoe maybe an inch across it's got two little USB ports and on our USB connectors so I'm guessing USB-C sorry so I'm guessing it put plugs into the side and then it plugs into your laptop precisely that's how it goes that is so clean I love this thank you thank you so that is a 13 inch MacBook line doc I'm sorry that's been available since last year but today we're announcing the line doc 16 inch all right I have a 16 inch MacBook Pro let's talk friends fantastic so we've revamped the whole thing from A to Z so first with double everything double the SSD speed with double the USB C hub speed with increase the battery size and double the power so it's up to 100 watts power output from the battery nice yes but then we stopped like doubling things and flexing with the engineers and started thinking from a user perspective because who are the 16 inch MacBook Pro users their videographers their photographers like you and they need things that other people don't what do they need they need SD cards and fast one so we've added a second SD card slot and both of them are UHS 2 which gives you 350 megabits per second read and write that's like cow yeah I know I know and happy USB port yes we still have fanless passive cooling passive cooling and then we've shifted the video output at the back and added a second one so now we have dual HDMI output and that allows for the sleekest setup you could possibly think of because look over there we have two monitors a dual monitor setup with a MacBook and a line dock and you don't see any cable because all the cables are in the back yeah yeah this I'm gonna take a picture of this for the show notes because that is just gorgeous there's there's literally nothing I can see a little bit of a cable coming off a one monitor but that's it everything cable is and of course we're on the other side on the other side we kept the USB 3 ports because we still need them yes we do yes so they're USB type A USB 3 cable precisely yes and power delivery on this side and we still wait we still got our lights yeah yeah of course but unless we burn the battery out today so yeah so let's talk about pricing if we look at the 13 inch line dock let's say no memory in it what are we talking at 349 USD then you had you had a hundred dollars and you get 256 gigabytes for 449 that could just be your backup drive there yeah exactly it's just a backup you know 256 is just what you need and then for heavy users on 13 inch we get the one-terabyte version retailing for 749 USA alright now the 16 inch that we're announcing today will be available in March but I can't really let you know the price yet because we're still you're a big tease I know I know no but we're quite enough you're all we've been through together you're not going to tell me here just whispered into this microphone no I can't disappoint you we still have a few details to fix we're a really small team only three people here we're working really hard but today we're still waiting for one or two quotes from our suppliers so precisely because yeah exactly this is this is beautiful work and I think you're in the right market because Apple people appreciate a beautiful design and a lot of docs are at the horizontal lay on your desk and they take up a bunch of space I've been favoring like the Cal digit TS3 plus that at least stands up yes so it doesn't take up a lot of room but this doesn't take up any room because my Mac would be under it yes yeah yeah exactly and another cool thing about it is that when you're not at your desk and you have your computer in a backpack for instance well this thing is still beautiful in your desk because the other solutions in my opinion they don't right there's people saying it all exactly like this thing is neat and well we put all the love that we have in it so I hope you like it it looks fantastic so quit and if people wanted to find more about line doc where would they go www that line doc that co line doc dot co and it's Belgian you got to love that thank you thank you very much Allison


Hello everybody. Seth. It's me. Not for long. Not for long. Today I'm here with Persephone Valentine, aka Persephora. And today I am becoming a drag queen. I'm really excited. I'm super excited. And a little bit afraid. You should be. But don't worry, the makeup's an easy part. I'm worried about the paint. There are parts that are painful, yeah. Like how I forgot to shave my body. And so we're currently getting wax strips. Yeah, one leg of his body is shaved right now. One leg. Only one. Let's go. Let's do it. Let's get to it. Put on the robe. Put on the robe. Put on the full fantasy. Like this? Yes, and now. OK. We're going to teach you how to be a lady today. OK. It's time. It is time. It's time. Just so you know. No one ever tells you this in other drag videos, but everything has been disinfected because of the white scraps. I am excited and a little bit nervous. I've never done this before. Yeah. It's a lot. You are undertaking quite a bit right now. I will tell you that. Am I brave? Am I so brave?  I'm so brave. You're just a braveness. Step one. I'm going to talk you through this. Yes. The first thing we're going to do is prime. I'm just going to basically base you in this stuff. You just have think of it as if I'm just such a fresh canvas, you know? So pure. How should I be feeling? What should this transformation be like for me? It can be a lot, actually, for people, women like me. Sometimes it can cause some gender feels.  Because I've had normal makeup done before. And I've had like a goth makeover. But nothing this extensive. This is going to be a little bit more. It's going to be a bit more. Do we have paper towels or anything?  