Hey, down here in New York, it's State Unity Live. Phil, how's my one-time fishing pal? Slowly, but surely going nuts with this business. All set to open the trout season? Not a chance. I am. Sunrise on opening day is gonna find me out in the middle of a stream, gently dropping flies in front of ravenous rainbows. Yeah, I know. And you know where I plan to do it? Yep. Oh? The point is, do you? Well, of course I do. I doubt that. On a private stream, only half an hour's drive from here is the clearest, coldest... What was that? Yeah, you see, I was right. Right about what? You're not knowing where you're going on opening day. What are you talking about? Didn't you hear me? Oh, I heard all right. But you're wrong. Oh, I am, hmm? Sure. Because, Johnny, you're going to do your trout fishing on the Esopas River. Down there in New York State? That's right, near the little town of Mount Tremper. Who says? It's just west of Kingston, the other side of a Shoken Reservoir, about halfway between... Oh, I know where it is, and I've taken some nice, fat native browns out of the Esopas, and I love it dearly. But what makes you think that's where I'm gonna open the season? Well, after all, if we're gonna pay your expense account...  Yeah. And for once, you won't have to hold back on it. Hmm, well, that's a little different. I kinda thought you'd see it that way. Tell me all. Come on down here to New York, and I will. Come on, my way. The CBS radio network brings you Mandel Kramer and the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by a special investigator, Johnny Dollar, to State Unity Life Insurance Company, New York City Office. Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of... The Blue Rock Matter. After carefully packing all my trout fishing gear and clothing to go with, including waders and a set of long johns, expense account item 1 is 575 Taxi Fair to Bradley Field. Item 2, $10.12, Plain Fair to New York. Item 3, $620, Cab Fair into Phil's office at 500 Fifth Avenue. Sure, sure, Johnny, and I know that old saying just as well as you do. The time that a man spends in fishing... Is not deducted from his lifespan. Right. Right. But I just haven't had the time these last couple of years. Well, why don't you unchain yourself from this desk and join me there on the esophagus? No, I'm afraid it's no go. Why not? I wouldn't dare show my face up there where you're going. Why not? Because the man I want you to keep an eye on knows me. Oh, who might that be? Thomas Gerald Aspenwald. And who's he? A man who would stop at absolutely nothing to get his paws on the Emory Archibald fortune. Archibald? Big stockbroker? The same. I thought he was dead. He will be within a matter of weeks on those incurable things. Oh. Where does this Tom Aspenwald come in? He was married for a while to Nancy Archibald, Emory's daughter, and last of the line, except for little Barry. Who's Barry? Barry Aspenwald, Nancy's five-year-old son. By Tom Aspenwald. No. Now, in spite of the last name, he's by an earlier husband who died about the time little Barry was born. I see, go on. Now, in his original will, the old man left half to Nancy, half to Tom. Mm-hmm. But in a brand new will, that's all changed. When old man Archibald goes, and that could be most any day now, the whole of his estate, including nearly a million of insurance, gets divided 50-50 between Nancy and the boy. I see. And Tom doesn't like that. Unless, Johnny. Yeah. Unless the youngster dies before the old man does. In which case, his share goes to Tom Aspenwald, as in the earlier will. Ah. Don't ask me why, but that's the way it is. In any event, Tom would like nothing better than to see the youngster out of the way. Right. Before the old man dies. And that's why I suddenly got worried when I learned that Tom's taking the child away for a few days.  I think he would. Mm. All right. Now, what's all this have to do with my opening the trout season on the Osoapus? Or was that just a gag to get me down here? Oh, not a bit of it. Now, I've made reservation for you, up there at Mount Tremper, at the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Hornblock. It's only a couple of hundred yards from the big pool below the bridge over the Osoapus. Blue rock pool? Yes. Where I've wet many a line, Phil. Oh. But not many people fish that spot anymore. Because unless you know every inch of it, and with the high, roily water this time of year especially, it's about as dangerous a place as there is. Right. So, when I tell you that the only other guests the Hornblocks will have for opening day... Tommy Aspenwald and the boy? Yes. Wow. If there's one place on that river to fake an accident and make it look legitimate, that's it. Yes. You like to run up there and keep an eye on things? Maybe prevent a murder? What do you think? This account item 4 is $28 even. Includes cocktails and dinner, a movie, a soft bed at the Lexington and breakfast the next morning. After which I spent item 5. $2.75 for a 3-day non-resident fishing license. Item 6, the usual $50 deposit on a rental car. I drove north on Route 9, crossed the Hudson and Poughkeepsie, north on 9 W to Kingston, and passed around the Shokan Reservoir to Mount Trempler. By the time I got to the Hornblock farm, it was late afternoon, and the weather had turned very windy and very cold. Now, you think I'm too old to carry these packages of yours, Mr. Dark? Well, no, but let me carry some of the fishing gear at night. 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, I'm strong as an ox. Are there any other guests, Mr. Hornblock? Here now. OK. Oh, looks fine to me. Good. Nice warm fitter bed for you. Take it.  Oh, I don't think that'll be necessary. Oh, me, meanwhile, the mama is out. You like me feelin' little schnapps here. To keep the cold away. Well, now, it just happens, Mr. Hornblock, that I brought a bottle along with me. Oh. You know, just in case of snake bite? Oh. Snake bite this time of year. Oh. What kind? Well, if 8-year-old Scotch doesn't offend your finer sensibilities. Well, why don't we see? Why don't we? There you are. To your heart's content.  