Hello everyone, welcome to theCUBE's special presentation of the AWS startup showcase on cybersecurity. This is season three, episode three of the ongoing series, covering the exciting startups from the ADOS ecosystem. I'm your host, John Furrier, here at theCUBE. And today we're excited to be joined by Brian Lozada, CISO for a prime video, part of Amazon, Amazon Studios. Brian, great to see you, CUBE alumni, great to have you come on, headlining the keynote for the showcase. Thank you, John, appreciate the opportunity to look forward to being here. You know, as these startups kind of come out and tell their story about cloud security, data's huge, right? Data's a big part of it. We're living in the biggest hype market of all time since the web, in terms of new, net new things happening, building on existing capabilities, really perfectly positioned for what security needs because budgets aren't really increasing radically. But data is, and threats are. So this is a big topic, having automation, having data available for potentially doing new things. And this is the whole topic of the security startups in the cloud these days, is data-driven. This is a huge market. Totally agree. I think data is what allows businesses to actually move forward, make decisions, help improve the product, improve features, improve that customer engagement. So the responsibility of organizations to secure that data is where, I think a lot of organizations are either heavily investing and looking for that partnership with either startups or those trusted third parties that can help align, especially in the build cycle. When you think about it, like leveraging data to drive those innovations, there's a lot of risk that comes with it. So really, leaning in there is important for organizations. Brian, one of the things I want to talk to you about is the pace of play in the security business has increased, obviously with the tsunami of data and more faster action cloud scale. Obviously, before we get into that, pace of play reminds me of what Prime Video does with the NFL. You got a lot of sports on there. Well known consumer service. You're the CISO. So take a little bit of time to explain what's going on at Prime Video these days. What's the hot things? And as a CISO, what are you protecting? So we have a lot of exciting things going on at Prime Video with a lot of customer engagement, like things happening this week. We're excited about Thursday night football starting. So we have a lot of customers coming in to enjoy that content. So from a security perspective, our focus is to ensure that that stream stays available and stays ready for our customers and that the customer's going to enjoy the content. We have a lot of interesting features that are going to drive a lot of engagement with Prime Vision and bringing the customer closer to the game. So they could really enjoy the different aspects of the game that you've probably never seen before and only being offered on Prime Video. So it's pretty exciting. I had a chance to talk to some NFL CISOs and one of the things they all worry about is hacking the scoreboard in a little things like that. But that's what it is. Everything is surface area digitally now. So this is something you got to watch out for even on the Prime side, broadcast, the digital piece, anything you guys are putting out there has to be protected. Absolutely. The broadcast itself, anything that we're doing with our partners, the game itself, like you said, like altering the scoreboard or something like that, it impacts how customers are enjoying that content or it can impact what customers are doing with that content as well. So things that we just optimize for and ensure that we're taking care of that from camera all the way to the consumer. Okay, back to the pace of play. I've mentioned that earlier. One of the things we observed at our SuperCloud 3 event we just had last quarter on security and data AI is that it was unanimous amongst the practitioners and the industry experts that the pace of the industry is at an all-time high. The velocity of data, the velocity of change and the velocity of skill sets are all kind of the perfect storm is happening at once. And yet the tech is available too. You got some enabling platforms, you got the platforms versus tool argument. This is now part of the landscape. And so the conversations around architecture, how does an organization want to roll out their security strategy from an architecture standpoint when you got, okay, all kinds of configuration, telemetry, devices, tools, you got operations and you got talent. All these things are matched up into one melting pot. What's the current state of this market given the pace of play is so high and the new things that need to get done are now potentially available? So I think from an architecture perspective, it's something that the organizations need to look at as how they are servicing their customer, what offering they're giving their customers and look at the architecture from that point. Looking at from the customer back and saying how can we look at securing that infrastructure or that critical path of that customer coming into the service or coming into the product and then whatever that product or service is that's being delivered back to the customer. Those two critical paths need to be really focused on from a security perspective. And then you talk about talent and how security talent is to enable the business is to really look at those critical paths and say, this is where the talent needs to be to help those builders build that critical path with security in mind and make sure security is part of that journey, part of that story. So that's where organizations should be shifting a lot of their focus Look, security practitioners, it's we're still a field with negative unemployment. So there's not a lot of security practitioners to go around. So using them in those critical paths of the business is crucial to ensure that we're protecting that data coming in or any of the service or product that's going out. I want to get your thoughts on the trends that are out there. So we saw cloud, gen one come in, kick ass, take names, SAS enabled, market, Amazon number one in the world, change the world, right? Cloud turns IT into DevOps. Now you have next gen cloud coming, which is more scale, Amazon's partners now have ecosystems of their own. Their platform's on top of Amazon. So you have the rise of application services within the stack. So once an IT stack is now an application stack. So all those things are in there, configuration, you got vulnerabilities. And so you got the dev piece comes down into the IT world, okay? And now you have a developer centric market. So you have developers shifting left. Okay, that's been discussed. But now you got the role of data. AI is here, right? AI has some risks. For example, LLMs are not always secure and integrating data amongst other things is a data supply chain potential problem. So you start to see the role of a data developer. What's your reaction to that? Do you see that same thing? And if there's a data developer, then they might be AI native app services or is AI native application? Again, this is kind of part of the hype market, but people are talking about how the stack is impacted by data and scale. I think data definitely does dictate a lot of what an architecture could be because you are learning from that data and actually how you use that data to change features or change how your response should be to the product or to the customer. So having a data driven developer, I think we've been there for years. I think we're just kind of like talking about it now as a core function, but I think that that's been available for a while. LLMs are definitely changing the way that we look at problem sets and we're definitely changing the way how we're looking at using data to solve a problem or looking at data for opportunities. So I think organizations need to look at how using LLMs within their work or within their work streams, it's going to be a risk-based approach. Are you going to use a public one or are you going to create your own, the data that goes into the LLMs? Do you have any insight onto how those models are being trained? Because if the data that's coming out of it and your developers or your organization is making decisions off of that, you need to do that diligence, right? So I think there's a huge, huge market, huge opportunity for really leveraging LLMs to enable business responsibly. And I think there's an opportunity for innovation to be driven there on the technical side, more so on the opportunity side of business side as well. Awesome, how is AI and machine learning being integrated into an organization's strategy? Obviously, AI is going to change the security landscape because it has advantages, but also it brings a double-edged sword. For the good side, there's a bad side, right? So talk about AI from the op standpoint to the threat detection and response and remediation. So I think