Hi, everybody, this is Dave Vellante. Welcome to CUBE Conversations. We've been having a series of conversations with customers on the state of data protection, and we're really pleased to have Jamie Shepard here. He's the Senior Vice President at Luminate. Jamie, always a pleasure, good to see you. Thank you, Dave. Now, oftentimes we talk about you as an industry integrator, reseller, technologist. We're going to talk about Luminate as a customer. You guys are a customer of EMC's data protection, so I want to start there. So talk about the state of data protection at your shop prior to the bringing in data domain or Avamar, whatever it is you guys have. We'll talk about that, but what was keeping you up at night at that time? Yeah, I tell you, Dave, the challenges we were having, we're a global company, obviously nationally, based out of Dallas. I'm here out of the Boston office, and we were having a challenge with customer data, quite honestly, right? So not only our own data, we have Massachusetts laws we had it adhere to, so we had archived data. We had e-discovery, we had a deal with, so it's funny because when I look back at what Luminate did, we really should kind of follow EMC's whole information life cycle management. Remember when they coined that? Yeah, sure, ILM. ILM, yeah, so we definitely got involved with that where we were the prototypical exchange shop, file system, we had our backup target, we actually had an archive target with Centera's on that. We had a lot of NAS, a lot of file systems, heavy exchange, SharePoint and SQL, and we had the same challenge as everybody else. My biggest nightmares were two-fold. My nightmares that kept me up at night were systems going down and not having that backup that I needed. My businesses, if I lose an email, I've lost a deal. That type of thing, so we can't lose that stuff. The other thing is we hold a lot of customer data. So we have HIPAA healthcare. I do a lot in healthcare. We have HIPAA requirements. We have a lot of the PHI requirements out there. We're heavily regulated by not only state and federal regulations. We do a lot in SLED, so we have to adhere to everything, quite honestly. So if we don't have good policies in place, that's the killer. And that was the thing that we did. We lived by our four Ps of N-Cubed on methodology and its process, policy, people and product last. You're eating your own dog food on that. Had to, had to, and that was a key thing. So we kind of follow that whole thing, but it's evolved into something pretty unique today. So what specifically did you bring in? What did EMC do? Can you talk about the infrastructure? Yeah, EMC didn't have to do too much. As you guys know our model, we're very tight with EMC. We've been doing, we know all of their products, A to Z, except D for documentary, we're not there. But in any event, we basically were the guys that we kind of went down the prototypical way, but we also pushed the envelope in virtualization. So I saw my data center grow. You know where our old building was. And we, same issue, two data centers. One was innovation center to do demonstrations and all the one was production. And we'd also replicate between the two, okay? So I was just growing out of space, power, everything. I was adding dist to it, I was adding resources to it, CPU, I needed to consolidate that. So my first approach was let's upgrade and consolidate. And from there I wanted to streamline. Okay, so specifically what did you guys bring in? We basically took, we had two centers for archiving. So we archived all of our emails using, at the time email extender and disc extender, which is now source one. We were in a older exchange shop. So we were the typical, it's time to do it all together. And we did it all. And we did it in a phase of about eight months. So what we did first was we brought in data domain. Okay, and we brought in two data domain boxes. We standardized on network as a backup platform. We used FLR within our VNXs for the file level retention. And we migrated off of our centeras. That was a challenge for us, but not a technical challenge, more about how they store things and objects. And now we have to bring that back to the data world. So it was almost like a rehydrate of our archive. But I had to get the centeras out of there. The beauty for me for data domain was, we have limited resources like a lot of guys. As much as we do a lot, we're in the field a lot helping customers. So I can't really manage IT. I wanted it to manage itself. So if I had good processes, good policies, good people and a good product, I'll have to spend a lot of time with that. So we standardized on data domain.  So we had part of it as a worm device. So I was right once read many type of device. That was my archive target. Once we moved everything over, we upgraded to exchange. 2010, virtualized everything. Networker 8.2 now. We actually just went to that upgrade. We implemented Syncplicity for a secure file in sync. So I've got a lot of this stuff within my data center that's helping us act very mobile, but keep everything secure. And you have a target onsite and then you vault off-site as well? We replicate to Texas, yep. Okay. All right, and then talk a little bit about the sort of before and after. Maybe sort of the business results. Business is not huge. I mean, at the end of the day, we probably saved about $195,000 on resources. I did a whole ROI on how much time and we actually spending, pulling things here, moving things around. And EMC's automation just makes it so easy. So this is arms and legs, people time, right? 100%.  We went to a smaller data center. It's all the typical stuff you read out there, which I have to say, I'm not a white paper fan. Usually it's made to sell, but it's as advertised. My deduplication rate on a lot of things are about 10 to one, sometimes 12 to one on certain types of applications. So I'm really happy with it. Do you use any tape? No, zero. No tape, whatever. Nope, nope. We have replicated devices, so we actually have a bi-directional replication as well. And as I said, I set it up as multi-tenant. So we have it segregated per the user. So we have legal, we have HR, we have healthcare division, we have general population, we have different states, you know, Massachusetts. It's pretty good how we have it broken down. So this is essentially your archiving system, your email archiving system? I'm like my own little service provider right now. Like I say, legal holds, any issues you have there, it's dealt with with this infrastructure. Yeah, we were able to, you know, we upgraded everything to source one as well for both SharePoint and Exchange. And we were able to, we actually had a situation where there was an employee, there was a breach, not that we caused, but we were part of the team at the customer. So we were requested to say, hey, do you have documents from their employee that was collaborating with us? And, you know, it was just a piece of cake for our legal department to go in without ITs in a vape and intervention and pull all those documents out. Let's talk about some advice that you give the customers. If you had to do it over again, would you do anything differently and or what would you advise people going through a similar project? That's a great question. I would advise them to work with us on N-Cube because honestly, if you don't align those four Ps up, you know, process, policy, people and product, you're just throwing these solutions out there. So we did do the best job of that, you know, early on. I think we were too eager to have the archive, too eager to get this done, too eager, and we didn't take the time to plan properly. Second time around, which was this time that we're in right now, we definitely planned it. And we did a great job of not only achieving what we wanted to in those results, but we're in a much better state right now.  To me, data protection is a piece of corporate governance, you know, yes, is it secure, is it compliant, but am I in a good corporate governance state? And right now we are. Is it a boardroom discussion at your company? 100%. Yeah.  Yeah, I mean, I didn't sell this internally as easy as I'm communicating. Okay, so. So talk about that. With the big illuminate, well with the big illuminate, I had to go to finance, I had to go to legal, and, you know, they thought I was coming to push my thoughts and ideas on what we should do. And quite honestly, I think I did a pretty good job of, you know, we are now governed where Texas-based organization, Dallas, with entities in Massachusetts, Ohio, Kansas City, Nashville, Southern Texas, Oklahoma, so in Ohio Valley, we're all over the place, right? So what I was able to show them is basically legal documentation that a company based out of Texas, they have to adhere to all these different state laws and regulations, and Massachusetts is pretty clear. You know, so I was able to sell them on the idea that we have to protect the business entity first. You don't want to be sued. Okay, so that's how we were able to roll this out in production. So it was all based on legal and compliance, you know, and that's the key thing. So that's kind of the original justification. Backup is, you know, expensive insurance, let's face it. But there's a lot of talk in the industry about getting more value out of it. Obviously the perpetual backup window, I always have this problem of trying to meet my backup window. Data growth is causing challenges for me. So what do you see as the future of data protection? Will we go beyond insurance? Will there be added business value? Will there be new ways of protecting data with all this, you know, explosion going on that can help us with this backup window? Where do you see it going? I see it there today, but we're not there. The industries there we're talking about, it's analytics. It's all analytics. It's big data analytics. I mean, if you go back, you and I are aged a little bit, but that's a good thing now in IT. And, because we have relevance and we can have a story and what goes around comes around but I'm seeing, you know, with data warehouses we're once built to build in all of this technology but this with data went to die. Everyone would say data warehouses, data went to die. You could pop on Cognos on Oracle and, you know, it was the user, if they didn't know how to ask the question and go search the data, you weren't getting anything. I look at backups now. That's live data. That's real data. That's, it's backed up. I get it de-duplicated and compressed and sent off from a compliance security data protection but that's intelligent data. I'm not using that data effectively. People are throwing that away. So their investment in data protection, to me, they're seeing a third of it. They should be looking at not just is it a corporate government thing and am I data protected and backed up? Can I recover? But can I mine that data? What can I do with that data? Is that data intelligent? Yeah, it's real stuff. I back it up every day.  And it still does that today, by the way. We have customers that are building in these big Hadoop infrastructures just to do exactly what I said and they're not touching backups. Well, no, the backups are the backups. No, that's not true. You know, this is like going back to the AS-100 days where that box just stayed in the corner and nobody touched that, you know? So it's like, no, there's a lot you can do with that. All right, good. About getting value out of your existing infrastructure and thinking ahead. So, Jamie, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. It was great to see you. No problem, thank you, Dave. All right, thanks for watching, everybody. This is Dave Vellante. This is theCUBE Conversations. We'll see you next time.


