There are two big events that happen in October every year that are both scary and exciting and of course I'm talking about Halloween and I'm talking about the release of a new version of Ubuntu Ubuntu typically releases a new version every Six months in April and October of every year and the October releases are always interim releases They're not long-term support releases, which means they can be kind of interesting So today what I wanted to do was I wanted to take a look at the recently released Ubuntu 2110 Their flagship edition with the GNOME desktop environment codenamed impish-indry. So let's talk about the name first impish-indry What does that mean?  Apparently it is a lemur that lives in Madagascar. So impish-indry is a devilish lemur Interesting name. So let me switch over to my virtual machine here. So I just spun up a virtual machine I'm going to go ahead and run through an installation of 2110 So I'm just going to go ahead and choose the first option from the grub menu here All right, and our live environment has loaded and you have two options try Ubuntu meaning this closes And you can just try out the live environment itself or you can go ahead and run through a proper installation I'm going to go ahead and install Ubuntu and the first thing is choose the language by default It's set to English us that is correct for me. So all I need to do is click continue And then do we want to do a normal installation or do we want to do the minimal installation the minimal Installation will just not have quite as many things installed So the normal installation gives you web browser office suite a few games some media players the minimal installation It's going to give you the web browser because that's very important But a lot of the other stuff the office suite media players and all of that It's not going to give you those you'll install the ones you want if you want those I'm going to do the normal installation other options download updates while installing Ubuntu I will go ahead and do that install third-party Software for graphics wi-fi additional media. So what this is this is your third party drivers So your proprietary drivers for your graphics card if you're an Nvidia user for example Or your wi-fi drivers if you're doing this on a laptop many wi-fi chips only have proprietary drivers And then a multimedia codex many of those are proprietary software as well What this will do will get you those proprietary drivers and codex that you need to actually have a proper desktop experience So click that on and then click continue and then the installation type erase disk and install Ubuntu This is the default It's just going to erase the entire drive and give the entire drive to Ubuntu Something else if you choose that then that is manually partitioning the drive For me, I'm just going to do a race disk and install Ubuntu. There is an advanced features button here Let me click on that And this is what you can do if you want to set up lvm Or if you want to instead of using the default extend for file system If you want to switch over to using zfs I will go ahead and tick on a race disk and use zfs just to verify that this actually works correctly And then i'm going to click install now And now it's warning us that it's going to format the drive and right to the disk i'm going to click continue And now we get to our time zone and it is correctly chosen that i am in the central time zone in the u.s I'm just going to click continue and now we need to create our username I'm going to call my user dt The computer name. This is the computer's host name. I'm going to call this Ubuntu-vert And then we need to choose a strong and complicated password for my dt user We want to make sure that that's a good password for privacy reasons And then do we want to log in automatically? I don't because I like having to enter a password to get into my computers again for privacy reasons Uh, so I want to require my password to log in and we also have a box here use active directory That's ticked off by default. I'll leave that ticked off. I'm going to click continue And now the installation will actually continue for a few minutes This portion of the installation typically takes about five or ten minutes You will get a slideshow that plays while it installs You can actually cycle through the slides if you want to read a little bit about 2110 here. I'm going to pause the video and once this portion of the installation has completed. I'll be back And the installation completed that took about 10 minutes or so. I'm going to go ahead and click restart now And if you were doing this on a physical machine, you should unplug the usb stick that you were installing from It it should prompt you. Yeah, please remove the installation media and then press enter And it's rebooting just fine Ah, we don't get a grub menu at all. It bypasses grub, which is fine Well, we could force it to show us a grub menu if we needed it But it just boots directly into our login manager where we have to enter our password All right, and we're logged into Ganon. By the way, this is Ganon 40 So, uh, they're still on Ganon version 40 here. The first thing I want to do before I get started doing anything else Is change the uh display resolution So I'm going to search for display and then I'm going to go down to close that message Go down to resolutions 1920 by 1080 and I'm going to click apply And then I'm going to tell it to keep the changes. All right And now close that out and here is the welcome screen that we were greeted with And this is where you can go ahead and connect any online accounts that you want to go ahead and connect Such as Ubuntu single sign-on your google accounts next cloud or Microsoft I don't have any of these accounts except for our next cloud account. I'm not going to connect that here On camera and then next do we want to be a part of the telemetry here? So do we want to send crash reports back to canonical typically? I don't mind leaving this turned on to yes, so that would be fine for me. So I'll leave that on I'm just happy they ask. I mean if you want to choose no, you don't want to send them any information That's fine too, but if these distributions ask to to send crash reports or bug reports I don't mind doing that for them and then privacy. Do we want to turn on location services? I probably don't I'm good with leaving all of that off Then it says you're ready to go you can use software to install apps like these Such as vs code zoom spotify slack a whole bunch of other stuff discord is here obs 0ad and it says open software now I'm assuming this would just open the gnomes software center here And that is taking a long time to open The gnomes software center is probably packaged as a snap. I'm assuming because that took a long time to load up there It's also taking a long time to sync the repositories That's not unusual the very first time you open something especially after a fresh installation These things can take a while Sometimes the very first boot up after an installation takes a little longer, but after that typically things settle down a bit But it is taking a long time to sync the repositories here for this gnomes software center This is one of the reasons why I typically don't use these kinds of applications I I never use these applications to install and remove software or update my system. You guys always see me bring up a terminal That's why I would have already been done at the terminal before this thing ever loads But you know for purposes of this video you guys probably want to see what the software center looks like and I want to see And you know it looks good. I mean the gnomes software center doesn't look bad Looks very easy. You got your editor picks. You got some recent releases And of course, you've got categories to search through for example if you wanted to search for some games, you know I could click on the games category And is it even loading? It doesn't look like Yeah, it doesn't look like anything happened there Are these categories just empty? Yeah, finance is empty. Let's do music and audio Uh, yeah, something's going on here probably since we just installed Ubuntu 21.0.10. I am getting prompted that there's updates available. Let me go ahead and do an update all Let's update all the packages that have updates available. It looks like right now I'm the only thing that needs updating is snapd, which is the snap daemon But there's several snap packages installed by default in ubuntu So we should go ahead and update the core snap and I've been staring at this screen for about a minute Maybe a minute and a half And the core snap package here probably should only take A few seconds at most to install. I would think it still says it's installing. I could cancel it, but You know what? I'm just going to pause the video and see if this thing ever completes Updating. All right, and that package the core snapd package did actually finish updating It took two three minutes and now let's go back to this installed packages explore packages Updates says application updates. I still have a button here's Update all it says unable to install updates snap has no updates available So is this all snaps in the software center? Why is it telling me that there's no snaps available? You know what? I'm just going to close this out the the software center I don't know what's going on with it. It'll probably sort itself out, you know after We could probably Help it sort things out by doing control alt t and opening a terminal