Welcome back to your official weekend starter. Got to see you DJ Rajas, you've been listening to a special playlist. By our next guest, and he goes by the name Kala Motto, before introducing White5Four channel on Twitter, White5Four underscore channel on Instagram, and White5Four on Facebook is the way to reach us. Hashtag is Y in the morning, hashtag is hip hop Thursday. And I'm your main man. It's by more on every social media platform. So Kala Motto is bringing the rap game back, is bringing the boom bap rap back. Kareem Osana, Sani. Your camera is number four. You're lucky to be here. You're lucky to be here. Your chances are this. Look them straight into the eyes and tell them who Kala Motto is. Kala Motto is Kenyan. Kala Motto is Sani. Kala Motto is Binadamu. Kala Motto is Monamume. Even though I say Kala Motto is hip hop. Kala Motto is hip hop. Kareem Osana is here in the morning. It's been a long time coming. Do you have any K-Four songs that you've sung in your album? The State Mid-Year. The song you did with Lon John and Kebukay Foss who have been playing it. So my fans are going to say thank you and thank you Monasana. And thank you very much for coming finally. So where is your album coming from? This album is from the entire platform actually. It's a Spotify, Amazon, Koto, iTunes, Bailport. But I had copies of it that came from a particular community. I'll be launching the album Munes Club. It's from Robbie Rapsody. It's a mass sorry. So what's your turn-up, Kabisa Kabisa? What's my turn-up is from Bupia. I'm from Sendikizu, Marapa, Kibao. Deluxe is from Keiwo. I'm from Nyukwa, Keiwo, Kei Falls. RIC is from Koflani, Nafsi Horu. I'm from Omzlo, I'm from Oksaid, I'm from Marapa, Kibao. I'm from Nifunguli, Kosoab, Nyotomba. I appreciate hip hop, Swahili and Pia Bombab. Alright. Do you have any songs that you've sung in your album? It's free, it's a free song. There's a lot of information about what you've sung in your album. How many songs have you sung in your album? I've sung it on Twitter, Kivuti, Moto. I've sung it on Moto. On Twitter, I've sung it on Facebook, Kiumbe. On Instagram, I've sung it on Kiumbe. Alright. I want to mention something in your album. I can tell there's a criteria. I'm a singer, I can tell there's a criteria. I'm a type of artist, I'm a type of rapper. I want to sing a sound flan. Am I right to say so? Yes, I'm an evil sound flan. I sing a sound that I've never heard before. I'm talking about 92,000 back in the late 2010s when I was young. I sing a sound that I've never heard before. Back in the days, people used to rock in Swahili. In this country, Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. So, I don't know if it's true or not. I don't know if it's true or not. But what I mean is, if you've seen the trend, maybe it's because you've seen it before. If you've seen it before, it's because you've seen it before, it's because you've seen it before. That's what I want to say. Alright. I want to mention what a trend is. Keep up. Views on YouTube. Keep up. Likes on Instagram. And sometimes, it's a bit too much. Alright. So, what are your motivations? I'm a musician. My professional background is I like to dance. I like to dance when I'm with my fans. I'm a I like to dance when I'm with my fans. I like to sing and dance. I make sense. And come to me I can see in the mood, in the music, you know. But I like to see the music to change, change, and to become as well as I want my music to be as good as that. To increase the mentality and IQ that I'm in. And music that I like to hear, like being a band, or being at home. But I tell you being that trainee or undercover, or Navy, if it's not up to you, when you're in a difficult time. people who work there and have a good life. We all have a good life. If we don't care about society, we'll have to go to the mosque. That's how we inspire. Alright, so maybe you can shed some light into that other life that you live. Unezat Wambia, what is your career apart from rap? I'm in the Kenyan team of karate. Kenyan team of karate? Yeah. So you are... do you train other people as well? I train other people. Alright, do you train... Special agencies, special forces, I'm from Kenya. Alright. So you train though? Yeah. And do you train normal citizens as well? Yeah. I have classes in Zangu, Kmbeni, Mombasa town, and Kisauni. Alright.  Alright. Do you want to work with your friends when it comes to security and assault and to come with you? Yeah. Are you supporting them to get some self-defense skills? Yeah. So I'm working with a project planning in Liffie. I'm thinking of taking care of your mother, your husband, and your family. And I'm working with Shirogi. Shirogi is one of the pioneers for graffiti in Kenya. So I have an idea, I'm a founder of MAMA, and I'm a founder of Nawa, and I'm working with my friends in Kua. So I'm working with Linda, and I'm working with Pua, and I'm working with Daboud, and I'm working with Inginia. Deep, right. Calla Moto on Y in the morning on Hip Hop Thursday, exclusively. You get an insight to his other side, which is not rap. Keep your requests coming. Keep your questions coming on Y254, on Twitter, Y254, on Instagram, and Y254 on Facebook. So another thing, Calla Moto, the people you mentioned, some of them, like the list of guys that you mentioned, you mentioned. Yes. I feel the pressure of photo kicking to chase the money. So how do you view them when you see them sometimes, getting off that boom-bop rap, getting off that traditional hip-hop sound? I think it's good to non-gear. You know, when I was in Nairobi University, I managed to sort it so many times. When I went to school, the colleges in Nairobi were so many. That's how music is. I think it's good to have a kid because of you. I think it's good to have a kid because of you. It's good to have a kid, so people in Nairobi who do more hip-hop The first time I saw him was when he came to the club. He was at the bank of the club, and he was listening to music. When he was listening to music, he said, Sisi was going to finish his train. So you were going to finish it? I was going to go to Cuba. It was an industry. Imagine if you were going to go to Tamanu or Tamanu, you would go to Tamanu and you would go to Fungam Lango. So you were going to go to the bank and you would go back to Kenya. So it was a big industry. It was a big industry. I was going to go to Tamanu, where I was going to go for 4 generations of rap in Kenya. But Sisi who was 3rd generation was going to go back to the old age to inspire 4 generations. Maybe. In the past 3 generations, we were going to do vocal, bass, folk, That's not about the air to pier to me, it's about the 4th generation born in Fania, is it trending, kicking out, hyping in the new society? You wouldn't have said it, but KC, hashtag KC is the name of the album. Why the title KC? It's quite an aggressive name. It's very aggressive actually. My name is Swahili and my name is Kenya, I'm a Kenyan citizen and I'm Swahili. And I'm a Swahili fan. So KC is my real name, KC. So KC, that's my name, Alaphia. So KC is the name of the album, I'm a Swahili fan and I'm a Kenyan citizen and I'm a Swahili fan and I'm a Kenyan citizen and I'm a Swahili fan. So I'm a Kenyan citizen and I'm a Swahili fan and I'm a Kenyan citizen and I'm a Swahili fan. One two, because of the tracks, like Skcipal and Dany, Coulababou, Tanzania, in Kenya, So the one controversial was so the one controversial was so the one controversial was so the one controversial was so the one controversial was so the one controversial was so after so after so after so after so after so after so after so after so after and I like the music of music. I listened to the music of the band. I listened to the music of the band. I also listened to the music of the album. To that end, I want to thank you for your inspiration, your music, your lyrics, the music videos. I want to thank you for your music videos. How many songs have you sung? I don't know. I only sang 2.0.6 songs. 206 or 207. They were the 3rd title in this country. 207. From 206 to 2019, they were on a streaming site. It's a good time to be an artist right now. The third generation of hip-hop in this country was the ones with freestylers and the ones with battles. I remember those times when we were in rock, we had a war, we had a calligraphy, we had a virus. The third generation of hip-hop was the ones with freestylers and the ones with battles and the ones with hip-hop.  