Recently, Patek Philippe announced that it was discontinuing one of its most popular models, the Nautilus 5711, and reaction in the secondary market was swift. The watch that was already commanding more than two times the retail price suddenly rose even more and we're seeing prices well north of $100,000 at this point. As someone who owned a Blue Dial 5711 but sold it in 2019, I'm getting a lot of questions about whether or not I regret selling it and assumptions that I must regret selling it. Wouldn't it be great if you had a crystal ball and could see into the future? I'd win the lottery every day and I'd be the one weatherman you could always rely on, but I don't and none of us do in hindsight is 2020. Which is to say that yes, although it would have been nice to pocket some extra cash from the sale, I have no regrets about my decision to sell it when I did. And if you want the full story of how I came by my 5711 and my reasons for selling it, click on that video right down there.


Activist investor Dan Loeb taking a three and a half billion dollar stake in Nestle. A rather large stake 40 million shares worth of Nestle which he's been accumulating over time but certainly he's an activist investor so he's looking for ways to create value and unlock value and so this story is just developing right that the headline came out yesterday the action is today Nestle's is up was up almost 5% right near the open I think it's backed off a little bit but still up three and a half or 4% so that's going to be an ongoing story but I think that speaks to not only Dan Loeb's opinion of what's going on in Europe because he's got some other investments in Europe he's that unit credit which is an Italian bank stock he's got a German utility company and what he's what he's starting to say and what other people I think are starting to understand is that the economic situation in Europe is is changing turning for the better and as well there's less there's much less now political risk after we've gone through certainly Brexit we've gone through now the Theresa May election we've gone through now the the French election and all the support that he's gotten so the next big one is Germany that's in November but that's still a good four or five months away so I think there's a lot going on and that speaks right to that point and does it say anything about where Dan Loeb might go next what his next investment might be well listen he's got some fairly large investors I suspect he's got to pay attention to the ones he's got so I'm not going to speculate on where he could go next but I just think this Nestle this Nestle news is going to be big news for a while it's gonna be a lot of conversation around


Good day fellow investors. Today we're perhaps doing the most interesting video that we have done on this channel up till now because it will be an interaction between me and you and the goal of today is to think like the big investors do. So first focus on risk and then on reward. If you listen to Buffett, the first rule, don't lose money. If you listen to Ray Dalio, all-weather portfolio allocation, 25% risk, risk, risk, risk. Not about returns. It's all about risk. If you read Seth Clariman, he says that a value investor or any other kind of investor should first focus on risk. So let's exercise to focus on risk even if the market doesn't show any kind of risk even if the volatility is extremely low in the long term. Focusing on where we won't lose money will allow us to gain higher returns at lower risk rates and that's the most important thing. How will we do that? So let's take each of ours four top positions and then in one sentence write why do you own it, what are the potential catalysts and what are the risks so that in two rows you see the positives and the negatives. Every stock, every investment has positives and negatives. This might be difficult for some of you because a lot of especially beginners see only the positives and don't see the negatives. However, experienced investors, professional investors look first at the risk and then at the positives. Let me start. I'll discuss four positions that I own and show you how I think about the positives but I also always look at the negatives. Let me start with Amira Nature Foods. Why do I own it? 15% of book value compounding per year over the last six years. It gives me exposure to India and the catalyst there apart from the 15% book value increasing every year is fair market valuation. So that when that happens I will probably sell it. Probably, I don't know yet. The risk, the management isn't that communicative to shareholders. The debt is relatively high for such a small company. Receivables have been growing. Our questionable inventories are large because of the business model. However, I would prefer that they have cash and if the stock price drops there is a short attack of something we could see at the listing. So that's the worst case scenario that could happen to Amira. Nefson Resources. My second position I own it because it offers me copper and some gold exposure. Unfortunately, low zinc exposure because the Bishop mine has half their mine life. Nevertheless, it gives me some protection to inflation and on the positive side if everything goes well with TMock I expect a 200% return in four years. The risk. More issues in Eritrea. Complications at TMock with the pre-feasibility study that building the permitting whatever. Too much debt to build TMock. Lower copper and gold prices could really lead Nefson to a price of $1 per share. So that's the risk. High risk. Xinyuan Real Estate. I own because they have a 10% dividend yield, 5% additional buyback yield, offer me exposure to China, have a strong cash balance and the catalyst is there again a fair market valuation. Risk. Any kind of turmoil in China related to real estate or whatever financing interest rates could lower it to 2. There could always be the option of the management. They're listing such a company. Management buyout at a small premium lower than what I paid. So that's always the risk. Fourth position. Eldorado Gold. Let's say I own that because it's a gold hedge and that's what it is. I don't own it because it's an investment. I own it as a protection against monetary policies. The risk is gold prices go down. I can say bye-bye to Eldorado. More cost to Kishladak from operating risks. Negative arbitration in Greece. No reserves in Ontario with their new project and so. So it's crucial to look at the risks and at the rewards. Compare and find what are the best investments for your portfolio and your investing strategy. Because investing is not somewhere where you chase 10-15% returns over a few months. Investing is a 42-year marathon and if you want to win in that long period of time you really should focus first on risks and then compare them to rewards. So I'm looking forward to your comments. I'm looking forward to your risk-reward assessments and I'm looking forward to the comments if it is difficult for you to think about risks on the investments that you own. Do you see only the positive, only the catalysts and do you think it's dangerous? So this video is about you and your comments. Those will be very valuable because we'll have a lot of stock picks to dig in, a lot of risk-reward assessments to assess and a lot to learn. Thank you for watching. Click like if you like the content and I'll see you in the next video.


