It's DDK, and I'm back with Vantalk episode. Oh, y'all got some questions, and you wanna know the answers, babe. I'm here to answer them. But before we get into Vantalk, I need you guys to smash that like button. And also, if you're not subscribed, smash that subscribe button. I'll give you guys a lot of free game. All I'm asking, if you smash the subscribe button, and also smash that like button. And let's try to get this video to 1,000 likes. We already trying to get right. Let's go. Okay, so question number one comes from at Jeff Little. And he says, first, he says that he can't speak for everyone else, but he appreciates everything that you've given out on this channel for free. And then he says, his question is, besides needing his authority, BOC-3, and UCR and commercial insurance, is there any other documentation that he needs to run his van? I'm gonna tell you the honest truth. I don't know nothing about what you're talking about. I don't know nothing about MCs and DOTs and BOC-3s and<PHONE_NUMBER>s.  So I don't have my own authority. So I'm not gonna send you off until you need to get this, this, this.  I don't even really know what a BOC-3 is. I looked it up, but it's, I don't know. I'm just, look, I'm just gonna tell you the truth. I do not know. I do not have an MC. I do not have a DOT. I do not have a BOC-3 and whatever else. I don't have any of that. I use a carrier company. So I don't have to deal with all that. So honestly, I'm sorry I couldn't answer your question, but from what I think, I'm thinking, I'm thinking, remember, I'm thinking. I think that you may be okay with those things. I'm not for sure though. So I don't know. I'm sorry, I just don't know. Okay, question number two comes from At Third Element. And he says, going back to the question he asked last week, can he put his van in the business if it's not a logistics business and still use it for logistics? Absolutely, you can absolutely do that. Guess why? Because we did it. So we put the van in our one LLC and then we added to the logistics company after we already put the van in the LLC. So all of it is under the same umbrella. So you should be good with that. You shouldn't have any issues.  A lot of this stuff is technical and me, personally, I'm sorry. I'm just a very technical person. I just go with the flow. My business partner, she helps me with a lot of this stuff, guys. I don't know nothing about that paperwork and all that stuff like that. She's more of an expert than me. I just know how to go out here and get busy. That's really all I know how to do. But you definitely can use it for logistics even if the company does not say logistics on it. It's pretty sweet.  Gotta get this money, understand me. Understand me. He also says, do you know if it's possible, do you know how it's possible to get dedicated routes without cargo insurance? That's very seldom that's gonna happen. You can go to T-Force Logistics and you can go under their insurance. You don't have to go get your own insurance. You just go under there. They're gonna take some money out every week, two weeks, or a month. I'm not sure exactly when. But they're gonna take the money out your payments and then you just do it that way. As far as just going under there without any insurance, I don't think any logistics company is really gonna do that. I'm just being honest with you. We barely low-key supposed to be doing this, doing over eastern DoorDash and all that stuff. They low-key want us to have commercial insurance with that. So I know if you're picking up some items that cost more than that, they're definitely gonna want you to have some type of insurance. Or they probably won't let you on board. Unfortunately. Believe you me. I really want you to go out there and get busy too. I really wish you didn't have to, but you do, hey, it's their rule, it's not mine. And then last, he says, in your opinion, what's the best way to average 250 a day after gas using GigApps? You want me to tell you the truth? I don't really know. Because it depends on where your market is. Where you are at, what's popping in your market. Because some people out there going crazy, like my guy, Smith Brothers Transportation. He in, I think he in New York or New Jersey, somewhere out east. He going crazy out there. He making 7, 800 and he going crazy using dispatch and different apps. It really depends on where you are at. If you want kind of almost like some guarantee money, you could go with like a GOMO. You go with GOMO. I think we made like 250 with GOMO.  Oh, you can do that. You go ahead and do that. You can pretty much, that's kind of like a dedicated route. They have routes every single day, money through Sunday. You can go there, let them know you want to be on board, talk to them and everything, and you can get busy like that. Because they do have routes every single day. You pick up at five in the morning, you run it that way. And I think that we can get like 250 and you can pick your area that you want to go to. So you can go with GOMO, and then you can go with Amazon Flex, Flex, Flex, Amazon Flex.   That's what I recommend. What you think? Yeah, packages, ship driver. Oh yeah, ship driver. I forgot about ship driver. You can download ship driver. Look, I got videos on all this. GOMO, Amazon Flex and ship driver. I have three of those, three different videos on all of them and how much I made and how long it took and everything. All info is in the video.  Question number three comes from AtdariusNorthern. He says, what's your approach to doing your taxes? Additionally, what tracker app do you use for mileage? What's my approach from doing the taxes? So honestly, we have two separate things. Like I have some of the gig apps in my personal name under my social security number. So we're gonna get 1099s for that. And then we also have like the carrier company and other apps on the business side. So we're gonna separate each of them. I wanna find my personal taxes and then the business is gonna find this almost taxes separately. And for, I just wanna give you guys kind of a tip. I don't know if you guys write off like gas or anything, but me personally, what we do is do we use the mileage? The mileage you're gonna win every time with the mileage.  But me personally, I do try to pay more taxes because if you want to like buy property or anything, you're gonna have to, on paper, make money. So if you can text returns back from them and it's saying that you are making nothing in the business, then you're not gonna be able to buy me property or anything. So that's the reason why I always make sure I pay taxes because I need for Uncle Sam to give me some of them bands. Now, as far as the tracker app, like as far as mileage goes, honestly, we do not use any app. And the reason we don't use any app is because we bought the van on December 31st. So from the first on down, it's gonna be all in one swoop. So next year, what we're gonna do is you write the mileage down at the end of the year and then you start over again and do it that way. That's the easiest way for us to do it. I don't know how you guys do it. Come on below and let me know. How do you do your taxes? Question number four also comes from at Darius Northern and he says, just, this is a fun question. Do you watch a battle rap? And if you do, who's your favorite? Honestly, I never really was into battle rapping like that. I don't, I never really watched. I seen the babies a couple of shorts and stuff on YouTube and all that. But honestly, I've never really watched it. The only battle rapper I've heard was, is his name, Sirius Jones. I just know him because I heard the names before, Sirius Jones. And now I know that Math Hoffa was a rapper just because he got the podcast, but other than that, I don't really know. It's Cassidy, I think Cassidy just said, Cassidy just started battle rapping. So I don't really know about battle rapping like that. That ain't really my thing, but huge shout to all the battle rappers. You know, I'll be having, you know, I got my little cup of bars and all that.  He also says, are you dropping any new bars in 2024? I low key thought about doing a mixtape.  I thought about doing a mixtape. I thought about doing some songs, but I don't know if I'm really gonna do it. I think that I may try to get some of the artists. All the artists that was usually on the channel before, the songs I was playing before, if you go back way when, the reason why I stopped paying them is because they had a lot of cussing in there and YouTube was kinda not really monetizing my stuff as much as I wanted it to be. So that's why I kinda took those songs off and just go with the beats now. But I do wanna make some couple tracks with some of the artists that's had songs on the channel, like Celebang, Grimy, Auto Two Times, R&D Bishop, and like a couple of people that, Nick G, all of them, I definitely would do a track with all of them. You know, I tried to get my bars up. You know, it's different when you, I did have a couple of songs. I don't know if y'all know this, baby, but I did have like, I had a ball, when I went to, when I was in Job Corps, I had about like eight songs. We had a little, maybe a miniature mixtape. We had a, you know, we would do it like that. Yeah! I do ace. Shout out to my guy, Myron. Myron Gibbs. If you watch him, he'd be watching the channel. Shout out to him. He is, I think he is somewhere in Illinois, but he'd definitely know about the tracks we had. We was going crazy. Question number five comes from At Smoke. And they say, a while back you did a thing for Curry to get people on the platform if they showed up to this meeting. Do you have anything like that coming around for people who missed out for that app or any other apps? Because the wait lists are extremely long. I wish I did. Honestly, Curry reached out to me about that. And they said they coming to Chicago, get the people, I got the people and they went. That's what I'll be trying to tell you guys. You have to seize the opportunities when they're there. I don't know if it's ever gonna happen again. I