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Aaron, you mentioned yesterday that Jonathan LeWisega was still going through the intake process. Any update on where he is? He is in. He was here today. He threw a bullpen today actually. So, and he's been able to really do a lot of work while he's been home in Nicaragua. He's thrown a lot of live. He's even been in some games over there. So, he should be good to go. And I think tentatively we have him go on Saturday a couple innings, but he looked good today. He had been a guy that you always viewed as possibly a starter, but could be in the bullpen. Has your viewpoint on him changed at all knowing what's going on and the fact that it's a 60 game season? No, but I think he's going to be really valuable for us. And he's continued to develop. I feel like he was in the midst of a really good spring. Not only just his game work, but behind the scenes. And he looks really good right now. He's come in ready to go. And I'm excited about him and what I believe his contributions will be to our team this year, to our pitching staff, in whatever role it may be. You had mentioned that Clint had been dealing with a little bit of a foot issue. What exactly is that issue and did Kyle Higashioka participate today? Yeah, Kyle did. Kyle should be good to go tomorrow. He'll be catching Clint. Yeah, he's just had a little plantar fascia, but it really hasn't held him back. We've kind of held him back here in the early going of getting him out in the outfield. But he was out sprinting today, doing all his outfield work, doing all his you know, base running and obviously hitting. So I don't expect it to slow him much. We're kind of just going easy with him here at the start. Thank you. Take the next question from Christie Acker. Christie, go ahead. Hi, Aaron. I was just curious. We saw Miguel Andujar taking ground balls at first base and doing a little extra work there today. You've got a full outfield now that everybody seems healthy. Where do you see him playing the most for you this year? I don't know. I don't know. I know I think you guys have gathered probably just from talking to me how excited I've been with his work in the corner outfield spots. Not only this winter, but then transitioning into spring and then what we've even seen in some game game action he's had. He's done a good job at third as well. He hasn't done as much first. But we'll get him a little bit of work there around his prioritizing third base in the corner outfield spots. But also we will get him some work at first just so in case we get in a situation we have that option as well. But feel good about where Meggy's at in his defensive progression. Thank you. Take the next question from George King. George, go ahead. Aaron, this might have been for you. I'm sorry. You're good. Yeah, we're good. We're good, George. Aaron, this might have been for yesterday. The other night, Britton moving towards first. Looks like he took a misstep. Is he okay? Yeah, he's good. Actually made a pretty good play going that way and then went and fielded the bunt or the squibber down the third baseline and made a good play. So yeah, Britt's fine. Okay. And do you have anything on Tanaka? No, a little more of the same, a little more elevated of a heart rate today. I mean, got his heart rate a little going a little bit more today and he responded well, but still at this point taking it slowly, but he's doing pretty well. Take our next question from Sweeney Murdy. Sweeney. Hey, Aaron, two things. Is Jordan Montgomery to the point in his rehab where he's good for you starting at the beginning of the year? Does he still have some more work to do? No, he's right in there with everyone else. He's ramped up pretty good. He's actually scheduled to go tomorrow and I anticipate probably three innings, maybe three plus even possibly 50-60 pitches type deal. No, Monnie's good to go and stuff-wise, really since spring training, he came in throwing the ball really well and we've continued to see that same stuff from the quality of his stuff here in the early going to summer camp. And there were some teams that chose to put some of their top prospects in their 60-man pool and keep up their development time at the lower level. You chose not to. I know that's more of a Brian thing, but if somebody probably had a say in it, what was some of the discussion about that? Well, I take a little issue and we do have quite a few of our top prospects here. Some of them happen to be on the 40-man now, but they're very young players in their development in a lot of cases. So I think it is a lot of our top prospects. We had some organizational conversations about a couple of other guys that we really considered. And we had some spirited debates on those things, but decided to go this way. So we feel like we have a little bit of a blend. We held off on a couple others just because of the unknown moving forward and that we're in this to win it. So we wanted probably a little more major league ready in case we get into a little bit of a dire situation. Take the next question from Marley Rivera. Marley, go ahead. Hey, Aaron. Yesterday, Garrett Cole said that he was looking forward to the next day to see how he felt. So have you heard from him? Yeah, I did. He was good. I think felt how he probably had hoped to feel the day after taking another step in the progression. 67 pitches last night, hot night. Even though there's no fans, I think there was still that little bit of adrenaline. And obviously you saw his focus out there and the quality of his pitches. So I was eager to check with him today when he got here and started moving around. And I think he felt how he hoped he'd feel. Thank you. Erico, it's good to see your hand up. Please unmute. Go right ahead. Thank you, Jason. Hi, Aaron. I just want to confirm for Masa. I saw Masa from the field today. First time he was able to do something outside. No, he did that yesterday as well. He's been doing his cardio inside, but then wanting to get him outside too in the light and moving around a little bit out there. So I was able to do a little more of that today, but he did that yesterday as well and responded well to it. So we're continuing to move cautiously and slow with him, but at least encourage with how he's responding to what we've put in front of him so far. Take the next question from Eric Boland. Eric, go ahead and unmute. Hi, Aaron. Hi. What did you think of Gary's spring up to the point where it was postponed? And then what have you thought of him the first few days you've seen him out there here? Yeah. I mean, we didn't have a lot of, I guess, sample, so to speak. You know, I thought from a catching standpoint, I thought the foundation was really solid. And I thought, you know, the things that Tanners come in working with them, starting even a little bit in the wintertime before spring training, carrying it over into spring training. I thought the work was really good. He was able to go back when he went home to Dominican and was still working on his things defensively a little bit. And I think he's come in here and look good to me. I mean, one game now, but to be able to, or two games actually back to back, two innings and then four innings. To be able to get out there last night, four innings with Garrett, I thought they did a really good job. We kind of, they ran through a mock kind of game plan beforehand and, you know, had what would be like a normal meeting, you know, between pitching coach Gary Tanner and Garrett. And I felt like they were on a good page last night. And I felt like, you know, and kind of looking back at some of it from last night, I thought Gary did a really good job. And then, you know, I'm confident the bats gonna be there. He hadn't really hit yet much in spring and his handful of the bats thought he had a really good BP session today. And, you know, but I'm encouraged about where he is right now. Thank you. James Wagner, go ahead. Hey, Aaron, some procedurally you guys put DJ and Luis on the DL. I mean, are they backdated, I guess, to a certain date too, like when they might be out? Yeah, I don't, I don't, they come back the sooner. I don't know. I might, Zillow, do you have the... James, I believe they are backdated. Yeah. I'm gonna need to text Gene or somebody to get confirmation, which I will do. Okay.  It sounds like that knocks them out for, kind of, I know it's a short season this year, a significant amount, just how much is of a challenge of dealing with that? Like, you know, obviously the health comes first, but how much they'll end up missing, I guess, of the season preparation against anyone that ends up in a situation. Yeah, I don't know. I think, I think actually in some cases it may not be a case where it's a long time. You know, just based on, you know, I've seen people that have tested positive and then, you know, a few days later are producing a couple of negative tests pretty quickly. So, I actually think in some cases that might happen quickly, but I think it's gonna be across the board. I think there's certainly gonna be guys that it is a couple of weeks or a few weeks, who knows. It's a little bit of an unknown, obviously, as we continue to move through this, and we'll try and handle it the best way we can, and with, you know, leaning on, you know, our entire roster if we need to. Take the next one from Max Goodman. Max, go ahead. Hey Aaron, you got me? Yes. Alright, thanks for taking the time. Maybe this isn't the best day to ask us because rain shortened everything today, but yesterday Luke talked about just how important it is to have fun and considering we're just about a weekend of summer camp and with Tanaka's injury and the COVID cases and such. I'm wondering what the atmospheres is like in the clubhouse, just with the guys? Good. You know, I try and move through there, you know, periodically to check on the guys, and you know, it's certainly a little bit different and a little bit odd, and obviously with the social distancing and the masks, and you know, it's not as, I guess, as tight as normal, but in a lot of ways when you walk through, guys are at their lockers.  So, look, it's different, but in a lot of ways I do feel like guys are coming in here and able to enjoy being here and able to enjoy their teammates as well. I think we have a final one from Christy, Christy Ackert, go ahead and unmute. Hey Aaron, just a follow-up from last night, you said you guys were going to try and get clarification on the baseball. Yeah. Eric Cole and stuff like that. One, did you, and two, I mean, I called baseball today, they didn't seem to have a clear rating on it. Right. Who do you call for these things? Yeah, I did talk to, I actually talked to one of our trainers about it just a little while ago, so it is absolutely discouraged throwing the ball around, but I think if there's a little bit of discretion in there about, you know, if a number of guys handle a ball over a course of a play, that ball's typically going to be thrown out.  Maybe that'll be a little bit more now, but I think it's just avoiding a lot of guys handling the ball in a given play. But usually when a play happens nowadays, pre-COVID, you know, once a ball's in play and it gets, it gets thrown out pretty quickly anyway.


