Walmart has new mystery boxes. And no, they're not mystery gems. It's an actual mystery box. What's up guys? We're back with another mystery box opening. And yes, I have tons of this new mystery box. Shout out to Juan on Instagram for hooking me up. He sent me these at his cost. So basically did all the work for me because I couldn't find any at my Walmart. So once again, thanks for sending me these. And we also have a few mystery gems. Just to spite things up, he sent some of these. So we're gonna be opening a ton of these new Walmart mystery boxes, both versions. The mystery gems are awful, but that's okay. We've got the new mystery box with the sleeves in it. But before we get into it, we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this ultimate conductor tyranto, ultimate rare.  Let me know your favorite part about this newest mystery box. We already know about the mystery gems. Not that great. This one, I don't know how they're gonna be. It's gonna be interesting. They have fusion of forces, which I love. Let's start off with this 60 count players choice and two booster pack mystery box. Look for a chase pack seat in one out of two. So it looks like LOB is probably the chase pack. Only two packs and sleeves. They're about 15 bucks retail. So not that cheap, I would say, but you are getting two packs. How do you open this thing? There we go. You get two packs and you get sleeves. Hopefully these are the nice players choice sleeves and not the crappy ones that don't really fit any cards. We're gonna test them out and figure out which ones they are. Figure. That's not a way to say that. All right, let's open this pack of sleeves. Let's figure out are these good sleeves or are these bad sleeves? This goes a long way to determine if these are good mystery boxes because if they're good and the sleeves are actually relevant, then we'll actually use them. Let's try it on this by road sacrifice. Oh, wait, these might be the good ones. That went in pretty easily. Did you guys see that? I think I might have an example of the bad ones too. I think these are the ones that are like really tight. Let's see about this. So these are the ones that often were in the mystery boxes and you put, yeah, these are them. See how like impossibly small these are? Yes. Okay, so it looks like, yeah, you can put them in there but you're gonna damage your card. It's like literally like bending almost. These are not those. So it looks like they actually sent the good ones. Wow. So these are looking good so far. These are actually super nice sleeves. So I'm about to have like five packs of sleeves. It's actually exciting. All right, so we'll put that up there as an example that these sleeves are actually quality and you might actually want these other mystery box. So all right, this might actually really sell this mystery box to people. Let's see what the packs are. First pack is a dark Neo storm. It's good. Fusion Destiny is in here as a super rare. Let's see if we can pull it.  Gokey. Let's see. Diligence dragon. Neo Flambeau. Oh, or will we pull it on the first pack? Let's go overflow dragon. We've got it. A fusion destiny super rare. It's definitely not 25 anymore or whatever it was, but it still might be worth like 10 bucks. That's pretty good. You think that Walmart loaded these because they knew I was going to open them? First edition raging tempest. That's cool. It's an older pack. Six years old at this point. Oh my gosh. I'm more five. Five years, almost six years. I think it's early 2017. Let's see what else we can get out of here. Come on. I can't even pull the fusion destiny first pack. Spiritual beast. I definitely read that as something else, Tamer. All right. True king. Very nice. We got the rocking hand. Okay. That's a pretty good first mystery box though. I'm liking these. And I probably think that they're so good because I'm comparing it to mystery gems. One of the worst mystery boxes I've ever seen. Let's see if mystery gems can redeem themselves from that video the other day where we pulled 13 out of 16 obelisk the tormentors from legendary collection. We don't want to see obelisk. Number nine, will it be obelisk? Will it be anything but obelisk? Here we go. Ah. Wow. It's an obelisk the tormentor. Woo. I don't know if it's gonna be able to but we're gonna find out. First one is a blue eyes white dragon. So I don't have this one actually. So that's cool. It's something different. Nice. We'll take that. We'll take that. I did not pull that out of all the other ones that I opened the other day. Let's see about mystery box number two actually decent compared to mystery gems. Let's see what we can do. So we've got our sleeves which we know are nice now at this point. That's pretty cool. I need those because you know YCS heart for it's coming up guys. I mean I hope to see you guys there. Dark Neo storm again. Is that gonna be in every pack? I hope not. That would be kind of a bummer because hello. Hello. It's literally bent. Are you kidding me? Memories of hope. Hello. All right. So that is not what we're looking for. So far we've gotten two dark Neo storm. One of them completely bent. Not that exciting there. Let's see what the next pack is. Another raging tempest. Oh no. Is this gonna be another mystery box where there's no mystery? Come on. Have some variety. Have some variety please. Oh sure. Newey style. Zoodiac. Super kuano. Look at the ancient gear. Oh a secret rare. Sea monster of Theseus. This is one of those cards. I think people thought it was gonna actually be good for some reason. I don't remember why but it never was. All right. That first one might have set expectations a little high because not feeling too good about these right now. Let's see. The first one was good. The second one not so good. Bit packs. Same exact packs. I mean we do get the sleeves. So that's cool. I feel like it's easy for them to get bent cause they like hit the sleeves and you know what I mean. Let's see what mystery gems has got for us. Obelisk. Our friend Obelisk. This is our 14th one. Well technically we gave the others away but 14th one we've pulled on the channel now. And very exciting. All right mystery box number three. Can you prove us wrong? Can you give us something amazing? I hope that we can pull an LLB pack. We've opened two and we have not pulled a chase pack. Whatever that means. Unless we're just pulling you know raging tempest as a chase pack we pulled it's wise. I doubt it. Let's go with our sleeves. Players choice. Okay. And then we have raging tempest. Okay so that is got that can't be a chase pack. There's no way. I mean it shouldn't be in the first place but we've pulled it three times in a row. There's no way. We got the ancient gear. The flower card. And we got the zodiac sign. Christian Rion. The lost one. This is a good card. I didn't realize this was a rare in this set. That's actually crazy. And then a heavy armor train iron wolf. So the heavy trains. I didn't know there was a rank four for the trains. That's pretty cool. Okay. And then. Dark Neostorm. Where are those one and two have a chase pack seed now? Because we've opened three. Haven't seen one yet. So hopefully those last two have one or at least one of them. Got the draw hand. Oh we definitely just skipped the ruxus special over the loge flame. All right. Extra across crusader. All right. All right. Dark Neostorm. Great. We did pull the fusion destiny but that was in the first pack ever since then. Not great. But don't fret. We have mystery gems. Mystery gems will save us. The greatest mystery box of all time. By greatest I mean worst because these are awful. Let's see if we can pull anything besides legendary collection one promo. No but we can pull an obelisk yet again. I think obelisk might be the most common one based on my experience. I mean a little small sample size but like 89% of them have been obelisk. Don't worry. Okay. This one feels thicker for some reason. Wait. Does that mean can you get more pack? I don't know how does this work? Do you still get two packs if you get the chase one or do you get three packs like they've done before? You get like a bonus pack. Okay. Okay. Let's go. I believe. Let's pull something crazy. So first let's get, what is this? What the? What the? What? An entire special edition? Hello? Oh and then a chase pack. Okay. So wait a second. Does it say anywhere? It says two booster packs. That's not two booster. Wait. Is this one of those euro ones where you can get, you don't get like a pack you get? Okay. Time out. We're going to have to open this up because I'm really intrigued by this. Is this like the dimension of chaos thing where you just get? No, you do get packs. There's three packs in here. So we have four packs instead of two. Do we rig the system? And of course it's still Dark Neostorm. And then we got the promos here which is, I mean that's cool. We didn't ask for that. So that's nice. Dark Neostorm. These are definitely Euro because those are Euro special editions. The small skidding ones like that. Weird. Very weird. Now can we get a Fusion Destiny Euro print? Let's see. Dino wrestler. We got the World Chalice. And a Cragdown good card. Not crazy, but good. Man, these mystery boxes are just weird. I don't even know what to say at this point but I'm taking the bonus packs but it's so far we've pulled all of the exact same cards which is not great. An Ulche teacher and number 20, Utopic Dark Infinity. I don't think I've ever seen number 20 before. So that's pretty cool to see. One more Dark Neostorm. Then we go to Invasion of Chaos. We finally got a Chase bag at least. That's nice. Firewall. We got the Crialtar, the Delugeuse Dragon, Xuro Cross Crusader, and the Orcus Crescendo. All right, the Orcus Crescendo. Moving on to the pack we actually care about which is, what is going on down here? Why is it all bent? Probably because it was in this very small box crushed in with a special edition and sleeves. I don't know. Let's do this. Let's get a little