've seen inside both inside the new testament and the old testament there are clear passages to kill non-believers in fact the difference between the koran and the bible is that if you look inside first samuel chapter 15 verse three it specifically says to kill babies women and children so how can you compare that with anything in the koran i mean it literally says to kill babies in chapter i'm sorry inside first samuel chapter 15 verse three you will never read any of that in the koran the koran shows tolerance to all to people of all religions as i have shown you it's only the people who are not peaceful who are the people who are fought that was clearly established in the koran and in the hadith and even in the syrah you got it i just wanted just one point of kind of support for nadir here i did point out earlier that the koran at least people have a chance under 489 to convert to start believing in Allah and then they're not punished for that but under a similar part in the holy bible second chronicles chapter 15 verse 13 it says that whoever would not seek the lord of israel should be put to death whether small or great whether man or woman there's no wiggle room there there's no opportunity to to start believing in the god so i do think the bible is more harsh than in this case than 489 in the koran well how do you how do you address 1829 was 489 i just quoted from you let them disbelieve yeah you know i'm just relaying something a little earlier so i'm trying to be a little bit supportive of what you're saying that the bible is actually worse but but but you see that you know if you take the koran as proper context you read chapter 18 verse 29 there's no way you can walk away from this first thinking that you should be basically killing people because they don't believe in what you believe in 1829 yep oh yeah you just had that on the screen yeah i i need some time to digest it first that's fine yeah you got it and thank you very much for your question benjamin and iota strikes again oh the oh you know this happy campers says bring them with chains on their necks till they embrace islam sahih bukhari 4557 nadir please explain that verse yeah that was already explained with the hadith which i quoted from remember the guy uh came to muhammad he used to kill him with a killing him with a sword then the sword dropped out of his hands muhammad picked up the sword and says who is going to save you from me and he says mercy but and then he and then he said prophet muhammad said i bear witness that i am the messenger of Allah and he said no i'm not going to do that and then he's but i promise that i will never fight you nor encourage people to fight against you prophet let him go and he said i i've come back from the people from from um from the one who's the best of mankind so my challenge has been unmet show me from the syrah show me from the hadith any individual any group of people who were fought just because of their religious belief or any peaceful group of people you'll never find it this one coming in from do appreciate your question not a chump says nadir Mormonism does not allow alcoholic consumption and creates very happy people is the false ideology Mormonism good for humankind yeah i already stated so well i don't know what Mormonism actually teach about alcohol but when we look at the research the only people who really made a significant impact is the muslims there are people who can condemn alcohol sure but very few people can really convince its followers not to drink alcohol on their own without any kind of force and make and and it's not just remember that is just one piece of evidence we cited five significant impacts on how is islam has on a humanity i have not seen any religion that can do all of that and if you look at in terms of whatever belief system whether it's atheism or or Mormonism no religion has positively impacted humanity more so than Islam i'll just uh state that atheism is not a religion you've got a belief system yeah not a belief system either quick lemon says why should we trust Islam when hadith says Muhammad had intimate encounters with little boys and aisha had to clean him up after probably why baka bazi exists but jabbazi that's no there's no such thing that's all fabrication so uh basically to you know to do these kind of acts are clearly condemned in Islam and so the people who are doing these things you know these are basically criminals so again this goes back to people are taking the acts of criminals whether it's the hebdo massacre or molesting little boys in Afghanistan and they're trying to say this is what Islam teaches you to do but all of this garbage has been refuted by the by the by the scientific research which i have presented and that's my invitation to you base your belief on facts not this uh nonsensical type of uh you know uh stereotyping you got it this one coming in from benjamin iota says muslims continue to think they own all of science that's not even worth responding to yeah oh i remember when i used to be a guest i used to debate on the non sequitur show and i remember i said that to some responses i said i'm not even gonna bother responding to sg thomas it takes for your super go ahead and you remember what i said nadir respond with humor okay this one coming in from sg thomas and i didn't see if you had a question that you want to attach to that last super chat but thanks for staying up late with us sg thomas and i know that it's it's late there it's 11 30 i think raid the producer says nadir what do you think of koran 13 3 that says god created fruits of every kind in pairs fruits are not male or female the science is all wrong if the koran was saying that it are male and female then you would have a point but the koran the text of the koran does not say that they are that everything is male or female that's your interpretation that you're twisting into the text benjamin iota strikes again imagine thinking one version of slay one's version of slavery is justified disgusting and then says the difference is that atheists don't claim their actions are justified objectively by god all the discrimination in islam is justified by god we have a chance to respond to those points nadir now well you know they have already been refuted by akib by akademi there's a lot of journals or a lot of uh people publications which have actually praised islam and its position towards slavery i've already pointed out the dangers of a sudden release of slaves into freedom we saw what happened in brazil haiti is another good example so to avert the humanitarian catastrophe you know it should be done in a very uh how you say in steps so for example uh the the hadith which i quoted for you is that the one who educates his slave girls and then sets her free he will get a double reward so here within the islamic version of slavery you get an education you don't get that in the free world the people during the life of muhammad were uneducated didn't even know how to read and write yet in slavery islamic version you get to learn you get to get an education now what happens when you educate slaves well they're going to demand their freedom part of slavery the great uh evil of slavery is you keep them dumb and stupid islam came to abolish this practice and said no you should educate them so if you call that disgusting i think uh you don't know what you're talking about islam forbade the beating of slaves overworking them they're going to eat the same food that you eat the slave master and they're going to wear the same clothes so uh i don't see anything disgusting about that what i think would have been better is if a new religion coming along just had slavery abolished from the beginning since there's making major change in society anyway this would have been a very good opportunity to start with a clean slate with absolutely no slavery at all that would have been the better choice well i think well that is our that like i said that has already not worked the best choice is a is a gradual release into freedom where you build an infrastructure ready to receive them remember Muhammad said you should educate them what who builds an infrastructure the slaves we have to build that infrastructure what i'm saying is unless that infrastructure is there you know there's going to be problems and that's exactly what happened in brazil so again you know we have good intentions here but to make sure that we have the right plan in action that doesn't create bigger problems that create cycles of violence and poverty as it is done in america and brazil and all over the world so it is important to do it in a sensible way to really to basically abolish slavery and that's exactly what Islam did you know i disagree with the delayed release i think slavery has to be ended i mean as soon as possible not not in some stage you are not addressing the point rando of what happened in brazil you are not addressing what happened in Haiti or america we've seen the catastrophes that happened with that this one coming in from sunflower has two one a member question says cite the source on muslims being most charitable nadir oh yeah sure no problem uh you can add that to the description later yeah i'm sorry what was that no maybe james can add that link to the video description so basically the ones which in fact let me share my desktop here real quick and so basically it says not only that muslims are the most charitable but they're also the most willing to to to basically engage to volunteer here's a study this is taken from yahoo news us muslims gave more to charity than other americans in 2020 they are also more likely to volunteer and you can find my reference that you could just basically put that right into google and you should get my reference for that you got it and this one coming in from do appreciate your question also from sunflower says nadir in the usa there was a sudden release of black slaves via the civil war and emancipation was this a mistake so there are definitely success stories when it comes to emancipation but there was also a lot of problems with that because now look at almost every us city going from seattle to washington or miami you will see that there are poor neighborhoods there are quote ghettos and the people who are residing in them are the former descendants of slaves and when you look at and you reason why is it like that well this is a legacy which slavery left behind this goes back to the importance of having an infrastructure ready to receive them to give them jobs to give homes because remember even if you're to look at