It was an interesting exercise, able to jump into the country of Georgia, kind of demonstrate to what we were capable of doing. We'll heavy drop in the howitzer and the truck, and then we all fall, jump it out of the plane, and then have it do all come to the same area and get the howitzer into action. Good crew can get it about 20 minutes. Should be ready to go. I think we're just over 20 minutes. Coming in here, right on Russia's back door, working with the Georgians to get it done and make it all work.


Welcome folks, we at the Dow Industrial finished up 60 Nasdaq down 55 S&Ps off 8.5 gold. Gold contract flat, 2037 an ounce, we had silver down penny, $22.91 an ounce, light sweet crude, up 81 cents, $78.17 a barrel, notes and bonds, a ten year note, traded down 5 ticks at 111.05, 30 year flat at 119.25 and the ten year right now is yielding 4.14. So on the ten year folks for the last three months, the low was established at 3.79 and the high was 4.9 and right now we're at 4.14. And good old King Dala, King Dala was down 118 ticks, traded 103, 454, the Euro at 108, the Yen trade at 148, the British pound at 127 to 1 at U.S. Dala. We get over and take a look at the S&Ps folks and what you're going to hear out here again today is that the bottom line is that the S&Ps on the weekly basis finished at highs, which it did. Now what you're going to have here is that we have the Fed on the 31st, which is Wednesday. You also have window dressing, bottom line, my take is that this thing's wanting, you know, that I think the market's waiting for the Fed for the statement and the statement I feel is going to be really dovish and that's going to take the market higher again. And the double banger on this is that the 31st is the Fed statement. It's window dressing. We've been consolidating here right now for, you know, you can say almost seven weeks. I mean, I know we popped higher the last two weeks, but when you kind of take a look at the chart, it's like, okay, we've been three, six, yeah, we've been really at the same place for like seven weeks, you know, and I suspect so if that's the take, if that's what comes down, what you're going to see there is that you're going to see the dollar go south. You're going to see the S&P go north.  The sideways move, it's been stubborn, you know, I showed you today where the supports are and there's this heavy support right where it is because it's traded there that long going into the past. That being said, that can get destroyed pretty quick if in fact you get followed through from the Fed saying, okay, we are going to be done for sure. Have a great weekend, folks. Have a safe weekend. Come back and visit Tommy Monday morning kicks us off 9am.


So hi everyone. So that's what's it. Thank you Now I'm this is Emily. This is a research engineer focused on grease pencil at the special and I'm Flavio the city of the company and We are going to present Two open since we have been creating and that we are going to share We are starting with our I will just show you our demo reel for the animation demo reel We have made for the conference everything you are going to see is made on blender, of course Except for one project which is animated in Krita. That's it happens now We need we needed some more more bitmap style animation. So anyway, so yeah, this is the demo reel So we are an animation studio based in Montpellier in the South of France We have been working and sharing open source tools in eight years. We have been doing a couple of already conferences or so And we have been putting blender in the core of our pipeline There are some spoilers, but we're going to show you There is cut out stuff and keyframe stuff, it's a mix of stuff you can see here 3d helping you to the menu also Yeah, we like this hybrid images mixing 2d and 3d as you can see here few games So yeah, anyway In our studio the research and development Department is working on creating tools and tailored made for the projects of our clients and and today this is the Krita project and Today we are going to talk about the importance of open-scenes and test material for 2d animation In the in the 3d world the 3d research world models have been used for decades for testing And research aspects such as shading, you know, these kind of models Basic lighting features, I mean this scene you have probably seen dozens of times or hundreds of times And even if it looks simple it focus on very specific aspects such as bouncing lights and refraction and stuff like that There is not much artistic value on on these kind of scenes, but they are very important for technical Research and development, but that's not the point on all this one This is a remake of one other scene which is very used You also know this one by Christophe Sir Some scenes are created by companies some by the community Or universities and the classroom can be used for learning or test render engines or doing Benchmarks for example or doing the Gris pencil 3d demo this morning It's a benchmarking hardware and software also can be part of these missions On this one this every scene made by Disney to test usd pipelines and render engines with Millions of objects So there are any the 3d RNA benefits a lot from good resources for this kind of stuff and corporate to compare And this is only a limited list, but What about 2d? What about 2d? In 2d there are also resources that are available Mostly for image processing So I am sure you know this picture that's been used in many benchmarking of algorithm So that's a photo of course and the internet is full of them and some of them are like free for Use to test and research and stuff like this When it comes to sketches it gets a little bit trickier Actually, there's a recent paper a research paper that's been done and they have been collecting this full database of sketches black and white state sketches in order to benchmark rough sketch cleanup Algorithms so you can see that there's kind of a need to have this kind of resources and When it comes to 2d animation It's even