So yesterday's video I reacted to Nikki MGTV talking about exposing me, right? So today I'm gonna be doing a reaction of why does every military branch hate the Air Force? If you guys have any videos that you want to see me do a reaction to be sure to comment down below Let me know actually Onision's videos I think I've watched Partially a little bit of his first one about why he got out and then his second one I don't believe I've seen at all because I was waiting Specifically until I got out of the Air Force to even watch them so I could do a real reaction to his videos So besides Onision's videos what videos would you guys want to see me do a reaction to or if anybody ever makes videos about me? Or any like anything just ever shows up anybody posts a video and you're like yo I want to see Kyle got do a reaction to this. Just let me know comment down below Appreciate it partying off. This video was posted in December. So it's about a five month old video. We're looking at 200,000 views or just short of that hundred eighty eight thousand. It's got three thousand thumbs up So that's pretty good. I'm gonna give it a little like right here, and then it's got 297 dislikes. I'm assuming probably 297 airmen watch this video But I already gave the video a thumbs up because you know, I don't really care, you know, it's all good and fun So I don't think Nikki would have said anything too bad about the Air Force Honestly, I was in the Air Force for six years most of stuff He probably says I'd be able to agree with honestly I hope most of the problems that people have with the Air Force is being in another branches that they're butthurt that We have everything. It's way nicer, but we'll see what he says. I want to be clear We're gonna save Kyle got and bully juice the rest of them. We don't care about all right Okay, so right away. He's just like not Kyle got bully juice. They're good They're good people's but everyone else in Air Force sucks and I'm like, all right I can I can understand that but something that's really funny with doing these reaction videos is I usually watch YouTube videos at One and a half to two times speed. I don't know if you guys know this But down here in the little gear icon area You can hit that and do you playback speed and do one and a half or two 1.75 1.25 you can even make it slower if somebody talks to so it's funny doing a reaction video because I watch it in real time And I'm almost like oh, this is so slow nothing to hate on Nikki cuz my videos the same way I watch my feet my own videos at two times speed But it's hard to do when you're doing a reaction if you guys didn't know that little trick though You can save yourself a ton of time you guys watch a lot of YouTube videos You can watch two times the amount of content now in one day that you used to previously if you watch it at two times Speed YouTube hat right there. I love it as always let's go right to the topic and that is why every their branch hates the US Air Force because you guys have all the nice things man Some of you guys took a lot of my stuff watch up there. Why Maria Tath and Amy you guys took some of that way too seriously This is the rivalry between the branches. I mean, buddy's feelings are getting hurt on the other side Do you want me to use some other synonym to make you more happy and comfortable in your little fragile hands? No, I'm not I'm gonna say hate and I mean it they hate each other That's something that's crazy is with YouTube videos if you title like one word out of like people like will freak out You should have done this and this instead It was like the whole novel the bee sing like who will win it's like if you said who will win and then it was script Obviously it was scripted. It wasn't a real challenge relax watch the entire video as well before you make a comment Thank you. Let's move on. Yes. I was triggered. All right So we all know this we know the big deal Air Force has it best right Air Force is the best branch out there They care about their people you always hear about that. Yeah, of course cares about their people You're thinking in the army or no one cares about their people No, it all comes down to one thing and that is money and how it's fit and who gets the most of it So obviously that's going to change how people are treated Do you think that if the Marines could give everybody their own one bedroom apartment and have that money? You probably would want to do it I'm telling you this whole video is gonna be about how all the other branches are butthurt that we get all the nicest newest things the best money we got we got all the good stuff So the butthurt is is starting strong in this one some people are gonna disagree with that Say that they want the more out really low and whatever else But no, I really do think that they would want to give more to their people mind you This is not a factual video really by much There are some facts or kind of facts, but my little thumbs and my own personal experience So don't take it as gospel, please. So yes, Air Force does have it better That's why everyone hates them cuz they've got everything better. It's told you the best Supposedly and I can agree that from my personal experience. I told you I knew I knew that was gonna be like your biggest Great business. We all the nicest stuff, but let's get to the root of this Literally every other branch including me I'm in the Navy this likes the Air Force because literally they are gonna have it better off than us and They will still complain about it I don't like cuz they ain't first up is the fact that they've got this whole thing where you can have a dorm a Dorm mind you call them barracks and the other side of the military Oh, did you talk about the deep back or you mean the galley? Oh, yeah Did I forget to mention that they get to move out of the dorms or the barracks before most of their branches cause I'm not trying to recruit here. I'm just letting you guys know it's the truth. You want to join the Air Force I'm telling you the living situation is way better than all the other branches single airmen You get your own room single and other branches You might be bunking with people like you don't have privacy at all Because a lot of the Navy and army require to be 5 in order to leave whereas a lot of the force The Navy I can tell you it really depends on the command and many of the bears how long you've been And you can get out at each time you want to move out sometimes even the E3 can move out It's just it's so obscure whereas the Air Force it feels like it's a little more defined for them Everything around those makes it sound like it's college. It's gotta be good. This is a ranking up system People are like Air Force is slower to rank up. That's all we know But there's actually some good opportunities for the generals to make it up to E4 That I think are better because they have some guaranteed promotions or things like that So I will comment on that promotion thing is in the Marines and the Navy that I know of I don't know about the army so much But the Marines and Navy when you hit E4 you're an NCO in the Air Force However E4 you're still an airman E5 is when you become an NCO So a supervisor starts at E5 in the Air Force a Supervisor in the Marines and Navy starts at E4 So they kind of give you that responsibility Sooner in the other branches. Yeah, the the promotion system is guaranteed up to E4 But you don't really get any of that responsibility or leadership at E4 So it's just kind of a different rank structure is all next thing I want to mention is their quality of life on The base so we just talked about housing they say anything called dorms But I want to say their exchanges on base are incredibly nice Especially the ones that I've been to I've been to a couple a name before you got a cadena in Okinawa Oh, I went to Pope Air Force base cadenas BX is like one of the largest in the Air Force I think it's in the top five. It's huge everybody. They get stationed in Okinawa It's like I gotta go the BX on on cadena the Air Force tends to have like the bigger nicer cleaner ones so Cadenas was nice. I went to Andrews Air Force base. I've been to The one in Guam Anderson. I've been to a lot of bases, but I'm gonna let you know the truth Okay, for the most traveled way more than I was in Air Force Consistently has the best Exchanges, most people think this isn't a big deal. It's a department store, which is very true But when you're stationed overseas when you have the best stuff that can be a big like changing experience Choose election clothes Electronics things like that when you're overseas. That's like your only American store off base. There's not American stores because you're not in America So it is a big deal for the exchanges on base to be nice So Air Force definitely has it has it good But what did I tell you guys this whole video was gonna be Nikki being all sorts of butthurt about how Air Force Has it's so good. We got all the nice stuff We got all the nice things also to include food options if any of you guys have ever been to Anderson Air Force base They have a really nice huge exchange the one in Kadena They have a ton of food options compared to most the other bases on Okinawa, Japan So the comforts of home are a little bit better next if you want chicks and you want to be in the military Where better place to go than the Air Force? 