What we're going to do now is cleanse your f***ing eyebrows. We're going to cover them. So I'm using alcohol that's my sting if you have any broken skin. I'm also going to do your sideburns. I guess we're going to be gluing them down. Sorry, I didn't mean to scratch you. Am I going to get nails? Yes. As far as what goes into a drag show, what are the staples, the pillars? It's very different every time. It depends on the type of performer that you are. There are dancers. There are people who just point and sing. There's people that do comedy routines to music. Like lip syncing is one of the core tenants of drag. But like people do stand up. There's all different types of drag. You can be whatever you want. There's even a gymnast who does drag is pretty famous. Katya. I was a gymnast in my former life. I've heard that we are gluing your brows down now because you have male brows and a male brow bone. Basically what we're going to do is raise the brow up to create a more feminine illusion. I don't do this because I'm a lady. Well, actually I do, but I have this rule where if I'm putting someone in drag, I don't cover my eyebrows because I'm only doing that once a day. So we were talking about names earlier off camera because I need a drag name. You do. Now there's a few different ways to do a name. Yes. Technically in the drag culture because I'm the first person to put you in drag, I am your drag mother. Which means that you can take my last name which is Valentine. I didn't know about this. Yeah, you can do this. Drag families do that sort of thing. I don't have to take the same last name as your drag mother, but that's a lot of the ways it goes. I didn't know that I would have a drag mother. Yeah, I'm your mommy.  Dick.  I didn't mean to. You know what? I don't know what I'm doing. It's fine. I chose this. I agreed to it. Okay, so that's the drag. While we're doing that, I am going to cover what? Your extensive beard. Your very extensive fertile beard. Yes, it is going to take a long time. There's so much stuff here. There is a lot and we will use most of it. So you said that the makeup portion will take probably like two hours. Is that how much it normally takes? It depends on how much practice you have and what kind of face you are. There's a lot of different drag faces, but two hours tends to be like the average. What kind of face am I? When you're going into drag, you can sort of manipulate your features to create whatever look you want in general. There are some limitations.  Like a fish? Well, so the term fish, there's a few like sort of root sources that people think, but the general consensus is that comes from the way feminine queer men's hips switch way from side to side like fish. It basically means you're going to look very feminine. Did you want to talk about pussy quest in this video? I am raising money for my transition.  I've made two videos with my friend of promoting it. It's basically the quest to get me some of my surgeries and stuff, one of which is a vagina because I don't have one surprisingly. Yet. Yet. But if you go in the description down below. You too can help me get the hole that I need. Wow. And then just think of it this way. You paid for every future orgasm I have. And that's honestly, no matter how much money they donate, that's priceless. It really is. It's a gift that keeps on giving. Just know you have a hand in every pleasurable act I have from now until forever. It's a beautiful thing. The circle of pussy. That is a beautiful thing. Circle of pussy. And for everybody watching, if you don't go in the description down below and click on that link. Well, let's just say that you're not a real fan. Wow. Coming for their next.  I'm really excited for the wig portion. The wig portion is going to be fun. I'll let me try on a few. I feel like that is such a big thing. It's a big part of it. It's funny. After you asked me to do this, I was like, okay, I'm going to look at images of your face and see what I can do and play with. Cause like we'd met before, but I was like, I hadn't thought about putting you in drag.  And I was like, this boy is going to be prettier than I am.  No, you're going to look great in drag. I'm very excited. The other thing to tell you like why this relates to wigs is that you don't really need the volume that comes from like really, really big hair. The bigger the hair, the smaller the face, the more feminine you look.  Elvis or Elvin? Elvin, Elvis. Elvish. Not Elvis. Tell me if this digs into your skin a little. I won't. Oh my God. This is why I don't take makeup clients anymore. But it isn't a nice focus, then you can just do your thing. I don't want to hurt you until we get to the tucking portion. The tucking portion. I don't know what that means. Like I can guess what it means, but like people have always talked about tucking and it's just like, okay, I can guess what that means. But no one's ever explained exactly what it is. I will give you a very accurate description. So basically, before puberty, do you remember when you were young and your testicles were a little bit higher than they are now? Yes.  Yes. And you had them rise up into you? Into me? Like they rise up and they sort of like hover here? Yeah. Yeah, that's where we're shoving your balls. Wait, so when you say into me, what do you mean? What do you mean by into me?  We basically push the testes back up there, take the skin of the ball sack, pull it back with the glands and then tape it or use really tight panties to hold it in place. I like how he looked at my tuck when he did that.  I'm not gonna just not do that portion because it's a part of it. Yeah, here's the thing though. Do you need me to help you do it? I don't know. If you do, I'm comfortable doing it, but I'm not gonna make you do anything out of your comfort zone as far as that. There is a video I can show you done by Willem Balli, but it can be a little hard to follow your first time. You know what I didn't even think of until right now is like, this is going to be a really great like learning video for a bunch of people watching because obviously like I've never done this before. This is a new experience for me, but there's probably so many people that are gonna watch this video that have thought about getting into drag and they can learn. Hey. And probably learn from any mistakes that I make. Like not shaving my entire body before doing this. What would you say is like the 10 commandments of drag? Never wear a wig straight out the pack. Okay. Shake and go wigs are illegal. If a drag queen tells you you look busted, you need to fix it. Just do it. No one looks good when they start unless they're now getting their makeup done by someone as beautiful as I am. But basically believe other queens when they tell you that something is in need of a little bit of work. There's also other things, like if you are working at a club and you are a newer queen and you want to sing a song, make sure it isn't a standard for one of the older girls there because that will cause problems. It's gonna be a problem. There's things that I think are rules. Don't just go straight to buying human hair wigs, learn to use a synthetic. They can be just as good. I say even though I'm wearing a human hair unit today, but you want to learn with like synthetic lace fronts and stuff like that. What else is there? Glitter fixes all sins. If you make a mistake on your eye makeup, just cover it with glitter. No. God.  