Artists, there's something that you need to know, like really, really, really need to know, and it's going to change how you see this industry, this new industry, especially going forward because it's going to get worse. So it's important to have this context. And I'm going to go through it. So at least watch the first three minutes of this video, at least the first three minutes, but I'm going to go through it in even more detail to really give you the full perspective. All right. Now, I want to quickly tell you where this post is coming from. Now, as many of y'all know, I've been a part of a whole bunch of campaigns, very successful campaigns. My company alone has helped artists go from zero to hundreds of millions independently, major label campaigns, all this great stuff, right? And I say this for a reason not to brag or anything, but that context is important. Because under a post that I had on Instagram, an artist said something that made me realize y'all don't know this. Most of y'all don't understand this. So here's the new industry that you're in. Here's the reality that you're in. Artists are some of the biggest gatekeepers that exist in the game today. Artists.  And you might be more of one than you think. I'm going to tell you why. So this comment on one of my posts, I'm not going to go through all the details because it's a little less relevant, but just generally speaking, it was a repost and a little bit of my commentary on how many artists don't necessarily market their music, right? Just one of the typical things. It was a discussion. And one of the artists just had this feedback where I realized she thought explicitly that only major label artists have big budgets. And this is the reality that y'all need to be aware of. As a company who's truly been independent, right? The way I've built my career, it's been off of working with indie artists and doing a really, really good job. And then major labels hire us, not the other way around. Oh, we have these big names. And then all of a sudden, because we got big names, indie artists work with us. Why am I saying this? Because I'm very aware of this truth. Indie artists actually have the biggest budgets in most of the campaigns that I've worked. I know that sounds weird, right? And I think it's important I say this again. Indie artists have some of the biggest budgets out of most of the campaigns that I've worked. Seriously, right? That doesn't mean that they have the biggest budgets in the world, right? You'll see like, oh, this artist has $10,000, $20,000. And then the major label artists might only have $4,000. But I think there's a lot to be broken down about that and why that is. But that's not the point of this video. The point of this video is indie artists, no, not indie artists, artists, you, right? You might be a violator here, but artists actually are some of the biggest gatekeepers in the game that I've come across today. Seriously. And knowing this, like really processing this, it should change how you navigate all of this. I'm going to break down some reasons why and then I'm going to give you some even more insights that I get from just the seat that I have in the industry. But I'll start with this, because there's a few reasons, right? That artists are like this, that I've noticed. So, hey, Sean, y'all have been a part of taking artists from square one to square 20. Whoa, how come you can't talk about it? I've seen that artist post with you. All right? Well, that artist doesn't want people to see how they blew up. Many artists want the appearance that this was them. This was magic. People just love who they are, and it's all from that. I don't care if it's an indie artist. I don't care if it's a label artist. Most artists want the magic show. And to be fair, this is the entertainment industry, right? You want people to feel like it's magic, because if they see all the nuts and bolts, it doesn't feel quite as magical. It takes away some of the power when someone realized that was actually manipulated a little bit, right? That poster was on purpose. It wasn't an organic moment, right? That response to you or that person dancing to your music wasn't organic. That ruins things for many people. So if I hop on this channel, for instance, and then I walk through exactly how somebody has broken their career step by step, and I'm working with them directly, and I'm telling you, this is exactly what we did. Now, fans get to see that, not just artists, right? And they don't even want necessarily other artists to see it, not outside of hating and stealing. That does exist, trust me. I'll get into some of that. But there's just a reality of it. It just breaks the perception. And that perception isn't just a valuable thing in terms of the interaction and relationship with the fans. It's also an interaction and relationship with you, other artists that makes that valuable. That perception still needs to translate to you as well. They don't want some level of power and aura also comes into play when you're doing business with other people in the business. I'll say it like that, but artists don't want all their stuff out there, period. There's some clients that we have that you don't even know we've worked with and we'll never talk about that we worked with on the front end unless they explicitly say, hey, we can talk about this or we should talk about this. There'll be NDAs or sometimes a lot of it isn't even an NDA situation to be honest. I don't even make it seem like we're someone who was always signing those. A lot of it is just like good business. Hey, you're hiring me to do a service for you. So I'm not just about to throw all the business out there. You didn't hire me for me to be able to use your name in that particular fashion. You get what I'm saying? So understand that exists, right? And this is part of why one of the positive reasons that artists are some of the big gatekeepers in the industry. But secondly, many artists today, as a matter of fact, let me go to my handy dandy phone to make sure I was speaking with one of my songwriter friends and the songwriter friend was just talking about how the people would know that they were just a songwriter. So they would say stuff to them that they wouldn't say to the other artists and then they would kind of reveal certain, let's say competition and nastiness that exists. And I've heard artists talk about other artists in ways that they would never talk to another artist that way. However, because I guess I'm a marketer, it's a safe space and I'm not about to tell anybody's business. Yes. But like just even the idea I think of, well, if I talk to an artist, let's just say about money, then I sound like I'm not an artist. You get what I'm saying? And the other artists are like, you're not a safe space where I can have this financial commercial conversation, but you come to the marketer and then you reveal all these commercial ambitions, right? And the things that you're willing to navigate and adjust, right? Because it's a safe space. You're talking to a marketer, someone who understands a lot more in the business, they're not going to look down on you in the same way. So some of it's coming from that, but then also there's just a sheer competitive side of it where they are talking, you know, maybe down on an artist here or there, right? That exists just to let you know, right? There's reasons I'm saying that because this next thing is where it really comes into play. We are in an industry. This is this new industry where today, just as many artists are going to be selling you stuff as anybody else. Just as many artists are going to be selling you some level of service, some level of education, right? Of course, the traditional collaboration and things, but artists are starting to do marketing for other artists, do mixing for other artists. Like those are more traditional, but like there's so many other services and things that artists are offering and their position allows them to sell better to you, all right? So the artist becomes a gatekeeper in their own right of information, especially, right? And there's a reason I'm saying this. It's something that I've had to go through myself. But before I touch on that, I got to give a little bit more context on the artist side. Does the artist giving information bad? I don't think necessarily artists giving information is bad, but you also have to analyze an artist just like anybody else. So one, right? Does this artist have fans at all? Right? And if they have fans, do they have fans who are following them? Because I don't know, they give good advice, right? And they're loved by other artists, but they don't have fans that are outside the artist community because it's a little bit more difficult to train on how to build with regular people versus we built the relationship through the education side first. That's different than just from grounds up, right? The thing that I do from our clients, right? Or I've done for artists over the years, that's completely different. Okay? The second thing is if they have fans, were they responsible for gaining those fans? And then do they know more than one path? Right? And I've touched on this in the past video, but sometimes if I grow in one path, it doesn't mean I understand the other paths to other forms of artists and things like that. It doesn't mean everything that I'm saying, right? If I'm an artist, right? It doesn't mean everything that artist is saying is bad. It just might not be for you. No difference then. I might make a video talking about one particular growth path and that might not be for you. But it's something to be aware of. Why am I saying this though? A lot of artists are getting fooled by the fact that an artist is an artist. I don't know about other particular communities and races, but here's a good example. As a Black person, someone will reach out to you as being Black. And just because they're Black, kind of try to use that to take advantage of you, right? To get one over on you when they don't have the best intentions, right? It's like, just because we are the same in this category, doesn't mean that I can trust you to do right by me in business and all walks and forms of life. Right? Fair enough. The same thing I'm starting to see happen with artists based on the conversations I have on the back end. A lot of artists won't talk about them getting screwed over by other people. So I'm not calling any particular individual out. I'm only just saying these are things that you have to think about because the new industry has more and more and more of it. Again, sometimes it's just because they don't want their brand to be ruined, right? And sometimes it's really because I don't want these other people to have that information. I know artists. I can't tell you how many artists have dropped comments on my videos, right? Saying the game is meant to be sold, not told. Why are you putting all this information out there? Right? There's other artists thinking this way. Y'all might have seen those comments, right? These are other artists. So when you are aware of that, just know that should dictate how you navigate the game. Now with that being said, let me end the video with this right here because at the beginning of this video, I said that this post was actually inspired by a response to one of my Instagram posts where it became clear that this person thought that only major label artists have big budgets. They have the biggest budgets, but here's a truth that I think should inspire y'all, right? Or at least help you re-navigate, re-process the game. I'll say that. And what do I mean by that? So again, as someone who's worked a lot of campaigns, had a lot of clients, indie artists have had significant