What? Eat your every tooth.  This nigga has done every interview I've done. Hey, man.  Hey?  Listen, man. She gonna stay here? Space is no count on it.  Hey, dude, I come through. You don't have to tell him. He's a good guy. He's a good guy. Hey, man. You got a job. You got a job. I'm a good guy. You got a job. Hey, man. You got a job. You got a job. You got a job.  You got a job. You got a job. You got a job. I come through just to get down there, you know what I mean? He get down here. I think he got a job. Damn. It's not working. Everybody working, man. It's working. I'm so dope, nigga. Appreciate it. Damn. We got the OG in here, man. I'm so excited. I ain't even bringing on a whole fight. One of the oldest niggas in town. Come on, man.  This nigga. I don't even know where to start with the intro. He's literally been on everything. That black entertainer would want to be on movies. And then some. And then some. Come on. Right on the road. Come on. This is one of the real life rock stars of the comedy game. Motherfucker than dead.  Been writing on some of the number one shows on TV. Heating everything. Showing up. Got an old Spice commercial. He got an old Body Watch. Come on. Nigga be crying on the commercials. This is the spot. Oh, he should take the old Spice. He got his own old Spice.  I don't know, man. I don't know. Driftwood. Driftwood. I think that's a bit of pirate ship wood.  But yeah. He dead serious when they say. Did you touch my old Spice? Get my whole rundown. Bitch, my old Spice is in the middle. See, out of all of this. He got all the accolades that he can get. All the accolades. About what? 10 seasons. I don't even count him no more. I just know that he got something to do with it at this point. About 10? All of them. All of them. How many did they have? So good that you got to be on camera.  We did get you two more seasons. Come on. Jizz on top. Jizz on top. We gonna round up. We gonna round up. These about about two. About twelve. About twelve. About twelve. No shows have ever been longer than however. Man, nigga did 87 seasons. Nigga did 39. You condensed them. Nigga was on seventy, son. Man. No, man. But out of all of them highlights and accolades, man, you got to make sure that you say that this nigga from Chicago, man. None other than B.R. Cody. Come on, man. Hey! Sorry to interrupt. Hey! She did.  What? Oh, Cap. How you been, man? Resistently. Welcome to the trap, man. These things on one eye. Very first episode. They called in and talked on the phone.   Now you're here for real, for real. I was like, y'all like very first few. It was like two or three or something. I did. You called us. Yeah.  Appreciate it. Yeah. I was telling Los. I said, man, I was walking through y'all studio, man. And they almost cried walking through this motherfucker.   Hell yeah. I just straight up brought this. God, but God gave you the jokes. Facts. Facts. Because it's a lot of motherfuckers telling jokes. They ain't got studios. Right. So it's a lot of motherfuckers got God. They ain't got studios. They got God. They got studios. So therefore, I'm just saying, y'all, I was like that, y'all security system is like, God damn.  Nick, that motherfucker. Welcome to 85. I'm up for the team.  No cap. This nigga's saying you got a fever. You have a fever. This nigga's sick. This nigga's sick. No cap. Yo, man. We're the coldest homies. Yo, I think it's mad. Thank you. Appreciate it, man.  That's what I take from being on the road. We see it in D.L. and Earthquake. It's like, it's a different level. Like it's comedy, but it's like a different. You see why these niggas are the MJs. Yeah. You dig what I'm saying? Like Kareem Abdul. You see why. You feel it? Absolutely. And you one of those ones. I used to sit and watch comedy views as a child. And you would come out with the pen and pen. And I'd be like, but it's about every, but every time I knew, I was like, this motherfucker come with it.  Who own it?  I used to deliver it and everything was so poor. I was like, you know what? Stage control. Stage prison.  And a lot of times, you know, part of the stand-up is you make it look effortless.  Like it was funny in the end of itself. But it was also showing motherfuckers that was coming up. Like when we got ready, when I started doing comedy, like, oh, this nigga.  Like, oh, okay.  I appreciate this.  It's you, them laughing. Right, right, right. It's the point. I think nicks get caught up in how they laugh. Right, right, right. That ain't the point. It's how you laugh. You know, motherfucking bombing is funny. You know what I mean? Actually, yeah, you laugh at that. Yeah. And I thought like, who would make that funny? I would.  And it becomes just as funny as anyone that I wrote because it doesn't work. Right. You know what I mean? It's funny to see me fail. Right. You mastered that. But yeah, but you got to be confident enough to fail. Right. You know? And so I would always sound trippy, but it's like. It's hard to make it not funny, funny. Right. Yeah. You mastered anything that can be, because anything can be funny. Anything can be funny. Right. That's how I look at it. Right. Shit.  Yeah. I feel like you, Dave, when it comes to the pen, you feel me like, because I worked on my material and my material has been improv and jokes I've written. And I wrote the way where I'm like, okay, that's good. That's great. Got to this point. But I see the level of penmanship that I'm like, okay, these motherfuckers are writing. Yeah. Yeah. I need, I want to go in the writer's room and see how they, I want to see the thought process.  I want to see the thought process of how they come up with that. Yeah. Because still as a nine years in the game, I'm still trying to figure out premise. Push nine. Set up. Okay. You may know it, but like you said, anything can be funny. And that's why I admire comedians like y'all because y'all will sit there and be like, nigga, it's never a dull moment when you want to those true comedians. Yeah. I got a new 30 minutes anytime I walk. Let me ask you this though, man, because I had seen you at all kind of comedy rooms across the country. Like no matter what level of success that you got to, you never stop going to work out rooms and showing love to the, to the uncle rails and the red keyboards and you know what I mean?  So like you stayed in the circuit around the community.  Like it ain't going in stages.  Like, you know, sitting on that stage. That's one thing, but I'm going to say this about y'all. Because treat an arena like a club facts. Y'all do. Y'all motherfuckers being there talking directly to this motherfuckers.  Almost like you could touch the people. Me personally, when I'm at arena, I'm kind of locked in on my shirt or whatever. I'm at the comedy club. I could touch my fuckers and see them. Bring them to your world. Yeah. Bring them to my world. It's just, it's just that, it's just that practice. You know what I mean? As far as just constantly getting out there and making it happen and touching the people, you got, you got to touch the people. Me personally, and I tell y'all this, this is a lot of comedians. If you're listening right now, writing material, man, isn't just always sitting there doing this.  You know what I mean? And you got to put yourself, you got to put yourself in situations you would normally be on a regular basis. Right, right.     Straight up.   And then you're going to go to the club like, Nigga, I just went to this dog show. These niggas have been spending $15,000 on the dog. Right, right. Nigga, I'm buying a car with $15,000. You know when you're going... It's informative, too. You off to the right. You ain't even really writing. Right, it's there. You write yourself. You just, you went. Right. And then it's right yourself. Right.    Don't buy medieval niggas.  Yeah.  Right, right. Gotta live life. Get your hands over it and go to that farm. Bring me another hand. Bring me another hand. She's the mean-reader. She's the mean-reader. Like it is. Yeah. But what kind of... Away, away. I had a son. He's the mean-reader. So the turkey legs roll with children. He's the mean-reader. It depends on all of them. So what started you? Like, who inspired you? What did this journey start? You don't get anybody to say it's a comedian, but sometimes it didn't pick us. Shit, right. It's Chicago, man.  Nigga, Nigga, Nigga, Nigga, Nigga. Just always thought I'd thought differently, and he was like, man, I bet you weren't gonna stage with me. Like $50, right? I was like, all right, I'll go up. They wouldn't let me up for like three weeks, and then finally they let me on stage, and like, you know, I knew then, I was like, my purpose. You know, a lot of motherfuckers don't know their purpose. You down here living, you don't know your purpose at all. And motherfuckers, it's miserable.   It's niggas that's parking attendants sittin' there tryin' to go, what the fuck? You know, but you probably was in a relationship with a motherfucker, and you was locked in a relationship with your purpose. Right. A lot of niggas just like that. A lot of niggas right now sittin' at home probably watching this. Sittin' with they boo, not living their purpose, cause they in a relationship. They purpose. So baby, you said get single and live your purpose. Yeah.           Get unemployed and it's in. You know what I'm sayin'?  And then get in a relationship. That's a relationship like a retirement plan. Niggas like... Can't live a retirement plan. You know, a lot of motherfuckers do that.   Live your purpose and then get in a relationship. You guys, niggas be a stepdad before they make $10,000. You don't even know how to be a real dad. But you a stepdad person. That's a jumpy. You a stepdad. That's crazy. You and y'all got a pre-trial to follow this. This niggas got three months of scrims. This niggas got... I don't know where stepdad's at. I'm about to break his account. Alright, I think I got a little bit of experience from my own kid. I got a little bit of experience from my own kid. There you go. That's hilarious. You a stepdad before a rip. This niggas out there is like this. Yeah, yeah. Have you in a relationship too fast?  Yeah. Yeah, because she already got kids and she pregnant with your baby. Your baby in here. You gotta think about it. I'm gonna stepdad this. I'm gonna stepdad this before we're a nation.    No, no, no. A young body, I really didn't feel like... You gonna switch to peck. Yeah.  I mean, I watch her, but... I ain't gonna tell you if the niggas do something. Oh, you wasn't gonna say anything. Yeah, nah. I was like, no. Niggas do whatever you want.  I was like, they didn't trip. Did you buy them shit? Who? I couldn't eat by myself. That's what I'm saying?  We fighting for the same resource. He got a bag. Hey. I think I ought one.  I'm trying to be like little man, man. It ain't cold, man. No cap. Yeah. That's real. That's crazy. You got value of purpose. That's how the stage hit me.   You knew it.  I stayed up all night. I still can't.  I sat in adrenaline.    Yeah, it's a whole different feeling. My first show was on the Perkz set. I was tripping. I ain't know what it was, nigga.  I'm like, I'm going to rap, nigga. These y'all got me fucked. I just want to perked. I'm going to rap. They been asking me stuff. Alright, we can do it. Make sure you get the tickets, man. Hit the link. I'm putting my hands on this one. This is that one personal stand. Perkz set, we went in 1996. That one personal stand. It's live right now. Click the link in his bio, my bio. I go to inourcust.com, man. Get what we going to be at. What's the line thing? It's that Selma clock. Selma.  Niggas was lucky that me, though.  Yeah, nigga. I got like a... Back then, if two niggas stood up, that was a standing ovation. Yeah. Oh, once niggas get on their feet, it could be one novation. I got a hold. I got a hold. Somebody up. Yeah, nigga. You got two motherfuckers standing up for me, man. And I was like... Damn. No, this is like dope. Right. I was killing. I only had, like, five minutes, and I ended up getting on this show called Comic Justice. Four months.  Four months after I started. Like, it goes to my host? Yep.   Four months after that, and then eight months after that, I was on Def Jam.  