Hello, and welcome to the session. This is Professor Farhad. In this session, we would look at an introduction to international taxation. This topic is covered in international accounting course, sometime in a tax course. It's covered on the CPA exam, as well as the CACCA exam. If you haven't connected with me on LinkedIn, please do so. YouTube is where you would need to subscribe. I have 1,500 plus accounting, auditing, tax and finance lectures. Please like my lectures if you like them. Click on the like button. It helped me tremendously. Share them. Put them in playlist. If you're listening to my lectures, it means they're benefiting you. It means they might benefit other people as well. Also, I do have a website. If you wanna go more than the lectures and you would like to access additional resources, please visit my website and see the details if you are interested. StudyPal.co is an artificial intelligence study body platform that matches you with another candidate. They can the CPA or the CFA exam. They have users in many countries and in 2800 cities. So what is the big picture? What is international taxation? And why is it important? Well, let's think about the tax in general. Tax is a burden. Tax is a burden. I mean, for most companies, it's the most significant cost incurred by a business enterprise. Sometime it's bigger than cost of goods sold. Taxes, they reduce cash and they reduce profit. So it's very important that companies look at their tax bill to see if there's any way they can minimize their taxes legally by utilizing strategies. And international taxation will come into that picture. What can we do? What is, how can we reduce our taxes? Because the goal is to minimize the taxes while complying with applicable laws. Now for a mom and pop store or a mom and pop company, small companies, they might not have this window, international window that they can go through to minimize their taxes. But for multinational corporation, they can reduce their taxes on their worldwide income as long as they know the rules in different countries that would require expertise of different countries and knowledge how that earned income is taxed in a different country.  But the point is you want to see if you have an option to lower your taxes. So multinational corporations, they make a number of very important decision, which taxation is an important variable. Again, taxation is a large burden of cost and it takes into account whether you want to move or to operate in a foreign country. But usually the three most important issues when it comes to international taxation are obviously the location, where are you gonna be located? That's obviously relevant because if you are located in a certain country that the legal jurisdiction will apply to you as well as the tax jurisdiction. The legal form, what legal form of operation should take? How are you gonna operate? Under what type of legal structure, business legal structure and how are you gonna be financing your operation? Are you gonna be using stocks, bond?  Are you gonna put borrowing money from yourself, from your parent company? Are you gonna be borrowing money from the local banks in a foreign currency? How are you gonna finance yourself that matters as well? And we're gonna look at each one of those separately then when we talk about tax planning, we will revisit this topic. For location, that's an obvious one. We have to keep in mind that. So when you make a decision, when you make a decision, you have to look at after tax profit.  So that's why we want to look at places, at locations. We want to locate in places where that $40 is minimized, okay? So we have to keep in mind because of the effective tax rate varies across countries and sometimes within the same country, when after tax return from competing investment, locations vary. So we have to be very careful in seeing that if I operate in a certain country, my after tax return might be different. And within the same country, sometimes it's different. For example, in the US, different states will tax you differently. Some states they have no income taxes and some states they have up to 12, 15 income taxes. So the decision, whether you want to operate in Spain or Portugal could be affected by differences in the tax system. How are they gonna be taxing you? That's very important, the location. The second factor is the legal form. How are you gonna be operating in that country? You can operate either as a branch, basically the kind of satellite of the company or as a subsidiary.  So some countries tax branches differently from subsidiary. So you have to find out which is the most efficient or the optimal way for me to operate in this country. Should I open just the branch or should I create a subsidiary basically becoming part of that country? Because different countries will tax that differently, okay? So the difference, the different tax treatment for branches and subsidiaries could result in one legal form being preferable to the other because of the impact on profit in cash flow. Again, each country is different, but those are the factors that you have to look at. The third factor is the method of financing.  How are you gonna get capital? Is it through equity? Are you gonna issue stocks or are you gonna issue loans or bonds or debt? Are you gonna borrow money, okay? Because cash flow generated by a foreign operation can be repatriated basically, repatriated basically send back to the home country, to the parent company, make an either dividend payment or interest payment. So when you finance yourself, how are you going to repatriate that money? And that's an interesting topic. We're gonna talk a little bit more about when we discuss tax planning, okay? So also countries often impose a special withholding taxes on dividend and interest payment made to foreigners. Also we'll talk about this a little bit more in detail. So how you structure yourself will matter because when you pay interest versus dividend, it makes a difference on the withholding as well. And withholding just like the tax rate will vary from country to country and by the type of the payment. So some countries they will hold 10, 15, some none and depending on the country. The rate is different between countries and in the form of the payment. So you have two complexity to work with. Okay, when this is the case, the multinational corporation may wish to use more than one type of financing than the other because the positive impact on cash flow. So you have to determine which one is the most efficient or the most optimal way for you. And what's the most optimal way? Reduce your taxes, that's the whole point.  Should you employ that? Should you employ equity? So what is the importance of international taxation? Obviously for the reasons that we mentioned. So it's very important for managers to understand to develop some sort of expertise. Now you cannot be, you know, you have to ask for help from your CPA firm, from your CPA, but you have to be familiar at least to be able to articulate yourself what the issue is so they can help you. So the managers don't have to be an expert but they have to know enough information to basically be familiar with the major issues international taxation. So if they call on an expert, they can at least explain their possession. Also we have to understand there are different type of taxes and that one type of taxes. Our corporation are subject to many different taxes including property taxes, payroll taxes, XI taxes and many more. I mean, that's, there's many taxes. You know, it's important for managers to know what these taxes are about because they, what matters is the profit after the taxes. What matters is how much money are we gonna take home after we pay the taxes. But for our purposes, we're gonna be looking at two different taxes. We're gonna be looking at corporate income taxes and withholding taxes because those usually corporate income tax is a large one and withholding also an important tax as well. So those are the two that I will focus on throughout this chapter, not the session. I'm gonna be breaking it down into several sessions. So let's talk about income taxes. So what is income taxes? Well, the government need to raise money. The government need to raise money. All government, they need to operate. So what do they do? If you operate in that country and you make a profit, you have to pay taxes on that money. Well, that's income tax for the government, okay? Now, most government impose income taxes and they have a specific rate, but rate don't, and the rate varies. So for example, in Switzerland, rate will be different than Germany. Germany will be different than France. So on and so forth. France will be different than Australia, okay? So in most countries, the rate ranges from 15 to 35 and the US used to be one of the highest rate but there's a lot of loophole in our tax system. Now they reduced it at 21, but the point is it differ, okay? Because they differ, this is an opportunity for multinational corporation because now they can decide where to locate, where to locate to minimize their taxes, okay? So we have to be very careful also, not only the national tax, sometimes there's a national tax and there's a local tax. I'll give you an example. The US is a good example. In the US, for example, if you incorporate in Delaware, you don't have no state income tax and I know my brother, he has his corporation in Delaware. He incorporated in Delaware. There is no state income tax. Well, not only my brother and many, the majority of corporations, all the big corporations, all the big corporations are incorporated in Delaware because they have no state income tax but you have to pay federal income tax.  