like LLMs are being used, like we're using them as technologists, but threat actors are using them as well. They're innovating as well on their attacks, right? And LLMs don't really change, well, they change a lot, but I think what they give is the opportunity for threat actors to have higher scale of their attack and more sophistication to their attack. And it actually shrinks the cost of an attack when a threat actor is using it as a tool. So I think as security practitioners, we need to look at how threat actors are using LLMs and what our response could be to that. Also, how our internal employees are using LLMs and introducing risks to the organization unknowingly. So what can we do to help, again, maybe enable some of that responsibly within the organization? Then I think a third area that security practitioners need to look at is, how can we use LLMs responsibly internally for our employees and offer it as a business enabler? I think there needs to be guardrails that need to be built. I think there needs to be technology that helps drive that responsible use or that responsible use and enablement across the organization. Again, those are going to be a lot of areas of opportunity for innovation over the next few years around LLM and security alone. You may not be able to talk about it publicly, but I have to ask, because Amazon Prime is, I'm a customer, love the service, you guys are multimodal.  As a company that's doing media, honestly, we love that.  So you got computer vision. How do you think about that? Obviously, from a hacking perspective, I'd love to take over the stream if I'm a hacker or maybe and want to or inject a mid-journey image in there. Or it could be a positive thing, could be advertising could be completely driven by AI, another cool thing. As a CISO, how do you look at that? Because you're dealing with multimodal asset base. No, totally. I think you bring up some interesting risks when you talk about hijacking the screen or the stream and then maybe injecting some content. We think about that. We think about that constantly. So that's why we're always kind of like focusing on from camera all the way to consumer, all of those points where that could be a risk and how we are looking to optimize to secure that. But I think the more and more media and taking the media industry as a whole, the more and more media goes towards a streaming or digital distribution kind of like outlay for customers, those risks are going to come out a lot more. And how media is distributed is, threat actors are thinking about it. Is it's either to inject ads or even distribution of their own ideology or their own kind of like messaging to a broad audience, right? So as security practitioners in the media space, that is constantly something that is going to be evolving. As the technology evolves for us to distribute that content and that media, the risk also evolved. And that's just something that it's going to be constantly changing for us. You have all the same risks that enterprise does, except it may not be known that Prime has a mobile crew that goes around city to city. So the ultimate IoT device, things like ransomware could be applied. So you got to lock this down. Is it OT or IT technology? Do you put processors in those cameras? Do they multi-threaded? I mean, these are things you have to look at. All of those things get thought about. Down to the hardware level. So you have to go all the way down to the zero trust hardware, firmware level. Absolutely. I think you have to. I think in, again, when it comes to the digital distribution of content as it continues to evolve in the industry, that security practitioners need to think at that level because any opportunity where the stream or that content could be interrupted, hijacked, or misdistributed is a risk.  How do you guys look at using AI to improve security? Is there a directionally correct North Star? Are you guys deploying anything? What's the current state of your view there? It could be used. It has to be used with that lens of the diligence that you put into the AI technology and where you're going to use that tech within the tech stack. It can't be something that it's a broad stroke that's just going to help me solve a problem. That just doesn't work that way. You really need to do diligence on the particular problem that you're solving across the stack, what AI solution or tool you want to throw at that problem, and then the output that comes out of it, how you're going to apply it in your build and in your remediation phases. I don't think there's going to be something that says, hey, this is going to fix it. There's not going to be an easy button or a fix it button, but I think there could be ways where AI could help solve those problems quicker and drive to a remediation phase quicker that helps builders, helps enablers, helps security practitioners reduce that risk in a shortened timeframe. From events to on-demand libraries of content and everything in between, Prime's got a lot of action. AWS talks a lot about the shared responsibility model, cross different services or clouds or environments, tooling APIs, et cetera. There's also compatibility, interoperability theme of this showcase we're doing. Does this whole shared responsibility thing working out well? Does it create seams that adversaries could exploit? How do you look at that? Because you can think, okay, maybe there could be a seam in there somewhere between working with different environments, different platforms. How do you look at that as a seesaw? How do you sleep at night knowing that there may be a seam there or not? Yeah, it does. I'm a big fan of the shared responsibility model. A few reasons why. I think the shared responsibility model puts accountability across both teams. It puts it across the cloud side. It also puts it across the consumer side or the consumer of the cloud side. It drives innovation in my opinion because it helps folks that are using the cloud build in the security that they need to into their environment the way that they need it to service their customers. And I also think it helps cloud providers and AWS really drive that enablement towards customers to build that in. So I think that the shared responsibility model is appropriate. I think it's something that could really, really push innovation across both sides. The security industry is evolving fast. We got a lot of startups here in the ecosystem presenting their stories, their fast growing. What has cloud security done to the security market? I mean, obviously it's evolving faster. We're kind of on this next gen as I've been talking about. How is security evolving and how do startups participate in the large scale enterprises? Again, because this fatigue everywhere, again, budgets aren't going up, but data isn't the threats are. So take me through your view of the security evolution now and the role startups can play and where they win and why companies should look at the startups. Yeah, great question. I love working with startups. I think it's fun to work with innovators and how they're thinking about particular problems. When it comes to cloud security, I think startups can help organizations drive their cloud adoption or drive their cloud migration quicker and with security built in or enable them to build that security in. I think there's a huge market still for a lot of organizations to move to the cloud or continue innovating with the cloud and they need startups to kind of like help get them there and jumpstart them into that phase. Now, there's areas where I think startups can help look at where a lot of cloud migrations have failures or have issues and focusing on their product in that area. You're going to get a lot more adoption from the industry to consume that product and really come onto that startups in that startups view. So I think those are areas that I think startups could really look at is like what are the pain points that organizations have when they're either moving to the cloud, building in the cloud and shorten that time up. That's where there's a huge, huge market for cloud security startups. And if you're watching this, the 10 startups presenting, check out their sessions. Definitely good, great companies. I think that, and to your other point too, about data and like everything matters about like the data that you're putting in the cloud, how it actually is being stored, how it's actually being used, all of the security around the lifecycle of that data is incredibly important. And again, when organizations are either migrating to the cloud or they're building in the cloud, coming up to speed on actually doing that, it's costly. It costs on the engineering side, it costs on the infrastructure side. So if startups can help drive that in a more effective way, they're really going to get the attention of the organizations. One thing I wanted to bring up that came out of the startup interviews we've been doing is that you got kind of a consumer vibe with AI. Obviously people see some of the consumer