25% of the entire force is chicks Compare that to the Marine Corps where there's only 10% so I mean your chances are more than double you might have Go in the Air Force, right? If you guys that are in the Marine Corps, you guys already understand that if a girl arrives at base By the next day, she's got a boyfriend She's got two other boys from Lentender that she already dated for two months prior before she got there Because somebody saw that she's arriving, found her on Facebook and then DM'd her on Instagram Yeah, I will say that the Air Force Tends to have more women that are served But I think that also goes into the quality of life everything like that is it's it's more easy for both sides both genders to live in that environment Versus like the Marines lifestyle isn't really fitting for most women So I can understand why the Air Force pulls a lot more women than the other branches This is not from any accredited source other than the Air Force website where they say 44% of the people that joined the service want to be in less or do be in less Which I find insane and saying almost half the people that joined want to stay in whereas I've heard figures around 20 25% or whatever So maybe this varies obviously as time goes on is constantly changing So I think the Air Force's numbers with that are 40 some percent of the people reenlist after their first enlistment But the amount of people that get out after their first enlistment is still a lot so that means after your first enlistment 50% of the people are going to be gone and About 90% of the people that go to basic training say they're going to do 20 years and after four to six years 50% Actually 50 some 57% of those people are actually going to get out And then it just continues to kind of be that way like the the amount of people that reenlist a second time Probably around 50% and so on so like he was saying the number is like 20% for people that actually do 20 years Which is accurate. I think in the Air Force It's around 18% and then the Army and Marines is like 13 or 12% of the people that join actually do 20 years So the Air Force still does have more people that stay in on Percentages wise compared to the other branches, but it's not much when you think of a 20 year commitment But I would also probably agree that there's more people that Reenlist in the Air Force after the first term than any of the other branches Also, let's say you get automatic E3 if you decide to stay for six years So the chances are good if you said 44% of the people are gonna reenlist and if you do six years You're probably gonna end up wanting to reenlist anyway. It's gotta be a pretty good deal Hey, I did six years because I thought I was gonna want to stay in look at me now Look at me now. Okay. Does it look like I want to be in anymore just because I signed six years. No Didn't Six years made me not want to be in anymore too many rules. I was trapped. They owned me I was like, bro, I can't give up six more years of my life either or not No matter how good you sweeten the plot and how good the Air Force has it There is going to be somebody that doesn't like it because people are just prone to complain and there are people that are upset There's no Air Force where they should have joined something more of a brotherhood type because that's more of their appeal So be self-aware at what branch you want to join and just understand that You're joining the Air Force and you're going to lose all Ability to brag about anything besides how good you have it Oh, and you lost all right to complain about how you have it and I will say my experience of the Air Force They've had it really good every time I've been with Air Force as far as living conditions Even when I was looking up in a tent, they were given like some air-conditioned can that they lived in But I'm not gonna be too mad because I was saying that they're conditioned But they lived in like a more solid structured and I'm gonna wrap up this video with one last idea of Understanding you don't have to join the Marines or the Army or Navy or whatever not promoting that or the Air Force Realize no matter what you serve you serve your country and whether it's the hardest branch Oh man branch of the Marines or is the easiest branch of the Air Force You're still going to get the same benefits in regards to your GI bill and all the VA benefits and things like that You're getting the same we're all in the same team We get the same VA benefits when you get out it's like what he was saying He's like I'm not promoting You know you gotta join the Air Force you gotta join the Marines or whatever and I think that's a good thing Like that's why like me and Nikki We kind of see eye-to-eye on this is we're just trying to help people We're not being like you need to join this branch because I started this branch and I'm saying so It's just more like I just throw my stuff out there, but take it with a grain of salt You can do what you want with your life. I like it. Nikki's a good guy So it's really what you're looking for experience wise There's obviously specific jobs within those branches which can offer different Accreditations and schooling and training, but overall you're going to end up with a lot of the same stuff when you leave So I say this as a person that went to a college class with a corporal that said to me that she said Why did I join the Marine Corps when I realized I would have probably stayed in if I joined the Air Force? I would have gotten the same benefits and I would have probably liked to read in less anyway So that's why I'm not saying don't go Marines or do go Air Force don't care go Air Force But I'm saying be self-aware of what you're expecting out of your service and your experience in the military. I Like it. I like it. You know, this is that was a good video a lot of good points there Basically to sum up the whole video Air Force. We got it pretty good. We got it way better in the other branches But just because we have it better than the other branches doesn't mean there's gonna be the best thing for you For instance my little brother. He is in the Marines. He re-enlisted. I joined the Air Force. I got out Me and my little brother are way different people the Marines really really fits my little brother and Air Force fit me probably better than any of the other branches But me as a whole I am not somebody that could be a lifer Just my my work ethic and the way I think about things and do things and and what things done doesn't really match the way that the Air Force is or the military in general So it was one of those things where I'd always wanted to serve, right? But I didn't know until I joined that. Oh the military in general really isn't something for me now. I Am a advocate where people join the military. I think it's a great thing for people I think a lot more people should join even if they only joined four years or six years And that's it because the amount of life experience that you get the opportunity to be cultured and visit different countries or States and just get out of your comfort zone I think it would be good for Americans to just branch out a little more and and start to realize There's more out there than just like where you went to high school and the house that you grew up in ten feet from your high school And just live in that city your whole life. There's so much more out there So that's one of the reasons why I still make videos about military stuff is Yeah, I mean the military wasn't for me the Air Force wasn't for me But I think the military is a crucial thing for the United States and I'm not saying I don't want people to join I'm just simply sharing my experience my personality the way I am and how that worked out for me And I'm just giving you guys the information so you can choose what to do with your life So yeah shout out to Nikki for the video. I think it was really good Would you guys want to see me do maybe a series like this while the branches dislike the other brain? Like you know, it's like oh stealing his idea, but I mean don't do this videos already got 200,000 views If anything, I'll shout his video out in it and it'll help both of us So yeah, let me know if you think I should make a Videos like that in the future once I get all my other stuff done But yeah good video overall shout out to Nikki if you guys haven't subscribed to him Go ahead and do that and I'll see you guys my next video


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I just want to quickly just point out now that we will not be here if we did not if I didn't leverage the power of networking because I remember that it was just a mention. I met my friend's younger brother and I was telling him oh I had this idea to do this do this I've gone to like two or three different media houses at that point but they were not given like they didn't have the capacity for what it was I wanted to do with ways right and I said oh no that he has someone you know that even though that initial connection did not work he then now he's friends with LC so he then now booked called up LC when Mr. K was still here and said you know what can you link up a friend of mine she's coming to see your boss and she wants to pitch an idea he likes the idea and all of that and the rest they say his history even in selecting all the anchors the way all the anchors yes it's so organic it is one person comes to this person oh okay I'm looking for a good lawyer I'm looking for this I'm looking because I had specifics you know and all of that so it's actually something that if you really pay attention to is very practical but you see now there's one level of okay meeting introduction all of that they have seen networks that are really taking people to the whole new level that's the one I want to learn today so let me hear your thoughts that I'm bringing down I guess gosh I think networking is so powerful I can't say it's enough I have a team of amazing young people that I mentor and networking is always the first item on the agenda like guys you have to understand what it means start now I wish that when I was in your shoes somebody had told me how important networking was because when I look at my network today I mean it's grown very deliberately over maybe the last five six years but if I think about where I started maybe some circa nearly you know 16 years ago it would be huge right now right and it would be across the world so the fact that in realizing a couple of key things for me around networking one everybody matters in your network you need to have a Rolodex well people that are too young I don't know what Rolodex are but you know you need to have like in your head because I've watched people build networks like I was saying earlier just from the power of being able to connect and solve problems and me I'm a problem solver but my own way of solving problems is I am the solution but the fact is when you think about the power that oh I know who I was looking for this and I know I am the connector and I connect them both of