0032: 🌟 Celebrating 50 Years of NSBE & Cloud Conferences, AI Innovations, and Job Market Journeys, Plus Toastmasters! ⚡🎙️🏈👔📈

Witness the electrifying fusion of innovation and community as we reflect on the NSBE conference's 50th year and my recent presentation at the Atlanta Cloud Conference. We're bringing the heartbeat of these gatherings straight to your ears, with D Hustle offering a sneak peek into revolutionary AI software that's stirring the tech pot. Raymond's ready to spill the beans on the job market, with a special nod to Glassdoor's invaluable insights, while I'll be rounding out with some slam-dunk updates from the world of sports. It's not just a conversation; it's your front-row ticket to the crossroads of technology, networking, and professional empowerment.

Now, let's switch gears to the subtle art of public speaking, a craft I've honed with Toastmasters over a transformative 12-year journey. You'll hear how eloquence and a dash of humor can skyrocket your career trajectory, paralleled by my personal anecdotes from the Toastmasters trenches. And for the tech aficionados, we're dissecting Samsung's bold stride into the MicroLED Galaxy Watch arena, posing the billion-dollar question: Can they outshine Apple by 2025? We'll also navigate through the competitive tech landscape, from Apple's strategic chess moves to Google's counterattacks, and even the government's watchful eye on TikTok. Strap in for a ride through the impacts on market dynamics and societal shifts – this is your guide to the tech world's pulse.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:01

All right, Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome everybody. It's Bobby D from the Tech Hustle and I got my crew with me. Yeah, D Hustle, what up player, what's?

Speaker 2 0:10

going on. What's going on?

Speaker 1 0:11

Raymond, don't call him Ray Ray. What up, my man? What's up? What's up, good morning. Yeah, everybody's back in town after you know, a nice little trip up to ATL, we'll get into that. How's everybody feeling today?

Speaker 3 0:25

good, good, a little bit better with this weather, I think this weather much better.

Speaker 1 0:27

We even always got something with the weather, oh boy. So let me give you a quick run of the show today. So today we're gonna have, uh, a talk you know a little segment by by me talking about our trip to nesby, um, to atlanta, um, and also um a talk that I did at the atlanta cloud conference. What y'all thought about that talk?

Speaker 3 0:45

it was good yeah, yeah, it was really, uh, seeing you in action in person. Yeah, yeah, that was good, yeah, 60 minutes.

Speaker 1 0:52

Right, you was worried, I was concerned but that was good we'll get into it. And then we got d hustle with some current events. Um, I definitely got something to talk to you about this ai software engineer that just got published, or uh released. Um, that I think it's going to really change the game, so we'll take a look at that also. During that segment, um raymond got a few nuggets. Uh, sound like you're gonna be talking about glass door today you know some job stuff since we came from a conference?

Speaker 3 1:15

yeah, for sure for sure.

Speaker 1 1:17

And then d hustle is going to lock it in with some sports at the end and some um sponsorship. Big shout out to our sponsors already off. We got to come out the gate talking about responses, all right, and then I'll close it out at the end um letting y'all know some call to action things. Uh, talk to you all about our school, um and we a few things that we got going on this week. How do y'all think? What do y'all think about the show today?

Speaker 2 1:40

yeah, good yeah all right, audience.

Speaker 1 1:41

What do y'all think? Y'all ready? Y'all ready, all right, all right. So let's queue up the old joint right here to get. Get me in on my rice. My right mindset jeez, you hear the echo, it feels like my voice are bouncing off of the wall. Now, if you've been to season two, you already know this joint right here. It's more or less getting us in the groove for me to, you know, drop a little gem on our tag talk and we're gonna talk a little bit about our trip to atlanta. Y'all, y'all really enjoyed that atl. Yeah, yeah, man, how about the weather? You like that? Uh, cold weather, yeah, I was like everything was good.

Speaker 2 2:14

I know you and d don't mind the weather so well he's got complaining to the whole entire trip I swear he was the whole time.

Speaker 1 2:23

But I will say Raymond didn't have a good time I like Atlanta Cold weather.

Speaker 2 2:29

I hate Atlanta.

Speaker 3 2:31

Make up your mind, bro, I was bipolar.

Speaker 1 2:34

You were totally bipolar. But our reason for going out to Atlanta Number one to support the NSBE conference. So big shout out to the NSBE conference.

Speaker 2 2:43

It was the 50th anniversaryesby conference.

Speaker 1 2:45

Yeah, it was the 50th anniversary. It was thick and it was thick out there. I mean, uh, how many times have y'all seen that many black engineers, techies all in one place?

Speaker 3 2:54

I've never seen that that was a beautiful sight, it was awesome, it was very cool yeah, yeah for sure.

Speaker 1 2:59

And then I tell you it's like, uh, the first time that I went to nesby, while working at twitter, I had that same reaction like what do y'all mean? Y'all can't find black people that are interested in tech like this or engineering when you go to a conference like this, and it was over over 20 000 students and professionals that went to the conference to actually get recruited by some really cool companies shout out to the ladies and gentlemen that went out there to try to get that hustle 100 100.

Speaker 1 3:21

We also ran into uh uh, one of our one of my mentees eban out there to try to get that hustle 100, 100. We also ran into uh uh, one of our one of our mentees eban out there yeah her and her crew what school they have uh calvin university yes, big shout outs to calvin university, the nesby chapter out there, and definitely big shout outs to eban.

Speaker 1 3:38

Uh, she's actually one of our guests and you know, backstage with bobby d, so we're gonna have her pop up um in later episodes, but definitely um one. One thing that I would say that I take away from that conference is number one that there is still a lot of interest in the field of engineering and technology, and definitely want to pick up everybody that had a chance to go out there and pitch themselves in terms of organizations and stuff like that. I will say that there was definitely a chance for us to level people up because what we were providing were resume review, career advice just to the attendees. We wasn't out there trying to get a booth or hire anybody, but more or less to support the attendees Because if you think about a lot of them, that was their first time talking to a big tech company, right, or trying to get a job or an internship. And I can remember when I first was going there as a recruiter for Twitter recruiting, you know, engineers is how nervous they were, how excited they were and definitely just the vibe itself just gave a different feeling.

Speaker 1 4:34

So big ups to Nesby Definitely, congratulations on a 50-year anniversary 5-0. 5-0, and I can't wait to pull up next year. Next year, though, I really want to be on the stage speaking, though I mean, I'm ready for prime time. So, nesby, holla at your boy, I'm ready.

Speaker 3 4:49

Let me ask you a question, Bobby D. Do they do it in Atlanta every year, the conference, or do they change it?

Speaker 1 4:54

So they do change it. It's usually nationwide. I've been to Kansas Diego one time for their conference.

Speaker 2 5:02

Shout out to Portia out there.

Speaker 1 5:05

Portia from Carrot Carrot. Kansas City fan yeah you can't say Kansas City without bringing up Portia. But in general they have a nationwide. They usually have a committee that decides what city it's going to be in, and then they have all these students pull up.