aspects and they go, oh my God, it's magic. All the insiders have seen, okay, we know machine learning does, okay, great. Generative AI is generating stuff, okay, cool. Now, if you look at the markets, really an enterprise market, security and where AI is going to win is going to be in the enterprise. So enterprise is not as easy as just saying, hey, it's a new startup and it's just rockets. You got to do a lot of thinking around integration, security. And so we're expecting to see a bolt on with AI and machine learning instantly, but also use cases that need to be thought out that are net new. So start building in use cases for either natural language or AI native, like use cases that are further downstream. This seems to be the general consensus of most of the experts in the companies. Okay, do you first, do you agree with that? And then two, how does an enterprise get ready? Because you have a lot going on at Prime. You got the entire franchise at Prime and you also work with other companies that aren't Amazon. You got relationship, you got APIs, you got to cross different platforms. So it's not easy, it's not trivial. Yeah, it's not trivial, I agree. I think it's a great point. I do agree to a certain extent that organizations need to start looking about building their future products or evolving their current products or their current infrastructure with LLMs, AIs, how it's going to enable. That's a big statement and that's a long journey. That is not something that's going to happen overnight. I think a lot of diligence needs to get into that process, into that vision on how it's actually going to happen with effectiveness so that it doesn't become something that introduces risk to the organization. It's just, you can't just say AI is going to solve your problem. You have to be particular on what you're going to do. I think organizations that are building in the cloud native or building a product from scratch, there is an opportunity to start saying we're going to build it with AI or LLMs from the start. That'll help it evolve over time. It doesn't absolve it of risk. It doesn't absolve the diligence that you need to do to get there, but I think it'll help shorten a lot of the integration points that you were talking about because you're building from the start with it. Brian, that's a great point. And by the way, I would agree with that statement 100% because if you look at the cloud, one data or Amazon was the only game in town at that point in late 2000s. Basically the SaaS cloud native born in the cloud, they were the ones that rose right out of the gate. Wasn't the enterprises adopting cloud? Yep, they didn't come until even today, some enterprises are still moving over. So to your point, similar trend line, right? The SaaS startups come out of the woodwork, Airbnb, no one's ever heard of them. Twitter started in the cloud, AWS. I mean, Amazon ran the table every single startup born after 2006, probably used AWS, almost. Totally agree. Yeah, totally agree. And I think, again, there's an opportunity for that same type of trend to happen with AI and LLMs now. Yeah, and I think what's interesting now is AI enterprises can do that AI native because cloud does exist for them. You know what I'm saying? So they're like the startup, you know. They are like the startup and they can ideate within their own environment, within their own cloud environment. So they absolutely an opportunity, but again, from a risk perspective, just that diligence. And also from a leadership perspective, like the organization needs to know that they're going to be using a technology that is still in its infancy. So there is going to be, it's not gonna be a smooth road. There's going to be areas that you're gonna have to grow as that technology is growing as well.  Your peers are out there. They're trying to prepare for the future, set the foundation now, Gen 1 cloud, prepare for this next generation wave coming. And yes, the cloud is already out there. So they're on the cloud. So they can be agile, they can move fast. They can be like a startup, okay, from a speed standpoint, whether it's business transformation, whatever project. So a lot going on for the enterprises now, unlike how hard it was to move before, as we just talked about. So what's your advice for the folks watching and for the startups out there too, we're also trying to get a position in there to navigate the landscape, to be in the right position, to take that tailwind when the gust of the wave comes, they can be on the right side of the history here. What's your advice? Yeah, that's a great question. I'd say, listen, for the enterprises that are out there that are already in the cloud and they're looking to continue to maintain their environment, to build them and IDAID on top of them is continue to look at those areas that there is opportunity to take advantage of new technology and see where you could actually push a little bit, lean a little bit more to, whether it's good for customer acquisition, customer engagement or on the security side, drive better security operations and remediation. On the startup side is again, if you really, you have a great idea and your product is really going to solve that problem. For us as practitioners, you need to help us understand where that fits into our tech stack, into our already existing tech stack, into our already existing operation, our enterprise operation and help us bring that into our organization as a sales point, right? This is how it's going to either replace an existing tool or shorten the time window for us to solve a problem. I think startups sometimes come into the environment and they, hey, we're the silver bullet, we could do this and it's, hold on, like you don't know my world, you don't know my problems, you don't know what I'm trying to accomplish. You don't know my yearly roadmap. So understand your customer first, understand your customer problems and then start talking about how your particular tool, product or solution is going to address that. That helps us, again, as CSOs or as security practitioners, get the startup in quicker and to really evaluate it. I like being design partners with startups. I think it's important to give that feedback to the startup so they can incorporate that into the product, I mean, get it firsthand from a practitioner, somebody at the ground and it just helps, it helps on both sides. That's great advice and nice bar you just raised for all the people who want to sell you something. Well done. Keep that for later.  Final question for you, you're the tech athlete out there, you're on the front lines, you're moving fast, the pace of play is high in security. You got a target in prime video, I'm sure every hacker would love to have that prize. It's well-known franchise growing. How do you keep up? I mean, how do you stay ahead? How do you stay in shape, so to speak, in terms of staying on top of things? Share your philosophy on being a CSO at the tier one. I think tier one, thank you, that's a great question. I leverage my network a lot when it comes to seeing what is the latest area to either threat actors or latest areas to actually lean into when it comes to innovation. So I think my network is something that I can leverage. It does help that working at Amazon, there is a lot of ideation, a lot of innovation going on here that really helps keep us up to pace with everything that's happening. But I also like to look at those areas that are not so much public, right? When I go to like conferences, like your big conferences, your RSAs or something like that, I don't go to the middle of the floor for the vendors. I actually like going to the outskirts, the ones that actually can't afford the marketing budget of the $25,000 per pop, right? Those are ones that could only afford like the, those are the technologies that I kind of like to lean in on. I'm like, what problem are you looking at? What threat actors are you tracking that maybe no one else is kind of like looking at? So those are the areas that kind of like keep me, I guess, in shape, if you will, from a tech security perspective, and it's the fun area, and this is why we do what we do in security. Let's find those gold nuggets, the diamond in the rough, as they say, and great strategy. And Brian, we've got 10 presenting this episode of season three here. It's on cybersecurity. I mean, it's basically everything is now something plus data, right? So. Yeah, everything's data, everything, everything's data. Great to have you on. I know you're super busy with your schedule and a lot of big things happening. You got to get to, I really appreciate taking the time, keynoting the showcase here this year, this episode three. Thanks for your time. Now, thank you very much, John. I appreciate it. Have a good one and I look forward to the showcase. Awesome. This is season three, episode three, the ongoing series covering the exciting hot startups from the Amazon Web Services ecosystem. John Furrier, your host. Thanks for watching. See you next time.


