Hello everyone, and welcome to the program, Agriculture on the Move. I am Philip Sydney, your host. Today with me is Mr. Pires Haines, who is the Acting Assistant Chief Forest Officer. That's a long, long designation, and he's attached to the Department of Forestry and of course in the Ministry of Agriculture. Welcome to the program, Mr. Haines. Thank you very much, Mr. Sydney. I appreciate the opportunity to be here. Great, thank you. Mr. Haines, tell us who you are. Who is Mr. Haines? Okay, so as you've said, currently I serve in the capacity of Acting Assistant Chief Forestry Officer with responsibility for wildlife management as one of my key designations. Okay. So, tell us what is wildlife management and conservation? Right. So, simply put, we could say that wildlife management in its true essence is really the, it's an art and also the science of manipulating and also maintaining wildlife habitat and the population and balancing the needs of wildlife with the needs of people. Okay, so it's more or less trying to find a balance between nature and humans. So humans, you know, we live in a world that is filled with nature and wildlife is part of it. So now we have to try and maintain a certain balance, you know, or more or less a coexistence between animals and humans because believe it or not, human beings need those, we need the biodiversity. In order for us to survive. So how are you getting involved in that? Was it a liking? Because a number of people out there who have nothing to do with wildlife, especially with those animals that can probably cause harm. So how are you getting involved in this? Yes, well, I work in forestry. Okay, forestry. So forestry more or less is the agency of government that is responsible for managing, conserving and also protecting wildlife. And, but of course I was given the duty of wildlife officer back in 2014 and I have been involved in the work of wildlife management from since.  So really and truly it just became my portfolio really at Forestry. At least something that you like? Well, yes, I mean, we enjoy the work of wildlife. In fact, the work of wildlife in St. Lucia takes us all around the country. It is not one that is, but that will keep you, you know, stationed at one place or in an office. So you have to go to various communities. You have to go to various forest types and also different habitats, meet different people and so on. And so it's diverse. And, you know, it's also very dynamic. So it's exciting indeed. So when you talk about conservation, let us look less the species that you are concerned about. Let us start with the birds. What is so important as far as wildlife is concerned with birds and the contribution to the biodiversity? Right. So you asked the question, which, more or less, which classes are most important? Generally, I mean, all our biodiversity in St. Lucia is important. Traditionally, when we look at the typical wildlife that we manage in St. Lucia, we are looking at classes of wildlife like, you know, the birds, the reptiles, mammals, amphibians. We have also beetles, even flies, morphs and butterflies. So we have a huge array of these different classes. And amazingly, even if St. Lucia is a small island state, in the eastern Caribbean, we have one of the highest levels of endemic fauna within the eastern Caribbean. So we have an impressively high number of endemic species of birds in particular and reptiles. But of course, I mean, all of these that I mentioned, the avi fauna, the reptiles and so on, and the others, they just help to condition and they just help to enhance the ecosystem functioning and, you know, help to maintain nature, the balance in nature and so on. So believe it or not, wildlife play, in fact, they play a very important and a key role in our very existence, really. So we may want to discount their importance, but then they are actually very important. Let's go back to the birds. What do you think is really important role the birds play? I mean, really? Right. So we have different types of birds, really. Let me just say that St. Lucia has five endemic bird species. And by endemic, I mean, these are creatures that really naturally exist all in St. Lucia. So you wouldn't find these species in other areas in the world existing naturally in the wild, but St. Lucia, so it's endemic to us. It belongs to us. We have five that are endemic and we have 13 that are endemic subspecies. So they're just a lower level, a subgroup of a species. So we have five endemic and 13 endemic subspecies. Birds play a key role in our existence, biodiversity in the ecological processes in nature. For example, some birds help with pollination. For example, the hummingbirds, they help with pollination. Other birds help in nutrient cycling. For example, they would eat in one spot and defecate in other spots and so on. So they help with the whole ecological process. Propagation. I mean, they just form part of the whole framework of both flora and fauna. Now, not only do they play a very key role in the ecology and the different ecological processes, they also play a very key role in our cultural values and also our economy. Because, of course, tourists come here for