Clearly somewhat good for that. Tatum in his bag against Chris Grisham trying to shake him. Tatum drops it and comes that one off. Filthy Jason Tatum going to work welcome into Celtics postgame live. Eddie House, I mean, a Smith here with the Celtics with a win against this Raptor scene 105 the 96 and this Raptor scene hanging around the entire time for this matchup. Eddie, how were the Celtics able to pull away? They just kept grinding, kept grinding. They didn't quit and I thought they did a great job of of guarding the paint at times and forcing Toronto to take threes. Not a great three point shooting team. They end up being 432 12% you know, and some of those shots late in the fourth quarter I thought they did a good job of guarding the initial defense and then closing out on the three and then securing. That possession with the rebound. Yeah, I was surprised though that this Celtics team they didn't dominate early on in this matchup. Knowing that Raptors defense was the 21st in the NBA. However, drew holiday with an aggressive matchup against this Raptors team. He was Abby Chin after this win. Drew, I'm going to steal a word from Jason Tatum.  Why? Just felt like it was needed. You know, I just took the opportunities that were given to me and really just try to be aggressive from both ends of the floor. Basketball is a game of runs. How are you so good at stopping those? Like you did two times here in the fourth. Yeah, I think the versatility that we have on defense, a lot of athleticism, a lot of smart guys, good character guys, but I think we think the game. So switching up defensively from zone to man, I think stop the transition points and also we took great offensive shots so that I can just get on transition. How clutch is Derek White? Man, he's an all star. I think the things that he do, that he does a lot of times goes unnoticed. But the way that he plays, the way that he carries his team, especially with JBL tonight and hit a big shot there in the corner. Yeah, that's what D-White does. And you talk about that versatility, all five starters in double figures tonight. And it felt like at one point, each of you just kind of took turns taking over. How important is that? And what does that tell you about this group? Yeah, we got a good balance. We kind of know when to find our spots and when we can go. I think the end of that second quarter, maybe it was the third quarter, JT started going off and ended up with 19 at the end of that quarter. But I think just different spots, man. We were really good at trying to figure out, or not trying to, but figuring out when we can go and let that person go and start getting bucket. I'm glad you got to go tonight, Drew. Thank you very much. Thank you. Congrats. Drew Holiday with a season high 22 points in tonight's matchup, six rebounds, and also seven assists. Drew Carter and Skal joining us live now from Toronto. And Skal, you heard Drew Holiday tell Abby right there. With him being aggressive in tonight's matchup, he was very much needed without Jalen Brown out there on the floor. How did Drew Holiday set the tone that usually Jalen Brown does for this team? Yeah, I mean, I think that they were conscious of that, right? Like, how are we going to start this game? We know JB is a guy that does so well in the first quarter.  And I liked the way that Drew Holiday was aggressive. As I was walking to set this thing up and sit here, I was thinking, you know, you always wonder if a team can sustain like an injury and a playoff, right? And I'm like, man, you see what Derrick White can do and you see what Drew Holiday can do and Al Horford today. And like, we're pretty deep. And we have guys that could raise their level when needed. And what's amazing, guys, is you think about the Celtics and their top options. They're the Wings. They're the Jays. You look at the box score. Derrick White, 22, Drew Holiday, 22. They're top two scorers. From the backcourt, which is known for its defense, they brought it tonight on both ends. Yeah, I think most teams are going to try to take Tatum out. And, you know, when Brown's here, maybe they're thinking, OK, we're going to double team Tatum everywhere he goes. And I just thought those guys took advantage of it. And I like their mindset during this game. Yeah, the players played well. All five starters and double figures. But I think we've got to give credit to Joe Missoula because there were runs that were happening throughout this game that I thought that the Toronto Raptors were making. And he called some timely timeouts. He called them right on time, right at the right time, regrouped, came out, executed out of the timeout. And then also, I thought that going to zone, understanding that this team was just trying to pound you in the paint. They're not a great three-point shooting team. If you look, they only had, well, they were 4 of 32 from 3, 12 and a half percent from the line. So I thought he did a great job. So we're also seeing not only player step up, but we're also seeing the coach step up as well.  Why was this game so close? Because I don't think that we attacked the rim with force. I thought we shot a lot of pull-up jump shots, even like two feet in the paint to a floater. I just thought, Tatum was the guy that set the tone. If you just watched this game, like he went to the rim like he was supposed to attack the rim. And especially, they don't have shot blocking. Especially the way the refs were calling this game. So our one mistake today was not identifying how hard we had to go to the cup today. Outside of that, I thought we shot it well. We shared it well. But I just didn't think when we played inside that arc that we played with the force that was necessary. Now, Celtics did shoot 25 free throws, made 23 of them. I guarantee you, though, when we get on the bus, Joe Missoula is going to look at us and say, us too. And say, make or miss league. Of course, they lost. They shot 4 of 32 from 3. Because that's his favorite thing. He loves throwing that back at people now. Because that was the common refrain. As if you make your threes, you win. If you don't make your threes, you lose. Joe Missoula is going to be like, oh, we didn't do anything right. I guess they just missed their threes, because he likes to like to joke like that. They can't like any house. You should come down here and try to get some run, man. They can't shoot at all. Oh, my goodness. They haven't been that bad, actually. I'm talking like, I don't even expect wide open ones to drop. You're like, whoa, I can't believe they made it. That's how I was when you shot at Miss. And be like, dang, any house just missed? Hey, listen, let's give Toronto credit, because they had every chance to mel it in at some points. It looked like we were about to extend it, but they competed. They stayed in the game. Even though they weren't knocking down their shots, they stayed attacking. So got to give them credit, but ultimately, the Celtics prevailed. I also love this new bond that you guys have. Scal and Drew, Drew being Scal's favorite nephew, favorite part of the broadcast. Favorite part of the broadcast tonight. Yeah, it's like if I had an older brother that I'm kind of close with, and then he had a kid, like that's Drew. That's like my boy, man. I don't mess with all the little ones, none of that little nephew, none of that. Like I tortured him when he was a kid. And now that's my dog. Scal's the guy who maybe when I wasn't old enough to go to certain stores and buy certain products, maybe Scal would hook it up. 100%, yeah. Hey, Drew, go grab me one of them. I love how this relationship is blossoming right before our eyes. Thanks so much, guys.


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Now a few days back I posted a video on all known legends we have found via data mark files and so forth. 10 new legends have been found in total and if you missed that video you will find it linked within the video description. Today I want to do an all in one video of every weapon we have seen leaked so far or even data mined from game files so let's get into it. Now the first weapon we have seen introduced into Apex Legends was a Havoc energy rifle, a weapon which in my opinion is a little underwhelming especially considering other choices you have in game. Now I will state this weapon can be quite decent if the right attachments are on it but the basic weapon you just grab after floor, man most of the time you are dead before you've even spun up the charge on this thing and when you have the likes of the wingman the peacekeeper and so forth it's better to grab any attachments prior to finding this weapon in my opinion but the Havoc was a weapon at one stage like others we will feature today that was data mined and leaked much prior to actually coming into the game. So other than the Havoc what else have we seen and know about why the most obvious weapon we do indeed know will come very soon is the L-Star EMG Now the L-Star is a weapon we saw data mined before the Havoc rifle and to be honest many including myself thought this weapon would be the first weapon we saw prior to the Havoc to come to Apex Legends. The L-Star like the Havoc you will have already seen already but not realised the Havoc could have been seen within a trailer in the hands of that Pathfinder way before it's released into the game. The L-Star can be seen every time you log into Apex Legends within the title screen look at the weapon blood hand is holding yes that is the L-Star the L-Star also much like the Havoc our two weapons can actually see stats too within Apex Legends Armour website called res.gg which we will find linked within the video description and people we haven't even got to the data mined files yet and we are already pretty confident it's coming the data mined files are for the L-Star you can see on the screen now now this leak was prior to the Havoc being released but we see it states not only energy AR weapon skins but the two available that are in the game at the moment are stated here the other two know that we will see within the store within the future sometime a part of the same leak we see the L-Star and four skins coming with it so there's no question people the weapon will come to the game sooner than later it seems something else I have forgot to mention is obviously the L-Star is a weapon we've already seen within the Titanfall universe seen on screen now so that's cool so what other weapons have we seen leaks of so another weapon we have seen a few leaks of and that is the car SMG now the car SMG is a weapon again like the L-Star a weapon that's been a part of the Titanfall universe for a long time so Titanfall fans will know this weapon well and seen on screen now we can see the data mined file and the code in there with it so it's a weapon we know always within the game files for apex collisions but this unlike the Havoc and the L-Star we have limited information on I think these files are maybe placeholder files when a big patch comes they will be in the near future which will update such but a car SMG was basically a very good weapon Titanfall a weapon although it was clearly an SMG it fired relatively slower than normal SMGs but did a little more damage meaning the weapon was easier to control over other SMGs and in my opinion apex legends actually has room for an SMG like this and I think the car could fit the role perfectly so we will see people so what other weapons have we seen leaked well this next one is kind of strange it's called the proto hold beam you can see it's data mined files unscrewed now the proto hold beam drain energy from robotic targets redirect it towards enemies now this to me but it doesn't make