Hey curl friends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee Today and today I have some new hair products to review for you guys but not any hair products. These hair products could be the solution to a problem that many of you have asked me about which is a dry, itchy, flaky scalp. We've all been there. I for one, literally last week, tried to stretch my wash day to day eight. I don't really recommend that but I really just didn't have time to wash my hair. I needed it big for always different reasons so my scalp was screaming. I'm talking Flake City so something had to be done but fortunately this was the perfect time to try the new Derma-E scalp relief shampoo and conditioner. Thank you Derma-E for sponsoring this video because this has been a hot topic that you guys ask me about all the time and I'm happy to say that these products actually work. Now I want to be completely honest with you guys. When I first heard the Derma-E, the skincare brand, had hair products I was like I don't know this is really your specialty we'll see how these go but to my surprise these really worked and they're affordable and they have great ingredients. For example, both of these products are 100% vegan, GMO free, eco-ethical, cruelty free, doctor developed, they also have no parabens, no sulfates, no phthalates, no mineral oils, no formaldehyde, no artificial colors, no petroleum and no artificial fragrances. Derma-E is a brand that really focuses on using good ingredients and the first thing on the bottle it says ethical beauty. If you're committed to your health, well-being and natural environment, that's why we make eco-ethical skin care and hair care. Now what I'll be demonstrating today is their Derma-E scalp relief shampoo that soothes dry irritated scalp, therapeutic Therzima herbal blend shampoo and conditioner. But let's just not talk about the products, let me prove to you how well these work by showing you my very disgusting flaky scalp. So here I am in the shower after trying to stretch my wash day to day eight. As you can see my scalp is completely white, full of product buildup, dandruff, flakiness, it's itchy and it's drier than the desert. So let's see how well the shampoo and conditioner does. So starting off with the scalp relief shampoo, this is an eight ounce squeeze bottle, I do like the squeeze. So let's apply some of the shampoo, it's actually clear and has a more liquidy consistency instead of like the normal creamy shampoo and it does have a beautiful minty soothing smell. Usually a lot of scalp products do have this like menthol type of smell and it has a nice little tingly sensation. Fortunately, this is sulfate free so you do get a little bit of that lather and it just feels really good and soothing on the scalp. This shampoo has a pro vitamin B5 which hydrates the scalp, has salicylic acid to help exfoliate your scalp, tea tree oil to help soothe your irritated scalp while cooling menthol provides a refreshing sensation. I do have highlights and color in my hair so I'm very happy to also see that this is safe for color treated hair. Now that I've rinsed out all of my shampoo I am going to grab the scalp relief conditioner. This is also a fluid ounces same type of squeeze bottle and this has a thicker white cream. Now I'm starting to realize that I have a preference when it comes to conditioner. I instantly knew from this conditioner that I was going to like it because it's not a normal like watery cream, it almost is like a jelly cream and this usually has a great slip. But like I said I was very skeptical because one this is something that's really focused on the scalp and usually scalp products don't usually have the best slip and I was thinking ah it's derma E I don't know how their hair products are going to do in the slip department but this actually had amazing slip. I was shook it. I was already mentally prepared to tell myself okay this is for more of your scalp not really the length of your hair but this has amazing slip and I'm so so happy. Not only does this conditioner feel moisturizing on my actual hair and it's also really easy to detangle. This is also helping on my scalp at the same time. Usually I try not to apply too much conditioner to my scalp per se more the length of my hair but because this conditioner also has the same B5 hydrate-style silk acid the teacher or the menthol it is also good for the scalp and gives you that same cool tingly sensation.  Now the directions actually say to apply to your wet hair and scalp let it penetrate for about three to five minutes then rinse so if I would have left this on it probably would have been even easier to detangle but I was surprised that even after immediate application it was so easy to detangle and remember this was my day eight hair. You know how tangled your hair gets after a couple days. Think about how bad it was after eight yeah.  It's no longer white it's actually the color of my scalp. There's no product build up there's no more flakes there's no more itchiness it feels nice and cool I am thoroughly impressed by this line. So what do we think guys derma e hair products great ingredients and it's actually pretty affordable to around $10 I've seen it for 940 on the Walmart website and it's 1175 on the derma e website. So derma e in general is just a brand that I do support because of all their great ingredients I also use their skincare I use their daily moisturizer I use their mask I use their scar gels like they really make great products so if you guys haven't tried these you definitely should they're beyond grenade approved and I'm going to make it even easier because I'm going to do a giveaway that's right derma e is letting me choose one lucky winner to win the shampoo and the conditioner for all your itchy scalp needs. So if you would like the chance to win the shampoo and conditioner get this video a thumbs up subscribe and leave me a comment letting me know why you need these products in your life. For an additional entry you also could follow me on Instagram where I'm going to post a derma e photo and you can like and leave a comment there as well. Now let me just mention this is not a curly hair product this could work for all hair types if you are watching with straight hair and you have an itchy scalp this can work for you. So in conclusion if you are someone that is struggling with dandruff itchy scalp irritated scalp flakiness definitely give these a try the most important thing to avoid is sulfates and silicones in your products. Those are two ingredients that I avoid anyways but sulfates will just dry your scalp and silicone will just sit on your scalp and create buildup. So those are the two you want to avoid in general and of course both of these products don't contain either. 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I just love that at this point in the season, we can still have meaningful conversations about our Baltimore Ravens playing meaningful games because they did more than enough in the regular season to get to this point in the postseason and they still been doing a phenomenal job and we of course hope that they keep that up but how do they even get to this point? Well, they have had some elite laser focus and specifically with Lamar Jackson. He has been on a tear this year but it seems like he just still ain't satisfied. But how do we know that? How can we see that? How has Lamar Jackson shown us that it ain't enough yet? Well, I've seen some things myself but I figured you know what, let's bring on a very very special guest who has some connections with Lamar Jackson and he can really help us figure things out. Team Keep It Clean, let's lock in. Team Keep It Clean, very, very special guest in the building. My guy, your guy too, Nitro from The Wunderkin Show. So he took the time to come on here with Team Keep It Clean to chop it up again. You know with Nitro, Nitro is that guy because he will always forever remain the guy, the YouTuber, the one that got that Lamar Jackson interview. So shout out to him man. That will always forever be just a special moment for you and a special moment that again I will always and forever appreciate you sharing that moment with me because again, you didn't have to. You didn't have to.  So I forever and always appreciate you and good looking out and it's been nice to see your channel just keep on growing. It's fortunate it's been taken off and you ain't even been doing it that long. So it's good to see that stuff like that man. So I appreciate you coming on. Thank you so much bro. Thank you. You know already it's all loving. When you say that stuff, it kind of makes me smile but it wouldn't have been the same without you. So yeah, you had to be there bro. Yeah. You had to have been there. Showed up a little bit late but it's all good man. It's crazy. You was a couple hours away and it was about 30 minutes away and you still got there before me but anyway, when we spoke to Lamar Jackson back then that they at his restaurant play action soul food shout out to them it's been too long since I've been there. Got to get some turkey wings but when we spoke to him that day, he was fresh, fresh offer signing $300 million contract. I saw it just this week on Twitter where it said that he made $80 million this year. Hey, congratulations Lamar. Yes, congratulations. And I say all that to say this like this guy is Lamar Jackson, not just a star but a superstar in the NFL and now he's gotten to the point where people just say Lamar because again, when you go by first name or even just last name basis, they know who you are like Jordan, Shaq, Kobe, Lamar.  