0043:🚀 Tech Business Mastery: Marketing Secrets, NYC Adventures, iPhone 16 Buzz, NFL Moves, and Community Building! 📱🏈🎉

Ready to uncover the secrets of scaling your tech business? This week on Tech Hustle, we sit down with Alex Corson, a dynamic leader in marketing, sales, and consulting, who shares her journey from founding CyberSells to merging with Channel Program. Alex offers invaluable insights on crafting the perfect elevator pitch and overcoming the toughest challenges in tech marketing. Plus, we celebrate her role as a trailblazing female entrepreneur in a male-dominated industry and delve into the collaborative magic happening at Studio 1016. 

In addition to our enlightening chat with Alex, we recap our whirlwind trip to NYC, giving shout-outs to our awesome friends and special guests, including Hip Hop Gamer, Sebastian from Google, and Michael from Wayfair. We also touch on Raymond's tumultuous experience with a CrowdStrike outage and take a closer look at the implications of tech failures on everyday life. From discussing Apple's latest iPhone 16 and Samsung's upcoming AI-driven devices to debating the best ways to manage phone storage, this episode is packed with timely tech updates and practical tips.

But that's not all! We shift gears to explore the latest in sports, including NFL contracts, fantasy football, and international sports highlights. Catch our thoughts on the Miami Dolphins' big move with Tua Tagovailoa, Harrison Butker's new deal, and the excitement around Team USA's performances. Plus, don't miss our look forward to the Black is Tech conference, where we'll be sharing insights about life "Behind the Cloud at Twitter." Join us for a high-energy episode full of tech news, sports chatter, and community-building efforts that you won't want to miss!

Transcript

Tech Hustle Episode 43 Recap

Speaker 1 0:00

Welcome back to Palm Beach. Welcome, welcome, welcome everybody. Yeah, what up D? What up? What up D? Hustle's in the house, in the building, raymond, don't call him Ray Ray. What up player?

Speaker 2 0:11

What's up Morning morning?

Speaker 1 0:12

Yeah, man, we back here for episode number 43 of the Tech Hustle 43. This is your boy, bobby D, the host, and we want to say thank y'all so much for pulling up here at the Tech Hustle. We got a packed show for us and we just getting back from NYC. Man, yes, sir, big shout-outs to New York. Yeah, east New York. What's up Jess? What up Brandon?

Speaker 4 0:31

What up? Profam, what up?

Speaker 1 0:33

Nadia Will. Much love to each and every one of y'all. We had some backstage with Bobby D guests, didn't we D? Yes, we did. Yeah, big shout-outs to Chanel. Shout-out to Chanel, Big shout-outs to Chanel. My guy Hip Hop Gamer came through Hip Hop.

Speaker 3 0:50

Gamer my guy came out with a chain and all man Bro. I thought my man was the next Flavor. Flavor, I know man.

Speaker 1 1:01

I felt good about belt bro. Yes sir, he had the GOAT belt, WWE style, ready to jump into the ring if you needed to. Big shout-outs to him we had a really great conversation.

Speaker 3 1:12

Full energy, a lot of good energy up there, a lot of good energy and, yeah, big shout-outs to our other guests.

Speaker 1 1:17

Who else we had?

Speaker 3 1:18

Sebastian, big shout-outs to Sebastian.

Speaker 1 1:25

He works at google, yeah, you know, as soon as he found out d was dominican, it was a wrap just connected huh, he got connected, he was open he was open. Yeah, no doubt man um. And then we had a michael.

Speaker 3 1:33

Come through, michael that's my guy big shout out to michael.

Speaker 1 1:36

Yeah, man we really appreciate you he worked at we uh wayfair as a staff engineer, um, and he's looking for work. So if y'all trying to highlight an engineer, especially with some skills. He definitely has it. So big shout outs and D as always. Thank you for pulling up and supporting us over there in NY, and Raymond touched ground over there too. He didn't get a chance to hang out with us, but you know he at least got to touch the big apple 5k.

Speaker 3 2:01

I felt good about it yeah, man, you enjoy yourself.

Speaker 2 2:04

I did. It was good, I enjoyed it.

Speaker 1 2:05

The latter part of the trip.

Speaker 2 2:07

You didn't much, no, but.

Speaker 1 2:09

The crowdsource or crowds what is it Crowd strike. Yeah, crowd strike outage, that caused some problems.

Speaker 2 2:14

Oh yeah, Well, we'll get into that during the Nuggets.

Speaker 1 2:16

Raymond segment. So Raymond still has to go back another time and have another good time, but anyways, let me give you a quick run of the show Today. We're going to be actually having a really cool segment during our tech talk today where we're going to be interviewing Alex Corson. She's somebody that came into the podcast a few weeks ago and sat down and talked to us about her company and the things that she got going on. So we're definitely going to jump into that, and D-Hustle is going to talk about tech current events. Raymond's Nuggets Raymond's Nuggets he got a few nuggets to drop this afternoon when we already talked about a little bit of a sidebar that we're going to have. D-hustle is going to come back with some sports sponsorship, and then I'll close us out with some more announcements, because New York wasn't it? We're heading to somewhere else soon. I definitely want to encourage everyone to follow along, as you see us making these moves.

Speaker 1 3:04

So what do y'all think about that show today? Let's do it, let's do it, let's do it. All right then? So yeah, let's jump right into the tech talk. Man, you got that old school beat for me. Old school beat. There we go. Oh shit, that's that joint. Right there. It brings me back, brings me back, brings me back. Thank you so much, d-hustle, for the intro, dj Mane. So what we're going to do is I want y'all to listen in on this episode that we just recorded, or this segment that we recorded. Big shout-outs to Alex Corson. She came through and talked to us about CyberSales and another company that she's either merged with I believe she merged and had some acquisition with Channel Program and definitely very insightful conversations. So take it away, let's listen in. Welcome, welcome back again.

Speaker 4 3:50

What up, what up what?

Tech Business Development and Acceleration

Speaker 1 3:51

up D Hustle, how you doing what's going on. Oh my gosh man, we're doing something special today. I see we over here at 1016. I like it. Studio 1016. You like it, I like it. I like it. You always like when we do new things, I like it. But we have a really special guest today, alex Corson. I don't know if you know her yet, but we're going to bring her to the stage very shortly and we're going to be talking about a few things that she has in terms of products, companies that she's been working for developing and creating, and, ultimately, you're like one of our business mates here at this workspace, aren't you?

Speaker 4 4:23

Alex.

Speaker 1 4:23

Yes, yeah, bring it to the stage, dee. Hey, there she goes.

Speaker 4 4:28

Hey, there we go, I like it, I like it. So.

Speaker 1 4:30

Alex, go ahead and tell us a little bit about yourself.

Speaker 4 4:32

Oh man, so all right. Oh, cliff's Notes version is I've been in the tech space for a long, long, long time seasoned marketer, sales person, coach, consultant and people bring me in to scale up their businesses, and so I created CyberCells, which is a company that is about two and a half three years old, and we recently had a merger acquisition with a larger company called Channel Program. That was started by co-founders Kevin Lancaster and Matt Solomon, and I've worked for and with them in previous escapades and let's give a round of applause.

Speaker 1 5:12

Did you hear that D Hustle?

Speaker 4 5:13

Because I heard a lot of things. That's a lot of things she's dropping gems because she's making business moves, business moves.

Speaker 1 5:21

Cyber cells being acquired and merging with another company and they're amazing, yeah. Definitely the value that you bring to our show is in terms of just talking about tech and different lanes and opportunities that our listeners can be involved in, and I'm so excited to talk to you because, hey, female woman in tech running her own business big shout out. It's definitely something that we always want to make sure we shine a light on. So thank you so much for pulling up for sure.

Speaker 4 5:46

Well, thank you for having me. I mean, I just randomly grabbed you and said let's do this, and you're like, yeah, let's do it. I'm like cool.

Speaker 1 5:52

I know and I was like you want to come on our podcast, and I was like, all right, then don't play with me because I'm gonna send you an email. Actually, you sent.

Speaker 4 6:01

And we've been promoting a lot of what we're doing, because what we do is we're completely agnostic, and so it's great because anybody that's looking to come up in tech it's a good fit. And so I love what you guys are doing.

Speaker 1 6:15

I appreciate it. Thank you, I appreciate it. Yeah, so we've been out here at 1016. How?

Speaker 3 6:18

long dude.

Speaker 1 6:19

Like going to be a year, maybe Almost coming up on a year and you were one of the first people to be running too, and you know, low key. I remember the first time I met Alex right, because I walked up and she was quickly ready to introduce her, because it's the vibe, this is the culture here. It's like just all these companies working together to develop. And she was like yo, so what do y'all do? And I was like you know, when you first started, you don't even know how to put it together, how to explain what we're doing. Uh, but I always do remember that moment because you really got me to like all right, let me sharpen my pitch, let me sharpen the way that I talk about the tech hustle and what we're?

