I know weird not used to going live on a Saturday We'll see how many people are actually up at this time. It is Oh, it's noon Eastern time.  You're just you know what I am not feeling today Well, that is today. That is definitely definitely today Nick bake, what's up, buddy? What's happening guys Cali Autotech in here? 110 soldier Brian Stefco Justin Smith Mr. EFT salty master. What's up guys? Everyday fleek tech. What's up guys? What have you worked on in the shop today? So today? I've just been doing my truck I Cleaned it. I did some stuff here in the shop I had to do some inventory things kind of looking around and seeing what stuff we had in the shop need to order and whatnot and Kind of got some stuff going on. I've got a Liberty behind me that I've got the This is the way at the front end apart on that one doing some work on Everything on that one. It's getting pretty much rebuilt, but just was touching up the front end on that one Jim jrc. Hey, what's up, buddy? That no is doing a video. So I was doing a video and It's it's gonna come out this week. I'll get it done eventually and It just got halfway through it and I was just like, you know what I'm just not feeling it today, you know, I'm just The juices aren't flowing all right. So I'm just like, you know what? I got to take a break step back for a while and you know, kind of get back at maybe this afternoon Board No, I'm not really that bored Just yeah, I'd rather not sit at home. I I'm not one for sitting around all the time. It's not all that fun Hey from the UK. What's up, man? So this week has been a fun one to say the least we've we've been we've been pretty busy I know there's a lot of guys That are going on right now that are without jobs. They're Hurting for hours for the ones that are flat rate and all but here at our shop. Thankfully, we have been pretty Pretty darn busy and this week has been no different than that We go through See how many hours I ended up I ended up with just just right at 50 hours this week So that turned out pretty decent for the week. I think Yeah, it is just kind of one of those blood. It's just kind of wanting to hang out, you know Usually I hang out on Saturday or Sunday evenings and I didn't get to it last week and you know I just wanted to hang out with you guys see what's up But yeah, it's then another funny thing how many times you had it I also since I got bored I cleaned my truck this morning took it over to the detail bay They're not all that busy got it all detailed up cleaned up got the wheels all nice and shine Every everything all the interior all swept all the leather all clean And then I get a call from my mom and I can't say no to her, you know my mom She's like hey if I bring my car over can I trade it and can I borrow your truck to go pick up Something that I bought over at Lowe's or Home Depot, you know one of those big box stores. I think she bought something She's like can I borrow your truck to go to it? I'm just like Clean the truck for the weekend. You're gonna be nice shiny clean done Yep, mommy's got to use it So I'm like, yeah, I can't say no to her so she's gonna come use the truck and I'm gonna get her 300 and which actually works out pretty good because I got started like I said on that video and I really need to throw in an aspect of a vehicle into it and hers would be the perfect one She's got a Chrysler 300 it needs some services So I uh, I'm gonna bring that in I'm gonna put it into the next video Kind of leading into some talk on warranty services. So that ought to be a really good one Needing a good set of SAE offset wrenches Let me see since I am sitting here at the box Uh, are you looking for uh, ratcheting wrenches because these ones are cat's pajamas SP ratcheting wrenches got their quad drive with the little indents down inside of there The ratcheting mechanism sits very flush. So it's not catching anything 72 teeth Very nice I don't use them that often, but that's just because SAE standard ones. So, um I don't use them that often but the other thing that's really cool about these is the sets are Very cost effective. So these are only like I want to say like 180 200 bucks something like that So this is a really really good set to be able to have Double box ones. I have those but the mountain style ones, um Matt co-branded of course, but I've got him in metric. I don't have him in SAE Can you show the new snap on cordless impact? Yeah, I've got that one sitting there Oh Sorry loud beat There's the snap one big bad impact I got a lot of flak on the last video on this one for throwing that into The list of the top five tools that you should buy on the tool truck And I made the statement that this one does better than the milwaukee and boy guys got all bent out of shape on that one And I'm gonna I'm gonna stick behind what I said in my experience When I've got bolts that won't come off won't come apart big frame bolts. I First thought it off. I always use my milwaukee or my sp mid torque impact If that doesn't get it then I like stepping it up one by one just to you know for testing purposes So I got um the milwaukee big impact. I've got it down here too I step up to it and if it doesn't do it 90 of the time. This is the one that will do it Yeah Yeah, I've got the milwaukee one Back here. So there's the milwaukee one with the one key on it So I got that one and I use that one, but I'm telling you I don't know if it's just because this one's a little bit older It's not older. It's you know, the the most recent model generation. It's only about a year year and a half old I always keep a good battery in it, but I'm telling you guys the snap on one gets off what that milwaukee one can't So I just Just my two cents on it. I can't I can only say what I use Mr. Dow in the house. What's up guys? If you guys haven't checked out, we got a couple of sweet youtube channels in here junk from work Justin Dow everyday fleet tech all these guys jrc 54. They've always got some pretty good awesome youtube channels even mr. Callie auto tech He's got a pretty good youtube channel too. He's just kind of starting things out We'll add him a blue wrench to this He's always in here Kids in your fancy electric half inch drive stuff. Yeah, I air tools. I just It's too much hassle here in the shop to get the air tools out and it doesn't do what these do Yes, I don't prefer to have these all the time and that's why I carry around the mid torque half inch because this one weighs Half as much as this one does This one does about 600 foot pounds. This one does like 1200 foot pounds. Well advertised as I don't think it does that But that one weighs like eight and a half pounds and this one weighs like Four and three quarter almost five pounds. So like three or four pounds less So if you're cranking stuff out and around all day, I like to have that one Now I do still have one air tool that's readily available and that's this one and that's just because It works it works awesome since I got the brute I don't use it as much but I do still have this one kind of readily available because There are still techs in the shop that uh, don't have three eighths ones readily available So they like to try to borrow mine. So there it sits for them Oh, the stubby m12's dude They are by far the most used tool and as a matter of fact, it's I think mine's over in my cart The stubby three eighths m12 That is my most used tool that I have pretty much in my arsenal that one is always in my cart Always sitting in the place where I can get to the easiest because That thing's killer 250 foot pounds and comparative even to the half inch drive mid torque Yeah Lots different there All of those tools Yeah, I guess the the air stuff is quiet, you know quiet But I don't really care about that because most of the day I have my AirPods in my headset.  Um It's it's a lot of the things of preference But it depends a lot on what you do if you do a job that is quite repetitive And you're not moving around a whole lot. You're in the same general area Then air tools are still viable use in the shop But if you are out moving around jumping from bay to bay, you know, I've go from over there We've got a 30k rack. We've got an alignment rack there I've got two bays in here plus a third 18k Two post rack right behind me. So I'm between those four or five bays all the day all day. So electric is the only way I do stuff What am I gonna spend my stimulus check on well I Well, I was wrenching on the dermax. It's actually Back right there. I cleaned it up It does need something done to it, but I'm waiting on a park for it to do a video on that also I think I'll be spending my stimulus check on What I already spent my money on I'll just you know pay that off and be done I just bought a new bed. That's kind of a weird thing to talk about But I did just purchase a new mattress first time I've ever bought a bed mattress whatever online without testing it out or anything So Kind of crazy picked that up been sleeping on it for two nights. It's pretty freaking awesome. I love it Yeah, EFT. Yeah, Chad We we've got a line set every Two or three bays. So it's not always The easiest thing to get to especially there's no airlines over at those big racks There's no drop-down airlines or anything that are really accessible to those So using air on those isn't that great the alignment rack. We have that hunter Alignment rack and it actually has the airlines built onto it for the wheels and tires. So No, really necessary thing for tools. That is Thanks, Justin. I actually That's the other bummer thing. I don't even have the side by side this weekend I haven't done any posts or anything on it yet but Yesterday day before Thursday. I took it over to Um, I did a video with ironclad tint Uh, a couple months back on tint for my buddy's truck for his headlight So it actually went over to him to have the full wrap job done So the side by side is getting wrapped right now and It's gonna be a totally different machine when I get it back. I probably won't get it back for about two weeks There's a guy who says this is about cleanliness.  