And I only had... Now, when Def Jam hit, I only had, like, 14 minutes. Right? And I did seven on Def Jam.  They sent me on tour. And I was supposed to do 20 minutes. Ooh, hot idea. When you're gonna add them extra seats.  Ah! Ah! Who got birthday today? Who got birthday today? Yeah, I know. It's birthday. Who's from out of town?  What's your name, baby? What's your name, baby?  And I did more than seven. Right, you good. And then I, like, played the song. Like, y'all remember this? Yeah.  I was off that motherfucker. I did three cities. And the tour, man. Y'all remember this? Yeah. Good point of view, man.  That is hilarious. So, I don't remember the 10-0. Yeah.  That was that one. Y'all know it. Y'all know it. You put a mic on him. Y'all know it. That's my town.  Crazy, baby.  I'd say the third show. Right.   Gay Capri.   Third show, nigga. I ain't doing that well. They know I'm out there bullshitting, right? But I'm thinking I'm getting away with it, but I'm not. Nick came to me and was like, here go your ticket. Gave him my ticket to go home. From the tour? Yeah. Damn. I ain't had enough material. Damn. I'm sitting there, boy, nigga. I got my Def Jam hat on, jacket. I don't even want to go home, nigga. I don't even want to go to Chicago.   I'm sitting there, nigga. Nigga, I didn't even want to go home because I told everybody I was on tour. Right, right. So if I went home, nigga, and I ain't go outside for, like, two weeks, nigga, I wouldn't go home. Damn. Nigga, I stayed here the rest of the tour. I stayed here the rest of the tour, nigga. I love the tour. The tour was, like, shit, like, for months, but only had, like, I think I had, like, six dates, seven dates. Uh-huh.  You were the first nigga to court me. Nigga, I was hurt, nigga. I was hurt. So what? Well, I know that it's not true. So I know that that boosts your motivation. So this is what happened. When I sat there, I was like, I got to start writing. Right.  That made me start writing. I started writing and writing and writing.     But if the niggas didn't kick me off that tour, you wouldn't put that spark up on you.  Y'all remember this song?        Where the torches ran. Ain't no torches. Ain't no torches. Ain't no torches. My man, you going to the bathroom.   You spotted it going to the bathroom. You spotted it going to the bathroom. What you doing? Don't care. But that's why it's fun for us to hear y'all journey.  You got to understand, we hear it. We hear it as niggas in the game. And I just be sitting there like, bro, they do it with such a ease, man. And it'd be like, everybody can attest to it.  But it'd be just how we're going to pin it. Right. How we going to write it. Like you say, experiences, they write it itself.  Yeah, yeah, it's definitely a system. And you got to figure it out.   Maybe seven.      You got to motherfucking, not only do you got to write it, you got to produce it. You got to motherfucking cast it. You got to get props.   You performed a lot of it too. So a lot of people don't know that comedians are, we go through a lot of trouble.      Hey, man, let's take a picture.  So what you have to do is you have to know that the misery is the job. Once you realize that, then everything else will kind of fall in place. You won't be as disappointed because expectation brings heartache.     I know you should have looked at it the other way, like I'm going here and do good or whatever. But that expectation is going to bring you heartache. Me personally, it's just going to work for me. I go in that go. I got 10 jokes, two going to work. Let's go.  Them motherfuckers right there going to motherfuckers be fired. I'm going to grab them two, put them in the bag and I'm going to write 10 more. Two of them going to work. Put them in the bag.  And there you go. Until I got the motherfucking out. Is that the working process until now you got to go shoot your specials because I know you ain't in the mind to stay there. I'm going to go bomb. Look at you guys. I will work for a bomb. But you're not afraid of that failure. That's the point that I'm making that you got to be afraid of that failure. You got to go in the mind frame. Because motherfuckers are gold.     That's how it is. You do not want to bomb.    Every time I do a comedy club and I'm there doing five, six, seven shows the first show I do that's going to be the worst show.  But that first show, every first show Thursday, first show Friday, whatever that is that motherfuckers is goddamn terrible. So now when they see this they're going to be like, don't get the first show. He's excited. He's excited.  Right, right, right, right. Yeah, Deion sold out all weekend except Thursday. Not a first show on Friday. The first show really fries. The first show really fries. First show on Friday. What's the importance of, you know doing shows throughout the week because I see you just did your special and everything and that was phenomenal. And then I see you come do a weekend on the road and then come back through the week and then still do three, four, five shows in the middle of the week. How important is that for comedians? So I'm in a position now where, you know I did the special when I dropped the special I went right into filming. And so I haven't been able to live because I've been pretending to be somebody else.


Kids y'all this is not good because say the clock May I have an extra? I have an extra car key and I can always go buy my Make one, but they're in the house. I've seen them the problem was is that I put all my stuff in JB's backpack When we went to the indoor playground this morning. I need to find those damn keys found them y'all I guess I must have threw them in my Purs and it landed and my little Chanel makeup bag. It's not even a real But anyway, and I zipped it up this morning. Oh, I like to turn off. It's real. The Chanel bag is real, but Anyway Lord have mercy baby. Let's get you ready so we can go to the store. Let me look at what we have in this There's a different my Chanel boutique makeup bag to a parking maker Turn on some lights in here And now I So y'all found my keys. Oh, that kind of scared me All right, so time for our intro. It's Friday. Okay. I don't like that choppy here. Leave me alone Yeah, it's Friday girl. Amen, but look at me say something. Why am I was I talking to my co-worker yesterday? Christine Christine and I kick it up almost every other day, right? You know, I got some of stuff to do yada yada and She she made a comment. She was like, okay, well, I'll take her this in the morning I'm like the morning girl. Don't you don't work on your day off. She said what are you talking about? We don't have tomorrow off.  She said no You thinking about the old holiday schedule when we when we used to have a half a day for good Friday She said we don't have a half a day anymore When I tell you I was so upset when she said that I planned mine I've been planning this stuff like I had a three-day weekend. I've been telling mark my PMs every one of my team. Oh, yeah, I'll take her that on Monday when we get back from the holiday Ain't nobody tell me a dang old thing. How many thinking that we got three-day weekend, girl Okay, JB, hold on. We'll get to that in a minute. So The other day my husband I were looking at him.  I'm like, what are you doing child? He's like, I'm winking Winking y'all he tried for the longest just so he said I'm winking one eye I'm winking now But both eyes are blinking around but he went in one eye. Let me see do one eye But I do not like cats. Are you kidding me? They see the reveal. They see the tree green trees. I was seeing purple trees anywhere So, you know, it is on a pop. It's about the time to go to bed soon Um, and I think I'm gonna go ahead and get into the bed early because I only got like five hours of sleep last night um Because JB just he took a nap my child still naps every now and then now he didn't nap today He tried to but I got his butt up and said no You ain't napping tonight because I'm gonna need for you to go to bed early So that I can go to bed um early too Yeah, I'm marching confessions of a shopaholic Um, I'm just random. So what was I saying? No, just spending some time got him to bed early. Um I'm glad that tomorrow all we're doing is going to that event I got to stop by and mail off uh some stuff at the um at the mail office UPS store, excuse me And then of course we have the festival and it's Sunday. Look girl. JB gonna have the nerve to say Um, can we go out to eat? Let me tell you something Y'all have no idea how much madness I edit out of these blogs. What you're looking at is typically 20 30 minutes Three or four days out of the week that I've matched I literally take sometimes two hours Of footage and trim it down to between 15 20 minutes. Um, yeah about two hours of random clips I there's so I guess my point is is that he act crazy He acts absolutely. So I'm like we were going back and forth all day. He said I'm gonna be good My mom be good not not just any restaurant. He wants to go to pop those right I'm like JB. I don't know because the last time we went out we went to Panera bread And he was good for like the first 15 minutes. This was like three weeks ago, right? He was good for like the first 15 minutes and then people started paying him attention See JB is the type of child that when you store paying him attention, he starts to show out So I'm like nah, right like speaking of I just now realized that my anniversary is like in two more weeks April 15th, we got married last year. Um, so I'm like, uh, do I need to do something? So I'll probably you know, we'll probably go out to eat I've checked his schedule. He's off the Friday before so the first year anniversary is paper You know, if you if you're familiar with anniversary gifts gifts every year represents It symbolizes something, you know diamonds gold silver Uh in the first year is paper. So But what I was going to say, um Can y'all believe it's already April? I just uploaded my video. Um, uh, one of my videos as a part of my Purpose driven journey and honestly March went by like that I recorded that video in February and I did really good with my goals At least I think I did being motivated and I still am motivated, but I feel like I I got more accomplished in February March To me March was almost like it was going by so fast Like literally I kept pushing stuff off the next day And then the next day became two or three days and then the next week So I didn't get much I didn't get as much done this month as I did last month um, and I really need to get it together because April which we're stepping into April April would be my last full month I have to get a lot of stuff done before my scheduled surgery. Yeah, I'm about to wrap it up girl There will be a little bit of of a break You've worked guys probably um If you follow me on instagram, I posted up a list of upcoming videos I have coming up Um, but I did mention that you know due to the surgery Y'all ain't gonna be I'm not gonna be walking around holding this and my titties all strapped up, you know You know I can check in after a few weeks, but yeah No product reviews no vlogging Um, if I feel it like a great, but if not, it's gonna be a I will give myself two months Yeah, I'm gonna need to yeah, I need to roll up on the right feet. Now. This is what jay b is wearing Jb, what type of shirt do you have on? Um, this african should have african necklace Specifically from Kenya, baby That's from Kenya I have on From phoenix, baby So this is what This is my eye makeup I'm from Necklace And mom's from taxes. Yes Baskets Look at this. Did you see that pretty big Look This is nice No lollipops. He already had one All right, y'all after about an hour I need to take this necklace off too because it itches around my neck This is stuff that they typically wear for special occasions. Anyway Anyway, after about an hour, I'm done. It is humid out here. Not necessarily hot is humid and I'm hungry. Look I did like the fact that they had tons of vendors that sold um Jewelry and clothes Um and handbags and stuff like that. But why do you only have two food vendors? Do you african festival means we're hungry? We're gonna eat. I'm tired um What baby I know that's okay, baby.  