Hello, welcome, hello. Hello, how are you? Anyway, greetings! Happy New Year, everyone. Welcome to Getting the Most from TechSoup and the Technology Capacity Project. Let me try that again. Getting the Most from TechSoup and the Technology Capacity Project, My name is Alonso Shinning, the third, and I'm your webinar facilitator. And I want you to know that I'm here with some really cool folks from TechSoup and first and foremost I have two wonderful presenters and they are Senior Account Manager Ricky Powers and Senior Program Manager Mary Duffy. Now I can introduce those ladies a little bit later but I'm also here with some great behind the scene helps and that is from Ariel Gilbert Knight and Kyla Hunt. Okay again this is the first session of three getting the most from TechSoup and the technology capacity project that's a tongue twister I'm going to walk through some of the procedures of a webinar of what we're going to do and how you can interact with us and then from there on out I want to hand it off to Ricky and Mary here we go so we're using a donation partner called Citrix and they have a tool called Go To Webinar allows us to share our desktop with you all. Okay with that being said if you lose internet connection reconnect using the link that we emailed to you that you actually click to get here also you have questions what you have here and you see on my right hopefully your right as well a little control panel this control panel allows you to interact with us you will be able to type in your questions if you have questions also it's the number one place where you're going to adjust your audio and there are two different audio settings one is called the telephone and the other is called mic and speakers the first one this is called telephone allows you to it gives you a telephone number you dial in and you put an access code and then an audio pan and that's what you listen to the actual webinar the second one is mic and speakers and it uses your computers microphone and your computer speakers if you do choose mic and speakers I strongly suggest use a headset or some type of earphones so and now you don't have the background chatter of your cubemates or office mates or even home mates there we go all right with that being said you can adjust your audio use the settings panning and also every single one of the ten these all of you are muted so if you try to talk to us who cannot hear you again the interaction begins with you type in your question in the box and we strongly encourage you to type your questions in the box we will plan to answer every question that you said that you send out to us we'll answer we promise you all right and not only that this webinar is being recorded so if you have questions and you want actually to see this webinar again and you can actually get it archived to you at the end of the webinar we have set aside 30 minutes and it's called a tech talk this is where you sit down with us so you don't leave go anywhere you just continue sitting anywhere yet now but we actually have a little round to get together and answer your questions a little more personally as opposed to a presentation after the presentation we sit down and answer nothing but questions for 30 minutes if you have any all right with all that being said I am here to introduce to you my partners in crime and presenters Ricky Powers and Mary Duffy hello Ricky are you there I am thank you Alonzo I'm Ricky Powers I happen to be the senior account manager here at TechSoup Global I've been with the organization for a little bit over four years and my role is I work with large nonprofit organizations like YMCA's Boys and Girls Clubs of America Habitats for Humanity at the headquarters level helping them get their affiliates registered with TechSoup qualified and then also make sure that they are classified correctly in order to maximize the greatest number of donation programs that they can and in addition to that I work on some special projects like this hi everybody this is Mary Duffy I've been a program manager with TechSoup for more than 14 years working with nonprofits community organizations and schools both locally and globally but for the past year and a half I've served as the project manager for this particular project and during that time I've learned a lot about TV organizations but most importantly what a great group of talented and dedicated folks there are in this community and I feel lucky as the TechSoup to contribute to the effort so thank you for the opportunity to work together on this and with that I'm going to turn it back over to Ricky who will tell you a little bit about TechSoup thanks Mary Alonzo can I get the next slide thank you so today we're going to cover well who is TechSoup and then what is the technology capacity project and what's in it for you the organization how you can how you can access your donations there'll be an opportunity for questions and answers at the end followed by next steps TechSoup Global actually started in 1987 as an organization called a Confumentor there are many organizations that operate underneath that umbrella and one of them is NetSquared, NGOsource, GuideStar International but today what we're going to do is talk about TechSoup. TechSoup our mission is we're working towards a time where every social benefit organization on the planet has the technology resources and knowledge they need to operate at their full potential. TechSoup is a 501c3 nonprofit organization just like yourselves we've served over 127,000 organizations distributed more than six million dollars in technology products we've also saved the nonprofit sector almost two billion dollars in IT expenses and we're currently in 33 countries around the world and growing with that Mary I'll hand it back to you. Well welcome everyone again we're excited to share the resources and benefits that are available to everyone all of you grantees so let's get started and talk a little bit about what's available to all of you. So basically as I mentioned when I introduced myself I've been working on this project for a year and a half and one of the first things we did as part of this project was put together a needs assessment and the assessment included the following things we did a couple of surveys to identify what was most pressing what were the most pressing technology issues for DV organizations we did a series of five interviews with DV organizations so that we could get some input on what are some of the technology challenges and successes that are going on in the field we looked at some research a variety of different research products and one of them was the the core capacity assessment the CCAT which I believe many of you are familiar with we collected and analyzed DV organizations hardware and software purchases we looked at in TechSoup what are folks in the DV world ordering and requesting in terms of donations and so that we just got a better idea about what kinds of products and resources would be most helpful to all of you. We also hosted tech talk sessions and what those were were an opportunity for us to talk with specifically with organization staff find out what some of the challenges were and offer some solutions and ideas for addressing those challenges and finally we hosted a webinar based on all this information we gathered to our needs assessment on healthy and secure computing for DV organizations so from the needs assessment we identified three top goals and three top challenges for DV organizations and these were the goals that we found you know as I'll break this down into people speak it's just the three goals are really to help grantees establish basic IT systems and resources so you can better serve your clients. Secondly we wanted to share the best practices that are being used by other DV organizations so that you can learn from each other what works and what doesn't and how they got to a successful place