Yes, it's true. Many Christians hate this Bible story, even though they've heard it a million times. I'm going to share that with you, but first I want to share with you a contrasting story in the Bible that will help flesh out why so many people hate this other story. So it'll all make sense in a second, but let's begin by going to Mark 4 where Jesus calms the storm. He says, on this day when the evening had come, He came to them saying, let us go across to the other side, leaving the crowd. And they took Him with the boat, with Him in the boat, just as He was. And the other boats were with Him. And the great wind storm arose and waves were breaking into the boat so that the boat was already filling. But He was at the stern asleep on a cushion. So you see this here, the disciples are in this boat. They're going across to the other side and they see Jesus. He's just sleeping. Meanwhile, the waters are raging. The storm is crushing the boat. And it says, teacher, do you not care that we are perishing? And He awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, peace be still. And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. And He said to them, why are you so afraid?  And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him? So usually we would read that story and just say, okay, Jesus is trying to teach them about faith and He calms the storm and that's a good thing. And He scolds the disciples, that makes sense. He had such little faith in Him and we leave it at that. But I want to show you this other contrasting story to this that a lot of people don't like practically or they don't like what it's saying to them. And we go to Matthew chapter 14 here and it says, immediately He made the disciples get into the boat and go before Him to the other side while He dismissed the crowd. So you see the disciples, they're getting in this boat, similar kind of occasion. They're getting in the boat and they're going to go across. But Jesus, He sees that the boat is being beaten up by the waves. So He goes across to them, walking on the water and they see Him and immediately they're terrified when they see Him because they think He's a ghost. They're terrified. But what happens? What happens next?  And Peter answered Him, Lord, if it is you, command me to come onto the water. And He said, come. So Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, He was afraid. And beginning to sink, He cried out, Lord, save me. Jesus immediately reached out His hand, took hold of Him, saying to Him, oh, you of little faith, why do you doubt? And they got into the boat and the wind ceased. So why do we hate this? Why do I think that people hate this story?  That's crazy. That's amazing. Here's the truth. Okay. We like the first story. We like the first story because we would prefer for God to calm the storm and for us to be scolded. Then for Him to invite us out into the storm to walk with Him. That's the truth.  I really like the times that God has said, you know what, I will calm the storm. And yet He says, I said, why didn't you have faith? Why didn't you have faith? And I'll take that. I can take that scolding. I can take that discipline and say, you know what, God, okay, I'll trust you next time. I'll trust you next time. Thanks for coming to the storm, though. But then there's been other times in my life that God hasn't calmed the storm as quickly as I've wanted Him to or at all in the way that I wanted Him to. And I'm forced to get out of the boat and walk with Him. He's calling me out to walk with Him. You see, His presence is imminent. He's walking with us in the midst of the storm, but that doesn't, He doesn't always promise deliverance necessarily in the timing that we want or at all in this life. Like if it's me, I like the story of Jesus saying, okay, I'm going to calm the winds and the waves and He's going to wake up and He's going to fix everything. I don't want the winds and the waves to be raging. And for God to tell me, for Jesus to tell me, come out of the boat and walk with me. I'm not going to calm the storm yet. I'm not going to calm the storm yet. And yet you need to keep your eyes on me so you can walk on this water. The truth is, is that we're just like Peter though. We keep our eyes, we take our eyes off Jesus and we begin to sink and we cry out to God, save me. And you know what He does? He does. He does save us and He does bring us into the boat and He does bring us that comfort. But listen friend, there are going to be times in your life if you haven't already experienced them, when God doesn't calm the storm when you want Him to, when He calls you to walk with Him. I think about David. You know, people talk about David being this strong, courageous, you know, man of God, man after God's own heart.  He was hunted by Saul for so long and he cried out to God to save him. You look at Psalm 23 and we look at Psalm 23 and everyone quotes it and they love it. And it's just this beautiful picture of peace and rest and comfort in God and how God is with us. And yet you need to go to Psalm 22. So let's do that. Go to Psalm 22. What happens before that? My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me from the words of my groaning? Oh my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer and by night, but I find no rest. So you have David here in his storm. You have David here in this agony in this place where he is crying out for deliverance and yet he's not experiencing it. And then what do you have next? You have him saying that, okay, God has delivered me completely and, you know, it's all good and the hood now and we're just we're just great. Now you go to Psalm 23 and this is what it says. It says, the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures and he leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in path of righteousness for his namesake. That's a great start. Okay, it sounds like everything's good. Everything's great for David. Okay, I can apply that to my life. Even though things are bad, eventually things are going to get really good and everything will be okay. But then this is what it says. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. This is a very different picture. All of a sudden he's saying, even though I am going to walk through the valley of the shadow of death, you are going to be with me. You are going to comfort me. That is all I need. That can be my comfort. And so we see here, both these instances, God with Peter in the storm, God with David in the valley. These things are hard and they're scary and they're just awful. And yet God is with us and through his presence, he brings out peace that we can walk with him. You see what Jesus was doing in the first story where he calms the water? He was teaching the disciples to trust him. He was teaching Peter to trust him that he can calm the storm if he wants to. He can, and when he doesn't, it's for a purpose.  I'm going to invite you to trust me and walk with me. That's the hardest lesson that I've had to learn in my life, but that is what it means to be a disciple. It's not about following Jesus when everything is good and it's light. And it's not about following Jesus out of the expectation that he's going to deliver me from everything right when I want him to, but rather that he will be with me in the storm, that he will be with me in the valley. And that is enough. That is enough because through that, he's honing my desires, my eyes, my heart, where I find satisfaction and peace, pushing it away from all the things that I used to look to four. I looked to the world for peace. I looked to the world for satisfaction. I looked to sin for all that. Now I look to God because he is all I have because at the end of the day, otherwise I will sink, I will drown. And when I take my eyes off him, he is gracious and he's merciful to pick me up and say, fear not, you should have trusted me. You're going to learn this lesson one of these days, but for now I'll put you back in the boat. That's the grace of God. That is the mercy of God. We don't like the story because it tells us that we need to walk with God in the midst of the storm. We would rather him just comment. That's the hardest lesson that we'll need to learn. I hope you got something from this video. If you did, I'd encourage you to subscribe because I'm putting out new content all the time. If you want to support what I'm doing and making this content, I'd encourage you to join our Patreon family in the link in my description. It would be a huge blessing because that's how I provide for my family and continue to run this ministry. So I appreciate it so much. Until next time, God bless.


