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Krista Crotty:
Look at it in this way and reframe it or just adjust their perspective just a little bit. And then all of the sudden they see it.
John C. Morley:
Where do you think most business owners fail today?
Krista Crotty:
They fail to focus on their zone of brilliant. They want to be everything to everyone. And by doing that, they dilute what they're really, really good at. So I'll use an auto mechanic as an example- An auto mechanic who loves to work on cars. Who's also trying to market the business, do the books, run the office, et cetera. If they just focus on working on cars, they'll do that much better and then surround themselves and find people to do those other aspects of their business.
John C. Morley:
Something I tell people all the time you can try to become everything to everyone, but then you'll be nothing to no one.
John C. Morley:
Well. Hey everybody. And welcome once again to the Jmor Tech Talk Show, it is wonderful to be here on Fantastic Fabulous Friday. Hello there, Marcus. How are you doing this evening?
John C. Morley:
I'm doing good, John. It's wonderful to be with you.
John C. Morley:
It is great to be with you as well. So we have a great guest coming up a little bit later, who you're going to enjoy. But first I think I want to talk about something that's important, which is keyboards. I mean, have you ever had to pick a keyboard at home, Marcus? Like, do you ever spend time or do you just like grab whatever's on sale?
Marcus Hart:
You know, I got I'm guilty of being the guy that just grabbed whatever was on sale, then feel disappointed afterwards. So how do we choose, John? That's the big question.
John C. Morley:
I think it comes down to a couple things, Marcus. The first thing is the price tag, but that's not the only thing, but that does decide what kind of features you get. So do you want a mechanical keyboard? Like the old IBM's? Do you want something with more with a tactile feeling? I think that clicking feeling is annoying, but I do like something that has some dexterity and texture when you're touching the keys. So it's not like you're just touching an A and suddenly the whole row goes down. You know, so I think that's important. I like a keyboard that's lit up. You pay a few more dollars for that and you can even get the wireless keyboards that are lit up. You could get keyboards now that are very small. You're going to pay a little under 200 bucks for those. The little mini keyboards, Apple has an Apple magic keyboard. The Logitech makes a Bluetooth keyboard as well. You know, and these keyboards don't just get used for your computer because they're Bluetooth, you can use them with your phone iPhone, your Android, or another type of device. Maybe is a copy machine and some of the machines that are Bluetooth, you can actually link it to talk to like your Xerox or something like that. So that's another use of keyboards, but you know, there's another thing, Marcus, and that is how the keyboard feels. You want a keyboard that's natural. Do you want it to have that ergonomic feel? Do you want that nonsense where the keys are split? Like two hands are kind of like two cups turn to let's say the far one to the right one to the left do you want something like that? Do you want a keyboard that has different colors that change? I mean, you could go crazy with keyboards, but I think when it comes down to it I tend to like Logitech. That's my preference. I know some people like Microsoft. I think the reason I like them is because with a Logitech wireless keyboard, they provide these free utilities that you've just worked for years. You get the Logitech set point utility that you can download for free. And it keeps track of things like your caps lock key, your num lock key. And that software also lets you control the buttons and the functionality of your mouse without having to go into the Windows settings. It lets you manage it right in the program. So I like that they also have the ability to remap your keys at the top. So you can have your function keys map to things very easily without having to program anything crazy. So I like that they tend to just work. But what I also like about the USB keyboard by Logitech is those keyboards are neat because you can program in that universal receiver, that little dongle, you could program other devices to work in it and you can literally download the Logitech pairing program. And so if you get another keyboard, for example, or another mouse, maybe you've had a Logitech keyboard and it's a universal receiver, you can actually go into the software and clear out the other pieces and literally just turn on the device and it will pair. How cool was that?
Marcus Hart:
Hey, that's awesome. I actually liked the way that sounds. I mean, one, thing about that Logitech too, is that the battery is pretty irreplaceable for up to two years. So that's pretty cool that you brought that up. So I might be checking out those a little bit more.
John C. Morley:
And they have some nice options where you can actually be able to turn off the on and off switch. If you turn that switch off, you'll even get more time out of the keyboard.
Marcus Hart:
That's nice.
