I mean, like, I love coming to Nigeria but one person that I really admire in Nigeria is you. Thank you. Do you know that I know you more than anyone in Nigeria? Oh yeah? I don't know if you know whether you are an entertainer, a musician, or an activist, or a politician. Well, the only thing I have not officially declared out of all those things is the politician. But everything else, that's me. Far's the bad guy. That's me. That's not your real name. My real name is Falare in Falano. Born and raised in Nigeria. Born and raised in Nigeria, raised throughout, apart from my university days. And where did you go for university? In the UK. The UK? University of Reading. Okay. So you went to university in the UK to study what? Yeah, I stayed in the UK for some time actually. Oh, okay. That's the UK accent. So where you stayed in the UK? I'm a place called Reading. Just 30 minutes. What course were you studying? Law. You did law? I did law. I'm a Paris star. Wow. And then from there? From there, I came back to Nigeria and I went to the Nigerian Law School. Why did you leave the UK in the first place? I just went for university and when I was done, I knew I couldn't live in that country. It's too cold. Sometimes, that's where I do depressed me. Are you going to say you are depressed in the UK? No. I wouldn't go that to that extent. But I say the weather is very gloomy. And you know, it just, ah, it wasn't, I didn't feel like I was at home. So I felt like I had to come back home. Came back home. Went to the Nigerian Law School officially qualified to practice as a Paris star. And then what happened? And then... I know what happened. And then I took my certificate. I kept it here. I took off the wig and gown. I hung it.  But will you call yourself a musician? Yeah, I'll call myself a musician.  Let me tell you your first song that I ever heard. I was in China that time. This is Nigeria. This is Nigeria. Do you know that song made you so famous in the entire Africa? I got to know you through that. What really inspired that song? This is Nigeria. It's basically inspired by... I mean, I think it's pretty clear. It's self-explanatory. It's everything that's happening on this side of the world. You know, of course I took Childish Gambino's This Is America. Yeah. And what I did was I interpreted it in my own way, from my own perspective. You know, it happens all the time. It's the culture, you know, in hip-hop. It's called, you know, doing a cover for a song. But I just thought, let me translate this from a Nigerian perspective. And I think it was very widely received. Very. The reason that everyone could relate with it is because it was so literal. It was so literal. It was so blatant. It was so in your face. It was not holding anything back. You know, it was not being... Not sugarcoating anything. Just putting it out there as it is. What do you think is the main problem of this country? Wow. Where do I start from? So many problems. So many issues. Where do I start from? Is it lack of electricity? Is it infrastructure? Is it education? Is it healthcare? Is it the grand problem of corruption? Where do I even start from? There's so many issues. But the main problem, the biggest problem that I think we're suffering from, is that we do not love ourselves enough. Wow. Let's come off a road. Not until they come. Not until they come. You said you do not love yourself like Asin? No. No. Not even once. Okay. You don't love yourselves asin? Yeah. I feel like as Africans as a whole, this is not even just Nigeria. As Africans as a whole, we don't love ourselves enough. I think a part of it is PTSD as well. It's PTSD from, of course, what we faced in the past historically. The slave trade era. The colonial era. So a lot of it is PTSD. So we haven't fully found who we are. And that's why some of our biggest issues are things that we took from the Europeans. Religion. Religion. You know, just the way of life, just the Western. Now, in most African countries, Nigeria, of course, being top of that list. In most African countries, everything that is being consumed, everything that is being used is not produced in the country. We are importing. Everything. Every single thing. How do you expect your economy to survive on that?  Pay. You know how much, if you wake up in Lagos, you know how much you are spending. Exactly. I wake up, I have to brush my teeth, toothpaste, I pay. I have to eat, I pay. Naturally, your pockets will fill it. And that's why economy keeps going down. Keeps. We need to believe in who we are. But we don't because the ordinary man thinks that if it's imported, it's good. Is it because of our mindset? It's a mindset. And that's why I said it is a colonial mindset, but we have not tapped out of it. We haven't. That's why we don't because I said we don't love ourselves. Are you trying to say that it's time for Africans to wake up?    But once we start to love ourselves and believe in ourselves, other people will see the good in you now. If we are brothers, and we're not even treating each other good, how do you expect somebody that is an outsider to treat us good? Do you think that... Look at what is happening in Uganda. Oh my goodness. Museveni. Museveni is terrorizing Bobby Wine. Wine. How old is Museveni? But now, you see, let me tell you something. Whatever Museveni is doing, the entire AU is quiet. So, if African Union is quiet, what do you expect an ordinary citizen in Africa to do? Exactly. And that's what I'm saying. Mindset, the mindset especially of the crop of people that have stayed in power. You cannot imagine that Museveni was doing interview the other day. And they asked him, they said, Museveni, why have you refused to... I think it was Amampo. Amampo. Why have you refused to leave Uganda alone? What is it? He said that there's nobody that can do what he has done. He said, what have you done? He said, oh, I rescued them from diseases. Dying? From dying. Oh man, that is his achievement. Achievement. What is old, man? It's shameful. Man. It's disgraceful, man. The mindset. If you had the chance to change one thing in Africa, what would it be? This is it. This is what I've just said, you know, so I would, if I had some magical power, I would make everybody immediately tap out of that mindset. Just stop believing in who we are. Start, start, just like... There's a great man called... What's this man from Burkina Faso? Burkina Faso. Oh man. The... What's his name? I know his name. He's just... He's going in my head. Anyway, this is a great man from Burkina Faso. He was a young man. He was a young man when he took power. Yeah. He took power and he said to them, anything we're consuming, anything we're making... Sorry, anything we're consuming in this country, we're making it here. We're cutting away, you know, all European ties, because France, for the longest time, had a stronghold on Burkina Faso. But when it came in, that's when he even changed the name. That wasn't the name of the country at the time. You know, changing the name of the country to Burkina Faso, which has a meaning in their language, you know, basically alluding to the fact that, you know, everything is by us. Everything is for us. And that ideology, pan-Africanism, pan-Africanism, Tomosankara, that is the man. That is the man that I was trying to remember his name. He just had a moment there. So, if we all subscribe to this ideology, to let everybody just realize that come, we are the most intelligent, but the strongest physically. We are the chosen ones. But why can't we just see that? Do you think Africa will ever unite? Africa can definitely unite. There's so much beauty in Africa, you know, there's so much richness, so much wealth in Africa. And back to the point again, if everybody taps into this mentality, like I said, it's called pan-Africanism. So, once I believe in us, what we stand for, of course I will love you more. Naturally, I will love you more. And that's one Africa, that's unity. And I think since you're a musician, you know, Nigerian music, people are saying that Nigerian music should be born in Cameroon. Have you heard that? It's funny, I haven't heard it, bro, it's funny. Why are they born in Nigerian music in Cameroon? I don't even know why, because, I mean, all of us consume Nigerian music. I mean, they are the big brother of Africa, I don't know if you've heard it or not. You must understand that Nigerian music is here to stand. Do you have anything to say about people who rise against Nigerian music, saying that it should be born in their countries and all that? I think, just thinking now, just hearing it from you, I think what the issue is, is a struggle that we went through here too. But it was a long time ago, a very long time ago, against foreign music, music from the United States. There was a big uproar saying that radio stations were playing majority foreign music. They needed to include more Nigerian music. But what we did as artists over here was we just made sure our craft was hooked naturally by the late 90s, early 2000s. Naturally, you are not a station that's popping if you're not playing Nigerian music. It was because of the sheer quality, the sheer sweetness of the music that was coming out. So that was what we did as artists. So from my own perspective, that would be my responsibility. I wouldn't know from the other perspective, but it's an understandable grievance that people may have. We have a lot of young Nigerians watching us right now and also Africans in general. Young Africans, if you have a message for young Africans, what would that message be? My message for young Africans is we need to wake up. Thank you. We need to love ourselves. Black is amazing. Black is beautiful. Black is strong. African is intelligent. African is innovative. African is rich. African is wealthy. You need to love yourselves. You need to believe in who you are. And this guy is our starting point. This guy is not a musician. I don't know. I've been telling him he's not a musician. You need to quit that music career.  We have to get that politician out of you, man. This is an interesting angle. If you think it's a politician, leave it as a comment. Let me know. I've been watching you a lot. I don't even know anything about your music, bro. All I know is this is Nigeria. Look how we live it now. Everybody's accrued me. Everybody's accrued me now. Thank you so much for talking to me. I appreciate your time. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this. Thank you so much. It's been nice hanging. I hope you're having fun in Lagos. Fantastic. I mean, Lagos is the second home for me. Nice. Nice. And tell them to subscribe and be part of this. 