america as a success story what is undeniable was brazil was a catastrophe the favelas which they built which the which the slaves basically built because they had nowhere to go to um is an example that 64 000 people died from murders alone in these favelas so what happened is they create these cycles of violence and poverty which which needs to be taken into consideration so that's why the sudden release is not a good idea you go to this one coming in from suns we got that one coming in from the nun or i think it'd be pronounced the noon says nadir in accordance to verse 65 for do you support the marriage and intercourse of prepubescent girls if so what are the divinely inspired benefits no i don't in fact why i read to you the hadith what should you what are the criteria you should look for in your spouse and it's our original religiosity the one who's best in her character and her religion and if you apply that there's no way you're going to get a little girl you're going to get somebody maybe in their 20s because that's what those are going to be people who will fit that criteria this one coming in from happy campers says nadir what is your highest level of formal training on these issues namely like what's your highest level of education so for me i graduated with a degree in religion studies but i worked in the it field for the last i don't know maybe 10 15 years this one coming in from not mod bruce wane says nadir would you be cool with muslims being killed on grounds of that they left some other religion for islam no i don't think so in fact as i said we as muslims we don't do that and and and there's a great deal of leniency and mercy when it comes to the apostasy so even in an islamic an islamic state or you can say islamic country would there be if someone apostates and leaves their religion is could there be leniency for them well absolutely no scholar would deny this this is so i hope that answers the question you got it and thank you very much for this question benjamin iota says cousin marriages is not forbidden in is forbidden in islam yet it is not healthy for the offspring somehow allah forgot to ban it yet he figured out alcohol is bad nadir yeah so basically uh so there's there's it's a misrepresentation of science and it is a misrepresentation of what islam says okay so basically let me uh let me first give you the reference what science actually says about uh about cousin marriages okay this is taken from uh this is basically uh this is taken from stanford university this is what science has to say while the chance may be increased it isn't high as most people think children of parents who are who are cousins or half sibling have a have a slightly higher which is the one two percent risk of being born with a disability but like i said from an islamic point of view it has already told you the criteria uh for for basically marrying and if you apply that criteria it'll be very rare very rare that you would even marry your cousin in the first place so um you know as i said again the quran is actually silent on that so that's taken actually from stanford university gotcha thank you very much for your question this one coming in from not mod bruce wain says according to didir if you sometimes don't punish apostates with death that makes punishing apostates with death okay the logic is impeccable well like i said there's a great deal of there is an injunction in islam and then the hadith which said about killing apostates sure that's there but why are you forgetting about the leniency why are you ignoring everything which i'm telling you i already told you mohammed himself never killed any apostates and and in in spite of the fact that they were actually presented to him so uh i think the issue about the leniency towards that has not been refuted you got it and thank you very much for this question coming in from do appreciate it pineapple lapodimus says you are amazing as jesus said thank you for the truth i don't know who or what i guess that's for you james i don't know i haven't really taken a stance on anything to yeah comparing to jesus that sounds like that sounds like it's in your wheelhouse i don't know i don't think so but i uh let's see i i i don't run an amazing show here so you're kind to compliment the show i always appreciate it and i oh that reminds me folks i do have another question here i want to remind you both randolph and nadir are linked in the description folks if you want to hear more if you're like this is interesting i want to hear more first time hearing them or maybe the second time and you're like yeah but i haven't checked out their link yet well it's waiting for you and that includes at the podcast we put our guest links at the top of the description box both here on youtube and at the podcast so if you want to you can click on their links if you're listening via the modern day debate podcast app or link podcast my pleasure snake was right says islamic countries were the last two outlaw slavery though nadir yeah again we go back to what the islamic scriptures teach we should judge islam based on the actual scripture what is clear is judaeo christian slavery which is taught in the bible which was implemented all around the world this is clearly condemned islam actually presented such a good version of slavery that it arguably is better than actually the free person so look at what islam has to teach about that you know well you know you probably as randall you have not actually studied islamic version of freedom in my view and just one point to snake was right uh yemen is an example of one country that has not outlawed slavery yet well again we're going back to what islam teaches because if you start saying well yemen is a country that did this i'll say well china is an atheist country which has done that so let's go back to our scriptures let's see what it says and again we're talking about if we're talking about today oh yeah sure freedom is much better today well let's talk about there in in the ancient world let's talk about when poverty was 90 percent where people ate things well dinner came when we caught something you know and so when you look at the when you look at uh the islamic version of slavery uh and you compare to the free person uh it's actually pretty good the free person of 1400 years ago but i think randall these are things that you have not really studied so i invite you to look into that i have i think that if as a matter of principle doesn't matter what time what century we're in i don't want to be anybody's slave i want my freedom call me selfish if you want yeah i prefer freedom and it seems to me that people would prefer to be free and be employed rather than to be enslaved sure not just now not just back then not whatever it no matter the time is irrelevant it's always the case that i think freedom is better for people yeah it's the misunderstanding of the situation islam didn't start slavery this was a slavery system was already there start slavery it or it was already there and the question is okay now what do you do and i have already argued and showed you the dangers of sudden release first okay there you guys you're all free uh uh that may not it doesn't always have a happy ending and we have seen that i've given you several examples of that but islam laid down the rules and gave the gradual freedom to slaves yeah but there was a demand for instant conversion to to islam no there wasn't no there wasn't we must move forward this one last question coming in from do appreciate it mango tea says nadir is it true that the prophet has seamen stains on his clothes and asked his child wife to scrape it off i don't see how that is in any way relevant to this discussion i think people are just kind of being malicious in the text i would invite that person to look at what islam the good impact which islam has upon mankind look this person sat in listen to this debate and he ignored everything i said i listed five points he ignored all of that just to bring up this erroneous point just to try to make fun so i don't think this person i addressed things yeah i don't think this person deserves to to to be responded to this one coming in from gavin hurlman says question for both in the west why are there no universities or colleges established by atheist organizations i'm sorry you broke up a little bit there why isn't there question for both in the west why are there no universities or colleges established by atheist organizations so the history in our countries is that these institutions tend to be he's talking about the the older bigger universities they've been around for a long time and it used to be the case that christianity was very commonly practiced across the land and so the people who are naturally going to be starting organizations are going to be most of them going to be christians now many of the universities have since moved away from that and there's newer smaller universities that have sprung up since that have no religious affiliation at all and there continues to be other universities that do have religious affiliation with islamic organizations with the christian organizations and whatnot and so it's kind of a mixed bag now but the major ones have that history so the foundation there is is not there it's it's a strange question if i could answer real quickly it's because of what we saw tonight um atheism has nothing to offer mankind which is measurable and i think that's the reason why you don't see anything good coming from them you know and i think i and i don't see anything bad coming from it either well we've already discussed that what's going on in china so it doesn't have doctrine so what china and russia and other countries do is not based on any atheistic doctrine oh we did i did promise you guys i'd give you a closing statement so if you guys would eat like a two minute closing i can give you that sure so go ahead randall oh no you started with an opening statement you can start with a closing statement oh you go ahead you're my guess going you started with an opening i can flip a coin so i don't know if this is agreed upon beforehand in terms of the order for these but it is true that in some context matches normally matches the opening statement orders what's always happened before and so i let him choose that so it should be the same that's how it's been really real the debate you've done uh it is okay but matt dill hunty actually did tell me one time that in more formal debates that sometimes you actually have the uh the alternate where you you reverse it at the end so um i was