sense for what we have in apex legends at the moment but in saying that people we have seen many of the game modes leaked and data mined which this could be a part of games like 24v2014 deathmatch with possible titans and butts and a few other things we've also seen vehicles pop up numerous times within the game files which have been data mined so this could be a part of any of those modes but information on this proto hold beam at the moment is like what I'm doing now it's basically people mostly speculating I mean it's a part of the game files it's a part of the data mine files where and when this will make an appearance we have no idea and at the moment but if any more updates come on this weapon you will be covered right here on my channel so other weapons we have seen data mined are not a variety of ones you shoot but grenades so we have three kinds of grenades found within the data mine files firstly we see something called a smoke grenade now it's important to mention that these files are not those associated with legends these are standalone weapons found much like the arc stone film of grenades so yeah the smoke grenade now at the moment the smoke grenade is exclusive to Bangalore and I believe the smoke grenade we see here if ever added into the game won't be a patch on her ability and it couldn't make it seem a little irrelevant so if a smoke grenade does come I feel it won't be as excessive as hers that is for sure next up we see something called a frag drop automated drone that seeks nearby targets and explodes now we have seen something like this in Titanfall in Titanfall these things are called ticks and their little bastards were nasty basically like the description for these frag drones state automated drone that seeks you and blows your ass up so these could be pretty cool indeed okay so the last one we see is called the orbital strike fires lots of rockets from the sky now this one seems to be a lot like Gibraltar's defensive bombardment but I can imagine this won't be anywhere near as effective in my opinion the defensive bombardment is used more so to hold players back as it only really covers a small area and it's great in making a team back up and scramble from a certain position giving you a little time the orbital strike could be used uh similar to this but I'd say without a doubt it won't be anywhere near on the same scale of Gibraltar's defensive bombardment but we will see people but that is it guys these are all the weapons we have seen leaked and datamined so far if anything new pops up I will have you covered right here on my channel that is for sure so we have the out star the card a proto hold beam and three grenades now when the battle pass does a land which is believed to be the 12th of March know that a major update will come to the game which will allow datamined to find even more information so when that happens people I will have you all covered right here on my channel by that note guys we have come to the end of the video if you guys enjoyed it even a like really does help out if you are new around here enjoy daily apex legend videos be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video I upload a content notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one


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Good morning, everyone. Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of Google Cloud Next 23. This is day three of a half day of coverage here for you, but you know that, because you've been following along on full days one and two. Lisa Martin here with Rob's Touching. We've got Pithian on the show next. Paul Lewis, it's Chief Technology Officer, joins us. Paul, great to have you back on theCUBE.  Yes, I was been here many, many times though. One time, but it was in the original office back in Boston. That was good times. Enjoyed it. I know you were on the road with us. Talk to the audience a little bit about Pithian, the origin story, mission, vision. Give us that backstory. Sure. So Pithian 26 year data services organization. And Pithian is based in Pithia, which is the high priestess to the Oracle Apollo. Because we were a Oracle managed services organization to which we've now expanded databases and data and analytics and data warehouse and data lakes. I'm going to even expand into the application side and of course into the cloud because all data runs in the cloud. I think this is near and dear to my heart. I'm a data guy. I was at Amazon. I've been at a number of different storage and data companies. Like yourself, I did get similar backgrounds in that respect. Started out as a DBA very long, long, long time ago. But I think one of the things that really we're starting to see is not only CIOs, but the C-suite is starting to see the challenges. One of the big ones that we hear about and it's been, all the Googlers have come up and talked about it a little bit. But I want to see you expand on it is data security. It's key to everything. Trust and data security is at the root of this and how are you seeing that with your customers and how are you helping them with that? Well, we've seen a shift between, you know, infrastructure and applications being the IT asset to data being the IT asset. And now I have to think about not protecting the bad actors from coming into my network. It's about protecting the bad actors from taking my data. Because that's what I need to protect. That's what I need to monetize and therefore that's what I need to secure. And we used to think about it just being deep in the data center. It's so far in you can't possibly reach it. But the reality is data is now exposed right out to the consumer. So now you have to think about that entire chain of events on where to secure it. Where the consumer enters it, where we use it, where we trade with others. All of a sudden now each point in time I have to secure and then each part of the data I need to secure. Different people need different needs. Yeah. And how do you, how has the security landscape changed? The last few years we've seen tremendous change in the threat landscape. It's porous, it's amorphous. How has Pythian evolved to help organizations secure their data no matter where it lives these days? Cloud, Edge, data center. Yeah, excellent question. You're right, it is a very diversified deployment. It is, it used to be just traditional data center, then it went to SaaS, I used to public cloud and now I have private cloud implementations that I have third parties managing my own equipment and of course the Edge as you say. And since data is both originated consumed at all of those points, you have to secure each one of those points. So it's a zero trust implementation. Each transaction needs to be secured, each identity needs to be secured. And I have to ensure that the right people see the right data. That's almost more important than just stopping them from having it. It's that a data science needs to see the raw information but the end consumer only needs to see their information. That changes the filtering in many ways to support that. And then of course data protection, it's not just the primary source, it's the 17 copies. Yes. Right? It's the analytical copies, the backup copies of the archive copies. So that's a lot of sprawl. Yeah, I think that's one of the big things is data management and the whole how you treat data as a product is really where we're seeing it going and we've been talking with people like yourselves and others that seem to be pushing in that direction. But I think one of the things that is really key to all of this is the people and the processes and particularly in the people. There just can't be enough people to hire to go and do this. Everybody's getting pushed to do Gen AI, work backwards from the business value. What are you seeing in the recruiting, prompt engineering and recruiting and Gen AI? I mean, because now everybody's gonna come out of this. With all, I mean, you can't go through a segment without saying Gen AI about 15 times. That is true. In fact, in the preview, I go AI, AI, AI, it's gonna be everything. But how are you seeing the people part of that and the recruiting part of that going? Because that to me is interesting. It's fair to say that the skill sets are distinctly different now than there were even five years ago. So great things have happened. The pandemic created work from home. And even though there's a lot of returned office type talk, for the most part, it changed your recruiting from in the city to anywhere in the world. So now if there's a group of amazing data scientists in Lisbon, you can go hire them in Lisbon even though you're in Cincinnati. It's you don't have that barrier of limitation, therefore you get to see them. But prompt engineering is a great example or that's such a new skill set that it's hard to even find people out of academia, let alone people with one year's worth of experience. But to effectively implement Gen AI, you really have to have the psychology degree and sociologist degree to figure out how to best ask the questions in order to get the right responses. So now it's just not technology but it's technologies and humanities even more so than data scientists. That's fascinating. That is fascinating. But another thing in terms of skills gap that I want to talk about, let's go back to cybersecurity for a minute. There's a massive skills gap that has been going on for quite a while. A lot of organizations are trying, obviously, they're looking at tools like AI and Gen AI to help that. How does Pithian help organizations to fill in their needs, that cyber skills gap, can you? Good question. There is a skill set because there's more bad actors and they're better at what they do, right? The reality is the better they get, the more skills that I have to be able to defend that. And you're right, what Pithian does is we spend time first looking at your existing infrastructure to say, was it appropriately designed in the first place? So let's look at the foundation to say, did you really zone your data in a way to ensure that certain people only see certain data? And then we'll look at the schemas to say, are you segregating them enough that the business users and the data scientists see different data? And then we look at your end-to-end value chain, the zero trust implementation and we help you with the people and the process and the technology infrastructure to support that. And that's key, especially the people part. Exactly. Yeah, I was gonna say, I mean, we're at a technology company, we're at a technology conference, but still the technology to me is almost third on that list, on purpose because the technology tends to be the easier piece of it. And I think, you know, let's kind of shift a little bit because I think there's some other technologies that you guys get into more immersive technologies like AR and VR and things of that. What are you seeing? Because I haven't heard anything about that here this week, which is actually, now that I'm bringing it up, it's kind of weird as well because there was a lot of it, actually a little bit of it last week at VM Explorer, I almost screwed that one up, but again, but called it VMworld or whatever it is. But I think it's, as we go through this how are people really looking to bring that into what they do on a daily basis or how are they trying to monetize that or what is it that that technology's being used for? Good question. By the very nature of our business, we spend a lot of time in retail, CPG manufacturing, even healthcare on the hospital side where real consumers sit, but have very small IT as a general practice, right? So they have big, big brands, 10,000 stores, but 100 people in IT, right? So