Hey guys, it's Jen from iCreekraft. So I purchased this new HTV Ront mug press. I wanted to see if it was worth my money, so I'm going to do a non-boxing. I'm going to try it out with you guys and you're going to see how it works. So I cut some files out already here. It's almost Christmas time, so I have Christmas guys here, but I saw this. I saw the reviews were hopping down. So we're going to test this out ourselves and kind of see what it's like. I do actually have a mug tumbler press, which I have not really used much because it just was too complicated to get the right settings, to get the right temperature, all that stuff. This is supposed to do everything for you. So we're going to go ahead unbox this and we're going to try it out together and we're going to see firsthand how this works. So let's get started. The thing is here is the manual product here. It kind of tells you all about it. I only watched a few videos on these, so we're going to do this together and kind of see how it works together.  Also gives you a pair of gloves, which I have many pairs of these and we're going to unbox this and see what it looks like. I got the mint color, so we're going to see how this does. So I'm super excited about this. I do actually have the HTV Ron's heat press and I absolutely love it. I've been using it for a few months now and it has done a fantastic job. So I'm hoping that this heat press will do the same thing as my other heat press over there, but this is for mugs instead of other products. So that is pretty color. I love mint, so I got the minty color. This looks really cool. So I'm going to show you a little bit what this looks like. Overall, it looks super simple to do. Nice and lightweight. You can pick it up. It has the regular buttons on here that my heat press has. I'll do a close-up of this for you guys. It has the power button and it has the temperature on here and we're just going to get this started and kind of go from there and we're going to see how it works. I have a 15 ounce mug here. This is a subbing mug and then I have a couple different sizes of my paper printed on the HTV Ron's subbing paper. So I'm going to go ahead, get this set up, get it plugged in, do a little bit of reading really quick. I'm excited to try this because from my watching videos is all you got to do is set the time on here and set the temperature and then it automatically presses it for you. So we're going to see how this works together. So give me one second guys to plug this in and I will be right back. All right. So I hope you guys can see this a little bit better. So here is my mug. I actually went and used the tape and went all around. I'm not sure if it's necessary to go so nuts like I did with it. So I have actually never used a heat press mug, a heat mug press before. So we're going to see how this works out. I've seen videos where they just go nuts with all this tape.  And then I'm going to take another mug that I have with another image and just do a couple around the top and just kind of see how it goes. But I'm just using a regular 15 inch mug and my heat press and I got the heat tape and I also have the gloves here. So after reading more about this, it said that I should put my temperature at 360 and then I did my seconds for 180 seconds, which is about three minutes. So I'm going to show you a little bit closer what this looks like and be careful because it is a very hot. But this is really cool. It's just like my heat press the same thing. You got your power button.  And then all you got to do to set it is you turn it on and then you set it to your temperature. So you want to push this, which is your time. So it does 180. You can go down if you want, go up if you want. And then at your temperature, I set it to 360. It said between 350 and 380. So I'm going to try actually 360 and see how that works. And if you push it again, it will go back to just the regular screen and you can see when it goes up. It's on Fahrenheit and it's also on seconds. So I believe if it's the same as my heat press, it will beep and kind of tell me it's ready to go. So I have this one, like I said, I went nuts with the tape on here and we're going to see how it goes. So I'm going to try this one at that temperature and time. And then I'm actually going to try another one that I have here. And we're going to do it that way and kind of see how that one goes. But as far as my file here, I just got one off of design bundles. I thought this was really cute. And I downloaded it into design space and I printed it out on the HTV Rant subbing paper. And you want to make sure that you mirror your image. This one didn't really matter if you mirrored or not, but it just kind of get in the habit of doing that. So I mirrored the image on here. And then with the lines on here that Cricut prints out with the register lines, I just use the Cricut machine and it cut it out for me. So I had really nothing that I had to do with this. So I'm super excited to see how this is going to go. I'm going to take this one. You always want to make sure you flip your image the other way and make sure that you have it lined up the top and bottom and then all the way over as far as you can. Depending on your size. So there was a size on the Google that told me what size to do. It was way too small. So please practice your sizes. Don't always go off of what Google says or what other when anybody else says you kind of want to make sure what size it is because I wish it was a little bit closer here. So you didn't have so much of a gap, but this is more for practice for me. So we're going to see how these turn out. It's almost getting there. It's at 310 degrees already. Let's just check really quick. So we wanted at 360 so a little bit longer for this. And I'm super excited to see how this is going to work. I believe you can put two mugs in here at once, but because this is my first time trying, I'm only going to do one to start with. So we're going to wait until this gets up to temperature. Once it does, I will come back and I will show you what it looks like and how it works. All right. So unfortunately, you guys did not hear the beep, but actually did beep and tell me that it was hot enough. So I'm going to put my gloves on. Probably not necessary for putting it in, but for definitely for taking it out. So what I'm going to do is actually just take the mug and slide it in here and we're going to see how this works. I'm just going to do I'm going to put it right in the middle. I'm going to make sure my handle is up straight. So we're going to get it as close as we can set 360 at 180 degrees. Then I'm just going to push the green R button here. And we're just going to see together how this works. So it's going to count down from 180 seconds all the way down to zero. So you guys are going to see with me firsthand. I've never used this before. I'm super excited. I love HTV runt. They did not give this to me. I actually purchased this myself. So this is my personal opinion, whether I like it or not. Like I said, I do have their HTV runt heat press and I absolutely love it, but we're going to see how this goes. I did actually tape this one up this next one, but I only did the sides here. I'm not going to do the bottoms. I'm not going to do the top. And we're just going to see how it works. I don't know if you're going to get ghosting here because it's not tight enough there, but we're just going to see how this looks. So 143 seconds left. I will come back when this is all done. Alright, so there's 11 seconds left. I wanted to show you guys what this sounds like and what it looks like right when it comes out. I have my gloves on already so I don't burn myself. I'm super excited to see how this is going to turn out. Okay, so it automatically does it itself. I'm just going to move this out of the way so we can see what this looks like. So I'm going to carefully pull this out of here. Like I said, I have my heat gloves on. It is definitely hot. You can see the smoke here. So we're going to see together what this looks like. It's a little warm now. So I'm going to take my time peeling this off, but I want to see if I need to have all this tape on here. We're going to do another one without all the tape and kind of see what it looks like. But I am super excited. You guys ready? So this is going to be, we're going to do this together. Let me see if I can get in the camera properly.  So we're going to do it backwards. Alright, ready? Ready? Okay. Alright, that looks pretty good so far. Let's finish.  Alright, you know, guys, I am super excited about this. I think so far it looks pretty darn neat. I just need to get a pair of tweezers that I could get this off all the way. Alright, there's a little bit of ghosting on the side. So I think you do really need to go nuts with the tape, but this is just my first time trying. Oh my gosh, guys, that is so cute. Look at that. I hope that shows up so well on there. Look at that. That is awesome. So there is a little bit of ghosting here. I think it's because it wasn't taped well enough. So I think my next one I definitely need to tape more. But you also have to be careful of the top here and then also the bottom so it's all the way straight all around. Sorry, my dog just came over here and knocked over the light. Give me a second to put it back up, guys. Alright, sorry about that. My dog had to come and see me. So here, maybe you guys see a little bit better. But there is some ghosting on the bottom here, which again, I'm okay with because this is my first time using it. But overall, I think this worked out really, really well. The color is beautiful and vibrant. It worked really nice. The top part is really good. So actually, I think my next test is going to be a bust already. So I'm actually going to go ahead and tape all the top, getting it really, really nice and tight, focusing on it to make sure it's nice and tight that you don't have any areas like this on here. So I'm going to go ahead and finish this one, tape it up a lot more and go ahead and do another one and show you guys what that looks like. But overall, very happy of how this looked. Like I said, I really haven't used any heat press mug presses before. But this one turned out really, really cool. And it's so super simple because all I did was set the time and the temperature and it did everything else for me. So I'm going to go ahead and finish taping this up. And then we're going to do a second run at this and see how much better it works. Alright, so we're going to try another one.  I know that they sell like heat wrap ones that you can put around here like a bag. And then it automatically sucks it in and gets all the air out. But I don't have those and I haven't tried them yet. So I can't recommend it. But I'm going to try this one, do the same thing. I'm going to put it into the mug press. I don't want to burn my hand on here because it is at 360 degrees. And I'm just going to take my mug, put it in here carefully, and then are going to try it again. So again, I'll show you really quick. I'm putting it right in the middle right here. Trying to do it right in the middle. And I'm just going to push this button. And then it automatically does it for you. So it's set at 360 degrees for 180 seconds. I'm going to let this go. We're going to try this one out and kind of see how it looks. Let's see if this one, this one did not cool down too much. But maybe you can see it better with the light in here. It is ghosting down here. But then it gets really beautiful and vibrant there. So definitely really cool for the first mug that I've ever tried. One thing I did not mention is when you are using mugs or anything, just make sure that you clean your mug really well. Like alcohol wipes or anything and let it dry. So you want the outside to be nice and clean and not have anything on it, especially your finger mark. So when you put the glove on, it kind of helps you as well. So there's 137 seconds left. I'm going to let this go. And I'm going to be right back and show you guys what this one looks like. All right. So there's two seconds left. Automatically opens for me. Have my gloves on. And I'm just going to carefully slide this out. And like I said, I think you can put two of them in here. But I'm just going to do one at a time and show you what they look like. So I'm going to move this side of the way. And I did actually bring a pair of tweezers. So we're going to see if this helps a little bit. So I'm just going to go in here and take this. I have no patience. I got to do it right away.  Much easier with tweezers. So there we go.  If you have patience, which I don't, you can wait for this to cool down a little bit. But I wanted to show you guys what this looks like. So we will see. I think also maybe with this one, and again, you have to play around with it because I can't tell you exact temperature to put this at. But looking at it, it is a little bit yellow. So I'm thinking that it was a little bit warm. So again, you have to make your own decisions on what temperature to put it at. But I don't know if that shows up, but it is a little bit yellow. So I think it burnt a little bit. But overall, it's a lot better than this other one. I don't know if you can really tell the difference on here, but here I'll show you. That's ghosted pretty badly. And then here's this side. So it's really a lot better actually. We had it backwards. So there, I don't know if you guys can really tell the difference on here, but the ghosting on this one is a lot worse. So there it's like this. So you definitely do. That's even hot with gloves on. You definitely do want to tape it really, really well or look into those. I don't even know what they're called. Like the bags that you put around the mugs or tumblers themselves. Maybe I'll look into getting that. But overall, very, very happy with this. I'm going to keep working with this for a little while, give you some more updates on it, do some more videos on it, put some tumblers in it and try it. Super excited. But overall, very impressed with this.  You had to dial it in to get the right setting for it. This one is basically like the other one. You set it and you forget it. You put the temperature and put the time in and it does it automatically for you. Really, really love this. I probably would give this an 8 out of 10. I love it so far. I'm going to keep trying it for a while. I'll do some more videos for you guys. But I hope you liked this video. I hope it helped you out and make if you decide to get one of these, I will leave the link in the description below if you wouldn't mind checking out my Amazon page where I have all my subscribe, all my craft stuff on there. If you're interested in getting anything, but overall, really happy with this. Can't wait to make more. Thanks for watching, everyone.


