with a bit of download on one of its co-founders. And today I would like to talk about how we can use hardware to increase the option of this type of knowledge like Ethereum. So first of all, I would like to give a glitzy to the overview of the condition of computation on hardware machines. And some day ago we had this big computer that takes our room like this one. And after we started to produce the technology, we managed to have small devices and start to appear in offices and in our homes. So we started using for automatic application, for developing maybe a game. And after that, we started to come to our clients and things, everything. We started using another kind of applications and the devices become even smaller. To finally achieve the configuration in which we are start producing the cloud. The thing is, the cloud is important advance. It takes a lot of benefits to us. Like for example, we can avoid this kind of accidents because right now we have all the data distributed around the world. All of us know all the benefits of the cloud. And for example, we can make easy escalate our application or make the application extremely portable. So now the computation happen into the cloud, not our device making possible to switch between device. But the truth about the cloud is that there is no cloud. There is no cloud on the computer. It can be even worse. There is no cloud. There's a computer problem, so big cooperation. And this is very important for people like us, developers. Since we are developing a decentralized technologies, if we use these technologies in a decentralized manner, we are using all the benefits that we are getting for getting back. So we lost privacy and we rely on three parties and this defeated the purpose of these technologies. So we should have to worry about that. So we believe that we need to increase the option of the hardware layer. We need to recover the control. Maybe not all the control, but at least one part of it and recover this freedom that we had when we have this computer at home. And the question about that is, is that possible? And we believe that it's possible. We know people are buying devices. They are putting this kind of hardware in the speaker at home. And our, for example, top box or other kind of devices so that people are willing to put in hardware at home. So we can see, for example, five million of smart devices in the speaker in the United States. So imagine that we have the same number of zero nodes to have the patience and the ratio, right? But here the question is this smartphone, sorry, these voice assistants are starting to grow a lot, but the people know that these devices are not private. They use your data. They know all about you, at least you have sex. And the people know this information. They are aware of this, but they still buy these surveillance devices and they are putting it at home. The question is why? The answer is convenience. This is the one. They are willing to lose privacy if you give somebody. If they don't want to be worried about spending time completing things. They only want convenience. So let's take a look if you know this convenience. So if we take a look about the numbers, how many times takes to synchronize a node right now? This is more or less the number that we are moving right now by the takes then both hours and get 18 hours. Even the missing work of the feeder on the third condition is making possible in the last version to synchronize the nodes in the half of time. Maybe this is not convenient. This is not convenient. It's just one thing, just one time, but it's not convenient. We can't deal with that, but we should improve this. Now let's take a look to the hard drives. The first thing that we need to realize is that we need an SSD. The last version of get, allow you to split the chain between an SSD and a hard drive, but even it's more convenient because you can have a hardware with less requirement. That means that it's harder to start. So at the end, you lose part of the convenience. And if we take a look to the numbers, we can see that right now, who knows if there is around 200 gigabytes on both clients, more or less, and the growing is around seven or eight gigabytes per month. The question here is in June 20th, the size of the chain is gonna be around 270 gigabytes. And that is an important thing because we are going to a new tier of hard drives. I think if here is, right now, we can put a 3-4 node in less than 250 gigabytes but in January and July, June, next year, it's gonna be, that's gonna be, it's gonna be impossible. So if we take a look to the numbers, if we check how much it's gonna cost you to maintain a chain full node in June next year, these are the numbers. I read an article about how to run a full node in our free buy, it's possible that it's possible. So that means that in June, you are going to pay around 160 dollars for a full node in June right at home. It's not too much, but if you check what happened, if you are willing to do that in a BTS, that means that you are going to pay $660 for maintenance if you want. So the conclusion of all this number is that, no, running a node is not for me. I don't want to make a trade-off of the theorem, it's just put the number to a table to find a solution to this equation. I mean, if you have the worry about the privacy, you may have enough motivation to run a theorem node at home, or if you are philosophically aligned with the purpose, but a lot of people are not willing to do that because running a theorem node costs money and takes time. So we need to find a solution to this problem. And one of the problems that this equation is having is that right now, we are losing around 10 or 9% of the numbers of nodes every month. And we believe that this even was when this Ethereum growing happens because according to several scrapers, there are around 65% of the nodes are running BTS, so since it's more expensive than running at home, we expect that the number of nodes are going to increase. So how do we let people to run their own hardware and increase the number of nodes? We think that there is three takeaways. The first one is convenience. We need to improve the convenience, that is ours. We know that people want easy solutions and is the way to achieve the mass adoption of these kind of technologies. So the situation right now is people that know just Ethereum and nodes in general, they have quite good instruction, but you need to be a devos to understand it.  That is, it takes a lot of your time and you need, you want to spend your time on other things. And the other thing that is happening right now is a lot of projects are trying to put their projects in a Raspberry Pi. That's very cool. It's awesome because you are trying to lower the speed, but the thing that is happening right now is you find a cool project, you put into your Raspberry Pi, and after a while you find another cool project and you remove the previous one. So at the end, after a week, maybe you switch three times of projects. And this is like a proof of takes. I mean, you try a project and move to another one. You are not making the network more resilient.  And we cannot expect people by several Raspberry Pi at home putting a lack of Raspberry Pi because this is for big people only. And this does not help, this is not convenient at all. The next one is privacy. Well, we saw that privacy is not one of the most important things for the people. They are willing to do that. But they know that this can be important. The people are starting to realize that privacy is something that we should care. And if you offer a solution that take care of your privacy, it's gonna be more convenient that another one is not. So we should rule in privacy solution by default because people understand that the privacy is over. And finally, the key point is this innovation. It's the last piece. If you have a not very convenient solution and you have privacy, it's a little more convenient. But if you have the innovation, you can compensate this lack of convenience. So since we are creating tools that allow some transferring value, we can put the innovation model on top of this. So for example, this is a theory to promote some app on the innovation model. And if you take a look, if we have one million each one taken, that means that we need to have around 30,000 nodes running. Right now we are around 6,000. So we need to put a lot of innovation to have this number happen. That is why you can see that number that's the rate for buyers around 80%. But when more people come to the solution, the innovation goes lower. So the thing that can happen is that at some point it's not convenient or it's not enough convenient to run a proof of stake app. Or maybe yes, but why not you put all the innovation model on top? If you added the innovation model of proof of stake to the innovation model like storage, that you can get some reward for sharing your hard drives and your bad bandwidth, you can make more convenient. At the end, we can create a kind of stack of innovation in the same place. So we can add even 0.1, the innovation model on top of it. Or why not, as I said, for example, another innovation model that helps you to create a place of communication. At the end we are building kind of worldwide computer and using these technologies to create a kind of peer-to-peer economy is gonna help us to be able to put these devices, these technologies, in the house of people. So mainly the idea is if we make easy for everyone kind of user to use these technologies, maybe even if they are not a legal place, they are going to put this hardware at home, maintain the network, help us to create together this new system. So the conclusion is we need to put these three pieces together. We need to make convenience, take care of privacy and have an innovation model and put all in the same place. So we can translate this in one sentence. We need privacy and money boxes that are useful and convenient for the user. And if we put all together, we make a really convenient solution and it's a way to achieve, maybe not the most important, but at least that people start to use it and start to understand these technologies and help to make more of those. So that is why in Denmark we started around one year ago or so to provide these kind of solutions. We added it to the model, we make easy to install it, but we add more things. We start to put the knowledge like SDX into the network to be able to be used for the projects. So at the end is we are creating a platform which projects can use and can start to distribute its content and help others to build over for the ecosystem. So for example, we can start to add identically or even use products like Datafond that help you to obtain data selling. Or we can start to put other new technologies that for example, you can add domains and at the end put all the pieces together to build a bigger ecosystem. If you want to know more about us, you can do our community. We created this great and open-source project. We have the fundraising for the Ethereum Foundation and around the Ethereum Foundation. At the end we believe this project is something for the community. Since we think that we can start other ways to create a bigger ecosystem. So thank you. This on the storage side, am I correct in sort of believing that blockchain is a linear growth model or do you expect it to be exponential in the storage needs? Well, there is some, if we... And I should just say the reason I'm at this is because, and feel free to repeat the question if you want to. So the reason is that, you know, disk space and disk cost is expected to have exponential properties. So where, you know, what would the curves look like over the six years and where will you project moving the next two to three? Yeah, well, the thing about the hard drive specification, I think there are some projects, some slides that are working on that increase the problem of the chain, for example, TurboGate that is working on a drive node. They are going to buy this in the next week's own kind of new growing model. So I think that the, I mean, when it's going to come out on another solution, they are going to speed the chain. So the problem is going to be not exponential, it's going to be constant because you are only to store some parts of the network. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but I mean, just using the way you did it was you were talking about the growth of the node and even like the Lexi as well. Like I thought the growth of the Ethereum storage, not what's active but what's been historically done is linear. Yeah, yeah. So that thought process whenever I talk to the Lexi is always like, both this space is improving exponentially with respect to cost. So that aspect is not the critical one. Like this will continue to be larger than we need to be just for that, you know, the fact of storage is the active data set that a Lexi is working on because you have to be able to do as storage and as close to it. Yeah, I think it's, I mean, this is a short, short term expectation. I mean, for the future, I cannot guess what is going to happen. It's going to be hard. This is, I mean, it's just six months. In six months, we are quite sure that this is the expectation of the third client. For the future, I mean, the thing is, we can think about the price of the hardware is going to decrease with the real. So at the end of this, we can guess that we, yeah, my thing is that it's not going to be a big deal in the future, but it's growing, it's growing. Yeah, and just to confirm, the only incentive in the monetary side of the money boxes is the mining reward if you have another one there, sort of. Well, the incentive, running the money box, it was just based on the mining rewards. Yeah, well, there is, I mean, they need to put several roof and stake projects or, at the end, it's... Oh, yeah, roof and stake mining. Yeah, it's a block of work. Yeah, it's, yeah, it's going to combine all the projects. I mean, for example, a file coin is a project that you're... So, that is to go all together. So, do you feel, I mean, what do you think is like the capex, off-ex and the expected return on any of these types of platforms? Yeah, that is dependent on the project. I mean, we are bringing the platform to allow that project to be able to be established. So, but the incentive-division model depends on the project. At the end, they need to research about what is the current amount of the reward and what are the expectations. We are only preparing a platform in which they can be installed, but we cannot... We are not putting any kind of limitation or any kind of, yeah, limitation to them. So, they need to be... Thank you. Big round of applause for tomorrow.


