also in the lineup and then the two hole for the Yankees is Anthony Rizzo. Now since he's come back from the COVID IEL Rizzo has been a little sluggish at the plate but yesterday in in Oakland he got the Yankees tied up at one late in the game with that hit that made Matt Chapman look like he was actually human a nine-pitchet bat for Rizzo and I asked Aaron Boone earlier what he's seen since Rizzo's been back from the COVID IEL. Just working his way back I mean one of the last guys I'm worried about like Anthony Rizzo is going to be fine you know I think probably you know when he was on COVID half of that time he was he was pretty ill you know so he wasn't able to do much you know so I'm excuse me I think just kind of fighting his body a little bit and just kicking a little bit of rust off probably and um but yeah I was really encouraged to see him come into that spot last night even though I think it ended up being an error it was a really good at bat that he was able to put together off a tough life left-handed pitcher and Anthony Rizzo is gonna gonna do some great things for us and I'm not worried about him over the long he'll get a role


Hi, Robert Lam, President of the American College of Dentist here in Orlando at the Hyatt Regency looking forward to seeing everybody in October for our annual session.


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Hi, everyone, Joe for jasperakes.com with a random number block randomizer for this big group of teams right here. This knocks out picker team 14. That's coming up in the next video. Big thanks to this group for polishing off this random number block. There are the numbers right there. I did just check in the bag. We don't have any more flaws, including football for now, but if you like this stuff, keep your eye out. We may get some more in the future on jasperakes.com. One and a four, five times her names and numbers, one, two, three, four, and five. James down to Steve. One and a four, five times four, the numbers, one, two, three, four, and five, eight down to four. All right. James with eight and seven, Jason with six, Stephen with nine, Matt with three, Simon with one, Daniel with two, last pod mojo, Garrett with five and zero, Steve Locke with four. All right. And coming up in the next video is the break, jasperakes.com. Bye.


I visited Fairfield on a college campus tour and I fell in love with it. It was beautiful. It was green. Everyone was really sweet to us. Everyone was smiling and waving. I went into college as an Italian major and then when I was introduced to the idea of international studies and politics, that's when I fell in love with it. I believe my niche is humanitarian work and I found my niche through Juhawn, the Jesuit University Humanitarian Action Network. My first trip to Ecuador was eye-opening to say the least and life-changing. I went to Nicaragua for a class for research. I went back to Ecuador and also Tanzania. It makes you feel responsible to those people and accountable to the injustice that happens to them. Like I just feel that if I live this life, someone else has to live almost the same life as me. If I'm experiencing a great life, why can't I give that to somebody else? Three out of the four of my trips I was fully funded, so Fairfield actually connects you to a whole network of people that both influence your study and your future. Fairfield offers so many different experiences and opportunities that there's no way you can't find your niche at some point, you just have to keep searching for it. You will fall in love with every bit of your Fairfield experience.


I don't know if you've seen what happened with Mano and Buba recently. Oh yeah, I did. I did, I did. So no one Buba, no one Mano, what do you thought so now? Okay, this is how, when I looked at it, I felt like I don't think Mano knows that he's like a viral YouTube kid that plays like that, so he probably really thought that he was testing him. But I also felt like Buba probably, probably he wasn't expecting that one either.  But I feel like he's used to that, he's used to people choking him up. I think, yeah, I think he's pretty used to that. But do you feel like, do you feel like in doing pranks and stuff like that, do you want to do that more or are you good off pranks or they got to know the limits or like what do you think about pranks overall? Because I seem like that seems like the thing, especially for the younger kids right now. Exactly, that's what entertains them. I don't know, it'd be too much sometimes, that'd be a little too awkward.  Yeah, it'd be a little too awkward, it'd be fun for the moment, but then while you're actually in it, it's like, what did you just say? Like, nigga, I'll see you later. Yeah, like don't do too much, but yes, that's kind of like the thing kids are engaging with now. But like, so do you feel like you have a younger audience or like an older audience or like in the middle, I think you're like a teen kind of? Yeah, I feel like I got a good audience.  And I also feel like I got a 16 or 18 role that could definitely feel the same. Hey, guys, it's Enrique from Talk of the Town. Thanks for watching. Be sure to subscribe to our YouTube to see more.


