Income tax 2021-2022, software example, business expenses, tax. Get ready to get refunds to the max. Dive it into income tax 2021-2022. Listener tax software, you don't need tax software to follow along, but you might want to have the form 1040, which you can find on the IRS website at irs.gov, irs.gov, starting point single, filer, Adam Smith living in Beverly Hills 90210. We've got the 100,000 flowing into page one of the form 1040 from the Schedule C. Let's look at that flow through process. Going to the Schedule C, we have the profit or loss from business. We've got the 120,000 gross, the 20,000 on the expenses to start off with, the net, the 100,000 then flowing in to Schedule 1. Schedule 1, additional income and adjustments to income. 100,000, the total of Part 1 of Schedule 1 flowing into the form 1040 on line number 8. We're also going to have the self-employment taxes we've got to deal with. We've got to deal with those on Schedule SE, which is called the self-employment tax. And so down below, we got the calculation of the 14129, not 14129, then flowing into page number 2 or Schedule 2. And here it is there. That also then flows into the 1040 page 2. There's the 14129. We get half of that deducted. We could see that on the Schedule SE where we take half of it right here. That flows then in to the Schedule 1 into the Schedule 1 page number 2. There's the 7065. That flows into page 1 of the form 1040, form 1040. There it is, the above the line deduction or adjustment to income 100,000 minus the 7065 gives us to the 92935. We've got the 12,550 for the standard deduction. We've got the 1677. We're allowing the software to calculate. That's to qualify business income deduction form 8995, getting us to the taxable income of the 64308, mirroring that on our formula here. 100,000 pulling in from the Schedule SE at the top line. Here's our Schedule SE income statement, net flowing in to that line number 1. We're going to jump down to the tax line, the other tax for that self-employment tax going on to the tax calculation. That's going into the additional taxes where we're doing that calculation for us here. We put together that fancy worksheet in a prior presentation if you want to check it out. It's a good one. It's a good one, but that flows in here. We get half of that as the above the line deduction you could see here. That then we calculated on this schedule, adjustments to income, just taking half of the self-employment that flows into that first page to get us to the AGI adjusted gross income 92935. We've got the 12,550 of the standard deduction, the 1677, that we're pulling from the tax return relying on the return for that number. And that gets us then to the same 64308 taxable income. We see that amount here on page 2. We've got the federal income tax relying on the software to do that calculation at the 9900. And then we calculated the other taxes. So the total tax currently at the 2430, 2430, matching almost here 2429 off by a dollar. That's the starting point. We're okay with the dollar difference. Going back to the number page 1. So now we want to think about taxes that could be deductible on the Schedule C. So Schedule C, if it's ordinary and necessary, we can deduct it. Taxes always complicate things because taxes are a complication just in general and we have a whole lot of different types of taxes. So first we have the federal income tax. Is the federal income tax deductible? Typically not. Why? Because you would think it's an ordinary necessary expense. So you'd think, well, it should be. If I got this 100,000 that is ultimately rolling through to the form 1040, which is being used to calculate the federal income tax, which is going to be this actual 9900, can't I take part of that tax and allocate it to the Schedule C? Well, you can't really do that because we're using the Schedule C to calculate the 9900 tax. And if we got to deduct it, it would make a circle reference. So we can't use the tax deduction to calculate the tax typically and that would be confusing. On the state tax side of things, if it's a state tax which is on the net income, then generally you might not be able to deduct the state tax as well. If you have a deduction for the state tax of the gross as distinguished from the net income directly attributable to the business, then possibly in that instance you could deduct it and that would be dependent on the state and local taxes and you would probably be well aware if you're in a state that's taxing you on the gross receipts as well.  So if I go on to the Schedule C, note that we have to distinguish the payroll taxes from the taxes on our self-employment. So this 100,000 at this point in time, the 100,000, we are then treated as kind of our employee and employer of our own business based on that net income being subject to the similar thing as payroll taxes which is Social Security and Medicare which is being calculated on the Schedule SE. So notice these rates are basically the employee and employer portion in essence that were calculated at 14129 that is not the income tax but is the self-employment tax and then half of it is being deducted. This is different than payroll taxes even though it's kind of like we are being treated as the employee of our own business and being subject to the self-employment tax or at least with regards to self-employment tax. If we hired somebody else then we would have wages. So if we had wages here we would have to be dealing with Social Security and Medicare as well with regards to what we pay the employees. Now in that case we would have something that would be reported here most likely and possibly also reported in the taxes area. So for example if I jump into the data input here for the wages on a Schedule SE we might have wages let's say of the 10,000 and then we might pay let's say 10,000 and then we might pay taxes which are payroll taxes which we might break out. Let's just take a look at the calculation which it might look like. If I was to say pull out the trustee calculator and say that we had let's call this Social Security 10,000 times .062 that would just be our portion of it 620 and then this would be Medicare let's call it MED which would be the 10,000 10,000 times .0145 which would be the 145. Now this is what it would often look like basically on the tax forms for other people's wages right you got the payroll taxes here so if I put that into my form I've got my taxes here and my wages that we paid here. So note that I'm still calculating Social Security and Medicare but I'm not calculating it on my own wages because I don't pay myself in a Schedule SE I'm not going to be an employee of my own business that's different I was another type of entity possibly like an S Corporation a flow-through entity where I would possibly have myself on as paying myself in essence and be subject to self-employment tax 35 and I'm paying payroll taxes not on that net the payroll taxes are being paid on the employee wages of the 10,000 and notice up here I'm only breaking out the portion of the payroll taxes that are my portion that I have to pay in other words the withholding for the payroll taxes would also include Social Security and Medicare I'm not breaking them out but including those in the $10,000 that I paid to the employees because in theory they got the $10,000 and then they paid their own payroll taxes but in practice what actually happened is they didn't get the $10,000 I took from them their portion of payroll taxes paid it to the government I get the deduction for their portion of payroll taxes but it's not my tax it's their tax therefore we recorded as wages here and then we record the taxes our portion of the taxes kind of up top so those are a little bit confusing to keep separate you also might check this these numbers and compare them to your payroll reports which would be the quarterly 941 reports possibly the 940 at the end of the year for the federal unemployment tax and the W2 and W3 form as you do that you want to keep this distinct in your mind that you have this number if it's broken out is just going to be the employer portion of the payroll taxes and this number is going to be including the wages and the withholdings including the withholdings that they paid so we've got those payroll taxes and then we could also the self-employment tax now the self-employment tax we talked about the calculation of the self-employment tax here the 12,000 in this case now it's now at 12,609 that of course is being charged to us if I go to the 1040 page number two we've got then the self-employment tax now at the 12,609 but we get to deduct half of it and this gets a little confusing to why do you get to deduct half of it they're trying to mirror what would happen in a normal corporation so that the so that the sole proprietorship is not disadvantaged from being a sole proprietor as opposed to basically a corporation right and so so what the corporation gets to deduct as you can see here is if they were an employee situation and notice in a corporation even the high paid executives are going to be you know the employees of the corporation getting payroll in essence so in that case you would the corporation as a separate legal entity paying its own taxes would then be deducting the wages here that they would be paying and then they would be deducting the taxes if you're charging me as a sole proprietor taxes on my net income here the 89 to 235 in this case then they want to charge me both the employer and employee portion so that means when I when we calculate the tax you can see it's it's double here what it was for the