Yes, I definitely agree with that one What's a good bet my wife is stuck on the temporary exile So, uh, mr. Dow, I did a lot of research on finding a mattress that would work Best for me and my wife We have very different sleep positions also. So that was a little bit different there But I ended up going with a company called helix Uh, they've got a big questionnaire on their website for you guys to fill out It's like 10 15 different questions and it'll match you with one of their 20 different mattresses that they have They have a huge selection and they put stuff together and they build it based on what you're looking for so I went to that website called helix and did that and ended up ordering a mattress from them I slept on it for two nights now And I love it Yeah, the rap pipe. I am super excited about the rap and that is primarily because The guy who's doing the rap his name is chris over at ironclad tent and if you're not following him He's got an instagram page where he does a lot of raps and tent job tints and everything like that over on instagram but um He's so excited about doing this rap job on this specific vehicle that His creativity level is like nine notches above mine I'm I like coming up with ideas and everything but a creative design aspect I find it hard to you know get out of the out of the gate on designing something like he can And the stuff that he has going on in his head is just nuts So the rap that he's got planned and the little intricacies and everything that he's got going with it I am so stoked on what he's going to come up with He's going to have a rendering here probably mid next week before he actually prints in order orders the rap and prints it and everything And then it'll be about two weeks before I get it back But the amount of stuff that he's able to do with wraps is pretty awesome. So I'm super excited about that All right, Justin. Cool deal. Yeah, I got to get that monster. Dude. I use the drink monsters every day Literally every single day. I would have a monster asked captain. I that was my thing But as of the last like six eight months or so Uh, it started messing with me dude. It started giving me like heart palpitations and I'm just like You know what? I I'm not doing that anymore. So for me 90 of the time I'm drinking water Yep Every day fleet tech Now I've got to say that I'm going to be slightly biased on that one I hate working on fords fords require the most special tools Out of any of the other manufacturers. So that's why I don't prefer working on them The new rams their interiors are unmatched By anyone the new ram 1500s. You cannot beat the interior on those the functionality of it Um Not not even like the really high end ones, but even the baseline ones They are so comfortable and the back seat has so much room in the new uh body style rams You can't beat them if I was going to get a new truck It would definitely be a ram and you guys know me I don't really care between manufacturers other than I just don't prefer forward I drive a new Chevy if I could but I drive a Chevy every day But those new rams they are They are right on point. They are pretty easy to work on the Motor sets pretty far back into the things and it is not as cramped and crammed as you know, you would think to work on Chad you seem kind of like the guy who would keep something for a while So if you're gonna be it's gonna be something that you're gonna keep for a while and you know thinking about working on You know five years down the road Super easy vehicle to work on No, I do not know exactly what the wrap design will look like. I am putting it into his hands Uh, obviously the build is kind of cosponsored with sp tools. So it will be Uh sp tools that will be on it with rust belt mechanic mixed into it Orange and blue and it's gonna it's gonna turn out pretty awesome. I have no clue what the End product is even kind of come close to look like yet But once he gets me renderings, I will put some of those up on instagram I will make sure to get some of those 300 000 or more before you get anything. Yep. See that's that's what I like to see guys who keep their stuff Long enough to actually, you know get the use out of it.  If you really have to You know what to do on it I do every once in a while eric will watch other youtube mechanics. Um I don't get to watch youtube nearly as much as I would like to I Have family. I've got you know this job. I'm the shop form here. I've got a million other things I'm doing so they find it hard. I usually am on youtube for maybe 45 minutes to an hour a day. So whatever comes within that time frame is what I get into on it How are the hemmys for reliability now? Um, so the early ones, uh, they didn't really have a lot of issues Unless you were doing a lot of idle time If you had a lot of hot soak idle time That's when you would have issues with the rollers On the lifters and the rollers would end up locking up which would end up wiping out a cam which in Most terms for mechanics. It's not that hard of a fix on a hemmy I can pull the heads on a hemmy which I actually have one right over there We can take a field trip if you want to Yep field trip time. We're going over to the bench Where I've got all these hemmy parts So this is a truck. I've got an o4 ram and I've got one of the heads pulled lifters right there and This one was a weird one So it ended up having some issues in with the oiling on the top end And you can see the tips Of your push rods Ended up getting worn off. So that's the end that it's supposed to look like That's what ended up happening. So ended up having some oiling issues the Rockers in the little cups right there It wore those pretty darn good And this was one of the first ones that I had that did not have any of these Rollers on these rockers that were wiped out had a pretty good tip tick tap to it The top of the valves also See if I can get on one of these are Pretty darn worn it had it had not a lot of lubrication to the top end of it So we had some tipping and tapping. So it's probably going to end up getting New valves maybe a new head depending on what the warranty company wants to do, which is another video that I'm going to do because Waiting on warranty companies Pretty much sucks I hate warrant waiting on warranty companies and this one is taking forever to deal with So I'm having to wait quite a few weeks on even them getting back with me. Sorry to set this up So, yeah, there's the uh one hand me project. I took a funny thing is I took that one apart like Two weeks ago And there it still sits no parts are ordered nothing because The warranty company hasn't got back to us on it So just a waiting game 58 Malibu and a gto judge. That's awesome Heck, yeah, hey, there's captain ron stopped in just got back over to check the comments He needed you to pick up a slot machine in inglewood I can do that man. Seriously if you end up picking up one I can pick it up. I'm not gonna say I'm gonna bring it all the way to chicago area or not, but I'll I'll pick it up Because actually that's where uh my my can am is at right now the uh the shop that's getting the wrap is in inglewood, ohio So I've actually got to stop back by over there in about two weeks Pick it up and test it out. I know captain ron would love to test out some sweet pinball machines or slot machines.  So I don't know about that one I've got to get into the zone Auto zone. See you later mick bake. Thanks for stopping in Just doing some hangout time here in the shop today cleaned up the truck doing some videos Got kind of hung up on a video. So decided to do just see what's going on with everyone else in here They had some great machines. Hmm Sweet Yeah, wear your mask The masks around here Is not a huge prevalence I guess this isn't really that much of a big hot spot Comparative to some of the bigger cities and stuff So we don't see a whole lot. I mean I went into home depot Last weekend and probably out of seeing 50 people in and around there. There was maybe two people that had masks on So, yeah I'll tell you one thing that was awesome. I forgot to bring up. I should have done some instagram posts over it I took the uh side by side over to the shop to get the wrap done Took it in the new trailer first time. I uh took something in it for any, you know extended amount of time It's about a 35 40 mile drive or anything like that And do that trailer and that truck it pulls freaking amazing I never would say that How much difference it is towing between having my first turbo set up on the truck the one big single to having The compound Turbos from hsp on it right now. It made a huge huge different with towing It it tows so much better right now Ooh grilling out today. Now, that's awesome. At least it's warm enough there to do it.  Here's 70 degrees and then the next day. All right. Now. It's 30 degrees and today we wake up and we had a frost morning So it was 29 degrees this morning at 6 30 in the morning. It's freaking cold.   You can come up here and work I'll just switch you right out. You can come up here to Iowa and work and I'll come down there Down into the dirty south and I'll work down there Yeah, Wisconsin. Yeah, that's even worse That definitely is that's even worse to be able to to be up there Now, Wisconsin's a nice area. Don't get me wrong, but If you go in the wrong direction, man, my body would be like twitching. I am not a cold weather person I do not like it at all. I if it was up to me I would not live in the state of Ohio My wife and family and everything are here and she will not move For anything, but if it were up to me, I would not live in Ohio Hey, Callie. Thanks for stopping in buddy. I appreciate it Yep, you have an awesome weekend 20 degrees and flag staff. Yep Sunny and 65 degrees. See, that's all right. That's awesome But that's another reason that I'm glad that I took the side-by-side over to the wrap shop for this week and this next week because You know, it's going to be crappy weather here for the next week and a half two weeks So might as well have all that crap done at that time Got to work on another ram over there. It's a four seven What's my opinion on someone getting certified even if they don't work for a dealership Work on heavy equipment mostly the thought of continuing education intrigues me So I always say this Furthering your knowledge and education is never a bad idea. It is always a good thing Especially if you have even the inkling in your mind that you may not stay at the employer shop Industry, whatever you're in forever. If you ever plan on, you know, maybe doing something else doing something bigger better Having more certifications will always help you out. They look great on a resume. I know Yeah Guys always tell the you know, scream at me I'd rather have so much experience rather over the pieces of paper, but Dude, tell you what for an employer if you see all those certifications on a On a resume It stands out a lot more and it shows that a guy has a lot more drive to go and get those Certifications rather than, you know, just being They're in the industry and working away without being certified to, you know, maybe do some better things See you Dara night shift man I can't do the night shift thing Chad. I I I used to work night shift when I before I worked in the automotive industry I worked in the security industry and I worked night shift then I can't do it Yep, I can't do it. Oh about loss. You're there This thing set up a little better Yeah, I am not a night shift person. You know, if if anything My my body's like an old man When the sun goes down my body starts getting tired and I go to bed at like 10 10 30 Very easily and in fact do most nights and I am done out but 6 o'clock 5 30 in the morning every single day Up an atom right in awake. I can't sleep any longer than that Making a bunch of hot wings and watching Netflix I will have to say that I've eaten more popcorn now I enjoyed popcorn at night and the kids are all about that one. So I've eaten more of that Work on heavy equipment. Yeah I don't have work experience in mechanics, but I have common sense and do exact specs all the time for work While on my own vehicles. Yeah, like I said, it's always better Trying to get in the mechanic field. Oh, I see the other question now Yeah, I mean ask captain run is never too late to get into something that you enjoy doing Ron is 36 37 Something like that and he got into the automotive field at that age It's not too late. You can do it and you can still do a good job and you can still make Living out of it. I'm not going to say it's not going to be hard totally switching and going to The bottom of the totem pole at whatever job you're going to go to but if you can if you have the ability to stick it out, then yeah Ron's an old man. Yeah Yeah, I mean there's a lot of employers especially right now I that's one of the things where you're probably going to have to wait until this whole corona pandemic Is done because right now the hiring on pretty much anybody in mechanics wise unless you have a massive fleet company has Pretty much ceased come to a halt. Nobody's hiring unless your fleet maintenance like everyday fleet tech They are definitely hiring But fleet maintenance is about the only thing that is actually keeping mechanics and actually growing at this point right now Yeah, I guess that's that file You can see that Yeah, right now a lot of mechanics and a lot of employers are just they're so Dispatched right now from the marketplace that it's hard for them to even you know, think about hiring people right now Yeah, I mean that is one of those things that you are going to stop start at the bottom of the totem pole Having some mechanical experience will definitely help For getting into the door somewhere But you are going to do tires and you are going to do oil changes and It's going to have to take you about two years To work up from the low man on the totem pole position doesn't matter what you're going to start where you're going to go You're going to have two years of a hard time and then after that it's going to grow pretty quickly Yeah, everyday fleet tech hiring and getting overtime because he don't work flat rate I hate front rate If you couldn't tell everyday fleet tech does not like the flat rate system He thinks it's a big old dinosaur in it and it's dead Which I can agree with but I enjoy working my flat rate still in this area Hey, that's a good thing for you started your own business, especially in your low 30s. Hopefully you're putting money back Being able to save up more and more.   