John C. Morley:
And they have a little light on some of them. So you can actually see. Plus if you do get the keyboard with the light in it, it is going to use a little more battery power, not a lot, but it will use some. So if you do need that, you could turn that on or off at your leisure. When you need it. So the software is called the Logitech unifying software. You can get it on Logitech's website. You can get on a lot of places like cnet.com. And so the Logitech unifying software actually allows you to really hassle-free, pair up multiple USB devices with one receiver. It's a really cool device, but the nice thing about it is that you can just wipe out what's on the receiver and give it to someone else and it could be used with someone else. So if you get a keyboard and you pay the extra few bucks and you get the keyboard and the mouse together, it's already paired, this is only if you're a tech person or you've had other keyboards. You don't want to use them and you want to use that receiver. Then you're able to use it and pair it. So, but you do need to have the logic tech unifying receiver. You can't have one of the old receivers from many years ago, or you will only be able to use that device. It's not a receiver that will allow you to pair other devices. So that's really important. So if it's more than I'm going to tell you, eight years old, you might not be able to pair it with the Logitech unifying software.
Marcus Hart:
Yeah. That makes a ton of sense. So this is definitely premium at its best. So thank you, John, for that.
John C. Morley:
Is my pleasure. And I think you're going to find that when you do decide to get a keyboard, you have options like turning your sound on-off, being able to raise it a touch or lower it, you even have options on there to control your rewind and fast forward and your play buttons of your music. So I think that's nice. And what I like on their keyboards is they also have a little button at the right where you can press it to bring up your favorites or your bookmarks if you're in a Firefox. And you can also hit a button to pull up your keyboard. I think that is just really neat. And of course, let's not forget about the fact that you have your windows key and you have your function key. So you can do common things like lock your PC. You can even do a function at 11, which will actually do a power off of your PC. And you even have a battery indicator function F 12, which will do a battery check. So some really neat stuff, but if you do get a solar keyboard those are great too. But I want to just tell you one thing. We've had a lot of clients that complain about this or keyboards and it's because they don't have them under direct light and they don't need light from outdoors, but they do need light from a reliable source, such as your office lighting, whether that's a bulb or an outdoor lighting. So I tell people if they're having a problem, just take the keyboard and put it under kitchen table light for a few hours and it'll be fine. I had one client, says John, I can't deal with this. I said, you know what? I'm just going to replace your keyboard for you. I'm going to give you a brand new Logitech keyboard with a battery and no sorries. You get the solar nonsense out. I can't take that. So, so you know, different strokes for different folks, but you also have to don't download the solar app and the solar app actually tells you how strong your battery is, how neat is that?
Marcus Hart:
That is neat. Especially if you want to stay eco-friendly, and do things to support the ecosystem.
John C. Morley:
Yeah. So in other news, now that we'll jump off of the keyboard and talk about something keyboards are used to do, which is to serve places like Facebook and other types of social media sites. I don't know if you know our friends over at Singapore, we haven't talked about them really. Well, they order Facebook, Twitter to correct false claims on a new COVID variant.
Marcus Hart:
Well, it seems like Facebook and Twitter were coming like the social media police nowadays.
Speaker 3:
I think it's because they're starting to realize the ramifications. I'm not talking about false news, like political, false news. I'm talking about things that have to do with health-related matters, because they open up this huge can of Pandora's worms. So they're feeling that they need to do something because you know what it's causing them a financial impact and that's why they're making them do it. So Singapore has order Facebook, Twitter, and a local publisher to correct what it says is a false statement circulating about a new Corona virus, variant originating, and the city state and risk spreading to India. I think this whole COVID thing has gotten blown out of hand, Marcus.
Marcus Hart:
Yeah, I really believe so too. And it's got to the point where there's so much information out there and it's becoming very dangerous.
John C. Morley:
I think it became a political nightmare if I may say so myself and I believe that this could have been solved sooner if politics was not at the top of the crescendo list of many people.
Marcus Hart:
Yeah. You're finding a lot of those political jogger notes on there.