Personal Finance PowerPoint Presentations, Stock Sectors. Prepare to get financially fit by practicing personal finance. Most of this information comes from Investopedia Sector Breakdown, which you can find online. Take a look at the references, resources, continue your research from there. This is by Adam Hayes, updated February 23, 2022 in prior presentations. We've been looking at investment goals, investment strategies, investment tools, keeping in mind the two main categories of investments. One being the fixed income, typically bonds. The other being the equities, typically stocks. Keeping that in mind, we're asking, what is a sector breakdown? A sector breakdown is the mix of sectors within a fund or portfolio typically expressed as a portfolio percentage. So if you look at your portfolio, if you look at your investments, if you look at all the assets that you have, you can look at the total assets at the bottom, and you can then try to break out by sector the categories of assets. And it's useful then to take each of those categories divided by the total and get a percentage. You can look at that as a pie chart type of analysis because all the percentages will then add up to 100% of your portfolio. That is a quite useful tool because when we're comparing to other portfolios, possibly benchmarking to some famous investor or something like that, we can't compare dollar amounts because they're going to have more dollars than we do typically. But we can look at their ratios in terms of how much they are investing in relation to their total portfolio, use that as a kind of guide for us as well. We can also use standard kind of benchmark guides to think about how much we should have invested in different sectors, and we might use strategies such as investing in like an index funds, for example, averages in the market to basically help us to get that diversification that is thought appropriate for whatever goal we are trying to achieve, be that retirement type of goal or saving for some kind of goal such as tuitions, for example. So sector designations can vary depending on the funds investment criteria and overall objectives. So clearly when you're investing in funds, note that mutual funds themselves could be designed in such a way to have the diversification within a mutual fund or an ETF. So that's one way that you can kind of use this diversified type of approach to breaking this information down. If you're not using like a one mutual fund to do that or possibly using multiple mutual funds or indexes to break down this type of ratio analysis and trying to hit a goal in terms of what you think the optimal ratios will be, it could be a little bit complex because clearly as things change over time, as some things earn money faster than other things, then your balance is going to get a little bit skewed and you're going to have to rebalance these types of things depending on whatever your goals are, what your time horizon is, what your risk tolerance is. So understanding sector breakdown, a sector breakdown is provided for fund analysis and can help an investor to observe the investment allocations of a fund. Sector investing can be a significant factor in influencing investments in the fund. A fund may target a specific sector, seek to diversify among sectors or generally have sector variants that results from investing from a broad universe. So if we look at different funds themselves such as mutual funds, for example, some investors might say, hey look, I'm trying to find a mutual fund that's going to do everything for me, right? They're going to try to optimize or have my diversification and have that diversification actually change as I get closer to my goal, possibly retirement, and try to optimize that mix that would be optimal for my particular age range. Or again, you might try to do some analysis yourself to diversify in that way using something that's a benchmark or hit. So a sector fund would have an allocation of 100% to a specific sector. So for example, you might use index funds that basically are targeting particular sectors and then you might have multiple index funds together that have different sectors that can then make up your overall portfolio, for example. And that's one way that you can kind of approach this. Some funds may have restraints on sector investments, therefore fund analysis is used by fund managers to exclude specific investments. This often occurs with environmental, social, and governance ESG focused funds. So this is like nice in concept because when you put your money into a mutual fund, for example, you don't have a lot of control of where that money is going specifically within the fund. It's being determined by the fund managers or the terms of the fund. They might be putting some of that money to companies that you don't agree with and you wouldn't want to be putting your money towards those companies. However, on the downside, you can see how this can be easily politicized, meaning if companies have to go through a series of hurdles in order to be approved in a certain category, then that might be a way to bar inclusion or reduce competition for particular companies. And so I think it can be politicized and manipulated. So it's kind of a double-edged sword there. But in any case, these funds seek to exclude industries or companies that their investors consider undesirable for various reasons. This may include an industry grouping such as tobacco producers in one fund or oil exploration companies in another fund. Fund companies regularly provide sector reporting in their marketing materials. Sector breakdowns provide a representation of the sector allocations of the fund's assets often on a monthly or quarterly basis. Some funds may even report sector breakdowns daily on the fund's website. GICS Sectors. Sectors are typically considered to be a broad classification. Within each sector, numerous sub-sectors and industries can also be further delineated. So it depends on how much, how deep we want to go into diving into the details. So the global industry classification standard, also known as the GISC, is the primary financial industry standard for defining sector classifications. The global industry classification standard was developed by index providers MSCI and the S&P Dow Jones. Its hierarchy begins with 11 sectors which can be further delineated into 24 industry groups, 69 industries, and 158 sub-industries. It follows a coding system that assigns a code from each grouping to every company publicly traded in the market. The GISC coding system is integrated throughout the industry allowing the detailed reporting and stock screening through financial technology. The 11 broad GISC sectors commonly used for sector breakdown reporting include the following. So we've got energy, we've got materials, industrials, consumer discretionary, consumer staples, healthcare, financials, information technology, telecommunication services, utilities, and real estate. So when you're watching like say stock market channels and so on, they will often be breaking these categories down. They're going to be talking about energies and financials and utilities or real estate and so on and so forth. So diversification and sectors, a diversified stock portfolio will hold stocks across most if not all GISC sectors. So in other words, when you're looking at your overall investment strategy, remember you're thinking most likely like fixed income and then you're thinking the stocks. So the bonds, you want some bonds typically and then we want the stocks. On the stock side of things, we want to be diversified within the stocks themselves. So we have different strategies we could use. We could use individual stocks and try to diversify across basically these sectors and so on and so forth. That could be quite tedious, but it take a lot of time. You could also use index funds, index funds which are kind of average funds that are given an average of each of these items, kind of like taking a survey, for example, of people to see what they're going to vote for or something like that. So you can use that approach because the indexes are typically going to have less management fees and then you can try to find indexes that give you exposure to each of these categories. That's another approach that you can use. Or you can try to pick basically one index fund, for example, or one mutual fund, for example, that tries to invest in a diversified way amongst all of the categories and that would be kind of like the easiest, most hands-off type of approach that you can use. You also, of course, have the idea of do you want to be using index funds or do you want to be using more managed funds? So you can have managed funds, for example, people that are trying to beat the market and mutual funds in each of these particular industries. So now you're hiring a professional that you're hoping can outperform the index in each of these areas. And so the question is, can they do that over the long run and so on? Or you can have a managed portfolio that's going to give you diversification over all of the funds and try to give you, and the people that manage that funds, those kinds of funds would argue that you should have different allocations likely over time depending on market conditions and they can know what those market conditions are and so on. So those are some ways you can use this in an investment strategy. So diversification in sectors. So a diversified stock portfolio will hold stocks across most, if not all, GISC sectors. Diversification across stock sectors helps to mitigate idiosyntric or unsystematic risk caused by factors affecting specific industries or companies within an industry. So in other words, if you're invested in one area of materials, for example, there could be factors that take that sector down but doesn't impact the rest of the sectors as much because they're not completely tied together in their workings. You could have other things that take the whole stock market down like a recession or depression where everything would go down and possibly the bonds that you're holding on to could be saving your diversification there. So sector indexes can also be used by investors seeking to invest in the growth prospects of a single sector. Investment companies offer passive index funds that seek to replace each of the 11th GIS or CS sectors. So the Vanguard Information Technology Index Fund is one example of a passively managed mutual fund that seeks to replace the holdings of the MSCI-US Investable Market Information Technology Index. The strategy is also available in investors through an exchange traded fund, the Vanguard Information Technology ETF. So we talked about the differences between an ETF and a mutual fund in prior presentations. If you want to dig into that in more detail, what is a good sector breakdown for a portfolio? A well-diversified portfolio should have access to as many sectors as possible and not concentrate too many funds into any single sector or related sector. You may also want to apply the 5% rule with sector funds. For example, if you want to diversify within a specialty sector such as biotech, commercial real estate or gold miners, you simply keep your allocation to 5% or less for each. What are the major industry sectors? These range from utilities to consumer staples to technology. The 11 GIS recognized industry sectors are listed above. The GIS subdivides this into 24 industry groups such as automobiles, banks, and apparel companies. What is the sector breakdown of the S&P 500? As of June 31, 2022, the sector breakdown of the S&P 500, which is a common kind of like an index fund that is used as a benchmark oftentimes.


