What is up you guys, welcome back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I am Goldpony, I do new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today I'm quite excited. We are in the brand new 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L courtesy of Stetler Dodge Jeep Ram in York PA. For more information on their inventory, please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. And so this essentially is the Jeep Grand Cherokee but with a third row. And so this one's gonna be competing with other SUVs like the Hyundai Palisade, like the Kia Telluride, like the Toyota Highlander, just to name a few. This is all new, by the way, for the 2021 model year the Jeep Grand Cherokee has yet to have a third row until this particular year. So I'm quite excited for that. But not only that, we have an air suspension on the Grand Cherokee L that we have here today. And I'll go over the suspension in a little bit here but that is quite exciting for me. And so in this video, I will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking to steering feel, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all of that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. And so as you can imagine, there are several different trim levels for the 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L, starting with the Laredo, starting at $36,995, altitude for $40,195, limited for $45,995, overland, which is the one we have today, starting at $52,995, summit for $56,995, and lastly the summit reserve, starting at $61,995. And by the way, that was all pricing for the rear wheel drive configuration. If you wanted to add all wheel drive to any of those trim levels, simply add $2,000 to any of those prices. But when it comes to the power plant of the new Grand Cherokee L, there are two options available to you. First one is going to be a 3.6 liter naturally aspirated V6. This is the one that comes standard. This one puts out 290 horsepower at 6,400 RPM, 257 pound feet of torque, coming in at 4,000 RPM. Again, power center rear wheels or all wheels through an eight speed automatic. We do have paddle shifters here too, by the way, so we will be testing those out in a little bit here, but all in all, MPG numbers come in at 19 in the city, 26 in the highway for the rear wheel drive, 18 city, 25 then on the highway for the all wheel drive variant taking regular unlit fuel. But so then there is the other engine configuration, this one being a 5.7 liter Hemi V8. By the way, this one is a $3,295 option if you wanted to go that route, but this one puts out 360 horsepower, 390 pound feet of torque sent to all four wheels. Through an eight speed automatic yet again, zero to 60 time for that one, approximately 6.5 seconds, with MPG numbers coming in at 14 in the city, 22 then on the highway. But so now having got all of that out of the way, before we do any kind of fun paddle shifter or acceleration test in this one, I did want to mention, there are plenty of drive modes for the Grand Cherokee L and that toggle switch is located just to the left of the circular shift dial. And by the way, this isn't a traditional shifter, it is simply a circular shift dial. Turn it to the right, you're gonna put it in the drive, turn it slightly to the right, you put it in reverse neutral and then there's park as well in case anybody was curious about that. But back to the drive modes, they will include auto, sport, rock, snow and mud and sand, adjusting things like the shift points, the throttle response, steering sensitivity, all wheel drive system, engagement, traction control and actually the braking as well. So that is quite a bit if you're asking me, but anyways, having now got all of that out of the way, what do you guys say? Let's find a straightaway, I first want to put the paddle shifters here to the test and let's see how quickly they are going to react for us here. All right, here's our straightaway for the paddle shifter test in three, two, one, go. Slight delay, ever so slight delay, really the paddle shifters weren't that bad, considering we're in a three row SUV and really you're probably not going to be using the paddle shifters for an acceleration. Anyways, what more than likely you're going to be using them for is maybe some engine braking when you're going downhill in the snow here in Pennsylvania. It's your less likely to actually hit the brakes and slide off the road. So they're there for that. So that's always a good thing, but actually they're not that bad, just a slight delay. But anyways, now I haven't got that out of the way. What do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway yet again and let's give back full control to the Grand Cherokee L here and let's see how quickly this thing is going to get us here up to speed. All right, you guys here is our straightaway in three, two, one, off we go. Kind of uphill, but perfectly fine. Definitely not going to have any issues of merging onto the highway. By the way, we don't have the MEV8. We do have the V6 here, but that was in sport mode and that was plenty of an acceleration for the Grand Cherokee L without a doubt. Not going to have any issues of merging onto the highway with that one, but to go along with that acceleration as always, braking is equally important. Of course, you will find four-wheel disc brakes coming standard across the board on the Grand Cherokee L. As far as that braking feel goes, it's definitely on the firmer side, which I really, really like. Usually with three-year-old SUVs, it's kind of soft or spongy or softer braking feel overall, but not with the Grand Cherokee L. It's definitely on the firmer side. I love this. It feels like it instantly brings you to a stop. So, well done Jeep for the braking feel. I gotta give you credit for that.  As far as that ride quality goes, it is brilliant. It is perfectly fine. I have had no issues with the ride quality in my short test drive here today in the Grand Cherokee L. So that is definitely on point. And part of that is due because we do have the quadrilift air suspension. And so you can actually adjust that manually. It's also going to adjust dependent upon which drive mid that you put it in. But for the manual adjustment on the right-hand side of the shift dial, there's actually a little toggle switch here. You can hit that up if you wanted to raise the height or push it down to lower the height. So that is pretty cool. So maybe at highway speed, you want to lower it. And then if you're going off-roading, obviously you can raise up that air suspension for quite a bit of additional ground clearance if you wanted to. So we'll get to that of course in a little bit here. But overall, as far as steering feel goes again, I think Jeep did a very good job with that. It's not too heavy. It's not too light. I would say it's perfectly fine. It's right on point. I would maybe it tends to lean a bit on the heavier side, which I personally enjoy. Better helps point you in the direction that you want to go. So I think the steering feels 100% on point in the Grand Cherokee L without a doubt. As far as cabin noise goes, again, it's perfectly fine. It's been over 50 miles per hour here. Sometimes with other SUVs, you get a bit of wind noise coming into the cabin. Once you get higher up in speed, but not with this one. Well done, very well insulated.  Ultra luxury vehicles get that, but you do have it here in the Grand Cherokee L. So for that reason alone, it is ultra serene on the interior here of the Grand Cherokee L. I just have the climate control on right now. So you guys might hear a little bit of that, but very quiet cabin. I'm very impressed with that as well. And then touching on visibility, I can see perfectly fine out the back. One of the key attributes to that is that there's third row headrests kind of fold down. So if you don't have third row passengers, you have better visibility because of that. So I love that. I can see perfectly fine out the back and rain sensing once your wipers actually do come standard across the board as well. But that about rounds out the performance segment of this review you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L. All right, so here she is you guys, the new 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L finished in black. Very menacing look to this one. Very good looking front end, but speaking of, let's go ahead and start up front here. LED reflector headlights with the auto leveling feature coming standard for all trim levels. Of course, automatic feature with that coming standard as well. Meaning when it starts to get dark at night, those headlights will turn on automatically for you there. LED daytime running lights also coming standard along with that. If you were to go with the overland trim level and up, you will get LED projector headlights providing a little better illumination there. Also with that same trim level, front corner LED lamps as well and LED fog lights then coming with the limited trim level and up. Then take a look at the front grille, you're actually going to get unique front grille styles dependent upon which trim level that you go with and they're not going to differ too much just with the design to them really. So I did want to mention that though, none the less and just above that front grille, of course you do have the Jeep lettering found on the front portion of that hood there. But again, like I said, overall very menacing look and I love, I almost forgot to mention the front tow hooks finished in chrome as well. Very cool look. The kind of pays homage of course to Jeep's all for nature, so very cool look. Anyway, so let's now go ahead and make our way to the side of the Grand Cherokee L here. Roof rails coming standard across the board rear privacy glass also coming standard. Taking a look at the side mirrors, there are gloss black heated side mirrors that do come standard with integrated turn signals. Then if you were to go with the overland trim level and up, you're also going to get that reverse tilt down feature meaning when you put in a reverse mirrors will tilt down so you can better see what is beside you kind of to the back there. Auto dimming side mirrors also with that overland trim level and up them. But then taking a look at the wheel configurations, 18 by eight inch aluminum alloys coming with the Laredo and limited 20 by 8.5 inch gloss black aluminum alloys coming with the altitude overland and summit. And then for the summer reserve, you're going to get 21 by nine inch polished aluminum alloy wheels. Don't want to forget to mention the coolest part on the side of my personal opinion. Of course you have that Jeep Grand Cherokee lettering on the front doors, but just behind that you will find an American flag logo. So I thought that was the best part personally. So anyways that about rounds off the side of this one. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. It's open now since we are around back body colored shark fin antenna all the way to the top just below that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light just below that rear window wiper. LED tail lights do come standard along every single trim level across the board. And I actually like this new slim tail light design as well. Very good looking in my personal opinion at least, but when it comes to that rear bumper, it's actually going to differ slightly depending upon which trim level that you go with. So it is going to kind of have a unique look depending on the trim level. Like I said, just below it all dual exhaust outlets with chrome tips integrated into the rear bumper. You guys know I love that look ever since I first saw them on BMWs. I think BMW X5 I first saw them, but either way, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. As always here is that exhaust clip. It's open now since we are around back of the Grand Cherokee L. When it comes to opening that rear tailgate, it is a power tailgate for all trim levels across the board.  