Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Hector Bones, Tim Ashman, and Johnny Hernandez. Coming up on DTNS, are Twitch streamers in for a world of hurt? Apple says self-repair is okay, sort of. And when games shut down, what's next for the gamers? This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, April 27th, 2022. From Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. From Deep in Dogtown, St. Louis, I'm Patrick Norton. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. We are going to talk about all of the things in tech today, but let's start with a few tech things you should know about. In its key one earnings report, Alphabet earned $25.62 per share on revenue of 23% on the year to $68.01 billion. However, both missed analysts' expectations. Overall revenue growth in Europe slowed to 19% in Q1, compared to 33% last year. YouTube ad revenue came in under analysts' estimates with $6.87 billion. Google Cloud grew revenue 44% on the year to $5.82 billion. That beat analysts' estimates. Other bets revenue, that includes Waymoa, among others, increased revenue 122% to $440 million, while the units lost remained flat on the year at $1.15 billion. DJI will temporarily suspend business in Russia and Ukraine to ensure its products are not used in combat, calling it a statement about our principles. This makes DJI the first major Chinese firm to cite the ongoing conflict for halting sales in Russia. The Google Play Store began rolling out its privacy-related nutrition labels to apps, which will appear in the new Google Play Data Safety section. These sections will show which data is collected if it's shared with a third party and security practices for data. Developers must submit data safety section details by July 20th. Spotify reported its Q1 revenue rose 24% year over year to 2.66 billion euros, including 282 million euros from ads up to 31% year over year, with paying subscribers rising 15% year over year to 182 million. However, the company lost 1.5 million in Russia after pulling its service from the country and warns it will lose another 600,000 subscribers in the current period. Spotify's paid subscriber forecast for the current quarter fell just short of analyst estimates. Google began testing display ads in YouTube short content. The company says initial test ads will likely be for app installs and other promotions. YouTube reported average daily views of shorts increased over four times on the year in its Q1 to 30 billion.  Wow.  Where your revenue is coming from. Okay, so Bloomberg sources say Twitch began considering proposals to revamp its payment structure. One proposal could cut top streamer subscription revenue share from 70% down to 50%. In other words, potentially create multiple tiers with different requirements that would incentivize broadcasters to run more ads for unsubscribed viewers. Twitch could potentially drop exclusivity terms for members of its partner programming letting them stream on other services, i.e., we're gonna cut your revenue but you can stream it elsewhere at the same time and we won't cut you off. On the surface, you might say, isn't this bad for streamers? I guess it really depends on the streamer. Twitch changes might offer more freedom and with a less lucrative pay structure Twitch could drop, I mean, if they, oh boy, this seems like a big messy balancing act. I'm losing money from Twitch but I can pick up money over here but do I have any people who will watch me over here or can I get traction over here? It really all depends on what happens with the partner program and streaming on rival services I guess on Facebook, gaming or YouTube. Twitch is not commenting on the report but the rumored proposals are coming after Twitch implemented multiple efforts to boost long-term profits and satisfy its parent company, Amazon. Twitch recently launched a program meant to get prolific streamers to run more ads, i.e., we need more money, give us more money, we need more money, how about more money, give us more money. I keep thinking, did Amazon buy Twitch because they thought it was gonna be the next big thing or did they buy Twitch because Google wanted it and therefore they were gonna try to deny it from Google and boy. Yeah, I mean, probably both.  Twitch is, it's certainly something that I would think parent company, Amazon is happy to have under its umbrella. That said, when I first read this news this morning I was like, oh man, I mean, I know we stream our show on Twitch and we're not unfamiliar with revenue streams from being on Twitch but the idea that you as a streamer and somebody who's, this is maybe not full-time or maybe it is full-time or maybe more like 20 hours a day, I don't know. Like however crazy you wanna be about live streaming if this is your bread and butter, anything that a company says is like, well, okay, your share is gonna drop. However, you have more freedom to go other places. That doesn't sound great. What tremendous opportunities we have for you. It just doesn't sound great. And maybe you are a streamer who's felt like, I wish I didn't have exclusivity. I wish I could try things out with several platforms, kind of see where my audience is or see where the audience differs. That is very legit, but not everybody feels that way. So if you're a person who has said, no, I've really invested a lot of time, energy and my own money in some cases to be on this particular platform, changes like this gets scary. And certainly I don't think, I don't think you're ever gonna run to anybody, whether they're a streamer or a YouTuber or an Instagram or whatever label you wanna slap on them. Nobody wants to hear the phrase, we're gonna reduce your revenue ever or we're gonna reduce your share. Nobody wants to hear that. And I think it's even more problematic is how many people really make money off of Facebook whose names don't end with Zuckerberg? You know what I mean? Like the content on Facebook has never turned out to be, I will rephrase this. I think there are very rare examples of people making money off of generating content or streaming content on Facebook. Perhaps this has changed and I'm simply unaware of it. Feel free to let me know, tweet at Patrick Norton. But for the most part, I think this has gotta be frustrating for Twitch streamers and it's gonna be interesting to see how they react if this story even turns out to be true. Cause part of this is one of those things like, oh, you know, Amazon's trying to figure out if everyone wanna leave Twitch, if they reduce their revenue, let's see the story and see what kind of response we get. Yeah, yeah. I mean, as somebody who works with, I mean, not only do I produce my own podcast, but people who work on podcasts and I get this question a lot of, okay, where do we live? You know, what's our platform? What do we choose? What's the best place? And I always kind of go, it's really up to you. It, you know, you have to build an audience and you can build an audience in multiple places. That requires more work, just plain and simple. It's going to require more work. You might end up benefiting more by doing that, but let's not, you know, mince words here. It's going to be more work for you.  I get it. Opportunity rhymes with exposure. Indeed. Well, Mac rumors is reporting that Apple launched its much anticipated self-service repair program today for the iPhone 12, the iPhone 13 and the third gen iPhone SE in the United States. The company plans a European launch of the program later this year. The program in its detail will provide access to genuine repair manuals and over 200 Apple parts and tools through the self-repair, self-service repair store. To initiate a self-repair as a customer, you need to review the appropriate product repair manual, specific repair process on the website.  You kind of go, yeah, yeah, I've seen it. I know what I'm doing. Please give it to me. In a blog post today, I fix its Elizabeth Chamberlain commented on Apple's self-service repair program, saying it was a great step for self-repair, but had one major issue. Users repairing their iPhones must have a valid IMEI or their phone serial number. Then that part must be paired with the phone. Mac rumors reports that the pairing process, known as system configuration, will require customers to contact the self-service repair store support team over chat or by a phone call and adds that the store is run by a third-party company, Spot, S-B-O-T, not Apple itself. The rest of the blog details, I fix its optimism about the program and the direction that the company is taking to let customers repair their own devices. Patrick, I don't know. I mean, is the idea that Apple isn't really running this program themselves concerned to you? No. That part doesn't concern me so much. I mean, it's more... Okay, first of all, let me say this flat-out. Apple making parts and repair manuals public is awesome.  