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Unknown Speaker 6:38

Oh, another beautiful day in the neighborhood Danko. How are you? Oh,

Speaker 1 6:41

doing great doing great. You know, we're just trying to acclimate here. We know, when we have certain things that are thrown at us and it messes up our game. We still got to play the game. Right? Yes, we do. It's like, we can't control the whole game. But we can control our game. Right. Very true. And so you know, life throws all kinds of things towards us. And right now, you know, we experienced some power outage issues and whatnot here at the studio. So I wasn't able to play my game here at the studio, because of the world that be you know, so those things happen to entrepreneurs all the time. Yeah. You know,

Unknown Speaker 7:27

it's kind of ironic that we're having this discussion because I was thinking about this over the last couple of days. Okay. Often as entrepreneurs, we we talk about this, go hard and go home attitude. Right. Right. Be on all the time. And pressing, pushing, going further, going harder, achieving more, right, yeah. And that is an attitude that's required to be successful, the entrepreneur, right, because oftentimes, it's just what's required, whether you're launching your business initially, there going to be periods where you're gonna need to pivot. They're gonna be periods where you realize you just simply need to level up and you have to expend the energy. But I was thinking about something that we don't talk about enough is what happens when you hit a wall. Yeah, there's a wall out. There's a wall. That's a good point. Anyone who's been an entrepreneur long, two minutes, probably knows what I'm talking about when you hit the wall. Right? When you reach a point of fatigue, yes. When the issues begin to pile up? Yes. When you aren't waking up 15 minutes before your alarm goes off, you're waking up two hours after the alarm.

Unknown Speaker 8:42

Right, yeah, we hit this wall, where everything seems more difficult than it needs to be. And you don't necessarily doubt yourself, but you're like, quite frankly, what's going on? Right, what's happening right now, why am I feeling this way? Why is this happening? And, you know, for me, personally, I was reflecting on the times where I've hit the wall, and oftentimes, as an entrepreneur, because we can be so stubborn. And so we can buy into this attitude that we need to be invincible. We don't realize is happening. Right? Right. So some damage is done. Unfortunately, that happens a lot with entrepreneurs. Yeah,

Speaker 1 9:28

yeah. And oftentimes, and so I'm just to interject here for a quick second. It's, um, these this wall that we're, you know, entrepreneurs hit at times, is a wall that, you know, we it's almost like a personal wall of acknowledgment, where you're, you're kind of letting reality and your real energy and where it doesn't match up and what weaknesses Do you have? It's One more second opportunity to reevaluate what you're doing.

Unknown Speaker 10:04

Yeah. Oh, man. I mean, we were on the same page this morning.

Speaker 1 10:10

All right, I love it. We're always on the same page, I feel.

Unknown Speaker 10:15

Because you you literally took words on my mouth. Oftentimes when you hit the wall, it's something eternal going on.

Speaker 1 10:21

Yeah. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 10:23

there's there's a Bice, or there's an issue. Or there's some incongruence, between the things, even talking about things you've been saying the things you want and your activity? Yeah. And it's hard for the mind you put to this. You might be the fool other people around you for a little while, but you can't pull yourself? No. Right? Nope. And a healthy mind and a person that has a self concept, it's very, very difficult for you to lie to yourself. And oftentimes the way you're feeling manifests physically, I really sure. And, you know, what do entrepreneurs do when they're trying to avoid acknowledge it and walk? Or avoid things that, quite frankly, you know, what we tend to do is we find ways to entertain ourselves. Mm,

Speaker 1 11:14

Tom, a lot of stuff. Talk about, yeah, talk about, you're talking about things that you know, will, you know, start to push your your belief forward, but you're probably missing a lot of things that you should be talking about, you're only maybe talking about certain aspects of your business and avoiding those, you know, reasons why you're hitting the wall. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 11:42

Right. I mean, what do we do? Yeah,

Speaker 1 11:43

we're talking about, right.

Unknown Speaker 11:45

I know, a lot of I know, a lot of entrepreneurs that will start drinking, right? And in their minds are not abusing alcohol, right? They may have a drink once every two, three days, right? Or maybe even once a day, right? They'll have what do people call it a nightcap, or something like that? Oh, yeah. And oftentimes, what do they're doing, they're in debriefing themselves and discomfort, right, of the pain and fatigue is starting to set in from hitting the wall. Right? People will find themselves entertain themselves on YouTube. And other things like that. Yeah. People need to understand that social media can be addicted. Oh, it's, it's organized in such a way to make you addicted to it. Right?

Speaker 1 12:33

Oh, yeah. It's crazy. It's really easy.

Unknown Speaker 12:36

So I mean, this is kind of like the dark side of entrepreneurship that we don't talk about often is not sexy. Right, exactly. But it's sometimes necessary to have that conversation and why and this is why you have to realize you're hitting the wall, you start doing things, you start chasing shiny objects, and most of the time is just to distract you from your frustration, your your fatigue, yeah, your internal sense of humiliation and disappointment, which itself. And these are things that can happen when you hit the wall. And this is why it's important to have conversation and recognize when it's happening, right, become irritable. Not this should be trivial. You know, they would normally negotiate easily now, you know, anthills have turned into these huge mountains, right? Absolutely. And that's a sign that something's not right. That's a sign that you are hitting the wall, and you need to do a hard stop, and start making some adjustments.

Speaker 1 13:41

And that's it. That's that's key, right? And entrepreneurialship, I think, is that you, you are constantly making adjustments, you have to be kind enough to yourself to realize that this is part of the process, right? You're you're pivoting, you're adjusting, you're analyzing and you have to be true to yourself as far as what, what you're actually doing and what you're trying to accomplish. Right. And are those two things matching up? And are you moving forward? And a lot of times, like when I picture hitting the wall, right, and I think I've hit the wall many times, and sometimes crash but, you know, the reality is, we're not alone. When we hit the wall, we all hit the wall in different ways. You know, being an entrepreneur or even working in a certain environment, you can hit walls, because maybe things aren't matching up. But I'm coming up to that wall. You know, we I think as entrepreneurs can look at the, the little parts and pieces that we can see before We hit the wall, you know what I mean? Like, these are the things that you're talking about that we can actually check in maybe on a weekly basis, or at least on a monthly basis on, are we close to hitting the wall? Are we about to hit the wall? What is going on with our situation? And a lot of times that's reflected in sometimes in your sales, sometimes in your networks, sometimes in your inability to tackle small, small things that were easy before, right. So how do we how do we look at that wall before we hit that wall? First of all, you know, maybe we can, maybe we can prepare ourselves a little better before we hit a wall? And then how do we get out of that stage? You know, that's where I think the challenge is

Unknown Speaker 15:55

interesting. You kind of already touched on it right? You know, some of the signs once again, that you're approaching the wall is that fatigue? That irritability, that easily angered and frustrated that the alarm goes off at four or five or six o'clock, you're up 30 minutes an hour later, when before you get up? 15 minutes for the alarm went off?

Speaker 1 16:18

Right? Yes.

