What's the difference between a brand leveraging culture in an appreciative way versus a brand doing it in an appropriate way? So a cultural appropriation, by definition, is about power. It's about a community with power, group of people with power, taking the cultural markers of a marginalized community that doesn't have as much power and giving it new meaning. It's reworking meaning as if the original meaning was meaningless. It's almost like Christopher Columbus-ing new things, like, oh, look at this place. We're going to call it America. We're going to do this. Like, hey, people lived here first, dude. It's taking a thing that already exists, stripping it of its meaning and giving it new meaning. I write about this in the book, and sort of famously, in some ways, Kim Kardashian shows up on the red carpet of the MTV Music Awards, and she's wearing corn rolls. And they go, Kim, we love your hair. What are those? And Kim says, oh, they're both Derek Brates. Oh, Kim, actually, they're corn rolls, and they existed way before the movie 10 came out. Like, you've taken the cultural markers of a group of people, black people, and you've given it new meaning. You have appropriated other people's culture. The difference between cultural appropriation and a cultural appreciation is that cultural appreciation is that I understand what those things mean. It requires some curiosity and some understanding. And it's because I understand what those things mean that I celebrate in the culture when it's appropriate. So when you see kids at Coachella wearing headdresses, because it looks cool, clearly they're not aware of what those markers mean, because they wouldn't be doing it because it's disrespectful to that community of people. But if I understand what those things mean and I use it in the context that is appropriate, then that becomes cultural appreciation. When in Rome, you do as the Romans.  The only difference between the two is slight, but the outcomes are just massively different. One is taking someone's culture and giving it new meaning. The other one is understanding its meaning and paying respect to it, but still being able to engage in it. Is that reverence for the meaning behind everything that culture has built and expressed itself instead of seeing it as something that you can leverage to sell more products or to look cool, to gain status? That's right. You can't use people's culture as cosplay. I mean, put this on real quick. This is kind of fun. And then all right, I'm done with it on to the next thing. It's just paying honor to it. It's such a simple thing. It's such a simple thing. But oftentimes, the obvious is an obvious until someone points it out to you. Well, from a brand perspective and the work that you do as a marketer, a lot of these brands have been around through many cultural shifts. So you have a great example of Budweiser in the book, and it takes a level of really understanding and going deeper into the culture than just looking at the production and saying, we're going to slap Budweiser on this production, and all of a sudden everyone in this culture is going to identify with us and drink Budweiser. You have to go much deeper into what is the core belief and identity behind this culture and does it align with the brand, like truly? Or are we just trying to put our sticker on it in hopes that everyone with that identity will pull out their wallet? That's right. I mean, this is all about intimacy. I think about it that we can observe groups of people, like we're looking at a map, but you need to know the terrain. Like you need to understand where the people are. It's like flying over New York City, and I can say that, oh, there's Central Park and there's Times Square and there's Meat Packet District, I don't know.  And some would argue, most New Yorkers would argue that you don't know the city until you know how the city moves, the system that moves the city, and what is the system that moves humanity, culture. So you really don't know people until you know the culture, which is anchored in identity and beliefs. So as we look at the things that we can observe, it's like, oh, I'm going to play the music, I think the music is fun. I'm aware of this thing, this dress, because I think that it's looked kind of cool and it's hip and it's funky. I'm going to put on henna because look how fun the henna is, but without understanding why those things exist and what it means to those people because of their beliefs and their ideologies, then you run the risk of offending them. Right. And the better we understand those things, you know, I think that not only do we learn about them, but we also learn about ourselves, because I think it's really powerful.


All right, welcome back. It's time for our very first and only hot topic and the Society of Family Health wants the private sector to partner with them in providing testing to ensure that individuals have access to convenient and confidential testing services that empower them to take control of their health. And I've been joined by Dr. Tuye Mabawondo, Public Health Physician and Publisher, CEO Health Nika. Good morning to you. Good morning, Dr. Tuye Mabawondo. Good morning. Is it appropriate for me to say barricade the salad to you? Oh, well, it's not out of order. That's that the holiday is over already. And we are at work. So you want to tell us more about this roadmap that it's been put in place to facilitate increased private sector involvement? Thank you so much. If we look at our figures, as far as our HIV is concerned, our prevalence rate is about the last sentence on the show that we're about 4.4% prevalence rate of HIV. Over 90 people are still living with the virus and some people have passed the same thing on the day. One of the greatest incentives for the HIV challenge to really beat down HIV and achieve an identity roadmap is actually access to testing, access to testing. Many of your status is the first concrete and most success that I have to deal with HIV. And then, obviously, there are many obstacles to HIV testing, test and form also. The stigma is there that limits the vigour for which it is being tested. Secondly, what are the best kits that are available for them to do those testing? What did they do to make the cost so positive and how did they now escalate their results and get help? The major factor is this. What is the good body doing exactly to help individuals, to build the private sector, to help individuals to do self-testing? Now, the goal, essentially first, is to make people aware that they can do their tests by themselves and know their results. Secondly, is to know the appropriate kit to use to do those tests. Thirdly, is to actually know what makes to do, should it have the positive or negative, what we call interpretation of the test. So it's mostly there, it's most essential, we have to be acquainted because if Nigeria