joining us Bishop thanks for calling in nice to be here Greg thank you how are you feeling I that's a hard question to answer I'm looking in both directions you know like these two big things moving home and moving job and I'm doing the two of them together and I find it frankly more disoriented I've moved many many times in my life and it is much more disorienting this time than I ever was before do you think in the back of your mind you didn't think you'd be moved again that this is where you would finish your most certainly was you know I am a Jesuit and just part of the deal with being a Jesuit is that you're on the move and you expect to be moved to be asked to move and you move but when I became a Bishop that was just a totally new thing and there was a sense that I'm married to this now and this is it I'm why I will so it in my mind's eye I had myself wondering well when I retire where will I be and I had myself at various places always in County Donegal you know nearly embarrassed to say it but I said it to the people last night you know like where would I be buried I would be buried in Donegal so absolutely I this in the last while when I spoke over in Belfast the day that it was announced that I was to be the Bishop there I spoke it's very true in terms of I am coming home I was born and raised in North County Antrim and that is my home but I have a sense also here that I'm leaving home I this has been my home and I suppose either consciously or subconsciously perhaps you were loud yourself I don't know if it would be a an emotional attachment to an area do you know what I mean as you know as you say you knew the life of a Jesuit priest particularly so perhaps you always held a little back but perhaps as I say either consciously or subconsciously you allowed the roots to grow a little bit deeper here I think that's that is true we Jesuits try to commit ourselves totally to wherever we are but no there was that element I was pretty sure this is it this is it for good one of the last times I spoke to you somewhat ironically I don't know if that's the right word you had to lay out in really quite frank terms the reality of asking priests to move you know from one diocese to another that's what they signed up for and even in the face of you know public opposition and I think in a way that's a beautiful thing that someone means so much to some that they that you know they would gather and they would call on you to change your decision but you says you know you're really quite firm this is a decision it can't be changed and then a couple of short months later you find yourself in pretty much a similar position yeah I about a year ago when down in Connor was vacant a number of people said to me we think you might be going there and you're looking people whose opinion you would take very seriously and I was open to that at that time then six months past nine months past and I was clear in my mind no whatever that was that's not on now it was completely out of my mind and it was a Saturday morning there about a month ago I was sitting I had done the park run I was sitting at home relaxing I was going to relax for the rest of the morning and the text came asking me to contact the people nonceo's office and just that was oh my goodness here it is and then it moved very quickly and I doubt I was sitting in front of the people nonceo under just the way it works as he says the Holy Father has appointed you to be the Bishop up down in Connor and we chatted back and forward just about that but then the next line is with that little interim was do you accept so I kind of I looked at him I sort of smiled I said what do you think like somebody who indeed somebody who has spoken to you as I did and this other side come on yes yes it so it absolutely there is I committed myself to live under obedience and when it comes it comes yeah would an interview like this been have been more difficult sort of more immediately after that whilst you were processing oh yeah I did yes I and I wouldn't have done it hands like even after after it was made public there on the 2nd of February I I didn't want to do it I didn't want to speak publicly I I dealt with people one by one and no like there was a whole lot of dealing with people one by one telling the people in my own office and in my own house that all goodness gracious so I was not ready no and I when I was contacted by the station here to come I said wait a minute no I don't know that I want it to be almost as I'm walking out the door I'm prepared to do this but not until you don't get if you don't ask oh absolutely no I understand that and it's it's six years you've been the Bishop isn't that correct and it has it there's been a whole range of things and I suppose really in terms of just coming here some of the first inquiries would have got some of the first things you would have had to have dealt with what matters around abuse yeah that's right you know so that as you walked in that was some of the work that you had to begin immediately absolutely and and that in many ways that is one of the big realities of my time as a Bishop it is maybe the big reality in the life of our church this horrendous injustice to the most vulnerable and responsibility on the part of those who were guilty and then responsible responsibility on the part of the institution and then I'm the Bishop I am the institution and I carry that and rightly so so of course you know that that is something that in my position you carry with you all the time mm-hmm and I mean things that have been in place so or efforts that have been made to try and deal with that you would very much hope they continue I presume and and and that indeed not only that and and there are very good things and in this diocese I think particularly of what we have set up the liaison person Margaret Northage just does does a wonderful job in in reaching out compassionately and caringly and I know that that will continue and one would hope that we as a church will will we'll get better at this mm-hmm of course to it in the middle of your your six years there are there abouts to we had something that very very few people have ever experienced before and that was COVID yes wow which for me seems like it never happened and then at the same time it feels like it went on forever and it feels like it was yesterday and it feels like it was 25 years ago it's incredibly difficult for me personally to sort of frame it no life oh absolutely and again in terms of my six years here it was smack in the middle and I had some plans I had a pastoral plan in the making and moves like that one simple but really important for me part of my pastoral dream was and I spoke about it and got a great response from musicians in every parish I wanted congregational singing I really wanted to encourage that and we have a marvelous gathering on Pentecost Sunday 2019 where people came hundreds of them came from all across the diocese and we just had this wonderful liturgy with everybody singing their hearts out and the idea was that we'd go back and we would we would nurture this in every parish and bang not only first of all we can't be in the church for weeks and months on end and then we're let back into church and what we can't sing so we just this big bang smack in the middle and that's just one image of how it just shut everything down and that was a major part of of my experience as a bishop wanting to do something and then just kind of everything's frozen everything's on ice now for and it was a difficult time too in that it seemed to that an awful lot was happening but things were very slow to lift for for for the church and you know in terms of singing or whatever it might be and the terrible impact it had on people too in the grieving process and there's some study out today which points to that that you know there are still people that because of the the system this process that we'd established that that helps us through a process that that transition us transition sauce from a person being there one day and then not being there and how we do that that was taken from us now we did find other ways but it's still there's still there are still people now I think that they're there the process for them has been stunted because of what we were asked to do or what we were restricted from doing I don't doubt that I'm sorry I know and I just one of the one of the first big impressions when I actually came to live in and in Donnie Gall was I realized that all of those rituals around bereavement and supporting the bereaved terms of wakes like they they are they are developed to a to a degree in Donnie Gall like nowhere else in Ireland nowhere else in Ireland is there the the same sense of of the duty of solidarity and gathering around people and so my goodness like that the idea that people couldn't gather for wakes or that nobody could be in church honored my god when you think of it they the the horrible shock to the system of people who were bereaved that they were standing outside the church and under their mother or father or close relative was was was being you know prayed for inside and people standing keeping distant from one another outside it was horrendous yeah and I remember speaking to be able to move on from it so I think there's not we don't a lot of people want to vote remain focused on that but just remember speaking to older people that we're sort of saying to me like listen I'll take my chances just let me into the church to pray if God protects me protects me if he doesn't he doesn't and it was it was such a tough time but during those times there was some evolution as well and you know mass became incredibly popular on social media you let a rosary yourself which which proved quite a thing it did it did that was that on top of the one that we started on it was St. Patrick's night that year it was father but Father Paddy Don said to me you know you have to reach out to the people you're the bishop get into the cathedral and use the webcam and lead them in the rosary I said I would do that but also that I would lead them in the exam on which is this review of the day prayer and oh my goodness like for months on end I have this experience of going to work as a cathedral and knowing first of all on Facebook you could see that there were lots of people from around the dias around the word and then there was this other hidden it has only become clear to me there were these hundreds maybe a thousand on webcam who weren't you'd like you don't know about them they're just sitting out there and I have been met again and again by people all across this diocese but all across the country saying that it was a it was a real anchor in the day and particularly people living alone they just they felt bound into a community it so it was a it was a real lesson to us you know like community is something that you do shoulder to shoulder you know touching one another if you're looking at one another in the eye but there was real community yeah there was a real experience of community that could be supported by the social media that was amazing and to you know I just think there were lessons to be learned and I wonder did we learn them in that you know you would be very familiar as most people would but we certainly would on this program about you know rural isolation or loneliness and what have you and we all I think everyone got a sense of that and I kind of hope that we would learn coming through that that maybe you know we would ensure that people aren't lonely or don't feel isolated I don't know if that happened or not I don't know if we did learn from that and things have changed or everyone went back to the hustle and bustle of life and those who felt lonely already continued to do so I don't know I listen to some extent the latter is the case but there's also the reality that the numbers of