Once opened up cargo capacity comes in at 17.2 cubic feet behind that third row. If that was not enough space, I do want to mention there is a power folding third row as I am showing you guys right now for the overland trim level and up. So it was very easy to fold that third row down but then manually folding second row of course. But still definitely like that configuration but with all rows folded down that is going to come in at 84.6 cubic feet which is definitely a good bit. Tie down anchors you can find back there. There's grocery bag hooks, cargo lighting, 12 volt power outlet and there actually is some in-floor storage in a very decent amount as well. You don't always get this much in-floor storage. I was very impressed actually when it came to that but spare tire beneath it all and plenty of space with all rows folded to get in a quick workout. So do a little push ups back there. You know, you gotta get it in when you can. But anyways, now making our way up to the third row legroom that is going to come in at 30.3 inches which of course on paper is not a whole lot at all but for reference I mean even six feet tall this is how much space I have back there. Did want to mention though rear ventilation does come standard for every single trim level across the board and it's actually found on the side of the vehicle as opposed to the roof or the ceiling where a lot of other manufacturers put their air vents so I did want to specify that. Rear cup holders of course coming standard back there and it was super easy to get into that third row. These are some of the best folding second row seats I've seen in quite a while. They folded a decent amount towards those front seats there so I was definitely no issues whatsoever with getting to the third row is what I'm trying to see here so I definitely like that. But anyways, now making our way to the second row legroom that is going to come in at 39.4 inches. So for reference again I mean even six feet tall this is how much space I have back there. 12 volt power outlet can be found back there. There are dual USB charging ports, two more phone charging ports to go along with that and there is actually 115 volt power outlet if you were to go with the limited trim level and up I thought that was pretty darn cool so you could power up your hair straighteners or if you're a guy or drill or whatever you want to do so I thought that was pretty cool and there's a little slot for some cargo maybe a cell phone just below all of that and dual cup holders then as well. Did I also mention for the overland trim level and up you're going to get second row side window sunshades coming standard also four zone climate control as well that is pretty cool and then if you were to go with the limited trim level and up for that second row you will get heated second row seats then too so always nice to spoil the rear passengers a little bit there then make your way up to the front seats cloth seating is going to come with the Laredo leather seating with the altitude trim level and up eight way power driver seat with the Laredo trim level and up heated front seats for all trim levels across the board you definitely do not always get that on other three row SUVs out there so definitely a big fan of that ventilated front seats coming with the overland trim level and up memory settings for the limited trim level and up and then also that overland is going to add a 12 way power driver seat and driver and passenger massaging seats as well so I did want to mention that but overall seating was definitely plenty comfortable definitely can see myself taking a long road trip perhaps to Ocean City, Maryland in the Grand Cherokee Elb now let's go ahead and take a look at the steering wheel it is in telescoping of course it is leather wrapped for every trim level across the board love that and actually heated for every single trim level across the board as well so we do quite often get snow here in Pennsylvania so the fact that every trim is going to get a heated steering wheel is definitely pretty nice then make our way to the startup let me first start by showing you guys the key here you do have your Jeep logo on the one side and when you flip it over lock unlock the button to pop the rear hatch and the little circular button with the times two in it that is going to be a remote start which just comes standard across the board along with a push button start also standard across the board so having said that I'm just going to put my foot on the brake here and press that engine start button and so but then once started up when it comes to those gauges it is a 10 and a quarter inch digital gauge cluster for every single trim level across the board you guys know I love digital gauge clusters because they are more customizable they really bring the gauges to life you can choose to display whatever you want to choose to display up there which is why I absolutely love digital gauges and the Jeep here in Cherokee L definitely did a very good job the one thing I think they maybe could have added to this is maybe some different color options but other than that I absolutely love these digital gauges that Jeep put in this thing so big fan of that but then making our way to overall interior quality of power sunroof coming with the Laredo and altitude limited trim level and up then is going to add a dual pane panoramic sunroof so definitely a longer sunroof there it extends into the rear seats LED interior lighting coming with all trim levels across the board three-zone climate control coming standard across the board as well universal garage door opener for the limited trim level and up wireless phone charger for the overland trim level and up along with multicolor ambient lighting which I am definitely a big fan of of course and overall with the contrast stitching found on the doors the wood like accents found on the doors the aluminum trim found just above the passenger side glove box along with some more contrast stitching just above that it's actually some very very nice interior quality in the Grinch here in Cherokee L without a doubt they did a very good job especially that wood trim on the doors I was a big fan of that but anyways just in front of the shifter you will have more charging ports a 12 volt power outlet dual USB charging ports two phone charging ports as well any wireless phone charger again for the overland trim level and up just behind all of that you do have dual cup holders as well and within the center arm rest a decent amount of storage within that and of course you actually have an overhead sunglass holder I must forgot to mention that as well so overall interior quality was definitely very very well done here in our overland trim level at least of the Grinch Cherokee L without a doubt now let's go ahead and make our way to the tech display 8.4 inch color touchscreen display coming with a Laredo and altitude then if you were to go with a limited trim level and up that is bumped up to a 10.1 inch color touchscreen display either way you get Bluetooth and audio streaming also Android, Auto and Apple CarPlay so you have a smartphone simply just hook it up to the Grinch Cherokee and therefore you have free navigation display up on either screen on that tech display there factory navigation system is only going to come on the 10.1 inch display screen although you don't really need it as long as you have a smartphone of course you can check out your ambient lighting settings up there climate control settings and of course your radio information as well and so this is one of the best parts you got six speakers coming with the Laredo altitude and limited nine speakers with the subwoofer is going to be optional for those but then there is a 19 speaker I believe it's called McIntosh I'm probably mispronouncing that but a 19 speaker high-performance sound system for the Overland trim level and up that comes with 950 watts and that is the one we have today so having said that I do believe you guys know what we have to do next That was ridiculous you could feel the bass in your chest that was an amazing sound system crystal clear ton of bass like I said it was a brilliant sound system for the Grinch Cherokee L without a doubt it's the last thing I wanted to mention to you guys on that infotainment screen is when you do put this one in reverse you of course will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board letting you know what is completely all around you which is always it's going to lead us into safety and so to start front side side curtain airbags do come standard also driver and passenger knee airbags as well in the back you're going to have latch aka lower anchors and tethers to children for the rear car seats rear child door locks tire pressure monitoring system but also coming standard for all trim levels will include lane keep assist the blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert forward collision warning rear parking sensors and then the over lintrim level and up is going to add to that front and rear parking sensors highway drive assist highway assist system integrated off road camera intersection collision assist system and night vision with pedestrian and animal detection but overall when it comes to my final thoughts here this is a three row Grinch Cherokee finally I'm so happy they brought this to the market and I have no doubt they are going to sell a ton of these things especially here in the US where SUVs are all the craze but air suspension also that's a big win for the Grand Cherokee L because the competition if you were looking at maybe the Honda Pilot Toyota Highlander Hyundai Palisade Kia Telluride none of those get an air suspension but this one does that's really one of the big selling points of the Grand Cherokee L in my opinion ambient lighting is great in this one great interior quality overall as far as room for improvement goes I kind of wish the digital gauges like I said were a little more colorful but you know me with my bright green cars and bright yellow cars just makes things more interesting in the end I guess also can get a little bit pricey when you compare this to the competition I believe this Overland that I drove here was approximately $61,000 so believe the other competition top out at right around 50 give or take so it's a little bit more than the other ones but so anyways that is about it for this one you guys thank you so much for watching feel 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Okay, so here we are, it's the last few days of my lease at 2A2. South 7th, I mean, Bed Street on the 7th floor really enjoyed this apartment. I've had a lot of ups and downs and a lot of really beautiful moments here and this apartment's treating me so well. The view has been amazing. I mean, never had such a great view so I'm really gonna miss this place and I'm really going to miss all my memories here but I'm excited about new beginnings and the future. But yeah, I'm certainly gonna miss this apartment and everything that I experienced while I was here. I'm definitely one of those people who has a love-hate relationship with New York but now that I no longer live in New York, I definitely miss and love it sincerely. When I was living in New York, definitely I had some times where I really wanted to leave or was just angry with the city but then I would come home and I'd look outside my window and just be so grateful. I mean, for what I could experience, for the fact that I could live in such an incredible city, so 100% even on the days that I didn't fully love New York or will say that I hated it, I still loved it. So if you haven't noticed, my apartment's pretty minimal. I don't have anything on the walls. I don't have a lot of like furniture. I only have what I've needed and for the past three years that's been amazing because I feel like I don't live in excess which is really important for me and my lifestyle. So it's just really minimal and that's been like a great thing for me and I think with this moving process it'll definitely expedite the process. So yeah, I mean it's very, very minimal but that's intentional.


