Hello everyone, welcome to this breaking silicon angle news segment. I'm John Furrier reporting for Silicon Angle and host of theCUBE. This breaking news powered by theCUBE is going to talk about Amazon's recent announcement today, a new offerings to help telcos jumpstart their innovation. That's the headline on siliconangle.com. Of course, the release from AWS announces AWS telco network builder, among other things next week. We'll be at Mobile World Congress from Monday through Thursday the 27th of the 30th for live coverage from Barcelona. theCUBE will be there. My guest here to break down the news from AWS is Jan Hoffmeyer, vice president of Amazon's EC2 edge. Jan of industry veteran, heading up the edge for EC2 for AWS the telco edge. The network builder, welcome to the breaking news segment. Thank you, John. Great to be here with you today. In your background, you've seen this movie on network buildouts over the years. You know how important the network has been. It's been one of the areas of innovation. I won't say the last area of innovation, but the cloud started at the low hanging fruit, compute services, but the network is so strategic. AWS has done a great job. We've covered deep stories on from the silicon to all the advances in the data center with James Hamilton, Desanthos, the whole team. Now, when you talk about edge, you're talking about telcos, you're talking about new network edge points that are providing innovation with data. And this is the next frontier in cloud computing. You guys today announced a service called AWS telco network builder, a fully managed service that helps telcos deploy, run and scale their networks using AWS cloud. Can you share with us what the services are? Take a minute to explain the news and then we'll get into the conversation. Absolutely, John. So first of all, you know, I think it's important to define this edge. You call the next frontier. So the edge for us, you know, we have our 31 regions across the world. And what we do here is we take the AWS infrastructure that runs in our regions and we bring it closer to our customers. And we bring it close to our customers through local zones that runs in our metro areas. And then even running on-prem in our customer data centers through a service called Outpost that brings that same infrastructure run on the regions all the way into our customer data centers. And one of the exciting things for us was when 5G came out, you know, it was the first wireless technology that was designed for the cloud. And what I mean with that is they took the design itself and they broke it down into microservices. They call them network functions. And for the first time you can now deploy the network down to its granular functions and deploy that in the cloud. So that was the exciting shift in the networking world when it comes to wireless is the first cloud native wireless design of wireless architecture. And we've been working very closely with our customers as they deploy this new 5G network within the AWS cloud. You know, I love that network function. I'm glad you brought that up a little bit earlier that I was going to get into it, but I'll get into it. Andy Jassy said to me on theCUBE at re-invent when asked if he would rebuild AWS today with the technology available, how he would build AWS, and he said he would use serverless. And in a way you're kind of getting at this next network function is kind of like the serverless for networks. Talk about the importance of this is a really big deal. It's a very nuanced point, but this is where the innovation is. Can you share your vision on why the network function, this innovation area is so important and what's the impact going to be for the customers? No, it's a great question. So the first thing with the innovation here is for the first time, you know, in the past when you deploy a network whether it's a wireless network in this particular case, you have these very large components that contains all of the functions, which means deploying changes and changing that system took a very long time. Being able to test all the components that's part of this one big release just made it very slow to innovate, very slow to introduce new changes, new functionality for customers. With network functions, you can deploy and update a single function within the network. You enable a specific functionality for a customer or for how you operate the network and you can do it independently. So it really unlocks the innovation and the speed to market for our customers, for our customers by being able to have that granular control over the network. So you're saying then that the telcos who are known as being like move as fast as glaciers in the industry now can move faster with the network function. And more agile, is that the benefit? I would never say that. But what I would say is, I do think that this allows them to really take advantage of cloud and what we've seen, what cloud did to compute and to storage and that innovation it unlocks, it really puts the telcos in a position where they can unlock that same velocity that we've seen cloud do for all the other industries. All joking aside, I love to always take a shot at the telcos because they are slow, but they make a lot of money. It's okay for them, but all kidding aside, though there's a lot of legacy that's been built up over the telcos over the years and it's become, and one of the reasons why they're slow is like any other, any environment that's a lot of legacy and scale, it's hard to make a change. So the question I have for you is can you talk about what this network builder means for the customers and to explain how it works? Is it software? Is it a managed service? Do telcos have to change how they do things? Their terminology? What's the operational change, if any? Because again, this is similar we've seen in the enterprise, legacy slows things down. What's your take on that? How would you explain the service, how it's consumed, and what's the impact? So the service we introduced, or we launched, it's called the AWS Telco Neighbor Builder, and it is a fully managed service that AWS manages on behalf of our customers. And you should think of it, if I have to give it one word, it really does all of the automation for how you both deploy and operate a network. So let me break that down a little bit. So in its most basic form, it is the automation layer that runs the deployment, they call it a CICD pipeline, but the deployment of these network functions, so it allows the Telco to deploy their network functions in AWS Cloud. The second thing it does is it allows them to apply the configurations and the lifecycle management. So once these functions are deployed, the ongoing operations of deploying new configuration to it, it facilitates all of that. And then it also gives them the visibility, the operational monitoring and visibility of their network that runs there. Now, why is that important is, one, it gives them that capability, but also it exposes all of this new cloud to them in a very standard way, that is the same APIs and language they use today to operate their networks. So the systems now, think of their business systems that interfaces with the network itself, it can still continue to speak the same language, the same APIs. So Telco-Network Boulder exposes on the top side the same APIs and language for how they interact with it. And then underneath the cover, we deal with the cloud native components how do they deploy and operate these functions. Okay, so managed service, you've tracked away some of that layer there for integration purposes. So there's not a lot of lingua franca translations on their part, operationally, they can get into it. I get that on the other service that you announced that you kind of, I think you might've mentioned it, there was a second service, the integrated private wireless on AWS. What is that about? Can you explain that? Is that related to the Telco builder? Or is that a component of it? Is it a service? Is that the network function? What is that second service about? So that's a completely separate service from the Telco-Network Boulder referring to the integrated private wireless on AWS. That is a program. And it's a program where today we have so many of our Telco customers have private wireless solutions that was built and developed on top of AWS, running in AWS. And this program will enable our customers, AWS customers to find the right wireless solution offered by our Telco customers and bring those two together. So the Telco customers, where they develop these private wireless solutions on AWS, they bring tremendous value with that service, with their own services. Be it that they bring their own spectrum for licensed spectrum that can be used. They have the ability to offer fully managed services where they have people that can do the RF planning for you, they can do the onsite management of the systems for you, of the network itself. So it's really connecting our customers with the right solution to solve their private wireless needs. And can you give an example, because what you're saying is the business have their own private spectrum that they want to then scale with the cloud. Is that kind of right? Or what is the given example of who uses private spectrum or private wireless? So in many countries in the world, there is no shared spectrum. So in the US we have, as an example, we have the CBRS spectrum, which is a spectrum given that can be used without having a specific license that is issued to a Telco or to a Telco. And so in the US, we can leverage that shared spectrum to create a private wireless solution. In many countries, you don't have shared spectrum. And so, as part of our launch, Telco partners like Deutsche Telecom, KDI in Japan, Orange and Telefonica Spain and even T-Mobile here in the US can now bring their own network on-premise for private use running in the AWS cloud. So it's almost like a VPN for wireless, if you think about it in a weird way. They're bringing spectrum into the scale for private use for the company. So that, I guess that what enables more services at scale for either people on the go. Is that the benefit? You can really think of it as a private network. So if you think about your phone connects to a public network with all the other phones and all the other consumers out there, here you can create a private network that only you as a company have access to and you can control who have access to that network. Got it. Okay, one little caveat. I want to get on the record here before we get in the next set of questions because you guys use the word CSP. First thing that jumps in my mind is cloud service products I'm so used to covering cloud service, but also it means communication service. In your context, this is communications service providers. That is great. That's a great question. And they are include, they include who? So that those are how we refer to the telco industry as communication service providers. So think of the of the T-mobiles of the world and the Deutsche Telecom. These are the telcos that prefer to them as communication service providers. Okay, good. Making sure we're getting that out there. I kind of wanted to get that form. Cloud service providers are great and the communicator has all the scale and all the edge access. Okay, so Amazon has been no stranger to the edge. It's been talked about almost in the past three re-invents. The beginning was you start to see outposts that was years ago. You got wavelength, you got satellites, a lot more equipment being deployed for edge type use cases. The telcos going cloud native is a pretty big deal. We think this is going to be the beginning of Mobile World Congress or MWC, they're rebranding, because they haven't taken the word mobile out of it, MWC will probably be moving to being a cloud show for communication service providers meets business and application development. So I have to ask you, how do you guys see the conversations going with