What's going on? Say man, we got some guests in here today, man. Hey, they don't need no introduction. Just look over there. You know what I'm talking about? They in here, man. C4S in the building. What's going on? It's not the Lord. Big C4S in the building. Big fall is not the Lord. Man, damn. That's the most I ever had on here. At one time. At one time, man. So, man, look, man Old boy prince, man. Tell me what's going on, man. You need to tell me what's up, man.  We the hottest label out right now. Y'all better stop. Nah, look, look, look. That nigga's a nice show. He got his whole career. Nah, for real, look. I'm going to go through the names. This is your boy, Old Boy Prince. Unique music. Gigi Chanel. It's your girl K.P., baby. Come on, y'all. Get up in here. Come on. Get in here. J.P.A. Tap in. Say y'all name. Casey. Damn. I think it's one right here. Come on, Tink. Let's go.  Man, you know this is dope, man. Because I can't even listen, man. I've been taking people with me for years to different places, doing different things. It's hard to keep just everybody organized. And I've done it to a point where shout out to Money Moses. He just pulled it up. He's not playing no games, nigga. He's here. It's a different type of club than Mr. Moses, man. Y'all already know that's my other co-host. Check it, man. I watched the interview with him on OG. I was like, I like that one. Wait, wait, wait. You was arguing with him?  That wasn't? What you calling it? It was a real conversation. Passionate conversation. Let me get back to you guys. Just tell me a little bit about what's going on here because, man, I see y'all dancing everywhere, bro. Y'all ripping through the social media platform like nobody else, man. Tell me how this started. Hold on, because I see on y'all jackets established in 2011. So it's been a long time. I know y'all both been on here and you didn't bring the whole crew last time. And on social media it wasn't prevalent like it is today. So I'm like, okay, what happened? So the first record I ever put out that blew up during that time was Hands on Your Knees. And then from that time till now it's just a C4S imprint. Right now you're just seeing a lot of stars in the building. You feel me? If you ain't making it to this point that you wasn't a star, you did. Right now you're looking at a lot of stars. It's a 100k plus followers all the way to a million. I see. And we got more millions that couldn't even be here today. But yeah, it's a hot thing on the internet. But you said all these stars, how did you pick each individual person to be a part of C4S? Man, because everybody was booming. Feel me? Every single one of these influences behind me slash artist was booming. And you reached out to them? Yeah, I had to put in emotion. It's only right. You feel me? Look, I know for a fact if I could give them the blueprint and they followed the blueprint, we're gonna be right here on Boss Talk 101. Hey, what a boss is talking. And we're gonna keep going. You feel me?  More and more and more. So what's your max? C4S is a label. It's not a group, it's a label. Click full of stars is a label.  It's a whole label.  You know what I'm saying? You got the merch. Make sure y'all go to C4S. Man, that merch be fly. Because the merch be fly. I remember the first time you came out with a merch. It was the shorts and the shirt. And y'all were together and I was like, oh, that's dope. That's dope. So do you think that, I mean, what is the end game here? What are we trying to do? What's the ultimate goal?  You got your no limits. You got your young money. You got your cash money.  So that's where that name came from. Nah, that's just what it's gonna be. Where did the name come from? Click full of stars. Who came up with that?  I said, by the time you come out, I'm gonna make sure that name alive. Shout out, A.G. Is he out yet? Yeah, he out. And he loving it. Loving it. So, I mean, and I'm gonna ask this, who has the most followers on TikTok right now. KP, baby. Hey, girl. How many do you have?  You ain't but 20. Younger than that. Nah, baby, I'm younger than that. But I've been doing this since 2015, 2016, maybe 2014. But it took me a long time to get here, so I'm here, baby. How many followers you have? How many followers you have? I have 1.4 million as we speak right now. Okay, so let's talk about that for a second.  Can't you remember? She know. What was the thing that went viral for you first? It was a Tark video. That I made. Yes, I was. It was through the Taylor Girls song. Okay. Long, long time ago, I don't know if it was, I think it was Big O, Big O, Big O, Booty, when that came out. And they put me on that page. After that, I blew up on Instagram and that's whenever Dustmash, I was booming on that. But now I'm verified on Dustmash. So, my goal is to, you know, get big on TikTok, so here I am. Wow, so you say your goal is to get big on TikTok. She's gonna get plaques. She's gonna get Grammys. Listen, everybody over here on C4 has the goal is to become stars.  As long as you rockin' with me and we rockin' with each other, it's gonna be stars everywhere we go.  I was gonna get down on somebody and then I tried to shift girls on her because it was one of them showed me their girls and I didn't decided not to pull mine out. You know what I'm saying? That's what happened. I would feel to get down on them. I already had in my mind how many you got. And one of them, I don't know which one. It wasn't you. You got about 500,000 or whatever, but it was it was one of them. It may have been him. It was one of them. They pulled out their phone and they showed me and I said, damn. Oh, that's Marry. I couldn't do it. Oh, that's Marry? Okay, let Marry. Damn. Put that up. You don't even know he did it. Put that up, nigga. Put it up. So I did, but how do I get my subscribers up? You know, I've been stuck at 23, 24,000. Rock with the stars. You feel me? We make you go viral today. Damn. No cap.      A lot of people gotta pay to go viral. Y'all don't have to do it just bam. No. Today. Just be with the girls. Because y'all are always good. Because even when we interviewed you the last time, you are always good at knowing things. Especially where the internet is concerned. Like how do y'all know all of this information as in what to do, how to keep it up? Y'all have the key to it. Like how? Man, it's just every piece right here you looking at they bring something to the table that I fight for. You feel me? Like everybody here, they bring something to the table. It don't clash. You feel me? You know a family, how a family is it's a family situation, but at the end of the day though, everybody brings something to the table that makes this family keep moving. You feel me? She's R&B. Unique is rap. You know what I'm saying? Joker. You have Niko. Man, the list go on to everybody that brings something to the table that make up a dance or they think of a dance or you know, they make a record or man, we pushing records, we breaking records from let me see where the freaks to what else we had on the flow to her R&B record and then we, hey, C4 has take over dropping. We got our EP on the way. I don't know what I want to call it. Mixed tape. Matter of fact, look. I ain't a cover heart. Let me show the cover today. They ain't even seen it. Nobody seen the cover, so I want to show everybody the cover right now. You feel me? I'm so glad I'm glad. It's about staying relevant, keeping up with the apps that's relevant. Nobody ain't seen the cover. There's so many apps. Because then you will show there. That's the cover right there. I want to see it too. Hold up. What a freeze. What a freeze. What a freeze. What a freeze. What a freeze. What a freeze. What a freeze. I got a blanket going down. It's all good. That's a good sign. I feel good about it. That's a double heart. I like that. You feel it.  I look at those little guy's ears there. I want her. How's it going? This is my role. Hit that hole. Hey, what you mean? Get my other camera. You gotta get some of this. Get my other camera.  I got about eight cameras. I know I got a lot of pressure.  Yeah, get mine. It's time for me to move on. It's time. I know it's time. It's time. Back to what you were saying because you gotta keep abreast with all of the absence and so forth. But y'all are also family people. How do you sign time for money? Child and then all of this. It take a village. It take an army. Like if we didn't have the support system that we have then we wouldn't be able to do what we do. You get what I'm saying? All the people that ride for us, that's there for us that's gonna help us out, you know what I mean? With watching a baby and stuff like that and we gotta get it done, we gotta work. And what I love about this, this is real you feel me, is me being able to talk to them and as long as they listen I'm a god, you feel me? As long as they listen, right? So just like with me and Unique, we have a kid and I was telling her from the beginning before we even built all this, like hey just trust me we gonna put a support system and we gonna do what we gotta do. And then everybody got their own little individual things that we gotta work on but as a team and as a family, this is how we're here right now. You feel me? Us trusting each other and putting faith in one another to keep getting to where we going. Like this is just a start. Like when our first came out, me sitting here is one on six in park. This is their one on six in park. You feel me? Their interviews and being a part of this and then we look up and we on YouTube and then people's commenting saying oh y'all let's talk. I can't wait to see y'all again. Like this is out of experience. I'm telling them like it's gonna keep getting bigger. You feel me? I just love it. I love the way how, so has there been anybody who you actually had on C4SN and had to cut them? Yeah, a lot. Okay. You feel me? A whole lot. You feel me? But at the end of the day, this is the thing I be trying to tell them and tell whoever else that want to be a part of C4SN was, I know how it feels to be at the top and I know how it feels to be at the bottom and I know how it feels to be back at the top because I did one deal with Atlantic and a deal with Jive and Jive, I mean Atlantic was the Stanky leg then Jive was when I did Astronaut and I got Jive was a boom.  