Oh with police tragedies occurring all across the nation the police community relationship could be considered fractured in some communities. In Baxter the police department is aiming to continue the already strong relationship it has with the citizens. Clayton Castle has that story. It was a beautiful night at Oscar Christophson Park in Baxter for a celebration of community and policing thanks to the night to unite event put on by the Baxter police department. What it was it's made as an outreach from police departments to the communities trying to you know to create an event where the community can come and interact with the police department learn about the police department. Similar to events like national night out the night to unite is meant as a way for the community to come together have fun and learn more about police and public services. We're very fortunate in our area to be appreciated by the citizens you know times are tough as we all know for law enforcement right now. In communities like Brainerd and Baxter the police are beloved by the citizens despite turbulent times around the country for police officers. I think the police department is wonderful they are everywhere when we need to be when they we need them and I think that's great. The event brought out citizens young and old rich and poor. One team has volunteered at the event multiple times in the 12-year history of night to unite. Well even before pageantry I started volunteering here along with my mom who works at the city of Baxter and so I usually come do tattoos with the police department and I've just loved it ever since. More than just celebrating the police community relationship night to unite has become an annual summer tradition in the Baxter area. We're very fortunate in our area to be appreciated by the citizens you know times are tough as as we all know for law enforcement right now and and that interaction with the community but we've been we've been very fortunate here and and this is you know one town doing it there's hundreds probably thousands of towns across the country doing it. Reporting in Baxter Clayton Castle Lakeland News. Activities at the night to unite included martial arts demonstrations, face paintings and a canine demonstration. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


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Hey everyone it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how I made these buckle cards. I actually done these during a Facebook live and they're just really really fun very easy to do. I've done the tuck ones before and I knew of the buckle cards so this is just my take on it really I've just done it myself. So I've got purple pink orange and I'm going to do a yellow one today and basically if you've not seen or heard of a buckle card you just pull this piece here and it's like a belt buckle so that piece just slots into this opening and then when you open it up you've got your space there to you know stamp and write your message and obviously you don't see that when it's closed I pop some Nuvo drops there I just thought that looked really nice and then you just kind of you know slide it back in again or you know once that person's you know received the card they can it can just about stand which is quite nice actually because I thought you know originally you know when you see these things you think they're just going to lie flat but actually it does stand up but you could also just leave that undone and open up and it will stand that way as well so you know it's it's got that mantle appeal which is nice so don't tend to like cards if you can't stand them up and yeah I think it looks really cool so I've used the polka dot on this one this is all the funky flowers stamps and the sentiment and then the papers are from the party collection which I'll show you in a moment and I've used this lovely silver like non-shed glimmer paper this is some Centura pearl that I had in my scraps I've just cut some leaves with that one and then again the same with the pink I've got the Nuvo drop same sentiment and these are cards I just want them to just be kind of just because and I can then write my own little sentiment inside so you know you could swap out that sentiment and put a happy birthday on there it would work really well and again you can just see the purple and I've put that glitter in the centers of the flowers I think it works really well and it matches that paper there perfectly so these are six by six they all fold flat as you can see and will fit into a six by six envelope so let me show you how to make them okay so they're nice and easy to make I will link the facebook live video below this video just so if you do want to watch that or you'd like to join in when we do them then you know you'll be able to like my facebook page and you'll be able to follow along so I've used the Nuvo drops I'm going to use the English mustard for today so I'll pop that there but I did use the ripened pumpkin for the orange one this is beautiful this is the violet galaxy if you can see it there but it's got that beautiful shine on it and then I use this one here which is the rhubarb crumble so they're the three and they're all the crystal drops by nuvo and then the ink colors so I've stamped today's flowers so I've already colored them and stuff but that's using the honey pot and that's the quick dry harmony and then I used for the orange I use the orange ink dye again by spectrum noir then the fuchsia and the crushed velvet the stamps are nice and whenever you do a lot of flower stamping stamp maybe you know with the in the color that you're intending to color them and it kind of can give you a bit of that like no line coloring effect or water coloring effect that they call it it does um yeah it works well this is the stamp set of use so I've used the flower here and then the sentiment sometimes you've got it sometimes you just have to stop and smell the flowers okay so again all the supplies will be linked below but these are the flowers that I've done in the yellow really nice I've just done a little bit of shading you can see there with a little bit of highlight but like those ones a lot and then I've cut five of the leaves I've done all my mats and layers these are the dyes again I've used the dye there and I've also got the embossing folders because you can emboss the back piece so I've got the six by six in the balloon which is really nice but I think I might do the zigzag on that one and that's the paper pad and it's the party one so for this one I'm doing the stripe so I've got two in the stripe and two in the polka dot and you can see the polka dot there as well it's a really nice paper pad love this one and I've done quite a lot of cards with this one here it's really nice at the top there so yeah you've got quite a few to choose from there okay doke so you want a six by six card blank if you don't have a pre-made six by six card then you'll want to cut a piece of 12 by six and along the 12 inch side you want to score at six inches okay and then just fold that one in half so you've got that we're going to trim a bit off in a moment and then for your mats and layers for the back piece there you want a piece of five and three-quartered square and then you'll want one for the front so this is three and three quarters by five and three quarters pattern piece to go on top of that is three and a half by five and a half and you'll also want a white piece to go inside the same size as this one here okay and that's so you've got somewhere to stamp and write your message this piece is to cover your mat and layers to cover your the buckle the strap part but that's going to come from this piece we trim off in a moment but these pieces here to go on top are three and three quarters by one and three quarters and three and a half by one and a half so it's the standard mats and layers that I do dropping down by a quarter of an inch increment each time so you don't need the scoreboard anymore so we'll get rid of that and then just using my trimmer I'm just going to open up the card you want to work on the front one pop it in your trimmer and line up the score line with the four inch marker and then trim and that will give you this two by six piece okay and then I lied you are going to need the scoreboard but I'm going to just bring in my smaller one here and I'm just going to score along the long side at two inches so hold that we're going to stick all of this piece behind this silver piece of card here and then that will become the buckle which will go over the front like so and we're going to cut into this bit in a moment so let's get rid of that one and what you can do is add some glue onto the inside of this one here like so and you want to stick it on here about one inch up so I'm just going to grab my ruler and it's pretty spot on just move it up a little bit further yep I'm happy with that they're about I mean you might want it high you might want to do yours in the middle depending on where you have your sentiment but because I've got my sentiment up here I like to further down there so you know it's entirely up to you might want to do it right at the top have something hanging down lots of fun ways to decorate this now I've just realized I was going to emboss this so I can still do it so I'm going to pop this one in here and see how this works out yeah because I can just put it through that way so I'm going to run that through my die machine there you can just make it out there we go you can see it's got a real you can feel it more than you can see it but in person can you just yeah there you go when it catches the light and then I can just pop that one in there so I'm going to add my glue now to the back like so and then I'm going to stick all these mats and layers down so I'm going to pop this one on here with that pattern over the top and then I'm going to stick this one on here with this one over the top but I'm also going to round off all of the corners with my corner punch okay so that's that all done now if you want to do a tuck card that I