Hey guys, welcome to another, well I guess it's a repair slash service video. We're doing transmission service, replacing the filter, which is also called the strainer, someone's pulling up. And the transmission fluid, we're doing a drain and fill, but we're also removing the oil pan. And working on an 07 Toyota 4Runner with the V8 engine, only rear wheel drive, two wheel drive only, guys. So this is going to be easier because some of the exhaust is not going to be in the way. That's it. Everything else is the same. What I'm going to do though, I'm not going to use some special equipment, what not to measure the temperature of the transmission where I am, but I'm going to also compare the temperature with your average Joe laser thermometer. Can you see this? There you go. You're at 70 degrees right now. The camera is 68. So we're going to use this and an actual scanner that can read the transmission's temperature. Compare the two, because remember we had to keep the temperature, transmission temperature at 115 to the temperature numbers are right there on the ceiling. Temperature between 115 and 130, that's what it says on the ceiling. Anyways, yeah, that's what we're doing. I am actually kind of halfway through the job and then I thought, hey, I should record it. So this is it. Okay, guys, so we are underneath the car. This is the fill plug. This is a T55 Torx bit. Okay, this guy. This guy lives on top of the transmission, driver's side, rear, right over here. Well, in my case, I got plenty of room to put an extension with a ratchet and just undo this plug first. Then you're going to want to drain. This is a 14mm drain, the fluid. Make sure the transmission is hot, more fluid will come out. Don't worry about this guy. You can loosen this up and tighten back up, just finger tighten for now. You're going to loosen this up, catch the oil, catch it in a measurable container or not. Up to you, I drained one, two, two and a quarter quarts. Then after you drain it, remove all the 10mm bolts besides two side ones. So you can see I left this one on and this one on. Then you're going to want to loosen these a little bit, just a few threads and then break the gasket loose so the pump or the pump, the pan, looks like this. It's a bit wobbly and this is where I stopped and decided to record this. So we're going to move on, take this off. Okay guys, we're going to attempt to remove this pan without spilling the fluid. This should be easy because the fluid is mostly drained. Some of it is going to still be there. I imagine maybe a quart, quart over quart, quarter over quart. Here we go. One thing I can tell you, this oil is black. I don't think this was ever changed. Okay, just realize I don't have a pan. Hand me something, man. Hand me what? I don't know. Okay, a box. Okay, use a cardboard box to catch the rest of the fluids. Make sure you're not prepared. We actually have a half a quart. We missed the box entirely. Okay guys. So this is the filter slash strainer. As you can see it's got four 10 mil bolts. We're going to yank this off, put a new one in. I don't need to clean anything. Look at this. This is super clean where the gasket used to be. It came off with the pan. Guys, I tried to aim where, you know... I don't know what I'm doing. Yeah, I can see that. If you want to check the state of the oil, grab a white piece of paper. Instructions are best for installing a rear hitch or wiring. Just dump it in and look, this is supposed to be somewhat clear or reddish. This is black. This is bad. Okay, I'm glad I... I'm doing this rubber gasket. Man, it's just 135,000 miles on this. If this was here in the Midwest, then this all of it would be rusty. I want to dump this out somewhere. Okay, my cameraman is fresh. First day of the job. Anyways, look here, guys. Two things I want to show you. Clean these magnets up. Look at these shavings. This is not bad, actually. This is normal. But take them out, clean them up. Where's that for supposed to catch the shavings? Shavings, yes. Should be four magnets. Okay, I'm going to get to them later. And check this out. So this is your check plug, right? It's a straw. It's basically a straw. That's the plug. And here you have the straw. It's not removable. On some Toyota's, some V6, 4 cylinder engines, these are removable anyways. This is a V8. So this, as you fill this in from the top, right? From about right over here. Actually, no, it depends like this. So right over here, you're going to fill this up. And with the hot transmission at what? 115, 120 degrees. You're going to start overfilling. And this is wide overfills. When it overfills, the oil comes out through this straw. So the level is up right over here. So this makes sure you don't overfill it. But obviously, you've got to make sure that this plug is open. When you refill it and add temperature. When you clean this up, install the new gasket over here.  Take the filter out. Actually, I'm talking, the pen is not talking, I'm talking. It's still filled. I got to send you some camera training, boot camp. I'm just showing them all your pointing, whatever you were pointing at. Oh, okay. Yeah, you're right. Okay. So. Okay. Was it, was it? Oh yeah. Let's do the filter right now. Since I got a camera on it. What? What's this? Make sure you lose some parts. Did I take that? I took something off. I didn't have to. All right. We're going to look at it later. So don't do what I just did. It's going to be a lot of editing. I think I got some fluid in my eye. It burns. All right. We're losing both left and right. The cardboard, I got to say, is doing a great job. You're glad I gave you that box. All right. Make sure you got rags. Oh, there's the bolt. All right. So this is the filter strainer. Probably is it too dark for you? Okay. There is a gasket or an O-ring, I should say, right over here. Make sure you take that out. Okay. Make sure you take this out. Check it. There's a new one with the new filter that you got. Double make sure. Triple make sure you have one on the new filter and this is empty. Triple make sure. Triple quadruple.  No swearing on my channel. Quadruple double. This is what I just love. In case you lose this. Let's figure it out. In case you take this out. I think it went... Well, maybe it's not necessary. Maybe it's some weight reduction. Yeah, it's extra part. You'll need it. Yeah, okay. We'll figure out later. This looks original. Okay. I'm going to clean this up. You're back. Next day. Things escalated quickly. Made a mess. Took something I didn't... Oh, I didn't have to. Had to go back. Luckily, I'm recording this. Had to go back. Because I wasn't sure. Looked through the video and see how it goes back together. Then lost the little gasket. Not gasket. Washer for the check plug. Couldn't find it. Too many cold snacks. Then figured I found a copper washer. Almost fits. Should work. Now, I do admit I did not buy any new washers for the drain plug, fill plug, all that stuff. The fill plug gets a rubber seal. The drain plug gets a washer. That's still there. And the check plug gets a washer. Next time I'll be prepared. I'm going to get new ones from Toyota. All right, guys. We continue. This is what the pen should look like before install. Squeaky, clean. Clean magnets and all that stuff. Okay, guys. So this is the guy that I took out, this bolt. Just went to town on those 10 mil bolts and just took this off. The filter bolt is right next to it. So this mechanism fell off. That's for the shifter. Pretty self-explanatory. Just used common sense. Two parts. This is separate from this. But I did went back on the video to make sure. All right, so we're going to slap on the filter. Make sure that all ring is there. And that's it. Okay, so I got me... I got me a Wix. Can you see this? This is a Wix 58136. Made in Taiwan. Now we all know Wix is probably the best. If it comes to filters. Here's the box. And I got me a six pack of ATF by Vevelin. Now I know. Some