Welcome! This demo will show you how to use Encore's social features, like tagging, ratings, and reviews. To get started, just click on the Encore logo. Encore will launch in a new window. You will need to log in to use these social features. I've already logged in, so you see my demo name displayed up here. Usually that would display your name. To get started, I'm going to do a search for the road by Cormac McCarthy. I don't have to enter the complete author's name, but I want to give Encore enough keywords so it can take me there right away. I'm going to scroll down to the title that I'm looking for, click on it for more information, and I can easily rate it from 1 to 5 stars right here when I'm logged in just by mousing over the stars. I'm going to give this a 5 star rating. So when I click on there, I will go ahead and have already rated this as a 5 star book. This is the easiest way to give feedback into Encore to let others know what you think about specific works. The second thing that you can do if you have a little bit more time and you feel like writing a review is to click on add a review. This gives you a chance to come up with a review headline and a brief review of the book. When you just click submit and your review will show up in a couple of days. Reviews are moderated by librarians, whereas tags and ratings are instant and will show up in the catalog within 5 to 10 minutes. The last and possibly the most powerful choice that you have is the option to add tags. All you need to do is click on the tags link. It'll take you down to the community tags input box. You can see that here we've already entered a Twilight Relics tag for this book, but you might want to go ahead and add additional tags. You would just type in your tag and click submit. But first of all, what are tags? Tags are labels that can be added to books and other items in the catalog. Tags are added by librarians and tags are added by the public too. These books have been tagged with Oprah's book club. The bigger the tag, the more items that have been tagged with that label. View another example of how you might want to use tags. Say you have a kids group that is going to be doing a project on recycled crafts. You've found some really great books and you want to make sure that everyone else can go ahead and access that list without giving them all of the titles and having them search for them themselves. So you're going to create a tagged list. All you need to do is find the titles that you want, click on the title, click on the add tag button. Down here you're going to choose what your tag will be. My tag is going to be Crafty Kids Club. I'm going to go ahead and copy that so I don't have to type that again and then click submit. You'll see that your Crafty Kids Club tag has showed up. If by chance you made a mistake and you want to take it off, you can go ahead and click the X on the tag. You can delete any of the tags that you place in Encore. Next I'm going to go back to my results, find my second book that's going on my list, click on that, add a tag, paste, submit, and I'm set. After about 10 minutes your tags will show up. Go ahead and do the search for the tag that you entered. And now you'll see that over here in Community Tag you have the two books that we put on the list. Also over on the right hand side you'll see your tag, Crafty Kids Club. You can easily share your list by simply giving people the tag keywords that you use to create the list. Or if you want to share the list externally, you can do your search. Make sure you're getting your tags by clicking on Community Tag. Then you're going to take the long URL that you see up here, copy it, use a simple URL shortener. We like Bitly. Paste and click shorten. You've come up with a really simple URL that you could then share with others. In email, on Facebook, or any other way that you want to quickly share this. And right away when you paste that URL in any browser, take you directly to your tagged list. You can also use your star ratings and reviews to keep track of what you've read and what you've liked and to share that information with others. To take a look at what you've reviewed or starred, go ahead and click on My Account. This takes you into your account information where you'll see Holds at the bottom. And up here on these buttons you can see your ratings. I don't have everything that you've rated and your reviews. And it will have everything that you've reviewed. So this is just another quick way to keep track of what you've liked and to share that information with others. While we're here, I'll go ahead and quickly point out the My Reading History button right here. This defaults to off, but if you opt in, then it will keep track of what you've read. If you have specific things that you want to delete from what you've read or what you've checked out, you can check the checkbox here and click Delete Marked. But it's another nice way to keep track of what you've liked in the past and what you've already read, watched, or listened to. Tags, ratings, and reviews are a great way to share your favorite books, movies, and music and to discover new material. Please ask a librarian if you need help on using tags, ratings, reviews, or if you have any other questions about using Encore or New Power Search. Thanks for listening and goodbye from Long Beach Public Library.


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It's a unique hustle nigga.    Name another podcast like this. Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy E-CEO and I'm here with the lovely, amazing, intelligent, beautiful, that one who holds me down, man. Mr. Mako, what's going on? The official. I'm here. Hey man, we got a special guest in here today. She really don't need no introduction. Go check a TikTok out, right? Go check out what she's done in the city, man. She in Dallas, Texas, though, Lush's Barbie is in the building. Hey, another Dallas, Texas check. Hey, what part of Dallas? Oaklel? Oh, no, I'm not from North Dallas. I'm not from North Dallas. Yeah, La Colina. I live in the downtown, I live in the Los Angeles. No, you're right. From no downtown. Nobody was not born downtown. I wasn't born downtown.   Where are you from? As soon as you drop, where are you from? Where are you from? You can go check out the truth. I went to DeSoto. Hey, that's going to be the highlight. So, you went to DeSoto, man. So, we want to go back and just try to understand who Lush's Barbie really is. We want to understand, like, before Lush's Barbie. Is that how you always see it? You want to understand that? Before Lush's Barbie. Yeah, like, yeah, coming up with you. Who were you? Man, coming up, I've always been the person that's been the class clown. I always wanted to entertain, but I've always been about business. I'm talking about candy girl at school. I mean, from back to when. I want to know when you come from a single parent home. Oh, man, you want to go back, back. Okay, okay, okay. Let's take you back. All right. So, growing up, I would say that definitely ended up being a single parent home. I came from a, you know, it started off the perfect family.  So, from there, it kind of. Did you ever find out why? Yeah, it was just a very, it got real abusive in my household. And my mom is actually writing a book about it. And I'm excited about that because it's a lot of stuff that I don't know. Right. Because I was so young. Yeah, I had a lot of questions. But then you're grown now and you've never read just turn around and ask your mom these questions. I didn't know what to ask. Um, recently I'm pushing her to write a book. So I actually got her sitting down and she's becoming an author now because I'm like, I got so many questions, but I don't know what to ask. And it's a touchy topic because that was her, her. But it's been so many years you would think that she, not say get over it, but being able to open up about it right now. I think it was one of those things that not knowing what to open up about because it was one of those things like my whole family felt like I already knew what happened, but I'm so young that I don't, I don't know.  That's it.  My mom did. My mom seen him, seen it happen. I just seen the aftermath. I seen her going to the ambulance. I seen. So you didn't see him? No, no, no, no, no. She showed you from all of that. I've seen everything, but no, she kept me from that. But what did she say to you?   He's not going to be here. You know, what did she say to you? That part, I don't remember. That's why it's one of those things I don't really know. Yeah. Because it's even certain situations that I'll bring up and it be like, nah, that's not how that happened. It happened a different way. That wasn't your mom and dad fighting. That was your mom, your dad and your grandma fight. You know what I'm saying? I'm like, whoa, but it's a certain part, especially like my dad's side of the family, they feel like I already know what's going on. But now I'm figuring out that it was crazy stuff. Yeah. Are you the oldest one? No, my brother's oldest. So my brother has a lot more experience. How much older is he? We're six days and six years apart. Okay. So he definitely know a lot more and you've never just turned to him and cause he's sibling compared to your mom. Yeah. Was he in the house of design? Yeah. He never really turned to him and asked him. Recently we've talked about it, but it's more than things that he'd be like, it's a lot that you don't know. And I'd be like, whoa, what? Tell me. And I'd be telling my mom about my mom. That's why now when she was reading me like pages of the book that she's writing, I was like, wait a minute, what? Like what's going on? And it's one of them things that my dad was going through a lot of mental issues and was telling my mom, but they were, they were going through divorce and he had a whole nother family and he shot his girlfriend and it's a whole situation. He shot it? The same day? Yeah. Did he kill her? No, he didn't. So he shot her, then came over there. He was coming to do something to himself for you. We don't know. We don't know. He just came in the yard and did it. And he was standing in the yard? Yeah. And my mama, he was talking to my mama through the window and she said that once it happened, it was one of them things that you really didn't know what was going to happen in that moment. Was he trying to do anything toward her? Was he arguing her? Tell her to get out? No. He was actually saying you got to help me and that's what I recently found out because he was in the way she's telling me the story and that's why I'm so glad that she dropping it because he was telling her for months like, man, you didn't do nothing. You're my best friend. Like everything I did was wrong and he was also telling her like, I don't want to be here no more. And she was reaching out to try to get him help and nobody was, you know how people, especially in our culture, just like from the south and everything.  He's gonna be all right. He good. But he was somebody of what they would say now a high value man. He had a real estate company. He was an engineer in the Air Force, 34 years old. You know what I'm saying? How many kids did he have at that time? Two. So me and my brother. Okay. So he had a whole nother family. So the something I did he have kids at all. No, she had kids and that was his girlfriend. But it's crazy because now he was with your mom at the same time. Yeah. He was the next door neighbor sister. That's the crazy part about it was the next one. That's not that crazy.  