mentioned at the beginning you will build up your kind of you know decoration your embellishments over here so that this can tuck underneath like so that's still glue in there but it would tuck underneath and then the person would just untuck it and pull it out I'll link that one up here it was the curved one or something like that I'll have a look through so there might be a couple on the channel actually but for this one I'm going to be cutting into this bit here so what I found easiest to do is I'm just going to grab my pencil there and you want to come in about 5 eighths of an inch from the this side here okay of this strap so I'm going to and you're marking on the paper not on the strap so 5 eighths of an inch it's about there and again at the bottom here so 5 eighths is about there now I'm going to open it all up and you're going to cut from pencil mark to pencil mark so I'm going to grab my metal ruler and my cutting knife and you want to push down on that ruler you don't want it to shift at all which is why I like this one this is from our taser it's the triangular one it's the I think it they call it the yeah architects ruler and it's really good because it's you know you don't run the risk of chopping your fingers so I'm just going to push that right down and you want to keep it nice nice and straight try and do it in one go she says and then moves it it's because I'm filming I would usually lean over okay so take your time and then I'm going to shift it you basically want to make a very very small little slot so I'm going to just shift it across a little bit it's about a millimeter I'll bring up to the camera when this is done I'm just trying to make sure I really put some pressure down on this one okay like so and then I'm just going to pop a little cut at the top on the bottom if you've got any pencil marks you can just rub that out but now I can just push that piece through these some people might have you know a punch that's got this kind of shape you might cut it on your digital cutting machines but now you see I've got a really nice line there the little opening and that will be enough you to now tuck in your strap we need to put a bit of glue underneath the end of there but that's what you have and then you want to start building up all of this on this piece here but you want to make sure you don't stick this together you want this to be able to move you know freely but at the same time you want to kind of disguise it but you you know you also want people to kind of know it's there I think I went a bit too over on the purple one but you can see here you can just about make it out there and again with the orange one you can kind of see it a little bit so it's up to you I mean it's pretty obvious when they get that they're going to go to open it and they'll be like oh what do I do and yeah they'll just pull it open so yeah I'm going to keep mine like that I'm going and I'm going to start feeding in the leaves I've got an odd number because it's always good to work in odds but I'll build all of that up so that I look really nice and then I'm going to bring in my sentiments I've already got that stamped and that's on some foam and then I'm just going to finish off with some new drops hard done and now I'm just going to finish off like I said this is the English mustard so I'm going to pop a few drops I'm going to do right at the top some nice big ones there I do like to do quite large drops and do one down here try and do like I've done on the other ones one little one there try and work in kind of clusters of odd numbers and I'll do three down here I'm kind of running low on this one like that little one there there we go I think that just finishes off nicely so I'll bring that one up so you can see it a bit closer there we go isn't that cool just need to cut another one of them for inside but I have to wait till it dries now and again I should have maybe shown you the buckle I can't really open it but you can see again how they all work so this one here I've already opened so I'll just pop that one if I can open it there pop that one back in there like so and then you've got the purple one again that just pops out and that's got the inside there as well so you can obviously stamp a lot more there if you want these look great you know if you've got a special birthday you could put you know 21st 60th you know all kinds of you know different things on the front there I think it look great I love those colors there we go pink yellow purple and orange I think they look fab and I'm building up a stash again now of cards because I had done a lot of samples but obviously a lot of those samples have been sent off and used for all different things so it's nice to have you know my own kind of you know my own stash now so yeah I hope you've enjoyed this one as always all of the supplies will be linked below and I'll be back very soon with another tutorial thanks for watching bye


It's up you guys, welcome back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I'm Goldpony, adding new car, truck, SUV reviews on YouTube. And today, we're in the brand new 2023 Volvo XC60 courtesy of younger Volvo cars of Hagerstown and Hagerstown. Marilyn, for more information on their inventory, please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. So we're in this one today because there are plenty of changes for the 2023 model gear, including brand new trim levels for this year as well. So that's pretty exciting. Not only that, this is an IIHS Top Safety Pick Plus, which by the way is the very highest designation given by IIHS, so that pretty much has it all right there. But ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering feel, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say, let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. And so as you can imagine, there are several trim levels for the 2023 XC60, first one being CORE starting at $44,535, then there is PLUS for $48,795, and lastly, Ultimate starting at $54,595, and so that was all pricing for the B5 power plant. There is a B6 available with all-wheel drive if you wanted that option at $5,550, and then that was also all pricing for the front-wheel drive if you wanted to go with all-wheel drive simply at $2,300 then on top of that. But as I alluded to, there are two different power plants, first one codenamed B5 that is going to be powered by a 2.0-liter turbocharged inline 4-cylinder with a mild hybrid system putting out 247 horsepower, 258 pound-feet of torque, power center front wheels are all wheels through an 8-speed automatic, 0-60 time coming in at 6.6 seconds for the front-wheel drive, 6.5 seconds for the all-wheel drive, MPG numbers then coming in at 23 in the city, 30 on the highway. And then to put it simply, that B6 power plant, that's going to be a pretty similar power plant more or less, the 2-liter turbocharged inline 4-cylinder with a mild hybrid system, but this time putting out 295 horsepower, 310 pound-feet of torque, 0-60 time for that one, again, 6.5 seconds, so really not much of a difference there. But so then before we do any kind of fun acceleration here in our XC60, I do want to mention some minor drive mode adjustments to the XC60. If you go to the little gear icon at the bottom right-hand corner of the infotainment screen, that's essentially your settings and that gives you a couple different driving adjustments, like there is an off-road mode available. There is also a steering field that you can adjust as well. I'm actually just going to go ahead and hit that to kind of firm up the steering field because that's typically what I prefer. So I do want to mention that before we do this acceleration. But now having mentioned that, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway. Let's put the XC60 here to the test and let's see how quickly we can get our new 2023 Volvo XC60 here up to speed. All right, a little bit of a rolling start, but three, two, one, and go. Yeah, buddy. That's not bad. Actually, and there's no turbo lag because of that mild hybrid system, but that is plenty of an acceleration for the XC60 without a doubt. You're not going to have any issues emerging onto the highway. Kind of surprised me. I like that acceleration of the XC60. Zero to 60 and 6.5 as plenty fine. But anyways, to go along with that acceleration, as always, braking is equally important.  In the back, 12.6 inch solid rear discs. As far as that, six easier stopping distance goes. That comes in an insanely impressive 118 feet. So let's hit the brakes. Yeah, that works. And it's very firm braking feel as well, which I personally prefer because a lot of times with SUVs specifically, you're going to get kind of a loose braking feel. There's not a whole lot of emotion to it. Sometimes can be dead spots, but that is not the case in the XC60. This braking feel is wonderful. One of the better braking feels that I typically test in SUVs without a doubt. It's instantly going to bring you to a stop. So very big fan of the braking in this thing. Then touching on suspension and handling up front, you're going to get a double wishbone type front suspension. In the back, integral link rear suspension front and rear stabilizer bars. As far as ride quality goes, it's been perfectly fine. I'm a short test drive here today so far. So definitely no issues there. I haven't had any complaints, but I will say Hagerstown roads are pretty darn good. But having said that, still, ride quality has been perfectly fine. Steering feel, it's nice. It's now very much so on the heavier side of things because I adjusted it in settings. I love that there's an adjustment for the steering feel because aside from actually changing an entire driving mode, a lot of manufacturers won't offer just the steering feel adjustment alone by itself. So I love that the XC60 does that because I do tend to prefer a heavier weighted steering feel. If you don't, you don't have to push that button and it's a little bit looser. But still, I love it. It's really tailored to my personal preference when it comes to the steering feel. As far as cabin noise goes, I am going, I will say 50 miles per hour right now. You get a little bit of road noise, but honestly, it's not too bad. So in my short test drive here, I haven't had any issues with that touching our rear visibility. I could see 100% perfectly fine out the back. Let me see why the headrest tilt down. That is why the second row headrest actually tilt down. They're folded down right now. So because of that, if you didn't have any second row passengers, that's definitely an option.  