This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. I am your guest host today, Jeff Milford, for the Cyber Underground. Dave Stevens is not with us, but will be returning soon. And with me today is my guest, Mike Turacco, a security analyst for ITSC. And we're going to be talking about the two processor flaws that have been discovered this week and how it's going to impact you, as well as some tips on how to protect yourself, a common thread in the discussions. So, as we've learned. Yeah, it's been a busy week. It has been a busy week. So, apparently for about the past 10 years, the security flaws have existed in these processors, they've only been discovered now. They're called Meltdown and Spectre. Meltdown is applicable to the Intel chips, which many, many people use, even people with Macs. The Spectre flaw affects the Intel AMD chips, as well as ARM chips, which most people may not know are the chips that power your smartphones. So both Android and iPhone. And iPhones, right. Maybe Windows phones. If there's something still out there. And people use them. Probably. So we're having fun, but obviously it's a serious problem. What it means is that someone could exploit this flaw and basically go into what's called protected memory on your system and learn about your passwords, basically any kind of personal information that you might have typed in or stored and have it be used against you. So, in looking at the detail on the chips that are affected, there's a huge laundry list. So basically, I think it's safe to say it's pretty much all chips out there, especially Intel in particular. But then, yeah, like AMD and AMR is also affected by this for certain devices. Right. So the hacker would have to get some software installed on your system. And there are many ways they can do that. They can trick you into clicking on a link, opening an attachment. I think for most of the home users, there's perhaps a little less risk than in companies. But unfortunately, the patches that are being discussed are going to potentially cause a performance hit. Yeah, and there is a potential performance hits for the machines themselves, but also for any AV that you might be running. I think there is something that got called out directly as having problems with it in particular. But I don't want to say names here, but you could research it. Right. And I think for most people, they're not going to notice a performance hit gamers, probably would. But I think for the average person that's browsing the web, looking at emails, things like that, maybe opening the occasional spreadsheet, they may not notice a performance hit. But it's very definitely going to be affecting companies. Companies with large servers, virtual machines. One of the big vulnerabilities is, so a virtual host is a very large server that hosts virtual machines, any number of them depending on the resources. The problem with this is that that flaw appears in the chips for the virtual host. So normally, the virtual machines themselves are isolated from each other. So on a virtual host, you could have, say, five different companies with all their servers and they're completely blind to the other four companies there. However, because these are affecting the chips of the actual hosts themselves, that puts all five of those companies at risk from that one single machine. I think from an IT security perspective, it would be more of a reason if companies haven't put their controls at the host level for VMs, this might be even stronger push to get in that direction. And we often talk about the layered approach, defense in depth, because there is no one solution for this. And every one of these breaches, flaw announcements, things like that, the upside to it is that companies and hopefully individuals sit up and take notice and also take action on them. I know a lot happened from the target breach. There was a lot of work done on companies' behalf. The WannaCry kept a lot of people busy. It raised a lot of people's awareness. It even got Microsoft to update Windows XP, which has been end of life for a long time. And we'll talk in the second half about things you can do to protect yourself. But the fact that this has been in existence for 10 years and it's only being discovered now is kind of scary. I think throughout last year and into this year, there's been a lot of these kind of bigger at the kernel level and firmware related things that are just kind of being disclosed now publicly. And so it's kind of concerning. I don't know if this is the end of it either, but we'll see. And what it's going to take is the chip manufacturers are going to have to basically re-engineer their platform. They're going to have to put in new instruction sets into their code. And I don't see companies going in and swapping out hardware to get new chips. I mean, that's an enormous expense. So what this is going to do is this patch is going to potentially impact performance. But one of the other things that is kind of frightening too is that we have antivirus products. We have antivirus installed on our machines and our smart phones too, right? So antivirus software runs with elevated privileges. It accesses what's called the kernel. The kernel is the part of the operating system that interacts directly with the hardware. So when you're playing a video, that video isn't going directly to the speakers or the