of you are like, why is this guy not using Toyota? Fluid. Transmission is going to go bad and all that stuff. Well, this stuff is also good. And I know. I know I'm going to be mixing it. But I do intend to do this after a thousand miles. Another thousand miles and so on. Because that fluid in there is bad. And this is cheaper. It's still very good stuff. A lot of people use it with no issues. Went through all kinds of reviews. Spoke with some people that have been running this exact oil or fluid in their Toyota's for thousands, tens of thousands of miles and no issues reported. So that's what I'm going with. Hate all you want. Comment whatever. I don't care. Do what you want to do. Use what you want to use. This is what I'm doing. This is my choice. As you can see the O-ring is on the filter. This is nice and clean. I take a little bit of the ATF and just put it on the gasket and just pop this in. I was hoping it was going to kind of pop, but it didn't. But it looks like it did go in. Make sure it's all the way up flush with the body over here and then put the bolts in. What I've done, I did not glue the gasket to the top of the pan. I'm just going to try my luck and install it with it just lying on top. Oh wow, check this out. This is even better. The holes in the gasket are so tight that the bolts will actually stay. I'm just going to put a few through or maybe even all of them. Check this out guys. See all the bolts? This is nice. If you saw me start on the threads, I'm going to tighten them up, torque them down. I'm going to find out what the torque is and I'm going to refill it. Alright guys, so these 10 mil bolts on the transmission pan are torqued to 65 inch pounds. 65, that's like, that's nothing. I did kind of tighten them up a little bit already, you know, grabbed my ratchet like this and made them, didn't really make them tight, but I'm afraid this is 65. It's so little that I might have made it too tight. Let's see. And remember, this is a rubber gasket, you don't want it over tightened. Let's see if I was too tight. No, okay. Not even close. I'm just going to go around and keep going around until I reach the 65, kind of doing it in a two step. I want to tighten up one bolt all the way to 65 when the others are not even close. So, okay, so this is boring. So I'm going to just keep going around and around until I get 65. Okay guys, it takes a while, but you don't want to just go around once, get it to 65, because as you go around the bolt that you just torque down to 65, it's going to torque down again to 65. So you saw me once I got the 65, I went around twice and I still tighten up a little bit. Okay, so we're done over here. Let's make sure our plugs are tight. I want to kind of crush this, you know, foreign washer to this pen. Here is the O-ring on the fill plug. It's solid, the rubber's soft, it's not torn. It's good. Why change it? Okay guys, this is my setup. I got three bottles ready to go. I drained two and a quarter, two quarts and a quarter of the quartz. And, you know, some spilled, well, more than some. Then some was draining overnight. Then some more spilled. So I reckon two and a half, maybe two and three quarters. It doesn't really matter. I'm going to remove the check, roam up the transmission, remove the check plug and check it properly. As I mentioned at the beginning of the video, make sure your car is level. Now that I look at it, the check plug is in the middle, smack in the middle of the pen, more or less. So if you think about it, if it's a bit, you know, one degree this way or this way, not going to really matter that much because the transmission is way back of the vehicle. So like I said, you know, if it was on the edge of the car, which it's never going to unless you've got a Porsche, I guess, then it would have to be, you know, at zero level. But since it's more or less in the middle, you know, you can get away with an, I don't know, half an inch of a difference. I actually do have some half inch plywood on the other side of these posts, just to raise the back of the vehicle a little bit higher because as this thing sits, the S of it is a little bit higher. So I didn't, and the frame is actually a little bit higher. So I went with how it sits on the ground and on its wheels, not how the frame is. So the frame is, as the car sits, the frame is a little bit angled up. So that's how it is on the lift right now. All right, so I have this pump. Make sure the ends are clean, hooked up to the battery. Obviously, you know, I mostly use this for transmission fluid, this pump, but there is, I don't know what transmission fluid is in there left over from our service before. I'm guessing it was also a Toyota, but I'm just going to run some through it, run some fluid through the pump. That should be good. Okay, sorry for the darkness, but my main light just went out. Actually, now that I think about it, because the trans fluid expands when it gets hot, I should be able to fill it until it starts dripping from the check plug. Well, we're going to take this out anyway because this check plug needs to be off when the car is running and, you know, warming up or when you check the fluid. All right, again, I apologize if you can't see, but I'm limited on room over here. So if we're going to, if I were to fill this up right now until the fluid comes out out of the check plug, once the transmission is hot, it should come out even more. But I'm just going to go ahead and put in, you know, the two and a half quarts. I did the whole three almost. I'm sure there's something left on the bottom because I forgot I did the radiator, replaced on the radiator a few days ago. And, you know, some of the fluid came out of the radiator, obviously. I guess if you are removing, well, we're going to check if more of this fluid is going to come out once the transmission is hot. Well, that's the fill plug. What am I doing?  All right, I'm going to clean up, install all the plugs, warm this up. I'm going to compare the temperatures with a laser on the pan, you know, pointing the laser at the pan and the actual scanner. So I've been trying to put the fill plug back in and, you know, some of the things these engineers come up with is just, look at this. Can you see the fill plug? You see how it's about to cross thread? And you see why? Because this metal bracket is in the way. This part here. Why? Why make that so big? And I've been trying to put that back in for the past five minutes. You know, I mean, look at this. This is just in the way. It's not damaged or anything, it's not bent, it's just how it is. How the hell? I'm going to have to maybe try and bend this up, get a long pry bar. Because this just will not go in. Just dumb. All right guys, just got it started. It's about 60 inside here, 60 degrees. About 50 outside, but that doesn't matter. Let's see what this thing says. 73.7. Can you see this? 80. Maybe there's two separate sensors. And 78. Okay, very similar. I should mention, once you started, go through the gears a few times. All of them. You know, three, two, low, dry, neutral, park. All of them reverse a few times. And I just found some info. Drain and refill capacity is up to three quarts. According to all data, right here, a quart, three quarts. That's exactly what we put in. All right, check the temperatures again. Scanner says 87.1. Pan says 86.4. And we got no leaks, which is good. Now I'm looking through forums and stuff, my all data won't tell me what temperature exactly we need. But I got two answers, either between 104 Fahrenheit and 113, or between 115 to 130. I don't know. But if we get to 114, it should be good. All right, guys. So according to your type of transmission, year of the vehicle, whatever you got, even if you're doing a Tacoma or Sequoia with the same transmission, you're either going to have about 100 to 115 degrees, or 115 to about 130, even 33. But we're going to aim for about 113, 12, you know, kind