Welcome to my suburban-ish, urban-ish, sustainable homestead here in St. Petersburg, Florida. My name is Rob Greenfield and a lot of you know me for doing some pretty extreme things. Whether it's the tiny house that I built out of all second-hand materials where I grew and forged all my food for a year in Orlando, Florida or the off-the-grid tiny house I lived in in San Diego, California or many of my other projects, a lot of them I take sustainable living and minimalism to the extreme. But today I'm excited to show you what I've been doing for the last six months at this homestead because what I've designed here is really designed to be very accessible, something that you can do, something that you can adapt into your life, but to take it a step further, this is a homestead that's designed for either a family or a group of people to come together and do to really be able to live sustainably and really step outside of the consumeristic system to a larger degree. And so the idea here is living quite sustainably in the city and it's focused on besides sustainable living, being able to come together to reduce the amount of money that's needed to live to live more communally connected to other people and then lastly to live in service to your community. And that's what we've been doing here for the last six months. That's what I'm excited to give you a tour of today and share this with you. So we'll start by checking out the inside then we'll head back outside to the gardens and to all the outdoor good stuff. So come on in. Now one of the first things you might notice as I was walking through the door is that it's the middle of the summer in Florida and we have the doors open which means the air conditioning is not on. And I've strived to live without air conditioning for pretty much most of my life and I will say that I've been really happy that we've managed to mostly avoid the air conditioning but we have used it some. We're trying to not be perfect. As I've lived alone in these tiny house settings I've been able to live kind of exactly the way that I want to but living in a more communal setting with a lot of people it's been a different situation of having to work and make things work for each individual person's needs. But with that being said really amazingly, really happily it's almost July 1st and we've managed to use the air conditioning for just a small fraction of the summer so far and may only use just the beautiful breeze that nature provides us as much as possible. Now another thing you'll notice about this house is it's like your standard box of an American style building. To me honestly this style of house really sucks the soul right out of me. So I'm really working with what I had available to me and really working with what other people have available to them to be able to show this example of sustainable living in the city. Now the next thing that you'll notice around me is that it's pretty minimalistic. It's pretty simple and that's one of the themes that you'll see throughout this place is that when I design things I'm designing them in a way that is pretty clutter free on the mind. I believe in this saying a cluttered space is a cluttered mind and what you'll see here in this design of communal living is things that really flow and take care of themselves. So this is the living space here. We know we just have a couple of basic futons on the ground but I'm going to show you something over here and this is one of my favorite things and that's our seed library. We've just taken an old desk and transformed it into a library full of seeds and we've got, you know, 100 or so different style of vegetable seeds here that I share through thousands of people through our free seed libraries and our free seed project here in our free seed project. We've got all your basics like chives and carrot and arugula and dill and herb mixes and flower mixes and kale and we send them out to this year. We sent seeds to 10,000 people through our free seed project where they receive about 20 varieties of seeds to start their own wonderful gardens and we provide those to people who wouldn't otherwise have funds or access to have seeds. So you'll see that the theme of this place is it's really about designing a place where we can be of service. Over here is our sort of our office area so as you can see pretty simple. Got a couple of computers set up. We do video production. We run our community programs. We had 10 people living here during the first three months as part of an internship that I was doing. This is the team and during that time we built 10 gardens for the people. We planted 30 community fruit trees in the neighborhood. We sent over 10,000 free seed packs out. We rescued about 5,000 pounds of food via our food rescue program and then we also diverted about 500 plus pounds of food through our community compost program as well as volunteering a lot in the community. So what you'll see about this place is it's really designed as a place to live simply so that we can live in service. So on that note I'm going to show you one of the bedrooms so you can kind of see the setup that we have going there. Come on in. So I've slept in this room. A room that I was in myself for a little while and the idea that I want to share with you is this idea of more communal living. I'm not going to call it an eco-village and it's not an intentional community. It's not to that level but it is communal living and the idea is the more that we can share resources the less money we need to earn, the less we need to be focusing on material possessions and financial wealth by coming together. And so one of the ideas that I want to share with you that this place represents and this place has been is imagine if five of your friends and you get together and you share a house and maybe the rent is $2,000 a month split that with five people you're looking at $400 which means instead of focusing on money you can be focusing on being of service programs. So you can see it's pretty simple in here. We've got a couple of dressers. We got most of this stuff second hand on places like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace and things like that. You can see some bunk beds here. Bunk beds are a really efficient way. Again, it's simple living but there's so much benefit to simple living by cutting back the amount of things that we need the more we can take power back from corporations that are trying to sell us on this idea that we need so much from them and that we can't get it working together. So I'm going to show you one of the bathrooms right here. Pretty simple, pretty basic and again this place is kind of for me sort of a fancy place it's not my ideal living scenario not too much different from your typical house. So this bathroom obviously has a flush toilet in it but outside we built a compost toilet and that's where I have been going and I'm excited to show you that and that's something that numerous people in the house have been using. So I'm really excited to get to outside to show you the things that I'm a little bit more passionate about with sustainable living but before that I want to take you over to the kitchen because food is the center of our lives. It's one of the main ways that we interact with the earth and one of the main ways that we have an impact for better or for worse. Another thing to mention just before getting in the kitchen this is our dining area we had quite a few communal meals here one of the really nice things with living in community is sharing chores so we have our chore sheets here where everybody has a different chore for the week and we share in these responsibilities and imagine living on your own and having to cook every single night now imagine instead living with six, seven people where each person can cook dinner one night a week and you only have to cook dinner one night a week and have a nice meal that's these benefits of communal living that's where you can drastically reduce the amount of work you have by working with others and living in community. Now of course communal living has its own challenges sharing a bedroom with others has its own challenges and you don't have your own space but it's all about balance and it's all about asking what do you really want out of life and I think this is one model to be able to achieve a more sustainable equitable just way of living most of the entire house was furnished secondhand we got this table which honestly is too fancy of a table for me we got this thing for 50 bucks including all of the chairs on Craigslist so we have three main ways that we feed our household what you're seeing here is our bulk food section this is one of the most sustainable and economic ways to feed a group of people or an individual we buy all of our staples so your vices and your herbs your teas your oils your nuts and seeds your popcorn raisins your grains your beans your oatmeal and your flour we buy all of this and in the bulk food section of the grocery store and there's many of these all across the United States and we bring our own bags and our own containers and we can actually fill up and so it's a pretty much zero waste way of attaining a pretty good portion of our food it's also one of the least expensive ways to eat and the key is cooking if you take the time to cook it's a lot less expensive so this is where a good portion of our food comes from secondly we started a food rescue program where we actually would pick up the food from a local grocery store that they would normally throw in the dumpster that's still good but