Yep, Shalemaine the God. Shulse. We are the Brilliant Ideas podcast. This week's podcast is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace is the all-in-one website platform for entrepreneurs to stand out and succeed online. Whether you just start not or managing a growing brand, Squarespace makes it easy to create a beautiful website, engages your audience and sell anything from products to content to time. All in one place, all in your terms. Head to squarespace.com for a free trial when you're ready to launch.   Let's start the show. Heather Kyle Walker. Yes, sir. How are you, sir? I'm good. I like the energy you're on today. And how's fatherhood? Your fatherhood is great. Really? Yeah, fatherhood is great. What you learning new? I finally learned how to make her laugh. Really? Yeah. How many months is she now? She's six weeks. Six weeks? Okay, okay, okay. Yeah. What do you do?  God, why? See, this is how God works. This is God. Why? Everybody make fun of me for my nose. I feel bad about it. I'm insecure about it, but then what does my nose do? The one thing I want more than anything in the world to make my little baby girl laugh. Does she bite it because she thinks it's a breast? God, yeah, bro. That's what it is. I didn't think about that. That's what it is. I did. She's young. She's just thirsty. That's right. She's trying to figure it out. You know what I mean? She's like, mommy comes with these things. Daddy comes with these things. Daddy comes with these things. She thinks a nipple coming, so she's like, ah.  Nothing comes out of it, but just like air. I go like that. And then she laughs. That's far. That's dope, man. Because I was bombing for about four weeks straight. I was bombing for four weeks straight with her. Joe Coy was murdering compared to what I've been doing. Really? Oh, man, I'll do anything. What was you doing? The Google God guy? Oh, the Google God. Wow. I did that one. I did that one.  You know what I'm saying?  When will I ever say Google Gaga? Son. I done been here 20 different times. Yo. And they keep making the same mistakes. I'm not reacting. You're not going to get a smile.  So I can get some milk. Google Gaga. So we also started reading kids' books. Obviously she can't understand anything, but you just do it to like have some. And I didn't realize how emotional these kids' books are, man. Oh, which one are you on? Man, I don't even want to talk about it. Which one are you on? I don't want to talk about it because it's going to get me going again. I'm trying to move on from it. Which one was it, man? No, no, no, no, no, no. I love you forever, bro. Oh, that one is up. That one is up. I got it here. Don't worry. You got it? I got it here. Don't worry. I got it here. It's somewhere. I love you forever, bro. It's somewhere. Where's the book? Hey, where's I Love You Forever? This book right here? Slaps. Waterworks. Slaps. Waterworks. Oh. Waterworks. Let's read it. Let's read it. It's only two seconds. I Love You Forever. Love You Forever written by Robert Monks. A mother held her new baby and very slowly rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she held him, she sang, I love you forever. I like you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby, you'll be. The baby grew. He grew, and he grew, and he grew. He grew until he was two years old, and he ran all around the house. He pulled all the books off the shelves. He pulled all the food out of the refrigerator, and he took his mother's watch and flushed it down the toilet. Sometimes his mother would say, this kid is driving me crazy. But at night, when that two-year-old was quiet, she opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, looked up over the side of his bed, and if he was really asleep, she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him, she sang, I love you forever. I like you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby, you'll be. Damn! The little boy grew. He grew, and he grew, and he grew. He grew until he was nine years old, and he never wanted to come in for dinner. He never wanted to take a bath. And when Grandma visited, he always said bad words. Sometimes his mother wanted to sell him to the zoo. But at night time, when he was asleep, the mother quietly opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, and looked up over the side of the bed. If he was really asleep, she picked up that nine-year-old boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked him, she sang, I love you forever. I like you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby, you'll be. Bruno Mars, he turned that into a song. Immediately!  The boy grew. He grew, and he grew, and he grew. He grew until he was a teenager. He had strange friends, and he wore strange clothes, and he listened to strange music. Sometimes his mother felt like she was in a zoo. But at night time, when that teenager was asleep, the mother opened the door to his room, crawled across the floor, and looked up over the side of the bed. If he really was asleep, she picked up that great big boy and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. While she rocked him, she sang, I love you forever. I like you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby, you'll be.  That teenager grew. He grew, and he grew, and he grew. He grew until he was a grown-up man. He left home and got a house across town. But sometimes on dark nights, the mother got into her car and drove across town.  Come on. Come on. The fall of lights in her son's house were out.  If that great big man was really asleep, she picked him up and rocked him back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while she rocked him, she sang, I love you forever. I like you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby, you'll be. Now come on now. Come on. Come on. Come on. You know when you sleep, man. Come on. Why is she still rocking him? Well, that mother, she got older and older and older. One day, she called up her son and said, you'd better come see me because I'm very old and sick. Oh, my God. So her son came to see her. When he came in the door, she tried to sing the song. She sang, I love you forever. I like you for always. Keep going. But she couldn't finish because she was too old and sick. Oh, my God. Keep going. Keep going. Oh, no, keep going. The son went to his mother. He picked her up and rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And he sang the song, I love you forever. I like you for always. As long as I'm living, my mommy, you'll be. When the son came home that night, he stood for a long time at the top of the stairs. Then he went into the room where his very new baby was sleeping. He picked her up in his arms and very slowly rocked her back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And while he rocked her, he sang, I love you forever. I like you for always. As long as I'm living, my baby, you'll be. Jesus Christ, man. My God. I mean, yo. Jesus Christ. Yo, I was weeping reading that to my daughter.  Isn't that great? Yeah. Everybody in there should be brown, though. So here's, it's funny you mentioned that. Where is? The dad. Exactly. Not one mention of the father throughout the whole story. No, son. Literally, we're talking about this on a page on the Patreon, right? This is, this is crazy. I'm reading another book. I'm reading corduroy. Okay. You know, corduroy? The bear. Yeah. With the bear at the miss a button. I'm reading the book and I'm like, and I pick up the book and the girl in the book is black and the mother's black. And I'm like, here they go with the diversity, man.  Why does everything need to be diverse? It's an old story, whatever. I come to the pod and I'm like, yo, can you believe this?  Like who gives a fuck? It's a story. They go look up the book. It's always been a black girl.  Because the story slaps.  Plus I remember to bear. I don't remember the family. Yeah, I didn't. But how, how racist is that of me? Did I just see an old book that has black people in it? I go, oh, they'll switch it up now. Here we go. It's all about the story.  Is that not beautiful? It's beautiful is fuck, but it's so sad. Because it's like the circle of life. It's what I was saying is like the, with the kids books, the ones that are really good. It's, you're not even, it's not even for the kids. It's actually for the, the, the parent. Like you hope that the way that you treat your kid. One, you hope that they remember it and they care about it. And then maybe one day you'll get to see that treatment to you. But the beautiful thing is even after the grandma passes everything she did for him, he's going to give to the next generation. Yeah. That's the two though. Okay. I got clearly gay. No mention of a wife. Yo, you know what I'm saying? That's so interesting. No mention of a wife. He has a cat. He has a cat. A cat. A newborn baby.  Like when you. Bro, look, he was. He's clearly a gay man. This is a gay guy. This is a gay guy.  Bought a kid. Come on, man.  Come on. Clearly he might be adopted because there's no daddy. So she might be a woman who never could have had kids. Oh my God. But forget all of that. The overall theme of the story is great. Love you forever. Always. What? I had turned a beautiful story into that.  You know what I'm saying? 100%.  He just could be a Latino. A Tito still get rocked to sleep at that age. Nah, but they mama's boys. That's the craziest part. Yo, look how he's. Look at his mouth with that lamp. Ooh. Nah, that's a little crazy. Hold on. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I didn't even notice this. That's a little crazy. Talk about man. There's a guy clearly ready to get teabagged. Yo. Exactly. You figured it out. That's what I'm saying. They done snuck the gay into my kids' books. This whole time I thought they were turning everyone black.  Show people that picture to get, man.  Also, the mom got to sneak in to touch her. Let me see. Because he wouldn't let no woman in his bed. Look at this picture, man. Hold on. This guy is crazy. This guy is crazy. This one's crazy. Come on, man. This guy's hanging upside down. Nah, it's crazy. It's just 69.  Yeah, 69. He's singing about it. I'm serious, man. Great story, though. phenomenal. I don't want to take away from the feeling of the story.  