Not even on my dad walk on Say man, these guys right here man, pulled up on us man, the radio station in the building man Check it man, these boys serious man, they hear a man These skills done, Perrion's in the building man, what's going on, what's popping Hey, bless this man, appreciate it, I love the intro, bruh What?   I can go I don't care who it is, so at the end of the day man It was dope to even get them into our presence too And we've been working our way through the radio Shout out to my boy man, Spaceboy Fresh You know what I'm saying? Like you guys man, you know You guys are still doing the radio thing How did you get into it actually? Either one of y'all can go down there or whatever It don't matter So really, man, the radio station found me in the strip club Like I was one of the first, the strip club DJs back in 2017 They found me there, and they broadcasted every weekend And I had got the opportunity to DJ in the strip club on the weekends I was at a little Holdin' Wall club, that was Cabaret & North You know what I'm saying? Y'all may know something about that Yeah, yeah, yeah, y'all niggas were wicked out there Yeah man, it was crazy, so I was there I graduated college in 2014 And yeah man, my first club was at Cabaret & North Shout out to my guy DJ Chubb, both of the Chubbs Because they didn't want to link me in And they got me in and done some OG's in the game And they gave me the game And I started working my way up And finally got a chance to work on the weekends And the radio station broadcasted every weekend on Saturdays So once they saw me, they was like Who's this new little guy in the club man? We got to get him on at the station So that's how I got on the radio They say he had a real turntables too The turntables in the club, they were like Who is this? What about a two piece? I'm originally from St. Louis I was pretty much the title of the mascot You feel me? So come And I was the network and stay for a class a weekend So that's how I really kind of got in I just put my foot in the door, like I'm gonna be graduating soon, try to come get a job I was talking to 104 at the time And then I talked to 979 at the same time So then boom, I had some recommendations They got me in, I told them I hit them with an email Like I'm on my way to Dallas January 14th Was it 2014? So I've been down here eight years So from four years there, four years at the beat You know what I'm saying? So this guy's beat Man came in on the street team, working my way up You know what I'm saying? Like going to the spots With Jay, Cadetty, you know what I'm saying? They not show up I've been hosting the hyping, my whole life type thing You feel me? So then boom, I just kept networking And then next thing you know, I got on earth At the same time Mike Brown got killed From St. Louis, like Ferguson, you feel me? So like Northside, North County like Like grinding, you feel me? Boom, shoot Grinding, then next thing you know I got on earth Time for paperwork, then then I did a song Slide in challenge, then next you know the beat Hit me with a phone call, like at the lengths The band played it, and when I took a form Did what I did, I got a phone call saying Can I sit down and talk? And that was four years ago You know what I'm saying? I've been sitting down talking ever since Kimberly, you said you were the mascot? Yeah, grambling Man, wasn't that hot?  They don't get to really Just run down the field, seriously That's real But I need them because without them I can't have a good time There you go Y'all ain't ready man Y'all got it, man Y'all got it guys, let's stop playing with them So man, like How is the radio World to date verses, you know Used to in order, you know For artists to be seen or whatever They wanted to be heard on the radio But I know it's not as extensive as it used to be But how much impact do you feel like the radio Gives today's, you know And I know you guys are going to be a little biased But still, give me your spiel on it Just let me know Well, I feel like You know what I'm saying? This is just real talk You know what I'm saying? The radio is Pretty much it stamps you as a superstar Back in the day, you didn't have social media You know what I'm saying? To know you as a superstar You heard your song on the radio Now you got TikToks, you got different ways You can go viral and be seen But all the radio do is Really stamps that you are a superstar That you have proven that your song and your single Has gotten these amount of views And it's changing lives and it's Doing X, Y, and Z, and you know what I'm saying That's why I feel like people will say We don't need radio now because we got different outlets To be heard, it's not just With the radio, you know what I'm saying? But that's still like the Mecca That's still where labels and That's still the dream, the American dream Is to have my song played and heard On the radio throughout the world And the catch is we in Dallas, you feel me We in the top four of the nation Like the top four Metroplex of a million people You feel me, so the radio You got New York, you know what I'm saying You feel me, you want to take it over To the West Coast, Cali, Philadelphia Chicago, even though Houston I just want to ask you What about Houston? We bigger than Houston because we got People on top of us, left, right So you feel like y'all bigger than Houston No no no, on the side of us Yeah, okay This ain't one of America's Banks's situations We're going to Texas next weekend for the Texas green picnic You know what I'm saying, we'll put on Shout out to the bros Man, so you basically You know, you hear a song You like the song, old boy Prince shout it Shout it out because he say you guys Really ride for them and play their music How do you play their music if if it's not a part of the spines, how do you aggressively get, or do you have that ability to play a new artist's music if you like it? The internet is the truth.  If the whole community doing this dance right here, hold on for a minute, you gotta hit it one time. You gotta do it. You've been in here, you didn't see what I did in it. I messed that whole up, didn't I? Hey Lil, C4S, yeah. But the main thing is, I think we a new generation, we a new face, and so we came up here and what the radio stations didn't do and wouldn't do, and man, I feel like this is my calling. Some people got different reasons to be in radio, so I feel like this was my calling was to always help and try to use my platform to help people, so when we see people like C4S that's putting in the work that's doing the numbers, that helps us be able to go and fight for them to our PD, to where I don't know back then, they don't know if people was really fighting for people, if people just didn't see the talent, but like, I know for us, we see the talent, we out here, we seeing the work, and if we can do what we can do, we gonna try to help you, you know what I'm saying? It ain't got nothing to do with no time. Because you've met people who've been doing this and doing what you're doing before you, right? So have they ever said like, man, we couldn't do that when it was our time, back in the days, you didn't hear them stories? Not so much, I heard they used to make a lot of money back in the day, yeah, that's what I heard. So you're not making a lot of money now? We do all the muscle, all the heart, you feel me? We wanna see the city win, you feel me? Like I knew three before we had to change, you know what I'm saying? Like I've been around here enough to see, oh that's all Dallas gotta do, be the next ATL, that's all we gotta do, we just come together, just a little bit, Pat Pym got the juice right now, you know what I'm saying? He been had the juice, he need more credit. B-King, he the man, but Dallas dancers made B-King song go crazy on TikTok and that's when Drake saw it. And that's when Drake put B-King on and life changed out of Dallas. So how do you think Dallas can come together and make Dallas great? Because that's one thing we've been wondering. We've been like, who can really, cause we always feel like it needs one person or a group of people who can really merge the city together. It's the structure, that's really our, we got the talent, it's the structure, you know what I'm saying? Like Atlanta, they have a structure, they know like everyone knows what to do and how to do it, you know what I'm saying? And Dallas, what I see coming up, you got a lot of people that, you know, that's either to themselves, you got a lot of people that feel like, you know, they may be Hollywood, that they ain't got to do certain things.  It's like a lot of, it's a lot of negative in Dallas. But that needs to go. Exactly, you know what I'm saying? And that's why it's like, we the new school, so we coming into it and we seeing it and we just trying to do what we can do to show that new face and show that like, we not really with that, you know what I'm saying? And we trying to put this structure, he'll put this structure together, you know what I'm saying? Maybe like, if they see you messing with somebody, they don't wanna mess with you because they don't mess with that person. But I see changing slowly, but surely, where people like, well, they mess with both of us and they sort of cool, so, you know, it's okay, as long as you don't put them in that situation where that person is around when they're around and stuff like that, so. Right, exactly, exactly. David Bennett just left like last week, you know what I'm saying? Physically, was y'all out there? No, we didn't get the invitation, so. Y'all got the next one, y'all got the next one, cause I ain't know, I went on to.  Yeah, we go where we were wanted. Whoever want us, we want them, but if you don't want us, we definitely don't want you, so. If you call, we come in, if it's love, then cause a lot of times, we just not linked, we don't know. Yeah, that's it, that's it.   