don't know if any other app is ever gonna reach out to me. I do have apps reach out to me here and there in the past previously. But other than that, they really haven't been reaching out as of lately. If they do, I definitely will be posted on the channel so you can come out here or walk there if you are out here and they can sign you up. Cause they was signing people up right on the spot. If you was on the wait list, they would point you right off the waiting list. You can get the orders right then. So that's the benefits of, you know, sometimes you got a network. I know all of us don't want to all the time. I know you don't want to go to this thing. You don't feel like going. I don't even feel like going. But sometimes you just have to do what you have to do. And honestly, the turnout was pretty good. So huge out to everyone that came out to the Curry event, baby. Question number six comes from at Danny boy. And he says, who is the carrier company that you did the three month review on about nine days ago? I ain't telling you that. See certain stuff. Certain stuff I just cannot tell you because I'm under confidentiality contract. I can't be, you know, telling all my sources. I do have three new people that I'm trying to get on with right now. I'm all I'm gonna say is this. Go to Indeed. Go to this all I'm gonna say. I'm gonna give you some game right now. Go to Indeed. Type in independent, independent contractor or type in cargo van owner operator. Just go in there, type in your area and type in that you will find a lot. There's plenty of carry coverage that you could choose from. Go in there, type in independent contractor or cargo van owner or something like that. Most of the different things and search to there. You're gonna find some carriers. All you have to do is have the insurance.  I hope you guys understand. Question number seven comes from at Bob church. And he says, have you ever thought about adding another van with a driver? Huge shout out to my guys. That Henry Bob, Bob church. Make Henry Bob. Make Henry Bob. My God, make Henry Bob. Honestly, before I did think about, yes, we need to get another van and all that stuff. But I want to say this. Sometimes we try to move too fast and I was trying to move too fast and I wasn't gonna get no cash. I was gonna be, I was gonna put myself in a bond. You wanna know why? I was gonna put myself in a bond was because I don't even have consistent work with this van. So it doesn't make sense to me to get another van and I got two vans. I gotta figure out work for this van and that van. So that's really why I did not move on that yet. Also, if we did get another van, I will only allow my business partner to use the van. I do not wanna deal with no employees. I do not wanna deal with it. I do not wanna deal with it. I do not wanna deal with nobody answering the phone or they overslept and they supposed to go over and do this, they ain't go.  They may do good in the first beginning or they might do bad in the first beginning. But eventually they don't start not coming and all that stuff and I don't really got time for all that. And what happens if a route is supposed to go out and the person who's supposed to do it is not there, now I gotta go do it. What if I gotta route myself? So now it's just too much confusion going on. So my business partner can maybe get in the van, maybe my mom, maybe some people that I know very, very close and I know for sure that they gonna go do what they need to do. Other than that, to the public, I don't know if I see it happen. I'm just gonna be honest. I already don't want no employees. I know all being in Boston all that stuff is different nowadays. People don't really wanna work like that. So that's what I gotta say about that. Question number eight comes from at Susan Jenkins and she says, is it necessary to go ahead and get your DOT, MC and LLC in place before you research your market? No, do not do that. Do not do that. Research, research, research first. You need to research the stuff first to even know if it's gonna be even feasible for you to even get a van or get a box or get whatever you're gonna get. Make sure you do your homework first. You have to do research first. And once you got enough research, you got enough stuff done, then you can move on to getting the MC and DOT and all that stuff. Do not, you're doing it backwards. Do not do that. Please do not do that. Please do not do that. Cause what if you get the MC, DOT and all that stuff and LLC, you pay this money to get all that stuff and then there's no work in your area. So you need to know if it's work in the area first. Don't do it backwards. Do the research, then go from there. She also asked, do you need commercial insurance right away when starting out using your own car? Absolutely not. Just go in there.   You ain't gotta worry about nothing. They ain't gonna ask you to get no extra insurance. I signed up with all of the apps that I signed up with, with regular insurance. I did not change anything. I just sent them that little card in when they asked for insurance and I got busy like that. Question number nine comes from At Third Element. And they say, what is the video setup you have for your van because it's fire? The video, what do you mean by video setup? Oh, we got the kid. We got this, right there, right there. So let me show you. Let me show you the little, we on one GoPro right now, right? That's the one she recorded me on. Then we got this. This go right here. Wamski, that's right there. That's for the driving footage right there. I'm gonna take you guys to the back of the van right away. So we are in the back of the van to get these vans. As you guys can see, we've got a little thing right here. This clip is so, you can see the angle from this way when they put the pallet in there. Pause. And then we have another one right here. So we put one GoPro right here and then we put the other one right here. We also did have a mount right here but it keeps on falling off cause it's getting too cold. We put a mount right here. So when I'm loading everything from this way from the side of the van like this, whoop, you can see it from that angle right there. So that's the setup for the van. And that's what it is, baby. Oh yeah. And one more thing. I do have the harness. This is my chest harness. I put this around your drone like this. I'm gonna say, y'all have never really seen my setup, my kid. Let me show y'all right quick. Put this drone right here. I got this from Target. They have them at Target. They have them at Amazon. You clip it right here. Whop, and you put the camera right here. This one, these clips broke. So you just start to drone on here like this. Whop, put that drone right there. That's how I get busy, like that. But shout out to you for asking that question and shout out to everyone that has asked the question. Make sure you guys smash that like button. This video needs to get to 1,000 likes. And if you're not subscribed, make sure you also smash the subscribe button. Next question. Question number 10 comes from at Jumpstart. And they say, do people get weird about the camera and do you get a writing release to post them on YouTube? That's a good, camera, and then the camera questions. Two camera questions right in the road. Some people do get weird about the camera. Like, especially when I first started, they was extra. They was extra tweaking about the camera then. It ain't been as bad as of lately, but you are going to want some people that do not like the camera or they act weird around the camera. I do, I kind of understand where some people are coming from, but I also would like them to ask me in a proper manner. Cause it kind of comes off some rules sometimes. Why aren't they just, that's weird. Or they just do extra stuff and they're like, why are you doing all that? All you have to say was, are you recording? Like, no, I don't want to be on YouTube. That's it. That's all you got to say. Or I don't want to be on camera. That's it. I will break you out. I don't have any issues. I don't have any problems with making anybody out. As long as you ask in a respectful manner. That's all I ask. That's all I ask. Now, some people may say you're disrespectful for even having the camera, but how are you going to tell me what I can have on my person? I wear what I want to wear. You'll be recorded all the time. You just don't pay attention to it. So that's the way I, but I think about that. As far as me having them signing anything, absolutely not. I don't have anyone signing anything. But if they do tell me they do not want to be on the camera, I automatically make sure I take them off. Even if I feel like some people like, if I feel like that they acting like a little, you know, shaking around the camera, they don't, they kind of like avoiding it. I would just let them know like, I won't put you on if you don't want me to. Some people say it's okay. And then some people are like, okay, they don't want to be on there. So I always respect people's wishes if they want to be on the camera or not on the camera. And if I'm coming to someone's house to drop off something, I always make sure I cover their face up.  