of try and meet in the middle. So let's check those temperatures again. On the pan, 99.5. All right, 102, 101. Okay, it's been about 15, 20 minutes. We are at 110, almost 111, on both sensors. Now if you notice something, check this out. If I look at the end, measure the temperature at the end of the pan, it's 101, 102. And as I go towards the engine, it goes up. And this is right by the bell housing. We are at 112. So 110, right in the middle, right by the check plug. It's actually 114. It's kind of different, 111. So I guess I'd say it's pretty accurate. Okay, if you just go on the point, this laser at the middle of the pan, let's see what it is on the side. 125. All the difference. Yeah, so right down, bottom of the pan, 113, 112. I think we are good to check. I'm going to try and do this one-handed. Remember the harder this gets, the more fluid should come out. Nothing is coming out. Okay, actually I'm going to leave it off. I'm going to do my setup again and put more fluid in it. Okay, we're still at 113. Scanner says 115. Especially pretty dirty fluid. That was way low. 115 on the pan, 115 on the scanner. So we're good. I'm going to let it drip for a little bit. But man, I need to change this again. All right, so you want a little drip. Hopefully you can see this. That's when you know you're good on the level. Wow, you saw how many quarts it took. This makes me think that the fluid was changed at some point or maybe a lot of it more than I thought came out of the radiator or actually stayed in the old radiator, which is right here. And it took so much, let's see how many it took. So I put, originally I put three in and we are left with one, two more empty bottles and another half. So it took five and a half. Okay, but that doesn't really matter. If you're not doing the radiator, you're most likely just put it in three quarts. But still, man, I mean, I saw how dirty that oil still is after we put in so many, I don't know what the capacity is. I'm guessing 12 of the whole transmission. But I'm no longer my next service. I'm not going to be removing the pan and changing the filter and all that. Just drain and fill. It's going to be much quicker, easier. But I do want to drive on it for a little bit, see how it shifts and all and do this probably another two, three times until I'm happy with the color of the fluid. Now you could just visit a shop, have them hook up a special machine and do a proper flush. All of the fluid, old fluid would come out as the new fluid comes in. I'm guessing maybe $250, maybe $300. It depends what fluid you use. Obviously, I think the service maybe costs for maybe two hours, I'm guessing. So nowadays, it's probably $200. And the fluid, what is it, $15, $20 a pop? I forgot what I paid for the wavelength much less than the original Toyota, you know, the WS fluid. Anyways, guys, this is it. You technically don't... A lot of people say you don't ever need to replace the filter strainer. I do. I mean, mine was filthy. I did another one on my BMW, which I don't have anymore. It was also nasty, it was grayish on the inside, it's supposed to be white. So I don't know, there is no fluids for life, oils for life or filters for life. Yeah, they are for the life of the transmission until it breaks. Yeah, they're correct there, but if you do change on those, obviously your stuff will last longer, right? Obviously. If this helps you out, do me a favor, subscribe, like the video, dislike it, comment, just do something. See you later.


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I think bottom line, men understand that we need to gain a working understanding of female psychology in order to gain at least sexual access to you. In order to gain an ear, your ear, to even talk you up and even get to that point. Women on the other hand do not believe they need to understand male nature. Women for the most part think men are simpletons. Women for the most part think that men are only led by their penises and I think that's why women play the attention game. And the reality is the feat for men is to get attention. The feat for women is not to get attention. That comes easy. Your feat is retention. But in order to know how to retain a man, you need to have a working understanding of who men are. You need to have a working understanding of what to look for. You need to be inquisitive. You need to be able to ask honest and fair questions. Instead of what I think happens is, especially black women, number one, there's kind of a baked in trivialization of men's value. I think number two, women these days especially kind of feel superior, intellectually superior to men. So it's like he doesn't know what he wants. So I'll prove it to him. And then lastly, I think women believe that men are lost without them. Like men, not only does he not really know what he wants, but he definitely needs me. He definitely needs me. So I'm not even going to consider where he is in life. You know what I'm saying? You'll see some women trying to force 23-year-old dudes in the full long-term committed relationship. I'm like... I definitely do think there is an overestimation from a woman's side of how much, and not sex in the literal sex, but just how much sex or female attention men really get. And I don't remember where I saw this. Maybe it was on YouTube and the guy, I wish I could, I'm so bad with names. He was just pretty much saying how men under the age of 30, a lot of them are having had sex in months. Like it's just not a thing.  And it's like, like you said, it is a trivialization of the presentation or the nurturing spirit or the kind spirit that I'm predisposed or I should be predisposed to get to this human being.  And that's another conversation that we do need to have about the way that we are treating each other as, yes, this person is a man or this or that, but he has emotions, yes, feelings. He is intellectual. He is all these things. So that's my first point. And secondly, and you mentioned catch 22s all the time, I think that there's a dissonance between what we have been taught, what it has been, you know, I guess what we have been taught and what we actually experience. Because you're saying, on one hand, yes, men are, we think that men are simpletons. But on the other hand, a lot of our fathers or a lot of the uncles or whatever is like, I just want a woman that don't talk all the time, make me a sandwich, give me some pussy. Is that not a simple, pretty simple notion? So it's like, there's less, it's a little bit of a, of a dissonance or a disconnect. And I think that it's obviously every individual is different. Some people are very shallow and some people are deepest the ocean. And that's just what it is. But let me clarify that. Yes. Because that comes up a lot. Men are simple in the sense that we don't need much. We're not simple in the sense that, you know, our motivations are different than women. Everything I'm saying is relative to women. Our curriculum, as it were, is different relative to women. Our timelines are different relative to women. But again, we don't need as much. Like we, we don't revel in complication, right? And from a female point of view, that can be complicated to digest. Like you don't, you know what I'm saying? You're do homos on all of it, please. With that being said, I think it would help women to take some time to get to know men. And what I mean, get to know men. I'm not talking about like you're on a date and ask questions, stuff like that. That is a part of it. But like... You want us to do our research. Familiarize yourself with, you know, male pathology. I'd always recommend Dr. Tia Son Johnson for instance. Because the reality is like, men haven't been socialized the same way women have been, to even have the vocabulary to talk about some of our anxieties, some of our, you know, the things that go on upstairs. Men aren't necessarily, again, socialized to be as articulate or to be as expressive as women. And that is also, even that piece should also be something that women consider. So like, whether you're reading like Warren Farrell books, like The Boy Crisis or The Myth of Male Power, or, you know, other books that kind of help conceptualize what it is that happens with women. Because it's very easy for that superiority complex to happen with women. So for instance, you know, female babies tend to develop more vast and sophisticated vocabularies in their male counterparts. Women tend to hit mental maturity a lot sooner than their male counterparts, right? Because women tend to hit puberty. That prefrontal cortex develops quicker in girls than it does in boys, right? And there are reasons for that, right? There are there biological reasons for that. That's something that women should also be familiarizing themselves with. Now, again, men are simple in the sense that we don't want much, but they're still a lot more beneath the surface. It's just like the iceberg, right?  