I ain't give up. So what you see right now is what it is and this is what it's gonna be and it's gonna keep getting bigger, you feel me?  I'm looking for somebody else right now but as soon as I get the intro, I know some people that's all I need, as soon as we get that I have over 500 videos in my phone right now, I'm talking about this time I do a video, it says I cloud by more memory, we got I'm waiting right now I see y'all, I'm recording and I know that every time whenever I record and you stop and you record, cause you have to get a perfect video, that takes up space and you have to keep going through them I'm like, I know y'all have like a lot of space Man, everywhere we go, we getting footage and like I said, as soon as we get that band up, it's over, like we gonna be controlling YouTube on a whole level.  No, it's like a group of people, why irritate you? I don't like a lot of people around me, that's too many people being around me. Hey, this is little, it's just like you being a family cookout, this is the family Now you see how it happened, this is how it happened, you didn't come to our cookouts, our cookouts are going viral, we have I don't want to go by it, I don't want to go by it, I don't like that tension. Why not, you on boss song 101, that's the tension.  The first thing is money Moses. You have to make him believe something and then you gotta listen to what's going on. He's the cousin at the car smoking weed and he ain't at the party with us. That's my boy.  You tripping. And you know I wouldn't trade him for the world because that's what you gotta understand. The whole process is where you don't want what everybody else got. He's that different nigga that I need with me at all times.  Strength is in numbers. Never forget that. But you have to have people who compliment each other, that's the main thing.  How many people did you fire? No, we might have to keep firing. It's real, you know what I'm saying? Not them. But I'm just saying, I don't know, but I'm just saying at the end of the day what I mean though is we got people that work behind the scenes, they do other shit and if niggas don't do what they say they're going to do, they're going to get fired. You feel me? We got merch, we got music, we got beats, we got photographers. Do they get chances? Strike one, strike two, strike three and you're gone. We're making all our music on the floor with the freaks. Everything, Thriller on the Beat is making all the heat right now. How is working together? Do y'all ever get into it? I mean, you know it's a family. It's a family. We don't ever get into it. It's a family. It's a family. It's a family. But how do you deal with that? Do you take that home? I'm mad at y'all is because this is really a reality show as well. This is a lot of stuff, bruh. We need a show. If we get the banner in the YouTube, trust me, we're going to control it. Y'all should be doing this like crazy because y'all know how to do all this. Let's say this, guys. I got another channel that got 38,000 subscribers right now on YouTube that I'm getting ready to lunch called Ballstalk Podcast 101 Prime Time. And I'm giving everybody different situations on those channels. So you guys, if y'all want to come on and do something, it'll be like I'm doing a whole different building. It's a whole different location where I'm giving each person who ever want an opportunity can go on there. Yeah, it's on my platform. But you can still do your own, but you're still just all these different people seeing you. It's just a hustle. This is what I call it. It'd be like an NBC. And your slot would be like say five o'clock every Monday. They have to be committed to every week or once a month or whatever. Yeah, whatever time you say you're going to do it. I pay for the production.  It just depends. We're going to negotiate some numbers or something. Yeah, it just makes sense to get on. We're talking about it. Because we already got this platform, of course, but we did that whole, and like I said, it's organic subscribers. I got it on a deal because I'm a hustle. You know what I'm talking about? But it's a unique hustle. But anyway, I definitely know that we can basically come up with some things to where we can help each other, each one teach one, help each other, pull each other up. I mean, that's what it's all about. Y'all going to go viral anyway on YouTube all the time. And we have meetings. We have Zoom meetings. Once a month. Everybody. Let's talk.  You remember when you hear that rap on here? Yes. I remember it. I'm going to come with it every time. That was a unique music. See, you got to get out the car before we come to the family meeting. You got to come to the family meeting to be out there. I just came to the front door. Yeah. Okay, okay, okay. Y'all family, man. All y'all family now. Do anybody have to sign contracts to be a part of the contract?  You feel me? It don't matter if I got you signed or I don't. If you ain't going to do your job, that contract ain't going to matter at all. You feel me? I feel like if we going to rock with each other and foot with each other strong, that's what I want it to be. If we ain't going to have that, I'm going to let you go. You feel me? Yeah, because I've heard so many people hitting in the butt so many times. So that's the reason why I'm asking. It is a risk. Within that risk, I know where every single one of these influences slash artists, slash the team we got could do. So in the mix of us doing what we going to do, we going to get paid. Okay. Now everybody ain't going to be a leader like I'm a leader. I'm going to coach everybody to the championship. That's how I feel. I'm going to do what I need to do to push out where I need to be. You have that naturally. You feel me? Like today, right before we came here I paid for them to go to a building and do content. I wasn't even nervous. I came in at the end just for them to do what they do best. You feel me? It's do what they do. We leave there.  We going to boss talk. We pulled up. You see this. And after this, you going somewhere else? Man, I don't know. Wait a minute. I have a little surprise for y'all. Go ahead. Go ahead and let it out. I wasn't expecting that. Okay. Tell me. Drippers? I'm sorry. There's strippers involved. I'm there. I don't know what she's going to do. Baby said it's good. No, for real. Great to say she's good. No, for real. I heard somebody is an R&B singer and I love to put people on the spot. Who is an R&B? Can we get a little bit of song? Is she right there? I'm going to tell you how dope we is from every artist to everything we got going on. When I first met Joker he could tell you zero, no, nothing out. Let me see you drop viral. Unique. Same thing. We threw out a couple records. All came out viral. Same thing with KP. Not an R&B song or nothing out. First record came out viral.  You feel me? It's just the effect that we got. You know what I'm saying? It's just the team, C4S. They don't even understand it yet. They just watching it. It's all over the internet. I'm happy that Facebook added reels on there. We killing Facebook right now. When we get to connect to the YouTube, it's over. It's over. I don't even know. I don't even be on Facebook. Listen, Facebook reels is paying. I do not. I do reels is paying. I don't even know. I'm cool off Facebook, but baby I look at Facebook and click for the stars. Why we got like 300,000 and this thing is I'm like... I'm pushing on there whole. I've heard as much as younger kids don't like Facebook because they said all the older people be on there, that's where the money at. No, for real. I've been on Facebook for I don't know how many years and I've been stuck at 5,000 followers. As soon as they added reels I'm talking about in a month I didn't gain 100,000 followers. This month alone I didn't jump to 100,000 followers. Posting the game. Hashtag and C4S and then merch done skyrocketed. I'm talking about. What are you sales looking like? What? We went to Harry Haas today. And then we're about to look. C4S merch for kids is on the way. My son is about to have a C4S jacket on. You feel me? You already have your model. And he's so cute. He's probably there at the house giving Granny hair right now. Big foe. When the next one popping out? We probably got it. We got to hit two M's. We got to hit two M's. And then we can talk. I'm going to hold you today. I want to hear from you. Come on, Kyra. It's your first interview, huh? This is dope.  She's not C4S. She's affiliated. I've been trying to do with people. In the TikTok world, people don't embrace it.  