Right now. Go live. All right. Like it or not, Jay, we're live. Ready or not, I should say. This is Tom Lawrence of Lawrence Technology Services, which people know that because this is my channel, but you are. Jay from LearnLinux TV. Yes, and me and Jay do this thing where we hang out on Tuesdays and talk about technology. And we get way off topic a lot of times, but we just dive around talking about some of the YouTube stuff and some of the Home Lab stuff. And we said, you know what we really need because there's a big crossover in our channel of audiences. We need to really dive just into being able to help people with Home Labs. It's kind of a driving thing, is the self-hosted community, the Home Lab community. And it helps people come into technology and then get a deeper understanding, maybe even get a career in this and understand all the aspects. I cover a lot of hardware and storage servers and network engineering. And Jay is an expert on things like he's got tutorials on Docker. So we just said, you know what? Let's combine forces and share our knowledge with the world. And also we want to do these as some live streams because Q and A, we each have our own forums and based on the type of forum, like if you have a Docker question, don't even ask me. Because I don't use, I mean, I'm very basic with Docker. I'm going to say, Jay knows about Docker. If you have a question about true NAS or you have a question about PF sense, those are things I dive heavily into on my channel. So hey, I might be the better person to answer that. But either way, between the two of us, we're here to answer your Home Lab questions. This is episode zero. We're only going to be doing this for 30 minutes and then we're going to try and make this a regular thing and bring questions and ideas. And if you don't have questions or ideas, don't worry, we do. We can always just talk about all the projects we're working on. We could definitely do that. We'll figure it out as we go. This will be defined as we go along the structure and everything. So we're just having fun with it today and then we'll see where it lands. And doing a lot of defining of what we want to do. And I'm already fascinated because right behind Jay's head, actually looking at me is the, you call it Jarvis, am I correct? Yeah, it's Mycroft and it's one of the things that I want to get back to, but I had it configured to do pretty much everything like the home light, the lighting and things. Now, so are you familiar with Volumeo, if I'm saying that right? It's a Raspberry Pi solution for having like a jukebox, hook up speakers to it. It gives you like a web interface to your music collection. So for many browsers, you just play music. So I would say, hey Jarvis, play lacuna coil. And then it would start, I'd start rocking out, but I broke it and I need to get back into fixing it. But it's just eventually what I want to be able to do is tell the assistant to update all my servers and have it go to my Ansible server and just run a Ansible playbook to install all updates on everything. I want to be able to control my home lab with them. I've just been sidetracked lately so haven't gotten that done yet. So, and he was kind of interrupting us earlier while we were testing, I had to tell him to shut down. Yeah, that's what caught my attention on it. I'm not a big, even though Google exists in privacy aside, I just don't use voice activated assistance that much. The kind of exception because I think it's kind of a safety thing. I do like telling my Tesla to navigate places because it just pulls the map up and goes somewhere. So I mean, that is the one function I use as a navigation but it's just sort of not the type and address. I can just say Tesla navigate to and my Tesla will take me somewhere, so. But it's still really cool because of privacy reasons the Jarvis one looked pretty interesting. You would also, in one of the topics me and you were on last week where this is one me and you were talking personally, we were diving into some trouble you were having with the smart plugs and I will be that's a whole fun story that we'll share and show sometime. But one thing funny about the smart plugs though is I didn't realize how much better they have gotten since I looked at them a few years ago still without their problems, which is what led to the Jake's problem. But the home assistant running on a Raspberry Pi is actually a pretty impressive project being able to manage all of that. It really is, it's a lot of fun. It's a rabbit hole when you get into it but it's a good one, it's a fun adventure. And if you're into that kind of thing, I mean, not everyone that runs HomeLab runs Home Assistant and vice versa, but there is a market for it and I think they're doing pretty well. I actually pay the, I think it's $5 a month or something which isn't really all that much but I like to support projects that are giving me an added bonus. So I like to send some money their way and overall, I think it's a great solution. And I also like what I like about it is you're in control because you don't want to expose things to the internet that you really don't need to.    You don't have to worry about what Google and Amazon are doing because you're not using them for that. So I think there's some power you can get out of having that. Yeah, and for, I see a few people, a lot more people are joined now. What we're talking about is Home Assistant and you have MyCroft, that's the voice activation server, the open source voice activation server.  I'm still that person. Maybe I'm just old or something, but. Well, okay, so let's think about it. Let's have a thought experiment then. Because I agree, it's faster to flip a light switch than it is to speak a half sentence, that that's true. But what I had it set up for, and I have to again fix it, that's part of HomeLab, right? You break it, you fix it, that's how you learn. I would say like it's time to record and my studio lights come on, I'm gonna have it turn on my studio PC and my TV. So yeah, turning on my PC, yeah, that takes five seconds, but it takes longer to turn on all of those devices. That's where I think the value comes is when you have a scene and you could have it do a thing. Like I wanna be able to get to a point, like it's party time and then a disco ball just comes down for the ceiling and then the speakers. I mean, I'm not there yet, but if you think about from that lens, like if I wanted to update my servers, I have to open up a terminal, like an SSH into my Ansible server, I can run a playbook, no problem. How about when I just walk into the office and say, hey, update all my servers, then walk out and then it just does it and then I get an email and it's done. So the value that's something like that gives you depends on what you're actually automating. If it's just a light switch, but if it's a sequence of events that you are automating, for example. Then it makes a lot more sense because you're stacking. And I can imagine for my studio building something like that to, like you said, set a scene for my studio, adjust the lights and get things the way I want it on one thing. Now the box above Jay's head, like I said, it has two eyes on it. That is his server cabinet back there. What is that box you're actually running it on? So, okay, so which box are you referring to? The one that actually has the talky face on it before we stopped it before the show. Yeah, so that's my craft and it's just that white little device. He's just a little tiny box with a power cord and an ethernet cable that he just sets on the top of the cabinet. The cabinet, I get asked a lot. Everyone's like, hey, can I know what cabinet you have? I wanna buy it. I'm like, no, I made a big mistake. This is embarrassing, but I think there's a lesson to be learned. Make sure you check very thoroughly before you buy anything for HomeLab. It's a network cabinet. It's not a server cabinet. It's not the right size. Those servers are hanging off the back. They're exposed. It looks horrible behind it, but you can't tell. I need to replace it. But someone in the chat asked, what is that big box? And that's the answer. It is a server rack. And part of it for me was I wanted that in the background. It takes up a lot of space, right? But it looks cool when I do videos because I talk about the stuff. But then you can see in the background, I'm actually working on these things that I'm talking about. I actually am running servers. It's not just decorations. The two fans, each one is a Raspberry Pi cluster case that has four Raspberry Pies on them in layers. The fan is in the front to cool them. In fact, I'm working on this right now, which is the same thing, but it's stacked three high. And this is a 12 layer Raspberry Pi tower case right here, which I'm going to be doing for a video. Don't know when it's coming out. But those are the smaller version of that same thing. One of them is a Kubernetes cluster. The other one is the one that has a Pi dedicated to Home Assistant. I have one called Dev. That's what I call this Pi. It's just, I don't know why I chose the name, it's just my central SSH box for all my projects. Like I have a TMux thing going on in there. On any computer, resume my terminal session and a number of other servers. Below that, the really big wide server that's kind of blue. I can probably just open it, make it kind of easier to see possibly. Maybe not all that much, but you see my unified switch on the top and then this right here is going to be my TrueNAS server. That's this big thing. And then we have the Proxmox server and then the UPS underneath it. Probably hear it now that I've opened it. Yeah, didn't make too much of an audio difference. A few questions that people ask though, and this is a really popular questions about what you should or shouldn't virtualize because there's two questions in this. Someone said, should I virtualize PF Sense because they don't want more hardware. I personally, other than for my lab in lab work, I don't virtualize PF Sense because whenever you're running an update on your server, your virtualization stack, I should say, or you have to do maintenance on it. You don't have internet access. The challenge with that is, what if I have to get a file to fix a broken update to load something and I have to have the server down for that or if it goes wrong and I have to troubleshoot it, I need internet to do those things. And yes, I could just pop up internet on my phone but that's greatly inconvenient. So I've always been a big fan of just running your firewall, like your primary firewall as a actual appliance. And I think you do the same, Jay, am I correct? Yeah, I started off the same way. I think for me, and this is probably true of many people at the time, I didn't really have much money for this. I think the server that I had was maybe $100 used or something and I needed to make that stretch because I just didn't have the money to add anything else to it. So a lot of people that asked that question, it could either be for consolidation, right? I think a lot of people just don't have the extra cash for multiple servers and that's where it comes from. But then when I did it that way, with a virtual machine with PF Sense, I think I might have lasted two weeks. I'm like, I can't stand this, I have to change. You can make it work. But like Tom said, you're going to have some rough edges. You are going to have some challenges. And one of them is like, you don't realize how many things depend on internet until you shut down the box.  