It's maturity time folks and as usual it's the limited open that kicks off the finals. Tonight didn't disappoint, it's an event where the up-and-coming trainers get to battle it out and some high-powered horses and we've got the winner. The man of the moment was Pedro Ornelas who rode Little Joe Cat and marked an exciting at 225. Congratulations to you. Thank you, thank you. How does it feel to win in this arena? Well this is the first time and I just feel like I was very blessed. Got a great team behind me and didn't have any pressure, I just went and had fun.  Yeah I mean if that horse felt really good and I just felt like it was there. Okay so tell us about your plan coming into the whole fertility event to the lead up what you're doing with this horse? Just keep advancing with him. That's all I was trying to do just keep advancing. What was the run like? Describe it, take us through. Well we had all the cows picked out and I went in and there was a black white chain cow in there and so I just I knew I had to drive way way out on on that horse because he's got so much draw and they tell me to drive out so I just when I saw that opportunity I took it up and put my hand down and hope for the best. Now you had a 221 to beat which was set fairly early on did you know you had to really leave nothing at home? I came to show him so you know like I said I was sitting I would just went and I went for it you know. Cattle seemed pretty tough tonight what do you think? They were they were really tough I didn't know what it was going to be like so but I had faith on that horse. Yeah well the horse was very exciting to watch the crowd really got behind you some great great stops and the cow the horse also seems very smart on the cow what do you think? He is very smart the last cow kind of got me a little bit worried because I didn't push it out far enough because he turned and I would like take care of it you know I put my hand down and kept him up and smart but athletic enough to get back and just keep it exciting. Yes yes it was it was a great feeling when I rode him I just it just felt like I was floating. That's a great feeling how did you feel watching your husband do that run? I had I had to step back in the back on the third cow because I knew the first cow was good and the second cow was great and I get really anxious and more nervous for him than I do for myself and so I had the little one and I just started pacing in the back and really just praying and holding my breath and prayed our way through it because it's it's he works really hard. Now you guys you work for the Anderson's tell us a bit about your story up till now. Well uh I started back on last for charity and on that horse was a two-year-old and Paco the guy that rides for me he started the he started the horse and then Victor Ramirez had him his two-year-old year and then I got him as an early three-year-old back in December and I just felt like that horse had a lot of potential and just slow him down a bit and kind of went training on him and he responded very well. And tell us about his braiding. Well Steve owns the mama and I believe Spod told me that he won the limited on that on that horse's mama here before Steve got it and Steve did really well on that on that mayor and I was just glad to ride that horse. For sure now you've got them the semifinal coming up what's your plan there? Same thing just go in there and trust my horse and try to show them. Get Steve through the yeah Steve Steve made the same as on that horse too and he chosen first so just one run at a time one run at a time one run at a time well good luck for that event um and congratulations what a great effort thank you thank you


In my wallet, I keep a folded printout of an image of Julian Assange. The photo was taken on October 27th, 2021. It is blue, blurry, velvety soft, and it's a photo of the CCTV feed of the prisoner's dock at the moment he suffered a stroke. This is the last known image of Julian Assange. The disappearing of the image of Julian Assange has been slowly taking place since he entered the Ecuadorian embassy 13 years ago. Internally, he was one of the most surveilled people on the planet, but publicly, photos were rare. And then, for the last three years, he has been held in a maximum security prison where the taking of images is strictly forbidden. For me, the irony of the last known image of Julian Assange being of his brain mid-explosion is a powerful visual metaphor for how he himself, the idea of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks, of journalism, of the free press, of everything he stands for, is being surgically wiped from the public's consciousness in a deliberate inducement of global aphasia. This is censorship via amnesia. This is a psychological disappearing of Julian Assange. And this is why I carry this photo in my wallet, because I refuse to forget.


town, dodge city, and in the territory on west, there's just one way to handle the killers of the spoilers, and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. Presented by army in Europe magazine, the monthly feature magazine for the use of a soldier and civilian. Gun smoke, starring William Conrad, the story of the violence that moved west with young America, and the story of a man who moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dillon, the United States Marshal. The first man they look for, and the last they want to meet. It's a chancey job, and it makes a man watchful. And a little lonely.  Chill again.  There'd be too much slack otherwise. We couldn't hang you very good with your feet touching the ground. Could we, Tillman? No, Jake, you couldn't. We've been neighbors a long time, Tillman. If I could figure some way to make it easy for you, I'd booze. That's all right. You get to hang, and I could put a booze in you. I'd be beholden to you. Okay, I'll do it then. And would you drop by and tell my wife on your way home, Jake? Sure. I figured on doing that anyway. You know, Paul was like you, Tillman. It's gotten too bad about this. Sure. There might've come for a man with a noose around his neck.  Well, we can't have no man stealing horses around here. None of us feel safe less than we've caught him and hung him. I reckon that feels the same way, Jake. Well, of course you would. You'd hang me just as fast if I'd done it. I would. The only difference is I'd want to be awful sure it was you that'd done it. Oh, I'm sure. Heck, we caught you red-handed, didn't we?  I was driving them back to you. No, Tillman, you was headed in the other direction. They'd got away from me. I was trying to turn them back. Except that we don't believe you. None of us do. Well, ask Jennings. He saw me around and I'm up for you. Jennings ain't here. Well, why don't you find him? You can't take the time. You delay a hanging. The first thing you know, the man got loose. You'd just encourage horse Stephen.  We've got to protect ourselves, Tillman. Here's his horse, Jake. Get him out of Tillman. Sure. Take off the slack and tie it off around the tree front. Look out there, Jake. Someone's coming. Yeah, sure they are. Let's get this done. We might have trouble. We need a long way off yet. We got time. You want to slap this horse, Benson? No, you do it, Jake. Okay. So long, Tillman. So long. Here, Jake. He's out on the prairie, same place. Yeah, I know. Play around, though. You want to see him? No. No, I want to see you. Me? What about? About your husband, Miss Tillman. Something's happened to him. Well, it was like this, ma'am. You know, me and Duvall and Benson's been losing some horses lately. I heard. But Tillman ain't somehow. And when we caught him driving a bunch of mine this afternoon, we figured it was him who'd been stealing them. I don't believe it. My husband's an honest man. Oh, I know that. Now, Jennings saw him rounding them up where he found them running wild on the prairie. I guess whoever had stolen them got scared and left them there. Where is my husband, Jake? That's what I want to explain to you, ma'am. Jennings come and told us about it, but he got there too late. Too late? We'd already hung him. Yes, ma'am. What is it, huh? Oh, that Jake. Oh, Clayton. Tell him what you've done, Jake. Done? Clayton, we hung your old man this afternoon. You what? We hung him for stealing horses. They found out he didn't do it. After? Yeah. I guess the joke's on us all, all right? Ma. Ma, wait a minute. Ma. She's kind of upset, Clay. You better go with her.  No, don't talk like that. I said we were sorry. Well, I got to go get home. This is getting kind of late, and my mrs. will have supper on. So long. Huh? Yeah. You're still bothered by the Tillman hanging up there. He was lynched. Oh, lynched. But they'll never find out he did it. Now that was nearly three weeks ago. I got a pretty good idea of it. I just can't be sure. Oh, cool. Probably some of the ranchers out there who've been losing their horses. Benson of the ball, and Jake Kaiser in particular. Benson? I already got shot the other night, like in his own house. Yeah, I did. Just about a week ago. Maybe his conscience was bothering him. What do you mean? Well, maybe they have two children that keep him from talking. That may be. Anyway, you had it coming to him. Still murder-kidding. You feel worse about Tillman, don't you?  No one told him, I guess, that he was completely innocent. What about Mrs. Tillman and the boy? Do they have any ideas? Well, if they have, it doesn't sell me. Well, you've done all you can. It might as well be in St. Louis. I'd like to be in St. Louis, Matt. Why don't you go, then? I don't know. I guess I'm afraid of the Dutch. What are you talking about? Never mind, Matt. Matt! Hello, Doc. Hello, Kidding. Sit down, Doc. Thank you, thank you. See, Matt, that fella Duval. What about it? He's been shot, man. Shot dead. What? That's right. His hired hand brought him in. When did this happen? Early tonight, he said. You know, there's a funny thing about that, man. Duval was shot through the window of his house with a 50-caliber rifle. I dug the bullet out. Just like Benson, huh? Yes, uh... I thought it was going to be interesting, myself. That makes Jake Kaiser the only one left, man. You think Jake did it? I don't know, Doc. He's been sitting right over there in the car chain since noon. Huh? He was sure of it? Oh. He was gone for an hour, but he was there when I left, and he was there when I got back. Oh, he couldn't have done this in an hour, man. Yeah. Oh, look, man, he's leaving. Oh, I'll be back. Uh, Jake. Oh, hello, Marshall. Uh, let's sit down a minute. Now, Jake, I want to talk to you. Sure, Marshall. What's it about? Here's the table. I'm kind of late getting out home. Jake, the ball was shot tonight. He was? Yeah. Killed the same way Benson was. Same way, huh? You know anything about it? I'm beginning to, Marshall. If that Tillman boy, Clay, I know what it is. Why would he do it? Why? He's crazy. That's why. Marshall, I'll tell you. Clay just took it into his head that we hung his old man. How do you know he has? Well, I saw him right here in town this morning. And he was here last Saturday, too. Come to think of it. You talk to him? Sure. And he keeps saying that we've done it. Why? Don't you believe anything he says? No, this is Tillman either. They're both liars, Marshall. I've known him a long time to be liars. And Clay threatened the attack. I'm sure he did.  There's not much evidence. Well, I just told you, I know. You mean you ain't going to arrest him? No. Not yet. He ain't going to shoot me.  