with their IT systems and then third is we want to be looking at and evaluating options and solutions for DV organizations to access on-site technical support. On-site technical support was a huge issue for organizations and we would like to start to take a look at ways of helping you address some of the issues that you're dealing with so that was one of our goals. The needs assessment pulled out these top three challenges and none of this I believe is going to be surprised to any of you. Time and resources I mean time and resources right now at we have the maximum requirements and the minimal support so what what our idea around this is to try and help you maximize resources with the current budgetary constraints that you're all dealing with. The second big challenge was awareness of technology support resources. Folks don't know how to access resources that are available either for free or low cost and we think we can help with that. And then third top challenge that was identified was support to implement and maintain technology systems. Again that on-site support is a big issue as well as how to keep up to date with this really changing environment which is IT and maintain your systems and forecast future needs. So these were the challenges that were identified again through our needs assessment. So based on these challenges that DV organization they're facing along with the goals for the project we develop this suite of services for DV organizations through this project and I'll quickly review each one of these now. So each grantee will receive up to $1,250 of products through TechSoup. Each grantee who participates and meets all the requirements will be the ones that will be able to access this. We're going to provide all of you with a suggested list of products for what you might be interested in accessing but that is not a requirement. You're not obligated to go with those products. The choice is really yours based on the needs and requirements of your particular organization. Now there may be certain situations where a vendor that we work with may have some restrictions regarding who gets access to those products but those will be highlighted and clear when you go to the point of actually trying to request donations and get those for your sites. We'll talk more about that later as well. The next thing that we're offering is account management services. Ricky who is just outstanding at this is the account manager for this particular project. We're really lucky to have her and she will be helping your organization through the registration process and helping you with accessing your requested donations. Ricky's going to talk a little bit more about that later on in the webinar and go into a little bit more detail about that but again we're just really fortunate to have such a talented great person working with us on this project so you'll be able to access her throughout this project. The other thing that we're offering is we're developing a people friendly tech guide. We did this with the library community through our cookbooks and we're doing sort of a modified version of this again specifically for DV organizations. We've broken it down into easy to understand language that targets the key areas of need for DV organizations. So you're going to be receiving toolkits, how to resources along with a current guide at these upcoming webinars. So there'll be some good print based material as well as some webinar material that you can access throughout this project. And then finally the online peer support. TechSoup has this really great community of folks who help one another deal with some of the issues that they're dealing with in their nonprofit organizations related to technology. So we have a very large community that talk to each other about IT. We are going to provide you with a how to guide for accessing the TechSoup forums and getting the most from TechSoup forums as you can based on your particular needs. And then finally these webinars and TechTalk series. So as you know we're offering these three webinars. Each session includes a up to an hour webinar followed by up to a half hour TechTalk. Now sometimes it's less, sometimes it's right on spot that it's a 60 minute webinar and a 30 minute TechTalk. It varies depending on the audience. But the webinars are really targeted at getting the most from us this being the first one. Secondly, identifying and documenting what you need. This will be an introduction to technology planning and how to really use that planning to help you develop a system that really works for your organization. And then thirdly we're going to deal with keeping your system safe and secure. This is a big issue for DV organizations as well as any organization. And so we'll be discussing best practices and systems for creating a secure computing environment at your organization. Following each one of those TechTalks will be this after party which webinar will be these after party TechTalks where you'll get to ask questions, will answer as many of those as we possibly can and provide you as many resources as needed. So just note you've already done one of them by going through this webinar you've just got two more to complete. The one on planning and the one on safe and secure computing. So the upcoming webinar dates are January 11 and January 18. So how do you register? Next slide, Alonzo please. One more. Sorry, folks. You received today an attached document which is the introduction to the technology capacity project. In that document on pages four and five are a place where you can register for the upcoming webinars. All you need to do is open that document, go to the January dates and register right there. So that will get you set up for the upcoming webinars and TechTalks. Okay, so please answer or ask us any questions that you have regarding what I've just reviewed. We will go over these questions at the end of the webinar. We'll be happy to answer any of these questions and we look forward to receiving your questions. So with that I'm going to turn it back over to Ricky who will let you know a little bit about how to sign up and access TechSoup donated product. And so here's Ricky. Thank you. Hey, next slide Alonzo please. There we go. One more. So I'll be covering product donations, getting started to place a donation request, how to check your eligibility and go through the request to donation process and then also the checkout process. TechSoup is a great resource for organizations and this is a snapshot of our homepage. Over on the left hand side I just want to point out the get started box. And there is where our learning center is and that's where a library of past webinars will be, our community you'll find there, a catalog. But just make sure that you, I just wanted to call your attention to that box. But what I'm going to cover today is how to get product donations. TechSoup currently has 45 different technology partners. We call them donor partners. Examples of this are let's say Intuit who does QuickBooks. Citrix online is one of our donor partners and right now we're utilizing their go-to webinar. And TechSoup also happens to be the exclusive distributor for Microsoft product donations. Now TechSoup can be a little bit confusing because it looks like an e-commerce site like Amazon. But it's not. You do need to take several steps in order to be able to place a donation request. So what I like to do is just call out that we live some place between applying for a grant and Amazon. That's what TechSoup is. In order, first thing you'll need to do is join TechSoup. Then we register your organization or associate you with an existing organization. There's a qualification process that includes faxing the first page of your 501c3 documents into us. You check your organization's eligibility. As I just called out, we have 45 different technology partners. Which one of those programs, those donation programs, does