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Yes, yes, you can perfect. Okay. Thanks, Rob and I just gonna set the timer because I'm does it no mean dreadful for keeping the time so Thanks very much Rob for that introduction and indeed. Thank you very much to everybody for joining in Today for the webinar that my contact details are there on the slides Please feel free to reach out via email or indeed via Twitter. The whole idea of today is to try share with you as Rob said Moodle reports that we use to help inform our practice and what I've done is Conscious of time. I've tried to cram so much into so few slides, but conscious of time What I've done is I've split it between what's available in core Moodle And then what's available through plugins that we've decided to incorporate into our Moodle instance The main thing that I want to get across to people when we are talking about Analytics and reports and data is Your view of the data may be different and your perspective may be different to somebody else's But there's always the bigger picture to be looking at and when you are looking at the bigger picture What I would do is encourage you to use that phrase up the top measure what you value and not you the way around Don't value what you measure a mistake can be made I've seen it made right up to the top in institutions where they will choose a figure to start valuing because they haven't measured Like student satisfaction for argument's sake People have hung so much on that Whereas maybe it should be student learning. We're looking at student attainment. We should be looking at But measure what you value and not the other way around The talk is going to be split into three different perspectives looking at it from a Moodle admin and Analyzing all the data that you have available to you then from a teacher's perspective I always look at the what's in it for me the YFM So what is in it for the teachers the data that they can get on and then I want to highlight some plugins That we have used within DCU So at a site-wide level very very easy to look at Google Analytics Why would you look at Google Analytics? It gives you data. So from from us we own Moodle within our institution the teaching and learning units Which we call the teaching enhancement unit out of system owners of Moodle and we want to see how we're getting on We want to see are we getting progress on this year versus last year? Are we getting more uptake from our students more uptake from our Lectures are they spending not only is there more users accessing and more sessions, but are they spending longer on it once they're there? Maybe they're interacting more with books and with lessons as opposed to just clicking on a link to download and so on and So a Google Analytics can give you tremendous amount of Information but for us it gives us information not just comparing one time period to another But telling us what devices our students and users are using what browsers they're using so that will influence well What? Support resources we make up and where do we prioritize in our case the majority of our users are in Chrome So we make sure all of our tutorials are in Chrome our screencasts and Our timings when is the site particularly busy and when is it not so when can we have a downtime? To try to do upgrades and all sorts of different bits and pieces very useful information coming from Google Looking into Moodle itself. We analyze the activities. What is actually being used across the site? Are there loads of assignments being used out of loads of books and again? It can give us the indication are they being used in one faculty versus another or Do I need to to put more training resources into one particular plug-in versus another or one particular activity versus another? So those activity analytics are available under the plugins in the admin section Also, I find the analytics on quizzes incredibly interesting and I'll get into them a little bit more Detailed, but what makes it more attractive to me is it gives you the full breakdown of what questions have been used People will say to me and sort of say like that Oh MCQs, that's all it can do in Moodle quizzes Actually, the Moodle quiz engine is amazingly powerful and we can show the breakdown of what questions are actually being used And then maybe identify champions and say well the group that are doing the calculated questions there I can see from the analytics. They're all based in the engineering faculty Maybe I can pinpoint some experts there who can then showcase their experience to the rest of the faculty or university It also enabled us to see where we didn't see the number of quizzes go up But we've seen the number of question types go up and the number of questions being created And that was a good thing in terms of academic integrity because The more quizzes sorry the same number of quizzes were having more questions within them and the variance according Looking specifically at quizzes under the admin panel a teacher can actually Dig into the data behind it not just seeing how many students got it and what the average attempts were You can dig in a little bit more and look and see how your questions any goes Looking as the facility index for example Will tell you how easy the question is and the discrimination index tells you how we Good the question discriminates the a student from the c student So all of these bits of information are readily available in in Moodle You don't have to be a statistics expert to To get those figures In this particular one we looked at the logs the standard logs But we were able to see who watched resources who engage with resources and who didn't And then the teacher ended up looking at what their Results were for particular assessments and In this particular case the lecturer was able to say well those that watched us had statistically a better Performance in their exam versus those that didn't again. That was quite useful um I was passed. I'm very conscious of the fact you only have three and a half minutes left So I'm going to fly through them, but you can have Activity completions and see who's not engaging so we can see straight away here Jess isn't engaging so I need to reach out to Jess as a teacher and See how we can get her engaged. See what the issue is Course participation You can have a particular module and this particular example It is an assessment Who has engaged with and who hasn't and you can choose students to send a message to then maybe as reminders and so on So that's the course participation report Moving on to the plugins We have a plugin called the ad hoc reports and just the table just To two tables on this particular screen and I don't expect you to be able to see the data the actual figures But to explain what we were able to do is look at engagement across our faculty over the last couple of weeks Since COVID-19 see where the activity is see where we need to support staff And indeed the bottom table down the end tells us what quizzes are coming up And where we will potentially have issues in terms of server loads We have 200 students logging on to do this particular quiz at this particular time and so on So we can reach out to