Okay, happy Friday to everyone. This happens to be the mid-afternoon update for TFNN, Larry Pesavento reporting. We started the markets, stock indices relatively strong throughout the night. And then later in the morning they started to sell off as reports came in on some type of report. And I'm embarrassed to say I don't know what it was. I was watching the grain reports for today. So I'm not even sure all I know is it must have pushed the market down. And we have the stock indices all lower. We've got gold lower, silver lower, crude oil lower. We've got corn and wheat are up slightly, beans are down a little bit. So there's a bifurcated market as Basil Chapman would tell us here. But the fact is that the Treasury notes and Treasury bonds are also down on the day are telling us that there is a place where we're having a risk off right now. Now, whether that means anything or not, I don't know. But we had some important Fibonacci numbers. For those of you that like Fibonacci numbers, I'll be covering that when we come back from our break here, especially the NASDAQ because it hit an exact number going back about nine months ago. And I did. Well, it's amazing how some of these things work. They don't work all the time, but when they do work, you know, they work quite well. So there's going to be a lot of volatility coming, folks. There's no question about it. The inflation is not over yet and neither is the thing with the banks. The second half of the show today, I want to go over some of the banks and show you how bad some of these banks, I mean, serious banks that are really don't look very good. And would you listen to what Jamie Diamond said yesterday in the interview with Bloomberg? She asked him, where would you put your money? And you know what his answer was? In a central bank safety box or something like that. He said, put my money in with the same with the central bank. So that means short term bills and certainly not gold because gold is sold off quite a bit, as has Silver. Silver said it hit a magical number today, folks. It will be talking about when we come back at the next part of the show. We're going to spend most of the morning talking about commodities. And then what we're going to do is we're going to do some stocks and bank stuff in the second half hour, the second hour of the show day. So we'll take a little break eight, seven, seven, nine, two, seven, six, six, four, eight. Billy Ray Valentine Capricorn will be right back.


Slovakia to supply Ukraine with 16 Howitzers and establish their joint production with Ukraine. Slovakia will supply Ukraine with 16 Zuzana to Howitzers and will establish production of Howitzers together with Ukraine Slovak president Zuzana Kaputova said, We are one of the countries that helped Ukraine militarily. We have provided air defense equipment. We have provided combat aircraft and cooperation in this area is gradually moving into cooperation in other areas. We managed to sign a contract for the supply of 16 Zuzan to Ukraine and this will happen very soon. We will jointly develop a new type of Howitzers. Joint production of ammunition will begin and our enterprises will clear the territory of Ukraine from mines. Kaputova said, According to her, we need support and intensive cooperation in the field of infrastructure and have also discussed this with the ministers of defense, with the minister of foreign affairs and the secretary of state of the ministry of transport. These issues are very important. Infrastructure development will be useful for both Ukraine and Slovakia. She said, According to Kaputova, we see Ukraine as a promising member of the European Union. I recently hosted the summit of the Eastern Wing of the Alliance in Bratislava and we agreed that the prospect of Ukraine is the North Atlantic Alliance. The Slovak president said,


Understanding accounting vocabulary is an important first step in learning how accounting really works. So let's look at some key terms and their meanings. The journal, sometimes called the book of original entry or more commonly the general journal, is how transactions are entered into into accounting records. It is a chronological list of a company's transactions. An account is a basic summary device used in accounting. All of the related transactions to a particular account are recorded in that account. For example, all of the transactions affecting cash would be recorded in the cash account. Accounts are grouped into five broad categories which include assets, liabilities, equity, revenues and expenses. We will learn how financial data moves from the journal into the account later. In an academic setting, the account is often expressed as a T account. Two additional terms that are very important in accounting are debit and credit. Debit, excuse me, debit which is sometimes abbreviated DR means left side of an account and credit which is sometimes abbreviated CR means right side of an account. And that's it. Debits and credits are how different accounts are increased or decreased but they don't mean increase or decrease because it depends on which account they affect. Each transaction must affect two or more accounts to keep the accounting equation in balance. We learned this when we learned about the accounting equation. This is known as double entry accounting. So every transaction must include at least two accounts. One account that is debited and one account that is credited. There can be more than two accounts but there can never be less. And debits must always equal credits or the accounting equation would be out of balance. Account balances are either debit balances or credit balances. There are no negative balances in accounting. Balances are calculated by totaling the debit side of an account and totaling the credit side of the account. Then we subtract the smaller side from the larger. This is the balance on the larger side. An account can only have one balance. In this example, debits are 20,000 and credits are 9,000. So the balance in this account is an $11,000 debit balance. In this next example, debits are 15,000 and credits are 17,000. So the balance of this account is a $2,000 credit balance. The ledger, sometimes known as the general ledger, is a collection of all of the company's accounts. So all of the asset, liability, equity, revenue, and expense accounts are located in the ledger. Before we end this short video on accounting terms, I would like to revisit some terms and define the accounts a little better. Assets are economic resources, which means that it's something of value, that are owned or controlled by a business and will provide benefit into the future. The key when trying to determine if something is an asset is that assets will provide future benefits. Supplies is an asset because we haven't used them yet. When we do, they will become an expense. Supplies expense to be exact. And they will become a past benefit, not a future benefit anymore. Accounts receivable is for money that is owed to us from our customers. If we perform service on account, we would use accounts receivable in recording that transaction. Prepaid expenses are like supplies. They will become a past benefit.  Liabilities are claims on our assets from external parties like creditors. Accounts payable is for money that we owe to our vendors or suppliers. Accrued liabilities, sometimes called accrued expenses, are amounts that we owe for our bills related to our operations. For example, utility bills received, but not yet paid, is a type of accrued liability. Equity is the claim on assets from internal parties like owners. It is sometimes called net worth or net assets because it's the value of the asset that remains after our liabilities are paid off or settled. You can see the accounting equation can be manipulated to be assets minus liabilities equals equity or net worth or net assets. Retained earnings are the amount of earnings the company has retained rather than paid out to stockholders in the form of dividends. Dividends are the amount of earnings the company has paid out to the stockholders as a return on investment. Revenues are inflows from operations. They are the benefit a company receives from their business operations. Recall that they increase equity but are not technically equity accounts. Service revenue is earned by performing service. Sales revenue is earned by selling goods. Expenses are outflows from operations. They are the costs companies incur from their business operations. The account costs of goods sold is not obvious that it is an expense account. For retailers and manufacturers it is often their largest expense. It is titled exactly what it means. It is the cost of the goods sold. And that concludes this short video introducing some foundational accounting terms and a more in-depth look at some specific accounts.