But he didn't have no security there that night. He wasn't walking around with no arrogant, no cocky, none of that stuff. He was just as humble as can be and when we spoke to him, he had the mission on his mind that he would just focus on winning and getting the Super Bowl. If we didn't know that he had just signed that huge deal, you would have never been able to tell by his presence. So this year certainly has been very different for Lamar Jackson. He's playing different. The team around him is much different. The coaching is different. He's been laser focused this year. Now, what are you thinking and why do you, and how, really how do you think Lamar Jackson has remained so laser focused? Because you can tell just by how he's moving that he's not satisfied. How do you think he's shown that and exactly why? You know the crazy thing is I think it's beyond just getting paid, right? I think Lamar has always been a focused individual. I think he's always wanted greatness. If you remember when he first got drafted and when he was left to be the last pick in the draft room and you saw Dionne Sanders saying, you know, you're here now. You're here and he's like, I'm here. You could see, you saw that, that, that energy in his face. Like, he's like, what are they going to get out of you? He said, they're going to get a Super Bowl out of me. Believe that you see that energy. He's always perpetuated it. It's always been palpable wherever he's been at. The difference with this year is, is that everything has been turned up a value. Like the volume has been turned up a notch a little higher. What I mean by that is now it's the laughing is even gone. You know what I'm coming from? He's just look, this is business. Y'all talk too much pretty much. You know what I'm saying? Like I've heard everything. You know what I'm saying? I had to wait for the contract even though I deserved it earlier. I have to hear the hate saying that I'm not worth it. I had to hear all of these things saying that I'm not a quarterback or I was a one hit wonder. You're not coming from. So now that to me staying focused. I don't think it's staying focused. I think it's him channeling everything that's been said and saying it's this business. This goes beyond just the game. This is business now.  And I'm so happy that he has that energy within him and showing it. Because as you see what he did at halftime, there were no jokes. You saw what happened at halftime.  It's the ravens are going. And then when they went that 10-10 Lamar looking at them. What happened to what happened at halftime? You lucky I keep my slap button on this. He was pulling throwing out some words that team keep it clean can never have on there, sir. No, no, no, no, no. You get one coming from. So that that that focus is forcing the people to not just watch his greatness, but to elevate their level to it. And that's what's making this team truly dangerous. And I'm loving every minute of it. Yeah, it's been nice to see because like you mentioned, there's been a lot less smiling, a lot less dancing. They still been happy. Of course, they still been celebrating in there. But it's just it's different this year because this guy Lamar, he'll go and beat the dolphins. What was it, 56 to 19? I think whatever the score was. So, yeah, we we still got more to take care of. Yes, like it's not like, yeah, it's like, like, chill, smile, it's OK, man. You just whoops, he didn't put up on it. But he like, no, no, no, we we still got more to accomplish. Even after the Texans game playoff game, it's like, oh, yeah, he is like, oh, Dale was doing all that dancing right next to him. Oh, Dale brought the chain out and what? And I put it on Lamar, but Lamar is still locked in. And it's nice to see that everything that Lamar has been talking about, especially this year is been coming to fruition early on this season. Well, before the season even started, Todd Munkin got hired and Lamar was asked about him after they had worked together for maybe about a month or so. He's like, what's the difference this year with the offense? So what's been going on with the offense? That's new. And Lamar talked about it. And Todd Munkin mentioned it, too. He said Lamar is going to have the keys to the offense this year. So when we watch the offense every Sunday or Monday or Thursday, whatever days they play this last week, Saturday, when we watch that offense, you see with Lamar Jackson, him checking in and out of plays, him calling stuff at the line, him really controlling that offense. And it's like, what? This is what we've been waiting for for so long because Todd Munkin and this offense have really taken Lamar Jackson to new heights. And it's new heights that we knew he could get to. But under the previous offense, he was never going to get there because it was limited. He wasn't even supposed to do that this year. Think about it this way. This is his first year under this offense, his first year. By all metrics, he's not supposed to have this level of success in it. You usually see when you when you when you install an offense, it's the jit, you have to go through the trust, the jitters, all these other things, figuring out who's what, what role, you know what I mean? And the verbiage, the verbiage changes. Lamar is an MVP in his first year again in this system. When so next year, when he has it under his belt and everything is like, oh, I already know what this is. Then we're going to see a whole new Lamar. I think what this is, this is just the entry, the entry version because even at the beginning of the season, you saw that there was time that they were trying out things to see what works and what doesn't. They were trying out to see what plays they like, where they want to use O'Dell, where they want to use Bateman. How do they sprinkle in Zay flowers? How do they keep him engaged? And now you're seeing it with Isaiah likely. They have yet, listen, I've said this before and I truly mean this. This team is yet to play a perfect game. Yet to play a perfect game. The offense and defense have yet to play a totally harmonized game. What you've seen is quarters or halves where the defense was amazing.  Or the offense had an amazing half and the defense was kind of shaky and then the offense did okay for the rest of the two quarters. That's what you've seen all year. That's why I'm saying this team, we're seeing high levels of success, but to put it in context, this team should be undefeated right now. No one has beaten this team. This team and the losses beat themselves. And we have yet to see them scratch the surface. Imagine this is Dave Flowers first year in this offense, is it not? Right. Okay, OBJ first year in this offense, is it not? Well, no, not really. Well, kind of sorta. In this offense? Because he was with Top Munkin and Top Munkin was with the Browns. But with Lamar. Oh, yeah. But with Lamar, these weapons, everything else, that's what I mean. And then you look at Isaiah likely also and with the injury to Ronnie Stanley, him going in and out of the lineup. Mark Andrew's not even being available for the whole year. Him also being hurt in training camp. This has been like this. It hasn't been a smooth ride. So when I look at this offense, I'm just saying, bro, we have yet to see the final form. If you know what Dragon Ball Z is, this is freezes like first or second form. We have yet to see the final form yet. And that's gonna be scary for not only the teams but the NFL itself. Because I think they're gonna break a lot of records and they'll be the first team to actually have the opportunity to go undefeated. Now that's interesting because that is a good point that, yeah, this is the first year in an offense. And we know with first years and anything, come the growing pains and come the learning curve and the learning process. But Lamar Jackson is certainly, and then the rest of the team too, of course, they have made just such a huge amount of progress this year. And what you were mentioning about, like obviously, it's a flowers as a rookie. This is Mark Andrews and Isaiah likely their first year in the system. Nelson Agilore, Rashad Bateman, young guys. Now with O'Dell Beckham, Jr., like I was saying, he does have some experience with Todd Monkham. But one thing I was thinking about like, O'Dell Beckham, Jr., he's been a part-time guy. So we've seen this offense excel at times without O'Dell Beckham, Jr. So what it's really showing me is that just the growth in the maturity and just the advancement of Lamar Jackson and Todd Monkham and them two just really working together and being in sync. So it's been really, really nice to see because it's made such a big difference with the Baltimore Ravens. Like, I remember years ago, like if the Ravens even scored over 20 points, we will be jumping for joy. That's a lot. So yeah, we will be celebrating. But it's like, when we think about it now, though, those days are long gone. They're long gone. So if they put up 20 points now, we'd be like, what were y'all doing? What is that? Where's the rest? We're like spoiling them. Just to keep this pipeline chilling. Yeah. Before, remember, that leg used to get worked out every game. And I said this before, and I say it again, I really do think that if Justin Tucker was on a lot of different teams, then I don't think he would be the best kicker in the world. And not saying that he wouldn't be able to kick and he wouldn't make a bunch of kicks, not saying that. But I say because the reason that I think he was, became the best kicker in the league is because he had to be out there like every drive, kicking field goals over and over because the offense couldn't score. They would move the ball a little bit, but then it's like, all right, Justin Tucker, go do your thing. That's a good point. Live practice. Live practice, in-game practice.  