budgets, right? Most of our biggest budgets are indie artists. But how is that happening and why don't you know about it? Again, some of its brand, I actually know an artist that isn't going to be talking about money and they make millions and millions and millions. They have real estate in all these places and this is off of music money. You have people who make money other ways and come in, but they're not going to come out here and talk about it because they're not going to talk about it because it's going to ruin their brand, like to their fans, to look like they have that much money, right? Because now it's a cool thing to kind of, in some categories, to look like you're struggling or look like life is rougher than it is and they're afraid it's going to anger a few artists. You got to remember, y'all have heard me talk about this, right? We're about creative currency, the creativity and currency intersection. And as many people as much as possible, we want to talk to artists about how do you make money off of your music and what do your numbers look like if you aren't afraid to talk about those numbers? So shout out to Kato. He's one of the most transparent people we've had on the channel. He's the first person to come to mind. I don't know if there's somebody else that might pop up later, but Kato, the producer, he was very transparent about a lot of numbers and things they've been working with, but a lot of artists aren't hopping on to have that conversation, so we have to talk to him about other stuff. That's the reality. We want to, that's a huge part of the mission of the podcast that we have, but you got to find people who are willing to actually have that conversation, because that's the best way when y'all can actually hear directly from the person who's doing it and hear the numbers that they're making it. So you see the game differently in which results to artists, a lot of indie artists actually being the ones who have paid us for their campaigns and have been some of the biggest budgets. So that's one thing, but then there's this other side that I don't think y'all are aware of. A lot of artists are making money outside of the game and then bringing it into the game. And what you might not know that there are engineers, people who are making 200k a year in their regular job that still have the dream of being an artist. There's insert a lot of different professionals that are making a lot of money that still want to be an artist. I've talked to only fans, strippers, all type of characters that are making way more money than most artists, but still want to be an artist. Because one, it's a dream, it's a creative dream. And two, when you do find success at it, the level of popular success and fame is different. There's some people who are hungry for that aspect of it as well. But just be aware, there's so many people who have just good jobs and they're thugging it out, saving all their money for their campaigns. So the results to, oh, here's a 5,000, here's a 20,000, here's a 30,000 dollar campaign. That's a real thing. And then there's people who don't even have a great job, but they've grinded it out. And I got some college students who save like 5,000 dollars. Just know that the information that you get sold about the game or told and or people want you to assume in terms of like, oh, it's all labels with all these advantages and all financial advantages. And then everybody else is like down here. It's not true. All right. But you're not going to really find out about it till you're really, really in it because most people don't want you to find out about it for one reason or another. I'm not going to go back through some of those reasons. There are more reasons. Than what I've mentioned in the video, but those are just some of the tops. So hopefully that helps, right? And inspires you to let you know as an indie, you can run up the numbers and get money from other places, right? And figure out how to have a budget. And then on the other end, let you know that it's not as financially competitive in a gap as much as you would think. I can go and hold another video where I talk about label budgets. But when I tell you they're so much smaller than you think in the, in the, because of the way they work, you'd be surprised. You'd be very surprised. And it's partially why it's not worth signing to a lot of label deals, which know what I'm going to, I'm going to write that down. I want to do a separate video on that. But other than that, if you like this video, please subscribe this Saturday series is something I want to continue to do. And I appreciate everybody who subscribed straight up. And last but not least, if you want to chop it up with me, have some of these real conversations, get insights on your particular situation in terms of marketing, how you navigate, you can always find me at www.gottaputthatpartin.nolabelsnecessary.com slash 30 days where we are running are not only challenge, but also giving access to the tools that we're currently using to help artists grow. That's it. Peace.


My best tip for getting settled in Australia would be staying close to the international student support team. Next best people to help you academically as well as help you with getting around. Be brave to go out, take a bus ride on your own and explore Australia on your own. You will feel great after that. Isolation is a problem so get connected with your local community and other organization at university. Get yourself a go-kart, get yourself familiar with bus routes and you should be good to go. I decided to utilize the student accommodation during my first semester and that really helped me with my transition because I was able to have time to familiarize myself with the university and adjust myself with the living environment here in Australia. A bit of research early in the stage would really help you know in just trying to work your way through but you get there eventually it's it's I think it's just a journey that you just got to enjoy and keep an open mind and just go for it.


Let me see Valorant map tier list this updated here. We got alright. Here. We go chat. Okay. This is gonna be a your specific tier list in my opinion Okay, objectively, you know for some people might be better for me might be worse This is just what I think is like the best for my euro specifically so find of course Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm all tingling He's been us. Oh, no, no Wait, where are you? I hear me on me on me on me on me You can kill stage One enemy remaining I enjoy Haven a lot. I think those are both S tier maps. We know where Cypher was. You're probably flanking We don't make it like nice. That's one CT. He's having 63 You should be telling you should be telling We know where icebox goes one enemy Bipers made a bifurse I'll give me a sec. Oh My god, I was relatively I'm gonna flash if I'm flashing I have like a I love a sense like as a map itself a sense like it's just tough I enjoy the map itself I'm all tingling.   I think for yoru like breezes, maybe a tier I Actually like pull a lot for yoru. I think pearls like a decent map. So I'll keep that a tier.  I want to do a fake flash CT Like it that came from CT though. There's two screens two screens pages here, too Oh So fractures seats here That have been so disgusting then if I killed the sky there bro that would have been disgusting To be tough to be tough All the gamble they gambled around flank already I'm still kind of figuring lotus out, but I think it's I think it's like on par with like reason pearl I actually enjoy playing lotus more than breeze Let me teach you speaking she's speaking she's out wide out wide Last to hit last to it here both here both it both on me And it's all gonna smoke on me on me on me. She's backing up. She's backing up 101 chamber 101 chamber. I Flash I think this is my tier list for now


Hey guys, Alex Sanchez here from opensource.com joined here with Jen We're running through our weekly top five of some of our best hand-picked articles from the site So Jen, what do we have to start us off? All right, so at number five this week we talk about Conqueror It's a file management program on Linux and David both our resident Linux expert talks about how he just loves this file manager He says it's versatile powerful and also is a good web browser So you can find out more about that on site It's definitely his favorite you talked about it a lot And there was lots of discussion about some other ones that you can try in the comment section So like Jen said be sure to check that out Next up we've got a great poll on which browser you use which has generated some lively discussion in the comment section Yeah, and a little bit of debate between some of our users. It's got almost 700 votes already So be sure to check that one out and cast your vote and let us know if your favorite is not on there All right at number three. We talk about digitizing VHS tapes So if you remember the days of VHS, you know, I recall birthdays and holidays my dad out with this big hunking tripod and camera So lots of great memories captured back in the day But if you want to watch them today The best thing you can do is convert those into an MP4 and to do that on Linux You can read Don Watkins tutorial about how to convert those. It's a it's a good little write up. Definitely. I got lots of reruns that I recorded that I can now finally convert to MP4 Next up we got an exciting update from the Rust programming language They recently switched to a six-week release cycle And we got a great article from someone involved with the project about why they decided to do that And why other organizations might want to check out or consider doing that for their projects Yeah, I know it can be a tough thing to commit to to pledge to but Rust seems to be pretty excited about Doing that for their for their programming language. A lot of discussion about it for sure All right, and at number one in our top five this week. We have a submission to our my Linux story It's called my dad Linux and me and Lee Brian writes to us about her experience getting started with Linux many years ago What prompted her to make the switch and why she still loves Linux today? So you can also submit your Linux story to our my Linux story series. I'd love to see it We're having some submissions roll in we have a lot of people interested in just sharing why they get started in Linux and what they love about it and our readers really like to kind of hear these personal stories about Linux Interesting, so I know about that one. It actually has almost a hundred comments, which is crazy So crazy, that's a lot for lots of people jumping in and sharing their stories, and we'd love to hear yours, too So definitely be sure to check that out Anyway coming up on the horizon for us. We've got an open government and open data series. It starts June 8th on this Monday So be sure to check that out We've also got a speaker series from Dev Nation and Ozcon So you can get a little sneak preview of some of the people that are speaking at those events whether you can make it or not and See see what you're missing In addition to that we've got a summer reading list for some open source books So keep an eye out for that and an open source and science series So lots of great stuff, so be sure to check us out this summer keep an eye on us. Yep Stay in touch, and that's it for our top five this week. Everybody. Thanks so much for joining us, and we will see you next time