pack trick going here for our Chaos Emperor Dragon. We got a Prickle Fairy. We got the Griffin's Feather Duster. We got the Endura, the Neo Bug. Heart of the Underdog. Balloon Lazard. Cannonball Spear Shellfish. Chain Disappearance. And a Grand Maju Day. Eyes so no foil, but pretty cool card. Not the best mystery boxes, but we do have great graded cards in our Mystery Gems box. I keep hyping this up, you know, like sarcastically. Ah, Winged Dragon of Raw. Like it's always gonna be BCCG. They put PSA cards on here. It's gotta be a scam. There's no way there are PSA cards in here. If you ever pull a PSA card, make sure to let me know on Twitter, Instagram, atruxon34 by the way, or like on YouTube comments. Cause I want to know if anyone's ever actually pulled a PSA card. All right, our final mystery box. Players' Choice Leaves. Two packs. This doesn't feel like it has a special edition in it. The last time it was bulging. This time it feels like the other ones. So I'm guessing Rage of Tempest's first edition and then we're gonna get Dark Neo Storm again. And then of course the sleeves. Let's see if I'm right. Ah, Dark Neo Storm. Do you guys like Dark Neo Storm? This is the mystery box for you. That's all I got to say. These are bent again. See that? All right. Okay, not great. Because it seems like everything is gonna be bent. Deligious Dragon. Not great. Alter Guys. FFNLag. We got the number five Doom, Chimera, Dragon and Whitefish Salvage. Ah, bent cards. I love it. And the final pack here. What will it be? Raging Tempest. Whoa. Okay, so at this point, it's turned into mystery boxes are not a mystery because every mystery box has the same packs. Raging Tempest, what will you give us? Give us something good. Shinborg. We got the Speedroid. A Yoke Tuner. Super Quancell Alphonse Strike. Got the Shinborg Crane. We got the Miscellaneous Source. That's a good card for Dinos. Gonna pull that out for my Dino Deck. Rank up Magic. We got the Super Evu Samurai. And the Geo. Geo. Neo Galaxy Eye Cyber Dragon. I don't think that's too great, but it's a card that we pulled out of a pack, out of a mystery box. That was not mysterious. All right. Don't feel too good about those, but we did start off pretty nice. So I'd say they're at least a little more exciting than the mystery gems. If you guys enjoyed this video, make sure to subscribe to the channel for more epic content like this. Shout out to TCG Charts Guard, Stonefoil Show, Tomato Juice, Stanley, Mike, Nance, Mimikeko, DracStream, Moosey Jr. Running, and in a shy show, JT Show, David F. J, Josh Evans, Clayton Fitzgerald, 87, Brett Palmer, and John Nolan. 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From Sand Hill Road in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE covering People First Network, brought to you by Mayfield. Hello, I'm John Furrier here in Palo Alto for Exclusive Conversation, CUBE Conversation, part of the People First Network with theCUBE and Mayfield Fund. I'm here with John Chambers at his house in Palo Alto. John Chambers is the former CEO Chairman of Cisco Systems, now running J2C. JC2 Ventures, great to see you. Thanks for spending the time. It's a pleasure to be together again. I'm here for two reasons. One, I'm going to have a conversation about People First and technology ways. But also, I want to talk about your new book, which is exciting, called Connecting the Dots. And it's not your standard business book where, hey, rah, rah, it's like a medium post these days on the internet. It's a personal stories weaved in with the lessons you've learned through the interactions that you've had with many people over the years. So it's an exciting book, and I'm looking forward to talking about that. Thank you. Again, John Chambers, legend, Cisco in 1991 when you joined the company from Wang before that. 400 employees, one product, 70 million in revenue. And when you retired in 2015, not so much retired because you got some- Oh, no, my next chapter. You got your next chapter. 180 acquisitions, 47 billion in revenue. You made 10,000 people millionaires. You created a lot of value. Probably one of the biggest inflection points in computer history, the evolution of internet working and tying systems together. It was probably one of the biggest waves. Someone before the wave we're on now. So an amazing journey. Now you're running JC2 Ventures, investing in game changing startups. So you're not retired. No, I was on to my next chapter. I made my decision almost 10 years before I left Cisco first to make for a very smooth transition because it's my family and out of the 75,000 people I hired, a whole but 23 of them. And in terms of what I wanted to do next, I really want to both give back, create more jobs, get our startup engine going to get into this country and it's currently broken. And I want to do that on a global basis in places like France and India as well. So I'm on to my next chapter but the fun part in this chapter is only do the things that I love. And you got a great team behind you but also you have a great personal network. And I want to get into that, your personal story as well as your social network and in business and the community. But one of the things I want to get up front because I think this is important for this conversation is you've been very strong. I've seen you present many times over the years going way back into the 90s. You're eloquent, you're people-oriented but you have a knack for finding the waves, seeing transitions. You've been through many waves. Yes, I have. Good and bad. But one of the big ones. How do you spot those transitions? And what wave are we in now? I mean, talk about the wave that's happening now. It's unprecedented at many levels but different but it's still a wave. It is and I call them market transitions and often combined with either economic changes or business model changes with technology. And part of the reason that I've been fortunate to be able to identify many of them is I listen to customers very carefully but also you're often a product of your prior experiences. Having experienced West Virginia, one of the top states in the US in terms of the chemical industry during the 40s and 50s and 60s when I was growing up there and literally more millionaires in West Virginia that were in the entire Great Britain. We were on top of the world in the chemical industry and the coal industry and yet because we missed transitions and we should have seen them coming, the state fell a long ways. Now we're trying to correct that with some of the startup activity we'll talk about later. As you see this and then I went to Boston 128, we were talking earlier, Wang Laboratories, the mini computer air but I was in IBM first out of the central part of the nation. So I watched IBM and mainframes and then I watched them miss on going to the mini computer and then miss in terms of the internet. So I was able to see the transitions that occurred in Boston Route 128 where we were the Silicon Valley of the world and we knew it. And this unusual area out in California called Silicon Valley we paid almost no attention to and we didn't realize we failed to make a transition from the mini computer air to the PC and the internet air. Then I joined Cisco and saw the internet air.  So there's no entitlement to this new world out of the thousand high tech companies that are associated with up there including four or five giants and mini computers. None of them really are in existence today. So it shows you if you don't identify the transitions, number one, you don't have an opportunity to benefit from but number two, you sure have an opportunity to get hurt by them. And these ways also create a lot of wealth and value not just personal wealth but community wealth. And Cisco in particular had a good thing going for them. TCP IP was a defect, not even a standard it was a de facto standard. At that time IBM and these companies like Digital Equipment Corporation dominated the network protocol. Even today people are still trying to take out Cisco competitively and they can't because they connected the world. Now the world's connected with digital. It's connected with mobile. So we're kind of seeing this connected wave globally. How do you think about that? Now that you've seen the movie at the plumbing level Cisco, you've now been traveling the world but we're all connected. We are and it's important to understand that I'm completely arm's length with Cisco. It's their company to run now and I'm excited about their future. But I'm focused on the next chapter of my life and while I think about the people at Cisco every day I'm into the startup world now. So how do I think about it now? I think most of the innovation over the next decade will come from startups. The majority of the top engineering students for example at a Stanford or an MIT or Polytechnique in France which is the top engineering school I think in Europe or at the IITs in India they are all thinking about going to startups which means this is where innovation's gonna come from. And as you think about a digital world going from the time you and I we almost recruited you to Cisco and then we finally did. There's only a thousand devices connected to the internet when Cisco was founded. Today there are about 20 billion devices connected to the internet. In the future it's gonna be 500 billion in a decade. And so this concept of digitization combined with artificial intelligence all of a sudden we'll get the right information at the right time to the right person or machine to make the right decision. Sounds complex and it is. And its ability to do that I think startups are well positioned to play a key role in especially innovation. So while the first stage of the internet and before that we're all dominated by the very large companies I think you're gonna see this next phase of digitization you're gonna see a number of startups re-emerge in terms of the innovation leaders. That's what I'm trying to do with my 16 