older people who became very adapted iPads yeah phones and like this who ever heard a zoom but like Ira I'm zooming both for work and for socializing day and daily and a lot of people who would never have dreamt that that they could master this stuff it's second nature to them so I think to some extent some of that isolation is being broken down yeah for sure okay stay with me Bishop if you don't mind we do have to take a short break we'll be back with more from Bishop Alan McGockey and in about two and a half minutes keep your texts coming in lots of people a couple of questions but a lot of people wishing to pass on their good wishes Patricia on Facebook God bless Evelyn Corrin God bless Bishop Alan and on especially before I take the break I'll talk about this and then then we'll take the break and come back my understanding is that you've been and I think you referenced it today but you also referenced it last night and previously that you've been particularly moved by those the amount of people praying for you how was that how was that surprised you in any way or why why is that moving you such there had like even last night and over the last one there there are individuals that I don't know awfully well who say to me I pray for you every day why just that moves me very much like a sense that sort of Alan McGockey and doesn't deserve this and I just I am yeah I'm surprised I am taken aback and very uplifted by it it you know like very often people say I'll pray for you you'll pray for me and and you know they the skeptic in us all says well what difference is this Megan you know but no I am a believer and I believe a mix of difference and I think my goodness this has to be giving me something that that I wouldn't have otherwise back with more shortly watch the show live now on YouTube Facebook and at Highland Radio.com and we are in the company of Bishop Alan McGockey and who after over six years in this area is moving to his new post as Bishop of Down and Connor the messages coming in and it was something that was at the forefront of my mind to mention to you and that was the the Chrysler tragedy and often in moments of crisis and and this was felt unmatched in generations in this area we see the absolute absolute awfulness of life and death and then we see also to the best of it in terms of supports and coming together and what have you what's your recollection of that awful that afternoon Father John Joe Duffy called me to say he had just heard reports he was away down in the south of the county and he thought it was something terrible they even mentioned fatalities and I was just I was going into a meeting and my thought was I know that has to be an exaggeration I and I put it out of my mind and went about the meeting then after the meeting in the office they were saying that there's something on Highland Radio actually on the on the on your web page and I drove down just as it was getting dark and arrived at the police cordon and my first thought was of maybe I shouldn't go in there but I'd only be getting on the way but and we thank God I did in the guard wave me on in and just immediately there was a local woman recognized me so Bishop it's great you came and just funny just you had that experience that all of us have have had at different stages of our lives you're standing shoulder to shoulder with people going through just the most awful tragedy of their whole lives there are no words and yet some who are other you know that they're glad you're there there's nothing you can say but so and and that really was how it was as what my abiding memory of it is a sense of being honored by the people who were suffering so much you know like as a as a bishop I meant to be a pastor a shepherd and you often don't feel like that and you feel totally inadequate to it and then people in that awful moment allow you to be to be a shepherd to them so my goodness it it was yeah and often to like it I stopped sort of asking the question is what can you say you know beat be a bishop or a priest when you're there around people at the worst time in their lives and and the answer often was is you don't really there's nothing to say you don't have to say anything and then alone not really to reference that because obviously me just as someone who wouldn't have understood it I would be saying well what can well sometimes you actually don't say anything you just be present you just be there and that's what happened be yourself or just the community on that day in the days that followed sometimes you don't have to say anything you just have to be there no that's right and I think what an awful lot of people said to me was how glad they were that they were that I was there standing beside Father John Joe you know they got obviously we know Father John Joe just in God's providence was able to be with people to find words in his homilies at the funeral masses and and in other ways and an awful lot of people who benefited it from that then said and you as his bishop were standing beside him and that meant an awful lot to us so you know like it was just standing there said something you wanted it to say something you don't know what exactly it's saying then listen I had the privilege of of lead the people gathered for prayer in the church every night and I had the privilege of leading that and like what you're doing there is you are you are pointing to something beyond it's not a well here's the answer another day and all right have all the answers because I think maybe there could be this perception that we struggle at times with what you know how could God or how could a God do this but you even as a bishop you know and a priest now spoke to them in the past sometimes you have to answer those questions yourself and find the answers through your prayer or through your faith but you know you've you're a critical thinker and sometimes you go and say well why would this happen well what is the what is the what is the purpose of this and and of yourself you do not have an answer like that you can't you know like it it's not like something that you can say either to yourself or to somebody else and they're convinced they say oh yes of course why did I not see that of course it's not like that but we as as Christians have to speak to to to a reality that is not seen that we don't see that you don't get with your intellect but that faith tells us about and and and and this is not an abdication of of critical thinking it's a stepping into another world that at various times in our lives we are able to affirm in the in the moment of the greatest crisis probably not I I do remember actually it was that other awful tragedy that have that that happened while I was here was the four young men remember who who died in in the car crash and I was reminded of something that I found the words to say that that spoke was I remember saying at one of the removals to the people that I expect that you may not be able to pray at this time and don't be surprised at that and and don't be don't be worried about it we will pray for you and and as human beings we are very limited we never have all the answers in our moments of crisis we have maybe no answers and we feel totally lost but we're part of something bigger and there are others there with us when I'm down you're up when you know and that's part of it and that's staying within within the ambit of just ourselves then we faith that there's a spiritual reality that's bigger and beyond us entirely and we reach out into that I mean obviously you formed some really strong friendships here one of my highlights was was with the two bishops calling calling into studio because I think he's both worked very very well together is that sort of that that friendship that cooperation unusual is it unusual or is it something that you managed to achieve yourselves I mean as you saw Bishop Andrew and I we just we get on very naturally and we don't see each other that often but there just has come a bond he and I wanted and he contacted me at the time of you know when the mega crisis I mean it's funny we're just naming it it's one after the other he wanted to come and that we would we would be there together and and and we went and stood outside some of the houses you know fallen apart and we had the experience of the bricks crumbling in our hands we wanted to do that together and it was really effective that we did so is it now there's an element of personal chemistry between me and him but I and and and we Catholic clergy and and the Church of Ireland and the Presbyterian clergy here in letter Kenny get on really well and and no like before my time obviously my goodness you know like when I was a child I I remember going up to the door of a Protestant church and looking in and really my goodness I would never go in there you know God didn't listen it was another time and that that's how it wasn't thank God it's gone do you have to to some extent forego connections to this area if you know what I mean to fully commit to your new post as Bishop of Down and Connor I mean you can't or maybe you can this is a question not a statement but do you have to emotionally move on as well you know I'm not saying do you have to you know block people on Facebook do you do you sort of have to say right you know to some extent I kind of have to start a fresh in my new post listen I wish you wouldn't ask me that you know but in a certain set yeah well like I have to give my I'm the Bishop of Down I'm asking you because I know actually sometimes priests have to how they do you know like back to your very first question about you know how there's it right now think I last night I was there in the cathedral with with hundreds of people of former a fool and just feeling such a bond with them it was amazing no if I'm to be a good Bishop of Down and Connor someday in the not too distant future please God I will have that bond with them and and like wouldn't that be great please God I will where they are my life and you know I wear this ring on my finger that I never dreamt I was going to wear a ring on on my ring finger and it represents my desire to be united closely with my people and starting like officially and formally on the 19th of March and then the 14th of April the people of Down and Connor are going to be my people emotionally yes yes I am and then of course you know you struck a work life balance here if I can call yes yes yes yes you know which often isn't factored in as well because you have to have your downtime as well downtime you know plenty of downtime and Connor time for that matter yes I hear a caller says does the Bishop leave knowing that the door of the church in relation to abuse to date is fully opened and addressed no I did you know I think it is such a it is such a I mean that this is a cataclysmic thing and then in our history and goodness I couldn't say yes it's come but everything is everything is sorted no no I cannot say that but please God just with the passage of time it will be that people who have not been able to come forward will come forward things will be addressed but and the church has to be seen in a way that someone can come forward absolutely yes you believe the church is in that position I am more be done or more could always be done more yeah those questions are they shouldn't be asked of course more could be done but it's a case of it has to be done yes yes yes what is the situation in terms of your replacement when we were getting a load oh yeah I think you can guess oh yeah not sure it's quite like that no right it is what is the process there how long might it take and what happens in the interim well well first of all what happens in the interim when I am when I'm formally the day I am either the Bishop or the Apostolic Administrator of Rufu until I am formally the Bishop of Darren and Connor and when that happens there's