It was a mix of steps that I did. When I was in Soma, I used to go to Mombasa and Tanzania. I used to do the same thing, freestyle and rap. When I was in Tokyo, in Chippukia, I used to go to Shireen and Kumi, Shireen and Tisa. I used to go to 9th or 10th grade. I used to go to Sote, Kakasonguras, Yukam, Kalamotos, Kei Vols, Calligraphy. I used to go to the show, I used to go to Ella, I used to go to Lipua, I used to go to Mezingua, I used to go to Video, I used to go to Alakini. So, it's a learning process. I process what I do now. But in 2010 or 11 or 12 years ago, when I was in Matunda, Missouri, 13 or 14, I used to go to Elikea and Matunda was in Magyani. I used to make videos of my parents when I was in work, because it was the music I play now that I'm living in. I used to be very much supported. I used to do trends and kicks. I used to do headstand with my family. I used to write some posts with my grandparents. Sometimes with my grandparents, we'd go to work and I would be invited. support, wasa niwau nyumbani binaursi, kwanziya kwa viumbu via habari, udiya mi na vita viumbu kusabuatu na viosha. So kwanziya kwa viumbu via bari, wasa ni, presenters pa kama sia biki. Kwa ka utiwa konegura modya, wana pen dha mziki yambawana wona na wana uskia, awa izz kutafu taterna mziki mzuri. Iyo ika, ika tupele kia siya kuwa zaze uetu squizi, wana mi ni kwa ma mziki wana rudi, kule li poto kia wahu hunni. I'm a fan of yours. I'm a TV watcher. I'm a father and a mother. I'm a child, a family. So I'm a TV host. I'm a pornographic host. I'm a TV host. I'm a TV host. I'm a TV host. I'm a TV host. I'm a TV host. I'm a TV host. I'm a TV host. What am I supposed to do and what I wanna do I encourage people to make music and use it just because You can make good lesson there It gives you pace and you can Well art gives quality jazz and quality music and it helps you And you are representing for them to the fullest, to the max K4I gis' name of the album seventeen of Palaamuz as you launch this HAD copy officially. All right, so do you think... Do you think this is the time to release HAD copies of an album when you have all this human sight? Actually, I'm not a musician. I'm not a singer. That's kind of the way I think of the music. There is nothing like that on a music video. I also thought about how to promote music in a different way, in every way of school. You have to promote music. In the cities around Kenya, in 43 tribes, I don't know how to produce a song. 42 million lives. Yeah, and I know how to create music. I was able to do a lot of things, like copy and paste ideas, and I was able to learn how to do it in the same way that I did in the past. I was able to learn how to play my own music. So, I started to learn how to play social media. I also learned how to play music, like Apple's, iTunes, Amazon's, Spotify, boom play, and other things like that. So, I started learning how to play music, I'm not sure. But I think it's a good idea to be able to do it. I think it's a good idea to be able to do it. I think it's a good idea to be able to do it. Because after my album, Daniel Wikimbili, he was in rural areas, he was in Mombasa. He was in Mombasa when he was in Roudita. He was in the same Mombasa. He was in Tokyo, in Mure, and he was in the same place when he was in Roudita. He was in the same place when he was in Mombasa. Thank you very much. Maximizing, make sure you get the right key. Thank you. Another question. Since we accept the title controversial, you said you were in the studio recording. You were in the studio recording. What was the reason for that? Easy lyrics to make up as you were in the studio recording. That's because I was in Mimi. In the film, I was in Mimi at the time. If you aren't in Mimi, it's not like we're in the same team. In the film, I wasn't alone in the studio recording. I was in the studio. I was in Mimi, because I lived in Mdenikin, that's the reason I was in Mimi. In Mdenikin, you used to make up as controversial. number, why? There's no freedom of speech in this country. It's not free. It's not free. See, you're the president of the country, so it's free. So it's free. So now you're free to come to the country. You just need to be free. Free to come to the country. Just be free, sir. Now you're free to come to the country. All right, so we are about to play a game. I hope you'll be able to play a game. I hope you'll be able to play a game. Are you ready for a game? No, I don't know. I don't know. It's got one at first one. I'll be throwing a word at you. I love food.  So the first word is always Nairobi. River Road. River Road? Yeah. All right, Mumbai. Kisaruni. Hip-hop. Freestyle. Fashion. Jeans. So you always rock them jeans. Yeah, they're called jeans. They're called jeans. DJs. Scratching. Scratching. Yeah. Kim Kardashian. Work. Cardi B. Noiza. Noiza. All right, so great. All right, calligraphed jeans. Rapa notan MC. Rapa notan MC. All right, Abbas Kubaf. Rapa MC Entertainer Educator. Rapa MC Entertainer Educator. The last one, but not least, Kalamoto. A human being. Yeah. That is the motto you live by. Yeah, meaning mid-and-amoo. All right, Kalamoto as an MC, as a Super MC, I was going to say it in English. Out of eight bars per KK, DJ Rages, so you come out and support him, tough, take a boom, bump, beat. As he finds a beat, social media will open up again in the next 20 days. Social media, I'm Kalamoto Cumbay. That's Facebook. Instagram, I'm Kalamoto Cumbay. Twitter, I'm Kalamoto. Yeah, YouTube, I'm Kalamoto. All right. So, uh, you're going to do a buzz kiasi.  Uh, a laugh will be your favorite. You'll have music on the 19th and what's happening on the 19th. All right. So, uh, producer is going to be saying, you're going to do a buzz kiasi. You're going to rate the bar. You're going to segment it and rate the bar. We are bringing it back since we have an amazing gentleman like Kalamoto. But first, before we play rate the bar. Uh, uh, DJ Rages. You're going to say it. All right, let's do this. Supported by DJ Rages, Kalamoto exclusively on Why In The Morning on Hip Hop. Thursday, uh, let's get a taste of Boombaprap. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to play a buzz kiasi.  You're going to do a buzz kiasi. I want to work up to the beat. I'm going to be down on the beat. Yeah. All right, I'll bite you. I'm going to do a buzz kiasi. All right. Yes. I'm going to do a buzz kiasi. I'm going to do a buzz kiasi. Yeah, yeah.  Yeah, yeah. Oh. 18, So, Hope you're watching B Goo, My name is Pohai, Thank you for... Welcome to Boombap! Yuvais. Oh, Are you staying? Oh. He's thinking. He's thinking! OK, I'm here to get him. He's thinking.  Well, my little sister, Hi, did I miss you? I did miss you basically. But yes, you did miss me. Oh! something really stood out for me. Yeah. There's a scene where I took a secular kind of gospel. Yeah. No money, no money, no money. I feel that.  Yeah. I feel that. There's no money, I feel that. I feel that I'm a poor guy, I feel that I'm a poor guy, I'm a poor guy, I'm a poor guy. I'm a poor guy. But I must have been brought up in a hanning. Yeah. I knew that I was a little coward. Like the way she was because that's my religion, all the religions were in people's thểism. Yeah. And then I said, not only one reason for my time of expense, I'm about to leave the region. I mean, I'm Flania Mbziki. I love to go for a group that I'm going to be in by ghost. Ghost, man. But when I came here, I thought, I want to learn about the gospel industry, I want to make it visuri.   See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. See you, sir. I love food to perform your latest track of the album. So let's rate some buzz If we have the


Members of the President's Special Review Board, ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. On behalf of myself and the American people, I want to extend my thanks to Senator Tower, Secretary Muskie, and General Skokar. Whatever this report may say, I am proud to have appointed this distinguished President Board because it fulfills my commitment to get the facts and share them with the American people. This is why I asked Attorney General Meese to conduct his review and why, when that review uncovered unauthorized actions, I ordered full disclosure of what we then knew. It was why I urged the appointment of an independent counsel and why I appointed David Abshire as my special counselor on this matter. And it is also why I ordered full cooperation with congressional inquiries. And it's why I appointed this Board, the Tower Board. The significance of this Board's work is reflected in the size of this volume, which I'm going to carefully study over the next several days. Senator Tower, Secretary Muskie, and General Skokar, in completing the tasks so well you've again demonstrated a willingness, one you've shown all your lives, to help your country to devote yourself to public service. In a highly charged atmosphere, I know it wasn't easy to interrupt your lives, but this was an important contribution to your nation and the American people are grateful to you for it. Now in addition to thanking these distinguished gentlemen, I want to make it clear that I consider their work far too important for instant analysis. I intend to read and digest it first, think carefully about its findings, and promptly act on its recommendations. Next week I will address the nation and give the American people my response to this report. But I pledge to the American people today that I will do whatever is necessary to enact the proper reforms and to meet the challenges ahead. I want to thank the members of the Board again and now John, I'm sure there will be a few questions for you. will Donald Reagan be leaving as your Chief of Staff? The Special Review Board has completed its work. Senator Muskie and General Scowcroft will have their own statements in a moment. But it might be helpful to give you the highlights of this rather lengthy report to the president. Before we begin, I want to note that I have never been privileged to work with two more public-spirited, perceptive, and intellectually