He's on what by this time.  Yes There it is I don't plan on doing a whole lot today I really want to get the one single video done that I had uh, I started doing which I'm going to be swapping my truck out with my Mom's car to be able to finish that video So I want to get that done and aside from that Maybe clean some stuff up around the house and other than that do a whole lot of nothing I'm okay with doing nothing around right now Just gets doing what are you guys doing over there? Huh, what are you guys doing in your truck? Can't find the right tool I own some tools What are you looking for 22 millimeter Impact Kids these days he's looking for he's not looking for sheep Gary you need some tools Gotcha Thanks Turns out all right you shine it every once in a while Of course, I get it all All detailed out and everything and then my mom calls and says hey Can I borrow your truck? Like fine, whatever It's just fresh detail for you, but okay Yeah, you need tools I got tools That's right I have a couple of tecton Ratchets at the house that I used before But as far as a lot of their other stuff just I don't know Preference on it. I haven't used it enough to really you know go through anything else and using a lot of tecton tools You need anything Gary? Okay It'd be all right, man. You want to use an impact? I got three of them. I literally do Here Your choice Three impacts there to you Seven eighths or a 22 Here use the right tools See you later Justin. Thanks for stopping in buddy Oh, yeah, it's still pretty chilly here kind of sucks now for um for this video that I have started today I'm I'm not wanting to get into a whole lot of manufacturer stuff, but it might get a little sketchy on Whether Mopar is going to call me out for saying how crappy their warranty times are but I'm going to be doing a video on warranty for the big manufacturers and how shitty technicians are getting screwed over But yeah, that'll be a good one. Yeah, I got three still biggie. What do you want? Top three everyday tools number one would have to be the Milwaukee stubby impact That's that one number two would have to be the snap on three eighths brute 72 foot-pounds it works great and then We'll say Just because I'm a light hoe my uh Stream light stinger switchblade You get that turned the right way. That's my favorite light It's still considered a tool right Love that thing Exactly a warranty times.  I had a customer come through ends up. They were Chrysler corporate and what I did not know was Chrysler corporate For their warranty times on oil changes maintenance pretty much anything lower line They have their own time system. I'm like wait, so you've got standard book time Then you've got warranty time Then you've got Chrysler corporate warranty time So not only do they cut it down to warranty they cut it below warranty time to do Chrysler corporate maintenance Really, that's what you're going to do to your employees. I get it, you know Charge in less to the Chrysler corporate employees because they are corporate But why don't they take on the discount for that?  You have to fill out this whole sheet You get paid five tenths half an hour To do that And that's on a ram 1500 So I'm like great. Yeah. Yep.   How do you like it? He'd like me now Uh, they are Zephyl. They they have to be in some circumstances I want to see the mother trucker who can put a turbo in a Cummins like newer body style 1617 18 whatever it might be in 3.2 hours because that's what it pays to do a turbo in a Cummins 3 hours just over 3 I I want to see the mother trucker that can do it because I have not met one single person Ever who has done it by the warranty Different their way and made that book time never seen it I want to see how they're able to do that and I I hear all the time. Oh, you can request a time study You know, that's how you get past these things rather than just making videos on it I'm like, you know how many requests for time studies that I've put in to Chrysler corporate before How many times have I seen those actual times get changed from warranty times? Yeah, no Yeah, exactly four to four and a half hours is the best time. And that's that's what I'm doing Especially by the time you get that freaking motor mount off because there ain't no way That you can get that lower drain tube off Correctly correctly at least now.  It's in my truck, but I carry a walter pk380 is my daily carry Yeah, exactly heavy wrench. I was just going back through and reading these There should be a lower charge especially for Chrysler employees But why are you taking the discount out on The technicians? Why are you not just taking that on as a company? What do I carry tools not gun? In my pocket, I always carry my flashlight my pocket pry bar and Pen that's what I carry on me I don't have them on today because I'm not official Workout working gear here to 4.6 in your system. Yeah. And now that's not warranty time 4.6 hours is You know book time now. That's okay. Yes SP tool review request Double ring long wrench 15 degree SAE offset. Let me pull this part number here because I was actually looking into these and I had not done a review because This is my computers here Okay I had not done a review on those yet, but was uh looking into it and I have seen those wrenches To be able to give you an idea on it Yeah, those are the ones So Chad those wrenches are very nice Uh in the way that if you're looking at the picture of those wrenches, which I guess I can show them to you for you guys You've got the double ring long wrench 15 degree offset You can see here you see the shoulders that they have on here They have very little bevel to them and they grip really really well on those Uh a lot of the guys and they kind of complain about the box end because the box portion of the handle on these Is not quite as rounded as a lot of guys are used to for wrenches So there's that to it, but these don't have much of a bevel to them So these are really really nice for working on accessory drive items Alternators serpentine belts things in the front of the engine in which you don't really have Um, you know that much room to work on. They're really great for that one I don't got no mask in here. Ain't nobody else close to me Uh effective Justin. Uh, yes, we are being pretty Effective here this last week. I was able to turn right around just under 50 hours. So Pretty good there. Thankfully we do have one technician that is laid off in the shop here But aside from that the other three of us technicians the full-time flat rate technicians were able to Keep up and make hours So I have not used the gear wrench equivalent in those new level auto I I I can't give my opinion on that one because I have not used the gear wrench equivalent on that one unfortunately Worker toolbox stores now There is one toolbox store that I want to be able to bring you guys and that is the one guy unfortunately who is laid off It's in the way of my truck, but over and over there um, the guy who's working over there has had the same toolbox for going on 25 or 27 years now Somewhere around them. He's uh 61 years old and he's had the same toolbox for like 25 26 Years And I'd like to do a toolbox store on that one to bring you guys better yet That set was zero degree offset. Let me bring that one up Yeah, Chad. Those are the those are pretty much the same design They just don't have the you know the bent the 15 15 degree offset What I like about most about those wrenches is like I said that shoulder To them how that sticks out that wrenches a little bit wider um, I would I would compare them because I've seen those wrenches while I was at the tool show sp had those at their booth Kind of like these mountain wrenches If this were to not be a ratcheting mechanism This is the same width and these are the uh, the mountain style wrenches, but obviously branded matco It's a lot like these in the same size wise But see how this has this bevel down in here The ones from sp will not have that much of a bevel So it will get more grip further down onto whatever fastener that you're putting these onto so Just saying that's that's what those wrenches are a lot like Yeah, I've I've had gear wrench ratchets and ratchet wrenches before and you know, they're okay They're not bad It's up seven one six auto So the only brushless tools out right now through snap on is the half inch impact Which that one is a lot better than the old monster lithium Uh setups on those that one is a lot better and then um the only other brushless one that they have out right now is on the Oh Is on the polisher Grinder and I this one is not the brushless one But if you go over to jim's jrc 54s channel, he did review on the brushless one I have not picked one up yet because I I just can't justify it yet. This one still works great for me and for what I do So I can't justify getting rid of that one yet just for that reason But yeah, they're supposed to be come out with more of the brushless items Um, they do have that that drill. I think Yeah, they have a drill too that's supposed to be brushless and I've not gotten to try that one out either I do like my mac co ratchet. I'll have to give you guys Is That one that is my favorite ratchet. I got the black and red edition That mac co ratchet is probably one of my favorite ratchets that I have The locking mechanism on this one is way way better Then the snap on one the snap on one just pisses me off to no end I wish this was a little bit better the switching mechanism It just seems like it's a little rough around the edges for it But not bad at all But the actual profile the the head on this thing is lower profile than any other ratchets that are out right now They these work amazing Definitely What do you use for three eighths electric impacts? Impacts three eighths. I use a stubby From milwaki that is the go-to and then the electric ratchet my favorite and go-to is the snap on Um The brute the newest version with 72 foot pounds Amazing I love this tool. I know a lot of people bitching complain that this one is just too slow Rpm wise, but it's got the torque. It's able to get in where I need it to and compared to Milwaukee ones. They've got the market pretty much on a lot of the impacts for everything But as far as the electric ratchets go You still can't beat the snap on ones They're still the best on the market right now Edwin, yeah, I there's a lot of the stuff milwaki that I recommend Um, I like to use the best ones that are out there and I will not tell you any different to that one As far as the stubby stuff The best ones on the market right now. Definitely milwaki As far as the mid torque half inch impacts I did the review on the sp one milwaki was in Very close second, but this the milwakis did have the better warranty So the sp one I love it's at my house right now though. I was using it on the side by side And then as far as the big impacts It's very close between the milwaki and the snap on but the snap on one does Do more impact does do a better job at getting the tough stuff off But a lot of people don't think that it's worth the massive cost difference, which I would agree with I bought this one.  