Coming up on DTNS, how hackers are getting swept up in the war in Ukraine to scored ups its moderation game and a VR headset that turns your car ride into a rollercoaster. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, February 25th, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane from Studio Colorado. I'm Shannon Morse. And who's the show's producer? Is it Roger Chang? Oh, yeah, it is. But you can't hear it. You have to say the show's producer. If he was here, he would tell you that he is the show's producer, Roger Chang.  If you're not a patron and you'd like to enjoy an ad-free version of the show, head on over to patreon.com slash DTNS. Big thanks to our top patrons. Today they include Vince Power, John and Becky Johnston and Chris Benito. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Gamebeat sources back up what Bloomberg has reported that Sony plans to expand PlayStation Plus into a bigger subscription gaming service internally referred to as Spartacus. Sony is reportedly planning three tiers. An essential service at $10 per month would give you monthly games, essentially PlayStation Plus. An extra service at $13 a month would add a back catalog of downloadable games. And a premium tier at $16 per month would include streaming, game trials, and also classic games. Game Speed says Sony is moving into the testing phase and might be ready to announce in March. The information sources reported Friday that Metta had broken up a 300-person team working on operating systems for AR and VR headsets. Metta told The Verge that it has moved those mixed reality operating system engineers into its hardware teams to, quote, speed up the development of solutions that are hyper-tuned for each product line. So if I could interpret that speak, it sounds like they're like, yeah, they're still working on operating systems, just one specific to the hardware platforms. Google developed accelerated mobile pages, aka AMP, as a way to speed up delivery of pages on the mobile web. AMP is supported by an open-source working group. But those simplified pages contain fewer ads. So Vox Media, BuzzFeed, and Bustle's parent companies are considering moving off of AMP to their own mobile optimized systems. Several publishers have stopped making AMP versions of their pages after Google reduced AMP's effects on search engine rankings last year. Russia's state communications regulator Roskomnozor said Friday that it would restrict access to Facebook after the platform ignored orders to lift restrictions on four Russian media outlets. Facebook has restricted distribution of content from the RIA news agency, the Russian Defense Ministry's Zyazda TV, as well as two news websites. According to an internal memo seen by Mac rumors, Apple will soon provide authorized technicians with access to true depth camera service parts, allowing for same unit repairs to Face ID. Currently fixing the Face ID system requires a whole unit replacement. Apple will make service parts available for the iPhone XS and newer devices. Alright, let's talk about that HTC VR headset, Sarah. Let's do it. HTC has partnered with a company called HollowRide to let Vive flow VR headset users wear their headsets in a car as passengers, not as drivers, and then simulate riding a roller coaster or some other experience with the motion inside the headset pulling from data points of the car to match the car's actual movement. HollowRide, which has partial investment from Audi, will also offer virtual worlds along with 2D content on what it calls a virtual motion synchronized cinema screen. The Vive flow is $500. It offers two 1.6 K 75 Hertz displays with a 100 field degree field of view, but with fewer motion sensors than some competing headsets requires a mere mounted dongle to help track vehicle motion. So there's a little fancy footwork going on, but it works. No official release date if this excites you, but HollowRide says it will show off the experience at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, starting February 28th. On the technological side, I find this incredibly fun and impressive that that they can pull even with the dongle having to hang from the mirror like being able to pull those motion points and then sync them up to a game. I watched a couple videos of people testing it and they were fairly impressed. They're like, Yeah, yeah, it does. It does seem to match. Then we get to the point of would I buy a $500 Vive flow just to do this? And I'm not sure. I'm not I'm not sure I want this more than just to try it once. I'm not sure this is something that I will, I will make a regular part of my passenger experience in a car. What about y'all? I'm kind of in the same boat as you like if I'm in the car going somewhere it's yeah, if I'm in the car with somebody it's usually my husband and I prefer to like have a conversation or something. But I gotta say like whoever you're in the car with when they're driving, I just hope you trust them not to like slam on the brakes and do crazy stuff while you're in the car in your own world trying to deal with the movements of the vehicle while you're watching something completely different because that lack of control that lack of view sight of what's going on around you that would kind of freak me out a little bit. I don't know. It's been a really long time since I've sat in the backseat of any car. I guess it was probably an Uber the last time I was, you know, I mean you could sit as a passenger in the front seat too and have I guess the same experience.  I can see where this would be maybe a novelty for kids or adults alike, but I would totally try it out. And yeah, if it doesn't make you motion sick, and that's a big part of this, and it's it's what HTC and Hollow Rider claiming that it could help with, especially even watching like a movie or something that might kind of be a little icky on the tummy, when it's just a like a screen on the back seat in front of you. It sounds fun. It definitely why not? Why not past the time? One of the things that causes motion sickness is not being able to see the world, be able to anticipate the way the world is going to move. So a lot of people, they think get motion sick in a car because they're not driving, whereas when they are driving, they don't get motion sick, because they can anticipate the moves. And so I guess this could cut down on motion sickness, and maybe it's a therapeutic in that way, because the game can signal what's going to happen a little better. It still isn't the driver though. So it still doesn't know when a turn really is going to come until the turn starts to come. So I don't know, a little skeptical that people who get motion sickness in cars would benefit from this. But I guess you can get motion sick from VR, even if you don't get car sick. And so cutting down on that is a good part of this. I bet this could turn into a subculture where people like find the perfect route to play your virtual world. Right?  Lombard Street in San Francisco, everybody's popping on their VR headsets to maybe. Again, that's a slow roller coaster. Well, yeah, and they're gonna have to come up with more than just a roller coaster. Absolutely. And they already have. They already have. That's just one example of like, oh, cool. This is like, you know, I'm at an amusement park. I don't know. I think this is great. I don't take my headset anywhere. It kind of sits in my gaming area of my garage where I have a bunch of room. I like the idea and I have a quest too. So this is not compatible with that, but I like the idea of being able to use it for more fun experiences. Next time I take a long Uber ride, I'll give it a try. Yeah, yeah. All right, folks, we mentioned briefly on Thursday that the United States had issued restrictions on exports to Russia. Since that announcement, we've been able to find out more details about what's happening. US companies will need to license if they need to get a license if they want to sell computers, sensors, lasers, navigation tools, telecommunications, aerospace and marine equipment to Russia. There's a few other categories, but that kind of covers most of it. The US, of course, as we said yesterday, will deny most applications to do so. Non-US companies also faced restrictions if they use US tools to make chips. Most chip makers and most chip makers are not in the US. Most chip makers use either US based equipment, software or intellectual property somewhere in their chip making process. So this gives the US the leverage to control where companies using those tools can send their chips. However, some consumer electronics will be allowed. The US Department of Commerce fact sheet says that telecom infrastructure and a range of consumer items used by Russian people, including smartphones, are exempt from the sanctions. You can send those. You can keep sending iPhones to Russia. That's fine, as long as you aren't selling them to military or government officials that are under sanction. The restrictions may not end up being that effective depending on who you ask. Protocol says Russia accounted for less than 0.1% of global chip purchases. So they're not a big chip buyer anyway. US exports entirely to Russia, not just for chips. Entire US exports to Russia in 2021 were about $6.4 billion compared to $151 billion for China. Now, speaking of China, China may make up that 0.1% of chips for Russia, though China does not make its own advanced chip. So it could hurt Russia's military to not get the more advanced chips they might want. China's biggest domestic chip maker, SMIC, is also under the same US restrictions. So it's having a hard time ramping up its chip making. And most chips, even those made in China, are made by non-Chinese companies like Samsung and TSMC. And TSMC has said publicly that it will abide by the US restrictions. Of course, we also mentioned yesterday that Russia makes about 90% of the neon used in chip making for lithography. Protocol says the semiconductor industry association came out with a statement saying it is not concerned about that. They believe the industry has, quote, a diverse set of suppliers of key materials and gases. And protocol also noted that Evercore analyst CJ Muse wrote in a research note that there will be enough neon for as long as the next year. So it doesn't seem like that's going to be as big a deal as it may have seemed like yesterday. This is really interesting from a consumer standpoint of I'm wondering if, given how this seems to be happening right now, if for like, if you're interested in purchasing a GPU right now, is this going to affect your ability to purchase a GPU or some kind of PC components for a regular tower as a consumer in other countries, given that we already have shortages from the pandemic that we've