Hi, I'm Jake Lushley and I'm CEO of Ingenuity System. On behalf of all the people at Ingenuity, I want to thank the World Economic Forum for selecting Ingenuity as a 2012 technology pioneer. So what do we do that is so pioneering? In short, we deliver software solutions that help life science researchers and clinicians better understand biological systems and thus enable better and faster discovery and clinical decision making. It sounds very complicated and of course it is, but let me try to simplify it a bit with a quick analogy. Imagine I gave you a million dollars to invest in the stock market and all you had was the Nasdaq pages from the New York Times. What you would have is perfect information about the stock and the stock price at 4 p.m. yesterday. Yet while the information is perfectly accurate, it's also completely uninformative and it doesn't really help you make an informed decision as to where you should invest your money. What you need is greater context. What does the company do? What sector does it operate in? What are the products? Who are the competitors? And you also need dynamics, right? You need stock price as of yesterday of course, but you also need what was its price a week ago and a month ago. Well science isn't all that different. Over the past 20 years, we've made tremendous advances in our ability to measure and make empirical observations about biological systems. But for all the power of these technologies, they all do the same thing. They create a list, very similar to the list of stock symbols and stock prices. Let me give you a little more of a concrete example. The sequencing of the human genome was one of the great challenges of the last 20 years. It took us more than 10 years and a billion and a half dollars to sequence the first human genome. Today, we can sequence a human genome in a single day for less than $1,000. Through such tremendous advances comes of course tremendous promise of accelerating discovery and the opportunity to dramatically improve our ability to cure disease, improve the quality of life and of course reduce healthcare spending. Yet, with these quantum changes in technology capabilities, also comes bottlenecks in our ability to manage and make sense of all this data created. The sequence of a single human genome creates several terabytes of data and when you analyze the roughly 3 billion base pairs in such a sequence, we find that we differ from each other in several million of these base pairs. Of course in the vast majority of these cases, the differences don't cause any issues, but in rare cases they do and sometimes they cause us to be more susceptible to disease. So back to our analogy. When you sequence a whole human genome, you end up with a list of millions of differences or wet variants as we call them. But this list, while accurate, is not informative until we put it into the context of the full biological picture and start asking questions. In which genes do these changes occur? Are the changes likely to change the function of the protein or the gene? Have any of these changes been associated with disease before? Do any of these variants cause issues in other people? Enabling researchers to ask and answer these types of questions is exactly what ingenuity does. We provide the biological context and understanding necessary to make sense of scientific and clinical experiments and tests. To enable our powerful solutions for interpreting scientific experiments, we have over the past 10 years invested in reading a large portion of the world's scientific literature while collecting and structuring all the building blocks required to develop an accurate computational model of these biological systems. Using this content and computational model, we develop web-based solutions that enable researchers to interpret their scientific experiments and clinical tests. We made incredible strides over the last 20 years in our ability to understand biology and diagnose and cure disease, but we still have a long, long way to go. Everyone here at Ingenuity is grateful for the world economic forum recognizing our efforts, and we remain committed to make a difference in what surely is one of the most exciting and important challenges of the 21st century. Thank you.


What is up guys, Joe Holland here. I am here with Sean at the world famous Jack Traps. We are gonna show you guys how to not only maintain but also repair a severely neglected Jack Trap that's been through some abuse. Joe likes to bring me the beat up ones. Yeah, I never bring them anything good. I always bring them back severely beat up ones. This one actually wasn't me. Although when I was younger, I did do the, I made this error once and whoever bent this one, what happened was they fished cold day, iced over, over the trap and then rather than chip the ice out before you pull the trap out, they just yanked it. They gave the yank and kind of broke through. When you do that, even the strongest stainless steel bolt will bend and this one has a bend in it and there's a couple other issues from neglect on this trap. So Sean's gonna walk us through getting your traps maintained just normally for every year use and also he's gonna help repair this one. Yeah, we see a lot of them like that. Just the end of the day, it's cold, you've had enough and time to go. So they rip them out. Two things you need. This is a number three bit and a 7-16th wrench. Those are really the only two tools you need for a real repair, but this we're just gonna have to swap that bolt out.  This should slide right out. Sometimes these washers will stick to the poly on those dims. So now we're gonna see if this will come off. You can get past that bend, being in good shape. Nice. Sometimes if it's really bad, you'll have to like cut that bolt with hacksaw. Stuff just won't come apart with it bent. Like that, it'll slide right out. Oh, look at that bolt. If that was really bent, you wouldn't be able to back that out of there.  So we just need a new bolt. And I got one right here. And this is not catch up. It's actually lithium grease. So then this is like a regular maintenance thing, a yearly thing anyway, right? So it's good to do this, you know, every year, every other year.  We do this before we send them to you, but slide that in, it's a little messy. Clean that off of there, just like new. And then this is a good thing to look at at the start of the season or sometimes in the middle of it. As wood humidity changes and it's going from water to maybe sitting by wood, silver, whatever, the wood will swell and shrink and swell and shrink. And sometimes these nuts can loosen up. So it's good to check them and make sure everything's good and tight because what can happen is if those nuts come loose, they'll bind your reel up and you don't want to have that when you're fishing. So you just tighten these two nuts towards that wood. You want to leave a good little gap. I typically say about the width of the wire on the tripper, that's a good gas for that gap. Make sure everything's just as tight as you can get it. And then that'll help. Okay, so these, you want these really tight. Really tight to the wood because that's holding that bolt. Nice. That's good enough. Stationary on the wood and then that way that reel can free spool. Nice. Aside from this, this trap's not too old. So the grease in the tripper, you don't really lose that like you do in your reel. You know, as a reel's spinning and it's going from cold to hot, that grease can work its way out. The grease in your tripper doesn't quite so much. But it's good, kind of like an oil change. If you pull this clip off, we can show you real quick. How often do you do, would you recommend this? I would say, you know, probably five years or more. You can go. So there's a little grease hole right there. This, we used to use a white grease before we changed to that red stuff a few years ago. So it'll be, I would say two or three years before you really got to worry about it on this trap. The grease will just start to wear out and harden. And it allows water to get in. You'll know, if you notice your tripper's freezing when it's really cold, it's time to push that grease open. You just push the grease through that hole and it comes out the end until you start seeing fresh grease. Just run the staples of loosened up a little bit. Just give them a little tap.  It just kind of gives a little wedge. So when you put the staple back in, it just gives it something to hold because now those holes have been worn out and you put a staple in, it's just gonna fall right back out. That's about it. She just like knew now. Awesome, thank you, Sean. Hopefully that helps you guys at home. Grease jobs, always a good thing. I do it every year on mine.  But I do the reels at least once a year. Not that you have to, I just like that. I like having that grease on me. Yeah, the more grease you can have in those reels, it will work. It's all about how much you use your trap. So if you use them a lot like Joe, by the end of the year, there's not a lot of grease left in there.  So it just makes your fishing trip a lot more successful when you maintain the things like that. Awesome. If you guys have any questions for Sean, leave them in the comments and let us know about your favorite jack trap story. Thanks for checking in. Thanks guys.