sound card. It's going through the processor, talking to the kernel, and the kernel is managing the access to that hardware. So when you look at antivirus products, they are going to have to be updated. We saw one of the major vendors send an advisement out that they have a patch in place, but you need to patch your antivirus before you patch your system. Otherwise, there's a potential for what we used to call, laughingly, the blue screen adapt. Basically, when there's a hardware problem, the machine shows you a blue screen, and at that point, you're in trouble. So what would you say for people as far as the patching and whatnot? So I think as far as patching goes, like any time your patch significant changes, I would say testing is key. You don't want to just patch it and let it rip. There tends to be some downside to that as we've seen in the past. It's a nice idea to protect yourself, but I think you need to be sure that what you're patching actually works and have the ability to roll back if needed so you don't put systems out of commission or some critical systems for your company or for your personal. We often advise people to turn on automatic updates, and what Microsoft has done is their update for this vulnerability in the processor, it will actually look for a specific version of a vendor's antivirus, and if it sees it, that it's at the compatible version, it will run. But if the antivirus hasn't been updated, it won't run, which is very helpful and very forward thinking. I would have to say that lately Microsoft has learned a lot about creating better patches from some of the things that we've seen in the past. Yeah, Microsoft used to have a very bad reputation in the past for patches and things would break and the like. So for most of you at home, you want to keep all of your software updated, you want to keep your virus protection updated, but in this case, you really want to make sure that that virus software is updated regularly. I personally update mine every time I log into my machine. I just run a quick update, make sure I have the most current, and at the end, before I turn my machine off, I set it to run a scan and the software I use has the ability to turn itself off the machine if it doesn't find anything. And then I think at the corporate level as well too, you want to make sure that your updates are on, if the machine is on the network, say a laptop comes into the environment, you want it to get updated through the network, but then a laptop in particular is off the network a lot of times, so you want it to be able to get updates while it's connected to the internet. That's a good point. You want to make sure those are both available. So understand also that your phone is potentially at risk, and there are antivirus vendors that make software for your phone. I have it on my phone being a security guy, and that's probably a really good idea. It treats your phone just like it treats a computer, it runs scans, it keeps an eye out for exploits and malware and those types of things, so that's definitely a recommendation for everybody out there. Let's see what else we can find out about this, and I apologize I'm having to go to my notes, but I know that broadcast people do it all the time. They have papers in front of them. Well, this was something that just came out a couple days ago, so we're all trying to catch up. Yeah, it was just announced Wednesday, and honestly we haven't been able to memorize all these details. So again, most of the larger vendors have release their patches for this, but some of the other smaller vendors, niche companies, probably will take a little longer. They don't have the resources that the larger companies have, but it just goes back to how important it is to constantly update your software. When we talk about the WannaCry vulnerability, when was the patch released for that? Two months before. Exactly. Or three months before. Right. For a security person to hear that, you wonder how people were impacted at all. Individuals understandably, but companies, companies should have processes in place where they test these, test the patches and whatnot, but to be two months behind on a Microsoft security patch and then find that your machine's turned into an encrypted brick, very disheartening. I think also along those lines, it's important to think about, you have the regular cycle for most machines in your environment, but then there's always some machines that don't get patched because of certain issues with the application or some other complications or it's critical to the organization, but at the same time, you want to make sure that you don't miss any of these machines if you can. That's kind of a push for the application side to keep their vendors on it and keep their applications up to date so that new patches don't break things. The company that we work at, we've instituted a new procedure where we ask the vendors to notify us when they've made their patches for the various devices and applications on our network and that's just due diligence. That's not telling the vendor that they're not doing their job, it's just making sure that things are happening the way they should because again, for the wanna cry virus, there's really no excuse. Home users, not so sophisticated users as companies with IT teams, and you've heard me on the show over and over and over, update, update, update, even