The point is if you operate in Pennsylvania, you'll have to pay, I believe it's an additional 10% to your federal income tax. If you operate right across the border in Delaware, which is five miles away from Delaware where I'm sitting right now, you don't have to incorporate there, you don't have to pay state income tax. It matters if a multinational company, for example, a German company wants to operate in the US, what are they gonna incorporate? Because that matters, that matters. In some countries, local government imposes separate tax on business income in addition to the tax levied by the national government. Obviously, I just stated so. A good example is Switzerland. If you look at the Switzerland national tax rate, it's 8.5, which is, wow, this is way below the 15th, right? But you have to understand within each jurisdiction, within each, I'm not sure if they call them state in Switzerland, there is local taxes that could range between 12 to 24, which you have to add to the 8.5 to the national average. For example, a company located in Zurich can pay up to 21.15% to local and federal government together, okay? So corporate income taxes imposed an individual state in the US varies from zero, Delaware, oh, South Dakota, I guess, zero, to high as 12% in Iowa, okay? So that's why you have not only look at the state, the state rate, the country rate, you have to look to see if there's any local or state taxes. For example, this is a list of some countries. For example, Argentina, they're high as 35, and there's a lot of issues going on with the economy. They're Australia 30, let's see, select some countries, Germany 29, Greece 30, let's look at Hungary 9%, Hungary only 9%, India 30%. Now again, those are very, this is the big picture. This is the sources, KPMG corporate tax rate, January 2018, accessed on that date from their website. But basically those are the rates. Now again, the rates are very misleading in a sense that you have to see if there's any state or local taxes. For example, I can tell you the US here, where's the US? The US is 40%, which is not, it used to be 39%, not 40%, 39, the highest corporate tax rate. Now it's 21%, but that's not the only thing. You have to understand how you are taxed. For example, in the US, companies, they have a lot of loopholes that sometimes companies don't report a profit. So even whether it's zero or 40%, that doesn't matter because you have so many tax breaks that you end up not paying any taxes legally. For example, in Russia, it's 20%, but who knows what other local taxes you are responsible for. But the point is, look, it's all over the place. It's all over the rate, the rate is all over the place. Look at the global average, which is meaningless in a sense because in the US we change and those rates are constantly changing. So looking at an average is just like meaningless. It doesn't mean anything. So there's more variation in the tax structure, more, more variation. In a few countries, corporate income tax rate can vary according to the type of activity. For example, what business you are in, you are gonna be taxed differently than the other business. So for example, the rate of national tax in France is reduced to 15% on income generated from certain intellectual property, right? So they would reduce it to 15% if you are in that industry. In Malaysia, a special 5% tax rate applies to corporation involved in a qualified insurance business. You have to pay more. For example, in India, foreign companies are taxed at a 10% higher than the domestic company. So whatever the Indian rate is, if you're a foreign company, you have to pay 10% more unless you structure your business in a way to make it an Indian business, then you pay the local tax. So that's what you have to keep in mind. Because capital budgeting, what matters in capital budgeting when the company plan to undertake an investment is the after tax. How much am I gonna get after I pay my tax, okay? So obviously taxes paid to the foreign government will have a negative impact on the future cash flow and might affect the location. Of course it does. That's the whole purpose of it, okay? For example, assume a Japanese musical instrument manufacturers is deciding whether to locate a new factory in Hungary or in Switzerland. Although the national tax rate in Hungary is slightly higher, the effective rate in some part of Switzerland is much higher, okay? So Hungary, we said 9%, you know, Switzerland said 8.5, but then in Switzerland, you're gonna have to pay that additional local tax. That local tax may not be in Hungary. Also, the rate matters what the rate is, what you are paying, but what really matters, it's how you compute your taxes. How do you compute what's called your taxable income? What revenue?   Of course it does. It's what revenue is taxable. Some revenues is not taxable. For example, in the U.S., certain revenue is not taxable. You're gonna get certain deductions that are not available in other places. For example, in the U.S., we have the dividend received deduction as well as many other deductions for that matter. Also in the U.S., there are certain income that's not taxable. For example, or certain losses that are not deductible. A case in point is you have to keep in mind that you cannot live by the tax rate alone. So you cannot look at the percentage, what the rate is, and say, okay, I'm gonna base my decision on that rate. Because the way you compute your taxable income, which is your taxable revenue minus your tax expenses, might be different from country to country, although the rate might be different. Also, the way you compute this, just as the tax rate varies, the way you compute this taxable income might vary as well. For example, expenses can be deducted for tax purposes, can greatly vary from country to country. For example, in the U.S., the CEO of the company, you can pay them as much as you want to, but you can only deduct a million dollar. So if you pay the CEO five million dollar, guess what? You can only deduct one million of the five million. The remainder is not tax deductible. And there are many, many other rules and they're gonna get into them. But the point is, how you compute your taxes are important. Also in the U.S., we have LIFO, LIFO for inventory. What does LIFO stand for? LIFO stand for last and first out. What does it mean last and first out? Which means, generally speaking, prices rises, generally speaking. So as prices rises, as your input, as your cost of the goods sold rises, you're gonna be matching that prices, which is last in, last in, first out. You're gonna be matching high, higher cost to revenue. And what happened when you have higher cost? Well, your profit goes down.  Well, LIFO is available in the U.S. It's not available anywhere else. So although the rate might be higher in the U.S., but if you employ LIFO, if you're in the U.S. and you employ LIFO, you might be able to pay a lower effective tax rate. And last but not least, changes in the corporate income tax rate. There's always changes. So you have to understand this. How stable, not necessarily stable, but how often does a country change its tax rate? Because if you start operating there and you make an investment and now the tax rate is low, but they increase the tax rate, well, you have to take that into account. Or on the other hand, what if they reduce the tax rate, which should be in your best interest? So corporate income tax rate varies across the world. So they don't remain constant. So that's obvious, but that's something you want to be aware of. So for the most part, there had been a continuing trend to reduce the corporate tax rate. You might be saying why? Why do countries want to reduce their tax rate? You might be saying, well, that's gonna give them less revenue. Yes, it gives them less revenue, but it's a cost-benefit relationship. You have to understand, if I lower my tax rate, more companies will move into my country. And as a result, I will have overall a larger tax base. I will collect more income. And basically the US started this when they did the first, basically the first overhaul of the tax system in 1986 and they lowered their tax rate for corporate tax rate from 46 to 34%. Obviously it was raised subsequently to 35% in 1994 when Clinton was in office. Then it was lower than it was raised again. It doesn't matter. Now it's 21, which is good. But again, 21, but you have a lot of, they took some loopholes out. The UK quickly followed the US and they dropped the rate from 15 to 35. Why? Because if the US lowered the rate, you have UK companies that might think about moving to the US and operate from the US. And Canada obviously reduced it because Canada basically a direct competitor with the US to just our next door neighbor from 34 to 29. Also Spain recently lowered their tax rate from 28 to 25. Malaysia reduced it from 25 to 24, not that much. But the point is it's trending lower. It's trending lower. This followed the leader effect and be explained by the fact that countries compete against one another in attracting foreign investment. That's the point here, is they will try to attract companies by making the rate lower, okay? They want to be competing on the international stage. And what you would do, you'd say, okay, my country have a lower tax rate can operate with us. You'll bring the capital. You would hire employees. The government makes profit. You have payroll taxes. And that's the whole purpose is to make the life of your citizen better. So heaven said so. There's a lot of politics that goes into the taxes. Of course it does. I'm stating the obvious, but the point is the tax system is not logical. It's much of that's politically motivated, politically based, politically based. Okay, for example, in 2017, the US had the highest effective corporate tax rate. But again, which is federal plus state among the countries listed. But I can tell you from my own experience, I mean, I work in a medium CPA firm, not a large CPA firm. I did not work with the big four. I did not look at multinational, but that information is well known. You could look up at their income statement and see how much taxes they paid. But I can tell you in the US, I mean, you're gonna love, but what I used to work most companies, most companies either incur the loss or they break even. Why? Because we had so many credits, loophole, expenses, all legal to help those companies structure their business in a way to pay the least amount of taxes. So although it may appear it's expensive, but if you plan, if you plan properly, if you have proper tax planning, if you're making a lot of money, there's no way you can get out of paying taxes. But the point is, you could always minimize your taxes. So that 39 or 40% that you see it used to be, that's not really the effective. So I'll tell you that for sure from my own experience. But in 2017, President Trump lowered the corporate income tax rate from 35, now it's 21 starting 2018. This change was part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. If you're interested in this, I have a whole course. You can go to my YouTube or to my website. I have a whole course about tax cuts and jobs acts which made most extensive change in the US tax law within three decades. So this is basically an introduction about the international taxation. We'll look at tax holidays and tax haven in the next session. If you're interested in more lectures, if you're an accounting students or a CPA student, please visit my website. I have additional resources. And if you're interested, please consider subscribing. You'll have access to additional information. For example, you can access the PowerPoint slides, so on and so forth as well as quizzes and exercises for the related lecture. Study hard, stay motivated and good luck.


