Live from Washington D.C., it's theCUBE. Covering Boomi World 19, brought to you by Boomi. Welcome to theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. Lisa Martin with John Furrier, live at Boomi World 2019, in D.C., John and I are pleased to welcome one of our next guests, Rajiv Ahuja, managing director, Deloitte Consulting. Rajiv, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you, Lisa. So I just saw the news yesterday, a partner summit Deloitte named the 2019 Innovation Partner of the Year. Congratulations to Deloitte on that. Thank you very much. We are very proud and honored to be an innovation partner with Boomi and it's been a great journey with Boomi.  Talk to us about the Deloitte-Boomi partnership, the alliance, all the good stuff that's going on there. So we've been a Boomi partner for a number of years now and our partnership has grown leaps and bounds over this time. We picked up Boomi as an alliance partner years back because of the strength of their product. Phenomenal, innovative product, great I-Pass platform. We love Boomi because of not just the features of its platform and product, but also because of the fact that it's easy to implement for our clients. It's easy to implement from a business perspective. Beauty of the product is that it has a lot of pre-built integrations that it provides to our partners and as an alliance partner with them, it provides us all that we need from in terms of training, in terms of sales opportunities that we work together with them on. As a management consultant and a global system integrator, you guys are, you work with a lot of big customers with big problems, big projects, broken down into smaller projects. What's the landscape look like from a customer? Digital transformation has been talked about for many, many years, people, process technology. Why is Boomi doing so well? What's their secret sauce? What are customers liking about Boomi? Excellent question. So when we think about our clients right now, our clients are dealing with really business problems. They're talking about digital transformation. They're talking about cloud. They're talking about IoT. They're talking about how do they use AI?   And when our clients think of these opportunities and challenges, there are three things that they need to deal with. They need to make sure that when they undertake these large transformations, they are able to easily integrate data that currently resides in a lot of their on-prem applications. In many of these transformations, the long pole in the tent happens to be their integration layer. That's what kind of holds back a lot of these transformation efforts. And Boomi is an excellent product to help them with that. A second area where clients kind of have to deal with is really the speed of innovation. That's a big challenge that our clients have to deal with today. And gone are the days when you could bring out a new release of your product every three months, every six months. Our clients' customers, they need to see some new features every few weeks. And a large part about making change happen quickly is around being able to bring in the relevant data from your enterprise pretty quickly as well. And again, Boomi with its simplicity and providing an ability to simply integrate products quickly. That helps with that agility as well as speed of innovation. Are the number of projects increasing in companies? With data and agile application development, there's more projects happening. Do you see the numbers increasing? Can you share some insight into what that looks like? Is it a lot? Is there a order of magnitude? Is it changed? Is it the same game as 10, 15 years ago but just broken down into smaller projects? One big project comes in. What's the project landscape like? So for us, it's been a tremendous growth journey over the last 10 years. The number of projects, again, driven by digital transformation efforts, cloud efforts, the number of projects, the kind of projects, the flavor of projects that is coming up and the sheer volume of projects is around clients thinking about moving to SaaS-based application models, thinking about the digital transformation and then taking up more mobile as well as digital projects at this stage, thinking about their big M&A deals at this stage, all these kind of changes within their environment and within their demands that their customers are demanding of them that has really spiked up the level and number of projects that we see at this stage. Are you seeing that in terms of the spike in projects similar between like an established business that might have all these silos of applications that don't connect versus like a, say, a younger startup that might have a ton of data and they're trying to move so quickly? Are there the types of integration projects that their needs implement to transform pretty similar? So, similar, but there are some unique characteristics for each of these two sort of buckets of clients, I would say, or bucket of companies. In a more traditional companies today, really the need is around, and I'll give you a few examples, right? There is a big need among larger companies to move to cloud. A number of our clients have mandated that moving to cloud and taking their applications to the cloud is their priority number one. For a typical large-sized company, their application landscape could be anywhere from about five to 600 applications in their ID portfolio to close to four to 5,000 applications. So if you look at that application landscape, the reality is that with the push to the cloud, at this point of time, across most of our clients, they have 15, 20% of their applications in the cloud. They're using certain SaaS applications. They have their own custom applications that have been put on a cloud platform and then they still have a large proportion of their applications on-prem as well. So that's the reality of application landscape for our large-scale clients. And with this reality, the ability to integrate cloud-to-cloud applications, cloud-to-on-prem applications, and on-prem-to-on-prem applications, that's the key need for integration for our large-scale clients. Brad, jeep, I want to get your personal opinion on something. E-Industry for a long time. You've seen many waves. Absolutely. Many computer, client server, local area networking, internet working, internet, web, web 2.0, cloud, cloud 1.0, cloud 2.0, which we're in now. What is the big story in your mind? What's the most important story that in tech today in your mind? And what's the most important story that isn't being told or isn't being shared, talked enough about? The big story that has been talked about, and I mentioned earlier, right, is move-to-cloud. That's the big story that kind of is on the surface. The big story is that ultimately everything has to be business-driven. So it's the customer that is demanding change from our clients. The customer is saying that they are, they want to just deal with mobile. The younger customer, which will be the customer of tomorrow, they want to be mobile, right? And our clients, whether it's financial services clients or retail clients or any clients in most of the industry, you know, that's where their mind is. They want to be mobile first. They want to be cloud first. So that's the big story that is being told, and every client across all industries that we support, that's the same story that we hear at every client, right? The second big story at our clients is that the computational power has improved so much. That IoT, connections with IoT, that's reality now. That is coming reality. That's becoming reality. The third big story at our clients is that the traditional on-prem applications that run the core guts of our clients, they haven't gone away. They are here to stay for some time. Most of our clients want to transform their core applications, but they haven't yet spent the money to transform them. You know, a great perspective, thank you for sharing that insight. One of the interesting things about Cloud 2.0, I'm calling it Cloud 2.0, because we're kind of in Cloud 2.0 world. Cloud 1.0 was compute storage, scale up, Amazon born in the cloud, APIs, agile, great. Cloud 2.0's enterprise is hard. Multi-cloud, hybrid cloud. Kubernetes containers, legacy infrastructure, as soon as you mentioned. But one thing that's interesting and I'd like to get your thoughts on is that network management used to be a small white space. Then that turned into observability. Companies going public, great solutions, so observability is now a big category. Automation is taking configuration management and turning that into a whole category around automation. Automation is a really big, hot trend right now. That's ultimately a data-driven, business-driven opportunity. So observability, automation, these are tell signs for Cloud 2.0. What is your view on this? Someone who's been in the industry for a while, talking to customers, as they start to think about scanning up IoT or scaling up mobile. Automation's important, data's important, what's your... No, absolutely. At the end of the day, it's all about data. At the end of the day, when we talk about automation, and we're talking about end devices, we're talking about connectivity with the end devices, we're talking about IoT and those connectivity. But at the end of the day, the heart of it is integration and bringing data that is residing either on-prem in core systems that you have or on the cloud in the core system that you have. How do you bring that data at the forefront of your edge? A second key aspect around Cloud 2.0 is it's an ecosystem-based play. It's an ecosystem-based play, not just in terms of sharing data within your walls and sharing data with your ecosystem partners, but it's an ecosystem-based play in Cloud 2.0. In terms of also utilizing what your ecosystem provides. So today, there is really no need for a lot of our partners to kind of do a lot of their compute inside. You know, when you think about AI, a lot of code is available in the market today that you can leverage with your ecosystem players. So ecosystem play is also another interesting aspect about Cloud 2.0 that often gets overlooked. You talked a minute ago about, you know, the need to have Cloud 2.0 on-prem integration, on-prem to on-prem, et cetera. And one of the things that I was reading about Boomi is, well, iPads used to be all about 10 years ago connecting on-prem, sorry, the Cloud to on-prem. Now it's any data source, anywhere, any integration, edge, you talked about that. We have this as consumers, we have this demand to have everything mobile, right? Whenever, whatever it is, if we want to call an Uber or maybe a CFO needs to procure some software. What, how does that influence Deloitte's good market strategy with Boomi, knowing that Boomi is integrating on-prem, Cloud, Edge, all of it? So, great question. There are really three key kind of opportunities that we see when we implement Boomi with our clients. The first big opportunity that we see is when our clients are taking a journey to the Cloud. Let's say many of our clients want to implement a core SaaS solution. They're implementing a NetSuite solution. They're thinking of SAP S4HANA implementation on the Cloud. They're thinking of Workday implementation on the Cloud, right? With any large SaaS platform implementation, there is always need for connectivity to on-prem applications, other SaaS applications, add times to end devices, right? That's the point where we see a lot of our projects. That's the point where we see a lot of opportunity to help our clients using Boomi as an integration platform, for example, right? A second big area where we see our clients needing help is when in their life cycle, there is a big event. For example, a big M&A deal, a big divestiture that that might be planning. Product launch or something significant. Something significant. At that point of time, for example, a typical divestiture deal, typically the company that is being sold off at times, as a part of the deal, the expectation from the buyer is that the core IT infrastructure that they are buying from the company would also be transformed as a part of the deal. And then that's the case, and we have a number of example of those where as a part of the deal itself, the seller tries to modernize the IT infrastructure and the first thing they do is they go for a plethora of SaaS applications to replace their core legacy applications, and they want to integrate them very quickly. And that's another situation where we've seen a product like Boomi being very successful in helping us implement. So those are the two big use cases, and a third one is obviously as you talked about around digital transformation. So driven by digital transformation, whether it's mobile alone or mobile along with web transformations, along with kind of some edge computational transformation. That's a situation where again, they are leading a large transformation within their organization, and a part of that is, answer is making sure that from an integration perspective they standardize, and that's where Boomi comes into a lot of picture as well. Well, we've achieved tons of opportunity, tons of momentum. Thank you for joining John and me on theCUBE today, sharing what Deloitte and Boomi are doing together. And again, congratulations to Deloitte on the partner of, innovation partner of the year. Thank you so much. It's been a pleasure to talk with you. Thank you Rajeev. Take care. For Rajeev and John Furrier, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE from Boomi World 19. Thanks for watching. Thank you very much.