So when it stuff starts slowing down, you're like, this is easy. This is easy work, right? Hey, that's a very good point, and very, very good point. OJT on the job training. Yeah, high school. But yeah, man. But back to Lamar Jackson, it's cool to see how he's not satisfied and it's cool to see that he's just, he's been killing it, man. They've been killing, now something that you mentioned about the offense too, you talked about how we just, really the whole team, we haven't seen a perfect game from the Baltimore Ravens yet. Well, something that Lamar Jackson talked about, he talked about it from the very beginning of the season and he's talked about it throughout the season at different times. And he said that the offense, he does not want them to peak too early. Yeah. And he said he wants them to peak, just at the right time. And it seems like, especially the way that they ended the regular season because the starting offense, they ended the regular season against the Miami Dolphins, not against the Steelers because most of them didn't play. And they went up and put up 56 points. It's like, whoa, okay, I guess y'all peeking now. And then they, again, they take the couple of weeks off in week 18 and then a bye week.  But in that second half, they made adjustments and they turned it on and they went crazy with it. How are you feeling about, I know you gave us some thoughts about it, but how do you feel about the offense just moving forward with their capabilities, what they could possibly do and how they can match up against the Kansas City Chiefs this week? I think that Rust was inevitable, right? You're talking about three weeks, no football. That's what they did, it's three weeks, no actual football. So I expected some Rust to come into the game, but as always, they rose to the occasion. They handle business because guess what, a football game is not two quarters, it's four, it's a full 60 minutes. So you gotta get, I'm saying there's a lot of time to get that stuff done. So I think they knocked off the rust, I think they're back in their groove. I think that not only are they going to beat the Chiefs, I think that Lamar Jackson and the offense is going to put on a show. I usually have new predictions and stuff on my channel when I think about the offense. I think Lamar goes four touchdowns, passing this week. And that's not including the rushing touchdown that I think that Gus or, So Justice Hill? Yeah, or Justice Hill. Oh, never. Puts in. You know what? Listen, man, I want Dalvin to be in, you saw as soon as he came in, he was gangbusters, but they weren't, it's like, yo, that's the most frustrating thing with the Ravens. They'll have players that can do great and they'll just not play them. We've seen it with Keaton. We've seen it with JK Atonge. We've seen it with Isaiah Likely. Like imagine, imagine this real quick in. Okay. We had Isaiah Likely on this team. We've seen highlights of him from last season. We couldn't even find the opportunity to have him and Mark Andrews in the game at the same time and both be successful. Think about that real quick. You're going to struggle for them. Yeah. Think how crazy that is. Think about the player that Isaiah Likely is showing everyone that he is. He is showing that right now, if he were a full year under his belt, he could be a top three, top four titan in the entire league. Yeah, that's true. He could be. And we can't even get him on the field to be successful thanks to Mark Andrews, who was a top three titan in the league. But that's how this offense... Listen, I truly do believe, I truly do believe, going against the Chiefs, they're going to hold nothing back. I think they're going to be looking to beat them into the ground. I think all those little trick plays that we've been wondering, you're going to see a couple of trick plays, you're going to see a lot of Jett Sweet, you're going to see Zay always in motion, you're going to see Likely in motion a lot. They're not going to hold, because they're not going to want to give Patrick Mahomes a shot. Have you ever noticed something with John Harbaugh when he's playing certain teams, how the offense and how the defense come at them a little differently? And what I mean by that is, when he goes against lesser teams sometimes, he'll be like, ah, run the ball. You know what we get into that thing where it's run, run, run, pass. Run, run, pass. Run, run, pass. And it becomes, ah, because we're up by eight points or 10 points, like just run the clock, let's get the W and get out of here. When we go against certain teams, like the 49ers, like Miami, who has came back on us heavily before. Did you ever notice when Harbaugh, there was a clip of them saying, keep scoring? Oh yeah, yeah. That was a dolphins game, I think. Yes. It's a totally different team. Because now, because it's the level of competition is higher. They know that they can't take their foot off their necks or because they did it before and we lost. You remember with Miami? Oh yeah. You remember that? And we were up by what, 20, what was it? 26? 21 or 28, something like that. I think 21. In the fourth quarter. Yeah, that's two. You see what I'm saying? So that's why I believe that this, I have total faith in this offense because of what happened after halftime and because now that the rust is knocked off, I think that they're gonna be totally locked in. And I think Munkin, knowing that he's going against Patrick Mahones, knowing that it's the AFG championship game, knowing that they're this close to the prize, they're gonna say, leave no doubt and they're gonna leave none. You watch me on Sunday, three o'clock. No doubt will be left. It's going to be, I truly believe we beat Kansas City by two touchdowns or more. 14 points or more. Yes, sir. I would love that. And I guess you left no doubt with me because I was gonna ask you how you think this game is gonna go and what you think the Baltimore Ravens need to do to get it done, but you don't answer all of that. All of that anymore. So good stuff, man. I appreciate you. And I hope that your prediction ends up being a thousand percent spot on because I would love, love, love, love, love, because it wouldn't be a stress-free game if they won by four. I mean, toward the end it might be, but I would just love that to where Ravens fans who are there, they could be celebrating early us that'll be watching at home. We could be celebrating a little bit early. And just having a good time because this is the team to get past. This is the team to beat because they are the reigning Super Bowl champions right now. Patrick Mahomes is that guy. He got two Super Bowl championships. He got two MVP's and he's been regarded as the best. So he wanted to be the best. Hey, you know what you gotta do? You gotta beat the best. Yep, you gotta. And I think he will. I'll say this last thing closing because I know you're like, wrap it up. This is not even the true test. It's not Lamar versus Mahomes. I said this in my preview video. It's not Lamar versus Mahomes. It's Roquan versus Mahomes. You see, and I made it very prevalent in the video that I said, I said that Lamar is like Jordan.  You know what we're gonna get out of him. Remember when the Bulls, before they won the championship and they had to go versus the Pistons, they had to go through the Pistons to win and they are losing and losing, but Jordan was averaging 30-something points. Dropping, everyone knew what you were. Scotty Pippen had to come up. He had to play that defense. He had to be that second scoring option. That's what this team needs. It's Roquan really versus Patrick. If Roquan in that defense, and Mike McDonald can slow down Patrick Mahomes, this will be a blowout. If this defense can put clans, clank, clank, clank, clank on that offense. Oh, it's, I'm not even worried about what Lamar is going to do in this game because I know without a shadow of a doubt, this offense is putting up 30 points in this game at least, but if Roquan and then play to the level that they've been playing on this team, barbecue chicken. Barbecue chicken. Now I'm big, so you know I know a lot about barbecue chicken. No, Nitro, appreciate you coming on. As always, appreciate your time and appreciate your explanation and breakdown of these Baltimore Ravens of Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes and the chiefs to it of everything, man. So thank you, Team Keep It Clean. All the links to his everything, his YouTube, his Twitter, well, X, whatever you want to call it, it'll be down below in the description so y'all can go show him some love. I know y'all know who he is already, but just in case you don't, now you do. Team Keep It Clean, love y'all, appreciate y'all. We out.


