So he's standing up right now Right. Do it you see and I'm blocking the nose the money is calling me I'm making a recipe to get on top of the boys you fast believe Yeah, I'm high on puto people say talking who you know Two-door breaking the gauge I'll be racing That's I'm not boy the negative one people be talking Give me two and froze listen, man.  This is brought to you by Barstew Sports. Listen, man, and it's going down. What? What happened? What happened? What's going on?  Listen, I'm the introducer. I'll say your name. That's your name, use the nut. All right. All right, listen, don't put your hands on me. It's Michael Cockbuffer. Yeah, that's your name. I heard you used to be like, I heard when you was the captain of the wrestling team and Gilly used to be all up in there. In its corner, way and at a greasy oil down to 100. How you looking to announce it if you the captain?  No, you had multiple jobs. You was the announcer, the captain. You was a pimp. You worked in the kitchen.  No, listen. You did manufacturer of jumpers. I worked in M.A. to exchange COVID exchange.  I worked in M.A. to COVID exchange. I worked in the kitchen. I worked in the warehouse. Lifeguard in the shower. Lifeguard in the shower. Fuck, that's what he said. Listen, I never was no listen. I've never was no lifeguard in a prison shower. You was... Like, why would I be like, come on, man. Come on, bro. I was no lifeguard. I used to squeegee the shower, like clean the shower, what about to like the shower?  Nobody doing that in the shower. Nobody doing that in the shower because people went in. I was squeegee. I was cleaning up the showers. You're not going to tell me nobody never squeezed one in the showers, man.   Fuckin' you that, ahhh.  You and this pro niggas seeming. All I used to do is take a bucket, splash anything, scrub the wall, squeegee it down. Squeegee, you know, I squeegee anything down. And right to the little drain. Yo, he's splashing the walls. He should have splashed it on his face. No, it's not. No, it's not. That's crazy. No, it's not. Listen, I'm squeegeeing. Splash all the splash. Listen, just imagine you take the walls and you got buckets of soapy water.  You scrub some of it with a scrub brush and then when it hit the ground, you squeegee anything. You squeegee anything to the drain. I heard the nigga that ran the block gave you that job, a nigga. Clean the showers up, nigga. No, he didn't. No, he didn't. No, he didn't. I was just, I just was a shower cleaner. I wasn't no life, ain't no lifeguard in here. That's crazy. So let's get all his jobs. He was a pimp in prison. I was never a pimp. He was a shower. He was the captain of the wrestling team. I was never a pimp in prison. How am I going to be a pimp in prison? Come on, man. You was pimpin' boy, but we know what's going on. You was the captain of the wrestling team. You worked in clothes exchange. You worked in the yard.   I was shoveling something. Shoveling what? I was on idol pay. So idol pay is like this. It's a pay to the state give you.  Like, you know what I mean?   So they told us to go to the yard. And like it was like snowing forever for like, and I just was out there eight day. But I was basically just a professional spotter used to just spot niggas. No, that's not that. I'm talking about shoveling snow. That's all they made you do. Why would I spot somebody? I don't know. That's it. It's coming out there. Let's get into million dollars worth of game, man. Let's get into that. Me, me, me. Manufactured real. So you're talking about, or immediately. Is real ever coming back? Because right now real is what you see on Instagram. What you see on social media. What people portray to be real. See before, you know, if you grew up in the 80s and you grew up in the 90s when social media was, you didn't have to, you didn't have to, you wasn't trying to impress a motherfucker on a website that's not really real. Like Instagram ain't real. Like that shit's entertainment. But motherfuckers really take Instagram and social media as being real. Like, oh, that's real.  Like it's real ever coming back. No.   To their mind, it's like, oh, I gotta like, they like me.  It's like you chasing it. Girl get a hundred likes, you're like, I gotta keep getting a hundred, I gotta get 200. I gotta get 300. I gotta get 300. So, you know what I mean?  No, that might be the song. That might be the song, but it's like, I got, I don't want to leave it up there because it ain't get that many likes and I don't want people to look at it.  Yeah, women will take their pictures down for sure. They take them jokes. I didn't get a lot of likes on this one. And you might be like, damn, I liked it, that one. That was a nice picture to party to. Well, I'm just saying if that's your thing, if that's your thing, you know what I mean? Tell me, ask your question, hold on, not to get off subject, but have you ever jerked off off of Instagram photo?  When I was in, you gotta remember I had the phone when I was in jail. So, I had all the, listen. You want to tell her something? No, I'm not saying nobody names. Can you just squeeze something? I'm not saying nobody names, so listen. You can't even tell us who you used to jerk off to when you was in prison because you were getting in trouble. No, it was this one girl, right? I mean, she's fucking. Let us know that you a bitch-ass nigga. No, no, no.  I wouldn't mind saying them, bro. Bro, listen, listen, listen. You'll get in trouble now. I wouldn't mind saying them, right? It's cool to say them when they big time famous, but when they local, it's like that nigga was stalking so and so. You can't just put that off here. Like they was like local chicks from Philly. And it's one girl, right?   How were you? It was unrealistic. It was unrealistic. Like me, I was a dude that, I like homegrown porn. You see what I'm saying? So it's like, it was like unreal. Listen, I'm like, I'm gonna see her and I'm gonna, it's gonna be party time. So at this point, listen, and this was, this was what was crazy, like on everything I love, listen, on everything I love, right? The one girl that I used to jerk off to in jail, right? I wind up connecting with her on the streets, right?   Like, like because, and this will make, this will make it, this will make it so easy. Like I was on it, right? When I was in the cell, I'm on the gram and I'm gonna ask my brother, I'm like, yo, who that? He like, that's so and so, so and so people. You know them, right? I'm like, yeah. So now it was like even more because it was like it's a possibility that I ran into her. And when I ran into her, it was like, it was nighttime. It was like, I went to this event and she screamed my name, okay, from seeing me on Instagram. And I'm like, no, she didn't.  He was a filthy animal. Like listen, listen, this, this back when it was like get out of here, you filthy animal. 15 seconds on Instagram, the video, listen, man. I just keep like refreshing that joke. Stop it. I stop. Ah, calm down, boy. Listen, listen. So listen, I get home, right?  I need this. I need to get her, right? So we get together one day. I never got it.  I felt, listen. No, no, he said this end is so anti-climactic. I didn't get it. I didn't get it.  Oh no, I thought you said it was everything. This will happen. No, this will happen. I'm gonna tell you what happened.  This the time, this the time with Gil, no, no, no, listen.  No, let me give you the game, though. This is what it was. This the time with Gil, say that I was a homeless sexual. I was living in Nanny Creek, so she don't know, let's go to your spot. I'm like, oh, man. Nigga, if you was a player, you woulda took her to Nanny's. No, because this, no, no, listen. See, see, that's how you know he ain't no true player. Let me explain. I came home. I would have been the middle room slayer. No, no, let me explain. I woulda been Nanny, put your ear plugs in. Nanny, you know I did 20 years with your ear plugs in for me, Nanny. No, no, this will happen, this will happen. That was gonna be the plan, right?  That was gonna be the plan, right? But I was like, damn, I just gonna look me sneaking up the steps. And then Nanny might still be in the living room, right? It don't even, first of all, let me just tell you something.  So it don't matter, nigga, you took it to the middle room. You take it to the middle room. You take it to the basement. You take it to the back room.   I take it out, listen, behold, let me tell you something.  Listen, I take it out, I take it out, Nova Liberty, right?  She had these jeans on, I cracked them jeans down.   Like, thank you. Like, I'm like, I'm like, what the?  They just be running around the gate.  I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm kissing on him. It was crazy, right? Ass jumped out the jeans like this. It was crazy, but then that night, we had a nice night, we walked around there. We did a little, we did a little.  Cause I went home and jerked off. Let me tell you something.  That was way more real. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something.  That's what you were about to say. Yeah, he can still smell her too. It was crazy, man. Let me just say something. That's how you know you ain't working with nothing.  That's why you had the minivan back there, huh? That was minivan dad. He was minivan dad. Listen, but she gave him the piece, you know, the peace tester. That's what she did. Where's your dick? She didn't do that. She didn't do that. She was like, don't do that. She was like, is it tucked under or something? Cause I don't, you want to drop me off, buddy?  She know I got a BBC. She know that. She know that. She's like, she's like. What's a BBC?  She know that. She know that. This boy got a BBC. He's a legend. Yeah, she knew that.    But everybody jerked off to a girl on Instagram. And I ain't talking about no...  Dude, he got your own bitch-ass nigga status. He scared. He's a nut.  I could go to... Dev, did you ever do it? Tell it to you. I mean, come on, man. That's Jeff Nass, that's Jeff Nass. Come on, man. Hey, B-Roc, you have to do that, B-Roc. You have to do that, B-Roc. On Instagram. B-Roc, B-Roc, B-Roc, B-Roc.  B-Roc's no was real business. He said no. So it's real ever coming back?  Because real to me is recognizing everybody ain't loyal. That's real. I understand that part, but it's like... It's like, it's too hard because it's like... People is forced... People is not cool with themselves and comfortable with their position and life. And they have forced to do it. They're like, hey, everybody else capping. I might as well cap. Real is not going to come back to a fake platform. A fake platform, no. That's where you're looking for real, you know what I mean? You got people that search for certain things and it's like, they're not going to be able to...  If you want to find reality, go live in reality.  So, all right.  It devastated black people. Let me explain something to you. All right. So as a black person in America, right? It depends on your position and what you see, how you see life.  And then it comes to the part where cool hit.  Hold on, so you don't think it was no cool slaves, nigga? You don't think it was a nigga that was out in the field that all the bitches was like... Got a chance, though. That's deep. We given... So you think it was a Billy D. Williams slave? Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. So let me ask you a question. You don't think it was no slaves that... The slave, the white woman slave owner was like...   Oh, that's 100%. That nigga looked good. So you think it was a Chris Brown? You think it was like a Chris Brown slave nigga that was dancing in a... Let me just tell you something. Let me just tell you something.  Strip-neck it, boy. You're like... So, yeah. I'm not the cream of the crop. I'm not the cream of the crop. That's like... Oh, my God, BBC. Black Hawk! Like, come here and sit here. You got the Joe hanging out. Oh, my God, he got a BBC. She already know who working with what. The Mandingo Warriors was out there.  