experienced for the past couple of years? Yeah, this whole global economy, everyone's affected, even if, you know, there are restrictions on exports to Russia from the US. How it will affect, you know, me, let's say, you know, if I'm in the market for something or if, you know, somebody in Russia is in the market for something, it doesn't, I don't really know. I don't really, I can't see the the gravity of the ripple effect. There will be one certainly, unless, you know, a lot of things change and soon. But, but yeah, I I I wonder how this this affects the world in three months from now. Yeah, the general consensus is that it won't affect things much, because other than those those gases and some other minerals, there wasn't much anticipated effect. It sounds like they don't think that will have much effect. Some people were even wondering like, Oh, we will we increase the amount of chips available if we're not selling them to Russia and Russia doesn't buy enough chips for that to really make that much of a difference that way either. So except for the caveat of like anytime there is a war in an area as as developed as Ukraine, it's going to disrupt things unpredictably. It doesn't seem like there's any direct, obvious, immediate threats to the chip shortage. Whereas yesterday kind of looked like, Oh, maybe maybe there are some threats that the experts weighing in on this say, not not immediately, not obviously. Well, Discord has joined the world of policing speech. But before you get outraged or freaked out, let's explain. For the first time in almost two years, Discord updated its community guidelines and policies, which will go into effect on March 28. The crux of the update is that users quote may not share false or misleading information on Discord that is likely to cause physical or societal harm. Clint Smith, chief legal officer at Discord, gave examples of how the company meant to implement this, telling somebody to drink bleach to get rid of the coronavirus would be punishable because drinking bleach can seriously harm you, telling people to hold crystals against their chests to get rid of the virus would not be punishable because it's low risk. Discord says it will also try to take into account the intent and the context of a message when making judgment calls. The company will also penalize users for off-platform behavior and what it considers the highest harm categories that's violence or sexualizing minors. Again, Smith gave the verge examples that cheating on an exam or even getting charged with drug possession wouldn't be considered to be in those categories. Discord allows individual servers to moderate themselves with admins allowed to escalate moderation to the company if and when it's necessary. Discord also says it will continue to use machine learning to identify content but also relies on user reports and outside experts. It says it will continue to respect the privacy of DMs and private servers with machine learning moderation focused on public servers. Smith said the company had gone from a bunch of Californians serving a gaming audience as recently as 2020 to having employees in the US, Toronto, London and Amsterdam with a broad global audience. So things have changed for Discord in a relatively short period of time. Discord's all grown up. Yeah.  I think that's too condescending. But, you know, we're popular. We have people here. Like, you know, you've got to have rules.  And it's very easy to get it wrong. I think Discord seems to be doing its darndest to say, we just want to stop really bad stuff. We don't want to stop you talking to each other. This is really interesting because like I come from that old school time of using IRC since I was a kid. So I've always compared Discord to being like a web 2.0 slash 3.0 now to an old school IRC. So hearing that they're going to start, they're still letting moderators moderate their servers, right? But they're adding this extra piece on top of that so that they are acting like adults now. I love that terminology. That's great. Yeah, weird. Yeah, moderators can still moderate their own servers. But if they need help or if a lot of users are saying, hey, there's there's bad stuff going on here, then Discord has always been able to step in that. That part isn't new. It's just they have now clarified what kinds of things they'll they'll step in and kick you off for doing. I think some people will be surprised to know that Discord always had the capability to do this.   It's that Discord is just saying like here in pretty plain terms is how we're we're going to going to deal with this stuff. There will be gray areas. There always is with how harmful something is. I might have a different opinion than somebody else. But but in general, I I don't I don't see this as cause for alarm. You know, if you're alarmed, you should have already been. It's tricky business. And there's always cause, you know, for for for mistakes to be made. But I think Discord is showing that they have learned from those who've made mistakes before them. Folks, what do you like to hear us talk about on the show? One of the reasons we got really good feedback in the survey about the story selection on Daily Tech News Show is because we listen to y'all. And one way to let us know what you want to hear us talk about is our subreddit. We look at it every single day. So if you haven't already, go over and submit stories and vote on them at DailyTechNewsShow.Reddit.com. And big thanks to everybody in there. Hackers, malicious or not, are being swept up into the war in Ukraine. The government of Ukraine is calling on hackers to help protect critical infrastructure and spy on Russian troops. Yegor Achev, co-founder of a cybersecurity company in Kiev, told Reuters he is collecting and vetting volunteers at the request of someone at the Defense Ministry. That's partially because Ukraine has no formal cyber warfare unit. The BBC has a profile out today of Russian individuals who are voluntarily organizing denial of service to attacks against Ukrainian websites in order to show their patriotism for their country's cause. So far, cyber attacks against Ukraine have included the wiper tool that we mentioned on Thursday's show. Obviously, the many of denial of service attacks we've talked about and a rise in phishing attacks. Ukraine's computer emergency response team, CERT UA, has attributed the ongoing campaign to the UNC-1151 threat group, which security company Mandiant has formerly linked to the Belarusian government. So it looks like Belarus may be involved in the hacking side as well. And people who post under the anonymous banner have declared themselves, quote, in cyber war against the Russian government. Netblocks reported that Russian government websites went offline Thursday evening. So, Shannon, there's more going on than just that. Absolutely. I've kind of been watching what's been happening in the cybersecurity community just for my own reporting on threat wire, but also because a lot of my friends own small businesses that are in cybersecurity and they want to do something to help. And I've seen a lot of them come forward and decide to do something, even though they're not physically going to a different country or anything, they're doing something from right here. So we've seen allegiances kind of form on both sides of these parties. So we started seeing all sorts of different allegiances unfold. Chris Krebs, which is he's the former SISA director, he tweeted that the Conti ransomware gang has officially pledged to strike back against anybody who attacks Russia, which basically does confirm in case anybody was still doubting their allegiance with Russia. And on the other side, we have a bunch of U.S. and European cybersecurity companies and tech companies that have been actively starting to support Ukraine in various ways. They're small businesses in the hacker and cybersecurity community that are using their specific tools that they have built to help. For example, Dragos, they have opted to give free incident response and support to other small businesses that need any kind of infrastructure control system or ICS cybersecurity support. Gray Noise is another company. You can look them up online. They have been using their own tool, which helps you kind of understand the noise that's going on on the internet, hence the name. They have published all the IPs of different devices that are attempting to compromise Ukrainian IPs specifically. So they are looking for IP addresses that are attacking within the confines of Ukraine. And that's really, really interesting that they are doing this kind of hacktivism. So we've also been seeing hacktivists and Ukrainian defenses that are also seeing a huge increase in cryptocurrency donations from all across the globe. All sorts of supporters are starting to throw money at all these hacktivists. For example, there's a Ukrainian Cyber Alliance. That's a hacktivist group. They have received about $100,000 in donations. And this is not the only one. We've been seeing a lot of this kind of activism happening, even though, like, technically, we haven't flown over there. We haven't, like, gone onto the very forefronts of this big attack or anything like that. Like, we're seeing this cyber warfare happening. And it's incredibly fascinating and it's very, very interesting. It's 2022, y'all. This is the new front. There are no borders on the internet. And we mentioned the South Ossetia War when Russia invaded Georgia back in 2008. There were no borders on the internet back then. But there weren't as many eyes on that conflict for whatever reason. And there also weren't as many people on the internet in 2008 as there are 14 years later. So this is the highest level conflict that involves the most number of tech people, both on the Ukrainian and Russian side. And it's really interesting to hear your description of what is essentially an asymmetric war where you're not on one side or another of a trench. And people who aren't even affiliated with one side or the other can jump in on either side and contribute to the cyber warfare aspect of that. I don't think we've ever seen anything like that at this scale before. That's both frightening and impressive, right? I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that a lot of people are now realizing that they have this power in cybersecurity or online. They have the ability to take some kind of activist approach as opposed to just sitting in our own country and thinking, what can we do? What can we do? We have like open source tools that allow us to source IPs of companies that are attacking Ukraine. We have so much information readily available to us and there's so many companies that are already doing this kind of research to find out where ransomware is coming from and where malware is being formed. So now we're taking this as approach of we can actually do something and we're seeing that actually happen.  