What's up, YouTube? My name is Dr. Ali Hader. I'm a board-certified interventional cardiologist. Welcome to my YouTube channel and my first video. My goal of my channel is to educate you guys with the knowledge that I have. If you don't already follow me on Instagram, you should check me out at your heart doc. Got a lot of great content in there, so definitely check that out. What I want to talk about briefly today is what exactly is interventional cardiology. Well, cardiology is obviously a doctor who takes care of patients with heart disease. Interventional cardiology is basically a cardiologist who has done additional training for a year or two to be able to perform procedures. These are minimally invasive procedures where we are able to get up into the heart by route of going in through the radial artery, most cases, or in the femoral artery in some cases, by putting in small tubes and snaking catheters and wires up into the heart to perform therapy. The most satisfying thing that we do is treat patients who are coming in with an acute heart attack. They can be very sick and we basically will rush them to the cath lab, where we are able to get inside the body very quickly with a small needle and catheter and tube. For example, in the radial artery and we'll snake catheters up into the heart, engage the coronary arteries, use injections of contrast eye to kind of visualize what's going on, and then put wires down through the blockages, use balloons to open up the blockages, and then implant a stent to reestablish blood flow and cover up that plaque. So that's probably the most common things we do. And again, this is not open heart surgery. That is a completely different field. That is cardiothoracic surgery that go through a surgery residency, followed by a fellowship. There's a lot of other exciting things going on in interventional cardiology. Now we have all kinds of therapies to treat the valves of the heart. This is called structural heart interventions, most commonly TAVR or TAVR. This is going to be the gold standard pretty soon for treating patients with degenerated aortic valve disease. And we can now replace the valve by putting stented valves or valves that have been created as stents that can be crimped down onto catheters that we can put in the femoral artery, bring it up into the old valve and deploy it in place. And you'll see some cases here. If you follow me on Instagram, you definitely have seen some of those cases and examples of that. Now there's investigational therapies for the mitral valve. We're already doing mitral valve clips, which are little clips that we put on the mitral leaflets to reduce the leakage and avoid an operation in the right patients. And there's technology looking at full mitral valve replacements using minimally invasive techniques. We can also intervene on the pulmonic valve and the tricuspid valve. Other things that we can do is putting in plugs in the atrium to treat patients with atrial fibrillation, who are at risk of stroke. We can close holes with the deceptum of the heart. All right, so there's a lot of cool stuff going on in interventional cardiology and hopefully I'll get to show you guys some examples of that in the future.  So there's a lot of training involved. It is very competitive. And maybe in another video, we can talk a little bit more about that. So anyway, thanks for stopping in. Definitely subscribe, save, and share. And I'll see you guys soon.


Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Miranda Jennell, Justin Zellers, and Pepper Geesey. Coming up on DTNS Max, Govill gets us up to date on the summer of game news. Backblaze has the data on SSDs versus spinning drives. And TikTok copies BReal. This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, September 15, the Ides of September 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. And joining us, senior writer and host at IGN Max Govill, welcome back. Howdy, thanks for having me. Good to have you, man. Did you survive the Ethereum merge? You know, I had like a little bit of a reaction, but otherwise, I think I got through it OK. Put a sav on it and everything's fine. Yeah, well, the Ethereum merge has gone down successfully. You can see Wednesday's show if you want to know what that means. But let's start this show with a few tech things you should know. Adobe announced it plans to acquire the collaborative design platform Figma in a $20 billion deal expected to close in 2023, although it still needs regulatory and Figma stockholder approval. Co-founder and CEO Dillon Field will remain in charge of the company, saying that Adobe was deeply committed to keeping it autonomous. Figma currently has over 4 million users. Bloomberg's Katie Roof reports this is the largest buyout of a private software company ever. Yeah, autonomous and free. Free would be nice, too. Snap made Snapchat for web available to all users. So if you didn't have access already, well, now you do. Feature launched back in July, but was limited to Snapchat plus subscribers in select markets. As somebody who uses Instagram on the web, I welcome this. Might maybe use Snapchat a little bit more often. Intel ARM and NVIDIA published a draft specifications for an open and license free 8-bit floating point standard, or FP8, for AI development. Floating point formats are part of building an AI system. More bits generally mean higher accuracy, but they also require more memory to train an AI model on the FP8 standard. In a white paper on that standard, NVIDIA says it shows comparable accuracy to 16-bit precisions in many use cases. Earlier this month, the UK's Competition and Markets Authority gave Microsoft five days to resolve concerns about its pending acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The financial time sources say Microsoft did not offer any remedies because it was unclear any would have prevented the investigation. Basically, they're like, anything we said wouldn't have mattered, so we didn't say anything. The CMA is now expected to begin an in-depth phase two investigation of the deal. Microsoft also faces an in-depth investigation in the European Union, and the company is going to file its case there formally in the coming weeks. Microsoft still hopes to close the deal by June next year. Good luck with that. As to what conditions it might have to agree to, Sony has some ideas. Sony would like guarantees that it will have access to all Activision Blizzard games on equal terms to everybody else in perpetuity. That's a lot to ask, but Microsoft has said it wants, quote, people to have more access to games, not less. So maybe there's a middle ground. In its latest ruling, Metta's oversight board criticized the company's automated moderation tools, the stemmed from a political cartoon of a Colombian police officer beating a man with batons. Metta added the image to its media matching service database, meaning that it would automatically be taken down whenever posted. 215 people appealed different removals, with 98% of appeals deemed successful. However, Metta didn't remove the image from the database until the board took up this case. The board called for a more responsive system that would trigger a review of the media matching service when an image was successfully appealed. It asked Metta to publish error rates for content mistakenly included in the database. All right, let's get to that story that's just gonna end TikTok. It's over. It's over for it, right? Tom, don't, maybe not, maybe not. Hear us out. TikTok announced it will launch TikTok Now in the US, which sends a daily prompt at a random time that gives you three minutes to capture a photo or a 10 second video using the front and rear cameras. You might say, doesn't this sound a lot like Be Real? And you would be right. It's because that's exactly what it does. Write down to the alert that uses a lightning emoji at either end instead of the alert emojis that Be Real uses. So pretty much a rip off here. A mockup shows a dedicated Now tab where the friends tab is. And TikTok says markets outside the US may get time to now as a separate app. The default setting will only be to let friends, that's people that you follow who also follow you. So, you know, it's a two way street. See these posts at this time. If you're over 18, you can change that and share with the Explorer feed so other people can see it as well. Now I'm kidding about TikTok being over, but imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and we've seen it before. Snapchat recently added the front and back dual camera just like Be Real to its main camera toolbar. Instagram added a feature called dual DUAL to Reels. Let's use the front and back camera. And even more like Be Real in August, an app researcher named Alessandro Paluzzi showed off screenshots of an Instagram prototype called IG Candid Challenges, which sent a notification at a random time that gave you two minutes to capture and share a photo. So does this mean that Be Real is simply such a great idea that it got absorbed into existing platforms? Could it be the next Snapchat, which Instagram also tried to copy several years ago and kind of legitimized with stories? Or is TikTok simply trying to catch up? And so it's hurting for ideas, copying