them will remember me right it's such a powerful ability to be a connector I mean the most the most awesome amazing connector I know in this world is NASA to see NASA work is a thing of duty like literally you call NASA NASA I need something I'm like and you know you're running through her head I should let me call this person and I'll get back to you right so the fact is then realizing the second key thing that I learned and I think that was what even sort of grew my network was the fact that it's a and I love that you said it it's mutually beneficial people come into you know how like imagine and everybody wants to meet her everybody wants to meet her but what are you bringing to her you don't think you can bring something to her but you must have something to bring it doesn't matter what so the fact that you realize that for you to build a strong network you also have to build yourself because you have to have something to offer so where's the value you're bringing absolutely on that note I am a dynamic professional with 19 years experience in business development project management sales and marketing communications now he has worked and led teams in various industries including education construction IT media and entertainment he is the managing director of riverbank technologies and engineering services limited the master franchise owner of card that center training services private limited the world's largest provider of engineering design training now he has been involved in several groundbreaking projects within and outside Nigeria and has a passion for providing mentorship and direction for new and emerging businesses and impact driven initiatives as you can see we are ready for him and he's a friend of the house I must add that because he's been on ways you know several times now thank you so much for joining us this evening he's live with us in studio I mean this is an interesting conversation like by the way first of all is your first time on our new set so welcome thank you thank you but thank you so much for joining us I mean when I was looking to find you know someone to discuss this conversation I kept on racking my head and thankfully we bumped into each other very recently and I said okay I think we have the perfect guest for this conversation you know people wonder why we bring certain topics to ways we don't just talk because we feel like talking we believe that with the right information lies will be transformed and that's why we're here so we're not just here because we feel like talking on TV and I've seen I mean like Uti rightly said I've seen how like literally just an introduction takes you to like levels you never thought you would ever get to and it is happening every day by the minute so really if you understand the power that this what was it called networking wields you would not you will not take it likely anymore you be very deliberate about how you take your everyday events meetings or whatever you know but I think a lot of people still struggle right um so I would ask right is it possible first of all to build a very very strong network well thank you so much thank you so much nice to be here with you guys again I think very importantly so is that a network that you would build is very possible I am a product of strong networks I tell people that everything I am all I have done to date what the last 19 going to 20 years this year now would be on the premise of strong networks but one of the things that many people tend to forget is that which we spoke about was most of the time we are not prepared when opportunities open up so people are not ready to be value-added when a door opens and then secondly many times we are always from the perspective of what to get not what to give and most of the high net worth individuals have met all got connected with me by virtue of what you are giving absolutely so the very first point of call was what I had to offer so then they were like oh sorry guys and then it don't open so there is no choice yeah when you want to do something just because because there are people so you're doing it not because you just want to get something in return but you're doing it because you know it's a valuable relationship you don't know where the door will open you know I have had to be through a particular relationship my mentor was purely a spiritual network my pastor and myself and that went on for close to 12 years just teaching guiding and then boom you are such a brilliant guy I think there's so much more you can do oh yes I can do so much more and that that you said the rest is so it's possible to build a strong network for you must be yourself a strong connection so you yourself because a network is two ways is a two way street so you have a connection that terminates another connection that is what a network is so there's a point to point to point so I do a strong point so that even if a line is drawn between you and someone else they like oh this is the real deal the question we must ask ourselves and in this day of social media everybody's health everybody's heads are bowed can we raise the head up again can we raise the head up again because we all hide behind because it's terrible so with the real the real human connections we saw ourselves and we hadn't seen it before and it was really like all like we had like never disconnected but a lot of people are having their head bowed they don't look at them anymore we don't even know what's happening around us in fact I was watching a video first Akil and me and god and Akil and me posted the video just a little what he just said of a young boy that saved the entire school boss you know because he was the only one without a phone because he was he was present right so it's very it's it's so that means I I try to say that it's rude now when you go into events because you know but that's what happens at events right and then we were just talking about that over the weekend like people come in and and I think that's also some of the reasons why I don't enjoy the whole of them movement because people just come in after you've taken all the pictures you eat then then you hear the song and then it's back down to it but I like the fact that we're talking technology because I also think that it being used the right way technology can actually help you expand your network I'll give an example with LinkedIn I work in customer experience deliberately being able to connect with you know customer experience leaders from across the world sites like you know LinkedIn and things like that have given you that ability but I if we're talking about and I think that when you talk about networking from people who are sort of midway or at the pinnacle of their careers it seems a bit easy but I wanted I wanted to ask a question that starts from the ground absolutely a lot of young people want to start building their networks you know conversations like this with them they go I have nothing of value to offer and I always say no you have something to offer have you had a conversation with this person and think how can I add value to this person so what would your advice be to those young people are saying how do I add value when I don't even think I have anything to give you you hit something on the head here because my my last EA who's not going on to be you know a tech guy they could in tech bro now he's gone on to become a tech bro he do you know how he connected with me he came to my IG DM and said sir I have gone I've done your page audit and I see there's a whole lot I can do for I've never met him before he then it was even in Akure on those states he gave me my DM I mean others have said please mentor me please guide me please lead me he came to my DM and said I have gone through your page I've done an audit of your page I believe that at that time I think I had maybe like 1000 followers or I was following I mean I remember and he said I know what to do I know how to rebrand you and grow your page not just grow my page I'm not repackage you that was what he said I know what to do and I can tell you that I will take your page from one to five thousand in that one year period but I would not buy a single follower that caught my attention he's young I mean at the time he bossed me with like 21 he's young so and he was in Akure on those states not even in Lagos I said you know what meet me on Monday Monday that was on Saturday he took a bus down the rest like they say is history so from some guy who was there and just you know bumping around I bought him a phone just do what you want to do and he was created a new logo for my brand started doing podcasts started doing videos and he literally was with me everywhere for no cost but I said I can't have you working with me at no cost put him on the company's payroll ask my EA so he worked with me to every meeting he sat through he was like I can start I can start doing your slides I do my slides myself he said I can do your slides I'm good at it I learned canva I bought him the premium canva from there he started learning UI UX okay so when I say that value adding I mean value it is from the very bottom so the question again is are you a person of value what do you really have with you right now that you can offer and networking is three ways so you have those above you those at your level and you have those in quote beneath you because the people that I roll with the most now are those who are way younger than I am and I have people who are way older than I am both those in my mid my level are like very few but those because I have to tell them you guys know that the future of the world is you people knowing what to do per time right so you must and your network must also cut across everything spiritual network emotional network social network professional and carrier network you can't just sit and say oh it's only professional because there will be times where you cannot break some thoughts professionally let me say again and again it will be that hey guys so um there's something and oh don't worry I put a call through and you do not know so let me say it again and say it again to the camera you do not know where your next big deal is coming from so