Right tonight. Jake. You're talking to a U.S. Marshall. All right. You do something about it. I will, but you can't have any ideas of shooting him out of your head. If you'll arrest him, I will. And don't you forget what liars they are out there. You leave that to me, Jake. Yeah, yeah. Sure. But not for long, Marshall. Not for very dang long. He was kind of a man, and I knew he'd probably go kill young Clay Tillman the first time it happened to occur to him again. So I couldn't arrest Clay for two murders just on Jake's word that Clay had threatened him. And he did a lot more evidence than that. And the only way of getting it I could think of was from Clay himself. The other next morning, Chester and I rode out to the Tillman place. It was only about 15 miles from town when we got there early. Morning, Dad. Come in. No bother. I was looking for Clay. I'd like to talk to him. He's out back. He'll be here in a minute. Good. Miss Tillman. Duvall was killed last night. All right. Don't you care? Several people have been murdered around here lately, Marshall, including my husband. You think Benson and Duvall were in on that? I didn't say they were. What about Jake Kaiser? You're prying, Marshall. That's a trouble with the law. It's always prying. What do you want Clay for? I thought he might tell me what he knows. You won't. We don't know nothing. And Clay didn't shot nobody. He was in God yesterday. Yeah, I know he was. I wouldn't put it past Jake to have shot Duvall himself. I thought of that, too. You have any idea why he might have? No. Well, here's Clay now. Well, we've got business to do. Hello, Clay. Marshall? Justin? All right, Clay. You've been hunting this water? No. Put that rifle back where it belongs, son. Oh, come on. I was shooting hawks with it yesterday, left it in the barn. You should have brought it in last night, son. Sure. But, well, it was dark when I got back. I didn't see it out there. I should have brought it in myself. What are you doing here, Marshall? Duvall was murdered last night, Clay. He was? Yeah, shot, same as Benson. Well, what do you know? Jake Kaiser thinks you did it. He does, huh?  Maybe I ought to. Clay, don't talk like that. You know, there's a law against murder. They murdered my father. Where was the law then? I'd have him in jail right now if I know who they were. Too bad you weren't there, Marshall. I could still arrest Jake. We don't know nothing about Jake, do we, son? No. No, we don't know nothing. Okay.  I just seen you, Mr. June, walking right up front street. Oh, Justin. It's Clay.  Well, I wasn't too sure. Jake might have killed him during the week. It must have slipped his mind somehow. I know what you're thinking. He's going to ride past Jake's place on his way home, ain't he?  It could happen again. You guys talking? Get our horses, Justin. We'll ride out to Jake's. No? Hadn't we ordered a father, Clay, when he... No, it's Jake. I want to keep an eye on him. Well, I don't understand. Just get the horses, Justin. Yes, sir. And be sure there's a rope on my saddle. We going to hang somewhere? No. Now, get going. Yes, sir. Now, sir. Well, I'm going to show you if you don't... Hey, I wish he was a moaner than I. No, that's better, doc. Just stay out of the way of my rope. You're going to rope him? But someone... You shouldn't have stopped me, Marshall. You won't do any good. Two murders are enough, aren't they? I was saving Jake for the last. I wanted him to sweat, and I'll kill him yet. Who's out there? It's Marshall Dell and Jake. Now, put that gun down. What's going on here? What? It's Mrs. Tillman.  And that's a sharp spiffy. I've got to do it. Sure would. What? You killed Benson in Duvall.  A woman? Going around killing people? Well, that's terrible. You hung my husband. What are the best names that ever live? I told you it was a mistake. I said we were sorry. That's what I've been waiting to hear. All right, get his gun, Chester. That's right. I've got it. Mrs. Tillman, you're both under arrest. Well, as long as Jake hangs to... He'll hang. But you will probably go to jail. What's clean, Tanks? He knew about this when he found a rifle in your barn last week, but I guess he figured there was no way to stop you. You found our only way, Marshall. I guess maybe I should have told you everything from the first. Yeah. It's too late now. I'm sorry. Don't you feel bad about it, Marshall? I don't mind. I don't really mind at all. You want to know something, Mrs. Tillman? That's the worst part of it. All right, come on. Let's get back to Dutch.


and I'm coming to you from Atlantic City for the 2023 DAB and Auxiliary National Convention. Leading up to convention, we've also hosted a Patriot Boot Camp Accelerator, which is what we're here to talk about today. I'm joined by Patriot Boot Camp Director Nick Brophy, an award-winning entrepreneur, Larry Brotton. Oh, right. Yeah, yeah. Thank you both for being here. Larry, if you could talk a little bit about what the past two days have been like and kind of the approach to this accelerator. Well, honestly, it's pretty emotional to be honest with you. We came in here with 15 entrepreneurs, veteran entrepreneurs, who are powerful just in and of themselves, but they get these people who are like building world-changing organizations together in one room where they're supporting each other. Nick was there for part of it, and it got emotional from time to time, didn't it? It did. Because people were here just trying to build their business, expand their horizons, impact the world through their businesses. In some cases, change in this multi-generational curse of poverty that some people have had in their lives. It's just really powerful to see these people who want to make a difference in the world and then to see them come together. And instead of being competitive that we oftentimes see in the entrepreneurial space, it was collaborative. People wanted to help each other out. It's what I love about the veteran spaces. Not only do they build businesses that rate four times greater than the general population and see more success, they're willing to serve and support each other. It's transformational for me. I feel proud of these guys who invited me in to actually do this. It's awesome. So Nick, UDAV has hosted several Patriot Boot Camp events. I've been part of a few of those. Tell me what was special about this and what's special about this taking place at convention in the same week and space? Well, I'll tackle the second question first. What's special about being a convention is the energy. There's a lot of members here. There's a lot of constituents here. It's a great place for entrepreneurs to come and market themselves. Larry, his presence in the space, he's a supporter of DAV. There's just an atmosphere that is cultivating feel to it. And as an entrepreneur, that's what we're doing. We're cultivating whether it's a new idea, a new business, a new relationship, education material, whatever the case may be. That's what I think is special about the conventions. I should mention also we have two Army veterans here. Larry, can you talk about how your military service helped you in your entrepreneurship journey? Yeah, that's a great question. I had kind of a unique military career and I spent about nine years in the Army. Most of those were on Special Forces A teams. So it's the unconventional Army. Sorry, Nick. Unconventional is better. But no, what it taught me was the power of small elite teams who subscribe to the same vision, the same mission when we subordinate our own personal goals and agendas for the success of the team. When you apply that to the business arena, it's powerful, right? And when we remember to serve our team members, serve our clients first, too many entrepreneurs who don't have this background as veterans think that it's all about them, the owner, you know, the entrepreneur. But most veteran entrepreneurs understand that it's service first, right? So there's that. There are a couple of techniques that I oftentimes find that veterans apply to business that make them really successful. One is one thing that all bets know about, and that's an after-action review. How many times did we talk about after-action reviews, Nick, in business over the last couple of days? What do we do right? What do we do wrong? How can we improve the next time? Really simple. And then contingency plans, right? How often are we doing five-point contingency plans in the military? Well, before we ever do a marketing plan, before we ever do a merger and acquisition, what's the contingency plan going to be? When I talk about this stuff to the civilian market, their minds are blown. And for us, it's basic stuff. So I would encourage folks that are in the military, considering transitioning, and maybe you're an 11th Bravo in the army, what am I going to do? Well, think about what skills have you learned that you can apply to the entrepreneurial space that might be an open horizon, an open battle. Go for it, man. Nick, can you talk about who Patriot Boot Camp is for? Who can take part in this? Yeah, I mean, Patriot Boot Camp is really intended for any veteran, any spouse of a veteran. Hopefully a tandem veteran spouse duo who is really kind of more in the early stage. So they're not necessarily a startup, or maybe they are, but they're also in business, struggling with business, shifting their business. It's not necessarily for the mature business yet, but that's where we hope to go. We want to serve all veterans, all stages of business, hands down. But right now, it's for those people who are really just getting feedback. And we know that events like this can't happen without folks like Larry, mentors, speakers, donating their time in a lot of cases. Can you talk about kind of what this program needs to sustain itself and how people can help? Absolutely.  And I think you'll find that when doing so, it's very rewarding as well. I mean, this is the thing that people come here for. They get education. We can teach and teach and teach, but that networking, that the element of being able to interact with somebody and draw from their experiences and share your experiences, and as Larry alluded to, very powerful, emotional connections in here, that's really the thing that people walk away from here and on the survey say, we love the mentorship component. So if you're looking to get involved, that's what we need you for. If you have something to share, even if it's just one element of business, you will help a veteran in that capacity. Larry, programs like this accelerator, what's the ultimate hope in terms of the impact it has? Well, as I think a lot of that, even if you love a sports team, what's it all about? You're wearing the hat, you're wearing the army shirt. We're talking about our heritage. Where did we come from? Right? That's an easy thing to do. But the accelerator talks more about what's the legacy we're going to be leaving in the future. Who can we impact moving forward? Is it our families? Is it our clients? Right? Because boy, when we die, when we go away, oftentimes it's 50 years later and nobody knows who we were. So this is the way for a lot of entrepreneurs to leave their fingerprints on society, on an industry, or set something up so it becomes a multi-generational impact in the world. That's not much more powerful than that. Larry, thank you so much. Nick, thank you for those watching. Make sure you follow us on social media all week for updates from convention and learn more about Patriot Boot Camp at www.patreotbootcamp.org.