It's cool always been in love. It's just cool was probably in, but not probably to the detriment of what you're saying. No, what I'm saying is like now is like, you got to fill out all this check by like people, people living a regular life, but then they want to be accepted by the way black people see is what is okay, what is thorough, what is okay, what is cool.  I want to be cool. I want to be accepted by them. Right. I got to talk this certain way. I got to dress this certain way. Absolutely.  I want to be on a cool monitor. I want to be on them. I want to be on them. Cool, cool, cool, cool. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Is either eight or nine out of 10. Listen, and it's like, think about it.  I got to dress like this. I got to talk like this. I got to act like this. I got to abide by these rules. I got to wear these certain clothes or these dry the certain car. I got to have this type of money. I got to eat at this certain restaurant. I got to take these type of pictures.  If you don't do that, you're corny. Right.  He's corny. That's some fucking- Even connecting with other people that could take you further in life. You know what I mean?   Right. Be cool. But we was taught that since kids though. Yeah. You fall, don't cry.  Get up, don't cry. What you crying for? Be tough, be tough and be cool.  Damn, that's a deep join right there.  They got to be cool. Think about saying what I want to do, what I want to wear, I can't do none of that. I got to be cool because it's pressure on me and my community and from my people. And leaving out the house, I'm cool with what I got on. I'm cool with my presentation, with how I look. Is everybody else going to be cool with it? Do you think I should?      You got, you bouncing from different cribs, your mom on drugs, all of that. But a lot of these niggas, that's what they follow.  They wanted to be outside.    You know what I'm saying? A lot of times too, it ain't even about being cool.  It's about looking for the attention and the love and acceptance that you was looking for in your household that you never got. You feel what I'm saying?   And sometimes people be trying to get their life together. Your mom, your dad might have had you in it. You know what I mean? 17, 18, I was talking to this young boy. He was like, man, me and my dad, we really don't see.  I said, why? He said, man, when he had me, he went to jail, just saying, I said, hold up. I said, can you do me a favor? Can you be understanding for once? He said, what I mean? Your dad went to prison when he was 17. He was a kid, bro. He didn't need, like he, hopefully he matured and grew up in prison. But now you're 21 years old, bro. Your dad just coming out of prison. Like y'all really don't even know each other. You don't even realize when your parents was 25, they wasn't grown. Yeah, yeah.   You know what I mean? Everything stopped.  So now the little man, he ain't getting the love from dad or family or his mom, because they's trying to grow. You gonna go out there and try to figure it out. Somebody might say, I got you.  All I take for the right old way to embrace you. Yeah, and it's a wrap. I feel what I'm saying. If he embrace you and see, one thing about the older niggers is they able to get the younger ones' minds a lot of the time. You feel me?  And you notice the word he used was finesse. Niggers be using y'all.  That's just like, for instance, dude like me come home out of penitentiary all the time.  We gonna keep it all official.    He telling dudes jail not cool. They ain't with substance and third. You know why?   I never was a dude that tried to get somebody else to do my work. I put my own work in. So you got dudes out here like he said that's two strike felons or got jackets. They don't want to put no work in. So they put a young boy in the W.     He deposed at your lawyer, he posed at a conversation and they go on to the next young boy.  He out there finessed him and now it's just crazy.  That the real, real niggers don't love you.    Listen, listen man.     Y'all was in the playground. Y'all was in the sandbox.  You're my day one.  Like on some real shit, like come on man. Like we really be got the game.   This is you. Don't wait till it's too late. Right, understand that too young boys. When you out here in these streets and the cars don't always fall in your place and then you the victim on the other side of the gun. You the nigger laying there on that ground and that cold waiting on the ambulance to come. Only you laying there. And you gotta understand this. It's only you laying there. And when you talking about the criminal side of things, right?  We know each other. I can't Johnny nobody tell on Gil. Right, right. Nobody, it's never like that. It's always this. And it go back to this. Always your day one. No, here you go. Here go the DA. Excuse me, state your name. My name is Raheem Johnson. Excuse me, Raheem Johnson. Do you know the defendant, Dante Williams? How long do you know him? Well, I knew him for a long time. Our moms used to have us together. Our moms like sisters. So you know him that good. Yeah, I used to stay at his house. His mom used to take care of me when my mom was on drugs. So you know him really well. So you know that on October 29th, you're sure that you saw him shooting Dante Davis. Yes, I saw him. He stood over him. He shot Dante Davis. The same dude that ate oodles and oodles at your mom house.  She gave him the benefit of the doubt.  Like she gave you all that stuff and she's sitting in there in the courtroom. My baby ain't never hurt nobody. And he telling on you because he don't want to take a weed charge. Driving crazy.  My baby ain't never hurt nobody.   Talking about he ain't never do that.  But it is what it is. But he the same boy telling he on the joy. Yeah, that's something. Yeah, that's him. Yeah, that's, he shot him. He ain't never had to do that. Yeah, he had to shoot. He had to shoot him. I mean, that was a, he was a cow.  Like the D.A. like, all right, no further questions.   Let's go to the next one. Next topic at hand.  What do you guys think a woman's favorite sex position is? And because I'm asking you, what do you think for the woman? But I'm asking you, what is your favorite sex position as a man? See for me. Oh, that's easy. That's easy. Okay, go ahead. That's easy. Listen, say if I'm laying on the bed right here, right? In my head, hanging off the bed. Lay it on my face. Lay it on my face, baby. Lay it on my face. Lay it on my face. Spray it on your face. Spray it on my face. Lay it on my face. Then spray it on my face. Spray it on my face. Spray it on his face. Lay it on his face. Then spray it on his face.   He gon' eat it all. Even if it's bushy. Lay it on my face. Lay it on my face. That's what, listen. That's all you want. Listen, listen, listen. That's our favorite position. That's our favorite joint, and that's mine.  Told you. No, no, no, no, no. He just want to eat it. He don't want to eat it. A lot of times they see it and they come. They see my piece and they come. Let me eat it for four hours. BBC. No, black cop. Like my man.  Lay it on my face. Spray it on my face. Lay it on my face. Nah, but you saying that's her favorite. Yeah, and mine.  That's real, though. No, that's not real. I mean, that's real. That's a good one. No, no, no. Two favorite position is not when I eat it. It's still on his knees. It's still on his knees in the shower where she pissed on him. No. A GS, a golden shower. The first one. You let him GS. It's not when I'm eating it. It's when I'm beating it.   Yo, no, no! They call me baby, like. Spray it on my face. No, no, no, no, no. Oh, wait, wait, wait. We gotta say my song. No, no, no, no. I said my song. Lay it on my face. They call me baby, like. Who that is? That's baby, like. I'm baby, like, like. My shit's baby, like. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. So why y'all wanna do is- I like to pleasure the woman, man. I like to take care of her, man. She taking care of me.  Now I'm talking about a different one. I'm just saying.  I like to pleasure the woman.  Because two, because if I ain't, once I eat the yabba dabba's for about 12 minutes- 12 minutes? Yeah, you're cheating, too. No, no, no, no, no.  Please, what's the hurry?  She like, please.   Ah! All right, I'm in love. That's a lot. Put your legs down, man. You look spicy.  Put your legs down, man. Goddamn. This motherfucker's an animal. My bro with him. April be in here just fuckin' his face for two hours. Can I come up now? Groom, groom, groom, groom, groom, groom, groom, groom.    Oh, man. Groom, groom, groom, groom, groom, groom, groom.    It's a problem. You done burnt your stem out in jail, all that jerkin' off, man. My stem is strong. I think a woman's favorite sexual position, unless she's a, well, I think they got multiple sexual positions. You never know. All women is different. No, no, no, no, no. All women is different. Let me tell you something.  If a woman got the long back with the part in it, she ain't really trying to jump up on them knees. You ever do it next time? You ever do it next time? Show you that cardboard box. You ever do it next time on a chick? No. What? Next time.  She got it arched, right? Yeah. That back arched. So he's standing up right now. You stand, listen. You stand on that neck. Drop that thing. Wamp. Wamp.  You can't just do it. Wamp. Got the foot on her neck. Wamp. Wamp. You gotta be...  And I got my vans on.   No way that. That's how you add your foot on a nigga neck up in the jail.  Stay down, nigga. Yeah, that's one of them drinks. Stay down, nigga.        Don't want to do that. Nigga, I don't want to do that. Nigga, I don't want to do that. Nigga, I don't want to do that. Nigga, I don't want to do that. Nigga, I don't want to do that. Nigga, I don't want to do that. A foot on his neck.  He like... Oh, my God. These niggas. Yeah, I knew what you did to pull off the penitentiary moves on these bitches. That's what you're doing, huh? You're pulling off these greater foot moves on these bitches.  That's a low-key borderline rape.  Come here.  Oh, my God. Feel like motherfucking Brillo pads. Bitch got a heavy Brillo pad holding her neck down. You think that's fun for? Oh, man. Huh? Yo. He pulling off the penitentiary moves, huh? Me, I think. But I think most women like missionary style. Because they like the body on body contact. We used to have the prostitutes. We used to be getting the crackheads and buying them. He used to stay missionary. You think that's right, yeah. He didn't say that. I'm like, why are you kidding? He didn't say that. Now you know he the missionary. He's killing it. You're going to try to lie. He told me, watch the door. So Nanny won't come down here. He from here. I'm like, yo, man, why are you missionary? He missionary. Oh, no. You should go. He talking to it anything in the air. It's fine now.  Niggas, we already know you was the one talking to him. I didn't say that. I didn't too, though. I didn't, too. That you're going to try to lie. But the missionary join is the best join when you start getting tired. You know what I'm saying? Because then you got some... I don't get tired. No, don't get tired. I'm not going to lie to you. You talking about, what? You don't think it's as long as 27 minutes? This thing still lay a little 27 minutes? He's going to be having to take a break. Yeah, no, yeah. Time out. 20 seconds time out. That's too big. That's where you throw your hands around the legs, hands underneath the asheats. Underneath the asheats. I'm used to wrestling with old white men. White man, I'm gonna use the rest of this big With with fifty-five year old white man I used to Stop disrespect in the heart. Listen motherfucker got even a hucklebuck Now see hold on So this is just the funny part you was best to say the hucklebuck was gay But then you was about to put him in it. That's crazy. I'm not saying you was trying to show him as a I'm a mortuary artist I'll be on a Matt's What's the hucklebuck explain it? No, so the hucklebuck is a little something different.    Oh No, it's another classic But they gonna be alarmed the first time it happened with a joint y'all getting it You stop everything you grab a mirror.  