surprised by that matt told me that though during a live debate and i was like oh it's like i didn't know that but uh so i am willing to flip a coin because i don't know if this is i i'll go first i'll go first no problem did you did we discuss closings originally if we did this is so my fault for not even remember no we didn't discuss it yeah all right i'll just i'll just do a timer for two minutes okay see one second you know i can start here okay um i'm just going to share my desktop over here so first of all i'd like to thank randall for a very good discussion um you know and i think that and i think that uh you know the five points which we have seen which i have raised tonight uh that that basically is slum you know started a scientific revolution which has benefited all of humanity you know we saw from there this is known at the golden age of Islam which is basically all western advances in civil engineering mathematics chemistry medicine and astronomy were founded upon the medieval science of Islam we saw so much good come from that we also saw the study which basically muslims are the highest life satisfaction from the from the article which i quoted over here which trumps other religions we've also seen that they're the most charitable uh you know and and most willing to volunteer as you can see from the study over there uh and one of the they are Islam is a powerful rehabilitating force in the prisons i've shown you how people were basically how it influenced prisoners to give up their criminal life to live a much better life and give up materialism and other things which was driving their criminality and Islam succeeds where others fail in lowering the rates of fetal alcohol syndrome and other alcohol related problems look 80 percent i'm sorry 40 percent of crimes is alcohol induced so look how Islam has such a positive impact in in reducing crime as well so and and of course all of this is what i've presented to you is documented and and you know Randolph did concede that if you look for real document documented benefits of atheism there simply is none so that's this is an open and shut case now he did say he's going to go back and he's going to look at chapter 18 verse 29 which clearly states let them disbelieve so we'll wait for him to come back on that that's two minutes we'll set it for Randolph or is all yours Randolph okay just quickly address the some of the points that Nadir made and thank you for a good debate today so the scientific revolution i don't grant Islam full credit for that they get credit within islamic circles and islamic societies but that's about as far as it goes now because different cultures throughout the world have contributed to science as well in different ways you also mentioned about islam being a powerful rehabilitating force in the prison system there are many christians in prisons too and there if there is a lot of activity of muslims in prison that raises the question why so many muslims in prison maybe that's an unfair question but i do wonder what has islam actually done to promote prison reform because there's a lot of groups out there doing that against alcohol islamic regimes prohibit alcohol so there will be less alcohol abuse and misuse in those that's a fallacy of the consequent there so closing statement for me is to just remind people that atheism has no doctrine so criticizing secular countries is not always on par because if they're not originally intended to be atheistic then it doesn't count for fair criticism china doesn't qualify russia doesn't qualify and other countries don't in this case the fundamental and most intrinsic thing that i can say about atheism is that it is freedom center whereas islam is about submission you need to conform just like any other religion you need to conform and i i believe that being free in in all the most possible maximally possible ways is better for society we flourish better as a society with that in the long run and that's why i favor atheism in this case thank you very much you gotta thank you very much we will jump into we have just a several more questions that came in sorry thank you guys for your pages this is coming in from mango tea says nadir will asking my child wife to scrape my semen stains on my clothes make me happy according to islam i think that they are just asking like is there a standard muslim response in the muslim apologetics world to the idea of semen on your clothes uh that well how is this related to this type of debate i guess it's kind of what i'm wondering okay no worries snake was right says nadir what is a dimmy it's they spell it dhi mmi a limmy uh yeah so basically this is a term where for people living within the islamic empire i think is what that term refers to oh by the way um i don't know how long we have left here but uh i gotta get going it's almost like yes 12 o'clock here last one so sorry i thought like this is mic q922 says nadir do christians jews atheists end up in hell are their degrees of punishments in islam so yeah so basically the question here is about salvation you know if they have heard the message they've seen the evidences god is going to hold them accountable and so uh now of course there's many different scenarios which could happen uh now there's some people who have never heard the message for that god will have to judge him in a different way gotcha and want to say folks we appreciate our guests so much they are both linked in the description i'm going to be back just about 15 to 20 seconds with an update on debate con which 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that everybody can make their case on the big questions in life on a level playing field then join us as we pursue that vision wholeheartedly we have got big stuff coming up in this conference is just one of them but i gotta show you other stuff here so let me show you because you might be like uh like uh tell me more i want to see what this is like well my dear friends it is a piece of cake if you want to sign up you click on the link that is either in the description box or you can also click on the link that is pinned at the top of the chat for indiegogo and you don't even have to create an account you can actually just sign in with facebook it's amazing really convenient for real it's actually it's just a piece of cake which makes it really nice and you might be thinking like ah james i don't know like tell me more well here's just a couple of examples of the examples of the perks for 50 bucks you don't have to be at the event in person to ask a question if you throw in 50 for the crowdfund you can actually ask a question from home that we will read live during the in-person event and we'll say this person's sending it from home who is a crowdfund funder we will actually be able to read that for you or maybe you're like i don't know if i'll have any questions well if you throw in 90 bucks you get to watch all of the debates live now about half roughly we're still deciding we're hoping to decide by the 26 so five days from now we want to decide on which debate specifically will be the ones that are you could say that uh if you put into the crowdfund you'd get to watch them live and like i said that's about half of the 10 debates so about five so you get four to five debates by throwing in nine bucks you get to watch them live and not have to wait as i'm telling you these are going to be juicy ones as you know but you might be thinking well james have you ever done this before do you know what you're doing we have and we have met our goal both times when we have done crowdfunds before so you remember this one about a year ago at this time we did this crowdfund for the debate between mike jones and michael schermer we met our goal in that crowdfund so we have demonstrated the ability to do this in the past thanks to you you guys have supported it and we're absolutely thrilled you guys it's not just this one because you might be like ah yeah beginners luck james you know no no no we have done this more than once and successfully hit our goal for example you remember this crowdfund dr kenny roads versus matt dillahunty that was our first time on indy go go i've got to tell you we've done it before and we are going to make it this time my dear friends we are absolutely pumped i want to say thank you so much for making these things possible as you guys this is big stuff for modern day debate we're taking big steps here and like i said 100 of the funds from the crowdfund as well as from the ticket sales are going back toward debate con whether it be part one or if like i said if we get lucky and we make more than it costs we'll have a surplus that we'll use for debate con two in may my dear friends we have big stuff planned and so want to say thanks for hanging out with us though in the old chat i want to say hello to you and address you personally because i seriously i do appreciate you guys making this channel as awesome as it is because seriously you guys do make it awesome you guys have made these crowd funds possible in the past where we've gotten to host people like dr michael schermer president of skeptic magazine and new york times bestseller kind of a celebrity in the atheist world you guys have made these things possible and we want to say thank you so much to the people who've already put into the crowdfund you guys i am absolutely thrilled i'm encouraged because we have this is a good start for the crowdfund for real and i've got to tell you someone promised me the other day they're like hey i actually have a big amount that i'm going to throw in and so we are absolutely optimistic about it and randolph richardson thanks so much for coming on i see there in the old live chat and then be truthful good to see you there in the old live chat as well as well as kory ander and quick lemon thanks for coming by as well as hannah anderson good to see you and oliver catwell as always good to see you as well hinkers hill ingress soul thanks for coming by says jesse pilt amazing teabag we're glad you were here i hope you had a great day darth revan happy to have you kai pumped her with us snake was right i see you there ballah bestree full hd thanks for coming by as well as math house that's an hour we're glad you're with us crack pot broccoli glad you were with us says if i lived in texas may iar wouldn't be mutilated who juicy and hl aristosly's glad you're here as well as sage ohio and kareem thanks for coming by sorry folks we didn't get to every question i agree we do want to let the debaters out of here it was midnight for nadir uh so he's