things like your television needs software updates periodically, your router needs to be updated. Change your passwords on your router. Yes, don't use the default passwords. We smile about all this, but it's because we see it so often and for a hacker to find a default password, it's golden for them, they laugh. You can go on the internet and find all these default passwords, unfortunately. I think we know about them from looking at certain builds of servers and appliances, especially web-based, some of the default passwords are well-known out there, so if you go to check something, try the default and if you get in. I'll admit I've done that before where I've had a business reason to do it, not a bad reason and I found the password that I needed and it helped me do my job, but the first thing I did was change that to a non-default password, hopefully one that's a little more complex than one, two, three, four, five, six. I think the second half will get into a little bit more of the ongoing hygiene for systems and your passwords and things like that, but those things help when there's vulnerabilities like this that come out, that makes it a little bit easier for the attacker to... And we'll talk about Zero Day, which there is not much protection for, those are the really scary ones. Aloha, I'm Keeley Ikeena and I'm here every other week on Mondays at 2 o'clock PM on Think Tech Hawaii's Hawaii Together. In Hawaii Together we talk with some of the most fascinating people in the islands about working together, working together for a better economy, government and society. So I invite you into our conversation every other Monday at 2 p.m. on Think Tech Hawaii Broadcast Network. Join us for Hawaii Together. I'm Keeley Ikeena, Aloha. Aloha, I'm Richard Concepcion, the host of Hispanic Hawaii. You can watch my show every other Tuesday at 2 p.m. We will bring you entertainment, educational and also we tell you what is happening right here within our community. Think Tech Hawaii, Aloha. Welcome back to the Cyber Underground. I'm your guest host, Jeff Milford here with Mike Taracco. We're discussing the recent news about the processor flaws and now we're going to talk about some of the things that individuals can do. Companies have IT departments to help them on a regular basis, but I think for most home users, they don't have the ability to or the knowledge or experience to do these things. For sure. So let's talk about what they can do. Well, I think still, you know, unfortunately, the most common way to get into most systems these days is still password, right? So passwords are very convenient. It's easy to do, makes life a little bit easier, but at the same time people reuse passwords or they have their certain password that they like. I think the most popular password is still 1-2-3-4-5-6 for this year as well. Yeah, they just had the report. So yeah, I think just having a little bit of understanding around, you know, the need for complex passwords and, you know, protecting yourself both at the office, in your office or at home. And depending upon if it's email or if it's financial data, there are, you know, certain passwords that you want to have pretty tight. And then other ones that you can, you know, you change more frequently, it's more flexible. And one of the reasons this is important is how many accounts at Yahoo ended up being hacked was the final number for, I don't know, four million or something? No, it was way more than that, yeah, billion, maybe four billion. It was in the billions. Yeah. Everybody. The reason that's important is if you use the same password for different accounts, especially things like banking, so the hacker now has your user ID, your basically your email address and a password, and he can start banging that against all these other sites, softwares written that allows him to do it automatically. And sooner or later, they're going to get a hit and be able to get in there. So we talk about the complex passwords. I personally keep mine written down in a very secure place. They're locked up. They're in a safe. I doubt somebody is going to break into my house and find my passwords. But it's a lot of people tell you don't write them down. I have probably 200 different passwords. I can't remember all those. But you use a different solution. Yeah. So I use a locker on my cell phone. So that's one method too. But if it does get cracked, the password to that, it's actually a multi-factor to get into it as well, which is a benefit also. But I do actually have it a little bit obscured as well. So there's a method behind it. So even if you get those passwords, it's still not going to get you straight into wherever you need to go. But yeah, that being said, depending upon what the access is related to, I mean, if it's email, yeah, that's OK, I guess. And you should change it more frequently. Have something you remember. For example, my sister, I was getting spam emails from her endlessly. So obviously somebody got into her account and was sending things out to her address book.  