John C. Morley:
And I don't want names, but some of those people that are very high up there, especially some of the medical people. I've lost respect for so many of those people. It's not even funny, but the biggest thing I have to share with you before I go to our next topic in an interview. I got my second shot this past Friday, which was the which was the Pfizer and very smooth. The first shot I had by the way went very well. I just was really tired at 8:30 at night, which was 12 hours between the shot and my rest time. So I got really, really tired. The second shot. I didn't get tired when I went home, but what happened was about 10, 11 o'clock. I get hot flashes for an hour. I turned the air conditioning on. I started to freeze and could not warm up. I went to bed, still very cold and shivering, but I did fall asleep eventually. The next morning I got up and I had an ever so light feather headache till about noon. I took an Advil and I was fine, but the thing I really want to bring up, Marcus, is not that I want to bring up the part that when I got my first shot, somebody really didn't know what they're doing, because I felt like it was a Mack truck that was giving me the shot. That's, I think, the biggest challenge. So I think we just have to kind of, you know be mindful of this because I had somebody that was a ambulance driver and he said, I have 35 years of experience. I went back to the center the second time. And I went to see a head RN that was a charge nurse. And I explained to her what happened. She says John, you're not the first person to say this. She says, we've been getting a lot of complaints. She says, I'm not supposed to do this, but I'll give you the shot. She did. And she's about to touch my arm. And she said, I said she said, I'm just putting the band-aid on. I said, you're done? She's like, I'm all done. So that tells me that people don't know what they're doing, and they're letting those people get involved. They want us as first responders to give this shot. I mean, this just shows you the inadequacies that we have.
Marcus Hart:
Yeah. It's all an attempt to just make themselves look good. And it's not working at all because it's becoming a total disaster and it's really scaring off a lot of people who would elsewise support the whole efforts to get to stain in the right direction.
John C. Morley:
Exactly. So I think you got to make sure that if you get the shot, ladies and gentlemen, that you do get it from a qualified RN nurse, you don't want somebody to just kind of playing substitute to help a vaccine the masses. Our next guests Ms. Krista Botsford Crotty, she helps professionals and organizations break the cycle of what she calls FLOP, that's frustration, lack, overwhelm, and procrastination. Ms. Crotty is obviously in the field of business consulting. And so what she does is she helps business owners and sales professionals and entrepreneurs of the like, with not only sales training, but strategies to help them and their groups, and also those one-on-one environments. So she serves small businesses. She helps trade association, schools, universities, sales directors, and managers. But what we're going to learn from her is what she's done with her business and how has COVID actually impacted her and her business. Please help me welcome tonight to the Jmor Tech Talk Show, Ms. Krista Botsford Crotty.
John C. Morley:
Hi, everyone. John C. Morley, serial entrepreneur. And I am pleased once again to welcome Krista to the Jmor Tech Talk Show. Welcome, Krista.
Krista Crotty:
Thank you, John. It's good to be here.
John C. Morley:
It's great to have you. So with everything happening in the pandemic and things change, changing a lot. I know that businesses are having challenges right now. Aren't they? Trying to figure out where they're going, and something interesting I want to ask you first is I know you're in the the field of helping businesses being like a business analysis and helping them find their strategy. So I want to ask you, where did you get your wings to decide to go into this type of field and just tell us a little bit about that?
Krista Crotty:
So I was pushed pulled product, however you want to put it, by several colleagues that I had done business with, I had used their services and in talking to them, they were like you're really good at kind of looking at the overall picture, looking at everything that's going on in my business. And they would always, people would come to me and say, Hey, how do I do this? Or how do I do that? Or who do you know, that could help me with this aspect of my business? I'm like you, John, I've been an entrepreneur from a very young age. I started my business at six years old, first one. And from there just kind of evolved. And for me, the journey and getting started was all about helping people. And I went through a training class a few years ago and really understood that my zone of brilliance, my area of expertise, was helping others see what was right in front of them that they were missing.
John C. Morley:
Were probably six years old or five years old, I mean, the idea was in our heads, but I don't think we were really respected as business owners let alone entrepreneurs at that point. What are you doing with your time? Like, why don't you help mommy, help daddy? Like, why don't you go do something productive with your time?
Krista Crotty:
Yeah. I was actually encouraged to do that. So my mom ran a craft Bazaar every year and I was encouraged to help. The first place I started helping was helped my aunt at the checkout. The next year I actually started selling my own products so that I had my own money to spend. And so that was my first quote, unquote sales job and becoming an entrepreneur and understanding that the balance between working and getting something for doing that work.
John C. Morley:
I knew at a very young age that I wanted to be in my own business. I didn't know what I wanted to be at that point. Didn't know I was going to be an engineer. I thought I wanted to be a doctor. Then I thought I wanted to be a lawyer. And I evolved and went through a lot of morphing, but I decided that engineering comes easy to me. And I just love helping people and making technology easy. So as you help people with a lot of their challenges through their pathways, which many people have, and they're so diverse, I don't think there's one person or business that has the exact same pathway. I think they're all just a little bit different. So obviously you're very passionate about that. And your name for your company. Where does the love of motor sports come from? Cause that's in the name of your company. So where does that come from?