trickier because for a sketch at least if you have some knowledge of how to draw or know someone It might not be that difficult to get this material But for 2d animation, you know that it takes much time much energy and Indian much money to like just have a test for just one algorithm so we Identified that there was a need to have this kind of scenes that are proposed for technical reasons and One of the thing that we might do is use the productions that we have at the studio the animation that we have but The problem we can came across last year is that we couldn't use most of like some of the images so we had to blur a small character like this one and Also, so this is a video that of the conference. I made last year about stroke mapping algorithm so it was to apply patterns on the dress of the the character here and Also at the end of this development We felt the need to push a bit the algorithm to try to make it work on more folded Shapes and maybe other shapes than just closing But at this point we didn't have any animation that had all these folds and you know, that's difficult to animate in 2d So we were thinking that can we create a scene that serves this purpose and as While we do it, maybe we can include some other constraints and other things that we want to test right now or in the future So we started to just something we could have used also the blend grease plenty grease pencil blender open scenes Which I don't know if you know this page. It's really helpful If you don't know how to Get it. There's a little demo on how to access it from the blender website Because it might be a bit tricky sometime So that's really useful. It's a really good showcase of the tool the grease pencil tool But it's not very tailored for technical testing and sometimes you can find Animations that have characters in them that have IP and you cannot really use them So we started to make a list of What we what do we want in this animation sequence? So of course, that's a lot But we didn't didn't want to put any limits in the first so that we had and then we had a brainstorm with our More artistic team to see what can be done with all of this and we selected a bunch of Constraints and criteria, so you can see that there's still a lot of them But we removed some because you can't really do everything at once And at this point on the talk I want to thank the CNC Which is the National Center for the cinema and the moving image It's the French agency responsible for the production and promotion of cinematic and audiovisual arts in France And they are funding our research project on grease pencil tools and they agreed that part of this funding will be Used for artists to do to like create these things that you're gonna see so I'm gonna leave it to Flavio So let's deep in deep dive on what we did so starting from this list of constraints we ask Leah Leah or creative One of our creative director in the studio to create a character. She was free to create anything And she presented Billy Billy. She's a woman with the character effects features such as the dress or the air She has a prop which is your 3d longboard There will be there are details also that we are not animating that will come later on on the process Which are for example the little stars on the dress or the tattoo on the back of you know This kind of details you remove from to the animation because they are too painful to draw and animate in the form one of our goals with last year Mafalda Test was to bring back details which are very time-consuming to animate so so yeah That will come later and and then we ask it Comey our animation one of animation animators to start working so What we are going to see it's what we bring in this in the scene which are which is now available online So this is the first step. This is a rough animation. We have we left also all the little doodles She did so maybe someone will be interested by to see the process To and in even attitude and stuff So we have this back and forward with us to see if it was good So we change the perspective to have this profile view instead of more Three quarters you and stuff like that So this is the primary key frames and secondary animation in this layer here. I'm in this crisp pencil object Then in the next step is what we call the tie down So we go through the animation through the rough animation and we make it more detail and precise This includes checking the volumes are correctly Following and the the model and there is no bad distortions and stuff like that I mean, this is completely the basic 2d workflow here We left also all the annotations Before going to the in and paint departments and for example all the red annotations here the charts are made for the in paint department to include the missing frames in between which is needed to be drawn later And this is the in campaign Made by Colleen In campaign in the art of choosing the right brush I mean here there is only one one brush but and the properties that the the thickness of the line the right colors and find the style Get back to the original artwork and providing also the missing interval frames And at the same time the in key is obviously the final drawing that you can see in the animation So this is the three animation layers you find and you also find Set Damien Who works as precisely calculated also the speed of the set to have a perfect loop because one of the demands was to have this Being looped and and not there is no curtain the animation and stuff like that But we wanted more than just this This 10 second loop Inside the animation. There is three third bloops So the first one is the idle And then the push and then the trick They can all work They just Use one of the loops or mix them together But when you are doing I know I don't know Working on a texture system to put on the dress You want to have a nice demo looping so people can see and there is no jump and you can focus on something So we ask the animator to to include that in her animation And then there is also specific