My words, not his. I was also digging into the manuals that Apple had posted and, you know, seeing the heated display removal tool that Apple techs use is fascinating for me. It's like this big stainless steel thing and the phone goes into it and there's slots to adapt different devices into it. But the catch really isn't, you know, big proprietary tools, right? You know, that Elizabeth said it over at iFixit. You have to supply a serial number to include the part to a phone. So the campaign director for right to repair at the public interest research group, Nathan Proctor, one of the things he pointed out is this allows Apple to maintain a lot of control over the repair process. And it also means Apple can decide to stop supporting repairs, right? If these parts will only work, if there's a phone call involved, all they have to do is stop answering the phone or change the rules, right? You know, iFixit founder, Kyle Wiens, his note was like, what if you want to pull the camera from another phone? Nope, you're not allowed. What if you want to buy an Apple Market Park? Nope, you're not allowed. It's a very specific set of rules that you will jump through if you want to do the official Apple self-repair system. You know, obviously, these are right to repair activists. I can probably label myself as that. They want repair to be as open and accessible as possible. And Apple is Apple. Apple likes control. It's part of what Apple does. We could argue about security. You could argue about making sure you have the right part. But essentially, this is the terms that Apple laid down for getting parts directly from Apple. Just going back to what you just mentioned about security, is there, do you think there is a legitimate claim that Apple wants to maintain the homogeneity of their product repair process because they want to ensure that they're, you know, they're custom crafted, you know, many developer long process for ensuring that the thing is tight as a drum, but from a security standpoint, isn't somehow blemish during this repair process if you're putting a non-authorized part in? I feel, I can understand why Apple would want to block non-authorized parts, but then again, there are lots of, you know, ways around that, dot, dot, dot. That said, does Apple not supply, trust their own supply chain? I feel like it's more, if you wanted to argue why Apple wants you to call, okay, maybe they want to make sure it's the right part for your phone and an easy way to do that is to tie it into the hardware serial number or the IMEI, you know, maybe they want to gather information, maybe they want to prevent it from being used in certain ways, who knows? It's not like Apple's going to suddenly, you know, put out a giant press release going, this is the reason why we set up the system this way and our justification or lack of justification, you know what I mean? Like this is not the Apple way, you know what I mean? This is the company that told me, no, no, no, we don't have a design issue with an Artena, you have an issue with the way you hold your phone, right? I mean, literally that was, you know, our antenna isn't broken, you're holding the phone wrong. What, you know what I mean? Apple's an interesting company. Also, you know, I thought it was also interesting, right? I mentioned the heated display removal tool, I think at some point in here. The heat gun?  So, you can purchase that for $256 and it's like 108 bucks for the different display pockets that plug into that. Or you can rent something like, for example, I have an iPhone 12, you get an iPhone 12 toolkit, you rent it for seven days for $49, there's a toolkit for each model, they support and it's packed with all the tools you need, you know, that they mentioned basically in the manual. I like the part that was to avoid the non-return fee, drop it off at a UPS store by day seven. There's no mention of what the non-return fee is, but I think it's essentially the sum total of everything that's in the Pelican case. You know, and it's interesting to look at, right? Because it looks much more convenient than my long-suffering iFixit iOpener and a stack of guitar picks or, you know, I call them guitar picks, they're essentially the blue picks that come in the box with iFixit products.  So having a big thing where you put it in place and it's officially Apple sanctioned and Apple gives you the instructions, I think that'll be attractive for a lot of people. So I think there's a balance here. I think this may open up self-repair to a lot of people who wouldn't consider it before because Apple products are expensive, just like everything else in life. I think also it will, you know, make everybody working for right to repair that much more intense about taking it to the next level and making it that much easier. I mean, as somebody who, you know, full disclosure, dropped her iPhone in the toilet this morning, briefly, but I did, it's a thing that happened, hasn't happened in years, really thought I was better than this. But yeah, and now I'm having iPhone issues. This, you know, the repair program from Apple isn't necessarily gonna fix anything that's going on with my phone.  It's just a couple of hours ago, but anything that gives me a little bit more of my own power to just try to make sense of this and to save a little money and learn a little bit in the process. I mean, not everybody wants to open up stuff and learn a little bit about what's going on under the hood, but for those that do, this is really big.  And he's like, wait, there's nothing I want on the new phone. It's gonna cost me $1,200 to get the cool one. And, you know, it's interesting to watch how people sort of work their way through is repair bad, is repair good, do I need repair? You know, if you have children with phones suddenly repair becomes much more attractive, also armoring phones and screens, you know, I'll be very curious to see where this evolves and if it lasts and holds forward. I mean, I'm glad that they're doing it. I think it's a good step. Yeah, it's a good step. It's a good step. Well, if you feel like this is a good step or you don't, or you wanna hear us talk about something completely different on the show, one way to let us know is in our subreddit. Submit stories and vote on them. Really helps us make our rundown every day. So thank you in advance. DailyTechNewShow.Reddit.com. Ubisoft published a list of 91 games that have had online services and multiplayer features shut off since 2021, including Far Cry 2, Splinter Cell, and Just Dance. PC versions of these games lose access to previously unlocked content, although console players keep these as long as they have old game saves. Ubisoft announced plans to shut down services for many of these titles last year. Patrick, what's happening here? Things are aging. Companies are going out of business. Servers cost money. I thought this was an interesting follow-up. Lottery Kotaki wrote, well, it was more of a screen show. 12 games killed in 2021 that proved preservation is vital. And that came out right at the tail end of last year. And not to state the obvious, but it suddenly occurred to me that finding old ROMs or keeping a vintage console running or what my friend Sebastian over at PC Per does, he has vintage DOS hardware to play as vintage DOS games because emulation is just not acceptable.  And maybe you don't, maybe this is silly, but it's something I've sort of noticed all over the place, right? Proprietary servers or something that's particularly painful for me, smart hardware that requires apps to run doesn't necessarily age well because operating system change, apps need to be updated, servers cost money. And if it's a big, massive server system that's only maintained by the company, there's probably no alternative once they shut that server down. So feel free to tweet me to say that 12 years of Little Big Planet was more than enough, but it's, and maybe it was or maybe your heart broken that the servers are gone, but it's not just games, right? Services and servers tied to hardware, especially to IT and smart phones has been really problematic in the last few years because they require money to run. And when a company goes bankrupt, there's no money for the servers, right? There's a, I think you were watching the video, you can see the Hackaday article. Insteon abruptly shuts down users left smart homeless. And this is, I think it was, Revolve went down in 2016, Spectrum went down in 2020, Samsung smart things went down in 2021. Hackaday's done a bunch of stuff around this and Gigastacy on Twitter, she covers the internet of things or the home automation stuff in great detail. She's actually quoted in the Hackaday article. This is, it's not just smart homes.  It's kind of wild when you start thinking, the more and more we make this stuff connected or the more and more it requires, you know, apps to run, it gets complicated. So. Oh, sorry. I know you're listening, Roger. Oh no, I was thinking, there were this, I honestly believe a lot of this has to do with the fact that not everything is standardized. I had, I was just, I was using a router that I bought back in 98. And at some point it just stopped functioning very well as a router. So I used it as a wireless access point, but because it is IP based, it routes IPs because that's a standardized technology that everyone adheres to and worked fine. Granted, it sucked as a router because something happened to have the logic board on it. But it worked for that purpose. I was still able to squeeze some benefit. But when you orphan a product because something is so, so, so siloed away from a broader, you know, a tech, a broader technology grouping, it kind of, it kind of stinks because you invest a lot of money, a lot of time into these things. And when you don't have your smart home system, then you're like, well, nuts. And I was thinking about this as I don't know, comparing to some old classic movie, right? It's like, I don't know. I mean, pick any movie. Doesn't matter. Night of the living dead. Or some most times at midnight, unavailable on any platform, on any, basically it wasn't even available on VHS for years. What are the great lost hot messes of movie done? Yeah, so this does happen, but much less of an issue, right? In cinema it's like, eh, you can find it somewhere. Maybe you gotta do a little digging. Maybe you gotta sign up for a particular service. But we don't have these sort of ongoing issues that I feel like have been prevalent in the gaming world, especially lately, of like, where does it all go? What happens when the company just won't support it anymore? Like it just shuts down. Could there be some way for