22 when I'm filming this minus 20 outside Celsius and Our light is still purple at the intersection. Maybe they'll just leave it like that forever Maybe the other one will go purple too. It must be a complete purple intersection. Now. I got a burp. Oh, let me speak buddy Mmm ready. Okay. It's a skid steer kind of day I just delivered a skid steer with tracks here to Portage La Prairie. I have another one that's going to Steinbeck I just called the receiver there and they're like bring her on down and trucker Josh Come on down. So they're ready for me. They're there till 5 and I'll be there around 4 o'clock. Oh I'll show you. I'll show you in a sec. One second. It's ready Through here, you'll see that one right over there. That's the one I just delivered here now. Very nice. I would Highly recommend them Let's see this And there's the second one This one does not have tracks Got wheels But I'd still highly recommend them I wish it was mine. I wish I was taking it home or to my land so that I could do something very useful with it because it looks Very very useful Yes, but Steinbeck needs it. So it's going close to my house, but not to my house So close, right? It's a new Holland. It is apparently proudly built in the USA With Chinese parts I'm just kidding, but seriously probably new Holland So these things are pretty hard to get a hold of apparently so people are ordering them all the way from the US and stuff And then we're bringing them up. These came from F check the paperwork again. They came somewhere in the US Well, obviously they came from the US because they are built in the US with purely American steel every nut bolt and tire Manufactured raid in America, of course Right Yeah, anyway My folder got driven over I got to clean this up here that orange folder I have I left it at the back here and as he was backing off He clipped it a little bit wasn't his fault, but I'm gonna clean that up right up from done talking to you and Gotta clean up these straps. Anyways, I did not use those straps to tie these things down I chained them down just to clarify, but these straps were like left in the bucket for some reason The driver before me left them in the bucket I'd like to have a conversation. I'd like to know why not like he was a big problem or anything So why do you leave the straps in the bucket? And why didn't you roll them up?  Definitely didn't have the time all right, so let's bring that to its home in Steinback and We'll enjoy the ride there. Why not? Uh-huh. It's gonna be a good day. It's already been a good day It's been a very good day. I had some good news this morning. I had a meeting with the boss and the boss boss and the boss's boss like the Such good guys, you know, I always leave feeling good after I talk to them. I don't know Good guys good guys, so we have some good things coming down the pike and down the pipe in the future and Excited can't wait till summer. I Gotta tell you something. Okay. Okay. Keep my mouth shut Terrible keeping secrets There may or may not be a truck show or two or three coming up in summertime that I may or may not be Attending that's all you get So you get that's all I know All right, let's bring this bad boy to Stainback Stony Brook So since I'm not from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba here I don't know how to get back on to the eastbound trans-Canada because it's been closed on the west side of town Like the entrance onto the eastbound side has been closed for like 10 years and they still haven't fixed it or finished it So the only way I know of to get back on to the eastbound side is to go all the way through town To the east side of town Any of you from here know how you can access the highway from the other side? I mean, I don't mind driving through Portage. You haven't been here a while I never come here and there's a bypass on the highway, right? So if I do come past here, it's usually on the bypass nice little town Give it some credit It's got some problems, but what town doesn't right? Park through town I am this used to be the trans-Canada. See this is Highway Trans-Canada 1A Which means it's the trans-Canada that goes through town This used to be the main highway and we have to go through here every single time when you're going east to west across the province that before they built the bypass I Wonder how much traffic was affected when they built the bypass is all of the traffic through the entire nation Would have to go through here, right? So when they bypassed it like I know they lost all the truck traffic Which probably cleared things up here quite a bit and made things better in some ways like less truck traffic But I wonder if the businesses suffered at all. I mean, there's a Timmy's here. So you know it's making money It doesn't matter where you put a Timmy's you can put it like in the middle of a field Like 300 kilometers away from the nearest town. It'll be packed every day Line up around the field Find a gear there. There you go. Cab over truck over there. That's pretty cool I don't know why these trucks behind me are in the left lane. They're clogging up all of traffic Look at that though. That's nice You see usually trucks all stay in the right lane so that regular traffic that moves a little quicker than us can get around Us on the left for some reason this guy behind me is Oh, he's turning left. Okay. See there's always a reason don't judge people There's always a reason but the guy behind him wasn't turning left This is uh, what is this their government building here? their law office courts There's quite a bit of history in Portage La Prairie See this guy. He's coming up in the left lane here why Now this whole road is going to be plugged up with slow moving trucks and cars that can move a little quicker Can't get passed Why do If you're one of the people that does that like honest question Why Why plug up the whole road? I've given that Is that something that bothers you too, or is it just me might just be my own pet peeve What do I keep telling you everybody? It's either minus 50 or it's this We're lucky. It's not windy knock on wood.  I love the snow coming down. I love how beautiful it makes everything look Nice and fresh But come on Come on already again More snow At least it's the end of the day. My trailer is empty behind me now. I unloaded both skid steers So now I was pretty much right next door to my house Now I've got to bring this truck and the trailer back to the yard and then go back to my house While trying to stay on the road at least the road's not bad yet I mean it might look bad to people who aren't used to driving in winter. I get it, but uh You can see the pavement. So that's pretty good. Just another manitoba afternoon Isn't that a song? No, well it is now This is the road in the area. I grew up on this nothing feels more like home than right here Right in blooming schnart Established 1876 1574 that's when blooming or was established That's when the steamboats landed at the rat in the red river All of this was all useless swamp land. Nobody wanted it The british didn't want it. They deemed it unusable The french didn't want it. They settled along the rivers. They deemed it unusable The indigenous didn't want it because they couldn't hunt on it because it was all swamps It was just no man's land. Nobody wanted this land So in we came We came from the netherlands and northwestern germany and if you know anything about the netherlands and that part of the world They know how to irrigate and how to drain swamps and how to Deal with water. Let's say they know how to deal with water very well So we came in here. We built all the canals We drained all the swamps Built up farms and now the area is one of the most prosperous if not the most prosperous region of our province And 250 years ago. It was deemed unusable by everyone else Look at it now Full of snow. You can't see it. I know But wait till summer then you'll see it Yeah, we were the menonites It's a a sect of christianity that was being persecuted We left actually the netherlands of germany. We went and actually spent about 200 years in uh, I believe what is now called ukraine Spent 200 years there and then the soviets came in they didn't like us very much because they don't like religion people So, uh, we got persecuted there. So hey, we came to canada And nobody wanted this land The menonites took it Nowadays, we're just canadian. I mean, I don't Identify as anything other than canadian I was born here. This is my native land. This is my country This is where we will forever stay Unless if it gets really bad and you know with the way things are going nowadays, you never know We might have to flee this place too. That's a topic for another vlog. That's a topic for another channel altogether It's the state of canada right now. My goodness My goodness What a mess. I hope it's better by the time you watch this, but it's probably gotten worse. Uh, to be honest, it's probably gotten worse End of the day is here. Let's certify it. Oh, it's it's done Done like dinner speaking of dinner. I want to go home. I'm hungry Let's log out of here just in case if someone Shop jumps in my truck and moves it around that it doesn't go on my elog Done. Okay Okay, let's grab a pen here. One thing we've got to do before we leave. You've got to grab our calendar right there and uh Cross that off Tuesday In the book tomorrow is wednesday Halfway to the weekend tomorrow Keys got everything What's wrong? My thermos. I knew us for getting something. That's why I was sitting around. You're staring at the dashboard. There's something I'm missing Got a little bit of snow today, but his car is almost covered right up Hicks Locked and secure Oh look, there's a beautiful pickup right there.  