a group of consultants priests of the diocese who are whom I appointed as consultants my consultants they meet and they choose a priest of the diocese to be the administrator he will have much of the effort he will not be a bishop but he will have much of the authority of a bishop to to to keep the thing going so that's what will happen and in the in the interim there will be diocesan administrator appointed the process is run by the Apostolic Nuncio he will he will be writing out to many people priests and lay people who know something of the diocese will write to bishops and ask for suggestions about who would make a good bishop and he will gather a big list of names and then I think start whittling that down by asking more specifically for people's judgment before God about the suitability of this or that priest or this or that priest to be the Bishop and to be specifically the Bishop of this diocese it ends up where there is a list of three names with a dossier that is sent to Rome there is a congregation known as the congregation of bishops that deal with those and the after discussion at that level the prefect of that it's called a dichastory now but that of that group the dichastory for bishops goes to the Holy Father and presents this list of three names to him and he does decide I don't look like there are hundreds of these every year but I have reason to believe that the Pope very actively as I say he examines these things closely he asked some questions and now he could say I don't want any of those three go away and start again it is you asked earlier you said earlier on that the question was put to you you know will you be or do you want to be or however it was raised the Bishop down and Connor could you ever decline that you could oh yeah the question do you accept but I mean there's two answers to that so like was the do you see that as a test that was given to you well because no you know you're making a decision which which is going to cause obviously perhaps great opportunity but also great personal suffering yes which you brought me to some extent it was put on you but you also brought it to yourself it so in other words this it was this was this a test that question well no test is is putting maybe too much in the spiritual test no but but it's like a man could well say listen for reasons that you obviously do not understand I'm not suitable for this you know like so yeah at this moment in my life for reasons known only to me and under in my soul in my heart I know I'm not the person that you do this and my answer is no and that has to be respected now I know that if it happens the people nuncio he will be very crestfallen because he's gonna have to go back and start this whole thing all over again I have hundreds of messages which will read out and maybe get to you at some point wish you're wishing Bishop Alan all the best I watched as a young boy stepped forward to speak to Bishop Alan last night after mass while you were walking around the side of the key to think the cathedral that's the heart you've touched it was lovely to see that young boy going to speak to you which I think is particularly nice that's what jumped out at me and of course there was a poem written about you in the story of her life we spoke in the past about you know you becoming a priest and what have you I suppose I wanted to focus on you know just over six years ago on words that's all the time we have Bishop McGockey and but unanimously people are sending in love good wishes and compliments to you I suppose just I'll leave the last word to you with it I it has been the great privilege of my life it's been a very challenging privilege but nonetheless the great privilege of my life I have come to love Donegal and the people of Donegal I leave I leave happy but sad at the same time so that I want to say thank you to you Greg I have been here you have spoken and questioned me honestly and fairly and I really appreciate that okay thank you Bishop I do appreciate it we wish you all the best good luck best I don't know the right phraseology but anyway we just wish you the very best with your move to the Bishop of Down to be Bishop of Down and Connor and there's no doubt I think that our areas loss is down and Connors gain thank you thank you very much for your time today


All right, hey, I'm here in Overland Park, Kansas. It's my nephew's birthday party today, birthday tomorrow. I just got challenged by an agency to make some calls from some leads and give you some real life results. These are older leads. These aren't even new.  So I got about 47 minutes left and I got about 36. I got about 36. Great time to call. I got about 36 leads that are generated over the last, looks like about 60 days maybe. And so I'm going to call those on camera because you guys love when I do that. So I'm going to do it again. I'm going to even put them on speaker. I'm not even going to leave my voice mail. Mary, Mary, hey, this is, hey, this is Cody. Hey, I'm getting back to you about your request for the new final expense information. Now, show them up on me and we'll see if I can get her back on. Move on to the next one. Mr. Dwayne. Hey, Dwayne. Hey, this is Cody. Hey, I'm getting back to you, buddy, about your request for the new final expense information. Now, I'm the local field underwriter, Dwayne. I'll be out in Norwood on Monday. Should I drop this information off? What do you think, in the morning or in the afternoon? Yeah, it was on, you had responded on Facebook about the new final expense information and it's my job to make sure that I, I'm the local guy. So it's my job to make sure I get that to you. Our mornings or afternoons typically better for you. Mornings? Yeah. What? Yeah. Normally like early mornings or late mornings? Yeah. Perfect. What time? Yeah. Why don't I do, why don't I do 9am? Is that cool? Okay. It's fine. Yeah. Okay. Well, unfortunately, there's something that we have to, obviously show you. We've got to drop it off with you. What's your, what's your work schedule? Typically like, are you like 8.30 to 5.30, Monday through Friday or what? Yeah, this was something that you had requested information on. Had to do with the new final expense information.  Because I'm the local guy that services that area. Area. Area. Yeah. So what, it'd probably be easier for me if I'm able to just drop it off when you're home. Would that be, would Monday or Tuesday be better for that? Thursday. Let me look, buddy. Thursday. Yeah, they've got me back in the area, but they do have me a little busier that day. What time are you thinking? 9 o'clock Thursday, 9am and you said to be home. Well, are you at, is that still you? Okay. It'd probably be easier on me if that's okay, buddy, if I just drop it off there. Okay, and then I'm actually putting you in my calendar now. And can you grab a pen and paper for me real quick or type this in your phone? I want to give you my name and then also the day and time again real quick. Okay. You just tell me when you're ready. So my name is Cody and we're looking at Thursday at 9am, okay? Okay. And would there be any reason you can think of that would keep you from being there Thursday at 9? Okay. Perfect. Well, Mr. Dwayne, I appreciate your time, buddy. I hope you have a great rest of your weekend and I've got you down for next Thursday at 9, okay? All right. All righty. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. Bye-bye. When he hangs up on you, you call the next one said appointment. That dude, that was not an easy call. He didn't want me to come to his, he wanted me to go to his work. Then he wanted to meet me somewhere in town. Ultimately, I ended up meeting him where I want to meet him, which is his house. I mean, anybody can do that. Donald. Yeah. Hey, Donald. Hey, this is Cody, buddy. Hey, I'm getting back to you. The reason I'm calling you this morning is I'm getting back to you about your request for the new final expense information. And I'm the local filled underwriter for the Ava area. And I've got to, I'll be out there on Monday or this next Thursday, which is better to drop off some information to you. Sure. Absolutely. Yeah.  I just got to make sure that I at least get it in your hands and kudos to you for doing that. Our mornings or afternoons typically better to drop this off to you. Sure. Um, what about this next Thursday? I've actually got to be out in that area in the morning. Um, what about like 1030 next Thursday? Okay. Okay. Can you grab a pen and paper for me real quick? Cause I'm going to go ahead and add you to my calendar. I just don't want you to either one of us forget about it. Okay. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yeah. And you can go ahead and add my name too. My name's Cody. Okay. And you're still, is that, is it, and hey, do you know where I got the 400 from or did I just have that wrong? Yeah. Okay. Well, I've been known to do that too. So no worries. Okay. Well, we will see you this next Thursday at, uh, what time did we say again? 10. 1030. Yeah. Yep. Yep. That'll be that. That'll still be perfect. Alrighty. Well, hey, thank you. Thank you, sir. Have a great weekend. Yeah. Okay. Hey, this is Cody. Hey, I'm getting back to you about your requests for the new final expense information. And I'm the local filled underwriter for the Branson area. And I'll be out that way on Monday. Our mornings or afternoons better for you. I can't do it Monday. Okay. Great. Yeah. And it's, it's not my job to, you know what I mean? Like change anything. I'm just there to make sure that you have the new updated information. That they want us to at least make sure that you have in your hands. Um, what time are you? Cause, cause they do have me really busy, but I think I could squeeze you in for a couple of minutes. What time are you at the, uh, employment office? Okay. Um, and then how long are you normally there? Oh, that's fun. Yeah. That's exciting. And then, and then what's your, uh, what, what time is your appointment Monday afternoon? I'm looking at my calendar. I'm looking at my calendar. I'm looking at my calendar. I'm looking at my calendar. I'm looking at my calendar. I'm looking at my appointment Monday afternoon. I'm looking at my calendar. There's reason I'm asking. Okay. Um, the, the, Tell me about this over the phone. Unfortunately we're supposed to make sure that we at least get in your hands. Um, that way we can answer any questions you have. I don't have much time on Monday, but I could probably squeeze you in about one o'clock. If that's okay. Are you still at. I love that area. I, uh, I was, I was just in a charity golf tournament that because I'm I'm I'm real active in the community in the area. I was in the charity golf tournament there this past summer so that's a beautiful area. Yeah well let's do this. Let's let's do this Renee. Again my name is Cody. Can you go ahead and can you grab a pen and paper for me real quick? No no I understand and then that's it's just my job to make sure that you have the information. Yep and it's up to you with what you do with it whenever you do it if you ever do it you know what I mean? So I have a I have a 130 and a two so I'll have to be really quick if that's okay. So and my name is are you in a place to write this down? Yeah okay my name is Cody and I'll swing by and drop that off really quick Monday at 1 okay. I gotta I gotta head out of the office here a couple minutes and head to a birthday party for my nephew so I hope I hope you have a wonderful weekend all right all right hey thank you so much you've been really sweet and hope you have a great weekend. Okay thank you. Three appointments about 35 dials and about 40 minutes from leads that are over 30 over 60 some older than 90 days old it's all about putting forth the activity the action and going for it I'm telling you what I can do it about 35 40 minutes so can you.