in he's actually in florida and so it's pretty late for him we we do have to let the guests out of here so we don't always get to ask every single question we try our best to move fast but my dear friends maryon gran bruhine glad to see you seriously we're glad you were here breakfast gone thanks for coming by says how can one buy tickets my dear friend it is linked at the top of well it's actually linked in the description box and the description box right underneath the debaters links it says here is the based link to grab an in-person ticket for the modern day debate or modern day debate debate con conference in dalis on january 15 so i'm telling you if you live in texas like come on out folks it's going to be a great time for real we are absolutely excited for this and then mango tea good to see you there dan are thanks for being with us and zoo thanks for coming by as well as truth defenders and not mod bruce wane good to see you there as well as amy newman good to see you and haxed longtime friend of the channel pumped to have you with us let's see t bug says caxi t bug are you by chance also the person behind the are you t bug are you human girl under yet another account but we are pumped to have you here no matter what and then let's see here i believe you t bug and then let's see here chats moving fast on me mohammed hamden thanks for your kind where it says big up the channel thanks so much for your support seriously and then cranky beast 2259 says who's coming who's conning who this is like a steal better than a deal james you trying to get conned with the sweet deal hell yeah basically yeah we're we're offering the tickets so it's such a low price right now that i'm like this is like it's it's almost half it's it's over half but it's it's not too far from half of the price that a similar conference that we've seen do for their prices where i'm like bob this is really cheap but hey i i want to tell you folks we really uh do appreciate people throwing in early for tickets as that gives us an idea of how many we can predict that in total we're going to have and the thing is for us to have this conference or i should say that the conference in may we want to have debate con part two for that to happen this one needs to go relatively well if we don't have extra funds that we can use for debate con part two in may that's okay it is but if we don't at least break even so like if we can break even or it's like ah it's like what we came out okay that's we're like okay we have a good reason to shoot for debate con two but if this is something where people are like nah i don't really care i don't really i'm i live in dallas but i still don't want to come and it's like or if people don't put into the crowd fund then we're like eh maybe we won't do debate con two so i'm telling you if you want to see more big time debates like this because these these really are some big time people like these are some big time subscriber like uh big time viewer i should not viewers either um big time debaters that we were actually going to host and so if you want to see more events like this i want to say hey jump in with us as we this is kind of a risk we're taking like it is a big budget for this event and so we are willing to take the risk because we really do believe people will back the channel and we do appreciate your support of the channel and we want to say thank you for that matthew demarton says thanks james thank you matthew seriously it means more than you know and we're excited about this we really have full confidence this is going to it's going to go well we really do believe it and we are going to ask the debaters to help promote the event and we really are confident it's going to go well and that we are going to do debate con part two in may and a site show nav says in the chat jump in early for the best prices early bird prices 26 through december 26 so yeah you got to move fast folks i would highly encourage you jump on it and we want to let you know you guys it is going to be absolutely based and redpilled as bob would say and matthew colbert sin good to see you it says my grooms i think he's he means to say grooms my dear friend matthew is so glad to see you matthew is a supporter of the channel and more importantly he is a personal friend of mine from back in the day i moved to nakidot just texas several oh wow it's already five years ago isn't it crazy matthew that five years ago was when we first met that's crazy it doesn't seem like it's been that long but five years ago matthew became one of my best friends and i am so thankful that we have stayed in touch and i got i told you guys the other day i got to visit matthew's wedding i told you that on sunday night and not only not only visit but i had the honor of being a groomsman and it was honestly a great i'm just thankful to be there on your special day matthew so seriously it means more than you know and then i've got to tell you yeah it was also fun to meet i was pumped to meet austin it absolute blast i really did enjoy austin and i actually i loved meeting cornelius creations matthew as well and t bug says i believe in healthy debate thanks t bug seriously that means more than you know i am excited and we've got to tell you we have told you the vision here at modern day debate is to provide a neutral platform so that everybody can make their case on a level playing field we're absolutely committed to that and i would say that the second part of our vision is we want to see people continue to talk there has been not just in politics i think even in the debate world in terms of religion and even in these kind of scientific debates like flat earth no joke there has been this kind of siloing off namely where groups have kind of there's been kind of this fissure that's been created between groups to where they're oftentimes isolated and not talking to each other we don't think that's a good thing so we are attempting to provide a bridge where people can actually talk with one another from different world views from different demographics christian atheist muslim you name it we are glad you are here seriously we really do appreciate you no matter what walk of life you're from as we strive to be a neutral channel we want to make you feel welcome no matter who you are black white gay straight christian muslim biden backer trump supporter you name it we are absolutely thrilled to have you here my dear friends but yes coriander pumped to have you here and i'm going to tell you my friends we may disagree on a lot it's true we do we might as well let's let's not even try to minimize it it's fine that we disagree there's nothing wrong with disagreeing in fact tolerance requires that there's disagreement i hated the fact i've told you guys this i've always hated how back in college when i was in undergrad sometimes they would say oh james uh you know don't don't say that only one view is right i mean because it's true i mean like for example i mean either muslims are right either christians are right are there either atheists are right it's not like all three of them and it's not even like two out of the three could simultaneously be true it's like no no no no like it's just there's too many contradictions between those views let's not be illogical let's stick with the law of non-contradiction and say that no they can't all be true it's gotta be the case that either one of them is right or theoretically none of them and maybe it was it was the spaghetti spaghetti monster spaghetti monsters i don't know what they're called but the idea is this what i'm trying to get at here is that it doesn't make sense to be like oh james be tolerant don't disagree it's like that doesn't make sense in order to be tolerant it requires disagreement it doesn't make sense for example if you know if you're talking with someone you find out you agree on something it doesn't make sense to say oh i i tolerate the fact that we agree on this it's like what that doesn't make sense you have to disagree for tolerance to actually be enacted and so let's not minimize the differences we do disagree but let's really try to engage with each other with an open mind saying let me at least understand where you're coming from let me at least understand it and even if you don't feel like budging from your position at all at least being willing to dialogue with the other side and being willing to say hey like let me hear you out on this there's something good there's something sincere about that but my dear friends i've got to tell you we are pumped we are excited thank you cranky beast 2259 this is uh one of the uh i don't know if this is um it's definitely one of the more novel compliments uh i've ever gotten in my life says james you're a cooler sexier mike lindell that doesn't sell effing pillows you mean the guy from my pillow thank you let me i mean do i really look like him now i'm like i'm insecure about this well i'm self-conscious about what or not i look like mike lindell well let me maybe a little bit no no i don't okay but i gotta tell you guys you guys i'm seriously pumped is that mike lindell if he heard about this conference he would be there that's how good debate con is going to be but i've got to tell you my dear friends we're excited about the future the other thing is i gotta tell you this i learned this from a friend named samuel nasan tolerance is a low bar at moderna debate we not only hope that people will interact we i'm not joking we hope they'll be friends and it's like hey they may debate and it might be fierce but i've got to tell you i've debated some people fiercely and afterwards said hey i would count them as a friend though we disagreed vehemently we disagreed so strongly but nonetheless said hey you know what let's just let it be water under the bridge we're not going to hold a grudge we're not going to take it personal we're just going to set it aside and be friends that's i think a more ideal vision to shoot for rather than oh we're just going to tolerate people tolerating if you think about it is only the first step it really should only be the first step it's kind of weak imagine if for example my friend samuel said this to me imagine if you visit or let's put it this way someone visits with you at your home their guest and then they uh you know you asked them how did it go did you sleep okay last night how how was it staying with us we hope it was comfortable we hope we were a good host and they say huh it was tolerable you would be insulted he like because tolerating something is the absolute minimum and so my encouragement