This thing will go forever. She may not look the prettiest But she's reliable if you just got to treat her right One second you gotta come on Got a little bit of attitude, but ah there see Everything's fine. Everything's fine Oh, yes, I got a big grease spot on this jacket. Look at this. I got other jackets at home that I can use but Whoops my bad Oh, I touched Anthony Owens as opposed to touch story of my life What does that mean? I don't even know I don't even know I shouldn't say that that sounds bad Uh All my electronics, I don't leave any of these things in the truck That right there is like uh 1500 dollars It's just that little pile and then there's my lunch the most important part All that stuff whatever this this is where the snacks go cookies All right What else do I got here? How am I extra two?   Yeah Yeah All right, it's time to go home Where's my keys where's all my keys Where'd all my keys go? Oh, they're down here see I've got to keep all my keys on my fancy little My fancy little uh Keystone Thingy here. This is what keeps me organized My whole life is right here my truck the gate key My mail key my house key My lock on my hitch cover that says Silverado and my motorcycle alarm And then See that comes with me everywhere I go Okay, all right.  What a mess.   That is like fluffy snow. That would be great for snow shoeing Cross country skiing snowmobiling All that stuff feels great for that Didn't know what was supposed to snow today Nobody told me Usually I would have left my wipers up then but if you don't tell me it's gonna snow. How am I supposed to prepare myself? Jeepers That is fluffy snow that is wonderful terrible for making snowballs though terrible for snowball fights Doesn't work at all All right, let's give them the test. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah Good wipers We are still in 4wd from before I've got a manual shifter. I don't have a push button shifter So I have to always put it in 4wd before I park it because if I park it in two-wheel drive Sometimes it it's too cold. It doesn't let me put it in four-wheel drive And then I'm stuck We're going home. What's the time? What am I getting out of here? Looks like I'm gonna get out of this place here first Oh It's almost so much snow everywhere. I've got so much snow this winter. Okay. I don't need the four-wheel drive anymore There we go. Come on. It is six quarter after six Got handed some paperwork yet. So by the time I leave here six thirty Long day again Always lots to do we need more people. Do you want to come drive here? Seriously, let us know. We have we have openings owner operators company drivers van division Uh flatbed division regional division long-haul division City drivers we need them all You want to work for the best place ever you you let us know Let me know. I'll put you in touch. You got to be a canadian citizen or have a work visa and immigration already set up We don't do any of that And you got a legal right to work here and two years experience with a valid class one license with a decent driver's abstract. Okay If you can if you can do that for us and provide that for us You got a job waiting for you put my name in the reference though, please Get a little kickback for that on this way This away. Oh, where's my button? Where's my button somebody told me that if I put my watch this gate button is it gonna work from here? Of course now it's probably gonna work. No, it didn't work. What if I put it to my chin? Didn't work. Yeah, there it goes. Ha It works for some reason when you put the gate button to your chin it works from further away I thought people were just pulling my leg. Maybe they were but jokes on them because it actually works Put the thing on your chin and it uses like your head as a magnifying signal and the signal goes further You can open the gate from further away The more you know The more you know All right, everybody. It's been fun. I hope you enjoyed it. If you did hit that thumbs up button. Don't forget to subscribe I make new content all the time and I'd love to have you as a part of this team here team tjv or a family family tjv Family channel you can let the kids watch my content and they won't hear anything. They're not supposed to hear You just have a playing in the background And we don't hang out together every day We're just gonna check on this street light out here. Okay real quick. Is it still purple? I think it is Whoa, ho, ho slippery. Ho slippery Just spinning like crazy. Look at this. Look at that fish tailing all over the road Gotta get that air moving on that window. Yeah, it's still purple if you're wondering Still purple Okay, we gotta start counting how many days It's a black light. It can tell if you're vaccinated or not It's a government conspiracy Are you moving over for me bud? Thank you. Good sir. Thank you Wasn't moving over for the longest time. I'm coming through bud I'm coming on whether you like it or not.  I have a mission. There's food at home


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What is up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebreaks.com. We just sold out this break here. Jaspy's four box quick hit football mixer, pick it up to number five guys, where we're also giving away $500 in break credit. And to be entered into that giveaway, you just have to buy two teams in this break. You buy two teams that gets you an entry, and we're no max entry, so if you buy four teams that gets you two entries, six teams gets you three, et cetera. If you only buy one team, you not be entered. And again, top two names win $250 in break credit. Remember, no veteran commons will ship out of this. So we'll gather up those list of names after. Let me print out this sheet though. I don't think I printed it out. And here we go guys. So two boxes of illusions, two boxes of limited. Both from the 2023 year. There's everybody in right there. You got Chris Olave to $199. Relic there of Will Anderson Jr. And out of 50, Warren Moon for the Houston Oilers, which will be going to the Tennessee Titans. Tank Dell to $3.99. And the nice, a little Deja Vu. Definitely not Deja Vu, Derek Hart to CJ Shroud, but that's still very nice relic there for Houston in town. Illusionist there, Bijan. Wow, look how nice this is. Bryce Young to $99. 81 out of $99. Out of 25, Cedric Tillman. And we got first impressions, Jackson Smith and the Jigba patch autograph for the Seattle Seahawks winner, Brian. Trevor Lawrence to $4.99. And Trey Tucker to $99. Operation detonation. And we got Devon Echan to $3.99. Nice couple RPAs here. Miami, Dolphin to $2.99. And we got a Micasek to $2.99. Jake Hayner to $3.99. And look at this right here. What is this? Sauce Garner and Dorrell Rivas. Trophy collection. That's pretty cool. Jets, jets, jets, going to Logan. And another Rashawn Johnson, this time patch autograph. So three patch autographs here. That was a, alright, CJ Stroud. First impressions to $99. Patch autograph, Chase Brown. Rishi Rice. We got John and Taylor to $4.99. We got a relic here of Tajie Spears. We got a Shining Stars, Patrick Mahon's insert. Well, Cordell Stewart. Stewart. Alright, Steelers with that one. That's gonna go to Brian. Joe Burr to $3.99. Mystique, Cedric Solman. And I bought a rookie signs of Jalen Carter for my Eagles. Very nice. Joe Burds, something in my eye. Joe Joseph, okay. Russell Wilson at $175. And rookie idols, Jameer Gibbs and Barry Sanders for the Lions. That's out of 50. Lions, that's going to Tristan. King of Cards. Justin Jefferson at $99. Josh Allen at $2.99. Rookie idols, Clayton Tune and Vinny Testaverde. So that's gonna be Cardinals and then Bucks, randomizer at the end. We got DJ Moore to $49. And then we got a Ramon J. Stevenson. That's $199. Alright, two boxes down, guys. So I actually had extra autos and relics, I feel like. Two, one, two, three. I should have an extra relic. Bucks is the most. Ian in, Joey, Pittman, Jr. Amon at $199. And then a Daniel Jones. Playoff brilliance relic to $75. Two autos remaining here in this pack. Herbert Throbak and then Jartavius Martin to $199. Alright, last one here. Sean Clifford, three color patch and autograph six out of 10. Green Bay Packers going to Tristan. Alrighty, last box here, guys. Remember, if you guys like this mixture and want to do another one, the next one is also in the store down to nine. And a Sam Laporta to 49. Three color patch and autograph. Lyon's going to Tristan. Sauce Garner to 150 and a nice three color patch. Look at that, to 75, Quinton Johnston. Alright, last hit here, guys, should be an autograph. And it's a Justin Jefferson. How about that? Teen trademarks, 28 out of 49 for the Vikings. Going to Douglas, that's nice. There you go. Very nice, very nice. Alright, well, there you go. A little four box mixture there, guys. Justin Jefferson, Sam Laporta, Clifford. Alright, Jalen Carter. Jackson Smith to Jigba, Devon HN. Some good stuff here, guys. Now I just got to do a randomizer for this and then obviously the randomizer for the break credit. And we have a lot of numbered stuff there, a lot of stuff that we sleeved up so we can top load. So thank you, guys. So let's switch on over, guys. Switch on over, we're gonna put this here like this. And Brian got 10 spots, so that's five entries. Christian with two, Douglas with two, so that's an entry each. Jeff with two, Joseph with two. That's an entry each. Logan with six, so that's three entries each. Canada with just one, and then Tristan, you have seven, so that's a total of six. Or sorry, you had seven, so that's a total of three. You were one off. So there you go, man. Alright, so out of the possible 16, we got 15. So there you go, let's go. Two winners, $250 break credit, top two names. After four times, here we go. One, two, three, and four. Boom, Joseph K and Christian G, congratulations. After four times, you two are the winners, so I'll send you $250 in break credit each, and I'll send that out to you right now. That way I don't forget. But another one's in the store, guys. You guys wanna win some money back, thank you.