And if there's a problem, okay, let me go ahead and just connect to the KVM, the IKVM and get a console on my screen and kind of go, oh, right. I don't have any internet. I can't get to the console. That's not the thing. I can't get to this. I can't get to that. And then you find yourself with grabbing a keyboard, actual keyboard and display and whatnot and connecting it to the bag. It's just, and it becomes a chore. There's other challenges too that I think you'll run into. It's easier. It's easy to think like, should I consolidate this? You'll run into trouble. A lot of people do it. I want to be clear. A lot of people have successfully done this, but you have to understand there's some interesting quirks that you'll run into. In the same goes where someone asks with running TrueNAS, you have some of those same issues of can you run TrueNAS virtually? You can. You can do pass through. I've seen someone mentioned on RAID. You can do pass through in XP and G. You can do pass through in Proxmox. If I'm not mistaken, I'm not an RAID user, but my understanding of on RAID is they have it just as a checkbox. Do you get that with the Proxmox? If you want to pass through a device, can you just check the box in the PCI and you got to go to the command line and find the device? It's kind of complicated there because it really depends on the hardware, whether it's actual RAID, fake RAID and what have you. The options in Proxmox became more limited, which is kind of why it's hard for me to answer. When I first started, for example, and I installed Proxmox for the first time, it asked me if I wanted ZFS or if I wanted just MD RAID 1, MD RAID 5, I had all those options. Nowadays they removed a lot of those options and you don't have an MD RAID option. You have like a single disk option. But if you want RAID, their assumption is you'll just use ZFS instead. Well, maybe, but you have to start setting things up kind of manually. It really depends on the hardware. I don't know of any checkbox. The options are very limited when you install it. So I'm gonna have to say probably not. Yeah, it's a little bit of a challenge. It can be done running TrueNAS in there. I don't recommend it. I would never recommend it for production, but for non-production or learning, absolutely. And one of the fun things is, and I've seen a lot of people chiming in that they've run a PSNs virtual for a long time, absolutely you can do it and it can be a learning experience. If, and maybe that's the goal of, especially if you are trying to get into the career, you wanna learn a lot of aspects, nothing like trying something hard to really level up your skill because you're doing it the hard way, which means there's gonna be more reading to do. You'll have to get a deeper understanding of the hardware. So there's an advantage to doing it that way just because I've taken some projects and done them in a more difficult manner because I got to learn more. It's like building a wire guard server from scratch. I did that video because why not start from ground zero, build it up and learn it? That's not something the average person is gonna do. They're just gonna connect. And my site to site video, for example, on how to use a wire guard in PF Sense is easy. It's a couple check boxes. You move the keys into the pier, into the server or the other one and that's it. It's done. You didn't have to do all the legwork it takes to build a system that can route and load the modules and things like that. Someone also asked about QNAP and Synology NAS and their virtualization. I have not used a QNAP before. I'm not the biggest fan of them. My feelings from all my friends who have used them and compared them to Synology is Synology just has better support. Some people say QNAP has slightly faster hardware. I'm not someone who's ever used the one, but I definitely have used plenty of Synologies and I do think they work well. J's use Synology in the past as well, but they do have virtualization on Synology. I might do some videos on it. It's pretty basic. It doesn't support any clustering or anything like that without licensing though. So it's not like your other open source hypervisors. You have to buy licenses if you want some of the advanced features. They give you a limited set of features which may be perfectly adequate for your needs, but you may have to buy a license if you want some of the advanced clustering features and live migration of VMs between servers and everything else. That's all paid license from Synology. I don't know how QNAP does it. Yeah, I haven't used QNAP either. I've used Synology. It's been a long time. I do have a Synology in the studio that I will be reviewing soon. I don't know when, probably within a week. A lot of hardware reviews coming and I'll be looking at the same thing too. When I did use Synology, I actually liked it quite a bit, but Strudan asked one over for me just for very selfish reasons. I like ZFS on it. Honestly, like there's nothing against Synology at all, but we'll see how I feel after I check out this Synology that I have in the studio. Maybe I'll change my opinion, maybe not. Yeah, someone says, so the site to site warrior guard video, would this be applicable to myself looking to have all clients on my network connect to a VPN provider over the WAN? I've done a video on that and this is something I've always got a mixed feelings on. So you have to stop and define, in my opinion, why you want a whole home VPN. And the concept is you're gonna take all the data from your network and pipe it out of a VPN. You're slowing it down for one because you're gonna be limited to whatever the offerings of that VPN provider. Also, you're limited by the hardware you have because, well, VPNs require high levels of math and cryptography. So running that inside there may slow it down. And for people whose only answer is, oh, I just don't want the cable company to sniff my data like my DNS traffic. I'm like, so you're gonna pay money to somebody else to do it. Now, region locking or if you're seeding your favorite torrents of your ISOs for Linux and you know that companies don't like torrenting, okay, those might be good reasons to use a VPN. But I usually push for people to do it on a policy routing basis, as in you create a policy where some device may tunnel out. My preference is always if I can load the tunnel on the device itself as opposed to the firewall, it makes it easier, but that's not always possible with some of them. So kind of think about how you wanna do that because it creates a challenge, great learning experience to learn how policy routing works. I have a video on how to do it with PIA VPN and OpenVPN. That video is gonna be almost identical when you do it with WireGuard. It's just a different VPN service, but the backend is the same. You're gonna create rules and policies of which gateway to go out.  That's just referred to as policy routing.  We don't really do as much policy routing in business in the same way. It's pretty much exclusive to people who wanna hide traffic from VPNs. In the business world, you see less policy-based routing. You see it in a different way. Most of the time you are setting up, for companies that do full security when you set up a business VPN, they either want their endpoint traffic for the external customers 100% routed in, but then in 2020, with everyone switching to doing that, they realize we don't have enough bandwidth, split the tunnels. So it's only for resources. Like someone opened a VPN and whatever traffic goes out the normal internet, but then a VPN is for resources in the company network. That way, not all the traffic gets routed that way. That goes back into business stuff. We wanna focus on the homelab and self-host ratings. Right, and I agree with everything you said. I think the important thing about security is not to be overconfident. Sometimes, depending on how you have everything set up, whether or not your traffic can be seen, all comes down to how far down the subpoena chain someone's willing to go. Because if it's maybe at the very first level, oh yeah, this isn't worth our time because it's not that big of a deal. But if they really, really, really wanna see what you're doing subpoena after subpoena after subpoena, then they get to you eventually. And also when it comes to overconfidence, it's gonna be whether or not you get hacked can also depend on how determined the hacker is. Most of the time, okay, that's gonna take more than five minutes. I'm gonna move on. I don't wanna deal with that. I really want his stuff. I wanna break in, I'm gonna try for days, months, however long it takes, I'm gonna get in there. Really depends on that. I'm not saying you can't have reasonable security, but just have reasonable expectations and backups and whatnot, because honestly, it depends on, like Tom said, what you wanna do, what you wanna accomplish, don't have a VPN just for the sake of having VPN just because the ad on that YouTube channel said that you should have a VPN. Why do you want one? What do you want to accomplish? What's the problem that you think it's going to solve for you and then plan it accordingly? Yeah. Back onto some of the network hardware someone's asking about Unify versus TP-Link. So, Unify has definitely had some missteps in the last few months and things that didn't make people happy. For example, the fact that they needed to register before you can activate the hardware cloud key. That's only the hardware cloud key. You can still host your own Unify controller software. That hasn't changed. But people keep thinking that's the reason to throw away Unify. Now, granted, they've had firmware updates, et cetera, and problems that, but all the companies have this. The thing is, I've never found TP-Link in the past to be a commercial company, so to speak. A company with great support. And TP-Link now has released something that looks a whole lot like what Unify is doing with its self-hosted controller. TP-Link did reach out to us and because it seems like some of the kit is not very available, so they have like a package they send us to review. So, they're sending us one to review. So, we're gonna take a kind of critical look at it and set it up here and do some testing with it. I am not at any means ready to get rid of Unify because Unify themselves, misstepings are not. There's not really someone in their space right now that has all the bells, whistles, and features that Unify offers. So, in specifically, I'm talking about their switches and their access points.  