Check it, check it, check it, it's a unique house, it's your boy E.C.O. and I'm here with the lovely, amazing official, Ms. Jamaica. What's going on? Nothing, you know my dad walk on. Man, hey man, we got a special guest in here today, man. He really don't need no introduction, man. If you're watching YouTube, man, you see Country Wayne, any of these other platforms, I even seen him. He look like he's on the news almost with us, he was at some magazine and all kind of stuff, man. Michael Anthony. Yes, sir. What's going on, man? What's up, man? What's up, family? Good to see you, man. Thank you for coming. Thanks for having me. Yeah, man. So, I know the way we usually start, we got a little way that we start, man. We own, hey, make sure you guys like and subscribe to our channel, man. We trying to blow this thing up, man. I always say like the World Trade Center, but that's really blowing, you know what I'm saying? No, that's not a good example. You don't want to blow it like that. So, just tell us a little bit about yourself, man. Let's get into it, right? Yes, we want to take it way back, not just a little bit from a year ago.  We want to know all of that. Oh, man. Oh, we going back to Akron, Ohio, Spring Hill, West Side, Akron, Ohio, Spring Hill Projects, right by Lebron J, same street. Really? Yep, East Avenue, same street. That's dope. That's dope, dope. I mean, I ain't going to say that. We weren't like best friends, but, you know, I definitely saw him, you know, I went to it. I went to it. I've been to his house before, not his house, but when they stayed in the project. Okay. Yeah, I've been over there before. Always just was just a different dude, you know. You already knew. Yeah, yeah.  You can give $200 million to it.  And that's rare. Yeah. You know, when I was in elementary school, that impressed me, you know, like when you start dealing with the kids and trying to find ways to, you know, do something that's that impactful when you start dealing with trying to make sure that you place yourself in the midst of it. That's where it's at. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like everybody don't do that. Most people trying to find out something to try to push themselves up high, not to try to, you know. Jordan, Jordan. You knew I was going in it. Jordan. I am not a Jordan fan at all. Wow, why not? I am not. I'm always a Shaq and Kobe fan. Never a Jordan fan. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I was a Jordan fan. There ain't going to lie to y'all. I was Jordan fan too. I'm not what I'm playing with y'all. I'm not what I'm playing with y'all. No, I was Jordan fan too, but you man LeBron, you know. I like the underdogs.  Shout out to Dre Gut and Glow. Went to the game with them. He was, I think he was a senior. Okay. And it was like, you know, everybody was there. And they had the ramps sitting with her, Nike, Jordan, and all them. How old was he then? He was 17. Okay, cool. High school senior. And I'm like, man, this dude watching him, I'm like, oh my God, I just do this. You know, after the game, we went back to a spot, me, Dre, and Glow. LeBron went to eat with the reps, you know. So he came to the house, this is not, this is why I will fight somebody in the bar above LeBron. He came to the house. He came in here like a stud. And I'm out here, they poor. Yeah. Yeah. He, you know, all these magazines, they live in Spring Hood projects. Yeah. Yeah. He come home and he has a styrofoam that has shrimp and stuff, you know, all the stuff he got from the fixings from the restaurant.  He opened it up. It was full. It hadn't been touched. He went to the cabinet. He put out some oatmeal, instant oatmeal, put some water in it, heated up. He ate that. Wow.  That boy didn't stay humble, man. So from that point of, so that's why I get, I get personal. I don't Facebook. You should. I'll be like, y'all, hey, meet me at, meet me at my house. Nobody's meeting you, Mike. Mike, nobody's meeting you, bro. I didn't know you were this big, man. No, I ain't nobody meeting you, man. You don't have to worry about that. I'm a, I'm a, I'm a teddy bear, man. So have you always been this big growing up? I was always taller and I was big. I was fighting boys way older than me growing up. My mom is funny. She apologized to me. She was like, baby, I'm so sorry. You know, she was having me fighting these boys that she had no idea. It was like six or seven years older than me because I was the same size as them. But it helped me because, you know, she was my age. She had you fighting them. Oh, my mom was a gangster. My mom ain't playing no game. That sound like that movie I saw where the mama took, took him back out there and be like, no, you're going to fight. Come on, we're going to fight. That's her. No, she locked the door.  She ain't trying to hear it. And if you ever lost a fight, what would she do? Oh, I lost. I was losing all of them because they was, they were so stronger than me. We just was the same size. It was older, you know, but she would sit there. She told me, she said, she said, baby, because I was like, man, mom was cold.   So you had to deal with it. You had to deal with it. You had to endure. So where was daddy during all this time? He was in my life, but he was, he had moved to Ohio. They had got their divorce separated. He moved to Ohio. So she knew because she was a single mother. And how old were you when they got divorced? I was 10. 10? How did it affect you when he left? I think it, I think, I think divorce, now that I look back on it as an adult, I think it does affect how we view relationships, how we deal in relationships. But he was there. You know, I can't sit here and say, my father was definitely there.  Because he was, we was doing, we was doing bad, man. You know, it was, it was rough. But it made you into the person that you are today. Exactly. So you wouldn't trade it for nothing? I wouldn't trade it for nothing. I ain't, listen, my mom, my mom was a gangsta.  She was rare because, you know, she would teach love and integrity.  So, you know. You had brothers and sisters? A little sister. A little sister. So you're the only boy. I'm a boy, me. And so it was me, two boy cousins and like 20 girls. So he was always fighting. Like, well, when I would go to Ohio, my uncle Joe, shout out to uncle Joe. He's probably going to laugh and to see this, but he would have a list. Cause I, cause now I live in Buffalo. So when I would go to Ohio, he peeped me up from the, from the Greyhound bus station and say, all right, this boy did this to your cousin. He had a list. And I had to go fight these boys.  How far? I did mix martial arts. You did? How old were you when you got into that? That was 2003. I was a Scambri County DT champion at Scambri County. So you didn't lose any more fights after that? Oh, I lost. When you win, you lose. See, people don't know about the mix martial arts fighting.  How?  Yeah, cause of the injuries. Yeah, when you block a punch, see people, when you watching on TV, if somebody block a punch or a kick, you're like, oh, he blocked it. But this feels hurt. Yeah, it hurts you. It hurts you. You know. That's going to tub of ice after you get done. Man, listen. So you, when you was young like that and coming up, you said the projects. And so how the projects up there was it like every other project when you hear Callio or when you hear about the projects here in Dallas, you know, whether it be over there at Bond Town 007 in the South or when you hear about stuff like when you go to Atlanta. Yeah, like in Vegas when we live, we live in Doolittle when I lived in Vegas. So how is it like for the projects where you were from? Uh, in New York, it was, you know, the buildings were high. So it was more condensed. I think that's what the violence was so different because it was like, you really couldn't get away from people.  So you got these small stairwells and elevators and, you know, pretty bad. Pretty bad. The building I live in now, we got Concierre.  I think it may, like I said, made me who I am today because you had to, it wasn't on running from it. You got to deal with it. You got a bully, you know, you're going to see him every day in the elevators.  You got to fight dirty. Yeah, yeah. I stayed in Vegas. I never forget it. I used to have to fight every day a lot of times in the projects because they were going to bring it.  He was starting it though. Oh, yeah. She was after the beginning, y'all. Yeah. Go ahead and tell us this. You know, she was not there from the beginning. That was when she was young. I heard the stories. I know all of the stories. No, no, no.  