So they won't know where anybody lives at. Also, I do want to say this. A lot of people say something about these cameras, but majority of the times you're on public property. You're on public property. Walmart, all that same club, all that is public property. That is not private property. So make sure you guys keep that in mind. I know that some people get, I don't want to be on the camera. I definitely don't mind not putting nobody on the camera, but you also, you need to know the laws, know your rights on whether you can record or whether you cannot record, especially if you're in this van, especially if in your car. They can't tell you what to record in your own car. They can't tell you that. So just keep that in mind. Why are you out there on the grind? Question number 11 comes from at Brett. And he says, what is your length and height of your Sprinter van? And what are your goals for 2024? The length and height of the Sprinter van. I'm gonna say honestly, I really don't know all that. I know it's a 170 wheelbase. I know that it's like, oh, 14 feet, 14 feet back there. We can fit 14 feet in the back. And the height is like 72. Oh, the height of the whole van, it's like nine feet. So it's a 170 wheelbase, a 170 wheelbase, and the height is like nine feet. And my goals for 2024 is first off, we gotta get to this $100,000 subscriber. We gotta get that. I need that plaque next year, baby. I wanna be holding that joint like Kobe. You know, I'll be holding that joint like Kobe, and they holding them trophies. I need that plaque. That's one thing. I also need to invest a lot more. So my goal is to invest as much as possible because I believe that things are gonna go up and I'm gonna make way more money because I'm trying to hit to my maximum achievement goal by 40. When I get 40 years old, I'm talking about full, multi-millionaire, full, land, properties, everything. So I need to invest more. Also, I do need to find other ways to do things with the cargo van, with the Sprinter van. I would rather do my own thing than go under a carrier company or get a DOT MC or, you know, do the gear gaps and all that stuff. I really, really, really deep down inside. Pause, wanna create my own business. I do not wanna have to worry about nobody else with me. That's it, that's all. So I kinda been trying to figure out what exactly I wanna do. I wanna have my own little niche. I do not wanna, I mean, moving stuff and doing side jobs and all that stuff is cool. Doing some gear gaps here and there is cool, but I really wanna build my own stuff. That's one of my biggest goals of 2024, is build our own stuff and then maybe possibly add some more vans or, you know, box trucks or whatever, but do it all for ourselves and not have to deal with anybody else but the consumer. So that's my plan for 2024 and that's about it.  Of course I wanna do that. I'm trying to make major boo-koo dollars. I'm trying to go out there and pop my collar, but we're gonna see what happens. Honestly, when people say, like, where do you see yourself in this many, this many amount of years, I really don't know. I just go with the flow and whatever God takes me in, whatever he puts on my site, that's just what I go for. That's just how I do things. I'm out here trying to get this green, nothing in between. Question number 12 comes from at Susan Jenkins and she says, what percent of your earnings are you putting towards taxes on your business? You wanna be honest with you, Susan, that's a great, that's an excellent question. Personally, we really don't spend much money. I told you guys that most of the money goes to investments. So as far as saving money, it's always money just in the account. So whenever the taxes, whatever kind of paper test we is gonna pay it out of there, we really don't move the money around like that. Most of the majority of the money is being invested, invested, invested, invested. We do keep a decent amount in both accounts. Like we got the regular account with the gig gaps and everything and then we have the account with the carrier coming. So we keep everything separated. But we make sure that we keep a decent amount in each account. And whenever the taxes come, that's what we gotta do. We gotta pay, we gotta pay. But again, as I told you guys in the previous question that for the most part, you really don't have to already pay taxes like that if you've driven enough miles. But we do make sure we pay some because you wanna make sure that your business is profitable because that's gonna allow the bank to give you more money later on. If you lose the money every time they give you some money, then they might not wanna loan you any more money. So you guys, if you plan on doing this business or any other business, make sure that your business is profitable because if it's not, they're not gonna wanna loan you any more money. So I just wanna throw that little gem in there. I appreciate the question though. Okay, question number 13 comes from at Taren Eric. And he says, sorry for asking. Thinking about moving to North Chicago, is it cheap to live there? Huge shout out to my guy Taren. He is the subscriber that has been around since the very, very beginning. Also, I wanna say huge shout out to any other subscribers that's been around since the beginning and also the new subscriber to just subscribe to the channel. Makes you all hit that like button. Now, my guy Taren wanna move to North Chicago. That's where I'm from, I'm from North Chicago. Back in the day, it was way cheaper than it is now. But it's a little bit higher, but it's not that crazy. For one bedroom you probably, it depends. Hold on, wait, let me say this. It depends on what area in North Chicago you're gonna move to. It's not that big, but they have areas that are like the big nice houses in the back built off of the cut. They're you gonna pay my money for those. It depends if you wanna buy a house or if you wanna do rent. If you wanna buy a house, the housing market is a little bit higher than it used to be now because it kinda gentrified it a little bit. It kinda fixed that joint up a little bit. They even got a Starbucks around here, down there. So they out there getting busy. But as far as rent go, you probably can get you one bedroom from like $700. You probably can get you a two bedroom for like, depending on the area too, depending on the area. But like $850 to $1,000. You'll get you a three bedroom from $1,113,000. It depends on the area though. But it's not that bad. It's pretty much standard. It's similar to everywhere around here. Except for when you go to the really nice areas.    But huge out to my God 10 for the question. Question number 14 comes from atrapid99. And he says, how much do you make a month off of YouTube? That is a good question. Everybody always wanna know how much dough we already trying to get. Now, honestly, doing YouTube is very similar to doing gig gaps and doing getting a carrier and all that stuff, being an independent contractor. It fluctuates drastically up and down, up and down. It's up and down and up and down. And just keep on doing that, doing that, doing that. So one money may be a thousand. Another money may be five thousand. But it's never really a consistent number. So anybody who out there doing YouTube or wanna do YouTube, if you're doing YouTube, you already know the number is never consistent. You might have one video that is blow up or you might not have one that's, I'm getting a thousand views. And that's why the reason why I tell you guys to smash that like button because it's gonna push us out to more people. So smash that like button. And if you are not subscribed, go ahead and smash that subscribe button because the goal is 100,000 subscribers in 2024. We put up, to school. I wonder about my birthday. February 17th, 2024. Can we get 100,000 subscribers? That's what I want for my birthday. Y'all wanna know what I want for my birthday? That's what I want. 100,000 subscribers by February 17th, 2024. Okay, and last but not least, question number 15 comes from at Motown YB. And he says, what was the last straw that broke the camel's back to make you seek entrepreneurship? And what kind of work were you doing in that nine to five? That's a long, long story. That right there is a long story. Now I'm gonna break it down to you guys. I actually thought about doing a band talk about my work history and all that stuff and what I'm doing and working, why I quit my job and all that stuff. But I'm just gonna go ahead and tell you this is pretty much what happened. So I was working at my old job. So let me rewind a little bit. I'm gonna go rewind a little bit. Let me get y'all a little backstory. So, boom, I went to Job Corps. After I got out of Job Corps, I started working at a place called Second Wind Exercise Equipment. At that place, we was in a box truck and we used to deliver exercise equipment. We did the whole Wisconsin and some Illinois. So the driving and stuff, we used to go here, go there about three hours away, four hours away. So huge out to my guy, policy, policy was one of my first partner. And then my guy, I hope he watching this, my guy Remigius Stuczynski, my guy Remigius, my guy Remi. We used to go out there and get busy. We had a ball. I had a ball working at that old job. It was cool and all, but I end up wanting to do bigger and better things. So I went to another job, which is the last job I worked. Now I go there in 2014, no, was it? Think it was 2014. Go there in 2014. Now mind you, let me rewind a little bit more. I've been, the entrepreneurial spirit has always been, it's always been a thing for me. A whole town, a majority of my life, I've been selling different stuff, doing this, selling my old clothes, selling this, switching up. I've been doing that stuff for my whole entire life. So it's nothing new to me. So boom, I'm working at my old job. I'm cool. He probably never seen his video, but his name is Tim. He was my supervisor at my old job. I used to sand first, because when I went to Job Corps, I went there for welding. So I'm a welder by trade. And I also went there for auto body and paint. So I know how to paint cars and sand them and do all that stuff. So I used to sand cement trucks, like cement trucks with the booms and all that. They go real, real high up in the sky. When they do all that stuff shooting, like they shoot the concrete, when they put the concrete up there, I used to do that stuff.  