Speaker 3 5:20

Okay.

Speaker 1 5:21

But I mean not just students, but also people that are professional, trying to transition into new roles.

Speaker 3 5:26

Um they, they usually attend the conference to get leveled up okay, yeah, I was just curious if it was based in atlanta every year or not nah, you're just trying to get back to atlanta.

Speaker 1 5:34

Look at you, ramson. I like atlanta, so especially the, the, the uh, unusual things that go on in Atlanta. Yeah, but he enjoyed himself. So while we was out in Atlanta, we also got a chance to attend another conference. So it wasn't just the NSBE conference to support the attendees, but we also pulled up on the Atlanta Cloud Conference. Well, a big shout-out to the Atlanta Cloud Conference, shout-out to them. They had an event at what was the college that it was at. It starts with a K.

Speaker 3 6:06

Yeah, it's on my social media. I can't remember the name of it, yeah.

Speaker 1 6:11

But it was hosted on their campus and definitely big shout out to them, kenesaw. University. Oh, big shout out to them, huge, huge university yeah.

Speaker 1 6:20

Big campus and thank them for hosting the event. And while we were out there, I actually had a chance to speak on stage. You know me, whenever I'm trying to go to these conferences, I'm trying to get on stage, and they gave me an opportunity to talk about a really cool topic that I can't wait to travel the country and talk about it more. So the talk itself was titled Behind the Cloud at Twitter 1.0, from the perspective of Bobby D, but basically just giving y'all insights into the cloud infrastructure that I helped build and support for a number of years working at Twitter and definitely like one of those really techie, techie, techie conference. That's the thing that I really liked about it. What do y'all thought about it?

Speaker 3 6:57

It was good, like I said, seeing you in person. Like that was good, it was very techie. Like I said yeah, it was good, it was uh very techie, like I said, um, yeah, it was good, very informative.

Speaker 1 7:07

Yeah, yeah, how about you, d hustle? What do you thought about it, kid? I felt good, yeah, and then we got, we got it on camera, so the the crew was there, so we at least got some pictures of it. That's the thing about whenever I do these talk. Sometimes people like yo, why don't you post something? I was like yo, I can't be on the talk and also record myself and post at the same time. So I do appreciate y'all support um, and definitely look forward to the next uh opportunity for me to speak on stage about it. Um, my, my question is was there anything that you learned new or anything that you was like oh shit, I didn't know bobby was doing that, or I didn't know the tech was looking like that. Well, you have any questions like that?

Speaker 3 7:39

yeah, the containers, mesos, all of of that stuff was completely new to me.

Speaker 1 7:46

Yeah, yeah, and I tell you this is the part of whenever I was working at Twitter that sometimes people just didn't grasp how large the infrastructure was, because we were using technologies like containers and mesos and if you're not familiar with it, definitely hit me up, I got you.

Speaker 1 8:04

But just think of containers as a virtualized workspace for a process to run and it has limited resources to it, such as memory, cpu and disk and also networking. But the thing that was really cool about that talk is that I got to explain to you all data center scale, because it's not like we only do this on 10 computers, 100 computers. We're doing this on 100,000 computers hosting hundreds of thousands of containers around the world, and it's by far one of the coolest setups that I've ever had a chance to work on. So, yeah, I'm happy you caught that, raymond. That was some gems during that conversation and, for anybody that's interested in listening to the recording, we did catch it on video. We're going to get it produced a little bit and then keep an eye on our YouTube channel. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and I'll definitely post it out there.

Speaker 3 8:49

It was very impressive, like I said, hearing that and seeing it in person, and some of the young minds in there were very eager and they were hungry and it was pretty cool. One of the guys made a comment. They were like yeah, you guys are part of the tech hustle.

Speaker 1 9:10

I guys made a comment. They were like yeah, you guys are part of the tech hustle.

Speaker 3 9:11

Yeah, they were like okay, you guys are real, so yeah, that was a pretty funny comment so why did they think that we were? Not real. They thought we were ai, I don't know. Just, you know a lot of ai stuff out there. You gotta watch out.

Speaker 1 9:17

So yeah, for sure. I will say at the nesby conference that was also funny too, like we were running into students or cohorts or mentees of mine that this is the first time that I got to meet them face to face, right, and they gave me that same like look like I didn't know you, like they're going like this, like is that really bobby?

Speaker 1 9:35

but I tell you, man, it was. It was definitely a great, great experience, and we actually met a community member out there too. That's a part of our community member. Big shout outs to omar omar.

Speaker 3 9:43

What up?

Speaker 1 9:44

shut up, omar omar was out there and I was like he came straight up. He's like yo, you know, I'm a part of the community. I was like what's your name? He was like oh, I was like yo, I seen you in the last community meeting. What's up, player um. So we are getting known out there and if you're not following along, you need to catch up, because the tech hustle is coming to your city next next up get on the train or you'll be left for sure, for sure.

Speaker 1 10:05

Yeah, so the talk was about um 60 minutes in time, um, with a little bit of question and answers at the end. Uh, raymond was a little concerned at the beginning. It was gonna be 60 minutes, yeah 60.

Speaker 3 10:15

I mean 60 minutes, it's a lot to talk. I mean that was like a state of the union type of verse. I'm like, does the president even speak that long? But I'm like, okay, you're 60 minutes, but no, that was very impressive. I'd never yeah outside of. Yeah, I can't say where I willingly yeah.

Speaker 1 10:32

No, that was good. Well, I appreciate that I left you speechless. No, it was good. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 3 10:37

The stamina, everything, the stand up there, you know, not losing your breath and not looking at notes. Your breath and not looking at notes.

Speaker 1 10:46

Yeah, man, like I said, I'm in toastmasters for 12 years now and that is very difficult. That was sure let's hear that again. How long have you been in toastmasters? 12 years now let's give a round of applause.

Speaker 3 10:51

No that was like most people you see in toastmasters. You know they got to refer to notes or stuff like that and catch their breath. But no, that was very impressive.

Speaker 1 11:00

Mad props to you yeah, I appreciate you, man, and I tell you that that that what you saw there and the reason why I like this conference being that it's low-key, it's not as big as the stages I've stood on before is that you get to see that part of it, right, um, and then I basically use this same talk as what I'm going to speak at other places. So you already kind of know the game, and if you are speechless now, just imagine when I give it. You know three or four more times how much even better it's going to be Right, and I guess that also is a plug for anybody out there that's looking for someone to speak at a very high level in tech but also resonate and relate to melanated, underrepresented people that are just trying to level up in tech. Give me a call, holler, at your boy, I'm here, I'm ready for it.

Toastmasters and MicroLED Competition

Speaker 1 11:41

I can go 60 minutes an hour and a half, whatever you need. I'm just definitely there to uplift and really get this knowledge out. And thank you, raymond, for uh, letting everybody know in terms of the ability. That is a skill, because you also? Attended a talk um a session about public speaking right I did.