Speaker 4 6:52

the elevator pitch. Man, you gotta have the elevator pitch for sure.

Speaker 1 6:55

So tell us a little bit about, uh, cyber cells, and then, definitely, the transition that you had with this merger. So what's up with?

Speaker 4 7:01

CyberSells. So CyberSells it was an amalgamation of just a bunch of experiences, because I brought on a bunch of sales for tech companies and managed service providers and people that are selling that means you're dropping a gem.

Speaker 1 7:20

That's why people need to tune in.

Speaker 4 7:22

Well, because it's a bunch. I mean listen, let's be serious, it's a bunch of nerds that don't know how to sell and market right. Like, they're really good at learning and developing and putting systems in place for their specific thing right their tech stack but they don't know how to sell it to other people. And that could be vendors, that could be MSPs. They're just really good at what they do and if they're selling a widget, that's great. But why is the widget cool?

Speaker 1 7:46

Yeah yeah for sure.

Speaker 4 7:48

So that's why, see, that was nice. You added that because I laughed at my own joke. That was good.

Speaker 1 7:54

Sure, I told you he's cool with it, he's smooth, he was good.

Speaker 4 7:58

That was very smooth, right creating a company because the need was there and people didn't know how to sell and market their service or product effectively.

Speaker 1 8:08

Yeah, and I've been living and breathing tech in the channel for years, so it was just, it was easy yeah, congratulations, I think you, you definitely uh remind me of something, at least by me, because I'm, I'm an engineer, I'm a systems engineer, I'm a software engineer oh, so you're code.

Speaker 4 8:24

Yeah, totally Right, total nerd, totally.

Speaker 1 8:27

I fit that bracket exactly right, and the thing that I always find is sometimes it's hard to sell something that I feel like yo number one D always gave me this you can't give it away for free.

Speaker 3 8:39

It was like yo. It's not my fault.

Speaker 2 8:40

That is I can.

Speaker 1 8:42

I enjoy what I do so much that I do want to make sure it makes an impact. But you are right, it's always difficult to make that sale, it's always difficult to talk about your product in that way, and I've always enjoyed working closely with the sales team because then they can really help craft the picture give other people or also let me know what people want and what I should be producing and creating, and I think that's sometimes missed whenever we're just at the keyboard and just getting at it. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 9:05

Right, and then on top of it, you know it it. There's nothing wrong with giving a lot of value, but you don't have to make it so easy for people to understand all the value that you bring, For sure.

Speaker 1 9:17

Giving away value. Those little sound effects are great. Yeah, that's downtown, those little sound effects are great, yeah. Yeah, we got you locked in, alex. We got you locked in. Now, in terms of cyber sales, you definitely I've seen you or have heard you run some cohorts, some group meetings and stuff like that. How does that?

Speaker 4 9:33

work. So, cyber sales we were completely agnostic, right. So we would work with the vendors, we would work with the MSPs, we would work with people that were all from all walks of life.

Speaker 1 9:45

Yeah.

Speaker 4 9:45

But for the people that needed true accountability and real sales management, because these guys don't really have sales teams Some of the larger vendors do, but they don't actually have sales teams and so that that forecasting and the accountability just wasn't there, even like follow-up templates and understanding how to do a technical account review and having those templates and those those things that are just tangible that help them hit their goals and be more results focused. I created a program called tech accelerate.

Tech Career Growth and Mergers

Speaker 4 10:13

And so those cohorts that you're talking about. That's that group that I run and it's a huge group of you know. We've got about 40, 50 members right now that come in and out and we're starting to pack on more MSPs and more vendors I'm sorry, more MSPs and more VARs and resellers that are looking to have that accountability and that systematized approach to sales and marketing. That's what's up. Shout-outs.

Speaker 3 10:41

First of all, big shout-outs.

Speaker 1 10:42

I appreciate you, dee, but if you're not subscribed, follow along like, and I'm gonna add all her links at the bottom that's a dream, right?

Speaker 1 10:53

we're gonna give all that information because I definitely, um, I appreciate, uh, accountability groups, I appreciate peer groups, I appreciate an environment where I don't feel like I'm asking a dumb question, that I can actually get an answer to the questions that I have and then also have that accountability Right. It's like as you're growing in your career and this, more specifically, those that are software engineers, in tech is that you need that type of peer group and accountability for you to take the next step. I mean, just getting into tech doesn't mean you're done. Right, you got to take the next step and next step.

Speaker 3 11:29

And definitely having organizations or groups and teams or cohorts like you do will definitely help.

Speaker 4 11:31

There's never a dumb question.

Speaker 2 11:32

Bobby.

Speaker 4 11:32

There's never. No, that's not true. That is absolutely not true. No, there are dumb questions.

Speaker 1 11:36

But she says you could be safe in my circle right here.

Speaker 4 11:38

I don't even know if I would say that.

Speaker 1 11:42

Alex said you better come with it. You better come with it, for sure. But while we were talking or during your introduction, you said that CyberSales had a merge with another company, so tell us a little bit about that. How did that all go?

Speaker 4 11:56

I don't like merges, yes, and it's big in the M&A game right now. I mean MSPs right now are all going after mergers, acquisitions. They either want to get in the game where they're getting acquired or they want to get in the game where they're being acquired or they're acquiring. So it's cool because I actually get to have my own experience of while I'm not an MSP, but I was a vendor to both vendors and MSPs getting acquired or having a merger acquisition into Channel Program, which also is agnostic, and so it made a lot of sense. They have a really, really great platform and I got squirrely about the data right.

Speaker 1 12:34

Oh data. Yeah, I'm talking your language now, right? Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 4 12:38

So I was able to see a lot of the data and the users and all the people on the platform, how they're using different tools and how they're leveraging what's on there. So it's really cool because the vendors can go on and it's a marketplace, it's a PRM, it's the ability to talk directly to the MSPs and then for the MSPs, they can see the reviews, they can see honest feedback, they can see sales enablement.

Speaker 4 13:08

they can see tools that the vendors post, so it's completely agnostic and that platform that the data is being poured into, but it's so powerful. So then I was able to make really good business decisions for my clients based on the analytics that I had, which was really cool, because then, yeah, it was taking me out of trusting my gut, which my gut's good.

Speaker 1 13:33

She said it's on fire. She said it's good, it's pretty good.

Speaker 4 13:36

But it was nicer to be able to see that I was right and look at the numbers and actually make metric-focused decisions for them.

Speaker 3 13:46

She said it was in black and white People don't lie. Yeah, yeah right.

Speaker 1 13:50

Numbers don't lie at all. And I think the thing that's so interesting to hear the use case of data is like how it validates directions that you're going in, decisions that you're making, and or confirming that gut feeling that you have right. That's the thing that you need, that checkbox, and then guess what, you go get it right. And, as an engineer, data right. For me everything is data. Everything that a decision I make has to be validated by data, or the decision you know it's useless, right? In my opinion, it's like, hey, if you don't have data, then you can't validate. If you're making money, if you're making money, if you're going in the right direction, if a customer isn't joining and as a site reliability engineer, which is the role that I had, data was how I knew if my customers were happy, right. It's like, hey, my customers are happy, then y'all can do whatever y'all want preach as soon as they're not happy yo.

Speaker 1 14:35

You need to pull that back a little bit, right? So it's definitely enjoyable to hear that you caught that, seen that in their product and then eventually make it emerging with them.

Speaker 4 14:44

Yeah, yeah, it was technically. We had about 14 people on our team. They had, I think, 17, 20. So it was almost doubling them in size.

Speaker 2 14:54

Wow, and we did that back in February.

Speaker 4 14:55

Look at you. Give her a round of applause.

Speaker 1 14:58

A woman in tech killing it in these streets and definitely always making the impact that I've been on the sidelines seeing you Whenever she walks by. She's going the other way and I know that you're like in the zone getting stuff done, so congratulations.

Tech Business Differentiator Platform Launch

Speaker 3 15:12

Speedy Gonzalez here. That's what it is. That's what it is.

Speaker 4 15:15

But it's great because at Channel Program I was able, like I said, I was able to work with these guys in the past already, so I already trusted them. It's like any sale you know, like and trust right, yeah for sure. So they're an amazing, amazing team, and if I had to give myself a boss, they were the good ones to do it with.

Speaker 1 15:35

Big shout-out to them. Yeah, yeah. So I know that overall there's a product that you all have. I definitely want to dive in a little bit more. There it's called my IT Spin. Is that what it's called? Yes, yeah.