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One of the most, I would say wackiest yet most entertaining brands, food brands that I've seen in a long, long time. Big Stick Willys. Can you tell us a little bit more about what it is and kind of like what you guys have done so far? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So Big Stick Willys is a completely original institution that was built from scratch in New York City during the global pandemic of 2020. And each and everything that we do is completely unique from our marketing down to the product. This is something that not a lot of people have seen anywhere and we've managed to bring it to market. What do you sell? What is it? So it is a flavored mozzarella stick. So we basically took the traditional mozzarella stick and we put our own unique spin on it and we twisted it and we created a whole new product line. We sell cheeses such as Pepper Jack, we do a cheddar stick, we do goat cheese, and we do a Gouda stick. It's really interesting because like cheesesteaks, you know what, my daughter eats that all the time. So it's like how do you make a business out of cheesesteaks and like what have you guys done so far? Like what's your last month of sales so far? So last month we did about 3,800 in sales and that was our fourth month in business. So the past 90 days we're at $5,100 in sales and all just through delivery and pickup through the ordering app such as DoorDash and UberEats and people have really taken to this concept because it is completely brand new. And originally I had thought that my focus was going to be to corner the late night snack market. You know those people who are you know hungry from 8 till midnight but you know we've been getting orders Saturday morning like 9.30 a.m. people ordering 12 cheesesteaks. So I mean there is really no rhyme or reason so when people are ordering it's just kind of people are taking to this new concept and ordering it all hours of the day which is really interesting to see. So tell me more about like kind of what your vision is about this and this brand and kind of like how you operate this. Are you operating out of your own home or is it going to is out of a ghost kitchen? Like what's the what's the premise like? So initially my thought was to operate out of a ghost kitchen and so during the pandemic the problem with that was there was no ghost kitchens available in New York City. There's a lot of companies that were trying to get up and running but it is relatively new concept here in New York. So there was none that were open for business. So I had to go literally from Delhi to Delhi to you know small restaurant here in Manhattan. I had to go door to door and pitch them my idea and what I was trying to do and see if they were willing to partner and to fulfill my orders. Because that's the way it's set up right now is I work with a neighborhood Delhi and I you know I purchased storage from them they store all the product for me and they fill all of the orders. And the really cool thing is that Grubhub and seamless they provide the delivery service. So it is really automated and they make the technology just makes things so much easier. And I think that's one thing that a lot of entrepreneurs they underestimate is that the technology we have at our fingertips is so superior to what it was even five years ago. So there there is a way to get everything done. Okay, so let me dive in a little bit deeper on that. So basically, do you go and produce it at the Delhi or you produce it off site, and then you bring it to the Delhi. Yeah, exactly. So we produce off site in a shared commercial kitchen space.  Is that right? Exactly right. We pay them a small percentage from our monthly sales. And that's that's the really cool thing is it's you know it's a lot of people working together to make this work. Do you mind me ask and you don't have to share I know everyone has their trade secrets. Do you mind me sharing like what percentage do you pay them. So we pay them $500 a month and we pay them 10% of our monthly sales. Top or profits off the top yes. Wow, you must be super profitable it's like high margins. Yeah, that's the really unique thing is that this this item it's it's very I mean it the margins are terrific on it. And we're it's kind of a unique item that nobody has ever seen so we have that perceived value, and especially if you take a look at our branding, and the way we market the product. Yeah, I think that it's it's a very luxurious item. So we're able to get that good margin just from all the perceived value that we have around it. Do you mind if I break down some of the numbers for our viewers or do you think we shouldn't do that. No no sure sure. So and this is my estimation right so for example you pay 10% for someone to fulfill for you in terms of the production, and then you also pay let's say 25% for grubhub for them to take on the orders to do the delivery costs of good souls we're talking about 30%. So all in all you're taking home around 20% margins is that fair to say or am I completely off. I would say it's much higher than that so right now we make our sticks for right around 50 cents and we sell them for 250 and others we sell for $3. So we have a very good margin and even after the take home with grubhub and the percentage that I pay for the fulfillment we're still looking at a pretty decent chunk of change.   Yeah exactly and that's that's the really unique parties. So I'm not a foodie like I'm not a chef by any means like my background is in technology sales. So that is what I'm responsible for is I'm just responsible for pushing this product and basically getting it known that that's my sole responsibility is getting as many eyes as possible on the brand and just making sure that the images is well known. Technology sales what yeah talking about your background so tell me more about that like technology sales so you were you did you have a lot of digital experience in terms of digital marketing it seems like you're pretty savvy with it. Yeah so small amount of experience but the bulk of it was cold calling decision makers and business owners, and a lot of these tech companies so in 2008, the technology industry was right around 5 billion, and from 2008 to 2012. It's just absolutely grown exponentially. And it's due and partly because they're using a unique type of sales strategy. So what I'm doing is I've accumulated so many different types of sales skills and different ways to close business over the past, you know, nine years that I've been working in this office. So I decided that I want to take this same sales strategy these same sales tactics and just apply it to a new industry. It's insane, like the fact that you got in hold of Mark Cuban to give you insight and give you feedback on your startup business, which is selling cheese steaks. It's insane. How tell me how story, how that story came about. So whenever I think about emailing someone like Mark Cuban that the most important thing to me is just making sure that I cut through all the noise because I can't even imagine how crowded his inbox must be. So that is really the key to getting in front of somebody that is that busy that's getting so many different people reaching out is cutting through the noise like a machete. But that means you have to have a really eye catching subject line. And whenever they, whenever they click on the subject line and get into that email, you need to be quick and straight to the point. And you need to express exactly what it is that you want him to answer for you. And if you're not doing that, you know, you're just going to be like everyone else, he's just going to move on to the to the next email. That's really the most important thing. And having a catchy subject line is, you know, that's how you win because the content of your email, no matter how special it is, if it doesn't get opened, it's worthless. I love that. That is so crazy. Actually, not diving to diving a little bit more about that subject line. What was that subject line that you used just to give an example to our viewers. Yeah, so it all it said was, it said Mark quick cue would like your advice on something and just nice short and sweet and to the point. I think really not trying to invent the wheel with the subject line is most important.  I don't like to make things too corporate, or you know, to, I guess whenever there's a certain stigma, especially if you've worked in an office. And, you know, you understand like a lot of things are off limits to some people and there's just a lot of that going back and forth so I try to make sure that I try to be as less corporate as possible and just come across as another human.  And it's something that that's the reason why I was super intrigued by by you when you reached out I'm like wow this guy knows his stuff like it's so different. And like you said, you're applying something that that is working in an industry that is so forefront to an industry that's really behind like in the food industry, it's super behind and it's an old school industry. So, actually speaking of which, why food like I think like with your skill set you can actually do really well back in tech, why food.  And I think, you know, the passion really finds you. So I think that's how I came about this this product and especially because living here in New York City I was holed up in my apartment through the entire pandemic and every single person I knew had left the city so I was all by myself. So I had to go out for walks, and I kept finding myself gravitating towards the East Village. And if you're familiar with that it's it's a very popular neighborhood there's a lot of great places to eat and a lot of really good nightlife. And there's this one place there that everyone loves it's called palm frets. And they serve these big Belgium French fries but the kicker is they serve about 20 to 25 different types of unique dipping sauces which is what the people love that is why everyone ordered from there. So I thought to myself wow that was such a legendary place in New York City. I bet you I can do something similar I just would need to interchange the product. So that's where I came up with mozzarella sticks and from there. I really didn't really know how to get started so I jumped on Craigslist and I put out an ad looking for a chef to help me make prototypes. And that's really where the timing came into play because there were so many good people in this food service industry that were out of work due to COVID. So I was inundated with requests of chefs that wanted to help me. So, you know, we I found some that were willing to get their hands dirty and we did about five to six different rounds of taste testing and tinkering with the recipes until aha like we thought we had a finished product. That's how it came about. I wish I could take the credit and you know say I came up with it on my own but you know I'm not a foodie by any means I think it really I think the mozzarella stick really just found me. This is so freaking fabulous you should so many nuggets okay so to unwrap that a little bit like for a lot of people you know what the biggest pain points are I get flooded with emails all the time about people not being a. Okay, there's many ideas here that you did that is so brilliant first is identifying a product.  