Love you forever. Like you for always. Y'all had the GOAT JJ retic on, yo? Yeah, we had the GOAT JJ retic on, man. JJ had to pull up, you know? Talked about all the racism he experienced. I was laughing at Dr. Umar's post on Instagram, right? Talked to him. Taylor, we're going to get to your by any means necessarily in a minute. But Dr. Umar posted no disrespect and much respected LeBron James. He's a great father and a terrific athlete. However, in the spirit of self-determination and black excellence, why couldn't you find one of our brothers and sisters to pair up with for this podcast, giving who you are? I'm trying to understand the need to go outside of our community for this. Snow Bunny, Shannon Sharp is your biggest supporter. I mean, why not team up with him? This move makes no sense at all. What has this man done for you or us to earn this opportunity?  Let me tell you something, man. If LeBron James was going to start a podcast strictly about basketball, there's nobody I would want to see him do that with more than JJ Reddick. JJ Reddick is one of the most brilliant basketball minds walking in the face of the earth. Facts.  The episode is out right now. It is absolutely phenomenal. And they are in no way trying to appease the casual basketball event. At all.  And who know it. And who know it. And it's just awesome.    BBL? Playing LeBron was talking about BB something. BBL. I don't know if it was BBL. What's a BBL?  He was like, this guy stands here and the wing goes here and this goes here. I'm like, yo, honestly, honestly, it's too smart for me. I love basketball. But? Not in that way. Not in that way. I hear that. I don't need to know all of that. I hear that. I'm never going to use any of that in casual conversation. That's for coaches. It's for players. That podcast is literally a podcast for basketball savants. People who are studying the game.  Absorb it. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, there's nobody I would want to hear LeBron sit down and have a conversation with about basketball more. I can literally nobody. Yeah. I can't think of any one personality. Yeah. The only thing that I would say is that it would be like coaches because they too need to know the X's and O's. I've never heard coaches. Yeah, you're right. But I've never heard coaches talk the way J.J. Reddick and LeBron talk. Yeah. I also think you don't get the opportunity for them to do it that much, but like I'm sure like Doc Rivers or Coach K or Mike D and Tony breaking down offense like some of these guys. Yeah.   What are your strategies? What are you trying to do? And keep in mind with basketball, it's not like football where like the playbook is top secret. With basketball, everybody's kind of running the same offense more or less. And you have tons of video to look at because you're going through the plays. So you can actually be forthright about your offense. Absolutely. You know what I mean? Like with a boxer, he might not give his strategy for an upcoming fight. Mike D and Tony will be like, you know what we're going to do? Well, I saw him as guy. Yeah.  It reminds me of that. EFN used to do this show called Details. Y'all remember that? It was about a... It was different. Like Kobe did an episode. Kobe might have did a few episodes. They basically had experts speaking on it. Yeah.  So yeah, I respectfully, Dr. Umak. Like there's nobody. Like it ain't about the look. It's about like who had that type of knowledge and who can talk about the game like that with LeBron James. Who's already a person? Like who's somebody who's already a personality? Oh, so you know he used to rap JJ? JJ what? JJ Reddick. Really? Yeah, he was a rapper. He was telling us. That's what he used to do. He shouldn't have said that. Why? Pick up the old tapes. No, he said he was looking for him before us. Really? Yeah. He used to hit the cipher. I have a rap of his. He didn't even know then words fly? No. No slurs? I'll try to get him. I was like, how would you say this guy's name? And it was that high school kid whose name is... Hilarious. Hilarious. Hilarious. Well, yeah. No, JJ Reddick's pretty much black when you think about it. Why?  Why? Did you see that Jersey Swap? Oh, I loved it. I loved it. Did y'all ask him about that? No. What do you think about Black Dick? Bro, Black Dick. Top two dicks out there. Who's number one? I mean, White Dick. I like that. Oh, okay. Two men like Dick Clark. We gotta clip that one up. Why? White Dick. I like that. I like White Dick. You don't pause no more, bro. But I like White Dick. You don't like Black Dick? See, that's a rewind. He bought it back. You know what I'm saying? I like that. Don't you like your dick?  Don't you like it?  I didn't say I like White Dick. I like White Dick. I have a White Dick. I like it. Singular White Dick.  No. So I could clip that part.   You don't understand.  Damn, bro. Out of context. That's wild, Alex. Yo, Alex. I'm just saying. How do you turn your head? I'm gonna rock you to bed every night. He said, I love you forever. I like you for always. My mom will come after you. What we got, Taylor? All memes necessary. By any memes necessary. What we got? I don't have a thing. The meme streets.  The meme streets of Lower Darby. Oh, God. What did that say? Yeah, yeah. What did that say?  Dwayne Wade says his father and uncle taught him how to groom himself. I've been getting my nails painted since old seven. I'm not just wearing clothes.  That's so funny. That's not sassy. Why y'all? Why y'all do that, yo? It is.  I'm not wearing clothes.  That's funny. No, that's sassy, bro. That is not funny. Every rapper said that. That's a little. I said a little. I love you forever, bro. Two Chainz been saying that.    That's Atlanta slang.  All the rappers in Atlanta been saying that.  Two Chainz from Atlanta? Yeah, it's Two Chainz from Atlanta. It makes more sense.  I'm just saying.  No, but he.    Is that what you're saying?  It is the city that has a high population of gay people. The high population of gay people. You're right. But if you have a high population of gay people, they're going to possibly influence the culture. Look at New York. Look at how positively influenced New York is. By what? Gays? 100%. Look at all the art. Look at all the culture.  You like musical theater. I love Broadway. It's not straight guys singing The Lion King, right?  Stressed up. You know what I always felt like pillow biters disrespectful? Because the reason I always felt pillow biters disrespectful is because if I was a bottom, I'd be so offended.   Here's the thing.  You'd be like... You'd be a bottom lip biter. You'd be a bottom lip biter.  I could even smell too. You'd be like... Ooh, it's fucci. Ooh, it's fucci. It smells like little fucci. See what gay culture is fired. This might not be the right conversation for you guys, but I offended, I think, some straight people earlier. Why? Because I feel like straight men are obsessed with gay culture. No, they're not. The pause situation... Hold on. Hold on. Let's think about it. The pause situation is a little obsessive. Can I say one thing, Charlotte, about this? I think that right now straight men have realized the great contributions of gay men. And I think that women are a little envious of straight men and gay men's new found relationship, our love and our bond. We bond over our testosterone, our masculinity. Now you're left to the side. They never want to hang out with y'all. We just were homophobic. Now that we're not homophobic, they're like, yo, let's kick it with them straight men. But it is still... Y'all are jealous. The pause situation has to come to an end.  Yeah. You don't think so? No. Why?  But it has to do with something sexual. It'd be like, yo, hand me that ball. Pause. But that's amongst us. It has nothing to do with nothing sexual. Do you remember Bad Habit? Did y'all ever have that game Bad Habit? Or if you say a curse word, you get to punch your friends until he says something else? Like, we just develop games where we can bully each other. Yeah, like punch buggy. A lot of the pauses have to do around sexuality, though. Yeah, it's just a game. It's not anything serious. And I love pause because it's transcendent to generations. We've seen rappers and everything else. Let's say pause is constantly...  It's literally about anything. If you say something about something going in your mouth, you know what I'm saying? It's something in your butt. Like, it's just pause. It's just a joke. Me and my wife are double teaming with the pause. No, what do you say? You say something and I'll have both at the same time pause. You know what I'm saying? We have somebody in the house, they're like, y'all are both so immature.  It's like... Immatured, he's fun. Yes! I'm not saying that. Nah, you're just trying to be mature.  It's a certain situation. You've seen it before too, Shari. Like, is this a little too obsessive? Give me an example. We just seen one. Who joined the Lucas? Yes. He was a little old deal with them. He was pausing stuff that wasn't pause work. Like what? And I got to think about it. I'm like, wait a minute.  I don't think that was a pause. But it's like, I don't still mind that. He's policing himself. I can't be mad at him for policing himself. But why is he doing it? I don't know. Is this part of the interview? Yes. The whole time. Really? He's just told me he's like pause. He's kind of serious in my part. He had some ones that were worth it though. Like what? One point, one time he goes, I was standing behind Puff. Yo, that's crazy. You got to pause that now. That's the pause. That's a huge pause. Wow. That's wild. Why was he standing behind Puff? There was a lie somewhere. I made that up. It wasn't Puff. He said he was standing behind somebody. He was standing behind somebody. And he said pause. The only thing I will agree on Taylor, a lot of pauses are being wasted now. It's unnecessary pause. Make it clever. Make it clever. Yes. It's like the joke before this back in the day was that's what she said. When someone said something that could be interpreted as something a girl said when you had sex with her. That was the straight version of pause. And then pause came up and we just made the game gay. That's right. So that's it. It was these nuts before that. Exactly. There's a lot of these games. It ain't about the gays. It ain't about the gays. No, outside of that, the straights and the gays that are males have a relationship and a bond. That's right. You women will never understand. And that's something you gotta respect. That's right. Look at Lamar Odom and Caitlyn Jenner. They got a podcast together now. They do. The Balls in Your Court podcast. Incredible podcast. That's not the name of the name. That is not the name. No, it's not.  