I'm going to get it right this time. We on boss talk one-on-one. Yeah, we going to talk, we going to have fun. We be on fire, we'll be lively.  Check it, check it, check it. It's a unique hustle. It's your boy, E.C.E.O. And I'm here with the lovely official Mr. Maker. He done no walk-on with everything. Ay, man. So today we got a special guest, man. Everybody done seen him, man. When he come down to sports, man, you can't miss him, man. Ever since the 90s, man. This guy, he came in the game. Pretty much educated on what was going on with everything that we needed to know when he came to the Cowboys. And this guy has been just treading through when he come to sports, man. Check it out, man. John Jock-Taylor's here. Is it John or Sean? John. I knew I was going to mess it up. Then I tell you that boy came and said, is it John or Sean? I wanted to say John Taylor, but I want to make sure I get it right, man. That's all good, man. Thank you so much for coming on the show, man. Thanks for having me. I appreciate it. I always ask this, man, and I'm going to go first, right? Go ahead. So give us a little bit about yourself in case somebody don't know who Jock-Taylor is. Well, I mean, it's... I'm trying to figure out what I do because I do so much these days. You can't really wrap it up. I've been researching you, so I know you've been busy. Well, really, right now, I'm writing. I'm doing a little bit of TV work. I'm doing some podcasting. I'm doing some radio, and I'm having fun. That's what's up. So what are you coming up? Are you from Dallas originally? Rugged and led by the baby. Oh, man, this dude here, man. Oh, Cliff. He like her from Kingston, man. It's not a game. It's not a game, man. It's Rugged and led by the old Cliff. Say, man, that's real, man. Like, when I first came to Dallas from the country, I was like, man, you got to go... They had that rep over there. So what's going on, Steph? I know you got your list. You see the pamphlet. That's a lot of questions over there.  So I said, wait a minute. I'm going to ask you a couple of questions. Not a whole lot. But I know you covered the cowboy, the Super Bowl. Super Bowl 30. How was that like? Because was that the last time that they won? Yeah, that was the last time they won the Super Bowl. 1995. That was a long time ago. That was my first year covering the Cowboys. To be honest, I tell people this all the time. I made the jump, much like Kevin Garnett and Kobe Bryant from high school to the NBA. So I was covering high schools and they got moved to the Cowboys. Wow. How does that feel? Well, see the way y'all say wow? Yeah. What I'm telling you is I don't really remember very much because it was so hard. And it was so overwhelming that I spent much of that year trying to survive. So I don't really remember a whole lot from that year, which is very ironic to me. I can imagine.  And doing research and divulging yourself into your work. So you're not really getting the chance to enjoy. I don't know. But it's a weird situation. But if I look back at my career, I've been kind of God moving around, moving pieces for you because what happened was I was covering high schools. This is really funny to me because it's always funny when I tell this story. I was covering high schools, minding my own business. And there's one dude whose name I shall not divulge. Got demoted. But check this out. He was covering the NHL, the Stanley Cup. He did something. Nobody knows to this day what he did. The Stanley Cup was. And got demoted. And so the guy who was covering the stars started covering the NHL. The guy who was covering the Cowboys, Tim Cowishaw, who a lot of y'all see around the horn or whatever, said, okay, I'm tired of Cowboys. I'm going to go cover the stars. Ed Werder, who was the number two guy on the Cowboys said, oh, great. That means I get to move up to the number one guy on the Cowboys. And I was suddenly the number two slide opened up. Now, I was just covering high schools, I've had this a few times. It's like Steph Curry right now, where he's an average 40 points in a month of April. I was on one of them streets. Everything I wrote was like, bam, it was fantastic. Good. I think so. So I remember asking my boss at the time, you think that'd be crazy if I tell him I want to cover the Cowboys or to consider me? She said, nope. I said don't lie to me now. And she said, nope. So I spent that weekend coming up with a plan and what kind of stories I would write, how I would try to create sources and all that.  That's how I started. How did you get into writing on a whole? How did you get into it? Just journalism and what was the thing that put you into it? That's just always, I couldn't tell you because it's what I've always done. Yeah, I'm that dude who figured out it. My father would say five. I called BS on that. But maybe not, I don't know. But I just always knew this is what I was going to do. I would say I really made a move toward it in like seventh grade, eighth grade. I mean, it's just what I do. So I couldn't tell you when I started or why I started, it's just what I do. And I've been pretty much single-minded in the focus. So all in high school, I did it. And that's writing, right? But when you got into the sports section of it, is that something you wanted to do? No, I did sports from the jump. See what I'm saying? This is crazy. Before you did it, was that something that you wanted to write? No, I was always good at it. And what happened was... Do you love sports? Yeah. You can't do it if you don't love it. You gotta love it. You can grow to love it because sometimes you get thrown into a position and you're like, okay, let me make the best out of this. Let me start doing some research. And then once you're doing the research and you start to gain knowledge about that, then you're like, okay, well, I like it. No, communication could be different. I was trying to say, I mean, you could do that. I mean, it's like a relationship. You could learn to love somebody. Arrange marriage. You can start off liking somebody and not really be all that interested in them. And then if you hang around of them doing some things you like about them and you could learn to love them, but when it started off, you'd have no interest in it. Is that the way some of the players come off to you? You know what I'm saying? Like, as far as you start off, okay, he all right. But then as you get learned more and more about him, he becomes more... Okay, he's doing the right job. You talking about just relationships with players? No, no, not relationships. Just their skill set, actually. You like in a player because you like... Okay, he didn't start off really great. Yeah, and he was arrogant with it at the time. So attitude did have a little bit to do with it. Are you talking about how I deal with players? No, I don't even go like that. You don't even think about them that way? No, I think about them. The reason I'm good at what I do is I think about them like people.  That's it.  Same thing as locker room. There are players who you just gravitate toward first and so you start talking to them. Some players, you instantly, just like at a party, you're like, they do whack. So you don't have any interest in talking to them and sometimes they prove right or sometimes you go, oh, I was wrong. That dude was cool. And then some people you're ambivalent towards. Wow. People in general, right? Well, yeah, that's, you know, what you have to do is you have to treat athletes like people. Yeah. They are people. They just have more money than you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But as I've told more than one athlete, I'm as good as my job as you are at yours. And I've told some, I'm better at my job than you are at yours. Because I'm at the top of the food chain and you ain't. I've definitely seen some things happen. I can tell you some things when the Dears brand thing happened back in the day. I've seen that. See, it's a certain thing because I always thought of you as my people. You might not know that, but because of her. I know it because of your wife. Right, right. When I see on TV, I tell my wife, I don't know. I'm like, yeah, that's Jock Taylor. You know, that's family right there. But I really hadn't even met him. But I knew Lorraine from y'all wanting to me. So at the end of the day, that's how I look at it. But it's just a good thing. But what happened with you when that, how did that go down for you? And that's a long time ago too. Yeah, I think that was, I don't even remember, maybe 2015? Yeah, yeah. You know, some of it was my fault. Some of it was Dears fault. Some of it was nobody's fault. Okay. That's the backstory. Okay, let's go back to what happened because for people like me who don't know the story. No, I'm going to get to that. That's why I'm just giving you the backstory about Dears fault. Some of it was his fault. Some of it was nobody's fault. Okay. But you know, I think it was 2015. Me and Dears got into a big argument in the locker room. Although the reality is, you know, the famous clip where he's going off and Jason Witton is stopping his press conference and looking, he wasn't even mad at me. He was talking to somebody else. Oh, he just got put out there that way. Well, that's because, I have to have the backstory to understand what happened in the locker room that day. Dears was coming off an injury and I think they played in Seattle and he had two or three catches for very few yards and ended up writing a column about he's got to do better. They need more for him if he's supposed to be who he says he is and who he's proclaimed to be and who he's paid to be. The issue came, so that was fine.  Deal with it on it. But the problem comes, something happened the next day and I couldn't, like, if you write something like that, you have to show up the next day so that if he has something to say, he can say it to you, because I don't think he showed up after the game. So, something happened, like, out of my control. Either I had something I couldn't stop, so I didn't show up on Monday. Now, Tuesday is the player's day off. Okay. I think this is how it went down. So all of that is building up. And then Wednesday, I think what happened is he didn't show up Monday. I think this is what happened. He didn't show up Monday. Tuesday I didn't see him. Wednesday was the day I had something I couldn't, I had to do. So now, Wednesday, because I didn't show up, he told some people, oh, wear that blankety-blank hat. I mean, people do that. It's no big deal. So Thursday, because my people say, yo, your boy looking for you. So I, fine, I'll be there Thursday. So what happened Thursday is, and it's really funny, because he's sitting at his locker, sitting down, and he's looking right, talking to somebody, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking. And at one point he started talking about me. And so, but I'm walking straight toward him, but he didn't see me. So he's talking about me, and then I walk up, writing this grid.  