We're not perfect people. And that's the whole game. Like, and we do need counseling, some of the things that pass down from our ancestors affect our mental. So we got to stop acting like it's stuff that we didn't get help for. And then you go to the Air Force or whatever. Who knows? Was he in the military? And he was in, was he active? All this stuff matters, man. What happened. Yeah. And, and, but it's, it's, and I, I love the way that like just being from the south, because like most of my families from Arkansas, like a lot of my family in Arkansas, but we spread it all out. But, you know, I feel like with the older generation too, it's one of them things like, I hate to say what goes on in this house stays in this house. Right. Because it really, now I'm an adult and I'm really lost on what, like that part of me. But it really doesn't, because when people are arguing, especially if it comes out and they're outside arguing, the whole neighborhood is seeing it anyway. So it's really not staying in the house. They don't really know the specifics of what's going on.  It's not really staying in the house. And most of the time everybody else knows, except for the people in the house, like the kids and, and then you get other people in the family that think you already know. And, and that, that's one of them things that now I'm like, I begged her, hey, write this book. I don't care who get mad. So you never saw the abuse? Did you see him beating on your mom and all, but he never touched y'all? No. No. Were you a daddies girl? Yeah. From what I remember, like I said, I was eight. That's probably why they try to shelter you from a lot of things that I want you to always think of him in a sort of good light. You know what I mean? Yeah, but I struggled with that for a lot of years where I was just angry because then after that happened, I'm thinking of it like, man, like, Was it your fault? I wasn't, not even that. I thought of it more so of like, man, I didn't understand suicide. I didn't understand mental issues. I didn't understand that. So I, I felt like that's selfish. Like, you know, you had kids like you, now I'm going to see people at a school and they're going on the father daughter dances. And that's something I'll never experience. How did that affect you? With relationships with men for a long time, it was one of the things that, okay, you're going to leave anyway. You know, like you're going to eventually leave. So it really don't matter how this relationship go because the one man in my life literally is never coming back. What's the longest relationship you've had? Longest relationship, like three, four years.  No, because that's a trigger for me. Yeah. That's one of the things if I see any, if you get loud with me, I'm like, I don't know. We got to go. But then how some people get fall right back in the same situation that, you know, they grew up seeing and end up in that same abusive relationship that they saw their mom or daddy in. All at some time. It's totally opposite. It goes opposite where they, it just totally goes away from what she's doing. Yeah. It's one of the things that it's, it's more than a red flag. It's a whole stoplight. It's one of them things that if I see any, any form of it, because the type of abuse that I've seen in the household was so traumatic that it's one of them things that I'm like, nah, I can't. But did you see your mom heal from it and move on to even having another relationship? I've seen her in other relationships. She's more of a person now that she is, if she was walking the room, she gonna light up the whole room. You would never know that she went through anything. Did she have any type of? Counseling. No, not just counseling.  I call it a encounter with God. Oh yeah. She's a very spiritual woman. So that, that, that, you know, I don't really, the counseling thing I think is overrated. I think you need to be connected to God. Oh yeah, for sure. I mean, I don't play with it. Y'all can play, bounce around the subject of how you can go here. But God is my counselor.  He made a broker, broken her physically, but he never broke her spiritually. Yeah. And, and she, she said to me recently, and, and this is what she's saying in the book, is that even after all this happened, even after everything, she's still like her main prayer was that he go to heaven. Like that, that, you know, I'm saying that the love is just that everything be wiped away. So that, that keeps me grounded is how spiritual she is. And definitely keeping God the, the highlight of our life in general, because seeing somebody come through that, I know God is real. You know, and, and the thing you got to understand is to be done went through that. She's went through a lot and, and that, that, that what don't kill you make you stronger or my strength is perfected in weaknesses, policy and first Corinthians. Like this is the thing that we do. We stretched and pulled to different places to where we can help somebody else. That's, that's, that's the way it go. But then, okay, since your brother's older, how did it affect him during school time and all of that? Um, he had a rough patch in school, just as far as always fighting, you know, getting kicked out of school, but he put it into sports. He also put it into like wrestling and, and UFC and stuff like that. So I think more for him, it was more of an anger thing because, and I can't speak from a man's perspective because that's a whole different story. And because he was older and he saw, you know. Yeah. And he's not a person that is very vocal about that type. It's one of them things that I remember when I was younger and I wrote about this day. And I think this is one of them things that it's so touchy for, especially my mom with writing on the fear of with the truth coming out. Because I remember writing, I think I might have, it might have been like maybe a couple months after my dad passed.  And I wrote exactly what I remembered from that day. And this was a school project. Yeah. And he got upset and ripped it up and he was just mad. Your brother. Yeah. My brother was so mad. He was just trying to deal with it. Because he wanted it to stay at home and not get out in the public. Yes. And so one of those, and that's why now it's one of those topics that if he brings it up, we'll talk about it. But it's never been like, okay, let's sit down and figure out how this really affected you, which I know that it does because it affects me. But it's one of the things that I always remember back to that day and be like, the way that he dealt with it. But does he have a relationship with God? Yeah, he does. And that's the thing. I mean, well, then he's still, there's still some cutting and some crooning that need to be done. Because when you start to forgive on the next level, you have to let things go. And you understand how the important skills of letting things go and it affects you if you don't. So therefore, if he's still holding on to something, he's still healing in those areas. So he's still hasn't healed all the way up because in order to heal all the way up, you have to be able to totally let things go. Right. And in a way to where you can help others with the things that have wrapped themselves around you. Right. You know what I mean? Right. Yeah. And I can definitely see the transition over the years and him getting older and trying to be more accepting and more open about, you know, just just the way that things happen. And I learned a lot from him, too, just across the board in business. When it comes to anything street, that's the person. So that that's that person. I'm glad that I do have a brother to be able to step in for that male figure. You know, I have my grandfather as well. But somebody that's close that I can see. Okay, this is what this is what a man's supposed to do. And this is what a man not supposed to do. Because without that, I think for a woman losing her father, that's something that a lot of women, like you said, they fall back into a situation because now you don't know the difference of what's right and wrong. Let's just, Barbie, we never would have thought that you went through all that. Oh, yeah. Just looking at you on the outside, you cover it up very well. Yeah. You know, because at the end of the day, we all got stuff that we, if we start. You don't walk around with with the scars written on. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, you don't. You don't. But at the end of the day, we know they're there. Yeah. That's letting our our culture and our people. I just really know. I already know when I bump into somebody, you hiding something. Yeah. You got something that you're trying to cover up. And I wish it was more open.  I always said that I wish that what goes on in the house stays in the house. I wish that was some type of panel.  And it's like, it's days. I don't want to leave the house. But it's getting better than what it used to be because that scene was so true back then. Now, yes, it's somewhat, but not as much because people are more being vocal. Yeah. People are more talking, especially I'm going to always go back to that Me Too movement because once that started coming out to me, more people started talking about issues. Right. Whether first it was that abuse and then now it's more mental health. Right. People are talking about mental health and it takes platforms like this. Right. That people are coming on to talk about telling their stories and then people on the other end listening to you and being like, I need to speak about it because holding it in causes reactions down the line that like for your father that, you know, it happened terribly, but he ended up taking his life because of him holding in, right, you know, situations every day and not even just holding because he was pleading for help, but people didn't know how to handle it. So it's just avenues because I've heard people come to me and say, hey, you know, yes, we have problems, but I don't know where to turn. And as much as it's on social media, it's on the news, but they still feel like they don't have it at a rec center down the street, not in their area. Right. Everybody's going to pick up the phone and call somebody and say, hey, I need to talk to such and such. This hotline is XYZ. Yeah. They want to walk down the street to this rec center or go to the doctor or go to wherever, but they don't feel like it's so accessible. And a lot of times if people have the resource, what I've noticed is like it's it's one of those things that I and I've heard this in my own family. I heard this from different people in their family, like therapy and things like that are really like, well, you ain't going to know therapy. Why are you going? You know, they make it seem like a such a negative thing to do, especially if a man talks to somebody, especially for a man. That ain't the same as it used to be for a lot of people. But it's still there a little bit. It's changing it. It's changing a lot because people are crushing off of that. It's really a cliche of something that's really popular now where to say it on these platforms where mental illness is a big deal where you people love to say it. It's the thing that everybody's loving to say. I don't know if they're doing it. It's like they saying it. Like I get it, you know, but they definitely saying it is everywhere. But the people that have the pain and they speak about it, it's for the public. It's perfect because people can relate in the comments or that, but it's the families that you have to deal with on them being like.  