0088: Modular Phones And Apple’s Next Move

A $170 modular phone that can snap on a battery, camera lens, mic, or speaker without getting thicker sounds like sci-fi, but it’s already being shown off and it forces a real question: why are we still replacing entire devices for one missing feature? We kick off with that modular smartphone conversation, then zoom out to what it says about the future of affordable hardware, sustainability, and how fast the midrange market can move when it isn’t stuck protecting a premium lineup.

Then we get into Apple’s leadership shakeup. Tim Cook steps down after steering Apple from roughly $350B to about $4T in market cap, and John Ternus, the longtime hardware engineering leader, is set to take the wheel. We talk wins like AirPods, Apple Watch, services growth, and Apple Silicon, and we keep it honest about the iPhone design fatigue. The most interesting angle is AI: did Apple miss the wave, or are they quietly building the best on-device AI platform through M-series performance and tight hardware-software control?

Raymond drops practical gems too, from youfreetools.com for quick browser-based utilities to a spicy debate around Meta’s free four-week fiber optics technician course. We break down the pros, the travel and contract concerns, and why physical infrastructure work might be one of the most durable “tech” careers as AI automates more desk tasks. We also throw in a Crime 101 watch recommendation, hit a full sports rundown, and welcome new ads to the show.

Subscribe for more tech news, career talk, and culture, and if this one sparked an opinion, share it and leave a review. Would you rather upgrade your phone with modules or just buy a new one every year?

Transcript

Old Games And Hot Weather

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome, welcome, welcome. What up, T Hustle? What's going on, man? Chillin', man. Chilling. Nice and warm outside. Is it? Yeah, I was out there sweating a little bit. You know, just uh one mile and I come back drenched almost.

SPEAKER_01 0:12

I don't understand how you still come back drenched.

SPEAKER_00 0:14

You always do the walks. Hey, I like to be outside. I always like to be outside, man. What's going on, Raymond? Don't call him Ray Ray. How'd you like that walk? Uh, it was good. Yeah. Hot? Uh-huh. Yeah. I can see it on your forehead still. Man, look at your shirt today, Mr. What is that? Duck Hunt? Uh classic game, bro. The real ones know about this. Oh, yeah, no. Yeah, I need to I need to see the whole setup, though. Pain. There we go.

SPEAKER_02 0:39

D Hustle remembers the pain. Oh, okay. D used to be good. What are you talking about? Not just the game, but just maintaining an NES system.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

Oh, you you mean trying to play the game.

SPEAKER_02 0:51

Playing to play the game, yes.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Yes. We went through something.

SPEAKER_02 0:55

I'm gonna do this. D Hustle knows what I'm talking about. Pause, pause. Pause, yes. With the NES system, yes. Yes, yes. You remember that?

SPEAKER_01 1:04

Oh, that's not the important part. The important part is the left, right, left.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

Oh, trying to get in the in the right position. Or you used to actually have to put two games on top of it to try to make sure it the eject doesn't have to be. Your shit was fucked up.

SPEAKER_01 1:19

You know that for a fact.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

That's when you knew it was over, though. That is dang. How about alcohol swipes? You remember we used to get alcohol in there and trying to. I never liked doing that. Yeah. How nervous that was. I know, right? It was like you're adding all this liquid to your game.

SPEAKER_02 1:33

Only the real ones know about that.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

For sure. And we only had A, B, up, down, left, right. We used to play so many freaking games with that, bro. Do you think you can still get on um Super Mario Brother, the very first level number one? You think you can still get it? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

See why not? Yeah. That was uh that was difficult. Yeah.

Show Format And Big News

SPEAKER_00 1:52

Let me tell you, level one is the only one that I could just kill this thing. Because you know how many times we played it though. Oh yeah. Yeah. Because there was no saving back then, right? That's true. Yeah, once you died after your three attempts, bro, it was a rap. You gotta go all the way back to the beginning. Yeah, there was no save. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I got it easy nowadays. Yes, that was the good old days. Yeah. Well, if you didn't know, this is the Tech Hustle Podcast, and definitely want to welcome you here. I'm your host, Bobby D. I got my guy D Hustle holding it down, and my cousin Raymond. Don't call him Ray Ray with some Raymond's Nuggets. He he got some insights today. Some stuff for y'all. We got a packed show lined up for us. I'm gonna give y'all a quick run and I also got a few announcements too. So make sure y'all stay key, keep ear to it. So we're gonna have D Hustle's gonna uh give us some two plugs on uh tech current events. I already mentioned Raymond's Nuggets. He got some insights, utilities, and a movie. We'll see what D Hustle you know line him up for. Well, we will see. Um, then I'll jump into some tech insights. There's a lot of shift and things going on in our industry. Want to make sure we're highlighting it. We'll have D Hustle come back around with some sports. We'll have a special spot for some uh shoutouts for our local sponsors, um, and then outros. That's about it, fellas. Yeah. How's that sound for you?

SPEAKER_02 3:04

All right, I like it.

First Outside Ads Announcement

SPEAKER_00 3:06

Why we get away. We don't want the outro, we want to keep going. I feel you though. Uh, but the big announcement is I do want you all to keep an eye out for our ads. Uh, give our podcast a big round of applause. Big round of applause. The big announcement is we've officially bringing ads from an outside provider uh onto our show here at the podcast, but also on the newsletter. And guess what? The first pod, uh the ad, I'm sorry, the first ad is actually gonna drop right now. So check it out.

Modular Tecno Phone Breakdown

SPEAKER_01 3:39

Hey, this is D Hustle from the Tech Hustle Podcast. Have you heard about Arrow? Most people roughly what they earn, but not exactly where it all goes. Arrow Insight helps you finally see the full picture, securely connecting your bank track money in and out at real time, spot spending patterns, and also understanding your cash flow without spreadsheets or guesswork. When you're ready in real time, the real financial picture helps you tell the story and you can support your path towards qualifying the arrow card as you work toward building credit. So don't listen to me now. Go try arrow yourself. Now, next up, we got my guy D Hustle for Tech Current Events. What's going on, player? Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, good waking up from a snack or waking up from a nap, whatever it is. Uh, welcome to the show. Welcome to Tech Hustle Current Events. Um, just giving you a little bit of some insiders here. Uh techno phones. Oh, this is an upgrade from last week. Uh yeah. So last week was uh, I think was the Vivo uh X300. This one's the techno phones, and I'm telling you right now, man, this this is this to me, this is the future, bro. Wow. Uh basically what it is right now, uh as they were giving it an MCW 2026 in Barcelona over there. This is a a modular magnetic interconnection technology use base for a phone. Wow. Basically, what this does is a snap-on module like batteries, uh, cameras, telephone lens without increasing the thickness beyond your original phone. Wow. It is so thin. I don't know if you see it there right now. Yeah. Um, you can add an extra battery pack if you want. Uh everything comes separately. Uh, the telephoto power, you can get a big humongous telephoto power. This this module here is 4.9 uh millimeters. Uh, you can get a bigger speaker, a pro mic, uh, better camera version. Also, you can get a 23 millimeter camera and three-time optimal zoom on this beautiful uh gadget. Uh, this and then there's two versions. There's the anime version and then the Moldav M O D A edition. Um man.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

This thing is fire though. I like it. You low key, you were already talking about this that they're gonna come out with more modular, and they this is already out there. Yep, yep, yep. Dang, bro. What's the price on it though?

SPEAKER_01 6:04

Well, here's the thing. It's uh it was done in uh well, it wasn't done, but it is in India. It's 15,999 rupee. Whoa. Which is equivalent to the United States is$170.$170.$170. Came out this year. Uh-huh. Actually, this month. Anybody who's well willing to get this, uh, please let us know.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

And then you gotta buy the modular pieces to it to kind of stack it up.