Well, here I am. But it wasn't really all that... I know it was. It was man-to-man talk, because I am a grown man, and you can't talk to me in any kind of way. And I've always been like that. But he got up and he was walking out. And so I'm walking right next to him. And then, and this is what I say when I mean what I said earlier, then this guy named Devin Street, who's also a receiver, comes out. Now, have you heard of Devin Street? Exactly.  I mean, exactly. You ain't heard of Devin Street. So Devin Street walks up, and he tries to say, yo, quit talking.  He gets back. He's trying to take up forward. Right. I get it. You are nobody. You are classic. I'm better at my job than you are at your job. Classic.  And he kept on going. And then he said, why'd you call me the N-word? I'm like, what are you talking about? You just called me the N-word. I thought, what are you talking about? So I'm on with Dez. And now, then Dez comes back and started this guy from Sports Illustrated because he tweeted out our conversation. Wow. So when he's doing all that yelling and screaming, he's screaming at that guy, not me. But in the meantime, Devin Street has told people that I've said the N-word. Oh, man, it's going down. Right. So now, I get on somebody's radio show locally and I'm talking about this incident with me and Dez. And I talk about this guy.  I said, this is my old Cliff vernacular came out. Yeah, yeah. And after that, man, it blew up because and then see, I know how these things work. Since I got radio station, I sent my boss an ESPN and Bristol an email. Yo, this is what happened in the locker room.  And then classic ESPN, oh, it's cool. And then as it becomes a bigger story, now we gotta have a talk. Now, can you have them send us the video, the audio tape, are you on the radio? But fortunately for me, one of the PR staffers said he was walking right behind me when I was having this conversation. He said I was two feet from him. He never said anything like that. And so to make a long story short, it blew over after that. But that was kind of like what happened with Dez. Did you and Dez ever talk after that? Yeah, man. Me and Dez are cool. If I saw him today, he'd tap me up. Yeah, because he ain't no Cliff a lot. He told all the stories on Dez when he was a rookie and when he was coming out of Oklahoma State. So we had a really good relationship. It's just, you know, if you cover people long enough, I mean, it's just like marriage, man. If you stay married long enough, you're going to have some conversations that one person leave mad for a little while. Oh, yeah. But it happens sometimes. I know. Trying to keep it going. Being a journalist, is that one of the biggest situation that has ever happened to you? Because you're going to have some things that you've written that people don't like. And maybe want to step to you and argue with you about a certain, you know, whatever you wrote. Would you consider that as being the biggest misunderstanding? No, I've had a few of them, but typically they... I haven't had any real... Real bad. Not any that lasts because, see, what you talking about happens... I don't think so. Because, see, what happens is that only happens if you've gone about your business a certain way. Okay.  The problem most journalists have talking about is some point when they were writing they made it personal. Like they took a cheap shot or they said something and they made it personal and they deviated from the facts. And again, see, this is all... Being a journalist is a number of relationships. That's why I use a lot of relationship analogies. If you having a disagreement with your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your husband, your wife, you can have a disagreement as soon as you make it personal and make it personal. Okay, now you can elevate the whole debate. So I've never really had those because I can write tough stories but I've always asked you about it before I wrote it. You didn't open it up like, oh my god, I can't believe you wrote that. Dude, I was just talking to you yesterday about what I was going to write and how I was going to write and all these different questions. That's good, man. So that's why I have avoided a lot of that drama. But you don't only do journalism or sports. You do it on other things too, right? No? Only sports? I don't like other stuff. No, seriously, I don't... You could ask my wife, I don't watch local news. I don't want to hear about politics. I don't want to hear about babies dying. I don't want to do any of that. So I had no interest in it and when I was in college, I had to do it for a minute but just a minute and when I was graduating I was turning down job hours.  Nah, for us, not what I do. It's so crazy because somebody mentioned the other day we were talking about the radio and we always feel like the radio is getting extinct somewhat compared to the podcasting or with social media and everything else. For me, when I used to drive to work in the morning, the only time I'd listen to the radio is on the way to work. But now it's a case where people are like, you want to hear about the weather? You want to hear about traffic? I put in my directions in my phone even if I'm going that way every day all the time and I'll see, okay, is there a wreck? So I don't ever listen to the news anymore even for traffic because my phone tells me everything. So there's no need to sit down and I wait for that news to come on or wait for this. I can find it out right there on the tip of my fingers.  Well, I'm pissed at the radio industry because they fired me once I had a top 11 show. But in my business Randy Galloway who used to have a radio show for about 20 years, he's one of the first people to show a blue, see journalism is not a business when I got in it that you got rich. You can make a nice living but you couldn't get rich. Randy Galloway created a blueprint for how you get rich and how you get rich is you become a columnist and when you have a columnist, you're an opinion maker and once you're an opinion maker then you get a radio show. Alright, and then what happens? You can take, I mean in normal situation okay you getting paid a lot because columnist is top job at the paper now I got a radio show. I can bank all that money. That's how you get rich. That was the blueprint for journalists getting rich. And so when I became a columnist I was like, where my radio show? Where is that? And so I finally got one. Now the problem was You had that goal set once he told you that you had your goal set on That's the blueprint. That's something doable. That's something I can do. And I did it for 8 months and then I got laid off at ESPN and so I was like because when I got the radio show I was like, man I only need to do this for like 3 or 4 years. I'm straight. Did you like it? Yeah. And so once I got laid off from ESPN then the radio became I never wanted the radio to be a full time job but then it became my main job because radio ain't fair I mean radio, new program, director come in don't like the sound of your voice you got deep fire. Yeah we just had Vita Loco on here Sunday so radio I never wanted that to be my main girl and so but it turned out that way and I enjoyed radio but then radio show it didn't want to be a main girl we went from 31st which was last in the market it was really funny to me we were last in the market last March because of the pandemic people's listening habits changed and we were always on the cusp anyway we dropped all the way to the bottom took it all the way up to number 11 and then literally 3 weeks later they said well we changed to a national format so all y'all fired wow but I seen it happen like I said Vita Loco just went through that same thing and they just don't, you have to have some tough skin I told her to work in radio and they do a lot of layoffs for some reason when we were talking to J Cruz you were saying how they laid they just shut that whole radio station basically what they did they don't give you no heads up no nothing the good thing for us was they told us that in August and we had 6 weeks before the final show and so me and my radio host because again we had gone from 31st to 11th in 5 months so clearly people liked the show yeah definitely and so that's when we decided to turn the show into a podcast and we got an LLC and started putting everything and we were like hopefully you know in next few months we can make some money and it turned out that we had several people contact us right away saying hey we could never advertise on your radio show because the rates were too high before your podcast tell us what you're charging we're like oh snap that's good and so we've had advertisers from day 1 and now I think we just added 2 more this month so we're up to 10 I think we got 10 advertisers we got a title sponsor we got some work to do so it's great so we're actually able to pay ourselves a little bit every month and that's on your podcast which is great and so it's growing matter of fact we just we just had our best month in terms of downloads in March and I say I'm shocked because this a football season this is the off season yeah I was just looking at jam session so how'd you guys come up with that name Jock and Matt that makes sense you know what I'm saying we basically just we put bosses in the front you see so what about the first Superbowl that you cover were you nervous have you ever been nervous when you covered something not really no it's um I mean why are you nervous it's what you do you say that I used to play a little ball and stuff I got a little butterflies with the first of the game or something you know the world and if I was going into an unknown situation the first time yeah it mess with me a little bit after you start then bam you get some excitement but I wouldn't I wouldn't call it nerves because you know to me this is just me now nervousness is a product of you're not really comfortable you're not fully prepared but I know what I'm doing and I know I'm prepared and I know I'm good at it and so the whole key is it doesn't matter what you're talking about writing sports whatever it's not to make it bigger than it is it's what it is you know one of my favorite quotes of all time came from Emmett Smith because you ask athletes all time hey same