All right, all right. Okay, okay. All right, all right. Okay, okay. All right, all right. Okay, okay. Here we go, here we go. I see all my people at the show and seems like reparations is the goal. Somebody say ho. Somebody say ho. Now act like you know. No, I mean no for real. We got talent. I mean we got skills. No, it was amazing. I really enjoyed performing and particularly this event, celebrating Juneteenth and honoring the beauty and the grace of the black people and the perseverance of our journey and our story. It's always inspiring to me and an opportunity to share. It's always a blessing. I'd like there to be a war wear. I'd like there to be a war wear. Where the infantry said no, in criss-clones a taste of snow, and the bombers stated clear they won't go in any year. And sharp shooters closed their eyes, much to the brass, great surprise. And there was peace with no reprise. We chose the peace with no reprise. I'd like there to be a war wear. I'd like there to be a war wear. Where we first would check ourselves, see what our causes do foretell. Tweak where tweaking would do well, then maybe check ourselves again. Remembering some crazy macho in, does not signify you in, cannot signify you in. So I'll say it once again, I'd like there to be a war wear. I'd like there to be a war wear. I'd like there to be a war wear. Wouldn't you give it up for yourself, your marvelous voices. Love the singing, dancing. I really enjoy it. This is also my first duty here in Winooski. Yeah, so I love the experience. I love the fact that I'm here. And I can see the people. I can see how happy people are. I really like Winooski. Winooski, it helps people. It's like, I don't know how to talk about it. I like Winooski. It's very nice. You may have heard before, it's about a group of people I affectionately like to call, beautiful son-kiss people. Can you say that one time, say beautiful son-kiss people. Beautiful son-kiss people. Say it like you mean it and you like it. Beautiful son-kiss people. Beautiful son-kiss people. Say it like you believe you are that. Beautiful son-kiss people. Beautiful son-kiss people. Walking miracles, unfolding parables, ancient scrolls and oceans throes. Love be arose adorning your ears. This morning will not bring mourning nor thorn in tears. This forever moment is showing our fears. Say beautiful son-kiss people. Beautiful son-kiss people. Beautiful son-kiss people. We are on the cusp of overthrowing overseers. Light years beyond heckles and jeers. No more tanning our hides while Dr. Jekyll steers. This love is sheer, transparent and near. As deers are closest relatives here. Say beautiful son-kiss people. Beautiful son-kiss people. No conversation on us being equal. Just entertaining the thought it's evil. We weave full. Fully woven. Lost and found, traded and stolen. But look what the eye be holding. Say beautiful son-kiss people. Beautiful son-kiss people. Golden. Black and free and ebony. Mahogany and mocha bee. Chocolate hog and dyes can't see. Rivers running melanin. Shallow men be monitoring. But most high-guided, all-intensive purposes and sovereign skin. Watch this herpoma sense. Journey in and frolic in. Summer breeze is talking with the autumn wind. How winter just won't break our stride. Too much spring and step for us to hide. Our victory is justified. Say beautiful son-kiss people. Solar rise with older tides. Our currency ain't tokenized. We're close to those focused and wise. Whose feet arise on open skies. White supremacy eulogizing. Blessed ministry new horizon. And desperate attempts at euphemizing our prayers to futilize. Still will never neutralize. Too many youths been euthanized. Fed sweetest prey to tooth decay. Truthfully, our roof away has truth to say. A door's a night to loose the day and beauty that the stars obey. Say beautiful son-kiss people. I relate to you so musically. And oh, the joy it brings. Like... Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven Ring with the heart and our rejoicing. Rise high as the listening skies. Let it resound loud as the rolling sea. Sing a song. Let us sing a song. Facing the rising sun of our new day. Let us march on till victory. Being in sacred oath. Because after all we are betrothed To wondrous wonders of untold. Great grand good fortune that broke the mold. Can't buy us off with moldy bread. We've more than crumbs inside our heads. And crustace will not satisfy When banquets alone are ours divine. We walk and go and make grandma maid. Deliciousness in every shade. Say son-kiss people. Say beautiful, blessed, bountiful son-kiss people. All right. I praise the path that plants our flag. Sparely and earth a self-made basket. A glorious newfound approach. Their predators cannot encroach. Their parasites and wayward folks. Let me a glimpse of coffin joke. See this radiance is brighter still Than every sun that lights a hill. It calls from something deep within. And pours from vocal cords and pen. Say beautiful, son-kiss people. I'm nourished just to see you.  You water every plant I have And flourish my gardens green and vast. Sing lullabies to my hidden child All your fears afoul to file.  Say I am you and we are race That founded every human trace. Say son-kiss people. I wake with your poems on my tongue In my chest I hear your drum From my lips I hear your hum It gets me high and drunk as rum On you I am forever spun Your melanin I never shun With you I am forever one Has there been better never one? Say son-kiss people. I bequeath these oars to you Your next of kin and children too And their children's children's children's view Will yes to match your vibrant hue Your supernatural sorcery To walk in temples gorgeously Shaming cathedrals far and near Make a white Christ pale in the mirror. That's it. Son-kiss children, you are it. Don't let nobody tell you Unless they fertilize in soil To grow rose regal and royal To Donna rose upon a rose Of red and black and green and gold So poetically bestowed It dignifies your inner throne Son-kiss children, marvelous Miraculous magnificence Outlandishly so unabashed Unapologetic sass Ultra-magnetic blackness the right Goddess on your epitad That's blasphemy surely right Because we know true gods never die Son-kiss children, you kiss my eyes With all that sunshine you're applying Experience, I think just having the space To have that time To gather and fellowship And connect with folks Loving on each other and uplifting Each other's story and sharing art and creativity We all stand on the shoulders Of the people who came before us We would not be here without them We took your mama and your daddy And your daddy's mama and daddy And they mama's mamas and mamas And mamas and mamas daddy's daddy's daddy's daddy's daddy So we gonna honor these folks right now Oh, to ancestors In my fingertips The curve of my mind The curl of my tongue The one dimple I see you in my reflection Echoing in my features And yet allowing me to be fully me I know I stand on your shoulders So my life is like A piggyback ride that never ends A merry-go-round in a house of mirrors That never ends Each turn I see your face in my eyes Hear your voice in my mind Whispers of encouraging love Lift my spirit to be ready for each task Sometimes I wonder If everyone can hear Hear your adages, your brilliant mother with Age-old wisdom When silence knows itself intimately I wonder if they too tilt their heads Ever so slightly To hear the tender parts To taste the fruit of everything you've been And been through Perhaps it is not my place to ponder such things But simply to step out on everlasting gratitude For the sacrifices and living sermons For serving alongside you Until I earn my grey mantle And my temple returns to the earth For others to kneel upon me Pray you walk with me Always I hear you When the sky is the cloudless blue infinity And my mind can touch every corner I feel you strong When I gaze into my daughter's eyes And fall into an abyss that I shall never return from This absolute joy Is your lesson for me For us, for waiting in the fragrance Of a bouquet that never loses scent My life flowers to lotus One thousand thousand petals Blossom simultaneously And my heart fountains flooding All I see with wonder Somebody say for the ancestors For the ancestors For the ancestors Haché, alright, alright This next one is called Barbershop Anybody got fresh taper, they might know This man's throat looks immaculate He might know what I'm talking about Alright, cause you got them folks Who are some serious sculptors out there Touching you, making you look like You're full of most brilliant self And you gotta give it up to them Barbershop The place where Pharaohs go to get their crowns Royally shaped Cornrows coiled to straight skin Tight fades, flat top nappy Short crop braids Waves, truly our heads been through A war of the world Conks, relaxes, and those Blasted Jerry curls Somebody know about that So boys demand we get in our heads Royally trimmed, sacred place Our own space to find solace within Barbershop, all on your block A focused group of brothers With no reason to call the cops Getting hairlines precise even if you Model locks, more of the latest Gossip than paparazzi Perfect shelter for receiving knowledge from your elders Along with your peers to coat the face Self image, deeply felt image Oasis of black male image Where we can be ourselves and not explain To no one else, just coarse curly Fine, nodded gnarly divine These strands that stretch from the top of our minds They bind us, we preserving Our culture, we got our own Think tanks, our king's link to nappy Kingdoms that help us think straight Barbers a politician, advisor Counselor of wisdom, theologian Philosopher for the grown men Psychologist with the right hypothesis Initiate you into the modern mystery system So every session in the chair you got a History lesson, vividly present Breathing beautific because the black man's Reputation is too mythic Thus scissors and clippers Craft jewels worthy of a sister Make some noise now for that I know you know what I'm talking about Somebody band Did the goddess dame to place her heavenly body In mortal being Is this question blasphemy When all the swirling stars gather To observe this divine blackness Sculpted before a knight had a name Poor fourth, you're flowing Before me I am swept in moonbeam Sweeping afresh For all the droplets and all the oceans That have ever been This heartfelt enclosure of ours Is a cocoon that spawns butterflies Of every color Anywhere we are is magic At our inception Brand new, dew-eyed universes Begin their spiraling destiny Thus the cosmos in your eyes And the one on my lips have fused Inconceivable to think it otherwise I sit Inches away from the infinite Gratitude personified I see you with my eyes closed And when lids lift To reveal again this sacred being All I can do is praise A maker that leaves no prayer Unanswered


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I began my career in sales and trading. I was there for five years and about a year ago I left to run my own business. My main goal is to make healthy living approachable. I do that mainly through Instagram, but I also blog and then recently I started a podcast called Freckled Foodie and Friends. I just felt this sense of something had been untapped within me that I loved. Very excited to meet with Cameron and take her through this financial planning process and just help her streamline everything and get that simple strategy in place so she can execute on it. I'm so excited to meet with Brittany because from what I've seen of her is that she makes things very approachable and she seems to simplify the conversation. You can ask questions to like, oh, what type of insurance program are you on? Like, what benefits are you enrolling in? My biggest obstacle is assessing how I'm going to scale everything and also just typical things that people take for granted in the corporate world of benefits for a one case, retirement plans when you're working in a corporate job, you don't think about it. We look at cash flow, we look at savings, debt, retirement. Financials definitely played a large role in the decision I was making. Do I have enough money saved to take this loop of faith? So some of the short-term things that Cameron needs to focus on are getting her savings accounts open so the money is earning a little bit more interest while it just sits there. Reviewing all the insurance, she needs at this stage and then getting her 401k rollover into a new IRA so she has her own retirement savings going. After meeting Brittany, I felt the sense of calmness regarding my financials, which I would have never expected before going into the meeting. It was taking up a lot of brain space and she clarified everything, dumbed it down a little bit and made it an approachable topic. It's taken a lot of assessment of my current lifestyle. You know, what can I continue spending money on that is necessary and what can I put back on? Brittany has really helped me think about the big picture on really assessing my business and figuring out what aspects make the most money and how I can scale those.  I also reminded her, like any situation, you can prep a lot, you can have the best plan, but also part of the journey is learning how to deal with those challenges or constant money situations that come up because I remember getting hit with a huge tax bill and I thought my life was over. The reality is, no, everybody has tax bills and you gotta figure out a way to cover that. Brittany's inspired me to look into my retirement savings that I can now manage on my own instead of relying on a big corporation and then also to dedicate more money into a high-yield savings account. When you're proud to say what you're doing, which I'm extremely proud now, that to me is how I would define success.