respect to one, deploying the infrastructure to get cloud native? You mentioned the service builder. Now you got the private wireless, you can see the business tying in. What are some of the progressions you're seeing from uptake? Is it infrastructure, then apps? What do you see as the vision of this announcement going? Obviously you got EC2 instances, EKS clusters, VPC resources, operational network services, I get that. But what's the, take me through the storyboard here and the progression of the execution. You know, I think there's two elements to it. I think the first one is just, well, you know, the very core, the core business of modernizing the networks, giving them that agility and an ability to bring to market new solutions and new services much faster. So that is just the modernization and cloudification of their existing infrastructure. It also sets them up to bring new services that are much more cloud native services to their customers. And so I think you will see, you'll see that as a big focus when we go into Mobile World Conference. Last year was all about private. That was the big story last year. I think this year is going to be about platforms and how they develop platforms running in the cloud and offer those services for their customers. Yeah, and I think this has been kind of happening for a while. I think there's been, we've been waiting for that tipping point. I think it's finally here. And congratulations. I got to ask you, obviously, I know Amazon been covering all the news for over a decade now, 12 years. You guys always customer centric and customer focused. What was the customer challenge here? What were the CSPs facing when building out these tech, telco networks in the cloud? And how did you guys build the telco network and build it to address them? Can you talk specifically about what was the bullseye of this? Because there was a customer need, what were their challenges? What was the big problem that you solved or the enabler for the CSPs? Well, that's a great question. And then you are so right. We almost never just build something and hope they would come. It's always based on a customer need that we saw. And as we were engaging with our customers on bringing their 5G networks onto the cloud, onto AWS, we recognized two key things. The first one was that the skill set of understanding how to develop in the cloud and the pointer cloud, from a network perspective, that was just not there. So there was a fairly big step for them to understand how to do that. And telco network builder addresses directly that need. It makes it much easier. It will also allow them to onboard and become much more cloud native centric and to be able to have that skill set. But it really accelerates them onboard onto the cloud. So I think that's the very first one that it does. The second one is, it really accelerates the visibility that cloud gives them because we make the data available to them that they can then use in terms of the monitoring and observability, make that data available to them. So I think it greatly accelerates their ability to then also see the performance of the network. And having that information, I think will allow them to innovate much faster. Okay, you mentioned earlier at the top of the interview, Amazon is pretty complex in its regions. Again, there's many of them out there more coming on every day. They first hit the continents and they hit regions. Now you got locales going up. What is the impact to the availability inside AWS's network? I mean, because what is the current availability? Is it just America, North Virginia, the US, East, West, what's the topology look like from a support standpoint? Is it global at launch and is it available now? So when we launched, where we launched the service today, the service is available in five regions and we plan to take it to all of our regions. Again, based on our customers footprint and where they are using the service. So today in five regions, our goal will be that this will roll out to the other regions as well. Okay, I got to ask the question on customers. Who's up and running? Can you name names? You mentioned some of the CSPs. What's the adoption look like? What's the pipeline for customers look like? You know, there's two kinds of customers here. There's one is the customer, the telco that will actually use the, that will use telco network Boulder as a service. For that, we've got Telefonica, O2 Telefonica as one of the telco customers. The next layer are the, you know, at a telco, you have this automation layer that talks to some bigger orchestration layer on top. And for that, we have two of our partners with Cloudify and Infosys that will be, that's already integrated with telco network Boulder. And then underneath, we spoke about those network functions. We've also already announced with Mavineer as being one of those network function technology partners that is supported in telco network. Big fan of the network functions, by the way. I want to just say that personal bias there. I think that's innovative. Love the management orchestration concepts. You guys thinking large scales what telcos are used to. John, you've been in networks for a long time.  But as you know, there's the easy way. There's the hard way. There's the cheap way, the expensive way. And so there's all kinds of different ways to slice and dice the network, right? So now you got that challenge in terms of latency, big discussion point and two, security. The two conversations that are coming up more and more on my cube interviews with customers and practitioners. They want latency to be as low as possible. You can't change the laws of physics. However, security, the bad guys are better than the good guys right now. So what do you say to that? What's your take on this? So let me take the two. I think on the latency, I totally agree with you. I think we've already seen big use cases that drives the need for better latency. The ability for the talk on it, one of the big advantages there is that once you deploy, let's say in a region, it is literally you can specify a local zone and deploy the exact same function in a local zone. And it makes the ability to deploy in, you know, in the different AWS locations much, much faster and easier for the talk. So if they need to get closer to a customer they can deploy into a local zone or they can even deploy onsite onto an outpost. So it really allows that ability to deploy closer much, much easier. From a security, I think it goes back to that earlier point I made around the visibility. Having the data and access to the data that they can then feed into their security systems. You know, I think that'll be a key source of information into their systems. With Telconever Builder, we also use the security services of AWS that specify who has permissions to make changes, can view the data. So they have fine grain control using the AWS security services to control exactly who can access the network. Well, John, I really appreciate you taking the time to unpack the announcement, you know, an offering that you got, that you got Cloud, a network, Telconever Builder and then you got the private wireless service, great stuff, integrated private wireless for AWS. Great stuff. Final couple of questions. Okay, zoom back. What's the impact of the industry? How do you see this evolving? What will this enable as you look out? I know you really can't make any forward-looking statements, but just from a technical industry perspective, put your practitioner hat on, knowing what's out there, what's going to enable this? Because cloud native in Telco is coming, that brings open source, that brings a whole nother paradigm, network functions, serverless, all the goodness of cloud coming into the communication server. What's the impact? No. You know, I think, let me start with the highest level. I think the first one is, you know, recently, you know, in February this year, Omnia reported, in Omnia report, they found that the Telcos can reduce the OPEX versus revenue ratio by more than 10% by simply migrating their workloads to the cloud. That is a huge savings. You know, they're looking at just network operations to drop from about 18% to 13%. They're expecting that the IT operations will drop from 6%, 6.2% to 3.5%. So just from a cost savings perspective, which is really important to imagine, just if you just, within the current macroeconomic climate, we are all in at the moment, there are huge optimizations, cost optimization that they can do by moving to the cloud. I think the second one is just all of these new use cases. I do think that the private use case we spoke about last year at Mobile World, that will continue to open up new opportunities, a new revenue opportunities for the Telcos. So I think that in itself, and then 5G, there's a lot of capabilities that still needs to be enabled in the 5G that is available there that is in the specification and as the networks build out, they will have the technology, the ability to then deploy that very fast and get that into their systems. With something like Telco Network Boulder that really accelerates and helps them to get that functionality out there as soon as it's ready. So I think that on all those fronts, you will see a big impact. Final question for you, obviously cloud had this progression, IaaS infrastructure as a service, platform as a service, powering SaaS apps, AWS dominated the IaaS, developed the PaaS layer, and really the ecosystem was software as a service. Here in Telco, it's kind of similar, but I mean it's not as organically growing as cloud computing was born with AWS. It's almost turning that IaaS PaaS SaaS in real time. I mean it's converting it over. What are some of those PaaS layer platform and SaaS services you guys see enabling? Is it cloud native applications at the edge? Is it the use of data and security at the edge? How do you see this progression? Is there any civilized between IaaS PaaS and SaaS on cloud and the state of the edge right now? Because compute and storage, networking, I mean that's good, goodness, that's what it's going to happen. How is that going to build out? You know, I think two things. One is just for the Telcos and what's happening here with this, with we're coming to the cloud. The network fabric is truly becoming cloud and part of the cloud. And you think about the Telco network builder, it really exposes it as an API. It exposes the network as an API and now suddenly you can interface with it no different than you interface with compute and storage. So I do think that this brings the network truly into a cloud native construct that can be used the same way we use compute and storage. So I think that's the first one. I think the second one is just there are so many use cases where we still have compute and storage and network running on-prem that's not in the cloud. And I do see an acceleration of how those workloads can participate in the cloud. And it's not necessary that they always come to the region. Bringing the cloud to the edge, I think it's as important. And that's why it's so important for us to focus on how we bring local zones and help us close to the edge so that those applications that once at the edge it needs to be at the edge can run in the same and benefit from the same cloud economics and cloud capabilities at the edge. Awesome, great news. It's the beginning we think of a major shift that's continuing to accelerate. We think what the pandemic did for work, this is going to accelerate distributed computing and cloud computing to the edge. Jan Hoffmeyer, vice president of Amazon's EC2 edge on theCUBE here, breaking down the innovations that telcos are getting to jumpstart their profit, their capabilities, ADOS announcing, ADOS telco network builder. John, thank you for coming on. Thank you very much John. Okay, you're watching breaking SiliconANGLE news. I'm John Hoffmeyer reporting the ADOS news and also CUBE host here, powered by theCUBE. Thanks for watching.