they just if you know about our food system in the United States is there is way too much of it and so we rescue that food and that's the way we got about 70% of the food for the household which meant eating very inexpensively while diverting food from the landfill so another fairly sustainable way to eat and then lastly of course growing some of our own food now with this being a new project and starting here with no gardens at the beginning it takes time to be able to do that when we arrived the place was definitely in a state of disarray it had been overgrowing for years there was tons of trash left over from previous remodels and there was just tons of stuff that it accumulated from the previous renters that had lived there so we had to get to work right away to transform the place and one of the things that we did is we organized volunteer days so dozens of volunteers came out and helped us transform the place and in exchange for their work they got to learn how to transform their own place as well through permaculture as well as got to meet many like-minded people it wasn't just work it was a community coming together for this project one of the big things that we did is we replaced all of the lawn all of the grass with mulch to turn it into gardening spaces and to turn it into habitat we opened up space to bring in sunlight so that we could grow food and as much as possible we kept the organic matter on site in order to build soil within a couple of months the place was transformed quite a bit but with the focus on perennials it takes a couple of years to really establish the garden but in six months time it's pretty amazing how much we were able to accomplish this is a pumpkin for example we got some squashes as well and not only eating from our gardens but these are all mangoes that we foraged in the neighborhood there's food growing freely and abundantly all over the place and these are mangoes that all would have gone to waste without us harvesting them so we have a community fridge that's part of our food rescue program we don't just feed ourselves we actually fed the community as well to that program and I'm going to show you that before we head out there just as important as our food is our water and in a lot of cities the water is really polluted it's often pretty toxic so it's important to have pure water good clean drinking water so we use a burky filter and I've been using these since my first tiny house in San Diego and I think they're one of the greatest systems because you can just fill this with a pitcher from the sink and it is one of the best at removing impurities heavy metals and also removes chlorine it can remove fluoride as well with fluoride filters so you put pretty dirty city water into there not dirty but toxic and it comes out as a really good drinking water and they're really pretty inexpensive they have nothing to set up and so this is something that I really recommend for living more sustainably and healthfully absolutely no need for bottled water whatsoever of course so that's a really important thing so speaking of water we have our sink and I want to talk a little bit about some sustainable tips when it comes to water in the house now when it comes to the water and sustainable living in this homestead one of the things that I didn't actually accomplish was gray water and that's as simple as changing the plumbing so that the water goes out to your landscape rather than to the sewer and so every time you're using the sink you can actually be growing fruit with your fruit trees it's a fairly simple thing there are legalities around it but it's a very doable thing but it's one of the things that I just did not manage to do however what you can do is underneath your sink you can simply unscrew the p-trap and put a five gallon bucket there and then take that water and dump it directly into your yard takes no infrastructure or anything of that sort and one really important note is that when you're using gray water whatever toxins you're putting down the drain are going to your land so the key is not having toxins and in this house what we use is a biodegradable plant friendly soap so this soap can go right out to the plants and it actually feeds them and that means not having a toxic thing even if this is still going to the wastewater treatment plant you're not sending toxic stuff to the wastewater treatment plant because toxins don't just go away magically they continue, they persist so we use all gray water plant friendly soaps in all of our bathrooms and in the kitchen and really don't have toxins that were flushing down the toilet like bleach and things like that the same with our laundry detergent so speaking of technology and machines like laundry machines one thing that you'll notice is that this kitchen doesn't have a lot of electronics in it this is where the dishwasher was I took that out and put it in the garage and instead we have a few wash bins and this is a much more efficient usage of water it doesn't use all the electricity we hand wash for me it's about simplicity it's about getting back to the basics sure some people might think that a washing machine is more efficient but when you take into account all that's needed behind that globalized industrialized system and what's going to happen to the washing machine when it's done and it's broken the input is far more than the simplicity of connecting and doing dishes by hand so we have minimal technology not no technology but minimal and right here the microwave used to be and now instead of a microwave I have a song by one of my favorite humans Ticknaut Han and instead of it being a you know a big piece of technology it's a reminder that happiness is here and now and to be present in life and that to me is very meaningful so again we have some technology but it's about minimizing it and reclaiming our humaneness taking back power from these big corporations that want to suck our money out of us and keep us working endlessly and instead again it's about working together with communities simplifying and living more sustainably and that's really what you see in the design of this place you'll also notice that there are no corporate logos or advertising inside the house that's a very intentional choice in order to keep away the subliminal marketing and to take a break from the bombardment of materialism we have garbage cans I'm going to show you into the garbage can and this hurts a little bit but let's take a look there's garbage in the recycling there's been recycling in the garbage sometimes and that's been a challenge of living you know in a community however the goal is definitely not to be zero waste the goal is to drastically reduce the amount of trash that we're making and a lot of the trash that we do make actually comes from our food rescue program stuff that would have already been thrown away so the key really is that we don't have to do a perfect job but the times that we're living in we know that we have to strive for more and we have to strive for a lot more what you will see and you'll notice though is there is no food waste no biodegradables in the garbage can and that right here we keep a bucket inside the house and we simply bring this out when it's full we just swap it out with a clean bucket and then all food waste is composted to build healthy soil so none of that is sent to the landfill and you'll see we have instructions here for how to compost recycle and trash and all of the food waste heads out to the garden where it is turned into soil and I'm going to take you out there and on the way out I'm also going to show you the community fridge so we're one step from outside in the garden so just on the way out to the compost I wanted to stop at our community fridge which is in the garage this is open for people to come in and out of we have a select group of people that come and then they distribute this food out to more people in the community that don't otherwise have access to healthy food there's not a lot in here right now it's fairly empty at this moment it ebbs and flows sometimes it's stocked full and sometimes it's pretty empty the idea of this is that we are feeding our household through this food rescue program where we rescue the food that would have otherwise been thrown away from the grocery store and at the same time we have our community fridge where we've been able to distribute thousands of pounds of food to people in the community wow and I'm actually being swarmed by mosquitoes right now in the garage it's really crazy the Florida summers are difficult but so yeah this is the community fridge and then I want to show you another community thing right over here and that's the community bikes so these are our community bikes and we had what 1, 2, 3, 4 we had about 8 bikes here before but as we had less people we downsized it so we've got 6 bikes right now and the idea is really simple I mean if you want to get away from the fossil fuels and you want to live more sustainably then cycling is absolutely one of the biggest keys to that and so we have these communal bikes where anybody living in the house can use them and if we have guests over we can use them and having these bikes is absolutely key and this little system of just hanging them on the wall is a really simple way to store them so that you maximize your space so it is very hot out right now and I'm only wearing this shirt because we're filming otherwise I wouldn't be wearing a shirt right now that's kind of one of the keys to adapting is that when it's really hot just minimal clothes as needed