I probably would have not ever done it, but I wanted to do it for you guys. So that's why I ended up getting that one What do you use to take off the caliper anchor bolts? Well, I like to use this one if the Stubby is able to do it 250 foot-pounds a lot of the time that is able to get off what is needed There if not, then we're getting out just standard big half inch ratchets Thanks james All right, let's see go back through some of these questions Have you tried out the new mayhew dominator pry bars? um You know, I have not I've seen them. They remind me a lot. I want to say Were they really close to the mac design? Design of the mac tools pry bars The mayhew uh pry bars were pretty freaking awesome They remind me a lot of what their original design of what mac and sp's pry bars look like a lot too Honest answer. Do you actually torque stuff or do you Just do tight.  Let's see if we can point it out here. I might have to turn it just a little bit Over on the wall right here. You see torque wrenches on the wall We've got another set on the other side of the shop That the shop gives the technicians preset pre-calibrated torque wrenches 100 120 140 foot-pound torque wrenches for these lug nuts if those are not used those specifically They get written up So if we don't see a technician using those you get a write-up. So we torque Everything here absolutely everything and I've got my torque wrenches Sitting here ready to go my three eighths and half inch ones. I use those all the time Is the one key system worth it on the m18? Uh, I personally think it is for younger technicians Technicians who aren't as well versed in using a lot of the electric tools Because you are able to set the different torque ranges rpm ranges. They're very Very interchangeable very easy to set and everything. I don't have that they're using that right now But they still are not a guaranteed torque reading A lot of the guys they think that having that one and setting it to a torque level Will give you a guaranteed like if I put it at this setting it will give me a guaranteed 100 foot-pounds every time That is not the case the newest one with the extended anvil The technology in that one gets the closest to getting the correct torque readings But is still not guaranteed because you're not using any pressure sensors You're still using a calculation between rpm And the amount of times that are impacted before every time it hits So I can't say that the one key is going to get you that exact torque reading every time If that's what you were hoping that it would do, but it gets it pretty darn close So my milwaukey one that I have the number one setting I forget the exact rpms and what are readings and you know what that I may do that one Um a video on that one to show you guys exactly what my torque setting readings on my one key are set to And they get pretty darn close. So my lowest rpm reading on that one Goes to and gets lug nuts that are 19 or 22 millimeter right at about 90 foot-pounds So I'm still able to get a little bit of movement on a torque wrench Before it actually clicks which I like to get it, you know, at least some movement So I know it clicks to to what I need it to We had a guy and not torque the wheels down after a tire rotation service Came off completely now that's bad news and we actually had a um a wheel Set come off of a vehicle once before here We had a younger guy that torqued a wheel down on a lifted rocky ridge Wrangler and a wheel came off going down the interstate And as bad news He he didn't get fired, but we'll just say he was In the shitlocker for a good few weeks and got written up and Yeah, it was bad bad news. It is not a joking matter by any means Is there any unusual unexpected tools that I couldn't live without now I would have to say Since we were all talking about wrenches the I know I have the matco version of these wrenches But the long mountain style wrenches that have this extended shoulder and are reversible ratcheting These are one of the biggest life-saving sets of ratchet wrenches Or wrenches that I even own period these things are absolutely amazing to have Um, I never thought I would use them nearly as much as I thought I would when I purchased these to do testing on But I find myself using these so much more often. They get into great areas When will toolbox widget come out with their socket organizer? So I am very glad that you asked about that joseph because Tentatively that was supposed to happen in april. I can say this now because he posted Posted the things about the socket organizers on his instagram account jonathan, which is the ceo of toolbox widget He's a great guy and I actually talked to him this last week I needed to get some of the toolbox widgets for my home toolbox because All the sp tools wrenches that I have at home.  So I'll be doing some posts on that one We're on the swab out all the foam inserts and the foam trays over to the toolbox widgets But anyways the toolbox widgets are coming out with two different items coming up they're coming out with the socket organization system and some um pliers organization And those are going to be coming out and thankfully or I'd say hopefully in june Ish because of what's happened with the corona virus They're unable to get supplies needed for manufacturing them So they have been delayed quite a bit on what they originally thought they were going to be able to debut on april 1st I was hoping that they would be able to get them out on april 1st But I talked to him this last week and he said it's probably looking like june now Maybe late may hoping for but we'll have to see that one You have caliper bolts even torqued a factory come out after a job In tight standard probably should get new bolts. Uh, the other thing is f il um for our newer vehicles Chrysler is put out and a couple of other people or manufacturers have put out that you have to use um certain Torque either torque spec or you have to use Uh thread locker on the caliper mounting bolts That is just a recommendation especially if you're putting things back together that are still under the factory warranty You better be reusing that stuff and putting them to the correct amount because if they find out later afterwards you didn't That's that's bad news Uh, would you suggest working in a dealership even with warranty time over working in a private shop? so the things that I like about the the um dealerships over the private shop The elison I only have My area to go off of I live in Ohio So I don't have the huge dealerships or the bigger areas to to compare to around here Independent shops do not get the volume of work the dealerships do There's a lot a lot of independent shops around here But the volume that they do is just not there They may pay pretty decent especially if they're a very reputable shop But they are not doing the volume like we're doing so if you are working flat rate system Around here the dealership is able to offer a lot more hours and a lot more opportunity of things to work on in that way plus I like The fact of the dealership that I don't have to work on Every car made under the sun. I probably work on 80 percent 80 to 90 percent Chrysler Things working in a Chrysler dealership. So I know the general lineup of things that I'm working on Yes, I do still work on things that are not Chrysler.  So that's nice to be able to have that one About to start doing a UCI. Heck, yeah, that's actually what is right there behind me That's uh a Liberty that I was doing an 09 Liberty Or UCI that end up dude, this thing's getting totally rebuilt. I don't have the repair order here, but I ended up quoting It needed all four calipers the slides brackets and everything. We're all seized up. It needed four calipers um, it needed It needed an axle on the left front But it was so rusted up that oh you can see it. I've got it sitting right here Right there on the ground it needed an axle But the axle and the axle nut were so badly rusted up that The axle nut would not come off the axle nut is just a giant pile of rust So it won't come off no way So I had to replace the spindle the hub the backing plate the axle All together All one piece they had to pay for all of that all because Let it in the rust belt, you know, you go to start taking one thing apart and everything else breaks Yeah, trust me. I tried a lot of that And it seems most youtubers of mopar are missing any GM mechanics on YouTube Uh GM mechanics, uh, there is 410 auto tech. He is a GM certified mechanic up in New jersey area. I think he's pretty good. He does a really good job at what he does I actually have him on speed dial for some of these newer GM products that do come through here I had um an issue on a traverse I think a couple of weeks back with a steering rack and I little did I know that a lot of those Traverses if you need a steering rack, you have to put a steering rack control module on at the exact same time And it has to be programmed. So Did not know that one and the aftermarket ones evidently you cannot put on there. They don't work So he was able to help me through that one Carlyle tools are pretty decent. I have heard really good things about those I have not personally used them so I cannot give a You know raving great review for them, but the guys that I know of I do trust and they do like the tools Rust certified technician. That's right. I'm gonna have to make one of those badges rust belt certified. Is that is that a thing? Liquid wrench certified Mopar special tool number two big freaking hammer. That's one of my favorite things You get a big old bad boy Wilton out here show that rust. What's up? 16 inch Four and a half pound That the hammer is all business right there if I got to get that thing out Stuff's breaking It's not if it's not coming apart that will make it come apart Are the tool trucks still visiting your shop? Um, yes and no They are not coming to the shop the tool trucks themselves aren't because they are a pretty much Big old cesspool of mechanics touching everything So they are not bringing the actual tool trucks to the shop our tool truck operators are running specialty deals through their facebook pages And they are running things out from their personal vehicles to shops twice a week Two runs