is having about two positions in HIV body worldwide, it means that if this is still with us, we need to do more than what we are doing. So you are saying that HIV is still a pandemic in Nigeria? Yeah, it's a pandemic. Okay, let me clarify. If you say a pandemic, it's good that it still is fair, it's fair to be the nation. If it's a pandemic, it's still a problem worldwide. It's a country, it's also part of the world. People, even the people, do the transmission even as they let us, that's fair. Okay. But for us, we still have the privilege, very high, and that, you know, that even children as well as several other thousand children have it in Nigeria, those are still a big problem that we need to really think about. Yeah, thanks for that correction about between pandemic and entemic. Now you are cutting the private sector. Talk to us about how you are cutting the private sector to synergize with you in making self-testing a reality, because the target here is for people to have convenient and confidential, convenient and confidential testing to be able to, you know, be responsible for their own testing. And the society for family health, which I have never said private health, that we find a way to work with them to ensure that we want to see the private sector investment. What is the idea of investment to develop the road path? One, education, education. Family sectors, either at the level of their own functioning or at the level of their own health or support sector in educating the people about HIV and that part of the system is still involved and we need to do more about it. Secondly, investment. You know, all this indicates to education to provide the access to the population. The first investment, investment in terms of money that can be looked into with the help of the people who support the family health, personal health and education like that, they are there to get to the process of a much-due HIV testing. So, mainly education, investment in which of the kids, you know, these are key areas here, where the sector can be of use. Because at the end of the day, I have the idea, and HIV says that there is a need for business, a need for economy, and a need for the development of the population in the private sector. All right. So, you know, for many people, HIV is, there was a time when all over the place, it was HIV, HIV, HIV and not many people, I'm guessing, not many people understand that it is still a pandemic globally, and that it is such a serous matter, still such a serous matter in Nigeria today. So, is it that enlightenment have reduced in Nigeria, or people have decided to just ignore it and move on with their life? What is really the situation? We would be recognizing money, drugs, investment, to drive the government, to give the best to the government, and to drive the government company. The problem I see in Nigeria is that where you see it with all sorts of, this is actually taking our attention, the need for the government. So, the right to the government is to allow that to continue. Right to the government is right to do, and do this thing with the focus. No flow in Nigeria to complete number two. We think that it's going to play by it, and we think that it's going to happen. Now, part of this will happen with the government, apart from lack of funds to create diseases, we're seeing a lot of corruption. We're talking about HIV by the state system. We're not corruption, but we're driving a lot of humors away from us. We should be able to move further by showing that we're not doing a demand where we're telling ourselves to drive the government. That's why the involvement of public sector is so important. Now, we want to keep talking the talk, we want to keep signaling, we want to keep the life of people the more that HIV is the cause. Because of HIV, HIV could be saved. So, this talk is actually going to be a background and became a big problem. So, for us now, we cannot just leave the thing to chance, because the subject of the violence will be a problem. Good enough, we have jobs. Good enough, we have a proper testing team that are cheaper than before. It's not cause of HIV to run at this age of about 45,000 to 50,000. But now it is free of charge. And then we have to be able to look to that level of sustainability, where we don't have to really depend on the foreign country to give us HIV. What goes to manufacture, we have to put it to the country, and you know, and then, and just to be able to achieve transmission of HIV, 0% of HIV by 2030. So, like we are doing, which is quite right, it's important that media keep the promotion afloat. Okay, talk to us about this self-testing kits. How available is it and how successful have you been with it since you pushed it out, since it was pushed out?  Now, first and foremost, what it does is that it eradicates what we call the burden of privacy, privacy, you know, that the privacy to you, once you know that, first and foremost, what you just got, first place. You must have some safe education, because some people can take themselves and become society. They can test themselves and go into depression. So, HIV possibility is not the best set term. That's the first thing we need to do and make it so clear to the people. But that's not about the HIV policy that's right there. So, what will happen is that there's a kit right there, but the things like what we used to do with the sugar level are similar to that thing. There's actually needs to teach people that the kits are available. People need to just understand how to use it and how to adapt it to go and how to then go ahead and interact with the right medical facilities, of the right medical professionals in the next action. But for the kit, they have to be able, what they want to stabilize that. So, the HIV family has two barriers, but for a family partner, it's simply best way to make those kits available to be as free as even the drug for the HIV community. Because by the starting point of using the policies of HIV, once you're ready to start this, you may be able to have some to take and never have some to take. Then, you can then start to think about what will achieve that, you know, transmission. At the point of selling this kit to the people, do they provide counselling? Is there some sort of counselling that precedes this testing? As people are getting the kit, you give them the counselling and then you go home with this, whatever it is, but this is it, this is it, this is it, what, to prepare the advice. Like I said earlier, the computer proper testing is the one that's involved. First of all, you don't call it the council. If you council, this is what it should be. This is something that people do. This is the likely outcome. This is what to do, should we have this or this or that. Now, it's not such, it's not that, after the council was to get before the committee, you go over there, you