SPEAKER_01 6:30

Yeah, it depends on the modular pieces that you get. Um, but you can get that additional maybe like from from what it says here, another two to three hundred dollars to upgrade, uh, to get all those bells and whistles. And hey, at the end of the day, three, let's say the phone is 200, because you know you gotta count taxes and everything. Plus, let's say 300. Yeah, you're looking at a 400, let's say$500 phone.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

Interesting. It that's modular, which is exactly what D was like. Yo, we need to be able to switch these things out. That is cool, though.

SPEAKER_01 7:01

So it is a nice phone. So let's see. Hopefully, everybody uh saw on this.

SPEAKER_00 7:06

They always mention something, AI image components. Yeah, like they always mention the AI and everything, but it does look fire. So definitely check out the video, uh, the image that we have there. Let us know if you might be interested in getting one. But more specifically, if you're at the company and you see our podcast and you want us to review it, give you a great feedback. My guy D Hustle's ready to receive a package. Test it out, send it over.

Tim Cook Steps Down Talk

SPEAKER_01 7:28

Make the phone calls, I zoom in, I zoom out. I want to see all the bells and whistles. And if you don't trust me, that's fine. I have you come on the show and you can go ahead and show us uh because I'm gonna have questions for you. Pull up, you know. All right. Next thing is my last one here for today. Um it's uh what do you got to report?

SPEAKER_00 7:50

Tim Cooks.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

Oh yeah, Apple executive chairman. I don't know if you guys know. Yeah, step down.

SPEAKER_00 7:56

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:57

Uh John Turner's to become the new Apple CEO. What are your thoughts on that?

SPEAKER_00 8:03

Um, I'll definitely be talking more about it in the tech insights uh part. Uh, but um I'll say it's it's I think it's time, in my opinion. Um, I think we reported too many times on how uh the iPhone hasn't changed much other than um features built inside of it or apps, but it still looks the same, same form factor. I think Tim did an amazing job. Um they were all I all of them are like uh Steve Jobs protege, so they definitely, in my opinion, kept kept his honor up. Uh but my real question is is what's up with Apple? What's up next? So that's how I feel about it.

SPEAKER_01 8:42

My man wearing Travis Scott's too, so money's good out there.

SPEAKER_02 8:49

Uh they should say why he stepped down or anything, or uh, well, I mean, I haven't got that far with it, to tell you the truth.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

All I know is that I just got the news today. Yeah. And I'm just sharing the news. I will definitely read it. Um, but maybe Bobby has more insights when he's talking about it.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

Yeah, I'll definitely dive a little bit more deeper into it. But um, yeah, man, it's it's definitely um, I think it's time for change. Uh, we're gonna talk about some of the pitfalls and achievements of Apple, but um definitely big shout outs to him for doing some.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Let's give him a shout out. He did a phenomenal job. Uh I think he did a phenomenal job. I don't know if he did a phenomenal job. Uh-huh. Uh well, are we gonna talk about it? Yeah, yeah, we're gonna talk about it. So let's let's get let's get down to Raymond because I got a lot of shit to say. And I don't want to do it in my segment, not doing somebody else's segment.

Free Browser Tools For Techies

SPEAKER_00 9:40

No worries. Uh, next up we got my guy Raymond. Don't call him Ray Ray with some uh sites, utilities, and listening for the movie at the end. But what you got going on, player?

SPEAKER_02 9:50

All right, so first one here is I want to drop in here is a utility site called youfreetools.com. Hold on, hold on.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

What does it say? Ufreetools.com. Ufreetools.com.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

Yeah, I mean, it's it's okay. It's nothing, you know. I'm gonna drop it in here. It's basically it's a utility site, it's free, and they basically have tools in there that you can use within the browser. They got like 80 to 100 different tools. Like if you're like a techie like us, or if you're a developer or a designer, they got different stuff in there. If you're looking for an image generator, if you're looking for something to, you know, convert your pictures or whatever, you can use it all within the browser, different things that you can use. You don't gotta download any software or nothing. Um, you know, you gotta fight through some ads and stuff like that. And they claim to not save any of your information, it's all saved locally. But if you're looking for something quick, like you need to convert a picture or you wanna, you know, make a um, you know, a code generator or whatever, or a password generator, check out youfreetools.com. You can do it everything within the browser. Um, like I said, it's kind of steered more towards like a techie or designer, people of that nature and stuff like that. So all right.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

Oh, that seems like a really cool tool. Yeah, especially it looks like it has a uh a wealth of uh little things that you want to do or potentially do with it. Yes. Um, but yeah, definitely. And it's called youfreetools.com.

SPEAKER_02 11:18

Yes. So if you're quickly looking for something and you don't want to download nothing, check out the site.

SPEAKER_00 11:23

Oh, I have an image to GIF type thing. Yeah. I have uh uh resizing image, facial recognition type stuff, and it's all built into the site that you're going to.

SPEAKER_02 11:32

So I went in there and like they got a QR generator. I was like, hey, let me type in Raymond, and then I just downloaded a QR generator with my name.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

All right, so who's gonna scan that QR, Raymond? I'm just saying little stupid stuff like that. I mean, I'm just you know, free tools. Raymond's walking around with a QR that just says Raymond. So don't you know when you put your phone uh in front and it has the little yellow thing that tells you you click on this to get the Chrome, it's just gonna say Raymond. Yeah. Wow. That's funny. That's funny.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

So yeah, check it out. If you uh need a quick tool or whatever and you can't you don't want to search the internet or download anything, definitely, definitely.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

That's a good one, man. I think uh we we always end up finding, you know, not or a need for different type of tools. Yeah, yeah. Okay, all right, my guy. Oh, uh definitely uh be mindful of the source too. So just keep keeping an eye on that. Yes.

Meta Fiber Training Debate

SPEAKER_02 12:21

All right, so I got another nugget here. I wanted um a news story, some free training. I wanted to get your guys' opinion on it. That kind of dropped on the internet yesterday. We all know Meta, one of the biggest tech companies in the world. They just dropped yesterday that they are offering a free course for four weeks, completely free to be a fiber tech train fiber optics technician. So basically, they will teach you how to install and make fiber optics and everything like that to kind of run their data centers. The internet is kind of split on this. I think this is great. You don't get no student loans, no nothing. You don't need to learn tech. Literally, you just sign up to this website and they will teach you how to be a fiber optics technician in four weeks. Completely free, no strings hold. The internet is divided on this. I think it's uh a good opportunity. Some people think that it's bad. I wanted to kind of get your guys' take on it. Some people feel like you know, you're gonna be a slave to meta because you got to go wherever their data centers are. You can't pick where you're gonna live. You know what I mean? It's wherever they make their data centers, but they're gonna train you for free for four weeks and you're gonna be working in the data center installing fiber optics. Like, I think if you ain't got no job, you ain't got it is hard labor, you ain't working in an office or nothing like that. But I kind of wanted to get your guys' take on it. One of my coworkers is like, this is complete BS. This is just slave labor. Don't do this, don't recommend this. I'm like, bro, it's free. Like, so I wanted to get your guys' take on it. So it's a four-week course. I just announced this yesterday. Um, no strings attached, you'll be a fight, you know, it's a good foothold to get your into tech, and then from there you can do whatever, but yeah, you ain't got no say so on where you live or nothing. But I don't know. What do you think, Bobby D?

SPEAKER_00 14:09

I mean, I I think it's a great opportunity, um, especially with the era that we're all about uh approaching, which is more um physical labor type work is gonna be more uh accessible or needed versus any computerized because AI is basically taking over everything, right? AI can't go lay fiber optic cables or um when you install a rack, attach you know the cable from this switch to the core switch type stuff. Um I think it's uh uh uh one of those markets that we don't realize how valuable they could be. Yes, you're gonna be doing a lot of traveling, yes, you're gonna be, you know, visiting, you know, data centers and walking into these buildings, you know, massive computers and it's loud as hell. You gotta wear headphones, um, or you might have to, you know, dig a line that goes from this building to that building. Um, but that physical is a needed role. So I know Meta ain't gonna, you know, only give you pennies, they're gonna pay you decent. I I would sign up for it. I I think there's gonna be other providers that are gonna need it. So why not? Okay. I mean, who's gonna run the fiber optic cables?