But TP-Link, one of the problems right away, we already know what the TP-Link going into this. So, you can't assign multiple WAN IP addresses to the Unify routing equipment, which is crazy. There's been a request for six years in their forums that, hey, routers normally can have more than one WAN IP address by the way, Unify, but you in six years have not figured out how to do this. And someone will then point out, well, they have a beta firmware that you can do it coming sometime in the future. That's cool. TP-Link designs a new product that looks a whole lot like the way Unify does it, even a similar interface, even the same icons on the side that also can't do multiple WAN IPs right now. Yeah, I've run into the same thing. There was a time where I was considering checking out that the gateway, but I look at the feature list and I'm like PF Sense every single time. But I mean, I think PF Sense is gonna be more of a challenge to configure, which I don't really think is a problem for the majority of people that are watching this because they're probably up for a challenge. I mean, why else would you do HomeLab? But for me personally, Unify has been great. So I'm the same as like PF Sense for the router slash firewall layer then Unify for everything else. And I don't like the fact that you have to have a Cloud Key or a controller. I don't care that much. I'm uneasy about it, but it's not enough to make me not use it. It's worked so well for me. It's been the only solution for me that has continually worked well. I think what it comes down to is cost. When you're first starting out in the HomeLab, I mean, how much money are you gonna put into it? Yeah, you link his way to go for that because it's cheap, right? It's a good way to get into it. Yeah, and here's one of the things that I want to comment on. Someone said, why aren't you using Jitsie? Before I answer that question, hey Jay, does your recording computer run Linux for recording stuff? It currently doesn't, actually. Right, it runs Windows just like buying. So here's one of the challenges and me and Jay want to get content out. And at some point we have worked really hard to try to make something work and I see Jay stream deck within reach. We realize that if a tool just is not ready as much as I'd prefer to be Linux and Jitsie's one of those tools, we've tried to do some stuff in Jitsie. It doesn't work as well as Zoom. It wouldn't do the things we're trying to do right here as well. So we've chose to use Zoom. If soon as Jitsie, and the thing is I'm not a Jitsie developer and the developers are aware of where the shortcomings are. It's not like they're unaware. It's a matter of throwing money at it. Zoom has lots of money and they did. They threw lots of money and talented programmers at it, including destroying one of my favorite projects which was Keybase because they just assumed it. They didn't even want the Keybase project. They wanted the team that built it for security. So they bought the entire company that developed Keybase and yeah. So that's how it is. That's exactly how it is. I think, so I do have a Jitsie server that I set up and I'm interested in trying it out. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet. It exists. So that's one thing and Tom and I, we've talked about maybe trying it out just the two of us see how it works now. And we will. The way I look at it, if a solution comes out that's open source that does what I needed to do I'll switch to it like right now. And that's just my mentality. It's always Linux by default. And then if it doesn't do what I needed to do I'll just temporarily go a different direction and I'll check in every now and then kind of see how the environment looks and then maybe gravitate back to that solution. Like I'm going to be potentially converting the recording PC back to Linux possibly pretty soon when I have time. But like Tom said, it's like we have people on our YouTube channels that want content. We want to do the content. We don't want to make people wait too long for the content. So sometimes that's what it's all about. And even with my Windows server that does my recording studio I'm getting ready to do an updated studio video because I've re-engineered more stuff on it. I like to share with you know how we do things and but it's one of those things. I still have bugs with the Windows one and those bugs are compounded if I try to do this on Linux. They get worse. So if it stops me from producing content and by the way, like you have people like EposVox which I follow on YouTube. He does a lot of like how to he does a lot of Streamlab tutorials and how to be a streamer. And I learned a lot from him but he does that full time and still is constantly learning and doing it. So I have to rely on someone else's knowledge already and he only does it in Windows. So trying to take that knowledge extrapolate it is at some point, where's my job? Is my job teaching more people? Would you like to have me do another PF Sense WireGuard video or spend a week working on trying to figure out how to make something work in Linux? By the way, you don't care. If I did a whole video of how I got Streamlab's working in Linux there's like people like Jay who'll be very thankful. And unless any of you are streamers and cruising content like me or Jay and you're like, oh, that's a novelty thing. And other streamers are like, well, you guys went for a lot of work. I just hit record in Linux and got my content out there. Oh, that's true. To have someone ask about the Raspberry Pi is a good enough for security and also said that it was slower especially over SSH, you're running basic commands. When it comes to Raspberry Pi there's a lot of variables more than I think when you're just running a server, a proper server. I use Raspberry Pi's for almost everything nowadays. It's, I use it for SSH because depending when you joined I actually mentioned I was using a Raspberry Pi as my central dev box when I'm developing or doing administrative things it's my central SSH thing. It's like an internal bastion but the reason why I use it for that again is because I could just close my session on one laptop, reopen it on another and it doesn't matter if I reboot. And it's fine. I have no problem with basic commands. I did make sure that I had really good storage like the SD card. I paid $5 more to make sure that it was a really good SD card. I put a USB flash drive on there, a really good one for the home directory. So I just put the home directory on there. I have a Kubernetes cluster running off Raspberry Pi. So I would say don't underestimate the Raspberry Pi. It can surprise you with what it can do but it also depends on how you have it set up if you don't have enough power it'll run slower or not at all. Storage like I mentioned make sure it's Raspberry Pi 4 if you don't already have one go with the Raspberry Pi 4 as long as you're not trying to just run some ginormous operation for one Raspberry Pi should be fine I think. Yeah, the Raspberry Pi's are still just a fun tool to play with because it's an inexpensive way and you've got some videos already on this topic and it's a way to build out a cluster of servers and without breaking the bank. Like you, cool if you could afford all the fancy stuff but like a lot of people starting out they're going, I want to get into this I only have a limited budget buying a handful of Raspberry Pi 4s and loading some tools on there and building I think you have an entire series of videos on it Am I correct Jay? Yeah, I have all kinds of content on that too. There's a lot you can do with them. I think that what I want to know what I want to see as an experiment I don't really know how to go about this because I already use Raspberry Pi's and yes I am a business but I'm just one person. I'm curious how far a business could go hypothetically with just Raspberry Pi's for example, rather than having a hypervisor.  Let's just say you have 30 VMs on that hypervisor. What if you have 30 Raspberry Pi's and each one is doing something that one of the VMs would be doing. Already the power usage would be very, very low. So it's possible maybe that it would pay for itself maybe not but I want to know how far companies can go because I feel like Raspberry Pi's are basically considered the only the testing or the play thing. I find them incredibly stable. I want to know how far a business can get with that. I think they could get very far. Depending on what they're running obviously they're running Windows Server, no. But they're running just Linux VMs. If each Pi was one of those VMs I think that could actually work for some businesses out there that might save a lot of money. Yeah, there's a couple companies, 3CX comes to mind. If I'm not mistaken they have Raspberry Pi phone bridges and if you have a cloud controller for your phone system your PBX system but you want to still do things. One of the challenges you have when you have a cloud PBX is local calls can't get to each other in the office without going through in and out the cloud. But if you have local bridging systems they can handle some of the inter-traffic and then have a single point by which things go in and out and they can build those on Raspberry Pi's I believe. There's a few other projects. There's a free PBX project that runs on there. So I've seen people use them in the commercial space for phone servers for example. It's stuff that runs on Linux. It's stuff that you can find compiled for ARM and it does work. That's definitely there. Real quick guys, if you there are 490 concurrent viewers but there's only 98 likes. So bash on that like button a little bit. It helps the algorithm of the YouTube system tell everyone that this is a good video to watch. For sure, one last comment about the Raspberry Pi thing. Someone mentioned it's only ARM. Excuse me, yeah, that's true. You are gonna have some downside there but just if you think about just playing the devil's advocate on here.  