Good Monday morning everyone it is time to talk about the markets with Jim Kramer on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. All right Jim it happened GE cutting that dividend you called it. Yeah we all felt it would be. I think the new incremental news is that they're really going to earn about a buck so it's really one of the worst picks I've ever had unfortunately you got to be honest about it. The fraction alerts. If it's a buck it's a trade to 17 that would be fairly valued versus a basket of United Technologies, Honeywell, Ingersoll, RAN and the other comps in the industry these conglomerate comps that are much better than GE. You know two out of three good divisions, military's good, health care's good. Some people think it's a not great health care company but it's a good health care company and then there's power and power's bad. This is turbines, this is Alsem which they pay over clearly overpaid for. Everything they did in the last three years was wrong and it's a remarkable admission that it was. I like the board of directors change. They shrink the board of directors. All right Jim Qualcomm rejecting Broadcoms. Bid what's next for Broadcom? Okay I think the Broadcoms going to come back. They'll come back much higher. Maybe ten dollars higher. Qualcomm traded in the 70s before all these lawsuits. Qualcomm's got the best technology. The stock reflects the lawsuit with Apple and some other suits that they had and I think the idea is if they lose to Apple the stock could be down appreciably and then Broadcom has a great safety net by selling into it. So Qualcomm should be held and we like Broadcom for action alerts because you could win if they get Qualcomm and you could win on earnings. Meanwhile Morgan Stanley out with a note Amazon going to a trillion dollars. Yeah Milka I think they don't make sense because I think Amazon Web Services which is their real data business dramatically undervalued within the conglomerate that is Amazon. They talk about Amazon Prime with that's worth. They talk about what Amazon retail is worth. Obviously Amazon is not going to bring itself up. Web Services Hand and Glove with retail but I do think Web Services is a gem and they value it at north of two's around two seven two north of two hundred fifty billion. Totally understandable because it is the the jewel and Google has Web Services and Microsoft to Azure has Web Services. Those are all great businesses because everything's done in the cloud and these are cloud companies. All right Jim Cramer thank you so much as always.


Polstad coming all really strong, charging into turn three, last lap, side-by-side is going to do it, it's going to go rorry around the outside, Sheenek, whoa! How tight is that? Sheenek knows he's coming, I think he's done it, this is very tight, very, ooh, I can't split that, it's going to come down to the transponder I think, I can't split that. Polstad there, that high wide line, Sheenek, leg forward, he's desperate. I think it's Polstad, Polstad, he gets the win, what an effort from him, fabulous, from gate number three to win the race there to get the better of the world champion, that is a major feather in his cap.


The game we are playing today is called Spoonful of Patterns. Using multiplication within 100, create a pattern using only 4 cards. Watch out for the spoons, you must grab one to stay in the game. The materials needed for this game include the spoonful of patterns, cards, and spoons. You need one less spoon than the number of players. To set up the game, sit in a circle facing one another. Then, place one less spoon than the number of players in the middle of the circle. Before starting the game, create as many patterns as you possibly can using all the cards. Play a few practice rounds with the cards face up to get the hang of how the game is played. Now, moving on to the game, first deal each player 4 cards. Place the remaining cards next to the player to the right of the dealer. The goal of the game is to create a pattern with 4 cards. The pattern must include a consecutive multiples of the same number. For example, a pattern could be 18, 27, 36, and 45. For all other players, pick up one card at a time as cards are passed to you. If a card fits your pattern, keep it. Choose a card you don't need and pass it face down to the left. Just remember, you may not have more than 4 cards in your hand at any time. The player to the right of the dealer stacks the cards the players don't want to use. Cards that reach this player are not recycled back into the game. Once a player has created a 4 card pattern, the player grabs a spoon from the middle. All remaining players are now able to grab a spoon as well. If you do not grab a spoon, you are out for the rest of the game. The player must show the pattern and other players must agree the player is correct. To begin the next round, decrease the number of spoons by one and replay the game. Continue this process until only one player remains. The player remaining in the game wins. Throughout the game, you should be thinking about these questions. Pause the video to read them. Here are some variations of the game. For these variations, called Spell Spoon, all players stay in the game the entire time. After everyone has grabbed a spoon, the player without a spoon gets a letter in the word spoon. The player with the least number of letters at the end of the game wins. Limit the pattern is perfect for players who want to challenge themselves. To play this version, players are not allowed to collect patterns that include factors of 2, 5, or 10. If a player uses a pattern with these numbers and grabs the first spoon, they are out of the game. For more about the game, follow the link to visit the instructional guide included below this video. Thanks for watching!


Good morning world. Take this out Duncan Donuts. It's like Timmy's of the US Seriously, it's like Timmy's there was a lineup almost all the way around the block It seemed for Duncan Donuts this morning at the drive-thru I went in because obviously I'm in too big of a vehicle with the drive-thru but Going in there. I could tell that It was pretty much the exact same atmosphere and feel of Tim Horton's not quite as good I'm just gonna go out there and say it not quite as good as Tim's, but I am a little biased But I do love their coffee and They don't have as good of food selection as Tim's but I thought It's gonna be good anyways. I mean Smells delicious. What was this one again?  I think that's what it's called Oh Yeah Looking forward to that and have that right now So yeah, if you Canadians are ever wondering what Duncan Donuts is when Americans are talking about it Just think American Tim Horton's Okay, let's let's go in here. I'm done my pre-trip. Oh, we gotta Keep moving along here. You got to go deliver this lumber. Oh There's one of those new Chevy Silverado's My poor Silverado. Oh feels so bad for it. I do not like the new 2019 body design The 2,500s are all right though if you get the high country It's all right as long as you don't have the the whole word Chevrolet written across the front I don't like that but the high countries just have the bow tag the bow tie And I'm sure you could get the bow tie just on a regular pick up as well, but Good thing I got an older Silverado. Maybe I'll just keep that one All right, let's get to work everybody. I Had a great sleep Duncan Donuts is just off to the left here. It's this big group of high school High school girls. I guess hey, excuse me. I'll forgive you this time this time There's a bunch of like young high school girls giggling and doing their little high school girl thing inside of Duncan Donuts they're all on their smartphones and Made me think back to when I was in school It's been a while. I graduated in 2006 So I'm not sure how they I'm pretty sure they have a very similar school system in all the way up to grade 12 It's the 13 years of schooling and then you're done Basic schooling and after that you have post-secondary And just like the US kindergarten grade 12 is Covered you can go to public schools. I went to a private school, but you can get kindergarten grade 12 for free or paid for by the taxpayers, which is good I support that because I don't want to grow up in a nation of completely dumb people So I want everyone to have a basic education and after that you got to pay for post-secondary I actually got accepted into the University of Winnipeg and University of Manitoba. I was gonna study criminology Wanted to be a police officer But I ended up not going even though I got accepted. I Wanted to be a truck driver And here I am I'm actually very happy With my choice. I love doing what I do and I don't think I would love being a cop as much But I couldn't say because I've never been one I mean Being a police officer you have to deal with the worst of the worst of society every day All of the scumbags that I avoid now All of the neighborhoods that I avoid now are the people in the neighborhoods that I would be in every day as a Police officer dealing with them from the beginning to the end of my shift And it's not all bad.  There's a lot of awards about it. There's there's the Come Rotary brotherhood of being with your other officers I guess you can't say brotherhood anymore because that's probably not politically correct. I Can't keep up with that either as a cop you got to be pretty politically correct because you know you offend the wrong person Right away is they get all mad at you and blame you for all their problems Now I work by myself. I can take my dog to work with me all the time Spend 24 seven with my dog. I Get to travel the continent I get to see all of the United States and Canada Though we don't go to the Southwest of the US very often I've asked for loads down there, but we got no no no routes going down there But I usually every couple of years I I go down there on a road trip in my personal vehicle And now I own my own business too, right? Whereas if I'm a cop, I'm never gonna own my own business. I can't own the police department That's if I become the king it hard for me to do Can't just walk into the palace one day be like hey, I'm king now People seem to frown on that my friend when there is a stop light. Why are you stopping in the left lane? Now both lanes are at a crawl Should be in the right lane buddy right here, which is practically Chicago if you look at a map it's Chicago All the locals will be like no, it's not Chicago. We're all that no, it's Chicago Look at a map. It's all the same thing To an outsider coming in like me. It's all the same thing This is a mega city. It's just huge all the way from the lake all the way out to like Montgomery and Aurora there We're at where I delivered. It's all one city just sprawling So fascinating to see and come in and take a look at it man. I wouldn't want to live with around this many people But that's just me. That's just me I'm a rural country boy. I like it out there better, but You know, I'm not knocking the city because there's a lot of you're still in the left lane, buddy. What? This guy's right beside me here. Why a long lineup of cars behind you that would like to get to work Why are you blocking them? You know people do that they do that in Winnipeg too all the time No reason for him to be in there. You know, he might be making a left turn soon But I mean he's been in this left lane for quite a while now Is that what you want to do because you're speeding now. You're really speeding Yikes, there you go. There you go. Very good. See now all these cars. I want to get past and get past except Now they're not in a hurry What do I know? What do I know? Look at these suburbs here on the right beautiful homes Just massive homes. I would like to have one of these homes on our property They seem a little bit plain though. Maybe it's Sort of like cookie cutter like they're all Practically that there's only like three different kinds of houses here. I want to have the exact same home as my neighbors I want a different one Well, I arrived here and checked in at my shipper But they are really busy right now But all these guys over here are waiting you too, so I've got to move on down the road to the truck stop apparently and wait there Is it running out of room here? And they're gonna give me a call When they're ready for me Just for the record I was here five minutes early for my appointment Appointments don't always mean something. I Don't know where this van guy is going, but I've got to make a U-turn and get out of here Without causing more trouble This guy leaving to or what is this guy doing? Which way you going buddy? I know it's a parking lot, but signals do help Even in a parking lot case so you're turning right. Okay. You see I almost cut in beside you there And that would have caused a bit of a kerfluffle because I didn't know what you were doing Didn't know if you were going straight didn't know if you were turning right here, but okay, whatever Guess that's my job to pay attention So I guess I'll be going around and loading right where all these guys are loading right in front of me here And then I have to strap it and tarp it before I leave here Goodie at least it's a paved lot This guy in front of me is also going to the same truck stop as me to wait there He was really not happy about that He wanted to stay here and wait, but they told him to go like a block down the roadway at the truck stop He was not happy He's obviously in no hurry though. What are you getting paid by the hour buddy? Come on. Let's get out of here. I Want to go and park this guy's going through the scale, but I don't think he's scaling Again buddy, I don't know where you're going I'm just gonna wait here Pretty sure he's gonna park up in front of the line here and I want to back in Beside this Pete if at all possible Park right beside this red Pete We're off in the back in the back corner where no one will bug me and I'm out of the way And for some reason my audio Was not working here. I Was talking this whole time, but I got called back to the customer here to go line up in their yard It was kind of a weird system, but Here we are in line and got about four or five trucks in front of me here We got one two three four six or seven off getting loaded way off to the right there and Yeah, it's got a weight from the total shingles on the trailer and then we will be on our way and here I was Talking to you guys again, I Think I was talking to you here about how I I was sent a message on my satellite on my computer in my truck But I had to tarp this load But the guys here at the yard looked at me funny said no one tarps these loads and I looked around and sure enough No one was tarping. I mean there were curtain side trailers But anyone without a curtain side trailer was not tarping their load. So I called in and said what's up? Do I got a tarp this stuff or what? No one else is doing it these guys say I don't need to do it They're looking at me funny and they said no that was actually a mistake in my computer. I don't have to tarp it So that was a bonus All I got to do is tie it down and I can get out of there. I can save myself like an hour at least Don't have to tarp it and save myself time on the other end as well We're not having to un-tarp it. I didn't take too long. We just got called in we're gonna get Loaded up. I don't see anyone else really tarping it. I see these curtain side trailers But no one else is tarping it.  