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The Cavalcade of America. Many listeners have written letters of approval on the Cavalcade of America presented by DuPont. F.P.K. of Chicago Rights. Such splendid work in behalf of American education is most commendable. We look forward to more programs of such sterling character. End of quotation. And from Baltimore comes this word from Mr. H.M. Last night, I had the pleasure of listening to the Cavalcade of America. This program reaches a new high in dignified, interesting entertainment. End of quotation. Perhaps the most adequate way of expressing DuPont's appreciation for such letters is to say that we are sincerely trying to produce a high type of radio entertainment. We should appreciate your comments, because that's the only way we have of knowing whether we are pleasing you and your family. Address your letter or postcard to DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware, or to your radio station. Our Cavalcade Orchestra sets the stage for this evening's first story with an overture composed especially for the occasion. It makes use of some of the original musical themes which our conductor, Harold Levy, has composed for the Cavalcade of America. Our primitive man, feared the power of nature, civilized man utilizes that same power to his advantage through engineering. In our own country, more than any other, nature has been harnessed to improve our living conditions. And this evening, we pay tribute to our American engineers. It is the year 1810 as our story opens. The scene is a farm in western New York. Pa, Ma, now look at all that mud you're attacking him, teacher. What are you supposed to have just seen? Beyond the clearance, surveyors, a whole gang of them with rods and lines and levelers they've called him, I think. What are surveyors doing on our land? You'll never guess, Pa, not in a thousand years. They're marking out a route for a canal. What a canal? It's going to connect Lake Erie with the Hudson River. What are you laughing at, Pa? Do you know where Lake Erie is, son? Well, sure I do. At the western end of New York State. And the Hudson is at the opposite end. And between them... It's going to be a canal. The longest canal in the world. Well, that's what the man in charge told me. Well, when you get to be my age, Peter, you'll know enough to take these stories with a grain of salt. You don't believe it. You can ask him yourself, because he's on his way over here to see you. He said he wanted to talk to you. Well, that's why I run on ahead. Let you know. Oh, there he is now. Goodness, my floor all messed up. Looking like it hadn't been scrubbed in a week. Come in, mister. This is the gentleman I was talking to, father. How to do this? I'm Charles Brody. I'm glad to meet you. I'm in charge of a survey. He did tell us. Is it really true that that's going to build a canal through here? Well, they hope to. There. What did they hear? It's still just an idea.  Robert Fulton doesn't think it's a fool idea, or do it Clinton. Or Gouverneur Morris. They say it'll do more than anything else to open up this country of ours. Encourage folks to move west. Help the farmers. Help the farmers? How? Well, by giving them a better way to get their produce to market. That's the reason if it can be shipped to Albany by boat instead of being hauled 200 miles over land, it'll pay you to clear more land, higher health. Raise double what you do now. Mister, do you know how far it is across New York State from Buffalo to Albany? About 300 miles is the coastline, and only canals don't fly. They got to pick their way along the ground through rock and around marshes and between hills. Nearer 375 miles it'll be. I wouldn't be surprised. That's a long way to dig, mister. Have they figured who's going to pay for it? He'll cost a tidy little sum this ditch. And if they think we're going to pay taxes on it... I'd be willing to be taxed to have a canal here. Oh, since what it wouldn't mean to be in boats to buy regular, with folks on them. Near enough to wade to. Here where we don't see nobody for weeks and weeks on end. And don't get your hopes up, ma'am. The canal ain't started yet. It will be though, someday. Which brings me to my real purpose in coming here to see it. I'm wondering if you can put me and my men up while we're working around here. I didn't mind, you could do anything that would be of help. Thank you very much. Now I must be getting back. Oh, Mr. Broadhead, just a minute. Could I, uh, you think, would it... What is it, boy? Could you give me a job? Doing what? Well, anything, sir. I wouldn't care. Just so long as it was something. I've got some college boys working for me and holding markers for the experience they get. They don't get paid anything. I just want to help. Well, I'll be glad to take you on, mate. Thank you, sir. Holding markers at nothing a week. Well, it's something just the same. A part in helping to build a canal. Seven years went by. Seven years of battling against argument and opposition and ridicule. But those with the vision carried on. And finally in Albany on the 15th day of April, 1817, the Senate passed Clinton's canal bill. On the 4th of July of that same year, 1817, a little group of people, including our friend, the farmer and his family, are gathered at Rome, New York. It is just before sunrise.  Right in the middle. Well, I ain't only started one end. Albany and Buffalo are both going to be tough places to dig. I want to start, but they make a good showing. You know, to encourage folks. Right here, there's a long level of fresh. Who's that man standing next to Governor Clinton, you know? Oh, he's an engineer. Canvass White. Canvass? Well, what a funny name. He's just back from England. Clinton sent him over there to study canal systems. I think it's wonderful you're going to have a part in this piece. Yuck smart, ain't much. Just helping with the timber work. No, why don't they hurry up and get this ceremony going? They're waiting for the sun to come up. Clearest news you never heard of. Holding it at this hour. I think it's mighty kitten. The dawn of a new day. The sun's pretty well up now. Governor's stepping forward. He's got a shovel in his hand. For the first and only time in his life. I'll warn you. My friends, we have assembled here to commence the excavation of the Sierra Canals. The countries with this canal will connect. The consequences it will produce are without a parallel in the history of mankind. Over 300 miles of wilderness will be transformed into nothing. Years went by. Eight years of heartbreaking, backbreaking work of problems and obstacles. Woods to be cleared. Rock to be drilled through. Swamp with a much rammed back as fast as it was shoveled out. Where crew after crew of men were laid low with sills and fever. A year sometimes with only a mile to show. But still they kept on. Mile by mile, month by month, year by year. So finally one day in the autumn of 1825. Yes, no, we'll be able to get the signals. Why, we can, Mrs. Moff. They've got cannon all along the line. 10 to 15 miles apart. When they get the water in they'll fire a first one at Buffalo, a big 32 pounder. And the next one will pick up the sound and carry it on. And at last the signal reaches New York. Yeah, a lot of trouble he asked me just to make some noise. I noticed you're hanging around. Just as he gives the rest of us waiting to hear it. Well, of course I am. That signal is going to mean dollar a bushel wheat to me. It's going to mean the beginning of a whole new life for me. A chance to see folks and things happening. A quick trip myself, maybe. But when the water reaches those pieces, theory water added me. Very soon now. The water of Lake New York flowing to the hubs. I can't, ma. To me it's not water, it's sweat. The sweat of the poor fellows who have dug this canal. Who've pulled stumps and pushed barrels and raffled with rocks. Who've clipped with peels and fever. Wet and blood. The light blood of the men who planned it and carried it through. I see it. It's finished. The theory canal is ready. Over a hundred years have passed since the theory canal was built. Great as it was in its day. It seems small in comparison with our modern engineering clients. Yet it was this early undertaking with its problems and its difficulties that laid the foundation for constructive engineering in America. Our second story in DuPont's Cavalcade of America this evening begins in 1920. That was the year when everyone started humming the songs from Jerome Kern's new musical play, Sally, in which Marilyn Miller played her first big star part. Our Cavalcade orchestra takes us back to 1920 with melodies from Sally. American Cavalcade moves onward. It is Columbus Day, 1920, a hundred years after the building of the Erie Canal. Holiday traffic jams the highways. On the jersey shore of the Hudson, automobiles by the hundreds and thousands are waiting in line for a chance to board its ferries that shuttle back and forth to New York. In one of them sits the newspaper reporter with his wife and young son.  There's still about a mile of cars ahead of us and it gets worse every year too. And will for a few more years. And there'll be no more of us waiting in line for ferries. You mean we'll fly across the river? No dear, he means we'll stay at home. Wrong, both of you. We'll drive right under the river. Under the river? Bob, what in the world are you talking about? There are no vehicular tunnels. They've started work on it today. What's a vehicular tunnel, dad? Tunnel for all kinds of vehicles, Johnny. Automobiles and trucks. This will be the largest tunnel of a kind in the world. When it's finished, folks will be able to drive from Jersey City to downtown New York in just a few minutes. But who are they ever going to build a tunnel like that, dad? Don't ask me, Johnny. I'm not an engineer. I'm only a newspaper reporter. You could get a pass and couldn't go down and watch them while they're building it. Oh sure, I suppose I could. And take me with you? Well, maybe. It'll be a long time before there's anything to see. But when there is something to see, the line's moving here. Yeah, at last. Let's hopefully get aboard the ferry soon. The years have passed. It is October 1922. Work on the Great Hudson Tunnel, that is to connect New York with New Jersey, is well underway. And Johnny has granted his wish to visit the vast undertaking. After a thorough physical examination, he and his father, Don Overalls and Delages, are escorted by an engineer down to where the construction work is in progress. Work goes on day and night, doesn't it? It's seven days a week. With an investment of some 48 million dollars in this undertaking, we can't afford to lose any time. How much traffic will this tunnel carry? 1,900 vehicles an hour in each direction. Or 46,000 a day. How long will this tunnel take? The total length will be 9,250 feet. The part actually under the river will be 5,400 feet. More than a mile. And how far along are they now? About halfway. No. See, we're working from both ends. Oh, and you'll leave the mill? We hope. We can't be till the time comes. No supposing in an engineering job like this, son, we have to make absolutely certain every time the field moves forward that it's on the right course with Robert Gray. That's the worst of tunnel building. We can't go back and undo what you've done. Once a mistake's made, it's just too bad. Oh, do you want to never start working from both ends at once, then? Yeah, that's just what I was wondering. Well, I guess the answer to that is that engineers are optimistic. There has to be, the job you tackle. Ah, here we are at the field itself. Are we going fast? Sure. I'm afraid not.  