15 to 7, an absolute disaster for the Yankees pitching staff across the board. Yeah, this was debacle for the Yankees. Their bullpen ends up giving up 13 runs. They were thoroughly outplayed by the Red Sox who just seemed and really didn't seem who were the team with more energy and more passion out there. And you look at the way a manager handles every game. Bob, a manager goes into a game with a model, an outline, the way that he hopes the game is going to go. I don't think that Aaron Boone went into tonight's game expecting that his starter would only go three innings, but he's the one who pulled Cece Sabathia after 77 pitches. The Yankees have a two-run lead. He goes to Holder in the fourth inning. Again, he's got a plan in his head. I think he probably wanted to get six outs out of Holder. He sticks with Holder through an inning that becomes an eight-run fourth inning. And Bob, quite honestly, he stayed with Holder too long. I think he clung or hung on to that plan that he was formulating as this game was accelerating. And that game got away from the Yankees. David Cohn was tremendous in the booth. He said, you've got to make a change at some point. Holder clearly doesn't have it. He faced seven batters, Holder did. All seven reached base, one on his own defensive miscue. Really quickly, you wonder if any of that was a byproduct of him trying to stay away from Luis Cece, who he really wanted to start Saturday. I think you're absolutely right. I think they want to stay away from Cece. And I think they did not want to bring Green in so quickly into the fourth inning. Like I said, they were hoping to get a tiny bit of length out of Holder now. Maybe two innings out of Holder. Maybe two innings out of Green. Because when your starter only goes three innings, suddenly you're saying to yourself, where are these 18 outs coming from? But again, I thought Cohn nailed it when he said, this is a game at Fenway Park that you have to win. You had the lead. You were in control. Then after the home run by Pierce at six to four, that's still a tight game at Fenway Park. Holder just didn't have it. Yes, Boone has a lot of confidence in him. 31 of his previous 35 appearances had been scoreless. Tonight was not his night. He ended up staying in this game two or three batters too long. And that really cost the Yankees.


Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. Welcome to the Stockswish Show play of the day. Actually, this ended up being a really, really great trade for me, and this was not the first thing I watched today. Not even close. And let's go over why. Why did I not watch this immediately today? Because it gapped up at first thing. So here you have this, and it's seven o'clock in the morning. And I get up early. I looked at this early. I saw that it's very early. NBAC gapped up. It was a gap up on earnings. And then all of a sudden, do, do, do, right before the open, it started gapping down. Now, this is not always the case. Usually what happens is something gaps and holds the gap, whether it gaps up or gaps down. But every once in a while, you'll have something that actually you look at, it's gapping up. And then all of a sudden, it's gapping down, or you look at, it's gapping down. And all of a sudden, it's gapping up. So you can go back and relook at stuff. I usually don't do that. But given the time of the year of fall, earnings season, and the market as it is right now in days like today, I guess doing a one look see over is a good idea, at least after 9.15. I think things, if they gap like at 9.28 or 9.29, it's just they're not, they just don't have enough volume in it to go in and play. But Bank of America did a volume in the pre-market because the fact that it was gapping, even though it was gapping up, it had volume. So I did not do the first trade in this because it wasn't watching it. But if I had watched it and done the first trade, this is what I would have done here. Now, as it turns out, this would have been aggressive. Okay. But if I liked this gap, it was my top pick. I always do the first entry here. It was. However, this was a really nice trade. And then I may never have played it again on the day. But I didn't do this trade. All right. But I saw it break. Actually, bread in the room pointed it out. And I saw it break. And then I wanted to watch it to see if there could be some kind of setup in it. If you don't know how to look to trade stocks, though, you might have jumped in this thing here. Luckily, I did not. I waited, waited, waited, waited, waited, waited, was patient, knew what I was looking for, knew what I wanted it to do. And waited for the confirmation. Why? Why did I want to wait for the confirmation? Let's go back here in the five. This is now what would have been the second entry in this. Again, I didn't do the first. I wanted to wait for the confirmation because at the time in the morning when this was rallying back, retesting the high of the day, the market was rallying. The market actually had already rallied over the high. And market was swish swashing. And the first thing the market did this morning was showing signs of bullishness. Okay. Now it didn't last. The market broke today and broke the low late late in the day in the afternoon. But in the morning, I wanted to wait for the confirmation that BAC would follow through. And so it ended up following through. Okay. And here was the two minute. If you wanted to be aggressive, you could have shorted it on the two minute at 1614. 1615 ish. I ended up taking it at 12. Reset up again in here had an ad drop and the break. This ended up making my day. This one trade made my day. Now I did an ad and I took double the size in the ad. When I do ads, I usually that's usually how I do an ad. Okay. I usually do an ad where I'm taking the trade on the confirmation that may or may not differentiate my stop or price, meaning that I might do an ad in something, which is again, usually what I do and end up worsening my price a little tiny bit, not much, but a little bit and more taking more risk. Sometimes I do an ad where I'm actually not changing my price. Price is the same. And but I'm taking more risk. It's still an ad though. Why? Because of the fact that I'm taking more position size and whether I change the stop or not, I'm taking more position size, which means more than one risk unit. We were discussing this today in the trading room about risk units and how one good trade can pretty much make your day. If you are having a bad day or a bad week, one nice solid trade can actually make your day positive or your whole week positive. Why? Because quality trades are important to have and are very, very strong and give you ads like this did. This actually had another ad. I did not, I didn't, I didn't take any more after this, after the first ad. I took an entry in an ad and it was very close to the original price. But anyways, this actually could have taken more here. I mean, if you had had 100% conviction, the market was going to break the load today, you could have taken more here. This actually had multiple ads. And I didn't do this one in here. Okay, I felt that was too far from my price and I was waiting to see exactly what the market was going to do exactly here in the afternoon. But today was the day we could have followed some things on through again into the lunchtime period or afternoon. Why? You had the market with you. You had the market with you once again today to the downside, falling and dropping late into the lunchtime period or afternoon. And if you've got something working for you, you may as well just let it right on out. But this concept of risk reward is important because if people don't understand it, then they'll be all over the place with a risk. And again, one solid trade can make your whole day. Even if the first thing or the second thing you like in the day doesn't end up working. Although I have found that many, many people when they watch something that it doesn't work, have a hard time then doing another quality trade because they get all in their head about money. The most important thing that I actually teach in the Gap class is that you have to focus on the right information. Whether trade works or not, it's never your fault. It's not the market's fault either and it's not the stock's fault. It's the same way when something does work. You have to know what to look for. If you see something that rates per the system and sets up, you take the trade. You size yourself according to the risk. And you have the targets and you play it on that. And if it works, you stick with it and you play it out to the target. And if it stops you out, then you take the one hour loss. That's why you have to size yourself correctly in the trades though. Because if you size one trade for a risk that's too great and it doesn't work, and you size another trade for your regular risk and it goes on to work and be a really nice trade like BAC ended up turning out to be today, then you won't see the results that you really could have seen if you size everything the same. It doesn't matter to me what people size things. It just has to be equal. It's a constant. It's like if I wrote a wrote a algebraic thing, it's the C is the constant, which is the risk, which is the R unit. It has to be constant and has to be the similar at least for a few months. It's not something that should be changed once a week or just at the whim. Whether the market's rallying or following either way, it shouldn't be. So BAC, I said they're out of possibility of actually going to 575, 60, or 550 on the day. As it turns out, BAC went all the way down. It basically almost went to 1540. I meant 1570, 1560, 1550, 1540. It went down to 1543. And the market helped us go really bigger. But I really thought 1570 was realistic then when I decided to do the ad. And I would have been very happy actually with that. I really would have been happy with that. But as it turns out, it just kept on going and wrote all the way down. So nice, nice, nice solid trade here in BAC. I'm just really, really happy with the day. And I got two more days of trade out the week. So we'll see what we get. And I'll be watching the market extremely close tomorrow to see what it's going to do. Look at the volume in this thing. Look at the volume in that. Aye, aye, aye, aye, aye. So yeah, so BAC, here it is. BAC, play of the day here. And it was all due to Brett popping it up on the list. And I took a look at it and saw how it broke. And really, really nice trade here in BAC. I did the right thing waiting for the perfect entry. I'm so good at entries. Did the ad, got an excellent ad. You could have even heavily traded this with more size than even more. Why? Because BAC can just load it up. You can just load it up on BAC because you can take so much volume in this. I didn't realize there was 170 million shares in this though. I just, I just saw that now. But this, this thing always says volume. Anyways, nice, nice day in here for me. And I'm really proud of myself for, you know, following this trade through basically and taking the risk that I did with the ad because it was more risk than just one R. And I'm allowed to do that for my trading plan and an ad. But if you're just looking at one trade, one stock symbol, one R, one trade, the R should be the same. If you do an ad and you allow yourself to do that, you're doing it because of the confirmation. And everybody has to know where they're at with their own risk amounts.  But you got to know a system that teaches you how to make money. So here it is, BAC, Golden Gap here of the day. Have a great day everyone. It is Wednesday. Two more trading days that week. We'll see what we get tomorrow morning. We'll see what kind of picks we get. If anyone's interested in the Golden Gap class, email me at melissa at thestockswish.com. The next class is October 25th and 26th. Have a great day everybody.