bird watching and bird watching is a key feature in ecotourism and so on. And so, persons would actually earn or gain a livelihood by bird watching tours and so on. So, I mean, not only birds but in our reptiles and all the others, they play a key role in this whole process. It enhances our economic value, our cultural value and also our ecological processes. I mean, yes, of course, as a little boy, we went hunting birds using catapults and using daisy guns and whatever it is. Is there an open season or a closed season for the hunting of birds in St. Lucia? Okay, well, the whole process of managing reptiles, in fact, managing wildlife generally in St. Lucia is guided by the St. Lucia Wildlife Protection Act. So, we have a piece of legislation, the St. Lucia Wildlife Protection Act that was more or less instituted in 1980. So, from 1980, we have this piece of legislation.  And, you know, they would hunt and do all kinds of things. But this has changed, really. So, you would actually need a permit to be able to undertake such activities. And so, we would have to be guided by the Wildlife Protection Act. Animals in the Wildlife Protection Act are subdivided into groups. So, you have fully protected wildlife under Schedule 1, you have partially protected wildlife under Schedule 2, and then you have unprotected wildlife in Schedule 3. And currently, we more or less have a moratorium on the hunting. But then, there is also a need for us to do some legislative review as it relates to the Wildlife Act. So, we can update it so we can, you know, make it more modern. And, you know, we could help it to, we could more or less adopt it to suit our current needs. Okay, so the aspect of an open and a closed season, it's already there for partially protected wildlife.  So, there are specific species of birds that can be hunted for? If and when the season is open, is it something that is a public knowledge? The majority of our birds are listed as protected wildlife. So, the majority of them are listed on the Schedule 1, the vast majority of them. But provisions could be made for even case, for instance, if we have a certain species of bird that is, you know, you know, the population is extremely large and it's out of control and so on. Then provisions could be made for a certain approach for management in that regard. So, I know there are some time during the year, your migration of birds are coming in this country. Can they be hunted? I mean, I know there are ducks coming in, am I right? Yes, so we have birds coming in from North America more or less.  And these birds, these are, well, we refer to them as migratory bird species. But of course, they would form part of the AV fauna of St. Lucia. They would be part of the birds that actually use St. Lucia as, you know, as part of their range as a habitat. Okay. So, we have birds like, you know, the teals, like orange, sorry, we have blue-winged teals, we have the green-winged teals. We have ducks and so on, especially coming down at the bright pond and so on. And in order for persons to, it is not legal for persons to just go ahead and hunt these birds. Okay. They would need a permit from forestry in order to do so. Okay. Okay. Because, I mean, those birds are coming here for a specific reason. They are coming here to escape the winter. They are coming here to forage. Some other countries, you know, they actually reproduce and so on.  Okay. 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Welcome back to the program, agriculture in the move, and with me is Mr. Paz Jens from the Department of Forestry. Paz, there are so many other species that we should be discussing, but one of the main ones I think that has come to the fore recently are the reptiles. I see people posting a number of reptiles, the non-venomous ones and others. So tell us about the various types of reptiles we have in St. Lucia. Okay, so in St. Lucia we have approximately 19 different species of reptiles, believe it or not. Seven of these reptiles are endemic and five are endemic subspecies. So we have more than 12 of our reptiles that are endemic. So in terms of the different classes, we have anoles, like those three lizards. We have geckos, we have ground lizards, like in the case of the whiptail lizards and the womb lizard. We also have iguanas and we have the snakes. Okay, so the ones that seem to be causing most fear to the public more or less are the snakes. Okay, so we have four different snakes species. We have the St. Lucia boa or the tetria, which is the largest snake that we have on island. Well, the boas typically grow up to about eight feet long on average. Then we have the second largest, which is the fedelus. And I must say that the fedelus is the only venomous snake that we have on island. And then we have the St. Lucia racer. And the St. Lucia racer is the snake that you find. It is only found on Maria Major in Vifor. That is the only place in the world where you go to find a snake. It is, in fact, labeled as the rarest snake in the world.  