Really? Stop playing. No, it's not. The Balls in Your Court. You didn't know that? No, it's not. It's right here. Lamar Odom and Caitlyn Jenner have a podcast called The Balls. Keeping up with sports.  No, it's not. You might see it way more fired. Keeping up with sports.  The Balls in Your Court podcast. That's fire. That is fire. Come on, yo. That is fire. That is a fantastic man. Now that's a great name. Okay. What else we got, Taylor? What's up there? I thought this was a very positive meme. Oh, God. No, it's good. You will like it. You will like it. I just thought of something funny. What? Talk to me. All right, man. Talk to me. You know how, like, Caitlyn Jenner was a decathlete, right? She did the javelin. Yeah. You think that's what she did when she ripped it off for the first time? No, she still got it. She just... She still got it. She never got rid of it. She never got rid of it. She never got rid of it. She never got rid of it.  Yo, what is wrong with you? I was surprised nobody ever made an AI meme of Caitlyn running like Bruce. Oh. You know, Bruce is like, why nobody ever did the AI when they put Caitlyn doing everything Bruce was doing as an athlete. I thought you were talking about the AI of what that thang looked like. Damn. What do you think that thang looked like? She still got it. Oh, she still got it. I know she got it, but now it's all there's other estrogen in it that's starting to clit up a little. No, she's still like, when? That's what happened. She's still starting to clit up a little. I will never forgive y'all, by the way. By y'all, I mean, you Twitter motherfuckers, when I was on Twitter back in the day and Caitlyn was doing that interview with, who was it? Diane Sawyer, maybe? All right. And she was talking about being a woman, but she still said, she was like, I still, I like women.   And they came for that.   So what if it's a, if we're recognizing her as a woman and she's with women, wouldn't that make her a lesbian? You can't even win, Bruce. You can't even win.  She is a lesbian. I would think so. She's a big old woman.  What's wrong with that? Lesbians can't have dicks? Not real women. Tell me next, men can't have babies? Yes. Is this girl progressive or not? No, she not. You are not progressive. I wish y'all could. You're saying a man can't have a baby. Actually, back. I don't wish that no more. You don't wish what? I first wanted y'all to experience pregnancy, but I don't want that no more. Why? Why? Why? Why?  Oh. Bam, bam, bam. Why? First of all, don't get y'all meat. Don't y'all, nobody hit me with them. This assiness, yes. Okay. What do you mean? We took from, what did we take? Obviously. But what else? Edges. We did take edges. Y'all edges. Definitely paying nails. Paying nails. Hips. Definitely hips. That's crazy. Doing twerking. We got twerking. Done. That's right. You got Gilbert Arenas out there talking about Saucy Santana's twerk. Y'all. All these women out here twerking. Gilbert said, nah, man.  There it is. Damn. There it is. That's crazy. Exactly. You make the style. Better than me? Absolutely. You're right. Don't say somebody took it. God gave it to him. What's he supposed to do? Exactly. What's Saucy supposed to do? You mad because you can't jiggle like Saucy Santana. I'm not that mad, but I will give him his props. That made him throw it back. You don't even know what he identified as. I don't say his. What does he identify as? Saucy. He is saucy. The man is Saucy. What is this that you planned? This is on my song page. These are kids that are rapping about getting the honor roll. And I thought this is real cute. Oh. It's not cool. I thought this was so cute. You gotta wait for the lyrics. Yeah, I'm on the honor roll. Yeah, I will prove. You know what this proves? That people don't dislike more than rap. They just dislike the content of it. I can understand nothing they say except for the hook. Just like most. You can hear what I'm saying? Neither can you.  I understand the hook. I understand the whole verse. Really? What do you say? I go to school because I have to. I didn't catch that part. He likes good grades. I mean, I know the gist of the song. He's lost for my good grades, as he says. I did not hear that part. No, his mom pays him when he gets good grades. Oh, I didn't hear that. I understand the hook, though. I mean, salute to those young people. Shout out to them for all being on the honor roll.  I thought it was positive. It was supposed to be for the Black. I need to see some proof. There's a lot of kids there. All them on the honor roll? I need to see some proof, yo. They were holding up their honor roll paper.  Of course, all I'm saying is they are giving a positive message specifically to the black youth. And I thought that was cool. Yeah, but like most rappers, they probably capping. Stop. They might be capping. I need to make sure that they're listening. Can they rap? Yes. Is the song fire? Yes. I can't go. Is it about something positive? That's right. If I make honor on going to a fast food restaurant, they want to see proof. I want to see proof. I respect it, though. I do. I respect it. I'm mad at it. And I like the positive energy that they're putting out. But I do want to say, we're not in that bad a shape, y'all. Like, come on, man. We got to stop this.  These are kids that I'm saying, singing it. I thought that was cool.   Y'all need to go see some other people.  Look at art. No, no, I get what he's saying. Hip hop is not in that bad a state where we, and listen, if everybody likes the song, cool, salute, and I respect it, but we're not in that bad a shape where, you know, we got to post that and say, this is what hip hop should be like. They're going off the mainstream, though. They're going off the mainstream hip hop. No, what he's saying is that you don't need to show yourself doing positive things and look how positive we are because by saying that, you're essentially saying, listen, we know you all think that we're negative. Yes.   So why are we acting as if we don't? Yes. And I mean, I got a chapter in my new book, Get Out of the Deadline, Why Small Talks Us About. Pre-order right now, pre-order right now, pre-order right now. About what I think about the current state of hip hop. But I will say, even when you say that, tell her about the mainstream. I've had this conversation a million times. If you look over the last 14, 15 years, the top five rappers or even at any given time, you can put a top 10 of rappers, six or seven of them are super positive for the most part. The three biggest rappers of the last 15 years have been Drake, Cole and Kendrick. Kendrick. Ain't nobody getting killed in their music. Ain't no, you know what I'm saying? Ain't no drug, have no glorification of drug use or drug selling in their music, you know? Now, Future's that guy too. I'm saying, what about Travis Scott? I'm not saying he's not doing positive stuff, though. But that's a whole other way.    I'm just saying, I don't know, man. We kinda like, we look at one thing in hip hop and then focus on that and be like, this is the whole culture and it's not. And we be like, we need more balance. All the balances right there, y'all just keep ignoring it. Y'all ain't putting none of that on the scale. If you put some of that on the scale, it'll balance out. This is a very good point. But great job with the kids. I was just saying all that. I just thought that she was a... Great job, kid, not mad at the kids. We love what you did. Keep on doing good stuff and staying in school. That's right. What else we gotta tell them?  I guess this is a lot of rap stuff, so... Because they don't be rappers. Elementary school drop-offs, take Northwest title. For whatever reason, people thought this was weird of NLE Choppa. Why did that happen when I said if NLE Choppa was a bad bitch? That's where the song is called. One, two, three, let's go!      He ain't told me.   All right, then we need a little possibly... He ain't told me. This is positive. This song is self-empowering.    I think that is a very positive message.     Let's talk about sucking on Dick's last week on the podcast.  You know why this don't bother me? Because I grew up- Because you want to do the same thing. Excuse me? What? What? What are you even saying, girl? Girl, you're crazy, girl.  I grew up on Biggie Small saying- Wow.  That's a crazy- I need to see that girl, man.  But it's just like, that's the type of stuff I grew up on. The back of the day didn't mean something about that? We didn't care. I mean, we didn't flinch when we heard that kind of stuff. It is weird that we didn't flinch at all. Exactly. Nice, he was nice, that's big papa. But most of the 90s was super progressive with the gay lyrics and stuff like that. We didn't even care. We didn't think nothing of it. You know what I mean? Birdman and Wayne used to kiss.  We thought it was peculiar. We did? Yeah, we thought it was peculiar, but we- That's when things started to shift a little bit. We pretty much shamed them to stop it. Yeah, people started monitoring. That's when people started monitoring. They started monitoring that kind of stuff around that time. But listen, man, I come from a different era. Like, just to play it again, that's the kind of box. I'm sure. Place. No, please. No, please. No, please. No, please. No, please.  Bro, I ain't never seen a crowd look so confused. That's what I'm saying. You know, they're not even buying it. People are not rolling around.  Bitch. Sit on my face. Stop and get me to lie down. Sit on my face. Sit on my face. Sit on my head.   Don't stop it now, Chob. We should have stopped it when you was in the studio. Don't stop it now. You're here to hear her. Let me hear it one more time.  He's a character.   I wanna be scared..  Yeah, that's good. It looks so good.   Yeah, by the way, that was we don't I look that's why we got to see her like we've never seen a girl Look so good. We'll do that. But maybe there is a girl that that's good. That's good looking You're right. You know the problem with this generation y'all take everything to literal We understood sarcasm and hyperbole. Yeah, it was just it was a it was a funny line That's it.     