On the breakfast, stakeholders in the aviation industry have called on the federal government to prioritize refining of Jet A1 to steam the increase of price of the product. Also, on the breakfast, how has the support eagles fared under the headquarter? Hoseo Passario and what becomes of the 78th annual General Assembly elections of the NFF will be joined by sports journalists. And don't forget, we'll also be looking through today's newspaper and analyzing the biggest stories of the day. Welcome to the Breakfast in Plasti, Biafrica. It's a beautiful Friday morning and it feels really great to be here on your screen and it's good to know that you have actually joined us. We ask that you stay with us from now until 9 o'clock. It promises to be an amazing time with great conversation and a wonderful perspective from our analysts who are already on standby to join the conversation. Now, usually how we set off the show on, you know, this time or at this time is that we start off with our top trending. But just before then, I am Messie Boko. Now, top on the top trending is that a veteran, Mr. Ibu, has joined the obedient rally in Jaws or joined the obedient rally in Jaws. And that was one conversation that made the round yesterday. Ibu is a veteran nollywood actor and was yesterday making the rounds. He was topping the charts. If you looked at it, he was at that sport because he was sported at the rally of Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Albin Jaws. Ibu's appearance at the rally sparked that reaction. Like I said, he's a comic actor and some celebrities had in 2021 met with the APC presidential candidate. That's Bola Tunibu. And so people yesterday when they saw the video of him that made it, of course, those who were around probably would have filmed it and then you made it to Twitter. Now, even the presidential flag bearer of the Labour Party himself, there was a video where he was actually surprised when he saw him. You know, he was surprised. Now, the boss there is that really that Ibu, Mr Ibu had actually, you know, gone to endorse the APC presidential candidate and now he's here with the Labour Party. What do you expect? I mean, it feels like it's one and the same thing that happens with our politicians. One minute you can find there are no permanent enemies, right? You know, permanent enemies, permanent friends, where you just have permanent interests at the end of the day. And so it's what's really playing out with the elect those who are actually vying for political positions. So you want to talk about the elites right there. And so not surprising because it can't be anything. But how do we explain all of this? Because most times you find that these actors are actually influencers. And so they actually pay to influence whatever it is that they're influencing. Money's involved. Does it really mean that that's an endorsement, the fact that they have a meeting they've been called to and they say, oh, you're an influencer. We're actually going to pay you this XZ amount of money to do XYZ. I don't know if that's the case with Ibu, but however people have reacted differently because once upon a time they saw Mr Ibu who's an actor who attended with other actors, by the way. He attended a certain meeting or conference and that felt like some sort of endorsement of the flag bearer of the APC. Now he's with the Libor Party. Or he was seen at the campaign ground with the Libor Party. What does this tell us? I really don't know. But some people say, oh, he's lying. He's not lying. But like I would always say, they're not permanent friends. They are not permanent enemies. And you just have interests. Interests would always be constant. It's a very popular saying, especially when we talk about politics. Away from that, a presidential candidate yesterday signed a peace pact. A peace pact is a tradition that started some time ago. It's just that those players who are going to, I mean just as you get closer to the elections is expected that these key players come together and sign an agreement that, you know, as the campaign kicks off and every other thing, the campaign is expected to be issue-based and not utterances of whatever it is, slogans, activities of the campaigners or the politicians, all those who are supporting would actually be violent. And that was what happened yesterday. But however, it became another issue for a conversation. It became a topic. It became a sensation in different spaces, not just on Twitter, but even off Twitter, because the presidential candidates of the all-progressive Congress, Bola Tunibu, was absent. And we already know that there's been a lot going on with the APC. And some say that the presidential candidate is not even on ground because he had to leave the country for medical reasons, probably health reasons, and he might be in the hospital being attended to. So of course, if he hasn't been around all the while, inauguration of the campaign council and what a view, it wasn't really expected that he should be actually around. But he was represented by his vice or his running mate, that's Shatima Kashima, and so that's also another one. But very outstanding with all of the reactions that came out is one from Shore. He really was very vocal. I mean, there's also another video right there where he was talking about how can you have presidential candidate not being present at, you know, critical, very, very important because, you know, it could happen that sometime you wake up and say, I wasn't there, I didn't sign it. It was my vice that signed, so it's not me and what a view. I would not agree to whatever the outcome will be. And I mean, that's just on the side. But so this got a lot of Nigerians talking and one person, like I mentioned, that was vocalist Shore where he was very, very, I mean, he sounded too passionate about it. And it almost looked like he was pained, you know, when he said, how can you not have, you know, Bola Amatunubu present?  This is like a key card. This is like the game is about to start and you are not, you know where to be found. But apart from the fact that Peter, I beg your pardon, that Bola Amatunubu was not present, you had the likes of a Tico of the People's Democratic Pupsy. That's the former vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Peter Albi of the Libor Party and Rabiu Kwan-Kweso of the New Nigerian People's Party, among others. But let's also come back to, you know, let's talk about the content or the essence of the piece of card. It's okay to say that those who were supposed to be around, that's one of the, one issue that was talked about. But another issue that was also of concern is that if you talk about the peace accord, it's more like a peace agreement, a peace pact that you all come together that were committed to ensuring that these elections are free of violence and, you know, we're sure that it would be conducted with the law and whatever the outcome is, we will all accept it. But with that, the National Human Rights Commission in 2015 had reported that a total of 61 incidents of election violence had happened. That was in 22 states, according to that report. I mean, at least 58 people were killed in different parts of the six geopolitical zones of the country. So the big question here is, do you think that the peace pact has any impact on elections? Because every other time you see people signing the peace pact, but the elections are not still void or entirely free of violence and all of the rancor and utterances that are not of, you know, they're not, they're not commendable of a democratic process. And so I know that from 2015 there's been a lot of improvement of that, but let's see how it pans out for 2023. Whether or not we're going to have a violence free election is dependent on, you know, the players, the stakeholders, those who are vie for the offices and the supporters. These are the issues. Another interesting one, very saddening at a time where revenue becomes a big issue, revenue has always been an issue, you know, for the Nigerian polity. It's that the Nigerian railway says it's lost about 531 million over terrorist attack. That's what the management of the Nigerian railway cooperation said, you know, it was more like they were lamenting. In the past five months, they have actually lost that sum. 531 million as estimated in terms of ticket revenue on the Abuja Kaduna standard, you know, trained service or what have you. And don't forget that, you know, there was an attack that happened prior to this time, there was suspension, you know, activities on that particular route has actually slowed down. But what do we expect? And that's why security is almost everything. Because if you live in a society, if you live in a country where security is a big issue where government will say, hey, we're going to have different infrastructures, because if you look at it of recent times, it feels like these terrorists, these persons have been very deliberate about government or public properties. And so the attack is very deliberate.  And that's not good, because at the end of the day, the government is actually losing out. So if a government comes into power, if you're a government and say, hey, you're here and then I'm going to have different infrastructure, are you thinking about the security of this infrastructure? If we cannot secure the society or the country entirely, then what becomes of all of the lofty projects, you know, aspirations, all of the plans that you have? So public projects, public infrastructure, if you want to say, and facilities are also at risk. And that's a lot of money that's going out there because money, you actually invested, you know, to have that constructed. At the end of the day, it doesn't leave its purpose and you know, we're losing cash, we're losing money if you want to say, and that's a lot. So it's important that government pay attention to the issue of security because it is government's responsibility to ensure that lives and properties are protected. That's been enshrined in our constitution and that cannot be taken away. So secure the entire country, secure the state and public infrastructure would also be protected. Apart from that, that's also, you know, the issue of security, like I would always say, it's not, it's every man's business because those who perpetrate this crime and those who commit all of this, you know, atrocities are not just spirits, they don't fall from the sky. They leave with us. They are our brothers, our sisters, our uncles, our fathers.  We know these persons and that's why the fight against insecurity is a collective responsibility. So I'm hoping that moving forward as a country, especially where, you know, we're looking at becoming 62, you know, just in a day or a day or about, just in a few more hours, Nigeria become, you know, 62 right there. This should be top on our list, a priority for every stakeholder, for every Nigerian, including the government. And that's it on our top trending. We take a break now and when we return, for us to go through the front pages of the National Police, please stay with us.


Sir, I am a skeptic. Sir, you talk about this fact that we shouldn't enhance our competence. So how do you start this process? IIT is a beginning. So, what are you skeptical about? You don't believe competence will work in this world, is it? Corruption is also a certain kind of competence, anyway.  At a supposed to be a joke. Okay, that's supposed to be a joke. So, now how do I enhance my competence? See, let's say you want to run on the field. Let's say you want to run a race. You want to run a hundred meters. It is not running that you have to work on right now. You have to work on your legs and lungs and muscle and everything, isn't it so? So, if you want to become a great engineer, yes, definitely an institute like this is crucial on one level. But any number of people might have come here and gone, not all of them became great engineers. Though they might have produced hundreds of great engineers, still not all of them will become. Simply because of their own individual attitudes and competence and whatever else, isn't it? So, whatever the institute can do for you, it is doing. One foremost thing that you need to do is to enhance your own physical and mental capabilities. Because if you want to be a good engineer, you have a… you need a working brain. Just having a degree of engineering, it may be a passport to a job, but it is not a passport to success, isn't it? So, to have a working brain, which the engineering degree will not freeze, usually lots of degrees, when people acquire degrees, they're free as their brains. They think they can… now they've finished using it and now they can rest it for the rest of their lives. It is not so. This is only to enhance your capability. This is just an organized effort. A school, a college, an institute is just an organized effort towards that because each individual cannot craft it for himself. That is why an institution, otherwise an institution has no other purpose. It is here to just organize that possibility of you striving to be of a certain competence. But that is a mass application. But as an individual, your most important thing is you as a human being, you are functioning at the fullest level. If that has to happen, there are other dimensions which one needs to explore. Unfortunately, though these sciences and technologies for inner well-being have been the mainstay of this culture for thousands of years, today we are largely losing it for various reasons because we want to imitate somebody else. We don't want to imitate our grandfather Topevala anymore. We want to imitate the Hatsella from another country. Because of that, we are losing those things. But we should not, we have to bring it back into our lives. This is very much a part of the way the culture itself is structured that it is all about the human being. See, this is the only culture which talks about which even an illiterate person in this culture is aware of that you can actually evolve to another dimension of existence. Even if I go into a village and talk to an illiterate peasant who has not read anything, who doesn't know anything, who has not heard any of this stuff, even to him if I go, he will not ask me, give me a golden horse or something. He'll say, Anakamukti Venon Swami. He's saying he wants ultimate liberation. Where did this fellow get this? Nowhere else on the planet this is possible. Nowhere else on this planet is it possible that an illiterate person is thinking that he can break his present dimension of existence and go to another place, whatever that place is. So, this was bred into our culture so deep, we should not lose it. It was not just the idea, there are technologies to become free. If you became free from the process of your body and the process of your mind, if you can sit outside of it and work it, you would work it brilliantly, you understand? You would be able to use this body and use this mind only when you are able to not treat it as myself. These are powerful instruments in your life. These instruments can be employed the way you want it, only when you have an outside access to it.  When you can't think you scratch this spot, that's not where it is. Do you see people? When they cannot think they're thinking hard, they scratch here, it doesn't work like that. There are… there are proper steps that one can take. It could be offered here if everybody's willing for that.