Hello, in this video, we will discuss the basic RF measurements of the STM32WL board. There are several situations where RF measurements need to be made, for example, impedance matching where we optimize the transmitter and receiver for the best performance. Then we may need to verify that the RF parameters of our device are as expected. For example, the output power and receiver sensitivity are the same as in the datasheet and there is no performance loss due to implementation. And the last point, we and a certification lab must verify that the device meets all the requirements specified in the regional specifications for the RAIS and bands. RF measurements can be divided into two main groups. Conducted measurements, where the measured RF device and the measuring instrument are connected by an RF cable. Another group is radiated measurements. The measured RF device and the measuring instrument have antennas and the RF signal goes directly through the air. Each group has its own typical use case. RF measurements can also be divided into transmitter and receiver measurements. In case of transmitter measurements, the transmitter is connected to an instrument which measures this signal. It can be a spectrum analyzer, power meter, etc. In most cases, the spectrum analyzer is used which is a very versatile instrument for RF measurements. For example, typical transmitter measurements are measurements of output power, harmonics and spurious, unmodulated and modulated signal, phase noise and frequency offset. In the case of receiver measurements, we need an instrument that generates a signal. It's typically a signal generator. Using the signal generator, we can measure the fundamental parameter of the receiver which is the sensitivity. There are also other receiver parameters like blocking, co-channel rejection, adjacent channel rejection. To measure these parameters, additional signal generator is needed. This generator calls its interference on our channel. In this video, we will focus on how to configure the STM32WL for RF measurements. Then we will show how to set basic transmitter parameters like frequency or output power. Based on this knowledge, we will demonstrate basic carrier and spectrum measurements. The last part is about receiver measurement. Here we will focus to sensitivity. The aim of this video is to show the main idea. The presented ideas can be used also in other RF measurements with STM32WL. Now let's focus on the part about STM32WL configuration. To configure the STM32WL for RF measurements, you have several options. You can write your own firmware or you can reuse existing projects like Laura180 Slave or Sigfox 80 Slave. Both projects are part of the STM32QWL package. The original platform of these projects is the STM32WL nuclear board. The projects can be easily ported to different STM32WL platforms. In this video, we will focus on the Laura180 Slave. It is the STM32WL application for Laura on RF testing. It's controlled by text 80 commands. 80 commands are sent via UART console with these settings of UART. A graphical extension for STM32Q monitor is also available. The project is available in the STM32QWL package in this folder. There are two variants of the application. One forms one for single core and next for dual core version of STM32WL. As it was mentioned earlier, original platform of the 80 Slave is STM32WL nuclear board. It can be ported to other platforms. Here is a list of typical changes that need to be made during the porting. Control pins of the RF switch. Replacement of LSC clock source if not available. And replacement of LPUART if not available. Other changes depend on the specifics of the target platform. The 80 Slave supports many 80 commands. Detailed description of all commands can be found in this application note. Here is a list of most important ones for RF testing. The use of the commands is shown in the following example. Here I have a terminal application which is connected to the 80 Slave. At first I'm using a command which shows our list of all available commands. Then I reset the MCU. Now I'm reading current configuration of the radio. I can copy the configuration command with all parameters and use it again to set the new configuration. In this case I'm changing the output power from 14 to 0 dbm. I can turn on the unrelated carrier or turn it off. The last command transmits two packets based on the current radio configuration. All following tests of the transmitter and receiver are performed with a nuclear board in conducted mode. Now let's focus on the transmitter. In this chapter we take a closer look at the 80 Slave commands for changing the frequency and output power and how to turn on and off the unrelated carrier. These are the most basic operations for transmitter testing. Using the 80 Slave commands we will show basic measurement of the transmitter spectrum if there are some harmonic or spurious components. For transmitter measurements we use a spectrum analyzer that is connected directly to the board to be measured using an RF cable. Small insertion loss of the cable is not taken into account in the measurements. The format of the 80 Slave configuration command looks like this. The first parameter is the frequency. The second parameter is the output power level. The rest of the command are settings of the modem. For our tests where we use only unmodulated carrier we don't have to modify the modem parameters. To turn on the unmodulated carrier we use this command. It has no parameters. To turn off the unmodulated carrier we have this command. It has no parameters as well. Following spectrum analyzer settings we are used for the transmitter measurements. The first column is for in-band measurements. The second one for spurious and harmonics measurements up to 6 GHz. At first we connect the measured board to the spectrum analyzer. Here I have a trace from the spectrum analyzer and the terminal window. The frequency span is from 862 MHz to 872 MHz, 1 MHz per division. I use configuration command to get the current configuration. The frequency is 868 MHz and the output power 14 dBm. I keep these settings and turn on the carrier with a t-tone command. And here we can see the carrier. Before the changes of parameters carrier must be turned off by the t-off command. Now I change the frequency in the configuration command and turn on the carrier again. The frequency has changed. I turn the carrier off again and change the output power to 0 dBm. I turn on the carrier and it has different amplitude, 0 dBm. These are the basics of frequency and amplitude changes. Here is a short example of transmitter harmonic measurements. The frequency range of the spectrum analyzer is set from 100 MHz to 6 GHz. At first I reset the device by command ATZ. Now the device is in default state. I turn on the carrier. It has default frequency 868 MHz and 14 dBm. I can see the carrier and no harmonics in this or superior signals. If there are any they may be hidden under the noise floor with this approximately minus 55 dBm in this case. After the measurement I can turn off the carrier by command T-off. Now let's take a closer look at the receiver measurements. In this chapter we'll take a closer look at the receiver sensitivity. What is it? How it is measured? What are typical receiver sensitivities of the STN32WL and which AT commands are used for the measurement? As an example we will show one particular sensitivity measurement as a verification of the datasheet value. We can verify that our receiver part and the matching network work properly. For the sensitivity measurement we use vector signal generator which is connected directly to the measured board through another RF cable. What is receiver sensitivity? It's the minimum power on the receiver input that the receiver can handle at a certain level of signal quality. Smaller value is better. In digital communication the signal quality might be defined for example as bit error rate or packet error rate. The sensitivity is not a constant value. It depends on many parameters. For example higher bandwidth degrades the sensitivity. Lower data rate improves the sensitivity. How is the sensitivity measured? We can explain it in this chart. The horizontal axis is received power. The vertical axis is packet error rate. If we are reducing the power the packet error rate is zero up to a certain point. Then the packet error rate starts to increase up to 100%. The curve between zero and 100% of packet error rate may look like this. The sensitivity level is a received power at a certain level of packet error rate. We use one percent packet error rate. In this case the sensitivity level is minus 123 dBm. Here is the general principle of measurement. Our tested device is connected through the variable attenuator to the generator of the test signal. The attenuator may be also included inside the generator. Level of received power is measured by the power meter. Based on the number of successfully received packets the packet error rate is calculated. The test signal is attenuated until the packet error rate threshold is exceeded. In our example we will manually measure the receiver sensitivity step by step to illustrate the principle. We'll use a vector signal generator which is connected directly to the STN32WL board by a cable. A small insertion loss of the cable is neglected in our case. For this verification measurement it is okay. For more accurate results it must be compensated. Power level of the test signal is set directly in the generator. No additional attenuator is needed in the signal path. Packet error rate value is calculated in the 80-slave firmware which is loaded in the tested board. Precise receiver sensitivity measurement may be quite time-consuming. In this video we will simplify and speed up the procedure by using one dB power step and 20 test packets to calculate the packet error rate. We will use a 1% packet error rate as the threshold. Precise frequency alignment of the receiver and the transmitter is also not needed in our simplified case. There are several main steps of the measurement. At first vector signal generator continuously transmit Lura packets. Setting of frequency and Lura modulation parameters are the same as in the measured device. The output power is set above the expected sensitivity level. The STN32WL device receives packets and calculates the packet error rate. If the packet error rate is below 1%, the output power from the generator is decreased by 1 dB. The packet error rate is calculated again. The nearest power at which the packet error rate exceeds 1% can be considered as the receiver sensitivity level. Here is a table of sensitivities from the datasheet. For example, for Lura modulation with bandwidth 125 kHz and spreading factor 12 is the sensitivity minus 138 dBm. This is a default setting of 80 Slave and we can verify this sensitivity in the following measurement. For our test we use Lura modulation with the following settings. 80 configuration command looks like this. The parameters which are important for setting of Lura receiver are frequency, modulation bandwidth, spreading factor, coding rate, LNA boost, selection of Lura modulation and payload. The rest parameters are used only for transmitter or FSK modulation. Reception of Lura packets is enabled by TRX command where the parameter is number of expected packets. In this case we use 20 packets. In this part the test signal from the generator is being verified. It is not needed for sensitivity measurement itself. It is only for purpose of this example to show how the test signal looks like. At first the unmodulated carrier is switched on. Then the modulated signal is switched on. In the waterfall diagram we can see Lura modulation and the packets. Now I'm decreasing power from the generator and switching off the modulation and the carrier. The tested board is connected directly to the vector signal generator through the RF cable. The board is placed in the shielding box. Here is a brief setting of the generator we use in the example. The frequency is 868 MHz. We set output power level in range from minus 137 to minus 139 dBm which would be around the value we want to verify. This displayed value is quite exact. We will use it in the calculation as the real transmitted power. The Lura test signal is generated in the internal arbitrary waveform generator. This baseband signal is then modulated to the carrier and transmitted to the tested device. I start test from minus 137 dBm. I configure the tested board by sending the configuration 80 command and then I start receiving an evaluating packet error rate. Total packet error rate is zero. I've decreased the power level by 1 dB and I'm doing the same test. Total packet error rate is zero again. I've decreased the power level to minus 139 dBm and I'm doing the packet error rate test again. Now it is around 9%. In the example transmitter power was being changed. As mentioned earlier the insertion loss of the cable which is around 0.3 dB was neglected in this simplified case. Then I can assume that the received power is the same as the transmitted power. We measured zero packet error rate up to minus 138 dBm. At minus 139 dBm it was about 9%. It means that the 1% threshold under exact sensitivity level is somewhere between minus 138 and minus 139 dBm. We can say that the measured value in the example is the same as in the datasheet. Useful information can be found also in the following application notes. Thank you for your attention!


Hi, I am Dr. Sachin, Super Speciality Consultant, Interventional Pulmonologist and Critical Care Specialist at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore. As we are seeing a definite surge in the number of cases in India, especially in some hot spots, why is the surge happening in the last couple of days? Is it because of the new variants? Is it because we have let our guard down? Let us have a look on these. Once the COVID-19 cases started to decline, what do we have done? We have let our guard down. We have allowed international travel. There is mass gathering happening everywhere. No proper social distancing. Sanitization process has come down and masking obviously has come down. So it's not the data that suggests that it's not the new variants that is causing the surge, but it is definitely due to the guard that we have let down, which is causing the surge in the COVID cases. So what can we do for this? COVID-19 being predominantly a droplet respiratory infection, we have to follow all the measures, including sanitization, masking, social distancing, avoid unnecessary travel and limited lockdown also in hot spot areas and preventing the leakage of cases into the non-containment areas can definitely prevent the surge and the prevent a second wave to come in India. So vaccination on the other hand is definitely contributing to the decrease in the number of cases and also the decrease in the mortality associated with COVID-19. We at Manipal Hospital have ensured that there is a proper entry exit, there is sanitization, thermal screening and adequately trained staff around the clock available with proper protective gear to take care of the COVID cases. So COVID-19 has not gone, it is still lurking around, so I would ensure everybody to please come around if you have symptoms, get yourself tested and prevent COVID-19, stay safe and stay healthy.