NLE chopper man, yeah, that's my guy.    That's how you sound. You try to sing in the shower That's how we all sound.  That is the epitome of women's empowerment Be was out there doing it to a woman. That's done that Don't take why you try to hit on sexy.  Yes about sexy red. What can you say is positive?  Yeah She's funny There you go. Good. That was positive start with something positive. Such a hater.   Oh, they don't exist. Huh? God damn, man.  Salad come on Man, I'm tired. I'm sleeping but not during because deep sleep will keep us breathing.   Hey, man in three continents in 60 countries Hey human meat and they telling us is animals. We're all the missing children that I'm thinking Who is that No, I know this is gay peas on the radar.  The last half of it was incredible. I spoke with it Spice spider. Oh no right there. Tell you can click. I like it. It goes from a man This name who stun a man. You sure that's his name. Yes, just click the from spider I don't want to get the wrong person. No, this isn't click that.  This is him right here Yeah, it's stunning. I mean DJ Khaled need to eat a salad stun a man salute to you young man.  Yeah, that was cool. No, that was dope. See that's nice positive wraps Yeah, I'll positively that's nice positive wraps. Yeah, we got a good positive. He going today Taylor. You provided that now check this out though Yeah, you see it like Patella like lit up smiled when we was talking about stunning man, but we thought about sexy red.   Well, hello.  I just told y'all is anguilla. 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So get your tickets, man You know, um, sooth everybody who got VIP tickets glad those are sold out General admission is dope though because if he was there last year, you know, we got all the different activations all throughout the building We got to pitch my podcast Station and we got food trucks all around the place and you know the bar and everything is in the back Wasn't the bar in the back Alex on my trip at a bar and everything is in the back So, you know, it's a good get together man sold out last year. We're gonna sell out again this year Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to everybody that's been getting tickets man Go to event bright calm to get your tickets are with a black effect comm slash podcast festival And just want to remind y'all to April 9th my black country by the good sister Alice Randall professor at Vanderbilt She she's the next release off my book imprint black privilege publishing with Simon issues to her book will be out April 9th What is available for pre-order now? You see Beyonce got act 2 coming, baby Beyonce going full country. All right.  So go get my black country by Alice Randall to be out April 9th, but you can pre-order it right now Okay, what we got Taylor. Well, she's not calling get a cowboy or a country album Who's not coming out of country Beyonce saying is a Beyonce album. That's not a country album Who said that she said it I ain't see her say that I read something totally different when I read her instagram She said go to her act. God damn. You got to make that big pause Scroll up today mark the 10 day countdown until the release of act 2 Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of the supporters of texas holoman 16 characters I feel honored to be the first black woman with the number one single on the hot country songs chart That would not have happened without the outpouring of support from each and every one of you My hope is that years from now to mention of an artist race as it relates to releasing genres of music will be irrelevant This album has been over five years into making it was born out of an experience that I had years ago I did not feel welcomed and it was very clear that I wasn't but because of that experience I did a deeper dive into the history of country music and study our rich musical archive I'm be honest with you. She read my black country by Alice Randall They don't want to tell you all that but that's what happened So y'all need to go get the book so y'all can dive deep like Beyonce did It feels good to see how music can unite so many people around the world While also amplifying the voices of some of the people who have dedicated so much of their lives educating on our musical history The criticism I faced when I first entered this genre forced me to propel past the limitations that would put on me Act to as a result of challenging myself and taking my time to bend and blend genres together to create this body of work I have a few surprises on the album and have collaborated with some brilliant artists who I deeply respect I hope that you can hear my heart and soul and all the love and passion that I've poured into every detail And every sound I focused on this album as a continuation and renaissance I hope this music is an experience creating another journey where you can choose your or you can close your eyes Start from the beginning and never stop. This ain't a country album. This is a Beyonce album This is act two cowboy carter and I am proud to share it with y'all. It's going to be a country album, but she just said That it ain't a country album. It's a Beyonce album. She's saying that she's saying I'm Beyonce I can make any type of music I want to I agree with her But it's clearly it's clearly going to be a country. I agree with her on that I think that like she's in that michael jackson. What's that? Sorry a man was talking The uh Like you know how michael jackson can put out dirty diana, which is a rock song, right? But it's not a rock song. It's a michael jackson song And I think that Beyonce is in that territory where no matter what the music she puts out It is a Beyonce. Yeah album. She's a fantastic artist But like charlamagne saying the genre of music that it seems is coming out is Most similar to yeah, I think she's a million times. She says first of all the album is called cowboy carter Like I mean god damn that is she's on the album with a cowboy.  She got into a genre.  I'm gonna give you a whole album And I'm gonna have your favorite country people on here. She's remaking a dolly parton song. Oh, no She's remaking a dolly parton song. No. Oh, no I'm sure it'll be a Taylor Swift collaboration because I think Taylor Swift album comes out a couple weeks after her Maybe a month after her I think if I'm not mistaken, Taylor probably gonna be Taylor post Malone will probably be on there Wait, you don't want a Taylor and Beyonce to be on it.   You can't support no women. It's unbelievable.  First of all, Beyonce is not a woman.  Beyonce is not a woman.    Y'all hate on me as a woman every day though. No, we don't.  Say how you're a woman?  Caitlyn Jenner is a woman. Yeah, let me finish my sentence Caitlyn Jenner is a woman.  There are plenty of women who have dicks. I'm a naturally born woman.  How do we know we don't know organic? You don't gotta be because I'm proud to say I'm a naturally born woman. No GMO problem with it. Whole Foods Naturally You're the crunchy peanut butter What else we got?  Tell us the other things. This is fun. That's all she got That's all she got. You know what I'm saying? We don't have nothing else. Chris. Are you a man? Yes, sir. How do we know that? You're gonna have to take my word on it. Chris. Are you asian? No, sir. You know, wow I don't know about that. I don't know about daddy Chris, I think you asian bro. Is Chris the only asian jewish person we know? Yes Wait a minute. Let me think if I can think of another one in a lot of a salary in asian jew Yeah, he's he's the only one I know Wow What are you? Are you at a jewish first still? I'm irish and jewish. Yeah, irish jewish asian. Oh now that there's a little conflict out there in palestine.  I never heard him say he's irish.  He resigned today The prime minister of irlyn. Really? Yeah, which one the little one? I don't know the guy's name What the leprechaun? There is a little adorable one. Michael, uh, stunken or something. He resigned today? Yeah, I just saw the headline.  I don't know. Chris morrow doesn't sound like a jewish name.  No name chris. I'm in mckelvey. Oh, yeah, chris There's a big controversy that my name was chris. I mean the most famous jew is named chris, right? Yeah Who's the most famous jew? Jesus chris, right?  Yo, what if jesus what if jesus jesus Yo, you know, that's how most of them used to talk to the home. You know jesus What's up players? What's up with you? He's still hanging there. He's hiding here talking about walking on water after jesus crazy, man jesus crazy. Yo, jesus told us he turned that water into wine You know, he came over here with that liquor already. He was already drunk. We didn't even notice You know But what if jesus what if jesus jesus is latino?  Yo, jesus. Yo, imagine all jesus homies, right? They believe in them, you know, i'm saying they just kicking it with them.   We needed 20,000 years ago 20,000 years ago it would have been crazy Yo, this white dude is walking on water Man, man, what bro beyond man? Yo, all of them probably used to get that no No, we're just out there building a boat for nothing. You know what i'm saying Just think about it. I'm gonna build this big-ass boat It's about to rain and for 40 days 40 nights the earth gonna get flooded and i'm taking all the animals with me You know what i'm saying? Huh?    Some of the things that the bible gets away with we don't discuss. Sodom and Gomorrah crazy.    I think that happened. I heard that part now.  Yeah Can you look at that one?   It holds up. Come on. Epstein. Okay, bro It holds up. It holds up. What else we got? Taylor Bruno mars 50 million dollars cap. Yeah, I don't believe that He's a man. You know, here's the thing. Who would leak that charlotte? That's what I'm so confused. Yeah, if you work it If you work at the mgm and he's on the contract with you you wouldn't leak that to me exactly So who's leaking and who gets to a 50 million dollar gap a gambling? Yeah, I can't wait at some point You got to know you're doing too much Bruno you're a million in hey, you're five in 10 you're 10 in You're 15 in 20 you get all the way to 50 before you realize that you're doing too much. No I will say though When just hilarious did just hilarious sold out the mgm In dc, I think it was in dc. I thought it was one. It was it somewhere in that area and she sold out the mgm And bruno mars had sold it out the week before And she was there on a saturday And you know, you know, sometimes you walk in venues and people were like, yo, you just miss Bruno mars and I'm thinking bruno was just walking through the building or something. I'm like, oh, where was bruno doing here?   