Come to another episode of likeable science here on Think Tech Hawaii. Likeable science is about why science matters to us all, why it's a vital and dynamic part of everyone's life, everyone's daily life. And we've got a great show today where we're really going to get into some of the people understand. I have Tyler Rouse here with me. Welcome, Tyler. Thank you. Tyler is the owner and data recovery engineer for Hawaii Recovery, LLC, and it's a company that does data recovery, right? Absolutely. It implies. And this is when your computer goes bad and suddenly you can't get the data you need, be there your old pictures, your old term papers, your current bank statements, whatever it may be, right? Right. Pretty much your entire digital life on that computer is on that hard drive. Yeah. And when computers, when hard drives go bad or you can't access things and you can't just reboot it and start it up and get it back, what do you do? Right. Yeah. So at the recovery level what we do is when individuals have that failed hard drive or that storage media, they're able to send it out to us. We do have a full service clean room, so we're able to open the drives, we're able to switch out critical components in order to get that drive back up and running again, recover the data and then send it back to the client. Cool. That's critical stuff. And yet people don't think about it a lot. Everyone these days thinks, hey, I'm hooked up, I got my data up in the cloud. It's safe, right? Right. Right. Fortunately, over 80% of America actually doesn't back up at all, which is an astounding number. Yeah. In fact, the larger percentage of that is actually corporations or businesses that are backing up their data, which means that at a home like a residence, almost all of America, very large percentage of America doesn't have any backups at all, despite the importance of the data that they have on that computer. Yeah. Yeah. Because a lot of people put on the computer is very valuable stuff. These days, all your pictures live there, right? Absolutely. Watch your phone this fall, of course. Right. Absolutely. And it's very critical because these are all moments of your life, right? Everything that's on your hard drive that you placed on there equates to time, right? If it's a picture or a video, it equates to a memory that you can never go back to. Right? Irreplaceable. Absolutely irreplaceable. It's documentation for legal purposes, for jobs, for whatever you may have, you know? Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. It used to be, you kept this all on paper and it was filed away neatly somewhere, supposedly. Right.  Right. Yeah, definitely. Some of those issues still exist. For instance, backups at home, there are still issues that can occur with it, but hopefully with today, with our line of discussion, we're able to educate the viewers about backups, data recovery, and how to save your data and eliminate needing to go to a company like ours. So you mentioned earlier, your company, you get things, you mentioned the clean room. Now, clean room is a facility, basically, that has sort of sealed off, has super well ventilated but extremely highly filtered air, so basically, the clean rooms, at least, that I used to work in, University of Washington, said they had one-tenth of the contaminant levels of hospital operating rooms. Right. Every clean room and clean bench, based on the filter type that's used, every filter is going to have an ISO class. The ISO determines the sanitation of the air that's entering that environment. And you're absolutely right. The clean room is exactly intended to eliminate as much dust and debris in the air as possible, so that way doesn't end up inside the drives that we're working on. Right. Because these drives, if they get dust on that spec of dust that looks invisible to us, is a big chunk of grip on this drive, right? Absolutely. And it's an interesting concept. Something that contains all of our data that is irreplaceable is on something so incredibly fragile. Just like you were saying, a spec of dust, inside the drive, if the heads go over that spec of dust, it can irreplaceably damage the platter or damage that head and entirely render it irrecoverable. So a clean room, and especially having a good clean room, is critically important to our work and data recovery. That's great. So then let's talk a little bit about how does good data go bad? Got you. What can happen to data? What are the sort of failure modes, right? So there's three different areas of failure. There's physical failure, there's firmware failure, and software failure. Physical failure is where a physical component on the actual drive itself were to fail, which contributes to not functioning properly. A firmware failure is where the storage media itself has an issue identifying itself or an issue communicating with the computer. And a software failure is that interaction between the computer and the storage media itself, where it actually fails at that level. Let's dissect those a little for just a second. So that first mode of physical failure, so your disk and your computer stop spinning. So now what we're looking at right here is these two right here are your most common hard drive types. These are called hard disk drives. And what this is is here, this is a hard disk, right? This is a polycarbonate platter that has been coated with a metallic filament, which allows it to store data. Now this section here is called the head stack. Now right here in the very tip, there's little tiny heads. They're about the size of actually the tip of this pen. And those will actually travel just over the top of the platter. And it will read the data from that. Not quite touching the platter, right? Correct. But just barely off it, but very, very, very close, which is why a speck of dust can be so problematic, all right? Absolutely. In fact, it's actually about a sixth of the width of a human hair. OK. Right. So it's incredibly tiny. Now down here, we have what's called a magnetic servo. What this does is that this uses a induction coil, which is copper, in order to push power through it and move the heads back and forth on the platter. So using this pivot point here, as power is applied, it'll end up being moved to the left and the right. So that way, the heads can traverse the platter and be able to read the data. So this is the most common two types of drives that are in computers now. And these are the most susceptible, as hard disk drives, to being susceptible to hardware failure, right? So now they're not limited just to disk drives, even solid state drives. M2s, M-satas, all these new cutting-edge storage medias that we're using today and all of our new modern computers can also still have physical failures as well. So the next, you went into what you called firmware failures. Now that's... So firmware, so let's say, for instance, again, using these two drives here. So this drive is a Western Digital. Western Digital uses dozens and dozens of firmware modules and service area modules, which work together to essentially tell the hard drive how to communicate properly with the computer, how to read the data properly, how to translate it so that computer can understand it. And then that way, the computer knows what to do with it. So that's the firmware level there. Each one of these modules has a different purpose to keep the drive operational and functioning. Now on the software side... That's more coding almost. Right, yeah, so that's the interaction of the hard drive itself to the actual computer. So that's from what the firmware does once it ends that point, which stops at the front of the drive. Everything beyond that, as far as communicating with the computers on that software level. Now the software is actually stored on the drive. It's not stored on the computer. And within that, if there's a failure there, then, again, the hard drive will fail to recognize on the computer. So what do you do when somebody brings in a drive and says, it don't work? Well, there's always a series of questions that we ask them. One of the most important questions is do you open the drive? There's a lot of clients that we have that they'll go online. They'll Google, no research, and they'll say, hey, based on what you're talking about, it sounds like stuck heads. So what stuck heads is is where the heads actually get stuck on the platters themselves. Now this one is an enterprise drive. So the heads are actually parked in the center of the platter. Now on this one over here, and let me move this over, you'll see that little tiny orange piece. Now that small orange piece, which is located here, is where the heads would sit on a typical drive. So now with that being said, that failure is going to occur at any point in time from that. But then you have to step by step break it down and go through and see what part is working, what part isn't working. Right. I'm sorry, I prematurely closed my statement. So from this, if the drive's already been opened, we know that we should expect dust and particulates and fat the drive. So we need to go through an actual clean room process. No thing we're going to be looking at is actually right here on the platters. If you have what's called a collapsed head, that means that the head itself has become damaged.  And again, the head stack is this little part right here. Now from that head stack, if it does tear away, if the platters continue to spin, it can dig into the platters like a chisel. That type of image is entirely irrecoverable from it. So unfortunately, that's that catch-all. If that damage exists, there's nothing that anybody can do about that. Otherwise, typically what ends up happening is that if the heads are stuck on the platter, we would end up using a special tool called a head unstick kit. And that would actually move the heads off of the platters and onto this orange piece that was on this drive right over here. Now the head stack replacement would be the next step. If the heads are damaged because they touched the platter, we would actually replace the entire head stack. So we would replace this component. So that way, everything inside that drive can read the platters properly. And if that doesn't work, then now we go into a much more advanced session of data recovery where we start actually taking the platters out of this drive and start moving it into other drives. So we can preserve as much hardware as possible. So you actually have separate drives. You can actually pull the disks out and set them this drive in and read it in your own heads, basically, if it isn't too badly damaged. Correct. So when any part inside of a hard drive is damaged, whether it's the head stack, whether it's the magnetic servo, if it's the printed circuit board, which is located on the back of a drive. So whatever the type of damage is, every part would come from what's called a donor drive. And donor drives are pretty expensive, but that's where we would end up getting those parts from. Unfortunately, there's no repairing parts. You can only replace them. So yeah. OK, that's good. And it does seem like we're in an era of there's more and more the phrase of big data now is all around. Everything's big data, all of this genomic data now, all of your phone works. Siri can direct you through directions through big data sets, basically. So there's more and more data around. It seems only reason to expect that we're going to see more and more data failures, right? Well, yes. I mean, data storage mediums are becoming more and more reliable as we go along. My prime example is that this disk drive here has been around for the birth of computers. The only thing that's changed is the connector type. So here we see a SATA connector, which is serial over ATA. What used to be around is a 48-pin IDE connector, the old gray ribbon cables. They used to be the old computers. However, we've moved away primarily from disk drives. Now, there's still being manufactured. There's still a reliable piece of equipment. However, we want to move away from that. And we want to move into something that's more reliable that can protect our data even more. So this here is a prime example of what we're moving towards. This is what's called an M-SATA solid-state drive. And what this does is that this has absolutely no moving components. And it's a solid chip similar to your processor, similar to your RAM or your motherboard within your computer. However, these are still susceptible to hardware failures and software and firmware failures as well. And we're going to talk more about those failures and how they happen and what you do about them. When we come back right now, we're going to take a little bit of a break here. I'm Ethan Allen, your host of Think Tech Hawaii here, likeable science. Tyler Rose from Data Recovery is with me. And we're talking about data recovery. We'll be back in one minute. Aloha. I am Howard Wigg. I am the proud host of Cold Green for Think Tech Hawaii. I appear every other Monday at 3. And I have really, really exciting guests on the exciting topic of energy efficiency. Hope to see you there. Aloha. I'm Jay Fiedel, one of the hosts of Asia in Review, which is broadcast Monday afternoons on thinktechawai.com.  