Hey everyone, this is Dan. The famous investor Warren Buffett is the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. The company filed its SEC 13F form on May 15, 2023. The form shows what stocks the company invested at the end of Q1, 2023. Let's look at what Warren Buffett has been investing in and what changes he made from Q4 of 2022 to Q1 of 2023. First of all, let's look at how the Berkshire stock has been performing compared to S&P 500. If you look at the Berkshire B share in the last five years, it went up 51% compared to S&P 500, which went up only 41%. In the last 10 years, Berkshire went up 185% compared to S&P 144%, and in the last 20 years, Berkshire went up 548% compared to S&P 312%. This really shows what Warren Buffett knows his business. That's why I'm so interested in what he has done to his stock portfolio in the last quarter. If you like what you've seen so far, please click the like, subscribe and notification buttons. That way you'll be notified when I post my next video. It will also encourage me to make more videos like this in the future. Thank you very much. Let's continue. We have a lot of interesting stuff to cover. At the end of Q1 2023, Berkshire has 48 stocks in its portfolio. The list here is ranked by the value of each stock. Apple Computer is number one on the list, with Berkshire holding $150 billion worth of Apple shares. Number two is Bank America. Number three is American Express, then Coca-Cola, Chevron, Occidental Petroleum, etc. Notice that both Chevron and Occidental are oil companies. BAC, Bank of America and C, which is Citibank, are large banks. That means even though banking stocks have not been doing too well in the last couple months, Warren Buffett still has a lot of confidence in some of the banks. We will talk more about that later. Let's look at what stocks Warren Buffett sold in the last quarter. He dumped his entire holding of Melon Bank stock, which was worth $1.1 billion. That's a huge move. He reduced his holdings on Kraft, Heinz and Coca-Cola. He dumped his entire holding on RH, which is the furniture and home furnishing company. He also dumped his entire holding of Taiwan Semiconductor and dumped his entire holding on US Bank or which is not a bank. Warren Buffett's selling of bank stocks is not surprising considering the trouble of the banking industry recently. The surprising part is that he's still holding onto shares of Bank of America and Citibank and some other banks. Let's look at what Warren Buffett has added to his portfolio. He added Bank of America shares, Apple, Occidental Petroleum, HP, Capital One, etc. Notice that among this list, Occidental and Vitesse are oil and gas related companies. Bank of America, Capital One and Citigroup are banks. Again, it's telling us that Warren Buffett still has a lot of confidence in some of the banks. Among these stocks, Capital One, Diageo and Vitesse are new to the Berkshire portfolio. Diageo is a very interesting company. The market cap is $102 billion. They produce, market and sell alcoholic beverages. They own famous brand names such as Johnny Walker, Enos, Baileys, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, Brown Royal, Don Julio, etc. In the last three months, Berkshire and Beeshire went up 5% already when S&P only went up by 0.48%. Maybe Warren Buffett wanted to buy some booze to celebrate his success. At this point, I'd like to suggest for you to subscribe to my Twitter account, which is DanMarketL. That way, you can get my daily update on important news related to the stocks that follow as well as some of the trades that I've made from day to day. Thank you for watching all the way here. I'd like to remind you again to click the like, subscribe and notification button. And as usual, I will very much welcome your comments, questions and suggestions. I'd like to remind you that I'm not a financial advisor. I share my stock trading strategies and analyses for educational and entertainment purposes only. If you want to buy or sell stocks, you should make your own decisions and you should definitely consult the financial advisors before you do so. That wraps up my video for now. I will chat with you again in the next few days. In the meanwhile, I'd like to wish you the very best of luck with your financial investments.


All right, it's the top of the hour, so I'm going to go ahead and get started. Welcome everyone to the UX Functional Group Update. Today should be a little bit shorter. It's only been three weeks since my last update due to the holidays, my last FGU got moved up a little bit so it's a shorter time span. The first thing I want to cover is that there's been a slight revision toward 2018 goals, at least for quarter one. We did some rearranging in order to focus more on areas that are closely tied to get lab strategic goals for 2018. We'll still be working on the other efforts we described in our last FGU, but that'll be more part of our day-to-day, not a special effort. So first off, we want to be DevOps for Kubernetes, right? So that means evaluating the install experience, the cluster experience, auto DevOps and operation workflow. So our first KR update takes a close look at our installation process. So we'll start with user testing to establish a baseline time for our current installation and identify opportunities for improvement. Make changes, retest, rapidly repeating the cycle until the time can't be improved. Our guesstimate right now is that we could probably push and improve it by 50%, maybe even more. But as we get into that, we'll be sharing the user testing videos, the results that we have, and then the changes that we plan on making. Secondly, we want to establish operations engineers as a first class citizen. So until fairly recently, we have been really developer focused. And in order to make the intersection between development and operations powerful, we really need to understand operations as well as we understand development. So with this KR, we're dedicated to understanding the needs, wants and perspective of operations engineers. The end goal is to establish a solid dialogue with this group so we can build out a set of tools they just can't live without. The final KR here, complete the pattern library and UI repository remains the same. And you can see details about that KR in our last functional group update. So some accomplishments, even though it's only been three weeks, since our last update, we've managed to fill one of our two open UX positions. We'll announce more about that new hire once the process is a bit further along. We've also been working on a 2018 vision. So Dimitri has been working closely with Mark Ponsack to tell the story of GitLab's 2018 product vision. Still work in progress and you can see the latest iteration on YouTube. There's a link right there for you. And so far, 10.5 is looking really, really good. 40 out of the 48 issues are already UX ready. So that means the UX is complete and ready for front end, back end to get working on those. So that allows us more time to devote to okay, our vision issues that we're already working on. So challenges. So obviously we did some last minute updates to our KRs for this quarter. So that does mean that we're starting a little bit late. And that gives us a bit of reduced time to reach those goals. So pretty confident that we're going to get very far on those. We're going to hit the ground running. So hiring, while we have hired one designer, we do still have another position open. And that means that we are understaffed still in using existing resources to review and interview candidates. Anyone here hiring knows that that can be really time consuming. It's a temporary constraint. We're confident that the remaining position will soon be filled. So hopefully that's something that won't pose much more of a challenge but the next FGU update. Priorities. So we do have some priorities that come in outside of deliverables. UX has been asked to give input earlier on for product vision issues, which we love. That's something we really want to do. We want to get more involved earlier on in the process so that we can use research and our specific set of expertise to help drive better solutions. But these often fall outside the current release. They're not part of our deliverables. So we have to balance that with the deliverables for the release, as well as any high priority or time sensitive issues that come in. So that can be a bit of a challenge. I think we're doing pretty well right now, but just keeping that in mind as we move forward. We also do have a lot of requests for UX design and research. Again, these are usually not scheduled. Something that someone just has an idea on or a question about. They want our input. Ideally, we'd love to jump on these and start iterating right away and generate some ideas on how to solve them. But we need to make sure that we're meeting our current obligations. So I've asked the department to concentrate on the highest priority issues first and just use your best judgment when answering requests on unscheduled issues. That way we don't get off track and miss deliverables because we get too deep into something else. That doesn't mean you shouldn't be asking for our help or pinging us. Don't want to discourage that at all. Just be aware that there may be a little bit of a delay in response. But if you feel it's something important, feel free to message me directly and ask me to take a look at it. I'm always happy to do that. And then I wanted to put a huge thank you out to PeopleOps. The whole team, of course, but I've been working closely with Celesta, Chloe Nadia and JC for interviews, candidates paperwork. Celesta has been doing a great job of sourcing and trying to find me just the best candidates from all around the world. So I wanted to say thank you so much. I know that they are understaffed and doing the best they can and they're knocking it out of the park. So thank you so, so much. I promise I keep it short. Any questions? Check in the chat. Big thanks to PeopleOps. So I'll give it about five seconds. And then I will let everyone go. Gonna have a whole 20 something minutes back. My math is terrible. Five, four, three, two, one. All right. Thanks, everybody. I'll see you in the team call. Bye-bye.