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Yeah They need it, man And see my Southern soul They're right around I know So I know they gon' feel it So Okay New York is different, man I just Shout out, man I went up there I went to New Jersey I went to the IST house, right Okay So I did the whole interview At his house He over in New Jersey And New York That was the first time I stayed in New Jersey Right So what the trip was For me is that I stayed in Manhattan all the time And this trip going That I stayed It's like 45 minutes You know Over From Manhattan Was the best stay I had I done had out there, bro Man So when you go I'm just tellin' you For what you stayed No, stayed in New Jersey It's just too many people And I gotta That's in New Jersey Embracing New Jersey Yeah, yeah Staying in New Jersey That's all I'm gonna say, man I gotta go to New York, man You gotta go up there, huh Yeah, I gotta go My daughter's at Brown University So I gotta go anyway She in Rhode Island I go I'm definitely It won't be As long as I'll be up there I can promise you that That good pizza Man, I'm not for the play That pizza is great up there My wife like Chicago Deeply I don't like I'm a straight You like them thin Big slices They say the water Make it like that Oh, really?  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For Larry Hoover Jr.'s Birthday party Man, you be talking about me, man You be moving, bro No, we hustling, man Man, you be moving, bro But we had a good time But I was just saying Like, AK, he was He talked a lot It was a great, great The interview was dope You gotta go check them out I love the one you got With Phazer I ain't gonna lie, I love that Which one? Hey Oh, so he family now Yeah Get up in the hood No, but What do you like about the interview? Cause I don't got myself Chewed out about this interview What do you like? Hold on now, first I'm not going to say why Exactly You know him and Country Wayne They'll be having back and forth Yeah That started on Boss talk You're wrong That's where it started at And I just asked a simple question What was the question? Country Wayne, they'll be doing They think, man, like what? No, that's some other shit And it's been going on and on It's been going on and on They were all on clubs Chains, Chains, now It's been out here and went everywhere That's why I Believe it or not What did I see of that? I knew it Cause it had your logo on it I seen it on another site It was on another site I don't take talk of any of that stuff It's been going viral But it's I always say, you know I love, man, love Phazon I talk to Country Wayne often And I love to see them You know, pretty much Really get together and do something I would love to see that You know what I'm saying?  I said, no, nigga, wake up That nigga is going off on everybody Man, that thing got what? 30 million in three weeks Man, that thing was at 50 something million It's the second most viewed Interview on YouTube The biggest one is Joe Rogan Joe Rogan got one this 58 right now He gon' catch it He gon' catch it Cause that been up for years And Joe Rogan's was about aliens Or something It was about a dude who thought He's seen an alien And that whole went crazy And the dude was so specific On seeing these alien-ic acts Yeah, and I went and looked at it Just because it was the most viewed I just did that because of Cat Williams' interview He might have been right He probably did see him I don't know I don't know This stuff happening in this world To the point This stuff underwater just coming up That we've seen We've never seen in real life Like what? I'm out there Like what? They had a turtle A turtle with a snake head Really? Yes You know I love it You don't think that was Jeff in the seat That was Jeff in the seat It was moving those up to the 8 I don't know these days You can't take anything serious Well, you don't know a thing about it You keep on living That's what my old folks say You keep on living That's what my old you You just say something smart You're like, okay You keep on living Now I'm starting to see What he meant, bro Yeah, man Like I said, man One thing I can't say, man You being You know, when you look at the Southern Soul movement A lot of times I'm going to tell you Even dealing with like Sir Charles and all of the artists That I see over there My biggest thing And L.J. Elkles does a great job At it Is the quality of the videos Yeah The quality of the videos I don't know I think purposely Y'all was leaving them A little rugged there for a while I don't know what it was I'm telling you But it seems like now They're moving in more Because technology is changing, bro Right So like cameras and everything Everybody, these people Getting better with how they're posting stuff Like do you see the change happening Because you see the video You know footage The way it looked Starting out versus how it looked Can you tell the difference in quality?  My first one You know, I shot me at Sir Charles shot that real breed Okay And he was showing me He was doing all the zoom He had like four, five different cameras I remember back in the gap You had one little camera Yeah I'm telling you about this bit You get it from Walmart They just doing it like this But now y'all be putting Anything on these tripods And zoom them in They be spinning I'm like, I love this I love this So the quality of that one Compared to the one You're getting ready to release What is the difference? The shooters The shooters The one I met For the woman It was shot in Detroit By my boy Herb Different shooters Shoot different ways Okay So he don't have all the equipment That Sir Charles got But he do his thing Okay Sir Charles had 20 cameras Around you One video, bro I know I'd be like, man Then he'd just be pointing How you'd be doing the ham He'd be recording Yeah You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah Give me one camera, bro So But you do see the change in it And the one thing I can say, man I think even the quality The music is changing When you hear like King George And these different artists The way that they're bringing it now What's the difference in the way it was Versus the way it is now Meaning in the last Within the last four years Whether it be King George Whether it be, you know The way Sir Charles He was almost R&B to me To be honest He was R&B-ish When he first came And it really pissed people off To be honest with you But the older guys Didn't know how to accept Sir Charles Jones I'm telling you I remember this I'm not crazy I remember it As a matter of fact He told me and him Talk often about it The way it was Because of the way He was versatile He was younger too Yeah You know the blues Knicker supposed to be old That Knicker supposed to grow Like Bobby Blubland This young Knicker Coming through He was younger than these Knickers And he was acting like He was just really You know he could do blues But the Knicker too Fly really to be You know what I'm saying So you didn't know him At this time No See you too Yo I see I heard a story though You know it When I was coming up As a young My mom and him Used to listen to him Okay Yeah So I knew of him I just didn't know Who he was I always heard of music But I didn't Never know who he was When he came out I was ten years old I think I told somebody I said man That King George He got one call His Friday night I said that song right there Realized a duplication Of what What Sir Charles done And then His song about Friday Well his Friday Yeah It meant that they did The same tempo Except for King George kept doing Over and over and over again All them songs And the tempo was just Boom boom boom boom boom And he jams Everything he do Is pretty much the same Type tempo The type feel I heard another dude Who had gay Showed me something I think it was Last night That kind of sounded The same The same tempo You know what I'm saying Like how is it when you see People cause King George came After you was on the scene Right I think we came around At the same time But I think I seen you first So I'm just telling you I was dealing with you first When he came out of 21 too I don't know I'm telling you That nigga just came One day on my YouTube channel Nigga shit I don't know I ain't gon' lie I just seen him One day I'm just being real One day No no He definitely doing the same But I'm just telling you But see he came from the rap game Like me with two short You know he'd be with two short He was a rapper Yeah he was a rapper I ain't even know I don't know the nigga history I told him he popped up on YouTube Young holiday Man you know So how many new guys Is it out there You was telling me about something Who's the guy you sent me Yesterday Or the day before yesterday The one you wanted me to listen to Oh young guy Okay yeah How long has he been around About a year He been out about a year About a year About yourself though How fast Y'all love this music when you Well listen to it But how long Let me ask you this Like how many people Do you see just consistently coming Is it moving fast Because you look at the world When you look at the rap world You look at different new artists That pop up all the time You know what I'm saying How frequent do those Southern soul artists pop up You can get it in your opinion In my opinion You can get to four or five Area They go get in here and ruined You know, like, it's a lot of them, man. They go get in here and run. And there's so many artists, but the new one that stand out in trend, you gon' know them, cause you always seen them. Yeah, yeah. You know what I'm saying? What differentiated one from the other? Nothing really, you know?  