But it's a lot more going on. And I'm happy.   We need to talk about that. You know what I'm saying?  Nobody talks about that, right? Domestic violence. Men experience that at similar races, women. Nobody talks about that. Yeah. So I think there's an empathy disparity. And if you claim to actually value men and love men and want men, you also need to do your diligence because we're forced to. Yeah. I don't disagree with that. I would love to see us navigate away from the Western mindset of I take care of myself. And that's just what it is, because a lot of what you just mentioned has a lot to do with or our qualities of people that take care of each other within community. And obviously, the black community is we're in a rough patch right now. And if we were to get back into that community mindset, I think that we would be more empathetic and sympathetic and more, what's the word? We would be more observant of the health and wellness of everyone, not just the children and not just the women. And I wish that the man is fear, not saying that they don't, but I wish that the man is fear would have a narrative more similar to what you just said. And obviously, it's going to be challenging with black women in black men in these conversations. Because another thing that I've seen with with men that I've dated, they tend to be very closed off. So I think that it's going to be difficult to say black woman be empathetic and be open to chipping away that the tip of the iceberg and going deep with someone that's not willing to go deep because of traumas, because of whatever. Well, let's talk about it. Why do you think men on average are so closed off? What makes sense to you? Yeah, you said, does it make sense? What makes sense? I think there's two things. I always like to go back. I think that it didn't serve men in the past historically to talk about their feelings because they were busy protecting their communities or not. What am I sitting here and talking about the fact that I was just in whatever battle that I was in or whatever could happen? Or the fact that there was an issue with hunting or whatever. I'm making stuff up, but you kind of get the premise of what I'm saying. What is the point of coming home and talking to my woman or my children or whoever about things that are not going to be, that are not going to directly help me protect my community? And then to kind of transition into that in modern times, there's really no need from an individual household perspective for a man to be on such high alert. Some men or some people might say, men need to be ready either way. Men need to know how to fight. Men need to know how to use guns, protect themselves against the government, all those things, of course, but there's not as much of a need. We don't have as many threats in life, especially in America. You would just don't have as many threats. So we can make space for men to now talk about their feelings. But on the flip side, do women get turned on by men talking about their feelings?   I can say I'm the most empathetic person in the world. That's going to turn me off. So it's like catch 22. That is the phrase of this segment. It is to catch 22, but okay, let's talk about it. Because I think, you know, I try to not limit this type of conversation to just romantic like dealings and relationships. I think it's bigger than that. And to your point, being an emotional exhibitionist has never served maleness has never served masculinity, whether it was because men had to run full speed into a battle, or whether they needed to march down into coal mines, right? There was no utility, right? And I think, you know, we need to be fair that men's value has been intrinsically tied to their perceived utility. And that utility is intrinsically inherently tied to how disposable he is, or how disposable he is willing to be. The men that are celebrated throughout history, the men who were ready to die, whether it meant dying internally for a bigger purpose, or you know what I'm saying, to protect, to provide for your family, or literally jumping in front of a bullet to protect your woman, right? Like there's a reason past, oh, it just looks cool. There's a reason most women want their man to be taller than them. It goes back to the psychological programming that a bigger man can better defend me with his life.  And the reality is, women do not know how to process male emotions. Women do not know how to process male emotions. What tends to happen is, number one, at a later date, a woman can weaponize it against you. A woman can make it about herself. Make it about herself. Oh baby, I feel unfulfilled right now. I'm not a good enough woman for you. And now, not only do you have to deal with feeling unfulfilled, you also have to now deal with hurting her feelings. So most men are going to say, nah, I want to keep my life as simple as possible. Right? So again, if we took the time to actually consider life, consider the worldview of men, we wouldn't be so flippantly saying things like men need to be more open, men need to be this, men need to be that, because we never consider the cost. Well, let me ask you then, and I want you to explain this a little bit better, or just not better, but in more detail. When you were saying that men are, or you were saying something how like women feel like men are not as intellectual, they feel like they're superior. There's more to men than that. Obviously, we know that men emote differently than women do.  What does that look like then for women? Like, how do y'all want for us to handle you all and get in chip below the surface? Are there certain questions that we can ask? You see where I'm kind of trying to go? The best thing a woman can do is not add any extra complication to a man's life. That's the best advice I can give. As opposed to demanding, because what used to be provided by an entire village, now we're expecting one person to provide it for us. I want this motherfucker to be my provider, protect the best friend, movie partner, best sex I've had, this, this, this, this, and it's like, god damn. So what I'm saying is like, men say this all the time and women kind of gloss over this, be his peace, be his peace, be his peace, be his freaking peace. Give that man space to actually think about how to better protect and provide, because here's the thing, right? Let me try to paint this picture for you. Have you ever seen like a bodyguard on duty, like whether a celebrity Beyonce's bodyguard or ever case may be? Does that nigga look happy? Why? Because he has a job. What's his job? He's supposed to be like smiling. No, but what is his job? To protect Beyonce, if that's the... I would stretch it and say his job is pessimism. Okay. If you're going to protect anything worth a damn, you have to expect the worst possible things that could potentially happen at every turn. If I'm taking Beyonce that way, I have to consider the fact that there's a dude right there with a knife, there's a sniper on that roof, there's somebody who's going to rush from here. So my job as a protector is to be pessimistic to a degree, right? It's to be cynical to a degree. I'm constantly anticipating problems because if I'm going to protect worth a damn, I have to be considering worst case scenario. If I'm going to provide worth a damn, I have to also be considering worst case scenario, whether it's a market crash, whether it's the... You know what I'm saying? I lose my job, whether it's our kids are now sick, our cars are now in the shop. I have to constantly be thinking of worst case scenario and how to anticipate and how to prepare for that. So when men are saying be his piece, don't add any extra shit, any extra nonsense to what I have to baseline already be concerning myself about.   