So let me ask you, the big three, cause I saw you with Ice Cube. Yes, ma'am. So how was that? Like, it's major, you know what I'm saying? Like, again, Dallas is just that city whose show love, and it's like three parts of Dallas, you know what I'm saying?  So it's really more than that, you know what I'm saying? But it just, it was, it was a big thing, cause Ice Cube, y'all always got love for the city.   Shaq live here. I was about to say that Shaq live here. So a lot of people come into Dallas. A lot of businesses are moving to Dallas. So it's like Dallas, people are getting on to realize that Dallas is the next city. Because even like we've been interviewing on like a lot of entertainers, and they say that to get really big, you have to have to come through Dallas. Got to. To get exposure. Like I said, it's the number five market. Right. And it's a, it's a gift and a curse because it's like, we've been in number five market. It's a lot harder to get on in Dallas because we're competing with the Los Angeles, the Philadelphia's, you know what I'm saying? Atlanta's like number seven or eight, you know what I'm saying? They're not even, so they can, they can get away with the plan. That is used. A lot more local artists. They may be like, they may, they may be like, I don't know, I got to say. They may be six, six. They have too far up on those, you know what I'm saying? But yeah, I think DFW, they, they count the whole Dallas for a worth, you know, Ulyss. Waco's. We almost pushed out to. But a lot of local artists always say that in order for them to get recognition, pretty sure they get more love outside the city than they get in the city. Why is that? That's everywhere. It's everywhere. That's like, that's, that's really everywhere. That's everyone's problem. And it's almost one of those things to where it's like, I go outside the city, I get more love. It convinces where your home at that, oh, he really hot, you know what I'm saying? I feel like we tend to, oh, he from the city. It's one of things like people ain't going to believe until you make it. But a lot of people keep comparing their city. I'm not going to say just Dallas though, because I know a lot of other cities who do the same thing. They compare their cities to Atlanta, because they feel like Atlanta support their own. What? Compared to every other city that they own. No, that's not what Mr. Hitta said. It's not, it just looks can be deceiving. Uh-huh. Like, you know, it's not exactly what you might think. You know what I mean? They have their issues as well. Exactly. But at the end of the day, they just keep them within or something like that he said. Right, like the system, again, they have a system in musically and they got the labels there. They got, there's a music mecca, you know what I'm saying? Dallas is not a music city. This is a sports city. This is a money-making city, you know what I'm saying? To where culturally Atlanta is music, you know what I'm saying? So they have a lot more connections and they got a lot more structure to get things in place. Like we don't have a major record label here in Dallas that can help put on. We don't have a lot of music elements here in Dallas. So that's why they say, if you make it out of Dallas you can make it anywhere because it's tough coming out of this big, you know what I'm saying? Well, it's because of what you just said. You got to have some labels. You got to have some people that, even if it is, I mean, you got, you got my boy, Radio Raheem. You got some people here. Yeah, never stop. Never stop. Never stop. That's not a problem.  I'm Sean Conn just started his label. You got Sean Conn, you got some people that's really trying to develop some things that really can move some things around in the city. We just got to, you know, we just got to. Support each other. Support each other. I think it's going to happen.  Yeah, it's always, it's always. So he, you know, when you started looking at the people that are tapped in, you know, shout out to Erica Banks, you know, whether you want to, whether she love Dallas or not. You know what I'm saying? She loves Dallas. She took us to Lush on record, man. She off the clock on record, you know, and she took us to see, you feel me? Yeah, we had, we had to go about that. What did y'all say to him? Yeah, we said, I said, where is your A&R at? Where is your A&R? And what did y'all say? What did she say? She like, no, you know what I'm saying? It's like. What did she say when y'all asked her about it? She said, she said, I'm sorry. Let's be real, we don't want to talk about it. We'll talk, we'll talk. She said like, she loved Dallas, you know what I'm saying? She's just being real, you know what I'm saying?  So not realizing like, hey, you got to know how to play the internet. You got to know how to answer certain questions. Sometimes you can't be too real and just say the first thing to come to your mind.  So when you say things like. And she realized her microphone now, like she is perceived as the queen of, like the princess of Dallas, you know what I'm saying? On the rap side, you know what I'm saying? To make it that far to the accomplish what she's accomplished. You know what I'm saying? With the hollyberry and all that. So she, she didn't realize that. But when we sat there, you know what I'm saying?  You know what I'm saying? Like, sis, you feel me? She's, oh, okay. It was like one of them. You right? She got at me one day about something that was said on here. You got to realize I picked her out early, man. Like, I always tell that story, but I'm going to pass by that. But she, she hit me up because somebody came over here and said something about it. But at the end of the day, you know, that's the part of this, man.  And, you know, at the end of the day is love. You know, we definitely love machines over here. And one thing we definitely try to do, if you come on this show and you say something about a situation because it's your opinion. And it's maybe you are in that situation. You were actually there. So it's your point of view. The other person can come on here and tell their side as well. Because, and that's what we want. We don't want anything that's said on our show to be one-sided. We always open our doors for the next person to come in and say, you know what, but this is mine. You're back in forth here in a minute. You done seen them over here. I know you done seen them over here. Yeah, it's on, man, it's on. But at the end of the day, we hope it's all love. But we can't control what people say behind these mics. Nigga get his chest stuck out out there. Man, look. Yeah, nigga, what else, man. Ball story, y'all got the cameras here. Bring it out of here. Bring it out of here. I want to command job. Like I've been saying, y'all get heavy and heavy on the internet. Everybody's tapping here. Calamore came through. I was like, ah, there he is. That's my boy right there. Yeah, Calamore. I got to drop this interview too. I ain't even dropped it yet. It's a lot to it though. He got a lot of elements, man. That got him, he been through a lot. I think a lot of times people don't realize people's story, their back stories, you know, like when you start talking about single parenthood and, you know, going to prison and all that stuff, bring a lot out in a conversation. So I think that's something that we do a little bit more detail than like a radio station where we get to really sit here and talk to you about, like I could ask you, like, nigga, you know what I'm saying? You got any kids? Yeah, yes sir. How many you got? I got one. Damn. Girl, I think I'm done. Just low sperm count. What, are you done? I'll tell you. I just got a low sperm count. Nah, I'll pull out a game of food. You see stuff like that? Yeah. This is like, then you start talking about it, you know what I'm saying? How many you got? I just had my first one. You should first have your congratulations. How old are you? Huh? How old are you? I'm 31. 31? You almost didn't get it, huh? Yeah. I tried to hold out till I was 33 to be honest. You don't want to be Jesus' age, right? Honestly, he prophesied it. Boy and girl. Girl, I got a little girl. Both of y'all are girls. Yeah, the niggas can't push out no boys, but it's cool. I'm chillin'. Y'all don't go broke. It was karma. You know, girls be empty in that pocket. Yeah, man. Yeah, you ain't lying. But let me ask both of you the same question. Tell me something that happened to you back in the past somewhere down there that made you into the man that you are today. I like to hear people about their struggles and stuff like that because there are people who are watching the show that are going through something maybe similar or the same exact thing that you already been through when you overcame. And they might not see their outcome yet. You know what I mean? And they might turn to something like suicide or whatever. Right. So anyhow, we can help somebody we try to. So start off with you. I would say when I was about, so yeah, I want to say when I was about six, my mom got kidnapped by this guy she was dating, you know what I'm saying?  I wake up, I look at my mom's room. I see the glass broken and blood all over the ground. And I'm just screaming out for my mom. Like the door is wide open. And so I'm just in the house alone. And man, somehow my mom was gone for like two days. And somehow she ended up getting away. I'm at a grocery store. She said somebody a letter like, Hey, this guy is kidding at me. Whoop-dee, whoop-dee, whoop-dee, call the police, X, Y, Z. So once I thought I would have lost my mom, you know what I'm saying? Like I wouldn't have grew up without my mom.  