There's white people in africa, baby Okay I got some lemonade Y'all I have had entirely too many calories today because I was hungry So now I'm I'm gonna blame that festival if they would have had the food I want I wouldn't have to gorge like I did so y'all saw We're at a pizza place the first one This is why I don't like to eat out that much went to this pizza place I ordered two slices of pizza and some mozzarella sticks The mozzarella sticks came out cold. So the cheese was hard and I milked it The pizza was lukewarm And stale I took two bites from each slice and I'm like jb. We got to go somewhere else.  Yes, but not at the taco place. Um The the taco place was okay. It was just by the time I went there it had some nachos They have cheese on it now. It's like it's just too greasy. So girl, I would not be eating dinner It's 140 here. I would not be eating dinner tonight And tomorrow will be a salad day. It'll have to be I don't see how people I really don't see and I know I have I know Well, I don't need the but um, I know people who eat like this every day y'all I can't do it like I feel sick after eating all that Lay it down have a bunch of water and go to bed. I am tired and tomorrow we're going to be going to the early service um We ain't doing no east egg hunting I told y'all last year that we stopped doing that type of stuff now.   Which is why I'm laughing. Listen blowing will be jb jb Daddy's still trying to sleep punka It is sunday last night. I put in some perp. Yeah, can't even see me. Let me zoom out. So it's sunday and um, yeah Put these in last night. Isn't that cute? Yeah, I'm gonna put some of this on mute I'm gonna show them what you look like, baby. Of course. I didn't work real cute. I don't know. I'm gonna unravel that one I used to cream of nature uh setting foaming whatever the thing you call it Let's look at that. Look at that difference right there. Look at that difference. This is very pretty This is so cute. This is very springy. Literally. See something This this outfit makes me look really big. Hi. Hold on, baby. Hi, but look as soon as I put it on I get something on my blouse. Look at that, baby. You're shaking the table As soon as I put it on I get something on my blouse, but I'm not changing. I just not okay So this is what I'm wearing. All right. Um, this again is my hair. Oh, yeah, it's all crooked. Why don't y'all tell me This is my hair. Isn't it cute? Cute, cute, cute. I'm not gonna maintain this because wash day is like in two more days So I'm not gonna do anything to maintain it. If it maintains good.  So a church was awesome. Awesome. And my closet and stuff away.  Y'all we We don't eat a lot of different foods.  We don't eat any steak. I don't eat duck I don't eat lamb. I don't eat anything gamey. So that is very makes very difficult for us when we're looking for new restaurants um Especially the really nice restaurants because they typically sell they typically offer steak and ducking Girl, I'm like, can I just get some chicken and mashed potatoes? So we'll probably go to our one restaurant. We always go to but at least we know it. We're familiar with it But yeah, church was good. Like I said, I'm gonna clean up some do some laundry. I am tired JB has been waking up crazy hours Like and I know it's because he's been home for spring break. So hopefully he can get back on his schedule And y'all when I mean crazy Three o'clock in the morning he'll go back to sleep, but then I can't go to sleep So I've literally been sleeping five hours a night for four or five nights now Five hours six hours or it's not it's uninterrupted sleep, which is really not that sleep. So Last night I slept in those perm rods.  You toddlers can't sleep.  So I know one thing I did try out how to use the curl formers and it does take a quite a bit of work Um, and your hair at least my hair has to be damp or wet Which means that my hair is not gonna dry the next day So what's my plan? I need to buy a hooded dryer if I'm going to be using those things anytime soon Whichever they don't want to locate. I don't want to use them anytime soon I don't I may do this style for y'all for our anniversary, but When I tell you he has been horrible He was horrible at walmart when we went to walmart. I had to get a couple things Yeah, they need to know So I have to stop my buggy a few times and grab him up But let me let me show you what I have to do. I have to grab him up like this And be like if you do this is what you do girl You get real close to him and be like, how does my knee carry a sweetheart? Carry a baby if you do that one more time. I'm gonna knock you out. That's what I do. That's why I do Toilet Bye you guys


How can you command someone to love someone else?  How could you? You couldn't. You don't know my cousin. So Allah SWT in this verse is essentially, it's implicit, He's essentially commanding us to learn about the family of the Prophet SAW, by knowing his family, his virtues, his piety and struggle, that we will naturally genuinely come to love his family, so do not use it.


Welcome to digital asset news to get top stories and cryptocurrency and digital assets and break them down to bite-sized piece this day We've got some pretty interesting stuff first up the SEC filing shows in black rock with its nine trillion assets under management Help Bitcoin futures contracts worth a measly 6.15 million. That's not a big story The big story is what executives are saying about gold over there in black rock and how it can potentially affect Cryptocurrency and digital assets. So take a look at that on top of my talk to you today about why I believe that April is not going to be a stellar month for crypto and how may and Potentially June is going to be the breakout month and why I think that is and finally we'll follow it up with talking about What the heck is going on with a voyager and its price as it crashes at the ground? So we'll take a look at those three stories, but first let's take a look at going on the market So today it is April 3rd 2021 it is high noon here in Puerto Rico still here probably be here until Monday as we close up some dealings and businesses and such and Pretty great place. I got to tell you so far so good and let's take a look at the market and see what we got So Bitcoin is up 7% for seven days pretty good. It's slipped below the 61,000 mark now we're at 59,000 so Little bit of consolidation so every new to the market Just know that that's pretty much how it goes a little bit up a little bit down Sometimes three steps forward one step back sometimes 20 steps forward and two steps back and some It's just the exact opposite, but that is cryptocurrency and that's what we have Ethereum up 22% for a seven day and 1% for 24 hours So congratulations all you Ethereum holders looks like it's a pretty good day for you I'm actually talked about this yesterday about how I talked about how Ethereum is actually making good things actually it was Believe what it comes down to it's a second layer solution Which is really doing well for Ethereum and and the market responded so we'll see if this can actually keep up So congratulations finance coin up 34% for seven days again Binance coin doing great things as it's taking really taking away market share from the theorem as people are starting to Trade over there not start they've been doing this for quite some time for their decentralized exchange on the Binance smart chain And that we'll see if that continues. Dot is pumping massively 31% in seven days USDT Cardano mad down 0.5% is nothing's really going on and I think that's going to be pretty stagnant for a while The merry hard work already happened go again smart contracts and they're saying within six months You're gonna be able to do a basic smart contracts for Basic languages and for programmers. So I mean nothing really is it gonna go on for kind of for quite some time I think it'll just be flat a little bit high But again, it's been a great year so far XRP up, you know, so I mean everything's up. Let's just let's just call what it is and I think this is looking pretty good Let's take a look. Well, we have done a while and if you notice that I switched back to coin gecko for for this episode usually we would trade a chain, but I wanted to go over some things and just take a look at what would happen if you would have Just bet on Bitcoin and traded in Bitcoin. Well When coin gecko you can do this you can train you can change it all over and see what it would be If you just did in Bitcoin, well Bitcoin be zero, right? But if you were trading a theory maybe up 13 and a half percent over seven days If you would unbind that's coin 24 percent dot 22 percent XRP 1.7 like coin Man 23 percent for file coin thing great. Wow Tron 53 percent you would have been up 53 percent if you would have gone against Bitcoin 33 percent for EOS crazy What? Solana 33.2 percent. I mean just the list going on 92 percent for BitTorrent Congratulations BitTorrent holders my friend George is ecstatic today. They're crushing it 20 percent. Okay be a hundred 18 percent for For a hollow chain man. That's pretty good. Now. Let's take a look if we were just going to Get into Ethereum. So Ethereum is very hot, right doing pretty well Well, if you would have gone to Binance coin last seven days 10 percent dots 8 percent You would have missed out on a lot of other places file coin not what I'm eight and a half percent Tron 35 percent 17 percent If you would have gone against the theory You could have made a killing on EOS, but who who to who to thunk it as we say 69 percent for BitTorrent and so on and so forth. So again Let's take a look at the markets Just know that there's a lot of opportunities out there and it really depends on what your goals are Are you a long-term investor? That's pretty much what I do.  Maybe you you trade for a little bit whole for a while and then let go again Everybody's situation is different. So this channel is not financial advice entertainment purposes only so whatever your Whatever your goals are are your goals. I can't wait tell you what to do and that's pretty much about it But that's what's going on the market. Let's jump into today's top story and this is it's It's great to know that a huge Institution such as BlackRock as first of all they talked about Bitcoin Then it's been revealed by the SEC fund that yes They actually do hold a bit of Bitcoin as far as like a futures contract, which doesn't really that much It's not like it's a physical They're holding Bitcoin just a futures contract, but it just signals to what it really does for this story To me is it's like everybody who's in traditional Finance or who's into stocks and who's in the bonds and you have to understand that I know you think that everybody's in the crypto But guess what you're dead wrong Not everybody is like you not everybody's like me when my fatal flaws and I always talk about this I think everybody wants to get into crypto We were talking to our real estate agent and smart lady And I was just trying to explain to her about about cryptocurrency and it was like talking to a toddler Because that's just people just don't understand it like well. Yeah, that sounds like like a pretty good stock I'm like it's not a stock. Okay. Well, just talk to my broker. I'm like, you know, it's called broker You can just you can just buy it. Yeah, well, it sounds pretty good because the interest rate might there's no interest rates It's you just buy it and then you just hold it or you want to trade whatever you want to do So I know like again like you think that I have the same problem You know, you think that this is the world. We are so early You have no idea how early we are go down the street and ask somebody about Bitcoin might know it Ask somebody about Ethereum. Ask somebody about Binance. Ask somebody about tomato coin. Well, I mean, no one's gonna know those things They just not and that's just pretty much how it is. So When I see these types of stories This is just to me like like a sales pitch because people have to see things seven ten fifteen times before they actually get it so when you're international finance and you see these These gods up on mountain Olympus as you want to calm I mean black rock is kind of like the pinnacle of the, you know financial