Uh-huh. That's the And they grabbing angles they holding angles down. They're like, ah, yeah crazy.  Let's get into the segment of who would you be?   You got it. You got to be a bouncer there for six months. I mean for a year for a year or you got to be Locked up for two weeks In a most notorious prison in the world with no guards I'm being a bouncer You mean a bouncer? Yeah, I got you. I keep my freedom.   I'm just balancing. I'm just frisking people down. That's it So you're gonna be in it. He's got a gun. He's got a gun It's a very large one So you say I'm gonna keep getting farce alarms.     No because you would have been in there tackling niggas For nothing. Yeah He's got a piece on it rear naked See dudes flying across the Joe, no, I'm just I'm just door security. He said bounce that a bit I'm about I'm at the door bouncing me you pat people down. That's it But then what this but remember this is not a regular club We're talking about these people are vicious to everybody in there is like snowball Then you know the ball from the from the Jersey Jails that just knock you out and So sure why is they in there tough though? It don't matter. Why would they be in there fighting?  I'm respecting they by how you doing today.   What you doing? I go front man.   I'm looking for you You don't know the language nigga. I know people don't know nobody I'm a new somebody down there. You don't know nobody nigga.  That's the name of this John You getting stabbed one way it up You got a Like the front of a video We got a wise gilgis gilgis I'm hitting any is there's plenty of Plenty of he get wild Gil that's Ricky What's the top rappers From every decade starting in the 80s God damn. Well, you got your own 80s. I got run DMC the 90s I Got I can't it can only be one name. The 90s is hard cuz you box your core.  Yes, and you already know his whole the 2000s I got no you can't pick two.  Yep Yo, so you say run DMC He said run DMC Tupac Wayne Drake run DMC Tupac Wayne Drake That's the 80s Nwa 80s man. I'm gonna see you go with NWA. I'm going with NWA.  We just annihilated big like that.  I'm about to go nigga. Yeah, I was cool He was cool personified. Yeah, right. Yeah to park made you feel more like like man. I got it like Oh, I was he was You got a Jake Drake come on Drake came out probably in like 2009 for the main people that listen to great Damn, I was in jail when that came on what you gotta think about this to pop period I don't care who you was it could be my mom to pop was in the news to pop was getting shot He was living getting shot. Yeah. Yeah, he was in movies.  You know, this nigga was also like a revolutionary Like is to pop was so many Listen, yeah, you break all that down. You got to go with to pop and you said the The 2000 you don't got to go with to pop.  I gotta go. I can't leave biggie out. I just don't shout out Brooklyn niggas. I but listen this one I'm gonna say 2000s Who you listen to thousands you had listen you had Wayne you had X dark man X Dark man Was it not he was at the end of the 90s in the very beginning of 2000 Yeah, he was in the 90s too.  I can't get parking in 90.   He's still strong. I mean Hove was so consistent throughout them 2000s It's like it was crazy for me. I'm gonna say hope and then I'm gonna say Drake fucks it up.  A lot of people say if if biggie would have died whole would have never been as big I've never subscribed to any of that like if Aliyah dot like if Aliyah was still here another What do y'all think about this what I love that analogy this what I love this what I love I don't I don't even this why I love it about whole if Hove came right in is exact He didn't come in as like no disrespect nobody ain't coming as a worker He came right in as a boss right like this is my doing this how we rockin So I think he was gonna be able to levitate no matter what people was gonna be who they gonna be people still exist right now I don't believe that one person's talent negates another person like oh if Aliyah I see people say like if Aliyah wouldn't have died beyond they would have never became what she was like But you but but another person's talent does it doesn't take away, but it cut it does kind of Okay, prime example if LeBron James is not in the NBA Kevin Durant without a doubt is the best player in the league. I thought he was the best player already I'm just saying how to I'm not saying me per se. I'm saying the general Barstool the the media outlets right their generalization is LeBron James is the best player in the league now That's a little bit different because if you minus Mike Tyson Then whoever would have been a mean knockout person because these are facts like sports It's like you could do the numbers with music It's like you're guessing would people like this person's music more than the other is different than like this nigga Mike Tyson was gonna knock everybody else in 1990 what one or whatever the case may be So it's a little more like if he wasn't there then this person would but in music is very hard to say This is based off of opinion.  Oh biggie was bigger than Tupac No, no, no, no, no, no, no biggie was running shit on the East Coast Now biggie was out since 92 hold on JZ popped off in 1996 and by the very next year biggie Smalls was dead So it's very the end of what I'm saying is what I'm saying is listen How it works is Can't be two kings You give people when you got you give people Something to choose from So if it's biggie was still living Now is something else to choose from it's something else to say Just my prime example what I'm making about With Kevin Durant and LeBron James LeBron James still playing. It's like a LeBron James If LeBron James wasn't here, it's like Kevin Durant is the best Without a doubt.  No, I get it. So when biggie died You no longer had the other person to be like because Who's the best some see biggie JZ and Nas? Feel what I'm saying. Yeah, so but they had Nas So a lot of people would have believed like if let's say Nas would adopt me. Let me get to my point Let me get to my point.  It's just just by right. We're gonna start arguing nigga.   Yeah, so you feel when biggie died. It was like it's no more argument It's just J then Nas kind of had fell back on the music really wasn't putting albums out J was working So now the conversation between Jay Z and Nas is starting to distance himself because now my music no music out I got a lot of rappers. No, he got beans. He got free. Yo, that's the thing. I was putting music out He really was bro. He put so what I'm telling you. So this is what I'm saying If Nas would have died if he put but he wasn't dropping that shit I'm saying if Nas would have died in 1997 it would be possible that people today would be like Man, Jay would have never been Jay if Nas was still around because you can't predict what happens after that Just like you said Nas kind of fell back because Nas did drop. I am Nostradamus. He kept going like a god son We're talking about three albums over 20 years even on Jay Z said it on a song like Takeover he he said hot album every 10 year average that nigga had an album every time Yeah, but he wasn't dropping like that, but listen, I got something to talk about I Don't mean to interrupt you and I came to Gil crib the other day and I'm starting to really believe is Illuminati and Gil please do not please do not say their names. Yeah, I didn't believe it But it was two Hollywood actors, right? Gil seen the DMs They DM me the DM language was different and they and they all for me to come to this DM This is a I mean they all for me to come to this event Out in LA and it was just like don't say nothing. Yeah, don't say nobody names, right? They actors like these motherfuckers everybody know Out of out of nowhere Jesse Smollett and who was the other one? Maybe once you in the night. He looked no No, listen, listen, no, it wasn't what you're the night. He loves these big actors So I'm like hold up. I'm not saying what kind of race.    No, they open up the doors to the night He is you're walking through.    Oh gee, I got a new problem now. So my girlfriend told me she want to break she says since I She says since I put her through so much this past year She thinks it's time to put her happiness first and build herself back up I put her in a dark place with my sheet in the lion I admit I did some fucked up things to her this year and I'm going to turn it around I signed up to see a therapist and getting out the streets to do the right things in life Do you think I should wait around for her or should I move on? Let me just tell you something one thing One thing as a break as a couple we don't go for is I need a break That's just like because I'm just gonna keep it all we real if two came to me and said she needed a break Dude, do you know in my mind what that calculators?  That's a break for both of y'all So the one thing we don't we don't do is she would take a week. We don't we don't take breaks She told me that too. I want to take a break.     Listen, let me tell you something.       Oh, but and guess what?  She just been having to be sneaky and now she want to have freedom She want to have that freedom fuck, you know what so it's like, you know, we keep moving around like this Ain't no when you guys is when you got a sneak That's when you that's when you neck it with a book bag.  They tell you try to take it to the next level, right?   You know why? Because y'all been together for a period of time now.   It's an inner freak. Yeah, me I'm talking about she doing a me.     Yeah, everything's dirtier.  So the mindset is already like we doing something filthy. So why not just let's go I'm out go all the way out.    Yeah, I mean, that's what it is But then but then When she come back she might got a couple dicks on a jacket now. So it's all about it if you willing to take the payback I ain't willing to take the payback. I'm sorry.    Like you just don't do a nigga like that Well, let's get into this episode of stories from the cell stories from the cell is brought to you by broken Bar stew the bar stew that was broke at this bar. We was bouncing at when Gil got a little drunken touch somebody Wasn't supposed to touch the bar still broke Me too movement is strong out here. Don't be making no case. I'm just saying when the bar still got broke I touched him. I ain't need to touch with the fuckers.  That's your spray. Hey, where's the logo?  I'm on the phone one time in prison, right? And it's crazy. I'm I get off the phone and right next to the phone. Nobody was on the phone So me and my homie we posted up, right? So we stand in talking Yeah, you know, because you don't stand in the phone when people talk, but ain't nobody on there early in the day So I'm like damn, you know, I mean we stand in chilling and Like right there we'll be standing to sell right there, but the sheet is up, right? We ain't great as full penitentiary So the sheet is up, right?   You mean just sitting on top of it Just humping on it. No, no, no, no, it ain't like that the mattress, right? We'll be standing at where his cell is that he was in a single cell one bunk in the joint, right?  You hear about it.  They had the old school Jones with the blue They all white with the blue lines on them.  No, but it I thought about it once or twice.  He had the hole in the joint. He was just hitting the mattress Yo, and it was just crazy.    What's up? It's future science is in this motherfucker.  I think it said niggas Beed out of see a seabed bit Seamans furniture Niggas is crazy.  I'll go by the name of gilly the king I'm while at 267. It's just like that