newer apps. What does it all mean, Sarah? Well, good question. I think that to use the Instagram versus Snapchat example, Instagram has been pretty successful there. Snapchat certainly has lots of users still, but many Instagram stories users are former Snapchat folks who said, well, everybody was on Instagram anyway, and it was the same thing more or less. So I'm just there now. In fact, it's part of the most, part of Instagram that I feel many of my friends spend time on the most, even though I don't. Be Real, I'm not a Be Real user currently. Max, I'm not sure if you are, but I know that it is definitely the new hotness, and it just makes sense that any company, especially TikTok, which is still kind of its new hotness, would wanna use those features and fold them into their own platform. Yeah, I mean, I think it's smart because obviously TikTok has a huge wealth of users to pull from, and if they add a feature that's not too much of a lift to kind of put that there and give their users the option to use it, that's gonna prevent them from moving on to whatever the hot new thing is. And it's probably smart to do that now rather than to try to have to play catch up later. I mean, we just talked about how Snapchat adding web support, that feels a lot like they're trying to catch up with TikTok because I see so many TikToks posted on a browser. Yeah, yeah. I mean, most of what I absorb on TikTok is on the web just because I like web interfaces. We talked about this on GDI yesterday. It's like, give me a web interface. I will use this more. I think the question is whether BeReal is Meerkat or Snapchat and TikTok, right? Instagram put in stories, which actually did okay imitating Snapchat, didn't run Snapchat at a business though, and Reels, which imitates TikTok and Jerry's still out on, some people think Reels is a flop, but it certainly didn't hurt TikTok. Whereas Meerkat was taken on by Periscope and Twitter about Periscope and nobody remembers Meerkat anymore. So is BeReal that thing that is quickly spiking right now but will fade away because it's just a feature, not a business? Or is it gonna be more like Snapchat where it expands and finds other things that it's good for? I don't know that I have the answer. I'm a little skeptical that BeReal can do anything else without getting its user base upset because it's very much about being in the moment, being real and not having influencers, et cetera, involved. It's a cool idea, but it feels kind of antithetical to what makes social media popular. There's so much of that that is sort of this, voyeurism and exhibitionism of being like, oh, let me show you my best side. Yeah, I feel like that said though, BeReal has had a huge uptick in its user base over a very short period of time to the point where a lot of folks ask me, Sarah, have you heard of BeReal? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, it's, it's okay. You gotta get on it. It's definitely reaching my non-technical friends at this point. It's easy, it's easy to do. Some people, my wife, she continues to use it but she complains every time. She's like, ah, I don't have anything good to take a picture of right now. I'm like, it's kind of the point. It's kind of the point because it's real life. I think we've seen an interesting sort of rise of these kind of page a day calendar apps. Like Wordle is very much like that. I play Framed, which is like the movie version of Wordle. And it's just, it's great. It shows like a screen cap of a movie and you have to guess what it is. It's really fun.  And I think there's something much more digestible about like, let me snap a photo of whatever it is I'm doing and the whole emphasis is on it not being staged and like perfectly manicured. It's kind of like, let me just get this out of the way and then move on with my day. Yeah, I think that's a good way to put it. It's like, I am a participant in this fun thing that a lot of other people are participating in, but no one's better than anybody else. You can't really try harder. You just participate. And it's low, it's a low ask. Just do it once, then you're done. That's right. You don't have to keep doing it. You don't get pulled in like the TikTok algorithm or Twitter, et cetera. All right, let's talk hard drives. Let's do it. BackBlaze is one of the biggest cloud backup providers for folks in the world. And because of that, the company is very concerned with reliability, especially storage reliability. Regularly publishing findings from its data center on which hard drives last the longest, which hard drives perform the best. And the latest report compares rather solid straight drives to spinning hard drives. So let's call them SSDs and HDDs. BackBlaze now has five years of data on both. They have more than that on HDDs, but unfortunately, BlackBlaze doesn't have data on a lot of brands. They haven't used many Western Digital or Sandisk SSDs. They haven't used any Samsung SSDs, or at least reported little or no data on those. The bulk of their data is coming from Crucial and Micron, Seagate, a lot of Seagate models, and Dell. Meaning it's a good comparison overall of SSD and HDD, but less useful at telling us which manufacturers make the most reliable of those drives, which is something it's very useful for on HDDs. However, it's worth pointing out the Dell Boss VD, Solid State Drive, has zero fails and 161,508 drive days. That means it has enough data to give BackBlaze some confidence that that particular stat is meaningful. Everything else is either not doing as well or doesn't have enough stats to have a high confidence interval. Yeah, since BlackBlaze only uses SSDs as boot drives, it only compared them to HDDs that it uses as boot drives as well. So not exactly the same going on here, but these boot drives, they're not boot, they're boot. Read, write and delete data, including temp files and log files, among others. So they don't just boot up and then sit idly. Also keep in mind that BackBlaze has eight years of HDD data after which presumably they retire a drive. Just goes on the back burner, but only five years max of SSDs at this point. HDDs and SSDs track pretty closely in their data through the first three years. The HDDs have a slightly higher failure percentage, about two thirds of a percentage point higher. It's not much. Year four starts to see a wider gap. SSD failures jump 0.26% while HDDs rise 0.48%. So that's almost double the rate of failure in year four.  Year five is where the difference really appears and this is the first year that they can compare year five. SSD failures fall slightly from 1.05% to 0.92%. Statistically you can call that even though, it's pretty close. While HDDs rise from 1.83% to 3.55%. So hard drives really start to have a failure rate in year five, whereas SSDs don't. The failure rate rises steeply for HDDs 5.23% in year six, 6.26% in year seven. The question now is, what will we see next year?  If it doesn't happen next year, which year might that happen? But this is good data to show that solid state drives very solid, at least through five years of use. These are consumer drives being put to use in a data center situation. Max, does this change your hard drive buying behavior at all? I don't buy a ton of hard drives. This is definitely, I guess, this is stupid, but realizing that the cloud is still as hard drives. Like I know that in the back of my head in the same way that there are no grown-ups. It's just that kind of like, there's that optimism of like, it's fine, it's up there, it's safe. It's in the cloud. But I mean, hopefully by the time the SSDs I have kicking around are on their last legs, there's some new and exciting, much sturdier, more reliable option out there. Yeah, like the cloud, wait. That's a good point though. I mean, I think somebody might have listened to the story and been like, well, I don't know. My hard drive was just built into the last laptop that I bought, you know, like, what does this mean to me? Like, what can I do about it? And turns out, various types of hard drives power lots of things that we, you know, we store things in, we pay money for, and you know, we all will benefit from them working as well as possible.  The internet's cloud is made up of other people's hard drives. So keep that in mind. Like sands through the hour class. Back up. Roger wanted us to remind everyone, as always.  