What's wrong? Just what are you up to, Fritz? Oh, that was good, Mr. Dollar. Oh, good. Will you join us? Oh, with that cold wind coming up out there. Maybe I'd better. My name is Tom Aspen. Oh, yes, Mr. Aspen Waltz. This is Tony Dollar. Hi, Tom. Well, hi. Dollar, did you see? Yeah, yeah. Sounds vaguely familiar. I don't know why it should. I'm just a fisherman up here for the opening. Yeah, yeah, sure. It's Mr. Aspen Waltz.  Oh, your son, Tom? Step son. I figure if a youngster learns to fish at that age, he'll be forever grateful. Sure, sure he should. Even I might learn sometime. Yeah. Oh. By the way, where is he, Tom? My wife, she took him in to do the shopping in the village. Yeah. And she promised to buy some more rocks for him. Rocks? Yeah.  Sugar candies, red and blue and yellow kinds. Yeah, rocks, he calls them. Oh, I see. I hope she doesn't give him too many, though. Make him sick. Oh, so isn't the little boy entitled now in the game? Even if it gives him a terrible stomach ache sometimes? Oh, for a little boy, it always passes away. Except last time I thought the poor kid was going to die. Nine, nine. You just let him lie still for a while on the bed and he'll be all okay again, no matter how sick he thinks he is. Well, yeah, I suppose you're right. But, well, this time I've brought him up here to learn to fish, not to lie around with a stomach ache because of the way you and your wife spoil it. Now, Mr. Aspenwald. And didn't you say there isn't a doctor this side of Kingston? No, no, we take care of him. Don't you worry about him. You going out first thing in the morning, Tom? Yeah, I certainly am. Johnny, did you say? That's right. Yeah, I haven't missed an opening day in years. What do you plan to fish? Oh, I don't know. Somewhere along the river. You? I'm not sure yet. Well, I will tell you, boss. Yes, Fritz. You know where is the big hole below the bridge? Oh, you mean where the blue rock is? Yeah, sure. Of course. It's an ideal spot. And nobody else will be fishing there. Right, that's for me. Only one thing, though, Mr. Aspenwald. Yeah. I won't let you take that little boy there. Oh, why not? It's too dangerous, all those slippery rocks. Oh, now look. And with all that, I saw them in the early mornings. Nine. Well, with me alone. Maybe later in the day after it gets warm. Okay, okay, Fritz. We'll see. Now, you don't take him there. Okay, Fritz. Hey, now, wait a minute. Yeah? If that's such a hot spot. Sure it is. Tom, why don't you and I hit it at the crack of dawn? Well, now, just wait a minute, Johnny. Sure, that's a good idea. Sure, what difference would it make to a youngster of five? Well, it's simply that I promised him. I mean, a place where he'd be sure to get some fish. What's more, it'll be a lot warmer later in the day. Of course. And after you've caught your limit, we hope, you'll feel a lot more like taking the time to teach him. Yeah, yeah. You leave him with us in the morning. Now listen, you can play around this place the way he likes to. Does he really care about fishing at that age? Well, he will once I've shown him how. Well, he'll enjoy learning a lot more if he's warm and comfortable. I suppose you know all about kids. Well, not very much, but if he does enjoy playing around the farm the way Fritz says he does. Sure, sure, that's what he really likes. And you want the truth, Tom? Truth. Well, apparently you're the expert around these parts. I'm not, so I'll use whatever arguments I can to make you help me get a limit tomorrow morning. Johnny, now. And don't you think that would be the sporting thing for him to do, Fritz? Sure, sure. All right, then it's all set. You and I open the season with a bang at this hot spot of yours, and later when it's warm and the rocks are dry, we can both take Barry out and teach him how. Well, thanks, but I prefer to teach him myself. Okay, okay. Um, would you care for a little snort out of this jug? Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. No, thanks. I've got to run over to Kingston to pick up some dry flies I forgot to bring along. Sure. That's much, much better. Yes, um, yes, I think so too. Say, more trout flies, did he say? That's funny. Is it? You should see what he bought. Every fly that was ever made. Well, um, more to the point, Fritz. Yeah. Purist, though he may be, and I like to think I'm one too. Doesn't he know that dry flies would be ridiculous this time of the year? Sure, sure he does. Some wet flies or nymphs or streamers may be, or even when you come to being practical about it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, some of the nice fat worms that they have already for you, eh? And he knows that's the way to fish this water at this time of year, as well as you do if you want to catch the fishes. But there he goes. Yeah. Oh, and look from the window. Here comes Mama back with a little boy. It was obvious from the way he spoke of him that Barry wasn't overly fond of his stepfather, but he was a cute little tyke, and I didn't blame Mrs. Hornblock, a sweet, typical house-frow, for wanting to spoil him just a little. A little? Judging by the size of the sack of hard candies he clutched in his hand, blue rocks, he called them, she was doing a pretty good job of it. The kind he likes the very best, his step-puffers. There was something, something about those candies, though, that vaguely, vaguely reminded me of... I wondered... Yeah, yeah. And the blue ones, those are his favorites. Any kind that's blue, he loves it. Fritz, where's the step-papper? Just to Kingston to make an end. Tell me, Barry. You're looking forward to fishing tomorrow? Oh, I'd rather stay here and play with the pigs and chickens. Sure you want to. I need rocks. You want one, Mr. Hornblock? No, thanks. Now, come, Lee, you must wash off all the sticks. So much happier the boy is with the pigs and chickens, but he's bound, he teach him how to fish, and so he will. Willie. Huh? I wonder... There's only two of this. How Aspenwall planned to get rid of Barry, and I made up my mind to be among those present whenever he headed for the river with the youngster in tow. But you know something? That turned out to be a nearly fatal mistake. For two people. You have a cigarette? She had one. Newport. Newport filters cigarettes. Reel it up. Some smoke. Finest rich tobacco flavor I'd ever tasted. Real tobacco. The way I like them. The right touch of menthol and just a hint of mint. A great combination. She suggested. Makes Newport more refreshing to begin with. More refreshing on the way. She wasn't kidding. Been smoking, I've never since. Newports. Newport filters cigarettes. Judging by the way one of his pockets bulged, he'd added to his collection of flies and lures. During the meal, his annoyance, a couple of hours earlier, seemed to have disappeared. You must really like the new coat, Mr. Aspenwall, wearing it to the table.  