elements such as the closes the error the props Which are animated in different layers so you can get rid of them and focus on on a problem if you want So if you want to work on a new system to animate a soft body 2d physics on dresses But you can just remove the dress and add your model on on top of it And now to know what are the use case of this scene? I just let Emily talk about that So what are the use cases? Uh, I think there's a lot so we're going to present just a few that we thought about or worked on already The first one is the first addon that I actually made in blender It's the color picker. So for this it's more for illustrating the tool that's uh, actually Colleen who did the ink and paint Already used the color picker on another prediction So she was able to create the palette and create all the thing and use it So we are going to share also this palette so that people can try the color picker and eventually like and also like try it on the scene itself Another possible Use case will be to test for color changes So we did a small like a color mapper, which is the beginning of a development that We started last year and I think for like Changing color scheme like changing the lighting in 2d and stuff like this. It could be great to test it on this scene And especially since the background is also made in grease pencil You can completely change the color of the image within blender The only the other thing also is the stroke mapping that I talked about earlier So as Flavio said, there are some more details in the dress and also the frackers in the skin That we want to see if we're able to like help Including this in the animation Not by drawing it in every single frame, but see how can we Develop tools to help that and then two ideas of Development that we didn't start on but maybe in the future or maybe you want to do it First is interpolation. Of course, it's a really big topic in 2d So I think this kind of scene can be useful to test like in the either part It might be easier to do interpolation and then in the the trick part It it comes with many challenges because the character makes a turn And then another thing that Could be interesting in is Doing clean assist meaning like from rough to ink Maybe not automatically But maybe have some tool to help in this step because we know that it can be a bit long to do And since we are providing all the steps of the fabrication, it might be Useful to to test these algorithms So the scene is available on our git lab the blender scene as well as we are going to put all the designs early designs that Alia made and Yeah, you can Download it and test it and use it on your Papers on your presentation. That's made for that So then So this thing concludes our first example of tools made to help traditional digital 2d animation We have also another research axe, which is how can 2d help 3d in the studio From its render to create more visual hybrid solution and techniques. So last year we presented the also I mean you saw some extracts in the in the demo rail of this project and the idea was to Use grease pencil to draw the smears, but then made a three triangulation from that to have a nice Three shape that we can shade And and light in a proper way so it integrates with the character with a nice shading You can show you can check amelie's last year talk if you want on our taking care blog If you want at the same time of these last summer We were working on this pilot and also the 2d feature film and two of the compositing artists of the future julien Which is here in the world and Jean-Baptiste Marchand Started creating great paper cutout stuff on evenings with the material of the company And actually they did an exhibition at the end of the last last year summer So there is this part of this exhibition. It's made of out of paper cut And it was amazing This is actually me And my kids on the other side Uh, I love this illustration mood of it. Uh, it's designed on computer This is this drone on crita. It's then splitted and victorial blocks using illustrator And then the final cut is made with a computer controlled cutting machine And here you have and each piece each part each piece Which are hundreds on this kind of poster are carefully sticked together piece by piece to to make a billboard So we feel the physicality of it and the layers and the textures It's great and you have these little details all over the place. There is depth and It's subtle from far, but you feel it when you are close to the poster You feel the depth and it's obvious from close So we were wondering how we can you we can use that kind of stuff also in animation There are some shorts and advertising made out of cut cut cut out paper But it's expensive because it's very long to cut and prepare and everything So you don't see tv series or stuff like that with this technique Because it's too time consuming. So we made this mood board with paper inspired work from great authors And you can see here the texture the lighting was something we were very interested in The backlight and how the light spreads through the paper and stuff like that So we want to include that in in something more elaborate So we had this mood board and we added a list of constraints we like so we want depth We want a paper style result. We want dynamic lighting It must be quick to animate So there is flat design no textures for now No constraints in terms of layer and shape for the animator is free to do whatever he wants And we aim for a 10 second Short so We asked Julien to create something and he made this concept art Um I mean with the goal of sharing the scene later, of course Julien really likes drawing pigs as you have made noticed in the the billboard before It's a subject you can see a lot on his instagram So he wanted to do a take on this famous story So we left the concept and it was a go for the next step and here is the the rough animation he made In the in the afternoon. He's very fast Um So we have this So yeah, we loved it and we asked him to to