institutions with their mind truant acid management When you see they're dabbling at it You like maybe I should get into that and that just kind of moves the goalpost and it's just the game of inches just like football so this is I think a pretty good story and What is going on essentially is that this is That's So on March 31st There was global allocation fund it held 37 Bitcoin futures contracts with 6.15 million and this was actually in an SEC filing Again on March 26th, and it had already appreciated in value by some 360,000 But just so you know these holdings 37 contracts in total were about point zero three percent of the firm's Global allocation fund so not that much and that's just how it is but when you're a publicly traded company then of course you're going to have to you know file with the SEC and That's it's just how we actually know what's going on So they're dabbling into it It signals to other people that hey this is you know a legitimate type of thing You should probably get into it again and everybody's like you and everybody's like me don't just get it yet So they need these types of cues these types of signals from other traditional players ago Okay, this makes sense. So that's the story in its really entirety the rest of it's kind of boring I mean, that's just how it is But the thing that I that caught my eye was this last piece where it says black rock exact executive Russ Kostrich says gold's ability to hedge Against inflation has been somewhat exaggerated again You have to take a look at the clues as to all the different gold bugs all the different traditional people are like, hmm If black rocks doing that and that's really smart money Maybe I should listen up the writer stress that people are looking for store houses of value So if you're into gold, you're really hedging your bet just like a Jim Kramer always talked about who is now on the Bitcoin Bandwagon, so if you're doing this, you're like, hmm Maybe I should really start to hedge even more because maybe I could have gold Maybe I could have Bitcoin which totally makes sense to me I don't know why these crazy gold bugs don't give their followers the right information But they just don't because they're greedy and I want to go into it, but I Would just say this If we could capture a small percentage of gold's actual Market cap. So this is the thing I always like to talk about Just the market caps by different assets and and people and industries So like if you take a look at gold gold is 11 trillion dollars probably around 12 trillion dollars right now The total market cap of gold right now Bitcoin is like 1.1 trillion the entire cryptocurrency market is only 2 trillion So if you think that's what I think would be prudent for these investors is to say hey Maybe instead of going so much into gold going to something like a Bitcoin and really hedge your bet imagine if we hit 50% Well, that'd be 6 trillion dollars in Bitcoin. So that's a 5x right there So if you're looking at 5x you're looking at a $300,000 Bitcoin because right now we're around 60,000 5x I bet me using quick math. It's about 300,000 pretty good day For the cryptocurrency market could that happen? I think you could absolutely happen and that's just gold And we're not talking about stock markets money's not my flight global bets global real estate I think that's the next big one when they start to tokenize and they've already done it And it talks to bringing some information about tokenizing real estate on the blockchain Which is different than an REID real estate investment These different types of things where they actually take up, you know parts of the real estate and you can you can purchase it I'm talking about tokenizing real estate imagine that tokenizing real estate is a 280 trillion dollar industry We knew something like that and put it in a cryptocurrency Then the visual asset market it would just blow up. So I Think that this is one of our hallmark years. I think it's gonna be great So let me know what you think of the comment section. Let's move on to our next piece I'm gonna talk to you about when that's all gonna happen. So I Had to pull some some quick data because I we all know that you know There's the four-year cycle talk about a long time, right? And now we're in the all-time high Years if you haven't heard of my four-year cycles go watch any video. I've done in like the last six months I'll talk about all the time. So like with this one here, I I've just pulled bitcoins chart And I want to take a look at that particular all-time high year and you can see like in 2017 This sorry 2013 Going back in time. We take a look at the end of April Bitcoin was like 135 bucks. Wouldn't that be fantastic? But then because it doesn't go beating beyond that and it kind of dipped down a little bit now in May We have 111 112 or 13 and just kind of went sideways for a little bit on 28 sideways sideways a little bit of a dip here Until July sideways sideways August it kind of rebounded and all of a sudden it was just off the races That's a pretty good pretty decent look, but I think this one's more telling. This is when we take a look at 2017 so if we're taking a look here at 2017 Let me fast forward here. This is January for March. Let me blow this up so you can see so here if we're taking a look at 2016 moving forward November December January February March, take a look at the price of Bitcoin March So not too bad people always say like March is in a great year for cryptocurrency. It's not awful Look, you have a lot of almost $1,200 in March 1191 1,258 1074 so bit of a dip 1036 a little bit and just sideways action right 1140 up until April So now in April people talking about all this is gonna be great I don't think April's that great of a month like you have 1140 1189 1132 1212 1183 back down to the 14th and the 15th it kind of just becomes stagnant What's going on around April 15th? That's when taxes are due and in the United States I don't know where you're at, but it's a you know It's a lot of money being slashed around and people need to pay their taxes and around April 15th The only place that's really liquid 24 7365 as you guessed it the cryptocurrency market So after around this time people start to liquidate things because they need to pay for their taxes And after that it's off to the races 1321 1349 1400 1500. This is in May now mind you And we're gonna keep going up 1700 $2,000 in May and up we go and then of course 2700 we kind of drop back down And I think I see the same type of thing going on in our market right now So you have to remember though on one thing that is this When we're talking about taxes this could probably happen again The thing is nowadays we're not nowadays just for this particular year The IRS in America has pushed us back from April 15th to May 15th So I believe people have a little bit more time to save their taxes, but they're still going to lipple fly And they're still going to sell their cryptocurrency So I believe towards the end of May and June we're gonna see a pretty stellar month But that will only happen after that time frame after people sell for their taxes Also, I want to take it have you take a look at this and this is what we're talking about as far as That's just Bitcoin. Let's take a look at Ethereum the same type of thing, right? Because we can't just take a look at Bitcoin. I'm gonna take a look at Alts How about one of the King of the Alts? What should we take a look at this? We're looking at Here's 2017 so again in March. Wow, look at that $19 for an Ethereum 23 28 34 So actually doing to pretty good in March 2017 44 41 50 52 and then it ended up at 50 actually doubled in price in March So when people say that March is a good good month not too bad for Alts and then so let's take a look at April 48 45 44 so it drops down again because what are people doing? They're selling for their taxes 47 48 and then what happens here after the taxes now it starts to do this 50 bucks $77 89 96 and then up it goes and up it goes so When you have any type of if you're taking a look at like what could potentially happen Look at tax season. Look what's gonna happen now again April 15th It's good for Americans. It get if it's gotten pushed forward to May 15th So I think Towards right after May end of May early June. That's what we're gonna see a little bit more fireworks about what's gonna happen I'm with crypto and visual assets. So let me know as you think in the comment section Let's move on to one of our last pieces Oh before I forget if you if you're looking for help with your taxes crypto trader tax There is a link in the description Dan viewers get 20% off. Also, there's a link underneath that That's Discount where you can put in your first name and email and entered to win for an unlimited tax report We're just $300 value. So whatever you want to do if you want to try to win the big prize Which they draw every single week or just sign up and get your taxes done Super simple to be 30 minutes sent over my CPA being done and that's it. All right and last up Wouldn't be a story if we didn't talk about a little voyage So Voyager what the heck is going on here? Well? Let's be honest. Voyager isn't doing so hot right, right? So Voyager in its entirety right now we're looking at Not too great of Of a price tag. Let's take a look here. Let's put in US dollars. There we go. It's a little better So four dollars and five cents. What's happened over the last? Let's say Our 24 hours seven days not too great, right? And we've let's take a look at the seven day Still going down. So we were at 525. Now we're four bucks. I actually were at 390 pretty awful, right? Let's take a look at the last two weeks Yeah Went up a little bit but still went down So it's been a pretty tumultuous time frame and what's going on here Well, if you don't know there is going to be a token swap for LGO Which was the merger that they had for the institution for the exchange over there in France Which they are merging with the LG LGO token and Voyager token There's gonna be a token swap towards the end of April around May 1st or so so until that time And I've said this has been my third time talking about it I said it's either going to decrease The the actual price for the Voyager token or just gonna trade sideways. So we're we went down a little bit. That's awful Isn't it awful? No, it's not awful. I'll tell you why so first of all, I want you to back up my friend did he says when in doubt zoom out take a look at 30 day for Voyager so not too bad, right? It's a little bit down up and down take a look at 90 days All right. Well, we started down here at around 14 cents and then we went all the way up It's almost well was $7 at some point 709 Take a look at 180 days And this is pretty much flat at 12 cents. This is just six months imagine this I was talking about this on the channel January 7th of my price prediction was 29 cents And then people were all ecstatic about it and now people are coming at me like what's up with your with your pick What's up with Voyager and only one up? I don't know thousand percent or something like that And well, I wasn't that much percent of the way 30 10 only went up 20 x 25x. How dare you and now it's down to four bucks Hey, it is what it is Again not financial advice I told you when it was a 29 cents and it do would have gone there We've been great when I got a dollar two dollars three dollars four dollars Sure, and right now some people picked it up at five dollars six dollars seven dollars and they're upset because they didn't hit That that time frame So there's a thing You can you got two options, right? If it was me I can't give you financial advice, but but you really got two options you can Complaint about it and you can say, you know what I'm just going to just sell it a loss. Okay, but I will tell you this I'm not the business to losing money me personally. I'm not doing that I'm gonna hold on because I know that that token swap is coming up I know that that loyalty product program is happening. I know that there's a debit card coming There was a credit card company. There was direct swaps between stocks and cryptocurrency right on the platform I know that there's a seven percent Staking interest rate that I can get just