Day 14, Before Your Eyes, which was suggested on almost every video in this series before finally coming out on top, with Moe's Milburn being second. The about page for the weekly review reads, part pretentious criticism, part not very good vlog, part leftish screed, mostly face. And I think most of that is mostly accurate most of the time. But it serves as an occasional reminder that I thought I was going to vlog more. Like I did a bit of it early on and then basically just stopped. Because every time I had to commit to the process, I didn't want to. I don't like the idea of losing a moment because I spent several minutes trying to capture some version of it forever. Setting up an interesting shot takes time and if I'm somewhere that it'd be worth vlogging, I'd rather just experience it. Images are a way to bring back memories, but if those memories are just me fiddling with a camera, doesn't seem worth it.  As it opens, you are a soul that has just been fished out of the River Styx or whatever by a wolf who brings people to be judged by the gatekeeper.  And so you, the soul formerly known as Benjamin Brinn, begin to remember. Each memory plays out as a little vignette from a couple seconds to a few minutes in length. You, the player, can look around and occasionally poke at things, but you can't move. Your primary interaction is a more passive and typically involuntary action. At some point in each memory, a metronome will appear at the bottom of the screen. And when it does, the next time you blink, the sequence will end. And I mean that literally to play the game as intended, you must grant it access to your camera and it watches you at all times. When your eyes close, you're on to the next sequence. Which is to say that developers Goodbye World Games turned that old idiom, blink and you'll miss it, into a game mechanic. And it's hard to overstate how special this feels in practice. Like one of the times the game was suggested, I was told to play this with the whole thing off to see it seen through to its conclusion. And that was terrible advice and I'm glad I didn't listen because let's be real, Benjamin Brinn's story isn't all that special. He's a prodigy with an overbearing mother who wants him to be something he's not. His dad is a listless professor who just wants to float on through life. There's a weird girl next door who he kind of likes. It's typical stuff and depending on how you think about it, it plays out pretty typically. And it's all well written and well performed with visuals that are mostly great and sometimes janky, but he was just a guy, neither the least nor most interesting to have ever lived. Yet, when you're in his shoes trying to literally keep his memory alive, you're interested in even the most mundane moments. Of course, the memories have to be something you want to be there with and solid writing and performances kept me intrigued to how each scene would play out. And yet I never saw them end. Many games offer the ability to skip cutscenes, but the choice to do so is not typically or ever a meaningful one. Before Your Eyes, which could not too reductively be considered a series of cutscenes, makes it meaningful by shifting the dynamic. Unless you actively work to keep your eyes open, the scene will end.  And there were times when I tried to keep my eyes open as long as possible and others where I didn't. And that becomes its own game of sorts, trying to end a sequence in a place that felt right. You can tell that a thought is ending, and you know there's probably a but coming, but if you can blink it just the right moment, you can feel as though you got what it had to say. Now, the tech isn't perfect, and if you aren't in a brightly lit room, so before I understood that, there were a few times where my open eyes registered as blinks. And at first, this is annoying, kind of like the fact that the game features moments where you are supposed to blink at parts of the level to reveal something new, and sometimes this will continue the same scene, others it jumps forward in time. There is no indication of which it will be, so you don't know in those situations what a blink is going to do. But eventually, all of this felt like it emphasized the point. I can follow the rules, but I can't always know the consequences. I can fight to stay in the moment, but I can't control external forces. And even when it's just me, my body may not listen to my brain. The moment where I involuntarily blinked seconds before completing a silly but impactful task looking up at the stars while lying next to that weird girl from next door outside was one of the most genuinely heartbreaking experiences I've ever had in a game. The only real time that it falters is in that framing narrative. I don't get why this very grounded emotional experience periodically breaks for that guy. I understand the need for a frame given where the story goes, and bigger picture a River Sticks type deal is as good as any, but the wolf is a confusing and inconsistent character who is the cause of easily the game's worst moment when he suddenly gets up in your face and starts snarling about something that the character knows, but the player doesn't. And when you are supposed to be the character, that's just bad storytelling. But fortunately, it's also a rarity here.  Look, I don't cry much, and not in a big tough manly man kind of way. I get emotional, but that's just not how I typically react other than maybe a single tear from this eye. I can't think of the last time anything truly brought a River of Tears. But before your eyes did, 9.0 out of 10. Thanks so much for watching, thank you particularly to my patrons, my mom, Hammering Marko, Kat Zarokata, Benjamin Schiff, Anthony Cole, Magnolia Denton, Elliot Fowler, Greg Lucina, Kojo, Phil Bates, Willow, Iron the Sword, Riley Zimmerman, Claire Bear, Taylor Lindyce, and the folks who'd rather be read than said. If you liked this video, that's great. If you want to see more, you can suggest what I'll talk about in three days in the comments. So do that.


For my gold, there is something good to be back home But I've seen places that would make you cry I've swam in rivers that have now run dry Been stranded on roads of dirt, carrying on your burden Good to be back home I've been travelling, something good to be back Spent some time looking back, wasting my days Riding on city streets with the kind of folk You should never meet, let's go home Good to be back home, good to be I'm good to be back home


Some people say that it's like when you do forensics you no longer contribute to life but on the country when you do forensics you are contributing to those who are still alive with very important results and information. After we have estimated what would be the area that it's going to be excavated then measurements are taken and that's where we start preparing the grid that is going to be used for the organized and systematic digging of the grave. We have more than 200 bones, some of them are big and very visible but some of them are very small and every little single piece of bone is going to be important not only for the identification process from the technical point of view but also for the families so that when they receive the remains of their loved ones back they receive it as complete as possible. By following these very detailed procedures that it's called the chain of custody it's how those in charge of identifying the mortal remains can be sure that the body that they are giving to their relatives is the correct one. Everything is exposed carefully without moving, without taking it out so that the experts can see what is the position of the remains the clothing, the personal belongings that are going to be extremely helpful for the identification but also because they belong to the individual or to the person that this body once was. We also encourage documenting the whole process by taking photographs or videos then we can move to the actual exhumation or taking out the remains from the grave and carefully putting them in proper body bags with the proper labels and then filling out all the forms, the required forms so that the body continues to the next step in the process which is going to be the forensic examination. We put a lot of emphasis on being careful not only because of technical requirements but also because we promote that the management of human remains is done with dignity and with respect and also the families when they are informed about the process about where their relative was found, who founded how he was taken out of the grave, etc this will also help them accept better the unfortunate loss of their relatives. On the other hand it's very sad, it's very emotional because it's never a good thing to face dead or to face in most of the cases the cruelty of one human being that is dead because of another human being.


The things I want them to see are really basic. I want them to notice all the Indian names at a detail in the waterways. How does that apply to what John Smith is thinking and feeling? How does that apply to what the Virginia company is thinking and feeling? How does that apply to what the Indians might be thinking and feeling? It's really simple that I want them to notice those two things. We have done research already on the different Indian language groups and tribes. Monican is a student speaking tribe that they've already heard about. They know Powhatan. So finding names that you recognize, finding names that you don't recognize, looking at the different water, looking at the different names. What is that P right there? And you take a really close look at it. What is this up here, this area up here? Significant Signification of these marks. So this is a map. Right? It's telling you what these marks mean. Okay, so my question is what is this right here? This is Powhatan. What does the tree tell you that it is? Okay, that's a funny way of spelling house. Kings house. Okay, and what is this little dot? Ordinary house. Oh, ordinary. Ordinary house. That's showing some of the ordinary houses. What else did you find on this? Some of the kings houses. Where? Right there. Do you think that there are kings that live in those houses? No. How come? Okay, how come they're called kings houses? Definitely, who do you think might live there if it's not a king? People that are rich, maybe. Like who? Who else is there? Maybe a red brother. Maybe a Powhatan's brother. Oh, Powhatan had a brother. Very, very important brother. Yes, he did. So maybe Powhatan's brother lives in one of those houses, right? Okay, what else did you see on the map? Weird print. What? What? Can I move it closer to me? What? Discovered. What's beyond this bi-army-eye relationship? I'm not sure what that is. We'll have to look that up. I don't know what that is. We'll have to look that up. Okay, what else did you see? A lot of trees. A lot of trees. Okay, a lot of trees. John Smith took the time to write all the trees, okay? We kind of noticed that these were broken into words. Like you saw the Chesapeake Bay. Okay, Chesapeake Bay. Very big in the middle, okay? Good, keep looking. Look at the words. The conversation that I have with my students is a running commentary. They understand grades. So we grade the colony. We talk about how they got the money. They're starting out pretty strong. They're very creative in the way that they finance the settlement. They get somebody like John Smith. They get people to volunteer. So they start out at a pretty good A. They also have the really bad luck of arriving at one of the worst droughts, heat waves in the history of the United States. They didn't successfully plant crops when they arrived in May. They ran out of food very quickly. They had this class struggle between the noble but not rich gentlemen and the more working class.