Social Security and Medicare if you were talking about just the employee or just the employer portion because we are in essence paying both portions of it so I should be able to deduct you know half of that as I would like the employer portion of the employer portion of the tax which you would which you could see kind of mirrored here for our employees but I can't deduct my portion of the of the self-employment tax on the schedule C because I used the net income in order to calculate the self-employment tax and I'd get a circle reference if I did that so I have to record it they put it up here on the schedule one page two so the self-employment tax is something that is is half of it we get to deduct it but it's a little confusing because we can't deduct it on the schedule C that's why taxes confuse things we got to deduct it over here on the schedule one which pulls over to the page one of the form 1040 so it's business related but it's somewhere other than the schedule C now then you have the real estate taxes real estate taxes if it's going to be real estate tax on a building that is just for business and you own it and you're paying taxes on it for example or equipment that is just for the business well that's pretty straightforward you you would be able to deduct the real estate taxes because it's business related generally and I mean you also so but then if you were to have like your home like possibly you have a home and you have real estate taxes on the home the property taxes then you would you would mean maybe be filling out a business use of the home which would look something like this you would have to allocate we might talk more about this later but the general idea is now you've got taxes that are split up between the business and the and the personal so you might allocate to the business the business portion which would look something like this and again we won't go into detail here but just the general idea you'd have to use some kind of ratio so possibly you would be saying that my office is 500 area versus the home has 1200 square feet and that's what we can use to do our ratio calculation so that means the amount of the property taxes that we're going to be applying you would think would be 500 divided by 1200 or 41.66% if the real estate taxes were 10,000 then we can allocate possibly a portion to the business and in this format so now we're going to say down here down here we've got the we've got the expenses for business use of your home did not report these expenses elsewhere attached the 8.829 unless using the simplified method and we've got the calculation of the 4167 here's the form 8.829 which has our ratio there's the 41.66 we just took a look at here's the 10,000 and we're taking the the amount of the 4167 so again you oftentimes if you have that kind of breakout between a business and personal you've got to figure out how much is business related now if you were able to deduct on the Schedule A then possibly the rest could be deducted on the Schedule A here but we don't have a Schedule A at this point because we're below the threshold if we were above the threshold of the standard deduction we might be able to allocate some of it to the Schedule A let's just take a look at what that looks like if I was to say that I want the deductions opening the Schedule A the thing that usually puts us over is the interest that we would pay in the property taxes and the state taxes combined usually let's say this was let's say this was 15,000 of interest just to put us over so now we've got the Schedule A the Schedule A at the 15,000 and we've got the property taxes state and real estate taxes of the 5833 so now of the 10,000 taxes we paid we've were deducting 5833 here and the other side on the Schedule C plus the 4167 there's the 10,000 so that gets a little bit confusing to kind of make to kind of make those breakouts but the general idea is of course that if it's if it's business related you would typically get the deduction here on the Schedule C and if there's some crossover between business and personal you might be able to get the business related item do some kind of allocation here and then if it's the home use then you might have to use that home office item which we might dive into in more detail in a future presentation then we've got the sales tax information now when we're buying stuff with sales tax usually it's going to be a fairly straightforward type of thing on the purchasing side of things if I purchase something and I'm charged sales tax which in the United States is typically charged on the state local level if I purchased something like supplies for example and I paid $100 for supplies and $5 for sales tax or whatever then I would I wouldn't put $100 in supplies and $5 in taxes I would just report the supplies at $105 I would be able to deduct the taxes related to the items I had here on the Schedule C now you got to be a little bit careful because on the Schedule A you'll recall you can deduct the taxes for your state your state taxes and then if you have the sales tax you might have the sales tax calculation here which you could use a method to have the sales tax so it depends what states you're in so but you can't really double up the tax the sales tax in that way in other words if you if you had something that you deducted for sales taxes over here that it would be a business related item right and so we have the sales tax here if you purchased something like a piece of equipment then the piece of equipment that you purchased that you paid sales tax on would go on the books as an asset and you would include the sales tax as the asset you would get the benefit from it eventually because it's a business asset in the form of depreciation so then you would expense it in the form of depreciation the basis or cost of the item being depreciated over time and you would get the expense flowing through here as that happens if you purchase inventory then you would you would include the sales tax that you paid for the thing that you're going to sell the inventory item on the books as an asset which you can't see here because this is just the income statement but then when you sell the asset you would record it it would be part or included in the expense up here of the cost of goods sold and then there's the sales tax that you pay to the government so if you pay sales tax to the government then you don't get to deduct the sales tax as an expense because you never included the the item that you received in revenue so for example this 120,000 if I was subject to sales tax on it of 5% I might have actually collected 120,000 times 0.05% another 6,000 for a total of 126,000 that's what I might have collected but I'm not recording an income 126,000 because that 6,000 in theory isn't something that I actually charged the government used me as the tax collector they forced me to be the tax collector so what the government wants us to do then is to say I'm not going to record the 126,000 even though that's what I received I'm only going to record the 120,000 the 6,000 when I receive it is going to go on the books as a liability and then when I pay the government that 6,000 that I collected on their behalf I just reduce the liability therefore neither the income nor the expense is going to be on the books you can imagine a situation where I record the 126,000 as revenue and then 6,000 as an expense to get to the same net down below with the net amount right would be the same but that's not what the government wants us to do they want us to record the 120,000 not including the amount that they made us collect for them on the sales tax and then when I pay the government I don't get to deduct the expense because I didn't include the receipt of the funds in the revenue neither the income nor the expense is included in the income statement which is basically what the schedule C is so taxes get a little bit confusing of course because taxes really complicate things way more than they would be otherwise but they're the necessary thing that we got to deal with the complications here so it's good times


Few people have asked me about the XG7100 from NETGATE and have I used them? Yes, but they don't usually pass through our office. This one I was lucky enough did. We usually ship them direct to clients or have the clients order them directly if we're part of a bigger internet network integration. But I have one new here and I can prove it's new and I wanted to share this moment with you guys of filling off the plastic. I don't know why it's white. It is, it comes with a white piece of plastic on there. And we're gonna talk about some of the features on this. Now, I've already taken most of the screws out, so I will take all the screws out and finish that off and talk about the XG7100 and why you want one. Now the debate always comes up. Should I build or to buy it? Should I build or to buy it? And one of the things when we're doing commercial support, I like warranties. I like support. So we go the route of we're going to buy it because once I deploy these somewhere, especially when we're selling these, we even saw these in other states and things like that. I don't got time to fly out there and worry about updates. So with this, I don't have to. I trust that the PF Sense updates will go quite well because it's a genuine NETgate product. Also, this comes in two versions. So the XG7100 comes in XG7100. I believe it's HA as the nomenclature to have on there, which all that means it's two of them at once and they come in an HA configuration. And people ask me a lot about HA configurations. If