You get rolly. Yeah. You gonna ice him though. You putting that nigga out, I already know it. I already know it. But I'm gonna keep it all the way real.  It's gonna do good.  Hopefully. No, he is, he's supposed to be.  Yeah, yeah, yeah.   He bigger than Tank.  You seen the last nigga he knocked down. I don't know. Ooh, third round, he gonna be like, yeah, that fight was fast. Yeah. He caught Tank on the shoulder one time, but.  Rolly, I love you. You cool and all that.   Tank.


For the course now, isn't it? Man, God is good. You know, we just try to go do our job and execute, you know, take care of business. How have you personally, do you feel like you've settled in over the last few games? Because initially in the first season, you know, there were some moments, but like that happens. And you improve and you learn from them. How have you settled in? Man, like I said, man, God is good. You know, this is my ninth year. You know, I just got to lean on my faith and just keep chipping away.  Yeah? I mean, just that easy? Yeah, not simple, man. God, God. Well, some of it comes up with preparation and studying and all that stuff. How have you kind of assimilated yourself technically and, I guess, scheme-wise out on the field?  More comfortable. And I think that's just what I'm going through right now. I'm just getting more comfortable. And I'm just blessed, man. I'm happy to be out here and help the team win games. And man, it's love. Yeah. Got to ask, on that last pick, came out of the end of the zone, did you know? You look like, all right, we got it. What do I do? Like, give me a give. Yeah, well, you know, man, the natural thing is to get it and go. But you know, got to be smart.  So I had to go down. But I should have went down a little bit, give them a little more space, though. That's all right. Yes, sir. I appreciate it, man. I appreciate it. So many guys at home. Yeah, man, it was great, man. Obviously, I didn't feel like we started the game the way we wanted to, man. I don't feel like the energy was really there. We wasn't really detailed in what we were doing. And obviously, you know, we gave the X-play on third down, the big play. But other than that, man, I feel like we really settled down, especially in the second half.  Obviously, we know that's what we're going to do. We're going to battle. But I just think going forward, especially on a short weekend, Green Bay, we just got to be a little bit tighter on our details. Yeah, with the offense, struggling the way they were in the first half, I mean, how much did you guys take it upon yourself to keep things in order, I guess? Yeah, man, that's the way we played all year. I mean, we obviously know that, you know, we might not get 30 points, 20-something points. We kind of play it every time. Like, no matter what happens, obviously, when the fumble happened, when the league fumble, we're like, so what? Let's go out there and play ball. And we got to three and out. That was a huge draw for us. I think that might have been the biggest draw of the defense for us during that game. But I said, we're always going to battle. We're going to keep fighting. But I just felt like our details can just be a little bit better. How about the final drive?  Just practicing those situations always and practice those two-minute drills. Looking to the sideline, getting the calls, making sure we're communicating. And obviously, you know, a couple of those, the last couple of players on the timeouts, we have to come through the sideline, get some small little details, figure it out. But like I said, guys just battling out there, man. Just what we do. And we want to be the last team or the last phase on the field to go out there and win the game for the team. Help us understand, Kevin, just from the outside. Like you see, you guys were missing at some other starters before the game, especially up front without the send.  How is that possible?  Explain to us, how is that possible?  It's not like he hasn't played. So all these guys have played. They've been in the defense, so it's not like they're a new guy just getting signed on the street. Kind of like how Team Mitch did early in the year. They've been here, they've been making plays. But you know, guys go down, another opportunity for another guy. That's the way this league goes. So you got to be happy for a guy that takes advantage of his opportunity. So that's just the way we play ball, man. Happy for those guys. They were swarming up there. I mean, six total sacks for the team. That says something again, without 98 in the middle. No, it's acting as big time. That's what I'm saying. We played some plays and like you said, I mean, I think I'm happy that our defense has a lot of depth on the front end.  So like I said, man, big ups to those guys who are making plays. You mentioned you settled in in that second half, kind of after the lack of energy first half. What specifically did you guys change? What was the difference? Didn't really change too much schematically. It was just like, kind of just telling ourselves, like, hey, we're a little bit dry right now. Forget what the offense is doing.   So we just had to make sure that, like, say, it was just the details. It really wasn't for lack of effort in the first half. It was just a couple of detailed things. We got it corrected, you know, at halftime, and we played better on the second half. Talking to them like that was just a great job on us, showing how much we studied and knew who we were going against. With the offense struggling as they were, I mean, how much were you guys kind of taking it upon yourselves to keep it together until they got caught? We always preach complementary football. We know if they're slow a little bit, then hey, we got to pick it up a little bit on our end and buy Subversa, but we're slow, they'll pick it up on our end. But we're not pulling the fingers. At the end of the day, we got the win. We know what to do next week. Get ready for Green Bay. Yeah, short week to get ready for Green Bay. How do you guys recover and get ready for that one? Hey, man, it's the part of the NFL, man. Everybody's played a short week, so hey, we got to go in and get treatment, get ice and do everything we need to do and study and get ready for Thursday.  Right. Man, it's great, man. It feels good. I mean, sure, this is my eighth season, so I'm kind of used to it.  Any way I can help this team win, outside, inside, whatever they need me to do, I'm ready to do it. Thank you. Man, you got to play ball, man. This is one of those games where, you know, we had to step up and do the small things, right? You know, just pretty much getting the pocket and fit the quarterback. That was some of the keys from this week. Yeah, how good was it to see some of these other guys, like the Marcus and all, get in there and get in the back field and get some pressure on them? It was good. It was good. You know, it's good to know that we got guys that don't have a field that can bring the same level of energy and effort to the table to everybody else. So it was good to see those guys fly around and make those plays that they made today. Is this, how satisfied is this win with four defensive starters out today? It was good. I'm glad we sealed the deal and got the win, got the dub. But it was good to see that everybody will step up to make those plays. Have you seen it before? No, it's just the defense that we run and how we run it and how we're coached and how we work on the small things. And every week is just about affecting the quarterback and just the process of getting ready for games is big over here. I know you didn't get in on that, but how gracious are you for these other guys? Oh, I'm glad I was able to get their sacks and get them to make plays too. That's great for those guys. I appreciate it. No problem. The field that I think is going to be at home is pretty much old Russell in the second half there. That felt good, you know, able to contain a guy like that and get to him and get him as many times as we did. You know, I missed a couple of plays, but I felt like I had pretty good effort for most part. You know, a couple, just trying to get him to pocket where the quarterback was at and that's all I could pretty much do.


behavioral disorders. Behavioral disorders are also known as externalizing behavior. When we are saying externalizing behavior that mean that children exhibit these behaviors in a form of outward behaviors and when we are saying behavioral problems that mean that children are exhibiting disruptive behaviors which negatively influence their environment and which may cause problems at the home or school or in their social situations. So if you want to understand it in simple words, it means that the children who show problematic behaviors in their home or school, we classify those children under the behavior disorders. In behavior disorders, they are usually classified as those behaviors which are observable and which are affecting the environment. Now when it comes to affecting the environment, then what are the disorders which we classify under the heading of behavior disorders? There are three behavioral disorders which are categorized as number one, ADHD, number two, oppositional defiant disorder, number three, conduct disorder. When we talk about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, it means that the child is so hyperactive and his attention is so much that he is unable to properly follow his environment. Since he is unable to sit comfortably in the environment, for example, if there is a school setting, he is unable to express on-seat behavior because of which his environment is negatively affecting. Similarly, if he is impulsive, then due to his impulsivity, he will do so much fidgeting in his environment and he will not let anything stay in his place because of which his external environment will be affected. This is the problem because of which along with the child, his external environment when it starts to affect, it causes distress. That is why it is also called externalizing problems or externalizing behavioral problems. Similarly, when we talk about the second disorder, that is the oppositional defiant disorder, ODD, then the behavior of the child manifests in the form of hostility, argumentation and irritability. The hostility of the child might be exhibit towards the parent, towards the authority figure, towards the sibling, towards the peer. This means that the child can be hostile in any setting, can be defiant in any setting, i.e. their disobeying behavior or argumentation with parents or with authority figure that might be the teacher which can be exhibit.  Again, their behavior is affecting their external environment negatively. And then the third is the conduct disorder. Conduct disorder is actually a sequence of oppositional defiant disorders of children who have oppositional defiant disorder before age 18. They are very likely to have conduct disorder when they will be in their adulthood. But this is not compulsory, this is not necessary. There are cases where ODD is recovered during adolescence time period. What is the conduct disorder basically? Conduct disorder is a severe form of ODD. How is the severe form of ODD? In this, the child reflects severe aggression and anger. When we talk about severe anger or severe aggression, what does it mean? The child can harm someone's property. He can harm someone, i.e. cause an injury. These are the kinds of children who damage someone's property. And if they don't damage their property, they can cause fire somewhere. These kinds of behaviors, which are destructive behaviors and which are negatively influencing the external environment, are classified under the heading of conduct disorders. Conduct disorders is a form of antisocial personality and these are adults who have ODD or CD in their childhood, i.e. conduct disorder.