Meanwhile, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Taddujin Abbas, says Nigeria and South Korea will strengthen economic and parliamentary ties to achieve the fourth industrial revolution in technology, development and knowledge transfer. Abbas said this during a Kotsy visit to his office in Abuja by a special envoy from the Korean parliament. Bilateral relations between Nigeria and South Korea date back to 1980. The visit by the Korean parliament serves to strengthen economic and parliamentary ties. Nigeria has abundant energy sources and Nigeria is the most powerful economic power in the African continent. So Nigeria has resources and Korea has technology. So our economies are quite complementary to each other. And in particular, with the launch of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, we hope that free trade will be further improved. The main relationship between Nigeria and other countries is my pleasure to inform you that some few weeks ago, we have constituted another committee of Nigeria and South Korea pressure, which is going to be chaired by Arupul Deseji Nandi. He is the chairman of that particular group, and we hope that in due time, in due course, he will extend his sons' friendship to other countries in South Korea.


Sudan's movement for freedom and change and the Transitional Military Council recently reached an agreement on Sudan's transition. But that deal has yet to be implemented. This is the latest. I'm Susan Stagat. What's holding up the implementation of the peace deal? The political declaration that was signed recently is really only the first step. What's needed now is a constitutional declaration that will talk about who has which powers and how our decisions made. Secondly, the parties have to agree and negotiate on who gets which seats. This is complicated between them and even more complicated within the forces for freedom and change and the military council. And through all of this, the parties have to take big ideas, big principles and big commitments and turn them into action and an agenda that can be achieved. What risks and opportunities are there from the extended transitional period? Eh, I wouldn't really call it that. The parties wanted six months and five years respectively, so three years isn't all that long, particularly in such a complex transition process. The three years does give the greatest chance for credible elections. That means the guys who currently hold guns and money won't necessarily hold office at the end of the transitional period. But the risk is that the international community gets distracted by the next crisis. International partners are needed throughout this peace process to ensure that the parties meet and fulfill their commitments. The protesters continue to demand accountability for the June 3rd violence. How does the agreement address transitional justice? That's a great question and a difficult question. Most immediately, the agreement establishes a national independent investigation for the June 3rd events. But more broadly, the agreement recognizes that the Sudanese people need to find a way to move forward together and deal with their past. This means that Sudanese need to feel that the state and security agencies will protect, not threaten them. This includes broad goals like reforming the judiciary, establishing a new constitution, national reconciliation and healing. These are the right goals, but they're incredibly difficult, even under the best of circumstances.


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This is just a little bit there. There you go It's a little more street Check it man, check it man. It's your boy e ceo man. I'm here with the lovely amazing official miss jamaica. What's going on?   Lord easy is in the building. What's good? What's good? Man? Thank you for coming back on the show man So I was a pleasure brother man Man that boy is in college. Oh, yeah, he up there doing his thing too, man. Man. Shout out man ziggie made it man Hey, man. Thank you for checking on me ziggie You told me when you get back is up He's trying to come up real man. So man, I'm so I'm you know, they're well alone. We got this thing rolling He here you got a family. Oh, yeah. Yeah, man. Oh love So what's you got an empty nestle yet because you still have a young one still you got the boy at the house And any more coming along yet? No, I'm not you need a girl. You two boys. No girls Hey, uh You never know what guy I got playing with. Yeah, that's real. That's right now I'm straight man say man. We've been man. We've been rolling man.  No, no, no. I'm talking about during this season. I'm just talking about what just happened. We just lost strap Yeah, a strap strap manager LD Man, that was real cool. I can say I'm I'm ld. Introduction to Dallas. Yeah, you introduced me to it That's why I brought up strap because I wouldn't have never met them if it wasn't been from you introducing me to ld Yeah, yeah for sure. Uh, ld. She used to be Assisting me with yellow. You know, I'm saying yeah, she came to Dallas and love Dallas man Yeah, I'm saying came across her artists and stuff like that man. So man You know, ld was real cool with me. Man. Man, ld cool. Yeah. Yeah, I like a lot crazy too, man ld had came to Dallas and the flight got delayed for some really and uh This was like two weeks before he passed man. Probably a week and a half really and uh Yeah, I think he had like a solo pep rally or something like that So she needed me to go through and you know handle everything for him. So I went through that for him Because you know ld. She always knows the border system. We look after each other. You know, I'm saying so I went there and took care of the man. So I really got a chance to rap with him real tough And we was talking about you know saying things you need to do for the business and stuff You know saying because he was right on the right on the edge of blowing, you know, I'm saying I think I was about to hook up hook him up with uh, you know pep rally for sock Yeah, we was trying to go over that day, but they had the cowboys that day So, uh, they rescheduled for the 30th and I called ld and it was like september 30th And she was like, yeah, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we can lock that in And then like probably a couple days later, man Yeah, well, I know so, you know, wherever you and you heard about it I was in la Yeah, I was in la and You know, ld I called ld and check on her. She was at the hospital and stuff when it happened here He wasn't pronounced dead yet. So Me and you probably called about the same time. Yeah, I don't even know how I found out Because she could hardly talk when we called her. Yeah, she was she was yeah, you know, she she ld got this Motherly type that's right with her artists because uh, you know, she didn't I don't think she spoke on it But that's like her second artist this year that pair. Really?  I didn't know that Yeah, he from savannah. Yeah, yeah, correct. That's right And uh, yeah and then for this to happen to her too for you strap, man It's just it was a d must love ld man. We love you ld for show for show, man You know, uh, man, I'm having his family in here and just talking to them man. Uh, we got a heck of a Uh, a text back from family members telling us how much they appreciated and just the godly part You know, we talk god here. So because we know already without him It ain't you know, you know life ain't even nothing anyway So don't doubt man. We just be trying to figure out ways to To to inject something in them youngsters man while we hear why we got this platform and to be You know older you supposed to be able to put something on somebody here, man The way they can to have something they can think about I talked on that That's why that's what my daddy used to say put some fat on your head. Yeah, I talked to him a few months About a couple of months before it passed because I just was checking on him Like I just checked on the godly and I just called like I called just hey, man You're good. You know, I want to be that one man It was it was 10 lepers and the one look back when you read in the book of Think it's Luke one look back the other team now and kept going, you know I mean when god had blessed them and I want I always think about that I want to be the one to look back, you know and say hey, man Thank you. You know what I'm saying because you can do stuff for so many people and nobody Never even they act like you owe that to them or something like that But I always hold myself accountable be the one to call back and say, hey, thank you You didn't have to come by here or you didn't have to do that. That's what I strive for. You know what I'm saying Yeah, and shout out to that boy, uh What's in there? Hey, oh no, uh super tight over there. Oh, oh bobo. Oh bobo nigga. Oh, yeah, nigga You know that nigga name Oh bobo man, shout out to bobo man. Oh good nigga. I You've been over there. How'd you like it? I mean, it got a nice setup, man. I know They had some preparation time did they think they did man. I love it. I just love to see the city man I love that table. I love that table. I love that. It's black. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's his own lady Jazz and black around the thing. So yeah, you like the table. I love their table. You know, to that Texas You better make this one over something. This is a this is what we got No, man, I love it.  I'm like, nigga, don't cut it. Yeah It's always a way around. That's right, man. I'll get you through the door go through the window, baby Yeah, that's it, man. So what's been going on? I see yellow, man. It's nigga. I love that pmc song, man That song was dope, man. I seen him and bun. How was it even how was it preparation on that?  Yeah, or just me making reference for this brother. You know what I'm saying? So appreciate bun for that And shout out to estg too, man. Yeah, I'm blessed it. So Pretty good, man. Uh preparation for it was easy, man.   