I learned a valuable lesson about hard drives in high school. Creative Labs Zen Nomad Extra MP3 player, which I love because it was like an iPod, except it had a removable battery so you could replace the battery once it ran out. But that didn't affect it if somebody jumped on your back and you dropped it and fried the hard drive and lost all of your music. And then, I don't know, from that point forward, I feel like I've had this just very ephemeral approach to data and just been like, it's all gonna go away someday. Nothing lasts, it doesn't matter. Put it in the cloud. Never fall in love. With your data. Folks, if you have a thought about a backup plan for Max or anybody else, send us an email. Email address here is feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Now, we may not have had an E3 again this year, but there was plenty of gaming news this summer. Gamescom happened in Germany, Sony and Nintendo just had announcements. The Tokyo Game Show is starting right now. Max, help us get caught up on the biggest news. What do we got? Sure, so like you said, E3 didn't happen, but Gamescom did, which is a big, huge triumph in return. I got to go out there and cover it live myself out in Cologne, Germany. A bunch of the major kind of players actually skipped it. Sony and Nintendo and Activision and EA, none of them showed up, but Xbox was there. There were a bunch of kind of, I don't wanna say smaller outlets, but not like those big, huge monolithic publishers. And there were some, it was kind of nice because I think we're just now sort of seeing the effects of COVID on development. And a lot of things have been pushed and like next year is gonna be phenomenal for games. This fall is like a little bit weird because a bunch of the sort of the big, huge things that people were looking forward to got delayed. And so it's this kind of, I don't know, it's the best of the rest coming out this fall. And I think as such, we've got a lot of, like you said, Sony just did sort of their fall look ahead, showing off God of War Ragnarok, which is their big fall release. Nintendo gave us a release date for the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild 2, which is officially called Tears of the Kingdom, which is exciting. But yeah, there's a lot of, I mean, there's a lot of gaming stuff to talk about. The, I would say the biggest sort of surprise that came out of Gamescom was Dead Island 2, which was I think announced in, I wanna say 2014. This is the follow-up to the sort of open world first-person RPG, Dead Island, which I got a couple, it got like a spin-off or two. And it sort of got usurped a little bit by, what's it called? Kind of totally drawing a blank in the name, but God, it's like a parkour living dead game. But anyway, basically this game was, people thought it was completely canceled and done for, and then it kind of appropriately rose from the grave and it's in playable shape. People previewed it, people checked it out, and it's coming out next year, which is kind of wild. But yeah, as far as the other big surprises, the team that did Friday the 13th, the sort of asymmetrical multiplayer horror game is taking their talents and applying them to killer clowns from outer space, the campy old, I think 1988 horror movie, which never took itself seriously. And I think it's like really ripe for a video game.  And then, what else we got? There's a Dune game on the way. This one feels like it's a long ways off. This is Dune Awakening. We just got a big huge sort of pre-rendered CG trailer for it and it's clearly, it's taking the kind of the branding from the Dennis Villeneuve movie, but it's gonna be kind of its own thing. And that's from the team that did Conan Exiles. So they have some experience turning, turning beloved ancient hard lore fiction into survival MMORPG material. But I think, kind of wait and see on that one. And then where Winsmeat was a total surprise, which is from a Chinese studio and it looks very much inspired by Ghost of Tsushima, but with a little bit more supernatural stuff going on. It's a really just like a huge, sprawling, really, really impressive looking demo. The kind that I'm kind of like, I'll wait and see. I'll believe it when I'm playing it. But it's kind of cool that it came out of nowhere. For the Nintendo stuff, if you are a Breath of the Wild fan, do you feel like Tears of the Kingdom is gonna be a must when it comes out? I think I'm an outlier in this. I think a lot of people are extremely excited about this. There's no question in their mind because it looks very much like more of the same in the best way possible. I for one kind of love it when the Zelda comes out and has a totally new aesthetic and a new style and sort of throws out the formula, but that's also totally kind of antithetical to what smart, iterative game design is these days. If you make a massive 100 hour RPG open world, maybe keep some of the systems around. Yeah, it looks like it's gonna be sort of a more of an aerial approach. Like you're gonna be on floating islands above Hyrule and there will probably be some new physics systems to mess around with. I mean, people got a lot of mileage out of that last one. So I think there'll be a lot more to play with with this one. I know people who played it day one and are still playing it now. Yeah, no, it's one of those games. It's easily like a top five all time Desert Island game if you have to pick one. Anything else from the Nintendo announcement? Yeah, Pikmin 4 is apparently happening. The last we heard about this was in 2017, I believe, or that's when it was announced. And Miyamoto came out and said, great news. It's almost done, whatever that means, but it's more Pikmin. Pikmin 3.9, it's almost... Yeah, but this should be huge because the Switch install base at this point is just massive and huge. And I think Nintendo's come out with sort of entries in its flagship series that maybe didn't necessarily make a huge splash before and because of how many people are on Switch, it's completely blown up. Like Animal Crossing's New Horizons was just... They kind of just struggled with that and it also was the perfect timing for it. And I've never gotten into Pikmin, so I'm kind of curious about this. I have a Switch, I might mess around with it. It's a small vermin that are your friends, I guess. Probably easy to pick up, right? Yeah. Anything else from Nintendo? Yeah. Not on the Nintendo front so much. There is some other stuff coming out of TGS. The big thing at Sony's big presentation the other day was Tekken 8 got a big official thing shown off. And it's more Tekken. It looks really impressive. They're clearly just really pushing hard with Next Gen graphics and all that. And the other big thing is the Yakuza series, which I'm a big fan of. They announced that they are localizing slash remastering this fan, not a fan favorite. It's one the fans have been demanding. It's set in samurai times. And so they're going through and doing a whole full HD up res and all that. And so it's the thing that you go to any Yakuza interview and the comments are like, when's Ishin coming out? When is this coming out? So the devs can finally stop answering that question because they're putting it out, along with two other games that they also announced. So those guys keep pretty busy. But yeah, a lot of games look forward to. Yeah, before we move on, Tokyo Game Show underway, I know there's been a lot of stuff including the Sony and Nintendo announcements kind of in advance of it. Anything you're looking forward to over the last few days of it? I mean, Hideo Kojima was tweeting weird images, which is pretty par for the course with him. I'm always excited to see what that guy's up to. I would love to see Konami do something with the Metal Gear franchise or Castlevania or Silent Hill or anything like that. But I'm not really holding my breath on that front. Yeah, I mean, three Yakuza games is pretty much more than I could ask for. Yeah, yeah. That is pretty good. And before day one, for that matter. So yeah, nice. Well, just a reminder, when we roll into GDI after DTNS wraps up, if any of y'all have thoughts about stuff that you're looking forward to or games that you already like that the rest of us should know about, do weigh in and we'll kick that around a little bit. But first, we're gonna kick around something. The Wall Street Journal calls in search of a silent leaf blower. You might say, you mean those kind of leaf blowers? Yes, that's exactly what they're talking about. It will strike at the heart of lots of homeowners or people who live close to homeowners. Mark Hucco is a mechanical engineer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, who ditched his gas-powered leaf blower for a handheld blower with a rechargeable 40-volt battery from a company called Ryobi's Whisper Series. Hucco's Ryobi can outpower many new gas fuel backpack models and his Ryobi clocks in at 57 decibels. You might say, how loud is that? It's a lot less than what most people hate most about leaf blowers. They clock in closer to 74. Quite a bit quieter. As for limitation, there are some. Both of the two 40-volt batteries that came with the blower can only power the tool up to 60 minutes at its lowest speed. The Ryobi 40-volt HP Brushless 650 CFM Whisper Series blower kit includes a six amp hour battery that can run for 80 minutes at the lowest speed for $279. So this is not totally cost prohibitive. It definitely, depending on what you gotta blow and how many leaves are falling around your property, you know, it may make more sense for some rather than others. But Max, does this strike at the heart of things that you hate most? I'm actually, I'm sort of a leaf blower apologist. I had, I think the model down from the Ryobi you showed off there until somebody stole it off my porch. But, you know, I don't have a lot of trees or a lot of leaves, for grass clippings and getting dirt off my porch and stuff, it was handy. But I told my mom that I had a leaf blower and she was like, oh no, I've signed a petition to get those vanned and Sonoma. They're so loud and it's just a lot of people hate them. Your mom is perhaps my neighbor. Yeah, no, yeah. People aren't wild about these things, but I don't know, I'm all for just less, I guess gas powered household devices in general, you know? I think like a battery powered thing. You know, if it's not, you're splittingly loud, that's fine, but also, you know, wouldn't hurt to rake some leaves either.  