And this is why I do everything in the terminal Those graphical software centers. I just do sudo apt update And and sudo apt upgrade that's your command line on dibbian and ubuntu based distributions to update The or sync the repositories and then upgrade all the packages that have updates available And this way, you know, it tells us exactly what's going on here There's only one package to update But if there were errors here, you would actually get a proper error message, you know in the terminal that completed just fine so Yeah, I don't know what's going on with the software center. Let's reopen it and Art and design, you know, still nothing here Yeah, I don't know. This is this is practically useless so, uh Yeah, this is very off-putting Again, I wouldn't use this. I wouldn't use gnom. Anyway, I wouldn't use a gnom software center I'm not that kind of user But the people that would use this, you know new to linux users, especially They're going to be put off immediately that this software center is uh completely broken Uh and I've still got the welcome screen here. Maybe I want to install one of these programs. Maybe I want to install gimp I click on it It does open the gimp page inside the software center and I get the install button And let's see if I can click on it and does anything happen Well, I clicked on it and it didn't look like anything happened. I'll click on it again. Okay Unable to install gnu image manipulation program status code 409 kind equals snap As trying to install gimp as a snap and it failed Yeah, okay. Why are you installing gimp as a snap? It's available as a as a dip pack Again, why why don't we just open a terminal?  I just got gimp installed where anybody that was stuck in that graphical software center They're wondering what the hell those error messages are they're going To the internet and they're going to spend hours reading Form post on ask a boon to about what that error is I'm just I'm just not going to deal with them. It's going to go to the command line where things typically just work So let me close out our little welcome screen here and let's go ahead and on the sidebar here We do have firefox as our default browser. Let me launch firefox And firefox takes a second to load, but that's normal for firefox, especially the very first time But I don't know this is the very first time I mean a boon to 2110 was just released Like just a couple of hours ago. So there may still be some bugs in it It still may be kind of more of a beta rather than an official release Even though it is an official release, but still the very first time you open firefox at least for me I get tab crash reporters. So it's complaining about a crash On the very first time I open firefox. So that's not good either. So let me go to help About firefox. What version of firefox are we running a 93 dot o? Of course 64 bit version of firefox Let me you know once again I hate to keep opening a terminal because I know a lot of you guys Some you know new to linux users a lot of you a long time a boon to users probably don't use the Terminal that often but you know, we're getting all these errors and things things aren't working right and i'm just curious snap a list And let me zoom out so we can actually read that because i'm zoomed in so far here And there is a list of all the snaps that are installed on the system And that's kind of what I was afraid of firefox is installed as a snap Gimp is installed as a snap too, but I didn't finish the installation of gimp earlier it complained that the gimp installation crapped out on us But I have two different versions of gimp So I guess it did even though I got the error message saying that it failed it did install gimp as a snap It also installed gimp as a dead package from the apt repositories I wonder if both of them actually launch Says gnu image manipulation program is ready. Then where's it at? Okay, there it is. I guess it launched it but for some reason it launched it behind the terminal window I'm wondering if the second gimp would also launch and we wait One of them is a snap pack and i'm assuming it's the second one It took a long time for that thing to open Oh my goodness one other thing to note here is snap dash store That's the snap store if I ran that package here. You'll see what that is You see that is what I thought was the gnomes software center It is the gnomes software center, but it's been modified and it yeah It's trying to show us snaps instead of you know dip packages I guess that's why that software center is so bare and practically empty but but it's still weird because Snap packages if you go to snap craft the snap store There are actually a lot of snap packages out there. These categories should not be empty. There's a million Music and audio snaps out there and now they load Okay, I knew it would eventually sort itself out. I don't know probably uh Maybe running the snap list command or running some other snap commands I don't know but something eventually sorted it out to where it synced the snap store And now it's actually showing us what is available here I'm going to close that out. Now. I really don't want firefox or gimp as a snap if they're available in the repository So i'm going to do a sudo snap Is it uninstall or is it remove? I can't remember this if snap is the same as apt. I think it's removed sudo snap remove firefox Yep, that looks like that works All right, and it says firefox remove now i'm going to sudo snap remove gimp Because i've got gimp installed from the standard repositories and gimp installed as a snap So let's get rid of the uh the second gimp, which is the snap Now I will not have a browser since uh the only browser was firefox installed as a snap So now let's go ahead and sudo apt install firefox. Let's install the correct firefox from the Ubuntu repositories here. All right and firefox finished installing. I'm going to go into show applications I'm going to search for firefox and I'm going to see if I can drag an icon back here because it was removed when we uh Uninstalled it now. Let's launch firefox and see if we get any more annoying crashes No, you see the standard firefox from the repos is working So yeah, so that's the one I would definitely go with about firefox 93.0. Yeah, so uh, we got rid of the the annoying snap version of firefox And if I hit the super key to get back into the uh show applications thing, uh, well, I guess I'll Just do it with my mouse here. Uh, do I have two versions of gimp installed? No, I just have one now So that's good. So I think we solved the snap problem and now if I do snap list Yeah, the only snaps that are really here are like the core snaps and the snap store itself And that's fine. Let me go ahead and clear the screen here. I'm going to do a uname dash r What kernel version are we on? We're on 5 dot 13 and if I did a Apped list dash dash installed Let's see how many packages are actually installed from the repositories. Of course it Spits every package that's installed out on its own line So we could take that and pass that into the word count program So pipe that into wc and then give wc the dash l flag for a line count And it'll tell us that in that output there were 1734 lines So that's how many packages were installed from the apt repositories 1734 now there are two programs I check with every new release of a boon 2 to see if they're installed because I think they should just be Automatically installed on every single linux distribution on the planet. Vim should actually be installed, but it's not H top should be installed. It's not There's one other program that's never installed by default in a boon 2 and I always have to install it Now I know not everybody has to use git, but I do think git probably should be installed by default So there's a lot of really basic programs I mean for a distribution that you know installs quite a bit of software But yet it misses a lot of what I consider really fundamental programs that should be there Well, let's go ahead and take a look at some of the programs that are installed by default So if I get back into the menu system here, we have our additional drivers program So if you clicked on this this would install your Proprietary drivers for your envidia graphics card for example or your proprietary wi-fi drivers for your Wi-fi chip in your laptop. So this is you know, you it will scan for any Drivers that are available. Of course in this vm. There's no proprietary drivers available for me But you'll get a list of things that you could install and then just hit apply changes or whatever and it'll just install them It's a great little tool Very easy to get that stuff installed and working correctly in a boon tube. You have a all riot solitaire solitaire game GNOME calendar language support the livery office suite So we've got calc. Is that the only uh livery office program? And I'm pretty sure it installed writer yet did so But why was calc the only one that had a icon? That's kind of weird too about livery office. What version are we on? We're on <IP_ADDRESS> Let me get back into the menu because yeah, we have the the main page of livery office where you can open You know your writer programs or your impress Documents or whatever, but calc has its own separate icon. That's kind of weird Videos that's gnomes videos text editor. That's just g edit gnomes plain text editor Really nice little text editor. I quite like g edit We have settings which is just the gnomes settings manager where you can change things like the screen resolution