And then they used to take it in the paper and they used to paint it. So I did that first. Then I'm like, you know what? I need to give me some more money. So now I went to another department and made more money where I was actually putting together the machine. So it's called a boom. So I was putting that together, doing all that, that was sweet. I was living it up and they're chilling, doing my thing, getting them busy with that, putting that stuff together. And then I'm like, I wanna make some more money. So now I'm gonna go to the welding department. They weld pipes, I was welding pipes, pause. Ooh, that was crazy. Now, everything was fine. I went back there, I was back there, I'm doing my thing, I'm welding my pipes. I ain't having no problems. I got my tool box, I got my whole little setup, you know, I'm on the phone, talking about business part of what we talking about. Yeah, after I get off work, we gotta go over here, we gotta go knock on doors, we gotta do the real estate stuff. Doing that, I'm on the phone, you know, bumping my music. I'm listening to my books. I told y'all every single day. I'm listening to my books. Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Thinking Girl Rich, every single day, it was six hours. Every day I'm listening to them books. Doing that, boom, boom, boom. So next thing you know, eventually what happened is we got new management. Now, when we got this new management, it got real. It got super real. Honestly, I was chilling back there. I only have no issues. I was educating myself, listening to those books. I was chilling. I was still doing my work. Now, one thing I do I've always done is I've never been lazy. I'm always gonna do my job. So I have my setup on the pipes and I'm gonna weld pause. And that's what I'm gonna do every day. I'm gonna make sure that that's at least done. These 40 pipes are gonna be welded that day. So boom, we get the new management. And boy, boy, boy, it went downhill from there. It was critical. So the new management come. Now, my supervisor is not, don't welcome my supervisor. He's now under the supervisor. He's like the lead, but he's not the lead of me. He's like the lead of another department. So another supervisor came in. This dude was out of control. He was doing way too much. I always seemed to be getting singled out all the time. And they always send something to me. They don't send anybody else. They want me to move over here, go over here, go over there. Ain't nobody else moving. And I had an issue with this to the point where it got this bad now. I had to tell HR. I talked to HR. HR, the one thing I'm gonna tell you guys about this, with these jobs, I'm gonna tell you this, this is very important. Listen to what I'm saying. These jobs do not care about you. I'm gonna tell you right now, they do not care about you or nothing. They're always gonna do what's best for the company. So always do what's best for you. And how do I know that? I don't know it's the hard way. I went to HR, the lady in there, we used to, I was cool with her before this.  We used to talk about, you know, everything was cool. Then I went in there, so I talked to her like, yeah, I feel like I'm being singled out. The dude always sends something to me. He don't send anybody else. Everybody else can do what they want to do. They all, everybody's always an issue with me. Now, this had gotten so bad that I had actually reached out to my real estate attorney. He's my real estate attorney. Let them know like, I don't know, man. It's just getting critical, boo boo boo. So then he said, okay, I'm gonna give you this number. I called this lady. I had a paralegal. It gets bad. I'm documenting my business partner like I call her and tell her, document this. She, when it came up, this I did. You gotta document everything. We document everything. The time, what they said, everything, everything that went on. So we can try to get this lawsuit. But boom, that's how I found out that the, you know, HR, they told me I'm gonna do an investigation and all this and all this. And then let me tell you guys this. Don't ever believe that people are gonna rob you like they didn't go rob you because they really ain't. Some of them may, but some of them not. So they had to do the investigation. The investigation consisted of her, the lady in the HR, coming to our department, asking different people, do they feel like I've been singled out? Do this happen? Do the supervise always say something to me that I've sent to nobody else? And he used the N word too. Every say that. He was trying to be cool, but he did use it. Now I ain't lying about this. So the HR lady came over there, asked him all the questions about that. I don't know what they said. From what she said that they said that they don't know. They don't know if, they don't know some people may say that you kind of maybe singled out, but they don't really know because ain't nobody really gonna rob you cause they job is on the line. You know, if they get real, they job online. They ain't taking no hits for you. So just know that when you go to these people and they ain't going to risk it all. They ain't risking it for the biscuit. Just so you guys know.  He's still doing too much. Me and him low key, we low key getting into it pretty much every single day. We pretty much getting into every single day. I had no problem before him. Everything was cool. It gets to the point where at this point, man, the gig is just up. I ain't got time to keep dealing with this. I'm not dealing with it no more. So what I'm gonna do is this. I put in my vacation days. I put all my vacation days is, I think it was close to the 4th of July or something like that. Close to the 4th of July. And honestly, I already had it in my head that I'm not going back. Now, what I do want to say is this. When you, and you are working the job right now, you're playing on doing this.  My stomach was hurting so bad boy. Like it was multiple days I was gonna quit. Multiple times, multiple. It probably like three or four times. I'm talking about man, my stomach hurting. I was talking about my stomach hurting because I knew, and that's what made me know that when my stomach started hurting like that, that I'm doing the right thing. And I haven't looked back ever since. We went through the investigation. The paralegal reached out to them to try to settle, get a settlement. They wasn't going. The paralegal pretty much told me at this point there's nothing else you can do. I can't hire another lawyer, another attorney to pursue this, but she does as much as she can do because they won't settle on it. So I'm like, you know what? I ain't got time. This is gonna take three, five years. I ain't got time to keep off the court and all that stuff. So I ended up just saying, forget it. I did try to get on the pub and they denied that too. So it was just real. It was all around the board. And that is the video. It's a short that I have where I said that that was my last day working. That was my last day working. June 20, yes where it was, June 28th or 26th. One of them too. Today is June 28th, 2019, right?  Today is my last full day of working for somebody. On Monday I'm coming, give them their belongings and everything and it's over. This has been one of my biggest dreams as I was younger to not work for somebody by the time I turned 30. I'm actually 29. I was gonna wait till next year to do this, but pretty much my hand was forced and I'm gonna explain that to you guys later on in the rest of this video cause this will be going on YouTube. So yeah, it's official man. And understand you can do this too. I'm not nobody special. I just saved my money and invested it and now I'm finna retire. That's what happened. I ain't never going back again. I ain't never going back to a job again. I'm gonna do what everybody needs to do to keep on grinding so I can keep on shining. But I appreciate that was a great last question. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. Again, if you're not subscribed, make sure you smash the subscribe button. Also do not forget, this video needs to get to 1000 likes. Hit that like button before you go and lock in tomorrow. Well lock in Monday cause y'all know we going back to scope again. We already getting dividends. I'll see you guys on the next one. 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The Cobia are definitely on the reef today. The boys have several fish on the boat and they're just getting started. The goal is to catch a few keepers and the South Carolina regulations require Cobia to be 36 inches to the fork of the tail. That's a good size fish and should make for a few tacos. Got it. There you go. Hooked up. Yep. Yeah. Aren't you hooked up? Yep. Looks like maybe another Cobra. Yep, feels like it. I got it. I wish we could keep her. That's all. I want to throw one on ice. This one definitely feels better than that other one. Yeah, there it is. He's digging. Hopefully there'll be one with it. There you go. We'll get up on that bat if you need to or let me know. I'm going to try to keep it up here because the wind's blowing around. I'm going to try to move. Let it be that keeper. I think a big boat like the 352 is a blessing on a day like today. With all the people and camera gear that we have, it's nice to be able to fish all around the boat and still have plenty of room to not trip over each other. There you go. You going too? You get up there too. Bring the pack up with him. I'm about to get bit right here. So we need it. You know they're all hanging out together. There he is. All three by now. Triple up. Go ahead. Go up here. Follow in the school around. Follow in the school. Behind him. Oh. Oh, it's a keeper right here, buddy. I've got this one. I've got this one. Where's the gap? Go around me. I've got a big one. Go around me. He's... You think? No. Are you sure? Yeah. Let me see. No. He's close. I don't think he's keeper. Let me grab the gloves real quick. I'll wait for him. We'll have to put the tape on him. He's like right at it. This is a pretty good fish, guys. Yeah. All right. Ready? Yep. All right. Oh, just lost him. Golly, that was a good fish too. Man, he come on. Broke me off. That was a big fish. So when you get into the big schools of Kobe like this, the action can get crazy. It's comical watching these guys chase these Kobe around the deck in three to four foot seas. I'm telling them, get them back in the water so we can get some more lines in. All right. Come on, buddy. Me and the D Hooker aren't doing too well. All right. Finally. All right, Jeff. Kobe a six. Jeff zero. So... All right, Jeff.  I'm not sure.