question you just ask me so you're asking Emmett were you nervous before the Superbowl he goes oh no so the obvious question is why not he said you know people who get nervous look at it as there's a million people I mean 18 million people or 50 million people out there watching me man what if I mess up he goes nah man me and Mike looked at each other that's why it's one of my favorite quotes me and Mike looked at each other and said yo there's a million people about to watch us do our thing let's go it's just a difference in mind setting so no I get you know you get excited because it's a big game or big moment or big event but nervous what about let me ask you this so I mean my kids they 15 my older one is an Eagles fan of course but anyway they never seen the Cowboys win anything I was gonna get to that point because the fact that I'm not from here right so what I consider football is soccer and when I came here of course Jamaica because I'm from Jamaica but anyway but when I came here oh Cowboys is America's team they sure are what makes the Cowboys the American team and then every year they gonna win and I'm like and I'm like really in the beginning I'm not gonna like I'm trying to bandwagon because I'm like America's team yeah I go but I've been so tired of being let down and I'm just like you know what forget y'all we do good a lot of years the last time you experienced a Super Bowl 95 what do you think that they are missing compared to the team that you saw back then compared to the teams that you have seen not even just now over the years it's been so many years wait a minute don't stress it like that the reality is every team goes through cycles alright and when you go through your cycle you have an opportunity to win the question is will you win during that cycle now sometimes there's an outlier team that comes from nowhere that appears but most of the time teams that win they're in the midst of a four or five year run where they're really good and it's did you win during that period so if you look at the cowboys do they have that run like for years like consecutive consecutive they had so if you lose don't do this to us man if you move past the last Super Bowl alright they had a window from about 2007 through I don't know maybe really from 2007 till now they've had three chances where they were one of the best teams 2007 2014 2016 where they were really capable of winning champs because it's hard to win I mean it just is so they had opportunities those years to win and they didn't take advantage of them one of them they should have been a catch so they lost that game one year dude from Green Bay makes a great catch on the sidelines so they ended up losing what's the name of that quarterback no matter which team he goes on we're going to talk about that there's an outlier there's one dude in the history of the national football league who's done that so it happens if you played with Michael Jordan you ain't winning no championships because Michael Jordan was playing so you just a hate him what's your making what's your making national soccer team one lately we ain't going to talk about you saying both because we know that's what they go to that's what they go to I just asked about you playing that's the topic at hand okay because I was going to say they ain't messing with this man today they ain't want nothing no we do have you saying both we do have you saying both we ain't talking about track we talking about soccer because you said soccer was your sport you didn't say track was your sport he said soccer was your sport let me tell you something about Jamaicans being a Jamaican every sport that Jamaica represents is Jamaican sport okay how y'all doing in the sugar cane shopping sugar cane shopping y'all going to go a melonette sugar cane shopping how y'all doing in that blunt rolling we might have we might have if there is a blunt rolling competition Jamaicans will win this is true this is true what other questions you got from this jock tell ya so being a Cowboys fan who said that was a Cowboys fan that's a good question really? why do you look like that that's surprising because you reported on them you were there around them all the time that's why I'm not a fan okay hold on were you a fan back then 95 I was probably I was a fan of the Cowboys up until I started covering them because once you cover them you can't be a fan fan them about I root and I cheer for your team okay that's cool I'm a Know How State fan I root and I cheer for my team I have an emotional investment in the Buckeyes I have no emotional investment in the Cowboys because the first time you get cussed out by a player you cease to be a fan you gotta understand it's work it's not it's just work it's like everybody got a job my job is to tell you why they won why they lost you do a good job everybody way how they just love the Cowboys he wanted the reasons though he'd be breaking it down we feel like we're in the locker room anywhere I travel and I tell anybody oh go Cowboys you all over here New York wherever we went they always loved them they're America's team because you love them and hate them that's it now I never heard the stress that way but it makes sense they bring out the emotions in people everybody get mad when I say something they get mad but it's fine but let them be mad we riding together me and the Cowboys every year so do you think that they'll ever come back yeah everybody will come back well you gotta tell you when now that that money is going down he has hopes every year he's a fan he's supposed to it's going down people don't know that he got something approved this year y'all think y'all are going to win see they do and we ain't mad at jeez we just getting into it ourselves we doing our thing so 25 Super Bowls you done covered is that really true I read up on the little bit then it's true it's true say man thank you so much for all the time man you looked out for me man giving me that insight that I might not even watch the game I said yeah I believe him and then I gotta go and highlight something good so how is it working with because you work with different television stations and all that over the years man you've done a lot man you're building relationships the whole time there's names and people you can call on you can even understand you've dealt with Jerry Jones you know it's the stuff that I would love to do to be honest with you to speak with certain people to elevate what I think you know I mean I think it's uh you know the thing you have to do is what I just said you have to treat people like people you know I treat Jerry Jones like a dude not like some billionaire owner and what happens is you know it's not a matter of I have to accommodate him now I'm just me just being who I am and being me is either good or not but if you're authentic like that there's a certain realness to you you know right now I'm doing a lot of work with ESPN's undefeated which is a website where they focus on sports and culture and it's really about which is another way of saying focus on black folks and so I've been going down and doing a lot of work on Jackson State and Deion Sanders cause he's coaching there yeah I was about to ask you about him and you know Deion and I were talking a few weeks ago cause he was talking to a couple of his players and they were shocked that a reporter was in the locker room cause this was during the middle of the week and he said I've been knowing Jacques 25 years he said he's around you sound like him right now stop playing bro he said he's around cause he's the same dude today that he was 10 years ago that he was 20 years ago that he was 25 years ago and I met him he ain't changed you know he said and you brought up the word and he actually said it he said it's that consistency that I don't have to worry about him which is why he's around right now cause I don't have to worry about him he's gonna do his job and it's cool but the point of that is relationships which are built on authenticity and built on realness and again and I've said this many times it's the people you had the best relationships with that you had the toughest questions for because they know that you don't have an agenda so if I ask you like I was talking to Deion the other day and after a game he basically said the players aren't good enough there's a disconnect we're teaching them, we're telling it to them we're not getting it now you can accept that answer or you can say well I gotta ask you dawg the obvious question is are y'all teaching them well enough are y'all breaking it down for them to understand that's the question that you would ask anybody yeah unless oh man he gonna get mad at me so can't worry about it but people are worried about it I'm kinda like that on my job so I get exactly what you're saying that's the question you have to ask and then when you ask that question oh you get a much better answer dawg we only had eight defenses in we started talking about it really with the details he said we only had eight defenses in I went to the sideline and said what defense y'all want me to call what can y'all, what can we call where y'all won't have any mental mistakes they said call this we called that, next play we gave 43 yard touchdown dude ran down the sideline he probably still running I'm not afraid to ask why I get that answer cause I wasn't afraid to ask the follow up question which was in a nice way is it your fault that they ain't learning it that's exactly right I get it 100% Ty how do you think he's doing down there I think he's doing fine because this is an interesting year this is not his team like I would submit to you that of the 22 players who started the last game I would say the over and under would be five and a half starters in the fall over you take the under I would take the under so I don't think a lot of the guys playing right now will be playing in the fall and so I think he's done a good job I think it's anybody takes over a position like that they haven't won in seven years now dude ain't no miracle worker so it takes time to get your players it takes time to change the culture but they think the people who see Deion come because of the way Deion always won they gonna think we good now a lot of the people a lot of the fans yeah but fans are fans fans are fans for a reason but he's Deion Sanders man I know you seen him run down the sideline and all that back in the day boy y'all we had some hell of a years man I ain't gonna lie to you listen man you seen some things man I wish I could see I seen on TV though what was the height what was to you in your opinion what was the height of your career the