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Welcome to another episode of the web show featuring two tiny hounds that have separation anxiety. We're fully dogged up buddy and Meg. It is a 90s kind of themed show, well 90s and 80s themed show but I'm especially excited because I absolutely love the 90s and just a bit and our and my next guest on the web show Ben Giroux is responsible for that amazing song that you saw in the intro. So let's stop. Handbrake. Before we go there you must remember to stay to the end because we are going to be announcing the winner of this fantastic amazing Back to the Future Bob Gale Compendium. You may remember we had Bob on the show, it was absolutely incredible chatting to him about one of my favourite movies of all time, Back to the Future and this book there was the chance to win it and it is an absolute essential addition to any Back to the Future heads library so stay to the end of the show and don't fast forward either we know your game. And then be kind, rewind because then you can be reminded that quick plug on lifeaftermovies.com of course we sell the Blue Rays and DVD Life After Flash and Life After Navigator. We now sell these flash crew patches on the website and don't forget we have signed Joey Cramer Life After the Navigator Blue Rays. Now the extra £40 that costs to get the signed one goes 100% directly to Joey so support Joey, support the film, lifeaftermovies.com but let's get into the interview, Ben Giroux. I can't begin to say how many times I have seen a The Back to the 90s video and now I've discovered Back to the 80s video. The creator, writer, director along with Jensen Reed, Ben Giroux is on the web show with me I'm so excited. Ben how are you? You know what I don't even know how to answer that question anymore a year into a global pandemic but I'm alive I'm good I'm still inside after a year of quarantine I'm doing good. I will go back to the 80s so you were born in 84 which we know from your Back to the 80s video, very clever. What was your childhood like? A very sort of colorful eccentric quirky childhood because my parents I grew up in Phoenix Arizona and my parents owned a comic book store for almost 40 years so I grew up around Superman and Batman and a very sort of colorful environment and then in addition to that a very funny environment you know I grew up watching old three Stooges clips with my dad my sister and I grew up watching Nickelodeon animated shows I'm now a voice actor with Nick animation so life has totally come full circle but I feel like a lot of the pop culture that defined the 90s really was paramount to my childhood experience and I think that sort of began my love for the concept of nostalgia. Nostalgia to me gives me this feeling of warmth and it's so familiar because it's it's there's something really simple and nice about thinking about our childhood especially in the 90s where nobody had iPhones yet you know we weren't sort of overcome by technology so much that you know it got in the way so yeah life in Phoenix Arizona growing up was was colorful and fun and quirky as the son of two owners of a comic bookstore. Your acting reel is impressive from years before I believe you actually started to make your own content. Did you want to be in entertainment from a very early age? Oh sure I mean you know you and I before we even started talking with the recording we're talking about growing up in the VHS generation and so even in high school even as early as junior or high I can think back to trying to create my own films and my own you know little clips with my friends a lot tougher editing on VHS back in the day and little mini DV cameras rather than everybody walking around with movie cameras in their pockets now. But yeah I always wanted to be an actor first and foremost. I went to film school here in Los Angeles University of Southern California also studied theater and I was quite lucky I booked my first television show which was a Fairleigh Brothers pilot on Fox as I was graduating college in 2007 that sort of segued into the show Psych on the USA Network and then I consistently just started working as an actor and one of the things that I found was Hollywood and the entertainment industry wants to pigeonhole you and put you in a contained box. For me I'm a short guy I'm 5'2 so I was booking a lot of short specific roles you know at a certain point you just buy yourself your own Christmas elf tights when you keep working as a Christmas elf. So I was playing a lot of height specific stuff and while it was fun it wasn't a hundred percent satisfying because I knew I was capable of so much more. So as my acting career was was continuing to to thrive really I was very lucky to be consistently working in television. I realized I wanted to start making my own stuff and one of the things that I had always wanted to do is a Busta Rhymes kind of braggadocious music video about being a short guy called Little Dude Anthem and I do a lot of voiceover. This is years ago I was at my my voiceover agency and I was talking to one of the booth engineers there talking to him about this idea this short guy rap and he said well you know we represent a hip-hop artist here at the agency and I said oh that's great so he connected us and that's where I met my buddy Jensen. Jensen is a phenomenal hip-hop artist a great musician and I think his biggest talent is as a songwriter and so Jensen and I are both pretty anal retentive guys that are very detail oriented so if we're gonna tackle a project we don't want to just sort of half-ass it we want it we want to make sure that it's the biggest best thing we can possibly do. So I do a lot of theater with so you think you can dance act dancers and American Idol singers at least before the pandemic and so I called upon my friend Tamira Gray who was in season one of American Idol bunch of dancers from so you think you can dance we really just brought it for this production. Made this music video called Little Dude Anthem it went viral I thought it was a great sort of example of a cool song cool beat great song writing but also really funny and a great way for us to sort of showcase our production prowess. We thought it was just gonna be a one-off and Jensen and I realized like hey like this is a great combination of our talents so I'm a director too so I've been directing all of our music videos so we said hey what else appeals to us that we would want to collaborate on and we both instinctually said nostalgia. For me nostalgia defines so much of the work that I want to be creating and so we made Back to the 90s. For two years to conceptualize the video I knew you know we were paying for it out of our own pockets we didn't get any branding or sponsorships at that point so really had to put a lot of money and time in to make it even feasible because the idea was the original idea was how can we showcase as many genres of 90s music in one video as possible make the song good and catchy and as many visuals from the 90s as possible representing those genres and it became clear we needed to settle on a Backstreet Boys style chorus because while it all it sounds good it's also really fun it's really it's over-the-top funny with the you know the choreography and everything it's pretty silly. The way it's kind of worked with all of our songs not just Back to the 90s is Jensen and I will write the initial pass together. He'll sort of focus on the musicality of it I'll focus on the jokes and and you know sort of where we can kind of find the humor in the lyrics. We had together written a version of the chorus which was okay it wasn't great and we were like you know we really need to bring in a pop singer-songwriter that can really capture the Backstreet Boys style in a way that we really couldn't that's when we brought in our buddy Jared Lee who he's written for Jason Derulo he just wrote one of the most recent new kids on the blocks tracks Jared's awesome and I think one of the one of the things that's been so exciting for me just being in Los Angeles is you know our network of such talented human beings that we get to collaborate with it seems seems to be endless sometimes and Jared you know it took I remember sitting in the room he came up with that initial melody within 10 seconds and we were like that's it and then we started to sort of conceptualize what the funny lyrics would be we we loved the idea of what's another word that would rhyme with a and so it was fun and and you know the song came together pretty quickly after that our buddy a songwriter his sort of stage name is dirty Hollywood it's an awesome guitarist he's a hell of a songwriter and even better human being he wrote the grunge Nirvana style chorus for us dirty's actually in that portion as the guitarist in that section in the video he also helped write the main melody of back to the 80s which we later did and you know we're continuing to collaborate like I'm doing a Nickelodeon show right now that dirty just helped write a song for us for so I really am big on when people sort of help us out with our projects our passion projects sort of paying it forward and making sure that we continue to collaborate on bigger and better things that hopefully put some better money in their pockets like I said to you before we started recording the chorus of back to the 90s just in a heartbeat sums up it's such a visceral experience to watch it because it sums up exactly how I feel about nostalgia in the 90s doing back to the 80s was that just as challenging for you because that's a huge production significantly more challenging one of the things that I've always loved about my team I have a production company called small red cape we are sort of the the entity that tries to create all of these things every time we want to one up it you know I don't want to just sort of replicate something especially you know back to the 90s got a hundred million views we charted at number 11 on billboard we joined the backstreet boys in Las Vegas I mean so much crazy stuff happened from that project that when you're doing a sequel that everyone's asking for it's like well okay how do we how do we go bigger knowing that we're probably not gonna hit a hundred million views again but a lot of people are gonna see it so you know back to the 90s was our first attempt at like okay how do we show as many visuals as possible in the shortest amount of time and then the task for back to the 80s was okay well let's do that same approach except let's literally cut to a different visual on every reference on every line and I did not want to do it green screen aside from a couple of things that absolutely had to be green screen like our top gun moment every single set is practically built we in the 80s took about a year to write the song there were a lot more sort of instruments and musicians and things involved in the actual production of the track but once we got to shooting it we shot back to the 80s you know I'll say this by comparison back to the 90s was shot over two consecutive days in 2016 we started shooting back to the 80s in 2018 and finished like 2019 I think I'm right about that took about a year to shoot over seven or eight different production dates the biggest of which was our chorus section which was a high school prom we wouldn't be able to do this now in the way the state of the world is but we packed about 250 people into a high school gym and through a rock concert 80s prom and it was awesome because the entire crowd was composed of our closest friends our family we got you know two giant confetti cannons it was nuts and we shot that last so after a year of work it was a real feeling of accomplishment to figure out how to puzzle piece this thing together I can remember back to our first back to the 80s shoot we got I think we did like 25 setups or something it was insane over like two days