I'm very warm welcome to this taster lecture for postgraduate programs in the School of Finance and Management at Southampton University of London. I'm Christina Outer and I'm one of the professors in the School of Finance and Management and I'm here tonight with my colleague, Dr. Alberta Asqua, who's a senior lecturer in public policy and management in the School of Finance and Management. We're just going to give you a little overview of the four programs, postgraduate programs that we have on campus and then Alberta is going to give a short taster lecture so you get the flavour of the kinds of things we cover in our lectures and our style of teaching at SOAS. So moving on to the next slide we can see that SOAS, if you're not familiar with it, is located in a brilliant location actually. I'm always very happy to go into work at SOAS. It's right next to the British Museum and Russell Square in the centre of London and the picture you're seeing at the bottom is Senate House where SOAS has one half of Senate House which is the old building of the University of London so you probably know University of London is a federal structure. The SOAS, UCL, LSE are all members of the same University of London and this is the headquarters if you like of University of London so it's a fantastic location close to the City of London, close to all the main connections for rail and so on. I am a Londoner, I'm very proud to be a Londoner and one of the things I love about London is it's a very cosmopolitan city where people meet from all over the world. So moving on to the next slide, a little bit about the School of Finance and Management at SOAS. We are ranked first for Business and Management Studies in London and 14th in the UK in the 2020 Garden League table you can have a look at. There's a survey every year from the National Student Survey that show that 96% of our students are satisfied with the overall quality of their course. We are ranked in the top 20 on research intensity in the UK research excellent framework. We have accreditation for undergraduate ACCA and SEMA programs and we collaborate with a number of institutions across the world, Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East and so we'd like to see ourselves as positioned globally. Here's a brief story from one of our students, it's only at SOAS where you'd find that your Jamaican friends enjoying listening to Arabic music in the Students' Union and it gives a flavour of how cosmopolitan SOAS is as a university and that's one of the things I think we all love about SOAS, it's very international and if we look at the careers of our graduates, these are some of the places where recent graduates are currently working, Boston Consulting Group, Sachi and Sachi, Bloomberg, the UK Government Treasury, the Government of Canada, Santander, Klein-Walt Benson, Euro Monitoring International, UBS and so on. So our graduates are very successful at going on to prestigious careers and also to do research, a number of them go on to do PhDs at top universities including some of them stay with us at SOAS for their PhD. What a little bit about the way we teach and structure our programs, our programs degrees, their research-led and their challenge-driven programs, that's very important to us so you're taught by people who are actually doing the research and our first graduate students are well equipped in research methods and all the skills necessary for a strong career start in a fairly advanced level at the range of organizations in the public and the private sectors and the style of education we offer is small group, it's a personalized style of education so you would be in small group tutorials which gives you an opportunity to develop skills at discussing, debating, communicating ideas and discussing quite fairly complex research issues and breaking those problems down led by a lecturer or professor in those tutorials. So it's a nice conducive environment for developing good working relations with fellow students, with staff and we also have good links with company executives and colleagues that we work quite closely with in the real world as it were in banks, in the banking sector and in industry. We have help, we can give help with internships and finding placements at companies and if we move on to the next slide, we have four postgraduate programs at SOAS, one MSc in Accounting and Finance, an International Financial Management MSc, an MSc in International Business, an MSc in Public Policy, Finance and Management. I'm going to hand over to my colleague now who will explain a little bit about the structure of these programs so over to Alberto. Thank you Christine and welcome to all the participants and anyone who will listen or watch this webinar. Just a few words concerning these MSc programs, they all share a common structure and so that's the easy part because every MSc program consists of eight modules, students take over two terms plus a dissertation and for each term students take three core compulsory modules and they have a choice of one extra elective modules. This is a common structure running across the four MSc programs. Any particular program then they do have specific features about what is what is taught in these in these programs so the MSc Accounting and Finance is really intended to help students build deeper expertise on accounting and finance matters. You can have a quick look at the titles of the modules which are taught there and you can notice topics like professional integrity and accountancy for finance practitioner, managerial accounting, risk management, financial analysis, financial statement analysis for investors and emerging market finance. You may also notice the in-term two courses which is on research methods in management and that's there as in any as in other MSc programs because the research is a key component part of our postgraduate degrees. Apart from the expertise and in a particular subject area postgraduate students they do become experts to carry out the research, to carry out research independently as they can demonstrate in the dissertation project. Therefore all of the subjects which they learn but also specifically the topic on the research methods in management does provide the students a way to develop their skills and knowledge on research methods. How to design research qualitative and quantitative skills both data collection, data analysis and interpretation down to the very final skills and capabilities needed to write the professionally and research reports or policy papers. So that's again another general feature of MSc programs which is of course also included in the MSc accounting and finance. This program as a highlight is accredited by Saima and enables you into Saima master's gateway with some exemptions. Other other programs they do provide specialized expertise in different different areas. Christine, please let me know if you find a provider general overview or you'd like to step in to supplement any additional highlights you regard as quite important. The MSc international financial management again does provide a way to gain expertise on financial matters. You can see that compulsory modules like financial modeling techniques, financial law for international managers and risk management, international corporate finance, financial statement analysis for investors and emerging market, market finance. Let me just comment here that in relation to the very international feature of so as these programs they do nicely combine attention to many institutions and practices and policies all over the world. So generally they do pay attention to both industrialized or emerging economies from every region of the world and typically modules students take and then reached by examples and case studies which may be taken from several countries which opens up very interesting opportunities also for comparison across institutions and practices and trajectories of development across countries and markets. Another program is the one on international business and you can see from the compulsory modules the flavor of this program. So we have international management, international human resource management and international marketing, international business strategy, multinationals and global business together with the research methods in management. The department is called the School of Finance and Management precisely because it does combine nicely focus on both finance management of the financial resource and financial institutions together with an interest towards managing the human resource and there I should say with a keen interest towards the variety of practices which are encountered across the globe also depending on the specific cultural features. And the last program I'd like to spend a couple of words is the one which I convene the MSc Public Policy Finance Management which is focused on public sector management. It does bring together three different components of looking at public policy, public management and public financial management and so modules they do include attention on fiscal governance, on public governance, on general features of making and implementing public policy together with other topics like innovation and organization and change and emerging market finance. This is a general overview of what we touch upon, what we cover in these programs. I'd like to ask Christine if you'd like to share any other particular highlight otherwise I believe that's the point where we can provide a test to our prospective students with a little bit of insight into what we teach by providing a bit of an example with another part of the presentation. Thank you Alberto I mean you've done a great job so I don't really have very much to add except to say that you know it's so as one of the distinctive features that we have is that we have an understanding, a deep understanding across so as of finance and management in different areas of the world and we see the world as interconnected in that way and we learn a lot from different areas of the world and just to give you an example of that and why that's important is that there is a technique of supply side management for example that you're probably familiar with called just in time and it manages a supply chain instead of storing all of the components to make goods it manages the supply chain so everything arrives just in time to go into the manufacturing process and that form of supply chain management is incredibly efficient but it wasn't created here there are many many articles published on just in time management and why it's so effective and it's been theorized and understood and broken down so it can be applied in different contexts and that theorizing is incredibly important but of course it came from Japan it wasn't something created in the west it's something that the west borrowed from Japanese companies and learned from and there's that scope for learning across cultures and languages is an incredibly important feature of the work we do so we're probably more international than a standard school of finance and management or standard business school we're very open and we kind of celebrate that internationalism so I think that's all I would add Albert and leave it to you to give us a taste of public policy finance and management. Thank you Christine and I thought to share with the participants just some slides and the brief talk concerning a topic which we discussed with the students in the last term within the public governance module concerning a particular aspect of public governance which is regulation regulatory policies and we focused on regulation over emerging technologies and let me try and share with you another presentation I think I need to stop sharing this one and could launch a new share of the screen instead and here it is. Can you confirm do you see another presentation now? Yes that's great perfect answer. Thank you. Just very quickly to provide a taste of what has been covered this year and it would be also in next year is an attention within the governance concerning regulation and regulatory policies and emerging technologies have become quite relevant nowadays as a phrase it can be defined in many possible ways but typically within research policy genre at least there was a key definition which relates emerging technologies as new technologies characterized by radical novelty relatively fast growth coherence permanent impact and uncertainty so from self-driving cars to the bitcoin or cryptocurrencies to the use of nano materials there is a flooding of new technologies which do afford new business models new ways to provide services to clients and to society but on the other hand they do pose quite a number of novel