This is the SugarBeat Report bringing you the latest information from MNDSU throughout the SugarBeat growing season. Today we're talking about nutrients. What are some of the options, especially with falling prices? Joining us is Daniel Kaiser, University of Minnesota Extension Soil Scientist. Daniel, market trends have fertilizer prices dropping. So what should producers be thinking about this spring for current fertilizer applications or for plans for the fall? Well, you know, it kind of depends on where they're at right now. If you've already got decisions made with fall applications, we're kind of missed the boat on things. It is good to see some of the prices going down, particularly for nitrogen. I don't think it affects SugarBeat as much because we don't use price ratios, particularly for nitrogen for managing the crop. But I think the big question for beet growers will be looking at residual nitrate trends. If you are looking at that, because that's been the biggest question in the last couple years, with the dry years, how much residual nitrate we're carrying over. Now I was just looking at some of the data from closer to the southern region and the northern region from NVTL and AGVICE. And the numbers have really been trending down. I was kind of surprised looking at some of the median values, particularly from NVTL. I would expect that a lot of the growers in the southern region, if they're following corn to have potentially higher residual nitrates, just because we tend to see that in the last few years, but that hasn't been the case. I still think for growers I would be paying attention to that. For what you have, for current guidelines, it hasn't really changed. So I'll be evaluating that moving forward, as I've been collecting more of the data from some of the past researchers working on SugarBeat in northern and southern Minnesota. But no major changes right now. I think the main thing for fall will be anybody that's been holding off on phosphate and potash applications. If the prices do tend to trend downward, I would just be rechecking some of your soil tests, especially if you've had some fields you've gone a little leaner than normal on, just to see where things are at. Because I would suspect we'll see things moderating around a .1 price ratio. It's kind of what we see a .1 price ratio in relation to the corn price for most of our nutrients. And if that's the case, I guess I would just be reevaluating the soil tests. If you get a chance maybe going into some fields, maybe a little earlier than normal. For Beat specifically, I don't think you're going to see any surprises in what's in the current production guide. That's kind of what we've been looking at focusing on. But I'll be evaluating that moving forward as I get more geared up with SugarBeat research. Outside of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, are there any other nutrients that we should look at this spring? Well, it's going to depend on what we see. Sulphur is always the one that tends to come up more often than not. Last year, you know, going up north around Crookston, when we got kind of some of the crops in late, I was seeing more sulfur deficiencies on corn. I wouldn't expect it with SugarBeat. And a lot of our data really doesn't show much of a benefit to sulfur for SugarBeat production. In many of those soils, and particularly with a crop that is a deep taproot, you've got a lot of sulfate probably deeper in the profile, which I wouldn't really expect much of an issue with that nutrient unless you've got some pretty sandy soils. The other thing that tends to come up more often than not is boron. We did hear some talk that's been a couple of years ago of some low boron tissue concentrations in some of the sandier soils. I'm still not recommending widespread applications of microbes. I mean, boron is one of them. If you do have very sandy soils with low organic matter, I mean, certainly you could see some lower tissue concentrations, but I don't know if that's a result of it being actually lower, just the dry weather, because we tend to see dry weather and low tissue concentrations come into play. And the other one is manganese. That one does come up as well. You know, looking at a lot of the stercospora treatment, some of them will contain manganese applications as a foliar. I just wouldn't really be too concerned about it. I think really looking at your basics, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium is really what you're going to want to look at because it's really where you're going to make the most of your money when it comes to either increases in tonnage, recoverable sugar, when we start looking at these other things, it just isn't a high enough chance of return on investment. Are biologicals something that growers should be considering to incorporate into their fertilizer programs? Biologicals are one of those interesting things that, you know, I'm getting a lot of questions on it, but there just isn't a lot of data on specific products. Just looking at a lot of these are geared towards corn. I mean, when we start talking about other crops, there's a lot of unknowns. The thing I can say about a lot of these products is inconsistency. Most of the data shows, if you look at independent research, no effect on any sort of yield parameters or quality parameters.  The issue is I don't think they're going to consistently help you. If you've got some extra money to kind of play around and look at doing some testing, I certainly think there's some value in that. But right now, I just wouldn't be relying on them for any major nutrient contributions on an annual basis. Thanks, Daniel. Our guest has been Daniel Kaiser, University of Minnesota Extension Soil Scientist. This has been the SugarBeat Report, bringing you the latest information from NDSU throughout the SugarBeat growing season.


It's a unique hustle nigga.    Name another podcast like this. We're gonna bring it to the table. Ball's top. Who your... Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy, E.C.O. Number with the lovely, amazing, outstanding official. Miss Jamaica Waite. Walk on, you know my dad? Hey man, we got a guy here today, y'all. I think he's from, he's from Parts Unknown. He's been in Philadelphia. He's all over the place, man. You in Atlanta now? I'm in Atlanta now, yeah. Munchies in the building, AKA Bob Lowe's in the building. Y'all done seen him all over the internet?  And he's here, man, in Texas. Daddy is Dallas, man. Thank you for coming on the show. Oh, they're like, wait, what's up? I don't know what's going on, we made it. I don't want to know. We're not thinking about munchies. I think about somebody who be smoking weed and you get the munchies afterwards. What munchies coming from? Everybody get the munchies. Like, you don't have to smoke to get the munchies. Like, you ever just chilling like, you know what, I crave a doughnut. You don't chill. Munchies is munchies. Munchies is more connected to weed, because anytime you smoke, you got to eat. Right. But just in general, people, some people just like, naturally like the snack on stuff. So you always munching? Munchies, yes. Yes, but the character, I never named the character until after I came back from getting. I spoke about the character on stage, but I never gave a name. I said my cousin, my cousin, my cousin, but I never gave him a name. And then when I came back and I had to wait a month, a month and a half for my green card, the wife was like, yo, if you can't film with nobody, just film with yourself and create characters. And I don't know where it's like, I put the beanie on and I was like, ooh, this dough is cactus dough.  The laughter to go with it. So she was like, dang, we came up with names. And I was like, you know what, I'm about to get something to eat. And she was like, oh, you got the munchies. My jeez, that's it. My jeez. Hey, so me and my wife came. But you mentioned, okay, before I get into that, let's go back. So we like to go back to see where you from, how you were raised, all of that sort of stuff. So I know you said you were from Mexico. What part of Mexico are you from? T.J. Tijuana. Wow. That's like right by California. You know, I did not know that we went to San Diego one year. Don't talk about it. Don't talk about that. Let me tell you. That was very bad. No, it wasn't. Don't lie. There was some guys from New York that was going across that thing and it was coming back and it was bragging about doing things that people should not. See, I wasn't going to go. I wasn't going all the way in there. I wasn't going to talk about those two guys from New York that went across that border and it was doing things that people should not be doing and telling me when they come back. But I didn't know that Tijuana was that close. That's all I was saying. Let's speak in English. See, he was saying all sorts of stuff. But that's dope. So how long, how old were you when you came here? Three. Three. Wow. And you went to school here. I did everything here. But you still have very good Spanish. Of course. It was like my parents and, you know what I'm saying? And my parents didn't allow me to speak Spanish in the house so I would have to. I learned how to speak English watching Sesame Street. So that was my homework at home when I was a kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The count. I ain't going to lie to you. The count. And you got excited, nigga. That was silly. What you pointing this at, man? I got the Bustall kind of purple drink.  But you did, you had run into some bumps in the road a little bit on. Let's talk about that a little bit. Right. Just what happened? You know, that's all you. What bumps we talking about?  Yeah, yeah. I did some, you know, took matters into my own hand. Did some time and it wasn't cool. Was it because of the, the area that you were, because I always feel like, yeah, because of, I'm a mom and, you know, with children, you think about, okay, why do kids get into trouble? Especially if they have, you know, both mom and dad, there are, we give them everything that they want, but they still go out here and end up doing things they shouldn't be doing. What is it? So it's two things, right? It's either your parents are good and don't have, they don't, they don't, they don't put you, they don't put you in enough activities to stay out of trouble or the parents are really not good, and then you're seeking love from the streets. So it doesn't matter how you were raised, it's just really the, I was a product of my environment. Environment as a lot. You get what I'm saying? So me growing up being the only Mexican Guatemala, because I'm Guatemala, my mother's Guatemala. In the area. I was raised in the all predominantly black neighborhood. Oh, okay. There it is. I knew it was going to blame it on someone. No, no, no, no, but this is one thing, right?  I know a lot of, a lot, a lot of African Americans. I know a lot of good and a lot of bad, but just because the one bad, I don't say black people are this bad. No, the individual is this individual is that. So I can place the, I can place on a whole race factor of my 80% interactions with a race. Cause you can't, you can't. That's like saying, that's like being ignorant.  You feel what I'm saying too? That's like saying all our Mexicans are gang bangers and drug dealers. No, we're not. We're hard workers.  Don't mean not gang bangers.  You feel what I'm saying to you? Everybody in my neighborhood and I had a barber shop and it was getting tattoos for free. So I was like, let me get a tattoo and it went from one to the next to the next. Cause they're addictive. I heard. Yeah, but look, I got a whole bunch, but everything on my body is not gang related. You know what I'm saying? My kids, my Aztec, One Love, Bob Marley, smile now, cry later cause I'm an actor. But have people like, have law enforcement ever targeted you? Of course. You know what I mean? Of course.  