I don't know if it's in dc of virginia. It might be dc It's in it's on it's in the dc virginia area. I'm like, why would he stay here again? Yeah No, that doesn't make sense That's got to be a vagus play Yeah, mgm to the vagus. Well, no, they might have multiple they got an mgm and d they got an mgm and uh, it's an mgm arena or some shit But it's in Yeah, and if they got they got casinos and everything. No, it's not a landing city. It was in dc dc of virginia one of them Um, what else we got tayla? Did y'all? I mean, I don't know if this is after y'all time, but This whole nicolodian thing. Did y'all watch it? None of y'all watched it. I can't watch documentaries like that What is it? What happened? So Basically, they're kind of trying to out the Megaproducer daniel snider for all his i'ma be honest with you I don't need whole documentaries about that Like I'd rather you just tell me the story if there's criminal charges to be bought against the guy Bring up the criminal charges.  You know what I'm saying? Like I I mean, why yeah, why haven't they pressed charges? That's what I'm saying Like there's charges to be pressed press charges. I think it's almost child abuse if you're willing to have your kid be a child star You said that before I really do I don't disagree with you Especially I because I only know this part of the story because just was doing it and just with domestic day But the story about how the dad used to watch I don't know if it was daniel, but he used to watch somebody Like kind of like touching his son inappropriately and it wasn't daniel. It was uh Somebody one of them. Yeah, I don't know but he was touching they say he said he used to look and be like that's kind of strange Why are you touching my son like that and then they stop make they stop letting the father come to the set and told said send the mother And the dad told the mother make sure you watch him.  I don't like it I listen, I don't have no problem with people like that being exposed But my thing is put them behind bars, bro. Yeah press charges or something I just don't like the exploitation these four six hour long documentaries because the people making these documentaries They're not making these documentaries because they actually care.  They're still exploiting the kids.  You go to court They announced it at the wrong time though And the reason I say they announced it at the wrong time Like you can't be a pair of people launching a podcast the same time that Lamar I mean uh, LeBron James and J. J. No Or you got to talk about what we all want to talk about does she get Yeah, we just want to see that meat Don't you guys want to see it? I just go I think I came up with a way more creative name keeping up with sports He's trying to keep up the Kardashians Oh, I didn't even put that together Lamar. You've had an amazing life Caitlyn.  Oh porno. You salute the pornhub. Yeah, what happened with that? So they banned it in texas or something like that Point hub and affiliated sites blocked access in texas and legal battle over age verification law and the latest installment of a dispute Make that big a tail of pause and the latest installment of the dispute between adult content Man, I don't fucking know texas is just what what is texas about in South Carolina banned point hub too But like I'm actually wondering about this there should be some way to verify that somebody's old enough to watch it We don't want kids watching it. Yeah, but now you have to submit your id Definitely.  That's crazy Listen, I don't want to but I do understand that there should be some sort of restriction So kids going don't yeah, but how do you do it outside of that? That's the only way you can make them submit the id Yo, listen, man. I'm one of them old school guys born in 1978 I don't I love porn hub, but I don't respect it The reason I don't respect it is because I used to have to bring playboys and penthouse magazines and a trapper keeper You know I'm saying and you know, I mean you couldn't even have the whole playboy a penthouse in the trapper keeper You had to rip the pages out You know, I mean because it would look too thick and it would look too suspicious. You know what I'm saying So I used to have the penthouse magazines just pages in my trapper keeper. That's how we used to share Where do we jerk off usually?  I just thought jerking off till I was older Like how what ended? Did you first probably like 18 19 yo, what absolutely? Absolutely I wish I had jerked off more when I was young because I feel like jerking off.   So like eight. I think I probably lost my virginity when I was like 16 or something like that I never felt like I wasn't getting no action your whole life. Wow. Yeah, because I was always getting Actually, you know, I mean always getting swallowed up by By her older relative, right? So it's like By the time you 16 and you start getting action, I didn't start jerking off until I got my heart broke What?  I thought that was something that loses Jehovah's Witness, right? Huh? You were Jehovah's Witness. It has nothing to do with it, but yes Yeah, because I thought they're not allowed to masturbate. No, I had nothing to do with it I just thought it was a loser. I literally thought jerking off.   That's how you jerked off. I don't need you.  Did you not while you cried? Yes I was just crying.  But I was like, man, this should feel kind of good You said you jerked off on your knees before No, after I started jerking off more first time I jerked off late was laying in the bed Then later on I started doing it on my knees.   Yeah, you stand and bust one you No, do you think there was a little part of you?  Oh my god What are you doing? Oh, no, I was just praying Oh my god, Taylor go to that second story. This is amazing This is a tip avoid stomach sleeping y'all According to the new york post one of the main concerns is that sleeping on one's front can worsen lower back pain a common ailment among those who prefer This sleeping position. Okay, dr. 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We don't sleep on your arm You don't sleep on your arm. You put your arm in a position. I would I sleep on my stomach Let's play some bills I mean there's times where I would like That's the most comfortable position not for me laying on my back at the most comfortable position Yeah, yeah, absolutely.  Actually you want them not to not supposed to That's that's yeah You try to keep them off and then you do what's called tummy time so they can start to strengthen their necks Look at you Big daddy Let's play some bills. Taylor and then do some asking idiots. All right guys This episode has also been brought to you by Vessie. Let's talk about Vessie for a second when navigating the city during rush hour. Vessie Are really my trusted Companions see listen there are waterproof technology and comfortable fit makes every commute a breeze. 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Let's get back to the show Let's do some asking idiots. That's right. I got a dinner one of my Italian homies tonight.  Where you going? I was going to a nice spot in Jersey. Oh, which one? Um, I don't know. I mean, I know but I don't want to say okay. I don't know how it is yet. I don't know how to food I've never been to the spot, you know, but you've heard of it. Yeah. Yeah, I wore a tracksuit and nice watch Represent with my Italian homie.  Italians always wear tracksuits and nice. Well, this is like an Italian Italian. Oh, big big. Come on, man Like a big guinso. Yeah, I don't know what that means. Is that like gizzo? No, just a meatball Oh, okay. I don't know is that I don't know Yeah, I don't know if he's a meatball. I don't know about that.  Oh, that's my guy guy though. Like it's my guy like he took me like I've been to the feast with him in little Italy before Oh, yeah. What's the name? I don't want to say. Do I know him? I don't know if you know him or not, but just tracksuit is dope though. This is legacy of resilience Yeah, smooth to legacy of resilience there. Nice, um Nice brand I like it. How do you know them? Um, the guy my guy don't want down. Oh, is that his brand? Yeah, don't want designs legacy of resilience He don't want has made so many great brands over the years. He made of academics back in the day He used to do the valors for Sean John. He had prps, which was a huge brand He's got a brand now called art art meets chaos And now he's got legacy of resilience his tracksuits and valours and stuff like that. Love it You know for somebody born in 1978 might like myself. I like the comfort of it all needed um Ooh, well, we got Mr. Harituto great question. He says who taught you sarcasm shoates Wow, that's a good that's a good question. I don't I don't recall who taught me sarcasm uh I don't know. I do not know. I would imagine maybe I learned it from like movies or entertainment or maybe some sort of like Yeah, I don't know if my dad was the most sarcastic or my mom was the most sarcastic So I don't think I learned at the house But probably there's probably like a character on a tv show or something like that that was sarcastic And then maybe I picked it up from there. I don't even think I use sarcasm that much. Maybe a little bit Yeah, I don't know who taught me sarcasm. I know the first person I saw it in was my dad No, now that I go back and look at it. I thought it was just humor, but he was just really Really sarcastic, which is probably why I tend not to take things so serious are I tend to you know, we can discuss Traumatic horrendous stuff that has happened to us with humor and sarcasm and satire because that's what he used to do Right literally like I In most corner it felt like everybody was sarcastic Literally, yeah, like nobody took anything too serious.  