So there's a great show on Netflix on Formula One racing. There are three seasons. It's great seasons 2018, 2019, 2020 Formula One racing and their spectacular wipeouts and crashes in the show. Just amazing. There's one crash in season three where the guy's car is cut in half and then the flames just just billowing up these flames and and 30 seconds goes by a minute goes by like two minutes goes by before rescue team seems to be on the track and then trying to douse the flames and you think there's no way this guy can survive the flames for two and a half minutes three minutes. It's just absolutely gripping. Well, I had a not so gripping but very intense wipeout on the show last night about 90 minutes into the show. I wanted to talk about a book review in the New York review of books by Frederick Cruz, a professor of English at Cal Berkeley. And I just I just hit the wall because the language sentences, the construction of sentences very different in formal writing or in writing in general compared to the way we speak. And so I had not done enough preparation. So I'd read the article and I'd chosen highlights of it for my blog. But I didn't choose highlights for the show. So I just thought I could wing it. And the show was going along great for 90 minutes. And then I just hit the wall trying to articulate and turn this thought for academic book review in the New York review of books into something that I could just talk about on the show. And I was struggling. And everyone was going, Luke's lost it again. And I just hit the wall. I was struggling to to turn this this book review into a segment on the show. And the problem was that I hadn't done enough preparation. I hadn't just pulled out the key points of the book review so that I could talk about it spontaneously. Instead, I was I was reading things that I wasn't fully connected with, and that were meaningless to people. And I just lost the audience. I went from from 40 live viewers to 18 live viewers in about five minutes. And it's like, Oh, man, not again, I hadn't done adequate preparation. I hadn't pulled out the key points that I could then talk about spontaneously. And man, this has happened to me like 300 times before when am I ever going to learn? I've been taking this course from radio.co. They've got an excellent YouTube channel on how to be a better radio presenter. They're in the United Kingdom. So in Australia, and the United Kingdom, they talk about radio presenters more than radio hosts. And the last segment that I'd listened to was on voice quality. And the biggest problem for people on the radio is a monitor and voice quality. You don't want to have that. And the challenge of reading anything on the air because it tends to start deadening the spontaneity and the excitement. And I realized what I was doing was just I was doing all the wrong things according to this radio presenter course. And I knew what the problem was. I simply had not done the prep, had not taken the time to prepare this segment of the show. And so after the show last night, I was like, I felt annoyed because I just slammed into that wall like a Formula One driver. And so I ate dinner and then I got back on the horse and I started rewatching this radio.co course and how to be a better radio presenter. And I did these exercises that I needed to do. And so normally after I do my show, I'm wiped out. I just kick back. I may read a book or watch a movie or a TV show. But I was driven to do about 90 minutes of work. I did some journaling. I did all the things that I needed to do. Because when I experienced that slamming into the wall on my own show and that feeling of losing the audience, it's not a good feeling. And knowing that I'm repeating a problem that I've committed about 300 times before, it's like, OK, 40, you got to do the prep. You got to do the work.  And so the humiliation of failure, it was like an analogy as talking about it with a friend of a little piece of sand in a clam, whatever it turns it can turn into a pole. So I'm going to use that irritation to spur me to do more prep work for my show. I'm loving Luke Ford's latest turn against a former obsession. One day Tucker is playing every night to close the shed. The next day is a pariah. Well, yeah, I have ambivalent feelings about Tucker. Overall, the much more positive feelings about Tucker than the negative. So Tucker is a unique voice. He's the most important commentator around. At the same time, I want to acknowledge that there are some legitimate criticisms of him. So sometimes, yeah, I'll just see the positive and what a guy is doing. And then I'll see the negative. And so I'm very changeable person. So many people like Kevin Michael Grace is very consistent. I think J.F. Garopi very consistent. I'm not very consistent. I'm more personality who sees things from different angles. But I may not see the other side for months or years. And then suddenly I see the other side. And so I turn. Tucker has weaknesses. I don't like when he does Hennedys style tactic. Yeah, I don't like it when he's unnecessarily mean. I don't like it when he puts on bad information. Like when he had Alex Berenson on about 20 times and some other loony guests. And I think he's way too populist. He goes for the easy applause. He's I think it's very easy to get sucked into what your audience likes and to keep feeding them what they like. Even when you realize that it's not true. You're giving them a distorted view of reality so you can keep them enraged.  Yeah, no need to misrepresent them. Yeah, that's taking the easy way out is to misrepresent what your opponents are saying. So Tucker is the best of any pundit around today of which I'm aware on TV. And I think overall he does does good work. But there are weaknesses. And I may not see the weaknesses or just may not feel like mentioning the weaknesses, particularly in a run up to an election, one tends to get much more partisan. Now the elections in


Why should you dropship from U.S. suppliers? Many dropshippers, especially in the beginning of their journey, usually start by dropshipping from Chinese suppliers. Their products are relatively cheap, so there are higher profit margins. That makes sense, and it's a business model that works. On the other hand, you also have U.S. suppliers who also have huge advantages that can help you grow and profit more. That's why in this video, I'm going to be going over U.S. suppliers and all of the perks that come from working with them so that you can grow your business and profit more. Quick intro, let's begin. Hello everyone, my name is Liran from AutoDS. I'm the content producer and I've also been dropshipping for the last four years. And like I said in this video, we are going to be going over American suppliers, why you should dropship from them, and all of the advantages that come with it. Right before we begin, I just want to remind you guys to like this video because it really helps out our channel. Share this video so that your friends and family can also learn about the wild and amazing world of dropshipping. And if you're new to our channel, subscribe to our YouTube channel so that you can stay updated on all kinds of informational videos like this one where you can learn all about suppliers and marketplaces and product finding, saving a lot of time while you work, automating your business and everything else that comes along with it. So without further ado, let's get on to the U.S. suppliers and why we should work with them in our dropshipping business. So everything that I'm talking about in this video, you can find it in the blog below. You'll find the links to all of the suppliers that I'm going to recommend to you soon. And once again, everything that I'm talking about is written below. So if you watch this video and then you read the article below, you'll have the full picture of everything that we're talking about and why you should go ahead and start working with these U.S. suppliers. So to begin, what are the benefits of working with U.S. suppliers? We are going to compare this to Chinese suppliers because most dropshippers are dropshipping either from Chinese suppliers or from U.S. suppliers. So to start off, when you're dropshipping from U.S. suppliers and you are dropshipping to the U.S. market, your customers will get their packages much faster when their packages are leaving the U.S. And the delivery is in the U.S. Domestic shipping is always much, much faster than international shipping. So when a product leaves China and has to make its way to the U.S., it usually takes around two to three weeks and in worse cases even more. But when a product leaves one of the countries in the United States and needs to make its way to another country in the United States, this can usually take around two to three days, sometimes less, depends which supplier you're working with. And customers are willing to pay more for faster shipping. So faster shipping times and delivery times for U.S. customers, for products leaving the U.S. to the U.S. is much better than products leaving China to the U.S. So if you're working with U.S. customers, working from U.S. suppliers is a much better bargain for your dropshipping business. Another reason why you should work with U.S. suppliers is because they have much more reliable tracking information.  