so this is our composting we have 2 active compost bins here normally what you see here would be filled with our carbon source now to tell you just a little bit about composting, composting is just letting the earth do the work that it's always done putting our food in the landfill is saying to the earth you can't do what you always done there's not oxygen there that's not how things break down it's toxic to the earth to put our food waste into a landfill instead simply by putting it into a compost pile you've got basically the trick is just for every bucket of food waste you have about 2 buckets of a carbon source like wood chips for example it really is as simple as that I mean you can go really deeply complex with composting you can keep it really simple and just let the earth do the work that it's done for a very long time so from this compost spot this is where all of our food waste is composted it's where the compost from our food rescue program and our community compost program goes but we've rescued thousands of pounds of food waste so we can't compost all of that here and it's gone to other sites as well but the big thing is keeping food waste out of the landfill and regenerating our soil, regenerating our earth so I'm going to show you a couple of other things that well actually I can leave the bucket finally here is where we store sawdust sawdust is a waste product that we get from a saw mill or a wood mill that produces things from wood and we use this in our compost toilet which you'll see in a minute and then a cardboard is another waste product we use this for sheet mulching for turning yards into gardens and then here's all of our buckets for our community compost program which today is Friday so I actually have to head out and do our community compost program in a bit now I'm going to take you over to speaking of waste I'm going to take you over to the compost toilet I think of this as a bit of a revolutionary thing for our society you know if you think about it people they flush their poop which we call waste down the toilet and it becomes someone else's problem and it is a problem the way that we deal with our poop is a big problem that's causing serious issues for our waterways and depleting our soils the compost toilet on the other hand is a solution we turn this poop all these nutrients into fertile compost that we can actually grow food with so we're taking the problem into a solution and even better what I love about this compost toilet is I actually grow my own toilet paper this is one of my absolute favorite plants this is Plecranthus Barbatus or the blue spur flower among other names and it's in the mint family so first of all this toilet paper has a really nice fragrance to it but more importantly it's very soft in fact it's one of the softest plants that I really know of I mean I mean it's a great toilet paper but now I'm thinking about it's actually just a nice little wipe the sweat off the face because it's so soft that's a new use for it but it grows abundantly and you know it takes just a couple of sticks and then you have enough toilet paper for a whole family or a whole small community to be able to use so it's a beautiful plant and what's great about it I'll show you if you want to come inside we've got the compost toilet itself here and the toilet paper sits right here now we also have your you know your standard toilet paper but we do at least get a more eco-friendly one than some of the stuff out there but I've primarily just used this and what's cool about this plant as well is that can sit here next to the toilet for up to a week after it comes off so it's great for taking camping and things as well so we have a basic system here we've got pee and poop and then we've got sawdust so in this one you sit to go pee and then we use this water it's pee in a bucket of water that's diluted and then we use that for watering the plants here you go poop and then after you go poop you take a handful of sawdust and put that over the poop and the key to a successful compost toilet is making sure that you use enough of a carbon material like sawdust that you cover it completely and it's dry and I'm sitting in here and I have no smell at all I could definitely talk about poop for a very long time but all that to say our poop you know doesn't go to the wastewater treatment plant it is composted to make compost in order to be able to grow more food and I think it's about time to get to the garden finally that's what some of you will be excited about so out of the compost toilet to the garden so this is the outdoor shower my top preference for an outdoor shower is actually rain water but this is just hooked up to a hose just using municipal water but the beautiful thing about this outdoor shower is that rather than this going to a wastewater treatment plant this water actually waters the plants as you shower so as we're showering we're growing turmeric and these are some wonderful little everglades tomatoes that I just harvested from about three feet from the shower and the shower is actually on an old stump that's sitting there so it's a nice natural stump that you stand on the shower raining down over you and then watering the garden at the same time so we also harvest rain water off of the house to reduce the total amount of water that we're using from the city we collect as much as we can from the house we have rain water harvesting on two of the four corners of the house and the more water that you can harvest the more independent you can become of the systems that are sucking our wells and our rivers dry and no need for chemicals at all just pure water coming from the sky so there's two systems the 55 gallon drums here you can generally buy these for about $25 or $15 and then we have the 275 gallon IBC totes this is my preferred method you know it's about five of these drums equals one of these totes and so 275 gallons goes a pretty long way what I like about these is they actually have a spigot on the bottom which opens wide up and you can fill five gallon buckets out of there really quickly in order to be able to water the gardens so rain water harvesting is again it's one of these things that some people think is really complicated but we just had downspouts and all I did to get the water into here is I got a chunk of a gutter and then I just strapped it onto there and I just directed it into this tote so it's simply a matter of directing water into your whatever bins or buckets that you're storing water in. Rainwater harvesting can be very complex or it can be made very simple I'm going to show you the worm bin which is one of the little pieces of magic that there is on the property it's just right over here I'm actually new to keeping worms I just started this about three months ago and I learned from a good friend of mine Albert Reisenberg who's really a pretty much a worm expert these days and what I'm going to show you is how to turn food waste like this into black gold like this super nutrient rich worm castings that are just work wonders on the garden so you've got your food waste and that turns into this amazing stuff so I only open the worms once a month and I feed them two buckets, two five gallon or so buckets of food waste so let's take a look in here I just open them up once a month on about the full moon and then just look at that so we've got some sprouts here but what you can see on the top here is what I'm talking about when I talk about this black gold so that's just pure worm castings right on top just right ready to harvest and the system that Albert taught me is once a month adding two buckets of the right ideal food waste which is really easy to digest mild food for them you pull this back you put it down on the bottom on the bottom you have bedding like nice fine wood chip stuff and then you have your buckets of food waste and then you put this onto the top so basically the worms actually put most of their castings at the top they poop at the top and then you're able to harvest this black gold worm castings right off the top so we're talking another way that on this little homestead we're turning a wasted resource something other people don't want into a really just beautiful resource for growing food it's time to finally show you the garden which I know is something that probably a lot of you are the most excited about and something that I'm the most excited about and one of the greatest parts about homesteading is breaking free from the global industrial food system actually growing our own food and growing an abundance of it right on site where we can share it with our family our friends and our community so to start with this is one of the herb gardens we've got four different types of basil blue basil, Thai basil columnar basil, your standard genovese basil, we've got Cuban oregano and your standard oregano we've got mint and we've got lemon balm and over here we've got wonderful lemon grass I have this situated right next to the back porch the reason being is this is the easiest access to the kitchen great place to put your herb garden is as close to the kitchen as possible so you can always come out and get fresh herbs and one of the herb gardens here moving over here this is our turmeric and ginger garden as well as taro and melanga so we have nine different varieties of turmeric and ginger here and turmeric and ginger are pretty easy to grow in Florida the focus of all these gardens is to grow what grows really easily the things that don't have a lot of pests the things that can handle droughts they really take care of