From Austin, Texas, it's the Cube, covering Pure Storage Accelerate 2019, brought to you by Pure Storage. Welcome to Austin, Texas. This is the Cube Live with the fourth annual Pure Accelerate. I'm Lisa Martin with Dave Vellante. Dave, we're in Texas. Yeah, Texas again. Austin, Texas, very interesting venue for this fourth annual Pure Storage Accelerate. A lot of construction, a lot of music, yeah, it's cool. So we just came from the keynote and news announcements, customers on stage, but the first thing to point out is this is, Pure is about to celebrate their 10th anniversary. Charlie Giancarlo, CEO and chairman who's coming on the program with us in just a few minutes, talking about what they have innovated and delivered these 10X improvements in 10 years, kind of this overnight success in 10 years and what's coming. What were some of the things that really stuck out at you in the keynote? Well, first of all, ironically, this is the 10th year of the Cube, not our 10th anniversary, but it's the 10th year of doing the Cube. And so our fourth year, I think, at Pure Accelerate, about, what, 3,000 people here? You know, the keynote, Pure was laying out what their vision is of the modern data experience. And I felt like the keynotes, Lisa, were sort of a speed date of what's coming. There's a couple of major announcements that we'll talk about. But they really are trying to differentiate as the modern storage company, trying to deposition the competition as the old guard, is to use a term that Andy Jassy uses, Pure didn't use that term, but they really talked about it's time to go modern. And so they were an overnight success. It took them 10 years, was one of the comments that was on stage. So I think it's worth pointing out a couple of things. Let me lay out sort of my thoughts on Pure as a company. They were the only storage company in the past, let's call it decade, to reach what I'll call escape velocity. They achieved a billion dollars a couple of years ago. They're doing about a billion and a half on a trailing 12 month basis. They'll do 1.7 billion this year. And their valuation's about 4.5 billion. So they got a 3x valuation and that fluctuates. That's pretty good for a storage company. They're the only major storage company that's really growing rapidly. They got 28% growth. I did a breaking analysis on LinkedIn and I'll just share with you some of the numbers. Dell is flat at 0%. So Dell is actually gaining share with no growth. That's kind of scary. NetApp minus 16% in the quarter. HPE minus 3%. IBM minus 21%. And so, and then it's Pure at 28%. So they're really crushing it in terms of growth. They've also got a 69% growth margin. Even if in its heyday, EMC's gross margins weren't that high. You know, they were in the sort of mid-60s. And so, and they've also got a good balance sheet, about a billion dollars in cash, a little more than that. They got some debt and they're shifting their model to a deferred revenue model. Now the only thing is, you know, they're growing much, much faster than the competition. But they're throwing off a lot less cash because they're much smaller. Just as an example, they probably throw off five to 6% of their revenues in cash. NetApp probably throws about 23% of its revenues off in cash. So big delta there. So the point is, long-winded, but Pure Storage is in growth mode. And until the market rewards more consistent sort of cash flow, they're going to, I think, stay in huge growth mode. So that's kind of my take. That was a great analysis, Dave. And I saw an analysis that you did with some spend data. Just a couple weeks ago, you referenced a little bit of that. There seems to be a tailwind behind Pure. You mentioned the 28% growth that they announced in Q2. And some of the things that also they talked about were, they're adding about, in Q2 of FY 2020, about seven net new customers every business day, adding about 450 new customers just in that quarter. Like you said, 3,000 folks expected here today. The momentum is behind them, but they're also a company of firsts. You've talked about this a number of times, the first with all flash, the first with NVMe on the back, and a couple of additional firsts announced today. Talk about the as-a-service model and how that youth, in your opinion, you think might continue that trajectory that they're on. Yeah, so basically Pure laid out today, said the vast majority of our portfolio is going to be available as a service. That's the cloud consumption model. It's important because Pure has about $600 million in deferred revenue, largely coming from their Evergreen service, but they are slowly shifting their model to a subscription model. It's going to be very interesting to see how that plays out. We've seen a number of companies do it. Tableau and Adobe kind of pulled the band-aid off and did it. Splunk has taken years to do it. It's going to be interesting to see how Pure goes for that. I'll bring it back to the cloud. You know, Pure is largely an on-prem storage company. That's where most of the revenues come from, but we heard the gentleman from Amazon today, I think it was Ethan Weiner, not Ethan, anyway. Mr. Weiner, he said that Gartner did a survey last year. It showed 88% of customers said they have a cloud-first strategy, but 86% of those customers continue to spend on-prem.  Pure would much rather, they make much more money on-prem, but they realize customers are pulling them in. So they have to move to that as a service model. One of the interesting things that Pure has done, which, you know, it's not really a first, but it certainly is for the large storage companies, they've announced block storage on AWS. So basically what they're doing is they're taking the Pure experience, it looks like Pure software, and they're front-ending cheap S3 storage from Amazon with EC2 compute instances, and they've architected, using Amazon services, this basically a block storage array in the cloud. So Amazon gets paid, Pure gets paid, it's a little bit of a premium, but you get higher availability, you get great write performance, and you get the Pure cloud experience. Pretty interesting strategy. And they're talking about it really as this positioning it, rather as a bridge, a bridge to hybrid cloud. There's numbers that the Amazon gentleman share that you mentioned from Gartner were really interesting. Both sides recognizing there's a forcing function there, and that forcing function is the customers. From the enterprise to the small business who need to have data available immediately, wherever it is, be able to extract those insights from it quickly so that those companies, whether it's a Capital One or a Delta Airlines, or a smaller organization, can act on it quickly to drive competitive advantage. It's the same kind of challenge that Pure Storage has, but really that forcing function of the customer, clearly bringing the giant AWS together with yet another storage partner. So Pure, as I say, reached escape at velocity. They and Nutanix were the only kind of new entrance that reached a billion dollars. Nutanix, I really don't consider a storage company, they're kind of hyper-converged. And the way they did that is they drove a truck through EMC's install base with flash. So they were the first with an all-flash array. Maybe, I don't know, maybe they weren't the first, but they were the first to really drive it.  They knew where all the skeletons were buried, and they really took out a lot of old symmetrixes and clarions and V-maxes and all the old sort of EMC install base, and that helped them catapult their way their first 10 years. Now they got to do that again. They got to get, they're on their way to $2 billion, but how do they get to $5 billion? And so the way they do that is they have to expand their TAM. I mean, we'll talk to Charlie G. and Carlo about this. I mean, my feeling is a big job of the CEO is to expand the TAM. Well, how do they do that? They go after new workloads like AI. They go for cloud, they go for multi-cloud. These are all very large markets in which they don't participate. Data protection, they'll partner with the likes of Cohesity and Rubrik and Veeam to have data protection software running on their flash arrays with very, very fast restores. That's something that's taking off. It's going to be really interesting to see, as they say, they've got this subscription model that's coming in. They've got all this deferred revenue. That, in a way, is going to slow them down a little bit just from an accounting standpoint, because when you recognize deferred revenue, you recognize it over 12 months or over 36 months. So that's a little bit of a transition. The other thing that Pure's facing on a tactical basis is NAND pricing. It's like this countervailing effects. NAND pricing is coming down, which means lower prices, lower costs, but also lower revenue. But at the same time, it becomes more competitive with spinning disks. This is something else we'll talk to Charlie Jean-Colore about, and it opens up new markets. So this TAM expansion is critical for Pure in terms of driving this modern data experience into these new workloads and fighting the competition. The competition is not sitting still. All those companies that I mentioned, the HPEs, the Dell EMCs, et cetera, are basically taking a page out of Pure Storage narrative, talking about the cloud experience, talking about flexible pricing models, building cloud products on-prem and hybrid cloud, and multi-cloud. So it's hard sometimes for customers to squint through that and really know, I guess the bottom line, the last thing I'll say is Pure doesn't have as many feet in the street as these other guys, so it's got to leverage the channel increasingly. And that's how it gets beyond $2 billion on its way to $5 billion. And that was one of the factors that they attributed the second quarter 28% year-on-year growth is to not just innovation, but also to the channel. So they've done a good job of really pivoting those large enterprise deals to be covered direct and then bringing in the channel for those smaller mid-size business customers adding a lot of momentum in Q2. You mentioned the nan pricing, that and some of the political climate with the strife in China. Most of their business is in the Americas, so they're not facing as many of those challenges. So they did lower guidance for the rest of- There's a second time they have lower guidance. 