Speaker 4 15:48

So we were talking about the data and the analytics, right. So this is why I got so excited about this product and I've launched products before, but this one A. It helps my MSPs to sell. It helps them generate leads. It helps them generate revenue sources. It helps them understand what their clients are actually spending their money on on their IT spend. So that's a whole business model right.

Speaker 4 16:20

It's when MSPs don't know how to sell and they don't know what their next step is or what their next campaign is. It actually helps to create the leads for them.

Speaker 4 16:29

Yeah, yeah, because it's helping them visualize what people are spending their money on, and it lets them slide in and say oh hey, you know, I can save you money here, I can scale you there. Hey, you know, you're paying this guy for this, but you're paying me for X, y, z. Why don't we just consolidate, right? So there's that. It gives them their own visualization so that they can see their IT spend. So when those subscriptions are coming up, when you've got shadow IT, where people just say, oh yeah, let me try this, and then it turns into a trial, and then it turns into oh shoot, my card got billed.

Speaker 1 16:58

So, like you know, kind of like like what it was.

Speaker 4 17:01

That, what's that one that's for consumers. It's like rocket money yeah yeah, so similar, but it gives them so much more visibility. And then, on top of it, you can still even you know, 95 of the platforms, free anyways yeah so they could still visualize their entire tech stack. It just wouldn't have the the spend portion of it, right. So so now that we've launched my it spend, they can visualize all of that, recognize revenue opportunities, recognize lead opportunities and really grow with us.

Speaker 4 17:31

Which that's the whole. That's why I'm excited about it, because we all grow together. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 17:35

Big, big shout outs to that, because once you start to add data to it and now you actually have actionable things that you can do with the data and giving data to your customers, like when, I'll give you a story. So I used to work at the South Florida Order Management District, right down on Gun Club, and I used to work in the IT department. But I also used to help manage purchasing and things that we buy for the IT organization, especially when it comes to servers and services that we have in our data center and things like that. And I always was like these I, these, uh sales companies are on a hustle because soon as we had an end of lease right, we had some microsystem hardware. Before we even start the conversation, we're getting three or four different msps hollering us like hey, we can merge these two type of service agreements into one and then we can make it even better for you in terms of like, cost wise and availability yes and I'm like yo, like, um, yeah, we want to do that, let's get it in a proposal.

Speaker 1 18:27

We'll definitely put it on the table and see. And overall it actually helped us make even more efficient decisions because it wasn't like I, as the engineer, had to go research me like, all right, can I do this, can I do that? It just all just funneled right in and that's really awesome in terms of a product wise.

Speaker 4 18:42

Yeah, so now now supercharge that Right. Because, you've got these, these guys that didn't have the visibility, and everybody's trying to offer MSP services.

Speaker 1 18:51

Yeah.

Speaker 4 18:51

At this point, like the giant VARs are doing it. You've got disties that have like an MSP arm, and now these little MSPs are. I mean they're going to be put out of business if they don't have a differentiator, exactly. And now put out of business that they don't have a differentiator exactly, and now they've got the differentiator so they can say hey, you know, we can go up against the big guys now, which that is something really special so big shout out to y'all working on that.

Speaker 1 19:12

Um, I do have one, one, one question do you have any eight? You see how guests come to our show and be telling me how I run my own show, you see what happens. This is the first one from Studio 1060.

Speaker 4 19:24

I don't know how this is messing. I mean, we're roommates.

Speaker 1 19:28

Question for you Is there any AI component built into that or anything that y'all were thinking about doing with AI?

Speaker 4 19:33

So we haven't integrated AI right now, because right now all of the data is populated by the people that are using it right now. So there's really no reason to, because it's automatically going to be taking that information and consolidating the bills and the billing cycles and everything.

Speaker 4 19:46

So at the moment it's just populated. We don't have to use AI, but we do have vendor management for AI tools. So if you start looking at all of the AI tools and all of the spend that you're using, as well as looking at the category leaders, we actually we just pushed out all of the badges the channel program badges, to the winning vendors on category leaders and things like that, and AI is one of is one of the things so so you have that visualization.

Speaker 4 20:13

So, while we don't need to give AI in our product, because, it's not. That's not how it's built. We are giving visualization and analytics based on the leaders in AI.

Speaker 1 20:22

Yeah, because, yeah, because AI costs is going to be crazy. And it's going to be unmanageable unless you have a tool or product like what you all are building, because I can already foresee, even with me, I got like three or four different AI licenses and it's almost like a Spotify subscription. Before you know it, you're just paying for it, it's shadow IT.

Speaker 4 20:41

I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 20:42

And before you know it, you'd be like yo, what is this bill that I'm getting? That's automatically coming out, but definitely in terms of a product like this, it can give a company, organization or even MSP the ability to come and merge all this together and bring this data to their customers.

Speaker 4 20:56

Yeah, you would have no idea how many people just manage it on calendar reminders or an Excel sheet, or it's just prayer. I don't think they.

Speaker 1 21:08

I think a lot of us are just like. I hope next week.

Speaker 4 21:12

Amex is going to approve it. That's fine. That's fine. Just let it go through, amex.

Speaker 1 21:15

Let it go through. That's awesome, and definitely want to make sure that I also give you any opportunity to talk about any other products that you all are launching, cause I know that my IT spin was one of the top ones, but anything else do you have coming in the pipeline?

Speaker 4 21:27

Yeah, well, I mean listen.

Speaker 4 21:28

So so your, your audience, particularly.

Speaker 4 21:32

There's a lot of people coming up that are trying to either land jobs in vendors, land jobs with MSPs you know and I love what you guys are doing, so.

Speaker 4 21:41

So one of the things that channel program specifically offers is a way to be seen, not necessarily a job marketplace, but you're going to be able to go in there, and this is this is not like a glass door. You're not going to use this as a glass door, but at if, if you, an intelligent person in the tech space, would use channel program as a launching pad, right, that's where you're going to see the reviews, some of the strongest vendors they are going to come through. You're going to see what resources they offer to people. They're going to see what sort of sales enablement they offer to people and the fact that we do offer a PRM, which, or it basically, in layman's terms, if you're in the channel to vendors, we offer them their partner portal, right, all in one platform. So, if you don't, if you're not, uh, familiar with with all the jargon that I'm using, so I'm trying to make it as as you know broad as I can.

Speaker 4 22:35

But, uh, an intelligent person would use that a as somebody that is or as as a platform that they can see those reviews, they can access the, the partner portals and that can also identify some of the stronger MSPs out there. So, depending on what they want to do with their career trajectory, it's huge to just leverage channel programming. In any case, once you get to that job that you're trying to be on or in, or if you're already in a vendor or already in an MSP, you can utilize the platform for so much. So the PRM and my IT Spend are probably the flagship ones, but you can use. I mean, we even have industry calendars. So if you want to be at the right events, that's where you go, roger, that Check it out.

Speaker 1 23:18

Well, I want to say, alex, thank you so much for coming through and hollering at us here at the Tech Hustle. I think that last gem right there definitely gives our audience an idea on what they could do outside of just being software engineering, systems engineering, and then we actually had to cover that in our podcast today too, so definitely resonates with it, um, so thank you so much for coming through and give a round of applause for sure yeah, all right turn.

Tech Updates and Market Trends

Speaker 1 23:41

That beat up a little bit d hustle. So we coming up to the end of our episode here, I want to say thank you all so much for tuning in. We're going to have all the links below. I definitely encourage you all to follow along and y'all know where I'm at. I'm here at the tech hustle. Holla at your boy, it's bobby d. All right, so we're back after that episode and let me tell you the conversation was fire. What?

Speaker 3 24:05

do y'all shout out, shout out. That's good. Big, big shout outs to alex y'all. I tell you the conversation was fire.

Speaker 1 24:07

What do y'all think about it? Shout out, shout out, that's good. Big, big shout outs to Alex. Shout out, Alex I tell you she's one of our. What do we call them, like our business mates? Or I call her my neighbor.

Speaker 4 24:17

She calls her, our neighbor right here at 1016.

Speaker 1 24:21

She holds it down here and we've one. I remember the first time we ran into her Big shout outs to her journey and definitely, if you want some more information, check out the links below. All her links are there. Thank you so much, Alex, for pulling up.

Speaker 3 24:32

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 24:34

For sure, For sure. So we're going to jump right into our next segment here. D-hustle got some tech current events. What's going on, player? Oh, what's going on.

Speaker 3 24:43

Wow, well, you know Apple. Apple stock market Samsung yeah. Anyway, you already know that Apple is already delayed for their Apple intelligence. Yeah. I heard that, but the Apple 16 is still coming out. Yeah yeah, yeah, so there's no delay on the new phones. It seems like every year there's a phone coming out.

Speaker 1 25:06

That will not be delayed. The phones won't be delayed at all.