Hey, we're back. We're live with Global Connections with Carlos Suarez in Mexico. I'm Jay Fidel. This is Catching Up with Carlos on all manner of things around the world. Welcome back to your show, Carlos. It's great to connect Jay and Aloha and bienvenidos, saludos from Mexico. As you just mentioned, they're just want to reconnect as we do often and sort of maybe take a quick snapshot of Panorama. We live in interesting times, of course, and there's no shortage of things happening in the world. But of course, the real challenge today is we've got a President Trump who is now facing just tremendous, tremendous pressure. I go back to the fact that when he, the election night, I don't think he expected to win and he certainly didn't plan to win and didn't have anything ready for the beginning of his presidency. Here we are now, gosh, approaching three years, is it? And we are just living in interesting times. Very scary. As some people say, the sauce is slipping off the linguine. But here I'm seeing in some ways from the outside. I spent a lot of time here in Mexico trying to clarify and explain foreign policy, American politics, the inner workings. We are definitely at a very interesting time. Even though I want to just maybe refer a couple of months back, the Pew Research Center, a well-known place for a lot of survey analysis, they looked into sort of how Americans feel about the future. And it's a pretty grim scenario. And then of course, under some of these trends have been going on long before Trump, of course, but he's come in and almost grinding us deeper into that. And it's the reality that today, the majorities of Americans see a weaker economy in the near term, a growing income divide. That's a hot issue, of course, for the election, degraded environment. Here we are with rampant development and inability to come together, at least from the U.S., and support climate change initiatives. And finally, a broken political system. We've seen the U.S. in crisis now for seriously, since the moment Trump came in office. And democracy is taking a few steps back. We have a constitutional crisis now, don't we, the President challenging the other co-equal branch of government that in other way he sees it has no right to investigate him. And so it's a showdown. Obviously we're going to see a play out, and it's in the court of public opinion. It'll possibly continue in the courts, as it has been. And from the outside, it just looks very bizarre. Appreciate that, for example, in Europe, most of the countries there have parliamentary systems that whenever there's a presidency who comes under our leader, if you will, that comes under tremendous pressure. There are other ways of squeezing them out. For the U.S., it's a tremendous hurdle, the impeachment process. And we still have yet to see how that's going to play out in the coming days. Yeah. A couple of weeks ago, the press was wondering what his defense was going to be, what his next move, strategically, was going to be. And then we saw a few days ago, this eight-page letter, which really doesn't hold water. The only people who agree with that letter are the Stooges that always say yes to him. And talking about the people in his White House staff, he's managed to fire or relieve himself of all those people who are rational. And now everyone on his staff, in fact, his secretaries in his cabinet, they're all yes men or women. And so what we have is a guy running a sole proprietorship government in the United States who, as you said, he's created a constitutional crisis with co-equal branches of government not functioning. And it's all his fault. He's now stopped Congress. He's effectively stopped Congress. So I don't know where we go from here, but it's not a good place. We're in a tight bind, of course, a continued uncertainty. But here, as someone who I've studied and taught about and lectured about transitions to democracy, and that is how countries go from authoritarianism to democratic. Today, not only in the US, but in many parts of Europe and South America, what we see is a retrenchment from democracy or some version of it, some variation towards authoritarianism. And it's quite interesting, when we often look at, let's say, military regime crises, maybe the situation in Venezuela, the uncertainty there, the cards are in the hands of the military, the moment that they don't continue supporting whoever that leader might be today. It might be Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. But what I want to say is that for Trump, the cards, his military is basically the Senate Republicans. Until enough of them, what is the number about 20, to allow them to join all the Democrats can agree to an impeachment, the president could well survive it. And I mean, it's horrible to think, but there is a scenario where he could overcome this, the House could impeach him, the Senate could hold off, and he muddles his way into the election next year. So the cards are in the hand of, and we're seeing a few of them breaking off in recent days. Look at what happened in the past week or two with Mitt Romney, with a few others that are kind of tentatively coming forward. And then you add to the complexity. I mean, you were describing what is this strategy.  It's like throw chaos up in the air and become the victim, accuse everybody, use the court system and public media, social media in his case, as best you can. But boy, when you look at the most recent decision of Syria, his decision to pull out and basically create a vacuum for the Turks to come in, that's giving some heavy criticism from some of his current allies. Is that going to be enough or will we need to see more of these Syrians before that can happen? Well, I want to go around the world with you and catch up with you on your thoughts about these various places, problem places, hot spots that he has created, that he is allowed to happen either way. And see what you think, but also with the people in Mexico that you deal with, think of people at your university, how they think and so forth and get feedback on that. Because I think that what he does as a leader of the free world, and I use the term very loosely, has an effect on people everywhere. And it's not only that he is reacting to a problem in a given place. It's that he's in reacting, he's exacerbating the problem. So it's a spiral down to greater fragmentation and who knows violence. Let's talk about Syria first. From your point of view, Carlos, from an international relations point of view, what's going on with him and Syria and Russia and Turkey all together now? Yeah. Well, these are just taking that snapshot of Syria. This is a very complex geopolitical geostrategic, many players. It's the Cold War, new version. But interestingly, when you look at American foreign policy or American negotiating styles, many of the things Trump's does have always been there, maybe in different degrees, different elements, that he has managed to take them all to the extreme. And what I want to say here is, for example, American relations in the world, foreign policy, one of the characteristics or one of the ways they negotiate is in a sort of business-like transaction-like. It's a tip for the pad. It's using inducements and sanctions and pressure. Well, Trump, again, does that, but he does it to an extreme and to a way that it begins linking things that are, you know, look what happened here.  And what does he go? He tries to rewrite history, explain, well, they never showed up on Normandy or something. Because of course, some of these Syrian Kurds are coming from Europe. They are children of immigrants who've gone there or grown up in the West. But anyway, his distortion of history is just mind-boggling because the reality is that suddenly now we've created the possibility of prisons being broken out with, you know, ISIS troops, more and more massive suffering and refugees, and even Erdogan in Turkey threatening to send them all to Europe. And so, you know, we were here talking, Jay, some what four years ago when we had the massive crisis in 2015 of refugees. Today it's been managed. This Syria intervention, or not intervention, I'm sorry, the latest twist and Trump's sort of giving the green light now to Turkey to take over that northern part. Now, in a strictly rational point of view, you can understand Turkey's enters. They want to seal their border. They want to control it. But the net effect is going to be massive destabilization suffering. And again, the US having fought against ISIS now is sort of letting this slip away. And that's why his own national security team, State Department, Defense Department have all been flabbergasted by the impulsiveness of this. A phone call that he made to Erdogan. And then suddenly announces over Twitter, you know, that we're out against the advice of his own key players. And obviously, so it is obviously it shifts the narrative a bit. And maybe that's his own thinking. If he even has that, if we give him that much credit, he's sort of muddying the waters with shifting some attention away from the impeachment inquiry to suddenly the Middle East. So dangerous. It's so dangerous. I mean, compare notes with his Joint Chiefs of Staff. He didn't talk to the State Department. He didn't talk to Congress. It's the danger. It's the most powerful tool the President has to, you know, both affect sort of violence and war. And sometimes we do that by not acting or sometimes we do that by looking the