Hi, thanks for joining us for EsmarComp for 2023. My name is James Pustiebsky, and with my colleague, Megajoshi, we'd like to share one piece of one of our ongoing projects, developing new tools for investigating selective reporting in meta-analysis of dependent effect sizes. The method that we'll be demonstrating today is a cluster-level bootstrap for a Vave Hedges-type selection model. Now by selective reporting, we mean the phenomenon where statistically significant affirmative results are more likely to be reported and therefore more likely to be available for meta-analysis compared to results that aren't statistically significant or aren't consistent with theoretical expectations. So this happens as a result of biases in the publication process on the part of journals, editors and reviewers, as well as because of strategic decisions on the part of authors. Selective reporting is a big deal. It's a major concern for research synthesis because it distorts the evidence base available for meta-analysis. Kind of like a funhouse mirror distorts your appearance. It leads to upward biases and estimates of average effect sizes and complex biases and estimates of heterogeneity, all of which makes it all the more difficult to draw conclusions from the synthesis. Now, a meta-analyst might say, we've already got tons of tools available for investigating selective reporting. Why do we need more? We've got graphical diagnostics like funnel plots, tests and adjustment methods like pet P's, selection models, P-value diagnostics like P-curve and P-uniform. The problem is very few of these methods have been extended to handle dependent effect sizes, which are a really common feature of meta-analytic data. Dependent effect sizes crop up all over the place. For instance, when primary studies report results on multiple measures of an outcome construct or measure effects at multiple time points or involve multiple treatment groups compared to a common control group, and they also come up in meta-analyses of correlational effect sizes, where you may draw more than one correlation coefficient based on the same sample. If you've done meta-analysis work in education, psychology or other social science fields, you probably recognize that dependent effect sizes are really, really common. Although we have good methods available for handling this sort of dependency when conducting summary meta-analyses or meta-regressions, there are very few methods available for investigating selective reporting that can accommodate dependent effect sizes. And what's more, if you use existing tools that don't account for dependency, you can get misleading results like two narrow confidence intervals and hypothesis tests that have inflated type one error rates. So we wanna explore a rough and ready pragmatic strategy for investigating selective reporting while also dealing with dependent effect sizes. Our thought is to fit a regular selection model as implemented in the metaphor package and then use a cluster level bootstrap to account for the dependency. And this uses standard methods that are implemented in the boot package. For demonstrating this method, we'll use data from a recent meta-analysis by layman and colleagues that looked at the effect of the color red on attractiveness judgments. The data include 81 effect sizes from 41 studies. And so we've got effect size dependency issues to deal with. Here's a final plot of the data. A basic random effects meta-analysis indicates an average effect of about 0.2 standard deviations and substantial heterogeneity of about 0.32. The final plot definitely has some asymmetry to it. So you might well be concerned about selective reporting bias with these data. Hi, I'm Mega and I'm going to go over how to cluster bootstrap selection models. To implement a cluster bootstrap using the boot package, we need a function to fit the selection model which takes in a dataset with one row per cluster. The function also has to have an index argument which is a vector of row indexes used to create the bootstrap sample. And then it can include any further arguments. Our dataset has one row per effect size and potentially multiple rows per cluster. There are at least two ways to turn this into a dataset with one row per cluster. We can use the group by and summarize functions to create a dataset with just cluster level IDs. And then we can merge it with the full data by study to get the effect size level data. Alternatively, we can use the nest by function to nest the data by cluster. And then we can use the on nest function to recover the effect size level data. Here's a function to run a selection model. Inside the function we first fit at an RMA uni meta regression model. We then use the cell model function from metaphor to fit a selection model. We don't need standard errors to be calculated in this step, so we're skipping those calculations here, which speaks things up. We then compile parameter estimates as single vector. Further, we use the possibly function from per to handle errors. By passing run cell model through possibly, it will now spit out NA in case there are any convergence issues or any errors when running the selection model. Here is the completed fitting function called fit cell model. First, we take a subset of the data based on the index argument. This generates a subset of the data based on re-sampled clusters. We use the on nest function to get the effect size level data for those re-sampled clusters. We then run the run cell model function here. And we include the run cell model function inside the big function here to ease parallel processing. The dot dot dot here refers to the contents of the run cell model function in the previous slide. With our example Lehmann data set, we create a nested data with one row per study and fit the selection model using fit cell model. These are the point estimates from the three parameters selection model. Now we can bootstrap using the boot function which takes in the nested data set and the function to fit the selection model, arguments for steps, number of bootstrap replications and any further options for parallel processing. Parallel processing is really useful here because we get 2000 bootstraps in under one minute. To get bootstrap conference intervals, we can use the CI function, specify the type of confidence intervals and specify the index of the parameter that we want. Here the index of one is for the overall average effect size and we get the conference intervals for the overall average effect. Based on the selection model, the overall average effect has gone down a bit from 0.20 to 0.13 and the CI indicates that there's quite a bit of uncertainty around it. Here we get the conference intervals for between study heterogeneity and for the selection rate. So this has been a very quick demonstration of cluster bootstrapping for cluster bootstrapping and selection model. This cluster bootstrapping technique is interesting because we could in principle apply cluster bootstrap to other models or methods to investigate selective reporting. We are currently studying the performance of bootstrapping at three parameters selection model and initial results suggest that the conference intervals, like the one we showed you, have reasonable coverage. Future directions include exploring other resampling methods such as fractional weighted bootstrap and turning the workflow that we presented here into a more user-friendly function. Thank you so much for your attention and please feel free to reach out with any questions. Thank you.


A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty high old silver, the lone ranger. With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the masked rider of the planes fought crime and criminals throughout the early western United States. It was his strength and courage, his unselfish devotion to the cause of right against might and made possible the winning of the West. No greater champion of justice can be found in the pages of history. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. Come out of the past come the thundering hoof beats the great horse Silver, the lone ranger rides again. Three men had just finished eating in Tex Dolan's cafe at Plainfield. Two of the three were brothers, still in their early twenties. The companion, however, was middle-aged, a well-dressed man with shrewd, kindly features. He turned to Tex who stood beside him and, Now Mr. Bio, you Tex, for the three, Mr. Morley, three dollars you ate the special. Wait, let me get it, Mr. Morley. I owe a small bill here anyhow. Here, Tex, take this. It's a five. That just makes it square. Do you want anything else? That'll be all. Well, if you change your mind, holler. Well, you shouldn't have done that. You and Curl need your money. Oh, that's all right. Shucks, Mr. Morley. We couldn't begin to pay you back for all the times you used to treat even if we tried. Yeah, very well. What's the matter, Ralph? He was looking at Tex like he was aching to paste him one. Maybe someday I will. What is it? Trouble between you two? You recollect when the sheriff closes his place for a while, don't you, Mr. Morley? Yes, I do. Well, it's on account of Ralph. Him and Tex ain't had no use for each other since. You, Ralph? I understood Tex was closed because he'd been found selling whiskey to the Red Skiers. Yeah, but it was me that seen him. There's any kind of anombry I hate. It's one that'll take cash from engines for poison that sets him crazy. So I told the sheriff. Tex had to pay a thousand fine before he could open up again. I'm just sorry it wasn't ten thousand. You deserve the skunk right. Ralph, listen to me. Be careful. Tex is dangerous.  