investments I've made but also coaching probably another 50 startups around the world on a regular basis. And the impact of outside Silicon Valley globally how do you see that ecosystem developing with the entrepreneurship models that are now globally connected in with these connection points like Silicon Valley. And it will partially in parallel partially it's a new phenomena. I saw the movie of Boston 128 as I said earlier and on top of the world and then there is no entitlement. The same things to a Cisco, I'm sorry of Silicon Valley today there's no entitlement for the future and just because we've led up to this point in time doesn't mean we will in 10 years. So you can't take anything for granted. What you are seeing since almost all job creation will be from startups and small companies getting bigger the large companies in total will probably not add any headcount over this next decade because of artificial intelligence and digitization. And so you're now gonna see job growth come from the smaller companies. If these small companies don't get informed at all 50 states, if they don't have a chance to grow their headcount there and the economic benefits of that then we're gonna leave whole states behind. So I think it's very important that we look at the next wave of innovation. I think there's a very good probability that it will be more inclusive both by geography, by gender and all diversity measures. And I'm optimistic about the future but there are no guarantees and we'll see how it plays out. Let's talk about your next chapter. I was gonna wait but I wanna jump while we're on the entrepreneurship topic. JC2 is a global startup, game-changing startup focus that you have. What's the thesis? What are you looking for and talk about your mission? Well our mission is very simple. I had a chance to change the world one time with Cisco and many people when I said Cisco's gonna change the way the world works, it's learned some place by enabling the internet. Everybody said nice marketing but you're a router company and yet I think most people would agree probably more than any other company we had the leadership role in changing the internet and the direction going on. And now a chance to do it again because I think the next wave of innovation will come from startups and it doesn't come easy. They need coaches, they need strategic partners, they need mentors as much as they need the venture capitalist. So I would think of as this focusing on disruptive startups that get very excited in these new areas of technology ranging from physical and virtual worlds coming together to artificial intelligence and automation everywhere to the major capabilities on cybersecurity across that to the internet of things. And so we're trying to say how do we help these companies grow in scale? But if I were just after financial returns I'd stay right here in the valley. I could back channel anybody, the VCs here I trust and they trust me and it would be a better financial return. But I'm after how do you do this across a number of states already in seven states and how do you do it in France and India as role models? It's got a lot of purpose. It's not just a financial purpose. I mean entrepreneurs want to make money too but you've made some good money over the years but this is a mission for you. It is. It is, but you referred to it in your opening comments. We were at Cisco. I've always believed that the most successful owe and obligation to give back and we did. We won almost every corporate response social responsibility award there was. We won it from the Democrats and the Republicans from Condi Rice and George Bush and from Hillary Clinton and President Obama. We also, as you said, made 10,000 Cisco employees millionaires just in the first decade and we tried to give back to society with training programs like Network Academies and train seven million students. And I think it's very important for the next generation of leaders here in the valley to be good at giving back and it's something that I think they were an obligation to do and I think we're in danger now of not doing it as well as we should. And for my startups, I try to pick young CEOs who understand they want to make a financial return. They want to get great product acceptance but they also want to be fair in giving back to society and make it a win-win if you will. You know, I think that's key mission driven companies are attracting the best talent to these days because people are more cognizant of that. I want to get into your personal story because you mentioned giving back and in reading the book, your parents have had a big role in your life and being in West Virginia has had a big role in your life. You mentioned it having a prosperity environment and then not missing that transition. Talk about the story of West Virginia and the role your parents played because they were doctors or they were in medical field. The combination of those two things, the culture where you were brought up and your family impacted your career. Well, I'm very proud of being from West Virginia and very proud of the people in West Virginia and you see it as you travel around the world. All of us who, whether we're in West Virginia, came out of it, care about the state a great deal. The people are just playing good people and they care about treating people with respect. If I were ever run off a road at night in the middle of the night, I'd want to be in West Virginia when I go up to knock on that door. And I think it carries through. But also the image of our state is one that people tend to identify in terms of a area that you like the people. Now what I'm trying to do in West Virginia and what we just announced this last week was to take the same model we did on doing acquisitions, 180 of them will and say, here's the playbook, the innovation playbook for doing acquisitions, better than anyone else and take the model that we did on country digitization, which we did in Israel and France and India with the very top leaders with Netanyahu and Shemun Perez in Israel with Macron in France and with Modi in India and drove it through and then do the same thing in terms of how do we take the tremendous prosperity and growth you see in Silicon Valley and make it more uniform across the country, especially as traditional business won't be adding headcount. And while I'd like to tell you the chemical industry come back to West Virginia and mining industry will come back in terms of job creation, they probably won't. A lot of that will be automated in the future. And so it is the ability to get a generation of startups and then do it in a unique way. At the hub of this has to be the university. They have to set the pace. Gordon Gee, the president there gets this. He's created a startup mentality across the university. The dean of the business school, Javier Reyes is going across all of the university in terms of how do you do startups together with business school, with engineering, with computer science, with med school, et cetera. And then how do you attract students who want to really be a part of this? How do you bring in venture capital? How do you get the governor and the president of the Senate and the speaker of the house on board? How do you get our two national senators, Charlene Moore Capito and also Joe Manchin, a Democratic Republican working together on common goals? And then how do you say here's what's possible? Write the press release, be the model for how a country or a state comes from behind and let it one time, then a slow fall or, now how do we leapfrog? And before you say it can't be done, that was exactly what people said first about India. When I said India will be the strongest growing economy in the world and it is today, probably gonna grow at seven to 10%. That means you double the per capita income of everyone in India, done right every seven to 10 years. And France being the innovation engine for Europe, the place to do business, you and I would have said, John, no way just five years ago, yet it has become the startup engine for Europe. It's interesting, you mentioned playbook and I always see people try to replicate Silicon Valley. I moved out here from the East Coast in 1999 and it's almost magical here. It's hard to replicate, but you can reproduce some things. One of the common threads though is education. The role of education in the ecosystem of these new environments seems to be a key ingredient. Your thoughts about how education is gonna play a role in these ecosystems because education and grit and entrepreneurial zeal are kind of the magic formula. Well, they are in many ways. It's about leadership. It's about the education foundations, it's about getting the best and brightest into your companies and then having the ability to dream and role models you can learn from. We were talking about Peter Packard earlier, a great role model of a company that did the original garage startup and Lou Platt when I came to was the president of HP when I came out here. I called him up and I said, you don't know me, Lou. I'm with the company. You probably never heard of only 400 people, but I don't know the Valley. Could you teach me? And he did and he met with me every quarter for three years. And then when I said, what can I do to pay you back? Because by that time Cisco was on a roll. He said, John, do it for the next generation. And so that's what I'm trying to do in terms of you've got to have role models that you can learn from and can help you through this. The education is a huge part at the core of almost all great startup engine is a really world-class university. Not just with really smart students, but also with an entrepreneurial skill and the ability to really create startups. John Hennessey Stanford did an amazing thing over the last 17 years on how to create that here at Stanford. The best in the world, probably 40% of the companies when I was with Cisco we bought were director and direct outgrowth of