other way or like in this case, because the reality is the US presence there was minimal. We didn't have we don't have a big force, but it's there as a stabilizing force. And the simple decision to say, OK, now we're gone that quickly caught catching everybody off guard. What's it going to leave for those, you know, future allies that we're going to be looking for in terms of the loss of credibility of our, you know, our word, the trust? Oh, they don't think terrible thoughts about us. One piece I caught is that there were ISIS prisoners being held, I guess, by the Kurds. And all of a sudden they were separated and nobody is responsible for them. So Trump has turned his back on those prisoners. As far as he's concerned, let him go back into the wild. Let him go back and fight. I mean, what a reversal of fortune for them. But Britain came in Britain with the one with all the trouble about Brexit. They came in and they're saving Trump's bacon, saving our bacon by taking over the responsibility for the prisoners, which is a real statement about what they think about the leader of the free world. No, you know, again, and we have to reiterate that even before Trump arrived, the U.S. role in the world is credibility, and especially after, you know, the events in Iraq and Afghanistan for so many years have begun to, you know, erode a lot of, let's say, trust towards the U.S. There's always this healthy skepticism today. It's real. And I guess, you know, maybe to kind of put it again from the perspective of how do people see it or read it? It's more unpredictable than usual. However, you know, from the outside world, the United States, here we go again. It's a hegemonic role. It's a, you know, bullying. I mentioned earlier there's like a business-like maybe mindset about the U.S. There's also hegemonic superpower. And, you know, the U.S. is in a new world today. And some people understand that it has to be more nuanced, more maybe, you know, cooperative, if you will. For others, we're still living in a world that maybe in Trump's worldview of the way it once was, where the U.S. did call the shots, had respect, and, you know, was listened to. Today, I think it's fair to say that, increasingly, we are not, and while we remain a player there, we are not able to call the shots the way it was done in previous times. He's a laughing stock in Europe. He must be a laughing stock for all this. He didn't consult with them either. And they're definitely parties to the problem, and maybe parties to the solution, but I didn't even talk to them.  And this is a very hard question, because he's unpredictable, and he's still a feature in the environment about what happens. But you have all these other players, and now it seems to me like it's anybody's guess, what kind of violence and, you know, destruction we're going to see in Syria going forward. What do you think? Do you have any expectations? You know, there was a comment made in the press, and I think today Trump addressed it that he is saying that, well, they all want to go to Europe. Let them go to Europe. Well, you know, it's not that simple. Obviously, if there are, you know, people getting out of prison that have been, you know, had an interest in harming us or our allies, it hurts all of us. Beyond that, I would just say this, here we are almost three years now into the presidency. And I think as people from the outside world see, and when I'm speaking of there, maybe elites or political leaders, they both sometimes understand, but often don't, the U.S. electoral cycle, the calendar, and that's a whole other story, because nowhere else do we see basically campaigns for, let's say, our presidency that go on for what seems like years. We've had this ongoing primary, the election is still more than a year away. And yet, maybe a sense for some, from some adversaries I'm thinking here, whether it's China, maybe Mexico, maybe others in Europe, there's almost a sense of, well, do we wait it out? Do we wait to see? And here the uncertainty today is this current crisis of the impeachment. It could happen very quickly. It could be a matter of weeks, and maybe Trump resigns, or he manages to survive it and muddle his way through to the election. You know, people are continually asking, do you think he'll win? Well, again, it's anybody's guess. There is certainly a potential scenario where he could get reelected. But I have to guess that what he's doing in most recent days and his own temperament, he can't be winning new converts. So it's how deep that so-called base is, and will they show up to vote? Will they mobilize? I just can't imagine that he's gaining more support. Again, when you even look at the reaction of many of the Republicans, the number of Republicans who are leaving Congress and choosing not to even run, and in some cases potentially losing more to the Democrats. Well, again, so from the outside, even though not everybody understands, let's say that calendar, there is an awareness that somehow it's a process that, you know, you could wait out. And again, I'm just thinking of a trade negotiator. Do you really put all your eggs in and make this massive deal? Or do you somehow write it out and see what's going to play out in the next few months given the current political crisis? Yeah, when you talk like that, I think there's really no way you can predict anything anymore. It could happen any time. You just know it's not going to be good. Let's talk about China for a minute. You can say that they were taking advantage of us for a while and all that. But Trump has exacerbated the relationship, undermined any possibility of a future relationship with them beyond recognition. We're in a trade war, except it's only him doing the war. And my feeling is we should be concerned because China is reacting and China is getting ticked off at us. And the man in the street in China who used to like Americans doesn't like Americans anymore. We're heading through a cold war with China. Yeah. Well, it is. And this is a war of Trump's choosing the Chinese in some ways, taking the long, long horizon view. And also, curiously, almost paradoxically, such a different world today. Imagine a generation ago or we recently celebrated 70 years of the People's Republic of China. Certainly, a Chinese person that's 70-year-olds today has lived through quite a bit of change. And what I mean there is that today, China in 2019 is essentially the defender of the free trading modern international system, while Trump is the chaos master of just destruction and breaking, whereas the Chinese are the ones that are the even keel. Now, having said that, the reality too is that they are also deeply, deeply engaged everywhere else in the world. And in a way that is eating our lunch, that is in Africa, in South America, in Australia, they are the primary sort of development player and obviously extracting the resources they need. But they are taking on a global role that's quite interesting, whether we call it a state-led imperialism or what, I don't know. But they are today, and I often tell this with my students, because over the last 30 years that I've been both teaching and seeing maybe delegations of Chinese. 30 years ago, they were pretty rusty and maybe newcomers to the world. Today, a negotiating team of let's say trade negotiators from the government or any number of other delegations that you see around the world, they are savvy, they are experienced, they know the language, they know the culture, they probably know more about the electoral system than Donald Trump does in terms of the dynamics. And even as the trade war goes on, they're playing the game that has long been US politics of targeting districts and obviously making sure the pain is felt so that the pressure can be on. So fascinating to see, again, this China of today, and of course, the US chaos and weakening and relative decline, it's not a, but it is definitely a trade war. We saw it play out. I haven't even read on GoFull because in the last few days with the NBA now, as an integral, usually sports are bringing people together now. It's creating an added tension to the US-China relationship. Yeah. Well, I think the operative thing is, you said that China was eating our lunch and I think it is eating our lunch or we're asking them to eat our lunch and they are eating our lunch. They want to do that. And one Belt One Road is an initiative that is really, it's all the way from Beijing to Spain. They're going to have a road there and shipping lanes there. As a result, they're going to have enormous economic leverage in every continent. So what's really remarkable is that we're not doing anything to countervail on that. Over time, and given their long view of things, over time they will dominate the world, they will dominate us. And maybe they wouldn't do it in such a moral way that we were doing it, to the extent we were doing it a moral way, but they will have power. So what's really tragic about this is that the sun is setting on the American empire and you can see it happening every day. And my question to you is, where does this all go? Because right now we're still crawling about our economy. We still have a low unemployment rate. We still have a lot of jobs that are coming online. The market is, although it's been volatile, it's still pretty much up there. And he crows about that. But bottom line is, and in discussion about recession, it ended. Everybody was all interested in recession in three