Hello, it's already 2 o'clock, so if you could please take your seats. We have an interesting session on Working Group 2, which is dealing with SHM strategies and the connection with structural performance. We have six presentations this afternoon and then we have a few more tomorrow morning. To make it a little bit more lively, what we will do is we will have the first three presentations and we will have a discussion on these and then we will short break just to stretch our legs and we are ready for the next three presentations and a discussion. So without taking more time from the speakers, I would like to invite Dr. Sikora to present his fact sheet on assessment of cooling towers and industrial chimneys based on monitoring. Well good afternoon everyone, thanks for the introduction, Marios. Well in this contribution we would like just, can you hear me, I think so. In this contribution we would like just to show you what kind of data we have available and maybe also we would like to indicate some challenges which could be points of further activities maybe under umbrella of this cost action. The contribution is caused by my colleague Jana Markova and also by Milan Holitski. Well the motivation for collecting of such data and analyzing them is that cooling towers and industrial chimneys in our country are now reaching their service life. Many of them has been built in 1960, 70s, 80s and the concerns of power producers are whether they can use and under which condition they can use such structures for further activities. Well of course maintenance plans should be based on estimates of remaining lifetime so this is the ultimate question. Well the producers installed monitoring systems or are using monitoring systems that provide a great amount of information about performance of key energetic devices meaning not only cooling towers and chimneys but also turbine generators and other key devices in power units and power plants. Well so this contribution is focused or tried attempts to provide an overview of operational so let's say basic statistical tools for data analysis, procedures of residual lifetime estimation and trying to provide overview challenges for optimizing monitoring systems. So just to give you a feeling of the current practice let me summarize parameters which are now observed for concrete masonry and steel structures. So talking about concrete, typically cracking is visually inspected and records are made, spalling of concrete, carbonation depths are measured and statistical data on concrete covers are also available. For masonry structures well deterioration of surface on and deterioration of units and mortar is also recorded for steel structures and steel reinforcement in concrete data on steel corrosion are available and for geotechnical aspects irreversible deformations and settlements of foundations are recorded. Well structures well large structures like cooling towers and industrial chimneys are typically divided into zones for which homogeneous deterioration conditions can be assumed. So typical division is let's say outside and inside surfaces of shell, columns, supports of cooling system and inspection galleries for cooling tower, similar division for chimneys and our preliminary observation is that current monitoring seems to be sufficient for detecting serious damage so no severe failures or even collapses were not observed but maybe such system or the present system provides redundant information and in this respect it should be optimized. Just to give illustration of data we have so well we have digitalized databases of monitoring data for the period of roughly speaking last 10 years and well very typically the period of 2 years between subsequent measurements is applicable. What is advantage of this data is that reference areas were introduced so this means that for spatial structures like shell of cooling tower they are given areas for which carbonation depth is for instance carbonation depth is periodically monitored. And in the graph just to see the data we have on horizontal axis we have time since construction so this is the age of chimney at the time of measurement in this graph and on vertical axis we have carbonation depth in millimeters and you may see that bi-colors are distinguished three chimneys which are in one power plant of different age so green triangles are for chimneys denoted by number three and blue chimney number two and red circles are chimney number one. Well just for illustrative purposes you can see here the outcome of FIB model for carbonation depth taken from one of the blettings of FIB just I would like to emphasize that this is based on prior information without any updating for now and you see mean trend of carbonation depth and dashed curves indicates plus minus one sigma from the mean. Well immediately from this graph we can see that there are many questions which are open and needs further analysis so we have subsequent years in which we observe we decreasing trend of carbonation depth so the explanation should be whether it should be attributed to measurement uncertainty or maybe is just a random outcome of selection of measurement areas and we also observe in the data some systematic errors which should be explained and maybe such data should be removed from further analysis. Of course the question is if we have a chimney of age of 40 years do we need do we need to measure carbonation depth in two years or not. Just another comparison from the data on horizontal axis now we have a height above ground level so the chimneys are about above 200 meters and the mean carbonation depth is on vertical axis and we see comparison between east and west surfaces for which because of wind driven carbonation the carbonation depth should be different according to theoretical model so we see observation and we see some indication of differences from the data. Well of course for practical purposes the statistical treatment of data should be should be relatively simple so the typical procedure which we are trying to introduce for the operator is should include the following steps test of outliers so if we have some observation which cause of which is non statistical so it has some technical reasons we should eliminate these data from the analysis correlation analysis which might indicate that some parameters are so correlated that it's sufficient to observe only one parameter representative parameter regression modeling so fitting of appropriate regression models on the basis of experience so for instance from FIB model we have we have indications of trends in carbonation depth so let's say it's a it's some nonlinear model and similar models are then fitted to empirical data confidence interval so once we have a fitted regression model we can identify confidence intervals of the curve. Well this slide is just to attract your attention also to to assessment of our evaluation of the data because we are dealing with with structures with large surfaces and that's why also a criteria for maybe classifying or for decision-making about structures need to take into account spatial variability of phenomena so this table is just indicating how the relationship between a carbonation depth and concrete cover is assessed for for spatial structure so we need some threshold value for let's say the difference between carbonation depth and concrete cover but we also need to identify extent of area for which this value is acceptable and now I would like to summarize some challenges which may be treated within this action so one one challenge is let's say purely technical so is selection of observed deterioration processes and appropriate and relevant threshold values is this selection appropriate or correct how well if you know that there are some correlations between cracking carbonation and corrosion progress do we need to observe all these all these processes and can we optimize threshold values in sense that this would lead to optimal maintenance plans appropriate method for monitoring is another is another point of concern so we need to balance between related costs and uncertainty in outcomes of the procedure well if you look at one specific time and we have a large surface so natural question is what should be the amount of observation at one time for components of let's say different areas so how to make distinction between shell of a cooling tower and columns supporting supporting the shell well another question could be what should be optimal time interval between measurements for different degradation processes so for carbonation ingress or for corrosion development do we need the same interval and what is the interval and well the maybe the last question in this open question in this presentation how can we use how can we utilize monitoring of similar structure so we have three well very similar chimneys in one power plant do we need to observe all the three chimneys or it's sufficient to to observe only one and maybe check our predictions less frequently for the other well tools which which we think should be applied for to answer these questions are some kind of modeling of spatial variability in deterioration processes we have experienced and applied these approaches in previous publications for simplified model of FIB given in FIB billetin 59 which is based on on while simple modeling of a zone so for a zone we assume that we can assume homogeneous deterioration conditions and then this zone is divided into elements and for each element we assume that that realization of considered random field so for instance carbonation depth is independent from the other element and we may define some hyper parameters which are which has common values for all the elements in the zone which are typical weathering conditions well another tool is in this action this is called ultimately value of information well in this graph this is just a very simple idea of balancing of costs of monitoring and benefits associated to obtained information so if we have on the horizontal axis if we have some decision parameter describing intensity of monitoring and we have more or less linear costs of monitoring and let's say some failure consequences which can be given in terms of repair or even failure consequences so then we optimize these costs and find some optimum intensity of monitoring and well for these studies what is relatively good information is that we have information on monitoring and repair costs and we also can describe failure consequences which are inevitable part of this this game and this optimization so well this that I would like to thank you for your attention okay


Jose, a big spot in this ballgame in the sixth inning. Garrett Cole was in a little bit of trouble there. What were you able to do to kind of bear down and get him out of that spot? Just make some pitches. I thought that's what Garrett did a really good job of. That's what he does. He's an ace for a reason. He comes out, makes pitches when he needs to, and he did that tonight. You guys have worked together well, back-to-back starts here. What do you think is clicking between the two of you? Just communication. I don't have, I haven't caught him that much. But I mean, somebody that's behind the scenes working is Higgy. Higgy helps me a lot with Garrett. The coaches' staff helps me a lot. And then we just kind of match up our scouting reports and go from there. When you talked to him before that, at bat with Perez, what are you telling him? Just, we got to make some good pitches here. Salvi's a good hitter. And you can't just give in to Salvi. You got to make some good pitches. You went with a cutter against him. Why did you want him to use that pitch? Just a good pitch, good pitch for Garrett. It's been good for him overall. I felt like it was a good pitch to Salvi at the time. How did he get stronger after that? It kind of seemed like he started to pick up a little bit after that, at bat. I'm not too sure. I mean, maybe that's just his adrenaline. Maybe something kicked in. But like I said earlier, he's a nice for a reason. You get those kind of endings to get you going. Like, that's a big time. How would you compare his stuff tonight to his last outing against Cleveland? Pretty similar, pretty similar. Kansas City likes to swing the bat.  I'm not even sure how many strikeouts he had tonight. But I know that it probably wasn't as many as the Cleveland series, just because Kansas City's that kind of team. They're going to put the ball in play. But I thought his stuff was really good. He has reintroduced that cutter this year. What kind of a difference maker is that for you calling his pitches? It's huge. If guys are going to be sitting on the fastball, you've got a little horizontal movement to it. And it's good. It goes just right off the end of the bat, like you saw with Salvi in that inning, just right off the barrel.


Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy, E.C.O. And I'm here with the lovely, amazing official, Miss Jamaica. What's going on? Man, hey man, we got a guy just pulled up on me today, man. Hey, he don't need no introduction if y'all been in the scene. If y'all ain't in the scene, y'all won't see him. But when you on the move, if you trying to go to a party, if you trying to understand what's going on in the city, if you trying to understand what's going on with the music, you got to run into my boy, DJ Trap. What's up, baby? What's going on, my God? Hey, man, thank you for coming on the show, man. Hey, man, anytime, anytime. Say, man, hey, man, you know, I always like to go back, right? We go back. How far back? Way back. Way back. You know what I'm talking about, man? So you came up in Dallas. Right. What part of Dallas you from? I jumped out the portion of Oak Cliff. Oak Cliff? Yeah. In the end of the day, coming up in Oak Cliff, in the junior high, what was going on? What was going on in those times? Because this was what? These were the 90s? Yeah. What was going on? Like the 90s to the 2000, 2005? What was going on from 99, 2005, 2006? I mean, Oak Cliff was, Oak Cliff really a jungle. I mean, it's like any other hood.  You know what I'm saying? And Oak Cliff is the Mecca of Dallas. If you ask me, it's the Mecca. You know what I'm saying?  Okay. You know what I'm saying? So you got to understand, we made it that way, though, like we stepping it that way. Everybody say, hey, man, y'all always running around saying, Oak Cliff, America and all this, like we making it that way. We wanted to be stamped that way. Like when you go to Atlanta, you hear zone six. Yeah. You hear zone four. You know what I'm saying? In Dallas, when you come to Dallas, we want you to hear Oak Cliff. And they do. You know what I'm saying? And they do. You can't come up here. And as soon as I take one of these cats to Oak Cliff, they be like, man, we in Oak Cliff. Yeah. Like these niggas, we got these niggas. They ain't got these niggas feeling some type of way when they come to the D. I mean, it's just, it's our home. It's our sanctuary. You know, we're going to protect it at all costs. Yeah. Like I said, when my son called me, because shout out to Trey, man. He called me like, man, dad, you got to, you got to, you got to interview this guy right here. I say, who is he? Man. E.D. J.Trap. I said, well, I got to do another DJ. I did DJ. Go DJ. Fresh Frost. Yeah. I did. I did all these DJ. Who I met. DJ with undead. Man. Even K. Yeah. K. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We brought through and awarded K. Right. We give out awards here too. Right. I started nigga, y'all copied me. But it's cool though, man. If you want to bless somebody, that's dope. You know what I mean? Just to try to tell somebody, you know, we don't want to just wait until you die, but we're going to give you roses while you're here. So that's what we do here. Recognize the hard work. Yeah. Yeah. You guys are killing it. Y'all out there, you look what y'all going through to try to get, you know, everybody recognized in the city. Like you just said about old Cliff, that DJ had to play those songs. Old Cliff, that's my hood. Yeah. And all that different stuff that's going on the new remix of that as well. Yeah. And the new remake of that, you know what I'm saying? That that's what you come in. You know what I'm saying? So where'd you go to high school at? I went to a couple of high schools. Like I moved around. I went to Lake Highlands. I went to North Garland. I went to Lake View Centennial. I went to SOC. Damn, what? I went to, yeah. You played football. I played basketball. I mean, it was just the situation that I had going on.  You know what I'm saying? Why were you rebellious? Why were you rebellious?  I just wanted to go do what I wanted to do and see my friends do.  So now I'm at this school and they stay way over here in Garland. So now I got to go to North Garland. I get kicked out of that school for fighting and getting into it. So now I got to go to Lake Highlands. You know what I'm saying?  Now I got to go back to Sop. You know what I'm saying? So that's how I really moved around. Where was your dad doing all this time? My dad was in the Navy for 22 years. Oh, and in the Navy. She didn't want to move out there with you? I don't know. I couldn't answer that question. You can't answer that question. She wasn't together, but I don't think if she did, she would have did it. You know what I'm saying? But he was in Norfolk, Virginia. I actually stayed with him. I went to Norfolk, Virginia and went to Norview High School for one semester. Wow. You couldn't deal with the way how he was straight. It was just different. I wasn't used to it. I was used to it. I wanted to be in Dallas. I wanted to be in the hood. I wanted to be in the streets. So it was like, no, I can't stay out here. I don't know nobody out here. And he wasn't the type of father that would say, you ain't leaving nor you ain't got no chance. I mean, he did. But you know, like I said, I grew up real fast. You know what I'm saying? And I had a strong mind at a young age. So I knew what I wanted to do. So I was like, okay, you could tell me this. But on the other hand, I'm about to figure out a way for it to go my way that I wanted to be. How old were you at that time when you were living out there? When I was living out there, I was what? 16? Okay. 15, 16? You thought you wanted to go out there? I thought I did.  I'm like, yeah, I go live with my daddy? Why not? Check it out and see what's going on. Did you have a good relationship with him? I mean, it was cool. It was cool. I wouldn't just say it was just a good relationship because my whole life, I lived with my mama. So when I started living with my daddy for that little one semester, it was almost like, man, I don't even know you like that. Like, you know, I knew that was my daddy. I knew who my daddy is. I still know him to this day, but I just never had a real, real good relationship with him. How do you think that affects you? Do you think looking back on your life now, do you think that if you had stayed and has dealt with it, that your life would be different? That's really a good question. I think it would. I think it would because I wouldn't have gotten into a lot of trouble that I got into in Dallas. You know, when you're in Dallas and you know everybody, you know what everybody doing and you know how to get to what you need to get to in the streets, you got the access to it. So you're going to do it. But you know, what you're saying, that's familiarity, but at the same time, if you're going to get in trouble, because I know people who no matter where they moved to, they find that trouble. Right. See, I didn't get in no trouble in Virginia though. None. I could say that, you know what I'm saying? I didn't get in no trouble in Virginia like, because I just didn't know nobody. I wasn't out there trying to, you know, run around because I don't know them. I'm not going to hang with some dudes.  Like, I don't want to be making. I don't know y'all. Do you have kids right now? Yeah, I got kids. Do you think that not having that bond, do you have any boys? Yeah, I got two boys.  For sure. How? For sure. Because the way I handle them, they'll never not know me. You know what I'm saying? Like, my kids, I signed every birth certificate. I've seen every one of them come out. I never lose a relationship with my kids because of my daddy. That's a good point. You know what I'm saying? Like, I never do that. I don't care if I got to drive 3,000 miles to go see them every day.  You know what I'm saying? Kids value stuff like that.  We never had a conversation like that. We for to grow you. We for to grow you. We for to stretch you.  And you could, and that would make a difference. You know that, right? It would. It also makes, because how I believe is that once you're still here on this earth, you have room for growth no matter how old you are. Right. So you never know that, he might not even be looking at it in a certain way. Yeah. He could want to ask you, but then scared to ask. Right. Or his dad could have been the same way with him. Right. So this is what somewhere you can break something that's been going on for a long time. Right. And I think a lot of times people don't look at it from that perspective. They always looking at it from a, dang, he did that to me. Right.  You see what I'm saying? He got time to fool with it. That's exactly how I look at it. That's how I look at it. And I just, you know, I'm so busy now with doing so much in my career and what I'm doing. It's like, I don't even have time to revisit that. Which I do, I can make the time, but I don't even think about making the time.   And to me, that is number one, more than your career and more than anything else, because things that happen in our lives, that's why a lot of times some people say we're still suffering from slavery mentality. Right. Because that happened how many years, decades ago, but we're still being affected by it. It comes down in our genes. So, seeing, say example, you and your dad get back together and you all bond. Your kids seeing all of that, that can help them move forward with a lot of... And their kids, and their grandkids. And their kids and grandkids. So, a lot of times I say this world is, I say it's a devil. The devil makes us so busy with creating money for our family. We want to work so hard to make sure we leave something for our family. That sometimes the most precious thing we can leave them is memories and lessons. Not always, you know, because when you work so much, it's, oh, daddy work a lot. That's what he does. Because he provides for us. That's what he does. But that's the only thing that they learn. Right. You know what I mean? It's so much, it's called balance, okay? That's all we say. It got to be some balance in there. Yeah. You know, so when you... Did we get it all? Or we still need it? I was just talking about it from experiences too. We can dig some more and try to figure out what happened. No, you can go. Okay, you all right. All right, we're going to let him make it then. We're going to let him make it. No, but... No, the thing I look at is, man, the music scene in Oak Cliff, I've always been banging, man. A lot of times people... How did you end up getting into music? I'm going to tell you the truth. It's crazy that you said, I had to go DJ Fresh. That's my guy. Fresh is one of the people who helped teach me how to DJ. He been with me ever since. You know what I'm saying? We've been friends for 30 years. He know me. You can ask him about me. I'm going to ask him. I might ask him here as soon as we get off here. I stood behind him for over three years, watching him and he teaching me different stuff. I didn't even realize he was teaching me as much as he was until after the fact. When I'm by myself, I'm like, oh, he already taught me how to do that. I know how to do that. I know how to mix. I know how to blend. I know how to count beat waves. He taught me all this. Like I tell him all the time, I can never ever say thank you enough. He's a very interesting guy. I think we talked the other day about another computer, man. He was just talking about it. We talk about a lot of stuff. You talk about computers. You talk about friends. Me and him, we're friends, man. We've been friends before all this. That's why I say I'm old school with it. He did the music. You got whooped in pool, nigga.  