themselves and we focus a lot on perennials rather than annuals coming this way one thing you'll notice is that our raised beds use logs rather than buying materials we're using we cut down some trees on the property in order to let in some sunlight and we use those to make our beds so in here we have a lot more lemon grass over we've got a lot of papaya that grows really well here different perennial spinach over here is the everglades tomato that I mentioned here is habanero pepper that's growing nice hot spicy pepper and then we've got amaranths behind me is meringa so this is one of the most special things you have on site when you are in a semi-tropical place and the key to growing food is to work within your environment if you're watching this video and you're in Wisconsin or New York or Washington you can grow an abundance of food there it's just not necessarily going to be the same things that are being grown here over here you can see the bananas what's key is to plants that need a lot of water those are located right next to the farm because the overflow can go to there so I'm going to take you over to the side of the house where we have a living wall fence and then out to the front of the house so here we've created a living fence and you'll notice on the other side of this fence there's a lot growing as well so the six months that I've been here I've actually done a work exchange and I've permacultured out both of these properties in exchange for the rent here what we have going here is which you can eat these when they're young like a zucchini or you can wait until they get older, dried out and then you actually get sponges and then you can use these for washing dishes, washing your compost buckets again this garden is developing, it's on the younger side but we've got grapes and if you come on down a little further there is passion fruit growing over here as well and so the idea is to create a living beautiful fence that's actually producing food so using vertical space is one of the keys to producing a lot of food in urban or suburban environments often so yeah we'll keep on heading up to the front so we are in the front yard garden and it's summertime in Florida and so one of the things that I do usually is I grow cover crops so I have amaranth here I have a couple of types of amaranth my sweet potato which produces delicious greens as well as big fat sweet potatoes and then I've got southern peas all of these cover the ground for the heat of the summer and can tolerate and thrive in the heat of the summer so that's what I generally do in the summer is I have my cover crops over here this is the beginning of a banana circle and the downspout behind me actually comes under the ground and dumps the water out there so that's a passive form of rainwater harvesting the front of the house is really designed for the community to bring in the community to interact with the community and to be of service to the community this is the community compost drop off site so for people that want to compost we give them a clean bucket and they fill it with their food scraps and then they can swap it out for a clean one and bring their food scraps for us to compost we also have a bicycle powered compost program where we swap out buckets with people who are filling their bucket with food scrap in the community here is a community fruit tree people can come and freely access the fruit and the idea is to help people see that fruit can be growing freely and abundantly all around us and then if you come right over here this is the free seed library and we have put eleven of these up into the community if you want to come take a look at it we have twelve different seeds that are ideal for the growing conditions right now that are available and then down here is a seed exchange where people can add their own seeds so the idea of the free seed library is to provide seeds to people to help them grow their own food to empower them and to help them take that next step towards food sovereignty and then what you'll see all around is this whole front yard is full of wild flowers and the idea is that this is a pollinator friendly bee and butterfly area to bring in pollinators and to provide habitat for other important species as well as I mean flowers in the front yard is a really beautiful place to have them and then we're going to end right at the beautiful Magnolia tree which is oh actually before that right here this is part of the free seed project demonstration garden so everything that's growing in here are seeds that come through our free seed packs and so this is the basil pack there's five different types of basil growing in here alright so this is the Magnolia tree that sits right in the front of the yard and it really is one of the most peaceful spots the shade that's casted here makes it the coolest spot of the yard and I can sit out here and really just enjoy the shade and gotta be honest that was a long tour took about four hours to film this just now so I'm feeling a little bit exhausted but I'm so happy to have been able to share this place with you again this place is six months so this is an example of what can be done in just six months time now there was a lot of help from volunteers that went into creating this a whole team of people that lived here that helped create this place and it takes time and it takes work to create something like this but it is possible to step away from this consumeristic model and live in a more sustainable more communal more at service to the community way the truth is that of course this is not sustainable the whole world could not possibly live this way with resources but it is so much less destructive than the mainstream way of living so there's so much that we can do to shift our lifestyles and one thing I just want to talk a little bit about is that it took a community to bring this together and I give so much thanks to every single person who was a part of this and also at the same time want to apologize because this was an incredible amount of work and my biggest my biggest task this year what this year has turned out to be so far this six months has been learning to work with others it's been learning to live in a communal way and that's been hard for me and so working with a team and living together in this place has been really one one of the most difficult things I've done in quite some time I've definitely been taking feedback and I've definitely been working to get better at communication that leaves everybody uplifted rather than you know feeling exhausted and the opposite of uplifted sometimes so that being said communal living is hard I've really yet to find a place where it just flows easily even places that have been around for decades communities that have been around for decades it's really difficult so I just want to give that little bit of advice and knowledge on that it's definitely far from all easy it's definitely far from getting out of the rat race just results in bliss no life is hard life takes work no matter which way that you're doing it and living in a more communal way living in harmony with the earth it takes going against the grain of society and it takes really deeply self-reflecting on the way that we interact with other people with other species in this earth so it's you know it's a road it's a tough road but it's a worthwhile road in order to shift our ways but again one bit at a time it's not a matter of getting to the point of a regenerative lifestyle overnight it's work and it's one bit at a time and so I encourage you whatever you've learned today what you've been inspired by start those things into your life start adapting start changing one bit at a time to live in a more equitable just and sustainable way so I love you all so much I'm glad that we got to spend this 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QuickBooks Online 2022 Inventory Tracking Options. Get ready because it's go time with QuickBooks Online 2022. Here we are in our Get Great Guitars practice file that we set up with a 30-day free trial, holding control, scrolling up just a bit to get to that 1, 2, 5 percent. We're currently in the home page, otherwise known as the Get Things Done page. At least with regards to the business view, which we are in as opposed to the accounting view, if you wanted to change to the accounting view, you can do by going to the cog dropdown and going to the switch to the accounting view on down below. We might be toggling back and forth from here to the sample company file just so you can take a look at what the accounting view looks like in comparison fairly quickly. So now we want to think about the different options you have for the inventory options. Remember, our goal is to get our beginning balances into the system. We are imagining that these are our beginning balances that we want to put in the system. We want to lay down those foundational things that need to be laid down before we can start entering the current transactions in the current time period, typically done by hitting the plus button and entering the forms like invoices, estimates, the expenses, the bills, the checks, and the so on and the so forth. So we're going through these items. We're going to be entering them in and we're going to start with one of the more difficult items here. That's going to be the inventory items right here. Now when we look at it here, we're just seeing the imbalance of the inventory items, which in essence is the cost of the inventory items. So if I was just going to put it on the financial statements, I