Speaker 3 25:09

They won't be delayed, but the intelligence will be delayed, just in case you guys didn't know. Of course it's going to be not this year, next year, I know you guys. We talked about that before and then next year Samsung is bringing out their new phone.

Speaker 1 25:25

Oh, and Samsung's in the fight.

Speaker 3 25:27

Samsung year. Uh, samson is bringing out their new phone. Oh, and samson's in the fight, samson's in a fight. They're ready to make some of those things um pop, and you know, yeah, I bet you they're going to include ai in there and oh most definitely, yeah, most definitely I'm expecting them to actually uh.

Speaker 1 25:38

So there's just kind of war that's going on is who can manufacture the best chip to run ai on mobile devices? And as we're seeing these newer devices come out, we're going to start to hear hints of ARM processors or processors that can start to do like a GPU type stuff on the device. So definitely big shout-outs to Samsung, Shout-out to Samsung and Apple y'all.

Speaker 3 25:58

Y'all need to step it up y'all. January, february, they'll be out Samsung.

Speaker 2 26:03

Okay, so nothing this year for Samsung, it's next year.

Speaker 3 26:05

They're going to have some stuff coming. I know that, because usually what is Samsung always comes out first.

Speaker 2 26:09

Yeah.

Speaker 3 26:10

Then comes. How do you call it Apple?

Speaker 1 26:13

Yeah, apple's low-key trying to see what Samsung's going to see. Yeah, they see what they're doing. I think.

Speaker 2 26:18

I'm definitely going to jump on an upgrade this year Are you, raymond, what you? Getting Whatever the 16, I'm definitely I'm due for an upgrade.

Speaker 3 26:26

Give a little shout out Right there for a man Getting the 16. What you getting? Regular Pro or max.

Speaker 2 26:32

Yeah, I don't Usually get the pro or the max, step it up.

Speaker 1 26:34

You need the extra space. No, no, I know he's getting.

Speaker 3 26:38

He's getting the regular and then next year, after that, he's gonna Get another one, I get it.

Speaker 2 26:42

Yeah, he's playing the hustle, that's what it is. Well, you know what If I want to get on your level? Maybe I should get the Pro or the.

Speaker 3 26:47

Max, well, listen, I still got the Pro 12. I'm still hanging out here just chilling, so yeah, I might get one, maybe 17, maybe 17, 18, depending. I really want to try that new AI stuff out, so I'm not going to lie to you If it comes out sooner than you might get it.

Speaker 1 27:05

I'm not getting anxious, then I might get it Okay. All right, yeah, I think that might be the thing that drives people to come and get it too. Is the AI features that eventually?

Speaker 2 27:12

come in. That's a good point. Yeah, I just can't wait any longer. I need a new phone. So what are you running now? I'm running deleting and removing apps and stuff, and it's just to the point where I made a mistake.

Speaker 3 27:30

I'm just going to get the biggest phone I can get, Even though you still are you paying the $1 extra a month for the additional 50 storage.

Speaker 2 27:37

No, I didn't know you could do that.

Speaker 3 27:38

Yeah, yeah, man, check it out. They charge you $1 a month for an additional 50.

Speaker 1 27:43

50 gigs 50 gig, 50 gigs, 50 gigs storage. This is through Apple. Yeah, oh, okay, then never mind Actually.

Speaker 2 27:51

I got a family, one that I kind of share. Two terabytes, oh, a whole family. Okay, yeah. So what is it? It offloads the apps to the storage somehow or something. Yep.

Speaker 1 27:56

It actually has this feature where it does the cloud backup to iCloud, and then you have apps that if you don't use it, they actually free up that space for you, um, and you'll notice them like have like a little icon differently when you try to go re-download them, because it's just downloading from your cloud, so that might be some way for you okay, then you know what I might have saw, the solution that I might do that so what that means is he's not getting upgrade

Speaker 3 28:18

probably not, yeah, okay I want to shout out darwin for getting him with this idea.

Speaker 1 28:22

Oh I said I'm trying to save him. I should have said nothing.

Speaker 3 28:25

I haven't seen I can play around with the 16th. Yeah, and when he got it.

Speaker 1 28:32

I was trying to get him to get it first and then you might get it later.

Speaker 3 28:35

You know, got to see what's going on. That's what's up.

Speaker 1 28:37

That's what's up, yeah, play, or your kids play pc yeah, um intel, um their warranty for raptors.

Speaker 3 28:51

They are extending it interesting for two-year warranty interesting so if you have the 13 and the 14 gen core pcu raptors, you're going to receive an additional two-year extra warranty on that, so shout out to them too interesting so I'm looking at the i9 over here.

Speaker 1 29:07

You still building something for your son.

Speaker 3 29:09

Yeah, in my head, in my head, I'm still building. He's waiting for the prices to go down.

Speaker 4 29:15

Yeah, yeah Well, I don't know too much about it, it's like walking to something you don't know what's going on. And I'm not trying to guess.

Speaker 3 29:22

You know, you go out to a car dealership For sure, for sure.

Speaker 1 29:25

But at least now you're getting some new warranty information.

Speaker 3 29:26

Yeah, I'm getting some warranty information, which is i9, is looking even better for me right now.

Speaker 1 29:30

Nice. So I just want to give everybody a heads up. I mean, Intel got to do something to stay in this game because they're going to get left behind.

Speaker 3 29:36

Shout out to them. They're true, they're making moves.

Speaker 1 29:38

Big shout out to Intel Last but not least, stock.

Speaker 3 29:44

I don't know if stock market, if you guys know, has been taking a little dump. But, I found something in the video I know we talk about in the video. Magnificent 7 stock loses more than $650 million in market cap.

Speaker 1 29:57

Wow, Take that a womp womp bro. Just want to give you guys a heads up on that.

Speaker 3 30:04

I'll put it on Discord for you guys can take a look and stuff like that. But yeah, man, that's crazy. I think I might have to start buying NVIDIA now.

Speaker 1 30:11

Yeah, you know, that's why the market is looking good right now to buy. That is wild Like I'm worried that the market itself is going to be fluctuating up and down. But, I think long term, nvidia um, nvidia ain't going nowhere. Intel's not going nowhere.

Speaker 3 30:26

These companies that are building hardware is not going nowhere, it's just you got to ride the wave you know, yeah, man, let's just start with this you might have good days, then you have bad days. Uh, this time it took a really bad day, you know so uh what's, uh, what's causing all this with the crashes and stuff?

Speaker 1 30:42

I don't know man, the market is kind of like. I don't know. This is probably a question for Swaggy P, for my brother-in-law.

Speaker 4 30:49

Shout out to Swaggy. Big shout out to him.

Speaker 1 30:51

He does Forex trading. He definitely has some insights into the market. We need to get him on the show to see if he can get us a game.

Speaker 3 30:56

We need to call him up right now and stop being around Yo what's going on with the market?

Speaker 1 31:01

That's the problem. It's like yo they be dropping so dramatically when there is a dip in percentage. But this is the wave. We got to ride it. We just got to be prepared for it Don't put all your vestings in it. Spread it out, diversify. I'm not a financial advisor, so don't say Bobby D sent you over there.

Speaker 3 31:23

I think I heard that.

Speaker 1 31:24

But I would say, diversifying across multiple Providers, such as hardware providers Like Nvidia, intel and stuff like that, gives you a better chance. What was? You going to say Raymond.

Speaker 2 31:35

You know what I was going to say? Isn't the motto buy low, whatever, sell high. But we're not financial advisors like you said.

Speaker 1 31:45

Definitely, raymond. That is the motto. I would actually say buy low, never sell high. But we're not financial advisors like you said, so yeah, yeah, definitely, I mean that that is the motto.

Speaker 1 31:48

I would actually say buy low, never sell okay because as soon as you sell, then that's when you gotta uh realize taxes and stuff like that capital gains either long term or short term, but buy and hold um and buy low and hold as long as you can um and then you'll see the value out of it in the long run. Okay, yeah, wow, nvidia and stocks tanks.

Speaker 3 32:11

My man's still confused. He's lost over there. He's like why?

Speaker 1 32:15

why? Because my Robinhood alert me all the time and I'll be like I'm not trying to look at it. Jeez, all right. D. So what else we got?

Speaker 3 32:28

Other than that, man, I don't have much. Uh, I just want to give out um, these video game actors are officially on strike over ai. I don't know if you guys heard of that, oh yeah, um, I don't know what to tell yeah I, I don't know what to say.

Speaker 1 32:38

Yeah, uh, just ride the wave, for sure, for sure, and at the end of the day, uh, we talked about the writer's strike before that. Now it's like the actors and video games are starting to peep game, because AI is really killing it when it comes to the animation and the ease of creating those environments. So I don't know, what do you think, raymond?

Speaker 2 33:02

yeah, that's interesting. That kind of brings me to my next segment here, whenever that comes up here it's coming up right now.