2020, however, they kind of attributed that to the nan supply, oversupply, and expecting that to flatten out quickly. They say they're not worried about the macro. I mean, look at it, if the economy's good and it's booming and people are spending money on CapEx, that's good for even a high-growth company. They're basically positioning to the street that if the economy does turn down and there's a softness at the macro, they'll actually gain share more rapidly, which by the way is probably true, but look at the rising tide lifts all boats. Nobody wants to see a recession. Having said that, well, it's interesting. When you saw pure lower its guidance, the stock took a hit. And then NetApp, IBM, all these other companies, EMC or Dell EMC, they announced and the market said, wow, Pure must be doing really well compared to these other guys. So it's come back in a big way. My opinion, Pure is going to, and the ETR data shows this from a spending intentions, Pure is going to continue to gain share at a much, much more rapid pace. The other guys from a product standpoint are, Dell EMC is consolidating its product portfolio, trying to lower its cost. HPE is really focused on Nimble. IBM needs a mainframe product cycle to get back going. NetApp's facing its challenges and it's kind of tweaking its go-to-market model. So all these other companies are dealing with sort of some structural changes where it's pure as like put the foot on the gas and accelerate, no pun intended. And so I think they're going to continue to gain share for quite a number of quarters. I want to talk about sustainability before we break. And one of the things that Charlie talked about on his keynote is in terms of the modern data experience, he said it was three things. It was simple, seamless and sustainable. And in sustainable, you really started talking about the evergreen model that they launched a while ago that seems to be really sticky with organizations. He also talked about sustainability as a lot of other organizations need to address it in terms of waste and carbon emissions and things like that. But I'm just curious, since pure is much smaller than the competitors that you mentioned and a lot more focused obviously all in on flash, where does the evergreen model in your opinion give them that tailwind or that advantage? Well the evergreen model was first of all brilliant marketing strategy and a business strategy because if you think about the traditional storage vendors, they make so much money on maintenance. They would never have done this unless Pure forced them to do it because they're making so much cash on the maintenance, you put the storage array in and we're just going to charge you maintenance. And if you're not on a maintenance contract, sorry, you don't get all the software upgrades, everything else. So it's just this lock-in strategy which has worked brilliantly for two decades. Pure comes along and says, hey, we're software driven, we're going to allow you to get all the modern software as long as you've got a subscription with us, we'll swap out your controller for free. You know, the competitors hate that. You know, there's all kinds of nuances and stuff. But it worked and customers love it and so it's very strong. And it's a fundamental, as I said, they got $600 million in deferred revenue largely from that evergreen model. So they, you know, Charlie mentioned first for non-disruptive upgrades, first for cloud management, first for AI ops, first for always on QoS, first with always on encryption. I don't know if they're really the first but they're probably the first big company. They got a lot of attention there. Last thing is, it's four big announcements today. There's AI-ready infrastructure, AIRI, they're doing some stuff. They were first to announce with NVIDIA, you know, a year or so ago. They got cloud offerings, block storage for AWS and they've got a cloud snap for Azure which is actually pretty hot, it's back up on Azure. And they got product extensions. They got cheaper flash with flash array C for capacity. And then they've extended their all flash arrays, their flash blade, et cetera, with storage class memory and storage memory. And then this as a service model. Those are really the four big announcements that we're going to dig into all this week. We are and we're going to be talking with, this is a great event. Two days, the Cube is going to be here. We have seven pure customers to talk to. That's, I think, kind of a record at least in my Cube experience of the last few years. AWS always puts a lot of customers up too, you know. Do they? All right, well, there's no better validation than the success of a brand, whether we're talking about Evergreen or their first or the reaction of the market to bringing flash down to a set of prices. So excited to dig into customer stories with you, Dave. Of course, we'll talk to some partners. We've got Veeam on, Splunk, Cisco, somebody else I'm probably forgetting. And of course, some of the pure execs. So going to be an exciting two days with you and looking forward to it, Dave. Looking forward to it, Lisa, great. All right, stick around. Dave and I will be right back with our first guest, Charlie Giancarlo, chairman and CEO of Pure Storage. Stick around, coming back from Austin in just a minute.


Okay guys, so let's try this problem now. This again is the problem dealing with Charles Law, okay? Volume and temperature. So this problem says a 2.5 liter sample of gas at 25 degrees Celsius at constant pressure is doubled in volume. What is the final temperature? Okay, so the initial volume is going to be 2.5 liters. The final volume we know because it says it's doubled in volume, okay? So that means the final volume is going to be 5.0 liters. The initial temperature we also know 25 degrees Celsius, but remember we have to use kelvin, the kelvin temperature scale for this. So we're going to have to add 273 to that. So that's going to equal 298 kilobytes. So the final temperature is what we're wondering. Now we remember Charles Law, Charles Law, volume initial over temperature initial equals volume final over temperature final. Okay, so we want the final temperature. So we're going to have to get this variable on this side of the equation by itself, okay, or on this side of the equation. What we can deal with these equations is just inverting them, okay? So we can take this and put final temperature over final volume if we do the same to the other side. Okay, so let's just go ahead and do that. So we're going to have initial temperature now over initial volume, that's final temperature over final volume. You guys see we've just inverted both sides to raise this down. And let's try to get temperature final by itself. So the first thing we have to do is multiply both sides by final volume. If we do it on that side, it cancels out and we've got it like that. Okay, so this is our new equation. So let's just raise it to the final temperature there and then just plug in our numbers, okay? So the final volume here is going to be 5.0 liters. The initial temperature is going to be 298 Kelvin divided by the initial volume, which is 2.5 liters. And if we multiply and divide those numbers, we should get the right answer. 5 times 298 divided by 2.5, which is 596 Kelvin. Of course, in this problem, we only have two significant figures. So we're going to have to do something to this answer. So it's going to be 5.0 times 10 squared one two Kelvin. We'll be the final answer for this problem.


When we think about the genetic material, the DNA of a chromosome, all cells have to make a fundamental decision as to whether transcribe that DNA into RNA, which will then allow the function of the cell, production of proteins and so on, or to replicate it into more DNA. And these two are competing functions between the RNA polymerase and the DNA polymerase responsible for replication. We work on something called RNA interference, which we showed about 15 years ago now, can silence genes by removing RNA polymerase 2 and by stimulating the production of something called heterochromatin, the most condensed part of the chromosome, which doesn't allow transcription. And it promotes, RNAi promotes the formation of heterochromatin, which has important functions in chromosome segregation. We work with a model organism called fission yeast, they're very simple. And they have RNA interference. But when we make mutants in these fission yeast that no longer have the RNA interference, they can no longer silence genes using, by removing RNA polymerase 2. But what we found is that they can no longer survive without DNA replication in a quiescent state. Now, most cells in animals and plants are non-dividing. That doesn't mean they're not alive. They can be stimulated, quiescent cells can be stimulated to re-enter the cell cycle. And because this involves both the reprogramming from division to quiescence and the stable maintenance of quiescence for very long periods, but in a reversible way, we can think of this as an epigenetic transition. So they're not changing their genetic constitution while doing this, but they must be doing something that's both reversible on the one hand and very stable on the other in order to be able to maintain and enter this quiescent state. And so RNA interference is one of the most important epigenetic mechanisms. It guides many of the other epigenetic mechanisms. And so perhaps it should come as no surprise that you need RNA interference to enter and maintain quiescence. We found through genetic analysis that the reason for this was that RNA interference seems to interact genetically with transcription itself, with the RNA polymerase. Both RNA polymerase one, which is responsible for rDNA, ribosomal DNA transcription, as well as RNA polymerase two, which transcribes the rest of the genome. And by releasing these at different points in the cell cycle, either in dividing cells or quiescence, RNAi controls the formation of these silent, compact heterochromatic domains.  And that's what's happening in quiescent cells that don't have RNAi. One of the things that this explains very neatly is that organisms that have lost RNAi naturally in nature, and there are a few of these, have also lost heterochromatin. They have to, because otherwise the toxic heterochromant will kill them during quiescence. So this is a very, very powerful explanation for this interesting evolutionary trend. Importantly, it might also explain the key role that RNAi plays in stem cells, which are quiescent for much of their life, and also in cancer, which, after all, is the stimulation of cells that are normally quiescent, normal benign cells of the body to divide and proliferate. And that transition is often accompanied by mutations in RNAi, just like our mutations in fish and yeast.