Well, welcome everyone to another crisis conversation live from the Better Life Lab. I'm Bridget Schulte, the director of the Better Life Lab, and I'm so thrilled to welcome everyone here to the participants and to our panelists. Today, we're going to be talking about you hung up your Black Lives Matter sign. You put out your statement. How do you actually build an anti-racist organization? How do you create that culture? How do you let that permeate the work that you do? So today we usually have a chat function. We don't have a chat function today. So I would encourage participants to use the Q&A. If you've got some questions, please send them our way. We've got a fantastic panel. So let me introduce them and then we will jump right in. So we've got Melanie Parker. She's the chief diversity officer at Google, whose team just produced the 2020 Diversity Annual Report. We've got Anselm Beach. He's the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Equity and Inclusion. And he's spearheading something called Project Inclusion that we'll hear more about today. We've got Sarah Todd. She's a senior reporter for Quartz and Quartz at Work. And she's the author of what an anti-racist workplace looks like. Finally, we've got Tim Sinova and Lauren Ruffin, CEO and Chief External Relations Officer for Fractured Atlas, a New York City based nonprofit that helps artists access funding. So Sarah, let's start with you. You know, you've written quite a bit about diversity, equity and inclusion. You've looked at this question of how to build an anti-racist organization. And what struck me in reading your reporting is you started out by saying there really aren't any. So can you talk about sort of the landscape that's out there and what did you find in your reporting? Yeah, absolutely. So that was something that a diversity consultant named Evelyn Carter told me that I was really struck by. There's no such thing as an anti-racist company. And by that, what she means is that every company has more work to do. There's no one company that is the ultimate model. And, you know, what we've seen, I think, in the past couple of months is a really interesting reckoning. Most companies already had some form of diversity and inclusion policy or program. But when the Black Lives Matter protests happened, a lot of them released statements in support of the movement and were met by accusations of wokewashing, you know, people saying you say one thing, but your actions reveal another. So for example, Amazon got hit by critics over the fact that it was selling facial recognition technology, which it has since agreed to spend for a year, at least. So there was a lot of critique happening in a productive way, I think, because it's pushing companies to know that the status quo isn't enough and they have to be doing more. So in terms of, you know, what the big challenges are right now, I think there are so many. But if I really had to boil it down, I would say hiring and promotions are probably two really basic, crucial issues. Only 3% of senior executives and leadership at Fortune 500 companies are Black, so there's clearly a huge gap when it comes to leadership. And that's something that a lot of companies are aware of and working on. And then when it comes to, you know, hiring and recruitment, I think that the issue isn't a lack of talented people, but that a lot of companies haven't set up the pipelines to be able to recruit effectively. And then also that there are a lot of ingrained biases in the hiring process itself that companies need to revisit. And in terms of, you know, what companies are doing, I think a lot of big companies are still in sort of the listening tour phase, which makes sense. It's a time when they have to be careful in re-evaluating their practices. But there have been some interesting pledges that have already come out. So just a quick overview of a couple of those. You know, a lot of companies recognize Juneteenth this year for the first time, which was really interesting moment, very important one. Take a moment to talk about what Juneteenth is for listeners who might not know and need to know. Oh, sure. Well, I'm not sure if I'm the best person to explain it in depth, but essentially it's a holiday celebrating the end of slavery. So, and, you know, a lot of companies wound up actually swapping out Juneteenth for Columbus Day, so taking one very problematic holiday and replacing it with a very important one. Then when it comes to specific companies, Adidas said that it would fail at least 30% of all its currently open positions with Black or Latinx candidates. Estee Lauder said, made a pledge that it will make sure that the percentage of Black employees at all levels of the company will mirror the percentage of Black people in the U.S. within the next five years. So we have seen several companies making strong public commitments to redoing their current practices. So thanks so much, Sarah. So that, Melanie, that's a perfect segue to talk to you about Google and some of the work that you've been doing. In 2014, Google was one of the very first companies, particularly in the tech sector, to release demographic data, you know, that being very transparent and what it showed, sort of not surprisingly is that there was, you know, a lot of white men and a lot of Asian men in a lot of positions and particularly positions of power in the tech sector. So talk a little bit about what you're finding in the, in your annual report, kind of what, how that's kind of shaping the work that you're doing and how you're thinking about it. Thanks, I really appreciate the opportunity and agree a lot with the points that that Sarah made, which is a lot of what we've incorporated at Google where, you know, diversity really is a verb it's that ongoing commitment. And we intentionally published our data six years ago because we're both leaders and learners, and we do publish like the largest publicly available DEI data set in our industry, we know every day is a day to get it right. And what we found is that focus on representation, which is hiring minus attrition, and that gap in between that is what Sarah so eloquently talked about, which is how we progressing our talent, not just how we're promoting, but what are the development assignments, how are we focusing on attrition, making sure that the folks that we're hiring are staying at the same time. And then very important is that leadership commitment and that leadership buy in.   And so I want other companies to learn from, you know, Google as well, and to be willing to share that vulnerability because truly, it's a collective action that we have to take and not just as a company, but definitely as a society. What does education look like who has access to computing, who has access to health care who's well enough and so all of these structures really underpinned the systemic racism that we're facing right now. And so how do we come together as a collective to move that forward and we should do that very transparently. Yeah, you know you may raise such interesting points such important points you know with all of the structural racism if you don't have the education system. If you don't have access to broadband which is something that we are seeing so painfully in this in this pandemic.  Can you talk a little bit about what are some of the specific things that you're doing at Google that you think other people, you know that you're learning from and what are some of the results that you're finding. Absolutely so we set aspirational goals around how we want to make sure that we're hiring the available talents as we look at black and brown talent. We're actually putting a stake in the ground as to how we want to grow. One of the public commitments that we've made is a 30% increase in our executive leadership roles for underrepresented minority talent, which is black, Latinx and Native American. We're also making sure that we have a very focused approach to sponsorship and advocacy and mentoring. So we have a pathways to sponsorship program. We piloted about two years ago, a retention program for underrepresented minority Googlers, so black and brown Googlers at and what we found there is that by giving that targeted support to people who were thinking about leaving. We're actually making big Google small Google and helping people navigate. So a lot of what we found is we need to set better expectations for and Googlers when they're coming in. What's expected. How are you successful. Are you getting the feedback. And it's not just about what's the fit for Google. What's the ad. What is it that we need to add, you know, to our workforce as well and how are we valuing that. And so there's no one program. It's looking at that data being informed by that and really customizing or targeting our strategy based on what the data is showing us and the collection of strategies is really what's going to help us continue to, you know, meet the goals that we've set for ourselves. So I want to ask you one last question and then I want to move on to answer them in a minute, but why, why is this important. You know, I think that, you know, we look at millions have been spent at diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. You know, and we've got a question in the, in the, in the chat saying, you know, can we probe a little bit more and see sweet representation as a key driver for equity and inclusion and Sarah opened with, you know, Fortune 500, you know, very, very minuscule representation. Not only of black and Latin X, but women, you know, that we still have structures that favor and promote white men. And so, you know, so, so can you talk a little bit about you know that that the C sweet, you know, and kind of the, how important it is, you know that these are efforts that come from the top down and when you're building the pipeline that's a long time to wait, right. Completely agree and I would sum that up by saying representation matters. And so we do need that representation at the top at the middle at all of all of those places because we need the voices at the table. We need the insights, the cultural competence. And so but that's where we have to make sure that we are fully representative across America across the world, and that we're representing the places that we operate in we're representing our user base, because we need to make sure we have all the right voices at the table, and that we're fully availing of all of the wonderful talent that's available so it's critically important. Great. So, Anselm, let me go to you. You know, so you are, you know, you're looking at all of this diversity, equity and inclusion in the military context in the army and, you know, it was not all that long ago there was a, I think I shared this with you the military reporter Mark Thompson. You know, racism and issues with diversity and equity inclusion and the in the armed forces, and he showed a picture of President Trump with all of the top uniformed leaders and every single one was a white man. You know, so talk a little bit about you know what you're trying you know what you're trying to do in the army, in particular you've got project inclusion. You know, because just as in the civilian world, you've got, you've got so many racial and ethnic minorities in the ranks, and yet your officer core is still very, very white and very male. You know, you've got the very first, you know, the Air Force General who is the very first officer of color now leading a service. So, so talk about kind of what the army, kind of like what you're doing and why and why now. Thank you very much for letting me provide a perspective from the United States Army. First of all, I, I think the picture that you talked about really helps us to start this conversation. And I think that as long as we look at that picture, and we keep it in that dimension. We really create a one one dimensional construct of diversity and I think my colleague at Google. I think got to this a little bit because I think we need to think a little broader when we talk about diversity. So, at the United States Army, what we want to do is to be able to expand the conversation on diversity, equity and inclusion beyond the visual and really talk about the value of diversity. Last year, October, in the United States Army, we published the army people strategy and army people strategy is really the roadmap for how we manage talent. I think that when we, when we talk about diversity, we can't talk about diversity just in the shades of people, we've got to talk about the value that these different, the different backgrounds bring. General McConville, who is the chief of staff of the army says the army should reflect that you know what it should reflect America and we appreciate that and that is what the army people strategy is driving for is driving. So, in the army people strategy, which really looks, which really looks how the army attracts talent, how we, how we recruit how we retain and you know how we sustain those efforts. We, in the equity and inclusion agency published the diversity inclusion annex to the army people strategy. And in that annex, what we really are doing is really providing an operationalize a pathway to operationalize the army people strategy, specific to the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion. In the, in that, you know, that is really the driver for project inclusion, which really looks at our strategic plan, which has five objectives about 25 tasks. And, and those we focus on those one at a time, you talked about the, about the officer core and, and I was really struck by that one of the things that you're doing is removing photographs as they go for promotion, can you talk a little bit about why you're doing that. Absolutely. Because, because when we think about diversity as a value construct, what we must be able to do is to examine the systems that prevent us from getting the very best talent. In the United States Army, we are charged with really one thing, and that is the defense of the nation. And in the defense of the nation, we need every talent that we could get diversity equity and inclusion is a complex issue. And it simply can't be looked at just simply based on, you know, few quick fixes fixes here and there in the United States Army, before somebody could make it to general, we grow offices, we don't just, you know, you don't just have somebody one day and appoint them to a general line with the defense of our nation. So what we need to do is to be able to look across what systems do we have that prevent people that removes barriers. And so because we know in this in our country, there's always a history of race and preference and stereotypes that that that go with certain demographic groups. We, we look at this at this issue, what are some of the barriers that would prevent people from that pathway. And so after studying this issue, that was one of the one of the pathways that we look at. And so when we go into blind promotion systems with no pronouns with no photographs, and then the promotion board that looks at these promotion packets could then make a decision, and they're not looking at a photo and having these biases. One last point I would like to make is that with our with project inclusion what we are actually doing is is is culture changing. And we are culture changing because what we want to do is prevent people from doing automatic thinking. So for example, if I told you come from one to 10, because it's wrote you could tell me one to 10. If I were to ask you to be deliberate in your thinking and count from one to 10, but in alphabetical order, you have to pause and you have to think and it's a whole different paradigm. And so make me do that. Precisely. And so, and so as we examine these systems, what we are doing is taking a very deliberate approach and saying, how we examine these systems. How do we ensure that the population of our officers of our enlisted of our war and officer of our civilian population because there's a huge component of civilians in the United States as well. We must make sure that all those all those different groups adequately represented because when our nation calls us to defense. It doesn't tell us we should just show up and somehow things would be okay. This is a very tactical operational event and the nation relies upon us to win. So we must have the very best talent that we could have and utilize all the skills and talents that people diverse groups bring so that we could continue to fight and win. So at this point, let me go to Tim and Lauren. You know, you're, you're both at fractured Atlas, Sarah featured you and in the piece that she wrote that really caught my attention and really sparked the idea for putting this podcast together. So thank you for that Sarah.  