I didn't even, I can't even talk. It's currently 101 AM. I would much rather be sleeping right now for the first time all week. What is going on everybody? Welcome back to the channel. Welcome back to the vlog. All right. So you saw my last video where I worked 96 hours on call. Did pretty well, link up here. So we're going to top that a little bit because this week I'm working 168 hours in a row on call, which I don't even know what I'm going to do. But I hold the audience last time and everybody said I should film this whole entire week. So here's the seven days straight on call, Monday at 7 AM through Monday at 7 AM. They followed week 168 hours on call. Let's see what happens. Day one, a pretty crazy day I might add. We did two prosthetic artery embossations this morning. Or P-A-E's, which you saw in my last video or two videos ago. I went in depth, explain that link up here. So I did two of those. Then we had a bleeder come in. Well, possible bleeder. I guess the correct term of that would be possible hemorrhage. So I did a quick angiogram. There was no bleed. So we just stented the area that we thought might be bleeding and got out of dodge. So it is now 6 20 PM, which actually isn't that late. And I'm going home.  Probably get a million pages. Probably have to come back in the hospital. And I'll probably be dead tired the rest of the week, but who knows? Let's see what happens. That didn't last very long. No, did it. It's about eight o'clock PM on the same day. Showered, shaved my face. And now we're back at the hospital for emergency. Let's hope it don't stay up too late. Can't see me. Just got home. I had an emergency bleed case that I had to do. It's 11 PM right now. Literally going to walk home, go to bed and wake up. I like five AM tomorrow. Probably be a little tired. I have a huge tips and port of esoteric thrombosis case in the morning. That is going to be a doozy on little sleep. So check in the morning. It is officially day two. Still currently hanging on. I didn't get called in last night. And yeah, we'll see what happens today. Also, what I realized, so I'm talking with my tech who's in my room. So we stay in the same room the whole week. So for me, I'm in room two and that is the call room. And I have the same tech all week. And what I found out is the techs who are on call are on call the entire week with us, which is crazy. And it's arguably worse sometimes for them because they have to cover neuro cases as well, which I don't have to do that obviously. So if a stroke comes in, they have to cover that. And no one relieves them all week. So the whole seven days they're on call with me. So that actually makes me excited in a way because you have someone experiencing the same misery you do because sometimes call can be brutal in misery loves company. So let's bring it. At least I have a friend to roll with while I'm on call. So that's that. I'm gonna take some cases, see how it goes. And it is pouring down rain outside, like hurricane season, hurricane session, something going on out there. I haven't even been outside, but people are soaking wet walking around the hospital, which means I don't wanna go outside. So stay here. Hopefully the rain will stop by the time I leave.  And hopefully not come in in the middle of the night. I didn't even, I can't even talk. I didn't even vlog yesterday. I don't think I did, but I can't remember if I did or not, but it's been crazy hectic all till late last night. I did a ton of procedures yesterday. I probably finished about 8 p.m. I started at 8 a.m. Then I was up all night dealing with a patient that we had to admit and a possible urgent slash emergent case that was going to go, but we didn't end up doing it even though I was up all night. Anyways, sorry, I probably haven't had any. This is all I've had to drink so far this much all day. It's probably good for my kidneys. We crushed a whole bunch of cases today. Hey, you don't already have an embolization? No way, we didn't do that. A Y-90 mapping, a Y-90, and a taste today. And I'll follow that up with a full day of liver tumor embolizations tomorrow. I'm gonna go home right now because wifey made a nice home-cooked meal and I hope I don't get called in because I gotta get some sleep tonight going into the weekend and a long day tomorrow on call. So this is day four now, three more to go. I'm halfway. I just realized that I'm over halfway now. So make it to tomorrow. It's all downhill from here. And yeah, I'm gonna go home and eat, hope we sleep, shower, and relax because I deserve it. See you tomorrow. So it's seven a.m., I'm dead. I got no sleep last night because I kept getting paged about everything. And I had been trying to film when I wake up and get paged but turning on the camera has been really difficult when it's that early. And it's pouring down right in today so I took an Uber out of the way to work today. I keep saying today because I'm so tired and have no other words. But we have four cases, long cases, liver tumor, embolization cases today. So we'll see how it goes. It is currently day five. All right, so I just got back from the floor, saw my patients that we did procedures on yesterday. We always didn't around on the patients who had the most advanced procedures or the most serious procedures to make sure they're doing okay afterwards. I was up all night dealing with a transfer patient. We cover a whole bunch of different hospitals around New York City. We're at the main hospital and anytime one of our branch hospitals has a critical patient, they'll call us to get them transferred over here so that we can do our procedures because a lot of these smaller hospitals don't have all the equipment we do here. And yeah, so I was dealing with that to the wee hours in the morning. Probably didn't end up going to bed till about two AM. And that was after my fourth long 15 hour procedure day. And now I did not feel guilty taking it over to work today because it's pouring down rain and I'm running out of no sleep. And I have a long day today filled with four embolization procedures so I'll be on my feet at least till six to seven PM. So maybe this weekend will be less busy. I don't know, but we're over the hump. One, two, three-ish more days left. And what is going on, everybody? It is now Saturday and we are back to work. Haven't gotten much sleep last night and I think I don't even remember what part of the video I'm on right now. All I know is I don't think I filmed anything yesterday because it was like insanity. And the night before it was insanity. I just did cases all day long. I stayed up here until like the wee hours of the night. And then I went home and the last two nights I've been getting paged about pretty much everything from patients needing stool softener to just a heads up that we're getting a CT on a patient that might be bleeding, which, you know, I don't really want to be bothered by that stuff in the middle of the night based on the amount of work that I've been doing and stuff in the middle of the night.  I think Monday night was the only time I wasn't interrupted one time. And every day since then I've been procedures all day long. And today I don't have any procedures scheduled. I think there will probably be some add-on procedures today because we need to get a few down this weekend. But I'm going to go see and round on all of the cases we did this week like tips patients, thrombectomy, thrombolysis patients, that kind of stuff. So I'm going to go see all those patients around on some of the drains we placed yesterday. Make sure they're doing okay. And we'll go from there. Also, I realize I haven't actually kind of given you all how our call is structured here.  And so for short, I don't really know, but we basically are scheduled here to do procedures all day long in the morning. So anywhere from seven or eight AM all the way up until the cases are done. So sometimes five, six, seven PM and then we'll do some inpatient add-on stuff after that. Then I have the pager all night and I get paged about pretty much anything to do with interventional radiology and sometimes not to do with interventional radiology. You don't really ever get to sleep through the night. Then I come in the next day to a full day of procedures and repeat the process and especially about seven days. So I am on call the full seven days. I'm not in house the full seven days. I think the last time I did the 96 hour video on call people are like, how does he stay in the hospital that long for four days or whatever, but we don't. And the beauty about being on call is our hospital will pay for your Uber to and from home to the hospital and back if you have to go in overnight, which is pretty cool because I don't wanna walk the streets of New York city in the middle of the night. But yeah, so it's 160 hours straight on call. So anything that happens throughout the evening after normal working days goes to me and I deal with from any of the hospitals around this area that are in our health system. So that's why I'm pretty exhausted. I'm actually, so when I wake up, I'm super tired. And then I have my coffee and then I just start going. So like right now I'm fine, but then this is day six. Now I don't know how I'm doing it, but I think he just like adapts. I don't know. I'll probably crash on like Sunday night, but well, I'm still on call Sunday night. Maybe I'll crash on Monday. Anyways, I'm gonna see some patients and hopefully this day isn't too long today. So I was resting comfortably in bed and I was actually relaxing because if I haven't mentioned it's Saturday and I finished an emergent GI bleed today, rounded on the last patients and went home. I like five or six o'clock or whatever got to rest on the couch, watch some Netflix. I basically was like fall asleep on the couch. Took an Uber straight to the hospital. It's currently 101 AM. Solved the patient. We're about to go drop some catheters. I would much rather be sleeping right now for the first time all week, but what can you do? Does anybody else just get used to the sound? I know every nurse out there probably just completely tunes that out. And it's not bright outside as you can see because I was just in a procedure until about 6.30 AM and it is currently 7 AM right now and I'm finally going home and apparently I'm supposed to be just continue to be on call all day today somehow. I'm going home now because last night was literally insane. So it's up for about four or five hours and luckily I have probably the best resident ever who saw that I was up all night and offered to take the pager for me this whole morning so that I could get some semblance of sleep. Which is great even though I still checked the pager because it was going off all morning and things were still happening with the patient from overnight. So I haven't really gotten much sleep. It is now Sunday. It's my last day of the seven days or 168 hours straight on call. I have to write a few notes today, follow up on some patients, dictate the study from last night, tie up some loose ends and hopefully there's no emergent cases tonight and I can just make it through tomorrow morning and I can just turn my phone on silent the rest of the next week and not have to deal with any of this stuff. I'm so ready for this week to be done but it's actually surprising how much your body can take or how much your body can run on no sleep.  So now, and just like that, it is Sunday at 6 p.m. and I'm getting the heck out of here. Probably tell how tired I am. Haven't slept in a while but I survived. Well, technically I'm not actually done with call but I'm just hoping and anticipating that I won't be caught in tonight because I just don't think I can handle that right now but anyways, let me know if you like this kind of video. I know I didn't show too much medicine stuff but let me know in the comments below if you want me to do this next time on my car. You have your questions, leave them in the comments below. Otherwise, see you on my next video.