Raspberry Pi 4, you can buy one with eight gigs of RAM for cores. That's more powerful than that $5 droplet or $5 Linode instance which I love Linode. They're sponsoring my channel but that doesn't mean I think everyone should use it every time because it's gonna be a good bit for this, maybe not for that. But already instead of paying $5 a month how far is that Raspberry Pi gonna get you if you have like a proxy going to that Raspberry Pi. And also when you think of Kubernetes clusters which I have one running on Pi to get to the point where it's just bogged down I'll just add another Pi to it and add it to the cluster and another one and another and I'll keep scaling it. You could get pretty far with that I think. That's one of the things I think can be overlooked with those. Yes, they can be a single point of failure but that's where clustering comes in. You build a Kubernetes cluster you have a more elasticity to the stack you're building therefore as you said, when you need more you add more and then from there they're inexpensive. If one dies most likely thing to die is not the Raspberry Pi itself but the little memory card might go bad on it and provides you didn't go through the trouble setting up to boot off of the network or something like that to start distributing them. You pop another memory card in or just replace that piece of the cluster and you have the kind of neat basis to build something. It's an interesting lookup and I think it might be Chick-fil-A it's called the Intel NUC and they call it the cluster NUC and what they did was they took a series I think of them and are using if I'm almost positive they're using Kubernetes as well they just instead of building a server to go at the retail locations they built a small cluster running Linux and that way it's redundant across all the machines that way if one of the machines fails, whatever we they stack five, I think five of them at a time at each location and five NUCs costs a reasonable amount of money and they're modular, they're replaceable if one of the five nodes goes down they know they got to replace it but it didn't take them out of business. So there's concepts you can build around it but it comes down to having a full thought running a business on a single Raspberry Pi absolutely that is not a good idea. No, no, that's not a good idea I just, I think it's a fun experiment it's more of a thought experiment obviously but I just wonder, right? Like how far people would get and I'm totally okay with the fact that it could be a massive epic failure that's fair, you never know how it's gonna go but maybe there's a company out there that is just starting and maybe they'll try a few Raspberry Pi see how far they get it's just an interesting thought experiment we had someone ask about a VLAN I'm trying to find it now but it's growing kind of fast wanting to know how they would know that their game console is on the VLAN and my first thought is as long as you have GHCP on the VLAN then you look at the IP address in the game console what IP address was it given then if it was given one in that address space you know it's in the VLAN and then the next question might be can it talk to other things if you don't want your game console to talk to your desktop for example, if you want the separation there you could try pinging the game console from your desktop assuming that the game console didn't disable ICMP pings if you're able to ping it obviously the communication between VLANs is still happening whether you want it to happen or not that's on you, you can block it if you don't but I think DHCP is the way on the top of my head you would know what IP address it was given you would know what VLAN is currently in and that's why it's important when you build out the rules and now that PF Sense 2.5 is out I'm gonna be doing the long tutorial of how to build PF Sense I've already started a couple of the 2.5 tutorials specifically around WireGuard but one of the important aspects that I even cover in my videos is once I set something onto another VLAN and I fire something up on that VLAN you test it, you go in there and you ping it did it get the IP address we expected did it have the response we wanted because a lot of mistakes are made and people will start separating things but forgot they left a rule somewhere that allowed traffic and it's not the rule they wanted because I always say start out with implicitly all if we start with all and build from there, cool now remove the all rule and or swap the all rule for a more restrictive rule do, does things still work it's just an iterative process of not just guessing your way through it and let, you know, once you're really good at it like we do these all day so we don't even think we can go through we still test even though we do them we start out with just the rules we want because we know exactly how we want to run these but yeah, that's just it's just an iterative process until you get used to it someone says about getting started getting started is kind of a big target to throw because you have to first start with where do you want to start some people really have an affinity for playing with hardware and what surprises people is Xavier who's done a lot of cybersecurity videos on my channel Xavier didn't touch physical hardware until only the last couple of years and he worked for Fortune 1000 companies doing IT and cybersecurity he always built things in the cloud and that's still a valid answer some people, whether it's line order digital ocean they both have like $5 a month things that is one of the lowest cost ways to spin up a server that you can log into and start doing something on and that's how Xavier, a lot of his early learning is as good as he is and big as he has cybersecurity it wasn't only till a couple of years ago he actually had servers or anything at his house he did everything and matter of fact, he's AWS certified so he built entire stacks of systems and very extensible systems all in AWS so you don't actually need to have any hardware and for $5 a month or there's ways to get even cheaper servers I just mentioned to companies that we're familiar with but definitely ways you can do it but yeah I'm gonna totally agree with you I think that there is a, it's almost like a debate like where do you draw the line what is HomeLab defined as I think I'm gonna give my opinion because I think especially for episode zero it's important and I know a lot of people are going to disagree with me and that's totally fine because I agree with the disagreement I know why people disagree and that is people will say if you are running something in a BPS provider DigitalOcean, Linode, AWS, whatever that it's not HomeLab anymore I disagree I define HomeLab as you are taking control of your server environment you are owning it and that's it whether you decide to run something in a BPS provider you are still in complete control of that now obviously the majority of people that are looking into HomeLab wanna run servers in their house I think ultimately it comes down to okay there might be a few things that you wanna run outside the house for example maybe you have a directory not very big but very important files maybe you set up a BPS and you just R-sync the data over to that server every now and then for a poor man's offsite backup for example so that's an important definition I think it's always important to use what you what aligns to your goals but I will shameless plug I do have a how to HomeLab series on my channel which does it's still early but there's enough episodes where it does actually go over how to start out and I think it's a good watch I have asked Tom to join the series and we've been talking about it but we're looking for a good insertion point where to bring him in at a certain point that makes sense because I've just been putting these out and we're probably gonna keep talking about it and maybe make a decision but for now there's enough episodes to check out where I think it might be helpful to maybe to answer some of the questions people have as they're starting out yeah so there's a lot of factors like I said they go into it and someone asked and I will answer this because I haven't done a video on it and I think they've not done the best job of getting the word out but so I wanna do video if you're running PF Sense 2.5 and you're having problems unbound package update package upgrade or upgrade update it's the command line package tool for PF Sense if you do that you'll find that it pulls a new version of unbound and you have just solved a problem that I or potentially that I was having I think I was having a few issues with unbound so I am going to do exactly that as soon as this is done because that's a good tip yeah so and someone says this question always comes up if you wanna use OpenSense feel free I don't use OpenSense I've always used PF Sense and OpenSense is a fork to me there's not enough extras in that fork that make me want to use it so I stay with the main platform and you know for example like the big debate like they had WireGuard first is like someone was excited about that I'm like no they did but they had the go implementation they didn't have the kernel implementation and the folks over at PF Sense sponsored the kernel implementation for BSD which is now proper and much faster than the go implementation that PF Sense did I really when it comes to your firewall you have to have a level of trust with the company and I know the updates don't come as fast from PF Sense but that actually kind of makes me happy that they're not constantly forcing me to update the firewall because security is one of the first concerns about the firewall and the slow steady process that PF Sense is you know produced with that firewall means it makes me comfortable with it I think Jay really shares some of the same sentiment there I do and I think another thing on your side that I don't think you mentioned was if PF Sense did update as fast as OpenSense did your call volume at your company would go crazy that would be hard to deal with right because you'd have like oh an update every month you'd have like people calling like daily asking should I install this update should I install this update you'll probably be dreaming of people asking you should I install this update should I install this update but my reason for not using OpenSense is twofold one I share what Tom says about that but I've been very interested in checking it out two reasons why I don't real quick one I'm a little bit biased towards the YouTube channel so if I'm gonna spend time checking out something new then I want it to be something that could translate into a video and it's just not because one I just don't have time and two I am LearnLinuxTV that's BSD I leave that up to Tom he does a great job with all that and OpenSense is kind of new it's just I don't know but also it's very time consuming for me to migrate over to it because you can't export the settings very easily from PF Sense yes you can do it and people have opened up the backup file and an XML editor and I can do that but I have a YouTube channel that I'm trying to go with everything else and I have a very finite number of hours so unfortunately that makes it so it's very hard for me to check it out even though I really do want to maybe someday in the future but for now I'm just biased in focusing on the Linux thing and PF Sense works I guess Yeah and sometimes just happy it works we're gonna wind this down but while I'm impressed we have 557 so far as we're peaked at for concurrent