Huh, it's a unique hustle nigga, big, huh. Name another podcast like this. No. Check it, check it, check it. Yo, check it out, yo, check it out, yo, check it out. Check it, check it, check it, man. Hey, it's your boy, ECO, and I'm here with the lovely, amazing official, Mr. Make-A-Diner in Houston, Texas. Yes, you know, this is the city that Jamaicans just like populate like a hundred percent. Really? Jamaicans everywhere over this. Yeah. Look how he looking at me like. Is that true? You know what, go on to Jamaicans in the house, what you're talking about.  See, they came down here and put on a Jamaican colored shirt on. Really, the thing is, you really good to come down here and play in Houston. And guys, I'm gonna be honest with you, this thing is more Americanized than you could ever believe, you know, we, it's a few Jamaicans.  I'm not one, as a matter of fact, I was just telling her that, you know, anything that I haven't really experienced, I kind of like blamed easy for it. So I haven't been really around like, no, no Jamaican food. I don't know really too much about it. The Jamaican culture, I don't know much about it. Outside of shotters. Outside of belly. You know what, when you come back to Dallas, I'm gonna make sure you know about it. Just wait, just watch, you see. You're gonna cook it yourself, right? Exactly. Of course, like he asked me earlier, he's like, can you cook? Like really? Promises. Promises, promises, I can't keep you. That's how I, yeah, yeah, yeah. See, that's how I got your boy right here. He's one of them, but I, what? By cooking. You know, I'm set up, but see, you coming over to the cabin. That's how I got you. You know, really, behind with you. It was that crown roll I bought over there. No, no, no. You see. You don't even, you don't even drink. Yeah, but you drunk it. That's all I needed. You don't drink? I be a cotspin a little bit. I just gave it to you and it was there. You really? Yeah, I did it like that. Well, here we is, 25, 30 years later and we still kicking him. That's it, that's the main thing. It don't matter how we got together long as we still together. That's hard, that's hard. That's one thing. So let's stay together. You know what, man? We gon' stay together. You sitting in the middle, really, that pose would be my seat right there. You know, you don't even pose you sitting in the middle. I'm a mediator. I'm the one who makes you. It seemed like you were interviewing somebody. See, like that frequency, y'all was establishing, was going, and I got it right back. That's what I'm here to do. You know what I'm saying? I'm glad y'all came down here.  Yeah, especially because he represented Houston, Texas. He always talked about Houston. But he talked about East Texas too. So, you know. Yeah, but he out of line, you know, a lot of times with a lot of the stuff that he say, so I'm not gon' feed into it, he feel like he, you know, he really don't represent nowhere. He represent his self. I represent David Street.   So you don't represent Houston? Yeah, he represent Houston. Do you represent Houston? Austin? But how is that? How is that? You answer this question. Whenever you represent, cause you're born and raised David Street, right? Yeah. Okay, but then now you moved to Houston, representing Houston, but you have some people who will say, but he not Houston. I'm just playing like this is what it is on that right there. I always joke about it. East Texas, Longview, Texas is my home. I'm from David Street, 300 block. Houston have embraced me with open arms, open up a lot of opportunities for me. They family here is the same as, you know, Dallas, Austin, Houston know is my real, that's my home. My family is here to move everybody here. And this is where we rocking from. This is my new home. You know, of course I'm from where I'm from. I'm never came run from them too well known where I'm from. But yeah.  Although you weren't born there. People who are born there be like, I don't understand how he or she is wrapping this into that. That's a poor, a poor mind frame in Texas. You know, it's not, especially coming from the kind of background, the kind of story that I got. Everybody, people all around Texas know my first, middle and last name. Know how long I'm like, they know where I'm from. We all know where each other is from. One of them. What's your middle? I won't say it online. I think I got it on there, doctor. But if I was to say it, that's what I'm trying to say. Yeah, a lot of people in this state, they know my first look and I know theirs. I know they know mine. So it's like, it's just something that I say, but H town is definitely my home and I'm just very happy to be here. But of course, you know, I'm from Longview, Texas and I'm from Davis street for sure. That's really why I'm from Davis street.   You made a nigga want to go down there and check it. Yeah, I'm seeing the video nigga, I want to go down and check it out. That first day out, one of my favorite ever. To be honest with you, I don't play about that song. That's how I introduce niggas to you. And it's like that, I'll never get past that cause it's so raw and real, you know what I mean? Man, thank you. We just run around and just do it, man. Just put it out there, put our best effort, put our energy and our heart into it, be fully passionate about it and just see where it take us. And it's done led us here. So with this album right here, getting that opportunity to put it out in the biggest way possible. We just, you know, we're just trying to take full advantage of the opportunity we've been given for show. Man, so when you, okay, so we know already what really the elephant in the room for me when I came down here to H town this time, it was a little different for me coming down here because I knew what I was coming for, but I know what's being said in the media and how people looking at what just happened down here would take off. So it's like, I'm coming, but it's like, I feel a certain way coming down 45 this time.  And man, like, what are people temperature at right now in the city? Like that's the way I was thinking. Made a few phone calls, I know I'm silent, but at the end of the day, I still wanna just see, what's going on down in H town, you know? So just give me a spill on how you feel about the temperature. The temperature is great. We lost somebody great in hip hop. We lost an icon, a young icon, a dude that, you know, as one third of the Migos, you know, iconic, one of the biggest groups that it's ever been in this rap thing that we have. And what I think a lot of people, if you go to different cities, whether it be the Memphises of the world, New Orleans, Atlanta, and, you know, different places like this, Miami, I think that one thing that you can kind of lose track of is that because these cities have a certain significance in hip hop, you think that they are pretty much the same in how big they are. Like people really need to try to get it through their head, Houston is humongous, is very big. So, you know, you can be a part of, or hanging with some people and we never hear anything about it. You might be insulated inside of a group of individuals and, you know, us being on the South side or these people being on the East side, they may not ever, ever run into you, never contact you at all. People on the South side don't really navigate to the North. They don't really even go over there. I'm talking about it all. Like they, people spend their whole life on one side of town and it's not because they so close, mine is because this thing is humongous.  So I'm saying that to say that it's not really smart necessarily to believe that because something happens in Houston, that it is the attitude and behavior of the majority of the Houstonians or the people that's inside of that culture that feels that this should happen or that, you know what I mean? Or that knows and all of this stuff. So I just try to caution people to be careful who you hang with.  And if you're feeling any kind of weird vibes or anything like that, try to disassociate.  But when you moving around, man, just be, try to make sure, follow your gut instinct, you know, and put yourself in a position where you understand that it's very precious what I have here, which is my life. I'm gonna move like that. I'm gonna make sure that when I'm out of town, I got the right energy going and people this, like I tell people this all the time. And this is just from being in the streets, you should know this. I always act different out of town than I do at home. You know, when you at home, you know everybody, you know what's up, you know, but when you out of town, the job is to make it home. So you wanna put yourself in a mind frame and in a mindset and in an energy of, I gotta make it home. So that's gonna prevent me from arguing in a way that I wouldn't normally, or that I probably would argue, maybe if I was back home and I was on more comfortable ground, but when I'm down here, man, I'm not feeling, don't just, when you out of town, act like you from out of town.  That's the most important thing. But you gotta think about this though. People who visit a certain city time after time after time, feel so at home that they don't feel like they just visiting, you know, being a tourist, so to say. They feel like this is their city as well. But it's not, when you get, you can't allow yourself to get too comfortable in other people, where other people have grown. And because the thing about it is, you can be around people and you think because of a relationship that you have with this individual, that it's gonna supersede the relationship that they have. And that's what I was thinking. I was thinking about example, like we come to Houston and everybody in Houston respect you and love you and they have a certain, you know, respect for you and then I'm hanging out with you, thinking that, okay, I'm gonna get the same respect too because I'm with you and everybody love you, so I'm good. If you get into it with somebody's, that's in somebody's entourage, who may seem like, you know, an inconsequential person to you because you and I might be here and this person might be there to us or whatever, but this person, you don't know the relationship between these people.  And I'm a thinker, I'm a thinker and he always say I watch too much TV, but TV ideas come from reality. A lot of them do, not all, but a lot of them do. And when I say that, when I see entourages or people who, you have a person of this status and they have their entourage with them, you can't control everybody that's with you. That's why a lot of time when something goes wrong or something get messes up, it's because of somebody in that entourage does do something that's out of character, whether we go to a certain hotel and I got everybody rooms, but one person over here had to mess up that room because they think they, it just sounds to me like you describing niggas. And at the end of the day, yeah, you can control it. If you're not going to be able to be controlled then you can't be around. And it's just that we now process of making sure that you got the elite around you because what's at stake is your life and your livelihood. The two most important things that you have here. But I hear that a lot because someone made a mistake. You hear that a lot amongst niggas. You don't hear Jeff Bezos saying damn I don't know why I brought him. You don't hear Mark Zuckerberg talking about him. I knew better than the brain. I'm sure probably in there earlier years before they got that big maybe, you know, we wouldn't hear about it because number one, you didn't have, you know as much social media and stuff like that back then, but I guarantee you had some knucklehead around. Y'all know we talking about niggas. I really, you know, when I think about, you know just somebody of that magnitude going through that here, it's not a norm. We can't normalize what happened here. You know, like and the thing is, but it does happen. You know what would be missing in these conversations when we'll be talking about this? It'd be a lack of communication about frequency and where you ask spiritually when you're around sir. Man, why we, if you out three, four in the morning arguing, you know, with whatever that we drugs or whatever that we own that we done been ingesting throughout this five, six, seven, sometimes all day period. By the time we three, four, man, our ability to really reason with one another, it gets short, man. Late at night, man.  