Speaker 3 11:57

I did tell me a little bit about it. It was pretty good. Um, yeah, this guy was a Java software developer and he was just emphasizing how public speaking is very important. It can take you to the next level. And, yeah, he was just kind of emphasizing how to give a talk, sprinkle some jokes in there know your material, or the crowd is not going to respect you like you. You knew your material and you sprinkled some jokes in there and you held a. It was good. Yeah, it was good that's what's up.

Speaker 1 12:28

And then I guess the last last thing he put a plug in there is about toastmaster.

Speaker 3 12:32

Right, he did he put a plug at the end and said, hey, toastmasters is a great resource. Yeah, yeah to help you. So why?

Speaker 1 12:38

don't you tell our audience real quick, I'm gonna give you you know this is a little bit off the cuff, but tell us a little bit about Toastmasters so we can inspire our audience to get involved Of course, toastmasters is a nonprofit organization.

Speaker 3 12:49

They are all over the world, and when I mean all over the world, you can go to China, you can go to Africa, you can go to the US. You can type in Toastmastersorg and say, hey, find a club near me, and you can pull up to a club, whether it's virtually or in person. And, like I said, they've been around for maybe almost 100 years. It basically teaches members how to be better speakers in public and leaders. So if you're trying to level up your game with speaking in public and just being an overall better leader, check out Toastmasters. It is basically the cheapest self-improvement that you can attend to be a better public speaker.

Speaker 2 13:27

Yeah, so yeah, and you go in yourself, correct?

Speaker 3 13:30

I go in in person just to kind of get out the house. I could attend virtually, but you know we have people that attend virtually, but I go in person every week. Like I said, I've been doing it for 12 years.

Speaker 2 13:39

He's not a guy, so yeah.

Speaker 3 13:43

But yeah, no, like I think it helped me out tremendously to my career, because one time, um, I worked at a company and my boss wanted to promote me and he was like ray, I want to promote you, but I think I'm, I think you should join toastmasters.

Speaker 2 13:56

And I joined toastmasters and got promoted and yeah so you're saying this if you didn't join toastmasters, you wouldn't get promoted.

Speaker 3 14:04

Basically, yeah, at that time at this job that I was yeah. So, yeah, it kind of felt like I know right, but um, but yeah, yeah but the skill itself, the skill itself on just being able to speak yeah in public, people take you more seriously. It's a skill that is invaluable 100 and I highly highly recommend um developing that skill.

Speaker 1 14:26

I mean, I've attended a few of your Toastmasters meetings and, like you said, it is an organization that's definitely going to sharpen that skill set and I want to encourage everybody to take a look at that, because this ability to speak has been one of my superpowers, especially me being who I am melanatedrovert, extrovert but because I can hold a conversation to a crowd and or really just drive home the points, bring things up and also just speaking in front of CEOs and executives, that ain't nothing to me but that skill itself is definitely something to take y'all far with it.

Speaker 1 14:59

Big shout outs to you, shout outs to Raymond and Toastmasters he's dropping a little nugget earlier, so let's give raymond a little nugget right there. Sign up at toast masters. Actually I just seen the site and y'all can just definitely check it out in our discord in the um podcast. It's a hundred year anniversary hundred years wow hundred year anniversary.

Speaker 2 15:18

Shout out to 100 years. Yeah, 100 years. Raymond, not have been there 12, all right all right, well, definitely check out our uh discord.

Speaker 1 15:29

Uh, you can definitely check out the links that we dropped in there from the atlanta um cloud conference um, a little link in there for the 50th for nesby and definitely check out toastmasters. And don't forget to subscribe to our youtube because we will be posting some parts and clips of the talk that I did so you can all level up and if you're trying to get me on stage, holla at your boy.

Speaker 3 15:49

Like and subscribe. If you don't, you're a hater, wow.

Speaker 1 15:55

Raymond's coming with the heat All right now. So we're going to jump into our next segment. Here. It looks like we got D Hustle coming up. What's up D Hustle?

Speaker 2 16:10

What's going on everybody? What's going on morning, morning, morning. Uh, you know how it is Samsung and iPhones and all this other good stuff and give you a little technology action going on here. So Samsung is trying to launch a micro led galaxy watch by 2025 oh, and they're trying to compete with who?

Speaker 2 16:23

Of course, Apple With Apple right, of course, of course, but Apple recently having some issues over the micro LED also. So here's my question how are you guys going to launch a micro-led Galaxy by 2025, but are reading that Apple's having issues with it overall? What's the difference? Are you trying to say one company is better than the other? Are we able to fix what Apple is not able to do?

Speaker 1 16:50

I don't know. I think it's Fire Alarm. They're trying to start a fire.

Speaker 3 16:54

They're both trying to come up with this MicroLED.

Speaker 2 16:55

Yeah, both of them trying to come up with the MicroLED. So I got here. So Korean Giants rumor saying that the technology Galaxy Watch variant is a tipster starting, intended to launch a big target in 2025. But unfortunately, apple previously reported with being experienced its own struggles without withdrawing development altogether. So means that Apple is still trying. They can't figure it out. Hopefully Samsung can figure it out. Hopefully samsung can figure it out. They buy it. Figure out what the fuck they did, yeah, yeah and then use that same technology that's how they trying to.

Speaker 3 17:32

That's how you said samsung's always get their shit up first, and then apple comes right behind scoop it right up, scoop it right up interesting yeah, I mean I know they got the micro led tvs now do you? Guys know much about the micro led. What is like the big thing with them, I mean.

Speaker 1 17:47

I mean, I think it's going to be like, if you think about just display energy savings and stuff like that, that's what they're iterating on I mean these mobile watches. Um number one, I remember back in the days mine used to get hot and heated because it was just running too much is trying to reduce the amount of power consumption by using these new tech. It's kind of the way that I feel like what they're working towards. But you said Apple's already been trying to do this and now Samsung's.

Speaker 2 18:13

Yeah, been trying that for the past some time, but also Apple has tried to compare Android watches andrew, I'm sorry apple phones and android watches. To try to compare them for three years and hasn't been working at all wow yeah so.

Speaker 1 18:30

So basically, it's just, it's that and this is the thing about the the apple android mixing, right. So some people have, like a, an iphone with a android watch and there's still some missing pieces, but but Apple purposely does this so that they can force you onto their platform. So they say, hey, if you have an iPhone, you should get an iWatch, right, and you should get a Mac or you should get a Apple TV type stuff, to stay in the same ecosystem.

Speaker 3 18:57

Yeah, I mean, it just works better when you're in the same ecosystem, though, don't you think?

Speaker 1 19:02

Yeah, I mean it is is, but I think sometimes it does create a space for like a monopoly situation.

Speaker 3 19:08

Okay, but I'm glad you brought that up with the whole monopoly, with the big trust antitrust apple's getting sued yes why is it a monopoly when I am choosing what I want to go with, like, I want to choose the apple system, yeah, I want to use it. You have the choice. If you want to use Android, that's your choice. They're not forcing anybody. So how is that a monopoly?