No, we just, yeah. When you basically, when you around all of these people, you know what I'm saying, you got to keep yourself amused some kind of way to see me. He was the bully. I was the bully, absolutely. You know who the bully was. Not a bully. Not a bully. Just always trying to figure out who was tripping in the neighborhood. Here's this metal zone. Yeah. You know what that's about. So most of my fights, when I was younger, all of my fights about me, always because I was kind of like Chris Rock. I was saying the wrong joke. I would like mess with people. You know what I'm saying? But I didn't mean to harm. But, you know, I wouldn't mess with you.  I got to get it. You got to get it. As you talk about it, Chris Rock, because I was going to event, he brought it up. So I'm going to go ahead and tackle it right now. So what are your views on what happened at the Oscars with Chris Rock and Will Smith? Wait a minute. I don't want to ask him like that because I heard his views. I went on his Instagram. But I understood what he was saying and your perception of it. But I don't know what he said. I know we're about to get into it, but it just was funny to me how you broke it down. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You know what? Okay, go ahead. So being an actor has taught me to be a more empathetic person. Okay. That's right. When I saw my mom transitioning with the heaven, I went through this phase of life where I was like kind of mad at God, you know, because I didn't realize that death is a misunderstood reality. So I had separate. You can't separate from God, first of all.  But I went on this, you know, I just was like, ah, I wasn't praying. I want to do nothing. And then once I got back, it came back to life and really, I went on this spiritual journey across the world, you know, I just became more empathetic and realized that men, it's, it's everybody has a lens they're looking through. Exactly. You know, it makes me treat my woman different because I understand that this is a woman and she ain't supposed to look at it like I'm looking at it. You know, I'd have bought her this watch and $14,000 watch and this room, this cabin and took us a trip to here and do all this stuff. And then she said, baby, you didn't give me any flowers.  You tell me flowers for a girl. That's a Cartier watch. But she don't care about that. That's, that's her lens. Right. So with all that being said, I looked through, I look at both guys. I am a, Wayne's turning me into a comedian. I've always been a comedian like a hood comedian. My partners thought I was funny in my family, but Wayne is cultivating me to becoming a real comedian where you go on stage and he's, I'm in training. Right. You know, he's got me into the skills as we all know and he's, I've always been funny, but he's like teaching me to put it out there and be confident and say, Hey, you know what? I'm a comedian. So even before that, I've always loved the art of comedy. Okay.   The Patrice O'Neill's, the Corey Hockam's, the Phazon I love. Yeah. The Bernie Macs. The Bernie Macs, the DL Hughes. Yeah. Yeah. So that's real comedy. Comedy is, comedy is the thing that hurts. Or the thing that we don't, what do you want to say it? Because we know that, we know that lady is, we don't want to say fat. Yeah. Yeah. She being. Somebody might want to come in. But we know it. Mm-hmm. Like the picture of, I'm going to get the worst move, but the picture of the lady from the Me Too movement. Y'all know who she is? I think so.  Yeah. You know what she look like? Me Too movement. Who started the Me Too movement? Damn. Watch his face. I'm going to show you what comedy is. The Me Too movement. You both just said these are, oh damn. Now y'all see that? That's comedy. Okay. Wow. She said okay. But I'm a woman. It's different. See different lens. Now comedy is this. I took her picture and I was trying to prove a point to somebody. And I posted in my story as I said, this is the woman who started the Me Too movement. That's all I said.  It was like, you better not. Don't you dare. And I said, you know what I just did? All I said was, this is the woman that started the Me Too movement. And because you think she's unattractive, you try to push it on me. Comedy is the truth. Right? The truth that nobody want to say. So that's my job. That's the job. My job is to say the things that we all know, but we don't want to say it. Because if I'd have posted Beyonce and said, I started Me Too movement, they wouldn't say nothing. Nothing at all. So that's what the audience is that. Yes. The audience is people that say, that's not right. You shouldn't say that. And I'm the person that says, look at this motherfucker's face. That's a comedian. That's what makes Dave Chappelle. It makes you a superhero, right? Yeah. So I understand we're looking at Jada and she ball-headed. Right. It's not a big deal to be ball-headed. Nowadays it doesn't matter. She's beautiful. But Chris Rock was just trying to be funny. Exactly. He made fun of other people, right? Made fun of people. And that's a light joke. Now, here's the thing. What if she had cancer? This is the risk about comedy. What if she had cancer? Wow. You see what I'm saying? It's a risk. That's comedy is a very, you think rapping is, comedy is dangerous. Very dangerous. Because I got to just say it.  That could offend somebody. No, no. He's going to say it. If I got a bump right... He's going to say it. He'll say don't have it for the skit. I'm going to say something. That's his job. That's what makes it special. That's a community. But anyway, so let's say that was the case, right? Really human being. Now, that wasn't the case. It was alopecia. Right. Here's what really happened. What really happened is and I'm about to go deep and I went on Instagram. Will Smith already said, man, since I was a kid, I always felt weak because I watched my mama get hit and I ain't doing nothing about it. Okay.  He said that. Now, you fast forward. So that... Your woman... I can't see where you're going with it. Goes onto the red tabletop until late. We talking about this Will Smith. 30, 40 million dollars a movie. We looking... We like, oh, my God. So we can hide behind that a little bit. Then your woman come on and say, you know, I got this younger guy. My man don't even please me in bed no more. So now, let's just be honest. If LeBron James, if Savannah came, I said LeBron is six foot nine, 270 pounds, but he got to be in the sausage. I ain't calling the nigga King James no more. It's just kind of take... You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, LeBron gonna look... Oh, man. Right? Right. So now, Will's back into that space again. Wow. Watching his mama. Because now your wife is putting it to the world and everybody on them.   Man, you a hoe, man. This man from Philadelphia. Born and raised. Yeah. Born and raised. I spent most of my day. So it's something in there. You know what I'm saying? And he's an alpha because to get to that point, you got to be an alpha to get to that LeBron. Michael Jordan is something in you. Yeah.  He's telling the jokes. And that's what we do. He's a celebrity. We laugh. And I look over and I see her reaction. She's hurt. My mama getting hit. What am I going to do?  She all sad. You laughing. Yeah. So it was like the pressure's on. I got this is very inappropriate. I didn't do it. I'd be the, I'd be the benign at the funeral one time. So I can't judge nobody. But this is inappropriate. But I got to go slap fire at this man. When I beat that man at the funeral, I knew it was inappropriate. But I said, I got a lot the door. I'm outside with the booty. I got to do this. So we was put into a position. So was it inappropriate? And then Will Packer is my man. That's my big bro. We'll pack it. Yeah. Yeah. So I felt bad. It happened on his day. Because he basically produced it. And it was a great guy. And I was like, damn. But I understand you can't put me in a, I don't care where we at. You know what I'm saying? And like I said, Chris Wright wasn't wrong. Yeah. He doing his job. He's a comedian. Comedians. Who the Wayne talk about all the time? His family. His family. His self. His self. And he being real like, I was with Wayne one time on the road, right? And we went to, he got a new baby mama. Went to her house. The lady came in there with the child's poor thing, 4,000. I had, I was one of the people that signed it saying we here. Showed her ID. And the girl was saying, I'm gonna sue you. They got to a little back and forth and this and that. And then we went to the show and that night he was like, hey y'all, the reason why this is the first city y'all, cause I find I got a baby mama here. So I come here and use this when that time's over. Everybody laughing. But I'm like, this is really, this is really happening. Right. That's comedy. But you see, when people take, when he tell a joke like that, people are looking at like, he not really see it. I think it's just a joke. It's serious. Yeah. Everything Wayne's on that stage is for real. But you got to understand and just, just tapping into what happened with Will again. I have a question about it. Do you think that Will should apologize? Um, he should apologize because he was wrong. But he was right. I know it's all crazy. It's all crazy. He was wrong technically because what he did, Aimee really had to do with Chris Rock. Yeah. So what I would say is Chris, man, listen, bro. You know how this world is we live in. I've done, I've been the perfect, I've been almost Jesus all this long. Yeah. He didn't even curse in the rap. I ain't even cursing my rap. It's Chris and everybody, my girl telling everybody I got a little thing. Yeah. She messing with August Alcina.  