is this we want to say don't just shoot for tolerating one another don't just shoot for communicating with one another at moderate a debate like i said we are in the you could say in the vision the pursuit the goal of creating bridges so that people can for real i really do believe that they can be friends now clown said will the haki gachu event be free to watch on youtube that particular one will be so we do know this this is all we know is that the main events will for sure be live for everyone but some of the other debates like i said about half the debates we're going to say hey would you be willing to put into the crowd fund to help us make this happen and i mean realistically think about it folks these things have costs like they really do i mean we're flying in speakers like i i mean if like i know that most of you are supportive and you're like hey like you know i understand james i get it for but for the one percent that are still skeptical uh i have to tell you if this is new is that airplane tickets cost money like they do that that's just the way it is and so my thing is i gotta tell you they do cost money for us to put this event on for us to rent this venue for the haki gachu and destiny debate that actually does cost money and so that's why i would say like hey folks like join us in pursuing this vision as we try to take these big steps and like i said if there happens to be any excess funds 100 of it is being put into debate con part two in may as we're hoping to have that conference so i am pumped to have you here though i want to say i love you guys thanks for all of your support of modern day debate thank you just for being here hit that subscribe button and that way you don't miss any of those debates because like i said even if you don't watch the debates live all of them will be released on the channel and that's one thing too is like i feel sometimes people like 1% are like james i'm i'm angry i can't watch it live and it's like well you know you'd be well to watch it for free anyway because we'll release it on the channel eventually and they're like i'm still indignant i want to watch it live and it's like you like and they're like and i don't want to put anything anything into the crowdfund and it's like can you meet us halfway like we are taking a risk here and so that's why i would say again 99% of you i know you're you're like i get it i understand why you do a crowdfund james like that makes sense but the 1% out there where i'm like we have to be practical here and so want to say thank you guys so much for all of your support thank you guys for making this channel awesome you really do make the channel awesome seriously i do appreciate you guys so much i love you guys you guys make this fun and i honestly enjoy this so much i told randolph and the deer when we started i said you guys this really puts a pep in my step i just love doing this and so say i want to say i love you guys bestry full hg as well as kori ander darth revin sage ohio rg clowned and hacks t bug darkest knights dylan george seriously i love you guys i i seriously you guys make this fun debos holdos good to see you again side show nav thanks so much and as well as amanda thanks so much for helping us get this conference put together and side show nav thank you especially for doing so much you have done a ton and thanks for your patience with me as i've been oftentimes maybe a little i'm like i'm pretty i'm a little burnt out but we're going to make it folks i'm going to get some rest and we're going to be good so i love love you guys it's already 1023 year i got to go i got to get to sleep earlier so i love you thanks for everything and keep sifting out the reasonable from the unreasonable we are excited to see you next time my dear friends and you guys seriously i just love it you guys you guys make it fun for me so take care and we will see you next time amazing beta


Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Nali. Welcome to a new vlog. Today's Monday and I'm so happy to be back home even if it's for like literally three days. I was back at my actual like hometown in Georgia, Russell, Georgia for like five days, like the whole last week. And then on Thursday we're heading to Cancun for Ryan's birthday. I'm so freaking excited. I've been wanting to go to an all-inclusive for so long, probably before COVID. So I'm finally getting to satisfy that craving and it's just gonna be like very nice, relaxing, hoping the weather's good. Because it does say it's gonna rain, but I'm not sure if it's like, obviously it is a tropical place. So I'm thinking it might rain like for 10 minutes here, like a big shower and then be done in blue skies. I'm just really hoping that's the case. So I'm not really sure, but really, really praying for some good weather. And yeah, so this vlog is going to be just like a few days in my life because I want to do like a whole Cancun vlog update on the shelves. I have not purchased a single thing for them, so they're still bare, but hey, they're still cute. This morning I am going to get macho with my friend Shireen.  Like they used to be open on Mondays, but they're not anymore. So we're just gonna go to Fletch because it's like right down the road and she has to get back to work. But we wanted to have a little catch-up session and then this week, slash these three days, I have like all my doctor's appointments scheduled because I had to like schedule them a month out. These people are like really booked up, so I put them all like back to back to back. So today is the dermatologist, which I have not been to a dermatologist in forever and like I have suffered with so many skin issues when I was a kid. I'm really, really dry skinned, so I have like a lot of eczema and I had a big flare up when I went to Italy and it was not fun and it's still kind of lingering. So I want to get that checked out. I want to get some more dandruff shampoo prescribed because the prescription one is like game changer and I'm really running low and it's 100% probably expired. So I'm still using it and let's see, well, I can't really think of anything else. But tomorrow I'm going to the OBGYN. I hope I don't have to get a pap smear, but I actually got off the pill like three months ago-ish because I was just like curious to see what I would be like off the pill. And now I'm thinking about getting an IUD. I don't know. I'm really scared. They say it hurts like hell getting it put in, so I'm really, really nervous for that. So we'll see, we'll see. I'll keep you guys updated. I know this might be TMI, but I don't really care anymore. Some people like actually appreciate when people talk about this. So I'll definitely keep you guys updated on that. And then the last one is the dentist. I'm nervous about the dentist because I've been having like some weird teeth, sore feeling. Like every time I bite into something salty and like a piece of salt gets on my tooth, it's so sensitive and I'm really hoping I don't have cavities. But if I do, like I guess I'll just get them fixed. But anyways, so that is the current plan for the week. Also just prepping for the trip, packing. I can't wait to like be back home. And this sounds so mean and so bad because I don't want to like wish away my life because I've also been really looking forward to this trip. But I feel like I've also been traveling a lot and I just like want to be at home because today was so good. Like it's only almost 9 a.m. And I feel so good. I went to the gym and I did 12, 3, 30 all the way through. And most of the time I actually did not hold the rails, which I was shook at because I haven't done it in so long. And even when I did it for like every day for like two months, I was holding onto the rail. So I was like, go meet. I came back home, showered. Also I made overnight oats. I'm thinking I should bring them to the coffee place because I don't really want to get like a pastry or anything even though that sounds good. And I feel like every time I have matcha on an empty stomach, I go bonkers. Like I'm just like a little twitchy. So I don't want that to happen. Look how cute this is. I'm dead.  And I have to show you guys all the other ones. I'll try to do that today so I can like unbox them. I was waiting to unbox them on the vlog, but they are this company Porter. I literally just unboxed this one last night just to do these overnight oats. And then I have these frozen mangoes that I put in a warm bag. I think they're sweet. That works. Yay. My mom was like you can just put frozen fruit in there because I don't have anything since we just came from home and I'm going away again. I'm just like I don't really want to buy groceries but I should probably go to HEV and get something because I want bananas and just like a few things. But anyway, I'm gonna go to the coffee shop, bring my overnight oats, be a good girl and then straight from there, I'll probably go to the dermatologist. Just got to flinch literally two minutes from our house. We'll apartment but here with Shareen. Gonna get some matcha as always. No, I'm gonna get chai. Okay. I got the chai last time and I wasn't a fan. Well, you know, I like the sweet stuff. I don't like it too sweet. Okay. Okay. So yeah, that's perfect. Okay. I got matcha. They do like the simple or no the syrup like maple syrup right too sweet. Yeah. Which makes a difference because it's a little nutty. Yeah, I like it. I like it. Matcha here is 10 out of 10. I just drove to Westlake Dermatology. I unfortunately couldn't go to the place I got my boots done. I really wanted to go there because I feel like I'm familiar with it. And it's downtown. It's like literally right down the street for me. But they were not taking new clients. So I had to come all the way down to the southwest parkway. I don't even know where that is honestly. But it was like 20 minutes from where we were.  