SPEAKER_02 15:12

I agree, but what is what do you say to like my coworkers? Like, I don't want my son doing that. I want him to be in the office like me doing IT stuff. I'm not playing devil's advocate on what people are saying. I hear what you're saying. All right, let's go to the let's go to D hustle. What are your thoughts then? Okay, Dean Hustle, what are your thoughts then?

SPEAKER_01 15:34

Okay. Uh what I think about it, man, I I think is listen, if you're into something new and you're willing to put in the work for it, I think this right here is gonna be smooth uh transition for whoever it is that's gonna try to do this. First of all, number one is free.

SPEAKER_02 15:54

That's correct.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

You're not paying any type of anything at all. You get the courses for free, which you don't have to go to school, you don't have to spend money, you don't have to know it. It's free. Again.$3.99. That's true. Number two, if they're gonna send you somewhere, I don't know if it's gonna be a$10.99 or whatever the case may be, but at the end of the day, they are going to move you. They're gonna if you know how to work your contract, wherever it is, they're gonna move you. I'm assuming they're gonna pay you for your moving. Right? They're gonna pay for your living, or maybe I don't know how that works, but there's something that you gotta look into, but it's free. At the end of the day, if you have a year plus under your belt, right, you can leave. Yeah, that's true, because you have experience. That's true. Powerful. Now you tell your Bob and Bill or Jane or whoever it is that's how you know he's a Bob and Bill. Because whoever it is, Jack, Jermaine, freaking, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

Those are melanin names. I don't think he's talking about them.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

You don't want your kids working there. Don't even look at the freaking application or the all the freaking thing. Yeah, you know what you do? There's a little X at the right hand side just to close it out.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

No, I'm you close out of it and you look for something different. You are correct. But what about the people saying that this is like slave labor for Meta? They're making their own. How is it slave labor though? For their data centers. They're like they're they're basically having private workers work in their data centers to do this. But you're getting compensated. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

Okay, you you are. I mean, it's it's not the the engineering role where you're sitting at a computer and type it's like hard labor. Hold on, hold on, hold on. And and I'm not trying to put down people that lay fiber optics and cable. It's not hard labor, bro. Okay. It's not hard labor. It is labor. Yes. It but it's not like you're out in a field picking cotton, hard labor. Okay, all right, all right. You're in a data center. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

So it's not for everybody.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

True. Yes, true. But but the thing that I think that Dee was mentioning is like the experience is so much more valuable. Imagine you have on a resume that you worked in Facebook's data or Meta's data center for one year, two years. You know how valuable that is for me to hire somebody that's gonna do those type of roles, or think of it as a stepping stone. Like, imagine you start out at fiber optic technician and now you're a fiber optic engineer, and now you're the person that is collecting all the checks because you're coordinating everything that has to do with fiber optics for meta. Like, like where where do you start? It's not like I mean, you have to start somewhere.

SPEAKER_02 18:31

No, I agree. Yeah, it's a great opportunity. They just announced it yesterday, but it looks like the internet is divided on this. They're saying that it's it's not as good as it looks, but I feel like it's a good opportunity. It's free.

SPEAKER_00 18:43

It's a four-week course. We we need a fiber optic technician that's doing the job right now, telling us is it's good or not. Not people that don't know about the role or actually know what the work is in telling.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

That's true. So, yeah, I wanted to drop it in and get you guys' opinion. And so Well, send me the link because I'm about to put it. I'm putting my son up. I mean, well, I don't know if your son would uh oh he's gone to. Why not? I mean, what if what if it's in like book two, whatever? Go experience life.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

Okay, but it's a contract, no? Yeah, yeah, it's a contract. So at the end of the day, if that's what you get a chance to go to Arizona or today, you're experiencing something new.

SPEAKER_02 19:18

Yeah, that's what people are like, you know, like a job typically you get to, you know, hey, I want to live here. Go apply.

SPEAKER_01 19:24

People who are saying that are the ones that are not going to apply for.

SPEAKER_02 19:27

Yes. I agree, but what if you have family? I'm just playing devil's advocate. Like, what if you have family in Miami and this job is in Arizona, like you said.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

Bro, going going away to go work for a year, two years doesn't mean that you're never gonna come back home. No, they're done. They they that's cut them up. It's done. You'll never see that person again. They're never gonna be home. Versus them they go away for a year or two and they come back skilled. Okay. Like, I I don't I don't know what people's hesitation is is to, you know.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

Yeah, but that's not normal though.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

People leaving their family. All right, hold on. Would do don't kids go to four-year college and go away for college?

SPEAKER_02 20:04

Yes.

unknown 20:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 20:06

That is normal. Okay. So going away for an uh a year or two years to go learn a skill. Um learning and working are two different things. Ah, come on. But you are learning. I'm just saying because you're learning from home. What if your son came and said he wanted to do this? What would you say?

SPEAKER_01 20:21

Uh I'm never gonna see you again.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

Change your career, son. I would be on the fence. You'd be on the fence. I want you at the end of the day. I gotta be honest with you. Wow. Yeah, I would be on the fence. Wow. Yeah. I mean, I'm I'm about to put this in Google right now.

SPEAKER_01 20:34

So what happened if he tells you he's making more money than you?

SPEAKER_00 20:36

That that you didn't even let me know. I would not be on the fence anymore. You didn't even let me finish the question because that's exactly what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

I was about to say, yes, that was gonna be my next statement. Like, I want my son to make more money than me. I want my son to do better than me.

SPEAKER_00 20:48

So a fiber optichnician earns on average 26 to 27 per hour, a range of$50,000 to$55,000 a year. Uh, with one year's worth of uh services, you can make sixty to sixty-five thousand dollars. And that's here in Florida. Oh, yeah. I mean, for a like there are some people who are in college not making that.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

Facts. That's pretty good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:11

I mean, I I don't get it. And you certify. And you certify. Certified fiber optic technician. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Let me rephrase this. Okay. It says a certified fiber optic technician, so after you get years of experience and you actually get into a certified role, may earn up to$135,000 a year.

SPEAKER_01 21:30

That's very good.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

Entry levels make less, but leaders in the field make more than six figures. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:41

I mean, I don't know, bro. He's still thinking about it.

SPEAKER_02 21:45

I'm just I look, I brought the story. Like, I think it's a great idea. I'm just like, you know, playing the other side of what people are saying. Like, you know, like one of my coworkers, he was like, This is terrible. This is slam labor.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

I I I just I just don't know where people think people. Should start at starting their careers. This is something that I used to have really difficult time with mentees of mine when they first get into tech, is like they're like, Hey, I get in a tech, I want to make six figures. And I'm like, Hold on, but you don't even have not one year of experience. And like D was saying, like, one year of experience is more valuable than people that don't have experience at all. I agree. Like it and and you have no experience and you already want to make six figures? Like, what what is the progression? And then I also even tell them, like, all right, so let's say we do pay you six figures. Like, where do you have in terms of your next growth? Seven figures? Like, where do you have to develop or the space to earn and really de like? I don't I don't know. I it just don't make sense to me.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

Well, everybody wants to walk and not crawl.