I almost got lost in the park. I thought I would be late, but I made it. And yes, I'm glad this didn't start without me. All right, I'll be talking about Schaehn-Lazania modules, which are some proposals for extending Havana homology to three manifolds. So let me first say a few words about Havana homology. If we have a link in S3, then there's this bi-graded theory whose Euler characteristic is q plus q inverse times the Jones polynomial of the link. And well, it's very similar to fleur homology in many ways. So it's factorial undercobordisms. I have some surface in, let's say, R3 times i between two links. And then I get a map between the Havana homologies. There's some ambiguity in science, but it can be fixed. And so this is similar to not fleur homology. And it's also related to fleur homologies by spectral sequences. So Peter and Tom showed that there's a spectral sequence from Havana homology to the instanton fleur homology of the knot. And Dowling showed that there's a spectral sequence from Havana homology to not fleur homology. Right, so now an important problem is to see if we can extend this theory to knots in some other three manifolds rather than R3. And well, just like not fleur homology works for other three null homologous knots in three manifolds. So there are different approaches to doing this. There's maybe the best known one is categorification of roots of unity, work of Havana, Vensacan, and Elias, and Chi, and other people. There's approaches from physics, YouTube Witten, and Gukov, Pei, Putrov, Vafa, and others. But the thing that I want to talk about today is the third one, which are these Cain-Lazanya modules. And well, to motivate them, let me first explain the analog at the decategorified level. So you can ask for the Jones polynomial. So how do we extend Jones polynomial of links to links in other three manifolds? Well, categorification of roots of unity has been done for these polynomials in the result, I'm sorry, without categorification. Just looking at the roots of unity and taking cables of the link, you can get the Witten-Rechetikin to arrive in variants of three manifolds. So that's the usual way. But there's also a simpler way, which is the Cain module. And well, what is that? It has a purely formal definition. So the Jones polynomial in R3 can be defined in terms of the Kaufman bracket. So it's minus a to the third times minus of the right, the Kaufman bracket of the link with some change of variables. Well, the Kaufman bracket is just it's some invariant of, let's think of this as a framed link. So that were a diagram of the link. And then you define an invariant of these diagrams by the Cain relations. OK, and that's the Jones polynomial. And these relations completely determine the polynomial. Oh, yes, thank you. OK, so now in an arbitrary three manifold, well, you can, so Brzezinski and to arrive, define the Cain module, the Kaufman bracket Cain module of Y to be the space of all framed links in Y, module of the same relations. So yes, in R3, it's easy to show that this will determine a polynomial. In general, well, you can make a vector space or a module over ZAA inverse. And just define this and see what happens. So, right, so then if you have a link, then of course you get some element. So for example, for S3 is just ZAA inverse. And that's why the Jones polynomial is a polynomial, is a Laurent polynomial. But yeah, but in general, where does your invariant live? It lives in this Cain module, which is easy to define, but things that are easy to define are hard to compute. So for, well, this started like around 1990. And for the last 30 years, this was kind of going under the radar. And people were computing it for various things, lens spaces, and so on. But it turns out to have an interesting interpretation. So recently, Gunningham, Jordan, and Sopronov in 2019 saw that KBSM is finite dimensional over, let's say, the field of fractions in A. So this is non-trivial. I mean, if you make a definition like this, you might get something infinite dimensional. That's completely uncomputable. But well, it turns out to be finite dimension. In fact, you can say what it is. So there's some work in progress. They announced it at some conferences by Gunningham and Sopronov, proving some conjecture of various people that the Cain module, again, once you're tensored with this field of rational fractions, is the equivalent SL2C blur homology of y, again, over the same field of fractions. So this is some version of what I defined with Mohamed Abu Zaid a few years ago. It's not quite the one in our paper. It's a covariant and just a degree 0 part. But you can think of it as roughly as a count of representations from pi 1 of y to SL2C. So yeah, so even though it looks like some formal definition, that's maybe just some complicated thing. It turns out to be related to representations from the fundamental group to SL2C. All right, so great. So this is for the Jones polynomial. So again, there's a formal definition, and then there are some mathematics that allows you to compute it. So now what can we do at a categorified level? Pardon? Oh, no, no, no. This is the place where the invariant, the de-categorified invariant takes values. So right, so a polynomial is an element of this module, and the generalization, still de-categorified, is an element of this vector space. No, no, no. This is a deep theorem. I mean, I don't know. If you know about the a-polynomial of a nut, that's also related to representations to SL2C. So it's kind of along the same lines, yes. And also, like if you know about Witten's proposal for Jones polynomial and Havana homology, that has to do with SL2C, well, Kapustin Witten equations, but in the limit, it's like flat SL2C connections. So kind of the set of values is, I don't know, presumably it's related to that. Okay, so for Havana homology, you try to do the same thing, but you define something formal, where you divide by the local relations in Havana homology. So what does this mean? So this is the same Lasagna modules. This word defined by Morrison, Walker, and Bedouin, 2019. And there are invariants of some link inside the three-manifold y, but it also has to specify some four-manifold with boundary y, the link is in del of w, which is y, and it's framed, everything is actually framed. So the scale Lasagna module, call it SWL, is the free-o-billion group on Lasagna fillings, modulus and equivalence relation. What's Lasagna filling? So this is w, this is the link, this is y. You have some interior balls. B1, B2, B3, so these are four-dimensional balls. You have some links on the boundaries, L1, L2, L3, and so on. And you have some co-boardism from these links to L, other components, this is a surface. And you also have some elements, B1, B2, B3. So Vi are elements in the Havana homology of Li. Right, so basically instead of links, now we have these surfaces. Okay, yes, I'll get to that at the end. Yes, so it should be in the chain complex, but we don't know how to do that in the moment, so it's only an approximation to the truth. Yes, doesn't it look like one? Here are some more sheets of the Lasagna, if the link has several components. Okay, I'm not an expert. Okay, is Paul Seidel here? Okay, that's true, that's true. Yes, anyway, it's due to them, the name. No, there are many. Is nobody telling me that Lasagna is Lasagna in Italian? Even if it's, no, even if it's more, if I have a noun that's a modifier, it has to be in the singular, it's Lasagna feelings. Okay, anyway, so these are the generators, let's do some math. The equivalence relation is given by, well, okay, so you want it to be multilinear in the VI's, and, okay, well isotope. The boundary, but more importantly, you can fill in one of the balls, so you can replace ball with, okay, so maybe you have one of these things, like L1 here, and you're gonna replace it with another sub-filling with some other links here, like LI and LJ, and some surface sigma i, and you have VI, VJ, but now you also have a V1 here. Maybe you have more things, and now you want, I mean, Havana homology has to come in at some point, so the map induced by this surface applied to VI, tensor, VJ, tensor, I don't know, if you have more things, it should give us V1, okay, so basically you're dividing by local relations in Havana homology, meaning co-boardism relations of this form. All right, there is something slightly interesting here, so this is in S3 minus some balls, and you wanna make sure that Havana homology is functorial under this, so more is on Walker and Webb, but when they defined this, they had to prove, like functoriality of Havana in S3 times i, rather than R3 times i, and this required checking one extra move from the usual functoriality of Havana homology, okay, so the most important example is that S of B4 and L is just Havana homology, so this is an extension of the usual theory, so well, why is this true? Basically, if my four manifold is a ball, and I have the link here, and I have these other balls and this sigma, well, I can always, we have colored chalk, yes, I can use this relation and replace and make like a large ball here, and just replace this, well, instead of having V1 and V2 here, I'm looking at the map induced by this co-boardism, and I get an element here, and this gives me something in, well, I get an actual element V in the, in the Havana homology of this link to L, because I can use the, yeah, because I can use the co-boardism maps inside B4, all right, so well, you can write down this formal definition of an extension of Havana homology to any three manifolds relative to