We'll be over exciting. Very awful. How do you mean? Not knowing what may happen. It's a moment full of terrible possibility. I don't see what you mean. The air pressure has reduced too much. The whole riverbed may start caving in on them. If there's too much pressure, there's a danger of a blowout. It's amazing to me that you can get men for such hazardous jobs. Have you ever stopped to think what it must be like to be responsible for them? I know I wouldn't sleep like this, if I were. I don't believe he does. Clifford Holland, the chief engineer. Terrific strain he lives under. He never goes anywhere even for an hour without leaving word where he can be reached in case of emergency. How much longer will it be before the tunnel's finished? We hope to have the tubes completed and joined in another two years. You still haven't told us how they're going to be ventilated. We don't know yet. But again, you're optimistic. So am I. I think American engineers can do anything. Foot by foot, thrust by thrust. The great steel seals board and burl their way through the darkness and dangers of the under river world. To make a passageway for human beings. Four years have passed since first they started on their way. As they approach one another, excitement mounts. Closer, closer, until only a few feet of riverbed separates them. Engineers and sand hogs alike wait breathlessly. About to play the breaking through shot. You're telling me what you think I got eyes and ears. Do you got any money on it? I ain't, but why not? You've been saying all along they'd meet with a couple of inches each other. I know, but I ain't, but why not? I'm afraid. Why? On account of Mr. Holland. There's three days before the job's done. I don't look on it that way, Joe. No. The way I look on it, everything must be okay. But Mr. Holland would never pass on. You think he knew he was leaving things? Yeah, sure he did. Let's just hurry up.  There you go. Listen, let's hear what I tell you. He couldn't perform on the left. I'm going to ask him. Can't you see the way they grieve? I beg your pardon, sir, but could you show us the two tubes left within a fraction of an inch? It is the 12th day of November, 1927. And the tunnel is ready to be opened. A great shining white highway, ingeniously lighted, miraculously ventilated, connecting New York and New Jersey beneath the waters of the mighty Hudson. The ceremony is attended by thousands of people by an imposing list of notables for the governors of both states. Governor Moore of New Jersey is speaking. Even to those who are unfamiliar with the many grave difficulties encountered in the course of construction, the tunnel stands out as an engineering achievement for the purpose of building it. Much could be said of the eminent engineer in whose memory and honor the tunnel is named, his successor who also dies while the task was still underway. Let us pay tribute today to the memories of Clifford Milburn Holland and Milton H. Freeman, as well as to the skill of Ole Singstar, who completed the task based on aboard the Mayflower, will press a key, the same key which President Woodrow Wilson used in opening the Panama Canal. Then the flag that each end of the tunnel will part, and the Holland tunnel will be open for traffic. Builders reach. No longer does nature stand on the way of man's progress. We fling bridges across rivers and harbors, bore tunnels through mountains, honest wild streams, divide continents, and seize the very lightning from the sky. Our engineers take their places among the leaders of the world as they march onwards in the cavalcade of America. No description of the ways in which man defies nature would be complete without mention of the tools he has used. We live in an age of wonders, but we never cease to marvel at such engineering feats as the Holland Tunnel, New York City's water supply and subway system, the Cascades and Moffat Railroad Tunnels in Washington and Colorado, and the giant dams of the far west, all made possible through the help of explosives. Think how much we owe to the chemists who discovered this useful energy and taught us how to put it to work. I wonder how many of our listeners realize that the discovery of dynamite is relatively recent. It didn't make its appearance until 1867, and much of the credit for America's great industrial expansion since that time must be attributed to this method of overcoming the obstacles of nature. Dynamite made it possible to construct railroads over and through mountains and to clean out channels in rivers and harbors. It's responsible for the large-scale mining of nearly all the coal we use and of the many metals so important to countless industries. Move roads, great irrigation projects, the draining of mosquito-breathing swamps, forest fire prevention through the clearing of fire lanes, and the restoration of the dams and water power development, all are possible through the aid of dynamite. DuPont Chemists have made many improvements in industrial explosives and have developed entirely new ones. All of these advances have contributed to improved quality, greater economy, and increased safety. One interesting product recently created by DuPont Chemists is called Nitromar. This new blasting agent cannot be exploded by influences that will readily set off dynamite. This new blasting agent cannot be exploded by influences that will readily set off dynamite. Nitromar is therefore far safer than anything previously used for the same purposes. In spite of its unusual safety, Nitromar is extremely powerful and economical to use. Such a development in safety is a good illustration of the purpose of DuPont's chemical research. Better things for better living through chemistry. Next Wednesday at this same time, DuPont will again present the Cavalcade of America. Welcome to our broadcasting system. W-A-B-C, New York.


Hey guys, how you doing? This is Rich from RichTVLive and it looks like we are green pre-market and there is some news here from Kushko Holdings Inc. Kushko Holdings forms advisory board to guide strategic growth initiatives This is a company that I really like and I still think they're grossly undervalued obviously located in America KSHB on the OTCQB exchange Kushko or the company the parent company or innovative industry leaders such as Kush supply co Kush energy the hybrid creative and Kalito packaging solutions Which provide a range of services and products for a variety of industry including the regulated cannabis and CBD industries today announced It has formed a new advisory board to provide strategic advice and expertise to help accelerate growth Management risk and enhanced operational performance. It has three appoint It's first three appointments are Matthew Morgan an entrepreneur and business consultant with leadership experience in the cannabis and other CPG industries Eric Smith an industry veteran in the liquefied petroleum gas industry and Allie Jahangiri a digital publishing Pioneer who has established and grown several businesses the advisory board will have experts and influencers From various fields with diverse skills and networks related to the markets in which Kushko operates and will aid in advancing Kushko strategy to become a leading provider of Diverse range of products and services across several industry verticals Excuse me both in cannabis industry and beyond Mr. Matthew Morgan is the co-founder of a variety of companies including reef dispensaries Slaps underwear ignite cannabis coal trike companies bloom dispensaries and green-axis capital corp among others Mr. Morgan began his business career as an early age in Real estate in Montana and used his business savvy to start and grow a cannabis business into a 15,000 square foot operation in Montana one of the largest Mr. Morgan subsequently opened a chain of hydroponic stores in Arizona and acquired one of the limited and valuable cannabis business licenses in the state This guy knows what he's doing. Mr. Morgan and his partner then started bloom dispensaries a huge huge industry company Reef dispensaries and trike industries reef dispensaries currently run six retail locations Two manufacturing plants and two laboratories in Nevada and Arizona with over 400 employees Mr. Morgan now does consulting work with all over the globe for several different Business ventures. Mr. Eric Smith has been actively involved in the LP gas industry since 1989 In both the private and public sectors currently He is the director of education and code development for navada board for the regulation of liquefied Petroleum gas and was previously their chief inspector for 16 years Mr. Smith was a firefighter for 11 years is actively involved with the national fire protection association NFPA code development process and currently serves on six NFPA technical committees that regulate the use of liquefied petroleum gas and special effects Mr. Ali Jahangiri began his career Practicing corporate securities law but shifted his focus to digital publishing where pioneered a digital physician to patient And an attorney-to-client interactive platform that was acquired in 2009 and 2011 respectively Mr. Jen hangiri currently focuses most his professional efforts in the national international investment immigration industry Mr. Jen hangiri serves as CEO of two industry leading online publication and conference series platforms U global calm and e b 5 investors calm as well as serves on the Loyola law school board of directors and is a national board member and founding member of gen next calm a nationwide organization dedicated to engaging Pressing challenges facing future generations. He also serves on the ubuntu council for cta op charlie's theran africa outreach program which supports organizations through grant giving with a hands-on approach to prevent hiv That is just amazing. Mr. Jen Jahangiri was also appointed by governor schwarz neger in 2009 and 2010 I'll be back to various california state boards and commissions As we continue to expand the business forming a well-rounded advisory board We'll serve as an additional resource to guide our rapid growth We plan to add more experts to the advisory board across a range of relevant industries over time to provide a diverse And complementary insights to the different areas of our business We service today as well as how we will evolve in the future said nick Covici etch chief executive officer of cusco Mr. Morgan mr. Smith and mr. 