lecturers in advance and try manage that distribution of assessments Sticking with that we have a plugin developed by LTS Which actually gives us the ability to have tags on courses And that enables us to pull reports and pull data this particular one gives an assessment timeline And it tells you it tells the lecturer of English 101 What assignments are for their students who are in the English 101, but the entire program So all the different modules the English lecturer knows when the law assessments are on and when the Business assessments are on and so on because you can pull the report across all the modules from a particular program This one is around accessibility where it's built by brickfield labs. We look at the Accessibility of the course so we'll see where there's any errors coming up by the is the alt text there is the web links that they don't properly is the tables laid out properly all these sort of bits and pieces Generates these reports on your course content and We can do reports on a program level on a module level and indeed on a faculty level Gives us huge information to inform our practice And this is the sort of tables that it can generate For you again telling you where the errors are so where we need to have the central unit target our professional development The my feedback plugin is excellent because it can tell you Who's engaging with the courses how many non submissions you've had how many late submissions and so on And you can even break it down within a course across particular students if you are a Of course coordinator or if you are the mentor for a particular student Or group of students you can see how they're engaging with the the program And the last slide here from the my feedback gives you a spread of the marks and sees how the students are actually performing across the individual assessments What I want to do is finish off by reminding you within this short period of time And i'm very conscious of the fact that was a whirlwind tour To measure what you value To identify what you're looking for and then go looking for the statistics Don't go looking at the data and then try figure. Oh, I could use this data for that and that data for the other Find out what you value and be driven by that put the pedagogy first all the time Thanks very much. I know sorry rob. I've gone a few minutes over time, but all right. You can kick off whenever you're ready Okay, hopefully you can see the PowerPoint there now No, perfect Excellent. So thanks very much rob for the opportunity to present today. My name is morag Monroe I'm normally based in manuth university But for the last while like most of you I've been working from home in Strapin and it's a beautiful sunny day today here. I hope it's as nice where you are Um, so today I'm going to talk about how we have been using Moodle h5p In the context of the IOA enhancing digital capacity project And as a means to develop our educators competencies in line with area 2.2 of the dig comp edu framework So for those who are not familiar with the area 2.2 This area is primarily concerned with creating and modifying educational resources. Um, so specifically it supports educators to modify and build on existing openly licensed resources and other resources where that's permitted to create or co-create new digital educational resources And also to consider the specific learning objective context pedagogical approach and learner group when designing digital resources and planning for their their use As with all of the dig comp edu areas, there are associated progression levels and also proficiency statements and these range from newcomer right down to pioneer Why are we looking at a dig comp edu in particular in relation to this framework and the particular competency of creating and modifying digital resources? Well, I think h5p is a really great way to engage both novices but also more as expert educators in respect of modifying and creating digital resources The h5p editor is really quick and very easy to use and it's a great way to augment videos with digital enhancements and also with interactions Um, I've also found that it has great cross disciplinary applicability And that it can also be used for many different types of learning activities It can also be used to help educators to develop skills at different levels of dig comp edu So and that would depend I suppose on the educator and how they want to develop and use their h5p resource And then finally for me h5p is really a quick win in terms of staff development And participants consistently express that they feel that they've managed to create a useful and high quality resource in a short period of time And that's really great for confidence boosting and supporting people to dip their toe in the water and What else might be able to do now that they built their confidence? So I know that most of you may be familiar with h5p Um, but just in case you're not I'm going to just quickly show a very quick demonstration of h5p and how it works Okay, again, so you should be seeing my screen. Maybe rob you might just confirm that Yeah, we can see that work. Excellent. So I'm just going to play a very quick quick h5p Moodle video seven steps to hand washing step one wet hands Step two rub palms together Step three rub the back of hands Step four interlink your fingers Step five cup your fingers Step six clean the thumbs Step seven rub palms with fingers Okay, so that's just a really quick example of a h5p video um, so you'll see that I was able to Add lots of different interaction types to a screencast. So I was able to add hyperlinks to external resources I was able to add tables. I was able to add Um different types of questions and so on So that's just an example of some of the things that you can do So what are the potential applications of h5p? Um, well, I think it's a really good way to do what I just did there to augment existing videos or screencasts That educators might have developed Um, it can also be very useful for things like lab setups or lab walk-throughs and for creating animations of processes or of systems For creating virtual tours or demoing software and giving software walk-throughs So now I'm just going to talk a little bit about the different contexts in which we've used h5p And the approaches that we've used So here are some of the different contexts So we have One main instructions for our educational technology. We've used h5p there Um, we've also used it in the context of standalone workshops Either focusing primarily on h5p or on h5p combined with screencasting And I've also introduced participants on our accredited program in learning and teaching in higher education To h5p as part of their introductory module on that program In terms of what we take, one of the first things I do is Make sure that I explicitly link the activities that participants are going to engage with With the digital edu competency areas. So for this example 2.2 creating and modifying I make sure that participants are clear that that is the area that they're going to be developing skills in I'll then generally get participants to spend some time articulating the pedagogical rationale for the resources they want to