It is the second smallest snake in the world. And it is more or less the size of an earthworm. Okay, now the majority of these reptiles, believe it or not, we find them on Maria Major. That is why Maria Major is such, in fact, the Maria Islands. That is why they are of such great importance for biodiversity conservation. In fact, we even have some reptiles that are endemic even to Maria Islands. Like in the case of the St. Lucia pygmy gecko. St. Lucia racer as well. I mean, initially you'd have found a racer on the mainland, but because of the introduction of invasive predators, like for example the mongoose and so on, we have a lot of them. The racers on the mainland were more or less extinct or extirpated. And now they're only on Maria Major. What are the challenges of conservation of these reptiles?  The list is long. But if we had to prioritize, if you would ask me which are the biggest threats or the challenges that we face with regards to conservation of reptiles in particular and generally wildlife on a whole in St. Lucia. The number one species, in fact, the number one factor I'd say would be the invasive alien species. Okay, and by this I mean these are exotic animals. Animals that do not naturally exist in St. Lucia. They were more or less introduced for one reason or the other. And with regards to reptiles, invasive predators play a very, very, very devastating role as it relates to the loss of our reptiles. So we find that there are a number of predators that actually attack our local reptiles. For example, you have the first one I'd say is a mongoose. Mongoose is a really formidable predator that really attacks iguanas, it attacks even baby snakes and so on, lizards, whatever mongooses get, they will eat. In fact, mongooses are implicated for the loss of the St. Lucia racer on the mainland because we initially had racers on St. Lucia's mainland. And because of the introduction of mongooses, you know, then they are confined to Maria. Apart from mongooses, we have rats. Okay, rats also can devastate our reptiles, in particular, birds and so on. And this is why on the offshore islands like Maria Island, Praline Island, Rat Island, we have established a biosecurity mechanism where we have bitstations that actually do three functions. They would actually prevent the entry of rats and so on onto these offshore islands and they would actually do eradication one time. So we have bit that will take care of any rats that would come on these offshore islands. So going back to the threats, so apart from mongooses and the rats, then we have a lot of problems with stray dogs, stray dogs and cats, especially within this St. Lucia iguana habitat. So stray dogs, they actually attack the female iguanas when they come to nest because they nest in the sand on the beaches, like for example the beaches on the northeast coast and so on. And so even before the iguana lays its egg or burrow into its nest, the dogs would attack and kill it. And so generations of iguanas have been lost. We lose a lot of genetic diversity in that way. Cats as well do the same.  And so we have to control these invasive species. So I've mentioned the mongooses, the rats, the cats, the dogs. And we have a number of others. We have feral pigs as well. And so in fact these are some of the major challenges that we face. The other major challenge apart from the invasive species and the predation is one of habitat displacement. Also you have the threat of hybridization. For example, we have the green iguana that is an invasive species in the Souffre Basin. That green iguana can compete with our native St. Lucia iguana. And they could even cause hybridization because if you have the invasive green iguana mating with the St. Lucia iguana you have a hybrid and that would change the genes and change the whole species. And we don't want that because that has implications for conservation, for funding and so on. I notice, well history correct me if I'm wrong, they brought in the mongols to take care of the snakes. But if you notice the population of snakes, especially the venomous one, is increasing. So is that so? And if it is so, I also know maybe again you can guide me in that direction.  Where is that law now and whether in fact there is a prolification of snakes on island? Right, so with regards to the introduction of those mongols, those mongols as well, these invasive species were introduced during the times of the transatlantic slave trade. The Europeans brought these in. They thought that the mongols would have taken care of the snakes. Currently we have not done any survey, population survey to really ascertain or determine the true population of the St. Lucia fedelus or even the boa. It is something that we are yet to do. We need to get down to the true. Because once we may be seeing that there are increased sightings of either the boa or the fedelus, then there may be factors within the habitat that might be causing that. And we need to do the research to determine whether it is as a result of a population increase or is it because of something else. The reason why I am saying that is because in our forests we have feral pigs and those feral pigs are known to predate or eat snakes. So even if they were to get a fedelus they would eat, if they were to get a boa they would also eat and so on. And so we find that in areas within the forest