We work hard to bring you the most interesting subjects and guests who will raise your awareness. Please join us Mondays every week on Asia in Review on thinktechawai.com and also on YouTube and iTunes. Thanks for watching. We'll see you then. Aloha, Shae Shae, and Sai Jian. And you're back here on Likeable Science on Think Tech Hawaii. I'm your host, Ethan Allen. Tyler Rose from Data Recovery LLC is with me. Hawaii Recovery, sorry, is with me today. We're talking about data recovery on computers. And we were talking about the storage media of various types and the changes that are going on. And all the things that can and inevitably will go wrong with them, right? You were telling me actually before the show that your backup drive after four or five years really is starting to fail itself almost inevitably sort of on a statistical basis. It's beginning right. Well, just like with anything mechanical, mechanical parts are designed to wear out over time. And it stands true to your hard drive the same as your car. So when that happens, then you can't get it. And somebody comes to you and says, fix this for me. And you say, that will be right. So for us, we're a little different than your mainland data recovery labs. For us, we're flat rate regardless of complexity or data recovery size. But it's still pretty expensive. For a regular consumer, it costs them $500 to get a data recovery through our shop. Now, granted, it's a flat rate. So it doesn't increase or like that, no surprises. Typically, what most clients see across the nation is between $802,000 for a single drive recovery. Money that, at least I don't have to, around sitting here, that I can spend on one item. I got a lot better things to do with that. Yeah, exactly. So unfortunately, there's a lot of clients that end up turning around and they say, I can't afford this or I can't justify it. So therefore, they lost the pictures of their kids growing up or they lost the work that they spent the last three years generating. So in that case, it's very unfortunate that we have clients that forego the recovery of their data because it's obviously very important to them. So the next thing that we do is we try to educate them on backups and how we can prevent them from coming to our shop again in the future. And this is what I was joking about earlier. Everyone these days thinks, oh, well, the cloud exists and my stuff's on Google Drive. Therefore, it's all safe and protected and I don't have to worry about this anymore. Unfortunately, so that's true. It's great that we have alternatives such as the cloud. It's fantastic because the redundancy of hard drives, the redundancy of your data to prevent data losses done for you. However, there's still limitations to the cloud. A prime example for the cloud is that you can't really run an operating system on it. You can kind of, but for your regular consumer, the operating system will always be on your local hard drive. If you did not set up your backup solution, your backup solution is not working for you. And that's one of the big misconceptions a lot of individuals have because they talk about, hey, I have Dropbox, I have Google Drive, I have Azure, I have AWS. And so although that's fantastic, if they didn't actually set it up and start setting up a backup plan, it's not backing up any of your data. And unfortunately, we do see that a lot where clients believe it's on the cloud until they come in and we try to assist them in retrieving it from the cloud and then we determine that it doesn't exist there. Right, or they're missing parts, critical parts of it. Right, exactly. And backing up really isn't that hard, right? I mean, it's not, again, it's one of these sort of things which if you make it a part of your life and just it's a normal part of your, for how your life goes about your daily, it doesn't have to be daily, I'm sure, but so tell us a little bit about what it takes really to do backup the way it should be done. Backing up nowadays is really easy, super easy. Now, for all these software designers that are making these backup programs, they want to make it consumer-friendly, they want to make it really easy. And there's programs out there where it's one button, you click one button and it starts backing up everything. And there's programs out there that are much more complex to give you variable options and et cetera. But so a lot of these programs can be user-friendly, so even for those that aren't really computer savvy, they're still able to back up their data with minimal effort without really outside help. Now, as far as for the actual cost of backing up, now, like I said, a few minutes ago, our cost for data recovery for each client is $500. However, if they had purchased a backup plan in the past, they may have only spent $50 or $60. And that $60 investment can last in the rest of their life into that backup program since they own that license now. So it's kind of like insurance. You never need insurance until you need it, right? So backups is the same thing. OK.  Or OK. So if we do have clients that they don't understand backups, they don't understand how backups work, how to install the software, how to check their backups, we provide the support for them. A lot of the time, if it's simply just TeamViewer over or remote desktop over the internet, there's a very small fee. It's $25 just to check your backups, set you up with your preferred backup program, et cetera. So that way, we can ensure that you're set up properly and that you're not going to run into that issue later. So on some regular basis, then our computer is chat with your computer, your computer is stash all their data. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And another thing to point out too about a lot of these backup programs is automation. Once it's set up and once you get that first backup done, as long as that hard drive is connected to the computer whenever a backup starts, it generally works pretty well. So you can set it up on Monday.  Yeah, and it's much cheaper than spending the $2,000 on. Absolutely.  Absolutely. And one huge point to toss out there is data recovery is a evolving practicing science. As new drives come out, as Western Digital or SeaGator, as they come out with new hard drives and new storage mediums, it's a cat and mouse game where data recovery now is constantly catching up. With that being said, because it's a practicing science, there's no guarantee that you can get your data back. So even for those that say, well, if my hard drive were to fail, it's not a big deal. I'll send it off to a data recovery lab. But again, if you look at the hard drive again, if that damage were to be on the platters, then unfortunately, there is no recovering that data. And that fallback of data recovery, and again, this is the platter here, so that fallback of having a data recovery company is ineffective now.  And now nobody has any drives that'll work for 3.5 inch floppy anymore, anyhow. So even if the data is still sitting there, it still happens to be good. Who can actually access that data? Absolutely. I assume you guys probably could, but we would try, certainly. But really, the big thing you got to ask yourself is, on your computer, what can you afford to lose? And if you say, you know, I could have my computer fail today, and I'm not worried about anything, well, maybe you don't need to back up. Maybe you don't need a computer. Maybe you don't need a computer. But if you take a look at all the different data types, I mean, we have pictures from vacations. How many times have you gotten on the phone with somebody and they're sort of pausing and say, sorry, my computer is being slow today, right? Right, yeah. We're just trying to do the normal business. And their computer is determining the speed at which they can do it.  Absolutely. I was on a United Airlines plane at one point, second in line for takeoff. And they announced that the central computers at United had failed. And they couldn't make one last calculation that they needed. And therefore, that plane was not going to move until they got the computers back up and running, because it's just definitely a good thing. You don't want to be in the air without support. Absolutely. No complaints. But they are important. They determine our lives. So yeah, having good backups, having access, knowing that things are back up, should allow you to sleep better, right? Absolutely. Yeah, definitely. And this is like a prime example. For those that say, that wouldn't happen to me, right?  But a prime example is we had a client about six weeks ago. She came in with her significant other. And we took it into the cleaning room. We opened it up. And we saw that there was platter damage. We plugged it into our computer, right? And we attempted to isolate if there was a chance of recovery. And unfortunately, there wasn't. Now, for her, the important data on there was her entire degree. She used the same drive for her entire degree. And all of her homework was on there. And obviously, she was very upset. And it's a little bit late for us at that point to try to educate her on backups. But she appreciated the education. And she really wanted to turn around and really start backing up her data now. And unfortunately, it took a bad situation. It's a blessing for her. Yeah, exactly. I mean, she was tuition, but she paid more tuition there. Well, yeah, yeah. Of course, we didn't charge her. If we don't recover the data, there's no charge. But backing up data is that important no matter what you have on there, really. Right, right. No, it's critical. And it's only going to get more critical as time goes on. More and more and more of our lives are now essentially boiled down to data that is being stored somewhere. Right. And really, another thing to point out, too, is inside mechanical drives, you have what's called sector failures. So let's say, for instance, that this one here would have 1 billion, 900 million sectors. So out of that, for files, files are all made up of sectors. So if you have bad sectors, sectors can't be repaired. So if you have bad sectors, that file, even though you recovered the whole file, that file may not open or may not be available anymore. Backing up would have prevented that again. OK, OK. Yeah, so there are lots of different ways and things can go wrong, lots of different problems that can happen. And so I guess what I'm hearing from you, a take-home message, is that you should think carefully about your backup. Perhaps talk to somebody like yourself about what you need in the way of backup, how free you should back up, what you should back up, how, when, where. And figure out a good solution that matches your sophistication, your time, your energy, your level of investment, and the value of your data, of course. Absolutely. And with backups, with current technology and backups, data preservation has become more and more prominent in new methods on how it's being delivered. A prime example would be a system backup. If you were to take a backup of your entire system, there's plenty of companies out there that offer that type of backup service. If you were to create a backup of your entire system, and tomorrow you get a virus, you just restart the computer, tell it to restore from the most recent backup, and then you're done. Virus is gone. Everything's right back to where it was when you backed up. So backups is more now usable in everyday life rather than just the preservation of a file. Right. And the threat of cyber attacks on all seems to be not diminishing, let us say. Ransomware is a huge one of those as well. Yeah. So that's it. Well, this is incredibly valuable stuff that you're telling us, and great to know about, and a wonderful preventative medicine, as it were. So before we close it, I'm going to take a step to the side to ask a completely off the wall question. Has nothing to do with data recovery at all? All right. So if you had a choice of a superpower that you could either fly or be invisible, which would you choose and why? Well, in society, we're all invisible after the third degree of separation, so I'd probably say fly. I explore the world, see different cultures. OK, good. Well, all right. Anyhow, so Tyler Rouse, a data recovery engineer from Hawaii Recovery, has been telling us today all about why we should back up data. It's probably the big take home, right? Absolutely. Back up your data. Absolutely. Do not come visit us.  Yeah, it's cheaper. It's better. It's quicker.  If anybody has any questions about backups, by all means, reach out to our company. We're not money hungry. If you were to call us and ask us my questions, we're not going to tell you to come to the shop. If we can answer it over the phone, we'll be happy to help you. There we go. So I hope you'll come back to see us, Likeable Science, next week on Hero and Think Tech Hawaii. Until then.