there to be like a plex of gaming? Or you just, you just find the game and it's fine. I mean, there is in a way. I mean, there have been, unfortunately, just a handful. Not a lot, but a lot of companies that do this are developers, because once the company splits up, everyone goes to the four wins. There was a game back in the late 90s called, what was it called? It was called FreeSpace. Let me see, pull up the title. FreeSpace, the sequel FreeSpace to developed by a French company about Volaton. When that game came to an end, they open-sourced the entire source code so anyone could develop for it. And what was fascinating is they not just open-sourced the game itself, they open-sourced the software to run your own server. So players who are heavily invested in the game would be able to not only make mods for the games and keep it alive, but they could also maintain servers independently of whatever company that would chose to run it. I'm wondering if it's one of those things where companies should sort of have an end-of-life roadmap of how they want to do things. Instead of just turning off the lights, it's like, okay, this source code for this game is two generations old, really no point in keeping it. Let's open-source it. We'll give the community all the assets. They can handle it. If they want to develop their own homebrew servers to do co-op gaming, great, we're just gonna give it out to the community and then move forward with other stuff. That would be ideal. It's interesting, right? Because I was thinking about slim devices was bought by Logitech and then five or six years later, Logitech ended their support or basically stop manufacturing the hardware. And much like they've done with the remote control systems more recently, they maintain some of the server availability. And of course, they've figured out open-source ways of feeding these MP3 streamers, right? This isn't exactly new. Home Assistant is one option. Actually, it's one of the things that's interesting.  How do you keep your Insteon stuff running? What's your path forward? I have several friends, for example, who have had home automation systems or household stuff go down and then moved on to Home Assistant because it was an open-source tool that allowed them to continue moving things forward. There's much stuff going on at a larger level with some other platforms. But I'd laugh, right? But my wife just bought a mosquito repeller for us to use this summer and she had to track down the old version that isn't smart, that doesn't use an app to run.  What exactly do I need an app? Am I going to track the number of mosquitoes repelled? Is it going to give me some... Is there going to be notifications on my phone? And the overall problem was, I think, Roger, you kind of got into is, this stuff costs money. Is there a way forward?  You mentioned your Wi-Fi router. I mean, how many Wi-Fi routers must have left? They must have left the factory with flawless firmware that was unhackable because they never got a single update. Sure, that's a possibility. I feel like this is all part of a larger problem that's not going away, I mean, mentally. And it's one of those things I honestly think if product developers could have had an open standard to adhere to, it would help eliminate all of that. I mean, I had an old IP security camera that after 2000, 2016, you could no longer open its interface on a Mac because Safari wasn't supported and there were a bunch of hooks that didn't work in Chrome. And so to use it, you had to be on a PC even though before when they sold it, it was sold as a Mac PC thing. Well, we assume many of you are raising your hand saying, I have thoughts, I have thoughts. And if you do, do send them our way, feedback at dailytechdewshow.com. This is probably not the last time we'll be talking about this issue, but... Matter. What about matter? I know, right? Yeah, matter. Where is it? Moving into the travel space, if you've built up a lot of travel points, I know I'm one of those people and I haven't used them in quite some time and I don't know when I will, Chris Christensen has a handy way and an alternative way to spend those points. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler with another Tech in Travel Minute. If you haven't traveled here for a couple of years and you've built up a lot of points and you're trying to figure out a way to use them, but you're not quite ready to travel yet, there are other ways that you can use your points, your travel points, and one way is Amazon. If you Google Amazon Shop with Points, you can see that there are many different point systems that will let you cash that into Amazon dollars. And so American Express membership rewards, for instance, Capital One, Discover, City Cards, Chase Ultimate Rewards, Hilton Honors or HSBC can all be transferred points from their systems into Amazon where you can get cool techie stuff. Just thought you should know, I'm Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler. I love it, love it. I mean, if you wanna spend your points with Amazon, certainly a good way to do it. I have a lot of points. What am I gonna do? Am I gonna get on a plane? Probably just gonna buy some stuff from Amazon. Real quick, Bill from, can it finally be spring North Dakota? I guess it's not spring there yet, Bill. Bill wrote in and said, I just listened to your episode where you talked about True Bill and I wanted to give my one and a half cent experience. Sometime during the pandemic, I tried out True Bill and I saw that it would negotiate with my cell phone provider, which is Verizon, and help lower my bill. Thought that was cool, gave it a shot. The result was Verizon saying, if I wanted to lower my cell phone bill, I could lower my data plan. So cue my sarcastic surprise face. Not exactly effective negotiation. I guess with my experience, True Bill has some good promise, but maybe not always effective. Patrick, I don't know if you're familiar with True Bill. We talked about this on yesterday's show or maybe it was Monday show, the whole idea of having a subscription service to help you manage your subscription services. And this is one of those things I read about and went, I'll let somebody else try that. And thankfully Bill tried it.  I mean, the whole idea is that if you were signed up for, I don't know, some streaming service and you weren't using it, True Bill would kind of go like, huh, we're noticing that you're not using this. Would you like to cancel or pause the subscription, save yourself some money? So it's supposed to work well, but as Bill points out, not necessarily for everything that you pay for him. I don't know, maybe how organized you are about your subscriptions or how hard you cut your subscriptions off. But yeah, I, okay. 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And welcome to the 2 p.m. Update on TF and in with me David White as we start the 2 o'clock hour we've got about 7.3 billion shares on the CBOE consolidated tape if you don't follow that one and would like to just email me at path at tfnn.com and I'll be glad to send you a link to it but it's what I look at so volume up about 500 million shares I suspect there are a couple of things going on one probably the first thing maybe the end of the short squeeze for those folks that were deciding to go down with the ship on the short side I had many folks that not subscribers they just like to email me and tell me how the end of the world is going to be tomorrow and much like many of the people saying the end of the actual end of the world is going to be tomorrow they put it off another week unfortunately markets can be irrational longer than you can remain solvent and the markets at least the S&P up 25 points today which is about a little over 6 tenths of a percent so we've got some decent volume is it enough probably not probably 11 maybe 12 billion shares we probably need something like 15 or 16 to break through the 4,000 level it's not uncommon to see contrary moves in a bear market that exceed that as short sellers generally market continues go higher until short sellers give up we did have some news and we had a small poll back about an hour ago but pretty much if anything a little bullish in the market suggesting more gridlock in Washington DC so it's I don't know if they were kind of front-running that maybe there's some other stuff going on but you've got at least enough volume to go a little bit further but not enough to probably go blow out make new highs we'll be back in a minute we've got Tim Ord on at 215