But the plus is that they actually have parking and in downtown you have to like pay or like, you know, find free parking. So that is a plus. But I had such a good morning with Shireen and I feel like being around people like that honestly just makes me like thrive because like we're bouncing off ideas. She has a very creative mind like me and I just love like talking about like our passions and like this sounds so cheesy and like cliche. But like having people like that that are like so excited about something makes you excited for them and like makes you want to do something for yourself and just like push yourself even more. And so I'm just very thankful to like have friends like that. So very, very good morning. Best way to start off the day. And yeah, so I'm going to go into the dermatologist hopefully get everything figured out. I'm going to tell her the ointment I like using. And hopefully they have it because the last time it was like pro topic. I don't know if you guys have eczema or if you've ever heard of it. But I loved pro topic because it like heals you so fast. The last time I went to the dermatologist they did not have pro topic or like it was really expensive all of a sudden or whatever they gave me an off brand was fine. But I just really like pro topic. So I'm hoping that things have changed because it's been so long literally in and out within like 15 minutes. I always get so nervous when you go to like checkout because I never know how much I'm supposed to pay if like I'm supposed to pay anything. I'm on my mom's insurance. Like I don't know like what insurance covers. And then also like this one time I went to this EDS clinic which could be different than like a regular doctor. I don't even know how that all works. But I it was like for an earache or something. I was wanting to get like earwax pulled out and she gave me this form to like sign off. And I was like wait like how much is it? Because you know I just assume that insurance covers a lot. I guess it doesn't. And she was like oh it's going to be like 100 something dollars. And I was like um yeah no it's okay. I'll just not do that because I didn't know like if there was a cheaper option. She didn't really give alternatives. And it was just weird that she kind of like assumed that I was going to pay that and like not tell me up front. And it was weird that I had to ask. So now whenever I go into the doctor I'm just like okay well like how much is that? Or like do I pay that?  Like I said they just assume that you're just going to pay for anything. And I don't even know how much these prescriptions cost. Or if my insurance covers it. I have no freaking idea. I'm literally going to call my mom right now and be like uh like how much is this going to run me?  Like I need this ointment. But I'm just also just really confused because I feel like no one teaches you about insurance and taxes and like the things you really need to know in school. So this is what happens. I really confused 25 year old about to be 26 and a couple months. And well I don't know why I said a couple. It's like six months out. But still. Now I'm going to go home. I want to call Anna who is my assistant. We're going to talk some strategy. And what else? What else? I have a shoot with one of my blogger clients at 2pm today. And then I'm going to go get a lash lift right after. I just finished my shoot and now I'm at the lash appointment that I had because I wanted to get my lashes lifted before I go to Cancun. But I scheduled this for 4.30 because originally the shoot was at 3. So this was going to be perfect timing because it was like literally 15 minutes away from this blogger's house. And she lives kind of far from me like in West Lake Hills area. But anyway, so she changed it to 2 which is no problem. I can just like wait in the car. I always have work to do on my phone. So we're rolling with the punches and I brought a cooler with my little snackie. You guys have watched the vlogs for a while. You know that I eat these like a lot. These are just spring rolls from HEB. And I really need to learn how to make these because I would just like prep them. And it's like let's see 5.99. And then I have some coconut water. This thing is large and in charge but I didn't want to like pour it in another cup or anything. But I've been loving using coconut water in smoothies. It's so good. And then also matcha. I just got a DM from a girl saying she watched my last vlog and my matcha that I'm using is not, what's she say? I think she said like ceremonial grade. I'm using like culinary grade. So I need to get a new matcha. I'm going to look at it like literally after I eat. But yeah, this looks so good. I was like literally thinking about it. The whole drive here which was not very long but I was just so hungry. So also I really liked that overnight oats thing that I did this morning. And the mango like I think I told you guys but it was frozen mango. I thought it literally put it in a bowl of water for like, I think I did it before the gym. So maybe like it was in there for like an hour? No, not even. Probably like 45 minutes. But anyways, it was like fresh mango. Like so sweet, so good, so ripe. It was like what the heck? I'm going to so do this more often. Especially with mango. I'm not sure how the other fruits would be. I feel like strawberries like I've just decided that I don't think I like strawberries as much as I like the idea of strawberries. Every time I have a strawberry, even if it's sweet, I'm just like, okay, that was a good strawberry but I'm never going to really crave a strawberry unless it's like with something sweet. Like cool whip or like chocolate, obviously chocolate covered strawberries. Other than that, strawberries on its own, hot take, not that good. This morning when I was talking to Anna, I was telling her all my goals and I really want to push myself to post like 10 Instagram stories a day. And I feel like that might sound stupid having a goal like that but especially because this is kind of like, I guess part of my job is to like be on social media. I sometimes get in phases where I love to talk on stories and show my face and show what I'm doing.  Nobody cares about my lash appointment or my eczema issues. But every time I do start to post, I have so many people that I get to talk to you through my DMs because they actually like relate to stuff I say. And it's just so cool and I really need to remind myself of this feeling because I really, really like connecting with people online. But it's just weird when I like stop all of a sudden, I don't know why I do that. I just get into weird funks and I don't want that to happen anymore so I'm literally going to try to post at least 10 stories a day. We'll see if I can, you know, keep that up. But if you guys are not already following me on Instagram, go ahead and do so. It's so underscore gnarly without the G and also on TikTok because I also need to post more on TikTok and not just like trending sounds. Like I actually want to talk on TikTok because I feel like I can really like show my personality more there because I don't really care who sees it on TikTok. Even though I feel like TikTok is really starting to show me all my contacts or like random people in my contacts that I forgot about maybe in high school. So I'm scared that like my TikToks will be in front of people that I like literally don't like haven't talked to in so long, you know? Back home, it is currently 6.20 and here are the lifted lashes. Can you tell? Yeah, you can definitely tell. They're like super curled. They're literally like touching my eyelids which I feel like it's going to be annoying especially when I put mascara on because like the last time I go to Pink Lady Lash by the way and like they can do different kind of curbs so the last time was perfect and this time we wanted to try something a little bit more dramatically but apparently my lashes took really well like surprisingly well.  She said that we could straighten them if it like really bothers me but like I don't really want to go all the way back there and like that appointment, I don't remember my eyes burning during the appointment. I mean yeah, I do remember them being really itchy. I don't know. Like during the appointment it's tough like especially the last like 15 minutes but we made it out alive. One of my life quotes is beauty is pain. I've always said that I started getting like waxed when I was probably I don't know second grade, third grade started doing my eyebrows super young which kind of regret but I don't know. I was just a hairy girl and I would do anything not to be a hairy girl and now well I think I got in high school or something but I got laser hair removal and now I shave my arms because I guess that's just like what you do when you get laser hair removal. I wanted to get it again for sure. Hopefully maybe in the winter time I was thinking about it because you're not supposed to be like in the sun for like long periods if you're going through laser. So gonna wait till the winter but I wanted to do my haul of the little food storage containers. I started to open a couple so I'm gonna open them all and show you guys exactly what I got. Also I really like the hairstyle I was doing this morning. Little bump it action. I only did it because I didn't want to brush out my bangs and like I was wondering if it could like hold volume if I didn't brush them out and I just put them like that giving me jersey short of ads. I feel like everyone called me snooki in high school and I'm like I don't I don't even look like snooki but like okay. I guess we'll start the haul with these ceramic bowls so pretty much all of what I'm about to show you is food storage or like meal prep containers. This is kind of just like a leftovers bowl. I think this is ceramic but this part outside it's like rubbery which it feels really cool and I love this cream color. I would die for this color and the brand is Porter I guess it's like W and P W and P or Porter I don't really understand but it like latches on so you can like secure your leftovers so that's nice. So I got three of those because I feel like whenever I do make food for me and Ryan I always try to make a little extra for me for like the day after because Ryan doesn't usually eat leftovers so more for me but I like to have it like proportioned you know so these are actually kind of the reason why I got all of this because look how stunning these containers are. I'm gonna be totally honest like I am sold if a product has a good aesthetic and good packaging like I feel like a lot of people are but I am like so easily sold when I see something super cute like this it could just be so minimal but I love the look of it so this one is a 24 ounce and this one is a 16 ounce I realized that today's overnight oats was only in the 16 ounce. My mom told me to put two cups of milk which ended up being a lot of milk so I think I'm gonna do a little less than that next time but then this would be perfect because it was kind of overflowing a little bit this morning especially when I put the ingredients in so I got four of these 24 ounce ones and then four of these 16 ounce ones and I'm just really wanting to just organize my life especially when I get back from vacation I'm already looking