I'm not caring. I'm not thinking about things in the same fashion as I was hours ago before that, you know whatever drugs that I was doing in our lives.  That's why you got to try to make sure that you have yourself in settings and surroundings that's conducive to you leaving with the blood still in your body.   We just want to just receive something good. We want to be able to make it home.  Shootin' some whole head dice.  What I'm doing like, you got to, at some point you got to start taking your life seriously because you might not make it home. It's really that simple. The thing that I looked at next is a week or so later or whatever it may be, Kodak Black, you hear he came down here and got into a fight with somebody. I hear that happens.  What does it make a city look a certain way when things started just happen, like boom, boom, boom. If that's kind of like a narrative that people are wanting to pay about, man, I don't think a lot of shit happens in this city of over five million some odd people in the metropolitan area, probably seven some million people in this metropolitan area. And you're talking about like niggas, man, niggas being niggas, niggas beginning to self in these compromising positions by acting and behaving like niggas. And then when it go down, we act surprised about it.  What you know about Dice games? I know that my daddy got shot in the head at the Dice game and my uncle got killed.  Matter of fact, he kept the bullet in his pocket after that. And then my other uncle got shot in the back of the head in the same place and my other uncle burnt it in the same place. In the same place, my other uncle burnt it down so nobody else wouldn't be in there. Yeah, we ain't going in there no more. Yeah, like he had mom in town. Yeah, yeah, he burnt it all down. Because it was like my brother, one of my, but he really was more, the one that got killed that mess with him enough to where he burnt it down. And my brother had, I mean, my uncle had, now dad had nine brothers. So we recognized the deal. So we know that Dice games. It happens in this game. But I got a question about that though because you say your daddy got shot in the head there, but let me ask you a question. After he recovered, did he ever go back there?   You gotta show him, you gotta show him. Now you gotta go back now. Yeah, you gotta go back. That wasn't even for him when it happened. But he got to come back and let him know. I'm back in this, and I know that that first day that he probably walked back up and them niggas probably like, damn, let me go back to the same place. I put the bullet in his body, right? Yeah, it's wild, man.  He liked to get died up in that hole because at the end of the day, it always be some confrontation with like you saying that.  Gambling, niggas shooting dice, that's nothing but a den of just like spirits.  The devil. Yeah, you can see it. We can see how people turned the kind of evil that people can get at dice games, winning and losing, winning and losing. We just see it happen.  Any gambling period, no matter what, because nobody likes to lose. Nobody liked to lose. Because everybody was winning. Everybody be happy. Everybody be good. Everybody can't win. But everybody can win. Somebody got to lose.  Not just in Texas. We gonna gamble, but testosterone, pride and ego and just that ability to become possessed, man.   So you just got to be chill.  People think you cheating. Spike, guys and whatever. Maybe they don't think you're cheating.   I seen, I've been in a got dice game where I shot Rest in Peace, Ray Ray. You shot him? No, I shot the dice. When I shot the dice, the nigga, he got, he was losing. So the nigga, you know, I shot and I shot five as my point where I my money. He said it was seven because of the two. He only seen one of the dice. And it's mine, I guess. I said nigga, that was five. I took my money if I never forget it. He went and got in the car, got his pistol, set it back up there and we kept shooting. Did you have to give him his money back? No. You had to show him your nuts was big. The guy ain't left. We shooting.  That's what it is. In his mind. Just try it again. But he known for doing it. He got shot twice. He got hit by two bullets for pulling his gun out and shooting. That's what he do. For really, he up the pistol on you and you didn't do anything. No, I didn't. I didn't. You didn't take out yours and put it down to like, Yeah, come on. Everybody's trapped in today's game. He just had to get his approval point and he got it, I guess, because he used to pull his pistol. He loaded. You don't have people like that. They love to act like they got it. He actually pulled his pistol on you really much. No, he didn't. My money, he didn't rob me. No, I'll be better letting you know. He sent a message. Yeah. Because of the way he was, he didn't go on the day. Because of the fact of... Pulling that pistol. Because the type of plays that he would get into, but it was a dude where like, it's certain people like when you go to the club and I don't know if y'all experienced this, but certain people always was into it with somebody and that certain niggas do that, you know? So a good dude, we did a lot of stuff together, but that was just one of them time when you grew up with a nigga, y'all, we might do that next day. We shooting again. Never even think about that. Yeah. It's a norm. Well, that's because you possessed by them demons and niggas. And once they out of you, you don't remember what happened.  We hung out after that. I got a question. Cause you were talking about drugs earlier. And I remember having someone on the show once and they talked about that almost everybody in the industry, whether it be music, film, whatever, is on drugs. For creativity purposes, I think a lot of people participate in recreational drugs in this. Whether it be syrup or... Cause when people think about drugs, they're thinking about cocaine. Well, the guarantee, if we talk about hip hop, hip hop is of the culture. It is the culture. So... So does drugs have to go along with the culture? I think that you can only control yourself, but there's a lot of people that participate in drugs in the culture. There's no getting away from that. Why? Why is it so... Why do people do drugs? Yeah. In this culture. If you knew. Well... You'd have to go hand in hand. Like, can't you have... I can tell you... Somebody that there's no sober. And I was trying to figure it in the music industry. Yes, hip hop, but I even said, so what happened to country or what happened to gospel? And they were like, well, drugs is in all these different music industries. I can only speak on hip hop. And when it come to hip hop, I just think that we live in... It comes from the streets.  So typically when people is making it out of the ghetto, you're telling tales and telling stories about the things that it is that you like to indulge in. And what you see, what you experience, I come from the crack era. So that's in my music, that's our soul crack. We've been affected by drugs, probably more than any other culture, if you're talking about blacks in America. So it's gonna be in the music. Some people gonna abuse it. Some people that might not necessarily be the ones that are taking the drugs. That's what I was about to say. But they had it still the same because we grew up selling the drugs. We, you're not escaping drug culture in hip hop. Did you used to do syrup or any of that sort of stuff? Have I? Before? Yeah. No, I'm because they... I'm so sure. No, no. Not soda. I mean, I've drank syrup, yes. But I am with no drink head. Okay, because the reason why I'm asking that because they make me feel like once you're in that hip hop culture, yes, you know, there's some who sell it. But if you sell it, eventually you end up taking some form of hip hop, cocaine or any of that sort of stuff. But it could be syrup, weed, whatever. Like there's no sober rapper. Hip hop is a vibe business and there's more people that's sober than what you would think. Like... As a young kid, because you might have done the way and now you're not, but coming into the industry are all these youngsters on this stuff? I don't think all of any, but there's definitely a lot of people that participate in drugs. I will tell you another thing. I don't think that a lot of successful entertainers in hip hop do drugs to the level that people think they do because of their music. At the end of the day, it's entertaining. I got to interject in there because I don't believe that. Okay. I want to be honest with you. You know, I just had, shot out a little soldier slim and he talked about Lil Wayne and he went and he actually walked up on Lil Wayne and him and Juvenile were together, a little soldier slim and he was like, hey, my dad is a soldier slim, man.  I'm God. And basically after that, he walked off and my boy said, but at the end of the day, I was like, I asked him about it when we was in ATL and he was like, yeah, he did that, but more likely he was on drugs or something. He said, Juvenile told him I should have slayed that boy, but listen, here's what I'm saying is, basically he excused it with the fact that the drugs probably were influencing him in a way that made him act like that. I think that when we hear these stories or whatnot, I think that a lot of times people don't understand what an artist be dealing with, especially artists of magnitude, like a Wayne or somebody. This is taxing on the nerves, being in this shit because it's a lot of perceptions and you'd be dealing with a lot of stress, but when the camera is on, you are supposed to be like a, you're at your best when the camera is on. When the camera not on, you're not working and somebody coming into your space that you're not necessarily, that you don't know, everybody come and smiling and trying to figure out a way to get something from you and shit like this.   I don't know about the individual, such slim juniors. But when you think about it, it was a, you know, you see Lil Wayne, Lil Wayne has seizures. Lil Wayne have all these issues because of some people alleged it to be drugs. So when you say that these artists are not on hard drugs, I beg to differ. These dudes would do, listen, man, they do a lot of drugs, just stay up. Okay. And I always fall back on this. When you start looking at, I think Lil Wayne is like 39 years old, right? Something like that pushing 40. We talking about a dude that's been in entertainment since he was 14 years old. Come on, man. Like this man is still here right now, on tour now, you know? Like cut it out with some of these extraordinary drugs. How many people that you know that do drugs, they got, I'm talking about they was just doing drugs that they can afford, right? To the best of their ability, they doing their drugs.  You talking about somebody that's supposed to be so hard on lean, so hard on all of these cocaine and drugs since they was a little kid, but somehow, some way they can still go out there on the road for 50 some days out the year, still produce music at the highest output in the game. They gotta miss me with some of that. This man has been literally doing this since he was a teenager. Here he is pushing 40.  