Thanks for extra Alice the organization where Laura and I are both co CEOs is about 20 years old. When I joined 11 years ago, we're almost entirely a white organization, maybe one person identified as a person of color but we didn't ask. We recognize the value that comes from having a diverse organization and team, you know probably back then we would have said we wanted to organization that reflected the membership that we hope to serve. And each year we set a goal for us to diversify our staff and board. And each year we did a poor to wholly inadequate job of achieving that goal. And it wasn't until 2013 when two of our staff members used a portion of their professional development allowance so they get a year to attend the undoing races and workshop by the People's Institute for survival and beyond. And that moment led us to rethink how we were approaching the work at we created a task force that we eventually disbanded task force we created leadership team book club so we could read books as a leadership team and really start our journey through that we brought in facilitators for mandatory all staff convenings. We spent one year looking at oppression. The next year we spent just looking at racism and systems of oppression as they relate to race and then what this meant in our organization and what we were going to do about it. Then that group worked with our board of directors. We've we paired these mandatory trainings with trainings in crucial conversations. Because we felt like staff needed tools to help them engage in challenging conversations. And if it was going to be mandatory part of their work we wanted them to have the tools. This led us to have monthly race based caucusing. We have a white caucus and a people of color caucus that meets monthly we've been doing that for about four and a half years or so. Can I stop you right there. You know that that's one of the things that struck me in Sarah's Sarah's piece you know to have a white caucus and a person of color caucus. You know that seems that on the surface could could potentially be very problematic how how is that not problematic and how is that part of the solution. I mean it's not you know because to the unaccustomed that could sound an awful lot like segregation and isn't that what we're trying to you know move beyond. Yeah so let's let's talk about the purpose of the caucuses you know the purpose and they have very different purposes the purpose of white caucuses to write a space for white people to learn about systemic racism. The purpose for people of color as a caucus is for us to exist in an organization outside of the white gaze. So how can we talk about our experience with an organization. And sometimes it's discussing you know the sort of micro aggressions that happen. So for instance we have a fixed year compensation level. When you have a white associate who talks about spending two weeks in Europe and we know that person makes $55,000 a year as opposed to when they're talking about that vacation with somewhat their same level makes the same amount. It's clear that we have differences within the organization. However there's we have to prepare white colleagues to be able to have that conversation away that is acknowledges that privilege. And perhaps acknowledges systems generational wealth and all the benefit they have and being able to do that with their organizations that's just one microcosm of sort of how the caucuses function in a different way. But we get a fair amount of questions about caucusing both in terms of segregation question and why don't you do other types of caucuses why don't you have a women caucus why don't you have an LGBTQ caucus. And for us it's we've really been very specific about using the word anti racism and anti oppression and not sort of creeping into diversity equity inclusion because you know racism in the United States anti black racism is sort of the root of the tree from which all the other isms learned how to behave. So that's sort of our thinking around caucuses. And so what are you finding is the result you know from from the caucuses from some of your other efforts what are you what are you seeing happening in terms of your culture, you know in terms of the work that you're doing. Yeah, I mean I think that the big thing for us and and it's been interesting watching how the work we've been doing over four and a half years has positioned our staff to have conversations during the pandemic and during the uprising, really about grief. You know my first week at Fractured Atlas was the week that Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were murdered and I came from organizations that were predominantly black we worked in community in service and it wasn't uncommon for a woman in the organization who might have been someone who was preparing food in the kitchen who was doing direct support to staff to bring us together to grieve about things that happened in our community. And that was sort of the most interesting interesting thing to me about Fractured Atlas is when I got there and had that experience everybody was clearly grieving in the office but no one talked about it. And so you know one of the first thing I said was like hey let's just gather in the conference room if you're remote pop on zoom and let's just sit there quietly sort of Quaker meeting style and reflect together. And then from there sort of that work we've done allows space for really authentic conversations to pop up in the organization around grief around what's happening in your lives. And you know I didn't know then that we'd be in the middle of pandemic now but a lot of that language that muscle that we build over time has has really changed our culture and prepared us for you know the work we're doing right now just to survive this pandemic in a way that's healthy and whole. Yeah, so you know we're coming down on time. You know I want to what I'd like to do is ask each of you, you know, Sarah, starting with you with from your reporting and the rest of you from your experience for the people who are listening the people who are participating.  So where do we start you know so Sarah from your reporting what you know what are some of the most innovative or hopeful things that you have seen and Melanie I'll go to you next. Sure, so I'll give one answer that's more directed at company leadership and then one that anybody can do like any employee. And so at a high level, a lot of research shows that one of the most effective ways to incentivize people to hire, you know, mentor promote diverse stuff is to really make that something that they track and measure. And that's something that is really important. So, for a manager that might mean saying like, Okay, you know, I'm building into your performance review every year, whether or not you've hired and promoted people of color and if you do there's a there's a bonus so there's also a monetary incentive. You know, I think that that's one really effective way that research shows can can definitely help. And then for employees who want to get involved in in this case I'm speaking specifically to, to white people who want to be more involved in health. And one thing that I was really struck by I looked at a recent survey, and it found it was a survey of white men, and it found that of the group of white men that said that they cared a lot about diversity and inclusion so they thought it was very important. And still, only about half were actively involved with any diversity and inclusion efforts at their organization. And the most common reason that they gave was, I'm too busy. And I think it's really easy to fall into that way of thinking you know we all have jobs we're all pressed for time. And it sort of belies a thinking that participating in those efforts is something extracurricular and it's like not courtier job. But I'd say, you know, realize that it is courtier job realize that it is an essential part of what you're being asked to do to create a more, not just a more moral organization, but also a better one we know that diversity makes companies stronger.  And I love that thinking about it as core rather than additional or extracurricular which I do think is very common Melanie, you know, talk about one takeaway and I know we haven't really had a chance to address this in the pandemic and you've written about how, you know, how to, you know, have some of these, you know diversity as a verb, even in this pandemic, you know what are, you know, sort of what's your one big takeaway that you would really encourage. And I would say, I would say Bridget that to be an anti racist is to be an active ally, not a neutral ally but an active ally so that what all of us can do, we can all leave from our seat to co curate the culture we want to see in our organizations that we sit in that fosters that belonging that we all want to see happen. And so it really just starts with us so I would start with active ally ship is that antidote to being an anti racist. And so we have a we have a question from the chat or comment really looking at some of the research that even in disciplinary situations in the military there's research that shows that white officers tend to be much more understanding of other other whites that and less so of others of color, you know, sort of seeing individual whites as individuals and people of color as a group. So what's your one big takeaway and how, how can we begin to begin to build systems where people see people and not groups. Well, so I think you know the first step in doing that is that I think we all have stereotypes based on automatic thinking. And for each and every one of us. It's time that we check our stereotypes, it's time for us to create better awareness. And it's one thing to have recruitment efforts for unrepresented populations, but it's another effort to really keep them retained and feel that sense of belonging, and we could only get there, once everybody makes this individual responsibility to become a lot more self aware, and a lot more understanding of the complexity of this issue. Tim and Lauren will give you the last word. You want to go first to go for it. I'll give you the last word that great. Okay, I'll go. I was just reflecting on this conversation and really appreciate everyone's thoughts. I've got nothing else that I think this is really great. Yeah, Sarah and your your core leadership team or core leadership competency understanding race racism oppression as a core leadership competency is is necessary. Leaders are shirking a core responsibility of their job and not doing this. We're living in a moment in our lives and it's pandemic and social revolution where the impossible is now possible, where things six, six months ago, didn't seem possible, you know the big idea is the far fetched ideas the ideas where we can create a world where everyone can thrive that's now possible. It doesn't take a grand strategy or strategic plan. It starts with simple informed action and the best way to begin and speaking directly to white male leaders is pick up a book, listen to a podcast, and then struggle with it sit with the unease and discomfort that you might have and then talk with other white male leaders about or other white people and struggle together that that is our responsibility, our duty and that's part of what will help make it possible for us to co create a future, the future we all want and the future where we can thrive. And it reminds me so much of what the Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said, we know we have to do more work, and we know we're going to have to have some uncomfortable conversations. So I think that that's wise words for all of us. So I want to thank all of you for being part of this conversation today I want to thank our participants for sending in their questions. I'm grateful for the space for this conversation and some of these wonderful innovative ideas, and a sense of commitment that this is something we all need to be committed to individually as well as in our organizations. So, next week we'll be talking about women and leadership, what a perfect time to be doing that looking at diversity, as we have just seen Kamala Harris the very first woman of color nominated to a major party ticket. So in the meantime, I'd like to again thank our panelists today thank the participants thank the new America events team my better life lab team David Shulman our producer. So in the meantime, wash your hands, wear a mask, stay safe, and we'll see you next week.