So it was just like that brought it out of me to be like, yo, I got to get it. I got to make it. I can't even be regular. Like this, he could have came and killed the family. You know what I'm saying? It was just me and my mom.  I can conquer anything. We can get past anything. We can boost my drive to go out and really make some of myself. You know what I'm saying? What was your father? Huh? What was your father? I don't know. You never met him? I didn't meet my father until I was 19 in college. 19? Yeah. He just decided to show up.  He was going to go home. So where this nigga at?  You know what I'm saying? What was he at? He's in Louisiana. I mean, he said, where are you being? I'm sure you asked him that question. He was in the Army overseas. You know what I'm saying? He just got back like, I want to say like five years ago, he's been back in the States, but from that time on, he had a lot of kids, bro. It's like, it's like nine of us. A rolling stone. Yeah. So he has a lot of kids, bro. So he went to the Army and was all been overseas like for the longest. But once we started tapping in, it was all love.  Literally. Did your mom know the person who kidnapped her? Yeah, she was, she was dating him. He was like, Oh, dating him. Yeah. So she told, So she didn't see the signs and all of that stuff? Man, she, she did, you know what I'm saying?  I don't know. It was just bad choices in man. You know what I'm saying? I see my mom get beat up a lot. You know what I'm saying? About different individuals. So it was just one of those things to where we didn't know was going to lead to that. How did that affect your relationships as you got older? I know I never wanted to see that growing up. So I know the women I chose or who I was with. I just knew like, I stay away from toxic women. Stay, you know what I'm saying? Be, you don't need to put yourself in no situation to go that route. And I never want to see that. And I can't respect a dude or anything that does that because I grew up seeing that and you know, just being terrified and not being able to do nothing about it. You know what I'm saying? At a young age. So yeah, that definitely hard in my heart to, man, I can go out, change my life and get to it. And you? Man, he's still, he's still, he's still. That nigga went hard, didn't he?  Yeah, shut it down.   Yeah, my daddy used to, my daddy, he didn't come back from the store one day. Yeah, nigga. Was your guy in the cold? Nah, man, my pop is in heaven, man. I just been going around like, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm like, he used to be here. For real? There we go. They know each other. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My mom too, all of them up there. Man, I know. At the end of the day, you know, but that's a situation in itself. How old was you when you lost your father? I'm 32, to have it like 20, 27, 26. Yeah. You feel me, yeah. I became a dad, lost my dad like in the same eight months. Yeah, see all this stuff matters, man, like, like, but you least got to spend that time with him, right? Yeah, that's the dope part. Yeah, man, he's just so, having that in mind, I know he didn't get that at all. That's right. All I did, like, I got a brother locked down right now, you know what I'm saying? And another brother. So your brother on lock? Yeah, on lock, he just came home. He can't, look crazy, think about it, you know what I'm saying? And this is all he's done. Came home and flipped that guy. Yeah, came home, did what he's supposed to do, and we came home like pandemic hit, you know what I'm saying? Like, 2020 when everybody had to go in the house, you know what I'm saying? And put the gloves on and go in the store with the man, he came home like the weekend of, the whole country shutting down. So it been gone four years, come home, and it's like, damn, I can't even get outside. Everybody, when I went in, everybody, you can't wear no mask, you know, no gloves. Not everybody wearing them, so it's just. Man, don't feel bad, man. You know, my partner, he didn't even make it from home, he messed up and was right back in there before he could even make it to the house. Them niggas be, hey, it's hard out here sometimes. Yeah, for sure. Especially when you're trying to figure it all out again. How long was he gone the first time? Four, four years. Okay, okay. You know what I'm saying? But I'm like the only child who was like raised in the household, same mom, same dad, but they got divorced like she was fifth grade. So I, but I was the only son, you know, all seven kids who really get the whole fatherhood treatment. You feel me? So yeah, so now, when it's time to do, you know what I'm saying? I'm a junior, same name and everything, you feel me? So, but he always told me, man, I don't even want to say it's on the girl book. Go on and say it. But like St. Louis and East St. Louis, like we rock with St. Louis and East St. Louis, but bro, we don't really rock with East St. Louis like that. But you know, shout out to Chinggir. Yeah, yeah, Chinggir. You don't know what happened with that. Yeah, we rock with that. I had to. I don't know what happened with that. Yeah, yeah, well, we rock with Raw Reese, you know what I'm saying? We all had Nelly, but Chinggir, Chinggir was a little different than Nelly. I don't know, there's a lot of stuff out there on these media waves, man, I don't know. I don't know if it's true. I don't know, you know something? Yeah, that's what I thought. Shout out to that boy Chinggir, man. Really, really, man. Wow. Thank you. I don't know what happened there, though, bro. Say it a little bit. What's the food that, y'all like that barbecue up there, too? Tiny, that's the best barbecue in the world.  A lot of cap. Oh, man. Now, you know what I even had St. Louis barbecue as long as we were rockin', I ain't even been up there. That's true. He tell me all the time, but I don't know, man. I haven't had some good texts. We came through there, but we went fast. We didn't want to stop. Top three orders of all time, dead or alive. Any genre. Top three, yours first. Number one. First, I'm gonna go with Lulacris. Oh. Number two. The top back. First, yeah. All time, dead or alive. Any genre. Any genre.  No, no, no, no. All right, let me get Lula. Let me get, let me get, let me get pot. Okay. Okay. Let me get a versatile. I'm gonna go Missy Elliott. Okay, cool. Where you from? St. Louis. Look at him. Yeah, it was a bad choice. Go ahead. Yeah, I mean. That's a versatile guy. I got a girl, what I grew up on, Lil Wayne, Jay-Z. And man, my third one would be like, I like, I like, not J. Cole. Rocks with J. Cole. So you take Drake over, J. Cole over Drake? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Really? Man, the early J. Cole, man, with the plunge slides. Whatever. Go, go. Who's your top three? I ain't tellin' ya. I ain't tellin' ya. That's my show, I'm not tellin' y'all nothin'.  Y'all think y'all have 979 to beat, man. Y'all not for the runnin' this right here, man.   Y'all niggas came over here to thank y'all for the run, son.  And what time y'all come on? Man, three to seven. Three to seven. Y'all in that one play niggas' music. I already know. We the ones that do it. Okay, well who is the newest, hottest artist right now? Nigga, they know. Big Tex, big Tex. And thing is... Big Tex. Big Tex. Big Tex. But like, biggest thing is, and see for what? She feelin' real tough. They got the energy.  But look, I been like an old boy Prince Fat Al. I been around Fat Al. Yeah, he told me that. He told me that. He told me that. Yeah, so. He said up here and told me that cause he had to go to bat for y'all. He was like, he man, don't be like that, man. I know you be, let him come on, man. I said, who are these niggas, man? He said, man, these niggas is good. I said, man, I don't care, nigga, I don't know them niggas, man. That's because they can say you're chubby, so I don't know these niggas, man. But at the end of the day, I just like to get y'all hell. That's what we need, man. We need something real in the city, man. I appreciate you guys, man. Make sure you guys really look out for those youngsters, man. Y'all got to put y'all in a position. Don't be fakin', be aggressive. Walk in that office and ask niggas, man. We need to play some of these local people music, sometimes. Yeah, else I'm goin' over there and get my own part. And interview people.  Y'all need to deal with these people in a way that eventually it'll benefit y'all. Man, show. Okay? That's why we wanted to come up in here just to shed light on things that people may not know about the radio or stuff that what it really takes, you know what I'm sayin'? So, just information, because I feel like, again, with Dallas, it's the structure. People don't know what to do or how to do it, you know what I'm sayin'? Or what's important, or what gets them in these people's faces that we can vouch for them and go up the bat form, you know what I'm sayin'? So, and just how this whole thing works.  A lot of niggas is talkin' about you radio folks. I brought West according to what I'm hearin', the radio is what got him noticed and got him a deal. Say the radio stations were pushin' for him down there. Certain people is really talkin' about that and say that the radio station not helpin' people in Dallas like that. I'm just bein' real, like they don't put the music out there, they don't pile out of these people name out and really go hard for these people. Y'all can change this city, man. Check this out. Don't let these boys make it. 80% of the music I hear, people like, hey, check this out, let me hear this, play this.  My report card, I gave Ericka Banks our first interview, you know what I'm sayin'? I vouched for Mode 3 on a couple songs, you know what I'm sayin'? But everything, this is what I'm sayin', the buckle what I'm sayin', everything don't transfer over to a radio type of song. Yes it go hard, yes you hit.    