But then the thing is, they don't look and they're not observing in the marketplace where they see a product market fit. They don't see that.  Exactly know for a fact it'll fit and that people love it because there is a proven demand already, and a lot of people miss that mark they're trying to be like, oh let's work on this let's work on that and let's make on, make a variation that's just like completely left field hoping people like it that's not how it works. People coming back down to the basics is critical so brilliant on you on doing that and second of all for you to actually go on craigslist to find a professional. A lot of times a people get really shunt off by not knowing how to cook not knowing how to create a recipe, or all these kind of excuses that prevents them from taking action but for you, you went on craigslist which is the easiest way to find what you want done. And once you're able to do that you're like hey you know what let's let's let's let's get to work.  Study his website this guy knows what he's talking about he is making sure that he stays relevant because at the end of the day if you're not relevant you're out of date and the ones wants to talk about you. And that's the reason why he uses a lot of cultural memes, Bernie on his thing. You are like on the ball with your marketing with your approach with development. And it's something that I really want to be able to share with my audience because I think that a lot of people will be able to find inspiration with what you are doing a tech guy, which has nothing to do with food, getting down in the industry and being able to hit the success that you're able to hit. Are you now are you working on this full time or part time. Yeah, so I'm doing this full time. I, there was a time in the beginning where I was still at my day job, and kind of just doing this on the weekends and doing this on the evenings, but it really came to a point. I was at a fork in the road where I really needed to find something to commit to.  So in order to do that, I had to drop my day job. I put in my two weeks and I spoke to my manager and told them that I was going to try something else. And so, and I really think there's too many people out there who are struggling with making that jump, who a lot of people are very, very scared to just kind of take off the parachute and to dive right in. And that is really the only way that you can do it. That's the only way you can make it possible is if you fully commit to it. Wow, Will, that is, that's really inspiring. Is this your first time doing a business? Yeah, well, I think I've always kind of had some entrepreneurial tendencies, but I never really actually put them into play until now. I love that because a lot of people don't understand that when you always have a plan B, your planning will never work. It just doesn't work, right? Is that a good way of putting it? Yeah, exactly. I love how that you recognize that you had a decision to make and that you know for a fact that if you were to see this whole thing through, you have to take the risk and take the plunge. Now, I want to share a story with you, but then before I share that story with you, I do want to know a little bit more about when was that pivotal moment where you felt like that that question came about, where you had to make the decision, when was that moment? And then next is, what made you realize that it is time to make that plunge? Is there a specific moment or is there a specific reason why? Yeah, so I actually, I had spoken with a friend who's been very successful in life and has done a lot of things at a high level.  And so I was kind of struggling with how to do that and when to do it. So I just called him up and I told him what I was doing and I said, Hey, I know there was there's a point in time in your life where you need to pick one or the other and you needed to commit to it. What did you do? Like, how did you decide on that? And he gave me great advice. He, he referred me to read a book called The One Thing and it completely changed my perspective. It just completely put things into light for me. And it made me realize that there, there are other things out there besides a nine to five job and there is so much money out there in the world that you can make money so many different ways. All it has to do is just dedicate to the craft and commit to it. And you'll be able to figure it out. Wow. And is there a sign in your business where you feel like that it made you feel that it's worth it now? Yeah, so I really like whenever I get customer reviews on, especially on my seamless page. I love reading people's reviews and I interact with my customer base quite often. I have about 200 SMS tech subscribers and a lot of them respond to the messages and you know, they ask me, Hey, you know, you should try out this cheese or, you know, this stick was awesome. It was such a really new idea and that's what I, that's where I get the most gratitude is just whenever somebody takes a time out of their day to, you know, to, to compliment the product and to let me know they had a great experience is, is where I get the gratitude because for, for a restaurant, that's the name of the game is you want to make sure that your customers have a five star experience and you want to put a smile on them at the end of the day. And if you're able to do that, you're going to keep the doors open. Wow, it seems like that you have been in the industry for a long time you're speaking dropping so many words of wisdom for us. Well, it's crazy to share with you how brilliant and I think it really helps coming from your professional trade and to apply it in this industry. There's so many different overlaps of what truly makes it successful. And I think what you're really sharing is your ability to actually get your customer feedback to reiterate and to keep changing. And I think that itself is so, so, so valuable when it comes down to it getting real life customer feedback is huge right and especially in the tech world that you always need to have the focus group always have like people tell you what's good what's not good have an MVP and then continue to reiterate reiterate and to make it better and better until you find that product market fit and I think like it's so brilliant the fact that you are touching people on their phones SMS and actually communicating with them seeing what they like what they don't like you share a little bit about our story with her on 20 sweets ice cream shop. We actually collected more than 2000 surveys from from people who are just shopping walking by and just asking them like hey you know what what flavors do you like is the size okay is the pricing okay and really trying to get an understanding of who are real client tells are so then that way we can really cater our marketing we can cater our product we can cater the price point specifically to them. And I think that people within the food industry, a lot of people lack this business fundamentals, they lack this element of understanding the fact that it all comes back down to the basics which is our customer avatar. And yeah so it's brilliant that you are actually able to do that take the plunge when you see the signs that hey you know what you get a satisfaction from your customers, which is a byproduct as well. And to really focus and go straight into this and I'm going to leave also the link the one thing it's a brilliant book I love it and it's funny that you mentioned that because that's how I break down my life goals as well. Totally I agree with you 100% and I think the the principles are so simple, yet the execution of it the mastery of it is so difficult to do, you know it's it takes cautious intent full decision making all the time for us to actually live by that and so and correct me if I'm wrong to say a little bit about the principle with people is the fact that you have this one big goal that you have, break it down into a one year goal of what needs to happen in order for you to hit that five year goal, break it down to the monthly of what you need to achieve in order for you to hit that one year goal, break it down into weekly, daily, hourly, and then that's how you're going to be able to make sure and audit your stuff and audit your work by the by the day by the hour. Everything you do rolls up to the hour to the day to the week to the year and to finally what you want to achieve is that right. Yeah, I'm a big proponent of daily daily goals and writing them out as well. I write every single morning when I write when I wake up I write down my daily goals what I need to get done. I'm not getting back into bed until they're all checked off. And I write out my weekly goals and my monthly goals and it has been an absolute game changer just visually seeing out what you need to do.  So it has been a game changer for me as well. How long have you been practicing this for? I would say since maybe June, maybe April or May, like I would say probably around April or May is whenever I fully committed and said hey I need to write these down every single day. You're such an inspiration and it's so cool to see someone actually you know what being able to implement these things and it's something that I personally do as well. So there's a common that a lot of commonality between us aside from our name being wills. And I actually want to share something with you too like when I first started my business I took the plunge 10 years ago. My first business was a tutoring academy and we tutor people, we write papers, we edit papers, and at that time actually I had that idea of a business back in when I was in university.  