Item number SCP-1234 Object Class Keter Special Containment Procedures Ownership of the building housing SCP-1234 designated Site-602 is currently held by a Foundation front company. All other former tenants of Site-602 have been evicted. The Foundation is the liaise with local government and business interests to prevent any attempts to purchase, redevelop, or condemn Site-602. Playing closed security personnel are to monitor SCP-1234 when inactive to prevent unauthorized access. Electronic monitoring equipment is to be installed in SCP-1234 and throughout Site-602. Whenever monitoring indicates that an SCP-1234 event is imminent, all Foundation personnel are to evacuate Site-602. A Foundation front company, Southside Commissary Products, is to make a delivery to SCP-1234 within six hours containing at least 50kg each of all-purpose white flour and vegetable shortening, as well as 200-400kg of any other available products approved as per Document 1234-746-C. In conclusion of an SCP-1234 event, Foundation personnel may re-enter Site-602. All instances of SCP-1234-1 are to be identified and removed for study and disposal. All monitoring equipment is to be examined and replaced if necessary following confirmation that SCP-1234 has been fully secured. Concurrent the re-entry, Southside Commissary Products shall canvas all purveyors of baked goods within a 5km radius of SCP-1234 and confiscate all uncontained instances of SCP-1234-1. In the event that a delivery is not made by the time SCP-1234 enters active phase, mass distribution of amnestics to the civilian population is authorized, and procedure Queen of Hearts may be enacted as necessary at 05-Discretion. SCP-1234 is the former premises of Smith's Swiss Pastries, a bakery and tea room that operated in Chicago, Illinois, from 1947-2003. The interior of SCP-1234 remains fully furnished and possesses working electricity, hot and cold running water, and natural gas. SCP-1234's ovens and kitchen equipment remain fully functional, though appearing to be in a severe state of disrepair due to age and neglect. All attempts to remove or disconnect SCP-1234's kitchen equipment or utilities have been unsuccessful. Under normal circumstances, SCP-1234 is inert. On a regular basis, ranging from an observed minimum of two days to an observed maximum of 17 months-12 days, SCP-1234 becomes active. Prior to becoming fully active, SCP-1234 exhibits a warm-up period lasting from 12 to 36 hours. Phenomena indicating the onset of an SCP-1234 event includes Heavy electromagnetic fluctuations within a 100 meter radius of Site-602 Interference in mouth-functioning and monitoring equipment Electrical blackouts and brownouts on the city block Site-602 is located on Lights and electrical devices within SCP-1234 activating and deactivating spontaneously Unexplained disappearances of humans and animals within a 300 meter radius of Site-602 SCP-1234 will become fully active within no more than 36 hours of the commencement of the warm-up phase. To date, active phase has always initiated between the hours of 2300 and 0330 local time. Once fully active, SCP-1234's windows become fully opaque, all doors and windows becoming completely impenetrable, and all monitoring equipment located within SCP-1234 ceases to function. All attempts to enter SCP-1234 during an active phase have failed, and no persons inside SCP-1234 within an active phase commences have been found alive at its conclusion. Active phase have been documented to last from 4 to 10 hours, but will always conclude by 0900 local time. Upon conclusion of active phase, the shelves, counters, tables, and display cases of SCP-1234 will have been stocked with approximately 200 to 500 freshly baked, short bread crust pies designated SCP-1234-1. All instances of SCP-1234-1 measure 22.8 cm in diameter, and weigh approximately 0.75 kg each. Pies produced by SCP-1234 will make use of any biological ingredients provided to it, whether living or not at time of event, including fruits and vegetables, non-edible plants, insects, fish, poultry, red meat, and human beings. SCP-1234 will not, however, make use of any ingredients that are spoiled, stale, or are of unsatisfactory condition for use in baking. Instances of SCP-1234-1 will not be recycled into new instances when a new event begins. All instances of SCP-1234-1 are, at time of discovery, cooled to room temperature, contained in a disposable aluminum pie plate, and covered with a transparent plastic lid. Aside from the means by which they are produced, SCP-1234-1 bear no anomalous properties and may be eaten safely providing that the events used in this manufacture are safe to eat. On seventeen occasions since observation began, instances of SCP-1234-1 have been found outside SCP-1234 following conclusion of active phase. On all such occasions, the pies were found on the shelves of supermarkets, convenience stores, and other food vendors within a five kilometer radius of SCP-1234, and have been labeled with a UPC readable by the vendor's point of sale system. No determination has been made as to how the pies were transported from SCP-1234 to the locations where they were found. If there is not sufficient supply of ingredients available within SCP-1234 when active phase commences, SCP-1234-1 will consume an ingredient stored outside itself. Flour, shortening, and other biological matter is relocated into SCP-1234, beginning with the closest matter available and being attracted from an increasingly greater distance until the necessary amount of ingredients have been acquired. The means by which material is acquired are transported into SCP-1234 is unknown. Due to the population density of the area in which SCP-1234 is located, no uncontained events have been allowed to occur since containment began. Foundation containment of SCP-1234 began in 2006, following several reports of dozens of persons and animals disappearing within the downtown Chicago area. Several police trace the disappearances to the neighborhood in which SCP-1234 is located. Upon noticing an unusual scent emanating from the abandoned storefront now identified as SCP-1234, police reached the front door and discovered approximately 7,300 instances of SCP-1234-1 within, many of which were several months old and had spoiled. When police attempts to determine the identity of the person responsible reached a dead end, a police liaison contacted the Foundation, which assumed jurisdiction and following an additional event which resulted in several more disappearances placed SCP-1234 under containment. Interviews with persons who worked at SCP-1234 prior to 2003 and with the previous owners of Site-602 stated that the cause of its closing abruptly in April of that year was not known to them, and that they had never observed any unusual or anomalous events occurring within the property prior to 2006.