those are the types of organizations that require specialty skill sets for things like Gen AI and security and don't have the scale. They can't do three, four, five projects at a time. So in those sense, those organizations have much bigger digital transformation budget than they do an IT budget. So the CIO and those organizations are saying, I need to participate more in the business. I need to report to the CEO versus the CFO and therefore a lot of my projects are the immersive projects. So how do I look at the customer journey end to end in a retail? How can they start a transaction in the website but make their way to the store and eventually buy a product or multiple stores for multiple products? So that's where you see the augmented reality. The whole immersive technology is implementation where I might have a metaverse implementation for shopping, but that's just where I start or that might be where I get support or that might be where I read the manual, right? So I have to have all that world and then when I'm in the store, I have an augmented reality implementation where I can see the price tags and see the comparison studies with other products while I'm shopping. And you match that with loyalty. Loyalty is really the only way to increase the basket size in retail. So if you match the person as they walk in, the cameras are identifying, that's Paul Lewis, I can see what aisles are going down to. They use their phone to say, okay, the price on this is 323, but it's actually 310 in store B, which is five miles later, that's where they're gonna go. That customer journey end to end, that's the digital transformation IT money. Yeah, or you give them a coupon right there and then to keep them in that store. Yeah, 10 cents. I'll give you 10 cent coupon on that. And I think that's really the neat part of that. And I think you must be running into a lot of first party versus third party data and all the data privacy and security concern. I mean, it ties on to the security concerns is privacy and all of that.  I mean, that's just huge with retail. That's actually the biggest concern with JNAI and fairness, right? JNAI by definition, as you've heard many times, is artificial intelligence to create content, text, images, video, but that's not really enterprise JNAI. Because enterprise JNAI has those concerns. What can I do with my customer data? Can I take my intellectual property, my algorithms and actually put it into a chat GP? Not probably not. Can I take code that's delivered in Bard and apply it into my core banking system? Probably not. So there's some real enterprise limitations. It's both complex and complicated. Complex in that I have a thousand points of light and complicated in that I have lots more technology to consider. What is the JNAI, given that context that you just described from an enterprise perspective, what does a JNAI strategy look like aligned with a data strategy? How is Pithee and helping organizations to really figure that out in a short amount of time? Good question. We always start with a data strategy that's near and dear to your heart. But we actually start with the data monetization strategy. And it's really six points. It's how can I package up data to sell it? If I can, clearly some companies can't. How do I learn about the customers or transactions or product more to sell them more? Or how do I wrap a non-data-centric product with a data-centric product? Like I can sell you a checking account, but for the low price of a dollar a month, I'll let you know when your spending habits change. We start there.  Biggest bang for your buck. What's going to find customer segments you currently don't find now? Then we tackle the how. So what, what, what, what, what? Then the data strategy is where's that data? Is it inside? Is it outside? Do I need to augment your data? Is there an open source, LLM we can use to start to build those prompts? That's the process, right? And we want to do quick wins. Absolutely. You mentioned the great retail example in general. Is there a customer store you can share with us that started from that data strategy level and went through a complete AI strategy? Certainly. So we have a, we have a very big client called Cascades. They're well-known in Canada. They are a recycled fiber paper company. So they do everything from shredding and recycling, but they're most known for their consumer products, which is paper towels and toilet paper, right? And they're end-to-end. 80 plants. And what they have is all of their data stored in their ERP. And what they weren't able to do was create interesting insights for the consumers of the clients. So they had to A, figure out how to get data out of that, and then add sort of augmented technology to support creating value. So that's when we helped them create a enterprise data platform. And then we start to create machine learning implementation so that they can understand what a customer is and then start selling them differently. New baskets, new customer segmentation, even sentiment analysis with what consumers are thinking about that paper towel in general, right? Is it as good as others? That's crazy. That's very cool. I hadn't, yeah, I know. I hadn't thought about paper towels and sentiment analysis of paper towels. Yeah. But it makes so much sense though. It does. I have strong feelings on paper towels. That's actually how they figured out to build a product line that was eco-friendly, because that's what the consumers were looking for. You know, you've seen paper towels where you get to take just half of them off? Yeah. That innovation came from. Those are my favorite. Yeah, exactly, because you're using less and therefore, you know, better consumer. Yeah, I think that to me is one of it. It's working backwards from that data product. What is the data product in the data app that's going to be used or consumed by the customer, which could be internal or external from that. And I guess you guys see that a lot throughout all of this about helping them, again, with the strategy first and moving through that. Is that typically how one of the engagements goes? You're really starting at the strategy level and helping them. Like you said, let's see what you have and understand your current strategy and where you're trying to get to and the outcome you're trying to get. It's actually very rare they would have a data strategy. It's much more likely that they've invested, you know, 10 years and $10 million into a data warehouse, because they wanted to build reports. They've had a thousand amazing reports. And we'd never go back to them and say, you know what, that was a poor design. Because it's perfectly good for the 10,000 reports that they have. What it's not good for is all the other data that they have or they want externally, all that unstructured information, all the streaming data from the cars. It's limited to terabytes instead of petabytes of information. And it has to ensure that Paul equals Paul equals Paul, but that's not how the external data looks. It looks like BW Lauer. It looks like Darcy Lewis, which is Paul Lewis's husband. It is a mishmash of complexity to which I have to deal with new, interesting cloud technology. And I would put everything on the cloud because that's where the innovation is. It's Google that creates machine learning innovation, not software built inside your company. So, GenAI is cool and sexy. We hear about it at every event. Like you said, you can't have a conversation these days without mentioning it 10 to 15 times. But organizations have to be ready to benefit from it. On the people front, we talked about people process technologies. How do you help the people from a cultural perspective be ready for it? Because if they're not dipping their toe in the water yet, as everyone's saying, they're already behind. Okay. Fortunately, the last couple, three years, the role of the CIO has extended dramatically. They used to just be keep the lights on, red, green, yellow projects, blinking lights in the data center. Now they're expected to deliver the digital transformation portfolio. So for the most part, they're looking at their team saying, how are you going to help us find 20% growth in our customers? How are you going to help us introduce a new physical product, a new design for the car? And it's now up to IT. So they're looking at the skill sets of their teams to say, how do I add skill sets I don't have, like prompt engineering or data science? Much more difficult, we're in the middle of the US, right? We're there in Wawa, Kansas. They're not going to find a $350,000 data scientist. They need to really look at what we refer to as ecosystems of partnerships, of talent, of technology, of information. And if they want to scale or add skill sets they don't have, they're going to work with partners like Pythian to find that. And if they want to do five projects instead of one project at the same time, they need to scale. They need team two and team three and team four to make that happen. Now that makes so much sense. In like the limited time we have left here last minute or so, what are your thoughts, you're going to walk away from Google Next 23 with? I think Google Next 23 is better articulated instead of Google Cloud Platform. It's Google AI platform. While you didn't hear a lot of cloud in the keynote and others, it's because that's now the assumption. It's now not a migrate to cloud, it's now use what's on cloud. That's the interesting part. And the use what's on cloud is the AI, right? It's not necessarily gen AI, that's some of it, but it's just machine learning, right? It's just use your data for the purpose of something other than what it's original purpose for. And that might be just simple monetization. Totally agree with that. I think that's been what we've been seeing is it's about the whole solution, not about the IaaS or the PaaS or this service or that service or 1800 services or something like that. It's not about the individual GPU versus CPU. Yes, although we have the TPUs right behind us. We've been staring at them and we geek out on that stuff too, but that's a whole different story. Well, optionality is good, but you also want packages. Absolutely. Solutions, I think that has been the thing we have come away with. They've really done a good job of pulling the thread on the solution throughout their entire stack. And I think that it's been a home run for them. 100%. Speaking of home runs, what's next for Piffian? What are some of the home runs that you're looking to hit? So our focus now is both workshops with our clients to really appreciate their monetization goals. So we create a series of seminars to allow them to get a better understanding of what technology and strategy offerings are available. We'll walk them through their use cases, their monetization goals. And then we create a roadmap for them. We want to do that on security. We want to do that on GenAI. We want to do that just on simple data analytics. Because for the most part, especially those retail CPG manufacturing, they're very, very early in that stage. And they'd love to get to a point where they're starting to just see insights. And we can start there too. Awesome. Paul, thank you so much for joining Rob and me on the program. Great to have you back after a few years but telling us about Piffian, what you're doing, how you're helping organizations really be strategic from a data perspective. We really appreciate your time and your insights. Thank you. Yeah, thanks. All right. For our guests and for Rob Stratte, I'm Lisa Martin. You're watching theCUBE's day three coverage of Google Cloud Next 23. Stick around. We'll be right back with our next guest.