Hello and welcome to the official AFC Bournemouth podcast coming to you as ever from Vitality Stadium. Our job here is to bring you closer to some of the personalities connected to the club throughout the course of the season, be it first team players, staff or key academy personnel. Now for those of you who are new to our podcast, my name is Zoe Rundle and I'm part of the media team here at AFC Bournemouth. As ever I'm of course joined by my colleague Neil Parrott who has been covering the cherries for 30 years.  Now Neil, we've got a special podcast to celebrate International Women's Day today and I know you're very excited to be sat here in the company of two women. Very, very excited. Zoe, I think the phrase arose between two thorns, springs to mind if you don't mind me saying that. No, really excited to be here. As you say International Women's Day today. I've been covering a lot of the women, the women's team with you this season, in the last few seasons and they're doing really, really well so it's fitting that we've got somebody from that department with us today. Absolutely, it's a really exciting guest that we've got today and I have no doubt that we'll have a lot of laughs over the course of the next hour. Now she became a cherries player in the summer and hasn't looked back since fully immersing herself in AFC Bournemouth both on and off the pitch. So without further ado, we're delighted to welcome Becky Bath onto the official AFC Bournemouth podcast. Becky, it's great to see you. It's great to have you here. How are things and how much are you looking forward to speaking with us today? Oh, it's great to be here guys. Thanks for having me on the podcast. Yeah, looking forward to giving everyone a little bit of an insight about me and my life inside and outside of football and I hope everyone enjoys it. I've got a lot to get through. I know that you've got lots of experiences in the game so far. Let's go right back to the start Becky. Tell us how you got involved in football and just tell us about your early experiences. I didn't expect to be involved in football to be honest with you. I was actually a dancer and I danced five times a week. Ballet, tap, modern, jazz, you name it, I did it. And for some reason, my primary school set up a girls' football team and I thought I'll give it a go. And apparently I was all right. So here I am. So you gave up dancing to be a tippers? So I did try and do both at the same time. And I was just playing for like a local academy. It was just called Ferrum Academy on a Friday evening, which actually clashed with, I think it was the modern dance class. So I had to give up the modern dance class, which was fine because I could carry on everything else. And then football just took over my life. So I gave up all dancing and went straight into football. A bit of a ballerina on the pitch these days? No, God, no. My flexibility is shocking. You'd never believe it, honestly. You'd never believe it. Actually saying that, I will say. The last few weeks my mum was very good at dancing and she wanted to start ballet again. So she said to me, we can't do a few sessions with me. So I have been doing that on a Thursday evening. I've been doing some ballet sessions. Now, when I was younger, you said your primary school started a football team.  Was that ever the case for you? Yeah, it was, yeah. Even on the playground, it was, you know, a boys' game. I think there might have been one or two, including myself, girls who wanted to play football. And you had to work your way up. You had to show that you were good, you know. You couldn't just go, normally it was, you know, you had two captains and they'd pick the teams. And it was always the two girls last, always me and another girl that I went to school with who was last. And in the end, I think I was at least second. I was getting picked second. So I had to, yeah, had to work my way up. Did you ever have any sort of brothers or sisters that you played with or kicked a ball around with in your garden or whatever? Yeah, so I have quite a lot of brothers and sisters, actually, to be honest with you. So I have two older sisters and an older brother from my dad's previous relationship. And I have a sister and a brother from both my parents together. And we used to, when my older brother used to come around on the weekends, we used to go and play football all the time. And then me and my little brother, yeah, we really bonded, actually. It was really good that we both like football because we used to play together all the time. Even if we got new, we were talking about last night, actually, if you've got new football boots for Christmas, whatever, be straight over the park playing football. And my brother was saying, I didn't actually remember this until last night. He said, where he was younger than me and his feet was smaller than mine. I used to always get the real predators. And he used to get the fake ones. And we used to argue about all the time. I remember my dad was coming up to me saying, Beck, just pretend that you was a fake too. And I used to say, yeah, mine are fake as well. But yeah, so we all played. And even my young sister, she's always been a dancer, but she used to, we played for Wars Ash Wasps on a Sunday. And she used to play with us. She was our striker. She was class. So yeah, I guess it was always been a bit in the family. Do they ever come and watch you now?  Yeah, all the time. Yeah. And my brother, my brother plays at a good level on a Sunday. So he's our games clash. He never comes. But yeah, my sister comes. My older brother and sisters come. Yeah, they will come as much as they can, you know, life's busy, isn't it? But yeah, any event they'll come to and just tell us about your relationship with your dad. Like you seem from conversations we've had in the past, have a strong relationship with him. Yeah, he's he's great lesson. I mean, both my parents like they're honestly the apple of my eye. But my dad, yeah, he he's very dedicated to my football and supported me throughout regardless. No matter who I was playing for. If I can remember, I had a year break because I didn't know who I was playing for and he supported me then as well. And yeah, to have trouble up and down to Chelsea three times four times a week. Yeah, he's he's always had my back regardless. Do you think is he living maybe a football career in you that he didn't have? Or did he have? I don't know. Yeah, so my dad was yeah, my dad was a really good footballer.  He was very well known and played a Pompey or trial for Pompey. I can't remember which one. But yeah, he he's playing a good good standard. And I just don't think I don't know what happened. He kind of just would rather go out socially, you know, play the football score, win the game for them, but then looked forward to the pub after more than actually playing the football match, I guess. But yeah, I would say he's living. Yeah, none of his sons made it. So I guess I had to do something. Now things started getting serious in your football career. Was it Chelsea and Haven't them Waterloo? Have you had a decision to make there? Yeah, so I was at Chelsea Academy from under 12s, under 12s to, wow, yeah, reserves really. And yeah, it got to the point where I was 17. I was choosing which college I wanted to go to. There was an option at Chelsea. There was an option at South Downs, which is in Portsmouth. And then the football team alongside that was Haven't them Waterlooville. And I mean, both of the like college programmes were the same. See, I wasn't going to get anything out college wise. It was just would have been the football. But I just couldn't imagine myself living away from like my mum and dad. I just, yeah, I love them. So I just want, I'm a bit of a home bird. I just wanted to be at home with them really. So I chose Haven't. So you left Chelsea to join Haven't them Waterloo? Yeah. People must be thinking you must be mad. Yeah, I know, right? Did you regret that decision at all? Yeah, definitely. I mean, I do and I don't. I look back and I think I probably could with, you know, the right, I'm not saying that I haven't had the right coaching, but maybe more the Chelsea obviously had more support and a lot more round them than Haven't and Waterlooville did. I think maybe in that sense, I probably could have gone a lot further than I did at that age. But at the time I loved it. I loved the college and I didn't, I wouldn't, I wouldn't have looked back at that time and thought, oh, I've made the wrong, the wrong choice. But yeah, I think now maybe I think or, but I try not to think about it. I live for the moment. I try not to think about it all the while on the path. So. Now, Pompey girl, born and bred, end up playing for South Hampton, I understand. Now you're grimacing there. We can't see that. Yeah. Of course. But we can see it. But people listening can't, you're grimacing. What was it like playing for South Hampton? I tried not to think about the fact that I was playing for a team that I actually detest and still to this day dislike. But I enjoyed it. I loved the girls there and the coaching was great. And at the time the club was going in the right direction and we were top of like, we were top of the league Bournemouth are in now and by far. But there was no backing from the men's team then. But yeah, I did love it. But I was made to promise my dad that I wouldn't let the badge touch me. My skin. I had to wear a T-shirt underneath my shirt so the badge didn't touch my skin. So what was that like in preseason when it's like 80 degrees or something like that? Do you know what, actually, and this is God's Honest Truth, I didn't wear a Saints T-shirt in preseason. I wore my own Adidas or Nike T-shirt because I couldn't face it. Believe it or not. But yeah, that's that's yeah. I mean, I don't think my dad would have said, you know, you're not playing for them or you're not doing it. But I did say to him, you know, I won't let the badge touch me. There we go. That must have been a deciding factor for him. But after then you then go and play for Pompey. As a Pompey girl, that must have been a dream come true. Absolutely. The reason why I didn't play for Pompey before and is because I don't think they were doing as well. Well, they weren't to me. They weren't a big team. You know, my I lived in, I didn't live in Southampton. I lived in Locke's Heath, which is just in between Portsmouth and Southampton. And Southampton was actually closer to me.  