at the core of democracies are elections, essentially, because they allow citizens to elect their leaders. Also, it is through elections that citizens get the opportunity for popular participation in a democracy. Now, having been a democratic state since 1999, Nigeria is no stranger to the elections. I like conduct CBR to allow eligible Nigerians who reach voting age, that is 18, after the last registration exercise to register and to vote. Without the CBR process, a decent part of the population would be disenfranchised between electoral cycles. Now, it's been six months after the conduct of the 2023 general elections, and I like is still conducting its review of the just included elections. This, however, has hampered the implementation of sections of the electoral act that stipulate that voter registration should be continuous. Joining us to discuss this is Ibrahim Parruqi, is a member of the Democracy Network Nigeria, and he's also of Yaga Africa. Thank you so much for joining us this evening, Ibrahim. Thank you so much for having me, Mariana. It's interesting that just in my last conversation with my guests, they may mention thank you very much. I'm sure you're referring to section 10 of the electoral act 2022, which states that there shall be continuous voter registration of everyone who is qualified to be registered as a voter. And there are some very key provisions within that section of the electoral act. One of them is around continuous voter registration. And our understanding of the word continuous means it's a process that must be ongoing over and over again. Continuous does mean start and stop at various intervals. It means that throughout the electoral process, there must be continuous voter registration. However, if you remember that in the lead up to the 2023 general elections, the independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had depulated a time period for continuous voter registration. And that was between June 2021 and July 2022. My understanding is that that is not truly continuous. And it is important for us to point out to INEC that there are provisions of the law. So these are not some kind of policy recommendations that are not enforceable. These are legal requirements within the electoral act that was driven by citizens that was signed by former President Mohammed Ubu Harry. So as a democracy network, we're telling INEC essentially that it is important to ensure that this is a continuous process. And it's not just a process that takes place 13 months sometime within that four year election cycle. It's also very important to note that the electoral act stipulates that voter registration should close 90 days before the general elections. However, registration closed more than six months before the general elections. What that means is that 18 year olds, any Nigerian who was qualified to be registered as a voter for the 2023 elections. So if you turned 18 in August for instance, you did not have an opportunity to register for the 2023 general elections and basically you have been disenfranchised. What I say is that the 2023 general elections have come to a close. It is time for INEC to reopen the continuous voter registration process so that every qualified Nigerian who is 18 years old who fulfills all the requirements to be registered as a voter has that opportunity to register and vote. It's interesting that you have come up with this because aside from young people, there are several people who have also never voted in the allies. From last election, I was very shocked to meet a 45 year old, a 50 year old, who had never voted in the allies, who had never felt the need to pick up their voter's card and vote. Again, if INEC had been on their mandate or stood on their mandate to use that word, to continuously open the portal or make it make itself accessible to people to just walk in, register and of course get ready to get their PVCs, would we have people such as these? I mean because I was really shocked that people like this existed. But then let's go back to young people, universities, secondary schools. How do we catch these people young? How do we even sell the idea of picking up PVCs you are registering to vote, owing to what we saw in the last election which broke a lot of hearts? Hearts were definitely broken post-2023 general election. But if you cast your mind back, you would see that there was a lot of enthusiasm, there was a lot of excitement in the lead up to the 2023 general election. And I think it's important that advocacy by civil society organizations, by media organizations, by networks such as the democracy network, Demnet that we have in Nigeria are reaching out to groupings of young people. So this includes university communities, national youth service corps, wherever we can find large groupings of young people to ensure that we sustain that momentum that we saw leading to the 2023 general elections. There's data that shows us that every year between 4 to 5 million Nigerians attain the age of electoral franchise. That means every year about 4 to 5 million Nigerians turn 18. But do these young Nigerians have the opportunity to register as soon as they turn 18? Or do they have to wait until INEC decides that there's a 12 month period or a 13 month period? So what we're doing with our advocacy is working with INEC as a partner to push this conversation and this advocacy message around a truly continuous voter registration process. But also on the other side is working with young Nigerians, whether they are in the campuses of tertiary institutions, whether they are in the national youth service corps, like I said, whether it's young people in urban areas or in rural areas in school or out of school to sustain that momentum and that pressure, that advocacy area, you can come out to register and vote as soon as you turn 18. I understand that there is a petition that you'll be floating soon for a lot of people to get involved and signed. What is the target? Do you have a target of how many signatures that would get you to get the attention of INEC and maybe the government in power? And again, what is your level of engagement with political parties? Because we also know that these political parties have youth swings just as they have women's wings and these wings become very active before the elections, during campaigns, et cetera, et cetera. But how do you target them now before the whole hysteria of campaign season? It's actually very important for us to target those groups now. So our advocacy efforts are going to be cross-cutting. Like I mentioned, working and partnering with the Independent National Electoral Commission, with the various political parties. One thing that I've maintained over and over again is that the biggest beneficiaries of our electoral process are political parties and the politicians. It is not civil society organizations. It is not our friends and partners in the media who have their names or their symbols on the ballot paper. It is political parties and political parties who are serious about winning election and ensuring that they have a legitimate mandate must also be interested in ensuring that we have an inclusive voter register. And this means young people who are eligible to vote. One of the strategies that the Democracy Network, the Net Nigeria is going to be employing is using online petitions and their petition platforms such as change.org, where we can launch a petition and would work with the change.org team to say how can we ensure that we get as many petitions as possible, that this would grab the attention of the Independent National Electoral Commission. It would grab the attention of political parties. It would grab the attention of various stakeholders, whether it's also other civil society organizations, media organizations, the police, anyone who is part of that election process to say how can we get on board with this message to ensure that anyone who has turned 18, as soon as you turn 18, you're eligible to register. For me, it doesn't take too much for INEC to be able to get this done. INEC has purchased the machines that it uses for voter registration and that are also used on election day. INEC has offices in all the 774 local government areas in the country and area councils in the FCT and they are staffed, they are manned. So the question around manpower to ensure that voter registration is continuous should be a non-issue. INEC also has the online portal that it's used leading to the 2023 general election, all of the infrastructure to ensure that Nigerians who turn 18 or those who have never registered to vote before have the opportunity to do so is already in place. What is needed now is the political will, the push from INEC to ensure that this process is in place. Lastly, definite Nigeria obviously seems relatively new in Nigeria and of course I'm wondering to myself how could this have flown under the radar all of these years as we're campaigning, pushing for use, making promises to young people. This really flew under the radar. The EU observatory team that was here to cover the elections also in the observation in their reports made mention of the fact that there has to be in fact that we have to put pressure on INEC to make sure that there's continuous voter registration. It's surprising that outsiders had to come tell us, point out some of our major issues. I'm surprised again as I said that this could have flown under the radar for so many years. I'm grateful that you guys are coming up with this great idea to push for INEC to do it, but do we see INEC caving to this advocacy knowing also that INEC gives the excuse that all the reason why they close and open the puzzle at will is because they're trying to clean up the register and so that they do not have multiple registrations and take out all the people who no longer exist etc etc. These excuses will they hold sway as your advocacy continues? Like I mentioned these excuses will not hold sway because all of the infrastructure that INEC needs to ensure a truly continuous voter registration process is already in place. After previous elections there have been attempts to work with INEC to make the continuous voter registration process truly continuous. However there haven't been any significant efforts towards advocacy targeted at INEC and targeted at other young people across the country. So even though DEMnet is a new network which was formed early this year in January following a conference where different civil society organizations across Africa came to discuss participation in electoral processes and this gave birth to the network in Nigeria and in many other countries. We can see the importance of it. You mentioned that it was also a recommendation in the European Union Election Observation Mission report and one of the things that that report says it's important to have a truly inclusive register and to ensure that everyone who turns the legislation is on ground. So it is not a matter of legislation the infrastructure exists. So while we conduct advocacy to INEC we also see INEC as a partner in progress while we do this work to ensure that they are on our side and they understand the importance of this. In your introduction we spoke about the importance of the electoral process and one of the hallmarks of this good process is to have a credible voter register. Mm-hmm it must be important please. Well I want to say thank you Brahim unfortunately we have to go I wish we had more time to continue to talk about this but Brahim Farouk is of DEMnet Nigeria which is also called the Democracy Network Nigeria. Good luck with the advocacy and we're hoping that you continue to push for this, to this voter registration. Thank you so much for coming on the show. All right that's the show tonight. I want to thank you all for participating. Don't forget you can play catch-up with all our episodes just go to Plus TV Africa or Plus TV Africa lifestyle on YouTube. I am Mary Ann and tomorrow we'll be back with more stories talking for development. Have a good night.