you're doing an HA, you want two identical PF senses. So in the case of buying an HA directly from PF Sense, you get two of this model or they have other models you can do HA with and other one-U racks, so they, you know, fit nice. They're well matched and away you go. Now, part of it that's a little bit confusing because the way they worded it is how does it support 10 gig? Does it support 10 gig? Because it says it doesn't have copper support. What they mean is I can plug in SFP modules such as a DAC cable and it supports that. It supports fiber. So you can have a fiber handoff. So it supports that. What it does not support is if you've seen the SFP modules that adapt it to 10 gig RJ45 connector, that is not supported per the documentation on this. I don't know if that's a driver problem. I don't know exactly why. I just know that it's not supported. So the handoffs to this have to be your standard SFP handoff, either fiber or DAC. Those seem to work perfectly fine for the 10 gig. Now, getting the 10 gig back out of it, we have the system on a chip. We have these two 10 gig ports, but then we have these eight ports over here. Kind of interesting how they did this. It has a five gig backplane. It has a pair of Marvel chips, two and a half gig each. So you can distribute the 10 gig, two and a half gig each to these depending on how you divide up the ports. They have details in a documentation, exactly how that works. And the same with the VLAN tagging. I've commented before on some of the other models. This is one of them. They actually divide up the system on a chip as a VLAN so you can parse things out a little bit differently. And this is the recent review I did of the SG-1100 by NETGate does this as well, as well as the SG-3100. This is a common design feature by dividing them out. So you have a logical chip on the board that supports more than a gigabit, but then the physical interfaces are one gig here and then up to 10 gig here. So if you have all those handoffs. So let's dig into the box a little and talk about what's inside. So let's start by taking a top-down look and look at all the ports on here a little bit closer. So we have the SFP modules right here, two USBs, a console and a USB 3, which I think is interesting. We have the reset button, a slightly recessed, but still I can hear it clicking. I can still put my finger over and get it to start for the power button. And like I said, SFP modules, well, you don't put them in backwards. They just go in like that. So pretty straightforward. So nothing real exciting here. But the console is interesting if you haven't used a console on these. They don't have a VGA, but you can do this via Windows or via Linux and connect to the console to everything from re-upload firmware to getting in the system to reset it when you've goofed something up beyond control over here where you can't get to the Web interface anymore. I may have done that in my experimentation from time to time. Now, when we're looking on the inside, we have two fans right here. So that's for the cooling of it, passively cooled heat sink on top here, four SATA ports, which is interesting. I guess if you have, there's room, there's screw mounts over here.  But the memory is soldered on but expandable so we can add some more memory to this. And standard CR2032 battery right here, you know, pretty straightforward. But this is interesting too, because they have this riser. Well, not a riser, but a module so you can put a riser on this. So you could, they sell a couple different ones. I think you can find these on Amazon. But you want to adjust it so you can mount. And this is actually the front. This comes out. It's kind of hard to see at this angle. But you'd be able to take this out and put in another card. So if the eight one gig ports and the two 10 gig ports aren't enough, it does have that as an expansion option as long as you have a compatible card in there. It has the 150 watt power supply. There's a single fan inside the power supply at the back of the system right here.   Now the fan modules appear to be the third. I'm assuming you're thermally controlled because of the multi colored pins on them. So it's the four pin fan module. So if you ever have to replace these fans, they are on edge connectors and not soldered to it. But inside, like I said, nice, tight, clean, zip tied together so no wires are dangling. Easy to see everything easy to get to anything on here. Butternap, like I said, nothing, nothing overly significant about this from the internal specs. Like I said, plenty of room if you do want to expand and add a hard drive in here. But other than that, pretty straightforward and simple. But I do like that the fans would not be rocket science to replace. Just make sure you get four pin ones, which means they have the controls in them for that. So we had a look at the hardware and I'll talk about the specs of said hardware. This is a default system, the one that we had for my demo for this video and the one that we're delivering to the client. Just the eight gigs, 32 gigs on board for storage, a gig DDR4. And this has the Intel Denver 10 Denver 10 C 358 2.2 gigahertz four cores. And like I said, it's got two 10 gig ports and eight one gig ports on the Marvel switch uplinked at five. That's the part I actually want to focus on about how this works. Now, good news is lots of documentation. They have it all mapped out to give you the idea of how this works. And it may seem a little complicated at first if you use the completely independent logical ports. But this is not that complicated. Just a couple extra things you have to understand how it works. If you're interested or you can just use it. I'm always fascinated with the details of how these things work. So here's your two 10 gig ports. And then here's your two two and a half gig ports. They virtually map to ports nine and 10. And as it says internal use only. So ports nine and 10 don't exist at the physical on the outside of the box. So there's nothing you plug into. So you have SFP plus FSP plus so I X one I X zero. And then across the top ETH two, four, six, eight and ETH one, three, five and seven at the bottom. This is the physical like front panel how this is laid out when you're looking at it. Now what these are configured as is in a lag interface. So you have PF sense lag at five gig here. So it can pull from PF sense at five gig to these ports. And as I think I mentioned before, that means that there's not eight one gig spots that give you a full eight gigabit backplane. You have a five gigabit backplane. So you're only able to saturate up to five gigs based off what's coming off those SFPs at 10 gigs. So it's just something to note if you were ever trying to pull the data back out and you're not using the SFP port, it can only route back out of here up to five gigs versus when you use both SFP in and out, it would route at 10. Just a little side note of how you're doing in case you want to bond a few interfaces together or how reconfiguration you're doing. And the other side of that is how the VLANs work on this. So because it has those virtual ports, here's VLAN 4090 for WAN and 4091 for LAN. And it goes through these lag ports. Now because it's just going through the physical layer of the ports, so this is the untagged versus tagged. So by default, your ETH 1 is going to be your WAN and ETH 2, so on and so forth. The rest of those can be tagged to LAN. That is that way those can operate as a LAN interface. Now let's talk about how that looks. So normally you're used to maybe if you built your own PF sense having just logical interfaces for each one, when you don't, there's interface, under interfaces it shows up as switches. This is where you have that extra functionality to show the ports and show how the switches are on there. And this is how they look when you look at the ports on here. So you can see port, virtual ID, VLAN ID 4090 versus all these are tagged for 4091. And then we have the VLAN portion. Now this is separate to your interface assignments and then VLAN. So over here, we still have VLANs just like we do. And when we create a new VLAN interface, we choose the parent interface. We can still create VLANs on the SFP plus ports, but you choose lag. You notice how I don't have like a ETH 1 through or ETH 2 through 8 to pull ports for for my land. I have this. And when you're setting the parent interface, you're going to set as the lag interface because that's actually going to cover everything from WAN to LAN. So whatever you need to assign as VLAN. So once you do that, add a VLAN, I called it VLAN 30. It still has VLAN priority. I give it a description of guest. Then I still go over here to assignments and I assign VLAN 30 to the lag interface to actually activate the interface. I've covered VLANs before in PF sense, but you kind of get the idea, but this is the extra step that you need to take. So here are the default ones that are in here, 4090, 4091. And then here's the 30. Here's the one I added. And what I did was you add it to which member ports that you wanted to have it on there. And you have to include the virtual ones, a virtual hidden how internal ones, nine and 10 and add the tag to them. And what this allows it to do is pass through the lag interface, those VLANs over to the rest of the LAN port. So now the LAN defaults to the primary VLAN, but then it can also pull tag 30, for example, in this guest network. Well, other than that, it's really not too complex. It's an extra piece that you need to know when you're configuring this and setting it up that because the ports on here, all the ETH ports aren't just your standard one logical port, like if you build your own PF sense with a standard network card. So it's a little bit of a configuration difference when you're setting it up, but not that big of a deal. Once you've got that understanding, you can go through the rest. Performance wise, this is an excellent box. It'll run a full line speed a gigabit for things like sericata and such. So it's definitely really fast. It's still full PF sense. Of course, it has all the hardware crypto support and it's low reasonably low wattage low power. It's an excellent box. We even saw quite a few of these for clients. They're solid. They never gave us any trouble. And like I said, it's it's a well designed supported by neck eight product.  