I? Don't know man. No one tarps these loads. You need to tarp it. Oh My computer says I got a tarp it and she's all right well then he pointed to an area well I guess you ain't gonna tarp it over there if you need to and So I called into to the office to the load gods and I asked them this or I told them It's got kind of looked at me funny when I said I had to tarp it and no one else here is tarping the loads Do we have a special request to tarp? It's like no no no. I don't know that must have been a mistake Good so it was a mistake that I got told now I'm gonna double-check every time because just because my satellite tells me that my computer here Just because it tells me that I need to tarp it doesn't necessarily mean I have to tarp it I would have wasted like an hour at least tarping this load here When I didn't have to So this is gonna be quick I'm gonna be real quick. I just got 14 pallets that's throwing on me Throw a cube a couple of straps over that make sure they don't fly away, and I'm out of here And apparently my receiver is first come first serve It's said in here also that I had an appointment at 12 noon tomorrow That was a lie as well first come first serve so I got to get in there as early as I can And then I got to go over to our steel place again pick up another one of those Wide loads of steel one of those ones with the very nice numbers attached to it Very excited about those numbers It's it's a it's a good paying load so That's going to Alberta I think to the oil fields again And I don't it's probably going to that same site that doesn't like dogs But Brit wanted to come with me if I'm passing by home. I wanted to stop by at home and pick up Britt and the dogs So I think what we might I Don't know what we're gonna do Maybe he's going to a different site Maybe but the people here like it's the same company in Ontario that ships it to the oil fields in Alberta And I talked to the boss here in Ontario and told them about their Discrimination when it came to canines and he wasn't happy about that at all He was a big dog person. He he was petting diesel like crazy.  It's not a food grade site It's not a dangerous goods site It's not a hazardous material site. It's just They're just building big bins big steel bins. That's it and he's like there's no reason they should not let dogs In your truck he could understand if the dog got out of the truck and I told him to I said well Yeah, I I'm sure that some driver ruined it and Went to the site and just let his dog out and let it run around while he was like Untarping the load or something and it got in the way of all the workers and there's big machinery and cranes and tractors all over the site They're yeah, you don't want to have your dogs out of your truck, but he did say if they're if he's inside your truck Just make sure he stays in your truck. There's they should not have a problem with that So I'll talk to him about it again tomorrow and if he if he's in charge And he's the one who calls the shots like it sounded like it was last time like last time I dropped diesel off at home anyway just in case but Talk to him again, and if he says that I'm supposed to tell them to call him if they got a problem with my dog Well, then I'm gonna pick up Britt at home and we're gonna take the whole family along For that week it's like two days out to the the job site and then get reloaded in two days back home I'm really excited to have her with me on Friday. My truck is getting detailed the whole inside of the truck is getting Detailed I'm taking everything out and there's a professional that's gonna come and clean everything inside here So that when Britt gets in the truck it's it's Presentable Because I can't claim I mean I can I can clean up a little bit, but I can't make it look new So it will look brand new After next weekend. I guess we'll see we'll get loaded up here, and we'll head towards Ontario I would like to stop at the gym Again later today probably the one in Schwartz Creek, Michigan again They had good truck parking there good truck access. I'll probably stop by there again on the way We'll see how long I'm here for now that I'm not tarping I have a little bit of extra time that I didn't know I had Excited about that Is he almost done? He's got two four. He's putting the fifth one on right now, and I need 14 hurry up and wait Who wants to talk to me to Canada this way The crossing into Sarnia, Ontario from Port Huron, Michigan same thing as last week And we'll probably go to that same petro paths to in London I liked it there. I still got a check when I stop and have time Maybe while I'm waiting in line at the border. I don't know. I got a check to see if they have showers there I'd love to have a shower the gym I stopped at in Schwartz Creek today. I Didn't have a shower. I Really wish every snap fitness had a shower But I didn't have time. I'm once again cutting her clothes here to get to the border. I've got I've got ten minutes to get over that bridge I'll make it no problem Same thing as last week. It's like deja vu Cutting her pretty close again, but we did get our workout in I didn't get any cardio in today, but I Was in the gym for About 45 to 50 minutes Now we got to pay our dues to get across the bridge Kilometers All these no parking signs here obviously mean nothing every time I go through here Guys are parked here.  Let's pay here. I got $20 us for them. I think it's 1625 us to cross here. I guess cuz I have a tri axle trailer. I have an extra axle on this trailer So they charge me extra. I Know right Same weight Whatever you imagine those trailers around here that have like ten axels. I've seen them they exist around here I must be expensive to cross with those things sales 1950 us Hashtag not impressed with the price But I am a little flattered that America wants me to stay so badly that they're actually going to you know Find me to leave That is flattering. I Love you to America. I'll see you again. No, don't worry. I'm not going back home for good I'm gonna come visit again. We're here in Wyoming Not that way oh man Wyoming, Ontario. I'm gonna spend the night here at this flying J According to their app. They have four showers here So I'm going to go make use of one of them that I can find a parking spot here This is just inside the Canadian border Probably about ten minutes from Sarnia, Ontario Which is the border town Just on this side. I hope they actually do a showers here sometimes these Because this was a truck stop that was sort of turned into a flying J. Right sometimes these ones Lie in the app This is how I get in here. It's a driveway. There's a big curb here for no reason Look at all these drop trailers taking up space here. I Hope they're paying for that. I really hope they are Look at that. I Could use one of those spots Taking up exactly where I'm gonna park. Hopefully there's an open spot here. I might have to turn around. Oh Yeah, there's open spots over that guy's got a reefer. That's why no one's parked beside him Sorry, buddy Nobody wants to park by you. Oh, this guy's got a reefer, too I don't want to park by you either And there's a spot down here He's all wide loads like I got a reefer, too Bang it I Might have to settle. Oh wait. Nope. There's a spot right here. I Don't have to park beside a reefer Alright diesel there we go. What do you think very nice parking job bank very nice Couldn't have done it better myself if I had done Really do you really mean that? Thank you. What a nice compliment We're off here in the back corner all by ourselves right beside this guy. He's got a a wide load on of Farm equipment.  He's got an APU as well So anyway, that that's the date so the reason we pushed it to get over the border today yet into Canada was the same reason as last week So that I don't have to stop as long for night Here on the Canadian side I've only got to stop for eight consecutive hours before I can start my next day my day tomorrow Whereas if I would have stopped in the US I would have had to stop for 10 consecutive hours. So I gained two hours tomorrow. I can get to my appointment or I can get to my receiver Two hours earlier than I could have if I would have stayed on that side and it's first come first serve So I'll get there as early as I can And then from there I'll go and get reloaded and then I'll be two hours ahead on my whole day Because tomorrow when I load up that wide load, I'm not allowed to pull it through Ontario on the two-lane roads up north during the night So I want to get as much done during the daylight as possible before the sun sets. We'll see how far we get I'd like to get up to north bay. I don't think I'll take the 17 because those loads are very heavy That's why I have the tri-axle. It's 65 000 pounds of steel. So I'll probably take 11 just because it's flatter less hills Uh, so hopefully I can make it up to north bay Who knows maybe I can make it all the way up to Cochrane, Alberta, but We'll probably shoot for north bay We'll be pretty lucky if we get there already Anyways, thanks for joining me today. I think today was a bit of a longer vlog. I seem I feel like I talked a lot today So, uh, I apologize if you don't like it and uh, you're welcome if you like the longer stuff Well, there's another vlog coming tomorrow. I don't know if it's going to be as long as this one But thanks for watching today's anyways. Give it a thumbs up for me I really appreciate that does more for me with the algorithms than you think here on youtube Or you can give it a thumbs down It does the exact same thing to help me with the algorithms and leave me a comment down below Let me know how you're feeling. All right. I'll talk to you tomorrow


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasegrakes.com with the Jaspys NFL Draft Mixer Giveaway Mystery Crate number 10, the last one we got to do here. First letter, last name, four cards per crate, and then the fifth hit is pretty much that draft day mixer spot. Big thanks to this group here for making it happen. There are the letters right there. Let's roll it and randomize it two into four, six times, one, two, three, four, five, and six. Trent down to Canard, two into four, six times for the letters, one, two, three, four, five, and six in final time. The Steelers pick is in J.K., down to G.H., Sam Wants, Kenny Pickett, Trent with J.K., Carl with M, Daniel with R, Trent with B, Carl with A.F., Martin L.S. and T., Trent with P., Carl with D., Stephen with W., and Canard with G.H. Franco Harris gonna let that draft card hit the ground, hit the ground, everyone knows it hit the ground. What? It's, Godel really needling the Raiders fans today. No trades right, TWC trade window closed, we were talking about this before we started this video, brothers that have won the World Series, Rex is saying that Benji, Jose, Yadir Moli the only three brother combo to win the, really there have been no other brother combos. Kenny Pickett, Pitt goes to Pitt, Joshua you got it, Pitt boy goes to Pitt, all right there it is, trade window closed, big thanks to this group for making it happen. Now let's, and we only had one more box left, so that box ended up being number five, so let's see what hits we have in here, and then let's give away that mixer spot. Sam's happy, I think Oliver the Steelers fan, I don't think Oliver wanted Kenny Pickett though. First card out of the gate is Frank Mozicato, 33 out of 71, nice speckle autograph, seventh overall pick, letter M, that will be for Carl in the letter M, PSA 8, Mike Trout from 2011 Topps Pro debut, it's pretty nice, how young he looks there, yeah that's right he played in Rancher Cook among the Quakes for a minute, T for Trout, Martin, Martin D with T, next up BGS 9-5, just a 9-5, it's Gavin Lux, 28 out of 50, 2019 Bowman Chrome Prospects Gold Shimmer Refractor, 9-5 Centering Edges, surface a 9-5, corners are a 9, we have to work on that defense a little bit, but you can get into a real good groove hitting the ball, L for Lux, that's going to be also for Martin D, and the fourth and final one looks like basketball, PSA 10, Michael Porter Jr. Prism Rookie Refractor, if healthy dot dot dot, P for Porter, that'll be for Trent and the letter P, there you go, and there you have it ladies and gentlemen, our last mystery crate, pretty solid stuff, and now let's give away the mixer spot, so new dice, new list, let's roll it and randomize it, three and a three, sixth the hard way, one, two, three, four, five, and sixth and final time, and that's Trent, congrats to you Trent, after six you are in the mixer for a fraction of the price, I'm Joe for JazzBeesCaseRates.com, I'll see you a little bit later tonight for that mixer, bye bye.