and we thought we had accomplished so much and I remember laying it out on the edit timeline after the shoot and it was like seven percent of the song if we had so much more to go so we were both excited and super disheartened that like we had we had a lot to do you had a lot of recurring recurring actors didn't you in it as well in both yeah it's a great point to bring up like our friend Lindsay Taylor who's an incredible choreographer was our Britney Spears she was also our Madonna and back to the 80s you know dirty certainly is in back to the 80s as well he's in the sort of tears for fears bridge he's also our guitarist in the 80s prom the girl who played Tanya Harding for us she was our Shelley along in back to the 80s so you'll see if you watch both videos back to back you'll notice a lot of the same people we just wanted to throw in as many kind of little Easter egg tie-ins as we could and then our plan is to do back to the 2000s as our next sort of major thing we just got thrown off track by you know the destruction of civilization and a giant worldwide pandemic that little small fact I did see your Easter egg playing at the end of back to the 80s at the very end of the credit the very long credits because such a huge team I mean you did cram so much in and I imagine it was a really exciting process to be kind of sitting there at the beginning going what do we want to include but did you just find yourself snowballing idea after idea and there was so many things that you wanted to include did you have to call them or did you kind of wake up at 3 a.m. 6 months later going oh shoulda woulda we're super diligent about our brainstorming process so we did this for both back to the 90s and back to the 80s brainstormed huge lists categories of pop culture so we would separate it by OK what's some of the animation we want represented you know back to the 90s the claymation of celebrity deathmatch was like top of the list for us Doug was top of the list for us you know what kind of obviously music styles we want represented in the song what kind of TV shows do we want to tackle what kind of toys what kind of merchandise what kind of clothing what kind of wardrobe so we'll go through and create huge just lists just spitballing researching online thinking back to our own childhoods had to do a little bit more research for back to the 80s because we were babies and back to the in the 80s so once we get done with that list we start trying to sort of gibberish our way through what it would sound like to a very basic beat and then it starts to to really take shape but in answer to your question we probably chose 20% from each of those lists so like we actually wrote before we wrote back to the 80s we wrote a second back to the 90s that's like a green day kind of vibe with all of the stuff we cut out matrix Titanic I mean there's so much stuff we did not include but the problem was it felt like the same beat and we didn't want to just do the same thing again so it'll probably die on the cutting room floor but maybe at some point we'll do another kind of 90s ask project because it's always going to be relevant to us please do first of all this is a two-part question you mentioned the backstreet boys that was a great video where AJ surprised you incredibly jealous how was it being with them in Vegas and part two of the question is who is someone from the 90s from a TV show band artist that you haven't met that you would really love to? Oh that's a really good question so first of all the backstreet boys thing was was really great they were really cool to you know just kind of help promote us they were at the time doing their Vegas residency so our momentum certainly also was helping to promote that so it was a really sort of symbiotic thing it was great like going to Vegas and and sort of hanging with them felt like just a great endorsement of the success of the project I also give them a lot of credit for leaning into the humor of it because that you know we're ultimately parodying them in a in a funny way but kind of making fun in a fun you know in a nice way so they were they were really cool at just sort of embracing that you know all those sort of endorsements we got them you know we had so many people tweeting us and contacting us and sharing the video from the 90s you know I remember distinctly on my Twitter timeline that first week we went viral Smash Mouth tweeted me and said you forgot about us and I just thought okay this is like top top moment for me where Smash Mouth is annoyed that I didn't reference them in my video so those kinds of endorsements Backstreet Boys included was just a really great way to sort of legitimize things and helped us significantly as we looked to leverage the success from that project into other avenues so for me I was able to leverage it into a lot of directing work in commercials additional music videos I'm directing a music video for a 90s artist right now that is a direct piece of the success a direct offshoot of some of the momentum we were able to create after Back to the 90s so things like that were really helpful getting endorsements from big 90s personalities and bands and pop culture icons was was really gratifying and really humbling to be honest with you about that they really liked the thing we put together and I will say back to the 90s has set up almost all of my you know professional success thereafter I'm doing a voicing an animated series right now for a major network that comes out in September and one of the reasons I got the role I think is because they needed someone who could sort of sing and be funny all together there's some real musicality to the show so I attribute a lot of my subsequent success professional success to Back to the 90s and sort of personal success it just feels really good to bring a bunch of people around a topic that the whole family can enjoy and that holds a really special place in our hearts I will also tell you and I'm happy to say this publicly is we shot back to the 90s four days after Trump won in 2016 and there was a really shitty feeling on on set initially of just like oh boy the whole world feels like it's gonna fall apart little did we know it would but there was this real feeling of of sort of happiness and excitement on set to kind of harken back to a simple or better time on set and it really sort of like helped us everybody on set kind of you know head in a more positive direction after that back to the 80s as well so looking forward to getting back to those better times now that that demented human being is out of office we were all waiting we were all waiting for it and someone that you haven't met that you would oh right right so someone I haven't met from the 90s that I would like to collaborate with so so many different people I think would be awesome but I think my sister my little sister would give me huge street cred if we were able to involve John Stamos and something because she's had a crush on him since childhood I actually I was doing a play one time with a stage manager who was doing a another play with him and she got a little message from him to my sister and she thought she thought it was the coolest thing so if I actually was able to collaborate with John Stamos on something at some point a music video a film something commercial I think my sister would give me some some pretty awesome props why do you think Nostalgia is really big for one of a better word at the moment people seem to be really celebrating and embracing the 80s and 90s why do you think that is you know I think it's sort of twofold one as we get older you and I are on the same age we start to reflect more fondly on things we may have taken for granted growing up the simplicity of youth not having to think about taxes and mortgages and relationships and you know success I mean you know our biggest problems were like oh boy I gotta you know make it home in time after school so I can heat up my hot pockets or whatever so I think the simplicity of childhood becomes more and more appealing as we age and I think we're in an interesting age in our 30s to sort of reflect back on you know a time where the world was simpler not just our lives but the world was simpler you know the economy was pretty good in the 90s we could fly without having to take our shoes off I think the world has progressively gotten more and more complicated as we've gotten older and I am sure our parents felt the same thing and so that's one side of it I also think that the 90s in particular and the 80s too were full of colors and wacky styles and eccentricities that we may look back on the 2020s and feel the same way you know kids today but I think that there is a real appetite for the wackiness of the styles of all sorts of pop culture for those decades I also think the other thing that sort of factors into it a little subconsciously is that it was the last bastion of a non-tech life it was the last time you had to memorize someone's phone number it was the last time you had to you know find out how to get somewhere without you know immediately having it available in your car so I think we maybe took for granted the the stuff we had to do to like work a little bit harder in life to get something that we just take for granted that's very easy now so yeah to me it's like that last moment in time before technology kind of took over in a very different way so I think all of those things combined make the 90s especially but the 80s as well really appealing time period that is finding its way back in style I mean you think about sort of high-waisted genes for women now are sort of coming back you know flannel like you're wearing like you know I think that there's things are start to feel sort of cyclical and pop culture especially when it it harkens back to a simpler time very well said and I couldn't agree more you mentioned your mystery 90s artist that you're doing the music video for and back to the 2000s are you working on anything else that you can share and is your focus going to be kind of a nostalgia-based content at the moment yeah so you know I've been very thankful to have a very diversified entertainment career especially in a pandemic when you know I was doing three shows before this all went down and they all sort of went their separate ways because you know the industry shut down for a while so right now I'm voicing a new animated series I can tell you it's with Nickelodeon comes out later in the year very excited about it it's a very like Nick animation and I think all animation in general is starting to sort of get back to some of the edgier content that was commonplace in the 90s so what we're working on has a lot of that kind of ren and stimpy edge a lot of that kind of adult humor that was found in some of those old school Nickelodeon cartoons like Rocco's modern life and hey Arnold Doug certainly so it's been really cool working with Nickelodeon throughout the pandemic very excited for the show to premiere I'll be able to talk a lot more about what exactly that is later on and yeah working on a music video right now with an iconic 90s artist which I'm very excited about because hopefully we can continue to leverage that into working with more and more 90s personalities which I just personally love and it's fun that anytime I can combine music good music and comedy and nostalgia all into the same thing I'm a happy guy so yeah lots of voiceover lots of directing work and then things are slowly starting to creep back here in Los Angeles so I look forward to returning back to set too I do a I do a live action Nickelodeon show where I play a villain on it it's a superhero show so those are kind of the main things right now but I'm looking forward to getting back to some more passion projects I think one of the things that I really try to focus on in the pandemic is the only way I could