The thing that I'm worried about though, is there was a, I'm worried about, but there was a video that I did recently. It was called, sell Bitcoin and May and Go away. And the conclusion was, was that we're gonna have some rough months, but it wasn't time for me personally to sell everything and just sit it out until say, October, November, somewhere around there. Although, maybe that would have been an option for you. I can't tell you what to do. And I will just say that if we take a look at historically the Bitcoin monthly return stable, there are two really bad months, statistically over time. And the worst month of all of them is September. You can see just going from 2022, all the way to 2010 that it averages out about a negative 7% or so.


Hi everyone this is Akio Tanaka from Infinity Ventures. We are early stage VC investing in greater China including Japan and today this morning we have a great honor to have a guest from Taiwan Popo Chen. He's actually he's only 27 years old but he's a multiple entrepreneur. He's already done several companies and several exits. I think he's one of the youngest entrepreneur in from Taiwan that actually has done quite a bit at his own age and today he's actually joining us as the founder of Cobing Hood. Cobing Hood is one of the new platform for doing actually ICO itself but also doing a crypto to crypto currency exchange. So this morning we're gonna talk cryptocurrency with Popo here and Popo welcome to Tokyo and welcome to slash. Thanks for introduction by Akio-san. Okay so Popo I just want to I know you've done multiple startups but actually I lost count how many companies have you done so far? You're only 27. I started my first company when I'm in college I studied electrical engineering and at the age of 20 I founded an app company and by now I have exited three companies. So I'm sure some of them I think people here in the audience are also students and it's actually the right time to stop your own first business. Popo did it out of his own college years but today we're not going to talk about his college startups. We're gonna talk about cryptocurrency and just to check the profile of the audience who in the audience actually currently own any form of crypto assets whether it's Bitcoin, Ether or some any other shitcoin anything is fine just raise your hand. Okay and I know this guy does. Okay so some of you including myself it's really tough time right now but we are still I think generally speaking optimistic in this field and today I'm gonna actually probe a little bit of Popo's brain to actually find out why we should be still be excited about this field and some of the interesting trends happening in industry but first since we are in Japan I think that's something we need to address. Japan is I think is the number one country in the world. I think it's definitely number one. This is the number one country in the world for losing a lot of crypto assets for scams and thefts. So this is a great country that has produced Mongols and we also had a recent hiccup at Coincheck and I know a lot of investors lost money and it's actually it's interesting that Japan always comes out number one in terms of cryptocurrency crimes and hacks but I just wanted to get Popo as the founder of actually exchange that actually deals with cryptocurrency trading and I wanted to actually get his perspective on some of those recent cases we have seen in Japan and elsewhere and so Popo why is it so hard to keep cryptocurrency assets safe and why are there so many losses that we see in the real world? Okay so let's do a case study so the most recent event one of the biggest step is in the Coincheck exchange. Coincheck here in Japan. Let me review a little bit about how it happened so actually everyone can see a Coincheck set on the news later they don't actually use a cold wallet for every asset unless they claim why they don't use a cold wallet is because the withdrawal and deposit will be very fast so it's an operational issue but that's very dangerous let me explain a little about like what's cold wallet storage. Okay but just to say does everybody here understand the difference between cold and hot wallet? I know people who have lost money in Coincheck probably know by now but the most people here know the difference okay so only a couple people know so you need to explain what the difference between cold and hot wallet is. Okay so everyone has like many people may have a hardware wallet like ledger nano s or some other hardware wallet that's called a cold wallet. A cold wallet is not connected to the internet correct it's yes it's completely offline and another way to do that is through something we call is like a multi-signature cold wallet it means it has a multiple cold wallet system that together forms a very strong cold wallet vault so for example you can see we can create a new Bitcoin wallet that requires five out of eight to sign off a transaction to withdraw the funds so in operational exchange normally you will put some funds in the hot wallet that is controlled by your cloud server like Google cloud or AWS and like 90 over 95% should be in the cold wallet because even if someone breached your cloud system or someone hacked your API key they cannot steal the cold wallet they can only scan the funds in the hot wallet so is that sounds clear does that sound clear? I think I hope it's clear I hope everybody at least I don't expect 100% of you to understand but if 80% of you got it I think we can continue with the conversation so but I think I did read the release from Coincheck they kept saying it's hard to do cold cold wallet is it hard? Yeah as they said it's very hard to do the cold wallet system but it actually is not too hard but it will cause lots of operational costs for sure so it's not technically hard but it's operationally hard and make sure deposit and withdraw takes longer so user experience may be damaged but it secures your fund it's a trade-off yeah I think Popeye are you gonna say you talk about the other hack I think at Binance can you tell us a little bit about what happened there? Okay so like Binance is currently the world's like top three cryptocurrency is changing in terms of volume and like two weeks ago it very Binance by the way doesn't have a license in Japan but they're also here in Japan yeah yeah so like hack incident occurred in Binance is setting the newsletter is like someone set up a fishing site and it collected a lot of user names and password on Binance but the system on Binance is not hacked actually so actually is a lot of users of Binance got directed to the fishing site and lost their username and password but why will that cause a huge event in Binance because they have two factors of authentication right they have two factors of authentication so even if a hacker got the username and password they should not be able to log in Binance but there exists like a very tricky bug in the Binance back-end system that is when you have username and password you can directly create an API key so that means you have already logged in this API key doesn't require 2FA yes you can basically with a stolen username and password have full access yes so so when the hacker actually collected a lot of accounts that holds a lot of funds they can actually manipulate the market for example I have 100 million worth Bitcoin I can I can influence any trading pair right and as everyone know because there are a lot of alcohol trading boards they will do the arbitrage across exchanges so if the hacker actually don't need to hack the funds in Binance they just need to short or long in other exchanges and they keep spying on one pair and then they take profit from other exchanges they don't need to withdraw from Binance oh that's very smart so actually they're using stolen accounts to create longer short positions and then actually do the trading somewhere else yeah and they cash out by as many about 200 to 20 million US in one day yeah another is changed because Binance triggered a lock lock down on the withdrawal because of it detects the anonymity of the system so Popo you running also exchange so can I do the same trick on your side no how come every API key you are coming who is changed it has access control like read only or rewrite read what kind of resource like balance only or place older so it actually has a full access control detail and every API key creation and revoke needs to FA so does everybody know to FA to factor authentication I think even if you use service like Google and Facebook nowadays or even Apple you the system will actually require you to use something beyond password it might be SMS or it might be you know your authenticator app to so that you actually have to prove provide second form of security in order to log on user service I think it's actually nowadays quite common in many Internet services but it's definitely needed for some places like you know the cryptocurrency or even other fintech services that actually where you're actually putting real money or assets and it's actually surprising how many companies still don't use it and so I think if you if you haven't done so please go secure of your accounts I think use most of your social media accounts nowadays actually have to FA I'm sure most people here use either Facebook or Twitter I just want to check actually people's security awareness here so who uses to FA second-factor authentication security on your Facebook or Twitter accounts Wow okay so I think people I think there are some hackers might be in the audience go after people who didn't raise their hand their accounts are probably easily hackable well okay so this is the problem with the level security awareness so I think one thing you should take away from session apart from what call what Popo has just said I think you should go lock up your social accounts because it's one of the first places hackers