And you came at the wrong time, bro. I'm sorry. Is that how he's supposed to apologize right there? Yeah. All of them apologize. Oh God. Because it's like, it's not Chris Rock. No, it's not. It's not. All that, all that stuff I talked about, that was that. Because that's what a comedian's supposed to do. Yeah. And when I heard the, when I heard the joke, it wasn't this day's full because at the same time, he might not have known that she had alopecia. He didn't know. Right. So you couldn't really just blame him for something like that. At the end of the day, it happened. How do we pay? How are we going to move on? And Will was laughing. Will was laughing. We all smirked when he walked away. Well, he laughed. The smirk was. No, when he walked away, he slapped him. I seen that. But the smirk was, I beat the man to hit my mama. That's what it was. I did it. It was like, I'm a man. Because we have been tearing Will's masculinity down as a society. All the black folk out there that say he was wrong, we have been tearing Will down. Yeah. We have been tearing him down. But we know he slapped a dude one time. Pop, pop. Yeah, but he, yeah, but he, he said, I should have went on whooped his nigga. He slapped the pebbles out of Chris Rodney. Nigga said a lot of stuff when he ain't around. I wonder how he didn't end up on the ground. It wasn't that hard. I said, he should have been on the ground, bro. He should have been, he said. See, if he had popped him on the hook. See, he got popped on the side of his head. He didn't know. See, when you slap him right here. It's disgrace. And keep the hand open. See, he kept his hand. It's just a nice, it's a lie. It's a lie. It's just a pop. It's a warning. It's just a pop. It sounded really loud. It was not, it didn't hurt him. It's a shock. When you hear somebody like this with this, did you hear with these here? That's just a little, I'm going to let you know I really don't respect you. Yeah. When you hit him with all this, see them, see them calluses? Yeah. Put them calluses right here. And they're going to ring and everything. He ain't going to be able to talk no more. When you knock his head off his neck, the body will fall.  I watched it over and over again. How many times did you pause? I was like, yeah, I've seen Chris kind of lean into it. All of that. Because people were wanting, was the stage, was it fake, was it real? It was beautiful. I'm sorry. The form was beautiful. The form was beautiful because Will, see as a fighter, when he popped him, see, most people, they just throw this. Will had the hand up. If you watch it, watch it again. Oh. He popped it with, so that training, I said, ooh, Will could fight. Chris Lucky, he ain't trying to fight back.  Yeah, well, that bring up another sub. Let me say this, that bring up another sub. That boy, Shannon Sharpe said, listen, Shannon Sharpe said it couldn't have been him. No. Because he said if he came up there and either hit him, he said, then he said, then he said, and every time I see him, it'll be on site. Yeah. But some of the different type of dude, that's Shannon Sharpe.  And you got good sense. He's ready. He is that country boy.  I'm a country boy. I'm going to be honest with you, I'll get to you. You got to. Yeah, yeah, it's going to happen. If I see you, I can get to you. Everybody said that no. So why are you thinking that Chris then? It's Chris Rock. Chris Rock painting how to find a life. You ain't going to slap T.K. Kirkland. Yeah, T.K. Kirkland going to come over with it. You ain't going to slap Corey Holcomb. You is not going to slap Corey Holcomb. You ain't going to slap Dion Cole. I can say they won't. Dion Cole in the tub. He's from Chicago. You ain't slapping Dion Cole.    Chris Rock, no cuff in that world. But he does do a lot of talking. Like he really about that, you know, like he just, yeah, he don't mind. He don't talk.  It really be the white crowd he trying to appeal to.  Yeah. Chris Rock is like Dave Chappelle. Dave Chappelle ain't going to fight you.  Damn. I don't know what they're saying. They're brave. Like to me, Chris Rock is still, I still look at him, you know, who is hard? Anybody else? I don't know if I was to respect them. I do respect Chris Rock because I know who he is. Yeah. But what about, dude, what does this career go from, because I heard them teases in double now. Of course. I heard they went from $70 to $400. Of course. Because they know he going to talk about it. We want to hear him talk about it. He's going to be like that. He going to be like, he going to make it funny. Because that's what we do. And he not going to put it on social media or nothing. You're going to pay to come see it. He going to be like, after, that's a good thing about comedy. Comedians don't stand the dog house long like rappers do.  I used to be a rapper. Yeah, we're going to get into that. I love this life so much better. It's way better. It's better. I can just express, comedians are expressive. I don't got to wear it.  You know what I'm saying? We can really talk about our real feelings. So when Chris talked about, he going to talk about how scared he was, how shocked he was, and it's going to be funny because funny is the truth. Like I said earlier, it's true. He ain't going to just tell everybody else it's true. He talked about him cheating on his wife. Yeah. Yeah. And he did. That's what comedy is. You know what I'm saying? So that's crazy. Here we are. Let me ask you about the rap. You brought it up a little bit. Yeah. Because I was like, I said, damn, he going in because at first I looked at it and I seen gunplay on there. I'm like, I'll even go in. You know, then when I listen to it, we start listening. I just let it play because it kept going after you bit it on the play. He's always about the ladies. Yeah. So what, how did you end up linking with gunplay? I was, I was trying to figure that you was hanging with Rick Rawls and gunplay and then I'm down there some kind of way. Nah. I was like the Nate Dogg of Florida. But I sang.  G all the different Florida rappers, Papa Duck, you know, I was the guy that was giving hooks and, you know, thinking about the gangsters. Yeah. Yeah. How long did you do that? No. Because when I looked it was like in 2010 or something like that. So how long did you stay in there? I got signed in 2010 to slip and slide records. But before that, yeah, Lucas shot to my big moment to it. Lucas giving me and Julian and milk, all them guys down there. But yeah, that was my family. I signed with them in 2010. But I had been doing because I was hustling before that and I got a name in the state and they came up to Mobile. You know what I'm saying from Miami and I drove from Pensacola and performed in front of them in front of the crowd and it was like, oh yeah, fly down to Miami tomorrow. I flew down to Miami. But the contract at the time I was going to give him this contract and I'm like, a lot of much. As contractual.  You did that on the skits. I was like, yeah, this ain't going to work. So I didn't sign. But then, you know, man, on my mom's transition I just like lost myself. And how old were you when she transitioned? 29. Yeah, I was about 23. 29. My place got both my business got repolled. My townhouse got I got evicted. I had like my credit score. Everything went cause I stopped living. You know what I'm saying? I was homeless before I knew it. And then when I called I was trying to get back on my feet trying to get back moving again once, you know, after about a year or two. And then the guy I called the DJ I called he was like, yo, DJ Smalls. Okay, yeah, DJ Smalls. Shout out to DJ Smalls. Shout out to DJ Smalls. He don't even know but that conversation we had he was like, he changed my life cause he was like, yo, I'm living in the 97 Toyota Corolla. I'm thinking I'm hiding in the city.  I'm like, what's up, y'all?  No, I want to hear about Roy Jones, man. I'm a big Roy Jones fan. At his just pinnacle of where he was at, man, I'd have put him up against anybody in his weight class and I was going to ride with him. Here dawg, Roy is a different human being. I thought I was tough that month. Wasn't Roy Jones like Jamaican apart, Jamaican or something? Oh, here we go. We do this, man, in every episode. I wouldn't be surprised if he had Roy Jones. He'd put a rooster. He'd be hanging with the jigs. He'd put a rooster out again. There you go. I got some stories about Roy, man. Roy ain't no punk. How'd you meet him? I met Roy. How did I meet them? I started coming around when I moved to Florida, coming around in their labor.  