So I'm here in Cakewalk and I've got this acoustic guitar part which I like, however it's got a little timing issue in one little section which I want to fix. I'm going to play it for you now from back here bar 71 but as a little heads up I'll let you know the issue actually happens between bar 74 and 75 here about halfway through yeah with this note here. Let's have a listen see if you can spot the timing issue. Okay it's subtle it's only just a little bit off if I just snap the playhead to that position you can just see in there that that note occurs just a little bit before and when the other instruments are in there I feel like it's going to sort of stick out a little bit. Now thankfully I recorded some other takes and I'm going to show you how quick it is now to take a section from one of those takes and then just use it within this part to fix the whole thing you won't be able to hear the difference. So I'm going to click this icon on the bottom left here to reveal my other takes. Now I'm just going to go down to one of those other takes we've got the top one here which is the one we're using it's in green I'm just going to grab that bar from one of the other takes I'll just highlight it down here and you can see now something's changed down here you can see that this part's green take three then it goes down to take one then it goes back to take three and it's done some nice joins there for us. I'm going to show you exactly how to do all of that a little bit later but first of all let's just have a listen and see if we can hear that join I'm just going to mute the click track so we're just hearing the guitar let's have a listen. Okay so now that's in time I think it's pretty seamless there's a few things we can do to make it even better but the main thing I want to tell you is to use this system of guitar comping you have to prepare and start off in the right way so let's just go back in time a little bit for the considerations that I had to make right at the beginning of this process. Hi folks I'm Mike and I hope you're well now whether you're recording electric or acoustic guitar I reckon the key to great guitar comping is right at the beginning with the recording phase so I'm going to give you three tips right away for this phase which should really set you up for great comps the first of these tips is record all of your takes in one sitting what do I mean by that well here I am I'm set up for recording with this acoustic guitar I've got this lovely RODE NT1A condenser microphone pointed at around about the 12th fret and around about 12 inches away yeah it's a great recipe for a good acoustic guitar recording I record my first take and I go away and have a cup of coffee a bit of a break and I come back now when I sit down I don't notice it but I'm around about 10 inches away now and it's pointing say at the 10th fret there will be a difference in the sonic qualities of those recordings and you'll most likely hear it when you go to do your comping later now all is not lost if that happens you will be able to sort of get it close probably with some clever EQing but it creates an awful lot more work so tip number one record all of your takes in one sitting if you can tip number two requires a little bit of a change of mindset for some of you and that is record all of your takes from beginning to end let's say you're one of those guitarists like me when you're traditionally recording you're playing for a little while like so and then you make a mistake and you think oops and you stop recording you rewind you delete your recording and you start again it's a really long process often hey so that sort of is against the grain with comping we don't really want to do that we really want to get that freedom just to record all the way through get it nice and fluid and it's often a lot quicker to record with comping in mind because if you do make a small mistake in the middle for example just keep going and there may be some absolute gold that you play after that now I will say that if there's a specific part of the performance where you're always making the same mistake over and over again then just record that section of the song maybe two or three recordings or at least until you get one that you think is great now this leads me to my third tip and it's really important this one a lot of people fall into this trap don't record too many takes it's really tempting to think more is more if you have 20 takes you'll have 20 to choose from more choice the part will end up sounding great no what will happen is it'll be a long boring process you'll get frustrated you won't want to listen to all 20 takes and you'll end up just listening to three so I recommend around about three recordings is good you maybe do four maybe do five but normally it's a waste as I say if there is some specific section where you know you keep getting it wrong then record that section over but I'd say stick to around about three takes okay so now you're ready you've recorded some great material let's have a look at the last kind of setup we need to do in cakewalk so it's actually super simple to prepare cakewalk for recording with comping in mind just go up to the record button at the top of the interface and do a long left mouse button press on that that will reveal this menu and you just need to make sure that you have comping selected there now there are some other options for the way that the take lanes behave at the bottom here you don't need to worry about that too much at the moment just make sure as I say comping is selected now I have this track here ready for recording I'm just going to quickly record my voice on this occasion I'm just going to press that record button and this is the first take which I am recording one two three so I've pressed stop you can see that recording there now notice that when I record my second take you can't hear this take okay it's muted so it doesn't distract you so I'll do my second recording now so that is recording I'll go ahead and press stop now we saw both of them there while we're recording but now we see the last one is on top here and we'll do a third one just for good measure and this is our third recording and I'll stop right here so I've got three different recordings there if we press play we'll only hear the last one and this is our third recording but if we go down to the bottom left here of this track and press this icon here you can see our three different takes here so we have indeed recorded three takes and we can now use them for processing the comping so let's fast forward in time to the stage where I've recorded that guitar and let's see how we really do our comping okay so I've recorded my acoustic guitar and I'm about ready to start comping there's just one thing I want to check before I do I'm going to go up to the top here where it says options click on that and then just make sure that auto crossfade is selected it's not for me at the moments I'll select that and that's just going to make sure there's a nice smooth transition between the different takes as we select them now if you don't select this sometimes you'll get some nasty little pops and clicks as we go from one take to another so make sure that's selected now I want to make sure I can see these takes that I've made so I'm just going to go to the bottom left of my track here click on this icon to show the take lanes and I can see all three here now I can see that the last take I did which was take three is being used completely here I know that because it's highlighted in green which is the same color as my track up here now if you don't know how to change the colors of your tracks just go to the edge of your track here click on that little sort of bar there and you can make a different color selection there I'm going to leave it on green there so I can visually easily see here which take is being used the others are in light gray here now as I did earlier I'm going to select between bar 74 and 75 with one of my other takes but I'm just going to go into a little bit more detail than I did earlier so you can see exactly how to do it the first thing to make sure of is when you hover your mouse over the the take that you want to select that you're in the bottom half of that take lane the cursor will change to this kind of weird one you can see here which has got three horizontal lines and one vertical one that means you're ready to start selecting a different take now you just need to drag out the area you want now I've got snaps selected here at the moment okay I find that easier I can just select a certain number of measures or bars but we'll look at some issues with that in a moment but when I release that that take is automatically now being used within that selection and you can see because it's changed the green the color that I'd selected for my track now if I go to just before that and play it you shouldn't hear any of those pops and clicks okay let's just have a listen it's pretty good you may be happy with that but let's just refine it just a little bit now the first thing is if we do look at these transitions okay even visually you can see that this first sort of chord being played with this transition has got a very flat beginning to it if you like we don't get the beginning of that transient of the chord so what I'm going to do is turn snapping off okay I'm going to do that by pressing N on the keyboard and then I'm just going to go down here to the bottom where I can see all of my takes this little cursor appears and I'm just going to drag that slightly off to the left but I'm looking at the top okay at the final result and I can now see the beginning of that chord there as the way it should be okay and I'm also just going to do it to the end of this little section here I'm just going to drag it around and I can see a much more natural transient to the beginning of that chord so we'll have a listen again that's sounding really really good now I personally feel that there is still a little bit of a volume difference between those two takes and indeed you can