So like, they just doing their thing. Yeah. See it be hard for me to speak when they come a rapper. It don't matter if you had every show with these niggas, your trail riding, what I'm not coming with that, bruh. You see these niggas every day.  I ain't all the time. And you the only nigga, I don't know what I'm rapping most of the time. You the only rapper. Yeah, man.  You was, nigga, you was at first. I was, I just made it more noticeable. Well, I'm just telling you, I ain't see them other niggas. So to me, it was you.  What makes one pop stand out more than the other? Is it the grind? Is it the tempo or the music? What is causing the difference? I'm gonna tell you, man, this internet so crazy, right? Like if you got a song and they catch on to the audience, you gonna see it hit 1.2 million, 3.4 million. Not even four books ever was. See that Southern Soul run. Okay. You getting them views online, you gone. What about TikTok? Do it help y'all there? Yeah, it help a lot of them. It broke a lot of them. It broke my boy P2K. Okay. It broke King George. It broke a lot of people. That trail ride broke me on TikTok. A lot of trail rides. You killed it.   Mm-mm, mm-mm. So you was going for it. It was just folk, just little kids and everything just tagging me and stuff. And I ain't looking at they view but folk like, man, I seen this on this and they showing it to them. I'm seeing like 896,000. Right, man. Yeah. It was like that. That TikTok, that TikTok show, another different world. That TikTok. But you get it on TikTok, you own for the rest of your life. And I know. If you hustle right. If you hustle right. If you hustle right. And that's the whole game. Like a lot of artists are really, really gauging to try to be noticed through TikTok, through different situations that are being ushered through the, you know, the social media waves. Right. I mean, even when you look at the reels on YouTube, the reels on Facebook, the reels there, they're sharing these reels more and more. We're getting there at a rhythm, you good. Yeah. They sharing them more and more. The reels is where everybody is pretty much pushing it to. How much do you focus on that? Man, I really don't, you know, I be focused on the promoter. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Let's book me, let's work, let's make something happen. Cause I get to be different city. I'm going to train another audience. Cause there'll be people that don't know me.  Wow. What, what a surprise you most when you get to a city, like, like, um, for somebody knowing, hey, that's bad news. I'm gonna tell you the crazy thing that happened to me, man, in the city. I don't think I was in, uh, what was that? L.A.? I was in L.A., man, a OG, man. He a old man. He about 90. He a old school blues singer, Bobby. Mr. Bobby, uh, I forgot his name. Mr. Bobby, he do that saxophone and everything. Okay. He said, young man, I like what you doing. And then when he walked around the corner, he go around the corner. Guess who I see? Mr. Bobby Rush. Hey. Mr. Bobby Rush. I ain't lying. How big was that? Man, it was crazy. Because what Mr. Bobby Rush told me, he was like, man, you changing the game.  You don't even know what kind of power you got out here. When that man told me that, boy, price went up. Wow. Yeah. It's awesome. If that man saying that, and what the other people saying, you know what I'm saying? Bobby Rush. Yeah. That's huge. You know what I'm saying? That man told me he, I'm changing the game or music with what I'm doing. Wow. It's Southern Soul and Blue. Wow. What you seeing, like, like it brings something to mind when I, because then the game you in, it was when you start dealing with Southern Soul, a lot of these guys are older guys. Have you lost anybody that was dear to you in the Southern Soul, you know? You see what I'm saying? Because these are older guys.  I was a big Lil Milton. I was a big Marvin Cease. All these guys, as I was getting older, you know, I was listening to that. I'm just a ghetto man. I still eat beans out the can. I'm that type of nigga. Right. And basically when these guys left, it was like, dang, Johnny Taylor gone. Dang, man, Tyrone Davis gone. Like, which guys have you seen coming into the game that basically, you know, dang man, they got on up out of here? And you know, the crazy part about it, the people that I don't see leave, they female. Wow. Like Miss Tick from out here. Wow. You know what I'm saying? Like I had Jeb was at a show with that girl. Wow. Miss Portia. You know what I'm saying? She died from COVID. Dang. COVID took her out. And I was like, man, I'm just not mean to eat people. Like that girl died like two weeks, two, three weeks after I had a show of her in Atlanta.  He just crazy, man. Like I had a mentor, you know what I'm saying? Just a spiritual mentor of my OG. He used to be with me when he see, he knew how to eat folk marmosets. So he like sent me through calling Mr. Bird. He checked that on me. Wow. And you and him, you and him. Man, that man, when you seen me, you seen my OG. You don't remember that old school cat I used to be with? Did he come here? He came here. He passed, bro. I didn't even know that. And I remember cause I had Charles the White in him here that day. I had Charles the White. All y'all here, sure did. Yup. That the first time I came in here. Yup. He passed, bro. And he passed. Council. Man. I remember him. My producer who made that song that beat my queen different. He passed November 30th. See what I'm saying? Yup. He took a car. He took a COVID shot. And he was guessing it worked for a bloodstream. So was he okay before? Yeah, he was perfect.  Yeah, yeah. He took that shot, bro. What a down man. R.P. Yates. Man, that's crazy, man. Like the reason I asked you that, cause I know in that world that there's, that people are moving on. And they gonna continue to move on. It ain't just that world. But I'm just saying every one of us, even when you start looking at the rap artists, you know, everybody got to get up out of here, bro. So it really ain't a thing where, you know, you can't control it. All you can do is soften the blow by getting closer to God and loving your family and hugging your family more. I know one thing about the rap guy. So I'm good at having BG home. BG home. Do get home, baby.  Where he ain't that hugging with that red. He was with the soldier slim. They called me the other day on FaceTime. Yeah, yeah. You seen him when he was in Vegas?  She is. His mama used to, you know, his mama used to take care, well, used to take care of, I don't know if you know, Peaches down there in New Orleans, the record store. Yeah. I interviewed Sir Ron in the record store. That's on my show too. You tell my social media sister, right? No, no. I interviewed Peaches too. But I'm talking about Peaches record store. Record store on the call right now. The Jewish lady. Yeah. Oh, I ain't know that. I interviewed her inside of there. I interviewed all of No Limit inside of there. Yeah, this here happened, bro. And when they, and a lot of the No Limit people, but the thing was, I'm just saying, you know, her mother, BG mama used to take care of her mother before she passed away. Yeah, Mars Cynthia. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's crazy. Big fan of my music, bro. And I mean, they let her call and check on me and everything. And he got a, she got a sister. They called me too. They called me her and her son. They got a little cousin that rapped. First cousin. BG got a first cousin that raps and they called me. Luciano? I don't know none of these folks.  