your organization qualify for? And then finally you get to request a donation and go through the checkout process. Step one is to create an individual user profile. Now when you join TechSoup, you join TechSoup as an individual and not your organization. So I would join TechSoup as Ricky Powers and not TechSoup the organization that I represent. In this process, really it shouldn't even take five minutes to join TechSoup. Next you're going to want to see which one of the donation programs does your organization qualify for. If you look over on the right, that bottom arrow points to our check eligibility tool. You would click on that. It's going to take you to the check eligibility list. What you're going to need is your tax ID number and your budget and your organization type in order to do that. And what I like to mention is that each one of our donor partners has a different focus on where they want their product philanthropy to go. The best way I can equate that is I don't give money or volunteer to every organization that needs my time or would like my money. And so our donor partners are very much like that. In order to register your organization and I believe most organizations are already registered. So really what you would be doing is linking to an existing organization in our database. You're going to need your tax ID number and if you don't know what that looks like it's a nine digit number. It's two digits and a dash and then seven digits. You're also going to need your organization's operating budget which some organizations if you're giving money to recipient of services that your budget overall budget is going to be larger than your actual operating budget. So we want to focus on the operating budget. When you you've joined text oh wait sorry go back one more Alonzo I'm sorry. So in this register organization you would put your tax ID number in and then a list is going to come up. If your organization is already in our database then you're just going to click on that organization and go ahead and link to that account. In order to link to that account you're going to need what's called an association code or it's also step three on the screen. And that was a something that someone in your organization created. It's not something that was assigned to you by TechSoup. It's also not something that was given to you by Blue Shield of California. This is something that someone in your organization created. And then step four would be confirmation. So if you've successfully associated yourself with your organization you'll get an email saying welcome. You're now an authorized user. You can place donation requests on behalf of your organization. Two great resources that I'd love to see each one of you subscribe to is Buy the Cup which is an e-newsletter and then also our e-newsletter the new product donation alert. And by the Cup you're going to they'll have a list of free webinars that we do. It's just a great resource with technology articles. Sometimes some of our donor partners do challenges that you could participate in. And then when it comes to the new product donation alert well obviously that's going to have new products in it. But also we have special acquirements that you'll find in there. A great example of that is Cisco when they decided to discontinue the flip video cameras. They gave a small allocation to TechSoup to donate to the nonprofit sector. And if you hadn't been subscribed to the NPA and paying attention to it you would have missed out on those cameras. Also I'd like to call out our digital catalog. This is another great resource. The home page is over in the get started box on the left hand side right above the check eligibility tool. If you need to download a copy you can do that as well. Alright so you've joined TechSoup. We've associated we either registered your organization or we've associated you to an existing organization in our database. Now what you're going to need to do is identify the products that you need. A lot of this will you will have covered in the other webinars but you're going to review what your organization currently has. Then you're going to identify your organization's most pressing needs. Then identify your budget and remember that's your operating budget. And then request the product donations that match your budget limits and your most pressing needs. Next slide also please. Thank you. Alright so now now all we have left to do is to request your donation. You're going to log into TechSoup and once again you log in as the individual. Since you're already an authorized user for your account you don't need to you don't log in as the organization. You log in as the individual. And then what you do is just add the products to your cart. Remember your maximum amount is $1,250 and you only have one chance to request product donations through this grants. Step five is the checkout process. We've just put everything in the cart. Now what we need to do is just click view cart. Step two is our what we call the restrictions engine. And what happens is that our systems just takes a look at your organization and make sure that you're qualified to receive that donation. And if you're not then it won't let you move forward in the checkout process. Step three is the agreements. And in the agreements I'm just going to make this easy on you. Just answer yes to all of the agreements. But some of the things that you're agreeing to is that you won't be using this product for fundraising purposes. Any donations that you receive through TechSoup are for your operations and not any other purpose. You also agree that you're going to participate in a case study should one of our donor partners ask you to do so. Step four is the shipping and delivery. I'd like to call out a couple of things in step four. Number one you're going to choose ground shipping. Now it actually defaults to ground shipping so you don't have to click it. But there's no fee for ground shipping. And then also in the payment option in the phase you're going to choose the check option not credit card. Step five you just review everything. Shipping address is correct. Yes it's ground shipping. And yeah we're going to pay by check. And then step six is confirmation. Now in order for us to distribute your donations you do need to take one more step and email this step that's the order confirmation to bscfgrant at techsoup.org. It's listed right there on the screen. But and please give us 10 days, 10 working days to get that request processed. Yeah any questions? Thank you Ricky. Looks like we have a question from Victoria and let me actually unmute Mary. All right and it's asked can item purchased from others to be messed into... I think she meant I'm sorry mixed into prevent duplicate otherwise we can add outside the purchases. Can we... Let me I'm not sure what this question is asking. Let me actually unmute her and have her ask the questions. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Hello Victoria how's it going? Victoria Murphy are you there? Maybe Victoria can you resubmit your question please in the chat box. That'd be awesome. In the meantime we got another question coming in from Lisa and she asks will we be able to obtain a copy of the slides? Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. We'll send that out to folks so you'll have this as a reference point. There we go. All right and I'm hoping Victoria is able to resubmit her question. I'm assuming if I can try to decipher if she's asking can items purchased from other sources be mixed into prevent duplications otherwise there's some other way we can add the other outside purchases. So I'm not sure what you mean by other sources or outside sources but that's something you guys can answer. Yeah. One of the things that we'll be doing in this next upcoming webinar is talking about how to document what you have identify what you need and then make sure you you access the right product both through TechSoup and through any other source in the future. One of the reasons that sometimes this gets difficult is that you're not quite sure about everything you've got and so what we'll show folks through the webinar and also provide in the guide are specific instructions on how to do that well how to make sure you know what you what resources you have at your disposal and what things you'll need to purchase going forward after this grant. Thank you Mary. So Victoria does she answer your question accordingly? So the other thing along so I just wanted to call out is next week's webinar will be hosted by Elliott and Elliott is somebody that's worked with us for a while has done a variety of webinars and in the last round in terms of feedback we got really high reviews so it was it's a really great opportunity to learn more about how to gather information but also how to do some planning so that you know what you need in the future. So he will be doing that webinar on the 11th and then Eric Leland I think many of you know Eric he had done a webinar with us a while back he's somebody that's worked with us on a number of project projects and he's great around security and safety of your system so that will also be a really well spent hour I think in terms of helping you identify any security issues you might be experiencing and how to resolve those going forward. Another question comes in from Danielle will the second and third webinars be offered at additional times I have conflicts on January 11th and the 18th I could ask a representative for my entry to attend on my behalf if that permitted. Yeah that would be great if you could have someone from your organization sit in that would be ideal it doesn't have to be the same person that sits through all webinars because you recognize different people do different tasks so just so you have representation at those webinars that would be great and that would totally fulfill any requirements. Thank you again Mary. All right is there a deadline by when the orders have to be placed this is from Roxanne. That's a great question. At this point we are still in process to finalize this but it looks like the end of March is the grant cycle for this particular series of projects but we're still trying to figure out there may be some future opportunities for folks to place orders but I would just say if you've attended all of these webinars ideally I would suggest that you put in your donation request before the end of March and if there are any changes to that we will notify everybody in advance. All right this question Anna she asked does this grant count against our product limit from tech suppliers? That's a great question. We'll do this by case by case basis and so what we should do is when you get to a place of actually requesting your donations this will be something that you'll want to talk through with Ricky to go through the specifics because there's you know again all these different requirements and limitations and restrictions and we will address this on a case by case basis but we'll make sure that you get what product that you need. All right Ricky is there anything else you want to add to that regarding that process? No you did a fantastic job. All right this is from Simon is there any restrictions on disposal of the donation received in the product is obsolete or damaged? If it's obsolete or damaged well obsolete I'm sorry I'm sorry did you want to say something Alonzo? Not at all. Okay so we basically are distributing products that is you know current product so if something comes in damaged we definitely will want to deal with that but in terms of getting something that's sort of antiquated and outdated this again goes back to looking at what you have making sure you're requesting product that you need and it will work with your existing systems so if you have any questions though about whether or not this product is antiquated or something that you won't need you don't need I would really suggest that you send me an email at mduffy at techsoup.org and I can talk this through with you or if I can't answer your question somebody within our group can so please contact me if you have any questions about whether or not this is the right stuff for your organization. Very I have something that I'd like to add. Okay great if and so the RCI the refurbished computer initiative any donations that an organization receives through that they come with a sticker attached to it and when that system gets to end of life you just call the 800 number on that sticker and a prepaid postage box will come and you put whatever that is inside the box close it up and send it off and it's disposed of in a green manner so that could be antiquated materials or products and if that didn't answer the question please resubmit so we're sure that we we've got to the heart of your question. Kyla and Alonzo any other questions from folks? Here we go yes it's some Shannon when would you send out your recommended list of software? You know we'll send this out before the next webinar so you have that at your disposal so we'll send that to you so remember today you received the guide and you received some background information we'll do the same thing for this next webinar and make sure that you get that in advance of the second webinar. You'll also get the technology project guide which will have a bunch of really helpful tools and information about managing and maintaining your system so that'll come out to you as well. All right thank you and continuation of Simon's question he asked one about the restrictions and obsolete software he said sorry what I meant is as we use that for years it becomes not needed anymore. Mm-hmm. Some suitable and that. Okay so yeah I mean that's one of the reasons that software assurance at least for office or Microsoft products is a really good thing to take a look at because if say friends did you buy something in that same year and it gets upgraded you can upgrade easily with software assurance. Ricky do you want to talk a little bit about the software assurance program? Yeah so any Microsoft product that or donation that's acquired through TechSoup comes with software assurance and that allows an organization I believe it's it's only three years they have three years to either let's say a new version of office came out so you had office 2010 and and office 2012 comes out you can upgrade to that version without paying any additional fee and that's what software assurance provides. It ends up being a fantastic money saver for any organization and usually our companies have to pay additional in order to receive that and it just comes standard with TechSoup. All right I'm not seeing any more questions I don't want to say go once going twice sold or anything like that. If questions come up for folks after the webinar though always feel free to contact myself or Ricky. We're happy to help you with any of your questions related to these presentations or the program in general. And we do have another question I see it. I want to sneak in here. I asked the other two webinars took them out of order is this is this list in the one of the downloads you sent me with the last two webinars. This is yeah this is if you've done session two and session three now you've done session one and you've met the requirements you are able to go ahead and move forward with requesting donations. There you go. Well that looks like to be it for the questions last but not least I'd like to thank our web webinar sponsors teachers online for providing this go-to webinar tool for us to communicate with you ladies and gentlemen. I'd like to thank Ricky Powers and Mary Duffy and for their support and the presentation and also for the behind-the-scenes sports from Ariel Gilbert Knight and Kyla Hunt. Thank you so much everyone. Any last words Mary or Ricky? No. Well thank you everyone for attending right after the holiday I know this was tough for folks to make this webinar so we really appreciate you joining us today and we'll look forward to seeing you all at the next webinar next week so take care of yourselves. Happy New Year. Thank you. Thanks everybody. The webinar.