weeks a month ago. Now he's just quiet as if you could hear the crickets. So what is going to happen here? It sounds like it's building up to a huge crescendo. And one day we're going to see the drums roll on the American empire, no? Well, yeah. I mean, it is, again, hard to say, hard to predict. And while we can speak of this rising China and its tentacles everywhere, and they are very strategic in that regard, but it's a very strategic sort of for building their pie, let's say. I think where we probably want to be careful, and I don't maybe pretend to understand fully the Chinese mindset and foreign policy, but I don't know that they have geo-political or maybe strategic interest in the same way of empire. It's a different kind. But most certainly, they're going to be a player to contend with. And in some ways, they are shifting the power towards them more and building these alliances and ties. But it's not easy, and it's not all positive. Even the very ambitious one wrote initiative you mentioned, it's also got a lot of criticism that China's interests are so focused and narrow, and they've taken a lot of criticism for treatment of different places where they've come in. And they're going to stumble along the way as well. But nevertheless, they've got both the long, long, long horizon and vision. They have the patience. They're not rushing. But if you look forward, let's say 30 years from now, yeah, they're going to be a key player. And the US will continually find itself having, at least right now, losing trust, credibility, legitimacy so that while it's going to have a seat at the table, it's not going to be taken as seriously as it used to be. And boy, we're going to have to eat some humble pie to be able to stay alive. You know, we could talk about Mexico, and we've talked about Mexico and south of the border before. It's actually a gruesome conversation. It never gets better. It always gets worse. He does things that are unethical, immoral, and outright, crazy unfair. And so I'm skipping that for this discussion, okay? I know it's pretty much the same as it was, but worse. What I would like to cover, though, is something you mentioned earlier. And that is Brexit and our relationship through UK and into, you know, Europe, continental Europe. Because I think that his position or maybe lack of position these days, his lack of engagement, his lack of helping anyone and only hurting them with his anti-nado talk and the machinations that he's engaged in in Ukraine only hurts American influence there and only hurts them, the Europeans. But can we talk about Brexit and what he's done or not done and what is likely to happen, both in the initial withdrawal from the EU and then, of course, in what follows? Yeah. And again, here we are waiting a few weeks for this drama. We've been spending a lot of time in the last few years trying to make sense of it. I think what we see in the case of the UK also is a very serious political crisis, a crisis of credibility, legitimacy. There was a time where traditionally the two leading parties, the Labour and Tory, had a pretty clearly defined agenda and maybe policy platform. And today that's also kind of eroding and, you know, just the nastiness of it and the polarization. So where does that leave them? And on one hand, let's assume a scenario where they do leave and maybe it's bumpy or rough. Yes, there is an opportunity for the US, given the long-standing ties of the special relationship. But at the end of the day, I can't help but think that England, Scotland, Wales, they are so interdependent, interconnected with Europe that it can't be but a cost, a pain. In other words, no winners. Who are the winners? I mean, maybe some American firms can benefit over time entering more into the UK market, but that's not going to be easy or without its problems. Is the UK going to flood the US? Of course not. It's a smaller economy than, let's say the rest of Europe, where we get more goods from. So I don't know. I think just like in the US, we're going to be continuing a few more years of uncertainty in the UK. They're going to need to probably transition even to a post-borus world because while he's there now and he may survive this exit transition, the Brexit, I just, I don't see him as a prime minister for the next 10 years, like someone who's going to really boom, make the country boom. So they're going to be languishing along. There's going to be deep divisions internally. Scotland wanting again to split off or maybe what's going to happen with the Northern Ireland. It's almost like the easiest solution, frankly, would be just let them reconnect with the rest of Ireland and call it quits. But of course, easy for an outsider to say that. These are very emotional, sensitive issues there. But I also think that for the EU, it has been a crisis, but it also, I think curiously, it can present an opportunity. The rest of the 27 remaining can rally, redefine who they are. And I suppose, make sure that they will make it painful for the UK because you don't want others to suddenly defect. The Poles or maybe the Italians, it's not likely to see that. But I think there's a scenario where maybe the remaining EU 27 can coalesce and reaffirm and whatever, maybe with more modesty on one hand. But in the end, the UK was always a skeptical player, a skeptical member. It joined in the early 70s when it was always with like one leg out. And so my sense is for many other Europeans, it's like, well, get lost. You were never really in the inner circle anyway. But nevertheless, the economies are deeply intertwined and England and London in particular has always been a very important global international European city. But it is, I think the Brexit is damaging its overall economy, reputation, political system. And so it's a lose-lose. Nobody knows who's winning from this. One last thing we should talk about, and I think it's sort of overarching somehow, is Russia. Vladimir Putin is feeling a stride these days. He's creating trouble everywhere. His main purpose in life seems to me to undermine the United States in every way he can. And the claim has been made that Trump is his agent, works for him, that he has stuff on Trump that makes Trump a marionette for him. At the same time, he's having great success in fragmenting Europe, fragmenting NATO, and becoming a real global troublemaker. And I wonder, I wonder where that goes. I mean, we've had the Mueller report. We still have investigations going on about Trump's role in our elections and his strange, let me say it again, strange relationship with Trump. But where do you think that's going? Where do you think Vladimir Putin is taking us? And isn't he a global factor right now affecting just nearly everything? Yeah. Well, it is. And he very much has his own tentacles in different ways, whether it's through this sort of energy markets, or just as in the last 20, maybe now almost practically 30 years since the end of that Soviet Union, we've created a new class of oligarchs, these wealthy Russians who are spread out and they've got tremendous influence in the UK in particular, but other parts of Europe. And I think it's like everything, as long as those that have that power, the economic power, the political power, the connections there, they sort of feed themselves and then just continue this elite oligarchy. But I'm reminded as well, I can remember in the mid to late 80s, there was a pretty much a widespread prevailing view that the Soviet Union would never end. It was so powerful. And when it fell apart, it was like a thick cards very quickly within a matter of weeks and months. And you'll recall this coup and then Gorbachev disappears, comes back, it's gone. What I'm getting at there is that we have an image of Russia being very powerful and Putin the strong guy, but it's not inconceivable that some scenario, maybe of an economic or political crisis could suddenly bring that deck of cards down. Could it be pressure from below? I don't know. I have a feeling that that's kind of run out of steam in some ways. I don't see a big social movement making the change. It's probably more crisis at the top. But for now, we can expect probably continuity. But again, I'm just getting back to that. We can't assume that it's all going to be forever that there could be a real crisis there. A world of change and maybe in a funny way a world of decline. But talk about running out of steam, Carlos. We have just run out of steam. We're out of time. I so enjoy these conversations. I hope we can do it again in a couple of weeks and revisit the world as we'll have been changed from then till now. That's right. Never a dull moment in global affairs. We live in interesting times. Absolutely. Yes. Thank you so much. Carlos Suarez. Talk to you soon. Aloha.


In this study, researchers used a novel full spectrum, 3-2,000 Hz, stethoscope to analyze lung sound recordings from 164 COVID-19 pneumonia patients, 61 non-COVID-19 pneumonia patients and 141 healthy subjects. They then trained a machine learning algorithm on these recordings to identify patterns associated with COVID-19 pneumonia. When analyzed together, the sound and infrasound data provided a higher accuracy than either alone, allowing for the detection of COVID-19 pneumonia with a sensitivity and specificity of 97% and 93%, respectively. This suggests that the use of a full-spectrum stethoscope may be a valuable tool in the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia.


Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. So here, let me show you. So I'll give you a clear example. So the best bounce areas are always, let me show you, let me show you this, it's much easier on the uptrend and the downtrend, it gets a little harder to see. So the highest probability when a stock is breaking out, and you can see everybody remember this 1120 pivot was only a couple of days ago, right? This 1120 pivot on Tesla, really, really strong 1120 pivot. So once you have a stock breaking out on a macro level, you know the only stock to bounce are stocks that are breaking out macro. You never, under any circumstances, bounce a stock that got rejected off a daily chart. Because again, the simplistic question from my end is, would you ever buy a double top? Would you ever buy the dip of a double top? The obvious answer is no. Even the biggest novice traders in the world will never buy a dip on a stock that got rejected in the same area. It just doesn't make any sense. So the first course of action is you always want to buy dips on stocks that broke out. So if you notice here, Tesla broke out, started putting in a big move. But do you guys notice where Tesla kept on bouncing? Everybody see this orange line? Right guys, everybody see this orange line?  So forth and so on. That orange line represents, if you switch to the daily view, that orange line represents the five-day moving average, okay? That is the short-term sentiment on the macro chart, and that is always the short-term sentiment on the intraday chart. So anytime the stock retraces back to that quote-unquote five-day rising support, there's a high probability that emotional sellers are going to meet technical buyers, okay? So the best way, especially if you're a new trader, the best way to put a bounce, right? So let's pretend the bounce spot here is 11.36, right? So if you're an experienced trader, what you can do is you could put some shares out there at 11.36, 11.37, and if it hits perfectly and they hold that level, the stock should bounce, okay? The stock should bounce off that level. The problem is, a lot of times, remember, this is a moving average, okay? This is not a concrete wall. So this is a moving average. The stock can stop at 11.36, the stock can stop at 11.38, the stock can stop at 11.34. It's an average. So there's two ways to play it. The first way to play it is if you're an experienced trader and you say, hey, look, the bounce spot here is 11.36, let me put some stock out there at 11.36, and if you get filled, the stock starts working, everything's great. You call it the bounce spot, everything's well. The problem with that is a lot of times, like we said, it's not a concrete wall, a lot of times what happens, they'll go through, right? They'll go through. And the craziest part about it is, yeah, they can go through for maybe another dollar, maybe another $2, but these stocks can go through sometimes the really aggressive names. Tesla could go through $5, Tesla could go through $10. So the safest way to play these bounces are remounts, and which basically means is when the stock goes through that number, right, let's just call it 11.36, when the stock goes through that number, let's pretend it puts in a new low of 11.32, let's pretend for argument's sake. So when the stock puts in a new low of 11.32, that is your absolute max pain, right? So when the stock gets back above 11.36, that's called the remount, right? That's called the remount, that's called the bounce, right? That's called the remount. So you already know that if the stock doesn't go, right, if the stock doesn't go after reclaiming that level, you already know that the fictional low that I just made up, that 11.32 is going to be your max pain. So then your job is to turn around and say, let me appropriate how many shares I could play with this bounce already knowing my max pain is going to be the $4, right, the fictional $4 that I already put in. So if the stock doesn't bounce and I get long on the remount, my worst case scenario is the $4 that I've already put in low on this candle. And that's how you adjust your risk, that's how you adjust your tier size to maximize the biggest move possible in case, you know, we've seen some bounces on Tesla, $20, $30, right? But at least you already know, okay, at least you already know that you already know your low, right? You already know your low of the candle, you already know the max pain of your candle, you already know that the stock needs to reclaim the shortest sentiment into rising 60-minute support. So you're not shocked. So you're not putting on, you're not putting on shares that you can't handle emotionally. And again, there's no difference between holding one share, 10 shares or 100,000 shares. Okay, it's all subjective to who's trading is. So if a fund is trading 100,000 shares of Tesla, it's not a big deal. If you're trading 100,000 shares of Tesla, that's a big deal, right? It's apples and hand grenades. So everybody, you know, based on risk, already knows that it doesn't make a difference if you long 100 shares of Tesla or 100,000 shares of Tesla, that 1136 remount is either going to explode bounce back up, or it's going to lose the blow of that candle, which in that point, if you're long 100 or 100,000, that becomes your max pain, right? That becomes your max pain. You already know what your full risk is. You already know that the stock has failed that balance, and the sellers wouldn't give up that rising, rising support, okay? And you know, because risk tells you, you have to be out of the stock technically instead of holding on like a deer in headlights emotionally and turning a paper cut, right? And again, when you're playing bounces, you're not playing full size. You're paying quarter third size, right? You're not playing. You lose $2 on a quarter size. Who cares? Think about that. If you're trading 100 share lots, right? That's your quarter size, 100 share lots, and you lose two points on quarter size. Who cares? Right? Who cares? Because you know, when the stock bounces and it goes 5, 7, 12, 15, 18, 20 points, that's a pretty good move versus what your overall exposure is. So the key is to appropriate yourself to your size that you're completely emotionally able to move the risk because you already know what your downside is. You already know how important that level is for a remount, and you already know where your next potential bounce spot should be to make some sales on the next supply. So the key is to these bounce spot appropriate, proper risk, understand that your risk is always the bottom of that candle that made its move into rising support. And that's when you start, you know, you start getting comfortable with these balances. Also, I think most of the webinar is very, very comfortable buying, I don't use the word falling knives, but I think if you're an inexperienced trader, wouldn't you call that a falling knife? But for us, it's a high probability levels where emotional sellers will meet us, technical buyers. So it's very, very important to kind of know your risk, right? Know your risk. Know your downside risk. And the most important part is appropriate, proper, proper size back on the way up.


Defining your website goals. This module is made available to you through a joint initiative between the Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project, the Legal Services Corporation, and Idealware under a Creative Commons by-license. These five modules are all about auditing your existing website, but auditing it to do what? For who? Before you can reasonably start to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses in your site, you need to define what you're trying to do. What are your goals, audiences, priorities? And it's important to do it as a team, to ensure that you have buy-in from all the people who need to buy-in. One of the biggest issues for many websites is that they're trying to do way too much. They're trying to reach all audiences, achieve all goals, and include everything that any staff member wants to include. That's just not possible. What you get instead is a site that's cluttered and confusing, where no one is served well. Things are on the homepage because someone internally wanted it there, and the person in charge of it has no strong reason to say no, instead of being able to weigh the request against actual goals. Instead of being all things to all people, the website becomes mostly not useful to anyone. Start by putting your goals on paper. Set up a meeting and start by brainstorming all possible goals. What do you want to increase or decrease by having a website? Do you want to have less people call you for legal advice? More people? Is raising donations a goal? Get everything out on the table. Then prioritize your goals. It's important to state and have official buy-in on what are important goals, as opposed to just nice to haves. It's important to recognize that any good website will require trade-offs. So here's an example for a fictitious legal aid organization. They're realistic about their goals. For instance, their first two goals obviously aren't to answer every question that anyone might have, but rather to help people triage their own issues, and for this organization, to decrease the volume of calls to their helpline. Their top three goals are all to provide information, but there's other things on there. For instance, in number six and number seven, to attract funding. Don't underestimate how difficult it can be to rank order your goals like this. It can be hard to get buy-in from a director of development, for instance, that there are five goals ahead of fundraising. But as an organization, you need to decide this stuff. Is it more important that your organization provides legal information or that it raises money? Maybe those are equally important, but then what about encouraging volunteers? Not everything can be a top priority. Again, you can't be all things to all people. Speaking of people, let's talk a little bit about identifying who you're trying to reach with your website and what their goals are. Reflecting on who your website is for is one of the most important tasks you will undertake. Who is coming to your site and what do they hope to do there? Put your own goals aside. The more you define about your constituents, the more you can customize your site to suit their needs. Who are your audience groups? Brainstorm from their perspective. What do they most want to know? This may not actually overlap with what you want them to know or want them to do. In many cases, your site visitors are looking for something very tactical. They want to know the hours of your helpline or what your number is or the answer to a very specific question. As you brainstorm, keep your personas in mind. It's much easier to think about what Mary might want than what general public might want. Be realistic and honest. As much as you might like them to, not that many people are showing up with a deep desire to donate to your organization. Make your personas real to the organization instead of just generic. Then use them in meetings. While working on your website, it's worthwhile to take some time to investigate your audiences. Consider doing some interviews. Try to find three to four people to roughly match each key user of your site. One interviewee could simply be nuts, but by the fourth person, you should start hearing repeated concerns and needs. Or conduct a survey.  