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What's your back here with the breakfast and plus TV Africa who's speaking with Professor Kenny fair who's a developmental economist He joins us from the FCT Happy New Year Professor Ken Thank you very much. I'm happy new year to you too. All right, then let's get to this conversation with of course the Nigerian employers consultative association Saying that it's okay the adjustment in the current premium rate for Motor insurance is desirable in order to grow the economy now the quick one to this is that You know, there's been an increment which should take effect as of yesterday Which is the first of January 2023 the third party motor insurance policy Being increased from 5,000 Naira to 15,000 Naira like I mentioned earlier on First of January 2022 so apparently yesterday was a weekend and let's say today is Monday. It's a public holiday, but somehow That's what it is. What do you make of this justification and this development? There are two issues one means Is it justified to have an increase if you have not had one over the last five years the answer is yes Because you know anything is a moving target and this is a price and price subject to demand our supply issues rated interest and But the second point is what is the quantum of the increase? In three hundred percent increase is just not on you know, you shouldn't be doing three hundred percent increase You should be doing an increase, but not to the level of three hundred percent Let me explain What happens is that increases of this nature are inevitable especially when There are increases in the whole environment in the whole cost environment Both costs of services and cost of goods for example car prices have gone up phenomenally And all kinds of services have gone up goods have gone up. Yes, that's fine But how do you index and increase you have to increase the sequential you have to for example Index it to the solution Inclusion is about twenty one point six percent. Yes, you know, they should be increasing this in gradually Over time rather than take a content jump of three hundred percent increase And then when you do this even though it's within your rights You also had a duty to consult extensively the stakeholder community That you use insurance and of course neck Yet is a very close member of that community. So that's why they are coming out and supporting it But you have to consult people on what are what are the reasons for the increase which we all know And then what are the benefits are you going to increase the fabulous level agreement so that these people will become more Efficient in their position of services in the operational services Increasing their response time. Another was making it shorter so that when people complain they respond quickly Settling claims what are the service level of setting in claims? You have to bring that closer to the people So there's so many other sensitization because it's the job of my con to sensitize The country because people are only very small number of people are using insurance and service It's very good for the economy for us to increase that And so the most telling us how much are they going to invest in Sensitization because you know people that come to ensure and you know why the cost of insurance So all these are mostly addressed in one word the other but let's look at you know the Rational or some of the reasons given for this adjustment You have stated that if this is not if the agency or the association has not had an increment For a period of time then I think it's desirable to have all of that which we know that that doesn't happen in a long time But moving away they have said that this is in order to grow the economy develop the industry and provide some effective ricks To mitigate services to the generality of Nigerians Do you think that this is anything to go by? You know the argument is found is found because the bigger the number of people involved in insurance The better for the economy. Why do you insure goods insure goods? People have the safety of wanting to invest if you insure agriculture, which they are doing Then banks will learn to agriculture the farmers will borrow The farmers will go to farm with the rest of mind that if the flood comes and taking away all their plants or anything All the unexpected has had that they will not go out of business So it is important it encourages business insurance encourages the manufacturers of cars To even be able to do more business so that it generally helps the economy both the suppliers and the So it does have a huge role to play in improving customer credit You can give customer credit when you have an insurance But if they fail to pay insurance kicks in so the credit expansion of the economy is a dead by insurance So those are those are very cogent reasons. But the thing is that you don't want to create An army of people who don't want to pay the insurance because it's only about 300% and I haven't got the money So they start forging things in with evading the premium You don't do that. They take it is the same story as our First subsidy you don't wait on to the one one bank you remove the first subsidy and then everybody goes I mock the increasing gradually every three months in case you buy time But people will take the pain and they will gradually gradually rise to to the appropriate level over if you know That's more than I know that time and extend the time period not just one bank of 300% increase in price. It doesn't work like that but How would you describe, you know the level of awareness or you want to say a Culturation of insurance in terms of vehicle insurance in Nigeria. Do you think that you know? It's anywhere close to 50% Now it's very very small We didn't use like we are working around 10% of the potential customer base that they should be delivering And that is that has a knock on effect when you have a very narrowed customer base Then the economy suffers But every other person and then you too you start cutting corners You will provide the efficient service You will be agreeing with customers on each and every incident and then you will be delaying their payment and their recovery and all kinds of things imagine if if you have a terrorism insurance and Your market is a set of bliss Then no settlement for one year. They are agreeing people have lost one year livelihood You know it's simply that if you planted crops and there was a flood Then you'll be arguing with them for another one year another family season is gone And you know is not enough to the contents So it's a very vital status that underpins the rapid growth in the economy Especially in the asset of the economy So it's very important but it has to be the regular talk has to be a bit more responsible in the sense that You keep on working with them because if they have consorted the code as extensively They won't allow them to do 300% soap. They will say stag at the agate over the year You know put in 50% put in another 50% about three more six months and then until you level to Your 300 Professor if how can we develop you know this industry the insurance industry because in developed climes Is reported that it plays a major role in terms of national development among others it is a risk takeoff Right, so what can we do to develop this sector so we can contribute, you know to nation building and GDP as well Well, you know first of all you have to have consumer confidence And this this is there's anything that is going to not come through that the consumer confidence It is just this kind of action of increasingly by 300% just like that It's not it pushes a lot of people out of this or out of the Formal economy. They are now joining the informal economy of evading tax Evading insurance for the insurance that you get. That's what you push them to just because of the way you implemented Secondly You need to raise your awareness Of the benefit of this and people don't know People just don't know many people will venture into many activities If they know that there is an insurance company if you take for example A agriculture the commercial banks don't want anything to do with agriculture because they see it as a high risk area A low return But if insurance moves in it gives them the confidence to lend To the people so it is a war of the risking the the sector So insurance helps you to risk a sector And it's applicable to all sectors So, you know, so they didn't have to actually have to use about the benefit of insurance But it's just the selling of this The sensitization of the people the continuous carrying along the stakeholders as you move along And and then make sure you can be trusted because customer trust and confidence is critical Where somebody gets beaten twice on trying to make his claim and he can't get it Well, this kind of notoriety of the industry because people trust the industry They believe that any money you pay makes sure that's the money that you have lost Because they don't have any faith that you will ever secure a claim And if they have successful claims, which in short case Succeeds for claim because people need to be a fit All right So they have to Yes, we have to go now and uh professor Eiffel. Thank you so much. Uh, we're just Out of time and we hope that we can have more of this conversation in 2023 Thank you very much. All right, then. Thank you so much as well for being part of the breakfast this morning We have been speaking with a developmental economist Uh, professor can if we take a breakdown to join the newsroom at nine o'clock if you missed out on any part of the conversation That's all right to follow us on facebook twitter And instagram and do subscribe to our youtube channel at plus tv africa and plus tv africa Live, so my name is messy book will join us at nine. Thank you