All the stuff you see online and I understand this is a very, very touchy subject. And I'm not saying that African-Americans are not getting targeted, but it's bigger than that. There's also Mexicans. There's also white. There's a lot of people that get killed. Minority. Minorities in general. You know what I'm saying? I'm getting hit. What's being, what's being a magnified more is African-Americans because what they're doing is what? They're trying to rattle that nest because that brings anger out of you. And what happens when you bring anger, right? So this and that. And then guess what happens? Gentrification. Cause y'all just damaged the property and they come and take over. But they're playing us. They're playing us with our own emotions. You get what I'm saying to you? So I have, I grew up in same neighborhoods. I have been targeted. I have been slapped around. I have been kicked. I almost got planted with some stuff. I just obeyed. How do you not react when they treat you that way? When you see a gun, you just stay still. And they draw that gun. It's like I said, I don't got a gun. I can't shoot you. I can't get away with it. But then you see on social media where people filming and yes, a gun is pulled out, but they still talking and arguing even when a gun is pulled out. You got to understand those people never worked with their emotions. People were never taught to how to deal with situations like that. All we know is what? Anger. Yeah. All we know is frustrations. Yeah. We're tired. We're tired. We're tired against stepped on. We're tired to get overlooked. We're tired not receiving the blessings that everybody else receiving. So it's a lot of that.  It might happen. I don't know.  That it happens to me. And they catch me in the wrong situation. I lose my cool and then boom, it's over. How much do you think that the internet help or worsen or hurt the effects of you being brave against law enforcement? Because before, some people might not have the courage to speak out, but just because they have that phone, video, and you're on camera, you're on camera, this whole situation, like... It hurts a lot. But you know what's crazy? Everybody likes controversy. Everybody likes to see something. So if anybody's fighting it automatically goes viral. Why? Oh, look what happened. Look what happened. Look what happened. And then it just magnifies that whole situation. It could have been a fight over any situation now because it's everywhere now. Your feelings is hurt. Now you want to come back and retaliate because now you've been embarrassed publicly. You get what I'm saying to you. So it's like people say, instead of grabbing the phones, get in between. Like it was this one brother. I don't remember his name was Muslim. It was two kids fighting and their homies was filming. He stopped the whole thing. I've seen that. I mean, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? Man, we brothers, man, hug it out. Them kids ain't want to hug it out because they ain't want to feel like punks. But he made them hug it out. They became best friends. I wish all people would do that. Yeah, that was a great thing. You know, but the deal is, man, like when you say what you say, it hurts, but it helps too. Because a lot of times I remember being from the country when you don't have a phone, people come up dead and there's no rhyme or reason. The law enforcement's never questioned. They tell you what you want to hear and somebody's life being taken and it's not done in an appropriate manner. And when if they'd have had a phone, then they may have not been dead. I'm being real. Of course. So it's two sides of that coin. And you'd never know just where it's going to land. But the main thing is that you put God first for me. That's it. And if you do that, then everything else. The Bible says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and all its righteousness and all other things shall be added. So I agree with that. I believe that. So I just try to focus on God, even though I know that you can get killed. Like when we got stopped when I was coming from Louisiana or Mississippi coming from Atlanta that time, right after that guy got killed, you know, in front of his daughter, you know, stuff like that. You, you'd be like, you'd be on guard because you don't know.  I can just wave it around. I can do whatever I want. It gives you power and gives you your braver in certain situations that you would have normally not been in if you didn't have that. The same thing with the phone. If you didn't have that camera to turn on, you might have sat down and yes, sir, no, sir, just that whatever, but just because you have that, you're going to act up, show out. Can you see what I mean? No, I get it. No, TYC. What did they call it when you did the time as a young adult? And how old were you when you got in trouble? What did they call it? Because here they call it TYC. I don't know. Or is it juvenile? Okay, so and... How old were you when you got in 13? 13 till... 19. Wow. And how much did it affect you being away from your family? A lot. It was tough. It made me just somebody that didn't like... Were the gangs in there? Oh, I was listening. They was coming at me from outside. Gangs, regular people. They said I sounded black. I said, Mexican. Because I'm like from Jersey. Like, yo, what up, kid? So you didn't feel like you belonged anywhere? And then the blacks looked at me like I was trying to be black. I'm like, I'm not trying to be nothing. I'm a product of where I'm from. I grew up listening to Do It All From Lords of the Underground, who was a very good friend of mine. You know what I'm saying? You know? Dies of facts. You know what I'm saying? H-Town. I grew up to this. You see what I'm saying? That's all I knew. I wasn't playing Mexican music. So what... Give me a story in there that happened. Something that happened that you would never forget. It don't have to be bad or nothing, but just something that was weird, you know? I'll never forget when there was this Mexican kid that came in there that didn't speak English. It was about to get deported. I was just picking on him. And I was only like a year in, and I was trying to stay out of trouble. And they tried to grab him up in the bathroom. And I just came in there and we just... I was like, leave him alone. And next thing you know, they jumped on me. And he just stood there and watched. Oh, damn. Wow. He didn't even... Wow. But he was scared. He was scared. He was scared he thought he was going to stab him and kill him.  They just... Wow. They just went into the... You know? He's probably... I'll stick to him. They throwing them things. He's like, let them get the nuts. Let them get the nuts.  I was... How were you skinny? I didn't gain his weight until like 2004. Okay. So you were as a skinny kid? Yeah. I was always like... I wasn't malnourished like some people I know. But like, I was like... I was like a buck 80. Okay. Six feet, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, but that's a good size. But when you think about just coming out after all that time and you don't know... Do you have family to come home to? How weird is it coming home? You see what I'm saying? You get out, you're 19. You don't have nothing. What do you do? So like, my parents just like... They just... You know, it was what it was. You know what I'm saying? They wasn't there for that. So I had to take that journey on by myself. They came and visited every now and then. But I took that journey by myself. But in turn, I was like a happy kid. I was a happy kid. I was chilling. I was like... You know what I'm saying? And it just... I turned into this person now. Mad Dog and everybody. Now I'm looking at everybody's side. Now I feel like you scheming. You scheming. So it's like being in there trains you for things that you're like... You know what I'm saying? That you're not even aware of on the outside. You're like... I saw people just using that gap and turning these fools out. I was like... Oh yeah. So you're like... Oh, pay attention. You learn a lot while you're in there. Oh my God. Man, listen. I learned how to make dice out of toilet paper. Hey! All tattoo ink out of a hard plastic. Man, what? So like... I just think that like coming home, it would be wild being that you've been locked up like that. My first day out. So because I was in boot camp. The first two years I was in boot camp. So I remember the first day out. I'm laying in the bed. As a matter of fact, I'm laying on the couch. My mom walks in, turns the light on. As soon as she turned the light on, I sat up at attention with my hands on my knees like this, waiting to be told to get up and go take a shower. She's like, what are you doing? I was institutionalized like crazy. I was also scared when I was being released because I got real comfortable in there. That's real. I've heard people say that when they come out, they come out and they purposely get in trouble because they want to go back. Because nobody wants you.    You know what I'm saying? I was like, did you get raped? No, I did not.  People that get raped. A lot of people feel that.  So that really happens. You feel what I'm saying to you?  You're going to fight and play. You're going to get down. You're going to get down.  But as long as you hold it down, you good.  But I was a class count as a kid, though. I was a class now. I was always a center of attention because you got to remember where I grew up was either you learn how to tell a joke or you learn how to fight. So I had to learn both. Explain to me how you first got into comedy. It was a dare. It was a dare in 2000, 2001, 2000. How old were you that time? 1920. Right when you got up. That's what I'm saying. So when I got out, you know, I wasn't born here. So I didn't have a green card. So what's the next best thing? Learn how to cut hair. So I'm cutting hair. Trinidadian named Dexter taught me how to cut hair. I'm talking about this dude was a monster cutting hair. I'm the only Mexican, the Caribbean barbershop. He filmed me. So I'm in there. And you know what it is when you're in a barbershop? You got to talk that talk and get the jokes in. And we did that. And then a promoter I was cool with who had a missing leg comes in there one day and he started joking with me because he got doing comedy shows. He's popping now. Then he came at me and I'm like, bro, you don't want to do this.  But see, we got a thing called fishing.  Rip them. And I ripped them. So he got so mad and he put up $200 and said, if you come down to my comedy show and clown one of my comedians, you got it. And you did. Did you count it? I didn't think I was going to do it. Yeah, I ended up going. But when I got there, it was 300 people. Wow. And did you freeze up? I never done comedy.  I thought this was like going to be like one of them little rap videos. You go into a room and it's like five people and you telling jokes. $300. I went out to Hennessy. Like, no, no, no, no. They called me up and we went at it. But I made sure before I went because I know there was going to be cracking jokes. I went and brought all brand new gear. I said, I'm going to come here and fly. All you're going to have is little chunky jokes. But we straight. We got this. Did you kill it? I killed it. People thought I was a real live comedian. Wow. And that's what motivated you to be like, man, this might be something I want to look into. The guy I was joking around with was named J.P. And he looked at me and said, how long have you been doing comedy? I said, man, you need to do this because you connected with a black audience and you were Hispanic. That's dope. And they can relate to you. You need to. And ever since that, I just kept running. Who encouraged you? When you look at it as a comic and you like, man, you looked at him and it encouraged you to go farther and keep going. What you mean as a known comic? A known comic. Well, comedy was influenced in my house by Chesperito. Okay. Like I always wanted, like as a kid, I wanted to act because I could see he played multiple characters. That's where Munchies comes in and other characters I have. You know George Lopez? More like Cheech and Chong. Cheech and Chong, I love Cheech and Chong. That's what I was thinking about. Cheech and Chong. Nah, because I like them because they're movies. To me, it didn't feel like a movie. It felt like I was a forced comedy. It was more like, well, let's take this ride. So that's where Munchie comes in. That's what I was about to say. That's who you remind me of. Yeah. So Munchies and Cheech and Chong is like that. But then George Lopez was further. Right. He was. Because to me, he's like the White Mexican. Yeah. White Mexican. But I love Eddie Murphy. Yeah. Love Raw. Delirious. Like, you know what I'm saying? George Carlin. Bernie Mac. Three comedians of all time. Dead or Alive. Only three. Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy. Number one. Number two. Bernie. Number three. Fluffy. Hmm. Who is fluffy? I never heard of Fluffy.  Watch him. He's dope. He's dope. I know, when I mean to tell you, and that's crazy because you don't even know who he is, but his marketing is not as big as it should be. But he sells out arenas. Really? He sold out the staples. Like twice, if I'm not mistaken, the first comedian to sell out the Dodger Stadium to do stand-up. Wow. So he can go to Dubai. He can go to Senegal. He can go to Korea. Wow. And he'll sell out. He's just that dope. He's commercial. He's Mexican. He's commercial. And he came out of LA. And he's a funny, funny company queen. Sorry, baby. Whose show have you ever seen and from start to end, you die laughing? Show? Show? Martin. That's my nigga, man. Martin. Martin Lawrence. Gina. What's up? What's up? What's up? Man, how do you end up in Atlanta, man? I just like, I like to, I like to explore. I'm not scared of nothing because I'm from Jersey. Like, I was trying to get the comedians in Jersey to do what people in Atlanta were doing before people in Atlanta were doing it. I'm talking about before before Vine, before Instagram, YouTube was that, when Worldstar was a, was a, was a, for mixtapes, it wasn't videos yet. I was like, bro, we doing stand, I was doing stand-up with hamburger. I was doing stand-up with Mike Epps, Bill Bellamy, Ross G, Capone, Talon, Freddie Ricks. I'm talking about some OGs. You feel what I'm saying? Cool bubble ice. Like, I'm rocking with these cats and he's like, yo, you dope. You just got to keep going. But because I wasn't born here, I couldn't, I lost a lot of situations. At one point, we was about to sign a, a NEO and I couldn't sign contract. It was part of a prank show. You know what I'm saying? So, all these things came and I never told people and they just like, oh, this dude is not, even with Jordan, even with Jordan. When Jordan made me was like, yo, you a dope comic. Like, come out to these shows. I'm like, I would add, they were hour away from my house at nighttime. I can't drive without a license. You know what I'm saying? He thought, man, this guy's not serious. I'm not, and I met him when he was about to go on tour with Country Wing. You get what I'm saying? He was like, yo, you're really dope. I want to rock with you. And he thought that I was BSing. I'm glad that he came back into the life because when we connected, he was like, oh yeah, you ain't really about comedy. Like no, bro, I got deported. That's why you ain't saying that.  So I never told people that. But you know, Jordan is one of the people that like, said to me like, you're dope. Clean it up because I was doing hood comedy. You know what I'm saying? Like, if you can't do clean, say less. But because I wasn't educated probably as far as social media because I was doing clean and I wasn't going to where I just wasn't seeing yet. So don't lose hope. It's for everybody out there doing comedy. Don't think that you got to do hood to blow. No, you can do clean, but you got to be consistent. You got to do it every day. And that's what I learned from Jordan. Jordan's like, I was doing three reels. He said, I need 10. Yeah. He popping already though. Yeah. And he's calling me every day. Me and my wife is there behind him. He only did four. But you know what I love about what you're saying? I love it. I love the fact that when he was on here he was talking about how Country Wayne checks up on him making sure he's doing what he's doing. And now he's passing all of that down to you. He's doing the same thing to you. So I love that. Like, Jordan, listen, this isn't and it's not just Jordan. There's also my people's Robbie like who brought me on to Instagram. You know what I'm saying? Because he got a million followers. He was the one that did that. He saw a hardworking Mexican that was like, yo, he's, he's working. Like even if I'm I was supposed to shoot with him. They doing the whole thing, I'm dropping five skits because I understood the name of the game. He said, you got to get to work. You film me? So then Jordan is like literally checking up on you. And we might, we don't have a little one of two discussions like, oh, I didn't see out of him or whatever. The next day, like nothing happened. Yo, what's up, bro? We bout to go to that's how you know you got to cherish those relationships because and no longer want to rock with you. It's bigger than that. You feel I'm saying to you, and that's why we don't grow as a community. Come on, sir. Go ahead. Go ahead.  That's tough, ain't it? Because I can imagine how frustrating I would be. I'm gonna tell you how it is. Imagine being pregnant for five years, and you can't give birth. Yeah, right. And you're ready to, I was worse than that. Because you gotta understand, I gotta ask to come out to the Dominican Republic with a dope-ass DJ and a dope-ass radio host is what I'm not gonna say. But it was a nice check, and this is in like 2005, no, I'm sorry. This is in 2006, I'm not mistaken, 2006, 2008 around there. Around there, you know what I'm saying? But I did it. I gotta ask you a couple of questions. When I say these names, tell me what you think about them, what comes to mind, okay? Okay. Cheating-ass Myron. Funny as hell. That's it? He funny. He funny.  He be trying to rank on me. He's trying to rank on you? All because I say rank, right? Yeah, you all, you said rank. I'm like that damn. Cheating-ass Myron? Yeah. Well, I mean, you gotta remember, as comedians, we clown on each other. And if you can't take it, I'll be cast out. I love it. Country Wayne, what do you think? His whole style. Country Wayne, man, he on his own level, man. Like, you know what I'm saying? You gotta give it up to him. You feel me? Like, he on another level, man. He on another level. On a level that where a lot of people wanna be at. You get what I'm saying to you? And you gotta respect him for the hard work and for the hustle and for the fact that he found it. Right. You know what I'm saying? Cause he's an inspiration to people that are doing it.  Man, I wanna make a million of them. Fuck, 500,000. I wanna make a million. I wanna make two million. Cause there's a guy named Mr. Beaks.  Yeah. You know what he's doing? He's giving it away. Wow. Hey, he like, yo, today we dropping a million on somebody and he really giving it away. But I'm saying social media is like Jordan was saying. You don't gotta be about cracking jokes. You don't gotta be about comedy.  You can be passionate about putting this on a cup. If you're showing the love and you're teaching people how to do it, you're now something big. I got one more name. Jordan Jackson. What do you think about what you're doing? Jordan Jackson just need to eat cause I think he got grinds or something. No, what do you think? What do you think when I say that? That's what come to mind? Nah. Honestly. Honestly. Humble. Humble. Loyal. Hard working. And a grinder. Like this man grinds like nothing else. People think I do a lot and I'm not knowing him cause he's like literally 20, 30 a day. He makes you want to step your game up? Yeah. So it's almost like a friendly competition. Like, you know what I'm saying? Oh, you did 10? Let me go get five more. You know what I'm saying? Like one day I'm gonna look at him and I'm gonna tell like you, cause you gotta remember he remembers I was doing three. Now I'm doing 10. Now I'm doing 15. I'm coming. Wow. I'm coming Jordan. I'm coming for all that. I'm gonna have my own bucket hat too, big dog. With the munchy logo on it.  I don't care. So y'all work with so many different people. Like a lot, I said a lot of different girls, man. I've seen y'all with a lot of different girls doing a lot of different skits in a lot of different places. But before you get into that, how did you get into the skits because you were doing stand up first? So how did you get into the skits? Before I saw anybody do skits, I was doing stand up. Right. And I had a thing called skits or us.  This is literally 2010 on YouTube. Skits or us was something because every time I saw comedy, I, it's almost like you ever heard Biggie rap? Yeah. And I'm just asking. Cause you know, maybe you haven't. I don't know. But if you heard Biggie, matter of fact, no, no, let me remove Biggie. Cause I'm going to tell you what made those cats who they are slick Rick. Yeah. You ever heard slick Rick rap? It wasn't by the time not long ago when people over there lived like so. Yeah. Like all you got to do is close your eyes and you can vision the whole thing. Yeah. When I was, is it a kind of source? I think it's probably somewhere down where it is. But it's literally sat there on stage and watching Gerald Kelly and all these people tell their jokes. I'm like, I envisioned the story, which was to me to them like, yo, let's film this. I bought a camera. I didn't know what I'd do, but I said, let's film this. Like we can film this scene and that scene and that scene, which is called skits are us. Wow. You know what I'm saying to you, but they felt like, and I'm not saying Gerald Kelly, I'm just saying, yeah. But I was trying with Jersey. I was trying with my people in Jersey and all they said, and I'm just, I'm not his name, no names, but majority of the comedians was like, I don't want to put my jokes on internet cause they going to steal them.  But they were trying to save it for TV. You know what I'm saying? And unfortunately I was one of those people that believed in their material enough to put work behind it. But then it took, you know, it took 10, nine years to come down to Atlanta, not know nobody, cause I didn't know nobody. I didn't come to Atlanta saying, hey, my cousin, no, I bet it on me and I won. And when you moved to Atlanta, you moved with your family? My family and everything. Like I came down, I came down here to open up a bar. I mean, I came down to Atlanta to open up.  My wife, when she met me, she saw, she saw a star. Okay. You know what I'm saying? Just like you. When you met me. And before her seeing it in me, I always had this feeling in myself. It's like, I was put on this earth to shine and I'm gonna shine my heart is. You know what I'm saying to you? So she saw something in me and I was like, yo, I'm out with no green card. No, nothing. She still believed in me.  But she didn't stick for that. She stuck for who I was for humbling. And I'm always making people laugh. And I'm not trying to make you laugh. It's just me. You know what I'm saying to you? So all of that in the mix with my kids, we moved to Atlanta and I was trying to get a barbershop, but I didn't have my barber license cause it's not like Jersey where you can just cut here. Like whatever. So I ended up working for aircraft airport. And I started as a cleaner. And five years later, I became an aircraft engineer. So I was building airplanes for like NASA and stuff like that. Wow. Yeah. Wow, that's heavy. So did you stop that full-time and he's doing comedy full-time now? Cause that's a well-paying job you're talking about. It is, but once COVID hit and then we had some issues at work cause I have obstructive sleep, I didn't want to be around COVID. COVID was my blessing and my curse. Cause I took off on COVID, but right last year, October, I caught COVID pneumonia and I almost died. Whoa. Wow. Yeah. So you were hospitalized? Yeah, yeah, I was like, I was like two seconds away from ICU. Felt like a week and a half on oxygen. I couldn't breathe or nothing. How did that make you reevaluate your life? Be more there for my kids and my family, my wife and all that.  That's awesome. That's love, man. Man, thank you so much for coming on show. How can people get a hold to you if they're looking for you? Y'all can follow me on Instagram as much as you'll have it. You can also follow me on Facebook, Life of Pablo. Just like it is, Life of Pablo. YouTube, MunchiesOhefe, Instagram, Munchies.02. Thank you so much for coming on show. We love you, bro. Thank you, man. I love y'all too, man. I appreciate y'all. You're always welcome to come back. I know Jordan, you know, have you busy and you have things going on in family, but you know, we're here. That's what's up. That's what's up. I like y'all, man. Check it, man. It's been another great day with a boss talk on the one where the boss is talking. Yes, sir. Get me out.