What's going on, everyone? Sam here with Layton Sportsguards. We're in 22 Panini Select football hobbies. Six box half case break number 53. Pick your team style. We got Felice for our names and our teams. We've got Anwarji with the Patriots, Brent M. Vikings, Dan M. Jets, Daniel D. with the Bills, James P. Colts, Jeff N. Panthers, Lions, Texans, Bucks, Titans, Jeffrey H. Steelers, Niners, Joe H. with the Ravens, Joseph S. Browns, Raiders, Kevin H. Packers, Chiefs. Kevin W. with the Bears, Mark G. Cowboys, Matt P. with the Cardinals, Broncos, Mitchell H. Rams, Raymond D. Commanders, Raymond P. with the Saints, Robert G. Falcons, Rory C. Giants, Russell P. at Charger Seahawks, Ryan C. with the Bengals. That's gonna be, where was I? Sam A. with the Eagles, Vito C. Dolphins, and Will Z. with the Jags. Good luck here, everybody, let's do it. Well, to be fair, one of them like, one of them they bought like, it's been in the family for like 50 years, and then the other one they just bought as like a fixer-upper, could just like rent out. To be fair, to be fair, to be fair. Yeah, great beer up there, very good beer up there, very good, very good. Picket rookie, Aaron Rodgers, Silver, Josh Allen, and Dunzel Ward on the field level. And there's Joe Burrow, Tri-Color to 249, oh this is so dope, T. Sizzle, Terrell Sugg, Super Bowl Auto for the Ravens, still cool, Shailen Hertz, Son Champlain, Boy Maffe, there's, what was that, Ryan Robinson, Silver, John Runyon, sweet, or yeah, no, sweet level, I'm sorry. Give me the far right stick, you know. Yeah, I got you. Alchemist and Stowe has some great beers, huh? I've heard of the company for sure. Skylar Thompson to 249, Tri-Color, Trayvon Walker, Silver Gino, and James Conner. What's up, Sam? Still two more lake houses. Silver Christian Watson, Kenneth Murray Silver, and Randy Mossfield level, and they're on mine. George Carl Aftis to 249, on the Tri-Color. Silver Burrow and Logan Thomas. Hidden Hass, or Son Haskins, two out of 75 on the Sparks Jersey Guard. Got Silver Aaron Rodgers, Jalen Warren, rookie. George Pickens, there's Matt Corral, 23 of 99 on the Jumbo Prime selections, Jersey Auto for the Panthers, and Brian Burns. Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Silver Rope Juan, and CD-Lan, yeah. Marcus Jones, White to 35 for the Patriots, Mahomes, Silver Jerry Judy, Austin Eckler. David and Joku to 199, Silver Kurt Warner, Marshawn Lattimore, Travis Etienne, Silver Rashad, White's rookie, and Damien Pierce's rookie. I magically find a 52 mandolin pristine condition. When you rip up the floorboards of your apartment, there's a bonn and there's just a stash of Hodus Wagner T206's sitting there, untouched for 100 plus years. Blue, Jamo, Jamison Williams to 199 for the Lions. T-Law, Silver, Mike White, Brock Purdy, rookie. Kenneth Walker, Silver, Damara Hamlin, rookie, and Damara Hamlin Field-leveled rookie. Is there any more baseball on tonight, like nationally televised or no? What's up, Casey, Kansas City? Not to 99, Brian Robinson, Jr. Draft Selection Jerry, Monro, and David Montgomery. But hidden instead, that'd be nuts, dude. Silver, Chris O'Lave, like if somebody met, yeah, they forgot where they put them. Oh my God. Silver, Nashi Harris, Silver, Tom Brady, and Kadeer Kahoe. Third to 199 is Devante Adams on the sweet level. Silver, Lamar, and Courtney Sutton. Tri-color, Alante Taylor rookie to 199, Saints. Silver, Cameron Dicker, rookie, Drake London, rookie. Blue is George Kittle to 199. Devin White, Silver, Kirby Joseph, rookie. And Hutch, rookie. There's Justin Herbert to 199. Nice one here, 48 to 75. It's gonna be a sauce gardener, rookie jersey. Auto for the Jets going to Dan M. Nice one there, Dan. Patrick Mahomes. Silver, Brian Robinson, Jr. Silver, Christian Watson, rookie. Chris O'Lave to 199. Rookie, Auto for the Saints. Nice one there, New Orleans. Chris O'Lave, Snoop Conner. Maroon is Mack Jones to 149. Sillva, Jill and Hertz, kind of for Murray. Christian Watson, snapshots. Chris O'Lave, 91 of 99 on the Jumbo rookie jersey. It's on that Saints. Petite for Ray. Maroon, Cameron Dicker to 149. Herbert, Silver, Burrow. Taken, Quiriana, Walker, Silver, Pickett. Kyler, say late to blue, Kyren Williams to 99. Cool one here for the Commanders. Two of 25, Taylor Heineke on the tie-dye. Die cut, Auto. Thousand Cook. Hey, what's up, Pete? How you doing, buddy? Gold, Jared Goff. Nice one there for the Lions at two of 10. Spencer is here, he loved that one. Big Goff guy. Desmond Witter, Silver. Silver, Austin Eckler. Bernard Raymond. Jalen Hertz, Tri-Color to 249. Silver, Sauce Gardener for the Jets and A, Pat Friarmuth. Come on, come on. Aaron Jones, 46 of 49 on the bronze jersey. Going to the Packers. Silver, Carl Aftis and Matt Judon. Burrow, Sensations, a Silver, Robert Woods and a Christian Kirkfield bubble. Kind of to Walker. Silver, Tyke, 140. I don't know, to be honest, Pete. I don't think personally I have pulled one. Bailey Zappie. Silver, Tyree Kill and Stephon Diggs. There's a Purple, Justin Fields to 75. Silver, George Kittle. Tyler Complin. So we got a gold of some sort coming up here. Tom Brady, Chase Young, four of 10. Three-colored patch, nice one there, Commanders. Commanders doing well. That's actually pretty sick. On the Sparks, gold. Silver, Zonovan Knight and Marcus Jones. Silver, DeAndre Hopkins. Cole Comette and Dawson Knox. Yeah, I saw that earlier today, Pete. I did see that earlier today. Yeah, could be, could be. Tapping before. The 149, that's Trayvon Walker. Silver, Damian Pierce, Hunter Renfrew. Justin Fields, Maroon, the 149 for the Bears. That is, there at car. One of 30, White Auto, nice one there. When they woke up, the Tigers would throw a combined no header and a player would steal three bases on two pitches. Do not believe so, Vaughn. Do not believe so. Bailey Zappi, phenomenon. Got a Silver, Vylus Jones and T Higgins. Jay Jedd, it's got a redemption. So it's either going to be Brian Robinson Jr., Damian Pierce or Garrett Wilson. That's my guess on this. It is Damian Pierce, rookie signatures, Prism going to the Texans. Nice one there. I think there are the three rookie redemptions. Nice one there. Congrats, Houston, Damian Pierce, Brady. Zebra, Trevor Lawrence. That's nasty. Second year Zebra, going to the Jags. Steven P., Congrats, Steven. It's the T-Law there. Zebra, very nice. T-Law on the premier level. Nice. Let me get that into a mag for you. Very nice. Silver CMC, Aaron Donald and Kyle Hamilton. That should finally feel happy for once. No, Zebras are not numbered. Case hit, one per case. That is a sauce gardener, light blue. Two at 99. Jaylen Hertz, Silver, Tyler Gordon. Every now and then you'll get two, but usually it's one per case. So one for 12 boxes. You have a problem, JCB, you got him in. No problem, no problem. Tideye, Lamar Jackson. For the Ravens, 19 of 25. Nice Lamar, Lamar Vylus. Derek Forrest, Silver, Logan Hall. And Christian Watson. Yeah, I was saying that. I was like, the Blue Jays would not be the first team I would think would get no hit. You know what I mean? I was thinking that too, Matthew. Yeah, you're good, no problem, JCB. Absolutely, if you have any questions, man, feel free to ask, too. Absolutely. Silver, Skymore, and Matt Judan field level. Yeah, feel free to ask any questions you may have. No worries at all. Traylon Burks, rookie. Silver is Nick Chubb on the sweet level. And Brock Purdy field level. One second, one thing here. Bride, two more boxes to go. Silver, Traymit Bride, and Amari Cooper. Really, Bladdy and Alejandro Kirk were the only two, really, to not strike out. Wow. Leo Jones, Justin Fields. That Danny Gray, 44 or 49 for the Niners. Nice one there. Kyle Piltrup. This is a follow there, Newby. And Shaquant Brisker, rookie to 75 on the purple for the Bears. Silver and Joku, their car. Blue, Nacobi Dean, the Eagles do 199. Justin Fields, Silver, Kristen Watson, and Jair Alexander. Silver, Devonte Adams, Neon Icons. Silver, Breeze Hall, rookie for the Jets. And Alvin Kamara, field level. Blue, Reggie Gilliam, let's go into the Bills to 99. Got Otto, DJ Moore, 67 to 99. Silver for the Panthers. Nice one there, Carolina. Ed Ingram. XRC, there we go. XRC. Andre Stevenson, Silver, Jay Jettas, and Mark Andrews. We've got wide receiver for Jordan Addison, right? I wanna say. I think so. Gonna look that up, but I think we're right, Donny. The hours was three. Yeah, I think it went. Jigbo was one. And then it was Quentin Johnson, I think was two. Yeah, let's make double check, obviously, to make sure, because there was four taken in the first round, back to back to back to back. Yep, Jordan Addison, going to the Vikings. Nice one there, on the XRC. Here's Judy, Skylar Thompson, 275 for the Dolphins. Silver, Cole Strange. Skylar Thompson is Jair, the guard, obviously. That is Kristen Watson to 149, Joe Burrow. Silver, Kenny Pickett, rookie, Devon Bush. Silver, Ike McWanoog, and Terry McLaren. That's JJ Wacht to 149. Silver, Davis Mills, and Breeze Hall, rookie. Let's pack, yep. There are Henry, Silver, Breeze Hall. Nice one there for the Jets, and Von Miller. Von Miller. All right, last box of the break, guys. Good luck, and Walker. So bye, Tyquan Thornton and Cole Comet. There's a Traylon Burks to 249. We've got 91 of 199. And that is Reggie Wayne, Jersey Auto. I don't know what that is. I'm gonna send an empty box and wrapper. It looks like an ink smudge of some sort. Send an empty box and wrapper with the, I've never seen that before. Send one with the Colts. Oh, it's not even the same color. Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't think that's the ink smudder. Oh, it's just the. What is it? It's just the. Oh, okay, perfect. Here, I'll take it back after. Garrett Wilson, Nicholas Petite-Farrell. I was gonna say, it didn't look like it was in the, in the label. Right. Before we do that, Donnie was able to get that off. It's literally, it was literally just dust. Which is the bot, other than that one. All right, well it's off, which is good. XRC, wide receiver three. That's Zay Flowers, right? Yes it is, Zay Flowers. April showers bring Zay Flowers. Going to the Ravens. You're ready for 2023 products check. Oh yeah. It's already here. Oh yeah. All year. Yep. Cam Jordan to 199. Rhys Hall Roof, Silver Jared Gough and Derrick Young. Silver Aaron Rodgers, Neon Icons. Silva, Kenneth Murray and the Andre Hawkins. Micah Parsons. I really need this Seattle trip. Silver Darren Waller, Chris O'Lave. Oh man. Oh man. White Gino Smith, the 35 for the Seahawks. Silver Ximera White and Zay Jones. It will help you for a long long. No, no, no. This is a temporary escape. Temporary escape is right. Jermaine Johnson to 249. Kibon Tibidos, Silver Desmond Ritter and Greg Gulsich. Who may like that color? Oh, black. Do I like the color? Yeah, I kind of do like that color. Three of 25 is, I saw in Haskins on the tie-dye. I was looking at this up here. I was gonna say. Yeah. I swung there, congrats Titans. And a Nick Bosa. Got kind of jingled by that. Oh, you. Garrett Wilson Rookie, Silver Deandre Houston Carter and Barry Sanders for the low. Two to go. Just got kind of jingled. Orange to 49, Jake Ferguson Rookie for the Cowboys. Silver Josh Allen and Alvin Kamara. Last pass of the break. Good luck, everybody. See what we got. In hers, Leonard Fournette, Lombardi Lenny, 17, or 15 of 75 on the white jersey card for the Buccaneers. Sylvain Rashad Bateman and Malcolm Rodríguez. Do a quick recap here of all of our hits. All right, we had Zay Flowers on the wide receiver 3XRC. Wide receiver four is Jordan Addison for the Vikings. Goldjair Golf X had Skyler Thompson. Chase Young to 10, Aaron Jones. Brian Robinson Jr., two a tag of Iloa, Leonard Fournette. Autos now, Hassan Haskins, Reguain. DJ Moore, Danny Gray, Damian Pierce, Derek Carr, Taylor Heineke, Chris Olave. Times two, Chris Olave again. Sauce Gardner, Charles Suggs, really cool one there, T-Sizzle. Matt Corral. Let me have the Zebra Triple Lawrence, Premier level, second year. Very nice. Rats on that one there, Jaguars. Love doing for the break, guys. Thanks again for the filp. Coming up next is 54.