But that's it for the review. After this, it's just PF sense after this. That's the only special feature I wanted to cover about when you get these. I had mentioned this before, some of the other neck eight devices also use similar system on a chip. So they also have some that same interface, you know, not just different design that you have to be aware of and things like that. And the good news is they have it all documented here. They have it documented for the 1100 things like that. So you can have a better understanding of how all that works. Alright, thanks. 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Hi, my name is Gavin Henrick from Learning Technology Services and last week I was giving a presentation at the Ireland and UK Moodle Mutant Dublin and unfortunately it wasn't recorded so I'm just doing a quick recording now. My presentation was about breaking down the barriers through learning tool interoperability. So what is this about? Well it's about IMS LTI. Now what is IMS LTI? Well for those who haven't heard about it before, it's an IMS standard for learning tool interoperability and this means that learning tools now have a set way in which they can seamlessly connect and talk to each other. So in practice what does this mean? While a user is logged into one tool, like Moodle, they can then connect over to the other tool, a wiki or a blog or something else, and be automatically authenticated providing a seamless experience for the user. So this presentation is a sequence of demos of how that connectivity can work. So just before I start the demo I'd like to explain one of the principles of LTI. So first you have an LTI consumer. Now this is an application which connects to another application to take advantage of the different features that it has. An LTI provider is an application which provides those features that other people in other systems would want to connect to. So in this demo I'll be demonstrating Moodle as a consumer connecting outbounds to other applications and also the last two examples will actually be connecting to another Moodle site which in that case is also a provider. Confused? Well, you won't be soon. The first example I'm going to show is ChemVantage. Now ChemVantage is a free resource website for science education and it includes grade exercises, homework exercises, practice exams and some video lectures. Well, within Moodle it shows up just as a link on the course page. And what happens when we click it? Well, we've clicked it and we have now loaded into ChemVantage. And as you can see the Moodle site is still around and the ChemVantage page is embedded within the Moodle site. But I am logged in, you can see here my email address is showing up and I have access to all of the different facilities here, be it one of the quizzes or the lecture or even to take a practice exam. So in this way he is able to create a really good resource for general chemistry and others can connect to it in a seamless way to provide their students access to that resource from their LMS and in this case Moodle. The next example I'm going to show is connecting to WordPress multi-user site. Now for those who don't know WordPress is a standalone blog and it's open source so you can just download and install it on your web server. One of the features is that you can have a multi-user blog where every user have their own blog within the overall installation. This is quite a cool feature and very useful for schools and other institutions. So in this example I'm going to connect to a multi-user site and have my account automatically created. So let's again click the link WordPress MU and again the page is embedded within Moodle. And you can see here that I have a WordPress site and down here I actually have my site admin so I'm actually logged in. So let's go into site admin to demonstrate this. And here you can see the dashboard of WordPress sitting within my Moodle site and I can do a limited amount of things within that admin interface. So again I'm able to have that seamless connection that without a login it's a single sign-on from Moodle over to the WordPress site. Now why is this useful? Well if you want to be using WordPress rather than a built-in Moodle blogging system you'd be able to take advantage of this feature and not have students login twice. So that's WordPress. The next example I'm going to show is MediaWiki. So for those who don't know MediaWiki is an open source wiki packet and it was originally built for use on Wikipedia. However it's now used by many different projects so let's have a look at how it works within the IMS LTI framework. Here we have again a link so I'll click on this link and it's loading the MediaWiki within the Moodle page again. And you can see here that my login on this site was info at MoodleMood and here we have my connection all working. I have a category the same as my shortcode here. But I can go in and I can start editing, I can create pages. There it is so I'm just going to do a test and I'm going to save that page. So there you can see my text has worked. So I have access to the wiki. It's within the category designated for my course short name. In this case IMS LTI. If you want to have a collaborative wiki outside of Moodle for you and maybe other institutions would work together you could set up MediaWiki in this LTI configuration and then have your Moodle site and other Moodle sites connect to it to collaborate and create content. So the next one I'm going to look at is connecting to WebPA. Now WebPA is an open source online peer assessment tool that enables every team member to recognize individual contributions to the group work. So if you want to use WebPA you'd be able to again use it within this IMS LTI framework. So I click on WebPA and again I've set it up to the embeds within the site. So here we are already logged in. User Gavin Henrich, I'm in home. And as a teacher I'm then able to set up forms and groups and assessments for my students to be able to log in to WebPA. But they don't have the hassle of logging in twice it's just all done for them. So again you can see the obvious advantages here of having these specialist external systems rather than having to build the wrong custom integrations with Moodle they can just implement IMS LTI and Moodle can then connect to them and they can take advantage of those features which are not within Moodle itself. So the next example I'm going to show you is something called NoteFlight. This is an online music website which enables you to write and create and print and even hear music notation right in the web browser. So it makes it very easy to work on scores and share with others and embed into your own pages. In this case now I've configured the external tool to open a new window. Okay, so here we have a new window opened up for NoteFlight. So what I want to do here is create a new score. So I want to click on score and now it's loading in the various styles so I want to just choose here that's going to be piano score. So it's now downloading and loading everything. Let's choose notes, there you go, that's one. Okay, well that's enough for it. So I'm just going to play that now. And that's obviously really good. But you can see immediately again that here's a tool, it's a very specialist tool which this kind of feature just wouldn't be built within a learning management system. But using the external tool and the whole LTI framework you're able to seamlessly connect your students out to these systems. So before I show you the Moodle Moodle connectivity I'm just going to show you one more connection. So other learning management systems also have LTI enabled. And in this case I'm going to go and show you a Sakai wiki. So again I'll just click on the external tool link and it loads up embedded within the Moodle page. And here I am now on the Sakai wiki page. So I can click on edit and it brings up the edit options. Or I can click on info and see all the various bits and pieces and the permissions and so on. Or go back to view. And here is the basic wiki information. Okay, so our last demonstration is going to be Moodle working with Moodle, both as a consumer and a provider. So here I have a link linked to a glossary hosted on a Moodle site. Okay, so here we have a Moodle glossary which is set up on one of my test sites. As you can see there's already some content into it. But again, I'm logged directly in already. I'm within the glossary activity. So even though I was originally on one Moodle site I've seamlessly connected to another Moodle site. And now I would be able to if I wanted to add a new entry into this glossary and help collaborate on that project over there. So it's a very interesting concept where you can literally share an activity or even a full course between learning management systems making it much easier to collaborate.