could just debit inventory or increase the inventory account. But if I'm tracking inventory within the system, that's not going to be good enough because I also want to be tracking the units of the inventory that we have and the cost of those units that we have as well. So we can track it on a perpetual inventory system. So the question then is how am I tracking inventory? Am I tracking inventory on an accrual basis, which it would be indicated that I am here by the fact that I have some number up top in the inventory because if I was on a cash basis, the inventory is something that forces us usually to move from a cash basis to an accrual basis because on a cash basis I would have just expensed the inventory when I purchased it. So I have it on the books as an asset, meaning I'm not going to use it. I'm not going to expense it until the point in time that I sell the inventory, which is kind of an accrual thing to do. If it's on an accrual basis, then the question is, well, am I doing a periodic inventory system or a perpetual inventory system? If you use a periodic inventory system, then possibly you're not tracking the inventory within the QuickBooks system, but rather you're keeping track of it possibly in an Excel worksheet or something like that, you are then checking it periodically, possibly once a day or once a week, once a month possibly, and then you're adjusting for the adjustments that have happened on a periodic basis, just entering an adjusting transaction into the QuickBooks system on a periodic basis. So that one is a little bit easier in that at least for the setup process within the QuickBooks system, a perpetual inventory system, which is what we'll practice with here, would mean that you're listing out the inventory items that you're selling in QuickBooks, telling QuickBooks what the cost of those inventory items are. QuickBooks then is going to be recording the decrease to the inventory every time you enter a sales item, which is going to be the invoice or the sales receipt. So that means every time I go over here and I enter an invoice or a sales receipt, QuickBooks will know what the cost is driven by the items and will reduce the items for that cost and record everything basically as we go. So when you go to a grocery store, clearly you only see the sales price for the thing that gets rung up, but the system is set up so it's also recorded in the decrease in the inventory and the cost it gets sold on a perpetual inventory method. So let's take a look quickly at our flow chart over here. This is the desktop flow chart, but it's just a good flow chart to look at in terms of the process of the revenue cycle and how inventory might fit into it. And it also has the forms that are basically the same forms online. So let's just take a look at the flow. Now, the easiest thing on inventory would be to say, hey, look, what I'm going to do is just record the expense when I buy the inventory.  Like if you're doing jobs for something or something like that and you kind of expense the inventory items at the point in time that you purchased them and you're going to complete the job fairly soon or something like that or if your turnaround time on the inventory is so small that you're just going to basically buy the custom inventory purchase and then sell it right away, then the easiest thing to do might be then to just record the cost of the inventory as basically cost of goods sold when you make the purchase, thereby not doing the whole accrual thing, making it a little bit easier. So when you pay for the inventory with like a check, then you might just record it to cost of goods sold and then when you record the invoice, what would happen is the item that you could use would be like a non-tracking inventory item and it would just record a normal kind of sale. So in other words, if I went into my items over here that we set up in the get paid area, the get paid section, if we set up our items and close up the hamburger and you set up a new item, you might set it up as a non-inventory because you're not tracking the inventory within the system even though it's a physical inventory type of unit so it wouldn't be doing a perpetual inventory system within QuickBooks and then when you recorded the invoice or the sales receipt with the little plus button entering the invoice, it would just record the side of the transaction you typically see when you go to a register, the sales side of the transaction wouldn't record a reduction in the inventory and it would cost a good sold part of the transaction at the point the sale takes place. So that would be the easiest method but if you have any significant inventory then you can't really use that method and you have to track the inventory. So then the next kind of easiest method, at least from the setup process standpoint would be to say I'm not going to use a perpetual inventory system tracking the inventory within QuickBooks but rather I'm going to use a periodic inventory system which means that when I purchase the inventory, I'm just going to record it as a purchase but I'm not going to track the units within the system. I'm just going to say hey I paid $100 for it and record a credit to cash but to inventory now instead of cost a good sold now it's going on the books as inventory but I'm just going to record it in terms of the dollar amount I'm going to track the units of inventory on a separate worksheet the units of inventory I'm going to track in Excel or something like that and I'm going to do my standard cost a good sold kind of calculation for the inventory and I'm going to count the inventory periodically so at the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of the year I'm going to do something like say well here's my beginning balance and then I purchased this amount of inventory that gives me my inventory available for sale and then I'm going to count the inventory at the end of the period, the day, the week, the year and subtract that out from the inventory available and the difference is going to be my cost of good sold which I will then make an adjusting entry for so then periodically I'm going to go into the QuickBooks system and just enter an adjusting inventory not tracking the units within QuickBooks but just doing an adjusting entry to account for that periodic system on a periodic basis daily, weekly, monthly or something like that that's the second easiest way that you can do that now note you also have to kind of figure out what your flow assumption is going to be do you have specific identification or are you using first in, first out, last in, first out, weighted average you need to know those flow assumptions whether you are doing inventory inside the system or outside because there's going to be variance in the cost of the inventory over time especially if you're in a period of inflation where the cost will possibly be rising over time and you've got to know well how am I going to deal with that when I sell the inventory which inventory unit did I sell did I sell the one that I purchased at the lower cost or the one at the higher cost for that you need to know the flow assumptions and the flow assumption within QuickBooks is going to be a first in, first out flow assumption for online the desktop version uses the weighted average you might have more inventory flexibility if you're going to level up to the advanced version of inventory, inventory complexity being one of those things that often forces people to level up on their subscription for QuickBooks and then we can say okay well the most accurate or the most intensive inventory tracking that we'll use here is that we're going to use a perpetual inventory system and so now when we purchase the inventory with a bill or a check we're not only going to say inventory accounts going to go up but we're also going to track the units within the QuickBooks system so we're going to say this is the unit that I bought this is how much I paid for it per unit and this is the total dollar amount that's in the system so now the system not only knows what the inventory dollar amount would be in total but also the units and so on and then every time I create an invoice and a sales receipt now the system is recording a perpetual inventory system and it's doing it for us if we set up the system correctly meaning that every time we enter this it's not only going to record the sale side but also decrease the inventory and record the related cost of goods sold so that would mean when we set up these items if I go back to the products and services when we set up these items we're going to be setting up the inventory items here which are more complex you can see the data input for them are more complex because I need to give the cost and the sales price and so on related to it that's what we will set up so that's the basics on the inventory in general so what we're going to do here in our system is imagine that we're going to do a perpetual inventory system kind of the more difficult type of system tracking the inventory within the system and the first thing we need to do with this beginning balance number then is not just enter the beginning balance but also tell us what units those beginning balance represent so we can enter into the system how many units we currently have on hand in the beginning balance to then give the supporting documentation the sub ledger the sub report related to inventory that's what we'll do next time