And again, I'm talking about good men. I'm talking about men who actually provide us and protect us.  That's it. Stop projecting your female expectations on him.  You know what I'm saying? You guys could talk for hours about bullshit or the TV show, whatever the case may be. That man is planning. That man is anticipating. Don't talk to me right now. There might be a sniper on that roof. Don't talk to me right now. I might have to jump in front of a bullet right now. Have I updated the life insurance policy? So y'all to be taken care of when I'm gone? This is the stuff men are thinking about. We're anticipating the absolute worse. So again, because women don't understand how our brains work, of course he should be also thinking about this and this and this and this and that. I don't feel fulfilled.  So part of the grace is consider what his job is and what that means for him and what that means, like what's happening in his mind. And think about how you can accommodate that. Again, if it's a good man, but think about how you can accommodate that and not overcomplicate it. But that's the men are simple piece that I'm talking about. I'm a quarterback. I'm throwing the ball or I'm handing it off to the running back. That's my job. I'm thinking about what the defense is doing, obviously. I'm thinking about where everybody's going to be at at the field, but I'm a quarterback. And similarly as a man, I'm a protector. I'm a provider. Let me do that. I need space.   I'm not leaving my wife. Listen, she's my piece. When men are saying, like men try to articulate these things, but it gets lost though. She's my peace. She's my landing spot. She's my soft spot. I have to go outside and be a word because think about it. Nurturing is an internal facing endeavor. Nurturing is I worry about everything under this roof. Okay. Protection and provision is an external facing endeavor. I'm worried about everything outside this roof and how we could potentially affect the things inside this roof. Right. So what tends to happen sometimes is that either that flips or sometimes the woman is also neglecting her role of focusing on everything under the roof and focus on everything outside. So my girlfriend is saying that she neglects what she's actually supposed to be doing, what she's supposed to be good at. And it also distracts what he's actually supposed to be.  I make sure that these muggers, even if they come close to our house, they're going to get, they're not going to make it. And you're wanting the kids to take care of their reading at a grade level. You know what I'm saying? This, this and that. And we are, we're Voltron. You know, we're working towards a common goal as opposed to stepping over each other and being each other's headache and giving maybe he just came on from a long day of work, but you didn't buy me flowers though. You missed our anniversary. Like, yes, this is my allowing it to download face. At what point then did women start wanting more from men outside of what they were innately designed to do? And number two, that there, there are certain characteristics of masculinity and femininity that makes it easier to do your duties as a man or a woman. Right. Is it at what point did women start wanting flowers? And did we want start wanting all the romantic shits? Is that a modern idea where our great grandparents okay with everyone does their roles? And that's it. There's really because, because the way that when I went the way that I view sometimes when I view masculinity and everything that you just said, I appreciate about men. And I pray that my partner has those characteristics. So let's just put that out there.


Welcome to JSA TV and JSA Podcasts. I'm Barb Mitchell coming to you today from PTC 2022. Joining me is Ben Edmund, founder and CEO of Connected to Fiber. So great to have you with us again today for JSA TV. It's great to be here. Thank you for the opportunity to talk today. I think most of our viewers I'm sure know you by now but for those who may not, could you just tell us a little bit about Connected to Fiber? Absolutely. Connected to Fiber is a software platform built specifically for the connectivity industry and what we do is help digitize and transform how the industry buys and sells. We provide location based insight to make that workflow better and you know primarily serve the service provider community throughout the world. And I think you've reached from my understanding a huge milestone and by huge we're talking billions. Can you talk about this milestone and the significance of it? Yeah we're pretty excited. We did an announcement in December really announcing 1.4 billion locations actively being managed in the platform today and what that means is the service provider community that owns the physical assets, buys the network elements are actively managing across 147 countries 1.4 billion locations. And 2021 was a huge year for you aside from this right? I mean Inc. $5,000, $12 million funding rounds, product enhancements etc etc the list goes on. Absolutely. Tell us some of this if you can. Tell us about 2021. Yeah we're really excited about you know just the progress of building the company, building the ecosystem you know Inc. 5,000 is one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. We raised $12 million in our Series B. We added team members but really you know what it all boils down to is we're building a great platform with a connected ecosystem enabling simplicity and execution across how providers buy and sell and it's sorely needed. For the last 25 years people have been operating in spreadsheets and KMZ files and manual processes and we've created this cloud-based platform that really transforms how people do business. So could there be more? I mean we're sitting here it's the beginning of 2022. What's in store for connected to fiber as the year goes on? We have a lot of growth ahead of us. We are still in what I call early innings of building a platform. 2022 is going to come with unprecedented growth. We're gonna deliver more capabilities into the platform. We're up to 80 billion data points a month flowing in on our network intelligence. Yeah just to think of where we were last year at 11 billion data points a month, the year before at 1.3 billion data points a month, it really shapes you know a good understanding of who has what where and at that premise we're going to introduce prediction, we're going to introduce analytics that really continue to enhance our customer's ability to buy and sell. So for viewers who want to keep tabs on all this exciting amazing development and growth where can they go to learn more? Really the best place to go is our website www.connectedtofiber.com that is to is the digit fiber.com. You'll learn all about the platform, the company, our capabilities and you know watch for some exciting announcements coming later this month. So thank you so much Ben it's always a pleasure to chat with you. We're happy to see you in person here this year at VTC and thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA podcasts. Happy networking. Thank you.