It was quiet and it was good for you.  Come hang out on my property sometime. There's plenty of raking going on, but there's also a lot of leaf blowing. And it's, yeah, I mean, it's just, it's a mess. It's noisy, it's also stinky.  I understand that they do a good job. And when they're done, I'm happy they were here. But anything, even if it's a little bit more limited, based on, you know, battery usage and that sort of thing, anything that can just make your neighbors hate you less, I feel like is not the worst thing. I'm all for a lot less noise. I'm all for power efficiency. Still, I hold a grudge against leaf blowers, not even just for the noise and the gas use, but for the fact that they are misused often to blow away things that you paid to be there. Like, you know, mulch and pebbles and things. I've run into that where I've like, oh, why did you do that? Why did you blow over there? Like, well, I don't want that to be blown away. I want that to stay there. So I don't know. I'm looking forward to the teleporter day where you can just have an AI, scan your lawn for leaves and then tell it, like teleport those leaves to the compost area. The drone leaf blower. Can we get a yard one of them? Drone comes down, drone does its thing, drone leaves. Just picks the leaves, right? Yeah. Just take the leaves. Just the leaves that we want gone. Put them right at the time. Just pick some up and just chop, lift some elsewhere. It takes a while, but. Yeah, very small drones. Each one picking up one. But very precise. Yeah. All right, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. This one comes in from Paul. This is in response to our conversation yesterday about folks who use cell phones versus folks who use computers, desktop computers, and how they might lie differently. Paul says, my opinion on the cause of the difference in cell phones versus computers has to do with the cell phone being a more intimate device versus the computer. Cell phone is held in your hand. Computer sits on a table, dispassionately waiting for you to type on it so that the person you're talking to on the computer is that much less of a human. Yeah, the study we talked about yesterday said that people who communicated through laptops in the study tended to lie a lot more than people who use cell phones. And I like this idea, the cell phone feeling because it's in your hand, not sitting on a table, feeling more intimate, could be something to that. Maybe there's a feeling of just paranoia that comes with that because a cell phone is constantly with you. There's a sort of big brother aspect to it, aside from the more wholesome intimacy side of it.  You're like, you can't see me now. I mean, even something like on iOS, I have a certain amount of people who are on Find My Friends and I trust them. It's fine that they know where I am at all times, but they do know where I am at all times. Not on the laptop though.  Even if the study is using someone else's cell phone, which I assume they are, you're probably not using your own cell phone and if you're participating in the study, it's just the familiarity, right? It's the association to that. I think there's something to that. Finally, Adam said, I have an iPhone 13 Pro that I got earlier this year. It was a big improvement from my iPhone 8, but I never felt like it was as snappy as it should be. I installed iOS 16 when it was released this week and my phone feels light years faster. It opens quicker with Face ID and it connects much better with my HomePod Minis. I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but I wanted to share my experience, Adam. That's great. I have not found that to be true with my iPhone 12, but it also isn't slower, so I don't know. I mean, I went from a 10 Pro, 10 S Max, yes, 10 S Max to the 13 Pro Max. And Adam, I have to say, I've been, I felt like battery life was a little lackluster. I mean, you know, if I'm charging it regularly, I'm not really running out, but it wasn't lasting a whole lot longer than the phone I had in the past that was a little long in the tooth. However, I only did install iOS 16 yesterday, so I'll take a look at that over the next week. Yeah. Well, thanks so much to you, Mexicoville, for being with us today. I know you've had a very busy week, so we really appreciate your time. Let folks know where they can keep up with your work. Just head over to ign.com, youtube.com slash IGN, the various IGN platforms. You can also find me on Twitter, Instagram is Max Scoville. 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Yeah, you know, I'm always working and networking and stuff like that. So I do have a call scheduled with that guy with the contract in Washington for Friday. So yes, so we can talk Friday and, you know, fill them out and, you know, get more information about that particular project and then I decide whether I'm going to let him know that, hey, I'm going to be available next year depending on the start date and the hours, et cetera. Now, what happened today is kind of funny. I was on a Zoom call, another Zoom call, I have Zoom calls almost every day. And this, I was answering a question that somebody asked and it was a business related call. And she embossed me and she's like, what does a girl consultant do? And so I say, you know, after this Zoom, give me a call because he's about to finish up and he has another one at seven. And so we talked a bit. Guess what? She's into trucking. And I remember you opened that Facebook page. Yes, but she doesn't have trucks. She does the equipment and et cetera, all the fuel, all the servicing part. Yes. And she, I know, right. And guess what? Yes, she has four years past performance already have state and local contracts. And so I started talking to her about, you know, the federal, what I do, which I specialize in federal, not so much local and state. Right. So she had another one to get on that seven and I was preparing for yours. So we talked some more and her capability statement is already online.  She said, the only thing she needs to add is we bank and there was a change in one of the statuses. But I was like, okay, so do you have any set aside? And she said, yes, her and her husband are veterans, but it's a woman on the business and hers. You know, she has majority ownership. So she is a woman on service. This is able, you know, veteran. So yeah, I'm kind of tired. So we said, we're going to talk some more, because we both had zoom calls to get on that seven. And, you know, she was like, Oh, can you pass me your information so I can pass it to our women's group? Because she's in Atlanta too. She's in Kennesaw, which is north of Atlanta. And I was like, Well, wow.  And so she can take it to her group and have something in physical format and stuff. But the question that I have for you, okay, she's servicing. So my first thought was, when I saw her tagline was one girl one truck because you know, I was on that call where she's she's now becoming a brokerage. So I was like, Okay, she might need somebody and you know, I'm all about, you know, pass on information doesn't mean no good, you know, just being in my mind. So I'm going to talk to her later on tonight. We already talked a little bit before. As if she's still up or either at the latest tomorrow before my call with her again as one, but she says she her ideal. Mostly they deal with companies with 100 trucks or more. I was like, Oh, okay. Yeah, I know, right? I said, I got to go a little bigger. Oh, there she is. I know, right? So I'm like, Oh, I need to go. Exactly.  She got friends that didn't get paid and or had late payments had a bad experience and you know, I want to step in that. So I know. So she said, I'm gonna worry about that because they're doing great. Her words exactly is that actually we're doing pretty good. You know, with the local contracts and they think because she has multiple ones when she would name out the company and some state government services. No, listen, the people, you know, but not paid. I know. I wasn't listening to that. I wasn't listening to that. A lot of people are they make it like they heard a story. And yeah, they said a story.  Exactly. And I'm thinking that because when I mentioned, I said, well, let me tell you a couple of things why I specialize in federal contracts. Then I start speaking to her about, you know, the pay cycle that doesn't normally happen. There must have been some oddity like when the government shut down or whatever, but that normally doesn't happen because you got services like FEMA. I remember one girl one truck. It's a story about FEMA and they got FEMA, the military, things like that. Do they don't stop because government. No, I'm right now. I'm responding to a deal with FEMA right now to provide modular homes for FEMA. So I'm working with FEMA. I want to work with FEMA. And they sent me to Puerto Rico. I'm going to Puerto Rico. Exactly. And I told her, I said, and she said, and she had to get off for a minute because she got a call from her business development worker. So she has her own business development partnership. But the fact that she, because I've been in sales. So, you know, for about 10 years.  