Unknown Speaker 16:21

That you will see a situation where it starts to bleed into your business, you're not as effective. Right? And so you're taking on all this work, as entrepreneurs will oftentimes do is instead of evaluating what's going on, and sometimes it's required, but sometimes bad, right? When you double down, like, wait a minute, sometimes we just double down on the work, and we'll fix it. Right, right. Sometimes that does. But sometimes what you're doing is you're wearing yourself out, you stop working out, you stop eating, right, you start, you stop reading, you stop reading, you stop doing the things that brings you to edification and quality of life, because you're doubling down so hard, right? And these are all signs that you're hitting the wall, you think you're doing good work, you might be working more than you ever have before. But that does not mean that effective work. Right. Good point, you're not as effective as you were before. Right. So those are some of the things that he likes. And you touched on before like, one of the first things you want to do and you said it. Yeah. Self inventory,

Speaker 1 17:28

self inventory,

Unknown Speaker 17:29

no good way to look at. Yeah, when you look at the things that you're involved in, are they lining up with your values? Are they lining up with your core values, focus, your core focus or your power? Right? Are they lined up with your goals? And usually, if you're getting ready to hit the wall, you hit the wall. I mean, you taking on some things that aren't really in alignment with what gives you energy and what's helping was good for you. Right, right. Look, I mean, athlete, animals. On the fan, what happens when you get into an anaerobic stage where you are operating in muscle failure, right, you're not getting enough oxygen muscles eventually start to fail and seize up. Same thing could happen for you as entrepreneur, you got to take time to feed yourself. You got to nourish yourself, right? You got to drink the water. You have to eat better. You have to take a mental break. You have to do things to replenish yourself. No. I think about human being sometimes like batteries, right? recopy giving off energy calm to energize Newars especially shirts. Oh yeah. giving, giving, giving, giving, giving, giving all the time. Yeah. Well, you got to take a moment to kind of refill. Yeah, charge back up again. Recharge, recharge, that's one of the things you can do. You know, everyone's different for me. It's working out. Stuff starts going downhill and I get away from my workout routine for too long. It working out recharges. Yeah, in order for me to work out effectively though. I have to get enough sleep. Yeah, it's all can I get away with it for a while, right? Yeah, I can get away with lacking for a while. But eventually it catches up to me. And then diet. Right? Yeah. But not just my physical diet. But I mean, literally, what am I consuming? Am I on YouTube and Facebook and social media to entertain myself and get a distraction? Or I'm on their arm and they're finding stuff? That is edutainment. Yeah, right where I enjoy watching it, but it's also contributing something to my ability to be a more whole and better person. Right, right. You know, the other thing that you have to you touched on this, right? Yeah, look at your KPIs as entrepreneurs. Your KPIs or key performance indicators, and I'm not gonna do too much of a deep dive into this but 99% entrepreneurs and business models, any day, business very simple people overcomplicate, it's just a couple things we need to be doing on a daily basis. A couple of questions we need to ask. Number one, how many times are people being exposed? How many people who did not know we existed? are going to learn we exist today? All right. Grant Cardone says that the greatest the biggest enemy of entrepreneurs is obscurity. So how many times are you stepping out of obscurity? Whatever methodology, whether it's phone calls, emails, text messages, social media, at radio broadcasts, whatever the case may be, right, yeah. Then the next question is, okay. Well, how many times are people being put in position to make a buying decision? So people are learning about you, but how many times is the act being made? How many times? Are people being prompted to make a buying decision? Right? That's, that's what I know about you. That's fine. Right. But

Speaker 1 21:04

this is a, this is a huge piece. Yeah, I want to say this is a huge piece, John, because, you know, this really is a compilation of how many people you've approached. And out of all those people you've approached, you had the ability, let's say you approach 10 People with your concept or your sale or your opportunity. And then out of those 10 people, you were able to get to the next point of would you like to buy my product, even though a you expose people but the second part really shows the, the work that you did, right like that ask part when you've actually asked that number is critical. Because if there's zero people you ask today that you know, to be part of your business, or to sell or buy your product or services, then you're gonna have zero results, right? So if you don't ask, if you ask one person, it's better than zero. So your your, you know, everyone has to figure out their number of asks that they're trying to get to a day, right?

Unknown Speaker 22:12

Yeah, you gotta be tracking that right. Yeah. You know, I forgot where I got this quote from, but they say, you know, you don't hit the balls, you don't swing that, right. Mm hmm. You gotta, you gotta be swinging. Yeah, um, the next thing that all businesses have to track is, you know, am I creating happy clients? Did I meet or exceed expectations? Right. If you're not creating happy clients, okay, that that momentary, that transaction momentarily doesn't feel good. That client isn't happy. There's not gonna be repeat customers coming behind, and there's not gonna be any referrals combined.

Speaker 1 22:53

That's a good point. Right? That's a great point.

Unknown Speaker 22:56

So you know, you'll be conducting transactions and your transaction itself right out of this. Yeah. Unfortunately, bad news travels faster than good.

Speaker 1 23:07

Yeah. Oh, yes. So true. So true.

Unknown Speaker 23:11

Yeah. So you need to follow up, and make sure that you're currently happy clients. And of course, a function of creating happy clients is happy clients not only, like, know, and trust you enough to do business with you, but they start telling other people about you, they start punishing your phone. Yeah, and you hit the nail on the head, you can have the best product or service, or you need a best quote unquote, closer seller, whatever you want to call yourself, right. But if you're not out there sharing information with other people to speak, it's gonna run dry. Right? Absolutely. The other hand, if you're in a situation where you are sharing information, you do have an influx of people who are taking an interest in what you're doing. But you're still not getting the results. People aren't onboarding this time. So you're not getting referrals. But then now, you know, okay, after valuate my quote unquote, sales process, after evaluate my presentation process that's evaluate how people are being treated, once they're introduced to what it is that I did, right, right. So valuing those KPIs will kind of sober you up, and get you really focused on the things that matter most. Right,

Speaker 1 24:20

so the basic KPIs for our audience, just so you know, Key Performance Indicators without getting too deep in there, but right now I've got one, how many people are we reaching out to on a daily basis? To? How many times are we putting out the ask to those to the people that we want to buy a day or a week? And then am I creating happy clients? Are those good indicators right

Unknown Speaker 24:48

there, those three, those are very good indicators. But if you're creating happy clients, what you would naturally assume is that look going to follow happy class

Speaker 1 24:58

for referral Right. And that's the Holy Grail.

Unknown Speaker 25:04

Yeah, you show receipts, right? And people will begin to refer to you, people will begin to testify, they'll become ambassadors of your business. Right? Right. I felt that I paid very close attention to. And people all of a sudden have stopped referring business to me if all of a sudden I look up and I'm asking for referrals, and they're not coming. Something going on my process. Right. Right. Yeah. And that's, that's a key indicator. So that's something you want to be looking at. And that's how you kind of pull yourself off the wall.

Speaker 1 25:41

Right? Yeah, to my right, you're looking at reality, reality checks, and then looking at what pieces Am I not completing? To get this accomplished? You know, a lot of times entrepreneurs will do the work, that's kind of like the fun stuff, right? And do all you know, and then not not attend to the, the key pieces of business, which may not be as fun, but they're critical in us maintaining a good business. So you know, those things that probably we won't, we won't look at much, you know, as, as entrepreneurs, or as you know, we want to do the fun stuff. And but we have to do the hard work as well. And these are the the factors, the KPIs that you can identify, and then look back to say, Okay, now I'm gonna get off this wall. I'm not gonna stay at this wall. What do I need to do to adjust? I? That's what I think I'm hearing. Please correct me on that. Yeah. Okay. Good.