So here's the deal with GMOs. We've been modifying organisms for a very long time. It's called hybridization. But we haven't been inserting genes into organisms until a few years ago. There may be good reason to have GMOs if we're trying to feed a world population, but they come with a catch. The catch is usually most of the GMOs have a lectin inserted to make them more pest resistant, insect resistant. For instance, the GMO tomato and the GMO corn, BT corn, have lectins that are inserted to make them kill insects better.  But the big fear about GMOs is because most of them were developed to handle the insecticide and herbicide roundup. And it's made by the Monsanto company. It's called glyphosphate. And originally it was just to treat GMO plants and kill weeds around the plants and the GMO soybeans and corn would survive. Now unfortunately roundup is sprayed on conventional crops to desiccate them so that they can be harvested. So almost all weed in this country, almost all corn, almost all soybeans and almost all canola is actually sprayed with roundup. And that roundup is not rinsed off. It's fed to our animals. It's baked into our breads and crackers and cookies. And sadly it's even now appearing in our wines. A recent paper showed that California wines have roundup in them and even some organic varieties have roundup. That's because roundup has become so widespread. And as you'll find in the plant paradox, roundup is a killer in so many ways. It changes our bacteria. It changes your ability to make vitamin D. It changes how you handle cholesterol. It even appears in the fetuses of mothers and it appears in kids urine. This is not safe stuff. That's why GMO got started, but now roundup is loose and everything. Thank you for watching.


Hi everybody, we're back. This is Dave Vellante. I'm from wikibond.org and this is Silicon Angles theCUBE, where we bring you the smartest people that we can find. We extract the signal from the noise. We're here at a Riley media strata conference. It's day two for us. This is the, I guess the fourth time we've done strata, maybe the fifth, but this is the third strata in Santa Clara. We've been at all three, and one of the first strata's we ever did was an amazing event, Silicon Angles. Cube got huge, huge traffic. You were all very, very interested in this event. Big data was just coming in to the discussion in that parlance. And Joseph Turian was one of our original guests at that event. And Joseph is a PhD data scientist, machine learning expert, AI expert, entrepreneur, and probably 100 other things that we'll find out in this interview. But Joseph, first of all, welcome back to theCUBE. Oh, it's nice to see you again. Thank you. A lot going on, as I described. You were talking off camera. You got some new project that you're very excited about. I want to hear about that. But tell me, you know, what's new in the world, in your world, what you're seeing that's interesting, challenging, and things that are attracting your attention? Sure. So I mean, actually, the last time I spoke with you, we were talking about deep learning, which was this wacky new thing in machine learning. It was kind of an academic thing. But now we've actually seen this year it's ready for prime time. We're seeing deep learning being used in industry, right? Google came out, they had a very public paper where they actually watched YouTube videos using deep learning, and it started just picking out cats without being trained on anything. That was kind of a fun paper, right? But more interestingly, they're using deep learning in speech recognition in Google Now. They're trying to put deep learning into a lot of their products as far as they've told us. Microsoft is also using deep learning stuff. They had a demo where they showed someone speaking, and it took his speech, translated it into Chinese, and then spoke it as if he were speaking Chinese. And they're using deep learning for this. So a lot of the stuff in machine learning that academics have been working on is now actually we're seeing it in production, in an exciting way, for things like visual recognition, speech recognition, translation. All the stuff people have been talking about for AI for a while and wanted, we're actually starting to see. And I also believe they might be using it for their self-driving cars. So this is something that's I think an interesting job. So really challenging problems that are starting to find their way into potentially commercial applications with much greater degrees of accuracy and utility than we've seen in the past. Yeah, and I mean that was the thing that was really excited about deep learning was this idea that it was ambitious, but also very rigorous. So it wasn't just a lot of hype, it wasn't just a lot of talk about, oh we can do it like this and this looks like the brain. No, these techniques actually work and we can put them into use. And that's what's really exciting is seeing these ambitious projects like self-driving cars and speech recognition, translation. Really actually perhaps in our hands pretty soon. So Joseph, I mean artificial intelligence obviously an area that you know a lot about. It's been around for a long, long time. It's had a, it's gone through cycles of ad-raps and obviously making its way back. What has been the enabler? I mean obviously data is one of those enablers, but what are the things that have catapulted deep learning, machine learning, artificial intelligence up back to sort of prominence and great potential?  If you were a serious scientist you would not say artificial intelligence because you'd be like, people would be, no, no, no, you must be a coo, you know? So first of all like there's this leariness of artificial intelligence. But you've embraced it. That's what I love about it. No, I mean it's finally getting to the point now that we can start saying again it's not dirty word. But serious scientists, you know, for a while being burned and saying, you know what, first there was this camp, it was very popular in the 90s. They said, we're only going to work on problems that we really understand what's going on. And then a sort of a faction of people said, you know what, we actually want to, we want to really push the envelope. We're going to try some new stuff. It doesn't matter if we don't exactly understand what's going on because if it works and we can demonstrate empirically that it works then that's exciting in itself. So these guys who made this decision, we're going to work on things, even if we don't completely understand why it works, if it's effective and rigorous, then we will still study it. So it was kind of a change in thought. There was one of the things that led to this, these advances, a sort of new sort of ambitiousness while at the same time staying grounded and realistic, you know? So you talked about some examples that Google and Microsoft are doing with video in particular, which has been a really challenging problem. What other applications do you see that have great potential that are exciting you? Well, so I know if you follow Kaggle, Kaggle did a competition for Merck on drug discovery. And the people that won the drug discovery competition, if I recall correctly, they used deep learning. So all the things right now that people are doing machine learning for, whether it's financial modeling or medical applications, all these things, if you're already using machine learning, perhaps we can use deep learning and push the envelope even further. That's the idea. You know, I asked you a couple years ago about Watson. Watson was just coming out and you were like not too excited about it, right? Okay, so. Okay, but of course at the time it was new and you know, the great demos. I mean like, you know, supercomputers playing chess at the time were pretty cool. But from a scientist perspective, it was like, okay, you know, that's nice. But it was, I think you, my words, you've described it more of sort of a brute force approach. So can machine learning, you know, provide a more elegant or efficient or more powerful model than say for example, what we've seen with Watson, even though it gets a lot of buzz and a lot of attention? Well, I don't know. I mean, Watson actually is a pretty good case study because you know, the world is a messy place. And if you want to build something real, there's going to be a lot of different parts that you have to glue together. You know, and Watson is kind of a Frankenstein and it's not that elegant, but it does work.  