some four manifold, and you can do various things, so for example, I mean, you can also do it for Kovanov-Rozansky homology, and this is just the, yeah, you can extend it to something called Blob homology, we won't get into that. Let me, oh, yes, let me say the main thing. This also has the advantage that functoriality is automatic, so if I have a co-boardism, if I have, well, first of all, W and Y, and I have a link, let's say Y0 and L0, and I have a surface sigma, I have a co-boardism to some other link, L1 in here, then I get the map, let's call it psi of, yeah, I mean, this can be something, let's call it Z, so psi of Z and sigma, it would go from the skein module, sorry, the skein Lasagna module of W relative to L0 to the one of W union Z relative to L1, just by adding this sigma to whatever we're adding here. Right, so this is functorial under co-boardisms. What else? It also decomposes, so what is the structure? It's a direct sum over i, j in Z, and a relative homology class in, well, let me just say in H2 of WL according to the, yeah, the relative homology class of the surface and then S, i, j, WL alpha, so in i and j are the usual bygradings in Havana homology. All right, so what I want to talk about is how to compute this. Can we compute it for anything else? And, yeah, so basically, well, if you want to compute something for four manifolds, you have to understand how it changes when you add handles. So, this talk is to say how to express S, WL in terms of a handle body decomposition of W. Okay, and this is something I did for two handles. It's joint work with my student, Ekshu Naitalat from 2020, and then for one and three handles, it's joint work with Walker and Bedri. Okay, well, and for four handles, it's trivial. So, okay, four handles don't change S. For example, this is easy to see, like S of S4 is still, oh, by the way, when I don't mention, sorry, so in particular, I can do this invariant for closed for manifolds and then the link has to be empty because there's nothing in the boundary. Okay, so let me state the results, I won't prove them, let me start from the higher dimension to the lower in increasing order of complexity. So, three handles, theorem three, if I have a W and some link, and I attach a three handle, so that means that I have a sphere in here, an S2, and I attach some three handle, no, and so originally I had a Y and then now I have some new thing, Y prime. Right, then, well, so what happens? You can look at the equator of a sphere, let's call it J, and push the two hemisphere inside the four manifold, let's call them now delta plus and delta minus. So, the theorem says that SWL, sorry, SW prime L, so W prime is W and I attach this, the three handle is SWL, modulo the image of F, where F is psi of I times Y delta plus minus psi of I times Y delta minus, yes, yes. No, so well, if you're interested in W prime and it comes from something like this, then the co core of this is one dimensional and it doesn't intersect the link, generically. If you think of it from like W prime to W, yes, yes, yes, I mean, the goal is if you have a four manifold with some handles and you want to express it in terms of something easier, so you can just choose which way. You get different expressions, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes, okay, so just to make sure, so these are disco board is a map corresponding to the upper hemisphere and the lower hemisphere and you take the difference and you get this relation. This is actually not too hard to prove, yes. Oh, separating sphere, yeah, I think it's fine. Okay, now the two handles are the main complication in four manifold, so this is more interesting. So again, I have a link and I have some K, K now it can, K is another link where I attach, well, let's say a knot and it can be linked with L and I attach the two handle. So again, I go from some W to some W prime. So now the theorem is SW prime L is the direct sum over all R one and R two natural numbers S of W, L union K, R one, R two, modulus and equivalence relation. Yes, what is, this is a K ball of K, so K is the attaching link for these two handles and again it can be linked with L where you have R one things in one direction and R two things in the other direction. So you have to understand kind of the ball. Let's say you attach things to a ball, then you have to understand the Havana homologies of all the cables of the attaching link and then you have some, well, some equivalence relation, maybe for reasons of time, I'll just say that this is given by some co-boardism maps between cables. Let me not write them down, but yes, basically you have to understand the scan lasagna for the, for W for L union cables of K. All right, and finally for one handles, let me just maybe explain the simplest case. If I have one one handle and I attach it to a ball, let's say I have S one times B three and I have some link in here. Okay, then I cut this along a B three. So the boundary is S two, let's say the link is in the boundary and it intersects it maybe in two B points.  Yeah, let's call it R. So R is in, well, it's in S two times I. It's in S three minus two balls. So the scan lasagna of this thing, I'm just doing this example, but I mean you can generalize it by attaching one handles to anything. Well, is some Huxchild homology of some category associated category of tangles associated to R. Let me just put it like this. So this is some direct sum over all tangles T with delta of T, the boundary being two B points of Havana homology of T union R union T bar, modular sum equivalence relation. Get into that. But basically you have to look at all possible ways of closing this R with a tango T and it's mirror T bar. And yes, you get something like this. So in the end, in principle, basically you can decompose a four manifold into handles. And once you do all this, you reduce it to just Havana homology or like the scan lasagna inside B four. You just cut it until you get to B four and then you get some Havana homologies over things that involve how you attach the one handles and the two handles and the three handles. Okay, so unfortunately, of course, the lower you go in dimension, the more complicated the description. Like here you just divided by some maps. Here you had to take the direct sum over all possible cables and here you had to detect the direct sum over all possible tangles and divide. So all right, so it's some way of expressing the invariant in terms of things, but in terms of Havana homologies of the ordinary Havana homologies, but it's a big direct sum modular sum equivalence relation. So still let's see, so what could we, what can we compute using these? We can do some computations. For example, S of S one times P three. So let's just look at one handles and the simplest thing I can think of is S one times two P points. So just two P circles going around. I have to work with the coefficients in a field for some technical reasons. Well, this turns out to be K. So I have, yeah, so this involves some calculation of partial homology. It's K when P equals zero. It's dimension four when P equals one and it's infinite dimensional when P is greater or equal to two. Okay, you can also look at S of S one times S three. This case you get something, again with the empty link in the boundary because there's no boundary, you get one dimensional. You can look at S of S two times D two. Let's say with the empty link. This corresponds to attaching the two handles. So now as an application of VRM two, let's just attach a zero frame to handle along the R naught. Then I can understand the cables of the R naught, the zero frame cables of the R naught. That's no problem and I can compute this and I get something. I get some polynomial ring in A zero and A zero inverse and A i, several i, sorry, just one i, one i, one a, one a one. Degree of A zero is zero zero and degree of A one is zero minus two. This is also infinite dimensional but it's, I mean it's like locally finite dimensional meaning in each ij alpha. So recall that this decomposes according to ij alpha and okay in this case, once you specify these things it's finite dimensional. This is kind of bad that we got k infinity here. This is not locally finite dimensional. I mean we like the places where our invariants take values to be finite dimensional like the scale module was. But okay, yes. Sorry, where, which one? Oh, because otherwise it doesn't bound anything. You want, yeah, you want it to bound something. Right, okay, well there's some calculation for CP two in homological degree zero only. I get that, well this is zero and whereas for CP two bar, I get that this is k equals zero and zero otherwise. So these are pretty different. This involves the two hand-off theorem applied to the R not framed one and that gives us when you take the cables you get some torus links and we use something we know about the Havana homology of torus links. You can also do P framed cables of the R not but kind of that's about it in terms of Havana homology. It would be really nice to understand Havana homology of cables for other knots if we want to do more calculations. All right, so well that's the theory. So let me some open problems. So what can we do with this and what should we try to do in the future? Well, okay, so what is it? Well, we don't know but one thing you can try is to define something similar for nut flour homology. So my student there in Chen he defined as k lasagna using H of k. H of k has slightly different functor reality properties than Havana homology but you can prove a similar to handle addition theorem but the challenge is how is this related to the actual H of k in. So for nut flour homology we have something in any three manifold and you can pretend we don't and just start with S three. Well and in simple examples they're the same but I don't know if they're gonna be the same in general. Here's something that would be interesting. So this is an invariant of four manifolds. It's based on let's say we'll just look at closed four manifolds with the empty link. So does S of W detect exotic smooth structures on W? Well, it comes from Havana homology which can be used to show that there are exotic structures on our four so maybe there's some hope. Okay, some other hope is that, so this is a TQFT and S of CP2 is different from S of CP2 bar. So this is something you definitely wanna have to have a chance of detecting exotic smooth structures. There's a theorem that if you have a unitary TQFT where the invariant of X is related to the one of X bar then you don't have any hope of detecting exotic smooth structures. At least they're different, which makes sense because Havana homology, the maps on on ATAR sensitive to orientation. But the real question is what happens for S two times S two?  