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What's the word y'all welcome back to call game Kenny for real today is a very weird day in the NBA world for a few reasons I cannot keep up with everything man The NBA and the NBPA had a bunch of meetings trying to get the health and Regulation rules down to a tee to try to prevent the spread of that thing and try to prevent it from entering the NBA Deeper than what it is So they had this meeting and wolds and shans were dropping bombs left and right with these new rules that NBA players have To abide by and I'm reading through them and I don't remember a single one of them today It's gonna be hard for me to really believe that the 300 players and in the league got these memos like okay I remember everything and with all of that and then a Kyrie Irvin fiasco going on I just cannot keep up shout out to worldwide why for doing the investigative journalism and figure out everything that's going on with Kyrie and I mean I say everything really I think we just know a small portion of what's going on in Kyrie's life I will say this before we get to the first game of the day and talk about the main subjects if the video is true Which it seems like it is true of Kyrie Irvin being out of the party Even if it is his sister's party and he's out there unmasked and and violating the rules of the NBA there should be consequences I mean I got on James Harden asked when he was out at the baby shower What do you want to call it? It's the same thing applies and I love Kyrie Irvin Kyrie Irvin's one of my guys, but there cannot be exceptions They can't be exceptions because one exception can lead to a positive test that can lead to a domino effect And right now the NBA is already in a very weird spot with the virus and it cannot get worse I don't know what's going on with Kyrie Obviously, none of us really do and I'm not here to form opinions about Kyrie Irvin a person or anything like that I hope he gets everything situated one thing. I can't say is I love seeing Kyrie Irvin play basketball And I hope and pray that we will get that back sooner rather than later. Okay? Well, he wasn't playing his team was and that man Kevin Durant is a Monster that is not breaking news to a single soul watching this video But man to see to not see Kevin Durant basically for two seasons It's a see him to come out and have a performance like this is ridiculous And this is what I keep telling to people why everybody on Twitter wants to debate who's better than who I hate this guy because he Challenges my favorite player all of that has to be cut out, bro Can we please just accept and appreciate all the great basketball that we can see man? It's Kevin Irvin being at his age. I don't know how many years we have of Kevin Irvin being elite So I'm going to watch every single game and 34 We're talking about daggers after dagger great play after great play There's a team that was down by I think 17 at one point in the first half and had that complete comeback Full 180 and end up having a great game in a win. I every time now that I see Bruce Brown go out there And ball out in a starting lineup I'm going to feel some type of way because that was me I'm gonna get I'm giving myself that credit 100% know that Steve Nash slash whoever's on the coaching staff doesn't watch these videos But the day before Bruce Brown got officially a star. I was the one telling the star Bruce Brown So I'm taking all of that and man. He looked really good today. He is not the solution for their point guard position for sure That's where Carrie Irvin would would definitely fit in but Bruce Brown definitely helps to flow of the offense a lot This is the best playmaking. I've seen from Kevin Irvin Kevin Irvin I can't say always has been a very good playmaker, but his last couple years of Washington He showcased a lot of that with the free-flowingness of the Warriors offense today was a great playmaker game because again with no carry Irvin no sensitivity. They need somebody to be that guy. It was Kevin Irvin I know his sister turn over ratio was just two to one, which is something people are talking about on Twitter Like can we can we please get out of stat world and just appreciate the game because he hit daggers And he led his team to a comeback Safety with Tim Timothy Luau Cabrero See one of my favorite names to say and I've been a fan of him since he was on the Bulls and Kerasa very had a great Game and Joe Harris is super reliable on the other side of things. This was a bad loss for the Denver Nuggets now Understand the Denver is missing a few players. They were missing Gary Harris, of course Michael Porter, Jr I still don't know the news about Michael Porter, Jr But it has to be with the virus and stuff so he can't play for a while now So they of course were sure-handed they had to start Bobo and Bobo started off pretty solidly on his defense with Kevin Arambagata to some foul trouble and then everything one thing I love is the call Because Bobo is similar to my boy Patrick Williams were whenever he catches the ball He's shuffling his feet and he could probably get called for a travel every single time He doesn't get called every single time, but he probably could and on the call. They said Bobo travel traveled and I just it made me giggle in real time It's not funny now, but it made me giggle in real time When I was watching this game and pretty much the last couple games where the Denver Nuggets have been struggling I realized that I I severely underrated the losses. They had this offseason I knew that Jeremy Grant going off to another team may supplement going off to another team would hurt the team But I didn't expect it to be this significant again I don't want to overreact because I just mentioned their mission to starters right now But when you're up by double digits, especially when it's closer to 20 and a lot of situations It has to be a collapse for you to lose this and part of this I don't care that Jamal Murray ended with 20 points This did not feel like a good game from Jamal Murray Jamal Murray is in the similar conversation with Pascal Siakam And I want people to hear this and interpret this the right way because if people are weird out there Where they make the game look so much more difficult than it has to be both of them very great NBA players Very great basketball players But the reason why maybe these players get a little bit more criticism than they probably deserve is because instead of taking the easy basket They have to do a side step back a spin move Whatever it may be to take their heart of basket and what makes these guys great is because they do hit these shots at the end of the day But when they're not hitting these shots, it is difficult There's a lot of times in these games where I'm watching Jamal Murray and in the yokas pick and roll and yokas with these Big-body screens Jamal Murray is very open for a shot, but he doesn't look for the shot off the pick and roll He's looking for the playmaking situation instead of just taking the easy one take the pull-up mid-range jumper And then other cases when he's not open. He wants to do the side step jumper. It's very weird He's not playing with the same confidence that we saw in the bubble And I knew we weren't gonna get the bubble version of Jamal Murray as far as like Statistically of him being like a superstar player, but I wanted to see that confidence from the bubble Whether the shots were going or not and we did not see that today. We just didn't um PJ Dozier got way too many minutes for my liking, but I understand they were sure-handed. I That's the end of that and that was a lot of time on the first game Let's go to the other game where two teams were basically at seven eight total players on their roster That is the Miami Heat versus these 76ers and it took all of Joel and Bede for them to pull out this win I've been seeing people talk about the reffing. I don't want to do that I just want to focus on Joel and B putting up 45 16 to 4 and if I'm not mistaken This is the second game of a back-to-back for him. It was where they end up losing last night Joe LB back-to-back games y'all he played and this one was a good one and they needed every single one of that There's a clip that came out of Danny Green last game He shot 0 for 9 and he was interacting with fans He's like I got three rings and he showed that three rings I guess he got so many shot attempts because again the team was so sure-handed any time I would I would bet a lot of money that 25 shot attempts is the most shot attempts Danny Green has had in a regulation game But it ended up with 29 points in the win in the win for the Miami Heat I see they were super super sure-handed like at least the Philadelphia 76ers hit their two all NBA all-star caliber players playing and Ben Simmons found out I'm pretty sure. Yeah, he ended up fouling out But Miami was missing all of that no Jimmy baller. No BAM out of bio They had to I guess they had three starters tag me because Kelly Olenek has been their starter for them and Tyler Hero just