extend it actually So it included the camera movement so we can put parallax and test this kind of stuff Running cycle and stuff. So here is the directly the final animation. Yeah, there is no song that can Do the So Um, he made that in a couple of days. It's I mean, it's very fast responsible and actually Actually, everything in the scene is gris pencil. The background is gris pencil. There is no Meshes here There is no textures. Uh, everything was done drawn in gris pencil There is 12 seconds of animation 310 frames 5 gris pencil objects and 24 layers if you are interested in statistics And yeah, so we have these already Spacely Separated layer and stuff like that. You can see here the drawing some some of the shapes are not closed and stuff So this one's not in constraint. We wanted really him to be free to animate whatever he wanted And yeah, this is what we have at the same time Yeah, so at the same time, uh, we if we go back to the visual results We are looking for in the mood board. We have this image From mao le moine, uh, which is a paper cut Schoolwork made 10 years ago and uh, it's a very nice design and a very smart usage of just one Sheet of paper, you know, it's and we wonder can we do that in 3d? So this is our our take on it dania made this To replace the concept. I think it catches well the paper effect and the deepness of it and the texture So you can see here in the viewport What this looks like? You know the you know the texture of the paper and stuff like that So this was just a quick test and uh, we wanted to apply this to uh, to do to the crisp pencil. So, uh, We have a lot of issues to call tackle. So I just asked Emily to handle that and she will explain Okay, so the idea was to uh, go from the animation of julian In gris pencil and to get that kind of 3d effect The take we had on it. So you can see like the in and out Was to convert actually the gris pencil into a mesh or meshes so that we can use Anything in blender like 3d blender properly you can put textures materials effect, of course and lights camera movements as you want. Yeah So how to do this So the basis of our algorithm is actually the same than last year like convert A stroke gris pencil stroke into a mesh. So a triangulation algorithm basically In which we can add then some depth with some modifiers You can also animate it through visibility parameter So you're going to have lots of meshes because for 2d each frame is a different stroke, of course So it's going to be a different mesh at the end But if you just do this, so I just added this year two things The first thing is the outline because for lines So we really wanted to capture the same shape as what you want you have in the screen So you have to first compute the outline and then do the triangulation And also holes because it was it felt like it was kind of important for the lighting effect to be able to have holes in the shapes So in gris pencil holes are done with holdout materials And then we included it in the triangulation which is done with the triangle library So then you can do that for every single stroke of the animation But what happens if you did do this and then try to render it Is that you get this dark Areas and that's because when you're drawing gris pencil you you do overlapping between shapes, of course So at the end is going to be in the same plane and overlapping and the rendering engine doesn't deal very well with this And that's also because in gris pencil the order of visibility of the strokes is decided by the order of when you draw Of course, so one thing you want to add right now is depth like actually Really positioning the different meshes So a first take on it a first naive take is to Create an algorithm to add some depths to every single stroke And that's done by a greedy algorithm that just decides Okay, the stroke is going to be at the depths where at the lowest Sorry, the lowest depths in which it doesn't overlap with another stroke. That's simple So for example here, the body of the rabbit is uh, you can see my It's a depth zero because it's the first one that was wrong Then the second one is the head and it actually overlaps with the body So it gets depth one And then for the ears they get both depths two because they don't overlap with each other So they can be at the same depth level So the rendering that you can see on the right It's better because then you don't have these dark areas But what you can see is that you can see the outline I don't know if you can actually see it the outline of the ears and the head And it creates some cast shadows and that's actually what we want But maybe not inside of the rabbits because when you draw this in gris pencil, you don't really see This boundaries and actually you see them only if the drawing Behind it has a different material or has a different color So you want to include that in the algorithm So now we are Computing the depths, but actually putting at the same depth level Stroke that have the same material and then you can merge them at the stroke level and then do the triangulation So for example Here the body and the head have the same material so they get merged and they get triangulated But for the ears actually they have a different material because there are stroke and not fill So it's a different material in gris pencil so Actually, we just adjusted this so that it takes the color instead of the material because it felt like it was better for like a Keeping the visual appearance of the drawing so Yeah, so i'm just illustrating this this point on this one this design At the top we are Okay, the text is not very well displayed At the top is the the result when we separate by by material So you can see that the little details at the top are pop out of the the rest of the decor And at the bottom is if when you do when color with color And in this case the little details are merged with the rest of the shape So it's just a aesthetic choice. I think but for us it felt like it was better to do it by color Of course, this works only