So you want to improve your weak foot. That is fantastic. But why do you even have a weak foot in the beginning? I think it's become so acceptable in the game for players to have one foot that's really strong and the other one is useless. Just because you see the majority of people, majority of players, that's how they play the game. If you're watching this video right now, I'm assuming you don't want to play like that. You want to be a two-footed player. This video is for you. I'm going to talk about how to improve your weak foot faster. So number one is, without even touching the ball, it's the ability to flex the foot and move the foot in different ways.  It's probably easy for you to flex that foot, to point the toes down, to lock the ankle. And if you did a full circle to flex, to have a really strong range of motion, but also the strength in which you can flex in different ways. If you go on your weaker side, it's probably very hard and feels awkward to flex your foot like that. So that's the first thing I would say you need to work on, is actually building strength and flexibility in your weaker foot. Because if I want to strike the ball with my laces on my weak foot, but I can't even flex my foot in that way because it cramps up, it feels so weak, just because I haven't done it enough times in my life, then how am I supposed to hit a hard shot? Okay, so number one is the flexion, the technique of the foot, the technique of the toes, the flexion of the leg, the strength in the leg, and the mobility, the range of motion. So you might just want to start with building up your range of motion and your ability to flex and tense your foot in different positions. Next is comparison. So if I'm a right-footed player and on my right side, I strike the ball very clean, I'm happy with how I hit it on my right side, but then I go to my left and I'm saying, why can't I do it on my weaker side? Well, if you look at what you're doing, if you analyze what you're doing, it's totally different. So how is it supposed to produce the same result, the same product? I want a hard straight shot on my left, but on my right I have a nice big backswing full through the ball, locking the ankles, the technique is beautiful. But then when I come on my left, I have no backswing. I'm hitting off the inside of the foot, I'm swinging across my body, the technique is not the same. So you need to learn how to analyze your technique on your stronger foot. So compare, whatever it is, if I'm doing a pass, if I'm doing a ping, if I'm doing a strike, if I'm just dribbling and cutting the ball in different ways, how come when I do it on my strong foot, it does what I want? When I do it on my weaker foot, it does not. I have to learn how to compare the techniques of the two and if I can make the technique on my left, the same as the technique on my right, then I will produce the same result. If I want to improve my weak foot, but I'm just doing drills and I'm not actually thinking about, okay, that time I hit it here, this time I hit it there, I follow through there. So you have to actually analyze what you're doing with every technique and you're asking yourself, how can I improve my weak foot? But you already know the answer to that because you already improved your strong foot and what did you do? You just practiced with it all the time. So in order to get this one as much as this one, you just have to give it the attention and love that it deserves. So to improve your weak foot, get those repetitions. Every time you do a drill on your right, do it on your left. And because this one is so far behind right now, you might just have to give this guy a break and just do everything with your weaker foot. So I'm assuming you want a few drills to help with technique on your weaker foot. Some good places to start, just basic footwork drills inside, outside cuts, really focus. On the weaker side, you're probably having trouble. Like I said, just control the foot. You're trying to cut it, but it's going forward. You're not turning the foot enough. You're not turning the hips enough. Okay, so just little touches like this. Even coming here, just get comfortable, comfortable moving the ball, rolling the ball in different ways on the weaker foot, dragging it. Okay, and it's the touch. It's also the movement of the hips. You probably move your body completely different on one side compared to the other. So analyze again, compare, but different footwork drills. Just getting those touches, getting those repetitions, getting the rhythm, giving that foot the love. Okay, juggling. So maybe you're just starting there with a bounce. Backspin on the ball. You're trying to set a record on your weaker foot. What is it today? 20, make it 25 tomorrow. Okay, so little touches. Holy, I need some balance. Little touches, these are really good. And one ball control exercise that's awesome for weaker foot, strengthening it up is a foot stall. So maybe start with a bounce, but if you have a really poor, weak foot right now, it's probably difficult to flex your toes like that. So if you're doing any of these techniques, shooting, dribbling, control like this, and you're trying to flex your foot in one way or the other and it's crapping, that just means you don't have the strength in that foot yet. You don't have the muscle memory. It's not used to doing that. So that will go away over time, but you have to. You have to fight through that. You have to flex through that.  Then ball striking, whether you have a wall. Okay, just practicing passing technique against a wall, first touch, back off that foot. Just keep it all on your weaker foot. Get a whole weak foot session. Getting those repetitions, striking the ball, pinging the ball with your weak foot, shooting the ball against a wall, I always say is best because it'll come back to you. However, even something like this, if you had a rebounder, you don't have to shoot from outside the 18 yard box. All you need right now is repetitions. You don't have to blast it hard. All you have to focus on is technique. That's the reason you can't hit it hard on your weaker foot. It's not because your leg is necessarily weaker or smaller. It's because you don't have proper technique. Technique creates power. So if you want a stronger shot, you need stronger technique.


Hey, this is Brett and this 2020 Jeep Gladiator Rubicon is stock number 13615Z. I'm here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used Jeep and Jeep Gladiator headquarters. I'm super excited to go over this Gladiator today because it is probably one of the hottest Gladiators we've ever had. And the only one that's had a cap on it, I think the look is really good, makes it look really tough and bigger than it actually is. But really a cool Gladiator. This one has a 3.6 liter Pentastar V6 engine, it's paired up with the 8-speed automatic transmission. This Jeep has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off and this Jeep is 100% ready to go. I'm going to go all the way around in this video inside, underneath, start it up and take a look under the hood to give you the most accurate representation of the Gladiator that I can. Right white is the color, I shoot all my videos in 4K and if you like the video you can subscribe to my YouTube channel which is youtube.com slash somewhat auto click the bell notifications you'll get updates on the videos I do each and every day as well as having to access one of the largest catalogs of vehicle and truck walk-arounds on YouTube as well as Gladiators and Wranglers. This one comes with the painted and polished aluminum lipped alloy wheels and it has the Cooper Discover STT Pro LT 315 70 RS 17s. These tires look like they have probably about 70% of the tread left on them. Frayman underbody is exceptionally clean on this Gladiator. You do get the Fox shocks, you get the color match fenders as well as the color match hard top and cap on this one. This one also has the LED light group, you get the LED headlamps, running lights and running lights in the fenders there. We'll turn all those on at the end of the video. You also get a pro comp light bar and a Badlands Apex 12,000 pound winch with a synthetic rope. You get the granite crystal inserts on the headlights and grille there. You get the sport hood, didn't see any dents or dings on there and the passenger side front fender is absolutely perfect as well no scuffs or scrapes. Same thing on the passenger side front wheel, no scuffs on that and as you go down this side of this 2020 Jeep Gladiator Rubicon, take note of how clean that body is, how reflective and mirror like that paint is. I take these HD videos so if you're far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle you can see the truck here, the truck and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you then get here. So when you do get here there's absolutely no surprises and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. If this video helps you make that buying decision let your salesmen know that you saw the video that was helpful and that Brett sent you. Back wheel is in excellent shape as well and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Once again frame an underbody back here looks really really good. It's like that all the way underneath. I'm pretty sure this is a one owner clean title history, clean car facts out of Wisconsin. You get some nice rough country steps on there. I did want to show the door hinges because that's always a area you want to look at on these gladiators and ringlers to make sure that they're not corroding. These look absolutely perfect and you get the 3M tape on the rear fenders which keep them looking like new. So this one has an ARE truck cap and it looks really good. You get a roof rack on the top there. LED tail lamps as well coming around to the back the rear bumper is in great shape. You get the backup parking sensors, the towing package with the receiver hitch 4 pin and 7 pin wiring. So this is a truck hero cap. Also comes with a Linux spring and bedliner. The shock down assist so your tailgate's never going to slam on you. But you get the Linux spring and bedliner. You also get a bed mat back here and looks like rear airbag suspension hookups. So that's pretty cool. LED bed lights as well. You get the side storage with the tie down cleats. Those side windows open as well. You can see the lights work nicely up there on the cap. Looks like it has a couple little storage bins up there too. Really a cool truck. You also get a 115 volt 400 watt plug-in back here. And that bedliner goes on to the tailgate which is really nice as well.  No major dents or dings on the box. And for full disclosure this back wheel is in excellent condition as well. Driver's side doors all look really good. I didn't see any dents. I didn't see any dings anywhere on this vehicle. And these door hinges are in fantastic condition as well. Has the enter and go system. The heated mirror is blind spot monitoring. You get the vent shades on there.  