kind of see it there can't you you can see that first chord being played there it's just quite a lot louder than anything else around it so what I'm going to do is go down to the take which is being used I'm going to hold control on my keyboard so I can adjust the clip gain I'll just drag with my mouse this red bar's going to appear and I can adjust the volume of that clip so I'll just push it down a little bit you can see it change at the top there let's just do it again I'll just drag that down holding control on my keyboard and then that looks a lot more natural to me I'll just listen to double check and I think that's absolutely seamless now I've been kind of fussy there with it just so that you can see what can be done you may not want to be quite that fussy now the reality is is that when you're doing this for a long track you'll be going from one take to another quite often this would be a kind of a slow process if it wasn't for the keyboard shortcuts that I'm going to show you right now now a little confession I actually find what we're about to do kind of fun let me know in the comments if you find it fun or not so down here I've got my different takes I'm going to start off just by randomly selecting some different sections okay I'm just going to check I select a bar at a time from different take lanes here okay so I'll just go over select one there then a little bit further I'll make another selection here a little bit further down here I'll make another selection and a final one up here okay so as you can see it's swapping between one take and another that's my starting point but what I actually want to do really is to be able to listen to each of these so I know which one I want to select here that's called auditioning so I'm going to go back to the beginning here I just got one of these selected to start off with now normally when I play a track I will press space on the keyboard okay but on this occasion I'm going to press shift and then space or hold down shift and press space now that's going to play the track now after I've done that I'm going to use the up and down arrows on the keyboard to listen to each track so let's do that now shift and space to play and I'm going to press up to listen to that one down down again so visually you can see it changing there showing me which one it's playing now finally when I want to select one I press enter on the keyboard and that one is then selected okay so just to recap shift space to play up and down arrows to audition each one as it's playing and then press enter to select one now that would be fine that's okay that's one way to do things but what about when I then want to move on to the next little clip here in my selections and then further on from there or maybe go backwards for that we use the left and right arrow keys I don't need to stop playing to do this in fact I don't really want to stop playing so I'll give you a demonstration I'll press shift and play press the up and down arrow keys to make a selection press enter to make that selection and then I'm going to press the right arrow key to move further on again pressing up and down to audition I like that one I'll press enter okay and that selection has been made move on again to the next one up and down to have a listen press enter and that will get selected so you can see that you can actually move through your track very very quickly if you'll just learn these few keyboard shortcuts makes life very easy indeed now of course once I've done that normally and you know obviously I've got snapping turned on here and I've selected a bar at time I then want to go back and do some tidy ups like I did earlier I may turn snapping off press n on the keyboard and just look at some of those transitions and drag them around a little bit just to make them look a little bit or sound a little bit more natural okay now when you've done that you're pretty much done of course you can make those volume corrections I made earlier as well but I just want to tell you that you don't always have to stick to the beginnings of bars or even beats if you like you can just find the best place because occasionally even though you've got a nice sort of smoothest transition you've checked the volume you can still hear that transition so don't be scared to be brave with it in this case for example I could just drag this transition and just use the very first part of that section there maybe just that first chord we'll have a listen just to make sure that sounds natural which it does so you can actually select very small sections if you need to and generally you will find that it's a seamless transition which you and the end listener will never hear now of course you'll want to get the best possible recording of your guitar and if you don't know about the different ways to record acoustic guitar then I very much suggest that you watch this video right here in this video I explain five different ways of recording acoustic guitar to get different kinds of results I suggest that you watch this video right now


ortant points of the movement in those action conferences openly and all members of the action conferences They voted on all those important points When was the last time the democratic party establishment invited you or me to a grassroots meeting where we got to vote on the things that affected us And so that is that example of a democratically organized movement Where even the informally appointed movement leaders were held accountable to the rank and file of the movement That's what's important. So I think that shows how concretely this is different From the movement type language that many now progressive democrats have started to use And I think the challenge really should be that it's not enough to say you are on the side of movements What are you actually doing to build those movements and on top of that? I think this Is also requires and this is how we are also fundamentally different than the democratic party is that We use our position not to you know on the one hand say we are on the side of working people then on the other hand be Giving a word to the establishment for all their betrayals. No, we don't do that We speak we use our office to speak openly about the betrayals that they carry out and force them We put pressure on them to then vote the right way because then when we build that movement using our seat It extracts a political price from them for voting the wrong way by betraying working people and I think that connects to the question on force the vote because I don't contrary to how it was presented. I don't think that the reluctance and ultimately Opposition to that kind of tactic where you know hold the democratic establishment including Nancy Pelosi Oh publicly accountable on a medicare for all I don't think that the disagreement from the squad and some of the dsa leaders that it was a disagreement on individual tactics Now, obviously debates on tactics are completely fair and necessary on the left. Absolutely. We should be doing that But I don't think this was based on a tactical disagreement. I think this was based on a fundamental Disagreement of then what we believe is a fundamental need which is to have head-on combat And bold challenge to the democratic establishment because we feel that this conflict is completely unavoidable if we hope to win Any kind of reforms like medicare for all let alone deeper change and I'll mention, you know, it's not as if Congress members like aOC don't understand what we're talking about I mean when she was asked why why vote for the trump impeachment? If everybody is on your side already what she said and I agree with her She said sometimes these votes create real political pressure that forces developments Sometimes we vote for the historical record to let future generations know we did everything we could I agree with every word of that. But what's missing here is On the on the same congress members part the willingness to direct that same challenge To the edifice of the democratic establishment and corporate stalwarts like nancy policy and I think that's where the real challenge lies we don't have to Really the test is not whether they are against donald trump They're obviously against donald trump and we all should be and we should be building the left to counter the rise of the right Wing and right populism But the only way we will be able to do that is if we also put our elective leaders to the Additional test, which is the key test is are you willing to take on the conflict with the democratic establishment? Yeah, I think you're really speaking to one of the main grievances that a lot on the left have With members of the squad. Um, and the way that I kind of gauge How to support someone running for congress because I bring out a lot of people running for congress is I look at their platform and if they check all the boxes they support medicare for all green new deal You know a decriminalizing drugs sex work all that then I think okay This is great, but I think that all of this event The event's leading up to force the vote and also before that as well It kind of led a lot on the left to reevaluate What we look for in a leader and it does require more than just being correct on the policies It really does require you to fundamentally challenge leadership and that's one thing that's lacking. I don't know Like I don't necessarily believe that this is a character flaw with members of the squad What I think is lacking and you can kind of like um help me out with this In your take is I think that what's lacking is that there is this Disconnect between members of congress and the grassroots and you know after you use the grassroots to get you elected You fundraise, you know using small dollar donations Once you get to congress the movement building is over Like it seems as if like the movement has accomplished its goal We got this individual who agrees with us elected, but then that's it And I think that what you really uh demonstrate is that you have to keep building the movement like getting to congress