So I would never would have thought I really want to play for Portsmouth. But then I think I went to Money Fields for a season. And I thought, you know, I'm just not this isn't me. And I thought I'm going to Pompey. And yeah, and it was just unreal. Even now, like I look back and I think best decision I've made, definitely going to Pompey. You grew up watching Pompey in the Premier League. The golden years, just give us your memories of that. Oh, it was amazing. I just, the thing I remember the most is after every single home game, I just stand outside Fratt & Park with a book and wait for all the players to go to their cars and get their autographs. And that is honest. I remember that more than I remember anything. I remember the loudness of Fratt & Park and the buzz I used to get. And yeah, it just, it was just so amazing. I mean, I feel lucky to have been brought up supporting Portsmouth because, yeah, I don't think there's a better buzz than Fratt & Park. Did that inspire you to want to be a footballer as well, watching those players? What era was that you were watching as well? Just tell us. 2000, wow, right from, well, yeah, probably about 2004 onwards, maybe even a little bit earlier to be fair of you. But yeah, it did inspire me. It did. But I didn't actually think I'm going to go out and make somewhat of a career out of football when I was watching them because I lived for Portsmouth Football Club and the men that played there and the buzzy-ness of Fratt & Park.  And yeah, I guess it did and it didn't. I think my dad inspired me more than anything. We know our technical director, Richard Hughes, was one of your favourite players. You also like Matty Taylor. Oh, I did love Matty Taylor, yeah. Matty Taylor and Todorov. I like Todorov, but I think that's because he was so involved in when I used to go and get the autographs. He used to really make an effort with us kids. And yeah, he was lovely. La, la, la, I do not. There's I probably don't have an overly favourite player. I love them all. Honestly, I love them all. Even Shaka Hislop. I loved him. Now Zoe was once Gary O'Neill's mascot at Portsmouth, our coach here. Did you ever manage to become a mascot for anybody at Fratton Park or try or fail or? I didn't. And do you know what? I don't know why it never appealed. I never thought I really want to be a mascot. I don't know why. Don't know. But no, I didn't say. I just used to love being in the. Thick of it, you know, getting all involved in the stands. Now, in an interview, you said leaving Portsmouth for Bournemouth was the biggest decision of your life. Yeah, it was. It was definitely a very, if not the biggest decision of my football career. For many reasons, really, I think the last season I was at Portsmouth. I was probably at the height of my game. Let's talk Goldscore of the League or at least top Gold Square in Portsmouth Football Club. And the relationships I had built with the girls is even now I love the girls at Bournemouth, but I just had connection with a few of them and to be able to play with your best mates on a pitch is honestly, it brings out the best in you. And things didn't really go as planned and I knew I had to get out. And yeah, I had to make that decision. You know, my heart was still. Portsmouth and always will be, but my head just wasn't in it and I knew that I wasn't going to get a good season if I stayed there. So I'm to bigger and better, really. Would you change anything about that decision or not? No, definitely not. Definitely not. I think no matter what you do in life, you kind of, if you go from one big thing that you really love, but don't have much of a choice in. I don't know, staying there or committing to that. I think it's always at the beginning you're like, oh, did I make the right decision? But yeah, now no, wouldn't even I would never look back. Love Pompey, but love Bournemouth more. So the acid test and the really big question of this podcast, is it true that you are now looking for Bournemouth results ahead of Portsmouth results and be honest? Honestly, yes. I am. But I guess it's because I'm so passionate about football and I love playing. So and I'm playing for a team that I love and I enjoy it. I probably I'm enjoying it more than I have than I can remember, actually. So I just want the men's team to do well, too. I don't know whether that's become because or come from when I played for my club that I supported all my life. I don't know. Maybe it's just a bit of a commitment thing, you know. Now, for you, you're not just playing for FC Bournemouth. You're also working for the club as a member of staff of the community sports. Just tell us a bit more about your role and your involvement there. Yeah, so that that I mean, it was a big reason why I came to the football club as well, because I got offered the job as the targeted kicks officer, which is it's basically my job role is to provide a one to one mentoring service for young disadvantaged children through social work, through the youth justice system and basically kind of get them off the streets, maybe not physically off the streets, but kind of keep them out of trouble in the community by getting them involved in sport, normally football. For you, do you ever find it hard to stay cool, calm and collected because you must have to deal with some really challenging individuals? Yeah, I think it's in my nature to be fair. I'm quite chilled, but if someone pushes me that little bit too far, I know about it, I think. But, you know, the majority of the time, I actually feel quite sorry for these young people and it's, you know, it stems back to their childhood or what they previously may have experienced or whatever. So I try not to you know, look at them and think this is you because obviously most of the times it's triggered. But no, I think I'm quite good at staying calm. Yeah.  We want you to have a listen and see if you can identify the singer. So just for the benefit of our listeners, that song was made by the AFC Bournemouth Squad in 1998 to celebrate reaching the final of the auto windscreen shield, which was played at Wembley. It's the first time the club had ever played at Wembley. I know that you were only five or six or whatever, but a very great player in our history led us out that day at Wembley.  So have you got any ideas who it was? Yeah, I do. And it was Ian Washington. Who was who? Ian Cox. Oh, my God. I can imagine him sitting like that as well. Now, the reason we've picked that clip out is, of course, you said that you work with the AFC Bournemouth Community Sports Trust and you work alongside Ian Cox. Just tell us about working alongside him. I do. And I say it every single day. Ian saves my day every day. He saves me. He covers my backside more than you'll ever imagine, honestly. No, he's a great guy. I don't have a bad word to say about Ian. I just I just think I just think it's a legend. Absolute legends. He helps me. He just keeps me cool, calm and collective every day. Just talking about his life experiences in his job because he's doing a similar job to you. I know we talk about his football career playing in the World Cup, this, that and the other. But he's worked in some really, really challenging environments. He's told me about that. He's told us on his podcast that he did a few months ago. And you must be learning from him about how to deal with all those situations. Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Any questions, queries I have about any young people. The first person I pick up the phone to raise in his experience and how he knows how to deal with things. Any situation I find myself in he knows how to help me. He's just a book of knowledge, that guy, and he's just so chilled like I don't know how he gets through his days. He's just so relaxed. He's got no worry. Well, he comes across it. He's got no worries. And he just, yeah, he's just oh, he's just a great guy. I literally know everything about him, actually. Oh, that's the next question. Do you what do you know about him? What about his football in Korea? Can you? So obviously know that he played in the World Cup for Trinidad and Tobago. I listened to his podcast, though, to be fair, so I did get a lot of it. He finished playing at 38 because he had a niggle in his hamstring or quad. I can't remember which one actually, to be fair, and he just couldn't shake it.  I know loads. Just tell us, so when you report for work on Monday morning, you've played on Sundays. He's obviously watched us or done whatever. You talk to him football, you know, as he asked how you got on or anything like that. Yeah, every time. So I normally see him in the office on a Monday, and the first thing we'll talk about is football. How did you get on? Oh, I mean, normally, he knows the score because I guess he keeps tabs, but we had to talk about it. We'd talk about what went right, what went wrong, how many goals we scored. You know, we talk about everything. And to be honest with you, he doesn't really relate it to himself ever.   Or, you know, how did you deal with this? And yeah, he'll help me. This season, we beat South Hampton 4-0 at home. And a certain fan on the sidelines bet you £50 that you couldn't hit the top corner when you were stood over a free kick from 40 yards out. Tell us about that story and tell us what happened next. Well, first things first, I have never seen the £50. So I'm still waiting for that. But basically what happened was he, I don't know, he was stood behind me and we'd got the free kick. So I put the ball and I thought, you know, it's on the on the right side and I'd be able to kind of whip it in with my left foot.  