I haven't changed my password in eight years. It was an AOL account. And I'm like, well, that's more of a reason to do it. I don't even know how to do it. Well, you'd better figure out how to do it because you're spamming the world or you're helping the world. Yeah, I find I get fish probably six to eight times a year. And the funny part is that these are people I used to work with at the phone company that are IT people that their accounts have been compromised. And you and I know what to look for. But one of the things that I like to ask people to do is just take a minute to look at something. People tend to be very quick reacting with the mouse, clicking on things. I think they're used to the TV remote as their timing, I guess, for one of a better word. But if you just take a moment and look at it because the majority of people don't understand how these things can be used against them. Because they're good people. They don't expect people to take advantage of you. But online, it's so much easier to do that as opposed to in person, right? It is. And there's so much information out there that people share. I've read different accounts on how people create these fishing attempts. And with just a few things, open source intelligence, you can go to Facebook. You can go to Instagram. You can go to all these places where people share. When I used to do security awareness training for new hires at the company I was at, I would say, I would look out at everybody in the audience and I would be like, what can I Google about taking your name, putting it out on Google, and figure out your dog's name. Figure out your birthday. Figure out your family members' names and things like that. Because those tend to be things that people use. Or even just password one, something like that. Certain companies, when they issue new passwords, they use something that's near and dear to their heart. And they put a one after it or something. And that's the default password that goes out. But when we test these things and you crack passwords, you can see even just looking at the hashes, which is the encrypted version of the password that they're very similar. Yeah. So yeah, those are some things to keep an eye on. I think a lot of the attacks come through email, which is a common way that you can get to people. People tend to be the softer area to get through as opposed to cracking it directly to the machine. Just little things like hovering over links with your mouse, not clicking on them, but hovering over them. You could actually see if the package is supposed to come from UPS and it's coming from somewhere else, you probably can assume that it's phishing. And I'm not trying to give a shout out to Microsoft, but I use Outlook at Home and one of the advantages to that over just a web-based interface with your mail is that when you see the sender, it'll show the sender's name, but then it shows the address right afterwards. And the really bad phishing attempts, they don't even match. They're not even close. So that's a real obvious thing. But if you don't have that ability to actually see the sender's address, you're just seeing a name, you're at a disadvantage. And I think one of the other things happening nowadays, especially in Hawaii, I believe, the phone calls that are coming through off of your car warranty is expiring and things like that. We'd like to raise your credit limit. Are you looking for a job? So I'm not exactly sure how these scams are working, but they're very, especially in the past month or so, they've been very pervasive and they're spoofing local numbers. They all come in as 808 numbers. And my wife and I have reached a point that if a phone number comes in that's not in our contacts, we don't answer the phone. If they want to leave a message, then we'll go pick up a voicemail. But you don't want to be in stealth mode. You don't want them to find that it's an active phone number and that they've got somebody on the end that they can contact. One of the phishing attempts that was, on the one hand, I kind of admire the ingenuity, but I also say use your talents for good, not evil. But the person was talking about they saw a picture of a woman on Facebook in her kitchen. You'd think that sharing a picture of yourself in the kitchen would be fine. But you could see the appliances in the background. And this person was saying you could craft a phishing attempt. Say you see a cuisine art something. You craft this phishing email that says it's from cuisine art and that there's a problem with your device and click here. And people will do that. And that's, you can't be paranoid, but you do need to be cautious to be able to protect yourself. I heard there was also some other things where people post their flight tickets, the tickets for getting on an airline flight. It has a barcode on there. And people posted on Facebook or Twitter or wherever, hey, I'm going to New York or I'm going to Honolulu or something. And then you could actually scrape off a lot of information from those barcodes. So it's something that you really kind of need to be thoughtful about. And people just throw them away, but this information on there that could be used for evil. And again, we spend our time, our working lives, and our home lives in this environment. And most people just don't understand how that kind of information can be used against them. And I hear some people like in the IT security industry saying, I'm paranoid about this. We need to be paranoid about it. I don't think it's actually being paranoid. I think it's just being thoughtful. It's just thinking things through. And just it's a lot of common sense just not to leave very much information around for people to pick up. Let's