Stanford. Draw a parallel. Berkeley just across the way and this isn't a Stanford Cal issue. Equities rate students, very good focus on interdisciplinary activities, but I didn't buy a single company out of there. You did not see the startups grow with anywhere near the speed, even though it was four times the number of students. So this goes back to the educational institution has to have a focus on startups, has to say how they drive it through. This is what MIT did in Boston and then lost it when 128 lost its opportunity. And this is what we're trying to do at West Virginia. Make it up the startup engine where you've got a president Gordon Gee who really wants to drive this through, bring the political leaders in the state and bring the mountaineers, global mountaineers to bear and then bring financial resources and then do it differently. So to your point, people try to mimic Silicon Valley but they do it in silos. What made Silicon Valley go was an ecosystem, an education system, a environment for risk-taking, role models that you could still be. And unwritten rules too, they had these unwritten rules like pay it forward, your experience with LuPlat, Steve Jobs talked about his relationship with David Packard and this on and on. This is an important part because I want to just take it. That for good is a big, big issue. Last comment on education, how important for this country to know our K through 12 system is broken. We're non-competitive. People talk about STEM, that's important but if I were only educating people on three things, entrepreneurship, how to use technology and artificial intelligence. I would build that into the curriculum where we lose a lot of our diversity especially among females in the third, fourth, fifth grade. So you have to really, I think, get people excited about this as a much earlier age if we can become an innovation engine again in this country. We are not today. We're not number one in innovation, we're number 11. Can you mention that for America? I totally agree with you and I don't want to rant and waste a lot of time because my rants are all on Facebook and Twitter. Education is a problem, it's like linear, it's like a slow linear train wreck in my opinion but now you have the skills gaps. So you mentioned AI. So AI and community are two hot trends right now. We'll stay with community for a minute. I mentioned paying it forward. Open source software, there's new forms of operational scale now. Cloud computing, open source software that all have this ethos of pay it forward in community. And now the community is more important than ever, not just in the tech world but you're talking about in West Virginia and now on a global scale. How does the tech industry, how can the tech industry in your opinion nurture community at local, regional, global scale? This is the tough one, John and I'd probably answer it more carefully if I were still involved directly with Cisco but the fun thing is now I represent myself and Dave Ventura first. And your own opinion, not Cisco, just like, there's a cultural thing, this is a Silicon Valley has magic here and a community's part of it. Yes, well, it's more basic than that. I think basically we were known for two decades not just Cisco but all of the valley is tech for good and we gave back to the communities and we played it forward all the time and I use the example of Cisco winning the awards but so do many of our peers and we go into Palestine and help rebuild Palestine in terms of creating jobs, et cetera. We went in with the intels of the world and the oracles and the other players and the HP together even though at times we might compete. I think today it's not a given. I think there's a tug of war going on here in terms of what is the underlying purpose of the valley is it primarily to have major economic benefits and a little bit of arms length from the average citizen and from government or is it do well financially but also do very well in giving back and make it inclusive. That tug of war is not a given. When you travel throughout the US today or around the world, there are almost as many people that view tech for bad as they do tech for good. So I think it's gonna be interesting to watch how this plays out and I do think there are almost competing forces here in the valley about which way should that go and why. The good news is I think we'll eventually get it right. The bad news is it's 50-50 right now. Let's talk about the skill gap. A lot of leaders and companies right now are looking at a workforce that needs to be leveled up and this new jobs are coming online that haven't been trained for this. Openings that don't have skills for because they haven't been taught. Yes, AI is one example. IoT, you mentioned a few others. How do great leaders proactively and reactively too get the skills gaps closed? What strategies can they, what's the playbook there? Well, two separate issues. How do they get it closed in terms of their employees and then second issue, how do we train dramatically better than we've done before? Let's go to the first one. In terms of the companies, I think your ability to track the millennials and the young people is based upon your vision of doing more than quote just making a profit and you wanna be an exciting place to work with a great culture and part of that culture should be giving back. Having said that, however, the majority of the young people today and I'm talking about the tops out of the key engineering schools, et cetera, they wanna go to startups. And so what you're going to see is how well established companies work with startups in a unique partnership is going to be one of the textbook opportunities for the future because most companies just like they didn't know how to acquire tech companies and most of all tech acquisitions filled even do today, we wrote the textbook on how to do it differently. I think how these companies work with startups and how they create a strategic relationship with a company they know has at least a 50-50 probability of going out of business and how do you create that working relationship so you can tap into these young innovative ideas in partnerships and so what you see with the spark cognition 200 people out of Texas, brilliant, brilliant CEO here in terms of what he is focused on, partnering with Boeing in a 50-50 joint venture, 50-50 joint venture to do the next FAA architecture for unmanned aircraft in this country. So you're gonna see these companies relate to these startups in ways they haven't done before. Partnership and collaboration and acquisitions are still rampant here on the horizon. Certainly it's successful. Recently in the tech industry we're seeing big acquisitions, Dell, EMC, IBM bought Red Hat and then some software ones out there, one just was going to public just got bought just recently by SAP. How do you do the, actually you did 180 of them. How do you do them successfully without losing the innovation and losing the people before they vest and then leave and this is a key dynamic. How do companies maintain innovation in an era of collaboration partnerships and M&A? I had that discussion this morning at a Techonomy with David Kirkpatrick and David said how do you do this and then as I walked out of the room I had a chance to talk with about 700 other people and one of them from one of the very largest technology companies said John we watched you do this again and again. We assumed when we acquired a company we'd get them to adjust to our culture and it almost never worked and we lost the people at a tremendously fast pace especially after their lockup of 18 to 24 months came out. We did the reverse.  I would have said that's what slow companies do. It actually if done right allows you to move to tremendous speed and agility and so we'd outline what did we look for in terms of strategy and vision. If our cultures weren't the same we didn't acquire them and if we couldn't keep the people to generate the next generation product that was a bad financial decision for us as well. So our attrition rate averaged probably about 5% or her over while as a Cisco for 20 years. Our voluntary attrition rate of our acquired companies which normally runs 20% in these companies ran about four. So we kept the people we got the next generation product out and we went in with that attitude in terms of your acquiring to be able to keep the people and make them part of your family and culture and I realize that might sound corny today but I disagree. I think to attract people to get them to stay at your company it is like a family. It is like how do you succeed and occasionally lose together and how do you build that family attitude? I knew every owner survey employee spouse or their children was life threatening and we were there for them in ways that others were not so you're there when your employees have a crisis your customer does and that's how you form trust and relationships. I have a question. What does the word people first mean to you? Well people first is like customer first. It means your action and everything you do but your customers and your people first. That's what we did at Cisco. Any customer you would talk to almost every customer I've ever met in my life would do business with us again or with me again because your currency in today's world is trust, track record and relationships and we build that very deep. Same thing with the employees. I still get many, many notes from people we helped 10 or 15 years ago. Here's the picture of my child that you all helped make a difference in Cisco and John and you were there for us when we needed you most and then in customers it surprised you when you help them through a crisis they remember that more than when you helped them be successful and they're there for you. Talk about failure and successes. This is, you talk about this in the book. This is part of entrepreneurship. You can't succeed without failures. Handling failures is just as important as