for staking Voyager and right now. This is what I talked about in my tweet. I said look If you're upset because of this price Maybe you went in a little bit too heavy. Maybe I don't recommend that to anybody to me Well, I again me personally I just dollar cost average I'm not going to take a hundred fifty thousand dollars and dump it on Voyager last week and go You know what? I think it's going to go up 10x. That is ridiculous That's why I'm always talking my dollar cost averaging if you just would have said, you know what? Hey, look, I've got Ten thousand dollars five hundred bucks a hundred dollars twenty five cents I don't know what you've got and you're like I'm just gonna put this in a little bit little bit then it usually evens itself out This this this whole Market is super tumultuous. It is very Volatile so don't put everything in all at once. I'm not recommending that I'm not gonna do that for myself But you can do whatever you want to so I said in this in this tweet I go look if you are a Believer in what's going to happen with Voyager if you think it's got a great team We think things are going on pretty well if you and also they're going through growing pains There's no question about that. I even put a customer support ticket on not three days ago. Still hasn't got an answer There's just growing pains because everything is growing so fast But if you don't believe in it then maybe you should get out But if you think like you know what? This is a great opportunity dollar cost average because it was at seven dollars has anything changed has there been a huge hack As the CEO stepped down has the whole team just said, you know what we're done with this place Has there been a lawsuit by the SEC or something like that? Sorry XRP is what it is No, so the fundamentals haven't changed. So if you're looking at like now right now going hmm It's four bucks and it was seven bucks now that loyalty program is gonna come out It's up to you to do your own research and if you want to go down this route then you can but if you don't and it's time to get out and That I say is up to you. Alright, so that is it for today. So first of all, thanks so much for sticking with me I really appreciate it like the video give it a thumbs up also consider subscribing a lot of things that we do talk about our time Sensitive, that's all for today. Thanks so much. See you on the next one


Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're at the Accenture Technology Vision 2018. It's actually the preview event a couple days before the report comes out. We came last year. It's really Accenture querying all their customers and partners as to what are the hot topics for 2018. We're excited to have a return from Accenture Labs. He's Mark Carell-Billiard, the global lead for Accenture Labs last we saw you at the 38th anniversary. So Mark, great to see you. Great to see you too. Very happy to be here. Absolutely, and we saw you a year ago at this event as well. So as you look at this vision, compared to last year's vision, what really jumps out at you as being so different? I think what really jumps it is just the fact that what we say here is that, you remember last year, it was all about technology for people, technology by people. What we see is that we move forward into, not technology only for people and by people, but how technology basically is shaping the society.  What we say to all these technologies that there's going to be a major impact in the society itself. And then companies need to work with, people need to work with society basically to change basically the new models. I mean, what we say also is that something which is very important is that there's a transparency that we need to be brought up by this technology.  It's a two-way street now. Right, right. It's like you build a lot of technology and people adopt this technology and they need to bring back feedback. So what are you going to do about it? And it's not going to be about selling products, selling services, but building partnership. Partnership with the people, partnership to the society that you're going to build around them. That's very important. But it's kind of weird because it's kind of bifurcated. On one hand, there's a personal level of connection. It is. That you've never had before. On the other hand, we're trying to automate with software and data as many processes as we can, which we've seen in MarTech, probably on the cutting edge of that. And that sometimes can cause issues. So we're kind of bifurcating, automate as much as you can. On the other hand, there's a personal touch and trust and a relationship that I never had before. So I love this discussion because I tell you this, I completely agree. But I think people need to recognize that artificial intelligence we made tons of progress there. You remember we had so many winters along the way in everything. I think there will still be winters for artificial intelligence. Machine can do things very, very well. But it still can't do what people can do. You know, for example, common sense learning. It's very difficult to explain a machine what is common sense learning. You know what is common sense. For example, if I would like to build a robot that come in your office and pick, for example, a cup of coffee and decide whatever they want to throw it in the bin or basically reserve it for you, it's very difficult. You need to weigh the cup of coffee. You need to understand if it's warm or not warm. I mean, there's so many things that come to play. A robot wouldn't be able to do that. You can do that. Even your kids could do that. Pretty interesting. I know. So there's like five big things. I want to jump into a couple with you. One of us, and you guys have twisted kind of common phrases. We did. A little bit of a central branding, of course, right? So one of them is the Internet of Thinking. So rather than the Internet of Things, which is very popular, then of course we hear about the industrial Internet of Things. You talked about the Internet of Thinking. What do you mean by that? Okay, so Internet of Thinking is all about to recognize that every product in the world today will be very intelligent. We talk about artificial intelligence. We're baking virtual agents into systems. They all have machine learning. They all learn about what you're doing, you know? So what we need to do is that when we're going to build basically new environment and everything, we need to understand exactly where all the processing power for this intelligence is going to be sitting. Is it going to be, for example, if you have to reinvent the car of the future, okay, where it's going to be driverless, you need to rethink about the cockpit of the future and the experience. There need to be a lot of machine learning, intelligence to understand exactly how they want to interact with you, through the voice, through recognizing your face when you're frowning and stuff like that. I mean, there's going to be so many things. So there's a lot of processing power to put. When you put all this processing power in a chip in the car, do you want to split it between the chip in the car and some other chip in the cloud? Where you put all the data related to what you're going to be doing in this car? You want to look at all this data only on a platform in the car or you want to put a little bit in the cloud so you're going to be able to crunch all the data. You're going to be sitting in a seat. American people spend, in average, 500 hours per year in the car. Can you imagine what we can do there? So imagine we have sensors in the seats. We're going to be able to collect a lot of data about your wellness, your well-being and everything. We want to make you more healthy. What are we going to do with all this data? Are we going to crunch the data basically on the car or on the cloud? So what we want to say is that Internet of Things is going to evolve to Internet of Thinking because we're going to have to be smarter not only to implement smart product in the car or something else, but to decide about architecture. Where are we going to put all that stuff? Which processor are we going to use? CPU, FPGA, GPU, even quantum computing? People need to think about where they're going to put the architecture. What type of flavor of architecture they want to have. All these things need to come to play. Mark, we could go and go and go. Unfortunately, we're getting the hook. They're going to start their program so maybe we'll get you back after the program so they can take it a few minutes. They're going to start the program behind us. I'm Jeff Rick, he's Mark. You're watching theCUBE. It's the Accenture Technology Vision 2018. We'll be right back after the presentation. All right, sure. Thanks, Mark. Thank you. All right, welcome back, everybody. We are still the Accenture Tech Vision 2018. Free of it. The autonomous band is playing very loudly, but it's good. So we got Mark back, Mark Correll, Billyard. And again, he is the Accenture Labs global lead and he's also all on top of extended reality. Extended reality. So Mark, we're talking about VR, VR, AR, you guys have introduced... Actics, all stocktive, everything. Now it's ER. That's right. Extended reality. Extended reality. I mean, it's like, because I mean, I think it takes every type of sensors or immersion feeling and everything you can have because you know, it's all about combinatorial effect.  How long until you just pass all the sensors and just go right to the wires? That's what I'm waiting for. These things are not built to look at goggles, right? I know, I know, I know. But it's coming. It's coming, but what's interesting though, you guys put a play on it about distance. That's right. You guys are, you're positioning this as really a way to break down distance. Absolutely. How does that work? Yeah, that's what we call it. We call that the end of distance because I think the feeling that we have is that what you're going to be doing is that, you know, I mean, it's always the same stuff. You're looking for talent. You're looking for skill. You're looking for people. You're looking for information here, where it's out there. So how are you going to bridge that?  Extended reality, virtual reality, that can help you out to do that. I'll give you an example. Komatsu, it's a company, Japanese company. Big tractors and things. That's right, big tractors and everything. Sometimes, I mean, it's a lot of investment and everything. You want to try them out. You want to test them, but it's knowing. It's pouring. It's raining. You're not going to do it. What are you going to do? Why are you going to use the virtual reality environment? They're all autonomous, though. They all drive themselves around. But not now. They're not there. But eventually, you can use that in your office.   We see that in the oil and gas industry. We are building very complex platforms. It takes 10 years to build them, maybe less. You know, the question is that, do you want to wait for five years, 10 years, until the platform is delivered to start training your people? No. I'm going to bring basically that to them directly.  