And they stay at the house. I'm not saying she's one of them. But I'm just saying that I like to show everybody love to let them know that C4S is going to be their family. That people can feel like, I bet. They're doing something. They're putting us in music videos. But go ahead, get in there. What is it? It's my friend. What is it that you do? I do TikTok. She's an influencer. Okay. It's about to be 600K. So like, 590 something. How long you been in it? Like a year. What's your highest TikTok you've had? What did you do? It got like over 2 million views. It was a viral video for me doing like, this is when COVID first hit. And I was sticking up the middle finger to a Google classroom. Like for a Google classroom. And then it just, yeah. And then another one, Tusi posted. So that's when I started going up. That one. That's good stuff, man. Thank you so much. I mean, just dope. Thank you, Miss Kyle.  Everything about you was dope, man. I just, I just marinate to the people, man. I love the energy. You guys are dope. Let me see who I can pick on. Come on, come on. Come on, let's talk about it. Come on, come on in here. This one right here, right? This is Leah. So I dropped the R&B song. And I'm over here once again trying to figure it out. Like, dang, Joker. I had an R&B record. I don't know what to do with it. He was like, Leah, she make DC's R&B records. I want you right here. Let's go. So I want to hear about it. So let's talk about it in detail. I mean, he gave a little I want to hear what you think about what you do. Let's go. I love it. I love dancing. Always had a passion for dancing. And R&B has been one of the things that makes me love dancing. The rhythm, the beats, all of it. So what's your most the viral moment that comes to mind? As of like what I did? I made a dance to R. Kelly and to Kicking Back. Yeah. She killed that. And then what was Kicking Back, who was that by? Me LaJ. Those two. Wow. I like it, man. I like your voice. She just named other records, C4S records and a whole bunch of other records as well. On the flow of viral. All of us working together. Yo, man.  Yeah, nigga. Who you putting?  Right there.  Nigga just smiling. Come on here. So Nico is part of the 1AM game. You feel me? Part of Joker's camp. And then you know he's trying to be affiliated with the C4S. So that's why I said he's on the trial run. I make sure that he can do the work and needs to get done to be all the way in to be on the pitch up there with the rest of the gizang. How's it going? So far so good, Nico. You're doing good, man. Come on in here. Why do you think you should be a part of C4S?  Talk to the mic. Baby, get in there. I feel like I'm a talented individual. You feel me? And this is like a family. You feel me? Like I said, I've been on Joker since when we were kids. You feel me? Since like before freshman year. So I see what they got going. It's not like a team. It's like a family. Everybody, everybody legit. Even with each other and it's real. You feel me? So I want to be a part of it. That's dope. That's dope. Thank you so much, man. And I'll be looking for your n***a if they let you in. And shout out to 1501. Shout out to 1501. We brought the whole TikTok world You feel me? Two nights in a row. He had a TikTok party. We brought the whole... So you brought that. C4S slash 1501. You know he was just on here. Just a little bit. We family, man. We about to take over too. But we going to the studio though. We got to go to the studio. At the end of the day, at least we couldn't get to the house. Then we don't like right. But we in the studio with this professionalism do some interviews with them. But definitely, man. So what was it like going down there doing that and how did you guys... How many TikTokers? It was some that was dead. I ain't even know of. But they're still famous. I was like, what? It's so many. Say it was networking. It was a lot of networking as well. Wow. Did y'all get motivated by having all those people around?   We going to be on TikTok and in your house. Tell me what went down. Hold on one more time. What's crazy is our first time we pulled up to car house, unique performed with the game. They did a record. Boom. He said, I need y'all to come back. We came back again. They did a promo. Made a challenge to one of their artist records. Shout out Martina Marie. Love you baby. We came back again. We need y'all to do what y'all did in Dallas. At the crib. We threw an event with the freaks. They seen it. They said, bring that content to the crib. So I said, bet. Boom, we brought the content to the crib. They already had another event Saturday. But I was like, you know what? I want to throw an event Friday. Through the event Friday, everybody seen the fly. They knew what was going on. So you put the fly out Friday. You put the fly out maybe Monday. So people had a week. Everybody popped up Friday. I'm talking about one car, two car, three vans, four vans. Y'all didn't even know how many people was going to come. Sprinters, everywhere. And then we ran it again Saturday night. Yeah, we did. Okay, because I knew they were having that event on Saturday. Wow. It's all love there, for real. It was lit. It was lit. I saw y'all on the tennis court. I saw y'all just everywhere, all through the house doing stuff. Yeah, we working. But I see, okay. Just like what I said to you earlier, it's a work up. Because I was watching y'all do, you know, the recordings. And you doing it, they ain't like, okay, that's wrong. Let's do it again.  Oh my God, don't even ask me that question. I do it. I do it a lot. I probably do it five, six, seven times. If I'm just now learning it, you know, to get the perfect video. But if I already know it, it'd be one take. One take. Especially when you're working with somebody else. If you're doing it by yourself, then it's all on you. But you have to make sure that both of y'all are getting it right. And I messed up all the video. I didn't start off as a dancer. Like, I didn't start off as a dancer. I had to catch on to it, for real. But I caught on fast. And do you, like, want to punch him sometimes when he tried to mess it up? Yeah, because he always trying to change the DCs and stuff. Man, sometimes a video supposed to be 30 seconds or 15, it's a lot to do with it. But here's the realest, though. As soon as you get it right, we go viral. Songs poppin'. We get paid. We do shows. We on balsalt. You know what I'm saying? Look, look, look. March 19th. Make sure y'all pop out. March 19th. You see us? This is what Seafloor is doing. You feel me? We just don't TikTok. We just don't dance on the internet. We get paid for shows. We don't get that money out here. We not just dancing on TikTok. We get promos. We get paid for shows. Yeah, because a lot of people see y'all because at first when you see your videos, all you see is dancing. They dance. And they don't even know it's our music we dancing to. That is not it. See, I know that. But I see, like, you just change venues. One minute you hear, you dance to the same song, but you change. You might change to different people in there. You change the choreography. But just like the radio, the more you hear something, the more hypnotize you. And all of a sudden everybody starts loving it and wanting to know where to find it. So I love that. So you guys, how do you do with relationships? Because usually what I have, I've hired people here for 15 years. And the one thing, listen, the one thing that really messes up my business is the relationships that these people get into with these different people. And then it causes everybody to mess up on different stuff. I'm going to go with the other one. Listen, I'm telling you, this is the radio. I'm going to keep it a buck with you. I'm the uncle, granny, grandpa. I'm there. I'm the whole one that's going... I have individual meetings with everybody. And we have group meetings. You feel me?  Let's figure this out. That's how I am with the gang. We, hey, y'all, let's figure it out on individually and together. Because the thing is, I try to let them know as long as we hold it together. You feel me? As long as we get through this door. And they can all tell you. I'm pointing at the door right now. That's how close we is to the door now. You feel me? I gave them the same scenario. I said, look, y'all, individually, we all had a meeting. It was a long table and it was a door way at the end. I said, look, as long as we stick together and we all stay focused, we're going to get to this door.  But as long as we stay focused and we get to this door, we're going to all get through it. Everybody might not make it. Everybody might not make it.  And do you have those meetings with the boyfriend and girlfriends too? Because when they're having all them problems...  We got to talk. You feel me? Communication? Communication is the key. You feel me? With everything. And then we got to be able to compromise with each other too throughout the communication because we just don't want to be dry talking.  It's a thing because me and my wife, I have to tell her, hey, look, we talk to the people a lot. We got to talk to each other while we're talking to these people. Because a lot of the time we'll neglect to talk to each other. We'll start just talking to y'all. But we have to talk to each other as well while we're doing these interviews. This is something that's real. Now, you got to realize we've been married for 20 years. That's a long time. Yeah, y'all will clap it up, nigga. Yeah, nigga, you want to clap it in the back. 20 years.  But at any rate, you know, it was some bumps and bruises. For sure. We decided we was going to make sure to stay together no matter what.  