You take my advice and watch out for him. And in the meantime, don't make matters worse by quarreling. Oh, I won't start nothing unless he does. You'd better not. By the way, have you boys had time to find out how your affairs stand now? Did your father leave much? Not much, Mr. Morley. Hardly anything but the house and town where we're staying. I'm sorry, but I was afraid of that. I knew he'd lost a great deal this past year. How about the bank? Anything there? Oh, not a dime. Nope, the only money he left us was in his cash box. I opened it yesterday. It was just a couple of hundred. I see. Well, that's the way things go. You never know what to expect. Don't feel too badly about it. You both got your health. I'm not sure that too much money is good for young men anyhow. It's nice to have all the same. Well, maybe I can help you in that direction. Oh, we wouldn't want to borrow anything. Oh, I didn't mean that. No, Ralph had something else in mind. Really, that's why I wanted to see you today. Oh, yeah. Don't quite know how to get the point. You see, I can use one of you. The wages will be good. There's a trouble I can't use your boat. I'll give it to Ralph then, Mr. Morley. I can make out all right. I ain't worried. No reason why you can make out any better than I can. Look, Mr. Morley, take car. There you see. Well, what kind of work is it? Maybe it'd fit one of us better than the one the other. Yeah. No, I don't think it would. I think either one of you can handle it. Don't get the idea. It's easy, though. It isn't. I can tell you. That's why I hesitate. You'd call for a cool head and plenty of courage. I can't afford to make a mistake. Sounds like something interesting. It is. Well, of course, you know that I've opened up production again on the old one to mine. I'll reduce the ore at the smelter there. I'll send a coach to pick up the bullion as needed. The stage will take it directly to the railroad. That'll mean you'll have to watch out for hold-up. Exactly the thing I have in mind. Now, two guards are going to ride that coach besides the driver. One of them will be furnished by the stage company. The other, I've agreed to furnish myself. That's the job I meant. It'll be dangerous. The man I hire will be in charge. You'll have a great deal of responsibility. We ain't afraid of that. I know you aren't. But that still doesn't settle my problem. What? I mean, of course, if the job peels to you. What? It'd be fun. Sure, I'd like it myself. But you better take Ralph, Mr. Morley, like I said. Talk on it, Carl. I don't need any looking after it. We won't quarrel about it. Let me tell you something. Don't be too anxious to give this job away. I won't forget the man who makes good of it. You never can tell. Maybe before he's finished, you'll find himself in a much better position. Just keep that in mind. He has to be Ralph. Didn't you know he was planning to get hitched? Steady job like that and just do him fine. Was that so, Ralph? Are you getting married? Well, I have been kind of figuring on it. Well, we should have told me that before. There won't be so much danger that a married man shouldn't take it. And he's likely to be steadier. Carl, you don't present that, do you? Oh, my shucks, no. If you give it to Ralph, that's what I said to do from the first. Good. Well, Ralph, what do you say? Carl, you wouldn't be mad? I know. Well, then, Mr. Morley, I'd be glad to work for you. Just a second here. What does it take? We're busy. Well, I got business here, too. What do you buy? I don't concern you, Carl. It's with your brother. Look here, take a look at this. This ability you just paid me with? No, you don't. Keep your hands off it till you said whether it's yours or not. You ought to be able to tell. Let me see that one corner there. Where'd you get it? Well, you're going to claim you don't know. Well, of course I know. I know. I'll just bet you do. You heard that, didn't you, Mr. Morley?  Don't be a fool, man. Of course I did. Now, I'd suggest that you explain yourself. You just listen. I recollect a year ago when some crook robbed Old Man Vily south of town the day before he was going to pay off his crew. Yes, I remember. And you recollect why the sheriff said that the fellow that took it wouldn't dare spend it? Well, he used to mark his cash just in case it was stolen. Each payday he marked it different. That time he had put a circle on each bill and red ink. Everybody in the county was looking for somebody to try to spend cash with their markings. But what's in it? Didn't just look here. A red circle.  Why, you polecat, you trying to claim I stole that money? Can you tell where you got it? I told you I could, didn't I? I found it just yesterday when I... Well, I... I don't know. I guess somebody must have just given it to me when I wasn't noticing. That's a good one. You never notice. When it's got markings on it so big you can't miss. And with greenbacks in this part of the country it scares his hands, teeth. Sure not. You just didn't notice.   Then why don't he talk? You heard him say he knew where he got it. If he got it from somebody else, where'd you get that kind of a notion? I ain't trying to protect nobody. Then explain where the money come from. I... I just can't, Mr. Morley. Honest, I can't. I see. Mr. Morley, you don't think... Well, I've certainly never known you to do anything that was dishonest. But until this is cleared up... Huh? I think we'd better postpone any further discussion of that job I offered you. Good day. I'll be getting on. Please let me know. Wait, Mr. Morley. I'd like to break your neck. I bet you would. But you won't. All your time is going to be took up explaining to the sheriff. It was later in the week that the Lone Ranger learned what had happened in the cafe and told Tonto the story when he returned to their secret camp. Tex Dirland's saying to that, he's practically accusing young Walker of that old robbery. I've seen the boy, that he's a thief. Well, if he is, Kimosabe, then I'll never again attempt to judge anyone. We help him. At least I'd like to get to the bottom of this. If he is guilty, then of course he should be punished. But if he isn't, he shouldn't be made to suffer from suspicion. His name should be cleared once and for all. There's one thing I heard that may have a bearing on this. What about that? Tex hated him. Ralph once said Tex fine for selling liquor to the Indians. Tex had threatened to get even. You think him get even this way? Perhaps. And Tex feller crook? Well, here's the trouble, Tyler. We know that Tex wanted revenge and framing Ralph might have been his way of getting it. He might even have been the man who robbed Billy. It's more logical that he did than Ralph did. Oh, that? He could have taken the bank without marking it immediately. So Ralph would scarcely have stolen money he knew he couldn't spend. Not right. But on the other hand, Tex came to Plainfield just a short while before the robbery. He might not have known of Billy's habit. In that case, he wouldn't have discovered until after the robbery that the money was useless to him. He'd have had to hide it someplace. And he could have used one of the bills to frame Ralph. Maybe that's what him do. I'd like to believe it, as I started to say, here's the trouble. Here's the trouble, Tex. He recognized it as his own. How could Tex have made a substitution? You may not know. That can't be explained, Tyler. Wait. What matter? I thought it was something he must have been. And if it works, what that? Here's the trouble. I won't explain now, Tyler. It's a chance. The chance too thin to build hope on. Where'd you go? To town. Stay here. In town, the affair was rapidly approaching a crisis. When Tex Dolan openly accused his brother in the robbery, Carl forced Ralph to accompany him to the cafe. Carl, don't wait.  We're calling that loud mouth ombre. Tex! Howdy, Carl. Catch your brother along, huh? We were just talking about him, wasn't we, Mr. Morley? You were. And I know Doggone well what you were saying.  We don't like it. No? So what? You gonna do your brother's fighting for him? I don't need to. No, wait, Carl. He can do his own fighting. That's what we came here for.  Better let him make his own promises. You tell it right, young fella?  Go on, Ralph. Show the polecat. Bust him one. Look, Carl, there's been too much fuss made over this already. What good's fighting gonna do? Look, and teach him not to tell lies about you, can't it? Now listen, Carl, I told you in the first place, I didn't want to come here. We'll just let the whole thing drop. Ralph, you mean you're not gonna do a thing? There's no sense in it, Carl. Well, I'll be switched. Carl, you better take your brother out of here.  I'm just scared to death to be around him. Ralph, come on. One moment. What is it, Mr. Moore? About that job we discussed. I think it'd be best if you forgot it entirely. Rebs you forgotten. But I thought I'd made it clear it would take a man with courage. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. Leaving the cafe, the two brothers melted and rode toward their home in silence. Ralph was thoughtful. Carl was too angry to talk. But finally... Dog gone at all, Ralph.  You think I was, Carl? You sure acted like it. I just done what I thought was best. Best? I don't just savvy, it just made yourself look yieldier than ever. How do you figure that?  The more talk, maybe the sooner folks would find out the truth and the sooner it'd be cleared.  I'll bet when all this started there weren't one fella in a hundred around here that thought for one second you'd stole that cash from old man Bailey. And now? There's as many think you did as think you didn't. It's all in your fault. We wasn't brothers. Going by the way you act, Ralph, you know I don't.  I'm right sorry for that, Carl. No, forget it. I don't count, but what about Morley? You heard what he said back there. And there's a fellow that's always been our friend. He had to give you a good job, but even he's off here. You take that job, Carl. No, and you need it to get hitched to Mary? If I can't get it, no, I will. Let's not talk about it. There's a house. Let's get some sleep. Maybe you'll think over what I've said. Maybe tomorrow you'll decide to explain to folks why you've been acting so funny. I can't do anything different from what I have been. Then let's quit talking about it. Oh boy, who are they? Alan Salla. You stand right there. Mast. Ralph, you're going to answer some questions. I look here, mister. Who do you think you are? What's your game? This a hold up? Answer my questions if I have to use force. That's a promise. Don't make trouble. That depends. What do you want to know? Ralph, I'm here as your friend. You? I don't expect you to believe that, so I won't insist on it. But you can answer my questions with no harm to yourself. First of all, I want to know exactly how you identified that Mark $5 bill as the one you would give in Tex Dolens. Hey, why are you... Well, Ralph? You heard about that? I didn't hear your story. Well, the bill I gave Tex to pay for the grub that day had a corner torn off it. I couldn't mistake it. But you hadn't noticed it was marked with ink? No. No, I hadn't. Think carefully before you answer this. Tex is your enemy. Is there any way in which he might have slipped that bill into your pocket before you paid him?  By golly Ralph, that's so... Sorry, Carl, but it ain't. You ought to know that yourself. He wasn't even around. He didn't come in until later. He never came near where we were sitting until he came to collect. The barkeep? The same goes for him. He never came near us at all. I see. At one moment. Was there anything else besides the torn corner that made you recognize that bill? Nope. Why should there have been? Impossibly. Now, suppose you tell us what this is all about. How do you know where the circles are? And just where were they placed? Well, for sire, they were just about as big as a dime. Yes? And he'd draw them right square in the center, one circle in the center of each bill. Good. That's just what I wanted to know. Here, old fellow. Before I leave, I'll tell you this, Ralph. If you're innocent, the information you give me is going to help prove it. But I don't see what I... Adios! Come on, sir. I'll sell them back away! Oh, door gone.  