Which we did earlier or you know change your power settings keyboard settings and things like that You can think of it as like a control center I get back into the menu system We have a utilities category where you'll find things like your system monitor Since we didn't install htop. I guess we could take a look at the system monitor actually I uh minimized it. I'm trying to find space to make it uh maximize and the problem is you know This bar has so much crap in it. And this is not a boon-tooth problem. This is gnomes problem I don't know what gnomes doing these days. There's so much stuff in this bar You can barely you can barely grab the bar to resize it or move it You can barely find an empty spot to double click it to maximize it And that's just weird like gnomes Gnomes has practically destroyed itself We may come back to that later, but uh, let's actually check system resource usages with htop I'm just going to go ahead and install htop because this will be much easier Much cleaner to read as well. And now htop is installed. Let's run it and let's see Wow We are using almost 1.5 gigs of the six gigs of ram. I gave this VM That's absolutely insane That is insane. We haven't done anything. We're not running anything The only thing that's running, uh, the snapd daemon is running, you know, we opened some of those snap packs as well earlier Uh, maybe some of that is causing a spike and of course gnomes Even just vanilla gnomes on most distributions does typically push about a gig of ram on cold boot 5 gigs. So it's way over the top That's just crazy That I mean that is insane because think about that Many desktop environments and window managers these days use a few hundred megs Oh, yeah, many of them get down, you know under 400 megs of ram and this thing's using 1.5 gigs That means it's using more than a gig of ram than many other desktop environments would use That's one gig of ram That's not available for you to actually use doing work like video editing or web browser Browsing gaming, whatever it is. It's sucking up a lot of your ram You can't use it for those applications because the gnomed desktop environment is using that ram And that that's uh unacceptable in my book Now there's something really weird with this menu system because I know we've got more programs in this install It's only showing us like a dozen programs Uh, I see we've got two screens here Oh, okay. So there's the rest of the programs, but why Why is this screen got just a few programs? I mean, it's not it didn't even feel the whole screen You would think this is all that's here because you would think it would have at least three lines And if they would go all the way to the end over here, but they don't Why is it split up like this? Again, this is probably not a boon-tooth problem. This is gnomed 40 here Again, the gnomed desktop environment again. I think it's basically Over the last few years they've made a whole bunch of questionable decisions that in my opinion Have kind of made them obsolete as a desktop environment that people actually are interested in or want to use And I really think it's one of the problems that a boon-tooth faces these days and I've complained about it For about a year, maybe two years I started, you know, kind of putting it out there that a boon-tooth A boon-tooth is waning in popularity. A boon-tooth is not what it once was because at one time a boon-tooth was overwhelmingly the most popular Linux distribution on the desktop by far It probably had more installations than all other Linux distributions combined That's how popular a boon-tooth once was these days. Nobody's excited about it I actually didn't know a boon-tooth was having a release today when I got to the office today I actually didn't know today was like the date of an a boon-tooth release. I just saw it, you know, in my News reports here.  Nobody talks about it Nobody really cares anymore. And that's sad because I was an a boon-tooth user In the early days a boon-tooth was what got me into the Linux desktop and It was so much more exciting back then, you know, the new releases of a boon-tooth They had release parties and it was a celebration And the problem is a boon-tooth is stuck in the past They're still holding on to ganon and they they need to ditch ganon Ganon is holding a boon-tooth back in a major way Ganon is killing itself and anybody attaching this in itself to ganon is going to die with it That's just the case ganon has destroyed their desktop environment. They've neutered their file manager They they've done so much so many questionable decisions And uh, obviously ganon is very politically activist in nature as well You know, they're out there fighting these fights that have nothing to do with software And canonical as a company really should distance themselves from ganon another thing about, you know You're holding on to the past is if I switch back to the desktop here You know, they're using firefox as the default web browser Most linux distributions use firefox as their default web browser But firefox is collapsing right now firefox is Emerging as far as money and user base They are losing market share by the tens of millions every year to the point where firefox Probably will not be around in five years And I strongly suggest a boon-tooth and all these other linux distributions to start exploring other options As far as your default web browser because firefox is kind of garbage these days Again, the company is garbage The ceo that runs it is garbage and you know brave There's an open source browser that was started by the former ceo of mozilla He left mozilla to start brave and it's fantastic And it's got the same kind of energy as what the old firefox had back when firefox was actually popular Where now, you know, don't hold on to this these dying Uh projects like genom and firefox and I think If canonical continues to do that a boon-tooth is going to join that group as well as you know part of these Once very popular software projects for an open source software projects They just kind of fade away. Now, of course, I got off on a ramp there But man, this this is probably the worst release of a boon-tooth. I think I've ever taken a look at Uh, at least in the last 10 years now if you go back and when they switch from genom 2 to genom 3 or to the unity desktop back in a What a boon-tooth 1104 that thing was horrible. But at least in the last 10 years, this is one of the least Uh pleasant experiences I've ever had. I mean the software center didn't work and they're installing all these snap packages that are Either crashing or they're just slow to load Let's take a look at the wallpaper pack. So I'm going to change background Maybe they're going to impress me with some beautiful wallpapers because honestly the uh injury wallpaper the lemur on the wallpaper That's actually not bad. You got anything else.  I like that Yeah So you give me three wallpapers one of them. Uh, kind of boring that one's really nice And I like your your original art with the injury wallpaper. That's actually not bad too, but still that is That's that's again strange as I think that's Another sign that a boon-tooth Is that a warning sign that the wallpaper pack is not, you know How it was in previous generations of a boon-tooth where you had these great wallpaper packs of 1215 Really high quality wallpapers that the community Contributed to that could be another sign other than that Another release of a boon-tooth again, they release every six months. I was kind of disappointed in this release There's so many buggy things with it So many snap pack bugs as well with it But it is an interim release and the good thing about Interim releases is they can test things they can actually put these things out there Knowing that it's not quite ready for prime time because they want to get these things tested, of course in advance of the next LTS release, which of course is coming Next april so in 2204 which is april of 2022 in six months. They're gonna have a lts release So it's good to throw as much stuff in 2010 as possible knowing that some of this stuff is not quite ready yet So that some of the bugs get fleshed out a little bit In preparation for the upcoming lts release. Now before I go, I do want to thank a few special people I want to thank the producers of this episode gave james mitchell paul scott west a commie allen chuck commander angry Diokai david dylan gregory hyko lee maxim michael mike nitrix erion alexander peace archon fedora poly dead rave Red prophet steven and willy these guys. They're my highest tier patrons over on patreon without these guys this episode About a boom 2 2010 impish entry. It wouldn't be possible The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these ladies and gentlemen as well These names you're seeing on the screen right now. These are all my supporters over on patreon because I don't have any corporate sponsors I'm just sponsored by you guys the community if you like my work and want to support me Please subscribe to distro tube over on patreon. All right guys peace Ganon makes my head hurt