You might target your audience by sending a link to the survey to your entire email news list to just some segmented groups or set it up as a link on your current site. Close friends, your email list, or even social media can provide you with opportunities for interview subjects. But keep the bias in mind. All info is good info, but remember, you haven't covered the world if you've just talked to close friends of the organization. SurveyMonkey is a very common survey tool, and it works quite well for most survey needs, short of a major research study. There's a free version with quite limited functionality, or you can pay $20 a month for everything you're likely to need. You can turn it on and off monthly, so you could simply pay $20 or $40 to conduct a survey and then turn off the paid version again. If you're asking people to answer questions about your website, you could obviously email out a link to the survey, but it can be very useful instead, or in addition, to do what's called an intercept survey on your website itself. This kind of survey will pop up either right away when someone looks at your site, or after they look at the site for a certain period of time. This will take a small amount of technical knowledge to set. It requires a piece of code on your webpage. They often include questions like, what was your purpose in looking at our site today, and were you able to find what you were looking for? Try to keep online surveys as clear and brief as possible to improve your response rate. Roughly 5 minutes to fill it out, and never more than 10, is the ideal time. Make sure your questions are clear and limited to one thing at a time. For example, do you feel our website is easy to navigate and professional looking? Should be two separate questions. Don't miss an opportunity to ask for feedback about the survey itself at the end. Once you've gathered information from surveys or interviews, what do you do with it? How do you apply what you've learned? Your survey data and interviews may deepen and enhance the audience personas you've created. Or you may learn new information about your audiences, such as, this type of person cares a lot about X, Y, and Z. And you've hopefully learned what content is most important to your audiences. You can make sure that the content items they care about are referenced on your homepage and are on your top level pages. After researching the needs of your website's visitors, your team should aim to describe the purpose of your website in a single sentence. After balancing the goals of your organization with the needs of your constituents, creating a succinct statement that summarizes your team's vision will help you evaluate or reshape your website. Once you've written your vision statement, check it against your current site. Does your homepage support the vision statement you've written? Let's look at the challenges that a homepage presents.  During a redesign, a good website designer will either create a wireframe, blueprint, for the main pages on your site including section pages and the homepage, or a prototype of those pages. Wireframes usually use very few words. Instead, through boxes and lines, these blueprints indicate the different content areas on the page. With a prototype, a designer can mock up important pages, like the homepage, to give your team another chance to evaluate how well the page supports your organization's goals. No matter what aspect of the website you are working on, whether it's content, structure, functionality, or design, always keep your core goals in mind. Your core goals, your top two to three, should guide the way content is shaped and presented, the new functionality you add to the site, and the overall presentation. These resources can help provide more background and best practices for your own website.


What's up, everyone? It's your girl, Kansy here from Layton Sports Cards, and I'm ripping a personal here for Chris K. We've got a 2022 Panini Select UFC Honey Box. Best of luck, Chris. Thanks for hopping in. The Wanderer PSA 10 Mother's Day. Wow. There you go. Congrats on that. That's a big card. Purchase sticks for the magnetic cards. What sticks are you talking about? Tropic. Stickers, maybe? Is that what you meant? Heck yeah. You're welcome for giving you the good luck, Mojo. He was, he was a little stressed yesterday, Sunday. I was doing daytime personals. Oh, what he was gonna get? We got scone, chocolate dell. I'm not sure where we get our stickers from that we put over the, uh... We've got Glover Textera Tri-Color. Yeah, I'm not sure where they, where they order the stickers. Jon Jones, Oliveira, and we've got rookie bronze premier level Steven Peterson, four of 175. Oh wow. Yeah, I'm assuming those are probably the first two picks then, huh? Sounds like it. Silver Jon Jones. Can't see too many LeBron Vince Carter dual autos. That's cool. Got to 199 Silver Patch Auto of Michael Chandler from the lightweight division. There you go, Chris. Patch Auto there. And white of Ty to Evasa. 47 of 75. Yeah, that's Sega. So that's, is that a pop once in? Oh, we got Ty Knight coming up. And Akuba, uh, Akuba, Abukar, Abubakar, Norma Gamodov. Nailed it. On the octagon side rookie nice one there. And we've got, wow, Kamsa Chamev on the octagon side, one of 25. This is a second year card, I believe, right? Second year as rookie was last year. Big one there on the octagon side. There's a little piece of dust on that one. Wow. Beautiful card there. We will mag this one for $15. There we go. Dos Anjos, Curse Blades, Tri-Color of Santos. Subreddit? Yeah, that's a big card. That is a big card. Volk and Silver Amanda Nunez, Dawson. We've got Phenoms of Chevasium and Scope of Volk. Nice Volk and Osprey. Yeah, Paul, that's what he was saying. I think we're trying to see if it was a pop of one. Out of 49, we've got Blue Octagon Action Signatures of Jared Cannon here. Oh, look, it doesn't work 30 points. There was no... Yeah, I've got Yanis on the rookie Tri-Color. What's up, Mike? Yeah, I see your two orders back-to-back. Yeah, I can rip that at the same time for you. I got you. Yep, yeah. As with all numbers, Silver Rookie of...Milecky. Top three. Nice. Zang, Chavchenko, Chocoladelle. We've got a Zang Patch. Back-to-Back Boxes with Zang Patches. There you go. Silver Rookie Alex Moreno. Alrighty, Chris, that will do it for your box. Congrats again on that huge octagon-side tie-dye Chameve. Thanks again for hopping in, and we'll get this ride out to you.


Hey friends today We are hanging out in Disney Springs and we are gonna be trying the new cookie the month at Gideon's bakehouse And I am so excited because they have new coffees and cake slices all for Valentine's Day And then on top of that Disney Springs is celebrating soulfully for Black History Month And they have some great dishes at all different locations So I figured we come on down eat some snacks do some shopping and have a fancy Disney Springs kind of day Anywho's let's go do this This is probably the earliest I've ever been to Disney Springs It is 10 a.m. And nothing opens until 11, so it's kind of cool to be able to walk around and See it's so empty Gideon's bakehouse actually has two cookies of the month for February. They have the eternal flame Which is kind of like a spicy cookie. It's a chocolate cherry spicy cookie And I'm not the biggest fan of spicy cookies, but I've had it in the past, but they have a new strawberry cookie That's like a cookie. It's like a box of chocolates, and I've never had that before so I'm excited to do a little cookie comparison and go to summer house on the lake the new cookie spot and See which cookie is the best cookie for me in the month of February, and I'm excited It's gonna be fun because they're both good spots Honestly since we're down here Maybe we should just get the cookie at summer house by the lake first if the cookie bar is open looks like it is looks like They got a line too. Oh cookie bar entrance this way Now just like I said before the cookie competition. This is just friendly. They're both great spots They both have good cookies, but I just kind of fancy you call myself a cookie connoisseur And we're not gonna just base it off taste alone I think this time we're gonna be doing theming so like if they have a special cookie or the theming of it and also Selection and then the cookie so we'll give a point each and whoever had the best two out of three Winds are the best out of three Look at all the cookies in here. They've got peanut butter chocolate walnut birthday cake oatmeal scotchy Which is my personal favorite cookie here, but we're not getting that cookie today They got a cream circle cookie here. They got an apple oatmeal, which looks amazing Look at that and then a lemon cookie and then they also have a special cookie of the month It's a red velvet cookie for Valentine's Day I think I might get the red velvet cookie and actually looks fancy and this fudge bomb looks nice Yo summer house on the lake is pulling some stuff right now I thought I would have to find like a cookie that was kind of relatable to Gideons But now we've got our seasonal cookie off our seasonal cookie. They got a seasonal cookie. They got a seasonal cookie and it looks pretty amazing