You need medication. You need to be at the tarot state hospital or wherever some, you know, none house gets, you know, help. But now they're making such a broad umbrella saying that, okay, you went through your daddy pass. So you're suffering from mental illness. You need to get help. But it's not even, you just need counseling. There's a difference between mental health where you need or mental illness and mental health. You know what I mean?  Compared to I went through trauma. I need to know how to deal with this trauma. I need to know how to let it go. I need to talk about it to somebody. So I need to know how to not be like this person. I need to know how not to carry this baggage into my new relationship that's coming up. You see what I mean? There is there, there is a difference. It is. Let's talk about, let's just bother me. Okay. Let's talk about some, we, we, we definitely tackled that enough. Yeah. Okay. I want to talk about your, just your experience on who you are for is on your social media platforms, how you're developing your brand. So that people understand what you're doing today so that they can tap into who Luscious Barbie is only, you know, because who but Luscious Barbie is far as on the social media platforms and stuff, the brand that you're pushing is very important for us to get out to the people that watch this channel. And before you answer that, make sure you tell your mom that before she releases that book, she needs to come on here and we'll talk about it. Okay. So that to get our, you know, to get our listeners geared up to go purchase that book and see what it's all about. Because I think now when she's writing it, it's one of those things that she has to relive it, but she has to say it. You know what I'm saying? I don't think it's something that she's ever said because when she read it to me, I was balling. I was like, what do you mean? You know, so it's going to be really good, but I will tell her that. But Luscious Barbie, man, oh man, I started my brand Luscious Barbie by doing exactly what I've always wanted to do. I run my mouth wanting to talk all the time. But I'm a person that I'm a hustler to the bone. I'm a person I will, every job that I worked at, I will see what somebody had on. I'm coming back on Friday and I'm selling you everything he was wearing through the week. That doesn't really work in a nine to five setting because you can't turn that into your business. I've tried to open boutiques. I've done so many different things. But when I, in 2016, I started Let's Talk Dallas. Okay. I was doing internet radio at Fishbow. So I had a show there for about three years. I'll interview artists. I wanted to highlight Dallas. The reason why I wanted to highlight Dallas is because every time I would type in on YouTube, anything about Dallas, it was always negative. It was always the beef. It was always, but it was people from other cities telling our story. And I'm like, there's an amazing artist in Dallas. There's amazing restaurants. There's a lot of places to go. So I started doing that and then the ratings were good sound as far as audio, but I wanted to go more visual. So I connected with a friend. I started doing more visual interviews. And then I got into red carpet. I got into where I'm traveling Vegas, South by Southwest every year doing street interviews, interviewing everybody that you know. And then I was still working. The thing about it was I was still working a nine to five job trying to do everything. So this, the most recent job that I was working in 2019, I was doing, I was working at this company. I'm not going to say that name because I don't like y'all. I was working at this company. I'm a licensed cosmetologist as well. So I was selling wigs online and I was selling them mainly to people with cancer and alopecia or high level clients like attorneys and people that are willing to spend $17,000 on wigs. I was really doing well there. But the whole time I'm at this job, I used to watch TED Talks every day on how to quit my job. Like every day. I mean, faithfully, I will go to work. I will watch breakfast club in the morning when I sit down at my desk, do some emails and I will listen to TED Talks all day. Just the motivation of just letting off the guaranteed money. It was the money that I was addicted to because I would make money on the side. It was good money. I would make money in commission. I was always into sales. The money was like, I can't let this go because then how am I going to pay my bills, right? But I would always tell people, go for your passion, quit your job. But I would never let go. But you were talking about that. And so that was miserable to me because now I'm in a box. I'm seeing other people branch off and do what they're taking my advice. But now I'm stuck on a paycheck, right? So then one day I wake up, I get a call from this job and they say, you know, this is just not working out. I'm like, what's not working out, girl? You got a relationship problem. Let's talk about it. Like, wait, I'm here for the tea. She was like, no, we love you.  We just feel like we're in your way. I'm like, blew me away. I'm on my way to work. I'm like, am I way?  You must be good friends with them for them to even say that. She was like, I said, am I getting fired over the phone? Because now I'm confused. Am I getting fired over the phone? She said, we just want to save you the gas. Okay, appreciate that. But I'm ready to flip over some tables at this point because I'm preparing to quit. I'm not preparing to get fired. Like, but I manifested that I had put that in my life. Like, I really knew that I was not going to get up and leave that job ever. I literally would be still there if they wouldn't have fired me. So luckily, I'm a person that whenever I'm out, if I go drink or do anything, I come back home and I do vision boards.  I'm like, please come to me. What will I do now? I looked at my vision board and said, go to LA, go network. Your life depends on it. So I'm like, okay, who do I know in LA? I hit up my cousin, knew one cousin out there, one auntie out there. I haven't seen this on my dad's side. I haven't seen them since I was like six. But I'm like, hey, can I come visit LA? They say, yeah, come on. It's crazy how things start happening. It was blessings coming right after that because right after I got fired, somebody that had scammed me and I didn't even know a girl that I lived with in like 2015 for like a week, she put the gas bill in my name and somehow the city of Dallas sent me a check for $2,000 and out of nowhere in 2019. And the girl called me and was like, hey, it's a check from the city of Dallas. I don't know what it is, but just come pick it up. I went and picked it up. I used that and went and visited LA.  You know, you're gonna love here. You can live your dreams.  You want to be an actress. So of course I come back here, pack up my stuff within two weeks, I moved to LA. Not knowing nobody. I tried to live with my family that didn't work out. I ended up moving with some strangers that I met on a set of Insecure. And it's crazy because it positioned me to where I am now. And that's why this is an important part of the story because while I was out there, I had no agent. I used the app backstage. I literally was driving- How did you get on the set? Because it was an app called Backstage and I was just networked. Everywhere I would go, I was networking with people. People, the jobs that people didn't want, like sitting in the audience clapping, they got paid $50 an hour. I'm there every day. I'm driving an hour and 30 minutes to go make $50 and you don't get the check for two weeks. I'm out there in a truck. Gas is $4.50. So I'm losing. I'm taking all type of losses, but I had the access to go to the beach. I would go to the beach and just write. I would just map it out, right? I met people. One of my best friends, Jarabra O'Shaun, shout out to him. He was a person that took me to the mansion parties and he's been signed to the labels. He was a part of recognition. So he had a circle. He introduced me to so many different people, but I would go set to set. But what that did for me and I didn't even know it is, the people that wouldn't share my videos, let's talk Dallas, wouldn't listen to my podcast, wouldn't come on a radio show, couldn't interview all these artists. Now they see me. Is that Lush's own, Love Me Hip Hop Hollywood behind Marcus Euston? Is she in another episode? Every time people sending me, tagging me, then they see me on MTV Crack Me Up with all of the cast of Wildin' Out. Then they start seeing me on Insecure. They start seeing me. I did Let's Make a Deal, did a pilot for, I can see your voice on Fox. So you are behind the scenes on all of those. You didn't really never get like a leading role? I did. What hasn't aired yet is, I can see your voice on Fox. I did a whole episode. I was the Gospel Goddess and that's with Charlemagne and God. And Robin's Day. When is that coming out? I don't know. In LA, they really just pay you and like, hey, figure it out. If it come on, you'll catch it if not. I did a show on Eat Network, a fashion emergency. They're bringing that show back. I don't know when they're gonna drop it, but I did a whole episode of that. So I'm excited to see that. They took me from like a street interviewer to a news reporter.  So that was fun. But all this happens and then the pandemic comes. And I'm like, I don't know LA like that. Like that. But what it did for me in Dallas is the respect level changed. Because now people see that you actually went for it. You actually took your own advice. Now I'm seeing you making rules. Yeah. They like, you got an agent? Agent, I just went out there and grind. But in LA, I was such a breath of fresh air. I would hear that all the time. I walked into, people would hit me up on Instagram. Hey, can you go do interviews at the SP Awards? What is that? I didn't even know what the SP Awards was. I'm used to doing South by Southwest. I don't know what that is. I get in the room and all I had is my phone and my selfie stick. And I'm so like how you said when we before it came on, making yourself uncomfortable. Because I was like, okay, how am I going to make this work? Because it's Darius McCrae, Albusounday, it's Amon Joseph when Snowfall just dropped. And I go in there and I'm, hey, y'all good? Y'all had a drink? Get some edibles back there, y'all. Y'all straight? Everybody good? And they're like, who are you? Because you're not from LA. That's it. So where is this hospitality coming from? People don't even speak in LA. I get that all the time. Yeah. And I'm like, y'all, I got a hot seat back here.  I'm going to be asking y'all kind of crazy questions. It was a line of celebrities that I had always watched and seen. They lined up to find out who I am. Wow. That's God. You know what I'm saying? So it was one of the things I was like, okay, you got it. And then every time I would be on set, I would be talking to the director. So I'm talking to the cameraman. I'm getting that number of people like, oh, you ain't supposed to do that. That's against the code. I'm like, well, I'll be Merry Christmas, Halloween in the family. And I would get more opportunities. Building relationships. Yeah. I did a play. But they don't want you to do that at all. They don't want you to do that at all. That's against the policy. They're like, you can get black. Well, I'm like, well, I mean. I'm going to get black, because it's going to be me. You're going to buy me at least there and know my name. I mean, that's really it. And how I started doing comedy. I started doing comedy by when they would ask anybody in the audience can sing. And I would be like, me, I get up there. Once I get the mic, the mic is my comfort zone. So you can sing? No, not at all. But she just make them think she's a- When I get the mic, now the audience, because I'm on the set of Neighborhood and Tashina Arnold is behind me. Instead of Tashina, that's my audience.  