Speaker 1 19:31

I mean, it's the options that are available to you. So let's say that we go and buy cars Back in the days there was only Ford, right, and then they came out with Toyota, and then they came out with Mitsubishi, and then they have all these other versions of these cars, but let's say that Ford was the only one, ford is the only one. Ford gives you five different flavors, but they're all Ford. That's what they're saying.

Speaker 1 19:55

A monopoly is Even though you have the option to go buy some other stuff is because when you overwhelm the market with one of your products, they're saying it's not fair. I don't know how a capitalist you know society like embraces this idea of monopoly because technically that's what you're doing, right, monopoly gaming, right, you're just basically owning all of the assets or all of the products, or you're the only one that services so you can make the most money. Right, but that's the reason why they have these laws, so that one company or one person doesn't only make that one product and they're the only one making all the money. But they're not.

Speaker 2 20:29

Well, it just says here I mean I was reading up. It says Apple reportedly spent three years trying to make Apple Watch for Android and it has not worked at all. Did a major lawsuit, uh by the doj on thursday, apple makers accused by creating a monopoly for iphones and other devices mentioned, including apple watches.

Speaker 1 20:52

It's interesting but if you spent three, years.

Speaker 2 20:55

Um, according to um nine to five mac on thursday the company cited technical limitations as the reason it didn't happen.

Speaker 3 21:05

Interesting yeah, so what limitations are you having?

Speaker 2 21:07

you're gonna get. I mean, I'm fine if you're gonna give me the little green letter right on the bubble, but yeah, I mean, I'm not an apple fanboy here like defending everything I mean, I'm not, I'm just saying, there are choices, you can pick what you want.

Tech Competition and Monopolies

Speaker 3 21:22

So I'm just I don't, I don't get it, so but yeah, no this seems kind of strange to me.

Speaker 1 21:27

I don't think that's a monopoly personally, but hey I mean that they're trying to avoid it from being a monopoly. That's why they're doing these things, like trying to put apple watch for android, so that they can.

Speaker 3 21:36

You know why do they have to open up their tech to the competitor, get better like why isn't google not making their technology work with Apple? Why does Apple have to do? I don't know. I'm just saying so, just playing devil's advocate here.

Speaker 1 21:49

I feel you know and I do understand, like in terms of just like, if the options are there, then why is there a monopoly? But it's just, Apple's a trillion dollar company and they're just constantly like taking even bigger chunks of the mobile market. I don't know. The US government has their, has their ways of doing that actually that reminds me of something else I forgot to put on our notes.

Speaker 1 22:09

Uh, y'all heard about tiktok tiktok trying to get banned yeah they're trying to get banned, but the us government is forcing them to sell some of the assets to an american company did y'all hear that yeah I mean that's kind of kind of nasty.

Speaker 3 22:22

But you, you know my stance on TikTok. When it came out, yeah, no, you do, you're kind of happy about it. I'm not happy, I'm not really upset about it, but you know, it's just those TikTok challenges People just getting into crashes and eating, you know, dish soap and all that. I mean TikTok. I mean there's no YouTube challenge, there's no Facebook challenge. Yeah, I'm just saying, I mean, I'm not entirely upset.

Speaker 2 22:48

Anything is going to come down to like back in the days. You remember that game that we couldn't with that little flapping bird, that goes over yeah yeah, there was only a certain amount for certain phones and then if you had that installed, the phone would go. I wonder if they're going to happen to that the TikTok, because I'll buy several phones and download TikTok and make this money out of this thing. No, that's funny yeah, that happened.

Speaker 3 23:08

That happened when uh twitter rebranded to x. There were some people that refused to do the update. Yeah, the twitter logo.

Speaker 1 23:14

Yeah, for sure, so yeah, I, I actually uninstalled, so I haven't even reinstalled it yet oh, it has x on it? Yeah, I don't even notice it. They actually had that little battle on linkedin so I was like, yeah, so people that worked at Twitter Bluebird say no, we want to keep our Bluebird icon for Twitter rather than switching it to X, because obviously that's a new company.

Speaker 2 23:35

Is it X? I don't understand X. I feel like it's what X rated over Twitter.

Speaker 3 23:40

I don't know, I still call it Twitter, yeah, fax.

Speaker 1 23:49

That's the thing everybody still calls it twitter, but x. I don't know whether you call it hashtag, because that's when you guys got the hashtag facts.

Speaker 2 23:52

I mean they could have come up with a better name.

Speaker 1 23:53

Yeah, yeah, the pounds, the pound sign, the artist formerly known as twitter, yo did y'all hear how I was introducing myself to the students when I told them I used to work at the bluebird yo bluebird that exactly

Speaker 1 24:04

that's crazy that I have a way of describing I used to work at the Bluebird the Little Bluebird Exactly. That's crazy. I have a way of describing I used to work at Twitter, where I say something like I used to work at this social media company I don't know if you know it, it's the one that used to be the Little Bluebird and everybody just goes crazy. They're like I don't know what Bluebird, what are you talking about?

Speaker 2 24:18

I had to think about it, oh, twitter.

Speaker 1 24:21

I was like dang. And that's not even a year since they changed the name. The brand is already gone. Everything is changing. That is crazy. It's changing yeah.

Speaker 2 24:32

But another thing that Apple has I know we talked about this before, but Raymond has it the AirTag. You pay like $25, right?

Speaker 3 24:39

Yeah, I got it so.

Speaker 2 24:40

Samsung now has it for $20. They're having a big sale going on. So if you want to get those sale tags, there's $19 off, usually $99. If you want to buy a bundle, it's just $4.

Speaker 3 24:54

Amazon, amazon, okay, cool, yeah, they're great.

Speaker 1 24:58

Yeah, so Amazon's selling it.

Speaker 2 25:00

Yeah, so you get a pack of four for $80. That's just like $19 off Interesting, so it is $20. But guess who's not behind. Guess who's right behind it who? Samsung.

Speaker 1 25:09

Samsung with their own tag.

Speaker 2 25:10

Samsung got a tag, now Samsung big spring sale Discount Samsung Gatling Smart Tag 2, which means it's been around I didn't know that For $21 each Wow.

Speaker 3 25:21

Did you guys know they had a tag?

Speaker 1 25:22

I knew they had a tag. I'm going to do the fire alarm because they're going in for competition now, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 25:27

We'll put it on here on Discord, just so you guys can see.

Speaker 3 25:29

I never knew they had a tag.

Speaker 2 25:31

And if you look at it, it's really smaller than the Apple.

Speaker 3 25:35

Yeah.

Speaker 2 25:35

And it looks like you can hold the key to it. Yeah yeah, actually, I like this better than the regular tag.

Speaker 3 25:43

Interesting. I didn't know they had a tag yeah, yeah and it's the same price $21 if you like, interesting $21 from $30.

Speaker 2 25:53

And now also on sale for $70 from originally $100, which drops the Galaxy Sands on to $17.50.

Speaker 1 26:00

Wow, wow, yeah, amazon, that's cool they're coming out here for to get at it.