Who That's right Man, it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Won't you be my neighbor? We got a wonderful show today and everything I got some really really Terrific co-host here, but first off how y'all doing? Let me hear y'all make some noise Let me introduce everybody real quick first the ladies first ladies first ladies first I She is one of my really good friend of mine and everything I came over to her radio station. That's right I said the girl got her own radio station, man TKO radio TKO radio it a knock you right on that. She's beautiful. She's fine. She's talented.  It's super intelligent You can't stomp her y'all give it up for a money talk Thank you My player partner my homeboy my first cousin, you know one of the One of the people that I lean on there. He's a really strong guy. He's also an innovator He made history man Beyonce did his dance Michael Jackson did his dance man.   He cooler than a goddamn polar bass toenail He got one of the finest Interview shows that you'll ever see in your life. He didn't have everybody that's anybody on there, man You know, he out works at work. They got I don't know if you still work Oh That's right, you didn't got too big for that. Well, no, man, you know, I ain't never even told this story before Jack You about to get Yeah, it was 22 man, we was coming off of COVID and I got a call from corporate and they said, uh, Sir, we need you to get the job and I told them that uh, I wasn't about to get the job Well, you ain't got a job no more sir Yeah, yeah, that's how I went I mean, it was one of those things to where, you know, it was All the way from the top down everybody had to get it at that time because we were coming out of COVID It was real in the field but for me, I Never really spoke out about it and against it like that too tough because if you look at my podcast It's to ATL hats on that table. Yeah, and that's from a guy named big limb Big limb, big limb and big limb pass from COVID. You see what I'm saying So I don't know if he got the shot or not, I don't know No, I know he didn't get it.  So with that being said, I didn't want to be the one to be raising cane about nobody not getting Because it was a personal decision. It was like, you know what? I'm not gonna put what I feel on you if that's what you want to do That's fine, but you and I ain't got nothing against it. I still don't got nothing against it That was just something that me and my family we weren't about to do. God damn. Okay.   I just don't feel right about it, you know, and I Mean I was able to make it through COVID I can't say the same thing for everybody else I know everybody in my house survived it and everybody's doing well, you know But it was just something that I didn't feel like for me With it when it came to a job and my personal body a Job already has control of your day Okay, but I just didn't feel comfortable giving them control of my body You see what I'm saying?  I got to live with whatever I put into my body long after this job is over with You see what I'm saying now if I knew that I was gonna be working for the rest of my life And I was gonna be taking care of for the rest of my life and my family gonna be taking care of for the rest of Their lives then that would have been something that I would have considered but would that not be in the case It was like, you know what? I'll have to take my chances It was a wild thing Jack Wild thing Did anybody in your household catch COVID? We all caught it That was your symptoms It was like a flu is like you catch the flu and you know stopped up and you're looking crazy I caught COVID before it took once I think I already caught it I got a shot So my symptoms, I didn't really have them You just didn't know You just didn't know Yeah, it just felt like the flu went through the house because you know I got four kids in the house So I mean when they start school somebody's getting sick at the beginning of every year and it's gonna fly through the whole house So actually, you know, I think we probably had it before it was even announced as well Because I remember all of us got sick and it was like damn This is a real flu going around in this house and my wife was like I got a cold baby But when I cough this don't feel like no regular cough.   Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  I'm telling you now I'm getting by on Monday my flu and COVID shot on Monday. I don't blame I gots to have it honey. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, um, I Had a I wasn't going to get it But then I had got the call from Wilden out like nigga can't hit me Like hey, you want to come back to a new while or not this season right after the you know It had just opened back up a little bit. Yeah, and I'm like, yes I would love to get a guess put me back on this show This is the first season come out of 16th season. Yeah, it went out for everybody. So There was like you got to go get the the the COVID shot and the booster shot.  We're back Who we all back I went and got my shit Yo, the funny part about it is when we got on set It was a lot of people that wasn't like came that didn't come back for while and out that season Cuz they didn't get the shot exactly but did what happened was the next season came their motherfuckers Shade yeah, yeah, if this what you do You make your life on TV exactly you gotta go get that come on now That's the only thing that saved me was that I had my podcast Yeah Ventures and stuff like that so it was like it wasn't a money situation. It was just more so just physical It was like, you know, I'm I don't feel comfortable man. I don't feel comfortable. I can dig it I can dig it. I remember I want to definitely get into all of your business ventures before we do it man Hey, it's where you know what time it is man Hey, I want everybody to show they school clothes cuz you know my cast they came over here Got damn dripping as the new people say Man show them your outfit I'm money talks Chelsea show them your school clothes Okay, my cousin lived to show off He dressed like this to go to the bathroom To go to sleep This was dressed up in the house with no place to go Come on Hey, so the business is man. Yes, sir. You've been an entrepreneur for a minute man Who put you on to even that mindset and that's why I hanging around DJ drama down, you know Producing over there for them for years So you wasn't a filly yet. Well, you know hit man.  I don't want to be in it, you know having to Do what the boss they do. I mean the bottom line is I'm hard-headed, okay? I'm hard at it, but I'm not hard-headed to a fault to what I won't take, you know Direction or nothing like that. It's just more so I won't take bad direction. You see what I'm saying Yeah, I'm not taking what it ain't coming in this industry You see what I'm saying folks gonna do what you tell them to do you see what I'm saying so it's like I Didn't want to be in that position and I knew the only way that I'd be able to enjoy Doing what I do as a profession. I had to be in control of what I had going on and from that point forward, you know I set towards the path of just educating myself and figuring out how to do it because with them It was through observation. I can observe that they were living a life that I wanted to live I could observe that they were free I could observe that they were being able to be creative at the same time too and I mean I could tell that they Living out their goals and dreams on their own diamond on their own, right? You see what I'm saying and that's what I wanted for myself Man, that's what's up, bro So like what all businesses do you have right now? Okay, hot-tired media.  