really truly keep my crew safe with Small Red Cape is to not put them on set and so now that things are starting to creep back to some sense of some sort of normalcy it's feeling safer to kind of get back on a set we just shot a music video for another artist about a month ago you know we were all basically wearing hazmat suits but the feeling of relief to be back on a set on a soundstage being all around each other again was immensely gratifying and one that I am hopeful will continue to do into the foreseeable future so yeah it's kind of what I'm currently working on I'm so excited to see your music video and everything else that you bring out I am such a fan I really appreciate you taking the time today I can't wait to see what more you do so thank you so much for joining me I'm honored thank you so much for your support and for being a fan of the 90s right along with me great Scott we have a winner announcement of this amazing Bob Gayle book first of all if you want to buy the book if you're not lucky enough to win you want to buy it I'll put a link below of where you can get it but the winner now this I thought was quite fitting because most with the question to win was if you could go back in time where would you go pretty much everyone answered back to the 80s which is pretty fitting considering Ben is on the show and he did the back to the 80s video and also we're nostalgia so there was a good chance of that stop's not as good anymore as it used to be it's going to happen um so the winner there were a lot to pick from and it was really hard to choose retro reels retro reels what did they say now retro reels said first of all he loves how Bob Gayle protected the franchise from being exploited such as other franchises has been but he said if you could go back to time he will go back to the 80s but he would watch the movies for the first time again and remember the experience of being amazed when they originally saw them he'd have to also be the same age though because there is part of if you went back now as the age you are those movies might not be as special although oh I doubt it there was some absolute beaut in the 80s so the reason I liked that someone said Henry the eighth which I thought was pretty cool but most people were like I'll go back to be in the movie and that was quite a common answer so I liked that this was to actually go back and experience them and have that magic again so well done retro reels email me at info-lifeaftermovies.com and this book is yours and also how cool were those back to the 80s and back to the 90s videos I mean we watched them and Lisa was so excited to to do the interview because they were so well done I mean they could have been done so badly but you could tell it was somebody who really cared and you obviously the 90s one I'm a little bit older than you so that was struck a chord and the 80s one really struck a chord with me but well done then they were fantastic Ash liked the bit the most in the 80s video where they did the poolside scene with the red bikini oh yes we loved a bit of that in the 80s the old red bikini shot anyway until the next web show we don't know when it is so make sure you subscribe so you get told when it is have a fabulous week and enjoy the 80s and 90s videos


Hey everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime and feels a little bit good to be back on camera for this video. It's been a little bit. Before we talk about today's topic, we're talking about the Nintendo Switch 2 and some interesting things lining up with the Pokemon stuff. It's a crazy world we're living in at the moment. I want to remind you that we are on our road to 100,000 subscribers and if we can get to 100,000 subscribers by the time Tears of the Kingdom comes out, we will be given away a collector's edition of Tears of the Kingdom. So what are you waiting for, we're almost at 88k so let's keep it going. Alright so yesterday we had this sort of breaking news report come out about this programmer that leaked out that we were getting some new Switch models with the second DLC pack for the Pokemon games. This was a 4chan post, I'm a programmer from an outsourcing company yada yada yada here it is on screen you guys know the drill. The thing is, as we get a day out from when this story broke, it's only become more obvious how true this is. There are people who have thrown out some skepticism because he's mentioned things like machine learning to put the post up, not a native English speaker, yada yada yada but however it's a very well put together post and most of the details are 100% exact what the Pokemon company said during the Pokemon Presents. So maybe that was just a throw off, hey you can't find me, maybe it really was an English developer but I don't know look we're not going to really know who this person is unless they get outed. But what's interesting is that when we look at as things stand right now, this seems to be a legit leak, real, this is a thing and we know this not just because of all the things that were right in the Pokemon Presents but also because they didn't show any footage of the game. Now I give some credit to Player Essence for noticing something that I failed to notice and when they announced the DLC for this game they didn't show any footage of it. I actually talked about that yesterday that I thought it was weird they didn't show any footage and a lot of people in the comments went to correct me and say well it's not really that weird because for Sword and Shield they didn't show any footage either when they unveiled it but Player Essence went back and actually watched the reveal of the DLC for Sword and Shield the actual first time they unveiled it and they had footage, it legitimately had footage of the DLC. Now that DLC was coming out much sooner it was coming out in the summer versus the fall but reality is they actually did have small bits of footage of the actual DLC in there. This time around they didn't have any footage and that's notable because he says they're working on a graphic enhancement patch for the new Switch models that will be released alongside DLC too. Now there are a couple things to think about what that sentence means. One could be the reason we haven't seen the DLC yet is because the DLC contains the graphic enhancements they are enhancing the visuals for the new system. Also the fact that this DLC is coming out fall and winter or fall and spring depending on pre-order dates on eShop or all over the place but they announced fall and winter publicly the fact that it's coming out during that time period and not launching this summer heavily suggests that there's a reason they're waiting to release this DLC till later in the year and that reason very well could be that they are launching a graphics update with it for the brand So that's just something to keep in the back of our minds when we think about this also we're not really sure what they mean is releasing alongside DLC too because it says we are working on a graphics enhancement patch for the new Nintendo Switch models that will be releasing alongside DLC too. Now are they saying that the Nintendo Switch models will be launching alongside DLC too or do they mean the graphic enhancement patch will be launching with DLC too? That is something that we're not really sure how to interpret maybe both are launching alongside DLC too. What is known though is that there is a graphics enhancement patch at least according to this leak and that the new Nintendo Switch models will be releasing at some point between now and when DLC 2 comes out so I'm very interested in this and its potential future for the system. One argument I heard yesterday was if the system really is this year why wouldn't they delay Tears of the Kingdom for it? It could be a killer launch title and really help explode the sales out the gate and I agree Tears of the Kingdom could have been a cross-generation title and did just that and it's going to be sort of a pseudo cross-gen title because I do think at launch of the system there will be a 4k graphics update and or a deluxe version of the game that includes the DLC or something with the 4k update or something along those lines. Nintendo will find a way to repackage Tears of the Kingdom to potentially sell it for years giving it that sales potential to reach Breath of the Wild numbers. I do think that is something that they will do but I do wonder if the reason they didn't delay Tears of the Kingdom for it is because they are trying not to repeat their prior system problems. At the end of every generation of Nintendo Switch hardware they essentially stop releasing system sellers. They just go blank for a year then drop a system. And the problem with that of course is you lose all of your momentum. So I think Tears of the Kingdom not releasing before March but not releasing super late in the year giving a May launch is being timed specifically to maintain Switch momentum to a point that there is still fervor for Switch games and momentum for Switch heading into the launch of that next system this holiday. I think things are lining up. We've examined a billion different ways on why Nintendo is making the decisions they do. It's a very weird year. Why are they releasing Zelda in May? Why won't they wait for summer or the holidays anyways? Why won't they do it before the end of the fiscal year and help boost sales figures? A whole bunch of just weird things Nintendo is doing. And then I realized, you know what? This is uncharted territory for Nintendo and their president said it themselves in the last financial meeting that they're in uncharted territory. Not just entering a year 7 for the platform but also uncharted territory because I think Nintendo is attempting to learn from what Sony has done launching major games at the end of a generation when they have a new system coming out. Except Nintendo wants to launch those games before you're aware the new system is coming out. Thinking that'll help boost sales. They're worried it might hurt sales. People might hold off on buying a Switch to play Tears of the Kingdom if they know that there is a new system coming. So instead let's launch it with that. Let's wait a few months. Then we announce the new system. Then we launch the new system two to three months after that. And life is all good. We relaunch games. It's going to be great. We're going to have a killer holiday with a brand new platform. I think this is a strategy that is very much in play right now. The fact that we don't really know any games past Pikmin 4 in July. The fact that Zelda is releasing in this weird May month sort of like the middle of the year but also right after Nintendo had a slew of other smaller games coming out like Bayonetta Origins and Kirby and Octopad Traveler 2 and obviously Fire Emblem Engage. So after that batch of games here's a system seller like smack dab between the beginning of the year and when a new system will launch. Keeping momentum for Nintendo moving forward. Obviously following that up with Pikmin 4 as well. I think this is a very clever strategy by Nintendo to maintain momentum of Switch without necessarily hitting us with a bunch of heavy hitting games this year. But maintaining it enough with enough big ones. You have Fire Emblem at the beginning. Tears of the Kingdom in the middle. Brand new hardware at the end. I think this is a brilliant marketing strategy if that's what Nintendo decides to do. It's still an if because it's not announced. But I like what I'm seeing. I like what I think Nintendo is doing here. And I want to know if you think my theory on this is correct. And if hindsight being what it is that this post from this guy on 4chan is even more correct today than it was yesterday. I am Nathaniel Ruffeljantz from Nintendo Prime. I want to thank you guys for tuning in. And I'll catch you in that next video.