will go after now let's move on to the next topic we have about seven minutes left so I think one of the things I wanted to discuss with you Popo is to talk about training a blockchain I think a lot of people are being doing blockchain this blockchain that all kinds of the new systems and the platform they're building on the block or blockchain and I know you guys are also working on some new project and can you talk about a little bit about the trend and we see in this space and to the extent you can also tell us about what you guys are working on okay so as everyone knows what blockchain enables us to do in the future is to transform the financial landscape by doing enabling a trustless value transfer and smart country execution that means you don't need to rely on a third-party authority or notary service to provide a secure your fund transfer because it's decentralized secured by a consensus algorithm and the cryptography property so instead of one authority or the company controlling the transaction security basically have the whole community enabling it yeah decentralized yes so what the problem lies in current cryptocurrencies is the one is the scalability issue because if system is not scalable it's not practical in a real world because you can see like we saw payment network we have about 4,000 per second transactions but Ethereum only can process like 20 Bitcoin can only process a lot about seven and other like 20 or seven in what time period one second one second per second only seven transactions so if you're if you have a building a global financial system on that it's too slow yeah very slow and the less we haven't talked about peak time transaction like in Alibaba like Taobao or like e-commerce system the peak time of an event may causing like ten times or hundred times traffic so if a system it cannot scale out it is not feasible in a real-world application so we have so currently Bitcoin Ether those systems cannot deal with any peak time transaction of say typical e-commerce sites yes too slow yeah so a lot of solutions have emerged like like Ethereum have a sharding solution and we have some lightning network payments network solutions but all these systems have other causing other new issues that we won't address into detail here but actually if you dig into that all solution currently don't seem very promising to solve the fundamental problem and then what are you gonna do about it so actually but just to summarize the issue today is that nobody is still capable of addressing high transaction needs of financial system yes yeah so and even that's for just value transfer we have smart country execution and in one case is called decentralized exchange so everyone why everyone goes to centralized exchange that is vulnerable to like theft or human intervention human error that cause a lot of problems and the system may be on the downtime shutdown or upgrades that cause a lot of issues for users around the globe well actually I always find that's kind of irony because people are now betting on decentralized future of Bitcoin and Ether however they're all betting on the decentralized future on the centralized exchange yeah whether it's Binance or Coincheck or even Corbing Hood yeah at this point yes centralize we are still centralized but in the future I think when the technology advances it will solve one is the scalability issue another one is called an inter ledger issue so it's called interchamp protocol they can facilitate transactions without a third party to do an inter ledger transaction so what does inter ledger transaction do I think in the previous session repo has demo the inter ledger concept right it's kind of like same concept but repo is kind of like a consortium system so it's not fully decentralized it still needs some collateral on the inter ledger bridging banking system nodes so it is still remain unknown problem how to do build a fully decentralized inter ledger protocol yeah so is that something you guys are working on right now yes yeah we will launch our own blockchain system that is the target is to be infinitely scalable solve the fundamental issue and have a dedicated inter ledger protocol designed to bridge all the assets onto the new system so I don't know if you're allowed to say this today on the stage but what that's actually gonna do to your own exchange are you going to actually make Coving Hood decentralized system as opposed to the current centralized system you know like all the other exchanges in the world actually any decentralized system for sure its latency will be a bit higher because it needs every participating validating nodes to reach a consensus about the finality of the transaction right so I think they will coexist like centralized if you rely on a very high volume and low latency trading experience you go to a centralized one but if you want to be more secure and under the funds under your own control you can go to a decentralized one but currently decentralized exchange are mostly not feasible because the latency is super high and the fees also super high transaction cost is very high yeah okay we have about a one minute left so I think I'm gonna actually ask one last question to Popo as also a personal crypto investor I wanted to pick his brain so there are today so many investment opportunity in crypto currency and tokens and apart from your own stuff Coving Hood are there any crypto investments that you think has a very good long-term future and if you can actually talk about something that you think has a promise and share with us I think I'll definitely appreciate I'll make a note of it myself as well yeah I think Telegram is actually launching their ICO but it's not for the public it's like in private placement and it has a long log up period but that I have read through its white paper and technical white paper is about a hundred and thirty pages yeah Telegram telegram ICO it's called the telegram open network and it looks very promising I think it's worth investing in and it actually proposes some sharding mechanism can solve partially the scalability issue so of all the many ICOs why do you think telegram is promising and you guys have nothing to do with telegram yes okay just just to make sure yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so why do you why do you think telegram has promise so like I said they solve two fundamental issue one is scalability another is like heterogeneous multi-chain system they can do cross-chain transaction intellectual transaction on the mainnet all right you know I'm just doing time check I think we are a little bit over time so I think I'm gonna wrap up this session so thank you very much Popo I think a couple of take away from this session if you haven't done your 2FA on your social media and other financial accounts go home and do it right away and two I think I think blockchains actually enable decentralized systems but our current exchange is still centralized I think it might be interesting I think technical opportunities actually enable decentralized trading in the future I think that's definitely interesting I'm personally my main takeaway is telegram ICO thank you very much Popo and thank you everybody for joining us thank you


I'm News Update. Good afternoon, everybody. I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TF9 headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida. 1 PM Eastern time on Wednesday. Three hours left to go on the trading day. We've got markets hanging around negative territory. S&Ps right now, negative by five points, trading at 28.81. We've got the Nasdaq negative by 26, trading at 77.96. Dow Jones negative by 32 points, trading at 26,016. Notes and bonds, a little bit mixed. 10-year positive five ticks at 126.31. 30-year negative three ticks, 153.16. We've got the dollar index up 265 ticks at 96.910. Goal contract, a little bit of a bid, up $5 at 13.36. And oil off a buck 32 at 51.95. We've got the EIA inventories for crude this morning at 10.30. And we're going to start it off with those numbers for crude. So there's your headline number, crude, with a build of 2.2 million barrels. The median estimate had been a decline of a million barrels, so much more oil than they were expecting in the market. Gasoline, pretty close, a build of 764 versus a build of 953. With that in mind, we're going to jump over. We'll start it off with that crude chart. And there is your 10.30 volatility on that number. So we come into that number, trading at about 52.10. You see crude oscillating back and forth over about 60 to 80 cents. But nonetheless, we're within about 15 pennies of where we were prior to that number with crude, trading at 51.94. Jumping back to the indices. S&Ps, we reach a high just after the opening bell this morning, 28.89. We trade all the way down to a low of 28.75. So you're talking about 14 points. And then, boom, we get a bit of a pop in the last hour, trading at 28.81. NASDAQ 100, pretty similar story. Highs of the session made just after the opening bell of 75.10, about 30 points off that level, trading 74.80. Dow 30, 26,021. We made it up there to a high of 26,089 at 9.40 this morning. We cover crude oil. We got two crudes up there. I want the gold chart. We're going to go into commodities. We're going to close that crude. We're going to pull up that gold contract, because gold's getting some volatility today as well. We're trading at 13.35, just in the last hour. We were up there at 13.41. And backing this up a bit, early, early this morning, at about 5.00 AM, we reached 13.42. Gold trading at 13.36. And Euro US dollar, 1.12.94. Stay tuned, folks. We got a man, Steve Rhodes, coming up right now, live with the Trader's Edge. He'll be live from one till two, Dave White at two o'clock, Tom O'Vine, live from three till five. Wrapping it up, we get the Dow, negative 38 points. Stay tuned, Steve Rhodes, coming up right now.