I send it to my friends and I know them they're going to parties I'm like yo man you really have to help me edit the paper otherwise I'm going to fail. That's the type of student that I am. And because of the fact that I'm like yo man like I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only immigrant in Vancouver that a lot of people need this kind of help. And which is the reason why I went about to have this idea to edit people's papers and my company is called acemytermpaper.com. So I had that idea I ran that for two years after I graduated that there's an overlap period, and I was working a full time job at Shaw Communications. And while I was working there I was still running this but never really took off my sales annual sales doesn't even top $10,000. That's how shitty it was. And I'm just like oh it's kind of it's kind of sucks, but then the thing is I, I'm like oh I'm gaining traction, I had high hopes for it I felt like I was a smart dude, but it's not really doing well and that's kind of like my plan B and then you know what plan A is working at that Shaw Communications and I'm like, I'll be picking up people's calls, and now put them on hold and I'll be working on my on my tutoring thing, right that's how I was building up that business. And I was working at that company for two years until a point where I'm like oh I applied for a promotion I didn't get it. And so I'm like you know what, I have to take that plunge I have to quit and have no plan Bs whatsoever and really give it a chance for my business to succeed. So I gave myself six months period of timeframe, I saved up that much money, and I'm like it's a make it or break it moment for me. At the end of the day, I told myself at that time I'm like, hey, I was making good money at that time when I first graduated, and I'm like, if I can get this job right now and I'm doing well in it. What stops me from coming back to this, if I failed on my business. Yeah. Nothing stops me from doing that. And which is the reason why I'm like you know what, take the plunge, six months of time, and then within three months, we made over $100,000. Wow, Wilson that's awesome. That's that's incredible. And that's that's a byproduct of just fully committing to what you have to do and just not stopping at anything to get it done. And that's where I think a lot of people miss the step is whenever you think about taking a plunge like that. I like to think about the different things that we have like friends, like friends if we leave a friend you know by the time we come back, they might not be there anymore, you know, same with significant others. And so those are things that we always have to keep in our lives, but a job is, you know, a rubber ball if we drop a job, it will always bounce back especially our job market is tremendous there there's a ton of great places that will give you an opportunity. So that's that's a terrific story and I love how you went all in after you know struggling with your $10,000 sales and that's you know it's that shows the power of just believing you can achieve it. Totally. And I think that's what our viewers need to see is the fact that sometimes the scariest thing that is right in front of us if we take that step right through that. Really, that's where everything opens up, because at the end they were just scared of the unknown. And once we take that step past our comfort zone. That's when beautiful things can happen.  Oh man so we have some really big growth plans. So I originally envisioned this as just staying you know a singular ghost kitchen. And with the traction we've got and with the customer base, we were just going to continue to open up additional ghost kitchens throughout New York City. We want to open up six in Manhattan we want to do one in Queens and two in Brooklyn. And from there we want to really just develop the concept and add something like a hamburger to the menu so that way we can reach the lunch crowd and the dinner crowd, and we want to build up a brand as a restaurant that serves mouth watering hamburgers and the most unique in the world really quite frankly. And from there I want to be able to use my sales skills that I've accumulated and I want to pitch this as a ghost kitchen franchise concept. And I want to basically see how many I can open up around the country. And this goes back to technology, especially with door dash. And those cities where you know it's not a walking city like it is in New York, you still have door dash who who hires delivery drivers and makes that makes that thought accessible. So that's I want to take it as possibly as far as I can. I love that and you know what we'll see on the call after this because you know I can have a lot more that I can share with you especially with my background in franchising. And yeah, and I love the fact that you're one of the few ones that are embracing food delivery. Because believe it or not, I have a lot of consultation clients, and majority of them, they hate the 25% 30% delivery fee they hate that they're always blaming and victimizing themselves because of the fees because of the commission because of the high costs. In reality, it is because of these food apps that a lot of them are still in existence today. Exactly. And then if you take into consideration of the marketing costs, the logistics and the technology behind and the value that they provide, really, it is a blessing that there are these food apps and the sooner that we as entrepreneurs, that we can embrace these companies and be able to leverage them like what you are, the sooner that these people can start to win. And that's really something I want to be able to educate and really push forward is like, yo, leverage these food apps for your business because the later that you do that, the less you're going to be able to win. And that's just the way the industry is trending. And it seems like literally every time I read the new section, there is more and more publicity on ghost kitchens. There are more and more companies investing their time into it. There's more and more bigger franchise brands that are opening up their own smaller ghost kitchen. And I think that's just the way the market is trending. So to me, that was my first thought was, okay, I've seen a few brands who have already done it well with chilies being one, they had a smaller wing ghost kitchen that was a massive success. And to me, I wanted to build something to answer that. And I mean, I feel like if they were able to do it and leverage the apps properly, then it is possible. So they've already laid the groundwork for other people like myself to follow. Totally. And you know what? For the people that I know you're a super busy guy, you need to go and find Mark Cuban again. But for the people that want to follow you, follow your journey, what are some of your handles? Yeah, so you can find us on Instagram at big stick willies with an underscore in between. So big underscore stick underscore willies.  And right now we're running a contest to win free sticks for a year. So if you sign up, submit your information, you'll be entered into the drawing. I love that. That is awesome. Thank you guys. Make sure you guys go give will a follow so in that way you can see what he's doing and apply it to your own business. And I'm pretty sure that we will going to be seeing you very, very soon again will awesome. Well, thank you so much for having me. All right, awesome. Take care. Right.


So I'm just about to call Tara at Purity Coffee and talk about how we're going to discuss our campaign, working together and come up with a strategy. So here we go. Speakerphone to y'all can hear. Duh. Okay. Eight, four, four. Okay.  Yeah. So one idea that I had is I'm actually doing, I have about two and a half, three weeks left until my first pro men's physique bodybuilding competition on October 12th. And so in light of that, I'm doing a daily vlog. I've never done that before. The most I've ever done is like twice a week.  I'm showing my daily routine. Um, so I was thinking I would love to show how I get up in the morning and I'm like sitting there at my MacBook grinding my coffee in the burger grinder. And, um, and that would be a good opportunity to talk about the coffee and like how it helps me in my daily routine and with, um, my diet and all of that and having energy. And then I could take that snippet of just me talking about the coffee and put that in my Instagram story with tags and hashtags and stuff. Yeah. It's like super organic and just part of what I'm doing.  I could potentially do it sometime this week if that works for you guys. Okay. Oh, that's fine. I'll be all right. I'm sorry. Any information that directly relates to, um, health benefits, um, as I can like tie it in with bodybuilding and staying in shape. Absolutely. Drinking the coffee every morning. I love it. I drink it black. Gonna be running low in the near future, just a heads up. Awesome. Thank you so much, Tara. All right, you too. Bye. Like to my idea. So that's always a plus. Um, and that gives me a direction to me to go off of. And as you guys can see, like I'm not trying to pitch products or things that I don't personally believe in or I don't like the products. I tried it myself. I actually love it.  So I'm excited when those two things align with my personal brand and my personal lifestyle align with a company and their product. That's, that's the ideal for anything that I want to get involved in. So stay tuned for that. Perfect. And I'm just going to head out my agent Annette, who you guys saw yesterday, yesterday's vlog and just let her know that we had a great conversation. All went well. She loved the idea and we're ready to move full speed ahead. All right. So I just finished recording a little audition for a pretty, very big, well known, uh, fitness company. So that's done. That was the like last minute thing that just suddenly popped up. And so I wanted to get that done for my agent. And now I'm headed to, to do a catering event for it's the same, um, catering company that's part of the restaurant that I worked at before getting terminated, but they're still doing some events. So I'm trying to just pick up some events here and there since I don't qualify for unemployment. So I'll be there for the next six to eight hours or so. Also as a quick update on my weight this morning, I checked and I weighed 165, I think it was 0.2 pounds. So I'm down from 166, which is, um, it's heartening, but at the same time, I know I have so much further to go. I want to get to 160 and below at the minimum. That's what I need to be at. So, and that's in two and a half weeks now. So I really, really, really, really, really got to grind hard. All right, off to work. Walking up to my workplace right now. Weird mixed feelings since I don't work here as an employee for the restaurant, but I'm going to be doing an event here. So we'll see. They're supposed to be renovating, so I'm curious to see if that has been started, if it's underway yet, or what's going on. Okay. And we just go from there. Sounds good. Silver bar. Oh, he's going to be working too. He's on the floor, but he can bounce back by the bar. Okay. Cool. Chill event. Okay. Sweet. Okay. So this is the bar that I'm going to be setting up today and getting ready for an event. It's a relatively small event, about 50-ish people for, um, a party from Cedar sign in, which is the local, like major hospital in LA. And before that happens, gotta make sure I eat lunch. All right, here we go. Over now.