Every single Monday, two o'clock, central standard time right on the nose. Thanks for being with me. I got some exciting, cool stuff I want to go over today. Not only do I want to mention that I'm in our current studio, Dylan is running the show from the other side of the building with our pearl equipment. It's pretty nuts because right now, we've got a brand new studio being built that you can't see it. Thanks so much for watching. I want to talk about jump-starting 2019. I want to talk about blowing up 2019 for you.  So as we're doing this, as we're walking through some of this and talking through this, I want you to ask questions. If you're uncertain of something, ask.  Please ask. Please comment. Please like, subscribe and share this video where they're watching on Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube at SecureAge at Mentor and Cody Asken. So before I jump into how to jump-start, how to make you tons of freaking money in 2019, I want to mention that for the next seven days, the next seven days for 8% nation, we're giving away VIP tickets. They're normally $1,250. A VIP ticket gets you two-day access to the event. A VIP ticket gets you two-day access to the event, as well as lunch, both days for free, a closer seat, and you get access to the VIP Speaker Lounge. We've only got so many of these that we have to give away. They're normally $1,250 for 8% nation 2019 at the Statler in Dallas, end of July, 26 and 27th. VIP tickets are on sale at only $197. For the next seven days, that's the biggest discount we've ever done on 8% nation 2019 tickets, especially VIP. So pay attention. Go to apreciation.com or call in to grab that deal. That's only this week. Crazy good deal for 8% nation 2019 tickets. VIP for only $197, that's ridiculous. It costs me more to feed you both days and to give you the seat and to let you hang out with the speakers and everything else in the Speaker Lounge than it does that you'll pay for the ticket. That's nuts. So make sure you check it out. Big sell going on. How do we jump-start 2019?    How do we do that?  Because a lot of agents, we're scared to pick up the telephone. We're scared to do certain things.  When we threw 8% nation 2019 or 2018, I knew nothing about throwing a conference.  Tons, hundreds and hundreds of people were able to show up a lot of fun, really an awesome event. But I had to get out of my comfort zone is why I use as an example. I had to step out. I'm in my box, right? Like you're in your box right now. I had to step out of that sucker to really figure out, hey, here's how I elevate my game and do more.  Whatever your box looks like, that you're just super comfortable inside of it, step out of that sucker and do some big stuff.  I'm talking record a website, right? Set up a website, record some videos, track your progress on social media. Do a public challenge where you try to write 100 grand in a quarter. Do a public challenge where you're like, hey, I'm going to make 6 grand this week, watch my success, and then document. Like step out of your comfort zone. Because when you set a target, I need you to step out of your comfort zone. Say, because a lot of agents, I would say the average insurance agent makes around 50k a year, right? 50k a year, that's just awful. It's sad.  It's bad, right? You guys are, you're watching right now, you're like, dang dude, I don't want to keep making 50k. A lot of agents make less 50k. Some agents make about 50k. Some agents make more than 50k. No matter what, right now, this is too low. You're thinking too small, and I'm not going to let you set that as a target for 2019. I don't care if you made 10 grand last year. It doesn't matter. We will not set a target lower than 100k. And let's just say that, you know what, you say, Cody, I made 80 grand last year. Well, then your new target needs to be at least a buck 60, right? Or you're like, hey, dude, I made, so say you can go from, say you can go from 40k to a buck 60. Say you can say, you know what, I made 80, man. You know what?  You're like, dude, I made 120. Let's bump you up to about 480, right? Because anyone watching this in this industry, there are more millionaires in the financial services and insurance industry than any other industry in the world. You're in the right place. You're in the right vehicle. Now let's jumpstart 2019 and make you some dough. And this is how we're going to do it by setting a target, thinking bigger, and attacking it like it's something that you've never done. So the first thing is, obviously, we're talking about stepping out of your comfort zone. The next thing is you have to have a target, right? What does the target look like? What is the target for you? What is the target for you?  It's going to be incredible. I'm going to be super happy.  Say the center, say that right here in this ring, you're at $100K. Say this next ring, you're at $200K. And say in here, you're at about $300K. Most agents never get to this, let alone this or this. I got to this one my first year at 19 years old while in college playing basketball, working part-time. I was able to get to this ring. I know that you guys can get deeper and further. If you're here or if you're here, let's get you here. Or if you're here, let's get you here.  So some of the things that I think about when I'm like, okay, how does an agent scale up to where they want to make $300,000 in 2019? So let's look at that. Let's look at $300K and let's break down those numbers. Because what does that look like? Because $300,000, let's just say that your average sale is literally, for me, it was always generally about, it was about 80 bucks a month. Even in the field, I was just absolutely slaughtering it and it was normally 80 to do about 80 bucks a month. So I was able to average. I was averaging about $1,000 of AP per sale. Because of just the different things that I do. If you haven't had a one-hour consultation with me, I promise you, you need to call in and book that thing because if you're not here, I'll get you up closer to there. So if you divide that, then you're looking at 300 sales in 2019. If you can up your average, 300 sales in 2019 to make $300K. Okay, you following me so far? If you're not, make sure you comment and ask some questions. So how do we get you to 300 sales? If we divide that by 50 weeks, then that's all you need, six sales per week. And you say, Cody, that sounds much more feasible. I mean, you could work, you could work Monday through Saturday and make one sell a day and end up at six sales for the week. So how do we get you to six sales a week? And for a lot of agents are like, dude, I can't do this for the next 20 minutes or 15 minutes or however long we're together. I want you to think that you can. I want you to get out of here. We talked about earlier, getting out of your comfort zone. Step outside the box for a second. Get creative, think bigger, and walk through this with me. Six sales a week. Monday through Saturday, that's a sell per day. Six sales a week. How do we get you to six sales a week? To get to six sales a week, you need to sit with 12 people. It's seeming much more possible now. You need to sit with 12, right? Because the math behind six sales, right? The math behind six sales is set 18, sit with 12, and you end up with six sales, right? So how do you set 18? Because what happens is I think that you could say, hey, Cody, I want to make 300 grand, right? You could say the target 300 grand, 18, 12, and six, you could have call nights on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and book and set six, six per night. I'm talking two hours, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, six hours total. And then in those two hours, you're booking about three appointments per hour. Because if you do the math, if you call two hours here, two times three appointments per hour, that's six. So you're calling six hours for the week, and you may have to call more. You say, well, Cody, I only set an appointment every 30 minutes. Then call three hours, right? Because if you break down the math behind this and you say, Cody, you know what? I book and a lot of people, this is true.  A lot of people say, Cody, I can set one appointment every 30 minutes that I spend on the phone. And that's that. You should be able to do way better. Like you should just be able to do way better. There's no doubt about it. But in that case, let's just say, I'm going to use really conservative awful numbers. Let's just say you set one appointment every 30 minutes. That sucks, by the way. That's not good.  Here's me being realistic. So if you set one appointment every 30 minutes, then you need to call nine. If you're this bad, you need to call nine hours per week to end up setting 18 appointments. If you follow this math, you'll end up setting 18 appointments. We talked about it. All 300 grand is, is 18, 12, and 6. That's all it is. Set, sit, sell. Set, 18, sit with 12. Sit and ask 12 to buy every week. You'll sell about six, sometimes more. If you said, Cody, I only have a 50% closing ratio. Okay, 50% closing ratio. You sell six. But what if one third of them are double sells, then you end up with, in two of the homes, you end up with four apps. And then the other four, you get four. You and actually end up with eight sells. Follow me so far. Even if you have, even if you have a smaller average per sale, you're still going to end up with eight sells if you get a couple couples along the way. So 18, 12, and 6. She said, well, Cody, what do I need to do to be able to set 18 appointments? Well, you need some leads. Right? You need, you need some leads. If that's the goal, 300K, if you had, if you had even a bad agent, if you had 40 leads per week, say they're, say they're at 20 bucks a piece, you're looking at $800, okay? So 40 leads. So say you had 40 leads a week, you need, and even at 40%, you're going to set 18. You're going to sit with 12 and you're going to sell six. Set, sit, sell. You're going to end up selling six, right? But what keeps people from being able to jump start their year and blow it up and make 300K, the things that keep them from being able to doing it is two things, two reasons. There's two reasons why most agents will never do this. Let alone this. Two reasons. You ready? There's exactly two reasons why most agents will never hit any number more than 50, 60, 80, 90 grand. Number one, they don't invest. They don't invest. You don't invest in your business. I talk about, hey, you can spend 800, 600, 800 bucks a week and make 300 grand, okay? Right? If hypothetically, if you knew that you spent 800 bucks and we would give you six grand in return, how often would you make that exchange every single week and even more if they would allow you to, right?   