So if you do this here you can show that it's the tensor product of the two parts. So then you would like to compute this and that would involve, well, it would involve the hop flink and cables of the hop flink. So if someone could compute the Havana homology of cables of the hop flink, then yes, then I would know if I should think about this or not because if this is, you know, if this is zero or infinite dimensional, then there's some hope. If it's not, if it's finite dimensional, but non-zero, then there's no hope because, right. I mean, if it's zero or infinite dimensional, then once you know this invariant, you cannot tell the invariant for X. So then the invariant would be zero. No, yeah, I mean, I'm hoping that it doesn't stabilize. I mean, it does stabilize, but maybe if it stabilizes by zero, then it will fine. Yeah, it doesn't matter. I mean, it's, yeah, even, yeah, if you stabilize many times, then, you know, if this is zero, then I don't know, you get zero. Okay, we can, oh, sorry. Okay, let's talk later. So the final thing and maybe the most important thing is what Tom asked in the beginning. So this is not quite the right thing. So it would be good. So here's the challenge is to define S at the chain level and then take homology. So here we had elements in Kovanov homology, rather than in chain Kovanov complex. And that's why, for example, that's why I think we got something infinite dimensional there. So we can study this for let's say S one times V three and the link in the boundary, which is S one times S two. And then we know we saw that S times S one times V three L can be infinite dimensional. It's not what we want. Like flow of homology, for example, is finite dimensional. But the better version, the chain version, the expectation, I mean, you, so remember in this case, this was some Hawkshield homology of some category. So you can now do a Hawkshield homology of a different category, which is done at the chain level. And this is what Rosanski did. So this is, so Rosanski wrote a paper, you get Rosanski's Kovanov homology for links in S one times S two. And this is locally finite dimensional. In every degree, it's finite dimensional. It may be infinite dimensional overall, but that's okay. So this tells us that, and this is a good theory, it's factorial, there's a Rasmussen invariant for it, and so on. And that's what, yeah. So really, it would be good to, the correct theory would be to define it at the chain level. And then I think this would have like nice properties. And well, the conjecture is that it would always be locally finite dimensional. But why can't we do that? Oh, and by the way, if you can define it, then there would be analogs of the theorems I stated for handle additions. But the problem is that we need functoriality, well, and naturality to infinite order of the chain Kovanov complexes. And that is not known. Yeah, what do I mean by this? So if I have a surface, then, well, if I have a sequence of random master moves, okay, I get a map between the chain complexes, but I want this up to homotopies and higher homotopies and everything to be just kind of, depend on a contractible set of choices. Sorry, which one? No, I don't think it's, I mean, it's not known for CFK either. Oh, it should do the instant on theory. Okay, maybe, okay. All right, we'll think about that. Okay, well, okay, so there's, okay, so my collaborators like Paul, we have some ideas in this direction, so that's the challenge. So hopefully later we'll get to something, but this is just, yeah, some ideas. So I'll stop here. Can you repeat the question? How does it behave under stabilization with CP2 bar? It multiplies like this. I mean, it's still tensors like this. Yeah, yeah, connected sum is always like that. Yes, and that's, oh, sorry, by the way, which one, what am I doing here? This is... I forget.  Like, so yeah, so connect sum with this, presumably, it's fine, connect sum with this would just give you something zero, so it wouldn't detect anything. It's like that, yeah. Oh, well, yeah, okay. Sorry, so Tom is saying that, you know, in inside but within theory or instanton, you use the mixed map like plus, minus rather than on hat. Well, sure, I mean, I don't know. The map on hat still detects exotic smooth structures on some manifolds with boundary. And, you know, you have Bernatin theory, you can do this kind of stuff, yeah, yeah, sure, sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is just the simplest theory that we can compute at the moment, yeah. Oh, everything works. I mean, the theorems work. The computations are, I mean, I don't know how to compute it for CP2. Like there's no, yeah, we just don't know. Like the cable, the SLN homology of cables, but of course links that well. Sorry, say that again. Yes, yes, we're not there yet. Chain exact, oh, like a long exact triangle? Yeah, probably not. I mean, I don't know if it would satisfy the chain level either, but yeah, I don't know. Yes, yes, yes, you can get exact triangles like that, yeah.


What is up, everybody? I'm the Mangus.  Project Stamina is the company currently attempting to bring back the game Gigantic with their own IP. Specifically, I wanted to talk about their latest development livestream that featured gameplay, their own hero, Mitanni, on their own map designed to resemble Gigantic's Canyon map. This is, of course, pretty alpha gameplay. Most of the animations aren't here and there are only base effects for the abilities, but it's here. Functioning multiplayer gameplay. This isn't the first one that we've seen from them. They have showcased some rudimentary gameplay before, with, like, placeholder stick figures and some other Paragon assets. But this really shows how far they've come since that time with their own character models in a much better-looking environment. The gameplay wasn't the only exciting news from them. They posted a question-submission form on their Discord, which I took full advantage of, and asked something that I know is near and dear to many of your hearts. Will they have controller support? And the answer is yes. They've already been working on it, and some of the functionality has already been implemented and tested. So, while, like most of these other companies, they intend to release the game on PC first, that release will include the ability for people to use their controllers, making everything feel just a little more like home. Speaking of making things feel like home, they were also happy to announce that they've been using their Patreon money for a collaboration with SKU Sound, the same sound designer that worked on Gigantic. Now, I never played Gigantic myself, so I couldn't give two shits about who they have for sound design, but it seemed to make the fans happy, so I'm all for it. Something I was hyped for, though, is that they've also picked up Tri-Color for voice lines, the same cat that did such great work for Ethereum. And then we have the big question, will it be on console? Now, they really didn't cover this much during the stream, but it is a question that they've answered for me before.  That could be PlayStation, Xbox, or even Stadia. The answer I was given during my last video on this project was that switching the game from one console to the other was as simple as using a dropdown menu in the Unreal Engine. Now, that answer didn't quite sit well with me. I know there's a lot more that goes into porting a game to console than checking a box, so I followed up on that. What I found is that they've been doing the work to make the game easy to port over, and that dropdown thing is just a culmination of that effort. So they have been doing the work and making it ready for console. Those were probably the biggest takeaways from the stream, but there was a lot of other information released as well. They plan to have six playable characters in the alpha. They want esports to occur naturally instead of being forced. And many, many other questions from gameplay to programming to developing were answered. If you're interested in this game, I highly encourage you to check out the video on their YouTube channel. I'll have it linked at the end. While I never played Gigantic, Project Stamina has me incredibly hyped for their game. I'm going to continue to track this company and let you guys know what's going on. For now, this is the man goose signing off. You guys have a good one. Man goose.