Let's take a look at the biggest market movers right now. We're watching Tesla and Tesla is down. It's falling to a two and a half year low on reports that the NTSB, that autopilot, was engaged in the fatal March crash. We'll cover that further later on in our show and look at Under Armour seeing some nice gains after receiving an upgrade to overweight from JP Morgan. It's gaining almost eight percent. Deer falling after posting earnings that did miss the analyst estimates by ten cents a share. That's down six percent. The company also slashed its full year forecast as agricultural markets weigh on its business. And we're taking a look at Baidu. Baidu is tanking on the day after missing its estimates on both the top and bottom line and we'll be certainly talking about that one in just a moment. But for now let's get right to some stock picks, some stock shorts. Melissa Armos here, founder and owner of the stock swoosh. It's great to see you. Good morning. So what are you thinking? What's your market mantra these days? I mean we're down four weeks in a row but we've had a great 2019. Earnings were decent and now we have an outlook that's somewhat uncertain. How are you feeling? Yeah I would say from January 1st literally until the last day of April the market was an angel. The market rallied virtually. If you had bought the market the first of the year you were up even if you just didn't even look at anything for four full solid months. We made so many new highs which was great. Then all of a sudden for as soon as May started this is even before the tariff in China issue came up again. The Fed came out, the market hit new highs and the S&P drop fell and we've never seen that number since. So I would say right now currently the market I believe holds the uptrend but expect volatility now to be in play not just the last two weeks but continuing into the summer. I don't think we're going to get back to those easy peasy times which was the first four months of the year. So volatility here to stay for some time and you know if you sold in May and went away you would have done great right if you didn't you know try and stick it out. So let's talk about some of your picks. I mean Disney is one that you know to buy over at City they have this recent deal now for Hulu they've had so much going on the stock's been near highs they have a target of 161 on Disney so you still like Disney even though it's run up so much. If you look at the way Disney has acted in the last two weeks when the market dropped off Disney was perfect. I mean Disney is definitely one of my top picks for 2019. I see that stock getting 200 I don't know if it'll happen by the end of the year but I think 160 is a low number I mean 150 probably near short-term target today I think it was over 134 and it was just rallying today. I mean anytime the market rallies Disney is rallying but Disney is rallying even days and it's holding the rally even days the market is falling so when you have a strong stock that's not moving that much to the downside when the market is falling that gives you conviction it gives you conviction in the position and the strength in the stock and the fact that people the buyers are in there and they don't want to let up when they don't want to sell. Okay and the question is how well they'll do with all their new service Disney Plus you know how will it really will it take market share away from Netflix or will people just buy both you know. I think people are going to buy both people still like Netflix but again you've seen volatility in Netflix the last two weeks with the market and Netflix has been reacting and falling with the overall market. I still like Netflix chart Netflix is still in an uptrend I wouldn't buy Netflix right now or out of the gate today but like Disney I mean really honestly you said 135 right now. Yeah 135 we're 134 this morning. All right all to beauty one that has been an unbelievable run-up all about beauty products the margins on these types of things are good for the company. The stock is up one and a quarter percent at 347 today and I'll tell you Morgan Stanley likes it too they have a 375 target on it. That I wouldn't be shocked if one of these earnings reports again there's a couple more earnings reports between now and the end of the year I wouldn't be surprised if that stock got up to 400 that stock can move that stock can really move in fact that stock looks like it's about ready to break out it may even make a new high today the market's drifting off a little bit here but that recently was up back at the highs another one that has been so strong when you look at the way that the market has fallen off in two weeks that stock has not moved a budge. It's interesting how some people become afraid to get in stocks that have really run up and I don't mean 10 percent I mean 20 30 40 50 that's crazy why that's strength that's strong why would you be afraid to buy something that's strong that's crazy okay I think the opposite of that they feel like maybe they're chasing a name like Ulta or Disney that have been great players I'm not saying buy at the high I'm saying buy strength buy momentum I'm saying buy the gap I look at gaps so when a gap happens when a stock gaps up I look at the gap I rate the gap if I feel that that gap's going to hold it's a good place to buy even if it's run up boom boom boom I don't necessarily buy pullbacks because you be buying then the selling and you don't know where the selling is going to stop and that's the problem right now with the market people are buying this market if we dip off one we're one tweet away from the market falling off again and people that bought in the last three days may get hurt if the market falls off again which at any point in time could happen because the volatility is here and it's not going to any time soon all right quick on Costco and Cisco and then we got to get to the shorts okay yeah the shorts well those are two strong stocks too and Costco looks like it's going to break out again and Cisco had earnings yesterday and that was falling through nicely this morning that had a really nice run up yesterday gapped up on the 50 period moving average held rally virtually into the close that stock looks higher that stock was very nice after the earnings yeah let's just go ahead a nice earnings beat those were definitely winners how about some of the names that you are shorting at this time I mean they've had a hard time so you're looking at lift and uber I'm telling you that those IPOs that came out they just tanked they tanked on the IPOs I mean to me when you look at this again talk about people want to buy these stocks because they pulled back but they've they've performed terribly ever since the IPOs on lift and uber when you look at the stocks not just the day that it came out but how they've reacted ever since right so I would say these stocks are lower at least for the short term now if you're a long-term buyer I say it's really more like speculation if you would buy those stocks at any point right now in the next six months because of the because of a negative reaction that they've had from the IPO coming out and because of the fact that they've drifted off and again the markets will fall some more and they will fall with the market like everything else unless you're a long-term hold and these stocks and you think like the guy said he's like oh uber is going to be the next amazon I laughed and laughed and laughed so like anything would ever be amazon to me I mean seriously well buy do is not amazon definitely not today it's down 15 percent this is your last short yeah that one is tanking and that if that if that breaks 125 that could go easily down to 120 I mean that that stock can move we're talking about stocks can move yeah stock can move okay that stock could fall $10 in a day I don't know if it does today but I'm saying the way that that looked huge moved down in the earnings right between last night and today's open huge massive gap down who's going to buy that that stock looks like it's tanking and again the market was rallying this morning and that was falling and it's down 15 percent right Melissa Armo founder and owner of the stock swoosh great to see you thank you so much coming up next to sit down with the Nasdaq's global head of sustainability to talk the new guide of ESG that's next on the watchlist here on the TD Ameritrade Network


Hi everyone, welcome to this week's recovery room, holiday special, so happy Thanksgiving to our American friends, and yeah, there's no other place to start, holiday anxieties come up a lot on my community. Some people really find the holidays a hard struggling time and they want to talk about Is that something that you guys hear about and what? Is it something that's common? I know that it's common around the Christmas period, obviously over here, but we don't have the Thanksgiving celebrations over here, but yeah, is it something that you guys hear? All the time. Yeah, yeah, I think it's different from my anxiety disorder folks. There's one lot of stresses and from my eating disorder folks, there's a whole different lot of stresses around the holidays, so that's what I'm hearing. Yeah. And regarding the sort of things that you're hearing guys, what is it that you're hearing? Is it that people just don't want to be sat down at a table with the families or what? I'm sorry, I can't get at you first. No, so for me, it's a lot of how do I set boundaries? How do I manage family who are criticizing me or commenting for the eating disorder crowd? It's how do I actually eat this food that I've avoided for a whole 365 years? Because they can't control their food that they're being served on on these holidays. But then you've got the folks who are just afraid to leave their house for the first time, afraid to be exposed to COVID for the first time after a long time of quarantining. So it's unlimited. It's sort of unlimited how it can impact people.  So, yeah, I'm actually talking about that today on my Instagram. It's it's a thing that's what I hear all the time. Love it that what unites it is expectations as well. All of those things are there is. There are expectations on me, whether it's challenging and eating disorder, leaving the house, all the things that Kim said. Will I meet the expectations of not only myself and the kind of societal fam familial expectations that are there, but also kind of the expectations of people around me and particularly in family systems as well. Family systems can be quite unforgiving and unfiltered. So, you know, there's lots of things that will set around a family table that aren't set around like a work table, but that way. And some people you might find that that's kind of abrasive in itself. There's a lot of pressure there. I still kind of get nervous when I go to family meetings because of grief, you know, and I deal with grief in my own way. And when you go to the you go to like a family meal and notice that your loved ones out there and it's different people dealing with grief in a different way. That gives me anxiety because it's like I like to just kind of be reserved, sentimental, talk about it when it's appropriate. But then when there's different people around the table doing their own thing, I mean, my family are miserable kids as well. They'll be like, oh, it's six years since we lost Dominic. And it's just like, oh, gosh, oh, we just lost Kim as well. Well, all right, Kim, right. It's been six years since we lost Dominic. Back from the dead. Yeah, so there's yeah, there's so many facets that can underpin your holiday anxiety. And the thing is, we talk about boundaries being great for people, putting boundaries in place and a lot of people have boundaries with their own families. And these boundaries become relaxed in the holiday period, what you say. You may be visiting people that they're family, but you might not get on with them. They might not be healthy for your mental health. And it can be, yeah, it can be really straining. And it can cause a lot of arguments over the holiday period. Yeah, yeah, anything, especially in people, it brings up emotions and you're upset and ready and frustrated by the position you're in. And then that emotion and that frustration, that anger then becomes anxiety. So it just becomes this escalating spiral and it's tough. People struggle. I used to.  