Speaker 3 33:12

What's going on right now? Welcome to the stage my guy.

Speaker 1 33:16

Raymond, don't call him Ray Ray. What up player, what's?

Speaker 2 33:19

up, gentlemen, what's?

Speaker 1 33:20

going on. Great segue what's good yeah.

Tech Failures and Customer Service Experience

Speaker 2 33:22

Man, you should write a book on that. That was an excellent segue. So what do I think about this topic and ai and all that? I'm glad you asked me that. So, um, my next segment here is a little bit different. It's called tech failures. Basically, I'm doing something a little different here. You guys ever heard of the um expression or the term read the room.

Speaker 2 33:41

You got to know how to read the room like, if you're like you know, like you know, when I go to lunch with my co coworkers and we don't talk we don't want to talk about our boss around a certain colleague, we're like, hey, change the subject. Or if you're a comedian, you know you don't want to tell certain jokes, depending on you know the domination of people in the room. So I want to talk about a tech failure here, about a tech company and relating to AI and all that is. I don't know if you guys saw this, but Apple did a massive tech failure a few weeks ago.

Speaker 2 34:09

They did an ad called Crush yes, so let me explain what this ad was to you. So basically, the ad was this big machine crushing all of the artists' tools. Like you know, hey, we can crush all of these tools. All of you artists are doing all this stuff. And then they unveiled the new ipad pro. So then this ad got so much backlash from various artists, like all types of artists, that they had to turn off the comments on youtube and the vice president of marketing for apple came out and said we failed, we made a mistake, and basically all these artists are just in fear of this ipad taking their jobs.

Speaker 2 34:45

Like, hey, we're gonna you know this new ipad pro is just crushing fear of this iPad taking their jobs Like, hey, we're going to. You know, this new iPad Pro is just crushing all of the various tools that artists do. And Apple vice president of marketing said we failed. We should have read the Room. And then Samsung capitalized on it and said hey our new iPad here. We love artists. You guys can use your brain and do all of this stuff.

Speaker 1 35:03

Samsung slid right in.

Speaker 2 35:05

Yeah, slid right in so you got to know how to read the room, and apple acknowledged that, so that's kind of one of the things I think about. That was this year, so in relating to ai, so but yeah, so that's um yeah, definitely, I will say as a tech failure.

Speaker 1 35:19

Uh, I think it's a tech and marketing failure yes combination, because I don't know if you remember, apple had this commercial when they first, you know, announced himself and they like bust through an ibm computer oh yeah, you remember that. Yeah, it was like a lady through the. The lady I forgot what movie she was in, but it was like a 90s type thing and she threw a hammer oh yeah, broke the glass and it was like boom the introduction of

Speaker 2 35:42

apple's next product.

Speaker 1 35:43

I remember that I'm wondering if they were trying to feed off of that. But this is like, uh, stepping and smashing on, uh, the challenges that humans are going to have with ai and basically saying, hey, y'all, y'all, days are done yeah, this just happened a few weeks ago, like, so like they literally had to turn the comments off on youtube and acknowledge that yeah, we made a mistake.

Speaker 2 36:03

People are fear for their jobs. Yeah, that this ipad pro is gonna, you know, crush all the visions and you know whatever you know, rdc brains and stuff like that are you gonna get that the pro? The pro.

Speaker 1 36:15

I'm not the ipad pro no ray's gonna boycott the ipad pro, I'm not. I'm good, because if you buy one, you're taking somebody's job right that's true, that's true, that's gonna be that samson's line, right there, if you buy an apple pro you lose somebody's job.

Speaker 2 36:32

Oh man, that's so, but um, but yeah, that's I mean it's, it's, it's, it's about to be here, right?

Speaker 1 36:39

um, people have to capitalize on it. Um, apple's trying to be first to the market to show, hey, we have a product that it? Um complements, uh, the new ai technology d hustle report, and like they pushing it back. Pushing it back as they have something in first to the market to show, hey, we have a product that complements the new AI technology DeHustle Report, and like they're pushing it back. Pushing it back, they have something in the wind, bro.

Speaker 1 36:52

But they want to make sure that they tread lightly so that they don't get the backlash, because I would say the reason why the strike started is because of that damn commercial. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 37:02

Of course. Yeah, that's crazy. That could be why the strike for the video games.

Speaker 3 37:07

It could be because of that.

Speaker 2 37:08

Yeah, but yeah it's crazy.

Speaker 1 37:10

Wow, yeah, well, thanks a lot for that nugget there, raymond. Yeah, for sure. So read the room guys. Read the room you got to read the room man.

Speaker 2 37:16

Come on Like how did that pass? Qa. I don't understand these people, man, when you make these commercials and stuff. So yeah, actually that.

Speaker 1 37:28

That reminds me of another tech failure we have mentioned earlier sidebar wise uh about uh crowd strike I know we didn't have a chance to talk about it because we've been offline. You know, traveling like that so that's the cats that that brought down microsoft for? Uh well, not brought down microsoft, brought down microsoft systems, uh, for almost a week's worth of work. Did you get caught up in that at all, raymond?

Speaker 2 37:49

I did actually. I'm glad you brought that up. So yeah, my flight returning home to Florida from New York was abruptly canceled. Wow, got a text message, an email, from the airlines that, hey, your flight's canceled. I'm like what?

Speaker 1 38:03

Yeah.

Speaker 2 38:03

No refund, no alternate flight, we have computer system issues. And yeah what? Yeah, no refund, no alternate flight, we have computer system issues. And yeah got canceled. And sure enough, you know, I went on twitter, I tweeted it, yeah, copied the airline company yeah, I copied the department of transportation look at my guy and I copied the faa and they responded back to me. So I got a formal complaint from the department of transportation. They're investigating it and also the airline company apologized. They're looking into reimbursing me for all kinds of crap.

Speaker 2 38:31

But yeah, whoa whoa, but we'll see. But then what pissed me off is hold on, hold, on hold on.

Speaker 3 38:39

You're telling me they did not reimburse you they did not.

Speaker 2 38:41

They just I had to buy a whole set of flight to come back home they give you a credit they didn't give me anything that's why I filed a complaint with the department for follow-up.

Speaker 2 38:50

Yes, I'm waiting for follow-up that's why I tweeted the faa department of transportation and I copied the airline company. And what pissed me off is people started tweeting me back like hey, why are you putting this on twitter? You're not the only one. Don't act like you're a Karen Disinfecting millions of people. I'm like what. I'm glad somebody said that yeah, you sound like the black Karen right now.

Speaker 3 39:12

I'm like, come on, man, that's how I feel right now. Nah, but you have all the right.

Speaker 1 39:18

You have value.

Speaker 4 39:19

You have value.

Speaker 3 39:20

Usually when you cancel, jetblue is really good. When you cancel they usually give you a credit. I know because they tell me hey, you got a credit you got to use before this date. And now you're going to lose this money, which I understand, but not giving you no money back or credit. Yeah, yeah, we're going to have to. Yeah.

Speaker 2 39:35

That's what a professional Airline company should do Is give you.

Speaker 3 39:39

This is JetBlue right.

Speaker 2 39:40

No, it's not. This is oh, okay, I'm sorry, jet, sorry, jetblue, this is Delta, yeah.

Speaker 1 39:44

Delta okay, Delta should be doing better Shit. I apologize.

Speaker 3 39:48

That's my fault. Oh, you finally got one of those.

Speaker 1 39:51

That's my fault.

Speaker 3 39:51

Wow, that's my fault. Wow, I thought it was JetBlue. I apologize, it might be JetBlue, I still love you.

Speaker 1 39:59

I just want to give you a little kiss.

Speaker 3 40:00

I hope my credit still works. Don Don't take away my points, baby. We're talking here. That's hilarious.

Speaker 2 40:07

It was Delta. Yeah, you would think, D-Hustle, that a professional airline would give you a credit.

Speaker 3 40:12

Yeah, that's weird. Delta too. I wouldn't expect that. I would expect that from Spirit. Correct, yeah, but not Delta.

Speaker 2 40:18

Delta is the biggest. They're like the Microsoft of airlines. They're the biggest.

Speaker 1 40:28

They make the most and for them to do that. That's why they're being investigated.

Speaker 3 40:30

I will say um give him some time.

Speaker 2 40:31

Um, definitely, I'm happy that you have keep your receipts. Keep your receipts, for sure.

Speaker 1 40:32

I gave them everything and make sure you follow up, because they're gonna forget of course, as it happened right, so, um, but the the results of, or the cause for this delay is the software uh bug that was pushed out yes, there was a crowd strike yep. Did you have anything at the office that got affected by this?