they'll make through their their whole line of shops and take out what guys need If you end up breaking any tools or anything like that, they're bringing out what we have broken or done in that regard I live in Ohio in the rust belt How bad is a tool bill my tool bill? Uh, I don't have much of a tool bill right now. Uh, I think on snap on I owe 200 No, not even that hundred and thirty dollars. I my snap on bill is really low and my matco bill. I just bought I was nice. I bought a pair of sunglasses off him. So I think my matco bill is at like 175 bucks on there. So I don't have much of a tool bill right now Yeah, that I should I should get ahold of him Southmane, he's a really cool guy Yep, he's a really cool guy. He used to stop in at live streams a lot Rust belt certified patch him and he's got the hook up to all the fluid film Group I might get with him see if I can get the hook up on that fluid film that he uses Yeah rust sucks Now Nathan, uh, that's another thing that we are going to be putting out the announcement to today Um, that I don't know if the tool heads Uh crates are going to be coming back out Right now with the whole uncertainty and we're not able to get Uh deliveries from what we can shipping services for not essential goods are going down Horendously we have suspended Uh tool heads crates indefinitely at this point and for the guys who have extended Amounts on there, you know, if they purchase three six or you know, 12 months worth of them We're actually going to be giving some uh refunds out for that one because we don't want to just hold onto your money or anything like that We're going to be shooting refunds out Hopefully in the next week or so for the guys who still have Extended subscriptions to that service. I feel bad about that one, but I just We can't get things out on time We can't get the right things that we want to be able to put into these crates It's it's a hard time for anybody on that end. So we're we're going to be closing shop right now Just for for the at least for the moment. I'm not sure if we're going to be bringing it back, but we'll have to see The box paid off. Yeah Yeah, my box is paid off the one that I traded in on this box It it was already paid off and so I only ended up crewing if you guys watch watch the video that I did the last one on Before the toolbox store, but on why I chose the epic toolbox It was already paid off. Anyways, I don't like having a lot of tool debt or anything JC smith in the house. What's up, man If you guys like big truck builds lots of crazy frame cutting and stuff go go and check his Channel out JC Smith projects. He's a really cool guy also He should have the rust belt certified patch because he does all his work here in the rust belt of Ohio too Joseph, um, they they've already revealed The idea of their socket organizer coming out um Like I said, if you go and look at the toolbox widgets instagram page, they did he did put a post out on that Uh, but they are not unveiling totally And opening it up for ordering yet until they have The amount of numbers to be able to meet what people actually are wanting on them So that's why I say you probably won't be able to order any of them until probably may or june I am doing it really good, man So far at least Yeah, I saw you chopping on that frame Oh, some of those big frame jobs those kill me. That's freaking awesome.  What they built this truck for I just don't like that I think it would be a lot cooler with this on that But that means we're gonna have to totally cut this part of the frame off and we're gonna have to put the new rear end here and here That's really cool.  That's a possibility For that one video idea capri versus sp performance quality and warranty process Now that's another one. I have not Used capri tools very much. I've heard good things and good reviews off of them, but that's just we don't have a What's the tool truck that carries capri tools? um, I don't know I thought there was one of the tool trucks that carry capri stuff But none of the tool trucks that we have around here carry capri tools regularly. So I might have to look into that one Uh warranty process. I showed what the warranty process was on sp I broke their, um wrench Is there 19? Yeah, like a 19 millimeter ratchet wrench on a sunday And I had The new one in my possession on thursday So for being an online tool company only Oh, okay. Okay. So if they are an online tool company only Yeah, I don't see why I couldn't do one of those. Maybe I get some capri stuff and I'll see what's up with that and uh You know use it see what we like about it Yep, sweet. I had to send in my half inch milwaki impact again for service Man that sucks Oh, hell, yeah, you sent it on on monday and you got it back on thursday Because that's awesome I so a lot of people have been asking me about the warranty process and everything on milwaki And to be honest on that one I haven't had to use it.  I'm totally messing stuff up 120 Yeah, there's the the torque wrench on the wall right over there Okay Yeah, put those to 144 pounds Vices are rebadged china ones Okay So if I were to do I'm gonna I'm gonna write this down notes wise here if I was to do some reviews on capri tools, which is On another online tool company. What kind of capri tools would you prefer to see tested or tried? Go ahead and put those in the comments and I'll write them some of them down See what kind of comparisons I can do Call up customer service 33 millimeter lug nuts Yeah, they once you start getting above like those 27 millimeter ones That's getting up there for those impacts Especially if you're using them and you're railing on that tool for lug nuts all the time That's a lot for even those impacts Allen bit sockets Writing this down Allen bit sockets Wrenches Sockets we do some of that we do some of that good stuff Yeah, I have not used any capri tools Uh personally, so that'll be an interesting one Or you're off and for you all at a time Dude, you are not kidding jc james That the cost of those one inch ones They are pretty astronomical But they are not nearly as astronomical as the snap one ones If you guys have seen what snap one is going to come out with for their one inch impacts Holy crap In what planet do you think that somebody would be willing to pay eight to ten thousand dollars? For a half inch impact or for a one inch impact dude No, what are you going to use something that gets up to their biggest baddest one? They're they're going to come out with and it's supposed to run up to 3100 foot pounds What do you need a 3100 foot pound impact for bridges? And if you're putting bridges together you think they're buying automotive tools from snap on They aren't going to sell any of them. It's just yeah Yeah See jc, I wish you could try out the snap on brushless one because it really does work It works better than my milwaukee one key does It it just does in my opinion and I all you haters can you know say whatever about it? But in my experience it works better than my milwaukee half inch one key I'm not saying that it's justified for the price of that one By any means, you know the price is outrageously more expensive, but it does work better in my opinion Uh, I bought a set of capri torx bits because I wanted a single full set. They weren't very expensive, but I used my 12 Maybe a couple of times and they survived cool I heard you know, I know they're trying to get into the the big industrial stuff right now, but It's just one of those things where Once your company is known for something. It's hard to branch into another market kind of I guess compare it to Um harbor freight, you know with their icon stuff trying to bust into the professional market. They're just They weren't marketed for it. They weren't meant for it. They aren't known for it It's hard to break into a market like that if that's not the kind of company that you are or you know Pretend to be it would be like Day woo trying to make a 350 thousand dollar hypercar or a million dollar hypercar It might outperform the you know the biggest and best bugatti But you know what it's still made by You know day woo And you can't compare that the name is what it is what the companies are meant and made for doing It's hard to get out of that market once you're used to that one Uh, we are technically not open on saturdays, but I came in here to do some shop foreman stuff To get some stuff ready in the shop and to do some inventory things clean my truck do a video That kind of stuff, but technically not working on customer cars. No Yeah, the the icons they are too expensive and I don't like the fact that They don't always offer Across the board their lifetime warranty for anybody and everybody who has those tools Yeah, exactly jc you put lipstick on a pig it's still big That's exactly right Is that file it's hard to compete, you know to break into markets If you're already undercutting the market with other brands that are within your realm That's why I don't I don't get why they tried to do that one That was a really cool build jc. It was cool seeing you uh have the heads and everything off of that one Reminded me of pulling the cab and everything off of my truck at that was a fun build I actually enjoyed working on that engine compared to A lot of the other dodge stuff that i've been working on in here every single day I don't know just I guess a change of pace You work on one thing or a set of things for so often That it's really nice to get just a change of pace and work on something different in the shop get something Totally new in to be able to experience There's only so many pacificas that I can see in a day and not go fucking bananas Go to school to be on the part storage I like the sonic tools. I have tried Tang tools and some other tools. I like the sonic tools the best I've seen the sonic tools their sockets and stuff But I have not done a lot of work with a lot of their other things Although my wife is texting me. She's like dude. Where are you at? Sorry my bad in the dog house Thanks for the donation every day fleet tech. I appreciate that one. I definitely appreciate that one Well on on that note my wife is calling and I do need to Get back home and get some other stuff done This has been a nice little something different little stream here with you guys I appreciate all the input that you guys have put and I will be looking into The capri stuff I've written down the different things that I'm going to be trying to get To do some things for that one. So Cool deal. I appreciate you guys stopping in today It's been real. It's been awesome And as always you guys stay awesome