have to relate to somebody, you call them the result. Now, finally, the importance of the sick, we have to stick with the sick to say, how will sufficiently educate the person on what to do? Okay, then you have to give the person the child to go and do the test. If it's not clear, you don't go through the thing through the person. Because if it's not clear, what's involved and the likely outcome, that's for, okay, it should not be the first thing, you know, they will look in the front of the centre where by take drugs, access to ARV, for that kind of family support, as it is to be. It depends on the negative. You need to keep yourself or yourself negative, it should be on the side. Consistence is at the preventive vector. We do this, we do that, we remain negative. And then, of course, we protect them, and we do them on the window period. It's such a way that if you are negative now, please wait for another three months at the place you are there. It's very, around there. Why wait? I have to do all these preventive, that you don't have to explain yourself on the side. So it's not just calling somebody and finding a test kit to the person without counseling, without proper education, or what the person should do, should the user be piloted, or even the user is piloted, also decisions to take. It's important. You can't just drop tests to somebody, to test it to somebody, to find the person on the lifeguard from... So if there is going to be a pre-counseling before anyone can buy these kits, that means that these kits can only be bought at very special centers then? So what it means essentially is this. As you are involved in the private sector, for instance, close to the your center to become, to the proper education. Okay? That's how the people have a nice number of people that can get to the center. If people provide education, you have counseling, and before they can have any questions, they have a clear understanding. Yeah. They can choose to buy the kits, although they give the kits of that kind to themselves. And they know who to talk to, after the test. Is that... There is some room I have to know to help you in before the picture. If you see somebody having a depression or societal ablation, you don't have to ask them to get to each other. That's important. But if you see that person that actually starts a what it calls societal crisis, or even have an upset or self-harm, and please them. So what it means is that you engage not just about great companies of the education sector, but also about great assets to support that, where they can have proper knowledge and what to do. And then where they can even ask questions, great line, where they can have discussion, what it calls the pressure watch people. So that is how it is done. It's not just that. Because if you look at resources to be able to provide people at all the center, and just to be able to be used, they are part of that you need to do more by providing all of life of counseling center, like physical, private places. I mean, in Kenya, two minutes, two minutes, five minutes, two minutes, two minutes, two minutes. And then people opportunity are there, at least of them too. So these self-testing kits, how readily available are they for people? Where can people find them? Because somebody, I imagine someone is watching right now and wondering, okay, where can one find this kit to buy? I'm sure. Most of the services, you know, we still can actually provide this kit for people to use. And with that, I will get more information from the website, also provide the results. You know, about the idea, about where to get it to go. I'm sure, you know, what to call this, the services. It doesn't be a task to normally to use it in case for you. It would be only free of charge. All right. Talk to us about these unites 95, 95, 95 target by 2030. Exactly. If you can get to ensure that that part of the site would be at least to not have a lot of time to come shop in transmission of the tires by 2030. You say, if it includes initiating part of the people of NPA, some of the people that are supposed to have some of the whereby, you know, 95% of the population have the 95% of the target to move that they are their status and then have that target to send to function. So, only trying to get to get to zero transmission of the tires for one person to remember. And it started being so cruel first and foremost to look at women. In other words, whether to try transmission of the tires and what to do at this point to use the field of pregnancy and delivery to look at women and then take their status to ensure that they get it to be able to do to some kind of sending of the profile of the people that are supposed to be able to to make them to remember whether to try transmission care. And then you still manage to get. That's also a point you're going to be able to change the whether to take and look at whether of the profile of the public there. So, that's actually the starting point of of achieving the that that that that they are going to start. Well, I do know that in 2020 the target was 90, 90, 90 and I understand it wasn't even achieved. So here you have 95, 95, 95 for 2030. It's just a cliche. Are you guys just trying to have fun at your work? Are you just trying to have fun at your work? No, no, no. It's any kind of determination to meet these targets. You see, you must make your goals very audacious, you know. Because in reality it was compelling, it was challenging to make what you do something extra. If you set a main goal at the end of the day you might be free the purpose of putting the A there. You want a very clear step what you do is that you have to do everything. And that initiative allows movement of human resources who met on money, who met on food, even media to achieve such goal. If you set a goal that is low and just down there people will just look at it and say that well, you go with that with that kind of compression, support and then to actually ensure it happens. So it's nice to set up repeat very audacious goal. You cannot just stand down with this with this goal for example. It's time to let it go. All right, let's you go back to this involvement, this involvement that you want the private sector to get involved in this testing. How again should an investor who is listening right now be getting involved in this and just how lucrative would it be for investors the private sector to get involved in this? You see, let's rest it. Health is more of a social service.  