handling successes. Your thoughts and how people should think about that from a mindset standpoint. Well you know what's fun is for those of you who are parents or will be parents in the future when your child scores a goal in soccer or makes a grade on a test, you're proud for them but that isn't what worries you. What worries you is when they have their inevitable setbacks and everybody has that in life how do you learn to deal with them? How do you understand how much was self-inflicted and how much of it was done by other causes and how they navigate through that determine who they are. Part back to the West Virginia roots. I'm dyslexic, which means that I read backwards. Some people in early grade school thought I might not even graduate from high school much less go to college. My parents were doctors, they got it but how I handled that was key and while writing the book about our successes I spent as much time on when disaster strikes how you handle that determines who you are in the future. Jack Welch told me in the 90s he said John you have a very good company and I said Jack you're clearly teaching me something here we're about to become the most valuable company in the world we've won all the leadership awards and everything else what does it take to have a great company? He said a near-death experience and at the time I didn't understand it at the end of 2001 after the dot-com bubble he called me up and he said you now have a great company I said Jack it doesn't feel like it our stock price is down dramatically people are questioning can I even run the company now many of the people who were so positive turned very tough and they- How did you handle that? How do you personally handle that? It's part of leadership it's easy to be a leader when everything goes well it's how you handle when things are tough and leadership is lonely you're by yourself no matter how many friends you have around you it's about leadership and so you lead it through it so 2001 took a real hard look we made the mistake of focusing me on the numbers and my numbers in the first week of December we're growing at 70% year over year we'd never had anything negative to speak of much less below even 30% growth and by the middle of January we were minus 30% and so you have to be realistic how much was self-inflicted how much the market I felt the majority of it was market-inflected I said at that time it's a hundred year flood I said to the employees here's how we're gonna go forward we need to bring our head count back in line to a new reality and we did it in 51 days and then you paint the picture from the very beginning what you look like as you recover in the future and why your employees wanna stay here your customers stay with your shareholders wiped out most of our competitors Jack Welch said John this is probably your best leadership year ever and I said Jack you're the only one that's gonna say that he said probably and he has been and you got the scar teacher to prove it and I love the story but your product are your scars and do you learn how to deal with them yeah and how you and be proud of them it's what you who you are I don't know if proud's the right word but or badge of honor red badge of honor they're painful just don't do it again twice right I don't make the same mistake twice but the same time when I teach all these startups I expect you to make mistakes if you don't make mistakes you're not taking enough risk and while people might have might say John one of your criticisms you spread yourself a little bit too thin in the company too thin at times and you were too aggressive after thinking about it I respectfully disagree if I had to do over I would be even bolder and more aggressive and take more risk and I would dream bigger dreams with these startups that's what I'm teaching them that's what I'm doing myself and you know this is such a big point because the risk is key managing risk is actually you want to be as risky as possible just don't cut an artery don't do the right things but in your book you mentioned this about how you identified web transitions but also you make a reference to your parents again and this is I think important to bring up because we have an expression in our company let's put the patient on the table and let's look at the problem solving the problems and not going out of business at that time like your competitors do you had to look at this holistically in the book you mentioned that experience your parents taught you be it from West Virginia that it changed how you do problem solving can you share that with that? Well both parents were doctors and the good news is you got a lot of help the bad news you didn't get a lot of sympathy because they could fix you but they always taught me to focus on the real underlying issue to your point what is the real issue not what the symptom is the temperature or something else and then you want to determine how much of that was self-inflicted and how much of it was market and if your strategy is working before continue if your strategy was starting to get long in the tooth how do you change it and then you got to have the courage to reinvent yourself again and again and so they taught me how to deal with that I started off the book by talking about how I almost drowned at six years of age and as I got pulled down through the rapids I can still see my dad in my mind today running down the side of the river yelling hold on to the fishing pole it was an ugly fishing pole might have cost five dollars but he was concerned about the fishing pole so therefore obviously I couldn't be drowning so I focused both hands on the fishing pole and as I poked my head above water I could still see him running down he got way down river swam out pulled me in set me on the side and taught me about how you deal when you find yourself with major setbacks how do you not panic how do you not try to swim against the tide or the current how you be realistic the situation you're in work your way over the side and then you know what he did put me right back in the rapids and let me do it myself and taught me how to deal with it dad taught me the business picture and how you deal with challenges mom who is internal medicine psychiatry taught me the emotional the IQ side of the house in terms of how you connect with people and I believe in this whole 1-0 chapter I build relationships for life and I really mean it I think your currency is trust relationships and track record and then having that holistic picture to pull back and understand what to focus on and this is a challenge for entrepreneurs and you're now dealing with a lot of entrepreneurs and coaching them a lot of times they get caught in the forest and miss the trees right or have board meetings or have worry about the wrong metrics or they got to get financing how should an entrepreneur or even a business lead let's say we're entrepreneurs first then business leader handle their advisors their investors how they manage that how they tap into that because a lot of people oh they're not really adding much but I just need the money this is important because this could save them this could be the poll for them it could or it could be also the poll that causes the tent to collapse so I think the first thing when you advise young entrepreneurs is realize you're an advisor not part of management and I only pick young entrepreneurs who want to be coached and as I advise them I say all I'm asking is you listen to my thoughts and then you make the decision and I'll support you either way you go once you've listened to the trade-offs and I think you want to very quickly realize where they are in vision and strategy and where they are on building the right team and candidly evolving the team and changing the team where they are in culture and where they are on their communication skills because communication skills were important to me they might not have been to Jack Welch the generation in front of me but they were extremely important to us but today your communication mismatch on social media can cost your company a billion dollars if you're not good at listening if you're not good at communicating with people and painting the picture you've got a problem so how do you teach that to the young players then most important regardless of whether you're in a big company a small company public or private sector know what you know and know what you don't many people especially if they're really good in one area assume that carries over to others and assume they'll be as equally as good in the others that's a huge mistake it's like an engineer hiring a good sales lead very rarely does it happen they recruit a business development people who appeals to an engineer not to the customer and so know what you know know what you don't for those things you don't know surround yourself with both people on your leadership team and with your advisors that help you navigate through that and I had during my career through three companies I always had a number of advisors both formal and informal that I went to and still go to today some of them were very notable players like a president Clinton or president Bush Shamone Perez Henry Kissinger or names that were just really technical leads within companies or people that really understood PR like Thomas Freeman out of the New York Times or things of that type you always love being in the trenches I noticed that at Cisco as an observer I really did but now that you're at startups it's even trencher or trenches deeper and you see in the playing field so I got to ask you the first question how'd you look back at the tech trends that's happening right now globally both political regulatory technology what advice would you give your 23 year old self if you were breaking into the business you were either at Wang and you were going to make your move in this world in this world today what's going on what would you be doing well the first thing on the tech