don't block yourself in and say oh this is the place it's coming from but this person is that even in church yeah there are people that come in the church and they hear the grace of our lord Jesus Christ they are out I'm going to fall I'm going to fall they know it's the past of foolish people and he's walking out they don't wait for the grace they don't wait for better they are out they're out and I see those people are telling me I wonder how do you want to break into some circles what do you want to come to church to do because the very idea of church is fellowship is community it's all of that so you have to do that to get the best from it you know what let's go in a break where we come back from that break I want to see how to move to the next level because I have to I'm looking for right now hey with us from right back all right thanks for staying with us I didn't know that's we're already like all right so if you just tuned in I see the registry behind cameras right I will discuss in building a next level network with Ayola Jolay I mean now please let's hear what you have say remember you can join the conversation send us an sms or whatsapp is already one eight zero three four six six three you can also tweet others at wish I've gone with the hashtag wish show all right so I mean this conversation is at all levels right um I like the fact that we are actually hitting the nail you know where it's where it would make most impact which is you know understanding I always say this to my kids right um don't chase after money chase after value if you make yourself very valuable right you'll be so do you understand money follows in the direction of value because it's called currency yeah but the challenge I have now the crop of people that even the people you employ and all of the everybody's just all about so how do we even start to correct the mindset because look at what you said I've had so many people DM me oh this is that I mean she she brought somebody to my life that I always call her my guardian angel umalala you know umalala has made life easy for me umalala is not working for me because I'm paying her one million dollars do you understand is somebody first of all that she saw that this is where she can come this is where I need to be of help and she's going on to do a lot of good things we I'm seeing a lot of growth great things happening right for her but you see you try to tell young people these things these days right and it's almost like you don't understand you know and the country is hard this is this and you know and you just tend to water down so by the time the person talks to you like after like five minutes they want to leave you know because you're not even on that frequency right so how do we start to build like like build that mindset where we're thinking value so that when we get that value it is it's a no brainer every other thing will happen the growth will happen every other thing will happen okay so you know there's this saying that he said the young people have a short short attention span I think it's a lie it's just interest that differs so I think the first thing we need to start doing consciously is instilling in young people the thought around building themselves and not looking for money or quick quick ways like they call them once you out just give us a year like I tell for most of the guys that are under my mentor and I said just give yourself one year lock yourself out of circulation in quotes stop change chase stuff one year build yourself you know you want to be like why we want to be of value to what does who are doing she does this this this this I build my skill set that I know that if I'm going to go into was dm I would literally be almost irresistible to her that is the first thing first and then more often than not not of it would be the first network that would give you a bump but that first network if you have a chance of making the right impression that first network would open up another network because when you make a right impression and someone says oh I need someone to do I mean I've had to be there where some I did a job for someone and the other person said to that person said oh you know people have been disappointing in this particular task again and again he said look no further I have you're right the guy so the first one wasn't the big deal the second was the bumper deal oh my god because the person who referred me gave me a leverage to negotiate premium now premium dollars you get my point so we must first instill on people just do your just bury your head in work secondly we must stop putting money first it is becoming a plague right if that is a pandemic on its own it's hot and I'll tell you why there's a subtle even from very the high almighty this is subtle peer pressure that's crept in and become if it's been woven into a fabric that nobody is ready to take patience as a virtue anymore so I get into a circle and the next thing I'm looking for is who I will hit who will become and we don't want to build communities we don't want to build emotional connections anymore we just want to quickly get to we are gonna get a very transactional let me let me hear the name of the word we're very transactional so what do I get from you how do I get it from you how fast can I get it from you and the moment it does not come the interest wins will be drawn to the next person again so we must start changing the narratives immediately from now to help young people even those in our own farabale like calm down it would happen there are things that we've chased years and when it does come through eventually you know that it was because the pressing you must build trust you must build the camaraderie that comes with constant contact you can't breathe in today you're out for the next four months and you say oh I just stopped by to check up on you again and then I'm off again the next seven months and I'm saying that we will have that kind of I wouldn't see you because I don't even know what you have to offer which is why you see people joining clubs like eco eco yeah I was gonna ask I was just gonna ask because somebody has been terrorizing me is I love to drag or believe me it is the real deal and I would explain to you a lot of people have you know criminalized or bastardized the thought of being in societies or clubs because they feel they think around oh it's you know the stuff that are bad that happened there but key that's what that's the foundation of it in our own culture the key place is the place of building trust and community of value adders as it were I know that this is what I have to offer I mean this circle it will first come to you before it goes anywhere else same thing with church same thing with mosques same thing with associations I was saying to a few guys I said in my church where worship and also pastor I have people that when they're getting married even planer is in about the church oh yeah because this it's a community yes because we must keep the money within because it's a community it becomes a circular economy even planer church member decorator church member small shops church member his videographer I'm not joking as in it has happened this fashion designer for the bride church member suits church member why because you've created a system by which everybody's job is known and you've built trust trust and not just trust the competence in each person is glaring for all to see so you can't say you are you are you are mediocre and you are in a network and you expect people to keep giving you it would not happen so as I said bury yourself and build competence and value build it and be a person of trust that I can say go and do this and I'm sure without an outer of doubt that you would not go there and misrepresent me because what a network is that's how fickle it is a network means that if you are here and there's a bridge here this person that was here that I connected you with I can severe that whole relationship because of your misbehavior absolutely I'm telling you so that's why yes it's so fickle and that's why people protect their network you protect your network but I like the fact that you said that because the truth of it is there are different routes you know we've talked about the young people and we've talked about you know you have people but there are different routes to building your network so and like for me actually I like being the connector and I sometimes feel like that's the most powerful because every time you connect somebody that does a good job the connector and the connector are both grateful right so my currency has gone up in both of their eyes but I always have that goal you know when people are talking and it's always oh I have this problem I'm like oh I have a guy I have a guy and I when you live in Nigeria particularly in Lagos you have to have a guy before like the minute you have a problem I'm like no I have a guy I have a guy now people who struggle because let's be honest a lot of us want to have this currency this capital we want to have huge networks but people still struggle all these things we're talking about value and all it's all well and good somebody's watching that is still like this is when I was looking jammed and they still don't know what it means but the fact is if you think about somebody who has done a good job for even if it's a painter even if it's a carpenter and somebody tomorrow comes to you and says and the minute you're able to introduce that person and you make sure that person does a good job your network has just expanded and it's sort of an exponential multi-level marketing almost type of thing you're building that pyramid right as you go but today the people who I believe struggle the most I think the young guys just think I don't know if I have the people at the top are like everybody's coming for me but the people in the middle right they're sort of the real people who struggle because I've realized now somewhere in the middle that I need to have a network I'm not sure that I believe it will work for me because that's where I started I'm speaking about the way my own journey went I'm not sure if it's going to work for me but then I try once I say