And I told them they could, but the one thing that's traveling, you got to come to me or either you got to wait until I come to your city. Yeah, yeah. I don't think he can leave right now. No, no, no. He ain't Vegas. I'm gonna see him. But I go to Vegas. I don't know if I'm gonna get him, but I'm sure gonna try to highlight him. I'm gonna show some love. I'm gonna reach out through Slim and all that. Right, right, right, right. Little soldier. But nah, man, it's just a blessing to be able to see people come home, man. You know, let me just say this right here, man. Honeycomb Brazy came home and went back faster than anybody I've ever seen. Like in Rapper, I think he got the record for coming home and leaving going back. Right back. It was 20 some days. 20. Oh, you done counted the days. You ain't over the days. You know that boy from Alabama? I don't know. So wait a minute. Wait a minute, that boy from Mobile, but tell me, tell me like, like when he came home, it was, he was already on, he was going home. Me and him, I got a text about this nigga, me and him cause it's a few things going on with me. I'm thrilled. Right. He came home and he was trying to shoot at Jay Prince and him and he said, Pimp C, anytime you say Pimp C, you got to highlight me. You know what I'm talking about?  I don't even hear nothing. I just hear the Pimp C part, you know, and then I started tripping, but I get a text from one of his homies and he like, man, he say, man, he love Pimp C. He started sending me all these letters he wrote in prison, showing that he showed love to Pimp C, but I was like, man, still man, don't say Pimp C. Y'all got to say somebody else. You know what I'm saying? Cause Pimp, you know what I'm saying? He off limits and speaking of that, let me just say this, cause I've been getting a lot of flack about it and I'm here to, I want all the smoke. My girl, Nikki Minaj, she just did something. She said, is your bond B or is your Pimp C melon making the stallion? And I didn't appreciate it at all cause I'm crazy like that. So, I mean, how do you feel about when you start using the legend name and just basically, she really wasn't saying nothing about them and I know it, but still using the burn and the Pimp name to try to put, it's almost like, see, I'm sensitive. I'm from Texas and when you from New York and you start talking down on the way we talk or you say something that even remotely feels like that, it's gonna offend me. I'm gonna be honest with you. Cause I know y'all work so hard and they want to call it chitlin, sir. I don't play none of that. So you got the right guy sitting behind this chair. I don't even care about none of that. I just know y'all sell good music. Y'all make good music, make niggas listen and tune in because that's what make us who we are and blues and everything else, stimulated from down here. So I don't know why they be trying to figure out ways to discredit what we got going. Right, right. But still, what do you think about that? Do you think it's good to use the patriarch's name or what? I mean, Allegedly.  Allegedly, you know, I just think when you use Allegedly's name, make it how to be some positive. Don't mock with it. Yeah, you go speak on Allegedly's name, say something positive about that legend or something that you remember them of. You know what I'm saying? That's just what I think, you know what I'm saying? Don't put it in no beef or none of that, you know, cause you don't know how these four families feel at the same time what you're doing. Man, you know it. I don't feel like it. What you feel like? Let's go. You know what? You think you can just talk about Allegedly's? You can say what you want to if you feel that way. I'll say if you feel that way, say what you want to. I'm like, I've got a problem with the old world. They can't be everybody in the world. I don't know if you want to, I don't know if you want to play around like that. You know what I'm saying? I thought we put that freedom of speech. And every time we say something crazy, y'all want to say something. Like everybody got an opinion on everything. Everybody say, we can't, we cannot, what's the word I'm looking for? We cannot tend to everybody in the world. I mean, you can't care about everybody feeling this.  It's going to be some circumstances, everything. It's certain things you say, whether it be about somebody's dead homies or whether you, it don't matter. No, we all going to die one day. So what does it matter? Whether it be about somebody's mama.  Don't matter. I'm talking about a mama that's alive. It don't matter. You just go in. It don't matter, bro.  So you can't say that. No, we're talking about, hold on, hold on, hold on. If you're talking about her, hold on, hold on. Let me go back to that. If you're talking about kids, then yeah, of course you got to see me. I don't care who you is. But we're talking about grown folks. Grown folks talking about grown folks. It doesn't matter but we're grown, bro. That should be over with, done with. Like you, what's going to happen?  Now what? Nothing. Let it go. Now, if you react to it, then what's going to cause a whole problem? Right. So let it go. It don't matter, it don't hurt. If he don't wreck it, don't hurt. If you wreck it. Yes. But you know, different folk respond to it. And I understand it because they don't hurt for the pain. I didn't say it necessarily hurt, but some people just don't play them games.  I got to record and she. Hold on, I got a good one for you. Hold on, she talked about Megan's mother, like, and then Megan talked about certain things with people crossing lines that they shouldn't cross doing this stuff to try to make views and trying to get sound bites and likes, bro. Yeah. It's not even nothing to even be doing all that over.  Yeah, it's going to keep going. And they won't know why though. And they won't keep going.  Hold on, before I often get to this, that's because that's the mindset that they are deaf in jail. They're dead to that, bro. That's the mindset, that's the jail rule. You can't let nobody in jail. See what you're saying? It's a rule, they're adapted to that. If you make a rule, you have to adapt to it. You have to, it's not damn wet. Nothing's going to happen to you. Like, if you make a rule, you are adapted to that rule.  That's how they put in place in their mindset, bro. It's a mindset thing. That's all it is. I'm like, I ain't been in jail.  Come test me and see what happened, bro.  Because it's your life, you gotta leave it.  Just go eat it. You see, he's dangerous. That's why I keep him. He's like, hey, boy. Like listen, I was younger, I used to say something, but now it's like, it ain't gonna get me in trouble. It got me in trouble. But see, that come with time, bro. You getting wiser now. Everybody need to. But that doesn't mean everybody is. They need to, bro. Listen, life show you a lot of stuff. Some people take it and run. Some people take it and finesse it and use it. So it's like, it's how you use it, bro. Like some people gonna use it for the bad, some people gonna use it for the good. I say, depending on how you use it, how you take it. Man, you know, the one thing I love about the fact of how, you know, these conversations open up conversations that pretty much give people an eye opener to say, man, this how I feel about that. This how I feel about that. This how I see it. It's how I feel. You know what I'm saying?  It's therapeutic just to even be able to conversate on around the table. People don't realize that's why a podcast is so, it's really a real instrument that can really help sway different things just going on in this universe, bro. Become people, sit back and watch the conversations. They wanna, most people don't open up. But in an hour's time of us talking, something gonna come out and spill out. This gonna pretty much make somebody say this. But that, you get some comments about it. You know what I'm saying? It's gonna come out. It's gonna come out, right? So like the thing, can you really like, have you, you done got married or what? You married now? I'm married to myself. Married to the game. I'm married to the game. I'm married to life. I'm married to everything that the Lord did to me. You see how I'm hitting it with that? That took him, I gut shot that nigga, man, with emotional, try, try, try. I'm married to everything that the Lord did to me. Say, man, it's Bob's time, man. I'm coming in right here. I'm married to everything that married to me, man. Say how your little boy doing, man. You still rapping?  