Krista Crotty:
So that comes from all my entire life has been around cars, motorsports. You know, my parents had classic cars growing up, my aunt and uncle, both race cars. My dad had a motorcycle and just being around it and loving the sounds, the comradery that comes with being in motor sports or a car club, it's something that you're passionate about. And we lovingly say that once it's in your blood, it's very hard to get rid of. So it's drawn a lot of parallels between motor sports and business over the last over years. So I rebranded the company to include that love of motorsports.
John C. Morley:
I think that's fantastic. I do a motivational tip of the day and my tip the other day was persistence pays when it's backed with passion and integrity. And I don't think you can do anything without passion. You could do things without integrity, but it's going to topple down on you, maybe not overnight, but it is when people find out that you're really not the person they thought you were, or the business that you now, you, you allude to the fact that you have a super power. So do you turn water into something? Are you afraid of kryptonite or so what's your super power?
Krista Crotty:
So my super power people would say is the fact that I can see what others miss. I can see things that are in people's blind spots. I can help them better understand where they're at. I see things that aren't there for the typical person. So business owners will come to me and say, Hey, this is I'm really struggling with this and I'll go, oh, well, look at this, look at it in this way and kind of reframe it or just adjust their perspective just a little bit. And then all of the sudden they see it.
John C. Morley:
Where do you think most business owners fail today?
Krista Crotty:
They failed to focus on their zone of brilliance. They want to be everything to everyone. And by doing that, they dilute what they're really, really good at. So that I'll use an auto mechanic as an example, right? An auto mechanic who loves to work on cars, who's also trying to market the business, do the books, run the office, et cetera. If they just focus on working on cars, they'll do that much better and then surround themselves and find people to do those other aspects of their business.
John C. Morley:
Something I tell people the time you can try to become everything to everyone, but then you'll be nothing to no one, because you're going to be so pulled in all these directions that you're not going to have a chance to let that genius of that brilliant gel and grow into something, that seed that nature has designed for us. So when you think about businesses today, would you say that there is any specific industry that has more of a challenge than another industry?
Krista Crotty:
Personally, I say, no. It's more about how you look at things and how you evolve and how you adapt. You know, there's a great quote by Charles Darwin that said it's not the strongest, it's not the smartest that survive, it's the most willing to adapt. And those that are the most adaptable to change. And for me, and what I've seen over the past year or two years, really the last 18 months has been those businesses that are able to look at things, hear things, and adapt to what they're seeing and hearing really have the ability to move forward.
John C. Morley:
It's really about something that our own military, the army does, and that's being a chameleon where they have you dress up in these clothes and so that they can blend into the environment as if they were already there. So I think that's a real interesting gift. But you know, when you talk about businesses today, a lot of people are not very willing to change.
Krista Crotty:
No, nobody likes change. You know, unless it's maybe out of muddy clothes or dirty clothes and is something clean, change is uncomfortable. Change can be a struggle. And when you're able to surround yourself with people that support you, regardless of what the changes are, that's awesome. If you want to stay the same great, but a seed when you plant it doesn't grow, unless there is dirt surrounding it. And there are struggles that it goes through to break through that crust of the seed to break through the top of the ground, to look for the water that it needs, it's uncomfortable. And if you're able to take that and move that forward and be okay with being uncomfortable, you'll grow that much faster.
John C. Morley:
We got to that envelope a little bit further every day. And I think people that get up and decide that they want to live a routine, even though routines are not bad, if they want to live a routine and not push themselves to be just a little bit better, I'm not talking gigantically bigger. I'm just talking a little bit better. And if you could just do that every day, I mean, you're going to grow. Would you say that the businesses that you've dealt with today, and let's say back when you started your company many years ago, has things changed in what the business owners are doing wrong or what they're doing? Right?
Krista Crotty:
No, it's very similar struggles. It's a lot of times it's just on different levels. Different intensities, most people, like I said before, most business owners will struggle with staying in their zone of brilliance. You know, trying to be many people to many things like you said, and the struggles are the same. Maybe the name of the struggle is different. It's really about how you look at it, the general things that business owners struggle with have stayed the same. They've just appeared in different colored skins, as you said, with the chameleon, right? They're still there. They're the same thing. They just show up in different colors.