Not only that, but it seems to winch your wipers actually do come standard on the XC60. So you got to love that as well. And if you wanted a head up display that is available, that does come standard, I should say, for the ultimate trim level, the very top trim level of this one. That's going to essentially project your speed, speed limit, and safety features up on your windshield for a little better forward visibility than as well. And so that about rounds out the performance segment of this review, guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2023 Volvo XC60. All right, so here she is, you guys, the new 2023 Volvo XC60. Let's go ahead and start up front on this one. So one of the changes for the 2023 year is the front grille is now going to be referred to as either a bright or a dark theme. So no additional cost for either one, but we do have the bright theme. So the bright theme essentially means you're going to get some chrome accents on the lower portion of that front bumper as well as surrounding that front grille. If you go with the dark theme, they're going to be gloss black accents, simply just replacing all of the chrome accents. So in case anybody was curious, that's a new thing for 2023. They did it on the XC90 then as well. But anyways, let's go ahead and take a look at the headlights here. LED headlights with LED Thoris Hammer daytime running lights do come standard. They do come with the automatic feature, meaning when it starts to get dark at night, those headlights are going to turn on automatically for you there. Automatic high beams also coming standard, meaning if you have your high beams on at night and it senses a vehicle coming in the opposite direction, it's going to automatically dim them back to low beams. Then when that vehicle is gone, it's going to automatically bump it back up to high beams. And again, that's standard for all trim levels. Got to love that. And all the way down to the very bottom, you will actually get LED fog lights coming standard as well. So I absolutely love that too. But overall, a very elegant, very recognizable design from Volvo as always, but pretty much rounds out the front end. So now go ahead and make our way to the side. So now since we are around to the side of the XC6, let's go ahead and start all the way to the top there.  Of course, black or silver windows surrounds them as well. Rear privacy glass will come standard on this one. Take a look at the side mirrors.  Power adjustable, of course, heated and LED integrated turd signals coming standard on those side mirrors as well. Another thing I want to kind of emphasize on the XC60 and really Volvo does this with all of their vehicles, but body colored side skirts. And so with so many SUVs out there, a lot of times you will get matte black side skirts and fender surrounds. But with Volvo, they always pay attention to the details like that. And so you will get body colored side skirts, which again isn't always the case with other manufacturers. So I'm a big fan of that. Let's take a look at the wheel configuration. 18 inch, double five spoke alloys do come standard. 19 inch, five V spoke graphite diamond cut alloys. Then coming with the plus and 20 inch, five multi spoke black diamond cut alloys coming with the ultimate trim level. So sure, fire away to distinguish what trim level you're looking at. It's going to differ when it comes to that wheel setup across the board. So don't want to mention that. But anyways, that pretty much rounds out the side profile. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. And so now since we are around to the back of the XC60, all the way to the top, you will find a body colored shark fin antenna. Just below that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light. Just below that rear window wiper. You will get some Volvo badging spelled out horizontally. Always like the look of that. The B5 badging, of course, as well. You get some chrome or gloss black accents towards the lower portion of that rear bumper. And of course, LED tail lights do come standard. I don't want to forget to mention that. That's for all trim levels across the board as well. So added illumination there. And just below it all underneath, you will find dual exhaust outlets kind of tucked away. So having said that, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. As always here is that exhaust clip. It's open now since we are around to the back of the XC60. When it comes to opening that rear tailgate, it is a hands-free power tailgate that does come standard for all trim levels across the board. So you've got to love that. Once opened up, car capacity comes in at 22.4 cubic feet behind that second row. If that was not enough space, the rear seats do fold down, of course, pumping that up to 63.3 cubic feet. Then there is some cargo lighting back there. There's a couple grocery bag hooks. There's tie-down anchors, 12-volt power outlet. There's some netted storage. And if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor, you will also find a spare tire as well. And I almost forgot to mention the cargo cover. I always like cargo covers in SUVs. So I'm a big fan of that as well. But then make your way up to the rear legroom. That is going to come in at an even 38 inches. So for reference, I mean even 6 feet tall. This is how much space I had in that second row there. Rear ventilation does come standard. It might not be where you would think it would be though. Typically it's found just in front of the passengers, but it's actually found just in front of those rear windows, kind of on the sides rather than in the middle. So, but it does come standard either way. So we did want to mention that rear center armrest with cup holders does come standard as well. You do have some dual phone charging ports just underneath of where you would have thought the rear ventilation would have been. So that is there as well. And heated rear seats are going to be optional if you wanted to go that route too. But then make your way up to the front seats. Leather seating is going to come on the plus and ultimate trim levels. Power adjustable front seats does come standard. Power adjustable passenger seat with memory settings coming with the ultimate. That actually comes with power side bolsters for the ultimate trim level as well. So that is pretty darn cold. Heated front seats though do come standard across the board. So I wanted to emphasize that. And if you wanted ventilated front seats, again that is going to be specific to the ultimate trim level then. Overall, seat comfort was all right. Didn't have any issues in my short test drive here today. I would say if the seams were vertical it probably would have been a little more comfortable but still definitely not bad. And I did what I also mentioned. Of course you got the flag of Sweden found on the passenger seat there as well which is always pretty cool. But then making our way to the steering wheel it is telescoping. It is leather wrapped and it is heated. That does come standard as well. So that's pretty cool as well. Then making our way to the startup. Let me start by showing you guys the key here. You got your Volvo logo on the one side. Actually all of your buttons are on the side of the key. You got lock unlock and that button to pop the rear tailgate. But it is all keyless entry with a turn knob start. So all I'm going to do here is simply put my front of the brake and turn the knob to the right. And by the way to turn the vehicle off again you're going to turn the knob to the right. So same thing in both directions there. But then once started up when it comes to the gauges you will find a 12.3 inch digital gauge cluster that does come standard across the board. I love this readout. It looks so dang good. You got the navigation front and center. So that is always up there. And by the way Volvo is powered by Google. So all you need to do is say hey Google. Turn on the radio. Sure. Here you go. And it's that easy. It literally lists us to everything you say. So I absolutely love that feature as well. But anyways the gauges are absolutely wonderful. Again it's completely digital so it gives you everything you could possibly want. Outside temperature. How many miles you have left to to hit empty. And when actually when you get low in gas like we are right now it's actually going to ask you if you want to find the nearest gas station then you can select yes or no and it'll take you to that nearest gas station. So another cool little feature there as well. But anyways let's now go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality. Panoramic sunroof does come standard. The coolest thing about this panoramic sunroof is the way you open it. Just slide your finger to the back and to the front then if you want to close itself. It's kind of like a 007 way of opening the panoramic sunroof. So I'm a big fan of that. You will also find a frameless rear view mirror with homelink controls for up to three different garage doors. So that is pretty cool as well. There is no wireless phone charger the least that I was able to find on the XC60 though. Four-zone climb control. If you wanted that you can get that with the ultimate trim level only that essentially means driver passenger and both rear passengers can set their own temperatures. Otherwise you could dual-zone climb and control. And overall I think there is one, two, three, four, five, six maybe six buttons, seven buttons overall in the interior of this thing. So it's a very simplistic design which I honestly personally prefer. Also like the matte wood trim found just