Hey, what's up YouTube? I'm Zeke and welcome to The Dreambearing Show. One of the main goals of me creating this channel was for me to show you guys how I create cash flow. Now, I create cash flow many different ways, but one of the main ways that I created on this channel that I show you guys is through dividend investing.  They either pay out monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or yearly. In my case, I invest into many companies that pay out dividends monthly and also quarterly, but that way I can create cash flow that comes straight to me without me doing any work at all every single month or every three months. In this video, I'm going to show you guys my top five dividend investments that I have in my stock portfolio today. I have about a $30,000 investment portfolio. Not all of it is invested into dividend stocks, but about 50% of it is invested into dividend stocks. I'm going to show you guys my top five and how much I make from each one. And if I continue to invest into these dividend stocks, I could possibly have over $2 million and create over $225,000 per year annually in dividends. So to help the YouTube algorithm, make sure that you stick to the end to find out, it helps out my watch time a bunch and also hit the thumbs up button. I think that's the most important thing that you guys can do is hit that thumbs up button. It really helps out this channel more than you can even imagine. So if you can hit that thumbs up button for me one time, I really would appreciate it. And also just please watch through the end. Let's make this video go viral. Let's get it on the homepage. Let's see a young investor that can relate to probably every single one of you guys out there on the homepage. But enough talking, let's go ahead and dive straight into the video. Welcome back, YouTube. Here we are on TrackYourDividends.com. This is one of the websites that I use to help me keep tracking my dividends and show me how much I'm going to get paid out each year and when I'm going to get paid. And they also have a lot of different tools on here to help you with your dividend investing strategy. If you want to try this out, the link is down in the description. It is completely free to try. So give it a shot if you want to. So this is my dividend portfolio. Right now I have around $13,000 invested into just strictly dividends. So around 50% of my portfolio is invested into dividend stocks. So this is all of my dividend stocks that I own is around 29 stocks. So I do have around 29 different dividend stocks, which is going to bring me in $542 worth of dividends this year alone. If I do not reinvest at all and just hold on to this dividend portfolio, I'm going to make $542. But I do know that in my top five, I have two stocks that I need to update that I did purchase some more shares of. But before I update and show you guys how I'm updating, let me go ahead and show you my top five dividend stocks. We're going to click on annual income, click on one more time, and there we go. My top five is AGNC, which is going to pay me an annual income of $171 this year. NRZ, I have 170 shares, which is going to pay me out $102. SPHD, 30 shares, which is going to pay me out $50.91. PEY, coming in at number four, which is going to, I have 45 shares, which is going to pay me out $34.43. And then AT&T, tickle symbol T, I have 15 shares, which is going to pay me out $31.20. Now I did pick up some more shares of PEY and AT&T, so let me go ahead and enter that data right quick to see how much it's going to change for $542. Okay, clicking on AT&T first, I now am looking on my Robinhood account, 16 shares of AT&T. And the cost, my average cost is $32.55. There we go. Hit edit, and that should update it. Okay, there we go. Now I have 16 shares, and then I'm going to update PEY. Hit edit, I now own 60 shares of PEY, with the average cost being $15, no, $14.92. And hit edit, 60 shares, and there you go. Now I'm going to have $556 that I'm going to create of annual income this year from my top five dividends stocks, AG&C, NRZ, SPHD, PEY, and tickle symbol T, which is AT&T. Now I'm going to show you guys how this compound investing on dividends is insane. It really can create so much cash flow that you guys are not going to understand what to do with your money. Now all you have to do is continually reinvest your dividends. I'm to the point to where AT&T, I would get paid out $33 this year from AT&T. So AT&T is pretty much going to pay me enough in dividends to where I could buy an extra share of their stock, completely free this year. That pretty much paid me to buy an extra share. So if I did not invest it to AT&T at all, so next year I have 17 shares and then eventually 18, 19, 20. So I eventually have pretty much more shares of AT&T through money that they're paying me. So that is the compound interest right there of me reinvesting my dividends right back into AT&T. I'm going to show you guys exactly how to step pay off in the future. So if we go over to the dividend calculator, let's say my account right now is at $30,000. The annual dividend yield for AT&T is 7.61%. So we're going to change this to 7.61% taxable account. And I invest around $200 every single week, which is $800 a month. So that's $9,800 a year. Expected annual dividend increase. Let's look at AT&T, 2% growth rate. That's not bad. So let's just go ahead and keep that at 1 to not keep everything. No, move it to 2. Annually, we're going to reinvest the $800 every single month. So let's click monthly, tax rate, keep that at 15%. Now the stock market usually goes up 6% to 7% every year. But let's just say AT&T alone only goes up 3% every single year. And drip is us reinvesting our dividends. So the years that we're going to invest is 20 years. So let's see where we're going to be if we invest $200 every single month into AT&T with a 7.61 dividend yield over the next 20 years. We're going to here calculate the scroll down and there we go. After 20 years, we will have $927,000 with the annual dividend income of $110,000. So if I continue with the investing strategy that I'm using right now in the next 20 years, I could retire knowing that I could bring in $110,000 in just dividends alone. And I could just live off of my dividends over the next 20 years. So and this is why dividend investing is so popular for anybody under 40 because we have enough time to invest this $200 every single week into the stock market.  Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. But anyone under the 40, 45-year age range dividend investing, it just works out in our favor. Now let me show you guys how powerful compound investing is. So instead of just, all right, so let's say $110,000 is not enough for you to retire. You come from a very rich background and that is just not enough for you. So you decide to reinvest your dividends for the next five years, which is going to make it 25 years. And let's show you guys how powerful compound investing is. Hit calculate dividends. I'm going to scroll down and there we go. So just investing your dividends for the next five more years instead of 20 years, you invested for 25 years. Now you have a $1.8 million account and you're going to bring in $240,000 in dividends alone every single year. Now if you can't retire off of that, let's say you just decide to reinvest for five more years, let's scroll back up to 25 years and just change that to 30. We're going to hit calculate dividends and scroll down and there we go. $539,000. So you went from $110,000 for just reinvesting for 20 years, but if you reinvest for 30 years, now you'll have $538,000 in dividends alone with a $3.6 million account. Yeah. So that's why I'm saying time is on our side. If you're around 30 years old and you reinvest for the next 30 years, by the time you're 60, you're going to, you can retire knowing that you're going to bring in over half a million dollars every single year in dividends. So there we go, guys. That is how powerful dividend investing is. So if you start early, if you start now, even with just investing as little as you can, it can create cash flow slowly, but for surely over time. And this is an account that you could pass on to your kids and eventually to your grandkids to where your grandkids would never, ever have to work a day in their lifetime as long as you set up the foundation now and start strategically investing into dividend companies now. So don't just think about yourself, think about your kids and think about your grandkids and how you can set up a successful future or a head start for your grandkids today. So if you did make it to the end of this video, make sure that you leave a thumbs up. I really need that thumbs up. I wouldn't be asking for it if it didn't matter. So I really appreciate you guys that stayed to the end of this video that helped my watch time on this YouTube algorithm. So I really appreciate every single last one of you. I'm going to go through, read every single comment and reply. So I really appreciate you guys. But other than that, I'm Zeke bringing you the dream brain show and I'm out. Peace.