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Hey what's up guys welcome to Trending Reviews. So in today's video I'm going to be showing you a whole load of samples using my brand new lens which is the Sigma 24 to 17 millimeter 2.8 DGDN Art Lens. Now I'm going to be taking all of my photos and videos using the Auto Mode so you can get to see the full capabilities of the lens itself when it's auto generated the photography and the videos. So I'm going to be covering a whole load of categories as you can see listed here. It's going to cover five main topics starting off with general photography at the lowest and the highest focal lengths from 24 to 70. I'm also going to do portrait photography at the four main focal lengths that come on this lens which is the 24, the 35, the 50 and the 70 and I'm also going to do just general portrait photography just to give you an idea of how to take perfect pictures with this lens. I'm also going to do some low lighting and nighttime photography and videos and then lastly I'm going to finish off with some auto focus on the video quality as well. Now just for your reference the clips you just saw me of holding the actual lens itself that was some b-roll footage which I shot with my 35 millimeter prime but I'm actually recording this video right now as you can see of me using this sigma lens so just to give you an idea of how the video quality is then this is actually what is being recording directly from that lens so hopefully that gives you an idea and I'll be covering a lot more about the video later on in this video as well. Now I'm not going to be covering the full specifications of this lens now if you are watching this video I presume you already know what this lens is capable of you've done a lot of research on it and you're considering buying it. Now hopefully I'll give you guys a good idea of the capabilities of this lens when you want to take a whole load of pictures and videos or whatever it may be so you get to see a whole load of samples. Now I will time all of the different categories in the descriptions below so if you wanted to skip directly to any of these categories then you can do that because the video might be quite long and if you do want to purchase this lens it comes over just a thousand pounds so it's not the cheapest but again it's also not the most expensive lens out there so I'll leave a link in the description of where you can purchase this on Amazon. Now I will leave all of the EXIF data embedded onto the pictures as well because I will be taking it on auto just so you guys can see what information is generated by the lens for the exposure the ISO the aperture and that kind of stuff and just remember I will be taking everything on auto so if you do see anything that's a bit too dark or a bit too overexposed then just remember that if you switch to manual mode on this lens then you can take better pictures than what you might see so having said all of that let's just jump straight into the samples and let me know what you guys think in the comments below. Right so starting off looking at some of the pictures from the 24 to 70 comparisons now I'm standing in the same spot and I just wanted to give you guys an idea of how much zoom is on this lens so take a look at some of these pictures and see the clarity in how the zoom comes out at the 70 millimeter point now I'm taking this at general landscape pictures of different architectures and specifically like this photo here I zoomed in into this branch and I can see that it comes out with this very nice portrait looking bokeh effect behind the actual branches themselves and I'm standing in the same spot if you look at that first picture there at the top at the 24 millimeter you can see that there's a lot that is in frame you can tell by looking at the 24 millimeter how much zoom there is on this lens so for me that is an amazing job now if you just go through some of the rest of these pictures to look at the different zoom levels and let me know in the comments below what you think now I'm going to play the rest of the sample photos through if at any point you want to take a closer look then just pause the video look at it full screen and then continue playing until the next category so in these pictures I've taken a lot of portrait pictures and I've told my friend to move back distance wise but try to keep me at the same length in the actual view frame so whether it's 24 millimeters or 70 millimeters I'd like to see myself in the middle of the screen at the same position just to see how much difference the effect is on the depth of field in the background any changes in the contrast in the brightness in the exposure even in the coloring and as you can see from some of these pictures obviously for the portrait photography it comes out from my opinion the best at the 70 millimeter because it's made for that specific purpose but if you look at the 24 millimeter it's actually not too bad as well you get a little bit more of the background but it's not as good as the depth of field with the 70 now looking at some of these other pictures like for example this rock you can definitely see more of the blur in the background on the 70 millimeter but again the clarity in the pictures and the sharpness that you get for each of them I'd be happy to take some of these pictures at whichever length with this lens this one you can see it's a little bit more difficult to tell but for me if you are going to take portrait pictures it has to be the 70 just because of that standout depth of field focus that you have on your subject obviously with them 24 if you wanted to have more of a clearer background then you can equally take as good photography with that as well especially when you're doing portrait pictures now here's a couple more examples to see for yourself now in this section I just wanted to showcase to you some really cool pictures I've taken under portrait photography 70 millimeter focal lens now there's no specific purpose of showing these other than the capabilities of how good portrait photography actually comes out using this lens so I'm going to let you cycle through these pictures and let me know what you think about the portrait photography ability of the Sigma 70 millimeter okay moving on to nighttime photography now I've maxed out the aperture at 2.8 for all of these night pictures so I just wanted to give you some clarity on actually how good and how sharp the pictures do come out under 2.8 aperture now as you can see with the XF data at the bottom you'll get different ISOs different shutter speeds and that kind of stuff but looking at some of these pictures it's so clear the colors come out absolutely perfect as they were in real life and cycling through some of these pictures I can't fault any of these in not showcasing how clear and how sharp and detailed these pictures are in comparison to how it was in real life now even if you take a look at a picture of myself here you can see it's come out very clear and if someone was taking this picture in almost near darkness with very little lighting you can see the clarity still comes out and it does a very good job increasing the ISOs way into five figures and getting the picture to be as detailed as possible so I'm very impressed with the night photography so have a look at a few more samples and then we'll move on to night videos so I've taken a video of here of some water fountains as you can see it's very dark in the background the focus has been put onto the lights coming from the fountain so that's where it's capturing most details and as you can see it's just coming out very clear very smooth and even at almost pitch darkness with no street lights around me at this point I think it's done a very good job picturing the details of the fountains albeit none in the background and lastly just some street videography now I've just set up my camera and I'm just taking a video of the street just to show some of the cars going by some street lights and some natural videography and as you can see it's very clear so take a look at the judgment if you was going to do any video recording at night time then you'll be comfortable to know that it comes out very sharp very detailed and very high quality so for me I'm very impressed with the video capabilities of this at night time and last but not least I wanted to showcase the autofocus capability so in this clip I'm just walking towards the camera seeing if it can continue to pick up my focus on my face and body I'm getting very close to the camera it's clear I move away it was a very smooth transition to focus into the background as I come back into shot it took about half a second and it was clear and again walking away it's absolutely fine now in this next clip I'm just cycling between all the different Funko Pop models I have and as you can see going from focus of one to the next it's very quick it's fast it's smooth and the good thing I like about this lens is that the autofocus is silent as well so you wouldn't hear any motor noise when transitioning into different subjects so for me that has done a great job there and lastly just pan away from one plant to the other you can see with macro videography it's very clear it's smooth and it's a very fast autofocus transition so I'm very happy with that overall all right so that was the whole review guys hopefully those samples were useful for your decisions in if you wanted to buy this lens or not and I will leave a link on where you can purchase this down below overall from my point of view I think this is a great lens it's probably one of the best lenses I've had so no matter what type of situation you're in if you wanted to do ultra wide recording or macro photography then it's perfect for that at 24 millimeters obviously it's not the most ultra wide lens but it does a very great job in giving you the most perfect viewport of whatever you need to capture and if you want to do a lot of portrait photography then I think the 17 millimeter is perfect for that as you saw some of the pictures were amazing and in just auto mode it's just captured the perfect sharpness great lighting perfect amount of exposure and aperture as well so I can't fault that now there's two things that I don't like about this lens it doesn't have image stabilization built into the lens but that's not a problem because most Sony full frame mirrorless cameras now have in-body image stabilization so that's absolutely fine and the second thing is that I think this lens is very heavy so if you're going to do a lot of hand held work with this and you're going to take it out maybe you have some photo shoots to do for someone or you have your own photography business then your your arms might get a little bit tired because it is very heavy especially when you're carrying it without any straps or anything like that so just be aware always take a tripod with you because it can start hurting after a long period of use but if you're going to do a lot of video recording then put it on tripod it's perfect for that as you can see I'm recording the video now using that same lens and it all depends on the purpose so for just over a thousand pounds I actually think if you're going to use it for both photos photography and videos it's the absolute bargain if you're only buying this just for videos or only just for photography I would maybe consider a different lens maybe a prime lens or something that's suitable just for your purpose otherwise for me for a multi-purpose lens it's just perfect and I would definitely recommend this so if you have any other questions then do drop them down below otherwise I hope you subscribe and I hope you like this video and I will catch you guys at the next one take care