No rips or tears back here. It does have the red stitching. You get the Rubicon stitched into the backrest as well. No major wear or rips. You get side airbags on the seats. Driver's seat height adjuster, rough country, all weather formats. This one does come with an aftermarket brake controller, auto headlamps, power mirrors, power locks and power windows. Take a quick look at the back seats. They are just as clean as front seats. No rips or tears back here. It does have the latch child safety system for any child car seats you may have. You also get the sliding rear window with the built-in rear defrost. This one has the insulated hardtop. Just a ton of stuff on this truck. This thing is so loaded up. I've never seen a Rubicon this loaded up. You get a storage bin under here that lock with your ignition key. You also have storage area for your bolts for your hardtop and your doors. If you want to check out the description, we actually have videos linked below for taking off your hardtop on your gladiator as well as the doors. Those seats fold down. You get a storage area back here. If you do have that hardtop off, you can store things back there. That also locks right there with your ignition keys so you can store stuff back there when the hardtop's off. You get the child safety locks. Definitely go check out those videos on how to take your doors and your hardtop off in the description below because they're pretty informational and people seem to like them. If you're going to get one of these gladiators, I highly recommend taking the doors and top off because it's very unique to this vehicle and a lot of fun. 13,202 miles on the 7-inch LCD display digital speedometer comes with the heated leather wrap steering wheel. This one has adaptive cruise controls, regular cruise controls, Bluetooth and information center controls. You also get the red stitching on the steering wheel. This one has the Uconnect 4C radio. You get AM FM and Sirius XM radio capabilities. You also get the factory navigation system on here. There's highway 41 so that is working nicely. AM FM and Sirius, you get all your different climate controls on here including your heated seats, heated steering wheel controls. You also have your backup camera right here and those are nice and crystal clear HD. You can zoom in on the receiver hitch to get hooked up to your boat camper or trailer the first time, every time. Of course because it's a Rubicon you get off-road pages, projection manager. We did a video on how to project your cell phone to the screen with Android Auto. That's in the description below. You get all the different apps on here and I'll load up the off-road pages while they're loading up. Take a look down here. Here's all your more tactile volume tune and climate controls including heated seat buttons. You may be lost but never stuck in a gladiator. Here's your off-road pages. You get accessory gauges with cooling temp, oil temp, battery voltage, trans temp, oil pressure on there as well as your drive train. What it's doing, you get your steering angle as you turn that steering wheel. Those wheels up there actually turn and the angle changes as well. You have your sway bar connected. If it's disconnected or connected front axle if it's locked or unlocked then the same thing with the rear axle. Also you get your latitude, longitude and altitude and pitch and roll. When you're in satellite signal it'll tell you if you're pitched or rolled in any way which is great for off-roading. Anyways down here in more tactile climate controls you got your speed select, crawl control. You also have your power windows.  This is really what makes a Rubicon a Rubicon on these gladiators and your four auxiliary switches. Those come with the tow package. 4x4 shifter. Your 8-speed automatic transmission. You get the keyless entry with the remote start with the flipper key. Love that flipper key. Nice chunky key fob. I got some nice Jeep cup holder inserts. The red dash and the passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition. This truck has never been smoked and smells very clean and you get those insulated front hard top pieces there as well. Assistant SOS buttons up there and auto dimming mirror as well as your home link buttons for your garage door security systems and lighting systems. We'll start it up. Take a look under the hood. Also check out all those LED lights in the front. And I can honestly say this is the coolest Jeep gladiator I have ever seen on our lot. It is really nice. Windshield doesn't have any chips or anything in it and just a really cool. I'm going to see if I can turn that light bar on. I wonder if one of these. There we go. So auxiliary four is the one that turns that light bar on. I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from watching this HD video. You've been able to verify the quality, condition, options and of course cleanliness of this gladiator all the way around inside and out. There are those LED running lights, headlights and of course the LED pro comp light bar which is working nicely. Got a bug shield on here. It's well under the hood. We have the 3.6 liter V6 engine that has a banks, hand air, cold air intake. Like I said this thing is all loaded up. Whoever owned this really took pride in it and did a lot of nice stuff to it. And once again this Jeep has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off. There's the emissions sticker and this Jeep gladiator is 100% ready to go. I would highly recommend it from a quality and condition standpoint and like I said this is the hottest Jeep we've ever had gladiator on our lot. And I would ship this one anywhere in California, New York, Texas, Florida, wherever, whoever is going to get this thing is going to love it because it is all loaded up and optioned out and just really really nice. And to see more pictures of this Jeep or one of our other 550 new news cars, trucks, SUVs, minivans, Wranglers, halftones, three-quarter tons, one-tons, gladiators, Wranglers, you name it, we got to go to that website right there, summitauto.com full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle all at summitauto.com and if you'd like to check out more HD videos you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto click the bell notifications. 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He's a 13-year NBA vet. He coached the Suns, he coached the Raptors. Earl Watson joining us right now. Earl, first of all, good morning. Thank you for the time.  Were you shocked that the trade finally happened and what do you think about what he's done so far? I wasn't shocked that the trade happened. I knew the Raptors had to make moves. But what OG brings to the Knicks, I don't think RJ could possess. There's two different skill sets. OG is a great two-way player. And what OG is in the late clutch and you'll see it in the playoffs, he's a big-time three-point shot maker. So anytime we play games, you're being the clutch. Last three minutes of the fourth quarter, he comes over with big-time threes. Earl, who do you like that trade for most, though? When you think about the Knicks, they get OG Ananobi, who you know very well. On the Raptor side, I saw them last night, RJ Barrett, Manuel, quickly. Who do you like for this trade? I like the trade for both because RJ fits the timeline of Scotty Barnes. We understand that's his team moving forward. Even though the Pascal Siakum, Saga is taking over the NBA. But for the Knicks, I think the Knicks get a player. And people, I'm about to put on my coaching lens. And the last, OG can guard a five for three to five minutes, not an entire game. So the last five minutes of a game, three minutes of a game, you can put OG on a four and he can switch on to a point guard. He can switch on to a center. He can switch on to a three. Whoever you want him to switch on to when he does a great job, just locking down that defender one-on-one defense. Coach, the trade deadline is less than a month away. There's a lot of rumors, a lot of talk always, but in particular on Pascal Siakum, what's your take there? Do you think they should move him? And do you think he's a one-two option on a championship team? I believe so. I think whoever he gets moved to, he's going to be a two option because they pretty much already have that one option. Unless it's the Pacers, it'd be interesting to see Halliburton and Pascal down the stretch. Because I think what the Pacers is missing is a closer of size who can get to the free throw line, get to rim or create a pass. And what Pascal is excellent at is patience in the paint. He's excellent in this new NBA era of being patient in the middle of the paint to force rotations to kick out for three pointers or dunker passes for dunks and assists. And people kind of minimize his assist game, but he's up there with Jokic. He's up there with Yanis. He's up there with Luca as far as assistant throughout the paint. Oh, the Raptors, they look like they're, you know, they're moving away from Siakam and they're building around Scotty Barnes. Do you think that's a good idea? Do you think that's sustainable? I think when you talk about, is it sustainable? You know, we all know this is players. The timeline of players, and I never understood this, is never with skill. It's only with year and age. So when a team is built, they're built around the year of the player. If the player is a younger player, they'll put younger players around them to grow. And I think the reverse of it is the Lakers. If you remember the Lakers, Colby was so young when the championships with Vets because his skill was at that level. So it's a different lens that you look at it through when you talk about management, making moves and also prepare money to pay Scotty Barnes. When Nick Nurse was let go, there were