I can reduce the time that this stuff is delivered virtually to train the people on board. And when they're going to be there, so they're going to be using virtual reality to be trained on the platform. And then when they're going to be on the platform, they know how it works. But even more, then you go to augmented reality when they can do maintenance and equipment by overlaying information to make them more efficient. So what's the killer app going to be? Is it a killer app problem? Is it a hardware problem? We're still wearing the punky goggles. What's the breakthrough? So the breakthrough is really new devices. Because right now, if you look at the market today in AR, VR, we're talking about $14 billion, one-fourth. The billion dollars today, which is a lot. Yeah, it's a real number. But most of it is on the devices. Most of it is on the gaming devices. You know the stuff that you find on the Xbox, the stuff you find on the PlayStation, very consumer driven. The big business is really enterprise business, which is how you're going to use this device in oil and gas industry, in automotive industry, in very toxic environments where the device needs to be lightweight with long battery life. It needs to be intrinsically safe as well, safe in the environment. The devices are coming. And then by 2020, the estimate is that that whole business is going to shift from $14 billion to $143 billion. In 2020. Yeah. Two years from now. That's right, two, three years, because the devices are there. And then right now, it's 70% of this business is consumer driven, and 30% is enterprise. We're going to flip that. 70% is going to be enterprise, and 30% will be consumer. And 2020. Yeah, that's right around the corner. Yeah, it's right around the corner. I mean, I met with capital companies. These companies call real wear. They're doing amazing devices. It's a device you wear. You can put that on the helmet very, very light. You can drop it from 10 meters. It bonds back. It works. And then basically, you have voice recognition in a very noisy environment like this one. You can speak. It recognizes everything. It can provide you with augmented reality information about what you need to do and everything. That's the typical device that we need. You can use it in toxic environment. It has older certification. I mean, it's IPv6 and everything. You can run on it. I mean, it doesn't do anything. And that's exactly what we need to develop the new use case that are going to drive this further. Yeah, because we're still a long way from there. But two years is not very long for the devices. I mean, it's acceleration. Right, right. All right, Mark. Well, we're excited. What's your favorite AR, VR, application? So my favorite, I can tell you that. You and I, we go to Venice tomorrow, always virtual reality. And so with the combination of the all-factive, the stuff, the sound and everything, you can be sitting there on the terrace. You can hear the vaporito passing by.  You believe it's a pizza, and you're doing the water and it's kianti. That's what it's going to be. See, I think the device is going to be when a plug's in your head. Again, avoid all these things that go straight in. And then it begs the question, did you really do it? Or not? I know, I know. We don't go there. That's way deep. We don't have time, Mark. It's good to see you again. Thanks for stopping by. Thank you. He's Mark. I'm Jeff. You're watching theCUBE, a sensor technology vision preview party. Thanks for watching.


There is a game that is played every day by millions of Americans. It's called the urban freeway ordeal or UFO The object of the game is to get where you're going in a reasonable amount of time Lane closed 15 minute delay Incident cleared Proceed the real players are the police transportation department government officials and legislators who are responsible for Rating the highway system Two lanes closed 40 minute delay insufficient response further delay Editorial in tomorrow's paper Incident cleared Proceed when the players make the wrong decision the real losers are the taxpayers Who need the highways to get to work deliver the goods and carry on the commerce of the area overturned All lanes blocked insufficient response Further delay editorial in paper TV crew at your office insufficient response Further delay Fuel spill secondary accident Maintenance closure Mayor on phone insufficient response Further delay rain Two breakdowns Multifemical accident Hazardous materials spill Livestock loose on opposing lane Governor wants you in his office tomorrow insufficient response Too late you lose We have total eternal gridlock Fortunately real life is nothing at all like UFO. It only seems that way sometimes But the fact is that millions of dollars and thousands of hours are lost due to incidents on the nation's highways In both rural and urban areas capacity is strained by increasing traffic The driving public is more aware of the effects of increasing delays They demand that something be done by the people whose responsibility it is to keep the roads open That's something is freeway incident management But how serious is the problem? Truck incidents on the washington dc beltway caused 10 million dollars a year in delay accident and cleanup costs Freeway incidents of all types in california cost 100 million dollars a year By 2005 experts estimate the cost of freeway incidents at over 90 billion dollars nationwide What are the mechanics of incident delay? What must be done? A simple breakdown can cause traffic to slow down due to gawking on the part of other drivers Capacity can be reduced by up to 20 percent Block a lane and capacity drops by 50 percent If two lanes are blocked 80 percent of capacity may be lost Even after the blockage has been cleared congestion will continue By the time drivers reach the accident site everything will be gone and they'll wonder what the problem was They drive away mad mad at the police mad at the highway department mad at the government How do we respond? Incident management has been practiced for many years across the country Bridge and tunnel authorities realized the need for incident management plans long ago During this time many proven cost-effective techniques have been developed that will work in urban or rural areas The current emphasis on advanced technology will provide even more tools However, the most important thing to realize when embarking on an incident management program Is that many of the procedures are simple low cost and can be accomplished with the resources at hand Even the smallest effort can have dramatic results What modern incident management does call for are new attitudes ways of thinking high levels of cooperation And coordination between agencies As public awareness of traffic congestion increases. So does the urgency to address the problem In fairfax county, virginia. They found what a little new thinking can do The traffic division of the fairfax county police department was given a clear mandate To try its best to coordinate all transportation related incidents and to efficiently clear them from the roads This is something that hadn't been done before Each entity the virginia state police the fairfax county police the fire and rescue services and the virginia department of transportation handled their own portions of an incident pretty much isolated from each other What we found was that by talking to each other we could more readily resolve these incidents and prevent some of the ones that were occurring This was accomplished just by simple communication We were able to beat down some of the barriers that were perceived such as engineers not wanting to talk To traffic cops or one agency not working well with another one Now what we have is a very cohesive response to virtually any traffic incident that occurs whether it's a crash Disabled vehicle or simple traffic light malfunction We work in a coordinated effort to reduce the amount of delay on the roads roadways in northern virginia Once the proper institutional framework has been established The next step in controlling incidents is to find them quickly and gather the data necessary to make the right decisions The los angeles traffic management center demonstrates the state of the art and underscores the importance of interagency cooperation A traffic management systems center gathers information on traffic flow from a number of sources It can monitor an entire corridor for problems. There are many proven methods of detection Police and transportation department vehicles are a vital source of information As are motorist call boxes Public transit systems radio can be organized to provide on-site information In some jurisdictions motorists are using cellular phones to call 911 and report incidents Traffic reporting services can be tied into the system at almost no extra cost Once a problem has been discovered the proper response needs to be made A proper response is one that meets needs at an appropriate level You don't need a sand truck at a simple breakdown. You don't want to wait long for one at a fuel spill These are judgment calls that need to be made by experienced personnel as quickly as possible The surface patrol is one of the best and most cost efficient levels of response Over three quarters of all incidents in urban areas are minor breakdowns Which cause delay far out of proportion to their seriousness There's just so many of them flat tires running out of gas engines overheating Most of the time these problems can be fixed quickly often within minutes Provided they are detected quickly and the appropriate assistance is provided In those locales where a dedicated service patrol is not justified A contract with a private towing company can perform the same service Of course not all incidents are minor As time and the increased demands on freeway capacity take their tolls scenes like these are all too common A community needs a menu of responses for every level of incident breakdown service vehicle accident tow trucks Injuries ambulance medevac if need be Cranes sand fire trucks police media public information Alternate routes and detours cleanup equipment When all that's ready the trick is to have what's needed on its way as soon as possible When something happens you need to know what has occurred and how bad it is as soon as you can It's kind of like triage and the team must be ready to react Imagination can be the first step in solving the incident problem In Dayton, Ohio They found that they could improve the traffic management situation with a small investment in resources and new levels of A few years ago in the area just beyond me there was a 9200 gallon propane tanker truck that overturned the result Was a huge fireball which necessitated the closing of interstate 75 in both directions A 2d tour routes were established one for north and one for southbound traffic And we used on-duty police officers to facilitate the movement of that traffic After this incident we conducted a critique and three things really came to the fore First was the fact that our police department was unprepared to offer a coordinated approach to this particular incident Second was from the management perspective. We used way too many resources of the department particularly in terms of manpower And lastly we wondered how many individuals were on i-75 and when they were detour because of their unfamiliarity with Dayton became lost in our city The police department got in touch with the city traffic department and brought in people from other departments within the city Together they designed the i-75 emergency rerouting plan This plan establishes detours throughout the section of i-75 that runs through Dayton When an incident occurs they modify existing signs to accommodate detour routing That way the system is in operation quickly The traffic signs along the detour route have a hinged flap that turn it into an i-75 detour route marker This helps avoid driver confusion and guides them efficiently back to the interstate facility There are also portable detour signs for use in strategic locations Dayton police officers have been briefed on how to react to interstate closures They watch a video program about the necessary steps to better incident management The detour plans will be placed on computers so that the officer in the patrol car can call up the information right there Freeway incident management should not be just for those large metropolitan areas When law enforcement managers and traffic engineers get together and cooperate one with another both small and medium-sized cities such as Dayton Ohio can come up with a plan that would fit their particular needs While the incident is being cleared traffic builds up congestion has a way of feeding on itself Incidents can cause additional incidents secondary accidents breakdowns overheating Plans must be in place to detour traffic as quickly as possible and divert others from the incident area Drivers want to know what's happening Depending on the situation different communications media can speed the latest information to the motoring public Traffic reporting services highway advisory radio changeable message signs are all ways of getting the word out Effective coordinated traffic management goes a long way toward minimizing disruption of schedules and deliveries Studies also