I'ma be listenin', nigga. It's gonna be hard, they gotta transfer over, you know what I'm sayin'? First broke a love on it, you know what I'm sayin'? I'm like, cause it took a little while for three to get back to that hook before Kevin Gates got on, so it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, a magician, a magicianry. Yeah, yeah, I can just tell you right now, we gotta make sure that we understand the algorithm of where things are today. And we gotta try to figure it out in a way to where it makes sense for the masses. Our people need your help. Right. You know what I'm sayin'? So we got a lot of work to do, people watchin'. All right? Say man, when y'all number four and Houston is number what? Number six. L.D. Did you hear that? Houston number six, nigga. What? Yeah. Love, man. Houston number six. Man, oh love, man. But now I appreciate you guys, man. Big love. Yes sir. Anything else you got for us? I just had one more question. Damn.   Yeah, they're changed our lives. Changed our lives right now. That's why we the one that I love to show. Like my shirt say like. Who was that person? Juicy J. Juicy J. You feel me? Like, I talk to Juicy J like a parole officer. He don't, he like that ratchet coochie. Hey, we made a song. We said he tell you how to ratchet, good Juicy J, he like that. He said fire one, get behind one. We have a five way. He didn't niggas that busy though the mic at. I don't know about that nigga. First is best. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Three C's Bobby, man. What time of Juicy, man?  Show for show, man. How he changed our life? Shoot, pretty much, man. We was at a club, you probably heard about it, but we got this club hot, a club prom, you know what I'm saying? That was up not too long ago. So we used to be in the club and he'll be rocking it, man. So he used, I don't know if you ever heard him in a club, but his voice, where he can get people to move. Like this is like one of the top MC's I've ever heard, bro. And he used to say this thing where like, man, find one, get behind one. Like you send the girl, the fellas to find a chicken, get behind one. Cause it was a lot of dudes that be too cool standing against the wall and stuff.  And I'll see this champ. And as a DJ, like he's around dancing on stage and stuff, but as a DJ, I'm watching the crowd get in tune with what he's saying. So I'm like, bro, we gotta turn this into a song. We in the club and we on the radio at the same time. Get the live broadcast. I never did talk on the radio with the live barcares ever in my life. So I got through on some fire. Then he played that black youngster booty, the two, two shaped that booty. So I'm trying to entertain these people who in the room, 300 people, and it's like 3 million people listening on a Saturday night. So I'm like, find one, get behind one. But P, we need some booties in motion. We need some booties in motion. Find one, get behind one. So this went on for like nine months. And digital norms say when him and Lurrani went on tour, they would be using that check that start off they set. So shout out to Lurrani, shout out to digital norm. You know what I'm saying?  Y'all need to make that. And we can't play everything on the radios. We get, you know what I'm saying, copyrighted friends.  Two years ago, and we made the beat from scratch. From the, you know what I'm saying? Fast forward, it was the beat in my file. I'm like, we call it B-I-M, booties in motion. We need some booties in motion. The next day, the next day that we made the beat, like we made the beat at my house. Like in my room, me and my co-producer, shout out to my god, I love this, before Quacho. And we made that beat in about 20 minutes. And like I said, the next day, the next day. J.C.J. came in for a promo. The song Neighbors, it just came out. He was on the promo with Travis Scott. I'm interviewing, we going, I know I'm wrapping up the interview 19 minutes later. And it's a whole interview on camera, film. And I'm like, man, I'm just trying to give him a rap or something for content, you know what I'm saying? And like, I got to go on my email, find a beat. I can't go on YouTube, copyright, but I got this beat in my email. I'm like, oh, damn, let's play this. I played the beat and come on. To be like, hmm, what's this? I'm like, oh, this? It's called B.I.M. You know what I'm saying? We need some booties in motion. Yeah, we need some booty, buy one, get buy one. Send it to him. He was like, oh, it's hard. I'm gonna get on there. He was about this length apart. He said, I'm gonna get on there. That's hard. I said, yeah. Ranch over, shook his hands, shake my hand. Like this. It was a, it was a, it was a, it was a, N-I-G-G-A type of like, you shoo.  Yeah, he said, yo, Tim. And he did it. He did it. About two days later. Two verses. Two verses, and a hook. He did the whole song. Yeah, we went to LA, LAX, floor up there, boom. Shot the video, came back. We had 5.8 million views right now, you know what I'm saying? Shout out to him. That's awesome. And I start not to let you niggas on my show. I don't even dare to let my job viewers niggas, I seen that, I said, wait a minute, nigga. Jabba, wait a minute. Nigga, y'all got five. I didn't even know nigga, and I'm crazy over here with it. But I can't believe y'all, I like the mid-style. You see, I niggas just pushing niggas on me and I'm finally getting the blessing. And look, we dropped that album. And like just helping out the city and we just want to bring people aware of what we're doing and using our platform. So we just dropped the album in January and our album consists of Dallas local artists and mainstream artists that we built relationships with and we collab them. So that's like our thing, what we doing, we taking artists and we making actual hits and songs with these local artists, you know what I'm saying? So that's our movement. That's just how we giving back to the city and just trying to make it work. You know what I'm saying? As big y'all got Juicy J on that thing. So like that. Project Pat, we got Project Pat 2 on it. What? Yeah, we got Project Pat on it. Johnny Ericka Banks, probably the Pat Long one. You know, them niggas the only one got an Oscar, man. Yeah. Y'all niggas special. Man, that's how you used to tell us all the time. Y'all special, bro. So what y'all doing to capitalize off of it, man? DTurbs the city. That's what we doing, DTC is the first album, you know what I'm saying? We just really, we on a radio so we can't really work it as artists. So that's the thing, we on a radio so it's time to, now we trying to find that way of being on a radio. I'm about to figure it out. Y'all niggas better figure it out. Opportunity to miss you, nigga. You better try to, hey man, listen man. Don't miss our opportunity, nigga, y'all crazy. Y'all for sure. Niggas won't, nigga, this versus that. Figure it out, nigga. You better go making out the beat. For real. That's the place where it's everything. The place where it's everything. Hey man, check it, man. Hey man, thank y'all for coming on the show, man. So thank you, man. We love you, man. I think, hey man, I appreciate y'all, man. Like I said, this ain't the last time. I'm gonna bring y'all in here to tell some more lies. You know what I'm saying? I ain't gonna do y'all like that. Y'all niggas like to do, yeah. Y'all done lied to me. I'm pretty looked at, so if it ain't got 5.8 million. 5.8 million, y'all buy much for a week straight. If it ain't 5.8, y'all buy a week straight. Say it, man. Thank you guys, man. This is another great segment of Boss Talk 101, what a boss is talking. Run the intro back, run the intro back. You know what I'm saying? That was hard, bro. You know what I'm saying? Love it, bro. So you're gonna be pushing something, Boss Talk, yeah. You should hear the whole thing. It's so hard. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, that's how I go down, man.


Call to the military from Putin's ally, hit NATO headquarters in Brussels, use nuclear weapons. Vladimir Solovyov, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has suggested moving to a nuclear war and floated the idea of striking the headquarters of the NATO military alliance in Brussels, Belgium, according to Newsweek. The idea that a nuclear war could break out amid the conflict in Ukraine has been floated by numerous Russian officials including Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's former president and prime minister. Putin said in September 2022 that Russia was prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend its territorial integrity and the topic is regularly discussed on Russian state TV. Kremlin propagandists have routinely warned of a looming world war and strikes by Russia on NATO territory over aid and weapons provided by the Joe Biden administration and members of the military alliance to Kiev. For some reason NATO members have a feeling, as one Czech commander said, that they are ready for a war with Russia and this war will be waged with non-nuclear means, Solovyov said. Why? Because this is what they want? Solovyov added that Russia should move on to using nuclear weapons to show the West something. For starters, conduct testing. Really blow up a bomb to show them something so that everyone can see it. Solovyov said, 1 million pieces of ammunition, emptying their own stockpiles. This is what Europe is calling for right now. This means Europe is naked. Right now they have no ammo. The Kremlin propagandist said adding that NATO members should understand that Russia can attack them including with nuclear weapons. If someone doesn't understand they're at war with us, listen to our people on the front lines. They have no doubt whatsoever who is confronting us. Solovyov added. Strike NATO headquarters.