viewers so I think there's some interest in this topic what do you think Jay? I would think that there is so what we've discussed is that we're gonna alternate next time it'll be on my channel then the time after that it'll be back on Tom's channel and we'll go back and forth I think it's probably fair to assume Tom that you have a playlist on your channel after we get some episodes in we'll probably have episodes regardless of what channel it's on so you can go to his channel or mine either way or his forums or my forums but we'll just kind of keep alternating back and forth as we go along I don't think we've decided on a cadence yet we're kind of still working this out to see how we want to go about it that's why it's episode zero I thought about calling it episode beta or episode alpha first we'll figure it out but yeah One of the things right now I mean we're doing this in a visual format and Q&A here but if we can turn this into a podcast that's something we really talked about which would mean we just have to focus on not doing anything that would be visual because then that doesn't translate but we can still have the visual and host it here live and then in the end strip it out and put it back over as the audio as a podcast so me and Jay have talked about it you're actually looking to look on Jay's faces because we still go, we talked about it we haven't decided so you're watching the decision making process in real time right now you watched the gears turning in our heads podcast one time and then a live stream the other time there's all kinds of different ways we can go about it but one of the things you talked about folks are go ahead well let's say years ago what we did with the Sunday morning Linux review was it's always been a podcast but we recorded it live on YouTube so we could have a chat session so we always made it a podcast we just happened to do it also simultaneously when we recorded the podcast as a live stream to allow an audience interaction YouTube is an easy platform for that part of it but the other side of it's going to be then you just rip the audio into a podcast but people can then listen to the podcast and enjoy it on their own time but if they wanna participate they would come to this session over here and we'll real quick Renee mentioned that both you and I had a huge impact on learning networking both of our channels virtualization and to keep up the good work and this is why I do it I love hearing things like that because knowledge is eternal when I give it away when I put it out in a video it's for everybody at that point everything I forget to put in a video nobody benefits from so I love hearing things like that that it's having a good impact that's really awesome. Yeah I've seen all the number of people saying podcast yes so I guess that means we could just put this in a podcast we're just telling the audience even if you're just listening you're not looking up the screen while we're doing it we're reading out the questions as they come in maybe we could just consider just dropping it in a podcast form for the people that are commuting but we'll talk about it we could talk all day about making plans and things we're always doing that so we'll do that behind the camera a little bit and we'll find a system that works for everybody. Yeah then we'll pick some topics that we'll have and when we do is live shame we don't mind answering people's questions now as I said at the very beginning and this is how we'll end it I do have forums and they're linked down in the description Jay has forums so you can find Jay at learnlinux.tv you can find everything about me at laurancesystems.com my forums specifically which are linked there as well but forums.laurancesystems.com and also we're still doing more of it but more of my tutorials are being consolidated over at laurance.technology once again I linked all these things in the videos as well so I've done everything I can to make it as obvious as possible we're to find any place I post content there you go yeah that's great I mean just like you said learnlinux.tv everything of importance is linked right off of that one site so community forums all that should be right there community.learnlinux.tv if you want to direct link but yeah it's all right there yep all right well thanks everyone for joining and


jujitsu, jujitsu, jujitsu, jujitsu, jujitsu, jujitsu, jujitsu. When it comes to spelling the art, one of these things is not like the others. Okay, so there are all these different ways to spell jujitsu, but which one of them is correct? Is it jujitsu or jujitsu or jujitsu? Is there a correct way to spell it? Is there really a difference? Yes, but no, but also yes. The short answer is technically the correct way to spell the word is jujitsu. Technically all the other ways to spell it are variations and they all mean the same thing. However, the more interesting topic to grapple with is why we have so many spellings and in the form of a cultural point of view, how they might relate to different arts. So the first issue we come across is this. For all of our viewers who don't know how to read Japanese, what does this say? Now, this is the first hurdle in the process and I'm willing to bet a significant amount of us cannot read Japanese and those of you who know where I'm going with this have probably already guessed that this is the Japanese kanji for jujitsu, but you'd be wrong. This is the Japanese kanji for jujitsu. This means nose water. Now this is a little attempt at levity and may seem irrelevant, but I assure you it's not. So the first obstacle we come across is translation. English and other languages like French, Spanish, Italian use Roman or Latin alphabet characters. It's one of the most widely used character sets in the world, so the conversion between languages often, well, translates. But when it comes to a language such as Japanese or Chinese that uses kanji in the visual characters, it could be a little tougher. There needs to be a bridge between the languages. That's where Romaji comes in. Romaji is a system of romanticized spelling used to transliterate Japanese, so we can then read words that sound like Japanese, but they use a Roman alphabet. Jujitsu is a traditional way to spell the art. Juu translates to gentle and jitsu translates to technique or art. So the term jujitsu generally means gentle technique or gentle art. Even Jagaro Kano, the founder of Judo, referred to the spelling originally in a document called Jujitsu and the origins of Judo. Now on a side note, dou means way. So when Kano was thriving his art from Jujitsu, he called it Judo, as in gentle way. Several arts have been through the same shift, Aikido vs Aikijitsu, Kendo vs Kenjitsu, Karate dou vs Karate jitsu, but that is the topic for a different discussion altogether. So why all the different versions? Well, first of all, there was a couple of different Romanization methods that were used in different periods of time, so converting a graphical language into one using Roman characters is bound to have a few variations. Then there's also mispronunciations and alterations in how sounds are interpreted, especially with differences in culture. In English, we call large tropical cyclones hurricanes, but the original Spanish or Taino word is Urakhan. Through translation, accents, and time, different spellings of the word can't emerge. Jujitsu is no exception. If you can imagine the word jutsu being said, especially as it migrated over to the west, it can sound like jitsu, and this spelling is often used instead. Now in Brazil where Jujitsu was introduced, they didn't have the same Romaji so that their spelling of the word was J-I-U for Juu, which is almost exclusively seen regarding Brazilian jujitsu. Fun fact though, since we're talking about translating kanji, while jutsu means technique, jutsu actually translates to truth or reality. So technically, jujitsu and jujitsu are two different words. One means gentle technique, and the other means gentle truth. Now when it comes to using the hyphen or not, that's honestly up to preference. Jujitsu is a compound word anyway so when translated into English, either way can be considered correct. So with all this taken into consideration, we can now see why there are so many variations of the spelling, and a lot of it came down to how the forefathers use them. And speaking of forefathers, Art of Wondojo aims to honor the legacy of the martial arts. In this effort, we have released our forefather series, featuring newly remastered portraits and philosophies of some of history's most iconic grandmasters. Visit us at artofwondojo.com and help us continue to build the martial arts community and to commemorate those who laid the foundation before us. So now that we've established that, technically jujitsu is the official way to spell it, but in reality there are multiple options to use and the question becomes well how do you determine which one to use? Culturally speaking, there is a little bit more of a divide, albeit with blurred lines. With arts spreading from Japan into the Americas and Europe, different spellings became unofficially associated with these cultural lines. Generally, using the term jujitsu refers to the older, more formal Japanese system focused on traditions and combat techniques. Jujitsu generally refers to the westernized versions of the arts, which often have differences that transcend just the spelling. Traditional Japanese jujitsu is often more structured and serious, focusing primarily on self-defense and combat. Uniforms are clean, white, and patchless and school etiquette is more prominent. Western jujitsu schools tend to lean more to the relaxed environments with focus on both self-defense and competition. Patches are worn on uniforms and t-shirts or rash guards are usually worn under the doki. Brazilian jujitsu schools tend to be different altogether. While there is a lot of overlap in some of the material, it emphasizes more ground fighting and while useful in self-defense tends to be more focused on competition. So, generally speaking, jujitsu is officially the correct spelling, but other variations are often seen and can be used interchangeably due to different translation differences, except for BDJ in that that's almost always exclusively spelled J-I-U as in jujitsu. Now, it's not really that big of a deal overall, but sometimes these little details fascinate me and it's fun to know some of the history. Now, for an additional little fun fact, this misspelling is almost exclusive to jujitsu. You don't see the jutsu-jutsu variation in other arts. We don't see aki-jutsu, karate-jutsu, nin-jutsu, ken-jutsu, etc. It's almost always jutsu. So, in the end, it doesn't really matter how we spell it, just as long as jujitsu and ajutsu, we all do jutsu. Now, let's talk about why jujitsu of any kind is the most important art that you can add to your training regimen.