I've been living my whole life in fear, in fear that I would disappoint my parents, that I would not live up to the grades and the degrees that I got in college. I was living in fear of people's judgment. I was living in fear of being different. But once I started realizing that all the power is within myself, that anything I want in life, I don't need to worry about others judging my self-worth. But the only person that can judge where I want to go in life and my own personal self-worth is myself. Not a boss, not my family, not the judgment of my friends and peers and co-workers. And once I overcame that fear, I realized that I was limitless and I was able to do anything I wanted to do. Everybody doubts themselves, everybody second guesses themselves and I doubted myself and I second guess myself just as much as any other person. But I'd say the difference is no matter what I knew that I needed to be moving out of my current situation. I went to an event, at that event I had an epiphany. I created a new vision of myself and what happened is every day I went to work after that event. Every day I went to work I felt like I was living an alternative life because in my mind I already had a new vision for myself already created and that new vision of myself was that I was free. So every day I went into work I felt in limbo and I didn't feel like I belonged there. I don't know if you've ever felt like you don't belong somewhere but for me that was every single day. That kept me focused because if you're somewhere where you don't feel you belong, if you're in a situation where you don't feel is correct for you, if you feel a sense of unease with what you're doing or who you're surrounded by, if you feel incongruent with yourself, you work very hard to move out of that situation.   That's what I felt. That's what I felt every day I went to work. It was incredibly uncomfortable. It wasn't just a momentary feeling. It was pervasive. There wasn't really an option. I started noticing that my doubts and my second guessing were my brain playing tricks on me and I stopped taking them seriously. I realized that my own doubts and that my second guesses were not my own. That those doubts that bubbled up in my brain, those second guesses about my direction, those were actually what society wanted me to think. And I realized those thoughts were not my own. Those thoughts were societies trying to claw me back into the safety net of that structured corporate world that we've been educated on for our entire lives. And once I realized that those doubts were not my own but they had been educated into my brain by my friends, by my family, by my teachers. I started realizing that I had to move beyond them and I did. Doubt used to cause me to hold myself back in life and in business. Fears of others judgments. The judgments of my family, my friends, people I wanted to impress used to hold me back from living the life that I truly deserve. Now, once I learned to control those doubts, once I could learn to control those fears of judgments from others, I was able to live a life that I truly enjoy. And being able to control your fears and your doubts of judgments of others and society will set you free. In just a second I'll tell you my story of how I've been able to overcome doubts and the striving to be of perfection in my own self to create a business that makes me millions of dollars per year and living a life that I truly love. So when I first decided that I wanted to quit my job, it was out of anger, right? And it wasn't from like a centered place. I realized I was at a crossroads in my life and there were kind of two paths I could go on. One is I could really just double down on the career route and say, look, I'm going to make this work. This may not be the right job for me where I'm going to move up, but I'm going to double down the career route. I still believe that I can make it work. It's just this is the wrong job. And the other route was that the only person who could actually pay me what I'm worth is myself and I need to be an entrepreneur. And what helped me make that decision was I kind of projected into the future for each of these routes. I said, if I take route A, where will I be in 1, 2, 5, 10 and 25 years? And I just kind of imagined where my life would go in each of these routes. And what I realized was that that if I took route A and I allowed others to determine my own worth for the rest of my life, that I would never accomplish my dreams. I'd never accomplish my goals. I'd never be given the freedom to experience life in the way I wanted to experience and I'd be constricted to living and working and even dating and marrying people who were convenient but not actually people I truly connected with on a heart or soul level. I cried thinking about this going down route A which was working a job for the rest of my life because I realized that it was so easy that this was such a realistic scenario for me to actually do. It was not crazy to think that this could be my life and I could always be living on somebody else's terms.  I feel very fortunate to this day that I am not on that path whereas I realized route B was scary. Being an entrepreneur and defining my own sense of self-worth it was scary but I realized I would live a life of regrets, of constriction, of being on somebody else's term, of being a comfortable slave if I allowed my sense of self-worth and my worth to be determined by somebody else and at that moment I made a decision that I can determine my own happiness, I can determine my own freedom, I can determine what I get from this life. Then the decision was my own so when I had made the decision not to quit my job it did not come from fear anymore but it came from a sense of really knowing myself and knowing where I needed to be. Losing everything I owned was obviously a massive personal setback in a weird way it was actually quite liberating because it helped me realize what is truly the most important things in life to me. I didn't think the fire was actually going to come to my house, I didn't think it would actually happen to me. I woke up and the sky was a reddish color but then it turned black. I noticed the reason the sky turned black was because a tree had just collapsed and sent up a mountain of soot that blacked out the sun. So at that point I realized I had to get out and I had to get out immediately within the next five minutes. The winds were blowing 70 miles an hour, there were ashes flying everywhere, there were embers flying everywhere and my neighbor's yard is on fire everything I'd accumulated throughout my entire life and my animals were just in my house. This was our dream piece of property that we had bought just a few months prior. In the span of three seconds I had to decide what I could take with me and what I had to leave behind and I couldn't take much with me. Within that three seconds my mind started going to what other special things do I need to keep with me and my mind started going off into some directions I said oh there's some special pictures maybe my computer maybe my xbox and then it just said it's all junk it's all junk and I need to leave it all behind because I don't have time but in that three seconds I had to decide what do I bring with me and what do I not. Really it came down to my animals. What I realized was at the end of the day it's really about the people and the animals that you love and the connections that you have in this world and everything else is just kind of temporary. With those connections to your friends or your family or your animals those can't be sacrificed those are the most important things in the world. It's so funny how much time I have spent trying to accumulate that $8,000 couch, that multimillion dollar home, that $2,000 HTC Vive virtual reality setup.  In a weird way it was actually quite liberating because it helped me realize what is truly the most important things in life to me which are family friends and the experiences we share together. That's all you really need at the end of the day and I'm perfectly happy. Have you ever been trapped at your desk or your office or your home hoping, wishing for that two weeks a year of vacation time? I used to but I've been able to make the transition from working a corporate job to working for myself from anywhere and being able to make millions of dollars per year doing that. Now in just a second here I'm going to tell you my story of how I went from nothing, having no technical skills, having no advantages monetarily and being able to create a business which sustains a life that I love and I'm passionate about. A life where every day is a vacation, every day I wake up to this view. This is my backyard. I live in Malibu, California and I've been able, I've been fortunate enough to learn the mindset that it takes to be successful. I believe anyone can create freedom for themselves and live the life they truly dream about. To be the true version of myself, I had to live a life that was not what society had pre-planned for me. So what I attribute most to my success is that in my travels around the world I realized that I was living an arbitrary life. I realized that if I wasn't setting my own goal for where I wanted to go in life that the world was going to set one for me and the path that I would be on would not be my own. Now I've always been a rebel. I've always wanted to do things my own way. When I realized that I was not living my own life but I was living the life that society wanted for me. That society arbitrarily told me that I should be living. It made me angry inside. It made me furious when I realized I was following a path that was just going to lead me to being another number in the system. And from working the corporate world I also came to the conclusion that there are doors that are closed to you. The corporate world is not set up for you to be the most successful version of yourself that you can possibly be. So when I started realizing that I needed to set my own goals and I needed to define life for myself that's when I started moving forward in life. So I'd say in a sense it came out of anger that I was not living my own life that I was living what society wanted for me. That drove me forward to try to be a truer version of myself. I'm kind of embarrassed to admit but it took me about four years to start working for myself. I'd been trying since 2009 to start my own business and I started a number of businesses and make some money in fits and spurts. Some businesses worked out. Some businesses didn't. Some businesses made me money for a few months and then they would just stop working for various reasons. I started probably about a dozen different businesses during those four years but I could never get anything that was consistent and it wasn't until 2012 August that I quit my job and I started working for myself full time and I've never gone back since then. The biggest mistake I see entrepreneurs making is believing they need to do things perfectly but instead not doing anything at all. I believe people feel this need to be perfect because of society's judgment. There's so much judgment in the world. There's so much judgment on people to start a business and immediately be successful. There's so much judgment from society of people looking at your instagram photos. There's so much judgment from society in all aspects of our lives. What I realized was that society's judgment was not me being myself. It was me trying to placate all these different groups of people and it can get mind-numbing when you're trying to advertise something on facebook but you have to think about what will your family think? What will your extended family think of that post you do? What will your friends think of you trying to sell a product on facebook? What will other people that don't know you personally but you'd hope to impress think of this post you'd put on facebook or this image you put on instagram or of this video you put on youtube? And juggling all these different groups whose judgment I was worried about it just felt like a thousand pound rock in my chest but what I realized was that those thoughts weren't my own. They'd been implanted in me and those judgments were not even their own.  