So, I don't know.  What's the difference? Why you see a lot of black folks getting OD'd and all this other stuff happening. And what the response to me was, which I know nothing about this, I take what other people say. That's right. What I can hear, what they say is, the quality of the drugs is different. What they give to the black community compared to what the white community gets. Oh, Lord, these conspiracies. I know, that's what I'm here because the more money you have is the better quality drugs that you can get compared to when you don't have as much money. You get what they call the mixed up stuff or the cut up stuff. You know, this is what I'm just hearing. Yeah, well, that may or may not be true, but drugs or drugs at the end of the day, a lot of people that, and when you dealing with barbiturists, you talking about heroin, you talking about Promethazine, you talking about pharmacy level drugs and all of this that a lot of people tend to be addicted to or have been throughout time. At the end of the day, we ingest drugs. Our culture loves to the... They want to be numbed from society. You know, we looking for an escape. So for us, it has become a coping mechanism that for us to use drugs. Like I said, I don't... I understand that that's the case, but I don't believe that some of these entertainers that people are talking about, especially when you got long careers, I look at long careers as a sign that there's long successful careers. There's something right. Yeah, and it don't take... If you've had prolonged success in rap as a rapper or somebody with a microphone, I just understand that your attitude is probably not going to be the greatest because it takes... This is a lot of dealing with a lot of different moving parts. Right, exactly. And not everybody who enter this industry is a people person. They just love what they do, their career as in music. They don't always... Just because you love music, that don't mean that you love people.  Well, when you meet a...  You say that, but when you meet a little Wayne or something, you might admit this man once in a lifetime, man. This man, that's why I try to say you, as human beings, if the woman is having a bad day in McDonald's, man, messing up your order at the fast food place, messing up your order at the restaurant or wherever, people have bad days, but people tend to hold celebrities to a higher blame level. But people say different things. Just like if you're dealing with a woman who is having a bad day, the first thing men say, oh, she ain't PMSing. Yeah, yeah. She does that, whatever. Just like celebrities that say, oh, he on drugs. Yeah, yeah.  Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm definitely saying that. She know that's the time of the husband. Yeah, that's a woman. Got to be a woman. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? You know what I mean? People make just crazy assumptions. That's not crazy. That's not crazy. That's not really crazy. It's been true a lot of times. That's sometimes it's men. So don't even go there. No, but at any rate, a lot of times, I've seen the cringe on the steering wheel. You don't know if I want to, you know, get out of my way. You know, I've seen that on a lot of occasions and usually it ended up being something of a female. But one thing I always say about going back to the music industry. And as I said, I'm a very observative person. When I started thinking about, you know, people in the music industry, I don't wrong them for taking substances because to me, but I don't think it's right, but I don't wrong them. The reason why I say that. Seeing a person who have tour dates back to back to back, going to city to city, they can only take a nap in the bus, driving or on a plane or whatever, but you're still supposed to be writing music, doing your regular thing, trying to call your kids, trying to call your wife, girlfriend, whoever. Hard to get no sleep. But then when you meet your fans, they're supposed to be smiling all the time. Somebody could have pissed you off or whatever, but you got to have this perfect attitude when you're around people. Hip hop is so professional now. I feel sorry for a lot of entertainers because. I don't, I don't have to beg to you. Because you got to always keep a certain persona and it's hard. Yeah, but they give money. It may be, of course, and it's your dream and your dream gonna have, it's gonna have whatever the other part of it is. But at the end of the day, hip hop, excuse me, it's so professional now. Like it's not, you're not finding a lot of people missing shows and it's corporations in this stuff. So whatever the perspective or the perception of people doing drugs, I don't really believe it's as, of course there's gonna be some examples, but I don't think in real life that there's as much to the level as they advertise it now. And these people, some of these people that we talk about, whether it could be future, it could be anybody, like, man, these careers is often today's second decade. Man, what are you talking about? Like, and then these, they not frail. These people not frail. They bright out and bust your tail when you see them moving around. You know, I don't know. Maybe I'm just not qualified to speak on it. So when is Davis Street dropping? Davis Street is coming soon. Because I've been hearing it's coming soon. I've been seeing stuff coming up, saying, this is a different process for me. Like I'm learning, I'm learning so much about it. Because you always be dropping them clean. What's up with this time? This time right here is, man, we're doing everything the right way. And- So you were doing the wrong way before? I was doing it in a, things have to be thought out because it's more than you.  When you talking about having to have a 12 week roll out, they want your album 12 weeks earlier, the distributor. When you talking about a single, they want your video and your audio three, four weeks before an album come out. Then you gotta do your press. You gotta do all of these different things. So if you wanna do it right, things have to be scheduled. Things have to be discussed. Okay, what we doing? This what we doing? All right. And we have to create all of this stuff that everybody sees around these projects and whatnot. So, and I'm just thankful for it, you know. So this is the first time you're doing it like this? Yeah. And do you like it better this way compared to the way that you used to do it? I can only tell when I complete the process. Right now I'm still in the middle.  But at the end of the day, it's my evolution. This is my taking the next step. You gotta be willing to grow past what you was doing before. Like what's the next thing I've proven that I can hold my own in music for years coming out of prison and releasing music at the weight that I did. I wanna go back to being more frequent, but this is my first time actually going through the system and doing things the way it's supposed to go. Let's see where it go. And we'll see. But David Street is gonna be coming out super soon. Look, you can say I just love penitentiary, and it looks man. These stories y'all be telling him. Just how did you and him, just how do y'all remain? Y'all always cool and y'all always been hanging and he always got respect when I talk to him about you or whatever. How did y'all build that relationship like that? He just talking every day. Like of course, I think everybody know that of course before I got locked up I had an album. He was on the album. He don't remember that that was in 2006. And upon me getting out of prison and just reconnecting, trying to rekindle what I did on my first album when I got out, I just reached back with him. Went shot the video in South Park, came from Austin, came down here. Alvo, my boys from Sunnyside, South Park. They looked out for me, King's store, everything. And it just like, we just maintained our communication, but I started talking to him more and more as I was doing what I was doing with crowns and dropping the crowns albums and having somebody that I could talk to about what I was doing. That was all ideas out. Even though I was doing something totally different, even he's done what I'm doing, what's doing at the time.    So just every day, and you know, man, God don't make no mistakes. Talking to him every day. We just got a bond, man. I talked to him more than anybody. It's the person I probably talk, that is the person I talk to the most for show. And just having somebody like that, Texas, of course, that legend word has done got so played out. But I think people really don't understand. Like, isn't it really the dude down here? For you to be on that project like that says a lot, you know. That was a very thought out project. Yeah. Yeah. That Legend album thought out properly. It was, it was, it was this one you can put in. You don't have to fast forward. I've passed no song. Like this guy, he didn't mess with that one. And I can't wait to the next one. But at the end of the day, for you to be on that project, just how was it when he even asked you to be on it? You know, I was glad he asked. I'll tell you that.  And I was in the process of seeing like, how it was coming together, you know, with Juicy Jane and the beast that was sent in and just the production level and how it was, you know, coming with these songs and shit and just everybody that was involved in making sure that it was what it was supposed to be, man, it was magical. So by the time I got asked to do something, which was, I think towards the, you know, toward the last quarter of it, shit, I was, I was already so happy just to be a part of the process of it. Hell, I had felt like I had learned so much from it. I was good with that.    So, yeah, man.   I'm walking up in here.  So, yeah, I salute him. That's my brother. Man, one thing I can say, you definitely went, when I think about just the fact of you even dealing with him, like, it was a blessing for us, to even be able to go over and do the interview we did with him. And that was through you.  Even said on the episode, he was like, man, I could not do this, man. Hey, I need one for the play with me about this. You don't play by it, y'all. You know, so thank you for even allowing us. Come on, man. We don't blessing us to be able to come in.  Now, you don't need to know the truth, though. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like, for you to bless us and even be that persistent to say, man, you need to talk to these people, man, these good people and link us like that. Yeah, he be very, he be very busy. And then he's not always having the opportunity to see, like, detail for detail what's going on in the culture.   Just did his Nike shoe, you know, his Air Force One shoe.  So, you know, we just...  So, you know. Yeah, well, I'm gonna be real with you.  You know, you definitely been linking. I look at your video, your visuals, filmed by Miyagi, man. Miyagi. Yeah, Miyagi. I say Miyagi because I said fast. I'll say Miyagi if you want me to. You know what I'm saying? But, right, at the end of the day, just how did you and him just... We talked about it a little bit when we did our show together. But just the fact that how... I didn't know that y'all was even locked up together. I didn't know the history of how you, what you meant to one another. You know what I'm saying? I think that was the dopest thing, man. So, just give me a spiel. And how does nigga get so good and technical with what he's doing? How he got good and shit, I don't know. I don't know what that is. Yeah, I don't know. That's something totally different. But that was my next door neighbor on Medium Custody. We established our bond over there. I don't know, you know, we... That's just my dog. That was my next door neighbor. We was bonded over books, just different things that we was all learning at the time. Solid. And you know, just kept the bond going. But I didn't know that he, you know, he wrote when he got out, he kept his solid with me. I didn't know that he had turned to shooting videos because he was one of the coolest rappers over there.    