I couldn't tell from your reaction.  It gets everywhere. It do. It gets everywhere. Yeah, no one told you that you can take it off with duct tape, did they? What?  That's a good idea. Yeah. What do you think for, because now I'm just thinking all about like, because I have a bit of a younger audience. And so like, what's the best way to get into drag? Like where's a good place to start? The thing that I recommend is like, looking at the kind of women that you either respect or admire that are like publicly well known or anything like that and see how they dress, see how they walk, see how they act, or like and just like try to base your like drag character on that or like, cause not every drag queen does a character. I don't always do a character. Sometimes I do. How am I coming along?  So you look like an Oompa Loompa right now.  Yeah. Not all of us start out hot. Some of us need a lot of work. Not me, but you know you.  Am I gonna get really big lashes? Yes. Yes. Absolutely. I've never worn fake eyeliner. You make it more than one pair. I don't think I have. So you were saying before how it's gonna take like a couple of hours to get all the makeup on. What is this gonna be like for me later getting it off? Very easy. Very easy. Because I have, did I bring it? I think I brought Abilene with me which basically is like the remover of all removers. So it should be very easy. Abilene makeup wipes in a cleanser, you're good. It can't be worse than the other day when I had four gallons of Elmer's glue on my body. If I didn't bring the Abilene, probably. You'd probably be scrubbing at your face for hours because I'm gonna put so many layers of cream and powder on you.  Cream and powder. Cream and powder.  I wanna know what I look like, but I don't, you know? You wanna see the end result. You don't wanna see it right now. What's your go-to look? For a drag? For both for you and for when you're doing drag for other people. So there is no go-to look that I have for other people. I basically assess what they look like and what kind of drag look they'll suit and then I'll do their makeup accordingly. Do we have the wax strips? Should we wax some things? Because it's low effort, we can do my arms and stuff. Your arms you could keep if you wanted. No. Okay, full commitment. We have to fully commit. Okay. We have to fully commit. It's gonna be a multi-person job, I think. Okay. Where are we going? Oh, are we going in the other room? You need water. Oh, I don't know how things work. Or did you wanna just go straight in with the wax here? We can just go straight in with the wax.  Wait, aren't we doing my arms? Isn't that what we're doing? You have one shaped leg. That's true. I have one shaped leg. Okay, here we go. That treasure trail is gonna have to go too. So this will be fun. Nervous. How's this gonna be? You should be. All right, the instructions. So I'm basically an expert now. Did you read the instructions? Yes. Ah! Give me your arm. Oh, my arm. Or arm stomach, which do you prefer first? Let's do the arms first. Okay. Uh-oh. Are you gonna, what's the, what are we doing? Do you need a safe word? No. Are you sure? Well, is that? Do you want one? Try gummy bear. Ew! Welcome to womanhood. At least you don't have to give birth to do drag. No. You ready? Pretty sweetie. Are you sure? Sure. It's the hesitation that's awful. I know, that's why I'm doing it. I said I didn't want to cause him pain, but I'm having a great time. It's either this or you experience what's known as testicular ripping from duct tape later. Testicular ripping? Yeah. Cause if the duct tape gets too stuck on there, it will rip. That's why we don't have hair down there when we talk. Testicular ripping. Is that your new safe word, sweetie? That's my new safe word is testicular ripping.  I think I should shave. You think you should just shave? Yeah. Or you think you should do what I told you in the beginning? Yeah. And instead of the wax strips? Yeah. Are you sure? Yeah. Or should you do your treasure trail? Because you literally asked for this. Ugh. You do the treasure trail, I'll help you shave the rest. What if I just do the rest by myself? Can you? I can. You were in there for like an hour trying to shave one leg. Well, but now I'm good at it. I'm so good at it. Uh huh. I'm so good at it. It's incredible how good of it I am. I'm so good at it. Assume the position. Just the treasure trail. You can say no. Consent is a thing. Yeah, but content, you know? Content. But the content. For the content. It's so fast. You're doing a great time. Thanks so much for inviting me. Right, it's so fun. It's so fun. Can I place it? Sure. You just gotta do it right. There's a reason I was placing it the way I was. How do you do it? So you have to place it in the direction of the hair and then rub down the direction of the hair and then pull in the opposite direction. Here? Yes. What if it pulls my belly button out off? Well, then your intestines will come through and there'll be a shorter end to the video. Ah! No, now it has to come off. Rub it downward, otherwise it's not gonna work. Nope, use your full hand and your body heat. Okay, pull up.  Ready? Are you ready? Are you ready? Oh, we're ready, I think you're not. It's like a, oh, okay. You have to do it. I thought so. Are you ready?  Are you asking me to be nice? I'll be nice. Yeah, do it on three. Three. I'm just kidding, I'm not gonna do that. Three, two, one. Oh, it wasn't that bad! It actually wasn't that bad. That's because it didn't work.  