if you work with flat colors and not like textures and gradients So I guess you have to come up with another solution for this That's another result on the head of the the wolf so At the left is the grease pencil and on the right is the rendering with some cast shadows It's a bit subtle right now, but you're gonna see in the result with the lighting how it performs So we did that for At the frame level so it drawing level one frame one layer and it works well, but now what happens between layers And for this to illustrate this Here is the wolf and you can see the different layers that were done grease pencil in the top And in particular the arm is in another an ol layer like here And that's two takes on this issue Either you say, okay Each layer is going to be at a different depth because you draw one layer and then paste one another on top of it Or you say no every layer is just a Big pile of strokes and you can merge in between layers That's just two different takes of the issue So we kept it as an option And actually you may might want to do it differently per grease pencil object depending on what you want to see So here in the result, I don't know if you can see it But on the left the arm pops out of the shape and then on the right It just blended with the the head of the wolf So just some limitations that we saw so the first one is a kind of an inconsistency between the triangulation that shows in grease pencil to display shapes And the triangle library one So here I don't know if you can see the the stroke on the left But it's a bit misclosed and a bit messy and actually creates a hole in the triangulation Um for to overcome this we actually just fill the shape in the mesh because it was easier And actually it really happened a few times maybe less than 10 Strokes where had this issue in the whole animation. So it was okay, but uh, yeah, I don't have a solution for this And then another issue was um Connected to stroke ordering because sometimes different Stroke ordering of the same during that will give the same result in grease pencil would Give different results in the rendering so here Two two different ordering of the stroke give either like the nose of the wolf pops out or it smelch So in this case for to solve it you just have to go back to the grease pencil and change the stroke ordering Which is a bit annoying actually But also it was really less than 10 strokes of the whole animation. So we did it this way That's really because the algorithm for ordering The the depth is greedy and then it cannot go back on a decision him it made before So maybe there's a better algorithm for this but for now it was just really little artifacts and it was not in the whole animation It was okay The last thing I didn't talk about was non-planar strokes And actually while we dealt with this with the triangulation or triangulation can deal with non-planar stroke We didn't really deal with it in this case because First julian didn't draw any non-planar stroke because it's not really easy to do this in grease pencil and you It's not really intuitive And also I don't exactly know how it would behave with the visibility and the layers and stuff like this So I guess it's still an open issue for me. So if you want to tackle it So now that I've talked a lot, I'm going to show you the result and then discuss the rendering Okay, so Here is another view of the scene with the shading and lighting. I don't know if it's Okay, so there's Ambient lights that is blue so that it creates a night effects Then you can see there are aerial lights in between layers of the the background there's a backlight on the On the little light that the pig has and also we put some emissive material so that it emits lights from the material of the the little lantern You can also see that sorry Okay, you can also see that we used some transparency in the house so that we can see the shadow and the silhouette Of the pig while it while it enters the house We're gonna see it. So that's the emissive material Yeah, so here we can see the silhouette of the pig and then for the wolf we We put a light on it that follows him. It's a bit like in seatory, you know So yeah, we did that to see it more in focus. You can see the aerial lights here Some of them are actually have negative values to darken the foreground And yeah, so it's a bit Mixed between stuff that we could do in stop motion Like putting lights in some places But also stuff that we couldn't really do like putting emissive material And actually have light popping out of the paper And also the negative values of the the light, of course So here you can see a comparison between the crisp pencil and the 3d rendering in particular the the background that Gained many many like depth because of the different lights on Yeah on the background so That's it. Our githlab is full of tools that we all share and also these open sequences if you want to test them We also have a technical blog, which is sometimes filled with articles and Also, we added a page on our website for all the tools and technical stuff. So Thanks before the question I will just show you this is a composite version made by julien of this sequence So this scene is available We are going to add some more material soon with which is our which are the actually the the first background test We didn't include in the blender file, but you can get them and Here is the This so this is actually this is out of lighting from from vendor. There is no compositing the lighting is was made last last week It's pretty recent. So it's not finished And This scene will be available in our gith in the incoming weeks. We didn't have finished it yet. So yeah So thanks for your attention. So do you have any questions? Maybe Yes Oh, yeah, okay. Uh, the question is uh for the The scene was a pig when I Converting the The grease pencil to the mesh I did it at once and not like real time. Uh, like it would be done in geometry nodes Actually, I'm just using a python script and Convert and then it becomes a mesh and that's it. I'm not Going out of blender So for the question is how how can we have an animated mesh sword in blender? Actually, so there's lots of meshes and it's animated by visibility attributes on the object Because I there was no other way so But yeah, if there's a geometry node solution for this, that would be great Yeah, so the question is when we do this depth positioning, how can we keep the visual aspect? actually in the in this play that I show I purposefully Just Widen the gap between the different meshes, but in the real scene it's way more closer So I have a parameter to like for the thickness of the paper and also another one for the gap But usually it's really really small. It's just for the rendering engine to be okay with it So is there another question? Okay. Thank you for