Like it's very exciting and it is kind of scary. And unprecedented. I used that word a lot back in March and April 2020. And here we are again, we are going, no one knows how this can play out because we've never seen these kinds of conditions before. And so that's why I said it's impressive and frightening. It will be very interesting to see what happens, to see how people jump in, to see what rules of cyber warfare might arise out of this based on the actions and what's effective and what is it? There is going to be a lot of information come out of this because it's a real world attest of something that people don't want to test, but it's happening. So there you go. Well, this week, air traffic control of major airlines have limited flying over Ukraine for obvious reasons. You might recall when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down by Russian separatists during a conflict back in 2014. Nobody wants that to happen again. However, a screenshot of a flight map using the plane finder app was tweeted Thursday, showing an Air India plane flying over Ukraine surrounded by countless other commercial planes actively avoiding that same airspace. Many a meme was created by folks off of that tweet. We don't know if this is the first person who uploaded it, but certainly that tweet in particular got a lot of traction. Folks trying to find humor in the situation because it's not a fun situation. Think Leroy Jenkins type of jokes. Leroy! Yeah. I'm Air India and I'm going the way the crow flies type thing. Oh my gosh.  But he pointed out to, he or she pointed out the genuine destination of the Air India plane was from India to Frankfurt, Germany and that it had not actually crossed into Ukrainian airspace and that it had already landed safe. Ah, well, yes, that's not as funny as one lone plane just deciding to go rogue and fly through space. But also good to know, good to know that no passengers were ever in danger. It was just an optical illusion, I guess, an artifact of the way things are mapped that it looked that way. Hey, it could have been as simple as like the application didn't update immediately. So it was just showing a basic track of where it would normally fly. But... It's kind of funny. Again, it was, I don't think anybody was trying to be malicious about this. People had their fun and then someone said, wait a second, this image might be doctored or otherwise misleading and everyone went, oh gosh, have you ever had any fun in your life? And that is, nobody's quite wrong here but in a time of rampant misinformation, you know, it's... Here's a harmless example of how easy it is to get fooled. Right, exactly. Right. All right, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. Brian says he understands wanting to give credit to AI for original works of art. This is something that we talked about last week. But Brian says AI is just a program. No matter how sophisticated it's a program. It doesn't have a soul or consciousness. Can't be held accountable. It can't take credit. The person who tasked the program is responsible. If not, level five autonomous car owners wouldn't need insurance or a sense of guilt when their level five autonomous cars injures or kills somebody. Further, Word, Excel, Adobe, all the other programs would hold copyrights to all their output if we take this to the nth degree. Brian says it's interesting to watch but life is special and without it there just isn't all that comes with life. In short, accountability, awareness and understanding on a human level will never be part of a program. No matter how hard we want it to be that way. Computers and machines and programs are just bits being processed. And I like it that way. Life is special even when we forget the day, even when we forget that every once in a while. Sorry, robot overlords. Well, I agree with the sentiment of Brian's email entirely but I think it might oversimplify the situation. I don't think anybody disputes that when you enter something into Word that's yours, not the coder of Word. But what happens when you didn't enter anything? What, how about this one? What if two people are using the same machine learning program? Two different instances of it. They both output the same piece of artwork. Who gets the copyright? Because there was no actual human intervention. Is it the one who pressed the button first? Gets the copyright on that? I think there are more subtle problems with machine-created stuff where you can't just say like, well, if a human did it, they're responsible. The level five autonomous car, is it the manufacturer that's responsible? And that would chill manufacturers from wanting to make cars if they're like, well, we're gonna be responsible for every death or every person in the car. So there's a lot of conversations about that. 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My name is Megan. I'm a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying chemistry with a minor in history and another minor in media studies and so I've really throughout my time at UVM been combining the arts and sciences which has been so fun. Outside of the classroom I'm involved as a tour guide here on campus. I'm the academic affairs chair for our student government association. I'm on the mock trial team and I started a Glee Club for watching Glee the show not singing and so I like have a lot of goofy roles but I also have a lot of fun and take a lot of work seriously here. Alright so the Fleming Museum is the largest fine arts museum in Vermont and it has a collection 40,000 items strong it's so beautiful in here and it's also free for all students you can come in just to study if you're not taking class in here and it's just like this really cool space that's super enriching for all students that you can just get into. This is my exhibit that I curated with a group of students in an art history class called Art History 282 which was about museum studies and this exhibit is called Resist Insist Persist and it's something that throughout the semester we were working on and over time like developed what it was going to be about. We look at art and protest through four different lenses gender the state race as well as socio-economic class and throughout that whole semester we were Skyping in with different alumni who work in museums talking about the relationship that people have as museum goers with the art and who's welcome in different spaces here at UBM so this exhibit really examines that and also brings in art by artists who aren't typically shown in museums and that's what's really cool about it. This piece right here is actually done by a UBM professor who works in studio art department Mildred Beltran created this and it talks about the relationship between race and art and it's really cool that we have a local artist who was able to loan this out. So this is like the Egyptian exhibit that talks about like Egyptian art but this was something that was super useful for me when I took a class on Egyptian history we would talk about knock it up pottery and things like that which is in this case right here and while I was writing an essay for that exam I was actually able to like just talk about what I saw right here and that was just like super enriching being able to see what we were actually talking about and it's just right here on campus but the other thing with that is talking about how a lot of these different things the provenance of those pieces of work is really really shady so how we came to get these pieces of art and how they wound up in our collection is another really interesting thing to look at. We major here at UBM and so as I've been taking courses in the humanities and the arts over time I've skipped out on a lot of like intro classes so to have things like the Fleming Museum and other different art pieces here on campus has given me greater context to what it is that I've been studying and it like is this great little supplemental resource for me. I'm at Royal Tyler Theater. This is the main theater here on campus. Any student no matter what your major is can participate in the shows that run year-round so you don't have to be a theater major or minor to actually be in a production it's open call audition so any age can also get involved. There are three main stage productions throughout the year within Royal Tyler Theater. There's a one-act festival for senior students as well as like a winter time show. Last year it was a talent show. You're able to do all sorts of different things it doesn't have to just be performing though there are students group student groups that do things like that there's the university players as well as name pending and improv group here but there's also opportunities to get involved in tech here. There's also opportunities to get involved in lighting design stage design all sorts of different things you can be any major to get involved in those things as well. There's also a pit orchestra and a pit band ways to get involved musically so if you're a music education major for example you're able to get involved in blocking shows and creating sound design for shows and it's just a really cool opportunity no matter what background you're coming from. All right right now we're in Cohen Hall which is a new building to our campus it was made possible by a seven million dollar donation from the Cohen family directly to the arts so this opened up a whole bunch of new classrooms drawing studios a room where you could go and rent out high resolution cameras if you're interested in creating digital art or in a film studies class it's just provided all sorts of really cool new equipment for students to be able to utilize. Williams Hall is home to the city art department the art history department as well as the anthropology department it's a huge cornerstone for the College of Arts and Sciences. The thing that is really important to me as a chemistry major who cares about the arts is adding context to my degree when I first came in to UVM I didn't really understand what my degree meant and over time I've gotten that context I can apply chemistry to all sorts of different things all sorts of different applications be that food science or doing conservation in a museum or something like that it's really added value to what it is that I'm studying I'm better able to communicate with people because of it I'm better able to understand what's being conveyed in scientific papers because I understand how language works and so this has been something that has really enriched my own education and it's made me a better chemist but