Well, now we have to shave the rest. Where did the razors go? Oh, they're right here. Okay. All right, I'll be back. Do you want help? No, I think I can do it, I'll holler. Okay, remember the directional stuff I told you, sweetie. The direction, yes. Shaving the direction of the hair and then against it to get the smoothest shave. The direction of the hair and then against it. Yeah, and make sure you do vertical motions on the sides of the leg. Vertical motions. Also, the back of your leg may grow in the opposite direction, so make sure you check. The back, the box, the back of the, I'll see you in another hour. That was so much fun. Shaving the opposite direction. Opposite of the ego up and down, essentially. It's not working.  It's my lovely daughter struggling. It's the wax. Oh, did you actually, did you not wipe it off? Did I, oh, was I supposed to wipe it off? It's gonna come up the razor. Tell me you have more than one in there. Yes. You've probably just wanna throw that one out. Okay, we need something that we can wipe wax off with. What's the thing for the makeup when? Yeah, I'll get a makeup wipe. That's perfect. Good idea. I'll bear it back. I gotta get it here. It's not working. Not really. Yeah, let me try. You okay with me touching you? Yeah. Oh yeah, it's sticking right to it. I'm gonna go get the lotion and see if that will help. That treasure trail really did not wanna go. No. Try rubbing some of this on it. Does it hurt as bad when you rub it? No. Then that means it's listening. The things we go through for beauty, what do you say?  It might just be there forever. It's not gonna be there forever. It's gonna be there forever. Oh my God. It is coming off. It's just not fast enough. You wanna see the monstrosity that's happening here? Yeah. Hi mom. Is it good enough, do you think? I think it's good enough. Yeah. Where am I? Chipping in? Everywhere?  Including crack. Good luck, college, you need me. Okay. Bye. All right, you are now fully shaved. My gams are shaved. They are shaved. What do we do now? I'm going to powder your brows so that it's no longer tacky. It's gonna be a lot of powder, so keep your eyes closed for now. Oh God.  Who is it? Hmm, I don't know. Oh gosh. Hi mom. Hi mom. What are we doing now? My eyes? I am adding white for high contrast.  Spotlight my face? Basically putting all the light and attention in the center of your face to feminize it. How long have you been doing makeup for? As a profession? Yeah. I only did it as a profession for, I think, a year. And then I couldn't stand it. Was it the clients? Yes. Yeah. When was, when was drag invented? Drag has a long and rich history and it depends on which culture you're talking about. Drag has been in Western culture, has roots in Shakespearean literature and plays and stuff. But drag has been around in many cultures for a very long time. This is Contois. Contois. This is like the basically underpainted year to get some color and contrast in.  What's your favorite? What's your favorite part? Taking it off. I'm just kidding. That's every drag queen's answer. I like the transformative element of it. I think of drag less as female impersonation and more as a sort of like toying with gender in some ways. And I enjoy that aspect. Even though I am binary trans woman, there's something freeing with losing yourself into this like bigger, larger than life creature that may or may not have an actual gender or whatever. And I think a lot of modern drag is a take on that. Like a lot of modern drag is more gender f*** than anything else. Even though I like do full female, like trans female, female illusionist or whatever, I still think of it as like playing with perceptions of what gender is or what femininity is for me. People who are drag kings play with masculinity. And then there's people who are drag artists who like play with the in between or like not at all of our current concepts of gender. And like you don't need to be like non-sist to do that either, which is the other thing too. Like anyone can play with gender.  Also the attention's fun too. I love attention. I can't tell. There is literally no one, there is no one who asks, can you put me in drag who doesn't f***ing like attention? I think that you should be Clint Eastwood. Clint Eastwood. I love that. Oh my God. That's beautiful. That's so good. Are we still baking? I'm actually brushing out the bake now. The bake is just to make sure everything that I put, that's cream, concealer, powder, foundation. Foundation underneath doesn't move. I really need these brows to be covered. There, that's much better. It's a wrong color, but I can always fix that after.      I don't know if I ever described myself as a big girthy man. Yes, something like that. You don't need to make that face. I have to look at it. I'm so sorry. So can you please not make it? I just don't know what else to do. Just stand there and look pretty or as close as you can. Once I turned you into a girl, you can do whatever you want. Is that when I can step on people? I mean, probably. Who wants to be stepped on? Every one of my Twitter DMs. Not even a joke. Very excited about that eye makeup. The eye makeup is the, when you put the eye makeup on, that's when you truly start feeling the fantasy, I think. So we're gonna start with the eye makeup, the best part. Here we go. What's the eye look we're doing? Right now we're doing this the basic, I'm still using one color. I'm doing a basic neutral eye that I'm gonna then cut the crease and put some glitter in it and darken the outer rim. What are cut creases? A cut crease, it's a style of eye makeup where there's a much lighter lid with a defined border with usually a smokier outside, although not always. Now I am going to clean this off. What are we doing? Glitter! Oh no. This is only the first layer. Should it sting? Does it sting? Yeah. Like burning or just irritation? I'm gonna burn it. Really? Yeah. It's not bad. It shouldn't burn. Well, we'll find out. Okay, look up and away. We're gonna do the underside. Blink. Blink. Blink. Goody-goody gumdrops! I'm a hero. We're almost done. I just gotta blacken that up a little bit more. Oh, and then we gotta do the lip transformation. Mm-hmm. That's common. What color lips are we going for? See, I wanted to do a red on you, but the eye's a little bit pinkier than I expected. So I think we're gonna go with a neutral, something dark though. Lips, lips, lips, lips, lips, lips. Trying to decide how thick and luscious I want these.  