Allies to hand over 321 tanks to Ukraine. The Western Allies will hand over a total of 321 tanks to Ukraine. Ukrainian Ambassador to France Vadim Omechenko said in an interview with BFMTV that Western partners have already officially confirmed this. As for the delivery time, they are different in each case. Some countries need to carry out maintenance. Others are solving logistics issues. Others are waiting for the delivery of other models, he said. Kyiv asked the West for tanks almost from the very beginning of the war. After several months of intense, substantive discussions, Germany and the United States simultaneously announced the transfer of leopards and Abrams to Ukraine. True, the leopards will not come until spring and the Abrams it is not yet generally known when. The White House announced a few months ago. The decision to transfer tanks was made by the USA, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, Spain and many other European countries. The main part of the tanks supplied to the armed forces of Ukraine will be German-made Leopard 2 tanks, American Abrams tanks and the amount of 31 units and British Challenger tanks will also be delivered. And will transfer another 60 PT-91-20 tanks based on the Soviet T-72M1. Thus, the armed forces of Ukraine will receive more than 300 tanks in total. This is not so little, although significantly less than the number of tanks that Ukraine initially possessed. True, it is not very clear why if the armed forces of Ukraine did not win with thousands of tanks before, the current 300 tanks should have some serious impact on the situation. However, experts explain this by the depletion of ammunition for Soviet-made tanks while the West will always be able to supply ammunition for American or German tanks since it can restore their stocks. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova for her part said that the supply of heavy weapons would not change the situation in favour of Kiev but would only bring the Western countries to a new level of confrontation with Moscow.


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You can't even go to a function and these two get together and this, what happened, most of these dudes wasn't even born when this mishap happened.  Like, why? They right across the street from each other. You got family members that's related. We all related some kind of, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. And that's, it's just different from what we do in the South, of course. But just to see that, my cousins, they're definitely, I've taken her over there and off Crenshaw. You remember I took you over Uncle James? I've been there all the life, 70 years. My uncle James used to have fishing, fishing chip or whatever down in all the restaurants.  And basically, man, I seen it and I would see the way they were when they would come to Texas and it was just a different mindset on life. You know what I mean? A little bit faster, of course, cause country laid back, but still, you know, cause you got killings everywhere, but it's just the strategic way it's done up there versus the way it's done here. But see, you gotta understand, Texas is just Texas. You see, y'all in Texas and y'all do Texas stuff. California is a transit state. Everybody can't make it in Texas. They try to come to California to do better.   You feel what I'm saying? I get it.  They too embarrassed to ask their mama, can you send for me? And they live on the street. All you have freak accidents like Jamie Foxx who come and put a staple who out of Tarot, Texas, who get that respect and put that work in to where he's recognized in California right now. Oh yeah. The movie stars, yeah, but he ain't been to Compton still. He don't come to Compton? No, Jamie ain't been to Compton. I know, I don't know the demographics like that. Well, I'm telling you. So when you look at it though, and then now vice versa, just to stand up for the fact that Texas is where our neighbors just moved from California for a better, you know, because of the finances and what they call to live in here. Okay. And they're runaways. Is that what y'all call them? They're runaways. If you can't make it in Cali, you can't make it nowhere. Well, I'm coming here every this is cheaper. Well, the same $2 that you're making here, the $20 you're making there, but you're paying $4,000 a month for rent. Here, it's $800 a month. So if you couldn't manage that money that you was making paying the $4,000 eventually, because now here it is again, a lot of people come to Texas and a lot of people come back to Cali. Mm, yeah, I would say, I can't say the transition. I don't know the people for us that then went back. The ones that I'm dealing with now that are here was actually had a few over last night. Matter of fact, I got my crime partner. He down here? Yeah, we started selling PCP in Texas, in Houston, and we went to prison, went to Huntsville, and he's in Arlington right now. Got a big old pretty house, that had been $2 million in California. Correct, correct.  Yeah, correct. You dig what I'm saying? Well, my uncle went up there and he did pretty good. So it's just different strokes for different folks. You know what I mean? Yeah, we on Boss Talk 101.