But I know they can hear too. So I would be like, my name is Luscious. Y'all say, hey, Luscious. Everybody in the audience, hey, Luscious. Now I know they hear me, right? So I would be like, OK, the house on the left is red. The house on the right is blue. Where is the White House? If y'all get it right, then I would tell the audience, warm up comedian. If you get it wrong, everybody get some candy. Because I know everybody's complaining about they hungry. He would get it wrong. Everybody get candy. Now they, go Luscious, go Luscious. You know, every time I did that, the next time I came, I said something else.  And I was like, they hear it. That's it. So then I went from a $57 day. So the next one of the producers reached out and said, well, hey, how about you do a background position? That's changed my day from driving an hour and 30 minutes for $57 to now it's a $300 day. Wow. You know what I'm saying? So that changed it. And from there, I did plays. I did all of that. But when the pandemic happened, it's another obstacle that I'm like, man, OK, I got to go back home. I got to go where I know. When I get back here, I really didn't know what I was going to do at that point. You know what I'm saying? I'm kind of just like, oh, man, now I'm back at square one. I didn't quit my job. Now I don't want to go back to work. I didn't realize how to hustle without the guaranteed money. So how did you overcome the pandemic? Oh, man, once I got back here, my niece had started showing me TikToks. And I'm like, I don't know how to do no TikTok. I got my first TikTok video still up. I'm doing a renegade dance. I'm really trying to figure it out. Can't do, can't do no dance. That's it. But then I did a video of my first video of another Dallas Texas check, which is another Dallas Texas check. What I do now is let's talk Dallas. I've been working on it since 2016. It's never changed. The formula is the same. I changed the name and I made it more trendy. And I did the first video of just, you know how before, I was trying to be professional. And I wanted people to come in and do the right type of interviews. And I wanted to have the questions and all of that. But I did a Sweet Georgia Brown. And I said, if you pull up at your barbecue place and it's not pie holes in the parking lot, I don't want it. If it's not grease splatter and all over the back of the building, I don't want it. I don't want to go in there if you can't say, um, and they say we ain't got that. You know, and when I did that, it went crazy. So that made me understand that sticking to the original formula is what I really need to do all along. And then I just went from there. Every video, every place I will go eat, every place I will go do, I will do a review. And now, I mean, I created the hashtag another dollar sex check, it's at 7.1 million views now. The followers are organic. Everywhere I go, people stop me. I've brought so many businesses through the pandemic because a lot of the business owners would tell me, man, we were about to close. We didn't know what we was going to do. And you did a video and people start coming in here. People start getting the food. They start telling, and that's how I started it. While people, I would make the people say, luscious since you. So when I go and I talk to the business owner, now they like, so you luscious. Now I turn my whole platform into advertising agency. And it's been up for them. Do you get free food everywhere you go? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. This week, I've gotten soap. My refrigerator is so many to go boxes. I can't eat all that food.  Yeah, but you're doing the right thing helping people for sure. For sure. Take some of that food and go hit them streets. Be the homeless. Oh, yeah. Start, you know what, here. Be the homeless, yeah. Tell them exactly where you got it from, you know, whatever. Be the blessing. Yeah, when I have it in the car, everybody I see on the street, I'll give it to them. But I do need to. I want to put together a whole, because it's so much food that restaurants get rid of. Get rid of. That it's like, they just really need that person. They need it. To just come in and say, hey, I'll take it to them. Yeah, like, what time do you close? Yeah. I'll come get cases. If you don't want to give me the containers, I'll go buy the containers. You just put them in there. Because nobody wants to just give away their containers that need it for their business. Buy some containers, and that could be a non-profit. And be like, hey, put the food in here, and I'll take it and go dish it out. Oh, yeah. And then it's just, what's the most uncomfortable situation that happened when you was up in LA with a celebrity that made you feel like, dang, I messed that up? Or, man, I killed that. Either way, I don't care. With a celebrity? Um, I would say, uh, does directors count? Yeah. I would say being on set and being a Black plus-sized woman was the most uncomfortable situation on any set that I worked on. But I mastered it because just being my authentic self and knowing how to not be afraid of missing opportunities. Because if I'm on set and they saying, well, can you make it more urban? Like, can you say, oh, I'm like, why would I say that? Yeah. That's Cardi B thing. Why would I say that? Well, can you be more, like, Lizzo? Can you be more confident, like, Lizzo? I'm very confident. You know, like, Lizzo, you want me to get naked? What are you, like, what are you saying? So those situations were so uncomfortable about me voicing it. And that's what a lot of people are scared of, the voice, because you're going to lose the dollar. It's going to happen. They're going to be like, well, I mean, if you don't do it, there's millions of other people. Exactly. That industry does that. And that opportunity is not for me. How do you feel about Monique in the way that she... That's exactly who I was thinking about. The way that she... Spoke out. ...responded, spoke out, the way that she took on everything that she had to deal with in that limelight. Yeah. I think it was the way that she did it and the weight, because if you've been... And that's with influence in anything. If you've been accepting something for so long and not saying anything about it... It boils up. Once you say something about it, that's going to be the main question. Well, why are you waiting to now? And that's with everything, with the me too, with everything. Well, why now? Why now? And it's like, it's never a great time to say how you feel. But I think that's why it was so much backlash about it, is because it's like, well, if this is going on, now that you've already reaped all the benefits from it, now you have to be willing to walk away from that money and the benefits that come with it. It depends. I think if you're the first one who comes out with it, then they're going to jump on you even more.  Yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? And make it easier, yeah. Right. Well, let me know how people can get a hold of you. Like, if they're trying to get you to advertise for them, or what's the best way on Instagram or any platform that they can get a hold of you. Instagram, you can contact me at Sweet Life for Lushes, TikTok, Sweet Life for Lushes, www.anotherdallassexycheck.com. You can catch me there. Click the link in the bio on any of my social medias. I have a form there ready for you and just go in detail on what you need as far as promotion. I do all businesses. It just does not have to be just food. I've done restaurant salons. I also do social media marketing. So if you need your page or anything done like that, I do tutorials where I teach businesses how to work the TikTok platform within your niche. So I kind of go in and do the whole brainstorming. But the best way to contact is Instagram or TikTok. Also, I know you link with Ricky Booker. Oh, yeah. Shout out to Ricky Booker. I wanted to shout him out and just... What has that... How have you helped his situation or dealt with his situation in restaurant? Man. Just that production scene. That relationship built from me doing a TikTok and bringing a lot of business. And then he actually seen that I was not just about the talk. I was about the business too. And from there, it went from TikTok after TikTok to now I'm one of the writers, a producer of the TV show in the kitchen with the breakfast brothers. I'm also the announcer of the show. I'm basically the field agent in the restaurant. So now our relationship is very close. I definitely appreciate everything that he's done because he understood and seen the vision and actually believed in me. And that's one of those things that I feel like everything is about a co-sign. Of course, you're going to be co-signed by God all the time. But in a lot of places, all it takes is that one person to actually believe and he is that one person. Well, he's showing up, got some good... What was them waffles?  I love that one. Can we try it both? But a red velvet? I might go over there. Hell, tomorrow morning. Have you tried the fried rice? Oh, no. I had some catfish fried rice the other day. The rice is amazing. I went to Benihana and got mad because it didn't taste like breakfast. I'm about to go back. I might go tomorrow, you know what I mean? The catfish fried rice? He going to be there tomorrow, you think? Call him. I don't know. Oh, yeah, make sure he pull up. Yeah, I'm coming through that car. You got to go earlier than the church crowd. Yeah, I know. We got to get over there. If you call him, you'll be good. Yeah, you're going to be going to take care of me. Definitely try that. Have you tried the grilled peanut butter, the fried peanut butter sandwich? Uh-uh. I think. Did I? Peanut butter and jelly. Yeah, I did. I didn't like it. You didn't like the peanut butter and jelly? It tastes... You have to pair with some anything. I think you brought me some lamb chops. Lamb chops, I did. What? I'm saying we're good. Lamb chops, man. Let's get off this, man. Hey, man, I'm hungry right now, man. Y'all niggas roll for that. Hey, man, thank you so much for coming on Boss Shop, man. Thank you for having me. Is there anything that we left out, anything we missed, anything you want to highlight before you get off this show? Shout out. Is somebody you want to beef with? Dallas, y'all, look out. Lush's Barbie got something to say. Oh, yeah. Another Dallas sexy shake, y'all. I just want y'all to know that I'm the original, the creator, all of that. It's my full-time business. I have all of my paperwork done on another Dallas sexy shake. So y'all can keep using it if you want to. You can switch it up. You can em a tatty. You can do whatever you want to, but baby, just know it's another Dallas sexy shake. Let's go. Hey, man, we love you. God loves you, man. Love you, Barbie. Thank you so much for coming and being a part of Boss Talk 101, where the bosses talk. Howl at your boy. It's a unique hustle. It's going down, and we are. And we are. Oh, okay.