headline. News update. Good afternoon folks. This is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of Delray Beach, Florida. This is your 1 p.m. update. Currently we have a slightly mixed bag out here. The only indices or indices trading the downside is a semester off about nine points a quarter of a percent. Otherwise, everything trading to the north. In fact, it's in green. Happy St. Patrick's Day out there to all you celebrating the day. You've got the Dow 173 points, half a percent. S&Ps up half a percent as well. That's 23 points and Azdec a quarter percent or 33 points. The Russell is up. That's the big winner today. It's up a one and one, one and two tenths percent basically at about 24 points trading out of 2054. You've got gold that is up nearly 2% 36 bucks. Silver is up to 80 and 90 cents right now. Three and six tenths percent lights recruit up 7%. That's seven bucks to the upside natural gas up 17 pennies. Let's go take a look at our nine panel market update chart. We'll begin and really we're going to see that price is trading in the resistance levels. Descending trend lines for the ES mini and for the NQ that you're upper left and your upper right charts. Now, price should be able to get through this level, but look, there's still sellers right here where price is trading to an ES mini and the 45, well, let me give, sorry, and the 43 83 level we're trading right now at 43 70. So price should be able to get up through that area, especially if the spot volatility remains below its 50 day exponential moving average. That's currently printed at 27 0 5 and the spot is at 25 81 US dollar index is taken in the shorts is trading below the bottom of its profile. You've got the euro getting stronger, the yen getting stronger. I believe the Great British pound was getting stronger as well. When I took a look at that, that is a formula for a lower US dollar gold held the bottom of its bullish structure daily profile. It's trading above the center, which is at 1938. If you can close above 1938 20, not 1938, not 1939, but, you know, maybe we're trading right now 1945. That would suggest to move up to the top of its profile in the 2026 area, but there's a new weekly profile attempting to form with resistance at 1989 silver. No resistance to speak of other than the top of its daily profile. That's at 26 23. Like recruit is forming a new profile. It's trading into one potential resistance level. And that's at the 103 level, the high today, 102 14. If price can get above that 103 close above it, then we're looking at 108 59. Yeah, that's a gas still consolidated with the slightest daily profile. It hit the tie today of 502. The top of that box 503. Gotta love these profiles, folks. Stay tuned for the Trader Z Joe. But if you're out to start your Thursday, have a terrific one. Thanks much for joining us here. We'll look forward to seeing you again soon.


Ranger Bill, warrior of the woodland, struggling against extreme odds, traveling dangerous trails, fighting the many enemies of nature. This is the job of the guardian of the forest, Ranger Bill, pouring rain, freezing cold, blistering heat, snow, floods, bears, rattlesnakes, mountain lions. Yes, all this in exchange for the satisfaction and pride of a job well done. There are many diseases that human beings can contract. Some are dangerous to others, and we call these contagious diseases. Now most diseases today can be treated and cured by the wonder-drugs of modern miracle medicine. In fact, vaccines are given now so that we need never get these dreaded diseases. There's one disease that is mental and emotional. That's pretty hard to cure, and there isn't any drug available to cure it. The cure for this disease can come only with the Lord's help and strong mental discipline. Our story today is built around this common mental condition.   Now break your will or you're back. Try to get away. I'll show you you ungrateful cult. I'll show you who's boss around here. Stop whimpering your ordinary cult. From now on you'll remember that I'm boss around here. The man who whipped that cult within an inch of his life is Basil Roscombe. He has an uncontrollable temper that can become an insane rage at the drop of a hat.   But sure it is, honey. Must be in the high nineties. You better find a shady spot and rest your horses. Ha, you said it. Hop on over there by Muscrat Crack. I'm with you, boy. Lead the way. Basil, girl. It sure is funny to see you ride Tony. I've been used to seeing you ride Matilda all these years. Sure too bad she had to break her leg. Yep, it seems peculiar to you how do you think it feels for me? Tony is a good horse, but someday I'm going to get me another horse for myself. I don't blame you. Oh, say, this shade sure feels good. I think I'll just use my salad for a pillow and take a snooze. Yep, me too, young fella. And old sons are burning mighty hot right now. Oh, you said it. Basil, be quiet. Enjoy the shade. Push down the cricket you want. It'll make you feel nice and cool. Here, Tony, hush up, will you? You can go stand in the creek, too. Yes, I told you to cut the... Hey, say, she didn't winny. Ha, ha, look at her. Staten air in the creek and eating grass from the bank. Huh? Tony's doing the same thing. Hey, that winny isn't coming from our horses, Stumpy. It sure isn't. We better find the horse. It's calling for help. Yep, and it's a young horse, too. Let's find it, Sonny, before we're too late. I'm gonna hurt you. Nobody else is, neither. I'm sorry.  I'm just taking it easy. Boy, somebody sure worked this yearling over real good. Boy, what kind of a guy... Careful now, Sonny. Harsh words ain't gonna help this cold nun. I guess you're right. I guess we'd better start passing him up. I'm gonna get him out of this boiling hot sun and over by the creek. Oh, how? He's in bad shape. I'll cut a couple of big pine boughs, make a skid, pull him over to the creek with our horses. Yeah, that should work. He's not full grown. I'll get my axe and cut some big pine branches. Good boy. I'll saddle our bass and Tony and get him over here. Right. There's one thing more, Sonny. Oh, did I forget something? Nope. Just keep your eyes open. The man that did this is liable to return to finish the job. Oh. Yep.  When he does, we'll be waiting for him. How much more germ killer we got left in that bottle, Henry? Not much. Maybe enough for one more bass and a fresh water. Yeah, let me see. I guess that'll do it if we may get stretched a little. You want me to ride to the nearest ranch and get some more antiseptic? Nope. You stay with the cold and I'll go. Well, okay. If you say so. Say, I don't like the tone of your voice. You've got something on your mind. The nearest ranch is basil rascals. Sure, I know that. Say, you don't think he beat this cult so badly, do you? Yep. I do think so. Look at the brand on his portrait-er. What the box be? That's basil's brand. It ain't George Washington, sonny. Here, that'll hold his youngster for a while. Now you make sure he don't try to get up when I'm gone. Okay, I'll watch him close. You keep one eye on the cold and the other eye on the range. Just in case basil shows up when I'm gone. You just stay right where you are. Listen, youngster, you don't tell me what to do. You're on my range and that's my cult. And you're the one that almost beat it to death, too. What business is any yours? It's my animal. My orders are to keep you away from that cult and that's just what I'm going to do. Who else is with you? There's only one more, boss. There's another horse tracks here. It's going away from here. Looks like it's heading for your ranch house.  