just did his thing pressure to his did his thing Dr. Robbins did his thing This is this is a game that the Miami Heat fans should be stepping away and be like this is a good game for us All things consider good game for us. But one thing that I'm afraid of is That when we have these people and these teams super sure-handed whether they'll be to the injuries or due to the virus I would be so afraid that my team instead of being the 4c end up the 5c Because of that one or two games that we had six to seven players You know what I'm saying like imagine and I know home court advantage is kind of not a thing this season But imagine losing home court advantage because of the two games three months ago where we only had seven players or a team That was the six seed or was the seven seed now have to play a playing game because they lost two games when they only had seven Players you get what I'm saying. There's like real implications that can go through the standings when we have all of these teams missing so many players Next game want to talk about I mean I don't want to talk about this jazz end up winning against the Cavaliers and people are asking me in yesterday's video Why didn't I talk about the Cavaliers, bro? Y'all are missing like six players to injury Y'all have to pull a guy off of the street and Yogi Farah and throw him into the lineup today So I'm not really watching and examining your games because you're missing two of your best players I'm just not gonna talk about y'all because y'all had a game. Just I'll wait to everybody get Yogi Farah came in and shot 12 shots. That's funny I'm gonna wait for y'all to get healthy again. We're gonna talk back about the Cavs Lakers Rockets LeBron is a beast A lot a lot of noise about the Rockets right now because of some of the things James Harden said after the game and John while retaliating and this is funny because it's coming after a report from Kevin O'Connor a few days ago Basically saying that there is still some chance Where they can reconcile this relationship and get James Harden to stay at least for the remainder of the season and Then they'll decide what to do in the offseason, but the way this man is talking He is trying to get out as soon as possible and this was the most Vocal he has been throughout this whole thing where he was just saying that he's done everything He's can he came for Houston and to a point. He is 100% correct. He's giving it off for Houston But it was weird me my boy was talking about it Like when was the last time we saw James Harden not putting up 30s like his last couple games game log He's not putting up 30s Like think think about that. He's not putting up 30s 15 15 2016 the first game he had like 40 something right and we like oh James Harden still really good He just doesn't care too much He doesn't care too much right now and everybody else on the team other than him and PJ Washington are trying to go out There fight every night keep their contracts contribute in these are two guys that are holding the The locker room back and if I'm in the front office, I'm trying to ship these guys out as soon as possible But obviously you're trading a French high superstar players You don't want to just accept trash the front office to coaching the locker room is in a very weird spot And they have to figure it out I think as soon as possible and with some of the teams out there that are struggling I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a trace sooner rather than later I'm hoping for a trace soon But we will never know the Lakers are a team that we don't end up talking about too much because I think we all Can agree they are still the favorite and I'm not watching them and seeing them lose a game here and there and trying to Overly analyze what they're doing They're playing fine and they look like the best team in the league still even with them coasting They still like the best team in the league spurs in the in the thunder My only takeaway from this is that shaggy oz Alexander should shoot more shots a couple games ago He had like a 30-point game and and helping him to win and I know that winning may not be the prime objective here But I think he ended up with like 10 shots He needs to at least shoot 18 19 20 and maybe I'm bugging But I want him to be a little bit more aggressive tonight specifically even though the other nights He was spurs get a good win and I think that they have a positive record on this road trip Which is a good thing man is a team that was kind of down and I think they lost four games and a wrong It started to put together for one in their last five great and the Pacers and the Warriors before we end off this episode the Pacers show Their elite level like a couple nights ago. Maybe it was exactly last night They folded they had a comeback against the Sacramento Kings and they folded last minute today was not one of those days They went on this big old run at the end of the fourth quarter to close it out against the Warriors Big game for Miles Turner, which is so great to see that he is playing with the utmost amount of confidence I feel like a lot of Pacers fans were trying to get him out of the team over the past couple seasons And I feel like they probably changed their mind No Victor Lodipo Summers comes in and he plays very well Slashing and not missing at the basket and Malcolm Brogdon have his best game probably his worst game of the season And they were still able to get a quality win and that still included the Matias of bonus struggling because great My hat that thing on clamps speaking of clamps They ran his this box and wanted to get Steph Curry and they prevented him from having a great Steph Curry game I think that the best thing that could have happened For the Warriors this season is Wiggins turning into a defensive player Dreyma Green talked about it as soon as they traded the Angelo Russell for Wiggins in that pick that He wants to try to help Wiggins become an all Defensive type player and a lot of people me included thought that those ship that ship has has sailed considered He had been in the lead for so long This season he has been amazing defensively and I'm not talking about his five blocks I'm talking about deeper than that his defense has been Amazing this season and that is great because I didn't want to give up on Wiggins But if this might have been a season if he had another stick over a year this might have been the season Finally finally gave up and I'm so happy that he has changed the narrative about him Because it used to be if Wiggins wasn't hitting the shots He wasn't doing anything for you and now it's not that anymore even if Wiggins is not hitting the shot His defense is good now. His defense is good now and it's great That's all I have to say about today If you did enjoy the video be sure to leave a like man, and I'll be back probably tomorrow I wish my Bulls would have played but the Bulls Twitter account did a great way of bringing back old memories showing old Highlights of Bulls basketball since we couldn't actually get a game today. So shout out to the social media team over there I hope you enjoyed if you did leave it a like subscribe called game


Let's talk one on one, one on one. Yeah, we gon' talk, we gon' have fun. We be on fire, we be live lit.   Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy, E-C-E-O, and I'm here with the lovely official, Mr. Mako. What's up? Not my day, I walk one. How you doing? Good, bless. Oh, whoa, I started, yo. I'm blessed. Yeah, we started now. Yeah, we got a special guest in here today, man. Smoky214, man. Yes, sir, yes, sir. You from Dallas? Yeah, I'm from Dallas. You got the 214 on there, but it didn't look like when I look at your page, you from everywhere. Yeah, I be a little bit of everywhere, I don't like to, yeah. Then when I hit you up, you say you're going to California. Work, man, yeah. You're leaving us. Man, look, I be... Nigga, my daddy left me, nigga. I despise when niggas leave me, man. Nah, man, I ain't never left the city behind me. Yeah, don't leave me, because I'm coming to LA, nigga. I be top 10. I'm out, man, yeah, for sure when you pull up you good out there. Word is bond, I promise you. So, I just went looking at all the things that you do, I seen you play basketball, I seen you model, man. You do music? Yeah, I do music. Everything, so you got all these genres going on. What's up with that, man? Yeah, man, well, I actually started... You think you Jamie Foxx? Nah. Yeah, yeah. And Jamie actually a cool dude, man. You've made him in person? Nah, definitely. He be having parties in LA, so I'll be with me every while. Dang. So, okay, cool. So, how did it all start? Well, I started out as a professional basketball player, so, you know, I played college, yeah, I played college baller. I would, too. Oh, where?  