Come on, man I like a badass yellow boy too that I like both those songs that I argue about It's been some conversation on here about that album with niggas where I'm checking certain niggas about the music You know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Y'all are still doing what y'all do, man. And you don't do that, man You know until my uh No, it's been a couple of trials and tribulations, but you know, real niggas prepare. Yeah It's press of it. Oh, you know, I want to interview when is this next song coming out Uh, we I think they did the whole project, didn't Y'all drop a drop Boy project just came out a couple months ago couple months ago. That's She right though, she right. Yeah, so we looking at the you know, fourth quarter or first quarter to drop the album Probably for the holidays would have been dope Oh Oh, he's that order for the first two years. Hey, he did a Christmas jingle and he ain't did that yet No, I ain't even did that. That'll be hard to be under switching. It will be, you know I know Gucci always do it, right? Yeah, because the thing is that like you should know the sound So people like me who love christmas I'm always looking for christmas music to play so especially black christmas music. You don't have the same songs every year We got the mariah Carey same Silent night from the temptation. You know what I'm saying? We got the boys boys, man. Let it snow You know what I'm saying that run dmc. Yeah. Yeah, so yellow need to come come on with it I'm gonna tell him you said that mr. Mike. Oh, yeah, he gonna hear it because I keep asking for this interview I'm gonna keep on.   I'm gonna tell you, you know Hey But I understand though because we still growing and when we get to a level I guess to where he want to come through he can come through You know what I'm saying that he's gonna come when he comes. Yeah Oh, we'll come to him. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, because I got a lot of respect for his brand and I always have I always from the day I can go back and get footage You I can go back all the way to the first before I even met you where I was You know So I always I always just I just got a lot of a lot of respect for the the whole the whole movement You know what I'm saying the culture is so important And the people that built this culture up and built the music up in these cities and kept it going Man, they need to be commended for that and I just know that so I built this platform on that precept You know, I'm saying show man. You're always standing up for it. Yeah.  I mean, thank you You always that you brother. So you can't you can't get out of it. You know So how many artists you have now? I know you have yellow. You have gunnam easy Bodega bodega. Who else was it bodega? I got producers too. Yeah, you got producers too.  Yeah, I'm gonna speak too much on it because it's still in fruition But man DJ he's always been like even when he came on here was talking about he mainly was talking about business and things overseas and The way how his brain works is not like nobody else. I've ever really just spoken to actually I special man. That's one of my favorite Favorite interviews that I DJ ice man real talk like I loved his I love the like I'm gonna start back reposting Very educational because it varied he helped he helped people to understand the way he explained Boy nice is what he do man.  Yeah, it dope as hell man. So when with you having so many different um artists whenever you are um Promoting them. Do you ever just like okay you? You do first quarter you do second quarter. How do you manage all of them or do they all come out whenever they want to come out? Well, you know, I'm saying it just depends like like you just said a while ago You got to push it out when you push it out. You got to be more consistent with it now A day you can drop a mix tape two months ago and now that the next week they want you to drop something else So Shit whenever they feel like they ready to drop that's when we're gonna push it and playing the quarterly So you have time to to help each of them if all them want to come out the same time How do you manage your time to be able to give them all evening on the same day? Right, but we we're gonna you know I'm saying we're gonna we're gonna make them spread it out like that But okay, but as far as like just dropping right after like he might have dropped two weeks ago He's gonna drop this you know saying and you know, it's different and then I managed I managed uh Artists to have their own situations going. Yeah, that's you try to help It's not like it's all under the same umbrella. Okay. Well, when you look at uh, Dona Mises this last project How did you feel about it? Uh when he came out with it? Were you happy with what what you what you heard? That's it in two weeks in two weeks. Yeah, man And it's and it's a well received by the city.  Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna be the The setup the alley-oop for the slam dunk. Yeah, yeah, so it's a it's a build-up type situation It just came home. We've been home five months man. My boy.  Yeah dope. Don't do Yeah, just talking to I used to know I've been knowing gonna be this since he was like 12 Really? It's my his partner. He's I'm not saying a partner. His daddy, uh Squeak make man. It's his dad and that's my partner. That's what I meant to say Okay In my rapping days, we was on each other's album and shit like that And I used to have yelling them in the studio with me and he had me And they were around the same age when we get high and pass out in the studio standing all night That's when even the niggas get up there and do what they do.  It's kind of crazy that it wasn't playing like that for me to be You know managing artists that I've been having relationships with before music. Yeah, but I think I think a lot of time God be having his hand in it, bro. Yeah, man Uh, he he was kind of a hothead at first before he went in man.    You know what I'm saying But you know sometimes, you know, the system ain't all the way right to where it rehabilitates everybody But at the same time it gives me time to sit down and think yeah, what about pmb rock man when you heard about that You know, I go to that Roscoe me and my wife went there for the same one. Yeah, exact one. We go to all of She ain't go down there with no Big ol No, no, she's leading No, but at the same time remember the last time we went in there the waitress was like Man, you gotta we didn't have on like but she was like just any jewelry. Don't wear no jewelry because they'll be robbing people She told us she said somebody ran in there. Yeah, and be robbing people inside there Yeah, that's not the first time that has happened. Yeah one time. Uh, I think it was before we got yellow sign We was uh At the one that I think it's one on pico. Mm-hmm. Yeah Uh, that's when we were sitting there and I think that's like kryptonite Territory and we met slam 400 there.  I need to get up out of here man. You know, right?   You know what? I mean to spend money into the city But what they come into is to the hood and them folks ain't benefiting from the folks that's coming in Being tourist, you know, I'm saying and then you know, it's a known fact that california gun laws are Different to where you can't go with your straps. So most of time when these rappers come up there They're not they're not protected. That's true.   And so with that vulnerability it can cause somebody to You know what I mean can cause somebody to get themselves in the situation But how did you feel like like did you feel like okay?  Yeah, you know, like It's not checking in it's tapping in it's my thing. Yeah, I'm saying we go tap in with a lot of people Just like it's not even just la it's anywhere we go.   I need my weed. I need more. That's right I'm like when folks when they come to Dallas, they tap in with us. That's right. That's right, bro I'm hurt man.  That's what we do when we go out there But being the one who deal with artists all the time when you go to those places Do you be like, okay? Y'all need to leave your jewelry at the hotel. Don't be taking it with you Do y'all be doing that already to be like, well, it's mine. I don't really care It just depends on how that artist want to move that day. Sometimes they got it. Sometimes they don't You know what I'm saying? But if they do got it, we moving right Yeah, I mean, I Like, you know, just advice to other artists coming up there if they ever get in the position to where They were they were they want to be in their music industry everything going for them and everything Make sure the people around you's moving right too because you know a lot of time that those people get The main artist fucked up Cutting on locations and that was about to ask you about that. Everybody know where you're at man post the location once you leave Don't do it when you're done. It's just not it's not being scared. That's smart. Yeah Think about that. You know what I'm saying? Why would you want to bring home your way? And if unnecessary home? Yeah, we know we always move with precision. Oh, yeah, we know already what we up against You know, it's just it's just it's coming since but sometimes sense ain't that come No, but it's not even that too because then if you such a popular person or everybody know who you are You can't hide You in a certain area somebody see they come it's easy as making a phone call I see he over here this that whatever so it's not always social media. Sometimes it's just being recognized Yeah, but like if it's places like that, you know, we got so much technology around here It's uber eats. Yeah, it's it's door dash You don't gotta go to the hood spots to get that food just get it coming to you You know I'm saying it's just ways around it or you can have a Assistant or a personal assistant to go out and get it for you. You know what I'm saying? That's not as recognizable Isn't that something similar that happened to a sauce walker where they try to jack him for his jewelry too? From what from what I heard they they he was yeah, he was going through a through a thing Um, but then that was a whole crazy situation But that's like I said and it all happens in tribe factors, man It don't seem like it slows down. It's a it's around here too. It's happening everywhere It's just we just talked about strap man these this is life like God is You you hear only you know life is but a vapor to be honest with you and people you know We act like we got forever But you got to be strong and strict on the fact of you're not promised tomorrow And anything can happen at any time So I always look at life like that That's why I talk to my kids like I do when I leave the house or when they leave the house in the morning They go on to school. They driving out. I'm always Putting something on them that hey man life, you know, y'all need did you pray? You know, I'm saying I asked him that this morning Y'all want to pray for you leave to go to school.  You know what I'm saying?    