Welcome back to Ishagami. So what have I really been doing with my new PlayStation 5? It is not what you would expect. I have gone into a big rabbit hole right now on my PlayStation 5 and it is exciting times. Now initially I have been unmotivated, not playing many games lately. For two weeks straight I have only played Skyrim and this is where the story starts. I started playing Skyrim again on my old PlayStation file. I have Skyrim on PlayStation 4 and if you have Skyrim on PlayStation 4 and you have a PlayStation 5 you get the free version of Skyrim PlayStation 5. It's higher resolution textures and 4k support and 60 frames per second support. Just a better experience and the loading screens are instant almost on the PS5 version of Skyrim. But I haven't been playing that because I continued my PS4 version of Skyrim on my PlayStation 5. I know this is confusing, but hear me out. I was thinking to myself how close am I to getting a Platinum on Skyrim? I believe I only have a few trophies left until I have the Platinum trophy of Skyrim and it turns out I only had to complete the companion's quest line, get the thieves guild to former glory. Always a pleasure boss. What could I do for you and get the 15 Daedric artifacts and then I would be set having my Skyrim Platinum. So I did that and the reason I've been going back to Skyrim I talked about that on the podcast because things has happened recently in my life making me go back to this wonderful game, which is such a comfort to me in times that are not very good. So Skyrim is such a fantastic and welcoming world to go back to when I need a sweet release of sorts. Skyrim it is. So I got the PlayStation 4 version of Skyrim Platinum trophy, but this is crazy times, okay? PlayStation 5 version of Skyrim is a separate list of trophies. So now I am building my way up there also to get double Platinum on Skyrim. I like it and it is providing me the fun that I am looking for in a game. I know I have been playing Skyrim for more than thousand hours across all of my systems and save files across the entire all the places that I have played Skyrim. And I went into the menus to have a look which save file have I gone furthest into so to speak. Well, it turns out I have done the most quests on my Nintendo Switch version of Skyrim, which I find to be a very cozy time to play Skyrim on the Switch in bed on the go. It's such a nice thing, but I have to say PlayStation is just better. There are Platinum trophies to collect on PlayStation, but not on Nintendo. Nintendo has never had any achievement system, trophy system. I am so missing it. Right now I am in this time where I find trophy hunting very exciting and addicting.  And Nintendo does just simply not feed my addiction for this addiction that I'm having right now. I mean, even Xbox has achievement. Why cannot Nintendo also get something similar? Oftentimes guys, when it comes to trophy hunting on the PlayStation or Xbox or even Steam PC It is sometimes and I'm sure you're gonna agree with me. It's sometimes motivating me into going into an older game that I haven't been going back to in quite some time. It keeps me coming back to older games, which has happened now. I fired up Yonder because I have Yonder on PS4 and on Switch. I completed the Switch version of Yonder, but I hadn't on the PS4 version of Yonder and now I'm collecting trophies in that. I want a platinum trophy Yonder on PS4 and also Persona 5 Striker. Remember I said I have that on Switch? Well, guess what? It was free on PlayStation Plus some months ago, I think. And now I am playing it on my PlayStation instead of playing it on my Nintendo Switch because of the addiction that I have now with trophy hunting. So that is what I'm really doing with my PlayStation 5 right now. Dipping back into my backlog, my PS4 games backlog, to check and see which trophies are easy to acquire. And I like it. So much fun. So much fun. And right now I am so close on platinum on Death End Request 2. Only missing two trophies in this thing. Death End Request 2. Really cute game. Easy platinum actually. I think I have spent 35 hours and I am close to the platinum trophy. So I'm guessing under 40 hours to get the platinum trophy on that game.  I have now become one. I have officially become one. I have never really been into collecting trophies. For all the years that I've been playing PlayStation, it's always just something that's, oh, that's neat. It pops up in the corner. That's cool and that's sweet. But now it's like, it's a feature. It's a gameplay feature for me right now to try and unlock as many trophies as possible. Keeping my mind occupied. And it's such a sweet release right now. I'm also really close on getting the platinum trophy on Destiny 2. And I talked with my friend, Katriina Baata. And she said she's gonna help me with the last trophy there because I need her help. And then I will be having another platinum trophy. Now, that was very nerdy of me. But I am just being honest with you guys. So I'm really enjoying trophy hunting. Other than that, I am playing a new PlayStation 5 game. This is Kena Bridge of Spirits. Thank you so much, Trey Slayton for sending this over. A subscriber of the channel sent this over to me. My postbox is always open for you guys if you wanna push a game on to me. It's Esha Gaming postbox 1994-81 Hustle Norway. I check it every week. So I was very surprised that you decided to send this game to me. And I have now been checking it out. This is a very beautiful game. It has a big map. But the map in itself has a linear feeling. You also have fast travelling points the further you get up on the map. This is a game that has light puzzles and light combat, I guess. It is a 2021 action adventure game by Ember Lab. And you play as Kena, the spirit guide who helps spirits cross over. This game is out on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and PC. I recommend it on the PlayStation 5. Looking so crisp. So good. With this game, I am seeing the next genness with the graphics. This game even won the best independent game award. So it is an award-winning game. Maybe I will even get a platinum on this game also now that I... That is the way that I'm doing things right now. It's a very cosy game. Thank you so much for, Kena. Now I have some frequently asked questions for me. And that is, are you planning on getting the Steam Deck Esha? I want the Steam Deck, but it is not currently out in Norway. It's not available for us. Unless I want to pay shipping, vat and customs in order to get it across the borders. I don't know if that is even possible. But I would definitely love to get a Steam Deck. Because then I could achievement hunt through my Steam account on the Steam Deck on the go. But you know what? Actually, I would much more prefer to see a handheld PlayStation system dropping. I am so hungry for a new PlayStation system that is handheld. Imagine being on the go and collecting trophies, which is my new thing. The Vita is cute and fine and all of that, but I want the new one. It's been 10 years or more that the Vita has been out. I know it's probably not gonna happen, but I would love to get a handheld PlayStation system. Please, guys. Meanwhile, yes, I am planning on picking up the Steam Deck, but it's not gonna happen anytime soon, I feel like. Maybe not. I don't know. We will see. Another question that I have gotten very much now into my inbox is, are you gonna play Harvest Allah, the new game that has been announced, I guess, by Square Enix? And yes, of course. Because it very much looks like Rune Factory 5. And yeah, that looks like a game that I would enjoy. Definitely. I mean, look at it. So the answer to that is yes, I will play it, and I will talk about it when the time comes. And the last question is, are you going to review Fire Emblem Warriors? Three hopes. Yeah, I am. I got my review copy yesterday, so it will come when I'm ready. You know, I'm very picky with my reviews. I want them to be very detailed, so I'm taking my time. It's going to come. I feel like I'm a broken record. I always say that it's going to come, but I'm gonna take my time. I always take my time. You know what? None of my videos are quick productions. None of them are. They take a long time to make, believe it or not. And I'm very proud of my channel and the videos that I'm making. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth it. If I wouldn't be proud of what I'm creating on this YouTube channel, it wouldn't be worth it. I create the videos that I would like to see for myself, I guess, if that makes sense. Whatever. Okay, I want to hear which platinum trophies on the PlayStation or any other achievement for that matter are the easiest ones that you have acquired and the hardest ones that you have acquired. Leave a comment down below about that. Now, please hit like even though you are on the TV right now. I'm just assuming that you're watching YouTube on TV. I do. You can hit like even if you are on TV. Now, I want you guys to listen to Diskidisk and I have gotten new kittens. And just a bunch of personal stories and stuff are for the most part dropped on the podcast. Have fun with that. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you later.