Don't try that, man. Yeah, but now I play professional, I played in Europe a year. Okay. And then when I came back, I actually went to LA to play in the Ju League, which is sponsored by Nike. Wow, that's big. Is that what you always wanted to do from your kid? Yeah, from a kid I always wanted to play in the NBA, so that was pretty much what really inspired everything that prospered from that one dream for real. Yeah. And how did you branch off into everything else? Well, I'm not gonna lie, I got a lot of like messages on Instagram, too. Like, you know, that platform was built in just about modeling, and like, you know, I used to try to take pictures and going to LA just kind of opened my eyes. I was walking on the beach one time and the lady came up like, yo, I really want to take pictures of you. I got my clothes in the car and I was like, I'm cool. And then she was like, I'll pay you. I got a hundred. And I was like, yo, pay me. Forget your move. Yeah. Right there. Yeah, that's where it all started right there. I was like, whoa, like, that was easy money for real. All right. So you didn't go to the agency like at Dillard's or at one of these stores and try to perform as a model and get picked. Oh, nah. You know, that's how most people do it down here. You know what I'm saying? For Kim Dawson agency, you have a lot of big reputable agencies here in Dallas. Well, I actually have a crazy story about Kim Dawson. I had before I went to LA, I had went to a little casting they had and they did sign me. And when I went in to actually meet them in person from the pictures and they seen I had tattoos below my elbow, they took back the picture. They started hating. Yeah. That was hating, man. So who was it the dudes you talked to a girl? It was a girl. How long ago was that though? That was 2016. Sometime they tried to make you angry. That's still pretty recent because I know that model agencies have changed their outlook on a lot of especially tattoos over the years. Yeah, especially now. Back then it was like, you couldn't have any tattoos. Of course, yeah. Now you have a lot more models who are coming up with tattoos. Yeah, it's more open and more acceptable for sure. So do you think that, so the basketball thing, when you started doing that, when you first, how did you know you was good? Did your dad play ball? How you gonna just play basketball? You know what I'm saying? You tall, but my brother tall, that nigga gonna play basketball. I got tall late, man. I ain't, I got tall late.  Yeah, I'm a late groomer. So how did you know it? Man, it's something I always wanted to do. So just, I mean, that's what I always did. For fun, I didn't play games, I didn't do nothing but go outside and play basketball. And I actually, I set the record. I'm from Sherman, Texas. So yeah, I set the record down. I was about to say, are you from the States? That ain't about three people in Sherman. Yeah, you set the record down. We can go and set one at night. We got the best athletes in the state. No, no, no, no. Who else came out of Sherman that's big? Well, my cousin Cameron Clark is the number one player in the state. Yeah, but what about, what about Pro?  We were talking about your husband. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Your cousin. Yeah, he playing pro right now. He's in the back right now. So you can't really trust him. Hey, that's not taught yet. It's true. What team you play with? I'm not sure. I just, I don't talk about smoking. Hey, I can barely pronounce them from the team overseas today. But you know what though? I know a lot of people who prefer to go overseas and play because they say that they earn more money overseas than even with the NBA. Is that true? It just depends. I mean, honestly, going to the NBA makes your stock bigger. So then if you go there first and then you go overseas, then yeah, you probably have more freedom. You wouldn't be locked into a role like you would be. But how many people actually go to NBA then go overseas? I've seen more people just go overseas first. Some of them do it, don't they? The thing is, you probably don't notice it because they just kind of vanish in your eyes with what they're doing. For Montberry, he went to Java, didn't he? Oh, no, yeah. He did it the right way. He did it the right way though. He didn't got a bag, yeah.  What was, what, some of them guys press you, nigga, just talk about that a little bit for us. I know, man.  I'm nice, man.  No, I play with them boys. I'm talking, you know, other country, I'm talking about, they, you know, they're gonna try to pre, but it's a lot of American players over there too, right? No, yeah, you get like probably two Americans per team. Like they only allow like two. Them boys talking fun and getting up and getting, come on with it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How do they talk trash? I mean, it's just different language. So it's like. You can understand what they were saying. Yeah, I mean, it's, it don't pay me too much. What's your average? How many points? About 19 points, like seven to six. It's dope. I'm a point guard. So yeah, I'm a tall point guard. Yeah, I was about to say. Man, that's dope, man. But how different is, how different is the basketball game with aggression and everything overseas compared to here? They get away with a lot more stuff. So it's, it's something you gotta really adapt to. It's more fundamental. Like, you know, everybody know what they're doing. Like shooters know they're gonna lock in and shoot, defensive player know they're gonna play defense. So, but I'm a scorer, man. So, you know, I really get the job done. You would shoot it. You don't even take it to the, to the hole at all.  That's a, that's a, that's how you eat that. You don't even take it to the hole at all. You heard him. No, I was top 10. It was Sarkill. No, no, no. She actually got a good eye. She got a good eye. So you shoot from, you from, from the brim. Yeah, I was actually top 10 in a percentage in a D1, my junior year for a three point percentage. Yeah, like 44. So I couldn't really shoot that thing. Okay. Let's talk about the music a little bit, man.  It's kind of funny. It's catching the crossover, you know, the crossover. But when did you start to do that? Because you did the basketball first, then the modeling came second. Yeah, I've been modeling. So I've been under my contract with Wilhelmina actually for about, going on three years now. So I've been modeling over all, probably about five years total. That was dope. How hard was it for you to get a contract with them? It was a really extremely hard, the number one agency in the nation. So you went and found them or did they come and find you? It was, I could say I actually booked, I booked some major things. Like the night I booked the big Nike campaign that was globals and Times Square. So with me having my face in there and then like reaching and then like getting the middleman to reach out to them, it's kind of like, you know, like.  Never, I could never, I could, you know what I mean? My story could never be like, no one could have ever thought this was gonna happen. It was crazy. To for me to be the face of Jordan in 2018 cause they only have one lookbook a year. So I got the front cover of that. I did a Gatorade commercial. I've done a Porsche campaign. I've done, you know, Adidas, it's just countless things. I just, you know. You couldn't have wrote it down. You couldn't have thought this through. You should go back to Kim Dawson and say, see? What you think?  Nah, I take the humble route, man. Well, I'll hit them up and post your pitch on there. They see it, man. They see it. So do you, back to the music. So what, when did you feel like you had something in music? What make you think you, you? The funny thing about music, man. It's Dallas, man. Yeah, I love Dallas. You be jigging and stuff. What you do?  I buggy, man. I gotta leave now. I put it up for this show. But now my whole life though, I always freestyle, man. Like that's always been one of my favorite hobbies. Yeah. So even in college, I remember little frats used to invite me over just to freestyle when they drinking and stuff. So it's something I always wanted to do, but I never wanted to mix it with my basketball. Coaches is not, you know, it kind of came along at the right time. You know, I actually just started a year ago. Really? Yeah, just a year going. I was really inspired when I dropped my, I dropped a freestyle and it, it did like, it did about 30,000 streams in the first week. And I was shook. I was like, damn. I see you. I mean, your numbers is up on Instagram. You're looking real special out here, man. I mean, I know it's bringing the pain. I already know how you get down.  Ah, man. Yeah, let's be real about it. They in your DM. You can tell me. I mean, man, they in there for a reason. I don't be doing too much. So you don't mess around like that. Yeah, you lying, Steph. I see it, baby. I got him now. No, I'll be busy, but I don't want to. I'm booked and busy.  When it comes to the music, man, I really just, I do like a lot of music. I like a lot of artists. Mode three was actually one of my favorite artists. Mode three? Yeah, that recently passed away. Yeah, he was one of my favorite artists. I mean, don't try to be like everybody else. Everybody say mode three when he gone. I'm not cloud chasing him, but as far as just like, I'm saying the story, like, you know what I'm saying?  