John C. Morley:
The other thing I find is that people sometimes know they need to make a change, but then they do something called avoidance. And now people have told them to change. Their coaches have told them to change. Their families, told them to change. Their customers have told them to change and their clients, but they don't take that step. And one wise person once said to me John people only do things for two reasons, to avoid pain and gain pleasure. People actually do things in a quicker fashion to avoid pain. They won't do them as quick to gain pleasure, which is interesting.
Krista Crotty:
I think it depends on the person. It depends on whether you're towards motivated or away motivated, in my language. You know, do you really want to move towards something or do you want to move away from things? Do you want to move towards being healthy or do you want to move away from being heavy? So it all depends on the person. I think the person determines how they're motivated and if you have the right coach, if you have the right people, if you have the right accountability group in place, you actually can learn from each other, which way you're motivated and learn how to motivate yourself, how to have others help you and motivate you in moving forward and grabbing that change and running with it.
John C. Morley:
How about now, Krista, with COVID still being around us. Has that changed the way your business operates or how your clients operate?
John C. Morley:
So for me personally, in my business, not a lot has changed. One major thing that has changed is the ability to do things like market my business in person. I did a lot of word of mouth networking, marketing being in front of people to grow my personal business for my clients. It depends on the client. It really depends on the client. A couple of clients were brick and mortar in-person businesses. So yes, a lot has shifted for them. And they've added new income streams of doing things online, doing things virtually that they now have multiple streams of income because they were pushed in this direction. I have a couple of clients who were pushed, kicking and screaming into moving into the digital world, moving into the online environment. And now, coming up on a year later, they love it. They're not going back to being in person. So it really, it depends on the business and it depends on the person. Has it changed the way we do business? Absolutely. Has technology and corporate America and a lot of larger business woken up to the fact that they might be able to do less with more or more with less? Absolutely.
John C. Morley:
I know for many years we were doing virtual conferences and a lot of our clients didn't want it, but we were doing this before. Now it's like, everybody's embraced this because they have to, as they're not able to get out and meet people pretty soon, they will be able to, I don't think our world is going to go back the way it was, but I also don't think it's going to stay the way it is now. I think we're going to have a hybrid of virtual things and on premise things, there's still going to be people that are going to be skeptical for the next five or 10 years, which we can't help that. But the people that want to make a change. One of the biggest challenges I see is you want to refer somebody business. I had a golf club that I belong to and we were going to do meeting online and they said, don't bother me until we can meet again in person. It's like, they've already adapted that personality to not be open to change. And I think that's the biggest thing as entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs, business owners, that we have to not only be available to want to change, but we've got to be open to the outcome. And I tell people, we have to be detached from the outcome. Everything's going to happen in perfect timing.
Krista Crotty:
Absolutely. Yes. And those that adapt and shift and change that get to that whatever they have determined that level of success that they want, those people will move and shift and switch that much faster. Those people who are gonna are sitting back saying, call me when it's over. I don't want to do anything until we're back in person. Well, one of the biggest things that I've seen companies do over the past year is those companies that have done that now that things are starting to open back up, they are struggling ,they are scrambling to get back in front of those same people who they were in front of in-person before they've neglected marketing to those people. And now they're three to six months out from getting back in front of those people on a consistent basis because other companies stuck around, they stuck it out, they adopted and they changed. And they're front of mind versus the company that was like, Nope, call me when it's over.
John C. Morley:
That's really the nugget here is that you've gotta be ready to change and open to change. And as people progress into the changes of COVID and I call it the new norm, quote unquote, I think we're going to have to embrace some new business principles and some new trusts. But I think the real thing besides being open to change is having a respect and a responsibility about how we're connecting with people. There's so many people out there they're just trying to connect for a push. And I think we really just have to give value, which is what our show does, we're about providing value to all of our viewers and now to Princeton TV, by the way, thank you to Princeton. Because you know, we really do want to educate people on so many different levels. And so before we do say goodbye to you, Krista, I just like to ask, is there any way people can get in touch with you if they have more questions on possibly how they can get more organized with their business?
Krista Crotty:
Absolutely. You can access me through LinkedIn. I'm on LinkedIn, by my name, Krista Crotty, as well as my business, Velocity Business Strategists. We have a business Facebook page, Velocity Business Strategists, and I have a YouTube channel VB Strategists. And then of course you can always text me or call me at (702) 677-6923. And my website is vbstrategists.com. I look forward to hearing from people.