And when she was saying what she, you know, like what she's actually looking for.  If you need, if you're into more of a fleet so you can get the first servicing and the contracts, because you're not ready to establish that she's more of a sub than a prime. No, but that's fine. That's normal. Yeah, exactly. She can sit up. She like that idea. Large prime contractors that have a fleet of trucks that need. Exactly. That's what my thought was. And I was like, okay. And, but she was so receptive and everything.  You know, tomorrow if she don't call me first. And the fact that she offered to put my services to her group. She said she never know she, oh, and she's on a GSA schedule for oil and fuel delivery. You know, it's funny. We just had, we put in a Facebook group last week. Oil and fuel delivery for the flight lines because my man Hector does fuel distribution, but he doesn't do it to flight lines. Someone put that on our Facebook group last week. Don't look it up. I'm going to look it up right now. The trucking. The trucking one. The trucking one. Okay. Yeah. I'll go there tonight. This past week. Yeah. I just signed there. Hector doesn't do that. He does fuel distribution, but like he doesn't do it to the. Yeah. Yeah. She already, because she says she has liquids and fuels and oil contracts with the state. And I was like, yeah. And, you know, if I offered to be her, you know, outside this and development person, and because I was telling her the different ways a consultant can go. They can, you know, all those parameters like that.  Oh wow. Okay. And so she, but she's never been that federal world.  And more guaranteed pay and more opportunity for multi-year. And she was like, oh yeah. She loved that. And so, you know, yeah. I know, right? So we got a call tomorrow. Get together. I'll go on Facebook. I'll, you know, send her to her message. I have a potential person that, you know, maybe they can find out something. Yeah. And see where it's at and then send it over to her. Let her look at it and see if it's something that she would be interested in. And even if it's past due. At least we'll see what's out there to see like, okay. Exactly. Is this something that she qualified for? You're eligible for. And then what, which direction of steering and moving forward?  So, you know, just as a test, I pulled down women in trucking and they have a whole website and all that. And I sent that to her and send it. She couldn't see it on her sale, but she could see it on email. And she's like, oh, well, thank you so much. Cause they have a conference coming up. Okay. Yeah. I'm all into everything. But, you know, that's what I wanted to make sure since how she's not really applying, but I knew she would be, you know, into servicing and I have to go up in my fleet network. He wants a Zoom call. He wanted to get on that Zoom call. Oh, could you? Hey. Hey, D-Wil, can you send me your information to my Instagram? It's Missy Tauver caught enough, but that was before I was married. So you see the picture is actually when I was in Afghanistan at one of the smaller files. I used to travel to different parts of this. I made a big network to with, I was an assessor of vulnerability assessor. So that's what I picture. I really need to change it. I keep forgetting about it. But I wonder how much I'll send you the information as well, even though she won't bigger, but see you got a brokerage now. So, you know, never know. Exactly. Go to the Facebook group. Yeah. I am tonight for that fuel. Yeah. To her right away. Because maybe it's still open. I'm hoping. And if it's not, there's like last week. Yeah. He doesn't do it.  Yeah. It's so much out there. And I need to talk to her about how far she's willing to go. Just, you know, so I can have an idea of how far I can search. So, yeah. So we'll see what happens with this one. I mean, she has everything. I was like on the phone. I was like, yeah. About the training program. I know. Oh, yeah. I am because he was looking for more trainers as well. And we were supposed to talk about that. He wanted more trainers, which I thought was perfect for my company because, you know, I can get other people. Because I have Renona in our group. She does our training. Okay. Good. Yeah. She does our training for veterans. She's good. Oh, really? Yeah. Where is she? HR department, huh? Where is she? She's in Florida? No, she's in DC. She's in DC. Oh, good. And she's up there. Okay. She's in DC area. She did. Yeah. She led a whole team of HR training, like, I think like 20-some people staff. Okay. Oh, that's good.  We got 12 seconds. Okay. Yeah. That was sent in this week. That was a good call tonight. All right. So maybe I don't do a good job enough of promoting, but people are asking me, do you have a course? I want a structure curriculum. I like what you're doing. I like the IG. I like the YouTube. 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Hey there friends, how's it going? My name is Kevin and we're back playing episode. I'm so glad you liked the last episode where I role-played as a young girl in a bikini. So we're gonna play some more of it. Probably sounds worse without the context, but either way it's um it's bad. So I'm trying to find out more about this app and how it works. And there's like user created stories and just different stories. And I want to try a new story. I'm sick and tired of getting guilted on that love ring show.  I've already repressed it. So I got a recommendation on Twitter and I was like, yeah that sounds good. I'll do a zombie one. And then I went to actually find it and the game is like get full access to episode after unlocking 27 stories which would take hours. So I'm finally gonna fold. I'm finally gonna buy some diamonds from them. I'm pissed. I don't want it, but I'm gonna do it. Hold two euro and 16 cents. What can two euro and 16 cents get you these days? Probably like a full meal and a newspaper and a shoe shine. I don't know how to even buy them. Yeah, I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm clicking buy.  I love when they label like best deal 112 euro. I mean like technically I guess but come on. It doesn't matter what the best deal is. Anyway, it's not letting me buy anything. I am furiously clicking here and it won't let me. Okay, now it's working great. Full access. Yes, this is going to be awesome. Ready to get it? Yeah, done. Oh my god, look at all these raunchy stories like rule breaker and my sister's crush. This is the one that's most relatable. Why me? Why? Oh, they've got comedies, hit comedies such as enemies with benefits and it starts with a bra starring Rob Schneider and Rob Schneider and Rob Schneider in a fat suit. Can I search for specific ones? Yes, I can. Okay, I've made a severe and continuous lapse on my judgment. Oh, there's one called my angel for some reason. Am I tagged in this? Oh, no, it's actually just by a user called me king. Well, that's disappointing but also somewhat of a relief. I have to admit. Oh, here we are.  Awesome. Oh my god, it's already dramatic. This is already better than the last one. This was labeled as horror, by the way, so it might get really scary. Okay, this is scary but in the wrong way. This is just so comfortable. Oh my god, okay, they got me. They got me that time. This is a horror. You hear that? That's not the game. That's actually my heart. Yeah, this is more familiar. This is better. I am not going to get involved with this old zombie thing. If you give them attention, then the zombies win.  I want to seek out that bad boy boyfriend. Would you like to customize your character? Yes, that is a very specific question. What are you sure? Why are you pushing me on this one? Okay, there is customization. I thought that we're going to go through like every item of possible clothing. Gonna try and make them as tanned as me. That's about right. Gonna be a fecking clown because that's how I feel playing this game again. Sleep the prived clown by the look of it. Okay, I think I'm the villain. Whatever happens in this story. I just spent like 30 seconds picking my virtual character's lipstick. How do women do it? I wouldn't have the patience. I do in game for some reason though. This is perfect. I mean, that's a lie, but sure. The co-star looks terrified. What's your first name? Clown. Just call me Clown. What's your family name? Carrot. Your name is Clown. Is that correct? Yeah, that's me. Hey there, clown. Oh my God, my character is pale-shaming that person. That is not fair. I've gone through that. I continue to go through it in my comments. Oh my God, she's wearing a scarf. Yeah, she got bitten. Oh my God, she got bitten and she's not saying. Do I have to click this? Yes, I like guys. Oh my God, she's getting paced. Clown, it's just a cold, okay? I know you're bitten. I've watched The Walking Dead unfortunately.  A hulking figure in a bloodstained shirt steps right into your pant. Oh, it's going to be that bad boy, isn't it? Wait, what do I do? Crash. Crash into them. Yeah, that'll show them.  