I just want to be a part of it. And Roy, he took to my honesty. You know what I'm saying? Same thing with Wayne.  And I told Roy something one time that I ain't going to share, but something that had disagreed with that happened. And I wasn't like trying to check him because I was a little bro. But he peeped at it. You know what I'm saying? And I remember, he just took to me. You know what I'm saying? He liked me and I learned so much from him. He was a good dude, man. Took me in a role with him. Yeah, real good dude. So he was at a lot of those fights? I didn't go to a lot of the fights.  Yeah, I was on the videos. Wow, I got to go back, man. Now I'm way in the back. I'm like, do you want to see me?  I'm going to get them back like, yeah, man. I'm in the back. I'm in the shadows. I'm already in the back. Now I go right there. So like, when you, for how did you meet Country Wayne? I got to get into that too. And hold on. What did you want to do as a kid growing up? Is this, because you went from martial arts to boxing to rapping to like, what is it that you wanted to do? Entertainer. Just entertainer. Just entertainer. I'm like, Sammy Davis drink. You always wanted to do that. Cause I was a kid. I just wanted to be a famous singer. I just wanted to be a, I wanted to be an actor. I wanted to be, I just wanted to entertain. Because it was different back in the days than it is now. Like back in the days, people only wanted to be like an actor or a singer or this now is like, you have to be an artist which is everything all in one now. That's it. So it's different. Yep. So the, can I get into the Country Wayne question? Let me say this. When I went and saw Ted, he told me, he said, Mike, when I signed you, I knew you was a star. Wow. I just didn't know what to do with you because you did too much. You did too much. I got a guy like that. I love him.  But he said, bro, I didn't know what to do with you. Damn. So like the time now is like, everything's coming just to full circle because it's like, oh, now this is, this fits into my- This is in the industry of what it is. Man, it is new. The thing I, when I first seen you was really like my first time seeing you. I'm being real. And when I seen you, I was like, man, what is he doing on here now? But you didn't look as big on there for some reason.  So like you look bigger in person than you do on there, but- But they always say you supposed to look bigger on camera than you do on there. No, I don't know. This is backwards. So, but as you- It's backwards. Yeah, I promise it is, but when you- It's the angles. Yeah. When you were in country, when you weren't met, or how did y'all, how did you even make, make it to meet him? Like, so Chase, his brother's doing a bridge. How'd the chase chase Walker? Chase Walker. Chase Walker is the, first of all, let me give him flowers. The camera, you know how, that's all the iPhone. That's dope. One iPhone. I have the whole filming. Can't nobody do what he do with that. That's Chase. I've always heard that you can do really great skits with an iPhone. But you can't, can't up like- Everybody can't do it. Can't nobody, can't nobody. I had a camera guy like that. Remember, Tyler's like that, Jay Tyler's like that. There's no cutting. There's not no like, hold on. I had a camera, and he's catching the reactions and the- He's serious about it. He's using a tripod too. He's using a little- Yeah, yeah, that's for you. Yeah, a gimbal. Right. Can't, listen, can't nobody do that like he do. I told Wayne and the Dallas at Wayne, bro. And Wayne was like, oh, I know. Him and Wayne together, they just- Make magic. They make magic. And they've taught me that they brought me in and they kind of cultivated me to show me a different, it's a different form. I'm a trained actor, but this is a different form. Cause it's not, usually how we do one take- And then you cut it. To a wide- Right. We're gonna go medium, boom. Okay, we're gonna get your close up, bro. Yeah, yeah. You know, we can every, so that you're catching everything. But what this is like- It makes it so much easier too. No, it's harder. It's harder like this. It's way harder. Y'all don't, y'all have to do over and over. I mean- No, no. You do one take. But editing is easier. Editing is easier. Right. Yeah, but that one take, I thought it would be easier It's like a live show. Ain't no cut. It's like a live show. It's live. If somebody messes up one thing, it could be perfect. If I say one thing wrong, I can't say that cause you know, we gotta start over. But how many times do y'all feel like it make you better? For us, our chemistry probably wants it twice. Yes, okay. But because, you know, like Ro, she been doing it for a while with them, you know. So the chemistry, it don't take us long. But how did you come into that? It was the camera guy. Yeah, yeah, sorry. We gon' get it. He gon' get it. So it was the camera guy that brought you in. He did he call you? Or how did that happen? Were you in Atlanta or were you in Florida? Where were you at? I don't know how the hell they found me. I was in Atlanta. But Chase hit me up like, yo- And he known you how long before that? Well, I'm known in Atlanta as an actor. Like in the acting world. No, but Chase knew knew you. No, we didn't know each other like that. So I was actor of the year, AAC, Greenlit. Was that the magazine? I keep thinking about that, yeah. So I'm known in the acting community of Atlanta very well known. So he knew who I was, you know, but we weren't like friends or anything like that. He was like, are we doing this kid? And in my mind, I'm like, I'm an actor. I don't know if I should do this skit. That actor voice, you know. I'm gonna act right up. I'm gonna be dumbing myself down for this thing. Some people probably would think that skits are below them. No, no, no, no, no, no. I'm an actor. I'm an actor. Most actors. Yeah, cause they was like, Mike, what are you doing? Like, bro, you work so hard. And I was just like, ah, I'm just, you know, me, honestly, I'm being rude, John. I told Wayne this. I said, bro, when I came on, I had no idea. Like Faizan. Oh, I had no idea. Cause you're wearing this huge. Yeah. But Faizan. Watching him before, you actually. I had seen him before. We didn't think nothing about it. I was like, oh, he doing the internet stuff.  Faizan, Faizan. We asked that question. When I asked Faizan, I basically was big up in the fact that comedy has taken so many different avenues.  But I didn't know. But that's why I asked him the dinosaur, hey, how do planes making money? You talking about the big old metal things from the sky?  So I understand, my mind was like, ah, it skits. And I told Wayne, I'ma do it to get some followers. I'm like, you know, let me get some more followers on my page so I can get my verification. And at that time, how many followers did you have? I had 111,000 when I met Wayne. So I do the first skit with him. I was supposed to come and be Blake's daddy. And then I was supposed to do about three or four and be gone. Yeah. Came. I remember that episode when you came and Blake, I'm like, oh. I was in and out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, me and, man, not just Wayne, but, cause his team is his family, his brothers. Yeah. Harvey and Tay, his kids. And then Ro, it's a family. And I just fit right in. Yeah. I just fit and I felt like, like I knew these people forever. You know what I'm saying? Wayne, I don't meet dudes and be like, man, that's like my brother, man. I really love that dude. Yeah. Like he's a, he is a, let me tell you something. That genuine spirit. That's what it is. You ain't gonna meet no celebrity at that. And this is the thing. This is why people don't think he's so big, like Faizan. Cause of how he care yourself. Yeah. He ain't walking around with 1,100 chains on the net. He taking care of 700 people. Wow. Why he take care of his whole family? And he's still living like a king. When I went to that nigga house, I say, nigga, what else you do? I thought nigga was still selling dope. And that wasn't a new house that he just bought. No, he just got a new house. Right. He got a million dollars in furniture. I bought that new house. That's when it threw me off. Cause he was like, yo, we gonna, yo, we want to bring you on full time. And I was like, all right, cool. I'll do, I'll do it for a time. Cause I, first of all, it was just the chemistry with them and I was, it was fun. You know, I went to that nigga house. I was like, okay, what else do you do? Wow. So as we, as I got closer to him, he started, cause you know, yeah cause he want everybody to win. He like, bro, you got 270,000 followers. You ain't making no money.  