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It was all about him That's a lot of my penmanship a lot of my direction and mostly his production his Overseeing but it was about him. It was about putting the energy in Dr. Dre We all was about him like fuck that we won't try to be the dopest ever Then when it was my turn he gave me that same energy back But then at the same time I was in control of the pen for myself So it was just a beautiful marriage Did y'all know at that time when y'all was creating the chronic and doggie style Did y'all know as you was creating it that it was gonna end up being what it was ended up being or did you just know You had something special.   Did you hear the number?   How much do you think that costs the hip-hop community just looking back at the total damage that that Media do their job. That's their job Always say all publicity is good publicity when they come to me.  They job is to keep up confusion and to keep shit The way they want it to be but now like I say y'all growing up in a different era niggas y'all are the media based off of podcast Instagram fanbase That's the media We didn't add a control nigga when we said some They printed what they wanted to print they print half of what we said it took you six months to see what they wrote Man, I don't know outlets where we could just grab our phones and be like man.  What y'all think about that right one quick like that You can't just a my nigga your side of the story.    So just know that part that he was my friend, right? So now when he get out, he's more than my friend. He's like my Brother my motherfucking comrade. It's like it's me and you against the world now cuz so I take on what you take on You take on what I take on right?  That's just saying that Took my position as far as like okay, it's me, but I wanted him So it's like LeBron.  He teach me how to work harder. He like win the studio the first couple nights He get out. I got a room.  We're going this nigga room.   You got a beat nigga. Let me hear some pull up some Boom boom boom boom five six songs done Giving niggas a shot. They're like, why you get that nigga shot? Didn't you hear the song be like damn?  We're gonna get old legends. We're gonna discuss all that we're gonna discuss What's real Atlanta?   I'm not playing a whole city Gonna be all work them days anyway, cuz it's almost New Year. So you know how you say Christmas Come on see that Christmas money nigga, you already know get it out the envelope Out the car by ticket by ticket. No cap. That's what they get the app to and two days We're doing two days.     So a couple of months Yeah, he got 96 it did with that That wasn't even a whole year And he was only 25 years old. So he he come hanging out, right?  I got a penthouse on Wilshire. He get a penthouse two doors down I got a white Rolls Royce.  I think it like We got a meeting like what's happening?     I'm like I'm trying to figure it out, right? Right, but he already got it.  I hope I don't look sweet Wait a minute, so then once I got comfortable with it then it was like, okay, this nigga teaching me how to be a star Right like levels and layers. We know you gangsta dog, but can you go higher than that? What if a nigga call you to be in the movie where they want you to be a lawyer?      That's why I should fit with everything you put it in It's just a matter of what kids played in Niggas said baby face told him that the nigga that made shoot them up movies you gotta take that guy damn advice That's crazy Talked that shit He was just asked you about the no limit like when you went down in New Orleans I heard you say that you just saw how different the program was run by Master P Like what are some of the first things that you sort of let you know like oh, this this is this different how they doing it down here they were soldiers for real organized structure and the niggas in play and P was serious about his business as far as like when I first got there first thing he was saying was like See don't take that nigga to the Cali old project, bro Soon as he turned his back see took me to the Cali old project Soldiers slim don't have that nigga in the Magnolia. I'm in the Magnolia So it's like I'm Violating but then I'm listening and I'm watching how they not listening then I said no, I'm not gonna be a bad student I'm gonna stop doing what they doing Got me apartment out there first.  I swear to God from there He was like okay We work at the ice cream shop nigga the ice cream shop was a bank nigga It was a bank at the daytime in that at five o'clock.   I'm gonna know limit for like two months We didn't do it like 50 songs. I'm gonna his album his album his album his album and pee like every album You get on bro, you know, you get paid this a month of niggas was like Then he like you ready now Snoop dog. I'm like I'm ready for what he like come on When we ride through this gated community like pick out which one you won't Like I'm on that one Signing in your name you and your wife going out to that dealership Pick out whatever two y'all want Which one you want boo? I'm on that one. I want that one in your name.    I Was in the prime of writing death? Murder was the case I wanted to make a song like that because I heard the song ice cube had Where it was like down on the pet spot is me and JD and we sell them old birds in a pet shop Oh, why did niggas have to let loose?   I'm in a motherfucking murder case So business has to continue to move.      We're sitting there live with and hey y'all what's going on? You want to win tickets to my show call up here right now call number 15? Hey, what up? Is this Snoop Dogg? Yeah, what's up dog? Oh, man?  We're walking through love We ain't sitting no text no Visual experience nigga. We partial. I know your mama nigga. I know your sister.  It's something for everybody in there Now if you just said doggie, then I got something for the grandkids all the way well I can hit them with something like you know who y'all take that Kids grandma parents enjoy this shit look the nights are getting longer But the breeze is the only thing that she gonna be feeling this step. 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Carlos Miller Sunday, January the 15th We will be at the Seminole hard rock casino for the Miami comedy festival in Miami, Florida Me some more Bruce Bruce Corey Holcomb the Velcro for DC young flag Tony rock Ryan Davis and Mark Curry make sure you grab those tickets We said that's when like what you transition and how did you what you having that type of experience?  It ain't got the same experience What made you say see the value and what is going on today because you don't have to do it You was a legend 25 years ago.   Yeah. Yeah, so he like Man, if you start your Twitter, you'll have millions of followers.  I don't need now.   Hey, what's that and I'm Then the thing come up to Instagram thing come up He put me up on that. I'm like, man. Oh, it's just pictures. It's in the beginning. No, it's just pictures, right? Yeah, so I'm just pictures in the beginning right pictures pictures pictures.  This shit's so good nigga.   Oh wait a minute.   I'm trying to get off Then I start thinking like a businessman like just maximizing like then the niggas from Instagram do an interview and say Hey, man, our company was regular until one celebrity got behind it And then we became a hundred million dollar company. That's a lavery was Snoop Dogg And I had a game to get a piece of the pie See I'm saying so now we know better. You know better. You do better So moving forward to the brothers and sisters out there watching when you're valuable know your value Ask for equity ask for a piece of the pie.   