show that driver frustration decreases sharply if people know what's going on Rural areas are not exempt from the need for coordinated incident management The collapse of the sco harry bridge on the new york state throughway Showed the impact that a major incident in a rural area can have on adjoining communities The 559 mile new york state throughway is the major interstate highway in new york that serves Not only the urban areas but the bulk of the rural areas as well One of the major tasks after the collapse of the sco harry creek bridge in 1987 Was to develop an immediate detour plan that would serve not only the Cars but the heavy trucking traffic that was using the throughway prior to that time We learned very quickly from this incident that to have put such a detour plan in place before the fact In other words to have done some incident management Would have been a far better and quicker approach to Solving that kind of a problem than to be doing it after the fact once the bridge collapsed Developing a plan is important maintaining and updating it on a regular basis is even more important Periodic meetings attended by all the agencies involved in operating the corridor are an important part of plan management This is a forum for people to air new ideas suggest improvements and analyze past performance Each incident responded to provides a gauge on how well the plan is operating In addition simulations can be run to help be ready for major events that have to be coped with Not all incidents are bolts from the blue many can be planned for well in advance Every summer the corridor between washington baltimore and the beach at ocean city maryland is jammed with cars heading east on friday and west on sunday Every year from late spring to early fall Hundreds of thousands of people rush to maryland's beaches on our beautiful eastern shore They've created some of the worst traffic jams in the history of our state They all seem to travel at the same time Our governor asked us to get together and come up with a program that would make that trip easier and safer We organized a team with local government state government police and transportation officials We call our program reach the beach We made the trip a little more pleasant and a little bit safer for everyone A master plan was developed to increase and maintain corridor capacity that consisted of two main thrusts The first was to upgrade existing roads. The second was to institute incident management The road improvements included widening sections of highway replacing signalized intersections with interchanges and construction of new bridges The incident management portion of the plan consists of a multi-jurisdictional task force And a field operations unit managed from the reach the beach communication center at the chesapeake bay bridge We begin our operations around noon on friday when traffic begins to pick up heavily We have a communications network established all along the carter between the state highway administration the maryland state police And other agencies to keep us informed of any problems which occur Most of our incidents do involve cars and not heavy vehicles So we don't have to have a lot of emergency equipment pre-position to get heavy loads out of the way although it is available if we need it We have courtesy patrol vehicles Including motorcycles and sha vans with push bumpers arrow boards water jugs Jumper cables and other equipment to help get vehicles off the road into a safe position We have incident management plans in case a major incident occurs And also plans to help emergency vehicles get along the back roads To and from the hospital areas state police motorcycles can quickly get to an incident and we have an airplane in the air conducting aerial surveillance All this ties together to keep us well informed and respond quickly to an incident Accurate communications is vital to effective incident management Information must flow from the site of an incident to the communication center to the response team then to the motoring public Whenever there's an incident along the corridor, we have to get information to people for two reasons First of all if possible, we want to try and divert them around the incident Get them on an alternate route And second we want to lower their frustration level Nothing is worse than sitting in a queue of traffic and not knowing why or not knowing what's going on ahead of you We use two important communications tools the variable message sign and the traveler's advisory radio These can be programmed from our traffic information center and provide up to the minute information We have a representative from metro traffic control the nation's largest traffic reporting service at the tic And he provides information to commercial radio stations in both the baltimore and washington markets We have an 800 number that people can call into for the latest traffic information along the beach corridor And every weekend we receive thousands and thousands of calls We feel that we must be doing something right I've seen a lot of complimentary letters from grateful motorists and i've seen wonderfully complimentary editorials in the newspapers As we've seen a successful incident management program can range from a very simple low-cost approach To a highly sophisticated system such as reach the beach But regardless of the level of sophistication all programs share a common framework A means to detect and verify that an incident has occurred A pre-planned response appropriate to the size and type of incident An efficient coordinated on-site effort to clear the incident quickly A method to get information out to the driving public Successful incident management programs play an important part in keeping the traffic moving on our nation's highways It's a major task and an increasingly necessary one as the demand on our roadways continues to rise There's no avoiding the reality and urgency of the situation More cars and trucks crowd the highways every year Accidents are going to happen. There are always going to be breakdowns We'll never be able to control that what we can control is how effectively we deal with incidents and how the public feels about our efforts Successful incident management is a proven way to save time money lives And keep the traffic rolling


It's great to be back in Surrey, on the territory of the Coast Salish people, the semi-Amukkaitsi-Kuppetlum-Kwanlin-Kikait and Tawasa nations, it feels like yesterday, but it was 100 days ago that I was sworn in as your premier at the Musqueam Community Centre. I'll never forget that day. It was the first ever swearing in hosted by a First Nation in our province and it was a reminder to me and I suspect a reminder to all of us about the huge responsibility we have to meaningful reconciliation with Indigenous people in our province. And it was a really remarkable symbol of the shared commitment that we have to moving forward together as true partners. I have to say, being premier has meant some changes for me and the family. For example, after meeting the RCMP detail and getting to know them, my daughter Ivan now wants to be a ballet police officer. We don't know exactly what that means but we're sure she'll do a good job of it. And Ezra delights in seeing the police take his father away every morning. In the last 100 days I've been to every corner of the province and I've been in Prince George, downtown Vancouver, we've been to Chilliwack all over Vancouver Island. And one of the really nice things about this job is being welcomed in to people's businesses and to their communities. And part of that is hearing about the challenges that people are facing in our province. Global inflation, driving up the cost of essentials like food. The long lasting impacts of the pandemic on our health care system. The rapidly growing populations impact on finding things like a family doctor. And the threat of climate change and the impact that it's had on communities across this province from floods to wildfires. But I also hear something else when I'm in these communities from British Columbians and that is hope. British Columbians are optimistic about our province, about our future. I heard it in the voices of Jenny and Monique, they're two internationally educated nurses that I met at Langara College. We were doing an announcement about fast tracking nurses with international experience into our health care system. And they are excited about that and they're excited about the work they're doing here in British Columbia caring for British Columbians. I met a mom named Reut who has three kids and she was at our childcare announcement where we're saving her now $1,000 a month. But also because those childcare spaces exist, she's able to go back to work and help build her community. When I was in Crofton, I saw that hope on the faces of 100 people who work in the pulp mill there. As we made an announcement about reopening a shuttered production line in that pulp mill to produce single use utensils out of paper instead of out of plastic and petroleum products creating jobs in a sustainable way in that community. And I saw it on the faces of students and administrators here at SFU's campus as we announced the first new medical school in western Canada in 50 years. This is a medical school that is going to be focused in training doctors and nurses and health professionals on community care, delivering care in our communities. Everywhere I go, people pull me aside to tell me what they're working on, how they're helping build a stronger future for themselves, for their families, for their communities. And in a time of global economic uncertainty, it's critical that our strong economy continues to attract people from across Canada and around the world. And we are seeing remarkable success. Vancouver's tech sector is growing at the highest rate in all of North America. I heard that, Brenda Bailey. Of course. Mining. Mining is booming in British Columbia. We set a record for mineral exploration last year. Our life sciences and agri-tech sectors are booming as well. And in 2021, BC saw more growth in new businesses started than in any other big province across the country. As a leader in climate action and a clean energy powerhouse, we are uniquely positioned to thrive in the low-carbon clean economy of the future. And I'm really excited about where we're going and so are British Columbians. If the last few years through the pandemic have taught us one thing, it's that going it alone just doesn't work. We've shown over and over again there's nothing we can't overcome when we work together. That's employers and workers, industry in partnership with First Nations, all levels of government working together for British Columbians. We are stronger together. There are those voices out there that say that we should respond to the global uncertainty we're seeing by pulling back. That now is the time that we should be reducing services or by making people pay out of pocket for things like healthcare. But that would make many of our most serious problems worse. And it would pass down costs at a time when people just can't afford it. We couldn't afford that go it alone short term perspective before and we sure can't afford it now. It's that kind of thinking cut services today for someone else to pay for down the road in the future. It didn't work before and it's sure not going to work for us today. Just as we're starting to find our feet after the pandemic. To seize on the remarkable potential that our province has in front of us, we have to take action today to deal with our biggest challenges. And that's what the 100 day plan has been all about. I promise to you that I would and our team would hit the ground running to bring people together to solve the big problems and the challenges that we face in this province. In ways that people can really see, that they can really feel in their communities. And to also take on any of the powerful interests that want to hold us back and prevent us from making necessary changes. And that's exactly what we've done. We started by putting together a cabinet that reflects the diverse voices of our province. One that mixes experience with new voices around the