above the passenger side glove box as well as surrounding the shifter here too. So definitely a big fan of that matte wood finish there. Lecture mechanical parking brake behind the shifter of course you have dual cupholders 12 volt power outlet and within the center arm rest you have a couple phone charging ports and a decent amount of storage in there as well. So overall interior quality is definitely on point in the XC60 but now let's make our way to one of my favorite parts about this thing which is the infotainment screen. It's a nine inch vertical color touch screen display kind of like a tablet. So if you've worked a tablet before you can essentially work this that's the way I see it. Bluetooth and audio streaming do come standard android auto apple car play of course. Factory navigation system is going to come standard across the board as well. You can check out your climate control settings up there as well as your heated seat buttons and heated steering wheel button as well and of course your radio information. And so when it comes to the sound systems you will get a standard sound system with the core and the plus and so we'll be testing that out here in a second but the ultimate trim level is actually going to give you a 14 speaker Harman Kardon sound system with 600 watts and again that's not the one we have today unfortunately. Having said that, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and turn on serious XM here and see what we've got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this one. Actually you guys stupid amount of bass that was a really good amount of bass for the XC60 without a doubt and again that's not the Harman Kardon sound system because we had the plus trim level with us here today so that's just the standard sound system that comes with the core and the plus. That was pretty darn good. Plenty of a sound system for the XC60 quite honestly without a doubt but anyways last thing I want to mention to you guys on the infotainment screen at least is when you do put this thing in reverse you will find a rear view camera coming stated across the board but if you tap that rear view camera it's actually a 360 degree option dead center of that screen and that's going to give you that bird's eye view as well letting you know what is completely all around you which is always is going to lead us into safety. And so to start the 2023 XC60 is an IIHS top safety pick plus which pretty much says it all right there. It's the very highest designation given by IIHS for safety. Front side side carrying airbags do come standard. Drivers need airbag up front as well. In the back you're going to have latch aka lower anchors and tethers for children for the rear car seats, rear child door locks, tire pressure monitoring system but also coming standard will be a blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert, automatic emergency braking, collision avoidance assist with pedestrian detection and cyclist detection and large animal detection. So if a deer jumps out in front of you it's going to automatically stop for you there so that's pretty cool. Driver attention monitoring system lane departure warning, lane keep assist, rear parking sensors, runoff road protection and runoff road mitigation then as well. Again coming standard for all trim levels across the board. So overall when it comes to my final thoughts of the XC60 I love the safety on this one especially if you got kids in the back you want to know you're driving the safest vehicle possible and the XC60, the XC90 really any ball though is going to be the safest vehicle possible. They've been known for that for quite a while now and that's still the case just going off the IIHS ratings there. Great design. I like the simplistic design to the interior also like the exterior design as well it's very timeless. Digital gauge cluster I'm a big fan of as well. I like that you can adjust the steering feel by itself as well so I mentioned that to you guys. The only contract with criticism I could probably think of for this thing is if you take a look at consumer reports it basically gives it a questionable reliability rating so if somehow Volvo would be able to score a higher rating when it comes to reliability I would probably all over this thing because it's pretty much got everything I personally would probably want but anyways I want to hear from you what do you guys think of the new XC60? 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Wow dude. The taste is on another level. There's so much flavour in that. There's so many levels of flavour. Welcome to another episode of Cooking with Joey and Derek. I just made that name up then, probably won't use it but uh... Welcome to Joey's Wicked Kitchen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we're Derek Sano here of Wicked Kitchen and uh the innovator behind all the vegan foods at Tesco's. We've got another recipe Derek, what are we doing? Today we're gonna show how to make I do the street style tofu so as an egg replacement instead of doing scramble let's do something like a little bit elevated. Yes. A little bit kick it up a notch. So we're gonna use the medium organic tofu that Wicked has. Whoa. I like the medium because of the creamy texture and it really does lend much better to that egg-y textures I remember when eating and cooking eggs. So this is like taking vegan egg to the next level. We're gonna take it to the next level with the wicked medium firm tofu okay. So what I'm gonna do is get these pans going just so you know I just didn't I didn't want to waste our time on video so I took a sweet potato okay I peeled it chopped it into chunks and now I'm boiling it so that's going to be part of the dish I can just that is in here boiling and I'll strain that in a second as soon as it's done. I will open this tofu and we're gonna use the whole block. So Derek a lot of people say like I don't like the taste of tofu like they don't put any flavour on it do they? No exactly and my whole thing is like tofu is only as bland as your imagination. Yeah. So you just have to season it and instead of buying all those weird old gadgets of tofu presses I just just use your hands man it's just easy you know I'm super simple just a couple whatever less tools it takes to do something is easier and I'm not a gadget guy and Frankie's just staring at me. Frankie what are you doing down there? So the seasonings on it I'm gonna use onion we use a garlic we'll also use the black salt for the egg flavour I'm not gonna use turmeric just because it's a waste of time it's fine it looks good what I could do is soak this in boiling water mixed with turmeric it would colour yellow. And for people who weren't in the last episode what is black salt? Okay so black salt is like salt for salt so it's very eggy and that's where you get that eggy flavour and that's the trick exactly. And where can I get it? What is it? So honestly I ordered this one on Amazon because a lot of the grocery stores don't have it some specialty grocery stores might have it but I haven't been able to find it in like the major retailers here. Google it up. Google it up. Black salt or it's called We're gonna use a little bit of apple with smoked vegan cheese in this one. Have you tried these new newches? So we have the barbecue or garlic and arugula. What can we check out the newches here? Garlic and herb flavoured newt seasonings, smoky barbecue flavoured newt seasonings. Can I just sprinkle a little bit on my... Dude it's so good on popcorn or anything. Gold dust. That's good stuff right there. Oh my lord.  Garlic and herb flavoured nutritional yeast it has a cheesy nutty flavor it's really delicious and it's actually very nutritious doesn't it? Super 12 exactly. So I'm just adding a little bit of that egg salt you don't want to add too much because it is pretty strong so I'm just gonna add a little bit on on this side maybe a little bit more so the thing about tofu is a lot of the flavor doesn't penetrate within it especially when you just open up the pack so you really have to season it well on the outside so I'm just using a little bit of that black salt and we're just going to use the whole block like that I'm going to season the other side with the black salt as well so we'll really have that nice eggy flavor probably going to be a total of half a teaspoon at most I'm going to use a little bit of smoked paprika I've put I like to put everything on my hand so you get that much here just on this side we'll do this side so this will give it a nice little smoky flavor all right and you can season it however you like I'm going to use garlic so a little bit of garlic and you see how I just it's pretty much covering it. Nice so I'm going to save the onion for the other side well this I want to check on these so the egg industry is a very cruel industry no matter which way you look at the egg industry free range you know the enriched cage the barn raised eggs they're all horrible at a certain stage in the hen's life they start to lose their feathers they start to get really sick their bodies to start to become really exhausted and then the farmers will call them off it's really pushing out egg after egg after egg each day is an incredible strain on the hen's body also the male chicks in the industry don't even make it to the barns they get macerated in a big industrial blender on their first day of life because they're of no use to the industry so and then there's also the parent breed of sheds that the the males and females come from that where the eggs fertilized eggs come from which are always cruel and even free range sheds are very cruel as well it's a crazy industry so before my life in the UK I used to have to go under slaughterhouses and egg farms and because I used to be the global chef for hosting markets okay I used to have to go and see all that and once you see it in person and I know you go in all the time it's you can't unsee it and you can't unconnect it to the food chain and what you're buying you know and what's offering that's why we eat this way it's why we eat plant-based