Unknown Speaker 26:43

Yes, indeed. And then, of course, a piece that you kind of touched on, right? Well, you hit the wall, your relationship starts suffering. Inevitable? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Doesn't mean your relations fall off a cliff. But they start to stop. Because once you become distracted, and you're not predictable anymore, you'll notice that your business partners, sometimes staff, employee, vendors, people that are somehow connected and actually mature to their business, they start responding differently to you. Right? Because, again, is you saw was going on with you. You're not resonating the thing. That's right. So you need to go back and have a conversation with anyone and everyone who's somehow connected to you. And make sure that, you know, if you if you made an error in judgment, if you dropped the ball somehow, if you weren't operating at a 10, you're operating at a six, it's okay to say, look, you know, I had a moment, I'm back. Right, right. I apologize if I dropped the ball in kinda way. Make sure everyone is on the same page in terms of No, these are the values that focus, this is what I'm about. Right? Make sure you're taking inventory to people around you. To make sure they also not only get understand what you're about, but they're willing to be accountable to it, they believe in it, they bought into it. Right? Because sometimes when you start moving in ways you shouldn't you start attracting things and people, right, you don't need in

Speaker 1 28:22

your life. Absolutely. So true. Well said, absolutely. You know, and I think that happens in different parts of any anybody's journey, you know, I mean, really almost, because we do sometimes get off track and are maybe attracted to shiny objects, like you said earlier that aren't really gonna benefit us. But boy, boy, I mean, all these truths that you're saying today are so interesting to me, because they they resonate, not only an entrepreneurial ship, but I think in any any relationships, any thing that you're doing in your life, you know, when you look at, when you really start to look at, we can hit walls in any different in business, in life in relationships. And oftentimes, that's because of this incongruency, right, that we talked about, from the beginning of where, where our heads at and where our intentions are at and where we're trying to go. It's easy to get off track, it's so easy to get off track. And today, you know, like, I'll tell you right now, from my perspective, you know, you go to try to do something and there's a blockage, right. And more than ever now, post pandemic during the pandemic, you get frustrated because there's all there's more blocks in front of us than ever right now to try to get something done. Even the simplest things drawn, have you felt that?

Unknown Speaker 29:50

You know, there are two ways to look at it. Right. The first way, is there a block difficult problem? And you can find yourself very much frustrated by those robots, right. And the, and the comparison I would draw would be like a racecar driver, you know, a racecar driver, they say when they're turning that corner, they don't look at the wall. Oh, because wherever you're focused on, right, you're going to head that direction. They're, they're not looking at the wall, they're looking at completing that turn. They're looking where they want to be good, right? You got to do the exact same thing when challenges come up. when issues come up. You can't make them your focus. Yeah, be aware be cogs in a room. This is a problem, I solve it. But, you know, don't fall into the trap of being focused on your problems and issues or else, you're going to hit that problem issue or you want to be focused on the destination, right

Speaker 1 30:55

destination.

Unknown Speaker 30:56

The other thing that I have come to embrace is a mindset of, I'm glad sometimes the challenges are here I am, it gives me an opportunity to get better gives me I'm going to get sharper apps give me an opportunity to learn new things, right. And the transparent there's a degree of competition when it comes to entrepreneurship. Absolutely. If I can solve these problems, if I can overcome issues faster, better and more effectively than my competition, I'm gonna be much more successful than half every time to time with ease. And atomic ease. Everybody wins. And it's hard to tell who's real and who isn't. It's hard to tell who's legitimate versus who's a fraud. Yeah, it's hard to tell who's affected. And really out here helping people versus people are just skating by, right on the veneer. Right. But when the stuff hits the fan stuff hits the fan, it becomes very clear. Yeah. Oh, who's been out here paying a price doing the things I need to do to help people, and it'd be effective. And you can see the receipt clear his day. Right? Yeah. You know, turn around, you can see the success stories. And successfully, I'm gonna just end and that's why I love the challenges,

Speaker 1 32:17

see. And we have to, we have to look at these, these receipts right? In different ways, depending on what business we're in. And what we do. Like, for instance, for just to toot our horn a little bit here. We had we had a couple weeks ago, a organization that I really believe in on our show called Arts and scraps, where they collect different different materials from industrial corporations and whomever to make art projects for kids in the city. Right. So they take all these different scraps, and then they go to the community, and then they, they interact. So one of my KPIs is, alright, so we're trying to help with our very Detroit concept is to acknowledge local nonprofits that don't get the coverage, right, normally. So that was one of our missions when we began very Detroit, because I believe that there's so many awesome nonprofits that get no spotlight, right. And so they were having an event this last weekend, and I went there, and they had, you know, activities for kids, I brought my daughter and I went with my friend, Jermaine, and we bought bought our daughter's there, and we did some projects. And then I spoke to the director that was on our show, before that, you know, that they were talking about this project. And then there was another nonprofit that was there as well. And then the director of arts and crafts goes, you know, to me, she's like, you know, how many actual like media companies have come to our events. She's like, one, that's you. So like, interestingly, you know, that's part of what we are trying to accomplish is to support these nonprofits. And to me, that was an indicator of a success point that we were able to follow up and attend an event, support this nonprofit in that way. But each each per each thing that we do, there's, there's ways that we need to, like acknowledge those, those things, right? And what we can do now with that, so, to me, you know, this conversation, you know, because we we have, I think, through technology, and through all these different pieces and parts of doing business today, we can get off track real easy, and, you know, but that to me was we're still on track with our values of our business of what we set out to do. Right. But the question is, how can we Now take that and bring it to the next level and organize it better and continue that message and continue with what that was that occurred.

Unknown Speaker 35:11

Yeah, I mean, one of the things I really started thinking about about listening is how can I break this down into a KPI? Exactly right. And so show receipt. And I was immediately thinking about as I was listening, how does that look? Right? So one of the things that I would be thinking about critically is okay. How can we show our impact? Yes, right. Yes. Because that organization has asked, they have a good nav app. Right. And maybe I would have asked the organization, look, let's create a link, where every result of the interest is generated was very true. When people click this link, it ends up going to your site or ends up, somehow that person ends up being delivered in front of your, your app. Right, right. Right. Because there's technology will do that. Right? Absolutely. And let's see how this works out. Let's keep track of it, right? And if a situation arises, where very troit generate enough traffic, where they find themselves being delivered on ads more frequently, and they start getting positive results from that, when out that's very Troy's receipt. There you go. Right, absolutely. Now you can turn to the pump and say, look, a nonprofit organization that normally would not have seen much traction awareness in the marketplace, as a result of our engagement with them, we increase awareness, they had an opportunity to share their value pot, and what they're doing the community and more people, right. And as a result, these good things happen for the organization. Wouldn't you like to happen? Wouldn't you like that to happen for you, too?

Speaker 1 37:03

And that's, that's exactly it breaking down that transaction, right, breaking down what that really was, and what it is, and how it connects to the future of what we're trying to do.

Unknown Speaker 37:17

Yeah, yesterday. Mm hmm. Right. You know, yeah. I love what you do there Detroit for that reason, I firmly believe, you know, people ask me all the time, what do entrepreneurs need to know as a healthy neighborhood?

Speaker 1 37:30

Yeah, absolutely. Yes.

Unknown Speaker 37:34

Absolutely want to help out the entrepreneurial community, the best thing you can do to help out an entrepreneur or the astronaut, ecosystem or community is create healthy, viable neighborhoods and communities? Because that's where the majority of our clients come from. Right. Right. Right, as small business owners is going to come the majority of the time, it comes from the environment that we live, work and play in. So very shortly being successful at doing that for nonprofits, and that organizations and individuals who are making a positive impact is a win for us all.