So this is the show where you're gonna be challenged and where no topic is off limits and you're gonna hear perspectives and you're gonna hear opinions that you're not used to, that are not mainstream, that are not part of the traditional left or the traditional right or the traditional anything. This is the Iran book show where we discuss ideas from the perspective of my philosophy, the philosophy of objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand, the philosophy of Atlas Shrug, most of you read the book Atlas Shrug. And so I want to take up, we just talked about the nuttiness of the right. So now I want to take up an issue which is part of the nuttiness of the left and a sensitive issue for the blaze listeners, but you know, here we go. So the US Department of Health and Services, Health and Human Services, why we even have such a department, why the government is involved in health and human services at all, don't even get me started, but okay, there's an apartment, US Department of Health and Human Services and they put out a five-year plan just like the Soviets, they put out a five-year strategic plan, this one's for 2018 to 2022.  Human life begins at conception. Now put aside the fact that this contradicts the Supreme Court ruling of Overs' way, put aside that this is biological ignorance, this is just plain not true. And this is fundamentally the placing of religion into government, the bringing forward of a religious idea as fundamental to the future, to the strategic plan of a government entity. Beyond that, the new plan has 40 references, all friendly, all positive, all cooperative, 40 references to faith-based organizations and upholding the rights of faith-based entities. Again, in my view, the clear violation of the separation of church and state, the government has no role in religion, it has no role in faith. What about my secular beliefs? What about my secular preferences? What about my rights as an individual human being who has no faith as the list of the show, regular list of the show, no one, those who were first time about to find out, I'm an atheist, a proud atheist. I don't have rights under the Constitution, that is absurd, that is anti-American. And yet, 40 references to faith-based organizations, the work we're going to do with them, protecting this, protecting that, all from the perspective of religion. This is a clear violation of the American Constitution, but nobody cares. Nobody brings this up. Nobody talks about this. It's okay to violate the Constitution for Republicans if it's in the name of religion. You just elected, what's his name, Judge Moore, to probably be the next senator from Alabama who has explicitly violated the Constitution. And then when told that he was violating the Constitution by the federal court, just ignored the federal court and was deemed in what? I mean, talk about disrespecting America, talk about disrespecting the flag, talk about disrespecting the principles on which this country was founded, Judge Moore is disrespectful of all of those things, and yet he's the nominee for senator of the Republican Party. Again, why I believe it's time to end the Democratic and Republican Party. It's time for a third party that actually understands the American Constitution. Now I want to talk about why, you know, why. And by the way, the Health and Human Services also implies that they're against assisted suicide, also I think a perversion.   That also means, has to mean that you have a right to end it.  It's your life. That's what a right to life means. It's yours. You can't have a right to life if you don't have a right to end it. But not based on the Health and Human Services. They have the phrase in it, conception to natural death, three times in the draft, three times just for emphasis, to make it clear what they believe. Again, the interjection of religion into government, into government policies. But I want to say a little bit about this idea of human life beginning at conception, which I think is just scientifically wrong. Now think about this in a laboratory. Put aside sex, think about it in a laboratory where human eggs are fertilized almost every day for in vitro, in vitro outside of the human body. The human egg is a single living cell and a sperm is a cell. Now this single living cell, it's a cell like a skin cell, like any cell in your body. It's not a human being. It's a cell. It's alive, but it's not human life. Now when it gets fertilized by the sperm, what it becomes is a one cell embryo, not a human being, just a single cell entity. We are not single cell entities. And you know, the egg and the sperm were already alive separately, and now they're together and they're still alive. But again, not human. Nearly 48 hours pass from the time the sperm first binds and enters the egg until the first cell division. And now you have two cells, 48 hours. 48 hours is just one cell. That's not human life. Now these two newly formed cells then have the potential, the potential to give rise to human being only if they can be implanted into uterus and properly nurtured in that uterus. And that there's no, there are no problems. 50%, 50% of normal embryos whether implanted or naturally conceived, 50% of them don't make it. Don't make it. And when they don't make it, that's not death of a human being. That cells that didn't divide enough that didn't, it didn't work. But it's still a clumps of cells. It's not more than that at that point. All it is, all an embryo is, is a collection of stem cells, each of which has the capacity to grow into any part of the percentia or into fetal tissues on organs, but it's not human life. It's not human life. To define it as such for the, for the health and human services is just an attempt to bring religion into its policymaker. It's an attempt to justify restricting certain forms of contraception. I don't understand how you can limit contraception. What kind of, you know, the, what kind of attitude limits the ability to control whether during sex you have children or not.  That's the only purpose of this and restricting abortion is, goes against Supreme Court rulings. So look, and, and ultimately this is going to be restrict to the ability to have in vitro fertilization. What happens to, to, you know, IVFs or, or, or that are discarded? Is that, is that murder?  Really? Is the after, you know, the day after pill? Is that murder? Really? It's no human life there, guys. All right. You're listening to your own book show where we take on all these issues, nuttiness on the left, nuttiness on the right. And look, well, the nuttiness on the left is, is in, you know, so, so outrageously obvious. I consider the nuttiness on the right as just as dangerous. And I'm sorry, religion has no place in politics. You don't want to use contraception. Don't use contraception. You have every right not to use contraception. But the idea that you can force me not to use contraception is absurd. You want to ignore science and ignore facts and define life, human life is starting at conception. Do it. Don't use in vitro. Don't use contraception. Don't have an abortion. Fine. You don't get a dictate that for me. You don't get to tell me how to live my life. You don't get to tell me what values I should pursue. You don't get to tell me when I'm on the side of science that the clump of cells that is an embryo, certainly in the first three months of pregnancy is a human being and should be treated as a human being. It's not and it shouldn't be. It's a potential, but it's not. So you can have a debate, I think, over abortion in the final trimester, but you cannot have a debate over abortion on the first trimester. There's nothing approximating murder in the abortion in the first trimester. There's nothing about the fetus in the first three months that is human life. It's a potentiality, not an actuality. In that sense, the right is trying to violate my rights and we talked about in a previous show, we talked about religious freedom and it's the same thing. When you write laws that provide those with a religious conscious special rights or maybe freedoms, which they deserve, but you deny those freedoms from somebody who does not share their faith. That is discrimination. That is not the rule of law. That is not equality before the law. That is not the protection of individual rights. That goes against all that. There is no such thing as religious liberty or religious freedom. There is just liberty and freedom. Somebody who does not believe in what you believe in has just the same rights as you do. That's the principle on which this country was founded. That's the principle that conservatives supposedly want to conserve. Well, then do it. Stand up for liberty, freedom without any qualifications and don't try to use government force to dictate other people's morality.


That money is because what I'm about to show you today is five completely unfair mind mess up things. They're marketing hacks that work no matter what. It's absolutely incredible. And I'm gonna go over these five marketing hacks that really mess with people's brains and can get them to buy products even they're not interested in. And I'm also gonna create an example using all five of these marketing hacks just to show you how effective these strategies can be. It's scarcity, urgency, authority, social proof, celebrity social proof and customer social proof. But I'm gonna be explaining each of these concepts and exactly how you can apply them, how you can revamp your marketing to include these and just absolutely crush and make obscene amounts of money like I have. Let's go.  And I'm gonna go a little bit of the dark side almost of marketing because it's so unfair how these can affect people's brains. The first marketing hack is scarcity. When you tell folks that there is a limited amount of something available, people just wanna get it. People wanna get things that are limited amounts. If I say, look, I'm having a special giveaway today but it's only open to the next five people who sign up, people will rush to get the thing. If I say I have a special link down below, maybe I do, maybe I don't. But only five people, the first five people who watch this video are gonna see, people wanna get in on it even without knowing what it is. Okay, scarcity is huge but there's another thing which works even better when combined with scarcity is urgency. Urgency is when there's a specific time window that you can get something in. So if I said I'm doing a giveaway for the next five people who watch this video all the way to the end and it today only, that adds urgency. That tells people that in order to get the item, they must act today. Now a lot of companies use this, this is really popular on like Groupon for instance where they say we have a special discount but it's only good today only. Amazon used to do this a ton where they had special discounts that were only good for a 24 hour period or window. A lot of businesses do this, they say one day sale which means that you can only get that discount if you act today. Combining that with scarce resources is fantastic. Combine it with these three other tactics and you are gold and I'm gonna put all of this together in a neat little ad you'll see in just a second here which is probably something you've fallen for very recently but we won't get into that. If anybody can guess what type of product I'm talking about that utilizes all of these hacks let me know in the comments below. If you are excited by these let me know. Number three is authority social proof. Now an example of a financial authority might be somebody like Bill Gates or Warren Buffett or Elon Musk or Richard Branson. These are all very rich wealthy people and if you are looking for a business or a business opportunity to get involved with well if Elon Musk recommends it go for it right? I mean Elon's the richest person in the world how could he be wrong when giving financial advice right? Now for a health product an authority might be on losing weight might be Dr. Oz or just any doctor if it's doctor recommended skincare treatment or doctor recommended joint relief or doctor recommended shampoo or doctor recommended beard care doctor recommended foot cream or pain medication whatever it is if it's doctor recommended generally speaking people are gonna go for it. Your doctor recommends you something do what he recommends that's where we're all taught by the media by our parents by society you do what doctors say. I mean how could you disagree with a doctor? Authorities can also be athletes so if you're looking to build muscle if you're looking for a workout routine an athlete is somebody you might listen to if you're looking to become really strong you wanna listen to what Arnold Schwarzenegger has to say he's an authority in that field which also brings us to number four which is celebrity social proof. Celebrity social proof is when a celebrity recommends something. In the last example I used Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended testosterone supplement or Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended protein supplement. It's gonna sell out, right? It's gonna sell out because he's not just an authority on muscle building but he is a celebrity in the muscle building field. He was Mr. Universe and he's a famous actor and governor, Nader and all that stuff. So he has a double whammy right there. Whammy, whammy, that to you, Ron. You can almost sell out of a product just saying Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended muscle protein powder. Really, that's all you would need to say and a lot of people would buy whatever it is you say. You know, it's that easy. If you add scarcity and urgency to it you say Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended muscle building supplement, limited quantities available today only supplies will run out you're gonna sell a lot of the supplement, right? Because again, today is the only day you can get it. Limited quantities available. It's recommended by Arnold Schwarzenegger who knows muscle building and he's famous so of course the product's gonna sell out. You have to get your protein or testosterone booster muscle building thing right now. If you wanna get that thing. Even if I wasn't interested in working out or if I wasn't into going to the gym or protein supplements if I saw an ad like that and I believed it I would buy it immediately. I'd have to believe it as a marketer I'm kind of jaded to these things because I've seen so many marketers abuse these mind hacks because they work so well but if there was a believability aspect to it I would go for it and most people do. And the fifth mind hack is customer social proof because again, limited quantities available. Sells out only available today. Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended muscle supplement. I wanna see what customers are saying. I wanna see real people using it, right? That adds the believability. So showing what real people are saying about a product is so important. Not just like fake people on a webpage. I'm talking like a social media feed like Twitter comments. I wanna see people are saying about this on Instagram, on YouTube. What are people on YouTube saying about this new Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended protein booster? So I wanna see what those people are saying and I wanna see low resolution, camera phone, portrait mode, style videos of real customers who are saying, dude this works. I am buff like Arnold now. Seriously, this is the best protein supplement ever. You get all of these things are correct. It doesn't matter what the product is, you can sell it. And let me give you a good example of bringing all of this together again. Real quick folks, is this making sense? Okay, are you getting how marketing is? Are you getting that these are hacks?  It's pretty fun. On a very personal note here, when you start really figuring out all of this stuff and being able to look for it and apply it like a second nature, like a sixth sense, you end up becoming a multimillionaire. It works and the people who get it and apply it, these secrets become extraordinarily wealthy. Now let me show you how this all fits together. I'm gonna use an example from popular culture. Let's talk about Bitcoin or crypto. Warren Buffett recommended crypto 10,000 total coins. One coin per user, last date to buy is tomorrow. George Clooney and Will Smith have already bought themselves. And then you have a whole stream of social media comments below, whatever the post is saying. I'm getting this right now from people on Twitch or Twitter or Instagram or YouTube. Folks, what's happening right now, all of these cryptos that are being sold, they're really being sold on, it's the scarcity. It's really the scarcity in many cases. It's the celebrity social proof. You have people who are not authorities at all like Jake Paul, Logan Paul, all these different YouTubers are promoting all of these crypto coins, which are basically scams in my opinion, but people buy. Why are all of these crypto scams popping up? It's because people buy based on these five factors. They just work. I don't know how to say it any better. They just work. And crypto is one of the easiest things to use because generally speaking, they're scarce and they're recommended by celebrities and it's a financial instrument. It's just money. So it's really easy if you can look for in whatever you're marketing as a marketer, whether you do affiliate marketing, which is what I teach, or whether you're running your own local agency like with my company, Marketing Tech or whatever you're doing, e-commerce, et cetera, you look for these five triggers, you look to see how you can apply those five triggers and you will make way more money. You'll make a lot of money if you aren't making any. It works. Here's a little fun exercise. Write an ad, write a sentence, promoting a product using all five of these triggers. You saw me use two examples. I said Arnold Schwarzenegger recommended protein supplement, limited quantity, blah, blah, blah, blah, and you heard me do my Warren Buffett recommended crypto one as well. I'd like to see you write an ad, just a sentence or two of your own down in the comments below and just see how good it is. Guys, and like each other's comments, read through them and like the ones that are best. Thank you so much for watching. Give this video a big thumbs up because I rock. Subscribe to this channel if you wanna see more advice on how to make just tons of money online and live a really cool life and also, yeah, talk to you in the next video.