That's hell, yeah. Because we didn't see that coming. Yeah, but you know, like some of the people that these, people that he's did work with, you know, these people are in deals and moving and flourishing. Yeah, but the role, I'm gonna tell you what's crazy to me is it's starting to shift. Like he's giving out the cloud.  You know what I'm saying?  It's leaning, you know, the scales is leaning. So to say that that's my homie, that's like somebody that's, hell, yeah. Because I know that he came from nothing. I personally know that.  That's hard. Hell yeah. I see you be recognized by Trill Talk. No, he'll talk a lot of times too. Like you, like he be posting, he gonna always post something with L.D. Just a shout out to that boy. I always rock with him. Just what does it mean for the bloggers, for the podcasters, for the people to keep your name in their mouth just basically? Well, I'm gonna say this, this is very important.    And to not be, or you gonna be one of them rappers that's scamming on the side or hustling, selling drugs on the side to be in this shit, honestly. Man, you gonna, so I'm just, I'm really hoping to communicate that over to people how much support that I need for this project. This ain't no, this is not no game, it's not a joke. I have to put an album into this culture that's gonna resonate with these people and be around. You know, this is Texas, so if you do it well, we gonna remember it forever.  So I'm looking at this as my opportunity to put that level of project into the game, you know?  No, no, you can tell. It's not no motherfucking joke, it's very important. The one thing that you stated earlier when you were talking to Mrs. Jamaica was the fact of, and she brought it up how you was always, and even a little kiki when I interviewed him, just how you was bringing those albums, those see those crowns right after each other, bam, bam, bam, bam, just layering them out. And then all of a sudden there's a quiet, there's a place of quietness now, before this next project. And I think it gets to the ones who really, fans of Aldi 300 Davis Street, it's an anticipated weight to where people are, they're waiting on it and they ready, and that's a good thing too. You know what I mean? As long as it deliver. You gotta deliver. That right there, I don't feel pressure from that as far as quality of music and all of that. We built to do that. What it is is all of these other ancillary parts that have to go right in order for this to get past the level where I'm at, to the bigger level, to take a right to step into the game for real. I look at all of this as like, damn, like, you know, where we at in this process is beautiful, but I have to really kill with it. And I need everybody to see it as it's not just me taking this step, this is us taking this step.  And we at a point right now where it's time to, you know, get everybody on the same page, you know. When you think about like Mr. Lee, Mr. Lee and you, you know, y'all form this relationship. And when y'all form this relationship, it was like, okay, now, you know, it's, you know, on this project, he's definitely on this project as well, right? Yeah, this is the whole, you know. Lee is on there, Buddha bless this be out of ATL, real big in Amigos catalog, Gregg Street, you know, X-File who did the first single, Silver and Gold, he got some more tracks on there.  So you say Power Wilds on there, is this your first time working with Power? Yeah, Power, yeah. How was that? If you can just, I know you ain't touched. He came in there over-delivered. He came in there and got down meat, but he was only supposed to do, y'all gonna see what he did. Like he came in there and like he was supposed to do like something and he ended up doing something totally.  I have, man.  So I feel like I got, I have no excuse. Like I have, there's nothing I can blame it on. I can't blame it. But you put a lot of, in your music, you put a lot into it, man. So it's well deserved that you will get, you know, the respect you deserve and the doors would open the way that they're opening. So I think that's hard as hell. And it's the same thing for you.  Right. You know what I'm saying? You did. You did, and you didn't start that long ago, to see where y'all done grew it too, man. You know, I'm very proud of you, man. You took care of your business, man. And it's only gonna get bigger and better, man. Man, man, I definitely appreciate you, man. The love you showed, boss talk on old one, the troopers, man.  Faux Flat Tide slang, you know what I'm saying? So we down, man. And so I think, was it, it was one thing else I wanted to ask you about, and I've got to talk about the elephant in the room. You know, I always got elephant in the room. Got to do it. Kanye, you know, there's a lot going on. I heard the minister speak the other day. He ain't spoken a long time. Right. What do you think about all this riffraff? I don't need you to get, don't get banned, trying to be on boss talk one-on-one, but you know, but just give me, but don't get banned. Right. But just give me your spiel, you know? As far as on you?  Man, thank you, man. At the end of the day, like when you start talking about what happens is as a culture, we jealous of other cultures. In particularly, we jealous of Jewish people. We jealous of how they, how they can band together and be on one accord.  And it's, it just, like we resent that because we should be like that. And we just, we just can't do it. We can't get out of our own way and do it. So when it comes to where Yaya been kind of like exposing people like Kairi, what they've been exposing and what the, what Minister Farrakhan has said about just our, our frustration is not unwarranted. Like, you know, and nothing that they can't even say it or any of these people have said that if cast a light on business practices, the way people handle blacks or whatever in entertainment and in sports, where we are the, the engine of what people want to see, you know, it's a lot of problems, probably a lot of unfairness in it, right? Everybody's in there to fight for that, to get a, you know, it could be Floyd Mayweather have said some of these same things, but he had to go out there and prove his, his value while also superseding and overstepping the ones that's trying to hold him back. So we, we in that kind of position. So what we have not seen is a person make it to billionaire status, knowing that it takes a lot of corporations to get there and to just burn them off, like after you done accomplished all of that by, by exposing what's actually taking place.   You know what I'm saying?  But for him to go up there and speak his truth like that, I think it was honorable. Now, maybe he didn't do it correctly.  That's more than a lot of people would have ever done, you know, so. And to me, it's like, like a regular Joe is not affected by the Jews or by other cultures as much as somebody who is raising in power, he, the people that he's around, he see a lot more. He see how they control certain things when we don't really see that. And where you talk about. But we do see it. We see it, but we don't see it. On that level. On that level. Well, we see it at the bank. We, we see it. We, we, we see it when we try to buy a car. We see it when we try to sell our houses and they appraise our house for listing what they would have if it hadn't been a white person to do it. You know, we see it everywhere. We don't become numb to it. And it's like, it's really nothing to us. That's the reason why he can, he's not finding any support really. Did you think, did you think that it was big for even Farrakhan even come out?  I like him as that individual that can, that can give levity to situations and kind of like call the players for what they are to where we not getting overboard. Cause you know, we get emotional. He's going to be that one that's going to come out and say, you know, hey, the brother Kairi said this, the brother, yay, saying this. And you know, we've talked to him and these Jewish, he basically letting you know that a lot of these individuals that's saying something negative about yay or Kairi in the moment, they might have relationships with these people so they can't, they can't speak out as well. I like the way he don't never demonize people that have differences of opinion. If they, if they black, I like that. I like the fact that he can have a conversation with you and, and scold you without embarrassing you. You know, I think that's dope. And the way in which he does it, he articulates his words. So he's been doing this for ever, ever. So he's very, very versed in doing it. But just like when you were talking about people of certain cultures coming together and you mentioned Jewish, but I don't, it's not only Jewish, because even like being from Jamaica, you see how Chinese people, they stick together. You see how people of different culture, they stick together. Jamaicans on a whole, they stick together as well. But why is it that African-Americans, if you want to say, or, you know, in America. Niggas, niggas, right. Don't do so. It's very hard for us, it's just in our DNA to be honest. Some people blame slavery for that. Well, it's not just slavery, it's a lot of different reason. Our getting into it with one another is very entertaining to people like, like us competing against one another in whatever fashion that we do it, is something that draws, it draws attention. So people have learned to exploit us for that. You know, we can't even just say that so-and-so is jamming and so-and-so is jamming.  Like we just liked it, we just... I say they can come together, because if people can come together for this Cowboys. Dallas Cowboys? Yes, if Black folks come together and be like, oh Dallas Cowboys, this, this, this, and they come together and nobody can say none about a Cowboys. They come together, they stick together for, right. If they can do that over a team, why they can't do that for their own culture? Wait, let me say this, let me just say this. It's not just the Dallas Cowboys, it's just that we do it a little bit different than others, so I'm glad you know this thing. But I'm just saying, you know... You know a Cowboys team? Yes, he is. The other teams, you know, the other teams, they do their thing too, but, you know, at the end of the day, we just do it at a level where it annoys you, I get it, but we just basically got to understand that we do come together at points, hey, you know, yeah, Dallas Cowboys, let's go. Okay, yeah, let's go, hopefully they can win this thing. Stillers. Stillers. No, man, it's cool, they ain't like the Cowboys. But check it, man, we in Texas, man is going down, Houston Texas, that is, man. Thank you for coming on the show, man. How can people get a hold of you if they trying to reach out? I mean, y'all already know it's the same thing. I had the 300 area where... I hope we did your justice, man. Let me see if we leave anything out. Anything left out? No. No, we didn't, we covered, flipped it, boom, boom, boom, it's over, you know what I'm saying? We didn't did it. Thank you so much for coming on Boss Talk 101, what a boss is talk, man. It's been another great segment of Boss Talk 101.  Ain't nobody trying to say that. And we out. Okay.