Are you okay, clown? God, I'm really looking like a clown now. Who are these people? What is going on? Who is this? Is he the bad boy? Is he the jock? He's running away. Probably the jock. He so likes you. Is she going mm or mm? All right, let's just skip some of this. I want to get to the zombie pad. Wait, what? Yeah, sure. Oh God, I think she's going to collapse. She's looking a bit zombie-ish.  Is someone flushing a toilet? Is there someone behind? What was that? Okay, she's in bed now. Uh-oh, she's got red pupils.  You get red pupils. I don't know what's happening.  Thank you so much. Making sure I keep monetized.   Oh my God, what?  They're talking about like people getting bitten. Why do people in zombie stories never know what a zombie is? Okay, that must be the jock, I guess, or the bad boy. Actually, yeah, that's bad boy music playing, 100%. Oh, and he's got piercings. I got the camera zooms in. It's like, by the way, he's got piercings. He's kind of a bad boy. By the way, just, you know? Just saying. Did she just wink at the teacher? Can you just get to the zombie part, please? All right, just mash through everything.  Ask the teacher to ignore him. I don't care. Keep going. Stop winking at me. Okay, the person sitting next to me has bitten. Can I move the seats, please? Is that a valid reason? Just let him go. I don't want to ask him about his own. Just keep going. Come on. Progress. I want to get to the zombie part. Oh, wait. Here we go. Yes. Oh my God, so scary. What if he might bite someone?  That actually is a bit terrifying in a weird way.  You better do something.  They're all just still in shock, doing nothing. Okay, the zombies saying don't run in the halls. Did they start running away? Just run, dude.  Yeah, there we go. Who cares if he says not to run in the halls? He's a zombie. He's no authority here.  This escalated really quickly, right?  I think you need to go higher than that. At least the superintendent. Good time was had by all. I'm pooped. Yes, I should be good. Lord, what is happening in there? Oh, no. No, no, no. This door is just painted on. It's clearly not interactable. They didn't even make a proper texture for it. At least they're the slow moving zombies.  Grab on. I was so confused. What that even meant. I forgot her name was Clown Carrot, not just Clown. I thought they were screaming that a car was coming. And I was like, what? Where? Not again. Under this embodied hand, I can see it was cut off after here. Oh, it's brilliant. Oh my God, what is this? This is art. Oh, it's the bad boy. It's like Instagram versus reality. They've been having a calm conversation here while the zombies are just standing below us. Those are some high ceilings, by the way. That must be a nice school. God, I'd love to go there. But like, not anymore, because that would, that would be weird. Like, I'm, I'm too old for that. And I can't anyway, because of the court order thing. So, yeah, I'm not going to go there. Whoa, off we go. Time for an escape. Well, look at this. Hand over her mouth. God, this corridor is low resolution. Are we sure this is the right way out? Maybe this scene is from Cody's perspective. He is talking a lot and he's not wearing glasses, so that could explain it. What? Oh my God. Phew. That was a jump scare. Like, not the the noise thing.  I thought they were censored bears. I thought the zombies are naked. Oh my God, this place is way too high resolution. I want to go back to playing as Cody. No, this is very uncomfortable.  Oh, okay. They're just showing me their Instagram.  I just want a boyfriend. That's all I want. I'm just going to keep signing with Cody. I think he's my only chance. The only person who wants to be involved with this clown car. Well, we could take my car. It would fit all of us. You better not be talking about me. Oh my God. Who is that handsome student? Get against the wall. Should just join the rest of the crew back there. God, they're handsome. Can you be my boyfriend, please? Looks like a pale Grognak.  What is it with the random noises? Oh, there's a noise in the locker. It's going to be the nerd. That's where nerds hang out if I've learned anything from bullies in American TV shows and movies. There we go. We found the nerd, I think. If we keep adding more and more people to the group, we're going to need a bus. And in that case, we're going to have to call Grognak back there. They're the only one licensed to drive a bus. Wait, I'm reading someone's diary. No, this is a violation of privacy. This is where I draw the line.  They're just chilling. Oh my God, here come the cool kids. They even have their own soundtrack. They're usually like kicked off when they were coming in. I know the rest of them are screaming like, oh my God, it's the popular kids. I'll protect you.  It's like, why are you calling me a nerd? Are you like 12? And look at my person.  Let's get out of here. Just want Cody to like me. I don't want a boyfriend by the end of this whole zombie apocalypse. I think I'm playing the wrong story. I should have just played one of the default ones. This is a user created one.   It's like all those memes. It's like when you see your created character in a cut scene, I can send them soft. Can someone help me? The teacher's coming for me.  That is the end of episode two. I can get maximum relationship with one character. Oh God, I should have bought more gems.  All right, fine. I don't want to use gems. I'm not buying anymore. Like I lost my bat. Can someone do something? She's just walking at me slowly. I don't know why I would just walk the other way.  I've always wanted to throw a stool at my teacher, especially a low res one like that. That's got to hurt a lot more. It's very jagged. Like they're moving so slowly. Could you just walk away rather than fighting every time? Yes, Cody's talking to me. So it's a shame you didn't use gems to maximize your relationship. I could be your boyfriend right now. Oh, the music's kicking up in a romantic sense.  Be more flirty, wink back. There you go. Ah, there we go. This clown's in control now. Oh my God.  I take back everything I said about this school. It does not look good.  There is zero windows. Oh my God, the parking lot. Oh, it looks amazing. Oh, sports car.  What kind of a student would have that sports car? There's something banging at the door, but all I can hear is waves. Oh, okay. Here they go. They say if you listen to episode real close, you can hear the ocean. Oh, off he goes. I think he just clunked his head off the ball there. I think he's dead. Oh, here she goes. Oh my God. How the hell did she make that? Oh, look at them. They're all down there. Where did all the zombies go? He's like waving up at me. The world looks a whole lot more real down here. Come on down. You misstep. Offer facts sake. Can I just break my neck? Oh no, I'm okay. Why am I doing this in heels? I think it would have been better to take them off first. Falter fall leap. What kind of options are they? Why didn't I pick falter? I want to know what happened. Oh my God. You're right, guys. The world does look a lot more real down here. Oh my God. Now there's dinosaurs.  Kara take my bat. I thought he was actually talking to the car. This is far too confusing. Oh my God. Are we at an airport? Where did all the cars go? Oh, there's a zombie, guys. Watch out. All right. Do something. I don't know. Okay. Was that the car starting up? Is that our car sounds? F***ing love this song. Yes. Let's go on a road trip. I just love anything royalty free. Yes. Look at this for a f***ing road trip. Knock him down right on through. Wait, we're going straight to a concrete wall? What? Wait, no, don't fade to black. Carbacca and seat overlays by at TW.episode. TW. Oh my God. It's Tommy was all behind the whole thing. I should have known. Let me introduce you to the new Junker. You've reached the end of episode three. No. No, we need to go play the next one, but we can't. Okay. I assume they all died in a car crash then because I don't have another token to continue. Plus, I think we've gone on long enough. I might just have to accept that I'm never going to get a boyfriend in the zombie apocalypse. My day is ruined and my disappointment is immeasurable. This game is weird. That was a user created one. And honestly, it was way better than the ones that are made by the developers, I guess, or the main stories that are in this. Maybe I should stick to the main ones because they're so bad that I think it makes for better content. Or I was also thinking since this is a user created one, maybe I should create one. That might be a fun video. So if you want to see either of those, do let me know. I think it would be fun to make our own one and see how it comes out. I don't even know how complicated it would be. We're going to end it there. I hope you enjoyed the apocalypse with me.  Or no, he said like the worst people, which isn't that much of a compliment, actually, when I think about it, because there are a lot of horrible, horrible people like people who have to speak to the manager for no reason in retail. I've been there. We're going to end it there. I hope you enjoyed. Please do let me know if you did. I appreciate you watching as always. And I hope to see you next time. Bye for now.