Oh, no thanks. I just want to make sure it's broken in, Mrs. Hornbach, that Johnny and I hit the river in the morning. That's a good-looking jacket, Tom. I like those bellows pockets. Yeah, they're nice and roomy.  Oh, nothing of any consequence. A mama piece or some more salad. Here you are, Papa. And did you buy me some more rocks?  Oh, no. It seems to me that everywhere I turn, there's some of it lying around, waiting for you to find it. I look for it. And every time I get a stomach ache, too. You sure do. Well, I don't care. No, of course you don't. And he always gets away. You're still set for the crack at dawn, aren't you, Johnny? I sure am. But just the two of you. Why, sure, Fritz. Just the two of us. Yeah, yeah. And, Barry, while we're gone, you can fool around the barnyard.  When you go to the village in the morning, you'll buy my little boy some more blue candy. Oh, blue candy. Yeah. Oh, there isn't enough of it around here. Oh, and I must take some butter over to Mrs. Hilger after breakfast. And I'll stay here and watch your chickens. That's right. Are you leaving alone? Oh, just for a little while. He can be overnight. Sure. If you say so. There's no guaranteeing that we'll bring in the limit tomorrow. You mean if we're lucky? Oh, luck won't even enter into it. Oh, no? No. Papa Hornblocks promised me a secret weapon. Haven't you, Papa? Yeah, yeah. That's it. A secret weapon. Like what? You just wait. I'll show you tomorrow morning after you're through beating the river to a frock with no results. The temperature was in the mid-twenties. But after fortifying ourselves with pork chops, hotcakes and bacon, three fried eggs apiece and plenty of steaming hot coffee, Tom and I set out for the river, leaving the Hornblocks to their errands and little Barry to play around the farm yard. We crossed the bridge, then worked our way down to the blue rock pool. Pritz had been right. There was a slick coating of ice on all the rocks and ledges. And incidentally, I noticed the pocket of Tom's jacket wasn't bulging the way it had the night before. And I meant to ask him about it. I wish I had. But having given up on lures, I'd resorted to Papa Hornblocks' secret weapon, a can of fat, sassy earthworms. Then, precariously perched on a slippery rock, I tied into the first trout of the season. Yo-ho! Hey, good boy, Johnny. Looks like you've got one. Oh, I sure have. This one's a dilly. Here I come for some of that secret weapon. Just watch your footing, Tom. Don't worry. My hand's free. I can hang on to bushes along the side. There he goes again. Oh, he's a good one. Johnny Dollar, huh? You think I didn't know why you came up here? Man, oh, wait a minute. Oh, look at him go! Yeah, well, look at you! Well, Bush gave me the shoulder. My feet went out from under me on the icy rock and I fell sideways into that treacherous frigid pool. But in twisting around, I'd grabbed at one of his legs and managed to hang on and then the two of us went in. And then all I can say is that it's a miracle we ever got out of that freezing, rushing, pouring the line. But somehow we did. Then up in the bank, the water on our clothing freezing into ice. All right. All right, dollar. So you think you won, huh? Just because you got me.  You bet I did. All right, come on now. Back to the house before we freeze to death. We'll make sure the barry's still okay. Johnny, dollar, it's no use for you to say that. What? You know that he was only five. You said so before. You even saw him. So I knew you were on something when you came here. All right, so I goofed. Now come on. I remembered who you are and I knew you wouldn't let me get him down to the river alone. So that's why I made other plans. You what? Wait a minute. It's too late, dollar. From the wedding, there's a blue-green stain all over it. Blue vitriol, copper sulfate that you bought in Kingston. Oh, so you're smart now, huh? And the little chunks of blue vitriol look just like the chunks of the hard candy that that kid likes. And they both have a kind of sour taste. You see? Come on. It's too late, dollar.  Come on. When he sees it, he'll think the hardbox left it for him. And even if they're there, he'll think that worry over his stomach ache before it kills him. Barry? You're too late, dollar. You're too late. Dramatic ending. I'm sorry. Not this time. Thanks to the fact that Mrs. Hornblot could change your mind when Barry along in her morning errand about the time they got back, I'd cleaned up every chunk of the blue vitriol that Aspenwald had planted, mostly around the chicken coop. So, the only casualty? Aspenwald, who nearly frozen the death in his wet clothes on the frozen ground where I'd knocked him out. And he was a very docile prisoner when I handed him in at the Kingston Hooskow. Expense account total? Including a bit extra for the Hornblocks? Oh, call it $200 even. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Here's our star to tell you about next week's story. Next week, a lesson in how to crack a safe. And I'm perfectly serious about that. Join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Produced and directed by Bruno Zirato Jr. Music supervision by Apple Huber. Johnny Dollar is played by Mandel Kramer. Also featured in our cast were William Mason as Tom Aspenwald, Carl Weber as Phil Taylor, Louis van Rooten as Fritz Hornblock, Rainer Rayburn as Mrs. Hornblock and Sarah Fussell as Barry. Be sure to join us next week. Same time, same station for another exciting story of yours. We'll see you next week. We'll see you soon for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Art Hanna speaking. This is the CBS Radio Network.