Speaker 1 38:12

Yes, yes. Right. Yes. So, yeah. And this show to you know, ask the neighbor, you know, I feel like gets down real deep. We have the we have more time here on Ask the neighbor to discuss deeper issues like we are with you, because, like you said, you know, each of our neighborhoods, each of our communities in this city in this Metro has different needs. And those those neighborhoods and those communities will create more for us or less for us, depending on how we interact and engage with the communities and how we support different parts and pieces. You know, Detroit is such an interesting place right now, because of the, you know, the difference, the dichotomy in our city, right of like what we have in richness, and in poorness. Right. We have such variety. And I've, I've been blessed enough to see, so many great things occur over the years and look at, you know, the whole concept of urban redevelopment. Right. And and what are the key points of that urban redevelopment and many times it's the artists, it's the nonprofit's. It's the religious organizations that start to bring back and it's the small business people that start to boost out that neighborhood, that community, and by supporting these folks we are contributing in that way I feel from very Detroit's perspective. And in this show, you know, like we want to have a show here that where people can call in and let us know about the littler details happening in their neighborhood, you know, or their neighbor, because their problems we all face, you know, it's not just, and this talk we've had today, I could relate it to so many other parts and pieces. And so I hope people are getting value from our conversations here. And I believe I get value. So I just feel otherwise we'll get some value out of it. And we want to hear feedback from our audience. And there's a lot of different ways that people can feedback, they can call us directly here at 248557 3300. And we can continue to talk. And that's what I love about this show. Because there's not too many places that you can actually do that anymore. You know, there's a hard, it's hard to get on the line with anybody. It's hard to discuss things. And while we're just we're just trying to share these positive things that are that are possible in our world in our community. And I believe by trying to share these things, we will make a better community wherever your community is. And interestingly enough arts and scraps is located in that awful Harper, not far from the city airport, which is a little rougher neighborhood, right. And what was great to see was another person we interviewed was actually their frugal on the fly. And we're hoping to have them that was a very Detroit contact, they were on our very Detroit show. But really what they're doing is they're collecting school supplies for youth in our city. And they want to be on our show to showcase that to ask the neighbor folks that could contribute, right. And I believe that's a huge thing that we can invest in and believe in is supporting our children. So this, this arts and scraps, then frugal on the fly. And then there was this really cool business that was there called Val's pizza. And they were made, they brought in their own oven, like this beautiful oven on a trailer. And they started making their own Dino pizza there. And so that's stimulating the community. And I just loved seeing what was happening there. And the possibilities of just little things that we can do as individuals, right, like when you do your next app, social. You do it because I feel like you're helping somebody, not only that person, you're interviewing Xuan, but also that conversation I feel is being created, because it's going to help someone out there. What's your take on why you're doing next stop social.

Unknown Speaker 42:32

You know, let's talk about the choice. Okay, because that's what really inspired that thought potion. And then a day, huh? It was those of us as a college Ray, feeling like this conversation, information resources, both intellectual and material. Tools that we want it to equip people with to win. Yes. All right. Yes. That FNN day is what motivated next is social. It was to entrepreneurs to start out with Shelley and I were having conversations behind closed doors and sharing information about things that have effectively help us build our own individual businesses, by how we've been able to take those tools, and help people have even more success and what we were enjoying. And it was a realization that oftentimes small business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals, and people who live and work in our communities, they're not failing because of a lack of a work ethic. Right. They're not failing, because they're not good people. Right. You know, they're failing because they don't have access.

Speaker 1 43:48

Right? Yes. You know, absolutely. You know,

Unknown Speaker 43:53

you know, going back from an actress was no Malcolm X said it best, right? He said, Just because you find a cat, and they don't make it a bit. Right, you

Speaker 1 44:03

don't make it. See that one more time.

Unknown Speaker 44:05

Don't make it a biscuit. Yes. Yeah. Make it a biscuit. Yes. Yes. So people are in the oven. And the oven is a lag. You have the internet deserts. You have the food deserts, you have the resource desert, right? You have people who are just completely and utterly unaware of what's available to them in the agency that's available to them. Right, right. And I feel like I will allow the individuals who are coming up on the long end of the sick, particularly nowadays and truly, usually it's because of that, right? Yeah. And my attitude is particularly when it comes to Detroit and urban areas like Detroit, and quite frankly, even the state of Michigan. Yeah, at this time and place in our history. We need all hands on We can't afford to leave anyone behind. That's right. That's right, we need every person with a brain a heartbeat and lens out here, being productive, being effective. And solving problems, right? We need all hands on deck, we have really big problems on the way, absolutely, really big issues and some really big problems. And we're going to need everybody who was capable to contribute and participate. And it's just foolish to believe that we are going to solve some of these huge societal problems by leaving people behind. Right? It's just not going to work. Eventually, the bill comes due.

Speaker 1 45:47

Right? Absolutely. Absolutely. Oh, that's,

Unknown Speaker 45:51

you know, in large part is what motivates me when it comes to next social, and when it comes to any of the endeavors involved, you know, I'm always looking for ways to not only level up, I'm like, How can I leave some, some sugar crumbs? Right? How can I leave some some golden nuggets behind, right, for other people to follow? Like, this is how it was done. Right? These are the ladders you can climb to get there too, because we need more people winning. That's the bottom line, a lot of these problems we have, and challenges that we have within Metro Detroit politan area are issues that if we have more people on deck, more people available, more people equipped with the tools, we can solve a lot of this stuff ourselves. Oh, yeah. Oh,

Speaker 1 46:41

we I mean, I firmly believe that I firmly believe that. And, you know, when, when we created very Detroit, you know, we were our system. And many people might know, this is a mobile magazine that you can scan with your phone to access different points of resources, really, you know, it's really resources that we're trying to share, be it musical, artistic, cultural, other resources involved with health, and things that can help us and then breaking down the community. So our goal has been that and trying to work with different people to share those resources has been what I feel we can do as a small business. But I believe everybody can do that in many different ways all the time. Right? Like, when you ask, How can I help you? To anyone? And or, if you're in a situation where you can help, that's where I feel entrepreneurs, you know, need to focus on is like, Where can I help? And all hands on deck is absolutely it, you know, we need to all chip in and figure out how we can contribute to the success of ourselves, but by, you know, our success is dependent on the people around us. And how do we lift up the folks around us up as we raise ourselves up? And those are the conversations that are deep in our city, you know, and what I love about what you're doing drawn is you're sharing that information on next stop social.com. And people can access everything that you do through there, or is there another way that we can get people to access you? Well, I'll

Unknown Speaker 48:29

tell you, the Uber majority of what I'm involved with, and how operating the community of course, you will find there. Because of course you can see the entreprenuer that we're working with that we're interviewing, we're very transparent in terms of the challenges we may be going through, and the challenge will help help other people to solve. You know, I like to keep things as simple as possible. So let's say for instance, a person wants to Google me, or they want to find me, I have a catchphrase that I use almost everything I do. And that's catch jsp for I love it. Catch JSP pretty I keep it literally CHPC Hey, and then J S v is in bank, U F as in Frank O R. D as in David, you punch in catch this Beaufort, you're gonna see oodles and oodles of content activity and endeavors and I've been involved with,

Speaker 1 49:29

alright, so that's a great way to for us, our, our neighbors, our audience to access information about how to get to the next level of entrepreneurialship how to what to do when you're hit the wall when you hit the wall, right. And all these things that we've talked about. We've had a longer conversation than normal, John, but I mean, you know, you can't stop a good thing, right. So I appreciate you taking the time today to you know, because we haven't been on the air for a little while. While Maybe I'm just a little more talkative than normal and inquisitive than normal. But I appreciate you being on the on the line with us on Mondays and my apologies about some of the technical stuff and power issues we've had. Last couple Monday's, but you are back on. And thank you so much for supporting our show. By your conversation, John, we appreciate it. Well, look, it's

Unknown Speaker 50:22

a pleasure and an honor. And thank you for the opportunity to share. I celebrate your success. I celebrate mine and everyone else. And advance you get out here and, and equip people. And once again, all hands on deck.