Once again, I'm Ann Thomas. I'm the president of the Hearing Loss Association of America, the Diabla Valley Chapter. We'd like to welcome everybody to our meeting today on this holiday weekend, even though I'm assuming most of you are like me and you're really not going anywhere to be around a whole lot of people. So historically, we give this presentation about emergency planning in September. We've been doing that for about five years, I think. I don't think we could have picked a more auspicious time than to do it this year in this month. So before we get going on our presentation, we're going to do a little bit of housekeeping for people who may not be quite familiar with how to use some of the important features of Zoom. And obviously, the most important one is how to turn on the captions. Now, I'm assuming for everybody that they should be automatically running now, but if by some chance, you're not seeing them on your screen. If you look at the live transcript icon, which has the square around it, a new window will open up and it says in there you have three options. The first one is subtitles that turns on the closed caption. If you want to increase the size of the captions, you click on the second one, and there's a slider bar in there. You can slide it to whatever size suits you to be able to read the captions. If by some chance, you're like me and sometimes you don't really quite remember, you don't really quite realize that you didn't understand what somebody said and the captions have already passed. If you turned on the full transcript, there's a full running transcript of the meeting, and you can scroll back in there to see what one, two, three, maybe a whole concept that you missed.  And how you do that is in the reactions button in the toolbar, which is the smiley face with a plus. When you click on that, the first option says raise hand, and Alan Katsura just raised his hand and you see a hand in the thumbnail for the person who did that. Now, for those of us who are doing the behind the scenes work here to make sure that this movie runs well, like Alan, Zoher, and Jill, what happens in our participants window is it orders the people who raise their hand first, so we don't have to really worry about a person waiting, hopefully forever, because they raised their hand, that puts them in the order of the way people raise their hands. Something that still is hard for a lot of people to figure out is the fact that you control how you view your screen, and whether the presentation is bigger or whether the person who's talking is bigger. Now, sometimes I know that a presentation, somebody might make the text of the slides so little I can hardly read it. So if that happens, I like the presentation side bigger. So the way that you adjust that screen size is see this circle in the middle of the picture between the presentation on the left and Zoher's picture on the right. If you click on those lines, you can drag them back and forth to be able to adjust the size of the windows. We'd like to remind everybody about the importance of an external microphone. If you have one, you might want to think about using it in the next meeting, because it makes it much clearer for everybody to understand you. It's not about when you use the microphone what you can understand, but about what other people understand. And actually, I went too fast on this one slide because I missed one of the most important ones. Whoops. I'm going to go back to it. And it's about speaking. I know when I get excited or what I get nervous. I usually speak faster than normal. And as all of us know, one of the big things is we want everybody to speak slower to make sure that we can connect all the thoughts and all the words.  So now to get to the meat of what we're all here to remind ourselves the things that we need to do. I don't know if you're like me, but watching the news this past week has been just emotionally devastating as I'm watching our state burn and thanking God that it's not us in our county at this time, but it could be us. And so we really need to direct attention, especially because we're hard of hearing to ensure that we're prepared. So are you prepared this week? Then the news has been everywhere in California wildfires. We also have a need to know what to do because of earthquakes. So we happen to have federal, state, and local agencies that have laid out plans for us to be to help us do what we need to do what we need to do to be prepared. I'm going to talk to you today about the national and statewide programs. And Alan could sir, we'll talk to you about cert, which he's very actively involved in. So we have a national program called ready.gov. And it's a public service campaign. And it wants us to be informed about potential emergencies to make a family plan to build an emergency kit and to act to be prepared for emergencies.  And we have a YouTube channel. So you don't need to take notes, you can go back and watch our presentations on YouTube. So each one of these websites has extensive information in them about how to prepare what to do additional resources. And in putting together the presentation this year, I updated all of the information on the slides. And in order to do that, I went back to make sure that there was something new on any of these sites. And I really encourage you to take a look. I felt really proud that I'm fortunate to live in a country that has these wonderful tools for us. In California, we have Cal Fire. Their slogan is plan no act. Over and over again, you're going to hear on all the programs similar message. We're recommending that you download the wildfire app and sign up for text alerts. I had done this a long time ago. And I'd never been alerted to anything. Well, I think it was about six weeks ago, my husband and I were watching TV or actually probably Netflix. And all of a sudden, both of our cell phones had the fire alert on it. And we were both so unnerved because that had never happened to us before that it really made us sit up and take notice. And it was being alerted by I don't know if you all remember, but there was a fire in Livermore. And I'm thinking, oh, Livermore, that's not that far away. But you know what? If it had been a big fire, it could have been a big deal. So I really liked it. And now I feel a little more secure, because I know that I'm going to receive a notice and if I'm anywhere near my phone, I'll get it. So the wildfire action plan, you create an evacuation plan. You build an emergency supply kit. And the motto is ready, set, go. The evacuation plan, one of the first components that you need to have is communication. So for most of us, or a lot of us in our area, we live in one level, one story housing. And so it's much easier to get out of one story housing than it may be to get out of two story housing. But it's still something you need to take time to think about. What are the easiest ways to get out of your house? What's the easiest way to get from your street to someplace else? So some streets only have one way in and one way out. Other streets have multiple ways to to be conscious of and to know and have a discussion in your family about how to approach that. The second thing that you need to do is you need to discuss a designated meeting location out of the fire or hazard zone.   You also need to designate somebody outside of the immediate area as the central contact person. Other family members are normally going to be trying to find out if you're all right. So there needs to be somebody that you have who wouldn't be affected by any kind of evacuation that everybody knows to contact. So in my family, my husband's family lives in North Carolina. So there are designated contact people. So anybody in my family or friends would know if they wanted to know about me that that's who they should contact for the latest information. So be prepared. What are some other things that you need to know about and being prepared? Well the first thing is fire extinguishers. Do you have a fire extinguisher? Do you know how to use it?  So something that's going to happen for us in an earthquake is all of us are going to really need to know where our gas shut off valves are and how to use them. So at my house we have a wrench that we have automatically attached right to the area where you turn off the gas because gas is going to be a real issue if we had an earthquake and fires. And so you don't have to go looking for the wrench if it's attached right to the area where gas shut off valve is. And once again you're going to keep hearing the same things over and over again. A list of emergency contact numbers near or in your emergency supply kit. And later on in the presentation we're going to go through what you need to have in your emergency supply kit as a heart of hearing person and also what things that you need to have in your emergency supply kit as recommended by the American Red Cross. So the three steps to prepare. Get a kit, make a kit, make a plan and be informed about what's going on in the area around you. Here we're going to talk about building an emergency supply kit and this is specific to people with hearing loss because we have unique needs that aren't addressed in the American Red Cross list. One of the most important things that I can remind everybody to do is to write down and know the make and model and serial number of your hearing device. When we had the initial huge fires in several years ago, what happened was all of the audiologist offices were burned in Santa Rosa. People ran out of their houses with almost nothing and the hearing and speech center in San Francisco, so people left their hearing aids behind. So the hearing and speech center in San Francisco, which is a really wonderful organization, if you don't know anything about them, you need to take a look and maybe participate in some of their fundraising events every year. They contacted all the hearing aid manufacturers on behalf of the people who lost their homes in the fire and the hearing aid manufacturers were willing to replace everybody's hearing aids if they had the serial number of the hearing aids. So make sure you have the serial number of your devices somewhere in your kit. You also need to have extra hearing aid batteries. Now a situation that's arising for many of us is that many of our hearing devices are going to rechargeable batteries so that we could be potentially in a difficult situation. All of you know that I now have two cochlear implants and fortunately one of the options in addition to the rechargeable batteries which I have is they have a battery that you can add regular batteries to to substitute and so I definitely have that in my kit. Something else you need to have is how to think about battery charging. You need it for your hear it potentially for your hearing devices. You could need it for your smart devices.  I had an additional battery charger but my electricity was off for five days. I had to go to my car, charge some of my smart devices. I had to charge my battery charger in my car so keep thinking about because none of the places around me had electricity either. So keep thinking about the multiple ways that you would need to have to recharge devices that you have that need a charge. The other piece here is that a lot of us now are also using our smart devices as the remote control for our hearing aids or our cochlear implants. So it's not just that it would be a way to communicate. We need it to be able to function right? So there are battery packs and they come by size by how much charge they hold.  