John C. Morley:
If any of you happen to miss all that, that was a lot of information. You can replay this, cause this will be back on our website. Usually within seven to 14 days, we actually transcribe all of our shows. So if you're saying I don't want to go back and actually find what part of the show she was in giving her phone number, you can just look on our website because it will be completely transcribed. Krista, it has been a pleasure learning about you and your company and what you do. And just some of the ideas that you follow today so that we could share this with our audience.
Krista Crotty:
Awesome. Thank you, John. It's been a pleasure being here.
John C. Morley:
Well, I guess organization is something that a lot of people need to learn and I definitely want to take the opportunity to go ahead and thank Ms. Krista Crotty for joining us on the show. Well, what did you think of some of the things she had to share with us, Marcus?
Marcus Hart:
Yeah, I think she's given a lot of people confidence out there. She as she's mentioned, she's been doing it before COVID and, and she just kept doing what she was doing. So I think it's impressive.
John C. Morley:
I do too. So definitely a great thing. And we encourage you to reach out to her if you have more questions and you want to get organized, but you know, we don't ever talk about Mark Cuban. I mean, I know he pops up on a lot of shows, but we never talk about him. He just doesn't come into my window, I should say, but he came into my window today, Mark Cuban. And as you know him, he's a pretty discriminate investor. He bet $250,000 on grind, a company that makes basketball shooting machines. So this equipment was created by a 26 year old named Thomas Fields who also appeared on the may seven episode of Shark Tank. And so this person, Mark Cuban, owns the Dallas Mavericks, if you didn't know already. And I'm sure a Barbara Corcoran who contributed to this as well. So she combined with Mark for the $250,000 for 20%, 25% of the company, which makes basketball shooting machines. So whatever Mark wants to get into something it's like, Barbara always wants to get in there. And if Barbara is in there and she's really on board, then Mark wants to get in there and Mr. Wonderful, we know Mr. Wonderful all the time, the other gentlemen, it has to be his way or nothing. He's not willing to negotiate. And he has so many parameters that you wonder why you even want to try to approach him. So this is a very interesting machine and it's become very popular in pro basketball, but he said, and I quote, to trust the process. He got money from the investors, including Mark Cuban to expand this company. And it's very interesting because this is a 26 year old, a Houston native that was able to get this $250,000 combined. And so my question is who's going to buy something like this?
Marcus Hart:
It just really doesn't seem like something that like the average individual will buy and then we know that with COVID, in the lockdown, it took out a large gatherings and the ability for gyms to get together, to even have something like this in their gym.
John C. Morley:
So I think what he's going after, cause the name on this as a little bit wrong, just to tell you guys what this is. So it's portable and it's a device that you can put around your net. So what happens is if you're playing basketball, it takes the ball and it basically returns it to you like a net back to you. So you don't have to worry if you shoot it out of the range, it's going to catch it. Because a lot of times when you're playing basketball yourself, if you hit too far, you shoot over and you're not a pro, you have to go chasing the basketball instead of trying to play hoops. So this costs, well, I'm going to ask you, what do you think this costs?
Marcus Hart:
I will say like, well over 2000 maybe three grand.
John C. Morley:
Yeah. All right. So you must've talked to him before, it's only three 39 a month and it's 1695 plus tax
Marcus Hart:
Still pretty expensive for the average American to have in the back in their backyard.
John C. Morley:
But it's portable, Marcus, it's portable. And so I think it's an interesting idea. My question is, does it really do what it says it's supposed to do? I think what he's doing is trying to give people some hope and they say batteries are not included. So I'm guessing batteries are needed with this, because what it does is it catches the ball and it returns it to you like in a mechanical mechanism, which does some type of probably servo motors in it. My personal opinion is I wouldn't spend that kind of money on a basketball retrieving equipment. That's my opinion.
Marcus Hart:
Yeah. That's my opinion too. You know?
John C. Morley:
Yeah. I get the workout. You know, every time I played basketball, my dad was very good at basketball. You throw the ball at the, at the hoop and you shoot. And if you miss you go get the ball. That motivates you to shoot better. Right? Exactly. I have to classify this, Marcus. and maybe I'm wrong. I'm going to classify this as a capital F as a fad. This is not something that's going to be on everybody's list to use every single day. It's not like weights.