Good afternoon everyone. This is Melissa with the stocks which calm and welcome welcome to a spy update I did do a QQQ's update earlier today I hadn't even glanced really at the spy and lo and behold the spy is even more bullish than the cues We actually almost got up over the high here. It looks like I Bet we are up over a pre-market I post market We almost got up over the high on the day and now I just thought we were probably gapping up tonight and we are So we closed at 185 82 and we got up to 186. So We're gapping up right now. It does look like we are going to follow through higher tomorrow Which was my call for the cues same thing with the spy. So let's take a look at this here So any gap up tomorrow unless it's a crazy gap up could be bought aggressively here. We're gonna rally and Should make another new high tomorrow could happen in the pre-market tomorrow could happen tonight yet Still actually because 186 15 was a high. We're not that far from it right now here at 446 p.m really really nice show of strength in the market and This again is why you don't short tops and I know people like to do that because we're looking at what they think is resistance Let's just go back here a little bit When the market actually rallied up here it made this area then it rallied up again touched on the air didn't get over it So people thought oh, it's a double top then when it did again People think it's a triple top and people look to short this because people are Thinking then that the market's gonna come in or change directional trend or something I'm not sure what people think but the market really would only had a short term pull-in It lasted for a brief period here in January if you shorted this for a short term pull-in You made money in the spy, but know that if you ever short a strong market The chances of you making money are low odds because at any point in time We could have actually flipped over the high right a ways or the next day or the next day now After the pull-in we got bought and then we went over the highs But even here I know people got stopped out here because I know people shorted this Because it was another touchdown up over the number of that closed with a topping tail and a red body And I know people then thought this was another short Entry just because something has a level of resistance. It's not a short entry. Let me make my point here Market when it ran here. Let's go all the way back You can understand what I'm saying because it's just it's just not the right way to train Market ran up here If you call this resistance Market comes in you could short this and say it's resistance, but then you see it right up to another level resistance Then it came in then it ran up here We could say well This is resistance, but it's higher than this resistance or this resistance, but lower than this resistance market ran up Held here came in gapped up over this resistance. You could say well This was resistance here. It held one two three times, but then look at gapped up over it came in came down Made the resistance came up didn't get over you could say well, this is it. This is a short It's coming in we're coming in it rise up to resistance gaps right up over it Rallys rally. It's makes another area say okay. Well, this is resistance comes down Gaps up and go over it right away. So I mean you cannot continue to short resistance in a bullish market It's never going to pay right you short resistance is something in a downtrend You buy support if you really want to and some it's in an uptrend Although there's multiple areas of support even in something that's in an uptrend and again This is very complex and and I don't want to make a two-hour video here because you can't really buy every area of support either Even if something's in an uptrend But to make a long story short I know that a lot of people about this market was toppy back there short of this area It helped the market to lift over the highs very quickly after this and hold the next day And now we're going to do it again and people keep thinking that we're extended here And as a result we keep going higher and shorts people trying to short this thinking they were extended or that we're going to come in Keep getting pushed out and that keeps make make us move higher because one choice up to cover it makes green It's a buy to close when you press it. It makes a green it could be short covering So what's happening is two things one buying and two short covering and that's pushing the market higher and higher and higher and higher And that's what's happening here and you see The market actually did get bought in here today because it had the nice follow through and every 15 minute could have been bought And we closed to the high and actually again, we're gonna gap up tomorrow morning I just don't know where exactly but this market is very nice and bullish and Looks like we're just gonna do it right away here tonight or tomorrow So looking for a nice green day in the market tomorrow last day of the week on Friday Actually last day of the week and last day in the month Hope everyone had a wonderful month. It was earnings season this month in February It was a good solid month for trading gaps, which is what I do and the interesting thing is I love to short I love to short gaps and it was the market was bullish here Market was bullish here this month of February and it was shorting this whole month and it was a great month So so interesting it really doesn't matter what side you play on as long as you know what to do as long as you know What to do when you do it? Well, you can make money in both directions I just happened to like to short more than to go long Because shorts take over the momentum takes over so fast so people panic and are in longs and want to sell out of them But the funny thing is the ironic thing is that I'm shorting and doing so well in what is a bullish market for the last You know however many years five years You know So you it's really just about understanding what you do knowing what you do and doing it well I'm looking for the right stuff to play You can't play the market every day and if you need the market for your trades And there's gonna be a lot of days that you just don't trade. That's just that's just all there is to it I that's why I like to trade stocks and companies because they're so specific and I'm doing different ones every day for the Most part and it's fun. It's exciting now the market's higher for tomorrow We'll see what happens then how we close tomorrow that'll take us into the next week Which will be the start of the month, but actually looks like blue skies ahead here for the market for the first week in March Looks like blue skies ahead pulling will happen, but depending on the rally it may not be next week And we could rally for another week before we even pull in at this point because the market kind of has taken a little bit Of break here now. It's making some nice Follow-through moves without tiring. I mean, this is not a tired market to me. It's so interesting I don't know why people think things are extended just because you have six green bars in a road doesn't mean something's extended at all It's actually Sorry about that Should I turn my phone off?  I mean it's happening. It's happening right now. It is gonna continue to happen This is Melissa with the stocks wish calm have a great night everybody have a wonderful weekend If you'd like more information on how to read charts and how to read the market and how to read gaps Email me at Melissa at the stocks wish calm the next gap class is March 8th and 9th. Thanks everybody. Have a great night