also a better person. Hi everyone my name is Sadie I'm a current junior here at the University of Vermont studying music education in the College of Education and Social Services when I'm not in class here at Southwick I'm involved with the Skeen Snowboard Club the National Association for Music Educators we have a chapter back here at the University of Vermont and I'm the co-music director of UVM's all-female identifying and non-binary acapella group, the Cat's Beyond I'm also involved within the music department with our concert choir and I have been previously involved with Catamount Seniors and the UVM band so there are countless organizations and groups and ensembles that are available for our students so not all of them are affiliated with the music department but we do have a lot of those so we have orchestra band choir chamber choir there's a jazz vocal ensemble there are so many jazz instrumental ensembles so there are countless ways that you can get involved with something that is affiliated with the music department and all of those opportunities are available in the music office. Music building is a great place to meet other people who are interested in starting your own band also. Countless people who are involved in the music department have made their own bands. I'd like to showcase some of my friends actually started their own band and then won the UVM battle of bands and were able to perform at Springfest. They opened for the artists that came for our Springfest which was so cool to get to see people that I have class with up their performing music in front of the entire school. It's really awesome so if you want to be involved with music all you have to do is look for it listen for it it's everywhere on campus. So we are coming into our hall that has all of our classrooms and these rooms are open to any student so you don't have to be majoring in which is really awesome and we do end up getting a lot of students who just want to come and be able to play music. Sometimes they get pretty full so it's hard to lock one down so when I need to go practice for one of my lessons sometimes the other way but we have some upstairs and downstairs as well so there's plenty of space and it's always really fun to walk down the hall and hear what people are playing sometimes people are playing classical music sometimes jazz also sometimes just pop and something that they you know are really interested in so it's cool to see everyone's different perspectives and what everyone's into it's really really awesome so here we have a bulletin board which has sign-up sheets for anything you could want we have band orchestra, wind ensemble, chamber ensemble also for seeing opportunities and voice lessons if you're interested in anything this is the place to come find it and if there isn't any information about that there you can come to the office which is just down the hallway they have the information for anything you can possibly need thank you we also have an archive library of tons and tons of music here so if you're curious you want to go cruising through the stacks this is a good place to do it this is my favorite place to sing in between classes because the acoustics are great so the stairwell you'll always find me singing this is where a lot of our music students like to hang out a lot of my friends who are music education majors like to hang out here between all of our classes since most of our classes are housed in Southwick so we can give a quick wave to all of the music and we'll head this way really great space to come take a nap on the couches between classes get your theory homework done do whatever it is you need to do so we'll head over to the recital lounge if you want to take a little peek in through this window this is where all of our saddles happen we've a ton of concerts so many genres the Lee series has concerts here we just have a workshop for any student with a jazz so we got to come and listen to that perform and then we actually got to perform for them and do a workshop which was really great because those are professionals who work out in the field and have been in our shoes and are now performing in the real world so I've had some practice in my student performance recitals and next fall I get to share with my friends and family all that I've been working on this past four years so through my music lessons that I have with David and I we I get to prepare whatever music that I want and perform that and show everyone what I've been working on and I'm really excited for that and proud of all the accomplishments that I've made and excited to share that with everyone


What's up y'all, it's your girl Brianna Imani and you're tuned into another Talk of the Town interview and let them know who we got in the building today. Big China. Not the little one. Period. Coming to New York from Philly, how you feeling girl? Good. Good. All right. I was telling you earlier, I love when we have guests from out of the town because I love hearing like what it is that you've been doing since you've been in the city. So talk to us a little bit about like what you've been doing so far. I'm doing a press, two day press in my face out there and people that know me. Period. Period. Okay. So what we're going to do to do a little icebreaker. We're going to play a game. Okay. Two truths and a lie. Okay. You know how to go? Yeah. All right. So I'm going to let you think for a second about what your two truths and a lie is going to be and I'm going to try to guess it to see. Okay. I can. Okay. I put her on the spot y'all. Are you ready? Go ahead. All right. I don't like ripping.  Don't they all. And I love lip gloss. Well girl, you made this very easy because I was going to stop you before you even got to the second one because I know you don't hate rapping girl, not the way that you be hitting them bar. No way.  All right. So let's get into it. I know you from Philly, Philadelphia, born and raised or yes. All right. So talk to us a little bit about that. What was it like growing up in Philly? Trencherous. Trencherous? Yeah. Like you from what part of Philly? South Philly. South Philly. My mom was nerf. So I was there before. First odds. Okay. So what was you doing? Like what was the day-to-day? Because you said it was real trencherous. Day-to-day rumbling every day. Every day I come outside rumbling. Oh, you was giving baddie. She was giving baddies before. You say something about my grandma, anybody. You was on timing. You was on go. I'm knocking at people's doors. Y'all can jump me and all that. Oh yeah. Well girl, I heard some things about you. Oh my God. I'm like a lot. I don't know if you want to talk about it, but yeah, girl. I heard how you used to get down. And how you used to knock them out. Yeah, I heard too. They used to. So tell me like what was it that got you into making music? Because you started making music like fairly recently, I would say. So what was it that started this journey for you? My brother. My brother kept on asking me to rap. He kept on asking me. He kept on asking me. He kept on asking me. And I'm just like, no. I don't want to be a rapper. And what I thought was so interesting because I heard you talk about that before. And I think it's so funny how something that started off as like a bet wound up like kicking off your career this way. So how, what was it though that your brother saw in you that made him want to push you towards making music? I always used to be with the boys and they just like really like I was the person they talked to. Like they called talk to because I'm just like I was, they felt like I was the realest one. But I felt like that's what it was. He felt like my life was real. I felt like I was real. You kept on saying that. I'm like, why do you want me to rap? Right. You know how I mean people out on four, they don't like me. That's going to make them love you. Yeah. And I feel like, you know, you be talking some grocery. I think that, you know, it's very interesting because I feel like sometimes just because not even sometimes, I feel like just because you're a real person don't mean that you can make real music or that you have a creative sound. So I think it's interesting that your brother was able to tap into something that you had, even though it wasn't something you already dabbed away and like push you towards actually taking this every year. What's crazy is I wasn't still going to do it. But when he passed the way I felt like I had to do it. And you continue with his legacy. Because I'm sure that's what he really wanted me to do. And I love that. So let me know, like what was the first time that you ever stepped in a booth? What was that like? Because it was fun. I did it with them on the blue. We was just in the studio. I used to go with the boys to the studio because everybody from like my block used to really write why I used to be on course. They used to always write. And I used to pay for studio time because I believed in my friends. I used to help them. Like, what's up? We going to the studio there? I got some money for your like, uh-huh. And we used to go to the studio and then they was like, C-Roll, you might as well hop in a booth because my name used to be C-Roll. Oh, I know. When I was up. And I used to fight.  And then I'm like, hop in a booth. And then we just started playing around. We made, you ever heard of Exchange? Vice, of course, yeah. We did that song over. And then me, him and T-A did a song.  And I had to fight both of them. I remember hearing you talk about that.  And I'm like, why are y'all so high? Like, we can even do the show. I hit on one shoe. I came outside and fought both of them. And we wasn't speaking for weeks. And then T-A reached out to me like, I'm sorry. And then like a couple weeks later he passed. So that's such a funny memory. Why? I was so mad. I feel like not only is it like something funny to think about, but it also shows the dynamic of your relationship. Why? So how do you feel about being on stage, like under the influence? Do you drink smoke? No. No, neither one? I drink like occasionally. Okay. I'm not a drinker. Okay, you're not a drinker. You smoke? You vape. You vape. What's that like? What's T with vape? I feel like everybody be vaping nowadays. I don't know. Is it this? Is it? It is. I saw you with your little rape a couple of minutes ago. Like this. Not ASL, girl. We're going to turn this from an interview to an intervention, because I don't know about vaping at your sleep. It's crazy, girl. That's crazy. So if you weren't doing music though, what do you think that you would be doing right now? I don't know. I do a lot. What else do you like to do? I like... I probably would have been a boxer. Like your mom? Yeah. I probably would have. But they probably would have tired me out too. I'm about to open a restaurant. Oh, burger. Yeah. Okay, so you be cooking.  