reserve where we see the presence or we see signs of feral pigs, we had to get snakes there. So that could be one of the factors that causes the snakes to go into the forest reserve then they are pushed out in the periphery. And as a result you might see them more in the communities and so on. Also going back to your question, the snakes in particular, like in the case of the fedelus, as I have said we have not really done much of the research into the population. But currently the fedelus is listed as unprotected wildlife. The fedelus by law, based on our law it is not regarded as a protected species. All the other snakes like the boa is protected, the racer is protected, the thread snake is also protected. And back in the day before we knew more and so on or before we were perhaps less sensitive to conservation, then yes there was this bounty that was placed on the head of the fedelus. So cousins would be paid a few cents. So is that still in our books? The books more or less need to be updated or amended. That is why I am saying that there is a call for legislative review. I mean that thing is so archaic now because just a few cents. I am not quite sure how much in particular but it is only a few cents for that purpose. So as it stands the fedelus is still listed as unprotected wildlife. And it is the only venomous snake that we have. In terms of public sensitization, in terms of knowing the difference, and you have a container there. How do you know the difference between the thread snake and the venomous snake? Right, so as I have said the thread snake and the fedelus, there are two biggest snakes that we have. The thread snake is the biggest one and the fedelus is the second biggest. There are three criteria that I would say we could use to broadly distinguish between one from the other. Looking at the head features on both the fedelus and the boa. Looking at the general coloration of the skin and the skin pattern is another one. And the other key one is the tail, the tail features. So looking at the head, the head of the fedelus is more or less rectangular. And it resembles that of a spear. That is why they call it a spear. It is more like a lance head. And then the boa, the head of the boa is more resembling that of a dog head. That is why they call it a tetria. In terms of time, can you show us? Yes, and in the skin pattern the boa has those black and the brown. And then the fedelus has more or less one full color on the skin. And then the scales on the fedelus are rougher. So the fedelus skin seems to be a rougher skin. And the tail in particular I'm going to show you. The fedelus still resembles that of a rat tail. It is thin like a rat, but that of the boa is more or less tippering. So it tippers. I can show you. This was a boa that we rescued this morning in the Denui area. It doesn't stand up too much. Right. So the boa, I mean, it would hiss like this.  So let me just show you the skin features. I can see it from there. Right. So you could more or less see the tail of the boa. The tail of the boa, it just tippers. But that of the fedelus is different. The fedelus has a thin tail just like that of a rat. And you could see the skin pattern of the boa. It has blackish and brownish coloration. Brownish coloration. And the skin seems to be smooth. But in the fedelus, it's different. The fedelus seems to have a, well, it has more or less a brownish color all over. And the skin seems to be rougher. Beautiful. On the fedelus. Yep. And if you look at the head. Yeah, it looks like a dogged. If you look at the head there. Well, there you have it, people. The boa, as it relates, and of course the difference, we didn't have the fedelus because I think it's a bit difficult to bring the fedelus. Yeah, the fedelus is more challenging. It's more challenging to manage. The fedelus is venomous. So you have to have more stringent protocols to have the fedelus here. Any final words from you as we close? Right. So basically, I just would like to emphasize the importance of our biodiversity, our wildlife in St. Lucia. We have some very unique wildlife in St. Lucia as it relates to reptiles and birds. It's the best for research from all agencies, international agencies all over the place. And so it would be important that we learn to appreciate our wildlife and also to learn more about them. We would have to educate our public more about our wildlife so that they can better understand the wildlife and by so doing they can better coexist in order for us to have a higher and a better quality of life. Thank you, Mr. Piles-Hills. I'm hoping that we'll continue to maintain and to ensure that there can be this coexistence between human beings and our animals on the floor. Thank you for being here. You're welcome. You've been watching Agriculture on the Move. Thank you for viewing the program. And remember, agriculture is our business. Stay tuned. Agriculture on the Move. Agriculture on the Move. Agriculture on the Move. Agriculture on the Move. Agriculture on the Move. Agriculture on the Move. Agriculture on the Move. Agriculture on the Move. Agriculture on the Move. Agriculture on the Move. Agriculture on the Move. Agriculture on the Move.