I'm like, I can make money. He showed you. He showed me.  There are so many different avenues nowadays compared to what it was. Now Phazon spoke on the residuals that he make. Let me tell you something about residuals. He's Phazon say he got residuals. I'm telling you, didn't he say that? Cause he's been doing work. Ever since, ever since Friday. Okay, let's talk about residuals. Let's talk about residuals. Compared to what you're doing now.  Unless it's friends. Y'all know, I get residuals. I'm a professional actor. So yeah, okay, I get, I made, I did, raising Deion. I did about 125,000 off of that, something like that. As when the residuals come in, they get smaller. Yeah, it's time to go longer. That's the reality. As any actor, it go all the way down. You get a check for six cents. I've got a check for six cents before.  That's a waste of people.   I'm an actor. We a lot of people tell them that cause we don't want to let people know. That I'm a comedian. I'm gonna keep it real. But he says his friends are on the four bliss to do comedy. Okay, let's talk about numbers. We ain't gotta talk about Googling four. Let's talk numbers. Okay. The skits. Let's say you got a, you have a, let's say you got a hair, hair business and you got a clothing business, right? Okay. And y'all, how do TV, how do you make money on TV? How does TV show the big money? Is it because of the people that's picked up and they, the network paid? Ads. Ads. Ads. Yeah. Commercials and ads and how you make money. I get it. Okay, boom. You got your hair, you got your clothing. We a, we gonna make a move. We gotta invest in some ads. Snowfall is the number one show on FX. Right now. Great show. Five million views a week. Five, that's a lot. Right. Right? They got 10 episodes. Let's get the calculator out. So five million. Times 10. Times 10. It's 50 million views. Now hold on, y'all ain't made our decision yet. Y'all still shopping around. Now Country Wayne does a million views a day. So that's seven million views a week. But the difference is he ain't got 10 episodes. He got 52 weeks. So times 52. That's 364 million views.   Exactly. So that's what I'm saying. So times is different. Times and times. So what happens is when you, and I understand what Phaselons come from because Phaselons are alpha male. All right. You know what I'm saying? When you talk about, when you talk about basketball somebody from the LeBron era, we want to make sure our era stand strong. Man, Jordan, Jordan. Jordan's 66, 196 pounds. For show. LeBron is 69270 and jumped the same height. Evolution is a motherfucker. You talking about David Robinson, Kevin direct the same size as David Robinson. Shooting from half court. It's evolution. But you know, we as men, we got this thing called ego.  Man, I know this. I do that. We ain't done though. We ain't done. So basically he getting paid from Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, right? He's making. He don't get paid from TikTok or any of those avenues yet? Cause it's not long enough. He do three minutes. So he's making $450,000 a month from social media. I've seen it. I ain't talk about it. This ain't no, this ain't no Google. This ain't no. I've seen it. You live it. Yeah, we live it. I'm getting listen. This is 55. I live it. He live it. He live this. I'm getting some of that money too. So just so y'all know. This is an AP bus down. This is 90. I'm not trying to brag. I'm just saying. I know I get it. This is social media money. Now, I got money like Wayne. But anyway. And there should be motivation for any of y'all who trying to come up. Everybody who's trying to get old. It's motivation. Right. Because I want, my thing is I'm not saying, I'm not trying to attack phase on. I'm not trying to brag.  Exactly. And that's the good thing about this episode is that people will be able to look at it and say, I need to investigate how I can get me. It's not even that educated about platforms. Some people know how, but it's too scared to get up off their behind to tackle it. That's really what it is. You need to get off your behind. Because it's on your phone. You can do it wherever you at. This is TV. Everybody. This is the new TV. Let me ask you a question. I hear Gary Vaynerchuk say that a lot. Let me ask you a question. Now, you say, forget the views. How many times, how much time you sit down and watch TV in the day? When I eat, that's it. That's it. How many times you put this thing up? I force myself to do it too. How many times you pick this thing right here? All day long. That's why everybody got a podcast. That's because it's evolution, people.  I'm getting on a plane. Look at what these niggas talking about. Exactly. Let me tell you something. We ain't done. So that's 450,000 a month. So 450,000 times. And Wayne didn't want me to do this, because Wayne would be like. I already know it. Let me tell you how Wayne is. Wayne, he's like. We ain't got to explain this to him. There's so many people hating on Wayne right now. And I'd be like, bro, he'd be like. But why they hate on him? Because he seemed like a such a joy. Why they hate on the bride? Because you had to top. You had to top. You got to get, yeah. I'm going to tell you what, I'm about to show you what they're hating on him. That's 5.4 million from Institutional Media. Okay.  Oh, what you got to do? Do stand-up comedy, right? That's right. Let's talk about that. Matter of fact, I'll come to the show this weekend. We're on the 30th to be accused of. I can talk to tickets. Oh, go on tickets. We got them. Awesome. You want to come to it? Yeah. Okay. We got it. We got it. We got it. So now that's 5.4 million, right? We are on a 30 city tour with Live Nation. Wayne is just Wayne. And I ain't going to say no other comedians' names because some of these other comedians are some of my favorite comedians. They're doing packet shows. If you look on right now, I want you to find one comedian. Find one black comedian right now that's doing shows by itself. You ain't gonna find it. Wayne does clean comedy because he's a hustler. And Wayne, when you go to Wayne's show, you have people in their 20s who love drip all the way to their 60s from church because he on curse. That's right.  Every day. He's so regular. He just chilling.  When Wayne come out, I'm talking about these, he's selling out theaters. They paying this man $75,000 a night. We got $30,000, guaranteed. Let's do the math on that. We ain't done it. So that's $75,000. That's a lot. Yeah. Time's 30. And how often does he do shows? We do it every weekend. Every weekend. So that's 2.2 plus 4.5 million. Sorry, Wayne, tell him you've been there. So now we had about $7 million. Right? Wow. Now we ain't gonna talk about the investments. So Wayne, this year- First you gotta pay everybody. Now I'm talking about the investments he's invested. So now we looking at them, the endorsements. Then we ain't talking about the money for every time he do a video. Like we was in, for instance, we see him do a video with, and he, a rapper or somebody he featuring, they paid for that spot, 15,000. When we ate the lot, we was eating the shrimp and all that stuff. We was in Louisville. He paid Wayne 15,000 for that skit to tag him. When you talking about that money, Wayne is gonna, is at $10 million this year. Just this year. Wayne is 34. When Kevin Hart was 34, he was at 7.5 million. What is these niggas talking about? A man. What is these niggas? What are you talking about for? See what I'm saying? So Forbes list, you gotta start somewhere. At 34 years old, 10 million, in the biggest comedian right now, Kevin Hart was at 7.5. And Wayne didn't even put a movie out yet. What? He didn't even put a movie out yet. When I tell you that Hollywood is, they knocking at the door, not like this. They banging out. They knocking like the feds. Trying to get that boy in there. Because if I can make 10 million dollars and I don't even gotta leave my cell phone, you know what they thinking. Ooh. Wow. We'll put up a hundred million of them. Yeah, but the way how y'all move, I can see him doing his own movie. Not trying to. We already shot it. No. So you know better. Okay, but we already shot it. Right, rather than going through them, just do everything yourself. To convince, to convince everybody, you know like, you know that this is the route to go. Because everybody can't do this though, first of all. Let me back up a little bit. Everybody can't do this, bro. And it looks simple because I see it, but I understand because of the world that I've built around me. And I know that people look at the finishing of what one does and think it's easy. I'm telling you. It's a gift, but you know what? Everybody does have a gift that can be shown to make money off of.