honest men than Ed Muskie and Ben Scowcroft. Our working relationship was congenial and collegial. The report represents the collective understandings, evaluations, and judgments of all three of us. There were never any significant disagreements among us. It was incumbent upon us to put aside all partisan or personal loyalties and prejudices in fulfilling this demanding and challenging assignment. I emphasize that it was not our function to make judgments on criminal culpability. I want to express my gratitude to my colleagues for the considerable time they devoted, their dedication, and their sense of purpose. We would be remiss if we did not pay tribute to the small but dedicated, diligent, and highly professional staff that supported us. Under the circumstances of deadlines and our expectations, they put together a product I consider to be remarkable. Now let me discuss this report for a few minutes. Ed and Brent will each expand on this and their own statements at the completion of my remarks. We began our work December 1st of last year, the same day President Reagan appointed us and signed the executive order. The president in the executive order asked all departments and agencies to cooperate with us. When President Reagan appointed us, he urged that all the facts come out on the Iran Contra matter. The president wanted us to examine this matter to find lessons for the future so that it can be put right. We considered the development of the NSC system over time. As part of that review, we interviewed former presidents Nixon, Ford, and Carter, as well as most of the living secretaries of state, secretaries of defense, directors of central intelligence, national security advisors, as well as two former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In addition, we looked at specific case studies of the NSC system from the administration of President Eisenhower to date in an effort to understand how the system works under stress. The Iran Initiative and Contra Diversion served as the primary case study in our review. The summary of the facts on Iran Contra is located in part three of our report. Here and elsewhere, we have presented these facts as we understand them. Some information we have concluded must remain in the classified domain. No material, I emphasize no material, was deleted on the grounds that it might prove politically embarrassing to this administration. What was left out did not alter the substance of the report. Our conclusion is that there are indeed many powerful lessons to be learned. Part four of our report called What Was Wrong is intended to instruct on those lessons. It is important to emphasize, however, that putting into practice those lessons is not susceptible of quick fixes or easy answers. Our principal recommendation illustrates that point. Let me quote from the report here. Using the process will not always produce brilliant ideas, but history suggests it can at least help prevent bad ideas from becoming presidential policy. Now, the reports you have is a lengthy one. Here are a few points you might keep in mind while reading through it. Mistakes were made, but those mistakes that attract headlines may give a distorted picture of how the NSC really works. We looked at case studies from crises of this and previous administrations. The Iran Contra affair was clearly an aberration. The NSC system is alive and has served us well for the 40 years of its existence. We should profit from those mistakes. The president obviously desires to do so. It is a tribute to President Reagan that he had the courage to invite three outsiders in, give them complete access to sensitive national security files and administration personnel, and deal with the consequences. This act clearly demonstrates the strength and resilience of American democracy with its inherent capacity for constructive self-analysis and self-criticism. To make the NSC system work, it must be used. One of the mistakes made in the Iran Initiative was to ignore the process. Process is no substitute for substance. However, steady and consistent governance has a better opportunity of success if there is an orderly process for decision-making. The president is the ultimate decision-maker in national security. No one can or should pretend otherwise. We could not long endure exercise of executive power by committee. A strong executive with the flexibility to conduct foreign and diplomatic affairs is an essential feature of our form of government. Those who serve as presidential advisers on national security issues. Very much, John. I share John's evaluation of the work that we've done together. I have total respect for both of my colleagues. And I emphasize that this is a unanimous report. And I think it was clear from the beginning that it would be. I would also like to emphasize that the president, after all, appointed us to conduct the study. We wouldn't be here discussing the report, except for that fact. We were given two extensions of time to conclude our work. We were given the kind of access to departments and agencies of the government which he promised us. I will address my remarks, as John has said, to part four of the report, which is entitled What Was Wrong. I commend it to those who would like a summary of our findings. It goes to our mandate to draw conclusions about the NSC system, and it forms the basis of our recommendations. So part four and part three taken together are the meat of what it is that we present. Now, the following are among the conclusions you will find in this section. Item, the Iran initiative was handled almost casually and through informal channels, always apparently with an expectation that the process would end with the next arms for hostages exchange. And of course, it did not. It was subjected neither to the general procedures for interagency consideration and review of policy, nor the procedures for COVID operations. Item, the opportunity for a full hearing before the president was inadequate. Item, interagency consideration of the initiative was limited to the cabinet level and inadequate at that. It was never examined at the staff level where expertise on the situation in Iran, the difficulties of dealing with terrorists, and the mechanisms of conducting diplomatic openings may have made a difference. Item, intelligence analysis could also have provided an independent evaluation of the Israeli proposals. A simple fact about substance. As for our staff who work days, nights, weekends, and holidays, they bring honor to the term staff or bureaucrat, as the case may be. The country owes them a major debt of gratitude. As Senator Tower said, we studied with care the operation of the NSC system over the 40 years of its existence. As far as we know, we're the first such official study to have focused exclusively on this institution. People tend to forget what the National Security Council system is all about. The NSC system, the council itself, the NSC staff, and the National Security Advisor is the president's creature. The president is accountable to the American people for its successes and its failures. It is not just another agency of the executive branch. It is not intended to be subject to the reach of Congress. It is the president's own instrument. It is through this system that he brings his creative impulses in national security to bear on the permanent government, the departments, and agencies. It is one of the few structures in government that is unequivocably his. The National Security Act recognized this by giving the president wide latitude to fashion it to his liking. Each president has done so with the result that over the years there have been many different operational styles, many different organizational modes for the NSC staff and the National Security Advisor. Given its role, there is no ideal structure for the system. It should be sufficiently flexible to be adaptable to the management style and operating philosophy of any president. But there are certain functions which, in some manner, must be performed to provide every president with the tools he requires to do his job. The National Security Council exists for only one purpose, to advise the president in his awesome task of directing the national security policy of the country. It does not make decisions. The agency heads who participate in its deliberations are there not simply to represent their department views. They are there as individual advisors to offer their best judgment to the president. As a manager of this system, the National Security Advisor must ensure, at a minimum, that matters which come before the NSC cover the full range of issues on which a review is required, that a full range of options is considered together with their opportunities and their risks, that all relevant intelligence and other information is available to all the participants, especially the president, and that presidential decisions are fully understood and are implemented in the manner in which the president intended. But the national security all highly competent and experienced in policymaking. It should be able neither to accept in the rarest of circumstances. Even then, that should be done only at the express direction of the we have described in the report a very general model