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Hello, everyone. Welcome to Open Source Summit 2022. I am Rohan and with me is Philip, and we are here to give you an introduction to Presto and also share the product roadmap for the Presto project. Just to give you an introduction about myself, my name is Rohan Pednekar. I am a product manager here at Ahana, and I am also chair for Conformance program within Presto Foundation and I closely work with the Presto community and its user. So let's get started. Presto is very popular open source project, but today I want to share why it matters and why it is the SQL engine for the data platform teams for both interactive as well as batch workloads. So let's quickly revisit what Presto is. Presto is a desegregated, Ansai compliant SQL query engine originally designed to replace Apache Hive to achieve scalable interactive queries across large set of data, as well as across different data sources. Presto got created at Meta and now it is one of the most popular open source projects hosted under the Linux Foundation. Today, internet giants like Meta, Twitter, ByteDance and Uber, Presto runs at a massive scale and can analyze petabytes of data. So here is the quick overview of a Presto architecture. Presto is a distributed system of coordinators and workers. Coordinator is responsible for query planning, query scheduling, et cetera, and workers are responsible to perform actual work. Workers are the one who perform the legwork, all in memory, on across different data sets, different partitions and different splits. You can connect to Presto cluster with any of the reporting tools with the help of standard JDBC or ODBC protocol. You can use the notebooks like Jupiter, Apache's airplane, et cetera, to access and analyze the data. On the bottom, you do have data lakes like S3, as well as other range of data sources like NoSQL databases, relational databases, streaming data sources like Kafka, caching systems like Redis, and other real-time data sources like Apache Pino, et cetera. So these are the some of the common questions we get asked often. So let me talk a little bit more about this. Presto essentially is just a query engine. So if you think about a more traditional database, it comes with a compute and a storage together versus Presto, which is really just a compute and it runs on top of storage, which might be a database or a data lake. So it's just really a part of database, which is query engine. And it also comes out of a Hadoop ecosystem. The way it requires configuration management, it depends on how you metastore, and that's it. In that, it is related to Hadoop. However, it has its own system, so you do not longer need Apache Zookeeper, you do not longer need any other components of Hadoop. If you are querying data lakes, then you just need Hadoop Metastore or others kind of a catalog like AWS Glue, but you do not need again any kind of Hadoop components. And given that, it is just a query engine. It is also different from the data warehouse where the biggest advantage of Presto is just you run your query, like you can query data in place. There's no need to move your data or ingest it into yet another system or create another copy of it. So what makes Presto different from some of the other engines out there like Spark? Spark was built to be a general purpose, computational engine versus Presto, which is meant to be a SQL engine. It is highly scalable. It has a pluggable architecture with a range of connector that you can use and it is built for performance. It is built to be an in-memory engine with a pipeline architecture. Let's take a look at the scalable architecture. As I was mentioning earlier, we have two roles here. We have a coordinator and we have workers. The workers are connected to the data sources and they operate on top of data and they can push down predicates, where clauses, all the way down to the data sources, again, depending on the connector. So in case of a data lake with a high connector, it's used and predicates can get pushed down so that you can read little as less information or as less data as possible and pull it into the query engine to actually process it in memory. And again, Presto is highly scalable. You can support very large number of workers and now with advancement of multiple coordinators, it gets even more scalable. Now, let's take a deeper look at the architecture. So if you look at the coordinator itself, it includes some of the typical components that you would expect out of databases. You have the parser, compiler, analyzer, that's the optimizer. The optimizer decides on what plan is the most efficient and should be executed on, depending on the statistics and the other information. The scheduler will then schedule the queries across the different workers. Data location API tells the scheduler where the data is actually located and the metadata API gives the coordinator information about the tables, the columns, the schemas of the data lying underneath it. And this might be via the high metastore or it could be, again, any other traditional catalog in the relational databases which are built in to the system itself. And at the bottom, the connectors, these different, different connectors connect to all range of different data sources. So now let's talk a little bit about connectors. Presto comes with about 30 different connectors. Here are some of the most popular ones that we often see in the community. And all this plug into Presto. Presto allows for a query that can be joined across different data sources. So you can correlate data across different data sources. You just have to have schema name appropriately defined in the query itself. For a connector you create, you have to have a catalog explaining to the system how it interacts with it. And a schema for how the data should be organized once it is brought in. So a few different concepts here. You have a connector which allows you to connect to the different data sources into Presto. Then the catalog which contains schemas from the different data sources. So for every data source that you connect to the Presto, you have to have a catalog.properties file defined. This file contains information and configuration about data sources like endpoint URL credentials and many other range of different configuration information. And then the schema itself. Tables are organized into schemas. Tables themselves have columns and rows. And Presto analyzes this data in using columnar approach. So here you see a typical Hive connector if you are working with HDFS or S3. The coordinator talks to the Hive meta store as an example. It could be AWS Glue as well. And then the splits are assigned to different workers by the scheduler, which then goes and gets this information from the data lake underneath it. With the data sources and connector, Presto also allows different range of all different data types and different data formats to be queried. What we recommend often time is Apache ORC or Parquet formats because these are most efficient and most performant formats and also more compact ones by, but you can query a data that's in JSON or CSV and a range of other different formats. The beauty of Presto is you do not have to ingest data into yet another system. It can be queried directly where it lives in the data source. So why Presto fast? We often get this question. When you compare Presto with Hive or some of the other traditional query engines, we see anywhere from 10 to 15 times faster performance with Presto. The primary reason is a Presto is built as in memory engine. And so while you can spill to the disk, if your data size that you are processing is larger than the memory size, which is available, most often, and with the most of the deployments, we see users size their cluster to the amount of a memory that is needed to perform these queries. And so given this is a very fast engine, it pulls the data that it needs. It is again stream-based. So it streams the data into memory as it is reading it and it processes it. And then moves on to the next stage. Again, it is also using columnar execution that makes it very well suited for analytical queries. And at the end, last year, Meta introduced support for multi-level caching with the help of RaptorX. That is, as a user, you can configure caching at a different levels. Like you can define caching at the metadata. You can configure caching at the MetaStore. You can define caching at files, header, and footer level. Or you can have a caching configured at the data blocks level. So that really improves the performance at a great extent. Now, let's take a look at what a life of query looks like. You know, this is a simple query. Select star from order stable with a simple predicate. If you look at the explain plan, you will see a different operators that are a part of the plan. So you have the scan operator, which reads the data from the order stable underneath, filter is applied, and then the output is returned to the client. So this is a slightly more involved query plan. So you have a couple of projections. You have aggregate, which is the sum. Then you have a left join, online item table as well, and the order stable on order key. And you have a where clause and then group by and so on. And the plan, you have the operator on the line item, you filter it out, then you see the scan on the order stable, you see the left join, then this is then gets aggregated and the projections are pulled out and then the results are returned to the client. So so far, what I have covered is what Presto is, the architecture of a Presto and why it is so fast. Now let's talk about how users are using it. These are some of the typical use cases of Presto and reporting and dashboarding is one of the most popular use case of a Presto. This is what the stack might look like, which is very similar to what we have discussed earlier. You have a BI tool connected to the Presto and a JDBC driver. And the Presto is further sets on top of your data lake. That is S3 or data sources like MySQL and Presto acts as a SQL engine. Now with the Presto in the reporting and dashboarding use case, another popular use case is the data science. You have a Jupyter network, notebooks. These are the SQL based notebooks where you might use Python or Python SDK on top of Presto to connect to your data lake or the relational data sources underneath it. And since last couple of years, Presto has been getting used for the batch workloads. Examples of data engineering workloads that are now being run on Presto are ETL workloads and one of the technologies underneath is Presto on Spark. Presto can now run as a layer on top of your Spark jobs and allow you to run more robust and reliable batch workloads. Philip will talk a little bit more about this later in this session. And also there is a whole session on Presto on Spark from Intuit Engineer. Please check it out that as well. And finally, I would like to talk about open data lake house with Presto. How can you use Presto to create your own open data lake house? As a cloud data warehouse is becoming more cost prohibitive, data mesh approach or the data federation approach is not performant enough. More and more workloads are migrating to the data lake. If all your data is going to end up in the cloud native storage like AWS S3, ADLS or a Google cloud store, then the most optimized and efficient data strategy is to leverage and open data lake house architecture, which provides more and more flexibility and with a no vendor lock in. It is not anything different from the data lake. What it means is that some of the capabilities of a warehouse are now being moved to the data lake. One of those is transactionality. And this is achieved using technologies and projects like Apache Hoody, Delta Lake and others. And Presto is the SQL engine that then sits on top of the cloud data lake and that you can query with. And this is the architecture for the data lake house that is emerging and we are seeing, we are starting to see more and more of this. Finally, you know a little bit more about Ahana. I worked for Ahana as a product manager. We are a Presto company. We are a premium, premier member of a Presto foundation. We have a strong database and Presto experts here in-house and the product at core is managed service for a Presto. It comes with a SaaS console plane and a managed service where we bring compute and a Presto to your data in your own account. It's in AWS, a single pane of a glass allows you to manage multiple Presto clusters, fully integrated cloud native with a security features like Apache ranger, et cetera. And with that, I am handing it over to you, Philip. Thank you. Thank you Rohan for that summary of what Presto is and where it can be used. Hi, I'm Philip Bell, a developer advocate at Meadow focused on big data open source projects. I'm also a Presto foundation board member and we'll be talking to you about the future of Presto. I'd like to review Presto's roadmap, specifically recent accomplishments and the direction we're taking Presto through its next evolution. The current roadmap can be summed up as Presto for all. Presto is a top tier interactive