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Welcome to the broadcast. I'm David Feldman. It's Pledge Week here in beautiful sunny, California. So we've been asked to put together some highlights from 2011. We want to share them with you. On today's program, we look back at some, not all, but some of our favorite bits of 2011 with Martin Short, Andrea Martin, and Robert Smigel. And while you're looking for a gift this holiday season, if you have room in your home and your heart, run down to the nearest shelter and adopt the ugliest cat or dog you can find. And former president Ronald Reagan stops by to discuss his upcoming centennial birthday. But first, this word from Universal Pictures. This summer, from the people who brought you the King's speech. It's my husband, the King. I'm afraid that once again, he's required to speak publicly. That shouldn't be a problem. As you know, I've been rather successful in helping the King overcome his stammer. Well, this time, it's not the stammer I'm worried about. Comes the story of a monarch. We're going to need every last one of your unorthodox methods of speech therapy. Your Majesty, what are you trying to say? With a mouthful of s***. I'm afraid the King has turrets.  There's Colin Firth as King George VI.  Jeffrey Rush as quirky Australian speech therapist Lionel Logue. I do believe kings are meant to have turrets, not turrets.  And introducing Otis, the King's pet miniverge.  I couldn't have said it better myself, Your Majesty. Come see a film with humor, drama and more British swearing than Christian Bale on a six-day meth bender. The King's speech to talking dirty, coming this summer to a theater near you.  This week, Comcast celebrated the FCC's approval of their merger with NBC by announcing their purchase of C-SPAN. Tonight on the new Comcast C-SPAN, forget the storm outside and hunker down with hearings from the exploratory committee on interstate commerce. Then on Comcast C-SPAN late night, Brian Lamb welcomes guests, co-chair of the Senate Committee for Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Susan Collins, and from modern family, Ty Burrell. It all happens tonight on the new Comcast C-SPAN. This weekend, President Ronald Reagan celebrates his 100th birthday. I spoke with him earlier today. Mr. Reagan, thank you for joining us. My pleasure, Mr. Reagan. And, sir, how are you feeling?  Buddy Rich is helping me out here. A little faster, buddy. Congratulations on your centennial, sir. Well, that's not all, Mike. I also turned 100 this week. Well, you know, a lot of people are honoring your memory this weekend. My what? Yeah, they're honoring your memory this weekend. Oh, yes. As a matter of fact, they're calling it Super Bowl Sunday. Go, Ronnie, go. Looking back at your legacy, sir, what are you most proud of? I'd have to say defeating the evil empire and ending the era of big government. And what would you say is your biggest regret? Failing to defeat the evil empire and putting an end to the era of big government. I don't know if that deserved a rim shot, but. Now, what about people who say you ushered in an era of cruelty and heartlessness? Please, let's leave my wife Nancy out of this. No, sir, sir, sir. Sir, sir, sir, sir, sir, I'm not talking about your wife Nancy. I'm talking about the media who said that you were indifferent to the needs of those less fortunate. Oh, well, let's leave my adopted son. Watch his name out of this. It's Michael, sir. Oh, well, thank you, Michael. Let's talk about the cover of Thai magazine, Barack Obama. Gesundheit. Believe it or not, sir. Believe it or not, many people are seeing parallels between Obama and you. Well, Jane Wyman always had a little of the jungle fever. Is that what you mean? Thank you for joining us, Mr. President. Well, thank you, Jimmy, and all your viewers and Merry Christmas. And oh, and one more thing, if I could just say also to all your viewers. Yes. May. Just go ahead, sir. It may be. Mr. President, what is it that you'd like to say? Well, there was something you wanted to tell our viewers. Tonight on the new Comcast Seaspan, the weather is cold, but Sarah Palin is hot. Tonight, she puts the A in Q&A. Then live from the Hart Office Building, the Senate Committee on Energy and National Resources gives us the outlooks on the 2012 energy and auto markets. Then on Book Talk, a roundtable discussion at a bookstore somewhere in suburban Maryland, only on the new Comcast Seaspan. Joining us to discuss the level of political discourse in America is BBC's Lord Trevor Foblin, whose letter from America has heard around the world. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, Stephen. It's great to be here. It's David. David, I'm sorry. Who am I thinking of? Oh, I mean, I'm doing Stephen Baldwin's show at quarter two. Let's not forget that. Thank you. You're David Feldman Stein. Feldman. Thank you for joining us. Now, where are you speaking to us from today? I am speaking from my home at Wessex-Ponts-Sussex. It's a beautiful home. It was featured recently in Architectural Digest. No, no, no, no, no. You're thinking of my estate in Sussex-Ponts-Sussex. This is my cottage in Wessex-Ponts-Sussex. So that's your cottage? Well, I called it. If I mean, if you visited, you would call it. You wouldn't get within 10 my readies because of, shall we say, where you were born or how you were born and the style of upbringing you had. Anyway, it's a magnificent cottage. It's an old Cephalonter state. You know, with Cephalonter. I don't think so. Yes, no, he's marvelous man, marvelous man. I knew his daughter. Let's talk about the level of political discourse here in the United States. We had a pretty tragic week here in America, and a lot of people are blaming it on the first. Yes, like, Jersey Shore's premiere, I believe. Right. That was pretty, pretty awful. But we also had something pretty tragic, pretty tragic in Arizona. And a lot of people are blaming some of the radio personalities like Len Beck and Rush Limbaugh, who say that the right wing is revving up the crazies in this country. Does that happen in England? Do you have personalities on the BBC who try to get the conservative base riled up? We have a woman named Lady Jane Huffington, Kingston, and even if it's possible, the fat can drip through the radio lines into your home. Now, I've been known to turn the dial to that station and gain three kilos. So, I mean, this is and now that is a different reason of dislike because what she's exuding is everything that's unhealthy in nature. And she sizzles everything, fries everything. But I mean, not on the radio, but I mean, she's I know her personally. I dated her for a while. She was very, very fun. She was free, free sexually. And I'm sorry, what's the best? Well, so she would be the equivalent of our Rush Limbaugh. Yeah, so Rush Limbaugh is what Rush Limbaugh is disgusting, I think. And I don't judge people.  But to me, he's Joe the plumber if he had a community college degree. And yet you were at his wedding. You you were the one. I was at his wedding. I was he's I think he's one of I think he's in a way a marvelous man. He's one of the great American masters and not just because he owns slaves to what he says. And that's why he's a hero. And you and it's because of you that Elton John sang at Rush's wedding. That's right. Elton John is it's an unlikely duo, isn't it? But I mean, that's the interesting unlikely duo is that you have John McCain and Sarah Pylon. They were people that you didn't assume would be matched at all. And you're talking to me. I've never the only time I've ever known someone like yourself with all due respect is if I was having at the pair of pants altered. You're you're in your cottage. Well, it's a lovely cottage. It's it's we call it a canterbury. The interest of great Eddie Cantor buried his sister somewhere on the grounds here. It's one of those it was owned originally by some old cowhills. In fact, on very quiet nights, if you listen carefully, you can almost hear an old cowards voice whispering in your ear, find out the name of the tall one. And many are frightened by these shelves. But I find it soothing. That's why this is where I do all my writing as one needs solitude, just me even in death. For decades now, you've been explaining America to the world. Yeah. And why do you think you, more than anybody else, the United Kingdom and perhaps here in the States, why are you considered an expert at distilling the essence of such a complex place as America? Can you look at a continent with a different perspective? I think America is a very unusual place, isn't it? I mean, you have all these other and they're constantly angry. All of the all the different ways, telegraph or the modern approaches, that's as Morse code. And they're constantly saying negative dreadful things. And I look at someone like Glenn Beck and I say, you can't expect more than a grunt from a pig. And you don't have this rage in England the way we do. You're not as angry a country as America.  My God, I mean, it snows here. And so if we had it at Taney, we'd snowboard them. But you don't. You don't waterboard. You have guns. You have rifles. Oh, my God. Yeah, pellet guns and guns with bullets. But we don't we don't really harm each other. Why is that? We're not good shots. OK, time for have your say, USA line one. Hello, yes, this is Debbie. Hi, Debbie, what say you? Debbie from Dr. Margolis office. OK, Debbie, what's on your mind? Yeah, I'm looking at your record. It's been six months. Yes, six months since your last cleaning. Debbie, right from my dentist's office. Yes, dear, this is Debbie from Dr. Margolis office. Debbie, this is my work line. Do you mind calling my home line? Thank you. Line five. 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Look, if you want me to wait until Fallen has an Egyptian comic on, believe me, I'll retire before that ever happens. You see, because I'll never retire. Harry! Many of your people were disappointed after you refused to retire this week. Retire to what? That's not Hosni Mubarak's style. Not for me. I like to stay busy. I live to oppress, and I oppress to live. You want me to end up like my uncle Tanoos? That man had a successful business selling car batteries to extraordinary rendition sites throughout Syria's tri-state area. His children talk him into selling their company. They move him to Sharmal Sheikh. Within two days, he suffers a massive stroke. Now, now David desits and talks to a potted plant in his living room. Sad story deserves a sad rim shot. But sir, 30 years is a long time to rule your people. They hunger for change. Hunger is funny. They'll hunger for a lot more than change if they don't get back to work, okay? Message clear. I get it. Enough already with the two million taking to the streets. Hey, by the way, how about Israel? Pretty horrible country, right? You've been a very strong ally to Israel. Yes, yes, of course. I'm just saying, Jews are horrible, horrible people. You know, I'm afraid. I don't understand why you're bringing up Israel now. Because it's convenient. I am afraid, when in doubt, Yes. ... on Israel. David, I'm afraid that with all the talk about corruption and torture and zero democracy, that we're losing sight of what a dreadful group of people the Jews are.  A very good question. Maybe I stole a little too much, oppressed a little too much.  Hosni Mubarak kept his feet on the ground while he reached for the stars. I watch you on television. There are millions of people on the streets who want to pull a chow-chew. Because one time... Aren't you frightened? I notice your hands don't shake. How are you able to hold up under this kind of pressure? I couldn't do it without the rape and support of my wife. If you're listening, honey, leave the light on. I'm coming home. Tonight on the new Comcast Seaspan, on a very special Washington Journal, they're beautiful. They're bad. They're flat-out dangerous. Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman, together in one conference room, it's game on. Can you say cat fight? Then at eight, it's an all-new national prayer breakfast. Then, the Senate Committee on Appropriations gets inappropriate. Then, tonight at nine, on the Senate Rules Committee, they're breaking all the rules. The new Comcast Seaspan. You like meetings? So do we.  