Hey guys, it's me, Broogly, welcome back to a br- Oh. Oh, sorry, I didn't- didn't see you there. Wait, that's- that's- that's the wrong dude. What? Huh? So inside of the back rooms, there are many levels that take the appearance of old, abandoned malls. Ones that have been forgotten, or infested by creatures, or are just completely broken. But in this video, I'm gonna be talking about the mall that takes the cake, and is the most dangerous one of all of the malls in the back rooms. The level in question is level 33.3, or the dusty mall depths. From dark, empty corridors, to toxic, dust creatures, to crippling, liminal loneliness, this is back from level 33.3. Let's get into it, shall we? Guys, I did it. I'm finally famous, man. I can- I can quit. I can retire. I am now a marketable plush. Let's- let's pack it up and leave. See ya. This is crazy, y'all. Check it out, the Broogly U2's plush. This is him, right here. Look how adorable this dude is.  A few months ago, U2's reached out to me and they were like, hey, you got a pretty cool-looking character. We make plushes. Let's work something out. I was like- I was like, yeah, let's do it. So for the past few months, U2's and I, the company, have been putting together this design to encapsulate the Broogly creature into this beautiful, cute, adorable plush. I think we did a pretty dang good job. You got all the trademarks. You got the five eyes. You got the forehead, veins, and wrinkles. You got his little tie down here. Look at it flopping around. You can- you can tuck it in his vest if you want to, if you're feeling fancy.  This is the epitome of greatness. This is- this is peak, right here, seriously. Thank you so much to all of you. This would not be possible without my amazing fans. You all are phenomenal. You've changed my life. Seriously, I can't say thank you enough. If I did, it would be a 40 hour long video. Thank you to U2's for thinking that I'm famous and clouded enough to make a plush on me, because this is the biggest moment of my career. Seriously, this is amazing. Real quick, a couple of things on how you can get your hands on a Broogly plush. The plush will be available starting on October the 6th at 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. So a week from today, a week from literally right now, the plush will be available to purchase, and it'll be up in a video. The link will be there. You can get one from there. Or you can enter the giveaway, which I'm doing now for the next week. So I'm doing a giveaway of the Broogly plush, and I'm gonna walk you through right now how to enter that giveaway if you want a chance at getting a free little dude. Once these plushies sell out, they'll never be made again. I mean, they will physically be incapable of being created again. They're gonna send all the raw materials to the back rooms themselves, and you will never get this again. You'll have 14 days after October the 6th to purchase one of these, or else you'll never have one. And trust me, these things are gonna sell like hotcakes. So get ready. Anyways, let me walk you through the giveaway. So all you gotta do is click the top link in the description, and it'll take you to this website. And you can have up to four chances to enter this giveaway. All you gotta do is follow you twos on Twitter, sub to their YouTube, visit their Reddit, follow them over on Instagram as well, and you can be entered up to four times. Now if you only want to do one of those, you can. You don't have to do all four. That's fine, you can just do it once, but to be entered, you have to do one of those at least. All right, let me see. You got the plush, you got the link, you got the release date, October 6th, 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Be there.  So get ready. This dude won't last long. It's gonna be amazing. I hope to see all of you rocking these plushes. Thank you so much again to all of you for your support. Thank you to you twos for again thinking I'm famous material enough to be immortalized into this plushie. Love and appreciate you all. Let's get back to the regular programming, shall we? So Backroom Level 33.3 is a sub level of its parent level 33. Now I have gone over level 33 in another video, but in case you haven't heard of it or if you're new here or something, it's pretty much just a crusty flooded abandoned mall. But this sub level is part of that giant mall complex. The sub level has been given a class 5e difficulty rating, meaning that there's a dangerous and hazardous environment and that you'll encounter many things that don't make any sense. The level resembles an old abandoned mall, but it's not really to the extent of decay that its regular parent level is. This sub level is more just empty, not necessarily overgrown and flooded. It actually looks to be an abandoned mall from the country of Croatia specifically, because we think it's Croatia because there are stores like Spar and Mueller here. We don't know, could be a guess. There are also a few empty markets and fish markets and that kind of thing in the level 2, which is different from its parent level. The level has been split up into four sections as of right now, and I'm gonna hop into those explanations right now I guess. The first one is the main area, or the main hall. This is where most of the shops and the staircases and the hallways are, and this is the central location for this sub level. You can only go up or down from here, you're just right in the middle on this main hall. Now if you remember, the name of the level is the Dusty Mall Depths, and that's because on this level there is an enigmatic type of dust that inhabits it, that floats around, that's over everything. I'm gonna get into all that in its properties and stuff later in the entity portion, but just know that it's very dangerous. But here in this main hall, there is a moderate amount of that dust all over the surfaces and in the air. An estimated 50-ish percent or so of the air is filled with dust, and again, you'll know what that means later. But another strange quirk here in this level is that there is a lack of good gravity throughout this mall, meaning that you'll have the ability to leap and jump around easily, and kind of just swim through the air like you'd be on a planet or the moon or something. The main level 33 doesn't have this effect, so it's really unknown how it's centralized to this sub level. I don't know, man, the back room is weird. Don't ask me. The second section of this level is known as the second floor, where many of the smaller shops and offices and hallways are located. This part feels more liminal and empty and darker, but it's like a transitional place that you've been trapped in. There are several big bathroom complexes here as well as closets and offices, and everything here has this layer of dust and emptiness over it all. Now on the far wall of this second floor, there