Didn't you hear what he called him, and didn't that mask mean nothing to you? What do you mean? That was a lone ranger. Before the lone ranger returned to camp, he stopped at a second house near Plainfield.  Oh, this won't take for the moment, old boy. Now wait here. A friend, Mawney, open up an outlaw. Inside, Mawney. You're going to help me bring a feat to justice. As the sun was setting, a stranger arrived in Plainfield. He made his way directly to the café owned by Tex Dolan, and stood at one end of the bar, some distance away from the other customers. It was a lone ranger without his mask, but cleverly disguised. Tex, come here. You called me Tex? I did. I don't seem to please you. We met before. Does that matter? Well, you called me by name, maybe we have mutual friends who told me about you. Hey, where are you from? Never mind that, rather than I'd say, this is maybe you'd rather I didn't mention the friends who sent me to you. Keep your voice down. Don't worry, we can't be heard. What do you want? I may buy some supplies. Is that all? Then I can sell you most anything you want. They're not so fast. You may not want to sell. What do you mean? Money. Don't talk foolish. Danger don't take anybody's money. We got the cash to pay just name what you want and I'll see that you get it pronto. I didn't work for this money, Tex. You didn't work? All right, Savvy. Well, who cares? And it may not be easy for you to pass it again. No. You see, it's smart. But on the other hand, you can have it for ten cents on the dollar. That means if I buy ten dollars for the supplies, I pay you a hundred. Before you turn me down, remember you'll be getting money worth on its face ten times what I'll ask. You're in a better position to get rid of it than I am. You can pass it off on strangers. If it's ever discovered, you can always claim you received it here during the course of business. You wouldn't even have to explain who'd given it to you. You're crowded here. No one could expect you to remember. You think I'm a crook? Answer me, stranger.  Maybe I learned it from our mutual friends. Maybe that's why they sent me here. That's a loud stranger. That's what's all going loud. That's better. Well, what do you say? Let me see that cash. It's paper money. I'll show you one of the bills. It's a five. Look it over. A red circle. Mister, just where did you get this? What? I fire. Put that guy away. I guess not. No one can see it. It stays where it is until I know you're not going to betray me. Look, stranger, I couldn't never pass this. I wouldn't have a chance in the world. I'd get caught. You better take that cash somewhere else. But I... Just go away and leave me alone. I'll go, Tex. But I'll be back. Well, I'm gone. The dirty lowdown. Bill, you watch after the bar. I've got to leave for a bit. Tex ran out of the cafe, leaped into the saddle, and rode for his home at the edge of town. When he threw open the door, he yelled for his negro handyman. Toby! Why'd you come home this time of day? Who's been in here? Yeah, why nobody, sir. Just nobody at all. I ain't seen a single soul in a time you all left or just now.  I was telling the truth, Mr. Tex. Get out. You left this house alone when I told you not to. No, hey, Mr. Tex. Get out of my way. And that's funny. What's the matter, Mr. Tex? What's for you all wanting that old drunk? Get out of here.  Go on outside.  Sure, Mr. Tex. You really as mad as you all look. Yeah, get out. Cheese. How many chickens did he get that cash? Looks like it was touched. Here's a box. The money's there, Tex. You'll find all of it's there. You, then you were here. I marked a bill just like one of the bills you'd stolen from Veely. To make you think I'd stolen it again from you. I knew if you were the thief you'd do exactly this. Correct me. But you won't. Morley. Mr. Morley. Yeah, and we're here too, you dirty skunk. It was you that stole the money and you knew I wasn't guilty. Wait, man, listen, I can explain. You framed Ralph because he'd reported your liquor sales to the Indians.  This was your crooked way of getting even. Don't make a move. You'll never reach that door alive. Don't you? Don't please? Then be careful. Well, Morley, he had Veely's money in his trunk. Is that clear, Ralph? It most certainly does. You hear that, Ralph?  I don't know what to think, what to say. He was waiting for a chance at revenge. No doubt he knew just what he'd do when he got the opportunity. You gave me his opportunity. That day you paid for food at his place. Huh? How?  He took that bill and kept it. Then he took another $5 bill from those he'd stolen from Veely. Tore off a corner just like the corner of your bill had been torn and showed it to you. Of course, you identified it. You didn't have the slightest reason in the world for suspecting his trick. And once you'd identified the stolen $5 bill as the one you'd given him, you were trapped. Stranger, how'd you find that out? It's the only way this substitution could have been made. But I wasn't sure until just now that Tex was guilty. If he hadn't led us to the money, I'd have had to believe you were guilty after all. He did, however, and confessed his own guilt. Blast you! What, Ralph? There's one thing I don't understand. I confess I misjudged you. But why, if you weren't guilty, did you behave as though you were? Why didn't you shut Tex up? Mr. Morley, the money I paid with that day came from Pa's cash box. You see, I thought I'd given Tex a marked bill. And to clear myself, I would have had to tell where it'd come from. That would have made it look suspicious for Pa, even though I knew Doggone well, he'd never been a thief. So that's why you did it? I just didn't have no choice. I had a heap brother that posted suspicion me than him, so I had to keep still. You called him a coward, Morley. Yes, yes, I remember. Seems to me he showed more true courage by silence than he could have done had he fought Tex a hundred times. Ralph, I apologize for that. Sharks, Mr. Morley, don't think nothing about that. I understand, all right. You, uh, still want to work for me? Gosh, can I? Boys, this time, both of you can. Carl, you're getting a job as guard in a stage. But you promised Ralph. Don't worry about your brother, young fella. I'll find him work. I'll find him work that pays twice as much. I've just heard as a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.


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Good evening and welcome back to The First Time Homebuyer Show. I'm your host, Estie Klaasen. This evening I'm chatting to an absolutely amazing writer, author, poet, senior analyst. The list is endless. He literally does a little bit of everything. And that is no other than Bukang Margello, the poet, the author, absolutely spectacular human being. If you have read any of his work, you need to do that right now. Good evening, Bukang. How are you? I'm good. I'm well. Thank you so much for taking the time, giving us a tour. We got a tour of this home book.  You've been here for, you said about six months? Yeah, I've been here for six months. So it's very new. How's that been? Tell us a little bit about that. It's been an amazing experience. I've lived in a few places around Gobegg and moving into space, where it's more quiet, it's a huge space. And most of the time, I'm spending it alone. It's been, like I said, it's been amazing. Yeah, and of course, the quiet serenity helps with writing these amazing poems that you do. You can get, I get to unwind at the end of the day with a glass of wine upstairs on the balcony and just reflect on the day and just write and create art. And I'm sure getting to where you are right now wasn't easy, right?  Like I see what you're saying and I'm like, wow, there's been a day in my life where I felt like this, where I saw someone like this and felt that just that energy. You write, your writing is powerful. And I just actually, sometimes I actually read it and I cry, especially like on your Twitter and I also read the little snippets that you sent me, absolutely amazing, which we're going to share shortly. But before we get there, you also own two startup companies, right? So like I said, a little bit of everything. Yeah, I own a what do you call a vanity publishing company where we help other upcoming writers in the publishing genie. I also own, I've had own APR company which focuses mainly on writers. So yeah, I'm a bit of here and there. Yeah. And just last night, I was actually listening to a podcast about someone asked a very popular motivational speaker and entrepreneur and property investor. They asked him, they were like, do you believe that every time you start a company or do you believe that every time you make a little bit of money, you have to give back to the community? For me, it's not even about making a little bit. Sometimes I intentionally create projects where they will generate something so that I can take that money and give it to another artist for their projects. I believe a lot in building up a community of what you are doing in different industries. So whenever I have that means, that's why I started my vanity publishing company so that we can give back. I believe that once you have space and you are in that space, it's important for you to open up that door and allow others in. Yeah, and he was also talking about just the mere fact that we exist, we have to give back or we should be giving back. It shouldn't even be a question. And I totally resonated with that. So you started poetry way back when in high school, right? What inspired you? I mean, high school people are worried about very different things. You weren't writing, no were they reading actually. But yeah, what inspired you? I have to credit my English teacher, Mr. Amulete, who was very passionate about poetry and when we did poetry in high school, I know that a lot of people hated it but for us and the way he just presented, it was with so much vigour and passion and it sparked that thing in me. I've always loved writing but when you got introduced to poetry in his classes, it was different. He was saying, I just know I just need to write. Right. And because you spoke a lot about, I've already explained what your writing does for me, how it makes me feel. What is your intention when you write? Does every poem have a different intention or is there one main? I think there's not one main intention but like with most of my writing, it's a way to say, I feel what you're feeling, you know? Because especially in this time, in this COVID time, we've been so isolated, you know, you think that what you are feeling, you are the only person who's feeling that when I write, I write to say, this is how I'm feeling and I know that if I put it out there, someone else will reach out and say, I feel the same.  