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city and in the territory on west there's just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with the u.s. martial and the smell of guns smoke the united states martial the first man they look for and the last thing want to meet it's a chance a job that it makes a man watchful and a little lonely I'm kindly nippy tonight in Mr. Dylan that's getting toward the season for it Chester I always hate to see winter come on the lonesome time here you know I remember you say in last spring that you hated to see summer come on because you didn't like the heat well yeah but at least it ain't lonesome there's always something going on in summer time yeah Dustin flies mostly well come on let's go to the jail and anyhow it don't snow and freeze up everything in the summer time you got me there Chester sure can't recall ever hearing of any snow in the summer and that's another bunch of cowboys come to eat up the town and it sounds like they're feeling pretty good too that is that was Carl Willis trail boys they're doing up in the panhandle this way I heard they were going to try to make a second drive this year I'm fine virus most of the cattle agents has gone back now they probably contracted their hurt when they were here in the spring come on Chester well ain't you going to stop them shooting that way they're not doing any harm just letting off steam they'll quit pretty soon settled on spending their money and I swear I just can't understand the way a trailer driver thinks mr. John what do you mean well let's spend two months or more working a herd north then they hit down the pocket full of pay they go out and throw it away in one night and they're flat broke again to get back to Texas yeah but they sure got a night to remember Chester yeah maybe so but dog got it you'd think they'd use some sand off now what is it kitty at the end of the street Matt you better come it's red bastion's wife oh what about her one of those cowboys shot her please get through here stand back William wait stand back on dark oh oh hello man you need any help well no no how bad is she what's hard to say until I get the bleeding stopped bullet grazed the side of her head she's still unconscious her husband's over there if I guess he can tell you what happened I haven't even had time to find out I'll go talk to you holler if you want me on that all right now she's gonna be all right Marshall Doc's doing his best how'd it happen them halfway drunken cowboys they ought to be run out of town and kept out you see which one it was it's too dark anyhow I was across there by the stable when it happened yeah where was your wife Melodia was there on the seat of the bugboard she was holding the horses while I went to fetch some harness I bought just fixing to go back out the farm I see I heard them hoping and hollering and firing their guns that come running out and loading a yell fell off the seat about time I got there found out what had happened they rode on past that's a bad thing to have happened right even though it wasn't on purpose that ain't no excuse Marshall I know that I know the wall deal with whoever did the law sure better now you just take it easy read I've used gun law before and I can use it again I don't be a fool there are 20 lazy tea writers in town I never started nothing yet I couldn't finish whoever shot my wife's gonna be a lot better off if you get him before I do you can tell them that Marshall rather you tell it to him just that way saying one of my boys done it that's why I've been staying back here in the shadows how is she doesn't know yet Marshall I ain't had a chance to talk to my men yet but if one of them did it I'll find out and I'll turn him in now you can count on it I was hoping I could go maybe broke up a little when you get him but you get it just one thing what you better make it fast this thing could get out of hand you look like you could stand a drink yeah I think I could how is she dark still working on him he moved her up to his office any luck finding out who did it no it's like it's up to Carl will it he's checking with his men a lot of good that'll do those trail drivers stick together like leeches no kitty I think Carl will try to get to the bottom of it I figured it was best to let him have first chance anyway didn't anybody see it happen not as far as I can find out it was dark down there they were all bunched together right and fast firing their guns well it's a dirty shame man I always liked her what little I've known of her she seems real sweet and gentle yeah yeah I've noticed her are you want me to leave Matt no no you stay around Carl you know get it on his kitty much sort of maybe sorry you invited me Marshall when you hear what I got to say none of my boys shot at it it was firing in the air that's what they say Marshall I've rode with him man at least two drives with all of 10 or 12 with some you get to know a man on a cattle drive and you know when they're telling the truth I believe him I see Marshall that's her husband we met last spring I bought water often for a couple of weeks find out who shot my wife yet Marshall I'm working on it right why don't you make Carl will it here tell you it was him and his men riding down that street none of my boys did it bastion that's so yes that's so what makes you think so well they don't lie to me if one of them had done it he'd tell me eat that just fine my wife's laying over there in Doc's office heard bad maybe dying but it ain't nobody's fault nobody really done it because your man wouldn't tell a lie look best you know nobody feels worse than I do about your wife but you're barking up the wrong tree I say you're a liar will it only say all right both of you I was only saying what he believes if he's wrong we'll find out about it you both just settled on it's like I'll have to Marshall he's wearing a gun and I'll be glad to take it off no tomorrow I'll be wearing one myself and long as you're gonna cover up for the man that's guilty I reckon it'll have to be you I come looking for Ed you're talking like a fool maybe so Marshall but the way I see it the laws had his chance and it ain't done much how is she done it's a close call but she's gonna squeak through she's resting easy now it's good that's real good you can take her home if you want to read I'll stop by tomorrow she'll more likely sleep for twelve fourteen hours well there's been a lot worse read and don't change nothing far as I'm concerned I'll be in town tomorrow will it I hope you are too we'll see your men first thing in the morning all of them over to jail it's all you can go back to kind of Marshall all in the next one Chester well that's all I miss you don't know I felt a text there was a last one and we don't know any more than we did when we started talking to him well him did do it he sure is a good liar yeah look together like pups from the same litter all fired in the air they couldn't possibly hit her and they ever story just a life without a witness about all I can do is slap a fine on them for disturbing the peace and what they do with that well that won't satisfy red bastion mr. don't afraid of won't of course now he's had chance to sleep on it he might have simmered down some wish I could believe that Chester you always treated his wife like a dog I can't figure him getting surrounded up about this I guess it's a matter of pride with it mass red bastion down the street and Carl will it stand on the porch of the dodge house he's been there all morning he says he didn't ask for the fight but he won't run from it all right come on thanks getting read it just hold up a few days we might still get to the bottom of this he'd be happy his wife don't get well I've never seen that man happy in his whole life and there's red in the street in front of dodge house yeah wait a minute you're acting like a fool come on too bad I was just gonna talk to it that's why you pulled that old trick on him what do you mean slapping your thigh with your left hand the way you did he thought you were drawing and he had his gun half out before he saw his mistake that's when you drew and killed him it was self-defense the fact remains he draw it on the fact remains as a killer's trick yeah doc I've got to get out the bastion place right away what's the matter doc it's your wife bastion one of the neighbors kids just wrote in from the farm what about her what's wrong well she's been bitten by a rattlesnake like she was last night and now being bit by rattler can't figure out how that snake got in the house ain't nothing like that happened before well cool well there's coming on the snakes are starting to crawl in the warm places to hibernate red it's sure the granddaddy one putting her six foot long the big one look at these rattles I cut off it 14 oh nine years I've been married to that woman won't go easy losing well now they still hope Mr. Bastion it's night that fella will it trying to kill her like he done and now this there's no reason to think Carl will it fired that shot there's plenty of reason he wouldn't have stood up to no gunfight just to cover for somebody else I say fired that shot himself I know Carl a long time that he wasn't the kind sure you know the Marshall real good friends of two of you I seen that right off that's why I figured I couldn't count on no help from the law I think you've said about enough for all I asked for was for you to do your job Marshall I sure don't see what how is she doc well before I got to she was off a week to start with what kind of a doctor are you anyhow the best I know how to be I'm sorry sure you're sorry that makes it fine I get easy right looks like you got a business bastion huh there's a wagon pulling in the yard well that's the same same what he's a peddler tin wearing stuff he come through here this morning heading west the devil's he doing back I'm sure bet you didn't expect to see me again what do you want my horse went lame on the other way I ain't got no horses to sell well that's too bad well say did you get rid of that big snake what snake that's it when he hadn't I come through this morning that he caught it out in the barn who was fixing the killer told it Marshall don't move you know there are four of us against you red which is the only one we're in a gun Marshall they have this will be just like sitting ducks so you're the one who shot at your wife now wait a minute then you turn that snake on her this morning before you came in the time all right so it's true I wasn't gonna let her go away with him with who Carl will it they got real friendly when he was here on that drive last spring yesterday she told me she was gonna leave with him when he come back I ain't left no man take a woman off me so you murdered her sure ain't gonna leave with him now all right drop the gun right not hardly that was just an old Indian trick you know well what do you mean Chester with an old Indian trick well dot you just stick a snake's rattled on the point of your knife and snap the hand with your thumbnail see yeah well maybe an old trick Chester but goodbye Norman McDonald stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon U.S. Marshall the story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield with editorial supervision by John Messon featured in the cast were Vic Perron Harry Bartell and James Musser Harley there is Chester Howard McNeer is Doc and Georgia Ellis is kidding this is George Waltz inviting you to 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time here from Orange Systems in October is Cyber Security Awareness Month.  