The USA visa portal that is your travel docs website is moving to a new portal and a new platform from 22nd of July 2023 and in this video we will cover everything that you need to know about this change and the exact steps that you have to take right now keep on watching. Hi guys my name is Shachi and I am a travel and visa coach. On this channel you will find lots of useful videos on the US visa process. We have playlist for almost every visa category so make sure to check it out. We also have tons of free resources to help you in your visa preparation so the links for all of that is in the description box below. So the USA visa services in India is all set to move to a new system. Earlier this move was planned for 15th of July 2023 but there were some delays and now the new date is 22nd of July 2023 that is this month just a few days from today. Now before we understand the new system and the changes let's take a quick look at what the old system looks like. So this is what your current CJF federal or the travel docs website looks like and once you have filled your DS160 form and you have submitted it this is where you come and this is where you land. Now here is where you need to create your profile you need to pay the visa fees and then book the appointment. A very important part of this portal right now is the update profile section which you will see on the left side and update profile is where all the important details of your profile that is your name, address, passport number, DS160 confirmation number are there in fact many of these fields are editable right now that means even after you've created and submitted your profile you can go back and edit many of these fields but all of this is set to change with the new system coming in this entire portal is going to look very different and also the access and the control you have with respect to what you can change and what you cannot change is also going to be different. Now before that happens there are certain steps you need to take to make sure that the fee you have paid and all the data you have entered migrate smoothly to the new system and you do not lose anything. So let's look at what are these exact steps. So the first thing you need to take care of is your US visa fees. So if you've paid the US visa fees but you've not yet entered the receipt number in your profile then you need to do this before 19th of July 2023 basically any fee that is paid needs to be linked to the profile and that is when the payment becomes active and allows you to book a slot. So right here on the screen you will see the screenshot and a box where this receipt number needs to be entered. So if you've paid the visa fees then look up the receipt number and enter it right here in your profile and make sure that the payment is linked. The second thing you need to take care of is your DS160 form. Now like we just saw earlier that in the update profile section in your CJR portal there is a field called DS160 confirmation number. Now this number needs to match the actual form that you're going to submit. So right now the number might be an old number you have used or it might be a dummy number that you have used for booking the appointment. If that is the case make sure that before the system moves to a new portal the correct DS160 number is updated for your profile. So you might have to start a new form or you might already be working on the new form but you've not yet linked the number to the profile. So double check this and make sure that whatever DS160 form you're filling right now or you have already submitted the same number is updated right here in the profile under the DS160 confirmation section. Third thing you need to take care of is email ID of dependents. So if you're booking a visa appointment with your dependents then each dependent also has a profile and that profile needs an email ID. So it's recommended that you give individual email IDs. Right now you might have given your email ID or maybe a common email ID but make sure that individual email IDs are updated for each of the person applying for a USA visa appointment. So these are three really important steps that you need to take care of to make sure that all the data is correct and it migrates smoothly to the new system. Now another really important thing to understand here is what the future or the new system might look like. Now the CJF Federal website or the US Trial Docs website in India in fact looks very different from other countries. So with the new system it's probably or it's likely that they move to a uniform system which looks similar as in the other countries and this means that you might not have a lot of access of control which is there right now. One such example is your DS160 number. So in a lot of countries outside India once you submit the DS160 form you cannot update it you cannot change it and maybe those same things are applied in India as well. Well we are yet to get full information on this once the new system comes into place and we really test it out try it out we'll get a sense of what are the changes that are actually happening but at this point of time just want you to know that pay a lot of attention to your DS160 form and maybe in the new system you might not be able to edit it. So before you submit it check it thoroughly verify it and make sure that all the details are in place. In fact if you need help with filling the DS160 form or getting it reviewed you can reach out to us the link for this is in the description box right below. Also I wanted to cover an update about refuse slots so we get a lot of emails and messages from you asking about when the refused slots are going to open and this is for people who have given the interview in 2023 but want to give it another try. Well from the trends that we are seeing over the last couple of months it's highly likely that these refuse slots are going to open soon. All the slots this year have opened much faster compared to the previous intake so I would say that somewhere around end of July is when you can expect these slots to open up and the interview dates would again range from end of July to about mid of August. So if you're waiting for the refusal slots just keep a close watch we also are going to update once these slots open and meanwhile keep up your preparation make sure your DS160 is ready your answers are structured and you're practicing them. So these are the important updates I wanted to cover so just a quick video to bring you up to speed with what changes you can expect in the coming days and the steps that you should take right now. We have more content coming up for the F1 Visa series so make sure to subscribe and stay tuned and also for in-depth preparation feel free to reach out. We have various preparation plans we have core and seven-day packages we have one-to-one sessions and mocks and all of these are going to help you get ready for your visa process. The link for all of this is in the description box do take a look and signing off for now I'll see you in the next one. Bye


We all know that sustainability is a long and continuous journey. ST has been on this journey for over 30 years now. During this time, we have invested to reduce emissions, reuse water, recycle waste, and progressively switch to renewable energy sources. We are committed to reach carbon neutrality by 2027 on company-owned direct and indirect emissions, Scope 1 and 2, and be partially neutral on emissions generated by all of the external activities, Scope 3. We are on track to meet these goals. The solar panels and the wind farms in Grenoble, Catania and Boscora are contributing to this, generating 53 gigawatt-hours in 2023. Another target is to use 100% renewable energy by 2027. Last year, we reached over 70% use of renewable energy. And to go further, we signed in November our biggest agreement on renewable energy to date with ERG, a leading European independent producer of energy from renewable sources. This is a 15-year power purchase agreement for the supply of renewable energy to our operations in Italy. At ST, we are putting sustainability at the heart of our new product developments. For example, as you have just seen, our new STM32U0 was designed to significantly decrease the power consumption and associated carbon footprint of the product that uses it. In a typical water meter application, the decrease in power consumption by up to 50% helps reduce the lifetime environmental impact of the meter and can allow it to stay a lot longer in the field. We are improving our social and environmental footprint at every stage of the product lifecycle. As part of this, we have calculated the carbon footprint for all of our STM32 family. We are able to provide you with an environmental assessment for each STM32 device, covering everything from raw material extraction, wafer fabrication, dive packaging, and testing through to the moment it shipped from ST. And if you want to calculate your own product lifecycle assessment, we can also support you with data on the use of the STM32 in your application. We also have many other important initiatives. One such is our circular economy waste management program. Our objective here is to certify all our manufacturing sites on the UL2799 standard, which requires at least 90% of waste to be converted through methods other than incineration to achieve our zero waste to landfill target. We believe that technology innovation plays a vital role in facing today's societal and environmental challenges. And we know you have many ideas to create advanced applications embedding the STM32 that will help solving them. We are here to support you on this so that we can continue to accelerate sustainability together.