A particle spin is another key distinction that helps us categorize all these particles. You'll recall that electrons have spin one-half and follow Paul's exclusion principle. Photons have spin one and do not follow the exclusion principle. The statistics that describe spin one-half particle behavior in large groups was developed by Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac. They are called fermions after Mr. Fermi. The statistics that describe spin one particle behavior in large groups was developed by Satyandronath Bose and Albert Einstein. They are called bosons after Mr. Bose. You can imagine that large groups of particles that can't fit into the same quantum state will behave differently than particles that can. In an energy well, the bosons all sit in a condensate at the bottom. The fermions arrange themselves in a hierarchy, like electrons and an atom. For example, a beam of photons can be made to have the same quantum state. This is how a laser works. On the other hand, the inability of electrons to fit into the same quantum state creates an outward pressure that halts a star's collapse and creates white dwarfs.


From Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering Oracle Modern Customer Experience 2017, brought to you by Oracle. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Las Vegas, the Mandalay Bay Convention Center for Oracle's modern CX, modern customer experience event, part of Oracle Marketing Cloud. I'm John Furrier with SiliconANGLE. My co is Peter Burris, head of research at wikibond.com. Our next guest is Adrian Chang, director of customer programs at Oracle Marketing Cloud, also emcee of the marquees and big part of that program. Congratulations on the success of the marquees awards, which were given out last night. Read your blog posts on the site this morning. Thank you. Great to see you again. Welcome back to theCUBE. Thank you for having me. Always great to be here. And I love modern customer experience and that marketing is a part of it. It's really been a great transformation this year, the simplification of just narrowing it down to one simple value present, modern customer experience, which encapsulates a lot of stuff, quickly review what that is, and then let's talk about the marquees. Absolutely. So, you know, I'll start with the marquees and so we have a history of celebrating excellence in data-driven modern marketing. So this program has grown tremendously over the past 11 years. When I look at the submissions, there are customers that are focusing on acquisition, loyalty, retention, and they read these stories all the time and spend weeks preparing the submissions. So this event is all about how can we share our intent to help our customers have a good experience as part of Oracle, and then how can we help them delight their customers and deliver experiences and create value at every touch point? One of the things I really like about the change in the name from modern marketing experience to modern customer experience is you move from the process, the function to the outcome and the result. So how are the marquees reflecting that this year? Absolutely. So if you think about where we started, so again, it was six categories, celebrating excellence in BDB marketing, in reaching folks behind a single device, their laptop computer. So cut to 2017, you know, the customer's preferences, their activities are fluid. So great marketing requires you to use a series of channels to reach them everywhere. And so marketers have to balance brand with action and then also deliver on intent. So the markers have had to evolve to think about the habits. So the account-based marketing team of the year was a new award that we gave out that really represented the intent. Are people actually doing this? We had tons of great stories. So we have to balance a bit of the usage of the product and the technology and embracing the new strategies and what's current within the marketplace. So the future of marketing as it goes into data, that's been the theme here. All of our interviews day one and certainly the keynotes, even Mark Hurd was giving a great specific example. Now data is at the heart of it. Adaptive intelligence is the theme. You can see the dots are connecting, the convergence of where the marquees are showing traction are some pretty interesting use cases. Any notables you'd like to share that kind of highlight that data piece? Absolutely. So our winner for best email campaign was from Jetstar and they're an airline in Australia. What's great is they have been able to find ways to... So when you get an email about travel, sometimes you book it at one particular point and your preferences and your relationship with that airliner may change. Your travel destinations may change. So the fact that they can optimize the information at the time of send, sending the weather, curing you to maybe upsell and look at other opportunities to have a pleasant experience, that's amazing. So Laura Ibsen spent some time talking about how we at Oracle are looking to evolve preferences. So going from one to many to one to one and the hallmark which is one to you. And I think the Jetstar campaign, they use Oracle response as a perfect example of that. The first award that we gave out was to Covance for our account-based team of the year and by doing, setting up an account-based marketing strategy, putting it in place, getting all the stakeholders and sales in place, getting the discipline on the content, they were able to increase their engagement with key accounts by a significant margin and they were delighted to be among those and our partners to celebrate that achievement. HVN I want you to talk about for the folks that are watching who aren't here, the buzz in the hallways because the hallways is always a good conversation, certainly at the lunch table as well. I'll include that technically as the hallway but people are sitting down. AI has been a front and center but it's not being painted over whitewash. Oh AI it's hot so let's jump on the bandwagon. There's some real tech involved. What has been the reaction from customers and use cases that you hear in the hallways? Customers are excited about it. I think I, for a lot of our customers had the opportunity to hear Mark Hurd talk about it where he embraced it and said, if you think about AI at the core, it's computing done real fast to help people make really rich decisions about what to do next and so I think our customers are still grappling with all the technology and how to get value out of their core platforms, how do they deliver on their initial objective and then we have a subset of our most mature, most excited who are starting to put those data blocks together and start getting more predictive and allow the machine to do the work for you but in order for you to have, to even think about it, you've got to have great, you've got to fill the cup with great data and I think people are still getting there so that the machine isn't biased and you don't make the wrong decision about how to treat your customers. So just some notable trending tweets I want to just share with you and again get the reaction because this is speaking to the customer use case. One was from a partner Digitas in the panel, Mark Hiedelman wrote, according to Digitas, if you're not looking to use chatbots and AI, you're going to be out of business. Hashtag MME17, little bit of a legacy there and then hashtag modern CX and the other one is Netflix is a great example of a company creating content combined with powerful AI targeting programs. A little bit of a sample of some of the things we're seeing. Chatbots, it's a new interface, new way to use data, Netflix content, which modern marketers need content in this platform, taking a Netflix approach. So kind of begs the question, chatbots, Netflix, kind of modern email, old? So how do you get a marketer to continue to use the reliability of hard and critical infrastructure like email? Not going away anytime soon but it's going to be one dimension of Netflix content marketing, binge watching all this content out there, Netflix and then chatbots for interface, your thoughts? So my thought is I am, so I was in the room when I watched the chatbot piece and I love the fact of the, we could live in a world where you could have a fluid customer experience anywhere where you can ask a question. I also support our communities where you ask a question and know you're automatically going to get an answer to the algorithm. So that delivers on that one to use scenario. So I'm super excited about it. When I look at the Netflix example, even to get the information on what the recommendation engine should be, you still need a lot of data and you still need to know what are the habits of your customers who even land on that decision tree. So I love the fact that folks are thinking Netflix and thinking content but that chatbot thing, oh my goodness, when people start doing that, I can't wait to see those customers that win those markets. But they have to do it right. They have to do it right. Because one of the great, one of the dangers that marketing always faces is the idea that it's all about collecting information, giving, having the customer give something to me and not giving something valuable in return. Absolutely. And the challenge that I see with chatbots and I think you agree, John, is our chatbots going to be used to further automate information collection at the expense of really presenting value. The new marketing, the modern customer experience has to be focused on are we delivering value to the customer at every single interaction? Not is a customer doing more for us inside marketing. What do you think about that? So I agree, because if we do not know that we're creating value and that we're not, that we're adding friction to the problem, you pour that into your algorithm, there's going to be bias. And so you can't make a decision about how to feed information into the machine and not have the right information that says we don't have the right region, we don't understand the behavior across our products. You can't have bias in the model at all.  Yeah, we don't want to better automate bad marketing processes. Absolutely. We want to use these technologies to continuously drive to use a famous person's parlance, a more perfect union between the smarketer and the buyer. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, you got a great article up on MarTech series. This year's winners have gone above and beyond, fully leveraging the most innovative marketing technology to create customer-centric campaigns that deliver outstanding results as Laurie has been Senior Vice President General. Okay, that's obviously marketing packaging for the quote, you know, from PR. But what she's getting at is customer-centric. Again, this is the theme, multitude of technologies now in the platform. Very interesting. Are customers responding well to this platform and are they seeing the need to stand up things quickly, these campaigns? Absolutely. They are finding that there's more pressure to get interim value. They are absolutely buying into the platform message. And we have quite a few customers who also were recognized for the use of multiple products and multiple partner-related applications. And so we're actually seeing a nice trend in both. To do great marketing, part of the messaging, or part of Laura's talk track from today was people are freaked out about the data, but if you find a way to harness it, you'll create experiences where you'll stop chasing the customers, they'll start chasing you because you'll find the right way to have the conversation with them.  