Hey everyone, I'm here at Def Con 30. So excited to be back at the convention and I'm here with Justin Justin. Hello. I love your username by the way. Thanks. I'm here in the car hacking village and I really wanted to chat with you about everything that's going on in here. I know you have a lot happening over the weekend. We do. Currently y'all are building to open up tomorrow. Tell me about the demo that you're gonna be showing off here. I'm really interested. Yeah, so we'll have a demo that we'll be showing throughout the weekend here with this vehicle right here, which is a 2018 Honda Civic. For those that haven't seen, there was a news article a few weeks ago publishing how to use a flipper essentially to unlock this vehicle. I love the flipper. I'm not gonna get into too much details because the speaker will be giving a talk and he'll be out here doing demos as well. So I'll let him get into more details about it but definitely come and check the demo out. It's a lot of fun. I saw an article about the flipper and how you can hack the Honda Civic. It's definitely really cool. I can't wait to see the speaker come in and do that. You also have a CTF happening for everybody who is here in person, correct? That's correct. How is that working out? It's really well. We've done a CTF every year. Some of the years we've actually given out black badges at the end last year. We were a black badge CTF, so that was really cool. Nice. Yeah, we usually try to change it up every year, have a lot of pretty difficult challenges. Years ago, we used to have a lot of challenges and it was kind of hard to keep track of. Recently we changed it to have fewer challenges but very difficult, so it's a little bit more challenging for people. And yeah, you just can sign up at ctf.carhackingvillage.com and like she was saying, you have to be in person here. There will be a scoreboard eventually set up and that'll all be there for everyone to see, yeah. So let's say that I'm brand new to the car hacking village but I really want to get into it. I want to be a part of the CTF. Are there people here who can help me out and show me what I need to do or maybe give me some leads on how I can break into it? Yeah, definitely. So that's one of the, you actually kind of touched on a good topic here.  I think it's very important for learning, just having direct access to it. It's good for safety. Yeah, safety too, because you have a bunch of people that have been in the industry for years. There's automotive engineers, there's hackers here, there's tons of different people from the automotive industry that are here to help. So yeah, from the CTF or if you just want to learn, like what can I do on this car? Where can I plug in? Things like that. There's a lot of people around that are definitely helping for that kind of stuff. I'm so excited to see it and I love that you are welcoming to people who have never done it before. That's something that I felt like DEF CON has always been really open about and really good for, you know, complete newbies. Agreed, complete. That's one of the reasons why I love DEF CON and doing this stuff is just, there's so many people that see things in the news, they hear whatever's going on, they're like, oh, I can go out to Vegas and check out this event and then they come out here and it's just like they, a lot of people I don't think know about the villages that much. They see the talks and they hear about it from that angle. But I think highlighting these villages and getting people to understand that you can actually play hands-on and start tinkering with things live with experts around is very valuable. Absolutely, I agree. That's the best way to learn. I mean, hands-on is absolutely the best way. And speaking of which, you also have a really cool badge this year. We do. I have a few of the previous badges. They're amazing, by the way. Yeah, this is our badge this year. It's called the OBDKILL. Sorry, that's hard to say. There are methods and ways and I won't give them away because you guys can figure it out to actually kill the CAN bus through OBD.  There's a Raspberry Pi Pico up there so you can reprogram it as well. What are some of the things that you can do with your badge? One of the things is interact with the CAN network. A lot of it's just directly through the buttons here. Outside of that, I don't know everything. These things, you know, those kind of things just come in. You have to come here and find out what it does and teach everybody else. Yeah, yeah, there'll be a, the guy who created it, he'll be doing a talk as well. Who created it? It's a company called Intrepid. Nice, cool. Intrepid Control Systems. Great. From Michigan, these are actually made all in Michigan. So they're all made locally. Very cool. It's really cool. Thank you so much, Justin. I really appreciate it. Is there anything else that you wanna tell the crew out there who is watching on the internet? Come check us out and hack some cars. Yeah, hack some cars. I'm down. Thank you so much. It was great to chat with you. You too, thanks.


from Seattle, Washington. It's theCUBE, covering Smartsheet Engage 2019. Brought to you by Smartsheet. Welcome back everyone to theCUBE's live coverage of Smartsheet Engage here in Seattle. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Jeff Frick. We're joined by Kristin Kamasa. She is the VP Process Improvement at Collier's International Wisconsin. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Thanks for having me, I'm excited to be here. So you're here direct from Milwaukee. Tell us, tell our viewers a little bit about Collier's International Wisconsin. Yeah, so Collier's International Wisconsin, we are recognized as the largest full service commercial real estate company in the state of Wisconsin. And when I say full service, it means we have everything from brokerage to property management to facilities, architecture, development. I mean, we cover the gamut on both the commercial and we've actually started a residential program as well. So we've got you covered. Excellent, so tell us now about your Smartsheet story. There was a movie that played during the keynote address that where you heard a lot about your Smartsheet experience, but you tell our viewers now. Yeah, so I started using Smartsheet in 2012 when I came to Collier's, and really it was a one specific project that we needed to really wrap our arms around and other methods weren't doing it at all. So I discovered Smartsheet. And ironically, if you took Smartsheet from 2012 and put it next to Smartsheet 2019, you wouldn't think they're the same product at all. But it solved our issues at that time. We were able to really elevate what we were doing with that client. We, I mean, we were recognized. And the company ownership saw that if you could do this with one client, what could you do with the whole company? And over the past years, we have really rolled it out both internally through the operational side from how we just manage our day to day business to also how do we get in with those clients and how do we manage their real estate with this software program? So that's kind of been my journey and it's been fun. And it's been amazing. And I'm looking forward to the next phase. So what was the killer app in 2012 that you couldn't do with any other tool that was so breakthrough?  We tried to do Google Sheets, that didn't work. And Smartsheet was the app of choice that we could collaboratively work on this entire portfolio but manage it with a security level because it was a banking institution that they were concerned. And Smartsheet, even at that time, they knew that security was a big issue with their clients. So was it the ability to cross company collaborate with the banking client as well as your own teams? That was so good. It was a large team. We had 15 people, so you can imagine version control was huge. Yeah, a nightmare. Nobody wants to see an Excel document sent to 15 people asking for revisions. And again, we had to be able to report to this banking customer in their own format and we had to, again, really aggregate that data in a consistent and repeatable way but yet still maintain that control. And Smartsheet allowed us to do that in a very flexible and customizable way. So we didn't buy something off the shelf that we maybe used 50% of it. We used 100% of what we purchased. So 2012, that's a while ago. But can you talk about the cultural change from your company to now that you use Smartsheet on a regular basis and how that has helped you collaborate and helped you be more creative with each other, helped you understand the big picture? Yeah, so really in 2012, we were a