In this tutorial, we're going to be implementing the game part of our spelling game, where we're going to cycle through each of our words, say them, say the sentence that they're in, ask the user to spell the word, and we're going to check the result. It's a lot to get through, so let's get stuck into it. Hey crew, it's the Serping Scratcher here, teacher, server programmer, and on this channel I help curious learners just like you along on your learning journeys. Welcome back to our From Scratch the Python series, where we are trying to transition you from scratch to a text-based programming language called Python. We've made a game of scratch, and we're pretty much finishing it up in Python. We're translating it across. We've got a few more things to implement. If you're just jumping into this tutorial, go check the card in the top right hand corner right now, or a link to the startup project down in the description to follow along. First up, we're going to go through and implement all of these custom blocks here, and then we'll come back to this when the green flag is clicked block to implement it in Python. So let's go check out the say word block. So here we see the say word custom block, and we say a word, then we speak it, and we're going to wait a second. So in this tutorial, we're just going to print the word to the screen, and we're going to implement the text-to-speak engine in future videos. So over here in Python, we need to create the corresponding function, and simply all we need to do is print whatever that word is to the screen. The only difference is that we're going to pass a word in to say word, and we will print that word just like that. Over here in Scratch, we've got a wait one second block. In order to do that in Python, we're going to reference the time module, and we're going to say sleep, and we're going to sleep for one second. Now, see I've got a red squiggly line here. I need to go and import the time module. So I'm going to scroll all the way to the top, and you can see up here, when I've been referencing pre-print that I had to import it, and we need to do the same thing with time. These import statements are a little bit like the extensions in Scratch. So if I open up the extensions, we've got the music extension, the pen extension. We can't use these until we import them into our Scratch project, and it's very similar to the time and pre-print. There's so many different modules out there that other people have written that you can use by just importing them, and you get it for free. Pretty neat. Okay, let's scroll back down to say word. Okay, so let's run our project, and let's just test that function. We're going to pass in a string value, and let's just say hi. And then we go, we've got some text printed to the console, hi. So that is working as we want it to. We're going to do a similar definition for the sentence. So I'm just going to copy all of that, and instead of word, we're going to have sentence, sentence is the parameter, and we'll have sentence, and we'll print the sentence to the console. We're going to sleep for five seconds here, because we need a little bit more time to read the sentence. Now, you might notice a little bit of duplication going on here, and you might ask the question, hey, could we just use one function for both of these? And the answer that would be, yeah, sure, why not? You could just generalize it. You could make this a say function, and say the sentence that you want, and that would actually work for both of them. You'd need to add another parameter, so you could change the value of sleep here. But definitely, you could go ahead and do that if you wanted to. Okay, things are going pretty well so far. Let's implement ask user to spell word. So I've just written it down here, and it's going to take a word. Now, there's a special function, built-in function, that we can use to request user input in the console. And the function for that is just called input, all right? And if we pass in a string to that input, it will come up with a prompt. And the text that we're going to pass it is, spell the word you heard. Now, this will also return the input that the user enters into the console. So we're actually just going to return that exact value. You might notice that, hey, is it a little bit overkill to be using a function to just call a different function? And yeah, you're probably on the right track there as well. You might notice as well that we're feeding it a word, but we're not actually using it. And we will come back to this down the track because we want to actually use this for the text to speak engine. So we don't have it in there just yet. So that's why we will be using this function. Okay, I've just pressed the green run button. I've just pasted in the function name, and we're going to press enter. And you can see here, the console has asked us to spell the word. We can put in any text here and click enter, and you'll see that that becomes our return value. And so what we can do with this is we could create a variable here and assign that variable to the result of our asking the user to spell the word. So if I do that and we go, hello, and we check out what our attempt is now, we can see that attempt is equal to hello, whatever that attempt was for the user. Okay, let's just give ourselves a little comment here and a reminder to implement the text to speech engine because we need to do that for our word here. And we'll also need to do that in our sentence and our say word functions. Okay, next up is our check result function. You'll see over here in scratch in our check result, we've got our answer that we get from our ask input, which is up here, ask and wait. And we're also checking it against the current word. So we're going to pass those to as parameters. We're going to pass in our answer and also the word that we're trying to spell. Now the order of these don't matter. The spelling of them doesn't matter anyway because remember I said attempt up here and we use attempt in the console. If you wanted to make that attempt, it would be fine as well. But just for consistency with scratch, we'll use answer. And we've got an if and else block here and we can do something similar in Python. But the way we'll do it in Python is to set up a local variable and we're just going to assign to it a number and the number will be zero. Zero means no, it's the same as false. And we can say that if the answer is equal to the word, well, then we can just set result to one. And notice again, the two different equal signs going on here. We've got the assignment and then we've also got the comparison and I'm using this comparison to check two strings. Let's just jump down in the console to check that in action. So I've got the string here AB and let's check to see if AB is equal to AB. And that is true. So see how we can compare two strings to see if they're the same. Let's change the B to A capital B. And now it's false. So this is case sensitive. Now I'm going to do something quite sneaky. I'm going to put a dot lower here on the end of the AB. And what this will do is it will transform this string to all lowercase letters. I'll hit enter and you can see it's resulted to true again. That's because it converted this uppercase B into a lowercase B. So back off here, it's going to be important to put that lower in there so we can compare whatever input the user gave us to the word and we don't really care about the case because we just care about the spell. Okay, the last thing we want to do is return that result. So then we can click and run our project. We can type our function, check result. And we can put in two identical strings. And you'll see here we get the result of one. But if we go through and we change one of those strings to B, you'll see here that we get the result of zero. And remember it's case insensitive. So if I put in a capital A here, a lowercase A and a capital A are the same. So we're going to get the result of one. But this will have the same bug as scratch because if we put a space in here, we're also going to get a false result. But there are some other things we could do in Python to strip these white space characters. But I'll leave that up to you to go and research online. Lastly, we could print some feedback to the user to let them know if they get it incorrect or correct. So just below the result on the same level of indentation, let's just print correct here. And notice in scratch, we've got the else block. To do an else block in Python, we just need to go back to that level of indentation, the same level as that if block, and put else and a colon. I'm just going to copy and paste that print statement. And I'm going to write, oops, then I'll run our program. I've got our A and B here and you can see, oops, we didn't get that right. But let's make them both A and you can see, yes, we got that one correct. All right. So we're nearing the finishing stages of our game. We've implemented say words, say sentence, ask you to spell and we've checked the result. Now we need to implement this big block here. But this tutorial is getting long and there's a little bit going on here. So we're going to save that for the next video. In that video, we're going to be exploring lists a little bit more deeper, looking up exact values in lists. And we're going to look at a different way of iterating, which you've done in scratch and it's a whole heap easier in Python. So I look forward to catching you in that video. But until then, I'm off to go find a wave. I'll see you next time.