Marcus Hart:
No, it doesn't seem like a Christmas stocking stuffer.
John C. Morley:
It might be a Christmas stocking stuffer. It might get returned. And also might be that thing that you pull out a closet just to say, oh yeah, I got it. And I love it. And then you never play with it again. We've all had toys and dolls and, and things like that. You could get them and then, or the robots and you play with them and you put it back or the remote control car, and we want the bigger one, or you want a different color or whatever, or you want one that talks and you know, you don't play with it for whatever reason. Maybe you have carpet your room and you can't run. There's lots excuses we can make. So I got one more topic for our show tonight. And that is, I am so disappointed at the way, colonial pipeline responded and paid that ransom payment. I mean, shame on them. They paid $4.4 million of money that is not even theirs to a cyber criminal gang responsible for taking over the US fuel pipeline. Now, remember they didn't break the pipeline, Marcus, all they did was they turned some servo motors so that the fuel would be diverted or stopped. It was all by a cyber attack. I say shame on the company. I mean, I think I've always told you this before, and you're going to hear from me a million more times is that it's not a question of if you're going to get attacked, it's when and do you have the protections in place to be able to combat that? I think that's what it comes down to, Marcus.
Marcus Hart:
Yeah. You write up on the line here when we're talking about controversy, for sure. But in terms of like you're highly expert in this area here and you gave us this warning before about like just the need to be prepared for when an attack might happen. And here we are with something like this, something that's as important as this, coming over to attack and then the only thing they can do is pay out for it.
John C. Morley:
And you know, Marcus, I think our world is never going to learn, but you know, if we keep paying that, sending a message that we're going to do that. So I got a problem with it. So first of all, they should have had backup of their data. Shame on them. That's the first thing, but I can go into an hour and more plethora of that, of why and what they should have done, but that doesn't help us today. I hope that colonial pipeline has learned their lesson. I hope, I hope. We have an amazing guest next week. Ms. Sarah Harberson. Now, if you've had a student, we're going to have a student that is going into college. I want to tell you one thing, don't write their essay. She writes a book, The Students Soundbite, and I have to tell you that you have to make sure that the sound soundbite that you write in that essay matches the soundbite that you speak when you visit them too many parents want to write their soundbite for their kid and then enact them to what they want them to be, but not what they truly are. So now when they get to an interview, they get stuck or worse. The person from the admissions doesn't even call them back because they know it's all garbage. They know they didn't write that. They didn't use those words. That's the parents. So parents, you need to get out of your kid's life and let them get into college on their own. You can guide them, but don't do the work for them. And please don't do their homework in high school. And don't do their homework in college. Because if you do it in high school, you're not going to help them in college. And if you do it in college, which I hope you can't, are you going to be there doing it for them in their job? Well, we have, we have a great, a great guest, so definitely tune in next week. And if you have an idea, ladies and gentlemen for show whether it's a guest to appear, you'd like to appear, whether you have a product that you'd like us to inbox, reach out to JMOR.com, click on the reach out button at the for right-hand side. Let us know where it is. Remember that if you do decide to have a product sent to us, you're gonna have to donate it. It's going to become our property. You can't tell us what to say. And if you do want to be on our show, we do remind you that there is a vetting. So you may go through a pre-interview. We're going to ask you some questions because what I want to make sure that you're providing quality and value, we don't accept every guest that comes to apply for our show. And that's because we only want the best for our audience. Well, Marcus, it is that time, unfortunately, to say goodbye, but not for long, just for a few days. So I invite all of you to have a very happy, a very healthy, a very wonderful and a very safe weekend. Get out there, go take a breath of fresh air. Enjoy, go with your family, with your friends, walk around whether you have your mask on, whether you're not. If you're socially distant get out, enjoy life. There's so much beauty out there. Get outside. You know, if you have to bring technology, that's fine. But don't be bringing something you're going to be like watching glued to your face. You know, you want to put a little music on while you're walking or jogging, whatever that's fine. And we will see you next Friday at 5:30 PM Eastern time. It's always a pleasure to be here. We are the JMOR Tech Talk Show. And we bring you news about technology, controversies, and things you need to know before you buy stuff and things you better know before you're going to get in real trouble. Well, Marcus, we got to say goodbye. Goodbye, everyone. Have yourself a great rest of your week.