What I mean in that sense is that it's not because it's not like doing no oil or like that potential where somebody can be charged five hundred million or whatever, no. Now what we're looking at is that at the level of private sector can you what can you contribute okay other in terms of finance in my resources whatever it's needed you know purchase of kids to help us tip full HIV knowledge HIV testing okay now can you provide your space also to interact with the with the population with your people with your worker in this regard can you support campaign to help broaden the knowledge and the depth and the knowledge of it and the knowledge of HIV including the testing these are the critical things so how how does this profit you one the notion of HIV in the society generally would help you a lot even your workers okay even the general population the burden of HIV is in the world are a part of the psychological and stigma that in the entity it comes it has been to you know you saw yes of some disease that should not be a part most of the million to that most is where we say most of the the start that process we say k as a result of HIV is that it's a it's a it's a actually an alliance of terror to that person and it's a for instance now you are in the country where a lot of malnutrition is trying on the thing you see the number of the number of the malnourished has gone down to five million of the gay malnourished children now HIV and malnutrition are good facts because malnutrition leads to worst malnutrition of HIV HIV leads to malnutrition so you see the connection and malnutrition also actually lead to brain malfunction of the brain you see the connection between boost boosting productivity boosting investment and reduction of HIV and life diseases now nobody wants for instance to be seen the resistance train of the virus which we know which is the move because more costly look at this also you are going to put to cheat HIV even with a country like you so if the private sectors that they fully in their in boosting and you know are testing of HIV it it helps the private sector it helps the society it helps the economy all right talk to us about the corruption you said had affected funding for that sector now if we get it for the group in every aspect of life there is actually because you see where you seek for resources either internally or externally the key point is that those resources will be boost appropriated and they are counted of the ones have to represent time for the folks everybody is putting in don't forget so a lot of these things are to not for you okay and you remember at the point of time we had a problem where some of you do not know the problem that we had because of this kind of corruption you get your of some of the sectors that you found there and you see a lot of money being used being applied in a way it's still helping it's not even a point very for you to keep your money to change your system and because of that it's it's strictions have to be the play of for the critical health area so and it's an open knowledge that the point is then that the lot of even though civilization people and the Gavi and Co and even you and I that one bit why the bundle of people like that won't happen to it and and it's everywhere we see it everywhere so but again even though that we need to put a lot of governance in place to use inclusion and need to come that level of the substitution is used and the version of thought that we see this in the industry and then some of these things you see there as people find a lot of that that that that that that that that that will buy for you for you to make change and the point is of this best to keep your your family your family your family your family and of course a lot of things that you can place in the research at the level of the best because there are here actually around these activities of the strategy yeah so did that in that corruption apart from diversion of funds and all of that they don't did that also include exaggerating of exaggeration of figures indeed that's what you know over a person where you know no not figures of HIV you know not the privileged straight to no no I'm talking about figures of HIV were they making the same more than it really was so no no no we can get more funds for from those who are donating who are donating money it's difficult it's difficult corruption does not involve those data the process of collecting those data are very ridiculous I was involved in the national strategy which then you know plan two okay I was one of the state's candidates the process of verification and validating results are very very tedious and ridiculous and it's not just anybody's freedom of bringing results you have to you have to bring evidence for those results you have to show data to convey those results it's best to go through about four 30 processes at the local state consultant said that it's a very good when you see a freedom coming from Nagia you tell you that Nagia my nutrition is this number believe it it's not the fact there are data we go on to present that into that so when we say the total prevalence in Nagia is 1.4 when we say that we we tell this people that 1.9 million okay it's right there are figures to show that where you are set that's set in there if you see this is very nice thing okay so we're not talking about we're talking about the form forms the money that come to that how it is used how it is what it is you have to take you know and provide the same and then I cannot say what this is that's what we're talking about we saw the value figures actually yeah I knew that was what you were talking about I just wanted to also establish if part of the corruption included exaggeration of the figure the prevalence of HIV in Nigeria if we see there is no difficulty for me I think it's actually you know on there estimating you know it can be over back because right what do you do in this sentiment you look at the community population and look at testing and look at greater of for for conversion how many people we have in Nigeria you know where they see a lot of people in a huge gap because you look at the youth 15 to 40 50 to 49 that from the huge portion of victim in the HIV what is the test rate about five 60 percent that's pretty low okay so and this was supposed to have the people this number okay of this that I get yesterday I would say the air feed up okay it's not they don't call this a day too many companies it's too helpful because in reality they're not going to tell me about your partners are involved so many cases with connection they are also involved in not a many youth they are involved because it's not sad so your target population again yeah 15 to 49 15 to 39 49 49 49 okay so what have been the barriers to the growth of HIV testing in Nigeria stigma is the number one thing stigma you know secondly I believe in you of those kids and then you you see that this is actually addressing the the rate much addressing this I believe the purpose of of the of the testing and then knowledge gap between barrier you see a lot of this information this information and great pronunciation of information to it all especially in our health system so if you don't have to write information you have to write understanding to