Speaker 2 40:48

We did. We had one of our systems was down for about 30 minutes, Damn that's it. And they were quick to blame CrowdStrike. They were like hey, it's not us, it's CrowdStrike.

Speaker 1 40:56

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 40:57

I just was like I never even heard of this company until three weeks ago. Come to find out they run the entire country, or the entire world. Yeah, because even supermarkets were down too, yeah, and.

Speaker 1 41:08

I think it's basically like a client that you install on your computer that talks to their main systems.

Speaker 3 41:14

Yeah.

Speaker 1 41:15

And then they updated the client remotely, and then that's what crashed everybody's computer.

Speaker 2 41:19

Yeah.

Speaker 1 41:20

I will say that Linux operating systems were solid. Unix operating systems were solid. So if you are trying to upskillill, that's a great operating system. To learn microsoft windows, you got to deal with some other third party but unix systems. You probably most likely going to know what's on your box and definitely was not affected by it. But crazy. I want to just say who won that type of battle yeah.

Speaker 2 41:43

so the I don't know if you saw the delta ceo came out and said that he wants money from Microsoft and CrowdStrike because they cost him almost a billion dollars. Wow, with the outages and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 41:56

Well, somebody's going to write a check. Yeah, I mean. My only thing is that I didn't like the fact that they blamed Microsoft, because Microsoft was just the operating system. It's actually that software that did it Correct. Yeah, I agree, then again.

Speaker 2 42:10

I'm blaming Delta, like how crappy is your computer systems? If all of the other airlines were up and running pretty quickly, delta was the worst one, like they couldn't get their shit together.

Speaker 1 42:21

Yeah, I kind of understand. Delta probably has a lot of Windows computers.

Speaker 2 42:25

But okay, I mean.

Speaker 1 42:27

Microsoft runs that show.

Speaker 2 42:29

I understand that In Fortune 500, corporate America type stuff, all the other airlines were up and running. Bobby, they were the worst ones. Jetblue had some issues, jetblue definitely had some issues, yeah, but Delta was the worst.

Speaker 1 42:38

I actually heard that Spirit was the one that didn't have much problems. No way Shut up.

Speaker 3 42:43

Shut up to Spirit. I apologize for talking shit.

Speaker 1 42:46

Yeah, I heard Spirit. And for me what it implies is that Spirit is running Linux in the background.

Speaker 2 42:52

Or they got better computer people, or what.

Speaker 1 42:54

It was going to be an outage regardless.

Speaker 2 42:56

I get it. But you would think the bigger airline has more money.

Speaker 1 42:59

I don't know, Maybe I'm like I think sometimes we don't know what they run, so we have a high expectation of the service levels that they're going to be offering, especially their scale, but sometimes it's it's out of their hands, especially when they commit so much, and that's. Another report that I read was that companies now are reviewing how much they're committing to one operating system, like, hey, all of our stuff runs on microsoft. If something happened to microsoft, all of our stuff goes down. That's where it's like going to introduce the idea for people to diversify their operating systems that they run at the enterprise level. Linux is going to slide right in there because in my opinion, it's way more stable and suitable for enterprise too.

Speaker 2 43:39

That gives us a good segue here to check out our school community. Check out Tech Hustle, because this is the field you need to be in.

Speaker 3 43:46

Give them a round of applause out our school community. Check out tech hustle because this is the field. You need to be in audience.

Speaker 2 43:49

Look at you know what I'm saying. Look at how impactful a freaking software can crush companies and stuff like that. So if that doesn't tell you what skills and what industry you need to be in, I don't know what to tell you.

Tech Issues, Apple TV, AI Future

Speaker 1 44:00

The tech hustles are here for you, so let us know we're ready, we're ready. Basically he's saying don't use, yeah, they put a bad taste in my mouth. That's funny, that's funny. So thank you for that conversation sidebar about that outage and definitely big shout-outs to all the engineers that had to deal with this stuff, because I know there was hours worth of restless nights.

Speaker 2 44:22

That's what.

Speaker 1 44:23

I'm saying Some had to reinstall systems, reconfigure, going to data centers, powering things off and on so. I know, it created a whirlwind of work for those engineers, so I want to send you all big shout outs and, yeah, we need to celebrate you all because most people don't even really know y'all exist. So big shout outs to you.

Speaker 3 44:38

I wonder what they did in the data centers.

Speaker 1 44:40

Yeah, it's crazy. It was a bad day.

Speaker 3 44:42

I bet you they just unplug and then plug right back in. I mean what?

Speaker 1 44:45

what we're doing over there, that's, that's literally power, power button, like recycling, because I heard it created a blue screen of death, like there's really no way of getting yeah, access to literally like kill the computer.

Speaker 2 44:56

Yeah, kill the computer other than rebooting it.

Speaker 1 44:57

So virtual machines probably a little bit easier, because yeah virtually reboot them, but physical machines.

Speaker 3 45:03

Yeah, people had to go I, one of the hackers, had some issues too.

Speaker 2 45:06

Yeah, that's funny you say that you know, so they were quick to say no, it's not a hacking or nothing it was like you know the hackers like I can't get the stuff.

Speaker 1 45:14

I was like yeah actually hackers was like oh, that's how you bring it all down, that's what I'm saying like we are dependent on one software like this a third-party software. That's crazy so, yeah, it looks like you got something else on your nuggets here for a tv show. What were you? We got a tv show promotion.

Speaker 2 45:30

So we've been talking heavily about apple here a lot, so I want to give them another shout out here. Um, apple tv as an apple tv. I saw a crazy statistic here that apple tv is one of it's crazy. They're one of the. In my opinion, they is one of it's crazy. They're one of the. In my opinion, they're one of the best streaming TV platforms that nobody knows about because they don't promote their shows. All everybody knows is Prime Video and Netflix. I saw this crazy stat where they said that Apple spent so much money on their TV shows that the amount of people watching in their shows like was only one month were equated to what people watch on Netflix in one day.

Speaker 2 46:11

Wow. So basically, the amount of people watching Apple TV for one month accumulated to one day, that's how much people? Yes, so, basically. So Apple was like we're going to cut down on how much we've been spending on the TV shows, which sucks, because they have some fire ass TV shows and another fire TV show they have, I wanted to tell you guys, is presumed innocence. I don't know if you've seen it Dehustle. It's where Jake Gyllenhaal is. It's fire. It's great. They just did the last episode last week. I highly recommend it. It's only eight episodes. Highly recommend it. It's a great show. It's called Presumed Innocence Interesting. It's very, very good. But yeah, like I said, apple TV is a hidden gem that nobody knows about. They don't promote or nothing, but they have some fire Buy your ass TV shows, check out Presumed Innocence.

Speaker 1 46:56

I'm a little worried that, since they're spending all that money in production that they're going to, like you said, dial it back. Yeah, they're going to dial it back now.

Speaker 2 47:02

Yeah, it's going to suck, but yeah, they just can't compete with Netflix.

Speaker 1 47:07

You know what I can't wait for, and I don't mean to shift concepts a little bit, I can't wait for one of these really trying to make an investment and they have all this money. I think they might be one of the first ones to do that. That would actually put a nail in the coffin for a lot of things, but I can see it happen sooner than later, so you're saying AI.

Speaker 3 47:27

I heard it here first. That's what I thought.

Speaker 1 47:28

Yeah.

Speaker 2 47:29

So you're saying AI writing the show from soup to nuts? I?

Speaker 1 47:34

think Apple has enough money, enough resources that they could definitely pull that off 100%.

Speaker 2 47:40

With the technology we have now. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see that Well, we'll see.

Speaker 1 47:45

Stay tuned Just make sure y'all know, y'all heard it first.

Speaker 4 47:48

You heard it first here.

Speaker 3 47:49

We made first announcement for a lot of things 2024. You heard it.

Speaker 2 47:52

Here You're going to see Soon there's going to be a subscription just for AI TV shows.

Speaker 1 47:56

I'm telling you, man.

Speaker 2 47:57

For Zoom denizens. Check it out. Great show, For sure I'm going to check that out also myself.

Speaker 1 48:01

All right, Raymond, Thank you so much for those nuggets and definitely Raymond's going to drop the links in our Discord afterwards so you can check it out For sure, for sure.

Speaker 3 48:13

So next up we have D-Hustle going to go world of sports bro.

Speaker 2 48:16

Well, sports, let's get there, he's taking a breather here.

Speaker 3 48:21

Camp's looking good for me. I don't know what's going on with anybody else in camp over here, but oh, I'm glad that I'm talking about sports, even though my camp is doing good.

Speaker 1 48:29

NFL you're talking about right.

Speaker 3 48:30

Yeah.

Speaker 4 48:31

NFL NFL guys.

NFL Contracts and Fantasy Football

Speaker 3 48:32

NFL we're talking about here. Hard Knocks is out for the Giants.