How old is he? A little bad new getting to it. It's all right. Look at that video we heard earlier about the other than not, you know, the rapper. You know what? What was that boy named? Lil T.J. Lil T.J. cussing like a snake. Bro. You know I'm listening, man. I was upset, man. But look. Lil T.J. I really just got, and that's my look. You know what? What difference between him and King? What difference between him and King? I ain't worse than King. Oh, this look, man. I think, no, no. King, King, King, King. This nigga raw. King is controlled a little bit. He ain't controlled his words. Pull it up, man. Let me let my boy hear it. That's my fault. I used to pull it up. My used to, let me hear this nigga, man. She got my phone, too. Like some time, these young niggas, I don't know. And he bought eight. It's like he can listen. 99. He didn't know it was wrong. But he's direct. Not it. Not it. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. Give me that phone. It's wrong, but he can read it. Turn it on. No, it's not my phone. That's my phone. Give it to him. Shit, I thought you were going to. I'll pull it up. Unlock it. Hell, you could have took this one. It done that. I thought it was my phone. Hell, man. But he gone hard, but it's wrong, bro. Because he's nine years old. The first time he's saying slick and ding. It's like this. Nine years old. I swear, but he's hard. It's wrong, bro. It's really wrong. It's very wrong. It's wrong.  What's my little T-shirt? A single mother. R.T. R.T. I was sitting with a single mother. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. No, bro. I was sitting with a single mother. I was sitting with a single mother. Listen to you. Hey, you going out. But it's wrong. What are you going out?  You got your hands up. Let me tell you something. Do that other way. Boy, I take that belt to that little nigga. Look at the head, though.   He ain't doing nothing. Cut it off. I can't listen to him.  You know the problem, man. He's the generation we in now. Man, I ain't. I'm not too old for this, bro. But you think about it, bro. Family don't sit around and have that table. Dad, let me tell you something. When a kid don't be in church, no, no. My dad would have seen him do that. Lord rest my daddy's soul. Or if I could get him over to the house for the summer. Yeah, one summer. That's it. You don't need but six a day. Man, we're going to play. We're going to be working. We're going to be, I'm going to let him wrap all the time. But when I wrap these, when I wrap these loving arms and hands around that belt and knock them out. I bet mama getting a fat. I'm going to cut a switch. And I'm going to twist that switch. Because my dad and them twippers. We would take the switch, right? They pay pay. They cost them too. They get them features. But look, you hear what I'm saying? Mama get a nice chick too, though, behind that. Man, who worries about that? You think I'm going to sell my kids' soul for a general? Man, he could crash out at 14. She twill. She oughta got the money. How old was you when you got shot in the head? 10. 10. You see what I'm saying? Doing this, right? Doing something that had no damn business doing. Jack Boy. A Jack Boy.  What I'm telling you. Yeah, you be out here doing whatever to get by. You know what I'm saying? You got to think about it. I was 10 hanging with 15 and 16. That's what I'm saying. Yo, you're bringing the belt, so you don't know everything to everybody else knowing what you're doing. Or for you to sit there and do that like that, that don't make no damn sense. I'm going to be honest with you. When you get your butt. I'm going to tell you when you like, go tell you when you meet a older one. I was about to ask you about that song. You going to learn a day. I want to talk to you about that song. I met an older woman. Like, that's your new, the new one. And she put it on me. That's how I go. Give me a little bit of what it's saying. Mm-hmm. No, you didn't really have nigga.  I met her at the liquor store. That's it? I was making the play.  A month later, she bae. Let me tell you about it though. Now, my grandma taught me one thing for sure. Mm-hmm. Never ask a way that don't ask how old.  You going to learn a day? You going to learn a day? Say something to her. Did she have a BBL? No. No, I'm just asking. No, no.  You know, because the older women get BBLs, too. No, they do. They do, but no. There's a bunch of them on Instagram. They out there getting BBL. They walking through the- But they look good though. Oh, no, they forgetting though? What they getting? They kids. How they kids going to look? Who cares? They cussing anyway.  Y'all don't. Who cares?  They need to give a damn. Who cares? No, it's how they kids look. The way they're not, you are out. It's not good. What you just showed me with a little RT, it's the same thing that happened to your kid. When your mama getting a goddamn BBL, you over as fast as exactly what's happening. Your mama get the BBL, your dad in a penitentiary, and little RT is how they're going crazy. That's why your mama got the BBL. This is what's happening. But we got to look at the whole picture. You did the work that we're living in now.  Bro, do y'all hear about the shot they give you? I don't know. Fifty cents a didn't take it, but you lost a lot of weight. They're getting a shot. Now your head looks big and everything. They say it's a shot you can take and lose all kind of way quick. Y'all ain't heard about it. I heard about it. It's a it's a P.O. too. For real? Yeah, you can take it tomorrow. You be looking at it. I ain't even aware of it. I'm either how God made it. I'm trying to game. Can I lose it? I'm either how God made it. Man, so what was the process of that song? I met an older one. What was the process of even writing it, putting it together? I mean, because my fan base mainly older women. You know what I'm saying? 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80. So I had the rights on four men because they showed me so much love. So I had to show the love back. And then you know, you never know what a song can talk the future into. You don't learn a day. Man, so you're speaking it. You really speaking things in existence. Biblical. We made love all night. She cooked me Sunday dinner.  Hey, I'm kind of young and timbre. Whoa, bars, ain't it? What's the older that came at you? What's the older that came at you? How old were you when you go, though? Yeah. How old would I go? Yeah. Older than I can take. Older than they can take. Man, you know what I'm saying? I'm a blitz catcher. You know what I'm talking about? Older than I might stop at 73. What? No. Oh, yeah. They depend. Oh, Lord. Give me that secret. Give me that secret, boy. He can spill it. He's spilling that secret, bro. The ones with no teeth got to do it. You know what I'm talking about? You see a nipple? Oh, nipple got broke, broke, broke, broke. You're going to learn anything. Hey, hey. Bro, I already know. Hold on, hold on, hold on, bro. I know what I already know. I know this already. You know what I already know. I'm going to be with the brothers. I really am. I'm a woman of young women. Right. I'm going to be with the brothers. Bro, I go, like, uh, I go, like, sixty-five and I'm going to be with the brothers. Seventy-one. Seventy-one. You going to get in. You get out, ain't you? What? I get you. Seventy-one. I get you. Hey, everybody, hey, everybody has a unique hustle. Ooh. Ooh. You going to learn, eh? Bro, they back. Yeah. Right back around. I know it was a hustle, but I don't need that, uh, that much age. I can get them out of here. You can get them out of here. Yeah, I can get them out of here. Man. I got a stem on there. Man. Hey, man. I don't know. I don't know, man. Say what the hell happened, man? I don't know. Bro. Oh, yeah. No, man. Woo. Yeah, yeah, that was it. I'm going to pause, nigga, around this thing. Hey. So, man, like, like, who... You and Poked Bear did a song together last time. We was talking about that when he was on here, like, you guys going to do something else together? Oh, we got like three... I thought that we were going to do something else. We got like three-four songs now. Y'all done went back since y'all left here? Yeah, but we got one call, uh, like, can she go up and down that pole? Oh, my. Go! If one of them wants. If one of them wants. One of them wants. It's a strip club, so... It can be? It got to be. Can she go up? What pole? Way to pause, man.  