is a large spiral staircase that goes up and down. This staircase is very enigmatic and is surrounded and shrouded in mystery. Some people think it's just an infinite staircase. Some people think it's the way out of the back rooms. Some people think it just doesn't do anything. It's just a staircase. We don't know. Now on this second floor, the dust content is surprisingly low. There's only about 20% in the air that has dust, but that does mean that it's about twice as safe as the first floor. The third section of the level is thought to be underground, like a basement type area. This is where it gets crazy because there is more dust and debris in the air. It's also where there are parking garages located, as well as meat markets and other shops. The entire vibe here is darker and dingier and just more quiet and empty. This section does, like I said, have the highest dust concentration, and pretty much all of the air here is very infected with it, making it hard to breathe and even harder to think clearly. There's just so much dirt and dust and abandonment that it's not recommended to come down here or to this level, to be honest, but if you're going to be here, don't go to this part of it. It's very dangerous unless you have a gas mask. Also, the gravity here in this basement area is pretty normal, which is weird, because everywhere else, it's not normal. I don't know. Now, there is actually a final floor, and it's not really a floor. It's more of an outdoor area, and this is the fourth zone. It's accessed from randomly appearing exits throughout the level, and it takes the appearance of a small outdoor mall type place with coffee carts and shops, and it's very eerie and empty, and it just looks like it's fake, because it's so perfect. There's been a few reports of facelings walking around out here, which is the first sighting of an entity you might see besides the dust. This place is actually the least polluted area in the level because there's barely dust in the outside. There is still some. You don't get off the hook that easy, let me tell you, but it's way better than being inside, trust me. Gravity is also normal here, so no jumping around for you. So this whole time, I've been yapping about gravity being different and dust being everywhere, and I'm sure you're wondering why those things even matter. Let me explain. So gravity being different across the different parts of the level is a very strange, unknown, enigmatic thing that we don't understand. It's significantly reduced across this level compared to normal gravity from other levels and real life, and it's been noted that when you jump around and, you know, fly through the air, it's less of flying through the air and more of swimming through the air. And people say it's harder to swim through the air here than it is to swim through water. Now this might mean that the strands of reality or the atmosphere here is harder or deeper or thicker than normal reality. Who knows? Maybe that's why the dust sticks there too. We don't know. But this gravity and thick atmosphere might give wanderers sickness and shortness of breath and exhaustion and dizziness and that kind of thing. Just pretend the sky above you is like dense and thick. That's what this is. Now as for the dust that's on the surfaces in the level and floating around in the air, this is where the level gets that class 5e difficulty from. The dust particles are strangely thick and they just hang and stay in the air. Like I said, it could be because the air is thicker or it could be because the dust itself is more of an entity that can do it at once. But if you do inhale or come into contact with this dust, this can lead to a host of different problems. Inhaling the dust can lead to internal bleeding, choking, gagging, acid reflux and combustion of one's stomach and internal organs. Yeah, that's awesome. And depending on how long a wanderer stays here and how much dust they inhale, your organs could literally get so infected and your insides could get so infected from this dust that you could literally just turn into dust yourself. But it is for this reason that it's not recommended to come to this level under any circumstance unless you want to become like a stuffed teddy bear but with dust. Now it seems as if the dust spreads inside of people like a bacteria in a way. Each particle splitting and multiplying in seconds almost like it's a live virus and not dust. It also seems to be sentient because like I said it attacks different organs and systems in the body like it knows where they're at and it goes for them. So it's definitely not normal dust. We just call it that because it looks like it is. Who knows? The leading theory is that it's sentient and it's some kind of hive mind and that's why you should not breathe it in. Now as far as actual like flesh and blood entities, there are a few normal ones like facelains and hounds and skin stealers and smileers like one or two of those. But these entities are also infected and susceptible to the dust and can suffer the same fate as people who stay here for too long. Which is pretty weird because most of the time entities aren't pervious and invincible to the levels that they stay in. I don't know, I guess the back room has had enough of everybody. Especially smileers, they look weird. To enter this level you have to be wandering in level 33 the main part until you get too deep and too far in and then you'll end up transitioning to the sub level before you can even turn around and leave. To exit, you have to find a hallway back to level 33 you can't go back the way you came it disappears, you can't see it, you have to find a new one or you can find a door labeled security and if this door labeled security gets opened it should take you to level 81 but the time you're here looking for an exit try not to breathe in as much as you can because if you do you'll be filled with dust and all of your organs will be attacked and you'll just become one big next bunny thing. Alright thank you all so much for watching the video if you didn't up enjoying the video at all and you want to support me in any way leave a like, it's free and if you also want to support me in another way check out my dude, my Broogly U2s. 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When the market rests, you rest. When the market pushes. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Access a Trader dot com nightly wrap up show. Hope everybody is doing well. So the month of October comes to an end. And by the way, full disclosure, if you start here, my dog bark, it's Halloween, kids already trick and treating. So forgive me in advance, but happy Halloween everybody. Hope everybody is doing well. So the month of October is gone, right? It's finished. Why is this month significant? Well, the Dow put in its biggest move since 1976. I was two years old trading for eight years already, right? That's how significant the month of October was. And in the meantime, while it put in this really, really big move, it reclaim some major, major, major levels.  So if you put this into perspective, you're talking about 46 years. We haven't seen a month in the Dow, like we saw in October of 2022. Again, granted, it's only 30 stocks. Is it significant? Is it not significant? It's very cool, right? It's absolutely very cool. But more important, it's kind of what it's doing for the fourth quarter. And that's the most important part. We rested today. And after a 6% move of last week, was it really outlandish to think we were going to have a resday? Probably not, right? If you look at all the names that had their big movers last week, the apples of the world, they rested, right? You know, a lot of, you're going to see a lot of inside days today, a lot of inside charts that look like this day. Amgen that went on a really, really big run, for some reason, my chart doesn't want to update, right? Had a really, really big run rested today. Even a name like Netflix, we had a nice little pivot on Netflix today to the downside. But even Netflix, they had a really, really big run. It's finally getting a little bit tired, putting in three days in a row of lower highs, lost a five day moving average, maybe there's one more day to get it down to the 10 day moving average. But more important is the psychology. And that's kind of where we want to talk about today. Everybody wants that nonstop wrecking ball type of action.  