Speaker 3 26:07

Yeah, I mean, you know? Look, that is competition. There's nothing wrong. That is not antitrust. You know what I'm saying? You get to pick what you want, just like with I'm going on a rant here. Just like with Amazon, echo. Or if you want to use the Google ecosystem, it's what flavor?

Speaker 3 26:24

you want to use? That's not. You know why isn't there. I mean, are you want to use the Google ecosystem? It's what flavor you want to use? That's not. You know why isn't there. I mean, are you going to come out with their Amazon next? So yeah this government is tripping, in my opinion. I think they just want to be in control.

Speaker 1 26:37

Yeah, I think so too. That's what it really is. They're not being controlled.

Speaker 2 26:39

They need to figure out what we're doing. We're in debt right now. They need to figure out how are we going to pay everything back.

Speaker 1 26:44

And what they really need to figure out is how they can get more taxes out of fucking Apple and all these companies, because that's what's the really big problem is, they collect too much money and they're not getting their money back.

Speaker 2 26:54

For me, apple died since Steve Jobs died. For me, personally, I don't see nothing new. The newest thing I see is the version. The Pro version, the Vision, yeah, that's the only thing I see since it's been it's the same phone every freaking year. Facts.

Speaker 1 27:10

Yeah.

Speaker 2 27:10

Same watch every year?

Speaker 1 27:12

Yeah Well yeah, I mean, they're riding that wave, they're trying to ride it until they can't ride no more almost.

Speaker 2 27:17

Yeah, but nothing's changed, nothing's changed.

Speaker 1 27:26

I think it's dangerous. The pro, that's it, yeah. Yeah, I mean technically, I think their business strategy is that the, the pros, the vision pro, will eventually be the device, like everything is going to move towards that.

Speaker 2 27:31

So I guess that's their next so everybody's walking with helmets on their head the simpsons predicted this did they? Yeah, yeah, they did.

Speaker 3 27:42

I'm watching the simpsons they predicted covid yeah, they predicted trump would be a president yeah, yeah, the submarine.

Speaker 1 27:51

That's crazy but, yeah, we definitely. I mean, have y'all seen anybody out with it yet?

Speaker 3 27:56

I haven't seen a vision pro yet just on the internet not in person, just on the internet, like d said. You know podcast that I watch and stuff like that have you seen?

Speaker 1 28:03

anybody in person I haven't haven't seen anybody. There's two things I haven't seen yet. I haven't seen a Cybertruck yet and I haven't seen the PlayStation. Oh, I've seen Cybertrucks.

Speaker 3 28:10

Just go down on Okeechobee, right by the house. There's a Tesla right there by the house. Yeah, there's the Tesla store.

Speaker 1 28:16

I don't think a Cybertruck is going to be there.

Speaker 3 28:19

I saw the Cybert. They were ready two weeks ago too.

Speaker 2 28:22

And they haven't sold no they've been sold yeah. So it is sold yeah.

Speaker 3 28:27

Okay, these guys were like ahead of the curve. They had their orders in, like you know, two years ago, ah, okay okay, you're driving by and it's still in the dealership.

Speaker 2 28:34

You got questions.

Speaker 3 28:35

No, yeah, yeah, you can't go and just get one though.

Speaker 1 28:38

Yeah, you still can. Are they reselling them yet, or?

Speaker 3 28:42

They are reselling them over market.

Speaker 1 28:43

So yeah, didn't. Wasn't you telling me about that some, or you D about a football player?

Speaker 2 28:48

No, I think it was.

Speaker 1 28:48

Raymond oh that was given overcharge for a Cybertruck.

Speaker 3 28:52

Yeah, dealership tried to take advantage of a football player.

Speaker 2 29:03

Tried to over market by $130,000 over MSRP, which is totally illegal per Tesla standards. Here's the funny part about it Like you said, he was going to fucking buy it. He was going to buy it $250,000. Good lord Because Tesla.

Speaker 3 29:12

The marketing is out of the window. Tesla Elon has did it.

Speaker 1 29:16

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 29:16

Everybody wants it, so they made fun of it, but he's winning.

Speaker 1 29:19

Wow, and then what the case is Is that people pay just about anything to get out.

Speaker 3 29:23

This kid wanted, wanted. He was like what is it going to take for me to walk out the door with this and you say, you call his agent and then and work out but that was just scummy big shout outs to his financial advisor.

Speaker 2 29:32

Good shout outs, he would have told him yeah, yeah big shout out, says financial writer, probably a fiduciary accountant yeah, that's all I got there, gentlemen, but other than that, that's all I got there, gentlemen.

Speaker 1 29:44

But other than that, ooh, next up.

Speaker 2 29:46

That's what I've been waiting for. That's what I want to hear.

Speaker 1 29:49

Raymond, don't call him Ray Ray. What up player? What's up gentlemen, morning morning I had. You got a few nuggets to drop today. What's?

Speaker 3 29:55

good, Ken, Just a couple couples. So question for you and the hustle here what up? Obviously we surf the internet. Obviously you know whether it's personal business. Curious for you guys do you have like a preferred browser that you use preferred browser, so I'm a chrome browser okay, so am I yeah, the first thing I do whenever I get a computer.

Speaker 1 30:18

I don't even start up safari, I don't even look at internet explorer. I don't even know what they call it on windows anymore well uh, I just install chrome or offer it okay, now I use chrome as well.

Speaker 3 30:28

I use all of them. I use chrome, I use firefox what do you use?

Speaker 2 30:30

I use both.

Speaker 3 30:31

You use both chrome and firefox chrome firefox uh safari safari okay yeah and uh, I use safari as well. Um edge is the rebranded version of internet explorer and just give some. I can't believe I'm saying this, but Edge is pretty good. It's based off of the Chromunium, just like Chrome. It's basically just like Chrome.

Speaker 3 30:51

Yeah, yeah so yeah, they have leveled up, though, but still people don't use it. Like I said, I use Chrome, but yeah, I used to work at this place and one of my coworkers used to use something called DuckDuckGo. I don't know if you guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's based off of privacy. This guy was like a freaking, you know privacy nut. So what I went to nuggets I wanted to give you about is quant.

Speaker 1 31:15

It's another private quant q w a n t oh yeah.

Speaker 3 31:16

So if you're like one of those big conspiracy well, I wouldn't say conspiracy if you're all about privacy, check this out. It's another browser, it's a european-based search engine and they stand on privacy. It's just like duck duck go, because I used to wonder why my co-worker used duck duck go, yeah, yeah, he's like oh man, they track everything and yada yada. So check out quant. If you're one of those people that are very privacy based, they don't use any, uh, cookies they don't sell your information.

Speaker 3 31:43

Yeah, they don't store, they don't sell it, they don't use cookies or anything. It's a european-based search engine and they stand off of privacy.

Speaker 2 31:50

So yeah, don't you know check it out.

Speaker 3 31:52

If you're into, you know privacy and all that.

Speaker 2 31:55

I'm gonna use that when I book my flights.

Speaker 1 31:56

Yeah, yeah he's like that's how I get my discounts.