Exactly, but I was like, you know, you were just coughing about a couple months ago. You made it through that You gonna be I you know, but she supported me in my decision When you try to make it do what it's supposed to you need somebody that's got your back And die with you you see what I'm saying. So I knew she was willing to die with me So, you know her now, you know, we make an excellent team we just all of our different business ventures But they'd be real estate or if it's just Her and the cosmetics industry and stuff like that are me and the media industry We always put our heads together to see what we're gonna do next. We invest in each other I mean, we just I met my wife at Jean Charles young middle school Southwest middle school in Atlanta We meet back up when we was in college She was going to spare and I was going to clog and then I met her in front of clubwood and then we've been rocking ever since Yeah But I don't know her I hear I don't know life with her more than I don't know without her now Sweets man, yeah, she already a hairdresser or something. Yes when she graduated from Spelman she had been doing head a whole time and She opened up a salon back like 2009 or 10 and then it was a Ice storm it flooded out. So then she shut it that she shut down and down So then when I started the media company and then we started, you know making some moves and stuff like that I say well, it's time for you to get back in the business But this time I was like, I know you do have but we want to make sure that you have a situation Where you can have some passive income coming in on top of what you do So when you go to work, you'll always be making money whether or not you go in and out That's when we came with the salon suites and then we built that thing up and she's been doing well That's like one of them situations where you go inside the building. It's a whole bunch of little barbershop Exactly, you got you own one of them, and how many it's like ten sweets in there.  Yeah, me and the Y Man right over there for a button the road. It's the only one down there in the south It wasn't hard getting it booked out It was just we ran into some stuff just trying to get it built And you know getting the approvals and permits and stuff everything that can get kind of crazy You know having to deal with the city just you know the red tape behind Hey, we had to make it do it it was supposed to Jack we had to and once we got through all of that stuff Getting the licensing and the permits and everything once she put up that she was going open it up Them sweet some things filled up quick work. Yeah, that's a moneymaker I mean sweets is kind of similar to real estate in that You know you have a space and then you charge and rent for it just like you would in any other real estate You know business and stuff like that So it kind of allows you to dabble into the real estate part of the business versus just the hands-on doing the Service part. Okay. Now. I didn't got a hundred and fifty dollar haircut At one of these weeks before yeah, right? Yeah As a matter of fact, it was right around the time that I had came to see you. Yeah, and we The first time yeah, the first time when I was doing the Martin tour. Okay. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, that's though.  Yeah, and I ain't no gonna be no She shamed me up real good Yes, yeah, it was it was definitely an experience and but when after she when she said when She didn't say I was a little shot, but then I wasn't it wasn't hard for me to take that money But then she was fine. It's a good boy now. Then there's that Needless to say I definitely came back and refer friend and I had wanted to myself damn How much does this space right here cost for her to have to charge me See it ain't even about the cost of the space, you know Stylus and barbers and stuff. That's a money-making business. See when I come home from work when I got laid off the first Man I came home and I remember telling my wife.  I got these bills covered around here. Come on Yeah, she said I got you don't worry about that. She said you deserve a break.  What should I do to come up with some money? I mean, how am I gonna survive out here? You start to have all of these different ideas and you think about all of the opportunities and stuff that you have beforehand that you Didn't take advantage of So when I got back in the radio, I said, okay, there is no way in hell I know I'm gonna get fired again because that's one thing about radio as the saying goes you ain't worked in radio unless you Had go you gonna get fired so I said, okay before I get fired again I'm gonna make sure that I have my stuff and all of my ducks in the roll So when this does occur, I'll be able to go so when they do say, okay, it's jab time It's like, okay, I'm already ready for whatever you bring it to me because I've been preparing for this day anyway It was all gravy man, I understood it. I knew that it was coming. I knew what kind of world We was living in at that time, you know, and I knew here. I had to leave Clark You know, I was a professor over there Clark too. I had to leave that That's what really hurt me the most Not too much the house As a professor, yeah, I knew all of my students was getting So what I look like sitting in the class you bet not you bet not what you doing But you're like and these folks got to go to school and get an education to move on with their life So it was like, no, I'm not gonna be the one that's gonna be outspoken about it I'ma let to each his own everybody make their own decision But for me my real passion is always been teaching that was one of the things that I was gonna do when I was in College at first it was like should I do radio or teach and it just so having it one of my home boys that was in one of My class and said hey, I can get your internship at the radio station so I went on ahead to do radio but Teaching was always something that I love to do because if anybody didn't been around me long enough They know I'm gonna share that information.  I had to walk away from radio.  She was thinking of herself.  Was it just the uncertainty of what the vaccine was like? Why were you so against getting it exactly? That's exactly what you know, she got a job. Yeah, it's so that well Like I said, I ain't got nothing against nobody that got it I was just scared about how my body would react to it I didn't know it was like I might put it in my body and then I might be I might have a heart attack in my sleeping bag I'm saying and I didn't want to even risk that see I wanted them kind of people I don't play with my life. I don't care. Well, the I don't care I'm not gonna if I think it's a slight change that I might die But it wasn't that I had anything against it or nothing like that I mean, I don't blame nobody for taking it You see what I'm saying if I was in a real situation to where I needed to take it I would probably be on my fifth one right now Okay, but I was blessed to have my stuff in order so when it did come time It was like well now you can actually make a option, you know, C. Lo Green said this to me one day and it blew my mind He said, uh, you know him and Andre 3000 was talking and he was like the real American dream It's the ability to say no when you want that's real freedom That's real so it's like you want to be able to say no and mean it and not have to say yes And be like, you know what I knew I shouldn't have or maybe maybe, you know, my arm been hurting ever since, you know I didn't want to deal with that. You know what?  Yeah, I had a homegirl.  Yeah, he wasn't she had a big as big as bump thing But I think it was cuz you know, you mixed that that jab in with that BBL You got to choose one got there You But it went away after about a week Yeah, yeah, yeah, so You do you ever have plans of going back to ready on your future even if he's with a different station Well, I've had office and this is the problem once you get out here and you start, you know making it do what it's supposed to do on your own It's a little bit. It's kind of difficult to go back to that kind of a structure You know, I was able to sit in on a little bit of what here crack was talking about and I could feel him to a certain extent to Well, you know as radio personality is your creative people You know what I'm saying? We want to create and as a creative you want to be free to create how you want to create You don't want to have to ask somebody. Can I interview this person? Can I do this or can I do that?  