forward to getting my fucking shit together and then they have these really cool reusable like bags so not sure exactly what I'm gonna put in these maybe like herbs if I have any I like these especially because they're the stand-up bags so you can actually stand them up in your fridge or you can like put a little sandwich in put in your lunchbox I got all different sizes now I think these three are the same size then this one's a little bit smaller stand-up bag and then we have all of the little ziploc bags oh I forgot little sauce containers I wish these came in the cream too but I don't even know where I'll be going for me to actually like bring a sauce container but I just thought it was so cute my main issue when it comes to just eating I guess is my portions I definitely could cut down on my portions especially because when I started living with Ryan I started cooking on my own and so I would see what he would eat and think it was like what I should eat he would go get seconds and then I would want seconds but I'm definitely not his size and I don't need that much food I just like want it you know what I mean like my eyes are bigger than my stomach kind of thing so I'm really hoping that this whole thing will kind of help me to like pre-portion also just like to help me actually eat my fruits and vegetables because I really want to like cut up my fruits and like put them in these little things before they go back most importantly I was actually really proud of myself because before I went back home I stuck all my like veggies I cut them up put them in the freezer I also made mint ice cubes that I totally forgot about until now so I need to like make something with that um but yeah so that is my little food storage hall I'm in a limbo right now because I'm just like I do want to go get groceries because I feel like I need food but I'm literally leaving on Thursday I was even thinking about bananas like if I got bananas today they'd probably just be good by Thursday so I don't know if it's worth it okay so now I want to do a little computer work I have some emails to respond to because I feel like I have not been home my computer all day it is Tuesday it's pretty late in the day I actually had a really early morning shoot and then went straight to the OBGYN got blood work done and then I was like just so fatigued I don't know why so I kind of took today as a rest day because I know tomorrow's gonna be a little bit crazy with packing and just like creating content and stuff but right now we are about to head to Blues on the Green here in Austin it's at Zilker Park and it's basically like a free concert and you just like bring your own like blankets and chairs I just found out that apparently you can't bring drinks and food which is kind of weird but I think that they have vendors so maybe that's why but I put on this hat and I have like a bunch of hats I just don't really wear them because every time I put on a hat I take it off because I feel weird but like I see so many people wearing hats and they all look so good especially this one girl or I mean two girls technically because they think they're twins on Instagram I'm gonna put their like picture here they are so cute they wear like these really cute like felt hats all the freaking time and they are my inspo because I love their style and yeah so I was kind of inspired I did like two little cute things back there and these earrings I literally just unboxed they're from Amazon I'll try to put them in my Amazon storefront I was just wearing a romper but I texted my friends and I was like what is everyone wearing and then they all said that they were gonna wear like athletic stuff so I just changed into a t-shirt because I still wanted to wear the hat and the hat would definitely not go with an athletic dress I still don't really know about this outfit but you know what sometimes you just have to like push yourself outside of your comfort zone and I don't know maybe just like wear things that you normally wouldn't like this hat and these like little bun pigtails I mean they're cute but I just I it's definitely not like me then I have some Reebok sneakers on because I do not want to get like any like bug bites on my feet I also wanted to wear long pants for that reason I guess jean shorts it is so I think we're gonna Uber over there because it's like actually impossible to find parking on like any given day at Zilcher I feel like but like especially blues on the green so I think we're gonna bring some chairs or blankets I haven't decided I think since we have the chairs might as well bring them and like be a little bit more comfortable and I'll like have to sit on the ground but I'm gonna meet up with my friends over there and I'll probably vlog on my phone it's Wednesday and this morning I woke up in probably the worst mood I have been in so long I'm not really sure what happened everything was going wrong and I was just getting even more pissed off and I mean I still don't feel like I'm like you know back to feeling great this morning I worked out and I really thought that like working out would make me feel better sorry about the laundry and back we're doing laundry because it's packing day but yeah so it didn't really make me feel that much better but I got my work out in and I went to the dentist I haven't done like a teeth cleaning in so long and like I said I'm just trying to get all my appointments done and found out that I have well I don't know what I have he didn't really say I had cavities he said I had like a hole in my already filled cavities and they just need to like fix some things and so he said that since they're all over my mouth he wants to split them up into three different appointments and I'm like you're fucking kidding me like it's so annoying also it's not that close so that adds to the annoying part but then I went to get my nails done and they turned out amazing so at least we have that look how freaking cute they are I went ahead and did gel x again so these aren't my real nails they're like a full press on fake nail and then they paint gel over it and they look so good I'm very very happy with that and even my toes I really like the colors so at least that's one plus of today I really am not usually a negative person and so like this whole day because I was feeling so shitty and like thinking about all the bad things that's been happening to me like this morning I was like really like feeling even more guilt because I'm like why am I being negative like I'm not usually like this like what's wrong with me I was just like in my head this morning I really don't know what it was but it is pretty late and I was out this whole morning I didn't want to eat before my dentist appointment so I haven't eaten today and it's like 2 p.m. goodness gracious so I'm gonna eat overnight oats again this is like my new obsession I think and it's just like so easy especially because I have those frozen mangoes I think I'm gonna finish it off today and I also just have like a lot of random things to do today before we go to Cancun tomorrow oh also the big thing is that I checked the weather and it's literally storming from the day we get there till the day we leave and before like today it was sunny and then the day after we leave it's sunny so that really pissed me off too and I'm just really really hoping hoping hoping that we get like some sun I'll take anything at this point because I'm just like I don't want to be stuck there and it rained the whole time like that would suck so I really don't like to be a negative Nelly but I don't know today is just not my day I guess but I'm really hoping to turn it around so after I eat I think I'm gonna do my hair because I need to film a sponsored post and then probably just like pack and do emails and edit this vlog and I also have galleries to edit I just curled my hair because I wanted to film some TikToks and it's looking a little bit flat and I thought it would be a perfect time to try out this like really interesting tool that I have I saw like a TikTok and I was instantly sold because anything that like gives me a little bit of volume I need so that's exactly what this does it's called the volume and basically you like I guess like clip off like this top part of the section and then like press the bottom parts and then it gives you like a lot of volume so this is the before I just feel like my hair is a little bit dirty and flat so let's see if it actually does what it's supposed to do hopefully and also I'm not naked got the tube top my favorite tube top this one is from Amazon and this tool is also from Amazon so if you guys are interested I'll link them both down below we're still doing laundry so we haven't really packed anything but we're on the last load the last load is drying so we should be able to pack soon and I also forgot that I needed to pick up my prescription at Walgreens but I don't think the pharmacy closes soon I don't know if I'm seeing things but I feel like this side of my hair looks a lot more like fluffed up and just like has a lot more volume I'm gonna put like the iPhone clip like here because I feel like you can see it more in the iPhone clip I didn't do this side yet so just like look at this side it kind of looks like I have extensions but I just did something to the roots so I'm like really confused but I like it the only thing is that well actually you can't really see the texture of that machine okay here both sides done it 100% made a difference that is insane it literally took me like 30 seconds to just like add a little bit of volume I mean it sucks that I did have to use heat I wish I like had another way I mean there's many ways but this is like look at this volume I feel like a Utah mom blogger I feel like I reference them a lot but you know like it looks like I have like hair extensions with all this volume up here I have no idea where I put all my tripod so you're like standing on some box but I'm currently doing like what I got on Amazon versus how it turned out on TikTok so I thought I would like show you guys on the vlog so first up we have this really cute like crochet skirt and also I did a Monday swimwear haul on my TikTok that I totally forgot to vlog for you guys and I'm so mad at myself I am obsessed with quality like it is pretty pricey for like one swimsuit but the quality is like snatching like it snatches you in sucks you in and I love it I feel like that's what I need especially because we're going to an all-inclusive and I'm gonna have me a drink I'm gonna have me some fries on the beach you know so I don't