develop Um, depending on the context, we'll either get them to choose or develop the video that they're going to augment And then again different depending on context and depending on how much time we have I'll also try and get them to think about how they're going to measure how successful that resource is when it's used with their students And then finally for the remainder of the workshop. I'll work with them to support them to develop their h5p resource At the end of the workshop as at the start We take some time to link the activities that participants have engaged in With dig comp edu. So for example, I'll point out to participants that they're now able to Consider the specific learning objective context Pedagogical approach and learn a group when adapting or creating digital learning resources And also tell them that they are now able to create digital resources I'll then direct them to next steps In relation to the dig comp edu framework. So for example I would say that next steps for you might to be begin to understand different licenses Attributed to digital resources and the implications for their reuse So I just want to I want to make sure we have plenty of time for questions So just I suppose in terms of some concluding thoughts I have found that h5p interactive video is a really great starting point for Supporting educators to develop their skills in respect of dig comp edu area 2.2 I do have some areas of concern However, and they're probably in many ways beyond the scope of discussion today But I just wanted to highlight them so that you can bear them in mind if you are going to be using h5p with colleagues So the first concern is in relation to copyright It is possible to augment most youtube videos via h5p It's also possible to upload any file that you have in mp4 format But with that said we really do need to ensure that we are cognizant of any copyright issues And particularly with working with educators as an educational technologist It's something that I always have to the forefront of my mind My second concern is in relation to accessibility Unfortunately some of the h5p interactions don't fully comply with the web content accessibility guidelines 2.188 And that is a big area of concern for me That said h5p do seem to be working on this So I'm not sure how I am for time, but thank you for listening I'm going to end the presentation here so that we have some time for questions


Disparity does not equal discrimination. People will just look at a statistic and go, oh, there's a disparity. Therefore, some type of ismophobia is taking place. And I'm like, that's the most low resolution version of anything. There's our infinite reasons. What a great point for all sorts of disparities. Anybody who understands data and statistics knows that that's a terrible way to break down a number. You don't make a conclusion right out the gate. So you gotta figure out what your controls are and what's going on. Otherwise, you've got nothing. Well, that's how exactly how the gender pay gap unravels, right? As you start to unpack it and go, oh, well, you know, you're also taking factor in that women are pregnant for nine months and that would naturally mingle this way, naturally mingle. Right, you know what's interesting about that one? I had a conversation with a friend and asked him, I said, why do you companies outsource to other countries? Well, to save money because they could pay less for the same kind of labor. And I said, well, if women are getting paid less, why don't they just hire women? And it was to look at the cost effect. Oh, wait a minute.


You know it.  Let it do it. Welcome back to another rendition of Yet. Because today is the day that we switch it. Yeah. Like, we started off doing black excellence. Right. Like, now it's the black market. Yep. We done had enough black excellence. That we created a black market. Of black excellence. Exactly. You feel what this is going on. I already know it. Bro, we bring tiptoeing into the crypto currency and the tech world. And you know, people who are tech savvy have been reaching out to us and trying to put us up on game. Yeah. That's a good game to be at, too. Oh, yeah. That's the way of the future. So check this out. Guess who we got to hit with us today? Who is?  But he a hood dude. But he know how to code. I already know. You know what I'm like? I already know a lot of little stuff, too. Like how to watch porn and not get no viruses on it. I don't know why you had to smut this man's name up off the top. I'm just saying, those are the things that they don't get credit for that you deserve credit for it. You know what's so cold about this dude, bro? It's like, we don't work with this dude indirectly on multiple occasions. Right. Indirectly without even knowing it. Exactly. Man, without further ado, my man Cedric, what's up, man? Thank you for coming and jumping in here with us. Go Google them. It's Cedric Rogers. Yeah. He used people like real world introductions around him. Like you know, man. Because this is going to be the last time you see him. You don't really get to talk to the boss like that. Not really. He don't even like being seen like that. Yeah, no. Like Batman. Come on. You got camouflage pants on.  What's up, Cedric? Welcome to the trap, bro.  Appreciate y'all having me here, man. Appreciate you coming, bro. Be in the trap. Love it. Love it. Man, tell the 85% is, man. Give him a quick little rundown of like how you got where you are. And then brought it over here. Cool. Cool. Well, like I said, man. Where is it from Houston, Texas? H-Town. H-Town. Most city to be exact. Come on. Roll out and bang it. Shout out to Zero. All the way. You can't bring up most city. Not bring up the king, key run and zero. Key run? Yeah. For sure. For sure. Like I said, man, I'm from most city. Went to No-Kill-I-N-T undergrad. Okay. And actually major in electrical engineering. HBCU. All ready. All ready. Man, my focus was always taking eyes.  Put it back together. What you started with? Man, you know the first one was the vacuum cleaner for some damn reason. Man, I would go in. That's what I was figuring. Because they were like black people. You got to get in there. When that belt break off, you got to get the butter knife.  Toaster.   You know what I mean?   Oh, man. That's when I knew. Keep it real. You from old city ever stole some electric? No. Exactly. Good answer. That's what I'm talking about. The cable. The cable. Oh, yeah. Just a little bit till you got back on your feet. You know how that go. But yeah, man. So that was always a thing. Early on in life, I had a passion for technology.  I ran track too at ANT. Okay. So I was always like trying to do a little bit of everything while I was there. But you know, that experience really prepared me to kind of go into work for us. And so that's when to Apple. And so I started out at Apple really as a, what they call a system engineer. Yeah. And really kind of learning that technology because I started off as electrical doing a lot of hardware. Bro, how you get over there, bro? You don't see a lot of brothers that work at Apple, man. Ain't real talk, man. When I was there, it was, you know, it's been a minute now, but I was wondering a few black people in there. So at what stage did you get into Apple? Like which iPhone was out when you got there? iPhone out, bro. It wasn't even iPhone. Oh, it was in there. It was in there early. Okay.  