U-T-B days, nigga. You don't want to go there. But that anyway, that's my guy.  A lot of strip clubs. I'm sitting in the booth. I don't do nothing. Just sit there and talk to him because he's my friend. But so that's good that you got at first hand like that. Yeah, fresh. I can't forget to go to DJ Thriller and rest in peace with my brother, DJ Dup. DJ Dup, he was one of the real, real big influences on me becoming a DJ. Like he really pushed for it hard. You know what I'm saying? We from the same side of town. Okay. We used to be in the same side of town a lot. So he seen what I was doing and he knew like, okay, if you want to do this, you got to do it all the way. You can't halfway do it. So he pushed me to do it all the way too. So there was the three people that Thriller, Dup, Fresh, you know what I'm saying? Of course the big homie, DJ Hasi, the CEO to go to DJ is he had a big influence on me too. But they kept me, they kept me grounded and got me where I need to be. That's dope, man. Like I said, that's what, that's what, that's the stories here because it's some young kids out there that want to be a DJ. Yeah. Believe it or not. And you say, well, what's your young kid? I'm talking about 15 and 16. Yeah. 17, really. And that's what this show is about. Yeah. It's more about you and your gift and being able to, for them to see you and say, guess what, if he could hit it, the DJ trapped it, I could do it. You know what I mean? And it's kind of a dedication. You see what I'm saying? So that's what it is. So when you first, when you first knew you was going to be a DJ, how did you, how did you go into that?  I'm going to tell you what happened. I went to the club and I seen the DJ get paid. Oh, about that money. That was about it. I never forget that day. I seen him get paid and he gave him the money, the wire of money was so big. I had to go over there and ask him like, they pay you there every night. He was like, man, sometime on a good night, sometime it's more than this. You know, it's just, but you're going to have to work a little bit to get to where I'm at. You know, you're going to have to start a little bit lower. So I got with DJ Dip and I got my first set of equipment. It was some CDJs. I had some Pioneer 800 CDJs. That's back when we was dropping CDs in the turntables. So I had some CDJs and then DJ Thriller gave me my first mixer. Shout out to Thriller. He gave me my first mixer. So I had my first setup. You know what I'm saying? I ended up breaking it too, Thriller. I ended up breaking that mixer, but he gave me my first mixing. After that, I just was at home every day practicing, like every day. People don't know every day I was practicing every day. They thought I was just out here just running around, but I was practicing every day. How old were you at that time? I had to be, I might have been like 22. But that was at the time I wasn't getting booked in no clubs. I wasn't doing no parties. I was just practicing. I didn't want to go embarrass myself. Did you have a full-time job at that time? No, I didn't have no job. I was living with family members and thugging and just out here in life just doing whatever. At that time, I didn't have my life together.  Let's go do it. So how old were you when you discovered that this is your calling? I'll say about 25 is when I really said I'm going all the way. What motivated you to do that? Was it because of your kids? I started getting success. I started, see me, I played basketball when I was younger. So I already knew everybody I knew. Point guard? Yeah, point guard, shooting guard. You used to get whooped up. I was like, I'll see your boy always crying when he played Thomas the Yellow Beesie. I be seeing them niggas boy they act like they in the NBA.  I be hitting the ball and I say, man, these niggas think they in the NBA, man. I started off with basketball and that's what I really thought I was going to do. And then after school. You ever played them niggas? Who, Yellow and Thomas? Yeah. Who be winning? Who be winning? Yeah, let's be real. Both of them. Do they ever, you be both of them? I'm going to be both of them every time. They not on your level? No, no, no. They ain't got no win. I just put it out there. Just let y'all know when you come back. Tell me how to hit the gym. What celebrity have you ever played and they whooped that? That they won? Yes. We had a celebrity basketball game in North Carolina. I can't even remember what the name of the game was, but he big now, Tucey. I don't know if you heard of Tucey. I never heard of him. At the time, he wasn't big. You know what I'm saying? But now he big, but he big me. He can't beat you now? No, no, I don't. I got a win now because he too big. Yeah, I got a win. We got to keep playing until I win. We're going to have to keep playing until I win, but I mean, I played against a few celebrities. You know what I'm saying? Black Youngster, Tucey, a couple of YouTube stars. But you're saying he's the only one that beat you? Yeah, we're the only one that really played one-on-one. Everybody else, it was just like a team game. You know, celebrity game, just fun. They not taking it serious, but we kind of took it serious afterwards because we was bedding a little bit. So I was like, man, let's play. Why everybody gone? We can go and get a one-on-one game. Oh, really? You a shooter or you like to drive? I'm a shooter. For sure. For sure. We can shoot for the catch right now. I already knew you knew. Right now. We can go shoot for the catch right now. Shoot for the catch. Right now. Man, you know, on Boss Talk 101, man, being that we always ask these serious, ongoing questions, right? So I've been interviewing some people here lately, man. Right. Just, I interview OG Bobby Billions, and he did a song with Trap, and he did a song with Mode 3. Yeah. What do you feel about, do you think that he should have done that, or what do you think about that? Me personally, in my opinion. Yeah. I think he should have did it. Why? Because that shows that he's not taking a side. So you feel like he... People feel like he was taking a side by, oh, I'm only doing music with Mode 3. I'm not doing no music with Trap. If he would have done it that way. Yeah, if he would have, I'm not going to do no music with Trap, boy. And you from O'Cliff, Bobby Billions Bobby Billions is from O'Cliff. People can say what they want to say. I know people that knew this man when he was a little running around the hood. Like, he just wasn't known. Of course he wasn't blown up, so you're not going to really notice him if you don't know him. You know what I'm saying? O'Cliff big. People stay in that section. When you in your section, you know, if you on Keiston Poke, you on Keiston Poke. You ain't over here in BFL, you ain't over here in Bakley. In Bakley, you know, you in your section. So you could be in Keiston Poke, somebody from Bakley never know you. That's right. You know what I'm saying? So it's just, he stayed in his section, but I think he did it right. I would have did it the same way. Same way. I would have did it. And he asked Freddie to do the song. Like, it wasn't a thing of Freddie came, like, Mode 3, Mode 3 asked Bobby to do that song. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? That song was already out. Yeah. Mode 3 asked Bobby to get on that song. And then he gave him one of the best verses he ever had. He gave it to him. You know what I'm saying? So I think both of them was needed on that song. You can't take either person off that song. It's a big thing right now in Dallas. Everybody's saying this and saying that. That's why I asked you because it's a hot, the bloggers are talking. Everybody's like... You can't take either part off because Bobby already had the song out before Mode 3 ever got on it. The song was out. The song was getting played in the club, everything. When he got on it, of course it gave it a boost. It took off. You know what I'm saying? He did say that. He did say that. It was out before, but like nobody heard it really. People say it was on the radio. It was on the radio. It was moving. But it was growing. It's like Mode 3 was just a good person at the time to get on the song and see what happened.  It's going to start moving more. It's going to take off even faster. Do you feel that if anybody else would have been the person on there other than Mode 3? Like example, Blueface. If Blueface had gotten it before... Did he get it before? He did. He did get it before. But see, the thing about it is... He didn't do it. He didn't release it. He didn't release it. But so you think that if he did and released it before Mode 3 got on it, do you think it would have done... Done what it did with Mode 3? No. That was Mode 3's type of song. That was his type of song.  If you go look at the views on YouTube, it's more views on his video. Didn't Bobby say it was more... Don't let that out the hat yet. Well, this will come out afterwards. I'll tell people, look, go look for it right now. Go look for yourself. We just interviewed by OG Bobby Billion and he actually showed us that. We already... We know that to be true. Yeah, he's the Blueface's wave. I pay attention. I watch everything going on in my city. You just said what he showed us there. Don't mind. You can go see it yourself. You can go to YouTube right now and type it in. It's more views. So you can say what you want to say. We just saying that because we from here and how we know the backstory of how the song came up and how it blew up. We've seen that from the outside looking in. Blueface is the big artist. He was at the time when it was done. He's still the big artist. We sit down and listen to both songs and we just... Well, I personally, I can't speak for you. No, you can't. Mode 3 just seemed right for Mode 3 to be on that. You can speak for me on that. Yeah, you right on that. I didn't mean to like Blueface on it. I love Mode 3 very much. I like Blueface on it. I just didn't love Blueface on it. But I liked it. We heard it a certain way. So then you hear it a different way. You're like, man, if you would have heard that one first, you might have liked it. No, I would have still liked Mode 3 better. Yeah, but I mean, I think that, like I said, I think there was three types of songs. That's his type of flow. Was he the first one came? Because you know, a lot of people on that singing thing, like the Rod Wave, the T-Rails. A lot of people. Yeah, it's a lot. More Rays. Because the Army is coming back. No, I'm not talking about that part. I'm trying to ask some questions here. When did you first see that style come into play like it is? The singing, the singing. Yeah, that's what they're doing. That's the pain. Yeah, yeah. I mean. Is it Mode 3? In Dallas. In Dallas, of course it is. In Dallas for sure. But, I mean, in the industry, I mean, that's Kevin Gates. That's Rod Wave. Kevin Gates. That's, you know what I'm saying? That's Rich Omi Kwan. Like, they singing, they sing rap. You know what I'm saying? It's more of a harmonize. But it wasn't. It wasn't a deep, deep pain like that, though. It wasn't. He had his own, he had his own way of putting out his music, his own way of, that's what made him special. You know what I'm saying? Because he had his own way of putting out the music. You know what I'm saying? Everybody knew he could rap. Everybody said, man, he could rap. He really got it. It just took a while for him to make it to where he was trying to make it to. Yeah. But that voice though, because the first, I didn't really never listen to Mode 3 rap before. Right. Until I heard him sing. Right. When I heard him sing, like, on his lives and stuff, that's where I saw him singing first. And I was like, he can really sing. Passion. Right. And you felt everything he was saying. And that's what I loved about him. So that made me go, search for his music and look for all of his songs because of him singing.  