I know what my bank account says Exactly Reflecting no, that's me. I don't you know, you know what it is You know, sometimes I feel like wearing it sometimes I don't And it's funny because it's funny you say that because it's so true Like you can't worry about what people think about you But some people do worry about that stuff though images everything especially to some rappers Yeah, isn't that sure? No, the image is a major part of it. Don't get me wrong But you know what I'm saying?  This is the only genre that They're getting killed in you know what I'm saying But why is that so because of the crap that they say? I think I think they're guys want to do it. You know what I'm saying the the rappers that That are like, you know, no, of course the the the music that you put out Bring is that attention if you're not rapping about that then they ain't gonna try to see about it That's what Dereau said. You remember he said that he was like he didn't want to rap about Stuff that would bring the wrong energy back to him I thought that was dope when he said that to me He said he want to rap about stuff that's gonna bring the right The fact of the matter is is a lot of time, you know, rap is a form of art, you know what I'm saying?  So, you know That that's where it comes in it, you know what I'm saying?  You know people don't want to see but if the is it's check and see if it's really real or either Get a name off the dude.  You know what I'm saying?  I want to know what stuff do you rap about because I heard you have some hidden gems He won't let out. You won't let out of nobody knows about it. I want to know what stuff do you rap about Well, I rap about, you know, I was more of a I can't say conscious But I rapped about what was going on around me too, but in my own life, you know what I'm saying?  You know what I'm saying? That's any man. You know what I'm saying?  You know what I'm saying? I'm talking about, you know, uh, world events.   You know what I'm saying?  It was just whatever was It was just whatever was on my mind when I'm when I'm painting that canvas One more thing.  I want to hear a little bit I want to hear a little bit since you won't bring me any of that.  I said, what you trying to do? What he's like nigga trying to get you to put You know, that's my guy man. I focus fat pimp man We mean and one thing about Dallas bro, you know saying it's it's a lot It's a lot of people that've been around.  You was a part of the early on His early on career too. Just yo yo you was in the game when he came in the game, right? You was you was basically rapping and going hard for what you know, it was that would be photo managing thing Yeah, yeah managing came later. Yeah, that's how I got my foot my foot in the game Wrapping first. That's how I met yellow. You know what I'm saying.    We laugh. We had a good time. You introduced me to this dude. He had all of that Me and I called him too. You know, I called him back, right?   What you doing with your music? And she jumped down behind me with that bag. That's it.  They never gonna get on the camera They're not gonna do nothing. They just know that they Like the camera like No, I just I just know that this is needed for our people It's important, you know what I mean? And I know that I mean I can't talk to talk and not try to build this thing up to where our people can be seen in the right light That's why I do this. You know what I'm saying? So every time somebody's sitting in that seat I'm trying to figure out a way to to get them seen in the right light So just so people don't look at because people have hidden personas about how they feel about this or that But this is something about when you sit down and we talk about it people Oh, here real friend this man got two kids. This man got this, you know, they start and it helps people It's some guys that want to be managers, bro And you one of them guys that can tell them about how to do that, you know what I'm saying?  Like your interviews don't come in here. It's right. Right. It's that it's just the way you bring it to me You know what I mean? So and I like I think that's dope. That's why I continue to do these Like I shoot I hit shunt cotton up right before we started and just you know, uh, man, you good I always do stuff like that man, you know what I'm saying because Somebody got to have some sanity. I'm an older cat So I'm trying to figure out ways to try to bridge gaps and try to figure out a way to when I leave this This situation I should be at the top by the end of like like way up there, right? Yeah, yeah, like I just be trying to do the right thing and that's not just here either. That's in Atlanta That's where everywhere I go La everyone every nigga notice being comfortable in as we chopped it up about different things like everybody know He trying to figure out ways to you know bridge to do stuff for our coach and keep our people to where they understand They got a place where they can talk to real bro for real and I and I appreciate you for stopping what you're doing See, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna come through man.  I appreciate you, you know what I'm saying Like I said just and then I know that like I told LD like god for these people in your life So you could help them and I know that you help them. I've been around you I know what you how you feel about things. I see how you move. I see what you're doing You know what I'm saying? Yeah, and you got the level here. So that's why that's why we end up right here So, thank you, bro But do you got any young other young kid out there that might be trying to get in the hip hop that that that you uh been kind of Kind of tell us on a couple of them, but I ain't like nobody in yet. Okay The ones I got on my plate right now, man. I'm trying to kind of poke them first. Yeah for sure. Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, so, you know, I don't like the bottle more than I can chew Yeah, because you can only handle a certain amount. How what's your maximum? I ain't figured that out. But if a young kid come this 13 14 and he's seen low He's seen low Dizzy like that kid the bios that always come talk to me been talking to me as he was this big, right? Now he's 14 15 and I'm on his head every time we talk, but at the end of the day He know what I'm talking about. He when I used to get off work. He come to my company truck You want to play basketball? It's about what by what seven or eight seven They do that every time I go to Every time I go to how the hills of my pops crib, man Every time I pull up This is little dude. They ride his bike down there and y'all would ask me about my car or whatever And I'm like, yeah, man, you know what I'm saying? The next thing he done went did some homework on it And in fact, I figured out how much horsepower on it and came back like, yeah, this got this That's heavy. So, you know, you just look do that or something on the street that I grew up on But that's the way that what I'm talking about. So if I do like that come and say, hey, man, I'm I'm been rapping and he's really Been trying something you're not gonna turn him down because you've been seeing this thing for five five six years Yeah, I think about me because I'll always be dropping Jews and giving Jews to anybody that come across me Especially if I got love for you, you know what I'm saying, you know I'm uh, you know, ain't nothing wrong with you know what I'm saying Showing people the way or you know giving advice when they ask you, you know what I'm saying Most of the time No, if you want me to lay put the full road map out and that's that's a consultation thing You know what I'm saying? That's different But like, you know, if you just need some pointers and tips here And I know you guys see you doing it sometimes I just offer them when I see yeah people I'm a cop say bro. This is what you need to do Boy, you're almost it was just like I was doing strap. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I hear LD LD This what's up. I mean, you need one of the boys the boy got it. Yeah, he did I used to tell him that I just need to do this here do this there You know what I'm saying and we was talking crazy, man We were talking and putting it together. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? And you know, it just was an untimely demise, man. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's something else, man You know the thing is it's so many different things that come in so many different ways And I wanted the reason I keep saying man I be wanting to talk to yelling people like that because I know I always talk about Like depression or mental illness.  We because throw it on the rug, but it's still there And if it don't if you don't figure out a way to deal with it, it's gonna it's gonna show its face somewhere You know what I mean in your lifestyle So that's the stuff I be wanting to talk about because psychology is real You know what I'm saying? But I think that happens to mainly people Our age and up because it's newer generation They're teaching them how to let that go to with a counseling or is counseling become a new thing For this newer generation to talk to somebody our aging up.  Yeah, but but that's more it's more of young people doing it now But not the street guys. No, that's right. I'm saying that's right.  