It's, it always comes down to a lack of two things, a lack of money and also a lack of effort because you don't want to pick up the phone. You're scared of the telephone.   But most people never will. They'll never pick it up, go into conferences like this and grabbing your VIP seat right now for 90, almost 90% off will teach you how to go to do these things. We set a target. We also broke down the numbers, right? We also broke down the numbers of exactly how you can make $300,000 in 2019. I broke down the amount of, amount of, amount of, I broke down the amount of leads you needed. I broke down the amount of time you need to spend on the phone, how often you need to set an appointment, how much you need to set, sit and sell. Like we broke it all down. But the only reason you won't do it is if you don't, if you aren't serious, commitment. Like anybody can get their hands on four, six, $800 if they really want to, right? You don't commit. You're not all in. You're not committed. And then you don't pick up the phone because you're scared of the telephone, which brings me to the fact that more agents should do whatever it takes to succeed. But we won't because we're scared. We won't get out of our comfort zone.  When we know that's what we need to do, we won't do it. We're scared. It's like, oh my gosh, I can't do that because you're not committed.  I thought, I thought about it when I was working out this morning. I'm like, you know what separates me from a lot of people? My age is the fact that I will do whatever within the ethical bounds. I will do whatever it takes, whenever it takes it. I was up to here at the office till 8.30, almost every night last week, because I will do whatever it takes. And I'm committed and more serious than most people I know. I want you to be committed in doing whatever it takes in 2019. Whatever it takes, I want you to do it. If it takes buying 40 leads a week and spending six, nine hours on the phone per week, you get 168 hours. We're talking about spending like six to nine of it on the phone, right? You just, I'm still going to give you, you get to keep 160 hours of your week. Just spend eight on the phone, six on the phone, four on the phone. Start somewhere, but do it and commit and go all in. For those just joining us, we threw 8% Nation 2018 at Nissan Stadium with Ray Lewis and Grant Cardone, a lot of amazing speakers. We're doing it again. 2019, Statler, five-star hotel in Dallas. We'll have over 1,200 people. No doubt about it. It will sell out early. It's the end of July, 26 and 27. Tickets or VIP tickets come with free food, VIP lounge, closer seats, lunch for both days. Normally 1,250 bucks. That seat is only 197. 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Um And we also got the discord man links to all of this is down below man Surviving London's deadly streets night crime gangs in prison. This is Rambo Who is Rambo? Okay. Shout out a shout out to the table room He went to my hometown, but he went to the rack Shout out to my boy And I see you have some of the members on there. You have some of the guys on there salute salute But yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, anyway Let's get into this man Salute towel room. He's doing a lot of stuff that a lot of people won't do man break the barriers out there Man, he low key Chicago to the UK to the UK man Let's get into this when I hanged up the rope And I'll play around my neck Introducing Rambo a legendary icon repping the vibrant streets of West London when our raw unfiltered conversation with Rambo We took a deep dive into relentless tassels. Okay, and I stood on the chair. This was two years I had two years left and I looked down We don't we don't preview we get right into it But came from I was born in Chelsea Chelsea Hospital, but my father came from Iraq literally as a refugee He came over to here to give us a better life, etc But at the age of seven he passed away, you know, and my mother was left with three children to look after and I was the eldest So due to the situation my mother had to become a man family back in Iran She needed some support to raise us for me and she felt like this was the way to do it But realistically in reality that was the one of the worst decisions she could have made Because the minute we went back there Her family set us up. They ripped up our passports and everything.  That's it. You can't do that. Y'all can go back whenever I was She is too. She was married She managed to save her passport to go back to London to get out so our ones out to come back and bring us back Okay, okay Yeah, y'all are nationals y'all good in that time it took a year and a half Yeah, a lot of things happening that year and a half which we're gonna be talking about One of the main things that has never left my head is when I was seven Literally in the area everyone knew he was from London and they thought we had money Etc when it was the complete opposite so a group of people came kidnapped me threw me in the back of the car and Literally was attempting to sell my insides for money. I Was I'm the little our praises be to God. I was only there for two days with them It wasn't a long process only not know who my uncle was my uncle was very known in that area in that two days I'll be honest. I got beat Like I've got a dent in my head at seven I got stabbed They were torturing me. So let me get this straight I'm also was a case of you was taken away from your parents or your mom And you said they tried to take your insides out. Well, what was the situation? Basically? They was calling up our family Telling them if we don't pay a certain amount of money They will sell my insights for money instead because they make money out of your organs over there That's what the gang culture back in that country does and they come from poverty So they'll do anything to make money real poverty not the fake pop not what poverty in the third world is real different than Poverty from where he from originally In the reality They didn't understand who they were doing this to them out. I don't want to be big but my uncle was very known in the area The uncle was the fact that when they found out who he was they just literally let me go outside And I took a hospital to get stitches. I to get myself so a bear man I'm only seven years old, you know, and I've just lost my father. My mom's going back to London Yeah, it was it was crazy. It was a serious experience They literally put a dent in my head how much time they kicked me on my head. I was sleeping my joy of the two days I got one I have much memory of it, but it wasn't a good two days Well, why was you taken again? Sorry in the first place. What why you it was kidnapped because they knew it was from London When they find out is when they find out if you come from London, America If you come from anywhere in in the Westworld, you're seen as money You are a target instantly So they took advantage of that and kidnap me and ford, you know what? We're gonna make some money out of this guy. They got the drop. This was like three months being there and that's what happened And then ain't nobody gonna say man. Hey, I'm not and they're kidnapping me. Yes, they are Yes, they are And then you can do yesterday you could be the toughest dude on earth. They're taking you I was next for your life To be honest after I went back the struggles didn't end there I had so many fights like it was ridiculous. I had to defend myself so many times I stood out So going to school back in that country was not normal. The teachers used to whack us up like so badly Like literally like they would get the the belts out.   He looked like this one dude He looked like his name is and keto He looked just like him. He was a Syrian and kid is a Syrian Same, I don't know if it's the same exact area, but he looked just like him almost life I Had a different mindset to all these kids. I was a bit You know things that I saw so when when I'm fighting in place I got kicked out of primary school for working on you in the head with a hammer I'm only 12 years old. What am I doing? You're fighting for your life That's why cuz you seen some different you fighting like like your life is that thing and at state? That's what it is. Do you understand what I'm saying? What am I doing? I? Ended up getting involved in gang gang coach.  Why did they call you Rambo? They called me Rambo for the simple reason that when we used to ride out I used to go on my own and they be used to run. I've had I've had a wap in my head Yeah, but this is why I believe you when your time comes your time comes I had a wap in my head and he clicked it, but there was it got jammed. It didn't happen No, no cap Rambo. I've had seven guns pointed at me Nobody, you know I'm saying nobody did it, you know seven guns pointed at me this close. I'm talking close I've I've been in the crossfire of probably three shootouts.  