After that. You was after that, but before the iPhone. Okay. It was iPod. The iPod. The big boy. Okay. The big boy had just dropped and I was in there. It was just still work, man. Still work, boy. That hard ass, hard driving. Yeah. Denzel had one after the world ended on Book of Eli. He did. What was he charging in there? Same way he was charging in toasters back in the day. Just electrical engineering. But, yeah. So I started at Apple, man, and it was a great experience. It was a cool because it let me stay here in the A. So I was living in the A and I went back and forth between the West Coast and here. And so I worked there for several years and then I actually wound up even getting my MBA at Emory. So I was able to kind of really get entrenched in Atlanta. And during that time, that's when I was kind of enjoying what I was doing, but I really wanted to do something else. I always wanted to be an entrepreneur. And that's why I met Paul Judge. So Paul Judge, folks don't know here in Atlanta, big time, super entrepreneur, very successful. And he took me under the wing and he was like, yo, man, you got the dreamers dilemma. He said, either you're going to have the safety of building somebody else's or you're going to take the risk of doing your own thing. And so I was just like, I'm about that. So I started with Paul. We actually created a startup called Look Live. We went through this kind of incubated thing called Y Combinator. So we had some success there and I learned a lot from them. And then that's when I bounced from that in 2018 to create what is now culture genesis. And so culture genesis, what it was is just a, or it is still today, a company that we would say, we wanted to focus on the culture. We knew we wanted to take literally what we were seeing in tech but apply it to us because oftentimes we're not thought about, right? It's always the white folks or anybody else that's kind of winning. So that's how we started with my co-founder, Sean Newsom. And we started, like I said, in 2018. And cool enough, I got to know Jason Jeter, Tip. Grant Hustle. Grant Hustle boys, right? So from there, they saw what we were working on and they invested. So that was a big thing, too. I wanted to do was like have like the regular tech investors, but I wanted to have a culture too. And you know, with Tip, Jason, that was one of the things that they always wanted to focus on was like bringing that same energy. Let me ask you this. Where does the culture in tech meet? Where are they in inspection? So if you take a step back, I'm going to give you an example from my Apple days and then right now. So if you really look at how the iPod really hit it hard, it was based on music. But if you look at all the music they highlighted, it was always our music. And it was always showing silhouettes and showing people a color, right? And that's how at the end of the day, culture leads in this country, but it also leads across the world. We actually... Our culture specifically. Specifically makes everything dope. And it's the way that really adoption takes place in tech. Because if you really look at tech, dude, man, you know, we're corny, geeky, you know, we're not going to necessarily hit it. But if you had the right influencers, the right people that understand the technology and put it in front of the culture, it takes off. So that's how it was in Apple. But I think today, to answer your question, like, look at what we do in social media. Look at what happens in TikTok. Like, right now, there's a whole issue going on there that we're working on, we're talking about that later. But we actually make everything dope in TikTok. If we stop, it stops. Nigga, we didn't actually make white people cool. Right.  Yeah. Yeah. That's true. For real, like the way... Bro, Nigga had his shoes untied and made it a style. And that's been a style.  A lot of the things, and that's the question I have for you, a lot of the culture that we produce has been around for years. But now, since you have to transfer information so fast, you know, you get stuff that look like it's new, but it's not. So how much of that do you take into account when you think about putting out the culture? Like, do you just deal with what's going on now? Or do you go all the way back? Do you have the open doors for people from, you know, maybe somebody that was cool in the 80s to come in and say, I did, that you can translate now? Yeah, I think that's... I think everything is a remix to you. That's the greater point, right? There's a great book about this where it's like really nothing is new, right? It's really another idea that comes back with a little bit of twist and turn. Hell, the iPhone ain't nothing but an MP3 player and a cell phone, merged, right? So it's just a mix of the two things. And I feel like in today's time, what we're seeing is like, that's... You're right, it's moving so fast. It's a cycle. It's like instant sometimes. I was talking to Patrick, these young brothers out of Atlanta.  But they actually took that from a white dude, which is funny as hell, right? So, but the innovation moved. But I think where we can see a great opportunity is like bringing in people like you all, creators, right, because you all are seeing and understanding and tapping into culture and merging with tech people. That's what really has to happen so that we can own it. Because, like, we're seeing it happen all around us, but we're not taking enough in the ownership. And so that's the big thing for me. It's like, how can we own more of this innovation? You hear a lot of people talk about ownership, but talk about some of the responsibilities of ownership and what comes with the responsibility. Everybody say, own, own, own, but nobody really talks about the responsibilities that comes with being the owner. Well... I think the first thing to your point of ownership and responsibility, right, is that you've got to truly understand it. I feel like oftentimes people reach into it with a very limited understanding and not understanding the impacts of what they're doing, the creations that they're making, right, and not crediting the true creators, oftentimes, that are really behind the innovations. And I think sometimes it happens accidentally and sometimes it may be maliciously, but because people are moving so fast, right, they'll be like, oh, I need to credit so-and-so, or at least get so-and-so involved in the project, because, shit, this is coming from some of their thinking from maybe 10 years ago or five years ago. And I think that's the biggest responsibility to the innovators, right? We have to really take the time to understand where it's coming from and bring those people in on the process. But I feel like sometimes that gets cloudy because people are on their chase, right? They're trying to get that fast money, and oftentimes they don't do it. And sometimes the danger in technology, right, because it just moves so fast. We got to figure out what we're going to do about the internet and all these social media platforms that are robbing black creators and influences and just black people. All together. The culture. I mean, but this is the crazy thing. It's been going on, but like you said, just to transfer information. But now is the time where, like, the money is at the height of where it's ever been.  