But like, people are afraid of the overwhelming emotions because it then may trigger anxiety. And that includes positive emotions, too. Like, I know people that are like, oh, my God, I love I love Christmas. I love Hanukkah. I love insert religious holiday that applies to you. And it's really great. But actually, I found that when I get super excited, actually it triggers my anxiety, too. And there's that kind of holiday anxiety as well. Oh, my God, like, you know, when I wake up and see my presence under the tree, and that's really exciting, but also anxiety inducing. Yeah, I think, too, I think for a lot of people is when you're exposed around your family system, shame tends to show up a lot and shame is anxiety provoking, right? Like, it's it's an anxious response when we experience shame. No one wants to feel it.  And so I think even putting your entire anxiety disorder to the side going into a family system can be anxiety provoking in and of itself of, like, who's going to shame me and how much shame am I going to feel? I'm looking forward to the next family meeting. I'm a family success, so I can't wait. They're definitely not going to be any shame. Right, you're lucky. I totally, yeah, I totally understand that. A lot of people who were messaging regarding this live did mention what Josh mentioned on the fact of losing loved ones and that being brought up at the table and why Josh mentioned before that people have different ways of dealing with grief and one person's way may be to speak openly about it because that reduces their anxiety. That helps them with their grieving process, but there might be other people at the table who are triggered by that occurring. So it's a fine balance, a balance, I reckon. Yeah. Grief is huge. Grief is a huge piece of the holidays because the routines and the rituals have changed because, let's say, someone is no longer there. And a lot of people who have anxiety like they like things to stay the same. Like, change can be very anxiety provoking for them. So there are so many levels to how grief can impact a family. Yeah, let's just close this stuff. Holiday anxiety, you've got the animosity. There's always arguments and tables. Maybe you don't like conflict, maybe you're struggling with PTSD and that conflict kind of, you know, then the expectation of being around the table with this conflict tension, there always isn't my family. Everyone plays ailment top trumps, you know, who's got it worse. You know, I've got to do this. Like, it's so, it's so depressing. I just said in the comments that someone's put, it's family members who don't believe anxiety is real. So they feel like they're being dismissed for their anxiety disorders.   That's always a very dismissive thing to say. Or you just, you really just need a good vacation. Like we're thinking of going to Hawaii, come with us. Like, if I go to Hawaii, don't you think we can go? That's how everybody gets anxious. What do you have to be anxious about? That's my favorite one, too. You have to be anxious about it. This state of anxiety itself, an inward spiral of rumination, constant threat triggering and then worrying about that meta-constant. Come on, man. I hate it.  Yeah. Ask him then, won't they? They'll be like, OK, you just want me to stay. I'll be staying. I was like, I've got to leave early. Yeah, I was here post yesterday was like, hey, look, I'm just trying to not be terrified of my own effing heart for three minutes. Just give me a back up just a little bit. And then we'll get to the thankfulness in a few minutes, please. Like, it's tough. It's really hard. I can see one of the comments my grandma told me to just just get my head straight. So there is a generation thing with anxiety, isn't it, the psychoeducation behind anxiety and some of the generations not being as woke with what anxiety and anxiety disorders are. There's so many, there's so many different, there's so many. Grandma's not woke at all. Get woke, grandma. Oh, grandma, sorry, sorry. But it's a real thing and the generation gaps between people can really be cause a lot of arguments to do with mental health. I hear that so many times. Well, it's interesting you even talk about being woke because that can be a big reason for big fights, right? Is one person is more open and politically correct than the other. I think from what I saw yesterday on social media was a lot of clinicians talking about going home to their family of origin and having to listen to the stuff that we grew up listening to after being. That can be incredibly overwhelming.  I saw a funny meme of somebody posted Thanksgiving making business for therapists in 1621. Everybody's immersed in the nonsense that comes up political stuff and everything. It's so true. No, that is so true. There must be so many people like the bite in the tongue when they're there. And why you say that so many arguments occur because of the people who can't bite the tongue and the 12-year-old kid that they once saw the grown up with their own opinions, their own take on life. And yeah, what people just won't take mental health dismissal anymore. Yeah, it's good. It's really good. It is. Yeah.  It's incredible to see. And I'll always thank both of your father. That's OK. Fine. But I hear the dig in there. I did. I didn't hear the dig. I missed the dig. What was the dig? It was nice to get our generation, you and me, Kim. We're speaking about it, you know, the older folks. The old. I didn't see. I think of myself as their generation. I'm in denial. I've been here for a long time. Total denial till Dean brings it up and then it's like. Guys, I do want to do the the media part. So anxiety in the media. Because it was fun last time. A lot of people said they enjoyed it. And also our last recovery room was the best performing by a country mile. So well done to have run on that. Well, even with all the booze and stuff. Even with all the echoes, I guess. The poop jokes. I think I think you officially broke the internet last week, Dean. Right. So the first title is anxiety and anger are linked, which explains why they can feel so similar. This is coming from a worldwide mental health expert and family therapist who says that you should treat anger and anxiety the same way. Anyone want to jump in on that? I just I'm not going to give the official answer on it, but I was I was also talking about this with someone today, not not in the therapy practice, but it was part of the support worker there. And in some cases, a lot of ERP, there's applies, applies a lot to excessive anger and stuff like that. And that's what they were telling me in their therapy that they would kind of expose themselves to the safe lead to the stimulus of anger and not respond to it in that way. I mean, Kim would have to give you a more complex answer. But like, I just thought it was really interesting that there was a bit of an overlap there. But also you've got a pinpoint. Is the anger actually kind of telling you something? Well, if you're constantly angry and maybe you're in a situation that isn't sustainable, then maybe you've actually got every right to be angry, continue and that source of anger isn't going anywhere as opposed to just being angry. It's not going to happen a long time ago that you haven't processed. Yeah, I love this. So the way I understand anger is that it's quite a it's just a generational and an in hit like an innate part of who we are. So the way I understand and the research I've done around anger is anger is our another threat response, just like anxiety is another threat response. So if a bear is approaching us, we, you know, we set off the fight, flight and freeze and we have anxiety. But sometimes when we're in danger, anticipated or projected, we get into a fight mode, which can be anger and we go into anger response. So I agree that it can be the same, right? I think that we can experience in the same. They may show up physiologically the same and they can have the same sort of goal, which is to keep ourselves alive. However, I will give you my personal opinion on this is I was raised to believe in some respect or other through the culture of Australia that like women don't get angry like we shouldn't. It's not ladylike. And so I have four years had every time I get angry, I get anxiety because I'm I know I'm not I'm like shouldn't be feeling this, you shouldn't be feeling this. And that I would create a lot of anxiety. So like if my husband did something that infuriated me, I would experience more anxiety than anger because I'm like, I'm not supposed to say anything. I had to work through that in therapy extensively. That's a big thing in Australian culture, you said? I wouldn't say it's an entire Australian culture, but it was in my in my sort of circle of, you know, we we don't express anger if we do, we do it in a very kind, compassionate way. We don't set boundaries very clearly. You know, we don't we don't share our emotions that much. And so, no, it was it was I had a lot of anxiety around expressing anger. Now I'm excellent expressing anger. That's like a thing. Did you say that was like kind of women don't express anger? And they're not allowed to. Interesting. Yeah, it's it's un-ladylike. It's dramatic. You're seeking attention. Wow, lots of that's all wrong. The anger of women. Angriest people in my family were the women. No doubt about that.  It was no, but it goes back to that old kind of patriarchal view of women who are vocal, hysterical. Genuinely, a medical term used frighteningly not long ago. Yeah. Even anxiety disorders or anything that wasn't emotional conservatism was hysteria. They just had hostels of people diagnosed with hysteria because and it's and even though men had that said, oh, men, it was us. Shell shock and trauma and things. It was almost like like a sympathy there. But for women, no, they're just hysterical.  They've had it. They've had it difficult. Do you think that women get more likely to be dismissed with mental health than men? No, I think men get more dismissed than women. Me too. I think it's the other way. Yeah, because I think men are expected to not allow they're not supposed to be vulnerable. They're supposed to be mainly in how they handle things and level headed and rational. You know, particularly in Australia, I think in America, we're a little more open, but still, I think it's hard for men to raise their hand and say, I need help. Yeah, we've got the same in the UK. So carry on embedded into our very fabric of our culture. Yeah, that's what we're up against. That's going to go outside Buckingham Palace and have a meltdown and scream, not keep calm, not carry on. Attack the guards, urinate on the palace walls, go crazy. In the name of a... Mental health awareness. Yeah, all for our mental health, of course. In Australia, there's a common saying called she'll be right mate. I don't know if you know that saying, but she'll be right mate is the absolute blanket response. Was the blanket response in the 80s and the 90s for mental health struggles? She'll be right mate. Like, it's a, you know, get up, come on, you'll be right. Yeah, Dean, we had that one in Manchester. So, be right, be right, be right. Great. So yeah, I can see someone, but I think anxiety can lead to anger due to feelings of irritability. Drew, do you want to pick up on that one? Yeah, definitely. I mean, I know for me, I was definitely more prone to anger, which sucked because I didn't, you know why I didn't like where I was. I was frustrated. I was, you know, nothing was working out for me and I was working hard at this thing.  