Oh, my God. Man, I'm telling you, boys, it's rough and tough, man. Yeah, man, you're on it. So that trail ride, did... When you had a trail ride when you did that song, like, look, what made you do that song? You know that trail ride gonna bring the pain. Yeah, that trail ride, man. I don't even get some in the trail ride show, man. Yeah, how? Like, groups?  I like the feels. I like being in the feel, man, where they riding them four-wheelers at, man. You like that? Yeah, I ain't gotta dress all up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My boy, then, I'm mucking suitin' some boots.  Hey, man, you gotta be on Boss Talks. I'll be clean on Boss Talks when they talk about on Boss Talks. Man, if anybody... Who have came to you coming off of Boss Talks 101 and be like, man, I seen the show, man? Man, bro, everybody is, man. I swear to God, man. I was like, man, how in the world you get on Boss Talks? I don't know how to get on it. It's crazy, bro. I swear to God, bro. I'm going out to get on the plane. All the hitmen are like, hey, man, can you please talk to the man? Tell him, let me get on this show and say, I got you, bro. I'm not going to do a trap, man. I ain't got a lot of yous in here. You're going to be calling me. You're going to be calling me like that. You say you're going to get on the plane. I say I'm a hard-letter. Now we're going to come on hard-letter. You know what I'm saying? I wasn't going to answer. Who else guy is? All you got to do is get an inbox, man. Our PR team, all the people that watch, man, they looking at everybody they get in there. I know sometimes it seems like we don't see you, but we do see you. And we always looking at opportunities to bring in new talent or just people who want to get on the show, man. Thank you guys for even staying interested in the show, man. So many of you are going to be hitting me about this show, man. If you DM me, you will not be on TV. Yeah. Hey, man. I just don't like dealing with them too much, man. If you DM me, you will not be on TV. I got to put it out there. Yeah, you don't like it. Look, that's a slogan. If you DM me, you will not be on TV. You wrong. You will not be on TV. Man, I just really... What the more do I need to show you about it?  Man. Now, like, so when are you and Sir Charles Jones going to do something else together? Y'all got something? Oh, man, yeah. We got something to come on my new album. Okay. What is new album drop? I'm going to drop it on Mother's Day, man, for all the ladies and all the mothers around the world. That's in May? May? Yeah. Yep. I think we're going to May 12, huh? I don't know. I think we're going to May 12. May something? I do know it's in May. And I'm going to drop this older woman video starring Big 50 from BT Travel. And how was it working with her? My little Big 50, man. You got to get on Boss Talk. Why you ain't got on Boss Talk? Hey, yeah, we on Boss Talk. Woo, she can get on there. She can get on there. I'm on it. I'm on it. I'm on it. She be out here a lot, too. Yeah, I know. My partner, man, shout out, man, well, R.I.P., the big D, he out on his show. Okay, okay. Yeah, so, and he from Detroit. Yep. Yep. So he did, but I like to link with him for show. Yeah, man. I thank God, man, Big 50, real, bro. How did you guys really meet? I met her through J.Rizzo. Okay. He was another artist up on the search bar, brother Jermaine Rayford. Okay. So I told him, I said, man, link me up with Big 50, man, and he linked me up with her. And the crazy part about it, now I got two songs on the No. 1 stream, move on BT. Wow. Get a check from him for the rest of my life. I remember when it first happened, you called me about that. Remember we talked about that? Yeah, we talked about that. We talked about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're my guy. Yeah. I don't care. You call me and it's the ones that, it's the ones that God put in my life like you, people don't realize like we talk and I don't, I don't, I'm never Yeah, be outside of business sometimes. Yeah, I'm never too busy. And you can call me. You pick up the phone. You're going to get a solid conversation. We're going to talk and ride for a minute. It's going to be something that's going to stick. We're going to talk. And that's what real partners pose to do for each other, man. Yeah. I just thank you for- When you're real part of it, it's bigger than the music, man. It is way bigger. They ought to come around. It's way bigger, man. The whole game is just having, you know, that brotherhood Yeah. We ought to stick together, bro. We got to. We stick together. We're going to be the biggest co-co. That's what people don't understand. Everybody want to be the man. I try to stick with everybody. I don't want to be the man. I just want to be close to them. Right. Right. Right. That made perfect sense though, bro. Wow. Man, like I said, thank you for coming on the show, man. How can people get a hold of if they're trying to rock out with you? Ah, man, you got to e-mail, man. Bad news 334G, man. That B, A, 3Ds, NEWZ334G, man. Facebook Bad News, Tiktok NewsWeb334, Instagram Bad News334, YouTube Bad NewsEvo. Wow, man. That boy working, man. Like, I want to make sure I don't leave nothing out. Shoot, you done pretty much did everything you could do for us when it come down to just standing right. You right, don't you? You right. I know you can tell that you put your time into your work. Oh, yeah, man. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah. I do it for the underdog, you know. I let my Bobman and Sir Char don't do it for the top dog. I do it for the people they're trying to get, though. Yeah. I'm the motivation they can have. They say rap couldn't be done and so on and so on. Now, I'm the reason they don't brought rapper or insult. Well, you were rockin' out with Booce at first. After Booce got shot in Dallas, you know, he won't come back unless you give him 150,000 is what he said. That's what he said. You know, we're trying to get him back to Dallas.  It's going to be somebody else, you know. But the nigga is worth it, you know what I'm saying? He's going to bring that bag. He's going to bring it because he ain't been there in a minute. You know what I'm saying? They love me. They call him Mr. Holm coming now. Oh, that boy. All the Holm coming. Oh, yeah? That's what they call him Mr. Holm coming. He got on there the other day and said somebody said he had a, man, don't put my name and somebody had got Murley or something down there. He was like, I'm not in none of that. Yeah, he said, don't even meet me with that. I said, damn, my nigga, what happened? You know that when I started looking, I don't want to make me know what's going on with. I don't bun for the face. I know that. So that's why he's saying that, of course. Don't keep on that. Do I keep me out there? If the folks come back and pick me up. Yeah, y'all be in trouble. Just keep me out of that. Out of, all the way out of it. Well, man, we love you, bro.  Y'all going to see him about four more times next time this year. Amen. I'm here, man. I'm here, February 9th. I'm here, February 10th. March 22nd. I'm in Dallas. Hold on, hold on. March 22nd. What day is it? Friday? Which one? February 9th to Friday. Yeah, I'll be back in town. Yeah, February 9th, Friday. That night. You going to go over there? Oh boy, I got that BBW launch rate part February 10th. Never BBWs. Launch rate. Bad news. Versace rules. Yeah.   I'm there. Let me get you out of there, man. I'm coming. I'm coming, man. I'm coming. Yeah, man. If we going to do it like that, man. I'll be on the west coast, but then March, I'm going to come rock out. March 22nd going down, Shondra Stewart, birthday badge, bad news, Gita Jones, LJ Elcliffe, and Moe, man. Man, I'm coming. I'm coming. Just call me and remind me for sure, because I'll be busy. It's going down. Make sure I ain't out of town. Put me on the fly, the BBW show. What day is it, March 22nd?  But the BBW show, BBW pool party, man. I'm coming up. Ooh, that's it. I'm coming up in the boop.  He coming up the world. Check it man. It's been another great segment. A boss talk one on one, man. Make sure you guys, man. Hey, man, listen. Get down in these comments, man. Also, check out this next video that's about to come up, man. These are clips. All the bad news, man. You're going to get to see him and Ralph Form, everything that we talked about on this interview man. Just a little, with a little bit more detail, man. Until you got promoters out there booked me, you going in. And I'm going to make them old folk feel young again. Hey, you heard what he said, man. But you don't win. We're going to make the ball feel young here. Bam Boris. Check it, man. It's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101.


Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. In previous sections we have discussed contentment, gratitude and trust as the behavioral foundations for an Islamic approach to economics. This is obviously very different from the conventional approach and this raises many methodological questions which we will address in this part D. So can we use normative ideals as a basis for the study of human society? Isn't it true that science should describe objective reality, not normative ideals which are just in our heads? And the behaviors we discussed are not even found among most Muslims, let alone the majority of humanity. So how can these be applied to the study of the real world? All of these objections arise from a certain view of science which is now dominant. And this can be called sinitism which is an exaggerated trust in the efficiency of scientific methods as applied to realms of other realms of knowledge. Sinitism can be characterized by the following four assumptions that science is the only valid source of knowledge and science describes empirical reality. And also we can study human society by the scientific method. And also that we understand what the scientific method is and therefore we know how to apply it. All of these assumptions are wrong and we will briefly rebut each of them in turn. And understanding of what the scientific method is emerged in the early 20th century with the name of logical positivism. And this had a spectacular collapse around the middle of the 19th, middle of the 20th century. And so currently there is massive confusion about what is science. The standard model collapsed and nothing has emerged to replace it. And so today nobody knows exactly how to define science and scientific knowledge and how to differentiate it from the other kinds of knowledge that we have. The objection that the normative ideals don't belong to study of society emerges from a concept that science is the only valid source of knowledge. Because if there are other valid sources of knowledge, spiritual truths, then this objection would not arise. So the question is, is science the only valid source of knowledge? And the answer is obvious, it is not. We have our own personal experiences and these are not scientific because these are unique to us and not replicable. And so we obviously have access to a huge amount of other kinds of non-scientific knowledge. And these are the basis on which we live our lives. The idea that science is empirical, the rejection of religion led to what is called the deification of science. The belief that science is like religious knowledge, it can explain everything. And therefore science can also be applied to the study of human societies. But this is obviously wrong for many reasons. The simplest of which is that the particles that we study in physics don't have any free will and they don't have any ideals. And the essence of a human being is that the ability to choose between good and evil. And therefore there are no laws which describe our behavior. And we have normative goals which is to strive for the excellence. And we also have some bad characteristics and desire to do evil. And these are in struggle in our souls. And the message of the Quran teaches us about these characteristics of human behavior which are the basis of an Islamic approach to the social sciences. All of this confusion about science was created by the philosophy of logical positivism which had a spectacular emergence in the early 20th century and an equally spectacular crash in the later part of the 20th century. This philosophy was based on two misconceptions about science. That science is based only upon observations and logic. Whereas in fact science depends on hypothesis about the unobserved reality. And also that science is the only valid source of knowledge which is also false. There are many other sources of knowledge beyond science. Because this philosophy was enormously successful in the early 20th century all of the humanities were rebuilt and refounded on positivist ideas in the early 20th century. After the collapse of positivism it became necessary to rebuild these foundations because they had been proven flawed but this was never done. Economists continue to believe in the failed philosophical ideas of positivism and use them as the foundations for their subject. And more details are given in a couple of articles that I have written on this topic.


I want to say to all the faculty, the parents, the friends, it's wonderful you're here, and most of all I want to say congratulations to the UC Berkeley-Berkeley-Lewis class of 2016! Fantastic! Congratulations, you did it. No more late nights at Doe or Moffitt Libraries. No more last-minute cramming for your last PolySci final. It's over folks, no more. Today you can finally celebrate. But right now there's only one thing standing between you and your hard-earned diploma, and that's me. So I get it, and despite being United States Senator, I promise you not to fill a buster. Because this is your day. You earned it. You studied, yes? Let's do a little bit of the, yeah. You focused. You learned.  You started relationships. You started relationships, and you ended relationships. Somebody's really happy about that breakup. I could tell that. You missed your family, but you enjoyed being away from your family. You ate healthy, and you exercised. Well that's debatable. But then you squandered all that good work, a top dog, and kingpin donuts.  I think you are the very definition of the word survivor. Well I'm a survivor too. I have survived 40 years in elected office. 40 years in elected office. Yeah. Oh my god. Thank you for supporting me, most of you, to get that done.  We're introduced to my son and his family. My husband, Stuart, is here. We're going to celebrate 55 years of marriage very soon. Wow. Of course when you take time away that I was in all those planes, it's only 25 years, but it's still fabulous. And more than 20 years ago, as the professor stated, I had the honor of speaking to another class of UC Berkeley graduates. Doug was one of those graduates. He got his degree in, and I quote, the political economy of an industrialized society. That was his degree. The political economy of an industrialized society. Well my husband and I were very impressed, but we did have one parental concern. Just who exactly would have to wait to hire someone with a degree in the political economy of an industrialized society? After many hours of deep discussion, and drawing frankly a total blank, we realized there was only one answer. Law school. By a show of hands, how many of you are thinking about going to law school? Show of hands. You can be proud, hire. How many of you are thinking about careers in public service? Maybe working for a state senator about a member of Congress? Well I hope you do. Because we could use you in public service, which as a career I can attest to is fascinating, frustrating, and at times extremely rewarding. I decided to write about it over the past three years. I'm excited to tell you that my memoir will be released at the end of the month. It's called The Art of Tough. And I have the battle scars to prove it. And I can tell you that you'll have to learn to be tough in your life, regardless of your career choice. Now people are going to try to dissuade you from your dreams. People will try to scare you into silence and onto the sidelines. People will try to make you doubt your resolve. Even doubt yourself. But if you master The Art of Tough you will win the day. Now let me be clear. The Art of Tough doesn't mean being a bully or being obnoxious. We've seen some of that in politics, haven't we? What it means is being smart. Doing the right thing. Not being afraid to step up. Even when you are called every name in the book. And I have been. And I can attest to it. For example today I woke up and I heard on the radio someone say this about me. Please do not applaud after I tell you what they said. I trust you. They said Barbara Boxer is a great candidate for the Democratic Party. Female and learning disabled. Okay? That's what they said about me. Someone else wrote this.  And you would not believe what they said about me when I spoke out against the Iraq war. Some even called for my resignation. When I was one of the few standing up for gay marriage and when I stood alone protesting the impossibly long lines during the 2004 election in Ohio, one Senator speaking on the Senate floor said this. He said Barbara Boxer is driving herself further toward the political fringe with the long grass already tickling her knees. Well I'm happy to tell you that guy lost his race the next time and I got elected. That was good. That was good. But here's the thing. When you are attacked for something you deeply believe in, you need to wear the tax as a badge of honor. If you know that you're doing the right thing you simply have to do it. Now when I was a kid there were no women in politics to speak of. But as I grew older I saw things in the world that made no sense to me. Just like you see things in the world that make no sense to you. And perhaps that is why you chose this major. To change things for the better. I saw a war that made no sense to me. The Vietnam War. I saw racism that made no sense to me. The great baseball player Jackie Robinson being booed and attacked because of his skin color. I saw women being treated less than equal and having no say over their reproductive health care. I saw all these things happening and I knew I had to take a risk and I hope you are ready to take a risk too. Are you? Are you ready to do that? Now you know it's an election year you can't miss it and you hear those cynical voices. People who say there are no there's no difference between the candidates. Well you're political science majors and you're graduates now and you know better. You know because you have a sense of history. If people in the 60s had said why bother voting we would never have passed landmark laws like the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. If people had sat out the election eight years ago we never would have elected the first African American president in our nation's history. Well yes. This year every issue is at stake. Women's rights, civil rights, voting rights, income inequality, the environment, our country's security all is at stake. So we need your energy and your voice in this debate. When you hear a presidential candidate say 11 million immigrants should be deported or that we should ban Muslims from entering the country if you disagree with that you need to speak up and speak out with a clear voice. When you hear someone say that climate change is a hoax you need to speak up with a clear voice if you disagree. When you hear states like North Carolina discriminating against the LGBT community if you disagree you must speak out and when you hear people say oh there's no student loan crisis you know they're wrong. You must speak out if you disagree. I could go on and on but you don't want me to so I'll skip to the next part of my speech. You have a college degree from one of the greatest universities in the country. You know how to think, you know how to write, you know how to speak.  You have no excuses to shrink from what you know is right. And I know you're aware you did not get here alone and so one more time let's hear it for your family and friends who are out here cheering you on. And let's hear it for your professors who are out here cheering you on. So now I'm about to get to the two words everyone loves to hear a senator say in closing I have been so lucky in my life because of you and the people of this great state. I've been able to work on my passions for 40 years and I don't intend to retire from the work that I love I'd just be doing it from California not on those long flights. But now it is your time to focus on your passion. It is your time to employ the art of tough and it's not going to be easy.  You're at a party or at an event everyone is echoing the next one and you say you know what I don't think that's right. And you'll wonder later why did I bother.  You want to make the world a better place it starts with you. Part of mastering the art of tough is ignoring the naysayers following your passions so that's what I want to say. Don't be afraid ever to do what you believe in to take the risks be thankful to your family to your friends to your professors never forget them because they will be cheering you on and so will I. So I ask everyone to join me in a raucous ovation for our graduates the Berkeley political science class of 2016 Go Bears! Fabulous! Congratulations!