It doesn't work like that. We all know it doesn't work like that. In a bear market, we talked about every single day, we're all still below the 50 day moving average, but we talked about in a bear market, the market's not going to go straight down. There's going to be pregnant pauses. There's going to be rallies on counter rallies those days. And we're going to get exactly the same thing as far as the S&P and the Dow. As long as we continue to close over the 50 day moving average, and that's where we are right now. We are well above the 50 day moving average in the Dow. We're trying to get a little bit one more area. If the Dow could just even go sideways for the next few days, there's one more area here. If we could clear out this 30, let's just call it 329 level on the diamonds. If 329 starts kind of clearing out after a little bit of distribution, I think we're going to go higher. If you look at the SPY, again, nice little break today on the SPY put in an inside day. Now, the longer we build, and this is very, very important, the longer we build, continue to build above the 50 day moving average, the higher probability. Well, this more appreciation of stock prices, and that's exactly what we saw today. Again, another inside day. You had a lot of stocks that had big, big moves, well deserved rest. And you're going to see that over and over and over that in tonight's session. The Russell, again, has been a rocket, right? It's been really, really strong. Just to give you an idea how small names were today, even though a lot of stocks were very disconnected, and there was a lot of rest scenarios, give you an idea of how strong, at least the psychology is where we are right now. You had the small EV names, right? They're basically the Tesla's versions of three-legged dogs. You have names like Nikola today, right? Yeah, Nikola. Look at Nikola.  Where are you even going to find them? I think that Nikola is the size of a toy car, right? You had Nikola moving up. You had FSR, right? Fisker at least had that really, really cool sports looking car. I think they kind of unrolled several years ago, but even Fisker woke up, right? A name like Rivian, which is a real company. I know it's more prevalent in the West Coast, but even Rivian. So you're seeing a lot of names that were out of favor for a very, very long time kind of wake up as a group. As a matter of fact, I actually really, really like Rivian in the next couple of days. You see how he just keeps on getting rejected off this purple line? If he could just reclaim it in the next few days, maybe this thing wakes up. But more important is getting speculation money, guys. That's the kind of rule of thumb. When the market is good, they chase anything. They'll buy anything. Not some dinky, rinky, $2 low-float stock with a hundred share of lots, but again, speculation money. Today, they talked about the pot stocks, right? They caught a bid today. Look at Tillray, right? Again, so when you see this type of action, this is not action that you would notably find in a bear scenario, in a frowned upon scenario. You would have never found that two weeks ago, right? Nobody would be bidding up and chasing these stocks two weeks ago, but the market has changed. The dynamics have changed. The one thing that has not changed yet, right? And I'm starting to get a little bit worried about it, not to the point of like, I'm losing sleep at night. The Nasdaq 100, again, continues to trail, right? We talked about on the weekend update, and that's because a lot of the leaders blew up on earnings, right? So if you look at names like Google, right? They're not going to participate because they blew up on earnings. You're not going to have a really great, strong participation on Amazon. It blew up on earnings. A name like Microsoft, right? Market leader, but it blew up on earnings. So we have all these things and meta today that broke down below earnings lows. But by the way, which I butchered the out of the trade, stock completely, completely imploded today, I think has more downside. So when you have scenarios that the market leaders are just weighing in on the major index, it's going to be very, very tough to push across. Now again, if eventually everybody gets tired, the sellers get numb, and we talked about that on the weekend update, and everything starts to go, then, hey, everything will rise.  But the point is, the longer we stay below, right? This area here, 8460, 8460, it keeps on getting rejected. The longer we stay below that 8460 level, the higher probability that we will roll over. The only thing is you don't need to guess. You don't need to anticipate. You don't even have to have a conversation with anybody to entertain this thought. We know the levels. We talked about the levels kind of in nausea on the weekend update, right? Below this 272 that held three times is going to go lower, and above 28460, if it starts building above, it's going to go higher. So for us to kind of speculate, well, you know, maybe it's going to, it's not its time. Maybe it's going to just start dragging everything down. It's a little bit premature, and that's the most important part. Don't, you know, don't try to anticipate something that's just not there, right? Like, so for example, there's a lot of charts that are sitting in the middle of their channels. They look good. They look that they're about to go, but they kind of stalled out and they kind of paused. We don't want that market, right? We want to make sure that everything wakes up and maybe that Microsoft that kind of let us out of that little funk a couple of days ago, not Microsoft, excuse me, Apple, maybe they finally wake up and pull everything up. So Microsoft and Apple, again, the two biggest weights on the NASDAQ, Apple had a really, really good digestive inside day, which basically mean it rested. Look at the volume on Friday versus the volume today. It traded down only a couple of points in the middle of the range. Didn't take out the highs. Didn't take out the lows. This is, you know, bullish action, right? This is called the res day. I would love to see Apple maybe go one more day sideways, right? Like one more day sideways and just maybe take out the range. And if it does take out the range, maybe at some point in the middle of the week, maybe everything finally does get pulled up. So when you see, for example, Amazon, Meta, Google, Microsoft, if they start participating, you know, everything will start participating as well. Look at a name like, for example, like Tesla, right? We saw some really, really good call buying today, some pretty aggressive short-term expiration. One guy came in, I believe it was for the November 18th expiration for the 250 calls. The dude laid out $2 million worth of premium. I don't know. That sounds that he's not uncertain, right? To kind of borrow the phrase from billions on showtime. But look at this range here, right? If this thing could just get above this range. Again, everything is out of the way. The delivery numbers are out of the way. The AI event is out of the way. The earnings are out of the way. So now it's just functioning organically. So if this thing could just get above the range here in the next couple of days, maybe if Apple wakes up, this wakes up, everything wakes up. Look at Nvidia still underneath supply, right? Still underneath supply. And again, it's trying to push through every single day, trying to push through, trying to push through, doesn't have a lot of luck yet. But if they could just get above this channel as well, maybe everything wakes up as well. And again, if they all wake up or they don't wake up, and that's kind of the whole point. The group that is unlike any