Everybody knows where it came from, but it's like we're the residuals. Somebody getting the residuals. To your point, to your point, your point is that the responsibility, I feel like culture genesis that what we've developed now, we've taken ownership of all death. We have access to so many creators. So the way we see it now is that we have a media platform. We also, as far as a network for media, we have a network now for creators. And I do feel like our responsibility is to hop in there and represent the creators, not trying to take mine in a pocket, but really going after it. Up the check? Yep, the check, right. So how can I get all our creators, who might be in some of our content, their own channels, their, you know, influence it? Well, that's the thing about it. They have to, they got to up the check. They can't just wait on these moments to happen and then you 300 million views up and then they're like, okay, now we got to figure out a pay situation. Well, that's what's happening right now. Exactly. Even with that being the case, how do you get us to stay with us? Because it's so easy with it. Like you said, you know, you have culture genesis, but if you bring in a group of young influences for culture genesis and it starts to work and then some major conglomerate comes and say, hey, I got this. How do you keep that in pocket to say, this is more lucrative for us in the long run? It's not. Just sell it. They're going to get it anyway. They're going to get it anyway. Here's how I look at it. So like, there's actually some brothers here in Atlanta called the collab crew, right? So they got all these young creators, like they're all like 19, 20, some years old, all, you know, from the culture, right? And the way I look at it is like, our responsibility is like to show them the game, right? Partner with them and help them get the bag and then also make sure the corporations are paying them what they worth. See, that's the thing about the game though. It ain't no standard in it. You can be creating content and blow up on one small pocket of the internet.   Like all these corporations reach out to who they like. So there is no standard way to say, okay, you got to watch these people. Like ain't nothing to watch. Walmart looked down this time. I would say there's one thing that is happening that's coming to our path as force culture genesis, right? So like Facebook, which includes Instagram, YouTube, and even TikTok just last week have all come to us saying that they understand or they're starting to see some problems. They're starting to look bad behind it, right? Because they're starting to? In their eyes. It's been a problem for a minute, but now they're starting to understand how bad it looks to where you're taking down a black creators content in the same Asian or white creators content stays up. You know, like, why is that? Well, why is it the black creator not getting the same, you know, deals that the white creators or the Asian creators are getting or whoever it may be? It's just the same game, bro. That's just systematic racism. It's like you're going to waste so many times, so much time asking the questions that you already know the answer to. You don't have to go and ask them people why. You know why. It's time to stop asking why. The only answer is just equity. It's the same to your point. It's the same conversation we have anywhere else. So this is like, yo, how do you give us our equity in the conversation?  Yeah, just start taking it. Exactly.  You know what I mean? A lot of the reason why I think we can't go that route is because we don't have enough structure amongst each other to be able to keep it. Well, we don't have enough principle amongst each other. Yeah, exactly. Nobody's deleted their TikTok page. They're just going to sit there and wait on them to apologize and give them a new filter.   We got a problem with it. Mass exodus on everything. I think y'all are doing it. So I look around who is trying to do it. I look at 85. I look at, like, Kev on stage. What are you doing? Like, y'all are building your own direct to consumer experience. Oh, yeah. Wait till I really get my infrastructure. It's titties in every episode.  When I get my own app, titties! There's a whole section. T-I-T-V. Titties in the building. And then you can go to Magic City and let them know. No, I'm not. I got my own titties. You need to learn about ownership. Ownership. But no, real time. I'm just being the voice of unreason. You gotta throw that out there. It's actually right, though. That's what I stand for is about building. But it's unfortunately not as many of us still yet building the platforms for the creators to also tap in and have the ownership in. So that's what I was saying earlier. I'm saying, Chico, come together and build these direct to consumer experiences so we don't need to go. Right. The next app, the next social media platform we get on, it need to be black owned and we need to be able to be black on there. Let me ask you this question. How important do you think it is that because this, you know, a lot of this stuff that's necessary for the future is not being taught in our schools anywhere in America. So like, do you feel like it's necessary to start teaching these kids Colton and how to operate these things so they can grow with it and by the time they get to, you know, being adults and out here, they already have a keen understanding of the workings of it so they can really stop putting that effort into making the things that we need for us. Yeah, it's funny you asked that question. So like, you know, Usher has Usher's new look here in Atlanta. And while I was living here full time, I would go there and do a lot of just that, right? Helping the young people to understand. It's like, it's cool to play the games, but you need to understand how to like break the game, how to like re-take it apart. Oh, they know how to break the game. They lose.  But I mean literally coding, right? Learning how to code. My nephew sitting out here, literally, he was like my use case for this. Like, I taught him really about coding because I was at Apple. Showed him what it was all about. And literally, he wind up getting very passionate about it. Wind up getting a scholarship to Georgia Tech, but he actually got a ride to MIT. So he went to MIT and major computer science. He's smart enough. Yeah, he knows what to do. Now he's back here in Atlanta working in the crypto space. So he's big in that, right? So I think it is about us teaching the young folks, right? We do need to kick that knowledge back. And I think it's not going to happen a lot in the schools though. I feel like it's going to happen a lot of times in these like community organizations. But I think that's important. I guess it's important for us to use some of that revenue that we might receive and build to start to get guys like yourself and your nephew together to come in on a Saturday and just have the kids and teach them, you know what I mean? Like you said, how to break the game because a lot of the information, the information is being taught somewhere, but it's just not where we are. And I think that's necessary because a lot of these young kids are like, my daughter knows how to work the internet in ways that she's showing me how to do stuff. And it's just natural because you grow with it. Yeah, what is he saying? He's saying he want to set up a code thing. You want to? Yeah, we got to. We got the black market. We got to. We got to just to get the kids to come in. This is easy. And there's a lot of people I know that want to partner with y'all on this, right? Why are you telling us? Wait, are you talking? No, bro. Bro, what advice would you give to the future black nerds who might be watching it, those kids who, you know, those ones that they don't understand yet? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I would tell them like, you know, stay curious, right? Stay curious. And Steve Jobs used to say this thing all the time. He would say, when you look around a room, you've got to realize everything in that room was made by no one smarter than you. This chair, this table. You got to kick it with Steve Jobs. I did. Was he musty? Tell the truth, bro. Tell the truth, bro. And love and memory. And love and memory. That's just going to put that out there. Love and memory. He had recipes, right? But he had got off that whole fruit diet and all that. Because I was on the second iteration of Steve. I mean, he was there, left, and then came back. So I was on Steve part two, 2.0. Steve with the shirt tucked in there? Yeah. So it's a Yaki black turtleneck. So he was clean. Can they hear us right now? Yes. We all got off. Yes. Real tough. Now, I thought you might not want to get into that too tough. But like, do you think that privacy is over with? Is there such thing as privacy now? So I'm going to say this publicly.   I'm going to say what I know I can say. Publicly, I know that Apple really did put a lot of emphasis on protecting the data. Here's why. You always got to look at how a man makes their money. Now, if you ask me how Google makes their money, how do they make their money? It's advertising and selling eyeballs. So it's not answers. And then you asked me about Apple. I was going to give you a joke. I thought Google was getting money off. Answers, my nigga. I thought it was all correct answers. All about data. Now, NASA asked me how Apple makes their money. Apple makes their money off of selling you hardware, the phone, the Mac. So they don't need to sell your data, your eyeballs, because it's not a part of their core business. Core business is the Apple store that's got all that hardware in it, and that's how they're killing the game. Now, they have their own software to compliment the hardware. But it's not the core business. Facebook, Google, they're selling you to someone else. So when you ask me about protection, there's some companies that are focused on open and having your data flying all over the place. And there's some companies that are not. So as we sit back and think about that, you can kind of make that comparable anywhere you go. It's like, are they selling my data? Or are they selling me? Or are they selling your product? How can I manipulate the data that they sell? I don't know what you got there. They're just looking at the phone and they're like, look at any precious teeth this morning. Like that type of privacy, I ain't... How I can manipulate the data to work in my favor. Are you in your house? What degrees you have your house set to? Does he need new toothpaste? Because that's all data.   Like if it's going to be done anyway. But I'm sad. Amazon does that right now, right?  Like all these companies are getting access to your data and using it to sell.  It's even, it's even.  So it's like... Why do you think that is? I'm asking you, man. You know how to break the game down? Like I said, these phones all have a live mic in them for the most part. So that live mic is picking up conversation. And that conversation can be parsed and taken to say like, oh, okay, he's talking about this.  Like, why is that?  Like, why is that? Man, you got to get a mess out of it. You know what I yell at my phone every day, so... So I mean, I feel like they also do it through our content, which is back to court what we do, right? So now that we're creating content, we're engaging, y'all got the 85% right?  But like brands is trying to listen to what they like. Who's the core demographic, you know, that's coming to all y'all shows, listening to podcasts? You're speaking straight. I ain't even going to tell you who reached out to me. And I was just talking about them and they was like, we want you. Yeah, they know. I tell you. To here, to here. What's on here? We're talking about eating quick trip, hot dog, quick trip popped up. Oh yeah, that'd be crazy. Now that had to happen to us a lot. We got to do one episode where we just named brands. Brands, over and over again. We could do it today.  Right. Cookie, Chris, everything. Ooh. Shoes, strings, everything.  That's what we did. Hope one catch. That's what it is. That's a smart idea right there. Bro, I'm talking about just about two hours of just brand hoarding. Bring the Jeriker back. Right. I think it's real.  Bro, you took too long to get over here. You should have been came over here and put us up on game. I'm happy to be here. I really feel like it's your fault. They go to Apple people. Right now. She didn't say it, did she? Real time, I ain't going to say it, but so much. Right.  It's all data. It is. You got the all depth digital. Like what made you, did you have a passion for comedy or did you just see a business opportunity to merge with what it is that you're good at? I have a passion for the culture. Okay. I mean, all depth and how it was created was all about the culture, right? It stems back from deaf comedy, Jim, as we know, starting there. And you look at what that show represented for us at that time. Some of the dopest comedians getting their first looks. And just like, but it wasn't like a regular comedy show. Like people engaged all over the place. It's like representing who we are. So for me, when opportunity came up, I looked at it as, you know, 2013 Russell Simmons created who he was and has always been for the cultures.  It's about poetry. It's about gaming cannabis. Like we were like, how can we take the culture and put our twist on all of those categories? So when I saw that and I went to went back to tip and JG, they were like, oh, yeah, this is a win. So that's what made us quickly pull the trigger. And real talk, they selected us. Because after we had the whole conversation and had been working with them on projects prior to them going out of business, they said like, we will like catch like y'all to kind of take this and further the legacy because we feel like y'all will understand it and respect it and cultivate it and drive it further. And so, you know, I give us that credit for understanding. But more than that, though, it was all the creators that have always represented all deaf. And more importantly, the core unit. Y'all know him as a lot of the squad. But man, like I made sure to bring a couple of them today, right? Who you got? I brought Mick, Scoop Thomas. What's up, Scoop and Mick? Come on. You look good, Scoop. I got to go over here, man. Scoop, come on, Mick. Come on, Scoop. Scoop. I got a flip-flop. Scoop. You told me. I wasn't ready. Who else you got? I'm a boy, of course. At your club. Aw, man. This guy. He's my man. He's my man. Hey, man. Remember that Budweiser commercial when Dude had the dog on his head? I just said no. I welcome him. That's how we welcome him. That's how we welcome him. Mick, Scoop. Welcome to the trap. Thank you for having me. I love you guys. I appreciate you. Yes. I didn't know.  