of an NSC system to serve any president. We do not believe any amendment in the provisions of the National Security Act deal. However, this is the president's problem, not that of the Congress. And confirmation would introduce a number of new difficulties which we believe would be damaging. Another is a ban on an operational role for the NSC staff. We are opposed to the staff having such a role. Rather than a legislative prescription, however, we believe that if the objective should be to give him tools which will help and not inhibit the performance of his tasks. Unless the system is flexible enough to serve any president's needs, it will either become an obstacle and a source of frustration to the president or an institutional irrelevance as he fashions an informal structure more to his liking. We believe the recommendations we've outlined provide for a system which can be operated so as to minimize the likelihood of major error in national security policy without destroying the creative impulses of the president. Gentlemen, did the president take responsibility? Are you saying the president made mistakes? Yes, the president made mistakes. I think that's very plain English. The president did make mistakes. A lot of his subordinates made mistakes. I might note that every president has made mistakes from time to time. Some of far greater consequence, strategic opening. Senator, Senator Tower, and I'd like to ask all three of you to answer this, if you will, because you've all had long experience dealing with presidents. If you could put this in comparison to other presidents, you've all had the type of management style of delegating authority. And that style to work means that the president must be surrounded by experts who will act responsibly. At the same time, the president must from time to time monitor the actions of those to whom he delegates authority. Now there are other presidents that have had different styles. Some have gotten heavily involved in the details of operations to the point where they fail to see the big picture. They lose vision and concept, I think, for activity that was going absolutely contrary to the public policy of the United States that was set by the president himself. Can I ask a question? Both of the other gentlemen dance about it. It should be permitted to. Yes, I think the key to this is what the consequences of his pursuing this policy was. Let Senator Muskie comment. Paul, I have a question for each of us. He asked for a whole panel to comment. Well, let me put it this way. The policy was a wrong policy. And it was the president's policy. And there's no question about what he felt deeply about that policy and about its purpose in him. And he reacted strongly. It's clear that he was driven by that compassion for the hostages from beginning to end. So there was this coincidence of presidential interests, which it is appropriate for the president to take. But given his heavy personal and emotional commitment to both objectives, it was then incumbent upon his staff to. Could you point out one more, there have been reports that John Regan had involved in a cover-up. A cover-up. Could you address that, please? Go ahead, Suzanne. What about Regan? Just clarify that report, sir. Whether Mr. Regan was involved in bringing together a false chronology.


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And let's go to the tab to the right, do the same on the income statement, reports. We want the P and the L, the profit and loss, the income statement, close the hand buggy and then change the range from 010123 tab, 022823. I want to see a side-by-side view, so I'm going to hit the drop down here, do the months, and run it, Jan, Feb, Tote, and then we're going to go to the tab to the middle, close the hamburger, get out of here, hamburger, making me hungry again, 010123 to 022823 and then we'll hit the drop down and change it to the months and see it in a side-by-side once again. That's the setup process we do every time. We've been doing the bank reconciliation for the month of January. We were almost done with it last time. We thought we were done. It was at zero, but we held off on hitting the green button, which was really difficult because we've got a beginning balance issue. So let's go back over there and review tab to the left. We were down here in the reconciliation process, which is under the accounting tab. If you're in the business view, by the way, by the way, it's over here in bookkeeping, and then we're looking to reconcile. You better reconcile. You better recognize and then reconcile the stuff that you recognize. Anyways, close on the hamburger. We're going to be doing the checking account and resume the reconciliation. So just to recap, we have up top the statement balance, which we had to correct last time because I did like three presentations with it being incorrect because I'm blind, but now it's right, I think. And then we have the cleared balance, which is now the same as the statement balance, which is usually when we get this difference and we're good to go. We're good to finish, but we held off on finishing because there's still something funny going on here because the beginning balance, the numbers that make up this cleared balance, this doesn't line up. This beginning balance over here says 30,000 and over here it says 25,000. My payments also don't line up. They're equal and opposite, which is the reason I have this strange coinkie dinky that the thing is in balance when these two things are off. This is 106829 minus the 111829, so that's 5,000. Those two things just happen to be netting each other out to make us be in balance. But I'd rather kind of see an audit trail to see exactly what is going on with these beginning balances. So there's kind of two issues that can happen with the beginning balances with the first bank reconciliation. One is that this beginning balance here might not match what's on your books. And the second is that if you enter this into your QuickBooks system, it might not even show up. That 25,000 might not show up at beginning balance, but might be recorded as a deposit somewhere down here. Now that second issue, the way I would deal with that is just to check it off as if it cleared and you'd still reconcile instead of having it show up as a beginning balance. It would just be included in the deposits just mushed together and I would just record that and show that on the first bank reconciliation as what has happened. So I can note that going forward. The second problem, however, is something I would like to get a little bit more detail on typically to really tie off that first bank reconciliation. And that is the fact that this beginning balance is different than the beginning balance we entered into the system because in the first bank reconciliation or the first number that I put into the system had to tie out to the numbers I pulled from my prior accounting system as of the cutoff date before I started the current accounting system, which was 1231-2022. So why is it that this balance doesn't tie out to what's on the bank statement as of 1231-2022 because we had outstanding balances as of that point in time. There was a difference between the bank balance and the book balance due to timing differences at that point in time. So if I looked at the bank rec from my prior accounting system, I would be able to see what those things were. I could say, okay, there's these unclear items that were the timing differences as of the prior period. And that's what the difference is. The reason that we're back in balance is because those things that were outstanding last time cleared this time and we couldn't check them off in our current accounting system because they had been entered last period. They were entered in the prior accounting system. So they're not showing up in our accounting system and if all the unclear items from the prior accounting system cleared this period, I get that nice happy coincidence that I'm back down to zero and I could move forward from there. However, if I had outstanding items from the prior accounting system, which is quite common that they didn't clear and the current system, I wouldn't be able to move forward. It wouldn't reconcile. I wouldn't have the happy coincidence and that's quite common as well. So the way I want to deal with that is I want to look at the prior accounting system and say, okay, I'm going to enter these checks that were in the system and then I'm going to change my beginning balance to reflect what's on the bank statement. So what I'm going to do over here is I'm going to change this number to be 30,000, but I'm not going to mess up my beginning balances because I'm also going to add those two checks which will net each other out and I'm going to do so by entering them before the cutoff, meaning we started the cutoff or entering data into our accounting system January of 2023. I'm going to enter this change as of December of 2022 where you could enter it at the time of the check when you actually wrote it from the prior accounting system. But I don't think that's even really relevant as well. I'd rather enter all my entries as of the beginning balance date of 1231-2022 before the cutoff in the current timeframe. All right. So let's go back