Yep So you've never been traumatized meaning I've been fired seven times in life. So you know what it's like four times from radio. I've been fired from taco bell I've been fired from demo in the mall. I've been fired from a company called industrial acoustics company I've had to you know, collect unemployment checks You know what I mean like my wife has had to Stand in front of the judge and tell the judge why we we're not supposed to get evicted. So it's like That's always in my mind And I've always been a saver like I'm the guy that used to like the mic I'm the guy that when I used to sell crack. I used to like to watch my money Turn into a bigger bigger bigger bigger not. Yeah, so I'm like that now.  I don't touch like I don't touch Like like like for like real estate, right? Like I have I have buildings that I own That I lease in mong's corner. I don't Touch that money. You know what I mean tv. I've never any I've done late night television Shit in the last season was two seasons, whatever, whatever. I've never touched the tv check. Wow ever wow Anytime I do television.  That's it. And that's it.   Shit, but why buy one when you can rent one?   I want to say Because like when you see certain things like this is unfuckin believable.   Yeah, you know, yeah Um Briggs breezy says which two presidents in history would you like to see in a fight? Oh, this is a good one Who'd you like to see in a fight?  Why?  Well, it's trump if you want trump, pito It'll be shopping who? Obama trump Come on. You got all the best element. First of all, you got the two most popular presidents ever, right? Interesting. I would think right then you got the race factor You know what I mean, what about abraham lincoln vs. Barack Obama? That's who I was going to say now Why because he's he was he fought somebody. I mean he was a famous kind of I think he fought with us Sword or something really? Yeah, I think he was in some sort of weird Duelish not with a gun fire.  Yeah Abraham Lincoln ain't gonna sell no tickets in 2024 jumping. Yeah, I guess you're right Lincoln ain't making a stream that and bro, but barack versus trump, pito rock versus trump is the wine and who wins Barak easy Yeah, I don't know Trump's big. That's what I'm saying.  You know what I mean? That's a fire move That'd be his fatality.  It'd be the best the best one Yeah, you got to go to those press conferences. Those press conferences worth just as much of the fight I think up. I'm moving. Okay. Give us one more Oh, it's the good one How has having a kid kids affected your marriage shows? How's having a kid kids affected my marriage? um trying to have the kid um brought my wife and I even closer And that was like really cool because I think going through what we went through can Cause a lot of damage potentially to relationships. So that was really awesome It's what I've noticed is that like When you have a kid and we have a baby nurse, there's less time for my wife and I just to be alone and When you're not alone as much there's less time for you to resolve conflicts So it's easy for things that are little to build up And then when you have to resolve them they feel bigger But you're like discussing something you're like, why are we why are we arguing about this thing? That's not even that big a deal. That's true So it was something that we've had to like make adjustment go.  Were you like look look look what I could do. I bet you There's I bet you there was versions of that. How crazy is that? I haven't probably tried to breastfeed. I did That's that he probably tried to breastfeed you Oh my god, I um I agreed everything Schultz just said and I also feel like yeah, I think kids Kids do bring you closer together if you and your wife already have that bond. Yes For me, it's really Incredible to watch because me and my wife have literally been together for 26 years So we were together when we were kids. So to watch her In this era of her life where She's a fantastic wife and a fantastic mother It just makes you appreciate her even more because you like damn She's killing it. God. Thank you for blessing me with this person. Amen who makes All of our lives So much easier amen to that because she's the CEO of the house. She holds it all together. She keeps it all together like I couldn't do it. That's it. You know what I'm saying like I know I personally couldn't do it and I watch other men out there who got you know Children children by women that they don't even like That's got to be torture That's got to be hell. So, you know for me, it yeah, I think it affects your marriage It's already hard when you love that person more than anybody on the planet. That's right. I imagine Not loving them. That's right. Fuck. That's right. So so it just for me.    Why if I don't work. We don't eat Why wouldn't we eat? Why would we And they would That's how we justify like we don't work nothing like no, everybody's gonna starve to death. Like no, we got some money saved. Yeah Don't be okay. Yeah, it'll be fine Um, as always if you listen to this podcast, you think we're smart. You think we're intelligent You think we're brilliant.  You don't know.   Thank you for listening


As somebody who had to defend foreign assistance budgets 10 years ago and last year, it's a different story when there's a perception that people outside of the room, you're in care about it. And I just thank you for the work that all of you have done and for the many people in this room who've made that change happen. I think it's a meaningful difference. Well, Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for your very, very generous commitment of time and effort and great thoughts and ideas. Thank you. Thank you very much for being here and helping. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Those three. Thanks. Thank you. I'm going to move very rapidly to our next panel I'd like to invite Mike Merson, Donna Shalala, and Joe Rospers to come up and join Helene Gale for the panel on women and girls. Thank you. Yeah, that'll be good. And the mic's on. Okay. So this panel is delivering on a new commitment to mothers and girls. We're a little bit behind schedule already, and I had been asked to frame this, but I think it's been beautifully framed already by Helene, by Deputy Secretary. Clearly, the state of women's health, children's health in the world today is sadly a picture of death, disability, and suffering.  It's been called, the situation's been called dire or a health emergency. And there's one clear fact, and that is that the fourth and fifth millennium development goal targets, which are reducing by two-thirds child mortality rate and by three-quarters the maternal mortality rate by 2015. They are, particularly the maternal rate, we're doing really poorly. About as badly as we're doing on any other millennium development goal. And I'm not going to recite all the numbers, but I think we know them all, but I don't think anyone believes we can let this situation continue. And we have three great panelists who are going to address this issue. And, of course, it's also addressed in the report. Let me start with Secretary Shalala. Share with us your thoughts on the report and how it relates to... The report does something else that I wanted to comment on. It may be the first commission I've sat on in almost a generation that didn't represent, that didn't recommend a new agency. Even though the answer to the question of who's in charge here was no one in terms of global health, it answers the question in a very strategic way. Number one, it recognizes the use of interagency efforts, and that an integrated global health plan is not a compilation of the programs of various agencies. It, in fact, has to be carefully integrated and focused on this being a major one, and that requires leadership from the White House and from the National Security Council in particular, and from the two secretaries, State and HHS, that would play major roles. So it actually recommends some organizations, interagency councils, a council coming out of the NSC as a way to avoid the kind of turf wars that you have between agencies. But it doesn't leave out a recognition that there are numerous congressional committees. I probably had ten congressional committees on international health issues, and that they themselves, it does no good for the administration to organize itself if the Congress hasn't organized itself. So if we're really going to deal with the issue of women and children, my point would be that we have to have some organizational form so that we answer the question that someone indeed is in charge and there is, in fact, an integrated plan properly resourced that is truly integrated and accountable as opposed to the usual trying to get people that run different programs to try to talk to each other. And I think that the combination of the strategic recommendations on women and kids and organizational form both at the Congress and the administration are really the significant recommendations here. And I can spend this much time talking about it, not only because I have to run off and catch a plane, because this is the only audience I think we'll ever talk to that thinks that organization is sexy when it comes to inter... and we'll understand why you have to have some kind of a framework, a carefully put together leadership team to really pull this off. So thanks, Mike. Maybe before you go, you could just tell us are you as optimistic as what we heard today from the Deputy Secretary? It's a lot of money and given by partisan support and you think we're going to hold it? Listen, 20 years ago I debated Jean Kirkpatrick on whether health had any relationship to national security or to international security and whether it really should be on the agenda. We have come so far from those initial debates from Helene and I begging, and you Mike, begging for money from various congressional committees. The last thing I did before I left government was Peggy Hamburg, who's now the FDA commissioner and I, went around to the appropriations committees of the military and systematically asked them for money and international health pointing out the challenge of bioterrorism. I mean, it was like, they were very nice people, but it was like we came from a foreign land having those conversations. Boy, have we come a long way and I'm very optimistic. That's great to hear. Thank you. So Joe, you and I, we had a chance to travel together to Kenya. We were in Nairobi, but we also went way out in western Kenya and saw a lot of the rural areas. Tell us, sort of, give us your impression of what you saw and tell us a little bit of how maternal and child health, how