thing that you saw that was such an amazing event event event and just anything in the journalism that you think that touched you the most an event that I went to event and then something that actually touched you whether someone said something or an award that was given or something like that event that's interesting you know I think if I think about it I covered the 2010 Olympics okay and the reason that stands out to me is one they thought enough of me to send me to the Olympics wow that's good two now I know why they did it they did it because I was the best deadline person that they had amongst colonists and it was in Vancouver and so obviously with the time difference you know you want somebody who can write fast and good on a deadline so I figured that was part of the reason why they sent me but the reason that sticks out it was a monumental part of my career because I got up there to the Olympics it was the winter Olympics so you don't know nothing about that you only know about the summer Olympics except for that Jamaican Bobsled team that was it that's it I learned it somewhere Jamaican is always in there somewhere but you coming back I might have to get him back over here so I'm like you I don't know nothing about the Winter Olympics except hockey I know hockey is good and so I'm covering it the first three days and I'm not maybe first four days because I was there 21 days and so I'm not very pleased but I'm not very pleased with him and then I went and covered this skin event with Bodie Miller who was one of the best skiers in America I think he was coming off an injury and whatever he did that day I can't remember how he finished but I wrote that story and I turned it in and I said oh shit yeah I said that I didn't figure this thing out it ain't about the skiing or the figure skating it's not really about the sport it's about the person and I was like yo I just write about the people I make the sport the backdrop I'm gonna write about the people and as soon as I figure that out I got a note a couple of days later from my boss oh your last two pieces been fantastic keep it up and so really from then on even now I write about people whatever it is it's about the people it's about the heroes it's about the villains it's about the people because that's what people are interested in that is so true because we want to know I love where we I love and hate where we are right now in society because I love the fact that a lot of people are becoming more transparent with their life with their everyday you feel like you know a lot of people buy it with the social media what people write people are not trying to just hide everything some people can be so overly intrusive and just say all sorts of things and end up being bullying and those are the parts of it I don't like but I love the fact that I feel like I know you through whether writing or what people tweet out or what people say on Instagram, Facebook without actually knowing the person although not everything on social media just like not everything in the news is true you have to pick out you know right how did you like that social media when it came into play because you've seen it when it came into play for us the tweets and all the stuff, the Facebooks it just is what it is did you seem like it was more opportunity for journalism for us to put stuff out there in a certain way or did it take away from it because journalism is where people used to always look for whether it be writing up in the Dallas newspaper or writing up I mean watching the news on TV people weren't really looking everything on social media to see the news and to see certain things I think social media gave provided more of an opportunity for journalists to brand themselves that's what I think whether you took advantage of it, whether you didn't whether you got labeled an expert whether you got labeled a knucklehead I think it just gave you more of an opportunity for people to to brand yourself because people can reach you before they couldn't really reach you send you a mail, send you a letter whatever now they can reach you instantly I think like what you just said e-mails when I seen the post office when I seen they wouldn't convert when e-mails came out they lost money on that whole ordeal not converting quick enough they could have home then on that old market because they already had all the masses and I felt like I was like okay so the next thing happened you got to be on top of it as you lose out because technology is moving so fast and that's kind of how I looked at it because I seen a lot of people get laid off I think it was Sylvania people get laid off from that place post office so I was like man if they had converted that they would have saved all those people's jobs I always thought about that I think when social media first really started jumping it was a matter of embracing it or not embracing it and whether it's technology or something like this I've always been somebody who embraces change whatever the latest is up until recently like the last five years I was that guy whenever new phone out I got it dude that was until I said okay now these phones are out so fast they won't be changing but for a while the technology was changing so fast that every year it would be different so I did that for like a decade because I always liked the newest best technology some people don't like technology because they're scared of it I started doing it I liked that but then I hated it too because I always say okay let me give it a while for them to iron out a bug because whenever it comes out you always hear well sometimes it's a recall on it because this part needs to be fixed I'm like you know what I don't want to be that person that has it and they have to recall it I'm like I feel like that about that vaccine right now hey man I'm scared of that vaccine I didn't even want to go there I'm kind of scared I had my uncle on the phone Uncle Calvin Brown and I had my uncle James Rowland out of California one of them took the shot and one of them didn't and they both I was listening I had them on three way because I don't get to go see them like I used to and they're older yeah they're older one's like 80 something he didn't take shots he said are you sure about that I said dang so you didn't take it so I'm edging it on I want to know why he didn't take the shot but he said did you have any symptoms after you know like he was thinking about asking yeah he read the one in California Uncle James Rowland he was like I don't know about this but you say the older you think the older guy needs to take it yeah if you're in the wheelhouse you need to take it well I'm gonna I'll say this on there because I just want people to know that I was in a meeting the other night in a late night meeting and yeah my friend wife is a nurse and she say five elderly people took the shot and what else did he say that they passed away five elderly people died the same one of course all people gonna die in there we got it's just a touchy situation you'll never know what it's about let's talk about DMX with the overdose but some people say it's because he took the shot two days before don't give me that conspiracy stuff I ain't giving you no good you know somebody like that who knows what was in his sister that's what I said you don't know that's that's just we live in a crazy world man I tell you what let me ask you a question I don't do drugs I'm not asking about that I'm not asking about that I ain't ever a drug guy but you do people who have yeah he's black well see check this out now see I believe I believe this but I know a lot of people in Oak Cliff no I don't brand a city like that no but the hood let the man answer the question oh god go ahead I know people who have smoked weed who smoked weed I don't consider weed a drug I don't like none of it because I'm a control freak and so I don't like anything that prevents me from being a control so I've never been a drug guy and so I never hang around drug people and I be intoxicated by a lady oh yeah and I might be I might be OD'd on that there you go but no I've never been I mean I think I was tried to blunt once in my life maybe twice I didn't fear you see what the big deal was yeah it made me to why I didn't want to do nothing so I didn't mess with you I like to be on point I got stuff to do I don't like none that does my senses that's it original question so being in the career that you are in if a young kid wanted to do something like what you're doing what advice would you give them but also would they have to have thick skin to be in the career that you're in they can't be also sensitive um okay I'm gonna take the second one first whatever you do you can't be sensitive because you know I tell people it doesn't really matter what field you're in or what you're doing you figure out amongst the people you can touch who knows what they're doing okay Elvis is in communications so when you start off you figure out who's really good at this job and you have some kind of rapport with them you're the people who can tell me if I'm doing things well or if I'm not anybody else is just noise because people will tell you all sorts of things that have you believe and you can't do something because they don't like you or whatever that has nothing to do with you and you be feeling like oh I can't do this and nah it's really they just had an agenda so I've always been a person who kept a very tight circle about what I could do and what I couldn't do and then literally if you weren't in my circle what you said really had no effect on me and it didn't matter if you was my boss or not because bosses are the same way they don't like you they think you privileged they think you shouldn't have it so the fact that you were a boss the fact that you were my teacher didn't affect me at all if my circle didn't say but the thing is you have to have people in your circle like I'm in people's circle now and I remember I called my boy up one day he wrote a story he was covering high schools or something for the morning news and I had been working because I tell people they say hey I'd like for you to work with me okay you want the truth because if you don't want the truth I ain't really the dude for you yeah yeah cause I say this is JJ's tea school of jungles I can't even roll you but you know it is what it is so I called my boy up what the fuck is this you wrote what do you say what are you talking about I mean really dude what are you doing it sucks period this is what's wrong with it you can write this at any game any place any time in a year what are you doing nothing about this is original