Yeah, that's my boy. That's your boy.  Right. Before it started. The Say Cheese video, where they was going back and forth. The song that he, that Mode 3 didn't happen to be on. All of, all of stuff that everybody on the internet see. Right. How did that affect you far as being a DJ? I mean, it made me, it made me end up in a lot of uncomfortable situations. That's what I would say. Yeah. I was thinking that way. This dude had to be in some real uncomfortable situations. It's like, it's like, give me a story.  We on Boss Talk 101, we got to talk the real, you know what I'm saying? So look, when it happened, I remember the day it happened. I remember the day the static first happened. This was years ago. This was our most four or five years ago. Okay. When it first happened, and I said, I don't know what day it was. I know I was at home, I know I was at home looking at Instagram. And I know it hit the internet. It was going on before the internet. But it hit the internet. But it hit the internet, you know what I'm saying? With mode three doing lives and you know, just yelling and screaming and saying this and this and that, you know what I'm saying? So now people taking the sides and taking the opinions. I never was a person to be like, okay, I can be cool with bro. You know what I'm saying? And be on this side because you on one side or the other. You know what I'm saying? That's just how it worked. Like I'm on this side. I'm cool money. I'm cool money entertainment. I've been cool money. I knew Freddie before he even wrapped one verse before he ever was rapping. I knew him before he ever put out one CD. You know what I'm saying? I knew him. That was already my partner. So when he got with the rap and I became his DJ, that was just, oh, that's my brother. We're going to do this together. It never was a DJ rapper relationship. So when this happened, it was no question who saw them on. Right. It ain't, I can't even think to even be on no other side but that side. Cause that's my brother. I'm riding with my brother. Just like if it would have happened to me, he would have rolled with me. But at the same time, we in the club and the song popular.  That's part of the business. See, but I was, that's the part I would wonder about. Like if he would say, you can't play that song no more. Right. Right. I mean one thing about one, one, one, one thing about Tre Boy Freddy, Tre Boy Freddy, way smarter than people think he is. He's smart. He knows what goes on. He knows situations. He's been in situations. I already felt that way. You know what I'm saying? So he already knew. Hey, it's going to be a point where this song, hitting the Billboard charts, he going to have to play there. No, no, no. In the club, in the club. Now I cannot play it in certain clubs. You know what I'm saying? I'm not listening to it in my car. I'm not bumping it, walking down the street. But when it gets to a premiere part of the club in this song right now, it's probably the most streamed song in Texas. Besides Megan Thee Stallion and, you know, Travis Scott and Beyonce, you know, they Texas artists, besides them, outside of them, that's the number one song streamed in the whole state. That's correct. You know, so you can't, that's like, why would I not play that? That's like me going in the club and not playing young thug ski. That's like me going in the club and not playing Drake. Way too sexy. Well, come back to where you got, he was in that, when you felt like the tension from when it hit the internet.  I'm playing the records, but I always play both records. Anybody that know me, they been in the club. If I play outside, I'm playing a trap board Freddie record after that. Yeah. That's how it's going. You know what I'm saying? So it's a lot of situations where it got sticky, you know what I'm saying? Real sticky. But people understand one thing about me. Hey, if you're going to come for me, you got to come all the way. Correct, yeah. So, you know, once you understand that, you got to go with the consequences like, you know what I'm saying? Any, any, any, any step that you take past.    Can't nobody try. No. I didn't think so. No promoter never told me that. No, no. So the times when you look at all the stuff that transpired and what can make Dallas a place where people can come together when they do the music but still have differences. You see, that's where I'm at because when I go to Atlanta or when I'm in Chicago or where I'm in Vegas, I feel like the music is a priority. But here it's like we've split this thing so much to where everybody just kind of just intense because of what happened. Right. It was a big deal. You know, a lot of people, you know, we have a lot of lost lives behind this. Right. So how can we get back there? And I know it's a complicated question. I think I really think in that particular situation with these two sides. We can't really just talk about them. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? I know where you're going to go. I'm not worried about them. I didn't ask about them per se. I asked you how. You understand what I'm saying? How can we, how can we evolve, you know? I think over time, over time things are blow over and people will forget it. You know what I'm saying? Not saying they're going to forget his name or nothing like that, but over time people will forget it. And I think we'll, you know, we'll level up and we'll get to the point where we're a maker because Dallas has got the, we got the eyes on us. Not only do you have the eyes, there's a lot of talent here. Yeah.   That's the part that, and another question I always ask. Why do you think Dallas, and if you answer, I know the answer, I think, but why do you think Dallas and Houston could never look as if they're one when you look at Texas? He goes. He goes too strong. Like, it's just like, you know, everybody that's rapping, they not paying attention to it. Freddie and Yella, they stay connected and they work their way up the chain to the music industry. If you watch it, everybody's like, oh, that's his partner. No, they stay connected. It's not, they don't got nothing to do with my partner. They've been my partner before I was rapping. You know what I'm saying? It's a lot of people that's my partner before I was rapping. But the thing about it is, hey, I know I'm going to make it to this business. I'm going to make it to this business meeting. I'm going to make it to this, this label meeting, you know, I need you to come. Why? Because you need to know the people that's there too. But how many artists in Dallas don't want to do that? They want to go by their self. Oh, no, I don't want to take him. That ain't, that ain't, nah, man. I want to get him. I want to go by myself. I want to go me with the label by myself. Instead of both of y'all going to me with the label, both of y'all presenting y'all music and let them pick. Hey, we're going to sign both of y'all. We're going to sign one of y'all. You know what I'm saying? It's just, it's the egos. It's the egos.  I don't want to be, oh, it's trapping yellow. You know, that ain't never been a problem for them. Both of them being successful. So when you look at that, back to Dallas and Houston.  Think about it. Yeah. That too.   For sure. I'm being real, in prison. For sure. And in the streets, nigga wearing these stores, everywhere. For sure. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, that's it. So think about it. And then you go down there and it's like, I think sports do a lot to it. Sports? I mean, like I say, egos, it's the money. You know what I'm saying? The money? A lot of people got their own money. So they look at it like, what I need to link with you for and I can pay for it myself. You know what I'm saying? What I need to link with you for and I got a label. You know what I'm saying? It's just, it's a lot. It's a lot. I don't even know if they can ever happen. See what I mean? I don't know if they can ever happen to be honest with you. And you told us you had a good question. My damn question was good too. That's a good question. I don't think that could ever happen. Because the pens and stuff so strong and the money, people in Houston, they getting their money, people in Dallas getting their money. Getting their money too. Backing their people. You know what I'm saying? They got the mob down there. We got the New Dallas movement. You know what I'm saying? It's all like, they doing their thing, we doing our thing. So how would it ever come together? What happened to that boy? Is it Smurf Franklin over there? How's he doing? He good. Smurf good. Smurf working out. Smurf chiseled, man. Okay. He over there looking like Buff Bagwell, man. Smurf doing his thing. Yeah, Smurf Franklin. I'm thinking of. He got some new music coming too, man. Look out for Smurf. Oh, yeah? Yeah, he got some new music coming.  