talk about backups for a minute. Sure. The number one recovery for ransomware. How many people, first of all, do backups? And how many companies have we worked for that do backups but never test them, their ability to recover from them? So at a former company, part of our, we were listed on the stock exchange. So we were required to test backups. But smaller companies tend or they have different regulations tend not to have to do that. So they don't do it. Yeah, they see backup completed successfully. OK, we're good. So it needs to be backups of the user's data and then also backups of major systems at incremental times. And if you're going to do backups, make sure that if you're backing up to an external device that you disconnect it properly when your backup is finished. Because if ransomware hits your machine, it's going to crawl down that cable and it's going to encrypt your backups and then where you'll be. So online backups, putting backups into the cloud is another option. Some people are leery about putting their data in the cloud. There's still lots of companies. It depends on the availability need and how frequently you need to get it. So we've talked about a lot of fairly technical solutions, things that you need to do. And I think what we found in our lives is that everyone pretty much knows someone in their circle of friends, family, that has that kind of skill. I mean, all of us in IT are the support for our families and friends. But even if you don't have someone like that, vendors can help get you set up. But it's really important that you have backups of your data. What would the cost be to you? Not the financial cost, but the social cost, the psychic cost. If you lost all of your photos of a loved one that had passed away or all these things that we really want to keep. So do yourself a favor. Run your updates. Make sure your backup's occurring. Test your backups occasionally. And all that means is open the backup. Can you read a few of the files? Make sure they're not corrupt. If you're using encryption, you'll be testing your encryption key to make sure that it's actually the one that encrypted the data. And stay safe. That's the best advice we can offer. Good advice. Good advice.


Welcome to this session. I am Priyanka Bidla, assistant professor in electronics and telecommunication engineering. Today we will solve the numerical on binary arithmetic using Tooth's complement. This is the learning outcome of this video lecture. At the end of this session students will be able to perform operations, perform arithmetic operations that is addition subtraction on digital numbers on binary numbers. These are the contents of this video lecture. First upon we will see the introduction then the steps for Tooth's complement subtraction and then we will see the example based on that. First upon students must have the basic knowledge of real number system means it includes the integer, then real numbers and its arithmetic operations. Then subtraction of the number from another number can be accomplished by adding the complement of the subtraction hand to the menu end. Subtraction hand to the menu end means what a number from which another number is to be subtracted. So here we will see with the help of example here 9-4 is equal to 5. So which number you want to subtract there this is known as a subtract hand and from which number you have to subtract this is the menu end. So 9 is the menu end, 4 is the subtract hand and result of this is 5. So here this is nothing but it is the output or we can say it is a difference. Then Tooth's complement subtraction. So how to do the Tooth's complement subtraction? So first upon whatever number is given you have to do the one's complement of that binary number, one's complement how to perform. So simply you have to inverting all the ones to the zeros or and all the zeros to the ones. You have to take the complement of that number. Then for getting the result of Tooth's complement you have to add one to its LSB of the ones complement number. LSB is nothing but least significant bit. So whatever we will get the result in that result you have to add one to its LSB and in this way we are getting the Tooth's complement. So Tooth's complement number is nothing but it is the negative equivalent of the original number. Inverting all the bits of the number it produces the same result as subtracting the value one followed by the addition of one. Now before moving towards pause this video for few seconds and you have to recall the steps for the subtraction using Tooth's complement. So you have to recall. Now we will see the steps for the subtraction. So first step is you have to take the Tooth's complement of the subtraction. So whatever the number is given so subtraction means what which number you want to subtract it. So subtracting number which number you want to subtract it that whatever we will get you have to add with the menu end and whatever result will come the in the suppose in that addition suppose there is a caribit then it indicates what this is the positive value right and you have to remove you have to ignore that carry from the obtained result and suppose if there is a no caribit means what it indicates a negative value and for finding the magnitude of that number you have to take Tooth's complement of that result. So there are the two cases if the if there is a carry generated then