table. Including one of those new voices, Suri's own Rachna Singh. Absolutely. She is the first South Asian woman to become Minister of Education in our province's history. And you'll all know my friend Nikki Sharma, who became the first woman of colour ever to serve as our province's top lawyer. I'm just so proud of this team and the work we've been doing together. We've taken action on a whole array of priorities of British Columbians. For example, we've taken bold action to tackle the housing crisis. We set up a new half a billion dollar fund, 500 million dollars to protect renters from evictions and rent hikes imposed by big international corporations that are buying up those low cost rental buildings in our communities. We introduced new laws to increase housing supply to match the rapid population growth that we're seeing across the province. And we put an end to rental restrictions that left condos vacant while people were searching Craigslist for a place to rent. All of this work is being led by our dedicated housing minister Ravi Calon. And because of that work we're seeing really encouraging signs. Rental housing, absolutely. Rental housing construction in British Columbia is at its highest level in 10 years. Just the other day I ran into a young woman in my community. She had just moved in with her boyfriend and she had to keep her condo vacant because she wasn't allowed to rent it out. But now because of our changes she told me she was able to rent out her place so somebody's moved in, she's putting money in her own pocket, but more importantly she's created a place for someone else to live. I mean for at least as long as she wants to live with her boyfriend. But it's this kind of thing where people see real change in their community where there's a new home created that we need to keep doing. We're also taking action to strengthen our health care system, our public health care system. So care will be there when you need it and where you need it. Now I told you about the new medical school but we're also building new hospitals including a new hospital right here in Surrey. And we signed a new agreement with the doctors of BC that ensures that more family doctors will be attracted to and retained to our province to deliver care to British Columbians. And we're getting more internationally trained nurses and doctors off of the sidelines where they've been waiting to get their credentials recognized and into our health care system through innovative new models to make sure that people are in our health care system to provide care. Now just to give you an idea about the scale of this, 2,000 nurses caught in approvals processes at the regulator that are now being fast tracked through ensuring high standards but also ensuring that they're available to support workers in our hospitals across the province. It was yesterday, just yesterday, that we launched a 10-year cancer plan with immediate steps to better detect, prevent and treat cancer across the entire province. Our health care system will be stronger and will ensure that it meets the care needs of all British Columbians but it's not just health care. We've also taken action to make our communities safer and stronger. Now, it was just a couple of weeks ago, we won a court judgment to seize the Hell's Angels Club houses in Nanaimo, in East Vancouver and in Kelowna. We're cracking down on organized crime. We introduced new measures to keep violent and repeat offenders off of our streets. We funded 250 more RCMP officers to keep people safe, especially in rural BC, but also to support specialized teams fighting, among other things, child exploitation. But also, we recognize a lot of what's driving concern about public safety in many communities, which is concern about people struggling with mental health and addiction in our streets. That's why we created more peer-assisted care teams, so that people in crisis on our streets are met early on by health care workers and people who understand what they're going through, freeing up police to focus on actual crime. And we're going to be introducing new laws this session to crack down on money laundering as well as corrupt officials who think they can hide their money in our real estate. In the shadow of the global storm clouds we see around the global economy, we've taken action here at home to build a stronger, cleaner economy that works for everyone, not just those already at the top. We've created the new BC Manufacturing Fund. It's $180 million to help, among other things, mills to retrofit from using old growth logs to using second or third growth logs instead, and also to manufacture higher value wood products so we get more jobs per tree out of our public resources in British Columbia. Now this fund will support forestry companies that are looking for new equipment, for example, to make mass timber products, or like in Crofton, setting up those plastic alternative production lines at lines that would have otherwise been closed. But this fund is going to help create secure, sustainable jobs for British Columbians all across the province. We're also recognizing and removing unnecessary barriers to our province's growth. We have to keep our standards high, but we also have to speed up our permitting approval processes for essential things like mines that are going to produce the materials to assist with the transition to a low-carbon economy, and so much more. By putting people first, our province has built the strongest pandemic recovery in Canada. And now, because of that work, we have a surplus and we're putting it to work for people. We're building now. We're building now so that we're stronger today and into the future. For example, we announced a new billion-dollar fund to support communities that are facing unprecedented growth to ensure a high quality of life for everybody. So that fund will support things like roads, water treatment, but also things that make community fun, like swimming pools, community centres. Areas. Making life both more fun and sustainable in communities across the province. We've also, though, supported communities to respond to the impacts of climate change that we've seen. Now, British Columbians, we really have seen a disproportionate impact from climate change here. We've seen smoky summers. We've seen record wildfire seasons that chewed through our forests. We've seen the pine beetle explode. We've seen floods during atmospheric rivers. We saw the heat dome. These climate disasters are becoming more frequent and they are disproportionately impacting our province. We need to be focused on the fact that the world is rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels. For our kids and the future of our economy, we are moving to a clean energy future. And this is good news for British Columbia, because we're not only going to be part of the clean energy future, but we have huge advantages that put us in a leadership role. We have innovative technologies like hydrogen that are based here in British Columbia. We have clean electricity that we can use to electrify our economy. And we'll be working closely with fossil fuel producers to ensure that LNG plants meet our climate targets. We're going to keep building the strongest economy in British Columbia, and BC will be a leader in the clean energy future of the world. I think that one's worth a round of applause. Over the last 100 days, we've shown yet again that we are a place where you don't have to compromise the economy in order to protect the environment. In addition to accelerating our work to protect old growth forests, we permanently protected 58,000 hectares of BC's rarest forest ecosystems in the... I always struggle with this one. In Kamalplu Valley, just outside of Revelstoke, some of our rarest and most remarkable forest ecosystems protected by community, first nations, but also in partnership with industry. We've also recognized that the economy is people, and part of our work needs to be to recognize that people need support with the rising costs that they're seeing as a result of global inflation. In fact, on my very first day as Premier, the first action I took was to put money back in your pocket with a new cost of living credit. Then we froze ICBC rates for two years, and we cut childcare fees by hundreds of dollars a month. This builds on the other measures that we've taken since forming government. You'll remember that we are the government that eliminated MSP in the largest middle-class tax cut in a generation in British Columbia. We're the government that ended bridge tolls for people who needed to get to work and get home at the end of the day. And we're the government that cut ICBC rates by an average of $490 a year for drivers. But even with all of these initiatives, we know that families are still struggling, especially as the cost of food continues to rise. That's why today I'm very pleased to announce that more help is on the way through another round of the BC affordability tax credit. This credit will provide as much as an additional $164 per adult and $41 per child, up to $410 for a family with two kids. Now, we know this won't cover all the bills, but it will take some of the pressure off for families who need it most right now. At the centre of everything that we're doing as government is partnership with Indigenous peoples. The people who have always been in British Columbia since time immemorial. A few weeks ago, I was honoured to be part of an historic event in British Columbia that illustrates our approach to these issues. Our government signed an agreement with the Blueberry River First Nations in the northeast of British Columbia. One that recognises their right to exercise meaningfully their treaty rights, but also provides stability and predictability for industry in the northeast. Full partnership? Absolutely. It was a wonderful day. It's clear that full partnership and respect are the only ways forward for British Columbia, not endless court battles, not short-term transactional relationships. The end of the first 100 days is of course not an end at all, it's just the beginning. Over the next 18 months, my team and I will work hard to make life better for you and for your families, in ways that you will be able to see and feel in your lives and in your communities. Our next big step will be introducing a budget next week, and all budgets are really about choices. For too long in this province, government chose to benefit those already at the top through tax cuts while making everybody else pay for it. Higher healthcare premiums, skyrocketing car insurance, reduced services, tolls, of course. Our priorities are different. Our priorities are your priorities, and the budget will reflect them. We're building today to ensure a stronger and more secure tomorrow. We'll be building affordable housing, expanding access to healthcare, including mental health care and addiction treatment. We'll help people pursue their dreams and help businesses find the talent that they need to grow with new investments and skills training. And we're going to continue to find ways to help people reduce the costs that they face every day. Especially folks who need it most as we grow our clean economy.  Where you can afford a decent home and feel safe in your community. Where you have access to a family doctor. Now, I'm married to a family doctor and I know marrying a family doctor isn't the approach that's going to work for everybody. So we're going to make sure to find other ways to get you that family doctor. BC is a place where your kids should be learning in great schools. BC is a place where you should be able to find a good job in a growing clean economy. And BC is a place where we're going to do this all in partnership with Indigenous peoples. So our prosperity is shared more widely and more fairly. These are our priorities and we know that they're yours as well. In the months ahead, I'm asking you to join me and my team because we're just getting started. By working together, we can build a stronger, more secure BC that we all deserve. One where everyone belongs and no one gets left behind. Thank you for this amazing 100 days. It's been a pleasure and I can't wait to keep working for you.