What they gon' do with me now? I'm still a twerk of the town. I'm getting the sisters, I'm hoakin' them down. Reach for the smiles and- What's up, y'all? We got a new episode of Talk of the Town. Today, we have a special guest. Velages. And we're going to start off with a little game to warm up. I'm actually a question, and just say the first thing that comes to mind. Yeah. All right. What's your favorite word to use?  Oh, wait, I said that word.  What rapper would you not let date your daughter if you had one? All of them. My daughter cannot date no rappers. No rappers? She can't be like me. OK. Best thing about New York City? The food, I feel like. OK. Three words to describe you? Funny, crazy, and generous. What's your favorite color? Pink. Last person you text? My boyfriend. Favorite song of all time? I don't know. But I love Cardi B's song, Lil Bitch.  Straight in the island, you can only bring three things. What do you bring? Mahooka, definitely. That's number one.  Mahooka. Some lip gloss in my phone. OK. No people. Not my nigga, not a rapper. Yeah, my nigga. No lip gloss in the phone. That's it. I'm Gucci. OK. One word you couldn't spell as a child? Wednesday.  I don't know what to do. End of the day, like. And last one, who's the best power couple? Me and my daddy, G. OK. So growing up, I guess, where you grew up at? Harlem. On the east side of Harlem and west side of Harlem. St. Nicholas projects on the west side, and Carver projects on east side. OK, so you were all two problems. Yeah. So this side, that side. Right. All right, so how was it growing up? It was cool. Like, it was kind of crazy. I used to be in a park, like this park called Black Park every day in Carver projects. I used to just be outside. OK. For my friends. OK, you got siblings? Yeah, I got a sister and a brother. OK, so they older or younger? Younger than me. Because they wasn't outside yet. So it was you outside. So when did I guess the music start for you? I was always writing, like growing up, like when I was in elementary school, but seriously, like, I would say, like, last year I started taking a serious. But I've been rapping for a million, you know. Probably like three, five years. You feel like last year was the same thing? Like, last year I started, like, really, like, doing my music videos. Like, last year I dropped like 10 music videos. Yeah. Now you definitely did. So what's your, like, background nationality? I'm Puerto Rican, Colombian, and African American. Oh, yeah. Because everybody was saying I'm white. Like, I'm not white, nowhere. I don't know if I'm going to say all that. But yeah, people was, like, you were saying that everywhere. Yeah, yeah. They always saying that on Twitter. I don't know. I feel like they say that because, like, I'm light-skinned. I don't know what it is, but yeah. But yeah, you black. Pretty mixed. All right. So when did you say, I guess, when did you start liking music? Like, wanting to pursue rapping? Like I said, like, I always loved music. Like, since I was in, like, elementary school, I always, like, when Nicki Minaj came out, that's when I was like, I want to be, like, Nicki Minaj. Like, I've come out bangs like her. I had the YB fake chain. Her favorite color, pink. Yes. I was in love with Nicki. So what goes through your first studio session? Like, first time going to a studio, what was that like? It was, how did I end up going to my first? Oh, I went to plug studios in the Bronx. It was because... I used to live in the Bronx. And I used to live in the Bronx too, that's why. Oh, like, everywhere. Yes. I was all over. So, um, I went to plug studios, but I heard, like, that was a lit studio. Like, at the time that I started, they would send me, like, plug studios. Like, a Boogie went there, Cardi B went there. So I was like, let me go to plug studios. So I went there and I just, I wrote my first song. I had to snip it on Instagram. That was the first song I put out there. It was called Paid and Fool. And I actually went crazy on Instagram. So I was like, let me go record this. And it did good. I put it on SoundCloud and it had, like, 50k views on SoundCloud. But you never saw the music video? No, to that song, no. So what was the first music video you did? That single Savage. It's called Savage, yeah. So, like, so, okay, so that was the first song. Well, I had a, I really, it was a drill song called Pop Ship. I deleted it. I don't count that as my first music video.  So I, I felt like Savage is my first video.  What's hot girl shit?    Okay, okay, okay. All right, cool. So, um, so how do you feel like you grew in the music from then to now? I feel like now I really, like, I'm finding my sound more. Like, I can't say I found my sound because my sound, like, you go, you're gonna always find a different sound.   I got, like, mad people, like, redoing the sound on TikTok. Before, I used to just rap but not thinking nothing catchy. You feel me? Yeah. So is that something you learned in time? Is that something you learned working with other people? Um, well, definitely being around other big artists, like, I see, like, I also studied, like, big artists and I take stuff from them too.  And I'm, like, real big on TikTok now, like, so yeah. So I see, like, songs on TikTok go viral because it's catchy. Yeah. Yeah.  No. Like, right now I'm just doing drill because that's what, like, made me lit.  When I started doing drill, that's when my views and everything started, like, getting more. Yeah.  Like, I'm just gradually, like, you know? Gradually. Yeah. So what can we expect in the near future? Um, I'm definitely gonna be, like, not, I feel like in the near future, I'm always gonna, like, do hard music, like, yeah, all that ratchet shit, but I'm gonna be, like, I'm trying to, like, see bigger than the drill, bigger than New York, like, I just want to be, like, my music plate, everywhere, doing shows, everywhere, UK, everywhere, like, just different.  I'm gonna be bigger. Yes. So how do you deal with it all right now? All the, like, New York politics, you know? Um, I really just don't pay no mind.  Like, you be seeing, like, please don't, like, be going crazy on me. And it's, like, for no reason. I don't know who that is, but they got something against me. But I just don't pay no mind, like. Yeah.  For real? Yeah.  Wait, hold on. Let me say one more thing first. And please don't lie. I told them to take something down on me and they told me to pay them $500. That's crazy. Like, they were trying to get money out of me. Yes. I was like, no. But, and please don't lie. Yeah. I was taking a shot at all the blogs. Include a mess. Yes. I didn't. Okay. So it's, it's like, we was all in the group chat. Like a lot of the blogs are in the group chat. They're like, yo, let's take a shot at all of us. I was like, I don't think so. I thought she was just. No, it wasn't like, like, that's, I was going to get to that point. Like, to be honestly speaking, I saw like, I don't know what song I had dropped. What song was it? What was before Gangsta Barbie? It was all yellow. You had a whole, all yellow. It was like two tech, I think it was something like that. I think I had a job two tech. And then y'all had the monthly share. I don't know who run like the whole Instagram match.  And I saw that chat and put me on it.  I still got to put me on that either where all my views was more than the people that I put on the nominee shit.  So I thought that somebody in your page, I don't know if it was you who it was. I was like, they being funny. Like, and I wasn't on the billboard either. So I'm like, that's weird. So yeah. So I did that. I'm like how like my views is more than the bitches. That's old. Like I don't get it. I feel like we all been trying to like, you've been doing more artist stuff now than ever. But before it seemed like it was transitioning into the whole YouTube thing. Yeah, people say that too. But that's what I'm saying. Like even labels, like I have conversations with labels now. And it's like, that's what like a lot of, no, they're not as well. No, they like that. I do YouTube. They saying like a lot of people like try to like say, oh, YouTube is bad. But that's why I've been off a whole year. I'm getting consistent views because it's like, people see my personality. They got a part of your life. Like, you know what I'm saying? If you just rapping is like, you, you not really as. Yeah. But we also kind of only see you on the internet because you don't do, you wasn't doing interviews like that. Yeah. Like besides video shoots. Yeah. It was hard to get up with you. So we didn't know what was going on. Yeah.  So it's like, but nah, yeah. I just, I'm, I thought type of way about that. But it's cool. We cool. We here now. We here now. So, um, so in Gangsta Barbie, another female artist got a song called Gangsta Barbie. Oh yeah. Me and Ken, um, whatever her name is. Yeah. I seen that too. At first I didn't even know that she had a Gangsta Barbie song. I wasn't in tune then with none of her music. Like, and my Gangsta Barbie song was not even called Gangsta Barbie.  But then I made it my own song and like, it was called Suck My Dick.    But then I made it my own song and everybody on TikTok or the bitches were saying Gangsta Barbie, like Cardi and Nikki. So I said, that's better marketing if I put Gangsta Barbie. Yeah. But you do got a separate song with Tata and Jen. No, that's the same song. Oh, you take them all? Yeah. No, I didn't take them all. She's like, what do you want? She's like, what do you want? I didn't take them all. It was like, um, right after we did the song, they had got signed to a label. So it was like label situations. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. But Gangsta Barbie did good. Yeah. And on the remix, you got Shaji and Yushi. Yeah. So how was that? I think people wasn't really happy with that. Yeah. I feel like some people were. I don't know. People wasn't happy about it because like, I was on the same team as K Flak and Duggy. Yeah. And I was around them. Because like, for me, I was with Shimi, Moola, TG Crippy, all of them mostly than the other side. You for me. It's like, um, I was getting to that. Oh yeah. So I feel like, yeah. They saw the type of way because I guess like, I don't know, people were saying they thought I was the away and stuff like that. I'm not the way. I was just around them because that was the people that was like on my team for me. But yeah. So that's got nothing to do with me. Like I'm a superstar. I'm not in none of the politics. Shit. Like if I got beef for anybody is with girls. And these girls like, yeah. Okay.  Yeah. And Duggy, I was just on the phone with Duggy the other day. Duggy would just talk to my mom the other day, like that me and Duggy we good. Like the hardest to cool. It's really just the other stuff. Yeah. So, but um, oh no, how do you feel like, how do you feel like it was though? You did the track of both of them. Do you always do like this tool guy thing? Yeah. Two guys in a song. Right. So like, um, you did that with Mulan did that with TG. TG Crippy and Shaw. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. But always for like two people. Yeah. So why is that? Why put two people on the show? It's just going to be me and Shaji's, but then it just, it was just, I feel like it was, it was just better with two people on it. I don't know. I just like hearing different like sounds on one beat. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's like, all right. Here's Vella. Here's Shaji's. Here's Duggy's. And Duggy's voice is like Batman.    