As the 2023 elections approach, there is visible tension country-wide and to see as they might be replaced by tone, jazz and threats. The ethnic and religious issues that plague our country are full blast. Friends are not so friendly and enemies are being made out of allies because of differences in political choices. This is not the first time we witness these types of events. In 2015, anyone who did not support the candidacy of the APC Muamed Bouhari was labeled as unpatriotic corrupt and all sorts. They were demonised throughout the campaign cycle for the decision to support other candidates. Unfortunately for Nigeria and Nigeria, the victory did not bear fruit. Instead, the nation's economy, security and corruption challenges and previous pillars of the Bouhari campaign have yielded no result. In short, we can even say that the real patriots are those who stood against the Bouhari. But does it have to be this way? Do we have to break each other's heads because of people we support politically? Most of the supporters are not even known to the candidates. They are like football fans fighting over players who do not even know they exist. Now, no matter what who wins in the 2023 elections, who will win? We will all reap the fruits so we can say we are in this together. My advice to supporters is to support the candidates peacefully during the election so we can have a peaceful outcome. As we interrogate the candidates of other political parties, also allow others to interrogate your own candidate. This election is not a war. In fact, I would even go further to suggest that we should also interrogate the intentions and actions of the political parties and candidates that we support. There is no desire or sense anywhere that is going to save Nigeria. We must save ourselves. God bless Nigeria. Wow, Kuti. That's quite thought-provoking. He has said it all, the election will not be war in local parlance. Why must we always fight? I was saying something that you should do things on issue-based campaign. Exactly. For me, I think Nigerians go to understand that our current politicians are actually doing business. Exactly. So, they pay people to get their votes. Because if votes don't count, they don't pay, they don't buy off. And immediately they pay for that, in respect of you, just like you are doing business. I don't have a lot of market, I have a lot of people who want to buy. If they pay the ISB, I win them over. Once I do that, my own business is how to cope that money. I am not doing business with you for the next four years. So, if you understand that this is the process, you don't expect dividends for a bargain, you are already concluded during the election day. You are saying that the politicians don't care, they are only concerned about their own business. It is business.  So, until we change that narrative to understand that we should be ready to pay for the kind of government we want. And it should be, it should be just like you said. If I know that, I will give you an example of communism in China. You see, China wants to control a long bridge. Every China citizen must contribute minimum of $2. When you begin to do that, what it implies is, I have a share for every toll that they pay. I am concerned. Even if anything happens to that bridge, I will fight the government. Because I know I have contributed my own share to it. Okay. Election on war, is it a war? Why war is apprehensive when it is time for election? What can we do about it? I think what the politicians have played on over the years is our dosility. We tend to be docile as Nigerians, especially when it comes to politics. And I speak to the youth in this regard. Most of the time, we care less about what happens in party A or party B. And then, when we begin to see after the elections, the results of our dosility, that's when we begin to become aggressive and then begin to blame those who voted here or voted there. And the aggression is called for. What we need to do is to calm down, come to a round table as youth. Take this decision that we need to be involved. And then getting involved is not for every four years fear, because that is what we have been doing and that is why the apprehension is out there. We need to get involved from day one. Even if our choice is not elected this election period, we do not need to go and sit down again and wait to come back after four years and begin to disturb the whole atmosphere with our ranting and all of that. We need to get involved, join political parties and then begin to grow our support from the basis, because the politicians have seen that we don't get involved and they play on that and then every four years they come and they do all sorts of antics to ensure that they always get what they want and then we back to that zero and then begin to rant again. Okay, no problem. Thank you very much. We are saying everybody should be intellectually focused and responsible. Who is the government responsible? Thank you very much. Oluwasegu is next. Stay with us.


Actually, you got to start there You got to start with what's in the pot It's in the box it's Indian food Yeah, Tom here for Lawrence systems, and I figured I would do a video About what I do here and what's going on here because I wanted I these guys have no idea that I was going to They knew I was gonna do a video They know what the topic was so they're all laughing as soon as I said, what do I do here? So I'll let them actually do here. I'll let them answer. What do I do here? That's trust with a camera. Yeah pester them with a camera So anyways, I want to do a video kind of talk about what I do what it looks like running behind the scenes a few people asked for behind the scenes videos and I haven't been able to use my studio for a couple days because it was messy because of the other project And now it's messy because that one is being delivered and sold now This is the next one that is being set up and it's another unified project and I will catch up These videos are just harder to do the whole project part Because we can't always do a mon site, but this one we do have some Information on so that we'll be coming that's this is actually part two of the same project from almost was it well Why don't we do the warehouse and okay? The other first warehouse is about a month ago So this is another warehouse of the same companies company has a lot of warehouses, but What this is is the studio gets converted into the project area Steve is cooking food This is one of the company policies. I've talked about this before where we feed everybody or Everybody gets fed and specifically today Steve is making Indian food. So that's Steve wants a stove so office upgrade goals is having a full kitchen. I think Steve you want a commercial kitchen I mean, I wouldn't oppose to it Yeah Really, I just need a stove I'd be making a lot more stuff fresh Here's a closer look at what you don't see when the studio is being set up as all the little wires This is all the temporary where we dangle these around and start setting it all up Kyle and Steve are on boxy I have another group of people on site installing stuff Putting the racks up in the air and everything else and then I have Eric over here, which I won't I'll do it from a distance because you can't see you lock your screen is for a second. There we go They can walk by Yeah, that's where Eric usually sits Which is kind of the front of the building is a few people asked about having the retail spot of the building and it does have automated Life's we don't really do much retail anymore, but this is the front of the store So that's what it looks like. There's the scooter here. It's not for sale It's actually we ride it to customers because we have customers that are that close to us And then all the shipments of things that's left over that they'll keep bringing in there And then the guys will drive up front and load it and take it back out. All right Then we'll walk through here. This is where my office is It does say do not dumb here I asked them to not dumb here before they come into my small closet I've done breakdowns of my little work area, but yes that is even with this wide angle lens It's as small as it looks in there walk through the back of the building a little bit Brett is off this week. He's on vacation. So if you want to happen to Brett and then Kyle stuff is back over there I'm just double-checking to make sure there's no customer things. I don't like any of the customer stuff on there This is the drawing board we use a lot now as far as what does my day look like what do I do here? I wanted to talk about that kind of more specifically. So a lot of my day is Emails emails creating some videos I probably spend about a good part of my time now because that's what I've chosen to do as I've hired more people and delegated out So my positions I spent a lot of time replying emails, but ultimately I managed by exception Which is still my involvement in the business. What does that mean? Well managed by exception means there's process procedures Everybody follows and when things go awry when there are things that are out of scope out of spec That's where I get involved and I bring this up because the perfect example has happened the last it's only Tuesday right now And yet we've had some fun out of out of sequence events and unexpected behaviors So specifically related to the warehouse project one of the warehouses is 30 miles north of my building and the other one is about 30 miles south of my building and the Lift company first thing they did on Monday morning was delivered to the wrong building We're not sure how now. We told them which project we verify We have it an email in writing because I make sure my staff puts everything in writing of exactly Where did this information go? So I made sure processes were followed where if it's not in writing it didn't happen up because I would have heard They just read them an address or something like that and didn't follow it up for an email I would put the onus on my people for having made the mistake for not verifying But they did they were able to produce the evidence. So I got to investigate this Problem to this is also something that had to be in writing and perhaps the people at the warehouse may see this video I'm fine with that because when this is a back and forth the height of an area was told to us in the project design for Where we had to mount things and that height is off by a number of feet Which means the lifts that were delivered were the wrong size They won't reach exactly where we need to reach into one area of the building where we were implicitly Told them in writing and it was affirmed Reply to that email that the lifts are right size So these are kind of like those steps or procedures where Tom has to get involved So now we have to swap out a lift or at least get Delivery of one more lift at that location that will reach those areas because that lift will do the other areas So we actually shuffled which way we're doing the job And this is coordinated between some of the contractors that I have So I only have these handful of people you see on the website or working inside the building and then outside of that We have a whole series of partner companies and that's where I come in and manage those vendor relationships and those partners And of course they are needing the lift as well because they need to redo some of the fiber ends as I said before People ask me about doing fiber. Do you do that? No, I made the decision that we're not going to do it internally We have a company we work with directly as local toss that we contract out for the fiber But they can't reach the same area because they have to go put the ends on the new fiber That was put over there or really just replace certain ends that were already existing and do some wire cleanup to move a cabinet over and Yeah, that's not going to work Because they can't reach it just like we can't reach it So these are those things by exception which I manage what I'm not doing that My other function here is just the general making sure everything is going forward. I don't always Directly involve myself in some of the day-to-day the help desk or something like that Like you see an Eric doing or which Kyle is usually but he's there's nothing going on There's usually Kyle sitting over here behind me in these glass cubicle areas is where some of the more Support things happen and for now he's waiting for the food to cook and they're gonna plug in a whole stack of Unifies that are gonna go up over in the other room and do all the testing and labeling and get them prepped So the contractors that we have installing them are going to get this whole project done because this is also the I'm not gonna call it secret sauce because it's not really secret But the ingredients to Tom, you know, how do you get things done? Well, the