slightly smaller company. It was coming right out of the recession and when there was a lot of REO properties and just there were some issues in real estate in general. And we were able to really ride that wave and come back a lot stronger than we were because we were able to cross collaborate between all of our different company divisions and really show our clients, one of our taglines is better together and that's what we were. And it's easy to be better together when you have a platform that helps you build that up. And our company has since kind of shed some of those maybe less desirable properties or product type and really moved into the class A downtown markets because we're able to now work with some of those more sophisticated owners of real estate and those sophisticated clients that are really looking for not just a real estate expert but an advisor for them. How do you help me take my real estate and make it work for my business? And Smartsheet was a big part of that. So it really has evolved your role, as you said. I mean, it's much more of a, you're much more of an advisor now. Yes, we are definitely much more of an advisor of a consultant of a trusted partner is what we are. And it's not always just about the real estate anymore. It's about building those relationships but showing them as well as to, how can we put all those pieces together and then still have full transparency with you? And with our other vendors and our clients and bringing everybody together. So I love that you look at the big picture and big changes in the big picture but you've also talked about it's all, it's a combination of lots of little things that add up to the big thing. I think one of your videos you talked about, you know, a push notice for an accept decline was a game changer. And then today we heard in the keynote that a copy paste, you know, from one to the other got a standing ovation. So what was your favorite feature for today? And I'm just curious, you know, is that approach something that you've adopted also in the way that you use the tool to engage with your clients? I mean, every engage that I've been to, I leave and I'm just so excited to get back and start implementing everything because again, Smartsheet really listens to their clients but really from what the things that were announced today, it seems like a simple thing but I'm really excited about Move Row. Because when you're done with a project, it doesn't take a lot of time to actually grab it and move it down but if somebody forgot to do it and it's rolling up to your aggregate data and all that, it's just such a little thing but it makes such a big difference. You know, show me only my active in-flight projects. I don't want to see my completed ones or my closed or my on hold if I change the status. Give me what I care about front and center. So Move Row was my big thing. I love it.  And so when you are slowly chipping away at all of the annoyances, that leads to a much more pleasant work day. It definitely does. And a much more satisfying work life. I'll take any second I can gain back in the day. Right, I mean, so we talked about how the Colliers International in Wisconsin has really evolved from sort of not a small time real estate but now you are this trusted partner of so many wealthier clients. Talk about the internal culture though in terms of how you all work together. Yeah, so some of our key features are like, warrior spirit and this better together and being innovators. And that's really what Smartsheet has. Encourage us to be is more of these innovators and working together and really being a champion internally. You'd be amazed, you know a lot of real estate companies, they have a lot of brokers and then employees and maybe not everybody, they're different personality types and all that, but our company has been able to figure out a way to pull everybody together and aggregate that data for a real big picture from both sides. You know, instead of looking at employees versus consultants, but just everybody, what is Colliers? And it's been amazing because Smartsheet has been that platform that we've utilized to do that and to bring everybody up. The collaboration that it has encouraged between different departments. Everybody knowing what is going on with a project or knowing that if you're talking to the same client that I'm talking to and how do we now work together versus you make a phone call and you just called my client. I don't want that happening and it makes you sound kind of silly, you know, but how do we work together for a common purpose basically is what's happened. So is it the primary work tool that's open on people's desks? Yes, it is. It's open on my desk 100% of the time and we have actually created individualized dashboards for every single one of our brokers and it is their ground zero where they go to for all of their information, for if they have a new listing, if they have to submit commission information, if they want to submit a referral to another one of our lines, that is where they go. Our property managers, we're working right now to create their individual dashboards where again, they're going to be living in there and how they're communicating with their landlords and their owners and how do you aggregate that tenant data in there so that everybody on your team is all on the same page, but again, it's living in Smartsheet is what the entire company is doing these days. So you talked about how this was 2012 when you first adopted it, the real estate business, particularly and commercial real estate, not in a great position, in a much better, more solid position today. What are you thinking about for the future in terms of how your industry evolves and how you're going to need tools to help you evolve? Yeah, I mean, you know, our clients, it's a tech world, everything. I mean, your fridge can order milk for you these days. If you have a real estate and they're not an advisor, they're just a real estate broker and they're not accessing the technology that is out there to help you get market intel at the touch of fingertips. I mean, they almost want you to anticipate what their question is going to be before they ask it and they want that data available at night, on the weekends, in the morning at their own schedule. If you are not able to provide that but you have to send them an email and they have to wait on it, I think that you're going to fall behind. You have to be able to keep up with the world of technology and becoming less of a one, I'm just going to help you on this single transaction too. I'm helping you on this one, but what's the next one? And how does it affect your business? And how do I become your partner and your advisor and just that trusted partner? And that's where it's going, I think.  Because that's another thing we hear about this technology is that because it is automating so many of the manual repetitive tasks, you do have more time to be creative, to think more holistically and more about the future. Yeah, and that's really what we're pushing is if it's an administrative task, if it's something that you can automate it, do it. Don't take another day sending a repetitive email or you checking your calendar, did somebody finish something? Have the system do it for you? Did somebody, if you assigned a task, did they do it? You shouldn't have to babysit them for it. And yes, it should free you up to, how do I look strategically? How do I look forward into something instead of constantly trying to look backwards as to what did we do? Has it been completed? It should be done and we should be on to the next step at this point. So you said that you always come away from engages, so excited, so happy to come back to your office and talk about what you've learned. What do you think it's going to be from this one? Besides MoveRow, which I know is going to change your life, Kristen. MoveRow will change my life, but there's a lot of things.  Again, Smartsheet, I can't reiterate enough, they listen to their customers. And going back and figuring out how do I optimize something that I already thought was the apex thing that I was going to create, how do I now make it better? How do I make it so that it frees up somebody else's time so that maybe them moving a row down, they no longer have to do that? How do I now make the next one even better? So I'm just, I'm excited again about that continuous process improvement. Well, thank you so much for coming on the show. It was a pleasure having you. Thank you, I'm excited to be here.  And now I'm a CUBE veteran, thank you. I'm Rebecca Knight for Jeff Frick. Stay tuned for more of the CUBE's live coverage of Engage 2019.