Man, I didn't walk the block to my feet. I didn't walk the block to my feet. Oh, for worse. Look, and the curry thing about Gator Man is like, I knew him. I seen him all the time, but I didn't know his music. Really? I didn't know. I knew that song, but I didn't know his music. Like, I knew him, though. That's a life. I knew him from the streets and people talking about him. Yeah. I knew him. I'm a ball player, man. Maybe going hard to the hole. When Gator Man was coming out, I was on Big Chief. You know what I'm saying? I love Big Chief. That's how we was on. You got love, though, Chief, man. That's what we was on. That's how we was on. Listen, man. Love them boys, man. When Gator came out, when Gator was doing this thing, he was still doing this thing, but I just wasn't tuned in to him. I was on the people that I was on. Webby and Boosie and, you know what I'm saying? That's the people we grew up on. We love them. Definitely. So with that being said, I need the top three artists of all time. Dead or Alive. Dead or Alive. Any genre. That's a dangerous question. Oh, number one. Everybody that been in that sheet answered that question. Number one. Right. Top three artists. Dead or Alive. All time. Number one. Ooh. That's a dude. That's a hard one. I wish I could go back and get fresh. I'll go back and spend it on him. Oh, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm going to speak on myself. Myself, me. Now, what you're supposed to speak on? Most niggas coming here and getting mirrored. My number one, my number one artist of all time got to be Boosie. Damn. We grew up on Boosie. That's all we listened to. My other host here, he from Louisiana, he's from Louisiana. He's from Louisiana. He's from Louisiana. He's from Louisiana. He's my host here. He's from Louisiana. He'll love you. That's all we listened to. When we was coming up, we were listening to Boosie and Webby. Yeah. That's what we were listening to. Boosie, Webby, Jeezy. And Jeezy. Jeezy was. So, is that your top three? No. He ain't say you're going to say that. Number two. I ain't going to say that's my top three. But I'm saying that's the people we were listening to. Number two. Number two all time, NBA Young Boy. Boosie, NBA Young Boy. Let me get in there. NBA Young Boy. He locked up right now. I'm talking about mine. Mine. NBA Young Boy. You love his music.  I value what you say. Young Boy one of the best rappers ever. Ever. Ever. Why? The impact he got on people. People really want to be him. Like people cry when that man with the jail. Never met him a day in their life. Damn. You know what I'm saying? Like he got real fans. He was the third one to go. It was Pac, him and one more person to go number one while being incarcerated. Yeah. It was one more person. And I can't remember who it is. But it was one more. Yeah. I can't remember. Young Boy. Young Boy. Young Boy is probably one of the best rappers ever. Wow. Like as far as street rappers talking what they living. He really going through what he's saying. Like if y'all really listen to his music, you can see. Hey, this going on with him, man. He getting jammed up and all. He been doing that. And he been doing this since a young age. So I just like his flow. You know what I'm saying? And how he put his life situations in his music. You know what I'm saying? But it ain't turning out good for him right now. He going to come home. Yeah. He going to be home. He got a lot of lawyers and a lot of things good for him. Number three. Number three. Man. Who I say. Bootsy Young Boy. Man, I got to say, look. I got to say Webby or G. No. You say Webby? That's my nigga savage life, nigga. I got to say GZ then. You say GZ? I got to say GZ. I ain't saying GZ. That nigga did a man. What was that? I used to hit the kitchen floor. That was cockroaches everywhere. Hit the marble floors everywhere. You remember that song? GZ. Man, I know every GZ song he ever put out. Man, GZ. When we was coming up, my era growing up in high school. I told him zip like this and zip like that.  That nigga had them ad libs going, didn't he? He was on that GZ. He had the anthems. He had the whole CDs. Like you play the whole CDs. You can let that whole rock. The whole CD. I ain't going to lie to you. It's just like, it's so hard to put the three like this. But Gucci go hard too, nigga. Gucci go hard. You're going to try to set it up. And he got a million songs. You did it. And he... He did three. Yeah, I know he did it. But I think you love Gucci. I'm Gucci, nigga. I love Gucci. And you know, I'm P.M.C. I'm P.M.C. There wouldn't be no Bootsie without P.M.C. I wouldn't play Gucci over Bootsie. You wouldn't? I wouldn't play Gucci over NBA Young Boy though. It's just me. I wouldn't do it because I look at it like, this is why I really like this. Yeah, that's why when I was coming up, I go out what I was hearing when I was coming up. I like your top three. I like it.  It's Bootsie, it's... NBA Young Boy. NBA Young Boy and Jeezy. That's a good... That's dope. If you talk about urban music, you talk about hip-hop, you got to say them three names. That's heavy. That's my boy Bootsie on the wall. That's my boy right there, man. Yeah, I see him right there. Yeah, he a good dude though. I see him right there. Real talk.  Just a real nigga. Real nigga. So what did you think when he got shot? Over there in Old Cliff at the Big T. Man, I'ma say it like this. That situation happened because of him. Okay, explain. You know what I'm saying? Like, I ain't going to speak too much on it. All I'm going to say is, he made that situation happen to him. That's how it went. Like, you got to understand, you not in your side of town. You in somebody else's hood. If you don't respect somebody else's hood, it can go bad for you. Either way, you look at it. You know what I'm saying? So, them people that did what they did, they feel like he was disrespecting them. Wow. So, they did what they did. That's any hood you go to though. You can go anywhere in America. And they feel like you're disrespecting them. They going to do something about it. Wow. And like I said, I seen it coming. I heard a lot of talk, you know, just from the outside looking in, I'm like, wow, man. Because I love Boosie. And not only that, I'm in Old Cliff every day. That's my hood. Like, it ain't my hood, but I be, you know. You be in the section. That's how this store got here. Yeah. Meaning I was going over there frequenting every weekend. I was single. Yeah.  Yeah. And it's 20 years ago. Yeah. That's why I go. Yeah. And I didn't know I was going to do no store either at the time. I was looking at girls. That's why I was going there. Yeah. That's why all the women come on the weekends. Sunday used to be a beast back then. Before that, it was Glendale Park. Yeah. I was there. I'd go to the big T, go down to Glendale, come back up, stop at that rage track right there. Nigga, come on now. You know I did it. Go by the chicken place right there. Williams. I'm on it. I'm on it. I know. That's the best. Do they still do that down there? Yeah. Nigga, we were, when I was doing it for real. I was jamming Big Mike. You don't know nothing about that. I was coming through, man. Yeah. And that's the way we did it. And so when, when I, even after that, I just hung in Big T, Big T is the place to be.  So you, I gotta have, I gotta have Oak Cliff if I do Dallas. There's no Oak Cliff. That takes a lot from Dallas. Think about that for a minute. You take away Oak Cliff out of Texas. Dallas, DFW, you can't do it. It's too important. It's important. That's like taking away Big T out of Oak Cliff. It can't do it. It's too important. If you come from out of town and you like, hey, what's this place I be hearing about? Big T. You gotta go buy Big T. You got to. You got to. I like it. So if you could go back and talk to that 16 year old boy, 17 year old boy that, you know, left it dead.  What would you say? Left my mom. Left my mama out. No, you left your dad when you came from down. Oh yeah. You didn't want to deal with it that one semester. What would you say to yourself, to prepare yourself for what you was about to face, knowing what you know now? That's heavy because you'd be talking to yourself. I tell myself, you got to look at what's going on and move smarter with the situation. Like the streets was never the answer. Okay. I feel like that for everybody. You tell them to be more strategic on what you do. The streets was never the answer. Like I had, I was touching a lot more money than I thought when I look back at it. Like people was giving me stuff, you know what I'm saying? I was touching a lot of money and I could have opened a lot of businesses. I could have made more smarter moves with my money. So just spending on clothes, you know what I'm saying? Just going out to the club, balling, trying to buy bottles, trying to be like the next man, you know what I'm saying? I just wouldn't, my mind wasn't all the way there yet. I wouldn't realize that, hey man, you got what you need, you know what I'm saying? So it just was a thing I should have, I could have made smarter moves, but like I say, I was a kid, you know? Yeah, so how did you? I was a kid. How did you get the name DJ Trap? Man, it really came from a couple of my partners. You know what I'm saying? We was trying to figure out a name, I ain't know. And then they was calling me Trap T. And I was like, at the time I was doing some hustling, you know what I'm saying? So that's what I was like Trap, you know what I'm saying? I was like, I don't want to call myself no Trap. And you know, and then my granny had showed me, I can't remember what it was on TV or it was on the newspaper. She showed me something that said, take risk and prosper. Okay. You know what I'm saying? And I was like, that's the acronym of Trap. Because I'm a risk taker. I ain't scared to take no risk because I feel like when no risk is no reward. Wow. You know what I'm saying? So I was like, I'm just going to roll with it because people was already calling me that anyway. So I was like, I don't really try to take no change of name. I'm just going to roll with it. Because the name don't define the person, the person defines the name. What's the hottest song right now in the city? Or in the, to you? The hottest song out in the club? Right now. The hottest song out right now? If you really just want to say the hottest Drake, way to six. Okay. Okay. Drake way too sexy. Yeah. What's next? Drake, then I'll right behind Drake, I'll put young thug ski. That nigga, that young thug. That's the nigga y'all connected to him. Yeah, yeah. Trapping him. That's his boy right there. My brother really, really close to thug. Like real, real close to thug. Your real brother? No, Freddie. Freddie, okay. That's my brother. That's my brother. Okay, your brother. Yeah, he always see him. They always, they always chop it up. He real close to thug. Like he almost had it. He almost signed to him. Like that was that close. I didn't know you, my son had linked me with you. And I made the call this morning to find out if you really was locked in with him. And yeah, he said you was. Yeah, for sure. I put it in the call.  You think I'm blind? Ask him when you talk to him. He gonna be like, damn, damn. I got to him. I promise you. He said you was official. Yeah, for sure. That's dope, man. You know what I'm saying? Like I love it when the real connection is there. I like the show to be organic.  So I'm like, I ain't even do my show like that. I knew Freddie before he rapping. I knew Yella before he rapping. I mean, I don't know. I didn't call all of these either, but I could have. That's my boy, man. Shout out to my nigga, Love. Yeah, he always messes with me. He give me some good pointers on different stuff. We talk about stuff. Love be doing this thing. He real, he real unique in what he does. Yeah, I mean, Love when he was rapping. Yeah, that nigga, when he was on here, I played the songs, nigga. We got out on here. Nigga had a song with an MC, with an eight ball, Nip J.G. Yeah. Yeah, I said listen to it. He was on here pushing with Snooty Wow. Yeah, yeah. He had a couple of songs. He dope dope. I like his son too. Ziggy going hard on the beats, man. He was on here. I love them boys, man, when he come down with it. And they stay in focus. That's what I like so much about him. He getting them at an early age. So, you know, he gonna be good at what he do because he practicing, repetition, you know what I'm saying at an early age.  