Speaker 2 48:36

Please take a look. I got that right there. I haven't seen it yet what?

Speaker 1 48:40

you haven't seen it yet. I haven't seen it yet. I'm surprised.

Speaker 2 48:41

The Giants fan is not watching Hard.

Speaker 1 48:43

Knocks. It's crazy. He don't want to see too much behind the scenes, bro Behind the scenes.

Speaker 3 48:47

I got nothing. Show me in the field, baby, that's all. I care about other than that it this one is for Raymond.

Speaker 1 48:54

Yeah.

Speaker 2 48:55

This is for Raymond.

Speaker 3 48:56

How do you feel about them paying Tua? Because you wanted that, so you got it, so I want to know how you feel about it.

Speaker 2 49:02

Yeah, I mean they overpaid, but they had no choice. Wow, shit, wow.

Speaker 1 49:07

First you was telling on our show Pay.

Speaker 3 49:10

Tua, pay Tua. Now that they paid him. You say they overpaid. There's no winning with these guys. I mean, I'm just keeping it real.

Speaker 2 49:17

They overpaid, but they had no choice.

Speaker 1 49:19

Oh my gosh, so he got a good deal. Huh, I mean for him.

Speaker 2 49:23

I don't know about the team. I just think it's going to come to bite us in the ass in a few years.

Speaker 3 49:28

You know he got a four years $212 million $212.4 million Good Lord.

Speaker 2 49:34

It's not worth that. I'm sorry, he's not worth that.

Speaker 3 49:36

Wow, I mean obviously Miami thinks he is worth it.

Speaker 2 49:39

They have no choice.

Speaker 3 49:41

But you just say paid tour, Now we paying tour.

Speaker 1 49:44

It's whoa whoa, it's too much. I mean, how do you think the front office feels about that, raymond?

Speaker 2 49:48

I mean, bro, they did what you said to do, yeah, but they went extreme.

Speaker 1 49:53

I get it, but Right, yeah, they're probably trying to keep him around, make him a franchise player, lock him in.

Speaker 3 49:59

I mean, he retires there.

Speaker 1 50:01

I don't know, Unless he gets traded it's too much money.

Speaker 3 50:02

We're paying two. I'm confused. It's too much money. Yeah, he's not worth it.

Speaker 1 50:07

You think that it's All right.

Speaker 2 50:09

Let me break it down for you. He's getting paid more per year Than Patrick Mahomes. Does that equate to you that he's?

Speaker 1 50:21

I mean you're paying for the future Of what he can bring, bro, okay.

Speaker 2 50:24

Who's the best quarterback in the NFL? Tua, okay, enough said. Like I said, my case is.

Speaker 1 50:31

You know, didn't our boy from Baltimore, from Palm Beach, lamar Lamar Jackson? He had a nice contract like that and I think that's where it's all feeding off of, yeah, but Lamar went to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 50:43

He won an MVP. Tua has not done any of this. All right, I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 50:47

Expectations are high, then.

Speaker 2 50:48

Yes.

Speaker 3 50:49

Yeah, yeah, but you wanted a paid Tua For sure yeah A paid. Tua Not getting paid Injuku. Can't find somebody To freaking, pick him up? Yeah, nobody can. Nobody wants to pick him up, what's?

Speaker 2 51:02

up with that? I yeah, I don't know that's, that's Now. I see they opened up the trade negotiations Now they're willing to trade him now.

Speaker 3 51:08

I don't know, so I don't know yeah.

Speaker 2 51:12

Unless. San Fran is asking for a lot.

Speaker 1 51:15

Gotcha, it could be yeah.

Speaker 3 51:16

They're probably asking for a king's ransom for that guy but listen, uh, now that we talk about, uh my homes, you know, since you guys want to talk about the good quarterback, uh the kicker, uh, butler got a nice little check.

Speaker 2 51:28

I saw that four years 25.6 million with 17.75 million guarantee and the internet is outraged that he got that, wow, you didn't like it. Well, I mean, you know, based on, I mean I don't care, I mean I'm not a chief's man but I see Continue, continue, go ahead. But you know the comments that he made earlier this year about marriage and all that and you know His personality.

Speaker 1 51:52

I mean talk about on.

Speaker 2 51:54

No, off the field. He went to like a commencement speech.

Speaker 1 51:57

But you said off the field potentially impacts his worth.

Speaker 2 52:01

Yeah, but I'm saying like the internet wasn't happy that he got that. I don't care, I'm not a.

Speaker 3 52:06

Chiefs fan, I look at it as okay. You're playing with one of the best teams in NFL right now. You have the best quarterback. You have the best tight end. Yeah yeah, as far as running backs, whatever the case may be, but You're guaranteed To get over the 50 or 40 yard line With Patrick Mahomes. So that means you gotta have a good backup kicker.

Speaker 1 52:32

A kicker that's gonna land it every time, every time.

Speaker 3 52:34

Cause we all depending on you. You know what I'm saying. So it's not just field goals.

Speaker 1 52:39

Yeah.

Speaker 3 52:39

You know, but I'm expecting you to do a 55 plus.

Speaker 2 52:44

That's crazy money for a kicker though, yeah, but why not?

Speaker 1 52:48

But this is the thing is now.

Speaker 3 52:50

it's a new standard, it's motivating you to practice, to go out there and keep kicking, yeah, hey, I see them going To the championship.

Speaker 4 52:59

Yeah, of course, I mean, I need.

Speaker 3 53:00

I need more wide receivers. And running backs, but you know, I see them doing something.

Speaker 1 53:05

Yeah, of course. Oh, I'll tell you who's really excited about this Portia Campbell-Smith. Yes, she is. Yeah, I know she's happy about that. Shout out to Portia, she's loving that.

Speaker 3 53:15

There she is. She's loving that. There she is. She's guaranteed With his money. Yeah, it's good, it's good. But other than that, man For football Giants are doing great Right now.

Speaker 2 53:25

Check out Hard Knocks.

Speaker 3 53:26

Check out Hard Knocks.

Speaker 2 53:27

I'm not even and then get ready for Fantasy, if you guys not ready For Fantasy, yet If you haven't started it up.

Speaker 3 53:32

Start getting ready for Fantasy. I'm about to jump in the pot.

Speaker 2 53:34

This year man pop this year, man. Oh, you're going to do fantasy. Bobby's finally stepped up.

Speaker 1 53:37

I'm going to jump in bro.

Speaker 2 53:38

He's going to jump in. Your brother even does fantasy, doesn't he?

Speaker 1 53:40

Yeah, I know he runs like three teams, just like D, right, that's crazy. You'll be over here coaching him for real.

Speaker 2 53:45

Your brother does so many things.

Speaker 3 53:54

You don't do fantasy, but I get it. You know what? What happened? Games were so tough to catch.

Speaker 2 53:57

Let me hear this.

Speaker 3 53:57

Let me hear this. Sorry, I hit the button by mistake Bro.

Speaker 2 54:00

Go ahead, go ahead. Who in the San Francisco Fs?

Speaker 1 54:02

up East Coast teams, right, because our timing is off and I would have to kind of been an Oakland or San Francisco fan and I just could not get over it. So I said, fucking, I'm not watching football like that East Coast bias. Yeah, bias, yeah, so I'm back home. It took me five, ten, seven years, seven years to finally yeah, I'm getting back at it.

Speaker 3 54:22

So, okay, we'll hear the report at the end of the season. So we'll definitely hear the report at the end of the season I will let everybody know how he did, because whatever league he's in, I want to be in it that d said I want the belt to Bring the belt.

Speaker 1 54:37

You know, bring the belt. I want the championship belt, right, yes, sir.

Speaker 3 54:40

Yes, sir, that's funny. But yeah, other than that man, let's move to Baseball. Baseball it is looking good. Well, let's start off With the bad news. First, miami, all the way down In the bottom Wow.

Speaker 2 54:55

Don't even mention Miami. Why are you even?

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Speaker 3 54:57

Miami is having a phenomenal day. I think they were looking for first prospect there. Special bulletin again New York passes Washington To be in third place. So the Mets are in third place. Philly's still doing a phenomenal job there. Atlanta God bless you guys. And then the Mets.

Speaker 3 55:15

They're keeping it up. Let's see how it is, but the Mets always do this. As a Mets fan're keeping it up. Yeah, yeah, let's see how it is, but the Mets always do this. As a Mets fan and Yankees fan the Mets always do this. We get. You know how I feel about Mets, like the Cowboys, I'm gonna let that right now.

Speaker 3 55:29

You know how, because. But here's the thing, the difference between us and the Cowboys. We're not saying we're going to the championship every year, out the gate, out the gate. Okay, what happens is that we get to wild card and we end up losing the wild card every fucking time. I don't know, but yo holla at me.