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Hi friends, welcome to my channel and welcome. If you're new here, my name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on the WW or the Weight Watchers blue plan. It's Friday, it's the first Friday of a May. It's the first Friday of me working on the May challenge that I set out for myself and over 50 other participants in my Facebook group are doing the May challenge right along with me, which seriously warms my heart. So if that's you, leave it down in the comments. If you're interested in taking part in the May challenge, it's definitely not too late. Head on over to my Facebook group. All of the information is pinned at the top. Join my Facebook group while you're there. We'd love to have you. So it's been quite a good week for me. It's been very interesting. I can't wait to share with you how this week has went. So if you're excited for another weigh in video, WW workshop topic will set some goals for the next week and I'll fill you in on the challenge. Give this one a big, huge thumbs up and don't forget if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, I'd love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and don't forget to ring the bell next to it so you don't miss a single video. Down in the description box, you are going to find nutrition coaching. I do offer personalized to you macros and calories. Highly recommend taking advantage of that whether you're on WW or not. And I do offer one-on-one individual coaching sessions as well, if that's something that you're looking for. Links discounts to all my favorite things and of course my Facebook group is linked down in that description box. We'd love to have you join that community as well. So let's jump into this week's weigh in, WW workshop topic, and of course, setting some goals for the next week. Let's take note of how cute the big dog is here in the background. I love when they're in the background of the video. It's so cute, it just warms my heart. So let's talk about my week. So if you didn't know, I started my own version of 75 Hard. Actually, it's not even anything like 75 Hard. My challenge that I wanted to set for myself to really push myself in the month of May, I posted it in my Facebook group and like I mentioned, over 50 of you are taking part in the challenge right along with me, which makes it so much more exciting for me. I'm going to put here on the screen what I'm doing in May and exactly what challenge I've set for myself. And then I'll fill you guys in on how that's going so far the first week of May. So so far, I'm killing it. I have done so well. I have stayed within my calories, which as you guys know, I track calories first and points second. And so my goal for May is to stay within my calories, which I have done to a T the first part of May. I've gotten in the 30 minutes of exercise. So yay me, that is something that I knew or thought I would struggle with, but so far, so good. It's been hard, you guys, on days that I'm really busy and I have a lot going on. I have had to get my form of exercise in a different way, like for example, Monday, I cleaned my house and that was my 30 minutes of exercise. It ended up being way more than 30 minutes, but I still was able to get in 30 minutes of moving my body every single day. One day I walked laps in my backyard with the dogs because I was so busy. I didn't have time to take an actual walk, but I still walked in my backyard for 30 minutes and got in my 30 minutes of movement. Whatever you have to do to move your body every day, it's so important to do that. Not for weight loss, but just to keep your heart healthy, your body moving, building up and maintaining your endurance and making yourself strong and healthy. I've had no problem drinking my gallon of water. I've been writing a little note to myself every morning. It's been going really well. I'm enjoying it. Now I will say the one part that I've kind of failed on is weighing myself every day. Now part of the challenge was to weigh yourself once a week, but I said I was going to weigh myself every day. You guys, I forget. It's just not that important to me that I've been forgetting. So I'm just going to focus on this weekly weigh-in here for you guys and so that I can film my weigh-in video for you, rather than stressing out about weighing in every single day. But overall, it's been going really well. I've been enjoying it. It's definitely been pushing myself, which is really, really great, which is exactly why I wanted to set these little mini goals for myself. So my week went really, really well. And I'm excited to move into this next week. I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing, working on the steps of my challenge. And I'm also going to focus more this next week on some additional self-care.  I just want to focus on doing a little bit more self-care because we can't take care and love other people until we take care and love ourselves. So that's kind of my week in a nutshell. I do want to talk to you guys a little bit about this week's workshop topic because it kind of goes hand in hand with my challenge. And then I'll share, of course, this week's weigh-in with you. So this week's topic is how literally changing your brain helps you reach your goals. So we're going to talk about neuroplasticity and I'll put that here on the screen for you guys. And how that affects our healthy lifestyle and our weight loss is we have to change our brain so that we can reach our goals, whether they're short-term goals or long-term goals. So how we're going to do this is start by answering a few questions. What paths think of these as repetitive actions? Do you automatically take in your day-to-day life things that you do without consciously thinking about them? Are these things that you're doing leading you closer to your goals or further away from your goals? If the answer is further away, what new paths can you form to get you closer to your goals rather than moving in the wrong direction? Jot down these new paths, new ideas, new things that you could do to help you reach your goals. And when you encounter that fork in the road on whether what you're doing is leading you towards your goals or away from your goals, you can reference this list that you've made of all of these new paths you can take that get you closer to your goal.  Reflect on the paths that you're taking on a regular basis to make sure that those paths are giving you success, that they're leading you in the right direction, not down the wrong road. And keep an eye on where and how you can make tweaks to get you closer to those goals. So let's dive just a little bit deeper. No matter how old you are, you can still make changes to your brain which lead to changes to your goals. You can still develop new habits, build new pathways to make it easier to do those habits. Age has absolutely nothing to do with it. And I guess that's lucky for some of us. So for an example, let's say that you rely on a lot of pre-made meals. You're busy, life's busy, you work, you have a family, you have maybe several jobs and pre-made meals are what you generally gravitate towards because they're easy and they're convenient. But you have some big dreams of really learning to cook or maybe trying all these new recipes that you see on YouTube and Instagram. And grabbing these pre-made meals may not be leading you down the path of learning new cooking skills and trying new recipes. So a new path that you could take is come up with a handful of quick, easy meals that you can make on the go and quickly or meals that you could meal prep one day a week and have totally ready for the whole week so that it is kind of like a pre-made meal but you've made it yourself. Therefore, you're controlling the ingredients, you're learning new cooking skills and you know exactly what's going into those meals. So I really like this topic. I think it's really important to remember how our brain leads us to developing both positive and negative habits. And when we find ourselves veering down that wrong path, that's when we need to course correct and put ourselves down the right path. The more you practice that right path or taking that new approach, the more it'll become second nature to you. That's because both physical and mental strength are built through repetition. Our brains thrive on repetition. The more we do something, the more common and natural it becomes to both our bodies and our brains. Now let's jump in to this week's weigh-in. I am back, of course, to tracking all of my food and staying within my calories. I didn't tell you guys, but I wanna make sure that I'm completely honest and transparent with you. I give myself a calorie range. I eat between 1700 and 1900 calories a day. So in order for me to stay in my calorie range, I just have to fall somewhere between 1700 and 1900. I don't have a set number of calories every day. I prefer to have a range because some days I'm more hungry than others. So with staying on track, with moving my body at least 30 minutes every day, drinking my gallon of water and reminding myself of the good things, I am down this week 1.4 pounds. This is the most that I have lost in several weeks. I really, truly think that staying on track and getting in that little extra bit of mindful movement and I didn't work out every day. I worked out three days, physically worked out three days and just moved my body a little bit more the other four. It led to 1.4 down on the scale. So I'm officially 61.4 pounds down, which is incredibly exciting. Like I mentioned, my goal is to kill the month of May. I wanna see at least five pounds lost this month. So that is my goal, that's what I'm shooting for. And that just helps give me a little bit of extra motivation to stay on the path that I'm on rather than veering towards that wrong path. So now I wanna hear from you guys. Let me know if you're doing the challenge right along with me, how things are going. And if not, let me know what's going on. Let me know if you are feeling like you're making good decisions, if you're seeing the scale move in the right direction and what new habits or new paths are you looking to create. So thank you so much for all of your love and support you guys for hitting 60 pounds down. It means so much to me. All the nice comments on my weigh-in video seriously mean the world to me. I plan on sharing more before and after pictures. I'm just terrible at taking pictures. I've always been that way. I've never been a picture taker of myself. I have to get better on that so I can share my progress with you guys. But again, thank you so much for all the love and support. Don't forget to give this video a thumbs up if you enjoy these Friday weigh-ins. And of course, if you're new or you haven't, click that subscribe button. What are you waiting for? Hit the subscribe button and ring the bell next to it so you never miss a Friday weigh-in or any other video. Don't forget to check out the description box again for nutrition coaching, links, discounts to my favorite things and my Facebook group. If you're interested in the challenge or not, we'd still love to have you join that community. Happy Friday, friends. I hope you have a beautiful day. 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I still don't know if it's gonna help. I don't know. I don't. Yeah, we on Boss Talk TV. Shout out to Ehe the reason you see- No, I ain't. I think I seen you, you was back with, what's that old boy named Don in Alabama? Who, do you know what I said what happened? Yeah, yeah, you was with him again, when did y'all run into him again? No. Uh-uh. Was he at the fight? What's he? I don't know. I was with Dev, I was with Dev, you know. So have you talked to him? Yeah, when he talked to him since. How's he doing? He doing good.  I don't know what's going on. I don't know who's the opponent. Okay. So that's, I don't know nothing about that. You have to talk to 78. Okay, okay. So what you think about this upcoming fight with Arrow Spence and- Yeah, we heard what you had to say about it last time.  I still don't know if it's gonna help. I don't know. Come on, man. Oh yeah, it's gonna happen. I don't even know yet. Come on, man.  The rappers coming out. The rappers gonna come out.  But until then, I'm not gonna hold my breath. Yeah, they fighting.  Okay, they fighting. Okay, let's move into their fighting mode. Okay, now they fighting. You said you got on here last time, and they put a date to it, yeah? And she wanna say I was- Yeah, they put a date to it, so they gon' fight.  July 29th, yeah. Now wait a minute. How do you see him winning? Both of them undefeated. You think they might say that somebody cheated?   I don't care. It's still Earl Spence over S over anybody. That's one.  But bud is number two, meaning he's the first loser.  That's it, that's all. What make you so confident to say that? Cause I know EJ. How many rounds you think he gon' go in, gon' go the whole round there? I believe it's gon' go the whole thing. To give a show. It's gon' go the whole thing. Because this is one of those matches. Some people say EJ gon' get him up. I think EJ is gon' take his time breakin' bud down. Everybody who get in the ring with EJ, they need a new eye. You know what I'm sayin'? Everybody, everybody always, look at all the eyes. You know what I'm sayin'? He gon' get bud to UKI. That's what we gon' do. He gon' bup, bup, bup, bup, he gon' bust him down. Put the fluff on. You don't see no way that Terrence can have a chance. But come on. Terrence got plenty of chances, but I ain't here to talk about bud. So he, I'm breakin' this boxin' down. You can break down what you want. You can say what you want. You listen, you listen. You can say what you want. Bud got plenty of chances, but I ain't out here to give him no a... No, no, no. Wait, look.   That's it. You know what I'm sayin'? When it comes to bud and EJ, it's EJ all day. I ain't know if ands are bustin' bout it. Same thing with Dev. You know what I'm sayin'? I ain't know if ands bustin' bout it. Same thing with Wilder. Know if ands bustin' bout it. You know what I'm sayin'? Same thing with my lil' gass. Tiger Jaws, know if ands bustin' bout it. You know? So, hypothetically speakin', Ms. Jamaica, hypothetically speakin'. Now listen to this, hypothetically speakin', Devon moves up in rank and had to fight EJ. Who would you choose? By the time Dev moves up there to... That's a good question. That's a very good question. By the time Dev moves up there to where EJ is, EJ will no longer be fightin'. I think they're gonna worry about that. Man, you gotta worry about that. That's why I say hypothetically, if that happens sometime soon, you will not get that answer. She not pickin' sides at all. You will not. You will not get that answer.