We were going to stay together. I'm going to ask you a quick question. Outside of the family, outside of kids, boss talk is another thing y'all fight for as well, right? Definitely. We have issues with different things, like that camera right there wouldn't have been there if it wasn't for my wife.  But then when she kept asking me, we put the fourth one and the show looked better. So I came back and told her, damn, I should have listened from the jump. And she fought me for that camera to be right there. Because in relationships, you have one person who don't like change. That's me. They're working good now. They come in regardless.  So as building what we all got right here, it started with me fighting for certain members. And then I'm like, man, what you think? And she's like, man, I ain't...  No cash. And then she brought gutter cayenne. And then she brought more people in. And then when I'm not on my A game these days, she being on her A game.  Like, if we all got to be able to fight for one another and do what we need to do, you know what I'm saying?  We go through. The difference is y'all have a larger group and more people to deal with. Trying to bring other people up. You know what I mean? Because even earlier when I was asking about relationships because I know labels who have problems with say, her and her boyfriend having a problem or he don't like something that's going on in the group. Although he's not even a part of the group, but he's causing mess and he's not even in the group.  Soon as everybody gets signed and they all get big, I'm in the office. Everybody going to have their own individual managers and role managers. My job is done. You feel me? I'm in the office doing what he doing. You feel me? I'm chilling.  I'm in the office. Make sure my contracts and my checks come through and we going to talk. So that's your end game.  Everybody get that individual thing, but right now I'm a coach. I'm a coach just to the championship.  We going to all cheers. They going to throw the Gatorade on me. And then that's it.  We usually don't deal with that type of stuff though. We don't deal with that type of stuff. That's a blessing because I've heard it. No, for real. We pray. She can tell you I got on my knees the other day. Everybody to focus. We don't deal with those type of issues. Championship is on the line right now. But something you just said is that you get on your knees and you pray. Most people try to be too fly, but me and my wife pray together. I'm telling you. Be honest with you. You have to. People don't realize that you have to pray together to stay together. I was in the living room praying. I ain't that weird. You ain't got to pray. You don't have to. Listen. I'm not going to drive and say or pray and do anything. Whatever you want to do that. I'm just telling my part of the story. I was on my knees praying. Do you all pray together? I would love. You can pray whatever you want to pray. I just want you to be dead now. But the book I read talks about you praying on your knees as well. So you can do it either way. It's all ways to do it. I'm a little forward. So can I talk to you now? Can I talk to you now? Let's talk about you. Let's talk about you. So about Marty. He's the crazy. So he's the last one that just got added in. What really helped him out. I didn't even cap to you. Peace skills vouch for him. You feel me? And then I wrote something like I forgot what I wrote. He wrote a question. He gave an answer. I said what's up? He need to be down. And then half pint wrote in there and said man he be a good addition to the team. So I hit him I said. Shout out half pint. I'ma let you in.  They still on me. But go ahead. Talk to them. Get it.  Because I already did like stuff in the past with Prince and Fat Al or Peter Fat Al. And I remember like I think was it 2016? It was 2016 at the Liz dance tour. And then just from then on I just always had ties with them in 1979 and peace skills. And so I just felt like it was only right for me to come over here because I always blew up like rapper stuff. I be on stage with a lot of famous rappers and they never took me on the road. So I just felt like this is the place where I need to be. It's family. So it sound real good. Sound real hard. But let me understand when did you first know that you had that in fact? Let's talk about it. I knew that when I heard Memphis song go viral. When I graduated out of high school. And I was in the backyard I remember my momma didn't even know I danced and she had just got me a phone that can record videos so I went outside and I just sat my phone up on like this box and I just recorded the bang challenge and it went viral the same day. Wow that's dope man. Thank you so much brother. I just say man keep on pushing man y'all think y'all got the right energy? I feel it. His units in the room. You know what I'm talking about? Keep doing your thing. How many followers do you have on TikTok? I have like 152k I like work. He been on stage with N. L. E. Chubb I made his dance go viral I made his dance go viral and I'm going to step there for show. Okay that's cool. What did he say? Did he acknowledge it or he don't acknowledge it? Man his videos are so they don't stage with each other. We don't stage with each other. That's dope man. But no don't shake your head in the back. Back up let's just see a young man come through. CEO. I don't know what he's CEO. So you remember all the niggas that we talking about they was gone he won I'm the one who made the you hear me? I heard you. Shout out AG. Who was your first addition anyway? I'll get you. You knew that rule number one. You're not the third one. Me too. Who was your first addition to C4S? Say it one more time. Who was your first addition to C4S? At the beginning it wasn't like really additions. It was just like I'm working with whoever's wanting to work and want to be a part of the movement.  Who's the longest member that's been with you right now? At the beginning right now it's him. That's here at the moment. It's him. Then come unique. Then come Joga. Then come Tinker and Leah. And then come... Let me... So look. This one's crazy. Pop your seat this is the moment. You know what I'm saying I got a lot in my head. My mama he be forgetting about me.  Quit playing with us. My mama I don't know when I came though but I know it was last year. And I know I was before that n***a. I know I was before that n***a. I know I was before that n***a. You know what's crazy this is what's crazy during the time when I was on my draft picks trying to find certain people to bring in. We was in Atlanta right and it was a van full of tiktokers and I'm over there trying to work my way into working with one influencer. And I'm like ooh trying to work. And she pop out talking about I'm talking to her. I'm talking to her. I'm trying to work. I'm trying to work. And from last year to now her personality seems that way I already can tell. She can't ride in you feel me? So boom. She came before Joka. But Joka was I was thinking music wise. But boom. Everybody's poppin right now. What about that one standing behind you and she poppin. Come back. I'm just a supporter. Slash. So you don't care to be a tiktoker at all. She on tiktok. I'm in this subscribe. I'm not like them though. She going though. She going. She going up since she been with us for real. Really? So you pushing forward? Okay. I don't know. I'm not even about to let her play around right now. You got her on the spot a little. There's a lot of cameras. My bad. I got to buy a new one. It don't matter. You don't have to worry about that. You don't have to worry about that. I'll be back on. Look. Everybody doing that motherfucking thing right now. You feel me? She got her hair out. Everybody here did not start with how many followers they got now. Hold on. Within four months everybody skyrocketed within four months. I started off like 100%. I started off at like 100k. Now I'm at 600k. Gigi was at like 2 or 3 and Gigi was at 6. You had KP at like 7 and now she's at 1.5. Hold on. You had Tinkha at 30. I'm going to tell you facts. I got it in my phone right now. Send them by the list. October 26. This is TikTok. KP has 600k. Gigi had 384. Joker had 189. Tinkha 150. 24. That's dope. Everybody's monetizing getting paid for this. Everybody's getting paid for this. I just want to make sure. You trying to work? You trying to work? How long? Hey, Kara supporter. Kara know all my little songs. Kara lit. Let me see that. She getting real. Man, you go viral today. Today. What dance? They're the professionals. They need to know. Do a boss talk dance. Do a boss talk dance. You want to go to the boss talk? Man, look. We going to fix them now. We going to talk. We going to try to make a little song. You going viral today. So y'all going to make our new boss talk now. Get your hair together. Come here. We going to talk about her. Boom. So Tinkha.  These two. I had to keep it together. Right. As soon as we got together. She came with the package with Leah. Here we go. She went from what we said on there 44 or something 30. She already up at 300,000 followers bingo and promo and clothes and ambassador. I'm talking about listen. I'm talking about they don't got to pay for no ball here. Her coming to mail. Everything for free. Life is an influencer. Go ahead and get in there. The first time I met Prince probably the funniest moment ever. I was on FaceTime with Joker. We was yelling at each other arguing.   