And using the grassroots. That's really only step one That's just the very beginning because if you don't keep that movement activated and grow it Then the amount of power that you have as a member of congress will be diminished Especially when you're facing, you know, these democratic party leaders who have a lot of institutional power Who have the media on their side and capitalist forces on their side So is that kind of like do you think that that describes the main issue because I would totally agree that My main criticism is that I want to see members of the squad really take on Democratic party leadership And it's a little bit frustrating because the only members of congress that actually do challenge leadership seem to be the more conservative democrats Um, and usually they don't they don't get marginalized in the way that we fear the left would So do you think like if you could give any advice to members of the squad? Given your experience, what do you think they would need to do to actually get us medicare for all like are they being Too savvy trying to play 8d chess with leadership and you know butter up leadership and get them to not hate them Like what do you think they need to do because I think this is really important because The ultimate goal the reason why we're putting folks in congress is to actually get change So what would be the main thing that you would change? Or the main piece of advice that you give to aoc quarry bush and other members of the squad I think it's first of all, I think it's Crucial that we are living in a time when in order to be In order to have Any kind of progressive credentials The times have changed enough and consciousness has advanced enough that Even democrats are having to check as you said check all the boxes and now the democratic party has genuine elected representatives who consider themselves left or socialist and so I don't I don't question the Genuineness of the intent of many of these congress members who have been elected who are now called a squad. I think it was Really a positive step forward that so many of them have gotten elected Through not taking any corporate money, you know that that really The campaign especially of bernie sanders in 2016 really set this, you know It sort of set the watermark of what what actually constitutes even a basic idea of who's progressive Let alone who's on the left and so it is it is actually a step forward for our movements That it has put that that much pressure on politics in the united states that now Having to take only grassroots donations having to say publicly that I support medicare for all I support the green new deal is a sort of a test for Elected officials to get the support of the younger generation and of the left But I think what it shows also is that you cannot just stop there You also have as you said very it was spot on what you said, which is that As long as you have elected representatives, however genuine let's not question their intentions as long as you have elected representatives who believe That once they enter office, they have to limit themselves to whatever is possible While not making the democratic establishment angry at them That is a dead end as long as you have elected representatives who think that that is the way to go It doesn't matter how well intentioned they are. So I don't think we should be having a debate on whether or not AOC is well intention I truly believe she is well intentioned as you said earlier Mike. This is a question of strategy for the left So let's uh, let's not make this about You know, I don't think the left should be engaging in debate about whether or not Uh, she is well intentioned the question is is she willing to do what it will take to win medicare for all? And that's why as I said Earlier the question is not to hurt the question is to ordinary people What are how are we going to get organized in order to make sure that those elected officials who run as progressives Then go into office and don't think that this is about them Trying to curry favor with Nancy Pelosi or any even the middle layer of the democratic establishment And I think the other thing that you said actually is quite perceptive where you said that it seems to you That mostly the challenge that Nancy Pelosi gets such as it is Comes from more conservative members of the democratic party not from the left of the democratic party And how they seem to don't get marginalized Well, the reason the conservatives don't get marginalized is because They have the entire capitalist ruling class on their side. They are speaking for wall street Yes, they don't get marginalized and they are both precisely because they have the entire might Of the billionaire class and the multimillionaires and the millionaires and also of the right wing on their side So that poses a concrete question What are we our elected officials going to have on your side? And that's the question that we have answered so successfully in seattle where we went in crystal clear with zero illusions that somehow I myself with just my personal qualities and My determination and my courage and my self-sacrifice. I am going to win over the democratic establishment No, I mean, obviously personal characteristics are truly important. I won't I won't minimize them but The most important thing that's different about us compared to the squad for example Is that we understood from day one that The the other politicians, you know, the democratic party politicians on the city council Have big business and the entire might of the ruling class on the other side Which means the only way we will be able to change this Completely ruthless status quo of balance of forces is we have to have forces on our side And where do those forces come from the actual movement ordinary people on the ground And so the only way we will win medicare for all for example Is if we have a similar strategy at the national level that we had in seattle to win $15 in our Amazon tax and all the renters rights victories we have won where we understood that our role Our entire role is to unambiguously and unabashedly build the strength of movements And that in that includes calling out democrats when they betray. So in other words, uh Voting for Nancy Pelosi is a non-starter the left in congress Especially now because numerically they hold the balance of vote for them They should not be voting for Nancy Pelosi. They should be actually fighting building a real fight back against the democratic establishment But the only way they will be able to do it and not get marginalized is if they Understand that they have to concretely build movement. So in other words, we built a 15 now grassroots movement We built the tax amazon grassroots movement. Similarly, we will need a medicare for all grassroots movement Where aoc and the squad members are actually calling for national actions calling for a march to washington calling for action conferences in multiple cities throughout the nation where ordinary people Progressive labor unions many other left leaders can stand on their side and really Create a dynamic where far from being marginalized You the left in congress could actually put serious pressure That Nancy Pelosi's establishment not to mention the republican party would come to fear But that is not going to happen as long as we have the left No matter how genuine that is thinking that they have They have only so much room to maneuver and that they have to at the end of the day vote for Nancy Pelosi Look this this is another form of lesser evilism and lesser evilism in my view Is a permanent defensive posture for the left If we if we adopt lesser evilism then that's logic is endless No year no month no day will be the right time for you to go up against the establishment. So we have to Dispense with lesser evilism and understand That you know 70 million people voted for donald trump How are we going to win them over? It is by building mass movements around demands that they will agree with many of them will agree with us on Medicare for all green new jobs ending renter debt, which is now becoming any, you know Huge crisis ending student debt and really building that grassroots effort Yeah, I think that really you are hitting on all the points and answering the questions that we've kind of been asking ourselves like for me, I've I've been Trying to wonder and like reassess my theory of change after bernie sanders lost the primary in 2020 and thinking like How do we ever get to this point? To where we we can get medicare for all, you know I don't think we're going to abolish capitalism anytime soon But at least reign it in a little bit more and move closer and closer Toward social democracy for now Um, and I think that really the question or the answer rather it's always been right in front of us It's not a matter of like well, how much more members of the squad do we need? To start, you know, flexing our muscle in congress. Do we need four more 10 more? It's a matter of we need uh Movements we need people to be activated and you know to me I think it's as little Or as simple as really even organizing people in your own communities if we all do this Then we could have a huge effect at the aggregate level. It's just a matter of like trying to relearn Bad behaviors because I think that a lot of us myself included We've been kind of like hyper focused on electoral politics from the standpoint of like Elections and politicians and I think it makes sense why we focused on that because we were this close to the white house So it's like when you have almost, you know, um the most amount of power in this system You know, it makes you feel as if a lot more things are are possible But you kind of have to go back to the drawing board once that you know is out of the question and think How do we actually get the change and it's going to come from, you know, the bottom up and not the top down And I think that if people really internalize that and they use that to guide themselves, you know going forward to fight for change Then I think everything will