And I went, oh, don't bet me that. And I was just having a little bit of a laugh of him. And he said, well, bet you £50 you can't get it at top bins then. And I said, all right then. And I thought, I looked at the ball and I thought, I could do this. So I did it. I just wellied it really. And it loved the keeper. And then I said to him, I'll have that 50 quid then. And he just was like looking at me like I was mad or something. And then afterwards he came up to me and he said, I will give you that £50 when I come to a game next time. And I've never seen him since.  Well, let's hope that he's come into a game very soon. All listening to the AFC Bournemouth podcast because Becky Bath has not forgotten about that £50 that she has owed. Now, because of that goal, you held off strong competition from Dominic Slanky and Jane Antoni to win the strategic solutions goal of the month award for August. Was it the best goal of your career? Yeah. Yeah, one of, yeah. Definitely. Probably the best goal I can remember. But. Yeah, it was it was pretty all right. It was the right goal, wasn't it? How nice was that for you? You know, it's a club-wide competition. We've got first team players being nominated. We've got Academy 18s and you win the award that's voted for by the fans. Yeah, I was so thankful for everyone who voted for us of you. And I still, to this day, can't believe it. I'm still like, well, I don't know how I did that. But yeah, I was really, yeah, I was buzzing to be fair of you. It's probably the best award that I've won, especially against the men's team. Like, I think women, the women's game and the men's game get completely separated at times. But when you beat a man, a professional footballer who plays and trains every day and you get voted by the members of the public to be to score a better goal than them. Yeah, I don't think I still think it's really settled in my mind that it happened. Is it true that you voted for Dom Slanky? I did. Yeah, I did. I knew because I knew because I wanted to see who was winning. So you didn't vote for yourself? You didn't vote for yourself because I was too worried that you'd be able to see who I voted for and think, God, how big headed is she? We certainly wouldn't have blamed you. How refreshing, Becky, is it that the club involves the women, the under 18s, the under 23s in the goal of the month and the goal of the season? It's easy to just pick four first team players and let everybody vote for them. Yeah, it is really refreshing. I mean, it's a great opportunity to get exposure for the women's game completely. Like, yeah. And not many clubs do that. You know, I think a lot of clubs are kind of focused on on on their first team, which is understandable. You know, they get a lot of a lot of following and, yeah, a lot of coverage and stuff. So it's just, yeah, it's really refreshing. And the women actually really appreciate it. They really do appreciate it. Now, they say lightning doesn't strike twice, Becky, but they did in your case because two weeks after you'd scored that 40 yarder, you scored another 40 yarder against Paltown. Is it that your teammates are saying, why don't you just shoot, Becky? Are you ever going to pass to me? No, no. I don't know. I don't know how I scored that again, to be honest of you. In the moment, I don't really think about doing it. I just looked up, saw the keeper off a line and thought, I'll give it a go. I wouldn't say playing against Paltown was our best game at all. And we had to take the opportunity to score when we could. And that was an opportunity. So I just went for it.  If anybody wants to know anything, they turn to you. Yeah, that's me. I think it's because I look at the league every Sunday night and I look at who's played who and who's got who and points, goal difference. And yeah, basically what we need to get to the top, that's what I look for. I was going to say, why, why do you do that? Is it something you've always done or is it something you started now you're getting really excited about this season? To be fair, I have always looked at the league and where we are and how many points we've got no matter what team I've been at. But I think the excitement is really taken over and sometimes I do have to, like, you know, reel myself in because I get so like, you know, next season when we get promoted and I'm like, we're not, we haven't even got promoted. We still got like six, seven games to play yet. So Becky, we're recording this podcast between you having played Maidenhead on Sunday and drawn 0-0 and then you've got to play them this coming Sunday as well. So just tell us where you are in the league at the moment and what the promotion picture is, how it works, how many go up and where you go to. OK, so we're in tier four at the moment, which is the National League. And if we get promoted, we go up to tier three of the National League. And so at the moment, currently, as it stands for a second, point behind top with top to play. So we could be sitting first, two points clear when we play Cheltenham in two Sundays time. As now, yeah, we we're currently sitting second. We could go top on Sunday because Cheltenham have a cup game. So we'll then be one game in hand, sitting top spot if we win. As you such an encyclopedia of knowledge, we are going to test that knowledge, of course. So we've got three more questions that we're just going to chuck at you. The first one is a personal stat. How many goals have you scored this season? Well, what? In Cup and League or just League? In Cup and League. Um, 12. You're doing yourself for the service. You scored 13. 13. Oh, oh, sorry. Yeah, 13. Sorry. Yeah, I did notice 13. 13. Lucky number 13. How many points are we currently on? We are currently on. 31. 31. Absolutely. 31 points indeed. Now, this is obviously again, ahead of the Maidenhead game at home this weekend. Final question. I'd be interested to know if you do know this. You can probably take an educated guess if you don't. Now, who has started the most games for us this season? Katie James. No, incorrect.  I was second. You were second, yeah? No. Yeah, you might have been joint second, but you were second. Bambi. Bambi. Yeah, I do see that. I don't know why I didn't think about the wing, the full backs for some reason. Now, for those who don't know, Bambi is Emma Davis. Everyone calls her Bambi. Why do everyone, why does everyone call her Bambi? I actually did find this out because I have the same question. So she was at a training session once and her legs were going all over the place like Bambi on ice. So someone just called her Bambi and I guess it stuck. I didn't even know her name was Emma. Someone called Emma was right and in the water said, I don't know an Emma. There's not an Emma that plays for us. And I was, yeah, it was Bambi. So just tell us earlier this season, a quirk of fate. You got drawn against Portsmouth in the FA Women's Cup. What was that like? What were your emotions when the draw came through, first of all? Oh, my, I was buzzing. I was so excited to play them only because I guess I know the team. I know the manager. I know how they play. I know what their goals are. I know the team inside out. And then on the day, I have never experienced nerves like that at a football match. I'm quite good at like just doing some breathing techniques. At half time, well, I think we were two one down and we were on top and I was just shaking and I couldn't stop shaking. And I said to, it was either KJ or Jade Bradley. And I said, I'm shaking. I can't stop shaking. They were like, just relax. But yeah, it was, it was such a surreal feeling. But yeah, it was amazing to play against them. And it was lovely to see all the fans and stuff as well. And the result didn't go our way, but it must have been quite an emotional day for you personally and a few other ex-pompey girls in our team. Yeah, definitely. To be honest with you, I think the way we played was probably even still now the best we've played, whether it's because we kind of matched the level of the opposition, I don't know. But yeah, although the score line didn't go our way, I felt like we won. That was the first time I felt like we'd gel together as a team, worked hard for each other, wanted to succeed. We wanted, yeah, we wanted it. But we should have scored about four or five or watched it back after. And I thought, why didn't we put that away? Why don't I make that run? Why didn't do this? But yeah, it was unreal. You said that coming here was a huge decision in your footballing career. Just for people who don't know, explain the women's setup here and just tell us your view on it. The women's setup here is, I mean, even, well, from an outside day, it was, I thought, oh God, you know, Bournemouth are going in the right direction, but now I'm in it. It's probably the best backing that we've had. We, I've had, sorry, since playing football. The support, being in with the men, having the chance of playing the ground, we can come to the stadium. We get to be involved with the media. We get everything a women's team could really want. Yeah, it's unreal.  