you have to remove that carry from the result and it shows what positive value ok. If there is a no carry generated means what for finding the magnitude we have to take the Tooth's complement of that result and it indicates what this is the negative value. So there are some steps so you have to clear the idea with the help of examples. Now we will solve the examples now here there are some numbers given some binary numbers are given and we have find out the Tooth's complement for that. So left hand side are nothing but these are the binary numbers and right hand side indicates the Tooth's complement of that particular number. So first case is 000 for this first you have to convert into the one's complement. So one's complement simply you have to complement the numbers means all the ones you have to replace by 0 and all the zeros you have to replace by the 1 ok. So here 000 one's complement for this is what 111 then you have to add 1 to the LSB and here we are getting 000. Similarly for 001 once complement of this number is 110 then add 1 into that and here we are getting 111. Then for 010 Tooth's complement is 110 for 011 Tooth's complement is 101. Then for 100 first you have to convert again once complement. So you have to convert into 011 ok then take the Tooth's complement of that number and we are getting 100 same number. Similarly you have to perform for this then last one is 111. So first you have to convert into one's complement that is 000 then add 1 into that and here we will get 001. So in this way you can find out the Tooth's complement. Now we will solve the examples means you have to do the subtraction using Tooth's complement. So here some examples. So first example you have to evaluate the answer for means this is the example of you have to do the subtraction using Tooth's complement. So this is menu in and this is the subtraction which number you want to subtract that is known as a subtraction. So first you have to take the Tooth's complement of the subtraction ok. So how to get first you have to convert into one's complement that is 11010 then add 1 into that and here we are getting 11011. So this is the Tooth's complement of the subtraction. Now second step is what you have to add this subtraction to the menu in. So here we are getting 11000. So here you can see here there is a carry bit. So it indicates positive number but whenever carry is generated you have to remove that carry and the result is 11000. So here the smaller number is subtracted from the bigger number. So here we will get the positive result. Now here second example 11001-11100. So step one is what you have to take the Tooth's complement of the subtraction. So first upon you have to convert into the one's complement that is 00011 then add 1 into that and we are getting 00100. So this is the Tooth's complement of the subtraction. Now this value you have to add into the menu in. So here we get 11101 ok. So here there is no carry bit right. So if there is no carry bit the meaning is what? Find the magnitude and for that we have to take the Tooth's complement of that result ok. So how to take? So first upon you have to convert into one's complement that is 00010 then add 1 into that and we are getting 00011. So here this is the result 00011. It indicates whenever there is no carry it indicates negative value. So this is the negative equivalent of the original number. So here you can see here bigger number you have to subtract it from the smaller number. So but obviously we are getting the negative value. Now third example 11101-14 times 0. So again step one is you have to take the Tooth's complement of the subtraction. So first upon one's complement is 04 times 1 then add 1 into that and here we are getting 14 times 0. Now this value you have to add with the menu in yes. So here we are getting 011101. Now you can see here there is a carry bit. So if there is a carry bit you have to remove the carry bit from the result and the result is 011101. So in this way you can solve the example. These are the references of this video lecture. Thank you.


me in the studio. Jim, you're very welcome indeed. How are things? Tommy, things are great. Thank you so much. I better put up your microphone. Things are great. Tommy, thank you so much for having me here and having me just go back. Come here, Jim. The last time I spoke to you, you were in the car park. We were doing the stream. That's right. You were walking away with your phone. You were nearly knocked down by your car going... On the car park. I was telling you, watch that car behind you. How have things been going with you anyway? Things are going great. Things are going right, getting away and enjoying it. Just up and down the country, doing the dance halls and festivals coming up and doing concerts and what not. So it's from releasing songs and so we're back in the studio and everything's going great, thankfully. I was just looking at... I was just looking a little bit about you. I think it was 2014 you came on the scene, wasn't it, from that voice of Ireland? That's right. We came off the voice of Ireland and then a while later, then, we started under that monster band. So we're over 10 years now on the road, even if I've been working on it for 11 years. So it's been... It's flew on so quickly, you know. You can't believe it's on the road over 10 years, but everything's working out great. I'm just