other group in the market is beta names, technology. If one go, they all go. If one dies, they all die. That's kind of like, it's one of those band of brothers type of situation. And that's kind of where we are. So what we're going to need to see over the next day or so, and that's the whole thing. We don't know how long distribution is going to last, or at least digestion of recent gains. But if we can get a good digestive cycle the next 24, 48 hours, and we don't sell off, right? And if we don't sell off, then I think the NASDAQ finally goes through. But again, as long as you know your levels, and this is the most important part, as long as you know your levels, right? The upside 28460, the downside 272, as long as you know your two levels here, you don't have to guess, you don't have to think, and you don't have to have, you know, a series of opinions for different people. It's all about levels, and when, and they do confirm. So going into tomorrow, look, is it possible we do have one more slower day? It's possible. It really is. It definitely is possible. I think we'll find some names. Again, the idea that meta broke down, its earnings lows probably continues lower. So that's obviously going to be on watch. We saw some, you know, pretty aggressive short term, you know, 90, 95, 90, 95 puts coming in, right? 90, 95 puts coming in short term on Amazon. That's bearish, right? I'm going to watch this thing to the bottom channels if it doesn't get pulled up in the next few days.  So the idea that everything is going to rally at the same time, it's a really good novel idea. And I'd love to see that happen because everything goes, everything's going to go. But the point is the NASDAQ names are still trying to get their heads above water. They're still trying to fight back. We're still in the middle of the range, not at the top, not at the bottom. And the question is what gives?  Or is the four horsemen of meta, right? Google, Amazon and Microsoft going to say, you know what, now we're good. We're going to go lower to be determined. And that's the whole point to be determined as well.  Sometimes you have to take a breather. Sometimes you have to take a step back. Like I've always said, you can have the most aggressive, high performance vehicle on the planet, right? Like a Bugatti or something. But you're not going to drive it 100 miles an hour in midtown Manhattan rush hour traffic and Times Square. Just not. And that's the most important part.  When the market pushes, you push. And that's kind of the law of attraction. And that's kind of the way I've been trying to do things for the latter part of 23 years. So guys, have a great night, everybody. Let's see how long the distribution kind of lasts for the next several days. We're obviously watching a lot of names that blew up to continue for weakness. We'll see if they could take down today's channels. We're watching Tesla to the upside. We're watching continuation possibly for Apple. We're going to watch the video for the next couple of days as well. All right, everybody. Have a great night. Stay safe. Happy Halloween. And I will see you all tomorrow.


Live from Nice, France. It's theCUBE, covering Dotnext Conference 2017 Europe, brought to you by Nutanix. Welcome back, I'm Stu Miniman and you're watching the CUBE SiliconANGLE Media's independent live broadcast of Nutanix.next here in Nice, France. Happy to have joined with me, first time guest, John McAdam, who's the former CEO of F5 and an independent board member for a number of companies including F5, Tableau, and Nutanix, the show that we're at. So John, thanks so much for joining us. No, thank you, thanks for having me.  Just give us a little bit about, you know, your background in business and, you know, what brings you here? Yeah, I graduated from Glasgow University, you probably can tell from the accent, I'm Scottish. Yes. I moved over to the States when I joined a company called Sequent in 1994 and I became President of Sequent in 1995 and I've actually been in the States since then, up until I retired in April this year. So I spent 11 years at Sequent, President and Chief Operating Officer, big server company is what we did at the time, mainly selling Oracle type databases running in the servers. We were purchased, we were acquired by IBM in 99. I stayed with IBM for a year. I was running the AIX business globally for IBM and then I was head hunted by F5 Networks and I joined them in 2000, just as .com, Bust was about to happen, and we'll talk about that later maybe. And I was the CEO at F5 for 17 years. And during the last few years, I joined the board of Tableau as you mentioned and a company called Aptio as well based in Seattle and of course Nutanix. Yeah, so a lot of our audience are, you know, everything from, you know, CIOs to people that someday might want to be, you know, a CIO, but very much kind of a mix of a blend of business and technology. Can you tell people, some people are like, I don't understand how somebody becomes an independent board member. You're not, you know, the former CEO of that company or you're not one of the people. What does it mean to be an independent board member? You know, it's an interesting story because I, the board member, the board, the independent board members at F5 actually kept encouraging me to join a board. And I kept saying, no, I don't need to do that. I'm really busy focusing the company. And also I've been a board member since 1995 as an executive. You know, so I'm a board member of Sequent and a board member of F5. So why would I want to join a board? And then eventually I actually got approached, first of all, by Tableau, the CEO of Tableau at the time and it seemed a very interesting conversation. So I decided to join the board. It was pre-IPO and I thought I could add some value there in terms of growing the company, et cetera. So I went along to the first board meeting and I went to the second and I came back to the F5 board and I said, I am really, I apologize. I should have done this earlier. I didn't appreciate how much I would realize and learn being at the other side of the table as an independent board member. Because remember, you're turning up once every three months or two months. You don't know the day-to-day what's going on, but you have a very different perspective. And I wish I had done it earlier, but really it's all about trying to give consultancy, support, advice, obviously there's governance, things you do as well. And I've really enjoyed being on the boards and especially in eutonychs. Okay, your career, you know, we've had, you know, I think about since the time you joined F5. I mean we've, you know, there was the dot-com crash, there was the down turn in 0708.  What do you take away for those and how do you help advise the companies that you're working with? Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. It's been an interesting experience. When I joined, as I mentioned earlier, it was a dot-com about to crash happening. And the big issue for F5 was, it was actually 90% dot-com business. So the revenue collapsed completely. The stock price dropped from today's price from $21 to a dollar and a half. You know, we've run out of cash in certain areas. We ended up selling off 10% of the company to actually Nokia, they took ownership. So it was very much a survival phase. And in that phase, you really have to, you know, you need to make quick decisions. There's no time for the coaching that you would normally do. It's not as inspirational. But once you're out of it, once you get the P&L and the profit and loss and the balance sheet and good shape, then we moved into what I would call stability, it's the stability phase. And the deal there was that we really were building a new architecture or product. We knew it was going to take a couple of years. So that's all about making sure that you're in a good environment. You're going to deliver the goods from a market perspective. And we did that. And I remember this well, in September 2004, we announced a new version, a new architecture. Boom, we jumped into the growth mode. 50% growth, not quite as much as new standings today, but 50, 55, 40%. That's different. That's an inspirational world. You know, where you're really trying to inspire the company, it's all about hiring, it's, you know, and it's fun. How much do companies, when you advise them, worry about kind of what's happening to them versus, you know, what's happening kind of, you know, locally and globally for a kind of economic standpoint. I know, you know, I talked to D'Rodge many times, kind of leading up to the IPO. And it was like, well, we have no control over kind of the global economical pieces. So, you know, we're building for the long-term and we will just eventually have to be like, okay, we'll go out in the public market. You know, you can't, just like buying and selling stocks, you can't necessarily time it. So, how does that impact, you know, to kind of balance some of those things? Yeah, I mean, the best example is 2008. 