It's quite surreal, but honestly, every single goal on that team appreciates it. One of my previous experiences of working for the local newspaper was when women's football was trying to get off the ground, it was hard work for women's football. It was a slow process, but there's no question in the last few years, it's just gone through the roof. Absolutely. When I was at Chelsea, there was no funding or whatsoever. And that was probably one of the decisions, one of the reasons why it made me like, helped with my decision, was because my dad actually said to me, I'm taking you up there four times a week now, and it's costing, you know, petrol's going up, it's costing a bomb. So, yeah. When you were sort of starting out, did you ever envisage it would be as big as it is now, and it's only going to get bigger? No, I didn't. But I look back and I do things like, you know, the World Cup was, for the women's, was televised. That was a big step when I watched them on TV. But there's so much more to come, there's so much more to come. We know it will never be as big as a men's game. We know that. But yeah, there's so much more to come. And like, the next generation after me, they're going to be laughing. Every young girl that I see playing, I'm like, continue following your dreams because there's more to come. Like, you're going to get a lot out of football. Just for the benefit of people listening in, it's not just the first team here. Just tell us about the next generation coming through and tell us what's below you here. Okay, so we have, obviously we have the women's first team, and we have the reserves, who we work quite closely with. We train with, not with them, but they train next to us at the same time. And there's a lot of young girls from the reserve team coming up and making their day views into the first team from the reserves, and they're really good. And then we've obviously got under six, it's under 10s to under 16s. And honestly, I've never seen little ballers like it. They are class. So we get to train them when they're just finishing. And sometimes I'll just find myself just walking past them, looking at them, thinking, there was no way I was that good as a kid. And they're like shooting from the halfway line or like doing stepovers and taking the ball round other, you know, their teammates. And I just think you've, well, you're going to make it, like it's going to be big for you.  And now we're here at AFC Bournemouth. How nice is that for you, you know, going to games together, training together? Yeah, it is lovely. At first we were like, you know, this isn't going to, we aren't going to football and home life separate. We're not going to do anything together. Like we wouldn't, when we first got together, we didn't even travel to train them together or anything like that, because we just wanted it separate. Then it got to a point, I was like, we're both wasting petrol. Why don't we just go together? But yeah, it's great. It really is great. It's nice to have this support as well. Like when you get home and say, you know, I'm on my own back all the time. I'm like, I'm just, yeah. And if I go home and think I've had a rubbish game, you know, she's always had kind of, no, you didn't, you did this, you did this and then I'm kind of fine.  But yeah, it is good. Yeah, I'm very lucky. One of my questions was going to be, do you find yourself talking much about matches or training at home or on the way home? Clearly, it's a big part of your life. The issue is I don't find myself talking about anything else. It's just football. You know, we might be like, do you have what I say? Yeah, because she's obviously working for Bournemouth as well. Yeah, did you? Yeah. How did you find training? Oh God, here we go. But yeah, we talk about football all the time. That's all we talk about. But I guess it's great. It is good, like, yeah, it's good. Tell us about being vegan. It's something quite recent to you. Yes. So I was vegetarian for years. The reason being, I went to Bali and they were, I don't know, I just, when I was like driving around the island on my little moped that I hired a help, whenever I stopped the traffic lights, for some reason, there was chickens in cages next to me and I just was like, I can't eat chicken over here. Like, I can't. And I was there for like a month so I didn't have chicken for a month or any other meeting.  I don't need it. I felt really good. I was like, oh, I feel really like energised or whatever.  And then that was like three, four years ago and then I started slowly not eating eggs but just because I'd gone off them. I didn't, there wasn't no reason. And then it was like a fish. I didn't eat fish. We went to a way of Christmas and I didn't have any sort of fish when I was away. And then I, yeah. And then I just stopped drinking milk in my teeth so I'd always have black coffee. And then here I am, vegan three weeks in. And you're keeping it up? Yeah, I am, yeah.  But honestly, I'm bench-pressing heavier than I've ever bench-pressed. And it's all to be a vegan, I promise you. This is quite topical at the moment because I don't know if you've seen, but Mark Pugh, who used to play for the club in the Premier League era has recently, well not recently, but he's like the foodie footballer now, he's nutrition and stuff like that. How have you found the vegan diet if you like impacting on your playing? Honestly, I feel so energetic. Honestly, I'm not even joking. I'm not just saying I'm not being a preachy vegan because I'm not at all, I'm just doing it for myself. But honestly, I am so energetic. I sleep better, for some reason. And when I'm like training or in the gym, I can do, I feel like I'm doing more than what I've ever done. So I guess, yeah, it's giving me a bit of energy boost. You've spoken already about how much the club has backed the women's team now. That backing has now extended to a first competitive game here on the pitch at Vitality Stadium and an opportunity for the women's team and everyone in it to make some history. Absolutely. What an opportunity. And what a stadium, by the way. Like, no better stadium to kind of be able to play at. Yeah, it's a great opportunity. And again, a great way to get the public down to watch the women's team get the women some exposure. But yeah, I'm really looking forward to it. But I'm really trying to focus on this Maidenhead and Cheltenham game before I think about... It's almost going to be like a treat to us. You know, at that point, hopefully, we would be two points clear at the top, maybe more.  So, yeah, we're buzzing. Congratulations for not using the stereotypical, we're taking one game as it comes, football cliche there, have you tempted? No. Yeah. So, I'm going to put you on the soapbox now. I'm going to... You've got a message to our supporters about this game in April. You want to see them here. You want to, I'd say, pack the stadium. You want to see them, you know, turn out and their numbers. As many as can possibly come down and watch the women's game. It'll be great to see. And also, it'll be great for the girls playing to inspire the younger girls. That's a big thing for me at the moment. They love it. They love to watch what they could potentially be. And like I said, they're going to get a lot more out of it than what we do right now. Yes, as many people as possible to get behind us. Hopefully we can give you a good performance. Put on a show for you all. Just going to ask Zoe, just to confirm the date, the opposition, the kick-off time of that game, Zoe. Yes, Sunday 10th of April. Put it all in your calendars. Two o'clock in the afternoon. We're going to pack the stadium out, hopefully with as many people as possible. It'll be great to see you down here. All the fans, if you're thinking about it, 100% calm down, see what you're missing. It's going to be really exciting. You know, there's going to be lots going on in and around the game and, yeah, it's going to be historic either way. So it's going to be brilliant. So, Becky, we're going to finish off with some questions from supporters who have submitted some questions. We're going to reel them off. Benjamin wants to know, who is your footballing icon? Oh, Lionel Messi. Definitely. Whether it's because he's got a left foot and I have two, I don't know. But he was just, his work rate, he's just the goat, isn't he? He really is the goat of football. And also, I've watched him play from a younger age, so when I was younger, yeah. And a women's footballing icon? Do you know, it was Kelly Smith. It was Kelly Smith, but I don't know whether that was because she was the biggest women's footballer and she was kind of the most exposed back then. But, yeah, it was Kelly Smith. I wanted to be, play like her, definitely. Tasha is asking, what advice would you give to a young girl just starting out in a women's team? Don't stop, ever.  Enjoy every single game and work really hard to be the best you can be. Now, James wants to know, do you have any rituals before a game or perhaps any superstitions at all? Just what I consume, food-wise. It's always, on a Sunday, yogurt with granola and fruit in the morning, maybe a rice cake if I treat it myself and then a bowl of porridge beforehand and again, some energy gels or whatever before the game. But that's, if I don't have that, just don't think that I would, if I made a mistake, I'd blame that, put it that way. Sammy is asking, who is Becky Bath outside of football? What sort of hobbies do you have and that sort of thing?  If I'm not playing football, I'm talking about it or I love spending time with my family. That is the best thing.  My mum loves spending time with my mum. We just laugh, that's all we do when we're together. So just spending time with family and friends. Yeah, walking the dog? Oh, walking the dog. Walking the dog in this weather is a chore at the moment or hobby. But yeah, no, I love spending time with the dog. Yeah, I miss her when I'm not with her.  Now, final question has come from a certain Katie Scadding. I've seen that eye roll now. For those who don't know, Katie Scadding is a goalkeeper for the FC Bournemouth Women's Team. She wants to know, who's the funniest in the squad? The funniest in the squad?  No, it's her. She is actually funny. She actually is funny. Well, there we go. Katie, you got the answer that you wanted to hear.  We've absolutely loved your company and your fascinating stories. We're really looking forward to seeing what you guys can achieve for the remainder of the season. Thank you very much for having me. It's been a pleasure. I enjoyed every minute of it. Now, if you have enjoyed listening to our podcast, we'd absolutely love it if you could like and subscribe on whatever platform you are listening on. We'd also be very grateful for any shares on social media, so that other fans, whether they're AFC Bournemouth fans or not, can enjoy it as well. Our thanks again to Becky Bath and from Neil Perret and myself, Zoe Rundle. Thank you for tuning in to the official AFC Bournemouth podcast.