Hey Charles, yes, I don't I can't seem to log on to Netflix. What's the password again? You forgot the password. Yeah, what is it? Don't change the subject. You forgot the password. It happens No, it doesn't this is something that we came up with as friends together But I guess our friendship mean nothing to you Fine you type it in. Yeah, I will Forget the password There we're all that We weren't even logged in the first place. Yeah, but before we were allowed to log in that we're not Blocked dude the password shouldn't be that hard to figure out and yet here we are I mean, maybe we put both of our names as the password. Oh, yeah. Yeah Try Charles hates tada because he forgot the password.    Yeah, no caps. Oh, I know the password now, but I know how to remember the password We're trying to log on to Netflix. How many letters does the word Netflix have? Seven seven seven is a lucky number, right? Yes. We went gambling last month, right? Yes We lost a lot of money, right? Yes. How much money did we lose five dollars five dollars seven with the lucky number? What's seven minus five two and there's two of us coincidence? Yes How many letters of the word coincidence have? 11 11 what's seven and 11 7-eleven do you want to go to 7-eleven? No, what's the opposite of no? Yes Coincidence Charles. What's the password? You forgot? Yes, coincidence. Oh Wait, dude, let's just click on forgot password and it'll send us an email. Okay What's my email address? Okay next there's also a possibility to find the password by answering the question that they provide for us For example, what's your pet's name dog? No, I didn't ask the what pet I asked for the name Dog you named your dog dog It's not a dog. Then what is it you forgot? How old were you when you're born? I don't remember you're so forgetful. You see where we are because of you They can send us the password by text. Great. What's your phone number? Why is it that when you forgetful you have to remember stuff? Why I forgot hey, maybe someone we know remembers the password who your ex we shared the same account with her What holler no holler what only person that can help us right now. What's her number? I remember it by hearts. Hello. Yeah, how are you cool? I don't care Do you remember when we used to share Netflix account together? Do you remember that? Yeah, we used to share Netflix account and in a bed and a life Hey, it's Sara Yeah, do you remember the Netflix password? Yeah, the one that we came up together You and I well Charles had no idea that we were secretly dating. Oh, I know here and We're in what you remember the password sort of how I created a new account. What past what did you put?


Hey, hey welcome back to an episode of Car Chronicles. Now this is where we're talking about men issues, things men are facing, things I'm seeing while my fingers on the pulse of our society, things that I'm seeing men dealing with. And what I really want us to think about is male responsibility and male accountability. And what I mean by that is, the other day I saw a post and I had seen it a while ago, but then I seen it again, but I saw a post of a lady and she said, don't let that relationship, y'all forgive me a little rare of break, let me know how you went a couple of times.  And when she said that, and she said, you know, that woman on the side, she over there, if this man is a good provider, if he's a good father, then let that woman over there do what she's doing. She cleaning up the trash. That's what she's supposed to do.  And it broke my heart as a man to see leaders. I saw Christian influencers. I saw finance influencers. I saw men who, who, who their message reach millions of people put in the comments. Oh, that's great advice. Oh, that's and liking it. Just liking it. When you like that kind of post, when you like that kind of post, even if you just liking it, just because the page is asking, hey, let's have a conversation. When you like that post, you liking that message, you liking that message. I struggled with that the other day because, you know, I'm in a video where some of the clips they put in there was from the strip club and it was booty cheeks on there. And I wasn't at the strip club. I had nothing to do with that, but that was part of the B roll footage that the editor used. I was teaching a seminar, but the guy who put the seminar on, he had went to the strip club. That's part of his lifestyle. I liked the post because I was in there and because he sent it to me, but I struggled with that because I didn't want nobody to think that I was liking the booty of the stripper. And that's the same type of thing. What I'm talking about. Now that's a little different, but when men are saying, hey, yes, we agree. Let us have a side woman. As long as we keep her in her place and we're a good father and we're a good husband, don't go through our phone and find out what we're talking and doing with this side woman. If we take care of home and we, I want to challenge you as, as men. And this is how I think about this. I don't have a daughter, but when a man is loving a woman, we loving a female. Your daughter is a female. So if we have to think about what message is it sending our daughters, if you have a daughter, if you are cheating on her mother. So if you with her mother and you're cheating, do you think when your daughter is 15 and she understands this, is she going to say, hey, dad, that's cool.  What is that? What is your daughter going to say?  Because when you think about it, one of the women that the man sleeps with is going to be crazy. Just based on the statistics, one of the women going to be crazy.  