Baker Mayfield stock is rising, but you know, Jim, I feel like for you, his stock has been rising ever since he replaced Tarad Taylor. What did you see in particular this week that you liked from Baker? Yeah, stocks never been down a big. We can never really give up on on our boy here, but certainly I think that Sunday was the best game we've seen from Baker Mayfield. And it kind of makes sense because first of all, you had to change it off on the coordinator with Todd Haley, gone and Freddie kitchens in, but also the health of this team has been better recently because they've gotten Richard Higgins back, which means Baker doesn't have to throw to Antonio Callaway anymore, who had been a pretty major detriment to Baker's efficiency metrics. So you get healthier bodies, you get a change in the play calling and it has led to a couple of really good games for Baker, especially on Sunday in that game against Atlanta. He added 14.9 or 19.49 expected points to the passer, which was the most he has had all year. It is actually twice as much as he has had in any other game this year. Two of his three best games from an expected points added perspective have been his past two games with Freddie kitchens as his OC. So that's good for Baker. Again, I think that it kind of makes sense to it's not just that the performance has been there, but it's also aligning with the narrative of getting the new play caller in there and getting Richard Higgins back, getting Duke Johnson, the football more often. I think there are so many things that to me say that this performance is legit that I kind of want to believe it. The Browns have more good matchups around the corner when they come out there by week, which is this week. I kind of think we can keep on buying Baker. This offense is playing a lot better. He's getting more support from his offensive line left tackle now. So I kind of think that what we've seen from Baker may feel this legit and it makes me feel better about him. Makes me feel better about Nick Chubb, who looked awesome on Sunday as well. And I kind of think that it's a good time to feel good about Baker coming out there by week next week. I've seen enough here to really validate what we thought could have happened with the change at OC. When you register three touchdowns and only three incompletions, something is clicking. Baker Mayfield stock is up even though for Jim, it was never really down, but that's okay. We are monitoring all of it.