For more on this, we turn to the BBC's Lord Trevor Foblin. The BBC's Lord Trevor Piglington Foblin now joins us from Italy. Thank you for being with us. The pleasure is mine, but mostly yours. Lord Foblin, what are you doing in Rome? And her name is Camilla. So what are you doing in Rome this week? Well, I mean, I was, I was some, some, some no boo. And so I had it flown in from Los Angeles. And I found it more fun to dine, exclusively in another city that does not have the restaurant, but you fly the food in. So you're in Rome and you're filming a new 13-part series for the BBC. That's right. I'm putting the finishing touches on my new 13-part series for the BBC about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire entitled Eat, Pray, Purge. Let's talk about Silvio Berlusconi. Because you're not. No, no, Silvio Berlusconi. Because you're not. The Silvio Berlusconi. Because you're not. The Prime Minister of Italy. Oh, yeah. He's here now, would you like to speak to him? Sure. Silvio, Silvio, put Camilla down, darling. I think they're, I think they're having a moment. He got confused. He asked me the dog's age and I said 11 and he thought it was literally 11 in a child's age. And he's been very, very, very attentive. Well, you bring up an interesting point. The Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi now faces trial possibly for engaging in underage sex. I think the problem with Silvio right now is overage sex. Have you seen the dear line without his spanks? Not pretty. And, and I did a work out with him yesterday and literally his socks slipped down and I saw the tip of his pants. But it's inappropriate. She is underage. She's. Oh, aren't we the proof? Here in America, we have our own sex scandal. What do you make of this New York congressman forced to resign Chris Lee? Yes, he was wonderful and Dracula, wasn't he? I think he's dating Whoopi Goldberg, which is, I mean, he's clearly a sucker for a woman with no eyebrow. No, you're thinking of Frank Langella. Frank Langella dated Whoopi. Frank Langella dated Whoopi Goldberg. It's impossible to know that a man who could be so effective as Richard Nixon could then serve in Congress. And at the same time say Whoopi Goldberg's my lady. No, congressman Chris Lee. Yes, yes, Asian boy. Actually, sir, I was talking about the congressman from New York forced to resign Wednesday after posting a shirtless photo of himself on Craigslist. He was trying to date women. Yes, well, I found that shocking now that I know who I'm talking about. I saw the photos of this man, Chris Lee, and not only is the man buff, but he's into straight sex and knows how the internet works. And I was shocked because how could a man possibly be a Republican if you see what I've done? That's very funny, sir. Thank you, thank you. You do it all, sir. Thank you, thank you. Is there anything you can't do? That's what I've often wondered. I can't for the life of me, out of... And you've tried. Doing it as we seek. But you're not succeeding. Almost. Apparently, Speaker Boehner has zero tolerance for this kind of behavior. But you do know about John Boehner's liaison. Do you not have liaison? No, I don't. Washington is simply a bar with national inquire, latest revelation about Boehner's two mistresses. With all due respect, sir, it's the National Enquirer. Yes, yes, yes, yes. But they were the first ones to report that John Edwards' love child existed, and they were right about Monica Lewinsky.  And I think he, I mean, she looks marvelous. I mean, the Adam's apple doesn't work, and it's still the face of a longshoreman. But with the long hair and the fake breasts that are now real, I can look at that at night, and I can feel tingling where I have not felt tingling for ages. Wait, you're saying John Edwards had a love child? Yes. Oh, my God. And it was broken. It's been all over the press. And now we hear that the speaker of the House cheats on his wife. Trust me on this one, my dear, dear John-like boy. 2011 will be the year of Beners Bonner. You've met every powerful leader of the 20th century, early 21st century. Is there such thing as a powerful leader who remains faithful to his wife? Well, I think you have to look at the former archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, the president pope. 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We'll move on now to our next speaker who will be joining us virtually, Edward Chi. Edward's a data scientist at Starboard where he's part of the network analytics team that designs products and pipelines to support network governance in the Filecoin ecosystem. He's passionate about geometry and number theory, but today he'll be talking to us about Filecoin analytics for network governance. Take it away, Edward. Thank you, thank you for the introduction. Hello, everyone, this is Edward from Starboard. Today I'm going to give a talk about Filecoin analytics for network governance. All right, so let me begin my talk by making a simple observation that Filecoin has actually become the most vibrant data economy in the Web3 space with a committed storage capacity over 15 EIB and active like amount of client storage deals over 70 PIB. Now, one of the key issues arising from such being such a huge complex adaptive system is that how do we properly govern, right? Govern such a huge complex adaptive system, especially with the case that, you know, we're adopting a community-driven democratized sort of governance framework here. So like there is, in some way, there's really a strong need for an accurate, comprehensive and open-sourced data analytics infrastructure upon which collective decision-making, real-time collective decision-making can be made. So in particular, right, we as a team, we've identified a few key challenges intrinsic not only to the Filecoin governance framework, but also to Web3 governance in general. And we believe that, you know, these common challenges for those data analytics is precisely the key solution to addressing those challenges. So let me go through them one by one. Firstly, observe that each Web3 network is essentially an island economy that involves decision-making from individuals and organizations with essentially different preferences, goals, and horizons. Therefore, what this means for the governance team is that they really need to understand how to balance the trade-offs of different decisions. Given that agents in the environment basically have different preferences, goals, and horizons. For instance, right, say the governance team wants to introduce a Filecoin improvement proposal, we commonly know as FIP, you know, they need to have a very clear understanding like who's benefits, who's expenses, you know, how will this particular FIP introduction impact the entire network, not only from aggregate, but also from actor-specific level. Secondly, you know, despite everything is publicly available on chain, public information is actually not properly diffused. This is a key problem. So if I ask you a question like, what is the current state of the network? What are some population statistics? You know, what are some of the micro trends and issues existing in the network? We need expertise or we need a middle layer to actually extract that kind of on-chain data insights from the blockchain architecture and make them available to the general public. Third key challenge that's observation is that, you know, governance doesn't have to be emotional and political. The key really is to have an accurate and robust data analytics upon which the community can make informed decisions for their shared goals and values. All right, so what I just talked about is basically establishing that network analytics is important for governance. But how do we proceed, right? How do we proceed, go from the first principles into actually building data pipelines that should basically make the insights into product? Well, we start from the following two initial observations specific to the Filecoin and we actually derive some systematic strategies from these two observations. Firstly, notice that similar to Web2 data solutions, Filecoin is a data economy consisting of a globally distributed network of servers and clients. This implies that like Web2 services like AWS or Azure, we need to track operational intelligences traditional to the Web2 data service provisions. Things like storage uptime, reliability metrics, which is also tied to the fantastic talk Tom just gave. We need those like metrics, right? To actually properly evaluate the effectiveness of the Web2, like actually the storage provision service. We also need a very clear KYC, things like, you know, where the top, you know, addresses that are making the most interactions on the network. Now, on the other level, right? This is a second observation. Unlike Web2 solutions, Filecoin is the words data center. What does that mean is that essentially it's a decentralized layer one protocol, right? Basically trying to democratize entire storage provision data centers or data economy services to everybody participants on the network. This means that we also need to track intelligence or Intel specific to the blockchain analytics. Stuff metrics like circulating supply, gas, block rewards, right? Those are the concepts or metrics that this is basically native to the blockchain ecosystem that are not traditionally available in Web2 basically services. Right, so now we've actually move on from the observations. Here's our roadmap. So derived from that two observations. So here's what we did. We thought it was a good roadmap for making everything happening. Firstly, we need to understand the Filecoin's protocol structure and basically build expertise in analyzing the state synchronized data, right?  Next, we're going to map the on-chain data to the corresponding protocol features and design specifications, right? Those are available usually in the source code or open source in the SPAC. We're going to map on-chain data to different parts of specific features or protocol. Then we're going to translate the know-house into actionable insights, charts or statistics that actually support decision-making for relevant stakeholders in the ecosystem. Last point is the most important, right? After we did the first three steps, we need to build a comprehensive data analytics platform that provides intelligence across different angles, across all of different fidelity. So with the principles and methods and roadmap discussed above, very probably we introduced the network house dashboard. So this is our factory product that usually, you know, basically try to analyze views, like analyze the network's health state through different angles. All of the things I've just talked about, discuss the principles and methods, it's all either. So the best way, we're actually trying to provide a section-based user journey, where through the different sections, we provide a very clear way on how we think the governance team should approach analyzing the current state of network. And so the best way to summarize the product, this is a one-shop comprehensive intelligence platform that provides not only current, but also historical data analytics for the ecosystem, especially for the governance team.  