Speaker 1 50:37

All hands on deck and either bust through that wall or figure out how to climb around it or over it and get through it to the next spot. We all hit walls, guys. Thank you so much, John, have a great day. You too. All righty. All right. You're listening to ask the neighbor. I'm your host Danko. sodroski We just had a great conversation with you on Buford, you can Google or search catch, J. S. Buford. And you'll find a lot of information blogs that he's written about. Also, you can go to next stop social.com and actually view the interviews that he's done with Detroit, people making things happen, helping each other out. This is what I feel as the neighbor is all about. That's what I feel very Detroit's all about. We're looking for callers here at 248557 3300. We appreciate the callers we appreciate the audience that we've had. And we're back online here after a couple days a hiatus because of the power issues. I hope everyone's doing okay out there. We'd love to hear what's happening in our world, in our neighbors in our audience as we continue this conversation here on 690 Am w NZK We're coming to you every day between nine and 11am. I want to thank fathers justice law, fathers justice law, you can get a hold of them if you're in need of any family. Family law, you can call 313-819-9176 That's father's justice law. Thank you to tax solutions. consultants.com Renee Carcetti helping you and your business be more resilient. That's Renee Carcetti. You can call her at 248-566-3362. Again, tax solutions consultants 248566336. To thank you to Eric So wicky from health markets in Troy. Their phone number is 248-850-4000. If you need a health insurance analysis, review of your Medicare You can check it out. Ask Eric at 248-850-4000 Thank you to kebab island located on 13 Mile Road just decide to Shaner 58687517511 Thank you to Vogue vintage located on Hilton between nine and 10 Mile Road and their phone numbers 248-206-2595 And thank you to Troy jewelers 248-528-0962 located between big Beaver and wattles. Great place family owned for over 34 years right now. We've got Lucy on the line. Good morning, Lucy.

Unknown Speaker 53:09

Well, good morning. Did you have a nice time off? What did you get?

Speaker 1 53:11

Oh boy, oh boy, I had a great time off. This weekend. It was great because we went to this event called Arts and scraps talked a little bit about that earlier. But we I took my little daughter to and with a friend we took our both of our daughters to this event called it was arts and scraps but they were doing projects, what they do is they collect all of this material that people might throw away or you know, actual material. And then they have this big store that you can buy all these different types of parts and pieces and make creative things out of it. So what that sounds nice, isn't that nice? And then they take these these these items. It could be buttons, it could be industrial types of scraps, and then kids make art with it. You know, and they take it all over the whole Detroit public schools and they do art projects with them. It was just so cool to do that. And then I've got Benny back. Oh, oh van. He is a handsome boy. He's Uh, he's doing pretty well. He's a much more obedient. It was it was well worth it to take him to obedience school. But he's such a good boy. He's so you know what the problem is, is he's too smart. You know, for his own good as a yeah, they are. He's a golden doodle, right. So he's golden retriever and poodle. And so that little doggie is really aware of what is happening out there in the world. And so

Unknown Speaker 54:48

did you get him to go on as bad?

Speaker 1 54:49

I got him to go on his bed and he's now stays there. And there's a there's a command that I give him. I'm like you got to stay place. And so he was so good. that I had some friends come over and he stayed in that bed until I said free.

Unknown Speaker 55:07

Oh, really? Better. Is it a cage?

Unknown Speaker 55:10

It's just a bed. Oh,

Unknown Speaker 55:12

that's great. Isn't it? Great. Wow.

Speaker 1 55:15

He was sitting there for like 30 minutes. He was just chomping at the bit to get off of this bed. But wow, they really I mean, that piece alone is huge. You know, because when a puppy is, you know that age, they start jumping on everybody and they can't control themselves and whatever. Yeah, but he was so good. And he's, he's gonna be a great dog. You know? I'm just working with a more now and yeah, you know, it's it's

Unknown Speaker 55:43

gonna stay with you or with you when my is there?

Speaker 1 55:48

Oh, well, mostly. I think it's I think he's gonna stay with me mostly.

Unknown Speaker 55:53

Yeah, sounds like you better you. You've trained. I mean, you have to give the commands and stuff.

Speaker 1 55:59

Yeah, yeah. And they sense they really sense dogs really sense the, the leader, the confidence and things like that. And it's tough when you have a little daughter running around wanting to play with the doggy all the time to try to train it. You know, it's hard. It's really difficult. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 56:16

So yeah, but he'll do good. So, and yes, the sunflowers remember you mentioned the sunflowers. That is the garden.

Speaker 1 56:24

It is Oh, okay. All right. So okay, perfect. Because I know exactly. I was I passed by there yesterday. Matter of fact, and I saw

Unknown Speaker 56:33

the but we were there yesterday, were you? Yeah, I

Speaker 1 56:37

passed by there all the time. Because that's on my way to everywhere and I see those beautiful sunflowers that are there. And he you

Unknown Speaker 56:45

know, he got me. Let's see I brought home a larger zucchini so I'm going to shred that to make bread at home a yellow squash to egg corn squashes. Oh, tons of Roma tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and whatnot. Oh corn on two different kinds of corn. Wow.

Speaker 1 57:07

He's he's got he's got such a garden there. And I'm like, you know, I wonder how our neighbors are doing with their gardens. Mine's been so so my tomatoes are okay, but my other plants have been eaten by mosquitoes now mosquitoes but some type of bug caterpillars different things. In the macaque about fungus. I

Unknown Speaker 57:29

ate the Swiss chard.

Speaker 1 57:31

Oh, yeah. Well, Swiss chard. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 57:35

It didn't get any this year normally has a lot of it. It was really good but and the corn come up you fall boy. Oh, yeah. And he had two different kinds. The bees, he doesn't have the bees over there. They're shared their backyard, the house across the street. He's already gotten honey and it was so good.

Speaker 1 57:56

They said that the honey production is much higher because of how much water we had, how much rain we had. And I think that somehow translated into more honey production. I'm not really sure. The

Unknown Speaker 58:10

they go across the street to the garden and do whatever and then come back and do whatever and yeah, that's so great. But the Garden Inn and all the flowers, she's got up front of them pants.

Speaker 1 58:21

Oh, I tell you, you know, it's that I think it's that Italian. You know, Italians love the garden. You know, I mean, they are excellent gardeners. They really know what they're doing. And that's like generationally passed down I think a little bit you know, you when you see

Unknown Speaker 58:38

my father passed before but he got the gene together with this and, you know, working and everything that he does he got the gene that was passed down to him is just gorgeous.

Speaker 1 58:54

How's the rest of your weekend? Lucy? How's everything else going on with you?

Unknown Speaker 58:57

Oh, fine, fine, thank you. Good, good. Good. Doing good. Yep.

Speaker 1 59:02

Interesting. Any any recipes?

Unknown Speaker 59:06

Over here, our granddaughter had gone to camp and camp was fine till the bad weather went through Attica windows that Wednesday. And they had the high winds. So the sirens went off. You get the high winds now. So they gathered them all up in the cafeteria, the dining room and they put them all in the basement and they were all accounted for because they send out school sends out emails and stuff good things to parents and then the electricity went out. Boy boy, then they had generators. Well, then the generators broke in Thursday, they had to come home or relay so

Speaker 1 59:46

it's been a whirlwind of things happen to us. I feel you know from the rains to the storms to this to that and the power and I don't know weird summer really kind of a weird summer.

Unknown Speaker 59:58

Right well, they We're going to do the Friday they were going to do all their stuff at school at the high school. Well, then they got an email Thursday night that I'm Monday when all the kids went up to camp. Somebody got sick, went home, got tested, and the teenager had COVID. So what they're doing now? Oh, I have to get tested. So,

Speaker 1 1:00:21

boy, you know,

Unknown Speaker 1:00:23

well, daughter had one shot both of my grandkids had their first shots. They're getting their second next week, I believe. Well, I hope everyone's okay, but I really do believe they're going to be wearing masks at school.

Speaker 1 1:00:37

Feel too, and I don't know I can't get my head around what's happening in our world really? I like our conversations are simple here on Ask the neighbor. We do some wrestling. Talk about the simple stuff in this world.