Give me the DSO. I mean, no daughter of mine's leaving the house without some lips that look good around a hard one. Open wider. Wider.  That's thank you. You're keeping a straight face so well.  Oh, I love covering your facial hair. Your lips basically take up the entire space that was there. Bigger lash. Oh my God, that's perfect! Look at how pretty this is! Oh, don't close your eyes. I actually need you to blink. Blink, blink. Keep leaving, just keep blinking. This is the laziest way of applying mascara, but this is what I do with troublesome people. Oh, I'm troublesome. You just have sensitive eyes, honestly. Also, if you think this glue is scary ways, you see the glue. Do you glue? Oh, if you want them to stay on during a performance, or in general, honestly.  This feels so heavy. It should. It feels like I have blinders on. Okay, open. Okay. It's heavy. Hey. It feels like I have... The weight of womanhood is a burden you must learn to bear. It feels like I have a weird haircut. It's just like my bangs. You think you have a weird haircut now? Yeah. Okay, this is the last step of the makeup.  All right, now comes the fun parts. Well, actually, should we make you tuck first, and then wig, or wig, then tuck? I feel like the tuck should be the last step. It will not be the last step. You have to tuck to put clothes on. Oh. You know what? I feel like you don't deserve hair until you're fully a lady. Let's discuss tucking. All right, let's discuss it. Do you need me to show you how to do it? Give me a diagram. Alcohol, this part of your body. Okay. Right here, because you have like, shaving cream excess on there. I don't know where you want it. And right here, where the tape is gonna stick. Then you take the test keys. Wait, was I supposed to shave, like, down to the core here? I thought you just said my butt.  Balls are there. I definitely specifically told you to shave your balls. Yeah. Why would you think that anything above that would be?  Wow. How much time do we have? Oh, but I don't want to see myself yet. Do you need to see yourself to shave your crotch? We can just... We'll just get you the shaving cream and the razor and you can just do it back there and no one will come there. I don't know what I'm doing.  It's me. Here, shave but not by a mirror. In there, no one go back there. Okay. You good? Oh, I can look up now. I had to just do this. Okay, so let's have a conversation about how we're gonna do this. So what are we doing here? What are we working with? So alcohol, wipe, front, back. You get no less than three or four strips of tape. Duck tape. Duck tape? In this case, Gorilla tape. Wait. I thought we had normal duct tape. Yeah, but you said it didn't stick so it's not gonna work for this. Well, it'll do, right? We're using Gorilla tape. You take four pieces of Gorilla tape. Four pieces of Gorilla tape. And then you take your testes in your hands. You push one up inside of you.    And then do another strip here for the side and another strip here for the side and then take the fourth strip and do it again in the center. And then if anything's pinching or doing it out, either ignore it and accept your suffering or take more tape and do it. And then you put on tucking panties, which I will provide for you. Okay. Are you gonna be able to do that? Probably. My recommendation before you start doing all the taping and stuff is just wiggle them around until they pop inside. You'll feel really uncomfortable at first but you'll get used to it. Where's this tape? Thank you. Will you have Persephone come back here so I can ask questions? Ask me about your genitalia. What do I do with my dick? So when I set the glands, I meant the tip of the penis.  Ethan, tuck it. Testes. Tuck your balls. Yeah.  The daddy pillows. What if they don't come back? What if they don't come back? They don't come back. No, they can sometimes get stuck up there. Really? No. This is the longest I've ever talked about tucking with anyone and that includes other trans people. Cut. You lost a ball. Where do I put the alcohol?  It's only so that this tape adheres. La la la la la la la la la la la la la la. Going up there boys. Yep. They just keep coming back down. You have to hold them up there when you do the tape. They don't stay there.  I guess. Are you all right? I don't know how to stand. Okay, the tape should be large enough that you have some give.  I don't get it. Mika? Yeah? Will you help me? Trim my leg. Why? You need to talk to me.  Mika, describe what happened. The duct tape between his cheeks and the other thing. I literally told you to put it between your cheeks. How? Oh my God. It's like a thong. It's so... Raise it up. I love this day. This day is a good day. Ethan? Oh, yep. You're fine. Give me the pants. Is it normal to not be able to walk? Don't look too far forward. Okay, stop walking like a duck. You should be able to walk normally. I can't. Stand up straight.  Maybe. I don't know. Can you go back in there?  Ow, ow, ow, ow. Ethan, pull it. I feel great now. This feels so much better. So much better. How'd it go? It's going good. Oh, it looks like it feels so much better. I'm like, you sit in there. I'm like, it has to go between your cheeks. Spread them and he's like, I am. Hands out here. Like grab your cheeks and spread them. And he's like, let's go. Okay. Let's roll out. Oh, sitting down is weird.  