2008, 2009, where we had the financial crisis. And as I mentioned, we were very much in growth phase in 2004, five, six, seven. Interest enough, as we were moving into 2008, the timing wasn't great because we were doing a product transition and then along came the financial crisis. And it was pretty mind-boggling in the end of 2008, December 2008, customers stopped buying. And we went, at first, we thought, oh my God, this is just us. And of course, pretty soon moving into January 2009, you realize it's not you. So, we didn't ignore it, to be honest. We didn't ignore it, but what we did do was we kept hiring. We cut back a little bit on the hiring. And in fact, I wish we hadn't done that. I wish we'd have completely ignored it. And the reason, and of course, this is me now looking back, so I can say that. The reason I'm saying I wish we hadn't even ignored it and kept growing was only six months after moving into the second half of 2009, not only did we see our business start to grow again, but it accelerated because there was a demand that had built up during that time. So, bottom line is I don't think you can ignore global issues going on. You certainly can't ignore big global issues like 2008, but you still have to focus on what you know is your business, especially if you know you've got a good market. You know there's a demand and just see yourself through it. Yeah, you mentioned one of the companies you joined was pre-IPO from an advisor standpoint. Have you been a Nutanix advisor since before the IPO? I've actually had the unique experience of being on Tableau pre-IPO and Nutanix pre-IPO and also AppTool, all pre-IPO. So I've watched the three of them going through the IPO process. So, of course, Dirage tries to say look, I'm not going to let Wall Street kind of dictate anything, but it has to be a little bit different when you've got the financial people looking at things from the outside, always trying to second-guess strategy and the like. How do you give advice through that? My advice on this is, and it is somewhat different. To say it's not different wouldn't be completely correct. However, you can't let Wall Street run your business. You can't, especially if you've got conviction in terms of what you're doing. The one area where you do need to be a bit careful is that the thing I've always said when I was CEO of F5 was our business is all about, when I was asked about do you think you could be acquired? The answer's always been from me the following. We're focused on the business. We're focused on growing a company. When you do that, you become more strategic and attractive to other companies. But as long as you keep growing, your market cap keeps high and you keep going. If your market cap drops, it's worth the stock price, there's always a danger that you could become an acquisition target. So you can't ignore it completely. But frankly, both those messages are win-wins for investors. Yeah. Absolutely. What can you say about Nutanix? Year after an IPO, 2,800 employees pushing globally. This show's doubled in attendance from last year without getting into closed doors things. What's your take on Nutanix? Yeah, and as an independent director, I have to be more generic, but clearly fast growing company and a great market, a leader in the hyper-convergent market. I love their concept of simplicity, invisible infrastructure. I think that that's a place that customers want to be right now, so I think they're in a really good position. Yeah, what in the market is interesting these days? I look across kind of the companies you work with, data is becoming more and more valuable. And I spent many years working for a large storage company. Used to be, wasn't really about the data, it was about the storing. And now, data from the big data companies, everything else, it's about how do I leverage and get information out. We're hearing Nutanix play into that message. Yeah, and really it's the three main areas, data, data in particular, the clouds. I'm not going to give you anything new here and security, they're the three hot topics today. And the three of those are twisted in a knot, are they not? They're all linked together. Yeah, we just interviewed a gentleman from a bank and he said basically, all of our budget gets put on security these days. Yeah, I mean, what concerns you is the kind of, the geopolitical, that hackers in ransomware, security, I think back early in my career, security always got lip service as being important, but today it absolutely comes to the front of mind. And most companies I talk to are concerned would probably be understating it as to kind of the state of security. Absolutely, I mean, it's touching everybody now. Boards, independent board members, it's high up on the list of discussion topics at board meetings. Every company is vulnerable and if you're a technology company that's got customer data and you're in the security business as well, you really have to make sure that you're well protected. Yeah, how often is security a board level discussion these days? Most board members, most board discussions and certainly in the audit committee, it's almost everyone now, it is. Yeah, what has to happen there? Making sure that there's been, it's being looked at properly by the executives that they take it seriously, there's enough investment. You know, making sure that all the tools are in place if there is an attack, all of the above. Yeah. Do you touch on GDPR at all? I'm curious if that comes up in your conversation. No, I haven't been involved in that. I mean, I know there's a breakout session on it today but I've not been involved in that. Yeah, it just reminds me a similar thing is people have said you need to make sure you're doing your due diligence and doing as much as you can, which feels like the same for security because nobody's going to say, yes, I'm 100% secure because there's no such thing anymore. There's no such thing and there's so many different attacks and frankly, most companies have got solutions, security solutions from so many different vendors in some times from your competitor. All right, so the last thing I have to say is I don't think we've ever done the cube in Scotland and it's a beautiful country, so we got to figure out how to do some small event there. Yeah, I'll help you. All right, John, want to give you the final word.  Obviously you're an independent board but you probably have some meetings but talk to us about a show like this. What brings you? Yeah, and this is the first one I've attended. I've actually attended one similar with Tableau and a similar with Aptio as well. So I like to do, it's good for an independent board member to see some of the presentations, how the executives and management are talking to customers. So it's actually good to get more of a feel for the business. All right, well John McCatham, appreciate you bringing a different perspective to our programming. We always want to help give a taste of what's happening at these shows out to our audience. So thank you so much for joining us. I'm Stu Miniman and you're watching The Cube.