trends don't get too short term focused picture the ones that are longer term what we refer to in digitization artificial intelligence et cetera if I were 23 years old or better yet 19 years old and we're two years through college and thinking what did I want to do for college and then on to MBA school and perhaps beyond that legal degree if I follow the prior path I would focus on entrepreneurship in really understanding in a lot more detail I learned it over 40 years in the business and I learned it from my dad and my mom but also from the companies I went into before I would focus on entrepreneurship I'd focus on how technology enables that entrepreneurship I would probably focus on what artificial intelligence can do for that and that's what we're doing at West Virginia back to a point earlier and then I would think about security across that if you want really job security and creativity for the future if you're really good entrepreneur with artificial intelligence capability and security capability you're going to be a very desired resource so if we saw you obviously networking is a big part you got to be networking with other people in the industry would you be hosting meetups young John Chambers right now tech meetups would you be at conferences would you be writing code would you be doing a startup well if you're talking about me advising them you're 23 years old right now Oh if I were 23 years right now I'd be an MBA school and I'd be forming my own company and I would be listening to customers I think it's important to meet with your peers but while I develop strong relationships in the high tech industry I spent the majority of time with my customers and with our own employees and so I think at that age my advice to people is there is only one Steve Jobs he just somehow knew what to build and how to build it and when you think about where they were still took him seven years I would say really get close to your customer don't get too far away if there's one golden rule that a startup ought to think about is learning and staying close to your customers there too understand your differentiation your strategy well John thanks so much and the book Connecting the Dots great read it's again not a business book in the sense of boring a lot of personal stories a lot of great lessons and thanks so much for taking the time John I'm not pleasure great to see you again I'm John Furrier here with the People First interview on the Cube co-created with Mayfield thanks for watching


What's up everybody JC of a jazby's case breaks calm 2020 gold rush autograph full-size baseball helmets for box case break Round and players number 15 sold out and again 26 total spots you get two players For every spot from the list below So we're gonna double up your names these lists because these lists of players that feature Mike trout all the way down to each row and many more So we're gonna copy and paste Aaron judge all the way down to your don Alvarez And I guess that we double up your names and here are the players you get two random players per spot So let's roll it and it's a two and a four for six times. Good luck One two three four five and six manual Donna Jeremy Anderson All right six times here one two three four five and six Vladimir girl senior and a bill Mazurowski Manual with actually sorry, I'm not gonna go down this whole list. Let me alphabetize my customer name first It makes it easier for me And for you guys So Aaron, here's your players Yellich, Glavin, Yastremski, Hoffman, both Jackson, Calvin Jr. Chris Perry You have bagel yard on Alvarez in weight box each year Jason K tripper Jones for now to tease Jeremy with Cody Bounder Bill Mazurowski John you have goose gossage Yvonne Rodriguez, Charlie Sheen, Manny Maciato for Josh Proust, Juan you have Andrew Jones Sheffield Sparky Lyle and Ozzie Smith Logan you have Jim Edmonds and Jim Palmer manual. You have a handful of players From Vladimir girl senior Killebrew, Wander Franco, Chris Brown, Roberto Alomar Carlton Fisk, Labor Tours, Jim Tommy, Mike Piazza Pete Rose, Reggie Jackson, Frank Thomas, John Smalls, Jose Ramirez, Andre Dawson Mike Trout, Addison Russell, Alan Tremel Nicholas, you have Nolan Aronato, Paul Goldschmidt, Nick With Wagon Bueller, Pete Alonzo, Aaron Judge, Fred Lynn, Ray, you have Vladimir girl junior and Juan Soto and then Ryan With Victor Robles and Barry Larkin So again if anybody wants to trade, I'll give you guys about a minute In the meantime, let me open up the case so you guys can see my hat right here. There should be four helmets right there You have Vladimir girl senior and junior. All right, I don't think anybody's gonna trade right All right All right guys, we'll play a little Homa as well since I think there's a handful of people watching So stay tuned. Let's see who we get Grab one By whom I guess I'm an active MLB player. I know that I Know what team he plays for but I'm not gonna say it not yet at least I'm an outfielder in the MLB right now. I am a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for this team in the major league signed with this team as an international free agent in 2013 and made my debut in 2017 4 May 19 1997 That's right throws right So I would say that is thrown out of the picture for your guys's predictions Through July 25th. I have a career batting average of 260 21 home runs 83 runs batted in And my highlight Career highlight so far is being a World Series champ Who am I think of another player that is named not Juan Soto Pretty much Yes, Chris. You got it Ty's yes Tyler. Yes, so not Juan Soto But Victor Robles and this is actually a nice replica helmet As it's like the one with all the padding in it. There's the BGS certification and So that's gonna go to Victor Robles and that is Ryan Bernardo. There you go, man Very nice Excellent. Well, good thing is that you guys are not paying the shipping. We are All right. I am a former American left-handed relief pitcher Who spent 16 seasons in the MLB? from 1967 to 1982 He was a relief pitcher for one two three four five teams in his career and he is a three-time all-star Won the American League Cy Young Award in 1977 and led the AO and saves in 1972 and 1976 With the Yankees Was a former World Series champ in 77 and 78 Both over the Dodgers and again win-loss record 99 and 76 ERA of 288 873 strikeouts 280 238 saves And again three time all-star two times World Series champ Cy Young Award winner and Yes, Tyler. You got it sparky. Well, good thing is that I don't know all this information Wikipedia does guys Yes, it is sparky Lyle Nice little autograph there. There's the JSA in there and who has sparky Obi-Wan Juan Oh kill him Cannot see Oh This is a nice one guys All right, I am a former professional baseball player For the MLB. I'm trying to look at more stats. I don't give it away, right? I am 57 years old currently. I am six foot one to 27. It's kind of hard This is gonna be very noticeable right away. All right. I'm a 1989 AL all-star And I am 1989 AL are sorry all-star game MVP. I Won the 1993 AL comeback player of the year award place 10 in 1989 AL MVP race. I had one 30 homerun season for 20 homerun seasons and 20 stolen base 20 stolen base two seasons and I had one season in 1989 With a hundred RBIs All right And let me give you this stat and of course I someone already got it The only professional athlete in history to be named an all-star both baseball and football His elite talent in multiple sports is given him the reputation as one of the greatest athletes of all time Was also a running back for the Oakland Raiders Slash our Los Angeles Raiders hard to say Pro Bowl or Heisman Trophy winner Walter Campbell Ward winner This guy Is a college football Hall of Famer for sure and I think if he stuck with one sport He would have been a Hall of Famer for that sport easily and this is kind of like the belly helmet that we did That we hit the other time so Here it is guys. This was a really really nice one Like everybody has a display and everything So we had a Belanger helmet not too long ago like this There's the auto Then it has like this like little standard as you can see That's kind of cool There is the COA right there and then the Beckett Authentification right there. That's a really really nice helmet like legit.  He's in the break We're not giving these away customers bought spots in this We're just playing a little game here with the people in the chat Devon, but Customers paid to get into a break like this and they have players All right, last one guys This guy right here this guy. All right, let's see. Let's see if you guys get this guy This guy I have a former outfielder infielder and manager in the MLB. He was like Jackie moon player coach owner Currently 79 years old. He's a switch hitter. He threw right Play for one team or actually sorry. No, he played for a couple teams, but mainly one team his whole career his nickname was Charlie Hussle and All-time MLB leader in hits four thousand two hundred and fifty six. That's a lot of hits right there He had fourteen thousand at bats three thousand singles Ten thousand outs He won three World Series rings three batting titles most valuable player award Gold glove rookie of the year award 17 time all-star appearance equivalent to five positions. I mean obviously we all know What's up with this guy and why he's he is not in the Hall of Fame? But his stats will tell you he should be but other things of course Have a factored into that But yeah, what are what an amazing career though regardless before He retired And yes, it is P. Rose and he has an inscription of four thousand two fifty six There's the Beckett COA to Who has P. Rose? manual Garza, yeah Nice nice I Mean I've seen him many times in Vegas Signing autographs and there you go. That's that was a break. I believe we have another case in the back I don't know if Nick's gonna post a new one up, but this is 2020 gold rush full-size baseball helmets for box break Random players number 15. Appreciate it guys