ingredient is contractors When it comes to Planning and designing my team does that internally like for this wireless project when it comes to deploying you need a bigger team Especially when you start talking about okay You're gonna go put 80 of these up in two days or one of a bigger projects I'm gonna be covering and doing a follow-up on where we had to install 300 access points in only a couple days Well, I be see and planning and designing it will do that internally But I needed to hire extra help or you have the relationships that I manage with them So that's a lot of some of my day-to-day here and I just want to talk about that a little bit like to show you What goes on so when I'm not making videos and not making them I'm just kind of making sure the company and all of its pieces now that's the role I choose to have as the Owner of this company and it kind of depends on where you are as a business of what role you get to choose I just bring it up because for the people what you do is the owner Do you you know you stay involved or I want a to have a boss that's directly involved or not involved There's there's some happy in between there's not a right answer for that So there's not a predefined thing like I especially had before owning a business in my head of the owner does this and I want the owner That's you know hands-on standing next to me Or whatever these memes you see about what leadership roles are defined as and it's a little bit less defined Once you're sitting in that position Ultimately, I try to make sure everything goes forward in the company I try to make sure everyone has everything they need and all the resources Available to them to make sure they can get their job done and I make sure they have the tools and such that they need So that does include of course me making sure I make all the decisions at the top level With input from my staff of what really works if they're the ones using it about software and everything else And I'm always tuning and changing what those things are to make sure it's like the most efficient We can be or why we make a switch from such as my recent switch from last year using last pass Well not last five years probably using last pass and moving everything over to Bitward and I did a video on that But that's a decision that comes down from me Going and researching software and looking at the pain points We had with last pass and saying, you know, how do we solve those point? How do we solve those pain points or something like that word and somewhere in between? I had a conversation to set up some future videos that are coming up Which does include Conversations with other texts and other people Actually, that's the next thing I have to do is another conference call and some of this is related to my channel Sometimes it's related to other vendors. We're gonna be working with on the company So that gives you an idea a little bit. Maybe what I do and I don't mind doing some of these like update behind-the-scenes videos few people though asked to kind of like the Hanging out with my guys videos or my texts that are here and talking with them in war stories But the big challenge those turn into is they I don't want to just be one of those We all sit and complain about people that do this and it it's hard because that's something I do is setting the Standards and setting the culture for my company that you don't want it to be a bunch of people complaining about Customers and things like that. And yes, we do have very difficult clients We have someone that you know, it's funny because I had to tell them I had to be quiet We're gonna I'm gonna have record because that becomes a problem sometimes and you see that and I you admit This customer is being very very difficult They have a bunch of stuff We repaired some of the equipment they had but they were sold some really lousy equipment for another vendor And they don't like the fact that we have a similar suggestion because of what product they have we're like well a similar session But redone properly and he's like, well, I don't know if I want to go at the same brand But you know the other guy doesn't answer phone no more So I want to talk to you etc and managing those relationships and right away first thing I said was the person's two months behind on paying their last bill We've been chasing them for money So they start complaining why don't I do any quotes for the person till they pay and I said that's actually a fair statement And that's what I told them to send and the person actually paid as soon as we said We won't even give them a quote until they paid their previous bill. They immediately paid their previous bill but you have to manage those relationships all the time and figure that out and of course I the Thing is with the complaining is there's usually something underlying about it You don't want to just say don't complain We have to figure out why people are complaining and I have to look for ways to mitigate it So part of my job here, I guess is kind of the social side of managing Not just client happiness, but making sure everything is kind of copacetic internally that everyone's happy and all that fun stuff But they're really happy because at Indian food is insanely spicy for those of you wondering and I'm gonna walk into that room and kind of conclude it there and See Walk by my office And see what there okay over in here and It's just about set up and it's well and I can smell how spicy it is just what what do you guesstimate? This co-bills are going to be in this what's not much right now. Oh, okay More than five Units more than five units of heat. Yeah about three million Yes, that's actually what I add is the three million because that's actually the more important part of how we do it Oh, I forgot that you you're actually busy when I first started. What do I do here? What I mean Office for a while and then beliefs We're trying to be working, but then he posts memes. Yes, all guilty of that. Yeah, we're all guilty of a lot of means It makes me feel less bad. Yeah, I Measure the success of my company not in dollars, but in how much time I get to look at memes Yes, and then post them and share them I'm really busy. Oh, and here's a string of three memes Tom source lock. He must be doing something really important Oh That's curry. That's good. But yeah, I do measure. I measure to assess my business and the amount of memes that get posted Time we have to post me as long as all the work's done as long as the chores are done And everything's done around here and all the unifies are glowing. We can break it like me 30. We got me 30 Yeah Oh We'll get you some Red Bull and a close-up look at the firewall, of course This is this is really how we deal with the pain of doing tech support occasionally I was gonna complain about tech support, but I'm just gonna go ahead Redfish aka me so as we learn means redfish Little this Pain with you just replaced tech support pain with physical plane I mean, you know, I could complain about an HP printer that was stuck up for a little while or I could have some Really half Reaper pepper All right, why not both printer support and Reaper peppers right every time you have to load a driver update for HP Just to do a shot of Pretty much that's his job he just hurt things on and off That's what Eric's learned about He's he's been here the least amount of time and what you learned was what you learn school means nothing And you just reboot things a lot, right? And people lie about restarting things. Yeah, that's pretty much So I went to my conference call I said the end of the video not the end of the video because Corey showed up I was on the phone got off the phone and I like the phrase Corey just used called What'd you say tripping on trades man tripping on trades because he gave me an update on the other projects that I was doing a video about what I do around here and coordinating things which included a lift That was in the wrong 30 miles under the wrong direction technically 60 miles away from where it's supposed to be The ceiling not being in a right height and then Corey's other project He was working on as he said tripping on trades when I asked how I was going what that means is We're waiting on a new floor. Yeah, we're waiting on a floor. There's a little level We can't even get to because we're waiting on them to finish that up, which is turning into a debacle for them guys Yeah, so this is always that fun part where I Well, Brett's not here. So specifically I'm the only one involved in this but see he's helping too, but he's on the floors I think he's full of uh food He's waiting for unifies to adopt and they have now since the start of this video pause End of this video have eaten a whole lot of indian food, which is really good spicy. I had some This is the end. This is the end of the day. So well the end of the work They're still here for a little bit longer except for Corey. I'm going for a second shift. I'm moving on to the next He's got a second shift, man. He's sitting down for a few minutes. Yeah, he did first shift second shift But he already had specifically colored labels. Yeah, this is not a set do not separate Specifically colored labels specifically colored. Yes, they had to be very specific All right, now we can end it here. 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Okay, join that click that it takes you through all the process. Thank you in advance. We love you and thank you for all the support man. Hey man, listen, man, we gotta got a day here. Don't need no introduction man. He's always on boss talk 101. He's family man. JB is back in town. Jay comedian. Jay Brad as well as in the building. Stop playing man. Stop playing man. He here. He got a show coming up this weekend. It's going down. They will be at the Arlington improv. Bubba dub in the crew and the crew is going down man. How you doing? I'm doing good. How you doing man? Just like I said man, every time y'all come to town, I'll tell you come through and see me man. Let's get it. Let's get it popping. You know what I'm saying? I can't wait to pull up. Man, you like I said last time I seen you do your set man. It was extraordinary man. And I know everybody's coming out. They come out to see you guys are going to be here Friday through what Sunday? We just got another show added to Sunday. So we got two shows. Two shows Sunday. So that's man. Man, let me see. I'm counting and carrying the one. Shit man.  That's six. Oh my god. You know what I'm saying? To be like we do it during the week and they be like we get y'all this now we got doing weekends and we blowing that thing out. Sadder already sold out. Sadder already sold out. No show.  Did you see something like this happen? I seen it coming up. He told us. So I just played my role and just trusted the process. How long y'all been been together now? Exactly three years. Three years. So when I met you down because me and you met we met buying clothes and stuff and people don't realize they think we met through Bubba Dub. But we didn't. We met before I actually knew Bubba Dub and you when I met you. Exactly. But I knew both of y'all but I didn't meet y'all together. Exactly. And because you're a hustler you always been a hustler you always trying to make a way and and and actually you share it with us how to get something done that day man go down here you know that's just love man. I popped up on y'all the second time. The second time you popped up. I need to get a hold of Junior on that. It's hard to keep up with Junior. It's all right. He'll see us. We'll see him meet him on the on the way up. Like I said I think that's the whole game. Like you you never get discouraged when people try to not you know they don't have time or they be as you be as you just work. And I think you at somewhere we meet at a crossroad. At time and if we don't we both going to respect each other for the grind because if you do what we doing you know it's a grinding ball. Definitely every day. Come on now. So all right.  