You probably don't give much thought to ice unless you're thinking of ice skating in the winter or cooling a beverage in the summer. Ice is abundant not only on earth, but throughout the solar system. Here in Wyoming, we appreciate the many forms of ice, from snowflakes to glaciers. Ice is formed when there is a phase transformation of water from liquid to solid. Ice can also form when there is a direct transformation from vapor to solid.  The types of ice vary and include glaciers, ice sheets, sea ice, icebergs, snowflakes, hail, frost, icicles and ice spikes. The formation of ice can be beneficial or harmful to living organisms. Because ice has a lower density than water, it floats. This helps protect organisms living in the water by insulating them from the harsh conditions above. Ice formation can also be very destructive. If ice forms in cells, the crystals expand and shatter the cells. If the damage is extensive enough, the organism dies. Before the advent of modern refrigeration, ice was a very valuable resource and was harvested and stored through the summer. We don't need to harvest ice anymore, but we still rely on the formation of ice for many of our winter activities. From the University of Wyoming Extension, I'm Mae Smith, Exploring the Nature of Wyoming.


Hello and thank you for joining us. My name is Eddie Zaneski and I serve as a developer advocate at Amazon Web Services. I am also the co-chair of Kubernetes 6 CLI where I help maintain cube control. I'm coming to you from Denver, Colorado in the United States. Hi, my name is Jeff Billameck. I'm a principal software engineer for the Home Depot. I'm in Atlanta, Georgia and I'm super happy to be here with you Eddie. We have one goal today and that's to inspire you to start a home lab. When a lot of folks want to learn Kubernetes or a lot of the cloud native technologies that are out there, they don't really have a personal project to get started with. It's much easier to throw yourself in and really learn all the things when you're actually managing something. And so we don't obviously want you to run and play in your production environment if you can help it. And so that's where the software we're going to show today really shines. Why don't we start off with talking about what a home lab is. So home labs can be very addicting just so you know. Before long, you might find yourself looking for used servers on eBay late at night. But all seriousness, home labs are a really safe way to experiment with new technologies, either for your own personal use or maybe something related to your job. As for the why, I think it really jumps into, besides having fun outside of work, it's a great place for you to improve your craft. You can also get a whole bunch of practical applications and experience, you know, as you'll see with home automation. The real question though is why would you want to run this inside of Kubernetes? For starters, it's a really great way to learn Kubernetes. Kubernetes provides really great features for like resiliency and redundancy. Like for example, just through the day this week, my power went out for about three hours. The UPS has all failed and so everything turned off. And when the power finally came back on and everything powered back up, Kubernetes basically ensured that everything was running without incident. Like everything just came back automatically thanks to the Kubernetes scheduler.  Maybe that one-off Quran job that you have running that alerts you when there's a 90s dance party at the venue around your apartment like I used to. Once your cluster gets full, you can always just, you know, grab another Raspberry Pi for example, toss it in and grow it out. One of the things we both run is Home Assistant. And Home Assistant is a really popular open source home automation platform. It's very active. It's very well supported. They have releases every month. And it does one thing and it does one thing really well, which is tying together various different products and services that you normally don't integrate very well together.  You can glue together different ecosystems that normally would never cooperate and play together. But it gives you a common and unified way to really define what that looks like. And when it comes to home automation, there's different protocols for some of like the devices that you may run. Like for example, there's Wi-Fi, but those typically tend to be proprietary and cloud-based. However, there's some more like self-hosted kind of protocols like Z-Wave or Zigbee, which are low-powered mesh radio type protocols.  And that will basically be the interface between the software you run and the devices you have around your house. Yeah, let's take a quick tour of what a Home Assistant looks like. So here you can see my Home Assistant dashboard. You can break things out by rooms in different areas. So you can see my front door right here with my front door porch light and my door lock that I can lock and unlock remotely. Also my garage door. You know, here's my thermostats that I can control. A couple security sensors like if the windows opened or closed. There's that cam feed from my ring doorbell.  Here you can take a look at some of the integrations that I have installed. Here's my Chromecasts, my robot vacuum, thermostats, doorbells, all different bits that plug together. Along with a huge list of other ones that I can install. What ties all these things together are automations. And so here's a quick, simple one. This one turns the lights on in my kitchen after the sun goes down. So you can see it's got a trigger for sun, 20 minutes before sunset, checks if the lights are currently off, and then it turns them on. And this is of course represented via YAML, which we all love. In this automation, I'm going to show how the motion sensor in my alarm system will trigger the lights in the hallway to automatically turn on when it detects motion. Every one of my family loves this automation because the lights just magically turn on and off when they're walking through the hallway. It's really great. They don't have to lift a finger. So one of my favorite home automations that I have is these smart Z-Wave light switches. And so they work like a regular light switch. They're dimmable. I can hold it up or down. But one of my favorite bits about it is that depending on how many times I pushed a button, it fires off a different event. And so for example, we have this nightlight here. And so if you tap twice, it actually controls the nightlight instead of the regular lights. I've set this up to kind of demonstrate how the different components running in Kubernetes kind of work together, or in particular, the very specific person object detection feature of one of the workloads that I'm running called Frigate. It's running as a home chart. That's the thing that's using the Quaral TPU USB device, the TensorFlow processing unit. And basically, its whole job is to offload small video stream to that device to apply a machine learning model. And in this particular case, it's object detection. And so what we're about to see is my assistant, my daughter. She's going to walk by and we'll see that Frigate detects her as a person. Here we go. And it's going to draw a box around her. And when the box turns blue, that means it detected basically person. And if you look below, we see an event fired. It showed the detected a person. And so now anything subscribing to that can act appropriately. Like for example, I have automation set up to do certain things when someone's detected and say, for instance, we're not home, or it's between a certain time of day, that kind of thing. So let's start by talking about hardware, right? The best hardware that you can possibly run in your home lab is what you already have. You know, maybe that old PC, maybe you bought a Raspberry Pi three years ago and it's still sitting in the box because you don't know what to do with it. You know, I'm running a four Raspberry Pi cluster. I'm running a collection of PC and Raspberry Pi devices. They're all different types of compute devices. I have an old laptop, I have an old desktop, I have a couple of things I got off of eBay, just a bunch of different little things plus three Raspberry Pies. One of them is connected via USB to my alarm panel device so I can arm and disarm the alarm and get alerts when windows or doors are open or this motion or things like that. And if you currently don't have any hardware laying around, we'd recommend just, you know, grabbing a Raspberry Pi or two. You really don't need much more than that to get started. You can obviously start with one, but when it comes to Kubernetes, having multiple nodes really gives you a much better experience. And if you're running Raspberry Pi's, the processors they run aren't typical Intel processors. They're based on ARM, which is gaining a lot more popularity now. And so when you're going to run like ARM compute modules or compute devices in your Kubernetes cluster, it's going to be important to look for container images that support ARM, typically things that have like multi-arch support, we're going to fall in that category. The great thing is that every day there's more and more solutions that are providing ARM support in addition to Intel support. Yeah. Arms really come a long way, hasn't it? You know, from back in the day when we were running Docker swarm on some pies and I just remember trying to install Redis for the first time and there was no ARM image for Redis yet. And I was like, well, I guess I'm returning all this stuff. Next, let's talk about software. We'll start with K3S, which is going to be the backbone of your home lab Kubernetes cluster. K3S is a CNCF project originally started by the folks over at Rancher. It is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution, which basically means they've stripped out a bunch of cloud provider specific things that you're really not going to need. It's packaged as a single binary that holds all of the things, including your Docker container runtime, Ingress controller, basically everything you need to get started is right in the single binary. It runs great on a single node or many. It has a really awesome and easy install and upgrade experience.  