So, you know, I didn't been offered a lot of different things you know money's and Different shifts and stuff like that, but I haven't seen anything that really just made me want to say okay I give up my freedom Let me can I give you your flowers real quick man. Oh, you was the first person to ever give me a radio interview Well, you know My group with me as a solo artist use the first person to ever give you Ask me how it got started cuz what I was gonna say it was in the production room at hot 107 now with little playboy Crazy Oh when I was with cash a while ago when we came to your spot He was like man, I'm about to do this interview with beehive. You come with me. I'm like, yeah, you know He knew to the city. He'll be known too much. So I was like, all right. Come on. Let's go and We went to hot 107 I'm building. Yeah, and I'm thinking we bought it out 107 now Oh boy got his own a whole suite up in the same building Yeah, yeah, but not I mean that was the whole thing The drama hold on this nigga got a couch better than the couch in my house I was proud of you dog. That was like a real big mom. I was like man. I just seen the growth Yeah, and you know, I didn't know the reason why you left. Yeah, I'm just thinking cuz you got bigger opportunities I'm seeing it. Yeah, yeah, you know, it was a good though, you know black man to black man moment when I Yeah Flex right over the view No, man, it was one of the things I knew I had to do it right, but also I knew I needed to make myself I needed to be able to keep the party going I knew that you know when you're working in radio you live in contract to contract check to check You don't know what the hell is about to happen next your rings could be low and then it can play You know we tired you you could get older so you know, you didn't age that the demographic You know, you might miss a few days of work. They say, you know what? We don't need you no more Cause you didn't come to work. Oh, somebody might be coming for you. They see what you do and they want to come And that was one of the things too I was never one of those kind of people to where I would come in and take your spot if that's what playboy was doing I'ma let you have that playboy. I'ma carve out my own niche in this thing And that's really what you saw when you came over there to the suite It was like, you know what I had to carve out my whole thing like I told somebody the other day I said I said do you think I wanted to have to do all of this I said I had to do it because I had goals and dreams for myself And I knew that my career wasn't fulfilling So I said, all right, sometimes you got to put your money where your mouth is and go ahead and go to work You see what I'm saying? And that's what I winded up doing and it turned out to be one of the best risks that I ever took in my damn life And it's you know, it's continued impossible and you know, it's a blessing to me and others And I'm able to continue to do what I want to do how I want to do it and I have more flexibility You know, I want to be able to talk to who I want to talk to when I want to talk to them Back in the day when I first started radio You had to be on fire To come into the radio station.   So I used to just bring everybody in there playboy He was already hot when he came in there because this man already had hits and everything else But it was a lot of different other artists that I would help to break It was a lot of older artists that I would bring in to revive their career Or just to chop it up with them because I knew that they had information So I was in the middle of this industry Trying to figure out what I'm gonna do next. Okay So one of the things was I knew I needed to get some information from some older gentlemen that had already been there and done that Inside of this music industry So that's what caused me to interview a lot of the older artists and rappers and business people and stuff like that Because I was really trying to soak up the information in the game to figure out how should I play this game that I'm in And through a lot of those Interviews I think while a lot of people gravitated to them and they were drawn to them Is because the information that they were able to receive from them might have been life changing It might have been something that might have gave you a heads up on something Or it might have helped you get clarity on the situation that you was trying to figure out And that's what really led me down my path of just interviewing everybody at the same time too because it was like I got to bring these folks in here and it wasn't an easy task Because imagine we're in the middle of a corporation and I'm in here bringing in folks who I feel like I like their music I'm bringing in folks that I grew up listening to I'm bringing in folks that I read it too out in the street They say hey, man, I want to get on the radio. All right. Well, come on And they were like, well, who the hell be I bringing in this thing, man But once the number started to grow, they said whatever you're doing is working So they let me ride like that. And that's all that really matters is the eyeballs and stuff And they don't know what's hot and they don't know what's not They just going off of you know The the conventional way of doing exactly and it's a monkey see monkey do industry at the same time too So a lot of times it might have been the artist that might have came in They weren't hot yet But my my trick of the trade was I would interview every new artist like they were Michael Jackson So I'd be like you the hottest thing and we'll sell that record.  Yeah somebody I need to talk to them too. I need to rock with them So it had become contagious at the same time. So we were able to kick start a lot of stuff But then also once the fan base started to grow and the number started to show up behind it It made it a lot easier to break new artists and to help post out and stuff like that because I had the social proof With the numbers coming in at the same time With you having such a heavy hand in media, how important would you say it is for black people to remain in media? Oh, we got to do that.  See what I'm saying. So when it comes to controlling our own personal narrative We have to do that. It's the same thing even with the music or anything in media. So We have to control the music that comes out because guess what didn't I say that to you the other day? Yeah I just yeah, yeah, we got to control it because the music is what feeds So, yeah So that's why every time somebody asks me about music I'm gonna say good and mob soul food is my favorite album Because that album is one that fed my soul and saved my life But we have to be in control of that narrative to feed people with the head They're in control of the narrative because if we don't then you'll wind up getting with Somebody don't they don't necessarily care about your well-being. That's right. Okay, because they're thinking about a dollar And it's easy To have a platform.  We get the fight in acting the fool That stuff is gonna say You see what I'm saying, but you have to have talent And skill to be able to create real content That's going to control the narrative and push the culture for it at the same time So that's something that you know Everybody needs to sit down and just make sure that we all focus on that when we are creating content as far as The narrative of our people as a whole because if you get something that goes viral You want us to be looking good, you know, you wanted to be helping somebody You wanted to be giving out some information also in controlling the narrative As people the information that we have to give out So if it comes to business Starting our businesses and how to get funding for businesses and stuff like that We need to be able to be in seats to where we can say, hey, man, you go do this You go do that you do this and you do that and that's how you get your money This is how you start your platform.  I'ma share this information with somebody because it helped me But if you're not in that seat How much stuff have we learned I'ma tell you the interview that really, you know changed my life I was at the radio station working overnight looking crazy as usual And uh, it was a breakfast club interview with dame dad. Yeah. Yeah, and when dame went in there went off But who's your boss? Oh my god I said, I feel I felt both sides I felt where shawlamain and then angela ye was because i'm sitting in the radio station watching it And then I felt what dame dash was coming from speaking as a free man.  