This guy uses sarcasm as a way of gaslighting as a way of taking it to mean less.  That's the way he plays this It's his character. We love a fool because they're not dangerous when a fool is dangerous They're terrifying because now they can go anywhere they want because everybody trusts them I think I would like to ask you about Norma I don't mind getting bunny off the hook because he's married So you don't remember Norma of course like it was yesterday and it wasn't but his girl at all it was me Who was basically with what the brother called her again Norma Norma Norma What he does is insulate himself by pulling the audience to him and protecting himself with the audience watch when he does this This is the organism does what made the organism successful He can hide in plain sight because the audience Expects the Jimmy Savile that is the fool


Good afternoon, everybody. I am here simply to give some additional information about the arrest last, excuse me, yesterday afternoon of Vaughn Simmons, whom we allege committed the murder of Abu Bakr Sharif at Paisana's Pizza on Sunday morning. The affidavit has been filed with the court, and I think that has the strongest narrative. What we believe happened is this. We believe that there were several people inside the pizzeria that night. Among them were Jervon Montgomery, 25, Abdi Rahman Muhammad, 20, Ibrahim Bangura, 20, Mr. Sharif, and also Mr. Simmons. An altercation began between Jervon Montgomery, Abdi Rahman Muhammad, and Ibrahim Bangura. That altercation was a physical altercation. It was a fight. It moved around within the restaurant. During the fight, it appears that Mr. Sharif was actually attempting to prevent the fight from escalating, move people apart. At some point during the fight, Mr. Simmons, who was not apparently involved in the fight and we do not currently believe was associated with any of the people involved, went behind the restaurant counter, obtained a knife from inside the restaurant, strode forward with that knife, and stabbed Mr. Sharif when his back was turned to Mr. Simmons. He grabbed the jacket, pulled Mr. Sharif around, and put the knife into Mr. Sharif, killing him. The other participants in the altercation then basically split apart and everyone fled the scene. Mr. Simmons was observed on video moving throughout the city, still in possession of the knife at points until he went back to the location where he stays at a new place on North Street. This investigation was a thorough and strong investigation by the women and men in the Burlington Police Department's detective unit, particularly lead investigator, Detective Erica Shaler. Terrific work too by our ID Tech Unit to go through all these pieces and then the entirety of the investigation team with regard to going through a lot of video, witness interviews, interviews with people who are now going to potentially be cited for participation in that fight, but the primary object here was to identify the believed murderer. That was someone we did not have immediate knowledge of. It took time to identify that individual. We were assisted by TIPs from the public. We were assisted by partners in the DMV, former officers of this department who knew the suspect from criminal histories past and we were able to use excellent amounts of video both in the location and throughout the city. They did a lot of really good work to find this suspect and then ultimately make a safe and peaceful apprehension of this suspect as well. To have put a cap on what is horribly our fifth murder of the year to have done it quickly, to have done it safely is commendable and I am incredibly proud of the men and women. I'm also very, very sorry for the family of Mr. Sharif. I offered in a public statement and I offer again condolences to anyone who is bereaved by his passing. With that, that's it. I'll give you, you guys can ask some questions if you want about this case. Because having read through the affidavit and all of that, you mentioned as well Mr. Sharif in his attempts to multiple times listed in here to try and break up this fight. I mean, was this individual in the wrong place at the wrong time? I mean, how do we associate the two groups that were essentially grawling in this case? Mr. Sharif is a long time associate of Mr. Abiraman Muhammad and Mr. Ibrahim Vangora. In the affidavit, it was mentioned that at least two of the people involved in this brawl were red square and prior hours. Is there any way you guys have seen maybe something started there that carried over into Pozzano's later night or is there no connection? We don't currently have an answer for that. I remember asking a little bit earlier this week too in terms of the individuals involved here based on both groups. Any other indication as to whether these individuals have been involved in other violence throughout the city? As you see in the affidavit, their statements are that they didn't, oh, I'm sorry, other indications throughout the city. I thought they knew one another. I apologize for that, Cam. Other violence throughout the city. Mr. Montgomery, 25, has 86 police records. Those include records of arrests for robbery, burglary, domestic assault, lewd and lascivious conduct, and retail theft, among others. Abiraman Muhammad, 20, has 66 police records, including records of arrests for aggravated assault, robberies, multiple simple assaults, sexual assault, vandalism, trespass, and larceny. He was a participant in the three-way gunfight at Simons on July 31st of 2021. Ibrahim Bangura, 20, has 52 police records, including records of arrests for aggravated assault, multiple robberies, DUI, burglary, larceny, disorderly conduct. He too was involved in a previous gunfire incident in the city in which he was pointing a weapon at random strangers on Church Street carrying bar closing and ultimately discharged the weapon at that time as well, although no one was struck. That occurred on August 21st of 2021. So the answer to whether or not these individuals have been involved in prior acts of violence throughout the city is a pretty resounding yes. They've been arrested multiple times for these as well, but they were in this bar, excuse me, in this pizzeria on this night. Do you have any information on Bangura Muhammad who were involved in other gunfire incidents? Why they were involved? Those cases are still ending as I understand. I'm not entirely certain. I think that would have to be taken with the court to determine what the status of those cases are. Do you know, do you have any information on when they were released from detention? I know that they were both present at the scene of the Roosevelt Park shooting this past summer. So they were already out in that point. That was obviously the summer of 2022 as opposed to the summer of 2021 when those gunfire incidents occurred. Do you know if they've been charged with a crime while those gunfire incident cases have been pending? To my knowledge, I don't know that for sure. I don't know. Nobody has been cited yet. No, this I take. So our object in this case was to develop information about who our stabber was. The video had made clear we knew that a single party had been responsible for this murder with regard to the use of the knife. And our object and primary goal was to find out who that was and make an apprehension for that. Now that that has happened, we are going to be issuing citations to the other people that were involved in that for disorderly conduct. That is really probably the extent of what we can offer charges on. Those have not yet been issued. They will be.  We will be able to locate them and issue citations, which are minimal kinds of, you know, that's paper that's not in arrest. And just to be super clear on it, that there was a large fight involving people who knew each other, but the man Simmons, as far as you know, did not know or have interactions with those men who was just in the restaurant and chose to join in. As far as we know currently, that is the case. He's older than these others. These others are 25 and 20 and 20. He is 40. He does have a history of criminality within Burlington and Vermont, but not a history that converges with theirs. And currently we believe that somehow he simply became involved. We don't know why. And that's, you know, perhaps be elaborated upon once we get to trial or if others make additional statements. But what we have currently from both participants and witnesses and from the suspect is no clarity on that. There is some suggestion in the affidavit that the fight may have involved a disagreement over another person, a woman who was there. It's not totally clear to me. But, and then there's also a description of a second fight of some kind outside the restaurant. Do you have any other information about why this started or if it was related to the one outside the restaurant? No, we don't. You know, as you said, there's a large age difference, but the men, at least in the affidavit, said that they did know of this man. Of that kind of fun sentence. They knew of him around town. Do you know if it had their relationship with him had anything to do with drugs? No, I don't. I know that his criminal history includes narcotics related investigations, Mr. Simmons. But I do not know that. Considering Simmons was a FAR slash plug earlier, you guys want to say was he intoxicated during the time of the fight? No way to know that. Have you recovered the knife? No, we have not recovered the knife. There are other items that we would be interested in recovering, including clothing associated with our suspect. But currently we have a very strong case based on the work that the men and women inside the detective bureau have done regarding both investigations and interviews. In previous murders and homicide investigations, the department has often said that folks have not been forthcoming with information. That doesn't seem like the case here. Would you say folks were pretty forthcoming, whether it be witnesses or those that were actually involved in the fight? Well, I think you can read the affidavit and sort of understand for yourself that our participants were not all that forthcoming. They made statements eventually, but oftentimes denied being there. One of those individuals was apprehended the night of the