A woman named Janet Wolfe, again one of these unsung backstage players, she had a job as the executive director long time of the New York City Housing Authority Symphony, who knew there was such a thing but was an orchestra comprising residents of New York City housing projects, workers in the housing department, and some professional ringers who played in the projects all over the city, but she was also just one of these people who had been everywhere, done everything, knew everyone, and she had been a recurring real life character in the New Yorkers talk of the town columns under the heading Our Friend Janet, and so every few months for like 20 years readers would read Our Friend Janet did this or that, and so the Times put it on page one, and if you think about the lead of a conventional obit, it's John Doe who was the corporate executive of the Acme Corporation, died yesterday at his home in Manhattan, he was 99, well that's a great big yawn, it's the way we were all taught to write obits. Here's how we started on page one of the Times, the obit of Janet Wolfe, the headline is Janet Wolfe, 101, a gleeful gadabout who got the town talking is dead, and we start so about Janet, it's discursive, it's gossipy, and we never knew until a generation ago that it was possible to write obits that way, and that's why it's become the best job in the paper.


The Pride and Non-Governmental Organization has partnered with the OJUDU Foundation to launch our mentorship programme for young women aspiring to become leaders. The initiative, founded by Jennifer Okeke OJUDU, is dedicated to empowerment, development and advocating for female inclusion and amplifying female leadership. The Pride aims to empower and develop young women in leadership. Building an entire network that will stand as the forefront while as a key stakeholders for women, that is young girls, girls at secondary school level, girls at university level, and women who are up and coming can plug into, but you can't plug into something that doesn't exist. So that's what we're doing here today. We're creating, we're starting the creation of a network that all female leaders, successful female women, or successful women who are female and are thriving in their different ecosystems or in their different tribes, so to speak, can stand at the forefront and work together to create. So these young girls and young women and women who are up and coming and trying to achieve this level of success can plug into and have a platform to do so. Now, Judi Mellifo, our group member, I lighted the opportunity for women to unite for mentorship and leadership positions. PowerBrund seems to be an amazing opportunity for women to come together and help women that are coming underneath them and also create like an opportunity for women to network, share their experiences and share their connections with each other. I think that women today feel a lot more empowered. A lot of times our society has made women feel that they should be seen and not heard and their voices are not valid, but I think in 2024 more women and girls feel the need to speak out and I think that's something that we all need to encourage in our homes, with our families, with our daughters, with our wives, encourage women to be able to speak their minds. Now also speaking, Dr. Ju Agomal, also a group member, emphasised that women have not been fully empowered but some progress has been made, emphasised and in need for holistic empowerment. Certain things are being done but we are not there yet and I suspect perhaps the follow-up question will be what then should we be doing, what should we be looking at that we are not looking at. So it is important to see this from a very holistic perspective and what do I mean by that? You ask yourself what are the critical things that are needed? There is the legal part of it which is do we have the legal framework that makes it an enabling for women to do what they need to do? Do we have the kind of space that a woman can feel okay to go into any kind of work that they need to go into irrespective of what stage in their life that they have? And the answer is that we don't have all of that being there. Secondly, we have access to capital, access to resources. The answer you will, I'm sure you will also be able to answer. Certain things are being done.


Hi everyone, Joe for jazzy's case breaks.com coming at you with a brand new release just dropped yesterday 2020 tops archive signature series at baseball retired player edition Ten box half a case random player break number seven one spot gets you seven players from this big list below So it'll be should be 105 on there All right, so big thanks to these folks for getting into the action. There's one two three four five six and seven There's all the players right there. Let's roll it and randomize each list one and a five six times for each list one two three four five and six after six times we've got Ben all the way down to Aaron six times for the players and six Alright after six times. We've got Eric Davis Down to David Cohn. All right now.  Yes It will break tonight once that mini break sells out to help sell out the break itself I don't think that sold out yet Unless it has and then we'll add it to the schedule when I go through orders Okay, so Let's go through all of these guys here. I'm just gonna slowly scroll through the list right here, so we can Just get this on on the recording and then I'll alphabetize by your first names in just a bit All right Let's sort by column a by your first names and there you go Aaron. There are your players right there Barry your group is right there Ben Ben got a lot of players. So there's your first group there And your next group right here a couple more right here John John has a lot too. There's your first group and the next group including your last spot mojo players Kevin M and Wes There you have it. All right now I'm gonna flip away from the screen for just a second, but feel free to trade if you want I'm gonna pop open this fresh case and see which half we're gonna do Tyler Morris. What's going on? Ooh? You got your Mariners cards in nice Glad it got to you safe and sound what a hit from our 4th of July packs ladies and gentlemen It's a that's a video worth watching for some booms and busts. All right Slide this over here.  We'll use that one And we'll go one two three for the left side left ten and four five six for the right ten You can see all ten right there and on the camera above my head and It's four one two three four five six. We're gonna be doing that ten and this is for break eight. It's sold out And sold out after a couple other breaks all that so we'll be doing that a little bit later So we'll just Sharpie marks on here. So we know it's all from the same place All right, let's flip back to this list and I'm gonna Pause the video allow for a bit of trades and allow people to kind of see their see their players again And then when we come back, we'll see what's inside stick around All right, welcome back folks. There was a little bit of trade chatter, but in the end no deal was done all good So one encased card for box Not on average Better not be on average Alright, so we've got Ray Ordonez leading things off 20 out of 60 nice Ray or don't let's Scroll down a little bit. That's that's been With Ray Ordonez. I have never heard of Joe chips or Joe T Unless they are at Trader Joe's What a lot of Joe themed stuff at Trader Joe's which I which is why I like it There is Cliff Floyd One of one Cliff Floyd Mets edition Nice who gets the train whistle? That will be for John John all aboard the big hit Express And we've got one of one Rock Reigns Tim Reigns Nice and that goes to Ben Nice Ben all aboard the big hit Express Out of fives and under get the train whistle, of course next one is 69 out of 70 Vern Law Vernon Sanders law everyone remembers him. I Don't remember it. That wasn't the army. There you go Known as the hard luck picture of the NL when he compiled a seven and nine record in 1950 and six and nine and 51 in 1949 he was five and eleven at Davenport but had a two nine four ERA and struck out a hundred and twenty three batters Burn law not not getting that run support John with the Tony Perez Vern Law combo player spot next is Jeff Cirillo Did he did he make it back to the bag or is that ball already in there? 42 is that not of Did he get you did he just get picked off? Is he about to get picked off? Not sure if that's the most flattering photo for Jeff Cirillo Scampering back to the bag All right, Barry Roberts with the Jerry Remy and Jeff Cirillo Combo spot. He's a pretty solid player for a little bit Jeff Cirillo. All right next one Rich Schmitz like I love reliving my card collection from when I was nine and now they're signed and archived encased up Two out of 25 the egg Dennis Eckersley Red Sox edition Now would be Ben with Dennis Eckersley Sub Rory. How you feeling? Chronicle soccer sold out break one coming up a little bit. We got Cecil fielder That 10 out of 54 the Classic wood border right here the blue jays Cecil fielder. I didn't realize he was a blue jay That'll be for Ben. All right three more to go You know rich. I was just thinking that he must be right He's only 56 years old Next is Mark Tashara 7 out of 40. Nice Mark Tashara going to Wes There you go, Wes Yes, Gwynn's not with us anymore. I think Another player that probably passed way too soon Definitely Tony Gwynn is one of them. We've got a three out of nine Manny. Oh, there's his auto up there Manny sanghian I guess he didn't want to autograph over his face. Good call Could have just copied right over the facsimile autograph That is for Ben and the last one and we've got a J. Buehner one of one J. Buehner a Classic mariner right here. Didn't you have a lot more facial hair or am I thinking of someone else on the mariners with With a lot of facial hair a hitter J. Buehner will go to John Stallone. There you go John J. Buehner one of one all aboard the big hit express whoo-hoo, and there's your break ladies and gentlemen Nice archive signature series in the books That was random player break number seven and the second half will be coming up in a little bit. Thanks for watching I'm Joe. I'll see you next time. Bye. Bye