But did you go to the concerts? Did you go spend money with, be real?  I wasn't even here. I ain't been here. You know what I'm saying? Oh, you were traveling a lot. But you like this music, you used to listen to it. Nah, I mean, cause me being in New York, me being in LA, you know what I'm saying? Like I'm always gonna be true to the South cause they don't listen to the same music. They don't even really listen to the little babies like that in the West Coast. Like they really don't. So. Yeah, no, I know it. I already know I argue with them every time they come on the show. I done been up there arguing with them. I went to Cali a few weeks ago, talking, I'm getting New York next, nigga, my homeboys up there. I go straight to them with it. I'm crazy. They shouldn't never gave me no microphone. Nah. You're right. Well, now one of my favorite artists though in the last like five years to be honest with you that really inspired me just to go on with life was probably Wife and Luchi. Oh, you like him? Yeah, his first music is which me well taped. Like that's something I really banged down. I actually got to meet him. You know what I'm saying? I really met a lot of people. Was it before he would start going and getting in trouble or after? What, when I met him? Yeah. I met him before, like right before that happened. Okay, you know.  I couldn't have called that, you know what I'm saying? Nah, I don't even know what the deal is with what happened. But I do know it went viral the fact that he had got into some mishap.  Nah, you name it some good one. Mo3, YFN, them dudes with top notch in the game, period, you know? So I want to know who is your top three artists of all time that are alive? Any genre? Nolah. Number one.  Number one, I'm gonna go. I'm going Lil Wayne off top. Lil Wayne? Okay. I grew up on Lil Wayne, man. I can't repeat no silence right now. Number two. Number two. I'm gonna go Tupac. Tupac. Yeah, that's what I'm going to say. That's what everybody say. I love Tupac. No, he does. Number three. Number three. That's a hard one. That's always the hardest one. That's hard, man, but uh.  Top three all the time, I'm gonna go Drizzy. You gonna drink? Yeah. Do you really listen to him like that? On a consistency level, it's crazy. The nigga got that bag, he got that money. Nah, I mean, I'm just talking about his music. He got that money too, it's business matters. Top three, business matters. You got a billion, I'm with Kanye. I'm sorry. Nah. He was just being real with you. I'm gonna rock with the one, we got, you know, who doing that business too. Cause the music is one thing, but I think it's important. You don't think the business. You need that money. Is it important? No, 100% it's not just talent. It's definitely business. It's marketing behind this. It's a lot more once I got into it, you know, that, you know, your friends will tell you like, yo, just go rap. You gotta like, okay? Like it costs money to go rap. But you have. No, anything that you do, you have to build a brand.  You have to learn how to invest that money that you're making to make it grow. No, you understand.  No, 100% yeah.  I'm also big like, you know, I've done a lot of networking, you know, a lot of big cities too.  I just feel like, you know, it was the right time for me to go about it. You know what I'm saying? Man, I just, you know, the one thing I can say about when I see you guys in Dallas and how things are moving here, man, I'm proud of the city to see, you know, everybody pushing, you know what I'm saying? 100%. Trying to make people recognize that we bring it in this city. I mean, a lot of times, and we gotta get more organized and structured with it as well. Niggas can't be running off to California and everywhere leaving. Let's see, you know what I'm saying. I feel like they don't need to come with support though. Like, they gotta support, you know what I'm saying? Do you feel like the city is where it needs to be? Or what do you think we can do to make it better? Me personally, I do think that we have, like, one of the most talented cities. Like, you know, I've been saying that for years. Like, you know what I mean? I think that people are really just not catching on because, you know, as y'all can see in the pandemic, all the people who started moving here, you know, they starting to catch on. But I do think we could do better at just supporting each other, just having events. You know, me being in other cities, I just see how they come together, like, you know, just from released parties, like, to have events just for networking so you can actually meet and, you know, instead of keeping it off the internet. Well, Smokey, man, I definitely appreciate you coming on the show, man.  When I see in your page, you know, I say, dang, I need to get this dude on here. And then you say, I'm leaving. And I say, okay, well, you know how I go, man. I gotta grab you before you go. Nah, it's fashion week coming up in New York and in LA, so, you know, I'm gonna do a few shows. Who do you look up to in the fashion industry? Um, look up to?  What I did and what I've done has been like, so unique. You know, just me talking to the people I've even worked with, you know what I'm saying? I look to really inspire other people. Oh, really? You're trying to set the bar? Yeah, cause everybody know where I, that know me, know where I came from. So that's just inspiration and stuff to let you know you can do what you want to do if you, you know what I'm saying? Really, truly go after it. Are your parents in your life? How do they feel about where your achievements today? Yeah, I have both of my parents in my life. They're not together, but I do have both of my life.   Like they really don't look at me like, like, you know they don't really even look at that stuff. They really think I'm their little boy. Like, you know what I'm saying? So it'd be, it'd be crazy. Like, you know. I'm gonna hold you too. When I come to Cali, man, we gonna run this bag. You know what I'm saying? So I just did like a lot of interviews out there within the last three weeks. So yeah. No, 100% now we tied in. Yeah, so when you come out there, it's definitely good, man, for sure. Well, hey man, we love you, brother. Like I always say at the end of the show, man, and I appreciate you for coming on the show, man. And I, and like I said, I'm gonna run back up on you, man. You better be ready. I don't play basketball. I mean, I'm in these streets. Hey man, I'm out here, man, for sure. I got my people with me for sure. Oh, really, man. You already know what it is. Thank you so much. We love you, bro. I love, man, for sure. It's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101. And we out.


And now, great moments and unintended consequences. Part one, housing costs. The year 2021. The problem? Rent is expensive in St. Paul, Minnesota. The solution? Limit residential rent increases to 3% a year, even if there's a change in occupancy. Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? The initiative did not account for inflation, which, you know, is kind of a thing. And unlike most rent control initiatives, the new law also applies to new apartment buildings, discouraging housing construction and investment, which is why multifamily building permits are down over 80% in St. Paul, while ramping up in the rest of the state, which explains why St. Paul is the patron saint of tent makers. Part two, Arizona Alt Fuel. The year? 2000. The problem? Not enough alternative fuel being used in Arizona. The solution? Generous tax credits for new vehicles to incentivize buyers to add an alternative fuel tank. Sounds like a great idea, with the best of intentions. What could possibly go wrong? The subsidy allowed tens of thousands to buy fully loaded luxury SUVs at a nearly 50% discount, as long as they were converted to add a secondary one gallon alternative fuel tank that would likely never be filled up. The plan wound up costing the state hundreds of millions and actually increased gasoline consumption. Tanks for nothing. Part three, Georgia Ballad Access. The year? 1940. The problem? Communists. The solution? Bar communists from appearing on ballads. Sounds pretty unconstitutional with intentions. What could possibly go wrong? Restrictive Ballad Access measures were codified in 1943 requiring signatures from 5% of a congressional district's voters. Later, more requirements were added, including forcing signatures to be notarized and the imposition of qualifying fees. It's now been over 60 years since a third party candidate has muscled through the restrictions to appear on the ballot for any congressional race in Georgia. The unintended consequence of, oh, oh, right, okay. Uh, yep, I get it now, okay, yep, nevermind. Great moments and unintended consequences. Good intentions, bad results. Have an idea for future episodes? Put it in the comments. We might use it or not. What am I psychic?