What's your favorite thing to eat? What's your favorite thing to eat? Hmm. Probably like stuffed salmon. Okay. So you be cooking for your niggas? Or the people that you ain't in? I don't know what you're cooking. My niggas. You be cooking for your niggas? Yeah. How long does it take for you to cook for a niggas? Because this is an ongoing conversation right now. I ain't cooking for anybody. No. It's not good for everybody. It's not good for everybody. You gotta earn that. Yeah. Okay. And you making the stuffed salmon. Or you got another go-to. Some people can get fried chicken. You know a bonus set about fried chicken. Listen. All right. So in terms of Philly, though, do you feel like you get support from your city? For the most part, yeah. But I feel like everybody trying to bust Uies. They trying to bust Uies? Like they trying to spin the block? They trying to spin the block real bad. Oh. So it's like they know how hip I am. Like y'all should have been there. So it's giving back then they didn't want me. Now I'm hot. They all want me. It's giving fake happy. Yeah. But they ain't got no choice because they already know how I was going to come. Right. So, okay. So then how do you determine because you said fake happy? How do you know when somebody's genuinely supporting you because they really want to see you win versus?  So I feel it. Like when motherfuckers come around and go, I love you. I miss you. I be like, yeah, okay.  Right.  My name China. Right.  Like the whole body language. Yeah.  I was on law. We're red. So is it like because I, okay. Take two. Growing up, were you like popular? Like were people genuinely gravitating towards you? Yeah. Yeah. I used to have so many people who asked me to like sign money. Really? Yeah. Sign money. Sign pictures. My cousins used to make me sign pictures of me when I was a baby because they knew I was going to be something. They didn't know what I was going to be, but they know I was going to be something. So I guess it makes sense why your brother will push you towards music. Cause you got the vibe. You got the look. You already had the popularity. Yeah.  So I guess it was like the perfect combination. Yeah. Interesting. So how do you feel about like accessibility and like being in your head?  No. No.  I got PTSD. My friends is passing away. Left and right. My girlfriend just passed away a couple months ago. So they really eat. I don't even hang around nobody. So when talking about like losses, especially like back home and when they're very personal to you, does, do you use that as like motivation? Like how does it translate into like the grind and the hustle when it comes to it? It makes me go harder. It makes me think about me when I say I'm stopping. I can't. Yeah. I think about them a lot. And so do you think that you will always be great? Cause I know you just bought up PTSD. Do you think that you would still be grounded in Philly after your career takes off? You would still make? No. I'm ready to go. You ready to go? And I look back. I'm not looking back. I could come back and see my people's because I'm about to have a business down there.  Where would you go? Top three places. Top three places. LA, Houston or Atlanta. I knew you was going to say that. That was like the top three hotspots. Right. Cause you can still be outside and still be turned on the music tip. Right. People still working over there. Okay. Cool. So now speaking of music and bring it back to Philly a little bit. Have you seen a conversation that's going on right now with DJ drama saying that dreams of nightmares isn't the Philly anthem no more. And now it's, I just want to rock. No, I haven't seen that. You haven't seen that? Yes. I feel like that is though. You feel like I just want to rock is the Philly anthem now? Yeah. Because it was going on in the culture right now. That's interesting. You see the culture is, that's what it is right now. The hips. Yeah. It's giving all that. I guess because you're from Philly, I can't really debate with you too much on that. But to me personally, like, I really used to pray for times like this, not to a mom like this, but I feel like the, like, I'm sorry, but dreams of nightmares really just does something to me. It does something to me too. I don't care where I'm at. I feel like that's the hood anthem. Like that's the horror anthem. But I feel like for the, I don't know. I just think it's for the culture right now. Like where we at right now on the music tip, because that's what they on. Okay. So you think that an anthem for a city is based on something that reflects the culture in the present time. Yes. That's interesting. Okay. Yeah. Cause well, Meek, if you're watching this, dreams of nightmares will forever be by it though. Cause like I said, it don't matter where I'm at, what I'm doing. It'll be mine too. But I just think that's what they going to pick. Yeah. I just, it's so much pain and struggle and hustle behind it. That's my dream too. Speaking of anthems, you just dropped say song. Yeah. Say song. Really. You got the visuals popping. So talk to me a little bit about that. Like how has the song been received so far? They've been doing really good. We almost had 300K three weeks. So I'm pushing it real hard.  It's definitely going up. I feel like it set the tone for the year for sure. The visuals was fire. So walk me through those two. Like. Okay. First let's walk through the song. When you was making the song, do you have visuals in mind already? Or does that come after the beat? It comes after the beat. That's interesting. Okay. So let's talk to us. So you got the beat. You write before the beat after the beat. I get in the studio. I get to be made right in front of me.  I come up with the hood. I get to be made. I get to be made by my family. Well, I or I get. Jacob G. Which is producing on our label. I get them to help me with melody or anything with. Okay. I feel like hook is make this. Yeah. Speaking of a hook. See, okay. Sorry. Cause you say things that's making my mind turn. Because right now it's a big conversation. At least in New York. A big conversation with Lola and Billy. Don't play with it. Don't play with it. know you know that song. And a lot of people are having this debate over the song and its popularity. The hook versus like Billie bars, because she was really spitting, but some Billy, that's tea. Remy the girl that's on the song. She's on the song. Okay. I know it, but I know who's, I don't know her, but I've seen this. Yeah. So, so Billy did her did her thing on the track for sure.  I went on her page too. I listened to her a couple of times, but I never, I don't know why the name. Yeah. Tap them with Billy because she's definitely fired. She got bars, but a lot of people were saying that they knew the song because of the hook. So I think it's very interesting that you said that the hook is what makes the song because it's really really important. They don't even care what you say in the verses. Yeah. And that's a little punchline. It's crazy that that's where we at now. I think it's the attention span. Yes. I think it's the attention span. And then it's like a lot of people are not creative. People are like people say things to people that's very creative, like Beyonce, like she's creative. She comes up with all her stuff.  And that's where I'm going at with it. Like I have to be, it has to be creative. It's not, it can't be no, right. No, you're giving it. We're not doing no, no. Not no regular, regular shape. No, we gotta go extra. So now that leads us into our visuals, because you actually do a really good job with visuals.  Yeah, no, you definitely do your thing when it comes to those. Like, and it was another one that you did. The paper, paper on me. And I did the press conference. Yeah. It's like, you really began very creative with the visual. So how does that work? Do you come up with those ideas you do for everything? Oh, wow. So how, okay. So you know what you want it to look like? Do you have a team that you consult with? We have a team, BMR period. We have BMR productions, BMR everything. So everything in house. I love that. We got content days and we do our content every week. So we could drop a state consistent because once you consistent, they can deny you. What's that? That part. So how important do you think it is to have a team behind you working with you through this process? You need a team. You can't do it by yourself at all. If you think you can do it by yourself, you're crazy. So what would you say is like, maybe like one to three things that you can say matter of fact, that your team has really helped you with that you think otherwise, you don't know, like, it's structure. It's a whole lot of peace of mind. It's a lot of stuff that you don't really have to worry about when you have a team. You just come in the studio and you happy. I feel like you should be happy in the studio because that's where you create. So what's the vibe like in the studio when you in there? I got my own studio. So it's giving pink vibes. Okay. You give that. I wish the camera could see your shoe. I don't know if they could see the shoes, but you definitely give girly like real like artsy creative. So that's that's interesting. So with paper on me, like we said, you did the low press questions in the beginning. And there was a couple things that I really wonder, like, are these things that people really be asking you? Yes. A lot of bitches. They do. They do. Yes.   You don't even know what me like. Yeah, I feel like that's real bold. Because I feel like it's one thing. Okay, it's a silly thing. Because I feel like it's one thing to say. That's what it is.  I'm sorry.  Oh, but how do you how do you feel about that though? Because that's something that I think has also been made very like, it's been very normalized in our culture. I think when we out partying, we out clubbing, even like walking down the street, they just want to touch and grab and stuff. So you don't like that. They even don't like that, like, speak or something like, Oh, wait, hold on. So you saying that it's people that won't say anything to you and just come up to you guys. Like, yeah, it's fair. Oh, feel you on a different side of the time. Damn, you really awesome.  Turned out sure. They like, no.  But like, I'm the way I talk. I'm hard. I feel like, you know what? Like, Christiane, Christiane is somebody that's hard and she talk hard, but she doesn't give me gay.  Like, Yeah. Okay. I just think.  So, um, but when it comes down to being sexualized and stuff, do you feel like in this industry, that's something that comes with it? Have you think all of us are? Yeah. Yeah.  