embrace testing to solve this problem and if there's a lot of stigma and then sometimes there are cultural impediments are religious impediments which I with testing you know of the worship is made on that this is my portion whose portion is supposed to be so you need to honestly address or this one of the security I guess set the of measurement like that they are able set they are able to set that availability is also limited and that's why that's what we get this group of one of the groups that we think to attend you know to create most I can to create why if you can if you can if you can understand that if you can if you can if you can to go to go to to go to go to go to to marry the the and then you know to a lot of concerns of people well you health professionals now say that HIV is not a death sentence as people used to think it was tell us what has changed from when we we newly heard about it back in the days and when people were told or made to believe or when it seemed like it was a death sentence to now what has changed what are the revolutions that have taken place good enough but I I came but when I was like never made it to trade each time it was always after it took off so I saw the beginning of HIV up to where it is now I am I was one of the first said to the trade on one called the access to the HIV and to the virus that are the public death when it first said we were trying to apply the act through there but so I can actually tell you the opposite of this it came with a lot of misinformation and and the stigmatization initially it was something that they not think it's a fact that it was therefore called to deal with the potentials and and the to say that if I it became a big issue if I do not be it was to do that somehow because of a promise helping with the time then the stigma came became a big issue of the public who then that are always for the sake I remember the figure in Haiti also at Lago and in the late 1980s you know when so it was a lot of people it was a lot of it was a lot of public people of the time it was a lot of public people and it was so in fact it was a future acquisition and remember a lady that was that was a good friend to wanting to know what was in it you said you didn't know what was going on it was very much with and died and people it was used to for each man on the later later it was already had the HIV so a lot of that most diseases a lot of love from children but and then we moved to developing ARP drugs and the Paran drugs that we're very pleased to smooth them because the monotherapy initially to become multiple drugs that were combined together and then you need to deliver the gravity to the people with HIV that working it's a problem to myself this drug of the rest of California and the likes of Istanbul Beijing of South Africa driving the drugs and said you'll be able to do that like the Africa is a lot of stuff and HIV number ballooned because of that singular government policy HIV number ballooned the South Africa and then a big issue in South Africa because government chose to smooth down in adopting the drug of the said the from from Big Pharma it doesn't get to make money decrypting the bios all sort of remote skin but now we must solve that the choice when actually illegitimate because then I remember one of my clients these days was somebody who working with the facility had the virus so the only time we did that they had it also well first they when they were still in safe it's just what we did for the city having the complex systems that we're not sure but of course after for you that that it did be but even if we had to do that that was not didn't pay a billion to get but of course after that you know had one to do that even in the best thing now that negative and you managed to that life so we saw the drugs benefit given life we now chose to look at the concept of a family in a type of care whereby you know once anybody the family is positive between the father with the mother and console them together and apply to go back to everybody and teach them how to live a better life it still expanded to improve testing improve ARV because ARV then in those was like a a lot of things that are for 5,000 of them it got the it came down by the earlier became now free and you know said that it's so free now it's because I I I I I took a it's it's I have to get to come back so we have moved from era of of humans era of more lack of information transformation misinformation and spirituality it's the era where we have the drugs that people can use and then if you guys used to be there that once you have HIV you cannot breastfeed you cannot get pregnant but now you have get pregnant breastfeed live with people and HIV will not get the person so thank you it's a testing journey so far the first thing to do better the ultimate aim is that 5 by 5 by 5 where it's of HIV stop this transformation and we can then think of another that this type of thank you doctor to you member wonder for your time and information on HIV and what the society of family health is doing to help those who have been affected thank you for having me let me say this I'm not I don't work for such a family yes that has been established thank you all right so doctor to you member wonder is of the public health he's a public health physician and publisher CEO health NECA well that's the module we take him from our hot topic we'll be back with sports and mudashiro is standing by for that stay with us


Hey everyone and welcome to Norris Cove. I'm Yoshida and today we're going to show what's in my planner bag. This bag was thrifted. I got it from thrift store. Great condition. It is by Steve Madden. I don't even know like if they sell these anymore. Actually a purse kind of goes with it. The purse was so separate at the thrift store. I picked that up as well. Beautiful leather. I love the color. It comes with like a zipper and you guys it's huge. It is as you can see I got plenty room in here. I'll show you later what size planners you can fit in here. Now you may can go like on Parshmark or McCurry or somewhere like that and maybe find a similar bag or if not the same bag. I've shown another planner bag before on my Instagram and someone found it on Parshmark so and it was thrifted as well. I love thrifting bags. So anyway, let's hop right into it. So let's open her. And so in here I have my A6 and I'll later do a flip through of that. I keep my A6 in here and I do have a cover for my main HP but I like the bag that I can just store it in here. The covers sometimes make her heavy and I actually have another cover coming and I'll probably do a review on that. And this is my mini HP which is new to you guys because you haven't seen it but my mini HP acts as my extension of my business planner. Okay, and then next up I have this little clipboard and this came from Poyton Hun and I wanted the bigger one but