General citation guidelines can be found in the Navigating Digital Teaching Collections page of the Special Collections Digital Teaching Collections Research Guide. MLA calls for seven cited elements, creator, date of creation, title, collection name, repository name, date accessed, and a citable URL. Regardless of the type of item, there will always be a click for detail section below the image screen. Clicking on that will open up a list of additional information about the resource, data that we will use to create a citation. Sometimes, this process is very straightforward. Take this image, for example, which would be cited as follows, title, inaugural parade, 1973, creator, capital and logo, creation date, 1973, collection, University of Tennessee Knoxville Special Collections, the access date would be whatever you viewed the resource, which would be August 18th, 2020 in this case, and the URL appears at the top of the browser. Unfortunately, not all resources will have all seven elements available, and there may be some confusion over what exactly to cite. This short comic, for example, is not as straightforward as other resources might be. We can see clearly the creation date, title, and repository, and, of course, we'll have the access date and URL. There doesn't appear to be a clear creator, though, and we're given two different collection names. For the purposes of MLA, a publisher or copyright holder cannot stand in in the place of creator, unless there is a label saying photographer, author, illustrator, creator, et cetera, the creator is considered anonymous, and that element is left off the citation. Also, when you're using digital collections, that is the type of collection name that goes in your citation, not as to key fob or papers in this instance, but key fob or crime documents. So these are the final citations we end up with.


In general, and I think this is very much related to all the questions dealt with in the discussion on open access, there's a huge issue about inequality among scholars and the question whether you are affiliated with a very powerful institution that has money or not. And in particular if you are a junior scholar because you need to be published and you need to be able to access the work of other scholars. So if articles are not open access then you can't access them when you are not a member of a powerful institution. And at the same time, if you want to be open access that means to be read and there is an article processing fee for your article to become open access. That's another problem because how can you afford to pay 2000 euros or 3000 euros for an article to be published? And actually I think this is outrageous because I might be on a salary if I'm lucky. Then I'm doing my work and then I'm writing my article and then I'm doing all the editing and everything. Most of it I do myself and I do language editing. I pay it from my own pocket and so on and so on. The editors of the journal work for free. They organize the peer review. The peer reviewers work for free. And then somebody is collecting so much money for the journal so I think that is outrageous. In particular if you are in a junior stage you can't escape this system because you need to read the articles, the relevant articles in your field and you need to publish in high-ranking journals. So what we really need is a kind of resolution where we kind of let the system implode. And another point I could imagine where, but this is really something also we need to learn more about as scholars. I could imagine where open access could work is this idea I have heard about that you can access kind of the research data which underlies the research. And here I'm talking from the perspective of a qualitative researcher, kind of anthropology is in between humanities and quantitative social science. We do qualitative stuff, but often we rely on quantitative stuff. For instance my field of in health there's a lot of quantitative stuff I need to pay attention to. So if I could read an article and in the way how I can access other articles through a PDF, if I could access statistics and stuff like that, I could imagine that that could help a lot. In particular to create a kind of interdisciplinary dialogue. Sometimes I could imagine that we need a bit more help here, kind of that it is translated to us from other disciplines. So that there could be an intermediary step where we can access the data, but where it is kind of prepared in a way that other disciplines understand it better. When it comes to sharing of original data among qualitative researchers, I doubt whether this will really happen. Because this is very idiosyncratic, very sensitive, there are huge ethical issues. Even right now where we save the research on our own computers and disks and so on and so on. So there's a long way to go. But in between there are so many products we have, kind of intermediary working products so to speak. And I could imagine if this is kind of stored in a safe way, then that could be useful. If I think about all the stuff people do work in historical archives or whatever. Or secondary analysis of interviews. Like for instance if you have interviewed a group of people and they are no longer alive or so. And you want to compare them with a cohort from today. And then you could compare the interviews. That would be fantastic if that would be possible. Thank you very much.


Thank you guys so much Karibuni sana wa pek delicacies tu kohapa kawanda street na mamangina so ikona entrance pandeya ambele na pandeya nyuma kawanda street on this side on this side we are on mamangina right opposite international house natu kwa pandanya quince way house chinini absa bank katikati ni wa pek delicacies ju ni bank bado congratulations heavy jay baba la ngatawana thank you so much how you feeling umweza kwanya you know such a good thing to know na entira deko hi komzuri sana see me me isi restaurant yang this is not my restaurant this is my wife's project it will be bad if i took the credit when it's not actually my work this is my wife's project this is amena's project she's wanted to open a restaurant for at the longest time and i supported her to open this one yes perfect now you know i'm i'm curious to know this time round you've decided you know she's she's going to be in the public eye you know kwelezea about the i don't i don't think i don't think you shall still see her everywhere but she's always just a humble person yes she never likes all this media inojiwa kwenyumba kama kuna mutu moja a kukulein je mutu mungine lazima a kwe ametuliza so this is her project and she decided she decorated everything she decided on everything she made this place the way it is everything that you can see here is my wife's project now you see i mean she's not here but you probably know what was the inspiration behind the inspiration behind it is a lot of it traditional traditional look and give it an african look come on on as kamba ukuju mauteo wapi that is the feeling that she wanted to give because here is authentically traditional kenyan food so we wanted to give it that kenyan feel suno nata iki tibado kuna kitenge apa nini bitukama iti yeah so why traditional african food because there are many other you know type of food that of course yes there's a lot of continental foods around this place then we have so many hotels in the cbd and if you can see and know very well a lot of hotels in the cbd size zimechukulewa na the Somali community all of them are serving the Somali delicacy so very few hotels in in in the cbd wanna patewa to that authentic feeling of we are having traditional african food and that is a story about wapek delicacies wapek simply means we are heavy heavy jay baba wapek we are wapek we are heavy on on traditional food we are heavy on good drinks we are heavy on good vibes we are heavy on on we are heavy on good music yani just creating something awesome yes yani fidi kama delasti mi suali uteza kutu jibu lakini how much you know budget liyengi ako e hoteli how much one of us it's very very expensive first to get a get a room like this in the cbd is very very expensive kwa sababu the good wills good will alone would run to almost five million shenens it's crazy good will alone yani before rent kama is in yubando gondogu zamashopukuni but it's also not even about the money it is about the experience want to create that supersedes