Live from New York, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE, covering Spark Summit East, brought to you by Spark Summit. Now your hosts, Jeff Frick and George Gilbert. Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE with George Gilbert from Wikibon. We are live in Midtown Manhattan for day two of Spark Summit East. We went wall to wall yesterday. Today, I think we had 12 segments, George. You presented the Spark Summit forecast or Spark forecast, which was great. First time we opened that up. We had a customer panel, of course, a lot of great guests and we're really excited to kick off day two with CUBE alumni and always a great guest, Joel Horwitz from IBM, welcome. Thanks guys, thanks for having me here. It's great to see theCUBE at Spark Summit. It's awesome. Yeah, absolutely. So we're excited and you got a new, you got a new role. So give us a quick update on, you know, you keep moving and grooving. New year, new role for me. I think that's kind of my trend. And so it's no different at IBM. I'm taking on a new role in business, corporate development. Clearly there's a lot of activity going on in this space where there's some very interesting companies coming out that we're looking at. It's really, it's really exciting. Yeah. That's good to say. And comparing contrast we were talking about, we're here at the Hilton Midtown, right? Which is how the Hadoop has been at for years, kind of ground central of big data. How about the evolution of the Spark community and how do you see that relative to kind of what we saw before with Hadoop? Yeah, you know, it was interesting because we actually, I was just talking about that last night with Rob Thomas. And I came here in this place when Hadoop, you know, Hadoop World was just getting started. In fact, it's almost like we were joking. It's like there's a progression of like the hotels you go through to get to the top. Now Hadoop is at Javits and I don't know what comes after that, maybe Vegas we'll see, but you know, you kind of like move, you know, move south, I guess, through Manhattan as you get bigger. So it's exciting to see that there's still a ton of excitement, so much so that they're able to fill this great space. Right. You know, it's really exciting to see them. It's still real early days and the thing I like about conferences when they're early and they're new is the amount of interaction, the amount of engagement amongst the community. People trade in cards and really sharing information that hasn't really got to be all vendor overflow yet and it is a real significant, you know, sharing information. We went to the meetup before the show kicked off. I think there was 500 people in there. Wow. Really engaged, kicked off by Matthew Hunt from Bloomberg who I guess is ground zero for Big Data Manhattan. Yeah. So really exciting stuff. And a guest this afternoon, that's right. Yeah, no, Matt's great. We're actually working with him and talking to him about what is going on. And as you mentioned, I mean, it's definitely still early days for Spark. That's exactly why we opened up the Spark Technology Center. You know, partly to help bring kind of a business solution oriented thinking to the Spark community. I think that's what IBM brings to the table. Probably more so than anyone else, frankly. And so that's exciting to kind of bring that perspective. When you compare Spark for, you know, to say Linux or even going all the way back to system 360, I mean those, they're mature, right? Operating systems, 10 plus million lines of code. Spark is still, as you mentioned, very early in a lot of regards, you know, less than a million lines of code in total so far. And so, you know, clearly we're, you know, only around 10% of the way there if you're measuring it by code. Right, right. And so there's a lot, a lot of work to do. And as you mentioned me, if you look over here, there's, you know, an arcade going on. I mean, that's, it's very much kind of like Silicon Valley East at the moment around here. It's pretty cool. But IBM has put a lot of investment into Spark. And for those that aren't paying attention or maybe this is their first exposure, you know, you guys did the event at Galvanize last year, you're doing the data blouses. Talk about kind of IBM's investment into Spark, not only as a technology, but the community, and as always, business solutions for your customers. Yeah, I mean people, when they think of IBM, they like to, you know, throw around big numbers, right? They always want to say, oh, IBM invest a billion here and a billion there. But, you know, we took a very different approach this time around with Spark, in my opinion.  And so for us, I mean, a lot of it has been, frankly, you know, as you mentioned, growing the community, contributing to Spark, and consuming Spark internally with a number of our solutions and to help our clients actually adopt Spark faster. Because this stuff is not, it's non-trivial, it's not easy, right? I mean if it's, I think what the community is doing, I mean, adding data frames, you know, improving APIs, you know, doing all of, you know, adding all of these usability features and functions.  And so that's exactly why we also launched, you know, what we call Data Palooza. We just had one last week in Seattle, it was a lot of fun. So, Joel, maybe tell us, sort of, by analogy, the type of work that you layered on Linux, because it was a, I mean, a world shaking event, at least in the tech world, when you got behind Linux before it was so immature, you know, it had promise, but it didn't have legitimacy. And you added a lot of, not just legitimacy, but technology on top. Can you walk us through to the extent that you can share your plans?  I mean, as antiquated as that sounds, it was the first time, I would posit that it was the very first operating system. And, you know, and that brought together a number of disparate peripheral solutions, right? That had its own, you know, way of interacting, its own, you know, programming, you know, environment or programming language, like per solution, right? And, you know, going up to Linux, it was the same thing. There was a lot of different operating systems at the time. And frankly with Linux, it became clear, again, that the community was behind it. And so what we did is we adopted it just like we're doing with Spark. We said, okay, let's contribute to Linux. Let's make sure that it's, you know, enterprise ready. And then let's also use it because the best, you know, improvements, as I'm sure you know, and the best thing that we can do is actually get it into more, into the hands of people, right? Cause then once you have that business kind of context for technology, then I truly believe that it tends to steer the project in a much more, you know, usable, you know, practical direction. And Spark is no different today, by the way. I mean, if you look at all of the different ways that people are interacting with data, through SQL, through Python, through R, through Scala, through, you know, machine learning algorithms, I mean, that's like overload, right? And so to me, again, what we're seeing is we're in the new era where, you know, Spark, we see it as an analytics operating system to truly unify the languages, right, around how we interact with data, how we access data, how we, you know, analyze data and how we actually build data products, as I would call it, that run on that operating system. Let me ask you questions in two slightly different directions. Sure. So you're talking about the community of people around Spark. If we think of it like sort of dropping a stone in the water and the ripples spreading, yeah. Who are the first ripples? Right. And then what are the roles that follow? Right. And then sort of what are the class of problems that they solve first, and then how does that evolve? Yeah, I mean, as uninteresting as it sounds, this all, I think the pebble that we are, that we have dropped into the ocean, or into a data lake. Right. I knew that. I knew we were going to do that. I had to say that. I had to say that. I'm going to run to that one, okay. So, no, I mean, so that's what this is all about. I mean, so Hadoop opened the door, frankly, right? So I, again, I use the same analogy. Hadoop was like the unix of the time, right? Where it's this heavy thing, you know, it's MapReduce, it's HDFS, it's not portable, right? I can't just spin up a cluster over here, take my work and port it over there in any other system, right? Right. Spark is not like that. Spark is very portable, and it's like, you know, Matei is like the Linus Torvalds of, you know, of Spark, right? I mean, of, and so it's very exciting. So the first ripple, or the first kind of ring, right, is data engineering and data developers. So what you're seeing now is a huge push to make Spark really accessible to practically any system, to make it truly portable. And at IBM, we're no different. I mean, we're expanding the scope of Spark to work with, you know, many different data systems, right? Whether it's mainframes, right? People are like, why would you ever do Spark on mainframe? Well, why not, right?  And so, you know, so the first ripple is really, you know, is really getting that, is really getting Spark to sit on many different data systems. I think as you go out from that, the second layer that really gets me excited is you're seeing companies like, you know, H2O, Datto, you know, a ton of other machine learning companies, data robots here.  