Okay, I talked about theming before you know Gideons is amazing theming But look they actually made this red velvet cookie into a heart shape it looked like I think they look they get in It's so soft. It's basically falling apart in my hands. Like I it's so delicate like I'm afraid like I can't even break This cookie you ready watch oh It's literally just so Soft and delicious. Oh, I'm lucky. I've got a little napkin here, but anyway, here we go. Oh, wow Man oh man, this is an amazing cookie so soft so full of flavor like it's literally falling apart It's so good. I love it and the theming was great I can't wait to compare this cookie to The internal flame or the eternal flame over at Gideons so we'll make our way up there and Afterwards we'll break it down by category and see who has the best cookie of the month for February and Like I said when I say best cookie of the month, I'm talking about my personal preference You know what I mean? I'm a Gideon stan But like you know like I said last time I came here Gideons had the better cookie summer house on the lake didn't have the better cookie But then I came and got an oatmeal scotchy from somewhere else on the lake and that cookie was one of the best cookies I've ever had in my life and now this cookie It's impressive. So two times. I've had great cookies from summer house on the lake two times Now we found like I'm the cookie monster mixed with Count Dracula do cookie I think I'm gonna start coming to Disney Springs earlier in the morning. This is amazing It's not crowded. It's beautiful. Look at that. You can see the cars driving in the water the boat there Nobody's on the bridge This is nice This weekend has been amazing because I was at mega con and I had a little meet and greet at the Roosevelt's booth And then we had Marsha Isley and I went to the Pro Bowl Well, I was I went to the Pro Bowl so I'm a little late with the cookie the month update But I'm glad I got to come here and I'm glad I'm wearing this fancy shirt It's a the Roosevelt from the D 100, but it's a special color edition I think this was at Hallmark or one of the stores and it kind of fits perfect for Valentine's Day You got Mickey and Minnie dancing and it's red. I like it's very fancy Here it is Gideons bakehouse. I have no idea what the line is gonna be like on the other side of this wall I'm kind of crossing my fingers and hopefully it's not that busy Okay, it's a long line It's a very very long line. Holy moly. I Am excited to try the new strawberry cookie at Gideons All I've ever had was the spicy eternal flame one and now we've got something a little bit a little bit on my side So I mean this is gonna be cool. This is gonna be a good cookie competition We made it to the back of the line probably about 25 30 minutes from here, I'd say And here it is the menu for February at Gideons bakehouse I love the artwork on the front and I love how they give you a little story about the character too and the cookie And as you can see we have cookies the strawberry delight strawberry cookie filled with dark chocolates and covered in strawberry infused sugar and then the Eternal flame here. It is a dark chocolate cherry cooked Cookie laced with ancho cayenne and cinnamon and then topped with chocolate covered cherries And then they also have the fire a nice cold brew So I think we're gonna get all the cold brews and I think we'll get the cold brew and the cookies We made it into Gideons. It was just about a 35 minute wait and Yeah, look at it in here cookies made from scratch and the recipe that took 15 years to perfect I love the inside here. I love all the paintings and then they've got a lot of merchandise down here I never get to show you guys a full kind of tour of Gideons itself But it's really cool. The theming is on point You can take a look at all of the cookie flavors Gideons has to offer and right there is the eternal flame along with my personal favorite The banana walnut chocolate chip and then a couple more cookies on this side and then the cake slices, too They always got good cake slices. The selection here is good. Look at all the books up there, too. Look at all them books We have officially obtained the goods. I've got the fire in ice cold brew We've got the new strawberry delight It's basically a box full of Valentine's chocolates in a cookie Which I'm excited to try this one. I've never had before and then we have the Eternal flame a dark chocolate cherry topped cookie laced with ancho Cayenne and cinnamon. Look at that. Yo, we got so many cookies. We roll in cookie deep here Look at that. Oh now. I think it's moving My camera is moving. It's doing its thing. Okay. All right, let's get to the cookie business Let's dive in. Oh, which one should I start with? I'm gonna go this one. I'm gonna go. No Yes, yes, I'm gonna go eternal flame because I've already had it before and I'm I'm excited to try the strawberry one This one I'm not the biggest fan of because I don't like spicy But I appreciate the amount of effort that went into making this cookie like it's it's good because I like the Cherries and the chocolate but once that ancho in cayenne kicks in it kicks in so here we go. Look at this and That's how the cookie crumbles Solid look at that. You want to make sure you get a nice spot with the the cherry in it right there Can you see it? It's like a chocolate covered cherry.  You know what I mean I'm not spicy like that It's starting to kick in the heat is starting to creep in I put it out of mild not mild medium Medium because I like things mild and this is a little bit too spicy for me now It's time for the strawberry delight strawberry delight This is like a box full of Valentine's chocolates in a cookie and yeah, we got to break it open Let me get a zoom in there we go break the cookie open This looks so good. Look at the strawberry on the inside. I'm excited Wow To be honest, I was not expecting that cookie to be as good as it is like I Was thinking like everyone's gonna love this cookie It's just me that doesn't like this cookie because it's spicy, but holy moly. This is a great cookie This is phenomenal Gideon stepped up their game and now now I'm gonna make a perfect sweet and spicy combo because instead of getting the chocolate one I'm gonna get a little strawberry with a little fire and ice cold brew. That's how you do it I really really thought there for a second that summer house on the lake was gonna have a chance because I knew I wasn't Gonna like that spicy, but this cookie is amazing. I Can't even believe it. I think my straw blew away just flew away with the wind So I'm gonna have to take the lid off and drink the coffee kind of from the top here So I'm gonna take a little bit of a cookie little strawberry cookie and then a little bit of a copy Oh I don't think I should have drank it off the top because it's like drinking a floater Like a shot on the top of a mixed drink. I think I might have gotten all the spice there. I don't know Yep. Nope not doing that again Personally, I love the strawberry delight, but I appreciate the complexity of the eternal flame And I can live without the fire a nice coffee but This right here was such a sleeper. I had no idea it was gonna be as good as it was now I have to make a decision. I have to decide which one was better Summerhouse on the lake or Gideon's bakehouse, and I think I'm gonna compare it to that one not that one To be honest, I don't want summer house on the lake to think I don't like their cookies because I like their cookies They're good cookies, but I gotta give it to Gideon's that strawberry cookie was just too good I mean I loved it red velvet cookie was better than the eternal flame the summer house on the lake Red velvet cookie was better than the internal flame in my opinion But the strawberry delight was better than the red velvet cookie for them Maybe next month. Like I said, I really do like their cookies, but if I'm doing it a cookie by cookie comparison I mean I gotta I gotta be legit. I mean I'm not I mean I gotta I gotta I gotta do what the cookie heart says You know now if Gideon's gets into the oatmeal cookie game I don't think they're gonna stand a chance against summer house on the lake because they're oatmeal cookies like the oatmeal Scotchie in the apple oatmeal I think it all rock Gideon's world and I haven't eaten the apple meal until the day I can use it as a comparison because I feel like that's gonna be a heavy contender But now we're not for the cookie business under the cookie business It's time to actually go get some soulfully food soulfully soul food At the hangar bar across from Gideon's they have a nice little menu for celebrate soulfully and Chef Daphne is actually preparing this nice fried pork shoulder dish that you can come get for the month of February This actually looks really good. I might actually make my way back over But I want to head towards polite pig they have something there and we got to come back this way Gideon's line is still looking pretty long. Look at that That's crazy I'm not too sure what my plans are later on but I might just carry this vlog over it might go to Epcot might go to Magic Kingdom Hollywood Studios. Who knows? Universal it's really great living in Florida because after you get done hanging out in the parks all day Like me being a youtuber or content creator I just go back out to the parks to hang out with my friends So I might just carry this vlog along and bring it along with you guys after we get all the nice snacks here at Disney Springs. I Always like coming out to the water and watching the Ampicars actually drive around Disney Springs Look how beautiful it is today. It's a nice day, isn't it? Might be a little bit rain Those clouds aren't looking the happiest. Looks like we got some angry clouds in the area Also, I want to stop in the Amorettes too. They always have specials going on for the month You know, I like Disney Springs I feel like a lot of other like parks should probably get on it, you know like monthly specials It gives people a reason to come returning. I've been coming to Gideon's now I think three years maybe well since the very beginning since the very first opening month at Gideon's I was there for the cookie of the month, and I've been there ever since then so like I said, it's a great concept Amorettes have a proud snacks petite cake. Look at that like the proud family. I would assume yeah Oh, yeah, it is the proud family layers of chocolate chiffon peanut butter mousse and honey roasted peanuts It's $22 for that cake though down here. You can actually see the chef that created the dish Inspired by her favorite show the proud family it looks so unique. I'm gonna see what it looks like in real life in real life Look at them back there actually making chocolate covered strawberries and cakes for Valentine's Day coming up and here is the proud family cake with the proud snacks petite cake. It looks really cool doesn't it? $22 and I already got a bag full of cookies.  