Oh, wait, hold on. All the girl artists. Really? That's what she told me. Why? I don't know. But like, when it comes to men, like, when I say like, sexualized, do you feel like men will sexualize you as an artist too? Or like, as a woman in general? They probably do. If you say probably that's actually good because that means you haven't experienced it yet. Right. So that's a good time. I guess. Okay. So then now when it comes to your image, how important is your image to you? Because you know, everything is everything. Okay. If you had to describe your style in three words, how would you describe it? Extra, extra real about it. That was about seven. So what's like a fit essential for you? Like, what's something you have to have? Don't say lip gloss, because you said it already. Something I have to have. Chanel snakes, Chanel bag. Excuse me. Therefore, I gotta have jewelry on. I love jewelry. Okay. And so you think image is important as an artist? Especially for a woman. I feel like men, you can get up and go. Do you feel like that adds a little pressure? No. Not to you. I mean, just in general. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I would think so. I think it's really interesting though that men don't really got to do too much. But women, we got to have the look. We got to have the ugly and everything. Because I feel like there's so much like untapped talent. I feel like there's a lot of women specifically who have a lot of talent and just because they don't have that look or they don't have that swag, they don't pop as quickly. But I feel like the ones that don't have that look is the ones they pop. You think so? Yes. Hmm. I don't even see what's going on. I don't want to put you on the spot, but I'm so curious. This new artist, what? The new ones that's just popping off like. I feel like the new artist that's popping off got something like. Lola is pretty. I think I'm saying like, I don't know. Like in New York, even like, I feel like the girls that's popping right now, even like the Kenzo's, Shawnee's, the Devin's, like I feel like everybody has like a look, something to them. Yeah, down here. But I don't know. If filly and no game. So who's the bad bitches in Philly? Who's the artist that's like doing a shade that we should be tapping into? I can't glizzy. We got Mecca. We got Bumblebee. We got Tiara Wake. Oh yeah, I love Tiara Wake. Yeah, and that's. Yeah, I'm tapping. That's my girl. We got a lot of people. Shea Moore, me and her going to do a feature tomorrow. You said that Tiara Wake is your girl. Y'all both very, very creative. So I would love to see y'all working together. How did that, that connection come about? I think it was Instagram. But then, no, it was Instagram. She invited me to her show. She got me tickets. She said, I was backstage with her, Rico Nasty. All the big audience was the XXL. And then we just busted up and vibe. And then ever since that we was talking, then one day I had to do the come up show. This is when I first started rapping for I had to do the come up show. And she wrote, she came to my house in Impala. So nobody wouldn't know it was her.  And like, I was scared. I didn't want to do it. I did not want to do it. She pushed me to do it. See, I like that because I feel like it's one thing to have a team of people that are pushing you to go towards like your craft. But it's another to have somebody who's in the industry that really sees something in you too. And she's crazy. She's crazy. Because just based on like the personality, the vibes that I get from you and then what I see from Tiara, I could imagine. I know y'all be having the time. I know that y'all be having bad fun. So how like when it comes to your sound now, you have a sound that I think is very unique because you do like the little soft voice type of thing.   How did you like find your sound? Like, how would you say you settled into the way you sound now? I kept on playing with my voices because I felt like I was sounding like the same. And I had stopped for a little while rapping. I lost my page. I had to start all over. I think that was like what? 2019? Was it? It was later than that? No, last year. I just lost my page. I thought it was way longer than that. Okay. Yeah. Well, you doing a great job because I thought it was way longer than just like this. I just got a new page. Oh, well, shout out to you. I thought it was crazy. It kind of discovered me a little bit. I was like, I'm about to be done with this. I don't feel like this. Instagram here and everybody's gone. So that means you got caught like when everybody was getting caught because it was a lot of people who lost their pages. I'm sure you were. So how did you, okay, because hold on, we're getting off track real quick. Okay. You built your sound house because we're gonna come back to this. Okay. You built your sound by playing around with your voices and stuff like that. You said you lost your page. So when you came back, is that when you continue finding your sound or did you have it downpacked once you got back on it? I continued finding it. I just kept on making different types of music. Okay. I started singing. I started getting into that. Why aren't you with the vocals? Okay. So you started singing.  Yeah, because I had what, I was at like 43k. So it was like, I gotta do this all over again. My page got hit like six different times. I was about to ask you that too. Like what happened? I don't know. I was asleep. I think somebody did it that I know. Maybe haters. I ain't gonna talk about it. We talk about it off camera. Because I think I know who did it. Oh, no, that's definitely too. One of my friends one day was like, send me that code. They just came to your phone. I can't get in my phone. And I started putting two and two together. I said, yo, you what you trying to get me? Like, I was like, Oh, yeah, we done. We've been friends for like, since kids and like, I gotta really be done with you now. That was what I was about to ask you. My question is like, so how do you be moving with them now? Oh, we ain't moving. And do they know why you moving that way? Oh, we ain't got nothing to talk about the no. Oh, well, period.  Period. Oh my gosh. So we was talking about your sound. Do you think that sound is important to us? Yes. Yeah, because a lot of people sound alike. Yeah, they try to go with other people's ways and they try to recreate it. And it's not good things sometimes to do that. And you know, I keep talking about New York artists, but in thinking about what you just said, that's kind of what happened with like pop and dusty. I feel like sometimes when you have a certain type of voice that people hear a lot, instead of people listening to your music for what it is and appreciating what it is, it's like, it comes with a comparison as opposed to I just was talking about that the other day. What's her name? The one from down here. I quote, what's her name? I'm talking about. She sound like Foxy Brown. Who sound like Foxy Brown? Well, you know who Lola is, so we can't be liable. Oh, Malibu. Okay. Not even her rapping, her just talking. She sounds like her. That's interesting because I don't think I ever really like thought to make the comparison. That's why Foxy goes so hard for her. Oh, she see her and so much in her. That's interesting. Okay. So you think that's a good thing or a bad thing? Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's bad because sometimes you can't reinvent it. Yeah, they was like the it girls. Do you of course, do you think that people compare you to anybody? A lot of people gave me Trina. The baddest. I don't think I'm like freaky like Trina, but you Okay.  But I like that you add that to me the other day too. About who Cali and they said, you know how Cali came out and the chance that they got them voices, but choice is like soft and hard. It is crazy. Somebody just said that to me like that's how true it is. That's how true it is. That's crazy. You also do a lot of freestyles and they really be dope.  No, no, I just go how I feel that they sometimes I turn the song into a freestyle if I know I ain't going to drop it or something. Okay. So was that the case with any of the ones that we had talked about before? Like Simon says, no, they was meant to be on me was going to be a song, but the beat.  It worked. Sometimes it works. And I think also to what we were talking about before, but I'm gonna drop them all as singles. So that is giving that you tease in the people. I'm gonna just drop them so they could just have a can of love. Okay. I mean, good. Right. But like Dan, cause we probably would have been like water dad, but if you're giving us something, you know, okay. Fair enough. I'm gonna start probably dropping them this week. Oh, okay. What's the plan for that? Okay, I'm getting too ahead of myself. So how do you feel about collabs though?  How do you feel about them in general? I love collabs, but I feel like when I first started rapping, I collared with a lot of people and I feel like now it's just like me for me to tap in with myself and make hits by myself because like you will help so many people like, but you need to get yourself out there and you're free.  But I ain't on that. You got to put you first, Lucius. You put yourself out there and then the collabs will come. I would say my favorite collab of yours is, um, you did a song with since 95, is that what it is? Big three?  You ate that verse. Um, so I really got to say you did your big one on that. Um, who are like other artists that you will want to work with? Um, Coyla Ray, Milado, Lovrella, Morty, Meek, Black, um, Lovrella. Period. Period. You said Black, so you really tapped into it. So you you like one of my favorite artists because he's got a meaning to his music. So will we be getting singing? We get singing China. Like a little melody. Okay. Cause we didn't gloss over the fact you said you got the vocals. Okay, that'll be China from the block. Of course I did.  I got songs like that. Yeah, I feel you. So now let's talk about you and being signed with a question mark because we're going to get into it. So you are affiliated with Big Money Records. How did that come about and what's that situation? They started all together. Okay. So we started going to the studio. They said they wanted to make a record label and we said it and it was that. Okay. And that was that. All right. So now I see since you've been in New York, you've been in the label meetings and all of that kind of stuff. So what's the intention behind that? What is, what is it that you're looking for? Partnership. Okay. So you would still be with BMR? Always. Love that. Love that. It's a family life for me. Yeah. So what kind of things do you look for in a partner when it comes to going into these label meetings? Like how do you know what it is that you're expecting for them to bring to the table? I mean, the only thing that could give me is probably marketing. I got everything. Okay. Really could do. Okay. Okay. Marketing. So now prior to those meetings, like since you don't have a deal yet, what have you?  