Speaker 1 55:48

Oh, so you're talking about as compared to the Cowboys? Can't close it out. Yeah, can't close it out, can't close it out.

Speaker 3 55:53

Yes, let me refresh that Again. Refresh that hit again. That's my fault. Again, bobby said the correct words. Yeah, I got you. I got you playing uh baltimore, phenomenal job there in first place, yankee second place. Um, you guys lost jazzy uh from the marlins hitting home runs right next to aaron judge, that is a phenomenal thing for that young kid. God bless him. You guys are getting rid of. If you guys are uh miami fans, you guys everything miami. But you know you guys are getting rid of a lot of players bro, they always do that, though I don't want to stand on it.

Speaker 1 56:24

It's almost like we're the AAA People come and play for us.

Speaker 2 56:27

I can't believe they even won two World Series championships almost.

Speaker 3 56:32

Stanton went from Miami to the Yankees. Jazz went to the Yankees. There's another guy that went to I think I don't remember. I think it was Washington, but that's crazy, it's like they did. I don't know if you remember the one time that Miami Marlins won the World Series.

Speaker 2 56:48

That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 56:49

The next year. They traded all their fucking players.

Speaker 2 56:51

Of course, yeah, that is crazy.

Speaker 3 56:59

That's just. It doesn't even feel like a real organization. I don't know, I don't know, but anyway, other than that basketball Team USA is looking good. Big shout-out to Team USA.

Speaker 2 57:07

Shout-out Team USA in basketball. Add those medals. We need to get more than China.

Speaker 1 57:10

We're working on it. It's hard to catch up because there's so many other games out there.

Speaker 3 57:15

Well, here it goes Canada 3-0 in basketball. They're a great team over there, my man Shyam doing his thing, you know who else? Germany 4-0. Jeez, you know. Usa 3-0. And then Serbia, where my man Jokic is at, 2-1. They lost against the USA. If not, they would have been undefeated. The game that I want to watch is Canada versus USA.

Speaker 4 57:41

Shout out to that.

Speaker 3 57:42

I don't know if you guys have seen that or not, but at the end of the day, there's still a little bit more basketball games left. As far as the Olympics, usa has 79. 21 gold, 30 silver and 28 bronze.

Speaker 2 57:59

Number one yeah, they bet we have to 30 silver and 28 bronze. Congratulations, Number one. Yeah, they bet we have to win.

Speaker 3 58:02

I mean come on China's right under it, giving them competition with 21 gold tied up with USA, silver, 18 and then bronze 14.

Speaker 2 58:14

Wow, we got to win more than.

Speaker 3 58:15

China.

Speaker 2 58:16

Did y'all see?

Speaker 1 58:16

that 100 meter dash For the guys.

Speaker 2 58:19

And the girls. That was fire, though that was good. That's always exciting.

Speaker 1 58:23

Shout out to St Lucis, right, they're the ones that Won their first gold medal, especially she. I mean, I seen that race and she was so far ahead I was like, oh, she's going to eat them up. And man, the United States race Raced very well in that last heap for the 100, 100, 100 meter dash. Um, and yeah, we just pulled it off. But um, man, these, these guys are getting too damn fast girls, guys and girls, I'm sorry, yeah, you guys.

Speaker 3 58:46

Oh, lightning speed. Did you see the boxing match that, uh, the guy had to, uh, the lady had to forfeit because she was fighting a dude? Oh, word in the olympics.

Speaker 2 58:54

I've been like hearing a lot of controversy about that. Oh, it's like a transgender.

Speaker 1 58:58

Yes, I don't even understand how.

Speaker 3 59:01

She's very upset. Everything's happening in France. France is doing some crazy shit over there. Did you see the?

Speaker 2 59:06

one where the lady bailed out after one punch.

Speaker 1 59:09

Yeah, that's the one I'm talking about. Oh, that's the one. Okay, yeah, one punch from the opponent. Yeah, she's like.

Speaker 4 59:13

Yeah, this is not a woman that punched me.

Speaker 1 59:14

Yeah, she's like, I know what a woman punch is. Wow, it's like oof. Well, I mean it's a cause of controversy. They need to clear it up right.

Speaker 3 59:21

Also, there's a lot of controversy right there I don't want to get into. But there's one more about religious. I don't know if you guys remember the Last Supper. Oh, yeah, I saw People were talking a lot about that. You guys got to be a little bit more considerate about talking about religion and all that stuff. It's a very deep subject, especially at an international level where everybody watches it. Exactly. That's the weirdest thing in the world. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 59:48

It goes to where I talked about earlier. Read the room.

Speaker 3 59:51

Yeah, facts. But listen, I'm going to give one side note here Bronson's team captain. Other than that, that's how I'm going to leave.

Speaker 2 1:00:00

I saw that it's like what the 30-something captain in history yeah 36.

Speaker 3 1:00:04

Captain in history. Shout out to my man Bronson. Other than that, that's what I got, ladies and gentlemen, for our beautiful sports One more thing I got about sports related to basketball.

Speaker 2 1:00:13

Did you guys hear that this is going to be the final year for basketball rights on TNT?

Speaker 1 1:00:19

Oh, I think you said that last time.

Speaker 2 1:00:20

Okay, so yeah, so this is kind of crazy. You know, Barkley and Shaq, everybody's upset. Hopefully they're going to go out with a bang this year. Yeah, yeah so.

Speaker 1 1:00:28

But yeah, Hopefully they have one more season.

Speaker 2 1:00:30

Yes, one more season, but yeah, these tech companies are just jumping in this stuff.

Speaker 1 1:00:34

So trying to, yeah, well, who's trying to stream it?

Speaker 2 1:00:36

well, it's gonna be on prime it's gonna be on prime yeah, wow, shout out to prime.

Speaker 3 1:00:40

I got prime. I don't like this, though I don't like this though.

Speaker 2 1:00:44

I like my teeth, I like my sports on regular tv, like for me to go get an app and this is.

Speaker 3 1:00:50

But whatever, man, that's my two cents it's okay, man, it's just another 31 dollars it's crazy.

Speaker 2 1:00:57

That's exactly what they're doing.

Speaker 1 1:00:58

It's nuts and guess what you get? Free delivery, early delivery not free delivery, early delivery you get everything.

Speaker 3 1:01:04

You get prime day too.

Speaker 1 1:01:06

You got a lot of perks which this year prime day kind of sucked, though I ain't gonna lie, yeah, it's the weirdest.

Speaker 3 1:01:10

I've never done prime day. I did it once in my life and it was one of them. Gave me $8 off, Like what the fuck is that $8? I had the whole week I'm celebrating, yeah, you got me waiting for a freaking Prime Day for $8 off. I could have got my shit a long time ago. Shit, I'm here. They're like no wait until Prime Day is going to be cheaper $8?. That's crazy. Fuck out of here.

Speaker 1 1:01:31

But it is what it is you know, yeah that, but that's all I got there, bubba, for me, roger dad let's go ahead and cue up the music and close this thing out, fellas. Uh, before we even get to that, uh, we have a big shout out to our sponsor. Shout out, big shout outs to marvelous creations just holding it down here in south florida, from broward, palm beach, miami-dade all in between, if you're looking for any cakes, treats for your festivities being a wedding, birthday, birthday, just an event, you want to have it. Pop bottles at the, at the, at the restaurant or at the club. Holla at Marvelous Creations.

Speaker 2 1:02:06

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Speaker 1 1:02:17

I'll deliver, I'll be there. So this week or this past week we're definitely closing out our conversation today, but last week we were traveling the country up to New York City. Big shout out to all our guests. We have our next episodes of Bobby D backstage, with Bobby D from San Francisco coming out soon. Big shout out to Tunde. I believe he's going to be one of the first ones we're going to be releasing, so definitely tune in and check him out, my guy and all the guests in San Francisco. And hey, just to let you know where we're going, next on our stop is we are going to Houston, texas. Big shout-out to Houston, texas Shout-out.

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Speaker 3 1:02:51

I'm there, I'm ready for the barbecue D-H.

Speaker 1 1:02:53

They said they do everything bigger in Texas, so we're trying to see what's good and big shout-outs to a conference that I'll be speaking at also. It's called Black is Tech and I have two parts in there one talking about behind the cloud at Twitter and then a panelist discussion. So definitely excited for us to catch up on that. But other than that, yo thank you all so much for tuning in Our newsletter's out, so check it out School community, like Raymond said over there, and obviously checking out our podcast here. Like subscribe and let your friends know about us, because we're building the community. Why not follow along? Any closing words for y'all guys.

Speaker 3 1:03:26

No, everybody have a phenomenal day. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 1:03:30

Raymond, don't call him Ray Ray.

Speaker 2 1:03:32

No, I got nothing. Be safe, that's it For sure, yep.