Okay, Henry, get away from the vermin. I'm taking what's mine. That's what you think. You move toward this horse and you get a broken leg. Russian, boys. That's my cult and I aim to get him right now. Yeah, you tell him, boss. We're with you. Let's take the cult and beat it. Come on. You better think it over, boys. The old timer's a dead shot. We're not about to let you have the cult. Here I'll be sure you don't reach for your rifle.  That's what you think, you old fossil.  The cult now gets you for this. You're on my range and you're stealing my horse. You see, it is how these men ain't going to behave. We'll tie him to that tree over there until we can get away with the cult. We're all set, Stumpy. This pine branch skid ought to last a hundred miles. Good boy. Now, Basil, if you boys work at these knots, you'll be able to get them loose, saying about an hour and a half. You'll be sorry for this, Stumpy Jenkins. You're the most sorryest man that ever walked. You quit hollering.    I'll just as soon give you a whipping right here and now. But it wouldn't be the Christian thing to do. I could take you to town and push you in the cooler. But you'd only be the worst when you got out. Go on, home old man. Stop nagging me with your sermons. You've got a terrible disease, Mr. A terrible disease. Someday that temper of yours is going to get you into some real trouble. Well, that's my worry, not yours. I'm still going to get my horse back. I hope Basil and his two cowboys are loose by now, old timer. I didn't want them to get loose. I had to tie it a different knot so they couldn't get out on New Year's Day. I know what you mean. Tying them up was better than risking a shooting scrape, wasn't it, Bill? Well, now, Basil's the kind of man that'll nurse a grudge a long time and feed it with his fiery range. We haven't heard the last of him. You ain't telling me a thing, sonny.  He's got a nasty disease, that man. That's the second time you called Basil's temper a disease, dumpy. How do you figure that? Well, you're better with the long-handled words than I am. Well, pal, a person with a fiery temper does have a disease of the emotions and mind. But it's not only a disease. When a man loses his temper over nothing more than selfishness, it's sin, and it's wrong. Once his temper gets beyond the point where he can control it, it goes wild, and usually the person involved loses all self-control and either remembers what he did or said during the spell.  It's a good simile. How can he stop being like that? Well, first of all, the Lord certainly can help him. Of course, if he's not a Christian then he could do well to accept the Lord's Savior thereby taking the first step to overcoming this sinful life. Then with the Lord's help he can refuse to let himself become excited. Things he knows will make him angry, he should avoid. It takes a great deal of mental and self-discipline, Henry, and it's always wise to seek medical help from a doctor who could give some valuable help. It certainly is, Bill. Where'd you come from? You must have hiled the hinges on the door, eh? Either there, or you're paid for your shoes and they don't squeak any more.  And what I'm about to do to you is killing me too. What do you mean? What you're about to do to me? I have in me pocket a warrant for your arrest for hearth-stealing and trespassing on private property. What? Here it is, signed by Basil Raskum. I thought so. Well, come on, old-timer. We'll get down to see the sheriff and post bail. I've had to serve a lot of warrants in my day. However, this is one of the few times I'd just as soon serve it on myself. The first case is Basil Raskum versus Stumpy Jenkins. Stumpy Jenkins, you are accused of hearth-stealing and trespassing on private property. How do you plead? Guilty or not guilty? Not guilty, Your Honor. That's a bold-faced life. I've ever had one. Bailiff! Bailiff, clear the courtroom at once if another outburst like this occurs. Basil, if you don't control yourself in this court of law, I'll cite you for contempt.  Yeah, Your Honor. Stumpy Jenkins, take the stand. Yes, sir. You solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so up your guard. I affirm to tell the truth as a Christian. Very well. Mr. Jenkins, you are charged with hearth-stealing. Is that true? Yep. In a way, I suppose it is, since it didn't pay for the coat and he's wearing Basil's brand. Then why do you plead not guilty to the charge?  We had to stand him off at Waffle Point or he'd have killed a poor animal for sure. Then I brought the wounded horse back here to town for safe keeping in the ranger's tables. That's very interesting, but we must remember one thing. We are here to determine whether or not you are guilty of hearth-stealing, not the fact that a person or persons beat the horse and treated it cruelly. I understand that, John. What I'm saying is that there are special circumstances that force me to steal the coat. If you want to put it that way, I'd say I took the coat into protective custody, which would be a true picture. Have you claimed this horse as your own? No, sir. Would you return the horse to its owner after it's recovered? No, sir. Not unless I could be sure that anything wouldn't happen all over again. I see. If why didn't you arrest the person responsible for beating the coat and treating it so cruelly? I was more concerned about the animal, Your Honor. You see, it had been left out in the boiling hot sun. Is that so? Yes, sir. I'd like to invite the judge to see the horse at the ranger's tables. Thank you. I'll accept that invitation. The court is recessed. Very good. Easy, boy. Easy now. We're not going to hurt you. Take a look, Judge. Great Scott, you weren't joking when you said this coat had been severely beaten. It ain't very pretty, is it, Your Honor? The poor animal must be in considerable pain. Ain't no. I gave him a sedative. That's why his reactions aren't too sharp. Will he recover? Yes, sir. Fortunately, no bones are broken and no tendons or muscles cut beyond repair in a vital spot. The man that did this must be powerful. Yep. Powerful and very cruel, Your Honor. Basil Raskham, I'm throwing this case out of court. Stumpy Jenkins acted perfectly within his right as a federal officer and as a human being. That, sir, is more than I can say for you. Although you are not on trial, I strongly suggest that you seek medical and spiritual help to control your temper and your meanness before you do come to trial