You look so dejected right now. I feel like I'm in some sort of fever dream. What's that? Well, this also goes over your ball sack. Oh, no, it's a little bit cap. I don't know what anything is. It's like a condom for your hair. If you're going to be in this family, you gotta do what's right. I tried so hard. What's that? Another device of torture. It just holds wick as well. Okay, now for the fun part. The fun part. What kind of girl do you want to be? We've got ash blonde. We've got E-girl. We've got traditional black. Pink, pink-er. What do you think, what do you think? Because I have no idea what I look like. I think you go with whatever your heart says. Because I have no idea what I look like still. My heart instantaneously thought that this should be what you wear. Then let's do it. I need to hold my breath. I would recommend not breathing the stuff in, but you should be fine. Okay, so I need you to open your eyes. So basically I'm gonna, yeah! You know how to do this. Oh my God. All right. No. Just... She's on. Time to style. Do I look pretty? Yeah, you do actually. What is the... Is it half black, half white? Yep. Actually you look really good. Like really good. So I just see it all coming together. Yeah, I'm good. I'm very good at this. I'm very... Turn around. Show the class. Am I pretty? Now I have to learn how to pose. Stand. Feet like this. Yeah. Some... One hip. Oh my God, okay.  So do you see anything here that's super interested or calls to you? Whoa! I like this. You like that? How do I put on the dress? First, here's some tights for you. Stick your foot in it. Then you put your foot in it. Slide it up. Okay. This is so funny. Something's funny about my struggle. That's a woman. That's a lady. You're right. No one can tell you anything about your struggle. You want to straighten those out? No, this should fit. It has a lot of shearing, which means rich. How do I put on the dress? All right, I'll sign arms. Yes, put, yeah. Dive in. I don't want to mess up my hair. Like you're swimming. Now let's get rid of that thick managed figure.  The corset? I feel like I'll have no issue with the corset. Oh, I don't think you understand. I understand what a corset does. I don't imagine that this will be worse than tucking. It was really complicated and I really didn't know what path to go on. Sorry, don't need to get this close to your face back. I didn't know what path to go.   So deep breath in, out. That's the only black belt I've got. I was thinking about that. Do you want in the front or the back? Oh, that's cute. Feeling this semi-madness Alice. Alice in Madness Returns vibe. So let's put a bow in your hair. Where are the earrings that I put in here? Don't worry about taking your ear. Do you want the big necklace? Also a lady, never leaves without perfume. That's a nice smell, isn't it? So I think clearly we know which shoes you have to wear. Either stilettos or these Jeffrey Cambolitas. I like the boots. That's what I thought. I know you thought you were in 11 and a half but the fact is is you're in 11. 11, you are basically the same size as I am. Okay, stand. Shoulders back. Push down, head back. Center of gravity on the heel. Heel toe. Cross your legs. Okay, let me show you how I'm going to demonstrate. So I'm in heels. When you're in heels, the center of your weight and gravity should be on the heel when you're standing. You don't lean back. Just make sure that instead of it being on the toes, like you're wearing sneakers or on the ball of your foot, like in the center of your foot, it's on the back. Now push down with your shoulders. Like push, that will lift the chest. Not as exaggerated. And then head back. I'm not trying to make this a joke. I'm legitimately like trying to do anything. So loosen up, loosen up. I'm going to put you in the right position. Don't worry. That's your neutral stance. So like this, okay? Now, if you want to have a more comfortable position in heels, put one foot forward. Make sure that there's an angle to the other foot. So the heel of the left one should be pointed towards the center of the right, of the other foot, the right foot. There you go. Feel that, that's balanced. Yeah.  We're crossing? Yeah. Yes. Like you're walking the line. Okay, you're not in a chorus line.  Watch me, watch me for a second. Watch me, are they? A little bit. Question back in. Good girl. What am I doing? Walking. Walking. Wait for me. Hey, hold on. Reset, back to one. Okay. Look where you're walking. That's much better. That's much better. It's really scary. You are leading a lot with your shoulders, which is a very mask thing. I don't know how to not lead with my shoulders. You are so close. So here's the thing, here's the thing. The leg that you move forward is the one where the hip comes out. So look at me. I'm gonna make this really exaggerated. So, da, this is the hip and this is the leg that I'm going for. And then da, da. So this is the one that's going forward. That was better. Little bit. You're getting the right motion. You know, maybe I think I know the problem. I haven't seen myself yet. You haven't seen yourself yet? I don't know who I am yet. I haven't seen myself yet. I thought you saw yourself in the mirror when you went into the bathroom. No, I didn't look in the mirror. Okay, do we? I cannot believe you haven't seen yourself yet. Oh my God. I haven't seen myself yet. This is an important thing. I have in my hands your mirror. To show you America's next top drag queen. Ooh. I would date myself if I had huge tits. I like the eyes a lot. That's so weird to look at myself because it doesn't look like me. It's a whole transformation. I'm so pretty. You do look really good. The eyebrows are so good.  It's so weird because I look so confident and I'm not. Well, that's a power of drag, honestly. It's putting on a character in something larger than life that gives you confidence. And then you realize you can be that person all the time. You need a name. Who do you see in the mirror? I don't know what my name is. What do you think my name should be? I mean, you're giving out very Alice vibes right now. Could be Alice Valentine. It could be Alice Valentine. It is. Alice Valentine. And now I have a cool heart. That's the name. Yeah! A new queen is born. I wanted to jump, but I shouldn't do that. You did it. You did it. You did it. It counts, it counts, it counts. I feel so pretty. Thank you. You're welcome. I feel so pretty.  It really is. I gotta be honest. I think someone could, if you were by yourself somewhere, someone would hit on you. This was, this was so cool. Yeah, you look great. I feel like a whole other person.   Yeah. You turned out really, really well. I'm actually, I'm impressed with myself and also your level of patience. So this was a lot to go through. The corset at first was not bad. The corset now is not fun. No. I do not know. Not at all. Wait until you remove it, because that's fun. Yeah. Where can people find you? Hi. Is there anything you want to promote? Sure. You can find me at Persevera on Twitch, Twitter and Instagram. I stream on Twitch three times a week. You can also check out stuff that I'm doing with Dropout. Like I'm actually, which premiered today, which is Friday, whenever this comes out. It will be there.  On top of dragon makeup and other things like that. Oh, and I'm raising money for my transition.  Hell yeah. It'll be the first link in the description. So you can go and check it out. Thank you so much for making me a queen. Thanks for being my drag mom. Next time I'll bring you a tiara. I should have brought you a tiara.  Say it with more confidence.  Laura.  Scream it.  We'll work on it.