how much has been used to be for us here but i want to tell you when you come to a pek you'll feel much more at home you'll feel the best of african delicacies that supersedes our our happiness is when people feel good more than what we spent here yes at the end of the day is a business and a business you have to invest we have seen your tbt photos and you say this is your wife's project we believe that your wife's cooking skills that top skills that's why it's known on we call heavy jam no number one my wife is from coast so she cooks so well all right do kwa sababu ni menona hivi kama nyama yangoima and i want to appreciate amina for being the good cook she is but then you see she's big in the coastal coastal food but with time she's come to learn and know but the most important thing is that she's not cooking here we've got some of the best chefs in the local delicacies so it's not even her cooking but she has a touch of what she wants and what she wants people to feel and i think okay your lunch on me today so you guys will feel it then after that you'll be able to tell me she's done well you've been uh i do understand you understand very well sobhi is an entertainment uh in kenya are we expecting a live uh uh band performance are we expecting entertainment what kind of entertainment are we expecting all right all right you see you now this other side because the the bar is here my wife is muslim tulipigana sana for me to be able to even convince her that we'll need a bar here but since what what a kaha papakal late night kuna what wato akisha kula samakia ke anataka teremushe na pills na baridi amu weke black label apokidogo we had a long long fight and uh eventually we agree we have other business partners that we are with here and uh we all agreed that you know what let's do this you understand so apa kutakuna entertainment i'm planning to have comedy nights here i'm planning to have uh uh band band kicheza hapa a lot of traditional music and a lot and that's what wapek is all about project jalango you already spending quite a lot of money on your campaign and what sacrifice have you made to make sure that your campaign is still running nahi project which is very big you spend a lot of money is still running at the same time my money is not running here it's my wife's project if you listen from the word go she's the one who's put this together it'll be bad if i took credit that ah this is her project and i'm not going to take uh credit on it then we have other business partners who've partnered with us in this project so uh mimi sija wekata and ururu apa and uh i've just supported my wife in this project and her friends and her business partners stories na wakatu lieka postia delikasi what you are li kushambulia sanapali na congratulation messages did you expect that from uh fellow artists people from all the all over country will you know when you post anything you don't know how people will react so i never post and start looking at oh we are mesemani ni we are mesemani ni bro i have 2.6 million followers kani imagine messages zime kuja na ni ni but i thank everyone who sent a congratulatory message who said uh they appreciate at the end of the day we just want to inspire people want to create a space where people can see much more people can know you as an artist as a comedian but the other things that you can do they look back and say you know we are inspired that's it you know there's a narrative just that uh you know goes out kulein je watu anastemanga your friends actually don't support you in your business if they know it's yours do you agree with that ni ni i really don't think so you guys are my friends you're ready here to support me as much as me do na wanunulia lunch obin has been here come in is gonna come here masi from divine collection has been here chero from abansheva has been here uh christine courier has been here begti kiyalo is gonna be here i think my friends are the one supporting me if you look and turn this side these are my friend i think 90 of the people come here today are just my friends if you see all those tables those are my friends my wife's friends are here are all here and and uh these are the people they work with baba will be the person to open this place in the next few baba must come here and eat fish baba will come yes johu my friend will come zero zero one himself will come because some of my friends who cannot let me down yeah do you do you actually want to say that if your friends don't support you you might be the problem no no if your friends don't support you they are not your friends you are not the problem they are not your friends you've just been thinking that they are your friends kumbe they are acquaintance because some people sometimes it's your friends who want even to let you down they if you make a step in your life they are friends of yours who will want to pull you down but it's up to you as a person to keep pushing to give them the best so that your friends who are enemies or haters like me i have so many friends i can't even count on haters as the last i don't even have haters i have my people who call themselves haters are my friends who are confused the love is too much that they don't know even how to do with it bro that's the plan as i'm telling you sir we are going for nominations i have four other guys competing against me for the odm ticket we've done our best and me the best candidate way so fast so good manifesto atu ame pakelea vizuri ame uno naji iko sawa kabsa yeah sasani to the best candidate way because we wish you all the best uh just to add on that umekokit after we jama password password finally to monapale kwa incestorium empata kana password you know guys were saying that if jalango was not busy sai password ange kwa ko ashafi kataari but you're ready working on it to do something for him bigger than that yeah i expect to see password as a face of uh the hotel i think he will come and enjoy some food here apart the real password thank you guys i appreciate it yeah uh recently niliweka postpale ko social media nani kaseyama mafans um wasani wana ingi ako hawa fanyi shobiz akune le celebrity shobiz culture wewa uli pakelea vipi na moni ako nipi it's not about not having a shobiz culture number one there's no show that's the problem you can't have the what shobiz mean show business understand so kenya there's a show but there's no business there are people you want to talk to but pahaliwa kwa at that time aiku balik mitu labda ame kodeshagari ana kujya kwa show haja lipoa nini kuna vitu mingi changamoto mingis ana wasani wa kenya una petia inyukitaka ile shobiz ile shobiz labda kudanganya na tu kuna there's so much fakeness around it that they can't actually una jwa there's no single day usawa iiita interview ni kakata but kuna wasani wa na petia lot na you the media guys na what to when you kanyumi you need to understand what people are going through before you subject somebody to to a camera like you tell me somebody like mula mua right now maybe he may want to come in front of cameras and everything but if you see what is going through right now he might not want showbiz around it you get you look for somebody like who uh who can i talk to erikumondi showbiz is he knows he understands it very well call herikumondi anytime he'll have something to say so very few people understand that kind of space but it's you the media who can create showbiz that's it you're doing it totally different yanyu nafanya kitu nafanya kwa first world countries ya you ask people for assistance kuku support kwa campaigns zako do you think the main reason politicians are corrupt is because they spend a lot of money during their campaigns you see so many of my friends have supported me and even when i did put out that post it was so many people in my inbox telling me jealous can i buy you a t-shirt can i do this can i do this can i do this personally i'm ready for this campaign we though without anybody support but i have amazing friends who really want to come through and support me you get what i mean so if anybody still wishes to support because we have four months and uh and one of the biggest thing is don't politicians are going through a very hard time right now where electorates still thinks that you know what unendonongalesha watu but then it is what they want at that time meaning you are just creating a thief thank you so much for time