dangers and hazards so here are just some quick references to the media where we provide some evidence of such a sort of issues which may arise from emerging technologies from crashes out of self-driving cars to frauds or thefts in case of a cryptocurrencies to the unknown effects sometimes of nano nanoparticles public policy issues do arise and that's what we discuss we like to discuss in our programs so concerning emerging technologies issues like so what is it precise that we are to regulate what are exactly the sort of dangers or hazards that we are going to face and who should be regulated and how eventually should the policies should be should be framed some research I'm carrying out currently has to do with a particular sort of emerging technology which is the one related to genetic editing genetic editing is like the latest version of genetic engineering which relates to the possibility to modify the genes the genome of living organism in a much more targeted efficient economic way than we could carry out by producing genetically modified organisms in the last couple of couple of decades these techniques originates from some discoveries concerning the monetary system of bacteria but eventually it turned since 2012 into a technique which does allow to produce genetic edits with accurate precision in the last less than 10 years there was as a consequence the launch of a number of biotech companies especially in the US but also in Europe which focus on exploitation of such techniques with the prospects to apply in a number of areas from therapies like for instance tackling infectious diseases and viruses diseases like HIV the possibility to improve the efficiency and productivity of growing crops or food feed and by means of enhancing the performance of such organisms but up to the possibility to modify the human genome which is a very slippery slope the dangerous road probably would many many would argue which also turned into very early attempts to modify the human embryos and apparently one or two experiments which have been carried out in China over the last couple of years which triggered needless to say quite a lot of concern in the areas of bioethics and relatedly more generally to the area of public policy the sort of questions we pose within the program within the models are precisely is this a public policy issue what shall we do about it what are all the consequences of living such technology unrestrained in the possible use there is a lot of uncertainty attached to it it's not quite well known the sort of side effects that genetic edit the edits could produce to the very organism but also to the environment so for instance there is the idea to use this technology in order to affect the reproduction of some vehicles of diseases like mosquitos for malaria but it's it's it's unclear in extent to its genetic edit of mosquitos could have repercussions on the on the general environment and to ecosystems and therefore there is an uncertainty which does pose a policy concerning how are we going to regulate these technologies what we like to do also is to observe how diverse the response could be across across the world so just for the sake of time as an example the regulatory response to the rise of CRISPR has been so far quite different in the US with respect to the European Union in the US tried and tested a regulatory framework for biotechnologies since the 1980s has been in place and more recent adjustments have been brought to BEA in order to tweak it in such a way as to accommodate to the rise of new techniques for changing the DNA of organisms in the case of European Union historically and therefore there is a legacy from the past and institutionalist path and there has always been a more caution towards a genetic modification as it was incorporated by a GMO directive and rather than a policy initiative it was a ruling of the European Court of Justice a couple of years ago to assimilate the more recent techniques for genetic modification to the previous ones but that's not the end of the story because from the side of scientists and also industry there is the claim that contemporary techniques are not quite the same as the previous one and therefore the ruling of the European Court of Justice is not quite on spot and instead new regulations should be delivered designed and delivered in order to better cope with the emerging emerging technology so we face a sort of dilemma across how to regulate new technologies in case of CRISPR on the one hand we have an extreme like to ban everything don't do anything with a DNA of organism the other extreme could be the one just allow everything to be tried and tested and out of our research development business initiative we may hopefully come out with improved productivity and novelty of products but actually there in the middle that's the real concern of public policy how to design public policies by means of regulatory tools at disposal and so what we teach we always refer back and forth in between evidence and theory and so we look at theory to identify a number of policy tools which have been identified from those which use communication, novelty to those which use authority those which use money like subsidies or taxes so treasure tools and those which deploy organizations like public sector agencies in order to steer the course of a particular policy policy domain the point of course is the one of how to design precisely the regulations we are going to use and on which particular application of these technologies so we need to map out what this technology could do so for example genetic editing could be used for an intended beneficial effect or a harmful effect and the questions are around the externalities of the use of this technology our externalities going to be beneficial for others at the same time or neutral indifferent or harmful and here we can map out various prospects for the use of a technology from diagnostic tools which would be beneficial for everyone the very opposite for a biotechnologist attack which would be something quite detrimental or destructive for everyone and then in the middle there are a number of potential applications many of these emerging technologies have the feature to be of dual use as they are called so for both civic but also for military military purposes and so from drugs and therapies to gene drive to genetic sabotage or even genetic weapons which may target even particular particular populations they do pose quite a number of issues so although we may think that the extreme to allow anything to be tried and tested and the other extreme to ban anything could be easily related to the more optimistic and the most pessimistic prospects of the use of the technology it is really there in the middle gray area actually it's a yellow area here in the slide where most of the policy issues arise and to understand what could the government really do in order to promote more discoveries around the new technology but also to steer the development of the technology in the most advantageous way of these is about genetic editing of course but what we discuss in what we teach relates to other other technologies so from applications of the blockchain to the one of artificial intelligence for instance or nanotechnologies there are similar issues here and there of course we do pay attention to to the global scare implications of such technologies could occasionally produce more leveling field across countries for instance let's think of emerging economies with which can leapfrog and to embrace digital technologies in a relatively fast way but other technologies especially depending on the regimes of patents for instance could actually result in advantages to a more powerful players already there in the industry like for instance multinational organizations who can who have more resources to afford to patent a new a new generation of seeds for instance which may have negative effects to farmers for instance all over the world especially in those countries which rely on the primary sector for for the economy and so we need a social scientist to anticipate the consequences of these technologies also for societies and the end economies so I have to stop here and apologize for having been a bit fast possibly on occasions but of course the main purpose is just to provide an insight into what we discuss we try our best to stay on the top of trajectories of development of technologies and tendency in in society of course I'm happy to take questions concerning the specific very short mini lecture which I did otherwise Christine and everyone I believe we could go back to the more general presentation concerning school of finance and management and our programs to conclude that part of the presentation and then to see if there are questions in the Q&A session thank you Alberto let's see if there's any short questions on your presentation first and then we can go to general questions does anybody got any questions for Alberto presentations fairly engaging and a high level stuff Alberto so I enjoyed that but let's see that's why I'm making an M okay let's come come back to that so people have a chance to think about their question and let's go to some questions that have appeared in the chat about entrance requirements and also about scholarships that we can cover so um in terms of somebody asked you know could they could they um come and do international business having done an LLB the answer is yes provided that you have a first or good second class honours bachelor's degree um you can and by that we mean it should be equivalent to a what we call a 2-2 bachelor degree in the UK um and we're quite good at matching you know don't worry about you we understand how to match qualifications from around the world to the UK qualifications relevant work experience can also be um very helpful and we welcome that so we would look at that we look at applications in the round um so we look at your educational background we look at your work experience and if your English is not your mother tongue then we would look at your um uh English language qualifications and we require 6.5 in IELTS overall with 6.5 in writing and speaking six in reading and listening so that's the entrance requirements there was a question on scholarships and I've put into the Q&A our pages on scholarships and actually I could just share that screen if it's helpful for people to show you the range of scholarships that are there or you can just copy that link from the chat but um in order to share the screen Alberto we need to stop um sharing the presentation so let me see if I can share my screen now so this is just the scholarships page for talkmasters programs from the SOAS website and I've popped the address for this page into the um the web and into the Q&A session and it links to our web pages so there are scholarships um for any talkmasters program uh for those from India and also from the following uh non-India countries Syria Iran Iraq Palestinian territories these are the Felix scholarships there's international postgraduate scholarships for any talkmasters program from East Asia Japan and Korea Southeast Asia India Pakistan Americas Middle East Africa and Europe and then there's a number of more specialized scholarships so just leave that there for you to look at on our web page and um we can you can email either Alberto or I if you have any further questions um and you'll find us on the school of finance and management um web page I'll stop showing my screen there um are there any other questions that people have about the programs about scholarships applications entrance requirements Christine you may notice there is a question uh which uh says uh can you say a bit more about how to go about finding a supervisor is if one is interested in pursuing a research degree yeah um that's a good question so the best thing to do is to go to um our website again and um let me just um maybe I'll show my screen again let me just find the right page before I do it so this is the um home page of the school of finance and management and I reached this page on the SARS website by