trying to do this. My name is Senior Airman Joseph McKinney. Senior Airman. 131st CES. CES is a civil engineering squadron. We are here at 14 Wing Greenwood to assist our Canadian allies as well as getting training for all of CE members to get our five levels. That's very important in civil engineering. This is a great training for me. I am a National Guardsman so I'm only able to do anything with civil engineering once a month. So to come out and do something like this is super important for my five level because I can get a signature line for roofing and maybe a little bit of leading because I am the only structures here today. So I've been leading a little bit and so that helps me in my future career. My name is Master Corporal Shantz Holman. S-H-A-N-T-Z-H-A-L-L-M-A-N. I'm with 14 MSS CE. Having our NATO allies come to the base here has been a really great experience. I've enjoyed it quite a lot. It's great to learn how the other militaries work and what their chain of command is, how they go about doing projects that we have in common and that sort of thing like the roofing that's behind me here. So it's been a great experience just to learn that because of the fact that when we do deploy we have to work together quite often and it just helps that out so we're not in a stressful situation learning that sort of thing. 14 MSS CE we're the construction engineering branch of the wing. We take care of all maintenance and small builds for the wing and we're also a force generation unit so what that means is that we also provide members to deploy overseas to do the same job as we do here just in different countries. I believe this strengthens our relationship with our American allies just in the fact that we get to experience how they work. I've been really impressed with the work ethic of the various airmen that come through on this project. We've had three rotations here and we've had airmen that have had incredible experience and work like animals and then we've also had airmen that have been working on the roof behind me here that have no experience whatsoever. It doesn't deter them at all. They just they give you 110% all the time and very quick learners and it's just really helped to get the project moved along and complete it in the in the allotted time so it's been pretty impressive. I've been impressed. I'm glad that I was able to get this experience with working with the Americans on a DFT. We don't all get that experience. It only happens at air bases so when I was at a Navy base and an Army base I didn't have that opportunity so I'm just really glad to have had to have had that in my career. My first name is Eduardo, E-D-U-A-R-D-O last name Vargas, V-A-R-G-A-S. I'm a captain. 131st CE. 131st civil engineer CE squadron is participating in a two-week deployment for training here in Canada as part of the Canadian exchange program and our mission here is to ensure our airmen are getting mission essential training completed. The training of the airmen are getting here is necessary for them to upgrade level five level seven and there are opportunities here on this base where we are able to get the skills lined off. The 131st CE unit is a prime beef unit and we're a mobile expeditionary construction force so we are able to build and repair any facility any airfield. I would say the CE is great for several reasons one the type of work that we do and the fact that we can build or fix everything anywhere but the most important thing are the people the job can sometimes get challenging and at times conflicts arise but the people will keep you in here and that's kind of why we enjoy what we do. This DFT gives us an opportunity to work with our Canadian partners in a joint environment where we can become familiar with their military structure their capabilities and their limitations and the same goes for us they can they can get to know us so when we all go downrange we know what to expect from each other. This trip we have a lot of first-term airmen that have not had a chance to practice our trade due to COVID and other reasons so in this DFT they are putting their skills to the test which sometimes leads to conflict or challenges whether technical or attitude issues and so they're forced to work out you know work it out between themselves figure it out and move forward and in the end that conflict is what builds a stronger team that allows us to perform in a strong manner when we deploy downrange. Working with our Canadian partners has been very eye-opening while we think Canadians and Americans are very similar and they are in many ways there are also some differences they have been very generous with their time materials and accommodations they have also taken the time to teach our airmen how to do things differently from a different point of view there's always a million ways to do certain things and being open and two other ideas can only help us in the long term so it's been it's been great and I look forward to more opportunities like this in the future


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Hey what's up guys welcome to another tutorial on Final Cut Pro X. Now for the past couple of years I've been using Final Cut Pro and I've installed a lot of plugins ranging from titles, some cool transitions, some animated elements, all this kind of stuff. I think I've spent over maybe three, four hundred dollars on buying lots of different plugins to help me enhance my videos.  There's so many things that Final Cut Pro can do for you. Now I've come across this plugin it's a super bundle of over a thousand elements ranging from over 600 titles and I'm talking so many cool titles. Things that I've paid so much money for in the past over lots of different separate plugins and then you have about 300 transitions. Now I don't know how many transitions you guys want to use but that is a hell of a lot and there's so many different options to make your videos look so cool and then you've got tons of things like animated elements for example all these things I can show you on the screen right now. There's so many cool things and you can match them up to movements with your hands or with different things happening in the picture and then you've also got logo reveals as well so if you're a YouTuber you're signing up a channel you're gonna make a cool intro then you can definitely do that with this plugin as well. Now if I had found this plugin a long time ago I would have saved so much money it's only $39 and it gives me so many things that I'm gonna start using going forward and I'm not even going to use all the ones that I've spent over three, four hundred dollars for in the past. So I just wanted to give you a showcase of what this plugin can do show you some examples and let's dive straight in. Alright guys so I've just created a new project I've got some sample clips here of a girl walking through a wheat field. Now let's start off with titles so if you go into the titles panel this comes with 17 different subfolders for your titles and they are numbered 1 to 17 so I have a lot of extra title packs that I've installed in the past so you can just ignore those ones that come in between that. But let's start off you have something called minimal titles as you can see here there's tons of different options I'm thinking there's way too many that I couldn't even choose from and that's just one of them so if you have so many different other folders for titles as well there's so many things you can do. So let's start off and just give you some examples of these so I'm gonna point to just some random ones and give you a feel for how they actually look so when you drag it to the timeline it's so easy to use on the right-hand side you basically just edit your text very easily make all the adjustments that you need to and the good thing I like about it is a lot of these titles you can actually build in and build out if you don't want it to phase out in any animated style then you can just uncheck the build out option and I sometimes like to do that but it's obviously for your preference. Now let's just have a look and there you go that is so cool you can also adjust all of the colors there's absolutely no limitations of what you can do here so this is just one example there's so many different shapes and title animations that come with this as well so if you take this one for example you can do a spinning thing I really like this one actually so let me go ahead and do this longer title effect there and you can see that it has a transparent background on the text as well which actually is quite nice I'm just gonna adjust the colors there we go let's just see how that looks look at that it's so smooth it really stands out and if you go into some kinetic titles so this gives you a bit more of a punch in the animation and tells a little bit more of a story let's just take this one for example and see how that looks now for me I just have so much spoilt for choice now you can see that there's so many different things so many styles now I'm just gonna quickly run through some of the other title effects that you can get so you have corporate titles if you have more of a business video then there's so many different options here as well now just running through the rectangle titles so if you wanted to get more of a square look maybe you're doing running some promos or running some marxing campaigns then pretty much for whatever need you have for creating titles I can guarantee they'll be here then you also have logo titles as well so if you wanted to display a logo of your company or whatever it may be then you can obviously add that as a intro as well so let's say for example I'll take this one let me get rid of some of these other ones here okay so now if I hit this go into the plugin settings choose the drop and then select my logo there and then scale it out a little bit for trending reviews and there we have it apply so let's take a look at that see it's so easy so simple and it's the fact that you can customize so many things with each of the different titles and effects that come with this and make it a lot easier for you to use and match with your designs or your videos and I feel like with all of these customizations that you can do it's just made video editing so much easier so that's one of the other examples for logo titles you also have quotes as well that you can generate and of course for every type of purpose for whatever video you're making there's so many options so one thing I've always wanted to do actually is create bullet points and explain them in my video clips so this comes with a niche titles which actually allows you to build bullet points in a checklist format and it gives you the options of one two three four or five bullet points and the way I used to do this before is very tedious it just took me a while and it just wasn't feasible in a long-term thing I had to do a lot of manual work to make bullet points displayed correctly but this is actually one of those plugins where I found something that I didn't expect and something I've been looking for for a while and I've never really found any specific bullet point only title plugins for Final Cut Pro so I'm just really happy that this exists and as you can see as it generates the bullet points it just formats it very