SPEAKER_00 22:44

Yeah, but it hold on. What did JF uh JFK? He said we don't go to the moon because it's easy, we go to it's because it's hard. That's what I'm saying. You don't do things because it's easy, you do things because it's hard, and as you do hard, you become more specialized, and as you become specialized, then you get paid more. Like that's our hustle. Yeah, and you're right. I mean, we could have just done easy stuff, right? But no, you gotta be Bronny's kids. Low key, I was waiting for him to throw in Bronny in there somewhere, somehow. Uh, but I mean, I'm I'm I'm encouraged by these opportunities that are being opened up. Um, I think more companies are gonna have to do things like this. Okay, I think they're gonna have to open up the eyes for what is potential. And definitely check out the link that uh Raymond um uh dropped in here because uh I see two young melanated uh, you know, I don't know what their age is, maybe young young 20s or so. They're the one that's laying the fiber optics. Of course, I want to see my people doing more of this type of stuff because it leads into other opportunities. Like this is amazing. So you think it's great, and D Hustle thinks it's great.

SPEAKER_01 23:47

Yeah, I mean Bill Bob, whoever you were talking about.

SPEAKER_02 23:50

I still think it's a good opportunity. It's just you know, you gotta listen to the other side too.

SPEAKER_01 23:54

That they're inside in the heat. I mean in the in the AC. Facts. There's no heat out there. Facts. Yeah, so you're enjoying this hay Cake, you know, take your Kool-Aid and you know, your whatever it is that you have for lunch, have your lunch, 30-minute lunch, you go right back to work. Easy in, easy out. Looks like to me, the guys look like they're having fun. Facts.

SPEAKER_02 24:16

No, it's it's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 24:17

And this is not hard labor record, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

You know, exactly. You're gonna have to tap and make sure the the connector from A to A actually connects, measuring the distance, uh, understanding, you know, light and all that. It's actually a really cool technology. Yeah, it is if you really understand what fiber optics are, uh, because that's how we actually communicate across the sea or across the ocean is through fiber optic cables that run out of the water. Um, and imagine you learn a skill and then you uh five, ten years later move into laying sea cables, fiber optic cables, because you start off something small like this, right? I mean, yeah, the potential's there. I like it. Okay, big round of applause for for whoever whoever came up with this idea, but uh won't won't womp for Freeman.

Movie Pick Crime 101

SPEAKER_01 25:05

All right, what else you got? All right, last one here.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

What if I uh told you guys there's a movie with the goat, Halle Berry, Chris Hemsworth.

SPEAKER_00 25:15

Nah, what?

SPEAKER_02 25:16

Chris Hemsworth, Thor? You're not a fan? Nah. Okay. I mean, compared to Holly Berry, but uh Nick Nulty and Mark Ruffalo. Oh, I know what movie you're talking about, I think. So I'm gonna drop this in here. These are heavyweights, and this movie I thought was awesome. I'm pretty sure you guys have seen it. It's been out for a few months now, Crime 101. Yeah. I saw this a couple weeks ago. I was like, yo, this is like a hidden gem. It uh came on streaming a couple weeks ago on Prime. If you guys have not seen this, check it out. Roger that. It is a great movie. Um, I don't want to spoil it. You can kind of look at the synopsis, but um, not saying it's the best movie I've ever seen, but it's good and it's entertaining. I don't know if you have you seen it, Bobby. Yeah, I definitely I mean Holly's in it, of course.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

I see it. Okay, okay. So that's flipped the page and I see her. I'm like plant press play. It was like, I I will say she's getting old though, but hey, I mean Yeah, she's she still, you know, did her thing. Yeah I I want the the 2000, 2003 Hollyberry, but you know, you're thinking about Silverfish.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

Exactly right. That's funny.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

Uh but I actually saw it was a it was a good movie.

SPEAKER_02 26:25

Yeah. D Hustle, have you seen it? No, yeah, good movie, highly recommend it. So yeah, check it out. Crime 101. If you have Prime, you can watch it for free. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

So it has a nice twist at the end. It does. Um yeah, I mean, if if you're down for those uh uh bank robbing, jewelry store robbing, you know, kind of like uh um even police officers investigating it. It's a really, really good movie.

SPEAKER_02 26:47

Great acting, it's it's good. Yeah, I can't say nothing enough about it. And Holly was looking good. You still got it, you know. You still got it.

Apple Leadership Deep Dive

SPEAKER_00 26:54

So, but uh that's it. Check it out. All right, my guy. That's all we got for uh Raymond's Nuggets. All right, all right, man. So next up, let me see. Uh hold on, hold on, let me see what I got on my list here. All right, yeah, we're gonna jump back into a conversation that D Hustle starts kicking it off. Uh, this is the Tech Insight section with your boy Bobby D, where we talk about technology, engineering, and everything that's going on in the culture. Most of the time I usually talk about AI, but D Hustle reported that Apple's got a new CEO and it is changing the game. So we're we're gonna literally continue where D Hustle left off. Um Tim Cup with Tim Cook.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

So Tim Cook, uh, you know, is the chairman of the board um for this beautiful Apple. Uh so he is stepping down. Um, he's gonna go ahead uh from what I'm reading here, he's gonna continue his role for CEO through the summer, as he's gonna work with uh what's his name? Uh Turnus. Yeah. Um for as a smooth transition. And then after that, um September 1st is when everything gets live and real.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

Ah, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

All right. Uh, but you know, uh John Turnus uh is the senior vice president of hardware engineering, which will become the first Apple's chief executive officer since September 25, September 1st of 2026.

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Yeah. And and he and he's been there, the the new CEO coming up since 2001. Yeah. So he's been there for you know 25 plus years. Wow. Um, but one of the things I want to inquire from you all is um, so how how much money do you think during Tim Cook's era um Apple's made or Apple's net worth has been?

SPEAKER_01 28:34

Oh, good. I got it right here for you. Let me help you out. Uh so Tim Cook's leadership, Apple has grown from the market capitalized approximately$350 billion to$4 trillion, representing more than 1,000% increased and a yearly revenue uh for$108 billion in the fiscal year of 2020, 2011, to more than 416 billion in fiscal year of to 2025.

SPEAKER_00 29:05

That's crazy. That's crazy. So he goes from a 300 billion company to four plus trillion dollar company. Don't you would you would you not say that's a success?

SPEAKER_02 29:15

Oh, yeah, that's that's a big success.

SPEAKER_00 29:17

Yeah. I mean, I I don't think I've seen Apple and the Red uh during his time. Um so 15 that means we went through COVID. Um, we came out of COVID, and Apple still and Apple was Apple was Apple the first trillion dollar company? I don't know. Uh it might have been Microsoft or Nvidia, but it's definitely top five first few companies that become a trillion dollars. I think he did his thing though. Yeah, he did.

SPEAKER_01 29:43

Yeah, Fortune 40 company.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

Yeah, but uh what do you think about product release? So another one that I was looking up is what what were some of the cool products that he got released, which were Apple Watches, Apple Pods, AirPods, yeah, Apple Vision Pro, which I don't know how well that did. Um Apple Silicon, which is the actual chip itself. Um, you have Apple Music, Apple TV, iCloud came out during his time. Um, like all of this stuff happened during his 15 years.

SPEAKER_01 30:13

Yep. Yeah, and the phone still keeps being the same fucking bullshit.

SPEAKER_00 30:18

I was waiting for D to jump on that. Give him credit for the AirPods. I did mention that in 2016.

SPEAKER_02 30:24

Is that the best product that came out under his release, you would say?

SPEAKER_00 30:27

I would say the nano. The nano?

SPEAKER_01 30:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

Oh, the airpod nano. Oh, the the the the air pod nano. You're talking about the air ear airpods, yeah. Oh, he's talking about the ear pods.

SPEAKER_01 30:39

Yeah, well, I mean, it's discontinuous, so airpods, yeah. Yeah, but the phones are still the same.

SPEAKER_00 30:48

Nothing has changed in design until this year coming up? Yeah, well, now they got a new hardware CEO. That that's the other thing of uh like this side of the coin is is like what do you think? Like, imagine you had a chance to choose from the sea of vice presidents and presidents to be the next CEO of the company, and they decide to choose a hardware guy. What do y'all think about that?