to the game that you went to you ain't got no quotes you ain't got the wire in there you better than this dawg then he went through it and look yeah you right man let's not have these half ass effers no more my time is valuable your time is valuable I told another friend of mine actually he's the same guy this is like a year later I'm with the SMU beat I need the SMU beat you ain't ready for the SMU beat you know dawg no you ain't this is what you need to do go do this high schools do this do this do this do this do this don't worry about the other stuff just focus on these things right here do that you be ready for SMU in a year he did that came back SMU beat over I need it alright I got you put you on there he had to go through it at least you ain't setting people up for failure that's one you don't let so everybody gotta have thick skin the advice I give is it's universal advice because it doesn't matter it applies to whatever you want to do the first thing you have to do really to be successful is to figure out who you are like some people like me figured out it 11 or 12 some people can be in my sister was in her mid 30s before she figured out who am I what do I do what do I stand for what am I all about what do I tolerate what do I not tolerate which is one reason I ain't ever been around drug people because they know that ain't what I do I ain't mad at you if you do it but you do it over there we play video games so who are you and once you figure that out then it can be where am I going because you can't go nowhere till you figure out who you are I mean you go someplace but there's no destination in mind it's just okay so who are you where are you going that's your destination that's where you pull out the GPS okay now I'm going here okay now how do I get there bus, car, walk, jog, run swim, boat, yacht how am I getting there and those are all different phases to take people different periods of time that's why some people say you need to write a goal write it down so you and put it up so you can see it so you can know okay I've done I did this step I did this step and you still have your goal in your eyesight because sometimes when you don't write it down now my wife is all about that I mean I he don't write stuff down I write I'll forget so I gotta write it down well say I started I had a conversation with one of my boys a couple weeks ago because he's big into visualizing and writing things down and he's crushing it probably listening to Steve Harvey so I said I'm in a I'm in a different phase of my life so I'm gonna see what you're doing and see if it works for me now whenever you do this and I tell people it's all time you can't you can't copy what somebody else is doing you know whatever your plan is whatever your thing is you can't copy but you can show it to me and then like anything I take it and I manipulate it and I put in what works for me and I switch some things around and ultimately I kind of bastardize it and make it my own that's what you're supposed to do you're supposed to take other people's ideas some people are like oh you're trying to copy no I don't even call it taking people's ideas that's your inspiration and you make it your own because what works for somebody else might not work for you you have to make it into your own I got a question I'm gonna take it over in just a second I took it from my guy and I just sent him a text today that said yo we talked about this two weeks ago and the last two days was the first time I got it the way I wanted because I've been moving it changing it, altering it, moving things around I finally got it like I wanted and it's already working dawg and I gave him an example of how I made it work and he's like that's what it's for and you know because I'm trying to create some different and some new habits which is hard to do at my age but not impossible oh no it ain't impossible it just requires more focus I wanna ask you what's the key to a long successful marriage you know I gotta get in there no you don't and how long have you been married? oh he been married like us so 17 years this time oh he a bad boy I was 10 on the first one um the key is to uh to do what it is that you do um and I say that because we have a very in a lot of ways I would say we have a non-traditional marriage which means I don't fix nothing don't ask me to fix nothing fixing stuff is not what I do she fixing stuff cause she grew up in east Texas and where you had to fix stuff in a lot of cases and she likes to fix stuff she likes to buy something and put it together I don't like to put it together and so don't say well that's the man's job no that's not what I do so don't ask me to do it I'm kind of the same way you and I'm from east Texas I'm from Jamaica he doesn't put anything together but you know what I feel I feel like okay you'll pay for somebody to do it how about this I'll fix it you pay me that's what she be saying I'm like no I'll take the money cause I get the choice to hire who I need to hire to get it done but I do most of the cooking I do most of the grocery shopping you make me do the grocery shopping we do it together I think uh we had a lot of conversations I think people always say communication but I mean the reality is people fight over sex and money so if you can figure those two things out it really reduces the amount of time that you argue and if you know I think the last thing I don't really think it's complicated but it's complicated for a lot of people is neither one of us sweats the small stuff like people do stuff to get on your nerves every day oh every day but if you sit around and tell somebody every time you do something to get on my nerves I mean what's the point I mean I do stuff to get on my nerves every day she does stuff to get on my nerves every day but it doesn't do you any good to point it out you just point out the big stuff like yo okay this right here come on now yeah yeah we gotta work on this but outside of that man cause anybody if you toss away and find another one it's just gonna be somebody else who do stuff to get on your nerves I know it that's my big deal right there I was like oh yeah if I try to go with another but if she toss me away it'd be some other Joker who would get on her nerves so it's all about for me and her it's about that and we got a real good money concept and so if you could do that you make it happen one guy was on there he said that if you don't have money you don't have love something like that she was upset with him when the money run out the love is gone when you see when you get married there's a partner you choose it for money it's not really for love and the aspect of cause I told him I said like I've heard like tiny her aunt would always tell her when you marry married for money but in her case she was happy that she got married for money but then the love also came as well because a lot of people although you say you married for love if you don't have a job or if he's not doing this you jump in shit because he's not doing he's providing we haven't had that problem so I really can't relate to that but that's what he was saying I think men and women look for different things at marriage I look for love because I grew up believing in that the fairytale love the white picket fans the white picket fans and stuff like that all of that sort of stuff cause growing up as a little girl watching those we had Sunday matinees that used to come on with the Dean Martin and all of those type of movies love the romantic stuff so that's what I was always growing up thinking life should be like then you watch boys in the hood when you came over here and it's going down Jock Taylor man we appreciate you for coming on the show man one more thing I need your top three artists music wise I wasn't going to put that on you you listen to music any genre dead or alive so it can be soul it can be R&B it can be hip hop you don't know what that man listen to I don't think it's very original my favorite three it's your top three it's funny I would say I have my top three of all time and then I probably have my top three that I'm listening to now top three of all time would probably be Michael Michael Jackson Michael's my genre that's who I grew up with and then there's probably Prince that's the two of them and then the third one is really interesting because I'm not really sure who that would be there was somebody in that slot could be somebody you listen to now it's up to you uh you know my problem is I'm so eclectic these days those are like McDonald's and Burger King and whoever is third is so far behind yeah rightfully so because Prince was a monster he played 27 instruments a lot of people who say Michael always throw like Tupac somewhere in there yeah but no I'm thinking I was really more of a Tupac than a Biggie guy I don't like Biggie Tupac got me through my divorce wow something hard matter of fact Tupac is probably number three number three so Michael Jackson Prince and Tupac not a bad selection I like it well I'm a UGK fan don't do this I listen to PLC and UGK see I don't really like rap see we different but if I went with music I said 27 instruments I know you've heard of UGK till I came here UGK or till I met him well I mean I came out of high school in the country and that's what I listen to now if y'all got a problem with it you know what I'm saying that's y'all that's my top three but definitely we love you man we definitely appreciate you coming on we want to bless you with an award because we we want to bless roses while they're here especially when they're y'all counting we have a lot of guests you definitely stick out well I appreciate it very much I see you're gonna star a lot of my pictures off of facebook I'm gonna have to change my account to pride shout out to the official manager so you wanna sit back down before we're gonna do it over here then we'll work Lorraine for doing the okay cool so man do you want to present it to him now and then he may want to hold it or anything okay well let me present you with this award so much I appreciate that yeah man look at this hey the best journalist to come through for me I can promise you that I already knew that oh that's her say man boss talk 101 okay Mr. Jack Taylor we here at boss talk 101 would love to present you with this award to tell you thank you for your many many many many many years of service in the I'm only many many many many years of service okay okay let's say that again many many the years of service in the sports journalism industry and we'd love to thank you really really really good work alright well I appreciate that thank you Jack Taylor we're giving them roses while they're here