Unknown Speaker 1:00:52

But I want to make tell you strawberry cake. Anybody made it? Good question. I haven't gone to get all the stuff for it yet. But that really sounded good. Didn't that

Speaker 1 1:01:01

sound so good. I I want to make it. I wish I was a baker. But hopefully, while

Unknown Speaker 1:01:09

I do a lot of that stuff, but to layer cakes and me don't get along a nine by 13 and see what happens. But you know what? It's after your 10 o'clock hour. So I'm going to get off here. Let somebody else get on. I hope everybody had a good weekend. I hope everybody's getting their power back. For these people. We did have power all the time.

Speaker 1 1:01:28

Oh, no. I did too. I feel kind of bad as well. But you know, what can you do? I did get a big limb fell on my power wire. But I still had power. And it's still really big two limbs, fell off my tree and then hit my wire. pulled my storm door off my house pulled the wire off the thing and pulled molding torn off of your house. Yeah, yeah, it was crazy. This limb. What it did was it fell on the wire. The wire didn't break. It just dragged everything that was connected to where the wire connects to my house and pulled it off of my house. So there's like side molding off my storm doors off but finally DTE at least taped it off but they've not finished the job yet. So I but I'm not. I know there's 1000s and hundreds of 1000s of people without our

Unknown Speaker 1:02:21

house or the back the back the back. Wow.

Speaker 1 1:02:25

Yeah, it was it's still just hanging there because I don't want to touch it and you're not supposed to touch live wires. Touch it. So I was staying away and keeping my little one and Benny away from that as well.

Unknown Speaker 1:02:38

So don't touch it there will be utilizing you. Exactly.

Speaker 1 1:02:43

So that was what happened. Lucy so thank you so much for calling. Always good to hear your voice. We appreciate it.

Unknown Speaker 1:02:49

Okay, okay, everybody. Let's see if anybody's done that cake. Yeah, let me see how it is. I haven't done it yet. Sounds good. Yeah. Okay, if I have a good day. All right. Thank

Speaker 1 1:02:58

you, Lucy. All right. That was Lucy from Chesterfield asking if anybody's made Peggy strawberry cake, we're gonna go to station ID break we will back after that.

Unknown Speaker 1:03:07

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Speaker 1 1:03:45

this is your back on the top of the second hour. You're listening to ask the neighbor, I'm your host Danko. Sutter Oscar, we had a great conversation with Lucy just now from Chesterfield, letting us know some of the things that have been happening around the world here, and especially with the storms, a little conversation there. She also wanted to know if anybody made Peggy's strawberry cake that sounded so good. And if anybody made it, let us know. Give us a holler at 248557 3300. Also, I wanted everybody to know, we didn't mention it today, but we are accepting texts. If anyone out there wants to text us, please text us at 330333 work. That's 330333 work. And that's a new text number that you guys can text us at any time. And we'd like to share that on our show. If you want to call you can always call it 248557 3300 Right now we're gonna go to a song and we will be back

Unknown Speaker 1:06:19

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Speaker 1 1:08:41

Alright DJ yeah that was go mess with air stream driver. All right that song going out to Diane in from Philly. She's connected to this band. They're a band. One of her friends husbands is in so I wanted to play that tune. And it's goes back a few years but great song Gomez. So everyone's listening to 698 as ws zk. I'm your host Danko. We're looking for callers right now. 248557 3300 We are looking for callers give us a holler right now. Um, Lucy was asking if anyone has made the strawberry cake that Peggy shared with us and we'd love to know if you guys have done that. earlier. We were talking with John Buford from next stop social. We had a great conversation about you know, when we hit a wall, I don't know if anybody's ever hit a wall in their personal life in their relationship life or in their business life. But if you do give tax solutions consultants a call at 248-566-3362 They're an organization that you can trust. They help you figure out your strategies for your future. If you hit that wall, you don't know what to do give Renee concetti a call to 485663362 She can help you with getting your business in order And in line. That's tax solutions consultants.com 248566336 to and also if you need your family law in order, call father's justice law 313-819-9176 a great organization. Again, that's father's justice law. 313-819-9176 And thank you to healthmarkets in Troy, Eric's a wiki can help you do a health insurance analysis to see what your family needs. Give him a call at 248-850-4000. And I know Medicare questions will be coming up, Eric Zwicky can help you answer those questions. 248-850-4000. Right now we've got hyacinth on the line. Good morning, hyacinth. Welcome to the show.

Unknown Speaker 1:10:44

Well, thank you, Bianca. Yes. Nice to hear you. Just want to make a quick question. Okay. Great neighbors. Excellent. Okay, let me just get to the point. I need someone who have already talked to a company that sells Lord have mercy.

Speaker 1 1:11:09

I don't know if anybody sells any Lord's mercy. Let us know. You have any. Yeah. generators, generators. Good question. Rice

Unknown Speaker 1:11:21

is generators. I don't think I want any more darkness with flashlights and lanterns. I think I'd rather have a generator. So yes, I don't want to call one person and let they push something down my throat.

Speaker 1 1:11:38

You're right. And it can be right now, especially people

Unknown Speaker 1:11:41

from any and everyone who have bought generator recently what it costs. And you know,

Speaker 1 1:11:50

that's a great question. I'm glad you brought that up. I'm so glad you brought that up. Because, um, I was actually looking at, on on a website where they were selling different things. And they were selling a generator, because they had just installed one that you connect to your house with gas, which is, I think, an optimal one because you don't have to worry about, you know, putting gas in these generators. It just takes the natural gas from your house when your electricity shuts off.

Unknown Speaker 1:12:22

That's what I would like. Yeah.

Speaker 1 1:12:25

Now that sounds such a good idea. I'm so glad you brought this up because it's so timely. Here we are at the studio. We didn't have power for days. We couldn't do what we could do. You don't have gender in the studio. Oh, no. That's a big building we're in it's 1112 storey buildings so we're on the 11th floor. But we don't have a generator here. Do we chump car? We might but it wasn't put to use. Yeah, I don't know if it does. I mean, that's got a lot of power to the power this whole has the entire building not just our Yeah, it was down.

Unknown Speaker 1:12:57

But I don't know why but I don't remember that has ever gone out this long. There is a generated the or they got to be a generator somewhere in that building and that that station has never been shut down this many days before. As long as I have been listening and remembering maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 1 1:13:19

I don't think you're wrong. I don't think you're wrong very often Hiaasen.

Unknown Speaker 1:13:27

Anyhow, I'd like a discussion and generate unfortunately, I'm calling late. No, no. Yeah, believing at 1030. So I guess who never call. I can call back tomorrow to see if we get an answer.