SPEAKER_02 31:10

Yeah, that's interesting. They choose the hardware guy over the software guy, yeah. So I guess they're really trying. I mean, they are a hardware company, aren't they?

SPEAKER_00 31:19

Really? I mean I I think they they sit on both sides of the table. Yeah. Because you can't get away from iOS being a great operating system for mobile and then macOS great operating system for computers. So they they dabble in both. Um, and this is why when I seen this situation, I'm like, dang, they decided to go with the hardware side rather than software side.

SPEAKER_02 31:40

Yeah. That tells you something.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

Yeah, I I feel like it's telling us something. I think they're listening to D saying, like, hey, uh, we we need to make some more changes or innovate in that space even more.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

I mean if you really put your heads together. Don't you think the AirPods uh their headphones? Um what else? What else they they came out with?

SPEAKER_00 32:08

The laptops, the Apple Watch.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

Don't you think that was don't you think that could be this guy right here? Yeah. Oh, that that did it all? That did it all? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:17

Oh, very well. Yeah, that's what I'm getting to.

SPEAKER_02 32:19

Yeah, it's always like the software guys are the sexy ones, the hardware paws are like, you know, they kind of get crapped on.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

So that's why I thought that was interesting. They went with him versus the software guy.

SPEAKER_00 32:30

That I think D hit the nail on the head because um there is something that got invented, which is the Apple silicon, which is the the the processor. You know, there's Intel, or we talk about Snapdragon, or we talk about he's the one that that came up with that. His team is the one that developed that silicon chip to move away from Intel, and now Apple has their own line of chips.

SPEAKER_02 32:57

Oh, interesting. I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00 32:59

Yeah, so they they actually chose from the group of VPs out there, the VP or the president that actually did the hard work um of you know designing. Because if you think about designing a chip, it's a multi-year process just to get the first one done, right? And now they're at version number five, I believe, is the newest one that's out there, and no one else can compete with it because it has so much extra functionality built into it. Um, so but I'm thinking that Apple is gonna be doing even more hardware stuff, like everything is gonna get an upgrade, everything is gonna come out more aligned with which I always thought Apple's Vision Pro, yeah. Like even the Vision Pro had the M processor or the A processor in there. Uh, is that they're gonna be even more tight on their hardware. Um, like you can't really do nothing else with these things other than Apple stuff, right? Is they're gonna even lock that down even more. Interesting. Yeah. Um, I'm I'm happy about it. I'm I'm excited. Um I'm not gonna front. I thought a black person was gonna be the next scene. I was like, it's the perfect time. I don't know. There has to be one black VP something to be in the run-in. Um, but I ain't gonna knock the hustle. He's been there for 25 years, so he kind of know the gig. Uh, but it was very interesting that they did choose a hardware guy over a software guy. Yeah, yeah. And they all come from that Steve Job cloth, too, right? Because they've they've all either mentored under him. I believe Steve Cook was Steve Jobs COO, so he actually ran most of the operations. Um, and then you know, this this new cat was there since 25 years, so he know he knows the experience there. Interesting. Okay, yeah, right. But the the main thing here, and this is for our audience, because D Hustle will be reporting it, is how many more updates uh vulnerabilities.

SPEAKER_01 34:42

There was one that I was gonna mention today, but I was like, Well, I gotta keep saying you'd rather give him good news. Anyway, 26.5 is coming out, guys, in case you guys want to update your phone again. Um that he meant I didn't want to mention it.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

He already, you know, he's maybe that's why they didn't look over there at the software side because there's just so many updates.

SPEAKER_01 35:04

It must have been saying you're not Torwin's D hustle's correct.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

I have to. Every week, there's a new upgrade.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

Every week.

SPEAKER_01 35:11

Every week. Damn, because this guy knows what he's talking about, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:15

All right, let's let's bring the guy that made the hardware. Bring him in. The other thing that I've seen here that I'm I'm actually kind of really interested in seeing is how um Apple's kind of fell short on the AI space. Would y'all agree?

SPEAKER_01 35:29

Um way agree. Yeah, definitely. I think personally, I don't think AI was under radar. Yeah. I think AI for them was like what I was gonna say, it's like a clothing line South Paul. Yo, it's good for men, and then it just drops, and yeah, no one hears about it again.

SPEAKER_00 35:48

We just threw Southpaw away. Southpaw was hard though.

SPEAKER_01 35:53

That shit was garbage, kid.

SPEAKER_00 35:55

Yeah, I used to go at the flea markets. We used to sell new and used clothes. Whenever Southpaw came out, I grabbed that quick. Everybody in the mama had that guy was like, that ain't for me. But they they missed the bus on that, literally. Yeah, um, and I'm wondering if um one thing that they may have agreed is like the software side of the house is uh is a losing game for them and they have to focus more on hardware. Um, but I do feel like that M series of computer chips that come in the Macs now, they're powerful enough to run AI so that you don't even need to have a cloud or cloud or chat GPT subscription. Right, you can actually just run it locally. So I'm I'm actually uh was talking to a friend of mine the other day, is I think that Apple's business model is like, hey, um, we're gonna be building computers that could run any type of models that you want. So don't go pay those people all that money, come and buy these hardware um that can support those different types of models, and now you're cutting everybody out.

SPEAKER_01 36:54

Yeah. I and you're correct. I I really think that like I said, Apple is uh Apple just dropped the ball. I don't know if they dropped the ball. I guess their main focus was not on AI. Um but at the end of the day, their revenue is just is going up. It doesn't even if they don't have Apple and they're gonna my main issue is is how you're gonna ask for your competitor for help. Yeah because I I don't know if you ever seen it. Apple never ever, you know, like they have you know how people just throw jabs on commercials and stuff like that. Apple has never done that. Yeah, I seen I seen uh ATT go at T Mobile, I seen uh Verizon go at um you know whoever whoever is uh ATT, yeah, you know, they go at each other, your phone don't do this, my phone don't do that, but even Google threw a shot at Apple and Apple never retaliated or nothing because they know it's it's good to know that you have a good product and you stand behind it, and it's good, but upgrade your fucking phone, bro.

SPEAKER_00 38:01

He's like haters gonna hate, but please just make some updates to the phone, something stop it. That's wild, that's wild. Yeah, I mean it I I think that that partnership with Google uh is like another one that you you didn't expect them to, you know, keep fighting that fight. Uh, but the thing is that they have Siri, bro. Everybody has Siri, everybody's connected to Siri, so it's like it's it's it's almost like they better get back on it before somebody else comes and change it. But they they lock it down because they own the hardware and they own the software, so they get to do whatever they want. Right. Damn. Well, big shout outs to Tim Cook. Uh big shout outs to the new CEO. What's his name again? Jeff John. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 38:43

John Turner.

SPEAKER_00 38:44

Turn us. Best of luck to you, player. Um, I know everybody's gonna be looking. Holl at me. I'm here, I'm ready. He said, if you need an executive, assistant, consultant, chief of staff, new ideas, new ideas. He said, I am ready.

SPEAKER_01 39:00

You can have so many. The gross is gonna be more. Four trillion is nothing, nothing compared to what I got for you guys.

SPEAKER_00 39:08

But dang, imagine he's getting that four trillion. That's a lot of expectation, though. Like, he gotta make sure that train keep going. Yeah, I don't know, bro. That that I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

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SPEAKER_00 39:20

Yo, that should be a freaking project in itself, bringing back beepers. Man, that that'll be a throwback for sure. Well, that's all that I have for Tech Insights. Uh, cue up my music real quick because uh we also gonna have um our next um ad read. And let me see, let me check the schedule real quick because you know this is kind of new for us when we're doing new things. Um, yes, definitely tune in to our next ad read.