Speaker 3 32:00

Man like you can't even you know, launch a browser and just it. Just yeah, it's always listening. One time I was like talking about cookies randomly and I went back home and I loaded up my browser and it started sending me stuff about cookies. Yeah I was like I never even typed cookies or nothing, but it's always listening yeah so yeah, that's a little frustrating part about it.

Speaker 1 32:21

So yeah damn alexa, before you know it, cookies are going to be delivered at the house and all you're going to see is just the amazon transaction.

Speaker 3 32:30

It was creepy, so yeah, so yeah, oh, that's what's up?

Speaker 1 32:33

it's a private search engine, um, and they also have a map, an extension that you can add to existing browsers, um. But yeah, it's a. It's a european-based search engine that's leaning on privacy. Actually, it's a European-based search engine that's leaning on privacy. Actually, it's a French search engine French okay.

Speaker 2 32:49

Launched in February 2013.

Speaker 1 32:52

It says that they claim to respect the privacy of its users and not tracking them for advertising purposes, nor reselling their personal data. Wow, Raymond, that's a good one to find player.

Speaker 3 33:01

Yeah, you know, trying to level up the game here and level up our audience. So yeah, you know, so check it out.

Speaker 2 33:08

Yeah, for sure, july 2023.

Speaker 3 33:11

On July 2013, about 10 years ago. Cool, cool.

Speaker 2 33:14

All right, Cool. That's what's up.

Speaker 3 33:15

Yeah, so next nugget here being that we just came from two conferences here NSBE in particular, where 20,000 black and brown students were trying to look for jobs, and we went to the Atlanta Cloud Conference, I figured you know. Let me give you something related to jobs. Have you guys ever heard of Glassdoor?

Speaker 1 33:34

Yeah, glassdoor is a gem, yeah, old school.

Speaker 3 33:37

You know Glassdoor for our audience here, if you never heard about it, it's a site that you can go on and kind of, you know, do some background information. Let's just say you're getting an interview with XYZ company. You can go ahead and type in XYZ company inside a glass door and it's real reviews from people that actually work there or used to work there. You know, take everything with a grain of salt, don't just believe everything that's on there. But people put interview questions, people put salaries. I've used it quite immense of times. One time I went for an interview at Citrix. Bobby D and I used Glassdoor and looked up and read several interview questions, looked at salary histories. Yeah, it's a good resource if you're in the job market or if you just want to. You know, do some research on a company, check it out. So Glassdoor.

Speaker 1 34:26

Yeah, big shout-outs to Glassdoor. I actually use Glassdoor a few times too, especially number one, checking out to see how the company I'm working for is doing.

Speaker 3 34:36

Oh, there you go, I did too.

Speaker 1 34:38

It definitely gives you some insights into stuff that you might not even be aware of, but then the other thing is that that, uh, this just becomes like the centralized place for, like you said, people looking for job opportunities.

Speaker 3 34:49

this is like the second place that I go after I go to their website nice like I go to the company's website, check out the blogs check out the abouts and then I go straight to glass door and look at what's really going on nice yeah um, but yeah, a big shout out to glass door and um, yeah, that's a really really good nugget there, raymond yeah, yeah, I worked at a company one time where, yeah, there was a person that put some information about the company and, yeah, they kind of found out it was this certain individual. Even though it's supposed to be anonymous I don't know if this person put their name on and, yeah, they uh they got let go yeah, they got let go wow, so that was the rumor that's great yeah so, so, um, I'm I'm a person that supports transparent transparency.

Speaker 1 35:31

Um, and uh, if you are a whistleblower, you should have a space to have, uh, an opportunity to bring things to light. Um, and anonymous is your key. Yeah, stay anonymous. Don't ever you know you ever see one of those things like uh, we won't be looking at your stuff, we won't tell anybody about it. Uh, what's your name, what's your email? Go ahead and post it. I never, never, ever, ever, ever trust that stuff. Yeah, they're recording it somewhere definitely.

Speaker 3 35:59

And another thing, since you're talking about the recording and we were talking about privacy, so do you guys ever use incognito mode in uh chrome?

Speaker 1 36:06

oh, yeah, for sure, yeah, yeah it's false, it's not really incognito.

Speaker 3 36:11

No, they've have stories and research. They've proved that they could still, you know, find out who you are, even if you're using an incognito mode.

Speaker 1 36:19

So yeah, I didn't know that yeah.

Speaker 3 36:20

So just you know another reason why to use quant so yeah, they've proven that incognito mode is bs. So just another reason why to use Quant or DuckDuckGo, the one that my ticket price is another low.

Speaker 1 36:27

I'm just saying so yeah they've proven that incognito mode is BS, so just throw it out there. I knew it, I did too Bastards.

Speaker 3 36:32

Because you're saying privacy and being an anonymous. Bobby D just wanted to throw it out there 100%.

Speaker 2 36:37

And I still was getting pricey.

Speaker 1 36:38

So what's the use?

Speaker 3 36:46

You using nugget today? Uh, yeah, I've been using duckgo as well. I mean, I still use chrome, don't get me wrong, but you know so.

Speaker 1 36:49

But uh, yeah, just throwing it out there for sure and interesting, and I don't know if you've ever like searched on the internet. Um, when you like, have a fresh install of something, or in quote-unquote, incognito, or this other browser, like you said, duckgo, or the one mentioned today. How, how different the internet is when you actually access it that way. Like d is like yo, I can get cheaper tickets.

Speaker 1 37:07

Yes, you can get cheaper tickets because it's not doing no caching and looking at your cookies and stuff like that and it's just that first customer experience that you're getting. Um, I'm actually a little pissed when you said that incognito mode is an incognito mode, right I rely on it.

Speaker 3 37:22

I do too. I've been as well. We all been gifed yeah, it's complete bs so yeah, that's the reason why people are using these alternate, you know yeah, browsers so yeah, they're stand on privacy that's what's up yeah all right um anything, any other nuggets raymond last one is uh, when we were flying back home to florida, I started watching a show that a buddy of mine recommended on Netflix. We all have Netflix here, right.

Speaker 1 37:48

Yeah, yeah, what's the show?

Speaker 3 37:49

It's called American Nightmare. American Nightmare, yeah, basically this guy allegedly is Don't give it away now. Okay, just giving you the synopsis. There we go. He is basically apparently his girlfriend is kidnapped. Ah, he's duct taped. Duck, girlfriend is kidnapped. And yeah, that's all I'll tell you.

Speaker 1 38:09

That's all you'll tell me. Because it's that good, you want to get right into it.

Speaker 3 38:12

It's pretty good, so check it out. So yeah, it's called American Nightmare on Netflix.

Speaker 1 38:15

Oh, okay, oh, and it looks like it's one season they have there.

Speaker 3 38:20

Yeah, it might be. Yeah, I just started watching it on the plane. I, yeah, it might be.

Speaker 2 38:23

uh, yeah, it's just started watching it on the plane I've been meaning to so, based on a true story oh, yeah, yeah yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 38:27

I didn't know that. If you finish that, sounds familiar d, I don't know.