I just keep on dropping every week, even if it's not a real song so they could see me and I make it as creative as possible. So then that'd be like, damn, ain't nobody doing it like her. You know what I mean? Okay. Okay. So I feel like that's pretty much it right now. And then me going like all around promote in my single. See, I'm the tiktok girl. I definitely think that you you would do all on tiktok and I saw, you know, I did a little snooping. I see you will be posting here and there. I gotta get good at it. I'll be trying for you.  You did the like the sound in the booth like it went from this to this. That's like that's cool. And I think like now we live in a time where like people like to see the personality. So if you got one given to the people, let them see it. That's what my cameraman was saying. Yeah, because you like your music is great, but I also think that your personality is great too. Okay. So that may also help people gravitate towards you. In the meantime, while you're waiting for, you know, the market and stuff to hit labels. I think you got it in you for you to put yourself out there. Okay. Yeah. Um, so something that I saw you say was the worst part about being famous and this was a while back.  People still be doing that. Yeah, I'll be all the way down the street. People be screaming my name. Why? See, how does that, how does that feel? Because I could see pros and cons. The pros and cons. I really like, I really love, I enjoy it, but it just like when people just walk up and stuff like that, you got to be cautious because our city is just so like trenchers.  Right. Right. Right. So what's the craziest experience that you've had with like a fan or just like a public interaction? Oh, a fan asked me. Okay. So two questions. It was like, girl, a girl, I had to put my hands on her. Wait, wait, because I told her, I told her, no, but the way she did, I told her, no, I don't know. What would make you think I would? That was real bold. What would you, what would make you think I would ever do something like that? Like, I don't even, she just kept on talking about it. I kept on talking. I'm like, yo, I don't get into that. And then she just like burning me out still. And I'm like, yo, just get away from me. Oh, she brought the C-Raw out that day. She walked with me outside and everything. I'm like, yo. Oh yeah, she was really on the C. I feel like that's too much. No means no. Okay. So in the, not in the realm of threesomes, but since we talking about like that life, what's your date in life looking like, sis? What's it giving? It's giving. It's giving life. Okay. It's giving life, whatever that means. How do you handle like dating, being in the industry? Because I feel like a lot of times it's hard to really tell like what we were talking about before when it comes to like fake fans or like people fake being happy for you. I think it's also hard to tell as you're coming up like, who's really in it because they actually interested versus like, maybe you just want me because I'm lit right now. Right. So how do you navigate the dating? I don't even, I just worry about my career. I ain't even gonna lie to you. Okay. Okay. Night time when I'm home or something like, you know, but I just worry about my career. You keep an acute and I love that. I'm gonna let you rock with that. So what is like the plan for this year? I see that you have a movie coming up that you starring in. Yes. That seems to be very dull. Yes. So talk to us a little bit about that. Is that something that you're looking to get into more? Yeah, I do want to get into that more. I'm trying to get it on BMS. But yeah, I did that movie. It's March 9th. So it's called A Body to Kill For and the girl named in the movie, name is China and my name is really China. And it's about this girl from nerf really, and she just run into the wrong men is like, basically watch who you deal with. Mm-hmm. So where can we find it? Let the people know just in case they don't know. It's going to be on 2B and Amazon. We run it out the King of Pressure Mall, well, the movie theater in Philadelphia. And we're going to have a real corporate event. Oh, that's fire.  Yes, I'm probably on the show. Okay, we're going to speak it into existence. Okay, let's see your manifestation. So being map like what I was like, what kind of things would you do a reality TV show? Yeah, I would. You would? What kind would it be like a dating? Would it be a baddies? Baddies. It would be a baddies. Because I was the bitch's leg. Yo, I'm sitting with the shorty with the three so they bringing out C Raw. They going to bring out they not ready. That shouldn't be the baddie. Oh, I feel like it would give though. It would give. I feel like it would give. It would be lit. Okay, so we got that on the TV front and then on the music front, I know you said that you're going to keep dropping stuff. What else can we expect from you this year?  I'm trying to get a number one song by the end of this year. Big China, big pressure. All right. Well, is there anything else that you want to touch on, talk about before we wrap up? It's a period. Stream say something. Shout out to socials. My Instagram is Big China, Bigchina, Instagram, YouTube audit, Big China. Thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed the rest of your time in New York. Thank you for tuning in to talk to the town. Bye.


Hi everyone, Joe for JasperJasperysCaseBreaks.com coming at you with a one box random division break of 2022 Bowman Draft Baseball Asia Edition. This is 2022, so this will be Jackson Holiday Hunting. He'll be in the Orioles in the AL East. There's one autograph card per box and 12 Japan refractors, which I think is that design right there in each box, and that's the unique parallel in this break. Great thanks to this group for making it happen, appreciate it. Stephen Olson winning that little extra spot in the promo there. EA, Joe, Matt, thank you as well for getting in. There are the divisions right here. Let's roll it, randomize names and divisions, five and a six, 11 times each. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, I think once more, right? 11th and final time, EA down to EA, five and a six, five and a six, 11 times for the divisions. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, and 11th and final time. AL East up top, AL West on the bottom. All right, so there you go EA, AL East for you. Stephen Olson, you got the NL Central and AL Central. You got the Central's. Joe with the NL West, Matt with the NL East, and EA with the AL West. Let's order these by division, and I will pause the video just for a little bit. When we come back, we'll see if there's any trades, well actually, while you're thinking about trades, let's pop open this fresh case right here and let's see which box we're going to do. And that'll be our trade winner, if there's no trades, trades don't really happen too often in division breaks, but these are not supposed to be doing a hobby box, or these with the age of boxes look like, I guess so. I think that makes sense, I haven't done this in ages. It's four packs and 32, yeah, this is four and 32, yeah, this is it. All right, so how are we going to, I guess I'll just keep rolling the dice until I figure out which one box break we're going to do. But first of all, we're going to pick a stack, we'll do one, two, three, four, five, six on the dice roll. It's rolled off right there, six, we're going to do that six. And then we'll go, let's scoot these out of the way, we'll go one, two, three, top box, four, five, six, bottom box, and it's one, top box, and we'll save these for some of the time. I think there's a few more in the bag, we can take those. No, I just need one, I was just wondering. They are not, this is Asia edition. That's the way Asia edition looks. Four packs, 32 cards per pack. Four packs, 32 cards a pack. That's my head coach quarterback list right there. All right, looks like no trades. Let's print and rip. So that list remains the same, officially printed out. There you go gang. Thanks for spending a bit of your hump day with me. Jackson Holiday, one of the guys that we're looking for, that Elijah Green maybe. And of course, all card ship. I think we get, I think we saw that auto. Is there one guaranteed auto a box? Yeah, guarantees one chrome prospect auto a box. But that was a under armor autograph. I don't know, we'll see. We shall see. All right, good luck everybody. Kumar Rocker's bowman first. I'm trying to remember all the different main prospects here. Here's a blackjack. Mason Bennett, Gavin Cross, two Royals. Then this way. And these are the exclusive parallels to the Asia edition. Nice. We might start seeing some of these guys from 2022 in the next year or two. Especially the college guys. Oh, there's our chrome auto. Troy Melton. That is for the AL Central, Stephen Olson. Last fall Mojo, fourth round pick. Yeah, they kind of do just look like the Mojo refractors, but for the Asia edition, they call them Japan refractors. So I think we do have a bonus auto in here. It's just a regular Volpe, not his first or anything like that. That's the extra auto, right? We got a bonus auto. It's always nice. Yeah, well, they're Asia edition. So it's very limited release. That's why they're priced the way they are. I think the, I forget what the rule is, but I'm pretty sure like these Asia exclusives, here's Felix Valerio to $199. I think are sold in the Asia market for an X amount of time. And then whatever's left over can get released back into the United States. All right, here's our bonus auto. It's Caden Wallace. Nice. Caden Wallace, who does he play for? And if you break it down, remember, it'd be only about 15 bucks a team if this was a 30 spot break. Caden Wallace is with the Royals, I believe, their second round pick. Nice, so that's another AL Central. It's another one for Stephen Olson. Nice, right, 2024 World Series champ. Here's Jayce Young, that's Josh's brother. Another one for the AL Central. More of these exclusive parallels. I think that is that. Bonus autograph, not too bad.  We gotta do a couple more of these as well. They're also part of the promo. These are not bad breaks. I mean, if we get like a Jackson Holiday in that exclusive Japan Refractor format, maybe even some ink. Any of the other big name prospects? Some great value in there in these divisional breaks. So check it out, jaspescasebrace.com. I'm Joe, I'll see you next time for the next one. Goodbye.