I'm so glad that I got this size. I believe this is like a five by seven. Let's see. Yeah, it's about a five by, we've been five by six, something like that. We're five by seven and I love to have this in here. I'm working on another kind of extension of my business and I'm doing some work and I'm speaking with someone so I have to take some nukes on some things. So matter of fact, okay, no that's that's not their information. I was making sure their information wasn't short but and then here I'm outlining like a schedule, but this clipboard works because sometimes I just need a note paper so I can add this notepad. Let me show you. I can take sticky notes and stick one there if I want to. Here's another sticky note. You know, I can just do sticky notes and then still just write on it. Let me get another notepad and then here's another notepad and I can just switch out notepads and write on it. So I really like this clipboard. I mean, it is the perfect size because one it can fit in here and so I use this to jot down notes, especially like outlining a schedule for myself and things like that. And like I said, I'm working on something so um, I can just flip the pages so I'm in love with this. This is like a must-have for my planter bag. Okay. Y'all, I just happened to look in here. I did not go through this before I did this so it is what it is. It does have packets on the inside. I did have like a big sticky note in there. I have a pen pouch. These will be coming to the website and what I love about this pen pouch is it's not bulky. I was explaining it in my Facebook group. Let me show you.  It unzips all of the way. So if you're working somewhere you just want to get to all your things. You can just leave it open and these are just some extra pens I just threw in. But what I love about this pouch is it's flat as you can see.  You can throw it in your purse what else. So I was telling my Facebook group that I have plenty of pen pouches and I'm gonna show you one or two. So normally like this is a pen pouch okay and I would normally try to throw this in here but it weighed it down because I have I know so many pens in here. So it's just kind of silly to take something that's big with me on the go and then I have here's another pen pouch. Again it's too big. Yes I have pens and stuff in here too. So something like that is just not feasible to carry around but this is perfect because you can just put your favorite pens in there. So these will be coming to the shop next month of August. So that's in there. I have another pen. Let me just it actually goes to this. It goes to my mini. Let me just set it here because I like for it to be on there. So I just use an ollie clip to hold it. Charmed it fell off and I just threw it in there. I have some of these. I have another one here somewhere and how these ended up in there. I got some stuff on cloth and paper and I just put it in there so I wouldn't lose it and it could come downstairs. So I'm going to actually put that up but I think I'm going to leave one. I love that and more one. I'm going to leave one in there. Sanitary napkin sorry for it on the go for just y'all. I'm pretty menopause so we don't never know when it's going to come and I have some whiteout. Yeah correction tape. Here's something when I did I took another note. I don't think I need this anymore. Throw that away but this was on that note pad.  And then I have just a couple of cents in here. I guess I should have looked in here but it's okay. It wasn't like anything was made because I don't keep a lot in here so I just have a couple of cents. I'm going to throw that I'm just going to throw that into the pocket and then this is what it looks like. So to show you the great detail of this pouch and this cloth when it is that when I say mint condition it was just brand new. It's real leather. I mean this and this is the care instructions and everything like that. It's just beautiful. So and then you have two little side pockets here so I could put my little um page flags there. Actually I'm going to put this back. I'll put it back in the pocket so they just don't pop out or fall out. You know I have my um pouch somewhere but you guys so let me show you what all it fits. So this is my A5 okay which is my original business planner. I do love but I'm really in love with this mini right now. It holds that. I can zip it in their steel room. I may even show you what a classic HP looks like in here. So also let me show you. This is my half letter. I can get my half letter. Y'all look at this. This is my half letter. This is my A5. I can get them both in here if I wanted to. Zips with room. That's how big this pouch is. Now let's try and I don't take my A5 but if I had to take my A5 that's why I have the mini HP extension. So like if I have a business meeting or something like that I can um have my mini with me on the go. Again the mini is an extension of my I mean of my A5 which is my business planner. This is an old classic HP and let me show you. Because I think the HP is bigger um it's a little bigger than a half letter.  So let's put that in steel room you guys. Steel room. I am excited. So um that's what's in my planner bag. I'm going to put everything back and I can't wait to receive my cover for my mini HP. Like I said I have one. I have one by Motarm. I just found that I wasn't using it and I just wanted to like look at it you know and just kind of flip through it and what I love about the mini HP is that you can just you know rotate the pages and just keep going and keep going. So that fits in here again and of course my staple my A6 and my clipboard and these are pretty much my essentials my tape. These are just my essentials for having in my planner bag. Like I said I do have the purse or the purse slash bag that goes with this. It's also by Steve Madden and I can put this inside of there and you can probably use it as a purse organizer. I use it just as my planner bag and then like yesterday carrying it inside my purse because you know this I mean it's not light but it ain't too heavy but having this in my purse sometimes kind of heavy to carry. So I just grab it like this. I just kind of grab it like this and I'll have my purse on my shoulder and I can or you know like this and I can just throw it in my seat in the car. When I'm at work I can have it out.  So again if you're looking for a bag similar check out Poshmark check out McCarrie any of those other retail sites and things like that I see I forgot this and you may can find it I have not done a search but I will try to do a search and see what I see and if I do I will leave it in the comment section or either the info section below. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video today if you have any questions about anything that I showed you besides the bag of course. I'll be happy to help you out and I'll talk to you guys later. Bye!