North Carolina. We've been lately though. We've been in Phoenix California LA. We've been that's where last one we did a Phoenix. So did John out to wow. So let out. So did that man. You went up there did you think about that man. I love it bro. I like to say I just love being seen in the hustle man. The hustle is real man. What do you think about the stand up when you called him down there last time? He's good. He's good. He's really good. Appreciate that. Yo I can't wait to see what he got. Real funny you coming out with new content. I got a new recipe tomorrow night. I don't say he got five new ones. Did you see I dropped the interview too. I think this ain't see the whole thing. It just got dropped. So yeah we just keep cooking up new recipes. One one has the same menu when you come. I can't wait to see it. When you ride now make sure you watch that interview like you're riding. You got a little ride. Yeah I got a little ride bro. I'm gonna check it out. No man. So how do you guys come up like you like I was in Dallas before I'm gonna do some new material because I'm going back to Dallas. It's just just a challenge is just doing it. We just challenge each other like JB what you got new. We're gonna see what's on the tape. What you gonna kick. I go kick my flavor. Okay. You gonna kick his. And we just keep going from there. Just eye sharpening eye for real. So do you wait till he comes out like I go first. I go first. No I'm talking both of y'all come out with new content at the same time. It depends sometimes he might kick some new flavor. One city. And okay and I might see it then next it I gotta do some new too. And kick out some new. So y'all push each other. Just keep it going yeah. Just keep it going like that. Wow it's very important man that you guys push each other and support each other man. And keep that loyal presence that you guys keep man. I didn't go post a skit. I ain't gotta hear no words.  That's it. That's it. I already know what it's gonna be. That's it. So do you when you and him are together and y'all come up with these skits on a whim? Y'all I think it last when I seen y'all's on the West Coast when y'all did it. Yeah in Phoenix at the Airbnb. Yeah yeah yeah yeah.  That's the one where he was trying to rob him. No either way it's the Airbnb. Airbnb. And to make sure. Where did y'all shoot the one where you were in the car? And he came up behind you. That was uh that was in Phoenix too. What? He was sitting in run a car. Yeah. We gotta do a skit. Because that's the last one that I saw. That's that one. I like what I seen with the one when he broke in there on him. They had been smoking weed in there. I ain't seen that one. They were saying weekend. That's hard man. So but JB you be working like why was I in my office and I say you know let me turn up turn on a YouTube movie right. I turn this YouTube movie on watching and watching and all of a sudden I looked up and I hold up. Let me rewind that. Let me look. That's JB in the movie. I'm about six or seven two. This one was stepdad. Yeah that's on two. Yeah we all know. No this one's on YouTube. Oh yeah that's about eight million streams on YouTube. Yeah it's YouTube because I be watching movies on YouTube. I don't be watching nowhere else. I got about eight of them on two. And I was like it wasn't a big part but it was it was recognizable. They know it's you. Doing this in movies to know that they know this one. Like it ain't me. Like who? What? Yeah. Yeah. Well definitely. Wow I think that's that's dope man that you you find your niche man and you're doing movies and you're doing comedy and it's just dope. What's the what's the name of the movie that you have the biggest role in so far? The biggest one? Yeah. Shit. Do you remember the name? It proud to be the author of the hustle. I made the first episode and then that went into the second one. Okay. Yeah that one right there. It's on the it's a Rushmore um film joint. I forgot that one name. How you got into film though? Just on my page right time. Facebook, Dallas casting calls and knowing people, relationships and people, seeing me at comedy shows, passing me calls. But look got a role for you. Going with it like that. That's dope. Wow. I think I like I said man I really think that that as you keep going I know uh Bubba Dub got some stuff under his sleeve. Oh yeah we got a lot of stuff we're working on man. Some movies and some stuff. We sit back and talk about stuff. Tell us. It's so big not me and me and Bubba don't talk about projects. We talk about budgets. So you know it's big so I'm just leaving at that but we got some stuff we're cooking up. Wow. That's always man. I really really like the fact of of the fact that when I look up years from now I think YouTube I think internet presence become way stronger. I think people that's steadily migrating to YouTube as kids get older they're going to watch YouTube. They're going to watch uh everything they do on their phone. Yeah so you got to be more aggressive. No as they get older five years from now I think how strong it's going to be. It's going to be a guaranteed automatic them. So the podcast is going to get stronger. The you delivery got to be a lot. You got to grow. People want to see something different like a different wall or something going on to say that's you know this is that phase and that phase right. So so what where can what would you plan to be in the next five three to five years. For the next three to five man uh just like what Bill doing for me to be able to do that from somebody that I know that came just been grinding and need that extra push to help or that just that spark you know just pretty much just passing the torch pretty much for the next three five years. And you know you're talking about next three to five years but a year ago um are you on track to where you want to be right now are you behind or ahead. I'm gonna say I'm uh pretty far. I'm pretty here like. Can you know every year we make oh yeah we won't be here by this time. I thought I had lost time but the time I've been with Dubb I'd have made up for timing and put myself a little bit ahead of my time for it again. Okay. If you know what I mean. I know what you mean I was just trying to see. I'm just grateful you know what I'm saying it's more than a story. I just stay in my lane and play my role. Wow so Meridian Mississippi. That's gonna be lit man. April to 26. That's gonna be. Have you ever been down to Meridian? Well I got people in Mississippi. My mom was married to the preacher they can't read from Panola. I remember you told her.  Yeah so I got family in Mississippi though but it's gonna be lit and that gig fell in my lap. So where is this gig? It's at the Temple Theater in Meridian Mississippi. I think that's like the city. April 26. April 26. Yeah it's a five line up bubble build up headline that thing. We got Scruncho, Mr. Powders, Dridgy Drake. That's a lot of them. I can't remember. Keith Wallace, Freeway Ricky. Freeway Ricky man. Melvin Farmer, I had told them all about how they coming through. It's some fat. Y'all know how it's gonna be man. It's up like a circus tent man. It's up. Man so how big is that for you to be going back down in Newport? That's major to me because like all the people what I named in their city coming. Wow. They coming in droves like they looking for it to like we can't wait to see them like well everything happened for a reason and within the time and so it's gonna be a treat. And you from Alabama right? From Alabama. And Alabama is how far from Mississippi. Hour and a half. Yeah. So they driving now to come through. They driving. That's Meridian in Panola. That's like maybe 45 minutes. Yeah because right off of 20 somewhere. Pickings County up. Yeah. Right there. So you feel the code. You feel to get down. Yeah I know. I know the places already where they talking about. Oh so you got to have it right that night. I got to do my grab. You coming out clean ain't it? I'm coming out clean. I wonder how many people can fit in that place.   I'm gonna come out ready though.  That's a big spot. From what I'm hearing. From what I'm hearing. Hopefully it gets sold out. Oh no it's gonna sell out. Yeah that's gonna go. Yeah because they waiting on that. They waiting on dub too. And that's another thing. When Bubba dub coming he coming. He coming. Y'all get ready. Get ready. Let me get that spoke. Get ready. Hey we coming man. Hey April 26. Meridian, Mississippi. Timberthia. I'm already promote. We're gonna be the I'm your hose man. Stay tuned. That's all I'm gonna tell you. Man. Just drop on your seat belt. That's how they do ain't it? Just drop your seat belt on. Man. So I got something off topic right because I saw. Okay this is gonna be crazy okay. Do you watch porn? Never watched porn. I don't watch it but. That's what I'm saying. I've watched it before. I've watched it before.  I ain't been on porn. I ain't been on porn. That's how it's gonna be crazy. What are you talking about?   Booty talk 23 years. That ain't booty talkable. Who was the CD? DVD. No it was a website. It was a website round and round. Round and round we go. Never heard of that one. Because the most popular one that I always hear people talk about is Pornhub right.  Well no Pornhub been around for a very long time but Texas just placed a law to say that on these porn websites you have to verify that you 18 and up right because before people people used to just click you know I'm 18 and up and keep going. No you have to do some sort of verification. So Pornhub now Pornhub now has blocked Texas because this Texas made that rule. Texas where you can't get on Pornhub with a Texas IP address at all.  Yes they just did that and I'm crazy. It's not like it's a law it's just they feel like there was something on here they just feel like it infringes on your right. Why you know all it you have to send in an ID you have to this this this just to be able to get to say you know what I'm just gonna block Texas period. If you want to watch it that much you gotta show your ID. You might have a problem. I don't know. I'm too busy watching Pornhub nowadays anyway though. Like there's so many other websites like I can see why they were blocking. Go to Pornhub. That's crazy. I want to ask you something man. Do you what do you think P. Diddy will be at in the next five years? Oh I don't really know. I'm trying to just stay away from that.  I don't even want to. He might beat this. Anything's possible. We got the money man. You see me in the thing impossible. You got the money to call in. All I know is it's a lot of things that's going down. A lot of stuff you got to be careful. How do you precaution yourself dealing with these fans that you know people right now you just J.B. Yeah most definitely. J.Braswell in 10 years you you worth a hundred million two hundred million but you remember and they're gonna go back to now so I don't know what you're doing at these shows. You remember that stint that happened when I told you about Japan. Yeah I'm already equipped for that so it's like right now we at the shows I go back to my to the room of the Airbnb. I ain't entertaining no women.  Hold to get the hell out. We ain't playing no kind of game. I'm asking that because you know your future.  Yeah. That one ain't rich then. You know what I'm saying. Damn. You know what I'm saying. So it's like no baby. This ain't that type of part. No. Look at that. Look at that. Prescott. They just. That's some stuff I just thought about. I know. I just. About the show and watching like that situation.  My woman just came out and found something on Monday. This past Monday to say that um this sexual assault with her. Really? Yeah in Texas. It's crazy boy. Yeah. So it's like you have but you know what ever since I can remember celebrities have always been targeted by females on different cases and different things. You know what I mean.  I learned my lesson. I beat the government. So I know if I ain't playing with these folks. So it's like I'll be my meat.  Think about it. Some of these guys had never been looked at by certain caliber of females before. So they probably feeling like these caliber of females won't do that to them. Or it's the money and the power effect that's happening with them. The money and the power is it says way more than what you just said. They feel like they money make them way more than what they really are. And so they pay it off. And then they forget to get that disclosure you know that that NDA.  