be um It's not going to be smooth to say the least, but I think that it'll make more sense Um to have that perspective I would say though that uh, I don't I don't believe that we were this close to Getting Bernie Sanders elected. I it's two things one Were there tens of millions of people absolutely electrified by his message of a political revolution against the billionaire class? Absolutely. Yes Was there a real opening for the left? Absolutely. Yes, but Was it going to happen through the democratic party? No in fact, when he when bernie sanders Socialist alternative my organization and I we supported bernie sanders both in 2016 and and last year And I've spoken at his rallies, you know campaign rallies both times But when he was about to announce his candidacy in 2016 In a public forum On the climate change in new york city in manhattan I asked him publicly to run not as a democratic party candidate, but as an independent candidate And obviously he didn't agree and he ran as a democrat and I think it's a very simple Uh, calculus. It's very simple calculation here if you will run in a party that Whose establishment is aligned with the billionaire class? How can that be the party that will tolerate a campaign against the billionaire class? It is as simple as that It's not, uh, you know, we should we should uh, we should Understand that this is this is the essence of politics and this is something all working people can understand It is not something that's inaccessible to them. You don't have to have a phd to get a very simple fact It's a question of you know, what logic you're following And I think one of the main components of why We were able to do it differently and show a different example is because I am not part of a Party I'm not a member of a party that is opposed to the agenda that I'm running on which is for the working class I am a part of socialist alternative which itself is you know, it's a it's a socialist organization that Is made up of rank and file activists who are all have democratic rights within the organization Who discuss and debate all important questions such as should we run a candidate? Who the candidate should be what the campaign platform should be it is not done by one? elite individual And furthermore socialist alternative itself is rooted in the wider social movement our members are Members of the working class. They are women. They are people of color.  I'm an economist and teacher by profession and I'm a member of the teachers union and so I think All of the questions that you raised mic They bring up the one of I think the most important point which is that in seattle Socialist alternative and me being part of socialist alternative has been the absolute backbone of everything We have been able to achieve because having an own my own organization with me an organization furthermore that is rooted in the working class Makes sure that I am never alone I may be one in on the dais with eight other democratic establishment people who may oppose me on Or attempt to oppose the working class agenda that we bring forward But what they are going up against is not just me They're going up against socialist alternative and the working class that socialist alternative is rooted in and so really many of the Questions of organizing for medicare for all also bring up the question of our How can we do that with inside the democratic party in my view? We need a new party for the working class a party that is not organized as you said not organized top down But it's democratically organized where actually Not as an aspiration, but actually members of that party can hold their elected officials accountable But not only that a party that is rooted in social movements And it's not just simply an election running machine So I want to pick your brain on this a little bit um if if you have a little bit more time Because I actually disagree I don't think that bernie sanders should have run Outside of the democratic party even if I wanted that to happen And even if he wouldn't have those institutional barriers that prevent change The problem is that and i've kind of gone back and forth on this over the last couple of years Is even though at the local level, I think it is possible to to subvert douverier's law How how can we do this? How do we actually get a third party to be viable given our majority and electoral system because I I was of the thinking and this was my reasoning in 2016 for supporting the green party is that You know, maybe it's the case that if we can get the greens to five percent They'll get national funding and that will kind of get the ball rolling But what I realize is that like the two-party duopoly in the united states It's almost like culturally ingrained and so I feel like people even leftists will check out if you just mention like A third party and I think the answer to that is electoral reform First because in order to have like a multi-party system or an alternative to What is basically I mean one-party rule if we're talking about capitalism in the united states Is you have to have institutions that allow for proportional representation So what do you say to um Folks like me who think bernie was right to run of the democratic party because that was the only way for him to actually Win but then when he's in as president you can change the institutions like how do we how do we subvert duverger's law? Is that possible? It wasn't actually a way to win because they didn't let him win, right? I mean sure what what evidence would anybody use to Prove the hypothesis that running the to the democratic party is the only way you can win But you didn't win so sure what's the evidence? uh, but I would say that you know just starting from your original point about electoral reform Obviously, you know there are pros and cons of different electoral systems And I wouldn't you know, I don't want to start a debate on those but what I will say what I will offer is Now I my home country, india has the kind of system that your electoral system that you're talking about proportional representation And what do we have in india? We don't have just two parties. We have multiple parties And yet what have we seen in the same period, you know in the same three four decade period What we have seen is not one of those parties actually fighting for the working class in fact Many of the parties that used to be somewhat left-leaning or progressive have actually moved to the right and the more Right-leaning parties have now become, you know, absolutely fundamentalist and somewhat deadly to to even basic ideas like democracy as you're seeing with the BJP and the Modi regime, right? And so I don't know. I don't actually believe that this is uh, you know This comes down to electoral reform in the sense that if we fix this or that electoral law Then we will be able to run left campaigns and get somebody To win as president in you know, somebody like bernie sanders. I don't actually believe that and and going back to my account of how when I asked bernie sanders That was in november of 2014 I believe in manhattan the day before the big people's climate march that I believe you should run As an independent because I don't believe that running inside a party that is Off the billionaire class will allow you to run a political revolution against the billionaire class And bernie sanders response was something along the lines of well, I don't want to run an Educational campaign, you know, I don't want to run a campaign just for the sake of it. I want to win And my response to that is of course. Yes, absolutely. We want to win We've won three elections as an independent socialist in seattle. So absolutely. We are about winning the left has to win Especially with the ticking clock of climate catastrophe. We have no time to mess around We have to be very very serious about winning But the this is the point the democratic party Has proven what we socialist alternatives said in 2014 that they will never allow Bernie sanders is working class agenda to become that party's agenda because that party is controlled by billionaire interests by fossil fuel lobby by all the powerful interests that are Completely hostile to even minor reforms let alone an actual socialist vision as an alternative to capitalism so the problem here is that we Will be stuck in this hamster wheel Of running a left campaign inside the democratic party every four years now that you know now that bernie sanders has opened that road And and losing again and again As long as we think that this is about running that one, you know magic presidential campaign Once in some four-year period and winning and again, maybe that changing everything I don't think it is going to work that way at the end of the day I think it is a question of seeing this to the lens of a longer-term movement building approach and not Understanding that this one election is not going to be the result of anything I mean, I will also say this even if bernie sanders were to win I don't believe that it could win inside the democratic party But even if he were to win do you think that they would just allow him to do all the things that he wants to do for the world class Exactly. So my point is that this temptation that I completely I'm completely compassionate to this idea But I'm what I'm trying to point out that it's it's a dead end, which is that it's understandable that people believe that well Building a new party from scratch. That's just seems utopian. That just seems too daunting Let's try something that seems less daunting which is do it to the democratic party. I understand The temptation to go that route because something else seems more daunting My counter to that is actually Not only is the democratic running the democratic establishment route just as daunting because look at the kind of attacks and chicanery that they used to destroy bernie sanders campaign, which they absolutely did That they would do it that it would be just as daunting in fact Thinking working class agenda can succeed inside democratic party. That's utopian in