nicely and there's also some other cool stuff you have the option of getting a sidebar as well and displaying some timings of things in your video as well maybe some drop pin locations question marks and whatever it may need to be then you've got a bit of a section for longer titles as well so if you want to add a bunch of text or paragraphs to talk about maybe different parts of the video or a story or anything like that then you can do that lower thirds is quite an important part as well so any filmmaker or youtuber can tell you that lower thirds is quite important especially when you want to talk about specific people or mention specific names or any type of thing of what you're showcasing in the video then lower thirds is the way to go so if I go ahead and edit this and let's take a look as you can see the title is just slick modern clean and it's very simplistic which is what I always like you also have typography titles as well this is where a lot of your marketing campaigns may come in so there's some really cool things you can do here obviously dropping in your images wherever they are needed in these titles so let's say for example you want to add a title in here and see how that looks now of course you can edit this move the text around change the colors change the fonts whatever you like it's so customizable callouts is something really cool as well not a lot of people use them but I've seen them many times if you wanted to display different parts of the video then you can do that by calling out with a pin drop line so for example if I wanted to point out something in the video which I think people need to be aware of then I can do something like this so Maria's got a beautiful smile and I just wanted people to know that and it's pointing at her smile so you can see if you're maybe reviewing any tech gadgets and you wanted to point out certain parts of the gadget itself then you can do that using callouts now stomp is something I really like as well these are titles that really give you a punch and just stand out and are more dramatic than just general titles so for example let's have a look at bring it in the lift you can see they come in fast they come in big you can match them up to music and make them even better so so many different things and this is something where if you are making like promo videos trailers or anything like that then these things will really pop and stand out for your videos as well so let's say I'll bring in the drop and tuck which looks pretty cool you stand up social media if you wanted to promote your Instagram or any other social media accounts you have then there's plenty of options here you can use hashtags you can use your user names you can even put the thumbs up and the likes so subscribe buttons is obviously an important one if you're making YouTube videos so so there's a wide variety of this you can obviously change the fonts you can change the colors and you can even use things that you only get in that Instagram stories as well so that's really cool and it's gonna make you stand out from the crowd and it's gonna enhance your videos so much more if you are creating social media marketing campaigns or anything like that now logos things is where you want to reveal a logo maybe you're doing a YouTube intro if you drag one of these in for example let's make it a bit bigger as you see pretty cool I want to change the logo so you can change the background image at the moment it's using a sample one just change it to use the drop zone you select the drop zone I'll use my logo here click apply and then maybe I might need to adjust the just size so it fits as well a nice logo reveal there for your YouTube channel now you can play around with the different shapes and all the different options so you have a whole bunch of logo reveals that happen in this section here so I would definitely recommend taking a look at this and seeing what you can customize and of course logos backgrounds colors fonts whatever it may be all of it is customizable you have a whole bunch of backgrounds if you wanted to use this as well for making any cool videos there's quite a few options here but a lot of them a bit too in your face so I wouldn't be using this one for example for any purpose but nonetheless you might need to and then you have shape accents so these are the really cool things that you can add to spark up your videos a little bit and if you are doing different movements then it might be useful to match this up in any particular video clip so as you can see Maria's hand is panning this way I might find an animated line for example that also pans in that same direction not quite but getting there let's try this but you get the point guys so there's so many different things you can do just add some cool elements add some sparks some shapes whatever it may be even some arrows as well for whatever purpose you want to use it for then you can enhance your videos for that as well so that's everything for titles let's move on to transitions right so there's eight folders of transitions and these are basic shapes color shapes glitch grid ink paintbrush strokes slice and zoom now I know I have a whole bunch of different transitions here as well which I've done it in the past but I'm just going to cover these main ones so let's start off with basic shapes so these are pretty common you just different types of shapes that you can transition into the next clip with so you have squares rectangles slices waves so many different options here so if I show you a quick example let's take something cool let's take this little swipe here and let's see how that looks as you can see quick smooth and very easy to add so loads of different options here color shapes now I really like this one you can really customize the transition here so for example you can swipe with arrows to the right and you can see there's a little purple and blue background with those arrows styling of the transition as well doesn't need to be arrows it can be like these rectangles slices some parallax ones now I'm a big fan of parallax so I'm going to take this one and see how I can customize this so let's add this so to customize it you've got all the different color options here let's change this to maybe red green I might change that blue you have the white there at the top I'll change that to like a orange peachy type there you have it so let's see what this transition looks like so as you see it went very quick again it's pretty cool you can even slow it down and extend the transition lens as you do with all of the other transitions so I'll go ahead and delete that one let's show another example let's move on to glitch now I use glitches quite often I just think they're really cool they stand out there's something different and the amount of glitches that you have here it's just your spoilt for choice and you wouldn't really know which one to use if you just hover over them you can see they've got all different types of statics and colors and even lengths as well so if I just quickly show some examples so I'm just gonna go ahead take number three show you how this looks there you go in the blink of an eye you can change the glitch effect and it just stands out now if you wanted to include some other images in your transition as well just to show people maybe a snapshot of what's upcoming or even some logos then grid is the perfect transition for that as you can see here you have a couple of drop zones in them as well and you can customize the colors on the other grids so if you wanted to showcase something else while transitioning then this is the way to go and there's so many different options here and I'll show you how to customize some of these as well so let me take this casino vertical one looks pretty cool right so as you can see you have some drop zones now let's go ahead and drop some stuff into here maybe let's take one of these images for each drop zone see what happens so you can even customize the colors of the actual transition so I'll get rid of the green now you can see it's gone really quickly so you can also adjust the length of the transition to showcase a little bit more of those other images and logos that you've added in case also another good one you basically have the previous clip spread out like ink flowing on some canvas or some paper into the next clip so different start points for these things as well if I just quickly show you example here there you go very nice now let's move on to paintbrush strokes now if you're an artist and this would be really cool for any types of creative drawing type videos that you're making so a lot of paint strokes I'm just gonna replace that one very nice slices this is quite common as well now there's a whole bunch of different slices as well basically what that means is you're just cutting up the video in lots of different segments and transitioning it by animating to the next clip like so and finally zoom this one of my favorite ones I think the zoom transitions are really effective they stand out and this actually comes with little directional arrows to show you where the zoom is coming from so this one is zooming into that specific area there in the corner this one does a rotational this one goes right so you can play around with this there's so many different zoom options here and I'm also like very spoiled for choice on which one is the best one but I usually use zoom in and zoom up as my one so let me show you the zoom out see that looks just a very cool transition into the next clip but you can also stretch the clips as well and swipe them so what I'm going to do now that covers all of the different parts of this super bundle plug-in I'm going to edit all of these clips here and showcase the capabilities of using all elements from this plug-in itself and see how you can create a very nice looking video so here's a sneak peek example of that all right guys you download this plug-in from video hive and I've got the link in the description below I definitely recommend this for $39 it's a bargain and I promise you you wouldn't need to buy any other plugins after using this for a very very long time especially if you needed to create some really cool titles transitions animated elements logo reveals whatever it may be now obviously it doesn't have things like audio effects or color grading or just any type of video effects as well but for the majority of the things you're going to do this is the perfect plug-in and I definitely recommend each of you that is using Final Cut Pro to have this installed as a standard so this is an unbiased review I really like it I'm going to be using this in all my videos going forward and just adding all of these cool titles is my main purpose of using it now just remember you need to have a lot of fonts installed right before you install the plug-in I'll have all of the links to the fonts as well in my description but you'll have it as part of the download pack when you get from Video Hive so if there's anything else you want to know then do drop a comment below otherwise I have a playlist of all my previous Final Cut Pro tutorials which I think you're going to like and if you have any other questions I'll try to help you out as much as I can otherwise thanks for watching guys see you at the next one