okay this can open the door that can open the door where do those kind of people start not necessarily because I may already be in the work environment and maybe a church environment I may be in all those different environments but how do I actually begin to connect with people people don't know how to start those conversations like I meet what today I don't want to say mentor me or give me this how can I it's just maybe given a picture of hello how are you building there are conversation starters yeah I'll put it that way so maybe not on an elevator page per se but there are conversation starters and which is where first and first is from the area of interests right so there might be common interests common goals you know love for sports love for or a current affairs politics they occur their communication starters and sometimes for me what has happened for me more often when I'm out of the country because they are in a different environment is when I'm going in I read up on the current affairs of that country before I go in so I'm in the train or I'm at the bus station or somewhere or maybe even in the subway and I'm like they're having a conversation and I just laugh that's a I've opened up that I just laugh to what they're saying oh you're listening oh yeah such a lie and then bam we start I'm I'm naturally an introvert so it's you're speaking to the person who can speak to the people who are the biggest those in the biggest dilemma I'm naturally an introvert I'm very to myself so I asked myself when I said what do I need first what are the interests so you read up on unless you go to a country read up on what is happening current affairs use if you're going to see a group of people what do they do really you're going to a sports group it's it's wrong to get to a space someone says my name is X and then you're seeing them tomorrow and you just can't remember their name so and I'm saying that because except you are just saying I do not you see you because you literally have to tell me your name three times fine what time registers in my head is one of the things that I do and I think everybody watching this has to try to learn to do this I take a picture with you when I'm going when I'm saving your number I save your picture with that number with that number okay the other technique that I use is I send you a text message straight away yeah so when I meet you I get your number as soon as I get your number I send your message oh hi this is it's you you met and so I so that helps to create a level of rapport and also you must make conscious efforts to make the right impression in your first contact learn to have a firm handshake don't go hugging everybody some people just don't want to be touched so so it's it's just the little sometimes we think about them as big deals but it's the little things find out the interests of the places you're going to and with a concert who are those are performing who are the kind of people that come for such concert what do I need to wear how do I need to look how do I need to smell look at all those little details and it's not it doesn't cost much to be intentional about those things it doesn't cost much it doesn't cost much and then when you make a contact don't collect a card and drop it in your your diary or you just ignore that oh it's gone and then you say oh I got a card it's not about getting card it's about getting a contact establishing a contact not just getting a card but establish a contact and service it it takes intention so we are buried enough when the question you said technology for instance I have WhatsApp or whatever it is that you use the question is when you go on those platforms or those medium you're probably talking to the familiar so we are buried in your catching up on gist what is happening in your alumni group you don't even know who is there some people are at university they go to Harvard and all that they have no clue what's happening there they go to even the Nigerian universities until your colleague now becomes a governor so the question now is why should he answer you when he does not have any form of association relationship absolutely the connection so less sees being transactional in this season where people are becoming governor absolutely less sees being transactional less have been relational build the networks build it invest because the person you're saying I mean I finished from university about 20 years ago and the people that finished with me then some of them are already CEOs of major firms there are some I cannot call you know why I didn't service them there are some that I can walk into their offices without an appointment you know why I service them so it's two ends of the poll the question is which end of the poll are you gravitating towards so you can be in an association and just be dormant there you're there like you're not there you can pay 10 million to join a co-e-cloak that's by public I'm not doing anything with it you know when I hear you speak now I'm so guilty of that but my one is where I'm guilty like I mean I haven't left that group here just because if I leave people would they know I actually left they brought me back yeah but when we had our anniversary my school turned 40 last year and you know I was shocked so my friend forced me onto the planning committee and then when they started calling names this person this person I'm like what now who now so you realize that actually I've been missing out because these are people that you actually now have a direct connection to absolutely I can reach out to you and say oh I went to navy we can catch up we can just we can you know and that's it and I just thought you know what networks are everywhere and the one word that I was looking for which you mentioned is the intentionality of it if we take nothing else away from this compensation is that we'd be intentional about it but I'm not I was going to ask a question but I'm a viewer has sent in this question and it says what are some of the strategies for following up which I think you've addressed and staying in touch with contacts after an initial meeting or networking events are you giving us some tips already take a picture save it send the text message to say how do you like to also guide people on doing when you're scheduling a meeting with someone let's say you've gone ahead to check and you agree that this person you can add value to them and you want to then you've done a few cold calls I would say or warm calls because it's not more cool because you've met them before but let's even take a cold call for instance you've gone ahead to do your research and you want to connect with the person don't say hello sir I am waiting for a response please stop it right stop it hello sir how are you sir how is your family how is your mother how is your father no no no I mean I'm these are things that happen every day you get it a lot so I get it the person will just say hi or that I'm wondering like what next right so can you just in the same breath go ahead and drop what you need and then you close that conversation when the person responds to you and say oh great I'd like to meet here is where the catch really is can we meet on Friday preferably at 2 p.m. does that work you've given yourself a shot at them responding with a firm response so I've said can we meet Friday say 2 p.m. at a preferred location you have when the person will be responding back to you I can guarantee you 90% of the time they will say oh sorry Friday doesn't work for me can we do Monday 4 p.m. which was the original work thank you all you wanted was give us the definite date so you've created the door you just took the work from me you just you got your food at the door then when you get in there please start and give you a step wise right from meeting the person to then making the impression when you get in there I know that for some of us we get very star stroke something hits us and we just feel like you know nervous take a breath just catch your breath and if possible rehearse what you would say in that place before you get there so you are not caught off guard because sometimes some questions you'll throw you off and you are blank right and please don't be too afraid to make mistakes sometimes you can laugh at yourself even in front of a new person it eases the pressure and the tension in the room so and then when you're out of there one of the things that you mentioned that I do all the time whether I'd meet you today or tomorrow is once I'm stepping out of the room it was nice meeting you thank you for such a great conversation I look forward to more engagement in the future yeah that's it so I think it's very important to do that so whether it's business whether it's religious whether it's social whether it's emotional you must learn to build that sort of relationship let them anticipate your coming let them look forward to you coming the next time okay so good evening my dear beautiful sisters what are you saying building a next level network building a next level network is very key to a business enterprise because it builds it up your guest made mention of possibility of building a next level network and having a personal connection which is strong powerful and key he also said we need to recognize our value and said that there are three categories of people so Daniel helps us to sum up our okay so there are three categories of people that are above you same level and beneath you which is correct my dear beautiful sister uti said joining two parties together for solution to build a strong network uti you look very beautiful good evening uh seeing you makes my day thank you Daniel thank you Daniel you like to summarize our messages you know we don't ignore that's so good our messages so I mean if you had one final thing to say to anyone that is listening right um how how um how do I how would you say um the approach to networking should be going forward right would you be aggressive would you be you know because there's difference between aggressive and intentionality sometimes when you're like people just coming at you like yeah so persistence is not pestering let's hold that you know like without persistence