However, many Chinese sellers do not offer trackable tracking information. And even when they do offer tracking information, sometimes it gets forwarded to a few tracking numbers until it reaches the U.S. and it can get a little messy to understand what's going on. This can sometimes cause some problems with our transactions, especially when our customers open item not received cases. And there's no way for us to prove if they got their product or not because there is no tracking information. So when working with U.S. suppliers, most of them always have tracking information available for each and every one of their products. Most of them work with the biggest shipping companies like UPS and FedEx. So there's no problem for the package to reach its target on time with reliable tracking information along the whole way. Tracking numbers usually do not change to different tracking numbers while trying to reach their destination from the U.S. to the U.S. So the tracking information is much more reliable and it helps us with our customer service and we won't be losing any money on reimbursing customers on products that didn't arrive with us having no way to prove it because we didn't have any tracking information. So reliable tracking information is another great reason why you should work with U.S. suppliers. Another reason for you to work with American suppliers is because in many cases you're going to have multiple shipping options available. And what this means is most of the packages will be able to get shipped out in just a few days, which means when a customer puts in an order right now on your shop, he's going to get his product within the next four to five days, which is great. But some customers want to get their products in one day or two days at the most. So some American suppliers can give you this advantage by letting you ship out your products within a day or two. Some will take a few extra dollars and some are going to offer it for free like Amazon Prime, but we're going to talk about all of the American suppliers soon. There's a bunch of them, not just one or two. So you don't have to worry.  But the point is there are always multiple shipping options available. When you're drop shipping from China, there is no such thing as getting a product within one or two days. You usually do have FedEx on some suppliers from China, but it comes with a heavy cost of around 30, 50 or maybe even $100 or more really depends on the product. So it just makes the whole transaction not worth it and you won't close that sell. So working with American suppliers will give you multiple shipping options available for the products that you are selling. Another reason for you to work with US suppliers is because of their stock availability. And what I mean by this is most Chinese suppliers that you might be working with, for example, AliExpress, one of the biggest drop shipping marketplaces in the world, each and every seller over there is actually a drop shipper themselves. AliExpress does not have stock. They don't have warehouses like Amazon. So when a seller runs out of stock on AliExpress, it's not him that's running out of stock, it's his supplier from a different Chinese marketplace like Taobao and so forth. So when a Chinese supplier runs out of stock, sometimes you may not know if and when he will refill on stock again, because he doesn't know himself. It's not his stock. When you're drop shipping from American suppliers, you're usually drop shipping from suppliers who are actually holding their physical stock. This means that the stock is managed in a much more sophisticated way. You won't be getting too much into places where you run out of stock and you won't know when it's coming back. Usually the US suppliers know when their stock is about to run out. They usually refill on time. And if they don't refill on time, they know how to give you an indication of when their stock is going to come back. So stock availability is much more reliable from US suppliers. The next reason why you need to work with American suppliers is because of high quality products. And yes, most of the products that are being sold on the US market are made in China. So how can they be higher quality products? Well, that's usually because when products leave China to US warehouses, they undergo a lot of testing before reaching the US. Therefore, when you're buying products from US warehouses, you can be sure that they went through more product testing and therefore these products are usually made of higher quality. This doesn't mean that products once again that are coming from China are not of high quality. There are many high quality products from China, but there are also many low quality products from China. And if you're having a hard time differentiating between them, you should definitely work more with American suppliers. There you can be sure that the average product will be of much higher quality than Chinese products. The next reason why you should work with American suppliers is because Americans simply appreciate made in USA products. You know that Americans are patriotic people, they love their country, and they want to help and support their country's wealth and economics, just as you should for the country that you live in. But since you know this fact, you know that many US residents will want to buy a product from the US just because they know that it's coming from the US and they want to help the small and medium businesses, they want to help the economy. And what better time than now after this crushing year that we had at 2020 with the COVID-19 striking almost everyone's quality of life. So they want to buy more from US marketplaces. And if they see that your product is coming from the US, they would much rather buy it from you than to buy a product from China, which is not helping their economy whatsoever. And once again, what better time to help your economy than now. Another reason why you should work with American suppliers is because you can sell the same products for a higher price tag. And this is because for one, they're getting their products much, much faster. As I've mentioned before, getting a product in two to three days rather than getting a product in two to three weeks, there's no problem to pay more for that product and get it within two to three days. So that's one reason how you can sell the same product for a higher price tag. And like I said one paragraph before, it's also helping the US economy when Americans are buying from US marketplaces, they know that they're helping the economy and that's exactly what they want to do. So they'd have no problem paying a little bit more and buying it from a US marketplace. For example, from your store selling from the US to the US and not from your competitor, who's only selling products from China. The next reason why you want a drop ship from US suppliers is because US suppliers are going to give you overall better customer support. And there's a few factors why Americans give better customer support. For one, when you reach out for customer support, you're usually going to do it in English because that's the spoken language. And when you'd reach out to a Chinese seller, you may sometimes notice that their English is a little bit broken. And many times you'll have a hard time understanding them, they'll have a hard time understanding you. And in many cases, it takes them a long time to respond. Sometimes it can take more than 24 hours just to get a simple reply. There's also a lot of Chinese holidays. It's hard to keep up with them and there's many of them. And they're never working on these Chinese holidays. So do not expect any answer. When compared to US suppliers, when you reach out to them in customer service, big suppliers usually have a live 24 seven chat, which makes it much more convenient. And in most cases, American suppliers will offer you free returns when compared to Chinese suppliers who usually never offer free returns, unless the product really arrived damage and you have to prove it by sending pictures and so forth. And even if the return is paid or not paid, the whole process itself can be really difficult because it takes a long time for the product to reach its destination when we're talking China and US. And when you're going with American suppliers, the return and refund process is usually much faster, much smoother, and your customers don't end up biting their nails and asking themselves why they made the mistake of buying from your store. You want to get this top notch customer service when it comes to returns, replacements and refunds. And only US suppliers can make this process easy going and smooth. So better customer support is another reason why you should work with American suppliers. Now let's move on to the list of the best American suppliers that you can work with today for your dropshipping business and start really making more profit handle your customer service in a much better and more professional way and overall enjoy running your business a lot more. So the top nine American suppliers for dropshipping in no particular order, the first US supplier that we would like to recommend you guys to work with is Wayfair. Wayfair is a dropshipping friendly US supplier with warehouses all over the world. Many of them are in the US, which means that many of their products are shipping to the US within two to three days. Here is their front page. I'm not going to go over it too much because you guys really need to go ahead and do your homework and start looking at these suppliers and see what each one has to offer. But we already did our homework. We already know the suppliers were working with them for a few years and there are many products to sell within these suppliers. So go ahead and check them out. Wayfair also has a daily sales page so you can see which products are on sale right now so you can make more profit from those specific items. And by the way, I want to remind you guys that everything that I'm talking about with the links right below this video in the full blog below. So if you click on the daily sales link, you'll be able to see what products are on sale right now. And as you can see, they have a whole bunch of categories and this chair looks like the one that's behind me right now. As