on. To do that, I'm going to let's say I'm going to leave here. I'm going to say, okay, I'm not going to finish it yet. I'm just going to leave for now. So let's just go over here. I'm just going to close it out. It's already saved. I'm going to go back into my accounting and I'm going to go into where's my other window? I'm going to go into the accounting and then the chart of accounts. And if you're in the bookkeeping view, by the way, it's under or the business view, by the way, it's under bookkeeping and then the chart of accounts. Okay. And then I'm going to go into my register again. So we're going to make changes to the register. So we're going to view the register. And so if I look at the detail in here at the beginning of January, I entered that 25,000. What I'd like to do is change that to 30,000, but also enter the 5,000 in the form of those two checks. So it nets back out to the same 25,000. It's just broken out. So I have like an audit trail so I can see what actually happened. So I want to be careful doing this, but it should be okay to do because I'm going to enter this to opening balance equity and then I'm going to enter two checks that are also going to go to opening balance equity. So let me enter the, I'll enter the checks first. So I'll go up top and I'll say new. And let's say this is going to be, let's call it an expense form. It's going to be a decrease. I'm going to put it in there as of 12, 31, 22. Now I could enter it as of the date that these checks were actually written by looking at my prior accounting system and see when I wrote it. But you can also just, maybe it would be best just to enter it there. I mean, either method, there's pros and cons entering it as of 12, 31, or the date the check was written because in my mind you could go back to the prior accounting system. If you needed to kind of double check that check, I just want to know where to go or what the differences caused from in the current accounting system. Okay. And then we got who the check was written to. I'm going to say it's going to be Epiphone. Now that's the person that we buy our equipment from. So I'm going to say prior period check in the memo. So you would think that it would have been an increase to, and this is for 4,000, was it? 4,000. You would think that it would have been for inventory that we purchased. Now I'm not going to record the other side to inventory though because I already entered the beginning balances properly for inventory. So this is just a reference to tell me that this was an outstanding check from the prior accounting system. And so instead of going to the inventory account, I'm just going to go to the opening balance equity account, the same account that I'm going to net out when I change the opening balance, beginning balance in the checking account, account two, because I'm not trying to change any of the opening balances. I already have those correct. I'm just trying to break out the details so I can see this was from an actual check in the prior accounting system. If I need more detail about that actual check, I would go to the prior accounting system. Now sometimes it might be not going to inventory, but an expense account. If it were going to an expense account, I could just enter it to that expense account and it would net out to an equity account because it would be entered as of the prior period and roll into equity. But still I would still even then rather it net out to opening balance equity because I already figured out all my beginning balances last time. I don't want to mess anything else up. I just want to break out the checks from the other opening balances. So I'm going to put it into the beginning balance equity beginning is not what it's called. What are they called these days? Did you change the name of the stuff opening balance equity? Let's do opening balance equity. Oh, now it's trying to do that. It's going to be opening balance equity. Okay. So I think that's good. I think that's movie B to the end. So let's save it. And then if I see what happened by going to the tab to the right and then run it and then going to the cash account, then I'm going to go down and say, so now I've entered this as of the end of 1231 to three, 1231 to two, 1231 to two, two, two, two. Run it. Okay. So now we've got this amount there. That's part of the cash account. Let's do it for the other one too. And I'm going to go back to the tab to the left and I'm going to do it on the same date, 1231. And I'm going to say that this one was for gets on USA. So that's that's who we paid with that check. I'm going to say this is a prior period check. And I'm going to say it was for $1,000. As we can see here, so that's that $1,000. Okay. And so I'm going to say this is going to also go to the beginning balance, beginning opening. I swear they changed that back and forth between opening and beginning balance, but whatever. So we'll put it into there and then save it. So there we have it. So let's go back to the balance sheet and let's run this. Let's run this for, could I wonder if they'll let me go from 1201 22 and then run it month by month. Yeah, they do. That's nice. So now I've got my beginning balances at 20,000. And the other side went to the opening balance, opening balance equity. So now I'm off in opening balance equity by the 5,000. And I'm going to change that by just adjusting that beginning balance entry, which was, which was the 25,000. I'm going to change that to 30,000. So everything should be back in alignment. So I'm going to go back into the first tab. You could do it in the register here and find that transaction, but it might, it might just be. So there it is. I'm going to just go into this transaction and say, okay, let's go into here and drill down on it and say the, the beginning balance, there it is. There's the deposit 25,000. Let's go into that. And let's just make it, let's make it 30,000. All right. And so now I'm going to save and close it. Transactions are editing has been, so I'm going to save that. It's not reconciled yet.  All right. So now we should be good to go. Now I can go back into my reconciliation, open the hand boogie and see if this makes, see if this makes sense, which I'm hoping it does accounting, reconcile, closing the hand boogie, checking account resume. We shall resume us at once. So now I've got the 30,000 makes sense. And I've got these two to check off. So now I'm just going to check these two off and we're back in balance again. So now if I check my numbers, I've got 30,000 up top ties out to the 30,000 here. I've got the decreases, which are 111829, 111829. Let me know if I'm getting anything wrong due to seeing numbers back. I got the 14307080, 14307085, 85, yeah. And so that ties out to zero. And so now everything works out perfectly because it ties out the way we would expect it to work. And then we should be good to go and we don't have that strange weirdness that you still could have the strange weirdness where like this beginning balance wasn't showing up here, but it was down here. In that case, you wouldn't have the 30,000 here. You would just have the deposits increased by 30,000. You could just check it off. You'd still be in balance, not a big deal. Just note it out on your bank reconciliation report that that's the case and you're good going forward. This is at zero. That's where we want it to be. Now, I don't want to I want to get into the reports next time. So I actually don't want to hit the finish still yet. I know I said we were going to do it this time, but I still don't want to do it yet because the reports on the bank reconciliation are a little bit different than other reports. And when you first go into them, sometimes they're formatted a little bit different than if you go into them after a second time. And I just want to show you that next time. So what we've done now is the bank reconciliation process, but this is not the bank reconciliation. The bank reconciliation is like a report like this, which shows the differences that is generated by these items, which you might say, well, there are no differences, but there are. This just means there's no differences in the stuff that we checked off. The stuff we didn't check off is still in our books. Those are the differences. Those are the outstanding items. Those are the unclear checks and deposits. Those are the things that are important for the bank reconciliation report, which we'll focus on next time. So we did make some changes. So let's go to the tab to the right and open up a trial balance and just take a look at where we're currently standing. So I'm going to go to the reports, type in trial balance, the trial balance, the balance on trial, close up the hand buggy and change the range from 010123 to 022823, hitting the drop down to the months by month, run it to refresh it. Oh, hold on, 022823, okay, run it. There we go. So we made a change to January, which of course affects the balance sheet, ending balances as well. So you can check either of the columns here. And if your numbers tie out, great. If not, see if it's a range change type of issue. And we'll finally reconcile. So stay tuned. Next time I promise we're going to hit the green button. We're going to hit the green button next time. So we'll see you there.