in this court for a charge far more serious. He's healing pretty quickly, don't you think, Stumpy? Yep, sure is. Must have been in a pinker condition. He's sure more relaxed since we've had him. Yeah, wouldn't you be if you figured now you're getting love and kind treatment instead of being whipped? Yeah, you said it. Good morning, gentlemen. Good morning, Judge. What brings you around so bright and early? There's been several days now since I've seen the horse. I'm interested to see how he's recovering. Well, come on in. Take a look for yourself. He's healing fine. You men certainly know your stuff, but his dressings are expertly done. Ranger asked to know how to take care of his horse, sir. His life can depend on it. All range be rangers. Stumpy, there's one thing that bothers me. What's that, Your Honor? Why don't you arrest Basil Raskham for cruelty to animals? Well, sir, it's his way. If I pinched him, that'll only make his cruelty to this horse in particular justifiable in his own mind. He might just take out his feelings on another poor animal. What you say is quite true. The way I look at it, Judge, is that it's my duty as an officer and as a Christian to try to teach the man the error of his ways without using the strong arm of the law, if I possibly can. That's why I tied him to a tree the other day. Yes, I heard about that. No doubt you did. I was determined that he wouldn't get the cold. I was also determined to keep him from doing anything foolish while he was in one of his rage and fits. You see, if he'd have come after us and started shooting, I would have had to fire at him because I not only had the wounded cold, but I had Henry with me. You're a wise man, Stumpy, but good officer. Well, you can see trouble before it starts and you'll prevent it's happening.  I feel sorry for him and pity him because he's got a weakness that leads him into wrongdoing. Yes, I agree with you. I wish I knew some way to cure him of these raging fits before he makes a fatal mistake. So do I.  Yes, that's what worries me. You haven't heard the last of this yet by any means. Bill, have you seen Stumpy? No, have you, Henry? No, and his horse is gone. Tony, I mean. Huh? It is. Well, where'd he go? They wouldn't tell us. I have a good idea. He wouldn't go out to Basil's ranch alone. I'm not so sure about that. I know he's packing a roll of bills. You mean he's going to try and buy the cold? Sure. He's taken a real liking to the youngster and vice versa. I'll saddle Storm and we'll ride like the wind. Instead of a bill of sale, the old timer's lively to get a ticket for a ride to the hospital. We'll cut through the dry gulch, which leads us close to Basil's ranch house. Right.  The best can't keep up with Storm for long. I was thinking the same thing, especially in this heat. I'm going on ahead. Hey, watch yourself. I will. Come on, Storm boy. Let's travel. I don't like to run you in this heat. This is an emergency. Give it all you got, Storm. In position, Basil. There ain't no fair proposition. You can make stumpy Jenkins.   Unless I miss my gas, that cloud of dust moving this way like a bowl of lightning is built. And there's more right behind him. Don't start nothing foolish. Yeah. Well, you get out of here. We ain't got nothing to talk about. Okay. If that's the way you want it. But it might not be in such a generous... You all right, old timer? I'm just trying to talk Basil into selling his coal to me for a fair price. I'm telling you, for the last time I'm not selling, and that's final. I heard you the first time. Pleased to pass up this offer. I want the coal back, and I'm gonna get him. Basil, I've kept out of this so far. But now I'm budding into it.  You're going to make one too many threats one of these days, and you'll be in trouble. Real trouble like you've never had before. Now, you know that I don't like being pushed around, so don't try and push me too far.  I'd go and see a doctor and a minister and try to get that insane temper of yours under control. I don't need no doctor, and I sure don't need a minister. Let me say something else. The lords helped men with worse afflictions in your temper, and he's cured them of it. There's not one thing that's impossible with the lords. That's all. That's right. You'd better get your Bible and start reading it, tough guy. It's getting so that very few people around here have any use for you. I heard about the tantrum you threw in the general store last week. I've also heard about you abusing your men as well as your animals. Yeah, that's my business. Not when you become a menace to everything that walks and breathes. Let me set you straight. I'm one person you don't scare. Not a little bit. It's a good thing the old timers are Christian or you'd be in jail right now. In fact, the judge is as stumpy why he doesn't arrest you. What am I supposed to do? Basil, I feel sorry for you because you can help yourself and you refuse to do it. You'll give God and a doctor a chance to help you and you'll become a human being. Until such time, you'll not get the cold back.   We'll just see that you don't. We tried being nice to you and shown you Christian love but you played a strong hand against us. Just keep on and you'll find out how strong the law plays is stronger than yours. Yep, it sure is. Use your head, Sonny, and do the right thing. Get right with the Lord and then see a doctor. And if you want some help getting right with the Lord, you know where to find us. Well, good day, sir. Let's go, Bill. Do you think Basil will behave himself now? Nope. Don't say that. I can rightly say that, Henry. This kind of man is too often don't give in until he's too late, which I hope doesn't happen in this case. I don't want it to happen, either. That's right, fellas. I've been thinking about Basil. How to approach him about accepting the Lord. That's a tough one. I'll say. He's always on the muscle. Well, let's forget about him for the time being locked up in head performance, getting nigh into my bedtime. Ah, mine too. Then I'll start locking up. About walking home, huh? Such a nice evening. Sounds fine with me. Me too. I'll go check on the cold and make sure he's all tucked in for the night. And I'll lock the stable doors just in case. Crap, such old wallets. They're all butting it for you. You making that cold, Basil? Keep an eye on him, Al. Well, I get the cold and we'll get out of here. Sherlock, don't try nothing foolish, old timer.  I'll show you how old I am if I get half a chance. Man's a good fit there. He wants to see the bill of sale again. Maybe he can. He's sure looking at it all right. Can he talk to old timer to thank you for buying him from Basil? Nope. He can't talk yet. Not with words, that is. But he sure can with actions. He sure can talk with actions, all right, old friend. He's showing his appreciation for the love and good care you're giving him. I'm sure glad Basil came and offered to sell him to you. I wonder what made him change his mind. I wonder too.  Well, see you next week for more adventure with...