They tripping. I'm trying to get to them M's and they arguing about who made the dance up. I don't care, I made the dance up. Let's get back to it. So how many you say you had? 367. Damn. That's good stuff right there. Like I said, I'm trying to get on to get my 23,000 up. What I need to do. Jump in the video with us. You see them stars in that picture right there. You jump in the video with us. And you got to be consistent. You can't just post one day and then try to wait a week. You got to be on there to mommy. You be having it. Tick tock. Three times a day. Hold on. You said three times a day you need to post. Is there a certain time of a day? I can't really give up all that game. You know what I mean? But I can tell you. I can tell you the certain times.  So is there stuff accurate? Yes. I just want to make sure that there is accurate. Then I also heard that if you do schedule post that it takes away something from you. We don't do schedule. So you just do it. Right now ring lights it up. We was working. Those already posted. Mike. At first it was the algorithm that go by a couple months ago. But now it got to the point where we running before you pay. So whenever we post they waiting on us. So you have all these I heard you saying something about another app company that came out and they reach out to you.  Because you're bringing everybody to them. That's cool. I'm talking about all type of companies. So you feel like when do we get out on the app? This is crazy. We were just talking about that today. Let's make the whole game. Didn't I say that today we was driving? I said you need all the apps. And if you got your own app what exactly would you put on there? Everything. Everything, we would see it. Bingo. They're paying niggas to download apps. We're paying niggas to download apps. Are you guys on clubhouse and all this? Yes. See we ain't. We haven't got our own group and we're crazy. Clubhouse is some different. Everybody keep telling me boss talk need to be on clubhouse. They'll come in y'all room. What room? What room? You gonna come up in my day on the room? That don't even sound coming to my room in the morning. Talk? You wanna talk to E on in the room? Let's talk about all sorts of stuff. Yeah, let's talk about everything. You talk about everything. They got different type of rooms too. Everything. Freaky room. What's your favorite room? When you say freaky room, I like the freaky room. There's no faces on there. I didn't have to see the faces. You was in the room with me. Freaky room. I'm trying to play you.  You know I gotta play you.  What you talking about? Freaky room. Last time when you guys was on here I tried to get y'all on here together. I had the picture up there with both of y'all. I went with y'all like my Beyoncé and my Jay-Z on this whole right here. I was gonna do it. Yeah, I had it there.  I said, hell we got a drunken in love moment going on in here. And didn't get to do it. But today we get to hang out with y'all together and the baby and everything. It's okay to talk about it. I like that. Let's be real cause that's what's gonna sell. You said that way back then too. Everything right now going on is real. Because you know what a lot of people reach out to us and say they love to see couples, especially black couples who can work together and succeed because you have these younger kids who are looking up to them and seeing that it's possible to have a relationship and work together to get something Yeah. Let's talk 101 is a thing. I just want y'all to know that. Nah, for real. And you know what's the realest out of it is like what helps us keep going is hearing what y'all went through.  You feel me? We got a long way to go. Y'all gonna make it though. Nah, for real.  Nah, for real. Nah, for real. Cause I seen where it started. It's up nigga. Did you know that y'all would be back here doing all of this? Of course. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. You said what? One more time? Did you know, okay from the first time when you came on here and you saw the vibes, you saw how we were and everything like that, did you know that you would be here today?  For show. I knew I was gonna be on a different level and y'all was gonna want me back for show. And I knew y'all was gonna be on a different level. You know what I'm saying? For show.  And y'all be having high acts. Y'all do, y'all do. We post every day, nobody does that. We post every day. We did almost 500 episodes in 2021. But we just haven't capitalized on TikTok like how y'all have.  Yeah, y'all should, definitely. And we told y'all. We did tell y'all. But let me tell you, it's a lot of work to be posting on all of these platforms than doing all of these long interviews and that kind of stuff. Because you don't do YouTube right now. It's a lot of work. Do you do all of this to yourself? Or do you? You know what's crazy? I go on her page. Her page. I go on my page. I go on the Click Full of Stars page. This is just IG we talking about. Then I get off of there. Then I go on Facebook, post on all the reels on Facebook, get off of there. But is it the same reels or is it different? Man, sometimes it's the same. Sometimes it's different. Sometimes I go to her page, still videos Then we got to go to Tik Tok. And I post on my page. And I go off on my page. And I go to Click Full of Stars page. Post on Click Full of Stars page. Then when I get the YouTube information, I'm going to be posting on the YouTube. How many hours do that take?  She like, damn, can you get off the phone? And I'm over here like, baby, I got to do what I got to do. No cap. I ain't even get to Facebook yet. He wakes up at three o'clock in the morning and edits. And then I'll wake up at seven or eight. Why are you always late? Why are you always late? No, but I don't go to bed until one, two o'clock. He'll go to sleep early. See, he'll go to sleep early. I'll go to sleep early. You go to bed sometimes like nine o'clock, ten o'clock. I get up at three though. I got to be up. And then I'll go to sleep at two o'clock in the morning. That's her. I can't sleep. What you doing though? I'll be on social media trying to post. On my phone doing stuff. She do that too and watch a little murder show. Yeah, I do. It be some TV on. It be some TV on in there though. I can promise you that. I hear it in the room. It's my only private time. It's my only private time. It's my only private time. At any rate, do anybody else in here have kids? Yeah. These three in the back. Which one? All three of y'all. All three of y'all. Don't wish that on them. We got a lot of work to do.  Anybody got kids back here? Joker dude. Since we thrown it out there. That's crazy. You want to tell me something? How many kids you got son? He's like just one. Just one. Look up in the sky. He hasn't counted. We're talking about the abortions. One, two. How many? How old are they? My daughter two and my boy just turned four. Shout out to them. Two years apart. About two different women, right? Two different women? No for some. Just putting it out there. That nigga right there, not only TikTok famous, that nigga got a lot of stuff going on. No count, nigga. That way. You know what I'm saying? It's the family. The thing is, I think you guys are going to go far, man. Don't forget about me. Man, we're not going to forget about you. Because I'm over here with my nigga. Who forgot about a nigga? I don't remember a lot of them. Who forgot about you? There's been a few, but it didn't matter because guess what? Yeah, they ain't. They mad seeing the success of what you got going on right now. I don't even remember them niggas. I be pushing fast forward. Boom. I remember. A lot of them be trying to get back on the show.  Look at the hand. So is there any other TikTok famous person in Dallas that you are? Yeah, what's the name?  Man, let her out. They ain't playing in this corner.  That y'all have your eyes on? Is there somebody else you have your eyes on to DM and be like, hey? So, right now, I'm trying. Okay. Bro, why are you tripping? Yeah! You tripping, dawg. You going in? And she feel like she going to be the one, though. I'm shocked. No, she ready. We want a little car. We want a little car. You know what I'm saying? We going to talk after this. You know what I'm saying? We need that little 500K added to the kill. You know what I'm saying? You know what prices is going up. I don't want to hear it. That's not for real. We just linked with Brie. She from Connecticut. She got 4.4 million followers. We about to add her in here pretty soon. You feel me? See, that's a good thing you said that because I was wondering if we only had to be people in Dallas. No. We all around the world. Are you not from Dallas? I'm from Florida. I just mean flying back and forth.  I'm talking about changing flights every other day. She didn't stop for a little minute. She can't go home. So you going to move? Eventually. I'm trying to get my apartment by the first. You like Texas? She like the gang. She like the movement.  Tell them we going to go everywhere. We so tired. Do you look to start dealing with sponsorship? Do you look to start dealing with sponsorship? Do you look to start dealing with sponsorship? Do you look to start dealing with sponsorship? Do you look to start dealing with going and certain people using you guys like companies? Man, what's crazy, the inbox is booming. They hit the inbox right now. I'm talking about an app is in the inbox right now. I'm talking about we going to pay you out and just put the link in the bio. True story. Apple? Apple. Apple hit us. That's right. You know what I'm saying?  