what's in this report links up to what you saw in Kenya and links up to the American public in general. You're a communications guru and I think you can put it in the right perspective. Yeah, what I think was interesting about the trip was that we got to look at the different parts of the health system from the very top to the community-based organizers and health workers. And what was interesting was that what we saw there reflected a lot of what we heard from the folks who were participating on smartglobalhealth.org. In particular, maternal and child health was the most popular topic. When we asked people to submit essays for inclusion in the report, it was the most popular topic that came in and people frequently referred to it as a gateway issue to so many others, whether those are other health issues or economic issues or security issues. And so those pieces of feedback that we started getting in terms of what folks were already submitting from their feedback around the country, we saw up close talking to community health workers and to folks at clinics in Kenya. And folks can see on page 41 of the report the breadth of places that those essays came in from. And those essays reflect the level of participation that, as Donna said, there's a lot of commissions in this town and they frequently recommend new agencies, but one of the things that they don't frequently do is open up the conversation to folks outside the members of the commission. So what we tried to do here from the very beginning was to take the very unique collection of people that CSIS put together, a couple of dozen folks from very different backgrounds and try to build a constituency that reflected those different backgrounds, but instead of a couple of dozen people, have it being a couple of thousand people. And so over the course of the commission, we tried to document the commission's work, especially the trip to Kenya through a lot of content, written photo video, as well as to encourage participation in the Q&A around the topics that we were encountering there in Kenya, but also through all the different commission meetings. So I would encourage everyone to both look at the report, but also to engage in the further conversation about the report and about maternal and child health specifically and continue on Smart Global Health.org, because that's how this report's going to turn into a particular advocacy. It was surprising and encouraging to see just how many people with such a depth of expertise, whether it's in academia or in the field or in policy, to gravitate towards the commission's work because they have such a deep level of passion and a unique experience to bring to the table. Yes, you and I, we rode motorcycles together. I remember that out there in western Kenya, and for transportation. With helmets. With helmets. I'm not going to say, but we wanted helmets. Let me say that. But tell me how the field of maternal and child health, how do we... I mean, the American public, and you know this well, has been very favorable to the previous administration's initiative and how do we keep... In the context of our domestic situation and all the crises we face around the world, how do we keep the public focused on the importance of the issue and keep the support politically for it? Because as we know, a lot of our votes in the Congress are going to be based on local views on topics. The answer is you have to organize. There is energy out there on maternal and child health specifically, and I saw in the essays they came in that that's a very deep well of passion for this part of global health in particular. And it's not enough for folks on commissions like this one to just say, oh, well, it's us that the American public isn't engaged in. In fact, there are a lot of people who not only are engaged on it at an intellectual and sort of policy level, but who have actual experience out in the field, whether it's having gone out in the Peace Corps or working for an organization like HAIR or having taken a global health certificate like they offer at Duke. People have a deep level of understanding and there need to be whether it's through organizations convening conversations like CSIS is doing or other organizations that are doing legislative advocacy and actual organizing around these issues. People need to be connected and they need to make a voice for it. Because there is a position to go to. Okay, so Helene, you articulated a few minutes ago in a nutshell the main strategy for reducing mortality for women and children. We've just taken our eye off the ball for the past decade or two on these issues and so how do you feel do you think we've got a good package of interventions and how are we going to get them implemented? How are we going to convince people that we really can make a difference since we haven't had the support that looks like we have now? Yes, I think we do have the right tools and the right package and let me just say again to this issue of why this is the right time to be moving this forward, I think as several of the previous speakers have said I think we are in a different place than we were 10, 15 years ago. I think people do recognize the importance of global health and issues that unlike HIV that both of you and I have worked on for many years one of the reasons why there was such a resonance with HIV is that people here in this country felt it too. It was truly a global issue. It impacted us domestically and so I think it was easier for people to kind of make that leap of caring for people in other parts of the world where HIV was also having an impact. I think today thanks to communication efforts like people like Joe and I know Pat Mitchell will talk more about why it's so important to keep the communication aspect. I think in some ways we've been able to bridge that gap where people today understand these issues if we don't have the same rates of maternal mortality or infant mortality I think these issues are becoming more real to our public. I think all the work that's gone on to make the sense of our global interconnectedness real to people means that we're at a different point in time where these issues really do resonate with the public. So I think one, I think we are really in a good place to move this forward. Two, I think we do have much more knowledge of the interventions and what makes a difference. They're pretty straightforward. We know that women need to have access to family planning so that they can face births to begin with. We know unwanted pregnancies are a huge part of what leads ultimately to unsafe pregnancies and maternal mortality. I'm proud that in this report we didn't back away from that issue. We know that that whole issue, the issue of family planning can be incredibly divisive. But I think we took the approach that this is around saving people's lives and we know that a woman who has the opportunity to space birth will be a healthier mother and her children will also have a healthier survival. So access to the ability to space births. Secondly, making sure that people have access to skilled birth attendants and that that access is appropriate depending on the level of health, whether it's at the community level, on up to the national level, and that there's in place a system for referral when there are complicated pregnancies, so emergency obstetrical care. But another reason why we converged on this as an issue is that doing all those things means that you also have to put a focus on a functioning health system because it doesn't just happen without having in place a health system that supports the different levels of care that are necessary. So in some ways, by being able to measure what happens with maternal mortality, it's a way of measuring how well we're doing on strengthening health systems overall. And I think again that's something that comes out in this report that while it's important to continue to have these very focused efforts in particular diseases, we also want to be able to push towards strengthening the health system more broadly and I think maternal health does that. I just want to ask you to comment. Yesterday I believe the Kaiser Daily Global Health Report, which comes out, maybe you probably read every day, had a story that at least was a concern to me, and I just quoted, it says that in June, as you know, the G8 summit is going to be meeting and the signature initiative of the Canadians is supported to be on mother producing maternal child mortality in poor countries, but the Canadian Foreign Minister said on Tuesday, and I'm quoting here, in the Globe and Mail that this initiative, quote, does not deal in any way, shape or form, which is to be able to save lives. This is coming from our northern partner, which normally as you said to me is quite enlightened. So I wondered how we're going to, the G8 is a critical moment. It's only a few months away and how are we going to bring family planning into this? Well, you know, I think it is of note that this is something, as I said, we didn't shy away from. I think that the Global Health Initiative that the administration is putting forward hasn't shyed away from it. I think it is a tough issue for a lot of reasons. It has been used as a divisive issue. It doesn't have to be. It is about saving lives. It really should be the opportunity for women to have safe pregnancies and to make sure that their children have the start of safe and healthy lives. We know that children who are born too close together are more likely to have bad health outcomes. So it is absolutely about saving lives. I think our time is up. I just want to say that I agree with you and the panelists that this is really a great moment for those who have been working for decades in this field. We need to seize it and think of it as a continuum of care from the home to the health facility. I also think we need to think of it as a continuum of care from the mother to the newborn to the child. I think historically the newborn has been forgotten. We talked about maternal health and child health. I think as you see in the report, we really emphasize this continuum of care both in terms of the mother to the newborn to the child as well as from a delivery standpoint from the home to the community health worker to the health facility. So thank you all and I think we can move on to the next panel. Thanks.