I've been chef before I've nearly lost my life many times So tell me about the story about when someone had a gun to head So what was it instant? What was the situation? It was basically gang gang violence was with the other side We had problems with them. They caught me lacking. They did catch me.  They they throw I was frozen at this point. Yeah, I wasn't scared of them I'm not I'm not gonna lie. I wasn't scared, but a gun is a gun at the end of the day Yeah, I am not Superman. I was literally hoping that he was bluffing and he pulled the trigger He pulled it but nothing came out of it. It jammed it jammed quickly We scoffed at four or five of them I got away and managed to escape out of that But this is coming down to the simple fact that everything happens for a reason It wasn't my time to go then and how did you at that point? I was like 15 at the stage still in school Yes, it's literally at the end of my year 11. I was 15 years young And then what would you do with your life at this moment in time? I used to sell drugs I used to sell weed for a living and sniff and all of that But this is for the simple reason remember my mom was a single mother I'm the eldest. I had to bring money to the table. I had to do it for the family I thought of a choice. I'll be honest. I try working on the side. It never worked So growing up that's literally all I knew how to make money and eat the fun You couldn't work you was too you when you when you in gang culture You can't go to work. You got real ops outside. If your ops see you working They're gonna harass you. They might take your life at your job So once you involved in that lifestyle ain't no more nine to fives you got to figure it out a different way man Got to figure it out a different way. You big ops do not go to your work 95. That's 100% Honey, you know what I've realized the funny thing is all the guys that were around me. None of them had fathers Of course not all the same. It's like our batch was all the same None of us had fathers if when I look around at everyone. No one had a father You know what fathers do for sons fathers keep sons out of jail and keep women and keep daughters off the pole simple So it's funny how all of us was together in the same position very important to be in your kids life I'm trying to say but the gang culture is not bad. I even I went to jail after after all of this But at the age of 24, what happened in between the age of 15 to 24 So between the age of 15 and 24 my mentality grew a little bit better in regards to I was trying to reduce the violence and increase the money making This is what I was trying about the problem is that will never happen. So the things that I've Done to the people in the past They're not gonna forget that and they didn't and all the occasions the res things continued It went down, you know We say when tell me what was happening tell them what you can like there was many situations where Even my friend that's sitting outside right now Where we almost lost our life you had the age of 18 on my birthday in central London That central we're not for my birthday, etc. We saw the group of people that we had problems with it was actually 10 of them versus 10 of us Royal rumble everyone's licking each other bottles in the head Etc. But you know at the end of the day like even when I went to jail like all these murderers that I saw that was on my wing and these lifers They will regret everything that they done. Yeah everyone that all the murders in there said they wish they could go back to that day and Retrack and not do what they do, you know, and I've never killed no one and I'm happy you it could have been many situations where that could have went down But I never I've never I never done that none of my people some of my people side My one of my closest friends got 37 years You got 37 years and he did not even commit the murder He was around the people maybe possibly I don't know the ins and outs He's got guilty by association If you dare you might as well have done it. It's 37 years for a crime. He didn't even do Can you believe that but this is the thing about gang culture the police are watching you the police know You're involved in this stuff when something goes off the fingers will be pointed at you They need to cover it up some way or somehow someone has to be done for it for justice My brother he goes by the name of yes in James 37 years. He didn't do it But all of us the bros choices, you know, I've not had no father's We didn't have the choices the other fan of the kids did Remember thumb is I guess a lot of people say this you can't just blame it not being to not having fathers So I'm pretty sure there's many successful men now you can I You listen a lot of people might disagree.  She's never gonna believe it She's always gonna be on your side. You know I'm saying so she might miss the little things father is not gonna miss So man, that's important important 100% we've gone up with no father's which is true Which is true, but it's the area we got brought up here. No one taught us better. Let's be rude No one did teach us what and whose job is that in the household to teach you reality? So it took four years in jail for me to realize what was right and wrong to realize there's many other ways to make money It's not just job dealing Do you know I'm trying to say that I'm doing well, we're legit you right now I did if I knew this before I would have avoided one of that But the simple fact that when I was a kid and I went through that stuff back home. It made me Think differently to other kids like I was too violent. I don't know what was wrong with me I always wanted to fight I Always wanted to take out my anger on someone and when I was in the gang I was like, yo, this is my time the people that I was fine. I had no problems with they never done nothing to me personally I'm fine for my friends. Oh, and that's always the Situation it's always it that's always been the situation everyone's always fine for someone You know nine times out of ten back when I was you know I'm saying running even running and ripping through these Areas I was fine for the homies. You know I'm saying It was just that you know Man, that's the thing man. Once you beat up so many people a target is on your back, man. I used to Whoever when we know when I went outside With the people I was with and we did get into any other occasion We used to beat up so many people we had a target on our back every time we went outside Hey, they be woman people They be woman people That's how I went Until one time they caught they got like he got jumped to they got they got me. Oh They got me. They got me good too, but they pumpkin head in my head. I had a pumpkin head It was for it was 30 on 30 30 people first 30 people and 25 of the people I was with Was kittens k i t t e and that they was cat. They was gone. They were scary ran Was nowhere to be found when it wouldn't when all the ruckus went on So it was 5 on 30. I got three fake teeth have five root canals. I had stitches across my face stitches on my lip What else did I have? Body was sore for a long time not a long time.   No, I'm good. Who are you? Really fine for yourself if you asked me all these people that I had my teams with did I directly have a problem with them? No, I didn't But I wanted a reason to do something I wanted to release the anger within me and I did it to these people So you went to prison at white? I was 24. I'm what was what was the charge? And once again, it was for conspiracy leading role to supply crack cocaine and heroin then you're gonna laugh I want guilty for that. I don't my time. It's not gonna change it for me to say this But got my witness. I was not guilty for that My friend was selling up in countryside mean him was like this So my phone in his phone every time he comes back we're next to each other They assume that was the leading role of the conspiracy when I stood up and put and told them listen guys I saw weed and coke in London do me for that possession with intent to supply Don't do me for no conspiracy the road. I had no involvement. You're trying to increase my bird They didn't believe it four weeks back in full from court. So you wake up in the morning Yeah, six in the morning and yourself you're going to the court cell There's no nothing no TV. Nothing. You're there for the whole day. You go back to the wing There's no one left outside.  I was standing and making everything Look, I sell this I sell that by I'm not guilty for that So what's the difference of the charge they convicted you of to what you was guilty of so you so conspiracy Leading role is a higher category. It's a big charge They started my starting point at four years where possession with tenant supply would have given me no more than two years do one We even community service. There's the difference because it's my first strike. I've never ever been done for this Right, you meant to be lenient now my co-defendant out. He's been jail at four or five times. He got five years I got eight That's my first strike, but they've been portrayed me as the leader when I wasn't But you think Rambo because you said those four you seem like a smart dude, too There's probably taking that in consideration like nah, bro. You your buddy a dummy No offense You smart you the leader changed you it did you reckon that it could have been a blessing in disguise It was this is I'm saying I I see it because look before I went to court to send get sentence I opened I'm a Muslim. I'll open up the Quran. I pray to God. I said, please show me a verse in here I will make me understand what's going on I opened it said God is the judge of all judges and I'm thinking 14 years This is what my solicitors telling me. I've got under the judge reducer to eight years do for and I it has I'm not I'll be honest with you. It has in disguise.  