You want to make sure that you have the plug in your car if your car doesn't already have one built in that allows you to plug in a USB port into the car so that you can charge your phone your battery pack anything else that you might need. There are also solar rechargeable battery options a possibility that could interfere with that as we could have bad air or no sun so not be able to recharge the solar recharger. You need to be cognizant of having apps for communication speech to text just because we're talking about this doesn't mean that we're going to be in the state of mind to even remember all of our emergency kits or you may be someplace else where away from your home and it's not in your car. So everybody really needs to think about having a speech to text app on their smart device and as all of you know I love Ava and one of the reasons that I love Ava is because you can preserve social distancing. In addition to the horrific images we're seeing of people evacuating the fires nobody has a face mask well I'm vaccinated I'm assuming almost everybody is on who's on this meeting today is vaccinated but there's still our breakthrough infections and we want to make sure that we can communicate with others if we have problems with our hearing aids they can download Ava on their app too you can do it as a distance so you're not stuck and you all know forever I've been advocating the use of a pocket talker as part of your emergency preparedness kit and you in addition to having a neck loop with it I highly recommend that you throw in some headphones there because you know if you lost your hearing aids or you didn't have your hearing aids you could probably still maybe get by with a pocket talker but you would need to have headphones to connect to that because without your hearing aids you couldn't connect your hearing aids via a neck loop because you'd have no telecoil. These are the recommendations for the American Red Cross for everybody and in a conversation I had recently they were using the term oh this is for everybody but then they were making an additional piece oh and people with hearing loss so this is not for everybody we're part of the everybody that's what I'm trying to say so everybody needs a three-day supply of food three gallons of water per person you need medications and I've read a couple weeks of medications they're recommending right now and a first aid kit you need a flashlight and a whistle something could happen we could have an earthquake and you'd be stuck in your house and people would be calling to you but you wouldn't be able to hear them so to keep calling out you'd be exhausted so whistling is a very easy thing to do and I have a whistle that was given to me a long time ago by HLAA California and it's a little whistle like this and this whistle has a low tone so it's very easy to blow it's a three-tone whistle maybe it's something we should think about for our chapter and just make sure that everybody has one you want an extra set of car keys you want to make sure you have money I mean I carry very little money today my credit cards are the end of the world you know so you need money you need your credit cards you may even need traveler's checks depending on how bad things are and copies of important documents and for all of us right now our COVID vaccination card is probably one of the most important things we also need to think about emergency alerting devices that are special for people who have hearing loss we need a smoke detector we need a carbon monoxide detector and you probably need some kind of weather radio so this one I've listed a NOAA weather radio with a strobe for those of you who attended our last meeting we had sonic alert here with the home aware talking about the new home aware device that we're able to get from the california telephone access program called CTAP and you're able to get the basic unit but they do offer additional accessory items one of the accessory items is a smoke and carbon monoxide detector which I got mine yesterday I should have had one for years right you know how many times how many times I've given this presentation and I actually really got the one to go to home aware and it came yesterday and it's a little additional piece about this size and you pair it with a device I put it in my bedroom I don't have my weather radio yet home aware also has an accessory for the radio and so I need to decide which one I'm going to get so doing these presentations every every year it's not just for you it's for me too you know none of us are none of us have all of our ducks in a row another option that we have that's really really valuable and if you happen to live in the san ramon fire protection district the san ramon fire protection district has smart one one the other fire protection district that's in contra costa county does not have that I have contacted them numerous times about it I would like to encourage other people to contact them as it could be a chapter project so smart one one adds auxiliary information to 911 when you call it so anytime you would go through an area that had 911 if something happened and you called it from an area that you had your phone they would have additional information about you and you're able to input the information that you want them to have could be your medication I have on that I have on mind that I'm hard of hearing and now I have two cochlear implants we don't have any pets I have my husband listed so before 911 arrives wherever I am they automatically know that I'm hard of hearing and I think that's a really really valuable notification because I don't know my implant is just held on to my head with a magnet if I do this lots of times I knock them off so if I was in an accident or something I might not have them all so you all might lose a hearing aid too or maybe not even have them so I really encourage you to take a look at smart 911 we have a special program from our pacific gas and electric company it's called the safety action center and it's a self-generated program you go on the program safety action center that's right here and follow go just take a look at what they have there you know all of these things could save our lives someday and now I'm going to hand the presentation over to Alan who's going to talk to us about cert which he has actively been involved with for many years so Alan can you access the slide deck now I might to unmute so you're still mute Alan I know I can't you want unmute now do you want me to advance the slides and you just tell me so a minute ago you were unmute can you try again you as the house must unmute him I can hear you Alan okay no wait a second wait I got a zoom issue here I can hear him okay yeah I just I just got it back let me get everything reorganized here so Alan uses multiple screens he has one screen that he walks that watch this the presentation and he has another screen he views everybody on so are you ready to go okay advance the slides I got it now perfect thank you okay so give me a control the slide deck okay and are you going to give me control the where okay I got it okay first of all I'm going to put some information in the chat there are links that I'll be referring to later I also have my contact information there and if you want to save this information if you have your chat window open in the lower right hand corner there's a three dots and in that menu that opens up there's a save chat option there and it will save it to if you're on a pc it saves it to your document zoom file okay so I'm going to allow some of you to ask questions on this first part of the session so please use the raised hand feature for that so what do you do in an emergency anybody can respond anybody call 911 yeah we call 911 so now what are your expectations when you call 911 you'll be put on hold okay no well what are your expectations not what's going to happen so I would think that you would probably call 911 and expect a timely response from professional first responders whether it's please or fire or whatever now what happens when you call 911 and are told that resources may not be available for hours or maybe even days well and Dana Bellweather has her hand up okay Dana yeah I wanted to mention one thing that surprised me when I dialed 911s is how huge an area each dispatcher serves um I she asked where I was and I gave her the streets that intersected where I was and she said yeah but what town so you could be anywhere so you have to start with like okay California Santa Rosa and then the intersection okay um thank you for the information Dana and you can lower your hand it's in the same place as reactions as reactions reactions reactions oh okay okay so if you're told that resources may not be available for hours or days that is what you would call a disaster in more than one way so limited resources are outweighed by the demand communities rely on organizations like CERC to supplement the first responders want to excuse me want to create relay relies on CERC during the first hours of a disaster to compile information on the extent of initial damages we have CERC programs throughout Contra Costa County in western Contra Costa County we have La Borenda which is Lafayette, Moraga and Arunda there's programs in Wannacree, Pleasant Hill, Martinez, Concord, San Ramon and I know there are additional programs throughout the county so who are CERC's who are these people well like Ann said previously I am a CERC Evelyn Turnstrom who is one of our members who's not here today is a CERC but her husband Ray is not something Evelyn and I have in common it's a training we receive when we first volunteered for CERC and continue to receive in fact I see that Albert is here today I think Albert is a CERC too so the basic training for CERC includes about 24 hours of classroom and hands-on training we have opportunities to add to add to or refresh our skills every year we learn we learn about disaster preparedness as an individual a family and as a community we train in disaster medical operations disaster psychology light certain rescue and more we work within the scope of our training and do not allow ourselves to become victims if you are interested in joining a CERC program you can contact me again my information is in the chat and include what city and or town you reside in I think that most program training has been suspended for the past year and a half because of COVID and some programs I know one of CERC is exploring this are going to hybrid training programs that was developed during COVID this incorporates online lessons and tests combined with an opportunity to display your skills in person I would like to introduce a couple of additional resources that you may not be familiar with oops if you or someone you know you use electrically powered medical equipment the independent living resources of Solano and Contra Costa County administers a program that offers free backup power supplies to qualifying individuals who require emergency power during times when power is not available these could be machines like CPAP machines and oxygen generators everyone is familiar with Red Cross's fundraising efforts and blood drives what you may not know is they also supply information on how to prepare for emergencies and offer volunteer and educational programs our chapter has partnered with Rossmore emergency preparedness organization or EPO the last few years and with last year being an exception because of COVID we will once again participate in the safety fair this year this time in a virtual environment on September 18th you can go to their website RossmoreEPO.org for updated information Rossmore EPO is designed for Rossmore residents but the website has good general information videos from previous meetings on a variety of emergency related topics and how to register for emergency alerts at this time I'm going to give this presentation back to Anne so we'd like to remind everybody that in addition to the information that we've talked about today and I want everybody to know that all of the links that were in the in the presentation are hot so you should be able to click on them at a later time and be able to be taken right to the location so on our website we have a tab called information and we have extensive information about a variety of topics including emergency planning and also fire and carbon monoxide dangers we also have two brochures and these brochures are also on our website and if we were in person we'd be handing out the brochures to everybody to make sure that they have them so in this particular brochure that's the disaster planning brochure the middle of the brochure has this checklist and so in actuality you can take this checklist and just check the pieces that you have already accomplished so that you know where you are and what you still need to do we also have a fire safety and carbon monoxide brochure many of us are in denial about our ability to hear without our devices in and especially when we're sleeping so we may stand underneath our smoke detector and you know the smoke detectors have such a horrible piercing loud sound when you had what would be considered to be normal hearing it's really hard to imagine that you couldn't be awakened by that sound that you remember to protect you from a fire or carbon monoxide the reality is great that you will not be able to hear that in enough time so you have something like three minutes to be awakened and be out of your house so you want to make sure that you have everything in place to be able to do that there are three ways that we are commonly alerted by sound which the normal sound of a smoke and carbon monoxide detector is the high frequency sound which we can't hear by vibration you could have your devices connected to a bed shaker or by strobe and having all of those together increases your ability to be able to get out of your house in the time that you need now I need to mention here that there is one specific device and it's the picture there that looks kind of like an old-time portable radio with a button on the top with a microphone and that has a low tone frequency so it doesn't sound at the really loud sound this hears your smoke detector and emits another sound so you can't have too many things I have one of these as well I have it in a different part of my house so you can think about having multiple devices in different locations and so this brochure