going to get you to move that microphone slightly, not you, just your microphone so we can see you. Oh, I saw it. There you are. You're lovely now, yeah. Oh, why? You can still talk into it. Anyways, come here. Back in 2020 when the pandemic came, that was a tight time for entertainers in general. It was, it was a fortunately for me. I, well, I grew up on a farm. That's where, like, we had the farm always to fall back on, you know, so I was lucky in that way, but it was, it was a long, long haul in the lockdown and this is where we came through it and things are looking up now. So everybody's come back to the country seeing the dancers are there and it's picking up again, like, you know, so it's great. Did you ever think at the time, did you ever do any of the live streams, you know, how a lot of entertainers went on Facebook and they did live streams, you know, to keep in touch with their fan base? I don't know, a few things with James McGarty. He was putting on live streams, so he was, so I'm doing a lot of his concerts and, but not really at home. A lot of things with James there, just to keep, just to keep people interested and keep your, keep your voice out there too, you know. So how we did, we did about. And your last album, have you, have you been working on anything new lately at all? Ah, so back in the studio now and working on my, this will be my, this will be my fourth album now I'm working on. So I'm back on with Jonathan Warnstone and, Johnford and, down with Jonathan and also up here at Letter Kenny. I've done a few tracks with Brian Kerrigan as well. So I were back in the studio listening to the albums on his way, it's going to be out very soon. So we're looking forward to get it released. Yeah, Brian is very good, isn't he? A lot of the new artists is coming under Brian. He's recording a lot of new artists. Hi, I'm a secret studio, he's up there too and he's getting a great sound. So Brian's doing well, he's up here in Letter Kenny which is handy to, you know.  Tell us who you're going to be looking after. Hi, so I'm this year's Glord here, really excited about that. I have a guy called Jared Gormney from Turon and just outside Castle D'Arc and he is my contestant on it and he's a fabulous country singer and also Chelsea Evans from Dunfani here in Donegal is also my work contestant and she is a beautiful singer as well and it's going to be a great show. So it's going to be on towards the end of March so we're really looking forward to it. Yeah, it's a great platform for new artists coming up. I know last year David actually had the winner, very own David James had the winner on it last year. That's right, it's great for these young artists coming through, you don't want to see the exposure and I says, you know, grab it with both arms, a hand, some just go for it and two contestants have been active, they're so easy work for Chelsea and Jared. So no, it's going to be really good. I hope everybody can get behind them and support them. Can you tell me, have you any gigs coming up around Donegal? Has it been a while since you played Donegal yourself? I was in Donegal two weeks ago down at Abbey Hotel, it was the 10th of February, we were down at Abbey Hotel but on a double show with Michael English and it was a super night down at Abbey. Donegal is very, it's healthy for country music, you know it's got a massive following. Gigs, I'm on tomorrow night and I'm showing Gateway Hotel in Bunkrana. It's a concert with McFlaven, is on it, Deck and Ernie, is on it, John and Nicole, Jerry Guthrie, me and Owen Mack, is on it tomorrow night. I think there's a few tickets left but it's looking like it's going to be sold out so that's a super one and then we have a very important one coming up on February 29th. That's next Thursday. Next Thursday. Tomorrow weekend. It's for a native, the Lightning Fund and Night for the Stars, Nan Green, Hotel and Burt. So that's going to be a massive one, hope everybody can get behind it and support it because it's for a super, super cause. We want everybody there on the night. Rob Brazil is going to be there. David Craig, David James, Chelsea Evans, Barry Kerwin, yourself Tommy and that's going to be myself as well. It's going to be a super night of country music so everybody welcome. Yeah, just not the scared of people now. I won't be singing, I'd be just doing a bit of comparing. Come here, our very own David is going well and I believe, I hear you're going to bring in, have you got your new swimming tugs yet? So you're yourself and David are heading out to swim. We're David and Highland Riddles on September and we're really looking forward to that. And M Traps abroad are brilliant and that's going to be a massive one for Highland Radio and David is doing fantastic. Isn't he? He is, it's great to see young people like David coming through and also Claudia Buckley as well. They're getting on great and they're great supporting and he's going to do fantastic. Yeah, it's funny, I remember when David started off first himself and his dad Martin had come up to me with one of his songs and it's unbelievable. As well as David being a good presenter here at the station, I've been watching his musical career in the background and he's really doing good and some of the songs he's picking are great. There's current single now, is he? Happy Street. Hi, hi, it's great. It's great, he's a great song. I think