I'm going to ask you to pick your favorite child of the awards. Was there one that jumps out? Without alienating all the winners, is there one that you like? This is a really, really hard question for me. Because as you know, I read all the submissions. I play a heavy role in writing the speech. So it's really, really hard. Here we go, the preamble to not picking one. Here we go. I don't like to pick my favorite child. No parent likes to do that. I don't like to pick my favorite child. This is a really, really hard thing. Okay, audience favorite. How are they different this year from last year? How about that? Or is there something general that just shows that kind of reinforces some of this customer experience or are you seeing a progress in how the marquees are evolving? Yeah, that's a great question. So I'm happy to answer that one. And so for the first time since 2012, we've brought back the dinner. And so having the marquees and our customer celebration, it shows our intent as Oracle Marketing Cloud for our customers as well, that we love them, want them to have a great week and want to celebrate their accomplishments and get other people to the winning circle. So being at a table and feeling that energy, getting an opportunity to sit with an executive or sit with a member of the team, it's really, really great lift to then come to an event with over 4,000 people and feel warm and feel included. So I think that was an important part and that was a huge feel. I mentioned that we added the account-based team of the year award. Again, you couldn't be in B2B marketing and hide from account-based marketing. It's everywhere. We also delivered a overall customer experience award. So we had two customer related awards and we created one category. And so I personally love the videos. So our best video submission category is one where the viewers got to pick and I would say the reaction of Juniper taking home two trophies last night. If I had to pick one, because that one had a bit of a vote to it, Juniper Networks, they won two awards last night. I love their reaction as well as the reaction of our folks from Brazil. You know, really, really great stories from Bibi and their use of data. We also had Chris Diaz, our leader of the year, who not only led really strong customer experience transformations across marketing, sales, and service. This is the CMO Time Warner. No, that's Kristen. Kristen, oh, Christie. That's, yeah, that's Kristen at Time Warner. I'm talking about Chris Diaz, who's also driving sustainability efforts in Africa. It's a really transformational, huge, huge advocate of Oracle's, as was the team at Kenya Airways. And so there's some really feel-good moments. They're really exciting moments. You can feel it. People were hugging each other. People were laughing. People brought their own noise cannons and sparklers. Who doesn't love an awards show? Who doesn't love an awards show? When you're giving out great trophies. We always get the comparison to the Oscars. And so this year it felt like the Golden Globe.  So you had a couple of times with the wrong winner. We actually did not have that. But we actually did joke about it. We embraced it. So Kayla Sullivan helped us with the award distribution. And that was fun. The trophy itself is actually made by the same designer, he makes the Emmy. And I believe I said that last year. But the feel was more like the Golden Globes. The, you know, there was refreshments and opportunity to have. He was well done. And it looked great on photos. Big crowd. You had the gyps and all the cameras. Great camera angles. Yeah. And we had a drone do with the delivery. So we played with some new drones. That's a nice one up on Amazon delivering your packages by drone. Absolutely. Drop it in. Absolutely. So we had one that was delivered via tweet. And then we had one that was delivered via drone. And so we covered all the risk management pieces in advance. And I'm just super happy that Envision, who partnered with us and hosting and producing the event, were able to get some of these things cleared. So our intent was, let's be futuristic. Let's be digital. Let's be now. And they managed to incorporate that into the show for us. Well, Adrienne, congratulations on all the great work with the Marquis and continued success. What's next, next year? What do you guys look? I know the process. And you're going to have a little fun now. Relax a little bit. But as you look forward to next year's Marquis, you're watching, you got the submission. It's kind of like the college admissions. You want to know who the judge is. Here he is. What are you looking for for next year? Have you thought about it? Any ideas, just random thoughts? Yeah, it's a great question. And so it takes us about seven months to actually plan to sit down and actually plan our calendar from submission period, the content. And so we tend to create the categories that are aspirational. So we likely will figure out what's the best way to incorporate the trend, get them out early to drive the customers to get really excited about what's next. We're talking about AI now. What will we be talking about in six months? And so I'm looking forward to hearing more customers share about the value they're getting from Marketing Cloud, the new channels that they're using, how they've overcome barriers within their organizations to do new and great things, and really focus on taking these stories and telling them all year. And speed and empowerment. Yes, absolutely, absolutely. Adrian Chang here in theCUBE, back with the Markies update and great commentary, great to see you, looking great. Love the outfit, looking good, as always. Thanks for taking the time and sharing your perspective. It took me a while to figure out what that was. The flower, from here it's like. It's good, looks good on you. Adrian Chang here inside theCUBE bringing you all the marquee action, all the great coverage. It's theCUBE, back with more live coverage after this short break.


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for much more on today's news. Meredith Morrocovitz is standing by with the clubhouse report. And Meredith, as Jack and I just discussed, just a huge day for Brian Cashman and the New York Yankees bolstering their squad. Chris, no doubt about it, a busy day in Yankee land, but a very good day in Yankee land as well. Jack, you detailed all the trades that they made this afternoon. And it's funny, Aaron Boone sat down for his pregame press conference, like he usually does at four o'clock. And he talked about Scott Efros and what he would mean to that bullpen, what type of arm they're getting there. And about 20 minutes later, you broke the news that they were in fact getting Frankie Montas. Aaron Boone was already out on the field for batting practice. He found out when he was by the cage that they did indeed acquire Frankie Montas. Now, Anthony Rizzo came out of the dugout and I spoke to him briefly. And he said, anytime you can get a top of the rotation guy, obviously that is going to help your team throughout the stretch run and in the post season. But when you first hear of it, you wonder, is it real? Is it really happening? Well, we know now that it is indeed happening. And earlier Aaron Boone spoke for the second time to the media and he was asked whether or not he thinks this team is now significantly better with that addition. I think when you think Benny and Efros and now Montas and Trevino, there's no question. We added four, you know, in their specific positions, I feel like high caliber players. So to intertwine them with our group already, yeah, I mean, on paper we're better. But, you know, I will caution it with, that's just on paper. We got to go out and do it still and go out and prove that. But we definitely upped our talent in these last few days. With Paul and now Montas, how do you feel like you're one to kind of stacks up across the league? You know, I'd feel great about any of them going up against. Obviously there's some great other tandems, you know, in both leagues. There's some great other trios in both leagues. And we feel like we certainly can match them. And then, you know, I'd extend it to a few of our other guys too. So you feel good about the people we have and look forward to going to battle with it. And those three guys will not be on the active roster this evening. Time will tell exactly how long it takes for the guys from Oakland to get here. But Scott Efros is expected to come into New York at some point in time tonight. He most likely will be activated tomorrow for this Yankees roster. I also went on to ask Aaron Boone if he thinks that Brian Cashman in that front office is done right now and he just smiled and said, well, we'll have to wait and see. There's still a little bit of time left until that 6 p.m., August 2nd deadline. Now, I had the opportunity to catch up with pitching coach Matt Blake and I asked him why he thinks Frankie Montas' stuff is going to play here in the Bronx. Well, obviously it starts with a lively fastball. He's got a mid to upper 90s fastball. Well, four seam and two seam that he attacks you with. And we saw it firsthand here when he came and pitched against us here at the stadium. So, you know, he's got a presence to him out there. And then he's got a full complement of secondary pitches. So it's a upper echelon starter and he'll fit right in. He had some shoulder issues in early July. Is that at all a concern in how you use him in the final two months of the season? Yeah, I think it's just something to be aware of. I think it's something we'll monitor just like the rest of our guys. You want to do right by them, but, you know, get them in here, take inventory on kind of how he's feeling, where he's at, you know, just talk about just what it was and kind of just let's put a plan together with him and included in that. All right, yes, some relievers as well. Lou Trevino, what do you like about him? Aaron Boone made the comment. His number is not great this year, but you think there's some stuff that you see, some underlying stats that tells you he's better than he's been pitching? Yeah, it's a guy that we've known for a while. We've had interest in over the last couple of years. He's pitched in some high leverage situations in Oakland. It's a good right-handed reliever that can match up well and there's some stuff that we can work on to help match up with lefties a little bit better. But, you know, just looking at how his season's been, the superficial numbers in the ERA aren't great, but the underlying stuff points to a better year than it may be on the surface. And I think just a couple little things, couple little tweaks, and we should be in a good spot with him. Scott Efronce also joining the club as well. What do you like about his stuff? Yeah, he's really accustomed to, or he's changed his delivery over the last two years and went from a higher slot to more of a drop-down side arm and it's kind of changed his profile overall and it's got a nice sinker-slider combo to righties and he's got a little up-shoot fastball, similar to maybe Darren O'Day, it's kind of a comp, but, you know, he's kind of got a full arsenal, attacks the zone, he's got a different look, you kind of compliment the other guys we have out there. How do you see those guys being deployed in the bullpen? Yeah, I think it just gives us a chance to continue to match up. We've got some unique arms out there, a lot of different looks, and I think it just gives us a bunch of different lanes to operate in. Have you had any discussions? I know the trade just happened not that long ago about what the rotation now will look like. Who will be the odd man out? Not completely yet. I think it's something we want to work through a little bit more, and it kind of depends on when Frankie gets here, so he's obviously got to travel in and he's got a couple of things. I think he's got a few or he's got to attend, so we'll have to figure out what the right date is to slot him back in and get him on track here. What's the feeling like for a pitching coach today when you get these types of reinforcements coming on the way? I suppose a little bit like Christmas open up your presents under the tree. Obviously, we want to get them here and get to know them and talk through kind of where they're at and kind of like we say, partner with them and meet them where they're at. And how involved are you in this whole process? Do you hear things that might happen or going on? When do you finally learn that, hey, this is happening? I think they largely try and keep me out of the loop so I can just focus on the current guys we have here and not worry too much about the coulda's and what is and shoulda's. I think they do a good job of asking us the questions when they need to be answered, but for the most part, they do good work and provide us with players that we can help.