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SPEAKER_00 40:26

So we're back, back, back, and guess what we got next? What what what's what's next on the list here? Let's see, we got it.

SPEAKER_01 40:51

Good morning, good evening, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Hope everybody's doing well. For the newcomers, welcome. This is what is the Tech Hussels? This is the Sports Edition. People who have been here before, you already know what it is. Let me know your favorite teams so I can go ahead and talk shit about them. All right, let's get down to subject. NHL playoffs right now, ladies and gentlemen. Playoffs is going on, playoffs is looking good, and it's living every state. Well, TNT, probably. I'm not too sure. But anyway, let's go to the West Side and then I'll go into the East Panther. Panther. They're sitting down with Raymond right now, having a margarita trying to figure it all out. I love margaritas.

SPEAKER_00 41:28

You see? All right, so now with the straw and the the the umbrella, right?

SPEAKER_01 41:32

Avalanche and Colorado Kings, Colorado taking that lead one-zero. Uh, the game is going to be tonight, so let's see who wins game two. Game three for the Stars versus the Wilds. That series right there is tied up. Game two, Las Vegas Knights against Mammoth. Uh I gotta get rid of it. You know what? Golden Knights are winning 1-0. You need to sweep that team, man, so you can go to the next one. Because with the name of Mammoth, I don't have no idea what's going on over there. The Oilers versus the Ducks. As of right now, the Oilers are taking the lead. Let's go to the Eastern Conference side. Game two, the Sabres versus Bruins. Right now, Buffalo is winning the game. Game number two, Lightning versus Canadiens. Looks like Montreal said, yo, we are a Canadian team, uh, since Florida is already out. Uh, number three, we have uh game three, we have Hurricanes versus Senators. Carolina is taking care of business. And then we have the Penguins versus the Flyers and the P and Philadelphia is winning 2-0. Uh, and then I have uh New York Rangers, Islanders, and Panthers all sitting down, having margaritas uh watching the conference, as you can see. Right? Yes. Yes. Um boxing, ladies and gentlemen, boxes going on. Let me know who is your boxing woman or man, so I can go ahead and give them a shout out. Formula Ugh, formula Uh is going on, ladies and gentlemen. There is a lot going on right now, but I'm gonna tell you right now, Mercedes are taking the lead. And Ferrari are number two, McLaren number three. Now, I don't know. There's a lot of rumors when my man Max might be retiring, but let's see what happens. We don't know. Golf. Golf is on, ladies and gentlemen. Tiger Woods says he needs rehab. Please help me. We're trying to figure out what's going on with Tiger Woods. Hopefully he gets better. But as golf right now, um, his son is not on the game. But we you know who's in the game? Uh Roy Michael Roy is number one, and we got Matt Fitz Fitzpatrick at number two. So those gentlemen over there are knocking down the business, and the ladies are on the other side figuring out who's gonna win. WNBA, ladies and gentlemen, WNBA is on. There's a lot of games on. Who's your team? I'm going for New York, as you can see. Raymond is going for Los Angeles, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh and uh Bobby is going for Nigeria. Let's go, Nigeria. What's going on over there? Let's go. WWE, ladies and gentlemen. A lot of stuff. If you guys not see the WWE, um, how are you doing? The WE championship, which was uh WrestleF, what was it, WrestleFest? WrestleMania Fest? I'm not sure. WrestleMania 42. I'm sorry. WrestleMania 42. Uh so the champion, Roman Reigns, take care of the business. Business. Women's champion. Uh Re Ripley take care of the business. Uh, women's World Championship uh champion Liv Morgan took care of business. WWE World Tag Champions Division has taken care of business. Champion Damien Priest and R-Truth Tag Team Champion for the men's handling business. Women's tag team champions, uh Bree Bella and Page took care of the trip. And Intercontinental Champion is gonna be Penta with his mask on. Uh women's Intercontinental Champion, Becky Lynch handling business, and my man Trick Williams with WWE United States uh handling that business. And I don't know if you've seen him, but it looks like Brock Lesnar might be retiring, hanging up his shoes. Uh shout out to my man uh Brock. I really like the guy. Yeah, he's a legend. Big, big legend, big, big fan. I used to love the guy, man. The guy was uh nasty, the smoke behind was disgusting, and him picking everybody up and like a phenomenal. Uh so hopefully he don't retire. But hey man, uh sometimes it's it's time to hang it up. And if you do, nothing but love, and then you always have a fan in me. Uh next, I have ladies and gentlemen, soccer soccer. Who is your favorite soccer player or favorite team? Let me know so I can go ahead and give them a shot. A lot of games going on today, ladies and gentlemen. So let me know who it is that you're looking for. And FL is getting ready for the draft day. What is that? This week or next week? Uh, I think it is next week, if I'm not I I think it's supposed to be this week because it's always in the 20th. Yeah. Uh but uh let me double check. Draftry predicted.

SPEAKER_02 46:07

Is this like the lowest non-hyped draft for you in a while? I feel like there's no hype for this.

SPEAKER_00 46:14

I feel like there's haven't been a hype around nothing lately. Yeah, well, we went to the moon, or we went around the moon, and we didn't even know that happened.

SPEAKER_02 46:20

Yeah, well, I mean, there was on Netflix. I feel like that was a little bit the moon.

SPEAKER_00 46:25

So the place you found it out was on Netflix.

SPEAKER_02 46:27

I mean, I knew Netflix was streaming it, so but but the draft, remember you used to go to draft parties and you'd go and it just I mean, I know that was back in the days, but just this year just feels like it's just no hype around your draft. No hype at all. No, I think next year though, when Ranning comes out, there'll be some hype.

SPEAKER_01 46:47

Uh it's this Thursday, April 23rd, uh to uh to Saturday, April 25th. Yeah. Uh so I won't be watching. I won't either. Yeah, I know Mendoza's gonna be in number one or number two, I don't know, but we figure it out. Other than that, there's a lot of stuff going on right now. General manager for the Jets is gonna be trying to figure out what's going on in his world. Steelers are trying to uh give Rogers a space for the draft rooms, and then then shout out to um Tom uh uh Mike Tompton uh to becoming an announcer uh for NFL. Oh yeah. So uh shout out to my man over there figuring out what's going on.

SPEAKER_02 47:29

So and uh any comments about Vrabel, the New England coach? What about with the whole scandal he had with that reporter? Well, put us up on it. What happened? Uh apparently uh NFL reporter Diana Roussini, long time.

SPEAKER_00 47:44

Hold on, you you you know her name way too well.

SPEAKER_02 47:46

Like you like you just learned about this report. She's a longtime NFL reporter. Apparently, she was caught uh actually she resigned. She was caught in a hot tub with Vraibel two weeks ago. Allegedly, she was on a girl's trip, uh-huh, but somebody sent pictures to TMZ, and basically it was not a good look. It looks like that you were in a hot tub with a coach, so you're basically getting the scoop of the story. So that's not very that's basically that's not good reporting.

SPEAKER_00 48:15

So she was getting the scoop of the story.

SPEAKER_02 48:17

She's getting a I guess a scoop. Yeah, yeah. So basically, she resigned and he just did an announcement apologizing to the team. The Patriots tried to cover the story, but it came out. So is he married? Yes, he's married.

SPEAKER_00 48:31

Is she married?

SPEAKER_02 48:32

Yes. Damn, that's even bad.

SPEAKER_00 48:34

Yeah, not a good, not a good look. Everybody gotta go apologize. Yeah. Do you think people should lose their job though?

SPEAKER_02 48:39

Uh I mean, that's not journalism.

SPEAKER_00 48:42

I'm asking a question. Do you think people should lose their job?

SPEAKER_02 48:45

I'm just saying that's like, what if the what if what's to say that he was giving her stuff about other opponents and stuff like that?

SPEAKER_00 48:52

But she's just journalists, but he could be like he's not giving it to another team.