That's me. Yeah. What's it done? Donnie called daddy.  That's pretty much it.  Well, two girls now. We had one at the start when it started. We had Gracie just, and she's three and a half now, and Kate is five months. Wow. So... Hanson, how do you have time for doing any filming? Well, it started off, it was easy enough, because Gracie was only nine months at the time, so it was just a matter of messing about, and now it's evolved into people wanting to see more of just the day-to-day life of how it being a dad of a toddler is. So it's not too bad. You just take snippets of real life, and that's what it's all about, keeping it real and showing that. The ups and downs. Yeah, exactly. Keeping it real. Showing how hard it is. Yeah. Oh, I can well imagine. Very good. Okay, then. So you've used your platform because you've, you know, a lot of followers, as all the boys do, but decided to do Movember, it's kind of a Movember plus. It is, yeah. We kind of, well, my ifa there, my wife, she's not too impressed with the old beard and mustache growing, but this year I've kind of decided to stick with the beard for now, and then I'll go mustache for the last couple of days, but yeah, and then we added on a hundred press-ups a day to try and just, just to show, like, doing bits of exercise to help with the mental health and give you kind of a goal to do something every day.  No, no, well, I've tried to do them all together, but yeah, you had, I, I, I breaking them down into 10s and 20s, and I can bang out them in 20s, not too bad as grand, but the first few days it was, oh, you're breaking them down to fives by the end of the day nearly. So you have a nice firm biceps when it's all over. I don't know what, I, I needed to do something, I know, maybe before it started, but yeah, so it's, that's good, it's been good, like, it kind of gives you a motivation to do it as well, and then it does it highlights what, what we're trying to highlight, and that's the main thing. Yeah, well, that's, that's part of it, but it's, it's good to set, set a challenge as well, and, and then you, you just work towards it. In this case, it's over, over a month with the, with the different elements. And together, mo bros, is that how you pronounce it? The mo bros, yeah, so it's like, it's the Movember, and then the, yeah, we team we have gathered up, Paddy kind of got us all lined up. Would you have known the other, the other boys, or would you just been aware of them online? That is one of the kind of, I suppose everybody talks about the negatives of social media at times, but the positives are definitely like meeting, meeting the guys like Paddy and, I met Paddy and Kevin probably around this time last year, or the summer last year, and Paddy was doing another charity, events, women doing dips in the sea for 365 days, he'd done it every day. But so I met Paddy and Kevin through that, and I like top lads, and then he kind of met the other lads through that as well. So it's just amazing, you can, it's a real positive thing that comes out of social that people never really talk about the good side of it. Nearly it's always you hear the negatives. It's easier to. This is true. This is true. You hear the downside of, of, and you know, sure, you've experienced it as well, but it's good to focus on the, on the positives and, and in this case, it's meeting the boys and being able to use your profile then for, for something like this. Exactly. And it's, it's, it's so how's, how's the other beers and moustaches and stuff coming on? Paddy is a, Paddy's a salubrious moustache there. But he, he had a bit of a facial growth. He always, he always keeps the beer on, and he has a quality tache now. All right. To go with it. Yeah. And, and they're, they're, I presume they're all progressing with the push-ups as well. They're all. Yeah. That's it. They're ones. Paddy's is like, when you see his videos, he's, he's doing a lot quicker than me. That's fancy editing. Maybe sped it up. So it's, in a way, it's leading up to the end of the month and, and this, this event on Sunday, which is, which is a great idea. And it's so simple. It's just meet up and go for a walk. In this case, I walk up, there you go. That's it. Exactly. Yeah. So it's, I suppose a big part of it is the whole November thing started with, initially it's, they started it for prostate cancer and make it awareness and getting men to go and get checked because it was a thing of not going to get checked until there were symptoms. And that was kind of nearly too late when you have prostate cancer. So it's pushing that to go and get checked without there's any signs and then it kind of progressed into mental health awareness because it's become such a mad thing in young men that there's like it's crazy. I think it's one minute around the world, across the world of young men committing suicide. So it's pushing that end of it to like, and I think most people have a lot of people you speak to have had some kind of mental health struggles. Um, so it's nice just to kind of do something to help highlight it and show that there is help there to be got if you need it. Like what is it about us men? We're just reluctant to talk about serious issues, whether it's to do with, you know, physical health or mental health with, with other men. Um, if we do, and it's a big if, if we do talk about it, it tends to be with women, whether it's, you know, your partner or someone in the family or whatever, but, but not man to man. Yeah. Instead it's all kept, you know, on the surface and it's all lights with the football or you just think it's completely ignored. Well, I know myself personally, like my, like probably wouldn't, I've got the help because my wife was there with me, supporting me and me, you know, my parents, but, um, you know, you have to, like at the time, I, I just had a, I had a kind of a brick wall and I just needed it. I knew I had to do something because it was like that real dark place. And I just was like, I have to do something here. Um, and I went to me GP and I broke down in his office and I thought, go into the GP.  Go into the GP. Why am I like, he's going to think he's going to laugh me out of the room, you know, thing, but a lot of, a lot of men would think just like that.  Like, and then I went and I spoke with him and I, like, Jesus, I just broke down in his office, as I say, and like it was just, it was a breakthrough because he just was absolutely brilliant and he just got me sorted, like, and I went to speak then with other people, like, and you, and I can use them tools now. So when it, if it comes around again, that you feel that, oh, this is coming up me again or creeping up, you have tools to deal with it. And that's, that's the big thing is once you go and get the help, there is loads of help there to be got. But, but there's a real struggle to get to the point where you knew you had to go to the GP and you knew you had to get help. And I suppose what this does is it creates awareness and it's awareness about how it's okay to talk to other people and it's okay to look for help and maybe it'll help, it'll help other men get to a stage where they either reach out for help or, or maybe they'll be able to deal with it and develop some tools along the way where they don't need professional help, but just to be aware that there's, and it's like, the likes of these, the likes of these events now, like the walk and talk that we're doing on Erigil, it's, it might just be that case if you need just to go out and have a chat about life in general and it might just be getting out of your, getting out of your own head like and not kind of running from things like, or just as you say, brushing them under the carpet like which, like I would have done that a lot when it was, when I was going through it, I would have done a lot of fitness and cycling and that would have just been like, oh, I'm feeling crap, go, go, go. And then, and then next thing during the winter you'd start to get and you would go and decide to start running just to kind of be doing something and you were never addressing it. So rather than addressing it, you would just go and do some crazy challenge. But that's, that's the kind of an escape that I think a lot of men would, would opt for, you know, going for the run or going for a cycle or a walk. Like, and them escapes are fine once you realize that why you're doing it. If you know what I mean, like that you're, that you're dealing with the actual issue as well on top of that and not just going for the run and trying to avoid it. It's kind of been able to go, I do like running and I'll do that to help. But I also sit and deal with this, what's going on inside to like. And talking is so important. Massive. Just just sharing. Yeah. Like, yeah, like even like that, like, and I wouldn't have been one for talking about it either, really. But like even at the lowest point, like we were, I was, I said this before on my profile and said it like about we were away in this holiday of a lifetime and I, but I had a back issue and it had just put me in this real bad place.  And we were like, I didn't speak to my wife for maybe four days, I would say. And I was lying in a hotel room in Dubai, just not wanting to move. And I just, that's when I got to the point of going, this needs. This is not, this is not the way to deal with it, lying in a room and not speaking to your, your best friend, kind of thing. Was the problem with your back or was it more than that? It was, it was the back. It was the kind of, I suppose the back was the kind of thing that made me, made it all kind of build and build because I would have been able to kind of train myself out of it like that kind of way. And then when I couldn't train and then my back was giving me the problem and I had, I just kind of got into a point of, I'm going to have this back trouble for the rest of my life. And you kind of, you just don't see an end to it. And then it was kind of like, you just were when you see no way out, then you start thinking worse things and that kind of, and then I realized, no, that's not. So one thing can lead to another. That's it. Whereas if you'd, on day one, if you'd opened up and talk to Ifa, then it might not have escalated. Well, she would, like Ifa would always have been like, oh, like, you need to go and see her. She might have said that, you know, well, maybe you should talk to someone like, I would just really not, or they can deal with it myself, I can away and then you just need to kind of realize it. But like maybe if I didn't have that support of Ifa and my parents, like it would have been, you could have, you just don't know why it would be like, and that's what I'd be afraid of for a lot of people that might not have a partner or a friend that they can open up to her that would know what's going on even, because like only for Ifa was there in the room at times, she would, that she actually seen you, seen it happening. Whereas some people might not have that.  Do you know all too often isn't that the way of it? That's it. Okay. So talking is vital and there's going to be hopefully plenty of talking on Sunday. That's that's the whole idea. And and this isn't just the six of you guys getting together. You want you to throw this out to everybody who wants to come along. Feel free to talk or don't talk. Just go for the walk if you want. Exactly. That's it. And like and listen. Yeah. And let's that's it. It's kind of just come out. It's just to get people out of the house, get people socialising, chatting, having the crack. It's like any time you go for a hike, you'll meet somebody. And it's always you get a you'll have a chat about all kinds of everything like and it doesn't you don't have the common talk about mental health, you can just come and chat about the weather. It's just about getting out and realizing that there's lots of good people and it's because you can get bogged down in social media too and see all the negative comments and negative comments about everything. And then when you go and go for these walks and I think it's the struggle together up the hill. It's kind of everybody's in the one boat. Yeah. Do you know precisely and it's a little bit easier now to get up with the exact. Exactly. It's great. It's accessible. You still have to get up to the same height, mind you. But it's it's where practical clothes get cold up there. I haven't gone up or it's been ages since you've gone up then the footwear not as big an issue as you go up in trainers. Yeah, you could go up in trainers now. But yeah, as you say, just it's stunning all in November. So plan for every and layers, plenty of layers. I always find it's good going up here. I go like that. You might not need the jacket on the way up. But when you get to the top, you'll definitely need it and the hat or whatever like you'll just become prepared and then bottle of water is always a good option to 100 percent. OK, so what time is everybody meeting up on meeting at 11 a.m. on Sunday morning at the car parking area and then we're hoping to be away by half 11. OK. And just a reminder that you you're Donegal Daddy, but you can suppose that people can check out any of the other fellas as well. Exactly. Yeah, you'll see us all like we'll have would be tagging each other in stories and that's you'll see us all there. But yeah, I like that if anyone needs to even reach out for anything, just give us a shout as well, like private and confidential always, obviously. Great. Good to know. And you raise money along the way. Is there any money you've been raised on Sunday? Will it be donations? It's just donations if you want. We know that obviously there's a cost-loving crisis at the minute and the big part of it is raising awareness, like in making sure people know the the means is there to help you. But yeah, donations are all welcome. We're up to about two thousand for the team there now at the minute. So any more we can get to be great. Listen, well done. Good luck on Sunday and well done to the other guys as well. And look with all the beers and the moustaches into the bargain. OK, me or Ben? Thank you very much. Thanks, my name is John. Cheers for that. My brother's coming home this Christmas and he hasn't been home for years. And we miss him so much and we cannot wait to have him back. Christmas is a special time of.