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Welcome back to our lecture series math 1060 trigonometry for students at Southern Utah University. As usual, I'll be your professor today, Dr. Andrew Misseldine. In this, the first video for lecture two, we're going to be talking about the ideas of angles. In lecture one, we talked a lot about a triangle, which as you probably know, a triangle roughly translates as meaning three angles inside of a polygon. What is actually the angle part? That's what we want to emphasize in this lecture today. We're going to start this video with a little bit of vocabulary, a little bit of motivation. Imagine we have two points in the plane, so we have two points of column AB. As defined previously, if we draw the line segment that connects A and B, we would denote that as AB with a line over it. If we omit the line on top of it, that means the measure of that line segment, that is the distance between the points A and B. What we want to talk about right now though, is if we take the line that's connected by, that is the line that's determined by the points A and B, and so this is the line of infinite length that goes on forever and ever in both directions. This is going to be denoted as AB with a double-arrowed line on top of it. So the line determined by A and B. Given any two points, there's a unique line that contains those two points, and so we do say that two points determine a line. And as previously defined, we say that any set of points is collinear if there's a single line for which all points are incident to that single line. This is something we've talked about before as well. What I want to talk about now is next the idea of a ray. A ray is similar to that of a line. If we take the ray, and of course I'm not talking about ray skywalk or anything right here, this would be RAY. If we take the ray from A to B, and direction very much matters when it comes to rays, in fact, when we have a ray, we say that we have a vertex A, which is gonna be the first letter, the first point you list right here. And we would say that the ray emanates from the vertex A towards the point B. This ray is going to be all the points that are collinear to A and B, but in the direction of A and B. So basically what you mean by a ray is we wanna take all the points that are between A and B, right? But we also want all the points such that new point and A have B between them. So basically a ray is essentially half of a line.  And so the ray emanating from A to B is not the same thing as the ray emanating from B to A or anything like that. These rays basically make half of a line. Now the reason we define that is that rays are how we build angles. So what is an angle? So an angle, well, it's gonna be determined by three points in the plane, which is called the ABC. And so we'll denote that angle as angle ABC. It's gonna be the span in the plane of two rays that share a common vertex. So let's say those rays are gonna be the ray BA and the ray BC. So the ray BA is the ray that emanates from the vertex B towards the point A and then ray BC is the ray that emanates from the point B towards some other point C inside the plane. As you can see, illustrated right here. So we have the ray BA, which looks like this right here. So it's all the points that emanate from B towards A and beyond A, of course. Then there's also the ray BC. So all the points that emanate from B towards C and beyond, we have these two rays. And so the angle would then include the first ray and includes the second ray. And it also includes all of the points in between those two rays. And so this is what one means by an angle. The first ray associated to the angle is called the initial side. And then the second ray that determines this angle is called the terminal side. And initial and terminal seem to have some type of temporal meaning that is there's some type of time. Like this is where we're going to start and the terminal side is where we're going to stop. I mean, after all, the city of Termina and Major's Mask is named from the fact that that city is going to come to an end when the moon crushes it, if you know what I mean. And the idea is that initial side, and we think in terms of rotation, the angle is spanned by rotating the initial side towards the terminal side. And so there is a direction associated to angles. And so this is what an angle is. An angle, in some regard, is a piece of a rotation. Like we talked about circles in a previous lecture, that is in lecture one. A circle, you think of it as one complete rotation.  You get the whole thing. But what if we only cover some sector? Like what if we only covered one part of that circle? Not the whole circle, but it's a small sector of it. That coincides with a type of angle. It's part of a rotation. Now there are some special angles that we should refer to here. And so this is gonna be some angle vocabulary that's gonna be important for us going forward. We often will talk about a flat angle or a straight angle, which is essentially just a line, so to speak, which if you take a line, a line actually determines two flat angles. There's the one on top. There's the one on bottom. These are sometimes called half planes. That's another vocabulary we can use right here. Because after all, the angle is not just the rays that form it. It's also all the space in the plane encompassed in it as well. So a flat angle, like you would see right here, is an angle for which the initial side, so here's our vertex right here. You have the initial side. You have the terminal side over here. And these are co-linear with one another. So a flat angle is an angle where you have all three points are in fact co-linear, where the vertex B right here is between the initial point and the terminal point right here. So a flat angle. Similar to the idea of a flat angle is what we might call a null angle. A null angle also coincides with three points which are co-linear, but in the following manner, a null angle is just a single ray. So you have your one point A, your vertex B, but then the second ray, BC, is itself just the same ray as BA. So there's basically no space between the two rays because the two rays overlap with each other. Then continuing on here, we have the idea of supplementary angles. We say that two angles are supplementary if their union forms a flat angle. So for example, if you take one angle here in blue and then you take another angle here, say in yellow, these two angles are supplements to each other because the union of the two angles forms a half plane. That is they connect together to form this line. Similarly, we defined the idea of a right angle earlier. If two lines meet so that they're perpendicular with one another, that is if you have two perpendicular lines, we say that the angle form between them is a right angle. Another one, and we define that in terms of slope, two lines are perpendicular if the product of their slopes is negative one.  A much more elementary way of defining a right angle just be a right angle is an angle which is equal to its own supplement. So right angles are self-supplementary. It's that right angle is half of a flat angle, okay? And so once you have the idea of a right angle, we can talk about the idea of a complementary angle. Complementary angles are those pairs of angles whose union together forms a right angle. So for example, if we take say these right here, take that angle and then take that angle right here, these would be an example of complementary angles right there. So the union of the two angles gives you a, the union of two complementary angles always gives you a right angle. We can also define the notion of an acute angle. If you have, for example, a right angle like we did before, here's our right angle.  So such an example would be like an acute angle right here. It's smaller than a right angle.  So if we finish off and form a flat angle right here, an obtuse angle would be something like this. Like so, this angle in consideration. This would be an example of an obtuse angle. So some vocabulary that's important to introduce in this conversation about angles. And you might recall from our previous lecture about triangles, we often define triangles using angle terms. After all, triangle means three angles. The angles seem to play a big part of how we study triangles. There was the idea of an acute triangle. An acute triangle is one where all of the angles were acute with this meaning. An obtuse triangle was a triangle for which one of the angles is obtuse, the others three would necessarily have to be acute. A right triangle was an example of a triangle which had one right angle, the other two angles are necessarily acute. Triangles always will have at least two acute angles but the largest angle could be acute right or obtuse. So we say things like that. We don't have to worry about the, we don't have to worry about the third angle of a triangle being flat because if you had a triangle where one of the angles was flat, that actually wouldn't be a triangle. That would be something like this. Hey, we're a triangle. It'd be like a flat triangle which isn't technically a triangle but in some ways it kind of behaves like a triangle. What I mean is like if you take a triangle like this and you take this point, let's call it A, what if we were to move A closer and closer and closer and closer and eventually something like this keeping the scale the whole time. Eventually we might get to something like if you go through this progression might eventually get something like this. So a flat triangle is what we call in calculus the limit of a triangle. That is when we cross the triangle, we get this and that's what's often referred to as a degenerate triangle. The same thing with a null angle. A null angle is they don't really belong in triangles except for this degenerate case. So this situation like this where you have the three angles inside of a triangle in this flat triangle you're gonna have one flat angle in the middle but then the other ones are gonna be null angles. Again, these aren't technically considered triangles but sometimes when you take progressions of triangles you can get a flat one as you go towards infinity. That's gonna be a topic for another day. In conclusion of this video what I wanna make mentioned is that we took special attention never to talk about angle measures. We talk about just angles themselves. So as we define flat angles, acute angles, right angles we never talk about things like 180 degrees or 90 degrees or larger than 90 degrees. We didn't use those terms because although degree measure is a useful way of describing these things it's not actually necessary to describe that of angles but with that said in the very next video we'll introduce the idea of angle measure.