Good day, fellow investors. Today we'll talk about a very, very important topic but often not so discussed because it's much more exciting to talk about individual stocks. A subscriber of my stock market research platform was concerned about my portfolio management because I said I will go to only eight stocks and he has a million in his portfolio and he asked the following question. So what I said in my last portfolio transaction was I think I'll go to max eight positions after that I will replace the worst position depending on business quality and risk reward when I find something 50% better. So the first question from our subscriber was to put it simply if your investable amount right now was one million euro instead of 100 000 would you still be looking at max eight positions there's a few of us on your platform that have considerable cash positions to invest myself one million australian dollars all self made from zero in eight years on real estate little skill mostly dumb or see luck. So on my platform I have two portfolios the 100 000 lump sum portfolio that is a fixed amount where the goal is to maximize return based risk reward of course and the other is a 10k portfolio that I started almost a year ago where I add 1000 per month so two portfolios this is the lump sum so really focused on risk reward and the part when I add the money is a little bit less focused on risk because I add constantly money so I know I will play the game tomorrow. Back to the question yes whatever would be the amount in the portfolio I would stick to maximum eight positions because I really believe that diversification as what Buffett say is for those who don't understand what they are doing as I'm a full-time market researcher I constantly look at markets I try to really get under the skin of the businesses of the stocks that I invest I think and it has been working really well over the past 17 18 years for me I really believe that I can find good and better risk reward investments and I can focus my money in the top eight which includes deep analysis which includes waiting for those to hit the right price entry price usually that implies a 15% business returns no matter what happens in the market in the sector over the long run and if I would go to 20 40 stocks that would simply dilute the best returns that I hope to achieve with the best stocks for now I have been successful in doing that so I think that by continuing with what I do working hard we can continue that the 100k portfolio is money that I don't plan to use for the next 20 years so really focused on stock market investing and secondly it is so important for me because I'm building a track record and if over the next five ten years I really show okay this strategy of value investing of waiting patiently for opportunities going there where others don't want to go delivers 15 plus returns per year over five ten years then whatever I will be doing will be easy so the value for me personally is much more than 100k it's a billion of over a lifetime because if I deliver on what I'm doing I will be a billionaire over the long term I'll still I'm still young so I have the time to work on that going to the next question this in turn may be a result of choosing not to manage outside money your risk reward relationship with your own capital has now evolved now it's not my own capital it is simply that I really want to focus on research which will be the base of an investment fund that I might start down the road one two five ten years from now when I have completed my research why I'm not I'm not starting a fund now even if I had a lot of questions and a lot of interest about it is that if I manage would manage let's say a 13 million dollar portfolio I would have to be with the client on a phone call every week every three percent move in the portfolio complete portfolio checking after every month because after all it's their money so I'm working for them now I can really focus on the portfolio research working on building that risk and reward maximizing the reward for as little risk as possible or balancing that risk in the portfolio as my focus is on that I am unbiased I'm not influenced by other people so I'm really independent and I think that's the focus for good long-term investment like Warren Buffett had owning Berkshire so I might not even start to fund I might launch a small Berkshire get to 100 million in starting capital talk to clients just once a year on a nice conference and in the meantime just build build compounding that value so I'm still not decided on that so it's still difficult to grasp for our subscriber and this raises an interesting question will you continue to track previous lump sum positions you have moved out of as I will have only eight positions max if the answer is yes just stop reading so it's clear that the person here doesn't want to risk only of eight stocks he wants 20 30 percent 20 30 position portfolio so if I will track that okay the question here is okay am I going to continue to track everything yes my goal is to track 100 stocks and of those 100 then be invested in the best eight at that moment in time replacing switching whatever needs depending on the risk reward I'm going to follow also 100 stocks so I'm going to continue to cover those that I get out and then get back in or so because I always want to get back in if the price allows that so even if somebody wants to have 20 30 positions in such a big one million let's say lump sum portfolio you can do that you can do that based on my research but I really believe that the focus with less positions will be to maximize return in relation to the risk and that if you go owning 20 stocks you're actually increasing the risk because stock number 17 cannot be as good as stock number three so if you have 3 percent or 5 percent in stock number three and 2 percent in stocks number 17 I simply prefer 5 or 10 percent or 15 percent in stock number three because it's simply a risk reward and there aren't that many good investments out there by the way if you want to see all my portfolios there is my stock market research platform link in the description below 28 day no questions asked money back guarantee so you can check all my positions all my research see whether that fits your investment style or not and then if not ask your money back if yes we're going to build a compounding machine over your and our lifetimes a question on risk reward in the current market so for whatever reason your risk reward has been skewed further in favor of reward and thus might begin to diverge from my own as I'm already 60 invested in this market as I have found six investments since we started a lump sum portfolio I think the investor here thinks that I have been chasing risk and here it comes to very delicate situation I see risks everywhere cash is not a risk is a certainty of permanent capital loss because cash due to inflation loses value constantly so I have to be invested there opportunity costs even if I wait for a crisis I don't know when it will come so I'm really focused okay when you find value that fits a good risk reward 15 yield you buy it and then you manage the position lately if it goes down you're happy because you can buy more if it goes up you see okay should I buy something else or not so that's the point stocks individual stocks are very volatile over a year the market not so much but stocks are so there are plenty of opportunities waiting for those opportunities to arise and then buying let's say when there is blood on the streets but when you see value on the streets too so depending I'm don't know where will my portfolio be in six months I'm it depends on what will the market offer to me if the market offers me another two three bargains and then my stocks drop I will simply buy more because I'm pretty sure about what I am buying plus the portfolio is well diversified on a global scale a little bit focused on emerging markets but there are some defensive stocks so anything that happens can be balanced out between there some stocks go up and down some stocks is already what 30% up so I might trim that to buy something else and things like that so the basis of everything is value if we can find the value that usually puts a bottom to permanent capital loss volatility is something you have to accept not as a risk but as opportunity volatility is not risk even if academics say so risk is okay this business is going down or the business will not deliver the returns we expected risk is permanent capital loss permanent volatility is not risk and when you look at that I really believe eight positions sharp focus and then you can achieve more than the market if you dilute yourself spread yourself on more positions then you are more likely to be like the market if you are not a money-making machine like Peter Lynch but what Lynch did on 100 stocks 50 stocks one can also make on 8 9 10 stocks but those were other times let's say so thank you for watching I'm really looking forward to your comments on this how do you feel there is always the part of personal portfolio risk reward what is your personal connection because at the end money managing is always personal it's not something abstract it's personal because it's your money it's your life it's your portfolio and each of us has a different perception of risk thank you for watching looking forward to your comments check the platform if you haven't already and I'll see you in the next video