Today, I'm pretty excited to take a look at a Linux distribution that I've never taken a look at before on the channel, and that distribution is Elive. Elive is a very interesting Linux distribution because, for one thing, it claims that it may be the best Linux distribution ever made. They actually put that right there on the home page. Elive may be the best Linux OS ever made, and probably the only distro you'll stay with. So apparently, they're saying, hey, once you install Elive and check it out, you know, it's so nice, and it's so fast, and intuitive, and powerful, you'll never distro hop again. And that may be the case, so I'm kind of interested in this. Now Elive is a Debian-based Linux distribution, and it uses the Enlightenment desktop. It actually uses E16, Enlightenment 16, which is a really old version of Enlightenment because Enlightenment has been on E17 for many years now. And then, of course, Bode Linux has forked Enlightenment to create the more modern Moxia desktop environment, and I really like Moxia. But E16 is really going to be kind of a blast from the past. It also uses compias, or I don't know if it uses compias out of the box, but you could use compias with it. It also uses KyroDoc, which is one of my favorite docs. If I had to use a doc on Linux, KyroDoc is really nice. It's going to have khaki. It's going to be an old school kind of flashy Linux desktop. The kind of Linux desktop maybe you would have seen 10 to 15 years ago.  Now I won't bother running through the installation of Elive on camera. It's a pretty straightforward installation process. It's not the Calamari installer or the Ubiquiti installer or anything like that. You boot into the live environment and its own kind of custom installation comes up and it just asks you a few basic questions like do you want to do automatic partitioning or manual partitioning? If you want to do manual partitioning, then you probably need to open up something like G-Parted and partition your drive. Other than that, you create a username, a password, and then it asks you about some programs to install or not to install.  And you can either check them if you want them installed or uncheck them if you don't want them installed. It has two different versions as far as 32-bit and 64-bit. And today I'm going to take a look at version 3.8.16 beta. So this is a just released beta version and again 32-bit or 64-bit. So that's great because there are a lot of old machines out there that are still perfectly capable of running Linux as an operating system. But so few Linux distributions these days offer a 32-bit ISO. I'm really glad the Elive guys maintain a 32-bit version. And if you click download here, one of the things you'll notice is the 32-bit download, you can just download the 32-bit version for free. If you want the 64-bit download, they ask for you to make a donation. So you click the drop down and you know, choosing them out to donate. And I don't mind donating money for Linux distributions. Like if they ask for money, I understand, you know, they put in a lot of work, time is money and these guys should be rewarded for the hard work. And especially when I see people doing unique stuff. And I think Elive, even just reading about it before trying it out, I think they're doing a really unique thing here with this distribution. So I gave them a few bucks. I went ahead and made a donation. I downloaded the 64-bit ISO and I've already ran through the installation in a virtual machine. I'm using Vert Manager. And let's go ahead and boot into it and check it out. All right. So I have launched Elive 3.8.16.  And it really does have that retro look. Those of you that have been in Linux for a number of years, this is old school Linux, right?  This was just a really nice way to add a little bling, a little sexiness to your desktop. You had the conky system monitor here on the desktop to give you some information about memory usage, disk space, swap, you know, your top processes as far as CPU and RAM and, you know, other things, network information is also here. And then Cairo Dock was probably the sexiest, most popular Dock available on Linux, especially about 10, 12 years ago. Really nice wallpaper here. And this widget over here, I'm assuming is part of Enlightenment. Oh, when you click on the edges, it collapses. Ah, so there's two of them. And what these are, I believe, are our desktops. So we have two different desktops here with it looks like six different workspaces. Yeah, I've got six different workspaces. And that has this wallpaper here. But the other desktop with its six workspaces has a different wallpaper. That is really, really neat. And again, this was very bleeding edge kind of stuff, 10, 15 years ago, because this looked so much better than some of the alternative operating systems out there, you know, 15 years ago, like Windows XP Windows XP compared to the Enlightenment desktop was really kind of hideous in comparison. I'm not going to lie, Enlightenment is pretty sexy. If I click on the desktop, by the way, if you do a left click, you get your program menu here and this very open box like or flux box like if you right click on the desktop, then you get your settings and theming stuff, maintenance things, your session things like restarting and logging out. So that's the right click and the left click. Again, that is your programs menu. One thing I notice is we have this icon on the desktop. It's a picture of a CD. And then let me click on that. I'm not exactly sure what that's supposed to be. It says it's connecting to the psychic radio station. Now, I don't think you guys are going to be able to hear that because I'm not hearing anything. I did not set up this VM to actually use any audio drivers or anything, but it is connected to a radio station and playing right now. By the way, this very old school music player here is kind of like a win out kind of clone and win out skin. This is audacious. The audacious audio player. Really fantastic minimal audio player for Linux up here in the top left. This is our Sys tray. That is our clipboard manager, which is clipman. I specifically asked it to install a clipboard manager during the installation process. I had the choice to install clipman or not install it. If I had other stuff in a system tray, like the volume icon or any kind of battery information or anything on a laptop, you know, all of that would also be appearing in a little Sys tray here on the left hand side of the screen. One thing I'm not really crazy about on the desktop, these workspace widgets here, they are rather big. I wonder, can you resize them? You see if you can move them, but I wonder, can I actually physically resize them? Yes, you can. OK. And try to get them a little bit smaller size because I didn't need that widget. I mean, they were about four times this size a minute ago. And that was a little bit too big just for a workspace switching widget. Honestly, I don't even know if you need that widget. I would think there would be keybindings to change workspaces as well. Let me see if I can actually find a keybinding that would work for this. OK, Control Alt and the arrow keys would move between the workspaces. Now, it looks like if I do Super and F2, it takes me to that second desktop with those six workspaces. And then once I'm there, I do Control Alt and the arrow keys. You know, I can move through those workspaces. And then if I go back and do Super F1, I go back to that first desktop with its six workspaces. So it is all keyboard driven. So I don't necessarily need the widget here for this visual representation of what's going on, unless I really need it. But for now, I'm going to leave it on the desktop because I do think it adds a little bit of aesthetics to this desktop. Now, instead of Super F2, if I do Alt F2, I get a run prompt here. This is Kupfer. I have never really used this program, but it's a graphical way of getting a run prompt here. Similar to Dmenu or Rofi, it's just got a little more polish to it as far as it comes with icons and stuff. So if I started typing something like, I know there's a terminal somewhere on the system. So terminology is the terminal, the default terminal with enlightenment. Usually on most enlightenment distributions I've ever used anyway. And this is a really nice prompt. Is that a fish or maybe ZSH? It could be bash. I mean, you never know, but I will say that's a sexy shell prompt there. Let me, well, let me just launch bash. Okay, the bash prompt is something completely different. So that was not bash. So let me exit. And then let me do fish. Was it fish? Fish is not installed. Okay, well, let's go ahead and do ZSH, which I'm assuming would be the only other option they would use. Yes. So they're using ZSH for the default user shell. Again, terminology is the terminal. If I run a H top right now, we have a bit of stuff running because we have the clipboard manager, we have the Kupfer run launcher also running. We have Cairo doc. We have a compositor running to get all this nice transparency. We have Khaki, of course, running even with all that running, though, 385 megs of the four gigs of RAM I gave this VM. I'm sure I could cut that in half very easily if I just killed Khaki and killed the stuff in the clipboard manager. Matter of fact, I could try that right now. Let me quit out of H top.  