Live from Nashville, Tennessee, it's theCUBE.  Welcome to the Music City. You're watching theCUBE, the worldwide leader in live tech coverage. This is Commvault Go, 20 year old company Commvault, the third year of their show and the first time we have theCUBE here and the first time we've been in Nashville, Tennessee. I'm Stu Miniman, your host for one day of coverage and joining me to help unlock the Commvault is the CTO advisor, Keith Townsend. Good to be back on theCUBE. Yeah, Keith, so you've actually been to this show before. It's my first time, I've known Commvault for a long time, but when we talk about companies, they're all going through some kind of digital transformation and Commvault is no exception. I love the energy that I'm seeing at the show. They've got great puns around data. Data is at the center of everything and really it comes to what we see. We know that data is so important. All the tropes out there, it's the new oil, it's the new currency. It is one of the most important things, not only in IT, but in business. So what's your experience been so far? So far, great. You know what, they did a great job. Second goal for me, last year they had Captain Sully. Great inspirational talk. This year they had a comedian, Cannell, on and did a fabulous job of fast-paced, multimedia session, talking about the connection of data, our everyday lives, lives as a technologist, really high-powered show, a lot of great conversation around data and its applicability. Yeah, I did love that. Steve Cannell, he's a poet and some humor, a lot of geeky things in there. Talking about how data fits into all of our lives and what we do, and that's one of the reasons why we're here, why the customers are here, and that's what it's about. You look at a company like Commvault, I mean they've got tens of thousands of customers, and as the big waves coming in, what is cloudmead? I like some of the messages, I know we're going to dig in both in our analysis as well as with the guests, how cloud is impacting this, as well as things like the wave of AI, how is that changing the product, how can I access the information? I hear things like ransomware and GDPR and hacking, it's a dangerous time in technology, whether you're talking social media or talking in business. So, give us a little bit of background, what you're hearing, Keith, you're talking to customers and your day job all the time, how important is data and things like backup and data recovery, where do they fit in their world? Well, you know what, customers are still learning this journey. I've talked to plenty of customers that have used Commvault, competing products, and a lot at the low level, a lot of these guys are still thinking about it as backup, but great, great testimony from one of the larger customers out there, Merck, who talked about using backup or data protection as part of their data management strategy, moving workloads from, working mobility, moving workloads from cloud to cloud, location to location. Every customer is dealing with multi-cloud challenges. Stu, we've talked about multi-cloud and the keys to multi-cloud data is absolutely the most important part of getting your multi-cloud strategy or even cloud strategy straight. So, I'm looking forward to continuing the conversation I've had out in the field which is customers challenged with how do I simply identify a data management strategy to hearing Commvault's message today and throughout the guests that we'll have on customers, partners, the entire ecosystem about how Commvault enables multi-cloud through data management. Yeah, I was curious what I would see coming in. Would this be kind of a hardcore, let's get into the product and understand things like backup and recoveries. Backup's important, but recovery is everything. We heard some of the customer stories about how fast they can recover. Those are great stories. How does cloud fit into it?  And there's some nuance there that you want to unpack as to understanding. As we look at cloud, it's not just take the way we were doing things and throw them up there. Let me keep, they talked about tape and virtual tape. I remember back when the VTLs were first being a thing, I was working at a storage company back then was a huge move. Backup, those processes are really hardened into an environment. What do the admins have to do? What do they have to change in the way they're doing things? Let's look at the news a little bit. So there was the, Commvault did a good job, I think of checking all the check boxes. While there was nothing that jumped out at me as like, wow, this is the first time I've heard it, it's what I'm hearing from customers. So moving to an as-a-service portfolio, they've got a full line of appliances, but it's not only hardware. If you'd like to buy the software from them, of course you could do that. Got a number of big partners. We're going to have HPE on the program. We're going to have Cisco on the program. NetApp is another big, big partner here. As well as, I think that the product that they're most excited to talk about is Commvault Activate, which is really looking a lot of the governance, which when you talk in a cloud world is one of the biggest challenges. By the way, if people in the background hear these cheering, that the Commvault employees are really excited. Everybody's starting to walk in the show floor. We're in the center of it all, Keith. So we got a preview yesterday. They actually announced it to the Tech Field Day crew, which you and I sat in with. So give me your thoughts as to what you saw in the product line. How does that line up with what you're hearing from customers in competitive nature? So I think I tweeted out yesterday doing the Tech Field Day session. Commvault is not sleep at the wheel. As you said, Stu, there's nothing amazingly new about what they announced, but a 20-year-old technology company is definitely keeping pace with the innovation that we've seen in the field. Customers want options when it comes to consuming backup and recovery. From a storage layer, they want the storage bricks. They want a hardware solution. They want to consume it via subscription or perpetual license. They want this cloud-type capability. More importantly, they want, and they talked about it on stage today, this analytics capability, the ability to extract intelligence out of your data. Commvault calls it 4D indexing. Other vendors just call it simply metadata, but taking advantage of 15, 20-year-old data to drive innovation in today's society. While keeping compliant with GDPR and other regulations that are coming up, sprouting up as it seems every other week. Yeah, I did like that terminology. They used the 4D innovation because, of course, the fourth dimension is time and we're using intelligence. The challenge we have, as we know, is we have so much data. And what do we use the analytics for? They said we can use the analytics, first of all, at compliance. I need to understand that I may take care of that. Secondly, what if I want to cull data? What data don't I need anymore? What can I get rid of? There's huge cost savings that I can have there. And lastly, what can I get from analytics? How can I get value out of that information? And more. So the use of analytics is something I was looking for. Obviously, we want to talk to some of the product people, some of the customers, but what I've heard so far in talking to people is people are excited. I was talking to one of the partners of Commvault. They said one of the reasons they partnered deeper and are looking to work with Commvault is they've got good tech. There's a reason they've been around for 20 years. They're a publicly traded stock. They've been doing well. They have been growing. Revenue-wise, I look, the last three years, I think they're about 700 million. They've been growing in the kind of eight to 9% year over year for the last couple of years, which as a software company, it's not taken the world by storm, but in the infrastructure space that is good growth. I do have to mention there was some activist investor activity that came on. We actually, we're going to have the CMO. We're going to have the CEO on the program. We won't have the CEO. They are in the midst of going through a change there. And look, say what you will about activist investors. The reason they're getting involved is because they believe that there's more value that can be unlocked in Commvault with some changes. And with the product line and the things happening, that's what we're starting to see here. And that's what we're excited to dig in and kind of understand. Yeah, and we can see that even in some of the customer testimonials, the state of Colorado net new customer. This is amazing in an area that we've seen 90 million, 250 million, easily a half a million dollars of investment in the data protection space. Commvault, 20 year old company still gaining traction with net new use cases. And if I was an activist investment, I'd look at that, I'd look at the, I'd look at the overall industry and thinking what can we do to unlock some of the potential of a fairly large customer base, pretty stable company, but a very, very exciting part of the industry. Yeah, and Keith, you brought up metadata. Metadata is something that in the industry we've been talking about for a long time. It's really that intelligence that's going to allow the systems to gather everything. I know when I get my brand new phone now, I could search my 4,000 photos by location, by date, everything like that. It's auto recognizing information. It's the same thing we're getting on the business side. It used to be, okay, well let's make sure when you put your file in there that you tag it. Come on, nobody can do this. Nobody's thinking when I'm doing my job, well I really need to think about the metadata because five years from now I might want to do it. Oh, I could search by person or project or things like that, but it's the intelligence in the system to be able to learn and grow and the more data we have, actually, the more that the intelligence can get there. And that's critically important for even compliance. Again, calling data, you know, Bill Nye got up on stage and talked about being able to use data, or I'm sorry, AstraZeneca got up on stage and talked about using data that was 15 years old to rerun through today's algorithms and trials. If you were to call the wrong data, then they could not have the innovation that they've created by having 15 year old data. So the metadata, the ability to go back again, search your repository for keywords, content, surface up that data and leverage that data. This is why we say data is the new currencies, the new oil is the most critical. I even heard on stage today, data is the new water. I don't know if I'd go quite that far. You know, I'd like my old fashioned glass of water, but this is why we hear these terms because companies are reinventing themselves with the data they've created. So Keith, what Dave Vellante would point out is water is a limited resources, data, we can reuse it. We can take or drink a data, we can share it. Data helps complete us. It's the shirts that they have at the show. We've got AstraZeneca, we've got the state of Colorado, we've got other users, the key partners, key executives. We're going to bring you the key data to help you extract the signal from the noise here at Commvault Go. For Keith Townsend, I'm Stu Miniman. Thanks for joining theCUBE.