Yeah, literally two months before I came on Joe You know that big artery in your leg people think that the leg is a safe place now It's dangerous to get in your leg bled out and he died. Yeah, and this was all because of situations That meal of his was involved. He defended me in a situation. Yeah And then years later, he the same person got him back for a new boss and has there's no Here's the thing a lot of y'all don't understand about the streets like It don't matter if there's a running few between two people two sides Don't don't the young ins and that the young ins know the stories It might get lost in translation a little bit, but but they know the gist of it That that get back does not go away get back come with time There's no expiration date on it stay out them streets You don't is not it's a cold world in them streets It's a cold cold world when people don't value life They don't you know I'm saying when when life is not the highest value thing to a person They're willing to do anything and and take as long as they need to Forget it done That's that meant you feel I'll keep blaming myself till this day Till this day I blame myself. I can't forgive myself for it But then at the end of the day as a Muslim you have to understand that when your time's written is written I shouldn't be blaming myself And I'll go to his grave every single week. It's not a week when I don't go and pray for him I'm there for him. But like you just said earlier. Was it a blessing in the skies? Yes, it was because I could have been It could have been other things could have happened and to be honest It made me a better man as well like my mindset and my decision-making is completely different to how it was before before I was Superman. I Used to roll. I don't I don't want to talk about but I thought I was invincible. I thought yeah, I could never get caught I will get away with everything Accenture rare rare rare do what I want when I want But now that's not true. Well, when did you realize that wasn't true?   This is that you're gonna you're gonna get goosebumps when you hear this We got a big tech week before I went John I got caught with a bit of hash and a bit of weed If you can't if you've been caught with this stuff before you know You need to go to the police cells and you need to do sometimes in the cells before you go out for for bail or whatever I am in in the in the in the van on the way down praying to God I'm saying please gotta hate those cells Please do this for me Don't let me go to that cell and I promise you I'll pray my prayers every day because I still didn't pray at these times But if I don't pray my prayers throw me Joe I get to the station the sergeant looked at my name.  I said what I've been to the cells You have to go in there for at least 12 hours before you leave. So my prayer got answered I pro in home.  I get a coat for my sister You need to go for a voluntary interview your mate three months ago got arrested for drugs up in countryside They want to speak to you.  I said, all right cool I went there. I didn't see that they are like again Imagine that and remember what the prayer made to God. I said if I if you get me out of this play Don't play. He answered you you play with him on that six day And by that seventh day you was gone. I would pray every day, but if I don't pray every day for me and Joe He gave me exactly what I wanted both times both times. So yeah, what did you say a second ago? Was this a blessing in disguise? Of course it was I made it do of God. I didn't for he followed it I didn't follow it. I was sent into something. I didn't do four years. But you know what?  What did you do the first day when I got released? I went straight to Westfield, but the first thing that it was wings. I did miss wings Westfield. That's the mall. I Love you see me. I love wings. I went straight to the chicken shop. I got wings all my mates was there There was at the gates We went back to my mom's my mom cooked food and stuff So I didn't want to take the mic and go eat out. They wanted to eat out So we are both my friends over tomorrow. We had a little gathering. It was the best day of my life to be honest Best day of my life to see my mom was in tears Like she went through a lot.  She's on the verge of leaving me right now She's gonna she's very old. Yeah, and I did that to her. You know much that fucks it makes me feel I did that to her. She basically went through more struggles than I did and I was the one that was in Joe And I used to say to her that mom I'm the one that's in Joe Why are you suffering so much? It's like when you have a kid one that you will understand. That's a fact The other fact There's decisions you make as an adult when you like they don't they might not affect you You might be strong with your mom your parents. They're not as strong as you That's their baby You can always be your parents baby 100% and to see you locked up chained up chain involved for years That's gonna take any parent out Any loving parent and she's right My stepfather told me that you don't know how she was acting when you was in jail She went cuckoo like he wasn't normal. She's acting. No, this is not how she was before That your mom you put your mom for a lot and I'm I hope my mom sees this. Oh, I'm I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that I didn't mean to do that. I wasn't my fault It is my fault to a certain extent correct To get that time what he was written Going back to your time in prison Rambo. What was the worst memory they've got from your time in prison? My I don't understand why these don't get a lot of views from the taboo China taboo He's not underrated. He like his his trajectory is right where it should be. You know I'm saying But like the views like this should have more views this is lit That's a good interview. There's two I'll explain to one of my worst memories was But like me personally like I don't know how well known he's known around London or the UK But like giving people the voice that normally don't have that voice That's a hard thing to do and get to in bank views. So I get it. I get it, but but like in my opinion The taboo room be going crazy. Hey, this is one of this one of the best little interview channels that I'll be seeing When I hanged up the rope And I'll play around my neck And I stood on the chair One of my worst memories was when I hanged up the rope And I'll play around my neck And I stood on the chair. This was two years.  I was gonna do it And then I took it off said think about God.  I got stabbed in my back But that was my fault. I had a fight with a prayer And I laid him out. Don't get me wrong He was on the floor finished and I only stopped because I thought if I go further he may pass I've turned around and walked off to leave the stars come from behind and gashed me Yeah, but do you know what? Yeah, I held the rune on my own my soulmate was very good with Pharmaceutical he got honey and you got a leaf from the yard You know like a leaf from the tree put hot He heated up the honey and I laid on my belly and he said trust me This is better than stitches and he's right and I'll show you the scar off there You'll see it's like a line, but there's no stitch marks on it. It's just a line like that. It held Yeah But because I'm not snitching if I if I if I they're gonna look at a camera is they're gonna see a rare rare I'm not snitching. It's a scar that can be held. I trusted my silly and he done me right So to your son again.  No what they tell you finish My bad There's many shit that happened there, but I held myself I never had you see the thing about me and Joe my brother I never ever went out my way to look for trouble I kept it humble because God teaches if you keep it humble when it's time to rumble They will crumble and I've always been like that You keep it humble when it's time to rumble they will crumble. That's how I am too. Okay. I'm very humble I mean never never started any of any in the altercations that I I never started any of the altercations I was in but We was definitely crumbling stuff you feel me apple crumble When it was time to rock more I swear to God ask anyone in the prison system about Rambo HMP Wayland Stockton Lewis Decat no one can't say nothing bad about me At all. There's nothing no bad word.  I'm there sitting.  He knows mine. He brought my cousin's nose on the outside So I knew we the talk was we're gonna have a fight on free flow So I'm there standing up on a wall on my back on the wall snow come behind waiting for someone to charge I mean imagine that feeling you're waiting for someone to come towards you to do you something Literally, I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I see a bulldozer looking you just charging at me I'm like, yeah, this is it. I'm with one of my boys.  He's charging. I'm a boxer. I can fight I thought it was gonna bring shanks.  