Do you, would you say that your writing has changed from high school to now? Obviously. It has changed, you know, in high school it was very unstructured, it was free, it was paperless, you know, it was, it was just to boost my skill of writing. Now it has changed into a, let's talk, you know, let's address these issues that we have faced. I talk about mental health, I talk about trauma, I talk about love and relationships, you know, I talk about loneliness, where it's what we young adults are going through, you know? And also the most amazing thing that I've taken, it's, I've seen it, it also leads out to the older generation which I did not think it would reach out to. Yeah. It's been an awakening for me, you know, I thought I was writing for specific people for specific time, but it's showing that even one can just pick up the book and... Right, and understand and resonate. It doesn't need to be with everything but there is, one poem is going to speak to you. Yeah. And there's no doubt about that.  Have you seen or have you heard or seen on Twitter, wherever your platforms may be, have you seen the conversation actually start and come alive? I have seen the conversation that's come alive. I've been invited to book clubs, you know. I've seen people having discussions separate away from me about my work, you know. And for me it was also an awakening to say, you know, what you're doing is actually quite important. Right. And that's, and you know, one of my biggest questions, because you're juggling, you're not juggling a lot, but you've got a lot going on for you, right? No. It's a senior analyst, poet, writer, and still managing two companies, right? Yeah. And I've always asked myself, because I'm going to bring it back to owning a home, which is so important, and what does it mean for Wukong to own a home? Yeah, especially now with everything, with the pandemic and stuff. That's why I felt I needed a place where I can be free, I can move around. You know, we are so restricted from movement now. Exactly. And I needed a space where I can breathe. Also, I needed something, because I feel like in my companies, in my writing, in my IT, you know, I always, someone or something always has an ownership part, ownership of it. And I needed something that's just mine, and I can just, at the end of the day, when I put everything away, you know, come back to it and find peace in it. You're also very intentional about only sharing your poetry, or mainly your poetry on social media, where but maybe, instead of sharing things about your job, what you do for a living, why is that? Why do you only share the poetry and not like, oh, today I had a bad day at work? I'm actually that person. Every Monday, I think around 9, 10 a.m., I'm always like, okay, everyone, we've done enough. On a Monday, let's take a rest, then we get started. I'm that person. I think that's why people also relate to me, it's not only sharing poetry, it's only giving people insight into my life, into my everyday life. I don't share what I do specifically, but I get to share what I'm going through throughout the day.  And you remember your job, thank you, day and day. It's things like that, you know. In Florida Day, I'll share how my day is going. I share a lot about wine, my partnership with a brand, Cigella Wines, where I talk about wine, I talk about poetry, I talk about IT. I'm also having Twitter trolls. I joke around a lot. You do indeed, I've seen. And I wanted to talk a little bit, because you're reading, like you said, it's amazing that it's reached the older generation, and also started a discussion amongst the elderly. And I resonate so much with that because my thesis that I did recently was how I can bridge that gap between the youth and the elderly, right, and your poetry is a way of doing that, mine was just theatre. And I think it's so important to hear what the older generation has to say, because in most cases we leave home and we're just like, everything our parents or grandmothers have taught us, we only realize these lessons now, like reaching 30, you're like, oh, my mom was around. So it's so amazing that they can still talk to, or resonate with you. And on that note, you talk a lot about how self-reflection comes into your work and into your poetry. And you, of course, do a lot of that. In order to write about it, you need to live it, right? I'm all for experiential learning. You talk about, oh yes, so of course you also need to self-reflect in order to write about self-reflection. But do you write with the intention that the reader's going to always understand you? I believe that in my writing, I write for myself first. And also be honest. I advocate about honesty in my work. I think when I'm honest with myself, I enable the other person to relate and be honest with themselves. And I think for me it comes from there. It's not what I'm writing for you. It's me just being honest in my work. Which is another powerful thing. And just behind you, you have all these awards. And we want to talk a little bit about that. Because you're not just writing for yourself. You're a published poet. You've got these awards. So let's talk a little bit about the awards behind you. And not even how did it feel when receiving this? Because I'm sure in the moment you were ecstatic and it was amazing. But did you know that you'd be getting this award on the night? Like the feeling? I didn't. I didn't. When I got the first one in 2018 for my IT career, I was still, like I've always said, I was still new in that career. In everything that I do, I'm always overly dedicated. And I've been blessed to work for an amazing company that recognizes my work. And they have begun rewarding that. And on the night, I felt privileged to even be acknowledged. And for a huge international IT company to say, you know, throughout the year you've been on fire and you are our employee of the year, it was, yeah, I was taken aback. But like, you know, you get to have that moment to say it took a lot to get here. It wasn't just an overnight success. Again, reflecting.  I mean, the award was just the cherry on the top. And then on this note of privilege, I want to talk about this because I too am a creator, creative, sorry, and in the industry of whether it's film, writing, especially within South Africa. Do you think if you were only a writer or only a published poet, that you could have had the privilege to sit in your own home? I don't know. I will not be honest. It's as an artist, it's hard navigating the industry, especially for someone like me, I'm totally independent. And yeah, we are not creating the revenues that what we see on TV as a successful artist, it's portrayed.  But like, there are lots of coming as you forego. And you also have to navigate spaces, you know. You are finding people who are already there, who already own this space, who you cannot just come in and... Exactly. Yeah. Because people are already there, and it's so, especially in South Africa, it's so difficult for us to even try and make that first step. And it's just, I think the money is not enough in the entertainment industry in South Africa. So, and that's a sad truth. I mean, I always ask my friends, because all of them are creatives, and I mean, not a lot can say that they've bought this property, that they have something of an investment like this.   I think we need to rebuke it from our vocale, because the more we say it, the more we're manifesting it. Change your lingo, you know. What about you achieving and manifesting these great things? Because I do think it's possible. I just think we're going to take a little bit longer. It's going to take time. Because also, it's not about struggling artists and stuff like it. Readers too. Our audience are also struggling. If the audience, if the reader, does not have the funds to buy your book, it means that you cannot sell. It means that you cannot create revenue, you know. But I'm hopeful. People are finding more ways to be creative, finding more ways to make a living. And like I said, you know, as we build communities too, as me as an artist, I open up space for another person. It also allows a little revenue to come into that person's space. And it also gets to come back to me. And also hopeful at the fact that artists are not limiting themselves to one specific craft. You know, we create as we can. And it's about trying to do these things. I'm sure when you started up your own company, you didn't think, oh, I could be a business owner. No. But once you're in it, you're like, I can do this. Yeah, yeah. You get there. Exactly. I want to move to owning a home, right? So what I'm talking about in my journey is, of course, not an easy one. Coming in here, listening to the conversation, talking about all these hidden costs that just hit you in the face. But just before we get there, I want to talk a lot about the astraving strategy, which I always ask my guests, because I've noticed that each guest saves differently. They all have their own individual mechanisms. So let's talk about the build up to owning this home, right? What was your mechanism, your saving strategy? You just spoke about a saving strategy. And of course, when you're making such a big investment, certain lifestyle changes need to take place. What is it that has changed or did to make this goal a reality? So for me, I've been with my banker for a while. Even way before I even thought of wanting to own a house. It was just one of those things where, let me be educated financially by someone who is a professional. And very only in my career, I established a relationship with my banker who has been my helping hand throughout everything, the way she advised on building a good credit score, saving some plans, what's available for me at the bank, like your tax-free accounts. Also, my financial advisor with different investment portfolios that I can create in order to save up some little money. I knew that for me, it was saving up for something big left for later in life, but it was not specifically to say I'm saving up for a home. I was just saving and also creating revenues and stuff like that to support my business also. For me, it was just a natural saving lifestyle. But also, when you grow in your career, your lifestyle also changes. There's little more money here and there, there's little salary increase here and there, and your lifestyle changes. You go to more fancy restaurants and stuff like that. And now you are faced with these huge patches where you realize, okay, I can't buy an expensive bottle of wine anymore, I need to go a bit lower. But also, it's about adjusting. You have been saving up to this point. This is not the end. This is just an adjusting of your lifestyle so that you can go back to saving up for something else, saving up for rainy days. That's one of the things that I had to learn once I had moved in. You got something out of saving, but the lifestyle of being a saver continues.  