Okay, so my name is James Gallick, and I wanted to start out today by honoring my personal favorite Festivist tradition. No, not the feats of strength, although that might be something fun we can do later. No, I wanted to start out today the same way that every good Festivist starts, with the airing of grievances. Now, I don't have any sound, but I had this video of Frank Costanza explaining how the airing of grievances works.  But instead of talking about all the ways that my family has disappointed me over the last year, I'm going to be talking about all the ways that Sissedman work has disappointed me forever. So let's get started.  As a programmer, the idea that this horribly manual process of somebody sitting in front of a terminal and typing commands into an SSH session could possibly result in something that's production-worthy on a consistent basis just seems completely insane. As a programmer, Sissedman work offends every one of my sensibilities. It's exactly the kind of process that should be automated by software, but for whatever reason, typically isn't.  I mean, there's no standard for that. These are some services that we use in our cluster at work. Every single one of them has its own configuration language. And unlike a real programming language or something like JSON or YAML, there's no support for these configuration languages, right? If I'm writing Ruby or even if I'm writing JSON or whatever, I've got like syntax coloring in my text editor. And typically, there's no way to even verify that your config file will parse other than starting the service. So trying to work on these configuration files is extraordinarily painful. I'm amazed personally that anybody can get Nagios to work on a consistent basis.  Let me tell you what I mean by that. So I don't know how many of you are familiar with HA proxy, but it's a great TCP and HTTP load balancer. And we use it as our public facing load balancer in our cluster. And the other day, we set up SSL on our site for logins and for a few other reasons. And in order to get HA proxy, to make a long story short, in order to get HA proxy to load balance HTTPS traffic, I had to do not one, but two things that took me a couple hours of googling around for. The first was that I had to turn it off of HTTP mode. This is because HA proxy doesn't actually handle the encryption. And since the HTTP mode is protocol aware, it gets confused by encrypted requests. The second more obscure thing was that since HA proxy does health checks on all the back ends to make sure that it's not load balancing against dead servers, I had to set this option SSL health check or something in order to, because otherwise HA proxy would think that all of my back end servers were down. And so this is easy to explain quickly, but when you're actually trying to configure this stuff, you know, it's not so easy. I think my friend Howard summed it up pretty nicely when he said, there must be a way except it's obscure and non-obvious and you'll forget next time. That's the Unix way. But the good news is things are getting better. It's possible to use configuration management systems like Chef to alleviate some of the pain that has been traditionally associated with Sysadmin work. So Chef is a configuration management system and so the brief definition, the briefest definition of that that I could think of was it's a place where you store information about how to configure your systems. But I think it'll become clearer pretty soon. So I know I realize that at this point there are about a million configuration management solutions, particularly in the Ruby world. They seem to be popping up all the time, which I find somewhat reminiscent of the test framework boom of 2009. But I'm a big fan of Chef. It's got an awesome community. The configuration DSL is pure Ruby. So how many of you know Ruby? Right, pretty much everyone, right? So you basically already know Chef. You just kind of got to read the API docs and figure out how the system works. So that's a huge benefit. Some of the other configuration management systems that will remain unnamed force you to learn yet another configuration language that isn't a real programming language. And that just seems kind of backwards to me if part of the goal is to stop having to learn all of these configuration languages. So let's take a look at how Chef can alleviate some of this Sysadmin pain. Take a quick walk through Chef. So the central unit of work in Chef is the recipe. Each one of these blocks here, these declarations, is declaring a resource in Chef terms. So I'm going to go through each... So I should say that this is, in case it's not obvious, a recipe for installing MySQL server probably on a Debian-based system just because of the package naming. So I'm going to go through each of these resources and just explain a little bit about how they work. The first resource says package MySQL server action install. Pretty straightforward. Install the MySQL server package. But this is a cross-platform representation of package management. So if you're on a Debian-based system, it's going to install it with AppGet. If you are on a Red Hat-based system, it's going to install it with Yum. If you're on Solaris, I assume it would probably install it with whatever the hell Solaris uses for package management. So right away we can see that some of the...  Okay, so the second resource... The second resource is declaring a service in Chef land. And again, this is a cross-platform representation of a service. If you're on a Debian-based system, etc-slash-init.de, it's just going to execute the script directly. If you're on a Red Hat-based system, it's going to run S-bin-slash-service to execute the script. We tell Chef about which commands that this script supports, all the init-script support, varying sets of commands. And then we can tell Chef to enable that service, which means make sure that it starts at next boot. Again, this is the kind of thing that I always forget how to do, since I'm not really a Sysadmin, just something I do a few hours a week. And so it's really convenient not to have to remember how to do that and Google it every time. The third resource is a template resource. And templates are typically how we manage config files in Chef. We tell Chef about the source of the template in the cookbook repository. And we can set permissions and the owner and group of the config file. And then this last line starts to get into some of the a little bit more interesting functionality of Chef. It says, notify the MySQL service to restart if this template changes. And in order to understand how this works, you have to understand that Chef resources, at least the ones that are written correctly, and certainly all the ones that are bundled with it, are item potent. And if you're not familiar with that term, it's a mathematical term that means a function that when applied to the same value twice will have the same result. The canonical example of an item potent function is absolute value. Absolute value of negative 2 is 2. The absolute value of 2 is 2, and so on. And so what happens when this template resource runs is that Chef evaluates the template in memory, compares the evaluated template to whatever's on disk, in this case at etc slash mysql slash my dot cnf. If they're the same, it's a no op. So just nothing happens. But if they're different, Chef will back up the existing config file and then write the new config file to disk and call any callbacks that have been registered. So in this case, restarting mysql. So again, change a tuning parameter in mysql config, mysql will get restarted, something you don't have to remember to do. The templates are ERB. I'm assuming probably everybody in here is familiar with ERB. If you've ever done any web development with Ruby, I'm sure you've at least seen ERB. This is a snippet from our old HA proxy recipe. And what you can see that we're doing here is that we're iterating over an array of app server IP addresses and emitting a line of config for each app server to create this load balancer. So it's not hard to imagine here that if we were on a cloud, like, say, EC2, where we have API-based provisioning, it's not hard to imagine a system where we could run a command that would provision a new instance and run the Chef recipes on that instance and then run the Chef recipes on the rest of the cluster. And when they ran on the rest of the cluster, this array of app server IP addresses would be one element larger, which would emit one additional line of config, which would mean that the template would get written to disk and HA proxy would be gracefully reloaded if you have your callback set up properly. And so all of a sudden this process of adding capacity to a cluster is a one-command affair instead of this horrible manual process involving a lot of human intervention and praying that your config files will parse correctly. So the data that recipes consume are called attributes. And it's my opinion that attributes are the unsung hero of Chef. This line that says this list of recipes basically just says install these recipes on the node. That's the only line in this whole JSON file here that is actually specific to Chef. All of the rest of this is completely arbitrary data that you can write your recipes to consume. And what this means is that if you write your recipes correctly, or if you write your recipes what I would call correctly, you can actually implement generic instructions on how to configure a piece of software or a service. And then any specificity that pertains to your particular installation, for example, MySQL tuning parameters just go in the attributes. And so what that means is that somebody trying to install or tune MySQL server, if your recipes are sufficiently complete, might never have to open a MySQL configuration file and might not even have to be particularly aware of the syntax for it depending on the service. And so you start to have these recipes which are an entire abstraction of configuring a service. And opening config files becomes a thing of the past. It's just a matter of, in our case, writing a Ruby hash and running our Chef recipes. But we'll see a little bit more about how that works in a few minutes. All this stuff lives in the cookbook repository. This is just a kind of basic cookbook repository layout. The interesting things here are, under the recipes directory, you've got default.rb and server.rb. If you refer to, in a recipes list or a recipe dependency, if you refer to MySQL unqualified, it'll run default.rb. If you refer to MySQL double colon server, it'll run recipe slash server.rb. So this is a really convenient way to just organize your cookbooks. Like, for example, something like Nagios where you've got a host machine, and then you've got a bunch of nodes that it does checks on that you need to install servers, that you need to install services on, you can keep everything in the same cookbook, which is convenient. Under the templates directory, you can see there's a default directory, which is where in this cookbook, the My.cnf.erb file is residing. It's possible to specify alternate directories that are named after a particular platform, and so those templates, like, say if you had a directory under here called ubuntu-8.04, then if you're on hardy, any templates in the ubuntu 8.04 directory will result, will take higher precedence than the ones in the default directory. So this is really convenient, like, a lot of people run, a lot of people run FreeBSD as a firewall, and so if you've got multiple platforms in your cluster, this is just a really kind of convenient way to organize things. So, okay, let's look at some examples. HAProxy, I alluded to that earlier.  