query engine. It can unify various data sources in your existing architecture and provide a consistent interface for gaining insights from your data. The Presto foundation's vision is that Presto will become an effortless experience for many large scale and complex data related use cases. We want Presto to be the default choice for reporting and dashboards and to effortlessly handle both quantity and shape of queries dashboard tools might send to Presto. We know use cases can range from daily to quarterly check metrics as well as queries you may want your BI tool to perform. We want Presto to be an even better ad hoc interactive query engine performance wise. We're aiming for Presto to be able to efficiently serve data without having to transfer it from your warehouse. This means handling extremely high queries per second such as externally served requests with minimal data migration to other storage solutions. Essentially, we aim for adding Presto to your ecosystem to be the only major change needed to utilize in your architecture. Recently, we've been finalizing the ability to handle large batch workloads with ease. This has been challenging because Presto is an in memory query engine. Most importantly, we continue to consolidate on the same language to accomplish all of this with similar ETL and a unified backend. The reason for this is the more tools you need to support these use cases, the more complicated and expensive your projects become. Ideally, Presto becomes a single addition to enable a wide variety of use cases within your organization. So the big question is, what are we doing to help scale to fit these different workloads and support them effectively? First and foremost is to add more connectors. Connectors are a seamless way to get Presto to plug into other data sources and open up new use cases. A quick path to accessing data in an unsupported data source is creating a connector that uses a manifest file through Hive. Over time, we aim to migrate all connectors to be native so that they have better performance and reliability. Most recently, we completed a native connector for Delta Lake that is read-only and a connector for large sheets. Coming soon will be right support for the native Delta Lake connector as well as a native Hootie connector. Next, we have to solve for workloads that don't fit within Presto's memory limits. We've put a lot of work into adding more operators to participate in spilling to configure where the spilling output can go and to allow our customizable strategies to be used. Next, we have workloads that span time rather than just space, surpassing minutes into hours. Presto originally has no fault tolerance and this must be overcome to support these use cases. The ultimate goal is to prevent the need for rewriting the query in a different engine which may have different semantics or different function support. That's why Presto has migrated its engine to a library that can run on Spark. By leveraging Spark's resource management, we can enjoy the benefits of disaggregated shuffle and recoverability from Spark without having to rewrite the query. Finally, at the opposite end of the spectrum, we have Presto being used for online analytics, something that may be customer-driven. We want to use that same query engine here too. We've put in lots of improvements in Presto's catching architecture. With the completion of the Raptor Actra project, Presto now has intelligent tiered catching resulting in similar performance to having co-located compute and storage. This means you can operate using your existing cloud storage provider without any additional ETL. Adding materialized view support using standard SQL eliminates the need to repeatedly calculate metric rollups or creating pipelines for derived tables. As much as we are working on growing the breadth of use cases Presto can help with, we are also investing a lot in ensuring Presto is even more efficient, reliable and scalable than it is today. We've completed implementation of disaggregated coordinators eliminating a single point of failure in query execution as well as increasing scalability. We've improved scheduling using bin packing, reducing hotspots and failures. Just as important as reliability is efficiency when working at Facebook scale within Meta. One path to efficiency is native execution. We are finalizing migrating workers from Java to C++, which grants us better control over memory and instructions utilized. Early performance tests are showing significant orders of magnitude increases in throughput for certain use cases. Our ARIA efficiency work adds expression pushdown all the way into the scan and we're growing that to include parquet files. Our third focus of extensibility ties into empowering a wider set of users to take advantage of Presto. One way of accomplishing this is SQL function support which allows sharing complex mathematical expressions or other complex functions you can encapsulate. Lastly, we've added the ability to query external UDF servers for function execution, enabling users to support languages that are hard to port to Java or standard SQL. With this feature set, users can point functions to external servers either for specificity or utilizing other compute resources for particularly heavy functions. We are finalizing Apache Ranger support to enable more fine-grained access control for better security as well. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out on Slack or Twitter. I hope to hear from you soon and look forward to seeing what problems you will solve using Presto.


does the world of tennis have something against Asian players right now or is it just a coincidence that this seems to keep happening yeah this went viral in the tennis world andru and of course andru silly the series it started out silly it even got a little geopolitical make sure you like subscribe turning your notifications andru let's run the viral clip circulating right now involving Zhuang Shui and Amarisa Toth what it was good Amarisa Toth isn't sure normally when you kind of linger oh no it is why it's believe this she has retired from this match i mean we saw the doctor there clearly nothing is wrong with her she was in floods of tears at the the sit down there was long story short andru Zhang Shui hits it it's actually in according to the video the umpire and the supervisor call it out you know she wants to protest it turns into a whole thing Toth is taunting her the crowd starts taunting her and uh Zhang Shui is just like you know what i give up i'm gonna retire from this match Toth throws her hands up the tennis world went against Toth and supported Zhang Shui right and then Toth sends out an apology that doesn't seem super genuine but probably just because she had to um i guess right here David and we're gonna go into the comment section because there's a lot of different comments and perspective on it but i guess like for me not being a natural tennis player i was surprised to find out some things about the game of tennis and how much etiquette and sportsmanship is part of it right so you're saying this is why this is going viral yeah it's a little bit different but i don't think a lot of people understand this about tennis right it's like the the respect that the tennis players are supposed to have for each other it's not a trash talking sport like basketball where you're saying mean things at each other at the free throw line and stuff like that to get into the head like this is it's not as much of the sport no this is a country club sport this is a sport that has been typically played by the upper middle class and wealthy people of the world right yeah and while i think that umpires of any sport and any referee can make a miss call there's bad calls in basketball there's this that we all even with with replay they can still make a bad call because to overturn it you have to have like more than reasonable doubt and all this stuff but i guess like uh yeah i guess her stepping and erasing the mark was really disrespectful i guess it wasn't illegal maybe not a violation quite but her stepping to show where the ball had landed had that the ball had landed on the line to step on it i think it was an extra disrespectful because while she's doing it john schwa is asking her to not do it because she still wants somebody to come examine yeah so it kind of is like don't do it don't do it don't do it and then she's like i'm doing it yeah people are like oh and uh coupled with the recent disqualification of kato for accidentally hitting the ball towards the ball girl and hitting the ball girl in france andrew everybody's looking at hungary and grand prix like yo what's going on is there a conspiracy against asian women in pro tennis all right well we're going to talk about it because there is a theory but i don't know if it's true or not so hey guys make sure you like subscribe turn your notifications let's get into the comment section somebody said literally every single one of their peers agreed that tauth was disrespectful and they supported john schwa so what does that show you i mean does that show you and the fact that the tennis world went with john because she has a good reputation she's been a pro for a number of years this with toss i think tauth by the way she's half thai and half hungarian looks more asian but uh people was more going with john schwa i think it was bad because tauth already got the point and that she didn't have to step on it out of spite you know i mean she did it to punker she said oh you don't want me to erase it bam even though she she could have just left it because the call already happened right do you think she was also yelling at her you are creating problem like do you think she was doing that because she was on her home turf in hungary and she's hungarian yeah i mean i also you know maybe there is some anti china thing i don't want to want to call tauth races because she is half asian so maybe i will give you give her the benefit of the doubt for that but it could be anti china right here's what if she tried to justify and go no no no no no that the fact i don't like john schwa is from my thai side yes from the thai side it's not my hungarian but thai people i don't think they hate chinese no no that's not i think the older ones but anyway yeah uh the hungarian gp enter the grand prix official account came out and said china is releasing manipulative video trying to manipulate the world and in here this is where i got geopolitical oh um so long story short enter they were saying that the clip got taken out of context because it is missing the fact that there was a point right after um the bad read the bad call before she wiped it so does that show that the video we showed earlier was manipulative uh it was edited it cut out some part in between but does that change that her behavior was unsportsman like right because you can clearly see she did everything even if there's like a point missed in between right you're saying that there was a play in between it didn't happen right after yeah i don't know if that changes anything but yes yes the video i could see from the video if you think that she's wiping it while before the umpire is coming to look at it that would be really horrible yeah but the umpire i had actually made the call already right and that's why a lot of people are accusing the umpire of potentially being anti-asian or anti-chinese because you can see that it's in so she marks it out so people are saying