Hello. All right, so who's ready for a crash course in Webpack today? Yeah. All right, I'm going to warn you right now. This is going to be a crash course in Webpack. And it's not necessarily WordPress focused. This is more like general Webpack that you can use in WordPress. So if you feel overwhelmed at the end of my presentation today, come talk to me. I'm really happy to answer any questions that you might have, or if you don't have a chance to chat with me, you can find me on Twitter. That's my Twitter handle there. Or send me an email or any other way you want to get connected. All right, so let's bow to the demo gods that all of this works out today. I'm doing a live demo. OK, so first let's talk a little bit about Webpack and what it is. At first glance, when I think about Webpack, I think it's kind of tempting to classify it like other task runners, things like grunt or gulp or any of the other ones that exist in the front end ether. Not unlike grunt, gulp, whatever, it can perform tasks such as compiling and minifying JavaScript or SAS. And it can do all sorts of processing of files, right? But what sets Webpack apart from the grunts and the gulps of the world is how it does that processing. So when you have a project and you have Webpack enabled or set up, what actually happens is when you set up your configuration, you basically tell it like, hey, I want to look at JavaScript files. I want to look at SAS. I want to look at images, right? And you have a certain entry point into your application. So in our case today, we're going to talk about this index.js file. That is the entry point into our underscores application. And when Webpack runs its processes to build files, what it's doing is it's looking at anything that's connected to this entry point. It's going to say, oh, hey, I see that we are using, we're importing navigation. So I need to care about that. Or I'm importing this skip link focus fix. I need to care about that. But if I have, say, the customizer, which we can see is in my JS folder over here, Webpack doesn't care about that because it doesn't know about its existence. So we're not going to waste time processing a file that we don't care about or Webpack doesn't care about. In the Webpack realm, what this is known as is a dependency graph. So Webpack just builds and bundles all of the files together that we actually care about and puts them into a separate folder for public distribution. All right, let's actually get started. So Webpack 4, which is the latest major version of Webpack, doesn't actually require any sort of configuration, which is really, really cool. I don't have Webpack installed globally on my machine, so you're going to see me type some really gnarly command here. So I'm going to type node modules dot slash dot bin slash Webpack. I'm going to hit Return. And nothing happened because clearly things aren't going to go right today. Let's see here. Womp, womp, carry. No modules. Thank you. I was looking at my notes like, what? Yep, typing, I tell you. OK, Webpack, boom. Something is thinking, all right, something happened. Great. So we can see something happened in the terminal, right? And what Webpack is doing without configuration is it's looking for something in a file called source or SRC. And it's going to look for an index.js within that file. When you type in your command to run Webpack, in my case, because I'm running it from my project, the node module slash dot bin slash Webpack, it actually produces this disk folder with a main.js. So it's without me telling it to do anything, it has actually gone and it has grabbed my navigation.js. It's grabbed that skip link focus and magically compiled it. Wow. I'd love to see grunt or gulp keep up with that magic. Sorry, I'm just so excited about Webpack. So we can see, though, this is kind of a nightmare, right? Like, what does this even mean, right? This is minified gobbledygook. This doesn't look like the old navigation I thought I had. I mean, I see one class name in there or one element ID. Sorry, that looks familiar, but the rest of it. I can't debug this. So let's jump in to actually creating our own Webpack config. And I think this is the scariest part of Webpack is when you get in there and you start creating your own config. So I'm going to go in here. And the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to call in path and save it to a variable. Because Webpack kind of works in a node paradigm, we're using require instead of import. And path is actually a part of node. And it allows us to work with paths so that we can kind of give our node projects some sort of context, like, where are we working? Where should I run Webpack? This is why I don't have Webpack installed globally, because I don't want it to just run wherever it's installed. So that's what we're going to do first. And then we're actually going to set up our configuration object. Again, because this is in a node paradigm, we're going to save this configuration object to module exports. And the first thing we're going to do is we're actually going to set a context. So we're going to put in a context property. And I'm going to pass this dir name variable, which is a part of the path. And what this is doing is it's saying, every time I run Webpack from now on, like if I did have it installed globally, I want it to know that it needs to run from this project. So it's running relative to my Webpack configuration. So relative meaning within this underscores directory is where Webpack is going to start looking for files. So that's step one. The next thing I'm going to do is actually set up my entry point. Ironically or not, it's exactly the same as Webpack normally uses. It's going to look for source index. And then I'm going to define my output. And for this, you tell it what path you want it to live on. So I'm going to use that path variable that we saved. And then I'm going to type resolve. And then I want this to live in the root of my project, but in a folder called public. Great. So I'm going to save this. And now I'm going to make sure I get rid of that. OK, great. So now if I run that command again to compile Webpack, we can see some stuff changed. And now we have a public folder. Oh, I didn't give it a file name. Just kidding. Let me give it a file name, too. If you don't give it a file name, clearly it defaults to main.js. But you can actually give it whatever file name you want, which is super handy at other points in time. Like if you want to process lots of different files for lots of different reasons, there are great things you can do here. So I'm actually going to call this bundle.js just to kind of differentiate it from what we have by default. I'm going to just blast that away quick, run again. And now we can see our public folder came back. We have bundle.js. Oh boy, we still have minified files. So this isn't particularly helpful. If we had some sort of problem in one of our source files and we needed to debug it, it's near impossible to do so. So what we're going to do now is go back to the Webpack config and actually add a mode. So we already know that Webpack, by default, is trying to run, well, actually is running in production mode. So every time you run that process, it's going to compile and minify your JavaScript. So now what I'm going to do is say, hey, Webpack, I actually want you not to run in production. I want you to run in development. So now, when we run Webpack and we check out our bundle, hey, Prasto, we have something that is now human readable. And this still isn't great, right? I think if I remember well, somewhere in here, I have a hello world kind of just chilling, right? I want to be able to track down where that is. So the best way to do that is to work with source maps. And what source maps do is they take the code that we write as the humans, the source code, it takes that and it maps it to that bundle.js that Webpack actually produces. So we're going to go back to Webpack and we're going to say, all right, I want you to add a dev tool. And we're going to add source map. And if we run Webpack again, we can see now in our public folder, we have this bundle.js. And when we look at this, I realize this is quite small. So I will make it bigger once it reloads. We can see, oh, hello world is in our navigation file, on line 54. So if I wanted to track that down and remove it, I can do that now. So this is just like basic setup. Webpack is capable of doing so much more. So now let's move on to talking about loaders in Webpack. So as we've discussed so far, Webpack can understand JavaScript by default. It's able to compile JavaScript files that are connected to that entry. It can then minify them. And that's about it.  So if I have stuff, and I do have things like arrow functions, for example, here's an arrow function in the navigation file, where I'm saying, hey, I want to use some modern JavaScript here. Or I have a for of loop down here. I want to be able to use all these new fangled things in our latest versions of ECMAScript, whether that's ES6 or ES2035. Doesn't matter. I want to be able to use it. So this is kind of where loaders come into play. Loaders help us, where it helps Webpack do things that it can't do out of the box. So they extend the functionality of Webpack to allow it to do more processing, whether that's taking JavaScript files that are written in ES6 or further in the future, or if that's working with SAS files or SCSS and actually compiling those into normal styles, like CSS, that can be read by your browser. So what we're going to do now is we're actually going to add a loader that will take this for of, it will take this arrow function, and it will translate it into something that some of our older browsers, for example, IE11, the bane of my existence, will be able to understand. And this is also true for things like React. React, you need more than what I'm going to show you with the Babel loader, but kind of the same premise, like these loaders and these kind of ideas are what makes our modern JavaScript, our modern CSS, accessible to all browsers. So what we're going to do is we're going to add another property. It's called module, which is an object. And within that, we're going to add an array assigned to the property rules. And within this, we create objects for each loader that we want to use. And this is where stuff gets terrifying. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to have a test property. And what this test property is going to do is it's going to, I'm telling it, hey, webpack, I want you to look for all files that end in .js or .jsx.  