But I got a good team though. We pretty good on that stuff man. My brother being married and stuff man. We respect him and his wife. So it's like we ain't even trying to have y'all close the dub like that. Yeah. Yeah. We just guard the gate man. Just really keep everything tight knit man. I think that's one of the helps is having that team and everybody look out for everybody. Well you know it ain't going to come out right now anyway and ain't no disrespect or shade. But it's when you it's the woman you rubbed up against you didn't even deal with years later and she come back 10 years from now when that a hundred million hitter two three hundred four hundred million and she said I got pictures of us together. We took it and y'all just simply took a picture and she say there's there and there's more. That's why we get them improv signs in the bag. Yes. And there's more and there's more and now move it. But she's she's really fishing because she may not have more but the lawyer you're going to say it did happen because now it's 10 years ago. And that's how this is. I think this game plays out. There's no statute on that. You see what I'm saying. Right about that. Think about it. 10 years from now you just took a simple picture. But the young lady says no. It was more. It's am I right though. Right. That's why. But do they have to have. OK. But let me ask you a question though. These ladies say you just went out to drink with a lady and you didn't even go back to the room or none and then y'all went to each other's way and then 10 years later she said that you sexually assaulted her. Do these women have to come up with proof to say you know because they didn't go to the police then they didn't have no record. It don't matter. It don't matter. It don't matter. So it's really her word against your word. So how does that play out. You got cameras put up there. So that's a good thing too. So it just appear in the way. I guess I think it's I think years from now you had a party. They got an old picture or you had a studio. They can come back and play games with the system because the system is just that it's a it's a evil system because so you don't have to prove it. I think it's an evil system because if you put that type of energy out and tell a lawyer he going to fight for that and you got a picture and even if they lose up they don't want to be bothered. They may just settle. Now you're going to say he settled because he was guilty. But he really settled because he didn't want to deal with it because he got so much going on. So he but now the world going to say you know he did it because he wouldn't settle like that. You know what? But you know what would be crazy. Say you have some celebrities out here. Male celebrities right who know that they might have possibly did something with some there might be something that's out there that somebody might come back years later with. And there's no picture proof that they was in bed together or none like that.  Imagine if he come up now and say you know what she sexually assaulted me ten years ago. That could be possible too. He hitting it before she come up and say later on and he come out and say it first then what? What happens then? Guess it's a battle who got approved because you don't see men coming out and saying it. No you don't. You don't. I don't know. And some women are aggressive. They are. Some of them will. I know a few aggressive women back in Alabama. You have a baby. They ain't never been with them. They take what they want though. They got millions to go though. No. Yeah.  She was. Big ones out there. Wow. I know you're a comedian and you watch everything right? Depending on what it is. Donnell Rawlins when Coral Hockham was on stage. I mean what if that happened to you and somebody came and checked you know just standing in the crowd. JB you know you all for what you did man. What you gonna say man? You wrong for that. Man I don't know. I think why I have Mike Tatlum up on the show. So is anything. Are we getting out of hand with the beef with the comics? It is. It's about like the rap game now. But some of these comedians are out of line I think with certain things too. I'm telling you I seen some things in the month of Black History Month. It was wrong man. From Cat Williams to this whole Monique country Wayne. All of it was cold man. Boom boom boom boom boom. Yeah. Damn. Coral Hockham. Donnell Rawlins. How do you how do you how do you balance this? How do you get us back on track? This has never been done. People have never just outed people so openly. That's a good question. I'm scratching my head on that one. I don't know. Nigga had to probably just get at the table and just Talk it out. Talk it out or something. That's all I come up with because they don't. It's going to lead to fighting. It's going to lead to fighting.  Whatever the problem is. Whatever the problem is. It ain't got no problem. You know I mean Shannon Shaw he's sitting there. I got to take a drink to this. Yeah. Because he's trying to take it out of way. Yeah. He can stop it too. I don't know man. He just I mean is he off. Okay. And I asked Bubba Dubb the same question. Do Mike did Michael Mike helps go too far? Did Ada Griffith go too far? They said about when they were on Shannon Shaw. I feel like you in shark infested water when you sitting on this side dealing with you. Comedians. Comedians now. Yeah. You just because y'all might come back to me. Say a little short black nigga sitting over there on the other side. Let's see talking that dog. You know what I'm saying. And I'm going to be like new. Yeah. They're right. I'm in that business. Oh, just have to let that one just roll down the back. If I know I ain't getting anything to go out. No limit.  They got me. They call me. Yeah. What it is. But I wouldn't have been trying to go.   But I ain't trippin. Yeah. Ain't trippin. As long as you ain't messing with my money or touching nobody in my family. You can talk all day. I think when you get in these seats and you dealing with the comedians. They going to come for you. You coming in the way. Yeah. You know you faking.  Yeah.  Oh it's going to be some repercussions. Or if I get a you know man I just did shout out to Carlos Miller. I just did Carlos the other day. Like man listen I deal with the south mostly. Most definitely. I'm a southerner. I deal with my southern comedians. Shout out to current current clayborn. Who else was it.  I'm in the south man. I'm in the south baby. And I don't get it twisted phaser on them coming through there on the West Coast. But he be in the south. So you got to understand like I talked to country Wayne Mike bless all these people man. I'm in this comedy lane or heavy. I never seen this coming. But I definitely appreciate y'all. Oh yeah man. Never seen it coming. So I want to ask you just for you get off the show man like like do you think that you think that it's going to be it's going to be a ceasefire the rest of the year. Oh no.  Think Bombs going to go off some more. I hope not. But the way looking she ain't things possible around this motherfucker man. You know how motherfuckers wake up feeling.  You know who's to say.   They can just come to come to at least a common ground to agree at least disagree. Do you think Vlad is stirring the pot over there. And he interviewed not Vlad. He interviewed after Bubba dub. He didn't ask Bubba because this hasn't happened yet. Michael Blackstone. He just interviewed phase on. He said that Shannon Sharp didn't make the money he's saying that he made. They ain't got nothing. I'm just saying. They ain't got nothing to do with me. I'm just saying is he. I mean should he be counting it. Oh I mean. That song he shouldn't even worry about that way. If he asked me I ain't going to have to worry about what I done. He was saying on the stage. I hope all my niggas are coming to win. That just me. Michael Blackstone was talking about it counting the money. And trying to figure out if he made it. The money he made. And you know yeah they were saying he might have made it. And I'm over here looking like. Oh he ain't letting.  It ain't like Shannon came out and said he made it so. No he said he made seven million.  That boy didn't let you live. I don't listen let you live nigga. Don't try to come over and mess with me. He said it what he said. He said he made more on that podcast than he made in the ever made in a year doing football. I don't believe that though. Ever made doing football. Shit but he came in in the era of football. I wonder if he's going to get that much money either. He played back with the dollar so. Shit I can believe that. I can believe that. And I don't even have to go punch the clock to cash.   He get all alone but the rappers make him though. Yeah the rappers make him. Like if he didn't have all those people going with nobody to talk about it. I think he you know the comedians. I was first on the comedians. I'm like a soldier but. Ain't no disrespect if that don't even watch it. You don't watch it. I think I just don't. The only one you watch is Bubba Dub. Bubba Dub. That's it. That's me. I watched Bubba Dub then I had to go. Every Spears came on here so I had to go watch Every Spears. Okay. You know what I'm saying. So it's certain one he the one get them a lot. So it's like I got to go research him. I'll be watching you man and. Boss talk. Boss talk man. And I watch a real life street star. That's hard. That's hard man. That's it.   Y'all say it so. Man thank you for watching Boss Talk man. Thank y'all for that. So let me ask you a question with all the interviews you've done. How many interviews have you done anyway? Shit I've done a plethora of them. What's the one question that you wish that someone would ask you when they haven't asked you? Damn. Damn. That's good.  I don't think it's one. It's like I come into these interviews just open ready to answer whatever. Okay. So I don't really. That's the question like I really don't go into it. It don't be like oh yeah. You know sometimes when you leave you're like man they should have asked me this. Or they should have asked me that. Like I said I like to come to interviews like unscripted just letting it flow. Okay well let me ask you a question unscripted just letting it flow. Are you willing to wear a dress in these two?  Look man I'm just asking the people want to know. Mm-mm. I ain't willing to wear a dress. You know I'm willing to wear a dress. I can have a daughter and she said there to put on a two too. No no. It ain't happening. It ain't happening. So you you kind of like on that Samuel Jackson Denzel way. There's just certain things man I love doing them. Well you know some great comics that did wear dresses. That's on new. Andy Murphy. Martin Lawrence. Salute him. Dave Chappelle. Salute him. That just something I can't get jiggled with. It's like. Allegileo.  I'm a Marine. We don't do that. Flip Wilson. They can flip it. I can't I can't do it. I can't do it. I got nephews and other little role models that really look up to me so it's like. But people who have done it. Jamie Foxx been successful I added. I don't want it that bad to put on a new dress on. If I got to put a dress on to be successful success ain't for me. Wow. Do you believe that Kat Williams was right that these guys were plants? Kevin Hart was a plant. Shit I really don't know about that. Or do you think he's working and made his way? I think he's working and made his way for what I've seen. I'm too busy working trying to make my way to be watching somebody else so.  So it's like. I don't know. I love you bro. I keep 100. I gave you the right questions. I'm hitting you with some blows. I was like boom. You got the answer to these. I'm hitting you. The answer to these things. It's like a debate. It's like there are troubles here. What's your take man? Did I get him? I think I gave it to him man. You gonna come back? I ain't sure. I'm coming back. What was that for? Shoot. Same man. Who do you most admire man when you start y'all? You've been around all these guys. Mike helps all these people man. You've been around some great man. Earthquake all these guys. You've been around a lot. A litany of comedians. Who was that one man? LaVelle Crawford. Bruce Bruce. Who was that one that you really like admire? D.A.L. Hugh Glick. Man I'm about to say. That'd be real. Like who was that one? I'm about to tell y'all a story man. I was just starting out doing comedy. I got my first million views.  Earthquake just happened to be in Birmingham performing. And hit him up and then he gave me five minutes. Came back part of it and everything.   Wow. So it's Earthquake. Earthquake showed you love. In Birmingham, Alabama man. I got the pictures on my Facebook at the BJCC.  I had a hot five. I've heard a lot of good things about Earthquake. He a real good man. I've heard a lot. I never met him. From you Chico Bean. From Bubba Dub. Like I've heard a lot of good things. Even Black Run. All of them talk about Earthquake. I got to get Earthquake. I got to meet Earthquake. And I think I can do it. If he half the person that these folks said he was. He'll be on Boss Talk going on one. You know what I just said? You heard it. Boy I've heard it out there. Did I say what I said? You said what you said? You said man come on over and check out my brother. Thank you so much for coming on the show man. How can people get a hold of your brother? Google me. Jarrell Bradswell. Comedian JB. Go catch me. I got a carry dog man. Hoot your man James. He just dropped a date man. Hoot your man doing this thing. That's how hard. Um and just stay tuned man.  Instagram Jarrell Bradswell. 8 to 7 TV network. I'm out there. Me. Who's going to fight between um. Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson. Man Mike's all good. I love him. His name. I love him. I love him. Mike. You ride with Mike. I'm riding with Mike. So I ain't be pushing. You got it here first. You ride with Mike. Tyson. Tyson. That nigga still punching. Man I see you see that. That nigga ducking and shh. He's going down. Man come on. Check it man. It's been another great segment. A boss talk 101.  Read out.