but more compact slaughterhouse really does smell like a butcher dude it's horrible yeah yeah it's just not it's not something I enjoy at all or and I'm not I know the animals don't so all right so I'm just flipping that away always flip it away from you because then the oil splats uh-huh not towards you smart you learn that the hard way so we don't have to so a little bit of onion garlic now I'm gonna onion sorry onion granulated on here so you can see that really get a nice crust it's that that cast iron pan yeah it's so good and it's a real nice even even heat and it's it's got some weight to it plus it's like you're camping indoors all the time yeah right I mean I just love it it's going with me everywhere thing looks like it's last it would last forever it will last it will last longer than us it'll outlast humanity of this right the right we're going exactly I'm gonna use a little bit of black pepper on here as well and a little bit of salt that is for some flavor it might seem super simple what we're doing but it's this is gonna blow your mind wow it's because it's so I think it's so different and so it's so good I think the seasoning part of it is just spot on look at it yeah now that is going what I like about the cast iron pans it can go right in the oven too so I'm a big fan of like stove top oven this is how I cook a lot so I like oven safe pans and cast iron works so well for that yeah I heated the oven at 200 degrees Celsius on fan that's I tend to always work with that heat because it's just I want the crispy edge but juicy inside so that allows me to control that and it reminds me of the restaurant days uh huh so I took earlier while you were chatting up I took this sweet potato and just strained them no no biggie so what I'm gonna do is add these back into the pot and we're gonna do a quick mash the monster mash the monster monster monster mash this halloween so I'm gonna add a little bit of butter here no water no liquid because I want it super thick and I'm gonna see this what I'm gonna do you're gonna think I'm crazy so I'm gonna add a little bit of this baconese mayonnaise to it stay with me all right so I'm gonna add a little bit of the mayonnaise just for that bacon-y flavor uh where's that barbecue yeah we'll use barbecue yeah you like the barbecue yeah that that was nice as well yes so I'm gonna use about a tablespoon of that barbecue in there and that was vegan by the way yeah that's everything is vegan here so I'm gonna use a little bit of panko so this is just breadcrumbs what I'm what we're building here is a crust that we're gonna put on this tofu uh what and you can use any kind of breadcrumbs I just like panko because of the they're a little bit extra dry and they soak up the moisture I'm gonna add a black pepper to it and a pinch of salt and then I'm gonna so I added the niche the pepper the garlic I'm gonna add some vegan cheese to it so this is a smoky vegan cheese all right I didn't have a whole bunch in there so I just used all of it now I want to grab a fork and you do me a favor and mash the crap out of that don't mind if I do this is gonna be sensual I'll clean up a little bit while you're doing that look at that so Joey can I ask you a couple questions yeah how long have you been in the UK now uh I've been off and on in the UK since 2018 did you call the the UK home yeah I would I'd say it's it's what it is one of my homes uh UK and Australia yeah so yeah have you been back to Australia since Colby kicked off yeah when it kicked off here I moved back to Australia for to do some touring there I went to campaign for the sea animals um and uh yeah it was nice to see the family I hadn't seen him for a while so yeah yeah but oh awesome I've only been here it's been about five five years would you yeah would you try it you can taste it it's just uh it should taste good so make sure it does taste good if it doesn't oh yeah that's good oh it's good seasoned amazingly what we're making here is like a just pop it right over there we're gonna make like my take on a full English breakfast all day breakfast block party we'll call it so yet we'll have potato in there a little bit of the bacon flavor the eggy tofu and it's much more of a street style like I just think you could probably get this if I had a food truck I would do my mouth watering thinking about what the name does it breakfast block party yeah who doesn't want to go to one of those it's gonna be delicious and just so you know this is the first time I've made this one well I just thought about it this morning I'm like I gotta do something special for Joe nice excuse me Frank's Frank is here but she's in stand in the middle of Joey and I look at that crust beautiful that crust is making me juicy so I'm gonna take a spoon and this crust that you made we're gonna do this well I could take the credit for making that but I really did just mash it so fantastic way to make tofu and it's different so if you just crust it up try to make it like even I try to keep it on the block keep the party on the block and we'll spread that yeah does that look even to you so you have the block and this is the party on the block because the part you're doing you're spreading the party on the block exactly so there's a little bit extra here if you want to do extra tofu sometimes I'll just eat it smear it all over my face but this you can see you're getting that in the camera guy so I'm going to pop this back in the oven probably for a good 10 15 minutes until that gets nice and brown on top all right you ready we're ready for the great reveal it's been about 20 minutes Joey and I have been having some amazing conversations really good to have you over Joey I'm ready for this this is gonna play your mind this is gonna stop look at that look at the crust on that no that's beautiful so being the first time I've done it with potato I have done it with just like panko in the mayo and street style but having a full blown mashed sweet potato on here that's just next level so let's put this right here for the good camera angle shot for you guys I have some fresh thyme out in the garden I picked this earlier me and Frankie it's a little bit of fresh thyme just a picked as a garnish and then just this is how I would serve it I personally would eat this whole thing I'd make like two or three of them you can cut them in half if you want to do half size for guests and then yeah I would eat the whole thing too Derek let's not make yeah let's not mess around here and then it's great with if you want to do like this potato on it so you don't have to serve it but I would do with a couple veggies whether you're doing roast broccoli with it so you'd spinach cauliflower any vegetable would go well with this right but this is good so I'll cut you want you ready to try it all right yeah let's rock and roll really we're just gonna eat this right off the right off the board if you're good with it here we go professional all right move this up to the side okay ready man it smells so good smell you can okay this is what it smells like bacon cheesy yeah it does you know herby amazingness that smoky cheese works really good with this it is so good it's so good so we'll just do four good slices here look at that it's freaking amazing I'm gonna have to take a picture without my phone but uh took a quick picture for the gram well me and Joe you're here got it anyways I want you to try this wait you can season with more salt and pepper but I think you should try it as I think it you know the season that's just good oh my lord it's a crust it might be a little hot I know right the crust on the bottom of the tofu is key because you want that texture so you have that creamy ish center like an eggy would be and then that you have that crispy crust on the outside and then that super indulgent decadence topping you can see the crust with the fork it's really like yeah stands out it might be really good but barbecue sauce a sriracha how's that it's hot it must be hot it's too delicious to care that it's hot wow dude it's good stuff that looks amazing but it just the taste is on another level there's so much flavor in that right there's so many levels of flavor so that's the the textures building that whole flavor is really important it's that you know that crust makes it sing and the topping is just it's perfect oh yeah you get the crunch of the crust which is excellent it's amazing should we get a jimmy the sound guy jimmy the sound guy over here come on mate jimmy the sound guy is not vegan we had him in the last episode so we're gonna see we're gonna get the non-vegans perspective here you go buddy yeah i'm looking forward to this one let's have a little you know have a little go on that yeah oh that crunch there it's nice here's the moment it's hot it's hot it's hot though oh wow that's good yeah oh wow you went up cute yeah the smokiness of the cheese that touch of that time fresh time is what at the end yeah yeah perfect nice thanks jimmy it's delicious so what's nice about this is you can get it to that point where we crusted it in the morning or and just or just keep it overnight in the fridge and then just pop it in the oven when you have guests come over so 20 minutes in the oven could you have this for breakfast every morning every morning wow breakfast lunch or dinner this is a good this is a veganizer this is a this is a veganized people on the spot it makes tofu sexy amazing thanks jimmy thanks jimmy so another successful recipe here derrick everyone's happy where can people find you if they want to find follow your stuff and some more recipes so derrick's are now on instagram wicked healthy on instagram wicked kitchen food on instagram so we have three accounts and then uh also the wicked healthy youtube is where we do all our long-form recipe videos mate you can thank us later if you try one of these recipes i tell you right now dude honored to be working with you on this it's awesome buddy legend thanks thanks guys if you're an onion i wouldn't mess around with derrick zayan that's gonna be mustardy that's a restaurant quality sandwich