Hello students, welcome to module number 16 of your introduction to data science course. In this module we are going to cover fundamentals of inferential statistics. Inferential statistics is about study of data collected through a sample and then making generalization about the overall population. In this we use different techniques like probability theory, probability distribution, then we use different estimations or forecasting techniques, then there is something called central limit theorem which is very interesting basically you know theory or a theorem about the data we collect from samples and then we talk about hypothesis testing. Hypothesis testing is the I would say basis of over inferential statistics. We collect the data, we have certain assumptions. We set assumption about a data which is called dull hypothesis and then which is normally you note it with H0, then H1 is your alternative hypothesis which you discover after putting your or applying your statistical model or the statistical distribution on the data. So in this picture you see that there is a population and there is a sample. So a sample has to be collected most probably or it is best is to select a random sample. There are different techniques again sampling or random sampling is a complete subject within statistics but we assume here that we are just talking about basic sampling techniques. So we select a random sample from a population and we have to make sure that when we apply data collection method which is a survey. So you should try your planning so that you can collect the true representative of the population so that you generalize some estimation about the population. It should be close to the real values. Now we talked about probability. So probability is something about happening of something. If I say that for the first time you are watching in the picture that we have this dice, the grain of wheat, when we roll it, there are six different possibilities. Your one will come, two will come, three, four, five, six. Everybody likes a six but it doesn't come basically. You have to wait. This is something which is not in your control and it is basically it depends on something which I think nobody knows. Anyway this is just to explain to you the probability theory. The chance of anything happening is called probability. For example, if it is raining, then it is raining. Now in probability or estimation, weather forecast is used a lot and there are many complicated things in it. So when we apply these things to our different models of statistical, then we will discuss them. It is important to discuss here and understand the logic of probability theory. This is one of the simplest examples. So basically probability and when you combine it with a lot of samples, if you have rolled one dice a hundred times or five hundred times, then the results come, you tell them and record them. Or if you roll two dice, then the results come that the first one has three, the second has five, the second has six, the second has six. So when you do all this, then you do it this way, the entire data is collected and then when we plot it according to the distribution, then your probability distribution is formed. In the world where there is a lot of betting on games, on casinos and so on, then the theory of probability is very applicable. The fundamental of our inferential statistics is the statistical estimation that I have collected a data, I have built a model on it, and then I have estimated it. As we are talking about cricket in one of the previous modules, when you play a 50 over or a 20 over game, then the team management plans it. First I have to do this in 10 hours, then this in 20, then this in 30. And if it does not happen in that way, then they manage it according to what it is like to increase the speed in the next over game, you have to increase the average or you have to stop the average, depending upon what you are bowling or betting. So this is the use of estimation. The central limit theorem, this is very interesting, it says that everything in this world is normally distributed, which is in fact not, but this is a theorem that we have a lot of things that are applicable. That is statistically proven that as the sample size increases, it becomes close to your population. And as you increase, when you study different statistical distributions, you will get an idea that when you increase the sample size, then the distribution can be converted into a normal distribution. The final inferential statistic in this is hypothesis testing. As we said earlier, it is null hypothesis, then it is alternate hypothesis. Based on that, you can study it in three areas. The left side, the lowest side of your distribution, the center side, or the higher side, you can study those three. The bell shape curve, it does not mean that this thing is small or big, it is basically number of occurrences or the representation of standard deviation or variance represents that thing.


Today, you're going to learn how to create your very first click upgrade right here. Oh, look how rich we are. Hello, everyone. It is Crypto Grounds here. Welcome back to another Unity idle game tutorial video. This is episode two, and this is part of the 2021 series. And today we're going to be setting up our upgrades. And today we're specifically going to work on the click upgrades for our game. So anyways, if you enjoyed this video, make sure you smash the like button, subscribe to my channel if you're new, and turn on the bell for future notifications and live streams. If you want to support me, click that join button below or check out the Patreon and description below. Anyways, let's just get on with it. So in the previous episode, 1.8, we were able to set up GitHub desktop right here. So if you follow it along and you remember me changing the project name, and if you were able to change your folder name as well, you may notice that if you go back to Unity Hub and your project is gone. If that's the case, just simply click on this add button and scroll down to your project, which mine is right here out of game tutorial series 2021 repo, and select folder and it should put it back right here. And we'll just open it right up. All right, guys, we are in Unity. And so the first thing we're going to do is create a brand new script or class. And we're just going to go to our scripts folder, right click on it and go to create C sharp script. And we're just going to call this the upgrades manager. So this is where all of our upgrades are going to go. And we're just going to keep things organized. So now another thing we're going to have to create is, and we're also going to have to create another script. And we're going to call this upgrades. So this will be used for our buttons and generally just making it easier for us to manage individual upgrades, like being able to change all the text, the colors and stuff like that. So currently we have the upgrades manager open, but we also want to open data and upgrades. Alright, so in our data class, this is where we're going to store everything. Obviously, we're going to create our first upgrade in here. And we're just going to need to store the level only. So in the past, in the previous series, what I did wrong is that I stored everything in here, we're not going to do that. We're going to do things much differently in here. And it's going to be amazing. So we're going to create a big double object here. And we're just going to call this the click upgrade. Okay, so we're going to add more eventually. But we're going to do it in a completely different way. And I want you guys to know that we will be adding more in the future just differently, not just copying pasting. Okay, click upgrade, click every two, click up a three. Okay, we're going to do things completely different. So make sure you just keep going in the series and you'll know what I'm talking about. And for now, we're actually going to call this level. But we're going to set this click upgrade level equal to zero in our data constructor here. Okay, so cool, we have our click upgrade level in here. Now how we're going to determine the cost and all that stuff. So let's create a few variables here. So we're going to create one in here called the base costs. So we're just going to call this click upgrade base cost. And the next one we're going to add is the cost multiplier, because we need to somehow calculate the growth of the cost. So in here, we're just going to call this click upgrade cost molt. Well, we need to initialize these because I mean, we can just set this equal to 10 in here and then just set this to 1.5. But once you set these variables to a number, they won't change until you recompile your game, which is like building it. So we're not going to be initializing stuff in here, we're going to be doing that inside the public void start method. So we're just going to set our base cost equal to 10, for example. And then we're going to set our cost molt equal to 1.5. Okay, so basically, the cost is going to multiply by 1.5 every time we buy an upgrade. Okay, so now where do we bring this all together into a magical little soup? Well, we have our level, we have our base cost and our cost molt. Where do we do the black magic? Well, all we got to do is simply create a big double cost method. Cool. So now we're going to do everything in here. And we're just simply going to return the cost from in here. Now we will be modifying this throughout the series. So be sure to keep an eye on that. But for now, all we need to do is simply just do return base costs, click upgrade base costs. And we're going to multiply this by big double dot pow. And we're just going to do cost molt. So I actually just realized I spelled that wrong. My bad. You didn't see that. But yeah, we're going to basically just do base costs times our cost molt to the power of, okay, where's our level? How are we going to access this now? We can just do. Okay, so remember early on in the series, we created this controller dot CS class here. Well, it has our data in here. So this is our monster. This is our central powerhouse. This is where everything's just going to be focused on. This is where everything's going to be controlled from. Okay. So what we're going to do in our upgrades manager is create a brand new data object here. Now the thing is that if you modify this one right now, it's going to change a separate one inside upgrades manager, not the one that we created in controller. Okay, they're two separate objects. They're just the exact same name. So now how C sharp works is that if you were