And I think the best way to kick this off is with a topic I've been wanting to cover for a little while. And that is how to know when a security researcher is fully know this is not an April Fool's video, it's more of an October full of fools who will be posting way too much information. Now, there are a lot of wonderful cybersecurity researchers out there.  And what I want to do today is me and Jason are going to be breaking down the rules we use because we're both known for calling out some of these vendors. Jason is especially well known for calling out security researchers who, well, just kind of post a lot of BS on there. And I want to offer you and we want to put together some of the rules we have kind of that we go through and see if a security researcher is a good participates in the community wants to help things out and teach you about security or raise some awareness or just someone who's sensationalizing things and creating a lot of noise and wasting everyone's time in the process. But let's dive into this as a topic because I thought this is just an interesting one. We're also going to be posting a series of business related cybersecurity videos. You'll find those over on our business technicalities channel. There's a link right down below to that channel. You can go to Lawrence.video.biz to get there even quicker. All right, let's dive in today's topic. This is exciting. And I've been wanting to do this for a little while because people full of BS and you were just at a security conference and you got the reputation occasionally for throwing rocks at vendors and throwing rocks at bad research that gets poked at. And I've got this as well. And by the way, all these rules we're going to talk about because I want to offer the insight that me and Jason used to like the rules. These are some scientific methodologies and commonalities. So why we would call someone out. And I don't want to call out a person, but I want to make sure you understand the methodology we use and how we think about it. And by the way, always feel free to use these rules against us just in case there's a future where me or Jason become so overwhelmed with ourselves or we plant our heads up her butts and start breaking all these rules. These are these are some pretty solid rules for making determinations of whether or not someone is just full of BS. Yeah. I mean, I have my opinions about a ton of researchers out there, positive or negative, right? But like I feel like people should pass their own judgments. So set of rules that we use is a good one. Yeah. Having rules and define this because I mean, it's easy to point at some people because it's one of those things you know it when you see it. But let's start with the first one. And that's people who lean on their credentials, never their accomplishments. Yeah. This is just, oh, it's like all those things where you greet people and they're just like, why, you know, why should I listen to? It's never like this whole history of all the different things they've done or different cool things they've taken apart, reverse engineered, etc. It's a string of letters or telling them that, oh man, don't you know this or that or I have a million followers. And by the way, I never brag that followers on YouTube is a reason to follow me, because it turns out if you sensationalize you can get a lot of followers. That's not the same as actually being, you may be entertaining, but you really need to be educational if you want to teach people about how to hack something. Yeah. And YouTube, especially, I think there's a certain amount of, you could have more followers by being more entertaining, right? You're taking the long tail of slow growth, which is I'm just going to say the truth and keep doing it. And eventually people will show up and I think that's good. You see people, I mean, I have my stuff after my name and my email signature. There's nothing wrong with that. And I don't on my LinkedIn tag, right? And I've let, honestly, I need to update my email signature, because I've let most of that stuff expire, right? Like it has limited lifetime value. What I'll say there, so KD8BFN, I'm a ham radio operator, and I definitely memorized the question pool to pass that exam, right? Like I understand the theory. I understand all the things behind it, but not to the level that I was going to be working out the answers to some of the questions they ask you during the test. Like I wasn't going to pull out a calculator. I just memorized the answer. They give you the question pool. It's published, right? Like the same thing exists with a lot of these tests. If there's no practical test, right?  Then you just memorize them and then easy, easy. Now you pass something. Yeah. And like I said, nothing wrong with having the credentials. It's not like that's the disqualifier. It's the people who only lean on that and then never have anything. Because sometimes, like Jason said, some people are just really good at regurgitating things. But it's a combination of all these things that we're going to talk about. The next one is going to be has a history of big coming soon claims about security that get attention, but never come to fruition. Oh, this one. There's like, you would think the boy who cried wolf story, the old tale would apply, but somehow people have a really short term memory. So when someone says, you know, oh no, big security problem coming, but then you can follow that same person realize they do it all the time. And I'm like, how does this person still have 2 million followers on Twitter? I don't get it. There's one particular researcher who I will not call out because we're not doing that here that this is just a repeated theme and over and over again, oh, I got this big, huge thing against this big company that all these people use. And then they releases it. And it's like, that's nothing. You chain together several low vulnerability things and it's still just fishing, right? Like it's not, there's nothing to it. And yeah, there's a certain hype cycle. And I understand that when you're trying to grow and make a name for yourself, maybe some amount of that hype is necessary. I go the other way. I'm an anti hype. Like I, I don't know, I think a lot of the legit researchers have a certain amount of imposter syndrome. So they're not out there, you know, being big and bolsterous, right? And there are a few legitimate ones that for sure are, but they usually follow it up quickly. You know, you could say I have something coming in 30 days because I'm still under embargo. Yeah. And that's a different type of discussion. For sure, things get embargoed. Like the, the CVEs I had against ConnectWise, I sat on those for six weeks until I could publish because, well, actually I sat on them for 10 weeks before I could publish because you end up, it's a negotiation with the company to be able to release your data.  No, it's just, it is what it is. And it's a lot more about looking at the pattern of behavior. And that's why I'm, sometimes it's one of the things, if I see someone that says something, I will look and, you know, does this person have a history of saying these things? It's kind of just establishing a baseline. Are they overhyping or is this a pattern they've always overhyped? It's just one of those little things I look at to try and make these little indicators. Maybe we should assign a rank scoring to these, which each one level, but they all kind of have some meaning and the next one's going to be, does not have an evidence-based history of write-ups regarding past findings and awesome gets evasive and defensive if you talk to them. That's a big one. Yeah, there's a skill set for sure where people are very good at changing the subject. And I talked to some of those people I would say last week that, you know, they're talking about something really cool. So I start, I'm a nerd, right? Like, so I start nerding because that's what I do. And so I start asking technical questions about it. And they very quickly divert the conversation back to a high level or away from the topic completely.  So we can't actually have a more technical conversation about it. Yeah, there's a lot of people, and this is especially in the YouTube world, YouTubers who always talk at that high level, but they really aren't understanding what things occurred to reverse engineer to get that exploit or how the mechanics of it worked. And of course, you know, just coming back, you just got back from Gercon the other day. And that's why we go to these conferences, which I didn't happen to go to this one, but we go there. So I missed, I did miss out. But we go there to talk about the nuts and bolts at the most detailed level, the most of the talks at any hacker conference are going to be at an in depth level. That's one of the reasons they're excited. They jump right into it.  