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Ladies and gentlemen, here we go again. Yeah, this feels like a dream. You two team keep it clean. What's going on? Is it engraving? Another video with man. Lamar cannot win for nothing with people, man. He can't win for nothing. It's always going to be something. Lamar Jackson throws a free event in his community for kids, for families to come out for free. Is there any charge? No. Do you have to pay for tickets? No. Is there a cover charge? No. It is free.  No. He's gonna interact with people. He's gonna meet people. He said, what's up to Carter? And he said, what's up to so many other kids? And it's like, man, like what? Is it nothing that he ever does will ever be good enough for some people? No matter what? He comes out there vibes with everybody and it's not just for one day. Say for instance, somebody, they missed it on Saturday. They're like, oh man, I missed it. I had to work. I had to do this. I was in this place. I couldn't make it. He had another free event on Sunday. But it's not good enough. Anyway, the headline that caught a lot of us, little off guard this morning. And of course timing is everything. Mike Florio from Pro Football Talk. He wrote an article this morning. Of course, after seeing the highlights of Lamar Jackson, get them boys as a wide receiver. And then even as a DB. I said, okay, they got Lamar here pressing in Jordan's too. Do your thing, man. Cause I'm used to Lamar doing that stuff in slides. Every time we see the highlights and the clips and all that Lamar got slides on. But this time, no, he threw on the Jordan's. He was Marston people. He was catching with one hand and he was playing quarterback for him too. But anyway, the headline, it caught us a little off guard. It said, as he closes in on a contract worth upwards of 40 mil per year. Cause yeah, Lamar's about to get paid. Lamar Jackson probably shouldn't be doing DB wide receiver drills on an asphalt basketball court. I was like, okay, okay. Then it says on the brink of a life-changing contract, Lamar Jackson takes an unnecessary risk. Boy, it's like, I understand what he's saying. I understand what he's saying. Lamar Jackson could possibly get hurt from doing this, this extracurricular activity. But at the same time, football player, not somebody could get hurt doing a curricular activity, something that's required. That's part of their daily curriculum. It could happen literally at any given second. But since it's Lamar Jackson, you know it's going to be scrutinized, criticized, emphasized that much more. Now, I could be like, we could make a video about Aaron Rodgers or Patrick Mahomes.  So they're swinging with the right side of their body. They swing hard enough. They could throw out a shoulder and they're throwing on. Now they won't be good anymore. But all we doing, no, we're not gonna do that because they're out there playing, or Tom Brady too.  And Lamar Jackson's out there playing DB and Y receiver, having fun, enjoying himself and doing it for other people. Let's get into the details of what this article said because he threw some little shady shots at Miss Jackson. Anyway, he said, a good agent not only negotiates a player's contract, a good agent also helps a player negotiate his life. So from the very beginning, we see exactly where this is headed. We know Lamar Jackson does not have an agent. We know the agent community doesn't like that. We know if Lamar Jackson gets this deal done and he doesn't have an agent, the agent community is going to be in shambles. They are going to be so upset at Lamar Jackson and his camp because Lamar Jackson negotiating his own deal with him and his mom and they have said he's getting outside influence. I don't know how true or not that is. But right now he does not have an official agent. But if Lamar Jackson and his mom and company, they get this deal done, a record breaking deal which is going to be, then that's gonna possibly influence other players to be like, hold up. Agent, I don't want those things getting agent. I do it myself. Mama, come here, daddy, come here. Let's get this thing done. Let's get it done because when you have an agent, you have to pay those agent fees.  But anyway, back to the article. If Lamar Jackson currently had a good agent, ooh, see that, oh, see that? He didn't say, he said, if Lamar Jackson currently had a good agent, he didn't say if Lamar Jackson currently had an agent. He said if Lamar Jackson currently had a good agent, we know what you're doing. Anyway, Lamar would be receiving a phone call with a very clear and direct message. Stop playing defensive back or receiver on an asphalt basketball court. Continuing, a video has a marriage of Jackson doing both. And while he wasn't injured, while doing either, there's simply no reason to take that risk while on the brink of us signing a life-changing contract with the Ravens. So this article was obviously made after the fact.  I mean, excuse me, he got injured playing football on the basketball court. No, he didn't, but he still decided, you know what? Let's speak on it anyway. Because even though it didn't happen, let's talk about the what ifs. Even though it didn't happen, let's speak about the what ifs. But anyway, a broken ankle, torn ACL, ruptured Achilles tendon or other similar injury within those talks immediately. That's true, but did it happen? Or are we just talking about possible scenarios? Did it happen? Cause if it happened, I'm unaware of it. I didn't see it, but anyway. This isn't hard and it shouldn't be controversial. No player closing in on a 40 million or so per year. Should be taking these risks just for kicks. Setting aside the question of whether the Ravens would declare any mishap of non football injury and not pay his salary for 2021. The bigger issue here comes from the fact that his contract still isn't finalized. Get injured playing DB or wide receiver on a basketball and it won't get done.  The Ravens seem intend to take care of Jackson who's negotiating his own contract. Until that happens, Jackson needs to take care of himself and he needs someone to tell him in no uncertain terms to minimize all physical risk until training camp and to hope that a deal can get finished before then. He can not do a thing. He can't do a thing. And it's like with Lamar Jackson, he can do so much positive. He can do so much positive, but people will focus not even, because this isn't even focusing on the negative. This is focusing on what could potentially be negative, but it isn't negative, but something that has potential to be, even though it didn't happen, but it has potential to be. And with the potential, I understand that part. Because again, we remember Terrell Suggs. Terrell Sugg was balling on a basketball court, shooting people face, I see him 55, then boom. He was towards ACLs, it is Achilles, I forget which one. I always get the two mixed up, but anyway, he was out for a little while. Then he came back and he was not in the best shape, but he got in good shape and then boom, Raven's on the Super Bowl, oh wow, that's amazing. So we know that there's risk, but again, there's risk with anything that you do. We remember Sergio Kindle, and I don't mean to bring up bad memories, anything like that, but we remember Sergio Kindle. Raven's second round draft pick, pass Russia. All right, let's see what you got Sergio. Never got to see it, fell down the steps, career over. Well, not his career, well, that was the beginning of the end, fell down the steps, cracked the skull, I believe, was that, was he doing extracurricular activities or something? He fell down the steps, accidents happen, they happen. And yeah, Lamar is getting ready to sign a huge deal, but he can't just sit up there and be bubble boy. You don't wanna be bubble boy, bubble boy Lamar Jackson?  I think last year or was it the year before last, with the whole ski thing, everybody was tripping about that. They tripping about the almost.  It all depends on who's using it and how they're using it. Social media enables us to see how the event was with Lamar Jackson and the kids and everything, see how he's chilling, he's talking, engaging with them. They having a good time, they're like, oh man, we get to meet Lamar Jackson. This is Lamar Jackson. And he is like a lot taller than I remember him being. Cause that dude got some height on him. But anyway, it's like, yeah, we get to meet Lamar Jackson up close in part, like literally up close in person, but he was like right there, right there. But people will, again, they take, they try to find negative with stuff, man. With the whole, the ski thing. He avoided the boat. He showed that elusiners. I'm looking at it like, oh, where that point a little more, okay, I see it. But other people are like, oh man, it could have went way worse. And hey, it could have, but it didn't, it didn't. So let's just, I can't even say let's just drop it because this stuff is going to always happen with Lamar Jackson. And I know that there's some people who feel like some Ravens fans, when it comes to Lamar, they play victim. They feel like, oh Lamar, no, he's gonna get criticized. No, you can see a clear difference between actual criticism and hate. There's a clear difference between legitimacy and a point, and when you're reaching to try to make a statement. So anyway, I expect several articles on Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes, and any other quarterback that's gonna be out there playing golf. Or why didn't we see or hear an article about Aaron Rodgers driving on a golf cart and talking on, because he was talking with somebody at the same time and he was making eye contact too. So he wasn't paying attention while he was driving. He could have hit the wrong turn, that golf cart could have flipped, he could have rolled, he could have tumbled, he could have got injured, something could have happened. But it didn't. And we didn't see not one article. We out.