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Aw, what's up everybody once again it's Brandman Sean and this video is brought to you by Brandmannetwork.com because I signed myself and now I gotta talk about something that's kind of wild. I don't know if y'all seen it yet, but Rolling Stone actually came up with an article and they reported that it seems that record labels are signing two artists a day. That's a lot of artists and I'm going to get into some of the details or some of the thought process around that but then really the takeaway for artists or at least what the takeaway should be for how you approach dealing with labels in the industry because you know for artists that is a very real thing everybody's not trying to do the indie route and if anything it's you know it's a good thing to know or think about. So first of all this reflects the fact that labels are playing the numbers a game they're shooting craps right it was like nah I'm not really trying to do this quality over quantity thing that's for the bird is that causes me to do a whole bunch of work I'm gonna just look at this spreadsheet check out these numbers and when I look at these numbers I'm gonna say okay how many artists do I need to break even and then possibly become successful it's the same way that a lot of investors look at tech companies right it's like nah I don't want to have just one company or two companies I need to have a portfolio of companies and I just need one of these companies to make up for the rest of them right and that's the same with artists and actually labels have pretty much always looked at artists that way so I don't want to act like that part is new but that thing is being ramped up and put on steroids because of the streaming era what does that mean why does the streaming era affect things that way well essentially we're in that era where we know content is king right the more content you have the more you can feel the consumers attention and we're looking for market share that's what the industry looks at right we want to be able to feel as much attention as possible I want to be able to take over Spotify have as many songs on Spotify for fans to check out and consume and I don't want to give that up to another label because if my artists aren't dropping stuff or if my labels not dropping stuff that means other labels have those fans attention because they're just putting out more stuff so if I just put out more stuff then I'm gonna have more of your attention by nature if I just had one cool drop or like two or three big artists I don't care how successful the artist is and how talented they are at the end of the day you can only listen to but so much of them and I don't care if this artist drops this one project and it's the greatest project you've ever heard you're not gonna listen to that entire project but for so long so we need to put as much stuff out into the marketplace as possible streaming allows that to happen because things are just different these days fans can just continuously infinitely consume verses the days where you have to buy it all separately of course we had to in between the stealing era but that's that's a whole another thing and bringing it back to what matters right the artist what does this really look like well we already know that means from a label standpoint you're probably not gonna be able to get the care that you need to maximize your career everybody's not necessarily meant to be beyond say but everybody has different levels of maximum and let's just say there were 10 levels and your level was number eight right your maximum level could be number eight at the end of the day you might stop at level three just because a label has a short intention span if you're not working immediately they're gonna move on to another artist because they have so many options just hoping that somebody hits and they're always gambling for the 10 they're not even gambling for the 7s and 8s as much because we have so many options we can kind of afford to really hit those 10s 8s are nice but we really want to just try to get the biggest number possible as a matter of fact there was a perfect example in the Rolling Stone article where a manager by the name of Ian Montone actually cited being in record label meetings right where a song was dropped and the next day record labels will be like nah bro like we got to move on from this it's not working and it's like yo this thing just dropped tomorrow yeah but we looked at the numbers is not working how many people do we know that did not blow up immediately like even the big stars the people we really care about how long did it take Kenji Lamar to hit certain numbers how long did it take J Cole to do certain things and have certain output the consumers microwave mentality is resulting in businesses having that same microwave mentality in terms of how they look at artists could that lead to a deaf march of a artist bubble popping it's something to think about but what artists should really consider is if you still want to deal with some sort of label the best route that you should probably go in is going with an indie label that has a lot less artists that's putting a lot more intention to you as a matter of fact you are more likely connected with their success so that way they'll be able to nurture your career they'll be able to help you do development I know a lot of artists don't really believe in this whole developing myself they think they're hot right now they think I just need this music to blow but the ones who are really doing it they are all still going through development even if it's in real time they're going through development so being independent or going with the indie label overall is the way to go because these labels want market share man and I understand it from a business standpoint it makes sense and numbers are the way to do that because here's a perfect example right there's Apple and then there's Android yeah we know that you know Apple so much cooler right but if you look at the real market share the actual numbers Android has 75% of the market share versus Apple right the iPhone having like 22% of the market share and there's like these other companies in between the reason that is is because the Android operating system works on Samsung phones it works on Motorola phones or some of these other random phones that I came to think of right now that exists outside of just Samsung because I'm been in Samsung for so long personally but there's a lot of different phones there we go Google LG phone there's a lot of them and because their operating system works on all those random things they're able to have more of the market share even though iPhone just has these one set of phones that you can have access to and that one phone does have the most market share as an individual phone I believe it's still competing with all these other phones are out in the marketplace well from a label standpoint it's the same thing right yeah you might have some dope artists right like two or three really dope artists and they have huge fan bases they might even be the biggest artist in the world however there's still all this other time for people to listen to music right there's still so many other type of people who won't even necessarily be fans of those huge artists right everybody's not a Cardi B fan everybody's not a Nicki Minaj fan Jay-Z fan Kendrick Lamar Taylor Swift whoever these people are right so you feel that up with a whole bunch of other artists and you still got most of the market share once again business at large isn't always in alignment with you know what's best for you as an artist so keep that in mind getting into those environments where the odds are a little bit more in your favorite right there's a little bit more attention to you and then from there you can see what happens but I'll leave that at that I'll make sure I put a link in the description to the Rolling Stone article that I've been referencing in this video and of course once again this video is brought to you by brandmannetwork.com because I signed myself if you like this video go ahead like button if you like it might as well share it and if you're not subscribed you know what to do hit that subscribe