I got to get something after my last night And that's when I came with high time media was like no I need something that I could get to my kids that they can take a catalog and say, you know what? We got daddy catalog and we're gonna do what we do with it Or we can use daddy facility to launch our businesses and stuff like that and do what we want to do with that as well because uh Even my oldest daughter, I mean she does well with content on tick talking youtube as well too So I mean it's one of those things that it's another way for people to make money Create content and the whole thing is when it comes to creating content and making money. It's about Organics You got to make it organic. You're not gonna make no money not being organic. It's difficult to make the money Okay, so in order to be organic that means somebody's gonna have to see you with 500 Somebody's gonna have to see you do that 250 on that interview that you thought was gonna go crazy And you got to sit there and say, okay, what did I do wrong? I got to figure out this algorithm I got to figure out how to grow this platform so it can start generating money So then once it starts generating the money, then I mean there's a money printer Because everything that comes off the platform is generating money You see what i'm saying? So that's one of the things that you know, I want to preach the folks to at the same time Just don't be scared to look crazy.  Who this nigga bringing in here today? Why are you bringing e-folks in here?  No, that's real. Yeah, it wasn't cute or cool to play that stuff on the radio But all I you know what I'm about to do what I do. I know I love this music I know a new generation of folks gonna love this music. I know that this artist is the shit I know that this artist got a good story to tell and we about to put this stuff out here And as people started to see it work, then you started to see something My can see my can do if it worked for him. It's gonna work for me too. Yeah, you see what I'm saying So sometimes you just you can't be scared to leave You got to go ahead and set you put out there and work it on out because I mean leadership A lot of times we ain't born leaders. We just turn in the leaders out of necessity Yeah, survival. You see what I'm saying.  I mean here the crazier you look Probably the bigger the better the damn plan is you got real Then there's that Okay No, I was um going back to what you were saying before about how black people have to control our narrative and how we look in the media Um, do you think that white people have too much of their hand and what we have going on? Because one thing I always tell black people is that we have to do a better job of gatekeeping Because gatekeeping is the only way that we're going to preserve whatever we create every time we make something We hand it off way too easy. So do you think that you know, I mean, that's how I feel I feel like white people have way too much of an insight and influence in what we got going on Well, we sitting over here in the black owned studio right now You see what I'm saying I fuck with white people Please but I say that to say We have to be in the business because I mean if it's a business everybody's going to get into it You see what I'm saying?  We have to do business. We have to build those platforms from scratch That's why I talk about building stuff organically. See a lot of folks can't get to the point that they want to get to like they say a big old Redwood tree was once a acorn that held this ground You got to be able to hold your ground through all of the tough times and the rough times So that you will be able to you know service the community how you see fit because nobody's coming to save us Nobody's coming to say Nobody coming to help us and folks are coming to take Folks are definitely coming to take so if they saying okay I can put together this story about this person killing this person and I can make a lot of money off of it They thinking about they bottom line. They ain't thinking about your culture They ain't thinking about what how you feel about how it's going to impact you they thinking okay This person killing this person about to make me a lot of money I'm about to tell this story and I'm about to get paid We have to build our platforms up to a point to where folks can say okay I'ma tune in to what be how I got going on because at least I know I'll be able to get the news Straight no chase and I it'll be something that I could feel good about by the end of the day as well But you've got a lot of people that will come in and take advantage of what's going on, but that's on us That's on us. We got to hold ourselves accountable for what's going on in the culture We got to hold ourselves accountable for the kind of music that we put out We got to hold ourselves accountable for the images that we put out as well So with that being said, I think that it just takes a community We got and it's the business part too because see a lot of times it's for the mighty dollar man Folks to sell out for a dollar real fast You know folks want that money so they're gonna do what it takes to get that money and sometimes you know Carol Blackman used to tell me this back in the day. She said be high All money ain't good money. Yeah, so you can't just be taking money You can't listen to Carol though Carol with the truth Ain't that all Evander Holyfield No, no, no, no, no, they had nothing to do with each other She didn't have a baby by him No, she didn't, she didn't That wasn't her No, uh-uh Who that was? I don't know, I don't know, but I know her son, that ain't about the son I know them folks, they're my family Because that was Evander money, she didn't took his money She took his good money Carol did the morning show at V103 for so many years and made so much damn money and didn't make no sense Still spending that money to this day That was rich She's back in them days, you can do radio and get paid for real Okay, and they still spending some of that money running around And Ramona and the bro and all of them Yo, Ramona, yeah, I mean, there was a lot of radio ledgers that was getting it in Joyce Latel Come on, Joyce Latel, the quiet storm, man, come on I used to love her voice Yeah, yeah, she got one of the greatest voices up I used to jack all I was a little boy Okay, man Oh my god, I know what you're talking about You're talking about the quiet storm Keeping it soft and warm Oh my god But that's just the main thing right there It's about just us taking care of each other We got to take care of each other We can't expect nobody to come and do this That's right You see what I'm saying? This is one of the things I used to do when I worked at the radio station When I would tell young niggas when they come in and try to get a record played They'd be like, hey, B, how I got a record?  But then the other half of me remembers When I was growing up listening to music And the stuff I was listening to was about killing and shooting Doing drugs and everything But, but Niggas was, Niggas was studio gangsters When we was coming up See, some of the folks was studio gangsters You gotta remember, Park and Biggs both got killed Yeah, they were playing too much though But Park was a poet though Park was not really a gangster Park was a poet He got pushed into that role Yeah, no, he definitely did But the whole thing is, is that I think that With the new age and the new artists, you know It turned into a business It turned into big business See, the whole thing is now When we start with podcasting right now Podcasting is still in its emphasis stage You might see a lot of folks doing it right now But it's still in the beginning, you know, times of it And people that's doing it Actually have a passion for what's going on So they're like, okay Let me figure out how I can put out the best quality product So I can get people to watch my show organically But once this thing turns into a big business To where, you know, you got big corporations behind it And they can just sit whoever they want to sit in these seats Then it's going to turn into a watered down version of what we have now You're not going to get the same information in the same conversations You're going to get what sells And what's paying the bills Exactly, and what sells and what goes viral is the