You can kind of start to see that emergence. And so the next layer out is actually, you know, working with the data, right? And so doing things like, you know, data science or just even data analysis, like there's a new term that people are throwing around called interactive analytics, you know, with Spark. So folks like Zoom data and others are starting to show a lot of this. And then there's also going out from that, I would say then there's going to be, frankly, solution building, right? So you look at companies like what Uber and Airbnb are doing, like in Bloomberg, right? And, you know, on the wider periphery, and that's when you start bleeding back into, you know, and expanding into other open source projects. Let me follow that up because we've been working for a couple months on a sort of market overview and forecast. The forecast part is, because everyone likes to latch onto numbers, but the real interesting part is the, what's causing the knee and the curve in different parts of the marketplace.  And we've seen footprints, but we can't find the beast. Yeah, so there's, so sorry, I have to jump in here because I don't know if you know this, but like I think it's out in, I want to say Oregon, but there's like a big foot trap. Have you guys ever heard of this? No. So like there's an old trap. There's like this giant massive trap that they built, like, I don't know, 30 years ago, and it still exists to catch like big foot. So I think what we have to be careful of is going after things that might not exist. Okay, but this is the thing.  And so I would boil that down to saying, hey, let's just go out and like, you know, see a few wild animals. Let's not try to find mystical creatures. Because IBM doesn't seem to aspire to build these ERP, you know, generation two type apps, you know, where it's front to back all the, you know, system of record type processes. What I'm trying to get at is there's, there's no such thing as a recommendation engine because it's different depending on the context who's, you know, what industry. And IBM seems to be set up better than anyone else to say, okay, we'll take the pieces and we'll customize them for your business. And I'm wondering if that's sort of where you see that on the maturity curve and in IBM's sort of evolution. I mean, look, I think that, you know, bringing this back to Spark, I would say that what we are seeing is very repeatable architectures, right? I mean, we see people, you know, following similar patterns and we're trying to harden those architectures into, you know, frankly kind of purpose built solutions that we can actually then help our clients get to. And what's the scope of those solutions? I would say it's pretty broad. I would say that, you know, as far as Spark goes, it's pretty far-reaching. I'm sure you heard Anjul's keynote yesterday and how she talked about, we have around 29 solutions that now work with Spark. You know, either it's consuming Spark or working directly on Spark. You know, I mean, a perfect example is Watson Health. I don't know if you're familiar with this.  So it's pretty incredible what we're seeing. And so I wouldn't say there's really like one particular solution to point to. Again, I think it's anywhere there's analytics. I think the challenge that we've had in the past with Hadoop and other things, SQL even, has been it hadn't been very portable. So you did have to like, invest a lot of, you know, resources to solve like this one big hairy problem. And it wasn't transferable to any other industry, frankly. And so that's why I talk about this notion of data products and to use another example, you know, one of the presenters at Data Palooza, they invented an iWatch app that basically they wrote an algorithm in Spark that basically consents how much weight, you know, you're lifting. And so for them, they were like, all right, we're going to consumerize this and make a workout application. It consents the weight that you're lifting. Yeah, yeah, so it consents how much weight you're lifting. Go figure, figure that one out. Here's the interesting part, right? So as we're sitting in the session, one person raised their hand and said, you know, yeah, the exercise, you know, market is so big. But why don't you go talk to UPS or go talk to FedEx? They like actually would love to have a sense or tell you, hey, you're lifting too much weight. Like over 50 pounds, you know, they know that that leads to health problems, sure, problems. My point being is that what we're going to see and what you saw with Linux is is that it led to the explosion of the internet. It led to the explosion of applications. I think Linux invented computer science. Computer science when I was growing up, I mean, not that long ago in college, right? Was a novel field to go into. And I think data science is like that now because of things like Spark and Hadoop. But let's follow up on the data science because we talked about the ripples of the applications and the solutions on the mythical data scientist, right? Which is less mythical than Bigfoot and the unicorns. But still, you know, there was the promise of the old original BI tools and, you know, really smart people and not mahogany, or I don't know what you call the data science row, you know, doing a lot of heavy lifting. But now we're trying to move that to the beyond just the data science. Talk about what you guys see in the marketplace in terms of getting it out of the, you know, the hallowed halls of the multi-PhDs. Every tower research type. Exactly. Well, look, I mean, they're certainly the visionaries, like leading the way, the data scientists, in a lot of ways.  They're actually, you know, from my experience, extremely creative people. And what you're seeing is that, you know, the gravity is kind of shifting to them. And so people, and frankly, when we talk to chief data officers and other emerging role, they're the ones who are actually forming teams around the data scientists. And so, you know, clearly, I would say this conference is more of a conference for data engineers than it is even for data scientists. But I don't think you can do good data science without good data engineering, by and large. And in the food chain, which comes first, data engineering, and then data science, or is it vice versa? I think they're both equally. I mean, I, you know, that's probably not the answer you're looking for, but I frankly think that it's a team sport. I mean, DJ Patel said this the best. I think that's one of the biggest misconceptions that I hear, and I try to debunk any, you know, at every opportunity, is that there is no, you know, unicorn data scientists. What you have actually is data science teams. There's an emergence of data science, right? Just how, you know, there's computer science and computer engineering, right? Within the computer, you know, science profession, right? And there's programming. So, you know, so we have to be careful not to, like, individualize this. And then you say, well, you know, the data scientists aren't growing as fast, you know, as people say it, it's like, no, but the discipline of data science is. If we're smart, and hopefully if this catches on, which I believe it will, then there's a whole field. In fact, you know, we work with Amplab over in UC Berkeley, and we were talking with them, and actually also the data science professors there, and they're making data science a mandatory, you know, a mandatory class for their 5,000 incoming freshmen. Wow, for all of Berkeley? All of it. So, and that's, and they're not the first, like data science becoming a mandatory, you know, thing to learn. Sort of like statistics would have been in, you know, like high school. Well, computer science should be in high school, along with biology, and physics, and chemistry, and why it's not, should be. But unfortunately, Joel, we are out of time. Man, I was just getting started. I know, but the good news is we will be at, well, first off, thanks for stopping by. It was always great to see you. And again, the good news, the Cube will be at IBM Interconnect next week, Monday through Wednesday. So if you're going to be at Interconnect, that's where Joel will be there. Stop on by the Cube. We'll have a good production at Menley Bay. You're watching the Cube. We're at Spark Summit East. I'm with George Gilbert. Thanks for watching. We'll be back with our next segment after this short break.