you can see, I just took the pillow off but it's pretty much the same chair. So that's cool. But anyway, as you can see, there are filled with products filled with categories. It's not going to go into it. That's what you need to do. So Wayfair is the first supplier that I want you guys to check out. The second supplier is Costway, another wonderful dropshipping friendly supplier with warehouses in the US so they can ship out quickly to US residents. They have free shipping on pretty much all of their products and they also have a dropshipping agreement which makes it much easier for people who are dropshipping on places like eBay. If you click on the link on the blog below, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about and how to get that dropshipping agreement. So here is Costway. As you can see, they're getting ready for Black Friday and for Christmas. We're already seeing the Christmas trees. We're seeing a black layout for Black Friday. You have all of the Black Friday sales. So this is a supplier who's been around for a while. They know what they're doing. They're making really good business with many dropshippers. So Costway is another dropshipping supplier that you need to check out. The next US supplier that I want to recommend to you guys is a supplier called Overstock. Overstock is also a dropshipping friendly supplier. They also have daily deals. They even have a price matching policy so you can profit more. All of your payments can be done through PayPal so it makes it much easier to handle the cash flow. They also have daily deals so you can see what's on sale right now and they sell in the most popular and trending categories. So check out Overstock, US dropshipping friendly supplier with fast shipping, easy payments and great customer service. The next US supplier that I want to recommend to you is Walmart and one of the best advantages about Walmart is they have a next day delivery option for many of their products and this is one thing that many US customers are looking for. Next day delivery is one of the biggest advantages that you can have today when you're running a dropshipping business. So besides having pretty much any category you guys can think of with tens of thousands of products they also have clearance sales and big savings so if you click on the links on the blog that we have below you'll be able to see these pages. Here is the clearance sales for example. Here you can see all of the products that are on sale like this dinosaur costume which is very very trendy instead of $50, $38.33 so you have your clearance sales, you have your big savings. Check out these pages because you'll be able to find products that you have on Amazon and other US marketplaces but you'll have them much cheaper here because of these clearance sales. So Walmart is another supplier that you should add to your list. The next US supplier and this is one of the best ones that people have been dropshipping from for the last few years and it's simply been a goldmine. Just don't dropship using gift cards because they will lock your accounts and it'll make everything much harder. Use a regular credit card when you're working with Amazon and it'll simply make the whole process much much smoother. So if you haven't seen Amazon's front page I'm sure you have unless you're really in the beginning of your journey. My advice for you guys on Amazon is to check out the best sellers, check out new releases. Usually you'll be able to find gems either here or there or somewhere in between but this is how you learn about products that are selling and then trying to catch new trends. This is usually what works on Amazon. You can also check out their best sellers using the link in the blog below and if you sign up for Amazon's Prime membership it does have a monthly cost but the amount of profit that you can make dropshipping from Amazon is simply amazing and having a Prime membership will allow you to dropship millions of products to any US customer and the product will reach them within a day or two with free shipping and free returns. The whole process is really really easy. Most of it is automated so if you haven't worked with Amazon before I definitely recommend to work with them. The next supplier that I want to recommend is Costco. Many people are dropshipping from them but on the other hand many people haven't heard of them or have heard of them but haven't thought about dropshipping from them. They are another supplier to find a whole range of products from. They have very fast two-day shipping on most of their products so go ahead and check out their site see what they have to offer and if you use our blog below you'll also have a link to their online offers page. If we just scroll down a little bit to products that are more dropshippable you'll be able to see them like these gloves over here these touch gloves this heated throw blanket which is one of the products that we recommend to dropship on my video blogs for the best products to dropship so you have their clearance page and besides that go into their front page go inside their categories check out their products check out their prices and you'll see that this is another great supplier and many of the products that they're selling are really really good for dropshippers. Many gems can be found in Costco so go ahead and check them out. The next supplier is Home Depot. Home Depot is another US supplier they have warehouses all over the United States and their main niche is the home and garden niche mostly for home improvement and home decor. They're always selling products that are trending that people are really looking for so go ahead and check out Home Depot if you haven't checked them out before and as you can see pretty much every supplier that I'm showing you guys already have all of these Black Friday deals and also for Christmas which is coming soon and we already have blogs and videos for Cyber Monday Black Friday Christmas and everything that comes in between. We have blogs and videos for product ideas that you guys need to add to your stores so check them out too but that's not what I'm here to talk to you guys about so US supplier number seven is Home Depot this brings us to number eight and number eight is Target they are another huge online marketplace which ship really really quick to US residents because they are from the US let me show you their front page and once again getting ready for Black Friday Cyber Monday and here's Christmas these guys are always ready on time and they have many products with great prices which is also good for us for the dropshipping business model so go ahead and add Target to your list see what they have check out their prices compare it with the other suppliers that I'm showing you guys and this way you'll be able to get a better idea of the suppliers that you need to work with the next US supplier that I want you guys to check out is an American retailer called Lowe's Lowe's is an American retailer who focuses mainly on the home and garden niche just like Home Depot but it's another great addition that you guys need to check out this is their front page they're already getting ready with holiday inflatables this is one of the products that I recommended to dropship in our Christmas video blog about the best products to dropship for Christmas Christmas trees also but once again I'm getting out of the subject let's go back Lowe's is a great supplier with many products coming from the US with fast shipping to the US they also have great prices which is great for the dropshipping business model so go ahead and check them out they also have new arrivals and daily deals these are two topics that you guys always need to stay sharp on so let's check it out really quick new arrivals daily deals here on the daily deals you have all the great deals and all the great prices that they have going on right now and in what's new here you can find secret hidden gems so try to check out products that are selling well for you or for other dropshippers and try to find similar products in the new arrival section this is where you're gonna find those secret hidden gems where you're gonna have 10 20 30 and even 50 sales just on one product this is how you start those tidal waves of huge sales before your competitors get to them so by now I hope that you guys learned and understand the importance of working with American suppliers and not just with Chinese suppliers faster shipping times higher product prices means higher profits better customer satisfaction and then overall much better workflow experience with your customers with your suppliers the problems that may happen in between everything is simply much smoother when working with us suppliers and in many cases much more profitable start working with them and you'll start seeing the results I hope you enjoyed this video guys I hope you found it informational if you did give us a like give us a share and subscribe to our channel so that you can always stay updated with informational videos like this one because I record them a lot and we simply have a lot of videos that came out and that are coming out in the dropshipping world so good luck with those us suppliers and I'll see you in the future videos