violence The drugs, the sex, and the murder You see what I'm saying So that's what sells So, you know, a lot of people are going to push that But I think to myself, we still See, you got to be willing to take a pay cut for the culture That's real You got to be willing to take a pay cut for the culture You see what I'm saying I did that for many years It was like, you know what, I ain't worried about getting no money My whole quest is to make the best content that I can make And move the culture forward at the same time I wasn't trying to, you know, do click bait and make money Because somebody then got slapped in the studio at this point in time It was like, no, I want you to say the most thought-provoking Shit I ever heard in my life And let's go viral with that at the same time Or in Jack Case, the funniest shit that I ever heard in my damn life You see what I'm saying Let's showcase talents that make people happy You see what I'm saying Something that's going to move the culture forward at the same time But as well, we stand right now That's what's selling And so you need people to start getting their lumber up And putting their money up behind something that's positive Because at the end of the day, it's about programming It's television programming and radio programming Whatever they put on that radio How many songs have you heard that you were like Man, I don't like this shit But three months later, you know about Damn, they're all of them That's what I'm saying That's what I'm saying They're programming you So we can still use that same power to program Something positive into us too at the same time too So that's when I kind of get angry You know, I remember when Joe Gifted came with that water song And I had heard that my homeboy, Earl Dollar, Cameron and Roe Had hit me up about that song We brought them up, they interviewed them And they did what they did to break that record But I remember I went back there talking to her, Cain And I was like, Cain, this record right here is a positive record It's just about doing better and having things I said, we definitely need to get behind something like this And I mean, that was a record that blew up That didn't hurt nobody and it felt good It made the same noise as in the other record then You see what I'm saying Every record don't got to be something that's going You know, make us look crazy, slander us And demean us at the same time for it to go You can say positive stuff And that's the type of guy Joe is for real though You know, he changed his name from Joe Gutter to Joe Gifted And he didn't pop until he got on that wave And started moving like that Come on, man And I mean, it works, it works You know, that positive, see the whole thing is Yeah, what? You ain't got the jam if you're talking about some bullshit You ain't got the jam But then I'm going to put it to you like this So this is a good way of explaining it If you look at the women that's doing music right now Even though you might not necessarily agree With what they're talking about As far as they deliver is and they're rapping styles And they, they and they've been snapping Okay, Megan going and they're snapping Carter going and they're snapping Mika Minaj going and they're snapping Why?    I don't even want to talk about this like that And I'll mention it later on But I don't even want to report this right now I thought I was on That's real Yeah, now it's too much It gets to be too much And I mean, sometimes you just gotta say, you know what? Nah, we ain't even going Let's find some good news to talk about Let's find something else to talk about Or we're just going to have to sit this one out Yeah And let this one go ahead and pass over until, you know Something better happens But everything, we ain't reporting on everything that goes on But then you got to think if you're a corporation See, I'm a mom and pop business So I can kind of, you know, I'm hands on with everything But if you're a corporation You got employees that's doing what they're supposed to be doing Every day, when I worked at radio, every day I went to work I had to produce a show and have something to say I can't get on there and say, well, I ain't got nothing to say to y'all today But I'm in this thing You know, so I had to look at the news And if it was newsworthy You know, I would just find the best newsworthy topics That would help and that we can kind of turn it to some kind of educational Situation at the same time too But no, I definitely feel you with that It does become draining, you know Talking about negativity all the time, man And I mean, even though that's what sells We have to just, it's like working out, man We got to work that whole positive muscle out That's right And make that thing strong to get folks used to seeing that But it's gonna take That's the long way The strong way, you know, is keeping it positive And keeping everything up and up And if you're trying to get up through their fans You better go up through there with some controversy Come on now Those are just the facts You see what I'm saying, I hate it to be the case But if you're trying to grow your platform And you're trying to get up with their fans Controversy will get you there I don't want to do it, bro Like I'm not gonna do it I'll take this long road and it's It's broke, it's lonely But I can't, I don't want to I can't contribute to that As an elder, you know And trying to, like you said Make the game progress and stuff like that And if the show don't ever get off And whatnot, I can sleep better Exactly That's one of the main things right there I love being able to wake up in the morning And be like, you know what?  So I had to use my platform in a way to where we could still get the other side of it out So people could still make an informed decision Outside of me telling folks what the hell's going on So that's how you use the platform It's like, okay, you know what? I got the This brother's talking about a different aspect of this That a lot of people ain't talking about right now Because at that time, if you didn't get your damn shot, you was a fool But then there was another, you know, speck of people that would say If you do get a shot, you are a fool So we had to represent both sides of that conversation So that people could make an informed decision for themselves I know for me, I use personally my discernment Like if I don't feel right about it, I'm just not going to do it Because like Jack and Bia said, I got to be able to sleep with myself at night So like that mass shooting that happened in Maine I could not post about it because I just felt like But the Israel thing that was going on the Palestinians That was something I felt personally So I use my discernment because at the end of the day, it's our platform And it's essentially who we are So I go by my discernment If it don't feel right, I can't do it and I'm willing to take that L For me, it's all it's always about like, what am I? What's my mission?  Is this what's going to push black people forward?  When you thinking, I dare to solve the case myself Hey, bro, I know what happened for real Frank told me before he died He died two weeks after I did that interview with him Wow My joy Two weeks after I did the interview with him I felt it was a very eerie feeling You know what I'm saying? Interviewing this guy Because I had seen all of his documentaries And you know what I'm saying?  Oh, you in LA Oh, okay Where you at? Shit, I'm in LA too What do you want?  What kind of conspiracy theories?   Yeah, and so, you know what I'm saying? It was, but I'm glad the God chose me Yeah To do that It was a four-part series too I'm the first person to do To break interview up and make it Different parts Thanks You know what I'm saying?  So, you know, I might have inspired a few folks that came out to me But I will always say it 100% Nigga Jack Thriller's what inspired me to do what I was doing And then, you know, Trent Sutter Sense He was the one that gave me the game See, Sense was like Beehive started doing interviews At that time I was on the radio at 2 a.m. in the morning From 2 to damn 5 a.m.    