is not pestering okay so a lot of people pester people not that they are persistent yeah so you must you must be able to differentiate that so I reach out to you and it's happened to me a couple of times I reach out to you you you say oh I'd see you next week and then I say oh just a reminder that we're supposed to see next week you haven't confirmed date and time and the person responds oh I'm so sorry it's been a busy schedule can really schedule now the person has given you a cue or a cue to keep the contact going now when the person reads your message and doesn't respond you said the second a third a fourth at that point you should take a break because it means the person probably does not see value in what you have to say or they are just busy at that time taking a break is not cutting off completely so you give me like a week or two weeks and you're back to say I'm circling back with you on this particular thing or just at that point you might need to just say hello just just just just checking on you I'm making sure you're good that's all is everything all right I mean my sense of you I mean are you all right is everything well are you fine health wise and then someone respond and says oh I've been down in the hospital and then you must at that point be empathetic and don't go hitting your point again at that point yeah you don't say oh sorry oh no get well soon so I'm trying to ask you on that note I'll catch you do that I'll bring a book for you empathetic draw back a bit and just apply emotional intelligence show some concept and you know for what you just spoke about emotional intelligence you know there are two sides to it before you talk about self I mean people management there's a self-awareness and self-management there's a people awareness and people so you must first be aware before you start managing people be aware so it's important that we don't just absolutely well I'm telling you we are just in time there thank you so much for joining us thank you so much now you have to be friend of the house no no you just now need to make you remember all our social media handles remember you can like share invite your families and friends to watch and follow the conversation if you missed our quote for today here it is again it says networking is not about just connecting people it is about connecting people with people people with ideas and people with opportunities and go out today be intentional about you know building the right network for your next level of growth yes and service them build relationships thank you so much we had a fantastic conversation see you Monday


I'm not really used to doing all this, so we'll just get started. About three or four years ago I got laid off at work and about a year into it we figured out we had to have something to come up with some more money. So we did some research, one thing and the other, so we decided we had to add fish to it. Made several trips, come to Jeff City, got a hold of Chuck Hicks and Russ Gerlach over there which has been our aces for quite a while and all of this. We did a lot of research and our biggest problem was financing. We got all of our paperwork together and went to the bank and they was not, there's no history of it in our area. And I like to make this one little story, year before we were in approval of all John Deere equipment, we wanted to do an upgrade on a tractor. I made a phone call and I got approved for $45,000 over the phone to go buy a tractor the next day. We put this all together and I need 26 to get this all together and they had, they went to the board members, it took two weeks to get approved for it. And that was bottom line, there is no history. Anyway, we've been going at this, we finally got started. We're short on time so I'm just going to talk and if anybody has anything to ask, just go. We got started in May of 2010, this is what we started off with. We had one pond that was going to use four and a half acres. Right up against the bank it's 12 and a half foot deep so that's where we got started. We got more but that's where we ended up. We stretched two cables, clear across it. We didn't have a clue how I was going to do that and there was a feed truck sitting there so it's time went on we started building our cages. There are four by four by eight coated chicken wire, we got a PVC sewer pipe along top there for float rings and we put a feed ring inside of it. And all this time we're pretty dumb. We've all grown up on farms, thought fish was no big deal but we found out we didn't know a thing. So we put in, we put in 14 cages our first year. Okay, there is a, I think it's June the 6th, we bought 10,000 hybrid bluegills to put into them. The two aerators we bought from Kansas City, they're like $13, $1400 each. Our biggest cost of getting started we had to run primary electricity almost a quarter mile. So we went $5,000 right off the top. We didn't know if we was going to make a penny. That was our first experience. We give $0.52 the first year plus freight on them. $0.52 a piece. Yeah. But we found out on our second and third year 90% of fish are hatched in southern Missouri and in Arkansas. We did a little more research and a few phone calls when we re-stalked it was $0.26. We found out not everybody's out there to help us out you know. So anyway it gets better. That was one first. There's a picture of Chuck Hicks and Russ Gerlach. They've been our aces for instance day one. This is like in July after we got started and they come over and just see how things was going. They've been over they brought some of their students over to see what we're doing. Went to a prawn harvest in can you remember where we went for that? I don't know. It was down in southern Missouri. Everybody kept talking about the prawns. We ought to get into the prawns. We didn't know what the heck a prawn was but every time we turned around they said that's what we ought to do. There's big money in them. So we went to our first harvest in September. They was alright. They was kind of small. They're basically they're known as Freshwater Shrimp. Mary looked up some stuff this year on the computer and they call them Lobsterettes. Now the certain nicknames. October went over to Jeff City down to Culver Farm and they had their harvest of them. We was a lot more impressed with them. These are some of the students that's come down there to farm. Russ and Chuck has got a wonderful relationship with these kids. I think they all just grow up together. These guys here they raise come out at nine per pound. So they're significant. You can actually see. So then we're sitting here thinking well now we wouldn't mind trying this but then we're back to the same deal how are we going to get the bank to go along with this story you know. The prawn is something they ain't ever even heard of. And the best thing we did I think we brought home about 50 pounds. We passed them out mostly that night. We got around and about a week or so later we invited the bank to come down and have lunch with us. Mary fixed lunch. I'm going to introduce this is Mary. She's my assistant assailant and cohort on about all these projects. She's the one that does it when I'm not there. And she had these all fixed up and nice dinner and everything and when we got down the bank president had never been to our place. We do a local bank so we do basically with one loan officer. He'd been down for farm visits and everything but the president he brought three other loan officers with him. They hung around afternoon we went down to the ponds and toured it. They got ready to leave president walked up to me and shook my hand he says well you tell Danny what you need. So that pretty well got us in by fixing them dinner. We went to Ava Missouri. We got thinking we could raise some trout in the winter months when our water cooled off. So we went down to, oh I can't find all my notes. Oh Marvin and David Emerson are losing track here. They raised trout farm in Ava. It's a beautiful place. This is their office house. You'll notice right here this is a spring that comes up back over here and actually runs underneath this is an office out here and this is a spring that runs right underneath their house. It's beautiful. We spent the day down there with them had lunch of course at some of their incubation. So we decided we was going to try it. We come home and we built a pin in our pond that we had and once again we didn't know what tech was doing. So we just started in. We built eight foot panels 20 foot long PVC pipe and coated them. Drove some pipe in the pond. We did have to put some construction fence uppers. We found out they jumped.  Now they can jump out. So we had to go back and put some more on top of it. But anyway that was in November. We bought, I don't know, three or four hundred the trout brought them in and we raised them up through the winter. We started to do our harvest in March. We started advertising this was really our first harvest we had got to do and we was going to just have a fish day out of our house. We had three calls. What does it? Rotary Club, Lions and Chamber of Commerce all wanted to come in and meet with them on their meeting days to put on their program. So we did that. Thought that was pretty neat but we was not prepared. We just had some pictures and the gift to gab I guess. We was trying to get them out so we finally got the scene around them. We had a four foot dip scene I guess you want to call it. There's some of them there. They come out pretty good but trout to eat in our neighborhood it did not work. We got a, ended up there's some of them there. Chinese food market in Kansas City ended up taking the biggest end of them later on. But they wasn't quite big enough for them. It was their issue with them. We had a real beautiful crowd and beautiful day. There's some of the best pictures right there. The girls, they like to play with them. So there's Russ. We started building our own prawn pond in April and there's Mary and one of her buddies. She's out inspecting it one night. We decided to go ahead and start doing it. The pond itself cost us a little over $6,000 to dig it. It's a half acre pond. We put this control structure in there