So we're looking right now at the first section, which is the capacity and service. This is the place where we track, you know, information related to storage provision on the network. We ask questions like, you know, for storage state, right? What is the active amount of storage currently existing in the network? How many sector commitment, storage capacity commitment has been sort of committed on a daily basis? We also track reliability indices, right? The stuff Tom just talked about, you know, if there are thoughts happening, right? How quickly are those thoughts getting recovered? What is the average fault time distribution overall on an aggregate level for the network? We also track service provision economics, which tells us about, you know, if I'm a storage provider, I want to, you know, put a storage into this network. You know, what is the rate of investment versus return? What are some of the current block rewards I'm going to like get if I, if not now I want to like basically commit. So moving on, we have the next section, which is the circuit in support, right? This is actually talks to you about the token flow. How many fill, let's say, for instance, for example, gets mined, how many fill gets vested, how many fill gets locked and burned on a daily basis? And you also, you can also do data drilling, right? That's the purpose of the entire process. You can understand, you can basically read about the component breakdowns for the aggregate statistics that you find interesting. For instance, you can have a detailed look into the different components of fill locked, the amount of fill get burned, all of those like detailed breakdowns are there according to the protocol specification. So moving on, we have storage demand and deals, right? This is the demand side of the equation. Here we track stuff like, you know, what is the deal inflow? What is the deal outflow current and historical? We also track stuff like, you know, how do we do KYC? Even in a relatively anonymous environment, you know, we want to identify the top adversities that are making the most deals within the ecosystem. Next is exciting topic, network usage and gas. We track, you know, what is the current base fee and also tracing back to the like past 24 hours, corresponding to the EID, equivalent to the EID 150-59, you know, what is, you know, we kind of see the base fee, right? We also want to understand, you know, if there is a, let's say, if there is a base fee spike, what is the gas usage that actually contributes basically can be attributed to that particular base fee spike. So this is where we put things like gas usage, breakdown by methods, telling you a volume comparison. We also track stuff like aggregation, right? Basically aggregation is a scalability technology, innovation the team has made, the PL5 going team has made for approval storage. You know, want to track, you know, once this innovative, fantastic technology is out, how often are people actually using this? Storage provider actually using this to reduce the amount transaction cost. So I've just talked about like a lot about the structure, the theory, the principles, let me just give a particular use case on how the sort of product like such can help with like Web3 governance. So this is a real life use case. So in the past few months, starting January, 2022, there has been various initiatives in the 5.1 ecosystem focusing on driving 5.1 plus the OSIB option. And basically increasing the network utility. For those of you who are not familiarized with the term, 5.1 plus deals are deals with a better KYC and tighter identity verification. So let's just imagine that if I'm a business analyst and I'm asked to write a report on the initiatives, starting trying to drive out the 5.1 plus adoptions, but at the same time, I'm asked to basically quantify the impact of the various strategies developed to drive the adoption. Here's how I can use the dashboard. Next page. So the first place I'm going to go to when I wake up in the morning is I'll go to the deal storage deal section in the dashboard. And I'll observe that this chart called newly committed deals. This actually tells you how many deals flow into the system on a daily basis. This actually taught me as a hypothetical analyst that over the last three months, 5.1 plus deals has actually taken over majority of the deal growth. And you can see by the amount of green area presented in this chart. And it's not actually 5.1 plus deals now accounts for over 70% of all of the active storage deals outstanding. So, I'm a curious analyst, right? I don't just want to stop there. I want to go to the other different parts of a protocol and basically build a multi-dimensional analysis. This is where I can go checking to the storage provision section and see that doing the past months or so, we actually also see some spike in sector onboarding activities, which tells us there is an event correlating with a higher deal adoption is that actually more storage providers are thinking about either extending or joining the ecosystem to provide more service provision coming in. Meanwhile, if I go into the gas and usage section and if I analyze closely the daily network fee breakdown, I'll also realize that another thing correlating to higher deal adoption is that the network is actually getting busy again. Judging from the amount of fees activities, which is a direct indicator signal to tell you how busy the network is. Next. So, if say our analyst, right, is not satisfied with the overall statistics or trends and wants to do a more careful KYC, well, I can just then track the actor highlight and basically identify the top agencies that have the highest amount of participation. So here on the screen, we're seeing quarter top 10 clients classified by verified dealbites. Also quarter top providers actually actively taking five point plus deals. Okay, next. So, if our analyst wants to further drill, right, wants really to get to the bottom of this, he or she can check basically the individual client page and identify the protocol specific behavior and patterns. This is actually really an incentive design, but what we're seeing here on the screen is a three stage, basically KYC funnel. This is called five point plus verification protocol in which there is a node tree who allocates, who sort of approves clients initiatives to actually, you know, store, verify storage deals in the system. So we thought about, you know, how can we capture the transaction patterns and turns out graphic based method is graph based method is a great way to basically concentrate our analysis on and basically build a local level transaction graph analysis for each of the clients existing in the system. So if our analyst wants to dig further, that's where he or she can look. All right, open source insights, you know, we're in web three, all of the insights are supposed to be open source, right? Remember I talked about, you know, not all of the public information are properly diffused, but now that we have done the middle layer working between, we can just build open source these things that for everybody to participate in ecosystem. So we're currently testing, we actually released a bunch of, but we have like very positive feedbacks from people from Masari. Basically we're open sourcing insights in terms of data field notebooks and charts onto this platform called observable HQ. So for everyone who wants to build their own analysis, they can just treat this as basically a dual analytics type of style of like API and just download the data to their own analysis. So exciting opportunities, we like, as I said, right? Fargoing is such a fantastic ecosystem. There are so many aspiring challenges, data science challenges, the engineering challenges, like cryptography challenges we can do, but some of the stuff more related to my line of work is we have tons of visualization modeling analysis just as Tom just presented, right? There's tons of problem in terms of intelligent sector reliability profiling engineering. We have the data available and just about how we can build the best model office. There is also questions related to computational game theory incentive design evaluations and evolutionary games. And also, so I just gave a quick snapshot that we can do a lot of transaction graph analysis on this sort of open public chain as well. So also stay tuned for 5.20 virtual machine, which I believe are one of the next speakers who are getting to more costs. Thank you, please. We're hiring, so you can visit us at our website and contact us and I just, you know, hopefully more people will join in a collaborative build a fantastic ecosystem. Thank you. Wonderful. Thanks for that, Edward, for that really. This is very exciting opportunities for anybody who's interested in data science or data visualization. Definitely that last slide about exciting opportunities, very true. We have time for questions to the speaker. So I love the dashboards that you guys set up and can you talk a little bit about how people are using it already? Like, are you seeing some good responses? Are people engaging it with it? Are they building on top of it? I'm just curious what kind of interest you're seeing from the community in these kinds of visualizations and insights? Yes, okay. So a couple of examples, right? Basically, we have seen basically people inside ecosystem, right? Mainly the governance team. I actually know like a few stakeholders on the governance side who check out dashboard on a daily basis. And there was a lot of stories how they began first observing a couple of changes in the charts they find interesting. And that ends up in an ecosystem wide discussion on, you know, what is the current thing? What is the top like strategies to entire system to focus? So one example is we've actually looked through our dashboard, one of our few stakeholders has actually realized, you know, while there's a lot of sector retirement or exploration kicking in, starting January and after they saw that particular signal change on the dashboard, they sort of very quickly responded to it and just, you know, start building more initiatives on five point plus deal adoption and also sector onboarding rate. This is a, I think is a perfect example of illustrating this. We also have external adoption of people outside ecosystems. For instance, Missouri, when they write the first stage five point analysis report, they were using our like observable SQAPI to build their own analysis, yeah. Any other questions? While you're thinking then I have one actually about consumption patterns of your data. You mentioned that you have both current and historical data available for the Falcon ecosystem. Do you have a sense of how long data stays fresh are people still making a lot of requests for data from near mainnet launch or is it mostly closer in time? That's actually a fantastic question. You know, right now the main, there's like a year and a half, right? Things are being like nonch and we've actually seen a request from stakeholders, let's keep everything historical. Now, as the ecosystem develops, right? As a network develops, there will be the amount of, the amount of like data, the data size, right? Plus duration is going to be a challenge for us. So we've actually been discussing internally how our engineers we can, you know, basically design a good UX experience for people. You know, for instance, right? When you guys first arrive, you will see like a three months or six months snapshot of the charts you'd like to see. But there are also options on the UX side that supports, you know, if you want to see the full historical we can also show that. Yeah, but so far, given the short time from everybody's like, let's just do historical. Great, thanks again, Edward. Any other questions to the speaker before we move on?