SPEAKER_02 48:58

Yes, but then again, if she's reporting on those teams and stuff, it just is not a good look. Or vice versa. What if she's talking to other teams and giving him information? Okay, I'm gonna go back to my question. Do you think she should lose her job? Or he should lose her job? Well, he should, not she should, not him.

SPEAKER_00 49:16

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 49:16

Now now now I'm out on yeah, I'm gonna be devil's advocate. Because she's a reporter. If she's in the room reporting with other teams, she could be giving him information on those teams.

SPEAKER_00 49:24

Okay, do you think they were really re doing some reporting in that that setting? She's in a hot tub. I'm just saying. But actually, what's really wrong with being in the the hot tub was in a private suite or something like that?

SPEAKER_02 49:36

She was allegedly on a girls' trip, Bobby, but she was in a hot tub with a coach of an NFL team that was in the Super Bowl. Okay, but the the hot tubs is out in public? Yes, it's at a hotel or a resort.

SPEAKER_00 49:49

So then I'm I'm figuring out why she got fired. Or why she was. Why would she resign?

SPEAKER_02 49:54

What do you mean why she was resigned?

SPEAKER_01 49:57

Well, she re I I think she resigned because she knew it was coming, so she said, instead of you guys firing me, let me go ahead and resign so I don't have to worry about you guys firing me. Which I think you should have got fired because then you can collect on the phone. Anyway, that's just me. I don't know. But she did marry uh uh executive um oh my god. Huh. She did marry with somebody with money. Uh okay.

SPEAKER_02 50:21

So it sounds like you have no issues with this.

SPEAKER_00 50:24

I I'm not saying I have don't have issues with it. I'm saying that is it warranted for her to lose her job or for him to lose her job.

SPEAKER_02 50:31

No, her, not him. But why didn't he lose his job? Because he's not like his job is to win games, her job is to report without any bias.

SPEAKER_00 50:41

Okay, okay. I'm I'm I'm I guess I'm a little confused here because it sounds like a lot of people.

SPEAKER_02 50:46

What do you mean? Does it sound like it's a scandal? Like if it's it's a scandal because a journalist, you should be like reporting with no bias. So if you're in a hot tub with a coach, how can you get unbiased news from him or about his team?

SPEAKER_00 50:58

All right, so were they in the hot tub sitting next to each other, cuddled up, or she was on the hot tub side, he was on the other hot tub side, and for some reason they're both at the same hotel.

SPEAKER_02 51:08

She was supposed to be at a girl's trip, but she's in a hot tub with a coach.

SPEAKER_01 51:17

With Mike, and it and it's her fault, but you're not saying anything about Mike cheating on his wife. No, I'm saying they're both bad, but he's not he's not reporting on other teams.

SPEAKER_00 51:30

He's not reporting on a journalist.

SPEAKER_02 51:33

You understand what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_00 51:34

But but the thing is is that she's not in that in that scene, she's going there to go messel around. She's not going there to go collect stories. How do you know? So then it's more deceived deceiving on her intentions than his.

SPEAKER_02 51:49

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 51:52

But what's he doing in the hot tub with a reporter?

SPEAKER_02 51:55

It's both at fault, but there we go. I agree with you, but why did she resign? I don't know. Okay. I mean, it's I think we're spending way too much time on this. You're playing dumb.

SPEAKER_00 52:06

No, she's playing dumb. So you you feel that she she she should have done what she did right and he did right.

SPEAKER_01 52:15

What do you So your main concern is that you're saying that she's giving out inside information to other teams?

SPEAKER_02 52:22

I don't know. Is that what you're saying? I'm saying it could be. You can't report, like, can you trust a journalist that's in a hot tub with a coach? Would you read any of their stories?

SPEAKER_00 52:32

Yeah, why not? What do you mean, why not? She might even have more details than any other journalists, especially if the story is about him.

SPEAKER_02 52:38

How do we know that she's not getting the good scoops because she's in the hot tub with him? That's what I'm saying. That's the whole point. Like, what's to say about the other journalists? So they all gotta get in the hot tub to get the actual story.

SPEAKER_01 52:49

You want the top story?

SPEAKER_02 52:50

Why not?

SPEAKER_00 52:52

That's what I'm getting to, bro.

SPEAKER_01 52:56

If if I get in a hot tub right now with Diana, are you gonna tell me that we're both at wrong?

SPEAKER_02 53:06

I'm waiting for Raymond to reply. I mean, can you get an unbiased? I mean, is that how you get your news stories? I mean, how do you know it's news stories? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 53:18

She she didn't even go there for all right. Let me say this. If she was going to a hotel for a reporting event that's hosting coaches and it's a NFL event, right? And you find out that she's hanging out with one of the coaches that's also attending this conference event that should have no biases and they're found inside of a hot tub, conflict of interest.

SPEAKER_02 53:39

Yes. Why does she lie to her employer?

SPEAKER_00 53:42

Give me a second. Yes. Conflict of interest. Yes. They're both at fault. Now she set up a story that she's going on a girl trip. Not work-related. Yes. She's going over there to go pull up on somebody to go do some stuff. Not work-related. When they're there, they're mostly not talking about work-related things. She's not like, oh, what do you think the Patriots' new lineup or defensive end is gonna look like because she's over there to do some stuff. Okay. So it's not work-related. So why is she bringing work into that situation and have to leave her?

SPEAKER_01 54:13

I don't think she's bringing in work. That's Raymond's act to say. All right. Let me let me tell you something. Let me let you know how reporters are. Reporters and journalists. Yes. Reporters and journalists will do anything in the mean, any means necessary, what they need to do to get any type of scoop or information in order for them to be published and to get high ratings for their job. That is their shit. Perfect example, Stephen A. Smith. He goes in, he looks at the information, he goes, gets the scoop, or whatever. Whatever. Let's say I'm a journalist, I am a reporter, whatever you want to call it. I make believe I'm Diana. Yeah. Okay. And I see Robert Kraft. You know, right? anybody everybody knows who Robert Kraft is, right? Yeah. And I say, hey man, I need to get this information. What are you guys gonna do with the team? You know, you know, give me some insight. I can't speak to you right now. Come to my hotel and we talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 55:08

In the hot tub.

SPEAKER_01 55:10

If you want the freaking information, you have to do what you need to do. We mean the hot tub. So let's see, Bobby is the same, is my competitor as a journalist. And I go, and I and I say, and you rob a craft. And I was like, you tell me, come to me, come to the hot tub with me. You want the school, get inside the tub with me so I can tell you. I'll be like, nah, I don't get down like that. But then Bobby wants the information and he goes. I'm sliding right in there. He's sliding in there. And guess what? He gets an award for getting the facts, the information that he needs to get. And he's published. And look at me. I'm hating him because shit, that was my shit. And I didn't want to sacrifice to go in there.

SPEAKER_02 55:49

Yeah. If you would have gotten the hot tub, you would have got that scoop. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 55:51

But you're but you but you're not but you're knocking me for the scoop. But Robin is okay because he gets the information. Yeah, I look at it that way.

SPEAKER_00 56:01

Wild. Okay. I mean, all right. That's it's it's it's a coach.

SPEAKER_02 56:05

It's crazy that you see nothing wrong with this.

SPEAKER_00 56:06

I didn't say I didn't see nothing wrong. I think I think both of them should be fired if one of them gets it.

SPEAKER_02 56:11

How should a coach be fired? Like for a journalist more than a coach.

SPEAKER_00 56:16

What do you mean? Take the whole journal part out of it. He was pulling up to spot to go see somebody that he knew was gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 56:23

Now, first of all, what she went wrong in saying that she went on the trip with uh her friend. That's flag number one. If she would have said, I'm going to see Robert Kraft, well now her husband would have approved for her going inside. No. So maybe she had to change the story up or something. We don't know. We don't know. Now, it is suspect that all of a sudden she just stepped down, but maybe she did something that she was not very proud of doing, and then she just and then she thinks she was gonna let go, like going into the hot tub. Okay. Do you think if it was a guy point of perspective, you would would you be upset that a guy's in the hot tub with the with him to trying to get information?