and I got it a shy drainage. It's water control structure. It's a 12 or 1400 I believe up there. But the neat thing about it is there's gates in it and we can raise and lower water level by just opening it up and we can pull gates out. There's six, eight inch gates at a time. So we can do quite a little bit of different stuff with it. So we buried it in and it's quite a fiasco. We had to buy a pump. Most all of our water comes out of our big pond and right now we have to move it around because we don't have a well. So this is what our prawn pond looked like. We did apply for the grant. We got it and it was to try to raise bluegill and prawns in the same water because the bluegill will eat the prawn. There's no doubt about it. But we was going to try to do that to make more use out of our water, our electricity and everything else to actually make more money off our half acre pond. In theory it worked but in reality it sucked. When they brought our fish in they put in some little guys that got in there and they got out of our cages. So there went a big chunk of our prawn. And our bluegill we're still all learning the labor because it's only in here from June to October. The labor putting the bluegill in here and taking them out just ain't hardly worth the trouble. Just leaving the prawn in there is actually a better deal we found out. It helps on the money but the labor comes into play there and I don't really think it's going to pan out. That's some more of the pictures of them there. We got two aerators in there running. That's my son Eric. He's a feeding one morning. I don't know if you can see. This is some of the prawn feed right there going out. We feed the fish and the prawn both at the same time. Like I say in theory it was a beautiful idea but we also put some large mouth bass in that year and that's a picture of them eating. That was some of the bigger bluegill which we'd bought from the year before and that's the size of them in one year's time. This was some of them that come in. We bought them three and four inch ones. There's some of the bass that we had bought this July. Put them in. This here are some pictures of some channel cats we had. We got some white ones and stuff in there. We're actually harvesting them right now. We got some of the we've got them sold. Some of the regular channel cat are weighing 14, 15 pounds. We've got them sold. The albinos they don't want so we're just going to put them in the freezer. We had our prawn harvest on October 15th Ok this is September. This is a sample we took in September last year. This is October 15th of last year we had our first prawn harvest. That's some of them there. That's what they come out looking like. There's about 14 per pound I think and that we come up with. But our poundage was not good because of our bluegills. We just took an old feedbunk and that's what made our catch our pipe come out if you remember from the slide the forwards on the valve. It comes out in the ground and we took an old feedbunk and we did the legs and put some expanded metal in there and it works pretty good. The water comes out and goes out to expanded metal then blows the prawn out on the plastic bunk yet. It seems we got cattle and stuff. We have that stuff in the scrap pile so that's what we used. These tanks we got a pair of them. We come over here to High Point, Missouri and this gentleman was going out of business and we bought his supply. We bought quite a bit of stuff the first time around. We ended up using most all of it.  That day went on until dark cleaning fish and we finally got tired of it. Mary had hired a pilot to come and take pictures that day and it was a surprise to me and I didn't even have enough sense to know what I could have this guy was doing up here. This is a picture of a farm, the hay pile and everything out there. You can see the aerators in this one on the big pond we still got cages of bluegill and ant. That is the half-faker prawn pond. It's just almost dry at that point. In December we went down to Frankfurt, Kentucky and joined the Prawn Association. This is some of the pictures from that. We spent three days down there I believe. This is Laura too and I'm terrible with names today. Jim Tidwell. He's President of the Aquaculture Association in Kentucky State University. We'd met another guy down there Craig Umstrom. He is the one that raises about all the prawns that ever come up in this area. In Florida they got to be hatched in salt water then they gradually transform into fresh water and that's how he can actually bring them up here. He is working with these guys immensely and this year he's doing an all-male species. They've went in and did some work on the females, did a chromosome change so ISIS was like an 80% and he says no it's 100% males that they're going to produce and I don't know how or why or whatever and for the most part I don't care that's his problem. They're going to cost a little more but they'll grow better plus you get rid of the deal with the sex fighting and this that and the other and we're hoping that's going to work a little better. This is some of the pictures from Kentucky State. They do a big deal on paddle fish. In January we had to get some bluegill up we noticed all along all summer we had some damage to our cages we'd drained our big pond about five or six years ago and put a new water line and new overflow for the cattle in there and apparently we didn't get them all drained but this is the guys that we come out with and they kept coming up in our sands when it was so cold and most of them is like 9 or 10 pounders and they did us enough damage so they went to the house too but the biggest problem with them they wasn't fit to eat.  On channel cat that didn't work because there's just 32% with low fat. These are guys just all turned to butter balls. Mary tried cooking them and I think the dogs ended up with them finally. She could not get the fat out of them so we learned we couldn't do that. This is a picture here of one of our first bluegill cages that we put in. This is January of 12 in 10. June of 10. This is some of the first ones here. We sold these. These are actually going to kids fishing tournament is where they headed. There's 124 cubic feet there that one cage harvested $1,600 gross. Okay that to me because we raised cattle that to me is two caves at a good market and that's in our area 7 to 8 acres of ground. Not 100 cubic feet gross. I don't know we're guessing over 1000. We're not real good bookkeepers at this point. We got so much going on we don't do. But that's still over 100 cubic feet versus 6 or 7 acres. That's not bad. Plus one of the beauties of this and what I like stressed everybody else it takes little to no machinery for us to work. We got a four wheeler a boat and 3 or 4 or 5 gallon buckets. That's 90% of what we got invested other than ponds. You know in electricity we don't we got tractors and balers and all that but it don't we don't need none of that for this. And that's the beauty what could be done on such different levels. Somebody had 2 or 3 acres or 100 acres. You wanted some just for yourself or some to sell you know you can just do whatever you want to with this. The electricity like say is the biggest deal they got to be they got to be populated at this density to make any money. And at that density you're going to have to have the aeration. Unless you're just wanting to do some for your house you know and stuff like that. We did have some channel cat we'd kept in these. We'd bought some earlier. We had a fish fry here a couple of weeks ago. They'd been in about a year and a half in one of these cages and they're suspended with 4 or 5 foot of water under them and then was the best catfish I'd ever had. They wasn't strong. They was clean you know. They ate commercial food. They wasn't on the bottom you couldn't beat them. You know they was as good as anything you'd get in a restaurant. Now this is part of our setup back to our load of bluegill here. In February we went to Nebraska City. We got asked to put this on. Went to the Laird Lodge up there. It was beautiful. We did about the same thing. We started redoing our prawn ponds. We learned this in our meeting. They said to put this substrate up. And they can say whatever it wants. All it is is plastic construction fence. It depends what degree you got what you call it. You know. We went to Home Depot and bought it. Some steel post. And basically what this does, when the prawns go to quarantine, they lose their shells. So they need some place to go because everything's cannibalistic.  They eat whatever is there. They can get up on this fence and get away. And it actually likes doubles or triples your square feet of your pond. We went into putting, we put 8,000 in here. But that pond actually turned, it's a half acre pond actually turned into darn it at one acre pond by putting his fence in. Because that give us more room for them to go. So anyway, that's what we did. We put it in the bottom. We did two ponds this year. We did a little one. We're experimenting with one. We have no aeration in it, a quarter acre pond with no aeration. This is still our half acre pond with all of our money in it. So that was a day's project. We hired Dima lay boys. They come out and they helped us. I think I hit something. I don't know, I did something here. She locked. Anyway, the Dima lay boys, they're a deal from the, is it Masons? They're the young kids' group of the Masons. And they are real good. They come out and we need some help catching fish and stuff. They're a lot of fun. They're good kids. We have a lot of fun water fights and the whole deal. But they're a good bunch of kids to help. And so they help us quite a little bit when we need it. So anyway, that was it. In June, we went down and we picked up our prawn. This year, I bought 11,000. They weigh these guys up in grams. We took us duly down there and all on and on. I come home with eight pounds. There's got to be a way. You can't put these in a cooler, you know. But you got to have it for the aeration. We got them divided up and we just took another old feed bunk and made a shoot. We just backed up to the ponds and we got two sides. We put 8,000 in the big pond. There's a picture of a Mary which Mary had to, she had her camera extended out but they're just basically transparent.  