to set an object to another object, you're basically setting the reference of that object to the original one. So here, I'll show you how we're going to do this. But we're also going to add in here, which we're going to change in the future. But for now, just to keep things basic, we're going to add our controller object in here. So we're just going to call this controller lowercase like that is what we're going to do is set data equal to controller.data. So now we're basically setting this data to a reference of controllers data in here. Okay. Now an alternative method to this is simply just ignoring all this and you can literally just do controller.data and then you can access the level here. Okay, it's the same exact thing. So I'm going to keep mine like this for now, just to keep things simple. So don't forget that semi colon and it is good to go. And we can convert this into something called an expression body, where if you have something that's a single line like this, you could basically just copy this line here and create this Lambda arrow right here and paste it in here. So basically, this only works for one line one liners like this. So basically we're just returning whatever this is. Okay. And that's the same thing as just sweet. So now if we were to return this cost here, we would see that the cost would be just 10 because we have zero levels. But if the level was one, it would be 15. And so on, because it multiplies by 1.5. Wow. So what do we do next? Okay. So instead of just jumping straight to the buying and all that stuff, we need to actually create the UI real quick. So I'm going to go ahead and create a button real quick. Okay. So here's our click upgrade right here. So basically it's just an image. It's the same thing as this. And it has a button component. We need to change this. I'm just going to get rid of that quick. And it has a little level section here. And I'm going to anchor this to the left side right here. And inside has a text, which is stretched. And then we also have a name and a cost. And we're actually going to make these anchor to the right side. And our click upgrade is going to anchor to the left for now. We're going to eventually move this once we have more upgrades. But yeah, that's it. So next, what we're going to do is actually assign this upgrades right here, this upgrade script that we created, we're going to assign it to our click upgrade game object right here, just right to the bottom. So now let's open this up. So now we're actually not going to really do anything in here other than just create our objects that we already have. So let's see what do we have here? We have a game object that represents this whole thing right here. And we have a level text, a name text and a cost text. Now you can manage this color if you want to, however, I'm not going to be really be doing that. So I'm just going to be making this an image, a text, a text and a text. Okay, so now we know what to add. Let's add an image. And this will be our actual game objects upgrade one. That sounds good to me. And we also need to import using unity engine.ui. And we also need to import the TM pro. And we get to leave these top two lines for now. And we're just going to add a TMP text up here. And this will be our level text. Remember, we have a level text, a name text and a cost text. Okay, so this is all we're going to do in here. Seriously, this is all we're going to do in here. We're basically just going to create an upgrade object in here. Okay, so now in order to actually edit this, what we're going to do is go to our upgrades manager. And in here, we're going to create a public upgrades object in here. And we're just going to simply call this the click upgrade. So now in here, in our public void update method, we can start changing things around. For now, we're not really going to do anything with our upgrade button here, we can eventually make it turn green or red if we can afford it or not, stuff like that. And but we're just gonna leave as is for now. And we can add the level text, we're going to add the name and the cost. So let's start with the level here. So in order to change things inside of this upgrade, it's the same thing as changing a variable or accessing a variable in, for example, the data class, all we got to do is do click upgrade dot level text. And we're just going to set this to our controller dot data dot click upgrade level. So we're not done here. So you see, I forgot one important thing, okay, we forgot to add the text attribute here. So in order to change the text, we need to do dot text. So don't forget about that. A lot of people have forgotten that in the past. So just remember, if you want to change the text, you must change the text field. That's part of the text. Okay, the text variable here, just don't forget about that. So now the other thing is that you cannot convert a big double to a string. Okay, now this is the same thing with ins floats doubles. And this people, a lot of people have this in the past. So what we can do here for now is do dot to string. So basically, this just converts the big double to string. And that will make compatible for what we would need to do here. So next let's do our cost upgrade. So we're just going to do a click upgrade and then our cost text dot text. And we're going to set this to whatever name we want. So let's actually create a string here, because this will be very important the future. So this will just be a very separate string. And this is going to call the click upgrade name. And in the start method, we are going to assign this a name. And for now, I just did plus one flask per click. So what I'm actually going to do is just do flask per click. And that's good. So now for the cost text, we're going to simply add a string called cost. And we're going to add a space. We're going to add it. So we do it by adding the plus. And we're just going to do our cost right here and then flash. Okay, so now in here, we just simply call the cost method because remember it returns a big double. So we also need to do plus flask. Okay, so now since we don't need to do dot two string here, why? Well, it's because we're adding a string to a normal variable already. So it's going to convert it to string and it'll be okay. So now for the name text here or our description text, I think I call this name. I don't exactly remember. Yeah, name text. So our name text here, we're simply just going to do plus one space, and then just flask per click. So we're just going to add our click upgrade name here. So we're going to eventually modify this once we add a future prestige system, other upgrades, all that good stuff. So now every frame, it's going to be changing all of this info. This can be optimized. Okay, this can be optimized. We will get there. So now we need to actually buy the upgrade. So this will be very easy. So we're going to have to do is add a brand new method here. And I'm just going to add it's below this cost here. And we're just going to call this public void buy upgrade. Okay, and we're simply just buying a single upgrade, we're gonna have to modify this as well, just like the cost. So make sure you just keep an eye on that. So how do you buy an upgrade? Well, first, we have to check if we can afford that. So how do we do that? We're going to create an if statements. And we're going to check to see if our flash is greater than or equal to the cost. So we just do controller dot data dot flash. If it's greater than or equal to cost. Okay. And that that's true. In here, we're going to subtract the cost first. Okay, we don't want to change the level and then the cost because if we change the level, we are increasing the cost. So make sure you do that first. That's the very first thing you need to do in here. So flash minus equals cost. Perfect. And now we can simply add the level. Oh, yeah, I gotta add the level. So plus equals one. So what you can do is plus plus, or plus equals one. But I'm just going to do plus equals one because who knows, we may have some random multiplier that could affect this later on. So just keep in mind. So earlier, I was talking about optimization. So I don't really want to update this text every frame because that's just gonna, that's just pointless run code that we're running here. And that could really add up in the future if you don't optimize this. So what we're going to do here is create a brand new method public void. And we're just going to call this update UI or update click upgrade UI or something like that. So basically in here, we're just going to bring all of our UI stuff that we've changed here, like all the text stuff. And we're just going to paste it in here and get rid of this old one here. So updates pretty much useless right now. So we can just get rid of that. So now when do we update this click upgrade UI? Well, we want to load it after we initialize with start. And we also want to do it after we buy an upgrade. So I'm just going to put it at the very end here. So now this will only be run every time you load the game. And when you buy an upgrade, so you're basically calling it much, much less. And that's very good practice. So there's one last thing we need to do. And that's this start thing. So to prevent some future errors here, or not errors, but some saving and loading issues, because we will have a saving load system. I want to be able to start this after we load our data. So for now, we're just going to call this start upgrade manager. And we're going to call this inside our controller script here. So in our start method here, we're simply just going to do, first of all, we need to add our upgrades manager to the controller class. So we're just going to do upgrades. And now in the start, we're going to call upgrades manager dot start upgrade manager. And now this will happen after we start the new data process and all that. So now the reason why we want to do this is because we want to update the UI, we want to have all this stuff be done after we create this data class or else you never know. It may display the wrong variables and stuff like that. So that's just a safety precaution. Sweet. So now we have everything set up. But I lied, there's one more thing. We have to actually apply this level to our click here, because right now it's still adding by one. Okay. So what we're how we're going to do this. So and we're just going to create a method here just to prevent creating a mess later on. So what we're going to do is make a method called click power. And this will be only for our click button here. Now we can add it in here, but it will be pretty lengthy and I'd rather just calculate