SPEAKER_02 57:09

No, the there's a double standard here. I don't think no one would have an issue if there's a guy.

SPEAKER_01 57:14

But when you're two guys chopping it up, yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 57:17

You are correct, but there's double standards with women. We just know how it is.

SPEAKER_01 57:22

These days you see anything is possible. Anything is possible. I mean, will you be upset if two girls were in there? Will they get in the school?

SPEAKER_00 57:30

I don't think Raymond would say not a word. He'll just be sitting there recording. I mean, no comment. This is a family show.

SPEAKER_01 57:37

Anyway, anything else about that, Yana? That's it. That's just uh because you got to be able to do that. Trying to figure out we're gonna figure out the situation. That's hilarious. Major League Baseball, ladies and men. Baseball is going on right now. I am not happy with baseball right about now, to tell you the truth. But I'm gonna tell you why. Let's get down to business. American League Yankees is taking the number one. I get a lot of people talking a lot of shit right now, a lot of stuff about my meds because we're on the losing streak. But you guys, number one, let's talk. It be easy. It's it's Kalimate, Kalimate. Number two, Tampa Bay, Baltimore, number three, Central. Let's go with Cleveland, Detroit, and Minnesota. Kansas City Chiefs, Royals, Porsche, Campbell Smith. I do apologize. You and I were meant to be. We have both got the same record, seven and sixteen. We are not looking very good right about now. We need to talk up to corporate to figure out what's going on, but that's another story. Uh, A's number one, Tampa. Um, not Tampa, uh, Texas number two, and A's number three. And thank goodness, let's give a shout out to Houston Astros, all the way down on the fucking bottom. Exactly where you guys belong. Wow. But my man Cass Smith, a shout out to my man. I do love you though, because you're, you know, you're in that team. That's the only reason I like Houston. Uh, Atlanta Braves, number one, Miami, number two, Washington National number three, Philadelphia, number four. And guess, ladies and gentlemen, who's in last place? Your fucking miracle mats on the 11-game losing streak. Congratulations, ladies and gentlemen. One soda, when you decide to come back from L I R, you let me know so we can have a conversation. Cincinnati Reds, number one, Pittsburgh, number two, LA number one, San Diego Padres, number two. That's all I have for baseball. Let's get down to the real deal. Holy feel, NBA playoffs, ready to go. All right, let's go to the Western Conference, ladies and gentlemen, so we can go ahead and shout it out. Thunder and Suns, OKC taking care of business. Number one, trying to figure it out what's going on over there. Game two, tomorrow. Game two for the LA Bums versus the Rockets. LA Bums are number one taking that lead, but but no KD. Just want to give you guys heads up. No KD in that game. When KD comes back, let's talk business.

SPEAKER_02 59:57

How about the Lakers? No Reeves, no Luca.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:02

Back to our original program over here. I don't know how you guys are winning that game. I am very, very proud of that.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:07

I mean, there's two James in it. That's why I said that.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:10

Look, I'm a Lakers fan. I gotta be honest with you. I don't know how we won that game. I've been trying to call that everybody. I'll take it. Like, just keep hanging on.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:20

And him, uh Raymond and my son are just trying to figure out what's the world's going on these days. All right. Uh number three, Nuggets and Timberwolves. Number Nuggets and Timberwolves are tied up as number one. So let's get down to business. That's a great, great game going on over there. Spurs and Trailblazers. Trailblazers are number uh took in the L, but you know, Wemby is the player, defensive player of the year. How do you feel about that? Uh, I'm not mad at that.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:51

Yeah. He's he's he's the next one up.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:53

That's what I like to hear. Yeah. Let's go to the east side, ladies and gentlemen. Pistons and magic, Orlando. I don't know how they pull that one off, but listen, if Punch if Pablo continues playing the way he playing, I see them taking care of Detroit. And Detroit is a very, very tough matchup. So shout out to those guys over there. Cleveland and Raptors. Listen, Cleveland has taken the 2-0 lead. Raptors, I don't even know who you guys are anymore. But you guys did phenomenal on my fantasy. I'll take that. But listen, this is the playoffs. Everybody's needed in the playoffs section, ladies and gentlemen. All right. And then we have the Knicks and the Hawks. I don't know how we blew a 14-point lead, ladies and gentlemen. I'm trying to figure out how the Hawks are CJ McCullum over here. Just stretching your hand out here.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:38

I went to bed thinking it was a rap. And then I look on my phone the next day. I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:43

Yeah, we have that one point loss for me is very, very heartbreaking. Uh, we should have been up 2-0, but CJ McCollin did a phenomenal game in game four. Uh, shout out to you. Psych. Uh, other than that, series is tied up one-one. Uh, game two for Boston and Celtics. Celtics is taking care of the situation here. Uh, they are up one zero. Trying to figure out what's going on. Uh, game tonight, seven o'clock, so be there or be squared. Other than that, that's all I got for basketball here.

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SPEAKER_00 1:02:28

All right. Thank you so much, D Hustle. Always holding it down. Appreciate you, my guy. I had to jump out of frame for a little bit, but we're back at it. Uh, definitely big shout outs to Raymond O'Collum Ray Ray with his uh insightfulness around um who should be let go because they were out doing something crazy. She she has to be the one, not him, just because he's a coach. Like, dang, bro.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:51

You know, him and Robert Kraft get along. That's what it is.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:55

Shout out to Kraft. You see, like that did not happen. What the incident in Jupiter.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:59

Uh, it did not happen. No, it didn't. It did not happen.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:02

Robert Kraft can hang out with so many women, but he didn't get he didn't get let go.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:05

Yeah, Robert Kraft can even be on the news and and people see his face, see him even in the video, but somehow he got out of it.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:13

Dang, didn't happen.

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SPEAKER_01 1:04:57

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:57

I see where Raymond stands. Raymond's enjoying the hot tub. That's crazy, bro.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:01

You know, I wouldn't mind a hot tub in my backyard. Look, I'm not gonna front.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:05

So if you go in there with another lady and you guys just talking business, and your girl comes in. Hey, look.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:11

You just talking business. I would not put myself in that position. Would you? I would walk away. You you how are you gonna walk away? It's your house. Well, I'd walk away. Even though it's my house, I would walk away.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:23

All right. Yes, he would walk away. Yes. Yeah, he would. Yeah, he would. After he did what he did together. Let's put this thing and bubble it all over you. Oh man. But no, as always, I really appreciate everybody pulling up to the podcast. If you got into this far, please hit the like and subscribe button. Tell your friends about us. Tell, you know, we we out here talking about technology, engineering, and the culture, and we're having a really good time. We're doing big things. We got advertising landing on our uh podcast. Now, give a big round of applause for our ad slots. Um, and if you are looking to have us mention your product, your services, Highlight the tech hustle. We got you. We're definitely always looking for local sponsors, uh, but also you know, the bigger bucks as they come in. You know, we're still a little small here. Um, but definitely want to encourage you, let your friends know about us, and always, always uh repost, hit that button, like all that good stuff. Uh, before we kick it off, uh D Hustle, any last words, player?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:20

I hope everybody has a good day and spend some time with the family and have fun out there.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:24

Roger that. And my guy Raymond, don't call him Ray Ray.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:26

Yeah, have a good week. Watch the draft, don't get in the hot tubs with anybody you're not supposed to.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:32

And have a good week. My guy. My guy. Well, Raymond said he ain't gonna have that problem. But, anyways, if y'all didn't know, this is the Tech Hustle Podcast. Holla at your boy, it's Bobby D.