Hi, I'm Stu Miniman, and welcome to a CUBE conversation. Really excited to have to the program, a first time guest and a user. Vinny Chabra is an IT engineer with Medalia Vinny. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. And to Vinny's left, we have Christian Badrina, Ryan, who's a director of product marketing with Nutanix. Chris, thanks so much for joining us. It's good to be here. Okay, so we always love to be able to dig in with the customers, understand the challenges they're facing. Chris, let's set the table first. I'm very familiar with Nutanix. We go to all the Nutanix shows and the like, but for customers, what is Nutanix to them? Why do they turn to Nutanix? Okay, absolutely. So I think it's a great time to be in IT. You see new businesses that are sprouting at all. The last 10 years or so, starting with Uber, Airbnb, specifically the ones we've really heard of that have disrupted some really, really big industries. So technology is making it happen. While IT teams are the ones that help make that happen and helps those CEOs disrupt, they're not in the best of positions to utilize infrastructure they have today, the way it's set up to be able to get more done, be more agile and truly serve the needs of the business and help create those comparative differentiation. Which is why Nutanix is here to help our partners within companies such as yourself to be able to be those people, to lean in and help CEOs really achieve what they're trying to get done. That's great. We definitely see, used to be, okay, IT was a cost center. IT, business would ask for something and IT would often be the no or be really slow into the work with that. So Finny, before we dig into the IT piece of it, tell us a little bit about Medalia, the business. What's happening? What's changing there? Sure, Medalia's been around for about 15 years now. We're located, we're headquartered in San Mateo. We used to be in Palo Alto. We moved last year. We have a brand new building right off 101 and 92. We are an analytics company and there's lots of fields in analytics. We specialize in an area called CX which stands for customer experience. And our goal is to make our customers happy which therefore makes our customers happy. And we specialize in doing surveys and then specializing in designing surveys for different types of companies and then we analyze that data from the surveys. Well, Finny, I find there's very few companies that I talk to whose industries are stagnant or not changing much. The analytics space, the space that we cover heavily here on theCUBE and with our research, boy, has that changed a lot. I mean, five years ago we were talking very much about big data. Today, all the AI, ML and things like that. Give us a little bit about what's it like being in that business, fast driving, your Silicon Valley based. I have to imagine that the business is going through a lot of changes that put stresses and strains on IT. No, definitely. So I've been in the IT industry for many years in the IT area, different big companies, Sun Microsystems, Uniber Networks, NetApp in the past, excite.com, which was a search engine way back when before Google days. I remember excite, you know, because Microsoft, didn't they buy that or things like that? It was an early search engine at home. There was a partnership with that at home. But yeah, people would confuse as to, wait, excite.com, what kind of site was that? It's like, no, no, no, it's a search engine. Back before, by the way, audience, for those of you that haven't been around a while, it wasn't all just being in Google. There were a lot of predecessors for that. Yeah, there was four or five big search engines at that time. So most of my company I've been out, we've always been packaging stuff in a box and selling it. In this, this is my first time at an analytics company. And it's a, like you said, it's a fast moving field. Things are being, there's no development staging type of production type of stuff. Things are just continuously being put into production.  So it's a very fast moving field. All right, and Vinny, you said, IT engineers, your job, what does that encompass? What's your role? How many people in the group? What do you manage? Sure, sure, sure. So we have basically two IT groups. We have one that manages our production data centers, which our customers interface with. And then we have one that supports our engineers. So I'm part of that group and it's kind of, we're part of the IT systems engineering team. And that involves traditional IT tasks, like backups, monitoring, application installs, new server installs, managing storage networking, basically keeping infrastructure and applications running as efficiently as possible. And therefore keeping our engineers happy because they can get their work done and their development done. Okay, Chris, sounds like, you know, pretty typical from what I hear from companies is, what do you hear from customers, structure wise, challenges they're facing? Absolutely, so it's very much in lines with what you were just talking about. Where there's these multiple needs from the business and customer expectations. So how do you really help IT organizations be able to keep up with those needs? Infrastructure needs to be ubiquitous. Data needs to be ubiquitous. Application services need to be ubiquitous. And you need to be able to scale out as your business needs to do so, to be able to serve all those multiple requirements. So whether it's standardizing internal applications that are delivered through virtual desktops or deploying databases or standing up customer websites, you need to be able to do that and respond as quickly as possible. And if you're spending cycles on acquiring infrastructure, deploying it, making sure it's well integrated and then once it's up and running, figuring out what went wrong and enjoying those multiple nights of pizza, right? To figure out how to get this thing going back to the way it was. It just distracts you from what's important. So it's only when you make infrastructure invisible and truly scalable, very much cloud-like. And make it your own as a process of doing so. Can you truly be that business partner? And I hope we've done that with you. Definitely. All right, so Vinny, let's go inside. Was there a specific project rollout that led towards Nutanix? Was there a pain point you were having? Give us kind of the before and what was the main thing. Sure, sure, sure. So traditionally in IT, you want to set up a new application and your infrastructure environment. You would buy servers, you would buy storage. You would buy HBA cards, which helps you connect the servers to the storage. You'd have things like worldwide numbers to worry about, getting the right cables, getting the right cards. And then you put it all together. You get all the stuff delivered and then two weeks later you might have things working and then you're having some permission issues, security issues. So it was always a big challenge to get things up and running. So from- That was the fun of IT, is let's roll up our sleeves, let's turn those geek knobs and optimize everything. And yeah, within six months I'm sure everything's rocking and rolling. Yeah, everything's rocking and rolling. But you're still not quite confident that things are running. You're worried that a card might go bad. You're worried that a worldwide number might change somewhere or somebody might mess up your security. So you would spend a lot of time just getting things up and running versus spending time on development and working with people you're supporting and trying to try to enhance things versus just keeping things, getting things up and running. So Nutanix with a hyper-converged infrastructure, we're not worried about those things anymore. It has our storage needs, it has our compute needs, it has our memory needs. So was it a refresh cycle? What was the impetus that led to looking at a new architecture? Sure, sure. As we were growing and engineering base was growing and IT was growing and our requests and what we needed to satisfy was increasing tremendously. Before we were working with just individual desks, desktops or blade servers, but each one was kind of working individually with its own storage, its own applications. Things weren't being shared or anything and we were just growing fast. So we needed some, we needed a new infrastructure where we could actually have everything working most efficiently and be secure and fast and easy to manage. So we did look at, we did some analysis on few products and Nutanix, after a few POCs, Nutanix was our part of the choice. Yeah, I mean you describe something we heard a lot is it used to be every application you would kind of build your own temple for it.  