Shaji's doing his thing right now. Yeah. He's just, he's going up right now. Yeah. Okay.  You definitely want to do different stuff. When is going to, when are we going to see that change? Are you like done with drill music? No. I don't know. I can't really. A drill project? I don't know.  Like, you know what I'm saying? Like if I'm going to do it, I'm going to just do it. But I feel like everything, like you're going to know when it's time to do something. You get it? I'm like one of those people. So recently in the arm and when Jason Lee interviewed very well, she was like how drill music is overrated. Do you feel like it's overrated? I feel like, you know, I feel like, I feel like everything gets overrated.  They always say that about everything. So I'm just going to keep happening.  I always let, let me just start drill rapping. You get what I'm saying? That's what I feel like. But that's up to them. Just me the best person win. I mean, but I mean, it's a lot of people come from New York though. Yeah. So I'm saying like everybody, but people's come out. Now we're like, see me, I've been rapping. So it's like, you get what I'm saying? People just started rapping. I know it because they see like, they feel like they could do it.  Like what's the plans now? Are you still?   Okay, cool. So, so lost me. That was the video.   Like, like I know gangsta body about to hit a million. But like, if I, if you look at like the stats on all my songs, like how much views it got in an hour, two hours, those me did like the most eight to 200k in a day. Yeah. Yeah. Like. Yeah. So lost me.  No, yeah. It was about my ex. Yeah. But you put your new nigga in the video. Nah. He was. Booba wasn't my nigga at that point. Yeah. Like that video actually will made me and Booba like close like that day of the just being each other all day, whatever. Like that's what started our relationship. I feel like that lost me video. So how did y'all get connected? How did it all get serious? Yeah. It was like, basically like he did one video with me and the video how it went crazy. I think he's like at a mill right now. That was the first video he did with me. And then he just kept saying like, he have lots of LA to go see Curly do videos with Curly.  So I'm like, okay, whatever.  And we just like fell in love naturally. But the lost me video. I feel like that's when we really like, I don't know. It was like a connection. I don't know. So it initially started like as a business venture. Exactly. And it turned, it turned real. But everybody was thinking it was fake. Okay. I mean, I feel like we couldn't tell when the transition was serious. Yeah. Maybe when the cuffing pitches started to come in. Yeah. And even then they were still because they like y'all never kiss, but we never kissed because of like Booba's religion. Like, yeah. I was going to say, how is that like being him and his religion and getting into all of that? Is it hard to adjust to? Not really. Like, I'd be being him. He'd be teaching me like his religion.  We'd do all the five prayers. Yeah. That's what's up.  So how is this relationship different from your other relationships? I would say like Booba, Booba like pushes me more. You feel me? Like, and he actually like he wanted to, like, I'm not going to say my other relationships didn't want to see me win, but like they wanted to like keep me like, like to themselves. Yeah. They didn't want to put me to the work because they knew like I'm a superstar.  Like she might, like I feel like all my other niggas, they was like really like insecure and stuff like that.  Like go on the stage. Like Booba supports me a lot. Like everything. So in Booba No Jemma interview, he said that y'all be making like content counters together. Yeah. So yeah, really, I still do that. I started doing that for him because he was giving me anxiety and I was like, let me structure this nigga up because he's all over the place. Okay. And was it like, was it bothering you do him doing the other videos with other people? No. Being that that's how y'all met? No. Wait, what do you mean videos like? Like just the pranks I guess kind of, but he only did Jemma's video though. He didn't really do nobody else's video. Yeah. But he didn't really do the house with any other girls. Yeah. He just like would, he would do jokes. Like he didn't want a Chinese kid. He would do stuff with different people. Yeah. I know. Yeah. But um, so, so you'll be doing the prank where I'm going to leave you for another rapper. Yeah. Everybody always saying that. Yeah. So like, do you do that to satisfy the trolls or you just like this for entertainment? Like this is entertainment. Yeah. Cause he be, no, he be trolling me. Like he likes to say something to me. So I was like, I'm ready and I'm going to leave you for another rapper. Like, and they be saying that they be saying like, oh, but it's going to leave him. But I'm not like rappers. I'm done with the rappers. Like been here, done that. And you don't do rappers because it's too much drama. It's too much. I couldn't, I don't, like I just feel like it's not drama. They just too much. Like I used to like rappers because people used to say, oh, she like rappers because she a gold digger. Cause I like, I used to like like lit rappers. Like I'm not dating.   But I just felt like, like, like at that moment I felt like I could relate to a rapper. Like you feel me? Like we both in the studio. Like, you know what I'm saying? Now that I, when I met Boobah, he doing YouTube. Like it's even better cause y'all not like clashing. Like we doing two different things. Like this is my lane. I see a lane still over there. Is it like, cause we recently did Kenzo interview. She was like, it's just some stuff she could, she wouldn't do. As far as pranks being that she's a rapper. Do you feel the same way? Um, yeah. My mom be getting on me about that one time. So she be like, uh-uh, like that video is not going up. Like. Oh, so I show y'all, y'all parents that stuff? Yeah. My mom, my mom's around like Boobah. I didn't know sometimes my mom be around.  Like you are artists at the end of the day. Like you was a rapper before you was doing YouTube. So remember that all the time. Like don't just be doing whatever. Right. So, um, so your mom is supportive of the music. Mm-hmm. She got a favorite song, do you know? I think she's like Gangster Barber the most. Yeah. Okay, okay.   Mm-hmm. Do you feel like you ever got your flowers? My flowers?  Like do you feel like people were supportive of your whole career? Do you feel like they lacked at some point?  Or like I can count it out, but it don't matter. Cause at the end of the day, like this is like talking to my fans now. At the end of the day, like if people count you out, like, like I always say, like people used to count Cardi B, y'all. People used to, the people that they count on ice bites.  They just like it cause she pretty and licking her now. So it's like, you know what I'm saying? Like you're going to win at the end of the day. Like you just got to keep on putting a break. Don't let nobody like distract you or make you feel less of yourself. Who up there? I don't know what that is. Somebody try to come get me like, imagine. So, um, so how do you stay motivated though to keep going? Um, I just keep positive people around me. People that's going to like push me and my fan just keep me motivated. Like every time I post, all the people that show me love, my views and stuff like that. I know I got to keep going cause I'm not like now. Yeah. So for the young girls that's watching you and seeing your grown and stuff like that, what advice would you give to them? Um, wait, you talk about like rap with like girls or music or just in general.  They might look up to you for YouTube. Yeah, just anything. All right. So for the girls that look up to me, definitely stay in school. Make sure you finish school. Cause I know there's a lot going on right now. And a lot of people is like, the world is like corrupted. So make sure you stay in school. Um, listen to your parents and just follow your dreams. Whatever it is you want to be, don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it because you can. People used to tell me that all the time and look at me now.  So, yes, that's, that's, so what the industry being like, do you feel like working in, well, being in the music industry, people are grimy. Do you feel like you got a taste of that? Or you feel like you were separated from the craziness that comes with the industry? Like in general, people are grimy, you're saying?   But like, people are definitely grimy though. That's why you just have to, I feel like you have to like be strong and you got to know what's going on.  And being, what did you say, what would you say is the hardest part about being a female doing music and YouTube now? The hardest part. I feel like now, like this year, or like the, like the middle, whatever, like, right now I feel like girls are really getting like the recognition. So I can't even like say, but in the beginning, like I used to get counted out too because like they was paying more attention to the guys.  So that's the only thing that's annoying, like, yeah. Yeah. So I was going to say, it's kind of like a divide that's happening right now. Yeah. When you and Kenzo, and then Murder Beasts. Yeah. So, um, and Maya. No, it's like me, Kenzo. You know the new girl, wasn't it Maya? And Wawa. And Wawa. So you know Wawa? Are you cool with Wawa? Yeah. Oh. And then it's like us four and then it's like. Yeah. So what happened? Like, how did it start splitting? Um, I don't, like me personally, my situation. It was like. It was cool, Shawnee. Yeah. Me and Shawnee was cool. We was on the same team, but like we had our four and our whatever.  And then I got cool with Murder Beasts through Buber's video. I don't know if you've seen that, but yeah, we did that. And we was cool. Like, I don't know what happened, but then somebody dissed me and Murder Beasts comment under it.  And then, yeah, like, I'm like, what that's weird. Comments too. Yeah. Like somebody dissed me. Like somebody, if somebody was to diss her, I'm not going to comment on it.  Like how you follow me, but you come under this. I gotta do me. You know what I'm saying? Like you being funny.  And then Mia, what's her name? Maya. Maya Kenzo.   But Kenzo, Kenzo started saying that first, top two, not two. And several people started saying the top two, not two. If you feel like, but she feel like I said it to her. Then she feel like I said it to her. I don't care about none of these bitches. Okay. So you cleared all that up. Yeah. But everybody else beef on the what's going on. But I feel like everybody just be attacking Kenzo.  Like I feel bad.  So she pulled up on bitches. Like. Yeah. Yeah. We got into all of that. Yeah. Um, what I was going to say. So do you feel like though it's something that chocolate talk out? Cause it don't seem like it's that deep. I feel like it's more like a, they just do a marketing schemes over there. That's why on the internet, like I'm going to say it here cause it's an interview. But on the internet, I don't go back and fall for bitches or that. Like if I, when I see you, I see you. Yeah. Like on the internet, I don't really go back and fall for bitches.  At the end of the day, I feel like if I, when I see you, I see you and I sit in his lip. We're going to fight bitches. Somebody's scared to fight them.  