YouTube team keep it clean What's going on? It's engraving here with another video and in this video We're here to talk about the game that we're currently watching right now the NFC wild card game between the Rams and the Falcons and This game has been This game has been It's been ugly or the first quarter first quarter was very ugly It's a very ugly game in the first quarter But as the game has been going along it's been picking up and it's been peaking our interest But before we talk about the likes the dislikes what happened what didn't happen in that first half Let me not be rude. Let me introduce myself Me I mean graven viz. This is my YouTube channel engraving vids and I'm a Ravens fan And even though I'm a Ravens fan on this YouTube channel. We don't just talk Ravens We don't shout out to my son Carter Who's about to come through right now, but we don't just talk Ravens. We talk Rams. We talk We talk Falcons. We talk Carter. We talk engraving vids. We talk everything. Come on. Come on through son. Come here No, you don't want to stay and watch for the way for the video But anyway shout out to my son Carter. I Know the rate. All right. Let me explain to y'all why he's screaming right now The reason that Carter was just screaming right now because like I said, I'm a Ravens fan So Carter's a Ravens fan, too And he is very upset that the Ravens are not in the playoffs and he just expressed Everything from every Ravens fan across the globe, but anyway, I appreciate y'all coming through Thank you for coming through. I just made those fries. I like them. Why you spit it out? It was gross I put Obey on the fries, but anyway, um Matt Ryan Matt Ryan if he stays behind that offensive line He is going to die if the Rams keep doing what they've been doing Matt Ryan is going to get killed I mean he's gonna continue to get killed. He has been getting killed all game long He's been taking some nasty shots. He is not looking good for him right now He had to go to the tent.   He's been running for his life. I saw remember when he shook Luke Keekley Who was that last week? Uh, he was sure trying to do that a couple times tonight and Them ram said it ain't happening buddy. It ain't happening. Um Oh, I just feel for him I feel for him and the Rams they only gonna be even hungrier because they just They came back from being down big So they really feeling it right now just like Carter's actually eating all my fries right now so shout out to him but The the Rams look hungry man In the first quarter they looked like they were starving Well, the offense looked like it was starving because the offense they were just dead They were dead But Todd Gurley starting to go a little bit more now Um, Jared golf is starting to go a little bit more now Robert Wood is starting to go a little bit more now. They are starting to They starting to click now and the Falcons Um, the Falcons were fortunate for some special teams air from errors from the Rams I don't know what they had going on. I don't know what was going on in Cooper in Cooper's in Cooper cups head um, but he He got to tighten up They got to tighten up. Um, the Falcons Falcons the Vonte Freeman got the lone touchdown of the uh the game for the Falcons Um, and then they kicked a couple of field goals. So it's 13 13 10 right now So it's a close game defensive game This is not really what we expected from two teams who have these high powered Offenses, um Falcons defense has gotten a lot better than it was last year I mean really over the past couple years the Falcons defense has gotten a lot better And it makes sense because they have they hired the the defensive coordinator to be their head coach The guy who was the defensive coordinator for the seattle seahawk So Dan Quinn has definitely turned the Falcons defense around they're not obviously not the best in the world But they have been making a lot more plays been a lot more clutch Um getting causing a lot more turnovers. Now. What is that falcons defense going to do in the second half? With the Rams having heated up like they have been and I believe the Rams get the ball The Rams get the ball the Falcons get the ball. I think the Rams get it, but I'm not 100% sure either way either way, um Somebody this it seems like this is going to be one of them games Uh where it comes down to maybe who has the ball last It could be that because both defenses have been stopping each other both all fences haven't been really doing much So I think it may just come down to who has the ball last the team that I picked to win uh was The Atlanta falcons Means I picked him to win We'll see it could easily go either way it could easily go either way It's looking like it's going to come down to the very end And I hope it does just for the sake of football Just for the sake of football just for the sake of us football fans Especially for us those of us whose team is not in the playoffs We definitely hope it comes down to the very end We want we just want some great entertaining football games straight up. That's all we want That's all we want So if matt ryan can even finish the game, uh, we'll see if it's in his hands if jared golf can uh If he can start clicking with his offense, we'll see if it comes down if it's in his hands now one thing in football that I didn't really appreciate it until Um, Ray Lewis retired and every wasn't on a Ravens anymore They didn't have all the vets that they used to have one thing that's very important in football is leadership um leadership and experience Uh falcons, they obviously got plenty of experience in the playoffs.  Uh, please don't nobody said a 23 thing, please So tired of hearing that and I'm not even a falcons fan. But anyway, um, they have experience over the Rams The Rams hardly have anybody who's been to the playoffs before They're a super young team. They got a super young coach But that super doesn't mean that they can't do anything that doesn't mean that at all That doesn't mean that at all AJ nothing but a number. Um, and they're obviously gaining experience literally right now in this game. Um, so we'll see if the experience factor plays A hand in the game. Uh, we'll see if it it comes down to a coaching decision That uh changes this game, we'll see because it As a Ravens fan, we know Um, coach is making a good or bad decision We know a lot about the bad decisions and coaching coaching making a good or bad decision can completely change that The entire outcome of the game just like that So Obviously, like I said, this game could go either way falcons could get it Rams could get it whoever but anyway We'll see We'll see how it goes. We'll see how it turns out. We'll see who gets to win I'm looking forward to the second half. I'm looking forward to seeing y'all there. I appreciate y'all Okay, I see we're getting some spamming some spam from 2083 But yes, now the chiefs I saw a tweet earlier now the chiefs Even though it wasn't the super bowl, so it doesn't have the same impact as the 2083 thing The chiefs blew a 21 three lead, but still please The 2083 was a joke that just was so old and got so stale so fast It was it was just bad and now I know people gonna try to ride this chiefs thing for a little while But it's not gonna last that long not nearly as long as the 2083 for the falcons because obviously that was a super bowl But now the falcons are trying to avenge themselves Because those dudes are mad man. I know those dudes are mad those dudes are mad. They've been here in it all year They've been living with that all year and even though you can never quite get revenge For a super bowl loss Because there's only one super bowl per year. You can't get a rematch in a super bowl Because it's not the same the other team already won that year even though you can't get revenge in the super bowl You can try to do your best to make your city make your team make the ownership Make the players make everybody feel better by going out and doing what you can to win one Anyway, let's see if I'm right about picking the falcons to win this game Or if the Rams decide they want to keep their uh They're they're street going of just winning and being successful this season We'll see how it turns out. I look forward to seeing you guys after the game Appreciate it. Make sure you subscribe to the youtube channel if you haven't already Turn your notifications on if you haven't already. So when we go live after this game You don't miss it and make sure you leave a like on the video because like my guy ryan malis said Like my guy ryan malis said like my boy dgp said if you alive You can leave a like on the video and like ryan malis said leaving a like on the video It's completely free. Make sure you click the thumbs up button. So I appreciate it. I'll see you guys after the game And enjoy the second half we out say bye carter Okay, he's too busy eating my food. All right, we out