What you are? My good job. I never met my good job.    Oh, and I floated London to do some shows right right while I was on Trial right so soon as I land.  It's a picture.  They don't want you here and they say hey man.   You're good. Her grandsons was William and Harry Hey, Mike If you're watching this Michael Jordan, you got it You imagine what it was like when they first played the Queen's new music will play me want of his songs Okay, granny Just when they thought she wanted them to turn it off let it play The bitches aren't shit, I know this to be true I do I know it to be true Would you like to hear your snoop doggy dog?    I don't even know if I told niggas this shit before but um We I got a fly to Frisco and then the Vancouver because the movie is in Vancouver, right?  I'm like, yes, I'm ready proxy So I say give me one second. I'll go to the bathroom. They can do this My security at the time had to come get me off the floor nigga.  I regroup sitting next to her nigga me and her Seats is side-by-side nigga. She just it's it's amazing the way she's making me feel comfortable cuz it's my first-door role, right? I'm nervous.   How did you link up with Nate dog?  I was in the 10th grade.   He wanted to be a DJ wanted to be a rapper He was always pushing rap on me So the shit had to come together because warned you was like one of my best friends and Nate dog was becoming My best friend because of the school we went to so like after school and in our afterlife was selling dope and becoming teenagers We clicked up and became 213 because it was a group in Oakland called 415 That was the shit Richie Rich and D Lowe and we liked him niggas so much We it's like we need to be 213 so we could represent Southern California, and that's our North Nate dog 1g formulated our group man one one three one of the one of the groups that that I love that you know Embodied that sound that y'all created with the Dove shot. Mm-hmm like Did you have anything to do with that like that?  I took typing.  Can I try out for that? Glee club right some holes in there.   I will be Live right now Go get you some man. We got all the HBC you inspired colorways man. Go get it Yeah, he saw he saw and a lot of people get LA confused Because they just think they be in LA everywhere in California. No, it's different. It's different cities 20 minute away 10 minute away 20 minute away, right explain the difference even though it's the same from LA the difference well, LBC is all Crip City with a city by the sea the turf by the surf We're a little bitty city and we you know, we we tightly knit it. It's the east side. It's the west side it's a north side and through those Dimensions you got different races different ethnicities different gangs different families and different people that's been a part of the city for a long time That keep it Reptable whether it's on the streets or behind the wall.  There's different sections in LA. There are about six seven hundred gangs in LA alone So it's not about the city. It's the hood you from because LA is the county, but Long Beach is the city Now speaking of hoods That's something that anybody that comes from one knows is very delicate navigating Getting out and being able to still have a presence there because you don't want to leave your people behind But that comes with a lot of you know, how they campaign because you lose people along the way And so how have you navigated that you've been in the game?  Why you still got to go be Snoop Dogg all over the world? Well, what I do was Well, what I did was I created a one way for that train. Yeah, they running a train right now Why we ain't in there? No, I don't want to be in that You went back to when you was on them porno movies And we'll get to that though. I had them. Did you bring them? Don't let me forget the question when you brought a porno No, it was just about you navigating being from the hood being one of the guys that was originally from your set and You know what it is? If you follow my career I put a group together called the e-siders Right east side of east side big tradie tradie from insane Goldilocks from 20 Crip, which is rivals.  It's a lone beach. These are the biggest gangs in lone beach These are the gangs that Run the city and what I mean by gangs. I don't mean like terrorizing. I mean like organized structure They do positive things. They do try to bring the hood together So what I did was put the two mcs together to bring some peace because I knew that His homies will follow him his homies will follow him and if they got together now They're going to start to communicate and start when you know what nigga, I don't really hate you They game They can my cut you my cousin. You know that, right?  Let's just talk about it.  He ain't giving me money. He's doing this He ain't paying them and it started that kind of shit But at the end of the day I stayed solid stayed true to what I do They had to see that I wasn't wrong that I was right our relationship is just as good as it was from day one But we had to go through those hurdles for people to understand that This is a business and sometimes bringing the hood with you. They don't understand business And you can't teach them the business overnight like LeBron gave his homies a shot They got to know what they're doing now You hear what I'm saying? I'm pretty sure with seven other niggas that wanted to spot But they didn't know what they was doing. You got to know what you're doing You get that position with the dog Whatever business it is. It can't be gangbanging. We don't do the business of gangbanging We do the business of peace saving lives and intervening into that type of shit Now one of the people that you influenced heavily was nip, you know, I mean and and you know All the way down to people saying he looked like you but he was one of the most brilliant people man So what is something that you learned from nip?  So dr. Dre ice cube all the niggas calling me Man, we're trying to get nip to play you and start out of Compton He ain't getting back to us All right, let me highlight the little um boat. I hit him up nip Let me highlight you pull up on me.  I called him.  I'm like, man, this new voice man That wasn't me.  You know the ggm was one of the first podcasts ever created. I want to Know the team that's one of the ones we always like man, we got to get on the ggm man The ggm so I created a lot of shit off of the ggm that my good friend jimmy kimmel He had happened to have the abc show the jimmy kimmel show Which I was his first guest the first week that he started his first five days So we like family, right?  No Hey snoop, that's funny I'm like, what you want to do with it? Because you know, I'm guys and well, what you want to do with it?    That's the nigga now nigga.  You know, is that something that you learned over time to just be snoop?   See if the secret service can really keep him secret Herbie Hancock was getting inducted into the Kennedy Center that night So I performed, Michelle Obama, Obama all of them up there They rockin' to the music Whoa, whoa, say, whoa, I'm makin' them do shit that niggas don't normally do at this event Say, whoa, say, biatch, biatch They out there rockin' So afterwards we got dinner Look, I see Nancy Pelosi Biatch Look, is that the city?  Right So it's only one nigga in there with me, Chris Spencer Right, does he? So yeah, we ain't that motherfucker right And he like, nigga, how you get in? I'm like, nigga, how you get in, nigga?  I'm like, what a bad thing, man, cuh, I'm tryin' to whoo-whoo He said, you tryin' to do number one, number two I said, nigga, I'm tryin' to whoo-whoo Number three, man Number three Where is that, nigga? That nigga said, uh, two doors down that way Right, right I said, you sure?   