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I'm so happy to greet you because I think one of the few leaders in the coalition will elect you and never attack you and do not intend to and we're so happy to have you as our president and I want to do everything I can to see even that you are re-elected and everybody else is in charge of you. Well, bless you. I was going to say to you that you have not waited. Now see me and any of those groups of people attacking you. And I know you're pressed for time and so I throw along a little memo to say what I have to say, because we want to work for your re-election and the election of all the Republicans and I think we did a lot of good work with the nuclear foods referendum recently and we're going to continue to work on that especially with women and but I want to help you get rid of this ERA problem and make it go away and so page one is some of my notes but if you turn over to page two, what I want to offer to you is not a strategy for defeating ERA because I think it's already been defeated and we have proved that your position was right and that the states and the people don't want it but it is a strategy against Republicans. It is basically today something to hit Republicans with and their purpose is to defeat Republicans. They want to use it as a fundraising mechanism and they want to keep us busy playing on their ball field instead of doing constructive things like working on your agenda. So I feel that there are several things we should not do. We should not let the Democratic leadership dictate the timing and the agenda and fight over the old battles and play by their rules and I think that if the administration does nothing, we are exceeding to their timing and their rules. So over on the next page, I want to help you recapture the initiative that is avoiding the whipping boy of the Tipo Niels and therefore I would propose that you might send a letter to Bob Michael urging that ERA, if it's considered by the House, be used as a constitutional vehicle to force consideration of the amendments that you want and that the people have asked for and without mentioning ERA, who don't want to involve you in the ERA battle, you raise the specter of Republicans offering as amendments to ERA. Your amendments, the school prayer amendment, the busing amendment, the right to life amendment, prayer amendment and therefore you send the Democrats a clear signal that if they force ERA to a vote that they're also going to have to deal with all these other issues on your agenda.  The argument is ERA had 10 years and two chances considered the unfair extension and the people have never had a chance to vote on the school prayer amendment which we've been wanting to vote on for 20 years since the Supreme Court decision or a right to life amendment which we've been wanting for 10 years or a balanced budget amendment and Tip O'Neill has to understand that if he's going to force an ERA vote he's also going to have to vote on these other issues too. The way he plays with the rules, the only way we have to force the other constitutional amendments in the House is to play with them on a constitutional amendment and otherwise they've cost us a lemon we're going to make a lemonade out of it. I know I'll switch seats. I would like to tell them I don't know when they're going to call back or if. I ask to see you about two topics. Photo op. I must say it was he did the same thing that he always does. Actually the Rating Committee had a little beauty search here with the good-looking fellows on this side. It shows what trouble we're in. Well, I won't waste any time talking about the first day of spring or anything like that except that I think our friends up there on the other side of the aisle embarked on the last bitch effort to turn the clock back instead of as we will shortly be doing turning it forward and I'm referring to their budget plan. Fine I think goes right backward. I think all of us have some feeling that they have no intention of really getting that as a budget but maybe laying the grounds for being able to woo their people by saying here is a sample of traditional democracy or a democratic policy but you know and I know it throws everything out the window that we've achieved in these last two years and now with the report that I just gave on the economy and there are other signs that are justice promising but I think they've picked the wrong timing for it. Their plan is, I understand it calls for a $27 billion increase in taxes, this is just for the one year, a $10 billion cut in defense, $8 billion increase in the two-year deficit and all of this so they can wind up with a $45 billion increase in domestic spending over to what we've proposed and that's just the short run proposal. If you multiply those out into the five-year projections I don't like the thing but it would raise taxes by $316 billion over five years. That canceled 42% of the net tax cut that we'd given to the American people. We've got the defense rebuilding program by slashing $206 billion from our request over the same period. It would repeal many of the overdue welfare reforms we've already enacted throwing away billions of dollars in savings and in name of fairness would add an incredible $181 billion in five years of domestic spending to the high levels already proposed and they call that a fairness budget and actually I think it's cruelty to the taxpayers