It's funny when children swear because they think that's how you be an adult. Now folks, it's me, your old pal over at here on the hot take couch to record a video about a type of movie that I normally wouldn't talk about because I don't really review big movies on this channel because I think I'm too good for them because I'm a pretentious hack. Kind of like director Zack Snyder, except I have way better politics and also way less money and it's possible that those two things are related. I don't know, maybe I should learn to code. Anyways, I'm not really here to rag on Zack Snyder. Maybe I should be because he's a big Einran fan and I have a negative amount of respect for people who believe that this country and also the world at large would be better if self-obsessed psychopaths were given free reign to crush everyone under their heel instead of just the mostly free reign granted to them by a system of government that caters specifically to that type of person in part because it's more public-facing members are largely in that group themselves and so obviously just want to make themselves richer and more powerful at the expense of, say, the half million Americans who have died in the past year from the coronavirus. But at the same time it is genuinely funny to me that a man who clearly hates Superman and what he stands for as much as Snyder does has been given hundreds of millions of dollars to denigrate the symbol of hope's image. When I was younger I dug Snyder's incredibly bleak vision of things, not Sucker Punch obviously, but like after the release of Man of Steel I had lengthy conversations with people who genuinely care about Superman as a character and were infuriated by what he had become and I totally understood that and totally didn't care. Like when I was in my comic book phase I read manga and the occasional Batman collection or like Alan Moore classic but that doesn't mean a movie can't change my mind right? Like Marvel's film division has done a pretty dang good job of making me care about at least half a dozen characters I'd never even heard of. DC hasn't and is that largely Zack Snyder's fault? Sure, but what did they expect was gonna happen when they put Zack Snyder in charge of the DC extended universe? He has made exactly the movies everyone expected him to make visually sumptuous and overly serious with a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to tell a mature story and so it was overall probably a good thing when the DCEU fell apart. It's not great that actual garbage Joss Whedon took over the film after Snyder's departure from the project due to genuinely tragic circumstances but at least the movie he made pleased basically no one right?  I didn't see it. A lot of people didn't see it and that failure mixed with Wonder Woman's success meant that the films that followed haven't cared much about its continuity. I think that's a positive development and I think most people agree but underneath all of that bubbled the hashtag release the Snyder cut movement a virulent group who believed fervently that there was a finished masterpiece just sitting in a vault somewhere and that the way to see it was to harass people online for literal years. The movie did not exist of course there was no Snyder cut even a year ago because that's not how filmmaking works especially movies like these which are largely created in post-production but AT&T's corporate overlords looked at the harassment campaigns and calculated that those guaranteed eyeballs would be worth 30 million dollars and so that's the amount they gave Snyder to complete the VFX work on his incomplete cut as long as he released it exclusively on HBO Max of course. Now that 30 million dollar budget was more than doubled during the process but it was eventually finished. The Snyder cut did not exist but now it does and I've watched it and there's a pretty good chance that you have too so maybe AT&T's gamble paid off maybe. Now I'm gonna say up front I thought Zack Snyder's Justice League was fine like it's probably his best DC movie which may be damning with faint praise but there you go like it's fine. Perhaps more importantly the four hour runtime arbitrarily broken into six chapters plus a brief intro and lengthy epilogue for maximum pretension was much less grueling than I had expected. In fact I would argue that the story being told here needs to be closer to this length than it was to the original releases which was a mere 120 minutes. Not because the actual events that happen in the Justice League are so epic but because of the issues with the DCEU as it existed at the time and frankly still exists now. In stark contrast to Marvel which introduces characters fairly slowly and usually brings them all together only after we have an understanding of who they were and how they all fit together DC was just raring to get as many big names onto the big screen as soon as possible. That is why the second Superman movie actually introduced Batman and Wonder Woman and while Wonder Woman got her own film before the release of Justice League the other three characters who joined the team over the course of this film Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash needed to be introduced and fleshed out enough to make their presence in this story matter at all and and not only that the movie also wanted to introduce Darkseid the big bad of the series and explain his whole deal while also giving some context for the little bad who serves as the antagonist of this movie specifically. It's a lot and frankly four hours wasn't enough to do it properly so it's mind-boggling that anyone thought they could do it too. Prioritizations had to be made and it is interesting to see what is given time to breathe and what gets rushed through like yeah sometimes it is excess for its own sake like the opening of the movie which is about five minutes longer than it needs to be but these really masturbatory moments are farther in between than you might expect given the runtime when it comes to introducing these new characters you know we get some scenes with the Flash and Aquaman seeing their abilities to move fast and swim good respectively alongside a little bit of background but frankly they're pretty straightforward and so all we get is all we really need to know. The primary focus here is on Victor Stone aka Cyborg. This makes sense both because his powers are a lot more complicated than the others and so require more explanation and also the development of those powers is directly tied to the actual plot of the Justice League and although it would make a lot more sense for him to just have an origin film that would have done a much better job of prepping us for this film I guess Zack Snyder shooting the highlights of what it could have been and then shoving them into the middle of Justice League is better than nothing is not nearly enough of course I was super confused by the timeline of Cyborg's superhero journey and also actually whether he does anything heroic at all like I get what he can do but not what he does do or why and for someone so critical to the plot I'd really want more and it should have come at the expense of the presence of Mr. Clark Kent aka Superman and his two biggest fans Lois Lane and Martha Kent. Look people will say that Snyder has no vision for Superman and that's why every time he's on screen the whole thing just kind deflates but I don't think that's quite right. Snyder made clear in Batman v Superman that he actually does have a long-term plan for the character and it is to go into a specific arc in the comics that I know of but obviously