The control plane uses either SQLite by default or etcd if you want to switch to a high availability. As far as installing K3S, we recommend checking out catch up by Alex Ellis. Quick shout out to Alex. He's got tons of content out there about Kubernetes K3S and Raspberry Pi, so be sure to check him out. But catch up is a very simple installer for K3S. It also can add a bunch of other add-ons and helm charts that you might need. As far as configuring your K3S cluster, just a couple quick recommendations. Swap out the built-in load balancer to Metal LB. Metal LB will let you use your home network IP space for load balancers, and it allows you to map multiple services to the same IP address as long as they use different ports. So you can really use one single IP if you'd like. Traffic comes installed on the cluster as well by default, and it's a great ingress controller out of the box. Definitely learn some of the dials that you can turn. And as far as persistent storage goes for your volumes, I would check out either Longhorn, also by the Rancher folks, or Rook. Figuring out what you want to run and how to run it in Kubernetes can sometimes be overwhelming. Fortunately, there's a package manager for Kubernetes called Helm, and it's a package manager that provides you these different Kubernetes workloads packaged up in things called Helm charts. And Helm is a utility for installing and maintaining these Helm charts or these packages. Helm is quite useful because it provides an easy way to install workload and set some values that are pertinent to that workload without dealing with a ton of YAML. It allows for easy upgrades and rollbacks, and there's a huge community and ecosystem of Helm charts that have already been made that you can reference. Pretty much anything that you think you want to run in Kubernetes probably have already been packaged up as a Helm chart. When using Helm, there's lots of easy ways to find and discover Helm charts that you want to install. You can do a Google search for the thing you're interested in plus Helm. You can search on GitHub. There's also a really great site called Artifact Hub, which has thousands of Helm charts referenced there. And specifically for home use, there's a really great community called Cates at Home that have over 100 Helm charts in their catalog that range from media type things to home automation to many different things. It's a really active community. I highly recommend you take a look. That's Cates at Home and Artifact Hub. Installing packages with Helm is pretty easy. Here I'm going to show an example of installing the Home Assistant Helm chart. And I've got a terminal window here with a top like tab basically doing a watch on any pods that have Home Assistant Helm on the name, which there's none running right now. And then bottom tab here is the command to install that Helm chart. And so like using the Helm CLI, I'm saying Helm install and I'm giving it a name. I'm calling it Home Assistant Helm. And then I'm setting some basic values to basically bootstrap it. So I'm basically interning on Ingress. I'm setting a hostname for it. And I'm setting the Ingress path default. And then I'm turning on persistence. So the settings that I make will live beyond like restarts of the pod. And then I'm referencing the chart name. In this case, it's the Home Assistant chart at the Cates at Home Helm repository. And so when I run this, it installs the chart. It installed really quickly. You can see now the pod is there and is booting up in just a few seconds. It should be ready to go. It's doing whatever like startup probes or readiness probes that are necessary for it to be there. And now it's running and ready. So I'm going to switch to a browser. And I'm going to navigate to that Ingress URL that I just set. And I'm at the basically the Home Assistant like setup page and I'm ready to go. Returning to those smart home protocols we mentioned earlier. We have Z-Wave and Zigbee. Both of these depend on different USB devices to have a mesh and radio network throughout your home that connects all of these smart devices. Each of these are going to have their own software that drives the USB driver outside of Home Assistant. So there's tons of different in cluster communication going on between all of your different services where everything gets wired up and talks back to Home Assistant eventually. So if you take a look here, this is my Z-Wave to MQTT application. And it's running in my Home Assistant namespace communicating with the Home Assistant server over either a web socket or you could use MQTT. MQTT is just the message broker that we use for most of the IoT things. And so Z-Wave to MQTT really just kind of keeps track of all of my Z-Wave devices. This is where I would come to add a new device to my network. It's a process called inclusion. And so once I start this up, it would pair and depend on that USB device to connect it. There's also the same thing for ZigBee. You can see here, these are my office lights. I have four different overhead light bulbs that are all connected through ZigBee instead of Z-Wave. And I can just start flipping some of these switches on and you should see them light up behind me. There are some differences between the two protocols. But at the end of the day, it's really going to depend on which devices you want to use, what they're compatible with. Most folks run a mix of both protocols. And here you can actually see an MQTT debug tool that I can actually connect to the MQTT server that's running inside of my cluster. It's an Eclipse project by the name of Mosquito. And you can see here a bunch of different topics that are being subscribed and published to. And this is really the heart of how that smart home communication goes between the different applications. So again, your cluster is continuously passing messages amongst itself. It's a great real-world experience to have different components depend and rely on each other. So even though you may have redundancy with your compute devices in your storage, in some cases, there's still times, especially for home automation, where you are tied to a single physical device. But basically if the device that you have your USB device connected to goes down, that's a problem. And so one thing that I've done to solve that is I'm making use of a Kubernetes SIG project called Node Feature Discovery as well as DeScheduler. And so what that means is I have Node Feature Discovery configured to dynamically label the node that a USB device is connected to with a certain label saying this device is on this node. And then I schedule the pods or the workloads that require those devices. So for example, Z-Wave to MQTT needs to be able to talk to the Z-Wave radio. So it'll only schedule the nodes that I have this specific label on so it can actually talk to the radio so it'll work. But if I unplug it and I plug it somewhere else, Node Feature Discovery will remove the label from the node that it's no longer connected to and it will apply the label to the new node that it's connected to. And then DeScheduler will eject the pods if they're currently running on a node that does not have the required label. And then Kubernetes Scheduler will of course schedule them back on the proper node. So this gives the Kubernetes-like native scheduling way to handle movement of devices. So if I have a problem, say like with this laptop or any device that I have, or any node that I have a physical device connected to that I need to still be able to use, I simply just plug it into a new device or new node and Kubernetes will handle the rest for me automatically, which is really handy. This is what happens behind the scenes in Kubernetes when a device is moved from one node to the other. In this particular terminal window, there's three different Tmux panes with the top showing a watch on any Kubernetes node that has the custom Node Feature Discovery label for the custom Z-Wave controller. Right now that's on K3SD. The middle window is a tail of the DeScheduler logs for any events that are related to the Z-Wave 2M QTT pod. And then the bottom pane shows it's a watch on the Z-Wave 2M QTT pods, or pod in this case, showing what node it's currently running on. In this case, it's K3SD. So when I unplug the device and move it to another node, the label will get removed from K3SD, which just happened. And then in just a minute when it's plugged in to the new node, it should show up. In this case, I plugged it into K3SE, the node called that. And so I fully expect that node to get that label. And there we go. It just showed up. Now it's on K3SE. And when the DeScheduler loop runs, it detects that it doesn't fit on that node anymore. And so it ejects it. And then it's going to basically be rescheduled by Kubernetes onto the appropriate node that has a label, which in this case is K3SE. And the bottom, we can see that it's terminating the pod on K3SD. And then it's in the process of creating the container on K3SE. And so that basically shows behind the scenes what happens when the device is moved from one node to the other. As we said earlier, if you're looking for a personal project to learn cloud-native technologies, Home Assistant really has you covered on all fronts. Right here, you can actually see a Grafana dashboard of some of the Prometheus metrics that Home Assistant can export for you automatically. You pretty much just add one line to your config. So here I could see my TV usage that's broken out by different TVs in my house. So here we can keep track of how much time we're watching TV. Pretty straightforward Prometheus query, if you're not familiar with what they look like. All right, same thing with our lights, we can map how long we leave the lights on. I can punch this out to look at the past 24 hours. We can see the temperature was warming up today. And so if you want to learn Prometheus metrics and maybe build some Grafana dashboards, and this is again a great place for you to explore and experiment within your home lab. Here's an overview of the GitOps approach with running Kubernetes. In this particular case, this is my GitOps repo for running my cluster. I'm just going to kind of talk through what that looks like in practice. So like for example, Home Assistant in the folder here, I have a Home Assistant YAML file. And what that's doing is that's referencing a flux helm release kind of object. And it's set up to use the Home Assistant Helm chart in the version that automatically gets updated through Renovate for when there's new updates to the chart. And then all the normal helm values. So like I referenced the image, which also gets updated when there's a new version. I'm setting things like environment variables, Ingress settings, service settings, storage for like persisting the configuration. I'm annotating the pods for doing pack ups to Valero, for example. And then I also have this add on called code server, which is VS code, but server based. It's actually a sidecar running along with Home Assistant. So I can edit the Home Assistant configuration files directly through VS code and persisting to GitHub. When I make changes to the repo, if I were for example, to change the version of the Home Assistant image that's running, GitOps will pick it up, will flex will pick it up, it'll detect a change in the repo, it'll then notice a change to the helm chart like values, and it will apply that. And then the workload will basically get restarted with the new value. So I don't do anything to the cluster directly. I do everything through the Git repo. So as part of my day job, I do a lot of automation of systems. And so I'm very much a fan of automating as much as possible. So in my particular case, in my home lab, in my Kubernetes home lab, I'm running Ubuntu server on all the nodes and out of the box, Ubuntu server is configured to automatically download and install security updates. And if a particular update or CVE that was installed requires a reboot, Ubuntu will signal that by creating a file on the file system. And so I run a Kubernetes workload called cured, KURED. And what it does is it looks for each node to see, does that node need to be rebooted? And then in the serial fashion, it will drain and coordinate the node, it'll reboot the node, and then uncoordinate after the reboot occurs. So that gives me automatic security patching without having to lift a finger, which I really like. Another is for Kubernetes upgrades themselves, for themselves. I run K3S and Rancher has a tool called system upgrade controller. And what that does is it monitors for a new version of Kubernetes, or more specifically a new version of K3S. And when it detects there's a version and it meets the criteria to be installed, it will drain the nodes, coordinate them, upgrade the version of Kubernetes on that node, and then uncoordinate them. And it does that one at a time as needed. For both the cured solution and the system upgrade controller solution, I think I have them configured to only run like at night, like between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. So when I wake up the next morning, I might see like in my like monitor or whatever that