and face new huge burdens to consumers who would be threatened again with inflation going up and to the jobless who had no hope of economic recovery and if any peace-loving citizen would have to figure what it does to us but we already want to secure it. So I think that this is when we go to the matter as I say I think we're going to do that. I've already talked to one group of your colleagues and I'm going to be talking more but to talk to you about I think they've given us really something to tee off on. Here is they want a flat comparison of what their belief is and what they want to go as in contrast to what we're trying to do and a few months ago it made more headway when things were looking as bad as they are but with all the economic science that they have I think that we can stand back and say what we've been doing is beginning to work and I just hope that we can mobilize not only all our forces but get enough responsible thinking Democrats to join us in just flatly not trying to deal with this or bargain with it but just flatly vote it down as being in the wrong direction to go and I'll start talking now and get it up there. That's in particular The University is something of that nature but how do you put it back in these works but people will go home and find out some of these manuscripts are something of that nature and establish a fair amount of value about it but if you give a you run a regular but then if you try to sell it in the open market that somebody pay a million dollars for it but if you gave it to the University of Southern California to declare a million dollars and get that off the taxes I'm not going to get dollars That's what I'm talking about Sit down He's scheduled on his schedule he says he's going to come This is your economic briefing which consists of two parts one for the year of 1983 Carolina year and then again to the international situation as far as what's going on with some of these less developed countries and now the shift as to where the problem children are in the world of comedy and what we may or may not be thinking of doing so Marty's going to take you through the first part and I'll take you through the second part Well at first when we talked about this meeting we thought we might talk about some more specific things like monetary policy or the international trade song that we decided we'd better come back to those at such a time and focus on an overview of the region last year but as recently as six weeks ago we had no clear evidence of an actual upturn in economic activity and then by early February we began to get the statistics for January we had employment going up earnings going up industrial production going up it really saw a broad based upturn in the economy and I wrote to you at that time and said I thought I'd be pretty free Super Get the meeting underway and I don't want to remain a model of this going to be dialogue when we get going but the subject to the meeting is the budget which was passed on a straight part of the basis of the Democrat Committee their version of the budget which they have declared is a restatement of Democratic tradition and I'm afraid it is but I don't see any way that we can with our own proposal of a budget there could be any effort to compromise or find a meeting around this budget in the sense that most by then must be the the this proposal calls for increasing taxes over the next five years by about $315 billion it calls for canceling most of the gains and the savings that we've made in the title of the program so forth over the last two years it increases over that same period of time and that's expending by I believe David I write about $181 billion increasing that spending that much increasing the taxes that much it also will reduce the defense budget down to a point that it's $31 billion below the defense budget that have been planned by President Carter and which we're trying to recognize and get our defenses to recover from but when all that is done they will have wound up with an $8 billion addition to the deficit for the years 83-84 in other words all of this will be done to simply achieve tens of billions of dollars of new spending as a matter of fact they have introduced some 10 new social domestic programs in addition to reducing all of the remaining savings that we've made now the taxes that they're going to increase calls for canceling the third year of the income tax cut and canceling index the truth of the matter is that in both of these taxes the both 72% of one the third year cut and 78% of the index the savings there goes to people below the $50,000 mark middle income and lower middle income are the ones that will pay the bulk of that tax obviously indexing is strictly for the working man and woman in this country because they're the ones that when they get a cost of living pay raise are moved up into a higher tax bracket well it can't be a benefit to the rich because they're already in the process that's where it puts that and I just feel that this thing is such a throwback that we have to make it plain to the people what this would result in this is going back to the types of government programs that cause the problems that we're facing today the main thing is we're in a recovery there's no question about it because the word came out yesterday in regard to the growth in the gross national product and to do things of this kind the taxes would be almost 30 billion dollars in the first year the tax increase that's no way to keep a recovery going that is going to cut off the recovery I'll make one last point and then we will turn to this conversation here into a more detailed one but when we went for this increase that we did a year or so ago and many of us as we said then it was so hard to do it we did that in a kind of bipartisan agreement that we were going to get 3 dollars in spending that's for every 1 dollar of increase in taxes and this is a complete recudiation of that agreement but now turn around and also this kind of a proposal so again as I say I know we're outnumbered but our job is to find those Democrats that are sure there who are responsible and who will go along with repudiating the proposals of this kind and the state of mind