clicking on this departments tab at the top and there you'll see all the departments of SARS listed and I went to school of finance and management clicked on it and ended up here if you go to this staff button this is the faculty you'll see that all of us are listed here with a little bit about our research interests so I'm there my research interest is industrial organization policy innovation sustainable development and corporate governance and I also do work on the governance of professional sports leagues um which is a rather niche area but I suppose my main area is innovation and regional differences in innovation activity across firms but you can find um so you know Alberto is here you can find everyone's research interests in the department and so if you're thinking of doing a phd in a particular area um just drop us an email so it's got all of our email addresses there drop us an email so I'm thinking of doing a phd in this area the more information you can give the better the more idea you have about your research proposal the better I often get sent research proposals to comment on and um that's really the best way to go around finding a supervisor and just don't be afraid to talk to us um it is a little bit tricky to phone these phone numbers your find won't work at the moment because we're under lockdown at the moment and we're all working from home so email is the best way to contact us and then we can speak by phone or zoom or some skype or whatever once you've made the initial contact by email um yeah just hope that answers that question um a moment please another question I'm going to read out um English language proficiency is usually a setback from most of us coming from uh English language speaking countries um of which our language instruction is English but we still must go through the English yeah I think that's probably right now I have to say that um we on the academic side don't deal with the language requirements that saw us um but if I don't know the answer to that to your question that I suppose this isn't the case Maggie do you know the answer yes I know can you hear me so basically um what we do there is a list if you if you go through a website with English language requirements you will see that we've recently updated our requirements and we are now um we can consider you know um making students self-exempt or IELTS exempt if they studied in an English majority speaking country or if the university's language of instruction was English so again you will need to my advice would be if your program was taught was delivered in English uh you will just need to provide um statement you need to send it to our to our English assessor and then uh there will there will be able to make a decision whether you actually need to take an English test or not and I know that in Africa we have a list of universities with English medium of instruction so English language and I know that we would no longer ask students to take an IELTS test so again I don't know what your situation is you mentioned that you're from Cameroon but again if you'd like to receive more information feel free to to contact our our admissions so it's not that you will need to take an English test we just need to you know assess our admissions need to assess your application I was going to say that the language requirements are there with London let me ask you and you can put it in the q and a your answer what programs are you interested in and uh on which countries are you from I'm quite curious we're here in London but where are you and what's your home country you've got someone interested in international business somebody interested in um public policy management um other questions and if you if you don't have any other questions are Alberto whether you want to add anything um that we think we should cover now well not quite if not possibly just to share with a perspective as students that we always keep in contact with our past students especially after being a student that saw us you join a community of our alumni and in our programs we tend to keep these communities quite lively and to help people form networks so for instance since years ago I cultivate a group or LinkedIn of former students of the MSc public policy final for management and therefore we can track their trajectories and so I can I can see the positions they can take in government in consulting in the third sector in NGOs in many different different countries this is also an interesting opportunity to get some feedback about the tendencies of what is required in the job market and for example some of the last tendencies is apparently a growing importance perceived importance towards data data science data analysis and therefore right in these very days together with Cristina under the leadership of Cristina we are reviewing programs for the future but already since since next year we are going to introduce programs like public policy finance management and more attention towards the importance of data and provision of evidence which does inform evidence-based policymaking and greater use of digital technologies and I believe that that's a general trend that also in other in other programs is is more and more embedded I believe Cristina I mean why there are a couple of more inputs in the Q&A section. So a follow-up question to the PhD one you know should I my interest in development finance so school of finance is a good fit but what about the the department of development and the studies and department of economics well I mean it's the same thing if you go to that departments tab on the SOAS home page you can find the department development studies and look at the staff there and see those there are some staff there working in finance some of our colleagues across departments and also in the department of economics you'll find staff working in finance so just have a look at the staff interest and see where you think your research project fits best and talk to email you can email more than one person that's okay I mean don't go and try and keep it fairly focused try and think about what you really want to do and find the best match for your research topic and I guess the differences between us as a department is we're probably a little bit more methods maybe a bit more methods focused in our department on finance and so on and public policy but that's the the differences are quite nuanced between the departments I mean obviously development is more focused on development finance economics and what more on the economics of finance and where much more on finance and financial management including financial management in the public sector in the School of Finance and Management but I think the key thing for PhD is your supervisor and your research topic so you've got to find a supervisor that matches your research topic so that's how I would search and then a follow-up question on a full scholarship I'm from the Cameroon you need a full scholarship we understand that have a look at the scholarships page and then probably best to contact us in the School of Finance and Management to have a chat about that once you've found the suitable scholarship and I wouldn't let that I wouldn't let applying for scholarship delay you applying for the program you do need to have an offer of a place on the program and then apply for scholarship as well and then I'm trying to work I'm trying to work in that light we're hoping to be one of our students when they say so that's that's great to hear and we would like to have you at SOS so yeah please do contact us if you have any further questions anything else anyone wants to raise and the other thing I would just say that maybe you know hasn't come through is something I said early on we are quite sort of challenge focus at SOS you know there are kind of big challenges in the world at the moment you know COVID is one of them obviously but also climate change and migration climate change related migration these issues are very much of a concern to SOS so we do want to study and we do study those topics and try and contribute to solving those challenges and that may not be so obvious from our course titles when you look at them but the content is there on climate change on climate change and addressing climate change and how we can do that I mean Alberta touched on some of it in some of the issues in his TASA lecture on you wouldn't necessarily it's great to have that lecture because you wouldn't necessarily think all those topics are covered in public policy and financial management but they are so we do take on board these broad challenges that we face as a society any other questions we've answered them all? Alberta would you like to add anything before we close? Not quite if not just my thanks to those who attended this session and to those who will watch or listen it and looking forward to seeing you at SOS hopefully in presence when the conditions of the pandemic get better all over the world. And Maggie would you like to add anything before we close? I just would like to thank you and for presenting today again if any of our participants and questions what you can do you can email Christine or email Alberto reach out to them and ask more questions we have a student ambassador with us today and again I'm not sure if there are any questions about for example student life if yes you can you can ask and she'll be happy to to answer them oh yeah and I think we will yeah it's time for us to finish the session once again thank you very much


Youth in the Niger Delta region have been advised to embrace the use of poetry as a tool for advocacy and agitations while making demands from the government. An environmentalist and director of health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nimmo Basi, gave the advice. It was drawing the training of Oguni youth on the use of video documentary as a tool for advocacy. It was held at the Kensarua Memorial Park by an eight community in Kana local government area of River State. Globally, the blowout of performance poetry has made it a growing art form that can be used to propagate and express threats on many issues in the society. An environmentalist and director of health of Mother Earth Foundation, Nimmo Basi said people must use language that can change the world and every situation around them. One of this is the use of poems as poetry speaks truth to power and reveals corruption. Basi stressed the need for people to focus more on the use of motion as geographics, reading words especially poetry and prose in showcase and dangers of oil exploration. He added that it is a viable tool for nonviolent agitation. I believe company with cultural tools which is the bedrock of nonviolent protest or campaigning is the best method of all the methods and we may still see that things are still going wrong but things were having worse. People were not conscious of the fact that they have to protect their culture, protect their environment, protect their life because when they promote their culture, they're promoting the conditions that will make them more productive citizens. Basi also decried the crazy life expectancy of people living in the Niger Delta region, lamenting that it has fallen to 41 years. He noted that life expectancy in the region is on the downward slide because of the implications of oil exploration which pollutes the environment. You know the Niger Delta is one of the most polluted places on planet earth if it is ranked amongst the top 10, one of the top 10 most polluted places and here we have all the conditions that caught life shocks. The soil is contaminated, the water is contaminated, the air is contaminated. People just can't enjoy life, the Niger Delta people cannot live to the full extent that nature and God has blessed them to live because of this contamination. We got both oil spills, gas flares, soot and so on.  The utopinda cultural expressions such as music and poetry are pathos sources of strength in moments of crisis. According to them, there can be a ray of light in the darkness helping to increase the resilience of people when their rights are violated.