They kill all of that. And now if I run H top, let's see. Yeah, that definitely lightened it up. We were at what, 380 something megs? That got us down to 304 megs just by doing that. And I'm sure I could lighten that up even more to shave off some RAM. So I will say, even in this VM, everything is very peppy. Everything like these menus just instantly load and really not bad. And I kind of like the look and feel of it. But you guys know I'm a big fan of standalone window managers. And especially I'm a really huge fan of open box. And E16 kind of reminds me of open box a little bit. Now other than the enlightenment menus here that you can click on the desktop. And these menus here are part of the enlightenment window manager. You do have a applications menu of course in the Cairo dock at the bottom as well. It's a rather traditional kind of menu. I do think it looks really nice with this transparent black background. It's really a gorgeous looking menu system. And you even have the little search bar at the top where you could search for something. Again, if I wanted to search for terminal, for example, it would give me all the terminal options available in the menu. Let me go through the menu system just very briefly. And let's point out some of the programs that are installed. Now you do have some options on what gets installed and what doesn't. But for the most part, much of this was automatically installed. For example, Thunar is the file manager with Elive. You do have a calculator installed. I'm assuming that's probably calculator. No, this is calculator with a Q. So that's one of the QT apps. Really nice calculator. I'm just a little surprised that they're kind of mixing GTK apps and QDAPs in this distribution, which is fine. A lot of distributions try to stick to one toolkit over the other. But I don't think that's really necessary. At least nowadays, I've noticed that GTK apps and QDAPs typically look the same on most distributions these days. Years ago, sometimes you would get weird things happening if you try to install QT apps on a GTK desktop. If I go to the internet category, probably one of the most interesting things is the web browser. Now I purposely told it to install Firefox. Now it did give you the option of installing Chrome, Opera, Firefox. And by default though, the one that was ticked on was Pell Moon, which Pell Moon is a fork of Firefox, an old fork of Firefox, that I'm not sure I can really recommend people to run for one thing because it's old, there could be security issues. I would just install the standard Firefox if I were you. The other thing, if you use a lot of Firefox plugins, Pell Moon, there's gonna have some compatibility issues with newer Firefox plugins, again, because it was forked a few years back. The ISO I downloaded was about two and a half gigs in size. So not a small ISO, so there is actually quite a bit of stuff installed out of the box with Elive, which is fine. Web applications, under Sound, they have things like Music, YouTube, and Spotify. I'm not sure if they're already pre-installed and ready to go, or those are just links to an installer. Yeah, it looks like it's gonna open up Mozilla Firefox and probably the Spotify website. Okay, and if I go back to the menu system here and go back to Sound, we also have Audacious, again, what's the audio player. But we have Audacity, which is an audio editor. Really great audio editor, but I'm surprised that's installed out of the box. Sound Juicer is another one, I'm a little surprised that's a CD ripper. Some of these audio programs are not programs most Linux users are going to need on their system. So some may say that the ISO is a little bloated, but I won't be harsh on Elive for having a few more programs installed out of the box than maybe most other Linux distributions. Because especially people that are installing on machines that maybe have slow internet connections, that could be a positive. It depends, everybody's got a different situation here. Under Graphics, again, you have a ton of stuff installed. Darktable, a Nebook reader, GIMP, I think I ticked on GIMP and Inkscape. Or they were ticked on by default. I had the options of also ticking on things like Blender. I didn't want to bloat up this VM too much, so I told it not to install Blender. But a lot of this stuff was here by default. I didn't choose most of this stuff here. Under Video, we have a Vitamux. I'm not sure what that is. Is it a video player? It's a video decoder. Okay, never actually used that program. Also under Video, we have Cheese, which is our webcam program. Flowblade, which is a video editor. That's really interesting. So they include an audio editor and a video editor. This was really good for those of you that do any kind of content creation. I think Elive would be a fantastic distribution to install, especially since it's based on Debian Stable. You don't have to worry about stability. SM Player is our video player, or VLC, if you prefer VLC. Both of them are installed. Do we have any games installed? We have an emulator. It looks like a Super Nintendo emulator. That's really interesting.  Now what I want to do is I want to get back to the desktop. And when I right click on the desktop, I'm going to go to Themes. It looks like Elive Dark, Elive Dark with big fonts, and Winter. Let's choose the Winter theme, because I'm assuming that's not one that was already enabled. So, wow. Now look at the menu system. It's more of a silvery color instead of that dark black color. That could be interesting against a dark background. Let me find some wallpapers. I'm going to keep this theme for right now. But where are the wallpapers? Let me go to Desktop, Backgrounds. There's a menu for backgrounds, but it does nothing. OK, let me go to Settings then. See, various settings, background. Oh, OK. So that looks like what we need to do. We need to go to Settings and then choose the Background tab.  And yeah, some pretty neat backgrounds. So we'll check these out. You know what, since we have that light theme, that background, which is very dark, is probably one to go with. We have a forest there. I have that. That's another one that would look really good against a light theme. Typically with light themes, you want a dark background. If you got a dark theme, you want a light background. So that, of course, is too light for the theme we chose. I'm going to go back to that second one, because I think that is the way to go there. And let's see how our windows look with this theme. This is Thunar here with this light theme. Again, the winter theme. Yeah, not bad. And let me left-click on the desktop again. I'm going to go to Enlightenment, to Settings. And what else could we play around with? We had the backgrounds. We had the themes. I wonder how I changed the icon set. Let me close that. I'm going to go to this menu since I can search. Can I search for icons? Customize, look, and feel. I'm assuming that's going to be LX Appearance. And it is. All right. And of course, it looks like the GTK theme. So the Enlightenment theme, of course, is going to be the bar. The GTK theme is going to be what's inside the bar. For example, we could change to Add Weight to Dark, but that wouldn't make sense for what we're doing. Azure Light looks pretty good. Clear Looks actually would probably fit this pretty good as well. Actually, this one here, which is Koger Light. Yeah, I would go with that. Icon Sets that are available. The Elive icon set, I guess, is what they're calling this. We have the Add Weight to icon set, which looks pretty hideous. I wouldn't want to use that. Actually, I like the Enlightenment X icon set. That looks even better. And we have Flat Woken, which looks kind of like the old Fayenza icon set. And this icon set called Love. OK, let's do Enlightenment X. By the way, when I changed the background earlier and I was on the first desktop, did you guys notice the wallpaper only changed for this first desktop? Not the second. We still have this wallpaper on the second desktop. But if I go to it and then, again, go to Enlightenment, go to Settings, go to Background, I could change the background on this desktop. So I could change it to something. How about this one? I'm going to hit Apply, close it. Now we have a different wallpaper on the first desktop and the second desktop. Let's see what we can do with the Cairo dock configuration. So I'm going to right-click on Cairo dock, and then I'm going to go to Cairo dock, Configure. Position on the screen, it's already at the bottom. That's probably where I would want it. But those of you that would prefer it at the top or on the left-hand side of the screen, which I know most people these days like putting their docks on the left, of course, you could change that. To get all of the configuration options, what you need to do is go down here to Advanced Mode. Click on that. And then you get this window with even more options that you could play with. For example, a lot of the stuff in Cairo dock are actually widgets that have been ticked on. You could tick them on, tick them off. And of course, many of them have configuration options within the widgets themselves that you can play with. I'm not sure if I want to play with any of this stuff or not. Oh, animated icons. Let's play with this. By default, when you hover over something, the effect you get is really just this kind of zoom effect. But when you're hovering over an icon, it has this pulse effect. You see how it kind of pulses? You get the little pulse effect going on, but we could change that. Let's change that to a bounce effect. And let me hit Apply. Let's see. Yeah, now the icons bounce up and down when you hover over them. Of course, you can enable pulse and bounce if you wanted both the pulsing and the bouncing. I didn't click Apply. Ah, that's pretty cool. One of the ones I always liked, there was one that they basically rotated or they circled. Let me see. That's the one. I really like that one, the rotating one. That's the one I used to use all the time back in the day. I'm gonna leave that on. Then you can have different