So I mean, machine learning in the real world is probably going to be a piece of the puzzle and this puzzle is going to be pretty big. Okay, so it doesn't have to be all shiny and polished and pretty. I mean, that's not how anything in the real world is, right? So you were telling me about this new project without giving me any details. But what can you tell me about it? I can't talk about it right now, but it will help you, it will help everyone understand their data in a much more easy and accessible way. That's it. Here, let me tell you what I think is cool right now, okay? This is something different. It's, so I'm really interested in right now in how, you know, Mark Andreessen says, software is eating the world. And we're seeing, I think really cool examples of this. There's collaborative consumption, things like Uber and Lyft and Sidecar where people are really solving problems in the real world and logistics using software. I think that's one thing that's really exciting. And then coming at it from another direction is this whole internet of things where there are sensors everywhere and sort of in the middle is also like Google Glass, right? Which is like an embodiment of software that we can interact with. So I think that's the other trend that I think is really exciting right now is just software helping us in our physical reality and becoming much more pervasive physically. So there's notion of wearable devices. It was really quite interesting, particularly from the user experience standpoint. I mean, it completely changes the, I don't even want to call it an interface. So I'm not sure it's an interface anymore. Yeah, wearable devices. And then, but then there's also stuff like, you know, I think Uber and Lyft and Sidecar, I think this is very exciting, right? And then there are these new services like eBay Now. You press the button on your phone and in two or three hours they get you what you wanted, right? Or Postmates, they're doing the same thing. It just errands on demand, exec is on demand, right? This idea of just every single thing that might be physical being optimized and much more efficient using software I think is a really exciting. So what's most interesting about that from a consumer standpoint is it simplifies things. Hadoop is still really hard, right? I mean, the number of people that can actually do something with it is quite limited. So will those two worlds meet? I don't know. I mean, eventually they will, how quickly they will? I don't know. Is that something that you'd like to try to accelerate? I mean, you wouldn't tell us anything about what you're doing, but is it around sort of simplifying the complex? Is that a fair bet? I mean, so, you know, I think that accessibility is where everything is moving. And accessibility and simpler interfaces is the real theme that I think we're getting at, right? Because Google Glass is just a much better interface than playing around with your thumbs, right? Using your voice is a much more accessible interface. Pressing a button on your phone is much simpler than going outside and hailing a tab. So I think the move is more towards accessibility and towards naturalness of interaction. I guess that's the thing. So watch, talk about Apple doing a new wrist device, like the Tracy or 007. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think just speaking your voice and not having to even lift up a device is even easier. But it seems like there's this push towards just everything becoming more accessible, you know, and I think that's exciting. How about, you mentioned the internet of things. And I think of the security problems around that. I think of what Intel announced this week and how they're trying to attack that problem. I think of Stuxnet I read earlier this week that actually was developed probably around 2005, which doesn't surprise me, but the most conventional wisdom we found out about it in 2010, I think. So what are your thoughts on how that whole internet of things will emerge, how the security model will have to change, and the simplicity model, the interface to those devices?  I don't even know if we can get into that, right? That's like talking about what's going to happen with privacy in 10 years. This is such a huge question. Well, let me ask you. And it could go so many ways. Let me be more specific. Do you think that security is a complete do-over in order to be able to accommodate that type of infrastructure? I don't know. That's a really hard, it's just an impossible question to ask, you know? I'm going to have to give you no comment on that one. No comment, all right. All right, fair enough. What else do you want to talk about? I don't know. So I have a startup idea for anyone that wants to do a start. So here's a good startup idea. So we were talking about collaborative consumption. Here's the idea. A lot of people have stuff in their apartment that they don't need and they want to get rid of. But they don't want to go on Craigslist and Celepics because that's a pain. Other people need stuff, but they only need temporarily. So the idea is Uber meets consignment, okay? Or Uber meets storage.  If we can sell it, then we will. Otherwise, we store it and you pay us on a monthly basis and compress the body and get it back when you need it, right? Because people talk about like, oh, what'd it be great if I had a co-op where I could share hardware like for home repairs and stuff like that? But what I'm proposing is even easier. You buy the hammer, then when you're done with it, you give it back and if we can sell it to the next guy, then you finally cash out. That's the idea. If you want to do something cool, I want this application right now. There's too much stuff in my apartment and I want to sell it, but I don't have the time. It's kind of a modern version of an auction house. Yeah, exactly. It's Uber meets an auction house. Yeah. That's good. All right, Joseph. Well, listen, I really appreciate you sharing some ideas, respecting you, not wanting to talk about security because it's such a hairball. It's a can of worms. Bowl of worms, bowl of ox. And Joseph says no comment on security be a do-over. I actually think it pretty much is a do-over, but we'll see. You might be right. And I hope so because every year I look back and say it's further and further away from actually succeeding, but it's a hard problem. But anyway, it's always great to have you on. We'll be tracking. Please keep in touch. Let us know. What's the timing for when you can actually talk about your new venture? When it's ready. Within the next year? Within the next few years? Definitely within the next decade. Within the next decade? Yeah, within the next decade. Okay, good. So that's a long runway for innovation. So we've made more of it. Hey, change of the world is hard business. Joseph, great to see you, man. Thanks very much. All right, keep it right there and we'll be right back with the show wrap up here live from the Stratoconf in Santa Clara, California. This is Dave Vellante of Wikibon. This is theCUBE.