potentially that the umpire aka the officials and the referee and the player were both being kind of like disrespectful yeah that's what everybody's saying guys listen the tenet tennis world is the tennis world man i can only tell you what i see um somebody said i noticed the institution of tennis seems to be against any asian female player why does this pattern happen over and over again amiris atath has the worst pr ever now this is white privilege and someone said what do you mean white privilege they're both asian someone said no one of them's half white whether she looks at or not obviously amiris atath more asian passing hungarian so i i guess if hungarian is white in this case yeah more white for sure even though yeah um yeah what do you think man do you do you think that there's any enough evidence to prove or is this a result of there's just a lot more pro asian female tennis players nowadays like there's a lot more pro asian female golfers they make up a much larger proportion of that pie and growing every year well i i think it's tough to tie the kato situation and the shui situation together as far as uh a geopolitical thing because what people hate japan too because then you can't use the whole like oh they're hating on chinese players argument right you're saying that but you could say that they don't like east asian players yeah i think the only theory that has any sort of validity and i'm not sure if it does is the one where people feel like since asian female players are on the rise they want to hold them back or punish them for possibly replacing a lot of european or white female tennis players right right this is replacement you mean how for example a lot of asian female pro golfers have replaced a lot of european women on the pro lgb lpga lpga yeah it's hard to say uh but yeah so i would say that i think that's the only theory that i can see you know what i mean like i got and i'm not sure if that's true i don't want to necessarily throw the whole tennis federation under the bus but i can't say no right it's an old world society man they might not like people messing with the old world order um somebody said the sinophobia was loud af wow and somebody said yeah it's well deserved the sinophobia is well deserved of course and this is where the whole geopolitical thing comes into play right let me ask you this david is it do you think the sinophobia might be worse and harsher in the tennis world because tennis is more of a richer sport as in if you saw a bunch of asian basketball players that were super good and could play in the mba that they might just they might just let them play i don't know i know definitely know some asians said that jeremy lin didn't get the calls at the rim though with the contact you so you did hear that theory too that could have been because he's not a superstar either though i don't know that's what we're saying guys hey i'm not here to oversubscribe to any one because i'm just here to ask the questions i think we need to see a larger sample size but this pattern is in my tennis mind is to a pattern i need to see if they do that to the guys i don't know if there's enough asian men that are competitive on that level in the tennis world yet but i think amarisa toff being half asian it clearly goes to show you that asian women are clearly making their way into tennis yeah uh i forgot how to say her name rada rada rada rada kamu rada kamu and uh also Naomi Osaka half asian right right i guess like maybe there's just enough asian women that are playing tennis that more of these bad i see what you're saying they're gonna happen there's such a volume of interactions with asian women now in the pro tennis world somebody said her apology just felt so forced because of the backlash she received you can look at her eyes there's not a single ounce of regret let's play toss for uh apology right just getting into our takeaways i do think that racism looks different in tennis than it does in a very more violent sport like football or basketball i do think like you said there's so much stuff that is subjective about like line in line out they don't necessarily especially on clay they're not using the robot sensors you know like you said there's a lot more about decorum yeah in tennis yeah so i think like there's such a focus on sportsmanship like if this was any other sport almost i feel like it's not that big of a deal and also i do think let's be honest that there might be a different expectation for women to be like more nicer to each other right because they don't have the john mackem rose and things like right like john yeah john mackem rose known to be an a-hole right but i'm saying like you don't really want to see a whole women female tennis player because female tennis players are supposed to be like more you know like womenly like like women like is what they would want no it's true the ones that are really popular they generally look really good in the dress yeah and they're more sweet and and schwae is has a very good long reputation of being sweet she's also been in playing tennis for many years and then everybody's like so it's almost like people that people don't like toth bringing the nastiness to yeah just got a little dirty and caddy and i think that's when people are like oh we might be losing the tennis world and the tennis decorum is falling apart because listen we have women women's tennis players fighting each other listen i don't want to lend anything to this replacement theory of like european players and tennis andrew but if we look at the hierarchy of how big the balls get in sports it goes squash badminton golf tennis cricket baseball volleyball soccer ball basketballs that's like and football is in somewhere that didn't rank because it's not spherical right but like i'm saying this is like it seems like asians are getting better and better each level you know what i mean they started at the small sports squash golf and they're just moving up the list you mean they're being really good at the sports with small balls yeah because those are uh probably what less power less power sports less height related more technical yeah maybe you know smaller movements i do think that like i said i don't know how much europeans are scared or trying to be racist about like getting replaced in the median but i do think that when they you see a dominant player in a sport andrew that's from a different place like shohei otani or each year old when they were dominating the mlb it's different than when you feel like all the players in the middle the median average player is becoming a foreign face i think more people are okay with like even let's just say basketball yokech and luka are starting to dominate the mba and yanis he's from greece even though he's nigerian like it's like that's it's okay because the median player is still american right right right interesting yeah i don't know guys you let me know in the comments down below personally i'm not i don't want to say i'm convinced that there is a conspiracy against asian players yet but definitely this raises some questions and i do think that yeah people in the tennis world i don't know maybe they're feeling the heat of all these asian tennis players coming up anytime there's a 50-50 go against the asian i don't know guys i don't think what happened in america to be honest all these things i think these are old world countries with old world rules that that's my honest opinion i think they do things different in europe than in america because it's that's the old world yeah possibly all right guys let me know in the comments down below hit that like button check out other episodes of the hot pop boys and until next time we out peace


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When I was in high school, I memorized a quote that has become deeply embedded in my being and I think it really has been the one of the core reasons that I've been able to create a lot and find some success along the way. The quote is by Ralph Waldo Emerson and it goes like this. Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better. So I memorized that quote and you may want to as well, because that quote is really the basis of successful entrepreneurship, successful self employment, right, having a successful career. It's about the willingness to not see any failure, but to rather see it all as just a small part of your total journey of learning and experimentation and growth. So that's what I want to inspire you with today is the idea to never consider anything to be a failure to only see it as Oh, that was just one moment in the long journey of my growth. However, big so called the failure may be and yes, sometimes it does impact us quite a bit emotionally and well guess what, that's also an opportunity for us to practice our tools for working through difficult emotions and transforming them into something valuable for the future for our holistic growth. All right, so I want to share with you one of the heroes of experimentation is Thomas Edison. He's well known for having done a lot of experimentations to discover the modern light bulb. And I want to read you a couple of quotes from from him. So, Thomas Edison said this. I speak without exaggeration. When I say that I have constructed 3000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently to be true. But not only in two cases out of the 3000. Did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.   You're a very thoughtful person and probably more than that may sometimes get us into trouble, right being too stuck in our thoughts rather than action. And was obviously quite smart. Maybe maybe not maybe you could say that he was not very smart and to say well let me just, I think this might work 3000 2998 failures the things that didn't prove his theory, only two out of the 3000 did. So how many experiments have you made. How many pieces of content. Have you, how many videos did you have you uploaded. How many articles have you published, how many products have you launched, how many coaching packages have you offered to your audience. If you're not yet at 30. That's not even 1% of what Thomas Edison had to go through to find the electric light bulb now you might say well it's a little different because when you're posting content or when you're launching an offer. It's more embarrassing. It's this more sense of failure because other people are seeing you fail. And okay, that might be true. But here's the reality I've discovered after 11 years of marketing is that nobody will remember your mediocre things. So the well known musicians and artists and writers. Do we remember the, you know, fourth book they wrote that didn't go anywhere do we remember the eighth song on the fourth album that no one ever remembers. No, we remember their best selling hits. That's all we remember so same thing with your audience. They are only going to remember your best selling hits. The things that were mediocre. They just scroll past it. That's just another experiment for you. That's it. Same thing, if you make an offer. So here's my coaching package that put together. Anyone want to buy it. Nobody wants to buy it. They simply scrolled past that email, or they read the email and they just closed it and they went on with their day. It's not interesting enough for them. It didn't prove your theory just like Einstein said he tried 3000 times to prove this theory two out of the 3000 work. So how many times have you offered different coaching packages. Have you offered three. Have you offered 30. Have you offered 300. You're getting a little bit closer to what Thomas Edison did let me read you another quote. Thomas Edison was working on a storage battery, which actually ultimately made him more successful financially than even the light bulb. Okay, the storage battery. So when he was working on it. One of Edison's colleagues told the story. I learned that Edison had thus made over 9000 experiments. 