reports of dysfunction in the locker room. What's going on? You were there. Did you see any of that? I just think it's a tough, it was a tough year if you think about it. It's the same roster. They eventually made moves with that same roster. I think when you talk, when coaches are let go in that area and they bring in a new coach, the first 25 games is gonna tell you if the coach that was previously there was effective or was it just a roster move? I think after the lens of Nick Nurse, you see management take moves that can allow them to kind of advance their roster in a younger era, younger phase, throughout Scotty Barnes, moving OG, potentially moving Pascal and it's the shift of the team. You were also the interim coach and then the full-time head coach of the Phoenix Suns when Devin Booker was a rookie. Did you see the signs back then that he had this ability that we're seeing right now where he's transformed into a superstar? Sam, do you remember back then people thought I was crazy for playing Booker and starting Booker and believing in Devin? And had a couple of quotes saying he'd be the best player in the Phoenix Suns history and people thought, because of my age and inexperience of coaching, I was just not ready for that role. Devin Booker possessed a couple of things for me early on and players understand this. He had a maturity to his game and his age, right? Devin is a mature, younger player and then he had a will and a skill that he could shoot but also had a work ethic that matched it. And the moment I knew Devin Booker was gonna be that guy is when I was an interim, I was a development coach. Devin Booker wasn't playing and at the end of every practice he would play everyone who was staying one on one. He would beat him and as he would walk off the court he would yell, I don't understand why I'm not playing. And I was like, this kid is different. This kid is different. He had this fire and the tenacity he had that would go up into people's faces such as PJ Tucker in practice. And there'd be some physical altercations but the kid never backed down and that's when he knew he would be great. Yeah, coach, with Book you believed in him. You said he could be the greatest son of all time. Is it true that you wanted to actually start him but the organization was stuck on Brandon Knight at the time? So I guess I did, that was the beginning of the end for me. I didn't understand politics and coaching. So yes, that's true. So here's what I didn't understand as a young man. I was 34 when I became the head coach. So this is what I was straight from playing. This is what I didn't understand is that they had paid Eric Bledsoe and Brandon Knight, 60 million each. That's a ton of money in the back court. And here I am as a new coach and Brandon Knight's new deal, saying that Brandon Knight isn't better than the rookie who just drafted Devon Booker. And then here I am going into Boston. I don't think I helped him get 70 because we only had eight players available. I mean, we all knew who was gonna shoot the ball. It wasn't gonna be the three G-league players we had coming off the bench. And then I'm getting Devon 70 in Boston with like 45 seconds remaining. And then that entire, I mean, think about it for players. We are taught to show no mercy on the other side no matter the score. We play into the buzzer ends, right? Well, in coaching, I guess there's a coaching code that I never knew about is we kind of like don't let guys reach that peak. And if the game is pretty much over, I'm a player's coach. I'm like, before it actually was like, was he trying to let him get 70?  I was trying to get into overtime and get him 80. Like, what are you talking about? I was gonna settle for the 70. Wait, you know what? I never thought about that. There's like unwritten rules for coaches, but if you came straight from playing, how would you have ever known any of these rules? That's just not how it works. I mean, I wouldn't have made it in the league if I was that nice and kind that people all had been out in training camp in. We all, I mean, players have played in league on the stand as Kobe could have got 80 a bunch of times. And we never knew what I feel was just not let them play the fourth. And I guess I wasn't paying attention to that part. You guys had the fourth pick in the 17 draft. The Celtics took Tatum at three, but if he had still been up there, is there, I like pretending like, what could have been a world in which we would have seen Tatum and Booker and would have that, that would have been one of the greatest duos of all time. I actually got a phone call from Tatum in his Asia, maybe a year or two ago and they were talking about that draft and they were talking about how, I understood the landscape of future draftees, just because I have so many AAU teams for so long and honest to recruiting in the NBA was about to be the same as college because now everyone can pay, right? Players coming out in this era and this generation want to be developed quickly. They want to play, they want to put the game on the line. So instead of me hosting Jason Tatum at the facility, I took him out of the facility and we just got in my car and we visited every player at their house, almost like a college recruiting trip. And we talked about the vision. We talked about how it was just, I didn't understand this, but I have such a good relationship with players. I could just call them and tell them I'm coming over. I don't know how many players at a head coach come to their house in the summer and chill and watch TV and talk basketball with a potential draftee, but I took them around and I told them the vision and I told them we would be very legendary. They have two light-skinned killers on the court at the same time. Devin Booker and him together, I just saw the vision. He had the greatest free draft work I've ever seen in my life. He started with ball handling and then he went straight to the corner three and I've been watching pre-draft workouts since I played, I was just going watch. I was being intrigued with coaching and drafting and the other side of basketball. He ripped off 40 straight threes and then ownership stopped him. I thought he could have got at least 80 or 100. And after he ripped off the 40, I was like, what else do we need to see? This is over. This is the guy we need. He's like a taller version of Devin Booker, like put one on each wing. He's blessed so how to be a pointer and get a younger point guard and just ride off into the development sunset of that. Isn't it fun to think about what could have been? What we would have seen at that point? Current times, the Suns are struggling with the big three, two and four so far with those guys. What do you think the issues are with that group and trying to find that rhythm? I mean, you two guys kind of know this. It's like, I'm surprised no one had brought this up yet. I think arguably Devin Booker has been the best shooting guard NBA for a couple of seasons, right? And when you have a young shooting guard who is the best in the league at its prime, in my opinion, I'm not getting this from Devin even though I'm out of relationships with these players, as a basketball ends, why would you move the best in a league to a different position? Why would you move Devin Booker before his prime when he's the elite before his prime into a point guard role? The minute we do that, we understand the NBA is a, it's not a, it's a rhythm game. You have to find your rhythm within the offense. Every player has a rhythm that's the fit. And it's up to the coaches to find those rhythms to make that team better. And I think the biggest adjustment for them is to go get a point guard, move Devin back into his natural fit, put Brad on the other wing. And Kate, he can play the four. He can play, you know, positions where in this league he can play the four. And that'd be a tough matchup for any four. And I think they have the advantage. But as far as setting up the team, assisting, keeping Devin mine on scoring, instead of balancing the game, I think is their biggest challenge. I said this exact thing yesterday on the show. I'm like, you got the, one of the best shooting guards in the league. And then your only point guard on the roster is the kid, Goodwin. I'm like, go get a vet point card, at least to set the table and let these three guys eat. I mean, you guys know if we played against Colby in his prime and he moved to the point, we'll be ecstatic. Like, yes. Right. Set up the offense, right? Right. And just deny him when it comes back to, we have so many schemes, but Colby on that wing would invent the score, puts fear into every team. Oh, you were also in Seattle when the SuperSonic's got Kevin Durant in 2007. What was your first impression of KD when he arrived to Seattle?  