So the attributes for my HAProxy recipe look like this. Basically we're setting up two listen directives, in this case one non-secure on port 80, balancing to 70 and 71 on port 81, and that's on port 80. My HAProxy recipe defaults to HTTP mode, so we don't have to specify that. But the second one here, the second listen directive is a little more interesting because it says SSL equals true, it's on port 443 and balancing to the same two machines on port 443, but that's not the interesting part. The interesting part is this, SSL equals true, because if you remember when I was talking before, that's not a syntax in the HAProxy configuration file, right?  So the implementation of this is really simple. This is a template, I'm iterating over those listen directives, and anyway, all this is kind of esoteric, but the interesting part is this. So I just say, if options SSL, then set it to TCP mode and set this SSL hello check option. It's really simple, but this is going to save me a lot of time one day. And since recipes are shareable, if they're sufficiently generic, it's possible that, or I hope that, I'm hopeful that in the future, you'll be able to just grab a great open source recipe that does a lot of this stuff for you, and you won't even, you know, for 80% of cases, you won't even have to worry about all these esoteric details associated with configuring Unix services. So my second example is heartbeat. If you're not familiar with heartbeat, it's a service for managing virtual IP addresses in a cluster. It's usually used to create high availability configurations. So in our case, we have three public load balancers, but only one of them is actually active at any given time. But they're all, they're in a heartbeat, and so if the active one goes down, then one of the other ones will grab the IP address and they'll be, you know, very little down time. So the attributes are really simple. What interface are we heartbeating on? Which nodes are in the heartbeat? It's a mapping of fully qualified domain name to, in this case, private IP address. Set a password for the heartbeat, because you have to, and then the resources, which are the actual IP addresses that are being shared in the cluster. And this is a mapping of the fully qualified domain name of the machine that should own that IP address if it's online to the virtual IP address. This is simple. The heartbeat configuration is actually not that complicated, but it's got at least three configuration files, depending on how you set it up. I can never remember which of these directives go in which of the configuration files. So I wrote the Chef recipe and it's just a matter of writing this really simple Ruby code, or this really simple Ruby data structure, and the heartbeat gets set up for me automatically. And we use this all over our cluster. And it's super convenient. Anytime we want to set up a heartbeat, I just write out this little bit of Ruby, and it's done.  So my last example is really simple, but I think it's almost the most powerful of them, and obviously it has to do with security. So this recipe has no attributes. Just run the recipe and it will do its thing. And the recipe is almost equally simple. It just basically sets dependencies on two other recipes. The IP tables recipe and the SSHD recipe. The IP tables recipe by default just locks the machine down. Of course you can override that with attributes, but by default the machine is locked down completely. All ports are closed. And the SSHD recipe, just all it does is turn off password authentication. And this is really powerful because these two things are like, I would call them like the basics of reasonable security on a Linux machine, like a Linux machine that has a public IP address anyway. And a lot of people forget to do this. Like I've forgotten to do it lots of times. I've been in lots of companies that had popular websites where this wasn't done. And I don't know if you realize this, but most operating systems don't ship with any method for detecting a brute force attack on SSHD. So if one of your users has passwords enabled and SSHD is allowing password logins, you're going to get brute force. I mean it's just a matter of time because you have no way of detecting it and you'll never know. So we set this recipe to run by default on all new machines that we provision and it's just set and forget. We never have to think about it. It's really simple, but it's just one of those things that it's so easy to forget to do and we don't have to remember anymore. If you want to learn more about Chef, the Wiki is pretty good documentation. I mean it's Ruby, so you could. Okay, so where was I? Yeah, so the Wiki is pretty good. It's not perfect, but it's definitely a pretty good source of documentation. If you already know Ruby, it's like just basically reading API docs, so I'm sure everyone is pretty comfortable with that. The IRC channel is also like super awesome. The ops code guys who write and maintain Chef are amazing and really helpful and they just, you know, they will really, they're really eager to help people get kind of started and get through problems and file bug reports and stuff like that. So definitely check out the IRC channel if you're checking out Chef. Any questions? Yeah, I mean you can certainly write a recipe to build something from source. Yeah, I mean we do that. We just write like a pretty simple recipe to compile it and install it somewhere. Either that or we compile it in advance and then just untar it like in slash opt or something. That's the easiest way to do it typically because then you're not dependent on being able to get the file from somewhere and whatever and waiting on it to compile when you bring a new machine online. How many machines is vast? Thousands? Hundreds of thousands, okay. So we don't have hundreds of thousands of machines, so we don't have hundreds of machines. The biggest cluster we've had so far when we were on virtualized hardware was like 35 machines I think. The way that Chef Server and Chef Client work is that the recipes are distributed when they're run and they're run on a cron job all at the same time, so I would suspect that if you had hundreds to thousands of machines that might be a problem, but I don't know. Oh yeah, okay. So yeah, it just works. Any other questions? Yeah, to be clear, I don't use Chef Server either. We actually just use Capistrano right now to distribute our recipes, which is a little ghetto, but I've been working on a system that uses like some AMQP stuff because I'm not a big fan of polling, but anyway, there are lots, definitely lots of ways to distribute recipes to different machines for sure. Alright, thanks.


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Let's talk about age before I Everyone's gonna look at that and ignore the So at what age do men have the most access to the most desired women who put a 18 to 24? All right, who put B 25 to 32? It's kind of the stumper there who put C 33 to 40 and Who but D 41 to 49 Did anyone put 50 plus? That's fine. You never know All right, cool So obviously the answer C 33 to 40.  So it female access to dick Versus male access to poon by age For anyone that doesn't know poon that's slang for pussy I'm not the biggest fan about how kind of Surface level this graph is but it illustrates a good point So on the x-axis you have age goes from 15 to 49 on the y-axis you have access 10 being highest access zero being there so For women what you see?  Starting at 15. She's already pretty high. She's developed. She's looking like a woman already guys are You know attracted to her when she gets to let's looks like 20 from the age of 20 to 24 That is the peak of her beauty Right her skin is perfect She's young. She's fit whatever everything. This is just measuring, you know surface-level beauty, but That's what we see first off right that is the peak of her attractiveness So if you want to date a girl 20 to 24, and she's a smoke show odds are she's being flown all around the world By old rich dudes with money. She's got options to date guys from all walks of life She has ultimate access but as a guy and this is a tough thing right when I first started getting into the stuff I was 22. I was just graduating college, right and Where are you at 22 as a dude? You're way down here. You're like 4.2 4.3. So, you know the girls your age You're wondering like why why am I having such such a hard time with these really hot girls and that's because You know as a guy who's 22. What do you have going?  You're not settled probably figuring out like You know where you want to live. You're probably guzzling beer doing keg stands. It's a sort of nonsense. I was doing There's a lot of guys who look young in here that are way more advanced, which is awesome But you're just on a different track, right and we're measured, you know our access to To women is not necessarily measured by how we look looks can play a little bit of a factor But it's more measured by our overall attractiveness as a man what we have going for us, right? So it's not until you hit this age of 33 and I'm 34 and I do so much better now than I did even two years ago at 32 Right because when you get to 34 You usually have a career figured out you have some money in the bank You've studied you have a breath of knowledge You're more confident in yourself.  So we get better with age what a lot of what happens here is this is marriage zone So right when you hit 26 27 We females acts as they realize that you know their looks are declining the biological clock is kicking in They want to have a family and kids look to get married and as a guy You're finally starting to get some money in the bank. You're starting to feel a little bit more accomplished Like you kind of have the you know earth under your feet and you get married And that can be great, but what what do we see happen with a lot of marriages guys get a little older They start getting money in the bank, and they're like god damn I got all these options all the secretaries that work or hitting on you at least a cheating infidelity Marriage is falling apart, and I think this graph has a lot to do with that So just keep in mind If you want to have fun, you know, I'm not saying go out there and be a player But you've got from 33 until 44 Where you're at the peak Where you can attract basically whoever you want So there's no rush if you're 25 and you're not crushing it yet There's a reason for that and it just mostly has to do with your age Has to do with the fact that you're you have so much more room to grow as a man