I got more trauma. You know what I'm saying? That's true street guys and the police I tell my partners the police officer all the time Nicky you just went through this that all these different devs you looking at all this stuff and you didn't that was off work But the difference with the police though the police have the counseling At their hand because they're supposed to they might not take it, but it's there for them Street guys don't have it there for like you right go pay that you right You're right. You know what I'm saying now after a while, you know what I'm saying? I'm session to get the ad no You know I'm saying so it's like, you know, you might have to suffer with it Deal with it for 10 years before you realize it man. Let me go sit and talk to somebody and in street cats be like, um Yes, the man have a old lady on home But still it's hard to trust people because people will backbite you and you know tell your whole business So even just to unload all the things that you go through you don't want to tell anybody because you don't ever know As much as they've been in your life for a while. You don't know who is really true Counselors in them They they you got to sign that way with the way it's yeah, it's confidential. What is uh, unless you go and kill somebody they have to tell it They got to yeah, they got to tell certain things man. Oh my wife. She get everything off tv Where do you think they get it from? No, no this here. Yeah They fly for go to law school and all kinds of stuff you get yours right off the tv and come right in there with it Just like and this is real and I'll be like damn It's like some people go check into it Some people go to if you carefully go talk to the father, you know, I'm saying and slide that little screen Yeah, yeah, but that's mostly not people in the hood. No, there ain't nobody in the hood Let me ask you man I asked somebody this man and I don't know if I asked you this last time the difference between Dallas and Houston Cause it's uh, it's definitely a difference. You know what I mean? What is the difference that when I talked to uh, little kiki and esg and I talked to a lot of people about this It's like it's both of them are major cities in in in uh, Texas, but um Just what what do you feel is the main difference? You know what I mean? When I talked to kiki. He said that to everybody Uh in dallas they go like oklahoma and back up toward the west coast. They don't come You know like toward houston like that. I'm being real. That's what he told me But um, you know, is that the case when you look at it and what is the big divide? You know what I mean? Like we different for sure. Well, uh, it's a couple of different aspects. You can look at that Uh corporate on the corporate side. I think houston is a bigger metropolis. You know what I'm saying? It's a bigger city. Uh, you got nasa there. You got a lot of all the colleges there So, uh, it's it's more mixed gumball people because the colleges and all the big companies have everybody coming there Uh, uh, and then they just get a city a whole different flavor too. Man, you know what I'm saying and uh in dallas, uh I think it's starting to grow like that like more companies and major companies are starting to get here And you know provide more opportunity to get you know, I'm saying More people here as far as the economy is concerned, but As far as the hill pop side, uh The music scene and the entertainment scene, uh, houston is just more of uh, I said this all the time is grandfather then Uh, they they they should have been going about 30 40 years. You know what I'm saying?  We got that here too, but it's just more heavier there in Dallas. I say I say it's more like, uh Just like how New Orleans and then you got bad and rude. You know what I'm saying? You know, it's like Houston always kind of been like as far as the city concerned is like the big brother to Dallas because we both big cities, but that's the biggest city You know what I'm saying? But as far as you know, uh Collaborations, I feel like we always Kind of kept that bridge in between us. You know what I'm saying?  He didn't do stuff. Your cod mouth.  Did a lot of stuff in and in Houston and San Antonio.  Niggas in the pen. They're gonna rip them cowboys and they're gonna rip them ticks and So it's the football team and and the and the sports the sports Football teams and the sports and and then it's just that robbery that's in prison from different cities It's also in the colleges too. So when dollars go there when dollars people go to there and you got the h-town natives It's just no course.  That's not Dallas You know what I'm saying?  No, I don't been to the county I'd have been a tariff county. I'd have been to Dallas county. You know what I'm saying?  It's all about color. No, if it if a ride break out ain't nobody worried about no damn gang Nigga trying to survive No, it's gang. That's not true prison mess up this gang stuff and this and that whatever you say he hadn't been He hadn't been okay. So I'm telling you this ain't true. I'd have been around a few people from prison But I don't think yeah when they say You know I'm saying when the ride jump out it's more about the right about the right It's gotta be Over with I just wanted to uh, also man ask you about the the the program that you had talked about last time We put in things in order. I had some stuff going with d isd. But uh, you know, you had some setbacks Yeah, a couple of setbacks, you know, so I think they uh Didn't want to deal with it because Stuff was attached with the median things of that nature. But no, it's cool I had some affiliation sometimes be gifted by association just because you rock with somebody And they don't know the truth of what's going on. So, you know, it's cool man I ain't really tripping on that but we still built building and we're moving about to actually launch some stuff with it this summer Oh, that's good. Summer tweens. Okay. Awesome. And if some if people are interested to Be a part of it whether um, like kids would want to get their kids involved Do they have to be in a certain district or can they just contact? We ain't dealing with school districts no more. No, he said that last time He basically so how do they get to be a part of your organization? Just go to uh, visasandsoundsofthefuture.com man And you keep the website updated as when everything's starting at everything go to the vsff instagram, so yeah man, uh Go ahead So We talked about gunamizi. We talked about yellow. Now. Jose bodega. Jose bodega When is he coming out with any Tuesday Tuesday? Well, let me say uh, the 25th October, I'm just saying uh, I didn't want to say Tuesday. Yeah Just let him know to have his freestyle ready when I get him back because you know last time I mess with him You know this time we got to come with it. Yeah, when he come he gonna come with some. Yeah So what can we expect from this new project? Uh, it's called defamation of character. Uh, uh, He just couldn't sit on her sit in the record straight about you know what I'm saying They messed up. They're going on. Yeah, so he's just sitting in the record straight and Bringing everything back to the forefront. One thing about bodega, man He got a way with words and he got a style that's different from everybody's. I don't feel like you know what I'm saying, you know One thing about about me, bro, I was the spitter so In order for me to put my stamp on it, you got to spit You know what I'm saying? So bodega, you know what I'm saying?  One thing that my boy D. O. C. reached out to me the other day. Shout out D. O. C. We hit him back. We've been going back before. Man, respect man. Shout out to dog man. Yeah, but uh, he was like He coming in on a couple more orders.  You know what I'm saying? So it's real to get the blessing from the og about the artist that I got going on. I mean just let's be Yeah, yeah So when was the last time bodega dropped anything? Uh, he dropped something in like January 2021 Why wait so long before he dropped?  I think he was trying to get some more legs up under that other project and I saw going through some things. So yeah life Okay, man. He ready back now.  Did we get everything stay on mark stay on my goddamn line Man, how can people get a hold there if they're trying to link up with you on some music anything like that? Uh, l-o-w-d-e-e-z-i-e On instagram Instagram man Same thing on facebook facebook. I gotta follow you on facebook Well, no, it's adrian brown on facebook. I gotta find that Tag the hell out of you now because I'll be tagging everybody when I go I think if you look on facebook on facebook, there's a lot of adrian brown probably. Yeah, yeah, but you know me when you see But uh On facebook if you type in a lot easier, it's gonna pull up the music page. Yeah, that's live. That's live either way I was I can get to you, right? Oh, man, thank you so much for coming on show. We love you. Lord easy ziggie mainly coming out to Yeah, yeah, he probably coming on here, right? What month is it's coming out? Uh next month. No, so he coming he gonna fly in. What's up? What are you doing? Yeah, then he's bringing everybody ready to talk to me already.  Yeah, he's he hit me up on the dma e i'm coming Uh, oh, I seen I think I seen you get out the car and gun them easy when they're wrapped on that mic check How was that? Oh, that's you was dope. Isn't it cute that mom? On the Florida culture shot the mellow vision All right. Yes. I have the mellow vision. I tried to get him on here nigga. You remember that Long time I'm gonna say something. I'm gonna say this bro. You know what I'm saying? It was a point of time where artists Where right now a lot of artists punch Yeah, when they say punch that man do a bar then stop it.  Really? Yeah, this nigga here. He's wild with it.  Wow. I'm spit it That's being coming from you Because the last time when he came on here, we were trying to get him to do a freestyle You weren't there. We were trying to get him to do a freestyle. He would not do it.  I said, man, Lordease there I can't get this nigga to do nothing Man check it man. So man.  What's going on? What you looking at me with that side eye? Like what's up? No, I'm waiting on you. Check it man. It's been another great segment of boss talk 101 What a boss is talk and we are


and answered a different one. It's not like the direct problem was to do with being able to swap land to the city if these tax credits didn't go through and we instead ramped it way up and kind of gave away the bank with a full-fledged development agreement. That's my take on it. But like I said, as a stands, I'll be voting no tonight. I'd be interested in the continuance with some stronger language. Thank you. Commissioner Miller, you have your hand raised to be recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a question for Don. Don, in your response to my last question, I appreciate that. It was very helpful too. You said it would be easy to add that language that said that development agreements that mess with zoning have to come through the planning commission. At least that's what I thought I heard you say. And I agree with you. I think it probably would be easy to write that language if one had nothing else to do. And I realize that that is probably not the case with you. But, and I realized that we're now confronted with some timetable, even though we're not gonna call it a timetable, we were gonna call it a deadline of October 1 that is unfair to us because it's inside, nevermind. We are meeting every other week from now forever until further notice. If it is in fact easy to mess with this a little bit and build in at least that one safeguard between now and our next scheduled meeting, which is the 15th day of August, just 20 days from now, it seems to me we could get this to a place where I would probably vote for it. Recognizing that under my opinion, I think that this developer in the city could make a development agreement