effects for when you hover over them and when you actually click on them. So typically what I would do is I would want it to rotate when I hover over them, because it's such a nice effect. But when I click on them, I want them to bounce. So I'm gonna do a bounce and rotate when I click on them. So let me click Apply. I'm just hovering. And then when I find one and click on it, no, it'll bounce when I click on it. Really cool. ChiroDoc is just fantastic. There's so many options available for you in ChiroDoc. It can be overwhelming when you first start playing with it because so many options can be paralyzing to some users. I think that's all I'm gonna do here for this very quick first impression look at Elive. I gotta say, I'm really impressed with it and I kind of assumed I would like this distribution, even just reading about it because I like standalone window managers. I love things like Fluxbox and Openbox and JWM. And Elive is kind of a window manager, very similar to those particular window managers. So I'm sure I could use E16 as my window manager of choice. That's really what I needed to use. And I love things like ChiroDoc and these desktops, these kind of retro desktops. Really sexy. Now is Elive maybe the best Linux OS ever made? I don't know about that. Of course, this is just a bit of marketing, but I will say it is clean, it looks good and it is fast. Enlightenment 16 is very fast for a window manager. So I will say that they're not lying when they say it's fast, intuitive, powerful. I agree. I think this is a well put together Linux distribution and I do love the fact that they do charge for the 64-bit version. I know some people may have a problem with that, but one of the real problems is I see people doing good work on free and open source software, especially people that maintain Linux distributions and eventually they get burnt out or they just can't afford to spend as much time on the project that they're working on anymore because it's just not worth it. They're spending hours and hours and hours a day and they're not making any money. They see no return on investment, which many of these people are not doing it for money. They're doing it for just the love of working on that distribution or that piece of software. But I love the fact that they're very straight up, hey, you want the 64-bit ISO, donate something. And I think that's a model that more Linux distributions need to start going to because if we want these distributions to survive, we need to be able to fund them properly. And I also think it's important that we start training the public to get used to the idea of paying for free and open source software. I think right now too many people have it in their head that free and open source software should always be free as in cost. And I definitely don't agree with that. Now, before I go, I need to think a few special people. I need to think the producers of this episode. I need to think Michael, Gabe, Corbinian, Mitchell, Devin, Fran, Arch 5530, Akami Channel, Chuck, Claudio, Donnie, Dylan, George, Caleb, Devils, Lewis, Paul, Scott and Willie, these guys. They are my highest tiered patrons over on Patreon without these guys. This first impression look at Elive, wouldn't have been possible. I also need to thank each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen. These are all my supporters over on Patreon because this channel is supported by you guys, the community. If you would like to support my work, please consider doing so. You'll find DistroTube over on Patreon. All right guys, peace.


TLO what's poppin? We are on twitch we are not live, but you can leave a like comment subscribe turn on the post notification bells Man, let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK and all around the world man Don't forget we are partnered with the respect my blueprint mastermind man. We did do a group podcast I'ma leave that link down in the description And if you're looking for any of my old videos man, they're over here on Facebook man I had to you know recently remove a lot of videos from my youtube channel Because they've changed some rules and blah blah blah, so Just to be on the safe side. I just took everything off and moved it to facebook That's just me being safe, you know So if you're wondering why when I do this reaction I I have seen I do know what the numbers gang is. I do know that they're established in an african prison. It was an You know, I've seen the documentaries, so I'm not lost. So let's get into it. Well, I might be a little lost, but Unpopular facts is the channel This is gonna have Let me just move up here, man. I don't want to be in nobody's way Best editor on the platform. Anyway, it's easy for me It wasn't okay Then I went to westville that way Oh, wait a minute now, hold on before we go any further. I almost forgot y'all almost got me I do not glorify sensationalize or condone any of the act stories told I am here simply to educate myself and others on the history and current state of issues around the world Following presentation is intended for mature audience. It contains graphic descriptions On crime scenes adult dialogue and strong language viewer discretion is advised You know, there's gangsterism in prison The same number And normally you already in so so the numbers gang, right? This is what I've heard or this is what I've learned and watched on these documentaries Where I'm educating myself and others around the issues around the world You either go in there You go in there if you're not involved If you're not involved already, they bully you until you get involved If you ain't got no people coming to see you they're abusing If you ain't got a call Me Yeah, that number, that 28, that 28, they wild, the 28's, they crazy, I heard. I'm the son of him, in fact, they have a lot of children, they don't talk to me, yes.  So you got a 26 tatted on you outside of prison because of peer pressure from your friends. You're not involved, why would you do that? Okay, just, alright. I didn't know that when I came, I didn't know that when I actually get arrested, I will not follow the 26th camp, I will be up in 20th. What's a France, like a, like a, like a, like a, not, not an involved person?  And I don't condone any type of gang violence, man, I stay gang free, stay drug free, and stay in school. I'm the one sissing, I'm clucking and chwoting, and I don't care for anyone, Dharrad, to fight everyday, for my life, and prison, and to get help. because now you're like glued to that person that helped you. If you're self-employed, that's how they get you. That's how they get you. They've lightly recruited you. This dude, this dude is in his nose. My bad, that's an L pause. This is really reminding me of dude. He said these in the 28s. Wasn't that the leader, the dude that we watched that, if y'all was OGs of this channel, we watched him and he was like, if you don't do what I say, you know what he do. You know what he do. That's normal in prison. And I'm trying to tell y'all which one we did. We watched the Cape Town documentary where they was in prison in Cape Town. And he's from Cape Town too. We watched the Cape Town documentary where they were in prison. We watched the Cape Town documentary where they were in prison. And he was like, dude, you don't know what I'm talking about. But, I'm trying to tell y'all which one, the dude that we watched that. And it's true. I have a bad day. I'm trying to tell y'all why I didn't get a job because I was just getting into prison. what France means? Somebody tell me what that means, Nakaba. Why couldn't he protect you anymore? Why couldn't he protect you anymore? If you're in Cape Town or if you're in any, stay out of prison.  Or you got two options to stay safe. If you're in any, stay out of prison the entire time you're in prison. It's advocating for him to go for option number two. He was you sure? Hey, they gon' do this this then the third, man. Hey, if I was you, I would take door number two. Now, like, no. If you're in college or you're working nine to five, it's not making you happy. You know it's not what you want for your life. If they see you drop any type of emotion while it's going on. The exact same position that does not count. If I was you, I would take door number two. You can cry what option number two as well. Both of these, you crying. One, you crying. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, no way. Hey, hey. That same setup, as soon as you got in there, you was top dog?  Oh whoa, y'all just gonna stop with the close capture like that? Sorry, I can imagine what is being said already, this has got to be too descriptive for them to even write it on the screen. It got spooky. At this point right here, after this line, it got real, real spooky and dark. He got to describe. Let me try to decode it for you. It looks like he's saying, I had to be with men. Who know what he's saying? Why would they do this? Hold on man, let's go to the comments. No, we gotta go to the comments now. It's not, this is what y'all wanted me to do. Y'all not gonna divulge the rest of this information. Then we're gonna go dig it. We gotta dig for the info now. Hold on, hold on, y'all. The scariest part about, you don't have to comment, okay. Big up to this man, this man was brave. That's why the children today should never, okay. It's good, there's our subtitles. It's a tough situation. Am I just good at this subtitles? Are you here? No, claiming to be part of a gang you're not. Anywhere is a bad idea. Okay, please always translate to English. I don't even know why I clicked this video because I wasn't expecting subtitles. Man, nobody gonna dim me though. Man, tell a little bit of like, comment, subscribe. I'm mad.