9000 experiments and trying to devise this new type of storage battery, but had not produced a single thing that promised to solve the equation. In view of this immense amount of thought and the labor, my sympathy got the better of my judgment and I said, isn't it a shame that with the tremendous amount of work that you've done, you haven't been able to get any results. Edison turned on me like a flash and said with a smile results. Why man I've gotten a lot of results. I know several several thousand things that won't work. I have that playful spirit of experimentation that I hope all of us will allow to deeply sit into our system to say, oh, all life is an experiment. The more experiments the better. And I will add to that, your audience will remember nothing about you, except your best selling hits. So don't be shy. Post during the next video, write the next article no one's going to care, unless it actually makes a real impact on them. They won't care. Okay, they won't even notice those scroll past it because the few lines that they saw just wasn't relevant to them today. So they scroll past it and that's okay. That's a blessing. In fact, they opened your email they didn't buy. They close it. They scroll pat they go to the next email. That's a blessing, because that means you don't have to worry about trying the next one, and the next one, and the next one. So, basically, what I want you to take on is a rhythm of experiments, a rhythm of experiments. So I'll give you my example of my rhythm of experiments. Okay, so if you'll notice, at least at this time of this recording, I post a piece of content every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, Monday, Monday and Thursday. These are articles, and Tuesdays and Fridays are videos. Alright, so basically Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. So that's four times a week. I get to experiment with that next piece of content to see if it makes an impact makes a difference for you. If not, please scroll on by because I don't want you to like my things just because you feel bad for me or you want to support me. That's very kind of you. I only want you to like something if you actually if it actually made an impact for you. If you actually made a difference for you. That's the only time I want you to like it same thing with comments, right. I don't want to skew the data. I'm very serious about tracking the data for my content so I wanted to be accurate.  When I should be more attached to the value of experimentation, I should be more attached to the spirit of playful experiments.  So, again, four times a week I get to experiment with the next piece of content what about you. How many times a week do you do it. Now you don't have to do it four times a week, especially if you have children to take care of, or the elderly to take or someone to take care of. You have a job. If you have other things going on in your life and you're not able to work on your business full time like I am, then you don't have to do four times a week but try to do one time a week. One time a week is not too much to ask of you to post a piece of content, especially again if you take it from a playful experimental attitude, then you don't have to be so stressed out. It's no pressure, knowing that nobody cares, even if you have 1000 fans, they're going to scroll scroll on past unless somehow that topic is something that they actually are thinking about right now and are wanting to explore more. You just have to experiment. You will chance upon the topic one day that goes viral and by going viral I simply mean that it gets a lot more engagement, comments, likes maybe even shares than most of your other things. That's what I mean by viral. It just does much better than most of your content. Most of your content is not going to do that well. Most of my content doesn't do that well you might say well George most of your content gets at least a couple likes maybe a couple dozen. It's all relative right because my audience is big enough where, if I get 10 likes on something it's, it's relatively speaking, not no longer a big deal but I get 50 likes on something now that's something to pay attention to. Same thing when I first started with a small audience. I usually got no likes, no zero for everything. That's normal. No comments no likes but I just kept posting for a year. Every day, every day I did it for up until 100 videos 100 articles, and then after that I started doing it three times a week, etc. So three now now it's four times a week but really only one time a week out of the four is completely new. The other three times a week is repurposed anyway, long story short, back to your rhythm of experiments I do four times a week. I want to talk about you please please tell me you're going to do at least one time per week, because you do one time per week. And let's say you give yourself four weeks a year off of content, let's say eight weeks a year off of content. That means you only get 44 experiments a year to test out different topics, test out different ways of talking about something that you're interested in that you're that's within your wheelhouse. So four ways I get 160 ways a year because I do 40 weeks of content a year, and four times anyway. So, what is your rhythm of experimentation, when it comes to content. First question second question is, what is your rhythm of experimentation, when it comes to launches, or selling, making your offer. If you have a coaching program. If you're only ever offering at one in one way, your coaching can help a lot of people with different situations right, your service, your, yeah whatever service you provide, it's not only helping one person with one exact very specific problem. You probably help one type of person with five different types of problems or help five different types of people with one type of problem, whatever it is that you do in your service. When you ever offer it only talk about it in one simple way. That's only one launch. That's only one offer. You need to take that one thing you do and learn to talk about it in five ways, or 10 ways, or 15 ways, every single time you talk about it say oh, I do life coaching for women to overcome overwhelm that's one way. I do, I do life coaching for women who are going through a particular emotional intensity moment in their relationship. That's the second way I do.  And five, 10, 15, 30 different ways of it's the same service didn't you just hear me say that's the same service life coaching for women with overwhelm or stuckness or whatever, but I just said it in three different ways, and I just came up with that in, in, you know, half a minute, and I don't even do life coaching for women and you know, so, so what about you, whatever it is that you do whatever service you provide. Maybe you provide some kind of healing or some kind of facilitation of transformation that whatever you can say what you the same thing that you do. You can be said in 30 different ways, as part of your marketing and when I say 30 different ways I don't mean 30 different sales pages. I mean 30 different one to two to three paragraph posts. That's it. That's what I'm asking you to do. Every time you offer your service, make it a one two or three paragraph Facebook post, or Instagram post or make it a five minute YouTube video or whatever it is. But this time to say it differently than you did last time, and see if people resonate. So I make my rhythm of experimentation is once a week on Wednesdays as you'll notice, especially if you go follow me on my Facebook business page that's where I do my most of my content. On Wednesdays, I experiment with selling something, or pre selling something meaning asking people feedback before I sell something because I want to know if it's going to work, if it's people are likely to be interested. How do they want me to talk about it. So every Wednesday you can see on my Facebook business page how I experiment with trying to sell you something. And sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. But if I do it every Wednesday. That means I have, again, I work about 4040 to 45 weeks in a year so I get at least 40 experiments a year, trying to sell something. And many of them are failures, but I just need a few of them to do well to make my, my whole year work. And most of them do, you know, it was now that I have so much experience doing experiments. I've done it for years now. Most of my experiments are okay they make some sales. Some of them do really well, and some of them don't barely sell anything at all. But that's the reality for every marketer every business owner every self employed person, no matter how smart you think you are, if you aren't continuing to experiment. If you aren't continuing to learn. And if you continue to experiment, then you will always have some of those experiments not work at all with Thomas Edison it was the vast majority of it. There is no failure. There's only redirection. It's simply life directing you to another experiment. Oh try something else life is telling you. And it's marketing.  No, not at all. Your audience is simply saying, I'm sorry, the way you're saying it today is not interesting. Can you try again tomorrow. Can you try again next week. Now I'm not saying you should sell something every day to your audience because that's probably too much selling, but once a week is certainly not too much to try another one two or three paragraphs this is the way I want to describe what I offer today, right, or this week. So there is no failure only redirection when when your audience isn't buying or in the engaging it's simply your audience telling you, Oh, hey, can you try something different tomorrow or next week. I hope this is encouraging for you I really look forward to your comments below if you want to tell me how you're going to change or update your rhythm of experimentation or maybe you already have a rhythm of experimentation that you really appreciate that you that works for you. And if that's the case, please comment below and let me know. So yes, that's that's the, my, my ask of you is to, is to if you would like to know, don't comment just because it's going to help this video go viral now. But what I what I'm really meaning is that if you watch this video but you don't do anything with it. That's, that's not the point right that my point is that hopefully you'll do something with this so if you would like to if it would be helpful to you. I'm saying this is going to be my rhythm of experimentation going forward so I hope this helps and I want to thank those who are actually commenting live right now I'm only able to see a couple of comments here. Thank you to Lori to Marit to Maruna. I'm probably mispronouncing your names. I know that there are other comments and not able to see it while I'm live here but I will, I will look at it afterwards. Thank you for joining me for this. I'm George cowl authentic business coach. See you in the next video. May you playfully persist in your experimentations. Take care.