You also spoke about how they were educating you on credit record. I'm sure in that moment you probably looked back and you were like, I could have started years ago. So what is it exactly that they taught you that you wish you knew sooner? It's not that I wish I knew sooner, but I wish I had planned to purchase the house sooner. But also, as a first-time buyer, especially in my IT career, the salary I started and the salary now are way different in that I had not ever pictured myself owning a house of this amount. It's because of everything that's happening in my life, and it's just that you never see yourself that you're going to get there. I wish I had that mentality that I'm going to get here, one day this is going to be our target, even though it seems impossible now, so that I could have started shaping up my finances towards coming here sooner. And I love that you say it's not so much about what you wish you had done physically or something tangible, it's more of a mindset. You wish that your mindset was in line with a goal as great and as big as this. That's so amazing, because now I'm going to shift my mindset. We talk about financial literacy all the time, and I was reading a case study a few nights ago where they called, where they said South Africa is in a pandemic, which he titled Financial Illiteracy, because savings, black tax, everything that comes into play once you do earn a salary, right? And being financially illiterate is extremely important, and it's great that a lot of younger people, millennials, are looking at even starting to build a credit record already. Whether you're having property in mind, whether you're having a business or savings in mind, credit records are being established amongst the younger group of people. And I want to take it back to a personal experience of yours. Maybe if you can let us know what was the one biggest lesson coming up to purchasing this home that you've learned about financial literacy. The biggest lesson, I think it's been, you are building up something, you know, you are not spending. And I think, you know, when you are creating credit records, you know, you're getting a credit card here and there, you know, you're taking a room for this and that, and in that it's easier to being that, okay, I have all of these funds available to me now, and splash it and ruin your record. And for me, I had to be very disciplined in how I was using all this credit that was being available to me. You have to be disciplined in coming up to that space. Because you have everything, and you know, they always say, I'm not sure that not all debt is bad debt. And that's obviously helped you get to where you are today. And so we've been discussing home ownership. And I want to talk a little bit about the ups and the downs of purchasing your first home, right? But let's start with the downs, because you briefly, just before we started shooting, spoke about how all these fees, all these lawyers, everything that came into play, and I feel like the show like this is so amazing because we can warn people, you know, not to make the same mistakes we did. So tell us a little bit about mistakes, but of course, mistakes are inevitable, right? And you are where you are because of the lessons you've learned and the mistakes that you made. Tell us a little bit about that. For me, I think it's one of, I feel like, it's not a mistake, but I feel like I should have taken a breath once I saw something that I wanted, it was done. You know, I was like, I've seen the house that I want to move into. Was this like a one-hit wonder?  Yeah, I came here, I came and I was like, this is it. But before I started everything, you know, I came for a second revisit just to contain my initial feeling, you know. And I wish I could have taken a breather to say, okay, that's what you want. Let's look at the financial structure. Are we ready to be in here? Are we also mentally ready for the lifestyle adjustment? For me, that's one of the things that I didn't consider.  Not necessarily a mistake, but it's something where I feel like I should have done, you know, I've seen what I've loved. This is what I want. But I take a step back to say, where am I? Mentally, emotionally and financially. I wish I had done that. And that's so powerful because a lot of our guests talk about when they step into their first home how they just knew. They were something like they just knew. And you had a similar moment, right? What was going through your mind like emotionally?  We go visit different properties and I've never been emotionally attached to anything, to a property. So how, what was it for Bokang where you just knew that emotion? What was it? So when I first came here, you know, coming from a very nice but compact apartment, you know, and when I came into this space, you know, it has this oldish but modern feeling, but it's also so open. And also, you know, the views from the balconies, you know, I got to have a chat with the real estate agent upstairs by the balcony where, you know, everything was so peaceful, it was quiet and me being the introvert that I am and looking at the space, the peace, the serenity, the property comes with, you know. It was, it's not, it's a no brainer. Because I had seen other properties before. I have been, I had been in other spaces where I was looking, but like, yeah, it was never, it never reached out. Right, and this one just spoke to you. And then we spoke about the lawyers and the levies and all these because we're still busy, like you said, it wasn't a mistake. But of course they were downs in this moment. And you spoke about furnishing your apartment. And I like in your bio how you said that, of course you said your apartment before this was compact, it was nice, it was, you know. And now this is a much bigger apartment. And why is it that the furnishing part of it like gave you such a shock as well as the lawyers' fees and the levies that had to be paid? So what I realized is that I had been preparing to see that I would have enough, do I have enough? Can I afford the property? Can I afford the lawyers and levies and all of that? I was preparing to buy, I was not preparing to move in. And that's what hit me in it. Because I was in a compact, very nice space, you know. I thought everything it's here, I just move in. Then you move in and you realize where you used to live. It's a quarter of what you have now. Then also it goes, that also goes back to furnishing where it impacts also the savings, you know. Because you're like, okay, I've saved enough for here and there. So I can buy one, two, three. But then it hits you that the rainy day, this is not the rainy day. You cannot go and sparge the rainy day to fill the space up, you know. Also you just bought something and you made a 20-30 year commitment in that why are you rushing to fill it up? You've made a commitment for more than 20 years. Take your time, you know. But like, yeah, moving in it and having to finish it, I had prepared for everything, for buying it. I had not prepared for moving it. Yeah, because you said it was like a reality check for being here in this space. And so I've asked you what it means to own a home, right? And I know you're a man of many words. But I want to ask you, because I've always asked my guest this question, what does the word home mean for you? It means belonging. You finally have a space where when it belongs to you, also you belong to it.  That's why we call it home and not the house. Right. Because it's about the emotional and mental benefits and rewards that come with it. Exactly. And that you kind of have like a relationship with this thing called home. You know, you're in this together.   So congrats. Thank you. This is really where we end off. I want to talk a little bit about one of the poems that you wrote in your book, Hey. And I'd really love for you to share that with us if possible. Yeah. And like when I say hey, what was written after we went into lockdown, into hard lockdown, I think it's one of my fastest written books. Oh, really? And it has the greatest reaction because I was not just the only person feeling that way. And me putting it in the book. I didn't know that people were going to react that way. Right. But like once I got it out, it was like we feel the same way, especially being in a lockdown. You cannot visit home anymore. People cannot visit you anymore. You cannot go to work anymore. Exactly. You have to work from home. You are confined. Yeah. Thank you for the context because what this piece really stood out to me, even though it's not lockdown, it still really stood out to me. It's something that we don't necessarily need a pandemic to feel this way. Yeah. And that's what we realized post lockdown. So if you could please share that with us. Yeah. It's hey, am I still alive? I've lost count of how many days I've been on my own. Some days are just a blur and some days I don't remember it all. What's the day today? Does it even matter? I keep trying to fill up the silence with music and TV, but it's getting to me now. Today I didn't feel alive at all. Today I just existed and I don't even know what that means anymore. I just know that I'm still here. And we are still here. We are still here. We are still here and we are breathing. We are alive and well. And I like today I just existed for me. That moved me. And I want to talk about when Bokang feels like this, when Bokang feels like today I'm just, I'm here. I exist. I don't even know what that means anymore, but I just know that I'm still here. Yeah. How do you deal with that when you feel like that? That's why I say, I always say that that's why wine was invented. Have a glass of wine when you feel. Nice. Okay. Yeah. Because I think it's not only about, this is poetry, why I resonate so much with this because I write myself, but also your last part, you end on a happy note. Yes, it sounds like you're unhappy, but you're ending with something positive. I'm still here. And acknowledging the fact that you are still here, you know, and that's what we need to, as a people, realize that as much as we go through these trials and tribulations, you are here. And just about sitting and being in that moment and being present, that this is the reality now. We're isolated. We can't do anything. All we have is music and TV, but you're here. Yeah. And being a home owner, a first-time home owner, you know, here when I wrote it and here now are two different areas. That's why I need to acknowledge that I'm still here because there's movement, there's progress. Right. Here constantly changes. Here constantly moves you and also you constantly fit and you move with here. 100%. Yeah. That is amazing. Thank you so much, Bukgang. Pleasure. Thank you so much to our viewers at home. We've spoken to Bukgang Marachelo. And if you want to see more of his work, check out his Twitter, check out his Instagram as well. And yeah, guys, get the book. The book is amazing. Thank you. Take care.