Hey everybody, welcome to the Linuxcast. I'm your host Matthew and I'm joined by Martin. Hi Matthew right there.  It's, oh I'll tell you what, December, it's December 20th. It seems it feels like this year just started. This time is just going so fast man. It's crazy. It's been long but it has gone by quite quick. I was saying the other day I just can't believe the day. How quick it has gone. Given all that we've had to put up with but there you go. It has been a crappy year but it's almost over. Ten, eleven more days. All right so. Thank the Lord. Yeah, yes. So this is going to be a little bit different of an episode. Normally we would say hey what we've been doing on Linux this week then we'd talk about some news. But this is the last episode of the year. Last episode of season four and we're going to do something a little bit different. So after the contact information which I'll get into in just a second we're going to talk about five things we've done or noticed or been you know kind of paid attention to in Linux this year. So that's what we'll be doing for this episode. But first contact information. If you want to get in contact with us you can do so at the Linuxcast on Twitter. I'm at MTWB. Martin is Martin Twitter. You can find all those links and all the links that I'm about to share with you in the show notes in the video description below. You can subscribe to all of our podcast feeds and so on at thelinuxcast.org. You can find us or contact us via email at thelinuxcast.gmail.com. Starting next year we will have our very own email you know email address so that will be changing. But for now the linuxcast.gmail.com You can like us on Facebook at facebook.com slash the linuxcast and don't forget to subscribe to YouTube to us on YouTube where you'll find different videos of certain varying qualities. I pissed a lot of people off by making snide comments about Linux Mint so that was pretty good. Oh also you can also if you really want to support the show you can do so at patreon.com slash the linuxcast. I created one of those things because that's apparently what people do now is create Patreon pages for no apparent reason so I did that. You know I watched your Mint video. Well I say watched I turned it off actually. I don't blame you. I watched it three quarters and I thought oh this in Linux Mint here I knew it was going to be for you. Get back to watch. Yeah yeah you'll be an art snob. Looking down on the normos. Yeah I was just use a boon to man. It's just a boon to it's just the prettier boon to. All right anyways we'll have to do an episode where we have a talk about Linux Mint because I have a lot of opinions on that. Anyways so what I figured what we do Martin is we go back and forth you know I'll do one you do one. Yeah sounds good and you can go first if you'd like. Oh excellent. Well as I'm new to Linux this year everything that I have actually learned is new essentially so just now to down a couple of things that just pop out to me. The first one was basically making a switch to Linux so on Linux about 98 percent of the time I just literally log into Windows do what I've got to do and come straight out so I mean that's my first one. So what distro are you using now as your main distro are you still on Linux Mint? No no I'll switch to KDE and then like that so I thought I'd give KDE Plasma ago and I've been on KDE Plasma for about two months I think now. So are you using like KDE Neon or are you using it in Kabuntu? I couldn't tell you to be truthful is it based on Kabuntu? Slightly not 100 percent to be fair. I think that proves a lot of people's point that the distro just doesn't matter. I know exactly it just does such a good job I mean I can't remember you've said that you've threw me a curveball there but yeah it just works and KDE is beautiful but you can get lost in customizations. Yeah I did that many times all right so my first one is I've transitioned this year to using window managers only I've spent most of my year in I3 I think I probably some of this was partially in 2019 as well but um for the most part I spent my entire year perfecting I3 for my use getting all the key bindings the way I like them you know I switched themes many many times but mostly the you know the key bindings and stuff stay the same and I transitioned using a key binding like a demon so that I can transition between window managers easier but lately I've been using DWM which is DWM is kind of like the arch Linux of of window managers because everybody uses it looks down on everybody else who uses something different so it took me a long time to figure out because I know no C programming language at all just none I took a little bit of it in like my first year college but I was just was not good at it so it's it's been a journey the last month or so learning how to uh configure this and you know config files and stuff to getting it getting it to work the way I wanted to work and now I don't I have a hard time switching back to I3 so I can see why people look down on others because it's so it's so good it's so fast it's awesome um it's also it's also hard to set up I mean obnoxiously hard to set up and the the the documentation that they provide is by far the worst documentation out of any window manager I've ever seen it's so bad it's like they purposely wrote it to um be unhelpful like like it's just it was not good so you pretty much have to you're pretty much on your own or watching youtube videos in order how to do stuff so um yeah that's that's probably the biggest one for me is what I've you know I'm I've maybe spent an hour in a different desktop environment all year um when I have to use a different desktop environment I use KDE um and then there was that brief period where I used some windows because I had to um for the most part I just friend or Matt so Martin your second one my second one is the community um whether it's the online podcasts youtube um whether you're meeting small groups um it's just a with the feeling of being in a community because I mean we're only a smallish pool compared to the rest of the computer market share um and just to remind people that it only takes a like or a comment on a video a question answered or even a review on steam for a game which you liked or dislike whichever I mean all this goes out to help the linux community um gain a bit more traction and uh moving it that little bit forward or you could be like me and make crappy youtube videos or like me and be a crappy sex co-host hey you want to know what when I was doing this by myself I felt so stupid you know because so it's really dumb to talk into a mic and not actually be talking to another person so you've livened up the podcast quite a lot have I kept you saying yes it's in this mud world it's uh talking to yourself is not fun it makes you question your uh mental acuity um anyway so my second one is less um so I'm a big firefox user I like firefox quite a lot um but I don't always use firefox but now that I've found out that you can actually go through and basically create your own look and feel for using css I spent quite a lot of the year tweaking my firefox setup uh so that I have all in like one line and it's you know just really cool looking um and the community surrounding I mean you're talking about community um like there's a whole subreddit for this kind of stuff and you can just go through and you can get help and and share your say share what you've done so far it's really cool um but it's another one of those time-sinking things because it's like like you're talking about with katie you can kind of get going to a rabbit hole customization um yeah everything it seems like everything I discover on linux I really like to do has that same rabbit hole and it's like one rabbit hole right after another so you know I spend hours and hours theming my window manager so that's you know a different color scheme or you know different icons or whatever and then I do the same thing with my user chrome dot css for firefox and then you know I do the same thing for you know my terminal emulator and it's just it's a it's a surprising thing that I ever get anything done because I'm always just constantly tweaking things because I always have to okay I found a new tool I gotta learn how to do it and then I can you know I get into like I like I got um we were talking a few weeks ago I finally got uh npd and ncmp and peeps some terrible name for a music thing you know just play music in the terminal um oh yeah yeah I spent hours tweaking and theming that at least I got to listen to music while I was doing it so it's just everything's a time I just put so much time and all that stuff anyways your third one my third one is the amount of free choice available um whether it's software distros desktop managers terminals I mean the just the amount of actual choice I mean when I stuck on windows I literally kept to my same couple of programs but you can always find it either a fork or something similar to windows if you're used to that but it's just absolute choice I mean it's staggering and I mean people put all the time in it for nothing just for the satisfaction of um improving of the people's um workflow so I mean yeah I think definitely the free choice available sir our third choice all right so my third one is that I discovered Zim and um it's really weird that I've put this on the list because I'm actually thinking about switching away from Zim because of course I switched away from things all the time I found something new in shiny my attention span has been not good for the last 20 years anyways um it completely transformed the way I take notes when I was using it um because I could go through and create like my own little wiki create links and embedded links and embedded pictures and files and all that kind of stuff um and it's really helped me write outlines for you know the fiction that I write or plan videos and stuff but I haven't I haven't been I've noticed the last like week and a half I haven't been using it nearly as much because I've moved most of my scripting for videos and stuff to uh notion which is not an open source application unfortunately um but uh and I'm you know me in my terminal application so I'm thinking about moving to to Vim wiki which is Zim is basically a GUI version of Vim wiki um but I liked the visual way Zim did markdown that's the reason why I didn't choose Vim wiki to begin with but I'm thinking because I'm such a nerd that I'm going to have to go try Vim wiki again um we'll see how that goes because I mean all my notes and stuff were in Zim and I don't know if I want to try transfer them all over but we'll see um that'll be a project for next year all right it's an easy task transferring you're able to drop your or do you have to rewrite them all out again or no I should be able to just transform because the Zim just saves them as text files you know so that when you when you nest something like a child link in your wiki it saves it that parent link becomes a folder and everything else just goes in that folder right all right yeah so you can just I should just be able to transfer more where the problem is Vim wiki saves everything as .md files which is markdown right so um but I don't know why I couldn't just go through and rename every give just change the extension on all the Zim files to md because it because yeah yeah Zim uses markdown it is just a really weird um version of markdown so it should work I don't know I haven't actually tried it yet so we'll guess we'll find out excellent right sorry my fourth one virtual box um I mean I know it's available in other systems uh