Hi everyone, Joe for Jasper's Case Breaks.com. Happy Choo Tuesday. We're coming at you with 2023 Tops Chrome Baseball. Eight box jumbo, pick your team number 23 from Jasper's Case Breaks.com. We've got another jumbo case loaded up. So if you're watching live, be sure to get into it, get your team before someone else does all card ship. Nice fresh case here. Big thanks to this group for making it happen on August the 22nd. Rob, with that quadruple last pod mojo, bought the final four teams, including the Cardinals to get this break on the road. Big thanks to him and big thanks to everybody else as well. Thanks to everyone for making it happen. We could do another one of these tonight too. I'm down. Let's pop this case open. And let's see what we got here. Jasper's maybe in on Jonathan David from The Real, huh? Or an exciting part of the sports calendar, ladies and gentlemen. We got a lot of the European soccer leagues underway. Transfer window happening. You know, maybe less than about a week. A little over a week left in the transfer window. We're getting to the final month of the baseball season. Final week of the NFL preseason. We'll have NFL action. And before you know it, we'll see basketball preseason, hockey preseason. Season will start. There's a lot of sports to watch and discuss. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Hopefully some nice hits for everybody in the late summer and fall as well. What are they gonna do with the other half of that? Harry Kane money, you think? Let's get it going. There's a Technicolor Otani for the Angels. That'll be for Samuel. And Christopher Morel reveals an Ezekiel Tovar to 499. A Jeremy Locke with the Rockies. I know the Rockies have not been playing well as a team, so names like Ezekiel Tovar have been kind of buried. I think he's been having a nice season. Do an autograph recap at the end, along with any other notable cards that we may pull here, image variations, low numbers, et cetera, et cetera. Corbyn Carroll, Anthony Volpe. As long as it turns out better than spending from that bail sale a few years ago. Spurs have always seemed to be, Tottenham always seems to be right on the cusp of just like, I mean, if I told you a few years ago with the numbers that Kane and Sohn were putting up and other players on that team, you would expect a little more on the good coaches they've had, expect a little more. Better results table wise, but, it's Castellanos to 350 for the Phillies. There's Otani, that MVP buyback program is back. He is definitely the, the father, the refractor too. Definitely the favorite for the AL MVP. Here's Luis Librato, who has signed every single card right there. I feel like there's no way I'm signing over my legs. Maybe he works on it, so maybe he's proud of his legs. He doesn't want that, want that to be covered up. Here's a refractor Otani. Francisco Alvarez will save some of those, all card ship with the Josh Young Prism, nice. It's probably on his way to AL Rookie of the Year before he fractured the thumb, maybe something like that. Yeah, Joe Ryan, Josh Young reveals a Logan O'Hoppy, 166 out of 299, that's right, they did have that one magical run, Tottenham. Logan O'Hoppy, I think has, is back, has been back for the Angels, 166 out of 299, Purple, Speckle, Mike Trout coming back today as well. So they got O'Hoppy and Trout. So that closer to full strength for the Angels. Here's Brian Reynolds, Blue Sonar, to 125, Vlad Guerrero Jr., obviously our Garcia, and a nice refractor Francisco Alvarez for the Mets, that'll be for Shawn Matic. All right, good start. Samuel has the Angels, by the way. Dodgers are on the East Coast, or an Eastern time zone, they're in Cleveland, they're up by a run, bottom of the sixth. Bobby Miller on the mound, who has been really, has been having a real great season, and I think he's gonna be a valuable player in the playoffs too. I think he's gonna, I think his next, after this Cleveland start, I think his next round of starts, maybe with teams that he is faced, as he'll be facing for the second time. So I think that'll be another big benchmark for him. It'd be a nice benchmark for him if he can do well on those starts as well. They might be on the road too. Astros is yord on Alvarez, scratching the lineup tonight against the Red Sox after slamming his hand in a door at home and injuring his left index finger. So the injury wasn't serious, but his finger was sore. Quote, he hurt his finger at the house, was careless with the door. What do you think really happened? There's a German rookie refractor for the Cardinal that's gonna go to Rob. Sounds like one of those stories where like, I guess I'm reminded as a Dodger fan on the West Coast, I remember reminded of the Jeff Kent story, remember that? There's Vinny Pascatino in a Vanity Volpe refractor. The Pascatino autograph goes to Kevin and the Royals. Nice. And the Volpe refractor will go to Jose and the Yankees. I think Jeff Kent had broken his wrist or something. Was he with the Giants or Dodgers at the time? I forget, but he had broken his wrist or something like that? But he said he was, I think he said he was like washing his truck. He was like on a ladder or something. He was watching the rooftop of his truck. Here's a nice Corbin Carroll refractor for the Diamondbacks, John Maddock. Was he with the Giants, Eric's saying? I think he slipped, the story was he slipped, he fell off this ladder, fell off the top of the truck and banged up his wrist, but I think in reality he was off-roading or motorcycling or something like that, something specifically a no-no in his contract. Here's Teosca Hernandez, gold wave. Nice, 30 out of 50, that's a nice shot. Nice bit of photography there. Tani with the Mariners. And we've got an Astro autograph. It's David Hensley. Got some good penmanship there. Rookie Otto for the Stroves, that'll be for Darren. Bears are linked to the Chiefs in a trade for a defensive tackle, Chris Jones. Yeah, I thought that the Chiefs would lock up Chris Jones, but it's not. Did who invent the flux capacitor? That would be Doc Brown invented the flux capacitor. An Acunha Junior refractor, nice, for the Braves. Royal with Atlanta. This is your favorite for the NL MVP. Oh, Jeff Kent, he did not hit his head. I think he fell and hurt his wrist. So, thus, no flux capacitor. 244 out of 499. Freddie for me, for the Royals. Kevin with Freddie. Nice autograph here. It's probably helped preserve Salvador Perez's career by taking over most of the catching duties. You've got Jake McCarthy, photo negative, and a Gunnar Henderson prism. That's for the Orioles, that's for Tristan. Is that how Doc Brown invented the flux capacitor was in a dream after hitting his head in a concussed haze? And whether he got another catcher in the works, too, Eric? AJ Melendez, or MJ Melendez, right? Catching position, lock down. Ronald, I suppose Jack Benny is Secretary of State. I think that's a good line. I was just thinking, another good line is when they do the test, and then he Doc Brown touches the handle of the car of the DeLorean, and he's like, ah! And Marty's like, what, hot? Like, no, cold! I thought that was a good joke. The little turn. Ooh! Cleveland catcher got a... Ooh, that could have been, thankfully, hit the ground first. Pitcher hit the ground, skipped up, and hit the Cleveland catcher right on the edge of the mask and knocked his mask off. That was straight on, that could have been dangerous. All right, next jumbo box. Volpe, Carroll, Acunian. This is generally the pattern that we see. I don't know if these inserts are part of the buyback. Royal, I think it might just be the base and parallels, but. The base Carroll, base Volpe. Ooh, that's the wrong pace lead. And we got a Will Benson. Speaking of the Guardians, Ryan Boone, Booney. Cleveland, this is for you! Will Benson, does he play? No, in the lineup today. Brennan's in the lineup, though. My daughter's up three-two on the Guardians. There's Melendez, we were just talking about him. Yeah, playing mostly outfield, but I guess at some point Salvador Perez isn't going to play forever. There's a Yoshida base. I feel like he's got, I guess the race, it used to be Josh Young, but I think the AL rookie of the year race is now down to Yoshida, and probably Gunnar Henderson at this point. And there we've got Edwin Diaz. Green Wave to 99 for the Mets, Sean. Yeah, there's Michael Bush, who got called up. I think here's a Ryan Nelson to the 499. That's going to be for the snakes. That'll be for Sean. JD Martinez with a groin injury ended up on the IL. And so they called up Michael Bush, who was up for a little bit earlier this year, did not do well in the majors, kind of his first taste of the majors, sent him back down to AAA, and has done nothing but rake in AAA. And now that injury's kind of opened the door. Let's see what he can do with it. JD Martinez. There's a Riley Green Prism. Nice. Tigers, that'll be for William. Spencer Stier for the Reds. Barry Roberts might get some Rookie of the Year consideration. Here's MJ Melendez again. Behind Goldie is an Ezekiel Tovar. Another one. Rookie Otto for the Rocks. Jeremy for the