What's up guys? I'm here live at Blizzcon, but before I left, I got a chance to play the new Warcraft Rumble early. So, huge shout out to Blizzard for sponsoring the video. If you guys see this now, I'm probably live in this building, streaming Blizzcon. So, after you're done watching this, come check out the stream. Okay, so here's what's happening today guys. Today, I'm training. I'm training to compete against orange juice, alright?  So, those of you guys who don't know, Warcraft Rumble is a mobile action strategy game. Yes, it is a mobile action strategy game set in the Warcraft universe.  There's over 65 different little minis, different units across five different what they call families, okay? There's different factions. Alliance, Horde, Beast, Undead, and Blackrock. And you can use all those to build your army. So, you'll see a lot of iconic characters from the WoW universe inside of this. And you'll be able to upgrade your units with the different skills that change how you play in each unit. So, let's go ahead and get this started.   So, I think this is just a tutorial, so let's go ahead and get started with that, okay? Okay, so I put this guy here. Yeah, so basically use some of the units and they go fight the guys that are coming down. So, it's like these guys, these are like defiant bandits. I guess I got beasts. It's a ranged guy. Flying unit, melee unit. Oh, okay, so his guys are coming down, that's like his main unit. So, I'm learning how to play the game here too. So, they send units, I send units, and I have to find out what units will counter their units. So, I wonder if it's better to stack one side.  Oh, okay, okay, I see, I see, I see. So, then you get your XP, you use it, boom, ding, ding, ding, ding, you get your XP. Okay, cool. Okay, so win battles to make progress towards daily rewards. And then you just earn progress for defeating Padfoot. Sick. Here's the thing guys, Warcraft Rumble is the first Warcraft game that's designed from the ground up for mobile. So, this is like the first like Warcraft mobile game that they've ever done. So, it's an action-packed strategy game that invites players to assemble armies with their favorite characters from the Warcraft universe and battle it out in unique missions designed to test their tactical wits. Pog. Players command forces of lovingly sculpted digital tabletop miniatures in this multi-lane combat across dozens of unique missions. The big thing I'm excited about with this thing, like to like stream this thing right now, is I want to see like the wow characters, right? Like I want to see the like the iconic wow characters, right? I want to see like a Jaina Proudmoore, you know? Oh, there's Goldtooth. There's Goldtooth, we killed him. Goldtooth's dynamite does massive area damage, attack from both sides. Capture the tower to gain a forward deploy zone. A melee range combo will help us capture the tower and deploy minis closer to Goldtooth. Cool. All right, let's send it. So put melee here. So what is this? Is this like a big dwarf, big wild hammer dwarf? Some range. So we're going to send it from that side. It says we would attack from both sides earlier, though. Coballs can mine gold from these gold vans. So if I put a cobalt out there, okay? We'll put a miner on the left side and then we'll send some flying unit. We can put a flying unit out there. So these guys are sending it here. We've got to cross that bridge and we've got to kill Goldtooth. But we should put more of the... Let's put more cobalts on that left side to get gold from. Wait, chickens? What is that? Okay, we're going to send some big units here. No much flying machine. Is that a wild hammer dwarf? I don't know what that is exactly. Dude, this is kind of cool, though. Like, I like seeing all the units. Oh, wait. Look, this guy's coming to mine me. So what is this? Oh, it's an L-1-4. It's a wolf. It's a mangy wolf. Oh, what? Okay, so when you send these units out, they like bomb. Okay, so is this like a chain lightning or something? Oh, I can spawn units here, too. Okay, I'm understanding now. Put them on this side. Cool. Okay, this is kind of sick. Yeah, this is actually kind of sick, dude. Wait, so can I just do this? Can I just bomb the no much flying machine right here? Sick. That was actually cool. Just go straight. Just go straight for the boss. You just earned an enixia sigil. You can see what getting more sigils unlocks by tapping the sigil icon above. Okay, mother fang. Meeting stones are captureable deploy zones, but are easy to lose. Secure the high ground. All right, guys. Here's the big thing with Warcraft Rumble. You get Blizzard quality gameplay on the go. So it's one of those games. They're like, it's easy to learn, hard to master. A lot of frantic strategy. It's very gripping. Feel it right away, dude. I sent some miners on the right side to hit these nodes here. And then on the left side, I'm sending the big dam. I'm sending some damage on the right side. I have my resource at the bottom of six resources now. Okay, so I need to send...  So I need to send those miners, I need to send the kobolds to go get me more gold and they can generate more gold. And if they can generate more gold, I'm basically able to send out more guys right then and there. So now that I have that midpoint, it looks like I'm able to spawn guys right here, which is going to be huge. So I need to keep spawning guys up higher to kind of press the advantage. Spawn guys higher right here. There's a chain lightning coming. So those chickens, those chickens are going to the bottom, right?  Okay, so I have a lot of damage going out here in a second. Big chain. Okay, then I just killed my own guy. Is that how that worked? Because that was a mistake. Whoops, I put that guy in the wrong spot. Oh, sick, it worked. Sick! Okay. Yeah, this is a... So I believe this is going to be on Google Play. It's going to be on everything. I'm playing it right now on a Samsung tablet because it's like a special beta. This game comes out November 3rd, chat. Yeah, there's tons of content. There's a lot of different variety, replayability for this. Pretty fun. I mean, I'm actually really enjoying playing this right now and it's cool like seeing... Because I'm a wow guy, right? So it's cool for me seeing all the different characters and stuff coming up. It also has a bunch of your different like favorite wow characters like I was talking about. Look at this. General Dragasath. Ooh, claim your first leader. Leaders are powerful minis with unique abilities. Dude, I got to go with General Dragasath, right?  