my view So there's no avoiding a massive class struggle type of clash and I mean, I don't mean physical clash I mean a political clash between the haves and the have nots the people who Have any incentive to keep this rotten system intact, which is the billionaire class and their political cronies And the billions in this world who have every reason to urgently bring about a social shift There is no avoiding that political clash that political clash is going to happen one way or another And the sooner we understand that as long as we keep ourselves beholden to a party that is controlled not by us But by the billionaire class we that is going to run into a dead end. So it's never going to be Easy I'm not trying to sell this idea that if it's going to be easy to build a new party. No, I promise you when we do build that new party I promise you that There will be all kinds of hostile elements Who will become part of that party and then try to use that party's platform to further their own own careers So we should not expect and this is the main point I'm trying to make we should never expect that it's ever going to be easy It is going to be hard The question is which is the right way to go which is the way that's going to yield us the most results And this is where I'll come, you know, full circle to Bernie Sanders a response He said something like I don't want to run an educational campaign and my response to that was Well, you are not going to be able to win inside the democratic establishment for the simple reason that they will not let you win They will use every trick in the book to undermine you which is exactly what they did And on top of that you will send a wrong education of you know, it won't even be the right kind of educational campaign Where the message, you know, the right kind of educational campaign is our campaigns where we say openly and honestly to Ordinary people, this is the way to go We can we can do it. It's not going to promise you that it's going to be a rosy path But this is the only way that will yield results. The last point I'll say in in response to your very important question Is that I think we should also stop um engaging in this what I feel is the False dichotomy between local and national politics any idea that the democratic establishment will let you do what you want for the working class locally is Is dispelled that idea is completely dispelled by Looking at what how how hard they're going after my office There as you said they have attacked us in every which way I have lost count of the number of lawsuits the number of attacks, you know, based on so-called ethics Uh that have Been done against us in 2019 They're democrat the progressive wing of the democratic establishment Latina council members women they ran a candidate against me in the primary So the and now we are facing this recall attack So my point is that there is no Space where whether it's local or national that we will be able to build the left without an onslaught of attacks By the ruling class and no we are not going to win every battle we we take up It's a question of which direction you're heading though. That's the point I think you make a lot of really compelling points And you may be right that they would have never allowed burning to win because I'm recalling the times when We saw the discussions of them using super delegates to basically steal the nomination away from him in the event He did get a plurality of pledge delegates, but not an outright majority Um, so I think that actually is a really compelling point My my only issue is that I I've been kind of like trying to broaden out my analysis And I kind of look at both of the parties as many institutions within a larger system a capitalist system And so in the event, let's say hypothetically speaking Bernie Sanders were to win the presidency if he did pursue Uh, a third party option. Don't you think that the same institutional mechanisms that would have kept him down? Um, if he ran within the democratic party would still exert that same pressure on him If he was outside the democratic party because he'll still be working with democrats and republicans in congress So I'll have to caucus with them as an independent president So I'm just trying to figure out like in terms of long-term strategy. I kind of like my my Theory of change has kind of been a two-pronged approach I think that you do have to try to take over the democratic party even if that might be almost impossible but I also think that third party alternatives are effective at putting pressure on the other parties because they can only get So out of step with their base until they start losing portions of that base to third parties So I think that you you know using both to your advantage When when it when it's effective is going to work But how how do we like I think this is kind of like speaking to a broader question um of capitalism in general and like is capitalism Allowing us to make the change at all and you've kind of answered that question in the sense that so long as you have movements Really you can you can do whatever so long as that movement is activated and working class people are are brought into this process and not kind of sidelined To your first point wouldn't if if bernie sanders had run as an independent and if he had won And I think that is a loaded point because the only way he could have won is if we had a completely different situation here In the united states with movements genuinely empowered on a national level like the small example that we have shown in seattle, but it would have to be 100 times over So as far as your question wouldn't wouldn't they have attacked him even if we wouldn't the democratic establishment have attacked him Even if he had run as an independent Absolutely, they would have and that's not a hypothetical question. Look at what they're doing in seattle Look at what the democratic establishment is doing in seattle. I am not a democrat I am a socialist alternative member. I ran independent of the democratic party. There's been no shortage of attacks I mean, as I said, I have lost count of the attacks. They have made against my office. So I don't think the point of difference between Whether you run as an independent or you run as a democratic party member Is about how much they will attack you what they are hostile to Is if you are genuinely wanting to fight for the working class Bernie Sanders is genuinely wanting to fight for the working class Which is why we supported him and yes, that is precisely why the democratic party Establishment will be utterly hostile to his agenda whether he ran as a democrat or as an independent That's not the question. The question is which is the way in which we can genuinely build The strength of the grassroots or the strength of movements of ranked and filed people of millions of young people Is it going to be within the democratic party? Or is it going to be to build to begin to build an independent force? And that's where I think the answer is latter not turning everybody into this blind alley of the democratic party Which we know doesn't work because they are hostile to our agenda. That is why we need our own organization and Bottom line again the only way we have been able to do what we have done in seattle is because I am not alone I actually have a force with me, which is socialist alternative That's the kind of difference it can make if you have your own party standing with you because no individual However, extraordinarily gifted is going to be able to do this on their own So it doesn't matter how genuine and courageous Bernie Sanders is alone He is not able to achieve it and he's he's clear about that He said he talked about being an organizer in chief where where I disagree with him is Is that possible from inside the democratic party? And I don't believe that it will be and at the end of the day, I think you also made an important point yourself, which is that as long as you are running inside the parties of capitalism You cannot build a force against capitalism. I mean, it's as simple as that and that is why what we need is a political organization that will be For and by the American working class That will be tied to the rank and file of the labor movement that can actually present a collective, you know so organized challenge to the might of the capitalist class and running candidates from this this kind of party will be part of the work that the party would do and in reality The most important point would be the party would be rooted in the working class and really build helping to build movement and I think Again, these these questions are To be posed even to the squad even even though they've they've run as democrats The question is what is stopping them from for example, launching national days of action for medicare for all Really building action conferences. We but we organized tax amazon action conferences in seattle They can organize medicare for all action conferences nationwide Do you do you do we believe that there will be any shortage of enthusiasm on the part of ordinary people for something like that? No medicare for all is one of the Most popular demands in the united states including a huge proportion of republican voters And we are in the middle of the pandemic Everybody who is on the ground wants medicare for all. So what's stopping the squad from doing it is not any? A suspicion that there's enough and that they may not be enough enthusiasm on the ground What's stopping them at the end of the day? Is that they are afraid that if they did that they would be completely, you know, that that that would be the The sort of it's it's a call to arms, you know, it's a call to action to the working class That is completely against what the democratic establishment wants and it's not just Nancy Pelosi It's you know, it's it's that whole group of them And many of them who even call themselves progressive they are not going to agree with this So at the end of the day the only way that The squad could do this is if they had their own party with