Speaker 1 1:13:41

Beautiful, beautiful. We'll keep this question rolling a great day for you to highest and thank you for the call. All right. Hi, Allison, from Detroit letting us know. She's interested in the generator. And she would like to hear from our neighbors. If anyone out there has had a recent generator install and can refer somebody she doesn't want something pushed down her throat or something that's not correct for her. So please, neighbors. Let us know what you're thinking here. If you've if you have installed a generator in your house, let us know who you've used because we want to share this information. This is exactly what our show is all about. We share recipes, not only for food, but for life here at Ask the neighbor and I'm your host Danko. Very proud to be broadcasting here from 690 Am w NZK. And you can catch out catch our live stream. If you go to very detroit.com and you click on w NZK. You'll be able to hear our stream. And if you're far away or somewhere else, you can always listen to WNZ K by going to very detroit.com and clicking the WZK button off of your mobile phone and it'll take you to the live stream. So wherever you are, you can hear us and listen to us. i My apologies for being down a few days here during this last week and what can we do The world has what the world is. And but luckily, we've got neighbors here that have been listening and tuning in for a long time knowing that we have been broadcasting right here from 690 am WNZK, a platform where you can call in, or you can text us, you can text us at 330333 work. That's right 330333 work, or you can connect with us on Facebook guys, you can go to facebook.com forward slash, ask the neighbor, you can also go to facebook.com, forward slash, very Detroit. And by doing all these things, we're going to be able to connect more often and keep the questions going and answered, better for our neighbors. And we're loving what we're doing here. The ask right now is Has anyone used the generator company that they can trust that they want to share with Hyson give us a call to 48557 3300 is the ask today also, has anyone made Peggy strawberry cake, we'd love to know, this was a recipe that we gave out on the 11th of August, and we've been down for a few days. So we're back. We're excited. We're having some conversations. We're excited to get everyone's calls in today. And let's get going 248557 3300 Give us a text. That's another way to connect with us every which way is a good way. And like I said, you know, we have been coming at you since March of this year. And it's been interesting as our show has been transforming itself. And as we move through the seasons, you know, this is a show of the seasons, as we started. In March, we were talking about what we were doing to plant, how we were getting our gardens together, what we were doing, what we were eating, where we were going, and what our neighbors were doing. And so we share these stories right here on Ask the neighbor and then we try to put all that together and we're loading it on our website so that we can give you access to prior shows because I believe every one of our shows has some value that we bring in that can be replayed. And you can do that by going to soundcloud.com forward slash very Detroit and you can access every one of the shows that we've ever done on Ask the neighbor, and excited because that's history in the making right there, guys. And we when we talk about these things, we can go back and access these talks, these recipes at any time in the future that we want. And so that's a great thing that we have that we didn't have all of our lives, you know, during my youth and growing up, we didn't have all these abilities to keep this data together. And speaking of data, if anybody has any information about how we can get our text messages from our carrier, I want to know who owns these text messages? Do we own them? Can we access them? Can we get our text messages from the last year, the last three months? Does anybody know about this information? Where can we get it? What can we do with it? Who owns it? That's one of my asks that I put out there? And I want to know, what about the data? Is the question, What about the data? And are we are we managing our own data? Is somebody else managing our own data? What? Where do those text messages go? And how are they being used? is a question I want to know. And I want to be looking for people that are in that business to help us out because I feel

that's an important piece of what we do is get to the bottom of things, help out neighbors and try to figure out what's the best phone carrier that you should be working with, which is the best mobile provider which is the most honest people and service providers and who is doing the best things. Right now you're listening to WNZ K I'm your host Danko sitter offski. We just had Hyacinthe call in letting us asking us who is the right generator company to use have you used this generator company? Let us know. We're going to go to a song right now. And let's see what we got here. DJ Chubb, CA. Ah, let me see. Let me see. Let me see. Yeah, let's go with that one. All right.

All right, TJ. Yeah, Flock of Seagulls with Iran so far away? Yeah, that's a heck of a tune. Thank you for playing that a flock of seagulls I ran so far away. And if anyone is running, let us know 248557 3300 You're listening to ask the neighbor. I'm your host Danko sinner, offski. And I hope you're not running. I hope you're staying put and attacking what you got to attack. Because every single day things can make us run. And we could walk away or do things, but you have to address the challenges in our lives. Like we were talking with John Buford a little bit earlier. These challenges these walls that we may hit personally, in our personal relationships, in our business relationships, in our entrepreneurial relationships, we all can hit a wall. And I feel like we here at Ask the neighbor can discuss these things. Let us know what you're thinking. Have you ever hit a wall? How did you overcome it? Let us know. I'm right here. 248557 3300. Text us if you have any information about a generator company that will install a generator for Hyacinthe that the right price and the right type of service provider. We want to know all these things, because we feel like we can share these more and more every time we also have information that we've been uploading every day to our webpage, ask the neighbor.com. And on that you can look at the different dates and then we summarize what recipe was shared the project of the week and the different people that call In. So you can go to SA, ask the neighbor calm and put in an ask, or you can give us a some feedback as well. And let us know what you think about whatever. And then we have a plant of the week on there. The recipe that we shared for the week and project of the week, and we've got recipes coming in all the all the time. So last week, we had some great recipes. Right now we're trying to get back in the swing of things and work now we're going to do a little TED Talk. And as we wait for some callers, we're going to go to this TED talk right now. And get your questions ready after that, or if you have generator, support resources, let us know recipes, whatever the questions may be, bring them to us right after this TED talk. Here we go.

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I am going to talk about something like this. Sir dusty fragment from a clay tablet, that might not look like very much you can't really tell what the squiggles say on it. It looks pretty old, off yellow. But it's actually one of the most remarkable objects I've ever encountered. It's called a flood tablet. Because the squiggles which are in cuneiform tell the story of a flood. It's in the British Museum today. So not far from here. And it's part of really one of the oldest written down forms of literature. So one of the pieces of the oldest pieces of literature in the world. It's from seventh century BC, northern Iraq. So it's about 2700 years old. Now, the previous speaker talked a lot about Facebook and the digital world. And I want to contrast objects like this, to the digital world, the digital world is a wonderful thing. And it presents all sorts of opportunities for knowledge, we can really find anything we want on the web, sometimes we have to know what to look for. And sometimes I think we think we need things that are a little bit more tangible things that we can touch. So I want to talk today about how objects like these, the real thing, and although I say we can touch them, obviously museums, there are glass cases, so and there are security guards. So it's more of a kind of idea of touch. But objects like these, and institutions, like the British Museum, are essential to the future of learning that in the 21st century, we need two things. We need a sense of the past, the civilizations that came before us, and we need a sense of the real. Now, I think the story of this flood tablet, how it was found, what it says and the impact it had on the world, when it was deciphered, is salutary to what we're thinking about today, how we know what we know, and how we never know everything. So I want to tell you and take you back to how this flood tablet was found before it ended up in the British Museum. There are two chaps responsible for it. August Henry layout who's on the right. And this man over here, awesome Rossum. August Henry Laird was an adventurer. So he took off to the Middle East, around 1830, riding into the countries on horseback as you do. And he met up with horse Sam, an archaeologist and what they tried to do and what they succeeded in doing is finding the ancient civilization of a Syria what's the remarkable thing that we know quite a lot about Syria today. But then, it had pretty much been forgotten. And many of the kind of the buildings, the palaces, the sculptures, the flood tablet, were completely covered in dirt and nobody knew where they were. So they set about trying to find where they were with shovels and a team of men behind them. They found the most remarkable and spectacular objects, completely bizarre objects, and flood tablet. In fact, they found palaces, grand palaces, and the whole library. What was remarkable about about the people at the time was that they set about a pretty much creating a new state. They're a massive Empire, and they recorded many things about it. So we know many things about the ancient Syrians because they left a detail record of it. But of course, people didn't automatically know how to read cuneiform, which is what the language is on the flood tablet it had to be deciphered this, he's not a hipster, he just looks like one there. This chap is called George Smith. Now George was from a working class background. He was self educated he had been apprenticed at the age of 14 to affirm of banknote engravers. But he became absolutely passionate and obsessed. And I think in a way, you do have to be obsessed to make any kind of major breakthrough, which is what he did. But he was obsessed with the Assyrians, and obsessed with cuneiform. And he taught himself to read it. He became one of the leading translators of the day. He did this often in his lunch hour, in the quiet moments before he went to work, he would go to the British Museum in Bloomsbury every day and read the tablets are try and read the tablets in the reading room.