right now and just blow past what we currently have in the UDO because the development agreement can change the UDO. So I'm glad that that's not what people are proposing. So let's, if we could have language ready by the 25th, that we could vote on then so that it could get in front of the city council at one of its two meetings in September, but then we're back on board for an October 1 deadline and we have at least said something in favor of public engagement about city actions that alter amend or change the land use regulations as they apply to a particular parcel or across the board. Is that practical? And I'm talking to you, Don, because I know that you are probably working from home and all those things that are associated with that and Lord knows you may have litigation and all those other things that said, oh my God, I thought that I was done with this. So it's to you. Is that a practical way to proceed? So I would work with Mike Stock on this and I do view it as an easy addition. I think I would make the language even more simple, Commissioner Miller. I would just say any development agreement approved pursuant to the following statutes shall be referred to the planning commission for their comment, just like we normally do, shall be referred and their recommendation to city council. Yeah, that's what the way I would have written. It is something that described the scope of its applicability and then by cross-reference the procedure to be followed. And it could be one, perhaps two sentences. Of course, I would like to have a saying, we're not doing development agreements for properties that are four acres or smaller and we're not doing development agreements that are gonna be 10 years in duration, set some outside limits on those things. And I think what we can set those limits in a way that does not unreasonably crimp the potentiality for beneficial development agreements in the future. Let's face it, it's not that we've had this great onrush of them. Since this statute was written, which if I'm not mistaken was at least 20 years ago. And Mr. O'Toole, to Commissioner Miller's question on timing and I'll note we have meetings scheduled for August 11th and August 23rd. Oh, there you go. So we are meeting pretty nonstop. From a timing perspective, is Mr. Miller's question, is that feasible as well for us to see language that could come back in one of these next meetings and still move this process forward? Mike or Sarah, could you comment on that? Do you see any issue with that? I don't see, I was gonna agree with Don. It was pretty much gonna fall on my lap to write the language and then I was gonna send it to Don to make sure he liked it. So it's gonna be more my work than his. But unless Sarah says otherwise, I don't think it's a problem to get the language back to you in that short period of time. I don't know the mail out deadline for the 11th though. And I don't know how far in advance the planning commissioners would like to see that language, whether they wanna see it with that agenda packet that goes to them or are they okay seeing it the day before or something like that. So there's that turnaround time, but otherwise we could try to make it work if we can. From my perspective, Commissioner Miller, I wanna hear from you as well since you were the one asking the questions. I would just wanna make sure that whatever we see is also the public has time to review in advance as well. I don't need it in my packet. I just need it in the publicly available way that the public also knows it's there. All right, so it would be a continued public hearing. So we would not have to mail anything out. I agree, the earliest we can, I would love to see it when we post the agenda, which ideally is 10 days for that 11th meeting. That means that Don doesn't get to go to bed. Don and Michael don't get to go to bed tonight. They're gonna work on it immediately and have it for us tomorrow. That would be great. But I don't see a reason why we couldn't shoot for the 11th, knowing that we've got the 25th coming on right behind it. And I don't think that we're talking about changes that are so great by their nature that we are tricking the public into, by converting today's agenda item into an entirely different agenda item for a future meeting. And although I know neither Michael nor Don want to be in a drafting situation with me, if I, you know, hell, this is all I do. So if you wanted to send me something in advance to perhaps stop me from arguing, then I'm available for that too. In other words, I don't see a reason why we can't send some memos out in the meantime, saying this is what we're thinking about. What do you think? However, we have to be careful about doing that. And so far as we don't want to create a secret public meeting. I say, let's give it a shot. If we've got a developer out there who after working with the staff, and I don't know all the circumstances here and I don't want to say that I'm so smart, I know you could do it another way, because I'm not. If we've got a developer out there that's looking to build 82 affordable housing units using the affordable housing density bonus, but would like to have a development agreement in order to get some part of it accomplished and that they would like to have the city council vote on it by a certain date. And this is a rezoning that's in the works, right? Yeah. Then let's see what we can accomplish in August. I would like to vote for this. Rather than vote against it simply because it's lacking an easy fix that would make me happy. Thank you. Ms. Smith, I'm assuming you're about to give us some guidance on timing. I was just gonna offer this up for attorney O'Toole and for Mike Stock. We would like to have whatever they're working on pretty much completed and ready to be mailed out around the 29th of the month or posted with the agenda online about the same time. So even if it didn't get mailed out, we could put it online for public access there. I can work with Mr. Stock and Attorney O'Toole to make that happen if they're good with that. And that would get it back to the August 11th meeting, which would give them some time to also coordinate with my staff or the rest of us. And Mr. Stock is helping and assisting with that zoning case. So we need a little gap there in between so we can get that ready as well, okay? That's helpful. Don and Michael, does that work for you? That does give you more than just tonight, but we still appreciate you working hard on this. Sure. Oh yeah, that's no problem. And I just wanna clarify, the four things that I got from Commissioner Miller, public input, we wanna address public input, planning commission, consideration and recommendation, duration of agreements and some limitation on parcel size. Yeah, that's right. Those are the things that I threw out there. I will try hard not to come up with other things. But essentially the way I would write it is, is that any development agreement that changes the altars, amends, the zoning regulations for the property that is subject to the development agreement will come through the planning commission following the same procedures as a rezoning. I'm not sure I wanna say all development agreements because I believe it's possible to have a development agreement that doesn't have a damn thing to do with zoning. They're probably unlikely, but I wanna hold out the possibility that it could occur and not have us having to deal with a development agreement where everything is a community development deal. Great. The only thing that's not my bailing with me. This was Mike Stock with the planning department. I definitely don't think we have any problem with adding the language for public input and planning commission consideration. I think we're gonna have to have more internal discussion about what really is the worth, the value of limiting duration and actually even limiting parcel size. I think development agreements can have the potential of providing community benefits in a variety of different ways. And if it's, and if we set it at four acres, for example, as a minimum, but a three and a half acre site comes in and it's, gosh, this is really gonna, seems like a really positive thing for the community. Same thing, kind of like with PDRs, we had, their arbitrary numbers established with when you can establish a PDR and we slowly took those away because we realized that you could have creative solutions and creative developments and positive developments on one acre sites just as much as four or 10 or 20 or 40 acre sites. So I don't think that staff is gonna say no outright to the parcel size and the duration time. I think that warrants further thought. I think that we could definitely come up with good concise language along the lines that Mr. Miller is considering for the public input and planning commission consideration. Great, thank you. So Commissioner Miller, this is an appropriate time to make a motion to continue this case until the August 11th meeting if you would like. Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. I think I understand your meaning. With regard to TC200003 development agreements, I move that we continue this until the commission's August 11th meeting. Is that correct, Grace? Is that what you wanted to hear? Then that's my motion. That is correct. Seconded by Commissioner Williams and we'll have a roll call vote, please. Okay, Commissioner Alturk. Yes. Commissioner Amandalia. Yes. Commissioner Baker. Yes. Chair Busby. Yes. Commissioner Durkin. Yes. Commissioner Johnson. Yeah. Vice Chair Kenchin. Yes. Commissioner Lowe. Yes. Commissioner Miller. Yes. Commissioner Morgan. Yes. Commissioner Santiago. Yes. And Commissioner Williams. Yes. Thank you. It passes unanimous. Thank you. And Michael and Don, thanks in advance for working on it and we look forward to seeing the updated version. Yes, thank you very, very much. Ms. Smith, anything else for this evening? That's it on the agenda. Yes, I'll be in touch in the next few business days to throw some meeting dates out there. I have to, when we meet, I have to reserve the council chambers even though we are not there in person because that's where all of our equipment is to do the broadcasting and such. So. Great. So just a reminder, August 11th, August 25th, we've got our regular September meeting and we'll be adding most likely an additional September meeting. So I'll be seeing you around staff. Thanks to all the staff. I know a lot of you put in a lot of time and we really appreciate it. This meeting is adjourned. Take care. Thank you. Good night. Night.