I'll call him DC Slim. All he wanted to do was stay in the gym, work on his game and play video games with his neighbors. And I thought it was kind of, I thought it was really cool that before games, I was like, KD, so what'd you do before the game? He was like, oh, a couple of my neighbors came down. We play some, you know, we play video games and I just came straight to the gym. Those kids had the greatest experience from one of the greatest players they ever played. And the evolution of KD going into OKC where Russ joined in and James ended up coming, that was a big three before we knew what big threes were organically. And if that three would have stayed together, I think they would have been ahead of Golden State as far as winning championships and being developed. Man. Earl, former UCLA Bruin, Jaime Hocquez, a lot of people hadn't heard of him really much. He's having an unbelievable start of the season. Some people are saying he's in the hunt for rookie of the year. Obviously, you know, Chad, I think, has an unlock. But did you see this coming as a former Bruin yourself? Yeah, I did, actually. I'm close with the family and, you know, I had convinced them to stay was a big part of my role as far as coaching, changing. What I told him is UCLA is always be UCLA. You're going to always have a great opportunity, a great chance of education to develop and meet the smartest people in the world, especially on the court and off the court. And what Jaime was, if you pull up his high school tapes, Jaime was a wing. And Jaime, to me, always had this shifty awkwardness footwork to his game that was kind of like on a perimeter in high school, similar to Genobly, the Euro steps, the awkward finishes. But what you see now is Jaime's footwork in the post, jump-stopping, playing off two feet, finding angles, making the extra pass. He's a basketball survivor, but his parents also played basketball. And his mom is the passionate one. She's the one in the stands, cussing them out. So I think being in with the heat is perfect for him because he has that at home, that same mentality, that same accountability and kind of like that edge. And now apparently he's in the dunk contest, which surprised me. Does he have that kind of bounce to compete with the Mack McClung? He's doing it again, too. I mean, we all had a different bounce in high school. As we got older, we kind of picked up certain weight and too many games. But Jaime asked him stuff to him. He won a high school dunk contest that's here in Canyon with the best LA athletes and talent of that time. And Canyon more junior son, Canyon more junior was in the dunk contest. We know KJ can jump. So for Jaime to be in my high school, I like to see what he pulled out in the all-story game. How's that taste, Chandler? That sounds legit. Can't wait. All right, that's gonna be real. UCLA pickup games. I would imagine there are some stories. Do you have any that you could share? Oh, I've never seen Magic Johnson lose to the back-to-back Lakers. Everyone knows Magic is legendary in pickup and he would bring his same vibe every time he played against Kobe, Shaq, Robert, D-Fish, whoever else came with him. And Magic never lost. When Magic got game point, everything was a foul. If he missed a jump shot, it was a foul. If it was a turnover, it was a foul. So you just knew you wasn't going back the other way. And people never challenged him because Magic is the initiator of those pickup games. When he came in 79 to UCLA to LA, he wanted to develop and play throughout the summer. He was a young player and he just started that and Rico took it to the next level. But seeing Kobe in there and seeing, if you guys remember Chauncey at one point was bouncing from team to team. Chauncey used the UCLA summers to develop his game and get better. Magic was an influence to all of us. And just seeing Kobe go from like 7.30 in the morning from the gym and the track, 5.30 from the track and gym to the pickup games at 3.30. And that's when we knew Kobe was just a different type of player. Yeah, that's awesome. You played alongside Darren Williams, Jason Williams, Russell Westbrook, Dame Lillard. Who was your favorite running mate in the back court? GP, Bandage. Oh, yeah. Oh, man. Yeah, we were all the way back. I'll say that's why I picked the full court, Lou, because they used to bust me up every day of practice. So I knew I wasn't going to face anyone that long in a game that I did in two or three hour practices. But Gary Payton was the most unique. What Gary taught me early in my career is he knew every team's offense and shoot around before he was even given to us. So Gary had his persona of just like, I just play, I just who, I'm not a basketball subline. But when we got into our shoot around, he kind of ran shoot around. He told us what was going to happen. He prepared us for every play, every option, three or four options within the play. And he had the rotations down. So to see how he learned that really created my basketball mind to be more than just a player. And that's when I started to see the game more as a coach because GPR already had that vision. Earl, you got any good, excuse me, any good white chocolate stories? I know that that's my guy in Orlando, Gator, great. Gator. I know one time, you picked me up in the gym one time and just from riding with him to the gym, I almost failed a drug test. And I didn't even take one hit. And I almost failed a drug test, just riding with this bull. I love J. Will. He was also my teammate in Memphis with Brevin Knight. So I've been in point guard heaven, being even tutor to mentor about magic in college. But here's a G. I don't think J. Will would mind me telling the story. Uh-oh. I don't know what words, I don't know what words I can use on this show. So y'all, y'all might have to believe me. Let it feel free. Let it feel free. Let it feel free. Okay, here we go. Y'all remember when UB Brown retired and Fertolo came, right? To Memphis, right? Fertolo became the coach, UB stepped down. Fertelo didn't want J. Will to cross over and shoot threes anymore. And J. Will in the middle of practice was like, damn, Mike, if I can't do that, homeboy, what am I good for? So the entire game, J. Will, was just dribble real fast through a player and do the two dribble backup dribble. Y'all remember that dribble we taught when we was young? I remember that too. And he was doing it on purpose. He was hopping around and hopping around and hopping around. I'm like, damn, dude. I'm yelling like, yo, we gotta win the game. Like, forget what he's talking about.  This is what we do. So it went back and forth for a long time. And I think Fertelo finally gave in because we were just, we were so young, we needed J. Will to be special. But if you put J. Will in this generation of basketball where it was point guard driven, perimeter driven with three point shot making, he would be even better than he was back then. That's just knowing Fertelo too. That's just a fun interaction. I love it. Thank you so much for the time this morning. We appreciate it. Love all the good stories. Hopefully talk soon. Thanks, sir. I appreciate you guys, thank you. Yes, sir. And we'll be back.


So, as I was keeping up over on Twitter with the Democratic debate tonight, I saw a lot of people talking about Jaclyn Hill deleting her Twitter. And lo and behold, yes, Jaclyn Hill deactivated her Twitter as well as her Instagram. This is something I haven't talked about much on my channel, but there's actually a lot that we can learn from it. What is up, everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. If you're new to my channel, what I like to do is take a look at what's going on in the YouTube community or pop culture and try to see what lessons we can pull from them to improve our own mental and emotional well-being. Like, we got to take this mess and turn it into a message because there's always something we can learn. But anyways, if you're into that stuff, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell. And if you haven't yet, make sure you're following me over on Instagram and Twitter at the Rewired Soul because I just finished writing my new book Rewire Your Anxiety and I'm currently recording the audio book. So both of those should be out this weekend. I got my editor working on the audio book and everything like that. So make sure you follow me on social media. I'm giving away 20 free copies already. I picked some winners from a contest I did not too long ago, but I plan on giving away more free copies as well, but you got to follow me over on Instagram and Twitter. All right. So yeah, anyways, I haven't talked much about the Jaclyn Hill situation. I think I made one video about it when the situation first happened. But anyways, I saw today that she deleted her Instagram and Twitter for a little bit of a mental health break. And I want to make it clear, if any of you are new to my channel, you don't know me too well, I am so against cancel culture for a variety of reasons. And here's why. While I do believe that people should be held accountable, I do not believe in not giving people chances. The main reason being, I'm a recovering drug addict and alcoholic. I just celebrated seven years sober and I don't think anybody should just be completely canceled or written off because we do it too much with our prison system here in America, with drug addicts, with alcoholics, with people with mental illness and things like that. I believe in people learning and growing from their mistakes. But what we're going to be talking about with Jaclyn Hill is that she made quite a few missteps and I don't think she realizes how she took these missteps. But again, a lot of you out there watching this, I want you to reflect on your own lives and say, oh my God, what can I learn from this situation? I know a lot of you out there, you're not starting your own makeup lines. If you are, you go. But anyways, there's still things that you can learn from it. So anyways, the first thing that I saw when she came out and she made her kind of apology video, I use quotations because it wasn't really an apology. Now here's the thing. For a covered drug addict and alcoholic, I've had to make a lot of apologies, all right? Part of the program that I work, we make amends to people, all right? When we wrong somebody, we make amends, we ask how we can make this better. And when we do this, we take 1,000% responsibility for this. We don't point fingers at anybody, we don't blame anybody else. When I make amends to people, I don't say, okay, well, hey, I'm sorry I did this to you, but had it not been for being raised by an alcoholic mom or me having a traumatic childhood, I wouldn't have done that, right? So that was one of the issues with Jacqueline Hill's video when she came back with that little apology, because she didn't take full responsibility. Like, I wish more people followed Gary Vaynerchuk. He talks a lot about this personal responsibility. Like, everything that happens is his fault, right? And this is how a lot of us need to operate. And especially when it comes to our own mental and emotional well-being, there's something called locus of control, right? People with an external locus of control, they are much more depressed, they're usually more anxious, because these are people who think that the rest of the world is causing all of their problems. People with an internal locus of control, they believe that their actions have a direct influence on the results in their life, right? They feel much more in control. So it actually is beneficial to take responsibility for these things. But in Jacqueline Hill's video, she blamed the lab and everything like that. One of the things was, like, body language and how you talk is very important. And this is another reason why, if any of you out there have heard me talk about mindfulness, start practicing mindfulness. Be more mindful of the way that you're talking to people. Like, when I watched her video, I was like, girl, why are you yelling at me? Like, why are you getting mad at me, right? Like, she came off very abrasive.  