Rockies. Yeah, he has. If he played, if JD Martinez had played more games, it's been on the IL I think maybe once or twice, it just doesn't play every day. But I feel like if he did play more, there'd probably be a little more consideration for him. All-Star too, right? More consideration for him being comeback player of the year. He might still win it. 250, Drew Waters for the Royals. His teammate Bobby Wood Jr. Goldschmidt and the Boxer. Yeah, I really like that Jason Hayward signing too. He's actually a good locker room guy. And the Dodgers usually do it pretty good. They've got a lot of confidence in their coaching staff, the Dodgers. So they're always, you know, they're always finding lost causes or reclamation projects every year. I think the only one, you know, they don't all work out, no, it's in regard. But for the most part, I feel like they do a great job. A lot of times they get those guys paid too after a season. I think Tyler Anderson, Andrew Eaney from last year, got multi-year contract after being with the Dodgers. All right, maybe a little score update for you. No finals. No final scores today. But the game closest to finishing. Top of the eighth. Rocky's leading the Rays four to three. Top of the seventh. Tigers leading the Cubs seven to six. Middle of the seventh. Giants leading the Phillies three to two. It's tied in Baltimore. Blue Jays Orioles are tied at three. They both have eight hits a piece as well. Nationals and Yankees are tied at one. Yankees are on an eight game, eight or nine game losing streak. Not the way they planned it. Pirates leading the Cardinals six to two. Dodgers leading the Guardians three to two. Fifth inning. Braves leading the Mets two nothing. Astros leading the Red Sox early. And the second two nothing. Bottom of the third. Tied in Milwaukee two-two. Twins at Brewers. Mariners at White Sox two-one. Middle of the second. Here's your score update. Jasper'scasebreaks.com. Sponsored by 2023 Tops Chrome Baseball. Do they have a tagline for this? Yeah, home of the Chrome rookie autograph. That's your ad read. We've got Simeon Woods Richardson. Rookie autograph for the twins. That'll be for Ryan G. We have not seen our one-per-case, looking at the Ken Wallachuk refractor. We have not seen our one-per-case Oakland A autograph. Not yet anyway. We've got a Freddie Freeman. Magenta three ninety-nine. Got an outside chance. At MVP maybe? Ryan with my Dodgers, Ryan Gansry. Tyrone says I did that once, but it was actually a walled up, bro. Did what once? Oh, Tyrone might be lagging behind. I'll buy a lot. Yeah, Trevor Bauer has definitely been the big bust for the Dodgers. Here's an Anthony Volpe autograph. Nice. Two thirty-two. He's got some nice penmanship there. Two thirty-two out of two fifty. Purple Chrome autograph for the Yankees. Jose with the Bronx Bombers. Nice. Nice, nice, nice. That's all good, Tyrone. I just wanted to make sure that you were more lagging behind. I mean, feel free to rewind again, but just make sure you come back. Yankees call them at two price. Who are they calling up? I think I heard something about a call-up, but I forget who they were. I guess that's the stage of the season the Yankees are at now. Let's see what we got. Give some of the kids a taste of the majors. It's always good to do that. Get them ready for the next season. Here's your third autograph. There it is. The one-per-case Oakland A-Autograph, Cal Stevenson. That's going to go to Stephen Carney and the A's. A's are actually a pretty good value just because their autograph checklist, they've got a lot, not a lot on that checklist. Here's a Juan Soto purple speckled $2.99 for the Fryers. It's going to be for Michael S. And wow, look at this. Ultra Violet All-Stars Adley Rushman. Tristan with the Orioles. It's been a nice jumbo case thus far. We're still got four boxes to go. Halfway through this break, ladies and gentlemen. Thanks, everyone, for getting in. Most appreciated. What other games do we... We've got a full slate of baseball on this schedule here, too. Actually, this is great. I can watch... This is his Dodger game, though, but I can watch the Angels game. Cincinnati Reds are in Anaheim. They're playing the Angels. Graham Ashcraft on the mound for the Reds and... and Lucas Geolito for the Angels, which has not quite worked out. But Trout is back. And I think he's in the lineup today. And I think he is. I think he's batting second. Logan Ohapi, I think, is back or has been back. Yeah, I think he... I think he just came back a couple days ago. We're getting to a little bit of full... Closer to a full-strength squad. The Royals are in Oakland. Rangers are in Arizona. And the Marlins are in San Diego. And Rangers Diamondbacks' game looks pretty good. John Gray and Zach Gallin on the mound. Jefferson Pereira and Oswald Piraza. So the Angels are getting taller. Hopefully they have some good debuts. Yeah, Royals A's. Although I think the Royals have been playing a lot better in the last month or so. But yeah, who doesn't want the... Or maybe you should tank. Maybe they should tank against each other so they can try to get the number one overall pick. I don't know what the draft class looks like next year. The interesting class is Caleb Killian. That's going to go to the Cubs, Stephen Carney and the Cubbies. Yeah, that's pretty bad, Eric. The Royals have 40 wins. A's have 35 wins. Well, I feel like the Royals are still a little more promising than the A's. I don't know if we're going to really see any potential for A's success until maybe they move into their new stadium. We've got a Francisco Alvarez. Pink speckle nice to 350 for the Mets. Chaumatic and the Metropolitan's. This is one of the future faces for the Mets. Obviously, I guess for both New York teams, the season's not going the way they drew it up at the start of the year. I certainly didn't think. This is why I don't... I'm not good at futures. Investing in futures. And the next autograph, Gabriel Moreno. Blue Jays edition. 59 out of 150 ads. Autographs are Blue Jays edition. It's going to go to Tony in Toronto. That's why I don't invest in futures, ladies and gentlemen. Can't see the future. Hard to predict the future. Rex says he saw A's option, Tyler Soderstern. He isn't turning out like people thought. What did people think? I don't remember thinking much of... That's Oswaldo Cabrera. Oswaldo Parazas. Here's the one that got called up. You know, Josh Young... I thought it might be the autograph spot. And a Josh Young refractor. Nice for the Rangers. Kihoon. Baso Tony. And we have a Brewer Hicklin. I think he's on the wrong team. Should be in Milwaukee. Kevin with the Royals, though. And we got Salvador Perez. Nice. Orange Wave 12 out of 25. Oh, was he a pitcher? Tyler Soderstern? He wasn't really on my radar, to be honest with you. All right, three boxes to go. Good luck. Looks like Bobby Miller done for the day. And Bobby Miller's line today. Six and a third. Scattering six hits. Giving up only two earned runs. Five strikeouts. One walk. I like that strikeout-to-walk ratio. Oh, he was a catcher first base. Who am I thinking of then? A different Tyler maybe? I'll take that from Bobby Miller. 97 pitches through six and a third. 75 for strikes. I'll take that from the youngster. Not a bad day for Noah Cindergaard, too. Six innings. Four hits. Three earned runs. Four strikeouts and a walk. But the game is tie 3-3. Got some color here behind Miguel Cabrera. It's Joey Weimer. Nice. 72 out of 150. Blue Raywave autograph for Tyrone and the Brew Crew. He's one of their... He's playing regularly. One of their top up-and-coming players. I know. I think some people called it like a Greg Maddox game. If you threw a complete game, complete game shutout under 100 pitches. Yeah, Greg Maddox would be able to do it on 78 pitches, right? Which would count for me four or five innings now it is. Talk about efficiency. There's some of it. If you look at his Wikipedia page, and I've said this before and I'll say it again, and I wish they would do some sort of like, you know, documentary on it or even like a short 30-minute piece on it or something like that. He was such a control artist with pitches. Oh, no. Come on, Caleb Ferguson. Those are Bobby Miller's runs, too. So much for that line. For now, to T.C. Junior 299. Such a control artist that he would be able to and he would see how the batter was standing. He'd be able to say where his pitch was going to go, how the batter was going to hit it, and where it was going to end up. He could call his shots like that. And here's Michael Toglia. Rockies. Jeremy. So I was like, man, I would love to hear more stories about that. You know, there's a few exam, two or three examples on Greg Maddox's Wikipedia page, but I'm like, let's hear more of these crazy stories. This is, didn't Don Maddingling's Hall of Fame eligibility run out ages ago? Does he still have eligibility? I don't think so, Rex. He's been retired for a while, and I think all of his eligibility should be... There's Oswald Paraza just got called up. That's right, Eric. Mike Maddox. I think he was pitching coach for the Dodgers for a little bit as well. Padres for a little bit. Both are apparently good poker players and good golfers. And here's Ezekiel Tovar, another one. Colour this time. 126 out of 150. Two Rockies autos in this box. Nice break for Jeremy Locke and the Rocks. Oh, maybe Rex is talking about Veterans Committee. I didn't realize Veterans Committee had eligibility limits. And I guess they do. Or maybe Rex was looking at an article from back in 2010 or something like that. Logan Ohapi to 199. Aqua Lava. Well, regardless of what the criteria is, I think Don Manningling, probably, if he hasn't gotten in by now, I don't think he's going to get in. Which is a little unfortunate. I think his career was kind of shortened a little bit or maybe not as effective. He had a lot of back issues. I want to say. I think that kind of sapped some production and some potential that he could have had. Oh, not most of what? 2000? 