This is the SF Productions Podcast Network. Want my MTV? From the Pop Culture Bunker, I'm Mindy. And I'm Mark. You can check out our audio podcast, How I Got My Wife to Read Comics on iTunes, or on our website SFPodcastNetwork.com. With all the myriad ways that the kids check out new music online, it's easy to forget that we once had a single way to see artists outside of live performances, and that was MTV. It's been made easier as the network has strayed so far from their original format. But there were music videos long before MTV. Even before Electronic Methods, you could watch something called an illustrated song starting in the late 19th century. A live artist with an accompanist would perform alongside a magic lantern which was an early slide projector showing the story of the song. Often, multiple projectors would be used to create special effects. Soon after that, the moving picture would eclipse such things. Of course, there was still the audio element at first provided via live accompaniment in the theater. Paramount's Fleischer Studio introduced Coco Song Cartoon, a series of otherwise silent cartoons starring Coco the Clown, who would introduce a song and then show the lyrics with a bouncing ball over them. And this encouraged the audience to sing along to live accompaniment. Then talkies were introduced, including WB's Vitaphone. This began with short subjects so music performances were a perfect fit. Disney introduced their silly symphonies cartoons and the WB countered with Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies, which would later morph into the classic WB cartoons we all know and love. Full-length movie musicals constituted a huge part of Hollywood's output for decades after that. But there were still shorts, many showing a musical performance by a band or singer. Some of these involved dramatized storylines. Meanwhile, a novelty company merged a traditional jukebox with a film projector and created a panorama. It's kind of like an analog rear projection TV. You could find these wherever you might find a traditional jukebox, bars, diners, clubs, that kind of thing. Multiple companies made short films called Soundies from 1940 to 47 mostly musical performances. And this is where you could see early performances of upcoming stars since the production value was too low to pay for the big guys along with rare appearances of African-American performers. Over 1800 Soundies were produced and might have gone on for far longer if not for the proliferation of television in the late 40s. Early TV leaned heavily on Variety, churning through thousands of song and dance performances. To spice things up, some of those would dramatize the lyrics, but it's hard to call those music videos. A form of Soundies returned in the mid-60s in France now called Scopitone. Most of these resulting films, of course, involved songs sung in French, although some English Scopitones were made. One of these is quite recognizable. Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walking, a promotional film turned into a Scopitone. This continued in some form until 1978. Meanwhile, a group of mop-top kids kicked off the British invasion. The Beatles films, A Hard Day's Night and Help are essentially long-form music videos. In 1967, they participated in a globe-spanning television event called Our World, where they performed All You Need Us Love via satellite from their studio. In the same period, the Moody Blues produced Go Now, a video that would easily fit into the modern music video era. By the late 60s, most successful acts were creating some sort of music video, either for marketing, would be shown as a clip on a TV show, for instance, or as background to be shown at their concerts. Of course, there were concert films as well, but that's really not inside the music video scope. By the 70s, two Australian shows, Countdown and Sounds, would promote early music videos, necessary since it was difficult for acts to visit there in person. UK's Top of the Pops did the same. In 1977, Sight on Sound and Pop Clips were introduced as part of Warner Communications Interactive Cable Service Cube. You can check out Episode 87 for more on that. Viewers could actually vote via their remote for their favorite music, and the format included music videos and news. Does this sound familiar? Well, it should, because this was the official tryout of what would become MTV. Kicked off in 1981, MTV brought music video into the mainstream, initially aping radio formats with video jocks or VJs, who would take you from one video to another. It started off appropriately with one hit wonder, the Buggles? Yeah. Video killed the radio star. It's difficult to overestimate MTV's influence on society. Search for TV commercials online pre and post 1981, their speed and complexity exploded, to the point that the earlier ads seemed boring and plotting. New trends and artists were implemented instantaneously, as kids saw and wanted whatever was being shown. Copycat shows such as USA's Night Flight and NBC's Friday Night Videos jumped on the train. Ted Turner created the Cable Music Channel, but quickly sold it to MTV, who refashioned it into VH1, covering more pop, R&B and jazz as opposed to MTV's rock. At first, MTV had a limited set of content, some of it coming from failed plans at RCA to sell video albums via their Selectivision video discs. Several were produced, but they never sold well versus actual films. Selectivision itself would soon fail, but that's another story, see episode 194. Virtually every performer of the 1980s were required contractually to make music videos, and they quickly moved from simple point of camera at the band playing and ad effects, to near cinematic events with grand MTV premieres promoted weeks earlier. A Billboard survey of top 80s videos include songs such as Michael Jackson's Thriller, Badana's Like a Prayer, Ah-Ha's Take on Me, and Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer is just a few examples. MTV began branching out of music by the 90s doing game shows such as Remote Control. By the end of the decade, most of their videos had moved to sister channels, VH1 and country music television, a.k.a. CMT, with the rest moved to a single series, Total Request Live. All three channels leaped on the reality show trend of the 2000s and almost left music videos far behind. And by that point, the kids had already moved past cable TV and onto the internet, and as broadband increased, music videos went there as well. NAPS had pioneered this, if illegally, and YouTube made it easier and theoretically legal. iTunes saved the music industry by making monetization into a simple click and showed videos as well. MySpace went from being a proto-social network into an early hub for online music and video promotion. Today it's all about direct streaming, both music and video. Social media influences can bring a new performer to light and big acts now drop new videos exclusively online. With the current lack of new scripted shows and films of the virus, perhaps music videos, all done at home via Zoom, will make yet another comeback. We'll see. We'll see. You can check out our audio podcast, How I Got My Wife Tree Comics on iTunes, or on our website, sfpodcastnetwork.com. From the Pop Culture Bunker, I'm Indy. And I'm Mark. Thanks for watching. I won by MTV.