Speaker 3 38:30

Yeah. So yeah, check it out.

Speaker 1 38:31

That's all I got you and your movies, bro. Uh, how was doom?

Speaker 3 38:35

because you, you were shouting that out the other day dune 2 was excellent, hands down the best movie I watched of 2024 so far. If you haven't watched it yet, if you you're big into sci-fi, it's good. It's so good.

Speaker 2 38:46

My son, my brother and I didn't like the ending, but Did you watch it? I knew it was going to be a part three. Oh, okay, yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 38:54

He didn't like the ending because it didn't end.

Speaker 2 39:02

Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I mean, but it for me, are you going?

Speaker 1 39:04

to watch it.

Speaker 2 39:04

I'm going to, I'll talk to you about it. Yeah, yeah, we'll talk about it.

Speaker 1 39:08

Yeah.

Speaker 3 39:10

But, yeah, I love my movies and shows. Yeah for sure. I'm going to go watch Godzilla next week.

Speaker 1 39:17

Roger. That Well, raymond, thank you so much for the nuggets. We really appreciate you always. My man, of course, um, and now we got back my guy, uh d hustle. What's up with us?

Speaker 2 39:26

what's going on? What's going on? What's up player?

Speaker 1 39:30

oh, oh. That's how you starting off all right.

Speaker 2 39:32

Well, let's get down to the knitting um. First things first. Baseball season's coming up. Uh, actually the 28th, uh, baseball starts. So shout outs if you're a baseball fan. A fair routine. Hope you root for it. I don't see how my myths are gonna do this year, but it is what it is really quickly, since you're on baseball is uh, is shohani going to prison nah? Come on, really crazy what the gambling he's.

Speaker 3 39:58

He's been gambling, or his uh interpreter was gambling. You mean to tell me he didn't know anything about this? What do you mean? So you're saying he had no clue that this guy was using his money to gamble?

Speaker 2 40:12

How would he know that? How would he know that, though? What?

Speaker 3 40:16

do you?

Speaker 2 40:16

mean you got so much money.

Speaker 3 40:18

Bro, I stare at my bank account multiple times and you think he's going to stare at his bank account?

Speaker 2 40:22

I mean?

Speaker 2 40:23

I'm just saying maybe I'm not on the level of his, but you know, when you're missing money, I mean come on man, if I'm managing your money, let's see if you can put it this way If I'm managing your money and you ask me for money and I give you your money, why would you question me? If I'm out there spending money left and right and then, let's say, the next couple of days you'd be like yo, I need at least 500 grand and you get your 500 grand. Why would you question me? How would I know that you have a gambling problem If my money, if I ask for my money, it's coming in right away? What I initial Okay.

Speaker 1 40:59

I mean, yeah, it sounds very naive, but okay, no, I think I think when you get to that level, how is it naive?

Speaker 3 41:05

I mean, ronald Reagan has said it, the most famous quote Trust, but verify. Okay, I mean, you got to. You can't just blink.

Speaker 2 41:12

Nobody said that To Michael Jordan when he was expanding His gambling problem. Everybody was seeing Gavin Cramp, but he still played.

Speaker 3 41:18

Yeah, but he wasn't Gambling on sports, though, like this guy was.

Speaker 2 41:22

His dad was gambling.

Speaker 3 41:23

Not on like the NBA games, though.

Speaker 2 41:26

His dad was gambling.

Speaker 3 41:28

Yeah, but his dad doesn't work For the NBA Like Shohani the interpreter works For the MLB.

Speaker 2 41:33

Where is his dad getting his money from, though? The guy works for MLB, but where is Jordan's dad Getting his money?

Speaker 3 41:39

from His dad. Doesn't work for the NBA. I know what you're saying, but Shohani but where is Jordan's dad getting his money from His dad? Doesn't work for the NBA. I know what you're saying, but Shohani's interpreter works for the Major League Baseball.

Speaker 2 41:49

You're saying here, your main thing is that you're saying LeBron James' manager is not using none of his money. No, how do you know that?

Speaker 3 41:58

I'm not saying that they don't work for the NBA, though, so I guess I'm lost in the story so so the the the interpreter, I missed that part of the story the interpreter. That interpreter for shohani uh-huh has been gambling about 10 million dollars supposedly of his shohani's money and shohani did not know this.

Speaker 1 42:21

Wow.

Speaker 3 42:22

There's an investigation by the IRS I mean, it could be true. I'm not, but I mean I mean, I'm trying to give him some bail here.

Speaker 2 42:29

We'll see, but yeah, I mean, at the end of the day he'll probably get fired.

Speaker 1 42:34

Oh yeah, the translator he's going to get prison and he's going to have to pay his money back. Yeah, yeah, I mean, are they claiming that he stole it?

Speaker 3 42:41

Yeah, he stole it. That's illegal, okay, yeah, no, no, I mean the gambling part is illegal. Well, and taking someone's money without them knowing is illegal as well. Bobby, I mean, yes, I get that, I get that, I get that.

Speaker 1 43:01

Got it, got it. So the player is the one that's being in question, if he's going to get in trouble.

Speaker 2 43:05

Nobody knows Barry Bonds was taking steroids.

Speaker 3 43:07

Yeah, except for his head got 20 times bigger as the season went on, but he wasn't taking steroids, but I get what you're saying.

Speaker 2 43:15

yes, Wow, this is going to be a good. Mark McGuire made 68 on runs. That would be two Sammy Sosa is not black anymore.

Speaker 1 43:27

I'm not going there, but that one right there is for the books, for sure. Yeah, that was, that's for the books.

Speaker 2 43:33

That was interesting. Yeah, I get what you're saying. It's where we come from.

Speaker 3 43:39

We're watching our money. Yes, yeah, for sure, yes.

Speaker 2 43:41

But when a guy's been having the money on a consistent basis and there's no issue questions about it.

Speaker 3 43:47

I guess that's how it is. Let's just say that if you were in his position, would you just let some manager, you would just go, whatever they say.

Speaker 2 43:54

Well, first of all, it's out of my jurisdiction, especially with that price range, let's be realistic here.

Speaker 2 44:00

Hyp, Especially with that price range, let's be realistic here, if we it's hypothetically though, if there will be major lawsuits coming in, yeah Right, if you've taken at least Any type of mail-in, because, at the end of the day, I'm trusting you with my money. Facts, bro, I'm trusting you with my money. So that means I got to have a level of trust With you money, no matter who it is, because at the end of the day, whoever is the interpreter, you have to have a sit-down conversation with that person, or your trust person, interpreter, yeah, your, your agent, everybody has to sit down and come to an agreement or whatever it is. So if, let's say, you and I have a relationship and when I and you was like you know what, I trust bobby, I trust boom, boom, boom. So I'm gonna go by what you're saying because, and then I'm gonna bring bobby into my circle, yeah, everything is good. But then if he screws me, who do I gotta look at? I gotta look at you. Now you see what I'm saying yeah, yeah, yeah because why?