them and that is why I'm saying that we need a new party because You know the conservatives the corporate Politicians they have a very big force on their side, which is the capitalist class and the capitalist system itself What do we have on our side? Millions and tens of millions of people So unless we organize them in a serious way with a political organization that goes beyond just election years And is rooted in mass movements. We are not going to be able to achieve that. Yeah, I think this is really fascinating and I've kind of been like Uh, I've been both sides are on this issue Like I kind of like I think we should try both things at once Like I think that try to take over the democratic party try to form a new party put pressure Build up existing parties organize I think that at the end of the day Even though there's there's like a lot of disagreement on the left and it is somewhat divisive and it's dividing a lot of members of the Left one thing that I'm always willing to admit is that if we find a strategy that works Then I'm willing to abandon what I previously Knew, you know, I'll unlearn the bad habits And I think that you certainly are coming from a place of legitimacy Having been able to accomplish so much that didn't just change a lot of Seattle But it's having an impact on the national political discourse because again, we're kind of seeing the democratic party Copy your minimum wage model in Seattle, which you kind of spearheaded So it's it's really interesting and really thank you so much for coming on I've taken up way too much of your time But I think that this recall effort is it's really important that we fight this and just having you explain like What it takes to truly like get change is is it's just perfect? So thank you so much Shama. Can you tell us where we can find you online on twitter? Um, and whatnot Yes for the solidarity campaign against the recall attempt, please go to shama solidarity dot org Which is my first name ksh a ma solidarity dot org. You can find My council office stuff, you know, really interesting stuff on twitter My twitter handle is cm shama that is cm and my first name And of course, you can just google my name or you can google socialist alternative and find out more information Now really welcome anybody who's watching this if you have Questions about socialist alternative or how we have conducted our work in the city council What it means to be a socialist how we can win any of the victories that we're talking about the necessary things like medicare for all Please don't hesitate to reach out to me and I really appreciate you mike for asking all those really important questions Yeah, thank you so much for your time. It's nice to like have someone on Who has done so much like explain what it takes because I think that like I'm really I've kind of like I went into this like doom and gloom mode after 2020 and it felt like everything was hopeless But to really look to these examples of success in the united states I think it shows that not all hope is lost even in this late stage capitalist system like we can't affect change it's just a matter of like Doing the right thing and most importantly organizing, you know talking to people. So thank you so much council woman so on It's been an absolute pleasure Thank you so much mike and as you said, yes, it does feel like doom and gloom and it's completely understandable I feel that way too and it's it's because there is a lot of You know, we see the system not working for us But I think the thing that really makes me Feel better when I'm having one of those doom and gloom moments is when I remind myself Of one simple logical reality, which is that if we don't fight Then we are facing doom and gloom. We have no option But to fight and I think that should really help us Remember that it is worth fighting for this planet and humanity is worth fighting for And what better what what better way there is to spend our life? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, thank you so much. Beautifully put Thank you so much. Mike really appreciate it Well, that's everything folks. Thank you so much for tuning in if you've made it as far as usual I want to thank everyone who signed up to support the show you help us not just to survive but thrive as well And you all are absolutely integral to our success. Thank you so much. I will see you all next week My name is mike figurative. This has been the humanist report. Take care everyone


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If you have some leftovers in your fridge and you don't know what to do with them such as like maybe some leftover broccoli, zucchini, any kind of vegetable, well today I've got the answer for you. We're going to be making a frittata. A frittata is an Italian dish very similar to a quiche without crust or maybe an omelet. This is where we toss in a lot of different ingredients and we cook it up and it's savory and it's delicious and you're going to love it. In our frittata today I'm going to be putting in some broccoli that's already been cooked. We're going to add some onions and mushrooms, some basil. I like basil for some herbs but you can use whatever you want. I'm going to be using some prosciutto. You could use bacon or ham or whatever you have or none at all. That's up to you. That's what I love about this dish. It's just so versatile and just whatever you want to put in it, it works. So I'm rocking Robin and I'm going to show you how to do it right after my chef joke. All right I like to start off with chef joke number one and that means number two will be a little bit later so stay tuned for that. So here we go. What do you call a city of a million eggs? New York City. Okay so let's go over our ingredients. Let me show you what I'm putting in this and you know talk to you about some substitutions and it's pretty much anything goes though. Okay so I mentioned some broccoli. I've got some broccoli here that I already cooked up yesterday and it's leftovers. You could use any vegetable you want. It could be asparagus, broccoli, anything. I got some spinach that I have left over here then I have some onions that I've already had chopped up in my fridge. Basil this is out of my garden. Love that. You could use parsley pretty much any you know dill anything you like. I've got a few mushrooms here that I'm going to chop up that I have. Here's my prosciutto. You could use bacon and ham or any of those if you want or leave it all out and of course I have a few eggs and some Parmesan cheese. I almost forgot. I'm going to have some of that. You can use any cheese you want. It can be a soft cheese, Monterey Jack cheddar. It does not matter. Feel free to use anything and of course I'm like I said I'm going to be cooking this in a cast iron pan or maybe I didn't say that already but that's what I'm using. I have a nice well seasoned pan here and if you don't have one of those you could also use a non-stick pan would work just as well but just keep in mind that this is going in the oven under the broiler for a few minutes so you want to make sure your pan can handle that. So I'm going to start off with my mushrooms here. We're going to just simply slice these up. I've already wiped them off so that they're nice and clean. Now you can cut your mushrooms as small as you like. I like mine pretty small so I'll just place those in my bowl here. So next I'm just going to slice up my prosciutto. You don't need very much of this just a slice, a couple slices depending on how big your your frittata is. I'm using a six inch pan today so it's pretty small and this will be plenty and then it just makes it easier if you just roll it up and then just slice it. We want you know little pieces and then I cut it the other direction and now we're going to head over to the stove and start cooking our onions and mushrooms and prosciutto. All right so I have my this is it like about a six inch little cast iron pan you can make a bigger one if you want and I have it over a low heat right now I'm just starting to heat it up and I like to put a fair amount of oil in here to keep those eggs from sticking and just to kind of spread it around a little bit get the edges because you know it's going to come up the edge of the pan a bit when you put all everything in here and we're going to start like I said sauteing the onions let's turn that up a little bit get this going and I'm going to start off with the onions and the mushrooms and then we'll add the prosciutto. We want to give the onions and the mushrooms a little bit of a head start just because they take a little bit longer than the prosciutto to do their thing and while this is cooking nice and slow and low for a few minutes I'm going to go over there and chop up my spinach and have that ready to go and we'll mix up our eggs and chop up the broccoli. So with our spinach we just want to chop this up a little bit make the pieces a little bit smaller and bite size. I did remove some of the stems that were sticking out really long so something like that. Okay so now with the broccoli you're going to use as much as you want to use right just a handful there's no exact measurements here and we're just going to give this a little bit of a chop just so it's a little smaller it's a little big right now so we'll just cut this into just smaller pieces and remove any bad pieces that you've come across so I'll probably put about that much in it it varies you know depending on what you like so that'll be ready to go and now we just need to put the eggs in a dish now you can see here how much the onion and mushroom is cooked down this has been cooking for about eight to ten minutes or so and now I'm going to add the prosciutto because I want this to cook down just a little bit more too so we'll just toss that in mix it in and I'm on low heat right now and let that cook for probably another five minutes and I'm going to add just a pinch more oil to this the mushrooms have really absorbed a lot of that oil so I'm just going to add a little bit more to this and I'll continue to cook