So yeah, I was, I was irritable for sure.  But the bad part about it is I would get triggered and like super angry. And then that's super angry. Like I would turn into the Hulk and then I would immediately crush into like panic.   So yeah, but as I got better in recovery, that my trigger level came down or my tolerance level went up. I wasn't so irritable all the time. It was a natural progression, but I totally, I was much angrier for sure. That's really interesting. I hear so many people saying that that frustrated with anxiety that it comes out in anger. Often I hear people saying that they'll just like spontaneously start crying because it's all this built up emotion of anxiety that they're dealing with so often and they just don't have a source to outlay that anxiety on so people will be angry. People will be upset, some people get depressed. Yeah, it's really interesting. The next question guys, you're going to love it because I've just sent it in the news and you will love this one. So the title is the unexpected spiritual practice that majorly eased my anxiety. So this is from a American therapist. Oh God. I promise I'm not picking on America. But the lady says that the word oracle means to answer or a decision. So she created an oracle deck, which is a tool used to give you clarity and alignment and reduce anxiety. You'll do it purposely, Dean. I know you are. We just talked about it. Yeah. This is literally the third one. If you want guys to help. When you saw that book in the news, you were like, this is going to be great. What do you guys think of that? We need an opinion. This is in there. This is the third headline down. If you Google it, what do you guys think of a spiritual journey with an oracle deck to reduce anxiety? Anyone? It works for you. You go for it. Well, I think I have a question. So by pulling a card that gives you the answer to your anxiety, is that what they're saying? Let me just read it one second. I designed the deck because I needed new tools to help myself and others overcome anxiety, doubt, and fear. How fitting that the universe delivered it to my doorstep upon returning home from the emergency room that she went to for anxiety disorder. So it works by using grounding tools to reduce anxiety. So the people are told to focus on the card instead of what's happening inside them. Okay. I have an opinion. I think that for people with fear, that may be, okay, so we've got to really distinguish. A lot of people have solutions for an anxiety disorder, but really they have a solution to fear, right? Which is like, oh, you have some, you have fear, here's some grounding tools, but people fail to see that a disorder is a mental illness that requires a level of care. If that said, I found a solution to your experience of fear. I would go, okay, maybe that's a tool to put in your tool belt, but when they're talking about anxiety disorders, that is horrible marketing in my mind. I think the problem is when people are speaking about anxiety disorders, a lot of the time when it's in the media, when people are marketing and promoting it, they're just using the blanket term anxiety. And I think that's where a lot of the confusion comes about, even in our communities, when people don't realize, is it just anxiety that everybody deals with?  Yeah, yeah. And to be fair, they didn't say for anxiety disorders or anything like that. Okay, okay. It's interesting, because my mum's into loads of spirituality and things like that. And she uses it to deal with grief and stuff. And she's into these decks and sent, whatever he's called, sent Michael or whatever.  So she has a belief system that works. And that's why on the fence, it depends what your belief system is. If you're in spiritual school, I'll never tell you not to.  But there are other people out there that do and it works for her. And you know what? I sit there with her and chat with her about it and stuff and my mum's happy. So I would never dismiss it. If I'm on an anxiety disorder, I'd be marching on there and be like, no, no, no, this is compulsions, this is re-empty, reassurance-seeking, this is, we need to get out of that cycle. But yeah, if it's conventional external anxiety and it works for you, go for it. If you are, like Kim said, in the cycle, because anxiety disorder is always a cycle, if you're in an anxiety disorder cycle, then yeah, that can actually have a detrimental effect. I like what you said, sorry, Drew, go ahead. I like what you said, Josh, in that we have to be responsible for our own recovery. And if it works for you, it works for you. I like that a lot. Yeah, it's a very liberal approach, which is great in the society that we're living in. Exactly. I think that the oracle, like it's an oracle deck, it probably colors that story a little bit. If she had just said, I came up with some grounding technique that helps me come back to the present and ease my mind. We probably wouldn't be questioning it so much, but the fact that she calls it an oracle deck and attaches all that connotation to it, that raises a red flag for me, but I would agree with what you guys said. Depends on what the application is. She's not marketing it to people with OCD. There was religion as well. Someone just said there in the comments, it's fine, it's okay. But again, if it's for an anxiety disorder, no, it's something that requires specialist intervention. But if you've just got worries, I mean, it's been proven, scientifically proven, that praying lowers general anxiety, which is great. They didn't even did it. And I used to do it as a kid, even when I was religious, it was like therapy in itself. But if I'm praying for the anxiety to not have a panic attack tomorrow morning, or to not have an intrusive thought, it's not gonna work. Yeah. So would your take be that having those sort of chills like the spirituality, the religion is good for your overall sort of daily, weekly routine? Like if you have it, you're not saying if you have an anxiety disorder that you shouldn't pray and you shouldn't have these cards, you're not saying that, are you? No, no, no. Well, and I would, let me disclose something to you. I love those kinds of cards, but as Drew, I do, but as Drew- I'll take them for secret, Sandra. I'm coming out of the closet. It's an oracle deck. No, but that's the interesting, as Drew said, is I have a Pema Shodron card deck on compassion. I have one on acceptance and commitment therapy, like they're little decks and they're in a box. And so I think that the card style can be really helpful for people with, because remember, mindfulness is based on spiritual practices. And so it's a huge piece of the work. So the spiritual piece isn't a problem. I think like Drew said, if you're pulling a card to answer this question of uncertainty you have is where you may get into trouble. Or to take it away. Yeah, yeah. Please take away my fear. Please take away my, you know. Right, but there are CBT card decks there. I love the card decks format, but I think the content matters. Just like I like books, but the content matters. And I like podcasts and the content matters. So you say that me and D-A to keep collecting our Pokemon cards and meeting up at weekends and trading them. If you like, if you like. Hey, sure. Pokemon, love it. No, that's great. One last one from the media, then we'll go back into the questions, guys. Two women on how they stop in drinking cured their anxiety disorders. Because every time they would drink the next day they would have intense waves of anxiety.  I would take this one because. Yeah. One topic that I cannot believe that I speak about more than any other, there's two, they're connected though, is coffee and alcohol. More than any other, those topics come up again and again and again. And I always say, and here's my own experience. I refused, I would not drink anything, any caffeine and I would not drink any alcohol at all while I was in the thick of it because then it would make me feel different. And anything that made me feel different was very, very bad for me. So I avoided it like the plague. And as things went on and on and on, toward the end of it I would actually use like a glass of wine or a drink or a cup of coffee as practice, like, all right, let me bring up these physical sensations and move through them. But I hear people say that all the time. And again, I think this might be one of those, are they talking about just having anxiety or being stuck in the cycle of panic disorder or OCD, like that's a little different animal. So if they drank and felt crappy the next day and that just made them feel bad, then yeah, if you stop drinking, I'm gonna say sure, you won't feel that anymore, that makes sense.  My panic disorder magically went away. I don't know how that would be. I mean, I'm curious what you guys think. I often advise, you'll know this Drew and all of you actually, I don't know why, but like when you're in the midst of like intense panic disorder, where you have no psycho education, no knowledge of what's happening, I do actually recommend straight away, cut out stimulants straight away, just to overall ground you and then reintroduce you. Because there's no point being purist about it. I'm like, well, no, avoidance. No, I'm like, whoa, let's just give your nerves a little rest, Dr. Clare Weeks, like just kind of just, your nerves need to calm down first before we do this. And then I'll introduce that because ultimately the aim is to do what non-anxious you would have done, or as I hear in my practice all the time, what the old me would have done. I just wanna do what the old me would have done. I would have gone out and had some wine or some coffee in the morning or ate loads of glutinous food. I'm like, well, we can do that, that's recovery. You shouldn't know, anxiety or OCD shouldn't stop you from doing what you're originally doing. And actually you can regain your life back. That's what's gonna influence our exposure plan and our recovery plan. Let's go back to what non-anxious us would do. But at the same time, it's okay to cut things out initially in order to lay down your foundations for recovery. So for me, that's what I did. I did cut out caffeine initially. I did stop drinking initially. I did stop really kind of carb heavy foods because I do struggle with IBS as well. So obviously, you know, is it possible to do it without doing that? Of course it is, but you're allowed to make things easy for yourself and then build it up again. And then doing the fun exposures where you're like, I used to have a can of Diet Coke and let the caffeine hit me. I'm like, yeah, the same thing. So it's weird because it's like, I'm half hyper and excited, half thinking I'm gonna die. Yeah, well, when we're in an anxiety disorder, Josh, you often, you mentioned this on your course, which, do you know what I mean? It ties into the fact that you've got a Black Friday deal on at the moment and it's Black Friday, 99 for your course, which is fantastic. The links in my bio guys, if you wanna grab it, I would do. But back onto this, you often talk about the makeup, which is the makeup response when you're in an anxiety disorder and anything that like draws attention to something that's not feeling right. So I used to get anxious when it used to go from light like the dusk, when it used to go from light to dark and that would raise my anxiety because of the subtle changes in my surroundings. So coffee doesn't cause anxiety, but the response, your body's response to coffee can mimic an anxiety response, which then you can misinterpret and that can cause more anxiety. So I think I agree with you about cutting out the coffee, cutting out anything that can really like shine a light on, like give that makeup a heads up to look for these dangers. However, I've heard of people, and I do think I fell down this rabbit hole as well, of constantly looking on the back of like drinks to see if there was caffeine in them and avoid it, looking at chocolate as well, seeing that there was caffeine in chocolate and avoiding it. At least you'll do that. Not cause I'm mega afraid of it, I just don't want to be let in bed at 3 a.m. going a lot. Because you had something to eat that you didn't know how caffeine in it. Yeah, tyramine in chocolate sends me bananas. I'm just like, yeah, which is fine in the morning, but not at nine when I remember sat in, let in bed was like, why am I so irritated? Why can't I sleep? I'm usually tired. I'm like, there was tyramine in that pudding at the restaurant.  