Let me begin by saying that the DG of NAFDAQ and her team deserve a very special commendation for this thoughtful and strategic response to the devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. What we're seeing that has happened to businesses, especially MSMEs here in Nigeria and worldwide, just after the first index case of the disease was discovered in Nigeria, and before the lockdowns began, Mr. President put together strategic teams to immediately determine the impact of the disruptions likely to be caused to the economy, and what our immediate and medium-to-long-term approach should be. The vulnerability of MSMEs to the severe shocks that were to follow was priority at every consideration of these issues. But perhaps even our best projections could hardly have predicted the massive economic disruptions, the unprecedented number of business failures, job losses, that the health challenge, or what began as a health challenge, and the ensuing lockdowns would cause, especially to MSMEs, who, of course, as you know, are the backbone of our entire economy. So of importance to government response, therefore, was to find ways of not just giving circle and assistance to existing MSMEs, but also ensuring that there is practical and active Philip to new MSMEs so that the growth of this sector is not discouraged by the current economic trauma. This is why the e-registration assistance for MSMEs through the automated product administration and monitoring system nap arms is so timely. Henceforth, MSMEs can now process the registration of their products with NAFDA in the comfort of their homes or offices at an 80 percent discounted rate over a period of six months. Now, apart from the obvious cost savings that this brings, e-registration will serve MSMEs especially well at this time of travel restrictions and social distancing. I'm informed that in recognition of the current economic hardships as well, especially those being experienced by small and medium scale enterprises, NAFDA has rolled out some other palliatives for micro and small businesses, including zero tariffs for the first 200 MSMEs to register on the e-platform and a waiver on administrative charges for overdue late renewal of expired licenses of MSMEs and their products for a period of 90 days. These are all indicators of the new spirit of NAFDA and a foretaste of the support that MSMEs stand to enjoy, especially in these very difficult times. But this is not a new undertaking for the federal government. It is merely an extension or intensification of the government's long-standing commitment to MSMEs. As you might know, the national MSME clinics have taken place in virtually all states of the federation. And the idea has been to bring all relevant government agencies closer to a full understanding of the sector's challenges and to implement the quickest and most efficient ways of resolving them. So in state after state, we have gone with our regulators taking into account all of the needs and problems of MSMEs in those particular localities. And what we try to do is to ensure that the regulators see themselves as facilitators of business, not as policemen of businesses, but as facilitators, not as obstacles, but as those who will make sure that MSMEs have the easiest time in doing business in Nigeria. Indeed, the event today is aimed at assisting and addressing some of the challenges identified during those MSME clinics. This is possibly one of the most challenging times in human history. And I don't think the point is overstated at all. Suddenly, all over the world businesses have practically come to a halt. For us in Nigeria, revenues from our major source of foreign exchange oil has pitted out. Businesses are prostrate. But paradoxically, these can also be for us the best of times. As the president has repeatedly urged, we have no excuse not to be one of the most productive and prolific economies in the world. Our hope is to achieve this aim through the incredible numbers of MSMEs that we have. We certainly can achieve the aim of being the most productive, one of the most productive and the most prolific economies in the world, especially because of the sheer range of talent that we have in technology, in entertainment, in TV and film production, in manufacturing, in the agro-aligned industry, and several auxiliary services. This is our moment. And the government of Nigeria and its regulatory agencies are prepared to back MSMEs and to back businesses that are prepared for the innovative and interesting times that lie ahead of us. Again, I'd like to thank the Major General of NAFDAQ and her team for this innovation and to also say to them that surely this is only the beginning of what we expect to see from them in terms of innovation, in terms of adaptability to the next few months and the challenges that we'll be seeing in the business environment. I'm sure that NAFDAQ, SMEDN, Bank of Industry, all of our regulatory agencies and MDS concerned with the MSMEs see this period as a period when we must work with the MSMEs. We must work with them. We must identify those challenges and we must be quick on the draw to ensure that we're able to resolve all of the various problems that they have. Thank you all very much. God bless you.


The New York Times has come out with an article stating that the Asian American vote is up for grabs in 2022. Well, what should Democrats do to keep the Asian vote and what can Republicans do to take the Asian vote? Let's talk about it. Welcome everybody to the hot pop boys. David and Andrew here. We got a hot one for you today and let me first off tell you that we are not taking a side left or right, blue or red. We are just here to break down the game for you. David, what's going on? The different articles have all been dropping in the past week, saying that the Asian American vote potentially could swing from Democrat to Republican in 2022 based off two major factors. I think there's more, but the articles constantly focus on one, crime, safety and stability, and number two, arguments over meritocracy and affirmative action. Wow. Quick history. 35 years ago, Asians were voting 6040 in favor of the Republican party. Then in the late nineties and early 2000s, it switched. It swung 7030 in favor of Democrats. And now in 2022, it kind of seems like it could be split. Obviously, there are a lot of cultural generational, like literal just age differences. Like we said, guys, generational, cultural, situational. We'll just break it down real quick. Generational. Most older Asians tend to more vote Republican, but I would say most Asian Americans that are like 50 or 40 and younger and educated, whether it's with an undergrad or postgraduate degree, vote Democrat. Cultural split means that different Asians from different motherland countries of origin typically have different coaching, whether that's anti-communist narratives and of course situational, Andrew. The situation is, for example, in big cities, if you're an Asian that lives in a big city, you have to react to the stimulus around you. So are you reacting to the increased crime? Are you blaming the current leadership or are you blaming something else? Yeah. Also, part of situational is economics. Are you an entrepreneur? Are you a business owner? Are you wealthy or are you more middle class, lower middle class Asians? They tend to care about safety and stability. They tend to care about meritocracy and they tend to care about economics. So initially Asians were Republicans because of a lot of anti-communist narratives both from like Vietts, Koreans, Taiwanese, all anti-communist. Okay. Then it started to shift. I think once it became like Republicans were kind of like the Tea Party, maybe like anti-progressive, anti-minority party. I'm not saying that it was, but that was essentially like the marketing. That's a perception. Yeah. And now it just feels like Asians are losing faith in the Democratic Party. They're saying, hey, guys, we were Democrats for so long, now the world's kind of going to crap and we feel like the Dems aren't going to fix this and maybe the Republicans will. Right. It seemed like on the left that Democrats were like, thank you for your service for 20 to 30 years of loyalty voting for us. Here's what we're going to give you guys, unsafe, big urban cities. And we're going to make sure that your kids, even if they test really high on test results, they can't get into colleges or selective high schools because you guys are just way overrepresented. Oh, sounds like a great deal. I'll take it. All right, you guys, I think we've summed up the situation as best as we can succinctly for you guys. Here's my hot take. It's true that the generational differences are always going to be there. The cultural differences are going to be there. Nobody can change those things. However, in my opinion, you know what has changed? The situation, the situation on the ground. I live in a lot of big cities, LA, New York, Seattle. Let me tell you this. I myself am not very happy with the way the leadership in these cities and it has been Democratic is running these systems. Right. These people who are supposed to be the coach, the puppet master, the system runner, the game maker, the architect, whatever they're doing, I don't like it. It looks like there's just crime on the streets. People are using drugs in public spaces. Nobody's doing anything and I get it. There are arguments on both sides that I, you know, I can weigh out logically. Now, does that automatically mean that if you vote Republican, that everything's going to get solved? I don't know, but the feeling is so strong right now that people are willing to do that. Right. It's almost like you went to the store, right? Can you imagine a cheese store having two types of cheese as your options? Well, welcome to the cheese store. You can either have cheddar cheese or American cheese and you're like, yo, I wanted Swiss cheese. I want a guy year. I wanted Bree and people are like, no, that's the American system. You only got American cheese and cheddar cheese. Those are your two options. Well, a lot of people want other people to solve their own problems and also to be honest, a lot of people pick sides just because they want to be part of something. You want to be part of America. So these are the two main groups in America pick aside. That's what you're told when you get here. Guys, my hot take is this, that the Asian vote is going to be increasingly more and more important. Almost 60% of eligible adult Asian voters in America are coming out to vote. That number is only increasing. It is so important. And here's why you extrapolate that trend. It's headed in a direction and it's important because the Asians are the wild card guys went in a world. So polarized when people are this and this, guess who has the power, the people that are undecided in the middle that are like shifting back and forth in the future. People are going to be catering towards Asians, but just know when it's fake catering and when they're really, really trying to help you. There's a lot of fake catering out there for optics, but there are some things that actually help Asians. And I know it's hard to decipher sometimes your parents are getting WeChat news, maybe you're only getting news from one side or one source, whatever it is. I'm just saying that's the situation moving forward. You're not a fan of both sides, but how does either the Dems or the Republicans try to win the Asian vote moving forward? If the Republicans wanted to take the Asian American vote, they probably got to seem like they are less essentially like maybe only pro Anglo. I would say that that is a narrative that they got to address because Tucker Carlson is not addressing that. Drop it. Yeah. He seems like he's like, if you look like me, then you're right. And that means you're white. Okay. I'm not saying that that's actually the truth, but that is the overwhelming perception. I would say on the left, sometimes I feel like the left says, well Asians, you guys will be fine regardless of whatever the policies are. So no help for you guys. Yeah. It seems like a lot of Asians are fed up with the left sides always playing like identity politics. And they're like, and Asians are just like, please just get back to the numbers, get back to the business guys. Right. It's a little bit like what Ronnie said, whereas like Asians literally just want things to function. Yeah. Here's how you win the Asian vote moving forward for at least the next 10 to 15 years. In my opinion, whichever side is able to convince the Asians that they can keep things stable. I think that's the side that the Asians are going to lean on towards. And it just seems like Democrats let things get a little unstable. And now they're looking at the Republicans to make it stable. And one thing I really don't like is Asian Americans that I feel like grew up or were co-opted by either side trying to get everybody to like shift off their own metrics. You know, most Asians, obviously there's a lot of diversity, but they do care a lot about stability because the reason why a lot of people left Asia is because at that time, you know, especially in that era, it was really unstable. You know what I mean? Like all these other issues, I'm not saying they don't matter, you know, this identity, that identity, it doesn't, you know, it is valid, but literally nothing will matter if you have an unstable society. By the way, guys, just a little quick piece of advice. I understand that a lot of millennials, Gen Y, Gen Z people, they disagree with their parents' politics. I'm not making excuses for them, but your parents went through a lot. Have a little bit of empathy. If you want to stop talking about them, if you want to stop talking to them about politics, I completely understand. But yes, I know a lot of friends who lean one side and their parents lean completely the other side. So it's very interesting right now. Anyways, guys, let me know in the comments down below what you think about this whole thing. Maybe you are left. You're becoming right. Maybe you're right. You're becoming love. Maybe you're not political. I don't know. But let us know in the comments down below what you think about this whole ordeal and the Asian vote becoming increasingly more important to America. Again, we're not telling you which way to lean. We're just trying to break it down for you. So thank you so much for watching. That is the Hot Pop Boys. Hit that like button, click subscribe, and until next time, we out. Peace.