You'll get an extra sentence So I was like, you know what I thought shanks before I've been slit here I've been slit here and I've managed to take you off them after it's happened. He's come he's charged at me He tried hook me. I've literally dodged a hook gave him one. He stumbled that way I don't know yet a friend friend come and bang me in my face And I'm stumbling with with his friend practice friends nose thinking where's this other guy because I'm not trusting my friend's words And he's gonna have my back But yeah, but on the other hand, he's there with his rock in a sock laying him in on the floor I'm having my fight with this guy. It was a blood pool on the floor. I Split his nose This was all for what? We could have spoke about this, you know, this could have all been spoken by everyone wants to be the man in jail Everyone wants to after that fight.  I hate how that works, but it's funny. Oh Many you do sign someone. Yo, everyone's like, yo, I saw that. Yo, you're G like my guy. Where are we at?  They're more on it. They're more crazy Oh, I don't saw more karma the kids are more crazy.  Oh too many But it was too many crazy in what way though, I guess in ways that you'll just never forget Other than a handful of them the old men are funny. It's the old man But you know the lifers ones that are there for life. I really do feel sorry for them.  How long you've been home been on nine months No, just nine months. Yeah. Yeah, I'm kind of fairly fresh and And you know what? Yeah, I am fresh right now, but it's been it's been a rollercoaster already What's it being like what is nine months before I tell you that part before I go into that I just want to explain one thing about what happens what happened to me in prison here Just one thing because people need to know this I Had a fight with one of the gods. Yeah He did not let me go shower to pray on Friday prayers So I he pushed me I punched him I've gone straight to the seg segregation's where you have no bed. No, there's a hard bed No TV. No clock.  I wanted that I'll be honest.  The first six months was a very big struggle for me Because I wasn't trying to sell drugs or nothing I said I promised god I would never go back there, but I had faith the first four months I man it no one wasn't giving me jobs by the way Criminal record criminal record criminal record everywhere like I applied for everything like places I wouldn't even think I'd ever work in my life like degrading myself All rejection rejection one of my family relatives he has a state agency He goes I'll give you a job here. Let me teach you how to do the let-ins and stuff, etc As how much you pay me a grand a month for how many hours monday to friday 10 to 6 what It is what it is. Yeah, I need to be a family friend. You have any options Three months I worked there he fired me Why he fired me because he's not getting enough money for his let-ins. It's not because I ain't done wrong He's fired me. So I'm there praying for god telling god listen. I'm struggling My ex left me because I was broke. You were supposed to get married Left me because I never had nothing going on. That's sad. That's sad. That's sad. Hold on rewind Rewind Me because I was broke the god telling god listen. I'm struggling My ex left me because I was broke. You were supposed to get married Left me because I never had nothing going on You know what's crazy In hard times god will give you the woman you need Money brings the woman you want But hard times brings the woman you need the women you need keep that in mind. You didn't need her You didn't need her simple God bless me with tiktok Hey Hey tiktok.  Hey listen Yeah, get me With a blessing it's been great ever since I have nothing to say about that. It's been great I've got a good community a good family support me. We only bring positivity I speak to people on there. I told the youth don't do the things that I did I give them examples. I do prison stories. I I literally do all of this year So the youth don't do what I do teach them about religion I've got a good group of people that say to me Do you know how many messages I have on my phone because of you? I didn't want to end my life because you know positivity you bring you you've changed my views on things Man 100 man. I got one of them yesterday. That's almost took me out.  That's one of the best feelings about doing this When people hit you with them type messages, like because of you I didn't commit this this and that because of you. I'm working through my mental health You help me with your videos help me get through heart. I love that man I never thought I would ever have that type of impact on nobody You know I'm saying I was bringing destruction to people now. I'm bringing positivity. That's a that's that's lit in my in my mind I'm close to religion. These are the things that made me keep going Remember what would you say it's this next generation because I feel like every time I interview someone they always say the next generation is wild You know what? Yeah, they're wild in a weird way Because like for example, you've got these kids here running in shops and going into Old people's houses and saying we outside and we're missing They're weird in my generation. We were gang bangers. We were doing the most so no, they're not that wild I'll be honest. They're actually not I don't I don't believe so Portion of them. Yeah, they're wild. They're rolling with big rambles.    Don't put yourself in that position because one wrong maneuver and you'll never see in day of light again One wrong. What's bro, uh, tic-tac name. I gotta see what he got going on over there I remember what they say live by the knife by the knife. Thanks.  Joe, you end up dead Got too much friends to prove to this Rambo, could you tell me what the worst memory of your life is? Worst memory of my life Didn't he tell you? Oh in general, first memory of my life Obviously when my father died I remember that I've got to remember him walking down the stairs Um hand on this ambulance late man. I'm gonna And he just gone disappeared left us. That was my last memory of him and I was seven He just gone never saw him again.  All they had to do was pump those those tablets that he overdosed on, you know They only had to do was pump his stomach And they didn't and there was a case on him and he was supposed to win it by a backfire Who cares about the money? We're not both died, but the pain is here. He could have still been here Do you know I'm here I don't think about it much these days. I'll be honest I'll be lying if I said I think about it, but it is one of the worst memories And the other one is my mom trying to do the same thing that he did She was on the floor literally one time she wanted to give up and She kind of done the same. Joe locked everything for me I cried so much before she left us It's like, oh, she's done the same thing that my father did But yeah Crazy life here One wish Go to heaven right now. This life's a test. It's not forever guys I believe No I'm I'm not scared to die. I embrace that No, maybe the old me possibly No, no, I'm not scared to die because I understand You got kids Rambo What what where we standing this morning? That's the end of this though. Tlo leave a like comment subscribe turn of the post man. Good interview though


This is the VOA Special English Education Report. The International Baccalaureate Organization was founded in 1968. It works with schools in 143 countries to offer programs for students aged 13 to 19. These programs, it says, help develop the intellectual, personal, emotional, and social skills to live, learn, and work in a rapidly globalizing world. The organization says IB programs are in more than 3,000 schools. The majority of these schools offer IB diploma programs. High school students have to complete six courses, pass exams, and write a 20-page paper to earn an IB diploma. The courses are in humanities, science, arts, math, a second language, and their own language. Students can also attend special events. Recently, more than 300 IB diploma students from 13 countries attended a conference at the University of British Columbia in Canada. The five-day conference was called the new sustainability, making things better, not just less bad. The students heard from professors, graduate students, activists, and others. One of the speakers was Drew Deutsch, director of IB Americas. He says the conference was meant as a way for students not only to learn about the environment, but also to develop lasting relationships. He says conference organizers want to send the students back to their schools to deal with issues related to protecting the environment. But he says they want these students to become students of the world and to form bonds with peers their own age from around the world. He adds that with social networking and other tools, these relationships can last a lifetime. 17-year-old Itzel Chavez is a student at the International School of Beaverton in the American state of Oregon. She was one of 21 IB students who received scholarships to attend the conference. She said, I applied for a scholarship and I had to write an essay. Her school chose only one person and she got to attend. She says the main speakers would describe a sustainability program or tell how a special project improved the environment in their community. Then the students had to choose a project to present to the conference. Itzel worked on a video. It asked students three questions about sustainability and how they would make it happen in their own communities. After the video group members went on stage to tell what they themselves would do to protect the environment. For VOA Special English, I'm Alex Villareal.