Come on in you're just in time to see my next project a lot of Polaris make them 500 And she's a real basket. I'm gonna tear this down start the fish show you guys what to do This thing has some major issues. It's got Set this down here It's got a head gasket blown so I'm gonna show you how to tear that apart got break issues Carburetor needs to get rebuilt So Have a seat enjoy the show and welcome to titanium man's garage So I picked up this thing and I guess the deal is that last owner had a Switch for the fan Apparently his fan wasn't working. So he just had a switch every time you write it kick it on fan would flip on big mistake Kids his kid jumps on it takes off with it. Guess what? I forgot to turn the fan on blew the head gasket, so This is a Magnum 500 and I posted a video on how to replace the cam on this So I'm actually gonna help you guys out. I'm gonna tear the stone from start to finish. You can see how I do the plastics This is the stripper everything down clean everything up. I'm gonna take the The head off Actually, I'm gonna do a little compression test, but my plan is While I'm that far Let's make this an HO so apparently all you need to do is get a HO cam and the HO carburetor and This little bad boy should really fly ugliest sin right now But by the time I get done with it Should look pretty decent All right, so Stay tuned and I'll start tearing it apart and you could check it out Choke cable is missing. Uh, I don't know where that went.  I will tell you what I found You have to tear in this apart and there is a lot of a lot of stuff wrong with this bad boy I took the carb off This thing looks like it's been sitting for years. I mean see all that green gunk in there That's a bad gas So I was gonna put a HO carb on anyway. It's gonna get replaced, but yeah, that's number one I Did a compression test they got good compression So I guess my next project is our next step I should say is I'm gonna tear that rocker cover off and See what that cam looks like, but Yeah, she's uh She's coming apart so we're gonna get a rocker rolling and hopefully get this bad boy running Next up is breaks um got the tire off the Break pads seem to be in fair shape, but I do have a brick pad set Another thing missing is the brake lever. I Don't know how this guy stopped. He must use the back foot breaks So I am going to replace that I have a I Used one sitting here. I got from buddy mine. Yeah, pretty lucky. He parts these things out. So and You can see here That line goes all the way down to the junction box. That's all pretty rusty Sure, that's probably why it didn't work So I'm gonna rip that apart take them screws out and replace it and then bleed the brakes All right, so for the moment we've all been waiting for I got this thing all rebuilt back together Everything up paint it everything up. We're gonna fair it up. I'm gonna show you how well it runs Check this out Turn it up. You know tweaking tweak the carbons. She'll be ready to go Okay, so got the engine running. I've got the Brake handle going on here bricks are tight. We need to get rid of the ugliest we got some Russ going on here all over the place so I'm gonna go ahead and Clean everything up want to paint everything Make it look pretty so Don't scare away any customers when I go to sell it.  I paid 700 bucks for this I got 60 bucks into it about 10 hours of labor and I'll sell this for about 1,700 bucks, but you enjoyed the show subscribe to my channel if you like the video hit the like and You know if you've got something you need to fix check out my channel. I got plenty of Polaris repairs on there. Thanks for watching till next time


We are here to correct a bit of an imbalance. If you look at a lot of the news in terms of carbon these days, it's about the Amazon, it's about the rainforest, it's about deforestation. But if you think of it, 60% of the world population is living on the coastal area. And this coastal area, it's a little place that seems a bit forgotten. So people are working on the ocean, the blue economy. They are talking about the green economy, the environment, the orangutans, the rainforest. And what is happening in the coastal area seems a bit forgotten. And I think it's a great time for us to bring that to the fore and in terms of these blue carbons, mangroves, salt marshes, seagrass, this whole tidal system, which is in fact both depending on the health of what is happening upstream and what is happening in the ocean. And that, as I said, was 60% of the world population and quite a lot of our large infrastructure. Cities like Jakarta, slowly going down below the sea level, Bangkok, but also New York, Miami, I'm down in Nice, just close to the sea. We are all dependent on having a proper integrated coastal management and this will definitely depend on how we manage the remaining ecosystems that are at the source of blue carbon. Since 1940, we have lost half of the mangrove of the world. Since the 1800s, we have lost one quarter of the salt marshes and since 1990, we have lost half of the seagrass area. So we probably lost 50% of the ecosystem that are at the source of this blue carbon. We need to protect what is left of this ecosystem because they are essential, not only for carbon, but they are essential for the fishery system because a lot of the fish reproduced in the mangrove area, the salt marshes are essential in terms of mitigating pollution in terms of ecosystem. The seagrass is very important also for fisheries and for local livelihoods and community. All these ecosystems are impacted by human activity directly, mangrove, deforested for shrimp farming, seagrass, deforested for another reason. You have seen the amount of plastic waste, pollution and at the same time they are impacted directly by our activities because of climate change. These ecosystems rely on a very fine-tuned balance between salt, no salt, different types of positions relative to the seagrass and what is happening now when you see in some places the mangroves encroaching on the salt marshes, salt marshes disappearing, mangrove also having to adapt to climate change and sea level rise. So it's very important for us to protect, it can be protected, but it's also very important for us to understand how these ecosystems were and how we can restore them. Because if we don't do that, I mean sort of the latest paper that you said, they are forecasting something like, by 2050, the sea level rise will cost the world economy $14 trillion. So it's too big for me, I mean there are too many zeroes, the difficulty to represent what is $14 trillion, but it's a significant amount of the world GDP. And if we don't do anything about this coastal area, about blue carbon, about the ecosystem, this is what is going to open to us. And even closer, I mean we expect that the whole internet will be totally disturbed or broken down because a lot of the infrastructure that helps with the internet mainly the cable and the fabric. Well, they are now theoretically below sea level and quite soon they will be under the sea. So if we don't do something, we may also lose some part of the internet. So just to remind everybody in this room, the coastal ecosystems are fundamental for the survival of the species, for a lot of ecosystem services, for biodiversity, for blue carbon. And I think that we will have very good two days of discussion and I wish all the success and I hope that both the Indonesian government and other government will consider the recommendation of this conference in terms of policy and in terms of future decisions. Thank you very much.


The Labour Party governorship candidate in the most state, Ahtan Nachunu, who has picked a former member of the House of Representatives, Tony Moulu as his running mate for the November 11 elections in the state. Moulu represented Osho-Dyosolo II in the federal constituency in a law legislative chamber under the People's Democratic Party PDP from 2015 to 2019. He led to join the United Progressive Party, UPP, and secured the party's governorship ticket for the governorship elections in a more state. In his address at the unveiling ceremony in a word, the former lawmaker said his combination with Ahtan Nachunu would end the state's security challenge. Currently the largest number of kidnappings, abductions, extrajudicial killings, all what not. In fact, the only thriving sector in the most state currently as I speak is insecurity. Most of the things we see in these agitations from different quarters, once those agitations are addressed and people have a feeling that the government is there for them, you see them drop their arms and take to peace. And only then would we say that, yes, we are on the path to greatness. We are on the path to restoring the prosperity of the most states.