the session on a stable multivibrator using transistor. Learning outcomes are at the end of session students will be able to explain the working of multiple multivibrator using transistor as well as they can draw the output waveforms and calculate the value of time period frequency of oscillations. Contents are like this before moving towards a stable multivibrator configuration we will recall some building blocks nothing but basic building blocks of multivibrator. It consists of amplifier. So, there are two stages of amplifier which provides 180 degree phase shift that is why total 360 degree phase shift will be generated as well as gain of this amplifier will be greater than unity. So, that it will satisfy the criteria for oscillations nothing but Barkhausen's criteria and that is why it is possible to get the oscillations at the output and output of this amplifier is coupled through this coupling network. Here we are using the resistor and capacitor for coupling as well as positive feedback is maintained. Here we are using the transistor as a switching element and that is configured as RC coupled amplifier. So, we will see the circuit diagram for a stable configuration using transistor. Recall the definition it is a two stage amplifier with the coupling it was positive feedback is there which generates a non-sonosodal waveforms and very important thing in the optimal multivibrator is it has two quasi stable states nothing but two temporary states that is why it has no stable state means transistor will switch in the either state depending on the time constant of base circuit elements. So, transistor remains in the either state depending on the time constant of base circuit elements. The a stable multivibrator circuit where transistor Q1 and Q2 are used which are identical, but although these two are identical these two will have different doping levels that is why these two will not have the same condition at the same time instant means as we are giving the VCC to the circuit, but both transistor will not be on at the same time. Collector is connected to RC1 and which is connected to VCC same RC2 is there at the collector side of Q2. Register R1 and R2 are used for the biasing purpose. So, R1 is used to bias Q2 and R2 is used to bias Q1. Collector of transistor Q1 is connected to the base of transistor Q2 same collector of Q2 is connected to base of transistor Q1 through capacitor C2. So, here AC coupling is provided through this coupling capacitor and 180 degree phase shift is provided through each of this amplifier configuration. Now, we will see the circuit operation as you know that transistor Q1 and Q2 cannot be on at the same time instant. Therefore, we assume transistor Q1 is in on condition. When transistor Q1 is on operating point will be in the saturation region. Therefore, it will act as a short circuit that is collector and emitter terminals will be short and as it is short VCE nothing, but output voltage at the collector of transistor Q1 will be ideally equal to 0 and practically it will be VCE sat nothing, but very very less value. It may be between 0.1 to 0.3 volt. So, as this is on condition at the same time this is output voltage which is given to the transistor Q2. So, this is 0 volt as VCE equal to 0 and therefore, low signal will be there at the base of Q2. So, Q2 will remain in the off state. So, operating point of Q2 will be in the cutoff region. Now, see while these two conditions are satisfied capacitor C1 gets charged through VCC that is capacitor C1 will be charged through register R1. Now, capacitor C1 gets charged up to its maximum value. As you know that path of this charging is like this. So, this is at the positive peak. So, capacitor C1 will be at plus VCC level. Now, this voltage is applied to transistor Q2. So, what is this voltage? This is greater than 0.7 volt. Voltage appeared at the base of transistor Q2 is greater than 0.7 volt. Therefore, transistor Q2 will now be in the on condition. So, operating point will be in the saturation region. So, it will act as a short circuit at the collector and emitter terminals. So, when this is at the short circuit condition, then you can identify the same voltage that is VCE equal to 0 and practically it varies from 0.1 to 0.3 volt. This voltage is given to the base of transistor Q1. So, what is this voltage? This voltage is very very less. So, this voltage is applied to Q1. So, at that time Q1 will be at its off condition that is 0. So, when it is off, it will be act as a open circuit. When it act as open circuit, it will be giving the voltage as VCE equal to VCC. So, here positive level of the signal will be obtained. So, this is your positive level. Now, what we have obtained over here? This is on. So, negative will be obtained at the output of transistor Q2. You can obtain the output from either step amplifier. So, at Q2 or at Q1. So, if you assume output you are considering at Q2. So, this is obtained that is negative level or 0 volt is obtained at the transistor Q2. Now, same way as capacitor and C2 instantly this cannot be charged. So, it will take some time. Therefore, the voltage at the base terminal of these two transistors will be not sharp. It will be varying slowly. As these are varying slowly you know that it is through capacitor. So, it will be like a step signal. Now, the other condition see here we have assumed transistor Q2 is now on and therefore, we have obtained 0 volt over here and while this is on at the same time capacitor C2 gets charged through resistor R2 and same voltage is provided to transistor Q2. So, initial voltage to base of transistor Q1 will be 0 due to the Q2 or collector voltage at Q2 which is 0, but now this capacitor will get charged slowly and the same voltage is applied over here and which is greater than 0.7. As this voltage is greater than 0.7 it will be obtained as the on condition operator. Output waveforms across the collector terminal of Q1 which switches between 0 to VCC level and vice versa at the collector of transistor Q2. So, as I told you capacitor will charge slowly that is why increase in the voltage at the base will be like this and which is reverse for base of transistor Q2. So, these are the waveforms at the collector and base terminal of transistor Q1 and transistor Q2. So, let us see the formula. If you derive the formula for base voltage and as you know base voltage depends on the capacitor charging and discharging. So, T1 can be calculated as 0.693 into R1 into C1. So, R1 into C1 are the base circuit elements which decides the T1 thing, but output across Q2 we are considering and that is why T1 is your time period to get the output voltage that is on state that is VCC level and this is off state. So, in this way we have T1 and T2 are same when we are selecting the same values that is R1 and R2 are identical. So, if we add these two values when R1 and R2 are same C1 and C2 are same therefore, frequency of oscillations can be calculated with the help of 0.72 divided by R into C. So, we can calculate the frequency of oscillations of a stable multivibrator. So, recall the formula and find the value of time period and frequency of oscillations for a stable multivibrator. Carefully see what are the components at base circuit of amplifier. So, answer is 0.14 millisecond and frequencies 7.2 kilohertz. Applications of stable multivibrators are like this. It is a free running multivibrator as we are not providing any trigger powers to get the output across the output terminals. So, it is called as free running multivibrator. It will continuously switch between its 0 volt and 1 volt level nothing, but VCC. For digital circuit we are considering the level as 0 and 1. So, that is why it is also called as square wave frequency generator. So, it is also used as a timing oscillator. It is used as a clock to a computer system. It is used for flashing lights, switching and power supply circuit. So, with the help of a stable multivibrator we can have various fancy kind of applications so that no need to give any trigger pulse over here, but for that you must select the value of R and C carefully that is R 1, C 1 or R 2 and C. It is also used for switching and power supply circuits. So, references are like this.


If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it. And that is Circle CEO Jeremy O'Lear pretty much just came out and said, you know what? I think the path forward is a digital dollar, aka a CBDC. And Jeremy comes out and says this, look, moving to a full reserve dollar digital currency is our best hope to insulate the internet financial system from the systemic risks embedded in the fractional reserve banks. What I think Jeremy is trying to do here is hedge his bet and go, look, we are a digital dollar. You can use you can use us as Circle. You don't have to use CBDC. But essentially what he's saying is let's do a CBDC. Now, I know he wants his company to be picked out. But when you start to talk about these things, there's some people in the comments will just say, look, this guy's playing his cards right now. We're starting to see what he wants to do. They've been working with the government not saying that's wrong. But for me, when I take a look at this, I'm like, man, are CBDCs just inevitable?


Hey, my name is Fernando and I'm a technical marketing manager here at GitLab and today I'm going to go over container host security with Falco GitLab container host security monitoring Uses Falco as a runtime security tool that listens to the Linux kernel using eBPF Falco parts a system calls and asserts a stream against a configurable rules engine in real time This is useful because it allows you to detect and alert on security threats as soon as they happen Allowing you to respond accordingly In order to install Falco, there's a few prerequisites First of all, we must have a Kubernetes cluster installed on our project This cluster must be a GitLab managed cluster. It must also have the project selected on their cluster management project a Cluster management project can be used to run deployment jobs with Kubernetes cluster admin privileges This is needed in order to install Falco. Now, let's take a look at the CI file and GitLab CI we need the managed cluster applications template which calls the apply job We also need a directory called dot GitLab managed apps and Add a file called config.yaml. This will tell us to install Falco This is what the pipeline will look like You can see the apply job here along with the rest of the pipeline Now let's go ahead and add a custom rule We can do this by adding a new directory in the managed apps directory Called Falco within that directory will add a values.yaml file Here we can specify the custom rules key and go ahead and add a custom rule I'm going to add one that detects Directory being created now once I merge this it'll apply the rule to Falco You can add nested rules here as well Now let's explore what that looks like in our cluster After the apply job has completed we can see if the Falco pods are up and running Now I'm going to create a simple pod Which creates the file a in the dev directory. This is something that Falco searches for Now let's go ahead and apply the pod Now let's exec into the pod and Here we can add to a dot text in the dev directory We can also just create another directory in Dev which is the custom rule. I just added now we can take a look at the logs It would be helpful to actually pipe this to a file so we can search on The logs are outputted in JSON. I'm going to go ahead and show the rules that we just caught These are what the alerts look like on the left We can see an error caused for a directory being created, which is the custom rule we added on The right we can see that a file was created in the slash dev directory. This is a default rule from Falco With Falco, you can create an alert each time an error is found There are many different ways of alerting. You can write the standard out a file or even send alerts to an application or endpoint This can be done by simply adding to the YAML file located in .gitlab slash manageapp slash falco values.yaml For more information on alerting we can see the links in the description Now I'm going to pass it over to product manager Sam White to talk a little bit about Falco's roadmap At GitLab we have several plans to improve our integration with Falco The first of these is through an integration with our policy management user interface To allow users to easily configure Falco rules in GitLab through a simple rules editor or through YAML The second is an integration with our newly released security alert dashboard to allow select Events to show up on that alert dashboard to be triaged by end users The third is better statistics and performance monitoring Which involves the ability to view summary statistics for those events that have been triggered by Falco rules And lastly we want to provide support for the GitLab Kubernetes agent so that users can deploy Falco Into their cluster through GitLab without requiring GitLab to have cluster admin rights These items are subject to change and we welcome your feedback Thanks for watching for more information on container host security with Falco see the links in the description And be sure to subscribe