I don't know. At the core of it, we can do just this. This is a Regex that will only look for .jsx. Actually, let me add the dollar sign. That's going to look for anything that ends in .jsx within our project. But if we were writing a React app and we were using .jsx, we could actually go in and add question mark x. And that's just saying, maybe look for this x. Maybe not. So Regex can be a thing that is terrifying. But just add what you need. And the next thing we're going to do then is actually just call our loader. So I'm going to call babble loader. I have all these things already installed so that we could kind of keep this moving. But that's all we're going to do. This is all you need to tell webpack to be able to translate ES6 and further in the future into ES5 or something else that can be understood by older browsers. So again, we're going to run webpack. It did its thing. And now when we pop open our bundle, if we look for that button.onclick, it's still an arrow function. What did I do? Live demos. I tell you. Let's see here. Just get rid of that just in case that's the problem. Let's see, we've got module, we've got rules, we've got our test. All right, let's try this again and hope it actually changes. OK, a thing happened. Ah, there we go. It did work this time. It didn't like my regex. That's why regex is evil. Lesson learned, right? Next question. Thank you. Yes, I get confused. I usually look these things up to validate my assumptions. OK, but we can see that our onclick function now is no longer an arrow function. It's instead a standard function that any old browser can understand. Just like that for of that I had just below that is no longer a for of loop. It's actually just a standard for loop in JavaScript. So again, even IE11 can understand this language. Great. So I think one thing that you might have noticed is rather annoying and cumbersome is trying to remember this node module slash dot bin slash webpack, or even just having to type it every time I make a change. So what I have done is in package.json, I've actually added these two, or I have an entire scripts object in here. But the two that actually matter are the first two. We have the build script, which is telling, it's saying if I run npm run build, it's going to run webpack, and it's going to run it in production mode. So it's going to go ahead and minify the files instead of creating the big old human readable thing that's got all those extra comments. So we can just test that really quick by running npm run build. It did a thing. And now when we look at our bundle, that's so great. I tell you, these live demos, I don't recommend them. It's like it's caching. Oh, maybe it's just trying to open something that I don't see here somewhere. Nope. Well, normally it works. So that's a little discouraging that it's not working correctly right now. But it should be running typos. It normally works. So I just need to double check that. I have this on GitHub, and it does actually work. So there's that. Aim, it should. No. Yes. Yes, this does override it. Let me just test. Dev is running fine. So I probably typed something slightly wrong. No, it won't. No, the command line arguments will always override what you have in your configuration. I'm pretty sure I just have a small typo somewhere that I'm not seeing. You know what? Nope, I think the equal sign is it. Good call. Whoever. Helpful. Audience angel. There we go. Thank you. You know what you're talking about? Maybe you should come up here and finish my talk for me. Yay, look at that. It worked. All right. And the other script we have is the dev script. What this is doing is it's running webpack. We pass it this watch parameter. And now whenever we make a change in any file that's connected to our entry point, whether that's index.js, navigation.js, or the skip link focus fix, every time we save one of those files, it will automatically update. So if we go back and rerun npm run dev, we kick off this watch process. The main reason I can tell it's working is because I don't have my standard prompt anymore. And then I'm going to just say come in here, type something very basic. We can see a little magic happened here. And if we go into our thing here, we can see, oh boy, it actually output that console log statement. So we can see that's actually working correctly. So that's great. The thing to keep in mind, though, is if you're still tweaking your webpack file, you can't keep running in development mode or in watch mode. And that's because webpack isn't smart enough to know that it needs to update a process that's already running.  So I'm actually going to kill this process. And we're going to move into talking a little bit about plugins. And I think this is what makes webpack confusing. We have this idea of loaders. And then we have this idea of plugins, and not to mention all the other options and possibilities that are in between. To me, plugins of webpack aren't too dissimilar from loaders. They fill in gaps in our build and bundle process by doing the work that loaders can't. So for me, when it comes to actually working with webpack and working with that loaders and plugins ecosystem, my first instinct is to see, is there a loader that can do this? And if I can't find a loader to do the job, then I'm going to look for a plugin to do it. So now we're actually going to add a plugin to our webpack configuration that is going to hook into that dev process so that every time we save a file, it's going to reload the browser as well. So it's not just going to update our source code or our bundle, but it's going to reload the browser so that as we're coding along, we can put in console logs for days or do whatever we want. We'll be able to see that feedback immediately in the browser. So when we work with plugins, usually what you need to do is you need to declare some sort of variable for the plugin at the top. So we're using the browser sync plugin. Webpack does have its own dev server. It's a pain to get to work with WordPress. So I recommend just don't go down that road. You will waste your time. It will not be. It's just not a good use of your time. The browser sync plugin, it's a plugin that's quite common in gulp and grunt processes as well. And it works exactly the same way with exactly the same options. So if you've used browser sync before, you'll have no problem setting it up in Webpack. So I'm just going to require that and save it. And then what we're going to do is we're going to come down in here and we're going to add a plugins property, which is an array. And in this array, what you do is you instantiate your plugins by typing new. We save this to browser sync plugin. And then some plugins don't take any options. So you can simply just type new whatever plugin and you're good to go. Browser sync does take options and where you want to use them. So the first one we're going to do is add files with an s. And unlike our tests in the rules for loaders, this is a globbing pattern. There's a difference. They're both confusing. I'm going to look for anything that ends in .php.  So I got underscores.test. Save that. And now what we can do is kick off npm run dev. All right, so we can see a few things happened, right? We can see now instead of it just kind of stopping here, we get this new bit of information. This is telling us that browser sync is active. It's currently proxying my local URL underscores.test. And then we can see that we can access it at localhost colon 3000. And you can see it also popped open a new browser tab with that particular URL. So now what we can do is have a lot of fun watching things change as we're actually going on. So I'm going to pop open my console. I'm going to just move this down to the bottom. I'm going to make this a bit bigger. And then we can do like can't type. It just works. It's wonderful. It would be way more impressive if I actually had some CSS hooked up and then I could change the background color to hot pink and offend everybody's eyes. So all right, this has been literally the just fastest, easiest intro I could possibly give to Webpack. This barely scratches the surface of what Webpack can do. And actually, let me real quick, in a pop open, a real world example of a Webpack configuration file I'm using on a day-to-day basis. To me, Webpack, once you kind of take the time to get to know it, it's actually a little bit easier to configure than Gulp. I know Morton was talking about WP Ray earlier and how it's using Gulp. I've looked at that and I still am like, but how? This doesn't make sense to me. And then I look at what I've got going on with Webpack and I'm like, yeah, this totally makes sense. I know what's going on. But there's so much more you can do. You can have multiple entry points. And this is super helpful when you're working with Customizer JS or Admin JS. You can actually split out minified bundles just for what you need and where you need them. So you can on cue only the Admin and the Admin and only the Customizer and the Customizer and only the front end on the front end. Wow. We can also process more or different types of files. You can compile your SAS. You can compile. You can do more than compile SAS. You can actually work with SVGs. You can work with images to minify them and process them. You can do a heck of a lot more even with just the loaders. And then you have more plugins that will give you even more functionality. You can lint your style files or work with your SVGs. Whatever you need to do. So this is actually written in Webpack 3. So it's a little bit more verbose. I think the example I finished for the underscores for Webpack is much smaller. I think it's less than. I mean, in total, this one's only 126 lines. I think the one that I created for this underscores repo is maybe around 80. So it's not much shorter, but it's a little bit shorter. And there are some really great plugins that are a lot more understandable. So that's enough of me ranting and raving about Webpack. Who has questions? I'm not entirely sure. I've never tried to install it on a server. I do all of my development for WordPress locally because I am terrified of breaking production. And I don't think my employer would be happy with me if I did. So I'm not entirely sure is the answer. I don't know if you can actually run Webpack on the server. Any other questions? Go ahead. So when it comes to determining whether you should use Webpack or whether you should use Gulp, I'll be straight with you. I love Webpack, but if you're familiar with Gulp and it does what you need it to do, use it. Don't switch just for the sake of switching. That is not good for your productivity. It took me, I would say, like a good six months to get really comfortable with Webpack. And that's through trial and error, trying different loaders, trying different plugins, seeing how can I build something that mirrors my current grunt process. I was using grunt previously. The advantages you do have, however, is if you decide to introduce React to a theme, then you can do that. I mean, adding React, having your project understand React is a heck of a lot easier when you're using Webpack. I think it's possible to do it with Gulp. I don't know how. It's a little bit faster as well. So I used to work at Web Dev Studios, and we used to work on really huge enterprise-level client projects. And you'd sit there and you're waiting for a browser sync to do its thing or whatever. And some of those processes could literally run for seconds. Ain't nobody got time for that. So if you're having problems with just your productivity is being affected, then maybe it's worth considering a switch or, at the very least, reconsidering your build process. Any other questions? Go ahead. There are a lot of different resources. I think the Webpack documentation is terrifying, but it is robust. Like I said, even this fully flushed out version of my Webpack config is still only barely scratching the surface of what Webpack can do. So if you want to get information overload, go there. But I mean, there are other things. If you want to use different source maps, you can do that. You can see what those options are for configuration. I learned Webpack, actually, through a little bit of trial and error, but there's a really great course on Frontend Masters by Brian Holt. It's his intro to React, version three, not the latest one, because he's not using Webpack in that. Even if you don't want to pony up the 39 US dollars for a month, they have all of the transcripts for each video for free. You just got to know where to look. But he's got a really great kind of intro to that there. And I should also mention, I have a companion post that goes through the full buildout of this Gnarly Webpack file. On my site, it's hopefully live now. If it's not, it will be soon. You can go read about how I built out an entire process that works and get up and running yourself. And there's also the projects available on GitHub. You'll have to just go to the feature Webpack branch to have a poke at the Webpack configuration. Any other questions?