2001? Gotcha. That's on brand, Rex. Reading it wrong. But hold on. But Rex, are there... Oh, 95? Different Yankees Mariners players? No, I think there's something else. Never mind. Anyway. Are there eligibility limits, though, Rex, for veterans' committee votes? Or can you be voted in... I think there's no eligibility requirement or no, like, window. I think veterans' committee can vote anyone in at any time after their normal eligibility runs out. Stephen Kwan. And behind Riley Greene is a Louis Varlin for the twins that's going to be for Ryan Gansby. Yeah, they got a... I mean, at this point, guys like Bonds and Clemens should probably be in. Gotcha. Yeah, I think veterans' committee is going to be tough for someone like Barry Bonds. Although he did get 12 of the 16 votes, but I feel like there's always going to be some player that played in his era on the veterans' committee who played it, quote, the right way. You know, and will always hold it against Barry Bonds. All right, there's an Akunya Jr. base. All those add up, Royal and the Braves. All right, behind Yordon Alvarez, who apparently slammed a door on his hand. Kodai Senga. Photo negative for the Mets. That'll be for Shawn Matic. I wonder what the real story is, Yordon. What really happened, you know? Maybe it was something embarrassing. Maybe it was like I was chasing after my cat. It was Shawn Bouchard, 19 out of 4. Another Rocky for Jeremy. I was chasing after my cat, and then I went to the bathroom. I saw a large spider. It was terrified. Quickly slammed the door on my hand. Am I speaking from experience? Maybe. Maybe I'm telling Yordon, hey, you don't have to be embarrassed. You know? Wow, another Rocky. Ezekiel Tovar. Jeremy Locum. When it's a team's day, it's a team's day. Another two of the three autographs in the box. A rock. Kettle Marte to $3.99. Magenta for Shawn.  Bryce Harper, Phillies. Last Fod Mojo. I was talking up the fills before Rob got all four of those teams. I was like, hey, Phillies got ultraviolet all-stars. Bryce Harper's in there. Only Rob listened to me. A lot of opportunities for everybody to get those Phillies before Rob. There you go, Rob. Last Fod Mojo. I guess two cases, they're not really cases. They're technically short prints that happen to odds-wise fall one per case. They're not like a case in the sense that like impeccable football. There's like a gold piece in there. There you go, Rob. There he is, Rob. Congrats. I don't know, you know what, Rex? Rex was like, only one that got in veteran to me last year was a crime dog, but he got in not mattingly. Maybe it is those back issues. I honestly haven't really compared the numbers. I'm gonna really compare the numbers to be honest with you. I mean, Fred McGriff does have about another 1,700 of bats on on mattingly. I mean, yeah, he's got the counting stat. He almost has 500 home runs. That helps. Yeah, I think that's what's always gonna hurt Mattingly, is that he has the counting stats will always be held against him. He has 222 home runs in his career. Right? McGriff has 493, so it doesn't seem that odd, in my perspective. You know, so I think that's always gonna be held against Mattingly, one of the biggest names in baseball not to be in the home thing. I guess in terms of just pure name recognition and popularity, yeah, besides Bonds and McGuire and Shilling and those guys. I mean, probably he's a popular player, but I think if you look at the numbers, you know, it's not, I don't think it's that big of a snub. And I think that Bobby Whit is numbered, yeah. Future star, 72 out of 99. Royals, Kevin. And like, there are players like Kofax who didn't play very long, but in a short period of time, Kofax had just an incredible run of dominance where that will get you into the Hall of Fame if you lack some of the other counting stats. And unfortunately Mattingly didn't have that kind of short burst of, I mean, he kind of did, but I guess really just really not big enough to, you know what I mean? He won an MVP, he was top five the year before, won the MVP second the year after, seventh the year after that.  There might be a better case for Mattingly, but unfortunately, Spencer Seer to 499. Jay-Claude, oh yeah, Pete Rose is probably the biggest one, Rex. Eric's right. Just caught up, sorry, I'm going to be crazy. The Rockies' coalition has been so crazy in Jumbo. Well, that's if you believe that the coalition is supposed to be an even number of autos for every single team in every single case. But that's not how they collated. It's just completely, it's completely random. Nah, don't feel bad, Jeremy. Oh, you're Jeremy? Yeah, don't feel bad. Never feel bad. Because if you do this group, these group breaks long enough, there'll be many times where your team is not going to hit, so don't feel bad, ever. There's Tim Anderson to 199. Enjoy the moment. All right, see ya, Evan. Thanks, man. I'll see you tomorrow. Josh and Seel, Cubs. So, Red Spencer Seer Berry with the red legs. Justin Seel also having a nice season. See even Carney with the Cubs. Didn't he, I don't remember that. Fred McGriff was a Yankee farming. All right, looking for our third and final auto of the break. Maybe some low numbered stuff. How are we going to finish this break? Maybe a train whistle? Out of 5 and under? This should be the auto behind Cabrera. It is a Michael Papiereski. 81 out of 199. Aqua Wave Autograph for Detroit. William with the Tigers. Tiger uppercut. All right, here's Alec Bohm to 250. Yeah, P-Row should definitely be in.  You know what I mean?  You know, the number suggests he wasn't. But, you know, like, that's still on the field. But P-Row's, as far as I know, I mean, probably was gambling as a player. That hasn't been shown out. But now, every year that MLB, Eric's right, every year that Major League Baseball, you know, takes advertising money from FanDuel and DraftKings and other sports books.  But I mean, the hit king, not in the Hall of Fame, crazy. Free cap, ladies and gentlemen, pretty nice break. More in the store. I'm Joe for jaskiescasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


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attention to the automotive space and welcome in Melissa Armo, founder owner of the Stockswoosh. Melissa, glad you're on because we love to talk about the automotive space. It's certainly one that is very popular. People like to follow it. As you look at what's going on here, what are your initial thoughts on the automotive space and how it's performing? Well, cars is the ETF for this one to look at. And it's very interesting. It's a very, very bullish chart. If you play ETFs, that definitely is along. Norway just came out. The news is that they're going to stop all gas cars by 2025. So they want to move in that country to all electric cars by 2025. When you think about it, that's just four years away. So you really wonder where the future goes for a lot of these companies that are specializing in electric vehicles. I think Ford looks really the worst when you look at the charts of the automotive. And of course, Tesla is one of the best. The problem I have with Tesla is that the last time Tesla made a brand new all-time high was earlier this year in 2021. It were nine months in fear almost into October. So the stock's around 750-ish. It bounces between 750 and then 690, depending on the market moves. But the previous high in Tesla was 900. So that's a far, far place away for that to be. So I don't know why that's been dragging all year 2021, but normally you'd say Tesla would be the favorite in this sector. And it really, just the chart itself, even though it's still a strong chart, has not made new highs this year along with the market. Right. I mean, I have a couple of thoughts. The first is, you mentioned Norway. Norway is already the leader in electric vehicles. I mean, I knew off the top of my head that more than 50% of the vehicles sold are electric vehicles. And I just quickly looked up here. And according to at least one report, electric vehicles accounted for 54% of new car sales in 2020. So there's certainly moving in that direction. When you talk about Tesla, there's definitely this love hate, right? Kathy would have arcs saying, look at, you know, her target is 3000. And when it heads at