is here for you to help you be able to prepare for the things that you might need in case of a fire so that ends the portion of our program when we were providing you with information and we're opening it up now to Q&A for all of you to talk about anything that you would like so we'd like to ask you to please raise your hand and you find it on your toolbar so who has the first question Alan I see your hand is up and Jill are you going to call on people do you want to call on people today okay Alan yes okay I have a couple of comments from when Anne was talking about turning off the gas and using fire extinguishers and as far as fire extinguishers go the first thing you should do if you have a fire is called 9-1-1 and in cases where you think you need to turn off your gas you don't just blindly go out and turn off the gas for no reason at all you should make sure that you actually have a gas leak and there are various ways you could tell one is by the odor of the gas another is you could go out to the meter and you see the meter advancing rapidly there could be hissing sounds and in those cases you could go ahead turn the gas off the reason you don't want to just turn it off if you don't need to is because the gas has to be turned on by PG&E and if it's like in a disaster type situation it could be days before they could get around to doing it because they'll have other more pressing matters going on Barbara I thought it was a wonderful presentation that both Anne and Alan gave and I thought it was it was many of us have heard similar pieces and parts of it before but I thought this was presented in a very in a very concise way the only the only thing that came to mind that I thought of that maybe wasn't mentioned at all was about and I'm thinking about those people I guess all leaving Tahoe at the same time that we've been watching pictures of is that another thing to be considered is that you have some gas in your car and because getting gas in an emergency is just about impossible so I know some people don't like to let their cars get below a half a tank of gas and things like that and it's hard to make exact rules but it's something to always think about when you're when your gas tank gets low is maybe not let it get as low as you always do so it's not got a limit I don't know what is recommended I know some people that don't let their gas tank get below a half a tank that's a little extreme but nonetheless you your ability to leave Tahoe I'm sure last week was dependent on how much gas you had in your tank at the time because trying to stop at a gas station on the way out was probably just about impossible that's the only comment that I had I thought the presentation was very complete and if we all did that we would just be so much safer thank you Barbara that was great Rich yes I have a question for Alan can you make sure that we can see your face there we go thank you okay my question is for Alan how do we find out who is cert trained I live in a community 55 plus community and I don't know who if anyone is cert trained so how do we find out and my second comment would be along with what Barbara was saying is if your car is in a garage you may be surprised that you can't get your car out of the garage because of the power being out I know a woman who had a serious problem with us during one of our fires we have many fires here in Santa Rosa and she had to leave on foot because she couldn't get her car out of the garage so what many of us do now is if there is a chance of a fire evacuation we pull her car out of the garage and park it on the street so that we can get away so anyway to the other question my question Alan was how do we find out who is cert just a comment on the garage doors most electric garage door openers that I've seen have a manual release that you could pull and open the garage door manually but as far as cert goes you probably wouldn't know often who the certs are the certs aren't people that are going off by themselves to do anything it's an organization and it works on the incident command principle so if there was an emergency what the cert would do is make sure they're immediate family safe then they would check their immediate neighborhood to see if there's anything that they could do or take information on before they go to their area that they're supposed to meet and from there they would organize and get dispatched into certain specialties and go on from there so it's not necessarily like you're going to have a certain area and that person is going to be responsible for that area or anything they're all under an incident command system so everything is being dispatched from higher up and if you go to the cert website does it show the local cert contacts and everybody in each individual area? In this area they have a program an organization for Contra Costa County that lists all the cert programs. I have a list of most of those areas and let's see here if you go to the city that you're in if you look under emergency preparedness they would normally tell you if they have a cert program and how to contact people if you're interested in the program but I don't think they'll go around just giving out information like who is your cert person in that area. I just want to comment as Alan mentioned we at cert are under command and there is a command post that normally forms in Rossmore by Gateway so cert volunteers are ordered to go to the command post and that's where people needing assistance would have to go in case of an emergency. So everybody that's Al Kadov and he doesn't have his video on so that's why you couldn't see who was talking. I'm in my PJs. Okay Dana you're next. Dana? Wrong Dana.  Oh okay um I wanted to know if you're uh the other Dana is still the one that's outlined. Anyway um I wanted to know whether if you're evacuating then you should turn the gas off just in case uh there's further shaking or fire and it keeps going back to Dana. Um I haven't really come across that it's a good question and I could find out for you. Um there's from my perspective there's positives and negatives on both situations. Like you said if there's in the case of like an earthquake or there's aftershocks that may cause gas leakage then that may be an issue. The issue the other point is if that if there isn't a problem with gas then you're into that period that if you're a resident that's livable that you go back to it and then you'll have to wait for the resources to become available for them to turn the gas back on. But if you like I'll look into it and see what the recommendations are on it. That's okay I think the risk of a huge explosion is so much greater than the risk of having to eat sandwiches I would just turn it off. Okay thank you Dana. Yeah thank you Dana. Walt unmute yourself maybe I can do it hang on. So Walt you need to unmute yourself. Okay uh my understanding a you can install a device that automatically shuts off the gas. That's all the comments I have. Can you tell us some more about that device? Who do you contact to get it? I can. I can. Go ahead.  So if it was an earthquake then yes it'll shut it off. Sensitivity could be an issue because it may be something that's relatively mild but it may detect it and shut the gas off when there isn't a need to.  If there's some sort of gas leak there's no way for it to actually detect that. But yes you can have those gauges installed on your system. Um I'm not sure if PG&E administers that or not could probably go to the website to find out. So Walt do you have one on your house? Does anybody have that on their house? Okay I used to have one when I lived in Berkeley but as Alan mentioned if a truck went by the street and caused some motion then it would shut it off. So you have to be careful and determine whether or not you want to install such a device. Anybody else have anything else to contribute, a question, experience from having been through a fire? Earthquake? Oh one thing I don't know whether it was on the list but remember your meds. Muffin. Bob's Astro historically has always distributed homemade muffins to at all of our chapter meetings so since we can't meet in person this is Bob's muffin virtually to all of us. We have a few announcements. The first thing everybody needs to be signed up to HLAA's eNews so that you really know what's going on and there have been recently there have been some really big announcements of things that are going on and the one that I have on the screen here is a bill has been introduced in 2021 to cover hearing aids and hearing health care. So we've all complained for as long as I can ever remember about the fact that Medicare doesn't include hearing aids or hearing health care. So if you want to ensure that we get what we really all want and need you need to contact your senators your your House of Representatives members and let them know that you want them to vote yes for this bill. So while I was getting prepared for this presentation I followed I followed my own directions that I'm telling you right now and I went ahead and went online and sent a letter to Diane Feinstein and Padilla and our local representative as well. It's super simple to do and I can show you on I left the HLAA website up I think to be able to show you let me see if I can find it here the link hang on one second okay so when you go to the HLAA website and I know a lot of people don't do this that frequently so we're going to be continuing to show people how to use the website. If you don't know how to find something here's the magnifying search glass you type in Medicare because we're talking about Medicare and this is alert action Medicare coverage for hearing aids we need to hear from you see here where it says read more you can click that see the hand see the cursor is changing to a hand anytime the cursor changes to a hand that means it's a live link and click on it okay so here is it takes you to the action alert let your voice be heard here's how you find your representative here's how you find your senators they have even given you a demonstration letter so all you needed to do if you liked their letter is copy and paste it but make sure that you would remove this part here and you would put the person's name in there so everybody needs to do this you have no excuse for not doing this okay I want to see everybody do a thumbs up in the reactions so if you had see the happy face with a plus you open that up you have the ability to do reactions so if you look at my thumbnail see I did thumbs up so we definitely want to support let our representatives know that they need to support this for us and it's also a way to make us more visible because I know that for all of our representatives hearing loss has not been high on their agenda and so all of a sudden in California it will be raised on their agenda because we're letting them know so this is the 31st anniversary of the ADA and everybody needs to be reminded over and over and over again that people with hearing loss live uncertain lives we never know when you're going to be able to understand somebody and when you're not so if you want to live the best life you can possibly live as a course of action you need to ask for communication access so with my new implants I'm doing so well I'm shocked every single day about what I can hear but there's sometimes I can't hear I participated in a Zoom meeting recently and I could understand half of the people in the Zoom meeting and half of the people who I couldn't and some of the people had accents so if I hadn't asked for accommodations for that meeting I would have missed half of what was being said and I know as a whole our group is not asking for accommodations so you might be wondering where can you have accommodations where are the places it's everywhere every single place you go to you need to ask for it including your grocery store your grocery store has an information counter you go up to that counter can you understand them you can write to the CEOs of these companies and request accommodations the more they hear from more people the greater the likelihood is that they're going to be following the law I've had many people tell me oh I asked and they said they didn't have anything well then you have to get more forceful and you have to let them know that you understand that they're telling you they're not aware of what they have but that they're in violation of the law the law in our country is mandating that they provide accommodations for us now in providing accommodations for us it's our responsibility also to have an idea of what works for us because you need to ask for what you want what you need at the moment I still cannot understand anybody in a face mask so in every single healthcare setting that I have been to in recent times I have asked for captions it's been like pulling teeth to get what I need to be able to understand but I've been asked to be on two specific committees at UCSF one of them I've been asked to spearhead a disability access community