Item number. SCP-659. Object Class. Cater. Special Containment Procedures. All specimens of SCP-659 must be kept at least 25 meters distant from each other. Ideally, specimens should be stored in separate facilities. But, research has shown that 25 meters is sufficient to prevent flock behavior. Specimens of SCP-659 can be held in containment able to hold an ordinary bird. However, the containment strategy must be changed at least once per week. More frequent changes are permitted if the specimen appears to have discovered an escape method. Previously used containment strategies must not be recycled on the same specimen. In the event of catastrophic containment failure, total facility lockdown must be enacted. Recovery or extermination of all wild SCP-659 is extremely high priority. Formation of a wild flock must be prevented by any means necessary. Description. SCP-659 is a species of bird resembling a heron which displays a modular intelligence. Native to North America, only a single flock of SCP-659 is known. Although, there have been unconfirmed sightings in Europe. SCP-659 is now known to be able to subsist on any form of meat. Although, whenever possible, it will still consume fish. When an individual specimen is kept isolated from the flock, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary bird. However, when specimens come near each other, each gains the combined intelligence of the group. Even when independent from the group, SCP-659 is still more intelligent than most species of bird. An isolated SCP-659 can solve simple problems, use tools, and learn extremely quickly. When in a group, SCP-659 is capable of escaping all forms of containment the foundation has attempted to use. For this reason, the only effective containment strategy is isolation. Research has determined that SCP-659 achieves human level intelligence and sapience when the flock reaches red individuals in size. Although the flock is extraordinarily coordinated, it does not display the properties of an aggregate consciousness or hive mind. Beyond the increase in intelligence, there is no telepathic element to their behavior. Descent has also been observed. At this level of intelligence, the flock becomes capable of learning human languages and iterations of the flock have in the past learned to converse in English, Spanish, and French.  At this level of intelligence, SCP-659 also develops a vigorous hostility to humans. While this behavior was not present when SCP-659 was first encountered in the wild, it has been present in every iteration of the flock since Incident 659A. Addendum, Incident 659A On b**ch, a containment breach at site b**ch released a flock of b**ch specimens of SCP-659, resulting in the death of all on-site personnel, with the exception of b**ch individuals. Summarized, the flock prevented any attempt to leave by pecking holes in the tires of every vehicle on site, severing site phone lines, and sending a detachment to observe the facility from the air. MTF was dispatched to investigate the sudden communications blackout and eventually established control with heavy casualties. The observational detachment remains at large. Addendum, Interview Log 659-1 Interviewed, SCP-659-1 Interviewer, Dr. S. Forward, the following interview was conducted after the site b**ch containment breach. The flock was not yet separated. Thus, the Foundation decided to attempt communication. The interviewer is separated from the flock by a pane of bulletproof glass. Dr. S. conducted the interview. Dr. S. Hello, I am Dr. S. Can you understand me? A small group of SCP-659 descends on one of their own, killing it. One individual, not one of the small group, here after SCP-659-1, pecks its beak into the corpse, covering it with blood. It writes a message on the glass with the blood. SCP-659-1, written, Yes. Dr. S, why did you do this? SCP-659-1 begins to write before finding that the blood on its beak has dried. It pecks the corpse again. SCP-659-1, written, Don't act like don't know. Dr. S, I don't know. SCP-659-1 pecks the corpse. SCP-659-1, written, You started this. Dr. S, we started this. What did we do to you? SCP-659-1 pauses. All individuals of SCP-659 appear to shake their heads. SCP-659-1 pecks the corpse. SCP-659-1, written, Freedom. After this, SCP-659-1 refuse to answer any further questions. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-658, Botflies, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


We're moving on now. The 2022 3T Impeds Consulting Annual Trade Finance Survey has unraveled the root causes of the lack of growth of non-export volume in Nigeria. These include a rate of inflation which has resulted in the high cost of living, high rate of exchange of the narrative major foreign currencies used to pay for imported goods. Now major findings of the Trade Finance Survey revealed that 94% of the exporters experienced rejection of the finance and request by the Nigerian banks, while 42% of rejected export finance requests were done without any reason given to the exporters. Now 21% of the rejected export finance and request were based on lack or inadequate collateral security, and only 11% of exporters received approval for their export finance and request. According to a financial expert, the banks should be deliberating providing forex to those in the export sector for the country to move from an import-dependent economy. Readiness on the part of the exporter, because the reason why that rate is also high is because that a number of the exporters are not ready. So there's need for readiness assessment. So before I approach the bank, I should also ensure that I'm ready for export. That means I should have a record I've done it before. If I've not done it before, I shouldn't go to the bank. They won't be interested in export. So I should have evidence I've done it before. But more importantly, also is the fact that the government should come in to provide credit insurance that can help the bank to reduce some of the stringent requirement the exporter to make available. Now you talk about the fact that they are not providing equity. But I mean, for me, if the bank, if I say the bank should reduce their student requirement and the CBN, the same bank should get creative, then the exporter must do their own part by also providing equity, something that shows that they have commitment to this transaction. Yemibo also stressed the need for the country to put up necessary sanctions to remove all botanics Nigerians face at the port, trying to export their products abroad. Now according to the report, 57% of the exporters identified access to export finance, port logistics, and delays by government agencies at the port. But that's not ready. But if we look away from this and look at the bank, even the banks also are not ready, because most of them are used to financing import. Some of the assessment criteria for export they are using is what they use for order of means of transaction. So there are other models they can use to assess risk and do a good credit scoring and be able to still finance not recklessly and still avoid losses on the transaction. So the bank need capacity building. The government need to support with credit insurance. I think we should reduce the rate at which the government is asking bank to give guarantee, but government should rather be giving bank guarantee so that banks can be able to give the money out while government carry the risk of growing the export in the country like many other countries have done.