alright guys so in this question we have been given a quadrilateral APCD whose sides are also given and the sides are 940, 28, 15 centimeter respectively and the angle between the first two sides is 90 degrees so we have already drawn the figure here now the question is you have to find out the area of this quadrilateral now this question can be solved either directly using Brett Snyder's formula which we have discussed in session one but then since angles are not provided over here so we'll have to use a lot of trigonometry but then we have another method of doing it and that is by you know breaking this shape into two triangles okay two triangles and then and then we can find out the area very easily let's see what do I mean so I'm just going to connect AC okay so here I go so I connected AC now what I need to do I have to just simply find out the areas of both the triangles and add so I okay right area quadrilateral ABCD will be equal to area of triangle ABC which happens to be a right triangle hence I will be having some piece and that of ACD now here this will be a little linear task but never mind we'll try to do that but in ACD we have two sides given so we cannot use here on formula until unless we know AC but if you notice carefully ABC is right angle triangle and two sides are given so AC happens to be the hypotenuse and wow so we can find out AC and then proceed to find out the area of ACD so let's first find it out let's find out the value of AC so AC square is equal to AB square plus BC square and this is by our very famous Pythagoras uncle's theorem Pythagoras theorem okay so what is AC squared so AC squared is 40 squared plus 9 squared which happens to be 1681 and if you see 1681 happens to be 41 squared so thank God that we got AC as an integer 41 this is what all of you love to see isn't it if it was our irrational number then it would have given you nightmares but yes thankfully we have got an integer so let's utilize the value of this integer what next so let us find out area of triangle ABC first low hanging fruit so let's you know pluck it and this is nothing but half into base base could be AB and height is BC so it's low hanging fruit half into AB is 9 into BC which is 40 so 20 into 9 so hence it is 180 centimeters squared so we got we got the first triangles area that's so nice so let's go to finding out the area of triangle triangle ACD okay how to find this out here on formula will come for the rescue SS minus a S minus P S minus C now what's S semi-parameter so now you know that AC is 41 so let us write it 41 here so semi-parameter is 41 plus 15 plus 28 upon 2 and this value comes out to be 84 I believe yes 84 upon 2 is equal to 42 so we got the semi-parameter guys now S minus a let's calculate so it is 42 minus 41 let's say this is one beautiful so hence load is reduced S minus B is 42 minus 15 not that great but never mind let's see 42 minus 15 is 27 cool and S minus C is 42 minus 28 which happens to be 14 my dear friends okay now what so let's find out area of triangle ACD is under root S what is SS is 42 into S minus A is 1 27 and 14 okay now thankfully you'll again get factors which are having even power so 42 is 14 into 3 27 is 3 cubed and this is 14 so you can very easily find out the area to be 14 times 9 correct yes sir correct so hence it is 126 centimeter square so now it's a cakewalk now area of triangle it's not quite quadrilateral ABCD ABCD is equal to the sum of the two areas first area value was how much guys first area value we calculated here 180 centimeter square and the second one was 126 centimeter square so 180 plus 126 which happens to be 306 centimeter square right so what is the learning learning is let's jot down it's a good practice to like write learning at the end of the day so learning is area of a quadrilateral can be found out by breaking it down into triangles area of triangles comprising the quadrilateral right and then obviously we know the formula of finding out the area of triangle whether it is through half into base into height or through heron's formula okay so that is all about this question


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Welcome back to my YouTube channel guys. Today I thought it would be fun to talk about what it's really like in winter in New Zealand. Being that I'm from the Midwest in the U.S. I am used to cold temperatures and I thought today I'd take a little bit of time to compare what it's like living in winter in New Zealand compared to what it used to be like for me in the States. So you're not going to want to miss this video so subscribe below. Here we go. This video is sponsored by Skillshare. Skillshare.com is a wonderful online community where creatives can get together and learn from each other. So check it out. Skillshare.com. Winter in New Zealand. Let's talk about it. Now I don't spend a lot of July's which is the middle of winter in New Zealand. I generally try to go back to the U.S. in July because that is a wonderful time of year to be in the Midwest but you know due to traveling restrictions and COVID I have not been able to get back so I have been stuck in New Zealand during the winter but let's talk about what winter is like. Is it quite different than it is in the Midwest U.S.? Definitely. There are a lot of things different. Okay before we get talking into the differences between the winters in New Zealand and the Midwest of the U.S. let's talk about what the temperature actually is in July in New Zealand. So New Zealand has three main cities Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch so let's just start there. Obviously there are farther so Auckland is in the North Island and it's farther north and there's also many cities north of there which are going to be warmer but on average Auckland is about 11 degrees Celsius or 54 degrees Fahrenheit on average in July. Now if you go farther down the North Island you get to the bottom tip is Wellington where I live and the average temperature is 9 degrees Celsius and 48 degrees Fahrenheit but that it doesn't account for all the wind. It's a very windy area and so the wind can make it much colder but that's the average temperature in July. Now if you head down to the South Island and this is probably more of the northern part of the South Island is Christchurch and that average temperature is about 6 degrees Celsius 43 degrees Fahrenheit and so you can kind of see that it's not really that bad. If you're from the Midwest like I am when we are used to freezing we are used to way below zero we are used to just like you guys don't even understand how cold it is in the winter in the Midwest and then I'm not even from Canada so like it's even colder in Canada so that's an idea of temperatures. Obviously if you go farther south down to Immacargale it gets a bit colder Queenstown and then when you're dealing with snow then that's different too if you're living in the mountains and so you know that kind of affects your daily life and your driving and your shoveling and that sort of thing but generally where I'm from in Wellington it is not really too bad in terms of like how cold it gets. It definitely rains more in the winter time and the wind you know depending on if it's a windy day so it can be kind of feel a bit dreary which is what the winters feel like in Wisconsin for me they feel really dreary but it feels dreary from like December sometimes November depending on the kind of year you have all the way until like March it feels really dreary so it's a really long time to be living without a lot of sun and a lot of green. One thing that's great about New Zealand is that the green doesn't go away the bush the greenery it's you know it just doesn't get cold enough for everything has to die and everything has to fall. Now obviously different parts of the country that varies you know like in the South Island you know trees will lose their leaves depending on the type of tree and and that sort of thing but like in general my experience living in Wellington compared to the U.S. so much nicer in the winter. One of the reasons why I think it seems not so bad in the winter in New Zealand obviously it's warmer like if my average temperature is in the 40s in Wellington is a way warmer than what it is in Wisconsin where it could be like the wind shield could be like 15 below which is like so cold you guys like so cold let me just describe so cold so like you go out to your car there is so much snow that you then have to shovel everything but because it snowed like 10 o'clock at night and now it's 6 a.m. in the morning it is like solid ice so trying to shovel that is quite hard and sometimes impossible so you can't get your car out so this is now what you want to be doing at 6 o'clock in the morning you have to have your face covered your hands covered if they're not it's just like it feels like it like hurts it hurts and then you know I've had to scrape some frost off of my car here in New Zealand even this week but like like that the frost so like we have like I don't even have special equipment I think I use a tennis racket I did use a tennis racket and then but we have scrapers in the U.S. and the scrapers are nice and sometimes they come with a nice glove and and you and it's it's work it is a solid ice on your windshield and then you have to run your car for probably like 20 minutes just to get it to warm up and to start to defrost the the windows and it's just it's a whole thing and then it's so cold and you're just like trying to get out and then you're getting the car and you're like so cold so yeah really different it's really miserable in the winters in the midwest and so every year that I live there I was like why in the world do I live here like I hate it like you love it because you have community there your family is there your friends are there you know so you love it but then as soon as I hit winter be like why do I live here not sure but one thing that makes it so much better being in New Zealand in the winter is that you will have glorious days there you could go through like a week or two of solid rain sometimes some sleep but everything melts right away and but it's you have a beautiful day like today we're having a beautiful day here I just took a video I'll show it of what it looks like from my window where I'm working right now it's just a stunner of a day as they would say here