I'm trying to get a trillion. Already. Guys, man, you know, and this goes, I love all y'all. We love you too. Everybody that got on these mics tonight, are dope and we love the fact that for sure y'all family, but now I got more family and I appreciate you guys for coming and showing Boss Talk 101 love. A lot of people don't realize that it ain't easy for y'all to take time out of your day to come down and sit with us. I appreciate it, man. We definitely doing our thing, but at the end of the day, it couldn't be no us without y'all. It wouldn't be us without y'all. So this is no part. And I know already, you know, y'all going to do bigger things, way bigger things out of the country. Let's talk about that. Man, we got it. I'm talking about all the way out. It's just the start. New England. West Bookings at Gmail. And there is a price attached to it. Yeah, it's for sure. It's a price to everything. Even the walkthrough, even the talk, which is a price. So the C4S TikTok page, do y'all have an ultimate page? Yeah, we got a page. How's that going? We had about the hit 200K on there. That's dope. When did you start that? Like four months ago. What else? And then you had the page. So what else is coming up for Click Forest? I showed y'all the little EP that's about to drop. So we got C4S Takeover about to come out. I'll probably say in two weeks after that drop, you feel me? We're going to probably drop another C4S Takeover 2. You feel me? Kyra won't be now. So we're going to put her through the trial. You know what I'm saying?  And we got more people that's trying to be a part of this. But like right now what you see, like this picture right here of what you got going on, like this is the army right here. This is what they dropping bread for right now to come see. You feel me? And once we added everything else, once again, C4S is the label. I was born in Brooklyn, grew up on Rockerfella. Bad boy, audit. This is my Rockerfella. This is my bad boy. This is my no limit. This is my young money. You feel me? This is what you see. I'm Diddy and everybody else. They who they are right now. I'm a boy because they own individual stores. I'm talking about what shocks me. I don't walk in certain stores with certain members that's here and kids and people. Let me get a picture.  That's the last person. Right now I feel like I'm blessed with like 10 of them. And then look, she over here talking about I'm trying to, that makes me feel like it's over. Once the world gets attached to what this is right here, it's going to be the biggest thing the world ever seen. You feel me? Because nobody is embracing this. Nobody holding on to this. Nobody showing them love like what I'm showing them love. Like I tell them all the time, I say I take my time out the day to drop my son off with Granny and come over here with y'all to do the things that we doing. You feel me? Because I believe in it. I see a vision. If I could take all of us, I'm going to take all of us.  Wow. And if somebody wanted to be a part of C4S what are their requirements? How many followers they have to have and so forth? I mean for sure you got to be booming. You got to be doing something. She's like today my first day you know what I'm saying?  You got to be booming.  I saw you was only 44k and you look up now she had about to hit 600k. She's just being consistent. So it's not really about the numbers. It's about how hard you work in. And then the thing too is it's a team effort. You feel me? I tell them all the time we could dance and blow up somebody else but them niggas ain't about to fly over here and come holler at y'all and put y'all in their music videos and they not going to look out for you. As long as we blow us up and get us to where we need to be man it's already happening. When them labels going to call me and say hey Prince, example where the freaks, it's a hot record I want that. How's it happening? I'm saying we made it happen.  So a label reach out to you and say man they already reaching out. I ain't going to tell y'all who they already reaching out if I'm lying I'm done. Okay, so what what would it take for them to get it? Man look the right price you feel me? And we going to make you boom and on top of us making you boom and making us boom the other artists they going to need this. You feel me?  You feel me?  Price is going on. You feel me? And we add her in and you know what I'm saying we going to talk. But that's another 500K. Because of the things that you've been through so you have the knowledge and you have the know-how of what to look for so you don't get you know. Man for show and this is once again this is what I explain to them and anybody that wants to be a part of this you feel me? They could tell you I don't do no playing. They do what they do.  I don't beg them and ask them for anything it's trust over here anytime I feel anything iffy I talk to them whether it's a whole or individually I talk to them trying to figure it out to make things better if anybody leave this situation ain't nobody going to come in this real shit. You know what I'm saying? Niggas got mama, daddy, uncle, cousins niggas going to be pushing them like how I'm pushing them not saying they did not or they wouldn't but I'm here doing it. You feel me? It's a family thing.  You feel me? Niggas you want to rap? You going to get two jobs and figure it out. I got two jobs and thank you they came after that.


And British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is calling for global acceptance of the Indian-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Johnson said he saw no reason why those who took the AstraZeneca vaccine should be left out if the vaccine passports schemes. And he said this when he met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday, July 2nd to discuss COVID-19 travel restrictions as cases of the highly transmissible Delta variant surge in Britain. Speaking at a joint news conference after the bilateral meeting, the British Prime Minister thanked Merkel for her work in global diplomacy and in particular her response to COVID-19. Angela, on behalf of the UK, I want to thank you for your truly historic commitment not just to the UK-Germany relationship but to global diplomacy more generally. And I think over the last year, 18 months in particular, your scientific expertise has been instrumental in guiding the global response of India and the AstraZeneca vaccinations. I see no reason at all why those, why the MHRA approved vaccines should not be recognised as part of the vaccine passports. And I'm very confident that that will not prove to be a problem.


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news update. Good afternoon folks. This is Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This is your one PM update to get all the U.S. indices trading to the downside. The Dow is off 333 points about nine tenths percent. The S&P 33 seven tenths. The Nasdaq one percent or 170 points. The Russell one and six tenths percent. Thirty six points. The semi is off one and seven tenths. Sixty six points there. Trendy's down 202. One and a quarter percent out there. You've got gold. Trade out four bucks. Silver 12 pennies. Light three crude trade out at 7171. Let's go take a look at our nine panel. Market update chart. We begin by take a look at the ESM in the upper left hand corner. What we see here is basically a sideways move over the last four days. Price right now is consolidating with inside the barest structured area of its daily profile. And that's between 4717 and 4649. If we were to see a close below 4649 50 that would be an indication of price going and targeting the bottom of its daily profile to 4537 level. That is not what we have right now. We just have a sideways move. In fact we've got a sideways move in many of the markets that are on this screen right now that we're looking at. Spot follow tonics is trading just above its 50 day exponents moving average. We've been one day below one day above one day below one day above. So we've got a choppy market out here. The NQ the same thing. Sideways move price trading in between the center and the top of its daily profile 16 088 thus far being a support and 16 456 being the resistance zone sideways move. Just take a look at the U. S. Dollar index. It has been trading sideways for a couple of weeks consolidating with inside its daily profile. Gold is doing the same thing consolidating with inside its daily and weekly profile. The real level of resistance for Goldilocks is the center of its weekly profile 17 088 20. That's where price needs to close above on a weekly basis in order to get some mojo lights. We crude not sorry silver pulled back on a Thursday and Friday last week to test the bottom of its bullish structured weekly profile. Key levels of support 21 82. If we look at lights we crude bottom left you'll see a sideways move for the last four trading sessions. So very similar natural gas having a little bit of movement but it's all it's done so far has gotten up to the gap where price has broken down. That's at four dollars and four cents out there in the 30 year treasury. It right now is trading above the top of its bullish structure or bear structured daily profile. That suggests that it wants to go ahead make a run for its recent high from December 3rd. That's up in the 165 area. Folks stay tuned for the Trader Z Show. But if you're off to start your Monday have a magnificent one. Thanks so much for joining us and we look forward to seeing you again soon. Take care.