Welcome to Monet Café. Beautiful artistic friends and I am now continuing with my beginner series and this one is called Good Foundations. It's a little bit of an extension of the second video. I'm kind of using the same technique with these watercolor pencils to do an under painting and again that's really what I mean by good foundations. And under painting is an excellent way to build a foundation of strength and beauty for your painting. You know the Bible speaks of building your house on a rock and not on the sand and so that's one nice thing about an under painting is it gives you a great guide and a strong foundation to build upon. So join me as I create this little painting from a lovely photograph and it is from our very own Annette Meyer Atkins from our Monet Café art group. She has some beautiful photography in our photo reference library or album in our group. Now let me share with you some of the supplies that I'm using. For this particular painting I'm using a piece of sanded UART pastel paper. Many of you know about this paper already but if you do not have access to this paper, can't afford this paper, I have plenty of other methods in other videos of how you can make your own pastel surface and save a little bit of money. I will also once again be using these watercolor pencils made by Arteza. I share a lot. They send me products to review and so I experiment with them and I found out from this set they work great on UART paper. I am definitely going to be playing around with these more but for this particular painting you don't have to use watercolor pencils for your under painting. You can use watercolor, you can use pastels. There are various ways that you can get this what I call a warm under painting underneath your painting to to create the under painting. So you have multiple options. If you've watched many of my videos you know I use all kinds of different techniques so really kind of use what you have. Unless you want to get a set of these Arteza pencils they're relatively inexpensive and I can provide a link within the video for you to click if you'd like to get some. Here is my setup on my easel and I just have the once again the watercolor pencils. I'm showing here how I've chosen mostly warm colors from the color wheel. I do have a green that I use but I'm also I've got my UART paper taped up here. I think it's like a six by I'm sorry an eight by six size and I'm going again from the Notan or the Value Study that I did in video number one of the beginner series. It will be two videos before this one showing how it's a great idea to initially start out a value study working from your photograph. It basically gets a great beginning and it simplifies things and identifies the strong things about your painting to create a great composition. Okay go back and check out that video but these next videos that I'm doing I'm doing I think four or five of them from these notans from these little value studies and the difference in this why I'm calling it a beginner video is because I'm doing a lot of talking in it and I'm keeping it real time and the reason is I know you beginners you you like to hear what's going on it doesn't help you a lot if if I just speed it up and you just watch you know you need input. Does anybody remember that movie short circuit oh my gosh what a cute movie that was the little robot he was like input input that's how we are as young artists I think and so I'm using the darker one I used there first to get in the trees now I'm using that a little bit of a redder color or magenta color to get in some of those distant trees I know you probably can't see the original photograph very well and I will put a clickable link in the description section of this video if you want to use this photograph I did already ask Annette and she's she's good with that so that would be a way that you can actually follow along with me with the same photograph I have got to get my shaky easel taken care of I'm kicking it all the time now I'm adding a little bit more of that red on top of the magenta on top of the purple trees to kind of give it a little bit more depth and and vibrancy of color single colors are all often rather flat and boring so it's often a good idea to kind of give some layers of color for a real richness and a depth now I went a little lighter in value with this orange notice it's not as dark as that purple and the reason being is that things on the ground are typically lighter than trees that are vertical notice to that I'm doing strokes that indicate how the land is laying it's giving a little bit of energy and movement to that ground and also emulating that hill or that rolling hill structure I'm doing a few more darker tones in there to indicate you know maybe some grasses or some roots and you don't even have to get this nitpicky with an underpainting I just was having fun now I'm using a lighter value further in the distance because things lighten up in the distance if you've done one of these notans from the video to beginner videos ago you will know what I'm talking about when I'm talking about changing the values and and how it works in nature I'm adding notice in the photo I kind of wanted to keep that yellowy tone of the sky there down close to the horizon and I also wanted to really exaggerate how those clouds are just reaching towards the viewer like they're just heavy over your head and coming towards you and for the clouds I am using a darker value than the the yellow that's by the horizon notice in the reference image those clouds are pretty dark they're not quite as dark in value as the land the lands actually the land is darker in that reference photo than in a lot of reference images because it's more like evening or either early morning but the clouds are not quite as dark as the land but they they're still a pretty dark value so that's why I'm kind of using that pink again notice that all the colors I'm using here are from the warmer side of the color wheel reason being they make a beautiful underpainting especially when you're going to be laying down a lot of greens or blues they they almost create a little vibration effect and I love it when some of the underpainting is kind of peeking through not cover it all up with the green it just makes your painting energetic exciting and beautiful so I love a warm underpainting and that's kind of the goal here that I'm doing the difference in this video or this painting from the previous video where I did do a painting using the same kind of technique is I didn't put in any of the the darker really dark colors in this or a lot of other colors and you're going to see how it affects as I add this alcohol like the last one I'm using alcohol here to blend in this under painting you could use water I like alcohol because it dries faster and you're going to see why I'm loving this technique so much when you add the alcohol it really just makes the colors really pop okay so this is the fun part and one of the main things I like to stress about an underpainting is to keep it loose and flowy if it drips and moves around a bit in unexpected places just kind of go with it you know as long as you've got the the core or the the basics of it pretty correct the worst thing you can do is get too tight too quickly I do again I focus a lot on make that energy like those clouds bring them forward make that land have some sweeping motion to it and break out of the boundaries of the trees being so tight I still need to loosen up even more I feel like I am just still a budding growing artist myself but just definitely focus on having fun and keeping it loose alright I'll add a little music for the rest of the underpainting which isn't long and I'll come back in for some commentary when I start adding the pastels okay now for the pastel application and if you hear some bumping around that would be my dog and cat in the studio running around playing with each other it's so cute some of you may remember the little kitty I rescued from literally my front yard I named her Dusty because she likes hanging out in my studio and no I don't let her breathe my pastel dust thank you all you wonderful pet owners out there and cat lovers I keep her safe when I'm painting I don't have her in the studio and she basically adopted my dog as her mom she even tried to nurse him and he was very she'd grab a little piece of skin or fur under his belly and he was very tolerant of that blesses her but they're goofing off in my studio right now and if you hear some music it's my husband outside playing his music why he while he tries to build us a garage we're still getting things together and trying to build things after the flooding of our house in 2017 home but let me get back to talking about pastels so enough of that I will talk about what I'm doing here but real quickly I wanted to share a little bit about the varieties of pastels I'm using a lot for this painting some of the Jiro pastels that I had reviewed a few videos back I do love these pastels but I do realize that they're great because they're not too hard not too soft they're very versatile they're a great pastel for beginners however I realized they are expensive all pastels are expensive so I had a great suggestion from one of our viewers or subscribers here on YouTube and a comment and she asked if I could do a video where I share exactly the pastels I'm using and that would be hard with my studio set because they're all kind of intermingled I'd have to go okay oh this one's a unison and what color is it and so I thought what a great excuse to buy a new set of pastels so I thought I'd buy a set of some that are good for beginners and more affordable those would be either rim brands that was my first set of pastels was some rim brands they're fairly hard on the hard soft scale for pastels but they are more affordable and I also always recommend getting half sticks when you can a lot of companies sell sets that instead of a whole stick they sell a half stick you can get twice the amount of pastels for the same money so rim brand I believe does this and the disadvantage about rim brands is they are harder so harder pastels typically aren't the best to put on at the end of a painting they don't have the the buttery or brilliance and color that the softer ones do so once you get a lot of layers on harder pastels just don't show up as good typically they're great for blending though if like when I did the underpainting at the beginning of this I could have used a harder pastel such as a new pastel in you pastel or rim brand and just kind of blocked in with some of those warm colors and even use the watercolor or I mean the sorry the water or the alcohol or just blend it in so they work great for that another good beginner set is Mount Vision you get a fairly large pastel for the money I don't think they sell them in has half sticks but they're pretty affordable and they're not as hard as rim brand but they're they're soft not some of the softest ones but they're really great beginner set too and it's so great because I happen to have Mount Vision pastel right in my backyard I've done a video that's on if you go in the past videos it's been a while but I actually did a tour of their facility and met the owner and he was nice enough to make some pastels for us and show us all the different sets so that's a really great set too so I'm going to try to buy a set of pastels and use exclusively that set showing you the colors and everything leading you through a really really good beginner video okay now let me get to what I'm actually doing here you see that I've laid started laying down some color for the clouds I went ahead and went with that blue a little bit of blue a little bit of purple they weren't too different in value that's kind of a neat way to work with clouds to you don't want to go real stark differences in value I did want to keep that yellow way background right over the horizon kind of light shining but you want to reflect that up even higher in the sky too so that's why I have some of that yellow if you look at the reference photo you can see there is a little bit of that yellow showing through it's going to do that okay it's also going to reflect down on the land a little bit too so I'm just basically focusing more on value than anything right now oh and now when I point out I'm using a lot of you ask it's just a piece of pipe foam insulation and it's great for blending I've heard people say they also use pool noodles you know those long noodley looking things kids play with in the pools I've heard those are good for blending but this can the pipe foam insulation can be bought it if you're in the states Lowe's or Home Depot but most hardware stores I think it's literally used to insulate your pipes if you're in cold weather so or for other purposes so I'm blending the clouds because I wanted to take that chunkiness away from the strokes and clouds usually are kind of wispy but I just kind of turn it and move it and again I'm trying to keep those clouds looking like they're coming towards us that's kind of the energy and the momentum of the painting but see how adding that little bit of pink in there