And now announce that we will begin member statements and I'll recognize the member for Scarborough Southwest Thank You speaker. I seek unanimous consent to wear a love Scarborough hoodie today in the chamber Remember for Scarborough Southwest is seeking the unanimous consent to wear a Scarborough T-shirt hoody agreed Member statements the member for Scarborough Southwest. Thank You speaker I'd like to recognize the entire team behind the film Scarborough and congratulate them for their immense success at the Canadian Screen Awards winning eight awards earlier this weekend including best feature film and best motion motion picture adopted from Catherine Harnandes adopted from Catherine Harnandes novel with the same name the film is a heartfelt and raw love letter to Scarborough its resilience and its people Growing up in Scarborough and seeing my own family Navigate similar struggles to those in the movie when my mother tried to make ends meet while raising my brother and I and While being a caregiver to my father There was something so personal about watching our community stories on the big screen speaker Sasha Nakai rich Williams Williamson and Catherine Harnandes is Amazing artistry made so many in our community with similar stories feel seen in an incredibly powerful way The strength of our community not just in my writing of Scarborough Southwest, but across Scarborough Lies in how we have found support in one another despite decades of being forgotten by our governments and leaders Because that's what Scarborough is about You find ways you find friends resilience and hope This film told stories that are so similar to my own and I'm sure many felt the same way who grew up in Scarborough So I want to take this moment to thank the entire team behind the film and congratulate them for their immense success It is a testament to the importance of investing in local creative projects arts and culture. Thank you speaker Thank you very much Next we'll have the member for Scarborough agent for Good morning, mr. Speaker the priorities and partnership funding commonly known as PPF Investment is part of our government's COVID-19 equity supports which funds various initiatives that help promote a positive and supportive school climate support healthy Relationships and addressing bullying cyber bullying and trauma I would like to extend my gratitude to the Minister of Education for Initiating this program and making the health safety and well-being of the students a priority due to his efforts parents engaging education community family services of Ontario the Chinese Cultural Association of Greater Toronto Canadian Family Academy Sarah Corning Center and Zorian Institute Received $50,000 grant each I would like to command outstanding work and the essential service The above mentioned organizations provide to our families and the students The PPF provides a much-needed culturally responsive Mental health and community support to students during and after the pandemic Supports provided to students may include short-term counseling via online platform Text or phone one-on-one personalized lesson plans and pairing the students with professional Furthermore students will celebrate and learn about our diverse communities Cultures and traditions in addition to the ramification of hate and racism in our society and try to eradicating them from our daily life. Thank you, Minister Mr. Speaker, thank you today. I'd like to discuss an important issue to Niagara and the province our craft alcohol industry Many of you now down in Niagara We have some of the world's best wineries craft ciders and breweries It creates an enormous economic impact for the entire province the Ontario wine industry alone has a 4.4 billion economic impact on the province that results in creating 18,000 jobs In Ontario, there are roughly 104 areas of production for craft cider with 10 cideries in my riding alone However, I think we need to do more to ensure this creates an environment in this province where they can grow We need to come together and look at realistic policy solutions that could have a significant Benefit to this growing industry that highlights some of the most beautiful farm products. We grow in agar and ontario In terms of our wine industry We must look at ending the basic tax with foreign wineries. Do not pay think about that foreign wineries Do not pay it would have significant impact on small and medium-sized wineries producing wines with 100 percent Ontario grapes In the cider industry I had the privilege of working with the members from both the conservatives and the liberal Parties to introduce legislation which would bring more fair and real realistic tax structure to craft cider Producers in the province even these two small policy changes would have a significant impact on protecting 18,000 jobs in these industry. We grow and produce some amazing craft products in agar and ontario Let's work together and fight for these industries. Thank you very much Member statements member for Perry sound Thank you, mr. Speaker Mr. Speaker, Muskoka gank when health care provides top-notch Emergency and inpatient care with sites in Huntsville and Bracebridge last week Mac announced They will also be offering able to offer endovascular thrombectomy EVT screening to patients at both hospital sites EVT is groundbreaking stroke treatment if a patient is within four to 24 hours of stroke system onset highly specialized teams Can use a guide wire to remove the blood plot from the brain? This therapy has impressive outcomes and widens the window for intervention to 24 hours Where previous treatments using plot busting drugs had to be initiated with just within just a few hours of the start of symptoms? teams at Mac work with partners like central east stroke network to launch a new protocol that will offer timely EVT screening at both hospital sites Eligible patients will be transferred to specialized facilities in the GTA to receive EVT treatment Now when residents and visitors to Perry Sound, Muskoka Recognize the signs of stroke and call 9-1-1 they will have access to this newest stroke treatment I also want to take a moment to recognize Natalie Mubella who recently retired as the president and CEO of Muskoka gank when health care Natalie managed the hospital for the past ten years and Expanded the services available at both sites on behalf of the residents of Perry Sound, Muskoka I want to thank Natalie for all her hard work and wish her well in her retirement Finally, I want to welcome incoming president the CEO Cheryl Harrison who will start next month. Thank you very much, mr. Speaker Thank you member statements to member for Davenport mr. Speaker I want to tell you there are few issues more pressing for the community that I represent than housing and the affordability crisis Throughout my term as MPP my team and I have worked to help tenants push back against illegal Renovations and sudden above guideline increases we hear from young families every day Who haven't only seen their dream of owning a home shattered? They can't even find a place they can afford to rent and as massive new developments go up in their neighborhoods They already know that they won't be able to afford a place there That's why this government's new housing bill was such a disappointment It could have been a chance to correct years of failure on housing But instead it's one final gift to big developers that will leave ordinary people behind with nothing to help renters No rent control nothing to build the missing milk middle nothing to build more affordable homes nothing to curb speculation Speaker this government has had four years to protect tenants build affordable homes that meet the needs of Ontarians But at every single opportunity They've shown whose side they're really on This June we're gonna show we're gonna show them the door mr. Speaker We're gonna show them the door and we're gonna elect an NDP government that will actually deliver homes that the people of this province And in my community can't afford. Thank you Remember for Orleans Merci monsieur le président. Thank you, mr. Speaker March 22 is the jury the day of Francophone solidarity Unfortunately, this is not taken seriously We have been fighting for our rights because the conser the conservatives are still not considering them enough in the past They went through different battles And they had to fight the government because of it in 25 years our Francophone communities had to One against the government One against the government at the time at the hospital of Ottawa All of them united to contest the decision from the government It's the leadership of the Francophone community that was able to save the mom for a hospital And here we are once again the same conservative government is trying to kill the Francophone University by trying to credit Islamophobia We're trying to work together to fight the government. It's the actual government who suppress the position of the Francophone Commissioner With madam Simar we were elected and we will continue to help to hold the government responsible For the community for the Francophone community of Ontario I am proud to be a part of a party who will continue to support our community. Thank you, mr. Speaker Thank you very much Member statements the member for Whitby. Thank you speaker Our government is continuing to invest in the health and well-being of local seniors through the seniors active living centers In this regard speaker Whitby's seniors active living centers will be receiving a hundred and four thousand dollars by the ministry for seniors and accessibility Speaker the town of Whitby is part of the world health organization global network Of age friendly cities and communities As an age friendly community they're committed to providing supportive physical and social environments for older people And through their 55 plus recreational spaces services and programs and resources Local seniors are able to live an active safe and meaningful life While contributing in all areas of the great community of Whitby Speaker our government remains committed Absolutely committed to the safety independence and well-being of Ontario seniors and continue to support The seniors active living center programs and services that offer so much To a growing seniors population here in Ontario. Thank you speaker Thank you very much member statements the member for Waterloo Thank you very much mr. Speaker five years ago the me too movement spread across the globe This movement reached out Reached our community helping to strengthen survivors voices so that they could courageously tell their stories Local survivors reached out to the sexual assault support center of Waterloo region In record numbers their team responded by showing up for survivors in court in hospital rooms in police stations And by holding space in their counseling office Offices their weightless grew as more survivors reached out in response to this cultural shift the government of the time Increased the funding to community-based sexual assault centers across the province in Waterloo region These funds would have secured two additional counselors But after the last provincial election these promised funds were clawed back and since that time the shadow pandemic and Has increased in gender-based violence during COVID-19 and has increased the demand Even more resulting in critical underfunding in the sector the weightless continue to grow and last week I was in north bay and I met with the ed of Amelia rising They have not seen an increase in operational funding since 1994 and at that time it was only $20,000 These agencies cannot stretch these dollars any further Speaker we should not have to fund rates in the province of Ontario to keep women and survivors of sexual assault safe Will this government reverse the claw back to sexual assault centers so that every ontarian has access to Life-saving changing counseling in the province of Ontario. Thank you very much Member statements the member for Oakville. Thank you very much speaker and good morning It's an honor to rise in the legislature today to bring attention to the key of the town Of oakville ceremony that occurred last week for saving the treasured glen abbey green space On monday april fourth I had the honor of hosting the premier of ontario the minister of municipal affairs and housing And the member from oakville north brilington in my riding where we attended the key to the town Ceremony alongside members of the save glen abbey group and residents associations At this event mayor rob burton awarded a key to town leaders and volunteers from save glen abbey Residents associations presidents the premier the minister the member from oakville north brilington and myself I want to congratulate the members of save glen abbey their personal sacrifices They made to save this important green space for our community Cannot be understated their hard work and organization is admirable and the outcome is something we can be proud of Saving this land was a grassroots movement. I want to thank the mayor and council for collaborating with the province to save this open space I'd also like to thank my colleagues in government for listening to the residents of oakville Glen abbey is an essential place for both the environment and local history and culture Saving glen abbey is an example of residents municipal council and the province coming together and deliver results that benefit our local community Thank you. Thank you very much. That concludes our members statements for this morning