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One day, he had the flood tablet in front of him, and he suddenly cracked is suddenly worked out. It was must, must have been one of those kinds of spine tingling moments, when you feel like the hand of history is on your shoulder, because he was just about to make history. He jumped up, ran around the room, and said, I am the first man to have read this after 2000 years of Oblivion, which is a sort of moment to die for. I think, in fact, he was so excited, he began to express himself as you do. Obviously, that's not something to emulate in the British Museum, you might be asked to leave what you'd what you'd read, was the Epic of Gilgamesh. And the remarkable thing about this was that it was a story of a flood is very similar to the story of Noah and the flood, and the animals. Why does that matter? The interesting thing about it, and the surprising thing about it was that it was written 400 years before the earliest written version of the Bible story. So it indicated that the Bible story wasn't unique. It wasn't privileged. It wasn't a one off, it hadn't come from there, but had been drawn upon a kind of previous pool of knowledge in the Middle East. This is a time so we're talking about the 19th century, when all sorts of things were actually being questioned, including the biblical version of history. And George Smith's revelation with this flood hazard was like lighting, a fire. It just completely exploded, all sorts of orthodoxies and mainstream thinking about biblical history. He was front page news, the Prime Minister of the day, Gladstone came to see him lecture, not bad for a banknote engraver called George, who spent his lunch hours at the British Museum. I think his story is really important. It's really sanitary, because it shows a number of things. Anybody can do it if they are dedicated. And it's not easy. You have to work really damn hard. You have to be obsessed with your subject to the point that people think you are weird. That's no bad thing. If you make breakthroughs, like this, and you have to challenge the orthodoxies of the day, which can be quite a hard thing to do. Now we live in the 21st century, we think we know what we probably do know more than we've ever known. But we certainly don't know everything, and we could very easily be wrong. And the evidence of the past strangely, is essential to questioning orthodoxies, and challenging what we think we know. And I think that's why one of the reasons why museums are such wonderful places now the British Museum.

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This is actually, before I go on, this is an Assyrian artifact brought back, you can see I mean, this is another world here represented by and if you look, so we have a kind of lion or a bull. We have wings coming out of his body, and amazingly misses some century BC, northern Iraq. Could we do this now? Amazingly, he's got five legs. So look, for the red thing. It looks like he's walking if you are on one side. And then if you're at the front of him, it looks like he's stationary. So museums hold artifacts like these. This is actually from the Met, but the British Museum around the corner, holds many of these Assyrian artifacts, and I strongly recommend you go see them. So what do museums and their artifacts do and why are they why are they so important? I think they are a thread, a time machine where they link us to previous civilizations and previous peoples and like I said, not in a kind of peace and love kind of way. We're all equal and wonderful. I mean, the Assyrians were a very large and violent empire. They're tremendously creative, and very, very powerful. But they were violent, and young men were apprentice very early on, not to be like George Smith. As a banknote engraver, but to be warriors, to be soldiers, so we learn much more about those people by going to museums, and looking at their artifacts. They also are in many cases free to enter. So regardless whether you're 616, or 60, you can go in in your lunch break, like George and have a look at things and wonder, wonder and the British Museum formed and FIFA 1756 was free to enter right from the beginning. So, man, this idea of access to the world's greatest knowledge, institutionalized in the British Museum from very early on, although I should say, at the time, you did have to wear clean shoes. A few qualifications. Not so much, I think in the 21st century, but the other thing, museums and institutions like them offer I think, is the real thing. Now when I go in to the BM, or if I'm lucky enough to go to somewhere like the met this guy, he's five meters high. He's really big. He's unfamiliar. He demands my attention. I think it's a he, although some of them look very feminine. So maybe they were confused, or they were just kind of forward thinking and ambivalent about their, by their, by their agenda. But he demands our attention, and he deserves it. I think we live in a day and age where, and I am guilty of it as anybody else where we access everything, through our phones, through our computers. And there's a kind of unreal, quality to it. I'm never sure it's easy to not know what time of day it is to not engage with something solid. I think one thing that history does, and one thing that objects do is they are tangible. You can touch them, they are solid, they don't just melt in to the air. I'm not sure if those of you in the audience saw the potential continued destruction by ISIS in Palmyra, that site of ancient civilizations. There was a debate at the time that the horror expressed prioritized objects over people. I think that's really the wrong way to understand that. I think it was an outrage. And I think in a way ISIS knew what they were doing. They were trying to destroy history. I think the thing is about artifacts, like those that Palmyra and in museums is that they give us a sense of who we are in history. So we may live in the 21st century, but people came before us and achieved many things. And I think a sense of our reality, and the permanence of reality is solidified by real objects. So that's why I would suggest after this conference before you go to a drink, maybe pop over to the British Museum and see some of these Assyrian artifacts, or the Rosetta Stone or the Parthenon Marbles, whatever takes your fancy, because I think museums and ancient artifacts can take us out of the cloud, and bring us back down to earth. Thank you.

Speaker 1 1:38:29

All right, DJ. Yeah, that was Tiffany Jenkins. And that was titled Why an ancient Mesopotamian tablet is key to our future learning. And that's interesting to me, because language and what we do with our words, is what this show is all about, and what very Detroit's all about. And ask the neighbor is all about we use words, to communicate. This is digital, this is through the air. But all through history, somehow it was recorded. And I believe in our city here, we have so many resources that we can access, we were talking about access to resources earlier, what you want. And it's about this access to resources that prevents people from getting to that next step. And I'm so glad that the DIA and our historical museum and everything else is now a free and you can go there and our youth can check it out. And I appreciate all those things that are happening in our city, giving more of our residents, more of our metro access to information through the internet through actually tangible pieces that you can access here in our metro in our downtown. So we're lucky to be where we are. You're lucky. You know that you can access all this information, our work history, through the great organizations that we have here in Detroit. Check them out. Listen to very detroit.com We've got a lot of that information on there. You're listening to 690 Am w NZK And we just played a little TED Talk. Thank you to Vogue vintage located on Hilton between nine and 10 Mile Road. Thank you to kebab island located on 30 Mile Road just across the street from ran dazzles. You can get some lunch there, give them a call at 586-751-7511 Let them know ask the neighbor sent you and you'll get 10% off. Thank you to Eric Zwicky from healthmarkets and Troy 248-850-4000. If you need any questions answered about health insurance, give Eric a call Eric Zwicky from healthmarkets in Troy 248-850-4000 Thank you to one mag.tv o n e ma g.tv a place where you can access Omnimedia meaning digital magazines, books and much much more. One mag.tv Thank you to fathers justice law, practicing family law. If you have any questions concerning your visitation, your rights as a father, give them a call at 313-819-9176 That's father's justice law. And thank you to work fly.com If you have any mobile services that you would like to receive or that you serve, give or fly.com or visit input, what mobile service you're looking for or what mobile service you supply. Right now, we had a question from hyacinth for a generator company and one of our neighbors Vicki called in from Radford and let us know that K NB generator in Lavonia is a company that she trusts their number is 734-666-0101. That is k n b generator in Livonia. And their phone number is 734-666-0101. That's k n b generator in Livonia. This is coming from Vicki and Redford. And thank you so much for getting that answer to us. So quick hyacinth, I hope that you're listening. But you might not be I know, you have to leave it around 1030. So we will share this information again tomorrow. And if there's anyone out there right now with a generator company that they could trust and they want to share with our neighbors that they've used before. Give us a holler here at 248557 3300. Or give us a text message at 330333.

Work that's 330333 work and you can text us there any time let us know what you're thinking. Let us know what you're doing. We want to know if you have a generator company that may supply hyacinth with a couple other solutions here. We were talking earlier with your wine, Buford about how we can hit the wall move around the wall, what stuff we need to measure what we're consuming. What we're doing, you can do, you can catch Jay s Buford, if you want to get more information about what he's talking about, on the daily that's catch JSB for put that in anywhere on the internet. And we were just on with TEDx talking about how we can touch things, maybe not physically, but all of the different parts and pieces that we can access information here in our Metro. And in our city. The institutions that we have are incredible. And you know, the Detroit Public Library, the Historical Museum, the DIA and so many other places that we can actually get access to information art history and resources. And that's what this show is all about recipes for life right here ask the neighbor and you can reach us at Ask the neighbor.com you can check out all of our old shows on soundcloud.com forward slash very Detroit we appreciate you guys tuning in we're gonna go to a song right now and we will be back

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