it in case we want to, you know, use it for something else, just for display. So in here, we're simply just going to return one plus data dot or upgrade level because this upgrade level is only adding by one. And we already have one. So we're just going to do that. And again, we can make this into an expression body like that. It looks beautiful. And in here replace this plus equals one in the generate flash method with click power just like that. And you can call this whatever you want. You can call this flash power, coin power, whatever your currency is, you can name it whatever you want. So I'm just going to keep a click power just so you know what it does. And I want to be able to see what my total click button here is. So we're going to add another text. And this will be a serialized field. This would be a private TMP text. And in the update method, I'm just going to add this in in here. It's just plus one space flash. So we're just going to add that in here. So we're going to have our string right here, which is going to be plus. And we're going to add that to the click power. And then we're going to add that to space flash. Cool. So this is what our scripts look like right now. Beautiful, beautiful. If you have any questions, make sure you just leave your comments below and I will be sure to answer them. And I think we're all set. So let's hop back to unity. Okay, so we're going to go to our scripts here, go to our controller here. And now we need to upgrades manager. We actually haven't had that yet. So let's go to our scripts here and create an empty. And we're going to call this the upgrades manager. And we're going to drag our upgrades manager script into here. And there you go. So let's go back to controller here. So we're going to drag our upgrades manager into this box here. And then our flash click power text that will be in the increment button right here. I'm actually going to just call this the click power text just so we can be a little consistent here. And our upgrades manager, we need to drag the controller and our click upgrade. So remember, we assign that to this click upgrade here. There's the upgrades right here. So let's drag that in here. And we're going to go to our click upgrade here and drag in our upgrade, which is the image here, our level text, our name text and our cost text. Okay, so now we need to add to this on click function right here or this method here. So we're going to click the plus drag the upgrades manager, no function upgrades manager and buy upgrade. And that should be it. Honestly, it's very simple. Okay, let's zoom out. Let's test things out. Let's see how they are. Oh, I forgot. I forgot to remove this old code. My apologies. So I simply forgot to remove this data flash multiply right here. So just get rid of that. I'm sorry. Okay, so we start with one flash. So I think that's just what our data is. Oh, yeah. Okay. So we started because of here. So we started with one flash because of this right here, this data flash equals one. So you can just get rid of that. I'm not paying, I wasn't paying attention to that. But anyways, back in here, so we can click, we get one. And now we can afford this right here. So if we buy it right here, increase the cost increase our level and increase how much we can get per click. Nice. It's very simple. It works. And eventually, we're going to get into the mess of seeing a lot of decimals here. So as a temporary fix, what we can do is go back to here, our cost and upgrades manager here and do dot to string. And then in here, we're going to format it to display only two decimals. So we can do F2. So now it's going to show two decimals and F is for fixed point. There is n, which is where you can get the comma formats, but there's some rules to that. So you'll get to that later on. Please do not use this. So we have F and and P for percentage, which is kind of cool. I don't think it would work for big doubles anyways. So all I know is that f works and we will fix that later on when we create our notations. So anyways, crew, if you guys enjoyed this video, and if you learned something new and it was very helpful, make sure you smash like button, tell your friends about it, helps grow the channel, and maybe you can help someone out too. Subscribe to my channel if you're new and if you enjoy this content and turn on the bell for future notifications of videos and live streams. I want to support my channel and want to help support my game development and videos. Click that join button below. 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Hey everybody, welcome back to my Star Wars channel. My name is David and today we're going to tell you how to replace the sticker on your R2-D2 Kenner action figure. We would be honored if you would join us. Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. Thanks for being here. We're going to make a really quick video. This is really quick. I'm just going to do this as a tutorial, but first a commentary on these repro. This is a reproduction sticker and there's a couple schools of thought as to whether you want to use a repro sticker on something. I'll tell you my philosophy because I kind of have one foot in both camps. On the one hand, I recognize that you want your characters and your vehicles to be as vintage as possible. And so if you take a look at this, this is my R2-D2. He's the one that's in my collection right now and you can see that his sticker looks horrible. His sticker is horrible. The back's not too bad. I've seen worse. I have seen worse. But this is mine, so he's got a soft spot in my heart. And so something like this, I would leave it untouched. That's just how I feel. And if this was the condition of the sticker that was on the ship, if you were looking at a ship or a play set, if this was the condition, I would leave it. I would leave it. I bought at X-Wing one time and the X-Wing came without any stickers at all. So it was just the shell. It didn't have guns, it didn't have canopy, it didn't have any stickers and that's how I bought it and I wanted to rebuild it. So I bought a new canopy, I bought new laser guns and then I bought brand new reproduction stickers and put it all together. And then when I sold it, I was just honest. I was just honest. I said rebuilt and then I said, but it has reproduction stickers. So I think if you want to put reproduction stickers on something that's fine, but if you go to sell it, make sure you are honest and upfront and say that it has reproduction stickers. So for our video today, I actually have a second R2-D2 and this is how he came. He came to me in the mail like this. So there's no hope of me ever putting a real sticker back on him because obviously the sticker is not even there. So it's completely off. So because I want to put him in my cantina play set, I need a sticker so that he looks nice because I want to make a little diorama. So I'm going to show you really quickly how we can put a new sticker on him. So we'll move our other vintage figures out of the way and this R2, we'll say goodbye to this R2. This still decal, I got it for free actually as part of another set. So I bought some parts off of somebody, some other vintage figures and they threw in an R2-D2 sticker for free. You might find that occasionally. All you need is a screwdriver.  So you're just going to hold his head. You got to hold his head so it doesn't turn.  Oh my goodness. And there's his top of his head. And then there's a couple pieces.  So I'm just going to bang it on the table to kind of push his legs. There it goes. So it looks like this.  So when you look to buy an R2-D2 off eBay, if it says his head clicks, that's what you're knowing. That's what you're looking for. I'm going to try to keep the legs in the same orientation as the barrel because this is how he originally came. So all I'm going to do is just clean up some of the edges right here with a used towel that I was cleaning my figures with. I don't want to make it too wet because I'm going to put a sticker down on it. I'm still trying to keep his orientation. There's some sticker residue from his past sticker. You can use a lot of different things to clean the barrel of R2-D2. I've seen some people use lighter fluid. I've seen some people use nail polish remover, like acetone. That works really well too. Acetone works really well to get felt pen markers off your ships. So if you buy a ship and the kid drew all over it, use just a dab of acetone on a q-tip or on a paper towel and that'll take those marker things right off. So that is my barrel and it's all dried. Making sure I'm putting it down in the same orientation. I'm just going to check out the feet and get a little bit of dirt off of his feet as well. He's pretty dirty. That's because we all played with our figures out in the dirt. Right? We all said, oh we've got to pretend it's indoor and we took our characters out of the dirt. Alright, with the sticker there is a half circle where his arm goes. Right? Right there. And so what I do is I line that up first. So this little crescent, right? I line that up with one of the arms. Now I've seen people try to put the stickers on without taking the legs off. I would not recommend that. You want to get it like this and it's not going to go down first try either. It takes a little bit to get it totally straight. But this is just a beater figure. So I'm not too, oh my goodness it's going down perfectly. It went down perfect. It went down perfect because I did it this way. This is why you're following what I'm doing. Okay, so there he is. All nice and clean. So then you put, see how fast this went?   Now we're going to, and it really doesn't matter where you stick R2's head on because technically his head swivels all the way around. It should. Well line. And I'm not going to thread the screw in really tight. If I can get it on the screwdriver. Geez Louise. Okay, there we go. So there he is. One perfect R2 with his new sticker and you can do it too. So obviously, you know, if I were going to sell my figures, which I'm not, if you saw something look like this, you would have to say, man that sticker looks really too good. It must have just come out of the box. So if it's, but if his head, you know, looks all dinged up, but the sticker looks perfect, then obviously they used a reproduction sticker, right? But I would say if your sticker still looks this good, I'd leave it. The vintage look is still the best and you know, you want to, you want to keep those vintage stickers as long as you can. All right. So I hope that helped you and thanks for watching. May the force be with you. I'll see you guys next time. Bye.