incident, was detained, was interviewed, and was absolutely not forthcoming, despite the fact that an acquaintance, a friend, a colleague, somebody with whom he was associated over many years had been murdered. The public did, however, assist us. And some of our ability to identify our suspect came from tips from the public. It's said that Simmons was on federal probation and I didn't get a chance to look on for him, so what that was about, do you know what they were doing? I don't know the answer to that for Mr. Simmons. If it's not in, no, I don't have an answer for that. I'm afraid, I'm sorry. I think the affidavit mentions that Montgomery and Sharif, or Montgomery identifies Sharif as being a friend. Yes. You said that he was a long known, that Sharif was also an associate of Bangor and Muhammad. Yes. Is there any other knowledge as to why Mr. Sharif had been getting involved in this incident? I know, based on the affidavit and what you had mentioned, that it was an attempt to break it up. I mean, it just happened to be there, and I mean, is there any reasoning as to why he might have been involved? My assumption is that he didn't just happen to be there. My assumption is he was probably there with the others, that they were all out together, and he simply wasn't fighting. He was attempting to pull these folks apart. And a question we often ask, too, is what the public should feel about this kind of an incident. I mean, obviously, bar closing time, very busy downtown, lots of folks outside. And all of a sudden, the fight link, this breaks out into some of the ends of staff. I mean, what do you say to the public, and especially the students that are around here at that time, younger population? So this was after bar closing, quite a bit after bar closing, more than an hour after bar closing. And in fact, the rest of downtown was pretty much empty. What caused these folks to still be out and to sort of congregate at the restaurant is unknown. I'll be frank and say that even if this agency were fully staffed, I don't believe that we would have necessarily been out in force at that point. Our evening shift ends at 0245 in the morning because that is enough time for bar closing generally to close. And so officers are on, in days past, when staffing was stronger, it would have meant that a large number of officers were on the corner of church in Maine until about 0230, 0245, which is when the evening shift would go home. You'd be left with the five officers back then that were on the midnight shift as opposed to the one to two that are on it now. But even so, they would be gone by that point. And even when there's a few people still milling about, generally officers do go, what we call 10-8, meaning that they are back in their cruisers and available for patrol. So obviously we were able to respond to this quite quickly. There at the scene, quickly enough to, for example, find Mr. Mohamed, who was still in the vicinity and had not gotten much farther away. But would there have been a huge police presence at a 3.08 in the morning altercation? Probably not. Do you know how long it took between the call and me? I don't have that information with me right now, but it was a matter of minutes.  I'm not certain of the answer to that. That would be a question for code, but there's nothing to prohibit their restaurant. We have rules around the service of alcohol, but as you know, the food trucks, the pizza, the Priyas, many of them stay open after bar closing. How long since he's been going through? Long enough to have been known by a member of our department who's a retired member. This department is now with the Department of Motor Vehicles and has experience having arrested him a decade ago. For a while. What have you been seeing in terms of the Vermont State Police troopers signing up to be downtown at night and how frequently has that been? So Cam asked this question, I believe, a couple days ago. We have had a relatively small number of signups. There had been, I think that we allocated upwards of plus $60,000. We spent about four in the month of October. I haven't gotten the bill from November yet, but as I understand it, it was a relatively small number of shifts total that were worked. There are, I just actually spoke to a trooper last night, a former employee of this agency who's a trooper now, ran into him at an event and his statement was that a lot of it had to do with travel time. Just very few troopers live in the immediate area of Burlington and it's just not convenient for them to come here, even though they get paid for travel and they get paid by us. That's been something I've seen online about the notion of whether or not the state should be paying for Burlington to be policed. I think at times that's a belief that it should. For example, when we ask troopers to assist us, for example, with the marathon or providing security for large-scale events that are going to be things that aren't just about Burlington, but are really Vermont events, our Vermont state police partners are there and they are there on the city, excuse me, on the state's dime, as it were. This detail is funded by the city of Burlington. It's an overtime detail. It's a voluntary detail and it is meant for troopers to come here and just augment our police presence in the downtown core. That said, I think that the distance between where most troopers live and Burlington is something of a challenge for them accepting the detail. Can you just help me understand the identification of Simmons a little bit? So that initially came to police through the tip of his nickname and then through the nickname they were able to use that to identify as Bond Simmons or was he recognized by police in the surveillance? It was a little bit of both. I think that there was, you know, there's strong surveillance footage available and that in conjunction with tips that made, you know, that allowed us to get a sense in conjunction also with the fact that much of his path had been documented, not the final termination of that path, but a good portion of the path, you know, all these pieces fit together. And we did leverage, again, assistance from that former member of our department who's now a lieutenant with the DMV. He was a drug surgeon here for a long time with someone who really knew the players, as it were, on the Burlington board. So you touched on it a little bit earlier. This is the fifth homicide and what's been a pretty violent year here in Burlington, but he did once again apprehended violence suspects and have placed charges on them. You can just kind of speak whether it's on the officers or the department, do you guys kind of continue in a timely manner to get these violent criminals kind of behind bars or a rescue? Yeah, I appreciate that question. You know, we have over the past year and it goes into the previous years too, but this year alone of gunfire incidents in which a person was struck, i.e. shootings, we've solved more than 80% of them. Of the homicides that have occurred this year, the five murders that we have experienced suffered. And it's not just us, it's our city, it is our neighbors, it is most importantly the victims and their families who have suffered these horrible crimes. Every single one of them has had a resolution through investigation and through just incredible work. We have an absolutely world-class detective bureau. It is as good as any that I ever saw working in New York City. It is extraordinary the work that they're able to do. They are, I have kept that part of our police department staff in the face of many calls to divert those resources back to patrol, which is technically the core competency of any police agency. And the reason I have pushed back against those calls is because of the incredible work they do and the importance of what they do. And unfortunately in this year, we have seen the need for the work that they do. We have had 25 gunfire incidents this year that is far and away more than any we've ever experienced. Five homicides as near as I can tell is the most the city has ever experienced. Certainly it's the most since 1960 where I can have effective records. My really effective computer records only go back to 2012. And in those years, there were, there've been 15 since 2012. And there are, to have five of those in one year is just extraordinary. Well, the 20% of the 80% of the cases are there. How close are you to processing that up? I would say we're not very close. I would say those others that are, that do involve somebody being struck are nevertheless, we don't have cooperative victims. We don't have much in the way of evidence. What we would call solvability factors are not there. Uncooperative victims is in fact a kind of closure under the detective bureau. And so at some point we will probably close those for lack of a cooperative victim. In other words, somebody who was shot and knows who shot that person, knows who shot him and won't be, it just won't be forthcoming. So you know more? Meaning, I'm sorry, no, we don't know more. We could, we could know more if somebody were to, we could, but what I'm saying is the victim, in two cases that I'm thinking of and the victim himself will not give us any information about what happened to him. What we have is obviously with five homicides, one is a lot, and you've got families and those that know these people and love these people essentially. I mean, for those folks to have closure in all of those incidents so far this year, what does that mean for you and what does that mean for the families that are impacted by these incidents? I know for a fact that the, because of discussions I've had with some family members that the notion of closure is meaningful. How meaningful is it when you're faced with a terrible, terrible loss? I'm hopeful that at some point that's some kind of consolation down the road. I think in the moment it is a part of what they're feeling but it's certainly not the controlling part. Nothing we do here can bring back a lost loved one. All we can do is try to make certain that the person who does it faces justice, appropriate justice, and that hopefully sends a message to prevent these things from happening again. All right, well thank you very much all for being with us today and have a good weekend.