Welcome back to the Trade Hacker Mindset. In this episode, I want to talk to you about paying yourself from your trading profits. Trading the markets can be difficult to master and seemingly just out of reach. Professional traders have a secret.  It requires the Trade Hacker Mindset. All right, so let's jump into this topic about paying yourself from your trading profits, by the way, if you hear any background noise, cars driving by, birds chirping, I'm out on a little morning stroll, it's about 5.30 a.m. on a beautiful morning, so you get to come along with me. So this topic of paying yourself from your trading profits, this is something that I don't think I've talked a lot about to the navigation trading community. And so I think it's something that will help a lot of you. And it really came from my experience in trading over the last 20 plus years, where in the past, I always was trading to accumulate wealth. I was always just trying to compound my profits for use at a later date in the future, okay? So if you can relate to that, you might be looking at your trading account as a way to fund retirement, you know, in five, 10, 15, 20 years. You might be looking at your trading account as a way to build up and finance some future goal.   And so if that's the case, you're gonna struggle with the concept of taking money out of your trading account. And I really wanna say I did. So in the past, I would never take money out of my trading account. In fact, the only thing I would ever do is add additional funds to my trading account. But here's what happens and here's what I realized over trading for the last 20 plus years. If you don't pay yourself from your trading profits, if you don't extract money out of your trading account over time, it can become virtual money, okay? And what we know about virtual money is it doesn't resonate with us the same way real money does that we have in our bank account that we can spend. And what I mean by that is, you know, I would have periods of time where I would build up significant amount of profit and then I would give it all back or I would build up a significant amount of profits and then I'd take significant losses because I would start to increase my size because again, in my mind, I was wanting to compound those profits. So as my account grew, I needed to push that position size up and continue to accelerate those profits.  It almost becomes just, it's just virtual money. It's just sitting in an account. It's almost just not real because you're not using it to spend on anything. So and think about this. I mean, this concept is real. I mean, think about this, two different examples. Do you think you spend more money when you're writing a check or using cash or using a credit card? Okay, there's a reason that Visa and MasterCard and American Express are such financially wealthy companies.  Okay, so there's a mental aspect that the credit card companies are capitalizing on from human psychology that allows them to make money because you're spending more and sometimes you're spending more than you have. A lot of people are spending more than they actually have. They don't pay off their credit cards at the end of the month. They actually accumulate debt, which interest is then paid to the credit card companies. Whereas if you are physically writing a check or if you're physically taking dollar bills out of your wallet, you're going to think a little bit differently and probably be, well, not probably, it's the studies have shown, it's statistically legitimate that you will spend less if you're using cash or writing checks.  No, you have to go to the cashier and you have to get chips, right? Well, why does the casino make you play with fake money with fake chips instead of just using your dollar bills or using your quarters or whatever level you're gambling with? Why do you have to use these casino chips to play instead of just using real money?  These are just little plastic chips. I can bet as much as I want, no big deal, right? Now, of course, ultimately we understand from a logical perspective that we took our real money and we exchanged them for these chips and the value of these chips equals real money, but it's the little slight psychology that they're using to create this sense of virtual money, this sense of fake money that in our mind makes us have a tendency to bet more, right? So the same thing happens with trading. When you are trading, and let's say you're day trading, for example, and your focus is just on those red and green bars on your chart, okay? Tell me this, is that going to, from your psychological perspective, you are, you're seeing your P&L on your screen or if you're like me, you hide your P&L while you're trading and I just focus on the charts, but the ups and downs of those red and green bars, you know that sometimes you can get lost in the fact that it's almost like a game, right? It's not real life, I'm just placing little bets based on how these little red and green bars are moving. And of course we know it's real money, but there are certainly times when it doesn't necessarily feel like real money, it can feel like a video game. And so one way to keep in the forefront of your mind that what you're doing, that what you're trading is absolutely real money, then one of the ways that I've found can keep that top of mind, that can really keep that money real is by making withdrawals, paying yourself from your trading profits on a consistent basis. So let me give you an example of what I do. So for my day trading account, because we're streaming live every morning for the first 90 minutes of the market open, so I'm interacting with our community, I'm calling out trades, I'm watching the chat, I'm doing a lot of things that you as a trader wouldn't normally have to do. And so when I'm doing that, I'm trading relatively small size most of the time. So what I've been doing with my day trading account is I keep my account above $30,000 because I don't wanna have to mess with the pattern day trade rules and all that stuff, so which has to be over 25,000. So I keep at least 30,000 in it, but every time my account gets over 45,000, I withdraw all that money to get it back down to 30,000. And then, and here's an important thing, and then I use that money or some of that money, you don't have to spend it all, you don't have to go blow it just to blow it, but I do use some of that money on something very specific. So my wife and I have things we wanna do to our home, we have places we wanna go, we have different financial goals, right? And so for example, one thing that we just did is we just built a brand new big round stone patio with a big sit wall and a fire pit and all this stuff. It was about $15,000 and that came directly from my trading profits. And so here's the other thing that you should do is have a partner in these financial goals. So for example, if my wife says, hey, we should do this, we should build a new deck, we should do this or that or that, we should go here. One of the things I say is, well, okay, if I can take that money out of my trading profits, once I build it up past that threshold that I just mentioned, then we'll use that money to do that. Well, what have I done now? Well, now not only do I have a financial goal, but I also have a partner that keeps me accountable because guess what? If she wants that thing, if she wants to spend money on that thing, she's gonna be asking me, how's your trading going? Are you sticking to your rules? Are you following the process?  Getting to that threshold so we can take that money out and do that thing that we wanna do. So it not only creates the consciousness of taking that money and actually seeing it in your bank account and using it for something that you want in life, but now you've also created an accountability partner. And I said this before, some of you are going to struggle with taking money out of your account because you don't wanna spend it on something in the short term. You just wanna increase and compound your profits, but I promise you, your account will increase and accumulate and compound faster if you have some systematic withdrawal process in place. It sounds counterintuitive. I know, especially if you're a new trader, you're thinking, well, that just doesn't make any sense, then the math doesn't work. If, you know, if I just compound and I keep increasing my position size, when my profits grow, then I'll just keep growing the account. But what you're not taking into account is the trading psychology. You're not taking into account the trade hacker mindset that is one of the biggest components of your trading success. And so that's an example of what I do on my day trading stuff.  And in this case, I'm only taking out 10% of my profits, but again, it's the psychology of actually taking out some of your profits so that it becomes real money. So if I make $50,000 in a quarter on my trading account, I'll take out $5,000. And if you've never done that, if you've never taken money out of your trading account, it's going to be kind of a, at least it was for me, it's probably gonna be kind of an aha revelation for you. So much that goes on with trading is in our subconscious that we don't even really think about on a conscious level that it's going to do things for you from just an overall trading psychology that it may be something that really propels your trading to a new level because now it's not just a game. It is real money and you don't get caught up in the virtual aspect of it as much. You know, here's another idea. If you really are struggling with the idea of taking money out of your account to spend, which I get, I'm a pretty frugal guy. I don't have a lot of, you know, I don't have a lot of fancy cars and you know, a lot of stuff that I want to spend money on. I mean, we go on vacations and we do fun stuff and we kind of do everything we want to do. But I'm definitely not the type of person that just spends money to spend money. And so when I was struggling with taking money out of my trading account, that was part of it for me. And so one other idea is maybe you don't take the money out to spend, but maybe you take the money out and reposition those dollars into a different investment.  Maybe you're buying rental properties with that money. Maybe you're repositioning that money into mutual funds.  You know, I don't know whatever it is that you think is another good investment that maybe is not your active trading account. I mean, I don't have 100% of my assets in my active trading account. I have real estate. I have other businesses. I have other long-term passive investments that are just accumulating that are not requiring my attention of, you know, active trading in my options trading account. So there are times when I'm pulling money out of my active trading account to help myself with the psychology of making sure that I know that's real money, but I'm not going and blowing it on something. I'm repositioning that into some of my other investment assets. So I don't care how you do it, but I would highly suggest that you create some type of systematic way of withdrawing funds from your account on a systematic basis. You know, maybe it's once a week, maybe it's once a month, maybe it's once a quarter.  I don't care if you're making $50,000, but you're taking $100 out. That's not the point. The point is to systematically take money out to prove to yourself that it's real money and do something with that money that has an emotional attachment to you, whether that's spending it on something, whether that is repositioning it into another investment you've been wanting to explore, or whatever it is, I promise you it's going to have a positive impact on your trading. So I hope that was helpful. By the way, before I let you go, don't forget we are presenting a whole new strategy class on October 12th, 2021. So if this episode will come out on Monday, October 11th. So make sure you mark your calendars. October 12th, it's a Tuesday at 4 p.m. central. We are doing our newest strategy class. It's all about trend trading. And so I'm super excited about that. If you haven't registered, make sure you do. If you're listening to this as a recording at a later date, it'll be part of our pro membership. You can always check that out at navigationtrading.com. And don't forget to join our community of like-minded traders. Just go to community.navigationtrading.com. I look forward to seeing you on the inside, and we'll see you in the next episode.