it's a Charlie Bright song he's done and he's playing on the way Ryan Turner in the lads as well as them and the band and they are Ryan Turner and he's a fantastic band behind him as well, David has so now he's doing well and he deserves it. And apart from this gig you're doing tomorrow night and Nick's Thursday night. Are you doing any dance gigs with your own band? So we're back in the, we're back in the round deal on, we're back in the round deal on the 16th of March. We're back in the round deal. Also I am on Sligo on the Diamond Coast Hotel on the 8th of March as well. That's down in the Skrullin, isn't it? Down in Skrullin, that's right. That's a double show. I think it's, I think I'm on my, Senator Jimmy Buckler, Jerry Guthrie, that's a double show on the way that night. Also we're back in the Rue Glen down in Waterford and yeah, back in the round deal on the 16th. And then I'm doing a few concerts with Derek Ryan as well. So we're back, I'm on Hotel Kilkenny. We have on the 23rd of April, back in the Ellingham Arms on Monday, the Easter Monday, that's the first April as well. So a lot of stuff coming up. Yeah, these weekends, you know, where you'd have a tour, treat it for nags, don't wear crowd pullers, literally you get a lot of, you know, you get the fans of you, you get the fans of David, you get the fans of Robert and Mazzella who are ever out there. That's what I do. People are getting four hours dancing and they're going away for the weekend and, you know, a stubble shows in the Friday nights and the Saturday night, then they're stopping on during Sunday as well. So it's a full weekend of country music, you know. So they're great to be a part of. Yeah, it's funny, I was just looking at a few clips on Facebook of, they're on Monday of David's night down in the Clanry last Sunday night and it was jammed and all the young ones, do you want the young ones out driving? It's unbelievable. It's great to see it come back so strong after lockdown. And the clan reads a great Sunday night dance, you know. Yeah, and I believe the tickets for the trip to Saloo has gone really well, David, it's been promoting that well. And lots of people, not just from around this county, but all over the place. That's going to be great. And, you know, we're looking forward to that in September. I'm also on a few more, I know I'm on Mike Danvers' cruise as well and I'm on Paul Claffey's trips over to Cadiz in June and also Derek's trip over to Spain and Patrick Finney's and also Jimmy Buckleys as well. And that's a good part of these trips and the people love them, you know, because it's music non-stop and it's great. I mean, it's going to be a super week. You wouldn't believe it. I should have stuck at the singing instead. What do I do to present it? People that say to me about it, the people that say to me about to present and all that, but you know, it's great while I enjoy what all you singers do.  You get the real buzz out of that, don't you? You get the energy of the dancers and the crowd, you know, and just the whole band does and it's just a great buzz at them dancers. You know, I love doing them. I love my job and very, very fortunate, you know, it's great. And did you ever try to songwriting at all? Not this long time. I was having a direct grind about this a few weeks ago and, no, I haven't really dabbled that much on that. Now, that's since my teenage years, really, like, you know, but you never know, time I might come up with one yet. It's amazing, you know, you mentioned David or you mentioned direct grind there and you mentioned Nathan Carter, as well as being fine entertainers. Great songwriter, Derek, isn't he? Ah, he's a super, super songwriter. Derek gave some great songs and he just, he just has that. Like, it's just, that's an over-strung days, but always very, very talented. You know, he's a great singer, but also a fantastic songwriter and he writes great songs for the scene. Camero, before I let you go now, you have to tell me about your new single, Beeswing. Beeswing, I... Beeswing, even. Hi, Beeswing. We've been doing it, we've been doing it. Now, it's the last good few months and we do it as a speeded up kind of slash version because the dancers have really taken it and they have this dance to do a slash date and they go back and forward and the dancers are fantastic in it and we were doing this last good few months and we just decided to go and record it. They recorded it on John Fennelman's studio and we don't have a video for it and it's been going down up to the storm so it's turned out well for us. We're buzzing the way about it. Yeah, I heard you mentioned in the slash and all the social dancing that's got very popular. Not, you know, how you used to have the dances in the Allianham or in the Clannery, but I know there's a venue down there in Milford as well and the social dancing might be on a Tuesday night or a Wednesday night or a Thursday night. It's very popular, isn't it? It's massive to you at the moment. You know, it's normally a little earlier than the big band dancing, you know, but no, that's going great as well. It's great to see it all coming back so strong. Well, David, I'm going to let you go. Thanks very much for popping up to see us and until we meet again, hopefully it'll not be in a car park. We're going to play a B-swing. Thanks for having a radio and all your listeners. Not at all. Here it is.