really want to be worrying about all this but anyways okay so this is the crochet let me get a close very cute very cute I'm gonna link everything down below and I'm gonna do a quick change I'm literally like chasing the sun so let's do this quick all right here is the next thing I feel like I'm gonna get hated on because I didn't iron this slash steam it because the last Amazon TikTok I did they're all like you need to iron your stuff and I'm like I'm just filming a TikTok like I'm not going anywhere even though I don't really usually steam stuff but it does make a difference I will say anyways so this is the jumpsuit pretty sure I got it in a size large and it comes in a bunch of other colors super cute and also very comfortable which is the most important thing last thing I'm putting in this haul is this little cute button down it's pink how cute wait that's super cute also I don't think I ever told you guys about these shorts in this vlog and if I did I'm sorry because I'm gonna review myself but I need like a billion different colors in these shorts they're the free people I want to say way home shorts and they're only $30 and I love how high-waisted they are like it makes me feel so secure I've been working out on them which honestly I need to remember to like put some deodorant between my legs because like obviously working out in short shorts you could get some chafing but like other than that they're so comfortable so like breezy I love them so much I need to buy like I said a couple more pairs but okay there's the button down there's it close up a little cute pink moment love it all right I think I got everything done today I'm like going over my calendar it's like planned out to a tee because one thing about me if I don't write it down it doesn't happen I forget about it like I will never think about it again it's so bad like my memory is horrible and I'm only 25 love that okay so I got some TikToks done I did a sponsored post I need to go pick up my prescription we need to buy our checked bags because we're flying spirit please pay for us honestly like I'm really nervous about it because I haven't flown spirit in so long and when me and Ryan were doing long distance in college he and I used to fly spirit all the time but it was from Atlanta to Orlando so it wasn't like the worst but now I feel like I hear so many bad things about like cancellations in general like all these flights are getting cancelled because there's not enough pilots to fill them or something like that so I'm just trying to stay calm and like honestly this whole trip I'm just trying to stay calm about because I keep looking at the weather and I need to stop because I can't do anything about it you know I kind of have to like accept it even though it really sucks like I was looking forward to this for so freaking long I still have hope that it's not going to be that much rain because I feel like it's going to be like that tropical rain I mean in Orlando it would say it would rain all day and then it would rain for like 10 minutes and then be gone and then the sun would come out so I'm really really hoping it's that but we will see I'm gonna head out the door I'm gonna pick up my prescription and then go to Chipotle and get dinner Ryan actually had it for lunch he called me and he was like do you want Chipotle for lunch and I was like wait I literally wanted that for dinner I never crave Chipotle like that is not something I usually like think about eating but it always hits a spot like Ryan will crave it and I'll just be like okay like whatever Chipotle I can eat that but then it actually like tastes so good then when I come back we're gonna pack we're gonna get it all done our flight leaves at 1 p.m tomorrow so it's not a super early morning flight which thank god because I feel like the past few flights we've been on we're really freaking early and that's just not that's just not fun especially like ubering it always scares me I always schedule the ubers and lifts or whatever if we have an early morning flight but it always scares me that they're gonna cancel and then I won't be able to get another one so I'm glad it's like at 1 p.m and plus I feel like hotel or resorts like the rooms aren't even ready until like three or four I believe we'll be getting there around that time so it'll be like perfect just got off the phone with my sister she is posting her first Instagram reel she has like a food account I will put the ad on the screen here so if you guys are in Atlanta especially go follow her because she lives in Atlanta and she is a huge foodie just like me and she just knows all the best deals and everything like that but she just posted her first reel she was like it doesn't suck and I was like you gotta start somewhere I mean it didn't suck but anyways I told her to make her frame rate 60 frames a second instead of 30 I think she was shooting in 30 and so when she slowed a clip down it was super choppy so that's a good thing to know if you guys didn't know now you know and then also she's using Capcut to edit which is one of my favorite actually only iPhone editing movie apps that I use Capcut is just so insanely good and I'm still mind boggled that it's free I just don't get that but I'm not complaining because I'm not trying to pay for anything extra but anyways it's a really good app I'm about to go into Walgreens get my prescription I really hate this Walgreens because it's a little sketchy I'm not gonna lie but I'm gonna reward myself with Chipotle after we got the goods I always get extra corn because in my opinion that is like the best part of a bowl usually Ryan always orders us Chipotle so today I was like what do you order for me because I don't even know what all goes in this bowl do you guys eat Chipotle with a fork or a spoon because Ryan eats it with a fork no Ryan eats it with a spoon I'm pretty sure and I think I like a fork now I'm confused I'm gonna enjoy this and then we're finally gonna have to get to packing so it's gonna be fun


And one thing about content and podcasting is, you know, you can have, you know, a million people see and hear the same thing, but come away with a whole different perspective and understanding of what was said, you know?  Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101, 101. Yeah, we gonna talk. Now I think it's a great thing.  And shows like you guys and like say, you spoke of Seiji's wife, I- Or I would say, Seiji, shout out to Seiji and Cotton Boy. Yeah, man, and Giddy, you know, and Giddy- Yeah, they look alike. Yeah. G-to-B. And those, but I always say the wrong thing. Yeah, so we- Giddy, look alike. We really didn't have personal black media.  That's true. Now, guess what? I can get to the world because- You on Boss Talk 101. Exactly. You're getting no real talk. That's real. We have black, see people don't look at it like, sometimes, yeah, I get, man, that's some of them, you know, that really perpetuate a lot of the beef and all the crazies, right? But I don't say get rid of them. No. Because I'm like, you know what? We got nobody, I want people to really listen to what I'm about to say. We got black media. Now imagine, we got our own media. Y'all are media now. You know that, right? Do you truly, truly know how big- Not really. No. Let me tell you how big, y'all, as black media, right? You had to, you guys would come and say, hey, could you do this interview, right? Boss Talk is big. You might, y'all, Boss Talk, and it's rising and rising and rising. You got people, what I said, the big ones wanted to do stuff with, excuse me, with Skullface, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now you got people like Koto as a big show and show that's rising. Wants to do show, wants to do show. Yeah, we rock out. To take it in a way to where people can see us for who we are. Exactly. And it's coming from a real place because it's coming from us. For sure. And we never had that opportunity before. For sure. So I just took what he said and harnessed it because it's a real thing. It is. Yeah. And that's what he tells me all the time. Yeah, as well. And I was, I wanted to do that.  Because, you know, we're not so stiff and staunch to where we can't.    Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So, you know, that was important to me. Yeah. I see every time, cause I'm this person, I'll go through Instagram or whatever. And when I scroll through, I don't really listen all the time to what's being said or shown, but I'll go straight to the comments and I'll start reading. And your audience, they're quick to comment and say stuff and you going back and forth. And I'm like, okay. You have the engagement down pat. I'm gonna give you all that. Yeah. Yeah.   But you know, you get them weirdos in there too. And one thing about content and podcasting is, you know, you can have, you know, a million people see and hear the same thing but come away with a whole different perspective and understanding of what was said, you know? So, yeah, I'll be on there.  I'm a huge troll, I mean. So you respond when they say all sorts of stuff?   Oh, wow. You know, I just see it when you posted where your girl left you there. Sometimes I might give them everything they're looking for. Yeah. Crazy. I give them everything they're looking for. But then most times, you know, I'll take the high road and just, if they say something crash, I'll just be like, yeah, thanks for tapping in. Right. It depends on the day though. I can be a cheerleader for foolishness when I want to be.


Look, Turkey is going to have relationships with all of the significant powers in the world, including with Russia. But where the United States needs to have a better, more effective, more sustained dialogue with Turkey is on the question of when that cooperation gets in the way of effective military coordination within NATO. And so, for example, the S-400 system, the anti-aircraft system that Russia is selling to Turkey, it's not operable with the air defenses of our NATO allies or with the United States. This is not a positive development, and the U.S. should continue to work to try to show Turkey that going down the path it's going down is going to start creating significant operational challenges, as well as political and diplomatic challenges. And that should happen at both the military level and the civilian level. Whether we can succeed in bringing Turkey back to a more reasonable place on this set of issues, to put some right and left limits around the extent and nature of their cooperation with Russia, I can't say. But I think it's our obligation to try to do so.