with it just kind of kept that consistency that I've got going with the underpainting there alright so now I'm going to work on my darks we know the trees anything vertical is typically darker and so I'm going to get my darkest dark in and then I'm going to use a little bit of different colors instead of just one dark color for the trees I mean obviously I'm going to come back in later and add maybe some I don't I can't remember if I even had any greens on this one at the end because this is more of an evening scene those trees are really far away the Sun is behind them so we're kind of seeing the dark side of the trees but I still add a few more colors so that it's not just that you know one kind of flat boring color and getting the darks in early on is really good I've already got not totally my lightest lights but but close with some of those colors if you notice the scene is if you look at the photograph it's a pretty dark scene again either evening or early morning and the lightest thing if you squint your eyes is obviously that horizon skyline right there above the above the horizon okay now is where I'm adding in some of those pinks again I really like to play around with color a lot of you guys have probably noticed that and I don't always do like the typical greens and blues and all of that and you can get creative with color if you get value right now I'm incorporating some of that it's a as you can see when I when I put it down in the foreground you can see actually it is quite dark it didn't look quite as dark on top of that dark color I used on the trees but you want to go ahead if you have a color go ahead and use it wherever else you can in the painting now I'm adding some of those background trees I'm exaggerating this you don't see it as much in the photograph but in the photograph you can even see those trees real far away they're a lot lighter in value than the foreground trees but in art sometimes we accentuate these things for impact and for beauty now I'm using a little bit of a darker blue again this is evening or morning whatever it's where the sun is behind all of these things so we're getting the cooler colors again I apologize for my bouncy easel and next time before I paint I need to put a note on my easel saying fix me before you do another video all right now I wanted to go ahead and intensify that orange again borrowing Karen Margulis's expression laying down some dirt your greens are gonna look much better if you put some dirt down underneath them you know and you just think of it like a garden you know so see already that's just got nice moody feel to it all right I'm getting I know the land has some some lines in it I guess that's the right word for grasses that are growing so I'm just getting a little more of that dark it's gonna make that foreground feel closer and the background feel further by adding some darks in the foreground so I'm just continue now you notice I'm getting finally getting to the greens here and they're gonna be much more interesting because of the colors that I've laid down underneath and by the way I am keeping a light touch I get a little lighter when I lighter with my touch when I move back in a painting because the values are typically a little bit lighter I don't press quite as hard now I really liked you can't see it as good here there were some of these greens that looked a little more brilliant in the photograph and it was like some of that yellow from the this clouds in the sky was kind of reflecting down on the grass a little bit and that was just like a really neat grassy green color there and and a little more blues and things in the clouds here and I think I'm just gonna let you guys watch a little bit I didn't want to say sometimes I add a little bit more energy by making more linear strokes in the clouds I in other words I kind of blend them to begin with and then I may make a few more squiggly marks you know to kind of show some of the edges you don't want to overdo that so you guys enjoy while I paint a bit more and I will pop back in for some comments towards the end often at the end of the painting or a painting I like to add a little pizzazz color I never like to overdo the color but just a little hint of something like this bright pink just a little bit here and there just makes some interest you know and I wanted to point out that I'm using there's a little teeny sliver of a background field almost behind that hill and it needs to be a little bit of a lighter value because it's further away and it needs to be cooler in color temperatures so I just cooled off that green that was in the foreground and used more of a little bit of a turquoise color and I think I just add a few hints here and there so I'm getting ready to wrap this up but I wanted to tell you guys I am so grateful for many of you are commenting that you would love to support this channel and I can't tell you how much that blesses me I it is hard I'll be honest it is hard for me to bring these videos often you guys know about just life challenges but financially sometimes it's a little challenging many of you know my computer crashed not too long ago I just had to buy a new MacBook Pro there's so many ideas and things I have in mind that I want to do to improve the videos one of them is a new type of lighting for the studio and all those things add up so when you guys say things about wanting to support the channel it blesses me so many of you have got a suggestion of I can't really do any more time with a patreon account to give more time but I might create one that just allows people who want to support to support so we'll see about that give me your comments on that I'd love to hear what you think about that always I want to try to keep the videos free but maybe voluntary support would be okay so thank you guys for making Monet cafe so special for me and as always happy painting


Welcome back. Lynchburg gets a split on the weekend losing a dramatic 9-8 game here to Wesleyan with head coach Steve Kadelka. You guys have been here many times. You get great challenges each and every weekend you come here. Thoughts on the way your kids played this weekend? We just talked about in the locker room. I'm extremely proud of them. I thought they played you know 120 minutes as hard as they could you know and you know last night we made a couple more breaks and tonight you know they made maybe one or two more plays than we did but you know I wouldn't I wouldn't trade the effort that our guys gave this weekend at all. For a team like yours you guys really started to get some momentum going coming into this tournament you'd want to in a row you get the come-from-behind victory last night. What can you take from this tournament to go forward now because obviously so all these games so important as you go down the line you guys have been so tested all year every time it seems like it's a ranked opponent every day. Yeah you know and I think this weekend is is unique in the fact that we play Stevenson last night that has a style that they play and then Wesley and tonight plays a completely different style so that was that was probably the hardest part in the preparation for it but but I think that's something that's that we're going to be able to use to our advantage moving forward and you know from here on out we're all you know ODAC conference games and you know we got nine games left so we're excited for that challenge. Second half when you needed it they had obviously done some good things in the first half face-off wise. Kester really came in and did a solid job in that second half if not only winning the ball but certainly getting your guys in 50-50 situations your kids came up big. Yeah I thought all weekend our guys you know battled at the X I mean sometimes you know sometimes you're going to win the face-off and then lose the ground ball battle or vice versa and you know I really thought our guys battled there and you're right second half we won more than we lost and it gave us some great you know chances to play a lot of offense I know we outshot him by a bunch and you know I wouldn't trade those trade some of the shots for anything so you know hats off to our face-off guys. Why why why do teams so many of you keep coming back to this event what is the value of this event to all of you that play in it? Well I think number one it's a class it's a classy event you know they do it in the right way it's a great venue it's great teams it's great you know great just you know these are people that we respect the heck out of each other as coaches and you know and just you know things just learn a lot you know you get to watch other teams play and that's what these kids love to do they love to play the cross they love to be around it and and we do as coaches and to be here for for two days and there's ten games going on it's just an awesome atmosphere to have our team be a part of. Congratulations on the split best of luck the rest of the year. Thank you very much. All right Steve Kadelka joining us here is Lynchburg games as split beating Stephenson yesterday losing a dramatic 9-8 game to Wesleyan here tonight.


Here's a brief explanation of the chi-squared statistic for nominal data. Presumably you observe 100 people to see who deposits garbage in the can and who litters, and you want to see if there's a difference based on gender.  After you do your observation, you find the following data. So given this data, is there a significant difference in littering behavior between men and women? To answer this question, you have to figure out what numbers you might expect if everything were left to chance, that is, if the null hypothesis were true, that there is no difference based on gender. In that case, you would expect the responses to be equally distributed through all the possibilities. So since 60 people deposited their garbage, that's the total for this column, and 25% of them were female, you'd expect, by pure chance, 15 or 25% of 60 females to be in this value here in the upper left cell. Again, that's if there's an equal distribution with no effect of gender. Similarly, because 40 people did litter, and 75% of them were male, you'd expect 30, 75% of 40, to be the value in this lower right cell if there's no gender effect. Working in a similar method, you can fill in all the expected values. The further these observed values are from the expected values, the more likely that there really is a significant difference, that there really is an effect of gender. So now we have to have a formula for computing the chi-squared statistic, and the way we'll do this is for every cell, we'll take the observed number and subtract the expected number, square that, and divide by the expected number. So it's the sum over all the cells of the observed minus expected squared divided by the expected value. In this case, it works out to 18 minus 15, or 3 squared divided by 15, plus 7 minus 10 squared divided by the expected value of 10, plus 42 minus 45 squared divided by 45, plus 33 minus 30 squared divided by 30. And if we add all those up, we get a total of 2.0 for chi-squared. If you look up 2.0 in the chi-squared table with one degree of freedom, you'll find that the probability of this result is 0.16, so you retain the null hypothesis. There's no significant difference in littering or garbage depositing behavior based on gender. We'll talk a little bit later about how that degrees of freedom was calculated. Here's another experiment. In this experiment, you publish flyers in three different colors, and see how many people take them or don't take them. Is there a significant effect based on color? And here the table shows the observed values. Notice that you don't have an equal number of flyers of each color, but that doesn't matter. You can still calculate chi-squared. To find the expected value of a cell, you multiply the row total, in this case 90, times the column total, which is 40, and divide by the grand total, in this case 150. So for the upper left cell, you get an expected value of 24. The next cell in the top row has an expected value of 90, the row total, times 60, its column total, divided by 150, the grand total, which works out to 36. Proceeding in this fashion, you can fill in all the remaining expected values. You could also just use subtraction, since you know what the totals have to be. For example, the first row adds up to 90, and we already have calculated 24 plus 36, which comes out to 60. Therefore, we know that this last cell must have a 30 in it. In fact, you could compute all the rest of the values after you fill in those first two items. And that means that this design has two degrees of freedom. In general, the number of degrees of freedom for chi squared is the number of rows minus one, times the number of columns minus one. And in this case, that's one times two, or two degrees of freedom. If we apply the formula for chi squared, again going over every cell, taking the observed minus the expected and squaring it and dividing by the expected value, the result is 15.28. And when you look that up in the table with two degrees of freedom, the probability is less than one in a thousand.