I don't wanna have to worry about, you know, here's one of the challenges out there. Most people and across the board forecasting is really hard or impossible. I either overestimated a bunch and then I bought stuff I didn't need or I underestimated it and then, oh my gosh, I need to look to a new architecture. And the things ended up burning at 10% of, using 10% of utilizing, 10% of the resources that you're purchasing. Yeah, I remember 15, 20 years ago, 10%, you were doing pretty good. Before virtualization, it was like, six, seven percent is usually what we were running. Awesome, so challenges before we had silos out there, I couldn't share, I couldn't do, talk about that role. How did you get from that old environment to the new one, there's something I said when you look at this wave of really a distributed architecture, in the old world, migrations were really, really tough and you had to do it with every cycle. Hopefully moving to an architecture like this, this is your last migration. It was like, you know, my wife always said the last time we moved, that's the last time I never wanna have to move. Well, IT, I'm sure, those migrations were always painful. What was the experience like getting to? Migrations is one thing that we went through, but also now it's just setting up new VMs or new applications, new servers, it's within a few minutes versus hours. As far as migration, we were running a hypervisor before, but like I said, it was on individual servers. So the migration was basically picking your VMs or your servers one at a time and just migrating over to Nutanix once it was there and with the hypervisor tools that are available, it's very easy to use like things like VMotion or different types of migration tools that Nutanix offers with their HV hypervisor. So it was just, it was pretty seamless. It was just, you just pick and choose and identify your destination host on Nutanix node or Nutanix cluster and all your stores that you wanna move it to and just go. Okay, so Vinny, you went through a bit of a bake off to figure out the solution. Tell us, when you finished the deployment, how are you measuring, what does success mean to in deployment of your standpoint and give us the after, what does this change to your business process, your organization? Sure, qualitatively, success is when our engineers are smiling and not calling us too much and asking us to go to lunch versus telling us about issues they're having. So that's qualitatively, quantitatively, looking at performance, CPU memory, IAPS performance on the storage, how are applications responding, that's how we measure quantitatively. Do you know like what kind of utilization you're getting on your current infrastructure then with the Nutanix? Well, so currently you've made as far as a. So you said you were lucky to get 10% in the old world. Do you measure that in the old world? Yeah, we measure that. We kind of, we have our choices of how much storage you wanna use, how much CPU memory you wanna allocate to each VM and we just monitor it and through the prism interface that Nutanix offers, you can actually see performance of each VM and you can decide when to throttle things. So, but as far as how much we're utilizing or we have it structured where we have room to grow. So yeah, absolutely. And if we do need to grow later, we can easily add nodes or chassis with nodes. Yeah, Krish, I think back to the early years of what we call hyper-converged environments and it was like, oh well, they are monolithic blocks, even if they're small and but you don't have flexibility there. When I look at many of the solutions, especially what Nutanix offers, there's a lot of flexibility into how I can grow in scale and get the utilization that I need but get the performance, the ops and everything. What are you seeing from your customers? How is that story play out today? Yeah, I mean, ultimately, it's all about empowering people, right? It's about making IT people truly successful, broadening their skillset, giving them greater control over the full stack, if you will, right? It's no longer a siloed across functions, you're no longer found helpless, relying on a different team to deliver upon something that was promised based on a certain SLA. So how do we do that? How do we make evolved functional specialists into IT generalists who then become cloud engineers, true cloud engineers, right? The world is changing, technology is adapting, businesses are craving for more and the only way we can keep up is to adapt ourselves and utilize the best of great technologies that gives us that power. So as a result, we hear that a lot, where we find a lot of the customers progressing from being either storage admins, network specialists, but most likely virtualization admins who then become these cloud engineers, if you will. They reorganize that way, they tend to be in a position where they are managing a lot more infrastructure. We're talking about 100X of what they used to do prior in the earlier days, right? So the numbers, the ratios just grow immensely, as well as the quality of service provided. The SLAs are far reduced as they used to be. So all of that goodness that our customers are able to deliver to that stakeholders in the organization makes us feel good about what we do. Yeah, Finney, we love, we talk about, you know, the engineers now, they're smiling and going out to lunch rather than, you know, fighting bugs, anything- Or complaining about his performance issues.  I can finally tackle that. Or I can be more responsive to the business so that they don't, you know, I can engage with them, rather than just going off running it and doing stealth IT. Anything along those lines that you can share? I mean, one thing, like an IT admins, we typically want to know everything, right? So we want to know what's happening behind the scenes. With Nutanix, we don't have to as much, but we still like to. And so we take the opportunity to do trainings, learn what's happening in the interface, use support when needed. So as far as, yeah, as far as skills go, I think it's, you know, the skills you keep up with, it's just different, like Kavrish mentioned, it's different type of administration. Like you're managing virtualization, you're managing cloud, you're not just managing luns and cables, you know. Yeah, love, it sounds like you've got a team that's got that intellectual curiosity and wants to understand what's going on. How was the on-ramp? How was the cycle to understand the Nutanix piece? How did you find that? Yeah, so we learned a lot during the POC, of course, that's when you kind of, you know, you can play around with stuff and break stuff and try to break stuff if you want. We use some professional services to help us get set up originally. And after that, it was just kind of learning day to day and just improving our knowledge in different areas. Like we're not used to having everything like in one kind of a couple chassis, storage and, you know, compute. So that was a networking as well. So that was a little bit, not challenge technically, but just being an option. I had to reset the mindset a little bit as to the way I used to do things versus the way now I can do things. Correct, correct, correct. And troubleshooting, you know, the great thing is when we have troubleshooting, we're not calling three different vendors like a networking company, a storage company and a compute company and having them point fingers so it's networking. Now if I ever have an issue or a question, I call Nutanix support and they're very helpful. So Vinny, how long has it been since the solution was deployed? The first one? It's been about two and a half years now. So first of all, I'd love your viewpoint as to how Nutanix has changed in those two years and along those lines too. Now that you look at things through the lens of 2018, if you could go back to peers of yours, what would you tell them now that you wish you had known back when you rolled this out a couple of years ago? I would tell them there's a much easier way to deploy and manage your infrastructure and this is one of the, Nutanix is definitely something you should look at. All right. Krish, what advice do you give to the IT people of the world that I'm sure most of them heard about this, but what misconceptions might they have? What things do we want to make sure we open the door for? Sure. So as a former developer myself several years ago, I think it's very easy for us to forget the role we play in our organizations. We're not all about the applications. We're not all about the speeds and feeds. We are a critical core part of how businesses go to market and achieve success. So let us recognize that and use the best approaches that are available out there to be able to deliver that value. If it means going with a good hyper-converged infrastructure solution. If it means leaning in and building new disruptive technologies and such that can help your businesses do better. The other thing that I want to highlight is just as you are in the customer service business, I believe we are as well. We pride ourselves in our support. So if anyone has questions about how hyper-converged infrastructure can add value, call us, give support a call. You would be put in touch with anyone who can speak about all the value we deliver to our customers and begin to read some of those ideas. All right. Vinny, I want to ask you, you've got some experience, works for some of the really well-known companies, not only here in the Valley Button Tech in general. What's exciting you these days? What do you look at either in the analytics space or in IT that's getting you excited? For me, it's I like to get up without stress and so ease of management, ease of deployment in the IT area is very that's one of the things I look forward to. Being able to do other stuff than just focusing on routine stuff. Yeah. One of those lines, if I could give you the one wish to help make that goal even more either from Nutanix or the broad ecosystem out there, what would make your job even easier? I don't know. I'm trying to think of a good answer, but it's typically when issues, once and while we have application issues, it would just be some self-healing type things, or maybe some automatic adjustments that could be done. That may be something in the future. Adjustments as far as resources allocated to different types of resources. Chris, I'll let you have the final word there, because absolutely once we simplify, modernize the platform, modernizing the application sum. It's definitely something I've heard from many of your customers as to that role of infrastructure really is to serve up and support those applications and that seems to be where it's going. That's right. That's right. The business partners, partners in the business, CFO, whoever on the other side of the fence, they care about applications and services, not so much about all the blood, sweat, and tears we put into the infrastructure. So I think it's an opportunity for us to help us elevate beyond the infrastructure and focus on apps and services, along with making sure we have some of those self-healing capabilities and such that take care of us and not require us to pay heat to all those infrastructure speeds and feeds. So it's a great opportunity to do that and be truly strategic in the company. I agree. All right. Well, Chris, really appreciate you sharing the updates. Vinny, really appreciate you sharing your customer story. 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