Cairn? Dude, I want General Dragasath, dude. You BRS. Black Rock Spire, give it to me, dude. I got to get my Valor Chespi from him. I'm going to go General Dragasath. Let's go. It's what I was saying, dude. You get like a lot of your favorite characters from the wow universe. Kind of like it brings them to life, you know? Apparently there's a whole bunch of different synergies in this game as well. And you can actually... You can challenge yourself, right? Go against the campaign. Like right now I'm going through Elwin Forest and I'm doing a bunch of Elwin Forest stuff. But you can do like the different campaign. You can earn bonus rewards. You can replay levels with leaders from the five families, right? The Alliance, the Beasts, the Undead, the Horde, or the Black Rock, right? Like General Dragasath is from the Black Rock and Elwin Forest, I'm doing a bunch of Alliance stuff here. So you're getting like that real like warcraft experience. It's just kind of sick, man. Okay, I'm starting to understand this a little bit more. Look, we got these guys throwing freaking barrels. We got some gold on both sides here. Let's send some melee. Send some guys here. Okay, so I can send out Dragasath at five. Oh my gosh, that guy just got an ogre. So let's drop him there. Smoke him. Nice. Yeah, I got it. I need to get that gold so I can keep having... Ooh. We're going to get that. We're going to... If we claim... Okay, so we claimed that on the right side. Now I can drop a guy here. Okay, send these guys. Send these two guys to get gold. We got an ogre over there. We got the Dockmaster. I'm going to send a big chain lightning over here. I'm kind of starting to understand it better. Okay, I'm going to send General Dragasath. Okay, we got four. Rather than five, General Dragasath is coming in. I actually have my fingers slipped off. Oh no, I'm about to... Dude, I'm about to get railed on the left side. Watch this here. How's Dragasath doing? Dude, Dragasath just owned. Look at his health on the top right. He's just cleaving him down. Holy... Dude, Dragasath is OP. Okay, claim the reward from the Dockmaster. Okay, next up, Chet. We're going to claim the reward from Dockmaster, and then we get Morgan the Collector. Morgan the Collector, dude. This guy, man. He just sits by the river. We're going to send our guys out on the left side to kind of like... We need guys on that side. Oh, frick. I shouldn't do that. I keep... I keep bombing nothing. Okay, I want to claim... I want to claim that thing over on the right side, that like, Ballista. Give me Dragasath, man. Let's send Dragasath in there. And we got a big chain lightning. Let's drop a big chain lightning here. Good. Uh-oh. Oh, no. That cobalt...  I wasted that cobalt. Huge mistake. Okay, we claim that Ballista. We're building a Ballista there. So now I'm going to be able to on that right side. In a second, I'll be able to drop units there. We got a big chain coming. Huge.  Oh, is that a chest? What did I do with that chest? Okay, I'm going to bomb it again right here. Oh, frick! I handed them that chest. I'm so dumb. Wait, Dragasath died? Wait, I have another drag coming. Big chain, big chain, big chain. Drag is coming again. Like, big chain on the left side coming up. Look, Dragasath's going to come clean up shop right here. Let's go. On the right side, big Dragasath. Yeah, let's go. Look at this. Dude, look, this looks just like when you're running UBRS. And your tank got, he's getting, what's it called? He gets hit with a flame and he's disoriented. And then he goes and he kills your healer. Just like that. Okay, so what are our options here? I can buy a level two common stone of Torren. Harvester Golem. This is cool. I want to see the unit. Oh, you can. Harvest Golem from West Balls. Stone of Torren. And then let's see the ghoul. Dude, you know what would be sick? These would be amazing, like 3D printed models. No way. Wait, what? Hold on. Can I 3D print? Tyrion Forgering, let's go, dude. Every game to do this. Dude, this is sick. Jaina Brownmore, my EVE. No shot. Look at him. Tyrion Forgering, dude. Ooh, should I pull out the hogger? Ambush Hogger's Patrol. Nolls haven't figured out how to look up yet. Time to crash the party. So what I'm seeing here is he already has units out and I don't. So he has a big advantage. And then he's going to be able to open up. You see where that this is? It's a switch to change the path in troops take. So I think he's going to come here and then go left. But maybe that only affects my troops. And then if I kill that guard tower, then I can capture it and then I can deploy units there. Big AOE. Can we survive? Can we survive? Okay, we survived.  Chainlining on the chickens. Okay, so how am I going to get guys on the top right of this? Oh, I choose. I can tap it. I can choose. So let's send Dragosath out there and let's send the Harvest Watcher. Oh my gosh. I should have used that chainlining on the left side. Dude, this is actually tough. I'm like under like duress. I think I need to keep sending my guys to the left. Oh no. Oh no. I got to bomb them. I got to keep sending guys to the left. Ignore the right side for now if I can. I'm going to send Dragosath to the left. Send in a dwarf. Dwarf. Dude, this is actually tough. I'm kind of... Dude, I'm getting owned. What the frick? I'm actually losing. Wait, this is hard. It said it was hard. I didn't think it was going to be this hard. Wait, how am I getting owned so hard? Hold on, bro.  Start counting your chickens.  Okay, I will win this.  I want them to cover that cobalt and that cobalt is going to go here. But then in the meantime, I'm going to go... I'm going to bomb these guys. I'm going to get a triple right here. Okay, I'm going to spawn Dragosath here. Overtime. Overtime? Okay. There you go. Dragosath is going to finish. Dragosath is going to finish, chat. Give it to me. Wait, wait, no. Can I just chain lightning? Dude, can I just... Let me just chain lightning him.  How did Dragosath get owned by the chickens? This is sick, dude. If you guys want to check out Warcraft Rumble, check out that link. It is free to play. That link that I just spammed in chat. You guys can do that. This game is... This game is actually going to be a lot of fun, man. But if you guys like it, check it out. You guys can check that link. You guys can click that link down below. And there's a ton of different content in this game. Really, really high quality. If you're a fan of Warcraft, you can see all the different models and all the different characters, a lot of your favorite characters. They said there's over 60 different heroes, villains, monsters, whatever. Basically, these little tabletop characters, all from the Warcraft universe, which is pretty sick. Huge thank you to Blizzard for sponsoring me to try out Warcraft Rumble. Yes, you're right. I have not moved since I filmed the intro, and that's because this was filmed after I did the stream at BlizzCon. I hope you guys enjoyed. Come watch me over on Twitch. I'm live at BlizzCon probably right now. The next couple of days is going to be amazing. Hope you guys enjoyed. Like, comment, subscribe, all that stuff. I'll see you guys soon.