Or Mike Antweb Look what I'm smokin' now You said, well, you rolled these cars, I said big You did Oh, nigga, that's the most amazing you can get now Now, I've heard legendary, not only heard I've seen what smoking with Snoop Dogg can do to niggas Yeah I've seen it My brother right here I just killed my brother right here I couldn't remember 10 seconds of it This nigga is a nigga, I would, if I had to pick some niggas to send in to a weed war This is one of the niggas I'm not Oh, are you being called, he come to do Oh, yeah, both of y'all niggas Yeah, there you go I used to be, I had a niggas thing But nigga, I went on an episode of the show when you came I was upstairs watching Well, whilein' out Whilein' out, yeah, so I'm one of the ones that you came and did I know this because I ain't never get to battle you, cuz Uh-oh Oh, yeah, uh-oh Yeah You won't No, I'm just, I'm just I know I'm just here to be shared about I'm just here to be shared about The nigga by the way The nigga by the way I'm upstairs watching the, I'm watching the show, right?  Right That's my, that was about to be my question Like, is it? 35, 40 35, that's, that's, that's decent though You know what's crazy though? Look, so I'm on the movie set, right?   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No disrespect to the battle rap right now We had to freestyle Right We didn't have time to go home and Oh, DC had a baby on the side DC hairline is fucked up DC did I had to make it up on the spot Nigga, like, get at you right now Nigga, da-bop-da-boop-ba-da-bop-bop Nigga's got too much time right now To go home and ride it and prepare it Like, we didn't have all of that time No disrespect But that's just the battle era that I come from It was like, nigga, pull up and get at it Nigga, what's happening? Right You see Eight Mile, right? Right Was they riding? Shit, it was cuz, nigga He said he had a rap and he had to go to any battle Go to the next event That's where it started Like, I'm from the original foundation That's why I'm not in that Because I'm from the foundation and it's outgrown me But I respect it Cuz the battle rappers already know what it is When it comes to me I've done gladiator school I've done battle raps for them Where I put the function together And allowed them to get out Cuz I fuck with them and I love how they get out But I'm just saying I come from the era of K.R.S.1 Yeah, we're Nigga, fired up right now Right now Was it anybody you ever ran up on When you was young, Snoop Dogg That you was like, man, I wish I could go at it with this nigga Just on that style of battle rap I saw I met K.R.R.U.P Me and K.R.R.U.P met battle rapping In Hollywood at the fuckin' Roxy It was a talent show for my homies Perfection, which was the twins Folsom, Domino, and Beefy Locke They got to jam All them niggas was in one group They did that, they did that Sweet, sweet Them niggas was in one group called Perfection So they go to a talent show in L.A.   Die, you done? You done? I'm through, you through? You good?     Like, you know what I mean? Do you Have you gotten to the point where you recognize the stat?        I'm like, that's just something hard. He said but you gotta talk like a white boy I'm like, all right. Let's roll cut fucking. Hey, what's going on?   Yeah, I'm like nigga that makeup took like seven hours On again.  They like we want you to put together a variety show.  What you gonna do?  Nigga doggy fizzle was niggas want to be on it. I got Celebrities lining up to be on it. They tell me We want to do season two We've already structured the deal with your whole team your hairstylist your security Everybody got double the money. They was happy niggas was on the set ready to work I say how much I get 30,000.   Nigga. I don't need this show. Nigga.  Right. So I go do his show, right?  You feel I'm saying because this is what we do. We're brotherhood I told you that like we don't get mad at we who's next it's cut. Let me go Let me go show him something Now solid foundation And the music in the comedy is something y'all always blended man like speak to the skit That's something that we don't really have in rap no more.   That was either funny Hard or either something that connected to song.    That was a dog pound. This is something something. This is something. He said, let me put a little sauce on it That's what I don't see. Listen to y'all My name is Carlos miller and I just came to spread a little black love because I hope you having a good day Because this is a good day scent.  That's the beautiful part about it It's crazy. I'll see you next time.    Oh, that's in my I can't breathe.   Wow, great question Well, we started off in the metaverse. We did about 40 million in the metaverse Now we plan to go around the universe. I want to do death row India death row africa death row Asia death row Tokyo everything. I want to go global.  Or did you feel that you needed to no no no that that the decision I made to get death row was strictly my decision No checking with nobody it was strictly based off of me wanting my masters back to this record right here And then eventually wanting everything that came with it because it was available knowing that I could protect the legacy And put everything back in order No, I didn't check for sugar night because he has no ownership in it Um with all due respect I didn't feel like I needed his blessing I felt like what i'm doing is restoring his legacy as well I feel like if anything it should be Good shit snow. It's in the right hands. Your heart is right.  Who's harrio as the c o So just to put the business back into business because he's a brilliant business minded man Who understands certain levels of the business on how it can grow and how certain things need to be handled in certain aspects of the business So we're just pushing a great line of business like black business and not trying to have negative energy floating around it Is he mad or is it no man? It's business man. One of the one other man had it. It wasn't a problem And he wasn't doing nothing with it right I gotta bring this up to because you're taking five six seven year old boys And now they now you got super bowl champions And about to have a heisman trophy winner this year Just speak on the the program how you got there started how you got the foundation until like I said you got super bowl champions And yeah, heisman trophy winners at this. That's my most prized possession is to snope you football league We started in 2005 It's the inner city youth program to help You know You have a solution to some things to do and it also helps X gang members become coaches and role models and mentors and We've been doing such a great job with sending kids to High school to graduate for the first time to college for the first time to the NFL And even to different ventures of life not just sports but life in general I got some kids that are sheriffs and lawyers and road scholars and dentists and things that you wouldn't even imagine that came out of my league and it's It's beautiful to see it blossom and growing than what it is. And then in 2017 we created the snoop youth special stars Where we deal with kids with special needs and autism and handicaps Had to bring the football. Yeah, we're doing our thing man. And like I said, we got a kid right now that Goes to Ohio state cj stroud He's you know top five right now when that highsman running And he played in my league and he's one of the kids that that we're very proud of Alongside with a lot of other kids that have done their thing and made us proud of them in their achievements Whether they go to the next level or not We're just proud of the fact that they was able to to follow their dreams and do some things and and still call me coach To this day. That's like the best feeling in the world like uncle snoop Is a great Is a great feeling when people say that uncle snoop. What's up, uncle?  Yeah, we saw it. We saw it In the morning the parking lot lord have mercy He called me before he called me before he um Took the job down there.  