She's going to try to do something to your daughter who married to this man with multiple women just because he is a millionaire. She's going to try to do something to your daughter or she might try to mess the man life up, to mess his money up, and that's going to affect your daughter too. So I think a lot of times as men, we're just thinking about ourselves. I think I got two boys and I think about this like my son will be, my 15 year old will be far hot if he found out I was cheating on his mama. If he, even if she was cool with it, he'll be mad with her like, mom, what in the world are you doing?  My son get mad if he see me look at a booty. Sometimes nice set of hands walk by and it might catch my, I don't accident. And he'll say, dad, what you looking at there, buddy? That's how he joke around. Dad, I just looked like they, I'm like, no son, I was not looking over there, but he checked me on that. A lady will come up to me and introduce herself.  I'm like, oh, hey, great to meet you. You know, great to meet you. It's like, can I take a picture? Yeah, we'll take a picture. When we leave, my son will be like, uh, yeah, dad, the handshake you gave was a little too nice.   He's like, yeah, this lady came up to meet dad and dad was like, oh, yeah, okay, yeah. And, and so he really be making a point about that. And he don't really be joking. He just do it in a joking manner, but he's watching that. And you know how I know that's real? Because when I was his age, I was with my dad and this lady came out with a nice booty. And I was old enough, 14, 15, 16, I was old enough to lust after that booty. And I knew that was a nice booty. And when this lady was walking towards us, I was looking at my dad to see if he was going to look at her in lust. My dad kept his eyes straight ahead and he did not look in that woman direction. Now he could have cut his eyes real quick before I started looking at him. He could have, but I'm going to give him the benefit of doubt because I can't put something on him that I didn't see him do. And I was watching him the whole time. And so I, and that meant something to me.  That made me respect my dad on a whole nother level because I wasn't that guy.  I was a womanizer. I was a player. And to see my dad not even look at a woman and we men, so he could have been like, that's a beautiful woman. He could have been like, what? Okay. Woo. Could look, but you can't touch son. Hey son, you could look, but you can't touch nine. He could have did that and I would have normalized that. I would have accepted that and I was like, okay, cool.  But no, he taught me a different lesson. You can't even look. And that stuck with me. So this is what I want men to think about when we think about male responsibility. Our responsibility as men, and it's not about our sex drive. It's not about the thing between our legs. It's really about family. It's about what are we building in this world? Like what we bringing to fruition are lineage, our legacy. And that's also one of the benefits of marriage that I didn't dive too deep on when we was talking about the benefits of marriage. Like, are there really any benefits of a man marrying?  So now your children, when they get to see in the same thing with healthy co-parenting, it's not even just about marriage, it's very important for men to find a balance with healthy co-parenting because now your children get to have the male perspective and the female perspective. It's things that a man provides that a woman cannot provide. And it's things that a woman provides that a man cannot provide.  The child needs both. It's going to be days where a child says, dad, I need to talk to you and we'll talk to you about things that they will not talk to their mother or a woman about. And it's going to be days where a child said, mom, I need to talk to you and we'll talk to the woman about things they will not talk to a man about. Imagine when a man has a daughter and the daughter turns nine or 12 or 13 and now it's time for her cycle to start. If she has a good relationship with a woman in her life, whether that's her mom, stepmom, whatever, bonus mom, she's going to go to her. She's going to go to her before she goes to the man because logically she's going to say, well, my dad's body doesn't even do this. So I can't fully expect him to understand this. And that's what we have to think about. But if we're treating the woman like trash and the woman is broken, she's hurting, she's crying all the time. She's not going to be able to be healthy for our children. We have this responsibility that we got to grow. We got to stretch and we can't just get so caught up in our pleasure.  And we just do things based on what we're feeling sexually, because it makes sense to our sex drive to have a woman on the side so that when our woman is acting crazy or inner feelings or peers on, we could go to that other woman. It makes sense sexually, but it doesn't make sense logically when you think about the family unit and raising healthy children who get to see healthy examples of love and a relationship. And this is something we really got to face and be honest about. So hey, this month we're still in the Dodge Challenger Superstart and we're getting us a little action. And just ride with me. Ride with me, invite with me and understand too. As a man, this one of my outlets, this one of my benefits of marriage. Having a woman that let me get cars that I like and support me in that and having somebody I could share and do life with. So hey, thank you so much. Make sure you hit the subscribe button if you haven't. Give me some topics to talk on. I'm going to give you my perspective as a husband and a father. It's a lot of male voices out here, but it's not a lot of husbands and fathers speaking from a platform.  This ain't about pandering to women. This ain't about the women. Ladies, y'all respect this hill space that I'm creating for the men to talk and be honest and let's really have healthy dialogue without attacking each other and going back and forth. God bless you. We'll talk soon.