The people that I started with Ain't even here today They didn't get to jail Man, that's the part that's depressing about it all You see what I'm saying? Because when you thinking, okay I'm going down my memories museum I'm thinking, okay, yeah, I remember that boy, Playboy He was just a young nigga coming in here Man, dancing, doing this thing That was a beautiful thing Good to see him still doing well right now But then I'm thinking about bankroll Then I'm thinking about trouble Then I'm thinking about takeoff Then I'm thinking about Nipsey Then I'm thinking about young greatness You see what I'm saying? I'm thinking about all of these folks that came in there I'm thinking about Marlowe I'm thinking about all these folks Don't boy, rah, rah, man I mean, I'm thinking about all of these people That came in here that had dreams Civil of the mines And then, you know, they went out there passing Don't be You see what I'm saying? I mean, a lot of folks just Slim Duncan, man Slim Duncan, you know And that's what hurts You know, having to do this and create that content Man, are you seeing folks dying? It's like, man, I was just talking to Shawty Or I was planning on bringing Shawty back in here Or when I get this week That would have been somebody that I would have made Show came down at a hollack Man, you see what I'm saying?    People remember that kind of stuff It's the community that we got to bring to the game That will allow everybody to be successful So even with podcasters I need to see as many podcasters as possible I tell, when I was at Clark, I would tell my students I said in the future It's gonna be more podcasters than rappers And they were all looking at me like I'm crazy And now we're starting to see There's a lot more podcasters coming out of nowhere There's a lot more But it's gonna be just If you can have a hundred rappers You can have a hundred podcasters But it's the same thing You see what I'm saying?  Because they don't really want to hear Like the new generation of kids It's a little bit harder to deposit into them Than it was before They're being raised by technology So how do we get into a space Where we can even, you know, talk to them? These kids got to know that it's money To be made The money is what's driving their ass Is when I was teaching I would make sure that them students would see How to make the money You see what I'm saying? It's one thing to create the content But it's nothing to know how to actually monetize your content And once the students learn Once you smell that blood You taste that blood And you realize, oh, what's the money for me Doing my goddamn thing?     But at the end of the day, nigga, it's all going into the same piggy bank So with that being said By the end of it, you're gonna be good Because you just collect the cash If you're doing it organically And you ain't worried about what it looked like If you're worried about what it looked like Then guess what?  That's right It's a hand-to-hand combat You need to be texting that link out, nigga Yeah You need to be tweening that link out You need to be DMing that link out That's right You see what I'm saying? And you got to make sure that your captions and your thumbnails are good So folks, I want to click on it One hundred percent Ain't nobody clicking on be hijacked through the part one You see what I'm saying? That ain't gonna work You see what I'm saying?    And that's the science behind it all You know, when it just comes to just the actual technique To being able to drop the content And make sure that it'll have a better chance of going viral than normal Because if you do it based off a generic caption of just saying You know, behind here talking that shit Then you know, you gonna get my fan base Of niggas that might be 30 niggas that come here and say nigga How far would be I love that nigga?   Folks got to come in, they got to respect it And then it's just something from the outside looking in That people can admire And they'll say, you know what? It look like they working together Why can't we work together, fellas? I see them niggas over there, they getting it So why can't we do what they do and get it too?  Get on mafia Going crazy Break the bank with C-Lo He just dropped that Well, they getting ready to drop that single They just shot the video to that at the bank the other day That's going crazy My other podcast partner, Tert from the Hot Boys Man, I mean still on fire He got a new single out going crazy He just shot the video for that as well Yeah He about to drop that All of that stuff probably might be out by the time the show drop But them boys is going crazy I mean, Jody Breeze What up, though? Choke, no joke My New York partner that I love to cuss out every day You know, Tomb Everybody that come in appreciate everybody rocking with me the long way And man, we gonna keep this party going in this thing, Jack There it is, man Y'all give it up for Beehive Let's take a picture Thank you Thank you Thank you Yay That was so dope


Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel, Inside the Hymn. You guys, we did it! It's the last Saturday in September, which means our Sew Along Saturday for National Sewing Month is coming to an end. We've been on quite the journey together this month. We picked out our fabric, analyzed and picked a size, cut everything out and sewed it all up and now we all have new dresses. So enough delaying, here is mine. To say that I love her is an understatement. This simple little dress is actually one of my favorite things I've sewn in months. I've worn this dress three times this week already. It is so comfortable and easy to wear. I just know I'll be reaching for it all fall long. So as you know, our pattern is McCall's 7991. The website describes this dress as a close-fitting dress with a faux wrap bodice with band and elasticized waist. View A has a narrow hem armhole finish. View B has a long sleeve and View C has three-quarter sleeves with band. There's also two skirt options, a full circle skirt and a fitted skirt. I made the bodice of View C with the skirt of View A. One of my initial concerns with any wrap bodice is how revealing it will be. If the wrap crosses over the bust too low, then you'll be showing a lot of cleavage, which isn't very comfortable for me. However, as you can see, M7991 crosses over pretty high on the chest. It creates a nice v-neck that's still flattering without showing too much. I will say though that when sitting or slouching, the relaxed nature of the bodice does cause it to fall open. It's a super easy fix though, with a little snap along the band. The grown-on or dolman sleeve is such a fun design. I don't have many garments with this sleeve in my closet and that's going to change. It's so comfortable to wear and gives the dress a casual, cool look that I'm really into these days. The skirt is a full circle skirt, which creates a super swingy dress that I love. I wish it were a couple of inches longer, but circle skirts can only be so long because of how wide they are. They can really only be as long as your fabric is wide, if that makes sense. I'll illustrate this in an upcoming Tuesday toot, so stay tuned for that. For fabric, I used a double brushed polyester from Joanne. When I posted my teaser photo on Instagram last week, the pattern designer commented to say she almost used this exact fabric for the pattern photo shoot, which I think is so cool. It really gave me that validation that this fabric was the right choice for this dress and also that the print was something that was cool and trendy and fashionable. The double brushed poly is so soft and it's a little insulating too, which will be nice when the temperatures drop. I'll definitely be making another version of this dress soon, so stay tuned to see how that comes together. I'm thinking I'm going to stick with the circle skirt, but make the long sleeve version. I cannot wait to see how all of your dresses turned out, so please tag me wherever you share your makes. I'm at Inside the Hymn everywhere. Thank you so much for coming along with me on this sew-along. I've really enjoyed it, and I love my dress, which is just the icing on the cake. So thank you so much for watching. I've got a playlist just for this sew-along, so be sure to check out the other three videos in this series if you haven't already, and that's going to do it for me today. I will see you all again very soon. Bye!