some of the nodes rebooted, I'm none the wiser because everything just magically works. And I never have to worry about keeping my stuff up to date. Lastly, for Helm charts and Docker image versions, if they're assemble, I make use of a GitHub tool called renovate. It's super, super awesome. Basically, all of my Helm charts, if there's a new version of the chart available, it will open a pull request on my GitOps repo, letting me know there's a new version of the Helm chart and then I can merge the pull request to automatically install the new Helm chart, similar for new versions of Docker containers that compose the workloads that I'm running, if maybe the Helm chart didn't have that update or whatever. And there's lots of configurations you can do and rules to guard how renovate works. Like for example, I think I've run Plex and I haven't set up where during the evening, if there's a new version of Plex, it's automatically going to install it because they barely have breaking changes. Okay, so for lessons learned, some things that we've discovered as we've been going through this journey is a few different things here. One is that if you're going to run Helm charts or applications that have custom resource definitions or CRDs, it's going to be important to note that while Helm can install CRDs initially, there's currently an issue with how Helm deals with upgrades to Helm charts and changes the CRDs. It basically does not upgrade the CRDs after they're initially installed. And so you'll most likely want to handle your CRD installation out of band of your Helm chart. That way you'll be able to maintain the life cycle CRDs much easier and avoid all those problems. Yeah. And another big one is plan for your persistent storage early on. In my case, I have four Raspberry Pis that are just running with some big beefy like 128 gig SD cards. K3S has its own local provisioner that's built in so it can kind of like provision local, you know, disks. The problem with that is it's not distributed or highly available. So the pod actually gets locked to only run on that node because that's where the data is if you want to persist that data. So we recommend using something like Rook or Longhorn. The process to migrate after the fact is basically you have to spin up a, you know, a blank copy pod, attach the volume, do like a cube control, you know, copy to your local directory. It's a giant mess. So plan for your storage early on. Just check out Longhorn. It basically can take advantage of the rest of that SD card I mentioned and distribute it against X number of nodes replicated. And kind of to that note a little bit is you will most likely experience some sort of failure or setback, which is perfectly fine. It's your opportunity to learn, but it's good to have, I guess, a plan in place to anticipate that failure and have a good recovery idea. You may need to tear down your cluster and recreate it. And so keep that in mind as you go through this. So I had a power loss and my database got corrupted somehow. And I basically was like, Oh, I guess I'm spending my Saturday rebuilding my cluster from scratch. So it will happen. Even though ARM support is getting much better, there still are a number of workloads that don't have ARM support. And so if you're, if you're choosing to run a cluster that's mixed architecture, so for example, a mixture of Intel and ARM based hosts, you, one way to handle that, that mix is to taint your ARM nodes with some sort of label to say this, this can't schedule things and then add tolerations as needed for the workloads that you know can support mixed arch. That'll save you a lot of pain in the long run with things that normally would not run on ARM, but can only run on Intel. So in summation, go out there, grab some hardware. If you don't have any already, you know, install K3S on it, have fun controlling your light switches and tying things together. And really just don't be afraid to break things, right? Your home lab is your safe space to experiment and learn. And it's a lot of fun. It is a lot of fun. It's highly addictive. Cool. So with that, we have some time for questions. Outro


I know you said Monday you want to see Tanny Hill healthy, but at this point with what you've seen out of will, and especially after a road environment last night, are you ready to name him maybe your starter? No, I'm not ready to do that yet. I think we'll have a conversation with the depth chart over the weekend, and we'll have a depth chart or something close to it available. And when we talk to you on Tuesday to be able to go through the moving parts of not only Ryan's health, but whatever there are going on on the offensive line, which there is coming out of that game, which there would be in the defensive secondary. So there'll probably be some moving parts here over the weekend. When you make that decision, Mike, is it purely on who's assuming Ryan's health? Is it purely on who's playing better right now, or do you take into account things like Ryan's track record or Will's potential, things like that as well? Yeah, I think with any position, you look for who gives you the best opportunity to win and where you're at and what's best for the football team. So we'll have those conversations over the weekend. We'll see where Ryan's health is. We'll see where some different guys are as health. But we're always just trying to figure out what gives us the best chance to win what we can do to win a football game, especially one next week that's on the road. When you're looking at that equation, how much does future balance into it as well? Whereas obviously, Levis is a guy of the future. Tana Hill is the now. How do you balance that? I think as a coach, you're focused on the football team. And that's finding a way to win. Winning is critical. I think just the way that everybody feels, the injury isn't as bad. The bumps and bruises aren't as bad. Just from everybody's attitude, I think that you have to focus on today and what's best for us today. And then obviously, on the other hand, there is long-term implications for decisions that we make, whether that's looking at Kevin Byrd and moving him to Philly. So I think that there is a balance there. How well played last night? Again, when we lose, nobody did a good enough job. I think there were some good plays. I think that there were some decisions that we can't make and throwing the ball into cover down the sidelines isn't something that is going to be very advantageous offensively if you're trying to take care of the football. Have you had a chance to check on Traylin this morning? And how's he doing? He's communicated via text. I think he's on his way in. And again, from what it looked like, I would say that that was probably it's going to be as good of a prognosis as what it could have been, just looking at the visual of all that. And we understand what the risks are involved. And Traylin sold out to make a play. And unfortunately, didn't, but I'm hopeful. And we're all hopeful that we'll get him back as soon as possible. What was his injury? He's in concussion protocol. And then there was a brief loss of consciousness. That's why they reacted in the manner in which they did. It sounds like that everybody did exactly what they're supposed to do based on the protocol and making sure that Traylin's well-being was looked after as quickly and as correctly as possible. Mike, what's happening that the run defense has not been as effective the last month or so as it was earlier in the year? Well, there are moments if you look back in the month. And if you look back and say, not that the quarterback doesn't count as rushing yards, right? But Omar had a couple and Ritter had some. So I don't think it was awful. Last night was a different story. That was, those were some base runs. We got to do a better job on the edge. The ball got on the edge. Creased us inside on a couple of traps that we have to fit better to get off blocks. It's no real secret. If you're in split safety, you've got to make the ball go lateral. And you've got to trigger and tackle. If you're in post-safety, everybody's got a gap that they have to be responsible for. And then once the ball declares, being able to shed with good technique, have separation, not be on body, play with separation, they're going to hold. And the only way that you ever get a call is by having some separation and being able to shed at the point of attack and allow them to see that. So I'm not saying that they were holding us. Just fundamental run defense, that you set an edge. Everybody fits where they're supposed to fit. When the ball declares, you shed and you tackle. Is there a consistent missing element, like in the last four games in particular, you guys are giving up big numbers? Is there one consistent thing in those four that you could point to that's not working or missing? Well, no, they got the edge twice, right? There were two big ones on the edge. They had two, 15 and a 14, that hit up the middle. So sometimes what happens is it's like, OK, I've got to try to make a play. And I peek inside, or I get a little too tight, or I get knocked out of my gap, and then I got to show back up instead of playing the block. Sometimes we look for the football as opposed to just playing the block and knowing exactly where the ball's going based on what they're blocking and how they're blocking you. So a lot of it is fundamental. And you just have to be committed to doing it. Got a block show, you got to lock out, limit the space, right? Got flashes, got pulls, you got to fit the run, you got to go spill, you got to hold up on a double team. That's what happens. And then all those things, before we start yelling each other, go ahead, Joe. I was just saying, so more freelancing than they're doing. Well, I don't want to say like freelancing. It's just you can't really, I mean, I could go through one by one every double digit run. And so whether that's a freelance, somebody being in the wrong spot, somebody getting just blocked, right? They block you. Somebody getting knocked over on a double team, us not fitting a gap scheme. Somebody needing to spill, not getting it spilled. Whether it's a Tosh crack, and somebody's got to get up and in, and somebody's got to overlap or mistackle, there's a lot of those just things that come up. So I just wouldn't say that it's one particular thing based on the multitude of answers that I try to give you, because those are all things that have happened. In terms of the past run, you've said several times during this drought that guys just need to win, haven't been winning. Jeff, we conveyed that answer to Jeff last night and a couple of times through this. He doesn't seem accepting of that idea. Is it hard for a guy like that to accept a verdict like that from his coach? Well, I don't know. I just know that they can only. I'm sorry? Is there a matter of denial from him that that's true? I'm not going to speak for Jeff, but I will speak in pass rush. They've got five offensive linemen. There's four defensive linemen. I can double team one guy. We have to do a better job winning one-on-one. We have to do a better job of scheming. And when we scheme, we need to execute. When we work together with someone, we need to work and communicate what the game is, all these things that we've done and have done this year, have done in the past. But it comes down to one-on-one, whether it's in coverage, whether it's in route, whether it's us blocking and them rushing or us rushing and them blocking. If somebody gets the back, you've got to win. If you're on the tight end, you've got to win. These things have gone on well before this year in pro football. Simas had mentioned also that Kenny Pickett, which we saw, he was getting rid of the ball quickly. And that factor, for your perspective, was that? I didn't track the, you know, I didn't track the, I mean, they hit a couple of plays down the field. But I didn't track how long it came out.  