Before I get back, before I let them rip, so Mick, you know, Pat, and also Kevin on stage. I don't want to miss that. Bro, they came through here. We left. Rifty, man. Rifty. Shout out to the whole stage crew. All the way. Tony the Baker. I never knew. I never knew.  All the ducks. You know what I mean? So when we took ownership, it was like November of 2019, right? Right. And real talk, I had already been able to work with Kevin and Mick for short to here because of the other project we had going. So I like, whoa, we're taking over. Let's build this thing back up. And they hopped in feet first, right? Right. Head first, too. Shout out to Doughboy, man. Doughboy and Teddy Ray been down since day one. Day one. Hell yeah. But Mick, you know, a lot of people don't realize they see, y'all see them often as the talent, but they don't see the point goes on behind scenes. So Mick is like... Yeah, because they behind the scenes. She behind the scenes. Real fat.  They behind the scenes. If they wanted to see it, they would release it behind the scenes. So with Mick, head of production, like she's a model running everything right there. And then of course, basically a partner in crime is Pat, who was like all of them.  We was in that, remember we was out there early on that. Was that when we was in Cobra City or? Yeah. Hell yeah. Out there in the street with Doughboy and Teddy Ray. Teddy Ray. In the office all day.  So how much, how much as the, you know, the, I would say you, the business side of it, how much do you involve yourself in the content side? Or do you just trust them to do what they do?  Ask Mick. Ask Mick how he really is. Yeah, I mean. Maybe like, I'll let y'all do it, but what y'all doing? And then or, you know, but he's really, he's pretty good. I mean, he, because he understands this is what we do. We've been doing it for all day for a while. So it's like, okay, I trust y'all's vision, but he still is like, he's very hands on. So he says like, okay, so I still want to know what's going on. He has really good ideas. He comes from the tech world. So it's like combining.  Fire. I was gonna learn about the toaster. The stuff on his head.  Fix this. Yeah. Because we got this hard drive that's been crashed for about a couple years. You think we're going to get your nephew on that bitch, man? Because we got some people who put us on the hit list because some shows didn't come out.  It's going to plug me into some people. Okay. We got you. Mighty White. All right, man. And Pat, what would you say only just to create a process of what you've been able to do lately? I think it's really just about like making new formats and especially now that we're out here in Atlanta and we get to like work with so much new talent, but also like new style.    Right. Right. Well, first of all, $3,000 for you to mod and I taught it. I can't tell you how old you are in Atlanta. Maybe pay $3,000 a month to live in a trunk. And you're like, bro, you don't have a highway here.  Just talking about moving out here. Because I love it out here. And it is way less expensive like LA is. And it's like people are like actually nice out here.  Everybody's just like super mean and fake. But aside from all that, just like talent wise, like we're just really excited to be working with like a lot of new people and we're going to be out here like expanding shows like Roast Me. Bro, you can use the trap whenever you need to. We like this place. We've been like right behind you guys. I love the odds, I think. You know what I mean? Yeah, this is very famous couch. Like we've been kind of like looking at y'all for like six, seven years. Just like, because I feel like 85 South, you guys do things well, but it's also cool. And it's usually don't get one without the other. It's usually cool, but not well done or well done, but not that cool. So, you know, there was a lot of like besides you guys, a lot of formats and a lot of businesses that we got to like look at and see how things worked. So, yeah, thank you guys for even having us. That's the point. You got your hoodie? No, my booty. Oh, I thought you said you got your hoodie. I mean, that one worked too. You got a booty and a hoodie. How about that? Leave it with a hoodie. Okay. Yeah, we're going to make sure we get you straight. But man, yeah, Atlanta, it's a different energy here as far as just creating. Like you said, it's new looks, new feel, new talent, man. Take full advantage of it. You know, it's a lot of people out here who are definitely open to working and building and creating and, you know, being part of the takeover. Especially the roasting aspect of it. The like roasting is just the southern. Oh, man.  Right. Just some dude walking down the street. We love it. We love it. We love it. We're trying to do combines out here. It's not like really out there yet, but we really want to go to different cities and, you know, shout out to Ronnie Jordan. He suggested the idea of like the combine. The roast combine. Yeah, but just like finding people in different cities that like you said, they don't have to be comedians or, you know, it's just like a new way to kind of like get new people in without like filtering them through comedy or acting. Have y'all started the screening process? Not yet. Like somebody drop an email or something. This 85% is going to send me clips. Absolutely. We'll see y'all. We'll talk about it. We'll talk about it. Whoa. We'll talk about it. We'll let everybody know. Yes.  It ain't come. But it's just like those people like that's what this I would say the city creates like creates an environment where it doesn't have to look like Hollywood. In Hollywood it has to look a certain way. It has to be polished and professional. Right. You know what I mean? And here it could be whatever it is.  Yeah, exactly right. I think that's the biggest thing like just being authentic, right? That's what it means. Genuine authentic to the culture. Right, right, right. Not being unapologetic about that. And I think sometimes like getting out of certain areas like LA and coming to a city like Atlanta. It's a good time to regroup, man. Especially with, you know, the world slowly walking itself back, man. So, you know, hit everywhere you can go. This may be all over the place. I just was in, what, OKC?  It was for the Juneteenth? Yeah. Oh my God. They literally took over. It'd be surprising. Like when we go to, I was just in Columbus, Ohio. And it's just be like, man, we must get a direct connect to all the black people. But the white people they come, it's like, wow. Like, I didn't know we reached this far. Bruh.  