what do they call it a cracker of a day it feels weird even coming out not used to that word yet but that's what they'd say here it's like cracker of a day in Wellington and they always say that you can't be Wellington on a good day so it's beautiful so I think that that just makes winter more bearable for me like I instead of going like four or five months without any nice days or any nice sun and just dreary and everything's brown and there's there's no leaves on the trees and nothing's growing that it just does affect you okay but here when every once in a while I have a stunner of a day or a cracker of a day sorry um it's just not anything I would ever say in the U.S. but um it just makes it bearable like we can go out and we can walk around and we can be in t-shirts and it's pretty warm and it's nice and it just the sun's out and it just makes you happier I'm sure there's all this science behind all that and that's not the point of this but it just really makes it bearable so in the winters in Wellington anyway you'll have really nice sunny days every once in a while and it really makes it bearable I cannot continue this video without bringing up the fact that the biggest problem with winter in New Zealand is the fact that people live cold indoors that's the best way for me to say it is a shock to an American and probably to other people from other countries that are cold like Canada to come here and realize how cold people live indoors so they're getting so much better with the way that they're building houses and their insulation and their double glazed windows and central heating but I'm telling you for years and years they just lived cold inside so like my first rental house was really cold and it was like I'm turning everything on yet I'm not warm and yeah that was an experience that you just don't live warm like people are always wearing lots of clothes like it's just normal to like put on lots of layers in the bedrooms you have electric blankets on all the beds it's like not survivable depending on how chilly your house is to not have electric blanket because it is it is not sometimes the house isn't insulated it's not built well and to the point where it's like just as cold outside as it is inside it's not really a whole lot different and so just imagine that and imagine sleeping in that so it's like imagine sleeping in like 40 degrees and like it's just never really really warm and so that's really the difference when you first come here like okay like when I go to work it's cold when I go you know to different you're just expecting to be cold like things just are not heated because heat is very expensive electric heat gas heat everything's really expensive because you know we're on a big island basically so it is cold and so if you are traveling here or moving here just know that people just their level of expectation in terms of living cold is different they are they are used to I don't know they're happy with but they're used to living cold and they just really don't know any different so if you're in New Zealand or and you think boy she's wimpy like what is she talking about well it's because you don't know any different so like we are freezing cold temperatures in the Midwest in Canada and you know Minnesota whatever but we don't live cold inside it's always 72 degrees Fahrenheit inside you know like if you go to work it's warm if you go to the stores it's warm if you're just traveling around it's warm here it's not you don't know some places will be really warm because it'll be like one room with like a heat pump coming in it's like really warm like my son he's wearing shorts to school because it's so hot in the classroom but then when it's outside you know and so that's the other problem is that when I moved here the first time the houses are like you're used to heating like one room and like it's hard to function in a house being in one room like you have to go in and cook dinner or a meal you have to go in and do laundry you got to go clean up something and you're not real motivated because it's really cold out there and so you would tend to stay in like one room or two rooms of the house that have most of the heat and so unless you're in a house that has central heat i the last two houses i've rented i've insisted on central heating because i just it just makes it way more bearable in the winter and especially since i've been here all winter it's been great but you know i've adjusted a little bit anyway but in the first house that we were in we had oh it was cold it was like an older built house and it didn't have very good insulation and the 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so go check out skillshare.com so in the winter there's fun winter sports in new zealand especially uh in the mountains for skiing and snowboarding are a big thing here and just beautiful i had the pleasure of going uh to the queen's town wanaka area and when skiing there last july and it was stunning it was so beautiful like even if you don't love love skiing like just being on the mountain and doing some skiing is so amazing it's just so beautiful and so i highly recommend checking out those places if you are heading down to queen's town click the link in my description as i have went to queen's town recently and a lot of businesses have provided um my community discounts on places to stay activities to do especially if it's like a crappy day and you can't go skiing looking for something else to do go get stretched out of the yoga studio lots of fun things for families and kids so check out the link in my my bio and you can do some fun things if you are in the queen's town wanaka area which i know a lot of people travel this time of year but anyway just so many fun things they have ice skating um you know but it's like you can still do like some people even go in the water like i know friends that have been surfing last weekend but they got the full you know wetsuit on hat part and the feet part and it you know keeps them warm and then as norther the farther north you go you could do a lot more just kind of normal not wintery type things but there's always school holidays in the middle of winter or in july generally so the kids have two weeks off and so what do they do like it's it's really popular there's like indoor pools here some have slides some just have big pools with like big blow-up things that you can do and so there's a lot of like you can still swim indoors uh in the winter uh that's a big activity that my kids always like to do and then there's just all the little different indoor things that you can do go bowling you know but it's still warm enough we can go mini golfing so it's great because it's like it's a little bit colder but it doesn't keep you from doing just a ton of things so um yeah and it gets dark at 5 30 so it kind of slows your life down a little bit where you could have break because it's not light out and so you know it limits what you can do anyway outside and so there's a lot of different options to do indoors in the winter okay well i feel like i can keep talking about winter forever but i think that that's the gist of it but i thought i'd share a personal story as we end today uh yeah so when i like i said i moved here the first time had a great house but like was freezing in the winter time and i didn't know really how to deal with it because we had like a fireplace in one room which kept that wrong but like i'm freezing in the kitchen and just had electric heat and then just like various heating you know it's kind of patchy and then the windows never closed and it was windy and shaky and it was crazy but like yeah so i lived cold and i just thought i was doing something wrong so if you are new here or you're coming here and you're like maybe i'm doing something wrong you're not people just live cold here and so i learned and i adjusted but even to the point where i had electrician come over like is this working because i feel like i'm paying for heat but yeah i'm not warm and so he was like no everything's working i think it's just you know cold and like i just want to make sure i was using it right because i'm just you know everything's kind of new but um i did get a call from my here's a personal story i did get a call from my electric company who called me ahead of me getting my bill and said hey we just want to give you a heads up that you're getting a pretty large bill this month and i was like oh this is not good if they're calling you to tell you it's gonna be big it's gonna be big and i had no idea because i didn't know you know like when you're not used to having to adjust uh you know like it's not unlimited you know like it was an adjustment when we first came here because we're used to unlimited internet and then it wasn't unlimited you know in 2013 when we came um and so like learning how to limit and like we just didn't know how to do that very well and so yeah my first electric bill was $1,200 i was like i gotta get a job i can't afford to live here i mean it was outrageous they let me pay it off you know and yeah that was a little bit of a shock so yep not turning it on anymore understanding that i don't do that and so learning that kind of situation so just be warned that depending on your house you could be living cold if you're in New Zealand or you're traveling or you're doing an Airbnb it might not be warm maybe ask about the heating options but like yeah so that was my story $1,200 they were very nice about it and let me pay it off over time but yeah it was a bit of a shock and like when you're learning to move here and you're wondering if you can afford it and you're going through different seasons it was definitely a bit stressful but just know that that it is expensive and that you can do a budgeting program with your electric company as well um if that makes things easier but yeah so that's me in New Zealand in the winter well i hope you enjoyed the video today guys please comment below share your winter stories what it's been like for you living here in the winter whether you're a New Zealander or you're a visitor or you have just moved here from a different country share your stories below i would love to hear them and also i just want to highlight that i do have an American recipe book coming out using New Zealand ingredients so if you are living in New Zealand and you want to know