One of the most unusual consequences of the speed of light being a constant for all observers is that the flow of time itself is not immutable. It too must be relative to the inertial frame's motion. Here's a good way to see why this must now be the case. Here's a simple light clock. Light travels between mirrors at the end of a known length. For our purposes, we'll make it a very long length, say, 150,000 kilometers. That way, one round trip will mark one full second. Now if we put the clock into motion with respect to a ground-based observer, we see that the light has to travel further, and because its speed is constant, it will take longer. The moving light clock is therefore running slower than a stationary duplicate. This is called time dilation. It's the geometry of the situation that gives us the conversion factor. If I were on a 10-hour flight from LA to Paris, traveling at 800 kilometers per hour, I would lose just under a nanosecond, way too small to notice. But for faster-moving spacecraft, it can be quite significant and critically important. For example, orbiting GPS satellites travel at 3,874 meters per second with respect to the Earth. They use cesium atomic clocks to keep time. They measure time to within one second in 1,400,000 years. But these onboard clocks lose 7,214 nanoseconds a day due to time dilation. If onboard clocks aren't corrected regularly based on Lorenz's time dilation formula, the position data they produce would be off by kilometers in less than a day.


Hey folks, if you've been watching recent episodes of Code Club, you know that I've been spending way too much time thinking about how to calculate Bray Curtis distances between different communities. In my case, I'm looking at the microbial communities that we sampled out of mice at our research facility here at the University of Michigan. And so the question is, do we rarefied? Do we not rarefied? Do we normalize? Do we use relative abundances? Well, in the last episode, I compared the pairwise distances between random data. So in other words, what I did is I took the original mouse data and then I pooled all the data together and then I redistributed those points randomly so that they all represented a statistical sampling of that composite community. If you don't understand what I'm saying, basically what I have is I have the same number of samples with the same number of sequences per sample, but instead of representing individual mice and individual time points from the study, that they really represent a overall sample of what the full community might look like. It's a simulation and in this simulation, it's what's called a null model. So we don't expect to see any differences between the different samples. This is useful for exploring things like, you know, how do you calculate an ecological distance between samples and what are the properties that you find, you know, when you look at different components or different factors of those distances. Well in the last episode, I looked at what happens when you don't rarefy, when you do rarefy, when you look at relative abundances and when you normalize the data. This was the figure that we came to at the end of the last episode, right? You can see that with relative abundance and normalization, the data looked very similar. Here represents a different pairwise comparison between about 225 different communities. Rarefied data, on the other hand, is fairly consistent across all numbers of differences. And again, the x-axis is the difference in the number of sequences for each of our pairs of samples. And the data that aren't rarefied, I don't even want to talk about because as you increase the number of sequences that differ between the two samples you compare, the distance between them goes really high. I might want to know, well, is that actually true? This looks like a big black mess here for normalized. Is it actually decreasing or is it flat? Because we have this big cloud of points for comparisons where the difference in the number of sequences between the samples was less than about 5,000, even 1,000, this looks like a big dense mass. And so it's hard to know if the variation there is a lot wider than it might be further out, you know, when you have a larger difference in the number of reads per sample. So what we're going to talk about in today's episode is how we can take that x-axis, the n-diff, and discretize it so that we can have categorical variables in the x-axis representing different bins on the x-axis for different windows into the number of different sequences between the two samples that we're comparing to calculate each of those differences. We'll do all that in our distances.r script. If you want to get a hold of this script as well as the data I'm working with, down below there's a link in the description to a blog post. Also up here, I'll put a link to a video that'll show you how you can use all that information in the blog post to get caught up to where we are today. So let's go ahead and look at this comparison data frame. And as you'll see, the first column is sample, the second is name. These are poorly named columns that basically indicate the two samples that we're comparing to calculate distances, break-critice distances calculated four different ways. And so in no rare, there's been no rare faction done rare. We used rare faction where we calculate, we grabbed a certain number of sequences from every sample, calculated distances, put the sequences back, and we repeated that like 100 times and then calculated the average. So that's what's going on in that rarefied column, that that's a sampling of a same number of sequences from every sample, but we're repeating that like 100 or 1,000 times. Relo-bund, we calculate the relative abundance on non-rarefied data, but we calculate the relative abundance and then calculate break-critice. In normalized, we normalize every sample to have the same number of sequences and then calculate break-critice. And then at end-if, this is the difference in the number of sequences between the names in the first two columns, right? So in other words, the difference in the number of sequences between F3D0 and F3D1 was 1,531 sequences, okay? So again, that's the interpretation of the data. The first thing I want to do is I'm actually going to step back from these plots where we're plotting end-if on the x-axis and I want to actually make a density plot of these distances to kind of see how symmetric the data are. We've never really done that. So I'm going to go ahead and grab these first two lines where we're pivoting those four distance columns longer so I can then treat those as separate variables. And so again, what we see now is that we have sample name, which we really don't care about. The number of sequences or the difference in the number of sequences between those two samples, the type of calculation and then the distance, right? So then what we can do is we can feed that to ggplot, AES. On the x-axis, I'll put dist and then I'll do fill equals type and then I'll do geom density. So what we have now is a density plot. This is effectively the same thing as a histogram, except with geom histogram, it stacks the values. If you have multiple types like we do in this case, whereas with geom density, it puts them behind each other so that everything comes down to zero on the y-axis. This is a bit hard to see. So let's go ahead and zoom in on our density plot and I'll do that with chord cartesian and I'll do y-lim from zero to 50 and then my x-lim I'll do from zero to say 0.25. So this does zoom in pretty well. You can see in the background that red for the non-rarefied data and my teal spike here for my rarefied data. It's a bit hard to see in this case, but the relative abundance and the normalized plots are basically on top of each other. What we could perhaps do would be to say something like alpha equals 0.5 and let's do color equals NA. So we can kind of see that there are two curves here, the green and the purple ones overlapping with each other. Maybe it's a little bit easier to see if we do theme classic. Yeah, again, they're like right on top of each other. It's gonna be really hard to differentiate those two curves. Anyway, what we definitely see is that the rarefied data has a lot less variation, but has a higher average distance whereas the relative abundance and the normalized data have a lower average, but a wider distribution. It's also not clear if these curves are symmetrical. I kind of feel like the curve over on the right side, that shoulder is a little bit thicker for the relative abundance and normalized data than it is on the left side, which would tell me that there's perhaps something going on where we're getting larger distances than maybe we'd expect, right? So returning to this plot where again, we have the difference, the number of sequences between the two samples on the x-axis and then the y-axis being the distance. Again, it feels like those values are dropping off. One way that we could look at this, at least visually, would be to do geomesmooth. And so geomesmooth, by default, will add a spline through the data. And again, what we can see is that for the normalized and the relevant, that the curves do seem to be falling down, I guess from your perspective, falling down, although later on when there's perhaps not as many points, they do kind of pull back up, whereas the curve for the rare is pretty dead on flat, right? And so what I'd like to do is look at this a little bit more in detail by breaking up the x-axis into bins so that for every bin, might only be a difference of, say, 500 sequences between the two samples being compared. For each of those bins, I could calculate the mean and the standard deviation. So I could look at then how the mean and the standard deviation vary over the spectrum of comparisons that I had, right? So to do that, I will go ahead into my code here and I will remind you what we have, looking at lines of 140 to 142. We again have the sample, the name, which we don't care about, the number of diff, the difference, the number of sequences, the type of distance, and then the distance itself. And so this n-diff column, I want to discretize into bins. And so to do that, what I could do is mutate diff cat equals cut width, and then to cut width, I will then give n-diff. And my width that I wanna