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No, can we count on your support for the upcoming election? Absolutely not. Thank you, I appreciate it. Have a good one. That was Ring Doorbell footage of Monique Dawson, a paid canvasser for Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who, as you saw, admitted that she does not support the governor and she's just doing this because, well, it's a job. Now, she presumably recognized the individual who answered the door, hence the historical laughter, when she asked him, can we count on your support? And he said, absolutely not, because I think they probably knew each other's political affiliation. So that's why it was so funny, because, you know, he knew she didn't support him. She knew he wouldn't support Greg Abbott, but she's just reaching out to a constituent. Absolutely hilarious.  I'm not sure about you, but I've got to say kind of a dick move to upload the Ring Doorbell footage to TikTok because this video subsequently went viral and, expectedly, it led to her losing her job. Take a look. Hey, my name is Monique. I'm in Fort Worth, Texas. Here goes the car from the video. As you know, I was out doing my campaigning yesterday for Greg Abbott, and I mean, like, when the doctor I saw his face, I just laughed. I laughed so hard. And then when they shared the video, my campaign manager, he, you know, pulled me to the side. He was like, you know, we have to let you go. So they definitely fired me this morning. So there you have it. She got fired once that went viral. Now, I'm glad that I saw the footage, but for future references, if you're an individual who lives in Texas and a candidacy approaches you and they don't actually support Greg Abbott, please do not upload the footage of your conversation to TikTok because you're kind of ousting them. You're snitching. In fact, I'd argue that this is the social media equivalent of snitching. And if you also don't support Greg Abbott, why would you kind of out her? Now, as disappointing as it is that she lost her job, I mean, this is what we all expected. There is a happy ending to this story. And overall, it seems like Monique is going to be way better off because she launched GoFundMe and she asked for a couple of dollars from anyone who can afford to chip in, you know, a buck or two, just so she can pay the bills until she finds a new job. And within a couple of days, she raised nearly $30,000. So I love Monique. I will include the link to her GoFundMe in the description box if you wanna support her. She just seems like a genuinely pleasant person who's trying to get ahead and to set her back. She probably didn't anticipate that video going viral. She probably didn't even know that she was being recorded. So look, if you support her chip in a buck or two, but there's a bizarre element to this story and I'm not necessarily sure why, but Greg Abbott's office is denying that she was employed with them. But that's untrue. She did work for them. As local reporter Priscilla Aguirre of My San Antonio Explains, Abbott's office has denied that Dawson ever worked for them telling the Daily Dot, this individual has never been employed by Texans for Greg Abbott or volunteered for the campaign. However, the Daily Dot reported Dawson provided bank records and screenshots of text messages and group chats with colleagues and people she says supervised her employment as a canvasser. The texts timestamped from the last several months discussed times, dates and locations to canvas for the campaign. So maybe they're in denial and don't want to think that people who work for them don't actually support the campaign and maybe trying to sabotage them internally.  I'm not really sure, but it's just kind of strange to lie about this, but leave it to Republicans to lie because this is what they do. But this whole story is funny because it reminds me of the 2020 presidential election when there were individuals who worked for Mike Bloomberg who didn't actually support him. Now I talked about this on my program, but for those of you who forgot, back in February of 2020, Kayla Williams tweeted, I just had a Mike Bloomberg canvasser come to my door. I let him know politely, I'm decidedly voting for Bernie Sanders and then he just gave me a fist bump and said, oh, me too, feel the burn homie. Now this wasn't just an isolated incident because Luke Darby of GQ actually reported about how many paid volunteers for Mike Bloomberg were telling voters to support other candidates, namely Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. So that's just incredible. I love it.  I mean, I feel like it's only natural when you have a politician like Greg Abbott in Texas, he has so much blood on his hands. This is just karma, right? So I'll remind everyone again, if another Greg Abbott canvasser comes to your door and they don't actually support him, don't out them by uploading the footage to TikTok. The social media cloud isn't worth their job. Sure, it ended well for Monique here and she got a really nice go fund me, but odds are maybe the video doesn't go viral and they still get fired. Maybe, you know, it doesn't end as well for them. They don't land on their feet. Monique's going to be okay, it seems. But don't snitch. Nobody likes niches. Just shut up and enjoy the moment, even though I'm thankful that this moment was shared with us.  Do you enjoy watching independent news shows like the Humanist Report, the Rational National and the Majority Report? But oftentimes YouTube doesn't deliver our videos to your subscription box. Well, I've got a solution for you. It's called the Optout app available right now in the iOS app store coming soon to Android. 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etty overwhelming I find that really overwhelming and quite scary to go into the profession but I think as well when you're talking about Joanne how do you strike the balance between the discussion I think it's the ethos of the school that back to your first point that you made earlier that the headteacher of that school has to be set that consistent standard all the time and I think there has to be an ethos that children do know in their school and that it does have to be a safe environment but I do also understand the fact that if it is young people leds then there can be a lot of problems that arise but I think it is trying to just early intervention in education to prevent those prejudice arising and also that there is a clear ethos of what can be said and what cannot because sometimes people say things and I don't know that they're being prejudice or they don't know that they are offending someone so if there is a clear guide before if it is a young person leds session of what they can and what they can't do I think that would be really helpful Thank you Helen Sponsored by Joanne Boundaries as has been noted are essential when it comes to this and when we speak about co-design the co-element is probably most important so it's young people and professionals whether they're teachers or others working at an equal level so working together and for teachers within that the young people themselves immediately after the point that I had made that Joanne was responding to also suggested that other young people should be invited into that stigma free environment to share their personal experience if they feel comfortable to do so so suggesting peer mentors around different issues whether it's eating disorders or whatever to share that so that young people can learn from them but obviously that boundary thing is really crucial for that to ensure that it is that stigma free environment for young people I think that on Joanne's point again it comes back to balance so what we find I do agree with Jack's point about ensuring that PSE classes are a safe space in fact I think that all schools should effectively be a safe space regardless of what your identity is but what I do actually think is very controversial but I think that there's a way to talk about safe spaces without sounding patronising so we and we go into schools I guarantee you that if I stood up in front of 400 first years and says I just want to let you all know that this is a safe space that I would probably get either laughed at or probably not taken seriously so the way that you do that is by allowing the kids and pupils to be honest and trusting them without patronising them so an example of this is we'll ask the kids is there anyone in here who doesn't like LGBT people unfortunately last week in a school some of them put their hand up and said yeah but then Liam will ask is there anyone in here who uses homophobic, biphobic or transphobic language and describes some of the language and initially you see the kids looking about and then Liam will put his hand up and say well I'm going to put my hand up because I used it two years ago so the hands in the room go up and then you get into that conversation so I think that you can break down that fourth wall per se without actually being patronising of it and obviously this is not necessarily something that a Government can tell teachers how to do and this is what we mean about flexibility and trusting teachers teachers will know their own class they will know the kids and their class they will know more likely what kids can't be trusted to stand up and I think that when it comes to PSE we're talking to kids school pupils about very adult issues they definitely should be treated like adults they shouldn't be patronised and they should be included in that format and again every good school has a good anti-bullying policy but I know that that's not something that every school has when it comes to the LGBT so it's about again enforcing the equality act enforcing the school's anti-bullying policy and then what actually is prejudice and what's just social stigma so again it comes down to striking the balance I would say that the best people who would be doing that are teachers based on their understanding of the personalities of their pupils OK, thank you very much for that we're now nearing the end of our discussions can I ask if anyone has any points to consider our priorities for the committee that they've not had the chance to make to do so if not and if there's something you think of later on please feel free to email the committee with that point Erin Ewing I think it's important going back to the although there's so many issues I think it's about actually incorporating a lot of these issues into the full curriculum rather than just restricting it to a PSE and again obviously from the Scottish Parliament point of view we are really really emphasising mental health in that because a lot of young people are saying we need more mental health education in PSE but I actually think we need more mental health education in society as a whole not just a 30 minute lesson and to carry that throughout the full curriculum and I think that not just mental health but I think obviously I'm coming here today to emphasise about mental health education but I think for any issue that's been discussed today it's about not just restricting it to PSE because it is so much wider than that and I think a lot of these issues can be incorporated in every subject not just a 40-50 minute lesson Thank you very much for that Before we move to private session to consider the evidence I'd really like to thank our guest today that was an exceptional panel we've learned a lot from it we also have the cabinet secretary appearing before the committee in a fortnight and we'll certainly be raising some of those issues I've come up today with Mr Swinney so once again thank you very much and we're now moving into private session Thank you