It's still the breakfast in plus severe Africa. Thank you for staying with us. We look at Chanigals and the Supper Falcons Monday Thomas joins the conversation now for Chanigals. You have Ghana beating Nigeria again We're talking about the black Galic's to zero win right there And also the Supper Falcons of Nigeria have actually left the shores of the country They left on Wednesday for the United States ahead of the doublehead of friendly games Against the United States women's national team Having both secured their places in the next year FIFA women's World Cup build for Australia and New Zealand The Supper Falcons of Nigeria will actually encounter their counter But that's the United States women national team and will clash twice this December This September have a good poison in preparatory game towards the World Cup Now the first of the clash would take place on Saturday September the third That's tomorrow at the Children's Messy Park in Kansas City and the second clash is scheduled for the Audi field in Washington, DC That's on Tuesday the 6th of September 2022 like I mentioned earlier on Monday Thomas joins the conversation as a sports journalist Monday Thomas many thanks for joining us on a Friday morning Good morning. Mercy. I'm quite excited to be here to talk to Nigerian football And let's begin from the Chanigals or like they say ladies first so we should begin from the Chanigals the Chanigals. I mean, it's it's it's happened already and We're going to have the game happen later on today. So the Chanigals should take the lead All right, the Chanigals it's going to be a mountain for Salisu Yusuf boys to climb Because personally I feel that they should have nipped it in the bot in the first leg by at least getting a draw in that particular game Or a less scoring and a way goal in that game. We know in African football The away goal rule certainly counts and that's the way goal rule that the black stars of Ghana used to beat Nigeria out of the World Cup playoffs. So losing 2-0 in Cape Coast It's certainly going to be a very difficult tax a very Euclian tax for The Super Eagles be to get three goals past the black galaxies of Ghana Why am I saying so because football is a game of numbers football is a game of stats We we want to take a look at your opening We want to go against your opponent you need to take a look at the stats How well have you been playing against this side? Nigeria the Super Eagles be I've never beaten the black galaxies of Ghana in a champ competition They've played three times. They've lost twice and they've drawn just once So what are the chances that the Super Eagles be will not just win the Super the black galaxies? But they will score three goals because they have to score three on reply goals If they want to book book that ticket to Algeria 2023 Chancom Tournament they have to score three on reply goals against the black galaxies of Ghana And I watched that game in Cape Coast although I wasn't privileged to be there I saw it on the screens the Super Eagles be we're not playing I see like they want something out of this game They came around with a negative mindset to just maybe a get a draw out of this game But in the first 45 minutes They were able to play Neil Neil draw in the second 45 minutes Things did not go according to plan and they seem to be bereaved of ideas They didn't know what to do the black galaxies of Ghana got two opportunities and they made it count So that's by guns by the way We should be focused on what we are going to be seeing here to tomorrow right there in Abuja But I doubt that the Super Eagles be can score three on reply goals against the black galaxies of Ghana So we should just stem power expectations so that we won't get to be hurt when we see the final result Because personally to be very very fair to be brutally honest I'm a patriotic Nigerian, but I don't think Nigeria can qualify to the chant 2023 Let's talk about the reason why we can't qualify you know for that game I mean we saw the first leg to zero right there and Ghana actually hitting us very hard I remember a colleague who actually prompted me to that loss. It was really saddening and very patriotic I want my country to win every other time, but that's the case now a second leg a first leg has happened Second leg anticipating to happen tomorrow Uh, what exactly did we do wrong in the first leg and what do you think we can do right? Do you think we even have the space and time you know to get it right three zero like you have mentioned All right first off I like to just reiterate and very sure a lot of people know that football is a game of mentality I told you that in the first leg our mentality was a little bit negative We just wanted to go there and get a draw which would have been a good result But in football the best way to get a good result is to attack the best way to win a game The best way to even defend is by attacking So for Nigeria to get three goals in this game tomorrow, which is impossible for me But of course football we all we get to see unexpected happen sometimes So for them to get the the best result tomorrow, they need to change their mentality They need to have it in the back of the mind that they are better than this black stars of Ghana I mean we want to compare the npfl to the Ghana The Ghana Premiership many people would say that the Ghana Premiership is better So it now boils down to what we've been doing here in the in the league. Have you been getting it right? So it's it's a whole lot and if we've not been getting it right in the league So we can't just get it right in just one game. So we just have to change our mentality and hope and We just have to hope that things go according to plan when we get to play the black galaxies of Ghana tomorrow, but like I Said temporary expectations I've read out their stats and I've never beaten the black galaxies of Ghana And what are the chances for us to score through on reply goals? It's actually very sweet But all the best for the super eagles be but I don't see them progressing to the Couple nations, but I remember the one we had this conversation for the super eagles be You were very positive at some point. I mean Yes, I was Especially when we mentioned the likes of a nazi and you said if we look at the lineup The makeup for the game. We had some experienced player in the team. You mentioned that and so what happens to having experienced player in the team and not even Trying to win for the first leg because the second leg is almost impossible to have three straight goals without equalizing on from the other side Well, I said so Basically, I was happy about the score the likes of andio play who wasn't allowed to play that first leg game Hopefully he will feature in the second leg. I talked about a nazi He may have been included in the trading and that it's going to help boost the confidence of the young stars I was happy about the starting lineup But what I saw on the pitch of playing kept close I just had to come to a conclusion that if we continue playing like like this We can't get the needed results Okay, so it's time to you know talk about the ladies now the supple falcons Have actually arrived at the united states and they're ready for that doubleheader friendly with the united United states the The counterparts and we know that the united states in every other game They seem to be you know leading the charts. I mean, they're a very strong contender Do you think that we stand a chance? Well, this game actually is not the quality of it is not in the result I don't think it's in the result. But let's talk at the let's look at the performance so far because most times If you look at some of the games the performance always almost determine what happens, you know In the actual game is a friendly we understand But but looking at the friendly now because there's always an adage I think I've said this adage when you're around It is how you sleep that you measure how you die. I mean when someone's sleeping. That's how you know when the person is dead He's just Easy to use that to measure so with the friendly Come on come on Monday. But but do you think that we stand a chance? I mean looking at the lineup now and looking at, you know, the quality of players The combination Technically and all of that do you think we stand a chance to win the friendly and does that give us Even hope as we get into playing the actual game All right, judging from the just concluded women's combinations in morocco I think I do stand a great chance. We play beautifully. Well, I wouldn't say that that competition or that tournament was disappointing You saw how we struggle in the Semifinals against morocco when we actually scored after being a woman down or a man down Went ahead to score against morocco But of course football happened to us that we didn't just get one red card We got two red cards in that game. So it was certainly a very difficult game So if not for that record, I think the super falcons would have won the women's cup in nations And we would have been the best team from Africa Of course going to the FIFA women's senior world cup that will be hosted next year in Australia and New Zealand And now to the game you also question. Do we stand a chance? Yes, we do. We've got brilliant players I'm not I'm not trying to hope a hype like I did with the chant eagles But what I remember the likes of Rashid al-Ojiba day when I remember the likes of onomenu and The order 18 players that they've been called upon to represent Nigeria and not forgetting the ladies who just featured at the Costa Rica on a 20 FIFA women's world cup the likes of Esther Ognene Zide who scored the most goals for the falconets and not forgetting the captain Tosin Demian and as well as rafiat emorran I think it's a great inclusion which is really developing football here in the local scene Especially Nigerian women's football league, which the data has been slated to the league has been slated to start on the 12th of October so the inclusion of this eight home base players Or four home base players and of course four technical team from the home base point of view It's certainly going to help Nigerian football here in the grassroots. So I'm really much excited about the ladies And I hope they can get the much needed results in the united states of america But I must really stand on my word that the value of this particular encounter is in the work out of the players Is in the making sure that this players can play together when the big tournament comes around So even if I understand but uh, I'm just trying to say that Paraventure, you know When you look at the fixture and when it's time to play the actual game, you know, the united states team is a formidable one They have won this game several times 11 times champions if you look at the records so I'm just saying that at the friendly level. Do you think that we stand a chance you need to look at the players They are physically very strong. Yes, and I believe on the big side Yeah, I believe that's super super falcons actually stand a chance against the united states of america. They're not so great any longer Yeah, they're not. I don't think they are so powerful any longer the united states I mean these days you see the countries like the netherlands English side if I think the english women are even more powerful than the united states women And not forgetting the dutch ladies are also very great I think the super falcon stand a chance if they just Have a belief if they're just mentally focused in this particular game They can get at least a draw in the united states of america for the doubleheader friendly Maybe a draw or a win for the two games Well, thank you so much monday thomas for being part of the show. We appreciate your time It is always great to be here. Do you have a fantastic weekend mercy All right then and that's the size of the breakfast. Thank you so much for staying with us this morning. It's beautiful friday Morning, and we will return on monday with great conversation and great analysis Right here the news will come your way at nine o'clock. 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