Holy moly. There's actually people inside those pup cakes must be really catching on Oh These pup cakes Oh, wait, are those Literally was like you have Valentine's Day pup cakes. Oh, okay, if I buy them, could I just buy them here? Oh, yeah, yeah, I Got so excited because I thought that they had like Valentine's Day pup cakes But I got Gracie her pup cakes and now we can add it to the bag We can add it to the bag. Cup cakes have been obtained I'm actually a little worried because I don't know if We are gonna have enough time to do the hangar bar. The lines have been pretty big like long today like honestly, it's Not a holiday weekend or anything. It just seems Busy down at the Springs The line for Gideons is still exactly where it's at. They didn't go to the virtual queue yet So all these people are probably waiting at least an hour at least an hour to get those cookies We're gonna have to save hangar bar for another day. The wait is just a little bit too long at the moment I want to head home before this rain comes go see Gracie and then maybe head out to a park Oh, we gotta give Gracie her pup cakes too. There she is. Guess what I got for you I got some pup cakes Yes, you want one right now. Yeah, we can give you one right now. You want one? Oh Good girl, here we go Yo, Gracie loves these pup cakes for real though. She always flips them over watch.  She'll flip that over Watch It's a good girl. Yeah, you have a good girl go ahead eat your pup cake Speaking of pup cakes look at this beautiful artwork someone made of Gracie watching me Eating pup cakes on the carpet like how cool is that? Thank you so much red roach intrusion they came to Megacon and I think she was one of the vendors there and she brought it over and I love it So I wanted to show you guys I can't wait to hang it up on my wall Thank you again so much Gracie looks amazing and the pup cakes look so good. You did a great job Now that Gracie got her pup cakes. I decided to make a little quick trip to Epcot ma over in Mexico They actually have a special drink for fessel of the arts. That's not on the menu It's a very like artsy margarita So I want to go get that and show you because I think it's interesting to have something that Nobody knows about like I don't think anybody is talking about this drink and then also maybe ride a rider too or get something to eat Maybe a little late dinner. Who knows? There she is our spaceship birth Honestly today turned out to be a beautiful day and as long as the rain stays away I think we might catch a beautiful sunset a beautiful Epcot sunset. I Brought a hoodie with me because it might drop down to the 40s tonight 40s in Epcot. Can you believe it? I mean I'm used to just like, you know warm hot sweaty Epcot days But I'm taking advantage. I'm breathing it all in. I'm taking advantage of this cold weather Always a nice shot when you walk into the park or when you walk into world showcase and catch the monorail going by Look at that. I Think I'm just gonna make my way right on in the world showcase and go get the margarita I was talking about over at the Festival of the Arts booth in Mexico. It's really cool because it changes colors That's why I want to get it before it starts getting dark out. I want to see all the colors The margarita that I was talking about is called the art grita like an art margarita And you can see it's not on the menu And the only way to get it is to go up to the kiosk here and tell them the Special password which is on Instagram. It's on the covers Instagram You got to find the password and then you get this special margarita that has like has special effects So we're gonna get it. I Got the secret drink The secret drink Here it is the fancy margarita look at how cool this is comes with a little pink brush and this is the name of the Margarita itself and the art is done by Dom Corona, which happens to be the password This is not on the menu over there like I said and when you get up there You got to say Dom Corona and that's how they'll give you the drink no exceptions You got to know the password and then you get to make it change colors.  I thought that these I thought that the paintbrush was a straw So for a while there I was like this And nothing was coming up, but yeah, it's just a paintbrush. So yeah, now we got to try it. I Was perusing Lecava's Instagram and I came across this secret who's ready for the secrets Dom Corona Margarita and look at what it does it has special effects Turns it into like a NFP How cool is that? You can actually buy this cup and you got to say the password. It's Dom Corona I also love how they actually put the little artwork on there with the clothespin You get to keep the clothespin to you get to keep the cup and the clothespin and the paintbrush I keep sending it down because I think I'm gonna sip out of the straw I I literally probably went to go drink out of this paintbrush at least five times Enough of the margarita business.  We can't even walk that way. I gotta go this way. I was about to walk right over that way I don't know what they got going on over there. I Decided to backtrack and since we had a little margarita So I have to come into Mexico and go ride the grand fiesta tour This is my go-to ride especially cuz you can always count on it being like a 10 minute wait Maybe hopefully it's a 10 minute wait. It is pretty busy in the park. Look at the cover over there.   Look at how beautiful that is And that's real fire in those candles none of that fake stuff here at St. Anne Helen only the good stuff We're lucky enough to get the front row look at this lucky boat number 27 I'm excited to see how this camera does actually in the low light too. I think I have a low life function This looks like a good time. I wish the boat's backed up and you get stuck here Look at those high-tech fireworks right there beautiful The grand fiesta tour was so nice and I think the new camera did pretty well I was trying to be quiet so I can see how the audio was picking up But now we made our way back up to the front And I think we're gonna start making our way out and maybe hit up a ride on the way out I didn't get any dinner tonight yet, but I ate a lot of cookies and I got some cookies at home You can count on good figment for a five-minute wait, so that's where we're heading next. I Feel like Epcot. I mean not Epcot I feel like figment is actually the king of the low wait time I mean grand fiesta tour is always gonna be very popular because it's in the Mexico pavilion But I forget I think sometimes people forget that good old figments over here and Professor Wayne Zalinski Also, don't forget about Buzz Lightyear. He's here too. Look at him there chilling out Same back there good old buzz You can help capture your imagination wrong doc. It's not about listening with your ears. It's about listening with your Imagination But now I've completely lost my train of thought Our research shows that spells often trigger the imagination This is not a good time It's all with a good time to use your imagination I love it Yeah, I'll take some more I think we're getting stuck Riding journey into imagination was a good idea now I think we're gonna head into the land and see what's soaring or the land is gonna be at Well, it's good to know living with the land has a zero minute wait I don't know about soaring, but we'll see look at that. Nobody down there. They're all in awesome planet Look at that MTQ If we wait any longer, we might be able to get a boat to ourselves. I Think we're even gonna get the front row maybe and even our own boat actually. Oh I can smell the water and hear it already. It's time to live with the land It's so dark on living with the land right now they turn the lights off and it's kind of scary Look at it back there You can't even see the sea bass Would you look at all those sunflowers there soon they're gonna be taller than me Can't wait to keep checking on those and the cannoli There is somebody inside currently Working inside the lab inside the land look at that Looks like he's got a sample there That's kind of cool I Think we got a lot accomplished today And now time to head home and call it a night and see Gracie girl Also, I got a little surprise cookie review for you at the end of the video. So stay tuned for that but now it's time to Head home and now we are back home It was a fun day at Epcot and like I mentioned I have a surprise cookie review because when I was at Disney Springs I ran into some friends who actually own a little bakery up in New Jersey and They have like Disney inspired Treats it's called once upon a pastry and you can find them on Instagram Once upon a pastry and they do custom cookies cakes and more a little figment and then also they did a Little like art For festival of the arts, so I thought that was really cool.  Thank you for the cookies. I think it's so awesome You're gonna open up a little figment actually And true Mickey fashion ears first Honestly, I could have I like somebody could have handed me this cookie and I could have swore It was made at Disney like look it and honestly looks like figment. I love this I think this is so cool and I checked out their Instagram. They have a lot of really cool stuff including linser cookies I saw that they made linser cookies and I was like wow, that's awesome But yeah, very good cookies make sure you guys check them out I got a bunch of them and this one has little hidden Mickey's on it and With that, I think we are done here today It was a lot of fun running around Disney Springs trying some of the cookies and then hanging out at Epcot You know you can ask for a better day. So anyways, I hope you enjoyed the video. I enjoyed making it and We'll see you next time. Bye. I Dropped my cookies