If you pick them up, that's about all you can see. Like I said, there was 11,000 and they weighed 8 pounds when they put them in. This was our little pond we did in September, which is another old feed bunk. That's where they're coming out there. We had a lot better turnout. This is one here. We got this one at home in a picture. Well, a fact part of his claws are cut off there. I don't even show them. That's a female there. The other one was a male with a big blue. Yeah, this is a male here. These guys come out this year right around the 12, per pound and Russ comes up from the school and we let him do the way. We don't weigh him. He comes and helps us, but we want his figures. Here's some of the DMA lay boys. They helped the day of the harvest, just whatever. They actually got to go down and pick them up out of the mud leftovers. This is Barney Fisher. He's our state representative. He come up, spent most of the day with us. This is some of what we do because we have to sell our stuff live, not processed. We get in all the state regulations and stuff. So what we do, we sell them live. We got a three compartment sink. There's like four or five of the guys here. We weigh them up. You pay for them. If you want them clean, wonderful. There's a tip jar there and we'll clean them or you can come over and clean them. But long as they're yours and you either ask us to clean them or you clean them, it's, everything's fine. But we cannot charge, you know, or we cannot clean them then we sell them. Long as you buy them live and pay for them, it works. That suits went to the health department and I don't know who all we got that from. So we went to Kansas City. It's a used restaurant deal and we bought these sinks and some stainless steel tables. We started another pond since we got done. It's another half acre pond. We're going to stay with it. It is working. This year alone we've sold in between $12,000 and $14,000 with a bluegill and we ain't even halfway through our first crop. They're just, everything we did is at least a two year cycle. When we started it we got kind of storied to how it's going to be a year a little over. Well that got us in trouble with the bank and every place else it didn't work. Two years into it we can see it is working. We ain't touched our bass yet. We've got an order for them in December and January to go to Illinois for part of them what we're turning loose. We've had bass all the way up to out, no the bluegills been in Outuna Iowa been down in Springfield. We've had a deal in bass at Bartle Hall from Ranger Boat. They come and got some for display up here. So it is working. It's just taking some time. We are building another pond getting it started. So we was hoping to get two put in this year but it probably ain't going to work. We had to shut down and we had to go back to the field. We're still, we were supposed to be in here yesterday but we was cutting silage. That was a picture last Sunday. I was mowing corn last Sunday and this is what it was. It's volunteer corn. So that's where we was at yesterday instead of up here. We're still chopping silage. This is one of Mary's projects here. She raises boxers on the side also. That's one of her leaders last year. They fit in real good with everything else we do. So it's beef boxers of bluegill just come and see us. That's basically what we do. What's your marketing on the bluegill? I'm a little confused. Pardon me. What's your marketing on the bluegill? Are you selling all of them live and who are you selling them to? Most of them so far has been to the kids fishing tournaments. With Russ Gerlock, he's helping us broker them out of Jeff City so far. We cannot sell well, if you wanted to buy them as food, yes, you know, we can. But so far they haven't. They went to kids fishing tournaments because there ain't nothing any funner to catch in a big bluegill on a little rod and reel. Is there anything better to eat or something else, boys? Oh, no. I love them but I know what we can get out of them so we don't eat very many of them. That's pretty well what we do. If anybody would be interested in coming over some time we're pretty proud of what we're doing because it is working. Where's Butler? Straight south of Kansas City on 71. We're about 50 miles south of Kansas City just right there. So that's pretty well our story.


This is stock number 7532A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used. Light-duty truck headquarters. Remember we are the guys with the trucks on 41. Today we are checking out this super clean 2017 Ram 1500 crew cab 5 foot 7 inch short box. This truck has the 3.0 liter Eco diesel V6 motor From this HD video you will be able to tell that this truck is extremely clean all the way around No dents or dings on the fender Has the 20 inch factory alloy rims with the chrome covers and Goodyear Wrangler 20 inch tires with just about all the tread lock Bright silver metallic is the color. We shoot all of our videos in 1080p So if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it's like you're right here Looking at the truck with me. No dents or dings on that front fender or bumper Passing the side rim is absolutely perfect as well. 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Hello, welcome to the Rugged Rockhound. Today, I'm just taking a short drive with my wife up Spanish Fork Canyon. So this canyon Unfortunately, mostly private property, so there's not a whole lot of place to rockhound, but we do have a little window here This is Skyline Drive right here and then if you look over this way We have Starvation Road So this hill between these two public roads is one of the few public areas in this canyon All right, welcome. So we just came a little ways up the road up Starvation Canyon or Starvation Road And that's where we came from. So that's the highway over there. We just drove up the way So here's the hill up back here behind me. So the hill has fossils kind of all through it We're gonna just kind of start right here. We'll see what we find here close by We might go back to the beginning or we might go up the road a little ways We're gonna search around. So what we're looking for here. So this is Cretaceous Time period very shallow ocean. So we're gonna see a lot of fossils in particular oysters and clams and small seashells They're all over the place What we're hoping to do is find Maybe more unusual things being near the shoreline. You can also find bird tracks in these layers You can also find occasionally some petrified palm wood. I've only ever found one piece up here. So Maybe we'll get lucky again I've been walking up the wash a little distance and Here we have a nice little block that you can see has seashells all through it Right now I'm a little further up And sure enough here's some of the layers where the shells are coming out of most of the oyster shells You can see one right there Oyster shell A piece of one most of them are really broken and most of the oyster shells and clams shells you'll see up here Are gonna be broken So I most likely won't keep those Unless I find a really nice one But I am looking for the seashells the coiled seashells which in Geology is known as a gastropod Those usually tend to survive better and they look cool. So those are the ones I'll be keeping most likely These are not the shells. We're looking for Dang smell shells What west a little ways didn't really find much came back east Went up a little bit and finally found the layer is trying to get to So if you take a quick look here Right there in the soil you'll see gastropods seashell fossils That's what I was looking for The main layer it's coming out of right here It's kind of an area from here down But you can see if you look closely at the rock There's an oyster in there There's a coiled shell right there spiral shell One right there It's all coming out of here This is where it's thicker right here this this part right under here is where it's got a lot of shells. There's a Seashell right there of these gastropods So I might sit down and kind of Dig a little bit out just to see you can find some nice stuff in those layers So just pulled a piece out and it's got a good sized one right there bigger than what we've been seeing so I decided to come up the hill a little way and I was thinking maybe if I come up further the shells maybe won't be as crushed and sure enough I'm getting better ones ones that haven't been damaged That nice Look how nice that one is Came out beautifully and it's still perched on the rock in a very beautiful way Out of the nice Specimen look at that one poking out right there that looks like the biggest one we've found so far See if I can get that on one piece Okay, looks like we've removed enough rock to get it out beautiful Definitely the biggest one of the day So I'm back down off the hill That was That's the hill I was up on right right about here Yeah, right about there So just in case anybody comes this way So there's Spanish orcanean road right there you can hear cars occasionally on it But what you're seeing right up here, that's the railroad track and the road itself is right underneath it right there so if you come in You drive the entrances right there remember this is starvation road you come down Go around that first little hump And then you come around this one right here And then it's just right up there All right made it back from rock counting washed everything off. So let's take a look Right here. We have some larger ones that had some Just a whole bunch of shells on them Just tons of shells. We've got a bunch like that. I did manage to get an oyster shell that was I mean, they're all crushed but this one mostly stayed intact Got a lot of small seashells here Some nice ones too like this Right here got a nice big one right here That was the big one we pulled out Some other good sized ones as well right there two that I liked the most this one Stayed on and it just looks so nice like that And this one right here. Look at those Really nice Hopefully they stay on Yeah, those were the finds pretty good day