or near there, she's going to take some money off the table. And then you had truest putting a sell. So it's hard to know. Tell me a little bit about the whole semiconductor supply chain issue and whether or not you would put money to work in this group or would you wait until there's more clarity? I would wait because across the board in all industries right now, they're having supply issues. I heard with your previous guests, you were discussing Costco earnings that are just happening right now. They came out and announced and said, listen, we have about 60% of our supplies coming through the ports right now expected there to be delays for toilet paper. So it doesn't matter whether you're buying cars, whether you need again, the chips to do the manufacturing, whether you're getting specific foods, toilet paper, paper goods. Right now, there's main supply issues. Let me explain something to people why they're why the ports are backed up. Okay. There's two reasons the ports are backed up. One, the ports are backed up because they don't have enough workers to be delivering as far as the truckers to deliver the goods. And they're backed up also because they don't have as many employees and the warehouses that are backed up. So when ships come in and they dock and the goods are taken off the ships, they don't have as many people there to get them into the warehouses and out. Plus the problem is with COVID. So there's all kinds of protocols when a ship comes into port that they have to go through these COVID protocols from port to port, a country to country. And that creates massive, massive delays. It can be something just really small that you order online that happens to come from very far away like China or it could be something that you get in the United States. Domestically, that's taking a long time to get maybe like from California to New York. There's a massive problem right now still in the United States with unemployment, but really the COVID protocols are affecting a lot of these ports too. So that's the problem with these delays. So I think I would wait and see. While some of these stocks are still in uptrends and very strong, General Motors is another one. That chart looks good too. The fact is that we're getting into the period of the holiday period and there's going to be demand for products and there's going to be demand going into the holiday season for things. Again, phones, all of these things that we like to buy and all of these things that we like to buy need parts. And so if they're having trouble getting the parts, then it's going to be a problem to manufacture the actual product that we want to buy and it could be a delay into 2022. So that could create some drop off with the market. But overall, I'd be very cautious on this rally in the market. I know we had a big rally today and I was surprised in the rally back, but you were discussing Evergrande too. You know what? They have not made their interest payment that was due yet today. They have not. Now it's next, it's we're eight hours behind here in New York from China, but the fact is they didn't make the interest payment yet. So as far as they reported, and there's another interest payment that's next week. So we don't know where that's going to bring the market. Yeah. So you mentioned the cars, ETF and a brief mention of names like Ford and GM. Would you get into any of these? Are there any names that you like or would you completely avoid the sector? I mean, or, you know, you could do the other part of it. You could do parts suppliers. You could do the, you know, auto zones. You could do used cars. I mean, there's electric vehicles. There's rental vehicles. There's ride sharing. When we talk about autos, I mean, it feels very broad based. Is there anything that seems attractive to you? I, of course, I'd like NVIDIA. We've talked about that before as a chip maker, but long term, I do like Tesla. I do think Tesla will make a new high again. I do think Tesla has a huge, I don't know about 3000 the number you said before, certainly 1500 in the next 12 to 24 months. But if people are looking for short term trains, I think you've got to take it day by day. Look at the last four days in the market. You could have shorted and then you could have flipped and gone long. That makes it difficult for people to decide what to do if they're in long term place because you've got to know your time horizon. If your time horizon is fast, if you're an active retail trader, be in and out on the day and play that specific move of the day. If your time horizon is long term, I do like general motors. I do like Tesla. I do not like Ford. And then there was another one, the cars again, I think that's good long term, long term that ETF I like. Okay. All right. So Tesla GM cars, Ford Lusso. Melissa, nice to see you. Thank you always. Melissa Armo, founder, owner of the stocks. Woosh. Thank you.


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I actually get asked quite a lot of the time how to have lucid dreams really easily or what's the easiest way of lucid dreaming and there is actually an answer to that.  What it really becomes about is just how well you can adapt to things and how well you can actually build up a routine or a set of habits. But that being said, here is the absolute 100% easiest way to lucid dream that I can possibly think of explaining right now. Here's what you do. Okay, forget everything else. Forget all the techniques and everything like that. Just do this one thing. Okay, so what you're going to do is you're going to set your alarm to go off at 4am and you're going to set it to go.  And what this is going to do is it's going to cut your sleep into little chunks, meaning that every single time you set your alarm, wake up and then go back to sleep, you have another chance of becoming lucid, another ticket or another sort of seed that you could potentially have a lucid dream with. This is the fastest way that I know this is the easiest way of lucid dreaming because you're very likely in one of those sort of waking up, going to sleep gaps. You are very likely to have a lucid dream in that time. It's just the simplest way I know how. There are lots of other things you could do and it's not the healthiest or the best way of doing it, but it's definitely the most effective and it's certainly the easiest. All you need to do is set your alarm. That's all you know. I'm not telling you to go and practice reality checks.  OK, this is just the chances that you will have a lucid dream are higher if you do this. So just give it a try. You know, what do you have to lose? I mean, one night of sleep, one day of feeling tired. That's all you're going to lose here. So go ahead and try it. Try and use an alarm tone that really is going to shock you awake so that you're definitely awake, but then you can go back to sleep easily. That's the best way I can think of, especially if you you don't want to practice any of this stuff. You don't want to learn about reality checks. If you just want to if you just heard about this and you want to just give it a go as quickly as possible and see what it could be like, then this is the easiest way I know how because you're breaking your sleep into chunks. Now, don't do this if you have something to be up for the next day. Say if you are a student or you have a full time job. Don't do this because you're going to feel tired the next day. You're going to wake up and say whatever whatever time eight a.m. And you're going to feel really bad. You're going to feel rough. You're not going to have any energy. You're going to feel like you didn't sleep at all, even though you did sleep a lot. So don't do this unless you're really you're really sure that you have the time to spend doing it and also you don't need to do anything the next day. This is really the important part of this. So ideally do it on a weekend or something like that. If you're looking for any other easy ways, the easiest the easiest ways I know are that and then just doing loads of reality checks every single day and maybe doing something like a supplement or trying to do some dream leaf, trying to do in pro, which will make you remember more of your dreams and they'll be more vivid as well. You can get these things online. There's links in my description, which I'm sure you know by now. I always point to the description and show you these links. There's loads of things you could do, but really when if nothing else is working, it just comes down to making you need to stack the odds so so far in your favor that it becomes like more likely that you will lose a dream than not lose a dream. And the way you do that is just by it's a numbers game, isn't it?  So it's when you put it like that, it's a very logical and easy solution to lucid dreaming. But of course, you can't do that all the time because you'd feel rough. Use it with a bit of caution. Don't do it all the time. But if you this is the easiest way to lucid dream that I know how. So go ahead and check it out. Leave a comment letting me know what you think. How did you get on? And I see you next time. Bye, we'll see you later.