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Well, there is another debate tonight and it will be hosted by CNN and the Des Moines Register at Drake University And it will feature six candidates Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer. Now, essentially I have four people up on the screen behind me because those are the only individuals who actually have a chance and Who this debate is actually either going to help or hurt the most. They have the most on the line So what I want to do is talk through what I think we can expect By the time you all are seeing this, most of you are seeing this We'll just have had the entire drama between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in large part because Elizabeth Warren most likely planted that story. So will we see that at tonight's debate? I think a question on this will certainly come up since CNN was originally the source that broke that story They're gonna be hosting this debate So you can expect a portion of time to be dedicated to that and expect to be incredibly disappointed because I don't believe that they will Give Bernie Sanders a chance to explain himself and defend himself properly, although if they do I will stand corrected and be Very happy to be wrong about that. Now basically Bernie Sanders is walking into a lion's den tonight He's always a target for attacks not just from the other candidates But from moderators as well usually and now he is surging in the polls So understand that this will probably be the most harsh debate for Bernie Sanders He will have to defend himself and if I were Bernie Sanders the way that I think I would proceed is I wouldn't go on the offensive as much. I would simply Make my case But whenever I am attacked and he will be attacked, you know, it's inevitable at this point Rebut with a counter attack. So if Elizabeth Warren attacks you attack her back and say well, she doesn't go far enough She doesn't want to cancel medical debt if Joe Biden attacks you For saying that Medicare for all is too expensive Then you attack him for saying that he didn't find a way to pay for the Iraq war that he voted for so Bernie Sanders What he should be able to demonstrate is that he cannot just withstand the attacks But he can counter attack and he needs to prove to voters that he will be strong against Donald Trump And that means also calling out the media's most likely biased questions that they will pose to him specifically, right? He needs to basically make this a masterclass in debating Donald Trump and prove that he's strong against the other candidates And therefore will be strong against Donald Trump in a general who is already attacking Bernie Sanders And he's demonstrating a lot of strength amid these attacks from Donald Trump There's an article from BuzzFeed news that states Trump is kind of fixating on Bernie Sanders So Bernie has handled those all great He needs to do that here take the gloves off be absolutely brutal with the counterattacks But don't go out of your way to attack another candidate on stage because when you're starting to get into the lead You really just have to maintain right but he's gonna be attacked But he's got to hit back really hard really fast and be able to concisely Rebut you know these attacks that are lobbed at him inevitably so so if I am Joe Biden He's got to have a phenomenal showing He really is at an iffy standing He has kind of pulled ahead in early primary states him and Bernie Sanders are basically Statistically tied in Iowa and New Hampshire.  He can't be weak He can't be the subject of everyone else's attacks He has got to come out on top of this debate if he really wants a shot because this is the last debate before Iowa So he's got to make a strong case for himself. Will that happen? I don't know Most of his debate performances have been incredibly poor that last of it. I think he actually did a good job Namely because he didn't really talk that much, right? But if he is talking a lot more I think that that is time for him to demonstrate why he's not really suited for this So all I know is it's do or die right now Joe Biden. He can't just you know fade into the background He's got to have a strong showing if I'm Elizabeth Warren my task Exclusively basically my only task is to win back progressives She has pissed off all of Bernie Sanders supporters by going negative against the Bernie Sanders Well trying to disingenuously frame herself as the victim of Bernie's attacks. No, we see right through you Elizabeth Warren You need to win back Bernie Sanders supporters So give us context clarify the situation defend Bernie Sanders If you truly believe that what Bernie Sanders said to you in that closed door meeting was meant to be sexist Then also call out Joe Biden for the same thing. He said the same thing He recently said that he wouldn't be subject to the sexist attacks as women So he's basically boasting about how I'm a man and I'm stronger against Trump. Call him out Be consistent. Don't just make it seem like you're trying to siphon away progressive voters from Bernie Sanders for you know You're your benefit, right now not only does Elizabeth Warren need to win back progressives, but she has got to be Incredibly aggressive. She's got to hit Biden and she's got to hit him hard because what she did this attack on Bernie Sanders, I don't think it is going to Help her, but I do think it's gonna help Biden You know when both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren go at it Biden will benefit from that, right?  He is no longer surging He's no longer viewed universally as the front-runner according to mainstream media His poll numbers are sinking. He needs to have a good night This is basically his last chance to make an impression on voters before Iowa if he doesn't perform well in Iowa Odds are he's not going to have the momentum needed to carry him throughout the rest of the primary And it may be done so for him So he needs to make sure he brings out all the big guns He needs to understand that he is competing for that centrist space with Joe Biden And Joe Biden is overall the front-runner more so than Bernie currently So if I am Pete Buddha judge I'm going to pull an Elizabeth Warren and I'm going to attack the person ideologically who's closest to me in hopes of siphoning off his voters So Pete Buddha judge needs to make an aggressive case against Joe Biden that he is the one Who centrists should unite behind if they truly want to beat Donald Trump and they think that a centrist can beat Trump Now I don't think that a centrist will win against Trump But if I'm Pete Buddha judge is self-interested opportunist That's the case that I'm going to make now when it comes to Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer They're hanging on for dear life at this point each of these debates Amy Klobuchar in particular has gotten a lot of talk time a disproportionate amount of talk time Relative to where she stands in the polls, right? So I don't even know what she can possibly accomplish after that last debate There are a lot of pundits like Chris Eliza that said she won big zero effect in the polls You see her ticking up in early primary states But by and large she's not doing well in spite of the fact that the media is desperately trying to push her Into that frontrunner status as Pete Buddha judge slips. So she has to do something different this time She just she can't keep up with the same strategy, right?  Tell us what we can do what she is offering What is her vision because we know what isn't her vision? She doesn't believe in progressivism. She doesn't want Medicare for all Okay, great. So tell us what you support now make your case when it comes to Tom Steyer I don't really believe that there's anything he can do. He barely qualified for this debate He's hanging on for dear life. So best case scenario for him He talks enough to where that increases his name recognition and he qualifies for the February debate But at that point will it really matter? I don't think there's really anything he can do He's just lucky he made it on to that debate stage but it's time for him to seriously think about wrapping this up because he has spent millions upon millions upon millions of dollars and It's not helping him at all In fact, Mike Bloomberg jumped in and is admittedly out raising him but already out polling him as well So Tom Steyer, I mean, I don't know really why he's here He shouldn't be included in this debate one because he's a billionaire and two because he has no shot at the nomination There was one poll that seemed like an outlier where he came up at 15 percent in South Carolina Well, unless there's other polls that also show those same results I have to assume that poll is an outlier because of how bad he's doing nationally He's not really catching on nobody's talking about him Even the mainstream media has largely ignored him in favor of the other billionaire Mike Bloomberg So this is basically about him qualifying for the next debate even though that won't help him as well So that's it. I'm not sure how long this debate will be. I'm assuming two to three hours long I hope that we get a debate like the last debate where Bernie Sanders takes the gloves off and is more aggressive I'm assuming he will be aggressive in the event. He has attacked. I don't expect him to go on the offensive But I do want him and hope that he defends himself Right because you can't just allow all of these candidates to attack you from different angles You're gonna possibly have Elizabeth Warren attacking him from what she hopes is the left You're gonna have people attacking him for the from the right So he has really got to make the case for himself and for Bernie Sanders This is about proving that he just took on you know all these five candidates and he handled them with ease Watch what he's gonna do to Donald Trump if he can take on all five people at once then he can definitely take on Donald Trump That's basically what Bernie Sanders needs to communicate But we will wait and see and you can look forward to my full debate analysis after the debate I will post it the morning after so definitely look forward to that as well as some clips You know where I talk about the highlights. So We'll wait and see but hopefully this debate will be good for Bernie Sanders because now it is make or break