Income tax 2021-2022 tax software interest income. Get ready to get refunds to the max. Dive it in to income tax 2021-2022. Here we are in our LASERT tax software. You don't need access to the LASERT tax software or any software to follow along, but you might want to have the Form 1040, which you can find on the IRS website, irs.gov, irs.gov. The tax software makes it much easier for us to run different scenarios as we do different data input and jump on over to the end result, that being the Form 1040. So we've got our scenario here, that being the single filer Adam Smith and he's living in Beverly Hills 90210 and we have the starting point of the 100,000 for the wages that we're going to start out at. The standard deduction we're going to say is the 12,550. If we mirror that in our tax worksheet, we got the 100,000. We got the standard deduction, which we're going to say is the 12,550. That means the taxable income 87,450, 87,450 here. And then if we calculate the tax, we're at the 15,15. If we bring that on over and say there's the 15,15, that's our starting point. So now we've got the interest income we're going to be considering adding that on. Now oftentimes the interest income is going to be fairly small in relation to other income sources unless there's a lot of money that's going to be invested in interest and you're usually going to get it straight from the financial institution. So you'll have the information necessary to do the data input. So let's say we've got the 1099. It's going to look something like this. Now this is a 1099 remember like the full 1099. If you get it from a financial institution they might only give you kind of like the boxes that are relevant. So it might look a little bit different but relevant boxes often being the box number one. If it's normal kind of interest possibly then box number eight or some of the more common kind of things that you're going to see. Now if it's under the like $1,500 then it'll just be reported basically on the first page of the 1040. So let's check that out going back on over and let's say we go to income and let's say we have some interest income. Let's say this was from bank number one. Bank number one and we had interest income $300. $300 back on over and so there's the $300 that's going to be on B2. Notice no new form has been filled out here for Schedule B because we don't need Schedule B because the IRS is saying hey that's a little bit of interest. We're not too concerned with it so whatever and so we're not going to add another schedule there. Now when I go over to my tax worksheet I'm not going to do the same thing and that I'm not going to say like expand on the summary page. I am going to use the separate schedule which is Schedule B even though it's not being populated on the tax return because I want my front page my summary page to be as basically summarized as possible. So I'm going to go to Schedule B and say there's the $300 that's going to pull back on over to the first page. Now I'm at the $100,300 the standard deduction at the $12,550 bringing the taxable income down to the $87,750 so if I go back to the first page here we're at the $87,750 tax now calculated based on that slightly increased $15,87 $15,87 pulling that back over on $50,87 so there's going to be the standard scenario now if the interest goes above the $1,500 so we could have multiple institutions for example I could go back on over here and say what if I add another one bank number two bank number two is let's say $2,000 of interest well that's getting significant and the IRS is like we need more detail we need more detail so if I go to the forms now you've got Schedule B being required it's populated in Lassert by adding it in bold over here so now we got the more detail for bank number one bank number two the $300 the $2,000 now adding up to the $2,300 that tying out into the Form 1040 pulling over all of its taxable because both of the of the 1099's were imagining was in box number one if I was going to pull that into my schedule over here I would go to the Schedule B and say we got another one for $2,000 $3,000 or $300 plus the $2,000 pulling that over to the first page we're at the $1023 standard deduction $12,550 still there's the $87,750 $87,750 is down here wait a second hold on a second it was the $89,750 and then the tax calculated I just said it wrong but I did it right and so $15,567 $15,567 $15,567 $15,567 so there we have that so those two scenarios now the other common box that you're going to be seeing will often be an exempt so it's tax exempt okay we're going to go back on over in some way it's going to be tax exempt so if I go into my form over here it might be for example tax exempt interest box number eight so then I'd say okay well it's not going to be taxable let's delete it and just have tax exempt I'm going to put it over here and let's say it's going to be tax exempt total municipal bonds let's say $1,000 $1,000 going back on over to the forms then we don't have the schedule B because the IRS is small again I'm not too worried about the added schedule so it's over here and then I've got it on to A instead of to B so it's a reporting requirement of the $1,000 here but it's not being included in my income down below so notice it's not over here so if I was to report this on my my other schedule on my income I might I might make another column for basically tax exempt over here if I wanted to so it's going to be a tax exempt but it's not being included and pulled over in essence to page one and adding it in on top of my W2 income it's not having that tax impact so I'm back down to the $100,000 the $12,550 the $12,550 bringing us down to the $187,450 the $187,450 the tax then being calculated depending on the software to do it at the $15,15 again back to the $15,15 $15,015 and then of course we could have all of those things happening so if I go back on over I've got bank one and then I've got another 300 over here we might have multiple interests because we're like a savvy super investor and we've got we've got interest coming from everywhere bank number three and we'll say this was this was the 2000 so now you've got some more stuff going on it can get quite complex over here but we can go back and also note interest could be pulled in from others like a K1 or something like that could have stuff that's going to be pulled out for interest that you want to be careful of because it might be flowing through from another flow through entity like a partnership or an S corporation or something like that possibly but in any case we're going to go back on over back to the first page of the $10,40 now we've got the $2,300 on 2B but $1,000 on 2A 2A not being calculated or added up as we pull it down to the total if I was to look at the schedule B now I've got this information returned for the $300 and the $2,000 up top so let's go back on to the $10,40 if I was going to put that into my forms over here I'd say okay schedule B now I've got the $1,000 exempt and then I have the $2,000 and the $1,300 so the amount that we're actually including is going to be that $2,300 not the $1,000 that is exempt that's pulling over to the first page of the $10,40 that we're actually going to be including and paying tax on the $10,300 standard deductions at the $12,550 and that gives us our taxable income at the $89,750 I could double check to the tax return is that right $89,750 looks good tax calculated page 2 depending on the tax return to do it $15,567 $15,567 is that what they said I think it is that's what I said I said it and typed it correctly this time I did both things correct I said it right and I typed it right so that's the general idea with the interest so you just want to be aware that you got the schedule B be aware that basically the schedule B will not populate if the interest is below a certain threshold also be aware that some other flow through things could be flowing through confused on your off a little bit on the interest you might say well was there a schedule K or something that came through that might be included you could check it on the schedule B to see if if something like that is is going on and then it's going to pull through and just be careful of noting that you've got this reporting requirement for the tax exempt stuff and so what is a reporting requirement versus what's going to be added into the taxable income that's actually going to have tax calculation on it and then you can basically explain kind of that situation hopefully to a client this is tax exempt that's what box 8 means here's what box 1 is it's a reporting requirement still but it's exempt because the government gave you some kind of exemption because they want you to give them money and they're able to not charge the taxes because they're the ones that charge taxes and they're the ones that want the money so they're able to stop that so in any case that's the general idea