Our current district attorney, Deborah Gonzales. Hi, good evening. This is always the moment that I'm like, hold my breath, because I don't know what picture they're going to put up. Sometimes it's a little older, and it's not what I look like. And sometimes it's like, nah, I really don't like that one. Couldn't they have picked another one? But I kind of laugh. My name is Deborah Gonzales. Most of you know me. I mean, I'm not a stranger here. I'm not a stranger to most of you guys. I've been around for many, many years out there in the community. Most of you will say, Deborah, how do you have the energy? And the truth is really that the energy comes from you. It comes from the people. The job I do is hard. And every day I walk into that courthouse, sometimes six, seven days a week. But I do it because I know that when you elected me four years ago, you gave me two mandates. The first mandate is keep our community safe. And believe it or not, our community is safer. Crime is down 6.8%. And those are not my numbers. Those are the numbers from the ACCPD, OK? Aggravated assault down 22%. And that includes shootings. Now you're going to tell me, but Deborah, we've heard a lot of stuff in the news, haven't we? About things that are happening in our community. Yes, we have. Because even though it's down 22%, we still have crime. Even though it's down 22%, we're still going to have shootings, right? This is not something that goes away overnight, OK? But crime is down. Look at those statistics on the ACCPD dashboard. They put them up. They put a lot of good information up there. So that's number one. That was my first mandate. Make sure that you're safe. And how do you do that? You do that in coalition. I work with over eight different law enforcement agencies, including UGA police, including the ACCPD, including the GBI and the FBI, in doing all of this work. Nobody does it alone. We have to do it together, OK? So that's number one. The second mandate was, make change. This is a system, the criminal legal system that has been in place for generations that has oppressed who, black, brown, and poor people. And they've been doing it for years. And how do I know that I am fulfilling that second mandate? Well, they're suing me. They're changing laws and the legislature to get rid of me, right? And how do you know your strength? You know your strength by the size of the weapons that they use against you. If they really thought that they could vote me out of this, guess what? They wouldn't have been doing all of those things. Because they see how strong your vote is. Now, this is a Democratic committee meeting. How many of you are proud Democrats? Ooh, the Democrats. We vote Democrats. Why is it that sometimes we claim that we're Democrats or that we're not Democrats? Why do we want to know when people are from a particular party? It's because we associate certain values with that party. And we want to make sure that the people that we are voting in under that label shares the same values that we do, that they're not hiding behind something else that they're proud to say. To be a Democrat, I am the only elected Democrat in Oconee County, the only one, OK? Four years ago, you guys joined me on a journey. And it was a long journey. And there are some of you that joined me even before that. If you remember back in 2017, there was a special election. And what did we do for the first time? We flipped a seat. And nobody believed we can do it. The belief was that we were so gerrymandered, there was no way that we could do anything. But what did we do? Did Democrats say, we're just going to stop? We're not going to put anybody up? No. We put up a candidate. That's why local Democratic candidates are so important, because they get people excited about going to the polls. How many of you have voted this week? Yeah, there is a presidential election happening right now. Go get that great sticker who was designed by my wife, she's beautiful. It is beautiful. Go get that sticker, guys. It is wonderful. But having candidates who are proud to say, I am Democrat, I represent the values of the Democratic Party, and I will run under the Democratic label. Because it is a way that people know who I am, right? Because that's the other thing I've never changed. I have told everybody on my platform what I was going to do, and guess what I'm doing. And again, I'm being sued. And there are bills out there to get me out. Why? Because I've done exactly what I said I was going to do. And it didn't matter what they were going to do to me, I was going to get up every day and fight that fight. When the Dove's decision was overturned, I was one of the first dais to go out there and say, what? I pledge that I will not prosecute a woman or her doctor for pursuing reproductive medical rights, thinking law when I make that statement. What I am doing is keeping my community safe so that they know that I will defend them and protect their rights. When there is a legislative bill that comes out and says, don't say gay, or that trans kids cannot be out there, our office made a pledge that we would protect those in those classes. We worked with Georgia Equality. We made sure that our people were trained in the right language to use so that we can better protect and defend our victims and our people. If anybody is going to ask you, well, why stick with Deborah? Why should we give Deborah four more years? The reason you stick with Deborah is that Deborah's been with you. Deborah's been the same. But number one, crime is down. Number two, past injustices have been righted. I'm very proud to say that I have worked with the Southern Center for Human Rights, and we have re-sentenced four individuals, one who served 25 years for $90. And second, that future injustices are being stopped through reform. There's something that I tell law students all the time. You can be a public defender, and you can save hundreds of people, or you can be a DA, and you can save thousands, because that's where the power is. And we as Democrats, we need to make sure that we have our people in power so that our values are the ones in this justice system. This is what we want, reform and change. Does it take time? Martin Luther King would say what? The long arc of history, right? He stood. He stayed in that jail. He didn't say that it was going to happen over an idore. As soon as he walked out the doors, he said the long arc of history bends towards justice. And what did John Lewis say? Go out, make good, necessary trouble. And he didn't even stop when he died, because his last words came out after he passed and were published in the New York Times. To remind people what? That he patches the torch, right? The torch doesn't stop with him. It doesn't stop with me. It did stop with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We keep passing it over and over and over again. And I'm going to use something that Russell loves to talk about, which is that pilot light. Right, Russell? Oh, yeah. We got to spread that pilot light. It starts small, and it keeps going. But the thing is, you cannot give up. When the storm comes, right? When it gets tough, when people start pushing you and saying, no, no, no, because you are changing a system that is going to do what? It's going to resist. It's going to push back. It's going to fight with everything that it has so that it can go back to what it was. And that is all that they are trying to do. Take us back to what it was and what we need to do is say, no, we started this journey with Deborah four years ago, and we're going to finish it. We're going to continue, and keep voting, and we're going to bring it all back together. So this is what I am asking you to do. Don't lose the faith, because that's what they want you to do. Be a proud Democrat. Stay with Deborah. Let's continue, and let's finish this journey together, and we're going to finish it stronger than ever. Thank you.