Now, one of the things is I actually sat down and I watched the entire Marlena Stell video from yesterday. And those of you who don't know me clearly, I'm not a makeup person, right? But I try to keep an eye on what's going on in the YouTube community. I remember Marlena Stell last year and everything like that. But anyways, what was interesting was Marlena Stell saying that she warned Jacqueline Hill about that specific lab. Now, you guys, do me a favor. If you haven't yet, and you probably have if you're watching this video, go check out the video. I'm going to link it down below in the description from a biochemist named Kenna. Myself and my beautiful girlfriend Tristan just watched it. And this girl knows her stuff. And it's really cool. Like, she got over a million views on her Jacqueline Hill video. But I think this is needed because I think more people who are using makeup and interested in this stuff, I think that's something cool. Like, this is a new niche, right? Like, people looking at this stuff and examining it and explaining it, right? Because what we're learning with the Jacqueline Hill situation is that there are things that could be potentially harmful. You know what I mean? But anyways, go check out her video because she talks about a lot of inconsistencies with what Jacqueline Hill was explaining about, you know, the lab and how that thing worked, right? Just like when it comes to the cotton gloves and how no lab would do that and how they actually clean those vats and everything. Now, one thing I will say is this. And again, this isn't necessarily letting Jacqueline Hill off the hook. But it felt like Jacqueline Hill was relaying information that she was getting. In my personal opinion, it feels like Jacqueline Hill is getting a lot of input right now. And that's one of the issues. But anyways, what I really want to talk about, too, is that I think a lot of her problems are stemming from the fact that she hasn't just done a recall. So what that young woman Kenna talked about in her video is like, it's standard procedure. It's standard procedure that if this is damaging, you do a recall. So my background is actually in the car service industry. So the first service advisor job I had was for Ford. And around that time, like 1999 and 2000, Ford's like expeditions and F-150s had a recall for this cruise control module that was catching on fire, right? Now, it didn't mean that all of them were going to catch on fire, but there was a possibility that that part could catch on fire. So they recalled all of them. And this is where it feels like pride and ego is getting in the way. Like, obviously, there's different things you have to take into consideration when it comes to running a business and everything like that. But when I see that Jacqueline Hill took a mental health break because of all this, the girl just needs to recall. Like, she just needs to recall it, right? But anyways, here's some information from an Instagram account. I actually saw this, like, T-Spill tweeted this. I don't know if it's accurate, but it said this. Jacqueline's social media accounts are down. She needs time away from the criticism. Jacqueline is a human like all of us, and we all make mistakes.  It's not easy when you're down and you see all the negativity. Some forget Jacqueline has had great success as well. I don't need to list them at this point. But I will say her kind heart is one of the greatest attributes and that, to me, is success. I know I will also be attacked by some saying, how can I know this information? Her boyfriend's mom is a very kind person and follows me. I messaged her because I was worried. Jacqueline is safe. She needs time. Exile Stacy. So when it comes to this, like, this is where I hope just as people, we can have just some empathy, right?  And I do think that while Jacqueline Hill made some missteps in this situation, I don't think she is like this terrible, malicious person. Here's a good example of this, all right? So one of the things, first we'll talk about Hanlon's razor. If you're new here, I love me some Hanlon's razor. Hanlon's razor says, do not attribute to malice which could easily be attributed to stupidity or ignorance, all right? So I remember when TanaCon happened, OK? And like, look where TanaMojo is now, like MTV show, getting engaged to Jake Paul or whatever. But anyways, there was like conspiracies going around, like, she did this on purpose. She wanted to overcrowd TanaCon and have it fail so she got more attention. Like, I don't imagine TanaMojo as being this evil genius. I think she was a dumb kid out for revenge and this happened. So when I look at Jacqueline Hill, I don't see a person who was malicious in this situation.  But something that's been brought up is that this feels like it was rushed, right? It feels like this situation, like she was trying to get products out there. And I just watched the new Atozi video on this. And it's something that I thought as well, like I haven't been following Jacqueline Hill for too long, but my girlfriend and others have filled me in on it. And like, she's been working on this for like five years, like five years. And some of us, we just get so impatient, right? And when it comes to patience, like, here's just what I want to teach people. We have to look at what just happened to Jacqueline Hill, right? And this happens to so many of us. Like, we want to rush things. We just want to get this thing done, right? We want our life to get better now. We want to improve it now. We want to make money now. We want to do all these things now, now, now, now. But if we don't take our time in that process, like, what we're seeing right now is a perfect example about how all that stuff can come crumbling down. Because Jacqueline Hill would have been fine if she waited a month, two months, six months. You know what I mean? But it seems like this was rushed. But I want you to take a look at your own life. Like, what processes are you trying to speed up right now? What are you trying to get involved in and make happen right now, right? And how much is that affecting you? Like, your beliefs that you need this right now. Maybe you think you need a relationship right now, or you need all this money right now, or you need a car right now, or whatever it is. Sometimes we really need to look at this. And like, this is something I've been working on personally a lot lately, is really just appreciating the process and focusing on the process and not trying to hurry through and just get that result that we want. You know what I mean? So again, if you're watching this Jacqueline Hill situation, like, try to see what you can take from this and learn from it yourself. You know what I mean? But anyways, let me know down in the comments below like, what you can relate to in this situation. Like, when it comes to apologizing, like, do you pass the blame? Or do you know people who pass the blame? Do you have an issue with rushing through things and things not turning out as well as they could? Like, how can you personally relate to this situation? But anyways, at the end of the day, you know, I hope the best for Jacqueline Hill. I hope she comes out on the other side of this thing. I hope she comes out better and stronger. She's made some mistakes in the past with some other things. But anyways, like, these are things that people need to learn and grow from, all right? But hopefully she just recalls the product. Again, check out that biochemist video I talked about, it's gonna be linked down below. It's like 23 minutes, very, very good. And like, if you are into makeup and you're just kinda like into like extra stuff and learning, like, go subscribe to Kenneth's channel, it's really cool. All right, but anyways, that's all I got for this video. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up. If you're new, make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell because I make a ton of videos. And don't forget, follow me over on Instagram and Twitter because Rewire Your Anxiety is coming out this weekend and I'm giving away free copies and you want links to the ebook and the audio book and all that stuff, all right? And a huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on Patreon. You're all amazing. If you wanna become a patron, support the channel, maybe get a free copy of the book, click or tap right there, all right? Thanks again so much for watching. I'll see you next time.