He was thinking about Yeah, but we saw the the value in it before he went down there You know, we was down.   See?     You win, nigga, it's invisible now What's going on, man? I'm ready to play the night Don't do it I said the night Don't do it Don't All right, one more thing What's up with the hood, Flix? What y'all want to be in? Whatever I told y'all about the Watch TV series That's perfect for y'all Yeah But I think what I think we need though I think we need some sort of movie Where we can showcase all of these bad motherfuckers That's popping in the social media world That haven't been produced Facts Like it's some great talent That's floating around the way You guys, if Connecticut came together It's a lot of individuals out there Like you guys used to be You feel what I'm saying?   Karim Abdul-Jabbar is my friend, man. I sit down and chop it up with these brothers, man. Like, these are my childhood idols, like, you know what I'm saying? I know them and I can highlight them. So it's like, when we have a bad season, it's okay, because we had so many good seasons. And in this championship trophy I got on my arm, if you notice it, see that KB down there? That's for Kobe, Cud. That's the walk around with that spirit in my arm. And then on this side, I got my left hand man, Nate Dog, with me. You know what I'm saying? He's good. Now, you know it wouldn't be right if we didn't bring some goddamn hip hop artifacts through here. That got some artifacts? Oh, my man, New Face got all the artifacts out of here. New Face Branson while I rolled up his last one for the highway. One more thing, that Super Bowl. Oh, Super Bowl? In the city. If you see how I blaze up something before I came out. I saw this shit, bro. Come on, man.  Lay them out, New Face. Let me tell you about it.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Little gap. What was the case? Nigga, what? Nigga, nigga, nigga, you got the VHS tape. Nigga, look at the VHS tape. This is special one. This is doggy style, but this is a point out. The doggy style, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the real one. See? I see that at my house, nigga. What? Nigga, what? Yeah, I watched it at mine. Got Snoop right there. Me in the game? No. Snoop right there. That's G-shirt. Right there. No, we good, cuz. No, no, no, no, no, don't rush the clock. We good. We still going. Yeah, take your time, cuz. Don't go fast. I can't read that fast. Right? We still going. You got a lot, man. I've been on the source magazine that many times. Yeah, yeah. Snoop right there. One, two, three, four.  Still playing. I see it. Damn. We got that. We got a move. I did say what I said on that show, I'm living my best life. I've been on so many different stages. I've been on a hundred. That's dude legendary. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But that only seven months. I don't think people know that. You spoke about that.  We bought the tape. Papa, he got a little half-dash in there. This side is right there. Yeah, that's that doggy style. Oh, this new face got it on. What's the case, if you say. Look, you got everything.  You sitting on about a million dollars, nigga. They ain't got a cent of car on sale. It's sitting on streaming, so I can use it on mine. You know what I'm saying? My nigga, it's coming back. It's coming.   Nigga be having me sign an album cover. I like that.  Yeah. Last year. I'm on that album cover. Damn. What was the case? Nipsy sign cassette.  What's the point? You want me to sign, c'uh? The LBC. I need to sign something.   You want a dollar bill? Isn't it got some Snoop Dogg stripper money, c'uh? Where you get that book from? It's called Hip Hop Immortals. It's already been signed by Chubrock, Udini, Iced Tea, signed that already. That's a cop. Oh, I got to sign that, c'uh. That's G.  I appreciate you. I appreciate you. Jesus Christ. This is the Craig Hicksburg stillage. Oh, thank you, c'uh. That's for you. We're going to be all right. It's a bust. We're sorry it's a motherfucker this year, too. We're going to be all right. It's a bust for you, buddy. Thank you, c'uh. See? Look at that. That's love right there, man. That's great. Give me some Detroit glasses, nigga. Yeah, the buffs, all of them. What up, dawg? Yeah, what up, dawg. They gave me some what up, dawg. You got a little of it. Yeah, this one I was in Detroit. You understand me working at McDonald's. Oh, young eggs. I used to call them young eggs. They got crack. They got crack. One hand, nigga, like that. Check it. That's crazy, man. Young eggs, nigga. That's what they call me. Hey, man. It's been another legendary day here in Detroit. Snoop Dogg. Niggas know I don't go out, c'uh. When I'm out on the movie set, I don't do no going out, c'uh. But I made it a bust to pull up on y'all. Oh, man. Thank you, man. Thank you.


Some of the hottest tech stocks are rebounding after a week of volatility here now is Chris Kaufman president at Parallax Research So Krista Fang stocks had multiple trading sessions to the downside. Is this rebound for real? Well, we have noticed extreme investor behavior on the Nasdaq on a monthly scale Which usually means you're going to be flat to down for a while in the markets So we're expecting that probably will be range bound for the next least few months Maybe even all the rest of the year. So what should we expect in the S&P 500 now? I mean we're in this sort of 2430 area. Should we be range bound there, too? I think we will I'm seeing in in the biggest cap stocks that we're the most overextended and In terms of our valuation model we Parallax we produce a lot of artificial intelligence models for our clients We have a valuation model where we look at the top thousand stocks by market cap We throw out the ADRs and we watch the median valuation of these stocks and We're about 20% overvalued huh and on the meat for the median stock Which is not to say that there aren't plenty of things to buy. There's still a bargains out there, but on a whole We expect the market to be You know have a limited upside Our own Doug Cass has an article on the street calm basically saying that it's time to panic and sell stocks He points to falling bond yields high valuations political uncertainty. Do you agree with that never panic? No, I don't think it's ever time to panic. There's always something to buy It's just you know when the market was the 0709 period. There were so many stocks you could buy We were like 50% undervalued the buy lists were big now the buy lists are small There's only there's fewer stocks that are bargains, but some of the smaller cap stocks are bargains still Japan Europe there's good buys when you say the market is limited upside what kind of downside scenario I mean we're gonna see a crash sometime this summer. I Don't think so. No, I think really the market's gonna tread water and wait for great earnings, you know and Hopefully the tax cuts will come in at some point and we'll get a boost in the economy and two stocks You think are undervalued or Oracle and Disney? Yeah, we just just because I was coming on the show I did a quick scan to see what looked like a bargain right now and Oracle Let's see. I wrote down the valuations here We've got we think Disney is worth about 153 an oracle worth about $59 right now And those are those are bargains compared to at least where they were a few days ago Are there sectors of the markets that that you like to go in when we see pullbacks? well I always look at the valuations the different sectors and right now tech is a bit overvalued probably more than the regular market Consumer discretionary staples are decent values there. There's some values in telecom You have to be very picky. You have to what I tell the managers who work with is go on a bargain hunt Work hard because it's hard to find bargains right now So there's always something to buy. All right, we'll be watching it all. Thanks for coming by. You're very welcome All right, I'm Scott Gamm and you're watching the street