I realized that those fears I realized that that fear of judgment was not my own thoughts. They were somebody else's thoughts and that those thoughts of those other people were somebody else's thoughts before them. They'd been implanted in their brains and that the only true way to live life is really just be yourself and not allow society's judgments to filter in and affect your brain. How do I stay motivated for four years to keep trying my own business? Well one of my favorite books is The Alchemist and in The Alchemist they call it beginner's luck and I'd say in the beginning there was a few businesses I started. One particular business where I made a little bit of money right away and once I got that taste of being able to work for myself and that that sort of inner pride of being able to make money and being in control of my own income rather than having to work a job for eight dollars an hour it was just super addicting. It was really pleasurable. I remember distinctly I made $400 the first time I made $400 in a day I was tutoring. I was selling a particular type of tutoring service at my college and I made $400 and I was like whoa I only get paid $7 an hour working at the movie theater. That was really invigorating so I said this is more than I make in two weeks from working at the movie theater I need to figure out how to be more of an entrepreneur it just got me addicted so that first little success really kept me going because it showed me what is possible and I believe when you're starting out as an entrepreneur getting that first taste of success is something to really strive for and it's really important to do a business where you can make money fast and easily. One thing that really motivated me to keep going through this period was surrounding myself with people that motivated me frankly surrounding myself with people that motivated me kept me going because I saw what they were achieving and even if I didn't talk to them often even if I just met them briefly at an event hearing about their life and hearing about what they accomplished and seen that they were a real person they're not a genius not a kid that was born with a silver spoon in their mouth seen real people getting real results for themselves that I wanted out of my life helped keep telling me you can do this you can do this too and it made it real because you can read about it on the internet you can see it in a newspaper or a magazine or a book or youtube but it's not real unless you're actually like hanging out with this people you know and I'd say just seem like oh they're not geniuses you don't need to be a genius to do this how I defined success for myself was really I just looked all around me on instagram on facebook on youtube and I saw so many people living lives of freedom and luxury and fun and adventure and I said I wanted to live that life too I want to be doing those things that those people are doing so when I started my goal was not grand but it was something and it was living a life of fun of freedom and of adventure I created my entire business around an internet business that would allow me to have freedom and control over my own time and freedom and control over where I was or my location society does not want to give you control over your own time over your own location society and the corporate world wants you to be a slave the corporate world the capitalistic system wants to control you just as it wanted to control me and when I realized that I was not living my own life I was furious because I'm not a slave I'm not beholden to anybody and that fury drove me to carve out a life for myself and to ultimately create my internet business to allow me to do anything that I wanted with utter freedom and that freedom has opened so many doors for me in life to create relationships and to experience the world and to build new skills it's been unbelievable and where I'm at now compared to where I was five years ago is night and day where I was once dressing up in a corporate suit and driving an hour each day each way to go to work working for a company selling products that I didn't even fully believe in hanging out with people every day that I won't even normally be friends with ultimately going home every single night dissatisfied with who I was was where I was five years ago compared to where I am today every day I wake up with a blank slate every day is a new day for me to decide where I want to go what I want to be what I want to do whether it's in my personal life or my business it doesn't matter and that freedom is invigorating and today it's my new normal and I believe it should be everybody's normal success love speed keeping that momentum going is the most important thing when you start making money in business and for me when I was able to go full time when working for myself and running my own business it just it just opened the floodgates instead of having to only be able to work nights on my internet business I had the whole day and for me at the time I had very few friends I didn't have a girlfriend I didn't have a family and I had very few things or responsibilities so I guess in one sense I did have an advantage because I had all the time in the world but I also had a lot of opportunities to spend my time in other ways I could have I could have been chasing girls I could have been going to the clubs I could have been going to bars and getting drunk I could have been smoking weed and I know a lot of entrepreneurs who once they start working for themselves you know they'll get drunk during the day they'll smoke weed in the morning they'll travel around the world full time and not work on their business or they'll they'll be dating lots of girls and they lose sight of actually creating momentum in their business creating momentum in your business is actually I'd say one of the most important things once you start earning money keeping that momentum going as hard as you can is paramount I kept that going the first year in business I did $300,000 my second year in business I did close to a million my third year in business I did close to three million so my momentum every single year I almost tripled what I did the previous year every year since then I've done nothing less than a million dollars in my business but I would have never gotten to that point if I'd allowed myself when I was 25 years old making 300,000 if I'd allowed myself to start getting a big ego and saying I'm gonna hang out at bars I'm gonna go to clubs I'm gonna forget about my responsibilities and travel full time but not tend to my business because it was a very easy and very real opportunity for me to have and do I could have just been dating girls and traveling the world and being a socialite but I didn't I kept momentum in my business and if you're trying to take your life to the next level momentum is the most important thing oh that fucking asshole that's what I was thinking I was bulletproof I practiced in the mirror like all this time and my heart just dropped it just in my mind everything I'd worked up to and came up to this point I'd gotten good grades in high school I'd taken the APs I went to a great college I had all the right majors business marketing everything I had done I'd gotten a good job I switched out for a better job and I did everything correct in my job and I was moving up and I was doing everything I was helping the company grow I felt pretty confident going in because I felt like I had a bulletproof case for asking for a raise so I went in I had you know a little sheet prepared of you know just kind of some numbers and some charts and some of the some of the actual data that I was going to reference and I went in and I made my spiel which was short I thought I kept it good and open ended I didn't ask for a firm amount I said hey I'd look like either raise or some sort of incentive plan and moving forward so that I can be on track to burn six figures his answer was the one answer I actually hadn't prepared for which wasn't really an objection but what he said was or what he was just being an a-hole the what that question meant to me because he was saying you want to raise or what are you going to do and what I felt like he was asking me to do is actually put my balls on the line and say or I'm quitting I don't think that was his intention the way I interpreted his response or what I felt he was forcing me to say is the job path for you or do you have to go a different route I want to give my boss a month notice so I gave myself 60 days to say I'm out whether or not I had the income to support going out on my own I knew I had to do it I knew I just had to really just resolve it in that moment and just move forward because otherwise I'd create too many obstacles to keep myself comfortable being an entrepreneur and defining my own sense of self-worth it was scary but I realized I would live a life of regrets of constriction of being on somebody else's term of being a comfortable slave if I allowed my sense of self-worth and my worth to be determined by somebody else and at that moment I made a decision that I can determine my own happiness I can determine my own freedom I can determine what I get from this life but once I had that goal in mind you see I was able to problem solve my way to get there you don't need to let anybody else determine what you're worth or where you're going in life that you have full control of that and it doesn't need to be a boss a teacher or even a relationship you're in you determine where you're going in life you you alone have all of the power in the world to figure this stuff out for yourself you're in a prison of your own mind what you fear is not real and it's really bitching over on this other side you can truly make it happen no money has to come out of your pocket for ad spend or nothing he shows you the true and legit way to start your marketing campaigns with no money hi there my name is Phil Carrick from Northern Ireland and I just want to give a big shout out to John Cristani what John does is he walks you through a step-by-step process really from A to Z hi my name is Demetrius I basically started using his tactics yesterday and already started seeing the results after going through the program I made my first commissions basically yesterday John Cristani thank you so much for access to your program it is powerful and I hope your students and people actually get in and they'll see they'll be able to understand what I'm talking about okay so thank you again and I appreciate everything that you put out