Okay, so you change the mood of music, of clubs with the music. Yeah, like you can stop certain things from happening. That's what DJ, go DJ Fresh said. Say he could, he would see something escalating and he could tone it a different way. Playing the right song. Right song. At the right time. Change the mood, though. Song selection, very important in DJing. Wow. Very important. What song you play, after what song, the time that you play the song is important. People think we just be up there just playing song. You don't go like that. Do you have a gig like that you do weekly or anything like that? Yeah, I got four gigs I do weekly. Do we, can we know? Yeah, on Friday I'm at Status, on Saturday I'm at O.T. Tavern. On Sunday I'm either at Turkey Dam or I'm at Lofty Spaces. And then on Tuesday I'm at King Ted Hookerland. Wow, so do you, like how can people get a hold to you? I'm on my social media, Go DJ Trap, G-O-D-J-T-R-A-P, everything. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, it's all the same. Wow, thank you so much, man. We love you, bro. Man, I appreciate it. Say we did it, man. Boss Talk 101, we did it. We got DJ Trap on here. You niggas in trouble. Yeah, we calling out the real ones. We real close to the streets. Yeah, and everything we didn't know. We pick up the phone, we could call them. So y'all better know, man. Boss Talk 101, we here to stay. We ain't going nowhere. We on Boss Talk 101, so we gonna say this. What's that? Every DJ you brought up here, I didn't did more clubs than them. Really? I didn't did the most clubs than any DJ in my city. For Worth, Dallas, Grand Prairie, Arlington. It ain't no DJ in my city that didn't did more clubs than me. Go look at him. Y'all heard that DJ. Pick your weight up, niggas. He ain't bragging, he just stating the facts, man. How that your boy, man? It's a unique hustle, man. It's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101. And we out.


outside. This is something we don't get to use hardly much anymore at all. It's a timing light. You don't time cars that way anymore. That's why you got to be careful folks. We're into that room. Huh? I heard a voice in there. What? Yeah a woman's voice. Sounded like she said hello or something. I was sitting in the truck the whole time. I got my seatbelt on still. A little quick but we got some in there. Everything's still in there. Really? Everything. Wow. Get a monitor. Really? Everything's in there. Get a lot of it? I got what I could. There's a big hole in the floor. I thought I was going. I couldn't get to this room back here on this side. No.  Wow. I mean it's not deep because there's no basement but still. Floor's really weak. J-Bear on to the next one. We'll see what else we can find. Sorry that then I was coming out. I heard something coming through the weeds. It was a couple cows over there.  But because I just heard that voice. I don't know if this thing picked it up or not. I hope it did because it wasn't me. It sounded like it could have been one of the cows but we'll find out when we run this bag. Wow. I can't believe all the stuff is still in there. Oh yeah. Beds and wheelchairs. Old old stuff. Oh there's a lot of stuff. I saw timing light in there. Did you see a calendar or anything? You don't use timing lights much anymore of course nowadays. No I didn't really look at them. There's papers all over the floors. Oh I'm sure people have been in there before then. I'm sure we're not the only ones. Alright we're out of here. J-Bear I'm gone. I'm with the main legend. See ya bye.


OnCloud is a really new project about two years old now. It's basically a personal cloud storage solution so if you know Dropbox it's really comparable from the features. The good thing about OnCloud is that it's open source of course completely free software so you can put it on your own hardware so you can have all the cool features from solutions like Dropbox or some Google services like syncing files, sharing files with others, like having versions and having all kinds of nice interface, for example nice web interface, mobile access and have everything but it runs on your own hardware on your own server so you don't have to give up the control over your data, don't have to upload all your stuff to Dropbox or Google or Facebook or Flibber, you can have the features without losing the freedom. There are lots of different ways to use OnCloud. I mean if you have your own server and even know how to set it up you can put it on your own server of course but you can also rent it from some providers so we have on our website oncloud.org as a list of providers where you can get OnCloud services or in the future build like appliances like small plug computers which you can plug in your power plug in your wall and you have your own like small server at home with your own cloud on it that's possible then there's also OnCloud is also suitable for using companies so if your company or your university or whatever organization can run an OnCloud service for all the people that's possible and of course I mean you can just rent a really cheap web space somewhere or sometimes you get a website at university just copy OnCloud in it it works you don't need system administration skills don't need root access or something just some web server somewhere put it in and it works. OnCloud 3 was released last week so that's a few days ago we have a release cycle of three months so we release a new major version every three months so really fast this version three we have an online editor that you can edit your text files directly in the browser I mean you can sync it and access it from your desktop your laptop whatever of course but you can also edit it and direct it in the browser if you're from your tablet for example then we have a photo gallery so you can look at all your holiday pictures and show it to your family without uploading it to Facebook and Flickr still stays on your own on your own server but everybody can look at it where you get access to um then we have a greatly improved calendar and address book application so you can sync all your calendar and address book data with your phones for example always KDE or GNOME application Thunderbolt yeah and we also have an app store integrated like an easy way to download new add-ons and new plugins for OnCloud so a lot of users the right extensions for new features like syncing bookmarks or syncing rss fees or something like that and you can just easily download it and install it and use it OnCloud was started by me two years ago mainly for home users and for people who can set up their own server and want to use it and their own hardware but it seems that the idea behind OnCloud is also very interesting for companies so we got a lot of requests from from enterprises who want to offer like OnCloud services for their employees and share data and sync data and stuff like that and of course they could just use the existing free software free open source version of OnCloud that's possible but some of the companies they need some help that they want support they want services around it they want to have release cycles patches every every time when a problem occurs they want to have custom integration with the existing servers and this is what we want to offer as a with our company so the software is complete free software we just offer like hardened versions or support or installation support together for companies it's it's moving faster forward than expected we we started at the end of last year with a small team of just the CEO Marcus Rex who was the former CEO of SUSE so a really experienced open source guy and to me i'm doing the technical part and we have a marketing person too and we have a few developers most of them are from the community so it's really good for the community to have a job of course to work on OnCloud now but it seems that we have we get far more interest from the from the companies than expected so we are still hiring so if you like the idea behind OnCloud and you have XP with this PHP or other technologies just send us a message because you're really growing fast because we really need more people thanks to all the contributors it's really amazing to be part of this growing and fun community and i think we can build something great together


Okay, this week in Retro Tech, this is kind of cool. First, let's show the commercial for it. We are the domeheads. We are the perfect family. And we play the perfect electronic game. Computer Perfection. Watch our daughter challenge her memory by lighting the lights in perfect sequence. Computer Perfection beats out clues and keeps score. With millions of games in its head, we can play alone. Or against each other. I run money. Oh well, nobody's perfect. Computer Perfection from Lakeside. In the world of electronic games, it's outstanding. Okay, 1979 Computer Perfection. This was released by Lakeside. It was a groundbreaking electronic game. How did the ultimate playmate? The game house in a transparent blue dome was activated by lifting the dome. And it revealed four games and three skill levels to choose from. Four games that it offered up or countdown. You'd try to get ten lights in the correct order with the fewest number of moves. Black Hole. Another one player game. Black Hole was the same objective countdown, but would add a twist. If you pressed another really lit button, the game would turn off all the lights ahead of it. The light itself. Brain Badden. That's the third game. A two player game. One player had to turn off all the lights starting with number one. Well, the other player to turn all the lights on starting with number six. Light Race. Two player game to turn on more than five lights. It wasn't supposed to be a game, more than a game. It was supposed to be something that was like half computer at the time, because this was like when computers were introduced. And it was supposed to be like a sophisticated game that was like very electronic, but also something kind of like a board game. One neat thing about it, a little bit of trivia. It hits a major media attention, not really, but back in the day, the show Buck Rogers in 21st century, in the episode Mark of the Sauron, viewers can notice computer perfections distinct blue dome besides Buck, Gilgerard's bed in the searcher sick bay. So that is this week's retro tech. This is the perfect family. Head or blue? Yeah, it was kind of it was kind of nice. JP is currently turning this into a synth. I think it's like the Atari 2600 switches. That's what was available, you could tell. And there's like a green LED and a red LED. Yeah, it's interesting because they're like, okay, computers are here, but we still make board games. So we have to like, you're in the computer as well. You're gonna like this. We're calling it computer perfection. It looks like, yeah, the enclosure is beautiful. Yeah, the blue dome, I'm surprised. It looks like good condition. Yeah.