this for another few minutes until the prosciutto can crisp up okay it's time for chef joke number two but first I want you to tell me if you've heard of this joke before let me know down in the comments all right here we go why does a chicken coop have two doors because if it had four doors it would be a sedan all right back to our recipe now we're going to crack our eggs into a bowl and mix them up with a fork sometimes I add just a little bit of milk to this take a fork or a whisk and beat it up now another little secret ingredient I like to add on occasion and I didn't mention it earlier is some garlic powder add it to your scrambled eggs you will love it the last thing we need to chop up is some basil and like I said I love it and so I like to use a lot of it it never overpowers any dish I've ever used it in I'm lucky to still have some growing in my garden I'm just going to toss that in with my spinach and they can go in together so you can see here how much the mushrooms and the onions have cooked down right I mean look at how much less there seems to be right when we first started and so now at first it might have seemed like a lot and now it's just the right amount now the prosciutto is getting a little bit crispy which is nice okay so I'm smoothing out all the onions so it's kind of evenly dispersed on the bottom I'm going to sprinkle in the broccoli and add as much as I want to that which is basically everything I chopped up imagine how that worked out okay and then I've got my spinach and basil so I'm just going to pour that on top and again do as much as you think is right for you and I'm going to give my eggs one little whisk and then I'm going to pour that right over I have this on medium low and we're going to let this cook I've got my oven on broil so it's ready to go now you notice I haven't put too much salt in there right I just put a little bit in the onions and mushrooms the prosciutto has some salt and then of course the cheese the parmesan cheese I'm going to put on top has a little salt so you really don't need to add any more but you can if you want and I'm going to go ahead and place a lid on this so that the inside will cook a little quicker so it's been about 10 minutes let's have a look and when I shake the pan you can see there's still some liquid right here and that's okay so now I'm going to grate some parmesan cheese over the top and we're going to place this in the oven so this is going under the broiler just for a minute or two until that cheese melts and the rest of it is nice and golden brown here we are in a minute and a half and look at that bubble here's our finished frittata doesn't that look amazing okay so remember that your handle on this frittata is very hot in this pan I'm going to loosen the edges with a spatula and then I'm just going to slide this right out onto my cutting board I'm going to cut this up for you so you can see what it looks like those mushrooms in there and the onions started off with that nice base flavor so delicious you're going to love this very savory with a prosciutto that's good if you'd like to try another breakfast recipe of mine I've got one that you really should check out it is my french toast sandwich it's got bacon and avocado in there I'm going to leave a link for you right here on the screen check it out let me know what you think thanks for watching everybody don't forget to subscribe to my channel leave me a comment and if you like this video smash the like button for me take care we'll see you next week for another rockin recipe


If you're looking for a video on a specific topic, simply type in what you're looking for in my channel, search bar, and if I have videos addressing that topic, it will take you right to them. What's up, you guys? It's Adana. I am back with another video for you guys. So, welcome to everybody that has not been to my channel before. Thank you guys so much for dropping by. Stay a while, subscribe with that subscribe button right now and follow me on Instagram at AdanaLPA. And for those of you who've already been here, welcome back, you guys. So, you know, I am in my second year of PE school and I just wanted to talk to you guys about clinical rotations, but specifically setting them up. Now, not every school is like this. You know, I'm only speaking from my personal experience. That's the only experience that I can speak from. But for me, I knew that I would like to do my clinical rotations back home. I wanted to be closer to family because I moved my whole family down to where I'm currently at.  So, you know, you have to kind of do this thing on your own, just you and the hubby. And we didn't really have a good network set up down here. So, I was like, all right, we're probably going to just be gone for a year. And I want to do my rotations back home because that's more than likely where I'm going to be practicing. That's where I'm going to be living ultimately when school is done. So, I definitely talked about that and asked that in my interview.  I can do them all away. And it's not going to be a problem because not every school is like that. And some schools actually restrict that, you know, they set them up for you. Make sure you ask if that is something that you want to do. Make sure that you ask about that if that's even an option. For me, it was. And so, I knew that since my school was fairly new, I would have to pretty much kind of do everything on my own because we wouldn't have affiliation set up where I was from. There may have been some set up, but with respect to making sure that I can get the preceptors and all of that, I figured that I'd have to do it on my own. And I went in there with that mindset from the beginning, like from summer session, I was like, all right, so what exactly do I need to do? Like who do I need to call? Who do I need to contact? So that is something that you definitely need to do. Right when you get in there, make sure that you know who your contact people are for rotations. They're probably not going to start talking to you about rotations, like in detail, until halfway through your didactic year, closer to the end of didactic year. But that doesn't mean that you can't already be thinking and also doing the ground work to try to find those rotation sites. For me, what I did was I made a spreadsheet. We had a spreadsheet of the different rotations that I knew that I needed. So the different specialties, I had them listed out in different colors. And then I had all the names of physicians in my area that I wouldn't mind rotating at. And I put them in the spreadsheet on Excel. And I literally cold called everybody like I call, I went out like, Hey, my name is Adana. I was wondering, do you guys take students for clinical rotations? And if they were like, yes, we do, then I'd be like, Oh, great, because I'm looking for a rotation for this.  And I'm like, Well, that's great, because my rotation doesn't start until next year. And this is the date. And so I always had everything set up with respect to the exact dates. Once I got that information, I had the exact dates exact length of time in terms of from what date to what day and how much time I needed to be on that rotation. It's essentially a job. So 40 hours a week.  And so for that, I gave them those that information, I sent that information to them to see if that was something they were comfortable doing. And if that was something that they were able to fulfill, because there are certain obligations that they have to do with respect to giving me an evaluation and, you know, like either, well, we can ask for it midway through, but we have to have an evaluation by them. And that's part of our grade. So I wanted to make sure, Hey, you're able to fulfill that.  They're not, you know, trying to get a job. So they're going to be busy, you guys. So you have to remember that. And it's the same thing with like your letter of recommendations and different things that you're asking people to do for you. You're going to have to kind of be persistent. I literally, I called people for like a good six months before I actually got onto some of these people.  So it's going to take some work. It's definitely going to be a little bit time consuming, but it's doable. You can do it. Just prepare it. Make yourself a spreadsheet. Whoever said yes, I would put a green. Whoever said no, I'd just kind of X them out with a red. I would then send that information to my clinical coordinator. So most schools have a clinical coordinator that is setting up these rotations. Some schools already have rotation set up for everyone. And so you'll have to talk to your clinical coordinator to be like, Hey, you know, I want to do two rotations at home or I want to do a rotation in Massachusetts or Nevada or wherever it is that you want to do a rotation that you may have family. You want to go there for that month and then you guys can work that out because there's going to be like affiliation paperwork if there's no affiliation set up. And that takes time. So give yourself at least a good three months before to make sure that you have enough time to set up the affiliation paperwork because you don't want to come to the month that you're supposed to be doing your rotation and then you don't have the paperwork in and then you can't do it. And well, you can't do it where you want to do it because they're going to put you where you need to be. It just may not be where you want to be. So just keep all of that in mind when you're setting it up cold call. Don't be ashamed to do that. Don't be afraid to do that. You'll be surprised how many yeses you actually get, but from there it's just kind of making sure that you stay on top of those yeses to get the paperwork done so you can actually get the rotation that you want at the site that you want and in the location demographic wise. So I hope this was very helpful. Thank you guys so much for watching. I really appreciate each and every one of you. If you have any questions or comments, leave them in the comment section below and I will talk to you guys next time.