I mean, again, that, right? So the run release that they have a run called and he bubbles it out there. But the third down is where you're going to be able to, you have to be able to create some impact, right? You have to be able to coordinate the rush and the coverage. And so to Jeff's point, you know, if they throw a bubble, like nobody's going to affect, you know, the quarterback necessarily on a bubble pass outside. How did Raiden's do, and also the brief look you got at Jalen Duncan? I thought Dylan battled, Dylan battled. It's good to see him be able to be ready to go and take advantage of his opportunity and compete, you know, and we'll keep working with Jalen and make sure that he's, you know, doing everything he can.  Mike, do you feel like this defensive coaching staff has the ability, like has the resources, the players, to be able to turn the defense around? Do you think we have the resources, the players?  And again, they were able to impact the game up front against Atlanta.  How much do you scheme and how much do you want to, you know, get good at some stuff so that, you know, you're able to adjust to multiple things that teams are doing each and every week, right?  So I think it's a fine line between looking at who you have and trying to get really good at something and knowing where your weaknesses are. And then there's also a good balance that, you know, let's try to find some ways to scheme some things and to get a guy on a back on third down, and then they have to win.  It's not the first time you've mentioned that this year. I take it that's been a point of emphasis for you guys. So why do those things keep recurring if they've been probably a point of emphasis for you guys in game planning? That's not a point of emphasis in game planning. It's how you stop to run in a national football league. So how often can you make that the message without the message seemingly translating into? Well, it's not every single run, right? It's just the ones that cost you.  Looking at last night down the sidelines, you know? We might have got too tight on the tackle. Warren bounced it out. Terrell was going to fit inside and then the ball bounced and they bumped into each other.  So that's what happens. And then there's other runs where it's minus two or no gain, no gain.  But it's good, you know what I mean? Again, it's the X plays that we talked about, miss tackle, miss fit, all those reasons. And so we've got to be better. I understand that you've got defensive issues that you're talking about still only gave up 20. I'm sorry. That's OK. Go ahead. We've got to score more points. I'm confounded by the settling for field goals and the unwillingness to push to get touchdowns. And why do you not talk more about the offenses inefficiency to get touchdowns and focus so much on the defense when they're only giving up 20? Because I know what it's supposed to look like in all three phases. And again, in that particular situation, I felt like we all felt like made a bad decision to go to hop on first down, Miss Tajé on second down. And instead of making what would have been a costly mistake, I felt like taking the lead on the road and ensuring that to happen on third and 10 was the right decision. And so that, again, you can say, settling for not scoring touchdowns and just trying to weigh the best way to try to win a football game, the best way that I felt like at that time, based on the circumstances, based on how the game was going, there was other times we get the ball in the nine yard and we gained five yards on first down. Probably if Derek Stiff arms the guy, we probably score. We gained two yards on second down and ultimately scored on third down. But there were three plays of at least what you would call efficiency. And again, they weren't at the end of the half. So now you're sitting there in the mid red or high red with third and 10. And I just felt like that was what was best for us at that time. So it seems like it was more on him as a decent throw. And you say, well, we can't try that again because our rookie running back got tied up. No, I don't think that we need to throw a better ball at that point. Just I think whether it's Tajé, whether it's Will, when you lose everything that we do, we need to evaluate and understand why at that particular time. I'm just telling you that I felt like that was what was best for the football team and not putting them in a third down, pass, rush mode, and third and 10 and forcing a ball in there, making sure that we were smart with the ball. I loved it for you guys to look. It was a pretty favorable look. The five-man box should have gained much more than one yard. There was five guys in there. We should block them and try to gain more yards than the one. It was a pretty favorable look to run even on third and 10. Just one more, I mean. The idea that the two previous balls dictate that you don't give them a third chance to throw the ball. Are there other examples in a game where you say, oh, these two plays eliminate the possibility of a third play? No, I just think that in that situation, you want to make sure, again, we don't have a whole lot of time to talk through things and say, hey, are you OK?  And just the way that that particular thing played out, that instance, that's what I decided to do. I just think we need to find a way to complete that pass to open guys. And Will knows that. And any quarterback would know that, whether Tajah got turned around or anything else. The execution has to be better in all three phases. It does. How much of that situation is a rookie quarterback in there that doesn't have a lot of experience versus maybe a veteran who, like, wants to play? I don't know. I can't tell you, because there was only one quarterback in there. He's making his sixth quarter of professional football. We were going to take the lead and go to halftime and get the ball. And I'm sure would like to have not gone three and out after we took it at halftime. But that was the decision that I made. And you said that run should have gotten what? I'm saying when you run the football against five guys in a box, you should probably gain more than one yard. Like, that was the fact. 19, we only needed nine more with a timeout. But we'll see. Would you have thrown it if you got nine more? We didn't. We're just hypothetical. Last week you said we were asked about Tannehill being healthy, being the starter. You said you would imagine that be the case. This week you're saying, like, you're going to win. I'm going to tell you everything that I can tell you on Tuesday as it relates to the depth chart. At quarterback, at tackle, at cornerback, I'll tell you everything that I can possibly tell you based on Ryan's health, based on the health of everybody else. I'm not willing to discuss hypotheticals when everybody gets back and who is available and who's not available. I'll update you. At quarterback, are you saying that it's now? I just told you what I was saying. I said that when Ryan is healthy, I will have a decision for you. Do you think that Will has been so aggressive about those downfield throws? Or do you feel like at times he needs to maybe rein it in at all? No, we love him when we complete him, right?  And again, if it's a favorable look, take a shot. And because in that case, it was trailing and we liked the play. Just like Pittsburgh liked the shot on third and sixth to Deontay Johnson. Can you give us a sample of what Ryan did? But not making bad decisions into some poor coverage looks. Did you think that Levis's throw on the ball that spears fell down is why spears fell down? Because you talked about needing to execute that play, but I don't understand how you're gonna execute the play when the receiver falls down. Just gotta hit it next time, man. Everybody's fault, it was, we didn't score. We didn't score a touchdown. We didn't complete the pass. So it was put it on the call, put it on me, put it on the quarterback, put it on the running back, put it on everybody. It was an incomplete pass. Had he made bad throws prior to you not letting him throw on the three downs on the second-class series? No, he was, everything was perfect. Everything was just spot-on, perfect, Paul. And I made a decision, you guys disagree with it. And that's the decision that I made that I felt like was best for our football team at the end of half and, you know? I'm not here in the second to last year. Did you tell Tim not to throw there, or is that Tim? No, we ran a reverse to trailing. Shoulda cracked the, shoulda blocked the linebacker, didn't, trailing made a great individual effort to gain as many yards as he did. So we were ahead of the chains. It was four down territory, tried to, again, felt like giving Taja an opportunity there on third down. And then, didn't hit the fourth down one. Give us a sense of how, if any, what you're working with, with your front five and the offensive line, may or may not impact how you guys approach. I think it's just, it's too soon right now. I mean, guys are still just getting MRIs. And, you know, give Daniel Brunski a lot of credit for competing and fighting through, you know, it's some sort of injury. Nick couldn't finish. Pretty much all of them went down for a snap or two. But we'll know more here after this weekend and how everybody's feeling. And again, where we feel like we could put guys that think Chris Hubbard has a chance to practice and work his way through a concussion protocol. Reaggarate the thumb or he just thought he could just go with it? Yeah, just probably both. Some of those depth chart moves. Is it all in general? Oh, I don't know if there are moves. I just said I'm gonna update you guys after this weekend. So, primarily and not necessarily... Well, we only have somebody, you know, I mean, again, if we feel like there's somebody that can help us, we'll try to get them in there, whether they're on a practice squad or, you know, we work them out or we bring them in there from somewhere else. I think that we've got to look at everybody. Mike, nine games left in the season. You know, out of the five losses, only one was a blowout. Where do you think that this team is at this point? Thanks for noticing, Trisha. I'm sorry? I said thanks for noticing. Well, we are halfway through. And I thought, again, when I told the team, contrary to popular belief, but at halftime I said we're back in a race. We're back in a race and let's finish this half. So we got some ground to make up, but you do it one game at a time, you do it one practice at a time. I'm confident that we'll do that and figure out a way to win on the road, which has avoided us up until this point for a number of reasons. And, you know, just have to be a little bit better in all phases, a little cleaner, stand more efficient, turn in the football over, getting some stops and, you know, being better and third down.  What makes you confident to do that when you've not consistently done it at full scene? Well, I've got belief in the players. I've got people, belief in the coaching staff to get guys prepared, you know. I don't think, you know, I don't think it's effort. I think with all the mistakes and everything else and then whatever else happens, you know, we just, we played just good enough to make it close. So we have to, you know, eliminate the few plays.  So games are close. We understand that. And I think the way that we play and our ability to compete make them that way. Thanks guys. Hope you.