I've never had any reason to use it until now um or I could say it's brilliant just brilliant for trying out distros um slight learning curve to get on to it I think you've done a video on it also haven't you um but once you've got used to it and know we know it works and things like that it it it's just just great just save burning usb's or dvd's or nuke in a laptop to stick a new um distro on so yeah fourth one's virtual box just mainly for tatting about really which is what we all like to do it's really saved me from from distro hopping quite a lot because you know when I want to try a new distro I just put in a virtual machine yeah um it it's not it's way easier than vert manager so I've been trying to find out how to figure out how to do um vert manager because you know a lot of the youtubers use it and you know because I'm following the crowd but it's just I have not been able to get vert manager to work I'm not quite sure what I'm doing wrong um that'd be another project for me um because of course I got to do all the cool kids are doing um oh well yeah why not so my first three I focused on positive things that you know I've you know discovered or been doing over the years for the next two are less positive things although this this next one turned out well so if you followed the last couple episodes you'll know that I had to get out of my linux partition and boot into windows in order to do the podcast because uh I bought a new audio um I I bought a focus right or focus scarlet solo audio interface and so I could use my hila my hyal pr 40 oops um thing um and I wanted to use them but the problem is that skype for whatever reason would not recognize the scarlet solo as an input device it would recognize it as an output device uh so I spent had to be three weeks I mean Martin you know this I every time I had to log in windows I bitched about it for pretty much the first half of the podcast and then most of the second half of the podcast it was it was not a good time uh but this last week uh after learning everything I could learn about jack d and jacks the qjack ctl and all this stuff I mean I I got into a real really big rabbit hole of linux audio things I I'd never heard of before and I'm still not even close to a um like an expert or anything but it turns out that if you use pavu control which is just basically the front end for pulse audio it's which it's basically what you see if you go into kde and go into the audio setting this basically pavu control um it's the same thing if I you know I went into the advanced settings and changed the the microphone the scarlet solo from uh from one it went from uh I can't remember it from one setting to another and all of a sudden it worked it was like one setting in that one half and that was the problem and all of a sudden it worked so I can I I have my microphone going so that it's doing you know in Skype I have my bluetooth headphones so the audio is coming through there and I have audacity going it's it's working perfectly um hopefully so I mean it's just it's been this when I first started using linux you know I had I mean I think everybody experiences where there's just those complicated things that you you know you see everybody else do um but you can't really quite figure it out yourself and you spend weeks and weeks and weeks trying to learn this one thing that probably should be easier than it you know it seems to be um and I mean everybody has that when they first start but this is the first one I've had in quite a while where I just ran up to that wall where I just could not figure it out um but I finally did so that's my fourth one brilliant right five security so no personal data is going to be sent to the mothership and I'm in control which is exactly how it should be and exactly how I like it yeah um yeah I was reading something I can't quite remember there's they were talking about because Microsoft brought their windows defender this last year to linux and people kind of argue about whether or not linux needs a virus your protection um is that something you'd ever run your your linux to be fair um I don't download any illicit software or things like that um and I'm always careful of what web pages I do click on but yeah I mean I'm windows always a defile wall running and I mean and which memory and processing linux use I should use a firewall I was using it in mint because it's got one set up nice and handily I don't think there's one in kg neon um at the moment it it's just being bothered for me to download one I mean I'm quite a light user um but yeah I think it's a benefit to anyone whether you think linux is not not safe from attacks malicious attacks malicious codes viruses things like that so I I agree yeah you should really use one oh I don't if I were gonna use one though I don't know there if I were going to you I wouldn't use one from Microsoft yeah it does seem yummy right I mean to be fair um I want an open source one yeah I could understand what you're saying but I mean Microsoft have got years and years under them with defender and defender is good yeah there's no two ways about it I mean I used to have a third party a vast and all different ones there's quite a few reasons I would install Microsoft Defender way before I installed McAfee and McAfee yeah and they're just not may have just pop ups and pop ups and things like this so I mean I must admit it um I probably would use Defender all right well you let me know if you end up doing that because I want you know what your experience was because you can be the guinea pig this time all right so my last part my last one is um I'm on the hunt so this is kind of more like a thing I'm going to be doing for the year ahead I guess um but it's been something I've been looking for for a while I've been looking for a replacement for LibreOffice because LibreOffice is kind of terrible um and all the other ones I've found have basically been clones of Microsoft Word and I don't I just don't care for that so I'm trying to find a office slash word processor replacement that I can use um knowing me I'll probably try to find something that's in the terminal just because you know hello nerd um I know there is like a something called word grinder but I want to I want something that will allow me to take all my documents that I have right now which are all saved in ODT to um be able so I can you know cross-compatibility compatibility I haven't found anything all great I know word grinder will do the open document format but the formatting is just all kind of wonky and they have their own proprietary I mean whatever that they want you to try to transfer it to and I'm not I'm not really into I want to have the option of going back to uh LibreOffice if I have to so that's something I'm going to be look on the lookout for for this next year and continuing on until I find something different so far I can't really pinpoint the reason why I don't like LibreOffice it's just one of those things is kind of clunky it just feels slow to me I don't know maybe it's because everything else I use is in the terminal and so fast um anyways that's me as you can tell I like the I like the terminal and I'll mention that over and over again so um let's move into our apps for the week so these are the last apps of the week of the year so Martin you can go first right my app of the week is WALC and that's W I L C um it's a snap or an app image um well what it is it's basically whatsapp desktop client for your Linux system it just makes things easier I mean if you're sending files or pictures or you're having long conversations it's just easy to take it from your small screen and just slap it on the desktop so this is way better than what I've been using I've been using something called what's desk um yes I was using previously um the rambox I'd said before um but I was having a couple of problems with it last week I think that was affected my audio because I had Skype running in it and whatsapp so I've had to look around and came up with this but it's brilliant if you're sending pictures or anything like that nice and easy all you've got to do is hold your camera up to it yes you go to whatsapp your options I think it's web something web and then you just scan the QR code on your desktop and all your conversations come up on your um pc and obviously you can save the files onto your pc what what's desk is similar but it's wonky like you can tell it's like in a container it's like has these what large black borders or whatever it'd probably be different if I you know yeah that does look better if I change the size you know so it's not full screen but it doesn't like fill up the whole screen when it's full screen so I might look into this the problem is it's it's a snap and I don't have snap d installed so I'd have to install snap d um there is an app image available I'm using oh yeah I mean um so you could give that a try so it's not in the yet seems oops sorry it's not in the aur which is really I mean it just hurts my heart to see app that looks this good not to be in the aur I mean it has to be useless if it's not in the aur right I'm just no all right I'll definitely give I'm gonna leave that tab open so uh now that I've I've established myself as an arch snob let's continue on to something um Luke Smith is a youtuber and he uh he has different tools available most of some of his videos are like really really weird um but his Linux stuff is usually pretty good and his he has a tool called mutt wizard so in my quest of finding uh terminal applications to replace everything I do uh I wanted to start using neo mutt and that's it's a it's an email application that runs in the terminal and the problem is if you set it up on yours by yourself you have to deal with finding the IMAP server of gmail or whatever email servers you use and make sure you're on the right ports and all this nonsense if you use mutt wizard which is I've linked in the show notes you just run a command enter your username and password and it sets it all up for you um it's it's simply just worked it's kind of awesome uh it's not for everybody because you really so many emails now come through an html um and this is in a terminal so you can't view html so you'll you have to kind of put with that kind of stuff I still have evolution installed so when I need a view of email and I don't feel like going to gmail.com because I still use gmail one of these days I'm going to switch to like proton or something but proton if you want you know like the actual features you have to pay for and I'm not quite to the point where I want to pay from email yet yeah well you mean you know I'm just I don't use it that often and well I don't know if I'm gonna spend the money um I'm a cheap you know so be anyways so that was a good episode um martin actually that was our last episode of the year so we'll be back in january with season five um and we we should have some really good topics coming up we'll make sure we do some controversial stuff and we're gonna I think we're gonna try to do some like uh distro reviews or something we'll we'll each install of the distro and I like the virtual machine we'll use it for a little while and we'll we'll talk about it should be fun um anyways I'll be coming up in june yeah we're coming back in january um I hope everybody has a safe and happy holiday season or whatever holiday you think and I think everybody can just be so grateful that 2020 is finally being over right too right too right so that is it for us this time we'll see you in 2021 excellent have a great holiday period boys


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