How many y'all should fight? Yeah. I just put that out there. I think all, from speaking to all of y'all, cause we interviewed like all of y'all back to back. I just think that y'all just got to talk it out. I feel like the fans be making something out of nothing. No, they do. And the people just be running with it. Yeah. But I would definitely. Nah, it's like me and Shawnee, we had our situations, but we had the whole show together.   Like, oh bitch, when I see you was there, I would be for never like on some like. Whatever. Yeah.   Like that's what it is.   And then me and Kenzo, like she just throwing stuff.  She don't know what, like, bitch, I don't know. She just trying to get some clown. I don't know what she's trying to do.  Like, but I'm with whatever. That's what I'm trying to say. Like.  So, um, but do you feel like it could, well, it could probably.     Girls are just beefing. I feel like it's all like a competition thing. Low key.  Yeah, I don't do that. I don't do that. And that's nothing I don't like either.   Yeah. So, um, so moving along, you was on FaceTime with NBA young boy. Yeah. I was high because I'm like, yo, that's, that's my favorite rapper. For real?  Nah, it'd be fire. So you were strolling and he was like, Oh, y'all want to see a feature? Nah. Yeah. I know it to me. Yeah. I need to address this too. So basically, like, um, he had, he don't have, he don't have Instagram. Like he be on and off Instagram. He didn't have Instagram. So who had wrote me? Oh, it was the baby.  Like whatever. So I gave him my number.   I don't know. He wants to talk. So I'm like, all right. So he FaceTime me, the baby FaceTime me. And I'm, I'm like, yo, what's up, whatever. And he's like, yo, somebody wants to talk to you. So I'm thinking he's the one that's about to talk to me. And then he put it be a young boy in the phone.  I'm mad confused. And then I'm like, what's up, whatever. And he's like, yo, I see one of your videos where you had on a blue jacket. I think he's talking about my on site song. I don't know. Yeah. Was that sort of cool? Yeah, whatever. So then I'm like, wait, what? And he's like, but the blue jacket, your music video fire, whatever the case may be, your video was fired. And he was just talking regular. Like we just have a regular conversation.  And then, yeah, we was just talking business shit, basically.  So we just talking business.  Like, do y'all want to see? Because at the end of the day, this is all like a marketing thing. You feel me? I put R&B, a young boy times Vella like question mark. Do y'all want to see that? People thought that I had a song with him already.  Then the manager come on nowhere.  And he was just crazy. Yeah. The manager was like 300 K. Yeah, whatever case may be. But then he deleted it.  But you with him still cool? Yeah, we good. Oh, nice. The baby too? Yeah. Okay. So are you going to start traveling working with other artists? Yeah, definitely. That's something I want to do. You see, I collaborate with a lot of drill artists like in New York City. So yeah, I definitely want to travel and collaborate like different type of artists. Yeah. Just so I could build different fan bases outside of New York. Are you worried? How are you dealing with that? Like working with the guys in the music.  Yeah, I never have that problem. Because I feel like Booba, he cool with all of them too. So like Booba always be there.  I'm like gang. That's good. That's good. Yeah. All right. So we're going to play a game called overrated underrated. Overrated means like because Courtney has played out underrated means like you want to see more of it. All right. I'm going to just say category and you say if it's overrated or underrated. All right. So sample beats overrated underrated. Overrated.  No. I'm saying like overrated means you're tired of it. I'm tired of it? Yeah. I feel like overrated because a lot of people is doing sample beats right now but I love my sample beats. Okay.  I'm still going to do it. Okay. All right. Tick tock. Overrated underrated. I feel like it's underrated with a lot of the Joe artists. Like a lot of Joe artists understand that tick tock could really push your music. Like you feel me like tick tock. Yeah. Tick tock is where it's at. Yeah. Um, videos on 42nd Street. I started that first of all. Yes. Because I, you remember my 42nd Street video with a, I had like an orange wig. It was called takeover. Okay. Music video. Yeah. I was in LA. That's something I was so mad about too. I was in LA and I decided like I want to do a lit music video with mad people because I have mad fans like from my YouTube. Yeah. So I'm like, all right.  Yeah. And I'm like, bro, like I want to do my video on 42nd Street and I want it to be crazy. Like give me a flyer made whatever and help me like promote it for me because he knows mad dances. Yeah. I got my flyer made posted it like two days before of the video shoot like mad fast.  She's shooting her music video.  Like, I don't know. Like if you was there, the cops was chasing after everybody cause windows got broken in the parking lot. They was jumping on it.  Like I got arrested that day.  I got banned. Yeah. I got banned from 42nd Street. Like I don't know how I got banned from 42nd Street. Yeah. It was crazy. They arrested you for it. Huh? I don't know. Oh no. They arrested me. Not everybody. They didn't really arrest me though. They took me in a car though. Like they took me in a car first and they made my mom and then they put them in a different car because everybody kept following me. So it's like, they said like, they kept telling me stop doing this music video. You cannot do this. You need a permit. Whatever the case may be. And I'm like, bro, like I need to get my other scenes out. Like so I kept on doing it. And then they like, bro.  I was getting mad because there was so many people and they was all on top of me. Like, can I get an autograph? So I'm like, bro, I can't even shoot my video. Yeah. So then the cops like was like looking for me. That's when everybody started running. Order cops came. They started breaking the cars. And I'm like, I'm getting trouble for all of this, bro. Like I was so scared. And move the guys. You and move the lost each other during all this? Yeah, we lost each other. But the fans was like protecting me out of those. There was like one boy. He's like, come on, come on, come on. He was like helping me right away. I'm over here trying to hide. And the cop found me. He's like, they're just going to keep following you. You're going to get in the worst. You're going to get in the car.   But I started that, right? I started that that time, right?   Like, yeah. I see bigger artists doing that too now though. Yeah. Yeah. Like a boogie didn't like walk through. Yeah. He did that. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.  And no, but literally, we're like, we do. I thought that the next like four days, people was doing that already. And I should have been tight, but you can't get that because at least you, you know, I'm trying to think of something new now. You can't do like. Yeah. So how do you feel about all the like, oh, you know, one more overrated, underrated pranks, the pranks overrated underrated overrated is corny, right? Overrated. Depending on the prank, like sometimes it's just like, all right. Okay, and then love nowadays No falling in love underrated.   Yeah. Yeah.   All right, cool.  That's how I started rapping. Oh first. Okay. Who are your ops? I have a lot of ops She might know the ops No, I have a lot of ops No, it's bitches in real life like when I see them is lit. Yeah And um, you don't seem to have a lot of like close like girlfriends Um, I do but they not like in the industry wise. So yeah, my friends like I have my own little girl like group Whatever, but I'd be too busy with my life like that sometimes I don't even have time for my nigga my family my Friends so just be like and I'm not like a girl like if I'm not making money like I'm I feel like I'm an artist now So like stuff that my friends is doing like my friends go to the club I can't just be going to the club like got paying me like Then I'm too accessible. So I just be you know, I'm saying yeah So, but when you was first first coming apart like last year or last year you win princess Sonny was like super close. Yeah, we not cool at all like It was a whole big thing.  All right. So what should we look forward to before the year ends? Um, just look forward to more music more visuals and just yeah, I'm gonna be outside I'm gonna be everywhere. I'm gonna do more interviews. Okay. See I will do interviews before I had two Going on now. I'm more structured, you know, my son over there breezy. She got me structured So, yeah Exactly and just being outside and they get a project. Yeah, I definitely want to do a project I want to do a EP. Yeah, I know you were saying maybe I should do a job. I'm gonna figure it out what I should do But I'm not no specific but definitely want to see a project. I see a full body of work and some features Yeah And then um as far as the content though though, are you gonna keep I know you're saying pranks are kind of overrated. I see people are doing like the smash or pass thing Yeah, but you can't really do that because yeah So like what is what does that leave content now? Um, I feel like like me and boob is still gonna do our concert Like I guess if he pranked me I can't control that if I want to prank him prank him Oh, the funniest one was the the The penguin No, the god What you gotta leave the house? Oh the lease? Yo, I don't see him.    He had the leasing papers I'm like, who is this man like So like how is that like moving in with booba and stuff? No, it's like I feel like before we moved in together like we was like arguing more and like I don't know I thought we was going to argue more moving in so we was kind of skeptical like bro We might kill each other now I was like But now we be good.    Yeah Yeah, and I've seen um last night you seen cardio guys I love her. Yes. This is second time though. We seen Cardi because the shake it. Yeah, you were there too, right? Yeah, shake it. I didn't go last night though. But I was not shaking But um, yeah, so have you and Cardi miss? I ain't gonna talk about that But all in all that was the overall though that was a girl show. That was yeah, that show was fire How you feel about that? Like just seeing all the girls coming now like really like I like to watch performances Because I like to see like so like when I perform I could probably ask them to do my shit because And I like to see like how girls deliver like literally I love how she performed like her energy and everything But one thing I like about gloria though a lot is that she like support Like you thought she should be having her friends k-carbon and glitter girls girl like Like where they from I feel like the girls are more like united You feel me like imagine if us drill artists girls was like that that she would be fire But this is weird the vibe right now But nah, I just thought it was cool to see like all the girls coming in they have loads here and like other people So, you know, like hopefully one day we get a female So Wait a minute female female show like oh a female show real female show. Not yet. I'll be fire We're gonna figure it out. But yeah, I love Cardi being Am she playing Yeah, yeah, but um, okay, so tell the people where to find you So y'all can add me on instagram. I am legendary Vella my tiktok I've read the legend and my music youtube is Religies Am I vlogging youtube?  Oh on my vlog youtube is Bella honey toms And that's it. Okay. Yeah, but thank you for having me Of course Yes