And it's, they're clearly not understanding it. And the write ups are important. It's a really important as kind of to give all those details. Whenever I cite things, I'm always finding the source. Who did the original exploit? And often they have a really nice chain baking on there. Yeah. And I learned a ton from those write ups. Like it's one of the most useful ways for me to learn new techniques is to review write ups of what people have done in the past, because you come across something and you're like, Oh, I never would have thought of doing that in that way. Right. And so having that detailed history is super, super, super important. You know, you didn't have an original list with citing the sources. I think that's huge because I always cite the sources where I get information, but also you'll find, and this was where I went over one of the hacks that occurred with Fortinet, the people who did the write up of Fortinet, they talked about the other researchers that came before them to find these other vulnerabilities. So they chain them together to create the next vulnerability. I think that's awesome. When you see security researchers, they're showing an engagement in the community about that. So I think that's another, you know, tip of the hat. It's not all about them. And matter of fact, any good security researchers, all about the community. They may be the one presenting it, but often they'll give a shout out. Hey, thanks so and so for finding this exploit that turned out to be the piece I needed to get to that next piece of it. More importantly, like you can always tell when somebody's doing this well and is releasing their write ups well, because there will usually be a bunch of follow up vulnerabilities that are either the same class or in the same product, where somebody was able to take the researchers research plus their own knowledge and push it a little bit further to discover other vulnerabilities either in the same software or similar vulnerabilities and other software. Well, it's the where their smokers fire. If there's a buffer overflow in the VPN of a piece of software, they may patch it, but you'll probably find you can buffer overflow another if they didn't, if one field didn't have proper input sanitization, I bet there's another field that didn't either. And unfortunately, some of these companies fixes are only fixing the field that you pointed out. You probably should look at the rest of the inputs. Yeah, we had that for a long time with ConnectWise, where I submitted mine, they fixed the immediate SQL injection I gave them. And then I told them, okay, I'm going to submit two more tomorrow. So you probably ought to just go to the file and fix them all because there's at least 80 of them in this file, right? So they to their credit, they went through and did a reasonably good job of whacking all of them out of this one particular place where we are just digging them up at will. But yeah, a lot of companies, their ticket says to fix X and they fix X. They don't audit whether or not X is present other places inside of the code base. And I think this is an important next one here is makes claims about having disclosed security issues with large companies, but then says they can't provide them due to NDA. And here you are talking about CVs with ConnectWise, we know there's embargoes, there's time, but over time, this is how the security community gets better. So if you're actually a good security researcher, you negotiate your ability to release the write up as part of it. So my next question to that was what was the payout, right? Because you pay me or I publish or a combination of the two. And if you want me to not publish and you not want me to not highlight the research, it's going to cost you a lot more money than if I'm if I'm able to actually publish, right? So I just use that.  And the really top security researchers, that's some of the stuff, you know, me, I mentioned like Tavis Ormandy, whose write ups are legendary, George Hots, Geo Hots, you know, these are people that I don't even think they I've never heard of mentioned credentials. Like if you go if you listen to any of their talks or reading their write ups, it all just dives into the technical details. But they follow a very clear disclosure timeline and process by which they do this. Because like you said, this is how us other security researchers, this is how we learn. And that's just good participation in the community. People either they don't have the chops to write it up, or because it's an unprovable thing, they can brag, Oh, I just closed the company, but I can't tell you do the NDA. Yeah, that's not it. You start losing a little bit of credibility there.  And you just check your PC to help you write it up these days, right? Like or if you're a legitimate red teamer, right, like a lot of what you do is report writing and it's writing. So you should have or at least have access to somebody that can help you with those write ups. And they are part of the game there. I know a couple that I think are legit that they just don't write up, they do the background bug bounties, they take more money to get stuff to get vulnerabilities. But I mean, they're iOS hackers, right? And I know from the Pokemon Go community. Well, and there's also security researchers that they're probably the quiet people. There's plenty of quiet security researchers. It's the person that wants to get up on stage. This is the security short talk about that started with all this noise they created online. Then you got to determine is it news or noise and kind of whittle it down. Those are more than what it's all about. There's certainly some brilliant people that you meet that are the quiet ones that are just out there poking away at things, but they're not, they're not, you never call knocks, they're also not bragging on LinkedIn. They're not out there. Yeah, correct. You won't unless you find them, you won't come across them and none of the supplies to them because they're not doing any of these things. Yeah, they're doing none of these things that make you, because this all starts with that whole, how do you know this is even a good publication? That's what all these rules really come down to. These are how me and Jason look at these people and go, is this good? Is it bad? Or is it a whole lot of BS? And I think the last one is claims to know people at cybersecurity companies and participated in their internal meetings, but never offers anything verifiable or even the names of said acquaintances. This is pretty specific because of one security reason. Well, I don't want to call them. I don't know what to call that person. An annoyance. But there, but it's not like this person is the only person doing this, but it is an annoyance that this person, oh no, I talked about it. And they started by calling me out. And this is, oh, and it's been more than one of them. It just occurred to me who you're talking about. Yeah. He certainly claimed to have, as much as I'll tell you, it's a he. So he claimed to have quite a bit of information. I had deep conversations. In the corporate meetings, he claimed to participate in his said they'd never happened. Yeah, I don't think these meetings really happened. It's posturing. There were contacts. I mean, but like, yeah, I'm out there, you don't necessarily brag about it because bragging about it's a good way to lose those contacts. Yeah. It's one of those things. Like if, if I have, you know, and this frequently happens, and I will ask someone, Hey, can I quote you at all? And they're like, I didn't tell you this. And I said, that's fine. That means I never mentioned you told me that's off the record. Yeah, off the record. That's perfectly fine. That's just integrity when you're presenting something. I have talked about a lot of details, but there's details when I can't talk about something. I just stop and just say nothing. I never go.  That is when people start doing that, you start going, are you really a serious researcher? What, what, how did that help the conversation move forward? How did it help the security community? And it doesn't, but it's kind of just a, it's got to be just a narcissistic thing. Those, some of those people do. Yeah. I mean, there's certainly a class of people that this is their 15 minutes of fame, and they're trying to milk it for everything that it is. I have one more to add. Yeah. People that do the same thing over and over with regards to class of exploit, because I got a couple that I come across that like literally, Oh, I've got, you know, 25 CVEs to my name. They're all the same CVE. You just went from the same bug in the same library that 30 different vendors are using and then filed 30 CVEs against it. That's not, I mean, yes, that's research, but it's not. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's all those things where they're overstating it because if someone say, Hey, I'm great at finding these bugs, but then it's one class of bugs, you know, the SSL vulnerability. Well, guess what? SSL is an everything or the more recent one we just talked about the WebP vulnerability. So if you went and filed a CVE everywhere you find WebP, did you find anything new? You just went through all the things you knew that use WebP. It reminds me of the, what do I, they have a name, the basically bug bounty scammers, essentially that, you know, I get an email a quarter of you then blah, blah, blah on your WebP or you don't have a DMARC record. I'm like, well, first of all, I do some bug off, but second, and then they say, well, I expect to be paid for this finding. It's like, well, one, you're wrong. I definitely have a DMARC record and two, like, no, that's not, no work went into this. You're in a scanner. Clearly you got it wrong. And then you're just emailing everyone without a DMARC record or you're emailing everyone using a particular version of a WordPress plugin. At some point or another, like bulk scanning and then emailing stuff in or bulk finding those vulnerabilities and then reporting them. There's not, I don't really know what the benefit is to having a CVE every single one of those products that uses WebP. We'll pick on WebP, right? Like I don't know if it's worth it, right? It's, every one of those companies should release a new version of it and they should call out in their own internal security advisories that they have a security thing because they use this library and they updated it. But I don't know that every one of those rises to the level of requiring a CVE. Right. And I, I, some of them are doing it because I know one of the more recent ones that we blocked them from filling out the contact form anymore. They keep wanting to date date for the awesome price of only $300. They will fix the vulnerability problem. So they, they had an ask and it kind of goes down to sometimes there is with some security researchers, look at the motives they have. Are they engaged with the community and sharing and moving security forward? Or do they want those deals? Because honestly, a, you can look this up. It's a good security researchers are paid quite well to speak. They might get 10, 15, $20,000 a speaking gig. And it's kind of fun to be up on stage. There's no doubt. But if they're, there's a reason they may do all these things that we mentioned to kind of bolster themselves up to a reputation. And then someone always says fake it till you make it. It's a great deal. No, it's not. Please don't fake it till you make it in security to stop. No, not with security. Not with security. Not with tech in general. There's enough bad things we have to clean up already in tech. We don't need more of it. So that's kind of in a nutshell. This is some of the things that me and Jason will look at when we see something both that we have verifying whether or not this is real, we'll go through these right here and we'll come to the conclusion. And now you can too. And if, like I said, feel free to always call out me or Jason who do take the time to publish research and things like that, mostly in video form. But call us out if we see us do any of these things here. And if you see somebody that's violating these rules, feel free to tag us into it too. Cause at least I'm not afraid to call a space bait. Yeah. You'll find, you'll find that me and Jason have no problem calling people out because this is the thing. So yeah. All right. I will leave those in written form down below as well. And thanks.