Who knows? You know what I mean? But you get it. I'm talking about motherfuckers looking like they came straight out the mountain. It's like, where are you watching me? Right. Hell, I watch everything you put up there. Oh, that's funny. And I always ask, like, do you know who I am? Or did y'all just want to do something dangerous? You know what I mean? And they like, no, we love you. You guys are the greatest. I came to see you. You know what I mean? The same white guy acts. They be the same one. That's who they are. I come up for a two time. I come to see Chico. And they see us up here. Now I see you. That what? Yes. That's kind of white. Yes, all the way. But that's the beauty of technology, y'all. Because at one point, we wouldn't have had that reach to the houses where they could break down those barriers to see, like, no, I like this shit. But I think a lot of it don't even come from the household. You got a lot of people that watch, like, that part of it. But they're watching us on their phones. So, you know, you might work with that dude. And he might, man, what's that y'all always watching over there when you break? And you know what I mean? That is getting introduced in that capacity. So now it just spreads.  Like, they don't watch nothing else. Nothing else. Not wild and out, nothing. 85 cents. That's crazy. They probably learned a lot from it, too. And I'm talking about everybody in the house quiet, listening, paying attention. Dog, everybody. We ain't got videos.   What a dog.  It's the pace of the conversation. No, that's not a joke. Like, no, no, no.   Y'all, y'all real talk. Y'all didn't give them videos. Tony let him come in with a voiceover. Oh, we'll start saving. Man, when you send them now, make sure you send it where we can save them. Bro, we get, if this one lady had a house full of cats, like 11 cats, and they would call her. Everybody would touch her, right?  New animals and new borns. But not to like, the owners of the animals, they just turn the TV off. I don't even know. I'm figuring that. We'll use the video. Y'all, you know what I mean? That's their job, I guess. We'll get some strange shit, man. That's a whole show in itself. Just 85% of fan mail. Somebody made this whole rolling trade that holds the light up, got a splat for the blunders. Oh, my God. Bro, that was a problem. Look around in the paintings and all the stuff that people create and send and, man, I mean, we didn't have all the sites just saying, that's the beauty of this and that's the beauty of what you guys are doing too.  Because they're not sending anybody that looks like them or that they identify with. But with us, we can create content where people say, I understand that because I went through that. I did the same thing. And that is, you know, something that we got to take advantage of. We try to take advantage of as much as we can. I'm doing a great job, bro.  I like giving people their flowers while you got a chance to see them. I smoke my flowers.  Flowers while you can smell them. Now I want my money while I can smell them. And that's real too. But now, y'all are killing it. Y'all are leading a lot of ways. Y'all are innovating seriously. Well, let's take it to another level. All the way. I mean, y'all came here for a reason. You know what I'm saying? We both have these platforms. We both create this content. Clearly, there's a working relationship. Let's just elevate everybody's shit, man. Make it look good. All the way. And it'll be a 85 all-deaf summer. Yes. I like that. You're just stinking in there, watching y'all from across the world. Like, get busy. Miami and New York, so it's really dope to be out here. Well, let's put something together, man. It's something we can work on while y'all here. That's what it is. Don't let this be the last time y'all have stopped to drop some links, emails, whatever it is that y'all need to get out here to find these people that y'all are looking for for the upcoming comments. Absolutely. Yeah. So what should... What can they find, everybody? I'll give y'all a sense. Oh, I'm Patrick Cloud, and pretty much everything. What's on you? What's your TikTok? I ain't giving out my TikTok. Yes, you are. You're doing your TikTok pretty well, man.   That's creative as well. Let me send this to Chico.   That's why I get all my TikTok. Him and my daughter, I can't get on TikTok.  He is one you actually lack, but he don't even have a profile picture.    So whatever. I feel like a lot of people do that, though.    I can see that.  Yeah, voice on. That's crazy, that's the part of it that when you're not on social media, you know how many times we don't went viral and I'm talking about my daughter coming like, look there. They get on there. Clips and memes and everything. It's crazy. Just how fast, like I said, the transfer of information, like you knew something that it had made its way around the world. Yeah, you get to clicking them threads. There's always an 85 South show laughing a little clip in there. That's the thing, y'all had that with all that, too, for a long time, like them gross memes. You know what I mean? Like, what's my man name? I'm just historic at this point. Don't know how that tethered and double-cheeked up. Book upon me. What's my man? Chris French, man. Man, I love that dude, man.  He told the Asians, but he said, it's what your mama shot a nigga during the L.A. riots, but now I'm like, oh, I am a fan of that nigga right there. Book upon me. Book upon me. Yeah, exactly, you know what I mean? CT and all these dudes that we, you know, we've been working with these guys.    Their fourth generation trimmer features a cutting edge ceramic blade to reduce grooming accidents thanks to their advanced skin-safe technology. The Weave Wacker is their nose and ear hair trimmer. Make sure you use the Crop Preserver Ball deodorant to keep you on your game in the heat. Then after trimming the lawn and wagging the weeds in the heat, use the Crop Revival. Then, through in two free gifts with their Performance Package 4.0, the Manscaped Boxes and the Shared Travel Bag. Get 20% off and free shipping with the code BLACKMARKET at manscaped.com. That's 20% off and free shipping with the code BLACKMARKET at manscaped.com. 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They tell me. With that in mind, poor minds from your camp. Yeah. Shout out to poor minds.  Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, all that. We'll put it in there. We're still roasting. Anything else? What's the next joint coming out? Well, we've been here in Atlanta shooting Roast Me Battlegrounds. I don't know if y'all have seen that. Y'all used to regularly seeing us in the classroom. Battlegrounds is a one-on-one, head-to-head. And so we still got... I'm saying that too. Is that the one when y'all had my man, Judge? Or was that the one when y'all would call different people in? Yeah, it was like three on one. Yeah. It's a different game. It's a different game. Brutal. Well, there you have it, folks. Black Market. Yeah. What else can you say? He's a driver.