This is the second part of overrefill for T802 cartridge. This is a cartridge shell that you can find at the cartridge for Epson. And you click T802. And this is the empty shell that doesn't have any chips. And that doesn't have a ink. And then this is our old just one life cycle chip. And this is our new four life cycle chips. If you are afraid of mixing up chips, it's okay. Just use your phone to zoom in. You can see this 802 XL K diamonds black. This 802 XL C cyan. Get a yellow magenta. So we get our printer calibrated with Epson's pigment ink. The first one we want to try is to convert it to a dye ink printer. Go to maintenance, ink cartridge replacement. Okay, we're going to install the black first. I'm going to use a gorilla double-sided tape to glue the chip. Make sure you know which side is up, which one is down. This one with the code it has done.  We're going to use our the most inexpensive ink that you can find. It's going to use a dye ink. So you've got to refill ink. Refill ink for Epson. And you can see there's a standard 600 ml. It's less than $3 refill. So why Epson sell you a $3 ink for $110? That would be beyond your imagination. We can use a syringe, or we can carefully put it this way. I mentioned that I really like Epson's one-way flow damper because the ink can only flow one way to the printhead. So you have really less chance to have air bubble in here. And so what I usually do is if I don't have the damper, I just make sure the ink flow to the top of the very front of the cartridge.  Now I'm moving on to the side. Always try to be neat. Imagine, say we have lots of foam in the front. So make sure that you get all the ink in the front. And similar to Epson cartridge, you have to tear off the yellow labels. Okay, at least the printer read the first set of chips. Okay, let's see if we clog up the printer because we switched from pigment ink to dye ink now. This is the printer ask you if you want the automatic update. So we're to disable automatic update. Because there are still some pigment left in the printhead. So first few pages, there will be still pigment in it. So even if you print it perfectly, don't trust it. Always print at least 10 more pages before you see if it's clogged or not. This is still pigment ink. I'll just print maybe 30 pages. Okay, we just finished flushing the printhead by printing 30 pages full color. So pairs of this is pigment ink. And this is just a standard dye ink. So one is printed with half, the dye ink is about half the price of the pigment ink. And now you can understand why people switch. You won't be able to find the much difference between the two. Let me print. Actually, yeah, the difference is when you get the white. Let me write it down. It's pigment. When you get the dye ink wet, it's not going just all the color disappears. So I got a pigment here. And I get the dye in here. Let me put it on a white background. You can see. You can see the pigment is still sharp. There's no difference. There's no running. And you'll see a little bit of running around the dye ink.  There's really not too much. You can see the color is the border of color. Where is the border here? This is sharp. This is about the only difference. Oh, you can see here. You can see more magenta is running. Because here you get a lot of magenta. OK, that's about the difference. And if you just dry it, this is what I did about 20 minutes ago. So it looks like this. So if you can stand this, you can save half of your ink money. Another thing I forgot to mention is this pigment in this next page. You can see there's no running to the next page. And for the dye ink, if you get wet, it's going to run to the next page. So you can see the transition from pigment to dye ink is really smooth. There's no clogging. And this is to show the folks that says you cannot use dye ink in a pigment printer. Yes, you can. OK, we printed about 300 pages using the BCH dye ink. And there's no clogging. You can see the printer works fine with dye ink. So now we switch this printer to a dye ink printer. And this is the first part of it. So let's do a summary here. So for the 802 cartridge, the standard cartridge can print 900 pages black and 650 color. So the XL cartridge can estimate print 2600 black and 1900 color. So you can see there's a big difference between XL and 802. So for this product, so we make the chip work four times at XL level. So you're going to have an estimate of over 10,000 pages you can print it with this set of chips. And so when we consider price, if we buy one set of Royal Epson 802 cartridges, if we search online, one set is about $124. And it only has one lifetime. So you're paying about $124 for each lifecycle. So you can buy a clone third-party manufacturer cartridge. And so for each set, you're paying about $85. That's the cartridge with the ink. And then we have this empty cartridge. You can use four times, XL four means four times. So we put the target price to be $129.99. So it looks like it's higher than those, but you can use four times. So each time is about $32. And then we have to consider ink because this thing is empty. So if we add this standard ink and just like what we did in the first part, and each set of ink, the KD600X, it's like this guy. This guy can refill six times. So you can use this to refill this guy six times. And so each time is only $3. So you add those together. So each refill is going to cost you about $36. Well, lots of people asked me to do a comparison of dye ink and pigment ink. So this is our Epson OEM ink that we used. So I'm going to put the Epson pigment on the lab. And then we're going to put the BCH standard, that's our lowest grade dye ink. So let's compare this page first. So one is $100. And one is $3. Okay. So can you tell the difference between $100 and $6? The $3. And just to remind you, yesterday we did a comparison. This is Epson's pigment ink that we put water on it. You can see there's no, it didn't go through the page. And the second page didn't get stained. Of course, the dye ink, this is the standard dye ink. After you put water on it, let's go through the second page and we get a little bit of stain on it. This is about the difference you're going to see. And everything else looked good. So if you have a dye ink, you accidentally pour coffee over it. It's not under the board. I mean, it's not going to be all merged together. Okay. So let's keep the comparison. So this is Epson. And this is a dye ink. Okay. And then in the text mode of Epson. So the text mode Epson supposedly should be performed much better. Okay. Here's Epson and here's a dye. Okay. There's no much difference. So the dye, the quality of dye ink is really reaching up to Epson on the text quality. Okay. And it's not all bad. And see Epson is supposed to be weaker, a little bit weaker on the photo. So here's Epson. So let's see the photo. Okay. Okay. Now it's a dye ink on the photo. Okay. Let me show you this pigment. Okay. Supposed to be weaker than this dye. This dye ink. Supposed to be really nice on the dye. It looks a little bit smoother for the dye. But I don't see it too much. Let me cut the piece off so it'll be looking side by side. Okay.  So this one on the right is supposed to be better than the left. Yeah. You can sort of see it. I think, yeah, the dye ink does a little bit better. But if you look at picture this close, unless it's your girlfriend, something's wrong with you. Okay. From maybe arm length away, I don't see any difference. So Epson has made a lot of improvement on their pigment ink. So congratulations Epson. Finally you'll be the $3 ink. Okay. Okay. I hope you see the difference. And for me it really doesn't worth the money to get a pigment ink. But I don't know about you. Next video we're going to switch from dyeing to pigment ink again. I hope you enjoyed this video. Visit us at www.phtechnologies.com. Thank you. Bye.