Yeah, but I know you mean like checking the packet to see if there's something there that may make me feel uncomfortable and uncertain. Yeah, it's trying to get the right balance. For me, though, what's really important is that the reason why I tell people to cut all that out initially is because 90% of what I do is psycho education. And I want people calm to absorb the psycho education. You're gonna absorb and literally absorb more and retain more information sat in this practice when you're calm and you not have four coffees to get here because you're gonna be like, if you're certain you're calm and it's almost like the premise of like hypnotherapy, not that I'm a hypnotherapist and will ever intend to be one. But when you are calm, it's done to the calmer you are, the more that you retain information. And that's what I like to do. It's like, let's make things easier, learn about psycho education and then reintroduce all these things again. And that's fine. So I was just saying, they're about to hop on an airplane. So maybe that causes them an anxiety usually. On an airplane. That's Kara. Kara's killing it. Sit inside the airplane. Don't go on it. On it. Get in it. Good advice from the panel. Kara deserves a shout out for that. She's working hard on her recovery and she's getting on a plane today. It's a big deal. Just a really good... Bosnit, you'll nail it. Just a really good comment, which was regarding the anger. That when this person sees angry people around them is that that causes them the anxiety? I think that's the any emotional upset can become anxiety thing. No, part of it. That's my first thought on that. Confrontation, somebody else is angry.  Well, I know a lot of clients who report anxiety around other people's emotions because they struggle to regulate their own and they're afraid of it. They're disappointed them, that they'll yell at them, that they'll judge them. Social anxiety is a big one for that. And if you have any trauma around abuse, I think seeing anger can create a trauma response as well of I'm frightened of anyone who has a presentation of anger. I've heard that often. That's always heartbreaking. My mom or dad, when they got angry, I was gonna be big trouble and then they carries through. It's so different to change. So yeah, sorry, go on, Josh. So I was gonna say, it's not just when stuff like that happens, it's not just like hardcore exposure. It's like with layers of compassion and understanding. Yeah. There's an emotional, proper emotional connection. Yeah. It's what stoicism really helped me when I really started to understand the fact that we're all defined by the stories we tell ourselves by what happens to us during the day and that the response that you get from someone or how someone interacts with you isn't to do with you.  They could have had the worst day at work with the boss. They could have just fallen out with their partner. They could be dealing with financial issues and then the interaction that you've had with them isn't on you. And I think with anxiety disorders, we always think inwards, don't we? So when we see someone who's being angry or aggressive towards us, we think, oh, that's because of us and that creates anxiety. But when you can separate that and change your behavior to how other people are acting and reacting with you, that was a big game changer for me personally. Yeah. Absolutely. It's not easy to do though, because it's the default thing to often think that people are out there to get you and the reason they're speaking to you is because of something you've done or you've said. I do totally understand that it goes against the norm, but changing your behavior to other people's reactions I think is a big game changer. It takes a lot of time and practice to do that. So that's not a thing you could just, people say, that's a really good pointy and I love that because I'm a huge fan of stoicism as well. And but there are so many common threads in Buddhism and Taoism also. And that idea that, well, what somebody thinks of me is none of my business is great and it's easy to say to somebody who's in the thick of that, like, oh, it doesn't matter, don't let them bother you. We can't just decide to do that. It does take a long time and a lot of practice and a lot of willingness to be really uncomfortable and just have that, ooh, that uncertainty and that feeling sit there and know, like, okay, I can handle this, but it ain't easy. But it's really useful, super. And just like recovering through an anxiety disorder, it takes practice, it isn't easy, it doesn't happen overnight. When you're doing exposures or whatever, the first time you expose yourself to an anxious response, you're not gonna be cured from your anxiety disorder. It's hard work, it takes a lot of practice and there can be a lot of setbacks there, but there is a pathway out of it. Right, I think that what we can do to tie it back to the holidays is I actually spoke a lot in the last week with my patients about using the holidays as an opportunity to practice just writing waves of emotions, right? Like, oh, you're sitting at the table and your family member commented on your food or on your anxiety. Can you actually give them zero response and just ride that wave out? And you'll be like, great, that's one, what? Okay, that's one down, what? It's just ERP. I can imagine, I'm gonna pick Tim's house out. Everything is ERP. No, I think it's more just being radically willing to ride your emotions, right? Cause there's so many of them. We've talked about anger and we've talked about alcohol and all those things. And I think a lot of that is, I mean, yeah, we could call it ERP but it's also just feeling your feelings, right? Absolutely, have do. Being human. Yeah, is there anything else that you guys want to add that we've missed out? I think we've got through a lot. I can see we're coming up to the, to the hour mark. Is there any questions really that are popping up on the forum that you can say? No, I think, you know, people have been pretty much commenting in line with what we've been talking about. You know, what kind of things today? I have a feeling the Facebook feed is broken. We have primarily two people here. So sorry about that for those who watch in the- They've all abandoned us. They've abandoned us. But no, I think everybody's pretty much followed along with us. We don't have the same number of comments because I don't think we're alive on Facebook like we usually are.  Yeah. Well, we will upload it to the recovery room and we'll share it on our platform. So you guys who can obviously come and listen to it, who haven't listened to it. But yeah, I'd just like to thank everyone for coming back. I know it's the holidays for you two. So a big thank you to you two for coming and stopping by and Josh, obviously, thank you so much for everything you do. You're just shining beacon. We'll be chatting again shortly. I know. We're back. I don't have past eight. How is it? It was a long time yesterday. Yeah. Oh, don't, don't even get started on your off and yesterday. Why? Nevermind. Have a steak, Josh. Yeah. Can we move it to nine so I can eat something? Yeah. Yeah, of course. Everybody's just watching us take care of our business now. Yeah. So is anyone working on anything for the rest of the week?  Well, let me share it. So on Instagram, I did a full poll on people's anxiety questions, and it's a two part series on my podcast, your anxiety toolkit. One is specifically related to setting boundaries with family members over the holidays. So they will be coming out over the next two weeks. If you want to keep working through this stuff and by coincidence, I recorded them, you know, and not related to this episode, but those resources will be there in the next two Fridays. Your rep did with, they called out about, when you had the guest on Kim with OCD and Emotions and stuff, that was a really good one. Jack got their name. But anyway, it came up in my support group. You've got lots of fans in my support group. No one liked me. Kim, I'm really excited to come and record with you as well, very shortly. Yeah, so I know. I'm really excited about that. I can see in the comments, Nicky Neeson definitely relate to what you say, Dean, just wanting to highlight that, Nicky. Yeah, I'm glad you do. The words of wisdom from the Dean monster. The Deanster. Who has managed to keep composed today? No laughing fits, which is fantastic. We did good. I think we did really good. We did good. No gang. Drew, anything special happening? Just a lot of projects going on. And until if anybody's watching this live or you see it right away, if you look at my Facebook or my Instagram, there's a link over to get 7% slower and the anxious truth in Kindle format is 40% off and the audio book is 40% off. So I'm going to do the Black Friday thing too. Look at me, man. So if you don't have those and you want to grab them, there are links all over the place. So go grab them. Check it out. Dean, sorry, Drew, is our audio book uploaded yet? Is it live? Yeah. Is it now? How about now? Any minute now, it could be today.  Like, is it done yet? Is it done yet? How about now? Is it now? I feel like I'm driving. Sorry, are we there yet? Yeah, are we there? Are we there? Yeah. Don't make me up to the start. Don't make me pull over and whack you. Don't make me up to the start as I will. Josh, I'm not touching you. I'm not touching you. He's touching me. Like, that's what I'm talking about. Yeah. Josh, any part in words you want to leave the community with? No, it's wonderful, but it's Black Friday. If you want to stop fearing fear course, come and join our live shortly and we'll, yeah, Dean and I will be talking nonsense and shamelessly selling our course like some Peckham Market stall salesman. Sounds good. Fantastic. And like Josh mentioned, the audio book which was produced by Drew, we'd like to thank you personally for everything you did there, Drew. And yeah, we can't wait for that to be out and we'll be back on the market stall. Sounds amazing. Sounds amazing. Love it. Yeah, some really exciting parts and I can't wait for the audience to hear it. It's all good. The cartridge. Thank you so much. The cartridge. It's going to blow everybody away. Anyway, sorry guys. Cheers guys. We're all the credit. So have the credit. We're out. See you next week. Bye.