committee that will be for patients family and visitors another committee I've been asked to be on is a consortium we had a meeting recently there were 18 different departments in the hospital represented in that committee now I have my fingers crossed there isn't going to have to be a lawsuit against the UC California hospital system to get them to do something and they are showing interest in doing this now the way that you make the most the most noise in the hospital system is every single visit that you're having with your physician and hospitals they're sending you emails later asking how your visit your visit went and it usually has a little survey with it well those surveys actually are not directly from the hospital they're from an outside agency and the outside agency has to report every disapproval so every time you you participate in any event like that you have to highlight they might have been fabulous in every single way but you couldn't understand them so what good does it do how good their healthcare services are if you physically cannot understand what they're saying you're you're thinking that they want you to take your medication appropriately they're thinking that they want you to be able to prepare for a surgery so that these are not small things and I want to tell every single person who is here in this meeting today you are worth it if you have a problem in and of yourself thinking that you're worth it I want you to know I'm telling you I think you're worth it I think we're all worth it and I'm expending a tremendous amount of my life energy to be able to ensure that I and all of you can live the best lives you possibly can have with hearing loss so please step up with me oops and here's our information for anybody who may need to contact us and I have some we have time here today and I'd love to open up the conversation about what are the difficulties that people have in asking for accommodations what do they run into so I know through the years I was listening to our chapter members and everybody kept saying I don't know what to do I don't know what to do so this brochure was created to help everybody but I'm still hearing from people well maybe yes maybe no I'm hearing from people that oh I can bring my husband with you that's not okay they're not allowed to do that they're not allowed to use your family members to be the interpreter for you and one of the major reasons this is so important is you don't know for sure that they're telling you exactly what that doctor said so you know how hard it can be I mean we all have arguments with our spouses family members and things communication in and of itself is not simple you always have to verify somebody responds in a wrong way or what in a way that you didn't intend you're going oh well they must have heard something different than what I intended to say so if you have good communication skills you might check in and say oh the look on your face didn't fit what I thought I said I'm wondering if you heard something differently so we have no way of verifying that for sure that something that would be the quasi interpreter is telling you what was really said in some families family members hide how serious an illness is from family members we all have a right to know that so does anybody want to talk about some problems that they have it might help other people be able to speak feel more comfortable 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My life has always been pretty cheerful. This was made possible by my friends, family, a bright future at my university and nothing bad happening in my life so far. Everyone I know has nice thoughts of me as I have from them. All my teachers and I get along well and, despite having no other known relatives than my parents, I didn't really care much. I always thought of my friends as brothers. I had however something I had for years.  I'm pretty sure even adults liked those years too. Video games, simplicity and good TV cartoons. Yes, good TV cartoons. So the not so wished dream of becoming a cartoon tester got to me when I was just 6 years old. My parents accepted delightedly when I told them I wanted to be one. After all, it was the perfect job for someone at my age. So when people came to the house to ask my parents, I wanted to be it so badly. Nothing went actually wrong so one afternoon they took me to Nickelodeon HQ. I was so excited to see everything they were going to make before anybody watched it in the first place. My friends would be so jealous. So I stood there in a room with a big TV and a DVD player, the first time I actually saw one, and like five other kids that were like me, expecting to watch cartoons all day. The room felt somewhat like a living room, probably to make us feel much more comfortable. It had a carpet, chairs, a table, potted plants and a nice warm red paint on the walls. A staff member came out of nowhere with a CD smiling at us. We're going to make a new series on Nick Jr. He said with a cheery tone. If you like it, then we'll send the first season to your parents in no time. All the kids and me started celebrating as the man inserted the CD inside the DVD player. I'll be back in a while. He said with a bright smile as he left the room. The TV went on a static screen, which was on since it was the newest they had selling at that year. It went static for a while and it started to show a warm fireplace burning. The camera then showed the whole room. No music was heard at all, nor did it introduce anything. The camera showed a chair faced at a window, showing stars and a night sky. The room looked warm and soft. A bald head was on the chair.  Me and all the kids were surprised about him and his appearance and waited to see what happened. A robotic and emotionless voice stroked on the silence as the man said. Oh I didn't see you there. The camera turned around, showing a crudely made CGI bodies that happened to be the man's. He greeted us and said, Hello, I'm Gregory, and this is my room. The camera zoomed on his creepy face. We're going to have so much fun together, just the two of us. He pointed at the window. We can look at the stars together. He held a book. We can read a book together. The camera went to the perspective of the fireplace as Gregory said. We can stare into the glorious flames of the fireplace together. The silence crushed instantly, as all the kids looked confused and looked to each other. He waited for a while as Gregory's face stared from the chair into the fire. His face suddenly appeared again and the camera slowly zoomed in. But no matter what we do it will just be the two of us, alone in this room. Just me and you, no parents, no police, no one can hear you. Distorted background music started playing as his face got closer and closer. Not only that, but his voice and the background itself started to get weird as transparent flames took over the place. Embrace me, I need love, breath in, need love. The movie ended with his paralyzed face all over the screen. Every kid started crying uncontrollably as the man from some minutes ago came in. He had a very angry look on his face as his words pierced through my memory. You. I thought that guy learned his lesson long ago but… He yelled furiously as he got out of the door along with the other kids. The screen went blank as I secretly took the CD. It had a clean, simple and plain text saying, Gregory's room. After a few days, there were some news about parents suing Nickelodeon for inappropriate content shown. They even got as far as labeling the incident as a show that was ultimately rejected due to a poor focus group result. My parents were so frightened that they didn't let me get near the place, we lived relatively near Nick HQ. Until then, I kept the CD with me, hoping to understand, one day, the meaning of such a dreadful creation.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's Case Breaks.com. Happy March Madness Day. Madness is happening. Hopefully we'll find some madness in this Origins football international blaster box. Random team break number three, this is the last filler we gotta do to unlock that hip rate. Given away nine spots, there's still some full spots left, but this is the only filler we're gonna do.  Big thanks to this group right here for making it happen. And there are the teams right there. So that's the first ice roll, the second ice roll will be the giveaway part. One and a three, four times four, the break. One, two, three and four. Got David Ella down to David Deep. One and a three, four times for the teams. One, two, three and four. Detroit down to Indianapolis. All right, no trading windows in this, but here's the first half of the list right there. And there is the second half of your list right there. Alphabetized by team. And let's just print and rip. Here is the final printout, hot off the presses.  So whatever day it is, thanks for making us part of your day. Rex's Twitter got hacked, and the only thing they use your Twitter was to post crypto ads, where they knew that you were a big crypto influencer, Rex. I'm sure that's what they were taking advantage of. This guy's a big crypto bull. Let's hack his account. Let's use his crypto influencer status. There's Derek Stingley Jr. to $2.99. That'll be for Chris and Houston. Bailey Zappy. All right, is Bailey Zappy stuff still? What's the temperature on Bailey Zappy these days? Here's a sauce gardener, four out of 10. It's a nice low number there. That's gonna be for Ken. Ken Chestnut and the Jets. Your defensive rookie of the year. Sam Howell is considered your QB1 so far still, right? With the commanders. All right, there you go. Now, who's gonna win those hip rate spots? Let's gather everybody's names one through 32. New dice, new list. And it's gonna be the top nine after six, four and two, six times. Good luck. One, two, three, four, five and six and final time. After six, Ken very close, just not quite. So ultimately after six sad times for 10 through 32, but I appreciate everybody giving this a go. But only the top nine can get into the hip rate break. Happy times for Justin, David D, Nico, Edward, Roman, Jay, Eugene, Oliver and David. Congrats to the top nine. We still have some full spots to go, but once that's done, you can do that football rig. So check it out, Jaspy'scasebrakes.com. Bye bye.


These 21 short videos will help you quickly see and understand the relationships and patterns between various types of irregular verbs so that you can use them properly. This video will help you see relationships between various types of irregular verbs in English. The key to understanding irregular verbs is to look for and notice the patterns. We'll start with the easiest ones. Verbs like hit. Verbs like hit do not change in the past or the past participle. As you can see here, with hit you have the same form in the base form, the past form, and the past participle form. Hit, hit, hit. You can see other examples like cut, cut, cut. Let, let, let. Put, put, put. There's no change in the different forms of the verb. The only change comes with the S form. Now the S form of the verb is used with the third person singular subjects such as he, she, the man, the woman, the dog, it. And that requires an S. Hits, cuts, lets, puts. Now you'll also notice something interesting about the ING form for these verbs. You'll notice that most of these end with the letter T or the T sound. And because of the short vowel in these verbs, the final T is doubled before adding the ING. The only ones that are different are the two at the bottom, burst and cast. We don't need to double the T there because there's already a consonant before the final T. Now we have some variations on verbs like hit. For example, with the verb spread it follows the same pattern in that the past and the past participle are exactly the same as the base form. Spread, spread, spread. The difference here is this one ends with a D sound and in the ING form the D letter is not doubled. The next one is knit, which actually has two acceptable forms in the past and the past participle. It follows the same pattern as hit, knit, knit, knit. But it can also take on a regular verb ending, ED, for example, knitted or knitted in the past and past participle. Notice that the T is also doubled before you add the ED ending in this case. Then we have spit. Spit has two different forms in the past and the past participle. It follows the basic same structure as hit, spit, spit, spit, but also acceptable in the past is spat and spat. So there are two different forms that can be used. Now the next one, sit, is not exactly the same as hit, but it follows a pattern that was used with the verb spit. In that it changes to an act sound, so it goes sit, sat, sat. The last one, cost, follows the same pattern as the others, cost, cost, cost. But there's something different with the ING form. Cost is what we call a non-action verb. That means we don't normally use this with the ING form. For example, you would not say that is costing $5.