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Hello everyone, I'm Nock Survivor, welcome to my YouTube channel. Before I begin, please show your support by hitting that thumbs up button down below. Thank you. When narcissists know you don't want them anymore. There was a time when you once wanted them. You were infatuated with them. You had an unreasonable feeling of love and attraction towards them. You just couldn't get enough of them and you probably would have done anything for them. But now you're watching this video because you don't want them anymore. You're not wanting to deal with them and it breaks their spirit. It causes them severe emotional damage because you were once crazy about them. But now you don't even bat an eyelid. You don't react to anything they say or do. And of course they can see the difference in your responses. They're heavily dependent on your emotional reactions as a source of supply.  They see that your demeanour has changed and they know that it's real. They can tell you're not feeling the same as you used to. They're not doing it for you in the way that they once did. And they don't like it. It makes them feel inadequate. Because they were once so dependent on your validation as a source of supply. But it's not there anymore and they feel it. They sense it. They can tell that your energy has shifted. But it's all on them. It's not on you. They were ungrateful. They took you for granted. Which is why they were disloyal to you and they behaved dishonestly. Because they thought anyone else would be willing to do the same as you were doing for them. They were ungrateful. Even if you gave them the world they wouldn't be happy. It wouldn't be enough. Because they always need more. And if you don't give them the attention and validation they need to boost their ego. Of course they're not going to be happy about it. Because they want that from you. But it's no good for you. You shouldn't even be giving your attention to them. Because it's not going to do anything for you. All it's going to do is deplete you. Because they have nothing to reciprocate back to you. So you're just going to be drained in the process of feeding them and building them up. Because it's at your expense. They're not contributing anything. They don't have anything. Which is why they want it from you. But you shouldn't even look at them. Just ignore them completely. Be unresponsive. Because then it will humble them. It will cause them to feel less important and proud. Which is probably how they should feel. Because they really haven't done anything that warrants this anxiety to feel themselves. They've achieved nothing. And yet they walk around like they're the best thing since sliced bread. And it's all a delusion. It's just in their heads. Because they haven't even done anything. All they do is prance around like they own the place. But they never take any action. They never actually do anything. And yet they demand and expect for people to validate this delusion. So everyone else can be just as crazy as them. Which is why it's best to just leave them alone. Ignore them. Don't feed into them. Because you're just feeding a void. A black hole. There's nothing even there. Which is why you feel so drained any time that you give your attention to them. Because they have an excessive desire and appetite. They have a void that can never be filled. Which is why you shouldn't just be pretending that you don't want them. You shouldn't be playing a game. Even though they may be playing a game with you.  Stop letting them benefit from your life. Because you're not even benefiting from theirs. So they don't deserve you. They don't deserve to be anywhere near you. They just want to know that you care about them. But they don't care about you. They're only concerned about themselves. Even though at times they make it seem like they care about you. But they really don't. They don't really see you. They live in a world inside their heads with a population of one. And everyone else is just an object. We're all just things that they use to make themselves feel better. Or to make their lives easier. Which is why they hate it when you don't acknowledge their existence. Because they need a person's existence just so they can feel good. They can't feel good without it. They can't feel good on their own. They're heavily dependent on people's validation because they're not even real. They have no inner sense of value. They have no sense of self. They're just a black hole. There's nothing even there. And if you don't acknowledge the facade, then it collapses like a house of cards. Because it's nothing more than a fabrication. It exists only in the mind. It has no basis in reality. Which is why it requires external validation. And then it boosts them up. Because their false image is all that they have. And they care so much about what other people think of them. They read into things at a molecular level in an attempt to find even the tiniest morsel of validation. Because they need it that bad. But they're never satisfied. So they get into one relationship. And things may feel good in the beginning. But they will get bored. And then they'll be seeking a new source of supply. They will want someone else's attention. They will want someone else to acknowledge them. It's not going to last forever. They can't help themselves. They just always want to feel something. And as you may have already experienced, you made them feel something in the beginning. And that's what kept them around initially. But after some time, it just wasn't enough. Because you can't stop. You can't give less. And in fact, you can't even keep giving the same amount. You have to keep feeding them. But not only that. You have to increase the dose each time you feed them. Because otherwise, they're just going to get bored. It's going to become usual and familiar. It's going to be their new normal. And they're not going to appreciate it anymore. Because they're like drug addicts. They need a bigger and bigger dose each time. They need more and more. Which is why there's really no one in this world who can satisfy them. Because no matter what you do, it's never going to be enough. They're always going to want more because they're ungrateful. And they expect more from you than they expect from themselves. Or than they've ever received from anyone, including their own parents. So when you're around them, it's like you become their parent. Because they're underdeveloped. They're not fully grown adults. They're not independent. They're incapable of taking care of themselves. And that's why they need you. But no matter what you do for them, it's never going to be enough. And they're never going to be grateful for anything. You won't even get a thank you. Because they're not satisfied. They won't even see it as though you've done anything. Because it barely touched them. It barely even affected them. It's never enough for them. Because they have a void that can never be filled. So they're never satisfied. They're never happy. And it does not matter how much you do for them. It's never going to be enough. Which is why the best thing you can do is avoid them. Just leave them alone. Forget about them. Because otherwise it's just going to degrade you. It's going to wear you down and make you look bad. It's going to ruin your life. Because they just can't survive on their own. And that is why they want it from you. Because they feel nothing for themselves. They could have a relationship, a marriage, a family. And they will still want more. While there are people in this world who have a lot less. And yet they are a lot happier. And they are more grateful. While having a lot less. But if you cut all ties with a narcissist, you will see how they begin to diminish. While you elevate and things just get better for you. This is why they hold on to you. And this is why it's not the other way arounds. Because they need you. You don't need them. You would have been far better off without them. But they gained a lot from you. Because they're the ones who need you. Not the other way arounds. You never needed them. And in fact you would have done a lot more without them. They were a hindrance to your life. And yet they're the ones who are ungrateful. Because they're empty black holes. There's nothing even there. All they can do is rob you of your life, energy and resources. And that is the only way that it is ever going to end. There's never going to be an alternative outcome or result. It can only end by them robbing you. Because all they have is a void. They have no inner sense of value. There is nothing there. It's all in your imagination. It's a shared fantasy, a delusion. It has no basis in reality. And if it dids, well you probably wouldn't be watching this video right now. You wouldn't be doubting yourself. And you wouldn't be doubting them. Because it would just be there. But it's not because it isn't real. They take from you because they need it from you. Because they can't generate it from within. They have nothing inside of themselves. They're black holes, empty vessels, empty meat suits. Whatever you want to call them, there is nothing there. And anything they do or say to you is just manipulation. It's just an attempt for them to get something out of you to rob you of something. Because it's what they lack. It's what they're deficient in. And it's never going to be anything different than that. All they can do is manipulate. And the best you will ever get from them is an illusion. They will only come around you to take from you. They have nothing to give. Even when it looks like they're giving something to you, that's still manipulation. They're mirroring you. They have nothing original of their own. They're reflecting back to you your own qualities and virtues so that they can take something from you. Any interaction or engagement with them will end in you being robbed. And you being depleted. Of things that you're never going to get back. Of things you're never going to see again. Because it just gets lost in a void. It gets sucked into their black hole, never to be seen again.  Not because they love or care about you. But because you can pour into their void which temporarily fills them up. And it makes them feel something for a moment but it doesn't last for long. And soon enough they need something more. Whether it's from you or someone else. And you can keep giving it to them and then they may come back. But no matter what you give it's never going to be enough. It's just going to destroy you in the end. And even then they're still not going to be satisfied. They're still going to need more. Because it's a black hole. They have a void that can never be filled. 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