use, let's say is 500. And so if we run these three lines, so what we see is that we have everything we had before, but now we have this extra column of diff cat. And so this is a factor, it's a categorical variable. The parentheses, well, first of all, so this means that there's a range, right, between 1,250 and 1,750 sequences. And so sure enough, 1,531 is in that range. The parentheses means that it's open, so it doesn't include 1,250, but it is closed on the right, so it's got that square brace, meaning it does include 1,750, okay? And again, something you could do is you could pipe this to count on diff cat, to count the number of cases of diff cat we have, right? So what we get is a count of the number of distances that fall into these different categories for, again, the differences in the number of sequences. And so what we see right away is that these categories are centered on zero, and they're plus or minus 250 to give you a range of 500. So I don't want it to be plus or minus 250, I want it to start at zero and go to 500. And so I can easily change that by modifying the arguments to cut width by doing boundary equals zero. And so now when I look at my output, I see that sure enough it starts at zero and goes to 500. Now there's a variety of cut underscore functions, so there's cut interval, cut number, cut width. Again, we're using cut width, where we're defining the width that we want and whether we wanna center it on a value or whether we want it to boundary on a value. There's also cut interval that makes a certain number of groups of equal range. Cut number will allow you to make n groups, a certain number of groups that are all of the same size. And so, again, what you wanna do is up to you, but for my purposes, I want to indicate the width of each of my slices, each of my categories and move on from there. Great, so now we have our discrete values. And what I'd like to use is to use those discrete categories to group by and summarize our data to calculate the mean, the standard deviation and the number of sequences in that category. So I could do group by diff cat, but I also want to group by the type because I wanna keep the type of distance separate as well as the category separate. And so then we will do summarize, we'll do the mean on distance dist and SD to be the standard deviation on dist. And then I'll do n with the n function. And the n function doesn't take any arguments and that tells you how many observations there are in your categories. And so sure enough, what we see is we've got our difference category, right? Zero to 500 for our four different types of distances, our mean or standard deviation in our n. That's great. We are still grouping it by diff cat. I'd like to go ahead and get rid of that just so I always know what things are being grouped by. I could do dot groups equals drop. And sure enough, again, we now no longer have that grouping. I can then pipe this into ggplot and on the x-axis I can put my diff cat on my y-axis. Let's go ahead and put mean and this then will be a geom line. And so because I'm using geom line, I need to go ahead and group by the type. And let's also go ahead and color by the type. I'll go ahead and remove the facet wrap and the geom smooth. And what I find is I have my mean distance and then on the x-axis again are those categories and that mean distance for the non-rarify data is out of control. I think I'd actually go ahead and remove that because I think we've established that we need to do something that no rarify really isn't an option. So to remove that, again, I can come back here and I can do a filter on type not equal to no rare. Pipe that into everything else. And let's go ahead and add theme classic because otherwise we're gonna get these crazy grid lines in the back that are just gonna be annoying. And so now we have a cleaner line plot. Again, on our x-axis, we have those difference categories. It's just a jumbled mess. We should come back and clean that up later. I'm not gonna worry about it for this episode, but if you use your scale x discrete or scale x continuous, you should be able to figure out how to clean that up a bit. And so again, the green line are the rarefied data nice and flat up around 0.12. The normalized and the relevant distance does drop as the difference in the number of sequences between the two samples being compared goes up, but then it goes up. And so again, I'm thinking that this probably has a lot to do with the N. And so we could go ahead and just straight out plot a little line for the N, but I'd rather do is let's go ahead and use the summarized output to pivot longer and then facet by our three different metrics. So let's remind ourselves what the data look like at this point. Again, we've got diffcat, type mean, SD and N. And so I'm gonna wanna do pivot longer. And the calls that I wanna pivot longer, mean, SD and N. And so now we've got our difference category, it's type, the name and the value. That's good. Again, we could go ahead and put in fancy names for the name and the value column, but I think we're in good shape. And so then on the X axis, I still want my diff category. Y instead of the mean, I want value. I'm gonna group by type, color by type, I'll do geom line, but then I'll also wanna do facet wrap and we'll facet wrap by a name. So the type of metric. And then I'll do N row equal three. And what we see is that the Y axis scale goes up to 2000 on all these because it uses the same Y axis scale on all the values. I don't want that. So we'll go ahead and do scales equals free Y. And you know what? I'm also gonna modify this because I'd rather have the N at the top. Again, it probably doesn't matter a whole lot, but it makes me feel better. So after my pivot longer, I'll go ahead and add a mutate where I will take the name column and I'll mutate that to be a factor on name. And then I'll set my levels to be N, mean and SD. I feel like I've got way too many parentheses here. Yeah, pipe that into GG plot. And now what I see on the top is my N. I've got my mean and my standard deviation somewhere along the way I lost my theme classic. That's okay. And so what we can see is that the N really does fall off here. And so where it falls off, the mean value for the normalize and the relevant kind of starts going a little bit haywire. And so maybe I'd like my data to be focused on those cases where the N is say greater than 100. So I can come back to my code. So between my summarize and pivot longer, I could go ahead and add a filter and I could then say N greater than 100. So that does zoom in a bit for us. And I think what my takeaways are, at least for this particular data set, it'd be interesting to try this with other data sets. But for this data set, when we verify the data, the mean distance is rock solid. It's right around like 0.12. And that is not going to vary because the two libraries that we're comparing for every distance are different sizes, right? Whereas we do see a fall off, a drop in the distance for normalized as well as relative abundance data when we calculate those distances. But when we look at the standard deviations, the standard deviation actually for the rarefied data, I mean, it's not as rock solid as the mean is, but it's pretty solid and it's pretty tight, right? There's not a whole lot of variation between our distances. Again, we are grabbing like 250, 225 samples from a null distribution. And so we would really hope that these would be very consistent. Whereas when we look at the normalized and the relative abundance data, they're pretty erratic and the standard deviation is actually a bit higher. So the take home, I guess, is that the average distance when you rarefy is a bit higher, but the variation is much lower. Whereas the variation, again, for normalized and relative abundance is a lot higher, but the average distance is lower. And both of these metrics, the mean and the standard deviation for the normalized and relative abundance data are being driven in some part by the total number of sequences in the two different libraries. Again, if they vary in the number of sequences, then you get, I guess, a drop in the average, which seems a bit weird and kind of a drop in the standard deviation as well. So again, for my money, for my use, I'm happy with having perhaps a little bit higher distance, but having much less variation in the data. And so again, that's another reason I think rarefaction has something going for it over normalizing and using relative abundance data. One other thing I wanna show you here while we're looking at this particular facet is that I noticed that the y-axis doesn't go down to zero and perhaps you'd want it to go down to zero for some of these. What we could do is we can go ahead and add chord cartesian and then we could say ylim equals c as a vector going from zero to na. And so what that'll do is that'll make zero, the lower bound on the y-axis for all three of these panels and it'll allow the upper bound to be set by the data. So by setting that lower bound, we get a little bit more context for the difference in our mean and standard deviation by these different approaches. Again, I'm pretty happy with the performance of the rarefied data, at least for this data set. It would be interesting to see what it looks like for a different data set. I'll leave that for you to try maybe with your own data. See if you can replicate what I'm doing here with my mouse data, with whatever data it is you're working on for your project. I'd be interested to see how it compares to what I'm finding here. That'd be a pretty cool project. Anyway, practice with this, try that homework assignment and then next episode we'll come back and we'll look and see what happens if we, instead of rarefying to 1,326 or whatever it was, sequences per sample, if we'd have done 2,500 or 5,000 or 10,000. Of course we'd lose samples because not every sample had that many reads, but what happens to the overall distances? Does this green line go down as the minimum library size goes up or does it go up? I don't know, we'll have to figure that out in the next episode of Code Club. Make sure that you've subscribed and you've clicked that bell icon so you know when that episode comes. Keep practicing and we'll see you next time for another episode of Code Club.


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