Speaker 2 44:53

because I trust you, because you, my man, and I gave you the trust for bobby. Yeah, yeah for sure. So at the end of the day appointing is going to. He can't do it by himself.

Speaker 1 45:04

Yeah.

Speaker 2 45:04

So hopefully he got his money back, but this is a business it's. That's how it is.

Speaker 1 45:10

Isn't this the same player that made a record deal contract?

Speaker 2 45:12

Yeah, it's the same guy, same guy.

Speaker 3 45:22

The one that want to get paid like this.

Speaker 1 45:22

I want to uh like like he even had his payment cycles different in a way so that he can make sure that the money levels up, type stuff damn.

Speaker 3 45:26

So his interpreter slid like that.

Speaker 2 45:27

It's crazy, that is crazy and it's funny thing is it's an interpreter. Yeah, no, holy shit. Yeah, like I would understand if it was his agent his uh, his uh the manager or something I don't know.

Speaker 1 45:39

But yeah where's?

Speaker 2 45:41

my question is when the fuck is he getting All his money from? Yeah, how are you giving him his money? I mean, I don't understand.

Speaker 3 45:49

What do you mean?

Speaker 2 45:50

Like how, why would an interpreter how did the interpreter Comes up with all his money? That's what I'm trying to say yeah, yeah, somehow. How did he get?

Speaker 3 45:57

that Somehow he's in. But that's what you always hear about these sports guys like oh, I let the wrong person trust my. You know you always hear from tara owens to all of these guys like you know, I let the wrong person handle my stuff, so it just I don't know if you have a family member, uh use the family members yeah, somebody that speaks your same language.

Speaker 1 46:21

Have your mama, have your dad. True, I'd rather trust them.

Speaker 2 46:24

Than an interpreter or a manager, et cetera, et cetera. That is crazy 10 million.

Speaker 1 46:30

10 million, that's from what.

Speaker 3 46:31

Well, he lost 4 or 5 million, but you know he spent more than that.

Speaker 2 46:35

Oh yeah, for sure, that's what he lost. Well, he got that back. Probably not.

Speaker 3 46:38

No, he's going to prison, so he's going to prison.

Speaker 2 46:40

It's a desolation yeah, yeah, but other than that, have you guys done? Talking about football, uh, have you guys done your draft for football?

Speaker 1 46:47

football's almost starting up oh, fantasy football, oh no, no, no. No, you just said, that's just regular season, regular season, okay, gotcha yeah, new, uh, nfl trash for all the college do you do a pick at all, or like who's going to get picked first, or are you just in general?

Speaker 2 47:00

just in general, okay, I got you, you could do a mock draft, or you know, it's the same thing yeah football and stuff like that. Um, other than that, let's stick to basketball. March madness, shout out to everybody in march madness. Yeah, college basketball a lot of upsets a lot of upsets. You did a pool I did a pool.

Speaker 3 47:17

I basically donated my money he donated yeah. Yeah, it was a donation.

Speaker 2 47:22

He donated his money. How much money did you donate, Raymond?

Speaker 3 47:24

It was $50. Oh, I got suckered in.

Speaker 2 47:28

The upset was Kentucky losing to Oakland, so it's a lot of upset.

Speaker 1 47:33

That's everybody's, I think everybody's.

Speaker 2 47:35

Automatically. That's money down the drain.

Speaker 1 47:37

Yeah.

Speaker 2 47:38

And then basketball man Other. And then basketball man Other than that basketball is looking good. Boston's in the playoffs again.

Speaker 1 47:45

New York is in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 47:46

For your Knicks. You guys are number four.

Speaker 2 47:48

Number four. Yes, sir, and back in the west side, the champs are number one. They're taking care of business.

Speaker 1 47:58

I gotta scroll all the way down.

Speaker 2 48:01

For a minute. Lakers and Warriors are all the way down there.

Speaker 3 48:04

They're ninth and tenth place let me ask you a question what teams, what spots do they put for the play-in? Is it seven through ten?

Speaker 2 48:11

or is it one to six?

Speaker 3 48:13

one through six. I thought it was seven through ten um, not that I know one through six, wouldn't they aren't?

Speaker 2 48:18

they aren't they number one, go against number six.

Speaker 3 48:20

no, but I'm saying like I don't know, don't they in the playoffs Number 1 would go against number 6.

Speaker 1 48:22

No, but I'm saying like I don't know, don't look at me.

Speaker 3 48:23

The play-in because the Lakers and the Warriors have to do the play-in right, because if the season ended, isn't it the 7-10 that would have to do the play-in.

Speaker 2 48:32

I think so I don't know. They're changing a lot of shoes.

Speaker 1 48:34

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 48:44

So all basketball game with different court color the other day? Yeah, like what's going on with this. Yeah, lakers, hopefully they'll get the play-in spot. Yeah, I mean, if you said like last time that they won in in championship tournament whatever that was in season tournament. Maybe the lakers don't have to do none, they're already automatically no, they're not.

Speaker 3 48:51

They're not. They're trying to look for that for the future, I wish what's that?

Speaker 1 48:55

if you win the in season one, they automatically get a playoff spot, yeah, so yeah, people, yeah, people would actually really start to play, though, if they did that.

Speaker 3 49:03

Yeah but you know, lakers suck, warriors suck is what it is Is what it is so.

Speaker 2 49:09

I mean, there's a lot of hurt players right now. Yeah, and it is what it is. Other than that, that's all I got, man. Hopefully everybody had a good weekend man, yeah, yeah. Big can man, yeah, yeah, big, big shout outs to our sponsor. You want to give them a big shot? Okay. Marvelous creations.

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Speaker 1 49:42

Shout out, shout out all right, fellas, it looks like we're coming to an end. We almost 50 minute mark. Seems like we're chatting up a good minute. Let me see we queue up some music here. Let me see, oh, we're gonna close it out today with some, with one of our new joints. Hope y'all like it. Y'all like it, we're gonna queue it up. Oh so, first of all, thank y'all so much for tuning in to the tech hustle podcast.

Speaker 2 50:11

This is episode number 32 I didn't mention at the beginning, 32 we're gonna just keep running with it.

Speaker 1 50:15

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Speaker 1 50:51

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Speaker 1 51:39

Big shout-outs to our newsletters being published this week this Thursday, so check us out. We're going to be covering all the things that we talked about this month. Obviously, wrapping up our trip to Atlanta will be covered in the newsletter and definitely any type of offers we have. You'll catch it in the newsletter. Subscribe to that so we can definitely level you all up. Other than that, fellas, that's all that I got for episode number 32. Yeah, any last words?

Speaker 2 52:06

Stay warm out there.

Speaker 1 52:08

Happy.

Speaker 3 52:08

Easter oh yeah, Easter weekend. If you celebrate Easter.

Speaker 1 52:12

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So big shout out to everybody. Thank you all again for tuning in. Holla at your boy, it's Bobby D.

Speaker 2 52:18

Peace Next.