Hey curl friends, I'm Bianca Renee and you're watching Bianca Renee today and today. I noticed that my hair is looking longer Don't you guys think? Like wow, I could physically tell now I am using all the curl Smith hair length products So I need to update you guys on a length check soon, but I mean Speaking of curl Smith today's video is sponsored by curl Smith because they have two new products That you know I had to try which is their new weightless air dry cream So you might think what does that mean, but it's actually a leave-in Yes for all my leave-in lovers and they have another new gel called the hydro style Flexi jelly so obviously when I heard about the two new products as a gel girl I was more excited for the gel than the leave-in, but I have been incorporating leave-ins you guys have noticed I've been giving leave-ins a chance And I'm pleasantly surprised So let's talk about both these products that I do have in my hair today Starting with the curl Smith hydro style flexi jelly It's a styling gel for curly and wavy hair and it says to be a level seven in Weightless hold if you guys are familiar with curl Smith products, you know They also have a gel called their inch shower style fixer, which is a level 10 extreme hold and I do Absolutely love this still because of its crazy hold, but I'll admit Some of you wrote me saying that it was like too strong of a hold So if that's you you're going to love the more chilled out version of the hydro style flexi jelly So I want you guys to buy accordingly.   I like my curls to be more soft You're going to love The hydro style flexi jelly. So right off the bat. I love a brand that caters to everyone's knees Oh, you want more moisture. Let me create a moisture product.  So let's go back to the jelly It was as an eight fluid ounce bottle. It has no sulfate. So impairment is no silicone It's cruelty free certified organic ingredients and it's vegan So because I was most excited about the gel I did try the gel straight out the shower on soaking wet hair all on its own So let me show you exactly how I applied this on day one All right, fresh out the shower on wet hair So here I have the curl Smith hydro style flexi jelly styling gel for curly hair and wavy hair All right, let's try this Use about that much Oh, this smells so good It's a refreshing to have a good smelling product It smells like Fruit a fruit salad. Maybe it's a good smell Let's rake it on in here Oh, I told myself awesome try to do my hair in sections today. Yeah, here I am This gel has hyaluronic acid green tea brew organic time White cedar mashed Um Don't know that is an organic lavender. This one also says to apply on soaking wet hair My hair is is wet I don't know about soaking wet because my hair takes so long to dry I mean look There's still a lot of water in there raked through and then use the praying hands method to smooth all locks down I love that they actually included that on the instructions Because now we know to do the praying hands Because sometimes you need a little jesus to get a good hair day smooth and scrunch Praying hands scrunch Make sure every curl has some love All right, so now i'm gonna let this air dry and then probably diffuse when it's about 95 dry And we'll come back to show you the results For day one And i'm back now that my hair is almost completely dry But it looks really good especially for day one. Look how shiny my curls look This is before even using a leaving conditioner I did deep condition today, but they look really great really defined But let me diffuse and see how much bigger we can get it Not too much shrinkage on day one also very important To fluff that a little bit. Love it Looks so healthy and shiny Amazing, right? Really really really love the gel. It's a great alternative for those of you that don't want too much hold But you know that hold is important now this gel is $27 So i'll admit it's a little pricey for gel But for the certified organic ingredients the vegan like I just really trust curlspin as a brand when it comes to ingredients And the results that I get are always like out of this world So I always feel like if you're going to spend the money you better be amazing We're not going to spend $27 on something mediocre and this gel Is worth it now today's day three and since I am trying to incorporate leave-ins into my routine I like to use leave-ins a little bit later in the week where my hair might need a little bit more moisture Fortunately the gel did not really dry out my hair so my hair wasn't too dry in the first place But I did add in the leave-in conditioner first followed by the gel So the leave-in conditioner comes in a squeeze tube eight fluid ounces as well It also has hyaluronic acid castor oil organic nettle raw dragon fruit organic ginger And it's a very weightless cream That's probably one of the reasons why I don't usually use leave-ins because it could be too heavy And weigh down my hair because I have very low porosity fine hair But let me show you how I applied the leave-in followed by the gel All right, let's refresh this hair now. This is actually day three So it is timed out a little bit more moisture. So I'm going to use the leave-in conditioner today First I'm going to grab some water Fix all the parts that got all straightened out from putting it into a Pony tail during my workout yesterday A lot better. It looks nice keeping its definition Up with the new curl smith weightless air dry cream leave-in Conditioners for all hair types as hyaluronic acid and it's silky castor oil No sulfates on pyramids no silicone now It says to apply the soaking wet hair after washing rake through but It's day two So I'm going to not soak my hair again But I am going to use about this much and I like to use leave-ins Now later on in the week when my hair is a little bit more dry It's nice to see that my hair isn't tangled like I could still rake through it Just with this leave-in. So that's nice a little bit more Got moisturized and shiny my curls look definition on some of these Cute now I'm going to apply Same thing to the other side All right, now I'm going to apply more of my hydrostyle flexi jelly to lock in that hold He's about that much This stuff has great slip. I'm not even trying to detangle my hair But it's kind of doing that look at that day three the other side I'm going to let it air dry for as long as possible And then I'll come back to diffuse Okay, I see why you guys like leave-in conditioners. It does add a little extra shine. It looks moisturized And defined and shiny I go a little hard in the crunch department Pun intended, I guess Because that's usually the only way I get these type of results But I'm getting the crunch results without the crunch the weightless air dry cream Is $26 but it also is packed with really great ingredients So for those of you that already use curl smith products, you already know the deal You know how amazing they work for your hair and this is just Two more that you might need to add to your collection and by being completely honest between these two and the inch shower style fixer These are my three absolute favorite stylers out of all the curl smith products These are ones that I would definitely grab on a daily basis If I had to incorporate all of them into my wash routine I would probably do the inch shower style fixer on day one because it dries really fast and it's good for day one hair And then because it is such a strong hold. I might not want that strong of a hold the rest of the week I probably then switch to the hydro style flexi jelly on day two and then probably use the leave-in and the jelly on day three And then continue to use these throughout the week until I absolutely have to wash my hair So let me know what you guys think of these new products I know some of you guys already bought them because you wrote me an instagram raving about them But if you do have them, let me know what you think if you're curious about them Which one do you want to try more? What do you think of my results? Like are we just loving them or what? If you try out these products, I'd love to see your results Make sure you tag me and your photos on instagram at Ms. Bianca Renee And if you enjoyed this video, you know the drill Give me a thumbs up and subscribe and hit the little bell to identify it as soon as I post a new video I'll see you guys next time. Thanks for watching Bianca Renee today