A historical neighborhood store in southeast Brainerd named Inwards Grocery is closing at the end of the month. Logan Gaye talked with the owner about the impact his store has made on the community. If you live in southeast Brainerd, then you have most likely shopped at Inwards Grocery Store. The store has been a landmark since the early 1920s. It's been here a long time and I have a lot of charge accounts. I've helped out a lot of people. Being born and raised in Brainerd, Ron Inwards never thought that he would be the proud owner of the historical grocery store. Never thought that would ever happen. This was never in my mind that I would ever own a little neighborhood grocery store. And Ron Inwards remembers fondly when he himself used to visit the grocery store when he was a child at Harrison Elementary. If I had a nickel or dime in my pocket, I had to stop in here and a lot of candy was like two for a penny. After nearly 35 years of providing groceries to the surrounding communities, he and his wife have decided to retire and close the store. The kids in the neighborhood are very mad at me for quitting and they wanted to know if I had kids or anything that could take over the store. But I have two sons and neither one of them are interested in the store. Times have changed and there are not very many neighborhood grocery stores left. I'm the last of the little guys in town. People just don't use the little stores like they used to. They'd just soon save a quarter and drive across town or whatever. Or there's Walmart or Costco or all those places nowadays. So we're just here for your convenience. The store will be officially closed when all of the merchandise is sold. In Brainerd, Logan Gay, Lakeland News. The Inwards are not planning to sell the store since they are still planning to live in the home that is attached to it. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


Hello, learners. Best greetings of the time to all of you. I am Mr. Shashikant B. Gosavi, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Vouchand Institute of Technology, SolarProm. Today I am going to present you the online educational resource on operating efficiencies of Dragline. The learning outcomes of today's online educational resource are the learners will be able to analyze the operating efficiencies of Dragline and the learners will be able to calculate the operating efficiencies of Dragline at the end of this session. This is a construction equipment well known as Dragline. You can see it basically consists of a tool in the form of a bucket which is dropping down with the help of a hoist cable which is connected to the operating cabin like this. The bucket is also connected with the operating cabin with the help of a drag cable and then the hoisting force as well as dragging force both of them are operated through the cabin. There is a boom to support these particular two form of the trusses which form the different parts of a Dragline. Dragline is a construction equipment used for excavating softer material. Trenches, canals and mines are the prime locations where this excavation happens and besides that it is particularly suited at lower level than its platform level. The Dragline consists of dragging a bucket on the material being excavated. It also dumps the excavated material for a longer distance as compared to conventional excavation equipment such as the power shovel or the backhoe or some such type of equipment. So, particularly suited when excavation and dumping is to be done in a single go. The sequence of Dragline activities consists of dragging the material towards the Dragline to feel the bucket. In the earlier sketch we have seen that there is a bucket and there was a drag force being applied from the cabin and the respective bucket was supposed to get pushed. Swinging the bucket along the predefined path, the path has to be predefined, unloading the bucket at a specified location, swinging back the bucket along predefined return path and adjusting the bucket to keep ready for the first step of dragging. This is the cyclic operation and therefore at the end once again we reach back to the starting step which continues in a cyclic form. You can see the sketch where the cycle time calculations will be calculated on different operations. The operation is actually broken into several cycles. The first operation as has been shown over here is you start of digging cycle. So, the cable will be pulled and the respective bucket will be pulled. In this particular case that respective bucket will be empty and then it will move to the second stage where the digging cycle will be completed. So, the empty bucket will get filled in this particular style. So, within this particular part the dragging will happen, material will get filled and then the field bucket will start moving in this fashion. It will move in this fashion. It will reach to a particular height from where it will be dumped down and then it will become empty. The empty bucket will be once again taken back to the starting point. So, if you look to it as a horizontal cycle, this will be a horizontal path. Again there will be maybe zigzag path, dumping will happen and then it will come back to the starting point. So, cycle will keep on repeating. Remember here the angles have been shown over here that swing angle is 0 while here it is 90 degree. The bucket loading time will be combination of all these particular operations. If you will see in the vertical frame once again there will be several cyclic operations. The first is start of the digging cycle. So, respective bucket will be dragged onto the vertical surface. It will get filled and therefore the loaded bucket will get swing like this. It will reach at the top. Then the material will be dumped down at the given location. Again it will be brought down as empty swing. It will reach to the end of the digging at this particular position. So, either in a horizontal direction or in a vertical direction these particular operations are basic operations for the respective drag line. The factors which influence the operations of the drag line consist of number one cut width and depth. The bucket is having the cut width and there will be a depth up to which the cutting gets to be done. The second is nature of the material being excavated. If it is a fragmented material obviously it will be easier for us to pick it up. If big size particles are there the bucket may not give you proper support. It will take its own time or if cohesive material is there the bucket will take its own time for getting the things excavated. The mode of excavation is another important factor which really affects onto the operation of the drag line. Bucket capacity is either smaller or larger also matters. The angle of the swing is very, very important. Then there is skill of drag line operator which has to come into the picture and more importantly the condition of the equipment itself. All these operations are supposed to really make changes into the total cycle time and indirectly total time required for completing the whole operation. Particularly for the angle of the swing it is a linear function but still then some constant are required to be added into the time required for swing. So it is like linear equation of mx plus c where the angle of the swing will be one of the function for which some efficiency will be consumed and that will be affecting on to the overall operation of the drag line. You can see the sequence of operations. Upper bench has been shown over here where the equipment is currently staying and this is an example of a coal quarry. Top soil is over here on which the equipment is there. It is dragging from here and then putting it on the front side. It is needed to really form a key and therefore to begin with you normally have to keep this much material at the bottom when you are moving downwards. So this particular material will be continuously excavated and then shifted and dumped down in this particular part. As you can see over here this particular part has got formed. The drag line has gone downwards and it will be forming a spoil in a similar shape just behind the previously existing spoil. The lost operation is the drag line has gone further ahead on to the part where the dumping was done. It can move ahead and this just behind it proper ramming will be done or you can have the boulders placed which will help us in forming the respective operation. You can see at the end over there that the respective operations will really give you a sense of operations required for the drag line. I request the learners to pause the video for a while and answer following questions. What is the effect of swing angle on efficiency of drag line? Secondly, please think on how does the size of bucket relate with efficiency of drag line? The effect of swing angle is directly proportional to the efficiency of drag line. I mean efficiency of drag line will keep on increasing as the swing angle will increase but then it is in a linear equation form. While the second is how does the size of bucket relate with efficiency of drag line? Smaller size of bucket obviously will move faster as compared to larger size of bucket. It will take its own time for the larger bucket to excavate the material. So, one has to think of optimizing this particular thing but still then if you will think of size moderation is at most essential. Smaller bucket requires lesser cycle time but more number of cycles while larger bucket size requires larger cycle type lesser number of cycles. I have used these references for studying the cycle time analysis and operational efficiency of the drag line. Thank you very much.