haven't read in which Lois Lane dies and then Superman turns evil. We saw premonitions of this in Batman v Superman and we get more of those here because Snyder is champing at the bit so hard to just have evil Superman that he cannot make this movies where Clark Kent is a good guy without showing us that God is fallible and will in fact fall eventually as long as Snyder keeps being given hundreds of millions of dollars to make these movies but he can't do that yet so instead we get a really boring super strong man and his boring fiance who the film keeps cutting to because everyone really wants us to think that Lois Lane is very important the key in fact but every single time she popped up on screen I was surprised because I forgot she was in the movie because she's so disconnected from the main story that her presence is just always a non sequitur but as frustrating as all of that is it's not really the fundamental problem with Zack Snyder's Justice League. Back in 2017 I reviewed Batman Arkham Knight for The Daily Beast. I lamented the fact that the game was rated M because it was and I quote the video game equivalent of two children standing on each other's shoulders wearing a trench coat. Just because it's bloodier and has more bad language doesn't make it more mature and arguably it does the opposite. That rating points to a game whose target audience is 15 year olds who want to feel cool for breaking the rules. Oh wow this game is rated M but I can handle it because I'm super mature age is just a number man you know it's like how I felt the first time I played Grand Theft Auto 3 it was so transgressive but now I'm an old man who has had multiple surgeries because his body is falling apart and I can see how ridiculous that all of this was and still is. Zack Snyder's Justice League is that but worse because at least those games sometimes gesture its storylines with slightly more complex and possibly even mature subject matters even if they're not handled particularly well. This movie doesn't even do that it is R for really big kids. You know those movies on the Carter crew channel where they make things R rated by adding blood splatters and stuff that is basically what we're dealing with here. CG blood abounds in places where so technically there would be blood if this happened to a person and it's probably worse for society for us to show bloodless violence than the real carnage that results from battle but also these aren't real battles nothing about the violence in this movie is realistic you remember when Batman asked Superman if he bleeds and we're all like wow so gritty I love it yeah I didn't need to know the answer to that for any of these folks and anyone who feels like they did needs to grow the fuck up by the way I know that I used a bad word there but it's okay because I don't want children to watch this video in fact I have to press a button specifically saying that this is not made for kids every time I upload a video Zach Snyder over here made a movie in which giant monsters argue over space zoom about something called the anti-life equation with serious albeit computer generated faces and if that's not dumb shit for babies I don't know what is like I know that's not Snyder's name for it and it's like a canonical thing but it's canonical in a series of picture books for children like Marvel dealt with mass extinction in a way that didn't require Tony Stark to say the phrase I will fucking kill you but that's what Batman says at one point I laughed really really hard when he did so Justice League is more obviously ridiculous than any of its grim dark predecessors which makes its continued commitment to douriness often funnier than the actual jokes and like there are jokes the flash speaks mostly in quips and Aquaman is half there and while this doesn't entirely cohere it isn't as jarring as I would have expected not like the weird girl power stuff that shows up every once in a while and feels incredibly unnatural like there's this moment where the bad guy tells his minions to back off of Wonder Woman because she's mine and her response is I belong to no one what I don't even know where to start with that shit so I'm just not gonna bother fuck it oh that's next aspect ratio yeah let's talk about that look so I watched this movie on a 65 inch OLED television in glorious Dolby vision I don't feel like doing the exact math but that's probably around a 40 inch diagonal image which is still a fine size though I think I would have been annoyed were I watching on something smaller because it is very clear that this movie was not actually meant to be presented in 4x3 like obviously this stuff that was shot in iMacs would have looked like this on those screens but even that doesn't feel like it was the only way it was meant to be seen something I noticed seeing Batman v Superman and iMac 70 millimeter was that Snyder doesn't like changing aspect ratios within scenes where Christopher Nolan will shift from shot to shot as he has it Snyder will crop iMac's footage to match whatever surrounds it and so it is hard to know how much of this was always intended to be 4x3 versus what just happened to have been in 4x3 versus what was actively cropped to be 4x3 most of the time it doesn't really matter and it only genuinely bothered me during some of the group scenes towards the end as well as during horde type fight scenes like when the league is all together trying to plan out the final fight it's it's a little odd because you can only ever see one or two of them at a time even though it feels like three or possibly four were supposed to be in the frame additionally while some fight scenes emphasize their verticality most don't they're spread out and the way it's framed makes it hard to keep track of where characters who aren't literally fighting side by side are in relation to each other you feel like there must have been more at some point and it's just been cut off for the sake of it but other than that honestly that looks pretty good and I have no doubt that seeing it in IMAX would have been spectacular but I'm not so sure I would have wanted to do that and be in that crowd especially on opening night because as we've established the folks who made the Snyder Cut happen just aren't good like Zack Snyder's Justice League is an interesting pop culture artifact and I'm glad I've seen it since it exists but I am not glad that it exists this is not a movie that will placate anyone anyone just looking for a Justice League story won't be satisfied and the people who wanted this Justice League story were calling for a return to the Snyderverse at large even before they saw its multiple wide open endings and those calls will get louder and angrier because there is only one lesson that these people will have learned from this whole ordeal if they kick and scream loud and long and had enough people studios will ultimately bend to their will and maybe that's true I hope it's not but it kind of doesn't matter the box has already been opened and the Snyder Cut sure as fuck isn't going to close it thank you for watching and thank you particularly to my patrons my mom hammer and marco cat Zarakata benjamin schiff anthony Cole magnolia dentin eliot fowler greg lucina Liam night cojo phil baits willow and iron the sword like this video that's great if not I don't care fun fact this is the last video I will be shooting in this apartment it'll probably be a few weeks before I'm settled in at the new place and have another setup with which to shoot whatever video will be next but at this point that is nothing new in any case I hope you'll join me then bye