quickly overview the internals of the Ethereum client implementation. I am most of all familiar with the C++ client, but in fact there are many common ideas behind all of the clients and in this talk I'm not going to tell about C++ client in particular, but about the general view of what any client should consist of, the things that you would definitely need to implement as a part of any client. This talk might be interesting to anyone who is kind of new to this area and is wondering about some practical details of how Ethereum works under the hood, or maybe to someone who might be considering implementing a new Ethereum client with their favorite programming language and I could recommend that as a best way to get a deeper understanding of the protocol. So I'm sure everyone knows what a client is. It's a piece of software that allows you to connect to the Ethereum network, run a node and interact with Ethereum. Also, all of the teams working on the clients usually clearly separate any kind of user-friendly graphic interface from the back-end core part of the client and in this talk by the client I mean only this back-end part which doesn't necessarily have any intentions to be user-friendly. Essentially, a client is an implementation of the Ethereum protocol as specified by the yellow paper, the main formal specification of Ethereum, but not only that. This is a very high-level overview of more or less everything you can find in the client. The middle part in yellow is the implementation of the Ethereum protocol itself. This is the part specified by the yellow paper directly and this is where all of the client developers should be very careful in following this specification because if there is some disagreement about how the client should behave it could lead to an unintentional fork in the network. And all the rest is the parts where developers have some freedom in choosing the approach, strategy or technology of how to implement it or for some parts maybe whether to implement it at all. So let's go into some details about each of these parts starting from the lower-level components, the ones closer to hardware. The networking layer is essentially the implementation of the peer-to-peer protocol which specifies how the nodes in the Ethereum network can communicate with one another. In fact, it's not one single protocol but a family of protocols. One important of them is the node discovery protocol. That is the algorithm of how the nodes find one another in the network and all others are nicely designed as two levels of protocols or maybe three levels depending on how you look at it. So there is a lower level called the peer-to-peer and together with something even lower level called the LPX they together specify how the nodes can exchange the binary encoded messages. By the way, for the binary serialization Ethereum uses this cool format called the OP which stands for cursive length prefix. It's used not only in the networking but everywhere in the protocol. So basically the peer-to-peer specifies how the nodes can talk to one another with RLP encoded messages. And other protocols are based on the peer-to-peer and they specify which data exactly can be exchanged. So there's for example if protocol that specifies how the nodes exchange the mind blocks and the mind painting transactions. And there are other protocols for downloading the data during fast sync or warp sync and these protocols are also based on the peer-to-peer. Every client needs some persistent storage for the blockchain and the state data. Typically clients use some kind of key value storage database for that because this fits naturally all the needs of the Ethereum client. For example, CBP Ethereum and Go Ethereum and Python client as well all use level DB for that. What is the distinction between the blockchain and the state data? There can be in fact stored all in a single database or in separate databases but anyway these are pretty distant parts of the client data. So the blockchain obviously is the storage for all of the blocks, all of the transactions of the blocks and the state data is kind of orthogonal to that. It is the current information about all of the accounts and contracts currently existing in Ethereum. They are balanced as nonsense code of contract storage of contracts. Also clients typically implement some indexing and caching strategies on top of the database to make queries more efficient. Some clients also have the pruning of the state data that is compact in the state database by removing some older parts of it that are not normally needed. Synchronization is the process that allows us to get the latest blockchain and the state data from other nodes of the network. So we could say that it is built on top of both the networking and the database layers because it gets the data over the network through one of the network protocols and this data ends up in the database. So there currently exist at least three known methods to organize the synchronization. The oldest one, the one that appeared first in the theorem is full sync, also known currently as archive sync and it is basically just downloading all of the blocks one by one and executing each and every one of the transactions of all the blocks. And this way you calculate the full Ethereum state according to each block and in the end you have what is called an archive node that is you have all of the intermediate states and you can query any of them. In practice doing this for the whole blockchain is terribly inefficient nowadays and it will take ages to complete so almost no one currently uses this by itself. Fast sync also downloads the blocks and it downloads the full theorem state as well. So we are full sync calculates the state by executing all the transactions fast sync instead of this downloads the result of this of this calculation from other nodes and that's the main difference. Also for efficiency reasons fast sync keeps some proof of work verification for some blocks still trying to remain as secure as possible and in general this approach allows to make sync time pretty manageable. Snapshot sync also known as warp sync in the parity client is downloading the compressed snapshot of everything needed to start the node including the blocks at least some number of recent blocks and the state according to the last block. I should say that although as I said full sync is very inefficient and nevertheless it is very essential component of any client implementation. One reason for that is security even if I don't want to have an archive node I still it would still be a good idea for both fast sync and snapshot sync to switch at some point close to being complete to full sync mechanism and this way I can be sure that the latest state I have in the node is based on my local transaction execution and not something you get from the unjusted nodes at the network. And another reason is that if your node gets behind the current chain for some reason like if it was offline for some time then you would need to download these missing blocks that are mined during your downtime and usually the more efficient way to do that would be to download them through full sync mechanism. So to summarize to have a client that can be practically used in real Ethereum networks you would need to implement at least full sync and at least one of the fast sync or the snapshot sync. And there is also live client technology about it. People were talking about it in the main hall today in the morning. It's something completely different. It's not exactly the way to organize the synchronization but a way to run the client in such a way that the full state and the full blockchain is not needed locally and instead of having the full state in the local database the live client can request the parts, the needed parts of the state from other nodes and download them when needed and this way keep the local database very compact. Blockchain, this is the first one of consensus critical components specified directly by the yellow paper. And essentially it is the implementation of the number of rules around the data structures like the block, the transaction, like for example the rules for constructing the block, filling its fields, calculating the difficulty of the block, rules about signing the transactions with the accounts private key, rules about encoding all of this in RLP format, etc. This part I would say is not so complicated although it might seem that there are many difficult rules to implement here but anyway it is very precisely specified and all you need to do here as a developer is just to carefully follow the specification. Another important part of the client data is the state. As already mentioned this is the information about all of the currently existing accounts and contracts of Ethereum. So what is required from the client implementation here is also to carefully follow the specification regarding what constitutes the account. And another thing required from the client here is to implement these awesome tree data structure called Norco Patricia Tree which allows us to compact the store and efficiently query all of the state data. So this means that on the physical storage level the state database stores only the nodes of this tree and then the responsibility of this component is to provide a high level interface to the storage in the form of convenient access to accounts data. The Ethereum virtual machine is the component that executes the code of smart contracts. More exactly what it does is first it receives some input data and bytecode to execute. This bytecode is just the primary sequence of instruction codes and the operands. Note that EVM doesn't know anything about Solidity or any other high level programming language. So we don't have to deal with that here. So EVM just executes the instructions of the bytecode, calculates the gas consumption for this execution, performs the corresponding updates to the state like for example saving something into the contract storage and returns some result data or an error in the end. This component I would say is pretty complicated and challenging to implement. Well, implementing it according to the yellow paper specification itself may be not that difficult but making it work efficiently is an important challenge and typically clients have various kinds of optimizations around here. Also I should note that there exist two different approaches to implement in the EVM. The simpler one is interpreter that is executing the instructions one by one as we see them in the bytecode and another one is just in time compilation that is translating the bytecode into the hardware machine code and then executing it. This is the implementation of the proof of work algorithm still used in Ethereum. It is called ethash and the client needs it primarily for two reasons. One is to validate the blocks that we receive over the network and another one is if the client also supports mining we would need it to create a new blocks. Some clients also support some alternative setting algorithms like proof of authority for incubator or network. RPC is the primary way for the dApps to communicate with the client and as we might consider with dApps to be the main users of Ethereum clients in this sense RPC is the main interface of the client. If you are a dApp developer then you know that RPC is what underlies Web 3.js interface that is used in the dApp code to communicate with the node. So just RPC is used as an RPC protocol and not also that it can be used both with a locally run client or remotely through HTTP. And this link here is the API specs for any client that wants to be usable by the dApps should provide at least the methods listed in this document. Any client that expects the dApps using it to create and send the transactions should provide at least the very basic wall functionality. This again doesn't mean that we need any kind of graphic user interface for the wallet necessary because this is only the back end part we are talking about here. What is needed is just wall functionality and access to it through RPC. So the client typically should provide at least the way to manage accounts like create an account, import and export account data list accounts etc. and the ability to send transactions with the account's private key. And here are some features that are not so critical but are nice to have in the client since they can make the life of the user easier both for the human users and for the dApps. So these could be features like import and export of the blockchain data, interactive console supporting Web3JS calls, some tools useful for debugging like for example the tool for running EVM code and seamless results, compilers from high level languages like Solidity or LLL. Also I mentioned mining feature which is of course big and important feature but in fact it's not that indispensable part of the client. You don't necessarily need to have a mining support in your client for it to be usable by the dApps and it can be completely separated from the rest of the client and in fact that's what we do with CPP Ethereum having a GPU miner as a completely separate project. And here's the special mention about the tests Consensus tests are a comprehensive corpus of tests developed and maintained by our testing team. They are essentially these JSON files each one specifying some initial state of Ethereum some operations on it in the form of transactions or blocks and some expected state after that. So what is required from the client implementation here is to be able to parse these files around the tests and compare the final state and of course to pass on the tests. The tests are important topic by itself and Dimitri is giving a talk about it in an hour from now here in the breakout hall I think. So if you're interested you are welcome to attend. And this concludes my overview of the building blocks of the Ethereum client. If you're interested in getting into more details you are welcome to dive into code repositories, documentation or to join our developer GitHub channel. Thank you for your time. Alright so I get what happened. So the other research team members they were using my thing to factor very